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Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, March 31 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: It's Thursday, March one. This is Jaguars Happy Hour, and
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Speaker 1: now you better listen or he could come to your
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Speaker 1: house and slap you. J P. Shadrick, I don't think so.
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Speaker 1: Welcome in Jaguars Happy Hour on a Thursday afternoon. I
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Speaker 1: am j P. Shadrick. We've got a busy program is
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Speaker 1: always on Thursday. Jaguars analyst Jeff log I'm and joining us.
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Speaker 1: We'll get some highlights from the NFL annual meeting. We'll
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Speaker 1: hear from Jags owner's shot con and head coach Doug Peterson.
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Speaker 1: Logs has been looking at the film some of these
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Speaker 1: top draft prospects. Will get his results of the film session,
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Speaker 1: what he thinks about some of the top names will
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Speaker 1: go around the National Football League. A lot of news
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Speaker 1: continues free agency, of course, couple of weeks in and
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Speaker 1: some changes. A coaching change last night in the NFL
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Speaker 1: and the NFC South. All that coming up, Logs, good
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Speaker 1: afternoon to you. What's up? Good? It's all good man.
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Speaker 1: By the way, you were over here watching some film
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Speaker 1: with me today too, A little bit, very little bit,
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Speaker 1: not as much as you were, but will absolutely peek
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Speaker 1: over your shoulder. You know. The only reason that the
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Speaker 1: JP wanted to watch was, first of all, the h
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Speaker 1: when you watch a University of Georgia Alabama game and
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Speaker 1: you turn on whether you're Alabama's offensive side of their
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Speaker 1: defensive side against Georgia. Okay, the number of prospects that
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Speaker 1: are on the tape at one time is ridiculous. So
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Speaker 1: you could actually be doing your scouting for the current
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Speaker 1: year and your advanced scouting for a future years by
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Speaker 1: watching some of the prospects that are that are playing
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Speaker 1: for both of those ball clubs. It's incredible. We'll get
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Speaker 1: some of your results of that film watching coming up.
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Speaker 1: And just a little bit here on Jaguars Happier. We've
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Speaker 1: got another Twitter poll today. Logs know this week you
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Speaker 1: were enamored by that. That was kind of week in
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Speaker 1: my opinion week week Okay, this one after player editions
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Speaker 1: the past two weeks, what's the greatest area of need
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Speaker 1: for the Jags heading into April? Very good question. The
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Speaker 1: options were wide receiver, pass rush, offensive line or other
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Speaker 1: pass rush. We've got two votes so far. This came
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Speaker 1: up about midday today. Percent say wide receiver, thirty three
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Speaker 1: percent say pass rush, eighteen percent, offensive line three other.
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Speaker 1: Well I'm a little biased towards show. I would say
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Speaker 1: that's a at J. P. Shadrick. Yes, Son Twitter, If
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Speaker 1: you have that on your part, I will I'll pull
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Speaker 1: up my Twitter account instantly and vote in the next break. Well,
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Speaker 1: we'll update that again before the show is over today.
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Speaker 1: Of course we'll live on ten ton. I am Jaguars
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Speaker 1: dot Com, Jaguars Twitter, Facebook, and Jaguars YouTube. Let's get
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Speaker 1: to the NFL Annual Meeting review. This is one of
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Speaker 1: the very few times each year the Jaguars owners shot
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Speaker 1: con is on the record at certain points. Jaguars dot
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Speaker 1: Com senior writer John Osier had the exclusive with the
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Speaker 1: Jags owner this week of the Breakers in Palm Beach
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Speaker 1: talking about the workplace environment for the Jaguars after the changes.
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Speaker 1: Literally a lot of open discussion on where our weaknesses
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Speaker 1: is are, where our opponents weaknesses might be, and where
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Speaker 1: the strengths off and how do we develop it uh
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Speaker 1: and turn it into really a winning program. The full
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Speaker 1: conversation available on Jaguars dot Com and Jags social media.
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Speaker 1: And he's he said this a few times in the
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Speaker 1: interview logs. He's been here ten years now, He's had
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Speaker 1: a few different operating flow charts if you will write
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Speaker 1: different iterations of that. And you know, hiring Doug Peterson
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Speaker 1: in now at Trent ball key at least he said
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Speaker 1: it on the interview. He feels like it's a good
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Speaker 1: start in the right direction. You just gotta go produced
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Speaker 1: now that's the next I mean, look, everybody feels great
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Speaker 1: about where your program is in March, okay, but the
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Speaker 1: work has a has only just begun and there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of work left to do. So uh, I don't
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Speaker 1: think any proclamations need to be made or statements made
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Speaker 1: about how great things are now, you know, because the
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Speaker 1: results speak for themselves when the games start being played.
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Speaker 1: Because oh, by the way, they keep count, you know.
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Speaker 1: So this football team's got a long long way to go,
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Speaker 1: uh to to getting this program headed in the right directions.
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Speaker 1: When I say that, I mean I'm talking about visible
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Speaker 1: visible from a from a fan perspective and from a
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Speaker 1: perspective that's being viewed from the outside because nobody's seeing
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Speaker 1: what's going on in the inside and nobody cares. But
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Speaker 1: people care about when it's time to play games, and
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Speaker 1: and they're they're keeping score and then keeping a record count.
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Speaker 1: So the reality is the team is four games in
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Speaker 1: two years last time I checked. That's not a lot,
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Speaker 1: so a lot of work to do, and uh, you
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Speaker 1: like what they've done in free agency, but at the
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Speaker 1: same token, you also spent a lot of money to
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Speaker 1: get that accomplished, and that's not exactly what you wanted
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Speaker 1: to do. You'd like to be able to, uh do
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Speaker 1: what Trent Balky talked about what the ultimate goal is,
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Speaker 1: which is having a strong roster to where you're working
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Speaker 1: on second contracts and then just supplementing your roster with
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Speaker 1: a few guys here and there, instead of going out
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Speaker 1: and paying top dollar and free agency or overpaying guys
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Speaker 1: and free agency to get the productivity that you need
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Speaker 1: to be a to be a decent football team. And
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Speaker 1: that's where this program is at right now, and you
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Speaker 1: hope that in the future it gets to the point
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Speaker 1: where it's it's self sustainable. When I mean self sustainable
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Speaker 1: is that you're just continuing to reload with the draft
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Speaker 1: picks that you have. Because even though the Rams want
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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl, Okay, how many other teams have been
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Speaker 1: able to do what the Rams did and win a
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl? Kind of the first to really go all
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Speaker 1: in like that recently. I mean, look at the Tampa
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Speaker 1: Bay Bucks did it because they got the greatest of
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Speaker 1: all time playing quarterback. But oh, by the way, that
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Speaker 1: was a stacked roster prior to Tom Brady arrived. Tom
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Speaker 1: doesn't play defense last night, I mean a stacked rock
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Speaker 1: They're pretty good on defense. So uh yeah, this team
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Speaker 1: got some work due to get to that point. So
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Speaker 1: the full conversation was shot kind of available on Jaguars
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Speaker 1: dot Com from earlier this week. You know who also
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Speaker 1: spoke in Palm Beach this week the a f C
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Speaker 1: Coaches Breakfast Monday, Doug Peterson met with the media. They're
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Speaker 1: plenty to cover. We're gonna start now on the offensive
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Speaker 1: line though it's big focus this week. There's been a
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Speaker 1: lot of change since we last spoke logs. Of course,
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Speaker 1: Brandon Linder calls it a career after eight seasons. There's
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Speaker 1: a question mark there. Now. They do have Tyler Shatley.
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Speaker 1: There a lot of conversation about right tackle and a
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Speaker 1: battle coming up for that position in the offseat and
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Speaker 1: program and training camp. But Cam Robinson that story is
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Speaker 1: still out there as well. Franchise tagged and Doug Peterson
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Speaker 1: asked about the veteran left tackle earlier this week. It's
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Speaker 1: hard to find really really good left tackles in this week. Um,
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Speaker 1: and we feel like Cam it's one of those good tackles.
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Speaker 1: And uh, we're just fortunate to be able to, you know,
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Speaker 1: franchise him, keep him, keep him here, hopefully work out
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Speaker 1: a long term deal with him, so he's around more
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Speaker 1: than just a year. Um. But but keeping that and
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Speaker 1: knowing his experience and knowing his expertise really made it
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Speaker 1: easy for us to keep him around. That's earlier this week.
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson the full conversation, the full press conference on
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Speaker 1: Jaguars dot Com. Also, so, I mean they're working on
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Speaker 1: a long term deal with Cam and then as we said,
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Speaker 1: there's some other question marks, there's still a lot to
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Speaker 1: be determined on this offensive live. Yeah. The interesting thing
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Speaker 1: is that where is that number gonna be at for
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Speaker 1: a long term contract, because if you look at the
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Speaker 1: tackle that uh played for the Saints that hit the market, Um, yeah,
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Speaker 1: Tarin Armstead, Uh, the contract that he got. I think
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Speaker 1: a lot of people were surprised that it wasn't higher
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Speaker 1: than what it was when you looked at that contract,
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Speaker 1: you know, want, Wow, if the Jaguars can can do
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Speaker 1: the same with Cam Robinson. That may be okay, but
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Speaker 1: Armstead has been hurt a lot. Throw on Armstead by
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Speaker 1: the way, five years, seventy five million dollars with the
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Speaker 1: dolphinstree guaranteed. Yeah, I mean, that's uh wild if you
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Speaker 1: can get something in that range for for Cam Robinson.
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Speaker 1: But I mean as Cam Robinson what Tarn Armstad is.
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Speaker 1: But Cam has been healthier. I mean, so there's a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a debate there. But uh, I've said
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Speaker 1: this before about I I think it would be awesome
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Speaker 1: if you could have had can be a right tackle
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Speaker 1: and you can find a way to put somebody at
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Speaker 1: left tackle. But look, Cam's a solid left tackle. Is
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Speaker 1: he a great left tackle? No? Is he a solid
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Speaker 1: left tackle? Yes? Does it prevent you from having to
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Speaker 1: go out maybe try to fulfill that that position and
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Speaker 1: free agency or with the draft because you'd like to
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Speaker 1: be able to create some competition at right tackle. So
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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it solved a lot of the issues.
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Speaker 1: But I think the interesting thing the news of the
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Speaker 1: day for me was that there's a competition at right
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Speaker 1: time about that right So Julan Taylor, he spoke highly
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Speaker 1: of Julan but said, hey, Walker is gonna go in there.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna compete in the offseason program and in training camp.
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Speaker 1: So get your uh you know, get your binoculars ready
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Speaker 1: for Yeah, it's gonna be fun. Right. I think that
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Speaker 1: that's uh, that's needed. I said that before that the
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Speaker 1: right tackle position needs competition, and I didn't know that
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Speaker 1: they would do that with the draft pick, uh you know,
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Speaker 1: from last year. I thought maybe they uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: but here's the thing people have to be on board
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Speaker 1: with where they're playing at. Jowan Taylor needs competition. You know.
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Speaker 1: We were kind of surprised a little bit when we
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Speaker 1: had the informal kind of Q and A with a
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Speaker 1: coach and general manager with the local media and when
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Speaker 1: the question was asked by John Reed about Juwan Taylor,
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Speaker 1: kind of very stern response was given about how much
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Speaker 1: they liked Joan Taylor, and I was kind of a
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Speaker 1: little bit surprised because I mean, look, I know you
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Speaker 1: want to back your players, but at the same token,
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Speaker 1: Juan Taylor needs to play better. Well. I think that
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Speaker 1: message was clearly sent this week at the owners meeting
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Speaker 1: that there's going to be competition at the right tackle
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Speaker 1: because there needs to be and then at center, Brandon
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Speaker 1: Lender out what happens there. I mean you normally most
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Speaker 1: before we start talking about what what's gonna happen. Now,
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Speaker 1: I think we gotta congratulate him. Brandon Lender on an
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Speaker 1: exceptional career, even though he has had some injury issues
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Speaker 1: which prohibited from playing full season for this football team.
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Speaker 1: You talk about a really good football player that when
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Speaker 1: he was on the field, he was arguably the best
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Speaker 1: lineman on the field for the Jaguars, not to mention
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Speaker 1: a top quality guy who did is the right way
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Speaker 1: and he was a total pro and uh, and I
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Speaker 1: got a lot of respect for him because of the
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Speaker 1: way he's always gone about his business. Because he played
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Speaker 1: in an era that only had one really good season.
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Speaker 1: But Brandon Lenner came to work every offseason, came into
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Speaker 1: the season and was the best at his best from
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Speaker 1: a physical standpoint, and did everything that he needed to
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Speaker 1: do to prepare for a season. So I have a
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Speaker 1: lot of respect for Brandon Lennard. So congratulations to him.
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Speaker 1: But you know you said it too. He missed forty
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Speaker 1: one games in eight seasons. That is a lot of
11:31
Speaker 1: time off to the side. But I think that wears
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Speaker 1: on you. Obviously physically because you're getting banged up, but
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Speaker 1: mentally too. You're trying to go out there. If he's
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Speaker 1: that much of a professional, which he is, you want
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Speaker 1: to be out there playing and having to rehab all
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Speaker 1: the time. And and then you're thinking about the future
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Speaker 1: after football too. Well this time, and look, I I'm
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Speaker 1: obviously maybe a little bit slanted in the opinion of
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Speaker 1: Brandon Lennard because I mean, I'm a friend he's a
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Speaker 1: friend of and uh, I like Brandon and and was
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Speaker 1: trading text with him after the announcement was made. I
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Speaker 1: actually was trading some text with him beforehand, saying, hey,
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Speaker 1: did you figure out your football life? And and he
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Speaker 1: just said, I'm still working on it. And I said, well,
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Speaker 1: if you know, best of luck with it and all
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. And so anyway, when he even
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Speaker 1: made the announcement, I said, you know, congratulations to him.
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Speaker 1: You know, he had he's got eight years in Uh,
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Speaker 1: he did very well. He made good money playing in
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Speaker 1: the National Football League and uh, and I'm sure that
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Speaker 1: he saved some of that money. But you know, there
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Speaker 1: there comes a point, I think in every player's career
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Speaker 1: that when you start having injuries, because I went through
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Speaker 1: some of the same things that when you start having injuries,
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Speaker 1: you have to start a way what's worth it? Okay,
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Speaker 1: you're because you know, look, the money is always great,
12:46
Speaker 1: I mean know, and if it's just a question about money,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna keep playing until you get kicked out because
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Speaker 1: the money is incredible in the National Football League. But
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Speaker 1: but the the questions and the answers and the solutions
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Speaker 1: are always more about money. It's about health. It's about
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Speaker 1: a way of life. It's about making sure that there
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Speaker 1: are certain components of your physical and mental well being
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Speaker 1: that are going to be intact for the remainder of
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Speaker 1: your life. And so I think he made the best
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Speaker 1: decision for him. I wish him all the best. I
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Speaker 1: know he's not going anywhere. He's a huge fan of Jacksonville.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna be in Jacksonville for for a long period
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Speaker 1: of time. And and I'm looking forward to maybe doing
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Speaker 1: some things with Brandon, you know, because he's gonna have
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Speaker 1: the time to do it. I was gonna say, I
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Speaker 1: have a feeling Brandon might make an appearance on The
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Speaker 1: Outdoor Show from already been worked on it already is
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Speaker 1: it's already already been worked on exactly. He's gonna become
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Speaker 1: a media darling all of a sudden. He wasn't all
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Speaker 1: into it all the time here, right, he was. Brandon
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Speaker 1: was always very good, you know, but he was on.
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Speaker 1: He was great. He wasn't always on, which is good.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you can't like it too much,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, congratulation episode. Where did they go from here?
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Speaker 1: First of all, you you have a really good player
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Speaker 1: that I've said for the last couple of years that
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Speaker 1: somebody needs to realize that Tyler Shatley is a starting
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Speaker 1: center in this in this league. You know, then there's
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Speaker 1: other options to look. Uh, Iowa has a really good center. Uh.
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Speaker 1: His name is linder Ball and he's not a big guy.
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Speaker 1: He's a smaller statured center the six to range. And
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Speaker 1: so when you watch film on him, like god, the
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Speaker 1: guy looks pretty small. But he's a really good football player.
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Speaker 1: He's uh, he's nasty, he finishes, he's uh, he's very aware.
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Speaker 1: He's a you can tell that when he plays the game.
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Speaker 1: I mean the guy, the guys, he's a football junkie
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Speaker 1: the way he plays the game. And so could he
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Speaker 1: be a possibility for the Jaguars around two maybe you know,
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Speaker 1: you never know, I mean round one, probably not round two,
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Speaker 1: round three. I think he's a strong possibility. Question to
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Speaker 1: you don't know where he's gonna end up. But you know,
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Speaker 1: I think the one thing about Linderball is that you
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Speaker 1: know he's a he's a Since he's a six two
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Speaker 1: offensive lineman, I think that's gonna push him down a
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Speaker 1: little bit in the draft because you know, look, if
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Speaker 1: he's six three, six three and a half, six four,
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Speaker 1: I mean he's a first round pick lock, you know,
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Speaker 1: but six two centers, I mean, look that that that's
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Speaker 1: not exactly a lot of people's favorite measurement when it
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Speaker 1: comes to height weight. But he's a good football player.
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Speaker 1: A little later, we'll hear more from Doug Peterson and
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Speaker 1: what he's seen on tape from quarterback Trevor Lawrence so far.
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Speaker 1: But up next, Aiden Hutchinson and Evan Neil, we get
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Speaker 1: into the film room with you, Jeff, and we'll break
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Speaker 1: down some of the top prospects in the draft in
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Speaker 1: you know, on one cushion that says h and the
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Speaker 1: So the first concerts next Friday. That means we're just
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Speaker 1: a few weeks away from the NFL Draft starting, which
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Speaker 1: is amazing about that. So one to three four weeks
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Speaker 1: from tonight is the first round of the NFL Draft. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I've been watching a little bit of film, you know,
17:49
Speaker 1: I try to take you know, watch a couple of
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Speaker 1: guys every day, and and I'm probably about twenty guys
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Speaker 1: into the draft, you know, and I'll get to about
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Speaker 1: a hundred guys, you know, somewhere in that range by
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Speaker 1: the time the draft rolls around, because I know, we
18:02
Speaker 1: do a draft show and and to be a little
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Speaker 1: bit conversing on some of these guys. And then after
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Speaker 1: the draft, and you know, you really start looking at
18:09
Speaker 1: every piece of film that there is on the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: draft picks. So I'm gonna ask you this just kind
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Speaker 1: of big picture general about your film watching habits. What
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Speaker 1: do you look for? Do you have a checklist of
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Speaker 1: things you want to see from a certain position, group
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Speaker 1: or player, or do you just look at it in
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Speaker 1: general to see if he can move or or do
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Speaker 1: you just kind of have a blank slate and say
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Speaker 1: what he can do after you watch it? Typically, how
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Speaker 1: I do it? I first of all, I have like
18:36
Speaker 1: a website that that has an unofficial ranking that you know,
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Speaker 1: that might be Sporting News or it might be CBS,
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Speaker 1: or might be you know, Draft Knicks, you know website
18:46
Speaker 1: or whatever. So then I just have that list, and
18:48
Speaker 1: so then I kind of worked down through the prospects.
18:50
Speaker 1: And then I also what I do is that when
18:52
Speaker 1: I watch a particular game, then you try to watch
18:54
Speaker 1: other prospects at the same time. So like when you
18:57
Speaker 1: watch you know, I'll bring up the Anniversity of Georgia.
18:59
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's essentially three or four guys that
19:02
Speaker 1: you can watch along the defensive line alone. You know,
19:05
Speaker 1: that's just with the defensive line. But you know, that's
19:07
Speaker 1: what you always try to focus in because I want
19:09
Speaker 1: to watch the end zone copy and you're watching that
19:11
Speaker 1: position group, and then if you can watch the competition
19:15
Speaker 1: on the other side, if there's a really good offensive
19:17
Speaker 1: lineman while you're watching a Georgia defensive line play against Alabama,
19:22
Speaker 1: then obviously you can watch Evan Neil. So there's some
19:25
Speaker 1: advantages to kind of getting to know who the prospects
19:28
Speaker 1: are first before you start watching film, because then that
19:30
Speaker 1: way you can find out who I should be watching
19:33
Speaker 1: when the game is up. But but no, I mean
19:35
Speaker 1: there's no really, there's not a whole lot of rhymeries.
19:37
Speaker 1: You know, you kind of go down the list and
19:39
Speaker 1: maybe you might watch a group. You might watch defensive
19:41
Speaker 1: ends one day. The next day you might watch the
19:44
Speaker 1: quarterback class, which I haven't started to get into because
19:46
Speaker 1: they're ranked a little bit farther down and the pecking
19:49
Speaker 1: order the offensive lineman. I've watched the top four guys,
19:54
Speaker 1: five guys there, because that's a pretty good group. And uh,
19:58
Speaker 1: I think there's some talent there. No. I, like I
20:01
Speaker 1: said last week, I really liked the guy at NC State.
20:04
Speaker 1: I think he's a really good football player, and I
20:06
Speaker 1: think he would have some positional flexibility to play at
20:08
Speaker 1: the guard spot before eventually maybe in another tackle. Let's
20:12
Speaker 1: let's you said you watched a good amount so far,
20:16
Speaker 1: not the whole list of guys are gonna watch. So
20:18
Speaker 1: let's let's start with four today, and these are four
20:22
Speaker 1: names that have really been mocked the Jags the most
20:25
Speaker 1: of any. We'll start on defense with Aidan Hutchinson from Michigan.
20:30
Speaker 1: You might have heard of him here, the Heisman finalist,
20:33
Speaker 1: and you know, um, he's the guy that a lot
20:36
Speaker 1: of people still feel and even more strongly now after
20:40
Speaker 1: the free agency world has happened that the Jags could
20:44
Speaker 1: go number one with There's absolutely nothing not to like
20:49
Speaker 1: about him. Seriously, I mean, this guy, he does it all.
20:53
Speaker 1: He first off, he's got the height, weight, the measurables
20:56
Speaker 1: all line up where you want it to be. He
21:00
Speaker 1: is as far as a football player goes. He's got
21:03
Speaker 1: great motor, I mean a great motor and great conditioning level,
21:08
Speaker 1: and so those boxes all kind of check. And now productivity,
21:12
Speaker 1: the productivity is off the scale. Did you have like
21:14
Speaker 1: nineteen sacks when he was at Michigan. But when you
21:17
Speaker 1: watch him play the game, it's a lot of the
21:20
Speaker 1: things that he does when he's not sacking the quarterback
21:23
Speaker 1: that make you go wow. He's strong at the point
21:26
Speaker 1: of attack. He has a great finish. He plays with
21:30
Speaker 1: great leverage. He uh he uh finishes with great closing speed.
21:36
Speaker 1: One knock that I would say if you compare him
21:41
Speaker 1: to some of the other number one overall picks that
21:45
Speaker 1: have happened from that defensive end slash linebacker position, like
21:49
Speaker 1: a Clowney or a Miles Garrett, He's not that type
21:53
Speaker 1: of athlete, but he's so productive it's hard to to
21:58
Speaker 1: to knock him for not being that type of an athlete.
22:02
Speaker 1: I mean, but because because I can tell you if
22:04
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett, if you if if you compared Myles Garrett
22:07
Speaker 1: as a prospect when he was coming out and you
22:10
Speaker 1: look at Hutchinson, you would take Myles Garrett all day long.
22:14
Speaker 1: You would. Yeah, maybe because he's superior. Effic Yeah, different superior.
22:18
Speaker 1: He's one of those guys that's just a freak. But
22:22
Speaker 1: Aiden Hutchinson is a freak from the standpoint of highly
22:26
Speaker 1: productive t J. Watt. You know how t J. Watt
22:29
Speaker 1: just finishes that He's always not always most to the
22:31
Speaker 1: athletic person, but his moves just work. Kind of that
22:35
Speaker 1: kind of a player. But I think he's he's got
22:39
Speaker 1: a bigger physical skill set than I think t J. Watt.
22:42
Speaker 1: So uh So, I think he's a really good football player,
22:45
Speaker 1: and I think the Jaguars will not go wrong at
22:48
Speaker 1: all picking him first overall. Now, let's move along to
22:52
Speaker 1: another player that we were watching earlier today before the show,
22:56
Speaker 1: and a name that has popped up on some of
22:58
Speaker 1: these mock drafts at number one on defense, and it's
23:02
Speaker 1: Trayvon Walker from Georgia defensive lineman who became a full
23:06
Speaker 1: time starter this past season. He had some spot starts
23:09
Speaker 1: in in the couple of seasons before that, but he
23:12
Speaker 1: worked his way into the regular starting lineup last season
23:15
Speaker 1: on a really good Georgia defensive line across the board. Uh,
23:21
Speaker 1: where is this coming from? Walker? All of a sudden
23:23
Speaker 1: is moving up boards here and he had a great combine.
23:26
Speaker 1: That's part of the reason. Well, first of all, he
23:28
Speaker 1: is a good football player from the standpoint of he
23:31
Speaker 1: makes plays and he's strong. He he has positional flexibility.
23:36
Speaker 1: He weared Uh. He wears number forty four, and at
23:39
Speaker 1: the University of Georgia, he was for the most part
23:42
Speaker 1: a three point and a lot of times four point
23:44
Speaker 1: because he gets in his four point stands when he
23:47
Speaker 1: plays defensive end. But then he also kicked down. He
23:50
Speaker 1: played defensive tackle the three technique. He also performed as
23:55
Speaker 1: a stand up linebacker. He is strong, his hands are
24:00
Speaker 1: extremely powerful. He gets really good leverage. The only negative
24:05
Speaker 1: I would say is that if people are looking at
24:07
Speaker 1: him to maybe be a stand up outside linebacker, I
24:10
Speaker 1: don't really see that in him. I think he's a
24:13
Speaker 1: defensive end and a guy that can can kick down
24:17
Speaker 1: on the inside and be an inside pass rusher as
24:19
Speaker 1: a as a three technique. But I really like him.
24:22
Speaker 1: He's not a polished pass rusher like Adan Hutchinson. Has
24:25
Speaker 1: a lot of really good moves. Okay, and when you
24:28
Speaker 1: watch Trayvon Walker. He's still trying to figure that out,
24:33
Speaker 1: but he's still effective because he's big, strong, and he's
24:38
Speaker 1: got a great finish to him. That's the thing I
24:40
Speaker 1: think that might be one of the most impressive things
24:43
Speaker 1: is that he finishes so much better than his teammate
24:46
Speaker 1: that we were watching a little bit Jordan Davis, who
24:49
Speaker 1: some people think are he is off the charts because
24:52
Speaker 1: he's big and strong and can run fast. But when
24:55
Speaker 1: you watch the film, where's the finish? That's what I
24:58
Speaker 1: keep saying. I watch Jordan Davis, where's the finish? And
25:03
Speaker 1: for those who may not understand what finish actually means,
25:07
Speaker 1: what does that mean in layman? It's a good question because,
25:11
Speaker 1: for example, when you watch Trayvon Walker, he he he
25:15
Speaker 1: engages with the block and then he's got instincts to
25:18
Speaker 1: know where the ball is going. So he's getting rid
25:21
Speaker 1: of the block and then accelerating towards the ball and
25:24
Speaker 1: whether he gets there or not, at least he's going
25:27
Speaker 1: he's headed that way. Okay. When you watch Jordan Davis,
25:31
Speaker 1: sometimes he's a you know, six ft sixty pound man
25:35
Speaker 1: that ran an unbelievable okay, but when you turn on
25:39
Speaker 1: the tape. You sit there and you go, well, you
25:42
Speaker 1: wouldn't know that he would run fast because he doesn't
25:44
Speaker 1: run a lot when he's on the field. He kind
25:46
Speaker 1: of haves stalemates on blocks and then he doesn't shut
25:50
Speaker 1: the block, and then he's not pursuing whether he gets
25:53
Speaker 1: there or not. And I think that's one of the
25:56
Speaker 1: things that would prohibit me from sitting there even considering
25:59
Speaker 1: him for a top five pick, because where's the finished
26:03
Speaker 1: And I made the comment to you, j P. Look,
26:05
Speaker 1: if you're gonna pick somebody in the top ten, he
26:08
Speaker 1: can't be a guy that the University of Georgia was
26:11
Speaker 1: taken off the field on third down. Okay, and that
26:15
Speaker 1: and and I don't see him as an every down
26:17
Speaker 1: player in the National Football League. And so J Jordan Davis,
26:22
Speaker 1: you know, if he was gonna get draft in the
26:24
Speaker 1: top ten, he's gotta be one of the best first
26:26
Speaker 1: and second down nose tackles in the history of the
26:29
Speaker 1: league for him to be drafted in the top ten.
26:32
Speaker 1: I mean, because Trayvon Walker, three down guy, plays defensive end,
26:37
Speaker 1: plays defensive uh end in a three four, He plays
26:40
Speaker 1: defensive end in a four three. He can be a
26:42
Speaker 1: stand up rush guy. And then he also can be
26:45
Speaker 1: a drop guy. And then if you wanted to, could
26:47
Speaker 1: he play as a nose tackle? He he actually physically
26:50
Speaker 1: can do that. Okay, Aidan Hutchinson is a guy that
26:53
Speaker 1: can play defensive end with his hand in the ground,
26:55
Speaker 1: but that's not his strong suit. Okay, I'm gonna go
26:57
Speaker 1: back to him a little bit because I think Aiden
26:59
Speaker 1: Hutchinson is an all day two feet in the ground,
27:03
Speaker 1: not and and as a two point guy. He is
27:06
Speaker 1: a stand up outside linebacker. That's where he performs best
27:09
Speaker 1: when he gets his hand in the ground. For some reason,
27:12
Speaker 1: it doesn't he doesn't play as well from what I've seen,
27:16
Speaker 1: and so so interesting. So I think two really good prospects.
27:20
Speaker 1: I know, More's Jones drew a kind of mock Trayvon
27:23
Speaker 1: Walker first overall of the Jaguars, and you know, he's
27:26
Speaker 1: kind of be a little bit shocking. I don't know
27:28
Speaker 1: if he would be a first overall pick. I don't
27:31
Speaker 1: see that kind of production. But I think he's a
27:34
Speaker 1: he's a very interesting prospect and he's gonna he's gonna
27:36
Speaker 1: make somebody a really give somebody a really good football player. Well, um,
27:40
Speaker 1: let's move along to the offensive line. This is Jaguars
27:43
Speaker 1: Happy Hour on Tinton Excel and Jaguars dot Com. J
27:45
Speaker 1: P Shadrick Jeff Logerman will go around the league at
27:47
Speaker 1: four forty five today. Well, Evan Neil did not work
27:51
Speaker 1: out at the combine in Indianapolis, the Alabama offensive tackle
27:55
Speaker 1: on the left side, but he did yesterday in Tuscaloosa
27:58
Speaker 1: at the Alabama prote I think there were about eight
28:01
Speaker 1: or nine players that worked out yesterday for a few
28:04
Speaker 1: NFL coaches and scouts and everybody, but all eyes were
28:08
Speaker 1: on Evan Neil. He had been mocked to the Jaguars
28:11
Speaker 1: quite a bit at number one and earlier in the process.
28:14
Speaker 1: What you weigh in at that problem? You know, I'm
28:16
Speaker 1: just out of curiosity because you know, Waite has been
28:18
Speaker 1: a little bit of an issue with Evan Neil in
28:21
Speaker 1: his history, so that I think that's a very I
28:24
Speaker 1: guarantee you that a lot of Scotts scouts that was
28:27
Speaker 1: one of the first things that they wanted to see
28:30
Speaker 1: was what did he weigh in at? What kind of
28:32
Speaker 1: shape did he look to be in, because he's one
28:35
Speaker 1: of those guys that if he doesn't watch it, remember
28:39
Speaker 1: the right tackle that played for the Buffalo Bills way
28:42
Speaker 1: back in the k gun days when Jim Kelly was
28:45
Speaker 1: the quarterback. Howard House Ballard they used to call him.
28:49
Speaker 1: He was about three seventy five and if if if Howard,
28:53
Speaker 1: I think his name, first name was Howard house Ballard
28:55
Speaker 1: how House was his nickname. If he had actually had
28:58
Speaker 1: his weight a little bit more or under control, he
29:00
Speaker 1: would have been a really good right tackle. So the
29:04
Speaker 1: latest I can get is right before the combine, he
29:06
Speaker 1: weighed in at three thirty seven, and he played heavier
29:09
Speaker 1: than that listed at Alabama. Yeah, and and he probably
29:14
Speaker 1: ended up weighing about three sixties. You know, because in
29:16
Speaker 1: the reason I bring that up is because at times
29:20
Speaker 1: Evan Neil doesn't look like a great athlete. Okay, uh,
29:26
Speaker 1: He's not put it this way. He is not in
29:28
Speaker 1: the Tony Boselli prospect category of potential Hall of Fame
29:33
Speaker 1: left type left tackle. I think he's on the ground
29:36
Speaker 1: a lot. I think he's extremely powerful, and he's got
29:39
Speaker 1: good footwork as far as you can tell that. He's
29:41
Speaker 1: been coached very well, very well, and his footwork good.
29:46
Speaker 1: His hands are good. When he gets his hands on you,
29:49
Speaker 1: typically he's gonna eat guys up. He does a good
29:52
Speaker 1: job of driving guys. But when he gets somebody who
29:56
Speaker 1: is athletic, that's where I think that he he can
30:00
Speaker 1: really struggle and maybe some weight loss would help him
30:04
Speaker 1: and will help him in the future. But is he
30:07
Speaker 1: a hand down surefire number one overall. I can't say
30:11
Speaker 1: that he is. I just I just don't. I don't
30:14
Speaker 1: see that. I think he's on the ground too much,
30:16
Speaker 1: and I think he's a little bit limited from the
30:19
Speaker 1: athletic standpoint. That would make me a little bit cautious
30:23
Speaker 1: about making him the numb over the number one overall pick.
30:25
Speaker 1: But I can tell you though, he is a really
30:27
Speaker 1: good football player. You know, that's kind of that's being
30:30
Speaker 1: a little bit overly critical of him, because the guy
30:35
Speaker 1: has taken on taking on some really good football players
30:38
Speaker 1: and negate him. You know, when you watch him play
30:41
Speaker 1: against the University of George, you want to talk about
30:43
Speaker 1: stoning the strong defensive end that we just got done
30:46
Speaker 1: talking about Trayvon Walker, And not many people can stone
30:49
Speaker 1: a Trayvon Walker. So I think he's a good football player,
30:52
Speaker 1: But I like the guy. N C stayed better to
30:53
Speaker 1: be honest with you, one more note on never Neil
30:55
Speaker 1: I think he had one penalty all of last season
30:58
Speaker 1: against him, and I think six and isn't higher career
31:00
Speaker 1: and moved around a few different positions. Played guard one year,
31:04
Speaker 1: played right tackle one year. Now of course finished it left.
31:07
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question, though, because if somebody
31:08
Speaker 1: has moved around a lot in their career, does that
31:12
Speaker 1: make him more valuable or does it make you question
31:16
Speaker 1: why he played multiple positions because he wasn't good enough
31:19
Speaker 1: to be in one position and own it well. I mean,
31:22
Speaker 1: it also tells you about all the other guys that
31:25
Speaker 1: were playing those positions. Part of that well in Alabama
31:29
Speaker 1: is a little bit different, But I still think in
31:31
Speaker 1: my mind, because of some of that has happened, I
31:34
Speaker 1: would sit there and wonder, if he's that good of
31:38
Speaker 1: a left tackle, then why didn't the University of Alabama
31:42
Speaker 1: left tackle and say you're the man three years, okay,
31:44
Speaker 1: and then find places for other guys? Because you know,
31:47
Speaker 1: if I've got a guy who is a dominant best
31:50
Speaker 1: left tackle, hands down, I'm not moving him. I'm moving
31:54
Speaker 1: other guys, you know. So I think that that's maybe
31:58
Speaker 1: a little bit of what I'm referring to, and maybe
32:01
Speaker 1: some of my hesitation too, and as far as proclaiming him,
32:05
Speaker 1: you know this great left tackle, you know, number one
32:08
Speaker 1: overall pick. That's what, like I said, he's not not
32:10
Speaker 1: to be confused with Tony Boselli because they had Alex
32:14
Speaker 1: Leatherwood there. Jonah Williams was there in eighteen and then
32:17
Speaker 1: was gone. And then let me let me let me
32:18
Speaker 1: see this, Okay, Leatherwood, Jonah Williams. Okay, these guys here
32:22
Speaker 1: were they elite. Les was, but that was before before him,
32:28
Speaker 1: so he wasn't even but Leatherwood, I mean, Leatherwood was
32:30
Speaker 1: considered to be a little bit limited athletically. And where
32:33
Speaker 1: did he play with the Raiders right tackle? You know?
32:36
Speaker 1: So that's my point is that if he were that good,
32:39
Speaker 1: he would have been at left tackle regardless. Uh. And
32:43
Speaker 1: then the final thought on Ikey Kanu, your guy got finish? Um?
32:49
Speaker 1: Uh plays exceptionally well, he's quickness, he's he got finished. Man,
32:54
Speaker 1: you want to talk about powerful finish. I don't know
32:58
Speaker 1: what this guy's upper body he is completely made of,
33:01
Speaker 1: but it's got a lot of muscle. Because the guy
33:03
Speaker 1: can like literally pick guys up and throw them like
33:06
Speaker 1: out of the bar and legally not like you know,
33:08
Speaker 1: grabbing a guy, and you know, through the public he
33:11
Speaker 1: can push guys out the bar. I mean, that's how
33:14
Speaker 1: big and strong he is athletic and uh, you know,
33:18
Speaker 1: but he's not perfect. I mean he I think. But
33:20
Speaker 1: the one thing I think that's attractive about him with
33:23
Speaker 1: the Jaguars potentially is that if you drafted a guy
33:27
Speaker 1: like him, he could end up playing guard for you
33:30
Speaker 1: for a while. And and I think he would be
33:32
Speaker 1: an exceptional guard. Uh, And I sink I think he
33:36
Speaker 1: can be a really good left tackle. I don't think. Again,
33:38
Speaker 1: he's not Uh, he's built a little bit more like
33:42
Speaker 1: a guard, he said, not quite you know, he's not
33:44
Speaker 1: six ft six or anything like that. But interesting matchup.
33:48
Speaker 1: The guy that really kind of gave him a fit
33:52
Speaker 1: was the Florida States Jermaine Johnson. And so if people
33:55
Speaker 1: want to watch a really good matchup, watch NC State,
33:58
Speaker 1: Florida State and Jermaine john Uson because Jermaine Johnson is
34:01
Speaker 1: a good football player. Let's come back in a moment.
34:03
Speaker 1: We'll hear from Doug Peterson again from the NFL Annual
34:06
Speaker 1: Meeting on what he has seen on tape from Trevor
34:09
Speaker 1: Lawrence and a little later around the NFL. A lot
34:12
Speaker 1: of news around the league last week or so. This
34:15
Speaker 1: is Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network. Obviously,
34:26
Speaker 1: he throws the ball well on the run. That was
34:28
Speaker 1: one thing. Number two, he throws the deep ball really well.
34:31
Speaker 1: And and when I say the deep ball, particularly the
34:34
Speaker 1: scene throws you know, between the number and the hash.
34:36
Speaker 1: And that was something that kind of popped out on
34:38
Speaker 1: film as we were watching him and studying him, you know,
34:41
Speaker 1: this offseason. So those are all things that we can
34:43
Speaker 1: we can try to use, you know, as we move
34:46
Speaker 1: forward in developing our scheme offensively. That is Doug Peterson
34:50
Speaker 1: from the NFL Annual Meeting on the guests who Trevor
34:53
Speaker 1: Lawrence Jaguars quarterback and welcome back, It's Jaguars Happy Hour. J. P. Shadrick,
34:57
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35:10
Speaker 1: at logs fifty six. Do you agree with that the
35:14
Speaker 1: deep balls the seam throwers a lot more than just that,
35:19
Speaker 1: I mean I think it does a lot of things.
35:20
Speaker 1: That was a secondary answer to a second question about Trevor. Yes, yeah,
35:25
Speaker 1: I think he does a lot of things well. I
35:27
Speaker 1: think the thing that he does or showed this past
35:30
Speaker 1: year that arguably it was his number one strong suit,
35:36
Speaker 1: was his maturity. I don't think there's any other young
35:39
Speaker 1: quarterback that has come along in recent years that could
35:44
Speaker 1: have handled last year with the grace and UH in
35:50
Speaker 1: the class that Trevor did, because I don't think that
35:53
Speaker 1: was an easy year for anybody to go through us,
35:56
Speaker 1: particularly a young rookie quarterback, to have to deal with
35:58
Speaker 1: all the crap that happened with urban Meyer and the organization.
36:03
Speaker 1: I thought he handled it exceptionally well. So for me,
36:05
Speaker 1: that's the number one thing that that he did well
36:07
Speaker 1: last year. People say that, I mean that's the reality.
36:12
Speaker 1: I mean, look UH that that obviously doesn't come out
36:15
Speaker 1: on tape. Anne. Any other mere mortal would have been
36:19
Speaker 1: eaten up by it, I mean, and Trevor handled it well,
36:21
Speaker 1: and I thought he was poisoned and showed great leadership
36:25
Speaker 1: UH and backing his teammates the way he backed James
36:30
Speaker 1: Robinson after urban Meyer UH handled that situation. So poorly
36:34
Speaker 1: and then lied about it. Uh. You know, you couldn't
36:37
Speaker 1: have asked, uh for anything better out of your quarterback
36:41
Speaker 1: than to have him support his teammate and his team.
36:45
Speaker 1: And I thought that was exceptional. You know that some
36:47
Speaker 1: of the physical things that Trevor does, I mean looked
36:49
Speaker 1: at there was a reason why he was QB number
36:53
Speaker 1: one for many years and thought to be the number
36:55
Speaker 1: one prospect and one of the greatest prospects to ever
36:58
Speaker 1: come out in recent time. So all the physical tools
37:02
Speaker 1: are there. He just needs guidance, and he needs better
37:06
Speaker 1: players around him, and he needs experience and some of
37:10
Speaker 1: the other things that we're hoping for will come eventually.
37:13
Speaker 1: That leads me to my next question for your logs
37:16
Speaker 1: and stay with me here. Of course, Doug Peterson said
37:18
Speaker 1: that Travis E. T N should be good to go
37:20
Speaker 1: here very soon and he'll do some football things in
37:23
Speaker 1: the offseason program. It's a good step in the right direction,
37:25
Speaker 1: and they're expecting James Robinson closer to training camp and
37:29
Speaker 1: in that time frame to to be ready to go.
37:32
Speaker 1: That's it. Running back. They've added a tight end in
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Speaker 1: free agency. Dan Arno expected to be back. They've added
37:38
Speaker 1: two wide receivers and free agency to go with Marvin Jones,
37:41
Speaker 1: Leavisco Chanel just to name a couple of guys that
37:43
Speaker 1: are here before. What else do you want at least
37:47
Speaker 1: in terms of weapons on offense around Trevor uh Well,
37:51
Speaker 1: I want to see young weapons that can develop, and
37:54
Speaker 1: that's through the draft. I think you've you've got to
37:56
Speaker 1: find a way to add to your offensive line a
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Speaker 1: little bit in the draft. AFT. I like the tight
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Speaker 1: end position where they're at. I think they're they're really
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Speaker 1: good there because they've got two guys that can catch
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Speaker 1: the ball and then they've got a really strong blocking
38:08
Speaker 1: tight end returning. I think the receiver position you need.
38:12
Speaker 1: You need a dominant guy that can play on the outside,
38:15
Speaker 1: that can make plays and go deep. I don't think
38:17
Speaker 1: you have one um even though that you've signed a
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Speaker 1: couple of guys in free agency. I think Za Jones
38:23
Speaker 1: is just a solid guy, and in free agency, you
38:27
Speaker 1: you pay solid guys more than just solid pay. That's
38:30
Speaker 1: just kind of how it works in free agency. And Kirk,
38:34
Speaker 1: I think he's a dynamic, explosive player that you can
38:38
Speaker 1: get creative with him and doing things with him movement wise.
38:42
Speaker 1: But I don't think he's a guy that's gonna just
38:44
Speaker 1: make a living on the outside. I think you need
38:46
Speaker 1: to find a guy that has a little bit more range.
38:52
Speaker 1: When I say range as far as the height, the measurables,
38:56
Speaker 1: but then also has the vertical ability some of that
39:00
Speaker 1: can take the top off of a defense. Somebody that
39:02
Speaker 1: can threaten the defense. You know, if Jimmy Smith can
39:05
Speaker 1: go back and years old again, it'd be fantastic for this.
39:10
Speaker 1: But I mean somebody along those lines that can threaten
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Speaker 1: a defense. And and if you know, they think, here's
39:17
Speaker 1: the thing. When the quarterback comes to the line of
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Speaker 1: scrimmage and he's and he's got a guy, you know,
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Speaker 1: like Mike Evans or you know, Davante Adams, Okay, and
39:27
Speaker 1: you look outside and you see one guy covering them,
39:32
Speaker 1: you can make the decision right then and there, I'm
39:34
Speaker 1: throwing him the football because my guy is better than
39:38
Speaker 1: their guy, and he's always going to be better than
39:40
Speaker 1: their guy. Do you have somebody on the roster like
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Speaker 1: that right now? You don't, You don't, No, no, you
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Speaker 1: don't think JP. They don't have it right now. Could
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Speaker 1: somebody develop, Well, that'd be great, But I just don't
39:52
Speaker 1: see that happening right now. So uh look, uh, and
39:56
Speaker 1: I've said this before. Wide receiver, I think is always
39:59
Speaker 1: a position and that you can find guys and rounds two,
40:03
Speaker 1: rounds three, rounds four that can make significant impacts for
40:07
Speaker 1: your football team, and I expect the Jaguars to find one.
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40:48
Speaker 1: Digital Network. Welcome back as Jaguars Happy Hour JP Shadrick
40:59
Speaker 1: Jeff Laga and if you're watching us on Jaguars dot com, Twitter, Facebook,
41:04
Speaker 1: and YouTube, you're looking live at the Football Performance Center.
41:09
Speaker 1: The footprint is massive. The concrete is starting to be poored.
41:14
Speaker 1: They're digging a big hole, looks like for maybe a
41:17
Speaker 1: big pool, and I don't know what that's for. They're
41:19
Speaker 1: moving a lot more dirt. I'm thinking, you know, last week,
41:22
Speaker 1: I think I said it looks like a little bit
41:23
Speaker 1: of a lanthall. I think now today looks like a
41:25
Speaker 1: motocross park. Let's break out the dirt, bikes and a TV.
41:28
Speaker 1: Let's get busy, let's do it. Yeah, there's a lot
41:31
Speaker 1: of hills of dirt and things in the parking lot.
41:34
Speaker 1: So of course that's scheduled to open in three for
41:36
Speaker 1: training camp and that we're watching the progress daily and weekly. Here.
41:42
Speaker 1: There's a lot of heavy equipment out there, I can
41:45
Speaker 1: tell you. And it's only just begun. There's going to
41:47
Speaker 1: be more and more as we move along. A lot
41:50
Speaker 1: going on construction wise, and and and then the at
41:53
Speaker 1: least the sports complex development. The fire museum was moved
41:57
Speaker 1: down the road and it's now resting on its new
42:01
Speaker 1: home about that right by the demolition site for the
42:04
Speaker 1: old Berkman To building. I think it's pretty next door,
42:07
Speaker 1: pretty impressive. And you can take a structure like that
42:10
Speaker 1: and just oh yeah, We're just gonna move it down
42:12
Speaker 1: road a little bit, you know, no problem. It's it's
42:16
Speaker 1: like one of those things where when you see the
42:18
Speaker 1: like where down at the Kennedy Space Center back when
42:20
Speaker 1: my daughter had spring break and we go down and
42:23
Speaker 1: you see that that big place where they put the
42:27
Speaker 1: rockets together, and then they had these like tank track
42:29
Speaker 1: mechanisms that would wield these things to the launch pad.
42:32
Speaker 1: You're like, good, lord man, like what a third of
42:36
Speaker 1: a mile in an hour or something, But it's just
42:38
Speaker 1: bits of thousands of tons of this thing. That's a
42:40
Speaker 1: lot of weight being moved and to keep it intact.
42:43
Speaker 1: And then the roads have been have been changed coming
42:46
Speaker 1: off the heart Bridge now there's a new pattern there
42:49
Speaker 1: and it's a temporary pattern, I believe. And then coming
42:52
Speaker 1: from downtown they've created that new road around the flyover.
42:57
Speaker 1: You know there's a lot going on right down. Yeah,
42:59
Speaker 1: they're doing a good door old buildings going up. I mean,
43:02
Speaker 1: there's a lot is the door in the corner here
43:05
Speaker 1: kitty corner from the Ballpark baseball Stadium. There's a new
43:08
Speaker 1: apartment complex going up there with the brand new parking deck.
43:13
Speaker 1: There's to be a rooftop pool. I think all that
43:15
Speaker 1: stuff there. I mean, it's all kind of happening at
43:17
Speaker 1: the same time. And I know you don't travel a
43:19
Speaker 1: whole lot, but having a rooftop pool there. There's a
43:22
Speaker 1: hotel and Joe will remember this. It's the hotel that
43:24
Speaker 1: we stay at in Houston and it has the pool
43:27
Speaker 1: and I remember correctly, he's in the shape of the
43:29
Speaker 1: state of Texas. I've seen photos of that. Yeah, that's
43:31
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, not that I was ever out
43:34
Speaker 1: there hanging out. How many they like open to sing
43:38
Speaker 1: up to the public and it turns into what looks
43:40
Speaker 1: like spring break MTV action out there. You know that's
43:44
Speaker 1: right if you're alley. No, there's like a gym that's
43:47
Speaker 1: right next door to it, and that's where I you
43:49
Speaker 1: you am usually at you are working, By the way,
43:52
Speaker 1: you just showed your age. By the way, if you
43:54
Speaker 1: mentioned MTV spring Break, I mean that. And I don't
43:59
Speaker 1: think they have that anymore, right, come, I grew up
44:01
Speaker 1: watching that stuff that was I don't they used to
44:03
Speaker 1: used to years ago. That's a long time ago. I
44:06
Speaker 1: mean they used to have it at Daytona all the
44:08
Speaker 1: time and going well, right now, I think there's some
44:13
Speaker 1: bad press coming out of South Florida about the spring
44:15
Speaker 1: break stuff. So that, but that shows our era watching MTV,
44:20
Speaker 1: like PAULI Shore was the host and Julie Downtown Brown
44:23
Speaker 1: was always there all that. Yeah, I was. I was
44:26
Speaker 1: back in early days. I don't even had like concerts
44:30
Speaker 1: live and you never really saw those anywhere else. The
44:32
Speaker 1: whole still remembers the early days of MTV. That's chime
44:36
Speaker 1: in where that's Joe Fortunato was the first Mike's not
44:39
Speaker 1: on Joe, Yeah, thank you. I don't know what's going on.
44:43
Speaker 1: Maybe we need to go help him push the right button.
44:45
Speaker 1: I didn't think I was going to hear the name
44:47
Speaker 1: Paul Shore in today's right now, okay, real quick before
44:50
Speaker 1: we go around in the NFL and now you want
44:52
Speaker 1: to squeeze that and the the one of the original
44:55
Speaker 1: VJs that did the news for MTV kind of was
45:00
Speaker 1: a real bland guy, just concentraight hair. What was his name,
45:03
Speaker 1: Joe Alan Hunter. That's a good pool right there. Wow,
45:07
Speaker 1: that was quick, good memory. You must eat blueberries. Wow, Hey,
45:14
Speaker 1: let's go around. Oh well, I hope we're not going
45:16
Speaker 1: around yet. Twitter poll results. We were talking about that earlier, right,
45:20
Speaker 1: So we put the Twitter poll out um today and
45:24
Speaker 1: it was after the free agency moves for the Jaguars
45:28
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. What is the greatest area
45:31
Speaker 1: of need for the Jags heading into April? Wide receiver
45:34
Speaker 1: is at scent of the vote, pass rush at offensive
45:38
Speaker 1: line at seventeen, and other with two six votes are in.
45:43
Speaker 1: Thank you for the contributions today. All right, let's go
45:46
Speaker 1: around the National Football League. Last night, Peter King of
45:49
Speaker 1: NBC and Sam Farmer of The l A Times wrote
45:52
Speaker 1: the story together, Bruce Arians is headed to the Bucceteers
45:56
Speaker 1: front office. Todd Bowles elevated to head co to the
45:59
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers and is a fine coach. I think that, uh,
46:05
Speaker 1: he didn't get a very fair shake when he was
46:07
Speaker 1: up in New York with a with a bad organization
46:09
Speaker 1: that had its own level of dysfunction. I thought Todd
46:12
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles handled all of that up there exceptionally well.
46:16
Speaker 1: And I'm glad he's getting another shot. And kind of
46:19
Speaker 1: curious as to what the reason was given as to
46:21
Speaker 1: why Bruce Arians is moving into a front office role.
46:25
Speaker 1: Did they explain any of that? I change, he'd been
46:27
Speaker 1: in football for forty something years, and I just felt
46:31
Speaker 1: it was time. I think from what I read of
46:34
Speaker 1: his statement coming well, I mean the reason I kind
46:36
Speaker 1: of asked that, and I'm kind of doing it out loud,
46:40
Speaker 1: is uh, is that was that something Tom Brady wanted
46:44
Speaker 1: to see. I think they were. It wasn't like he
46:46
Speaker 1: wasn't aware, I think of what was going on, because
46:48
Speaker 1: he retired, came back, and then I think he was
46:50
Speaker 1: all kind of the same little time frame there. It
46:52
Speaker 1: feels interesting, and Arian said, Hey, organizations in a great place.
46:57
Speaker 1: And this obviously for Todd Bowls, you're going into a
46:59
Speaker 1: city situation that the teams set up for success right
47:02
Speaker 1: away too. I wonder if he will hire a new
47:06
Speaker 1: name defensive coordinator or will he act as head coach
47:11
Speaker 1: last defensive coordinator. That's a good question. The offense is
47:13
Speaker 1: going to be Environ's hand now and its entirety there's
47:19
Speaker 1: no longer gonna be uh this perceptions that that Bruce
47:23
Speaker 1: Arians is the architect of the offense and that Byron
47:26
Speaker 1: is just helping a little bit. This will now be
47:29
Speaker 1: perceived as anyway Byron's offense, even though it's still Tom
47:34
Speaker 1: Brady's offense. By the way, some breaking news just an
47:38
Speaker 1: hour or two ago, Front Office Sports on Twitter. The
47:42
Speaker 1: Washington Post as well, reporting that Congressional investigators have received
47:46
Speaker 1: information that the commanders and owner Dan Snyder kept two
47:51
Speaker 1: different books to paint different pictures of team finances, and
47:54
Speaker 1: Congress will now expand its probe into the workplace. I mean,
47:59
Speaker 1: they're they're the that that organization is a mess right now.
48:03
Speaker 1: It's a mess for the league. It continues to be
48:07
Speaker 1: the the one negative I guess you could say, focal
48:13
Speaker 1: point that still continues to happen in this league. Besides
48:16
Speaker 1: what's you know, the Cleveland situation with Shaun Watson and
48:19
Speaker 1: twenty two unresolved civil cases. But yeah, you know, when
48:24
Speaker 1: you've got and you're trying to do all the right
48:28
Speaker 1: things as a league, the perceived suspension of owner Dan
48:35
Speaker 1: Snyder when he's in the booth and the head coach
48:38
Speaker 1: says he's talking to him multiple times during the week
48:41
Speaker 1: in the football season, I mean, come on, and that
48:44
Speaker 1: that that's that, that whole thing is a mess. I'm
48:50
Speaker 1: being nice, you know, because the Washington fans they deserve
48:55
Speaker 1: better than what they've been getting the long time. I'm
49:00
Speaker 1: Houston Chronicle writer John McClain retiring from daily writing after
49:03
Speaker 1: forty seven years. Was with the Waco Tribune Herald from
49:06
Speaker 1: seventy three to seventy six, moved to the Chronicle and
49:10
Speaker 1: covered the Oilers in the beginning. Of course. A member
49:12
Speaker 1: of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Selection Committee and
49:16
Speaker 1: the O six Dick mccan Memorial Award winner from the
49:18
Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Fame. Good guy, excellent writer has
49:23
Speaker 1: been one UH one of the great UH sports writers
49:28
Speaker 1: in the history of the league, and congratulations to him.
49:32
Speaker 1: He's been a great UH guy to be able to
49:35
Speaker 1: cover the league and there aren't many better follows on Twitter.
49:37
Speaker 1: When the Texans are struggling, it is absolutely not afraid entertaining.
49:42
Speaker 1: He's not afraid. It's that whole pack. Thanks to a
49:45
Speaker 1: Brent Reber, Joe Fortunado and Blake Stewart on the graphics side.
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Speaker 1: For Jeff Logerman, I'm j P. Shadrick will catch you
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Speaker 1: next time. It's Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network.
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