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Interview: Jaguars center Brandon Linder · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Jaguar center Brandon Linder with us after O t a
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  Speaker 1: number two. Let's let's start with a little ball, shall we.
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  Speaker 1: Um getting back at it here. You have a new
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  Speaker 1: set of hands underneath you this year. How has that
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  Speaker 1: transition been for this offense? It's been good. There's some
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  Speaker 1: soft hands. He definitely moisturizes. Um No, but it's been good. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He's done a great job definitely, you know, a leader,
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  Speaker 1: and uh you know he's it's been good, man, it's
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  Speaker 1: been good. And we were starting to gel at the
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  Speaker 1: whole offense. Uh so right now just the time for
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  Speaker 1: everyone to start jelling. And I mean that's it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a new era in that regard in that
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  Speaker 1: room this year. You know, there's a lot of new
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  Speaker 1: faces in that room. Um, how does how does he
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  Speaker 1: come in and take that control of the offense? How
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  Speaker 1: does a quarterback do that? How's he um get the
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  Speaker 1: offense all the guys on his side and on the
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  Speaker 1: same page. How does that happen? I mean, he's the
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  Speaker 1: guy who's obviously been in the Super Bowl, super Bowl MVP.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he knows how to get there. And uh so,
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  Speaker 1: I mean people respect that, and and and he can
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  Speaker 1: you know commands A how's your health with the knee
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  Speaker 1: last year? But your back hunter percent you're out here
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  Speaker 1: in o t As, it's gotta be going well. How
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  Speaker 1: was the rehab on that? Oh no, it's been great. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a hundred percent. I've been doing a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things in my off season, like pilates and yoga and
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, implementing that into my routine, which
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  Speaker 1: has health a lot um other than a couple of
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  Speaker 1: inches here and there, I'm good to go pilates and yoga.
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  Speaker 1: Where does that idea come from? And how did you begin?
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  Speaker 1: And when did you begin? Then I begin in like
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  Speaker 1: about January. But it's just something that I mean with
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  Speaker 1: offensive lines, all about body control, and I mean you're
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  Speaker 1: you're always in an awkward position, and especially with pilates,
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  Speaker 1: you're you're working these little muscles and kind of getting
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  Speaker 1: outside your your framework. And it's truly transition for me,
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  Speaker 1: which has been awesome. All right, let's go off season here.
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  Speaker 1: You you have the Instagram account at random Lunder sixty five.
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  Speaker 1: It's quite a watch. If you don't follow it, you
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  Speaker 1: should follow it on Instagram, especially the Instagram stories. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: During Turkey season. You're quite busy. It seems like where
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  Speaker 1: do you turkey hunt? Uh, turkey hunt? You know, A
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  Speaker 1: little bit here in Jacksonville, um, over in uh Leavy County,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit everywhere, honestly, I mean up in Pine Mountain, Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a couple of buddies have properties here and there.
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  Speaker 1: But it's if I could do it every day, I would,
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  Speaker 1: but I had to work out, so you know, I
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  Speaker 1: had to I had to schedule my time accordingly. You can,
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  Speaker 1: you can only go certain times of the year obviously
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  Speaker 1: because of work and legal restrictions otherwise. But um, you've
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  Speaker 1: done that for a long time though it's not your
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  Speaker 1: first go around TURKEYO. And how long you've been How
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  Speaker 1: long have you been hunting? I've been probably hunting for
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  Speaker 1: damn near fifteen years. I mean one of my twenties seven,
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  Speaker 1: I think about fifteen years, I would say. But yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's just something that I mean, that's what I grew
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  Speaker 1: up doing. That's well, honestly my true love hunting fishing. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and that's kind of what keeps me saying and how
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  Speaker 1: I recharge, you know, from this sport and now to
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  Speaker 1: the fishing on the Instagram stories the other week, we
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  Speaker 1: see a brand new boat and then we see the
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  Speaker 1: boat head to the Bahamas to chase yellowtail around. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's quite a lot happening on the water. Oh yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's been. It's been a blessing. I mean that's
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  Speaker 1: a dream of mine since I was a little kid. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: something I've been working towards is that to have that boat.
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  Speaker 1: And uh yeah, it was an epic trip. We did
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of diving, shot a bunch of hog fish groupers,
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  Speaker 1: mutton snappers. I saw a bunch of sharks on every dive,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, staying safe with that. But yellow tell snapper,
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  Speaker 1: we're catching them their monsters. Um, it was just amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we're in the middle of nowhere, I mean
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  Speaker 1: twenty five miles from anywhere, but it's just it's just, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's a different world over there in the Bahamas. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's truly remarkable. You want to give out those
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  Speaker 1: coordinates for the yellow Yeah, yeah, I got you. No, No,
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  Speaker 1: those are those are some special special spots that we
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  Speaker 1: stumbled upon. Now, is this gonna be a regular trip
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  Speaker 1: for you? Now that you have the boat and a
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  Speaker 1: little time coming up in the summer and on it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm we'll see, but I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just looking like trying to be every weekend. But
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  Speaker 1: we'll see. We'll see how that goes. RAND appreciate your time,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, thank you.