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Jags Drive Time: Wednesday, December 23 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Jeff Warris, did you don't Jack Morris? Did you Jack
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Speaker 1: Warrens Drive Time right and Sex Sextra JATOs Actually, Jack
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Speaker 1: Warrens D Time starts right now. I think they, you know,
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Speaker 1: respect one another. Um. You know, I think that they
0:24
Speaker 1: communicate well with each other. Um, there's you know, don't
0:29
Speaker 1: don't don't. I just want to make sure there's there's
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Speaker 1: obviously a lot of frustration. Uh, there's obviously you know
0:36
Speaker 1: a lot of people are upset. Uh. I'm sure people
0:40
Speaker 1: are embarrassed. There's a lot of that. But we don't
0:45
Speaker 1: let the personal feelings come into play when we have
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to pick things and try to work to
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Speaker 1: get better. And I think that's what this team has done.
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Speaker 1: Um A really an outstanding job of a thirteen game
1:03
Speaker 1: losing streak will definitely bring some frustrations, but if you
1:06
Speaker 1: can look for a positive and anything, it's been the
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Speaker 1: no finger pointing in the respect of this team. Definitely
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Speaker 1: a close knit group that we have appreciated covering the season.
1:15
Speaker 1: Welcome into Jaguars Drive Time on a Wednesday morning. Ashelan Sullivan,
1:18
Speaker 1: John Osier, Brian Sexton and I kind of feel like
1:22
Speaker 1: I'm on the edge of my seat this week, and
1:25
Speaker 1: I see both sides this and John it's finding that
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Speaker 1: balance this week of hearing what the coaches and players
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Speaker 1: are saying, but also paying attention to all these fans
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Speaker 1: and what they're excited about. It's a very interesting balance,
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Speaker 1: especially when you have two weeks left to go and
1:39
Speaker 1: we're working through it right now. Well, it's a it's
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Speaker 1: a balance, and it's a you know, it's an incredibly
1:49
Speaker 1: odd situation. And as I wrote, you know of one
1:52
Speaker 1: of my ozone mail bag answers. You know, if you
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Speaker 1: don't understand where the team's coming from, then you don't
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Speaker 1: under stand how the NFL work. But if you don't
2:02
Speaker 1: understand where the fans are coming from, then the players
2:05
Speaker 1: don't grasp what fans are So this is purely a
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Speaker 1: case where different people have different interests, different motivations, and
2:16
Speaker 1: it's it's it's incredibly odd. But most of the people
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Speaker 1: who have interest in the Jaguars from outside the building
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Speaker 1: clearly want them to lose because Trevor Lawrence is the
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Speaker 1: big carrot out there. Go ahead, Sorry, I I'm in
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Speaker 1: the building. I've been there for twenty seven years. I
2:40
Speaker 1: want them to lose. Okay, and just be honest. I
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Speaker 1: want Trevor Lawrence. The quarterback is about so much more
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Speaker 1: than football. He's about attracting fans. Okay, people have been
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Speaker 1: calling the ticket office already. They're interested. This team has
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Speaker 1: not been relevant. The quarterback fixes things. I understand Doug
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Speaker 1: and the coach staff, and I have a lot of
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Speaker 1: friends on that coaching staff and I but what's best
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Speaker 1: for the franchise here is the quarterback. The franchise quarterback
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Speaker 1: who has been identified by top personnel people as the
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Speaker 1: next Andrew Luck, Peyton Mann and John Hillway, that guy
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Speaker 1: who gives a foundation to your franchise, and we all
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Speaker 1: know this one needs it. I'm not conflicted at all.
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Speaker 1: I'm not I know what is best for this franchise
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Speaker 1: is the quarterback, not a meaningless win at the end
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Speaker 1: of the year. I do understand the coaches and players.
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Speaker 1: They're you know, they're going at it for pride. But
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Speaker 1: I don't. No equivocation on my part, no balance on
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Speaker 1: my part here. I am all in on them getting
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence and if that means losing the final two,
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Speaker 1: and it does, then I'm fine with that because I
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Speaker 1: won't remember these last two games at the at the
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Speaker 1: draft in Cleveland in April. What I'll remember is I
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Speaker 1: could have had Trevor Lawrence right if I win one
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Speaker 1: of these final two games. No, no, this one is
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Speaker 1: about taking your medicine and making the investment in your future.
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Speaker 1: No balance, It's all on that. It's very true. I
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Speaker 1: go back to last year the final game, and it
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Speaker 1: was a win and it felt great. It was a
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Speaker 1: great moment to end off the season like that, especially
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Speaker 1: for Klais Campbell and guys like that. But a couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks later, you really didn't remember it. So it's
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Speaker 1: a It's an odd place to be in, but it's
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Speaker 1: definitely something we'll be talking about the next couple of
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Speaker 1: weeks as we get into big things. Big thing one
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Speaker 1: is no win situation. If they beat the Bears on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: I don't even want to know what the fan baseball say.
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Speaker 1: I'll turn off Twitter. There's definitely gonna be booze in
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Speaker 1: the stadium. The team wants to win, though, but one
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Speaker 1: really wants them to win. So Doug moro own, how
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Speaker 1: do you balance that as head coach? Well, I mean, no,
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Speaker 1: one's advised me. You know, I'm saying anything different than
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Speaker 1: to go out there and win. So, UM, I understand,
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Speaker 1: you know, I guess from a standpoint of I mean
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Speaker 1: I was young growing up, you know, and and and
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Speaker 1: had a favorite team, and you know, I was excited
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Speaker 1: to see where they were gonna pick. So it's not
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Speaker 1: something you know like that. I don't it looks back
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Speaker 1: and I understand, but you know, I mean, jevus, I mean,
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Speaker 1: we we're trying. We're trying to win. I mean, um,
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Speaker 1: I mean we're doing everything we possibly can. And you know,
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Speaker 1: that's that's what I'm That's my job right now, and
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Speaker 1: I owe it to the coach and the players. None
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Speaker 1: of us are gonna, you know, look at this and
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Speaker 1: in the future. I mean, no one knows what's going
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Speaker 1: to happen tomorrow. Never mind, you know what I'm saying
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Speaker 1: at the end of the year. Credit to Dug Moron
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Speaker 1: on his Monday press conference answering those questions that are
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Speaker 1: not fun to honestly and respectfully. He definitely gets its.
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Speaker 1: Big thing too, is better be better. There are a
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Speaker 1: lot of players who are in need of better tape
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Speaker 1: for the new general manager. The offensive tackles haven't played well,
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Speaker 1: and neither have the safety. Those are two, just two
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Speaker 1: that stand out. A new quarterback is a motivation for
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Speaker 1: a lot of guys who might not be on this
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Speaker 1: team the current suster. They're not worried about a quarterback
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Speaker 1: because their futures are so up in the air. They
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Speaker 1: have to worry about themselves, and they should be boring
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Speaker 1: about themselves in these next two weeks. Big thing three
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Speaker 1: is Blake Bortles Part two. Chicago Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky
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Speaker 1: is basically the Blake Bortles of the Bears, a top
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Speaker 1: five draft picks who is not as good as they
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Speaker 1: thought he would be. Similar to two thousand seventeen, like
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Speaker 1: we saw here with Bordles, Trubisky is getting hot right
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Speaker 1: now and this team is playing well, and almost all
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Speaker 1: of it has to be with this quarterback. Play elevating
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Speaker 1: and John this team coming in here, their backs against
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Speaker 1: the walls. They have to win to get into the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: It's like we could say that balance it's a bad thing,
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Speaker 1: but is it a bad thing? You're here in this
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Speaker 1: in between right now. Well, the Bears are motivated just
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Speaker 1: like the last what five six teams since the Texans
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Speaker 1: game have been motivated the Bears are also playing better.
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Speaker 1: They lost six in a row. They've sort of figured
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Speaker 1: out a little bit who they are, are starting to
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Speaker 1: run the ball better. Uh, they haven't played great defensively
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Speaker 1: in the last couple of games, but this is a
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Speaker 1: very talented defense that I don't doubt. It's sort of
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Speaker 1: the old story. If the Bears get a lead on
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars, the Jaguars are in trouble. The Bears can
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Speaker 1: rush the pass, or the Jaguars are on a comeback
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Speaker 1: team right now. So all those fans who were wanting
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars blues, which I get is most of them,
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Speaker 1: want the Bears to get ahead in this game. They
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Speaker 1: will be able to rush the pass or on a
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Speaker 1: consistent basis. If they do, that's what you want if
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Speaker 1: you're looking for that, and I guess that's the way
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Speaker 1: we have to talk about this game at this point.
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Speaker 1: M big thing to Brian. Those safeties, the offensive tackles
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Speaker 1: especially did not have a good game last week and
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Speaker 1: definitely would be worried because you want to put good
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Speaker 1: game tape out there. Their future is so unknown about
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Speaker 1: the general manager, and you can say you're worrying about
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, But you don't know what your future is.
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Speaker 1: If your safety at Jared Wilson and Andrew Wingard some
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Speaker 1: thing like that, the future, you don't care about it
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Speaker 1: right now. The safety issue has been a problem since
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Speaker 1: opening day, since Philip Rivers went right down the field
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Speaker 1: attacking the middle of it. Um. I think you've got
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Speaker 1: one safety on your roster that you can say is
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Speaker 1: a long term guy, and he isn't even playing right now.
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Speaker 1: I mean that's Daniel Thomas wingerd can be a really
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Speaker 1: solid special teamer, fourth safety kind of guy. Jared Wilson
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Speaker 1: maybe the third, but you you need improvement there. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what Cam Robinson's future holds, but as far
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Speaker 1: as I'm concerned, he hasn't shown enough tape that a
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Speaker 1: new general manager is just gonna come in and lock
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Speaker 1: him up. Jowan Taylor has been up and down all
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Speaker 1: year and there needs to be more stability there. But
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Speaker 1: I still hold out a lot of hope for his future.
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Speaker 1: And there are a number of guys you know, all
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Speaker 1: over the roster that have something to prove, so you know,
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Speaker 1: from that perspective, you know they're not in any way,
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Speaker 1: shape or form thinking well, all right, let's go play
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Speaker 1: well and lose. I mean no, no, I mean they're thinking,
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Speaker 1: I gotta go play well because I want to have
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Speaker 1: my job next year. There's where the balance comes in.
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Speaker 1: There's where the conflict is. Guys who are paid to
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Speaker 1: win aren't going to not try to win. Um and
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Speaker 1: and these guys, you know, I wrote it for Quick Thoughts,
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Speaker 1: which is coming out tomorrow, but you know, identified fourteen
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Speaker 1: players that I believe you can build around, which you
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Speaker 1: know leaves you what thirty nine take away the two
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Speaker 1: specialists because you've got Lambeau and Cook who are both
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Speaker 1: guys you can build with. So there's six teams. So
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Speaker 1: was that le like thirty seven spots? Okay? Well, you
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Speaker 1: know there's thirty seven guys on the roster who are
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Speaker 1: all trying to earn their spot in the next two
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Speaker 1: weeks at least even if the Jaguars don't win, they
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Speaker 1: want to play well. Seven spots is a lot of
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Speaker 1: spots that What stands out to me is what for example,
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Speaker 1: Keelan Cole, a guy that wants to get paid and say, hey,
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Speaker 1: new general manager, pay me these next two weeks. Very
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Speaker 1: important for a guy like that. Just one example of sadly.
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Speaker 1: You know, we've seen over the years roster turnover because
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Speaker 1: of changes and coaches and and personnel guys. So you
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Speaker 1: should figure right away that a third of the roster
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Speaker 1: is gone. Every year you have roster turned over at
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Speaker 1: the bottom of the roster, the the crop of undrafted
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Speaker 1: rookies or the second or third year draft picks they're disappointing,
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Speaker 1: or free agents who leave. So a third of the
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Speaker 1: roster is out the door. So that's half of the
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Speaker 1: thirty seven number, you know, or roughly half of the
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Speaker 1: thirty seven number. But with the general manager that comes in,
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Speaker 1: he's not tied to guys, you know, I mean, you
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Speaker 1: gotta I'll give you a great example. A guy that
10:26
Speaker 1: I put on my list of guys that we need
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Speaker 1: to see more from is Josh Oliver, the tight end right,
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Speaker 1: hasn't really played in two years, didn't play at all
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Speaker 1: this year. You can general manager could come in and go,
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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not necessary. That was someone else's
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Speaker 1: third round pick. He can't stay healthy. I need guys
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Speaker 1: that are available, you know, those kinds of players. So
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Speaker 1: Oliver is probably a bad example because he can't go
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Speaker 1: out and improve his standing. But there are guys who
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Speaker 1: can who can play well and give someone something to
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Speaker 1: talk about when they get into those personnel meetings. In
10:55
Speaker 1: late January, Josh Oliver was a guy with a ton
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Speaker 1: of potential, talk to them every training camp and definitely
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Speaker 1: a bummer that we never really got to see that
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Speaker 1: this question is of the three reported general manager danial
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Speaker 1: manager candidates, who do you think would be the best fit.
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Speaker 1: If you've not read that article, I encourage you to
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Speaker 1: do so. John breaks down all three of the reported
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Speaker 1: general manager candidates that are being interviewed this week. Of
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Speaker 1: the three that are reported, who do you think would
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Speaker 1: be the best fit? And obviously more will be interviewed,
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Speaker 1: but for the sake of the conversation, let's just say
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Speaker 1: these all right, who's ready? Anyone? Anyone at all? Yeah? Okay, Well,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't I don't know any of
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Speaker 1: them personally. You know, Bulky was in the building this year,
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Speaker 1: but we did never get a chance to talk to
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Speaker 1: him because we haven't been in the building this year. Um,
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Speaker 1: I hear good things about Louis Riddick, and he has
15:30
Speaker 1: a fourteen year career as a personnel man and comes
15:35
Speaker 1: highly regarded. You know, been on television watching a lot
15:39
Speaker 1: of the games, obviously for Monday Night Football, so he
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Speaker 1: knows the trends in the direction of the league. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure he's as good as any I just I can't.
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Speaker 1: I can't put my finger out and say that's the guy,
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Speaker 1: because I don't know any of them well enough to
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Speaker 1: be able to say that it is. You know, and
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Speaker 1: you'd like to be able to say, whoever can identify
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Speaker 1: the quarterback? Hey, if you're picking number one overall, could
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Speaker 1: be the general manager. That one's easy. So I just
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Speaker 1: I can't identify the qualities of these guys. The salary
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Speaker 1: caps in great shape. They've got lots of draft choices,
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Speaker 1: so for them, you know, I mean, this is this
16:11
Speaker 1: is walk into a pretty a pretty good position, a
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Speaker 1: really good position. So any or all of them are
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Speaker 1: probably qualified to be the guy. It's a ton of
16:21
Speaker 1: teams looking for a general manager, but the Jaguars would
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Speaker 1: be the most attractive job with everything they have going
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Speaker 1: for them this offseason. John, Are you in the same
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Speaker 1: boat as our friend Brian. Yeah, I gret mean I
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Speaker 1: originally wrote Rick Smith just because he's been in the
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Speaker 1: a f C South, So I guess that would be
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Speaker 1: if I'm looking at all three and I had to
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Speaker 1: pick out one trait, I guess that would be it.
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Speaker 1: But I didn't cross out that answer and I did
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Speaker 1: my little drawing with the question mark because I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's uh, I don't know I have got
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Speaker 1: any of them. I'm like, like Brian, I haven't gotten
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Speaker 1: to know trend Balky. I like listening to Lewis Riddick. Um,
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Speaker 1: I know Rick Smith has had a some success in
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Speaker 1: Houston building a team to the playoffs at times there,
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Speaker 1: but we don't really know. And like you said, if
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Speaker 1: you get the quarterback right in the NFL, a lot
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Speaker 1: of the rest of the GM takes care of itself.
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Speaker 1: That's a huge step. So I still believe Dave Calledwell,
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Speaker 1: who we talked about the time, if he gets the
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Speaker 1: quarterback right, there's a different conversation around his eight season.
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Speaker 1: It's just the way it is in the NFL. So
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say it doesn't matter, but the quarterback
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Speaker 1: matter so big, you know. And it's worth pointing out
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Speaker 1: here of John and Ashlyn that the Jaguars salary cap
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Speaker 1: is in really, really strong shape. And Dave gets some
17:49
Speaker 1: credit for orchestrating trades and moving guys and and and
17:54
Speaker 1: some tough moves to get it in good shape. But
17:56
Speaker 1: John is zick Uh and Tim Walsh, and Walsh has
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Speaker 1: been there since night are two guys. A new GM
18:03
Speaker 1: may want his own, you know. That may be part
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Speaker 1: of the negotiating process. I don't know, but a new
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Speaker 1: GM could come right in and let John, who's proven it,
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Speaker 1: and and Tim continue to run the salary cap. So
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Speaker 1: you wanna talk about easy, right, I mean, you've got
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Speaker 1: the cap in good shape, You've got the draft picks,
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Speaker 1: if you've got number one, you've got the quarterback. Again,
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Speaker 1: it's hyperbole to say that it's easy, but you walk
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Speaker 1: into a situation where it's easier to make good decisions.
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Speaker 1: I go back to two thousand nine, right right before
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Speaker 1: you got here, John and Jane Smith takes over is
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Speaker 1: the GM, and you know, he goes for Eugene Monroe
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Speaker 1: with the ninth pick. Overall, that wasn't an easy pick, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean it there Tyson Alualu the next year, there
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Speaker 1: wasn't that quarterback at the top for him to be
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Speaker 1: able to go. Okay, that's that they were trying to
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Speaker 1: fix the roster and they were trying to do without
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Speaker 1: a quarterback. I mean, again, it goes back to why
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Speaker 1: I'm so all in on Trevor Lawrence, because this guy
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Speaker 1: is the no brainer pick that makes the other jobs
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Speaker 1: in the building easier. So I mean, I'll give you
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Speaker 1: one more thing on the GM, Ashley. If Rick Smith
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Speaker 1: is the guy who identified that J. J. Watt was
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Speaker 1: going to be a great player because he was thought
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Speaker 1: to be a top fifteen sixteen player in that draft.
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Speaker 1: But he had been he had been a three or
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Speaker 1: four end at Wisconsin and and he was really really
19:24
Speaker 1: good in the Rose Bowl against TCU that year. But
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Speaker 1: I don't I don't recall anybody thinking J. J. Watt
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Speaker 1: is a future Hall of Famer, you know, leading up
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Speaker 1: to the draft. And if Rick Smith is the guy
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Speaker 1: that identified that J. J. Watt was absolutely essential at
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Speaker 1: number eleven and what a steel that was, then I
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Speaker 1: give a little more, you know a little more a
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Speaker 1: weight to Rick Smith because that second first round pick
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Speaker 1: is going to be important for this team, got to
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Speaker 1: get the right guy we haven't. If they have the
19:50
Speaker 1: number one overall pick, we can stop talking about it
19:52
Speaker 1: and start focusing on the Rams pick yep Rick Smith
19:58
Speaker 1: being in the a f C South definitely is a
20:00
Speaker 1: US and I went Trent Bulky, and I understand the
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Speaker 1: this you want to just blow it all up and
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Speaker 1: get rid of everyone and start fresh. And I get that,
20:09
Speaker 1: but you'll see the stars I drew around three postseasons.
20:13
Speaker 1: That's definitely a plus to Trent Bulky, so I went
20:16
Speaker 1: with him. All Right, here we go looking forward to
20:18
Speaker 1: Sunday's game that we really have barely talked about so
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Speaker 1: far on this show against the Chicago Bears. Who is
20:25
Speaker 1: the biggest threat on Sunday? And you can look on
20:28
Speaker 1: this at both ways, whether you want the Jaguars to
20:30
Speaker 1: win or lose, but we're looking at it as a
20:32
Speaker 1: competitive advantage. Who is the Jaguars biggest threats on Sunday
20:39
Speaker 1: against the Chicago Bears, a seven win team coming in
20:43
Speaker 1: here and needs to get a win to get into
20:46
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Definitely spelling this guy's last game. I'll now
21:01
Speaker 1: all right, Bryan Sexton, go for it. I'll just say
21:04
Speaker 1: Mitchell Trubisky. Either way, if you want the Jaguars to win, um,
21:09
Speaker 1: and I don't know you. If you do, UM, then
21:13
Speaker 1: Trubisky has been been hot. Eight touchdowns and three interceptions
21:17
Speaker 1: in the last four games, had a big game when
21:20
Speaker 1: they just drilled the Texans with three touchdowns. The other
21:24
Speaker 1: side of it is is if you don't want the
21:26
Speaker 1: Jaguars to win so that they stay in the number
21:28
Speaker 1: one spot for Trevor Lawrence, uh, let me. Trubisky is
21:31
Speaker 1: the kind of guy who can throw three interceptions and
21:33
Speaker 1: two of them can be picked sixes and you can
21:35
Speaker 1: find yourself with a nice lead. So Mitchell Trubisky, and
21:38
Speaker 1: that's been the story on him is is you know
21:41
Speaker 1: up and down, you know good and bad. So I
21:43
Speaker 1: think he's the biggest threat either way. Yes, the inconsistency
21:48
Speaker 1: could go either way. On Sunday, John, what are you thinking? Yeah?
21:52
Speaker 1: I agree with Brian. I think a Trubisky is sort
21:54
Speaker 1: of the lynch pin of this game. If he plays well,
21:56
Speaker 1: the Jaguars lose. If he doesn't play well, they have
21:59
Speaker 1: a chance to win. And I went just with Jaguars.
22:04
Speaker 1: I went with Laviska Enal Jr. Uh. You know, I
22:08
Speaker 1: think he's the biggest threat for the Jaguars to have
22:10
Speaker 1: a big game that matters. Uh. Sort of feels like
22:13
Speaker 1: he's been playing around with it the last couple of weeks,
22:16
Speaker 1: close to having some big plays. We've been waiting for
22:19
Speaker 1: it all season. Injuries, circumstance at quarterback, et cetera. Wouldn't
22:24
Speaker 1: surprise me if he really produced these last couple of games.
22:27
Speaker 1: So I'll go with Labisca. I like that you want
22:30
Speaker 1: a game from him at the end of the game
22:32
Speaker 1: where you're talking about him. He makes a few catches
22:34
Speaker 1: here and there that make you go wow, but as
22:36
Speaker 1: a whole postgame you not really thinking about him as
22:38
Speaker 1: the change of the game. So I like that, John.
22:41
Speaker 1: I went David Montgomery, the Bears running back hundred forty
22:44
Speaker 1: six yards two touchdowns last week. The Jaguars in the
22:48
Speaker 1: league with yards per carry. They give up. This guy
22:51
Speaker 1: gets going. The Jaguars have trouble some fans. That might
22:54
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22:57
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23:01
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24:23
Speaker 1: evidence for why you don't want to feel that way
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24:30
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24:33
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24:36
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24:40
Speaker 1: I watched him in the SEC Championship game last week.
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Speaker 1: Davanta Smith, the wide receiver. I gived him to the
24:46
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24:50
Speaker 1: I get it. He hasn't been great, but in a
24:52
Speaker 1: loss in which he threw three interceptions, he also made
24:55
Speaker 1: three throws against the Colts earlier this year that I
24:57
Speaker 1: have never seen a Jaguars quarterback make, never um big
25:01
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25:04
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25:09
Speaker 1: And if you surround him, and that was kind of
25:11
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25:13
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25:17
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Speaker 1: current quarterbacks to we beat heading to the preseason? If? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think I think if any is the operative ward here? Uh,
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Speaker 1: I kind of think if any of the three or
28:27
Speaker 1: so on the roster, it would probably be Jake Luton. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, I don't anticipate. I just kind of don't
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Speaker 1: think in new GM would would stay with Minshew. I
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Speaker 1: for a lot of different reasons. I don't know that
28:42
Speaker 1: you want, you know, distraction is your backup quarterback, whatever
28:47
Speaker 1: it is, the mania as the backup quarterback, I just
28:51
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Speaker 1: the energy that he brings you when he comes in
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Speaker 1: is great. I and I think none of the three
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Speaker 1: I don't know that it matters all that much because
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Speaker 1: Offensively at least there's a good chance of that. So
29:13
Speaker 1: it may just be a fresh start at that position.
29:18
Speaker 1: I UM, I would put Luton in the category. I
29:22
Speaker 1: wouldn't bring Minshew back. Uh, you don't need that behind
29:25
Speaker 1: whoever your starter is going to be UM and I'm
29:29
Speaker 1: not talking him. He would be fine, but it's it's
29:32
Speaker 1: that small fraction to the fan base that thinks he
29:34
Speaker 1: is the second coming. I would move on from that
29:37
Speaker 1: because you just don't want that. Uh. And and Mike
29:40
Speaker 1: Glenned look Trevor Lawrence, assuming that's who he is, Uh,
29:44
Speaker 1: he doesn't mean if you've watched this kid, he doesn't
29:47
Speaker 1: need to be a mentor. Uh. The quarterback coach, the
29:51
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, whoever that is, will mentor him just fine.
29:56
Speaker 1: So I would say you'd bring Luton back to camp,
29:58
Speaker 1: probably draft someone. Um, you know, it just depends on
30:01
Speaker 1: on on who's coaching and who the general manager is.
30:04
Speaker 1: And I mean all those things have to be settled
30:06
Speaker 1: in the next couple of weeks, um, but Luten to
30:09
Speaker 1: be the only guy I'd be interested in having back.
30:13
Speaker 1: I agree, I'd like to see more of Jake Luton,
30:15
Speaker 1: especially from what we saw in training camp in that
30:17
Speaker 1: strong arm. If you got a little more touched on
30:19
Speaker 1: the ball and a little more experience, could be an
30:22
Speaker 1: option for a backup possibly, So agree with you, John
30:26
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30:29
Speaker 1: from Canada, Andy boy, I know coaches always game plan
30:33
Speaker 1: design on what they see as their best chance to win,
30:37
Speaker 1: But when you lose this much, what are the merits
30:39
Speaker 1: of air in and out as much as possible? Would
30:42
Speaker 1: that not put the defense on their heels a little bit. Well,
30:46
Speaker 1: airing out is awesome if you can do it well.
30:51
Speaker 1: If you can't do it well, then it's not so awesome.
30:55
Speaker 1: So you know, it's every whatever you're around a losing theme.
31:00
Speaker 1: We've been around teams that have not have not one enough.
31:03
Speaker 1: I always get quick, why don't they throw more? Throw
31:06
Speaker 1: the ball down field? I just want to see excitement. Well,
31:09
Speaker 1: interceptions return for touchdowns and sacks aren't exciting. Well, I
31:13
Speaker 1: mean they are in a very morbid way. So, uh,
31:17
Speaker 1: you know they're playing the way they are for a reason. Uh.
31:23
Speaker 1: Just airing it out all the time it leads to sacks.
31:28
Speaker 1: The plays that do work when you're balance often don't
31:32
Speaker 1: work as well when you're not balanced. The defense needs
31:34
Speaker 1: to at least respect the run, etcetera, etcetera. If airing
31:39
Speaker 1: it out work, they would love to do it. Uh,
31:42
Speaker 1: when you have a quarterback it doesn't have pocket present.
31:45
Speaker 1: When he won't throw the ball down field with velocity
31:48
Speaker 1: or can't, airing it out becomes very tough. It becomes
31:51
Speaker 1: a recipe for even worse disaster. Well, I think we've
31:55
Speaker 1: seen when the Jaguars have been behind the last couple
31:57
Speaker 1: of weeks and have gone to airing it out. How
32:01
Speaker 1: much trouble the offensive line has had holding up. I mean,
32:04
Speaker 1: if you can't run the ball, then you know the
32:06
Speaker 1: opposing team is just putting four or five guys with
32:09
Speaker 1: their hand on the ground, salivating like Pavlov's dog, and
32:13
Speaker 1: they can't wait to get at the quarterback. And I
32:15
Speaker 1: don't care how good you are at left tackle and
32:17
Speaker 1: right tackle or up the middle, you can't. You can't
32:20
Speaker 1: withstand you know, sixty pass attempts in the game. You
32:24
Speaker 1: just you've got to be able to run the ball.
32:25
Speaker 1: That that that balance is critical. Plus, look, this team
32:28
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32:31
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32:35
Speaker 1: He's elusive. He's a guy who makes things happen on
32:38
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32:40
Speaker 1: the running back who doesn't have the ball, then you've
32:43
Speaker 1: got a chance to make a play, which is when
32:45
Speaker 1: he was successful. So, you know, airing it out, as
32:47
Speaker 1: John said, it sounds really good, um, but there isn't
32:52
Speaker 1: There aren't many coaches in football that don't want to
32:57
Speaker 1: be able to run the ball at will. I gotta
33:02
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33:04
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33:06
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