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Jaguars Reporters: Monday, March 28 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: The feel for it, he genuinely thinks, and I think
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Speaker 1: we all kind of feel it's a different vibe, and
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Speaker 1: he it's different than what he has felt at any
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Speaker 1: time in the first ten years. Welcome the Jaguars Reporters
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Speaker 1: presented by t I A A Bank with Brian Sexton,
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Speaker 1: John Osher, Ashlyn Sullivan, and J P. Shadrack. Jack Wars
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Speaker 1: Reporters presented by t I A A Bank starts right now.
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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Jaguars Reporters podcast. It is Monday, March
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Speaker 1: J P. Shadrick, ash from Sullivan, Brian Sexton here in Jacksonville.
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Speaker 1: John Osier is down at the NFL annual meeting in
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Speaker 1: Palm Beach, Florida. It's commonly known as the Owners Meetings.
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Speaker 1: A busy week coming up. We'll hear from Jack's head
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Speaker 1: coach Doug Peterson. He spoke Monday morning at the Breakers
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Speaker 1: in Palm Beach. Well. John Osier spoke with Jaguars Owners
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Speaker 1: shot con this afternoon. That interview was scheduled to go
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Speaker 1: out I believe on Tuesday on Jaguars dot Com. And
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Speaker 1: it's not very often that Mr Khan is on the record,
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Speaker 1: but it always is news when he speaks, John, what
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Speaker 1: was the biggest takeaway from shot Con today? About three
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Speaker 1: or four questions? And I not so subtly reminded him
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Speaker 1: that he just finished writing a lot of checks and
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Speaker 1: he uh, he laughed and said, yes I did. And
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Speaker 1: but he said, you know, I'm alluding, of course to
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Speaker 1: free agency, and he said, uh, happy to write those
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Speaker 1: checks because the overall feeling is that they got better
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Speaker 1: with it. Uh. And again it struck me. Maybe this
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Speaker 1: wasn't what he said, but as he was saying it,
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Speaker 1: I was struck by it again, this whole notion that
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Speaker 1: you know, somehow over the years he hasn't spent money
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Speaker 1: or hasn't been willing to open up the checkbooks, which
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Speaker 1: to me, every time I get a question like that,
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Speaker 1: it sort of slaps me back of how sometimes people
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Speaker 1: miss things because nothing be further from the truth. And again,
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Speaker 1: sitting there talking to him today, Uh, I'm always reminded,
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Speaker 1: and all three of you have talked to him as well.
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Speaker 1: This guy wants to win and everything he does is
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Speaker 1: is about winning. He talked also at the very beginning,
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Speaker 1: you know, he's genuinely thinks that there's a different vibe
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Speaker 1: in the building. He's been there. He kept referring back
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Speaker 1: Brian and Ashlyn too, being there ten years, and I
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Speaker 1: really think there's something to that for him. He's got
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Speaker 1: the experience now. It takes a while to learn to
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Speaker 1: be an NFL owner. And three or four different times
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Speaker 1: while I talked to him, he talked about having been
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Speaker 1: there ten years, the feel for it, and he genuinely
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Speaker 1: thinks and I think we all kind of feel it's
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Speaker 1: a different vibe, and he it's different than what he
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Speaker 1: has felt at any time in the first ten years.
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Speaker 1: I've been here now for you know, ten years, and
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Speaker 1: what I see is really the teamwork at every level,
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Speaker 1: the connectivity, the human connection. But also are we gonna
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Speaker 1: win football games? You know? I think so? Um, Who
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Speaker 1: are the opponents are, how we match up? And that
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Speaker 1: is basically shaping up, um, how our player development is
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Speaker 1: going to be, and how our player acquisition is gonna be.
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Speaker 1: We have never had the working level where you want
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Speaker 1: the player personnel staff really who's doing a lot of
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Speaker 1: the heavy lifting working with the coaching seth so um
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Speaker 1: where it is. It is literally a lot of open
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Speaker 1: discussion on where our weaknesses is are, where our opponents
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Speaker 1: weaknesses might be. And where the strengths are and how
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Speaker 1: do we develop it uh and turn it into really
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Speaker 1: a winning program. It's worth pointing out that Mr Weaver,
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Speaker 1: the first owner of the Jaguars, was in the building
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Speaker 1: a lot more than Shot on on a on a
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Speaker 1: daily basis, especially the last six or seven years that
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Speaker 1: he owned the team, and it took him that long
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Speaker 1: to figure it out. He was there every day. Shot
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Speaker 1: obviously has this global enterprise where he's traveling and managing
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Speaker 1: the number of different businesses. If anybody thought that it
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Speaker 1: wouldn't take him that kind of time, I think they
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Speaker 1: were unrealistic. And when you go through this whole cycle,
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Speaker 1: which included that one winning season which gave him that
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Speaker 1: taste of what it takes um you know, finally now
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Speaker 1: you can start to look back. And you know they
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Speaker 1: say those who do not know history are doomed to
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Speaker 1: repeat it. Well, now he knows history and he's trying
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Speaker 1: not to repeat it. Yes, he's seen what's work, and
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Speaker 1: he has absolutely seen what hasn't worked, and you go
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Speaker 1: to that short stint of winning in the season. It's
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Speaker 1: kind of similar when you look at those off season
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Speaker 1: and the free agency and the checkbook they sent a
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Speaker 1: lot of money for that year. And I think it
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Speaker 1: was notable when Doug Peterson Monday morning talked about spending
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Speaker 1: all that money in free agency and he said, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we've signed something free agents and we had too for
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Speaker 1: this season, but that's absolutely not the mold that you
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Speaker 1: want to follow every single season. Spending money is great,
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Speaker 1: getting new players is great. But I think it was
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Speaker 1: notable that Mr Khan and Doug Peterson both mentioned free
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Speaker 1: agencies spend money, but we don't want to be here
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Speaker 1: every single year. JP, you know, Okay, get back to you,
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Speaker 1: but he uh. I Also, I also asked him about
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Speaker 1: the Sports Performance Center, and I get that for a
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Speaker 1: lot of fans that's not front burners stuff yet because
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Speaker 1: they just barely broke ground on it. But earth has
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Speaker 1: been moved and it's a real thing if you if
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Speaker 1: you drive by it. And he talked about that for
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Speaker 1: a little while, and he used the phrase a couple
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Speaker 1: of times it was time. I think he realizes that
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Speaker 1: needed to be done, It needed to be state of
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Speaker 1: the art, It was time to do it. And I
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Speaker 1: do think there's an overriding theme of it. You as
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Speaker 1: you build one of those things, it doesn't guarantee anything,
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Speaker 1: but new facilities, new infusion into it does sort of
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Speaker 1: signify a new era and a step forward. You've got
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Speaker 1: to have something like that in the NFL these days.
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Speaker 1: We've all been to enough facilities. If you don't have that,
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Speaker 1: if you're old and anticated, and we're gonna stay old
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Speaker 1: and anticated, it's tough. You know, there's a recruiting involved
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Speaker 1: in free agency and keeping players. It feels like this
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Speaker 1: is a step forward into I'm an old man. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what century it is anymore. It used to
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Speaker 1: be twenties when I was a kid. But whatever century
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Speaker 1: we're going into, this Performance Center is stepping the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: into it. You know, we're ready for it. Uh, And
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Speaker 1: I think, um, it's something we really need because benchmarking,
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Speaker 1: comparing ourselves what the players need, and this was really
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Speaker 1: driven by the players as much as anything else. And
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Speaker 1: you know, we committed to it over a year ago.
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Speaker 1: That's okay, we were gonna do it and you know,
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Speaker 1: and really have a benchmark stated the art facility that
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Speaker 1: was gonna help develop uh, you know, b our players
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Speaker 1: be the best they can be. The footprint of the
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Speaker 1: Football Performance Center is massive, and yes, dirt has been moved,
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Speaker 1: concrete has been poured, and at least they're beginning some
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Speaker 1: things there. This is the Jaguars Reporters podcast. The interview
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Speaker 1: John Osan with Jaguars owner Shot Con coming up Tuesday
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Speaker 1: on Jaguars dot com. Check that out what head coach
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson said this morning about Trevor Lawrence and much
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Speaker 1: more after this, Welcome back to Jaguars Reporters. J P. Shadrick,
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Speaker 1: Ashlan Sullivan, Brian Sexton in Jacksonville, John Oser down in
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Speaker 1: Palm Beach at the NFL Annual meeting. John, how is
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Speaker 1: the breakers, by the way nice, I'm not staying there.
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Speaker 1: I drew the short straw, which means they handed me
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Speaker 1: the short straw. There was no drawing. It's majestic, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I've it's it's historic and it's it's unbelievable. So as
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Speaker 1: Slim knows, being from Palm Beach, the water even in
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Speaker 1: the ocean. I made a joke somebody today, it's amazing
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Speaker 1: that the wealthy can even buy a better water anybody
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Speaker 1: else has, because the ocean is beautiful. So it's it's
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Speaker 1: an unbelievable facility. It's it's mean and I just thought
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Speaker 1: of facility, they could build this as the Jaguars informance there.
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Speaker 1: That would be cool. I'm on board for that. Let's
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Speaker 1: go back to the hometown. That wouldn't be bad at all.
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Speaker 1: Let's hear from Jaguars head coach Doug Peterson this morning
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Speaker 1: the a f C Coaches Breakfast at the Breakers in
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Speaker 1: Palm Beach. Trevor Lawrence, of course a topic and how
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Speaker 1: they planned to build the offense around the quarterback skill set.
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Speaker 1: Number one, he's he's athletic. Number two. He throws the
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Speaker 1: ball extremely well. He fits the r PO scheme on offense,
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Speaker 1: he can fit the play action pass obviously, he gotta
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Speaker 1: have the ability to run the football. And I really
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Speaker 1: feel like with James Robinson, Travis Etn, we got guys
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Speaker 1: there that can really help us in the run game.
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Speaker 1: The addition of Brandon Schurff, you know, getting getting Tyler
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Speaker 1: Shadley back, Cam Robinson, you know, kind of solidifying that
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Speaker 1: offensive line a little bit, keeping those pieces around Trevor
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Speaker 1: and now going in the year two for him, really,
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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna see some really good growth as
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Speaker 1: we begin, you know, our off season program and a
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks to really and really start shaping our
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Speaker 1: offense around him right now what he can do. And
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Speaker 1: I really believe it's the it's the play action game,
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Speaker 1: the quarterback movement game. He throws the ball extremely well
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Speaker 1: outside the pocket on the run, and those are things
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Speaker 1: that we can try to try to develop. That's Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson this morning, asked about Trevor Lawrence. Of course, we're
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Speaker 1: at least a couple of weeks away from the start
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Speaker 1: of the off season program, Brian, where they can actually
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Speaker 1: start implementing some of this, get them in the building,
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Speaker 1: get around them and talk a little football finally. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure they're chomping at the bit to finally get to
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Speaker 1: do that, not just talk about life outside of football. Well,
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Speaker 1: and and for the coach who came here to develop
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, I mean that is the most important part
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Speaker 1: of it. Played the game as a quarterback for all
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Speaker 1: those years, coached them at a high level. Afterwards, those
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Speaker 1: two to have that needing of the minds, for them
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Speaker 1: to be able to act, actually talk about what works
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Speaker 1: and what doesn't, and what he likes and what he doesn't.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that will be critical. That will be a
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Speaker 1: critical time for the fall to be able to make
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Speaker 1: great progress in April, May and June, and just knowing
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Speaker 1: Trevor like we do, and knowing of Doug like we do, UM,
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Speaker 1: I would expect them to get a lot done even
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Speaker 1: though they won't be on the field every day. I
10:23
Speaker 1: actually I asked that question. It was phrased as after
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Speaker 1: really digging into the tape on this guy, because Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson watched football last year. I don't know if you
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Speaker 1: watched every play, Trevor Lawrence rand Now. I kind of
10:34
Speaker 1: wanted to know what you saw that you really think
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Speaker 1: is going to fit into your scheme, and it was
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Speaker 1: It was striking to me that he talks so much
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Speaker 1: about the ability to throw accurate outside the pocket, the
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Speaker 1: ability to move his RPO skill. I don't know exactly
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Speaker 1: what that's gonna look like. I don't think it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be him running all the time a'la Lamar Jackson. But
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Speaker 1: clearly they think his mobility, his movement, that element of
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Speaker 1: his gang is where he can really thrive. So if
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Speaker 1: you're looking for clues as how this is gonna look,
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Speaker 1: it seemed like Doug moved it a little forward with
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Speaker 1: that quote, and that's what I was hoping for. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I loved when we talked all off season about
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Speaker 1: protecting Trevor Lawrence and that's the number one priority. And
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Speaker 1: the question was asked, Okay, well why keep Cam Robinson
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Speaker 1: And that was a major question for us. You saw
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Speaker 1: those sides, saw the captin and the answer was, well,
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Speaker 1: we have to protect the quarterback and we need experience there,
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Speaker 1: we need continuality there. So I like when Doug Peterson
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Speaker 1: mentioned that because there was a lot of questions at
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Speaker 1: left tackle, and you could have go on so many
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Speaker 1: different directions, but what we said all offseason protect Trevor Lawrence,
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson made it clear that was the priority. It
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Speaker 1: was pretty clear listening to him today, JP. I thought
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Speaker 1: for the News Nuggets about like the intricacies of the roster.
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Speaker 1: Pretty clear Cam Robinson starts the left tack. I think
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Speaker 1: we all knew and talked a lot about John Taylor,
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Speaker 1: uh and walk a little competition. I mean, it's I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure who to say is a head there? And
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Speaker 1: then with Brandon Lynde of retiring, a major question because
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Speaker 1: what they do at center is is that Tyler Shatley
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Speaker 1: the guy going forward? Do they draft there? You know,
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Speaker 1: so I think we're starting to see the pieces fall
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Speaker 1: into place. But uh, when they line up on August
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Speaker 1: and we're all sitting there sweating in the sun, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna be watching Jowan Taylor and walk a little black
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Speaker 1: guy Josh Allen, and it'll be notable this summer, no
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Speaker 1: no doubt about that, and all eyes will be fixed
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Speaker 1: on those workouts in training camp. Let's hear a little
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Speaker 1: more from Doug Peterson today. Back in the season with
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Speaker 1: the Eagles, Peterson was known for rolling the dice a
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Speaker 1: bit on fourth downs. He was asked about that and
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Speaker 1: moving it forward to the Jags. I wasn't going into
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Speaker 1: seventy trying to be a trend setter. You know, we're
12:43
Speaker 1: trying to do what we can to win football games,
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Speaker 1: and anytime that we can maybe steal a possession on offense,
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Speaker 1: you know, we were gonna try to do that back then.
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Speaker 1: And I think I think because of that, I think
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Speaker 1: you're seeing more and more teams around the league, you know,
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Speaker 1: the fourth and ones and fourth and two's, you know,
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Speaker 1: making those decisions to stay on the field. Now you
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Speaker 1: know they're being smart about it, field position, all of that. Um,
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Speaker 1: but I think they're understanding that they can have that
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Speaker 1: extra procession and hopefully that translates into points. You have
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Speaker 1: to listen to the analytics. You have to listen to
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Speaker 1: you know what they say. But at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, it's it's it's about the players and and
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Speaker 1: our opponent. How how is our opponent in those third
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Speaker 1: and one fourth and one fourth and two's? How do
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Speaker 1: they play defense? And so it boils down ultimately to
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Speaker 1: the head coach making the decision. But analytics can play
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Speaker 1: a small part in in helping me and making a
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Speaker 1: decision to go for it or not. That's Doug Peterson today. Brian,
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Speaker 1: can you imagine, you know, as many fourth down and
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Speaker 1: and one you know, in your own end tries back
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Speaker 1: in that plusn't quite a thing, that's a it's a
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Speaker 1: new phenomenon, No I can. I can remember going to
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Speaker 1: Indianapolis in two and Jack del Rio going forward on
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Speaker 1: the opening drive of the third quarter at his own
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Speaker 1: forty five, right, not like Brandon's daily for the Chargers
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Speaker 1: there at the end of the year, we went forward
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Speaker 1: on his own eight. But but Jack went for it
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Speaker 1: and they didn't get it. And Peyton Man who went
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Speaker 1: and for a touchdown on the next drive and the
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Speaker 1: game was essentially over and just the grief that Jack got.
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Speaker 1: But in today's game, especially that close to midfield, that's
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Speaker 1: what it is. Well, we are an analytics based game
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Speaker 1: these days, and I know coaches will always say, you
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Speaker 1: know that that's part of the equation. But this year
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Speaker 1: we saw so many more coaches, you know, working with
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Speaker 1: fourth down than we ever had before. And I know
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Speaker 1: I've mentioned it thirty seven times, but if you haven't
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Speaker 1: read Doug's book, he does a lot in the book
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Speaker 1: about fourth down and his aggressive mentality, where it came from,
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Speaker 1: when he applies it, and why he's always trying to
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Speaker 1: refine it. I highly recommend Fearless UM if you're looking
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Speaker 1: to get some more insight into why he is the
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Speaker 1: way that he is. Hey, Pete, while we're on topic, UH,
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Speaker 1: his own podcast this week will be UH. The co
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Speaker 1: author of Fearless, Dan Pompey. I sat down with in
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Speaker 1: fact fifteen minutes this morning, and I talked about Doug Peterson,
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Speaker 1: so UH, a little shameless self promotion and little Dan
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Speaker 1: Pompey promotion mixed in there as well. And he's he
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Speaker 1: is one of the best NFL writers of the lab
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Speaker 1: of my career, which is almost thirty years a guy
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Speaker 1: who's been around the Chicago area. So I think really
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Speaker 1: highly of highly recommend his book too. So two of
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Speaker 1: the best NFL writers on that podcast. Wow about that
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Speaker 1: humble humble? I love it. I knew nobody else is
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Speaker 1: gonna say. Let's hear one more time from Doug Peterson
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Speaker 1: this morning. Of course, working with Trent Bulky to build
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Speaker 1: the roster here in Jacksonville. Well, what did he learn
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Speaker 1: about roster building working in Philadelphia with the Eagle GM
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Speaker 1: Howie Roseman. My relationship with Howie and with the communication
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Speaker 1: process that we had, let's to his ideas, listening to
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Speaker 1: my ideas, even listening to my assistant coaches and their ideas,
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Speaker 1: and really kind of formulating opinions that way on how
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Speaker 1: to put a roster together. And and by no means
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Speaker 1: do I want to play general manager at all? I don't.
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Speaker 1: I want to be I want to be coach and
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Speaker 1: I want to coach the guys. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: you know, you want to have a say and and
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Speaker 1: and the guys you're coaching, right, And uh, I just
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Speaker 1: feel like the relationship that Trent and I have he
16:25
Speaker 1: really leans heavily on on the coaching staff and our
16:27
Speaker 1: opinions because at the end of the day, like I said,
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Speaker 1: we're the ones that coach these players, and we want
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Speaker 1: to be able to have, you know, the guys we
16:35
Speaker 1: want on the field, um to coach Ashley. It's a
16:39
Speaker 1: team effort of course in roster building, and you can
16:42
Speaker 1: have the scouting side, on the personnel side, and then
16:44
Speaker 1: the coaching staff side. As you heard there, I think
16:46
Speaker 1: it was Bill Parcels that said, you know, if I'm
16:49
Speaker 1: gonna make the meal, I need to be able to
16:51
Speaker 1: shop for some of the groceries. This is not that
16:53
Speaker 1: they're all on the same team together. He said it
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Speaker 1: right there. He doesn't want to be the GM. But
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Speaker 1: so far, so good. It feels like, or it sounds like,
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Speaker 1: in that relationship. Yeah, and that makes total sense why
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Speaker 1: he should have a say in it. And I don't
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Speaker 1: think it's something where he needs to make a huge statement.
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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously the coach is going to have a
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Speaker 1: say in those things, and it's clear that they're working
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Speaker 1: well together, and I think it's been clear that they
17:15
Speaker 1: needed to address that because there's been so many questions
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Speaker 1: of Trent fault he's staying and how the heck is
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Speaker 1: that's gonna work? And oh my gosh, you guys must
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Speaker 1: be fighting. And Coach Peterson has been very clear, no,
17:26
Speaker 1: you know, we're working professional, We're making it work. It's
17:28
Speaker 1: growing as we learn each other. Um. And I think
17:31
Speaker 1: with the way that how many times he's addressed I
17:33
Speaker 1: think he felt like it was needed to address that
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Speaker 1: and now it's time to move on. I mean, now
17:37
Speaker 1: they're working together. They've been pass for agency and it's
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Speaker 1: all draft talks. So hopefully that everyone pays as much
17:43
Speaker 1: attention to how the heck are you two working together?
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Speaker 1: When you see him walking the hallways down here all
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Speaker 1: the time, David, I mean this morning, between meetings last
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Speaker 1: night as well. I mean they're, uh, you know, as
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Speaker 1: you would expect. They start working together and they're together constantly.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of exchange of ideas. They seen in
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Speaker 1: locks that at least they were in lockstaff walking down
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Speaker 1: the hall. Each one was left foot, right foot, you know, Brian.
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Speaker 1: It's it's one of those where these guys been in
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Speaker 1: the league a long time, but they've never crossed paths before.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that just takes a little time and energy
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Speaker 1: to to figure each other out first and then go
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Speaker 1: work together well and effort, right, I mean so, and
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Speaker 1: not just on Doug's part because he's coming in, you know,
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Speaker 1: knowing that he's got to get to know ball Key,
18:24
Speaker 1: but but on tread ball Key's part as well to
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Speaker 1: take the effort to include the coach and everything and
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Speaker 1: to work on building this relationship similar to the one
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Speaker 1: that Doug had with Howie Roseman that works so well
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Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. So you know, look, they have to work together.
18:40
Speaker 1: The owner has put them together, so they might as
18:43
Speaker 1: well both jump in with both feet and and figure
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Speaker 1: it out. And it's you know if I'm I'm grateful
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Speaker 1: that they're doing it, and that you get Doug in
18:55
Speaker 1: a moment of candor where he says, I don't I
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Speaker 1: don't want to be the g M. Well, there are
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Speaker 1: on a lot of coaches in this league to say that,
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Speaker 1: because all of them want to have a say in
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Speaker 1: the personnel. They want to have that boat, that weight
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Speaker 1: on the scale. For him to say, hey, I just
19:09
Speaker 1: want to be the coach. Um, it's refreshing. I like
19:12
Speaker 1: it and and that has to uh endears probably not
19:15
Speaker 1: the right word, but create you know a good feeling
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Speaker 1: on the other side with Balky about getting something that's
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Speaker 1: a positive working experience. The full interview and media availability
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Speaker 1: with Doug Peterson available on Jaguars dot Com and the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars social media channels Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. And finally,
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Speaker 1: well all that was going on this morning, Jaguars center
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Speaker 1: Brandon Linder announced his retirement from the NFL on his
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Speaker 1: Instagram page. He spent eight seasons with the Jags. The
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Speaker 1: third round pick, he became one of the highest paid
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Speaker 1: centers in football. In fact, I think he was at
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Speaker 1: the time of his extension originally. But he played only
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Speaker 1: eighty eight games in eight seasons. That means John that
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Speaker 1: he missed forty one games with an assortment of injuries.
19:57
Speaker 1: That will be the story for Linda in his I
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Speaker 1: hope that's not the entire story, but it certainly will
20:03
Speaker 1: be a part of it. You also wonder I think
20:05
Speaker 1: it was eleven games each of the last two seasons,
20:08
Speaker 1: or nine if I'm not mistaken. Uh, there were four
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Speaker 1: seasons he didn't reach double digits into games played and
20:15
Speaker 1: his last two or two of them. So you know,
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Speaker 1: I haven't talked to Brandon. Uh, you know, you wonder
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Speaker 1: if he looked at it this offseason and said, you
20:23
Speaker 1: know what, him being able to stay on the field
20:25
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, the you know, it's it's
20:29
Speaker 1: a lot of rehab, working, a lot of effort to
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Speaker 1: get your body ready. Maybe he thought it just hasn't
20:35
Speaker 1: really been working, hasn't. You know? There comes a point
20:39
Speaker 1: where they put their bodies through this. I think he
20:42
Speaker 1: said the phrase he'd've been playing since he was he
20:44
Speaker 1: had seven or eleven years old. It's a long time
20:47
Speaker 1: to put your body through the season and the grind
20:49
Speaker 1: to get ready. Nashlan Brian will give it up to
20:51
Speaker 1: you in a second. But you know, Linda strikes me
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Speaker 1: as one of those guys who had he played during
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Speaker 1: an era where they made the playoffs five out of
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Speaker 1: eight years. He might be a potential uh part of
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars type guy, meaning he probably makes a Pro
21:07
Speaker 1: Bowl or two during that time. Because of the reputation
21:09
Speaker 1: of the team, really good players stays out. You know,
21:13
Speaker 1: I hope he's not just forgotten by Jaguars fans. It's
21:17
Speaker 1: tough to have the memorable career and being endeared as
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Speaker 1: much by fans when you've lost as much sort of
21:24
Speaker 1: the same thing with Miles Jack a couple of weeks ago. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you hope these guys who sort of played during this
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Speaker 1: tough era are remembered fondly by fans. I think they
21:32
Speaker 1: will be, but you hope that's the case. Well, look, um,
21:35
Speaker 1: you know Linder in in week two of his second
21:38
Speaker 1: season that the Jaguars played the Miami Dolphins and they
21:43
Speaker 1: came in with the Dominican Sue who had just signed
21:45
Speaker 1: that mega free agent contract with Miami, and Brandon Lendard
21:50
Speaker 1: kicked his ass. I mean, he didn't even have an
21:52
Speaker 1: assisted tackle. And I can remember watching the tape and
21:55
Speaker 1: talking to Tony and to Jeff Logham and about it,
21:58
Speaker 1: and it was one of the most dominant for formance
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Speaker 1: is that we had seen from a Jaguar's offensive lineman
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Speaker 1: since Baseli. I mean, in a single game, he just
22:05
Speaker 1: dominated him and he he tweaked his shoulder and was
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Speaker 1: done for the rest of the year. Didn't play another game.
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Speaker 1: And that was the first. Oh, you know, here was
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Speaker 1: a guy whose star was starting to shine brightly, and
22:17
Speaker 1: it I think injuries derailed him from being the best
22:21
Speaker 1: he possibly could be. And I'll never forget when he
22:24
Speaker 1: left in twenty seventeen for those five or six weeks,
22:27
Speaker 1: and Shatley jumped in there and played at such a
22:29
Speaker 1: high level, and I thought, Okay, I mean, Linda had
22:33
Speaker 1: the potential to be a great player and injuries kept
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Speaker 1: him from being there. That he got eight years and
22:38
Speaker 1: at one point, as JP mentioned, was the highest paid
22:40
Speaker 1: center in the game, fitting for the kind of player
22:42
Speaker 1: that we all thought he would be. We just didn't
22:45
Speaker 1: get to see enough of it. Yeah, And something that
22:47
Speaker 1: should be so appreciative, I think is in his in
22:50
Speaker 1: his post on Instagram when he said that I wanted
22:52
Speaker 1: to retire as a Jaguar. It could have been so
22:54
Speaker 1: easy for Brandon to know test free agency he would
22:58
Speaker 1: have gotten picked up by another team. But it was
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Speaker 1: so clear. He kept talking about his statement how much
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Speaker 1: he loves Jack symbol and how this is a dream
23:05
Speaker 1: city for him to live in, and it was clear
23:07
Speaker 1: he wanted to retire as a Jaguar. It wasn't panning out. Okay,
23:10
Speaker 1: rather than go play one more year and see what happens,
23:13
Speaker 1: I'd rather just retire as a Jaguar. And I think
23:15
Speaker 1: that's notable for for a guy who absolutely could have
23:18
Speaker 1: gotten picked up by another team. I can't wait for
23:20
Speaker 1: the question. As soon as the first interior lineman gets
23:24
Speaker 1: hurt this year, I'm gonna get questions. Can Brandon Lander
23:28
Speaker 1: come back? There's that they're still thinking Pause is going
23:33
Speaker 1: to come back? Right, You'll have to get him out
23:36
Speaker 1: of some deer stand um that's where he'll be. There's
23:39
Speaker 1: not a deer dear turkey duck. You know, sport fish
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Speaker 1: within five miles. It has a chance. Now with Brandon
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Speaker 1: Linder out there all year round, that'll do it for
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Speaker 1: Jaguar's reporters. John Safe travels back and look forward to
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Speaker 1: your shot Tony interview coming up tomorrow. Thank you, Thank
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Speaker 1: you guys. That's John Os are in Ball Beach, Bryan's
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