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Best of the opening week of Camp | Jags Broadcast Week in Review: July 30 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: This is the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend Review podcast presented by
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Speaker 1: t I A A Bank. It's Saturday, July. I'm J. P.
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Speaker 1: Shadrick with the best of the opening week of training
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Speaker 1: begin with the new location for training camp, the Episcopal
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Speaker 1: School of Jacksonville's Night Sports campus. With the construction of
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Speaker 1: the Miller Electric Center taking away the practice fields, the
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Speaker 1: team professionally installed two new fields and some infrastructure around
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Speaker 1: them at Episcopal to use for a total of about
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Speaker 1: fourteen practices. Part of the challenge for head coach Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson was maximizing the time to get back and forth,
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Speaker 1: as it counts against the time a lot and each
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Speaker 1: day when you abide by the c B A and
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Speaker 1: you got an eleven hour day and you get a
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Speaker 1: factor in travel and all of that. It kind of
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Speaker 1: it takes takes up either practice time, meeting time, you know,
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Speaker 1: whatever you can do. So he gotta work out, you know,
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Speaker 1: some of those kinks and and uh, but we had
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Speaker 1: a great team of guys. We we did a lot
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Speaker 1: of a lot of research on it, a lot of study.
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Speaker 1: We drove back and forth in the springtime just to
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Speaker 1: see how far the drive was going to be and
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Speaker 1: how long it was gonna take us. And we appreciate
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Speaker 1: the the police department with you know, giving us some
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Speaker 1: escorts and and and getting us through some red lights.
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Speaker 1: And that helps, you know, because it helps maximize the
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Speaker 1: time on the field, and you know, and then and
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Speaker 1: then just kind of seeing it all come together, it's
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Speaker 1: been kind of fun this summer to kind of watch
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Speaker 1: watch the progression of everything. Just under ten minutes. Just
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Speaker 1: under ten minutes, we got caught by one light. Now
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Speaker 1: with the logistics in hand, the focus can be on football.
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Speaker 1: There's no bigger priority for the Jaguars organization than the
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Speaker 1: progression and production of twenty twenty one number one overall
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Speaker 1: pick quarterback Trevor Lawrence Doug Peterson Monday. You know that's
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Speaker 1: the goal, obviously, is to make a significant jump in
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Speaker 1: year two. I think building off of last year, the
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Speaker 1: fact that he played the entire season, we can build
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Speaker 1: off of that and and really really expect, you know,
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Speaker 1: kind of skies the limit mentality. You know, with him,
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Speaker 1: he's in the same he's in the same frame of
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Speaker 1: mind as well. He wants to take that next that
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Speaker 1: next step and not not only in his growth, but
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Speaker 1: but obviously leading leading this football team. So today's day
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Speaker 1: one of that, and um, you know, we're just we're
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Speaker 1: just excited to be on the grass with him and
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Speaker 1: the rest of the team. Profensive coordinator Press Taylor. It's
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Speaker 1: a simple approach to his quarterback. Really, the biggest thing
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Speaker 1: is consistent improvement every single day. We want him to
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Speaker 1: get better. And you know that's not always going to
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Speaker 1: show up on a stat sheet if you're stating practice,
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Speaker 1: but we want the decision making. Like you know, I
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Speaker 1: can think back to day one, there was a you know,
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Speaker 1: a movement play we had we talked about, I think
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Speaker 1: it was actually the one he made the throat of
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Speaker 1: Christian on the sideline. We talked about, hey, when you
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Speaker 1: get out to the edge, you could probably progress it
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Speaker 1: like this. Then day two kind of had a it
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Speaker 1: was a different play, similar situation. He did kind of
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Speaker 1: exactly what we talked about in the meeting room, and
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Speaker 1: so that's just good to see. Now it went from
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Speaker 1: a twenty yard completion to Christian to maybe a nine
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Speaker 1: yard completion to Chris Manherts. But for us, he's taking
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Speaker 1: the coaching to the field and he's getting better. And
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Speaker 1: that's really all we're looking for at this point. We
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Speaker 1: want Trevor. It's coming here. Whatever today is Wednesday, we
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Speaker 1: want Trevor to come out here and have the best
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Speaker 1: Wednesday possible. That's all we really care about. Is he
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Speaker 1: better today than he was yesterday. That's what we're looking
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Speaker 1: for from Trevor and all our guys. For Lawrence his
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Speaker 1: week one training camp goals, we're clear, yeah, Week one
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Speaker 1: is just to see the progress that we made in O.
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Speaker 1: T A. S. And you know, we're like, we're installing
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Speaker 1: last night. We're not starting over. We should be picking
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Speaker 1: back up where we left off. Everything that we're talking about,
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Speaker 1: we're flying through because we've already installed it a couple
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Speaker 1: of times. So having that knowledge and everyone can just
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Speaker 1: pick up quick when we install, that's nice, and we
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Speaker 1: can add new rinkools faster because we've already done it,
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Speaker 1: but also realizing it's it's a long season and day one, Uh,
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Speaker 1: doesn't have to be your best day. Um, just to
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Speaker 1: keep ability and getting better every day. And I think
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Speaker 1: we have a lot of maturity on the team, which
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Speaker 1: is which is good. People know that, and we're still
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Speaker 1: getting our bodies ready as far as to go the
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Speaker 1: long haul for the season. So I thought it was
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Speaker 1: a great day to day. Coach did a great job
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Speaker 1: laying out practice. There's a lot of work, enough work
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Speaker 1: to get us ready, but not too much to where
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Speaker 1: we can build and add some more tomorrow and the
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Speaker 1: next day and then you know, by next week we'll
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Speaker 1: be full speed. So I thought it was really good
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Speaker 1: opening practice. Guys look sharp, look ready, UM, so it's exciting.
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Speaker 1: Lawrence also has some new weapons on offense. Tight end
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Speaker 1: Evan Ingram is flashed in camp Za Jones. The wide
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Speaker 1: receiver has shown some ability down the field, but the
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Speaker 1: most expensive edition is wide receiver Christian Kirk. Lawrence enjoys
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Speaker 1: the relationship with a former Arizona card No so far, yeah,
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Speaker 1: Christians great. I think just um kind of his approach
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Speaker 1: to everything practice, UM, training all that, the way he
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Speaker 1: takes care of his body. I think he's just a pro.
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Speaker 1: It's been fun to be around him just to see
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Speaker 1: how he prepares. Really mature guy. I think we're kind
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Speaker 1: of on the same level of personality and um temperament.
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Speaker 1: I think he's really even keel um smart guy, like
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Speaker 1: I said in the spring, really quarterback friendly, all those things.
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Speaker 1: But um, just fun to be around. And we got
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Speaker 1: a lot of guys like that. As far as just
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Speaker 1: that personality, guys that really our team guys. You know,
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Speaker 1: we don't have really any egos, which is makes things
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Speaker 1: a lot easier. So he's been great. UM really excited
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Speaker 1: to continue to build that rapport and that chemistry and
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Speaker 1: just get better and better through offseason or through training camp.
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Speaker 1: Kirk's free agent contract this past off season made headlines.
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Speaker 1: Four years, seventy two million dollars with thirty seven million
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Speaker 1: dollars fully guaranteed. Is there any added pressure because of
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Speaker 1: that deal? I can truly say that, UM, I'm playing
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Speaker 1: the most free minded and and just pressure free and
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Speaker 1: relax football that UM I've felt in a while. UM,
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Speaker 1: you know, I truly feel that having this new opportunity,
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Speaker 1: the and a new organization, new team around some new teammates,
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Speaker 1: I could truly just be myself and focus on being
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Speaker 1: the best that I can be for these guys and
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Speaker 1: being the leader and um just going out there and
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Speaker 1: putting it all on the line for them because I
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Speaker 1: truly believe we have such a great group. And UM,
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Speaker 1: it's just been a lot of fun every day taking
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Speaker 1: the field and you know, every second here is just
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Speaker 1: has been great. So no pressure at all with Doug
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Speaker 1: and Press and the whole offensive staff and obviously UM
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Speaker 1: Mr Waki and Mr Khan, you know, bringing here and
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Speaker 1: um the belief in me and what I can do
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Speaker 1: and my potential to be the player that I know
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Speaker 1: I can be. Uh, there's no words. You know, all
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Speaker 1: you have to do is go out there and play football.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I know when I'm at my best,
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Speaker 1: I can be one of the best. And so that's
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Speaker 1: just all I'm focused on. And you know, it's a
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Speaker 1: it's a great feeling. Another weapon back on the field
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Speaker 1: for the Jaguars this season, running back Travis E t
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Speaker 1: n Jr. He's coming off a preseason list frank injury
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Speaker 1: last year in his rookie season, but he told me
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Speaker 1: this week that he doesn't even think about the foot anymore,
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Speaker 1: and it shows he's flashed that x explosive burst and
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Speaker 1: quickness that was expected. He also explained a day in
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Speaker 1: the life of a player in training camp from sunrise
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Speaker 1: to bedtime. Well, I sat at my alone for six
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Speaker 1: I probably larry bath for thirty minutes, so I don't
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Speaker 1: get out to about six thirty. I try being a
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Speaker 1: car around sixty five. Then I get to the facility
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Speaker 1: at seven, and then uh bus leaves at eight, so
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Speaker 1: I try to get in the hot tub, all right,
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Speaker 1: don't getting hot tub, getting the normal tech boots and
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Speaker 1: get a little just a little preh hop stuff. Then
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Speaker 1: we hop on the bus and we get here. We
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Speaker 1: go to work and so we practice here. Then we
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Speaker 1: about to go back. We had work outs yesterday. Now
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Speaker 1: we have the recovery time because defense works out today.
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Speaker 1: And after that just meetings on meetings on meetings, and
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Speaker 1: then we have walk throughs, then more meetings, and then
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Speaker 1: we probably got to hear about seven, and you go home.
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Speaker 1: You watch the film. For me, I try to study
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Speaker 1: other running backs and just try to be in bad
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Speaker 1: about ten because six o'clock comes very early, and uh
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Speaker 1: we just repeat and that's just what it is. And camping, uh,
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Speaker 1: just for us to just know you have to sacrifice
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Speaker 1: to be the best you can be. And I feel
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Speaker 1: like at this time right now is just just locking
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Speaker 1: in for so three weeks and then see where it
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Speaker 1: takes me. You know, I feel like it's a short
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Speaker 1: time in my life right now. It's where if I
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Speaker 1: put all I can that is, I'm gonna wak the
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Speaker 1: benefits on the back end. So that's how attack each
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Speaker 1: and every day. It's great to see E. T N
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Speaker 1: Let's move down to the defensive side of the ball
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Speaker 1: and Mike Caldwell, who enters this first season as a
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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. He was a linebacker for five different NFL
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Speaker 1: organizations from to two thousand three, then was part of
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Speaker 1: the Bill Walsh NFL Diversity Coaching Fellowship that led to
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Speaker 1: him joining the Eagles coaching staff full time in two
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Speaker 1: thousand and eight. The Jaguars added eight to the coaching
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Speaker 1: staff as part of the program this year, and Coldwell
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Speaker 1: reflected on how that fellowship can help create opportunity. That's
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Speaker 1: how I started. I was there with the Eagles coach
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Speaker 1: Andy Reid. He brought me on and able to do that.
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Speaker 1: It's a time where you can, as a former player
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Speaker 1: or young coach, find out what you don't know and
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Speaker 1: find out if you really want to do it and
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Speaker 1: be able to show people in the god we have
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Speaker 1: here are working extremely hard so far and we're happy
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Speaker 1: to have him. Coldwell worked his way up the ranks
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Speaker 1: from a defensive quality control coach with the Eagles in
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Speaker 1: O eight to a linebackers coach for the Eagles, Cardinals, Jets,
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Speaker 1: and Buccaneers to his first coordinator role now with the Jags.
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Speaker 1: His path as a player and coach Gardner's respect from
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Speaker 1: the team and helps communication. According to outside linebacker Josh Allen,
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Speaker 1: he played the game. I mean I feel like it's
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Speaker 1: nothing's really different. In the NFL, you just change terminologies
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Speaker 1: and you do it different. But with him, man, he's
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Speaker 1: played the game. So like you know, if we see
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Speaker 1: something and it's something that we don't feel like we
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Speaker 1: like that, we can do. We can I can go
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Speaker 1: and having a conversation with and learn and grow understand
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Speaker 1: what he's talking about, understanding play, can understand why we're
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Speaker 1: calling it and then so that makes it a lot different.
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Speaker 1: That makes it a lot better to share. Though the
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Speaker 1: team hasn't won many games in his time with the Jaguars,
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Speaker 1: Allen's individual success has been mixed since his selection in
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Speaker 1: the first round. In he went to the Pro Bowl
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Speaker 1: is rookie season. He was banged up in and he
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Speaker 1: had one huge game against the Bills in one, but
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Speaker 1: struggled to repeat it in a distraction field year for
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Speaker 1: the organization. The Jaguars exercise his fifth year option, guaranteeing
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Speaker 1: in eleven and a half million dollars salary in three,
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Speaker 1: but a big performance in two could mean big things
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Speaker 1: for Allen and the Jags. Before then, he says he's
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Speaker 1: in the best shape of his career physically and mentally.
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Speaker 1: I feel like, man, it's all says I prepare. I
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Speaker 1: worked my butt off, I learned, I grew, I got
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Speaker 1: physically strong, I got mentally stronger. Um, and I feel
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Speaker 1: like no can nobody stop me. I feel that I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna be the best defensive player in not Football League
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna work like that every day and that's
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Speaker 1: my mentality. And they helped me stay with stay with
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Speaker 1: that mentality. And like I said, man, I got a
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Speaker 1: whole bunch of guys that's ready to work, that's hungry.
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Speaker 1: And you know what I'm saying. When that mentality, when
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Speaker 1: I attitudes around the locker room, everybody gets hungry, and
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Speaker 1: I would just want to work even harder and harder, harder.
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Speaker 1: So I'm excited about these camp days. I'm excited to
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Speaker 1: compete against the offense. And I had conversations with Trevor.
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Speaker 1: Trevor is super excited. I'm super excited from him, super
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Speaker 1: excited for this offense. Man. I think they did a
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Speaker 1: really good job with bringing pieces around him that's gonna
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Speaker 1: benefit him, is gonna benefit this team. And uh, I'm
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Speaker 1: excited for Alan also has a new running mate this
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Speaker 1: season in number one overall pick outside linebacker Trayvon Walker.
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Speaker 1: He's already following Alan and his training regiment, spending time
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Speaker 1: this off season with one of the great pass rushers
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Speaker 1: in recent NFL history. Robert Walker said he gained a
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Speaker 1: new perspective from the Indianapolis Colts great. I had learned
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Speaker 1: a lot from all he just taught me. One of
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Speaker 1: the main things that he told me just be patient,
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Speaker 1: like everything would calm once I started up, realized the
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Speaker 1: small things within my moves, everything will start to tie
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Speaker 1: together from there. So from like I said, I was
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Speaker 1: always trying to work on my hand in our coordination,
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Speaker 1: it all starts from my get off. If I'm getting
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Speaker 1: off the ball, then the offensive linement is going to
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Speaker 1: have to commit them in some type of way. So
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Speaker 1: I just let my fluid, my fluidity, and my speed
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Speaker 1: work for itself. With padded practices cranking up this weekend,
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Speaker 1: Walker said he can't wait to turn it up even
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Speaker 1: more on the practice field. I'm really ready to get
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Speaker 1: in in the past now because I've been out of
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Speaker 1: past for so long since the National Championship, and just
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Speaker 1: to finally be able to really strike somebody and be
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Speaker 1: phylsic coal as I can ready to get back into that. Also,
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Speaker 1: remember all of a sudden, it's game week. The Jaguars
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Speaker 1: faced the Las Vegas Raiders this Thursday at Tom Benson
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame Stadium and Aunton, Ohio. Ray Shawn Jenkins
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Speaker 1: and Jaguars safety you who may or may not play
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Speaker 1: in that game. Loves the fact that there's not much
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Speaker 1: time to wait before meeting another team. Man, it's crazy,
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Speaker 1: But I will say one thing. I love it like
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Speaker 1: that because, uh, you know, in training camp, you just
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Speaker 1: you're just going to get you guys the whole time.
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Speaker 1: But you're getting here and you got a game eleven
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Speaker 1: days after that. That's that's so exciting. Man. You get
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Speaker 1: to go, you know, actually go, you know, practice what
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Speaker 1: a member of the Hall of Fame class of two.
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Speaker 1: secret before he found out he was elected. This moment
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Speaker 1: is so incredibly, incredibly special that trying to maximize every
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Speaker 1: single moment of it. It has been absolutely paramount and
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Speaker 1: at the forefront of every single decision that I have made.
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Speaker 1: I'm just so incredibly proud and excited, and I know
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Speaker 1: what this means to him, and so to cheat him
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Speaker 1: of any aspect of what this means over my dead body.
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Speaker 1: So you know, they're doing things differently. They've got a
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Speaker 1: new president of the Hall of Fame, and obviously Covid
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Speaker 1: changed things and we had experien Ariancet. He had it
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Speaker 1: in his head and in his mind, you know what
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Speaker 1: that knock was going to feel like, and we've all
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Speaker 1: felt what it has been like not to get the knock,
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Speaker 1: and including you, you've been there right along by our side,
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Speaker 1: and it's heartbreaking, it's absolutely I mean, you were in
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Speaker 1: the room when you saw his best friend, Mark for
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Speaker 1: Now crying, my kids crying, and it breaks your heart
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Speaker 1: when you get amped up, repped up, hopeful, hopeful, maybe
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Speaker 1: maybe maybe maybe, and then nope, not this year. And
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Speaker 1: so when it finally did happen, I mean, there's just
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Speaker 1: nothing that I wouldn't have done to preserve him getting
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Speaker 1: the knock, So that was easy. Actually, Hall of Fame
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Speaker 1: tackle Anthony Monos was part of that surprise to tell
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Speaker 1: the cell he had been elected to the Pro Football
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, and in conversations the hall decided, Jim
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Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, man, this is an amazing opportunity for
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Speaker 1: you know, the guys that are in the Hall of
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Speaker 1: Fame to welcome new team members. I mean, we you know,
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Speaker 1: my envisioned showing up and I never thought I would
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Speaker 1: get a chance to do it. But I envisioned myself
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Speaker 1: showing up with my gold jacket somebody's front door, knocking
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Speaker 1: on the door and just say, hey, welcome to camp Man.
17:33
Speaker 1: We're now teammates. And uh. This year, when Jim Porter
17:36
Speaker 1: decided to implement this the knock into Hall of Famers
17:39
Speaker 1: welcoming the new class, they called me and said, would
17:42
Speaker 1: you like to go to Jacksonville and welcome Tony Boselli
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Speaker 1: into the Hall of Fame? I said, do you even
17:49
Speaker 1: have to ask? Whendow? I have to be there when
17:51
Speaker 1: my flight leave. When am I leaving? So I had
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Speaker 1: the opportunity to fly down to Jacksonville. And you have
17:57
Speaker 1: to understand, we knew that he was in, and I
18:00
Speaker 1: mean I didn't know right away, but of course the
18:02
Speaker 1: selection committee knew. So this up until the knock. It
18:05
Speaker 1: had to be kept secret. We talked in Super Bowl
18:08
Speaker 1: and so it had to be kept secret because even
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Speaker 1: though we did the knock, it still wouldn't announced until
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Speaker 1: the honor. So even the time between the selection, the
18:17
Speaker 1: knock and then the Hall of Fame. So you know,
18:19
Speaker 1: credit to Angie, but silly, I mean, she knew she
18:23
Speaker 1: had it under wraps. She put it all together. Uh So,
18:26
Speaker 1: I jumped on the jet, met George Veris, met the
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Speaker 1: NFL network crew there, and I'll tell you what it
18:31
Speaker 1: was exciting. It was exciting because, uh not only to
18:35
Speaker 1: welcome another offensive lineman of packling the NFL, but of
18:38
Speaker 1: course you have to mention both Trojans, both left tackles
18:42
Speaker 1: that played at USC and uh so I had a
18:44
Speaker 1: chance to fly down there. Tony was at the house
18:47
Speaker 1: of a really really good friends. Knock on the door,
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Speaker 1: the whole family behind us and the film crew they're hiding,
18:53
Speaker 1: and then Tony opens the door, and it was just
18:55
Speaker 1: amazing to be able to give Tony a hug and
18:57
Speaker 1: say welcome to Canton. What an honor for me that
19:00
Speaker 1: to present you as a new member of the Folk
19:02
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame. Former Dolphins defensive end and Hall
19:05
Speaker 1: of Famer Jason Taylor knew facing Vaselli was a long
19:09
Speaker 1: day at the office. Yeah, you knew what you're gonna
19:12
Speaker 1: get going into playing the Jaguars, and with Tony being
19:14
Speaker 1: across and you you knew what you were gonna get.
19:16
Speaker 1: It was gonna be very intense, high effort, you know,
19:21
Speaker 1: event for the entire day. And you know, sometimes some
19:23
Speaker 1: players have walls and throughout the course of a game,
19:26
Speaker 1: and they hit the coming out of half time, there
19:28
Speaker 1: might be a resurgence of energy. But then you hit
19:31
Speaker 1: the late in the third or fourth quarter and you
19:33
Speaker 1: start to see that effort kind of go down, and
19:35
Speaker 1: the energy that will go down, and that strength or
19:37
Speaker 1: tenancy go down. And you know, we're Tony, and I
19:39
Speaker 1: know it's so cliche, but you were gonna get that
19:41
Speaker 1: sixty minutes of hell, and it was just you knew
19:44
Speaker 1: going in and there was you know, it's such a
19:46
Speaker 1: hard position to play for, you know, an offensive lineman.
19:49
Speaker 1: It's such a hard position to play as a defensive
19:51
Speaker 1: end against a guy like that because, as you know,
19:54
Speaker 1: if all comes out so quickly in the NFL, you know,
19:56
Speaker 1: they have all the advantage. They know the play, they
19:58
Speaker 1: know the snap down, they have, they have time on
20:01
Speaker 1: their side. So it could become frustrating for a defensive
20:04
Speaker 1: end sometimes, but definitely when you're playing against someone as
20:07
Speaker 1: great as Tony. Tony was and you know, so you're
20:10
Speaker 1: telling yourself constantly, this is gonna be a sixty minute war.
20:13
Speaker 1: Keep keep chipping away at it. You know you may
20:15
Speaker 1: get blocked. You make it the ball. You may you
20:17
Speaker 1: may not make a coup of plate and make a
20:18
Speaker 1: play for a couple of quarters, and those are coming
20:20
Speaker 1: opportunity in a game where something you do is gonna work.
20:23
Speaker 1: You're gonna have an opportunity to make a splash. And
20:25
Speaker 1: he was really really good at being being up to
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Speaker 1: speed with you or one step ahead of you, and
20:30
Speaker 1: understanding what you were trying to set up and knowing that, okay,
20:33
Speaker 1: we get you got to a third, you got to
20:34
Speaker 1: a third and eighth situation here. You know this defense
20:37
Speaker 1: event has done this to me the last couple of
20:39
Speaker 1: times on third day, and I think you're trying to
20:40
Speaker 1: set this up, so he'll sit He'll sit hard on
20:42
Speaker 1: that on the long arm and said hardly the inside
20:44
Speaker 1: move or anticipate to spin off of a chip, which
20:46
Speaker 1: he didn't get chips on his side a whole lot anyway,
20:49
Speaker 1: but everything, you know, every once in a while, if
20:51
Speaker 1: I ever saw bat was gonna be doing his side,
20:53
Speaker 1: you know, sell them with speed and use that chip
20:55
Speaker 1: block trying to take the inside move off of that.
20:57
Speaker 1: And he was always ready. He was always ready for
20:59
Speaker 1: whatever you had coming next. He had length, he had sized,
21:03
Speaker 1: he was very very smart, very very strong, and the
21:06
Speaker 1: feet of a really of an outside linebacker, defensive end
21:10
Speaker 1: slash basketball player. He was just very difficult to be
21:13
Speaker 1: And finally this week I sat down with Tony himself
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Speaker 1: for a few thoughts, a week away from his intrinement.
21:19
Speaker 1: Sound you'll only here on this podcast but silly talking
21:22
Speaker 1: about the Hall of Fame voting process. It's a tough process,
21:26
Speaker 1: but I think it needs to be JP. I mean,
21:28
Speaker 1: it's the Hall of Fame, you know, it's it's it's
21:31
Speaker 1: a big deal. I mean it's I'm number three in
21:35
Speaker 1: the history of the game. There's a total of three
21:37
Speaker 1: sixty two with this class coming in, I think under
21:40
Speaker 1: two hundred are alive today. It should be hard, you know,
21:45
Speaker 1: could they improve the process, maybe tweak it here or there,
21:47
Speaker 1: and but no matter what, you're gonna be disappointed if
21:49
Speaker 1: you don't get in. I don't care if they call you.
21:51
Speaker 1: I don't care if to send you a bouquet of roses,
21:53
Speaker 1: you know on Instagram message DM. I mean, I don't
21:56
Speaker 1: care how they do it. It's gonna be disappointed. There's
21:58
Speaker 1: no easy way to do it. But voting process. You know,
22:02
Speaker 1: you have fifty men and women who follow the game,
22:05
Speaker 1: cover the game, Um, that loved the game, and they vote.
22:09
Speaker 1: And there's former Hall of famers on that on that committee, UM,
22:14
Speaker 1: people who coached, two people who played, people who wrote
22:16
Speaker 1: about it. I think it's the right group. You know.
22:20
Speaker 1: Is there some subjectivity and do it? You know? Absolutely
22:24
Speaker 1: at some level? Um, Now there's certain you know, you
22:28
Speaker 1: look at someone like me, I'm an offensive alignment. You
22:31
Speaker 1: know what metric are you judging offensivelignment against with each other?
22:35
Speaker 1: It's you have to watch the tape. You have to
22:36
Speaker 1: talk to guys that played the game. You have to
22:38
Speaker 1: talk to people that played against each other. You know.
22:41
Speaker 1: I think a lot of times people know when you
22:44
Speaker 1: see a Hall of Famer, like that guy's a Hall
22:45
Speaker 1: of Famer, he just you know. And then there's other
22:48
Speaker 1: positions where it is probably a little bit more cut
22:50
Speaker 1: to dry, you know, because of yards and yards per
22:53
Speaker 1: tamp to touchdowns and so on and so forth. And
22:56
Speaker 1: then the whole longevity thing with me. You know, it's
22:58
Speaker 1: been a story forever, um, And I just finally said,
23:01
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, either in the Hall of
23:02
Speaker 1: Fame or not, you think it was good enough put
23:05
Speaker 1: me in. If you don't think that's good enough dumping
23:06
Speaker 1: me in. So overall, I would say, I think you
23:10
Speaker 1: can always tweak the process, and I think the all
23:11
Speaker 1: thing continues to look at it, and they did. I
23:13
Speaker 1: thought the way they did the notification this year was special.
23:16
Speaker 1: Having a Hall of Famer do it, having an Anthony
23:19
Speaker 1: Mood just knock at my door was amazing. And I
23:21
Speaker 1: think you know Jim Porter, who is is new leading
23:25
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame in this past year. I think
23:29
Speaker 1: he'll continue to do a great job and continue to
23:31
Speaker 1: listen to Hall of Famers and can take you to
23:33
Speaker 1: look look at the process and how we do things
23:35
Speaker 1: at the Hall of Fame, and I think always strived
23:37
Speaker 1: to improve year over year. But overall it's a tough
23:40
Speaker 1: process and I think it needs to be plenty more
23:42
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