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Jags Drive Time: Tuesday, June 14 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jacks Drive Jime with Ashlyn Sulise, John Osan,
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Speaker 1: Bryan Sex Jags Drive Time and it starts right now.
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Speaker 1: Welcome in Jaguarys Drive Time. It is June four teenth
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Speaker 1: year life here on a Tuesday, as it is the
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Speaker 1: week of mandatory minicamp for veterans. But it looks a
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Speaker 1: little different this year. This is our last drive Time
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Speaker 1: of the off season as we all get ready to
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Speaker 1: take a little break here for summer, about a month
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Speaker 1: away from the stadium, and when we come back, we're
0:35
Speaker 1: really getting going. Yeah, you don't seem excited about that too.
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Speaker 1: It's uh about five weeks away, and I'll be excited,
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Speaker 1: uh on July twenty third. Well, I think this is
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Speaker 1: that time of year where you do kind of unplug
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Speaker 1: a little bit and everybody out there has a busy
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Speaker 1: job and a busy life, and uh, the NFL just
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Speaker 1: seems to be NonStop, and especially as we've done this,
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Speaker 1: you know, it has just expanded to fill you know, February,
1:03
Speaker 1: you know, when the Super bowls over all the way
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Speaker 1: until now and then picks right back up at the
1:07
Speaker 1: end of July and away it goes again. Um, so yeah,
1:10
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people who were starting to think
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Speaker 1: about getting a little time away. But I'm like John,
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Speaker 1: I mean, watching this team on the field yesterday, even
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Speaker 1: in a rookie camp, I'm excited about some of these kids.
1:20
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see, you know, this coaching staff in particular,
1:23
Speaker 1: this coaching staff is really really impressed me. And I
1:26
Speaker 1: can't wait to see how they run training camp. Yeah,
1:28
Speaker 1: and the coaching staff. And I talked to people and
1:31
Speaker 1: they say, oh, well, why are you so busy in
1:32
Speaker 1: the offseason. I said, well, look what this team has
1:34
Speaker 1: been through the past couple of years, bringing in a
1:36
Speaker 1: new coaching staff. It's a lot of work, but you
1:38
Speaker 1: just see how much smoother it has been this offseason.
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Speaker 1: It's just a totally different world than where we were
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Speaker 1: a year ago. And it's just I think, you know,
1:47
Speaker 1: canceling the veteran mini camp is a great example of that. Yeah.
1:51
Speaker 1: I was asked the other night when I was out,
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Speaker 1: what do you do for money when they don't have games?
1:54
Speaker 1: And I said, I said, well, frankly, I can't share that,
1:57
Speaker 1: but it's it is a busy offseason. But overall, um,
2:05
Speaker 1: you hate to sit here every year and say how
2:08
Speaker 1: how good. It looks in the off season because people
2:11
Speaker 1: are tired of hearing it. But Doug Peterson, you can
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Speaker 1: see why Brian he was able to overcome adversity in
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia on his way to Super bowls. Um, there's a calmness,
2:27
Speaker 1: there's I've been there before attitude. Think about he lost
2:29
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz went to the Super Bowl that year. They
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Speaker 1: overcame uh tough starts and made the playoffs two times.
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Speaker 1: Interrup That doesn't mean that jag Wars can do that,
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Speaker 1: because they've still got to prove they can do that.
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Speaker 1: But to me, that's what an NFL coach does. He
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Speaker 1: makes players believe in him. You can certainly see why
2:47
Speaker 1: players believe in this. Have you read the book yet
2:50
Speaker 1: or is that on the plan between now? It is
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Speaker 1: so worth it. It just gives you read some of
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Speaker 1: a couple of years back. It gives you. It gives
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Speaker 1: you a really good appreciation for him and underscores and
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Speaker 1: highlights the things that you already seen. So sorry, I can't.
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Speaker 1: He's not paying me to plug the book as much
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Speaker 1: as I do. I just of all the books I've read,
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Speaker 1: the book explains everything I think he's doing. Okay with
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Speaker 1: that book, I was all right, let's get into big things.
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Speaker 1: Big thing one is see you in July or last
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Speaker 1: week here in the building, our last drive time of
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Speaker 1: the Austina before everyone takes a much needed break for summer.
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Speaker 1: This week has looked a little different than years past
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Speaker 1: for veteran mandatory mini camp, and coach Peterson explains why
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Speaker 1: I dismissed the veterans a little early. No, it's all
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Speaker 1: based on what they've done. Um, you know, I've done
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Speaker 1: this kind of thing in the past, but at the
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Speaker 1: same time, I wanted to. I wanted to see this
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Speaker 1: group work and work together. Um. You know it wasn't
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Speaker 1: final until you know, just within the last week or
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Speaker 1: so for me to make to make the decision. And again,
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Speaker 1: these guys have worked extremely hard. They've earned it, they
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Speaker 1: deserve it, and um, you know we got done. Um
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Speaker 1: as a staff what we needed to get done, and
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Speaker 1: uh we get ready for camp. Big thing too is sparkles, splitters, rainbows.
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Speaker 1: You name the adjive to describe first round overall pick
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Speaker 1: tray Von Walker, who was impressing everyone in this building.
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Speaker 1: All he had to do was step on the football
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Speaker 1: field to do back in defensive coordinator Mike Callwell is
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Speaker 1: high on the list. You think about the size, the hype,
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Speaker 1: his weight, his speed is like the uniform. He's unique
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Speaker 1: and he plays that way and you see it on tape.
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Speaker 1: You see the burst, you see the speed, see the
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Speaker 1: moves he has. So we're excited about him and I
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Speaker 1: think he will be ready. And finally, big thing for
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Speaker 1: me is what does he have? What is he got?
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Speaker 1: Question mark that is running back Travis E t N
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Speaker 1: and so many questions around this guy, and our biggest
4:42
Speaker 1: question will will he have an explosive speed that we
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Speaker 1: saw in college after facing this major injury. Offensive coordinator
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Speaker 1: Press Taylor thinks, so, yeah, the speeds real. I mean
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Speaker 1: that was obviously something everybody knew coming out of college,
4:56
Speaker 1: not having a chance to see a lot of the
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Speaker 1: stuff he was able to do um ester year because
5:00
Speaker 1: you weren't able to play. So the speeds very real.
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Speaker 1: He did a good job of just showing understanding of
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Speaker 1: the different roles we're trying to see and we're throwing
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Speaker 1: him in all the different positions just to see, you know,
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Speaker 1: what he's comfortable with, what he needs to work on
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Speaker 1: as we move forward. Give him plans moving into the
5:15
Speaker 1: offseason or moving further into summer, coming back for training camp.
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Speaker 1: But he's been really receptive to everything. He's shown, you know,
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Speaker 1: an ability to grasp a lot of different things and
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Speaker 1: and show that he's capable of doing things. And then
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Speaker 1: he had it. Those are big things. Let's go back
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Speaker 1: up to big thing. One big thing to Sparkles. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: glitter Rainbows, Una, you see that. I don't know what
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Speaker 1: nickname we're gonna give him, but I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: be the one to walk up and Sparkles. I mean
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Speaker 1: that might give me a good punch in the teeth. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and he could punch it from a long way away
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Speaker 1: because he's got big hands in long arms. Hey, Sparkles walker. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think she just tried to say, yeah, I thought
5:57
Speaker 1: we were trying to a nickname and oh no, although
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Speaker 1: I mean, I won't lie to you. And when I
6:03
Speaker 1: walked on the field the first time and I was
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Speaker 1: a hundred yards away from him and I saw him,
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Speaker 1: my eyes sparkled. I went, WHOA, Well, if he wants
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Speaker 1: to be called Sparkles, I have no problem. Yes, he
6:14
Speaker 1: told me that, and that's why I put it. I
6:16
Speaker 1: got him on the Ozone podcast tomorrow I'll I'll ask
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Speaker 1: you if that's his game. I heard you you like
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Speaker 1: your name to be Sparkles a thing one Veterans being
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Speaker 1: released early. We were told us about two weeks ago
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Speaker 1: that there was thoughts that this would happen. And keep
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Speaker 1: in mind that O T started early for this team,
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Speaker 1: so the Veterans have had an extra week of work
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Speaker 1: on the field. When that happened, I thought, awesome move
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Speaker 1: by coach Peterson, but I also knew, oh my gosh,
6:41
Speaker 1: fans are going to freak out. Well, but he also
6:43
Speaker 1: has the week the early week of training camp because
6:47
Speaker 1: of your fame game, So it's calculated on a part.
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Speaker 1: But look, he gave them these three days so they
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Speaker 1: could start their vacation. They could start, you know, having
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Speaker 1: a little downtime away. It sends a really strong message
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Speaker 1: to the players who really like this guy and like
7:03
Speaker 1: this coaching staff and like the way that they approach it.
7:07
Speaker 1: You guys know where I'm going with us. But it's uh. Look,
7:11
Speaker 1: they also had a three day extra mini camp right
7:14
Speaker 1: before the draft. Um, because he's a new coach. You
7:20
Speaker 1: have to remember when O T a s began way
7:23
Speaker 1: back in the day, they were much more spiritually voluntary
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Speaker 1: than they are now. Now they're voluntary, but there's this
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Speaker 1: implication of oil boy, you better be there. So they
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Speaker 1: had a veteran mini camp at the end that was
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Speaker 1: mandatory to make sure these guys got some work. Well,
7:40
Speaker 1: these guys have already gotten some work. My understanding is
7:44
Speaker 1: it was close to attendance and Peterson was thrilled with
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Speaker 1: the attendance throughout. So if that's the case, why do
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Speaker 1: you need the three day mandatory. The three day mandatory
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Speaker 1: was put in to make sure that the guys who
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Speaker 1: didn't feel like coming in came in got the work.
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Speaker 1: They got their three days, they learned the offense, they
8:01
Speaker 1: got to look at it. This is about teaching and
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Speaker 1: preparing for training camp. They're not evaluating what they do
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Speaker 1: out there is as an offensive guard is not going
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Speaker 1: to make them a great offensive guard. Come we say,
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Speaker 1: we can't even evaluate the big guys. So there you
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Speaker 1: have it. This team isn't a much different somebody for lamping. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: this week, like for example, I saw it was on
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Speaker 1: National News this morning that the DK metcalf to not
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Speaker 1: show up to mandatory mini camp. And we've seen that before,
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Speaker 1: where that's the headline is who doesn't show up to
8:33
Speaker 1: this part and then you see for the Jaguar's sake,
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Speaker 1: almost participation when they didn't have to be here. So
8:40
Speaker 1: that is why he let him go early. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: at that's made perfect times by the way, as he
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Speaker 1: said this spring, Hey, it's it's voluntary, it's volunteer. He's
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Speaker 1: explained that right, he said, he totally gets He let
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Speaker 1: that card be played early so that the players knew
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Speaker 1: that he understood and that he wasn't going to be
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Speaker 1: that guy who goes, I still want you here even
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Speaker 1: though it's voluntary. He wasn't going to play that game.
9:03
Speaker 1: We had that guy. We've seen that before. All right,
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Speaker 1: do you want to talk about sparkles or are you
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Speaker 1: okay moving a big thing? Three? I want to check
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Speaker 1: with you before. Well, he's got the game now no
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Speaker 1: matter what you do. Bread, okay, big thing three? What's
9:17
Speaker 1: he got all about Travis et and the questions we
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Speaker 1: have with him? And looks great on the football field
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Speaker 1: right now, is present, which is a win in itself
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Speaker 1: that he's on the football field after that injury he faced.
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Speaker 1: But Brian, you talked about it a lot. We won't
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Speaker 1: really know till trail camp. But for Press Taylor to say, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I've seen the speed. It's there, that's the biggest question.
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Speaker 1: But I don't know if we can truly tell that. Well.
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Speaker 1: I watched and I don't know. I mean, he's fast,
9:39
Speaker 1: but I don't know if he is what he was
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Speaker 1: before the injury. And as you mentioned, it's something that
9:45
Speaker 1: I've been waiting to see and I don't know that
9:47
Speaker 1: we'll see it until August. You know, can he get
9:49
Speaker 1: up after a rough day on the practice field and
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Speaker 1: practice the next day or does the foot need rest? Um?
9:55
Speaker 1: We we we just we won't know. Does he look good, well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: he looks good. He was a first round pick, um,
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Speaker 1: but is he going to be what he's capable of
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Speaker 1: being or was capable when they drafted him. We won't know. Yeah,
10:07
Speaker 1: And he's such an he's such an ex factor because
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Speaker 1: even before the injury, Um, we didn't see him very
10:15
Speaker 1: much the last year or so. He feels like a
10:19
Speaker 1: rookie coming in in the sense that you're always wanting
10:22
Speaker 1: to see can a rookie really do it in the
10:24
Speaker 1: pros I did in college? So you have the wondering
10:27
Speaker 1: is he what he was before? The injury. Plus if
10:29
Speaker 1: he's what he was before the injury, is that special
10:33
Speaker 1: in the NFL. We don't know that yet. But I'll
10:36
Speaker 1: go to the other route since we've already talked about
10:37
Speaker 1: the fact that you can't tell anything about him really
10:41
Speaker 1: until pads go on give him credit and give the
10:44
Speaker 1: doctor's credit for this uh A list. Frank can be
10:47
Speaker 1: very very serious. He had at last August, so it's
10:51
Speaker 1: it's what ten months seven eight months out when he
10:54
Speaker 1: first got back. There could have been a scenario on
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Speaker 1: this where Okay, he's gonna come back during O t A.
11:02
Speaker 1: He's not ready for the start of the off season.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna come out during mini camp he's not ready,
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Speaker 1: and he's gonna commit during training camp. He has been
11:07
Speaker 1: as out there and as participating as he possibly can be.
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Speaker 1: So far, so good. He's done everything he's supposed to do.
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Speaker 1: There's no reason to think that he won't be fine.
11:16
Speaker 1: And just to give that an underscore in the highlight,
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Speaker 1: Corey Grant, you all remember broke his foot, did the
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Speaker 1: Liz Frank in Kansasy and never got back to this
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Speaker 1: in October of two thousand eighteen. Not just that, John,
11:27
Speaker 1: I never saw him again. You normally when guys are rehabbing,
11:30
Speaker 1: you see them around the building. I never saw him
11:32
Speaker 1: again ever, but that the morning in Kansas City. The
11:35
Speaker 1: last time I saw him in October of two eighteen.
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Speaker 1: So to have him out here on the field, he's
11:39
Speaker 1: a really encouraging sign. It's just as John said, is
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Speaker 1: he going to be special in the NFL? We have
11:44
Speaker 1: to see that before we can say, let me, I
11:47
Speaker 1: think he probably will be. Oh, I mean, he's seen
11:49
Speaker 1: it yet. He's that. He's that chess piece. You can
11:51
Speaker 1: get him moving all over the place. He has the
11:53
Speaker 1: chance to be. We just got to see it before
11:55
Speaker 1: we can say he's there. Yeah, he'll be a huge
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Speaker 1: storyline in training camp, maybe the biggest story line training
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Speaker 1: camp in there. All right, that is big things. When
12:02
Speaker 1: we come back on Jaguars Drive Time, team president Mark
12:05
Speaker 1: Lamping joins the show to talk about that new football
12:08
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Speaker 1: of myself, General manager tramp Balki, all the coaches and players.
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Speaker 1: We gotta say thank you, thank you for this great opportunity.
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Speaker 1: Uh to Miller Electric, Mr Brown for your commitment, long
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Speaker 1: standing commitment here in Jacksonville and building building what's going
12:54
Speaker 1: to be a state of the art facility for any
12:58
Speaker 1: any NFL organization. It's gonna be cutting edge. We're looking
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Speaker 1: forward to it as coaches obviously next summer handing the
13:05
Speaker 1: keys over to us so that we can go in
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Speaker 1: and get to work. And then to Mayor Curry, thank
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Speaker 1: you for your commitment as well. You know, just it
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Speaker 1: just goes to show the partnership that the Jaguars in
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Speaker 1: the city of Jacksonville have and so from the bottom
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Speaker 1: of my heart, thank you and we're looking forward to
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Speaker 1: getting this thing going. Head coach Doug Peterson an attendance
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Speaker 1: at the Miller Electric Center naming rights yesterday're taking a
13:27
Speaker 1: live look at that construction as team president Mark Lamping
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Speaker 1: joins us now on Jaguars Drive Time. Good morning, Good morning,
13:34
Speaker 1: you brought your hats. We love that's I did. I did.
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Speaker 1: That's a That's a nice memento from a very significant
13:40
Speaker 1: day that was that was a big announcement on Monday,
13:44
Speaker 1: and you know it, it means so many things on
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Speaker 1: so many different levels. Absolutely, And I think when we
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Speaker 1: hear about this construction project and you see the magnitude
13:53
Speaker 1: of the construction project, you think, all right, this might
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Speaker 1: take some time. But I am truly amazed every Monday
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Speaker 1: when I walk into this building, you see progress. You
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Speaker 1: see a difference in that football facility. It seems like
14:05
Speaker 1: it's moving really quickly. Yeah, it's happening. Uh. You know,
14:08
Speaker 1: the the progress is visible literally every day, hour by hour,
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Speaker 1: great collection of subcontractors or performing the work, really hard
14:19
Speaker 1: workers on site and uh, you know, it's one of
14:22
Speaker 1: those things where you you have to get it done
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Speaker 1: on time, you know. So we have to absolutely have
14:27
Speaker 1: to be complete by the end of June next year,
14:31
Speaker 1: about a year from now, so that when the team
14:33
Speaker 1: comes back for training camp that can move right into
14:36
Speaker 1: the new facility. Be very disruptive for them to have
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Speaker 1: to do that as it gets closer to the season
14:41
Speaker 1: or even in in the middle of the season. You
14:43
Speaker 1: know said yesterday, somebody said it yesterday. How significant is
14:47
Speaker 1: to have a local company like Miller put their name
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Speaker 1: on it. I can remember when those trailers were out
14:51
Speaker 1: there building this stadium and there was a Miller Electric trailer. Um,
14:55
Speaker 1: what's it mean to have a company like that, a
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Speaker 1: local company step up to the plate to help whatever
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Speaker 1: well it goes, It goes way deeper than that, you know. Uh,
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Speaker 1: Miller Electric has their roots here in Jacksonville. They're almost
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Speaker 1: a year old company, but they're a national company there.
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Speaker 1: They're known for their innovation in their in their field,
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Speaker 1: and they're also uh, you know, they employ thousands of
15:22
Speaker 1: people across the country. They employ many many people here
15:26
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. They provide jobs. They're they're continuing to recruit
15:31
Speaker 1: and try to add to their their work their their workforce.
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Speaker 1: But the other thing they have in common, uh with
15:38
Speaker 1: the Jaguars is their real deep commitment to the community.
15:43
Speaker 1: And you know, you see that in a lot of
15:44
Speaker 1: different ways. But you know, the leadership of that organization,
15:49
Speaker 1: their public servants, you know, they have a long history. Um,
15:52
Speaker 1: you know Rhyna Auttery, h Henry Brown, who's a who's
15:56
Speaker 1: a stalwart forms most recently ahead of the Jacksonville Chamber.
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Speaker 1: So they care about the community. They put people to
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Speaker 1: work UM, and they share shots confidence in in the
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Speaker 1: potential of downtown and particularly development around the sports complex.
16:13
Speaker 1: Beyond having the naming rights done on the facility, how
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Speaker 1: important is it for the franchise and downtown just to
16:21
Speaker 1: have that facility going up. It feels like it's an
16:23
Speaker 1: overdue project. Well, it it unlocks a lot of other things.
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Speaker 1: That's why at the time when we were able fortunate
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Speaker 1: enough to get approval for this project, I said it
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Speaker 1: was something that's going to be really, really significant in
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Speaker 1: the history of the Jaguars. The reason for that is
16:39
Speaker 1: it was the necessary first for us to be able
16:42
Speaker 1: to really dig into UM the stadium of the future.
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Speaker 1: What are we gonna do to make sure that t
16:48
Speaker 1: I a bank field UH meets the needs of our
16:51
Speaker 1: of our of our of our fans, of other stakeholders,
16:56
Speaker 1: of the Universities of Florida and Georgia, the Gator Bull
16:59
Speaker 1: concert promoters. We have to make sure that the stadium
17:03
Speaker 1: can meet the needs of all of those parties going
17:06
Speaker 1: well in the future so that we can achieve our
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Speaker 1: ultimate goal, which is to ensure that there's NFL football
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Speaker 1: here in Northeast Florida for generations to come. Where is
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Speaker 1: that stadium project right now? You know? We uh, we
17:16
Speaker 1: kicked it off about two years ago with the with
17:18
Speaker 1: the city of Jacksonville. We've gone through a series of
17:21
Speaker 1: necessary first steps against some of them pretty boring, a
17:25
Speaker 1: full assessment of the of the stadium. But something really
17:28
Speaker 1: important came out of that, which is the structural systems
17:31
Speaker 1: within the stadium are in are in good shape and
17:33
Speaker 1: and and that's an important finding because it opens up
17:36
Speaker 1: the possibility for a renovation versus having to replace the facility.
17:41
Speaker 1: We then went to the next step of of developing
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Speaker 1: three D drawings of the stadium as it exists right now. Um,
17:50
Speaker 1: we have been communicating, uh, you know, with with our fans.
17:54
Speaker 1: We've had over well over five thousand responses to a
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Speaker 1: survey fans telling us those things that are in important
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Speaker 1: to them in in this uh in the future stadium.
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Speaker 1: And we actually you know, engaged a handful of sports
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Speaker 1: architects to give us their ideas and concepts and we're
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Speaker 1: beginning to to to narrow that down and and if
18:14
Speaker 1: we can get to the point where we think we
18:17
Speaker 1: can come up with a design that that meets the
18:19
Speaker 1: needs of of our customers, that meets the needs of
18:22
Speaker 1: the other stakeholders, that meets that the needs of Jaguars
18:25
Speaker 1: and our employees we're here every day, and then we
18:28
Speaker 1: can begin to get some idea of what something like
18:31
Speaker 1: that might cost. Then we're in a position to really
18:34
Speaker 1: dial up our our conversation with with the city. The
18:38
Speaker 1: city has been involved from the beginning. I feel really
18:40
Speaker 1: comfortable about the working relationship. Uh, you know that we
18:43
Speaker 1: have and you know again this is this is the
18:46
Speaker 1: really really important first step, you know, the Miller Electric Center,
18:50
Speaker 1: and now we can really get into probably the most
18:52
Speaker 1: the more important issue, which is how do we make
18:54
Speaker 1: sure we have a stadium is going to meet the
18:56
Speaker 1: needs of all involved for you know, decades to come. Mark,
18:59
Speaker 1: you been involved with an incredible amount of this kind
19:03
Speaker 1: of construction. Uh, built MetLife or we're heavily involved with MetLife.
19:09
Speaker 1: How different is a potential renovation than building? How much
19:15
Speaker 1: more complicated? Well, it's it's it's cheaper to renovate than
19:19
Speaker 1: to build new. Right, you don't have to go find
19:22
Speaker 1: another site, you know, you don't have to you know,
19:25
Speaker 1: repeat all the infrastructure that's necessary to support a new
19:29
Speaker 1: stadium site. So it's cheaper. It is more complex, particularly
19:33
Speaker 1: when you're trying to take a thirty year old building
19:35
Speaker 1: and get it get its state of the art because
19:37
Speaker 1: it's retro fitting, I guess, and that sort of so
19:40
Speaker 1: many things have changed and you have so much that's
19:42
Speaker 1: embedded into this building. It is easier to build new,
19:45
Speaker 1: you know, it's less disruptive to build new. You close
19:49
Speaker 1: one down and you move into the next one that's
19:51
Speaker 1: completely done. So renovations generally take longer. You know, they
19:56
Speaker 1: they're stretched out a little bit, just like we're dealing
19:58
Speaker 1: with with the construction of the you know, the Miller
20:02
Speaker 1: Electric Center. The football team is a little inconvenience right
20:05
Speaker 1: now because they're having to practice each and every day
20:08
Speaker 1: on the game field out. You know, they really like
20:10
Speaker 1: it so far, the players love it. I think it
20:11
Speaker 1: adds a good atmosphere. Um But you know, that's that's
20:15
Speaker 1: something that will will not be necessary to do once
20:17
Speaker 1: we get the new facility open and it even things
20:20
Speaker 1: like this, this this studio right here will be over
20:22
Speaker 1: in the um. Uh, the Mill Electric Center will have
20:26
Speaker 1: better accommodations for the media, significantly better accommodations for our players,
20:32
Speaker 1: and hopefully all of that will lead to a better
20:34
Speaker 1: development process, um, easier coaching and uh, you know, more
20:40
Speaker 1: wins to come. So much going on right now. Everyone
20:43
Speaker 1: wants to know about the shipyards in the four seasons.
20:46
Speaker 1: Where is that project right now? Well, we're we're moving
20:50
Speaker 1: ahead now. There's no question we've we've had to deal with,
20:54
Speaker 1: you know, a bushelfull of issues. But at anyone who's
20:57
Speaker 1: involved in construction these days, whether you're doing a innovation
21:00
Speaker 1: at your house or you're building a new home, you
21:02
Speaker 1: know how difficult it is. And and that's a result
21:05
Speaker 1: of so many things that are happening. It's really a
21:07
Speaker 1: unique time. You have this unprecedented level of inflation. You
21:12
Speaker 1: have the remnants of of COVID that are still impacting
21:17
Speaker 1: you know, supply chain as it relates to getting materials.
21:21
Speaker 1: You have the financial market unrest, which is related to
21:25
Speaker 1: some of the global uncertainties that we're dealing with right now.
21:28
Speaker 1: And and you have a real difficult time as it
21:31
Speaker 1: relates to what's happening in the construction industry. You've got
21:34
Speaker 1: so much work that's out there, you don't have enough
21:37
Speaker 1: labor to be able to support that work, and it
21:39
Speaker 1: makes it difficult to be able to get a healthy
21:43
Speaker 1: number in many cases a healthy number of of subcontractors
21:47
Speaker 1: to bid on your work. All of those things combine
21:49
Speaker 1: drive cost up, and you know, you have to deal
21:52
Speaker 1: with that. It's not a condition that's gonna last forever,
21:55
Speaker 1: but it is. It's it's something we've been dealing with.
21:58
Speaker 1: But you know, again, this, this this project is so
22:00
Speaker 1: important to Shod, It's so important to his his his
22:04
Speaker 1: belief of of something that can be a real catalyst
22:08
Speaker 1: to help downtown Jacksonville realize it's full potential and to
22:12
Speaker 1: degree that Jacksonville fulfills it's it's it's full potential as
22:16
Speaker 1: it relates to people working here, people visiting here, people
22:19
Speaker 1: living here. If those things are all addressed, that has
22:23
Speaker 1: great benefits to the Jacksonville Jaguarson our our long term
22:27
Speaker 1: stability here in northeast Florida, which is the Shod stated
22:30
Speaker 1: goal from day one. And my neighbor was planning to
22:32
Speaker 1: build a garage two years ago and he decided not
22:35
Speaker 1: to because of the cost. That's not really an option
22:37
Speaker 1: for you, Well, it is, it's it's a it's an
22:40
Speaker 1: option for a lot of people. You know, a lot
22:42
Speaker 1: of projects are canceled because as the as the costs
22:44
Speaker 1: go up, the returns go down. And and uh. But this,
22:48
Speaker 1: this this project was is much more than just an
22:51
Speaker 1: economic decision. Uh. You know by Shot it's it's something
22:55
Speaker 1: that he believes can go a long way in uh,
22:59
Speaker 1: spurring even more development downtown by other developers, not by us,
23:02
Speaker 1: but by other developers. You've been leading the effort now
23:04
Speaker 1: for a decade. Um. You have a long history in sports,
23:07
Speaker 1: going back to the Cardinals in baseball. The last ten
23:09
Speaker 1: years have been really eventful, haven't they. I mean you
23:11
Speaker 1: look at London and Covid and the shipyards and is
23:15
Speaker 1: it Is it what you thought it might be? Or? Um,
23:18
Speaker 1: are you are? Are you? Are you where you thought
23:21
Speaker 1: you might be? I guess it's a better way to
23:23
Speaker 1: ask it. Well, and that's that's really interesting. And you
23:26
Speaker 1: didn't mentioned Fulham and Daily's Place and the music activities
23:31
Speaker 1: that we're doing. Um I am. I am blown away
23:35
Speaker 1: with the quality of the staff that we that we have.
23:38
Speaker 1: I never thought that we'd be able to build such
23:42
Speaker 1: a such a great um um collection of committed men
23:47
Speaker 1: and women to work here. You know, we inherited a
23:49
Speaker 1: lot of great employees to begin with, but we've been
23:53
Speaker 1: able to supplement that with with many others. So I
23:56
Speaker 1: don't I'm I'm really really pleased with the equality of
24:00
Speaker 1: our of our staff. UM. I didn't really understand the
24:06
Speaker 1: scale of shots ambition and commitment to growth, and that
24:12
Speaker 1: has been probably the most interesting thing of of of
24:15
Speaker 1: my job certainly has been you know, shods constant support
24:21
Speaker 1: of efforts to grow the franchise and and uh, you
24:27
Speaker 1: know lead to the stability that you know, I think
24:29
Speaker 1: we uh we are enjoying. So all those things you mentioned,
24:34
Speaker 1: it makes it more interesting if you're on the business
24:35
Speaker 1: side here. You know, nobody wants to just be going
24:39
Speaker 1: through the motions of of of just day to day
24:42
Speaker 1: the business of football, you know, So it's it's it's
24:46
Speaker 1: it's really interesting. You've seen the growth on on your
24:48
Speaker 1: guys side of the business in terms of the digital
24:51
Speaker 1: platforms that have that have been built. So you know, obviously,
24:55
Speaker 1: you know, no one is is pleased with what our
24:58
Speaker 1: performance has been on the fee. UM, but I think
25:02
Speaker 1: you know, maybe it's maybe because it's been ten years,
25:05
Speaker 1: maybe we're sort of just convincing ourselves that you know,
25:08
Speaker 1: it's it's now is maybe our time. Uh, there's a
25:11
Speaker 1: really high level of confidence. And you know, I really
25:13
Speaker 1: I chucked that up to uh two two dug and
25:17
Speaker 1: and the calming h impact he has had on the organization.
25:23
Speaker 1: It's just things are really so normal. There's no surprises,
25:27
Speaker 1: and it's a and uh, you know, I give I
25:31
Speaker 1: give him him and Trent all the all the credit
25:34
Speaker 1: in the world to not get distracted by all of
25:37
Speaker 1: the noise that came out of the end of last
25:40
Speaker 1: year and all of the rhetoric during the off season.
25:44
Speaker 1: And you know, you couldn't you couldn't turn on the
25:47
Speaker 1: radio without nine out of tend people, you know, ridiculing
25:51
Speaker 1: the organization, you know. And and I I understand fans
25:57
Speaker 1: um right to express their feelings and they do that
26:00
Speaker 1: because they care, you know. You what when when you
26:03
Speaker 1: should get concerned is when there's people that are just quiet,
26:06
Speaker 1: you know, and they just stopped caring. So look, you know,
26:10
Speaker 1: we're in the criticism business. Unfortunately, we've probably gotten pretty
26:14
Speaker 1: good at it for a good reason. But I think,
26:17
Speaker 1: but but I really, I really think, and I don't
26:19
Speaker 1: think I'm just talking myself into this because I think
26:22
Speaker 1: it shared throughout the building. I think you know better
26:25
Speaker 1: days you're coming in, they're gonna come soon. Totally agree.
26:27
Speaker 1: We're excited for all the newness. We all noticed the
26:30
Speaker 1: calming presence of coach Peterson and Trent Bulky. It's been
26:33
Speaker 1: a nice change that Bok I have. I did read it.
26:36
Speaker 1: Yeah it's good, isn't It gives you good insight into him. Yeah,
26:38
Speaker 1: it sort of. That gave me flashbacks to uh, Gillette
26:42
Speaker 1: Stadium in the ANFC championship game. But other than that,
26:45
Speaker 1: you know, reminded me of of that how close we were.
26:48
Speaker 1: And again, you know that's that's ancient history. But you know,
26:52
Speaker 1: things can happen quickly in the in the NFL. You know,
26:54
Speaker 1: we saw it happen with with Cincinnati. You know, Kansas
26:59
Speaker 1: City came in here for the game. Uh you know,
27:02
Speaker 1: I guess it was four years ago. They had the
27:04
Speaker 1: number one pick in the draft. Remember that they picked
27:07
Speaker 1: I guess the offensive lineman Fisher. So things can happen
27:10
Speaker 1: to hurry if you if you have a quarterback, and
27:12
Speaker 1: I think there's a there's a high level of confidence
27:15
Speaker 1: that we do. You know that we do. He's the guy. Yes, well,
27:18
Speaker 1: Mark Lamping, thank you so much for joining us on
27:20
Speaker 1: Jaguars Drives. You stay with us here on the Jaguars
27:23
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27:52
Speaker 1: We're about Jaguars Drive. I'm on a Tuesday, our last
27:54
Speaker 1: show of the off season. Thank you to Mark Lamping
27:57
Speaker 1: for joining us. Great insight on this facility that's being
28:00
Speaker 1: built very quickly in the parking lot, and it is
28:03
Speaker 1: time for Ashlan ask getting back on the football field
28:06
Speaker 1: for some questions about this team. Alan asked number one
28:11
Speaker 1: fellas who needs a bigger season this upcoming year? Levisca
28:16
Speaker 1: Chenalts or calevan Chase on Les. Both of these guys
28:21
Speaker 1: really ridiculed and you know, judge for their lack of
28:25
Speaker 1: success so far this year, especially with both of them
28:27
Speaker 1: being high draft picks. So who would you say needs
28:31
Speaker 1: a bigger year in twenty that Brian was leaving there
28:35
Speaker 1: for a minute now, we might have forgotten the white boards,
28:38
Speaker 1: but we have them. Brian, for I was just improvising.
28:40
Speaker 1: I'll say calebon Um. I think the Jaguars have dramatically
28:44
Speaker 1: upgraded both wide receiver and at a pass rushing defensive end. Um.
28:51
Speaker 1: But I just get the sense that you know, when
28:52
Speaker 1: you bring in Travon Walker to go with Josh Allen,
28:56
Speaker 1: if you want to spot here, you need to prove
28:59
Speaker 1: it and and should. Alt is a guy who could
29:01
Speaker 1: do a bunch of different things. We saw him returning
29:03
Speaker 1: punts I think one day during O t S. I
29:05
Speaker 1: just don't know that the pressures on him like it
29:06
Speaker 1: is on to get after the quarterback. So I'll say Chas, Yeah,
29:09
Speaker 1: I'll go with visca Um, I guess because he went
29:13
Speaker 1: with Caleb And I don't know that either of them
29:17
Speaker 1: needs it bigger than the other. I think they both
29:19
Speaker 1: need big seasons. They both need to show what they're
29:24
Speaker 1: going to be in the NFL, and I think this
29:27
Speaker 1: is the third year for both of them. I think
29:28
Speaker 1: this is an important year for both of them, uh
29:31
Speaker 1: to be in the league long term. I mean, Chason
29:35
Speaker 1: has talent, he has not had an impact here and
29:38
Speaker 1: hasn't really shown that he's a big time NFL player yet.
29:41
Speaker 1: I think the same is probably true of Visca. He's
29:44
Speaker 1: had some moments. What is he going to be in
29:46
Speaker 1: the NFL? So I'll go with Viscar for the sake
29:49
Speaker 1: of argument. Um, I think they both need years. I
29:52
Speaker 1: think they both need to prove they're gonna be a
29:54
Speaker 1: long term NFL players, and I hope they are. I
29:56
Speaker 1: like both of them a lot. They're two of the
29:59
Speaker 1: most pleasant it's I've dealt with in a long long time.
30:01
Speaker 1: I hope it works out for him, But they need
30:03
Speaker 1: years where they show their NFL players. They do, and
30:05
Speaker 1: I think especially for Leviscashnal, he is the person who
30:09
Speaker 1: realizes that the most he has been here every single day.
30:11
Speaker 1: He was there yesterday when he didn't have to be.
30:13
Speaker 1: You just you sense the sense of hungry nous with him,
30:17
Speaker 1: and I think he very much so realizes the ridicule
30:20
Speaker 1: of him and I think, um, he definitely is putting
30:22
Speaker 1: the work in to get where he wants to be. Yeah,
30:24
Speaker 1: I don't think I want to is a problem for
30:26
Speaker 1: you these Yes, I think it's it's a tough league
30:29
Speaker 1: and they it's important yearsful. Yes, it is all right
30:32
Speaker 1: AshEL Nas number two, This of course is based on
30:35
Speaker 1: the offensive package you run and will change week to week,
30:38
Speaker 1: but with four options right now at running back, let's
30:41
Speaker 1: go to week six. We are week six and it's
30:46
Speaker 1: pregame who is the starting running back mid season? John? Um,
30:52
Speaker 1: I'll go to Jay rob I mean, James Robinson is
30:56
Speaker 1: the proven running back on this team. I think if
30:59
Speaker 1: if he's health the uh and if he's who he's
31:04
Speaker 1: been when he's been at his best his first two years, UH,
31:09
Speaker 1: he's the starting running back. And then if that scenario happens.
31:12
Speaker 1: And I think E. T. N is your jack of
31:15
Speaker 1: all trades and it is playing like a twelve or
31:19
Speaker 1: thirteenth starter. But I think he's in the LINEUPO yep,
31:24
Speaker 1: curve on well. And here's why, Um, I we haven't
31:28
Speaker 1: seen Robinson yet. The Achilles is a serious injury. Um.
31:32
Speaker 1: What has he had six months to recover? I don't.
31:35
Speaker 1: I don't know that we'll see much of him, uh
31:38
Speaker 1: until maybe we get into the later part of the season. Um.
31:43
Speaker 1: Then I think Etna is still Obviously, I think he's
31:46
Speaker 1: a weapon. I don't know that you're gonna line him
31:48
Speaker 1: up in the backfield and run him like a running
31:51
Speaker 1: back every play. Um. Connor's a big, strong, strapping, young
31:56
Speaker 1: legs kind of guy, and you might see him in
31:59
Speaker 1: the line up doing more than you would have expected.
32:02
Speaker 1: I could have gone with Rock Armstead too, because carried
32:04
Speaker 1: the ball out out there and he's a veteran a
32:06
Speaker 1: guy you could have. Um, I just think there's we've
32:09
Speaker 1: said it all spring long, So why change the injury
32:12
Speaker 1: that etn suffered in the injury that James Robinson suffered,
32:15
Speaker 1: or injuries that can be career ending for running backs
32:18
Speaker 1: and both of them have to get over it. So
32:20
Speaker 1: I'll go with the young legs and say Connor in
32:23
Speaker 1: which is the healthy one? Makes sense? All right? ASHAs
32:25
Speaker 1: number three our final one? Looking at this defense? Who
32:29
Speaker 1: is the starting safety? Week one? Now you're free safety,
32:33
Speaker 1: strong safety? Obviously? UM four options ray Sean Jenkins, Andre Cisco,
32:37
Speaker 1: Andrew Wingard and Danielle Thomas. Who are we thinking is
32:41
Speaker 1: in the starting lineup as of right now? Weak one?
32:45
Speaker 1: I'll go with and uh god, ray Sean Jenkins. I mean,
32:50
Speaker 1: I think if if they're healthy, that's your combination. That's
32:55
Speaker 1: who they wanted to be. Uh. They I think are
32:59
Speaker 1: the most the most talented of the four. And Summer
33:02
Speaker 1: to go with those two, well, they've they've they've sung
33:04
Speaker 1: the praises of Cisco, and I didn't have another paper towel,
33:07
Speaker 1: so I'm not going to use that. Um, they've anybody
33:09
Speaker 1: you've asked about Cisco. They've talked about his intellect. Um,
33:13
Speaker 1: they've talked about his athleticism. So I think he's one
33:15
Speaker 1: of them. And I would agree Rat Shawn is a
33:17
Speaker 1: guy They've paid a lot of money to us. He's
33:19
Speaker 1: got all the measurables you'd won. But I'm a fan
33:21
Speaker 1: of Daniel Thomas and I have been since, you know,
33:24
Speaker 1: the moment that he got into the lineup in Houston
33:26
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. Um, I think he is
33:28
Speaker 1: a terrific player. I think he's overlooked in many respects. Um,
33:32
Speaker 1: he had the broken arm. He remember he had that
33:33
Speaker 1: interception against the Steelers and then broke his arm, um,
33:37
Speaker 1: and we didn't see him again his rookie season last
33:40
Speaker 1: year was last year, which was a disaster in so
33:42
Speaker 1: many respects. I have a sense that he's going to
33:44
Speaker 1: work his way into a position where people can be
33:46
Speaker 1: talking about him when the season begins. What about do
33:49
Speaker 1: we your guy? John? No? I mean I think he
33:54
Speaker 1: will be uh a value special teams guy and a
33:58
Speaker 1: guy who's got experience in the starting line if he
34:00
Speaker 1: has to play because of injury. I you know he
34:02
Speaker 1: has proven that uh, that slot and that thinking about
34:07
Speaker 1: him wrong before he sounds hard. He's the last year
34:11
Speaker 1: so uh is it absurd to think he might start? No?
34:15
Speaker 1: He he started last week. Nobody thought he would. But
34:19
Speaker 1: if he does started to failure for Cisco, isn't what
34:21
Speaker 1: he's supposed to be then, right? I mean, that's are
34:25
Speaker 1: the guys that you know I'm going with chalk here.
34:28
Speaker 1: These are the guys ever expects to start. I think
34:30
Speaker 1: they will start. And there you have it. That is
34:32
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34:59
Speaker 1: on Jaguars Drive Time for one more segment before we
35:02
Speaker 1: head into the off season for good. About a month
35:04
Speaker 1: break here on our Jaguars Digital Network of no shows.
35:07
Speaker 1: That's because the football teams on the field and we
35:09
Speaker 1: wouldn't really have much to talk about except our personal lives,
35:12
Speaker 1: which I don't think anyone else. No, no, but John,
35:18
Speaker 1: you have a big ozone podcast guess before we take
35:21
Speaker 1: our summer break. Yeah, I do. The plan now is
35:23
Speaker 1: Trayvon Walker Sparkles. Did you call him? I will be
35:26
Speaker 1: on on the show this week? So uh, I'm hoping
35:30
Speaker 1: that comes to being um and I think it'll be interesting.
35:32
Speaker 1: I've I've talked to him on zoom or on in
35:35
Speaker 1: in press common situation, having a chance to get to
35:38
Speaker 1: know him. He seems like a kid. My impression of
35:41
Speaker 1: him is maybe not his outgoing, doesn't love the media,
35:44
Speaker 1: but very engaging and I'm looking forward to getting to know. Yeah,
35:48
Speaker 1: maybe in a podcast, since when you don't have around
35:52
Speaker 1: doing a camera shoved in your face might be a
35:53
Speaker 1: little more comfortable for you. I think it'll be fun. Yeah,
35:56
Speaker 1: Brian summer plans, oh, chasing kids, foot bowl camps all
36:00
Speaker 1: over the southeast, that kind of stuff. Um, you'll retreat
36:03
Speaker 1: the mountains, get out of it a little bit, stuff
36:05
Speaker 1: that we normally do. Also spending some time with some
36:08
Speaker 1: alarm some of the Jags alumni. UM and I had
36:11
Speaker 1: a nice conversation with Montell Owens, who people might remember
36:14
Speaker 1: as a three time Pro bowler, a guy who showed
36:16
Speaker 1: up as an undrafted rookie running back and became maybe
36:20
Speaker 1: the best special teams player this franchise has ever had.
36:22
Speaker 1: It's nice to see him back in Jacksonville, growing family,
36:25
Speaker 1: UH member, the community, and UM Jacks fans can expect
36:28
Speaker 1: to see and hear from him and a lot of
36:30
Speaker 1: other guys that they may have um misplaced in their
36:33
Speaker 1: mind or in the last couple of years. When we
36:35
Speaker 1: get to the fall, love it what we will stay
36:36
Speaker 1: tuned for that. Thank you all for tuning in a
36:39
Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive time every single week this offseason and has
36:42
Speaker 1: certainly been an eventful off season and we're looking forward
36:45
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36:47
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