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Jaguars Reporters: Monday, April 26 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome in to Jaguars Reporters Day one of the NFL Draft,
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  Speaker 1: presented by Bono's Pitt barbera Q and Cadillac j P, Shadrick,
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  Speaker 1: John Osier, Ashan Sullivan. Bryan Sexton is in Cleveland still
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  Speaker 1: as we recorded this podcast. The Jaguars have to Clintonson
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  Speaker 1: Tigers on the team. Now, Trevor Lawrence. We had a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good idea was cuming. Travis E. T N was
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  Speaker 1: a name bandied about a little bit, but here he is,
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  Speaker 1: um Ashton, you were in the bowl of that. Let's
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  Speaker 1: start with you. The reaction of Lawrence is what we expected.
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  Speaker 1: I think. How about the reaction of the E t
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  Speaker 1: N pick? It was funny. We did a little mock draft.
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  Speaker 1: We raised some hands, we threw up some names, and
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  Speaker 1: Travis E. T N was the overall favorite, and I thought,
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  Speaker 1: you guys are crazy, There's no way they're gonna pick him.
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  Speaker 1: And I was wrong on stage in front of everyone.
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  Speaker 1: I truly thought this maybe be the first pick tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: and that would make with a lot of sense. But
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  Speaker 1: it's clear that they want speed and they want explosive
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  Speaker 1: weapons and they got it. Make John. I mean, if
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  Speaker 1: I had had to do a parlay or whatever is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like gambler JP, but it's I probably would have
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  Speaker 1: put Lawrence E t N combination, you know, as the
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  Speaker 1: third or fourth possibility. I mean, I would have put
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  Speaker 1: him as as one of a handful. Only because of
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  Speaker 1: what Shelind just alluded to. This team tipped its hand clearly.
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  Speaker 1: Balky and Meyer, anytime they were asked about running back
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  Speaker 1: or wide receiver, they said they wanted to get explosive
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  Speaker 1: and they wanted to get speed. So, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say that if it had been in
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  Speaker 1: Lawrence in his safety that I would have been saying
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  Speaker 1: the same thing, that that would have been a possibility.
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  Speaker 1: But this is not a surprise, and it speaks to
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  Speaker 1: what they want to do. They want to be dynamic
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  Speaker 1: and fast offensively, and Myers said several times there weren't
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  Speaker 1: enough big plays for this team last year. He wants
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  Speaker 1: that to change. And Brian, it feels like this E
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  Speaker 1: t N pick up. We'll get to Trevor in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: But then pick up is, as John said, dynamic. You
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  Speaker 1: can line this guy up anywhere in the offense. It's
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  Speaker 1: almost an Alvin Camara field. Yeah, he has explosive ability
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  Speaker 1: anytime you watched him or you can see why he
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  Speaker 1: was twice named the a c C Offensive Player of
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  Speaker 1: the Year. This is a guy that you like to say,
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  Speaker 1: can score from the one He can score from your
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  Speaker 1: one yard line or the opponents one yard and he's
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  Speaker 1: got that kind of ability. I'm not surprised they took him.
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  Speaker 1: I am surprised they took him at twenty five UM.
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  Speaker 1: But obviously they stacked their board, and you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: always a question about what are they really Were they
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  Speaker 1: really true to their board? Are they just telling us
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  Speaker 1: because we don't get to see it. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: you saw those long linebackers go there, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the teens, and then you saw some of the pass
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  Speaker 1: rushers go in, you know, the bottom third of the draft.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't help but as I look at how
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  Speaker 1: the first round unfolded, sure seems to me like they
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  Speaker 1: stayed with value. They didn't reach um, they didn't you
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  Speaker 1: know that they It could have been very easy for
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  Speaker 1: them to come out and justify a defensive player there
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  Speaker 1: because they were there, UM to take a t N
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  Speaker 1: seems to me like they found value, no doubt about that.
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  Speaker 1: And of course the value at number one overall is
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback. It's value valuable, Yes it is, and it's
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  Speaker 1: everything we hoped for and more. I think in the
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  Speaker 1: in the aftermath of that, a, yeah, that was an
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  Speaker 1: awesome moment. It's everything you could have written up. I've
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  Speaker 1: turned around. There were people crying in the stands. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not lying there and grown men too, which makes
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  Speaker 1: it even better. Yeah, yeah, it was a moment that
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  Speaker 1: I was crying, but it wasn't. I double check to
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  Speaker 1: make sure John get back in your seat, but no,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't. John. It was an awesome moment, everything you
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  Speaker 1: could have pictured. And I think his his press conference
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  Speaker 1: validated everything we thought of him, which was incredibly genuine
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  Speaker 1: and excited to be here. He's he's impressive and we're
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  Speaker 1: all excited to me him. We always make these comparisons
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  Speaker 1: to what this guy is, and he've dropped the patent
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  Speaker 1: name a lot, But that's John what it kind of
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  Speaker 1: feels like here. You know, I wasn't around Payton in
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  Speaker 1: his first two or three years, but you know he
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  Speaker 1: obviously Trevor showed a tremendous maturity as as we've alluded to,
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  Speaker 1: and we've talked about him. Over the last few months.
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  Speaker 1: He has been QB one of his team, of the country,
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  Speaker 1: of his class, whatever since he can remember since you know,
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  Speaker 1: half his life. And I'm exaggerating there, but not by much.
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  Speaker 1: He's ready for this. I don't know if he was
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  Speaker 1: born to do it. I don't know if he was
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  Speaker 1: like this when he was eight years old, but he's
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  Speaker 1: certainly been trained to do this for the last seven
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  Speaker 1: or eight years. He's as ready for this challenge. Uh
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  Speaker 1: And in that way, he is comfortable to Peyton. Payton
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  Speaker 1: had grown up in a football atmosphere. I talked to
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  Speaker 1: him once when he was in high school and he
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  Speaker 1: he struck you with his maturity, Trevor Lawrence, and I
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  Speaker 1: had struck you with his maturity, and what struck me?
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  Speaker 1: I think you guys listened to press conference as well.
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  Speaker 1: He seemed very genuine in what he was saying about Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 1: He seemed very genuine in his way, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't think you can fake how he was.
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  Speaker 1: I look forward to you to know him a lot
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  Speaker 1: better moving forward, Brian. He's everything that the Jaguars fan
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  Speaker 1: base I think has hoped for really forever, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I just as we've looked at this possibility
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  Speaker 1: since last year we talked about being a Southern kid
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  Speaker 1: from Georgia who played at a southern school in South Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: the long hair, the affinity for his his Christian faith,
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  Speaker 1: a graduated college married. I mean, he just he fits
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  Speaker 1: this market like a glove. And I've taken to calling
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  Speaker 1: him Peyton Manning on the field and Tim Tebow off
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  Speaker 1: of it. And he's done nothing in the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of hours that I have had as to listen to him,
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  Speaker 1: um to dissuade me of that. I believe in who
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  Speaker 1: he is as a player, and if he's as good
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  Speaker 1: a player as it appears, he is a person. Based
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  Speaker 1: on that that zoom call we had with him, the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguarriors have struck gold and it's about time. I gotta say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited to see the offense on the field
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  Speaker 1: of O t a s. Yeah, alright, let's do it now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm really excited to see him
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  Speaker 1: in the regular season, certainly, but I mean, let's just
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  Speaker 1: get something out there, John. I hope we can fan.
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  Speaker 1: I hope we can get some fans and here we
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  Speaker 1: can see him crying. You guys think I'm still blown
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  Speaker 1: away by that. Yeah, and it's gonna be exciting to
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  Speaker 1: watch because you've got Trevor Lawrence. You get ten now,
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  Speaker 1: added that James Robinson and Carlos Hide and Lavisca Chanalt
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  Speaker 1: the DJ chart. At some point, I'm assuming one of
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  Speaker 1: the next three or four picks is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a tight end. And I alluded to it in an
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  Speaker 1: earlier show. In the last two drafts, with the exception
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  Speaker 1: of Carlos Hide, all these guys have come here in
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  Speaker 1: the last two or three drafts. It is a young
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  Speaker 1: offense that's going to get a chance to grow together.
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  Speaker 1: There's already a lot of potential there with Shark and
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  Speaker 1: Robinson and Schennault, you know, so now of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: you add these two dynamic playmakers. It's often said you
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  Speaker 1: buy defense and you draft offense. It seems like the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars are going that route, and we're gonna see how
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  Speaker 1: it works. All right. So let's so wind down here
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  Speaker 1: on Jaguars reporters the day one recap, and we look
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  Speaker 1: ahead today two, and there are some names that are
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  Speaker 1: familiar that are still available. You know, we can talk
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  Speaker 1: tight ends obviously we've done that a lot those guys
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  Speaker 1: are still out there, A lot of those guys. Um.
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  Speaker 1: The linebacker from Notre Dame, Jeremiah Ousu Corrable was right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's still there, Brian. So there's some options
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  Speaker 1: there tomorrow. Well, and if you want the size in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the line, if if you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: find a way to stop the run this year, Um,
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  Speaker 1: there hasn't been a defensive tackle selected yet. So whether
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  Speaker 1: it's far More from Alabama or the Nixon kid from
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  Speaker 1: Iowa or the kid from Washington whose name I have
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  Speaker 1: not even attempted to pronounce yet, there's a big guy
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of your defensive line as well. So
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  Speaker 1: lots of options. And as I've said before, premium pick
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  Speaker 1: at thirty three. The phone lines will be burning up tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Whether they get an offer that they like enough to
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  Speaker 1: pass it thirty three, I don't know, but they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have lots of people who are salibating over the prospect
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  Speaker 1: of getting one of those players. And that's great. It's
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  Speaker 1: great to have highly valued players on the board at
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  Speaker 1: thirty three. Trader Trent, we didn't see it today, Might
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  Speaker 1: we see it tomorrow? Yeah, and this is just maybe
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  Speaker 1: me at night. I'd be surprised if they move out
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  Speaker 1: at thirty three. I just maybe a spot or two
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  Speaker 1: back to move much further back than that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've got to think that, just like there'll be other
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  Speaker 1: teams falling in love with players tomorrow, I've got to
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  Speaker 1: think they have a list of guys that they really like.
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  Speaker 1: The Notre Dame my linebacker. You know. Again, as Trent
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  Speaker 1: Balky said during the press conference tonight, he doesn't never
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  Speaker 1: look at any walk draft. So I kind of think
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  Speaker 1: from getting to him a little bit that he's probably
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  Speaker 1: telling the truth on that that. But I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he knows exactly who Jaguars fans have been wanting. But
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  Speaker 1: it sure feels like there's gonna be two or three
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  Speaker 1: guys there at thirty three that they want. Um, if
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  Speaker 1: that's the case, can you move back one spot or two? Maybe?
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  Speaker 1: But sometimes I just believe if you if you like
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  Speaker 1: a guy, take him. Urban said the day beforehand that
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  Speaker 1: he did look at some mock draft, so that was
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  Speaker 1: a mistake. He's not going to do that again. So, Slynn,
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  Speaker 1: who do you want tomorrow? I like, I like the
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame linebacker, because when I did a mock draft
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  Speaker 1: two weeks ago, I said, oh, they're gonna take him
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  Speaker 1: at twenty five, And now that he's there at thirty three,
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  Speaker 1: no brainer. I like that. I'm still one tomorrow big time,
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  Speaker 1: right right, Brian, what's your travel schedule. You're back with
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  Speaker 1: us tomorrow night, right, Yeah. I landed about eight thirties,
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  Speaker 1: so I should get there for the wrap up at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the evening. Okay, we will look forward
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  Speaker 1: to that. Thanks for your coverage in Cleveland and we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to you tomorrow, Brian, looking forward to getting back.
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  Speaker 1: It was cold on the lake tonight. Let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you dress warm and we'll catch you tomorrow. Brian Sexton
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