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Huddle Up | Jaguars Agree to Terms w/ Nine Free Agents · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Huddle Up, brought to you by the Fields
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Speaker 1: Huttle Group, Jaguars Senior writer John Oser, NFL Network analyst
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Speaker 1: and former Jaguar Bucky Brooks, and senior reporter J. P.
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Speaker 1: Shaddick bring you the latest on your Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 2: Huddle Up starts right now and welcome in.
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Speaker 3: It's a very special edition of Huddle Up with Bucky
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Speaker 3: Brooks back on video for the start of the twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty five league year, and a busy show ahead.
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Speaker 2: Huddle Up with.
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Speaker 3: Bucky Brooks brought to you by Field's Auto Group Jacksonville.
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Speaker 3: See Fields First, Jacksonville's premier luxury Auto group. And here's
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Speaker 3: what's coming up. The league year underway. Just about two
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Speaker 3: minutes ago. The Jaguars have agreed to terms with nine
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Speaker 3: free agents.
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Speaker 2: And what's next.
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Speaker 3: So what's on the docket after those players have been
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Speaker 3: acquired by the Jags.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to it all coming up.
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Speaker 4: J P.
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Speaker 3: Shadrick with John Oser here at the Miller Electric Center
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Speaker 3: in the Hyundai Studios in.
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Speaker 2: Bucky Brooks is Western LA. And there you have it.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna get to the all the nine players the
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Speaker 3: Jags have agreed to terms with But it seems like overall,
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Speaker 3: Bucky that they filled some immediate needs for this team.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. More important than filling the knees, they found guys
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Speaker 4: that could advance to the culture that these guys want
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Speaker 4: to create. When you look at some of the players
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Speaker 4: that are being brought over, there are some links and
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Speaker 4: some ties tailed Lincoln and company kind of established the culture,
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Speaker 4: kind of further that and spread the message to the
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Speaker 4: masses and so light with the Jaguars are done because
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Speaker 4: they've flown i would say, under the radar and didn't
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Speaker 4: try and win the off season hypefest, but concentrated really
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Speaker 4: on trying to assemble the really solid team that messes
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Speaker 4: well with the current players that are already established in
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Speaker 4: the locker room.
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Speaker 5: This is exactly what I hope they would be and
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Speaker 5: exactly what they set out to do. They had four
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Speaker 5: or five six spots that they wanted to make sure
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Speaker 5: Bucky knows what I'm about to say. I wanted to
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Speaker 5: make sure you could get lined up right. GMS like
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Speaker 5: to have a starting roster before the draft to make
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Speaker 5: sure that they don't have to reach during the draft,
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Speaker 5: so that you can go after guys who can truly
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Speaker 5: help you. You don't want to have a hole sitting
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Speaker 5: there at right guard and have to take a right
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Speaker 5: guard number three overall, So that's a bit of an exaggeration,
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Speaker 5: but that's what it's about. I would anticipate four or
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Speaker 5: five of these guys starting in week one, and I
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Speaker 5: would anticipate the next couple of drafts being about sending
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Speaker 5: these guys on their way, thanking them, making sure that
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Speaker 5: the pay is commiserated with the reward.
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Speaker 6: Hey, you got paid, We appreciate it.
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Speaker 5: They can be part of building this I think it's
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Speaker 5: significant that a lot of these guys have Rams and
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Speaker 5: Bucks and Vikings connections. Sure that all makes sense, and
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Speaker 5: I think this is what you want to do. When
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Speaker 5: you're switching cultures. You have to have guys who understand
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Speaker 5: that culture.
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Speaker 2: No doubt about that. Let's get to it.
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Speaker 3: And it seemed, you know, at least the guys you're
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Speaker 3: talking about that could be starters next year. Offensive line
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Speaker 3: secondary seemed to be big points for the leadership of
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Speaker 3: the Jaguars, and let's start Bucky on that offensive line.
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Speaker 3: After the retirement of Mitch Morris and Brandon Sheriff, it
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Speaker 3: was a focus going into free agency of course. So
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Speaker 3: Patrick McCarey comes from the Ravens reportedly three years, thirty
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Speaker 3: seven and a half million dollars. He's been with the
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Speaker 3: Ravens the last six seasons. We know how they play
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Speaker 3: the game on the offensive line. What does he bring
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Speaker 3: to the table?
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Speaker 4: Buck, He brings versatility. This is a guy that can
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Speaker 4: line up anywhere on the front line and have success.
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Speaker 4: But more importantly, he brings a guy that the last
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Speaker 4: few years he's played and played really well at a position.
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Speaker 4: This is a guy that had to jump in and
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Speaker 4: start some games at various spots, held up well even
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Speaker 4: though he's had some issues with penalties. I mean, he's
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Speaker 4: a rock solid starter. He is someone that's going to
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Speaker 4: help change the temperament along to the line of scrimmage.
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Speaker 4: And if you want to be able to play physical
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Speaker 4: football like them Cohen has talked about, you got to
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Speaker 4: have physical blockers, guys that love that part of the game.
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Speaker 4: McCarry is one of those guys that can help kind
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Speaker 4: of change the mindset in the mentality on their front line.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you can circle two words in what Bucky just said.
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Speaker 5: Temperament and physical. That's what this is about. That's what
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Speaker 5: the two offensive linemen are about I don't know that
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Speaker 5: at the end of their careers if McCary will be
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Speaker 5: considered a better player than Brandon Sheriff right in the
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Speaker 5: arc of their careers. But right now, for this team
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Speaker 5: what it's trying to bring. They want to be able
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Speaker 5: to pick up third and one, or at least have
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Speaker 5: the defense believe that they have a chance to pick
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Speaker 5: up third and one, which sometimes it didn't feel that way.
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Speaker 5: The two interior offensive linemen, they're expected to start, and
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Speaker 5: you got here in a minute.
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Speaker 6: That's what they're about.
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Speaker 3: Senator Robert Hainsey from the Buccaneers, the other that you're
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Speaker 3: referring to, reportedly three years, twenty one million dollars, started
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Speaker 3: every game with the Bucks in twenty two and twenty three.
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Speaker 2: It was a backup last season.
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Speaker 3: And again, John, it's about that that short yardage mentality
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Speaker 3: an idea up front.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and again this might be a case where over
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Speaker 5: the course of their career, is he's stratospherically better than
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Speaker 5: Mitch Morse, I don't know for right now. Is he
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Speaker 5: a physical brawler? You know, fights you kicking in the
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Speaker 5: teeth as you'd like to kick me. Jb that I don't.
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Speaker 5: That's what he brings that maybe Mitch Morse didn't quite
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Speaker 5: have last year, although Mitch played very well, you know.
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Speaker 5: So it's the run blocking, it's the physicality. This was
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Speaker 5: a decent pass blocking line last year. But this team
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Speaker 5: wants to be able to run and they want to
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Speaker 5: keep Trevor's feet from being rolled into during pass rush.
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Speaker 3: And Bucky he obviously was with Liam Cohen in Tampa's
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Speaker 3: so familiarity with what they want to get done offensively.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, familiarity is he and being a center for Liam
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Speaker 4: Cohen's offense. You want to rely on the center to
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Speaker 4: make a lot of the line calls, the protection calls,
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Speaker 4: make sure that we're always in the right play. Maybe
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Speaker 4: he can alleviate some of that burden that is on
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Speaker 4: Trevor Lawrence to make sure that the team is always
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Speaker 4: in the right protection and those things. But what John
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Speaker 4: was kind of speaking to in terms of his physicality,
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Speaker 4: his Maller brother style, I mean, let's go back to
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Speaker 4: I mean, I guess I was a teenager when Roadhouse
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Speaker 4: came out and Patrick Swayze was throwing it and went
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Speaker 4: out the bar. That's kind of what you need, Like
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Speaker 4: you need some of those guys that can do some
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Speaker 4: of the dirty work. We talk about changing the temperament.
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Speaker 4: The only way you change the timperment you got to
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Speaker 4: change the people up front. And so the guys that
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Speaker 4: we're talking about McCrary and then him with Hainsey, we're
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Speaker 4: talking about two guys that are maller brawlers who love
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Speaker 4: to engage and I would say legal fisticuffs at the
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Speaker 4: point of attack.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and getting back to the most important part of
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Speaker 5: this topic. Say what you about Roadhouse JP.
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Speaker 2: Huh.
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Speaker 5: When you scroll by and it's on, you always stop out.
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Speaker 4: It's crazy, get him out the bar.
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Speaker 5: You can make fun of it, but you always stop.
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Speaker 5: And you know, on a serious note, what Bucky said
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Speaker 5: about him being outuld help Trevor Lawrence that uh, beyond
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Speaker 5: the physicality, that's a huge part of this.
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Speaker 6: Uh. This is a guy.
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Speaker 5: Who knows the scheme, who doesn't have to think about it.
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Speaker 5: There will be times early in the season with Trevor
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Speaker 5: learning a new offense where it may not be second nature,
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Speaker 5: it's second majure to Hansen.
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Speaker 6: So that's a key.
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Speaker 3: Another offensive lineman, Schuma a Dooga from the Cowboys, started
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Speaker 3: ten games over the last two seasons combined, and Bucky
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Speaker 3: seems like he could add to the depth up front.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he certainly can add to the depth of front.
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Speaker 4: But another one, Yes, you got to understand there's a
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Speaker 4: theme that we're seeing. All of these guys are bruisers
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Speaker 4: at the point of attack. As much as I love
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Speaker 4: seeing the dancing bears, the guy guys that are nimble
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Speaker 4: to do all the cute stuff in pastbro at some point,
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Speaker 4: we've seen it. The last two or three years, we
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Speaker 4: haven't been able to run the football effectively when everyone
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Speaker 4: in the stadium knew that we need to run it. Well,
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Speaker 4: the guys that we've added are all what I'll called
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Speaker 4: Marler brawler specialists. At the point of attack, we can
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Speaker 4: move by as you can move the furniture around the den.
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Speaker 4: And finally we should be able to run the ball
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Speaker 4: with any of the running backs that we have in
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Speaker 4: the backfield.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and look, when you're changing regimes, it's hard to
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Speaker 5: go after splashing free agency. First of all, thank goodness
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Speaker 5: they did, and I'm so tired of splashing. I just
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Speaker 5: want to towel off. So but it's hard to go
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Speaker 5: after splash because you spend all your money up top
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Speaker 5: when you're changing regimes, you know, it's not just about
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Speaker 5: having five offensive linemen. It's about having the sixth or
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Speaker 5: seventh and eighth guy that when guys inevitably get hurt,
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Speaker 5: you feel like you've got veterans who when the coach
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Speaker 5: turns around and says who's next, they don't want to
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Speaker 5: have a bad look on their face.
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Speaker 6: Going ooh's next. You know, you want to make sure
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Speaker 6: you have guys who can play.
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Speaker 5: So a lot of this was about making sure this
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Speaker 5: is not a twenty two man game. This is a
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Speaker 5: fifty three man game, and you had to get the
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Speaker 5: thirty seventh guy on your roster better to where they
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Speaker 5: know what they're doing. Back when they changed before JP,
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Speaker 5: you remember, I guess it was twelve or thirteen when
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Speaker 5: Dave and Gust came in.
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Speaker 2: That's thirteen ye.
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Speaker 5: Looking back, people involved with that said, we cut to
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Speaker 5: the cord too much and we were too young. It's
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Speaker 5: hard to draft and develop and have a functional roster
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Speaker 5: when all your players that you're turning to in a
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Speaker 5: crisis are second year guys or first year guys. Clearly,
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Speaker 5: this list a bunch of five six seven year guys.
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Speaker 5: When it turns to crisis and there's injuries next year.
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Speaker 5: They don't want to turn around and be turning to kids.
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Speaker 5: You have to have some grown men in the lineup,
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Speaker 5: and that's what these signings were about.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, look, it's about adding some maturity and experience to
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Speaker 4: that room, but also having guys that are experienced enough
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Speaker 4: to play but not on the tail end of their careers.
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Speaker 4: At some point. You want to have an offensive line
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Speaker 4: that can grow together, that can kind of move into
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Speaker 4: their prime collectively as a unit, as opposed to kind
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Speaker 4: of piece mill into the offensive line every year. Hopefully
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Speaker 4: we can get some of that connuity and consistency up
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Speaker 4: front and that will allow the offense to play at
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Speaker 4: a high level for years and years to come.
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Speaker 3: Let's move along now to the secondary. That certainly was
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Speaker 3: a focus, with not a lot of names really locked
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Speaker 3: into starting spots on the back end of the defense,
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Speaker 3: at least going into free agency, they got a couple
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Speaker 3: of names. Now Jordan Lewis from the Cowboys at the
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Speaker 3: nickel spot, three years, thirty million dollars a reported deal,
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Speaker 3: twenty of that guaranteed, and Lewis really gets some high
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Speaker 3: marks for his play in Dallas. Bucky over the years
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Speaker 3: in the nickel spot.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he guess he deserves high marks. He played well
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Speaker 4: last year. Last year was probably the best season of
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Speaker 4: his career. He had more opportunities than I want to
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Speaker 4: play inside, but playing outside. Having watched him, because this
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Speaker 4: is someone I watched as a teenager at camps and
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Speaker 4: these things. Always been a high IQ player, a feisty,
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Speaker 4: very competitive player. He is going to challenge guys on
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Speaker 4: the opposition, but he's also going to challenge our guys
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Speaker 4: to step up and kind of add a little nastiness
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Speaker 4: and swag to their game. Really good player, and when
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Speaker 4: I talk about being a good player, I'm talking about
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Speaker 4: the IQ, the diagnostic skills, the ability to read and
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Speaker 4: react quickly. Jordaane Lewis may be listed as a knikel,
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Speaker 4: but most teams talked about the nickel being the twelfth starter.
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Speaker 4: This is a really, really good starting nickel cointerback one
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Speaker 4: of the best in the league.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, as we talked about the offensive line, both of
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Speaker 5: the secondary editions were basically as you alluded to, JP
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Speaker 5: being able to get lined up. I mean realistically, on Saturday,
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Speaker 5: Tyson Campbell was your starter and after that, so.
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Speaker 6: You know, I think Wind guard fits.
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Speaker 5: Beyond that, they had to have some guys, and I
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Speaker 5: still think this is a big draftable position. But everybody
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Speaker 5: talked about the line coming into free agency, Bucky, the
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Speaker 5: secondary was a place where I think they felt like
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Speaker 5: they had four or five six spots that they had
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Speaker 5: to figure out and upgrade. So I see the draft
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Speaker 5: still being a big deal for this. I didn't mean
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Speaker 5: to get off in the draft, but I still think
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Speaker 5: this was the start of the rebuilding of the secondary
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Speaker 5: because it probably had as far to go as the
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Speaker 5: offensive line.
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Speaker 4: I'm with you looking at the unit of the last
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Speaker 4: couple of years. Think about the number of deep balls
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Speaker 4: that are just flown over top of the defense, the
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Speaker 4: number of blown coverages that we have, the mis tackles
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Speaker 4: in space. All of those things reflect a bad defense,
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Speaker 4: the defense that didn't play well in last year. I mean,
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Speaker 4: all those vadas fade like we're just terrible on defense.
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Speaker 4: I would say that there aren't any sacred cows in
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Speaker 4: the back end, with the exception of Tyson Campbell, and
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Speaker 4: some of that will be due to his contract. Everybody's
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Speaker 4: gonna have to earn their spot and it'll be refreshing
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Speaker 4: to see an open competition to determine who are the
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Speaker 4: best four or five six defensive backs that need to
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Speaker 4: be on the field in those crucial moments.
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Speaker 5: So I'm assuming Bucky, you and I have talked about
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Speaker 5: nickel back before. It's maybe my favorite position on defense
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Speaker 5: just because of the versatility that takes, and I think
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Speaker 5: it might be as important as a starting outside guys.
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Speaker 5: Is Lewis just nickel? Could you see him ever playing outside?
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Speaker 5: Or does it matter in today's NFL? I guess everybody's
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Speaker 5: playing in such different spots. Maybe it doesn't matter that much.
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Speaker 4: I mean like it matters in terms of what he's
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Speaker 4: most comfortable with. It matters in terms of pay, because
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Speaker 4: the guys on the outside ever wants to make the
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Speaker 4: eighteen nineteen million dollars like Tyson Campbell, the guys that
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Speaker 4: primarily play in so the Jay Lewis like they make
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Speaker 4: but they make like ten million annually. I want to
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Speaker 4: put him in the best position for him to be
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Speaker 4: the guy that we saw on tape in Dallas, and
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Speaker 4: that primarily should be in the slot. Quickness, instincts, awareness, overall,
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Speaker 4: feel for pattern reading. He shows all of those things
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Speaker 4: in the slot. He can go outside, but when he
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Speaker 4: goes outside. Sometimes the size deficiency can be an issue,
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Speaker 4: but he's a talented player, and sometimes John and JP
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Speaker 4: it's about putting the best five or six defensive backs
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Speaker 4: on the field and then figuring out where they need
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Speaker 4: to kind of slot into to allow the team to
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Speaker 4: match up best with the opponent. Will also allowing guys
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Speaker 4: to play their best individually.
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Speaker 3: The final secondary player, Eric Murray from the Texans, also
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Speaker 3: is with the Chiefs of the Browns earlier in his
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Speaker 3: career three years, twenty two and a half million, twelve
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Speaker 3: of that guaranteed, and just kind of goes into the
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Speaker 3: discussion of starting caliber players on the back end. The
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Speaker 2: As the clock struck four o'clock Eastern.
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Speaker 3: And we are officially now in the NFL world in
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. So free agents are agreed to terms
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Speaker 3: now and for remaining for the Jaguars to get to
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Speaker 3: all on the offensive side. Diame Brown wide receiver from
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Speaker 3: the Commanders. With Kirk now officially traded to the Houston Texans,
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Speaker 3: Gabe Davis coming out of injury, you gotta have John
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Speaker 3: some guys that can go out there and perform.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think this was I think he starts.
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Speaker 5: I think he's opposite and Thomas Junior and now gives
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Speaker 5: them two guys with speed to be able to beat
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Speaker 5: the defense once Kirk and Ingram left. Which I said,
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Speaker 5: before those news had to be made, I would have
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Speaker 5: made them, but it does. It did leave you a
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Speaker 5: situation where Gabe Davis, who you're not sure what he's
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Speaker 5: going to bring next year because of injury and you know,
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Speaker 5: because of production last year and in Parker, Washington, I
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Speaker 5: don't know that he's quite you know, front line reliable guy.
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Speaker 5: Yet I think he's still moving toward that. So Bucky,
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Speaker 5: this guy really came on at the end of last year,
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Speaker 5: shined in the playoffs. The Cynics would say, not a
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Speaker 5: lot of productions so far.
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Speaker 6: Where's he at?
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Speaker 4: Well? The number one thing? He kind of breaks the
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Speaker 4: jinks because the Jaguars haven't been as good as they
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Speaker 4: could be because they hadn't had enough tar heels on
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Speaker 4: the roster. And now we finally got a tar heel,
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Speaker 4: a tar heel wide receive on the roster. I feel
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Speaker 4: like things are looking up. The Jammy Brown is a
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Speaker 4: big place, specially for us. He really came on like
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Speaker 4: gang busses in the postseason. Have fourteen catches average about
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Speaker 4: seventeen yards per catch and just looking at the b
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Speaker 4: roll in the cliff, his speed is real. Now you
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Speaker 4: have an opportunity to put two fast guys on the perimeter.
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Speaker 4: And if we can establish a running game, and we've
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Speaker 4: seen Trevor's at his best when he's able to run it,
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Speaker 4: play action, pull it and throw it down the field.
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Speaker 4: We need more explosive plays because explosive plays lead the points.
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Speaker 4: Deanmy Brown is a point scorer. Should have this offense.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought they've had about the right number of
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Speaker 5: tarriers on the roster, l ADJP, But.
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Speaker 4: Haven't we We haven't. We haven't been able to win.
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Speaker 4: We don't have enough guys that have pedigree. We need pedigree,
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Speaker 4: pedigree players to be able to get it done.
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Speaker 6: Will we playing hoops?
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Speaker 2: I don't know what we're playing.
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Speaker 4: It doesn't matter.
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Speaker 3: There By the way, Brown with three hundred and eight
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Speaker 3: yards in the regular season as a whole, two twenty
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Speaker 3: nine in the playoffs, including a ninety eight yard game
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Speaker 3: against Detroit and a touchdown with eighty nine yards against
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Speaker 3: Tampa in.
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Speaker 2: The first week of the playoffs. Last season. We go
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Speaker 2: to tight end.
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Speaker 3: Now, a pair of tight ends come in, Shohnny Munn
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Speaker 3: from the Vikings, Hunter Long from the Rams, Bucky Well,
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Speaker 3: you gotta have some tight ends if you get to
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Speaker 3: play in the NFL. What do you like about these guys?
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Speaker 4: Well, what I like about him is one to familiarity,
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Speaker 4: Like you have guys that have come over that have
18:17
Speaker 4: been familiar with the system that's going to be in place.
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Speaker 4: They know the coach. The coach knows them, he understands
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Speaker 4: how to put them in roles to go about it.
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Speaker 4: But what we're seeing is is a bit of a
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Speaker 4: change in terms of how the tight end position is used.
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Speaker 4: Instead of being used primarily like Evan Ingram was basically
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Speaker 4: a jumble wide receiver with a tight end label. Now
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Speaker 4: we're gonna get true tight ends, guys that can put
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Speaker 4: their hand in the dirt and do some of the
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Speaker 4: things that we want to see on the edges. Yes,
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Speaker 4: catching passes is a big part of it, but you
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Speaker 4: also got to be able to kind of get down
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Speaker 4: there and get your nose dirty. And so now the
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Speaker 4: combination of guys that we have at tight end plus
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Speaker 4: Brandon Strange last year, you feel like you have a
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Speaker 4: more complete room in terms of having guys that of
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Speaker 4: all the skills that you need when you want to
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Speaker 4: put multiple y's and f's and flexes on the field.
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Speaker 5: Beyond the physicality bucket, Is there something to this offense
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Speaker 5: that makes familiarity at the tight end position important in terms.
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Speaker 6: Of what those guys are asked to do.
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Speaker 5: Is it complex so that it's good for them to
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Speaker 5: have experience running in this system?
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Speaker 4: Well, and look, it may be complex enough, like we
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Speaker 4: won't know until we get up under the hood and
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Speaker 4: see the nuts and boats of what's going on in
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Speaker 4: OTA's and mini camps and those things that I know
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Speaker 4: you can't look you can't wait to look forward to
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Speaker 4: you wait can't and thinking about running multiple tight end
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Speaker 4: offense and the way you know these teams have operated
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Speaker 4: in the past. We think about the Vikings and in
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Speaker 4: the Rams like multiplicity is everything, interchangeability is everything. Having
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Speaker 4: guys that are similarly built, similarly skilled, allows you to
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Speaker 4: really change and kind of rearrange the formations to put
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Speaker 4: guys in the best position to impact the game based
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Speaker 4: on their talents.
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Speaker 3: And then the final player agreed to terms with the
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Speaker 3: Jaguars quarterback Nick Mullins from the Vikings. Now we'll be
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Speaker 3: here to back up Trevor Lawrence. And Mullins has been
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Speaker 3: around a little bit in his career San Francisco three years,
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Speaker 3: had some starting time there at twenty twenty one with Cleveland.
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Speaker 3: Now the last three years in Minnesota John and Nick
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Speaker 3: Mullens coming to Jacksonville.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't pretend to be able to break down
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Speaker 5: arm strength on Nick Mullens. I can tell you that
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Speaker 5: from a you know, changing regimes, bringing in a new
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Speaker 5: offense with the age that Trevor Lawrence is at quarterback,
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Speaker 5: I didn't know it was going to be Nick Mullins,
20:45
Speaker 5: but the bullet points on what he brings fits exactly
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Speaker 5: what you would bring a quarterback who you know, is
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Speaker 5: going to be the starter. He's been in this offense.
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Speaker 5: He knows Yudinsky so clearly that Yudinsky knows that when
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Speaker 5: it's just Trevor and Nick in the film room, clearly
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Speaker 5: they believe if Trevor has a question, Nick can say, well, yeah,
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Speaker 5: here you go to this guy in this situation, or
21:09
Speaker 5: you're looking for this coming off the edge a bucky.
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Speaker 5: He's sort of the cookie cutter backup, right.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a cookie cutter, backup. He's been in this
21:18
Speaker 4: system for a long time. He understands the ins and
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Speaker 4: out seven, so that would allow him to get out
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Speaker 4: of the game. But i'ma be honest with you, I
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Speaker 4: hope Nick Mullins never plays a down in a regular
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Speaker 4: season game for the Jaguars, because that means that Trevor's
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Speaker 4: available for all seventeen games. Hopefully we get a chance
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Speaker 4: to see him play three games in the preseason. We enjoy.
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Speaker 4: We feel good about what he's able to do running
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Speaker 4: the offense and being the guy that can help Trevor
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Speaker 4: in the bullpen because he is look doesn't have the
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Speaker 4: arm talent that Trevor does, but he certainly has enough
21:51
Speaker 4: to be able to close our games, and when you're
21:53
Speaker 4: looking for backup quarterbacks, you're looking for guys who have
21:56
Speaker 4: to have to play and play in a pinch that
21:58
Speaker 4: can get you out of two maybe three games before
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Speaker 4: the start of returns. He is good enough to do that.
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Speaker 2: Just hold that tablet on the sideline. That's yeah.
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Speaker 6: We'll see during OTAs too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll get a lot of that time.
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Speaker 4: And I hope, I hope that you're charting. I hope
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Speaker 4: that you're able to chart him and give me like
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Speaker 4: a little hit.
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Speaker 6: I'll be charting something I can see.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we go chart, we chart.
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Speaker 5: Chart is complete time until end of practice.
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Speaker 3: the deals too of the place, and should be some
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Speaker 3: media time as well. We'll have a Happy Hour radio
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Speaker 3: at four o'clock tomorrow with James Gladstone joining us live
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Speaker 3: Logman and I will be here in studio with us.
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Speaker 5: That'll be good James, as you know Bucky I mean,
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Speaker 5: and JP was on with us at the combine and uh,
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Speaker 5: you know, I find him fantastic to listen to in
23:07
Speaker 5: terms of interviewing, and I think he'll put this uh
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Speaker 5: free agent class in perspective. I expect him to, uh
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Speaker 5: basically say what we've been saying, which is that it
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Speaker 5: you know, it's a group that's going to get you,
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Speaker 5: uh you know, on a higher level than you were
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Speaker 5: last year, some starting positions and they've got twenty one
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Speaker 5: selections in the draft and that's where this thing is
23:27
Speaker 5: going to be made or broken moving forward.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm almost I'm almost offendive. You guys are getting
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Speaker 4: all this time with the higher rough. So I hear
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Speaker 4: John he has a one on one with e v
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Speaker 4: P and the EVP podcast, and then JP, you're sitting
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Speaker 4: down the rubbt elbows with the general manager. I've seen
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Speaker 4: these interviews with Liam Cohen and I haven't I haven't
23:49
Speaker 4: had the opportunity to sit down with anybody. Can can
23:51
Speaker 4: somebody sit down up? But allow me to ask some
23:54
Speaker 4: questions but I mean, can I get Liam or can
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Speaker 4: I get somebody to come on the show? I talked
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Speaker 4: to we need to.
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Speaker 2: Go back to Starbucks with the combine.
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Speaker 6: It sounds like it was.
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Speaker 5: I was standing near James Gladstone, who I had met
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Speaker 5: it maybe once or twice. Morning, We're on our way
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Speaker 5: over and uh, you know it, it was I almost
24:17
Speaker 5: got injured.
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Speaker 6: How quickly.
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Speaker 5: Was ready to go over to talk to Bucky And
24:24
Speaker 5: you know, to be honest, pay a little homage to
24:27
Speaker 5: the king of the Combine and you're.
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Speaker 4: So left out.
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Speaker 6: It was.
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Speaker 5: It wasn't like Bucky said, hey, James, let me introduce
24:36
Speaker 5: you to It was took it all.
24:38
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it was.
24:41
Speaker 5: I sat down and I silently lumbered off.
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Speaker 2: I love that final thought.
24:46
Speaker 3: Here, what's next now? I mean they've got this done?
24:49
Speaker 3: Anything else on the horizon here? Or is it full
24:51
Speaker 3: speed ahead now to off season program?
24:54
Speaker 2: In the draft? Bucky, what do you.
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Speaker 4: Think all season program would be our priority? Because this
24:59
Speaker 4: is a time where the guys working with the strength coaches.
25:01
Speaker 4: Eventually you have an opportunity to have an extra mini
25:04
Speaker 4: camp because of the new coaching staff, and then for
25:07
Speaker 4: the scouting staff is looking if you can find any
25:10
Speaker 4: bargain pickups guys that after that first week of free agency,
25:14
Speaker 4: the price tag has come way down and they're a
25:17
Speaker 4: little more amenable to coming in to compete and to
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Speaker 4: sign a team friendly deal to be a part of
25:23
Speaker 4: the team. I would look for some of those things
25:25
Speaker 4: to kind of take place. As John talked about, Hey,
25:28
Speaker 4: we can get lined up, but you're trying to fully
25:31
Speaker 4: bake it out with some of your backups, some of
25:34
Speaker 4: your special teams candidates that can help you as you're
25:38
Speaker 4: trying to build the most competitive rosters that you can
25:40
Speaker 4: have going into training camp.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think anything else will be based on things
25:46
Speaker 5: that happen going forward. Maybe players released, and as Bucky said, hey,
25:54
Speaker 5: this is a guy whose contract is way way down
25:57
Speaker 5: in terms of the first sort of the part of
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Speaker 5: free agency that they plot out beforehand, they're done. That
26:07
Speaker 5: doesn't mean that you're not looking at the roster every day,
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Speaker 5: and if circumstances changed, then you change it. But this
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Speaker 5: is what they think of as free agency so far,
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Speaker 5: and now after that it'll be it'll be moves.
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Speaker 3: As merited Bucky, thanks for the time as always and
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Speaker 3: certainly the insight and will catch you again next week?
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Speaker 2: How about that?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 4: Thanks, whoever's in charge of the booking team. I'm gonna
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Speaker 4: be on the booking team to see if we can
26:31
Speaker 4: get some guests over here, some guys in the building
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Speaker 4: that I can I can just have some conversations with
26:37
Speaker 4: to figure out what's going on. I feel like I'm
26:39
Speaker 4: geting second hand information because you guys are privy to
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Speaker 4: all of the guys.
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Speaker 6: Did they close the airport, Jackson?
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, last time I checked it was open.
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Speaker 6: Did they close the four seasons?
26:48
Speaker 2: They out in La too, La? There's like five airports
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Speaker 2: at LA.
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Speaker 4: Is the four seasons open?
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Speaker 6: Not yet?
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Speaker 5: I mean I was making the reference comes into town
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Speaker 5: on a certain level, will stay at Okay?
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Speaker 4: I didn't. I didn't get anything in the email saying
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Speaker 4: that the four season was opened. Then I would like
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Speaker 4: to I would like to be invited to the grand opening.
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Speaker 4: If that's the case, I feel like I should beat
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Speaker 4: it where it is.
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Speaker 6: You will have a floor.
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Speaker 2: I love it.
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Speaker 3: Thanks Bucky all over NFL Network today as well, Bucky Brooks,
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Speaker 3: John Ozier, I'm JP Shattercker. Thanks to our entire crew, David, Joe,
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Speaker 3: Brent Reeber, Joe fortunato, and thanks to you for watching
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