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Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, May 12 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, May twelve. This is Jaguars Happy Hour
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Speaker 1: and now a guy who's hoping. Our road games include Hawaii,
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Speaker 1: Puerto Rico, Tahiti and Trustville, Alabama. J Peace shad Welcome in.
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Speaker 1: It is Jaguars Happy Hour the Thursday afternoon. My name
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Speaker 1: is J. P. Shadrick. We have a busy show ahead
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Speaker 1: of us tonight. Jeff Flagman Jaguars analysts with us a
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Speaker 1: rookie mini camp preview. The rookies are arriving today. They'll
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Speaker 1: be on the field tomorrow and Saturday inside the bank.
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Speaker 1: What to expect for the rookies and the first time
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Speaker 1: around here the schedule release tonight. You might have heard
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Speaker 1: eight o'clock tonight NFL Network and Jaguars dot Com for
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Speaker 1: that matter, schedule release. We'll have instant reaction coming up tonight.
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Speaker 1: We'll go around the NFL as well as I'm breaking
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Speaker 1: news out of Denver today with a wider Seaver. Not
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Speaker 1: not good news for Jerry. Judy will get to that
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Speaker 1: coming up, but don't really know why it's not good
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Speaker 1: news yet. It's that early in the process. Jeff Lockman
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Speaker 1: is never in trouble. How are you? I'm doing good
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Speaker 1: how's your vacation. It's good. It was nice little get
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Speaker 1: away in Alabama. Back. Yeah, that's right, Alabama. But by
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Speaker 1: the way Joe's list of home games, it wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: a bad schedule. I was thinking Costa Rica would be
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Speaker 1: nice to foot in. The football games will get in
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Speaker 1: the way. Maybe Illinois, you know, let's have a game
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Speaker 1: in Illinois about you know, first or second week of November,
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Speaker 1: you know, sometime or there, you know, and it just
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Speaker 1: has to be a lot of big deer. Why I
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Speaker 1: was okay, Yeah, I figured there was a catch somebody. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: or Iowa, you know, is there a protein in Iowa?
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Speaker 1: Let's make one. You and Brandon Sheriff would love that
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Speaker 1: trip for sure. Hey, Sheriff would have us lined up,
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Speaker 1: he wouldn't He would have us lined up pretty good,
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Speaker 1: I bet I think so. So we'll find out tonight,
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Speaker 1: you know, eight o'clock. Oh you know, the teams are playing.
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Speaker 1: It's just no matter when the games are. And there
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Speaker 1: was only one that's been announced. That's the London game obviously,
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Speaker 1: the Broncos and the Jaguars October. Right then. There's been
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Speaker 1: a few a few leaks here and there about some
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Speaker 1: games not not the Jaguars, but just games around the
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Speaker 1: league and uh, and some of the expectations there. And
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Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting and that there was an
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Speaker 1: article that was written recently that talked about how the
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Speaker 1: schedule kind of got put in a little bit of
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Speaker 1: a cluster fudge because of the unretirement of Tom Brady. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I mean I think that's pretty wild, right, how they
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Speaker 1: had right, I think they had it almost ready and
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Speaker 1: then Tom, just Tom, like I know him, Brady decided
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Speaker 1: it's uh, he decides to retire, like, oh, we gotta
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Speaker 1: redo the whole league schedule now. But I mean, here's
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Speaker 1: the reality. He's worth. He's worth the time and the
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Speaker 1: effort of making the schedule read on or or to
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Speaker 1: get it right. If I'm an executive at CBS or
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Speaker 1: Fox and I realized they didn't redo the schedule as three,
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Speaker 1: I would have been, well, really use Fox mainly would
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Speaker 1: be very upset. Fox because Sunday Night Game correct them correct.
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Speaker 1: But Fox because they want to make sure that they
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Speaker 1: can highlight their up and coming broadcaster. Who's gonna have
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Speaker 1: a ten year or three million dollar contract? That's awesome?
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Speaker 1: How about that guy? The guys lined up for a
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Speaker 1: broadcasting contract before his playing career is even over. That's that. No,
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Speaker 1: no quarterback I don't think has ever had, or any
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Speaker 1: player has ever had an opportunity like what's being presented
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Speaker 1: to Tom Brady to be able to leave the game
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Speaker 1: and to make way way more money than he's ever
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Speaker 1: made as an NFL player, averaging thirty seven and a
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Speaker 1: half million dollars a year. I mean, it's awesome, it's good.
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Speaker 1: I mean it's awesome, but it's it just goes to
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Speaker 1: show you the power of Tom Brady. Joe Fortunato, Hello,
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Speaker 1: I just wonder if that thirty seven million dollars a
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Speaker 1: year will put him ahead of his wife. No, I
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Speaker 1: think he's got a long way Togo. Absolutely not. No,
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Speaker 1: it's not even it's all the same family though. Yeah, no, No,
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Speaker 1: But it's cool. I mean, I'm happy for him, and
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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna do great out just because it's
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Speaker 1: it's Tom Brady, and he works incredibly hard at everything
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Speaker 1: that he does. A little more on the schedule, least
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Speaker 1: tonight again eight o'clock NFL Network, Our special here at
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Speaker 1: eight o'clock on Jaguars dot Com. The Jack's social channels
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Speaker 1: as well Jaguars, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. What do you
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Speaker 1: look for first when the schedule can? I really want
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Speaker 1: to know. That's why I asked the question, what do
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Speaker 1: you first look for? Uh? Well, A couple of things, umum.
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Speaker 1: First of all, I look at it from a competitive standpoint. Okay,
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Speaker 1: how how good of a start can the Jaguars get
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Speaker 1: out to early first month? Because you want to be
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Speaker 1: able to build momentum. So I look at for the
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Speaker 1: first month in September, you find out, Okay, what's going on?
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Speaker 1: I look at the key holidays? Just from a family standpoint, Okay,
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Speaker 1: what's happening for Christmas? What's happening for Thanksgiving? Where are
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Speaker 1: we that week? Um? New Year's Okay, what's happening there?
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Speaker 1: What's happening around my son's birthday? What's happening around uh
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Speaker 1: dear season? Okay? So when you know we know when
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Speaker 1: the when the trip to London is, which is I
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Speaker 1: believe the game is gonna be played on the So
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Speaker 1: is the bye week gonna happen the week after? Like
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Speaker 1: what has happened in the past? Will it happen sooner?
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Speaker 1: Will it happen later? I mean, that's all kind of
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Speaker 1: from a timing standpoint, because I mean, for you know,
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Speaker 1: for our bye week, we get some time off and
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Speaker 1: that's you know, an opportunity to get away a little bit.
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Speaker 1: So I mean, yeah, I mean there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: things that you look at. I also look at it
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Speaker 1: from the standpoint of JP. Are we going to Nashville
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Speaker 1: in November when we get to see the leave color change?
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Speaker 1: Are we going to Boston or a cold weather place
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Speaker 1: in December? Seriously, I mean, those are all the things
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Speaker 1: that you look at when you when you look at
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Speaker 1: the schedule, and then what what kind of restaurants are
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Speaker 1: in the city that we're gonna be Let's get serious.
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Speaker 1: I hate to say that, but we're foodies. That's what
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Speaker 1: it's about. From a player's perspective, you're obviously kind of
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Speaker 1: looking early to get that momentum, and then that bye
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Speaker 1: week is key so you can kind of get your
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Speaker 1: body going and run. And I say, I don't think that.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that. The only thing that the players
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Speaker 1: care about when it comes to the bye week, I
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Speaker 1: think is the proximity of when it's gonna happen. I
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Speaker 1: don't think they care whether it's week eight, nine, ten, eleven,
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Speaker 1: as long as it's somewhere in the middle of the
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Speaker 1: season of the season. If it happens incredibly early, the
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Speaker 1: players will be highly disappointed. And so that's the only
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Speaker 1: thing that I think players look at from that standpoint
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Speaker 1: from the bye week. But the players definitely look at
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Speaker 1: the teams that they're gonna play early in the schedule.
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Speaker 1: As far as the momentum building games that I talked about,
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Speaker 1: they also look at the cold weather games. Okay, late
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Speaker 1: in the season. Are you going to Green Bay in December?
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Speaker 1: Are you going to Buffalo in December. I'm just throwing
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Speaker 1: out places that typically can be very cold. Um when
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Speaker 1: you are a northern climate team, you looked and saw like,
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Speaker 1: for example, if you're playing the same division as the
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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, if you're the New York Jets, are you
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Speaker 1: going to see them at their place in December? Because Okay,
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Speaker 1: you're acclimated to the cold in December. You don't want
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Speaker 1: to go down and play in Miami in December. You'd
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Speaker 1: rather go to Miami in September because you're used to
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Speaker 1: the to the heat exactly. So I mean, from a
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Speaker 1: from a player standpoint, I think those are the things
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Speaker 1: that are in point also the division games where they fall,
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Speaker 1: and we've seen now that the league has gone towards
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Speaker 1: having a lot of division games built up at the
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Speaker 1: back end of the schedule to make things obviously very
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Speaker 1: important when it comes to playoff implications. Now, over the
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Speaker 1: at least the recent history last decade or so, the
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Speaker 1: jaguar Is really haven't had to worry about this. But
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Speaker 1: the prime time games. How many prime time games that
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Speaker 1: the last time the jack Bards were on Monday Night
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Speaker 1: football was twenty eleven. The last time they were on
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Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football was two thousand eight. It's been a while.
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Speaker 1: You have to perform well, obviously on the field for
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Speaker 1: a number of years to get that recognition, to get
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Speaker 1: those eyeballs on you, and you know it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: tough too. They've had Thursday night games obviously, they rotate
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Speaker 1: those around. Uh that could be expected a game when
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Speaker 1: you when you play for a team like Jacksonville and
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Speaker 1: you haven't been very good lately, you're hoping that you
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Speaker 1: may end up getting one national game besides a typical
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Speaker 1: Thursday game, because you know you're gonna have a Thursday game.
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Speaker 1: Everybody has to play Thursday game, and so will that
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Speaker 1: be the only national exposure or might you get a
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Speaker 1: Monday night game. The chances of getting a Sunday night
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Speaker 1: game for this football team are nil. I mean, unless
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Speaker 1: you're winning ten games late in the year and they
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Speaker 1: flex you in. You know, that's the only way. They're
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Speaker 1: not gonna be on the schedule or in the season.
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Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen. And so they were on the schedule,
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Speaker 1: I think an eight team, but they got the boot,
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Speaker 1: got the boot, see you later. But the expectation to
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Speaker 1: even make a Monday night game, I think it would
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Speaker 1: be I think maybe far exceeding the expectations. I mean
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Speaker 1: that this football team has been good and picked number
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Speaker 1: one overall for the last two years. So if anybody's
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Speaker 1: expecting to have Monday night exposure, I mean, no, that's
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Speaker 1: not gonna happen. I think it would be shocking if
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Speaker 1: it happens now. Typically, and in the past, you've seen
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Speaker 1: some teams that played poor team on Monday night or
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Speaker 1: viewed as a poor team on Monday night just because
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Speaker 1: it was you know, the other team was really good. Um,
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Speaker 1: could that happen maybe, but I don't expect it. I
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Speaker 1: don't expect it with this especially because of the extended schedule.
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Speaker 1: So now they Monday night has more opportunities to get
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Speaker 1: more matchup, better matchup, and I just I don't think
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Speaker 1: that will happen. Look, you gotta start winning ball games
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Speaker 1: to get to get the expectations of Okay, are we
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Speaker 1: gonna have a national TV game? And and it's not
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Speaker 1: a matter of all or it's disrespect. No, it's not disrespect.
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Speaker 1: It's a matter of not playing. Well. Yeah, you're not
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Speaker 1: playing you're not playing good enough football, not nearly good
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Speaker 1: enough of you're catering to a national audience at that point,
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Speaker 1: and a team that's not winning is not going to
10:25
Speaker 1: cater to that audience. That's how it works. Yeah, So
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it's gonna be interesting. And
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Speaker 1: to you know, you lose the the home game opportunity here,
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Speaker 1: the one that goes to London where you're playing the
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Speaker 1: Denver Broncos. So you still have um what seven games
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Speaker 1: left okay to be able to play here at home,
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Speaker 1: not not eight seven seven because the one in London
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Speaker 1: is the eighth. So here are the seven opponents coming
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Speaker 1: to Jacksonville this year that's already been out there obviously,
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Speaker 1: so the Titans, Occults, the Texans, of course, the Raiders,
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Speaker 1: the Giants and the Ravens are coming to Jacksonville and
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys too. But which is Uh, Cowboys are gonna
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Speaker 1: be a big draw, The Giants are gonna be a
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Speaker 1: big draw. Um the Ravens I think will be a
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Speaker 1: big draw. When I say big draw from from within
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Speaker 1: the market and from from outside the market. As far
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Speaker 1: as selling tickets, the ones that I think that are
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Speaker 1: always going to be difficult are the ones that are
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Speaker 1: in the division Tennessee in Indianapolis. So you you hope
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Speaker 1: that you get a favorable slot for those games from
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Speaker 1: a ticketing standpoint and just from a competitive standpoint. I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's a tough home schedule. The Ravens are a pretty
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Speaker 1: good football team. They just missed last year. Raiders got
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Speaker 1: in last year. The Cowboys are always knocking on the door.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the Titans are the Titans, you know that.
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Speaker 1: I mean that is that can be a difficult run.
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Speaker 1: And then the road schedule, you gotta go to the
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Speaker 1: other side of the a f C West. Also, you're
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Speaker 1: going to Kansas City, and I mean it is and
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Speaker 1: in l A the Chargers, that whole division is is
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Speaker 1: on the schedule this year, it's well, it's going to
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Speaker 1: going to l A to play the Chargers. I don't
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Speaker 1: think it's not like it's We're not talking about a
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Speaker 1: hostile environment. It's just a good football, good football team
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Speaker 1: with a good quarterback that had some some great offseason
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Speaker 1: acquisitions and trades that they were able to make. So
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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a tough match up there.
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Speaker 1: Kansas City. That's a hostile environment now, and that's Patrick
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Speaker 1: Mahomes uh uh Andy Reid. That's about us as if
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Speaker 1: somebody wanted to take and then just throwing us out there,
12:32
Speaker 1: if there's a Jaguars fan that was sitting there going
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Speaker 1: you know what, I really would like to maybe once
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Speaker 1: the schedule comes out, take a good look at it
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Speaker 1: and and make a road trip for me out of
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Speaker 1: and read the road games off again real quick, which
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Speaker 1: and with not the division ones, because Nashville is always
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Speaker 1: the place to go to within the division. Indianapolis has
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Speaker 1: got a good downtown. But if there's some fans that
12:57
Speaker 1: are looking at maybe going to another game in another
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Speaker 1: market with the road games. So you mentioned Kansas City,
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Speaker 1: and then the Jags are in Detroit as well, not
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Speaker 1: a place to go to. It's indoors. You know, you
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Speaker 1: got that going for you. Um, it's about all this
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Speaker 1: going they got at the jets. Um. I mean, first
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Speaker 1: of all, if you if you want to go to
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Speaker 1: the city, that's a great place. But you're not near
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Speaker 1: the city when you're at the stadium. Okay, you're still
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Speaker 1: a pretty pretty good jump away. Keep going Washington, Um,
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Speaker 1: Washington is out in the middle of nowhere. Land, Maryland.
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Speaker 1: You can stay in Baltimore, you can stay in d C.
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Speaker 1: And so really, I mean it's it's I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: be serious here and that there are a lot of
13:40
Speaker 1: fans that want to go to a great place to
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Speaker 1: see a great game and also to get maybe a
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Speaker 1: little bit of local flavor. Keep going. Let's see those
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Speaker 1: are the ones out of division. Okay, I'm gonna tell
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Speaker 1: you right now, the one at the top of my
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Speaker 1: list out of the division is Kansas City. Kans City
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Speaker 1: has got first of all, it's a great ironment, it's
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Speaker 1: a great stadium, it has a kans City is a
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Speaker 1: is a is a cool town, has lots of things
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Speaker 1: to to to choose from. So out of all of
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Speaker 1: the non divisional road games that would probably be at
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Speaker 1: the top of my list. Um, New York would be
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Speaker 1: up there just because it's New York and New York
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Speaker 1: is great. But I mean in the division, Nashville is
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Speaker 1: always king. If you're into d C and doing all
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Speaker 1: that stuff, the museums and things on Saturday, that might
14:27
Speaker 1: be cool, but again, the stadium is not. It's literally,
14:32
Speaker 1: you can it's closer to fly out to Baltimore's airport
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Speaker 1: to get to the stadium. Yes, I mean it's it's
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Speaker 1: literally if you if you were to look at a
14:37
Speaker 1: map and you look at Baltimore and d C and
14:40
Speaker 1: and go put your finger right between the two of them,
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Speaker 1: that's where that stadium is at. And it's horrible traffic,
14:47
Speaker 1: just a nightmare in and out of it. Yeah, I
14:49
Speaker 1: mean it's it's yeah, it's not good. Now, I will
14:51
Speaker 1: tell you this, if if you were going to Baltimore,
14:54
Speaker 1: I would tell you that that's a great place to
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Speaker 1: go to. It's got a lot of things to do
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Speaker 1: in the city. It's it's not my favorite city, but
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Speaker 1: the stadium stadium is right there in the Harbor's great. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But now, I mean Nashville, I can tell you this
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Speaker 1: Nashville is an awesome city. It's a it's a great
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Speaker 1: place to go to. It's a great place to visit, music,
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Speaker 1: music road, great restaurants, great music, great entertainment. They've got
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Speaker 1: the Colosseum downtown there where they've got hockey and different
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Speaker 1: events that are happening. Indianapolis, I think is a good
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Speaker 1: town as far as it's it's everything is right there.
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Speaker 1: When you go to Indianapolis, you can take an uber
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Speaker 1: from the airport to the downtown and you don't have
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Speaker 1: to do any ubers while you're downtown. You can walk everywhere.
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Speaker 1: You know. I don't think I've had a bad time
15:37
Speaker 1: in Nashville. I've had to believe that I've had a
15:41
Speaker 1: couple of bad mornings in that show. Yeah, I think
15:44
Speaker 1: we all might have at one point. Hey, we'll come
15:46
Speaker 1: back in a moment. And Rookie Minicamp starts tomorrow. What
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Speaker 1: to look for this weekend Friday Saturday. Not open to
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Speaker 1: the public, but we'll get into some of the players
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Speaker 1: and some of the rookies are beginning to sign their
15:58
Speaker 1: contracts today as well. That Eggs are future focused and
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Speaker 1: home of the Jacksonville Jaguars. There are two really good
16:33
Speaker 1: players there in both Trayvon and Aid and at the
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Speaker 1: at the top of our our draft board. And and
16:39
Speaker 1: and you know, let me let me just go back
16:42
Speaker 1: a little bit. You know, obviously Cam Robinson, you know,
16:45
Speaker 1: our left tackle, we were able to get his contract done,
16:49
Speaker 1: you know, prior to the draft and keep him here.
16:51
Speaker 1: I think I think, you know, sky's a limit with him.
16:54
Speaker 1: So was solidifying our offensive line that way really, um
16:58
Speaker 1: really kind of helped to in some the decisions we
17:00
Speaker 1: made in the draft. And and then we look at
17:03
Speaker 1: these two players and both are high character guys, both
17:08
Speaker 1: would be great in our room, in our locker room,
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Speaker 1: good leaders, um, you know, and for us, it was
17:14
Speaker 1: it was just the potential, the upside, the things that
17:19
Speaker 1: we saw and you know, as you know, Rich, I mean,
17:23
Speaker 1: as coaches, we were prevy to a lot of a
17:26
Speaker 1: lot of film and a lot of conversations that a
17:28
Speaker 1: lot of people don't get right, and a lot of
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Speaker 1: information and part of our job is to gain that information.
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Speaker 1: And and we just felt at the time that and
17:38
Speaker 1: even sitting here today that you know, the best for
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Speaker 1: our organization was Trayvon Walker. Let's head coach Doug Peterson
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Speaker 1: on the Rich Eysen Show yesterday syndicated nationally also on
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Speaker 1: the Peacock Network. Our courtesy to them and welcome back
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Speaker 1: to Jaguars Happy our j P. Shadrick with Jeff Logaman,
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Speaker 1: Joe Fortunado b Reaver and the Jaguars have rookie Minicamp
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Speaker 1: coming up starting tomorrow. And that that was the conversation,
18:05
Speaker 1: why did you pick Trayvon Walker over Aden Hutchinson. Rich
18:08
Speaker 1: Eysens a noted Michigan alumnus. That's why he had a
18:12
Speaker 1: little vested interest in the in the question there. So
18:15
Speaker 1: that was the answer. Little upside and reports today that
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Speaker 1: Trayvon Walker has come to it that they've come to
18:22
Speaker 1: the agreement to sign his rookie contract slotted anyway, but
18:26
Speaker 1: apparently that's going to happen officially a little later today.
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Speaker 1: A lot of money, a lot of guaranteed money, as
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Speaker 1: you would expect from the first overall picking the draft.
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Speaker 1: And I'm looking forward to watching him in the rookie minicamp. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: what do you want to see out of him like
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Speaker 1: this weekend? It's not like the old days when Dante
18:44
Speaker 1: Fowler's year really changed everything when he went down with
18:47
Speaker 1: the knee issue and they're running like Lebanon cl it
18:52
Speaker 1: was that's pretty significant. A knee issue is like a
18:54
Speaker 1: little tweet. It was not that he tore his a
18:56
Speaker 1: c l so um, but that was they had try
18:59
Speaker 1: out guys, they running eleven and eleven, and you know,
19:03
Speaker 1: it got toned down a little bit for at least
19:05
Speaker 1: in my view since that time, as it should be.
19:08
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I think Roland rookies up in
19:11
Speaker 1: here and uh expecting and wanting them to go completely
19:16
Speaker 1: full speed and wide open is insanity for two reasons. One,
19:21
Speaker 1: the players need to acclimate to what your expectations are
19:26
Speaker 1: as coaches. These rookies have been preparing for the draft.
19:31
Speaker 1: They haven't been preparing for football practice in the National
19:36
Speaker 1: Football League. Okay, they've been doing the handshake and kiss
19:40
Speaker 1: babies tour since the draft, Okay, celebrating. Okay, So I
19:44
Speaker 1: think you've got to have I think a lot of
19:48
Speaker 1: common sense with the way you approach a rookie minicamp,
19:51
Speaker 1: and that you're trying to assimilate these young players into
19:55
Speaker 1: their into your system and to teach them what the
19:59
Speaker 1: expectation are not immediately say physically you need to show
20:04
Speaker 1: us right now, that's crazy, um. And then the other
20:09
Speaker 1: reason you have rookies that are drafted that you have
20:13
Speaker 1: huge investments in Okay, Travon's gotta what's the guaranteed money
20:20
Speaker 1: signing bonus? Thirty seven million dollar total contract, but I
20:25
Speaker 1: think it's twenty four is guaranteed, its full guarantee, guaranteed,
20:28
Speaker 1: fully guaranteed contract, ton of upbrunt money. Okay. So you're
20:32
Speaker 1: bringing in the draft picks with you know, Muma and
20:35
Speaker 1: Lloyd and all the other guys, Connor, and then you're
20:39
Speaker 1: also bringing in a lot of rookies on a tryout basis,
20:41
Speaker 1: so okay, So you have to be a little bit
20:45
Speaker 1: smart there too, and that Okay, you've got a section
20:48
Speaker 1: of rookies that are trying to make an impression. They're drafted,
20:51
Speaker 1: they know that they're gonna have an opportunity to earn
20:55
Speaker 1: the ability to be on this team. There's another segment
20:58
Speaker 1: of rookies that are have a little bit of a
21:00
Speaker 1: window and that they're given an opportunity to show what
21:03
Speaker 1: they can do over these couple of days. So do
21:07
Speaker 1: you want to have that group that's trying to impress
21:11
Speaker 1: right now go on a hundred miles an hour with
21:15
Speaker 1: this group over here that's trying to impress, but then
21:17
Speaker 1: also knows that they're gonna be here for training camp.
21:21
Speaker 1: I don't want to have the two of these groups
21:24
Speaker 1: kind of mixing together, you know what I mean, Because
21:27
Speaker 1: sometimes you have guys that are a little out of
21:30
Speaker 1: control from the group that doesn't have a contract, that's
21:34
Speaker 1: here on a tryout basis show something that's trying to
21:36
Speaker 1: show something in a limited window. And I totally appreciate
21:40
Speaker 1: that and respect that, but you've gotta be careful. You
21:43
Speaker 1: have to limit I think the number of group drills
21:47
Speaker 1: that you do. You do more of the individual work,
21:50
Speaker 1: and it's a lot of classroom stuff to see how
21:53
Speaker 1: the retention is and um, but physically it's it's showing
21:58
Speaker 1: them the expectation, and it's it's getting them to work
22:02
Speaker 1: in his shape. I just remember when you go back
22:06
Speaker 1: and you mentioned Dante Fowler when he tours a c L.
22:09
Speaker 1: This was a very tough, demanding practice that Dante Fowler
22:16
Speaker 1: was getting winded and his legs were getting tired. And
22:20
Speaker 1: I think that contributed to the a c L terror
22:23
Speaker 1: that he sustained in that practice because he wasn't conditioning,
22:27
Speaker 1: conditioned where he needed to be. I truly believe that
22:31
Speaker 1: because I was watching him in practice, going this is
22:33
Speaker 1: not good. He's getting winded because he's going a hundred
22:36
Speaker 1: miles an hour trying to impress I'm a first round pick.
22:38
Speaker 1: I want to show everybody why I'm a first round pick.
22:41
Speaker 1: And uh and then one bad step there it goes.
22:46
Speaker 1: So this weekend, Tomorrow and Saturday, there will be a
22:51
Speaker 1: little over forty players total that are participating in this.
22:54
Speaker 1: Of course, the draft picks, the undrafted players that have signed,
22:57
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, some tryout players are coming in as well.
23:00
Speaker 1: Jimmy Smith's son is going to be a part of
23:03
Speaker 1: this this weekend, running back from Wyoming. He will be
23:07
Speaker 1: here as well. Um, there'll be some you know, some
23:09
Speaker 1: light team reps ten or fifteen plays of seven on seven,
23:13
Speaker 1: but it's mainly drills, as you said, getting the lay
23:15
Speaker 1: of the land. How do you what's the operation of
23:19
Speaker 1: the NFL for a lot of these guys who haven't
23:21
Speaker 1: done it before, or you want to see athletically how
23:24
Speaker 1: they move, you know, it's a firsthand look at some
23:27
Speaker 1: of these guys that are here on a tryout basis. Look,
23:30
Speaker 1: you know what your your draft picks are. I mean,
23:34
Speaker 1: you've done a ton of work on them. A lot
23:37
Speaker 1: of the the undrafted signed rookies you've done work on
23:40
Speaker 1: them as well. And then some of these tryouts you
23:45
Speaker 1: probably haven't done quite as much work, or you don't
23:47
Speaker 1: know as much about some of them. I mean, you'd
23:50
Speaker 1: like to think that you're scouting department knows everything about everybody,
23:54
Speaker 1: but that's not the case sometimes And the reality is
23:58
Speaker 1: that sometimes your evaluation is off, as we've seen with
24:01
Speaker 1: the history of the draft overall. So you might end
24:04
Speaker 1: up having a very poor report on a guy that's
24:07
Speaker 1: coming in here on a tryout basis that when you
24:09
Speaker 1: see him in person, you're like, Wow, why why did
24:11
Speaker 1: we only have him with a three point oh grade
24:14
Speaker 1: when he's moving around like he's a he's a five
24:16
Speaker 1: point eight grade. Let's give him a chance, let's sign
24:19
Speaker 1: him no contract. So it's a great opportunity for a
24:22
Speaker 1: lot of different reasons to get people acclimated, to start
24:25
Speaker 1: to work them towards what the expectations are as far
24:28
Speaker 1: as the level of conditioning, the knowledge of the scheme,
24:32
Speaker 1: and then also getting to know some of these guys,
24:34
Speaker 1: some of these guys that are in here on a
24:35
Speaker 1: tryout basis, do they fit your personality of your culture? Okay?
24:40
Speaker 1: Are they the kind of people that you want to
24:42
Speaker 1: bring in to when you're trying to flip the culture
24:46
Speaker 1: in an organization. So it's it's gonna be very valuable,
24:49
Speaker 1: very valuable couple of days. We'll come back in a moment.
24:52
Speaker 1: The offseason schedule o T A open practice for media
24:56
Speaker 1: has been announced. Well U finally announced. Yeah, I wish
25:01
Speaker 1: you'd look at to that. I wish it was a
25:03
Speaker 1: little bit more. I'll just leave you with that local. Yeah,
25:06
Speaker 1: we'll find out why when we come back. Of course,
25:10
Speaker 1: the Jaguars on the practice field tomorrow, the rookies for
25:12
Speaker 1: Rookie Minicamp tomorrow and Saturday. Plenty more ahead it's Jaguars
25:17
Speaker 1: Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network. What what sort
25:31
Speaker 1: of drew me to to here and really to him
25:34
Speaker 1: was just you know this this this kid is young
25:37
Speaker 1: number one. You know, it came out early, and he's
25:40
Speaker 1: he's a really good passer. You know, he's very uh
25:44
Speaker 1: eager to learn. He's a smart kid. Things that we've
25:46
Speaker 1: seen already here in the offseason program. You know, he's
25:50
Speaker 1: the first one in. He just wants to he just
25:52
Speaker 1: wants He's a sponge, you know, and m guy that
25:55
Speaker 1: you can shape and mold and really, uh, sky's the
25:58
Speaker 1: limit with him, athlete that can move. Um, you know,
26:01
Speaker 1: comes from a systant at college where it was very
26:04
Speaker 1: you know, play action, pass and movement RPO game and
26:07
Speaker 1: things that we can bring you know as an offense
26:10
Speaker 1: to Jacksonville. And and just his leadership. You know, the
26:14
Speaker 1: fact that he played you know, the entire season last year.
26:18
Speaker 1: This kid is not a rookie. But at the same time,
26:20
Speaker 1: you know where we're kind of starting over with him
26:23
Speaker 1: and just building him from the ground up and and um,
26:26
Speaker 1: you know he's embracing that and showing really good improvement
26:29
Speaker 1: every day. That's head coach Doug Peterson again on the
26:33
Speaker 1: Rich Eyes and Show yesterday and welcome back. It's Jaguars
26:36
Speaker 1: Happy Hour, of course, Peterson talking about the quarterback Trevor Lawrence,
26:40
Speaker 1: J P. Shadrick with Jeff Flagman on Jaguars Happy Are
26:43
Speaker 1: glad you're along with us today on Jaguars dot Com,
26:46
Speaker 1: Jaguars social channels Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube and Tintin xl
26:50
Speaker 1: AM here in Jacksonville, Florida. Well, Trevor Lawrence. Yeah, that's
26:54
Speaker 1: gonna be something to watch when the off season program continues.
26:58
Speaker 1: Obviously won't be out there this weekend with rookie Minicamp
27:01
Speaker 1: going on, but then the Organized Team Activity schedule has
27:07
Speaker 1: been announced. There will be three o t A practices
27:10
Speaker 1: open for media to cover MAE. Monday, that's the first
27:15
Speaker 1: one May thirty one to Tuesday, that's the fourth of
27:19
Speaker 1: the O t A s. And then Monday, June six,
27:21
Speaker 1: o t A number seven. Then there's the three day
27:24
Speaker 1: mandatory veteran mini camp the following week a Monday through Wednesday,
27:28
Speaker 1: June through So there will be six open veteran practices
27:33
Speaker 1: for the media in May and June. And uh so
27:38
Speaker 1: you got two for the rookies, which is this week,
27:40
Speaker 1: uh tomorrow and then Saturday and then Uh. What I
27:45
Speaker 1: kind of have a little bit of an issue is
27:47
Speaker 1: is that, look, this is a great exposure for your
27:50
Speaker 1: football team and a great opportunity to help the local
27:53
Speaker 1: media sell your franchise, I mean sell tickets, I mean interest.
27:56
Speaker 1: And you have ten o t A s and you
27:58
Speaker 1: have three of them open to the media. I think
28:00
Speaker 1: that that's not enough. I think it should be more. Uh,
28:03
Speaker 1: the more conversation that you get about your football team,
28:05
Speaker 1: the better off you're gonna be, I think. And uh,
28:09
Speaker 1: I mean you've generated a lot of positivity with the
28:11
Speaker 1: draft and free agency. I mean, so I mean, why
28:13
Speaker 1: not take advantage of the opportunity there. Um, I just
28:17
Speaker 1: think it's I think they're losing an opportunity there in
28:20
Speaker 1: my opinion. Now, what's is there a balance of competitive
28:25
Speaker 1: advantage like not I don't want to give up too much,
28:27
Speaker 1: or I mean there's some things that you put in
28:29
Speaker 1: now you want people to see, like well, I mean
28:32
Speaker 1: I'm not saying open all ten of them up, even
28:34
Speaker 1: though that in the past there has been all ten open.
28:38
Speaker 1: But I still think that there's a look you have
28:41
Speaker 1: you have all looking when you're trying to put in
28:43
Speaker 1: the meat and pents. I mean, JP, is there really
28:45
Speaker 1: that much secrecy and an O t A to where
28:48
Speaker 1: you're developing this incredible scheme that's gonna be so different
28:53
Speaker 1: than anybody's ever seen in the National Football League? Hell no,
28:56
Speaker 1: come on, I mean it's it's they're our our secrets.
29:01
Speaker 1: But I mean you're not. You're not gonna have the
29:05
Speaker 1: ability to be shrouded in secrecy in the all season
29:09
Speaker 1: and say, oh yeah, if we let one O t
29:12
Speaker 1: A open, we're gonna let the cat out of the bag.
29:14
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, it's football. This is not rocket science.
29:19
Speaker 1: And uh and I think that UM. And here's the
29:22
Speaker 1: other thing. I think O t A s when they
29:26
Speaker 1: are are open, it doesn't hurt anybody. It allows I think,
29:31
Speaker 1: relationships to be built between UM and here. Here's one
29:36
Speaker 1: thing I've always been a big believer in and I'll
29:38
Speaker 1: never forget this. When I first came in the National
29:40
Speaker 1: Football League, when you had drills that were being viewed
29:45
Speaker 1: by members of the public, we had opened first time
29:48
Speaker 1: I've experience I ever had was when I was in
29:49
Speaker 1: New York and we had a training camp that was
29:52
Speaker 1: open to the public. This was before the Jaguars even
29:54
Speaker 1: came to an existence, and you would back up a
29:57
Speaker 1: one on one drill, whether it be passed for USh
30:00
Speaker 1: or run blocking or anything, and you would back it
30:02
Speaker 1: up into a group of fans and then all of
30:06
Speaker 1: a sudden, where did your intensity level go to? It
30:11
Speaker 1: went higher because you knew people were watching. And I'm
30:14
Speaker 1: not saying that the media is is you know, thousands
30:17
Speaker 1: of people, but I mean it's look, the more people
30:20
Speaker 1: or more eyeballs that are on your performance, I think
30:22
Speaker 1: the more I think intensity focus that sometimes players can get.
30:26
Speaker 1: And uh so, I don't know. I mean it's a
30:30
Speaker 1: I just think it's a great opportunity to have this
30:32
Speaker 1: football team be at the conversation top of the conversation
30:36
Speaker 1: across a lot of different media platforms, and um, I
30:40
Speaker 1: think it should be more believe at that. I'm curious, Um,
30:44
Speaker 1: you know how much will the quarterback? We heard him
30:50
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson talking about Lawrence there with with rich eyes
30:53
Speaker 1: and yesterday, you know how much of the full new
30:57
Speaker 1: playbook do you get to get pieces at a time
30:59
Speaker 1: as the offseason goes. How do you build up that
31:02
Speaker 1: the base level of knowledge of this offense is as
31:07
Speaker 1: it all depends on the player and how much he
31:09
Speaker 1: can handle. So I think that's a big part of it.
31:13
Speaker 1: How much experience does he have with the terminology that
31:16
Speaker 1: you're using. Are you worrying about teaching terminology or you
31:19
Speaker 1: taking up to the next level? You know, I mean
31:21
Speaker 1: when when you when I say the next level, you know,
31:23
Speaker 1: when you when you're in college or um, you're taking classes,
31:27
Speaker 1: you know, like one O, one, Okay, then the next
31:29
Speaker 1: level is a two hundred level and then three level.
31:32
Speaker 1: So where is he add in the progression of understanding
31:36
Speaker 1: the schemes and the terminology? So how far can you
31:40
Speaker 1: take him or how deep can you take him into
31:43
Speaker 1: the playbook based on what he's been able to learn already,
31:48
Speaker 1: And and that's always based on the individual. And I
31:52
Speaker 1: think Trevor is very smart from everything that I understand.
31:55
Speaker 1: He has a great retention. Um, he's extremely dill gen
32:00
Speaker 1: He works hard. He doesn't just work in the building,
32:03
Speaker 1: which is what some players do. They work only in
32:06
Speaker 1: the building when they leave here, they don't study, and
32:09
Speaker 1: that I think is a major hindrance to that position. Specifically,
32:13
Speaker 1: you have to have somebody who is willing to put
32:15
Speaker 1: the time in and the commitment to be able to
32:17
Speaker 1: understand the playbook because the playbook is so complex for
32:21
Speaker 1: that position. Playing defensive line, JP. Look, it's like it's
32:25
Speaker 1: grade one seriously playing offensive line. I'll give Basselli a
32:29
Speaker 1: little bit of a credit here. I mean he's fifth
32:31
Speaker 1: grade level. Wow. Moving on up? Okay, um wide receivers,
32:36
Speaker 1: running backs, I mean, you know, it's probably about the
32:39
Speaker 1: same thing, but then once you get to quarterback. I
32:41
Speaker 1: mean that's like master study. I mean seriously when I
32:44
Speaker 1: say that mean because not only do they have to
32:45
Speaker 1: understand what everybody on the offense is doing protections, but
32:49
Speaker 1: then also understanding defenses, progressions and everything that goes along
32:53
Speaker 1: with running an offense. And so it's extremely complex and
32:57
Speaker 1: it and it requires more than just punching a clock
33:00
Speaker 1: when you walk in this building and doing your work.
33:02
Speaker 1: You have to take that work home with you. And
33:05
Speaker 1: that's something that Trevor has been committed to from what
33:07
Speaker 1: I understand, And that's what you have to have for
33:09
Speaker 1: somebody to play that position. You know what's going to happen.
33:13
Speaker 1: It always happens this time of year. O t A S.
33:17
Speaker 1: There's coverage of O T A S. Which is great.
33:19
Speaker 1: That's the whole point as you're out there seeing guys
33:21
Speaker 1: running around, but the um the overkill of you know,
33:27
Speaker 1: this guy dropped this ball in an O t A
33:30
Speaker 1: practice And I don't think you're gonna cut the team
33:33
Speaker 1: after watching some O t A practices, but there will
33:36
Speaker 1: be probably some coverage that does. That's just kind of
33:39
Speaker 1: how this the nature is right now on social media
33:41
Speaker 1: too well. I I think the biggest thing is is
33:43
Speaker 1: that you know with O t A s is that
33:46
Speaker 1: you're the camaraderie that you build, the chemistry that you build,
33:50
Speaker 1: the communication that you build, because communication is also something
33:53
Speaker 1: that has to be built. It's just you can't assume
33:56
Speaker 1: that we're gonna be on the same page. JP. How
33:59
Speaker 1: many years have we've been working together now, okay ten
34:01
Speaker 1: years that we've been working together, But we still have
34:03
Speaker 1: a conversation before we go behind these microphones because that's
34:07
Speaker 1: what we do. And and I think that the work
34:11
Speaker 1: has to be put in with players, especially in the
34:15
Speaker 1: National Football League, because things are changing constantly. Rosters are changing,
34:20
Speaker 1: systems are changing, the way that the communication works between coaches.
34:25
Speaker 1: I mean, all of that stuff is changing, and so
34:28
Speaker 1: part part of the whole O T A s is
34:30
Speaker 1: not just you know, going out there and okay, playing
34:32
Speaker 1: quarterback and we're learning to operate the huddle, I mean
34:34
Speaker 1: all of those things, but also the relationship that you're
34:38
Speaker 1: building with players to coach coach, the player, coach to coach,
34:42
Speaker 1: player to player, staff to coach. I mean, all of
34:45
Speaker 1: these things are being built so that when you do
34:49
Speaker 1: hit the regular season and things become extremely difficult and
34:53
Speaker 1: much higher paced, and the expectation levels get cranked up
34:57
Speaker 1: to the top of the ceiling, you can function and
35:00
Speaker 1: you can operate within that environment that all of that
35:04
Speaker 1: stuff is built at this time of year. We're back
35:07
Speaker 1: in a moment a look around the National Football League
35:11
Speaker 1: as we get into rookie Minicamp weekend for the Jaguars,
35:15
Speaker 1: and that will take a look if you're watching this program,
35:19
Speaker 1: which is available on Jaguars dot Com on the Jags
35:21
Speaker 1: social channels, will take a look at the Football Performance
35:24
Speaker 1: Center construction. When we return, it's Jaguars Happy Hour on
35:27
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Digital Network. Welcome back Jaguars Happy Hour. If
35:38
Speaker 1: you're watching on Jaguars dot Com, Jack's social media, a
35:42
Speaker 1: live look at the footprint of the Jaguars Football Performance
35:46
Speaker 1: Center they're all walls going up and there's dirt being moved.
35:50
Speaker 1: The old building, the old cool Zone building and storage
35:52
Speaker 1: building was torn down today. I watched him for about
35:55
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. Tare the final two walls down with a
35:58
Speaker 1: big crane the or a dozer or something whatever, some
36:04
Speaker 1: kind of machinery there between a crane and a bulldoze
36:07
Speaker 1: or we had like to like tank treads and it
36:12
Speaker 1: had like a long kind of arm thing. Yeah, it's
36:16
Speaker 1: like a kind of a back hole, but not really,
36:19
Speaker 1: that's exactly what it was, thank you. But it didn't
36:21
Speaker 1: have like the scoop like on the gold shows, you
36:24
Speaker 1: know they scoop them and the pay dirt and all
36:27
Speaker 1: that stuff. I didn't having that. It had like a
36:28
Speaker 1: pinching mechanism and it would like run into the wall,
36:33
Speaker 1: knock it over, and then it pinched something and move
36:35
Speaker 1: it off to the side. It's pretty cool, Yeah, because
36:39
Speaker 1: you know that's the technical terminology. Yeah, you know, I've
36:42
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time in construction. Yeah, but that's cool.
36:45
Speaker 1: What's going up. We're gonna call you machinery peat right.
36:51
Speaker 1: It's a it's a great footprint. It just keeps growing
36:53
Speaker 1: and growing by the day and looking forward to it. Yeah,
36:56
Speaker 1: looking forward to that. And you know there is some
36:57
Speaker 1: news coming on the on the shipyards. I it's on track,
37:00
Speaker 1: the cost going up a little bit. There was a
37:02
Speaker 1: report in the Times Union the other day for the
37:05
Speaker 1: four Seasons, the office building and the marina project. I'm
37:08
Speaker 1: gonna have to ask a little more time because of
37:11
Speaker 1: some things they found on that property. The bulkheads need
37:14
Speaker 1: some work, the marina, a relocation of some underground utilities.
37:18
Speaker 1: There was some old gantry structures from the old ship
37:20
Speaker 1: repaired days that they found underground there that they're not
37:23
Speaker 1: really able to build around all of them. They're gonna
37:26
Speaker 1: have to move some of that stuff as well. They've
37:29
Speaker 1: also announced the PCL Construction is the construction manager. They've
37:34
Speaker 1: been involved in some other four Seasons projects in other cities.
37:38
Speaker 1: And as we speak, the Downtown Development Review Board is
37:41
Speaker 1: meeting I believe this is coming up on the docket
37:44
Speaker 1: either next to or right very soon in the next
37:47
Speaker 1: little few minutes here for final conceptual approval for the
37:51
Speaker 1: design of the four seasons in the office building. That
37:54
Speaker 1: meeting started at two o'clock. There lasting the agenda today,
37:56
Speaker 1: so we might have some news this afternoon, which you know,
37:59
Speaker 1: hopefully it's positive and and a goo. Yeah, well, I'm
38:02
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing um that whole area developed. It's
38:06
Speaker 1: a it's a long time coming, I will say that.
38:09
Speaker 1: I just I just remember in when I when I
38:13
Speaker 1: first came here with the expansion team, and it was
38:16
Speaker 1: one of the brave souls and free agency to come
38:19
Speaker 1: to Jacksonville at that time, was coming down the street
38:23
Speaker 1: there and and looking and seeing all that vacant land going. Man,
38:28
Speaker 1: this has got to be developed at some point. There's
38:31
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of opportunity here and and here
38:33
Speaker 1: we are a long time ago. It's a long time ago, man,
38:37
Speaker 1: and uh really nothing's been done with that. And so
38:40
Speaker 1: I look forward to the to the day when when
38:42
Speaker 1: they start doing something down there to bring a vibrant downtown.
38:47
Speaker 1: Because you know, here's the thing that list that we
38:50
Speaker 1: went through at the very top of the top of
38:52
Speaker 1: the show talking about destinations and places that you want
38:56
Speaker 1: to go to. What was the common theme of what
38:59
Speaker 1: I was talking about with all these city entertainment, the
39:04
Speaker 1: downtown attractions, things to do, things to keep you there.
39:09
Speaker 1: That's the beauty of Nashville. It's one of the great
39:11
Speaker 1: reasons why Kansas City is fantastic. Even though the stadium
39:15
Speaker 1: is not that close to downtown. You wish it were. Uh, Indianapolis,
39:20
Speaker 1: which with the stadium and then the downtown is is fantastic.
39:24
Speaker 1: I mean, those are the places that become destinations where
39:28
Speaker 1: people want to come and see what you have. And
39:32
Speaker 1: so I hope that at some point that our city
39:36
Speaker 1: can get to the point to where other people around
39:39
Speaker 1: the league are are looking at the schedule when it
39:42
Speaker 1: comes out and goes, oh, we gotta go to Jacksonville.
39:45
Speaker 1: Finally it's on our schedule. Let's go, you know what
39:48
Speaker 1: I mean, Because I mean you got to give him
39:50
Speaker 1: a reason besides just a ballgame. Yeah, and the beach,
39:53
Speaker 1: which is great. Yeah, but yeah, but there's gonna be
39:56
Speaker 1: some other stuff. Gotta give him some other stuff. That's right.
39:58
Speaker 1: And and it's kind of trending that way of course
40:01
Speaker 1: down here with everything going on around the stadium and
40:03
Speaker 1: then on the other side of downtown, the Brooklyn area
40:05
Speaker 1: has really come up lately and development we got ways
40:11
Speaker 1: to go working on. At least they're they're starting the thing,
40:13
Speaker 1: which is a good thing. Let's go around the National
40:16
Speaker 1: Football League. We touched on this earlier. But Tom Brady
40:20
Speaker 1: agreeing with Fox Sports apparently for when his career ends
40:22
Speaker 1: ten years, three seventy five million dollars to do something
40:27
Speaker 1: he's never done before. He's never announced the football game. No,
40:31
Speaker 1: he hasn't. And uh, and look, there's been some guys
40:34
Speaker 1: that have retired and and gone to the booth, so
40:38
Speaker 1: to speak, that haven't done a great job. Joe Montana
40:42
Speaker 1: didn't do a great job. Ronnie Lott, and I love Ronnie,
40:46
Speaker 1: didn't do a great job. Some guys have a knack
40:49
Speaker 1: for Tray Akman fantastic, I mean fantastic, Baselly fantastic. I
40:55
Speaker 1: mean there's guys that have a natural ability that they
40:58
Speaker 1: can analyze, entertain, and inform. And you have to be
41:04
Speaker 1: able to be committed to understanding what it's all about.
41:07
Speaker 1: And look, Tom Brady has been a great worker throughout
41:12
Speaker 1: his career. That's why he is so great. And my
41:15
Speaker 1: expectation for him is that he will work extremely hard
41:19
Speaker 1: to be good at it. I would be disappointed if
41:22
Speaker 1: if anything else happens, but it doesn't mean he's gonna
41:26
Speaker 1: be great. But my expectation is that he will find
41:29
Speaker 1: a way to be great. And I look forward to
41:32
Speaker 1: hearing him. Uh, Tony Romo is a guy that works
41:36
Speaker 1: very hard at it, and I think he's pretty good.
41:38
Speaker 1: Sometimes he's annoying because he keeps guessing like that's part
41:41
Speaker 1: of what he's supposed to do. It's not always about guessing,
41:44
Speaker 1: it's about informing and uh. But there's guys that are
41:47
Speaker 1: really good that that did what what they've done for
41:50
Speaker 1: a long period of time in the National Football League
41:52
Speaker 1: and have become great, great analysts, commentators, whatever you want
41:57
Speaker 1: to consider that Joe, you you'll remember this, that was
42:01
Speaker 1: Joe Nameth as an analyst. Did he do like Monday
42:04
Speaker 1: Night Football foot very good? Didn't last long? Yeah, Joe
42:08
Speaker 1: was not good at all. I don't remember him doing
42:13
Speaker 1: I thought Nameth did Monday Night for a minute, but
42:16
Speaker 1: not long. No, it didn't last because that guy's got
42:20
Speaker 1: personality obviously, but it just didn't work in that So
42:24
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I mean it's just because you have
42:26
Speaker 1: personality doesn't make you good at doing a broadcasters duties.
42:31
Speaker 1: I mean, that's there requires certain things. There's some guys
42:34
Speaker 1: that are great in studio and there are some guys
42:39
Speaker 1: that in a in a game setting are fantastic. So
42:43
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody has a talent, I think, and you've
42:45
Speaker 1: got to find a way to bring that talent to
42:48
Speaker 1: the forefront and also to find out what that talent
42:51
Speaker 1: is to be able to make sure that it is
42:53
Speaker 1: it is highlighted to some extent. Everybody's chasing the the
42:57
Speaker 1: John Madden. It doesn't get better than that. It will
43:00
Speaker 1: never get well. And look, I'll say this about John standard.
43:03
Speaker 1: John Well, He's John was a gold standard. And and
43:06
Speaker 1: for guys that played the game, I mean John was awesome.
43:09
Speaker 1: And not only did John give you great analysis, but
43:13
Speaker 1: he entertained with the way his excitement and in the
43:17
Speaker 1: way that he presented the game was incredible. His big
43:20
Speaker 1: picture analysis was was I mean right up there. And
43:23
Speaker 1: I think today I think Chris collins Worth does an
43:25
Speaker 1: amazing job at big picture analysis. But there were times
43:30
Speaker 1: as far as game analysis that John Madden was off,
43:34
Speaker 1: I mean off. I mean sometimes I'd be watching and
43:36
Speaker 1: I sit there and listen to what he was the
43:38
Speaker 1: play that he was breaking down. I was going, John,
43:40
Speaker 1: that's not what happened. But he was so good and
43:45
Speaker 1: entertaining for the most part, and his big picture analysis
43:49
Speaker 1: was awesome. And J. P. Boom I mean those things
43:53
Speaker 1: that he did as part of his analysis in the
43:56
Speaker 1: in the Tell Straighter, I mean he was a maestro.
43:59
Speaker 1: He could relate to anybody football fan or not and
44:02
Speaker 1: get them to the TV on that to talk. Some
44:08
Speaker 1: early announced games by the league. The official announcement tonight
44:11
Speaker 1: at eight o'clock Eastern time of the schedule. The week
44:15
Speaker 1: to Monday Night Football doubleheader announced the Titans and the
44:18
Speaker 1: Bills at seven fifteen on ESPN and then on ABC
44:22
Speaker 1: at eight thirty. That week it's the Vikings and the Eagles.
44:25
Speaker 1: Week four, the Chiefs and the Bucks play on Sunday
44:27
Speaker 1: Night Football in a game that should be the Homes
44:30
Speaker 1: and Brady, and then we tend the Cowboys and the Packers.
44:33
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy returns to lambeau Field in a national game
44:37
Speaker 1: on Fox. There are three Christmas Day games same schedule
44:41
Speaker 1: as Thanksgiving. Christmas is a Sunday, that's so in lieu
44:48
Speaker 1: of all games on Christmas Day, and they're doing it
44:50
Speaker 1: like they do Thanksgiving, three one in each window. And
44:54
Speaker 1: then most of the bulk of the games that week
44:56
Speaker 1: will be on Saturday, Christmas Eve instead of Christmas Day,
45:00
Speaker 1: so that's interesting. Of course, the International Series games have
45:04
Speaker 1: been announced as so anyone. I was talking about the schedule,
45:07
Speaker 1: about what you look for in the schedule. Okay, are
45:09
Speaker 1: we gonna be home? Are we gonna be away on
45:13
Speaker 1: Christmas weekend? Right? Yeah, that's right, because it was a
45:18
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, or was it seventeen, went to
45:22
Speaker 1: the West coast like Christmas eve, right, played in San Francisco,
45:25
Speaker 1: got smoked, and then I had to come back with
45:28
Speaker 1: the Santa Claus. The The old rule of thumb is
45:32
Speaker 1: that the NFL knows no holidays. It doesn't. I mean,
45:37
Speaker 1: it's it's the sport is part. No Sundays and Mondays
45:40
Speaker 1: and Thursdays and Saturdays late in the season. That's it.
45:44
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if it's Christmas, Hanukkah, Thanksgiving, New Year's,
45:51
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. There's no holidays in football. There's no
45:56
Speaker 1: crying in football either. There's no holidays. No, there's crying
46:00
Speaker 1: in football. The Bears said goodbye to Nick Foles last week.
46:05
Speaker 1: They say hello to Jacksonville native and Bartram Trail product
46:09
Speaker 1: Nathan Peterman for a one year deal. Justin fields. Trevor
46:12
Speaker 1: simigon er there Peterman and his career, unfortunately, three touchdowns
46:16
Speaker 1: and twelve interceptions with his time with the Bills and
46:18
Speaker 1: the Raiders. But good for him. Jacksonville guy is still
46:21
Speaker 1: getting a shot. Yeah, good for him. Now the speculation
46:26
Speaker 1: has been out there a little bit. Could Nick Foles
46:28
Speaker 1: come to Jacksonville because of Peterson? I don't see it.
46:36
Speaker 1: I don't either. I don't see it. No, I don't
46:38
Speaker 1: see it either. I don't see it. So that ship
46:42
Speaker 1: has sailed, I believe, maybe maybe not. I mean, I'm
46:45
Speaker 1: not I don't know for sure. I haven't talked to
46:46
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson about it either. I don't think that that's
46:49
Speaker 1: gonna happen. But then then again, what do I know.
46:53
Speaker 1: Adam Schefter of ESPN reporting just a few minutes ago
46:57
Speaker 1: that Rapaho Sheriff in the Colorado the Arepo County, They're
47:02
Speaker 1: announced that Broncos wide receiver Jerry Judy is being held
47:05
Speaker 1: at the county jail on charges of second degree criminal
47:09
Speaker 1: tampering with a domestic violence enhancer, a misdemeanor. He's on
47:13
Speaker 1: a no bond hold. He's innocent until proven guilty, so
47:18
Speaker 1: you might have to stay in until he sees a
47:21
Speaker 1: judge whenever that is. Yeah, that's that's breaking this afternoon.
47:25
Speaker 1: Innocent until proven guilty, but not a good thing if
47:30
Speaker 1: you know. Look, Denver Broncos are good young receiver, new quarterback,
47:35
Speaker 1: new coach, new general manager, and uh, that's not the
47:41
Speaker 1: kind of momentum builder that you want to have happening
47:45
Speaker 1: in May. So it's been a busy off season for
47:48
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos, new head coach, new quarterback, this going on,
47:53
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a lot happening. It was pretty interesting
47:55
Speaker 1: this week and that I don't know if you did,
47:58
Speaker 1: you have to see the some of Pink Anning's comments
48:00
Speaker 1: and John Elway's comments because there's so much going on
48:03
Speaker 1: with the Denver Broncos, and that the first of all,
48:09
Speaker 1: the Russell Wilson trade, the change in coaching staffs, got
48:15
Speaker 1: general manager John Elway, who has essentially been an advisory
48:20
Speaker 1: role to the general manager there because he's the one
48:22
Speaker 1: who named that general manager recently. And then Peyton Manning is, uh,
48:27
Speaker 1: could Peyton Manning, could John Elway, either one of these
48:30
Speaker 1: two guys be involved in the new ownership because the
48:33
Speaker 1: team is for sale, the reported amount of money is
48:38
Speaker 1: an excess of five billion of what that could sell for.
48:41
Speaker 1: One of the Walton heirs is one of the prospective
48:45
Speaker 1: buyers and was just recently in Denver touring the facility.
48:49
Speaker 1: And uh, if he does buy the Denver Broncos, and
48:56
Speaker 1: I don't remember his first name, that Walton, but he
48:59
Speaker 1: would be UM the NFL's richest owners, surpassing David Tepper.
49:05
Speaker 1: Wow for net worth, I want to say that the
49:07
Speaker 1: Walton air is worth like a hundred fifty plus billion,
49:11
Speaker 1: hundred seventy plus billion dollars something like that JP, which
49:16
Speaker 1: um is a large amount of money. But on top
49:20
Speaker 1: of that JP, the NFL ownership rules are so strict.
49:24
Speaker 1: It's not like they can have a lot of different
49:28
Speaker 1: groups buying it because they have to be able to
49:30
Speaker 1: sustain or to satisfy some of the requirements for ownership
49:34
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, which are very stringent and
49:37
Speaker 1: are becoming a little bit more difficult to attain because
49:40
Speaker 1: of the value the franchises have become so large. You
49:44
Speaker 1: have it. That's our look around the National Football League
49:47
Speaker 1: or thanks to Joe Fortunado, Brent Reaverer Logs. Will talk
49:50
Speaker 1: to you next week and I'll see you tomorrow. Yeah,
49:52
Speaker 1: Rookie minicamp this weekend tomorrow and Saturday. For Jeff Flagman.
49:55
Speaker 1: I'm JP Shatterwick as Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars
49:58
Speaker 1: Digital Network.