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Notable Rookie Minicamp and Schedule Takeaways | Jags Drive Time: Tuesday, May 16 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Jags Drive Time with John Oser, Bryan Sexty Sexton,
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  Speaker 1: man Ty Steed of his Jangs Drive Time starts right.
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  Speaker 2: Now kind of begin the process of you know, how
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  Speaker 2: are they going to fit with our team.
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  Speaker 3: And current team and.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, just get a get a good feel
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  Speaker 2: for uh, you know, these guys these next couple of.
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  Speaker 3: Days, rookies are in the building. We've been talking about
• 0:30
  Speaker 3: them for a while. Thirteen draft picks and of course
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  Speaker 3: all of those undrafted free agents were here for rookie
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  Speaker 3: mini camp last week. Culture a big topic of discussion
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  Speaker 3: with Doug Peterson and of course Trent Balky, So will
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  Speaker 3: these guys fit in? We finally got to see them
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  Speaker 3: hit the field, you know, not doing a ton right now,
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  Speaker 3: but at least they're out there with their uniforms on
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  Speaker 3: and helmets and we got a little bit of a
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  Speaker 3: peek at that. Also got the schedule release last week.
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  Speaker 3: So a busy week here in Jacksonville, and of course
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  Speaker 3: always exciting to see new people here, going to challenge
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  Speaker 3: some of the other players on this team and hopefully
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  Speaker 3: fill out some of those roles that you know need
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  Speaker 3: in an addition to this roster that's already pretty set.
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  Speaker 3: Had a great season last year and now we're going
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  Speaker 3: to see some of these new faces coming in. I'm
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  Speaker 3: Kain Nannie Stevens. Welcome into Drive time of course, Brian
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  Speaker 3: Sexton with us, John Oser, I'm very excited to be
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  Speaker 3: back with you guys and get things going here. And
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  Speaker 3: last week we had a lot of people in the building,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of stuff going on. What were your first
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  Speaker 3: impressions of some of the new faces we saw.
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  Speaker 4: They all looked apart, right. I Mean, it sounds like
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  Speaker 4: it's so simple, but it's important when guys walk out
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  Speaker 4: on the field that they're you know, big, yeah, exactly,
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  Speaker 4: long length and big hands. I mean, they all look
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  Speaker 4: like they belong. There have been times in the recent
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  Speaker 4: past where some players on this team didn't look like
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  Speaker 4: they belonged right comparative to other teams, and that's not
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  Speaker 4: the case with this roster anymore. John. When you look
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  Speaker 4: across it, you see a lot of guys that look
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  Speaker 4: like they belong on a football field.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't want as a GM or as a scout.
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  Speaker 5: If you're a scout, you don't want one of your
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  Speaker 5: guys that you sort of bang the table for you
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  Speaker 5: don't want to be walking off the field after rookie
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  Speaker 5: minnie camp going or like going off first pretending to
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  Speaker 5: go to the bathroom, so you have to run into
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  Speaker 5: the GM.
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  Speaker 6: And it didn't feel like that was the case at all.
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  Speaker 6: Last week.
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  Speaker 5: I had Trent Pukey on the ozone podcast for this
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  Speaker 5: week and he said, and he's exactly right. His big
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  Speaker 5: concern is make sure that all the guys you start
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  Speaker 5: that camp that day you end with meaning no injuries.
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  Speaker 5: We've had that before around here too. I don't know
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  Speaker 5: if any of these guys beyond the first three can play.
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  Speaker 6: We find that.
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  Speaker 5: Out once they put pads on a training camp.
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  Speaker 6: But the first three really look the part.
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  Speaker 5: The other ten draft picks all look like they belong
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  Speaker 5: around here.
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  Speaker 3: It's part of the fun trying to figure it out.
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  Speaker 3: Let's do big things really quickly. Of course, our big
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  Speaker 3: thing Number one is day one. Anton Harrison. He is
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  Speaker 3: a big thing in many ways. He's a big person.
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  Speaker 3: So you see him out there getting ready. Obviously he's
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  Speaker 3: done a lot in college. The versatility that he brings.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to start at right tackle for the team.
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  Speaker 3: But a lot of what Trent Balk and Doug Peterson
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  Speaker 3: like about him is that he's may be able to
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  Speaker 3: play at several positions on the line depending throughout his
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  Speaker 3: career here in Jacksonville. So he talked to us a
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  Speaker 3: little bit about what this transition has been like here
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  Speaker 3: now that he's a pro.
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  Speaker 4: It's definitely different.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say it's more intense. You've got it's a better
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  Speaker 2: higher level skill or the defense and offense, a higher
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  Speaker 2: just IQ of everybody out there. So it's definitely a
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  Speaker 2: higher intensity. But I say it's great to be out here,
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  Speaker 2: finally back on the field, learning from the coaches and
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  Speaker 2: the older guys. So it's definitely good to be out here.
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  Speaker 3: First round picks always have high expectations, and we have
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  Speaker 3: that him. Of course, big thing to the day two
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  Speaker 3: guys Brenton Strange and Tank Big Spy. They went all
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  Speaker 3: offense in the first couple of rounds of the draft,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, maybe some people weren't as familiar. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think Brenton Strange his name had been brought up
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  Speaker 3: pre draft, but he said he's very excited to be here,
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  Speaker 3: learn from Evan Ingram and get going.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I talked to Evan. He reached out to me
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  Speaker 7: on Instagram, shot me his phone number and got it,
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  Speaker 7: gave him a text, and so it's great to have
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  Speaker 7: a guy like that. It shows what type of leader
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  Speaker 7: he is and how he comes in and I've only
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  Speaker 7: heard great things about him, how he comes in and
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  Speaker 7: works every day. So I'm really excited to learn from
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  Speaker 7: him because I've been watching him since he's been at
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  Speaker 7: Old Miss. So it's kind of surreal, you know, just
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  Speaker 7: watching a guy growing up and now you play on
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  Speaker 7: the same team with him.
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  Speaker 3: It could be a scary combo right there. And then
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  Speaker 3: of course our Day three guys. There was a lot
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  Speaker 3: of draft picks this year, the most enfranchised history thirteen.
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  Speaker 3: Of course undrafted free agents as well, so there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of names that maybe we don't know that might
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  Speaker 3: be able to come in, whether or not they have
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  Speaker 3: an impact or they're just gonna compete and push some
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  Speaker 3: other guys. There were some people that we do have
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  Speaker 3: our eye on, ya see are Abdullah from Louisville is
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  Speaker 3: one of them. He's been beating up on Flora's Safe
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  Speaker 3: for a while. If you're Flora's Safe in you might
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  Speaker 3: be familiar with him. But he's just excited to come
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  Speaker 3: in here and really learn from the people around him.
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  Speaker 2: Be a pro, you know, be a bit of pro
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  Speaker 2: and geat everything I can learn. Also, I can't be
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  Speaker 2: a sponge for these coaches and the older Gayzavi.
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  Speaker 3: So exciting times. We've got every back buddy back in
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  Speaker 3: the building. Anson Harrison there. He is just a big man.
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  Speaker 3: He's just impressive.
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  Speaker 4: You know what struck me though, was he's big, but
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  Speaker 4: he's not. Lean's not the right word.
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  Speaker 3: He looks like a big He's a large built person.
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  Speaker 3: He's not. I don't mean he's fat or a sackey.
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  Speaker 4: Guy like you expect some offensive linemand correct.
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  Speaker 3: He's almost like shack Like he's just a large person, right,
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  Speaker 3: Like he fits his size and he's athletic. And you
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  Speaker 3: see him and without pads on, he looks like you
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  Speaker 3: can run around with anybody.
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  Speaker 4: And look. Phil Rosher, the offensive line coach, was giving
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  Speaker 4: him as much coaching as anyone. Right, there's the little
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  Speaker 4: detail thing, of course, But when you watched him, John,
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  Speaker 4: what you saw was a guy we talked about looking
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  Speaker 4: like you belong. He belongs. I mean, he's effortless in
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  Speaker 4: his movement and I was paying attention to how he
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  Speaker 4: moved to his right since that's where he's going to
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  Speaker 4: be on the right side after playing left tackle at Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 4: Looked like it was no big deal for him. I
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  Speaker 4: know that there's some technique and things that have got
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  Speaker 4: done there, but it looked like that would be a
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  Speaker 4: transition he could make well.
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  Speaker 5: Kai used the phrase fits into his body, and it's
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  Speaker 5: exactly right. I can remember when Tony Biselli was here.
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  Speaker 5: You would walk out onto the practice field from three
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  Speaker 5: fields away, and if you didn't know Tony was a
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  Speaker 5: offensive tackle, he looked like a wide receiver even though
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  Speaker 5: he was six seven, three ten, but he fit. He
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  Speaker 5: was natural in how he looked. I'm not comparison, not
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  Speaker 5: comparing Anton to Tony, but there is when you were
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  Speaker 5: standing near him when he was working in padwork, when
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  Speaker 5: he hit the pads sounded different than when the other
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  Speaker 5: guys hit the pads. And again it's it's not padded whatever,
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  Speaker 5: but there are some physical things there you like out
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  Speaker 5: of the skit.
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  Speaker 3: You have to imagine that size and the fact that
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  Speaker 3: he's as athletic as he is is going to help
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  Speaker 3: with that versatility. Because you know, we talked to Trent
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  Speaker 3: yesterday again and they really emphasize the fact that they
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  Speaker 3: expect him to play multiple positions at different points in
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  Speaker 3: his career here and that's why they were so focused
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  Speaker 3: on getting him well.
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  Speaker 4: And he looks like a guy who's got good punch
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  Speaker 4: on the bag, right, John talk about hitting the bag.
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  Speaker 4: He's got long arms and big hands. He's got all
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  Speaker 4: the physical tools. We talk about guys looking like they belong.
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  Speaker 4: You got to have those. You gotta the arms and
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  Speaker 4: the hands and the you got to have the length
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  Speaker 4: that gives it offensive tackle, the chance to get a
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  Speaker 4: hold of a guy before he gets into his body. Right.
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  Speaker 4: Shorter arms means these guys are getting on top of
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  Speaker 4: you and bull rushing you. So he looks like that
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  Speaker 4: kind of a guy. And to talk to him afterwards,
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  Speaker 4: to listen to him. He understands the task that's in
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  Speaker 4: front of him and.
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  Speaker 3: He gets it.
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  Speaker 5: He's somebody out of that group Walker, Little Cam Robinson
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  Speaker 5: or Anton Harrison. It stretches reason to me that one
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  Speaker 5: of them isn't going to play guard by the end
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  Speaker 5: of the season, because you're going to try to get
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  Speaker 5: your best five on the field, and I've got to
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  Speaker 5: believe that those three are part of the best five.
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  Speaker 5: Can Anton Harrison come in and play right tackle and
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  Speaker 5: then move to guard as a rookie. I don't really
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  Speaker 5: see why not. I think that's that's absolutely in place.
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  Speaker 5: So the versatility of the Tren's talking about we could see.
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  Speaker 3: This year and with injuries last year, you can never
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  Speaker 3: have enough lineman right versati alignment because as we've seen,
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  Speaker 3: that may not be a sexy pick necessarily, you know,
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  Speaker 3: not a skill player, but they serve a very important role.
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  Speaker 3: So he is very well needed here. Let's talk a
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  Speaker 3: little bit about the day two guys. Brenton Strange, Tank Bigsby.
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  Speaker 3: Brent Strange wasn't necessarily on anybody's radar right off the gate.
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  Speaker 3: I think some people may have been surprised by the name,
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  Speaker 3: not necessarily that there was a tight end added, but
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  Speaker 3: specifically Brenton Strange out of Penn State. But John, you
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  Speaker 3: told me when you saw him out on the field
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  Speaker 3: that he just looks like he's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: perfect fit here.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he looks impressive. I mean, if you're walking out
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  Speaker 5: onto the field on Friday or Saturday and you were
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  Speaker 5: looking around and didn't have any roster, didn't have any idea,
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  Speaker 5: and you know nothing about football, Strange would have jumped
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  Speaker 5: out as a guy who is very physically impressive. He
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  Speaker 5: didn't do a whole lot on Saturday. I think it
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  Speaker 5: was and he tweaked something or something happened, or he.
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  Speaker 6: Didn't do a whole lot.
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  Speaker 5: Wasn't a big deal, but you can see why they
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  Speaker 5: chose him if he is as good on the field
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  Speaker 5: as he looks. In terms of the part, I could
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  Speaker 5: easily see him being a versatile type who can block.
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  Speaker 5: They haven't really had that versatile guy probably since Mercedes
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  Speaker 5: had good receiving years Bright. No, he was ona of
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  Speaker 5: that many, but he did that at times. But I
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  Speaker 5: think this is the first guy I've had like that.
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  Speaker 4: He wasn't done anyone's radar because he only had thirty
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  Speaker 4: two catches last year at Penn State, only five touchdowns,
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  Speaker 4: so they didn't use him to his potential. And obviously
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  Speaker 4: Doug Peterson has the reputation of utilizing tight ends to
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  Speaker 4: their potential. He's this year's Trayvon Walker. By that, I
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  Speaker 4: mean when you walked on the field last year and
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  Speaker 4: you got to look at Treyvon Walker, You're like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I get it right, You could tell, well, that's why
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  Speaker 4: they took him number one overall when you walked on it.
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  Speaker 4: When I walked on the field, I turned my head
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  Speaker 4: and I saw him. I went, that looks bigger than
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  Speaker 4: six foot four, two hundred and fifty five pounds. Right,
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  Speaker 4: it's the way that he's constructed. And he made one
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  Speaker 4: sort of off schedule catch down the scene where he
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  Speaker 4: had to turn his body and focus on getting the ball.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's hard to even turn your body like that,
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  Speaker 4: and he did it in stride and was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: I get it. The guy it's got a lot of potential.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I haven't.
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  Speaker 5: I haven't talked to Doug or Trance specifically, you know,
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  Speaker 5: off to the side about this kid. To me, this
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  Speaker 5: feels like a pick where Doug Peterson when Trent said, hey,
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  Speaker 5: we've pulled the trigger on this guy, where he smiled
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  Speaker 5: and said, yeah, he fits what I want to do.
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  Speaker 5: I think the tight end room is going to look
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  Speaker 5: more like a Doug Peterson tight end room than it
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  Speaker 5: has since he got here.
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  Speaker 4: They said, all the draft experts said this was going
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  Speaker 4: to be a deep crop, a deep class of tight ends,
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  Speaker 4: and it certainly was. When you get a guy that
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  Speaker 4: appears to be that talented at the bottom of the
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  Speaker 4: second round.
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  Speaker 3: And Doug Peterson did. You could see in the in
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  Speaker 3: the draft room when they made that pick, he was
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  Speaker 3: smiling ear to ear. So he definitely has some plans
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  Speaker 3: for him, especially also Brent Strange talking about how he
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  Speaker 3: already had reached out to Evan Ingram, so you got
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  Speaker 3: to hope he's going to learn a lot from him
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  Speaker 3: as well when he gets back in the building. I
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  Speaker 3: do want to talk about Tank Bigsby as well, because
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  Speaker 3: A that's a great name, and b if he lives
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  Speaker 3: up to it, it's going to be even better. But
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  Speaker 3: he just brings something to this offense that I think
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  Speaker 3: you guys had mentioned last year may have been lacking
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  Speaker 3: a little bit, because you need that kind of bulldozer,
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  Speaker 3: you know, third in one guy that you can give
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  Speaker 3: the ball to and like get that first down and
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  Speaker 3: maybe you know, give Travis Atn a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: leniency to play his game. And Tank really feels that role.
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  Speaker 3: Feels like he's gonna fill that role.
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  Speaker 4: He's a high knee guy, right, I mean when he
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  Speaker 4: goes in between the tackles, now those knees are getting
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  Speaker 4: up there. He is chopping up ground. He looked very
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  Speaker 4: comfortable again, shorts and T shirts. I get it, but
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  Speaker 4: running between the tackles looks to be where he's gonna
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  Speaker 4: make his yardage in the NFL. And then he's got
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  Speaker 4: the mindset. You get those knees up that high, you'reletting
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  Speaker 4: everyone know here I come people.
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  Speaker 5: I thought about this during the draft a lot too.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody talked about, well, you picked backups. You picked guys
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  Speaker 5: who aren't really gonna start in this offense. Doug Peterson
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  Speaker 5: does not look at an offense and see eleven starters.
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  Speaker 5: He looks at an offense and knows that there are
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  Speaker 5: five offensive line stars, one quarterback starter, but those other
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  Speaker 5: five positions. He likes to have five, you know, ten
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  Speaker 5: eleven guys there. Bigsby and Strange give you the sort
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  Speaker 5: of depth and versatility if you really want to see
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  Speaker 5: this offense go, you needed these guys on the offense.
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  Speaker 5: I think Doug got the offense he wanted. I don't
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  Speaker 5: think they went into the draft thinking they had to
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  Speaker 5: do that, but Bigsby gives them running back by a committee.
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  Speaker 6: Frankly they didn't have last year.
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  Speaker 4: He's got a starter potential, right, I mean, he was
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  Speaker 4: a five star out of Atlanta, Alabama recruited this kid
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  Speaker 4: and offered him as a freshman. He chose Auburn because
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  Speaker 4: the relationship that he had with Cadillac Williams. Okay, so
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  Speaker 4: this is a guy who had Auburn, had to do
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  Speaker 4: a lot of things and didn't have the talent around him.
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  Speaker 4: The word is, this is a starting caliber player and
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna need that because Travis Etn is a guy
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  Speaker 4: who's gonna get nicked up. Or what if you put
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  Speaker 4: Travis Etn in the slot right here and there and
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  Speaker 4: again to what John's point is is that you're creating
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  Speaker 4: with those guys who are rotating in and you can
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  Speaker 4: use him in a lot of different ways. When you
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  Speaker 4: got a guy like Tank Bixby, you don't have to
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  Speaker 4: worry about putting Travis in some different spots to go
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  Speaker 4: and utilize his open and field skills.
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  Speaker 3: There are very few teams I think in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: three NFL that have one soul running back, I mean
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  Speaker 3: running back by committee is the way that you function
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  Speaker 3: in the NFL at this point. So they needed that
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  Speaker 3: also to mention at Auburn, he was there without a
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  Speaker 3: lot of talent about around him, but he stayed there.
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  Speaker 3: Which I think is also very telling in terms of
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  Speaker 3: you know, they're talking a lot about character guys, Right,
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  Speaker 3: he stayed in a situation maybe wasn't best for him,
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  Speaker 3: but he wanted to be there and work with the
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  Speaker 3: people he worked with, and I think that can be
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  Speaker 3: telling as well. He didn't just try to transfer and
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: find a good spot.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Tank talked about on the ozone podcast. So when
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  Speaker 5: I had him on a couple of weeks ago about
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  Speaker 5: that very thing and said when he committed to Auburn,
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  Speaker 5: he committed to them and he wanted to be loyal
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  Speaker 5: as long as he was in college, he was going
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  Speaker 5: to be there. I think what's interesting about I lost
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  Speaker 5: my train of thought. Good, No, it's okay.
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  Speaker 3: I was just going to say. It's so telling for
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  Speaker 3: me as a character standpoint, that's been a big focus
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  Speaker 3: for Doug Peterson and Trent Balky, and that says something
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  Speaker 3: to me about someone that's saying, hey, this isn't the
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  Speaker 3: best of times, but I'm going to stick this out
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  Speaker 3: and do what I can do for myself and for
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  Speaker 3: the team around me. So I think that's very telling.
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  Speaker 3: I do want to touch on some of the Day
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  Speaker 3: three guys really quick anybody that jumped out to you,
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't here. So if there's anybody you saw that,
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  Speaker 3: maybe was a name he hadn't murd of.
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  Speaker 4: For Rodgers, the young man from Baker County High School
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: who went to Appalachian State. He played tackle in college.
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: He's going to play guard inside. Just got to learn
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: to play. But just talking to some of the guys
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: who scouted him, they're very high on his potential and
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: think he's a guy who can plug in once he's
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: got the intricacies of playing guard in and play for
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: you for ten years.
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this guy looked the part. I mean he out
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: of the guys who were on the bag. He showed
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: the same sort of power in that world as Anton Harrison.
• 14:34
  Speaker 5: And he talked a little bit to somebody I was
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: listening to an in in the sidelines. He could have
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: gone different places in applash and State. He stayed loyal
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: to that program after he committed. This guy is interesting.
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: I think he is the diamond in the rough out
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: of those ten picks on day three.
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: That's exciting. And do you want to touch on yes
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: here Abdullah excuse me as well, because he's one of
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: those undersized guys we talked a little bit about you know,
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: that room is going to be crowded. We need someone
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: to kind of step up. Is he someone that, even
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: if he doesn't make the roster, he's just gonna push
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: some of the other guys to be the best version
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: of themself.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: Probably.
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think we're sort of overplaying a little
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: bit the idea that these Day three guys aren't going
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: to be on the roster. I think, Okay, the fourth
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: and fifth round picks, I think they're going to be
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: on the roster bare minim practice squad. They're gonna be
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: on the roster because if you have him the practice squad,
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: they're gonna get signed somewhere. But yes, I think he
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: can push. And this is a team that is very
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: good right now in their top twenty two, top thirty,
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: but the twenty three you're still building depth that you
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: didn't have for two or three years.
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: So I think he's a guy.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: I think I think Ventro Miller is a special teams
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: guy immediately, Lacey, you know, I think there are guys
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: on Day three, especially fourth fifth round Parker Washington, sixth man.
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: I expect a.
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: Lot of these Day three guys and we're overplaying the
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: idea that they may be practice squad guys.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: Day three. What Trent bal Key was looking for was
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: twitchy athletes, right, I mean high at, highly athletic, fast
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: twitch muscle guys with traits, right, long arms, big hands,
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: all those things, whatever position they play. And he found
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: a bunch of those in Parker, Washington Brasswell. The corner
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: from Rutgers is another one that got brought up to
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: me and the thing about Abdullah and I ran this
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: by someone he had unique and Gockway kind of production
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: in the ACC the same conference. Right, So this is
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: a guy who can rush the passer, but he's bigger, right,
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: He's broader, he's thicker, he can play the run. Interesting
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: to watch and see how he develops and what role
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: he figures in to a defense that needs more from
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: their pass rush.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Those are some of the interesting guys right to see
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: what we'll get out of them when they get here
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: and when they hit training camp. All right, guys, stick
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: with us. We're going to come up in a little
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: bit and talk about the schedule. We knew who they
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: were playing, but now we know where and whens. We're
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: gonna go over some of the games rolling forward to
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: also maybe a trap game or two, and of course
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: all of those primetime matchups stay with us a busy week.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Last week, we finally have the schedule for twenty twenty three.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: We knew who they were going to play, and we
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: know when, we know where, and a lot of those
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: are primetime matchups, which is very exciting for this team
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: getting rewarded for some of their success last year. And
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: we were going through the schedule a little bit. You
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: guys talked a little bit about it last week, but
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: we're going to play a little bit of a game
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: because we want to kind of talk over some of
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: the games that we now know when and where they're
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: going to be, and maybe what we're looking for as
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: could be trouble spots, what we're looking forward to, what
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: might be a highlight for them. So we're gonna start
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: out with what game do you think might be a
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: trap game for them? And in that regard, I mean,
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: not necessarily a game we expect them to win, but
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: maybe something you hadn't really thought about and then might
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: surprise and be, you know, not a great performance out
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: of them. I don't know if anyone has anything particular
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: in mind, you know, I think sometimes people are get
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: a little you know, caught up in the London stuff.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: That could be something. But Brian, what do you.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Think I'll go with the Texans? Either one? Okay, not
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: because I think the Texans are all of a sudden
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: world beaters based on their draft and free agency, or
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: that Demico Ryans is gonna come in and you know,
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: set records as a first time head coach. But because
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: this team always seems to trip itself up against the Texans.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: It did it here last year in October, and you know,
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: as they were making a run down the stretch for
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: the division title, had they stumbled even once, that Texans
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: game would have been one to look back on. They
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: should never have lost to Davis Mills. They'll have a
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: rookie quarterback in CJ. Stroud, They'll have a first year
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: head coach. But they've got enough talent and just enough
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: history with this franchise that either won the one right
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: before this team goes to London or the one in
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: November could be that one that you go, oh, why
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: did that have to happen?
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: So is the division guys right that kind of come
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: out of nowhere?
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: You're like, gosh, you bet, Yeah, I think I went
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: with I was gonna go with Houston.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: I figured Brian was gonna go with Houston.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: The other like this, we'll go different answers.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: You also theoretically could have gone with Atlanta. Scares you
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: a little bit that first London game because you have
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: that second game in Buffalo. But I don't think they'll
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: I don't think they'll have a trap game in London
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: because you know, I.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Think it'll benefit them to be there for two weeks.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, personally, I think I'm going to go with Carolina.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: Week seventeen. Carolina picked one, so there's this sort of
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: assumption that they were bad, but they got a lot
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: better at the end of last year. Frank Wright can
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: really coach. And then what you don't want is week
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: seventeen to be looking ahead to the Tennessee game, and
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: you know, so it's hard to hope they have everything
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: clinched by week seventeen, guy, and you're not worrying about this.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: But Carolina is an interesting team to me. I think
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: by week seventeen they could be a team that you
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: don't want to overlook.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: For me, I think it might be Thursday eight football
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: when they had to New Orleans because I feel like
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: they have the London trips, they get back, they have
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: one game, and then they got a short week and
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: they're heading to New Orleans, which is always hard for
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: people on a Thursday, and New Orleans is just one
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: of those places you don't really know what you're gonna
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: get when you get there. So that could be something
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: to keep an eye on, as well as what game
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: we're looking forward to most Obviously, you know there's Chiefs
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: out there. There's a lot of different options. I don't
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: know if fans are looking forward to the Chiefs that
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: early in the season or if they would have rather
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: seen them a little bit later. But is there a
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: game maybe that you're very much looking forward to, Brian,
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: what were you looking for?
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: I'll go with San Francisco forty nine ers. I've said
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: this before. I've always enjoyed watching how Kyle Shanahan puts
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: the offense together right.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Every year. It's different, but it's good.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: But just the way that he did it with his
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: dad when he was the offensive coordinated with his dad,
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: and all those years in Denver and Houston where he's
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: been Atlanta, really sharp, sharp guy, and I think he
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: gets the most out of every player, and I always
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: envied that right until Doug got here and you last year,
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: it was like, Okay, whoa this is? This is the
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: AFC version, right, I mean, he comes from the Andy
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: Reid tree to see these two guys square off against
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: one another. And of course San Francisco brings in an
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: amazing defense. Even though Dimigo Ryans, last year's coordinator, is
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: now in Houston, they have a way of playing defense.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: With the talent on that line, It'll put a lot
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: of pressure on Trevor and this offense. So I just
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: and that's coming off the bye week right start in
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: the second half of the season. You believe these guys
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: will be in a position to make a run. It's
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: going to be an important game and I think there'll
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: be a lot of conversation around the league about it.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: The forty nine ers are always a good measuring bars well, right,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: because Kyle Shanahan really does make some good adaptions even
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: when they get you know, so many injuries. I feel
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: like they're dealing with every single year, but somehow they
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: still are able to compete and you know, make some
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: of those intense runs in the playoffs. John, what do
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: you have as your game that you're looking forward to
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: this season.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: I would have gone with three games, but it's a
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: one game question.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: The whole season.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: The power teams in the AFC Cincinnati, Kansas City, Buffalo, Yeah,
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: those are the one that are going to be the
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: measuring state games. It's a very unique time in the
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: AFC and that you have these teams that everybody sort
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: of assumes or your power teams, so you have real
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: measuring state games. But out of that group, I'm going
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: to go with Cincinnati on Monday Night football because I
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: assumed that Brian, being from Kansas City, was going to
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: go Kansas City, so I missed on that and we
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: talked about Buffalo a little bit. Cincinnati, Joe Burrow, Trevor
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: Lawrence Monday Night Football.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: It'll be that first.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Primetime game in Duval County that's been scheduled. Obviously, you
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: had the energy, so we know what it's going to
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: be like. But having that game of min to night football.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: Fans have looked forward to that so much. I think
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: it's going to be the second matchup of Trevor Lawrence
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: and Joe Burrow, which is going to be a matchup
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: for the next ten to fifteen years. But the first
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: one wasn't really on even footing. This is the one
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: that's really going to start this ride and the Borough thing. Look,
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: Josh Allen gets a lot of attention and Patrick Wills obviously, but.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: He's really good, really good. He's got that Tom Brady
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: esque sort of ice in his veins. You know, they
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: always show him wearing something outrageous as he walks in
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: the game. I do too, just got this little cocky
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: little but I think he's terrific. He's as good as
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: any quarterback in.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Football, and the talent around him, they're gonna be good
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: for a while. Oh yeah, they are, so yeah. I
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: mean Monday night football is always great, so that will
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: be a great return for them to Monday night football.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: I think for me, all those games you mentioned are
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: really good. I think that second, that Buffalo game in
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: London is going to be great, and I think being
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: there for the second game will actually benefit them and hopefully,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: you know, not having to go to Buffalo is great,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: So getting to play them in London will be good
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: for them, and I think that's either way going to
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: be a really fun game and good to see early
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: on in the season for them. Now, as for those
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: London games. Do we feel do you feel you guys
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: feel the same as me that the two games is beneficial.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Do you think it's you know, gonna harm them. It's
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: the first time we're seeing back to back games for
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: them in London. They always go once a year, but
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: to have a home and away game there, do you
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: think it's beneficial for them to be staying there?
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: I think there's an advantage for this team because this
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: is the tenth year that they have gone there to play.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: It's pretty much their home away from home.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: They understand the trip. In fact, you know, the staff
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: that's here that handles the logistics has been here for
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: most of that time in its current composition, So the
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: coaches have come and gone and they've plugged in because
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: the system is in place. So now you get them
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: over there, and I'm of the belief that you're already there,
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: You're already acclimated. Buffalo's got to come over. They don't
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: play there every year, So I do think it's an advantage.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: It would not be an advantage if you were playing
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: Josh Allen and choose your backup quarterback as your starter, right,
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Gardner Minshew is still the starter here instead of of
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: a Trevor Lawrence, that's not an advantage. But when you
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: put Trevor Lawrence on the field against Josh Allen in
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Buffalo against Buffalo in London, yeah, I do think you
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: have an advantage.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: John. Is it good that they're playing them in London
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: instead of Buffalo.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: Well, it's good.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: Yes, Obviously you're not playing on somebody's home turf and
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: it's not in January, bl Wizard. So I think that's
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: an advantage for the Bills if they can have been there.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: I think the second game in London, the away game
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: is an idea. Its time has come. I think they
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: have been open to that for a while, like the
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: schedule fell this year where it worked out. Is it
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: necessarily an advantage, I think it is for now. I
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: think the Jaguars having been there a lot, as you said,
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: the logious people know how to get there, and that
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: keeps players calm going over there. There's no confusion, there's
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: no weirdness. I think as more teams play over there
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: more often, that advantage will lessen a little bit. But
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: I certainly don't think it's anything negative for the Jaguars
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: to be doing this on the field.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Well, you're building your fan base over there, which we've
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: seen grow from you know, nascent to really strong, as
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: strong as anyone over there, you'd think. But most importantly
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: is that how prescient was Shodkhan when he decided to
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: do this? Right now everyone wants to go play with
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Before we think they're playing in Germany, they're playing in Mexico,
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: talking about going back to Canada, they're talking about someday
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: playing in South America. Every team what in fact not
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: just playing, but there are marketing, oh, licensed to agreements.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: That's the smartest part of all this.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: There are teams I think the Eagles are one that
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: are marketing in Nigeria. Okay, So everybody wants the overseas presence.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: It's the best way to grow the game according to
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: these owners, and Con has a head start now after
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: ten years in London on a lot of teams and
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: a lot of them would like to be in London.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: It turned out to be a really fortuitous move for
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: the franchise.
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: Overall.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: It's looking very smart with that decision that he made.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: We did talk a little bit, but I do want
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: to touch on it again. The primetime matchups they have,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: if you count the London games which are in the morning.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: There's five, which is huge for this team that has
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: not had a lot of primetime exposure and you know
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: outside coming in for me, that's going to be great
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: for you guys, because I know what you guys did
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: because I follow the NFL, but I didn't get to
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: see it live because you know, the Jaguars aren't available
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: in other parts of the country. So for you guys,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: for the team now to be on primetime and have
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: the eyeballs on them and some of the non primetime
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: games like Kansas City, people are going to be able
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: to check in on. That is gonna be able to
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: allow the rest of the country to see Trevor Lawrence
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: and hopefully get a little bit more respect I would
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: imagine when they actually see it with their own eyeballs.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Which of these primetime games there are three, So there's
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: that Thursday night game against the Saints, There's Monday Night
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Football against the Bengals, and then there's gonna be Sunday
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Night Football against the Ravens. Which of those three do
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: you think is the biggest challenge for them?
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: Well, I think Cincinnati.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think they're the best team of the
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: bunch Baltimore could change my mind on that. By the
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: time the game rolls.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Around, they're my wildcard, I think.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they they'll be good. Both those franchises
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: be really good. I'll go with Cincinnati because I went
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: with them on my thing it's now blank. So I'll
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: go Cincinnati because the Joe Burrow factor. But playing the
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: Ravens here on Sunday night won't be easy on December
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: seven or December seventeenth, I think you no.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: You're right, But it's a quarterbacks game, and Burrow is
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: at the very top of the list. And when you
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: put Burrow and Lawrence in there, I think that's going
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: to be the most difficult one. Here's the other thing.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: They're wide receivers. Jamar Chase is the best receiver in
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: the league. You know, They've got height, they've got they've
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: got speed with Taj Boyd, They've got Chase, who's the
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: all around. They are just as complete a an offense
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: as there is in football. So I think that's going
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: to be the most And and they're used to these
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: big games now. I mean, there was a time when
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: the Bengals were an after thought, just like you know,
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: the Jaguars have come out of that. But now they've
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: played in big playoff games, they've played in the super Bowl.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: Burrow is a star. I think it's clear Cincinnati.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: I'm excited for Ravens too. I didn't just mention as
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: a wildcard because you know, they've had a lot of
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: injuries as well, so we haven't seen them at full
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: strength in a while. Lamar Lamar. Jackson's got his money.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Now he's got Odell Beckham junior there. We'll see what
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  Speaker 3: that kind of becomes. There's obviously the possibility there. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: of course Monday night football with the Bengals is going
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: to be a good one. Stay with us. We are
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: looking ahead the ozone snapshot excuse me mail bag. He's
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: going to be fun. Gets all of you writing in
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  Speaker 3: to see what John has to say about things. So
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  Speaker 3: we'll have that right up for the break.
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  Speaker 6: This podcast is own friend Lady oh suit.
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  Speaker 3: Favorite time of the week ozone mail Bag. John Oser,
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  Speaker 3: our fearless leader, going to answer some of your most
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  Speaker 3: desired questions you're writing into us. So where Our first
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  Speaker 3: question here today is from Amy from Jacksonville. She says
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  Speaker 3: these lofty expectations are making her nervous. Should she be scared?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I get this a lot right now, because people
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  Speaker 5: they want to know about expectations. They want to know
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  Speaker 5: is it okay for me to be excited about this
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  Speaker 5: team or should I be scared? Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Be what you want.
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  Speaker 5: So the reality is this team has earned its expectations.
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  Speaker 5: It's earned the status that it will have as the
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  Speaker 5: AAC South of favorite. I believe they'll win the South.
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  Speaker 5: I believe they'll be very and very competitive. At the
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  Speaker 5: same time, I understand fear for two reasons. I live
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  Speaker 5: with it, kai but the this was not a great
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  Speaker 5: team last year. It was a clutch team that did
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  Speaker 5: great things in it last year and looked like it's
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  Speaker 5: going to be great.
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  Speaker 6: But this team still has.
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  Speaker 5: To earn its status as a as a perennial contender.
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  Speaker 5: It's not Buffalo yet, it's not Kansas City yet, it's
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  Speaker 5: not Cincinnati yet. If they go beat a couple of
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  Speaker 5: those teams this year, get in that conversation, then there's
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  Speaker 5: a four in the AFC. Right now, there's a three,
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  Speaker 5: and this team's been bad for a long time. So
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  Speaker 5: I get why fans are nervous about it. But you know,
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  Speaker 5: what if you weren't nervous about it, then the winning
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't be any fun. It's not scripted television. With apologies
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  Speaker 5: to our guy Asher, it's it's you're supposed to have
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  Speaker 5: that edge. I think they're going to be good, but
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  Speaker 5: I get why there's some nervous about it.
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  Speaker 4: Amy. This is what happens when you get the respect
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  Speaker 4: that Jaguars fans have been looking for. People start talking
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  Speaker 4: about you in these terms. But with all due respect,
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  Speaker 4: the only thing that matters is whether they have PTSD
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  Speaker 4: about it, and they don't, right, So feel free to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, be nervous about it. But that team that
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  Speaker 4: we watched last year and the additional players who've come
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  Speaker 4: in this year, they're not going to be phased by
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  Speaker 4: it at all. They know they've got a good chance
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  Speaker 4: and they believe they're ready for it.
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  Speaker 3: I think cautiously optimistic might be the way to go, right, sure,
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  Speaker 3: hope for the best, and maybe let your hair on
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  Speaker 3: fire and go all right, go for it, all right.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: JT from Fort Worth, Texas is our second question, second
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  Speaker 3: and final question today. So he says, it's great we
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  Speaker 3: have Sunday night football, Monday night football this year, but
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: he's not blind to the fact that they could get
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: flexed out, which that's what happens later in the year
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  Speaker 3: to Shay Nfl.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Kai, this is sort of Jaguars fans, you know,
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  Speaker 5: there's a little bit of a defeatist attitude, and they've
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  Speaker 5: been through a lot, they've been beaten up a lot, and.
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  Speaker 4: They had a game scheduled against the Steelers and they got.
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  Speaker 5: Right and many people were mad at the league that year.
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  Speaker 5: The bottom line is the Jaguars didn't earn the right
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  Speaker 5: to be on that game that season. Look, I did
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  Speaker 5: get a couple of emails like this with people saying, well,
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  Speaker 5: the league's clearly setting it up to be flex. The
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: league set up Joe Burrow and Trevor Lawrence and Lamar
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: Jackson Trevor Lawrence, and they think because they think those
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  Speaker 5: are going to be marquee games both of those teams,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, the Ravens and the Bengals and the Jaguars
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  Speaker 5: still have to earn a spot on that. But this
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  Speaker 5: was not a thing where the league said, hey, we're
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: going to flex Jacksonville take the candy you now, Now,
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  Speaker 5: this is this is the first for a into being
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  Speaker 5: a respected primetime team, and I have every confidence that
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  Speaker 5: the Jaguars earned the right to stay there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm with you. Those two games in December against
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  Speaker 4: AFC playoff hopefuls. Tell me the league would like those to.
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  Speaker 6: Be the games I think.
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  Speaker 3: I think they will remain the same barring injury. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's why they always have that option to flex
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  Speaker 3: out right in case, you know, something untoward happens to
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  Speaker 3: either of those quarterbacks. But for the most part, I
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  Speaker 3: think they're pretty much that just names alone. Those two quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna want to see that.
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  Speaker 4: You prove it this year, you go win it. Right
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  Speaker 4: until then, Jacksonville remains that market that isn't quite big
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: enough to overcome the New York Jets, right, Jets aren't
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: any good, but they're in New York.
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  Speaker 3: And they're dramatic.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: Now they got well I'm talking about past, but you're right,
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: they do. You get my point. Jacksonville will remain that
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: smaller market that has to earn its way into the
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  Speaker 4: prime time. And once they're there, and with this quarterback
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  Speaker 4: and this coach, there's every reasonably they'll stay there for
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  Speaker 4: a long run. You still got to get over a
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: hurdle or two.
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  Speaker 5: Look, they have five games on primetime or national TV.
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  Speaker 5: The league is setting it up Tampa's at four o'clock
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  Speaker 5: by that time, that could be a high profile game.
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  Speaker 6: Week eighteen could be high.
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  Speaker 3: Profile tits if there's something online.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: If you get a couple of playoff games, all of
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: a sudden, you're talking about being on TV seven or
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: eight times potentially two, that's.
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  Speaker 4: You're in what it is, You're in the game. Now.
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  Speaker 4: You just have to go win those games and perform well.
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  Speaker 3: Right, absolutely, it's gonna be fun to see and hopefully
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: none of those get flexed out fingers crossed. All right,
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: coming up, we're gonna take a look at what we've
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: got going on this week and tell you all about that,
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: and of course go over some of those schedule lease
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: videos because those were great this week. Stay with us,
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• 34:37
  Speaker 3: touch on at least give our media team and social
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: media a little bit of a pat on the back
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: because the schedule release video it has become a phenomenon.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Not just getting the schedule out there, but the video
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: that goes along with it, and I just think they
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  Speaker 3: did an amazing job. Obviously, you guys have some very
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: important speaking roles in that video. I was a character actress.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: In the Bayeline got cut. He's the only one to
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: have it. Oh, John, we were just character actors.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's true. I was just a expression. So I
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: didn't get to talk either.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Somebody said, hey, I like your cameo, and I said,
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: when you're the stars.
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  Speaker 3: It's true. It was all about you. But I just
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: what they were able to put together was obviously amazing.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: We were involved a little bit. It was a multi
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: day process. Asher Grodman super fan Jackson obviously a great
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: actor as well, and he.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: Rallied the troops. I mean, when you present a script
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: that gets the coach involved and the quarterback.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: And they bought in.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well yeah, okay, but they all know it's perfect.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: He got them all, you know. He wrote the script
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: and he pitched it here in the building and they
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: got all the pieces in place and a lot of
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: enthusiastic participation. It was fun to be a part of.
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: It was fun to see this team create something right
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: that was on par with the best of those other
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: teams in the league.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, everyone's been, you know, giving them shout outs. I
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: wanted to do it as well because we got to
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: see you know, we were involved in parts of it,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: but I didn't get to see the player stuff until
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: it went live, and I was like, oh my god,
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: that that that made it right. The buy in from everybody,
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Doug or Pug, pugged eaters in or whatever we were
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: going by, that was great. And I think just to
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: be able to have a team that doesn't take themselves
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: too seriously and can have fun.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: With it well is very telling.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah it should be. Yeah, sorry start, I didn't know
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  Speaker 3: if you had any more words.
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  Speaker 5: I did a great job, and uh, it's shout out
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  Speaker 5: Tod ash Er did a great job, he really did, Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And thank you for involving us. I will take a
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: speaking line next year though.
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  Speaker 4: Who else did you watch and which one did you like?
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: So I watched a decent amount of them, I think
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: for me, I know the Saints tried to do what
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: we did, which I feel like the Jaguar's a little
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: bit better. The Chargers, who I love on social media,
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: I'm not maybe I'm not the target audience. I don't
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: get the anime thing. It was very well done. I
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: can tell the effort is there. I'm not sure I
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: quite got it. If any of you can explain it
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: to me a little bit better.
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm too old to get it.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, I'm old as well.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: I like the one, like most people, the one the
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: Titans did on Broadway.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Was it just Yes, I don't like to give them
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: credit for anything, but that was pretty cute they did.
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: It was funny. Yeah, I mean the chest your cheeto thing,
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: I just touche thing.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: Calls whatever they want. They're gonna lose, it doesn't matter.
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Division Champs fits in there.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: Any favorites from you.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't watch that many of them.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: I I just watched yourself a couple of times.
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: No, I mean beyond relative my acting debut.
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: Okay, I just didn't quite get the Chargers, and I
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: thought ash are headed out of the park on.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Ours absolutely all right? Coming up this week we got
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: obviously OTA's are coming up Burgie Minni camps last week,
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: but we're I did want to mention John because we're
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: going on a little field trip later this week to
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Trayvon Walker's hometown, which is gonna be something we'll put
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: together down the line, but just kind of exciting to
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: get to see where that number one pick where he
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: came from in Georgia and kind of get that background.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: I think it'll be a good time.
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think it'll be interesting for fans. I
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: think they've gotten an idea of what Trayvon's all about.
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: I've talked to him a couple of times in the
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: locker room, you know, in the situation that you'll be
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: talking to him, which is a little more one on
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: one in Heartfelt and he was on the ozone podcast
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: once last year, and he's reserved when there's a lot
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: of cameras around him, but when it's just you talking
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: to him, he's very engaging, very insightful, and a lot
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: of fun to talk to. And I think I think
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: you'll enjoy it, and I think fans will get a
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: lot out of this conversation and a story that we're
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: going to tell about his hometown and where he came from.
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: I'm excited about it. He's a great young man.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: It's always nice to get the helmet off and kind
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: of get to talk to them a little bit, see
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: where they come from. We're going over his house for dinner.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: I think we're getting barbecue too, so I'm anything anything
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: with a meal I'm very very excited for. But that's
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: a wrap here for drivetime today. I'm very happy to
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: be back in the building, get things going, and we'll
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: keep an eye on everything. Thanks for joining us.