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Speaker 1: Organized team activities underway. Week one in the books. It's
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Speaker 1: time for a media round table. I'm JP, Shadrick Brent
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Speaker 1: Martineau from Action News. Jack's with us hype Brent, Hello, JP.
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Speaker 1: When you're with another media entity now too. Listen CBS
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Speaker 1: forty seven, it's Fox thirty and it's ESPN six ninety
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Speaker 1: now Jack of all trades, Master of none. That's Mark
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Speaker 1: Long from the Associated Press. How are you, Mark, I'm
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Speaker 1: doing well. Thank you, Thanks for having me, Thanks for
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Speaker 1: coming back. Yeah, well, I thought I was blackballed, but
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Speaker 1: I guess not. Who said that? When you started yet?
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Speaker 1: Like thirty seconds and that is Daniel Popper from the
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Speaker 1: Athletic I don't did we have you on this one? No,
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Speaker 1: this is my debut. Welcome, thanks for having me, Thanks
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Speaker 1: for coming on. Guys. Here we go week one of
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Speaker 1: the books. And for me, the first thing that really
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Speaker 1: pops out it's the quarterback. I mean that that is
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Speaker 1: a huge difference when you go out on the field.
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Speaker 1: There's some confidence, there's smoothness, there's the spiral, there's all
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Speaker 1: that that comes with a quarterback position. Here now, all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, everybody's been around this Jaguars team a
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Speaker 1: long time. There's a couple of things that hit me.
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Speaker 1: He's thirty years old. Think about the last decade at
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Speaker 1: the very least, I've been talking about two year old quarterbacks.
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Speaker 1: So the guy that's been around the block, and that's
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Speaker 1: my favorite part of Nick Foles. I have no idea
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Speaker 1: how will lead he's going to be, how good he's
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Speaker 1: going to be, But I know he's got a presence
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Speaker 1: that's been through the battles, and that's what you can
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Speaker 1: consistently here leadership, leadership, leadership. I don't know if that's
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Speaker 1: a knock on Blake Bortles. I think it's more knock
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Speaker 1: on young guys that have been around here for the
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Speaker 1: last decade. And this guy's been through and he's got
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Speaker 1: a super Bowl ring, and that's the ultimate respect in
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Speaker 1: this game. And you can see the comfort level to
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Speaker 1: me with the offense. It's it's very clear that he
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Speaker 1: knows the offense, he knows what he's doing. He doesn't
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Speaker 1: he looks poise back there, getting rid of the ball,
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Speaker 1: making checks. I always felt like Blake was learning, learning, learning,
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Speaker 1: Even in year four and five, he's still learning a
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Speaker 1: new offense, you know, tweaking the offense this ton the
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Speaker 1: other because I think, what did he have three or
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Speaker 1: four three three? Three offensive coordinators plus the replacements in there,
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Speaker 1: so you know that there's no consistency when you're when
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Speaker 1: you're changing, like they changed and built that offense, like
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Speaker 1: they built that offense over those I do believe what
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Speaker 1: I see right now is a comfort level with Nick
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Speaker 1: Foles and and it shows in in the completions down
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Speaker 1: the field, the spirals, uh, the dump offs, all of
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Speaker 1: that stuff I think is completely related to him and
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Speaker 1: and Um and Flip in there. You know, background and
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Speaker 1: their knowledge of each other and the system. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: agree with you, Mark like foals is definitely he's very
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Speaker 1: valuable in terms of what how Flip can John d
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Speaker 1: Flip of the offenis quarter can bring this offense to
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Speaker 1: the team. Uh. He's He's a leader that's gonna be
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Speaker 1: able to understand the offense, pass it onto the wide
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Speaker 1: receiver's passed on even to the backup quarterbacks, to the
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Speaker 1: offensive linement, to everyone, bring everyone together. The one thing
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Speaker 1: I like, he's capable. He's a capable quarterback. He's an
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Speaker 1: established quarterback. We saw him out there today hit Chris
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Speaker 1: Conley and an ad R touchdown Healing Cole with the
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Speaker 1: big That was a great throw. He put in a
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Speaker 1: spot that only Killing could go up and grab it.
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Speaker 1: He's hitting guys over the middle. You're not seeing completions,
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Speaker 1: you're not seeing poor throws, you're not seeing overthrows. A
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Speaker 1: lot of the things that we saw with Blake. Um.
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that Nick is gonna fall. Is gonna
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Speaker 1: go out there and be a top ten quarterback in
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Speaker 1: this league. He could be, but he's gonna be capable.
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Speaker 1: He's going to be a top half of the league guy,
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Speaker 1: no doubt about it. And with this defense, that could
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Speaker 1: mean wins. No, this is, you know, shorts football. It's
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Speaker 1: not like you're in pads yet. Let's say that. But
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Speaker 1: for what this is, I think we're all seeing the
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Speaker 1: same thing. Well, I don't get carried away with the
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Speaker 1: spirals and all that stuff just yet because of that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we've been around this block way too many
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Speaker 1: times to put too much emphasis on this time of year. Heck,
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Speaker 1: even August, show me September whatever, and then I'll start
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Speaker 1: believing it October and I can't. And like Gavert looks
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Speaker 1: the party looks like a franchise guy, and Blake looked
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Speaker 1: like he was making stricts and the entire team looked
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Speaker 1: better at times in August and said we have to
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Speaker 1: get to October. Now, this team is three and one
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Speaker 1: through September last year, so we've all learned that. The
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Speaker 1: one thing though, I think that really I can say
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Speaker 1: if if I ask you guys this, Sorry now I'm
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Speaker 1: asking the question over moderator. If I seriously ask you
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Speaker 1: guys this, whose football team was this last year? Coins No,
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Speaker 1: you're right, leadership right now. It's not Clay's Campbell, it's
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Speaker 1: not Jalen Ramsey, it's not Leonard Fournette. It's obviously Telling
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Speaker 1: Smith's not here. Uh, this is to me what I've
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Speaker 1: seen in the first couple of weeks, you know, talking
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Speaker 1: to players, talking to coaches, seeing Nick Foles on the field.
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Speaker 1: I think this guy has been there eighty ninety days
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Speaker 1: or whatever it is, and I think it's his football team,
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Speaker 1: and it seems like you have a ring demand respect.
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Speaker 1: That's just how it works in this lee. You win
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Speaker 1: the big one, you get respect, especially for the starting
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Speaker 1: quarterback making big throws, and you beat the Patriots. But
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Speaker 1: beyond that, beyond in the locker room and on the field,
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Speaker 1: the guy commands respect. You know, in the community. It's
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Speaker 1: like you see it coming off the field. They're lined
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Speaker 1: up ten deep out there. Not for Leonard Fournette. There's
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Speaker 1: some Foronard, but they're lined up for Nick Foles. And
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Speaker 1: he's the guy leading the charge in terms of some
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Speaker 1: of the extracurricular stuff, and I think that matters, and
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Speaker 1: people are gonna look up to him and he's going
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Speaker 1: to take on a leadership role. I think Blake Bortles
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Speaker 1: was great in terms of persian I don't know how
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Speaker 1: great he was in the community. Nick Fole is gonna
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Speaker 1: be great in the community. Mark Long associated Press, Daniel
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Speaker 1: Popper from The Athletic, Brent Martineau from a couple of
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Speaker 1: media entities, a mogul of sorts in Jacksonville, Action News
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Speaker 1: Jack's as well. Um we heard from John D. Filippo
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Speaker 1: for the first time publicly offensive coordinator here. He said, basically,
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Speaker 1: as for Nett goes, the offense goes, and the guys
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Speaker 1: on our Thursday night show did not agree with that
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Speaker 1: at all. If it goes like for Neet goes and
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Speaker 1: you're in trouble should go as fulls and the offensive
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Speaker 1: line goes to throw it around the yard, you run
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Speaker 1: do all that. They weren't buying that the other night.
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Speaker 1: You guys are making faces at me right now, I
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Speaker 1: don't know. I don't think this team wins games and
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Speaker 1: has a winning season unless they have a Rhyan game.
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Speaker 1: They have to run the football. They just have to
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Speaker 1: because they don't have enough talent at wide receiver. They
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Speaker 1: don't have enough talent at tight end. Now, they have
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Speaker 1: some exciting prospects. They have some guys that if they
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Speaker 1: step up and and take the next step forward, can
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Speaker 1: be productive players in the NFL, But very few of
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Speaker 1: those guys have proven it. Jesse Wayne hasn't stayed healthy.
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Speaker 1: Josh Olviers, the third round pick at of San Jose State,
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Speaker 1: got Mark Easley coming off an injury healing. Cole had
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Speaker 1: a down year last year. And I can go on
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Speaker 1: and on about it. If Leonard Fournett isn't able to
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Speaker 1: be a productive player and put up a thousand plus yards,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna have a lot of trouble on offense. What's
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Speaker 1: debatable on what people don't want to admit because last
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Speaker 1: year is so disappointing about Leonard Fournette. It's just how
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Speaker 1: good he was in two thousand seventeen. He changed the
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Speaker 1: football team. He just changed because he could run. It's
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Speaker 1: because people had to game plan for, you know, and
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Speaker 1: they had a guy that you had to at least
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Speaker 1: you knew he was a threat. He was a talented threat.
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Speaker 1: Now where does he take his career, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but he was still very productive. He made that team
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Speaker 1: click on offense. They don't have playmakers. Still on this,
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Speaker 1: You've been saying this for since the combine. We had
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Speaker 1: a conversation at the Combine in February about it. If
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Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette is a playmaker, I think Nick Foles is
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Speaker 1: now a playmaker for them, and I will give Dee
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Speaker 1: Dee Westbrook a playmaking role until markis Lee gets healthy.
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Speaker 1: That's it, guys. There's three of them now. As Daniel said,
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Speaker 1: does DJ Chark emerge, does one of those tight ends emerged?
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Speaker 1: I don't know, But I can sign up for three
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Speaker 1: playmakers right now for this Jacksonville Jaguars football team. So yes,
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Speaker 1: Leonard four nets extremely important. But I'm a little on
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Speaker 1: the different side. I don't I think they've got more
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Speaker 1: playmakers than you think. I think they got more playkers
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Speaker 1: and Daniel things and they get more playmakers, and Joe
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Speaker 1: Public thinks I think they just don't have that one
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Speaker 1: star playmaker. But I think they've got a lot of
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Speaker 1: guys who can beat you in a lot of different ways.
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Speaker 1: And I'll go back. I've seen Chark make plays. I've
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Speaker 1: seen Marks Lee make a lot of plays. I've seen
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Speaker 1: Kean Cole. I mean he's a forgotten guy. I've seen
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Speaker 1: Cole make some unbelievable plays that Listen, we talked about
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Speaker 1: you and I mission the other day. That catch that
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Speaker 1: he made against New England Patriots last year right here
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Speaker 1: in the bank is arguably the best catching franchise. But
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Speaker 1: do you trust them? Do you trust that going into us?
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Speaker 1: But but I feel like I can build on that.
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Speaker 1: That was like the last time we saw him last year.
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Speaker 1: Though he didn't really do much after that catch. No,
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Speaker 1: I get it, But how much of that was was
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Speaker 1: directly related to the offensive line not dropped on the ball?
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Speaker 1: He did drop balls. Confidence once, you know, some confidence
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Speaker 1: is such a big thing in this game, and you
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Speaker 1: lose it, you know you're gonna have a hard time
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Speaker 1: getting back. Certainly I get it back during the season,
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Speaker 1: and I think that's where he's at. But the point is,
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Speaker 1: I feel like Mark long As as a member of
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Speaker 1: the Sunshine Rainbows Club, it's managed branded studio and everything changes,
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Speaker 1: and I'll go out on the limb. I don't think
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Speaker 1: we have three days of O T A S. I
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Speaker 1: haven't seen anybody better on that football field and Josh
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Speaker 1: oliver So and I'll and I'll go to task with
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Speaker 1: you if you if you think you have, I think
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Speaker 1: he's been fantastic. I think they you know, we were
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Speaker 1: talking about is this going to be confidence in that,
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Speaker 1: is this gonna be you know, we were always talking
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Speaker 1: about it was gonna be Hockinson in the first round.
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Speaker 1: I think they any the way it panned out, maybe
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Speaker 1: a big blessing for this team moving forward. I think
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Speaker 1: that guy's got a chance to be something special right
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Speaker 1: out of the gate, playing with a guy like Nick
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Speaker 1: Foles has got experience and a lot of history of
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Speaker 1: getting the tight ends and the one thing for a
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Speaker 1: running back can't be productive unless he has an offensive
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Speaker 1: line that's blocking for him. And that's where the concerning
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Speaker 1: comes from me. You've got a lot of guys coming
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Speaker 1: off of season and the injuries last year, including Cam
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Speaker 1: Robinson in your lift tackle. You're right, you're gonna have
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Speaker 1: a new right tackle. Who is it? We don't know yet.
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Speaker 1: Is it John Taylor? Is it sydricog Bohey? Is it
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Speaker 1: Will Richardson. I have some concerns about the offensive line
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Speaker 1: being able to block for Leonard for net and when
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Speaker 1: you look at a running back, that's what you have
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Speaker 1: to look at. No running back is gonna be able
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Speaker 1: to run forever a thousand yards behind the shotty offensive line.
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Speaker 1: So I disagree with you a little bit. I have
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Speaker 1: more faith even in the off season and that offensive line.
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Speaker 1: I think that was so flukey last year. What happened
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Speaker 1: sixteen guys playing offensive line in the year, I mean
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Speaker 1: it was ridiculous. So and now I feel like you've
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Speaker 1: got guys with a chip a little bit. You've got
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Speaker 1: Brandon Lender's got a chip on the shoulder. I think
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Speaker 1: you have Cam Robinson with a chip. I think Gator
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Speaker 1: Normal is a good player of healthy. He never was
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Speaker 1: healthy for this football team. So where do you see
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Speaker 1: on the right side. I get it, but I think
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Speaker 1: you have enough bodies to be good. Very few teams
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Speaker 1: around the NFL have five guys that you're gonna sit
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Speaker 1: there and say, Wow, that guy's good. That guy's good.
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Speaker 1: That guy's good. That guy's good. That guy is good.
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Speaker 1: But service this off. It's a line more than other
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Speaker 1: people do like the offensive line. Maybe I'm a fake
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Speaker 1: believer in that a little bit, maybe like you are
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Speaker 1: with playmakers in my opinion, but I don't mind the
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Speaker 1: offensive line. I think they could be good. I'm not
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Speaker 1: saying they can't be good. I think they could be good.
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Speaker 1: But I just have some questions. That's all going back
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Speaker 1: to you. The original question. I personally think that was
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Speaker 1: De Filippo's answer was a guy who got fired from
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Speaker 1: his previous job for running the ball not enough, comes
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Speaker 1: to a place where that's the priority number one, And
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Speaker 1: you got Tom Coffin, Doug Moron, it's his first media availability,
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Speaker 1: and he goes in. He says the right thing, which
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Speaker 1: is this franchise wants to run the ball. We need
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Speaker 1: to run the ball. And Leonard Fernette is the guy
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Speaker 1: who's going to run the ball like that. Daniel Popper
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Speaker 1: with the athletic Mark Long from the Associated Press, Brent
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Speaker 1: Martineau from Action News, Jackson ESPN six nine. Let's go
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Speaker 1: to defense. Now, the Telvin Smith story is a few
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Speaker 1: weeks old now, but exactly right, he's not here, and
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Speaker 1: it seems like the franchise trying to move ahead. You know,
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Speaker 1: they signed all those veteran linebackers, they drafted a guy
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Speaker 1: and all that. Now moving forward on the field, what
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Speaker 1: do they do at that week's side spot? Well, what
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Speaker 1: have we seen? So I know we can't say a
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Speaker 1: lot about who's where, But if you had to handicap
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Speaker 1: it right now, opening day, who's the starting week's side linebacker?
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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I actually just talked to Doug about this.
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Speaker 1: It's Quincy Williams, Remiq Wilson and d J Alexander. Those
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Speaker 1: are the guys they're rotating through a week side line.
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Speaker 1: But that's because Jake Bryan is not playing. Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 1: and I'm I'm I'm projecting three months out and I
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Speaker 1: think Jake Ryan's gonna come back on. Jake RAN's gonna
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Speaker 1: be the middle line. I think they signed into the
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Speaker 1: middle linebacker, and I think they're gonna move. Uh, we're
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Speaker 1: talking about a guy who's torn his d sail twice
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Speaker 1: and he I mean Jeane for Net from the Times
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Speaker 1: Union talks to him the other day. And he said
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Speaker 1: he's gonna take it really slow, so I wouldn't count
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Speaker 1: on him being on the field week one. And then
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Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna move Myles Jack out of
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Speaker 1: middle linebacker until something goes wrong, until the defense starts
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Speaker 1: playing poorly and they have a reason to move him out.
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Speaker 1: Him and Miles, But that doesn't really matter. The coaches
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Speaker 1: are gonna make the decision on that one. Well, that's
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Speaker 1: what I wonder. I wonder if that does matter a little.
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Speaker 1: You want to I to be playing fast and comfortable
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Speaker 1: and somewhat happy. I I don't I understand what you're saying.
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Speaker 1: I think if they think they're better with this lineback
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Speaker 1: group is Jake, Ryan and Miles on the week side
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Speaker 1: and maybe a Josh Allen or whoever on the strong side.
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Speaker 1: I get that the coaches will have the ultimate say,
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Speaker 1: but I don't know if they also want this confrontation.
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Speaker 1: They've got enough problems right now. Line by the way,
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Speaker 1: you and I, you and I see so we for
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Speaker 1: three weeks now we've butted heads on where Josh Allen
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Speaker 1: you've got him that at playing a strong side linebacker.
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Speaker 1: I don't think he sit down at strong he's Dante
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Speaker 1: Feller from the first half. That's what he's gonna behind.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna play behind John on first and second down.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna play opposite Yohn on third down. Period, that's
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Speaker 1: where they're going to do. What does this team continually
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Speaker 1: and and you might be right, but if your idea
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Speaker 1: is to get the best eleven players on the field,
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Speaker 1: which this organization continues to say, I don't know how
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Speaker 1: you don't flirt with Josh Allen in one of those
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Speaker 1: in that spot it's like strong side right on. Basically,
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Speaker 1: I think then you're fantastic. He's smart, and he's a
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Speaker 1: mature and I think he can probably handle it everything
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Speaker 1: all of that. But I don't know that you want
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Speaker 1: to put all of that, and that's been dangerous around here,
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Speaker 1: absolutely perfect example of that. It's also important to know
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Speaker 1: that they they're never really in base defense the strong
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Speaker 1: side line. It's not like because he's because Josh Allen
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Speaker 1: is a strong side linebacker, he's gonna be on the
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Speaker 1: field a lot. Leon Jacobs played like fifteen snaps a
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Speaker 1: game last hear their nickel almost all the time because
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Speaker 1: because opponents are always an eleven person. So it's not
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Speaker 1: that big of I would try to find a way
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Speaker 1: to get yawn And and Josh Allen on the field
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Speaker 1: on first and second down together and maybe even move
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Speaker 1: Calais inside next to Marcel, especially if Taven you know,
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Speaker 1: doesn't develop like we like, you know, they hope he will.
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Speaker 1: But to me, that's that's your top four right there.
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Speaker 1: Find a way to get them on the field of
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Speaker 1: the time. And can you flash some looks of a
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Speaker 1: three four? It does in that way, and that's what
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Speaker 1: we've been talking about on our radio show a lot.
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Speaker 1: I mean, can you see that? Will you see that?
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Speaker 1: I know my co host Austin later played this game
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Speaker 1: for this orders. It's convinced they will show some three
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Speaker 1: or four looks at times this year. But we'll see. Well.
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Speaker 1: I asked Tom Coffin about that after the draft, and
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Speaker 1: he said, well, when you get into Nickel sets, like
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Speaker 1: it's not really three four anymore, like it kind of
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Speaker 1: becomes an amiba. With the number of defensive backs that
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Speaker 1: are on the field, they're gonna do some experimental things.
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Speaker 1: They should because the guy is a freak talent. He's
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Speaker 1: a crazy athlete, so you want to move him around
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Speaker 1: the field and see what he can do. But I
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Speaker 1: think as a rookie, initially you're gonna slod him into
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Speaker 1: that role a Dante Fowers and maybe build it up
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Speaker 1: as the season goes well. And you know, he did
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Speaker 1: move around a lot in college, so that you can
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Speaker 1: help to learn. He said he will coverage half the
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Speaker 1: time you asked the questions, I would guess then if
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Speaker 1: it's not, if it's not a movement, Miles Jack stays
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Speaker 1: in that same spot. I do think you'll see a
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Speaker 1: veteran guy go around the week's side. I do not
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Speaker 1: believe they drafted Quincy Williams to play that week sideline
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Speaker 1: backer in two thousand nineteen. I don't believe they did that.
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Speaker 1: I think it'd be Wilson. Wilson would be the guy.
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Speaker 1: And then I think maybe you look at j Good
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Speaker 1: good because they've been playing him inside. Yeah, but you know,
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Speaker 1: I think he's he's versatile. Yeah. Alright, final thought here, guys,
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Speaker 1: what do you want to see next week? And um,
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Speaker 1: what's coming up on ghost coverage? What you got Brent?
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Speaker 1: Go ahead? Please? Uh let's see what do I want
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Speaker 1: to see next week? That's that's good. I think I
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Speaker 1: want to continue to see DJ Shark and and D. D.
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Speaker 1: Westbrook because those guys have to become I love markis Lee.
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Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of markis Lee. I do think
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Speaker 1: the first half of the season Mark eas Lee is
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Speaker 1: going to be a little sketchy because it's tough to
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Speaker 1: come back. Uh. Heck, even Allen Robinson who had a
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Speaker 1: nice season second half of the year for Chicago last year,
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Speaker 1: it took him the first half of the year to
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Speaker 1: get going. Just the nature of the Beast the way
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Speaker 1: it is. So I think those two guys have to
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Speaker 1: continue to gain confidence with Nick Foles, rapport with Nick Foles.
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Speaker 1: So that's what I'll be looking for. Uh in o
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Speaker 1: t a S. I catch our show three to six
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Speaker 1: on ESPN six ninety Monday through Friday, except not this
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Speaker 1: Monday because it's Memorial Day. And also you can catch
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Speaker 1: us on CBS forty seven, Fox Dirty like all the time,
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Speaker 1: anything else on Twitter. Hey, he told me I could
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Speaker 1: mark new radio show in town. Yeah. Healthy, I think
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Speaker 1: you just this is the time of year. You gotta
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Speaker 1: stay healthy. Uh. The Nixon bruises, the D. D. Westbrook
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Speaker 1: and and Josh Allen. You're gonna live with those and
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Speaker 1: deal with those. But what you got it you can
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Speaker 1: have this time of years, the Hunter Henry a guy
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Speaker 1: blowing out his knee in in non contact. If you
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Speaker 1: can avoid that, you're ahead of the game. And that's
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Speaker 1: that's what they have to see. That's what they want
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Speaker 1: to see. Beyond that, for me, I think you get
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Speaker 1: you know, I always look at his stories. You have
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Speaker 1: to write, Leonard from that the story you have to
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Speaker 1: write today for me, and then the stories you want
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Speaker 1: to write. Stories I want to write. I want to
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Speaker 1: dig in on on Josh Lambo. I think he's fascinating,
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Speaker 1: fascinating character. And then I'm gonna dig in on Chris Connelly,
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Speaker 1: another guy who's got his uh hands and everything outside
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Speaker 1: of football. Well, Daniel, we went from sunshine, rainbows to
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Speaker 1: thunderstorms of the mark talking about injuries and guys blowing
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Speaker 1: out their knees. Um, I'll do you know, I didn't
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Speaker 1: mention anybody for this franchise. That's good, that's good. It's
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Speaker 1: baby steps, babies. I'm excited to see Josh Oliver's development
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Speaker 1: because he I didn't think he was going to be
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Speaker 1: where he's at right now this first week, just in
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Speaker 1: terms of the place he's making the catches he's making.
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Speaker 1: He could be a weapon. Like Mark was saying earlier,
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Speaker 1: I'm excited to see how he progresses. The best Josh
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Speaker 1: and franchise history. Not you, You're the number one Josh.
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Speaker 1: She looks a little nerdy though. I have a more
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Speaker 1: I have a feature coming out on Josh Oliver Um.
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Speaker 1: He has like eight family members that played professional sports,
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Speaker 1: and I got in touch with a lot of them,
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Speaker 1: So keep an eye out for that. Uh sometime probably Monday, um.
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Speaker 1: And then I'm just gonna do like a O T
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Speaker 1: I've never seen of course it won't be worth having.
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Speaker 1: It's in the package. It looks like well I had
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Speaker 1: to listen a little weight. I feel like I just
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Speaker 1: got burned. That's dark. Yeah, thanks a lot, Daniel, Mark, Brent.
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Speaker 1: Good to see you guys. Appreciate it. We'll see you
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Speaker 1: next week. Have a great haul. Thanks thanks for having
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