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Reactions to the 2023 Jaguars Rookie Class | Week in Review: May 5 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: This is the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend review Podcasts presented by TIAA.
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Speaker 1: Bank I'm JP Shadrick with the best of the week
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Speaker 1: from Jaguars Radio, Jaguars dot Com, and our social channel
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. It's Friday, May fifth, and
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Speaker 1: what a busy week. It was the major theme this
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Speaker 1: week across all our programming reviewing the thirteen player hall
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Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty three NFL Draft, the process of
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Speaker 1: taking all thirteen players, plus what those picks mean for
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Speaker 1: the future of the roster. The review started Tuesday morning
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Speaker 1: on Jagg's Drive Time with Brian Sexton and John Oser.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's get started with big things here on
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Speaker 2: a Tuesday morning from tia bank Field, and we'll start
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Speaker 2: with the big guy, Anton Harrison. He was apparently their
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Speaker 2: guy all along, and John alluded to the stories yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Peter King in his Football Morning in America column referenced
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Speaker 2: the fact that the Raiders were talking about moving back
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Speaker 2: and taking him at twelve. Sure for the Jaguars to
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Speaker 2: sit at two ninety seven with the addition of draft
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Speaker 2: choices from two moves back, puts them in a position
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Speaker 2: with the player they want in a position that they needed.
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of consistency in his game. You know,
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Speaker 3: you love everything about his length and athleticism, how he moves,
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Speaker 3: his strength, you know, all things as Trent mentioned that
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Speaker 3: that will fit us. And you know, we're just excited
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Speaker 3: for for Anton and and just getting in that offensive
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Speaker 3: line room, getting around you know, the other the other
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Speaker 3: guys in that room and getting to get into work.
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Speaker 2: And that'll start next week when the rookies arrived for
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Speaker 2: Mini camp. Big thing to the board. Look, the Jaguars
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Speaker 2: didn't go into the weekend thinking we're gonna put together
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Speaker 2: the largest draft class in franchise history. This was not
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Speaker 2: thought to be a deep draft, not thought to be
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Speaker 2: a draft beyond the fourth round that had a lot
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Speaker 2: of pop. But the Jaguars saw the board fall that way.
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Speaker 2: After many attempts to use the capitol and move back
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Speaker 2: up failed, well, they just stayed put and pilled.
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Speaker 4: We've tried to trade up today. We went through fifteen
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Speaker 4: or sixteen teams when we were trying to trade up,
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Speaker 4: every team behind us and no one would make a move.
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Speaker 4: So that happened to us several times, and at times
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Speaker 4: we were able to trade back. We just felt that
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Speaker 4: the time that we could trade back and get the
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Speaker 4: players that we were planning on picking anyway, and were
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Speaker 4: able to do that. So it's just how the draft
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Speaker 4: went this.
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Speaker 2: Year and finally better because that's what you hope that
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Speaker 2: this draft class does is make your ross, your better John,
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Speaker 2: your reverence, tank, big speed, and a lot of folks
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Speaker 2: are thinking, wow, he didn't do that much when he
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Speaker 2: was at Auburn, but Alabama offered him in suburban Atlanta
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Speaker 2: where he drew up, Alabama offered him his freshman year
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Speaker 2: in high school. He's a five star prospect and a
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Speaker 2: guy who made the most of his opportunities at Auburn.
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Speaker 2: But that's sort of how the entire thirteen member draft
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Speaker 2: class hands out. They're good football players who have an
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Speaker 2: opportunity to, no matter what their circumstances were at Auburn
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Speaker 2: or Texas, A and M or wherever they played college football,
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Speaker 2: come in and compete here in Jacksonville to make the
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Speaker 2: Jaguars a better football team.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we have to improve as a football team. We
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Speaker 3: still left a lot of plays on the field last
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Speaker 3: last fall. Both sides of the ball, really all three
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Speaker 3: phases and and and so for us, it's it's not
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Speaker 3: focusing on other teams as much as it is just
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Speaker 3: us getting better and and it'll start this offseason and
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Speaker 3: it would carry over in a training camp.
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Speaker 5: But uh, we have to we have to improve.
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Speaker 3: But it is it is nice knowing that you have,
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Speaker 3: you know, the one piece which is a big piece
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Speaker 3: obviously the quarterback position.
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Speaker 2: And those are big things. Just give you one more.
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Speaker 2: I mentioned Bixby, the safety Antonio Johnson, who went to
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Speaker 2: Texas A and M was the number two safety prospect
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Speaker 2: in America, behind only Brian Branch who went in the
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Speaker 2: second round of the Detroit Lions. So just because these
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Speaker 2: aren't guys that maybe you watched every weekend, and those
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Speaker 2: two are guys that we saw in the SEC, doesn't
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Speaker 2: mean they weren't highly thought of prospects with an opportunity
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Speaker 2: to come in here and do something.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, a couple of things on the big things. I've
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Speaker 6: gotten a lot of emails saying, well, the Jaguars gambled
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Speaker 6: by trading back and then couldn't trade back up, So
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Speaker 6: that makes the draft of failure. I got, well, and
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Speaker 6: if if Brian Big, if if they had indeed gambled,
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Speaker 6: I could see that thought. But the trade backs that
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Speaker 6: netted the four additional picks. The am getting the math right.
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Speaker 6: They had four additional picks, they went it with nine
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Speaker 6: came out thirteen. Had they lost players that they wanted,
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Speaker 6: then I could see those being gambled. If you had said, Okay,
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Speaker 6: we really want Anton Harrison, I'm sorry, so we're going
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Speaker 6: to trade back and then lose Anton Harrison to gain
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Speaker 6: those picks and then not be able to use them,
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Speaker 6: then your playing failed. As it was, they traded back
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Speaker 6: three spots to get three of the picks and still
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Speaker 6: got the guy they wanted. They traded back Brenton Strange.
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Speaker 6: I forget how far five ye and but one in
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Speaker 6: Brenton Strange from so there was no loss therefore no risk.
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Speaker 6: So they couldn't use the capital that they got, so
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Speaker 6: they just stayed put. But it didn't cost them anything
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Speaker 6: to do it, is my point. How many times, and
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Speaker 6: this is I understand why people think about the draft
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Speaker 6: this way. The other criticism I've heard is, well, you
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Speaker 6: need to get starters in the first three rounds. Okay, well,
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Speaker 6: I think Anton Harrison could be a start. The media, well,
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Speaker 6: starters Garrison's going to be right? How many times let
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Speaker 6: the NFL is not a league of eleven on eleven right.
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Speaker 6: I know personally there were times last year where I
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Speaker 6: said to myself, I wonder whether or not like using
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Speaker 6: more tight end packages just and then the second thing
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Speaker 6: I wondered a lot is but wonder what they're going
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Speaker 6: to do if they don't have Travis in second half
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Speaker 6: the season as a legitimate to come in out of
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Speaker 6: Travis DTN.
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Speaker 2: Jamichael Hasty was a nice change of pace, insert big touchdown.
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Speaker 6: Guy, and he filled a role. I think he's a
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Speaker 6: nice NFL player, but not an every down but I
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Speaker 6: don't know that you want him starting and being the reliable. Well, now,
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Speaker 6: if they don't have ETN, you're not panicked anymore. So
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Speaker 6: how worried would you have been late in that playoff
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Speaker 6: run if they hadn't had Travis ETN.
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Speaker 2: On VTN made one of the plays of the year
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Speaker 2: with the twenty five yard run there instead of the
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Speaker 2: game winner against the Chargers.
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Speaker 6: So you need about fourteen fifteen sixteen guys offensive five
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Speaker 6: inence alignment and the quarterbacker. I was gonna say the
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Speaker 6: same the other guys. Doug likes having ten or so
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Speaker 6: guys for those six spots. The draft this weekend gave
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Speaker 6: them two more guys, and I think he feels like
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Speaker 6: at some point this season are gonna be legitimate parts
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Speaker 6: of that puzzle. That's not nothing.
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Speaker 2: Here's the other thing, and Trent mentioned this in his
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Speaker 2: news conference on Saturday night. Undrafted rookie free agency has
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Speaker 2: gotten to be an expensive proposition because teams are out
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Speaker 2: there competing and throwing dollars around. So with the extra
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Speaker 2: four picks, you basically got a jumpstart on guys that
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Speaker 2: you were interested in bringing in as undrafted rookies. You
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Speaker 2: were able to secure their services without bidding against other
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Speaker 2: teams for them. And roster management will become incredibly difficult,
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Speaker 2: challenging and important next year if the Jaguars go ahead
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Speaker 2: and give Trevor Lawrence his first bite to that big apple,
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Speaker 2: which is now we know more than fifty three million dollars.
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Speaker 2: So having extra picks gives you extra flexibility, gives you
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Speaker 2: fixed cost labor. I don't want say cheap labor, because
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Speaker 2: nothing in this league is cheap, but they're going to
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Speaker 2: play at a fixed cost for a couple of years,
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Speaker 2: which helps you manage the upper end of the roster.
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Speaker 2: And quite frankly, we've never seen it in Jacksonville. We've
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Speaker 2: never seen the mega contract. You can say Nick Foles,
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Speaker 2: but it was one year. We've never seen that. You've
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Speaker 2: got to manage it over time because it was never
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Speaker 2: there and they've never had that guy.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and they fifty three guys is kind of a
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Speaker 6: misnomer in this league. Now, you really need about sixty.
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Speaker 6: Some of these guys will be practice squad guys to start,
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Speaker 6: I'm sure, but they'll be available guys. They'll be parts
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Speaker 6: of the puzzle. Look, I'm not sitting here saying that
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Speaker 6: it was the sexiest draft I've ever seen, but if
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Speaker 6: you're going to pick twenty seven to be at the
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Speaker 6: bottom of the draft, I covered an awful lot of
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Speaker 6: drafts with the Colts that weren't very sexy, and they
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Speaker 6: kept going to the playoffs because they kept having good
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Speaker 6: players late in the first round.
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Speaker 1: JAG's Drive Time airs Tuesday mornings on Jaguars dot Com
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Speaker 1: and the Jaguars social media channels. Moving now to the
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Speaker 1: Huddle Up Podcast. Wednesday, NFL Network analyst Bucky Brooks, John
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Speaker 1: Osher and I discussed what first round pick Anton Harrison
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Speaker 1: brings to the table on the offensive line, plus the
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Speaker 1: depth in that room.
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Speaker 5: Looked a lot of players.
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Speaker 7: I mean, just when you think about the sheer numbers,
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Speaker 7: thirteen players vying for opportunities on the squad, it's a
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Speaker 7: great opportunity. It's a great opportunity for the Jaguars to
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Speaker 7: breed the talent behind the starters. Also filled in some
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Speaker 7: gaps would also create competition on what should be a
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Speaker 7: team that is one of the best teams in the AFC.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and I know that people want splashing drafts, and
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Speaker 6: I feel like they did what they wanted to at
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Speaker 6: the top. I keep thinking back to the fact that
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Speaker 6: this was a team for I felt three or four
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Speaker 6: years before last year with a substandard roster. In twenty
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Speaker 6: twenty one Urbans year transfers to you, remember they signed
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Speaker 6: all those free agents JP and Bucky was with us.
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Speaker 6: That felt like making up for lost drafts, you know,
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Speaker 6: felt like trying to make up for speed that wasn't
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Speaker 6: there anymore. For so, at some point, if you're going
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Speaker 6: to get back to being the kind of roster you want,
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Speaker 6: those guys that they were signing as free agents that year,
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Speaker 6: if you follow me, have to be young draft picks
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Speaker 6: going into their second and third year and being with
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Speaker 6: the team. So if out of thirteen of these guys
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Speaker 6: not all of them are gonna be good, but if
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Speaker 6: eight or nine of them are really good players who
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Speaker 6: you feel good about, five or six out of that
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Speaker 6: group develop into guys that you'll love by year three
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Speaker 6: or four, then you're raising the talent and the youth
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Speaker 6: and what you like. You're raising it back up. And
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Speaker 6: that had to be done it some time. I don't
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Speaker 6: think they went into the draft thinking that was absolutely
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Speaker 6: the plan, but I do feel like that should be
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Speaker 6: a side effect of this.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it absolutely is a side effect. I mean, those
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Speaker 7: are the things that you want. Those are good problems
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Speaker 7: to have. This or this will be by far the
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Speaker 7: most talent to roster that this team has had in
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Speaker 7: a long time, in terms of just eliminating some of
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Speaker 7: the glaring holes and weaknesses and the roster creating a
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Speaker 7: situation where you actually are trying to build depth as
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Speaker 7: opposed to trying to fill out starting lineups. You have
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Speaker 7: a chance to also develop young players. And so if
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Speaker 7: you are sitting here now, you're trying balky you, Doug Peterson,
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Speaker 7: you certainly like where the program is at, but you
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Speaker 7: also are pushing to get this team ahead of the
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Speaker 7: other guys. I think last year just kind of wet
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Speaker 7: the appetite a little bit in terms of going to
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Speaker 7: the postseason, being able to win a playoff game, losing
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Speaker 7: in the Divisional round two, the team that eventually won
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Speaker 7: the Super Bowl. I think all odds are on experiencing
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Speaker 7: things beyond what they experienced last season.
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Speaker 1: It's the Huddle Up podcasts. All right, let's go through
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Speaker 1: some of these picks and we'll start off at the
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Speaker 1: very top. Of course, first round, Jaguars trade back twice
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Speaker 1: to get some Day three picks. They end up selecting
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma tackle Anton Harrison at number twenty seven overall. And
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Speaker 1: after the draft, buck you, Doug said that Doug Peterson
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Speaker 1: said that he's gonna play right tackle. Let's go put
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Speaker 1: him in there right away and see what the kid has.
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Speaker 7: You know, I think it's really interesting that they bring
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Speaker 7: him in and that Doug Peterson has already said he's
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Speaker 7: gonna play right tackle because the guy that he replaces
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Speaker 7: is very similar to what Antoine Harrison is and what
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Speaker 7: he could be as a player. Super long, super rangey
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Speaker 7: and athletic. But the overall skill set is pretty raw.
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Speaker 7: When you think about Juwana Taylor and how Juwanta Taylor
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Speaker 7: entered the league. He also was a guy who had
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Speaker 7: great physical tools, great prototypical dimensions in those things, but
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Speaker 7: was raw needed to be refined and.
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Speaker 5: Developed in those things.
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Speaker 7: Harrison will need to do that, but he just do
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Speaker 7: it as a starter as opposed to a backup. This
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Speaker 7: ye give him an opportunity to kind of accelerate his
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Speaker 7: learning curve because he will have experienced so many reps
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Speaker 7: his first season.
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Speaker 6: How do you see this playing out? But I mean,
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Speaker 6: you've got Cam who's going to be on suspension. It
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Speaker 6: sounds like, certainly that's the word, and Walk a little
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Speaker 6: over on the left. Obviously, it's a good problem to
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Speaker 6: have and and a lot of times injuries sort of
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Speaker 6: sort this thing out. But do they all stay in
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Speaker 6: the lineups somewhere all year? You know what I'm getting that?
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Speaker 6: I mean, the interesting thing is it feels like if
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Speaker 6: Doug sat them all down in his office individually and said, hey,
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Speaker 6: what position do you feel best at? I think all
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Speaker 6: three that say left tackle, because that's what Anton's played.
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Speaker 6: Walker's played his best there, and so as Cam. Again,
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Speaker 6: I think it's a good problem to have because I
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Speaker 6: think you can put your best guys wherever they go.
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Speaker 6: But how do you see that shaking out?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 7: No, so this would be interesting because you want to
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Speaker 7: play the best five on the front line. I think
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Speaker 7: the way that they have it penciled in is the
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Speaker 7: way that it'll shake out. Meaning Antoine Harrison will start
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Speaker 7: and probably finish his time with Jackson on the.
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Speaker 5: Right side, and he's comfortable.
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Speaker 7: He will learn how to be comfortable there because when
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Speaker 7: I told you he was raw and undevelopment. You need
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Speaker 7: to work on a skill set. You might as well
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Speaker 7: work on a different set of tools right now when
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Speaker 7: he's not necessarily in the position that is a pressing
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Speaker 7: need walker. Little can play on both sides. He's demonstrated
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Speaker 7: before that he can play on both sides. And so
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Speaker 7: this is one where you, Doug Peterson, you assess where
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Speaker 7: these guys are when it's time to come off to
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Speaker 7: the suspension, and then you make a decision on which
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Speaker 7: career are you really trying to gamble on as your
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Speaker 7: long term answer at the spot.
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Speaker 8: And as you said, John, we'll just have to see
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Speaker 8: what happens whenever that suspension is done. What the state
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Speaker 8: is or the line at that point you don't know.
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Speaker 8: You can't really tell the future.
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Speaker 5: In that regard.
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Speaker 6: Well, we spend so much time and I always try
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Speaker 6: to be conscious of it. You talk all off season
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Speaker 6: about a team as if you're playing Madden in no
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Speaker 6: injury mode. If there indeed is one, life happens so
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Speaker 6: and that's why I thought the draft overall made so
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Speaker 6: much sense. Because I'm kind of off topic, but last
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Speaker 6: off season, every time Travis Etn went down, you held
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Speaker 6: your breath on what was going to happen when he
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Speaker 6: went down. So the depth I think does matter. But
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Speaker 6: getting back to that topic, they were really healthy last
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Speaker 6: year until they weren't and then Walker Little was able
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Speaker 6: to come in and play well. I think they got
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Speaker 6: back to where they want to be because I think
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Speaker 6: this team philosophically looks at it like they want seven
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Speaker 6: or eight offensive linemen that can start. They've got Shatley,
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Speaker 6: They've got Anton Harrison. Now I don't think they're comfortable
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Speaker 6: with just five and a couple of guys can come
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Speaker 6: in for a game or two. I think philosophically they
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Speaker 6: want those seven, and I think they got it again.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's important that you do that because that's how
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Speaker 7: you determine who gets to Jersey on game day. You
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Speaker 7: want guys that can really contribute, not just guys that
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Speaker 7: are hanging out there, but if you ever put them in,
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Speaker 7: you have no chance. And so you're trying to updated
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Speaker 7: in all areas to make sure that you have that
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Speaker 7: kind of depth on your rust.
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Speaker 1: out of Jaguars Happy Hour Thursday and the second round
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Speaker 1: Pick Penn State, tight End, Brenton Strange, Jeff Logerman and
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Speaker 1: I looked at that selection and how it could cause
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Speaker 1: issues for opposing defensive coordinators. When they made this pick,
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Speaker 1: I had not watched them, you know, I watched guys
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Speaker 1: that were viewed as first round talents as far as
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Speaker 1: evaluating those which are probably like I sixty sixty some
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Speaker 1: guys that I watched in preparation for the draft for
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Speaker 1: our purposes on the show. So now here's a guy
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Speaker 1: that wasn't on my list. Let me go back and
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Speaker 1: watch them. And I believe Darnell Washington was available at
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Speaker 1: that time, the tight end from Georgia. Yeah, so a
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Speaker 1: lot of people would have been saying, or probably were
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Speaker 1: thinking themselves, why would you select this guy Brenton Strange
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Speaker 1: from Penn State when Washington is available from Georgia. So
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Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, we'll find the answer. Let's turn
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Speaker 1: the tape on. And that's what I did. And when
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Speaker 1: I turned the tape.
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Speaker 8: On, I went, Oh, my gosh, this is a Doug
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Speaker 8: Peterson pick all the way. This guy is going to
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Speaker 8: be an immediate contributor. He is going to hit the
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Speaker 8: field in the ground running he is, like he was
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Speaker 8: just saying, he's a why he's an h he's a fullback.
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Speaker 8: He can do it whatever you ask him to do.
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Speaker 8: He's got the size to be an on the line
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Speaker 8: tight end.
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Speaker 5: But I think what.
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Speaker 8: He does best is that he's a great space player.
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Speaker 8: When I say space player, a tight end that's off
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Speaker 8: the ball or that blocks in space but then also
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Speaker 8: catches the ball in space. And in today's game, you're
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Speaker 8: looking to find space player, so you're not always looking
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Speaker 8: to find the old traditional six foot five to two
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Speaker 8: hundred and eighty pound tight end. It's a different game.
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Speaker 8: And this guy is gonna fit in this offense perfectly,
19:12
Speaker 8: and they're gonna love him because he is so versatile.
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Speaker 8: He's an excellent blocker. And not only is an excellent blocker,
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Speaker 8: he finishes guys and he mauls them. And it's not
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Speaker 8: always easy to find a tight end that can block
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Speaker 8: a guy in space, a defensive back or a safety
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Speaker 8: or a linebacker because there's too much area for the
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Speaker 8: defender to avoid the block and get back on track.
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Speaker 8: This guy's excellent at it, I mean, and that's that's
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Speaker 8: a rarity. So excellent blocker, physical, good receiver, powerful after
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Speaker 8: the catch, as you saw in the Auburn game. And
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Speaker 8: I think he was probably underutilized as a receiver at
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Speaker 8: Penn State when it comes to how he fits in
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Speaker 8: the scheme with the Jaguars, obviously have an Ingram at
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Speaker 8: tight end. If you have both tight ends in the
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Speaker 8: field with a running back and two of the top
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Speaker 8: three receivers on the field, how challenging can that be
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Speaker 8: for a defense to cover because you might run, you
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Speaker 8: might throw who you're throwing.
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Speaker 1: It to, how are you getting it? It makes things
20:13
Speaker 1: extremely difficult.
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Speaker 8: Extremely difficult when it's unpredictable, and when you have tight
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Speaker 8: ends that can do all of the above what Brnston
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Speaker 8: just talked about, Then defensive coordinators are put in a
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Speaker 8: little bit of a pickle. Are we going to make
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Speaker 8: a call? First of all, you start with personnel. Is
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Speaker 8: our personnel grouping gonna be a base personnel grouping to
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Speaker 8: combat a run oriented tight end grouping? Or are we
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Speaker 8: going to go to Nickel because they have some wide
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Speaker 8: receiver qualities. Well, with Evan Ingram and this young man
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Speaker 8: Brenton Strange, I think defensive coordinators are going to be
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Speaker 8: in a little bit of a pickle, so to speak,
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Speaker 8: because they're not exactly sure how they're gonna want to
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Speaker 8: play it. Because they can do both Evan Ingram can block.
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Speaker 8: Is he a dominant physical blocker like Brenton's Strange? No,
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Speaker 8: but he's capable and willing, and he's an excellent receiver.
21:04
Speaker 8: Strange is the better blocker, but he also is more
21:08
Speaker 8: than capable as a wide receiver. So that's going to
21:11
Speaker 8: be interesting to see how this package unfold, because I
21:13
Speaker 8: guarantee you this young man is going to be on
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Speaker 8: the field Day one.
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Speaker 1: He's the second highest tight end drafted in Jaguars history.
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Speaker 1: Mercedes Lewis is a first round pick, and he is
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Speaker 1: what sixty first overall. Josh Oliver was a few picks later,
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Speaker 1: just a few years ago. I got excited about him JP.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm telling you when I was watching the film,
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Speaker 1: the more I kept going, let me watch another play,
21:35
Speaker 1: let me watch another playlet. And before you know it,
21:38
Speaker 1: I watched every play that he had this past year.
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Speaker 1: And what is a folder that they have designated for
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Speaker 1: like a highlight and his ability and stuff, And I
21:46
Speaker 1: watched the whole thing. I was like, man, you know
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Speaker 1: for a guy that I didn't know about. And so
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Speaker 1: all the pre draft prognosticators have a group of tight ends,
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Speaker 1: this young man should have been in that upper tier
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Speaker 1: of tight ends. Jaguars Happy Our Radio Thursday at four
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Speaker 1: and YouTube. Let's close this week with GM Trent Balke
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Speaker 1: and head coach Doug Peterson in their post draft press
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Speaker 1: conference Saturday evening.
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Speaker 9: Thirteen picks, eight of them in the final three rounds.
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Speaker 9: Do you look at those late guys as the equivalent
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Speaker 9: of maybe undrafted free agency in a normal year, or
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Speaker 9: do you feel like thirteen guys can fit on this
22:27
Speaker 9: roster that was pretty darn good last year and didn't
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Speaker 9: lose a ton.
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Speaker 4: Well, what we tried to do is, you know, Coach
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Speaker 4: and I throughout the process once the day started, is
22:37
Speaker 4: look at ways that we could improve the roster, especially
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Speaker 4: on the special team side, and just selecting guys had
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Speaker 4: had a chance to compete for the fifty three and
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Speaker 4: as well as special teams bring some added value there.
22:53
Speaker 4: And felt really good about the group we got.
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Speaker 9: Did you think special teams was not as good as
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Speaker 9: it could have been last year? Because I thought you're
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Speaker 9: pretty decent.
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Speaker 4: On special because you're always looking to get better.
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Speaker 3: Always trying to improve special teams are just three phases
23:08
Speaker 3: of what we are as a team, right offense, defense,
23:11
Speaker 3: and special teams. And as good as we were, I
23:14
Speaker 3: mean you're always looking again, just like any other side
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Speaker 3: of the ball, it's a way to it's a way
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Speaker 3: to get even better. So adding the depth and bringing,
23:23
Speaker 3: you know, drafting some of these players that we did
23:25
Speaker 3: can help us there.
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Speaker 10: Brian Antonio Johnson, he's a guy who've spent most of
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Speaker 10: his collegiate career playing in the slot. Is that you're
23:31
Speaker 10: a vision for him here in Jacksonville.
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Speaker 11: Well, he's in the slot a lot, but he's he's
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Speaker 11: a safety, you know, and how they play the defense,
23:39
Speaker 11: so he wasn't, you know, man covering a lot of
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Speaker 11: people in the slot.
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Speaker 4: He dropped down. He more of a box type guy.
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Speaker 4: But again there's a high character, tough guy, great tackler,
23:53
Speaker 4: you know, just a guy that we fit in, a
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Speaker 4: really good teams guy. He's been a Core four guy
23:56
Speaker 4: there his whole career. Really looking forward to him as well,
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Speaker 4: getting in here and competing with.
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Speaker 10: That group going into the draft. You told this your
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Speaker 10: board was what one hundred and less than one hundred
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Speaker 10: and fifty draftable graded players was?
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Speaker 5: It was?
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Speaker 10: It always your plan to acquire more picks in this draft.
24:13
Speaker 10: When you said you had a little bit of a
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Speaker 10: shorter board, No, it wasn't.
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Speaker 4: But if you look at how the draft went, you know,
24:20
Speaker 4: we tried to trade up today. We went through fifteen
24:24
Speaker 4: or sixteen teams when we were trying to trade up,
24:27
Speaker 4: every team behind us, and no one would make a move.
24:30
Speaker 4: So you know, that happened to us several times. And
24:34
Speaker 4: the times we were able to trade back, we just
24:37
Speaker 4: felt at the time that we could trade back and
24:39
Speaker 4: get the players that we were planning on picking anyway,
24:42
Speaker 4: and we're able to do that. So it's just how
24:45
Speaker 4: the draft went this year.
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Speaker 12: Hey, Doug, I don't know how much do you guys
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Speaker 12: pay attention to what the other teams in the division
24:52
Speaker 12: are doing on a day like the weekend like this
24:55
Speaker 12: or is that something to wait for a couple of
24:57
Speaker 12: days to kind of look that way.
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Speaker 3: I know, for me personally, I didn't pay much attention
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Speaker 3: to it because we were so in, you know, kind
25:03
Speaker 3: of into our draft, you know, and the guys that
25:06
Speaker 3: we were doing. Uh, it's something that we'll take a
25:08
Speaker 3: look at now as we you know, as we get
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Speaker 3: past this weekend and and on into the rest of
25:12
Speaker 3: the offseason.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, I would assume you noted that they all three
25:15
Speaker 12: teams drafted quarterbacks.
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Speaker 5: I didn't notice that at all, not at all. Does
25:19
Speaker 5: that Well.
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Speaker 12: How comforting is that to know? And I think you
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Speaker 12: addressed a little bit the other night. Those guys are
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Speaker 12: chasing you because you've got your guy, And how comforting
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Speaker 12: it is and how much it takes off your mind
25:34
Speaker 12: to know you've got your guy and you don't have
25:36
Speaker 12: to worry about that.
25:37
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it's it's nice to have your guy, obviously,
25:40
Speaker 3: but but listen, you know, yes, there's a bulls eye
25:44
Speaker 3: on us.
25:44
Speaker 5: Obviously.
25:45
Speaker 3: I want our team to understand that, and we have
25:48
Speaker 3: to you know, we have to continue to do that.
25:50
Speaker 3: We have to improve as a football team. We still
25:53
Speaker 3: left a lot of a lot of plays on the
25:55
Speaker 3: field last last fall, both sides of the ball, really
25:58
Speaker 3: all three phases and and and so for us, it's
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Speaker 3: it's not focusing on other teams as much as it
26:03
Speaker 3: is just us getting better and and it'll start this
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Speaker 3: off season and it'll carry over in a training camp.
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Speaker 3: But we have to we have to improve. But it
26:12
Speaker 3: is it is nice knowing that you have you know
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Speaker 3: the one piece, which is a big piece obviously, the
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Speaker 3: quarterback position in Trevor Lawrence.
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