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2nd joint practice w/ Falcons | Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, August 25 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: You know who's how many zs it takes to spell Brasselton,
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Speaker 1: j P. It's at least one. And welcome in. It's
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour and we're in Flowery Brands, just up
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Speaker 1: the road from brassels and Georgia at the Atlanta Falcons
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Speaker 1: facility j P. Shadrick with Jeff Blagman after the second
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Speaker 1: day of Jaguars Falcons joint practices preseason Week three coming
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Speaker 1: up this Saturday at Mercedes has been Citium in downtown Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: The Jags and the Falcons coming up. We'll discuss the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars playing time, or at least the idea for most
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Speaker 1: of the starters to not play in the game with
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Speaker 1: Jaguars analyst Jeff Blagman. Then at five o'clock the Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson Show, we'll hear plenty from the head coach from
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Speaker 1: earlier this week, including earlier today. And here we are logs.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know if I've seen a
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Speaker 1: Flowery Branch since we've been in Flowery Branch. Maybe that
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Speaker 1: great myrtle behind us here might be as about as
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Speaker 1: close as we get. But how are you? I'm done good?
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Speaker 1: And uh, this part of Georgia is awesome. I mean
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Speaker 1: it's beautiful. It's got rolling hills. The weather has been
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Speaker 1: perfect for two days of practice because you know, this
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Speaker 1: time of year up here it can be extremely hot.
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Speaker 1: And from the players standpoint, you couldn't have asked for
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Speaker 1: better overcast skies, uh with the threat of rain, but
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Speaker 1: it really never did rain. Uh went perfect situation and
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Speaker 1: and the best part about the two days as a
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Speaker 1: whole jp great work against an opponent that you you know,
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Speaker 1: or that is a different look for your offense and
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Speaker 1: your defense, and there was no fisticuffs or any extracurricular
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Speaker 1: stuff that can distract from the entire goal of the
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Speaker 1: whole thing, which is just getting better. The Falcons practice
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Speaker 1: last week against the New York Jets up there, and
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Speaker 1: now the second week in a row where they've had
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Speaker 1: another team to go against, and that was stated goal
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Speaker 1: of Doug Peterson, you know, talking to his team, Hey,
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Speaker 1: we're not going to do that stuff. We're here to
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Speaker 1: get some work done. They've got some guys coming back
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Speaker 1: on the field off injuries this week, so that was
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Speaker 1: a key to get those guys some work, keep those
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Speaker 1: guys healthy obviously, and then move forward into preseason Week three. Well,
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Speaker 1: and look, the Falcons had plenty of skirmishes when they
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Speaker 1: were practicing with the Jets up in New York. And
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Speaker 1: that's look, appreciate the direction of the head coach, Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson making sure that the focus on where on where
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Speaker 1: it needs to be. You want it to be high intensity.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the whole reason why you come and
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Speaker 1: practice against a different team, because when you're at home
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Speaker 1: practicing against let's me, and you see each other all
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Speaker 1: the time, right, and so the familiarity that wouldn't make
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Speaker 1: me particularly angry or raise my level of play against
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Speaker 1: you because I'm always dominating. Yeah, it's part of it,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know. But my point is is that
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Speaker 1: you know, the the intensity naturally goes up when you
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Speaker 1: face another team and in practice. And the other thing
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Speaker 1: is that there's a out here. I mean, it wasn't packed,
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Speaker 1: but the Falcons allowed some people in, and so when
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Speaker 1: people are watching, the natural thing is that you want
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Speaker 1: to make sure that your performance is good, and so
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Speaker 1: the intensity goes up, the focus goes up, the concentration
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Speaker 1: goes up, I mean all of those things, and I
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Speaker 1: think it makes for a better practice. And also because
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Speaker 1: you're facing. For example, look if I'm a pass rusher
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Speaker 1: and I'm facing Cam Robinson every day in practice, I'm
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen or Trayvon Walker. I'm only facing Cam Robinson.
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Speaker 1: I'm not facing a tackle that may have a different technique,
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Speaker 1: that may have a different body type. And so some
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Speaker 1: moves that work against Cam may not work against you know,
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Speaker 1: somebody else, and so you want to have the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to do different things and and so it just gives
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Speaker 1: you a different flavor and a different level of intensity,
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Speaker 1: and it is very productive in my opinion. And when
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Speaker 1: I when I was a young player, we used to
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Speaker 1: do it nearly every year, whether it was with the
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles or the Washington Redskins. And you know, of
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Speaker 1: course that's what there was their name at that time,
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Speaker 1: and that's it was great work. I loved it. As
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Speaker 1: Jeff Lagerman, I'm j. P. Shadrick at Jaguars Happy Hour
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Speaker 1: JP Shadrick at Logs five six. The right Tackle competition, well,
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Speaker 1: it's been hot for a while. It continued with the
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Speaker 1: practices here in Flowery Branch yesterday and today. Doug Peterson
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Speaker 1: this morning before practice, well this afternoon, it was an
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Speaker 1: afternoon practice. Was asked about the right tackle position where
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Speaker 1: it stands heading into this weekend. We'll here from Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson coming up. But yeah, it continues. They alternated pretty
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Speaker 1: much series yesterday, did a little of that today and
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson said, hey, they're gonna play in the game
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Speaker 1: on Saturday. Well, Walker Little did not finish practice today.
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Speaker 1: He was off to the side um with and he
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Speaker 1: was working with Will Richardson, who has a high ankle.
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Speaker 1: I believe it is or an ankle injury of some kind,
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Speaker 1: and so Walker Little is hurt. Now. I think they
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Speaker 1: expect him to maybe be able to play in a
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Speaker 1: couple of days. They were just I think taking him
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Speaker 1: out for precautionary reasons. But I think that position battle
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Speaker 1: is over, I do. I think John Taylor's is a
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Speaker 1: guy and Walker Little had a great opportunity, I mean
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Speaker 1: a great opportunity coming off the Hall of Fame game,
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Speaker 1: which he played very well. He had a great opportunity
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Speaker 1: to to supplant John Taylor with another strong performance the
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Speaker 1: next week against Cleveland what didn't happen. And in his
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Speaker 1: past game he didn't have a very strong game against
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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers, and then here against the Atlanta Falcons.
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Speaker 1: He's had some moments that weren't good. Not today because
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Speaker 1: like I said, he didn't finish practice, but yesterday weren't
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Speaker 1: that weren't particularly good. And so uh, it's disappointing that
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Speaker 1: because I expected Walker Little to compete at a higher
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Speaker 1: level for that job, to make it really hard for
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Speaker 1: the coaches, if not to supplant Juan Taylor, and it
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Speaker 1: didn't happen. Alright, So not at the end of the world,
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Speaker 1: though he's still he's still an important piece to what
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Speaker 1: this team can do if it's truly a done deal.
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Speaker 1: The best thing about this whole competition is that you've
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Speaker 1: made that position better. Okay, whether it's Joan Taylor that's
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Speaker 1: won it or if it ended up being Walker Little,
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Speaker 1: both of those guys have raised the level of play
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Speaker 1: of that position. And the reality is is that you'd
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Speaker 1: love to have a Joan Taylor that was self motivated
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Speaker 1: to get better over the last couple of years. But
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Speaker 1: the reality is he didn't have any competition, and sometimes
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Speaker 1: you gotta have a little push to get better. And uh,
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Speaker 1: and I think this year was really good for Joan
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Speaker 1: Taylor and he knew that he had to get better.
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Speaker 1: He's got a new offensive line coach. I thought his
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Speaker 1: performances have gotten better. There's still some things that Joanna
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Speaker 1: needs to clean up. You know. The penalties are always
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Speaker 1: an issue and have been an issue with Juan. Those
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Speaker 1: need to get cleaned up. And the reality is is
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Speaker 1: that the competition is never officially over. Okay, So if
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Speaker 1: Joan Taylor goes out in Week one in Washington and
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Speaker 1: doesn't play well, guess what happens. I mean, it depends
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Speaker 1: on how level that I'm not playing well reaches. But
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Speaker 1: if he doesn't play well, he won't keep that job.
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Speaker 1: But Walker little has got to get He's got to
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Speaker 1: get better. And he had a good week, like I said,
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Speaker 1: the first week, but he didn't build upon it, and
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Speaker 1: it's a lost opportunity on his part. That's it's part
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Speaker 1: of the growth process. Now. He hadn't played a lot
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Speaker 1: of football in a long time either. Let's continue in
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Speaker 1: the offensive line. We have some defensive talk coming up.
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Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd back in the practice field and spoke with
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Speaker 1: Ashelan Sullivan yesterday. We'll hear from him a little bit later.
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Speaker 1: We stay on the offensive line though, and that left
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Speaker 1: guard position, Ben Bartsch. The last week or so, it
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Speaker 1: has really been taking some reps there. But there's a
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Speaker 1: new man that has come in from a trade from
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Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers. Cole Van Landon has arrived. What
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Speaker 1: have you seen out of him so far? Has he
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Speaker 1: stood out at all the first couple of days after planes,
8:00
Speaker 1: trains and automobiles to get here. Well, first off, you
8:03
Speaker 1: gotta give him some credit because he gets traded and
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Speaker 1: then very little sleep, gets on a plane and gets
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Speaker 1: here and then essentially does a physical or early in
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Speaker 1: the morning, and I'll practice you go okay, And when
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Speaker 1: you're in that type of situation, it's you know, your
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Speaker 1: your new equipment, you probably got new cleats. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's very different and you're not comfortable because I'm sure
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Speaker 1: that he didn't travel with all of his Green Bay equipment, right.
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Speaker 1: But Col Van Landing was a seventh round pick last
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Speaker 1: year the Green Bay Packers. I believe it was or
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Speaker 1: late round pick last year. The Jaguars reportedly gave up
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Speaker 1: a seventh round pick for him and today in practice,
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Speaker 1: I watched the offense more today. He worked mostly at
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Speaker 1: right guard. I expect him at some point to maybe
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Speaker 1: even have an opportunity to play left guard. And if
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Speaker 1: Ben Bartch is not playing at a certain level, then look,
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Speaker 1: Cole van Landen, we'll have an opportunity to compete at
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Speaker 1: that left guard spot. But I like him. At college
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Speaker 1: he was a left tackle and uh a pretty good one.
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Speaker 1: And he's a guard in the NFL, though they look
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Speaker 1: at him as uh. The mindset for him is, look,
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Speaker 1: he's a guard and maybe in a pinch can play
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Speaker 1: some right tackle for you and not left tackle. And UH,
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Speaker 1: when you trade for a guy at this point and
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Speaker 1: you give up a draft pick, you can pretty much
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Speaker 1: say he's on the roster pretty much censure. You're not
9:24
Speaker 1: giving a draft pick up for a guy that uh
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Speaker 1: joined you for one week. You're not doing that. This
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Speaker 1: is they got confidence in him. They obviously have liked
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Speaker 1: his film and have been following him, and when given
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Speaker 1: the opportunity to trade for him, they did. And guard
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Speaker 1: has been a spot a little bit of concern for
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Speaker 1: them because you know, Shatley can play guard, but he's
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Speaker 1: not a natural guard. H Darryl Williams has kind of
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Speaker 1: been a journeyman. Nick Ford's a young player that probably
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Speaker 1: can end up on practice squad, but you'd like to
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Speaker 1: have a little bit more depth there. And then now
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Speaker 1: they got it. The guy in the middle of that
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Speaker 1: offensive line is a rookie and we tend to forget that.
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Speaker 1: I think here in training camp and Luke fort Ner
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Speaker 1: draft picked this year, who obviously came in with what
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Speaker 1: three different degrees out of college. He's got his head
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Speaker 1: on his shoulders, but his play is really kind of
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Speaker 1: stepping up to death to that as well. Anytime you
10:16
Speaker 1: talk about an offensive lineman and and it's not talking
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Speaker 1: about him because he's been making mistakes or he's been
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Speaker 1: getting beat. It's sometimes you can take it for granted
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Speaker 1: that the performances where it's at and and look, I
10:27
Speaker 1: love the performance of Luke Fortner. I think he's out
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Speaker 1: playing his draft status right now when he when he's playing,
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Speaker 1: he is, he's confident, he's aware, he's physical, he's getting
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Speaker 1: to the second level of the linebackers. He moves very
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Speaker 1: well for a center. There's a lot of things to like.
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Speaker 1: If you had to do a redraft, I think you'd
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Speaker 1: probably end up picking him in the second round instead
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Speaker 1: of the first. You know, pick the Jaguars ad in
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Speaker 1: the third round. That's how good I think he's been.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he literally he does not look look like
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Speaker 1: a rookie. And I was showing JP. You know, we
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Speaker 1: get this iPad film stuff here, and uh, we were
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Speaker 1: looking at a play that that happened yesterday. And he's
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Speaker 1: got a uh defensive tackle that shades on his on
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Speaker 1: his nose to the opposite side, a blitzing linebacker and
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Speaker 1: he helps out the guard on the other side and
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Speaker 1: then helps out the Dan Arnold who was lined up
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Speaker 1: as a fullback kind of thing. And it's like wow.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the awareness and the and the and the
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Speaker 1: calmness of of his play is impressive for a rookie.
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Speaker 1: He get his hands on three guys on one play.
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Speaker 1: He did three guys. It's pretty cool. Three guys impressive.
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Speaker 1: So that's a good start for him. We've got plenty
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Speaker 1: of head on Jaguars Happy Hour. We'll come back in
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Speaker 1: just a moment, and here from Devin Lloyd. He's been
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Speaker 1: back on the practice field this week and in good spirits.
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Speaker 1: A little Trevor Lawrence conversation coming up down the road
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Digital Network. I'm just building it back up, um slowly.
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Speaker 1: They're trying to ease me into the practices and he's
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Speaker 1: limiting my reps. But it was really good at strong,
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Speaker 1: stilling strength. Back up thy store right now as expected.
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Speaker 1: But I'll be ready to go Week one. That is
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Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd, the Jaguars linebacker for the Jacksonville Jaguars, and
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Speaker 1: Devin visiting with Ashlan Sullivan yesterday after practice and the
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Speaker 1: HDM of the team hotel. A little sore, but hey,
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Speaker 1: he was back out there today and Doug Peterson said,
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Speaker 1: get ready thirty three. You're going in the game on
12:41
Speaker 1: Saturday against the Falcons. About a quarter maybe. Yeah. I
12:43
Speaker 1: talked to him a little bit ago and he said
12:45
Speaker 1: that I asked him how the hamstring was doing. He
12:48
Speaker 1: said it was good, and and he said that he's
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Speaker 1: working his way in as far as the mental aspect
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Speaker 1: of it, but he didn't feel like that it was overwhelming.
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Speaker 1: So I mean that's that's a real positive because sometimes
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Speaker 1: of the mental part of it can be overwhelming. But
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Speaker 1: from what I understand and and everything that has been
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Speaker 1: scouted about Devin Lloyd, the intangibles and the mental cooity
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Speaker 1: is is incredible, and so I think he's gonna be
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Speaker 1: just fine. But the problem is that you need reps, okay,
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Speaker 1: and until you get those reps, you're gonna be a
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Speaker 1: little bit behind. And that's just natural. So he will
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Speaker 1: play and I think the expectation is to play about
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Speaker 1: a quarter for with him and UH, but I still
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Speaker 1: believe when they go to the first game of the season,
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Speaker 1: he may not be in the starting line up. It
13:34
Speaker 1: may be a situation where they have certain packages ready
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Speaker 1: for him to uh to gradually increase his exposure because
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Speaker 1: Chad Muma and Chad Quarterman have more reps and so
13:47
Speaker 1: there's a trust factor built in with the guys that
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Speaker 1: have had reps. But let me add to this and
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Speaker 1: that you know, watching Devin Lloyd a little bit in practice,
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Speaker 1: he's got some of the things that the other guys
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Speaker 1: just can't do. To say, if if he's got those
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Speaker 1: intangibles some things that they can't got the physical skills,
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Speaker 1: and you got to put them out there. Well you do,
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Speaker 1: but you can't expect him. And I know he said
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Speaker 1: he would be ready for for the opening game, but
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Speaker 1: to what level? And I think that that's a question
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Speaker 1: that the coaches are gonna have to manage as far
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Speaker 1: as the number of snaps that he gets and and
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Speaker 1: also the total number of plays that he gets exposed
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Speaker 1: to from a defensive standpoint. So I'm out here for
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Speaker 1: two days. We haven't seen him, of course in training
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Speaker 1: camp really you know some you know, individual period stuff
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Speaker 1: the week the last week or so. But seeing him
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Speaker 1: out here the last two days, what stands out the
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Speaker 1: most about his About Devon, He's just athletic. His athleticism
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Speaker 1: is off the chart. I mean seriously, you know, from
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Speaker 1: a blitz standpoint, how slippery he is, how he runs,
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Speaker 1: how he moves. You know, when you watch Chad Muma,
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Speaker 1: they're just two different type of players. I Mean, Chad's
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Speaker 1: like the old you know, three four big linebacker and
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Speaker 1: you know, and he and he and he moves kind
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Speaker 1: of like a linebacker a little bit, you know, whereas
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Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd. He almost when he moves, it's like is
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Speaker 1: he a running back a wide receiver. I mean, he's
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Speaker 1: just so fluid and and that's and that's fun to
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Speaker 1: watch because there's not many guys that have that fluidity
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Speaker 1: to him at that position. And and I would say
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Speaker 1: that he is a total new breed linebacker of what
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Speaker 1: the NFL game has become, because the NFL has become
15:31
Speaker 1: sixty five plus percent of three wide receiver sets and
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Speaker 1: nickel defense. And you need a linebacker that can run
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Speaker 1: and play in space. That's Devin Lloyd. But he can
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Speaker 1: do more than that. He can blitz, he can pass
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Speaker 1: rush and uh, and it's fun to watch him. And
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Speaker 1: so I'm I'm anxious and looking forward to seeing his
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Speaker 1: first action on Saturday afternoon. He had more sacks last
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Speaker 1: season than Trayvon Walker did. That's how they used him
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Speaker 1: at Utah. He's all around the football. He's making it
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Speaker 1: pag plays, he's blitzing, he's intercepting the ball, taking too
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Speaker 1: for touchdowns. I mean he's always there. Yeah, he does.
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Speaker 1: You know, he feels he's a he's a stat filler,
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Speaker 1: you know, every every category of stats that you can
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Speaker 1: have as a defensive player. Devin Lloyd is gonna have
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Speaker 1: a number in everyone. He's not gonna be without interceptions,
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Speaker 1: or without sacks, or without TFLs, tackle for losses for
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Speaker 1: I know you didn't know that trying to be you know,
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Speaker 1: appreciate the dumb it down a little bit for you
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Speaker 1: jays come to you to learn football. Yeah yeah, but
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Speaker 1: I mean that's kind of how how the type of
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Speaker 1: player that he is in and so I look forward
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Speaker 1: to seeing him play. Also, just a little note here,
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Speaker 1: you know some of the linebackers that the Jaguars have.
16:40
Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, we know the trail and
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Speaker 1: Walker is just a giant. You know, you see him,
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Speaker 1: and you see Josh Allen. By the way, Josh Allen,
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Speaker 1: we talked to him a little bit last night, Thank
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Speaker 1: you very much, Josh. He actually bought us a little
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Speaker 1: something something and but you know, he's such a wonderful
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Speaker 1: guy and it's and it's great to interact with him.
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Speaker 1: And he's asked him how much he was weighing. He's
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Speaker 1: two hundred sixty pounds now and that's as big as
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Speaker 1: he's ever been. And he looks great. And Josh has
17:07
Speaker 1: done a great job of taking a lot of these
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Speaker 1: guys under his wings, including Trayvon Walker and and other guys.
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Speaker 1: But you know the number of Georgia players that are
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Speaker 1: on these two teams, I mean, it's pretty good number
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Speaker 1: of them. And we always are amazed at how big
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Speaker 1: like a guy like Trayvon Walker is. And and I
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Speaker 1: was watching the end of practice yesterday, and you know
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Speaker 1: where I'm going with this, and Trayvon was hanging out
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Speaker 1: with one of these guys from the Falcons and I'm like,
17:32
Speaker 1: oh my god, who's that guy? Who's that guy? I mean,
17:35
Speaker 1: that guy looks like a bodybuilder, right, I mean he's,
17:37
Speaker 1: you know, all muscled up, big, I mean tall, like
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Speaker 1: holy cow. And and today I figured it out and
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Speaker 1: it's Lorenzo Carter. I guess it was. He's a fifth
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Speaker 1: year player out of Georgia. And I mean, I'm talking
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Speaker 1: a big dude, big dude. And uh so the Georgia
17:53
Speaker 1: guys were all kind of hanging out bond a little bit.
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Speaker 1: You know. Of course, Tyson Campbell's in that mix. But
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Speaker 1: but good to see. This is Jaguars Happy Hour j P.
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Speaker 1: Shadrick with Jeff Logan The Doug Peterson Show coming up
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Speaker 1: at five o'clock staying on linebackers. Another guy who has
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Speaker 1: spent his entire professional career in the state of Georgia
18:13
Speaker 1: until this year. He's now with Jacksonville. It's Foyer Leukin.
18:16
Speaker 1: He was with the Atlanta Falcons. Of course, spoke with
18:18
Speaker 1: the media here after practice today. You can catch that
18:22
Speaker 1: on Jaguars dot com. And a guy who built his
18:26
Speaker 1: reputation over the years different roles and then finally the
18:29
Speaker 1: last couple of years was a regular starter. We know
18:32
Speaker 1: the numbers in his last year in Atlanta. So there
18:34
Speaker 1: are a lot of people excited to see him back
18:36
Speaker 1: around here today after what he did the last couple
18:39
Speaker 1: of years for the Falcons. Well, and you can tell that. Look,
18:42
Speaker 1: the Falcons would have loved to have kept him, I think,
18:44
Speaker 1: but salary cap. You know, you've got to make some
18:46
Speaker 1: hard decisions, and the fact Falcons had to h and
18:50
Speaker 1: chose to address some of their cap issues head on,
18:54
Speaker 1: and we'll take their lumps and then continue to build
18:56
Speaker 1: this roster with the new general manager and head coach
18:58
Speaker 1: in place for very short period of time. That's fount No,
19:01
Speaker 1: Terry fault No the general manager, and Author Smith the
19:04
Speaker 1: head coach. But it was cool. And that after Foia
19:08
Speaker 1: Lucan dot got done with the interview here that you
19:11
Speaker 1: can see on Jaguars dot com, he did an interview
19:13
Speaker 1: with one of the local Atlanta the TV stations and
19:17
Speaker 1: as he was doing the interview, there goes author Smith
19:20
Speaker 1: and he's like, you know, talking to a foyer while
19:22
Speaker 1: he's doing the interview, and it's you know, and it's
19:24
Speaker 1: all healthy banner and and you could just tell the
19:27
Speaker 1: love for Foia Lucan here in Atlanta, and and the
19:30
Speaker 1: type of person he is, type of player that he
19:32
Speaker 1: was for the Atlanta Falcons, and that's good to see
19:35
Speaker 1: because you know, that's the kind of person that you
19:36
Speaker 1: were hoping you were gonna get and that's I think
19:38
Speaker 1: exactly what you got. Signed autographs right behind our tent
19:41
Speaker 1: here they are fans hanging out today and went over
19:44
Speaker 1: after his work and his adjustment period. I mean, look
19:47
Speaker 1: at the Jaguars have a new scheme and so there's
19:50
Speaker 1: an adjustment period for him, and and and the adjustment
19:53
Speaker 1: hasn't been flawless, you know, without some mistakes. And the
19:57
Speaker 1: Cleveland game, you know, he got a bootleg there first
19:59
Speaker 1: play the aime, you know, kind of mistake there, and
20:01
Speaker 1: so there's an adjustment period and I expect that for you.
20:05
Speaker 1: Just like most veteran players, he will pick it up.
20:08
Speaker 1: But it's not it's not he's not a you know,
20:11
Speaker 1: perfect linebacker ready to go ahead and just be a
20:14
Speaker 1: great player right out of the gate. I think there's
20:16
Speaker 1: gonna be an adjustment period with him as well, learning
20:19
Speaker 1: the new system. We're counting on him kind of being
20:21
Speaker 1: that rock in the middle that keeps everybody on the
20:24
Speaker 1: same page. And in a perfect world, JP, you would
20:26
Speaker 1: have with a with a new coordinator, you would love
20:29
Speaker 1: to have somebody that came from his program that knew
20:32
Speaker 1: the system, that would not have a big adjustment with
20:35
Speaker 1: that system, that can actually help be the coach on
20:38
Speaker 1: the field. And uh, and at some point Foyer will
20:42
Speaker 1: get to that point. You know. Look, he's a smart
20:44
Speaker 1: guy and he went to Yale. He didn't go to Alabama,
20:47
Speaker 1: so I mean he's an educated guy and he's smart
20:49
Speaker 1: and and uh and he's gonna get it quick. So
20:52
Speaker 1: that's a real positive. Yeah, good for him. Good for
20:56
Speaker 1: him that I deree it. I heard, Uh, that's Jeff
21:00
Speaker 1: Lagoano JP Shadrick. Alright, so you mentioned Trayvon Walker and
21:04
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. You know, the question now is you know
21:08
Speaker 1: how many of those outside guys do they keep? What
21:12
Speaker 1: do they keep? Who do they keep on this roster.
21:14
Speaker 1: That's something we have to watch in this game on
21:16
Speaker 1: Saturday against the Falcons. How deep do they go? What's
21:19
Speaker 1: your We're not cutting the team today, but we're talking
21:23
Speaker 1: about it. Look when you're getting ready to play the
21:28
Speaker 1: last preseason game, I mean, roster prediction is one of
21:32
Speaker 1: the topics that everybody wants to talk about because they
21:34
Speaker 1: cut it on Tuesday, officially Tuesday down to and uh
21:39
Speaker 1: and I think that's an interesting watching and we're talking
21:41
Speaker 1: about outside linebacker and I saw outside linebacker is gonna
21:44
Speaker 1: be interesting from the standpoint of you know, we know
21:46
Speaker 1: that Josh Allen and Trayvon Walker are gonna be there,
21:49
Speaker 1: and I expect Caleb and Chase on when that's a
21:52
Speaker 1: conversation in itself, but I expect him to be on
21:54
Speaker 1: the roster as well. And then once you get beyond that,
21:58
Speaker 1: I think like a Deshaun Dixon is a guy that's
22:00
Speaker 1: gonna end up on the practice squad. But now you're
22:04
Speaker 1: talking who's next? Okay, And from the standpoint of evaluating
22:09
Speaker 1: the preseason games, Jamir Jones has probably had the next
22:13
Speaker 1: best performance number forty. If you're watching on TV and
22:18
Speaker 1: his mom or family, mustard must member must have been here,
22:20
Speaker 1: because you don't get a forty Jaguars jersey and here
22:24
Speaker 1: in Atlanta a practice unless somebody's family, right. But you know,
22:29
Speaker 1: the thing that you have to factor in is that Smoot,
22:33
Speaker 1: Duan Smoot and arden Key can also have the positional
22:39
Speaker 1: flexibility to play as an outside linebacker. So are you
22:44
Speaker 1: counting on them to help you out at that outside
22:47
Speaker 1: linebacker position, maybe therefore being a little bit heavier at
22:51
Speaker 1: a different position. So that's I think it's gonna be
22:54
Speaker 1: an interesting watch. Pluty ahead on Jaguars Happy Hour, come
23:00
Speaker 1: back and discuss the quarterback Trevor Lawrence. How his week
23:05
Speaker 1: is gone and I've been watching him for the last
23:07
Speaker 1: thirty minutes and oh it looks looking better. We're gonna
23:09
Speaker 1: get some answers looking bet about his practices here about
23:13
Speaker 1: an hour's drive away from his hometown. Jaguars Game Day
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23:24
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Digital Network. Yeah, it was. It was great
23:35
Speaker 1: just getting to go up against different team. You know,
23:37
Speaker 1: it's so used to go against our guys. You see
23:39
Speaker 1: these the same looks, but also a lot of different stuff,
23:42
Speaker 1: you know, the defensive experiment and stuff on you. And
23:43
Speaker 1: then to come out here and really not do a
23:46
Speaker 1: whole lot of prep because you're coming here to just
23:48
Speaker 1: get some work in and just see different you know,
23:50
Speaker 1: structures and all that and have to adjust on the fly.
23:53
Speaker 1: You know, we have our base rules, but really putting
23:55
Speaker 1: them to the test and really challenges us just to communicate,
23:58
Speaker 1: especially up the front and then all the skill group
24:01
Speaker 1: and making sure we're on the same page. She had
24:02
Speaker 1: a bunch of different coverages than we're used to from
24:04
Speaker 1: our defense. So, um, it's good. You know, it challenges you. Um.
24:08
Speaker 1: I thought we had a great day to day. I
24:09
Speaker 1: thought we brought a lot of intensity and look sharp.
24:12
Speaker 1: So it's good. That's Trevor Lawrence, Jaguars quarterback yesterday after practice.
24:18
Speaker 1: Welcome back. It's Jaguars Happy Hour. We're at the Atlanta
24:21
Speaker 1: Falcons facility and Flowery Branch, Georgia. JP Shadrick with Jeff Flagman,
24:25
Speaker 1: our entire crew here on site. And back in Jacksonville,
24:28
Speaker 1: and we'll have the Doug Peterson Show at five o'clock
24:31
Speaker 1: today as well, from right here in this very same
24:34
Speaker 1: parking lot. Sit again right now, we're in a tent
24:37
Speaker 1: with folding chairs that are not very comfortable. By the way, Hey,
24:41
Speaker 1: it's part of it. It's training camp. It's almost over,
24:44
Speaker 1: and now it's out of the regular season here very soon.
24:46
Speaker 1: So the quarterback there, all right? So I keep getting
24:49
Speaker 1: through these interviews, and I keep getting asked, what's Trevor
24:52
Speaker 1: Lawrence look like? What's he how's he can he overcome
24:56
Speaker 1: all of last year and all these things? I think
24:59
Speaker 1: he's past all that. How's he looked to you in
25:02
Speaker 1: general in this training camp before we get to the
25:04
Speaker 1: last two days, like he said, justin like a young quarterback.
25:07
Speaker 1: And then he's got moments that you go, that's pretty good.
25:10
Speaker 1: And then you have moments you go, you know, you
25:12
Speaker 1: gotta be faster with your eyes, or hey, you gotta
25:14
Speaker 1: be more accurate at the ball. But the nice thing,
25:16
Speaker 1: whichever is at the command of the offense is there.
25:19
Speaker 1: You don't ever have issues with snap counts, fall starts,
25:23
Speaker 1: you know, having to start to play over because somebody's
25:25
Speaker 1: not lining up right, he's correcting, he's directing the traffic
25:29
Speaker 1: and and very aware of what the system is. But
25:32
Speaker 1: the experience of being in the system, you can tell
25:34
Speaker 1: is not quite there yet. Sometimes he's late with his eyes.
25:37
Speaker 1: Doug talked about that in the pregame interview with you
25:40
Speaker 1: last week j P about he wanted to have his
25:42
Speaker 1: eyes speed up a little bit. Would you see that
25:44
Speaker 1: in the game? I thought that there were moments that
25:47
Speaker 1: his eyes still needed to be sped off. And uh,
25:50
Speaker 1: but that's what that's what you're working for. I mean, look,
25:52
Speaker 1: you're not a you're not a final product, you know,
25:55
Speaker 1: going into the or finishing out of the three preseason games.
25:58
Speaker 1: It takes time. I mean, there's a lot of quarterbacks
26:01
Speaker 1: that were fortunate to have the same system for a
26:03
Speaker 1: very long period of time and there were great quarterbacks
26:05
Speaker 1: and hopefully Trevor can have the same type of success.
26:08
Speaker 1: But you've got to get him comfortable in the system,
26:11
Speaker 1: and then also the coaches need to get comfortable from
26:13
Speaker 1: the standpoint of knowing what he does best. And that's
26:16
Speaker 1: the whole process in and of itself. And I like
26:19
Speaker 1: the way he's working. He continues to work. I thought
26:23
Speaker 1: that so far from what I've seen, because yesterday I'm
26:25
Speaker 1: I watched mostly the defensive side of the ball, and
26:27
Speaker 1: they're on two different fields that you can't watch both
26:30
Speaker 1: and watch defensive. Now I'm watching Trevor on offense, and
26:32
Speaker 1: everything that I'm seeing so far has been his. He's
26:35
Speaker 1: he's speeding it up a little bit and that's what
26:38
Speaker 1: it takes. And and and the action that he got
26:41
Speaker 1: in the practice yesterday and then the action today is
26:44
Speaker 1: going to be essentially all the work that he's gonna
26:47
Speaker 1: get because we're not expecting to see many starters, if any,
26:51
Speaker 1: playing on Saturday afternoon, and he will not come close
26:55
Speaker 1: to anywhere between the lines. At least will be on
26:57
Speaker 1: the sideline of course helping everybody out, but he will
27:00
Speaker 1: not play in the game. There are some practices next week,
27:03
Speaker 1: but obviously probably a lighter tempo, I would guess. And
27:10
Speaker 1: I mean you can still, as if you're head coach
27:13
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson, you still I mean you can't. And that's
27:16
Speaker 1: the thing that I like about Doug Peterson. His mindset
27:19
Speaker 1: is that you're always continuing to work to get better
27:22
Speaker 1: and that it's a process, and that process doesn't end
27:25
Speaker 1: until you know, we start to reach who we want
27:27
Speaker 1: to be towards the end of the season. So he
27:29
Speaker 1: realizes that every hour that he has of being able
27:34
Speaker 1: to take his team on the football field, because all
27:36
Speaker 1: that is regulated by the collective bargaining agreement, It's not
27:39
Speaker 1: like you have a ton of opportunity. So when you
27:41
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to put him in pads and to
27:43
Speaker 1: get work done, you know, even though that you're getting
27:46
Speaker 1: ready to play your last preseason game, doesn't mean that
27:49
Speaker 1: you stop the work. I mean, it means that you
27:51
Speaker 1: maybe dial some things back, but you know, and Duct
27:54
Speaker 1: also talked about that, and because you got the two
27:57
Speaker 1: week window between you know, this last game that's come
28:00
Speaker 1: and up and then the opener, that they will use
28:03
Speaker 1: that opportunity to look at their first three opponents as
28:06
Speaker 1: a whole. But you still continue to work your craft,
28:10
Speaker 1: your techniques and and your assignment awareness of the system.
28:14
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28:31
Speaker 1: this weekend's game, this Saturday's game against the Falcons. C J. Bethard,
28:37
Speaker 1: as you said in the broadcast last week on radio,
28:40
Speaker 1: and just didn't look totally right when he was running around.
28:44
Speaker 1: Wasn't healthy. Doug Peterson then addressed that earlier this week,
28:47
Speaker 1: said the same thing. Jake Luton is back in the
28:50
Speaker 1: fold now he and Perry will most likely split the
28:53
Speaker 1: time Saturday against the Falcons. Yeah, because they're gonna hold
28:57
Speaker 1: c J. Beethord out because they want to to allow
29:00
Speaker 1: him to continue to get better. And that's a concern
29:03
Speaker 1: a little bit now. I mean, look, the reality is
29:06
Speaker 1: if you don't have your starting quarterback, you're not gonna
29:08
Speaker 1: be very good anyway in most instances. Well, this head
29:11
Speaker 1: coach won a Super Bowl with a backup quarter anybody
29:17
Speaker 1: would know the importance of a backup quarterback. It's Doug Peterson,
29:20
Speaker 1: but he was one and he won a Super Bowl.
29:22
Speaker 1: But it's disappointing from the standpoint of Okay, you already
29:26
Speaker 1: have you got two running backs that are coming back
29:28
Speaker 1: from an injury, and now you got a backup quarterback
29:30
Speaker 1: coming back from an injury. And he I mean, you'd
29:34
Speaker 1: like to have c J. Beethor showing the coaches what
29:37
Speaker 1: he can do to earn the trust, you know, their trust.
29:41
Speaker 1: And when we saw him against Pittsburgh, when he broke
29:44
Speaker 1: out of that pocket, it was like that, that's not healthy.
29:48
Speaker 1: And he had a pretty good I guess a growing
29:50
Speaker 1: strain going back to the very end of the o T,
29:53
Speaker 1: a minicamp, whatever it was, and we're talking about once
29:58
Speaker 1: you get to the open and that's about three months. Months.
30:01
Speaker 1: Three months is a long time to have an injury
30:04
Speaker 1: to continue to linger. So my question is a lot
30:07
Speaker 1: of people may assume that, Okay, well, they brought Jake
30:09
Speaker 1: Luton back just so that he could get through this
30:10
Speaker 1: game with another quarterback. Well, is that the case or
30:15
Speaker 1: are they worried maybe about the health of c J.
30:18
Speaker 1: Best Bethord going in the regular season. Are they worried
30:21
Speaker 1: about his performance? I don't know, I mean, but it's
30:24
Speaker 1: these are all valid questions. I think when you have
30:26
Speaker 1: a guy that's not healthy and then as if you're
30:29
Speaker 1: running this football team and coaching his football team, then
30:31
Speaker 1: you have to make sure that you're doing what's best
30:34
Speaker 1: for the football team and not what's best for c. J. Bethord.
30:38
Speaker 1: So that's something just to wash and you know, maybe
30:41
Speaker 1: he can be completely healthy and be ready to go
30:43
Speaker 1: for the season opener, but you have to prepare like
30:48
Speaker 1: he may not be based upon what you saw against
30:51
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and he's not playing this week, you might have
30:54
Speaker 1: to prepare for something else. We just had a military
30:57
Speaker 1: fly by here in Flowery Branch. I think some helicopters
31:00
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31:03
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31:09
Speaker 1: sports medicine provider of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Will note three
31:12
Speaker 1: names today. Fully, Photokasi had the calf issue last preseason game.
31:17
Speaker 1: He's been off to the side. I talked to him
31:20
Speaker 1: coming off today briefly, I said, how you do. How
31:22
Speaker 1: you doing? He's like, we're getting there and he expects
31:25
Speaker 1: to be ready, he said, but that yeah, that is
31:28
Speaker 1: a little bit of a concern. Well, and the reason
31:30
Speaker 1: that you're you're concerned, I think he's your your best
31:33
Speaker 1: defensive lineman and you brought him in to have a
31:36
Speaker 1: big role and he's gonna with you one of those big,
31:37
Speaker 1: powerful guys that can stop the run but also give
31:40
Speaker 1: you some push of the pocket. And from a pass
31:42
Speaker 1: rush standpoint, he can play the an end, he can
31:46
Speaker 1: play the nose in this defense, and you really don't
31:50
Speaker 1: have a whole lot of depth there. I think that's
31:52
Speaker 1: a position that the Jaguars will watch closely once the
31:55
Speaker 1: cuts start to come in, maybe picking up you know,
31:58
Speaker 1: whether it's a veteran guy or may be a young
32:00
Speaker 1: guy that they feel good about because you don't. I mean, look, JP,
32:05
Speaker 1: reality is fully Fotokosi, Devon Hamilton's and Roy Robertson Harris
32:10
Speaker 1: or You're you're starting guys. Who's your next big guy
32:13
Speaker 1: that you really trust? Yeah, Basis probably Gotsis just because
32:18
Speaker 1: you know he's been around a little bit and he's
32:20
Speaker 1: a veteran player. But then, do you have anything that
32:23
Speaker 1: you feel really good about other than that? I mean,
32:26
Speaker 1: Joe j to Fell, I mean, look, second year player
32:29
Speaker 1: was a fourth round pick. Last year has been kind
32:32
Speaker 1: of nondescript, unimpressive. We've mentioned earlier Smoot and Key and
32:37
Speaker 1: those guys can kind of go in there, but yeah,
32:40
Speaker 1: they're not They're not them. Those big guys. The immovable
32:43
Speaker 1: objects are the guys that can, you know, really kind
32:46
Speaker 1: of control the line of scrimmage. And and so if
32:49
Speaker 1: you can find another one of those guys, that would
32:51
Speaker 1: be nice, and you're gonna have to probably look elsewhere
32:53
Speaker 1: because I don't think you have it on the roster
32:55
Speaker 1: right now. And so if the Fatcazi thing, if he
32:58
Speaker 1: can't go, now you're really thin at that position. And
33:01
Speaker 1: then now it's like, Okay, I'm not saying you start panicking,
33:04
Speaker 1: but you start to go. We need to get serious
33:06
Speaker 1: and we need to find somebody that can fill that role.
33:09
Speaker 1: Another name on the list Will Richardson Jr. Off to
33:11
Speaker 1: the side. Still you mentioned, you know, he's been out
33:15
Speaker 1: for a little bit now with what an ankle issue. Um,
33:18
Speaker 1: so we'll see how long that lasts for him. He's
33:20
Speaker 1: been around here for a while. And then James Robinson
33:22
Speaker 1: still works and working his way back getting time and
33:24
Speaker 1: team eleven on eleven activity even here in Atlanta. Still
33:29
Speaker 1: has that orange jersey on. They've been trying to take
33:31
Speaker 1: it easy with him, the the Falcons even keeping clear
33:34
Speaker 1: for the most part of him. He had a yellow
33:35
Speaker 1: jersey on today, Okay, and so I don't know what
33:39
Speaker 1: that means. Well, with all these colors, all these designations
33:43
Speaker 1: red typically, I mean, think about it. It's like like
33:45
Speaker 1: stoplight red means stop, don't hit, don't touch, okay, all
33:48
Speaker 1: limits yellow means just just be cautious, okay when you're
33:52
Speaker 1: approaching them seriously. Because you could tell that the practice
33:56
Speaker 1: yesterday was a little different than the practice today. Yesterday
33:59
Speaker 1: he was kind of you know, a little bit, you know,
34:01
Speaker 1: stay away from him. But anyway, I think he's gonna
34:04
Speaker 1: be ready for the opener. Is he gonna be the
34:07
Speaker 1: one James Robinson of old? I don't think so, but
34:12
Speaker 1: I think he can still be pretty good and this
34:14
Speaker 1: is one of the and he's at the point now,
34:17
Speaker 1: I think, in the in the rehab process to where
34:19
Speaker 1: now you just need to play, and now when you play,
34:23
Speaker 1: you're going to continue to get better and then accomplish.
34:26
Speaker 1: You know, because if you try to put a number
34:27
Speaker 1: on the percentage that he is, I mean I if
34:29
Speaker 1: I had to do it, I'd say in the nineties somewhere,
34:33
Speaker 1: and so the last numbers of percent how do you
34:37
Speaker 1: how do you reach that? And I'll give you something
34:39
Speaker 1: similar when when I had my A C. L. Going
34:42
Speaker 1: back into the year, coming back the next year. You
34:47
Speaker 1: sometimes you had to to think about making that part
34:51
Speaker 1: of your body move, and so you're consciously trying to
34:55
Speaker 1: get pieces to work naturally. But it wasn't something that
34:59
Speaker 1: just happened. And then so you start to play and
35:02
Speaker 1: now you're working through the process and all of a sudden,
35:05
Speaker 1: you know, a month into it, I was like, you
35:06
Speaker 1: know what, I'm not even thinking about it. Everything's working
35:08
Speaker 1: better now. So it's uh, And I think that's gonna
35:11
Speaker 1: be the thing for James and hopefully he can be
35:13
Speaker 1: available because I think there's a little bit of a
35:15
Speaker 1: concern for depth at the running back position. And the
35:18
Speaker 1: good thing is that when he comes back, it's not
35:20
Speaker 1: like you're gonna be expecting him to carry the load
35:22
Speaker 1: and carry five times a game. You got Travis etn
35:25
Speaker 1: that's gonna be sharing that load. Uh. That sounds to
35:29
Speaker 1: me like a position where they could exercise that waiver
35:32
Speaker 1: position as well. Yeah, they could, and they like Snoop Connor. Uh,
35:38
Speaker 1: you know, because obviously he's a draft pick. Uh. To me,
35:41
Speaker 1: I think this is a little different system, I think
35:45
Speaker 1: than what would fit him the best. Snoop Connor is
35:48
Speaker 1: a is a big, powerful one cut back. This offense
35:52
Speaker 1: runs a little bit more zone where the running backs
35:55
Speaker 1: kind of stretch it and then picked the whole and
35:57
Speaker 1: that I don't think that that there's an adjustment area
36:00
Speaker 1: for Snoop Connor and it's not. It doesn't fit him
36:02
Speaker 1: just yet. Canny. Can he work his way into it?
36:05
Speaker 1: You hope so, because you know, you you've got some
36:08
Speaker 1: draft equity in that. But but right now it's just
36:11
Speaker 1: been kind of you know, if how's he looked way okay,
36:15
Speaker 1: you know, but I mean, look at the numbers, right,
36:17
Speaker 1: I mean, the numbers of of him rushing the football
36:21
Speaker 1: are are kind of are what they aren't Rock arm
36:23
Speaker 1: armstead Is numbers are just kind of and Rock doesn't
36:26
Speaker 1: make a whole lot of guys miss and Rocks had
36:29
Speaker 1: a lot of opportunity to shows Whears in the first
36:31
Speaker 1: couple of years of his career and really, you know,
36:33
Speaker 1: it hasn't been able to impress anybody to where they're like, wow,
36:36
Speaker 1: this guy's pretty good, you know. So I mean that's
36:40
Speaker 1: something that look, you, if you're a Jaguars fan and
36:43
Speaker 1: you're a Jaguars coach, you got your fingers crossed that
36:46
Speaker 1: that James Robbinson and Travis Etn are going to be
36:49
Speaker 1: available for you throughout the year. It's a scientific designation, okay,
36:55
Speaker 1: but I know what you meant exactly. It's perfectly. You know,
36:59
Speaker 1: there's different and there was like, you know, that's not good, okay,
37:03
Speaker 1: and then you got ain' not bad and you got yeah,
37:08
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. Right, let's take a good time about
37:11
Speaker 1: we'll come back some final thoughts ahead of this preseason
37:15
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37:18
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37:49
Speaker 1: It's Jaguars Happy Hour. J P. Shadrick with Jeff Flagman
37:53
Speaker 1: from Flowery Branch, Georgia, the home of the Atlanta Falcons
37:57
Speaker 1: facility and their training camp. But beauty, isn't it? Yeah?
38:02
Speaker 1: The the original billion and was built years ago and
38:06
Speaker 1: uh I don't remember that the exact year. Maybe you
38:08
Speaker 1: can pull up the history of it, but it was
38:11
Speaker 1: the building and then the fields, and then they added
38:14
Speaker 1: they have this whole dorm slash apartment facility on the
38:19
Speaker 1: far side that's actually on the so I think like acres,
38:23
Speaker 1: the grounds are considered here and they have enough housing
38:26
Speaker 1: there to literally house the entire team coaching staff and
38:29
Speaker 1: some other staff, which is incredible. And they actually used
38:33
Speaker 1: that for training camp and then they try to depart
38:35
Speaker 1: the dorms completely and about mid September, according to a
38:38
Speaker 1: team president Rich McKay I talked with yesterday about it.
38:41
Speaker 1: And then they expanded this facility and added more going
38:46
Speaker 1: to the west as the as we're looking at it.
38:49
Speaker 1: And then they built a complete indoor facility that's on
38:52
Speaker 1: a little lower level of terrain, and then they attached
38:56
Speaker 1: this um uh medical facility thing onto that. And now
39:02
Speaker 1: they're they're adding a whole new digital wing which is
39:06
Speaker 1: for the all the different elements that now have become
39:10
Speaker 1: in house broadcasting, I guess for the Atlanta Falcons. I mean,
39:13
Speaker 1: it's it's quite the facility now. It's it's right up
39:16
Speaker 1: there with the Minnesota Vikings and uh O, gosh, the
39:20
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks have an incredible facility. All the latest and
39:23
Speaker 1: grace facility the arms race has has reached the NFL,
39:26
Speaker 1: and this is one of the in terms of that
39:30
Speaker 1: Arms Races is one of the older of the arms race.
39:32
Speaker 1: I mean there's been here but almost twenty years, right,
39:34
Speaker 1: and this building has been constantly up there. I mean,
39:38
Speaker 1: if this doesn't look twenty or field twenty, have you
39:40
Speaker 1: ever been on the inside. When Mike Smith was the
39:43
Speaker 1: head coach here. I came and visited Smithy and uh,
39:47
Speaker 1: and he gave me the tour and everything, and it
39:48
Speaker 1: was great. I mean, and uh, it does. I mean
39:51
Speaker 1: it literally it looks like every year they're doing something
39:54
Speaker 1: to make sure that it's it's keeping up with the time,
39:57
Speaker 1: so to speak, because it isn't. It is a true
40:00
Speaker 1: incredible facility. And I will say that it is about
40:04
Speaker 1: a thirty to forty minute drive to the northern suburbs
40:08
Speaker 1: of Atlanta from here. You're up here a little bit. Yeah,
40:11
Speaker 1: you're out of here in Flowering Branch. You probably can
40:13
Speaker 1: get to we're uh, what's in the town to the
40:17
Speaker 1: west of here, or excuse me, to the east of
40:18
Speaker 1: here where the University of Georgia is at it would
40:21
Speaker 1: be Athens. Athens. You can get to Athens probably just
40:23
Speaker 1: as fast as you can to Atlanta. Yeah, I mean,
40:26
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of up here now, it's up kind
40:28
Speaker 1: of northeast and um, you know, so there you go.
40:31
Speaker 1: But it's it's nice, it's kind of up out of
40:33
Speaker 1: the way and you can just focus on business. Now.
40:36
Speaker 1: When they built here in what twenty years ago, there
40:38
Speaker 1: was nothing out here. It has grown up a lot
40:41
Speaker 1: since then, So there is the option. At least I
40:44
Speaker 1: can tell you if if you if they were thinking
40:48
Speaker 1: about building a facility somewhere in downtown Atlanta, can you
40:53
Speaker 1: imagine the number of tardies that you would have from
40:56
Speaker 1: people trying to get the facility with the Atlanta traffic
41:00
Speaker 1: and what it is? Tough, brutal, that's one brutal. At
41:03
Speaker 1: least out here you're going to opposite traffic the whole thing. So, uh,
41:06
Speaker 1: this Saturday, you'll get to battle some of the Atlanta
41:09
Speaker 1: traffic in for a clock kickoff at Mercedes has been
41:14
Speaker 1: Stadium in downtown Atlanta. The Jaguars and the Falcons preseason
41:17
Speaker 1: Week number three Jaguars starters, for the most part, are
41:21
Speaker 1: not expected to play. As Doug Peterson said earlier this week,
41:25
Speaker 1: you might see the right tackles and you'll probably see
41:28
Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd. Those would be about it. It sounds like
41:31
Speaker 1: it for the starters. Well, the real the reality of
41:33
Speaker 1: it is is that this is an evaluation game. You know,
41:37
Speaker 1: I'm sure that look, they know who their starters are.
41:40
Speaker 1: Those are the ones that probably aren't gonna be playing much.
41:42
Speaker 1: But you've got some decisions to make at the back
41:46
Speaker 1: end of your roster that you need to figure out.
41:49
Speaker 1: And this game presents an opportunity not only for for
41:53
Speaker 1: these players to make this team, but also to maybe
41:56
Speaker 1: make another team because teams are always watching this. Scouts
42:00
Speaker 1: are always watching. I was talking to Ethan Wade and
42:04
Speaker 1: Trent Balky and I would actually talk to Trent today
42:07
Speaker 1: a little bit, and I said, you know, do you
42:09
Speaker 1: get your work out in this morning? Because now watching
42:11
Speaker 1: film of other teams, you know, and seeing what you know,
42:13
Speaker 1: maybe we think maybe available. And that's what what you
42:16
Speaker 1: have to do. So and as you're the mindset, if
42:18
Speaker 1: you're a player, is is that this is a great
42:20
Speaker 1: opportunity and maybe the last opportunity for me to impress
42:24
Speaker 1: upon this staff to either make the active roster, make
42:27
Speaker 1: the practice squad, but if not, then to be able
42:30
Speaker 1: to make somebody else's roster or practice squad, and then
42:33
Speaker 1: if not that to at least impress enough that you
42:37
Speaker 1: are on what I call the shortlist. And the shortlist
42:41
Speaker 1: is that, Okay, if you don't make any of those
42:43
Speaker 1: practice squad active roster here or there or any other team,
42:46
Speaker 1: then you're on as many people's shortlist that if they
42:50
Speaker 1: have an injury and now they elevate somebody off a
42:52
Speaker 1: practice squad, that maybe that person could be drawn back
42:54
Speaker 1: to a practice squad to take the place of somebody
42:57
Speaker 1: else because injuries happened in the league. So uh, there's
43:00
Speaker 1: a lot at steak for a lot of these young
43:02
Speaker 1: men and and unfortunately their dream per summer is gonna end.
43:06
Speaker 1: But that's that's that's the way that this league goes
43:10
Speaker 1: NFL not for long and about. There are some other
43:13
Speaker 1: leagues now as well. The guys can kind of stay
43:16
Speaker 1: in it from the XFL is here yesterday I saw
43:20
Speaker 1: and then yeah, that's just what CFL guys come out
43:23
Speaker 1: to these as well. I mean see, there are options
43:25
Speaker 1: for other, uh kinds of football, not as obviously wants.
43:29
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to get back and play in the NFL.
43:31
Speaker 1: But the shortlist point is a good one for sure. Now,
43:34
Speaker 1: obviously in this game, to make a roster, especially in
43:37
Speaker 1: the bottom third of it, you're gonna have to play
43:40
Speaker 1: special teams and that will be a huge focus. I
43:42
Speaker 1: think this weekend. I got got taught a lesson a
43:45
Speaker 1: long time ago when James shack Harris, who was the
43:48
Speaker 1: former general manager of the Jaguars when they drafted Matt
43:52
Speaker 1: Jones and a couple other guys and and he taught
43:56
Speaker 1: me less and he said, you know, when you when
43:57
Speaker 1: you're trying to figure out your fifty three, you have
44:00
Speaker 1: to figure out who can you get active on game
44:03
Speaker 1: day because there's so many different roles that are that
44:05
Speaker 1: are out there. Not give any example. Running backs, Okay,
44:09
Speaker 1: your third running back, okay, is he gonna be active
44:12
Speaker 1: on game day? M hm yeah, because says, okay, your
44:17
Speaker 1: third best running back is gonna be active on game right? No, no, no,
44:22
Speaker 1: Because your third best running back is your third best
44:25
Speaker 1: running back, he may not be your best special teams
44:28
Speaker 1: So your your third running back that's gonna be active
44:31
Speaker 1: is not your third best running back. He's the best
44:34
Speaker 1: special teamer that's not the first and second running back,
44:37
Speaker 1: you know, So it doesn't necessarily mean that you're trying
44:39
Speaker 1: to keep the best players that are at each position.
44:41
Speaker 1: You're trying to keep the best players that are gonna
44:43
Speaker 1: be asked to do the role on game day if
44:45
Speaker 1: they're gonna be active. So for a fourth linebacker, you're
44:50
Speaker 1: not looking for a guy that might be awesome if
44:52
Speaker 1: he has to play in invent of an injury with
44:55
Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd or Muma or or Luken. You're you're looking
44:58
Speaker 1: for a guy that can ball out on special teams.
45:01
Speaker 1: And safety is very similar. Sometimes you may not keep
45:04
Speaker 1: the best safety that the guy that can play defense.
45:07
Speaker 1: You might keep the guy that can play safety, but
45:10
Speaker 1: he's the best guy that you got on special teams.
45:13
Speaker 1: And so special teams are a big factor because those
45:15
Speaker 1: are the decisions that you're gonna make about whether that
45:18
Speaker 1: player can make this team because he's got to be
45:21
Speaker 1: able to find a way to be active on game day.
45:23
Speaker 1: Rudy Ford is one of those guys. Right. Well, there's
45:26
Speaker 1: there's a couple of that safety position now, you know,
45:28
Speaker 1: because your top two guys ray Sean Jenkins and and
45:30
Speaker 1: Andre Cisco hands down, right, I mean two best safeties
45:34
Speaker 1: you've got, and then your next guy in might be
45:36
Speaker 1: Andrew Winger. Okay, but there's some other guys that are
45:39
Speaker 1: really good at safety. Rudy Ford Daniel Thomas are really
45:42
Speaker 1: good special teams players, you know, and Winger is an
45:44
Speaker 1: excellent special teams player. So and then also Brandon Russknack
45:49
Speaker 1: is a guy that's very good on special teams and
45:51
Speaker 1: pretty solid at safety. That's a position I think that's
45:54
Speaker 1: gonna be highly competitive and might be a little bit
45:57
Speaker 1: heavy as far as numbers go, because those guys are
46:01
Speaker 1: all pretty good on special teams. You gotta be wired
46:04
Speaker 1: a little bit different to go run down the field
46:06
Speaker 1: as a gunner on the special teams unit. Sometimes if
46:09
Speaker 1: you're a safety like that, and um, you know, yeah,
46:13
Speaker 1: wired differently, but still have that skill set and your
46:16
Speaker 1: head about you to go execute that plan well. Special
46:18
Speaker 1: team of farts quickly. Special teams used to be filled
46:22
Speaker 1: by the linebacking group. Um, I mean a ton of
46:25
Speaker 1: linebackers played special teams. Special teams has more just as
46:29
Speaker 1: the game has changed to it's more of a passing league.
46:32
Speaker 1: Special teams has lost size over the last number of
46:36
Speaker 1: years because the speed component is that much more important.
46:40
Speaker 1: So your defensive backs, your wide receivers, your safeties, you're
46:45
Speaker 1: running backs. Those guys are all playing or have played
46:48
Speaker 1: more of a prominent role on filling out the special
46:52
Speaker 1: needs category than linebackers or tight ends out. Now, don't
46:56
Speaker 1: get me wrong. Linebackers still a critical position for special teams,
46:59
Speaker 1: but it's changed a little bit over the last number
47:02
Speaker 1: of years. Special teams has gotten smaller and faster, smaller, faster, quicker.
47:07
Speaker 1: It's all about speed, speed, speed, That's right, that's Jeff.
47:13
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to be fast like JP. Uh not everybody
47:17
Speaker 1: can be though. Um that's Jeff Logerman. I'm JP Shatrick.
47:20
Speaker 1: It's Jaguars Happy. Are coming up in just a few moments.
47:23
Speaker 1: It's the Doug Peterson Show. We'll hear plenty from the
47:25
Speaker 1: head coach. Won't be live with us this week, those
47:28
Speaker 1: plans are in the works moving ahead though, for the
47:30
Speaker 1: regular season. Will hear from Doug Peterson throughout the week.
47:35
Speaker 1: He spoke right before the trip to Atlanta, and then
47:37
Speaker 1: he spoke again this morning and updated some of the situations.
47:43
Speaker 1: Of course, after the first practice against the Falcons yesterday,
47:47
Speaker 1: the Devin Lloyd situation the right tackle spot was of
47:51
Speaker 1: note today. So he seems like he's in a pretty
47:54
Speaker 1: good place too. He always kind of seems like he's
47:56
Speaker 1: in a pretty good place because he's been I love him.
47:59
Speaker 1: I love the way he handles his business. I like
48:03
Speaker 1: the way he handles the players. It's been very impressive
48:06
Speaker 1: to me. And the way he has kind of controlled
48:09
Speaker 1: the narrative with his football team, how he's helped his
48:12
Speaker 1: football team hell from last year, and uh, he's changing
48:16
Speaker 1: the mindset, he's helping build a real positive culture. I mean,
48:19
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things I can tell you. Jaguar
48:21
Speaker 1: fans feel good about your coach because you got a
48:23
Speaker 1: really good one. And obviously he's been to the Promised Land,
48:26
Speaker 1: so you you you know that he can take a
48:29
Speaker 1: team there and hopefully they can build and establish really
48:34
Speaker 1: good football players for him and his staff to coach
48:36
Speaker 1: and give them the best chance of winning. And he's
48:38
Speaker 1: not scared to tell you that it is a process.
48:41
Speaker 1: It takes time to build an organization. They might have
48:43
Speaker 1: the frontline guys they like now, but it takes some
48:46
Speaker 1: time to work on that depth and and work on
48:48
Speaker 1: a long term plan for your organization. And he's not
48:51
Speaker 1: you know, he he's done it before, so he's not
48:54
Speaker 1: scared to go out and tell you the way it's
48:56
Speaker 1: should be built. And then it should take a little
48:58
Speaker 1: bit of time. And I talked with after this practice
49:01
Speaker 1: today a little bit and uh, and he was very
49:04
Speaker 1: happy with the work that they were able to get
49:06
Speaker 1: in and and very pleased with the progress that they've made.
49:09
Speaker 1: And and that's a real good thing. I mean, you
49:12
Speaker 1: come up here to obtain some objectives and when you
49:15
Speaker 1: when you do, you're like, all right, mission accomplished. Still
49:18
Speaker 1: still not done. Those still things to do. All right.
49:20
Speaker 1: That'll do it for Jaguars Happy Hour Coming up in
49:23
Speaker 1: less than a minute, it is the Doug Peterson Show
49:26
Speaker 1: on the Jaguars Radio Network. Will hear plenty from the
49:29
Speaker 1: Jaguars head coach from his last couple of media availabilities
49:33
Speaker 1: here in Flowery Branch, Georgia, from the Atlanta Falcons facility
49:39
Speaker 1: and training camp ahead of this preseason Week three game
49:41
Speaker 1: coming up Saturday, the Jaguars faced the Atlanta Falcons, Joe Fortunado,
49:46
Speaker 1: Brent Reaber, Dave de Candice, our entire crew back in
49:49
Speaker 1: Jacksonville as well for Jeff Logerman, I'm J P. Shadrick.
49:53
Speaker 1: That's it for Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network.