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Baldinger on Ridley addition to Jaguars Culture | Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, March 9 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, March ninth. This is Jaguars Happy Hour
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Speaker 1: and now a guy who needs a near perfect broadcast
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Speaker 1: just to make the cut. Jay Peace shad welcome in.
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Speaker 1: It's Thursday, It's happy hour. My name is J. P. Shadrick.
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Speaker 1: We've got a busy hour ahead as we prepare for
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Speaker 1: the final week of the league year. We're inside a
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Speaker 1: week away from the twenty twenty three league year begins
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Speaker 1: Wednesday at four o'clock Eastern time. We've got Jeff Loguman
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Speaker 1: standing wide Jaguars analyst. We'll hear from NFL Network analyst
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Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger scheduled for four thirty today. We'll get his
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Speaker 1: thoughts on Calvin Ridley's reinstatement and what he could bring
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Speaker 1: to this Jaguars offense. Of course, Ridley was in the
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Speaker 1: building earlier this week. We'll hear from him coming up.
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Speaker 1: Evan Ingram tagged franchise tagged by the Jaguars. All that
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Speaker 1: in a discussion tonight, Let's start with the biggest news
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Speaker 1: of the week. Though wide receiver Calvin Ridley officially reinstated
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Speaker 1: by the NFL Commissioner's Office, Elgebert to return to team
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Speaker 1: activities immediately so he arrived at Jacksonville Wednesday for a
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Speaker 1: stadium tour. He met the brass and got acclimated somewhat here.
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Speaker 1: He will really get acclimated when the offseason program begins
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Speaker 1: in mid April. He also sat down with Bucky Brooks
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Speaker 1: in an exclusive one on one conversation. A lot of
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Speaker 1: watching from afar of this jag team as they started
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Speaker 1: to win late in the season. I was suspended, and
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Speaker 1: they gave me a chance. They took a shot on me.
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Speaker 1: I mean I think, you know, I think them so
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Speaker 1: much with taking a chance on me early in that situation.
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Speaker 1: They made me, you know, it gave me some energy.
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Speaker 1: I had a team to watch, I had a reason to,
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Speaker 1: you know, want to come back and be a great player.
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Speaker 1: And like like like you said, they were, they started
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Speaker 1: playing amazing. So it was really fun for me to
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Speaker 1: watch them, you know, get better. I'm ready to get
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Speaker 1: out there, man, That's all I can do. I don't
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Speaker 1: really like to talk, so he lets about it. I
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Speaker 1: didn't want to play. If you followed him on social
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Speaker 1: media throughout the fall, there's a lot of fire Emo jeans.
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Speaker 1: When the Jaguars were starting to win late in the
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Speaker 1: season and now he is a part of it coming
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Speaker 1: up very very soon. Jeff Logerman joining me here in
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Speaker 1: studio now. And it's been a little bit Jeff. Great
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Speaker 1: to see you again. First of all, what's up. It's
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Speaker 1: good to be seen. I agree with that. Yeah, that
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Speaker 1: means that live and kicking. That's true. So is Calvin
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Speaker 1: Ridley out of the league last year with a was
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Speaker 1: actually an indefinite suspension with a gambling issue, and then
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Speaker 1: now has been reinstated. He's back, he's in the building,
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Speaker 1: and he'll be back for the offseason program. He says.
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Speaker 1: It's the final year of his five year rookie contracts,
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Speaker 1: so he has plenty of motivation to get this thing right. Well,
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Speaker 1: I think he probably just wants to get back in
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Speaker 1: the locker room setting and be one of the guys,
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Speaker 1: you know, kind of get all of his conversation about
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Speaker 1: being reinstated and all that kind of behind him, and
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Speaker 1: make the conversation about football, because as a football player,
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Speaker 1: that's all you want to talk about, that's all you
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Speaker 1: want to be. But I'm excited for him. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this guy's a fantastic player and very low cost for
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars to be able to acquire a player of
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Speaker 1: that stature that's got that explosive ability, playmaking ability at
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Speaker 1: a position really that they needed. But the great thing
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Speaker 1: is is because he's on kind of a proved deal,
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Speaker 1: because he's still got one year remaining on his rookie
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Speaker 1: year deal. On his rookie deal. If he has a
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Speaker 1: great year and he's a fit and he fits the culture,
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Speaker 1: then you look at locking him up if it doesn't
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Speaker 1: work out. It was a very inexpensive acquisition to be
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Speaker 1: able to get essentially what would be a rental for
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Speaker 1: one year. But I mean, this guy is a marquee guy,
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Speaker 1: and I think he's gonna fit right in. Everything you
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Speaker 1: hear about him is very positive, and that's the best thing,
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Speaker 1: because if a guy doesn't fit the locker room, then
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Speaker 1: he can't fit your plans. He wrote a letter in
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Speaker 1: the Player's Tribune actually yesterday it came out and kind
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Speaker 1: of detailed some of the issues he was having. Even
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Speaker 1: in the good years in Atlanta when he was playing
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Speaker 1: well and playing big and putting up big numbers, he
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Speaker 1: had a broken foot. He was playing through it. They
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Speaker 1: kept shooting it up and never could really overcome that. Well,
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Speaker 1: now he's had the surgery. Everything's fine there. His health
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Speaker 1: should be after a year and a half away from football,
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Speaker 1: should be in tip top shape. And then above the
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Speaker 1: shoulders as well, he's got to be bad. Well, that's
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Speaker 1: what I was just going to bring up, because he
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Speaker 1: had some mental health issues that he talked openly about
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Speaker 1: that he needed to address. And look, a year off,
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Speaker 1: sometimes you can allow the body to heal, but also
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Speaker 1: take the necessary steps to allow the mind to heal,
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Speaker 1: because this is a it's a tough business. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's a pressure pack business, and it's a performance based business.
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Speaker 1: And when you have a year off, you know, hopefully
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Speaker 1: he dedicated that year off to something things that were
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Speaker 1: productive at making himself better. And but I'm excited to
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Speaker 1: see him come out on the field because you know,
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars right now have really I think two excellent
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Speaker 1: receivers and Zay Jones and Christian Kirk and that's not
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Speaker 1: even considering Evan Ingram, who has been tagged, which we'll
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Speaker 1: get to in a little bit, who's an excellent player
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Speaker 1: as well. But this is a three wide receiver league now,
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Speaker 1: and that's really what you have to have if you're
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Speaker 1: going to be able to compete and right now in
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Speaker 1: this division, you have the quarterback that is by far
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Speaker 1: the best quarterback in the division. Now you give him
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Speaker 1: three weapons at wide receiver and a really good weapon
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Speaker 1: at tight end. Hold on, you're going to create some
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Speaker 1: serious problems for defensive coordinators and stressing them because it's
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Speaker 1: very difficult to cover four viable receivers. Yeah, and you
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Speaker 1: can move in any different piece of this one. And
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Speaker 1: we're not even talking about the running back is well,
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Speaker 1: he's a viable option option in the passing here, and
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Speaker 1: so is Jamichael Hasty. I mean, which has been he's
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Speaker 1: been resigned since the last time, and you talk. You know,
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Speaker 1: there's been a lot of goings on and everything so
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Speaker 1: far has been very positive for the Jaguars. You know.
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Speaker 1: The big question mark I think that you look at
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Speaker 1: and you think that this may be the one area
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Speaker 1: that doesn't get done for the Jaguars or is not
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Speaker 1: likely to get done, is right tackle Jawan Taylor. You know,
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Speaker 1: every ingram got franchise tag, guess, but the tailor one's
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Speaker 1: kind of still out there. The clock's ticking now, you know,
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Speaker 1: he'll be a free agent at four o'clock Wednesday, at
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Speaker 1: the start of the league year, and he's gonna have
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Speaker 1: a big market once he's out there. You just never know,
6:40
Speaker 1: right well, it's gonna have a big market. And that's
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Speaker 1: just you know, that's why you go to free agency.
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Speaker 1: If you're a player, you know you want to go
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Speaker 1: to free agency because the money gets bigger when you
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Speaker 1: get multiple parties that are essentially bidding on your services.
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Speaker 1: And and look at a lot of people say, well
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars should resign him. Well yeah, but it takes
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Speaker 1: two parties to make a deal. And if I'm in
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Speaker 1: the Juan Taylor camp, I've been in that position before.
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Speaker 1: You want to get the free agency to see what
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Speaker 1: your value really is because your value reaches, I believe,
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Speaker 1: the highest possible level when you get to that free
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Speaker 1: agent level. And he's got a great opportunity, and you know,
7:21
Speaker 1: credit to him. He had an excellent year, excellent year,
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Speaker 1: and I think I got I think he got some
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Speaker 1: great coaching by offensive line coach Phil Rauscher, and it
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Speaker 1: really kind of I think settled Joan Taylor. He had
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Speaker 1: his best year by far, especially as a as a
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Speaker 1: pass protector. He was just fantastic as a pass protector
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Speaker 1: and it was great to see you know, and I
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Speaker 1: like Juan guy works hard, plays hard, is all about ball.
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Speaker 1: I still believe that he's got another level that he
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Speaker 1: can get to as far as finishing plays. I believe
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Speaker 1: he's got another level that he can get to in
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Speaker 1: run blocking because he plays that so important right tackle
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Speaker 1: position where it's needed that he needs to be a
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Speaker 1: physical presence in the run game. But look, if it
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Speaker 1: doesn't happen, you've got a young player that I thought
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Speaker 1: really kind of blossomed before our eyes at the end
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Speaker 1: of last season with the injury to Cam Robinson. I
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Speaker 1: mean Walker Little. Well. With Walker, I mean he can
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Speaker 1: he play right tackle. We saw the competition last year
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Speaker 1: and I don't think he finished the competition very well.
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Speaker 1: But I think he gained confidence playing this past year
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Speaker 1: and I think this year will be very different. And
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Speaker 1: what did he play fifteen snaps at right tackle during
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Speaker 1: that one game and then Cam got hurt in the
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Speaker 1: same game he had to go back to last Here
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Speaker 1: comes Juan off the bench again to finish the game.
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Speaker 1: We didn't get a full sample size at right tackle
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Speaker 1: in live games of him, But you have to you
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Speaker 1: have to remember this about Walker Little. How many how
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Speaker 1: many games of football did he play prior to this
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Speaker 1: year in the last three years, and not many, No, really,
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Speaker 1: not many at all. He didn't played for two years
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Speaker 1: in college. A couple preseason games, yeah, you know where
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Speaker 1: he played part of the game. And so I think
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Speaker 1: the end of this past season for him, I think
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Speaker 1: was a was a big confidence builder and let him know, hey,
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Speaker 1: look I just played left tackle against some of the
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Speaker 1: best players that the game has to offer. And I
9:23
Speaker 1: did it in the playoffs too, by the way, and
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Speaker 1: I did okay. So I think this gives him a
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Speaker 1: shot of confidence going into this year that look, if
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Speaker 1: things don't get done with Joan Taylor, then it will
9:38
Speaker 1: be interesting to see what happens. You know, it is
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Speaker 1: Cam gonna be the left tackle, as Walker little gonna
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Speaker 1: be the left tackle, you know, if Juwan is out
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Speaker 1: of the picture, I mean, so is somebody's got to
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Speaker 1: be right, somebody's got to be left to find another
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Speaker 1: one somewhere. I don't know, you know, yeah, but I
9:54
Speaker 1: mean I can tell you this, if you don't end
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Speaker 1: up getting Joan Taylor, you got to find somebody that
9:58
Speaker 1: can be your swing backup. That was obviously the huge
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Speaker 1: piece of last year. I mean, those they had injuries. Whatever,
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Speaker 1: Walker was that guy, it worked out. But if you're
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Speaker 1: one of those guys is gone, you gotta start over again. Well,
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Speaker 1: and that's why you always say that the draft is
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Speaker 1: lifeblood of every franchise. You know. Now you have to
10:15
Speaker 1: go out and find the next Walker Little right, the
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Speaker 1: guy that was the backup tackle, swing tackle. And if
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Speaker 1: you had somebody get hurt he steps in plays, well, okay,
10:24
Speaker 1: can you find that guy in the draft. Probably not
10:28
Speaker 1: gonna find that guy. And free agency you just don't.
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Speaker 1: You just don't do that. All right. I'm gonna ask
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Speaker 1: you this, who had the better sample sized last year
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Speaker 1: at left tackle? Cam Robinson or Walker Little Oh. I
10:40
Speaker 1: think that's a great question for me. It's Cam. I
10:43
Speaker 1: thought Cam was doing really well. But you also have
10:48
Speaker 1: to think not so much short term, but you have
10:51
Speaker 1: to think long term. And I when I say long term,
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Speaker 1: I'm not talking about three and four years down the road,
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Speaker 1: because three and four years down the road, I mean
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Speaker 1: there can be a lot of circumstances the change between
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Speaker 1: now and there. But you have to look further down
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Speaker 1: the road as to pose as opposed to right now.
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Speaker 1: Like right now, Cam's probably your better left tackle and
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Speaker 1: low Walker to get comfortable at right. Cam's got a
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Speaker 1: lot of reps. But the whole goal of the season
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Speaker 1: is to get better to where you're playing your best
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Speaker 1: at the end. Okay, So are you gonna be better
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Speaker 1: at the end of next season or this season coming
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Speaker 1: up with Walker playing at right tackling and Cam it left,
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Speaker 1: or will you be a better offensive line with Walker
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Speaker 1: at left Cam at right. I've said this before. I
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Speaker 1: think Cam Robinson. Cam Robinson can be one of the
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Speaker 1: best right tackles in the game because he plays the
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Speaker 1: game like a right tackle. He's physical, he's strong, he finishes,
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Speaker 1: he's got a little bit of um, what's the right
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Speaker 1: word to say with that's okay to say on the radio.
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Speaker 1: He's got a little edge to him. Yes, that's a
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Speaker 1: good word. That's a good word. That's fair. He's got
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Speaker 1: some edge to him and uh and Walker had just
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Speaker 1: started to show a little bit of it at the
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Speaker 1: end of the year, but Cam shows it consistently. So
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Speaker 1: right tackles, you'd like to have a little bit of edge. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: But a left tackle who was drafted as a left tackle,
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Speaker 1: who's played every game in his career at left tackle,
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Speaker 1: who signed an extension as a left tackle. Probably, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna I'm not gonna speak for him. I'm
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Speaker 1: guessing he probably doesn't want to play right tackle. Probably doesn't.
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Speaker 1: And I could totally understand that. But you know what,
12:31
Speaker 1: right tackles get paid to. Yeah, and uh and I
12:35
Speaker 1: you know, and this is maybe a question that you
12:37
Speaker 1: could ask or answer. Did Cam Robinson ever play right
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Speaker 1: tackle at at Alabama? I don't believe has he ever
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Speaker 1: played like a game right tackle? It was so long
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Speaker 1: ago though, now right, Yeah, But and here's the thing.
12:50
Speaker 1: Some guys can can make that switch. The guy won
12:54
Speaker 1: the Outland Trophy to some guys are I don't gonna
12:56
Speaker 1: use a term that I played with a guy one time,
12:58
Speaker 1: and we had a guy. To give you a funny story,
13:01
Speaker 1: we had a guy who's a tight end. And it
13:03
Speaker 1: was the draft in which the New York Giants drafted
13:07
Speaker 1: a tight end and the New York Jets drafted a
13:10
Speaker 1: tight end. And I was with the Jets at the time.
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Speaker 1: We drafted Johnny Mitchell and the Giants drafted the tight
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Speaker 1: end from Notre Dame who eventually came here and played
13:22
Speaker 1: for a number of years. And I'm drawn a blank
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Speaker 1: on his name. So anyway, but Johnny Mitchell could throw
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Speaker 1: right handed the ball football like fifty yards sixty yards,
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Speaker 1: throw the ball with his left hand, left arm fifty
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Speaker 1: sixty yards. And so one of the guys on the
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Speaker 1: team was watching him do that, and what's the term ambidextrous? Yes, okay,
13:45
Speaker 1: one of the guys on the team goes, man, Johnny,
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Speaker 1: you're amphibious. So my point of that is is that
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Speaker 1: with a tackle, are they amphibious ambidextrous or are they not?
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Speaker 1: Because I've I've seen guys that you put them in
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Speaker 1: a right handed stance and that's their natural. You put
14:08
Speaker 1: them in a left handed stance and they're awkward. They
14:12
Speaker 1: can't do it. It's like a foreign language to them.
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Speaker 1: So I think it's going to be interested to see
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Speaker 1: how it plays out. But I think, you know, the
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Speaker 1: common thought probably is going to be cam it left
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Speaker 1: and then let Walker play it right and then you
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Speaker 1: see how it goes well. The twenty twenty three season
14:29
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Speaker 1: I believe yesterday. So the next step of the offseason
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Speaker 1: from your couch. We've got plenty ahead. Bryan Balding, year
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Speaker 1: of NFL Networks at four thirty, we'll get his thoughts
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Speaker 1: on the Ridley Edition and much more. Franchise tag for
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Speaker 1: Evan Ingram and a inside a week down to resigned players.
15:11
Speaker 1: Before the start of the league year. We are often
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Speaker 1: running It's Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network,
15:21
Speaker 1: the station that the Jaguars listened to ten ten x,
15:24
Speaker 1: our home of the Jetsonville Jaguars. You got a window
15:32
Speaker 1: huge folk free agency actually opens to try to close
15:35
Speaker 1: these deals. You know, Doug and I have talked ownership,
15:39
Speaker 1: Shot and the three of us have talked very important
15:42
Speaker 1: for us to keep our core players together, but it's
15:44
Speaker 1: got to make sense for both signs. It's got to
15:46
Speaker 1: be a win win, and we've told that to the players.
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Speaker 1: But we strongly believed in keeping our this group together.
15:56
Speaker 1: That is Trent Bulky, Jaguars general manager at the combine.
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Speaker 1: Last week, John Ozan and I had him on Radio
16:02
Speaker 1: Row and welcome back. It's Jaguars Happy Hour, JP Shadrick
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Speaker 1: with Jeff Logeman. We're on Jaguars social media, Twitter, Facebook
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Speaker 1: and YouTube of course, sinten xl AM and Jaguars dot com.
16:14
Speaker 1: Since that conversation, the Jaguars have franchise tagged Evan Ingram
16:19
Speaker 1: about eleven million bucks. Well it's just a placehold expensive, yes,
16:24
Speaker 1: But Evan Ingram tweeted after the fact, Hey, he's excited
16:27
Speaker 1: to be back in Jacksonville, but is looking forward to
16:30
Speaker 1: a long term deal with the Jaguars. So it could
16:33
Speaker 1: be just a placeholder and that's fine. It could be
16:37
Speaker 1: look that the tag is convenient to use at a
16:39
Speaker 1: couple of different positions fullback, running back, tight end, guard
16:45
Speaker 1: and center. The tag is not very expensive at those positions,
16:50
Speaker 1: and kicker and punter. Okay, but I was just focusing
16:52
Speaker 1: on offense. Yes, yeah, the premium positions on offense obviously
16:56
Speaker 1: our quarterback, wide receiver, tackle, and so the opportunity to
17:03
Speaker 1: use the tag to ensure that you're going to keep
17:07
Speaker 1: one of your core players and to continue to work
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Speaker 1: on a contract extension. I'm not a big fan of
17:13
Speaker 1: the tag. I wish the league would do away with it. Why. Well,
17:18
Speaker 1: I think it penalizes some players. I mean, why should
17:23
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram not have the same ability to test the
17:27
Speaker 1: market like a Juwan Taylor? Is that fair to Evan Ingram?
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Speaker 1: So I think it And when it was originally done,
17:36
Speaker 1: it was kind of a give and take obviously in
17:38
Speaker 1: the negotiations and collective bargaining, because you wanted to allow
17:42
Speaker 1: the owners to be able to keep some of their
17:44
Speaker 1: teams together. That was their main concern, and so the
17:47
Speaker 1: ability to use the tag was to help them kind
17:51
Speaker 1: of keep certain players. Well, it penalizes certain players on
17:54
Speaker 1: the opposite spectrum when you look at it from the
17:57
Speaker 1: player standpoint. But look, I'm glad that that he's here.
18:01
Speaker 1: I'm extremely happy to see his response. Yes, I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's that just goes to show you how mature and
18:09
Speaker 1: how much of a pro Evan Ingram is, because there's
18:12
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that could have responded in a
18:14
Speaker 1: very derogatory way. And it's been consistent with him that
18:17
Speaker 1: the day clean out day, the two days after the
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Speaker 1: loss in the divisional round, we were in the locker
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Speaker 1: room with him and asked him, Hey, you know what
18:24
Speaker 1: if they franchise you, would you be upset. He's like,
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Speaker 1: you know, hey, it wouldn't be I want a longer deal.
18:29
Speaker 1: But if that's a placeholder for something longer, okay, that's fine.
18:32
Speaker 1: So he betted himself with this one year deal to
18:35
Speaker 1: come down here and it's worked out, obviously for eleven
18:39
Speaker 1: million dollars franchise tag at least. I think it just
18:41
Speaker 1: goes to show you that he's the type of person
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Speaker 1: that you do that you do want to do a
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Speaker 1: long term deal with. Because of the maturity level of
18:49
Speaker 1: the response that he had with the tagging, I thought
18:51
Speaker 1: that that was tremendous. And when I saw that, I
18:53
Speaker 1: was like, you know that, I wasn't surprised because that's
18:56
Speaker 1: just how Evan is. I mean, he's a very mature player.
18:59
Speaker 1: He works hard and total pro and that's why you
19:02
Speaker 1: brought him in here. He's very similar to Zay Jones.
19:04
Speaker 1: He's very similar to Christian Kirk, you know last year's
19:08
Speaker 1: free agent class. I mean, Trent Balking and look and
19:11
Speaker 1: Doug the straight A's on that free agent class, especially
19:15
Speaker 1: when it comes to the character category. I mean fantastic. So,
19:20
Speaker 1: but you know, listening to the conversation that you guys
19:25
Speaker 1: had last Thursday with Trent and also some conversation that
19:30
Speaker 1: were had with Doug and from the media podium and
19:32
Speaker 1: all that. When you're a team, you want to be
19:36
Speaker 1: able to keep your core together. But at the same time,
19:38
Speaker 1: you can't be scared of change, because if you're scared
19:42
Speaker 1: of change, then sometimes you become stale. And so with
19:45
Speaker 1: this football team, I think it's important that you keep
19:47
Speaker 1: the core together. But again, you can't be scared of
19:51
Speaker 1: the unknown. I mean, look at what Kansas City did
19:54
Speaker 1: when they completely revamped their offensive line. I mean they
19:58
Speaker 1: basically ousted every body and then did a complete rebuild
20:02
Speaker 1: of their offensive line, which most people would have like,
20:05
Speaker 1: how can you do that. You've got Patrick Mahomes, right, yeah, right,
20:11
Speaker 1: I mean he's the guy. You can't do that, well,
20:14
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. But they were able to do it, and
20:17
Speaker 1: I believe they actually got better up front because they
20:23
Speaker 1: had the courage to be able to step into some
20:26
Speaker 1: unknown waters. And as a football team, you can't be
20:28
Speaker 1: afraid to step into some unknown waters. But you better
20:31
Speaker 1: have a plan, and you better be able to execute
20:34
Speaker 1: that plan, because if you make a couple of missteps,
20:37
Speaker 1: it can go wrong in a hurry. So I'm looking
20:40
Speaker 1: forward to seeing what happens once this team gets the
20:43
Speaker 1: free agency, and also looking forward to seeing what happens
20:47
Speaker 1: with Juwan Taylor. I don't believe he'll be back. I
20:50
Speaker 1: think the money's gonna get too big. And but I'm
20:54
Speaker 1: most excited with this football team when it comes to
20:56
Speaker 1: the draft because that's where that's where this team is
20:58
Speaker 1: gonna make. Hey ja, since the combine, or right around
21:02
Speaker 1: the combine, move some money around to get underneath the
21:06
Speaker 1: cap restructured for you Lewikin's deal, and then move some
21:09
Speaker 1: of Sheriff's A Jones and Christian Kirk's money to signing
21:12
Speaker 1: bonus money, so kind of moving it around. Yea, it
21:16
Speaker 1: basically becomes cash. And you know that you have to
21:19
Speaker 1: have an ownership willing to do that too, by the way,
21:21
Speaker 1: well yes, and and an owners that has the cash
21:26
Speaker 1: to do that and the willingness to do that. And
21:28
Speaker 1: the reality is is that you are essentially moving some
21:33
Speaker 1: moneys into the future, which at some point you're going
21:36
Speaker 1: to have to be able to handle that in the future.
21:41
Speaker 1: When the first when when that first started happening, it
21:46
Speaker 1: was looked at as like, man, the players really helping
21:48
Speaker 1: out the team. And then people really started to understand
21:52
Speaker 1: what it was. The players helping the team out to
21:54
Speaker 1: get more cap money by taking more upfront money. Players
21:58
Speaker 1: not doing that because he's just got a nice kind heart, JP.
22:04
Speaker 1: He's doing that because it's putting cash money in his pocket.
22:07
Speaker 1: It's essentially getting more guaranteed money because you're getting that
22:10
Speaker 1: money now, right now. And so yeah, so when you
22:14
Speaker 1: some some people fans have had the reaction, Yeah, man,
22:16
Speaker 1: it's really good that Sheriff and those guys re restructured
22:19
Speaker 1: their deals to help the team out, you know, to
22:22
Speaker 1: that way they can keep some guys and still you know,
22:24
Speaker 1: be a player in free agency and all that. Can
22:28
Speaker 1: you imagine the next day, you know, go to your
22:31
Speaker 1: tiaa bank account and looking in there and all of
22:34
Speaker 1: a sudden, there's what twenty million extra dollars in there. WHOA, hello,
22:40
Speaker 1: who got twenty million dollars? If that's the number, you know,
22:43
Speaker 1: just for an example, like if that's the signing bonus.
22:46
Speaker 1: I was thinking, like tents, I was like, yeah, I'm
22:48
Speaker 1: happy with that. Yeah, that's fine, But I mean that's
22:51
Speaker 1: looked that that's that's the world that some of these
22:55
Speaker 1: players are in. Though. JP you bring up a great point,
22:57
Speaker 1: because I mean, some of these guys, that's the number
23:01
Speaker 1: that they may end up getting twenty which is essentially
23:04
Speaker 1: an advance on a paragraph five salary that gets fronted
23:10
Speaker 1: or becomes a signing bonus, and then that twenty million
23:14
Speaker 1: gets spread out over the next three or four years.
23:18
Speaker 1: That lessens the cap hit in the current here. I
23:20
Speaker 1: mean that's you know, we joke around about twenty million
23:23
Speaker 1: and thinks, oh, that's just you know, that's a lumber's
23:25
Speaker 1: too big. But in reality is in some cases that's
23:28
Speaker 1: the number that some teams are fronting certain guys. Let's
23:33
Speaker 1: come back in a moment, Brian Balding or standing by
23:36
Speaker 1: from NFL Network, and he's all over the place. He
23:39
Speaker 1: does everything. It's all over social media. Baldi's breakdowns. He's
23:43
Speaker 1: a film junkie. I like it. There's no doubt he
23:45
Speaker 1: had one on Calvin Ridley the other day, and so
23:47
Speaker 1: of his route running. We'll get his thoughts on the
23:49
Speaker 1: addition for the Jaguars at wide receiver. We're on ten
23:52
Speaker 1: ten xl AM, Jaguars dot Com and Jaguars Social Media.
23:56
Speaker 1: It's Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network. Mike
24:02
Speaker 1: Dempsey and Fat Tony Jaguars Today, All Jaguars, All NFL,
24:07
Speaker 1: all the Time, tended New Weekdays on ten ten xl
24:15
Speaker 1: Well a year away from the game and coming back
24:18
Speaker 1: now is just It shows me I missed the game
24:21
Speaker 1: more than Evan and that I love football more than
24:24
Speaker 1: Evan and football was something that I do and love
24:28
Speaker 1: and will always do. Well. It's Calvin Ridley earlier this
24:32
Speaker 1: week with Bucky Brooks. Catch the entire interview on Jaguars
24:36
Speaker 1: dot Com and Jaguars Social Media. Welcome back to Jaguars
24:39
Speaker 1: Happy Hour JP Shadrick with Jeff Flagman. We're on ten
24:41
Speaker 1: to an AM, Jaguars dot Com, Jaguars Twitter, Facebook and YouTube,
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Speaker 1: and the podcast available on the free iHeartRadio app search
24:48
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars. Well. Ridley reinstated after a gambling suspension. He's
24:54
Speaker 1: now in the final year of his rookie contract. Let's
24:57
Speaker 1: get in the film room with Brian Bolding, your analyst,
25:00
Speaker 1: NFL Network, Fox Sports, Compass Media Network and so much
25:03
Speaker 1: more at Baldy NFL on Twitter is a must follow. Baldy.
25:07
Speaker 1: It's good to talk to you, Bud. How are you,
25:10
Speaker 1: Hey KD. I'm feeling you at Jeff. Good to be
25:13
Speaker 1: with you, guys. Man. It's a good time of the year. Yeah,
25:15
Speaker 1: thank you, Baldy. Hey Baldy, I know you're a film
25:18
Speaker 1: junkie and watching Calvin Ridley. The Jaguars wide receivers last year,
25:23
Speaker 1: I think did a phenomenal job of being participants in
25:25
Speaker 1: the run game and being blockers. Does Calvin Ridley? Will
25:29
Speaker 1: he fit that same that that system where he will
25:32
Speaker 1: also be not a great receiver, but also will be
25:35
Speaker 1: a good blocker as well. I think this, and I
25:39
Speaker 1: think I heard it. I think we all heard it
25:41
Speaker 1: in that sound bite. He's very contrite about what he's done.
25:45
Speaker 1: He's been humbled and he's missed the game. And I
25:48
Speaker 1: think that wide receiver room was pretty good. You know,
25:51
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk had an amazing year. Nobody thought, you know,
25:53
Speaker 1: when they signed him to this time last year that
25:56
Speaker 1: he was going to be that productive. Zay Jones was
25:59
Speaker 1: just complete pro mark the whole group. I think he's
26:03
Speaker 1: gonna fit in And if they say you know this,
26:06
Speaker 1: Travis CTN can hit home runs if our wide receivers
26:09
Speaker 1: are blocking the way they are capable of downfield. I
26:13
Speaker 1: think he'll do whatever it takes to fit in and
26:16
Speaker 1: to be a part of the group. And I don't
26:18
Speaker 1: think he'll be any kind of an outlier when it
26:20
Speaker 1: comes to that. Baldi he told the Players Tribute in
26:24
Speaker 1: a letter that he played a lot of those successful
26:26
Speaker 1: seasons with a broken foot. I mean they kept shooting
26:28
Speaker 1: him up and putting him out there, and then they
26:30
Speaker 1: had a change in staffs and they after quickly realized
26:33
Speaker 1: that it was broken. So that shouldn't be an issue.
26:36
Speaker 1: If you just putting up the numbers in the past
26:37
Speaker 1: with a broken foot, I mean, that's a good sign
26:40
Speaker 1: for the future ahead. Well, he's such a good player.
26:43
Speaker 1: I mean you go back to twenty nineteen, twenty twenty,
26:46
Speaker 1: he might even with Julio Jones healthy, he was the
26:48
Speaker 1: number one wide receiver in Atlanta, and you can see why.
26:51
Speaker 1: I mean they put you know, teams put their best
26:54
Speaker 1: corner on and he beat the best corner. And that's
26:55
Speaker 1: really what it comes down to. If you're gonna be
26:57
Speaker 1: a number one wide receiver, you better be able to
26:59
Speaker 1: beat number one corners. There's a bunch of good ones
27:01
Speaker 1: in this league. We saw a couple of rookies coming
27:03
Speaker 1: to this league last year and light it up. They're
27:06
Speaker 1: only getting bigger, they're only getting longer, they're only getting faster,
27:09
Speaker 1: and you've got to be able to beat him. He
27:11
Speaker 1: can beat him with his release, he can beat him
27:13
Speaker 1: with his route running, you know, and he can flat
27:16
Speaker 1: out run by people. You watch him against Marshawn Lattimore
27:19
Speaker 1: and some of the elite corners of this league. I mean,
27:21
Speaker 1: he can hold his own I think with anybody, and
27:23
Speaker 1: so I think that Jacksonell did their homework. I think
27:27
Speaker 1: they got the right type of guy. And I just
27:29
Speaker 1: think anybody, especially as young as he is, that's been
27:33
Speaker 1: humbled at this point in his career, I don't think
27:35
Speaker 1: you're going to see any kind of issues from him. Brian,
27:39
Speaker 1: how would you kind of rank this Jaguars receiving group,
27:45
Speaker 1: you know, assuming Ridley is the player that we've seen
27:47
Speaker 1: in the past with him, Zay Jones, Christian Kirk, if
27:54
Speaker 1: you had to rank them somewhere in the league one
27:56
Speaker 1: through thirty two, where would you put him at? Well,
28:01
Speaker 1: you know, this is all gonna you know, that's all
28:03
Speaker 1: in flux right now, Jeff. With free agency in the
28:04
Speaker 1: draft coming up, so it's gonna change. But I mean,
28:06
Speaker 1: just right now, especially where they played the last you know,
28:10
Speaker 1: five six weeks of the season, Evan Ingram just exploded,
28:14
Speaker 1: as you saw, you know, week in week out, and
28:16
Speaker 1: you got to put him in that group because they
28:18
Speaker 1: treat them like a wide receiver. They put them in
28:20
Speaker 1: matchups and three by one sets and all that. So
28:23
Speaker 1: I have to include Evan in there. And they just
28:25
Speaker 1: obviously franchised him and they don't want to lose him,
28:28
Speaker 1: and I think he wants to be there. But look,
28:30
Speaker 1: it's an elite group. You saw. I mean, the Chargers
28:33
Speaker 1: had been playing great past defense up into that playoff game.
28:36
Speaker 1: In the second half, they couldn't stop them, and you know,
28:39
Speaker 1: sometimes you just need, you know, thirty minutes of great
28:42
Speaker 1: football like they showed, you know, to have one of
28:45
Speaker 1: the greatest comebacks, you know, that we've ever seen in
28:47
Speaker 1: the playoffs in league history. And so I think they're
28:51
Speaker 1: a great group and they have a guy that could
28:54
Speaker 1: kind of do just about anything. Yeah, looking at this
28:58
Speaker 1: past season, the growth of Trevor Lawrence was just it
29:02
Speaker 1: was amazing to watch as the season progressed Brian watching
29:06
Speaker 1: his growth as development, as maturity, which we saw a
29:09
Speaker 1: lot of that as rookie year, but it was kind
29:11
Speaker 1: of hard for people, I think, to focus in on that.
29:15
Speaker 1: But watching his game this past year, where do you
29:19
Speaker 1: see his ceiling being at I don't think it's in
29:24
Speaker 1: sight because the growth that we saw just in the
29:27
Speaker 1: course of this season. You know, he when it was
29:32
Speaker 1: four thounds in some of these games that they had
29:35
Speaker 1: to win to stay in the playoff hunt. I mean,
29:37
Speaker 1: it was one stick throw after another. I mean that
29:39
Speaker 1: game against Dallas, you know, just one of the more
29:41
Speaker 1: thrilling games that anybody in Jackson has ever seen that
29:44
Speaker 1: team play that Thursday night against the Jets, against a
29:48
Speaker 1: good defense, in their game plan they had in that game,
29:51
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just off the top of my head,
29:52
Speaker 1: just going back. I mean, you saw it all. You
29:55
Speaker 1: saw the movement, you saw the play design, how smart
29:59
Speaker 1: it was to be able to beat a guy like Sauce,
30:02
Speaker 1: and how they beat Sauce in that game against the Jets.
30:04
Speaker 1: I think it's a combination of play design, confidence in
30:08
Speaker 1: the staff, the personnel around Trevor, the offensive line was
30:12
Speaker 1: excellent all year long. I just think it all came together.
30:16
Speaker 1: And if you said, what's the ceiling, I don't know,
30:18
Speaker 1: because we just saw a tremendous arca this year, and
30:23
Speaker 1: I just think there's a lot more there to it,
30:25
Speaker 1: to the point where you know, it's going to be
30:27
Speaker 1: difficult to choose between Mahomes, Joe Burrow. You know, you
30:32
Speaker 1: know Trevor, I mean he might be in that category.
30:36
Speaker 1: Brian Boldinger with us from NFL Network, Fox Sports, Compass Media.
30:40
Speaker 1: It's Jaguar's happy hour, and yet you mentioned it that
30:44
Speaker 1: he's got to kind of be in that echelon if
30:46
Speaker 1: you're going to compete year over here for playoff runs
30:49
Speaker 1: and go deep into the playoffs in the ASC especially,
30:52
Speaker 1: This is a quarterback group right now, Baldy that I
30:56
Speaker 1: don't know if we've seen one like this in a
30:57
Speaker 1: long time, and in one conference just dominate well. I mean,
31:00
Speaker 1: if you just looked at them the Divisional Championship round,
31:05
Speaker 1: the eight teams that were standing, Dak Prescott was the
31:08
Speaker 1: oldest quarterback in the group, you know, Josh Allen Patrick
31:11
Speaker 1: justin like you know, Trevor, Joe Burrow. I mean, it's
31:14
Speaker 1: a Jalen hurts. It's a young group. This is the future,
31:18
Speaker 1: and Trevor is right there in there with him. And
31:20
Speaker 1: so you saw the confidence just being around in the
31:24
Speaker 1: game day and I'm sure Jeff during the week. I
31:27
Speaker 1: mean being around the guy, you see a complete difference.
31:29
Speaker 1: He's always been. You know, he's always been the best
31:32
Speaker 1: everywhere he's ever beenned Cartersville High School, CLEMPS or whatever.
31:36
Speaker 1: But now he's in that group, Like, I don't think
31:38
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a drop off. I think that Larkin
31:41
Speaker 1: is only going to go up. And let's face it,
31:44
Speaker 1: that group of eight in the Divisional championship round this year,
31:48
Speaker 1: they could be seeing each other a bunch in the
31:50
Speaker 1: next five years. The way that the teams have been
31:53
Speaker 1: building around him, I think they've all got special players.
31:57
Speaker 1: I live in Philly. I know Jayalen, I know how
32:00
Speaker 1: special he became this year, and I think he's going
32:02
Speaker 1: to get better. So, yes, it's the playoffs are going
32:07
Speaker 1: to be must CTV for quite a few years with
32:09
Speaker 1: these young guns playing quarterback. Brian watching this past season,
32:14
Speaker 1: you know, we're talking a lot about the Jimmies and Joe's,
32:16
Speaker 1: which are the players we always refer to, but coaching
32:20
Speaker 1: matters and watching film this year of this Doug Peterson
32:25
Speaker 1: offense every week I came away going, wow, look at
32:30
Speaker 1: that play design. Yeah, I mean was that as impressive
32:34
Speaker 1: to you as well? Yeah? It was, Jeff and I
32:37
Speaker 1: saw it. I saw it in Philadelphia when they won
32:39
Speaker 1: a championship. And the thing that, you know, just listening
32:43
Speaker 1: to wires and get to know Doug, you know as
32:45
Speaker 1: a head coach. I knew him as a player and whatnot.
32:47
Speaker 1: But like, you know, the great thing about him, Jeff
32:50
Speaker 1: is he's a great collaborator. He takes in a lot
32:53
Speaker 1: of information. It could be from the offensive line coach.
32:55
Speaker 1: It could be from Trevor, it could be from you know,
32:58
Speaker 1: it could be Kyl Shatley, it could be from anybody,
33:02
Speaker 1: um upstairs, downstairs. Like he just can take in a
33:07
Speaker 1: lot of information to come out with the right play,
33:09
Speaker 1: the right concept. Um. The way they tweaked things week
33:12
Speaker 1: in week out. You saw, you know, some of the
33:14
Speaker 1: play designs in the red Zone this year that you know,
33:16
Speaker 1: we're just clever and they just worked. I mean you
33:19
Speaker 1: could put you know, a highlight reel together just the
33:21
Speaker 1: plays of you know, creativity and design and ingenuity and
33:27
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's about knowing your personnel and what
33:30
Speaker 1: you put on tape and what you anticipate a team
33:34
Speaker 1: to do against that formation or that motion and then
33:36
Speaker 1: tweaking at it and you know, and they and then
33:40
Speaker 1: to pull those plays out at the right time. It
33:42
Speaker 1: was a combination of all that. Jeff I saw it.
33:44
Speaker 1: And if you're a Jacksonville Jaguarfian, if you're Defennie Jacksonville,
33:49
Speaker 1: you have to be ready for it. You gotta love
33:51
Speaker 1: it as a fan and as an opponent, you gotta
33:53
Speaker 1: be ready for what you haven't seen. Boy, you played
33:57
Speaker 1: the game a long time. You played in the in
33:59
Speaker 1: the trenches his offensive lineman. Looking at the Jaguars offensive line,
34:04
Speaker 1: I think if there's one area that this team could
34:06
Speaker 1: improve and take a significant step forward, it's it's improving
34:09
Speaker 1: the play the physicality that offensive line making it. I
34:13
Speaker 1: don't want to say like Philadelphia's offensive line, but that's
34:16
Speaker 1: kind of the benchmark in the National Football League. Bad. Yeah,
34:20
Speaker 1: I mean, how do they take that next step all
34:23
Speaker 1: that offensive line and kind of get that offensive line
34:27
Speaker 1: to be one of the top offensive lines to help
34:31
Speaker 1: what is gonna be or what we believe is one
34:33
Speaker 1: of the top quarterbacks. Yeah. Well, I mean it starts
34:37
Speaker 1: with you know, signing Brandon Sheriff last year. I mean,
34:39
Speaker 1: you got to have one guy like that up front.
34:42
Speaker 1: He's you know, the Sheriff is as tough as they come.
34:45
Speaker 1: He's just a grinder. M He's going to try to
34:48
Speaker 1: break your sword every Sunday. And that attitude permeates. You know,
34:51
Speaker 1: he got, you know, add a rookie in their playing
34:53
Speaker 1: center this year. You know, he's only going to get better.
34:57
Speaker 1: I think your offensive line is only as good as
34:58
Speaker 1: your center. You look at Jason Kelsey in Philadelphia, they're
35:02
Speaker 1: not the same without Jason Inner and just you know,
35:06
Speaker 1: the protections, just how stable he makes the middle of
35:10
Speaker 1: the line, or a quarterback that can step up, it's imperative.
35:14
Speaker 1: I think it's important to try to keep Joan, Like
35:17
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan. I know he's going to be
35:19
Speaker 1: coveted in free agency. But if they do lose them
35:22
Speaker 1: because they just can't afford him, and that happens because
35:24
Speaker 1: I thought Joann played well and I'm a big fan
35:27
Speaker 1: of his, but I know other teams that like him
35:29
Speaker 1: as well too, So he might get a pay day.
35:31
Speaker 1: But if they lose them, they better they better hit
35:34
Speaker 1: the draft and find them. You know, whether it's you
35:36
Speaker 1: know Darnell right, you know out of Tennessee. You know
35:39
Speaker 1: you've got to replace him, and it's imperative that they
35:42
Speaker 1: stay strong in the trenches. I know Doug believes in that.
35:44
Speaker 1: That was the philosophy in Philadelphia. He knows the value
35:48
Speaker 1: that if they lose Joan, I think you better go
35:51
Speaker 1: high in the draft, you go try to replace him.
35:54
Speaker 1: Brian Boldinger with his final thought with you, Baldi, And
35:57
Speaker 1: it goes to the NFL draft. You know, as a
36:00
Speaker 1: recent history around here, the jackson picked number one overall.
36:02
Speaker 1: That is not the case anymore earlier. They have the
36:05
Speaker 1: twenty fourth pick in this draft. Kind of hard to
36:08
Speaker 1: cherry pick players at that spot. There are some needs
36:11
Speaker 1: coming up. Cornerback one of those for the Jags. But
36:13
Speaker 1: in general, top of the draft, how are you feeling?
36:17
Speaker 1: You know, we're a month or so out, a month
36:19
Speaker 1: and a half out from this draft and just out
36:21
Speaker 1: of the combine. What stands out near the top. What
36:24
Speaker 1: can we expect? Well? I think, you know, for Jackville,
36:28
Speaker 1: it ties into Jacksonville because I don't think there's any
36:30
Speaker 1: chance at these top four quarterbacks, you know, whether you're
36:33
Speaker 1: talking about C. J. Stroud, Bryant Youngs, Will Levis, you
36:37
Speaker 1: know Anthony Richardson. I believe all four are going to
36:40
Speaker 1: the top ten. So it's gonna push a lot of
36:43
Speaker 1: really good players. This is a deep draft in corners.
36:46
Speaker 1: It's a good draft for offensive lineman, especially interior offensive linemen.
36:50
Speaker 1: It's an excellent draft for tight ends. Like it's gonna
36:53
Speaker 1: push a good player and maybe a top flight corner
36:57
Speaker 1: or tackle down to number twenty four. And you know,
37:00
Speaker 1: Shaquille Griffin just got released. He was antic corner to
37:03
Speaker 1: might be antic tackle. I think you can get a
37:07
Speaker 1: really good player, maybe a plug and play starter at
37:10
Speaker 1: twenty four in this draft right now. Baldy, you're the man.
37:14
Speaker 1: Give him a follow on Twitter. If you don't, what
37:16
Speaker 1: are you doing? You should at Baldy NFL. Brian Baldinger
37:20
Speaker 1: always good to visit with you. Thanks for taking the
37:22
Speaker 1: time in Yeah, my pleasure of guys. I'll see a
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Speaker 1: round Jeff, take care, guys. Thank you, Baldy. Brian Baldinger
37:28
Speaker 1: one of the best in the business, one of the best,
37:30
Speaker 1: and I got a lot of respect for Baldi just
37:33
Speaker 1: because I mean, he's a guy that studies the film.
37:35
Speaker 1: He knows what he's talking about. He doesn't just read
37:38
Speaker 1: clips and then regurgitate information. He finds his own information.
37:42
Speaker 1: And I think that's the mark of a true film
37:45
Speaker 1: room junkie. And I respect that he's a guy that
37:48
Speaker 1: played way back in the nineteen eighties. Been a while
37:52
Speaker 1: since he played. He's not that old. Come, I'm skidding,
37:55
Speaker 1: of course he's he'd met him about the same era. Yeah,
37:58
Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, yeah, he was a little bit were
38:00
Speaker 1: he was a little bit for me, it kind of
38:03
Speaker 1: hit tail end to him was the beginning of you
38:05
Speaker 1: know me so so we kind of overlapped a little
38:07
Speaker 1: bit there. But yeah, he and and here's the other thing.
38:10
Speaker 1: He has done a tremendous job as a game analyst,
38:13
Speaker 1: you know, for years as a TV analyst, And every
38:16
Speaker 1: time I had the opportunity to listen to him do
38:19
Speaker 1: a broadcast, I always listened intently to him because I
38:22
Speaker 1: knew that he he was a guy who studied the
38:25
Speaker 1: game and studied the film, and he was going to
38:27
Speaker 1: give you the truth back in a moment. A look
38:29
Speaker 1: at the Miller Electric Center when we returned, it's Jaguars
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38:40
Speaker 1: you will hear about it first on ten ten x
38:42
Speaker 1: olt Home of the Checks in Bille Jaguars. You know,
38:50
Speaker 1: to be around the type of men that are that
38:52
Speaker 1: be assembled as a staff, and you know, working with
38:55
Speaker 1: Trent Bulky and obviously they're the team, it just it
38:58
Speaker 1: just rejuvenates even more. And you just got a spirit
39:02
Speaker 1: that that you just want to keep pouring yourself into
39:04
Speaker 1: these players and and and keep watching because I know
39:07
Speaker 1: there's more out there for us. And that's what I
39:10
Speaker 1: was trying to teach the team. You know, as the
39:12
Speaker 1: season progressed, there's more for us. There's bigger and better
39:15
Speaker 1: and and um, you know, every every team every year
39:19
Speaker 1: is wanting to win a world championship. Only one team
39:21
Speaker 1: can do it, and you know, ultimately we want to
39:23
Speaker 1: be one of those teams. Stug Peterson at the Combine
39:26
Speaker 1: last week in Indianapolis, and if you're watching us on
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Speaker 1: Jaguars dot Com, Jaguars social media, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, a
39:32
Speaker 1: live look outside at the Miller Electric Center. I had
39:36
Speaker 1: a chance logs to take a tour of that yesterday.
39:38
Speaker 1: Well good Peterson and Trent Balky and a few of
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Speaker 1: the staff on both sides, and it was fantastic. It
39:46
Speaker 1: is huge and it's coming along nicely. They are installing
39:50
Speaker 1: the irrigation system on the field area at this point
39:54
Speaker 1: and all water and all air will be pumped in
39:57
Speaker 1: from underneath. Really, there will be no crown on any
40:01
Speaker 1: of the field. It will be just a flat surface,
40:04
Speaker 1: so they can alternate the where the fields go and
40:06
Speaker 1: just not where the field out right, So you could
40:12
Speaker 1: you can do what however you want, because there's cameras,
40:14
Speaker 1: you know, permanent cameras for the film staff on all
40:17
Speaker 1: four sides, so you can you can do it anyway
40:19
Speaker 1: you want. Yeah, it's pretty cool. And then the grass
40:21
Speaker 1: will go in in April. The drainage system has got
40:24
Speaker 1: to be pretty incredible for for a system like that,
40:27
Speaker 1: and that I've never heard of that putting the waters
40:30
Speaker 1: all pumped pumped in underneath. I've seen where they have
40:35
Speaker 1: like drip irrigation underground, so I guess that's kind of
40:37
Speaker 1: what it's like. I guess interesting. They had a lot
40:40
Speaker 1: of exposed yesterday. They had a big event with the
40:42
Speaker 1: construction workers. Doug Peterson spoke to them and they had
40:44
Speaker 1: a kind of a there's about four months to go
40:47
Speaker 1: before they turn over the keys. The end of June
40:50
Speaker 1: is the goal, and as of right now, they got
40:52
Speaker 1: a lot of work to do, doing some extra work
40:54
Speaker 1: to get it done. But as of right now, they're
40:57
Speaker 1: on track, and then the JAG should have it by
40:59
Speaker 1: July first and then ready for training camp. Yeah, that'll
41:02
Speaker 1: be exciting to see all of that, and I'm sure
41:04
Speaker 1: there will be a little things that they've got to
41:06
Speaker 1: kind of work through as they get closer. But man,
41:09
Speaker 1: the credit to the construction guys that have been putting
41:12
Speaker 1: a scene together at an incredibly fast paced I mean
41:15
Speaker 1: they have been working and intensely. I mean I'm talking
41:19
Speaker 1: weekends and I mean working in late of the night.
41:22
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's been one heck of a job now.
41:25
Speaker 1: And it is a stark contrast from the area to
41:28
Speaker 1: work in this building as opposed to over there. Well,
41:31
Speaker 1: that one has light. It's got windows everywhere, natural light, unbelievable.
41:37
Speaker 1: The stadium where most of the offices are at now
41:41
Speaker 1: most people don't have never seen them. For the most part.
41:45
Speaker 1: I call it the cat cave instead of the bat
41:47
Speaker 1: cave because there's there's like no natural light that exists
41:52
Speaker 1: in the business offices, the coaches offices. So you'll see
41:55
Speaker 1: a lot of times coaches when they and players, when
41:58
Speaker 1: they have an opportunity, they just literally leave the stadium
42:01
Speaker 1: just to go out and see some light, because there
42:03
Speaker 1: are times during the season when the time changes or whatever.
42:06
Speaker 1: You can if you're in here early enough in the morning,
42:09
Speaker 1: the sun's not up yet, and you're inside all day
42:12
Speaker 1: for some reason, and then you leave and the sun
42:14
Speaker 1: is already set. It's like you're in Alaska or something
42:17
Speaker 1: that you don't see the sun. Yeah, that's that's not
42:20
Speaker 1: a lot of fun there. No sun's good for you. Apparently,
42:23
Speaker 1: that glowing orb in the sky is what they call
42:25
Speaker 1: the sun. Oh you get you gotta get your vitamin D. Yeah,
42:28
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42:55
Speaker 1: That's a big one. What's the date on that? I
42:58
Speaker 1: don't know? Soon, very sad. I think it's April. Okay,
43:02
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43:08
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Speaker 1: I'll be sold out at some point, if it's not already,
43:21
Speaker 1: If it's not already exactly right, Hey, let's go around
43:24
Speaker 1: the National Football League. The New York Jets have met
43:27
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers since he's come out of his darkness retreat.
43:32
Speaker 1: Multiple members of the organization attended the meeting in California.
43:36
Speaker 1: They went to him, including owner Woodie Johnson, GM Joe Douglas,
43:39
Speaker 1: head coach Robert Sala, and offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett. Well,
43:44
Speaker 1: just it feels like it's trending the Jets direction with
43:48
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. Well, it's the only direction there could possibly go.
43:51
Speaker 1: It's either the Jets or Green Bay or Aaron decided
43:55
Speaker 1: to retire. I mean, who else is gonna take on
43:59
Speaker 1: what is his salary? Fifty million? I think it's something.
44:02
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a big number, big, it's kind of weird,
44:06
Speaker 1: um And I think a lot of it depends on
44:08
Speaker 1: your perspective on it. Are you a fan of Aaron
44:10
Speaker 1: Rodgers or are you not? And I'm a fan of
44:14
Speaker 1: his ability when he plays well? But would what would
44:19
Speaker 1: New York do to him? You know, could he make
44:22
Speaker 1: that team better? Look, if you're gonna make a team better,
44:25
Speaker 1: you've got to be willing to commit to that team.
44:29
Speaker 1: He hasn't committed to the Green Bay Packers over the
44:31
Speaker 1: last couple of years for an off season program yet. True.
44:35
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're gonna go to a new football
44:36
Speaker 1: team and have new teammates, I mean, shouldn't you be
44:38
Speaker 1: willing to put the time? It's not like invest It's
44:42
Speaker 1: not like your teammates had a bunch of veteran receivers
44:45
Speaker 1: coming back all the time. They had a bunch of
44:47
Speaker 1: rookie guys. Well, there's constant change. I mean, there's constant change.
44:50
Speaker 1: And look the all season is It's not like they're
44:54
Speaker 1: asking you to have fifty practices with your team. Yeah,
45:00
Speaker 1: a mini camp and then you got thirteen OTAs, which
45:04
Speaker 1: is minimal. The stuff that on the field stuff is
45:09
Speaker 1: just so become so minimal now because of the limitations
45:12
Speaker 1: that the coaches have. And why would you not First
45:16
Speaker 1: of all, why would you not do that to to
45:19
Speaker 1: take the opportunity to get better number one, to help
45:22
Speaker 1: your teammates get better number two, to create chemistry number three,
45:27
Speaker 1: and then also to show your commitment to the organization
45:30
Speaker 1: and your teammates. And Aaron Rodgers hasn't done that. As
45:33
Speaker 1: you can probably tell, I'm not the biggest Aaron Rodgers family,
45:38
Speaker 1: and uh with the Jets. I mean, the reality is
45:42
Speaker 1: this big city, big city lights, big city attention. And
45:46
Speaker 1: Aaron he's had attention. He's the Packers quarterback. No, I
45:49
Speaker 1: get that about I get that. But here's here's the
45:51
Speaker 1: thing that will not be the same as Green Bay.
45:54
Speaker 1: If Aaron Rodgers has or says something that's not so
46:00
Speaker 1: great in Green Bay, it was kind of handled with
46:04
Speaker 1: kid gloves because he's Aaron Rodgers. It's Green Bay. In
46:07
Speaker 1: New York, dude, they're getting after they buy ink by
46:12
Speaker 1: the by the drums. Okay, the sports writers in New York, right, Okay,
46:17
Speaker 1: they sharpen their pencils to a very fine point. And look,
46:22
Speaker 1: I know a lot of those guys and they're great people.
46:24
Speaker 1: But the moment that Aaron Rodgers starts acting like a
46:27
Speaker 1: jackass is the moment that Aaron Rodgers starts getting treated
46:30
Speaker 1: like a jackass. So I can't wait to see and
46:33
Speaker 1: I hope he does go to New York because I
46:34
Speaker 1: think it will be nothing but pure entertainment. Sounds fun
46:39
Speaker 1: to be. The other team in New York just signed
46:42
Speaker 1: their quarterback, by the way, Daniel Jones, a four year deal,
46:44
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty million dollars. Daniel Jones about that,
46:51
Speaker 1: what was guarantee? I don't know what the guarantees are?
46:55
Speaker 1: Four years, one hundred and sixty million, forty million a
46:57
Speaker 1: year and what what what are? And here's the crazy thing.
47:00
Speaker 1: You don't know what's going on in Baltimore because you've
47:04
Speaker 1: got a negotiation that's very fragile because Lamar Jackson is
47:10
Speaker 1: represented himself. And I'm not saying that Daniel Jones is
47:15
Speaker 1: in Lamar Jackson's category, because he's not, because Lamar Jackson
47:18
Speaker 1: is a dynamic runner. But they're kind of similar in
47:20
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, and that Daniel Jones is an
47:23
Speaker 1: effective runner, still kind of learning how to be more
47:28
Speaker 1: of a pocket passer. Lamar Jackson similar in a lot
47:30
Speaker 1: of ways, but Lamar Jackson is lights out dynamic. Every
47:33
Speaker 1: time he touches the ball, you go, you hold your breath, right.
47:37
Speaker 1: You don't do that so much with Daniel Jones, but
47:39
Speaker 1: he's been an effective runner. So where's that negotiation at
47:43
Speaker 1: in relation to that forty million dollar average Daniel Jones at.
47:48
Speaker 1: We don't know because the Ravens don't want to talk
47:52
Speaker 1: about it because Lamar's handling the negotiations himself. And if
47:56
Speaker 1: you end up saying something, you're gonna end up hamper
48:00
Speaker 1: in the process, offending your quarterback. That's why I wish
48:03
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson would get an agent. I mean, there's guys
48:06
Speaker 1: that are willing to do it at a much reduced rate,
48:09
Speaker 1: and they're professionals. They do that for a living. You
48:12
Speaker 1: play quarterback for a living, have somebody help you do
48:16
Speaker 1: your contract because that's what they do. And there's a
48:20
Speaker 1: lot of guys that are out there that are really
48:22
Speaker 1: good at it that would be willing to do it
48:24
Speaker 1: at a reduced rate because the money's gonna be so big,
48:29
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, and they'll have you on their roster
48:31
Speaker 1: the whole You negotiate the rate, you know what I mean?
48:33
Speaker 1: A lot of times, Wow, the agents are expensive. Yeah,
48:35
Speaker 1: I get that, but more times than not, ninety nine
48:39
Speaker 1: percent of the time the agent pays for his expensive
48:42
Speaker 1: because of his expertise. Gino Smith signed a deal today,
48:46
Speaker 1: actually signed it today, three years, seventy five million, thirty
48:49
Speaker 1: million fully guaranteed for him. And what a story for
48:51
Speaker 1: Gino Smith. Good for him, I don't. I mean, he's
48:54
Speaker 1: been in the league forever and finally got an opportunity
48:56
Speaker 1: and cash it in. Good job, Yeah, I mean I
48:59
Speaker 1: think up until now he's made like sixteen seventeen million
49:02
Speaker 1: in his career and then he just you know, he
49:03
Speaker 1: just broke the bank and he look, he had a
49:05
Speaker 1: great year. He had a great quarterback competition, he earned
49:08
Speaker 1: the position, he performed, he was accurate, his completion percentage
49:13
Speaker 1: was high. I remember two years ago when we went
49:17
Speaker 1: out there and I remember saying that Geno Smith can't
49:20
Speaker 1: win a football game, There's no way, And all he
49:23
Speaker 1: did was win a football game, certainly played really well.
49:25
Speaker 1: He proved me wrong, and he's been proved me wrong.
49:28
Speaker 1: Since he's done a great job. Give him a lot
49:30
Speaker 1: of credit because it's not very often that you have
49:32
Speaker 1: a quarterback who's had multiple chances at different stops it
49:36
Speaker 1: finally ends up finding a way to have success. And
49:39
Speaker 1: so I give him credit because he continued to work
49:41
Speaker 1: and he finally found success. All Right, they'll do it
49:45
Speaker 1: another program in the books. Good to see you again, logs.
49:49
Speaker 1: Busy week ahead of course the players this weekend at
49:51
Speaker 1: TPC saw Grass and then next week it's the negotiation
49:55
Speaker 1: window Monday Tuesday, ahead of free agency Wednesday, four o'clock
50:00
Speaker 1: is legal legal tampering period? Is the official term or
50:04
Speaker 1: the unofficial term? Yes, yeah, legal tampering period. That kind
50:09
Speaker 1: of like the jumbo shrimp. That doesn't make sense more. Yeah,
50:14
Speaker 1: that's Jo wrong that that's Joe Fortunato. Britt Reaver on
50:19
Speaker 1: the audio video side, excuse me, that's Jeff Flagman. I'm
50:22
Speaker 1: JP Shadrick. Thank you for listening, Thank you for watching.
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