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Ross Matiscik, Maria Gigante & Trevor Lawrence Signs · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: The temperature in Jacksonville's thirty four degreed in Limerick, it's fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: In Leeds it's thirteen. Hello, this is episode two of
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  Speaker 1: Till Talk, a new podcast for Jacksonville Jaguars fans are
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  Speaker 1: here in the UK and Ireland. What I'm beyond as well?
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  Speaker 1: I'm Jay Lawrence. Still no relation. Here's Key ram sur
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  Speaker 1: and Hey.
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  Speaker 2: Do Man, I'm good Man, also no relation. So we're
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  Speaker 2: going to be with you every week during the regular
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  Speaker 2: season from September and every month until that leading up
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  Speaker 2: to it, talking everything. Jags from the side of the bond.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up as well. This is actually really exciting because
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  Speaker 1: we're going to speak to Jack pro Bowler, I should say,
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  Speaker 1: should I Ross Mattter sick fresh off of the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: UK tour. Keep Actually, you're gonna give us some of
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  Speaker 1: the behind the scenes stuff from the tour.
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  Speaker 2: Have you recovered Key who said that? No, I have recovered. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it did. It was good fun to be fair, It
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  Speaker 2: did actually take me a few days.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not as young as I used to be.
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  Speaker 2: Jay.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, this is the tour, isn't it that you tried
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  Speaker 1: your first ever Guinness in Dublin? That's correct? Isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: So I tried my first ever Guinness in yeah, on
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  Speaker 2: the draft day, and then I did I may have
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  Speaker 2: had another pint of Guinness when I was in Dublin.
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  Speaker 1: Jags fan Steve is going to join us actually later
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  Speaker 1: on as well in til Talk. Also, we'll hear from
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  Speaker 1: JAG's UK and Ireland head Hon Show Maria Gigante on
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  Speaker 1: all things Jags UK and Island. Oh, we've also got
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  Speaker 1: another Jags exclusive giveaway. All the ticket details as well
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  Speaker 1: are for the Wembley game in October because there are
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  Speaker 1: more details to do with that. So if you don't
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  Speaker 1: have tickets, got more news for you, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to discuss how we think the Janks will do on
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  Speaker 1: the field in twenty twenty four. I feel like we're
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  Speaker 1: burying the lead though a little bit, to be honest, Key,
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  Speaker 1: we're actually kind of avoiding the one topic that's been
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  Speaker 1: on you know, every Jags fans mind, and that is
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence's brand new contract.
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  Speaker 3: Well done, Trevor, well done, travel.
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  Speaker 1: Well done, Trevor. Is that all you've got to say
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  Speaker 1: about it?
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  Speaker 3: That's move?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 2: Actually, Jay, do you know what my favorite part of
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  Speaker 2: the like wonderful, really pleased for the franchise.
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  Speaker 3: Please for Trevor.
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  Speaker 4: Please.
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  Speaker 2: My favorite thing about the whole thing is Trevor just going, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's business, Like I already knew I was the franchise QB.
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  Speaker 2: That's how I'm behaving, That's how it's always been from
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  Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, dude, I love him.
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  Speaker 3: I love him.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think, what's really you know, moreportant? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: obviously it's a lot of money because it's a five year,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy five million contract extension which is
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  Speaker 1: going to tie Trevor Lawrence to Jacksonville until twenty thirty.
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  Speaker 1: But what the big thing is money aside? It's just
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  Speaker 1: that commitment, isn't it. And the fact that Trevor Lawrence
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  Speaker 1: now knows Jacksonville fans now know as well that the
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  Speaker 1: Jags are in it for the long haul with Trevor
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  Speaker 1: Lawrence is their franchise quarterback. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That was beautiful And hearing him talk about like he's
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  Speaker 2: he's been here for three seasons, right, one that was
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  Speaker 2: not great at all, one that was really really good,
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  Speaker 2: got to the playoffs, and then one that started really
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  Speaker 2: well and finished badly, And he was like do you
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  Speaker 2: know what I feel like I've seen so much. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I know Jacksonville. Jacksonville knows me, we know
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  Speaker 2: what to expect. We have settled here, our family is here.
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  Speaker 2: I just think, yeah, man, this is something that fits.
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  Speaker 2: And I see I'm just gonna say it. I see
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  Speaker 2: next season being really big for Trevor.
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  Speaker 1: You can go bigger than that. I feel like you
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  Speaker 1: were about to say MVP style season, but you sort
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  Speaker 1: of just a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I see it being really big. And that's as much
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  Speaker 3: as I'm willing to say, Jay.
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  Speaker 1: And as much as anything else, is that you know
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  Speaker 1: his family as well. They want to settle. You know,
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  Speaker 1: his wife wants to settle in Jacksonville. This is their home,
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  Speaker 1: as you say. And congratulations to Trevor as well, because
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  Speaker 1: not only he signs the massive contract tying him to
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville for for years to come, and also he announces
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  Speaker 1: that his wife is pregnant as well.
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  Speaker 3: Lovely like that being all tied in together.
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  Speaker 2: That's just really nice. What a nice little little package
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  Speaker 2: lovely is it? Is it dreadful to say?
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if I'll meet him at some point in
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  Speaker 1: this season, and then I can try and convince him
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  Speaker 1: to name his baby Jay. Is that dreadful?
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  Speaker 3: I absolutely love it is the thing.
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  Speaker 2: I am going to meet him later and I am
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  Speaker 2: going to convince him to call it Ky.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't have the last name Lawrence. That's it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't work. So congratulations to Trevor. I'm sure I speak
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  Speaker 1: on behalf of you know, the whole of Jacksonville to
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  Speaker 1: say that, you know, incredibly pleased to see that he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be He's committed to Jacksonville for the long
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  Speaker 1: haul and quite rightly, here's the franchise quarterback for the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars as well. Another you know, massive news as well
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  Speaker 1: is not only is Trevor Lawrence committed to Jacksonville, but
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars are as well with massive stadium news as well.
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  Speaker 1: Massive for the Jaguars, massive for the city of jackson
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  Speaker 1: wasn't it Key?
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  Speaker 2: Did you see the design of the stadium, ja, Yeah, incredible,
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing, And like the fact that they've committed to
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  Speaker 2: doing all of the parks and the amount of money
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  Speaker 2: that the Jags are also going to put into the community, fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: But for me seeing the design of that stadium, oh man,
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  Speaker 2: that is so exciting.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a weirdly like massive couple weeks for jackson
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  Speaker 1: for the Jacksonville Jacquars, hasn't it, Because these things aren't
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  Speaker 1: just for the twenty twenty four season, you know, or
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  Speaker 1: anything like that. We're talking about five, ten, you know,
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  Speaker 1: twenty years, I suppose as well in regards to the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been weirdly kind of like an integral couple
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  Speaker 1: weeks for the whole Jaguars.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The mayor referred to it as monumental, and I can't
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  Speaker 2: disagree with that. I mean, it's yeah, this is really
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  Speaker 2: big stuff. Do you know what I was watching mister
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  Speaker 2: can't talk about it? And the phrase that he used that,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, that's that's it. He just said,
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  Speaker 2: and now we need to win, and.
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  Speaker 1: Now we need to win.
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  Speaker 3: Now we need to win.
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  Speaker 1: That's a really nice way of putting it as well.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, right, everything is, everything is in place. Now
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  Speaker 1: we need to win to show that that he is
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  Speaker 1: just as hungry as he's ever been to win as well,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent, like we're talking about you know, now
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  Speaker 2: we've got the Miller Electric Center, brand new facility. It's
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  Speaker 2: all like there's there's no excuse anymore. Now we need
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  Speaker 2: to win, spot.
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  Speaker 1: On, I want to try and give you this question,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, from the Sporting News. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: the answer to this. This is this is this is
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  Speaker 1: this is produce Assignment's doing. But I can guess. So
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  Speaker 1: there's let's have a go at this. Yeah, you can
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  Speaker 1: see how this goes. The Sporting News listed the most
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  Speaker 1: valuable player in each NFL team who wasn't the quarterback? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: gets who it was for the Jacksonville Jaguars. I've got
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  Speaker 1: an idea. I want to hear your opinions first. Now
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  Speaker 1: I'll give my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, if it's any one other than these two players,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to personally write into Sporting News to have
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  Speaker 2: a word. Right, it's got to be either Josh Allen
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  Speaker 2: or Foyer Leucon and I would I would suggest then
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  Speaker 2: that order as.
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  Speaker 1: Your new best mate Foyer, my new best mate Foyer.
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  Speaker 3: I do you know the answer?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the answer, Producer Simon, If you can
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  Speaker 1: just text us in a second or let us know,
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  Speaker 1: because I cannot. I surely it's got to be Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 1: It's my opinion. It's got to be Josh Allen for
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  Speaker 1: a couple of reasons. At Number one is positional value.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why obviously that they took out the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: out of the equation, because otherwise, no matter who the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback is, are probably going to be the most valuable player,
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  Speaker 1: right in all likelihood, they will be so positional value.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to look at Josh Allen's position and see, right, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: not only is that positional value going to be higher
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  Speaker 1: than a lot of other positions, but it just so
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  Speaker 1: happens that Josh Allen is one of the best you
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  Speaker 1: know in the league. So surely it's got to be
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen, and and for Foyer as well.
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  Speaker 2: A sorry, Jay, I've just thought of something else at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the season. Before we look at Simon's
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  Speaker 2: text that has just come through before the end of
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  Speaker 2: the season, I'm pretty sure that one of the only
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  Speaker 2: top five positional players, I think the other one was
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  Speaker 2: Travis Travis ETN. So, okay, do you know what, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to stick with Josh Allen, But if it's Travis,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be super annoyed.
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  Speaker 1: Gone, Okay, all right, I'll read it. Okay, let's go
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen has been named as the most important Jaguar
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  Speaker 1: outside of you know, outside of Trevor Lawrence. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that makes sense, that makes sense as well, he's another
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  Speaker 1: mate of yours. Any Josh Allen, I suppose.
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  Speaker 3: He texted me and told me he did.
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  Speaker 1: He. I think it's a It makes sense, doesn't it,
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  Speaker 1: for it to be for it to be Josh Allen,
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  Speaker 1: As I said, for positional value alone.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: And that is again just just bringing it back to
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  Speaker 1: what's happened this offseason, is that it's been actually a
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  Speaker 1: quietly big off season for the Jacksonville Jaguars. I know
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  Speaker 1: that we've spoken about Trevor, We've spoken about the stadium news.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know if we even spoke about because
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  Speaker 1: we have so much to speak about a lot in
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  Speaker 1: the first episode, do we even speak about Josh Allen
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  Speaker 1: signing a contract as well? So what do you have?
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  Speaker 1: We did what we have?
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  Speaker 4: There are you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, arguably the two most important positions in the whole
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  Speaker 1: of your roster are now signed up for several years.
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  Speaker 1: They're in it for the long haul. So I think
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  Speaker 1: when you look at it, if you're a Jacksonville Jaguars fan,
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  Speaker 1: I know that a lot of people are going to
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  Speaker 1: be feeling that hangover from the end of last season.
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  Speaker 1: But you've got to have a lot of hope, not
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  Speaker 1: just for the twenty twenty four season, but looking forward
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  Speaker 1: because you've got some two massive pieces their key.
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  Speaker 3: I totally agree.
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  Speaker 2: This is where it switches for me, like it's time
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  Speaker 2: to get over the disappointment last season as a fan. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it was disappointing, and I think so far this offseason
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  Speaker 2: we've heard the players talk about, Yeah, that was disappointing,
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  Speaker 2: but that's fuel. Now Now it's let's look forward, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that that's done. Yeah it happened, it was disappointing. Now
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  Speaker 2: let's focus on what's happening in the future, what's coming up,
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  Speaker 2: and let's use that as fuel to have a better
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  Speaker 2: season this season than we did last season.
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  Speaker 1: And it's only and it gets to this point, isn't it,
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  Speaker 1: Because it's July. Now we can now, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: look past everything that's happened, and this is the point
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  Speaker 1: where you look forward, don't you? As an NFL fan
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  Speaker 1: in general, you look forward. You look forward to the
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  Speaker 1: start of the new season, and you start thinking about
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  Speaker 1: your team, about the Jags and all of the good
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  Speaker 1: things that have happened for the Jacksonville Janquars over the
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  Speaker 1: last few months, you know, and a really really I
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  Speaker 1: think hopeful draft as well. I know that. You know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people were disappointed that Calvin Ridley didn't
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  Speaker 1: say but it didn't stay. But of course going to
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  Speaker 1: the Titans as well, I suppose. But Brian Thomas Jr.
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  Speaker 1: Comes in after trading down in the draft, this this
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  Speaker 1: highly touted receiver, he comes in and I can just speak.
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  Speaker 1: I going to speak on behalf of you as well.
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  Speaker 1: Key exciting. It's so exciting, don't you think so? Right?
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people say football's won in the trenches.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to disagree with that. Does it make
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  Speaker 2: me excited a little bit a little bit, But what
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  Speaker 2: actually excites me is Brian Thomas Junior, Gabe Davis joining
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  Speaker 2: the Jags and the potential of Trevor throwing deep balls
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  Speaker 2: this season. That's what actually excites me.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we strength, I'll still being there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely, Like I just I'm just mentioning
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  Speaker 2: the two newest additions to the roster. Right, Yes, we
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  Speaker 2: we got bigger, stronger, faster on both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely fantastic. But Brian Thomas Judior and Gabe Davis being
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  Speaker 2: added to the roster, that's the thing that excites me
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  Speaker 2: the most.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Eric Amster. Let's not forget about Eric Amster.
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  Speaker 1: And you're talking about the trenches.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean i'd throw Patrick in there.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to see what happens with Rick Murter
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  Speaker 2: as well, like like a as an IPP fan as well, Like,
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  Speaker 2: that's really exciting to see where that's gonna go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, super nice guy as well. Obviously, if you missed
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  Speaker 1: the first episode of Till Talk, we had Patrick Murter
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  Speaker 1: who came through the IPP joined the Jacksonville Jaguars as
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  Speaker 1: a tight end and hopefully, you know, hopefully we can
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  Speaker 1: see him at some point this season, you know, on
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  Speaker 1: the field. That'd be really exciting. What we didn't actually
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  Speaker 1: speak about it did get mentioned in an interview with
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  Speaker 1: Ben Koyak. I believe in the first episode, just touching
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  Speaker 1: this briefly that I just don't know why. I just
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  Speaker 1: think this is really funny that Love Island, Australia was
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  Speaker 1: determined to get Patrick Murter on the TV show, which
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  Speaker 1: I just thought was just amazing. He turned them down.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously because he is, you know, far more focused on
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  Speaker 1: his sporting duties. So I don't know why I found
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  Speaker 1: that so funny.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's great.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't meet Patrick, I didn't speak to him yet.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hoping maybe later this season. But dude, like, what
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  Speaker 2: a lovely story to be wanted by Love Island.
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  Speaker 1: In the end he ends up in Jacksonville. We could
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  Speaker 1: be more happy to have them, could we. Key Earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the show, we mentioned that you went on the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars UK tour that went to Bristol, Manchester, Dublin. So
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  Speaker 1: let's get the low down basically, because you know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: the Janku is engaging with so many old fans, new fans,
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  Speaker 1: doing live shows, appearances, clinics as well. Actually, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so much happened in what was it like four days?
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  Speaker 3: Six six stay stays?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so six days? Yeah, So I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: talk to me about that and some of your highlights.
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  Speaker 2: Highlights that the bed sheets in the Holiday in Express
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  Speaker 2: smelled wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: No, okay, I'll give you fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you a professional highlight and a personal highlight.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe professional highlight being at the Manchester Jagtag event one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and eighty kids there, I think the biggest jagtag
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  Speaker 2: event that has ever happened in the UK, right, and
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  Speaker 2: the way you see the players and coaches come alive,
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  Speaker 2: like giving detailed instructions to these kids was incredible. Like Ross,
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  Speaker 2: like his face lights up when he's talking to the kids.
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  Speaker 2: Ross matters Sorry, Ross, Ross to me, your.
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  Speaker 1: Mate, un Ross.
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  Speaker 2: And then you've got coach Heath that the same, Like
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  Speaker 2: he's absolutely incredible with them. And then Foyer's energy is
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  Speaker 2: just next level. So that was probably my professional highlight.
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  Speaker 2: Personal highlight was watching the England game with the players
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  Speaker 2: and coaches in a pub in Dublin.
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  Speaker 3: That was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have to explain it?
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  Speaker 2: They all across the rules, They all got it like that,
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  Speaker 2: So I think he's like's quite popular over there now,
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  Speaker 2: so I think they all got it. And like Foyer
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  Speaker 2: used to play a bit of soccer as well, so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they all they all got it. And then there was
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  Speaker 2: a bit of trying to split the g with pints
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  Speaker 2: of guitness as well, because.
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  Speaker 1: You had coach Heath Farwell was there. Ross Mattisick long snapper,
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  Speaker 1: long snapper. Of course we're gonna hear from him in a
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  Speaker 1: second foyer, Lua Khan and Tony Cell as well, and
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  Speaker 1: Ben Koyak. Can I forget Ben Coch?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Ben Koyak joined us in Bristol for the
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  Speaker 2: Baffa clinic.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that was super cool as well.
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  Speaker 1: Just to touch on the Baffa Clinic as well, because
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  Speaker 1: I might have spoken about this in the last episode,
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  Speaker 1: but I just think it's incredible. If you're getting into
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  Speaker 1: American football, maybe your passion is American football here in
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  Speaker 1: the UK, and you play it, I mean you're getting
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  Speaker 1: coached by you know NFL players or you know, you
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  Speaker 1: know Hall of famers essentially, you know, people that have
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  Speaker 1: made their living from being in the league. You can't
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  Speaker 1: ask for more than that. It's such an integral, important
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  Speaker 1: experience and it must have been quite amazing just to
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  Speaker 1: be around all these players, Key and just realize, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for all these Baffer players that you know, how you know,
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  Speaker 1: inspiring it is for a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of people, absolutely like the level of instruction that these
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  Speaker 2: young players are getting, like it's next level. But to
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  Speaker 2: be honest, Jay, it's not just the Baffer clinics either,
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: It's it's the Jagtag level as well. Like you see
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: the kids improving, you see them like applying these new
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: techniques that they're learning from these coaches and players, and
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: that's just awesome to see. And like the the energy
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: levels from the kids as well, Like because with their
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: filming you can watch the highlights video on our JAG's
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: UK YouTube channel of the whole tour, you'll see the
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: energy levels from these kids. It's just like they're absolutely
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: loving it. And why wouldn't you be, man like getting
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: coached by some of the best athletes in the world.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: It's incredible.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: One of my favorite moments at AO sent across their
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: mascot Vernon k was on hand actually to do, you know,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: hand to do to work with the kids on field
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: conduct interviews as well, including with Ross Mattik who were
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: going to hear from in a second. And one of
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: the things that he was doing was like giving him
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: like English food, like English treats to try and get
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: his opinion, and Ross was kind of honest accept except
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: I am convinced. On Instagram, on the Jags UK and
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Ireland Instagram, there is a video of Ross Mattisic eating
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: a cornish pasti and he's eating it. It's just the
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: camera stays in his face for several seconds, and I'm
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: interpreting that as, Yeah, that was that was actually disgusting. Yeah,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: I really didn't like that. I really didn't like that
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: at all. And he ends it by saying, no, I
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: was delicious. I'm not convinced. So I'm not convinced, mate.
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: That is.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: I get what you're saying.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: It looks like maybe Ross didn't enjoy it, but I
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: think it's because it literally changed his life eating that pasti.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: It almost looked like I'd never eaten food before, is
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: what you're saying.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Well, have you tried food until you've tried the cornish pasti.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: I love a good cornish past it. I'm just not convinced.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Ross Matitic he was on the tour. You've got to
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: spend time with him, one of the big personalities, of
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: course on the Jags tour. So let's hear from him speaking.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: To kick pro bowler Ross Mata sick.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: That's got a nice little ring to it. Kind of
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: sounds a lot surreal, but I like how it sounds.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Talk to me about hearing that news and what that
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: was like going to that, because man, what a journey
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: for you.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was.
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: I had knew I had a good season, and a
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: lot of the some of the guys in the locker
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: room they started saying, hey, you're gonna go to the
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: Pro Bowls here like you guys shout out the Pro
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: Bowl and that the day before they announced it, they
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: had released the fan votes per position, the top ten
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: per position, and I was there in.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: The top ten, right, And I was like, yeah, okay, well,
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: you know I know I had a good season. You
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: know the front office know I had a good year.
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: So that's really my teammates, It's all I hang my
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: hat on, right, and just whatever I can do to
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: help this team win.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: And me and my girlfriend were driving to.
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: We were actually driving to North which is like a
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: mall in uh in Jacksonville, and we were gonna get
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: like a nice little outfit to go to the Tennessee
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: game with It was our last away game. We got
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: a dressed up so I'm gonna dress up this for
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: this one.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: And uh, We're driving and.
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: I get my phone rings in the car and it
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: says Doug Peterson, coach Peterson, And I was like, what
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: is he calling me for?
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: So I answered the phone.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: So that's not normal.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Doug doesn't normally call you up.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah no, I know, yeah yeah, but if he calls
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: you answer you.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: So yeah, here it's O coach.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: He's like, hey, you, what are you doing today.
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: I was like, I'm driving to the mall right now,
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna go get some a new outfit for the
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: travel tomorrow. And he was like, well, it'll get something
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: nice because you've been selected to go to the Pro Bowl.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: And I was like, oh gosh, man, that's uh. I
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: didn't know what to say. I was like, honestly, I'm
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: just speechless right now. That was It was a surreal moment.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: A lot of hard work went to it, and to
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: actually do that was it was awesome. And there's a
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: lot of people. I gotta thank my.
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: Punter, Logan Cook, he's my best friend, and there's just
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: a lot of guys in the locker room really helped
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: me get there.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: But and then going there was a whole nother thing.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: I got brought my whole family, My girlfriend.
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: Heath came down to the Pro Bowl with me and
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: his family moves in Orlando, so short drive and we
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: had a great time.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: It was awesome.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: That was fantastic, man.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: So listening to you there you you're talking about your
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: best friends and you're talking about the locker room.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: What is that locker room like?
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: So drags fans, we of us don't get to go
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: with what it's that locker room like?
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Man like on a on a on a game week.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: What's it like on a game week? It's it's serious.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, I mean, it's
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: the best way I.
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: Can describe the NFL is it's just a it's it's
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: just a bunch of kids playing. Man, it's a kid's
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: game for a king's ransom. So you know, you know,
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: obviously the money is there and that's great, but at
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: the end of the day, we're all just kids.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: You know, no one really has to grow up, right,
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: We're just playing a kids game. We're playing football. We're
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: having fun, and there's stresses that that that come with it, right,
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: you got to perform a lot of stuff happens. But
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: in that locker room, it is it is fun.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: I mean, that's that's like everyone's kind of safe place, right,
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: there's no cameras in there. You know, you don't necessarily
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: have to be politically correct at all times.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: You know, you can make fun of your friends.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Now you do ros so you have to be politically
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: right now, right, right, right.
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: Right, But you know, it's just a safe place. Right
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: you can make fun of somebody, you can. You can
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: tell them you know that they need to get in
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: the gym, and you can tell them that rudely.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: You can make fun of their clothes.
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so it's kind of just one of those places
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: that you know, it's just it's just a fun environment
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: to be in and everyone's usually in a good mood there.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: That's awesome. You mentioned Logan. Who are your other best
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: mates in the locker room?
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: Dewey Winger he's our free safety. He is one of one,
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: and that's the best way to describe him. He's my
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: golf buddy, I would I would argue that we've played over.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: One hundred rounds together.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Amazing.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we he was.
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: We always say if one of us ever, you know,
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: plays on the Senior Tour, we're gonna caddy for each
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: other because we know heurd ours golf games so much.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: But now he's he's one of my best friends.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: C J.
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: Bethard our other quarterbacks, one of my good buddies. Riley Potterson,
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: our kicker, is one of my good buddies. Trevor's awesome.
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: That locker room is full of great guys.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: And and people you want to be around, people that
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: that not only make you better people, but make you
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: better players as well.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: So you see those guys in there and the way
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: that they work, it doesn't you can't really help, but
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: want to put extra work in just to not let
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: them down.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: A lot of those, a lot of the players that
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: you've just mentioned golfers and you've talked about you and
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: dow Be playing golf. Is this one of the ways
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: that you find you can escape all the intensity?
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, So talk to me about golfing and how else.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Do you time? No, golf is my escape from reality.
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: It's just that kind of place where you can go
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: out for four hours, put your phone up and just
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: compete against yourself and kind of clear your mind and
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: and kind of put the stretches of the outside world away.
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: And because when you're on that course, you know you
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: got eighteen holes and you're gonna play eighteen.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Holes weather permitting.
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: But you can just kind of go out there and
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: just have fun, let loose, relax, beat yourself over up
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: over the bad shots and get fired up up the
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: good ones. It's just that I try and play once
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: a week during the season because the season gets.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Long and gets stressful.
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: But if you can get out there for four hours
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: a day and just say, look, this is my happy place,
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna clear my.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Mind and you know when I get when I get
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: back after that, you know we're gonna be ready to go.
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: But just give me, give me a little time not
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: to worry about the world. Let me just play my game.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: I feel like it is that something that coach Peterson
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: encourages as well, because I feel like when when I've
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: seen him and met him, it's been like, very much
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: you do football, but you also need you time as well.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Right, Is that is that the culture? Yeah?
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: I don't I don't know if he necessarily encourages his golf.
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: He's a great golfer. He's probably one of the best
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: golfers in the building. But he definitely prioritizes his family.
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: If you see him, he's got a grandson running around
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: the facility at all times, and and uh, miss genius
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: wife travels with us, and he really prioritizes his family time.
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: And I think that's something that that you can look
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: up to in uh, and have kind of like a
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: role model in that sense where, yeah, we're playing we're
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: playing football. It's stressful, there's a lot of money on
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: the line. There's a lot of people that want us
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: to win. At the end of the day, man, it's
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: about your family, right, It's about It's about finding a
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: way to have a good balance. And I feel like
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: the people that that can find how to have a
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: balance are the more successful ones.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: That's beautiful, dude, I really love that.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: So this year two games in the UK Bears Patriots,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: talk to me, how you feel them?
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: It's you know, that's that's a long way away. You
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: can recap this later down the road. But uh, I'm
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: not going to talk too much on them. I mean,
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: Caleb Williams will be fun to play against, Drake May.
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: You know, see what they got and you know they're
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: gonna they're gonna come to the league and I'm sure
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: they're gonna make a splash as they're They're two great
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: athletes and two great people. But as far as us,
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: I think we know how to how to handle this trip.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Now we've done we've done back to back before.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we've done back to back and I think it's
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: the best thing for the team. It's just a bonding
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: experience anytime you can. It's it's kind of like a
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: long round of golf for me. You come out here
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: and it's yeah, it's work, it's all work. But at
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: the same time, you're you're you're trapped in a hotel
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: with your teammates for ten days with no family. What
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: else are you going to do except sit down and
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: have a conversation with somebody? Right, maybe maybe on the
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: third day there, I've talked to my friends enough, I'm
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: gonna go sit down and a new teammate that I
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: don't really know that well, I was gonna sit down
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: with me and we're gonna have a conversation, or we're
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: gonna play cards together, or we're gonna go in the pool.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Maybe.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Hey, you like golf, you kind of like golf, let's go,
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: let's go play around out here.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Did you play in the UK when you were here?
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah? I did, absolutely. Yeah, that's a great course. Yeah
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: I had to.
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: But like I'm saying, just like, it's it's a bonding
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: experience and you kind of don't have a choice but
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: to talk to them, right, I mean, most of the time,
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: we're five hours ahead, so you can't really call people
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: back home, right, I mean, so, hey, let's sit down
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: and have some tea, I guess, and have a conversation.
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: And I think that that last year really was like
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: a catalyst for us because when we came back, we
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: won that hot streak, we got two over here, went home,
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: went on a run and it was almost just like
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: a Bondie experience. I like going to summer camp with
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: your friends, and it always helps when you win too,
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: so it makes it a little more fun.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Acent final question, talk to me about You've been to
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: the UK a few times now, so best and worst
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: of the UK?
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: Best and worst that Paty I had today was it
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: was was delicious in Bristol.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: If you ever in Bristol, it gets you one of those.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: It's essentially like a meat pie. Would you say yeah,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: and it is.
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: Deliciousine, I'm being genuine it was delicious. I would I
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: would get another one. There was rumors that I was
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: gonna next time maybe make one. I'd love to have,
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: you know, know, how to bring that back to America. Worst, Oh,
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: they didn't have we stay at the grove. I don't
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: believe they had ranch dressing, so that was US Americans
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: need some ranch. So I think this past trip, our
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: nutrition is brought like giant things of ranch and heinz
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: ketchup and like the things you don't you don't think
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: you need until you don't have.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: So yeah, the ranch dressing is is a necessity.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: So dude, I love it.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: I hope come Otober you've got plenty of run stressing.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: I do too, trust me, Ross, thank you so much.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: As Ross Mattisk talking to a key, they're lovely man.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Key, absolutely fantastic. I loved sitting down with Ross.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: He's so cool and what a player. Let's not forget
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: the guy can ball. But yeah, absolutely lovely man. Love
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: chatting with him.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: One thing that we haven't even spoken about, and this
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: is maybe on us over the last however long we've
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: been doing this episode, is of course the two Jacksonville
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Jaguars games that are happening in London later on this year.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Chicago Bears are hosting one with the jackson the Await team,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: and of course there's that big Wembley Stadium game, the
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars hosting the New England Patriots, and that we've
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: got the big signs up. How we we've got a
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: big sold out signs up. Key, we always knew that
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: that was going to happen, but we you know what
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: that does mean is that we know that atmosphere is
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: going to be something else. It really is.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I mean we talked about it in the last episode
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: a little bit, but when you think about the history
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: of Pats fans in the UK and how the Jags
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: fans community is growing in the UK, that's that's going
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: to be awesome.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: That face off Wicked.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: October twenty of twenty twenty four. Now both games are
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: sold out. But and this is the thing that you've
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: got to listen to if you don't have tickets, the
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Jags are expecting some tickets to be released in August
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: and there are some limited hospitality packages still available as well.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: So what you want to do is check out our
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: social channel channels at Jaguars UK and I e on
• 28:28
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• 28:32
  Speaker 1: up to Union Jacks as well, because this is going
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: to be you know, that Wembley game. I suppose specifically
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: as well, that game is not to be mis key.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Oh one hundred percent. Like if you're a Jags fan.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: You Yeah, get on the socials sign up? Yeah, you
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: want to try and be there, man, it's going to
• 28:49
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• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Last time out we gave away what's on keys Desk.
• 28:55
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• 29:10
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• 29:11
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• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Pats fan, but he's decided to be a Jacks fan
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: because they have the best logo. Granddad, it's wrong. You know,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: there's there's always amazing reasons to support NFL teams, but.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Didn't Stevie say that on the last episode as well,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: that that's what was what's for him was the logo.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, there'll be so many people around the
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: world Jags fans purely because of the logo. Logo is insane,
• 30:06
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• 30:10
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• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I know, it's up to you if you want to
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: say that you won the hat, or you can say
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I've scoured Grandson, I have scoured for the internet to
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: try and find this exclusive season ticket hat. It's up
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: to you. But congratulations, nonetheless.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Congratulations David.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but do you know what, that's not actually the
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: only giveaway that we're going to be doing this season.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: In fact, I figured we should do another giveaway now, key,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: what have we got right now?
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: How about a former sized American football signed by Foyer,
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Lucon and Pro Bowl a Ross Matask.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: How does that sound?
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I think that sounds unblievable.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: They were going to get on the airplane without signing it,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Jay and I dragged them back and said, you're not
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: leaving the country without signing this ball.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I will not give you your boarding part until you
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: get your sharpie out. I mean that is amazing, isn't it.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: That's always going to be a huge addition to your
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: living room, your bedroom, I mean, your downstairs loot anywhere. Really,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: to be honest with you, if you want to win
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: that prize, you've got to comment this. Okay, give me
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: that ball. You can do it in capslock. You don't
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: have to do it in capslock. Give me that ball
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: on YouTube?
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Well, i'd argue Jay Emoji's welcome as well.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: She's welcome. Just just have this phrase give me that
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: ball on YouTube or on Apple podcasts, and one listener
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: is going to win that prize.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Coming up now, we're going to have an interview with
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Maria Gigante, who is the Headhunt show of Jaguar's UK
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: and Island. She spoke to Rhys Parkinson, who is the
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: host of our Jaguars Weekly UK show on Sky Sports
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: NFL and they chatted about all things Jaguars UK and Ireland.
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: Maria, We're in Dublin, yes, at one of our community events.
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: Pretty cool, really cool. It's amazing always going to these
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: events because we do it in Ireland and autocross the
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: UK as well. What is it when you come here
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: that you go because obviously a big smile on your
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: face when you arrive, what's the main thing for you
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: to go Wow, Like we've pulled this off, We've done
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: it again.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: Well, we've only just started in Ireland so our rights
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: just took in effect last year and we have over
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: one hundred and sixty kids here doing Jagtag. But then
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: if you look beyond, we have an older generation of
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: kids working with AFI who are working in specialty clinics,
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: specialty positions. So if you look at what we're doing
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: right here, as we're offering these kids an opportunity to
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: get there, so building a foundation and really growing the
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: fan base and growing the love of American football.
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: So it's almost like a journey from being a kid
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: and you see the Jags in where you live in
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: your country, and then it's like, oh, well, I'm going
• 32:48
  Speaker 8: to stay with them until i'm and I don't and
• 32:50
  Speaker 8: potentially play the game myself.
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: Exactly, I'm going to start here at Jagtag and then
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: the Jags have provided me an opportunity to progress through
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: all the different points of Jagtag to end up you
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: know in tackle in tackle football programs with AFI and
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: why Dublin specifically, because we know that there's a great
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: football market here. It's very advanced. They understand the game,
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: they're hungry for more football, and for us being in
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: Northern Ireland in the UK, this was a natural progression
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: for the club and.
• 33:18
  Speaker 8: We've done the live events which were amazing, amazing. Were
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: surprised to see as many Judge jerseys as were there
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: at the event that was it felt like it was.
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: It really pucked out.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: It really did.
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: And if I'd be lying to say that I wasn't
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: a little bit nervous coming and doing that for the
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: first time, but it was really well received. There were
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: a ton of Jags jerseys and you know, the questions
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: and the interaction with the coach and with the players,
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: you could tell that these people really understood American football,
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: they understood the Jags, and they were excited to get
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: that kind of access to our coaching staff and our players.
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: Now, speaking of our coaching stuff and players, this is
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: a bit why it blaws my mind every time we've
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: got coach Heath himself getting in the special teams drills
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: at the back and foyer as well and ross when
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: the players and coach come over to the tour, is
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: it discussed before, like we want you to get involved
• 34:08
  Speaker 8: in everything because it seems like they love it as
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: much as we do putting on the events.
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we do a good job of prepping them.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: But we were just having a conversation just before Heath
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: went out and he was really excited. He was pumped
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: up to get going again because he loves to see
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: the enthusiasm. He loves to see how advanced it's, you know,
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: the program has become and how much these kids and
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: you know, the teens know about American football, so for
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: them it's great for them to teach their skills, but
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: then to also get involved at a younger age. To
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: see these kids getting involved at a younger age.
• 34:41
  Speaker 8: So we see the success that we've had at Wembley
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: and the kid Even at Wembley, you see the kids
• 34:47
  Speaker 8: come on and do jagtag during the game. Is that
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: something that you're hoping to replicate in Dublin down the
• 34:52
  Speaker 8: line that's similar kind of size that we've managed to
• 34:56
  Speaker 8: do at Wembley. Yeah.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, I mean we're working with different delivery partners. We're
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: making sure that we're getting into schools, but we're also
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: doing camps, we're developing all female programs and everything. So
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: we are trying to replicate everything we're doing in the
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: UK here so that we can continue to grow American football.
• 35:13
  Speaker 8: And for you, moving forward with the community events, what
• 35:16
  Speaker 8: would you like to see happen UK and in Ireland overall?
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: Well, we hope to see them progressing like into summer camps,
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: into regular curriculum, into the schools and then hopefully for us,
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: you know, to keep bringing on more schools, more delivery
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: partners to advance. Hopefully we can now pursue jagtag extra time,
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: which is the progression from flag in intermediate before you
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: get to tackle. So hopefully we can start rolling out
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: all those programs here in Ireland.
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: Amazing, you love school, you love football that an event
• 35:47
  Speaker 8: like today, someone that's never heard of school, especially one
• 35:49
  Speaker 8: of the kids, will come here and just because of
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: this event, the rest of their lives absolutely into it.
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: We're hoping that they're going to take the flag, take
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: a fly, or take the picture of heath or foyer
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: and keep that and put that on their wall and
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: hold it either for aspirational reasons or for just something
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: to follow and to love because they had a great
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: day here. We want to make sure that we're introducing
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: a healthy lifestyle through sport, through Jagtag, through the Jagtag program.
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: But we hope that if they come away from day
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: today and have a good time, that they become a
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: Jaguars fan.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Have no doubts, absolutely no doubts.
• 36:21
  Speaker 8: Awesome, Maria, thank you so much.
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Ree take care.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Now, every episode on til Talk we get a Jaggs
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: fan on to give us the big question this time around.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Steve Stravelopolis. Steve, did I say
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: her last day correctly?
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: It's a bit off?
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Close it up, that's mine wrong every weekday.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry.
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: I'm used to. I've had thirty three years of it.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: So we have tasked you, haven't we, Steve. We've given
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: us the big question. Of course, a Jacksonville Jenky is
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: related big question. What have you got for us this
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: time around?
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: So, guys, my big question is one that I think
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: has been on every Jags fan's mind after the rebuild
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: following the Urban Mayer season. Do you think in the
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: next five years the Jags have a real shot at
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: a Super Bowl run and whether they can win it.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Key, do you want to go first?
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: No, they can't.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Well that's that's no end of conversation.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, not just because I'm a Jags fan, but because
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: of the way the team is building everything that we've
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: talked about in this episode so far, Trevor's contract, Josh
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Allen getting MVP, aside of being QVQB, and new stadium.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: As mister Kahn said, there's no excuse.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Now we need to win.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: I think you just put it perfectly.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: They're Key.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: I think you've got the as I mentioned a bit
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: earlier on until your talk, you've got the big two pieces,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: the ones that we're really excited about committing to Jacksonville
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: in Trevor Lawrence, in Josh Allen as well. Five years
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: is a long time? Can I add? Five years is
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: a long time? If I'm being honest, I don't think
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: that any NFL team should be looking at I want
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: to win the Super Bowl in five years? I don't.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: I think that's too long. I think that because of
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: the nature of the NFL, I think in my mind
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: this question should be can they win within three years?
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: I think that that is the length of time that
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: you can expect to have certain players, certain positions, certain
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: people still on certain contracts. You know what I mean?
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Five years is so long. I think that it should
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: be reframed and if you're a Jags fan, I would
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: be hoping that within the next two to three years
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: that there can be a real, real go at winning
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: winning that Super Bowl. It's achievable. The only thing I
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: would say, the only thing I would say is that
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars are in the unlucky position now. I
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: think that they happen to be in a quite a
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: resurgent division, which I think means that not only for
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: the Jags, but every team in the AFC South, it's
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: going to be tougher. Let's say the the NFC South
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: for example. You know, because I think that all of
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: those teams be competitive within the next two to three years,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: which means that hopefully that's a positive thing, because the
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: better the teams around you, the better you have to be.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean? But what it does
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: mean is it's going to be It's going to be entertaining,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: but it's going to be it's going to be hard.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: What do you reckon, Steve?
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I think you raise a good point
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: there with regards to the time scales. Maybe I'm just
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: trying to be a little fairer to the team to
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: give them a bit more time, But I think it's
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: it's a difficult question to answer one I'm fearful of
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: answering because last season I certainly went into it, and
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: I think a lot of other fans did really really optimistic.
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: I think we fell into a bit of a trap.
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: I think pre season media press coverage was very, very
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: positive around the team, the changes that have been made,
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: and I think they even talking about potential Super Bowl contenders.
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: So yeah, I was very optimistic. We started the season well,
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: and I think, if my memory serves me correctly, we
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: came out of the Texans game eight and three, and
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: I think we were number one seed in the AFC
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: at the time. So me and my partner we started
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: making plans for our trip over to Vegas and how
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: we're going to buy Super Bowl tickets without having to
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: re mortgage the house. So we were incredibly optimistic. And
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: then of course, after that game, I think we went
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: onto the Bengals and the following six games, I think
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: we only won one of them, so lost the next five.
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: So it was a bit of a roller coaster of
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: emotions and it's sort of set me back a bit
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: in my positivity. As much as I love the Jags,
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: I think I want to take a bit.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: More of a I guess measured more measured twelve months ago.
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: I think so. I think so this season, I'm not
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: sure how it's going to go. I think we've still
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: got some fundamental issues with the offense. I know a
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: lot of changes were made, certainly to the defensive coordinators,
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: and me personally, I feel more attention probably was needed
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: on the offensive coordinators more so than defensively. Our offensive
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: line I don't think gives an awful lot of time
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: for Trevor Lawrence to act and utilize the receiver cause
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: that we have, and I don't know if enough changes
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: have been made to change that situation. So certainly this year,
• 41:34
  Speaker 6: I can't see it. Whether in the next two three
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: years possibly, I think we've now given the Texans an
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: opportunity to rebuild their team.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: C J.
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: Strouds coming incredibly strong, which is really what I was
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: hoping Lawrence would do. But I think that first season
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: with Irban Meyer was a bit of a bit of
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: a hit to him, and I think.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Do you know what Steve thinking about that first season
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: with Urban Meyer. I actually think it's phenomenal that Trevor
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: Lawrence then did what he did the following season after that,
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: because that season.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: Was a right off man. So yeah, but I get
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: I hear what you're saying.
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, And I think as exciting as the new
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: plans are for the stadium, it's going to be interesting
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: to see how that affects the team because of course
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: it's going to be rather disruptive, especially when they start
• 42:23
  Speaker 6: construction as well and having to move stadiums. It's yeah,
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: I think that might have an impact as well.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: They have put out the timeline for that and it
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: looks like it will be disrupted for one season that
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: the season prior to that, I think the capacity is
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: going down. Whether there is one season where they will
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: be looking to relocate to a to a different stadium
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: that that hasn't been mentioned, but that is several years away,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: you know, sort of. You know, going back to what
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: I said before, that is not that it's a long
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: long time away by any means, but you want to
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: see progress in the team, and I think that we
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: spoke about this a little bit earlier, didn't we Key
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: it's at the end of last season is really throwing
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: a spanner in the works, not only too probably you
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: know a lot of the players, especially at the time,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: but then a lot of the a lot of fans
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: outlooks right now. But you know, this isn't helpful in
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: any way, but I think that it's it's really important
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: to remember what the first half of the season was like,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: and what the first half of the season was like
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: for the players with a healthy Trevor Lawrence, you know
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: as well, and to remember that that last half of
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: the season wasn't indicative of the team as a whole
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: for the whole season, and it doesn't really show what
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: the team can do. So while I understand Steve that
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: you're feeling measured and maybe sort of less optimistic than
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: you were twelve months ago, because that is totally understandable
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: after the last you know, end of the last half
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: the season, you know that isn't that isn't what the
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: Jaguars are. You've got to remember the first half of
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: the season, and that's a lot of games that you
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: know that they were in a really good position. And
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: as you say that they were the number one seed
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: in the conference.
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, agreed. I think it's going to be interesting
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: to see how we start this season. And I think
• 44:12
  Speaker 6: i'd rather telling of what's.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: What, Steve.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: I love that you're measured. I am the opposite of that.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been dreadful. He's been like, right, well, you know,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: in my mind, we won the Super Bowl last year.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: You know, I remember watching the forty nine Ers game
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: in twenty thirteen where we got absolutely trounced and going,
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: we could still.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: Win the super Bowl. It's not over.
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: That's positive as well, didn't it because we lost abysmally
• 44:40
  Speaker 6: to the forty nine ers after our bye week. But yeah,
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: I think even then I was still very optimistic that
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: we've got a good chance here.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're like me when I was when I was
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: I think thirteen years old and I was watching sixteen
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: year old Wayne Rooney scoring the Premier League and I
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I still got time. You know. That's
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: essentially that's to say to me what it was like. Yeah, Steve,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: tell me about how you how you became a Jacksonville
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Jaguars fan.
• 45:06
  Speaker 6: So it's actually a decade, a decade this year that
• 45:10
  Speaker 6: we've been anniversary yeah, anniversary year, so who knows, maybe
• 45:15
  Speaker 6: Super Bowl on the cards after all. So yeah, twenty
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: fourteen we went to our first game. It wasn't actually
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: a Jaguars game. It was a I think it was
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: Dolphins v. Raiders at Wembley Stadium and we had never
• 45:28
  Speaker 6: really watched American football before and we absolutely loved it.
• 45:33
  Speaker 6: We really really loved it. So from there we started
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: learning all the rules, as everyone has to do to
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: fully understand the game. I mean, it takes a long
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: time to do that. It certainly didn't happen in the
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: first year. And the following year, twenty fifteen, we went
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: again with a group of us and we watched a
• 45:51
  Speaker 6: Jaguars game. I can't remember who they were playing now
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: my memory, twenty fifteen, yes, I think it was actually yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: we'll fixated on the game. We love how the Jaguars played,
• 46:05
  Speaker 6: We love that they were sort of a London team
• 46:08
  Speaker 6: but of course still Jacksonville. But we also love the
• 46:13
  Speaker 6: sport itself and the sportsmanship that you don't often find
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: in English football, and I think that was a big
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: draw for us as well. So yeah, we've been going
• 46:25
  Speaker 6: every year since now. That the Jags are playing twice
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: a year as well. We go twice a year, which
• 46:30
  Speaker 6: is great, fantastic or great experience every time we go.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: So Steve talk to us a little bit about the
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: fact that you guys do something a little bit different
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: to most fans when you go to the game.
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: Maybe we take it a little bit further than most. Yeah,
• 46:44
  Speaker 6: we like to dress in our Jags wonesis. It's sort
• 46:48
  Speaker 6: of become our our mark now. So yeah, there's always
• 46:52
  Speaker 6: a group of us in jagsuonsies. We run a very
• 46:56
  Speaker 6: small Instagram page that follows our journey of watching the
• 46:59
  Speaker 6: Jags and going to the Jags games. But yeah, every year,
• 47:03
  Speaker 6: without fail, we will always be in our Jagswansis.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Is it the same WANSI you've been wearing for like
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: a decade?
• 47:08
  Speaker 6: Should I answer that honestly or I feel like you should.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: But I also want to know, like, are we are
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: we going to be like able to to spot you
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: in the crowd because of the really like horrible you
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: definitely needs.
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: To be.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: Coming off.
• 47:24
  Speaker 6: We've watched it. We've watched it. Yes, it is it
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: is the same one. Okay, I haven't grown it, so
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: there's no reason to change it.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll move on quickly from that. I would like
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: to know, actually, because I always find it, you know,
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: interesting when you you know, when you when you become
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: such a fan of the team, sometimes you have like
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: such an affection for maybe a particular player or a
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: particular game, or a particular player from when you first started,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: you know, supporting that team. Is there somebody that like,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe someone even like a little bit of
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: skill that you have this fondness for, you know, from
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: back in the day when you first started being a
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: Jags fan.
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: Calais Campbell beautiful, big big fan, big big fan. Love
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: the way he played, but also love the way he
• 48:11
  Speaker 6: behaved off the field as well. I think he did
• 48:14
  Speaker 6: a lot for the team, and I think he continues
• 48:18
  Speaker 6: to do a lot for the sport as well.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: So he's been playing on like one year contracts, hasn't
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: he for the last few years. Is there like a
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: part of you that's like, come on, come.
• 48:25
  Speaker 6: Back, come back to Jacksonville. Maybe last year or the
• 48:28
  Speaker 6: year before, there was some rumors that he I remember, Yeah, yeah,
• 48:31
  Speaker 6: it didn't didn't come to anything unfortunate, but yeah, definitely
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: would love to have him back.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: Josh breaking the sack record last year and doing the
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: tribute to kalaas one of my favorite moments of last season.
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: That was lovely.
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's brilliant, brilliant and well earned as well.
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you've got your Instagram page. Talked to us
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: a little bit about the Jags UK and Island community
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: as a whole.
• 48:57
  Speaker 6: Please, the community is fantastic. So last year we really
• 49:00
  Speaker 6: started getting more involved with the sort of pre game
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: events that were going on, and I think Jags did
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: a really good job of putting these events on and
• 49:09
  Speaker 6: getting everybody together. So we went to the viewing party.
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: There was also I can't remember what it's called now,
• 49:17
  Speaker 6: I think it was where the JP Schadwick was hosting
• 49:20
  Speaker 6: the Happy Yeah, that was a happy how. We went
• 49:23
  Speaker 6: to that as well, And in fact, we actually met
• 49:26
  Speaker 6: an American Jags fan who had flown over. He ended
• 49:30
  Speaker 6: up sitting on our table with us and having a
• 49:31
  Speaker 6: drink and we're now very close friends. We went to
• 49:34
  Speaker 6: the game together that year, he's flying over this year
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: and staying with us to watch these games as way.
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: So yeah, it's just it's really and this goes back
• 49:43
  Speaker 6: to the sportsmanship and how it differs to football over
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: here in the UK. I just think you meet a
• 49:49
  Speaker 6: lot of people and they're always very friendly on both
• 49:53
  Speaker 6: sides of the team. It doesn't have to be the
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: same fans. So last year when we played the Bills,
• 49:58
  Speaker 6: it was certainly Bills your enforced there and we were
• 50:02
  Speaker 6: of course in our onesies and we were getting ridiculed in.
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: A loving way.
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: But of course when we won, we were doing it
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: back and it was it was well received. So it's
• 50:12
  Speaker 6: just a really good atmosphere, really great atmosphere.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, do you really have your plans set out for
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: the two games the later on this year?
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: Then all booked tickets bought ready to go?
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: One's the iron, No don't.
• 50:26
  Speaker 6: We don't eem them. We like to keep rough and ready.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: If the Bills had won that game in twenty fifteen, okay,
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: is there a chance.
• 50:36
  Speaker 6: No, No, it was always the Jags, always the Jags.
• 50:40
  Speaker 6: It was always the Jags.
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there we go.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: We always the Jags.
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: That's a great that's a great way to end it. Steve,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us to say until talk.
• 50:49
  Speaker 6: Thanks a lot for having me on. Cheers, guys.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what key what's good about Steve is
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: that there's no way that you're going to miss him.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: And what was it like eight eight eight of them
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: going to the Jags game in their onesies.
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: Not with eight unwashed onesie.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Your nose are going to be to find him before
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: your eyes. Well, honestly, honestly, Look, that's about it for
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: till talk today, isn't it, Key, But you are off
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: somewhere over the next few weeks. It's going to be
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: very exciting.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: I am. I am going to what's it called Jacksonville. Yes, yeah,
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: we're going on the twenty fourth of July for training
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: camp myself, Reese Parkinson and our crew for Jaguar's Weekly
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: UK and meeting players, meeting fans, looking at the stadium,
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: the facilities.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be super fun. Man, I'm excited
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: of course.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: If you've got any questions actually, you know, for any
• 51:43
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• 51:46
  Speaker 1: see specifically, Well, Key, while rees go out to Jacksonville,
• 51:49
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• 51:50
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• 51:55
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• 51:57
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• 51:59
  Speaker 5: Very us.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: That's all I got to say. I know, mate, this
• 52:03
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• 52:05
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