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

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Speaker 1: this week with the Jaguars coaching staff. Head coach Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson sat down with Jeff Loghman and me in an
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Speaker 1: interview that dropped Monday on Jaguars dot Com. It was
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Speaker 1: a preview of The Doug Peterson Show coming up on
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Speaker 1: radio this fall. We got into Peterson's process of hiring
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Speaker 1: his assistant coaching staff in such a short amount of time.
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Speaker 1: When did you begin on the coaching staff And what's
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Speaker 1: what's been the most difficult part. Well, the most difficult
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Speaker 1: is actually getting your staff in here. Um. But I
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Speaker 1: actually started the legwork about a month probably prior to
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Speaker 1: the end of the regular season, and and of course
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Speaker 1: it carried into the postseason and through the interview process
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Speaker 1: and everything. And you know, you kind of have an idea,
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Speaker 1: you kind of want to have an idea of your
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Speaker 1: coordinators and and who they might be. But at the
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Speaker 1: same time, you know you've got you've got a process
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Speaker 1: to go through, right and and and so for me,
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Speaker 1: it was about identifying the man that I wanted, you know,
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Speaker 1: I wanted to surround myself with who thought like me,
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Speaker 1: who taught like me, who had the same energy level
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Speaker 1: like me, and and um. You know, so putting that
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Speaker 1: together early, at least having an idea um really helps out.
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Speaker 1: And then and then you kind of fill in the
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Speaker 1: pieces once you're once you're hired, you just start filling
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Speaker 1: into pieces. Obviously the previous staff. You know, there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of a lot of good coaches there, and you
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Speaker 1: find the ones that that that fit again fit me
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Speaker 1: and and my my philosophy and my style, and then really,
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Speaker 1: I guess these last two weeks, the challenging part is
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Speaker 1: getting the staff in here. I just hired my last
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Speaker 1: one like a day ago, and and we have to
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Speaker 1: evaluate the current roster. We have to go through and
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Speaker 1: and and make our mean even though it's been done,
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Speaker 1: I need I need my coaches to put their eyes
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Speaker 1: on our players. And then on top of that, we
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Speaker 1: need to start looking at the free agent guys. And
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Speaker 1: then on top of that, we got the combine around
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Speaker 1: the corner. So these these next few weeks really, UM
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Speaker 1: are challenging from and then we're putting in our schemes
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Speaker 1: on top of that. So there's there's many layers of
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Speaker 1: this onion that we're peeling back, UM and that's the
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Speaker 1: most challenging. At this time, there was so much work
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Speaker 1: to do. I mean, obviously, it's got to be critical
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Speaker 1: to have people on the staff that you know and
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Speaker 1: that you trust. But at the same token, it's also
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Speaker 1: important that you have sometimes differences of opinions and different thoughts.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it to have a staff truly be able to
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Speaker 1: to be at its best. I think that's a great
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Speaker 1: point because you know, I could have easily hired guys
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Speaker 1: I worked with in Philly. You know, I could have
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Speaker 1: filled out the entire staff that way. But you know,
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Speaker 1: I just knew if if given a second opportunity to
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Speaker 1: be a head coach in this league, I wanted to
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Speaker 1: I wanted to kind of think outside of the box.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to get as you say, I want to
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Speaker 1: get guys with new ideas, Guys that, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: come from different you know, different backgrounds, you know, learn
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Speaker 1: different systems offense and defense, and not just not just
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Speaker 1: my system, because I think in order for all of
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Speaker 1: us to grow, I want to hear what a what
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Speaker 1: a Jim Bob Cooter has to say. You know, I've
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Speaker 1: never worked with him before, and but he's been a
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Speaker 1: coordinator in this league. And Mike McCoy has been a
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Speaker 1: former head coach and a coordinator in this league. So
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Speaker 1: you know, so I just and and and and you know,
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Speaker 1: even even Phil rolsher on offense with the line. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I've I've never worked with him, but you hear great
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Speaker 1: things about these people and vet them out and you
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Speaker 1: interview them, and um, and for me, it was thinking
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Speaker 1: outside the box and and and getting the right guys
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Speaker 1: more more than anything else, you know, Uh, for the
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars, how easy was it to attract because you're
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Speaker 1: it's a competitive environment. You know, there's multiple openings as
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Speaker 1: far as across the league with all the different head
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Speaker 1: coaches that have been hired. How attractive was the jobs
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Speaker 1: as far as attracting the guys to come here to
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Speaker 1: work for you, not only from the franchise standpoint and
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Speaker 1: your standpoint, but also, hey, it's Jacksonville, you know what
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Speaker 1: that that that was almost the easiest thing because you
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Speaker 1: talk about when when they just look at the team,
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Speaker 1: and quite honestly that the youth of the team obviously
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Speaker 1: that everything is surrounded by the quarterback, right and and
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Speaker 1: there's a level of excitement with the quarterback position, and
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Speaker 1: and and everybody, even the defensive guys, are like, Hey,
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Speaker 1: that's that's the guy that can take this this team
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Speaker 1: over the hump and kind of kind of break through
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Speaker 1: the barriers that have that have kind of, I don't
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Speaker 1: want to say plague this organization, but it's it's been
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Speaker 1: challenging for at times. And and then and then when
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Speaker 1: you when you really dive into the roster um, the
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Speaker 1: guys get a little more excited about the about the
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Speaker 1: youth that are here and the guys that they're working with.
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Speaker 1: But you know, living in Jacksonville, you're you're, you're, you know,
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Speaker 1: twenty minutes to the beach, you're great weather. Um, you
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Speaker 1: know that's and and and and I'll be I'll be
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Speaker 1: honest with you, a lot of guys they do want
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Speaker 1: to work for Doug Peterson. I'll just just throw it
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Speaker 1: out there because of the success we had in Philadelphia.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not one to boast or anything like that,
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Speaker 1: but but that was something that a lot of these
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Speaker 1: guys wanted to do. The good things they heard, you
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Speaker 1: know about me, and so obviously that puts pressure on
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Speaker 1: me to to be a good guy. But at the
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Speaker 1: same time, um, we want to win, and we're all
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Speaker 1: we're all, you know, um motivated and eager to get
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Speaker 1: going to flip it around. The full interview with Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson available on Jaguars dot com. In a moment, defensive
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Speaker 1: coordinator Mike Coldwell explains his path to be coming an
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Speaker 1: NFL defensive coordinator. This is the Jaguars Broadcast weekend review.
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Speaker 1: Jaguars coordinators this week there were two editions of the
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Speaker 1: ozone podcast, starting with defensive coordinator Mike called Well with
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Speaker 1: senior writer John Osan Cold will explain to his path
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Speaker 1: from playing in the NFL took coaching in the NFL. Now,
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Speaker 1: when you were playing, I was coaching something you wanted
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Speaker 1: to do. Was it always in the back of your
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Speaker 1: mind or how how did that start? Really? Uh, it
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Speaker 1: wasn't coach. Read had asked me one time on a
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Speaker 1: practice field, if you once you're retired, if you want
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Speaker 1: to coach, come talk to me. I was like, There's
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Speaker 1: no way in the world. I coached, and then it
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Speaker 1: ended up. I have three kids and my oldest daughter
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Speaker 1: I was coaching her co ed basketball team and I
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Speaker 1: just got the bug. There did the minority internship. Loved it,
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Speaker 1: and I've been coaching ever since. Now, your relationship with Doug,
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Speaker 1: did you? I guess you guys never talked about coaching,
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Speaker 1: never really talked about that when you were together when
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Speaker 1: you played, right, Yes, not until we were together coaching. Okay,
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Speaker 1: what was it that appealed to you about coaching. Why
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Speaker 1: this path It was when I did the internship, just
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Speaker 1: getting back around the guys, being able to instill my
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Speaker 1: knowledge onto the players, and from there just it was
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Speaker 1: just natural. I can consider myself a teacher and just
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Speaker 1: being able to go out there and teach younger guys
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Speaker 1: and that you've been through the same position they're going through,
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Speaker 1: and just helped him understand the game and helped him
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Speaker 1: grow as players and people. Now, what did Andy Reid
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Speaker 1: say he saw in you that made you him believe that?
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Speaker 1: I don't know what he saw, but he we were
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Speaker 1: were I was stretching and he came in and he
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Speaker 1: the question came up to me, and I was kind
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Speaker 1: of caught me off guard, but uh, he said, no way,
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Speaker 1: I want to work. No way all those long hours.
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Speaker 1: And I was like, you know, after getting into it, Uh,
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Speaker 1: if something you love, it's really not work. And I
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Speaker 1: love coaching, so it works out good. What is it
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Speaker 1: about Doug Peterson that inspired confidence to make this move
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Speaker 1: for you? Really? Just uh, knowing Doug as a player
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Speaker 1: then also as a young coach and seeing his passion
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Speaker 1: the intelligence when your quality control, you kind of get
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Speaker 1: a feel of the whole organization. And we both were
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Speaker 1: in that position. So being able to sit there and
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Speaker 1: talk to him late nights and just understanding that his
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Speaker 1: vision and then seeing what he did in Philadelphia, it
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Speaker 1: was just the opportunity for me that, you know, no brainer.
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Speaker 1: What is Todd Bowles meant to your career? He's been
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Speaker 1: a great influence. Um, not only Todd, but Jim Johnson, Um,
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Speaker 1: John Harball, just different different people throughout my career have
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Speaker 1: been great influence. But to specifically, it's really uh. When
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Speaker 1: he got the Philadelphia with me, it was we saw
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Speaker 1: things similar, not always a light but very similar. And
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Speaker 1: his approach to the game as far as pressure packages
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Speaker 1: with the Jim also was really fond of Yes, So
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Speaker 1: just being able to understand that when you're on defense
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Speaker 1: you're able to dictate to the offense, it's always a
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Speaker 1: plus for you. Oh, you're also caught up with offensive
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Speaker 1: coordinator Press Taylor, who explained how the offensive coaches will
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Speaker 1: come together about your staff, What do you like about
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Speaker 1: the makeup by Jim, Bob Coot and and the rest.
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Speaker 1: You know, I really like just kind of the mixture
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Speaker 1: of personalities and philosophies that are coming together. Now there
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Speaker 1: is a lot of guys we have some sort of
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Speaker 1: tie some way, shape or form kind of as we
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Speaker 1: get into this we all figure that out. Um, but
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot of different ideas a lot
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Speaker 1: of people that from from the week we've been together.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of I would say that generally the group
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Speaker 1: is low ego, high output. We're getting a lot of
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Speaker 1: work done early on in a week when a lot
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Speaker 1: of people don't really seem to care who's gonna get
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Speaker 1: the credit for anything. Everybody just wants to contribute. And
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Speaker 1: that's that's really what you want to be around. You know,
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Speaker 1: we spend a lot of time together, work a lot
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Speaker 1: of hours, and so when you're around guys that get
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Speaker 1: along really well but have a lot of fresh ideas
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Speaker 1: and keep things fun and exciting and creative. Um, that's
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Speaker 1: something that makes it fun to come to work every
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Speaker 1: single day. You mentioned there's a thread, a lot of connections,
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Speaker 1: if you will, with Coach Peters and with each other.
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Speaker 1: How important do you anticipate that being maybe the knowledge
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Speaker 1: you have going into it. I think that's a big
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Speaker 1: part of it. Obviously, Coach Peters and I can speak
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Speaker 1: the same language having been in the same offense for
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Speaker 1: five years. Um. And then you know, Andrew Bryner is
10:16
Speaker 1: even a guy that worked with us for a year there.
10:18
Speaker 1: Nick Williams worked with us there, so we can speak
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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles language. Um. And then really one of
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Speaker 1: the ties is kind of Peyton Manning, where Mike McCoy's
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Speaker 1: work with Peyton Manning, Jim Bob Cooter's work with Peyton Manning,
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Speaker 1: Frank Reich had worked with Peyton Manning, Frank was with
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Speaker 1: us in Philly, So we can all myself, Mike McCoy,
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Speaker 1: Jim Bob Cooter, we can kind of speak a certain
10:37
Speaker 1: language based on what I did in Indie and what
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Speaker 1: those guys have been familiar with Peyton. Uh So there
10:41
Speaker 1: are some unique ties that kind of bring people together.
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Speaker 1: And as long as we can initially speak the same language,
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Speaker 1: we can work well together and then we'll come up
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Speaker 1: with what our languages so we're all on the exact
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Speaker 1: same page as we move forward. Is that a case
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Speaker 1: of two philosophies coming together or they pretty like philosophies
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Speaker 1: That Colts Manning thing, if you will, and the Peterson thing,
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Speaker 1: if you will. I would say they're they're they're similar
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Speaker 1: enough in terms of the way we operate in the past,
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Speaker 1: game and things like that. Now there's obviously things that
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Speaker 1: are unique or specific to one certain philosophy, but we'll
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Speaker 1: kind of combine figure out what is best for us,
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Speaker 1: what is best for our players to put them in
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Speaker 1: position to succeed as we continue to build this thing.
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Speaker 1: How important do you think it is with that Doug
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Speaker 1: still having a play calling responsibilities you, as you said,
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Speaker 1: knowing his language, knowing exactly what he wants. I assume
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Speaker 1: there won't be a whole lot of learning curve where
11:34
Speaker 1: he's looking at you saying what did you mean by that? Right?
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Speaker 1: And that that is something that having familiar familiarity with
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Speaker 1: one another. Um, it's important we have a great relationship
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Speaker 1: already coming into this thing. But it's important we're in
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Speaker 1: lockstep as we kind of do the legwork throughout the
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Speaker 1: week for him and prep him each single day on Hey,
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Speaker 1: this is how we got to hear, this is how
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Speaker 1: we envision this if if he and I are not
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Speaker 1: having great communication is going to show up on the field.
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Speaker 1: And so a relationship we already have previously where we
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Speaker 1: we enjoyed working together and we were able to see
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Speaker 1: things the same way. I think that's going to go
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Speaker 1: a long way in terms of being able to build
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Speaker 1: build out his vision. Kind of silly first day of
12:13
Speaker 1: school question, if you will but describe your offensive velocity.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny we we were talking about this
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Speaker 1: as an offensive staff is kind of we get into
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Speaker 1: our identity and philosophy and and it's not going to
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Speaker 1: be the old school where a West Coast offense, the
12:27
Speaker 1: Bill Walsh West Coast offense, where this spread offense, where
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Speaker 1: the the you know, all the different versions of triple
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Speaker 1: triple option, all those types of things. I don't know
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Speaker 1: that you'd have a name for it. Um. At the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, we want to be efficient. We
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Speaker 1: want to be explosive. So whatever that looks like to us,
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Speaker 1: we want to we want to be able to score
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Speaker 1: touchdowns when we're in position to score touchdowns, if that
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Speaker 1: is running the ball, throwing the ball, screens, gadgets, whatever
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Speaker 1: that is. We want to be able to do that.
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Speaker 1: As long as it puts our players in the best
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Speaker 1: position to succeed and maximize their abilities, that's really what
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Speaker 1: we want to do. Both ozone podcasts available in the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars of Shold podcast network on Jaguars Happy Our Radio Thursday.
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Speaker 1: The conversation continued Jeff Logoman and I discussed the need
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Speaker 1: for a single vision for the Jaguars franchise. Quarterback. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of a lot of people around the
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Speaker 1: quarterback in this coaching staff, right the O C passing
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Speaker 1: game coordinator, quarterback coach, assistant quarterback coach, oh yeah, and
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Speaker 1: the head coach. But they've gotta have that one language,
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Speaker 1: as Press Taylor said there, and it seems like they're
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Speaker 1: pretty confident they can get that together among the coaches
13:33
Speaker 1: who have had some history together. And I think the
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Speaker 1: focus is obviously making Trevor Lawrence be the best that
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Speaker 1: he can be. But when you have that many proven entities,
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Speaker 1: because a lot of those guys are proven entities, you
13:49
Speaker 1: have to make sure and ensure Doug Peterson does to
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Speaker 1: make sure that it's not too many voices trying to
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Speaker 1: speak to Trevor Lawrence, because when you start to have,
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Speaker 1: you know, the old saying, too many chefs in the
14:01
Speaker 1: kitchen can ruin a meal. I mean, I think that
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Speaker 1: is true. I think it's very true, and you need
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Speaker 1: to make sure that you have I don't want to
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Speaker 1: say the one voice but you have to have one
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Speaker 1: voice speaking to him. It can't be and it's not
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Speaker 1: one person so per se, but it's one voice as
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Speaker 1: far as everybody has to be on the same page.
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Speaker 1: And you do not do not want to have five
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Speaker 1: different coaches that are trying to mentor Trevor Lawrence. That's
14:28
Speaker 1: that's just not good. It's just too much. So I
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Speaker 1: think it will be I don't want to say it
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Speaker 1: will be a little bit of a challenge. I think it.
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Speaker 1: Doug will make sure that that does happen. But it
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Speaker 1: is nice that they have so many different people with
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Speaker 1: the experience level that they have that I don't think
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Speaker 1: there's any question that this will be an offense that
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Speaker 1: will utilize the personnel that they have and will be
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Speaker 1: creative in a lot of different ways and utilizing that
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Speaker 1: personnel because there is a wide range of experience, press
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Speaker 1: Taylor being one of the most inexperience, but he's got
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Speaker 1: a lot of great guys that he can really kind
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Speaker 1: of lean on to be a first time offensive coordinator.
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Speaker 1: But but let's catch up. You've got four offensive tackles
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Speaker 1: and three defensive ends that are probably going in the
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Speaker 1: top ten. So why would somebody give up a king's
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Speaker 1: ransom to come to number one when they can stay
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Speaker 1: right where they're at it number seven, or or somebody
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Speaker 1: at number fifteen can go to seven and it costs
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Speaker 1: them less. There's just not that compelling, you know, let's
17:51
Speaker 1: trade up mentality. So if you're gonna if you're gonna
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Speaker 1: stay there, and in all likelihood they are, you're gonna
17:57
Speaker 1: have a choice between one of these guys who is
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Speaker 1: in the elite looking athlete elite looking player. I say
18:03
Speaker 1: looking because they got to come do it at this level.
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Speaker 1: There's been a lot of guys that have been outstanding
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Speaker 1: numerically and on college tape that haven't translated. And obviously,
18:11
Speaker 1: you know, whatever happens with Cam Robinson will will come
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Speaker 1: into play here. He was on the franchise tag last
18:16
Speaker 1: year just over thirteen million. That bumps up if your
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Speaker 1: franchise the second time. I believe the the offensive line
18:23
Speaker 1: like six team seventeen million this year's it's a big
18:26
Speaker 1: numbers so and the deadline for that is marks eight.
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Speaker 1: We'll have a better idea of what they're really thinking
18:31
Speaker 1: at tackle. That could obviously change what happens in the draft. Then,
18:34
Speaker 1: and here's what's fascinating about that. I have no idea
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Speaker 1: if they're gonna franchise Cam or not. Um it's certainly
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Speaker 1: a viable option if they do it, but even if
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Speaker 1: they don't, you really haven't solved the question of if
18:46
Speaker 1: you know a lot of years you would say, well,
18:49
Speaker 1: if if they don't bring Cam back, they're automatically going
18:51
Speaker 1: to draft Evan Neil. But you have Walker Little, who
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Speaker 1: conceivably they just took in the second round last year.
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Speaker 1: So if you're like Cam, they can still have options
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Speaker 1: to the top of the draft because if if they
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Speaker 1: go pass Rusher and you say we're gonna play Walker
19:06
Speaker 1: Little in he's our guy. He played well the last
19:08
Speaker 1: two games. This is the strangest thing to analyze the
19:12
Speaker 1: Jaggar's offensive line, right now, because there are more moving
19:15
Speaker 1: parts on this position in these few weeks than any
19:19
Speaker 1: position analysis that I've ever covered on the stand, and
19:21
Speaker 1: they will there's such a new staff and they haven't
19:23
Speaker 1: been able to get their hands on the guys that
19:25
Speaker 1: are here yet, so they haven't seen that in person yet. Well,
19:28
Speaker 1: and Doug and and all the coordinators said, it's just
19:31
Speaker 1: too early to tell what what's your scheme is going
19:33
Speaker 1: to be, what your line is gonna look like, how
19:35
Speaker 1: you're gonna play defense until they have more time to
19:37
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19:51
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Speaker 1: wrap the week with NFL network analyst Bucky Brooks. He
20:01
Speaker 1: joins us each week on the Huddle Up podcast, and
20:04
Speaker 1: with the NFL Scouting Combine looming next week in Indianapolis,
20:08
Speaker 1: we got to do a conversation about what this week
20:11
Speaker 1: means for the NFL and how it has grown over
20:14
Speaker 1: the years. It's a big week because this is the
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Speaker 1: official handoff from last season to this season for most
20:21
Speaker 1: of us NFL fans and those around it. It's the
20:24
Speaker 1: first time that we begin to get familiar with some
20:27
Speaker 1: of the top college players as they kind of transition
20:30
Speaker 1: up to the National Football League. So we began to
20:32
Speaker 1: kind of see the names. Guys are beginning to kind
20:34
Speaker 1: of peruse the internet looking at highlight packages. You're trying
20:37
Speaker 1: to figure out which players or names are going to
20:39
Speaker 1: be associated and tied to your best to your your
20:42
Speaker 1: favorite team. Yeah, this is a major stage, and since
20:46
Speaker 1: the National Football League has made it a TV event,
20:50
Speaker 1: it has really become a very prominent event. You know,
20:54
Speaker 1: it was years ago, as as you guys can attest,
20:57
Speaker 1: the combine used to just kind of take place in
21:00
Speaker 1: that mysterious place of Indianapolis. There were no cameras there,
21:02
Speaker 1: kind of took place in a quiet stadium, no one
21:05
Speaker 1: saw it, no highlights, you barely got the times. And
21:09
Speaker 1: then they put it on TV. And then from the
21:11
Speaker 1: NFL's perspective, it was, you know, we need to make
21:14
Speaker 1: this a primetime event. We need to make it a
21:16
Speaker 1: TV event, and persistence paid off. It is now a
21:21
Speaker 1: TV event that is on display Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and
21:26
Speaker 1: Sunday at night prime time. Our quarterbacks go first. It
21:31
Speaker 1: used to be the offensive lineman and all those guys
21:32
Speaker 1: that people don't necessarily get excited about. Well, now the
21:36
Speaker 1: first night, Thursday night, it's like your quarterbacks and your
21:39
Speaker 1: pass catchers in we're like so the offense sales tickets
21:44
Speaker 1: the league. The league has done a great job of
21:46
Speaker 1: not only making this event big, but they made the
21:50
Speaker 1: league calendar where every month there's something the National Football
21:55
Speaker 1: League dominates the headlines twelve months a year and it's
21:58
Speaker 1: not I mean, it's not even close. Yeah. I was
22:03
Speaker 1: fortunate or unfortunate as it were, uh either one to
22:07
Speaker 1: be working for the Indianapolis Colts when they first went
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Speaker 1: from secret Combine. I would call it to televise com
22:17
Speaker 1: Combine and Bucky you might be able to attest this.
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Speaker 1: I thought Bill Pollion's head was going to exploit the idea,
22:24
Speaker 1: the idea, and you know, I Bill be the first
22:28
Speaker 1: to tell you it was a football centric This is
22:32
Speaker 1: about football. It's gonna ruin it. He knew it was
22:35
Speaker 1: coming and he knew there was no way to avoid it,
22:39
Speaker 1: but the old school football guys didn't like this move
22:43
Speaker 1: at all. I guess it's a precursor, Bucky to asking you, um,
22:48
Speaker 1: does the televised aspect of it? I know the positive.
22:53
Speaker 1: Everybody would tell you you very rarely have guys who
22:56
Speaker 1: don't run at the combine now or you have, you
22:59
Speaker 1: have far few. So it had that huge benefit for
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Speaker 1: the football people. Has there been any negative to it?
23:05
Speaker 1: Or mean, is it harder to scout you've done the
23:08
Speaker 1: behind the scenes stuff? Is that trickier or they managed
23:11
Speaker 1: to keep that the same? Is it's still beneficial to scouts,
23:14
Speaker 1: you know, John, Like what's been crazy? Like scouts are
23:17
Speaker 1: all uh up in arms at the beginning of it, like,
23:20
Speaker 1: oh my god, TV, you're turning into this advance. It's
23:23
Speaker 1: not it is losing the purity of it. It has
23:25
Speaker 1: now become such a deal where you have teams that
23:28
Speaker 1: aren't sending their scouts because they can see it on TV.
23:30
Speaker 1: So they the scouts can stay in their cities, they
23:33
Speaker 1: continue to meet, they can watch it on TV, they
23:36
Speaker 1: get the official times from the now the service UM
23:40
Speaker 1: and so it prevents it prevents you from having to
23:43
Speaker 1: send all your scouts from So from an economical standpoint,
23:46
Speaker 1: you have owners who are able to save money um
23:49
Speaker 1: by keeping the scouts. And I want to say the
23:51
Speaker 1: l a Ram's last ye didn't send anybody, you know,
23:53
Speaker 1: maybe just their general manager and the uh player personnel
23:58
Speaker 1: guy in college directed, but all of the regular scouts
24:01
Speaker 1: may have stayed at home. And you've seen a rise
24:02
Speaker 1: in that. I think the best you know who that
24:05
Speaker 1: does hurt Bucky high velocity, the lobby bar at the hotel.
24:14
Speaker 1: That's right. Oh, I mean, look, the lobby bar has
24:17
Speaker 1: suddenly taken a hit. And now when you have like
24:19
Speaker 1: COVID and COVID restricts in, guys have kind of found
24:22
Speaker 1: ways that we don't need to send the main contingent.
24:25
Speaker 1: But now I think it's really been positive because you
24:27
Speaker 1: know before that you would have a ton of guys
24:29
Speaker 1: they wouldn't work out. Now that it's on TV, gas
24:32
Speaker 1: have grown up seeing the combine and it's kind become
24:36
Speaker 1: an aspirational event where you want to be a part
24:38
Speaker 1: of it. You want to be the fastest man, you
24:40
Speaker 1: want to be known for the workout that you put
24:42
Speaker 1: on display. So I actually feel like it's been positive,
24:45
Speaker 1: even though it has kind of change a little bit.
24:48
Speaker 1: Away of the combine operates. The Huddle Up podcast hits
24:52
Speaker 1: each Wednesday on the Official Jaguars Podcast Network on the
24:55
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app. Speaking of the Combine, we will
24:58
Speaker 1: have coverage from Indianapolis all week long. Next week. Ashland
25:01
Speaker 1: Sullivan and John Oshan will be on the ground starting Monday.
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson and Trent Balky your schedule to speak to
25:07
Speaker 1: the media there Tuesday. Behind the scenes content and much
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Speaker 1: more expected throughout the week. Stay tuned to Jaguars Social
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Speaker 1: media and Jaguars dot Com for the latest from Indy.
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Speaker 1: Enjoy the weekend and thanks for listening. I'm J. P. Shadwy.
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