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Bucky on Calvin Entrance, Power offense & New Facility | Huddle Up: Wednesday, March 8 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: The Fields. Hodo Group proudly presents Huddle Ups with Bucky Brooks.
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Speaker 1: J P, Shadrick, John Ojer and NFL Network analyst and
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Speaker 1: former Jaguar Bucky Brooks bring you the latest on George
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jack Rocks. We've got to look to the draft.
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Speaker 1: We've got to look to developing the guys that are
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Speaker 1: currently here, and obviously we tens many of these guys
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Speaker 1: as we can. Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks starts right now.
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Speaker 1: Welcome into another edition of the Huddle Up Podcast. Today
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Speaker 1: is Wednesday, March eighth. We've got a busy show ahead.
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Speaker 1: J P, Shadrick, John Oser, and Bucky Brooks is in
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Speaker 1: the building with us. That's right. The kessign went out,
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Speaker 1: they'd asked, you want to come down, gonna hang out
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Speaker 1: a little bit with you guys. Let's see if we
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Speaker 1: can do the Huddle Up Podcast live and in person.
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Speaker 1: So I you know, I always want to see my guys,
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Speaker 1: Joe commercial or private jet over here. You know, I
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Speaker 1: wish I could be prived like I got an private jet.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if we ever get off East coast.
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Speaker 1: Bucky in March is a rare thing. Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 1: what I'm doing. I'm practicing for OTAs in mini camps
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Speaker 1: because you know how important those things are, because I
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Speaker 1: want to make sure that you are tracking all the
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Speaker 1: completions at three day minicamp. Really got it done last year.
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Speaker 1: Important to set the tone, very important to set the tone,
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Speaker 1: get it going, Gotta set the tone. A lot going
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Speaker 1: on today in the building. Outside the building, I had
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Speaker 1: a chance to go on a tour with Doug Peterson,
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Speaker 1: Trimp Balky of the Miller Electric Center over there, walk
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Speaker 1: around Coach Peterson's spoke with the contruction workers. We'll get
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Speaker 1: to that maybe a little bit later. But the big
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Speaker 1: news today Calvin Ridley in the building. He was officially
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Speaker 1: reinstated by the National Football League and the Commissioner's Office.
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Speaker 1: He arrived, he's here, he made the rounds. Bucky, you
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Speaker 1: had a chance to sit down and talk with fifth
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Speaker 1: year wide receiver Calvin Ridley. And it's been a lot
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Speaker 1: going on the last couple of years with him, most
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Speaker 1: of it away from football. But now he's back. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he is back. He's really excited to be back. He
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Speaker 1: talked about the Jaguars taking a chance on him, making
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Speaker 1: a trade for him last year. It kind of gave
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Speaker 1: him a reason to give Eck in the gym to
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Speaker 1: be excited about playing football again. He started following into
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Speaker 1: the team. He loves the support that he received from
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars fans, and he loves the idea of joining
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Speaker 1: a situation with Doug Peterson where he feels like he
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Speaker 1: can really maximize his talents and really helped his team
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Speaker 1: get to the next level. Yeah, I listened to the interview.
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Speaker 1: I thought Ridley last season sort of symbolized a little bit.
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Speaker 1: His activity on social media when the Jaguars got hot
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Speaker 1: and his interaction with fans during that I've symbolized as
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Speaker 1: the right word, but it's personified a lot of the
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Speaker 1: energy that started around this team. There had better perception
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Speaker 1: for a couple of years because they were bad that
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Speaker 1: you know, players didn't like Jacksonville, wouldn't cool all that,
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Speaker 1: And all of a sudden really gets traded there, and
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he's into it. Everybody's into it.
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Speaker 1: Not that you wouldn't be into it, but you guys
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It felt like, Wow, people are
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Speaker 1: excited about this Jaguars team, and this guy who had
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Speaker 1: played at Alabama had big success, big star receiver and
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Speaker 1: embracing it. It felt like that was part of the story,
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Speaker 1: or at least a story that was walking alongside this
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Speaker 1: team as they made their run. I thought it was
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Speaker 1: pretty cool. Yeah, it was really cool. He just talked
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Speaker 1: about missing the team, missing being part of a team,
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Speaker 1: missing being part of like that that greater collective where
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Speaker 1: everyone is kind of pursuing a goal, and so he
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Speaker 1: couldn't wait to join the team. He can't wait to
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Speaker 1: get the offseason workouts April seventeenth to kind of jump
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Speaker 1: back in when he can start kind of just finding
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Speaker 1: his way. And he talked about his game and just
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Speaker 1: kind of knocking the rust off and doing those things,
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Speaker 1: and so he's really excited about what potentially could be
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Speaker 1: a very very dangerous and dynamite wide receiver corps. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure he's sitting there watching TV and a I
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Speaker 1: know he mentioned this in the interview with you, Bucky,
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Speaker 1: watching Trevor get better and better and better during that
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Speaker 1: and he's thinking, Okay, this this could work. And I'd
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Speaker 1: like you to speak on something you told me Monday
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Speaker 1: about how Calvin will fit into this scheme, because it
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Speaker 1: sounds like you think he's not only a great potentially
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Speaker 1: a great player, but a potentially great fit for what
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Speaker 1: this team does. Yeah, I think he's a great fit
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Speaker 1: because you look at the top wide receivers in the
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Speaker 1: nashvill Ball League, most of my outstanding route runners, well,
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Speaker 1: he fistible the bill. He is a dynamic route runner
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Speaker 1: who can get open using a variety of different tricks.
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Speaker 1: Stop start quickness. First, he has all the sobtal movements.
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Speaker 1: When he was coming out of Alabama, he reminded me
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Speaker 1: a lot of Reggie Wayne when Reggie Wayne came through
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Speaker 1: and did his deal for the Indianapolis Colts. Kind of smooth,
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Speaker 1: kind of understated, but you look up and he finishes
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Speaker 1: the game with a hundred receiving yard as a touchdown
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Speaker 1: or two, and he's really hurt you. The big thing
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Speaker 1: for Calvin he had an opportunity to go for me
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Speaker 1: in the number two receivers, to be in the number
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Speaker 1: one receiver, and everybody's not built for that. The fact
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Speaker 1: that he played in the shadow of Julio Jones then
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Speaker 1: replaces Julio Jones and has success and that role leads
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Speaker 1: me to believe that he could come in play any role.
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Speaker 1: But eventually I would expect him to kind of be
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Speaker 1: maybe the lead receiver of the offense. And that's not
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Speaker 1: taking anything away from like Christian Kirk or Zay Jones
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Speaker 1: or Evan Ingram and those guys. But I think when
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Speaker 1: you look at his game, he has the ability to
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Speaker 1: do all those things that you normally would expect of
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Speaker 1: a number one receiver, but he also has the mindset
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Speaker 1: to be able to play a complimenting role if that's
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Speaker 1: the case. And so I think it makes the wide
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Speaker 1: receiver corps stronger because now those interchangeable pieces are really
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Speaker 1: really talented when you think about Za Jones, Christian Jones,
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Speaker 1: Calvin Riley and now Evan and makes it very difficult
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Speaker 1: for the defense. The interesting thing to me is everybody
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Speaker 1: talks about his precision as a route runner. That tells
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Speaker 1: me he's a reliable route runner. Meaning I thought Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence and Christian Kirk early on last year started to
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Speaker 1: show that Trevor had great trust in where Christian was
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Speaker 1: going to be, say on third and six, and could
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Speaker 1: use him as a bailout when things started to go bad.
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Speaker 1: He knew where he was going to be. Does Ridley
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Speaker 1: bring that same element, because to me, that's so important.
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Speaker 1: On third and five, third and six, you convert so
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Speaker 1: many more of those when the quarterback completely trusts where
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Speaker 1: a guy is going to be. Reggie had that as
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Speaker 1: well in Indianapolis. You know, I think this is exactly
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Speaker 1: what you want in terms of the reliability dependability of
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Speaker 1: your playmakers on the outside. A lot of what helped
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Speaker 1: Trevor grow in his second year is having the veterans
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Speaker 1: set of receivers that could get open, and they got
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Speaker 1: open on time at the spots that they were expected
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Speaker 1: to get open. Cal really now joins Christian Kirk and
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Speaker 1: z A. Jones as another playmaker that is able to
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Speaker 1: do that. And so if you're trying to nudge your
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Speaker 1: quarterback to throwing the ball early, to making anticipatory throws,
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Speaker 1: where you gotta have guys that are going to be
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Speaker 1: at those spots when the ball is thrown, and you know,
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Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley understands that. He also has I would say
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Speaker 1: some of this craftiness that when we think about the
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Speaker 1: deep ball element which has been missing from our offense.
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Speaker 1: He has the ability to get open on deeper throws.
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Speaker 1: But he's going to be a double move guy, a
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Speaker 1: guy to set you up runs, stopping goals, stutter comebacks,
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Speaker 1: different type of things to throw you off, and then
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Speaker 1: he'll slip past the defense and that might be the
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Speaker 1: home run ball that we need. We haven't had that element,
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Speaker 1: but I think now because he's such a really good
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Speaker 1: route runner, Doug Peterson and Press Taylor, they'll be able
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Speaker 1: to draw diagram some of those designated shot calls that
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Speaker 1: lead to those explosive plays. So huddle up, podcast Shape Shatick,
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Speaker 1: John Ozer, Bucky Brooks. I think it was Pete Priscoe.
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Speaker 1: He might have heard of him who had the tweet
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Speaker 1: a little while back that said that he had heard
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Speaker 1: he had been running like twenty two and a half
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Speaker 1: miles per hour, that kind of thing recently. Getting back
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Speaker 1: in shape not a thing maybe that he ever wasn't
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Speaker 1: in shape, but offseason shape, suspended shape is yes, different
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Speaker 1: than football shape, right, So how did he maintain or
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Speaker 1: try to build throughout this time? Well, you know, he
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Speaker 1: kind of felt would I would say that being traded,
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Speaker 1: being picked up by the Jaguars excited him again and
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Speaker 1: excited him. So it gave him a reason to get
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Speaker 1: up and be a part of it. Because when you're suspended,
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Speaker 1: you're not allowed to have any contact with the team.
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Speaker 1: You're not really you kind of ostracize you're away from
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Speaker 1: the team, and so you can feel like you're on
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Speaker 1: an island. Well, being traded to the Jaguars, he had
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Speaker 1: a team to follow, He had a team to get
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Speaker 1: excited about. As the Jaguars made to run, he could
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Speaker 1: then kind of have a rooting interest for the team
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Speaker 1: as he had an eye towards next season and being
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Speaker 1: able to join the team when it comes of training.
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Speaker 1: He told me he had been working out down in
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Speaker 1: South Florida. He's just kind of knocking to rust off.
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Speaker 1: But the times and the things that we're hearing about
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Speaker 1: how fast he's running, those things are real, and so
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Speaker 1: he's really excited. He's fully healthy. He has some foot
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Speaker 1: issues that were plaguing him before. Now he has all
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Speaker 1: that resolved, and so we should have an opportunity to
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Speaker 1: see the best version of Calvin Ridley once he settles
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Speaker 1: in and kind of learns the offense and the motivated Calvin.
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Speaker 1: I mean it's one year deal, so last year of
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Speaker 1: his rookie deal. I mean that's motivation in itself. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it is motivation. He understands it. He talks about you know,
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Speaker 1: this is the first time he's ever been without football.
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Speaker 1: Football is what he does. He loves it, he loves
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Speaker 1: all aspects of the game. He's really looking forward to
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Speaker 1: kind of throwing himself back into the game. And so,
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Speaker 1: you know, like the business part of it is, yes,
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Speaker 1: last year of the deal, an opportunity maybe to recoup
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Speaker 1: some of the money that he lost by missing last season.
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Speaker 1: He understands what's on the line, and you know he
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Speaker 1: has to kind of work into it. But I think
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Speaker 1: call nine oh four six three three two thousand. Well,
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Speaker 1: the other part of the offseason business, well one of
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Speaker 1: the other parts recently, not only Ridley of course, so
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Speaker 1: we've talked about, but Evan Ingram franchise tagged eleven million
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Speaker 1: dollars in change. You know, the talk at least leading
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Speaker 1: into that was both sides are into it, both sides
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Speaker 1: want to be here. We've seen Evan tweet that he's
11:14
Speaker 1: excited to stay in Jacksonville and is looking forward John
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Speaker 1: to a long term deal at some point. So this
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Speaker 1: really doesn't change a lot. This just is the franchise
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Speaker 1: tag being used. It didn't change anything. But it's not
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Speaker 1: insignificant that after he got the tag he tweeted that
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Speaker 1: he was excited about jackson was thing to get a
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Speaker 1: long term deal. Some guys get the tag and it
11:36
Speaker 1: sort of rubs him the wrong way. You're not sure
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Speaker 1: where that relationship is. It's been clear from you know,
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Speaker 1: November or December of last year, even before that. But
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Speaker 1: I first sort of got a real idea from Evan
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Speaker 1: Ingram that he loved his situation here, wanted to stay.
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Speaker 1: In his postseason comments without giving away his negotiating ability,
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Speaker 1: he made clear he wanted to be here. Trent Balky
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Speaker 1: never gave any indication that wouldn't happen. So I think
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Speaker 1: within the scope of the franchise, tag Evans as happy
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Speaker 1: as he could possibly be, and there seems to be
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Speaker 1: a great deal of trust and motivation on both sides
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Speaker 1: to get something done on the field. There was never
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Speaker 1: a doubt in my mind he was coming back. I
12:26
Speaker 1: don't think anybody got a question he was coming back.
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Speaker 1: So you know, as you say, a full steam ahead
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Speaker 1: to run it back. In terms of those skill players
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Speaker 1: with a fast break edition in Calvin Ridley, so Evan Ingram, Bucky, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: this is a team that you you've always envengtioned like
12:45
Speaker 1: this is a JO team, This is a John Ocean
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Speaker 1: team right here. This is all often good looking no
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Speaker 1: breaks like we're gonna we're gonna throw the ball all
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Speaker 1: over the yard. We're running on occasion to give ourselves
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to breathe. But this is high octane. Let's
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Speaker 1: move it around. And when you look at the way
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Speaker 1: the game is trending, you have to be able to
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Speaker 1: throw the ball and the way the Jaguars should be
13:08
Speaker 1: able to do it with Evan Ingram, Kelvin Ridley, Zay Jones,
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Speaker 1: Christian Kirk, all these guys being able to move around
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Speaker 1: interchangeable pieces on the perimeter, I think you will see
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson maybe add more creativity to the offense. As
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence is more comfortable with what he has around
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Speaker 1: him understanding the offense, we may see more things that
13:29
Speaker 1: create and exploit mismatches on the perimeter. And that should
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Speaker 1: be an exciting time because each of the guys that
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Speaker 1: we've talked about on the perimeter, they can win their
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Speaker 1: one on one matchups. And when you can win your
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Speaker 1: one on one matchups, then the game becomes fun because
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Speaker 1: now the points can become sort to come in bunches. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I'm not ready to call this the best collection of
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Speaker 1: skill players in franchise history, because well, why not? Group
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Speaker 1: is better? Well, there was a group in the late
13:56
Speaker 1: nineties that had two guys I think should be in
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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, so Fred Taylor and Jimmy Smith.
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Speaker 1: So now depth wise, and it's also different era. You
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Speaker 1: didn't need necessarily as many different weapons back then. But
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Speaker 1: right now for the last twenty years, you have a
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Speaker 1: group that very easily could have Travis Etn, Evan Ingram,
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Speaker 1: Zay Jones, kirk An Ridley, five guys very capable going
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Speaker 1: into any week. Would it shock you if either if
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Speaker 1: any of those guys had one hundred yards and two
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Speaker 1: touchdowns They've never had that. They've they've never had that.
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Speaker 1: And then going back to the conversation that I had
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Speaker 1: with Doug Peterson last offseason, he talked about having a
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Speaker 1: very balanced and diverse offense where you maybe didn't have
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Speaker 1: the the the anointed number one receiver, but everyone could
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Speaker 1: kind of feel that role. From a defensive perspective, this
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Speaker 1: really hard because who do you elect to double team
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Speaker 1: or who do you go in trying to game plan
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Speaker 1: or a race out of the game plan. Each week.
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Speaker 1: We've seen different times where Evan Ingram is the big game,
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Speaker 1: he goes off, and then the next week Christian Kirka
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Speaker 1: have a big Gamers the Jones will have a big game.
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Speaker 1: Where now you have all of these guys who not
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Speaker 1: only are capable of having big games, but they're capable
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Speaker 1: for doing it from multiple spots within the offense. That's
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Speaker 1: the part where we talk about the scheming and the creativity.
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Speaker 1: That's when this offense can take another jump. And that's
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Speaker 1: the jump that is really going to be necessary when
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Speaker 1: you think about who you're going to have to knock
15:34
Speaker 1: off in the AFC to be a Super Bowl contender,
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Speaker 1: Kansas City. You talk about Buffalo and Cincinnati, high powered
15:40
Speaker 1: offenses that can put up points, and bunch of the
15:43
Speaker 1: Jaguars have to have that capabuilding. Yeah, and I know
15:45
Speaker 1: we talked about a lot during the season, but a
15:48
Speaker 1: pretty remarkable thing. Usually offenses are built more through the
15:54
Speaker 1: draft than free agency. I think that's my theory. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: this has been a pretty remarkable job of putting this
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Speaker 1: together with really only two draft picks, Trevor and Etn
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Speaker 1: to put together a skill bunch that is not only
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Speaker 1: a very capable skill bunch, meaning you know, all four
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Speaker 1: of these guys I would say skill, I mean the receivers.
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Speaker 1: All four of those guys very capable, maybe if a
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Speaker 1: thousand yards seasons plus, they're not aging out yet of
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Speaker 1: that prime time in their career. A lot of times
16:38
Speaker 1: when you put together offensive skill, you're taking maybe the
16:43
Speaker 1: Julio Jones who's passed his prime and adding him in tennis.
16:46
Speaker 1: Say I'm not criticizing that move, but that sort of
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Speaker 1: thing they added these guys coming into their prime, Christian Kirk,
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Speaker 1: Evan Ingram, you know, all these guys, you can see
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Speaker 1: them having two or three years left in that prime.
17:00
Speaker 1: That's a hard thing to do in terms of putting
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Speaker 1: together what looks like a core, you're a very very
17:05
Speaker 1: difficult thing to do. But now you have a core
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Speaker 1: that can still grow together. I mean you talk about
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Speaker 1: Christen Kirk and Calvin Ridley, guys fifth and six year players.
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Speaker 1: They have time, Zay Jones has time. So this team
17:18
Speaker 1: can really grow offensively together. With Travis Intienne and Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence playing key roles respectively, this is a nice opportunity
17:27
Speaker 1: for the Jaguars to really make a move and you
17:32
Speaker 1: want to get it together. We're still talking about it
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Speaker 1: on paper, but you can already envision how this offense
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Speaker 1: can look with all of the pieces that are around
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Speaker 1: a quarterback. Right now. Jacks last year were tenth in
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Speaker 1: the league and points per game twenty three point eight,
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Speaker 1: So I don't know what are they getting this year
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Speaker 1: twenty seven points per game that'd be fourth in the league,
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Speaker 1: last year twenty seven, twenty eight. You know, you would
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Speaker 1: like to if you're Doug Peterson, you want to put
17:57
Speaker 1: put it up to a thirty. You want the team
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Speaker 1: to shoot for thirty points the game and then maybe
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Speaker 1: you come back down to twenty seven twenty eight. But
18:03
Speaker 1: this team has that capability. It requires more efficiency. So
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Speaker 1: the quarterback has to be better in terms of can
18:10
Speaker 1: we get to the point where in games is not
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Speaker 1: uncommon for Trevor to rip off ten, eleven, twelve straight
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Speaker 1: completions where you have these moments where he finishes the game,
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Speaker 1: you know, twenty five or thirty, he has two fifty
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Speaker 1: to three hundred yards and the ball goes to seven
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Speaker 1: eight different pass catchers. That's the kind of balance that
18:31
Speaker 1: really gives defensive problems. And when the Jaguars have played
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Speaker 1: their best has been that kind of efficient and balanced
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Speaker 1: distribution that we've seen well and I think it bodes
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Speaker 1: well in this sense. You mentioned the stat JP and
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Speaker 1: I haven't. I haven't broken it down by half of
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Speaker 1: the season. But my guess is, if you took them
18:51
Speaker 1: over the last nine games of the season, I've got
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Speaker 1: to think they are higher in the league in total
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Speaker 1: points than ten. That's significant to me because the first
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Speaker 1: half of that season, when you start getting away from
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Speaker 1: it looking at it overall, clearly, the first half the
19:09
Speaker 1: season was about I'm trying to figure each other out.
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Speaker 1: Second half the season was clearly about Trevor had experience
19:17
Speaker 1: in this offense all the receivers did, adding Ridley to that.
19:22
Speaker 1: Even without adding Ridley, I would have expected them to
19:25
Speaker 1: be top seven, top six and total points next year
19:31
Speaker 1: once he gets into it, and it may take four
19:33
Speaker 1: or five games, just like it did the rest of
19:35
Speaker 1: the guys. You know, I don't want to overblow it yet,
19:40
Speaker 1: but this should be a top five offense points. It's
19:42
Speaker 1: only has the potential. I can't imagine. That's not what
19:45
Speaker 1: Dougs thinking twenty four point eight last year. I've got
19:51
Speaker 1: to think it gets into the high twenties. And when
19:52
Speaker 1: you start getting there, then you start being able to
19:55
Speaker 1: win games consistently offensively. Now you're in a top three
19:59
Speaker 1: or four. That's what the great teams are doing right now.
20:02
Speaker 1: This has that potential. Yeah, it has that potential. And
20:04
Speaker 1: you think about like year two under Doug Peterson. So
20:08
Speaker 1: year one, you go to the playoffs, the team understand
20:10
Speaker 1: what it's like the plate in the tournament. You also
20:12
Speaker 1: understand that you lose the Kansas City and you watch
20:15
Speaker 1: them going to win the Super Bowl, and you can
20:16
Speaker 1: talk yourself into thinking, man, there were opportunities for us
20:19
Speaker 1: to win that game on the road. So now the
20:22
Speaker 1: emphasis is on how can we put ourselves in a
20:26
Speaker 1: position to get to the Super Bowl. Well, the easiest
20:28
Speaker 1: way is to get a top seed. Make sure all
20:31
Speaker 1: the games are at home in your stadium. You don't
20:34
Speaker 1: have to get on the road. And you want to
20:35
Speaker 1: have the shortest road, and the shortest road is play
20:38
Speaker 1: two games, and then you're in the big the big game.
20:40
Speaker 1: So you're all you need his home field. That's it,
20:43
Speaker 1: that's all that helps. I mean that best record in football. Yeah,
20:48
Speaker 1: and you want to make sure that you put yourself
20:49
Speaker 1: in a position fifteen and two fourteen, and I mean,
20:54
Speaker 1: that's that's what it has has to be. You can't look,
20:55
Speaker 1: you can't be afraid to set it out there. You
20:58
Speaker 1: can't you can't say, oh, the next step is Hey,
21:00
Speaker 1: let's see if we can get past the divisional round.
21:02
Speaker 1: Like we're going for it. Like the window is small
21:05
Speaker 1: because everyone, let's understand, the quarterback is about to get
21:08
Speaker 1: paid soon, and we're seeing that the money is going
21:11
Speaker 1: up for the quarterback position. If Daniel Jones can get
21:14
Speaker 1: forty million dollars annually, if Trevor Lawrence does a hint
21:18
Speaker 1: of what he did last year, it may be a
21:20
Speaker 1: five in the front. And so when you pay him,
21:22
Speaker 1: you gotta remember the rest of the dynamics of the
21:24
Speaker 1: team shifts. So this is the opportunity for the Jaguars
21:27
Speaker 1: to do it. So, yeah, you have to get a
21:29
Speaker 1: nudge this team to thinking about number one seed, the
21:32
Speaker 1: home field advantage or those things. I think Bucky just
21:35
Speaker 1: locked the number one seed. I mean I can lock
21:38
Speaker 1: in the number one seed. You got, you gotta go
21:39
Speaker 1: for it. Put it out there. I mean, you gotta
21:41
Speaker 1: go down. It's a lotta got the free agency of
21:43
Speaker 1: the draft. Yet, smart let me see the composition of
21:46
Speaker 1: the team. He'll know after after I read John Oshan's
21:53
Speaker 1: like notes, his copious notes from being in practice, telling
21:57
Speaker 1: me how many completions if the ball hit the ground,
21:59
Speaker 1: who Who's the star of camp. Then I'll be able
22:03
Speaker 1: to go all in on the number one somewhere else
22:05
Speaker 1: for a stands. I can promise that's right. Yeah, I
22:08
Speaker 1: just need to know to start starve mini camps of
22:11
Speaker 1: the offseason. By the way, final thought today that those
22:14
Speaker 1: OTA practices and mini camp will be on the game
22:17
Speaker 1: field still here at Tia Bank Field, because they are
22:21
Speaker 1: still working on construction at the Miller Electric Center. And
22:24
Speaker 1: as I said earlier, I had a chance to walk
22:26
Speaker 1: through with Doug Peterson and Trent Balky today. Peterson spoke
22:29
Speaker 1: with the construction workers. They've got about four months to
22:32
Speaker 1: go before they give up the building and it's done
22:35
Speaker 1: and the Jaguars move in. So end of June is
22:38
Speaker 1: when that is. So the team should be moving in
22:41
Speaker 1: early July, and then training camp of course would be
22:43
Speaker 1: out there starting in late July. I mean the place
22:46
Speaker 1: is massive, absolutely massive. There's glass everywhere. You can actually
22:51
Speaker 1: see the sun. That glowing orb in the sky apparently
22:55
Speaker 1: is the sun. You can't see it inside the building here,
22:58
Speaker 1: but it's everywhere over there. I mean there's so much space.
23:01
Speaker 1: The weight rooms massive, the indoor facility is huge, all
23:05
Speaker 1: the coaching spaces offices, meeting rooms, lounges, player lounge, coach lounge.
23:11
Speaker 1: I mean the big team meeting. It's got everything you want. Okay,
23:14
Speaker 1: So I got I got a question. I'm gonna do
23:15
Speaker 1: this on behalf of Joe Joe and I just had
23:17
Speaker 1: got a little question about Yeah, because you saw office
23:20
Speaker 1: space right, Yeah, did you see any corner offices out there?
23:23
Speaker 1: There were like available corner Yeah, like a little corner
23:26
Speaker 1: office like with like a little view of the stuff
23:28
Speaker 1: you talked about the sun and all that. But I
23:30
Speaker 1: did see there was a row of like you know,
23:32
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson's office and then Trent Balkey's office. They're kind
23:36
Speaker 1: of big, they're on the side. They have a terrace
23:38
Speaker 1: and everything there's it's a big terrace, not a little terraste.
23:42
Speaker 1: You didn't see any unnamed office. I'm not saying that
23:44
Speaker 1: it was a nameplate there, but just like an office
23:46
Speaker 1: that looks like it might be available, you know there
23:48
Speaker 1: there might have been like a broom closet over in
23:51
Speaker 1: the corner, and then you might be able to claim,
23:53
Speaker 1: like you know, I Osher has now kind of one
23:55
Speaker 1: of those corner things. They haven't quite you know, cordoned
23:59
Speaker 1: off yet, but you know the times now because it's
24:02
Speaker 1: coming in hot. Yeah, just let me know, like, let
24:04
Speaker 1: me know where we can find the office and then
24:06
Speaker 1: we can do some you're trying to move up. What
24:08
Speaker 1: are you trying? I'm just saying at some mahogany tables
24:10
Speaker 1: and stuff, desks, stuff like that, Like Furnic's really important
24:13
Speaker 1: like that you feel comfortable in the office when you're
24:15
Speaker 1: looking out and see all that picturesque stuff and heard
24:17
Speaker 1: all these like fancy turns like torozzo tiling and all
24:21
Speaker 1: this stuff, and all this stuff was going on today.
24:25
Speaker 1: Flowing was an app I thought terso was like terizos
24:35
Speaker 1: like sausage. That's like that, that's what they like. No, no,
24:38
Speaker 1: it's different. Okay, I can get that over to vern.
24:43
Speaker 1: Either way, the building should be ready to roll and
24:46
Speaker 1: there the drainage system is going in right now. On
24:49
Speaker 1: the practice fields, and I learned this today. There's no
24:51
Speaker 1: crown in the practice fields, so it's just one exactly
24:55
Speaker 1: flat surface the entire practice field area. That way, they
25:00
Speaker 1: can alternate throughout the year. They can put the fields
25:03
Speaker 1: too outside one way, and then if they want to
25:05
Speaker 1: midway through the season put him side to side. They've
25:08
Speaker 1: got cameras at each end. They've got field goal or
25:11
Speaker 1: goalposts at each end to do that. And they're the
25:14
Speaker 1: drainage and the airflow is underneath the field, so they
25:17
Speaker 1: will water the fields from underneath. There aren't sprinkler systems out.
25:21
Speaker 1: There's all that going on. It sounds like a fantasy. Dude, Dad, like,
25:25
Speaker 1: I can't wait, I can't wait. It's just pretty impressive
25:27
Speaker 1: over there. I can't wait to have some of those.
25:29
Speaker 1: I wore white shoes to a construction site today too.
25:32
Speaker 1: That wasn't a great call, dad, Dad, was not a
25:34
Speaker 1: great call. That was not a great call. Jpu, Okay,
25:37
Speaker 1: it was not. That's right, it's okay. I got Jay
25:41
Speaker 1: over here sitting there with sunglasses and audit on. He's
25:43
Speaker 1: sell on vacation over right now. He's yeah, he can't wait,
25:46
Speaker 1: he can't wait, he can't wait. He can't do it, Bucky.
25:49
Speaker 1: I got a couple of months well done on the
25:51
Speaker 1: Riddley interview. I appreciate it, man. I haven't seen it yet,
25:54
Speaker 1: but I'm sure it's but he assumes it's probably well done.
26:00
Speaker 1: I have heard it. It was great to see you
26:04
Speaker 1: in the office. It's glad to be an August. You know,
26:07
Speaker 1: maybe they can extend it, but I come to the
26:09
Speaker 1: office a little more, you know, kind of hang out
26:11
Speaker 1: forward to that. Yeah, it's just what we need more.
26:15
Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks on The Buckey Brooks Show, It's gonna hang out.
26:18
Speaker 1: I was shut ozer. I'm j P. Shadrick. That Bucky Brooks.
26:21
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