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Jags Broadcast Week in Review: March 11 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Jaguars Broadcast We Can Review podcast presented
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Speaker 1: by t I A A Bank JP Shadrick with the
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Speaker 1: best of the week from Jaguars Radio, Jaguars dot Com
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Speaker 1: and all our streaming platforms Jags, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.
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Speaker 1: Let's begin with the reaction of the franchise tag applied
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Speaker 1: to left tackle Cam Robinson. It's a sixteen point six
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Speaker 1: million dollar salary and two if he signs the tender,
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Speaker 1: and Robinson and the Jaguars have until July fifteen to
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Speaker 1: work on a long term deal. If they don't get
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Speaker 1: one done, he plays on that number in twenty two.
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Speaker 1: NFL Network analyst Bucky Brooks and Jaguars dot Com senior
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Speaker 1: writer John Osier on the Huddle Up Podcast Wednesday on
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Speaker 1: the Free I Heart Radio app securing Cam Robinson on
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Speaker 1: the tag and maybe a long term deal. It enables
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Speaker 1: you to kind of free up yourself from having to
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Speaker 1: commit to take an offensive tackle at the top of
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Speaker 1: the board. Um, you still have the opport need to
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Speaker 1: put walk a little in the lineup somewhere, and then
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Speaker 1: maybe you turn your efforts towards getting the pass rusher
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Speaker 1: or another position at the top of the board. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I think we talked about it last week, but um,
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Speaker 1: in trying to sort of predict what they would do,
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Speaker 1: I kept going back to this, and we may have
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Speaker 1: talked about it. It's what may have second my mind
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Speaker 1: the idea that from a GMS perspective, when you're looking
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Speaker 1: at your roster, you've only got X amount of players
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Speaker 1: that you feel like our front line guys. Had you
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Speaker 1: let Cam go, you're taking one drop out of that bucket,
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Speaker 1: if you will, and you've got to fill it back
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Speaker 1: up with another drop, which would probably been in the draft. Well,
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Speaker 1: the idea of of keeping Cam is you keep that
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Speaker 1: in the bucket and then add one more into the bucket. Uh,
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Speaker 1: as the former scout, That's how personnel people think, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean what you're trying to do is you're trying
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Speaker 1: to look at it in team building. You're trying not
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Speaker 1: to do it in an isolated fashion. So what you
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Speaker 1: want to do is you away your options. If I
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Speaker 1: have this player and that player, do I like that?
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Speaker 1: Uh option better than okay, I can take this draft
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Speaker 1: pick and another player. So it's almost like, um, what's
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Speaker 1: the plan? Crisis? Right? Showcase show downtnity, to which one
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Speaker 1: that you want at the end, um, you get you
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Speaker 1: get to figure out which one that you wanted in
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Speaker 1: And so that's what you're doing in the office is
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Speaker 1: you're trying to figure out, Okay, what gives us the
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Speaker 1: best opportunity to hit all the needs and all of
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Speaker 1: the things that we must address for the best personnel.
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Speaker 1: And obviously after doing the evaluation, Cam Robinson was in
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Speaker 1: that picture. Because if you're Doug Peterson and you're trying
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Speaker 1: to figure out what's the best way for us to
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Speaker 1: get this rolling. Do I want to break in a
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Speaker 1: newbie at left tackle? Do I want to go with
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Speaker 1: someone who may have some flaws, but at least I
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Speaker 1: know what those are, and we feel confident enough that
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Speaker 1: maybe we can mask some of those efficiencies while getting
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Speaker 1: the rest of the pieces of the puzzle right. Just
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Speaker 1: remember John to have your pet spade or newter to
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Speaker 1: help control the pep. That's right, That's right, that's right. Um.
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Speaker 1: So now, Bucky, what you know I said last week
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Speaker 1: and I said, ah, off season, this is the most
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Speaker 1: uh intriguing puzzle that I can remember on the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: offensive line. And maybe it's a reflection of the way
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Speaker 1: the league's going in the sense that offensive lineman can
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Speaker 1: play more positions. Now, you know, you see more guys
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Speaker 1: who can play left hand right tackle. But I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure what they're gonna do. I mean, I'm assuming Walker
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Speaker 1: little to the right. Does that mean Jowan Taylor swing
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean he can play inside? Who are you trying
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Speaker 1: to bring back? I'm assuming Ben Bart is a starter
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Speaker 1: in Ajkins not. But I still don't know how this
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Speaker 1: offensive line is gonna look even with this move. Was
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Speaker 1: not a left tackle though, right to swing right? Well, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, like so so he used the thing one
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Speaker 1: the right tackle on the left tackle. Now they're more
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Speaker 1: common than uncommon in terms of like being dissimilar in
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Speaker 1: terms of job description and the kind of players that
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Speaker 1: you want there. Now, you're right tackle needs to be
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Speaker 1: just as nimble as your left tackle because teams are
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Speaker 1: putting the premier pass rusher at left defense event against
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Speaker 1: the right tackle. So I think we walk a little
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Speaker 1: he can go there. I think you want can kind
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Speaker 1: of kick inside. You have to make a decision in
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Speaker 1: the determination what's the best five that you can put
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Speaker 1: on the field. And with a new offensive line coach
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Speaker 1: and a new offensive philosophy, It'll be interesting to see
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Speaker 1: how they hold their best five in in in top regard.
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Speaker 1: And let's be honest, how do they view walk a
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Speaker 1: little in comparison to the other guys that are in
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Speaker 1: this draft class at the top. If they view him
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Speaker 1: as better than maybe that might be the impetus between
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Speaker 1: what behind why they may bypass an opportunity to take
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Speaker 1: a guy at number one. A lot of it is
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Speaker 1: due to the self evaluation and how you really evaluate
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Speaker 1: your team compared to what could be available on free
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Speaker 1: agency and in the draft. Jaguars analyst Jeff Logerman joined
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Speaker 1: me on Jaguars Happy Hour Radio Thursday afternoon on Tin
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Speaker 1: Tin x L for more Cam Robinson discussion. If I'm
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Speaker 1: Cam Robinson, I'm probably just gonna go ahead and sign
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Speaker 1: it because I think it's gonna end up being just like,
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Speaker 1: very similar to last year. It's gonna be a one
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Speaker 1: year deal, and I think it was the right thing
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Speaker 1: to do. You think so, First of all, Cam Robinson
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Speaker 1: is a is a solid, good football player, and I
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Speaker 1: don't want anybody to have the impression because he got
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Speaker 1: franchise that he's one of the best left tackles in football.
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Speaker 1: That's that's not what he is. He's a good he's
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Speaker 1: a good football player, which means that he's the middle
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Speaker 1: of the pack that you know to sometimes maybe you
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Speaker 1: know backward part of the middle part of the pack.
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Speaker 1: But he's a he's a starter. He's a starter, and
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Speaker 1: he's a starting caliber left tackle in this league. And
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Speaker 1: those players are not cheap, and so you want to
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Speaker 1: and when when you're a football team that hasn't won
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Speaker 1: a lot of games in the last decade, you want
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Speaker 1: to keep all the best players that you possibly can
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Speaker 1: so that you're not trying to fill holes. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you you have enough halls to fill as it is already.
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Speaker 1: That's why your record has been the worst than the
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Speaker 1: National Football League two years in a row. You've got
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Speaker 1: to concentrate on getting better. And the way that you
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Speaker 1: get better is that you get better players. And and
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Speaker 1: putting the tag on Cam Robinson is the right thing
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Speaker 1: to do. Does it change any of your plan going
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Speaker 1: forward in free agency and in the draft? I think
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Speaker 1: free agency it might change a little bit of what
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Speaker 1: you would do because if you didn't tag him, you
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Speaker 1: might end up looking at another option who uh goes
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Speaker 1: by the last name of Armstead. Okay, to maybe play
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Speaker 1: your left tackle position. It might cost you a little
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Speaker 1: bit more money, more than more than sixteen point six huh.
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Speaker 1: But from the standpoint of changing what you would do
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Speaker 1: for the draft, I don't think it changes anything. Nothing, nothing.
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Speaker 1: So they could still go with tackle at number one overall,
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Speaker 1: absolutely and then let the new guy play somewhere else
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Speaker 1: and then figure it out if Jonathan Ogden who is
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Speaker 1: And you go back to this story which the Cleveland
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Speaker 1: brown slash Baltimore Ravens, because that was the Tony Jones
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Speaker 1: was the starting left tackle for the Cleveland Browns before
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Speaker 1: the organization made the move to Baltimore. Tony Jones was
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Speaker 1: one of the better left tackles in football, and so
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Speaker 1: they drafted Jonathan Ogden with Tony Jones still at the
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Speaker 1: left tackle position. They allowed Tony Jones to continue to
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Speaker 1: play left tackle. Ogden played left guard, which was funny
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Speaker 1: is all get out, watching a six eighth man get
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Speaker 1: into a guards you know, stand. But he was really
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Speaker 1: good even at guard. And then when Tony Jones moved on,
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Speaker 1: then you had Jonathan Ogden to take over, and of
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Speaker 1: course he had a Hall of Fame career. So can
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Speaker 1: you play a draft pick at guard. Absolutely, Can you
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Speaker 1: play maybe somebody else at guard that you already have
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Speaker 1: on your roster, maybe the guy that you drafted pretty
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Speaker 1: high last year. Absolutely. I think everything is on the table.
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Speaker 1: And I've said this before, I'll say it again, and
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Speaker 1: it's just my own personal belief. It doesn't come from
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Speaker 1: anywhere inside the football brains of this organization. But I
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Speaker 1: am a believer that Cam Robinson can be one of
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Speaker 1: the best right tackles in football. And I think he's
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Speaker 1: built to play right tackle. And if you ended up
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Speaker 1: drafting a left tackle, or you had Walker Little play
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Speaker 1: left tackle, or you had the draft pick play left tackle,
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Speaker 1: Walker Little plane guard, I think that that would all
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Speaker 1: be good for this football team. The better offensive line
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Speaker 1: that you can put in front of Trevor Lawrence, the
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Speaker 1: better your football team is going to be. And on
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars Reporters podcast Monday, before the official word came down,
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Speaker 1: Ashland Sullivan, Shadosja, Brian Sexton and I on the options
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Speaker 1: with the tag if they want to resign Cam, I'd
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Speaker 1: resigned Cam. I try to find it a way to
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Speaker 1: make it work rather than put the tag on him
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Speaker 1: and have him make almost seventeen million dollars um. I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't do it right because you've got offensive tackles at
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Speaker 1: the top of the first round and there are some
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Speaker 1: guys that people like at the top of the second round.
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Speaker 1: So if you wanted to go pass rusher and then
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Speaker 1: offensive tackle, you could do that. It makes sense to
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Speaker 1: me to get younger and less expensive as opposed to
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Speaker 1: stick with Cam, who you know what he is, but
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Speaker 1: it's my own person believe he's at he's at where
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Speaker 1: he's at, that that's the kind of player is gonna
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Speaker 1: be the rest of his career. I don't think that's
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Speaker 1: worth elite money. You know. The argument that I see
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Speaker 1: for keeping Cam was Trent Balky and Doug Peterson both
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Speaker 1: talks so much last week about we've got to keep
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Speaker 1: our own. I don't get the idea that they're keeping
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Speaker 1: DJ Chark and I could be wrong on that, but
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Speaker 1: at some point there's not a surplus. If you know this,
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Speaker 1: bright or not, there's not a surplus of good players
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Speaker 1: on this roster right now if they need more. I've
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Speaker 1: noticed that. So the the the theory, if you if
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Speaker 1: you're playing football mad scientists, is to keep a good
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Speaker 1: player in Cam Robinson and add another good player in
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Speaker 1: the draft rather than letting Cam Robinson go and bringing
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Speaker 1: good player in. That's two good players compared to one.
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Speaker 1: Two is more. You understand that you also have three
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Speaker 1: offensive tackles on this right, just thin you can play with,
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Speaker 1: which not every team does. And it's what gives you
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Speaker 1: the flexibility to do that keep good players. Yes, don't
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Speaker 1: overpay good players. And I may be the only person
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Speaker 1: that thinks this, but I think if you pay him
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Speaker 1: elite money, you're overpaying. And in free agency, you're gonna
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Speaker 1: overpay when you go out and grab one. But you're
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Speaker 1: not gonna go and sign a Terran Armstead from New Orleans.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna draft one Evan Neil or a Quantu from
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Speaker 1: North Carolina State. So that's just on my own personal
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Speaker 1: belief or maybe maybe most people agree they're going to
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Speaker 1: go the way you're talking about, but but it just
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Speaker 1: depends on what they honestly think. But you could get
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Speaker 1: a good pass rusher at the top of the first
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Speaker 1: round and a good offensive tackle at the top of
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Speaker 1: the second, or depending on what you wanted a pass rusher,
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Speaker 1: you could get an elite tackle at the top of
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Speaker 1: the first round and a good pass rusher at the
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Speaker 1: top of the second right. I mean, it just depends
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Speaker 1: on what you want, and I don't know what they want.
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Speaker 1: You still need some receivers, thought, yes you do. And
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Speaker 1: and DJ char it's it's hard because he's such a
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Speaker 1: good a good person in this building. But to franchise
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Speaker 1: tag DJ makes absolutely zero since nineteen million dollars. That's
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Speaker 1: not the type of receiver he is right now, And
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Speaker 1: I get the last thing you want is to let
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Speaker 1: him leave the building and him become a superstar, because
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Speaker 1: it is a risk. They just they haven't seen it.
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Speaker 1: And so much what have you done for me lately?
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Speaker 1: And they haven't seen it or come to a deal
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Speaker 1: with them. I just about to say, what if you
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Speaker 1: if you want to keep both of those good players,
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Speaker 1: you could right get them both to numbers that makes sense,
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Speaker 1: that fit their value. You know what numbers that makes
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Speaker 1: sense that the problem gets free, then the numbers go up.
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Speaker 1: Let me say it again, I totally believe that they
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Speaker 1: should spend every penny to the cap the next three
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Speaker 1: years before they have to pay the quarterback frontload the deals.
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Speaker 1: Get your own guys done, spend the money the next
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Speaker 1: three years. I don't care about a penny being rolled over.
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Speaker 1: Make sure that you do deals that fit the next
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Speaker 1: three years, because when you have to pay the quarterback,
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Speaker 1: but then you become a lot like these teams like
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Speaker 1: the Saints and the and the Packers that have these
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Speaker 1: elite quarterbacks that take up the cap. The archives of
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Speaker 1: Tuesday morning, Mike Grinner from Pro Football Focus recapping the
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Speaker 1: NFL scouting combine with Asheran Sullivan, John Osher, and Brian Sexton. Mike,
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Speaker 1: good morning, Hey, thanks for having me on. Still busy here,
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Speaker 1: never stopped. Free draft. Yes, we are in draft season officially,
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Speaker 1: and speaking of draft, the Jaguars had the number one
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Speaker 1: overall pick obviously, and we heard so many options at
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Speaker 1: the combine offensive line, Hutchenson, what avenue do you foresee
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars going down? And really, who's the best player
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Speaker 1: in your opinion, my opinion, the best players Aidan Hutchinson.
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Speaker 1: And when you're a team like Jacksonville jaguarris that has
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Speaker 1: needs littered all over that roster, I think you just
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Speaker 1: got to lead best player. There are other avenues. I
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Speaker 1: guess that you wanted to help out Trevor Lawrence. But
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Speaker 1: to me, there are other avenues to do in that
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Speaker 1: that aren't just using that number one overall pick on
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Speaker 1: that player. To me, Aidan Hutchinson proved that he is
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Speaker 1: an elite edge rusher at the combine. Obviously on tape.
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Speaker 1: His tape is night and day from litter to anyone
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Speaker 1: else in this draft class. On the edge. You saw
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Speaker 1: that High State game, you saw that Iowa game. The
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Speaker 1: way he dominated was Chase young ask in terms of
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Speaker 1: how he took over um. And then maybe he didn't
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Speaker 1: blaze the fastest forty, but his ten split, you know,
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Speaker 1: get off to ten yards down the field and that
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Speaker 1: forty was the same as Trayvon Walkers. He ran four
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Speaker 1: or five one, which is all you really needed defensive end.
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Speaker 1: You really only need to go ten yards and there's
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Speaker 1: three comb was almost identical to bon Miller's at six
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Speaker 1: ft seven to sixty. This guy can turn. This guy
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Speaker 1: has that agility that you want off the edge, and
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Speaker 1: to me, he's the safest thing in the draft. And
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Speaker 1: with Jaguars the way they draft the past few years,
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Speaker 1: they just need a w at this point, Hey, Mike,
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Speaker 1: where did the first round grades end? In the first
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Speaker 1: round this year? I mean, I think last year, I
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Speaker 1: remember hearing that between pick eight and pick forty there
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Speaker 1: wasn't that much differentiation at any given position. Where how
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Speaker 1: many difference makers are? They're truly elite players in this draft.
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Speaker 1: That's the thing. This year's draft does not have nearly
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Speaker 1: as many as last year's. Did you think that could
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Speaker 1: last year? You want to pick like thirteen, like Parsons
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Speaker 1: comes off the board at twelve. You had shown Slater
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Speaker 1: at thirteen, and those guys were Pro bowlers, you know,
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Speaker 1: year one, which rarely happens, and those guys were they
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Speaker 1: weren't even thought of as no one's even regretting it
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Speaker 1: because the guy's from R Chase and they still the
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Speaker 1: guys draft ahead of them early too, So to me,
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Speaker 1: there's really only a couple i'd call blue chip prospects
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Speaker 1: that their respective positions, as Aidan Hutchinson and Kyle Hamilton's
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Speaker 1: from Notre Dame in the safety like, those are guys
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Speaker 1: that are rare for their respective positions, and there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of guys who are in that first round mix.
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Speaker 1: So if what you get past the top few picks,
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Speaker 1: I think the difference between like a you know, everyone's
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Speaker 1: talking about this taff of class, but like an Ikiakwanu
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Speaker 1: and say a Trevor Penning out of Northern Iowa isn't
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Speaker 1: too dissimilar. So the first round grades to me and
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Speaker 1: somewhere around the mid twenties. But this is a deep class.
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Speaker 1: On day two, I think second and third round grades,
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Speaker 1: we had over eighty guys in that mix, So there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of talent. Once you get past sort of
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Speaker 1: like where the Jaggles would be drafted in the second round,
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Speaker 1: third round, there's a lot of guys that should still
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Speaker 1: be available then, Mike, speaking of that second round pick,
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Speaker 1: I'm assuming that the Jaguars are going to be taking
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Speaker 1: receiver there. That could be wrong, but that's my assumption.
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Speaker 1: How strong is this group right around that area? And
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Speaker 1: sort of secondly, uh is this this is the case
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Speaker 1: where you can get a pretty good wide receiver at
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Speaker 1: the top of the third or do you need to
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Speaker 1: go top of the second to address that the top
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Speaker 1: of the third, I can see the class being cooked
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Speaker 1: at the top of the second. It's been like the
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Speaker 1: sweet spot in recent years. If you think about that's
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Speaker 1: where Deebo Samuel came off the board, That's where t Higgins,
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Speaker 1: Michael Pittman came off the board, That's where Elijah Moore
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Speaker 1: came off the fourth last year. Like, there's been a
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Speaker 1: lot of wide receiver talent there's been on NFL ready
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Speaker 1: and could even be your number one type of wide
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Speaker 1: receivers that come off the board in the second, but
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Speaker 1: by the third not nearly as many. Once you get
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Speaker 1: to their um people still do well of identifying the
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Speaker 1: athletes that win at that position. They do go highly
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Speaker 1: so top the second round there could be like a
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Speaker 1: John Dotson, I could see a Cristal LaVey being on
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Speaker 1: the board, maybe like a sky More out of Western Michigan.
17:20
Speaker 1: There will be a lot of talent there that it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be and even more so Initier's class than even
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Speaker 1: last year's class, where you have a bunch of different
17:28
Speaker 1: body types. Last year was a lot of undersized guys
17:30
Speaker 1: that were coming off the board, and round two this
17:32
Speaker 1: year you have you know, six ft three, uh, George
17:36
Speaker 1: Pickens from Georgia, who would have probably gone first round
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Speaker 1: had you been healthy. This year you have Justin Ross
17:40
Speaker 1: from Clemson who had to wear a thousand yards as
17:42
Speaker 1: a true freshman. Like you have these six ft four
17:44
Speaker 1: like you have a lot of different body types, but
17:45
Speaker 1: I think will still be on the board there where
17:47
Speaker 1: they're picking the top second round. It makes too much
17:49
Speaker 1: sense to give your quarterbacks and health there. Hey, Mike,
17:51
Speaker 1: outside of Aidan Hutchinson, whose virtues you've already extolled, who's
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Speaker 1: your favorite player in this draft? I'm regardless, first round,
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Speaker 1: second round, Day three, who's someone that you fall in
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Speaker 1: love with for their production, the type of person they are,
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Speaker 1: what you saw from them in Indianapolis. Well, the guy
18:06
Speaker 1: hasn't really been talked about because I think he's everyone's
18:08
Speaker 1: fair player, and it's Kyle Hamilton's from Notre Dame. He's
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Speaker 1: so unique in that he's six ft four to twenty.
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Speaker 1: The amount of safeties that are playing in the NFL
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Speaker 1: day six ft four to twenty, I don't think there aren't.
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Speaker 1: He is a unique size, speed, explosive, this athlete at
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Speaker 1: that position. And to me, he's very like, very much
18:26
Speaker 1: like Isaiah Simmons coming out and that he's gonna be
18:28
Speaker 1: covered first versatility. But to me, it's so much smooth
18:31
Speaker 1: than Isaiah Simmons, so much more productive in terms of
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Speaker 1: getting his hand on the football at the collegiate level
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Speaker 1: that I don't really care where you play him, whoever
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Speaker 1: does draft him. I think he's gonna be a productive player.
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Speaker 1: another conversation from this week's Huddle Up Podcast Wednesday, Bucky
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Speaker 1: John and I get into the tackle situation plus Michigan
19:26
Speaker 1: defensive end Aiden Hutchinson. What about still drafting an offensive tackle,
19:33
Speaker 1: keeping Cam on a one year tag, playing Evan Neil
19:37
Speaker 1: at guard for a year, beef it up and then
19:40
Speaker 1: kick him out if you don't resign Cam to what
19:43
Speaker 1: you would hope is his long termositional left tackle, the
19:46
Speaker 1: Jonathan Ogden plan. If you will Buck, I mean, if
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Speaker 1: you feel good about the guys at the top of
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Speaker 1: the board, if you view any of these offensive tackles,
19:54
Speaker 1: UH like that. Yeah, that's certainly an interesting plan. Um
19:59
Speaker 1: I would say that us, I would say after the
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Speaker 1: combine um. Rather than kind of penciling in Evan Neil
20:06
Speaker 1: for that, I think you have to talk about Ikey
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Speaker 1: A Kwanu. UM. And maybe if you're gonna think about
20:11
Speaker 1: that kind of plane, maybe ikey a Kwanu because he's
20:14
Speaker 1: not quite like the polished left tackle type in terms
20:18
Speaker 1: of justice playing style and his refined technique. But he
20:21
Speaker 1: is a bit of a bully um in the bar.
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Speaker 1: He uh, he certainly would be intriguing if you opted
20:27
Speaker 1: to go about it that way. Wait a minute, but
20:29
Speaker 1: I think it's a good option. Hold On, you just
20:30
Speaker 1: said something. Hold on, you tore up your board. You
20:34
Speaker 1: just changed your whole board. You just told me you
20:36
Speaker 1: never tear up a board. Now you tear up your board.
20:38
Speaker 1: You put Ikey up top. I didn't. I didn't. I
20:40
Speaker 1: didn't say that. I said the conversation has to be
20:43
Speaker 1: that to put the conversation in that. Like all those
20:46
Speaker 1: guys are closely graded, Ikey Kwanu, Evan Neil, even Charles Cross,
20:51
Speaker 1: like they all are all carried close grades. We're still
20:54
Speaker 1: trying to sort it out as we're trying to get
20:59
Speaker 1: him back for Yeah, he's moving on now. We're just
21:02
Speaker 1: trying to get him in the neighborhood. And I'm not
21:04
Speaker 1: trying to get him in the house yet. I got
21:06
Speaker 1: into April, I got to the April to get him
21:08
Speaker 1: in the house. I just got him in the neighborhood.
21:10
Speaker 1: We're behind the gated fan gated community. We're in the
21:12
Speaker 1: gated community, just in the house. Where does the Aidan
21:15
Speaker 1: Hutchinson fall in your you know, among those offensive lineman,
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Speaker 1: if you were in your board right now, Bucky Brooks
21:23
Speaker 1: big board after the combine is aiding up there amongst
21:28
Speaker 1: those tackles. He's your guy, right But yeah, he's a
21:33
Speaker 1: good guy man, He's he's everything that you want. But
21:36
Speaker 1: I would say this and have an opportunity to talk
21:39
Speaker 1: to all of those guys at the top. The only
21:41
Speaker 1: one I didn't talk to was Cross. I talked to
21:43
Speaker 1: Evan Neil, I talked to Ikey Kwanu, Aidan Hudsons, and
21:47
Speaker 1: I talk the Cavan tip up. All of them are
21:49
Speaker 1: fairly good, all of them are solid. All of them
21:51
Speaker 1: bring different things. The offensive lineman, Evan Neil and Ikey Kuano,
21:55
Speaker 1: they're very mature and serious about their approach. Uh Evan
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Speaker 1: Neil to me, it's kind of like the technician of
22:02
Speaker 1: the group. You kind of know what you're getting. You know,
22:05
Speaker 1: whatever car you want to do it. I know we
22:07
Speaker 1: don't have sponsorship for whatever, but I would say, like,
22:09
Speaker 1: it's just a solid car that is going to go
22:12
Speaker 1: because normally reference like a Honda camera, like, hey, you
22:15
Speaker 1: just putting the air run for two miles. Yeah, yeah,
22:18
Speaker 1: but I can't do that. So um like solid iky
22:22
Speaker 1: Kwana maybe have more upside than all of them, but
22:26
Speaker 1: he's a little more maller brawler type, and so there
22:28
Speaker 1: could be some growing pains that you experienced because he's
22:30
Speaker 1: not necessarily as refined as you want him. But what
22:34
Speaker 1: he brings is just a freakish athlete with outstanding u
22:39
Speaker 1: mala brawl of skills and a nasty temperament that I mean,
22:43
Speaker 1: he changes kind of the temperature and the climate of
22:45
Speaker 1: of your old line room when he steps in there.
22:48
Speaker 1: Aidan Hutchinson to me, is a mix of all those things.
22:50
Speaker 1: Like when I talked to him and some of his teammates,
22:53
Speaker 1: they just talked about how he was the point on
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Speaker 1: the sword. He's the unquestioned leader, is work ethic, is
23:00
Speaker 1: is look man is unmatched in terms of the way
23:03
Speaker 1: that he says, the tone, how he comes in the building,
23:05
Speaker 1: how he works, how he plays the every day he
23:07
Speaker 1: displays in between the lines and those things that said,
23:11
Speaker 1: there are some people that believe that he is what
23:13
Speaker 1: he is and he may not get better. To me,
23:16
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, at least I know what I'm getting.
23:17
Speaker 1: I'm getting a very very good player. And then Cabin
23:20
Speaker 1: Tiper though, is the wild card because look, by his
23:25
Speaker 1: own admission, he compared himself to Dadavian Clowney, which might
23:28
Speaker 1: not have been the best comparison to put out there,
23:30
Speaker 1: right and in terms of like the flashers skills, in
23:34
Speaker 1: terms of um those things. He later came back and
23:37
Speaker 1: told me the reason made the comparison was he was
23:39
Speaker 1: trying to best his numbers at the combine, not necessarily
23:42
Speaker 1: playing style. But when you hear some of the stuff
23:45
Speaker 1: about him and those things, people have wondered whether he'll
23:50
Speaker 1: play hard enough consistently, whether he's maybe more preoccupied with
23:55
Speaker 1: the brand and all of those things. That's it. He's
23:59
Speaker 1: a really smart player, he's a really athletic player, and
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Speaker 1: he is a known commodity in terms of what he
24:04
Speaker 1: was able to do on a big stage for three
24:06
Speaker 1: years at Oregon. Of those guys, I would say it
24:09
Speaker 1: the safest big to me would be Aidan Hudsonson, But
24:12
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24:14
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