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Jags Drive Time: Tuesday, March 9 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcoman Jaguars Drive Time a Tuesday in March. I promised
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Speaker 1: it is our somewhat last slow week. I guess you
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Speaker 1: can call it with free agencies coming up next week,
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Speaker 1: but this is not slow because we have a new
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Speaker 1: co host just for this week, Lonnie Mark's former Jaguars
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Speaker 1: linebacker joined the show. Now, Lonnie, how's it going. His
1:27
Speaker 1: life is good and better all the time. Yes, I
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Speaker 1: love it, And Lonnie, you are doing great things in
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Speaker 1: the Jacksonville community. So we're gonna talk much more about that.
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Speaker 1: But Brian, like I promised, Bregency coming soon and the
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Speaker 1: franchise Tide coming up, So we have some news. But
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Speaker 1: next week we expect to be I guess you can
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Speaker 1: say a splash of a program. Well, let's just jump
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Speaker 1: right in then. Speaking of splash, get two big things
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Speaker 1: and get Lonnie involved. I do want to say this
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Speaker 1: about Lonnie before you do that. Um. I knew of
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Speaker 1: Lonnie before he came to Jacksonville because of an NFL
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Speaker 1: Films clip. And Lonnie's got a smile on his face
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Speaker 1: even though he's not on camera right now, because he
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Speaker 1: knows this clip. And it was opening day and he
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Speaker 1: was with Kansas City and it was Joe Montana's first
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Speaker 1: game as the new quarterback of the Chiefs, and so
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Speaker 1: it was a really big deal. And it was opening
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Speaker 1: day in Tampa at the Old Sombrero And there's a
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Speaker 1: great clip of this linebacker from Tulane walking down the
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Speaker 1: ramp to the field and there's a veteran, a World
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Speaker 1: War Two veteran, Lonnie was probably eighty five or ninety
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Speaker 1: at that point, and he was holding the flag and
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Speaker 1: kind of standing there here. All these players go buy him,
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Speaker 1: but Lonnie stops to have a conversation with him. And
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Speaker 1: it's a famous clip and it was so poignant, and
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Speaker 1: I bring it up every time I introduced Lonnie, but
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Speaker 1: it explains who he is. He's not just a football player,
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Speaker 1: although he was, and he wasn't just a professional there
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Speaker 1: to get paid though he was. He was a fan
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Speaker 1: of the game and a fan of his fellow American
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Speaker 1: and when he showed up in action, Bill, I brought
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Speaker 1: that up to him and we've had long conversations about
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Speaker 1: it since. Lonnie. Thanks for making time to join the show.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for having Thank both of you for having
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Speaker 1: this is this is a great deal. I love it.
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Speaker 1: Of course we were joking. We see him around this
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Speaker 1: dating he's here Ashland on game day a lot. Uh.
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Speaker 1: So you know, let's reintroduce him to the fan base
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Speaker 1: who may not go back to two thousand and have
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Speaker 1: some fun this morning. Let's do it. Let's get into
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Speaker 1: big things and Big Thing one is uncertainty. The franchise
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Speaker 1: tag deadline ads of now is set for four o'clock
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Speaker 1: this afternoon, and we have yet to hear what the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars will do if they'll use it on any players,
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Speaker 1: possibly this guy Cam Robinson. We saw a lot of
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Speaker 1: moves last night, however, around the NFL, for example, Marcus
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Speaker 1: may franchise tag with the Jets, Dak Prescott getting that
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Speaker 1: huge deal. So stay tuned. Maybe something will happen this
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Speaker 1: afternoon for the Jaguars. But right now, that tag deadline
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Speaker 1: four o'clock this afternoon, so time is kicking. Let's go
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Speaker 1: big thing too, and that is pressure. Coach urban Meyer
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Speaker 1: answered some questions to Jaguars dot Com and he said,
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Speaker 1: you're not going to believe this that there was a
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Speaker 1: reason he stood this close to Trevor Lawrence on his
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Speaker 1: pro day and he said, life is all about how
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Speaker 1: you handle pressure safe, say Trevor Lawrence, I think handled
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Speaker 1: it pretty well that day. Big Thing three is culture
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Speaker 1: fits Free agency next week starting next Wednesday, and you
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Speaker 1: have a period before where you can start talking to
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Speaker 1: these three agents. So who fits in Jacksonville. Maybe it's
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Speaker 1: a veteran wide receiver Maybe it's a wide receiver who's
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Speaker 1: played here before. Maybe it's a wide receiver who is
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Speaker 1: fascinated by a rookie quarterback coming to Jacksonville. I'll say this, man,
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Speaker 1: this probably was the most uh tuned into the college
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Speaker 1: football playoff that I had been, you know, which is
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Speaker 1: which is funny. You know, watching somebody young quarterbacks, man,
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Speaker 1: and just watching Trevor Lawrences pro day and things like that.
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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be standing player in this league.
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Speaker 1: You know. Also you know guys like justin fields and
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Speaker 1: you know, watching those guys play, you know, it definitely
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Speaker 1: does open open my mind up personally, you know, to
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Speaker 1: you know, the possibility of different situations. You know. And
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Speaker 1: again and I'm a personal I'm not I'm not opposed
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Speaker 1: to anything, you know, like I said before, man, and
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Speaker 1: I think that everything is on the table. That's as
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Speaker 1: you know, was Bears wide receiver Allen Robinson, who there's
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Speaker 1: some rubers will become a free agent. Will the Bears
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Speaker 1: let him go? Will they tag him? Maybe this afternoon?
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Speaker 1: So Lonie, I go to you, free agency coming up
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Speaker 1: next week. Who do you see fitting here in Jacksonville.
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Speaker 1: They have a lot of needs, but they also have
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Speaker 1: a lot of money, and and that's a that's what
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Speaker 1: I think is the most important thing right now. They
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Speaker 1: have a lot of money and they have a lot
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Speaker 1: of needs. So again I think it's whoever, whoever they
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Speaker 1: feel like Urban Meyer would like to have in his
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Speaker 1: his corral is who they're gonna go and go get.
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Speaker 1: And I think it's gonna be a wide receiver, and
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Speaker 1: I also think it's gonna be a couple of lineman.
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Speaker 1: And again, when you build teams that that win championships,
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Speaker 1: which I know they want to do, you're gonna find lineman.
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Speaker 1: And it always starts with lineman, offensive lineman, defensive line.
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Speaker 1: So um wide receiver and some linement. Lonnie, let me
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Speaker 1: jump in because I know you're close with Tony Dungee.
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Speaker 1: In fact, you and I did a virtual event with
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Speaker 1: Tony and Derrek Brooks a few weeks ago for your
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Speaker 1: level of playing field foundation, which we're going to talk
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Speaker 1: about coming up. And the thing that just resonated with
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Speaker 1: me listening to you guys talk is the culture that
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Speaker 1: Tony Dungee built. Culture is one of those words that
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Speaker 1: just gets bandied about, like celebrity and diversity and culture.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we hear them all the time, and we
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Speaker 1: don't get enough context. So you take me into that
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Speaker 1: Buccaneers locker room for a minute and tell me what
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Speaker 1: the culture was like. Because Urban Meyer is trying to
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Speaker 1: create a very specific, championship caliber culture. What are you
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Speaker 1: looking for in any free agent when you write that check, Um,
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Speaker 1: you're looking for a guy that's gonna come in and
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Speaker 1: he's gonna be uh. You know, we talked about value.
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Speaker 1: He adds value and adding value nowadays seems like it's
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Speaker 1: only about how you produce on the on the field,
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Speaker 1: but value is is much more than that. And in
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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers locker room, it was about value off the
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Speaker 1: field as well as value on the field. Because we
7:29
Speaker 1: we would go to each other's houses, we would we
7:31
Speaker 1: would hang out with one another. It wasn't just on
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Speaker 1: the field and in the office. We would literally hang
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Speaker 1: out with one another and get to know each other's families.
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Speaker 1: And so when you're playing with the guy and you
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Speaker 1: know his family and you know what he's about, you
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Speaker 1: know morally and and just his values, you you tend
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Speaker 1: to fight a little harder in in the in the
7:50
Speaker 1: battle when you're out on the field, And so building
7:53
Speaker 1: that is It takes time. Is chemistry, as they say,
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Speaker 1: and not everybody's gonna get along, but for the most
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Speaker 1: part we we we It was Buccaneers against the world,
8:03
Speaker 1: and so that that helped solidify our culture. And I
8:08
Speaker 1: bet as a player, right, I mean, you were in
8:10
Speaker 1: Kansas City and then you went to Tampa. You spend
8:12
Speaker 1: a little time as a Tennessee Oiler. There weren't many
8:14
Speaker 1: Tennessee Oilers, just two seasons of that group before they
8:17
Speaker 1: became the Titans. And then you came here as a player.
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Speaker 1: What are you looking for besides the check? And we
8:23
Speaker 1: understand it's pro football, it's about the money, but beyond
8:27
Speaker 1: the check, what is a player looking for when he
8:30
Speaker 1: signs onto a situation like Jacksonville where they're starting over.
8:35
Speaker 1: You want to be in a great community. In Jacksonville
8:39
Speaker 1: is a great community. And so when I came here,
8:42
Speaker 1: I didn't know how I would be received by the community,
8:44
Speaker 1: but I knew I had to play well on the
8:47
Speaker 1: field so that I would be able to actually have
8:49
Speaker 1: a chance to be in the community. And so uh
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Speaker 1: a great community, a great place to raise a family.
8:55
Speaker 1: I was a family man, so that that mattered to me.
8:58
Speaker 1: And obviously I stayed here because it was a great
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Speaker 1: community and I wanted to I wanted to be here.
9:03
Speaker 1: I wanted to grow with this city. And so again
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Speaker 1: as I come in, yes it's about the check. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I want to I want to play. I want to
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12:10
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us this morning. I
12:17
Speaker 1: won't lie to you, Judy. I was a little bummed
12:20
Speaker 1: out driving to work this morning. I saw your colleagues
12:23
Speaker 1: tweeting Rappapore that Leonard Williams was placed on the franchise
12:26
Speaker 1: tag and Jaguars fans were looking at him this entire
12:29
Speaker 1: offseason too. Maybe come to Jacksonville. But I'm hearing there
12:33
Speaker 1: might be a another Giants defensive lineman that is still
12:37
Speaker 1: in hope. Yeah, now that they have you know, taken
12:42
Speaker 1: care of or at least for the time being. If
12:43
Speaker 1: they're going to put the tag on Leonard Williams, I
12:45
Speaker 1: think the question is now what becomes of Dalvin Tomlinson,
12:49
Speaker 1: Because they would love to keep him too. He is
12:52
Speaker 1: a great He's a huge run stuffer, also a great
12:56
Speaker 1: team leader guy. They'd love to keep him. The is
13:00
Speaker 1: can they afford to keep both of them? They're pretty
13:03
Speaker 1: tight up against the cap, as so many teams are.
13:06
Speaker 1: Can they afford to keep both of them? And then
13:07
Speaker 1: they also need this offseason to find an edge rusher
13:11
Speaker 1: um and those, as we know, costs are pretty penny.
13:14
Speaker 1: So I think the real question for the Giants is
13:16
Speaker 1: that they had to keep Winnard Williams eleven and a
13:18
Speaker 1: half sex a career breakout season, But now what becomes
13:23
Speaker 1: of of Dalven Tomlinson and how much can they invest
13:26
Speaker 1: in the defensive line? Shutey, We just had a clip
13:31
Speaker 1: of Alan Robinson on with Chris collins Worth talking about Jacksonville.
13:36
Speaker 1: Obviously he was a second round pick here back in
13:40
Speaker 1: my question to you, and he was talking about Tebor Lawrence.
13:43
Speaker 1: From your perspective, how much does a quarterback a rookie,
13:47
Speaker 1: but a quarterback talented like Lawrence is attract free agents
13:51
Speaker 1: for Urban Meyer and the Jaguars. Um. I think quite
13:55
Speaker 1: a bit, right, I mean, and I think we're actually
13:58
Speaker 1: seeing more of that in the end fell You're sort
14:00
Speaker 1: of seeing that like NBA effect where players want to
14:03
Speaker 1: play with other players. Um. You know, obviously we saw
14:06
Speaker 1: it in Tampa Bay when when Brady went there. You
14:09
Speaker 1: saw players want to be in Tampa Bay with Brady
14:12
Speaker 1: because you knew it was going to give you a chance.
14:13
Speaker 1: But I think good players gravitate too. Good good players.
14:19
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence is not gonna just we assume it's not
14:22
Speaker 1: just going to be a good player. I mean this,
14:24
Speaker 1: we assume is going to be a transcendent quarterback UM
14:28
Speaker 1: and a franchise quarterback for a long time in Jacksonville.
14:30
Speaker 1: And I do think that helps. Listen, Jacksonville needs pieces, right,
14:35
Speaker 1: a lot of pieces. But they also have the ammunition.
14:38
Speaker 1: They've got the high draft picks, and they've got a
14:40
Speaker 1: lot of money under the salary cap. And if they
14:44
Speaker 1: make good decisions, they can be competitive fairly quickly. We've
14:49
Speaker 1: seen this in the NFL. If you can make good
14:52
Speaker 1: decisions quickly and you get good quarterback play, you can
14:56
Speaker 1: turn the ship around. It doesn't have to be a
14:59
Speaker 1: long jo was rebuild. You've already got some young talent
15:02
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville on the roster, so I think, you know,
15:06
Speaker 1: there's hope for a fairly quick bounce back. And certainly
15:10
Speaker 1: having Trevor Lawrence there, as you know, as the tent
15:13
Speaker 1: pole figure um helps you attract other players. Obviously ultimately
15:17
Speaker 1: in free agency money talks, but they've got plenty of money, um.
15:22
Speaker 1: So I think having Trevor Lawrence there can only enhance
15:26
Speaker 1: everything that they're trying to do. And and and he
15:28
Speaker 1: is also a culture center, and that may be the
15:31
Speaker 1: most important thing they're trying to do right away. Absolutely, Judy,
15:37
Speaker 1: I was reading all last week and I saw tweets
15:40
Speaker 1: like it's going to be a massacre this week of
15:42
Speaker 1: everyone cutting players that are good players. And we're seeing
15:46
Speaker 1: a little bit of that, but I don't think it's
15:47
Speaker 1: to that level. Do do you expect that, with this
15:49
Speaker 1: salary cap being so jumbled because of COVID and the
15:52
Speaker 1: TV deals, that we're going to see that many good
15:55
Speaker 1: players become available? Unfortunately, that that's the x actation from
16:00
Speaker 1: everybody you talked to in the league. I think the
16:03
Speaker 1: reason we haven't seen it yet is because the salary
16:05
Speaker 1: cap hasn't been set, so we don't quite know. I mean,
16:07
Speaker 1: we have a pretty good idea of where it's going
16:09
Speaker 1: to be, we don't know precisely where it's going to be,
16:12
Speaker 1: but um, you know, teams are going to be up
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Speaker 1: against it. I mean, Jacksonville isn't a very fortunate position
16:18
Speaker 1: to have lots of space, but teams are going to
16:20
Speaker 1: be very tight, um, and I think you're going to
16:23
Speaker 1: see really good, um veteran mid career players get squeezed.
16:30
Speaker 1: You know, the rookies are coming in, are still going
16:32
Speaker 1: to be on relatively affordable contracts, and obviously superstar players
16:37
Speaker 1: who command you. You know, you just saw that Dak
16:39
Speaker 1: Prescott deal that got done last night. I mean, those
16:41
Speaker 1: players you're keeping, but the middle class of NFL player
16:46
Speaker 1: is going to get squeezed. Here. You're gonna see a
16:48
Speaker 1: lot of contract restructuring. I think a lot of teams
16:52
Speaker 1: asking their their players to move money around to help
16:55
Speaker 1: the team out. But yeah, I think unfortunately, you're probably
16:58
Speaker 1: going to see a lot of names recognize get cut
17:01
Speaker 1: loose shooting. The story that I'm just captivated by is
17:06
Speaker 1: the new Orleans Saints, and and the reason I am
17:08
Speaker 1: is I remember the Jaguars in two thousand two when
17:11
Speaker 1: they were in similar dire caps circumstances with a pretty
17:15
Speaker 1: talented roster, and if it hadn't been for the expansion
17:18
Speaker 1: Draft in the Houston Texans taking some of those players,
17:21
Speaker 1: Gary Walker and Tony Basselli off of their schedule, off
17:25
Speaker 1: of their ro salary cap, I don't know how they
17:27
Speaker 1: would have gotten under the cap. I'm looking at the
17:29
Speaker 1: Saints right now. Is there any concern from people you
17:31
Speaker 1: talk to about their ability to get under the cap?
17:34
Speaker 1: I mean that could be a blood letting if they don't.
17:38
Speaker 1: You know, they have had a reputation over the last
17:41
Speaker 1: however many years now of they managed to do it right.
17:45
Speaker 1: I mean they move a lot of money around. First
17:46
Speaker 1: of all, the big the big thing is we're assuming,
17:50
Speaker 1: we've all been assuming for months that Drew Brees is
17:52
Speaker 1: going to retire. Obviously, that will move a lot of
17:54
Speaker 1: money often Presumably you then have a quarterback who is
17:57
Speaker 1: playing for a lot less money than Drew Brees was making. Um,
18:01
Speaker 1: they have been able, they have been able to do it.
18:04
Speaker 1: But when I see his name, the Saints linked for
18:07
Speaker 1: instance to you know, yesterday I saw you know, why
18:10
Speaker 1: not Russell Wilson there, and I'm like, how how could
18:12
Speaker 1: they afford a Russell Wilson? You know, given their cap situation. Again,
18:18
Speaker 1: I think they're one of the teams that you're going
18:19
Speaker 1: to see go to their players and say, let's redo
18:23
Speaker 1: your deal, let's move some money around. Keep in mind,
18:27
Speaker 1: teams are squeezed this year because the salary cap situation,
18:30
Speaker 1: because the drop in revenue from from the COVID season
18:34
Speaker 1: because there were no fans instance, But that's not going
18:37
Speaker 1: to be forever right. As a matter of fact, it's
18:39
Speaker 1: going to get markedly better very soon because these new
18:42
Speaker 1: TV contracts are going to come online in a few
18:44
Speaker 1: years and that's going to send the salary cap way up. Um.
18:49
Speaker 1: You know that the TV money could double um in
18:52
Speaker 1: the next few years. So um, this is a short
18:55
Speaker 1: term problem that they've got right now. They've got to
18:58
Speaker 1: get through it, and they've got a structure contracts to
19:00
Speaker 1: get through this. But but if you can push the
19:03
Speaker 1: money far enough out of you know, by a few years,
19:06
Speaker 1: the salary cap is going to be your friend at
19:09
Speaker 1: that point if you're a team. So um, I think
19:12
Speaker 1: you know, most of these teams hire very very smart
19:14
Speaker 1: people to manage the cap um and I think the
19:18
Speaker 1: best teams and the Saints have historically been one of
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Speaker 1: the best teams that at figuring out how to do
19:23
Speaker 1: it um and keeping their team intact. And I would
19:26
Speaker 1: expect I'd be I don't expect them to blow up
19:29
Speaker 1: the Saints. I expect them to figure out ways to
19:32
Speaker 1: move money around. They've got a lot of work to
19:36
Speaker 1: be done. But we always joke this off season that
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Speaker 1: it's a great year to be rich like the Jaguars
19:41
Speaker 1: and have all kinds of cap space. So I ask you, Judy,
19:44
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19:47
Speaker 1: as of now, what do you think is gonna happen
19:49
Speaker 1: with Cam Robinson? I mean, for as from my standpoint,
19:52
Speaker 1: I can't see them going and drafting a left tackle
19:55
Speaker 1: to replace him and trust a rookie of protecting Trevor
19:58
Speaker 1: Lawrence's blindside. So it's it's a little tricky here how
20:01
Speaker 1: they're were't going to work this out? Well, I think
20:03
Speaker 1: the first point you should make is the tagline really
20:06
Speaker 1: going to stay today? Or are they want to move
20:09
Speaker 1: the tag yet line? Because they still don't know, uh,
20:12
Speaker 1: what the salary cap number is gonna be. So that's
20:13
Speaker 1: the first question. The second point about the jag war
20:17
Speaker 1: situation is, even if they don't tag Cam Robinson, it
20:20
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily mean they're going to start a rookie at
20:23
Speaker 1: left tackle. They could go out and sign Again, this
20:26
Speaker 1: is why it is great to have a lot of
20:28
Speaker 1: salary cap space this year. They could sign one of
20:31
Speaker 1: the left tackles who's going to be on the market. Um.
20:35
Speaker 1: They will have the money to do it, um, and
20:37
Speaker 1: a lot of other teams won't have the money to
20:39
Speaker 1: do it. So they're in a fortuitous situation that way.
20:42
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I can't imagine you would go
20:44
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20:49
Speaker 1: the blind side of your you know, the franchise, that
20:54
Speaker 1: that the person that the entire franchise is going to
20:57
Speaker 1: be built around. That. I can't as and them doing that. So,
21:01
Speaker 1: even if they don't tag Cam Robinson, even if they
21:03
Speaker 1: can't work out a contract to get him back here,
21:05
Speaker 1: I would expect there to be a veteran left tackle
21:08
Speaker 1: in their future. All right, Well, we'll see what happens.
21:12
Speaker 1: All kinds of questions with not a lot of answers
21:15
Speaker 1: as of now. We're all kind of disclimed by the
21:17
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21:19
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21:22
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Speaker 1: that you have started here in Jacksonville. Tell me all
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Speaker 1: about it. But it's actually my vision of investing in
29:03
Speaker 1: boys of color from single parent homes with your athletes. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And it's important to me, honestly, because someone gave me
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Speaker 1: an opportunity, and they continue to give me opportunities, and
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Speaker 1: so when when I can do that for someone else,
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Speaker 1: field we we would like them do. Yeah, well, let
29:26
Speaker 1: me let me let me say this. When young men
29:30
Speaker 1: grow up in poverty. Uh, they look at athletics as
29:34
Speaker 1: a way out, and I think that that does happen
29:37
Speaker 1: for not not a majority of a minority of boys.
29:42
Speaker 1: They tend to play well, they get out of poverty,
29:46
Speaker 1: and I think you have to give them more. We
29:50
Speaker 1: know that athletics, you need more than athletics to thrive
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Speaker 1: in today's society, and so we are trying to make
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Speaker 1: sure that we give them every opportunity to have more
29:59
Speaker 1: than one option when they have to hang up those uniforms,
30:03
Speaker 1: which everyone has to do. You know, Lonnie, when we
30:08
Speaker 1: first talked about this last summer, you and your lovely
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30:13
Speaker 1: sharing your vision. Um. It made so much sense too.
30:19
Speaker 1: The hands on approach as opposed to writing a check
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30:27
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30:35
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Speaker 1: steps to get level of playing field Leadership Academy from
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Speaker 1: the conceptual Hey you know, jump on board with the
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Speaker 1: vision to actually working with these boys and helping create
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Speaker 1: the opportunities that broaden their horizons and creative and more opportunities. Well,
31:02
Speaker 1: we were at the point where we're accepting mentors because
31:05
Speaker 1: we're gonna need mentors for our boys, and we will
31:08
Speaker 1: be uh taking applications for our boys in March, because
31:14
Speaker 1: June will be when we accept our first cohort of
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Speaker 1: boys fifteen. Uh. And I know many people ask why
31:20
Speaker 1: only fifteen. It's because I think we want to get
31:23
Speaker 1: it right. And you know, you have to be a
31:26
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31:30
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31:33
Speaker 1: as well as the young man. And I want to
31:37
Speaker 1: make sure I get it right. And so we are
31:39
Speaker 1: at the point where we're accepting applications for mentors, and
31:42
Speaker 1: we will be accepting mentor applications for mentees in March.
31:47
Speaker 1: We have raised a great bit of money and it's
31:52
Speaker 1: it's what's really good about is is actually multi year
31:56
Speaker 1: of funding. Uh. You know, Mrs Weaver. Mr Weaver have
32:00
Speaker 1: been gracious to us. Uh. Mr Dubo has been gracious
32:04
Speaker 1: to us. And we are still looking to raise the
32:07
Speaker 1: funds that we need to make sure that we concede
32:11
Speaker 1: this program. And so we are. We're a little bit off,
32:14
Speaker 1: little ways off, but we are doing our best to
32:17
Speaker 1: have it where we won't ever have to stop and
32:20
Speaker 1: we will get everything to our boys that they need.
32:24
Speaker 1: That is awesome. Actually, and I know you read the
32:26
Speaker 1: story in the Times Junion. I think you were on
32:28
Speaker 1: Channel four as well. Lonnie. You mentioned Mr and Mrs
32:31
Speaker 1: Weaver and and Lori Duboux former Jaguars ownership have gotten
32:35
Speaker 1: involved outside of a small group. What's the larger participation been,
32:42
Speaker 1: the larger reception been for your initiative? And you tell
32:46
Speaker 1: hard truths, and I assume you're gonna say that to
32:48
Speaker 1: the boys. You talk about personal accountability and and stepping
32:52
Speaker 1: into a situation where you can create some change. How
32:55
Speaker 1: is that message? Um? How has it been received? Uh?
33:00
Speaker 1: Some have received it, well, some haven't. UM. I normally
33:04
Speaker 1: get you know, the question why only boys of color?
33:07
Speaker 1: And I think you have to go to the fact
33:09
Speaker 1: that you know and and in Jacksonville we have in
33:14
Speaker 1: the nation actually it's of single parent homes or led
33:18
Speaker 1: by female and of those or in poverty. And I
33:23
Speaker 1: don't think I don't think that's fair. I realized that
33:26
Speaker 1: I came from a single parent home and uh from
33:30
Speaker 1: my mother and I to make it out it was
33:32
Speaker 1: a miracle, and I don't think it has to be
33:34
Speaker 1: a miracle. I think that we we understand what is
33:37
Speaker 1: going on here and we have to step in. And
33:39
Speaker 1: so our intervention in this is about not just you know,
33:44
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a move. Yes, we want equality, but
33:48
Speaker 1: this has always been going on and it's not just
33:50
Speaker 1: boys of Public. But I'm starting there because that's where
33:53
Speaker 1: I started from, and I'm trying to help and and
33:57
Speaker 1: give our young men a a brighter future. And I
34:00
Speaker 1: think it will also a help a community. You always
34:02
Speaker 1: hear uh it takes a village to raise a child,
34:05
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34:07
Speaker 1: should add to that village, add value to that village.
34:10
Speaker 1: And that's what we're trying to do. Actually, and I
34:13
Speaker 1: can keep going because I'm working in a very small
34:16
Speaker 1: way with Lonnie on this, but I want people to
34:19
Speaker 1: know I fell in love with the concept um and
34:23
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34:26
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34:29
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34:31
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34:34
Speaker 1: of dedicated men and women who are generously donating their talent,
34:40
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34:45
Speaker 1: people ever find themselves in a position and they're looking
34:48
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34:53
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34:56
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35:00
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35:02
Speaker 1: and and Lonnie, you know I've said this to you.
35:05
Speaker 1: Um hopefully you never see the end result of what
35:10
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35:13
Speaker 1: going long beyond your days. Yeah, I pray that it does.
35:17
Speaker 1: And uh, I know that changed and the impact that
35:20
Speaker 1: we're gonna have it's probably gonna be after I'm long gone.
35:23
Speaker 1: But at least we started and we got it done. Yeah.
35:27
Speaker 1: Absolutely all about getting start for you and the job
35:30
Speaker 1: you've done. Absolutely, And you can visit level the playing
35:33
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35:37
Speaker 1: I don't know how he does it. So Lonnie, best
35:40
Speaker 1: of luck, thank you so much for coming on the
35:41
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35:45
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35:48
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