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Ep. 1: Keep Your Eyes on These Players at Camp 👀 | Jags A.M. Podcast · Jags A.M.

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Speaker 1: This is JAGSA. I'm the first edition in our brand
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Speaker 1: new podcast studio in our brand new building, the Miller
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Speaker 1: Electric Center. Guys, what's your favorite thing about the NEC The.
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Speaker 2: Windows, every single one of them. Twenty nine years in
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Speaker 2: a building without them, natural light is appreciated.
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Speaker 3: Well, look around you at the TV studio, the TV
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Speaker 3: studio and the podcast studio.
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Speaker 1: Jags A. I'm presented by Carshield. You can call car
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Speaker 1: car shield Now. I'm your host, Ka Nannie Stevens, Brian Sexton,
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Speaker 1: John Osier with me today. Not to brag, but look
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Speaker 1: at where we are a little bit of a change
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Speaker 1: of venue. I'd say we're going up here. Obviously everyone
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Speaker 1: has seen what the practice facilities look like for the players,
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Speaker 1: but we've got our new studios as well. So I'm
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Speaker 1: enjoying the new digs, the new normal, if you will.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know we're talking about being a consistent playoff team.
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Speaker 2: They're talking about championship caliber football. Here you have championship
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Speaker 2: caliber facilities, both for those of us at broadcasting and
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Speaker 2: for the football folks. It feels like it's happening at
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Speaker 2: the right moment, not an accident.
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Speaker 3: If you're going to be one of thirty two, you
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Speaker 3: have to keep up here in the stadium, which we're
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Speaker 3: gonna be talking about, you know, for the next couple
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Speaker 3: of years. You must be state of the art and
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Speaker 3: you must be you know, the best that there is
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Speaker 3: out there, and this is that And.
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Speaker 1: We joke around, oh yeah, there's windows, there's natural light.
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Speaker 1: But that's talking about the word joking, because when you
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Speaker 1: go to work and you don't know what time of
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Speaker 1: day it is, it's a little bit different. And not
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Speaker 1: only that, you're trying to recruit players to come here.
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville's on the up swing. You've got a great young quarterback,
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Speaker 1: and when you want to come to work, maybe you
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Speaker 1: want to stay in the off season and actice out
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Speaker 1: of this facility that has to help this team moving forward.
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Speaker 1: I would think.
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Speaker 4: So.
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Speaker 2: I can't tell you how many times I talked to
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Speaker 2: coaches who would come through here over the years and
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Speaker 2: they'd be like, yeah, you feel disconnected when you're in
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Speaker 2: the cave, right, And Tom Coughlin loved that because he
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Speaker 2: wanted the guys focused on nothing but football. But it
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Speaker 2: tend to your mind, Wanders. It's it really It matters
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Speaker 2: that you can see what's going on in the world outside,
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Speaker 2: and then I can tell you, for one, that sitting
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Speaker 2: at a desk with a window is I'm not going
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Speaker 2: to be in such a hurry to get outside like
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Speaker 2: I had been all these years.
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Speaker 1: John, I know you like your corner office in the darkest.
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Speaker 3: We well, let's not call it a corner office.
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Speaker 1: I'm being generous by calling it a corner office. It's
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Speaker 1: literally a corner of a room. Are you going to
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Speaker 1: come over here now that we have some more space?
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Speaker 3: If invited, I will attend fair enough.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna get into the details of nitty gritty all
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Speaker 1: the fun fancy stuff that they have in this building
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Speaker 1: a little bit later on in the show. But let's
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Speaker 1: talk about one of the bigger stories this offseason. Evan
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Speaker 1: Ingram has signed a new deal. We did not know
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Speaker 1: if it was going to be a franchise tag or
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Speaker 1: if he was going to get a longer term deal done.
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Speaker 1: I think the team wanted it done, Evan Ingram wanted
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Speaker 1: it done. Finally we get the specifics of it, that
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Speaker 1: three year deal. Brian where what does this mean. For
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Speaker 1: it to finally be the offense that we've already talked
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Speaker 1: about is excellent. But to now have this back.
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Speaker 2: And well he is going to in today's game. It's
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Speaker 2: about space. It's about creating space and letting your playmakers
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Speaker 2: go one on one with someone out in space. And
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Speaker 2: Evan Ingram is going to create space, Calvin Ridley's going
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Speaker 2: to create space. Guys like Christian Kirk and Zay Jones
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Speaker 2: and Travis etn we'll all benefit from the space. Let
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Speaker 2: me take it from a different angle, right, John can
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Speaker 2: talk a little bit more about the football.
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Speaker 5: Side of it.
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Speaker 2: For me, it creates space with the salary cap, right,
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Speaker 2: because there were only a few guys kai where they
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Speaker 2: could go and create room. One of them is obviously
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Speaker 2: Evan Ingram, and you did it. You're not going to
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Speaker 2: do anything with Josh Allen because he's on his fifty
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Speaker 2: year ten. You're not going to do anything with Kyviri
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Speaker 2: Ridley because you want to see something from him. And
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Speaker 2: then you come up against Cam Robinson and you're probably
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Speaker 2: not gonna do anything there either. So he was one
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Speaker 2: of the few places where you could create salary cap
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Speaker 2: room heading into the season, John The Jaguars have the
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Speaker 2: fifth most salary cap space, and if they need to
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Speaker 2: go and sign a veteran pass rusher, if there's a
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Speaker 2: corner that they decide they want to chase, they've got
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Speaker 2: the room to be able to do it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it gives them some flexibility. If they don't do it,
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Speaker 3: then it gives them some options at the trade deadline.
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Speaker 3: I don't know that they're going to be in it, like,
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Speaker 3: I don't know that they feel panicked to do anything.
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Speaker 3: Keep getting questions about pas Rusher, et cetera. You still
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Speaker 3: want to not be silly with what you do now
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Speaker 3: because the roles are in the future and they've got
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Speaker 3: issues going forward.
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Speaker 1: So then they got another guy they're gonna have to
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Speaker 1: pay a lot of money to coming up.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you got to be smart about it, you know.
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Speaker 3: I think it's more of it of a cap space
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Speaker 3: story than it is a twenty twenty three story. Evan
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Speaker 3: was going to be here. He had the right attitude.
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Speaker 3: What was impressive was, even if he had had to
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Speaker 3: play under the franchise tag, you never got any impression
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Speaker 3: that it was going to be a negative situation. He'd
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Speaker 3: gone out to Arizona with the guys he was going
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Speaker 3: to be here. He was all in on this. What
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Speaker 3: this does is he keeps them all in for two
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Speaker 3: years here.
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Speaker 1: I was able to cover the giants a little bit
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Speaker 1: while Ingram was there, and he was a completely different person.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure he's told you guys as much, just what
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Speaker 1: he was able to come here in a one year
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Speaker 1: and do. Brian, I know you said he's one of
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Speaker 1: the guys you go to go to God. He's become
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Speaker 1: that vetter in presence a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, every time I talk to him,
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Speaker 2: he was grateful to be here, right. I mean, he's
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Speaker 2: from outside of Atlanta, he played at all this He
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Speaker 2: had nothing negative to say about playing in New York.
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Speaker 2: But we all know that's a completely different planet, let
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Speaker 2: alone a different part of the country. I mean, that's
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Speaker 2: completely different. He felt comfortable here with the coaching staff,
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Speaker 2: with the ski, especially with the quarterback, and all season long,
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Speaker 2: even during that five game losing streak where they were
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Speaker 2: losing at the end of the game, he saw something
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Speaker 2: and he kept telling his younger teammates just keep working.
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Speaker 2: This thing is starting to arrive. I was not surprised
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Speaker 2: that they got something done maybe the timing of it,
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Speaker 2: but it was clear he wanted to be here.
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Speaker 1: John, You've worked in other markets, obviously, you've seen free
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Speaker 1: agents come and go. It really feels like he just
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Speaker 1: felt at home here and this was a place where
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Speaker 1: he could blossom and it was the right time for
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Speaker 1: him to come to Jacksonville.
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Speaker 3: Ya as Brian was talking just now, the comparison, and
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Speaker 3: it's so far removed, it's three decades later. But remember
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Speaker 3: Jeff Lockman was drafted in New York, came here, played
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Speaker 3: I think three seasons with the Jags, and if I'm
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Speaker 3: misremembering his career, I apologize three or four seasons here,
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Speaker 3: and it made his home here. Clearly thinks of himself
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Speaker 3: as a Jaguar. Now he's gone on to work for
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Speaker 3: the team for years. All that makes but you know,
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Speaker 3: it feels to me like Evan, even after a year,
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Speaker 3: considers this his football home. Maybe I'm exaggerating that, but
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Speaker 3: that's how it felt. So a good move. Happy for him,
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Speaker 3: and I think it settles him going into the season,
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Speaker 3: which can be nothing but positive.
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Speaker 2: And I think it bears mentioning this a couple of
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Speaker 2: years ago was thought to be a place you didn't
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Speaker 2: want to go right.
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Speaker 1: And now we're getting.
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Speaker 2: Exactly the facility, the coach, the quarterback, the market, the
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Speaker 2: state right with all of the weather and the tax
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Speaker 2: issues that worked to a player's advantage to play here
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Speaker 2: as opposed to a California or in New York or
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Speaker 2: in Illinois. This is a place where all of it,
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Speaker 2: and the quarterback in particular is going to attract a
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Speaker 2: lot of people. And you can tell we.
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Speaker 1: Talk a ton about the offense. I do want to
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Speaker 1: get to the defense a little bit because I know, Brian,
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Speaker 1: you have a little bit of a hot take that
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Speaker 1: you read it and brought to me. I won't give
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Speaker 1: it to you. I won't like to make you go
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Speaker 1: with it, but you brought it to me that I've
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Speaker 1: found very interesting thought. Let's discuss it.
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Speaker 2: Randy Mueller, right, longtime general manager in this league, most
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Speaker 2: visibly in Minnesota. Recently he was in Seattle. His brother
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Speaker 2: Rick was one of the key personnel guys here as
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Speaker 2: Tom Coughlin built this team twenty nine years ago. I
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Speaker 2: know you remember him, John. He writes for the Athletic
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Speaker 2: Now and he wrote a sentence about the Jaguars defense
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Speaker 2: that really caught my attention and that was that the
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Speaker 2: Jaguars defense has more players who are tough to block
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Speaker 2: than any other team in the league, any in the
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Speaker 2: league exclamation point. He said, it hasn't shown up yet,
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Speaker 2: but when you look at these guys, you see big
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Speaker 2: guys who run, who have the measurables, and they will
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Speaker 2: be a good defense this year if given the chance
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Speaker 2: to go and chase the quarterback.
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Speaker 1: It's very interesting wording.
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Speaker 3: John.
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Speaker 1: Do you feel like some of that is the uniqueness
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Speaker 1: of certain position players that we.
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Speaker 3: Have maybe some so much of its projection, because I
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Speaker 3: can't say that any fan who is reading that and saying, well,
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Speaker 3: that's ridiculous is wrong because we haven't seen it.
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Speaker 1: I haven't proven yet.
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Speaker 3: It hadn't been proven yet. I still think a lot
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Speaker 3: of it goes back to what Brian alluded to. This
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Speaker 3: defense really in recent memory, even last year when this
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Speaker 3: team was good, did not play with a lot of leads.
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Speaker 3: You know, you think about the playoff game. I think
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Speaker 3: they led for what thirty seconds in that game, So
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Speaker 3: that was the trend coming down the stretch late in
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Speaker 3: the season. If you think about it, in games where
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Speaker 3: the defense stood out late in the season, you really
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Speaker 3: think of the Jets and the Texans, well, they never
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Speaker 3: got down in those games, so the defense was able
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Speaker 3: to play its game against offenses that had to be bound.
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Speaker 3: You know that we're not able to run and protect
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Speaker 3: the quarterback the whole time. I believe they will play
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Speaker 3: with more leads. I think if they do, you we'll
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Speaker 3: see players like Trayvon, like Josh Allen, make Randy Mueller
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Speaker 3: look like a prophet.
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Speaker 2: Not just him though. Roy Robertson Harris is a really big, long,
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Speaker 2: physical guy. Fully fought Takasi. I don't think he was
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Speaker 2: healthy all season long. Devin Lloyd, I mean, here's a guy,
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Speaker 2: and of course Tyson Campbell is a big corner. So
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Speaker 2: I think that there's just a lot of guys to
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Speaker 2: choose from. One other thing that he said that is
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Speaker 2: worth mentioning is he said, if you have a couple
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Speaker 2: of bucks just for giggles, throw it down on Trayvon
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Speaker 2: Walker to be the defensive player of the year.
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Speaker 1: He's that good. And even hotter take within the hot take.
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Speaker 1: I love a hot take, not us. Oh no no,
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Speaker 1: we're all absolve ourselves. We just heard about it, so
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Speaker 1: we'll bring it back. We'll do the receipts later hopefully
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Speaker 1: he is a prophet and that all comes true. Stay
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Speaker 1: with us. We're going to look ahead and a little
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Speaker 1: bit about seeing who will be needing to make this
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Speaker 1: training camp roster or make their best effort out there
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Speaker 1: in training camp coming up. Jags Am is back with
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Speaker 1: happy to be in this new studio with jags Am.
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Speaker 1: We got a new name for you guys as well.
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Speaker 1: We're going to try out some new things. We want,
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Speaker 1: you know, our fans and everyone to be involved a
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Speaker 1: little bit more so. We hope that you get to
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Speaker 1: us on social media or wherever, right into John and
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Speaker 1: let us know what you think or what you want
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Speaker 1: to see, because we've got some new things we're working
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Speaker 1: on and hopefully you like them. One of them is
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Speaker 1: the fifty three we're looking at. His early training camp
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Speaker 1: has not begun yet, but who's going to make this
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Speaker 1: final roster and who are some people we're looking at
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Speaker 1: that need to have a good training camp if they
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Speaker 1: want to make the roster. Brian will start with you y,
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Speaker 1: I'll be getting.
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Speaker 2: The fifty three with Gregory Junior. It's no surprise because
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Speaker 2: quarterback was an area of emphasis this offseason. We talked
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Speaker 2: about it a lot, and the Jaguars were often identified
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Speaker 2: in the first round of the draft with one of
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Speaker 2: those cornerbacks, and there were a number of them. Of course,
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Speaker 2: they didn't end up that way. They took Canton Harrison.
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Speaker 2: The Jaguars grabbed a young man last year in the
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Speaker 2: sixth round named Gregory Junior from what Cheetah Baptist in Arkansas,
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Speaker 2: smallest of schools. He's the first player ever drafted from
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Speaker 2: that school. Now, he's not the first player to play
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Speaker 2: in the NFL. A guy named Cliff Harris is in
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Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame. He went undrafted back in seventy
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Speaker 2: and was a great safety with Cliff Waters or pardon me,
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Speaker 2: Charlie Waters during the seventies. Okay, that's a sidebar.
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Speaker 1: That's me.
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Speaker 2: Here's the pro ready. He's a big corner. He's six foot,
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Speaker 2: one hundred and ninety pounds, but he's muscular. He's big
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Speaker 2: up top. He's got a big set of legs on him.
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Speaker 2: He's got long arms. He looks the part of a
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Speaker 2: physical corner. What he lacks, John, is that experience against
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Speaker 2: elite level athletes, because you didn't face that NCAA Division
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Speaker 2: two right, you faced small college players. So he's behind
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Speaker 2: the curve of players who played in the SEC or
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Speaker 2: the Big Ten. He needs time on task. But talking
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Speaker 2: to guys last year about him, he got better on
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Speaker 2: the practice field and a number of the coaches said
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Speaker 2: he's got a chance, which coming from which he'd a
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Speaker 2: baptist in the sixth round. You didn't say that necessarily.
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Speaker 2: He earned the chance to be in the conversation this year.
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Speaker 2: I don't know whether it's fair to say, but the
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Speaker 2: Jaguars really need him to step up and to have
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Speaker 2: a great training camp because he's a guy with the
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Speaker 2: physical capabilities to play John, But you and I both
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Speaker 2: know it's an intellectual game. You got to know how
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Speaker 2: to read an offense and figure out what's coming, and
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Speaker 2: we'll see if he can get there.
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Speaker 3: I think got cornerback depths. As much as people have
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Speaker 3: talked about past rush, I think got cornerback depth in
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Speaker 3: training camp is a huge story. You've got Tyson Campbell,
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Speaker 3: Trey Herndon, and Darius Williams well you got those three
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Speaker 3: guys who you feel good about. We're not sure what's
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Speaker 3: going on with Chris Claybrooks some off the field stuff lately.
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Speaker 3: Where is the fourth, fifth, sixth corner. I think he's
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Speaker 3: got to come out of the group. They have drafted
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Speaker 3: it late last year, they drafted it late this year.
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Speaker 3: At some point, if you're going to take that approach,
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Speaker 3: somebody from that group needs to step up and be
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Speaker 3: that death we're talking about. They have to have some
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Speaker 3: production and have to have those guys develop.
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Speaker 1: And I think going into training camp, you know, having
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Speaker 1: that depth is never a bad thing, so no matter
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Speaker 1: what position it is, so hopefully we can get that.
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Speaker 1: And if you're trying to make you know, cornerback or
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Speaker 1: anything like that, obviously playing special teams is a huge
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Speaker 1: part of that as well. John, is there anyone you
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Speaker 1: have your eye on that needs to have a good
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Speaker 1: training camp? In your eyes?
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Speaker 3: I'm always tight end. Garrett Prince. I think he's a
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Speaker 3: first year guy, second year out of school, was on
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Speaker 3: the practice squad all last year. I think people who
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Speaker 3: have watched these shows, who've listened to us is not
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Speaker 3: surprised that I went that direction. We talked about him
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Speaker 3: a lot during the off season. The tight end room.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to say it's set, but you've got Ingram,
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Speaker 3: Luke Farrell, and you have Briton Strange and I think
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Speaker 3: I think Prince will be.
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Speaker 1: The fourth guy.
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Speaker 3: You usually have four that you like that you sort
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Speaker 3: of have interchangeable parts with. I think Ingram and Prince
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Speaker 3: feel like the move guys. Feral and Strange feel like
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Speaker 3: guys who can block and bring a little bit more
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Speaker 3: of that. That's usually the combination, Brian, that you go
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Speaker 3: with out of that bunch. But out of the four,
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Speaker 3: Prince is clearly the guy who needs training camp to
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Speaker 3: sort of solidify what's been whispered and talked loudly within
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Speaker 3: this building about. They like him, they think that he
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Speaker 3: has a lot of potential, but he has to show
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Speaker 3: that with pads during practice and in preseason.
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Speaker 2: So you recall we were standing on the practice field
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Speaker 2: one day last year and a member of the personnel
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Speaker 2: department kind of tapped us on the shoulder. Don't sleep
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Speaker 2: on him. He's got good height, he's got really good length,
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Speaker 2: he moves well, has a feel, and he's not scared
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Speaker 2: in the middle of the field. You know, not everyone
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Speaker 2: operates well in the middle of the field, but he
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Speaker 2: clearly is comfortable out there. I think he's a terrific
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Speaker 2: looking prospect. Whether he becomes a terrific player or not,
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Speaker 2: that's up to him, but he certainly has a chance and.
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Speaker 1: He's in a good position here. Obviously, Evan Ingram has
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Speaker 1: been around a little bit, and he's really taken on
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Speaker 1: that veteran role where he's helping younger players now that
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Speaker 1: he's come here and felt comfortable, So I have no
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Speaker 1: doubt he'll be very helpful in that tight end room.
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Speaker 1: I think I'd be really.
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Speaker 2: Helpful with thirteen point six million dollars, I think anything
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Speaker 2: could make me for a year. Yes, you need baby,
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Speaker 2: really I wish for me.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at one of the picks from this year.
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Speaker 1: We had a lot of draft picks this year. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Cier Abdullah out of Louisville. A lot of people think
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Speaker 1: he's undersize. You know, he's not gonna be able to
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Speaker 1: translate that numbers. If he's a sack guy in college,
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Speaker 1: as some would say, he can be a sack guy
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Speaker 1: in the pros. I'm a fan. Just in our limited
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Speaker 1: interaction they talk about culture around here. This man will
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Speaker 1: fit in absolutely perfectly. And just to see the way
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Speaker 1: he goes about things. You see some of these rookies
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Speaker 1: come in. Their eyes are real big. They don't know
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Speaker 1: what's going on. They're just trying to figure it all out.
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Speaker 1: He seems like he's been here for five years already.
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Speaker 2: You're looking for guys who can multitask, who could do
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Speaker 2: different things, and he's got the body because he's a
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Speaker 2: bigger pass rusher. He's got the body to be able
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Speaker 2: to get up towards the line of scrimmage and be
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Speaker 2: effective against the run and not just that edge rusher.
17:30
Speaker 2: But he's also got the quickness based on the numbers
17:32
Speaker 2: that he put up at Louisville, when you have twenty
17:34
Speaker 2: three twenty four sacks in his career, he's got the
17:36
Speaker 2: ability to play in space as well. In today's day
17:39
Speaker 2: and age, you get a fourth or fifth round pick,
17:41
Speaker 2: you need the guy to be able to do multiple
17:42
Speaker 2: things and probably play on special teams. He looks to
17:45
Speaker 2: me like a guy who can handle that.
17:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's always tough. People have listened to me for
17:49
Speaker 3: a long time. No, I don't love talking about rookies
17:53
Speaker 3: in training camp because I'm always skeptical how much a
17:56
Speaker 3: rookie's going to produce in this league, especially outside the
17:58
Speaker 3: first round. But there is a spot edge rusher, pass
18:04
Speaker 3: rusher on this defense. I think the team will be
18:08
Speaker 3: watching to see if they have that depth we were
18:12
Speaker 3: talking about earlier Trayvon, Josh Allen and obviously youre set
18:16
Speaker 3: calebon Chase on. We'll see there's a spot for a
18:20
Speaker 3: young player and if do it can be that spot
18:22
Speaker 3: to step in and I get a real opportunity. I
18:26
Speaker 3: think for him, there's an unusual opportunity for a rookie
18:31
Speaker 3: to come in and produce early on a lot of teams.
18:34
Speaker 3: I don't know that you would have that clear cut
18:36
Speaker 3: spot if it was last year with arden Key still here,
18:38
Speaker 3: I have a clear cut spot. There is an opportunity
18:42
Speaker 3: for Abdula to make an impact.
18:43
Speaker 1: This year, and if anybody's gonna come take it, I
18:45
Speaker 1: wouldn't doubt that it would be him. He certainly isn't
18:47
Speaker 1: starstruck by the lights or anything like that, so we'll
18:49
Speaker 1: see what he's able to do in training camp. We
18:52
Speaker 1: want all of you to stay with us. Coming up,
18:53
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the Miller Electra Center, our
18:55
Speaker 1: new studios and all of that right here in the
18:58
Speaker 1: Hyundai studios. So stay with us. Yes, move the freight,
19:07
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19:15
Speaker 1: they're the coolest office space, but when they vote again,
19:18
Speaker 1: we might have a chance of that because this new
19:21
Speaker 1: facility here, this is just our podcast studio. We also
19:24
Speaker 1: have a new studio where jags Am will be in
19:26
Speaker 1: the future, and just this building as a whole. It's
19:29
Speaker 1: better than advertised, at least in my opinion.
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Speaker 3: I gotta think Dougiep's office is gonna trump Magella in
19:33
Speaker 3: now than you's pretty good. It's pretty good, I'm sure.
19:39
Speaker 3: And yeah, it's an unbelievable facility, and I would think
19:43
Speaker 3: pretty cool on the cool scale.
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Speaker 1: We want you guys to take a look at a
19:47
Speaker 1: little bit what this ribbon cutting was like earlier this
19:49
Speaker 1: week and what the new facility looks like on the inside.
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Speaker 6: Jacksonville is rising, Our football team has a great promise,
20:03
Speaker 6: and downtown Jacksonville is beginning to fulfill its potential.
20:08
Speaker 3: One two three.
20:14
Speaker 6: The Miller Electric Center is symbolic of our core value
20:17
Speaker 6: of community in Miller Electric and our shared commitment with
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Speaker 6: the Jaguars and investing in the city of Jacksonville.
20:25
Speaker 4: The Jacksonville Renaissance is underway, and I am so glad
20:28
Speaker 4: to see the Jaguars playing such a big part of it.
20:31
Speaker 2: It takes all of us. It's not about one individual
20:33
Speaker 2: or one person, you know, it takes a village to
20:36
Speaker 2: build something.
20:37
Speaker 3: Like this, and that's what we have here in Jacksonville.
20:38
Speaker 1: And that's why I'm so proud to represent this football team.
20:49
Speaker 4: I look forward to our shared future and I know
20:52
Speaker 4: that no matter what it holds, we're gonna all take
20:54
Speaker 4: it a play at a time and we're gonna get
20:56
Speaker 4: it done.
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Speaker 1: You guys have been here longer than I have, so
21:02
Speaker 1: this has been in the works. Brian. Are you impressed
21:04
Speaker 1: with what they were able to deliver here?
21:06
Speaker 4: Oh?
21:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, It's hard not to be. And I've been fortunate.
21:10
Speaker 2: I have friends around the league have seen some of
21:12
Speaker 2: these standalone facilities. I've seen the Star in Dallas, which
21:15
Speaker 2: is obviously a huge deal. You talk about keeping up
21:18
Speaker 2: with the Jones, is that's what the rest of the
21:19
Speaker 2: league has been doing for all these years. Try to
21:21
Speaker 2: keep up with Jerry Jones. But you know, you judge
21:24
Speaker 2: a job number one on the quarterback, right, the ownership,
21:27
Speaker 2: the quarterback, the facilities, it's a big factor. And we
21:32
Speaker 2: talked earlier about this not having been a job that
21:35
Speaker 2: people would associate with being a good one. It's a
21:38
Speaker 2: great one right now. I mean the facilities, the ownership,
21:41
Speaker 2: The market showed itself off well late last season against
21:44
Speaker 2: the Chargers and Titans, and now you mix in these facilities. Yeah,
21:48
Speaker 2: this is a really good job.
21:49
Speaker 3: And these things are always a process, and you know,
21:51
Speaker 3: I don't want fans to sit here and think, well,
21:53
Speaker 3: the Jeduares have been behind forever. There's usually a cycle
21:57
Speaker 3: with these things. Facilities last and there's a shelf life
22:02
Speaker 3: on them. The Jaguars facilities were built twenty eight, twenty
22:06
Speaker 3: nine years ago. It was it was time for this.
22:10
Speaker 3: It's going to be time for the stadium soon. They're
22:13
Speaker 3: back where they ought to be.
22:14
Speaker 1: We talked earlier. You know, you joke about the windows,
22:17
Speaker 1: but it's different when you're not joking, when you're not
22:19
Speaker 1: underneath the stadium. I know, it's not a joke. Like
22:21
Speaker 1: when you have no time, no idea what time of
22:23
Speaker 1: day it is, it's different. You know, you have we
22:25
Speaker 1: live in Florida. Like, if players want to practice in
22:28
Speaker 1: the off season, they have a nice facility to come to.
22:30
Speaker 1: They're going to stay in town and they're gonna do that.
22:32
Speaker 1: And when you're trying to attract free agents, that's something
22:34
Speaker 1: you can roll out there of course, as well as
22:36
Speaker 1: this is where you're coming to work and have some
22:38
Speaker 1: pride in that. Uh, you guys said your favorite things.
22:42
Speaker 1: My favorite thing is actually for the fans because to
22:44
Speaker 1: see the stands there with shade, with fans, physical fans
22:49
Speaker 1: to blow the air around and chuirbacks and bucks. Not
22:53
Speaker 1: to miss that, it's actually going to be comfortable somewhat
22:55
Speaker 1: for you to watch training camp. You're not gonna be
22:57
Speaker 1: out in the beating sun trying to you know, stand
22:59
Speaker 1: dround and see a practice and that was no fun.
23:02
Speaker 3: The NFL is supposed to be fun for fans. You
23:06
Speaker 3: don't necessarily want to make people work and suffer to
23:09
Speaker 3: see you. And as much as people love the Jags,
23:14
Speaker 3: it is tough on August sixth just to stand out
23:17
Speaker 3: in the blazing sun. I don't know that most fans
23:20
Speaker 3: we qualify it as being fun for the entire time.
23:23
Speaker 3: I think it's got a chance to be really cool.
23:25
Speaker 3: Think fans are gonna love it.
23:26
Speaker 2: I think there's what two thousand seats times thirteen open practices.
23:29
Speaker 2: I mean, do the math by twenty six something like
23:32
Speaker 2: twenty six hundred, John Oh, twenty six thousand.
23:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, math is in our strong suit.
23:38
Speaker 2: There will be a lot of fun. You got it right,
23:41
Speaker 2: You got it right. I think almost all of them
23:42
Speaker 2: are claimed fair enough.
23:44
Speaker 1: If they aren't sold out, they will be sold out
23:46
Speaker 1: by the time we're talking about this right now. I'm
23:48
Speaker 1: sure it has been by this point. Coming up, we're
23:51
Speaker 1: going to talk a little bit about what we have
23:53
Speaker 1: for content coming up now. The training camp is around
23:55
Speaker 1: the corner, and also some feature pieces that we worked
23:58
Speaker 1: on during the off season. Chad's fans, If you want
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24:18
Speaker 1: know if they got any of that gear in here,
24:19
Speaker 1: but this place is decked out to the gills, so
24:21
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if zip chair had something to
24:24
Speaker 1: do with it. I know we talked a lot about
24:26
Speaker 1: the studio. We are happy to be in here. This
24:28
Speaker 1: has been a work in progress, especially because of the
24:30
Speaker 1: off season. We haven't done our shows for a while,
24:34
Speaker 1: so we're happy to see everybody back. We're going to
24:35
Speaker 1: start doing shows more frequently. But it did give us
24:37
Speaker 1: a little bit of time to work on some other things.
24:39
Speaker 1: John and I were able to go to Thomaston, Georgia,
24:42
Speaker 1: which is where Trayvon Walker is from, and we got
24:45
Speaker 1: to do a video piece and also a written piece.
24:48
Speaker 1: And I want you to take a look at just
24:49
Speaker 1: the beginning of the video piece. Guys, sound tracked Thomason.
25:04
Speaker 1: What do you tell people ask where you're from?
25:06
Speaker 5: How I said, A small town, like twenty five minutes
25:09
Speaker 5: outside of making Then I'll come and be like Thomas
25:12
Speaker 5: and Georgia for the simple fatal Not many people going
25:14
Speaker 5: to know where it's at. It's home to me, but
25:17
Speaker 5: a lot of people still want But even if I
25:19
Speaker 5: try to explain it to them, they still want to
25:20
Speaker 5: know where it is. You see the same people every day,
25:26
Speaker 5: like you go to school, see the same people in
25:29
Speaker 5: school every day you get out of school. You got
25:30
Speaker 5: a little routine, go to the store after school, like
25:33
Speaker 5: you go see the same exact people every day. When
25:36
Speaker 5: I was younger, I always wanted to get away from
25:39
Speaker 5: just for the simple factor is not not really many
25:42
Speaker 5: businesses h I supposed to be doing, being raised in
25:49
Speaker 5: this small time. I have to say it was obviously
25:52
Speaker 5: my family who put the most into me. Everybody in
25:55
Speaker 5: the town knows me, shows support, been showing support since
25:58
Speaker 5: I was a little kid. Veroh appreciably.
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Speaker 1: Now that's the opener to the piece if you have
26:08
Speaker 1: some time. The full video is on the Jaguars YouTube page.
26:11
Speaker 1: The companion written piece written by John is on the
26:14
Speaker 1: website at Jaguars dot com. I think what I enjoyed
26:18
Speaker 1: most about this is just the chance to go and
26:20
Speaker 1: see where someone is from. Is a completely different view
26:22
Speaker 1: of them than maybe what you see at work. And
26:25
Speaker 1: Trayvon is very kind, but to actually meet in person,
26:28
Speaker 1: when you meet him, but when you meet his family,
26:30
Speaker 1: see where he comes from, it's just a different level
26:33
Speaker 1: of understanding. And if you don't come out of watching
26:35
Speaker 1: that or reading about him and your rooting for him
26:37
Speaker 1: this season, then I don't want to meet you, because
26:40
Speaker 1: I'm now hoping for success for him on the field
26:43
Speaker 1: and off the field.
26:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it gives you an idea. When you
26:49
Speaker 3: meet and talk to Trayvon, you get the idea of
26:53
Speaker 3: reserved kid who's very solid, confident in himself and doesn't
27:00
Speaker 3: feel like he has to shout to be an effective person.
27:04
Speaker 3: If you follow me, he's confidence in himself. And then
27:07
Speaker 3: once you get to that town and you meet his
27:10
Speaker 3: parents and spend time around people have been around him,
27:13
Speaker 3: you see that he gets it honest, so to speak.
27:15
Speaker 3: That's where he's from, and so I enjoy talking to him.
27:20
Speaker 3: I think the pieces that we did portray him accurately,
27:23
Speaker 3: and I think if people watch them, they'll get an idea.
27:25
Speaker 3: And like you said, I don't think any Jaguars fans
27:29
Speaker 3: are rooting against this guy. He's a very easy kid
27:31
Speaker 3: to root for and I'm expecting a big season from him.
27:36
Speaker 2: If they watch the video, they will be rooting for
27:39
Speaker 2: him rapidly because he is a great young man and
27:43
Speaker 2: if he's half the player that he is as a
27:47
Speaker 2: personnest he will be in great shape.
27:50
Speaker 1: Absolutely check that out. If you guys have not the
27:52
Speaker 1: videos on YouTube and Jaguars dot Com for the written
27:55
Speaker 1: piece as well. This has been our first edition of
27:58
Speaker 1: jags Am. We're in the books. Things are a little
28:00
Speaker 1: bit different. We're going, we're moving, We're figuring out as
28:03
Speaker 1: we go along. We thank you for joining us throughout
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Speaker 1: this process. We'll see again soon. We're here in the
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Speaker 1: Hyundai studios. We'll see you on Jack's amm