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Jags A.M. Podcast Ep. 161 | Jaguars Week 1 Outlook + AFC South Preview · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: And welcome in to Jaggs am j P. Shadrick in
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Speaker 1: for Kannanie Stevens. This week, it is Week one, the
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Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers come to town to face the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: Is going to a busy program ahead. Brian Sexton and
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Speaker 1: John Osier coming up. Let's get right into it ahead
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Speaker 1: of the Panthers Jaguars match up. Our big Things present
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Speaker 1: about g eh A Government Employees Health Association benefits for
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Speaker 1: federal employees and retirees, and yes week one, the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: need the winning results certainly, but the opportunity and the
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Speaker 1: process are key for the head coach.
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Speaker 2: So it is very important. I wouldn't say, you know,
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Speaker 2: the season's lost if we don't, you know, have the
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Speaker 2: much success that we would like to have. But you
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Speaker 2: definitely want to see that jump that we're talking about
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Speaker 2: in terms of the physicality, the toughness of nature that
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Speaker 2: we want to play the game. That's really what I'm
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Speaker 2: looking for, and to see how we respond to adversity,
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Speaker 2: because there's going to something's gonna happen in the game
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Speaker 2: that doesn't go our way, and I'm more so I
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Speaker 2: want to see how we respond to that and that'll
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Speaker 2: help me as we moved throughout this season seeing how
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Speaker 2: we do that, and that helps guys come together as
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Speaker 2: well as a team Brian.
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Speaker 1: Of course, that has been a hallmark of the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: over the last couple of years, adversity. They didn't handle
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Speaker 1: it very well the first opportunity to see at the
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Speaker 1: Sunday Well.
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Speaker 3: Jickie, I mean, since the midway point of the twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty three season, it's been more adverse than not. And
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Speaker 3: we've seen enough slow starts around here. The Jaguars have
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Speaker 3: only won two of their last five opening days, and
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Speaker 3: they've only won four of their last ten. So when
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Speaker 3: you've got a new coach with a new regime and
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Speaker 3: a completely different approach, you'd like some success early, especially John,
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Speaker 3: when you consider that there are the Bengals, the Texans,
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Speaker 3: and the Niners coming up in the first month of
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Speaker 3: the season. You never want to say first win, the
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Speaker 3: first game is they must win. But this is a
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Speaker 3: big one.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Unfortunately, those numbers you just gave mean they're better
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Speaker 4: in week one than they have been for most of
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Speaker 4: the regular seasons lately. Look, I loved Liam's answer in this.
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Speaker 4: You can't in the NFL put everything on Week one.
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Speaker 4: I think they have a good chance to win. I
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Speaker 4: think if they play well, they will win. But for Liam,
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Speaker 4: I liked that he's looking for certain things. I think
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Speaker 4: he's looking for physicality defensively, how they respond, how they play.
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Speaker 4: If it looks like what he wants it to look
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Speaker 4: like and they have a bad break at the end
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Speaker 4: and they lose, it's not the end of the world.
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Speaker 4: But I think he wants to see, you know, the
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Speaker 4: Liam Cohen team start to look like a Liam con team.
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Speaker 1: I remember guys, Week one of twenty twenty, they won
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Speaker 1: the football game and then lost to the next fifteen
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Speaker 1: in a row to in the regular season. Let's hope
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Speaker 1: that's not the case certainly this season. Big thing Number
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Speaker 1: two setting the tone that we're talking about the quarterback
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. It's year five in the NFL and he
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Speaker 1: needs to take a step.
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Speaker 2: That'll be a really important for Trevor, especially in a
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Speaker 2: Week one where you're you don't know what you're gonna
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Speaker 2: get right. We have an idea, you can go off
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Speaker 2: the tape and the stats and all that. It gets
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Speaker 2: thrown out the window at times, especially in Week one,
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Speaker 2: So it'll be very important for him to be able
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Speaker 2: to live in that gray.
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Speaker 1: Man, This isn't.
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Speaker 2: Exactly what we were hunting up. How can we continue
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Speaker 2: to find a completion and take care of the football?
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Speaker 1: All right? Another new offense shown for Trevor Lawrence just
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Speaker 1: third now in five seasons.
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Speaker 5: Yeah it again.
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Speaker 4: I like his answer because as we listened to Liam
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Speaker 4: talk more and more about quarterbacking about Trevor, he talks
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Speaker 4: more about that time in the gray. It feels like
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Speaker 4: they believe that they can set up this offense to
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Speaker 4: where it can run well, to.
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Speaker 5: Where when there are clear reads.
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Speaker 4: That they're gonna times where they can get play out
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Speaker 4: of the quarterback position no matter who's there. Trevor's task
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Speaker 4: is to continue developing in the offense and get to
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Speaker 4: that point where in the gray, Brian is when things
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Speaker 4: break down. In the gray is when good quarterbacks can
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Speaker 4: become great. It's when you pay elite guys. In the
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Speaker 4: gray is everything. And I think that's gonna be a
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Speaker 4: huge theme this year, how he responds when everything's not
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Speaker 4: set up perfectly.
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Speaker 5: I don't know what to expect, but that's the storyline.
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Speaker 3: Well, we saw three series from him in the month
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Speaker 3: of August, and while he didn't show mastery, he showed
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Speaker 3: an understanding and a different how to say this, a
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Speaker 3: different level of play, right. I mean it looked to
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Speaker 3: me John, and we've talked about the New Orleans game,
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Speaker 3: there were those two third down throws on that initial
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Speaker 3: series where he climbed the ladder of the pocket and
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Speaker 3: instead of running, which is something he would do, man,
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Speaker 3: he just threaded the ball to the tight end on
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Speaker 3: both of them, Brenton strange. So there seems jp to
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Speaker 3: be a different level comprehension or mastery or whatever word
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Speaker 3: you choose when you talk about where Trevor Lawrence is
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Speaker 3: at this point, and then there's this and this is
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Speaker 3: not as easy to put a finger on. I talked
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Speaker 3: to him the week the Friday before the Dolphins came
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Speaker 3: and just asked him about his perspective. You know, he's
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Speaker 3: he's stood there and talked about, well, it's new, it's good,
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Speaker 3: you know, after Doug Peterson came in, and now after
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Speaker 3: Liam Cohen came in, and I asked him about the
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Speaker 3: opportunity for him to step into this role to be
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Speaker 3: the guy that Liam Cohen said he wants, and he
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Speaker 3: said that Liam has opened all the doors for him
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Speaker 3: to be the leader that this team says it wants.
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Speaker 3: Now it's up for him to go and take it.
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Speaker 1: You got to go step through that threshold, though, and
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Speaker 1: then get this team going in the right direction. It'll
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Speaker 1: help when Travis Hunter's on the field. The Daily Travis
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Speaker 1: Hunter Update. This from James Gladstone. Though. Yeah, he's gonna
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Speaker 1: be on the practice field. He was on the practice
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Speaker 1: field last week, but it could be week to week
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Speaker 1: to determine how much he's used an offense and or defense.
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Speaker 6: And also there's a competitive advantage to not knowing what
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Speaker 6: side of ball he's going to.
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Speaker 5: Be deployed on.
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Speaker 6: Fully, what if that's half, if that's a mixture, All
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Speaker 6: those sorts of things can vary from one week to
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Speaker 6: the next, and I think the fact that that exists
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Speaker 6: is certainly a hand that will keep close.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see what happens week to week Brian on
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Speaker 1: this one, but the matchup will come into play. But
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Speaker 1: again they did trade up to number two. You want
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Speaker 1: to see him on the field both ways. Well, it's
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Speaker 1: so interesting, you know.
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Speaker 3: At one point last week I asked Jeff Loginman, you
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Speaker 3: know where do you think he should spend more of
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Speaker 3: his time, And then I asked Mark Dufner, the former
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Speaker 3: linebackers coach I know is going to be on Happy
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Speaker 3: Hour with you this week, what he thought, and they
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Speaker 3: were completely one hundred and eight degrees different. This kid
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Speaker 3: is so talented and he's got such a broad skills set,
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Speaker 3: elite ball skills that, at least I've been told, talk
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Speaker 3: about a competitive avantage, John. I mean, week to week,
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Speaker 3: they could put him offense seventy percent of the time,
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Speaker 3: defense thirty, flop it the next week, go fifty to
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Speaker 3: fifty one week. If he is all to stay on
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Speaker 3: the field, which is obviously going to be a challenge
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Speaker 3: at this level for him. It's not going to be
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Speaker 3: as easy as it was at Colorado for him to
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Speaker 3: play as many snaps. But he can stay healthy and
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Speaker 3: be a factor for them on either side of the ball.
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Speaker 3: Why do you have to narrow it down?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, let it go.
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Speaker 4: I think he's going to play as a starter whenever
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Speaker 4: they're in situations where a slot receiver can be on
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Speaker 4: the field on offense and then on defense.
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Speaker 5: That's what I'm not sure about.
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Speaker 4: I think he will be better initially on defense. May
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Speaker 4: not see it though, because where he's great on defense,
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Speaker 4: is anticipating the ball and going and making a play
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Speaker 4: on it. To me, I don't care how much Travis
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Speaker 4: Hunter does or doesn't play. I think the measure will
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Speaker 4: be impact plays in big moments, which has been a
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Speaker 4: problem for this team in recent years. If he makes
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Speaker 4: four or five plays this year a JP that tilt scores,
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Speaker 4: he played just those four or five playss as far
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Speaker 4: as I'm concerned, because it's about impact and this team
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Speaker 4: hasn't had big plays in big moments enough in recent years.
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Speaker 5: If he's that, he's a success.
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Speaker 3: And just one more point on him. You know, we
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Speaker 3: talked about Trevor Lawrence. Trevor has Brian Tom Jueter, who
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Speaker 3: is I think one of the best, if not the best,
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Speaker 3: player on this team. Now he's got Travis Hunter right
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Speaker 3: and a better offensive line. When you start putting the
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Speaker 3: pieces around Trevor like Hunter and you want to start
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Speaker 3: measuring Trevor's success, Hunter's going to play a big role
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Speaker 3: in that too.
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Speaker 1: No doubt about that. Our big things are in. There's
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Speaker 1: plenty ahead. We'll return and dig into James Gladstone's press
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Speaker 1: conference after the final fifty three on the roster were
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Speaker 1: the fifty three man roster cut down last week and
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Speaker 1: then the day after James Gladstone, general manager, met with
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Speaker 1: the media. Yeah, a lot of turnover on the roster.
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Speaker 1: It happens a lot when there's a new general manager
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Speaker 1: in place, but a lot of new blood for the
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Speaker 1: GN to look at.
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Speaker 6: It wasn't something that you intentionally set out on saying, hey,
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Speaker 6: we're going to turn over this percentage or this number
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Speaker 6: of the roster. It was an organic approach. And I
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Speaker 6: think when you have high demands for players and expectations
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Speaker 6: as standards, it can become easier to sift through who
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Speaker 6: who makes the most sense moving forward, and who makes
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Speaker 6: the most sense for being here. Certainly excited about the
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Speaker 6: group that we got in the moment, but can't say
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Speaker 6: that it was with any intent to get to a
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Speaker 6: certain number of percentage of roster turnover.
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Speaker 1: John and Bryan back with us now, and Yeah, the
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Speaker 1: headlines out of that last week, of course, is that
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Speaker 1: the previous regimes draft picks, a lot of those guys
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Speaker 1: were turned out of here, and they're gonna try to
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Speaker 1: see what else they can do to build this team.
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Speaker 3: A lot a couple of those guys have landed in
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Speaker 3: other places, and it's not always a case of they
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Speaker 3: can't play, it's just they don't fit the system or
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Speaker 3: the culture that we're here.
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Speaker 4: Well, it rosters turn over anyway in the NFL to
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Speaker 4: tune of about fifteen or sixteen players usually, So I
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Speaker 4: got twenty four. It made sense. I mean they wanted
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Speaker 4: to bring I think you knew in James Gladstone's first
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Speaker 4: press conference when he talked about how much rookie free
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Speaker 4: agents had played for the Rams. They're not scared to
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Speaker 4: have young players, you know. The running back situation probably
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Speaker 4: exemplifies it the best. Lecquent Allen and Beachelle Toton. I
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Speaker 4: expect those guys to have key roles. In another philosophy,
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Speaker 4: maybe one rookie running back would be in that situation.
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Speaker 4: These guys don't mind playing to Collis a free agents
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Speaker 4: make the fifty three at defensive end another example. They
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Speaker 4: are not going to be afraid to throw these young
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Speaker 4: guys and that contributed to the turnout.
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Speaker 3: They have six defensive ends, six edge rushers right at
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Speaker 3: four of them are new now one of them, Smoot,
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Speaker 3: had been here before, but they weren't on the roster
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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four, So that tells you what they
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Speaker 3: thought of that particular position group. And look at the
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Speaker 3: defensive line in general. They had Tyler Lacy and Jordan Jefferson,
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Speaker 3: two young players they were developing, and then they get
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Speaker 3: a shot at Colin Saunders and say we can't pass
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Speaker 3: this up. It's just the way that it works.
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Speaker 1: One of the draft picks this year, Caleb Bransaw, is
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Speaker 1: unable to go unfortunately, a season ending injury for the
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Speaker 1: defensive back, and James Gladstone knew this was the right
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Speaker 1: course of action to put him on IR.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's unfortunate. He had a non contact injury on
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Speaker 6: his foot that ultimately we put him in a boot
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Speaker 6: with the hope that it wouldn't result in surgery. Checked
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Speaker 6: after the boot came off and it was clear that
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Speaker 6: it was going to have to we were gonna have
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Speaker 6: to go in and so he ended up having the surgery.
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Speaker 6: Still had optimism that there was a chance towards the
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Speaker 6: back half of the year that he would be able
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Speaker 6: to return and do a designation for return. Unfortunately, it
12:34
Speaker 6: ended up being that it was going to be too
12:35
Speaker 6: close to the buzzer, so to speak, and it would
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Speaker 6: have been some version of trying to rush him back.
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Speaker 6: Looking at the long game, it makes the most sense
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Speaker 6: to make sure his recovery timeline isn't rushed and we
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Speaker 6: can go about it the right way for him. And yeah,
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Speaker 6: it's it's disappointing because he is somebody that we certainly
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Speaker 6: had a very vivid vision for and he was progressing
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Speaker 6: at an extremely high rate. But nonetheless, we got a
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Speaker 6: good group that is ready to to bring it to
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Speaker 6: life on the grass and play together playing tandem and
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Speaker 6: looking forward to seeing that here against Carolina Panthers.
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Speaker 1: There were certainly some high hopes for Ransaw after early
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Speaker 1: in training camp, and then the injury happened, and John
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Speaker 1: it's now really a fully revamped the defensive back room,
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Speaker 1: safeties and at corner without Ransaw. There's a lot of
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Speaker 1: new faces out there on deep.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they were ready for this because they brought Dewey back,
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Speaker 4: They brought Andrew Winger back and really like him in
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Speaker 4: that spot. I think realistically they hoped that at some
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Speaker 4: point this season Ransaw would sort of take that position
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Speaker 4: and show what they think he's gonna be, which they
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Speaker 4: really love this guy. They think he is a long
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Speaker 4: term type of guy who can start.
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Speaker 5: When you draft a safety in the third round, is
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Speaker 5: what do you expect? They love him.
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Speaker 4: They're gonna have to wait until next training camp now
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Speaker 4: for people to see why they love him. Well, I
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Speaker 4: don't think this affects him long term, but for the
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Speaker 4: short term, it's too bad.
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Speaker 3: Well, and listen, of all the position groups that needed
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Speaker 3: to get overhauled, this was the one. The safety position
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Speaker 3: was just so unreliable last year. The number of big
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Speaker 3: plays in the fourth quarter, you all remember them. So
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Speaker 3: you bring in Eric Murray, who is a veteran that
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Speaker 3: they have confidence in. You bring Dewey back, You lose
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Speaker 3: Ransaw and it hurts, but Antonio Johnson had a really
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Speaker 3: good training camp, and Rayon Lane, who is more of
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Speaker 3: a special team's guy. The draft pick from the Naval
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Speaker 3: Academy proved that he could play in.
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Speaker 5: A pinch when you need him to. So you've got
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Speaker 5: an upgrade.
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Speaker 3: Overall, It's not exactly what you wanted it to be
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Speaker 3: because you don't have Canon Bransaw, who I think was
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Speaker 3: going to be the star back there, but you still
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Speaker 3: have improved the position and now you just have to
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Speaker 3: wait for him and hope that he recovers.
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Speaker 4: What they love here is that they think Murray and
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Speaker 4: Winguard will have the communication in the back end at
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Speaker 4: a high level that can work for a year until
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Speaker 4: you get Ransom, who they do think is going to
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Speaker 4: be a star sort of going. But they think it
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Speaker 4: improves because I communication communication will.
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Speaker 5: Be better now.
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Speaker 1: Of course, it's been a busy preseason for roster changes.
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Speaker 1: Three trades already from James Gladstone this preseason, and of
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Speaker 1: course the roster down to fifty three. It will never
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Speaker 1: end though that evolution continues throughout the year.
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Speaker 6: Good teams can be built throughout the course of an offseason, right.
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Speaker 6: I think the great teams continue to evolve throughout the
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Speaker 6: course of a season. So to say whether or not
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Speaker 6: we're at the spot where I think I thought we'd be,
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Speaker 6: I can't point to it right now. What I can
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Speaker 6: say is we won't stop, and stagnition is never going
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Speaker 6: to be something that you see from us. So I
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Speaker 6: look forward to still what lies in front of us
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Speaker 6: and know that Job's not even close to that.
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Speaker 1: You know, he's going to be bold what he needs
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Speaker 1: to be. He's proven that already this season that, yeah,
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Speaker 1: game on. We'll see if this roster changes how much
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Speaker 1: week to week, but they'll always be out there trying
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Speaker 1: to churn it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, to be honest with I'm not sure where you'd
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Speaker 3: go and look exactly right now and say, well, that's
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Speaker 3: absolutely a weak spot. You know, they improve the offensive line,
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Speaker 3: they improve the defensive line. We just talked about the
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Speaker 3: secondary wide receiver. With the investment in Diami Brown and
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Speaker 3: Travis Hunter, the running backs, the two that they drafted
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Speaker 3: that you've talked so much about, Tuton and the quint Allen.
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Speaker 3: I suppose if there was a big play linebacker, you know,
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Speaker 3: somebody that they really wanted that could fit into camp's
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Speaker 3: defense perhaps or yeah, but at this point they're just looking.
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Speaker 5: Well, they've done the addressing.
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Speaker 4: I mean clearly, when you trade or acquire two defensive
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Speaker 4: tackles during training camp, they believe that was an area
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Speaker 4: that needed addressing. I don't think in the long run
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Speaker 4: you will see this sort of training camp trade activity
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Speaker 4: from James Gladstone. But they had to get into training
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Speaker 4: camp to see sort of what they've got, and once
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Speaker 4: they did, they made some moves that they think they
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Speaker 4: needed to make.
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Speaker 5: Ideally you wouldn't be making them, but when.
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Speaker 4: Your first making over a regime, you have to figure
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Speaker 4: out what there is and then I figure out where
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Speaker 4: you need to short term get yourself better so that
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Speaker 4: you can start developing in a long term.
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Speaker 1: And then and then you just roll the ball out
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Speaker 1: and play. Yeah, see what happened at some point, And
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Speaker 1: that's what's gonna happen this Sunday at one o'clock when
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Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers come to town to face the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: We'll return in a moment and we'll dig into the
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Speaker 1: AFC South. A lot of changes in the division this year.
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Speaker 1: Will break each team down when we return on Jags Am.
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Speaker 1: Shadrick in for Chatannie Stevens. It is Week one, Carolina
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Speaker 1: Panthers coming to town Sunday at one o'clock. Brian Si,
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Speaker 1: John Osier alongside, and we look now at the AFC South.
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Speaker 1: It'll be a little bit before the divisional games began with.
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Speaker 1: I mean, let's start with Brian, the Houston Texans and
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Speaker 1: the team that won the division of course last year,
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Speaker 1: but some question marks in the backfield.
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Speaker 3: Now, yeah, listen, I thought Joe Mixon was the guy
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Speaker 3: that really made it all go last year. He ran
18:23
Speaker 3: for one thousand yards and had eleven rushing touchdowns, had
18:27
Speaker 3: twelve touchdowns total six hundred yard games, including one against
18:31
Speaker 3: the Jags, were averaged five yards at carry. He took
18:33
Speaker 3: some of the heat off of CJ. Stroud. And the
18:36
Speaker 3: reason that matters is Stroud still got sacked fifty two
18:39
Speaker 3: times last year. But so they fired the offensive coordinator,
18:43
Speaker 3: they overhauled the line. They've got Nico Collins, but Stefan
18:47
Speaker 3: Diggs has gone. Antonio, I'm sorry, Tank Dell is gone.
18:51
Speaker 3: There's a lot that's different in Houston this year. And
18:55
Speaker 3: they were counting on Joe Mixon. He's got what they
18:57
Speaker 3: call a non football injury, means it didn't happen on
19:00
Speaker 3: the field, but it's a foot and ankle and he's
19:02
Speaker 3: out at least the first month, which means the Jags
19:05
Speaker 3: won't see him in Week three. I mean he is
19:08
Speaker 3: six and twenty five pounds. He's a low that's gonna
19:12
Speaker 3: hurt them.
19:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is gonna hurt him.
19:16
Speaker 4: It's become very vogue this offseason to say that the
19:20
Speaker 4: AFC South is down and then it's a very gettable
19:23
Speaker 4: division and the jeduwars weave they can win the division.
19:27
Speaker 5: To me, this team.
19:28
Speaker 4: Is it is still the favorite because I think they're
19:31
Speaker 4: a very physical team.
19:33
Speaker 5: I think their defense is very good.
19:35
Speaker 4: And I sort of trust them to know what they
19:39
Speaker 4: are and want to play, which is a big deal.
19:42
Speaker 5: Mixon hurts, but this is still the team that Jedwarys
19:46
Speaker 5: have to go try to get well.
19:47
Speaker 3: They're gonna still try to run because they brought a
19:48
Speaker 3: Nick Chubb. I don't know what he's got left after
19:50
Speaker 3: the multiple knee injuries that he suffered with the Cleveland Browns,
19:53
Speaker 3: but their ability to run the ball because it also
19:56
Speaker 3: protects a defense, it's among the best in the NFL.
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Speaker 5: No, I'm totally with you.
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Speaker 3: They're still the frontrunner in the AFC's house, even without
20:02
Speaker 3: Joell Mixon. But I think this is that hole in
20:05
Speaker 3: the dike, so to speak. You've got have to plug
20:06
Speaker 3: it somehow. And I don't know Chubb has enough left
20:09
Speaker 3: to be the same guy.
20:10
Speaker 4: And Stroud's a huge storyline. You thought he was as
20:13
Speaker 4: sending as a rookie. I like him, but there were
20:17
Speaker 4: things last year where he has to get back to
20:21
Speaker 4: rookie Stroud in order for people not to think he's plattoning.
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Speaker 5: I think he's gonna be fine, but he's a storyline,
20:28
Speaker 5: all right.
20:29
Speaker 1: Now, Let's go up to Indianapolis, John year old stomping
20:32
Speaker 1: grounds and there are quarterback conversations. So we had for
20:35
Speaker 1: the Colts Daniel Jones as the starter. Anthony Richardson, a
20:39
Speaker 1: top five pick, is on the bench.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know there's two sort of angles here.
20:46
Speaker 4: One is that, boy, do we give up on quarterbacks fast.
20:50
Speaker 5: In the NFL? You've moved on from Richardson. I get
20:53
Speaker 5: it they probably had to.
20:54
Speaker 4: Move on from him because of how he has played,
20:57
Speaker 4: in his style and all the things.
21:02
Speaker 5: They're sort of in the water.
21:04
Speaker 4: Sort of an assumption out even with Daniel Jones, that's
21:07
Speaker 4: going to be a disaster because of what happened in
21:09
Speaker 4: New York in this day and age. Brian, we talked
21:12
Speaker 4: about a little bit with Baker Mayfield last year and
21:14
Speaker 4: guys second chance guys.
21:16
Speaker 5: The Colts were like eight to nine last year. There's
21:19
Speaker 5: a roster there.
21:22
Speaker 4: Don't necessarily think that because they moved to this that
21:26
Speaker 4: they're easily gettable. Daniel Jones, this is his shot, and
21:30
Speaker 4: it's been happening more and more that give up guy,
21:33
Speaker 4: which he was in New York becomes rebound guys.
21:36
Speaker 5: So that's really intriguing for that franchise.
21:39
Speaker 4: It's huge because otherwise they have to go draft again
21:42
Speaker 4: next year.
21:42
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, you're hitting reset again. Done Moore. Well, here's
21:46
Speaker 5: what they've got going for them.
21:47
Speaker 3: They've got Jonathan Taylor, who is one of the best
21:49
Speaker 3: backs in football, and a very good offensive line. They
21:52
Speaker 3: just re upped the young offensive tackle Quit Nelson, still
21:56
Speaker 3: an All Pro caliber guard. They're going to be able
21:59
Speaker 3: to play the ground game, which is what changed Dykin
22:01
Speaker 3: likes to do, and give Daniel Jones plenty of time,
22:04
Speaker 3: plenty of opportunities for a play, actually pass.
22:08
Speaker 5: And get it down the field.
22:09
Speaker 3: They've got a new defensive coordinator who came in lou
22:11
Speaker 3: from Cincinnati. That's kind of where the hole seems to be.
22:16
Speaker 3: I think with Jonathan Taylor or Daniel Jones, they'll move
22:19
Speaker 3: the ball and score points. The question is do they
22:21
Speaker 3: have enough on defense.
22:22
Speaker 5: Yeah.
22:22
Speaker 4: To me, no franchise and I lived it for ten
22:25
Speaker 4: years up there. No franchise exemplifies importance of quarterback in
22:29
Speaker 4: the NFL the way this franchise has for what the
22:32
Speaker 4: last almost thirty years in es since you have to Payton,
22:35
Speaker 4: you had elite followed by elite dumb Luck back to
22:38
Speaker 4: back Manning, and really since Luck left, they have been
22:45
Speaker 4: in that seven to nine wilderness of trying to find
22:50
Speaker 4: the guy, still trying to find the guy. And they
22:54
Speaker 4: showed right dipped at the right time to get Anthony Richardson. Well,
23:00
Speaker 4: if you dip and the guy's not there, yea, sometimes
23:03
Speaker 4: it's until you can find the rocket ship back to
23:07
Speaker 4: the top.
23:07
Speaker 5: So they exemplify what this league is right now.
23:09
Speaker 3: I think it's interesting because Daniel Jones. People forget how
23:12
Speaker 3: mobile a quarterback he is. He ran for over one
23:13
Speaker 3: hundred yards here against this team a few years back.
23:17
Speaker 4: He's prototype for being able to be the bounce back
23:19
Speaker 4: guy because he has the ability get with the right program.
23:23
Speaker 5: You moved back. He's interesting.
23:26
Speaker 1: All right, Let's go now to Music City, USA and
23:29
Speaker 1: check on the Tennessee Titans. They had the number one
23:31
Speaker 1: overall draft pick and selected Cam Ward out of the
23:35
Speaker 1: University of Miami. He'll make his debut against the Denver Broncos.
23:39
Speaker 1: Cam Ward's path is certainly interesting, from incarnate Word to
23:44
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve to all of a sudden showing up
23:47
Speaker 1: in Miami and leading them to a ten win season
23:49
Speaker 1: in the best offensive season in Miami Hurricanes history. This
23:54
Speaker 1: is not the Miami Hurricanes anymore. This is the National
23:57
Speaker 1: Football League. This is assaulting Broncos defense that I think
24:02
Speaker 1: you want a hot take, Yeah, here's a hot take.
24:05
Speaker 1: Here's a lock. The Broncos will shut down cam warden
24:08
Speaker 1: the Titans in Week one.
24:09
Speaker 5: Well, you'll think, I mean if I'm walking anything, but.
24:15
Speaker 1: Sorry, I forgot. It's not a happy hour Monday.
24:17
Speaker 4: We don't walk on here here The Titans are as
24:21
Speaker 4: you know, it seems like every year there's two or
24:24
Speaker 4: three franchises draft early, throw the guy in and sort
24:28
Speaker 4: of see where it goes. We were there what in
24:30
Speaker 4: twenty one? You know, he's the only storyline that matters
24:37
Speaker 4: in Tennessee. This year, throwing him in against the Broncos
24:41
Speaker 4: is something the Titans most franchise, most franchised.
24:44
Speaker 5: I feel like they have to do that now.
24:47
Speaker 4: Usually I think there's three or four weeks where no
24:50
Speaker 4: matter who you are, you're just lost.
24:52
Speaker 5: So you would anticipate him being lost. Although I think
24:54
Speaker 5: he's gonna be a good player. Yeah, I do too.
24:56
Speaker 3: It's year two of their transition, right, I mean they
24:58
Speaker 3: were the last Caveman football team. They clubbed you with
25:01
Speaker 3: Derrick Henry over and over and over, and that allowed
25:05
Speaker 3: whoever was playing quarterback to have a chance to breathe
25:08
Speaker 3: and throw the ball downfield. Now they're going to a
25:10
Speaker 3: modern offensive system that's quarterback centric, and they're now in
25:14
Speaker 3: the first year with cam Ward giving him his opportunity,
25:17
Speaker 3: and they've got to build a team around him. I
25:18
Speaker 3: keep hearing that they like their offensive line, right. They
25:21
Speaker 3: spent a lot of money on the left tackle they
25:22
Speaker 3: brought in from Pittsburgh. They drafted the kid from Alabama
25:25
Speaker 3: who's the right tackle. So if they got the offensive
25:27
Speaker 3: line right, they might be something to contend with this year.
25:30
Speaker 3: I mean, not contending for the division titles, but they
25:32
Speaker 3: might give you everything that got on a given Sunday afternoon.
25:35
Speaker 4: And it's interesting what teams are doing, but the Bears
25:37
Speaker 4: did it last year a little bit. When they do
25:38
Speaker 4: after Caleb Williams. Sometimes that first overall pick is a quarterback,
25:43
Speaker 4: its first year head coach. Everything's sort of starting with
25:46
Speaker 4: the Titans. It's not that it's second year head coach
25:49
Speaker 4: with rookie quarterback. What that does to the clocks as
25:52
Speaker 4: you move on, how you're judged is interesting because you
25:57
Speaker 4: know the head coach will be judged based on two
25:59
Speaker 4: years quarter back one.
26:01
Speaker 5: Just an interesting dynamic going on around the lead.
26:03
Speaker 3: We don't forget they changed generalman too, so I mean
26:06
Speaker 3: they've changed a lot there, not just the quarterback. That's
26:10
Speaker 3: an interesting story to see as they kind of figure
26:12
Speaker 3: out who they are.
26:13
Speaker 1: Locket Broncos over the Typans. How about that confidence Jaguars
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26:23
Speaker 1: Jaguars have named their captains for twenty twenty five. Will
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Speaker 1: Shadwick in for Kai stevens our final moments here with
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Speaker 1: the Brian Sexton and John Ozer. The Jaguars have announced
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Speaker 1: their captains for twenty twenty five, first year under head
27:14
Speaker 1: coach Liam Cohen, and here are the results. Trevor Lawrence,
27:17
Speaker 1: Robert Hainsey on offense for Yer Luikin, Josh Hainz Allen
27:22
Speaker 1: on defense, Jordan Lewis as well, and Logan Cook special
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Speaker 1: teams the punter. There you have a gentleman. The captain.
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Speaker 3: Lewis is the story to me among the captains, not
27:31
Speaker 3: that he doesn't belong, but that he clearly does. He
27:35
Speaker 3: just got here in free agency, and it wasn't like
27:38
Speaker 3: he was this high profile superstar corner. He was really
27:42
Speaker 3: good in Dallas, but here he's been a superstar through
27:45
Speaker 3: the course of August. He's been a guy who's made
27:47
Speaker 3: play after play after play and taken a secondary John
27:50
Speaker 3: last year finished the season limping into January right and
27:56
Speaker 3: turned their perspective around. They are a much more confident
27:59
Speaker 3: bunch than they may have a right to deserve to
28:01
Speaker 3: be at this point.
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Speaker 4: Well, and he's important because Eric Murray and Wingard or
28:07
Speaker 4: veteran guys at safety at corner. It's good for them
28:11
Speaker 4: to have Lewis bringing Hunter, even Jarion Jones along a
28:15
Speaker 4: little bit.
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Speaker 5: It's a young room. You need those two guys to
28:18
Speaker 5: be good. I'll talk about Hainsey and Lewis. Over a
28:24
Speaker 5: ten year period.
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Speaker 4: You don't have a lot of UFAs who come in
28:30
Speaker 4: and be captains except when you're doing a regime change.
28:34
Speaker 5: So this felt very logical to me.
28:36
Speaker 4: You have a team that's installing a new culture when
28:39
Speaker 4: you go a new direction.
28:41
Speaker 5: The offensive line.
28:41
Speaker 4: Clearly needs that, the secondary clearly needed that. You have
28:46
Speaker 4: two captains, two veteran guys as leaders. Makes sense to
28:51
Speaker 4: have what thirty three percent of your captains as new
28:55
Speaker 4: when you were going in a new direction. So those
28:57
Speaker 4: two guys deserve it, and good for the six captains.
28:59
Speaker 4: It's a big deal to players when they're a captain,
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Speaker 4: or it should be.
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