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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend Review podcast presented by
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Speaker 1: T I A A Bank. It's Friday, April one. J P.
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Speaker 1: Shadrick with the best of a busy week on Jaguars Radio,
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Speaker 1: Jaguars dot Com, and of course, are streaming platforms Jags, Twitter, Facebook,
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Speaker 1: and YouTube coming up. Daniel Jeremiah of NFL Network on
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Speaker 1: a couple top defensive prospects, plus former NFL defensive end
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Speaker 1: Chris Long discusses what Doug Peterson brings to an organization.
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Speaker 1: But we begin this week with the NFL annual meeting
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Speaker 1: at the Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida. Jaguars owners Shot
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Speaker 1: Con sat down with senior writer John Hosier, and there's
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Speaker 1: been plenty of change around the organization through CON's first
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Speaker 1: decade as owner. You've seen fired up about what's going
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Speaker 1: on now. And I know you always are your positive first,
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Speaker 1: and but there I've seen something different about the way
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Speaker 1: you feel about this going forward. Yeah, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: like something you kind of feeling in your bones. Uh,
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Speaker 1: it's like a feeling certainly I haven't had, okay where
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Speaker 1: it's uh, you don't have. I mean, I think the
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Speaker 1: collective thinking and the whole, the big picture. Uh. And
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Speaker 1: then the vibe, you know, the level of confidence, the
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Speaker 1: level of experience with the coaches. UM. Really UM. You know,
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Speaker 1: I've worked in environments, you know, primarily factories, offices where
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Speaker 1: there were no walls and you know you're all sitting together. Um.
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Speaker 1: You know, we've had the structure obviously in the performance center,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna have you know, basically visual control you can
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Speaker 1: see who is UM. But I did that right after
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Speaker 1: we you know, we got to Jacksonville where we could
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Speaker 1: to eliminate that we wanted to see, but visual control. UM.
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Speaker 1: And you know I love that now with coaches that
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Speaker 1: you walk in the hallway, people are standing to talking,
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Speaker 1: drawing plays and the collaboration. Uh, you know, so early
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Speaker 1: in the season. It's really great to see. The full
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Speaker 1: Shotgun interview available on Jaguars dot Com and on the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Reporters podcast Monday afternoon, oh Shar gave us a
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Speaker 1: little more insight to his conversation with the Jaguars owner.
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Speaker 1: And it's not very often that Mr Khan is on
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Speaker 1: the record, but it always is news when he speaks. John.
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Speaker 1: What was the biggest takeaway from shot Con today about
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Speaker 1: three or four questions, and I not so subtly reminded
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Speaker 1: him that he just finished writing a lot of checks
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Speaker 1: and he, uh, he laughed and said, yes I did.
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Speaker 1: And but he said, you know, I'm alluding, of course,
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Speaker 1: the free agency, and he said, uh, happy to write
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Speaker 1: those checks because the overall feeling is that they got
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Speaker 1: better with it. It struck me maybe this wasn't what
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Speaker 1: he said, but as he was saying it, I was
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Speaker 1: struck by it again, this whole notion that you know,
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Speaker 1: somehow over the years he hasn't spent money or hasn't
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Speaker 1: been willing to open up the checkbooks, which to every
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Speaker 1: time I get a question like that, it sort of
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Speaker 1: slaps me back of how sometimes people miss things because
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Speaker 1: nothing be further from the truth. And again, sitting there
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Speaker 1: talking to him today, I'm always reminded, and all all
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Speaker 1: three of you have talked to him as well. This
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Speaker 1: guy wants to win and everything he does is is
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Speaker 1: about winning. He talked also at the very beginning, you know,
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Speaker 1: he's genuinely thinks that there's a different vibe in the building.
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Speaker 1: He's been there. He kept referring back to being there
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Speaker 1: ten years, and I really think there's something to that
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Speaker 1: for him, he's got the experience now, it takes a
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Speaker 1: while to learn to be an NFL owner. And three
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Speaker 1: or four different times while I talked to him, he
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Speaker 1: talked about having been there ten years, the feel for it,
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Speaker 1: and he genuinely thinks, and I think we all kind
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Speaker 1: of feel it's a different vibe and he it's different
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Speaker 1: than what he has felt at any time in the
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Speaker 1: first ten years. Will be bigger, who knows, but that
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Speaker 1: feeling is really another big piece of the NFL Annual
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Speaker 1: Meeting the FC Coaches Breakfast Monday morning. Doug Peterson was
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Speaker 1: asked about the tone of his conversations so far with
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Speaker 1: the players, plus his history of going for it on
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Speaker 1: fourth down and the addition of key players in free agency. Well, obviously,
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Speaker 1: right now, it's just on the surface, you know, we're
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Speaker 1: not doing anything football, you know, with them, and it's
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Speaker 1: really kind of me getting to know them and them
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Speaker 1: getting to know me. And that's I think that's the
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Speaker 1: number one thing that with a new head coach, you know,
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Speaker 1: for them, uh, just kind of gaining gaining their trust,
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Speaker 1: you know, this offseason and trying to build that. Any
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Speaker 1: time I get a chance to run into the guys overall.
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Speaker 1: I've been Yeah, I've been. I've been really impressed with them. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, and they just want to win. They just
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Speaker 1: want to win. That's kind of been the general theme
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Speaker 1: with all the guys. And you know, it's, uh, it's
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Speaker 1: really a good locker room. It's a young locker room,
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we just got to get them
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Speaker 1: to come together and uh, you know, find the leaders
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Speaker 1: of the group and and get them going on fourth down.
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Speaker 1: You Sally Klient and last year it was the post
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Speaker 1: ever and that guys are completing, they're hurting like over
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Speaker 1: fift center like hi games, Like, do you feel like
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Speaker 1: you played a small role in that face the bond
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Speaker 1: your success and got the seventeen well, I think I
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Speaker 1: think if you go back to seventeen, um and listen,
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Speaker 1: I wasn't. I wasn't going into seventeen trying to be
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Speaker 1: a trend setter. You know, we're trying to do what
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Speaker 1: we can to win football games. And any time that
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Speaker 1: we can, thank you, any time that we can maybe
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Speaker 1: steal a possession on offense, you know, we were gonna
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Speaker 1: try to do that back then. And I think I
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Speaker 1: think because of that, I think you're seeing more and
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Speaker 1: more teams around the league, you know, the fourth and
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Speaker 1: one and fourth and two's, you know, making those decisions
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Speaker 1: to stay on the field. Now, you know they're being
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Speaker 1: smart about it, field position, all of that. UM, but
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Speaker 1: I think they're understanding that they can have that extra
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Speaker 1: possession and hopefully that translates into points. Analytics and play
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Speaker 1: to it a little bit. You know, you have to.
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Speaker 1: You have to listen to the analytics. You have to
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Speaker 1: listen to you know what they say. But at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, it's it's it's about the players
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Speaker 1: and and our opponent. How how is our opponent in
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Speaker 1: those third and one, fourth and one, fourth and two's,
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Speaker 1: how do they play defense? And so it boils down
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Speaker 1: ultimately to the head coach making the decision. But analytics
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Speaker 1: could play a small part in in helping me and
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Speaker 1: making a decision to go for it or not. Because
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Speaker 1: we're so active in the first free agency, what is
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Speaker 1: little the specific thing you added may give you compidence
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Speaker 1: about how to make its definitely make well number one.
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Speaker 1: You know, we always look at our own roster first
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Speaker 1: and and we we try to resign as many of
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Speaker 1: our guys as possible. UM. That's just the nature of
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Speaker 1: free agency. We're gonna lose something, you know. And as
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Speaker 1: we put our plan together. When I say we, you know,
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Speaker 1: Trent baal Ky, the pro personnel side, the coaches side,
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Speaker 1: As we came together and put our plan together, you know,
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Speaker 1: we targeted UM certain positions that that we needed, we
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Speaker 1: needed help, and we also targeted based on we might
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Speaker 1: lose a guy to free agency that we have to
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Speaker 1: you know, uh, fulfill and you know we we we
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Speaker 1: we we We signed seven guys, right, and seven guys
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Speaker 1: that can help us. You know, this year. I don't
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Speaker 1: think you want to go into free agency signing seven
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Speaker 1: guys every year. I don't think that's the model. UM.
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Speaker 1: And now we have the draft coming up that we
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Speaker 1: can also help and uh, you know, with twelve draft picks,
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Speaker 1: bringing more of that talent, bringing more depth, bringing more
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Speaker 1: competition is what you want. With the guys we signed
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Speaker 1: are going to be impact players, you know, right away.
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Speaker 1: The full Doug Peterson press conference available on the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: social media channels Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Reaction to Peterson's
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Speaker 1: arrival in Jacksonville this week from former NFL defensive end
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Speaker 1: Chris Long. He was the second overall pick in the
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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight draft, and he played eight seasons
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Speaker 1: with the St. Louis Rams, one Super Bowl fifty one
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Speaker 1: in his lone season with the Patriots, and then finished
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Speaker 1: his career with the Eagles under Peterson, including a win,
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Speaker 1: of course, in Super Bowl fifty two. Long joined Ashland,
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Speaker 1: Sullivan and Brian Sexton on Jags Drive Time Tuesday morning.
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Speaker 1: All Right, so we are starting to get to know
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Speaker 1: coach Peterson. He has been here a couple of months
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Speaker 1: and everyone we talked to is, wow, he is such
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Speaker 1: a great guy. But I know you might see a
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Speaker 1: different side of him. Is he as good of a
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Speaker 1: guy as everyone tells us? Coach is an incredible guy.
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Speaker 1: He's the type of guy that, honestly, I always tell
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Speaker 1: people this. He can kind of, you know, pick his
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Speaker 1: battles as a coach um and players will go to
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Speaker 1: the wall for him because he works you hard, but
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Speaker 1: you don't even realize it half the time because you're
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Speaker 1: having fun. It's competitive and he treats you like an equal.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he was a former player. I was on
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Speaker 1: some of his leadership councils and some of the things
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Speaker 1: that he did behind closed doors where he involved the
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Speaker 1: players and looped them in on decisions and that sort
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Speaker 1: of thing. And I think a lot of times pro
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Speaker 1: coaches their egos are a little too big or they
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Speaker 1: don't want to bend two players. And I think Doug
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Speaker 1: walked that line really well. Still running a tough program,
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Speaker 1: working us hard, but also like having enough fund so
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Speaker 1: that it balanced out. And I know that you were
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Speaker 1: pretty vocal when coach Peterson left Philadelphia, and I read
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Speaker 1: your tweets, Beer said he's gonna get another shot soon.
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Speaker 1: So when he got this shot here in Jacksonville, what
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Speaker 1: was your reaction? It felt like a great fit. You know, Um,
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Speaker 1: I think he can do a lot for for Trevor. Um.
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Speaker 1: I think he can do a lot for kind of
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Speaker 1: the the vibe of a team. He's kind of the
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Speaker 1: opposite of the situation that y'all are emerging from. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's he's the type of guy that you know, players
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Speaker 1: are absolutely gonna universally love, and he's gonna be a
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Speaker 1: really competent guy who's been there, done that on the
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Speaker 1: pro level. Uh, you know, he's won a super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: He stabilized the locker room in tough situations, like you know,
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Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of crazy stuff that goes
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Speaker 1: on on teams that that struggle. Um, and I've been
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Speaker 1: on teams and struggle. I've been in situations like the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars weld last year. I mean I played most of
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Speaker 1: my career in St. Louis, So I feel like I'm
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Speaker 1: pretty qualified to say like the type of guy that
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Speaker 1: could could help a situation like that. And I think
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Speaker 1: Doug is the perfect guy from an energy standpoint, a
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Speaker 1: confident standpoint, Um, just the you know, kind of the
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Speaker 1: the stones to make the right calls, the bowl calls.
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Speaker 1: I mean he's done that in Super Bowls. And you know,
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Speaker 1: our team had a lot of ups and downs over
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Speaker 1: those couple of years, and he helped us navigate all
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Speaker 1: those waters. I mean we lost Carson Wentz in l
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Speaker 1: A and went on the road and won a Super Bowl. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know the next couple of weeks. So, um, he's
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Speaker 1: a great coach and he's seen it all. I feel
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Speaker 1: like just in a short tenure and Philly relatively speaking, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you mentioned a guy that's been there and done that,
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Speaker 1: that consistency, and we keep bringing up a Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: champion coach here in Jacksonville. What does that do for
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Speaker 1: a locker room. I mean, you've been in a locker
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Speaker 1: room for many, many years. When you have a Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl champion in there as a coach doesn't mean anything.
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Speaker 1: Does it do anything? I think it does. I only
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Speaker 1: say that because when I got to the Eagles, and
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Speaker 1: when la Garrett Blunt got to the Eagles and a
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Speaker 1: couple of us have won a Super Bowl, people really
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Speaker 1: give you credibility, whether that's warranted or not. As a player,
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Speaker 1: you know, people are always asking, you know, what the
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Speaker 1: what can we do better? What are the keys to
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Speaker 1: getting there? The whole thing. And I think when you
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Speaker 1: have a coach who's one it, he oversaw that whole operation,
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Speaker 1: So you know, it's it's infinitely more impressive to be
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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl head coach because like you were the
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Speaker 1: one who had to manage and you know, preside over
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Speaker 1: all fifty three people in the roster, all three phases
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Speaker 1: of football. You know, it's one thing to have player
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Speaker 1: experience winning a Super Bowl, but I think a coach
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Speaker 1: that wins the Super Bowl, especially in the fashion that
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Speaker 1: we did, having to win games a bunch of different ways.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we we beat the Raiders, I think like
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Speaker 1: thirteen seven or something to to secure home field advantage. Um,
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Speaker 1: we beat the Rams on the road in a high
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Speaker 1: scoring game. You know we we scored forty points basically
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Speaker 1: two weeks in a row through the NFC Championship in
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, and that's what it took to win.
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Speaker 1: We also want a low scoring game against the Falcons
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. So he's won every different way. Um,
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Speaker 1: his experience as a coach through that playoff run is
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Speaker 1: more conversation about the communication and collaboration between head coach
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson and his coaching staff with general manager Trent
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Speaker 1: Bulky and his personnel and scouting staffs. Good start. Bucket's
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Speaker 1: sound was like, right now, the question is moving it forward,
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Speaker 1: getting through the draft, getting to the offseason program, getting
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Speaker 1: to the season, that's when we'll really find out. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think it's a really good start. And I'll say
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Speaker 1: this having known Doug for a long time, having played
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Speaker 1: with Doug during a time together in Green Bay, and
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Speaker 1: also having known a lot of the mentors that he's had, UM,
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Speaker 1: this is what I would expect it to be like. UM,
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Speaker 1: having played care and having played and worked under Andy Reid,
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Speaker 1: A lot of the stuff that Doug is doing are
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Speaker 1: things that were done in those walls with those teams.
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Speaker 1: Having known both of those guys, and so I'm not
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Speaker 1: surprised that it's a collaboration where you're seeing guys have
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Speaker 1: better communication UM front office, the coaching staff, coaching staff,
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Speaker 1: the players, coaches and front office members to maybe people
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Speaker 1: around the building that maybe on the other side of
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Speaker 1: the aisle. Um look man football, as much as it
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Speaker 1: is in a tactical game, it's about relationships, it's about
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Speaker 1: building bonds where the players trust that you have their
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Speaker 1: best interests at heart, and there's an commitment and accountability
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Speaker 1: that comes along with building that. And what you're seeing
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Speaker 1: is Doug trying to build those bonds in the building.
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Speaker 1: So everybody feels good. It feels good about the direction
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Speaker 1: of the program, and I think you can sense it
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Speaker 1: because that's who he is naturally. But I also think
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Speaker 1: that's part of the team building process. I've said this
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Speaker 1: for a long time. Before we the Jacks can win
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Speaker 1: on the field, everything behind the scenes has to be
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Speaker 1: right and connected. And I feel like from the outside
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Speaker 1: end that you're beginning to see some of the connectivity
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Speaker 1: that's necessary to be a championship team, you know, to
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Speaker 1: make that collaborative process absolutely beautiful. JP. What if Trevor
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Speaker 1: is good? That helps? It certainly does help. Then there'll
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Speaker 1: be more collaborations. Yeah, everybody, it's uh kumbaya. Yes. And
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you you heard read the story
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Speaker 1: that I wrote from Doug Peterson is availability on Monday. JP.
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Speaker 1: I think you did read it, because uh, that's my
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Speaker 1: job because you have to um. But he talked. I
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Speaker 1: thought he moved the story forward a little bit bucky
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Speaker 1: when he talked about how much he likes how accurate
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Speaker 1: Trevor is in play action, how accurate is outside the pocket.
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Speaker 1: He talked a lot about Trevor's ability in the quarterback
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Speaker 1: movement game. It seems sort of logical that that's how
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Speaker 1: he would use Trevor. But it was the first time
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Speaker 1: that I had heard Doug talk about that after really
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Speaker 1: diving into what Trevor can do well. I'm assuming he
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Speaker 1: spent a lot of time watching Trevor on film and
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Speaker 1: since February six, and uh, it sounds to me like
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Speaker 1: he certainly believes that movement and that element of Trevor's
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Speaker 1: game is gonna be a huge part of it. Is
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Speaker 1: one of those things that I think we all have
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Speaker 1: seen Trevor flash and do those things we all kind
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Speaker 1: of wanted to see a little more. That is rookie season.
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Speaker 1: For whatever reason, some of that stuff wasn't done. But
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Speaker 1: the easiest way to help a young quarterback is to
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Speaker 1: use play acts in and what I'll say bootlegs or
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Speaker 1: movement play action where you're faking the ball one way,
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Speaker 1: you're coming out the back door. It allows you to
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Speaker 1: not only move the defense with deception, but you also
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Speaker 1: cut the feeling I have to make the reeds easier
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Speaker 1: for the quarterback to see clearly where the ball should go.
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Speaker 1: And annoying Doug Peterson's work with quarterback because he's been
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Speaker 1: able to get every quarterback up and running, Nick Foles,
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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, even Jalen Hurst. What he has always done
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Speaker 1: a really good job of is digging deep into their
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Speaker 1: backgrounds to see what they did really well and building
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Speaker 1: the plan from those elements. And so when we go
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Speaker 1: back and look at what Trevor did well at Clemson,
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Speaker 1: he could move, he could run, he could do a
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Speaker 1: lot of those things. When now you add that to
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Speaker 1: what are some basic concept that having you throughout the
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Speaker 1: years in the pros, basic bootleg passing game and all
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Speaker 1: that other stuff, Yeah, it's easier to build a package
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Speaker 1: where he should be able to be efficient while steadily
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Speaker 1: evolving from game manager to playmaker at the position. Bottle
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Speaker 1: NFL Draft coming up in just a few weeks. Another
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Speaker 1: guest on Jags Drive Time Tuesday, NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah.
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Speaker 1: The Jaguars have the number one overall pick, and Jeremiah
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Speaker 1: broke down a pair of top defensive prospects. What do
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Speaker 1: you think right now for the number one overall pick
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Speaker 1: for the Jaguars? Could they even traded back? There are
18:31
Speaker 1: so many options. Yeah, there are definitely options here. You know,
18:34
Speaker 1: I think the trade back thing would be kind of
18:38
Speaker 1: dependent on everyone being convinced that the Lions were going
18:41
Speaker 1: to take a quarterback. Um. You know that maybe you
18:43
Speaker 1: could try and nudge the Carolina Panthers potentially to come up.
18:47
Speaker 1: I guess that's one scenario you could look at, um.
18:50
Speaker 1: But outside of that, I mean to me, if they're
18:51
Speaker 1: stuck there and they're picking there, all the signs to
18:54
Speaker 1: me point towards an edge rusher, and all the signs
18:57
Speaker 1: make the most sense to me. With Aidan Hutchinson, I
19:00
Speaker 1: just think, you know, I think he's the best player
19:02
Speaker 1: in the draft personally. I think it's a position of need.
19:04
Speaker 1: I don't have any questions of what he does on
19:06
Speaker 1: the field. You see the production. Um, he's got a
19:09
Speaker 1: variety of ways to get to the quarterback. He can
19:11
Speaker 1: play the run, so he's a complete player. And then
19:13
Speaker 1: off the field. Everything that you know, you hear about
19:16
Speaker 1: from a leadership standpoint is off the charts. So that
19:19
Speaker 1: to me is is where all the signs of point.
19:21
Speaker 1: And you know, I've used this analogy to me, it's
19:24
Speaker 1: just your parking that ball right in the middle of
19:25
Speaker 1: the fairway with a guy like eight hudgets. You know,
19:28
Speaker 1: Daniel when I watched him in Michigan, And I know
19:30
Speaker 1: comparisons are tough to make, but he had a J. J.
19:33
Speaker 1: Watt kind of impact on the game. It didn't matter
19:36
Speaker 1: where they put him, didn't matter whether it was the
19:37
Speaker 1: run of the past. He just had this distinct ability
19:40
Speaker 1: to make a play on the ball. Who who does
19:42
Speaker 1: he look like to you in terms of an NFL player? Yeah,
19:46
Speaker 1: you know, it's hard to come up with the comparison
19:48
Speaker 1: for him. Um. You know, there's been so many different
19:51
Speaker 1: names that have been thrown out there. I guess the
19:53
Speaker 1: one that I kind of fall back on most is
19:55
Speaker 1: Jared Allen. And you know, I always laugh because you
19:58
Speaker 1: get grief like, oh, just comparing white defensive vent to
20:01
Speaker 1: the others or white defensive ends. Um, but he that's
20:04
Speaker 1: who reminds me of just from a standpoint of tenacious.
20:08
Speaker 1: I was talking to somebody who was at his pro day,
20:09
Speaker 1: one one of the coaches that helped kind of run
20:11
Speaker 1: him through the drills, and said, this guy's this guy
20:14
Speaker 1: has got a limitless uh tank. You know, like you
20:18
Speaker 1: try and gas defensive linement out because a lot of
20:20
Speaker 1: times you get sacks. Like the difference between uh, you know,
20:23
Speaker 1: somebody who gets eight sacks and somebody who gets fourteen
20:26
Speaker 1: sacks is really it's really not that much. What it is.
20:29
Speaker 1: It's those guys, those extra sacks, those extra six sacks.
20:32
Speaker 1: A lot of times they're just off persistence and effort
20:36
Speaker 1: and there's just no slow down to this dude at all.
20:39
Speaker 1: So with the J. J. Watt comparison that you made
20:42
Speaker 1: with with Jared Allen, that's what those guys did. They
20:45
Speaker 1: made a living on that. So is there any smoke
20:48
Speaker 1: or any fire, I should say? Or is it all
20:50
Speaker 1: smoke with with Trayvon Walker climbing and does he belong
20:54
Speaker 1: in the conversation at the top of the draft or
20:56
Speaker 1: is that just a rising player uh in your estimation.
21:00
Speaker 1: I was joking with the buddy in the league this
21:02
Speaker 1: morning about this because I love Trayvon Walker and I've
21:05
Speaker 1: I've got him all the way up to my sixth player. Um.
21:09
Speaker 1: I feel like I've been, you know, kind of driving
21:11
Speaker 1: the bus a little bit on him and trying to
21:13
Speaker 1: tell people that this dude's gonna go way up there
21:16
Speaker 1: and he's a really good player. I remember my first
21:18
Speaker 1: or gosh, one of my first mock drafts. I had
21:20
Speaker 1: him going five to the Giants before the combine, and
21:23
Speaker 1: the Giants fans lost their minds. There's no way this
21:26
Speaker 1: guy could go up there with the fifth overall pick.
21:28
Speaker 1: And I'm like, no, no, he's pretty good now. Um.
21:31
Speaker 1: And so now he's he's launched himself all the way
21:33
Speaker 1: up into the discussion for the first overall pick. Um,
21:35
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I, as much as I love him, he's
21:37
Speaker 1: my sixth player, I couldn't justify that over Aiden Hutchinson,
21:41
Speaker 1: just because I know what I'm buying with Aidan Hutchinson.
21:44
Speaker 1: There is some projection still there with Walker, but in
21:47
Speaker 1: terms of doing your due diligence, doing your homework and him,
21:50
Speaker 1: you know, being the discussion with that pick. Yeah, I
21:52
Speaker 1: think that's I think that's reasonable. Jack's drivetime here is
21:54
Speaker 1: Tuesday's at ten am on Jaguars Dot com and of
21:57
Speaker 1: course the Jags social media channels Twitter and Facebook and YouTube.
22:01
Speaker 1: Center Brandon Lender calls it a career and overview after
22:06
Speaker 1: this welcome back, Let's wrap this week with Jaguars Happy
22:09
Speaker 1: Our Radio Thursday afternoon, Jeff Lockman and I got into
22:13
Speaker 1: the retirement of center Brandon Linder after eight seasons and
22:17
Speaker 1: what could be next for him even though he has
22:20
Speaker 1: had some injury issues which prohibited from playing full season
22:23
Speaker 1: for this football team. You talk about a really good
22:26
Speaker 1: football player that when he was on the field, he
22:30
Speaker 1: was arguably the best lineman on the field for the Jaguars,
22:34
Speaker 1: not to mention a top quality guy who did things
22:37
Speaker 1: the right way and he was a total pro and uh,
22:40
Speaker 1: and I got a lot of respect for him because
22:42
Speaker 1: of the way he's always gone about his business. Because
22:44
Speaker 1: he played in an era that only had one really
22:47
Speaker 1: good season. But Brandon Lender came to work every offseason,
22:50
Speaker 1: came into the season and was the best at his
22:53
Speaker 1: best from the physical standpoint, and did everything that he
22:57
Speaker 1: needed to do to prepare for a season. So I
22:59
Speaker 1: have a lot of respect from letter. So congratulations to him.
23:02
Speaker 1: You said it too. He missed forty one games in
23:04
Speaker 1: eight seasons. That is a lot of time off to
23:07
Speaker 1: the side. But I think that wears on you, obviously
23:09
Speaker 1: physically because you're getting banged up, but mentally too. You're
23:13
Speaker 1: trying to go out there. If he's that much of
23:15
Speaker 1: a professional, which he is, you want to be out
23:17
Speaker 1: there playing and having to rehab all the time. And
23:20
Speaker 1: then you're thinking about the future after football too well
23:24
Speaker 1: that time. And look, I'm obviously maybe a little bit
23:28
Speaker 1: slanted in the opinion of Brandon Letter because I mean,
23:31
Speaker 1: I'm a friend, he's a friend of mine, and uh,
23:35
Speaker 1: I like Brandon and and was trading text with him
23:38
Speaker 1: after the announcement was made. I actually was trading some
23:40
Speaker 1: text with him beforehand, saying, hey, did you figure out
23:42
Speaker 1: your football life? And and he just said, I'm still
23:44
Speaker 1: working on it. And I said, well, if you know,
23:46
Speaker 1: best of luck with it and all that kind of stuff.
23:48
Speaker 1: And so anyway, when he even made the announcement, I said,
23:51
Speaker 1: you know, congratulations to him. You know, he had he's
23:54
Speaker 1: got eight years in he did very well. He made
23:57
Speaker 1: good money playing in the National Football League, and and
24:00
Speaker 1: I'm sure that he saved some of that money. But
24:03
Speaker 1: there there comes a point, I think in every player's
24:05
Speaker 1: career that when you start having injuries, because I went
24:09
Speaker 1: through some of the same things, that when you start
24:11
Speaker 1: having injuries, you have to start away what's worth it? Okay,
24:14
Speaker 1: you're because you know, look, the money is always great,
24:17
Speaker 1: I mean know, and if it's just a question about money,
24:19
Speaker 1: you're gonna keep playing until you get kicked out because
24:22
Speaker 1: the money is incredible in the National Football League. But
24:24
Speaker 1: but the questions and the answers and the solutions are
24:28
Speaker 1: always more about money. It's about health. It's about a
24:32
Speaker 1: way of life. It's about making sure that there are
24:35
Speaker 1: certain components of your physical and mental well being that
24:38
Speaker 1: are going to be intact for the remainder of your life.
24:40
Speaker 1: And so I think he made the best decision for him.
24:43
Speaker 1: I wish him all the best. I know he's not
24:45
Speaker 1: going anywhere. He's a huge fan of Jacksonville. He's gonna
24:48
Speaker 1: be in Jacksonville for for a long period of time.
24:50
Speaker 1: And and I'm looking forward to maybe doing some things
24:53
Speaker 1: with Brandon, you know, because he's gonna have the time
24:54
Speaker 1: to do it. I was gonna say, I have a
24:57
Speaker 1: feeling branded might make an appearance on The Outdoor Show
25:00
Speaker 1: from being worked on it. Already is, It's already already
25:03
Speaker 1: been worked on exactly the full conversation of what the
25:06
Speaker 1: Jags could do next at Center, including the newly resigned
25:10
Speaker 1: Tyler Shatley Well. That's available on the archive of Jack's
25:13
Speaker 1: Happy Hour on the Official Jaguars podcast Network. The show
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