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Jags Drive Time: Tuesday, July 21 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Jack Wars. Did you go Jack Jack Wars? Did you
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive Time Finding sex Steps? John O shows it. Actually,
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Speaker 1: I'm so set. Jaguars Drive A Time starts right now. Hey.
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Speaker 1: One of the big things we want to do, and
0:19
Speaker 1: we got everybody together. We want to get these groups,
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Speaker 1: these gps out here. We want to spend time together. Man,
0:23
Speaker 1: we're missing out on a a big part of our
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Speaker 1: team building. It's these o t as were you just
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Speaker 1: spend time getting to know each other. Take this time,
0:30
Speaker 1: especially guys out of town. You all got to do,
0:32
Speaker 1: get to know the guys around you. I think that's uh. Thanks,
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Speaker 1: gonna really help us this fall. Jags on three one
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Speaker 1: two three Jacks said to say, it is a whole
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Speaker 1: new Gardner Minshew going into the season leading his team
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Speaker 1: as the starting quarterback during some off season workouts. As
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Speaker 1: we welcome in our Jaguars Drive Time crew from the
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Speaker 1: season looking a little different than the start of football
0:57
Speaker 1: season last year. This is the look. You're gonna see
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Speaker 1: you for the entire year. We have one show this
1:02
Speaker 1: week and then starting next week, we are here with
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Speaker 1: you every single day except on Tuesdays. Guys. We're ready,
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Speaker 1: We're doing this but it's a little different. Yeah, we're
1:13
Speaker 1: in it now, and I you know, I think everybody
1:17
Speaker 1: watching will sort of get the same feeling. We are
1:20
Speaker 1: sort of figuring this out daily as we go along,
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Speaker 1: that this is going to be the set up and
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Speaker 1: a lot of remote a lot of talking. I've had
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Speaker 1: wise to be e together and I'm looking forward to
1:32
Speaker 1: it the further away. I am for Brian, you had
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Speaker 1: the happier I think everybody is well and you know,
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Speaker 1: I was just thinking today John Um, just to put
1:39
Speaker 1: it in perspective, the Thursday in March where the TPC started,
1:45
Speaker 1: March twelve, I went in that morning and I walked
1:49
Speaker 1: around and there's nothing going on. You know, it is
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Speaker 1: TPC week. Everybody's out of the course. So I said goodbye,
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Speaker 1: said see you guys. I think it's gonna be gone
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Speaker 1: for a week to a TFC guys in ten days
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Speaker 1: or so, and here we are, you know, going on
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Speaker 1: five months later. Uh. You know that's not being in
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Speaker 1: the building, which has made it really interesting in terms
2:11
Speaker 1: of trying to figure out what's going on and how,
2:13
Speaker 1: you know, how they're doing things, you know, behind the
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Speaker 1: scenes for people who are watching this, you know how
2:18
Speaker 1: We're going to adapt and change. Because the theme of
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Speaker 1: is he who adapts to the change the best is
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Speaker 1: probably the super Bowl champion and that leads us directly
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Speaker 1: into big thing. One Big thing. One is a big
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Speaker 1: old asterisk next to this season. Everyone's the super Bowl
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Speaker 1: most likely this year is going to handle this the
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Speaker 1: best way possible. It's not about how talented your rosters anymore.
2:45
Speaker 1: If you're watching on Jaguars dot com Live, you'll see
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Speaker 1: this tweet from Dan Graziano saying that the NFL, p
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Speaker 1: A and the NFL have agreed to testing protocols as
2:54
Speaker 1: of yesterday. That was the biggest issue going into this
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Speaker 1: week was that was not figured out. NFL rookies are
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Speaker 1: reported today. For the Jaguars, this is now figured out.
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Speaker 1: They will take a test today and they will go
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Speaker 1: home for two days. So as of now, testing protocols
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Speaker 1: are figured out. But the biggest thing is the season
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Speaker 1: is going to be weird. We know that. So you
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Speaker 1: might as love to put a big old asterisk next
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Speaker 1: this year because this is going down in the history books.
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Speaker 1: Big thing too is here we go question mark. Jaguars
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Speaker 1: workies reporting today they'll take a test and go home
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Speaker 1: veterans report next week, they'll take a test and go home.
3:27
Speaker 1: So now that testing is figured out, the biggest question
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Speaker 1: we have going into this season is we are well
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Speaker 1: aware the NFL players do not want to play preseason.
3:35
Speaker 1: As of now, that is still a little iffy. We're
3:38
Speaker 1: not sure how that's going to shake out. As of
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Speaker 1: right now, there are two preseason games. Will we have
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Speaker 1: any in about a week? We don't know. That's the
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Speaker 1: question mark. And finally, big thing three is a shot,
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Speaker 1: the shot of a lifetime for Gardner Minshew. He will
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Speaker 1: walk into the stadium on Thursday and take his test
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Speaker 1: along with the other quarterbacks. And as he walks into
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Speaker 1: that stadium, he's got to think, Man, this is my
4:00
Speaker 1: one shot. I have the shot to be an NFL
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Speaker 1: started quarterback going forward. But under these conditions, can you
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Speaker 1: blame him? Feed a little bit stressed out trying to
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Speaker 1: shape this the new addition to the running back room,
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Speaker 1: thinks he will get it done. It's really been how
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Speaker 1: he grabbed this offense so quick and then um, his
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Speaker 1: attitude and what he's demanding from guys, and you know
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Speaker 1: he uh, what I saw from him is you know,
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Speaker 1: he wants he's punctual and he wants everybody to be
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Speaker 1: on time. Although those workouts were voluntary, he was he
4:40
Speaker 1: was really making it making it known, even like after
4:43
Speaker 1: every day that we worked out that hey, I need
4:45
Speaker 1: y'all guys to be here to show up on time
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Speaker 1: so we can get this done. Get you know, get
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Speaker 1: out working and get off the field. And to me,
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Speaker 1: seeing a young quarterback um do those things, I think
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Speaker 1: is is good for the future for his too here
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Speaker 1: in Jackson. That was the new addition to the running
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Speaker 1: back room. Free agent Chris Thompson very much impressed with
5:09
Speaker 1: how Gardner Minshew has handled these offseason workouts, definitely emphasizing
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Speaker 1: that he is trying to lead this team as of now.
5:16
Speaker 1: So guys, let's go all the way back up to
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Speaker 1: the top, because I think that is the most important
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Speaker 1: part right now. Is the testing protocols have been figured out.
5:23
Speaker 1: That was a huge thing going into Monday. If that
5:26
Speaker 1: wasn't figured out, I don't think it was safe to
5:28
Speaker 1: say that players are reporting this week. Now that it is,
5:31
Speaker 1: there's still a ton of questions though, Brian, Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: mean it's not just the testing protocol. Although you know,
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Speaker 1: late last night we got worried that the two sides
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Speaker 1: had agreed on how they were going to do it.
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Speaker 1: By the way, it's an astronomical number of tests, and
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Speaker 1: when you put it all into perspective, it's what it's
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Speaker 1: going to cost the league to be able to do it.
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Speaker 1: I think I read a hundred test and you're talking
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Speaker 1: about me. It's you're talking about a lot of guys
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Speaker 1: being tested every day. I mean, you're talking millions of dollars.
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Speaker 1: But for the end fell, which is a billion dollar proposition,
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Speaker 1: the cost of doing business is this testing protocol. Now
6:06
Speaker 1: they've got that done. Apparently the next issue is how
6:09
Speaker 1: they're gonna deal with the salary cap. Not in one.
6:14
Speaker 1: Keep in mind that the salary cap will set year
6:17
Speaker 1: to year by the revenue from the previous season. So
6:21
Speaker 1: salary cap is based on the money that the league
6:24
Speaker 1: and the team's made in twenty nineteen. Well, so just
6:28
Speaker 1: think forward in what are you gonna do? I'm sorry, one,
6:32
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do if you don't If you
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Speaker 1: don't make any money in twenty twenty, Right, if your
6:35
Speaker 1: money is limited, the salary cap is gonna shrink, and
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Speaker 1: that's going to create problems for teams who are up
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Speaker 1: against it, or who have high dollar players that they've
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Speaker 1: got to sign. So before they can go too far
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Speaker 1: down this road, they've got to get the money figured out,
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Speaker 1: because you can't just say we'll solve that in February
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Speaker 1: next year when they start doing the accounting on They've
6:56
Speaker 1: got at least have a plan for how they're going
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Speaker 1: to go forward and make the you work. I don't
7:01
Speaker 1: know if that keeps training camp from opening or from
7:03
Speaker 1: the season starting, but they've got to get that thim solved. Yeah.
7:09
Speaker 1: I doubt it will keep anything delayed time wise, but
7:14
Speaker 1: it did from Major League Baseball. It's worth pointing out
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Speaker 1: that Major League Baseball had pushed their start time back
7:19
Speaker 1: a month. It still hasn't started because they couldn't get
7:22
Speaker 1: the money right. Yeah. There, that's a little more of
7:25
Speaker 1: a contentious owner player. But I hear you. I mean,
7:28
Speaker 1: there's no guarantee it starts. I want to go back
7:31
Speaker 1: to the asters that we talked about the top of
7:33
Speaker 1: the show. Um guess there will be an asters, and
7:36
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about money, We're gonna talk about a
7:39
Speaker 1: lot of COVID testing, we're gonna talking about everything off
7:41
Speaker 1: the field. But the last time that there was a
7:44
Speaker 1: season that had this sort of asters was probably which
7:47
Speaker 1: was the severely strikes shortened seeds with nine games, and
7:52
Speaker 1: some people put an asters on that. I think a
7:54
Speaker 1: lot of people know I was a huge fan of
7:56
Speaker 1: the Washington football team growing up, the one the Super
7:59
Speaker 1: Bowl year. I can tell you that for my dad
8:02
Speaker 1: and I there was no assers on that season. Somebody
8:06
Speaker 1: will wring the Super Bowl off this plays out, there
8:08
Speaker 1: will be memories. So for fans on the field, you know,
8:12
Speaker 1: for fans who were watching this once they put that aside.
8:17
Speaker 1: I think it's important to realize that if the season
8:20
Speaker 1: still gets played, you can put as many caveats as
8:23
Speaker 1: you want to say, well, this team didn't have COVID.
8:26
Speaker 1: Somebody's still holding up a trophy. And I know my dad,
8:29
Speaker 1: May he rest in peace, he held up that trophy
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Speaker 1: with pride. I didn't matter if they paid nine games
8:34
Speaker 1: or thirteen. So there's still gonna be an energy to this.
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Speaker 1: And by the time they're holding up a trophy, somebody
8:41
Speaker 1: is going to have those feelings. So hey, Brian, why
8:43
Speaker 1: not the jack Well, it's funny. The silver lining for
8:46
Speaker 1: the Jaguars is in a year that we thought that
8:49
Speaker 1: they you know, had gutted the roster and and retooled it.
8:53
Speaker 1: You choose your adjective on on what they did to
8:55
Speaker 1: the roster, but they make major changes. And so in
8:59
Speaker 1: a year in which they've done that, and they're going
9:01
Speaker 1: in with a quarterback that they don't know if his
9:04
Speaker 1: ceiling is Super Bowl or not, there's a lot of
9:08
Speaker 1: question marks why not win the Super Bowl? Right? I mean,
9:11
Speaker 1: the people are laughing at that contention right now, But
9:13
Speaker 1: the reality of it is is that the Detroit Lions,
9:16
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns, the Jaguars, teams that nobody would even
9:19
Speaker 1: consider being Super Bowl contenders this year are because, let's
9:25
Speaker 1: face it, what happens if Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes, Russell Wilson,
9:30
Speaker 1: Drew Brees. What if these quarterbacks are either down for
9:33
Speaker 1: an extended period of time themselves with this virus or
9:36
Speaker 1: they lose key contributors on either side of the ball.
9:39
Speaker 1: As we said, the team that is able to manage
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Speaker 1: this with the greatest degree is the team that's going
9:48
Speaker 1: to work their way through it. And there's no reason
9:51
Speaker 1: why the Jaguars and Scott Truelock in the medical training
9:54
Speaker 1: staff down at t I a Bakfield can't get this
9:58
Speaker 1: team help me. I mean, I don't know that they
10:00
Speaker 1: will or won't do any of that. But this year,
10:03
Speaker 1: when we started talking about back in February, this year
10:08
Speaker 1: looked like it might be wrong. It looks like it
10:11
Speaker 1: might be a very difficult season to cover this team
10:16
Speaker 1: or to be a fan of this team. And right
10:18
Speaker 1: now Man talked about everybody having optimism at the start
10:22
Speaker 1: of the season. I think this is true. Yeah, it's
10:27
Speaker 1: a fair playing field as of now, and no longer
10:30
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10:33
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Speaker 1: we're talking training camp as best we can hear from home,
13:01
Speaker 1: as we introduced a brand new segment, Should I freak out?
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Speaker 1: As of right now and especially in the off season,
13:07
Speaker 1: there are a ton of questions going into and we
13:11
Speaker 1: pose a few ones right now. We're all going to
13:13
Speaker 1: go around our screens and say, is it worth freaking
13:16
Speaker 1: out or should we take a calm approach to things? Question? No. One,
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Speaker 1: we're not sure if you meet the Gockway is going
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Speaker 1: to show up to training camp. We haven't even been
13:25
Speaker 1: able to discuss this yet because there's so much going on. John,
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Speaker 1: is this a big deal? Are you freaking out if
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Speaker 1: you meeting Godway does not walk through the gates? Well,
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Speaker 1: I'm not freaking out because I've been expecting since all
13:37
Speaker 1: this started. Whenever it started, it sort of happened organically,
13:40
Speaker 1: But I've been expecting all along for him not to
13:43
Speaker 1: walk through the gates. Whenever the first day to walk
13:46
Speaker 1: through the gates, he ain't walking through those gates. I
13:49
Speaker 1: would expect him to walk through the gates when it
13:52
Speaker 1: feels financially necessary to him to do so. My guess
13:56
Speaker 1: is that will happen whatever. The last day that he
14:00
Speaker 1: can report before the season opener and play, I would
14:03
Speaker 1: expect that to be when he does that. So I'm
14:05
Speaker 1: not freaking out really until he doesn't show up there. Brian,
14:11
Speaker 1: what about you? Are you no? Not at all? I'm
14:15
Speaker 1: with John on this one. I don't think he's going
14:17
Speaker 1: to pass up seventeen point eight million dollars, which is
14:20
Speaker 1: the franchise tag a year after he passed up seventeen million. Right,
14:25
Speaker 1: you're not gonna put thirty four million dollars on the
14:27
Speaker 1: back burner. And that's what he would do if he
14:30
Speaker 1: didn't show up in a year in which nobody got
14:33
Speaker 1: an off season. He isn't that far behind, and he
14:35
Speaker 1: won't be that far behind because what he does put
14:38
Speaker 1: his hand on the ground and rushed the passer. No,
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Speaker 1: I'm not freaking out because he's not going to pass
14:42
Speaker 1: up the money. I'm not freaking out. Well, I guess
14:46
Speaker 1: I would be freaking out because Calais Campbell's departure and
14:49
Speaker 1: if Unique and Goquay didn't walk through the gates, I'd
14:51
Speaker 1: be a little freaked out. But because of newest draft
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Speaker 1: pick Caleb and Chase on walking through the gates today,
14:57
Speaker 1: that eases my wor reason when he told us after
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Speaker 1: he was drafted his specialty was wrecking havoc on quarterbacks,
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Speaker 1: that he's a little freest, So I agree with I
15:06
Speaker 1: think we all agree on that that no freakouts necessary
15:09
Speaker 1: for Unique and Blackway. So let's pose one more question
15:11
Speaker 1: that we haven't really talked much about in the off season.
15:14
Speaker 1: It kind of just came to me. We're not sure
15:17
Speaker 1: if Cam Robinson is back to this year the left
15:20
Speaker 1: tackle John thinking about that, especially with the addition of
15:24
Speaker 1: Ben Bartch on the offensive line. Not sure if Cam
15:27
Speaker 1: Robinson is back to pent with that a c L tear.
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Speaker 1: Is that worth some worries? Uh? I'm not that worried
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Speaker 1: about the a c L. Because I'm assuming that it
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Speaker 1: will be back to because he'll now be what, uh nineteen,
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Speaker 1: I mean a huge amount of time. He's had more
15:45
Speaker 1: than enough time to recover. I don't think he was
15:48
Speaker 1: recovered last year fully because you're using that the year after.
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Speaker 1: But now he's two years removed, I think you will
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Speaker 1: be I think the freak out is is he even healthy?
15:58
Speaker 1: Is he a franchise left tackle? He really hasn't had
16:01
Speaker 1: a chance to show that if he's not or if
16:04
Speaker 1: he's not good, And I'm freaking out a little bit
16:07
Speaker 1: because they're putting a lot on him. They're assuming that
16:11
Speaker 1: a healthy Camera Robinson will be a very very good
16:13
Speaker 1: Camera Robinson. If he's not, then I freak out a
16:16
Speaker 1: little bit because then the offensive line probably isn't better
16:18
Speaker 1: than it was last year. Last year wasn't good enough.
16:22
Speaker 1: My understanding is the Cam Robinson worked at getting back
16:25
Speaker 1: last year, but he didn't work as hard as some
16:27
Speaker 1: people in the building would have liked him too. They
16:29
Speaker 1: would have liked to see him grind to be like
16:32
Speaker 1: a unique in dock Way in there really killing it
16:34
Speaker 1: in the off season. And we don't know obviously what
16:38
Speaker 1: he's been able to do this offseason. Right after the
16:41
Speaker 1: way last season went. My guess is that Cam Robinson
16:44
Speaker 1: was a really proud player, was going to really work
16:47
Speaker 1: to make sure that he's back because the spotlight is
16:50
Speaker 1: on him. Has he been able to do that? And
16:52
Speaker 1: if he has, has he done that? If Cam Robinson
16:56
Speaker 1: applies himself and grinds at making sure that he's back,
17:01
Speaker 1: Kim Rominson is a good football player and he's your guy.
17:05
Speaker 1: If this offseason was like last offseason, and then I'm
17:08
Speaker 1: freaking out because I was counting on him being a
17:10
Speaker 1: main state on that offensive line, I gotta know whether
17:14
Speaker 1: or not he was committed completely to being back to
17:17
Speaker 1: the player that the Jaguars thought they drafted in that
17:21
Speaker 1: high second round two years ago, three years ago. Now, yeah,
17:25
Speaker 1: I think it's all about his attitude and frankly, how
17:27
Speaker 1: bad he wants. I mean, this is the year to
17:29
Speaker 1: prove if he wants or not to be that starting
17:31
Speaker 1: left tackle, solid runback blocking, questionable past blocking out. I
17:35
Speaker 1: think there's another year like last year. I think you
17:38
Speaker 1: definitely are freaking out. You just said it's how bad
17:40
Speaker 1: does Cam Robinson want to be? His best? Guys get
17:43
Speaker 1: over a c l s. It should not be in
17:45
Speaker 1: his way. He hopefully was piste off about the way
17:48
Speaker 1: that he was perceived to have played last season and
17:51
Speaker 1: took the heat this offseason and applied it to himself.
17:55
Speaker 1: If he did, no reason to worry. If he didn't
17:58
Speaker 1: freak out, We're gonna see how bad he wants it
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Speaker 1: c U A. We're back Jaguar time. Tuesday morning, Max,
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Speaker 1: our producer, is asking if I would be so kind
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Speaker 1: to seeing the Ozo music, But I just don't think
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Speaker 1: anyone is ready for that. This morning, we'll have it
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Speaker 1: for you. Thank it loud, thank you, proud, thinking aloud,
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Speaker 1: and sing it proud. It should be your ring tone, John,
20:06
Speaker 1: I don't know why it's not. Let's go to a Orlando,
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Speaker 1: shall we? Casey, what do you got for us? I
20:12
Speaker 1: don't why it takes so long to sign all of
20:15
Speaker 1: these rookie contracts. Isn't there a set scale for rookies
20:18
Speaker 1: based upon their draft position? John, Well, they all got
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Speaker 1: signed last night or late last night, agreed to yesterday whatever,
20:26
Speaker 1: They're all in. And I got a lot of worry
20:30
Speaker 1: consternation over the last two weeks. Why aren't these guys signed?
20:34
Speaker 1: And I get that because a lot of people, Brian
20:37
Speaker 1: don't follow the NFL closely every day like we do.
20:41
Speaker 1: I'm not sure people necessarily understood that A lot of
20:45
Speaker 1: them not signing until late this year was purely logistical.
20:50
Speaker 1: With COVID all teams had so many other things going on,
20:54
Speaker 1: they knew this was gonna happen before training camp started,
20:58
Speaker 1: before reporting. This was a non story from the start,
21:02
Speaker 1: although I understand fans had a little anxiety over it
21:05
Speaker 1: because you read this and see guys aren't in. Never worry,
21:08
Speaker 1: not a problem. Won't affect the season and won't affect anything. No,
21:12
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't eliminate entirely the possibility of the
21:16
Speaker 1: teams didn't sign players until the last minute because they
21:19
Speaker 1: had cash flow issues this year, right They just wanted
21:22
Speaker 1: to make sure that they were in a position they
21:24
Speaker 1: were going to sign the guys, because that's the way
21:26
Speaker 1: that they held their rights. If you don't sign the players,
21:29
Speaker 1: that they can go back into the draft the next year.
21:32
Speaker 1: But the reality of it was was the teams had
21:34
Speaker 1: really no incentive since players weren't going to be in
21:36
Speaker 1: working out anyway, to do it any sooner than they've
21:39
Speaker 1: done it right now, And there's been a steady stream
21:42
Speaker 1: of news about this player and that team signing contracts
21:45
Speaker 1: year over the last three or four days. By the way,
21:48
Speaker 1: when was the last time that we talked about rookies
21:51
Speaker 1: and holdouts being an issue. Do you remember, Well, it
21:56
Speaker 1: was for the last collection, but a thousand fixed it
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Speaker 1: with the right Tyson Olive Walu in two thousand and
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Speaker 1: that was the last right. It doesn't happen anymore since
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Speaker 1: c a right. Is he gonna sign or isn't he
22:13
Speaker 1: going to sign? That was the last time ten years ago,
22:16
Speaker 1: the good old days All right Byron Jacksonville What you
22:20
Speaker 1: got for us? Well? Makes you so sure Unique will play?
22:24
Speaker 1: The seat? And John? Why are you so sure about this? Well,
22:27
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not completely sure because, as I've said often
22:32
Speaker 1: on this show, and as I've written off in, I
22:34
Speaker 1: don't think anybody's ever completely sure with the Unique, because
22:37
Speaker 1: he's a different guy, and you wouldn't put it past
22:40
Speaker 1: him if he believes in something strongly enough, you wouldn't
22:45
Speaker 1: put it past him not to play, even though the
22:47
Speaker 1: cash and Santa was on the table. I mean, it's
22:49
Speaker 1: I think we all agree that that's not out of
22:52
Speaker 1: the realm of possibility. I am relatively sure he'll play
22:55
Speaker 1: because of the same reason Brian I talked about earlier money.
22:58
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's a lot of money to give up,
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Speaker 1: and you wouldn't think most people would not leave that
23:05
Speaker 1: on the table. Unique is not most people do the math, Ashlyn.
23:11
Speaker 1: Let's say last year, and Unique has been the guy
23:14
Speaker 1: who said, don't believe all the reports you hear when
23:18
Speaker 1: the reports about the contract offer that he was given
23:20
Speaker 1: a year ago came out. But let's just assume it
23:22
Speaker 1: was around seventeen million, which we know he wouldn't have taken.
23:26
Speaker 1: So there's seventeen million last year that he passed on.
23:29
Speaker 1: He got paid too, So it's fifteen that he left
23:32
Speaker 1: on the table. Now this year, there's eighteen. You do
23:35
Speaker 1: the math, and that's thirty three million dollars if he
23:38
Speaker 1: doesn't play this season that he will have set aside.
23:41
Speaker 1: Unique talks all the time about how important his mother,
23:44
Speaker 1: a single mom who were two jobs, is to him
23:48
Speaker 1: and how much he wants to take care of her.
23:50
Speaker 1: Can you do that if you leave thirty three million
23:52
Speaker 1: dollars on the table. Now, he's going to play this
23:56
Speaker 1: season because he's not stupid. Last year he gambled on himself. Okay,
24:03
Speaker 1: not real smart to leave fifteen million on the table,
24:06
Speaker 1: but it's not unheard this year to cannot commit and
24:09
Speaker 1: play and leave eighteen million dollars on the table is
24:14
Speaker 1: stupid and if he does that, he should fire his agent.
24:18
Speaker 1: He needs the money. He has no leverage and eighteen
24:21
Speaker 1: millions too much. And by the way, the agent should
24:24
Speaker 1: want his cut of the money too. You don't leave
24:27
Speaker 1: that money on the table. On principle, you don't. And
24:31
Speaker 1: the principle of this is I want to go play
24:33
Speaker 1: somewhere else because I'm not happy there. Forget happiness. Now
24:37
Speaker 1: take the money. Take the money you need. You don't
24:40
Speaker 1: leave three million dollars in someone else's pocket. That money
24:45
Speaker 1: earning simple interest alone takes care of your mother for
24:48
Speaker 1: the rest of her life. Don't be stupid. Yeah, there
24:52
Speaker 1: are three million. I would go to work happy or not.
24:55
Speaker 1: I show up every day. Let me change the word quick.
24:58
Speaker 1: Stupid sounds harsh, so let me change the world. Don't
25:01
Speaker 1: be proud. Don't there would be too proud to take
25:06
Speaker 1: thirty three million dollars. But the ego aside just cash
25:11
Speaker 1: the chat sounds easy enough. Antona Beach bringing us some
25:15
Speaker 1: optimism this morning, good old Paul. I like this team
25:19
Speaker 1: more than the expert zone. I'm thinking playoffs. Yeah, I
25:24
Speaker 1: like this team. More than the experts to I'm I'm
25:27
Speaker 1: not thinking playoffs, even with all we talked about earlier,
25:30
Speaker 1: with it being a crazy season, I think a lot
25:33
Speaker 1: still has to go right for a team this young,
25:36
Speaker 1: with an unknown quarterback, It's hard to sit here and
25:39
Speaker 1: think playoffs. But what I do think is all of
25:42
Speaker 1: the pundits who are picking this to be the worst
25:45
Speaker 1: team in the NFL. Often when people analyze, it's easy
25:50
Speaker 1: to analyze what they see, which is free agent losses,
25:55
Speaker 1: what a team did last year. What is hard to
25:58
Speaker 1: analyze is how much a team can improve from within.
26:01
Speaker 1: This is a young team that I think can have
26:04
Speaker 1: some major steps from within. Because you would think that
26:07
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew gets better, you think the offense gets better.
26:10
Speaker 1: I think it can improve from within, improve the right way.
26:13
Speaker 1: Not enough to get to the playoffs, but enough to
26:15
Speaker 1: be better than people think. I think this team has
26:19
Speaker 1: a chance to be fundamentally sound. I mean, they're not
26:22
Speaker 1: going to be like Kansas City, airing it out and
26:25
Speaker 1: beating people with just incredible talent like Mahomes, entyree Kill
26:30
Speaker 1: and Travis Kelsey. But they've got solid players. They've improved
26:33
Speaker 1: the roster, and if minshow is better this year than
26:37
Speaker 1: he was last. If the offense is tailored to him
26:41
Speaker 1: this year, which it wasn't when we started last season.
26:44
Speaker 1: If all those things come in, this is a team
26:47
Speaker 1: that should be able to execute the fundamentals of the game,
26:50
Speaker 1: the blocking and the townling better than they did a
26:52
Speaker 1: year ago. Um, I'm optimistic about what Minshew brings to
26:56
Speaker 1: the table. I'm excited to see this team. I'm excited
26:59
Speaker 1: for football. I'll go back to what we said off
27:02
Speaker 1: the top in this year with the asterisk there, anything
27:07
Speaker 1: can happen. Why not, and don't forget you know, this
27:12
Speaker 1: team was four and four last year before the Wheels
27:16
Speaker 1: came off with the run defense, and I get that.
27:19
Speaker 1: It looks so bad the second half last season, and
27:21
Speaker 1: it sort of skewed the perspective. You know, if the
27:24
Speaker 1: run defense is better, which they think it is, I
27:27
Speaker 1: don't think the losses of Calais and a J are
27:29
Speaker 1: going to be that big. Frankly, on the field, I
27:32
Speaker 1: think they can make up for those things. Calais a
27:34
Speaker 1: little more than a J lhard, I think, But this
27:37
Speaker 1: team was competitive last year for the first half the season.
27:40
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily know that they're that much worse, and
27:43
Speaker 1: I think they could be better in spots in the
27:46
Speaker 1: first year the Doug Moron led this to me, this
27:49
Speaker 1: group was very good at two important things. One takeaways,
27:54
Speaker 1: they were very good at that, and too, they were
27:57
Speaker 1: one of the least penalized teams in the league. If
28:01
Speaker 1: you're Doug Morone and that coaching step, those are two
28:04
Speaker 1: things that you can control. Those are two things that
28:07
Speaker 1: you can coach and work on and control. Whereas you
28:10
Speaker 1: can't control whether your team stays entirely healthy or not,
28:14
Speaker 1: whether you can match up with Tyreek Killer Travis Kelsey
28:17
Speaker 1: or Lamar Jackson. You can focus on those two things.
28:20
Speaker 1: I think just listening to Doug through his various shows
28:25
Speaker 1: and off season availabilities sounded to me like they were
28:29
Speaker 1: going back to that strong focus. If they do the
28:32
Speaker 1: rosters better, Minshoe is better than he was ever go
28:36
Speaker 1: the offensive tailored, this will be a competitive team. Is
28:39
Speaker 1: that good enough to be the playoffs or not? No?
28:42
Speaker 1: I don't know who can say. The only thing you
28:44
Speaker 1: can say is is that with the asteris there in
28:47
Speaker 1: this season being unpredictable, maybe no reason not believe the
28:53
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Speaker 1: A back for a few short minutes on Gigar's drive
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Speaker 1: time this week before coming to you every day next
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Speaker 1: week for the start of training camp. And guys, I
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Speaker 1: can't help but think this has already been a lot
30:50
Speaker 1: of drama the past week, but now we're gonna start
30:53
Speaker 1: seeing these coronas tests come back. Rookie's getting tested today,
30:56
Speaker 1: Quarterbacks getting tested on Thursday next week. Veteran, you can
31:00
Speaker 1: only imagine if someone starts testing positive, matter what team
31:03
Speaker 1: it is, this is all going to become very dramatic. Again,
31:06
Speaker 1: yeah it is. But my interpretationists and I'm not a scientist.
31:11
Speaker 1: That'll surprise you. Ash, I'm not a doctor either, um,
31:14
Speaker 1: but if you look at the other leagues, there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of drama when when people and players report because
31:21
Speaker 1: they've been outside the proverbial bubble. Uh these other leagues,
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Speaker 1: the reports are coming back now once this bubble starts,
31:29
Speaker 1: once the protocols start, much less and it feels like
31:34
Speaker 1: a lot of other sports have it under control. I
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Speaker 1: get that all the dynamics and all sports are different,
31:38
Speaker 1: so it's not apples to apples, But I guess my
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Speaker 1: guess is the NFL will caution people, and nobody's cautious
31:45
Speaker 1: in the Twitter world today. I get that, but I
31:48
Speaker 1: would guess what the NFL is more concerned about is
31:51
Speaker 1: not necessarily what they test today, but what they test
31:55
Speaker 1: after their protocols start in a couple of weeks, when
31:59
Speaker 1: their tests sing if if they're getting big numbers, that
32:03
Speaker 1: I would I would guess as a concern this week
32:06
Speaker 1: is more about who can we let in, what's the
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Speaker 1: process of getting inside? So I guess I would cause
32:12
Speaker 1: some people not to panic and say, oh, if if
32:14
Speaker 1: there were X number of tests, that means no football
32:17
Speaker 1: this that's not what it is. What happens this week
32:21
Speaker 1: in terms of testing is not going to determine whether
32:23
Speaker 1: games are played or not. I don't think there'll be
32:26
Speaker 1: any freaking out today. I mean, what did we know
32:30
Speaker 1: when when we started reopening in in parts of this
32:33
Speaker 1: country in May. Do you do not have Twitter? Brian?
32:36
Speaker 1: I don't think you know that. UM don't freak out
32:40
Speaker 1: over anything. Yes, you know that. I do know that.
32:44
Speaker 1: I do know, but I don't let it. I don't
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Speaker 1: let it decide for me what I think. So what
32:48
Speaker 1: I think is is that when testing started, we saw
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32:54
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32:58
Speaker 1: have be asymptomatic and they will has positive around the
33:01
Speaker 1: league the next couple of days, just because there's more
33:03
Speaker 1: of them being tested now and we know about it. However,
33:07
Speaker 1: is John alluded to, you know, you're seeing basketball and
33:10
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33:13
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33:17
Speaker 1: cases in the NBA after their most recent testing round
33:20
Speaker 1: this week, so they're doing something right. Here's the difference, though,
33:23
Speaker 1: We're sending these guys home every night, right and it's
33:26
Speaker 1: so it's going to be out to the players to
33:28
Speaker 1: be smart, to go home and to stay home, to
33:31
Speaker 1: wear the masks to the work, to go home, not
33:34
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Speaker 1: the beach, and to be engaged like a lot of
33:40
Speaker 1: young people are. I'll be honest with you, when I
33:42
Speaker 1: was their age, if I had their money, you couldn't
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Speaker 1: have told me. It's gonna be a trust factor the
33:48
Speaker 1: locker room that handles it the best, where the leadership
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Speaker 1: where there's going to be a difference because some teams
33:58
Speaker 1: will and some teams won't. The freakout will come in
34:02
Speaker 1: September when a team has to line up without their
34:05
Speaker 1: starting quarterback. So no, I don't think there'll be a
34:07
Speaker 1: lot of drama now, but hold on, there will be
34:10
Speaker 1: drama around the league as we get into the store
34:12
Speaker 1: of the regular season. That is one thing for sure,
34:16
Speaker 1: and certain not to mention what wives and girlfriends and
34:19
Speaker 1: kids are all doing as well all living with these players.
34:22
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