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Jags Drive Time: Tuesday, March 16 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars Drive Time on a Tuesday morning. The tampering
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Speaker 1: period new league year opens up tomorrow morning. Exciting times
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Speaker 1: that nothing more exciting, Brian and the optimism that there
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Speaker 1: might be full stands. Yeah. I heard some of the
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Speaker 1: ticketing sales people yesterday talking to season ticket member which
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Speaker 1: about renewals, and you know they were asked the question,
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Speaker 1: you know, how many are you selling, and the thought
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Speaker 1: is the entire stadium. So it's optimistic at this point.
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Speaker 1: But as people get vaccinated and as infections drop, um,
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Speaker 1: you might as well shoot for that. So it's fun
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Speaker 1: to see. And also ten games, right, you're gonna have
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Speaker 1: two preseason games and eight regular season games, or you're
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Speaker 1: gonna have nine regular season games in one preseason game.
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Speaker 1: And there's still a thought on London and nothing's done
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Speaker 1: there yet, so there's a little fluidity of this, but
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Speaker 1: a full schedule and a full stadium with the new
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Speaker 1: coach and Trevor Lawrence and all of those things. Man,
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Speaker 1: the optimism hasn't been this high in Jacksonville since yes
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Speaker 1: my account today to make that happen. All right, there's
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Speaker 1: other news. It's free agency and John, you're on Twitter,
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Speaker 1: You're seeing all the news about this and it went
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Speaker 1: exactly the way we talked about it on the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Reporter podcast yesterday. This team was one in fifteen last season.
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Speaker 1: There are a ton of holes to fill. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: swinging for the fences, spending all this money, but they
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Speaker 1: got some complimentary pieces that they really needed to compete
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Speaker 1: this year. Yeah. I could barely hear you, Schlan, because,
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Speaker 1: as you guys know, I live about three minutes from
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Speaker 1: the stadium, and I can hear the pitchforks and the
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Speaker 1: torches with the well, you know, it's a look. You know,
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Speaker 1: I would be a hypocrite if I got on here
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Speaker 1: and said, oh, why aren't they signing big name guys,
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Speaker 1: Why aren't they striking for that top list. I want
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Speaker 1: to get two of the top five guys in free
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Speaker 1: A two like this is recruiting. I've always said I
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Speaker 1: think teams go way too overboard this time of year,
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Speaker 1: paying great salary money for essentially good players. Look, they
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Speaker 1: have an addressed tight end free agency, Yet I still
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Speaker 1: think that's a play here. I like the safety. I
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Speaker 1: like the defensive lineman they went after. The rest of
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Speaker 1: it is making sure that you're ready for the draft.
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Speaker 1: I get that people expected more. I thought at the
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Speaker 1: beginning of all this, when we saw some of the
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Speaker 1: names that eventually got franchised, that it might be louder
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Speaker 1: than this, Like there might be more noise, like might
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Speaker 1: be more sexy picks. This time of year. But once
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Speaker 1: some of those guys went off, It's not about hitting
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Speaker 1: a home run in March. You don't get to the
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Speaker 1: super Bowl in March. It's about being good this season.
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Speaker 1: I particularly like ray Sean Jenkins, particularly like Roy Robertson Harris.
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Speaker 1: It seems like those are solid moves with a lot
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Speaker 1: of smart fill the roster until we can get to
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Speaker 1: the draft type of positions elsewhere. I'm not sure how
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Speaker 1: you see, Brian Well, no, I'm with you. I made
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Speaker 1: some calls around the league last night, and the word
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Speaker 1: that I got on the safety was you paid top
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Speaker 1: of the market for your Sean Gibson a couple of
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Speaker 1: years ago, and this is a guy with similar upside,
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Speaker 1: But is it going to cost you top of the market. Um.
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Speaker 1: I think the word is value, right, And they found
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Speaker 1: good players ascending I mean in the case of of
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Speaker 1: the running back, you know, no, he's thirty. I mean
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Speaker 1: he's not an ascending player. I'm not sure Philip dors
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Speaker 1: said has an sending player. Those guys are role players.
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Speaker 1: But a guy like um Shawn Slater and um where
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Speaker 1: Robertson Harris that got the right name. Uh, these are
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Speaker 1: guys the defensive tackle was compared to a Malik Jackson
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Speaker 1: style player built a little bit differently. You know, six
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Speaker 1: five pounds, long arms, powerful guy can be a mismatch
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Speaker 1: on guards. UM. You know, they're out there looking for
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Speaker 1: guys kind of like the Patriots used to. They used
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Speaker 1: to sign guys that you really hadn't heard of because
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Speaker 1: they were system they fit exactly what they wanted to do.
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Speaker 1: Sounds like Urban Meyer, Trent Balky and their staffs have
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Speaker 1: gotten together and found players that fit what they want
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Speaker 1: to do and they've got the right value for those players.
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Speaker 1: I like it because remember we talked about the salary cap.
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Speaker 1: Now you're gonna have a franchise quarterback, you've got to
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Speaker 1: look beyond just this year. You've got to look to
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Speaker 1: three or four years down the road. And you know,
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Speaker 1: if you've found value guys that you can plug in
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Speaker 1: Sydney Jones, I guess is just resigning. That's great value.
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Speaker 1: That's a player you know something about um and you're
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Speaker 1: not paying top of the market for him. So it
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Speaker 1: gives you a lot of flexibility, not just for this
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Speaker 1: year because again they're coming from one in fifteen, but two, three,
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Speaker 1: four years down the road, right not to mention you
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Speaker 1: have eleven draft picks and with this extra cap space,
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Speaker 1: had the chance to maybe pay some of your own
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Speaker 1: guys and developed that way. So all good things. Everyone,
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Speaker 1: take a deep breath. It's going to be one more
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Speaker 1: one more thing forget to do things. If you scroll
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Speaker 1: down the list and I'm on Pro Football Talks website
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Speaker 1: and you look at some of the names john that
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Speaker 1: signed yesterday, Adam Pankey, p J. Hall, you're seeing names
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Speaker 1: Austin Johnson, Um, hold on, there's two or three more,
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Speaker 1: Daniel Carlson, Yeah, exactly, defensive tackle Vincent Taylor. Right. I
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Speaker 1: think one of the things that you saw where there
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Speaker 1: were a lot of players that signed who you hadn't
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Speaker 1: heard of or I hadn't heard of. You know, they
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Speaker 1: were second tier players or played in in you know,
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Speaker 1: the NFC, and we didn't see them. They're not big
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Speaker 1: name players, but a lot of guys like that, and
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Speaker 1: we talked about this on The Reporter's podcast. What you've
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Speaker 1: got is you've got a salary cap that has shrunk
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Speaker 1: and teams who are trying to figure out how to
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Speaker 1: make their salary cap work this year. So a lot
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Speaker 1: of mid level guys found jobs on day one. And
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Speaker 1: then there's always the idea that people have figured out
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Speaker 1: that paying top of the market the first two or
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Speaker 1: three days of free agency is a good way to
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Speaker 1: put yourself in a hard spot. Absolutely, just because you
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Speaker 1: have money doesn't mean you have to spend it. Your
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Speaker 1: mom taught you that, My dad, yeah, both of them.
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Speaker 1: Actually the trips to limited to when I was younger.
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Speaker 1: That taught me, well, here we go, big thing one
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Speaker 1: spend it. Free agency update the Jaguars keeping five of
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Speaker 1: their own and reportedly signing six new guys. But before
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Speaker 1: all this had to happen, they had to figure out
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Speaker 1: what they were doing with left tackle Cam Robinson and
7:48
Speaker 1: the franchise tag at times has a negative connotation with players,
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Speaker 1: but Urban Meyers told us not with Cam Robinson, he
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Speaker 1: spoke at TPC on Friday, Yeah, been real positive. I've
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Speaker 1: known Camp since he was in college. And and uh
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Speaker 1: are we got an excell line coach and George Warhopley,
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Speaker 1: I like our line. Can we play better? You're darn
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Speaker 1: right where we are going to play better? But starting
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Speaker 1: with linear center norwell a J. H. Jawan at the
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Speaker 1: right tackle and Cam, we just got to get better.
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Speaker 1: And every one of them can play better. And I
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Speaker 1: like all five guys, and I think Cam's got a
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Speaker 1: really good future. Speaking of the offensive lineman, here are
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Speaker 1: some guys that they have kept. You see Cam Robinson,
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Speaker 1: You see Tyler Shatley. Really liked the movie here with
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Speaker 1: Dawan Smooth. That's a guy who was ascending in the
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Speaker 1: rights direction. Let's go ahead and just glue stick Sydney
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Speaker 1: Jones on it. That and he's broke about ten minutes
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Speaker 1: ago before the show. And let's take a look at
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Speaker 1: the guys they have reportedly signed as of yesterday. You're
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Speaker 1: gonna see six names here. We talked about the defensive
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Speaker 1: tackle from the Bears. This kick returner out of the Lions.
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Speaker 1: I was watching highlight videos of him, right yeah. He
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Speaker 1: has returned four touchdowns kicks, one touchdown punts. Very speedy guy,
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Speaker 1: kind of think of like a D. D. Westbrook. They
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Speaker 1: are so overall adding some pieces that you needed to
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Speaker 1: add after a one in fifteen season. So now let's
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Speaker 1: go to big thing two, which is what do you
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Speaker 1: expect for the rest of the week. The Blue League
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Speaker 1: gear starts tomorrow, still a long week ahead of all
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Speaker 1: kinds of moves can be made. But one thing for
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Speaker 1: sure is that urban Meyer is really liking shaping this
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Speaker 1: roster to the vision that he sees it. Yeah, this
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Speaker 1: is uh. I'm I'm waking up the middle of the
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Speaker 1: night staring at the ceiling and trying to put this
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Speaker 1: All of us are trying to put this thing together
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Speaker 1: because this is you just look at the history which
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Speaker 1: I have in the last year, just looking through the
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Speaker 1: history of the NFL. How many chances do you get
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Speaker 1: to build a roster like we are. You have cap
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Speaker 1: space eleven draft picks. Can't screw it up, man, I
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Speaker 1: mean that's you got to get the right people. You
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Speaker 1: gotta get the right and our coaches and the number
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Speaker 1: one thing I'm looking for a mess between the personnel
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Speaker 1: department of our coaches. Big thing three is leverage. We
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Speaker 1: have been talking about this since January. It is a
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Speaker 1: great time to be the Jaguars right now. All kinds
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Speaker 1: of cap space eleven draft picks, and we're seeing this
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Speaker 1: free agency period shake out a little differently. You have
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Speaker 1: teams like the Jaguars who are playing it more conservative.
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Speaker 1: You have teams like the Patriots who are known for
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Speaker 1: being conservative. Have Cam Newton as their quarterback and are
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Speaker 1: just throwing things out the wall. To me, just throwing
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Speaker 1: all kinds of money and trying to make something stick.
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Speaker 1: It can work, John, it also could not work well. Again,
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Speaker 1: I said it at the top. I've never been a
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Speaker 1: guy who, you know, in years past, whenever the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: were in the news this time of year, is signing
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Speaker 1: you know, this top guy at that top guy that
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Speaker 1: always made me nervous. It worked once with the Clays
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Speaker 1: Campbell a j boy a offseason, but beyond that, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's just not really my cup of tea. I I
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Speaker 1: prefer draft, I preferred developed, and I always thought that
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Speaker 1: maybe not second tier guy. But after that first day,
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Speaker 1: those were the guys you wind up sitting there in
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Speaker 1: November and saying that guy was a pretty good signing.
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Speaker 1: So to me, getting too big thing too, which I'm
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Speaker 1: kind of jumping the gun the rest of the week.
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Speaker 1: You know, if if they come out of this with
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Speaker 1: one more element of stout, if you will, on the
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Speaker 1: defensive line and tight end, starting to build that a
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Speaker 1: little bit the other positions. If you think about it,
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Speaker 1: everybody's saying well, corner, everybody's saying well wide receiver. Everybodys
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Speaker 1: saying we'll running back, that those were impact positions you
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Speaker 1: talked about before free agency. They got guys who were there,
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Speaker 1: But young running back in the draft is not going
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Speaker 1: to surprise me. Young cornerback in the draft is not
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Speaker 1: going to surprise me, and young speed wide receiver in
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Speaker 1: the draft is not gonna surprise me. Those all makes sense.
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Speaker 1: You've got guys who can play there, and you've also
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Speaker 1: got room to grow in new positions. So that seems
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Speaker 1: like what they're doing here. We'll fight out as we
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Speaker 1: go forward. They didn't sign anybody yesterday or come to
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Speaker 1: terms with anybody yesterday on either side of the ball.
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Speaker 1: That would prohibit any player at any spot in the draft,
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Speaker 1: which is interesting because most teams, if you go back
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Speaker 1: and look at the history of free agency, are looking
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Speaker 1: to go, Okay, we're slid there. We got a wide
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Speaker 1: receiver signed Kenny Golladay, right, so we don't have to
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Speaker 1: worry about wide receiver in the draft. The Jaggars approach
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Speaker 1: is completely different. Again, when you're one in fifteen, you
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Speaker 1: can look at it different. No matter what your expectations are,
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Speaker 1: what you want to achieve in your first year here.
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Speaker 1: When you're one in fifteen, you can talk about the
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Speaker 1: holes and start filling them. I love the fact that
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Speaker 1: they've put a safety back there, a six ft one
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Speaker 1: pound safety next to Daniel Thomas. Well, I think it's
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Speaker 1: five ten two oh five, right, he's he's a veteran guy,
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Speaker 1: he's been a starter in Los Angeles, and now you've
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Speaker 1: got Daniel Thomas, who showed us something. Okay, So do
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Speaker 1: you have to use who's your pick at twenty five
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Speaker 1: or thirty three on one of the best safeties in
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Speaker 1: the draft. No, you can let the draft come to
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Speaker 1: you because these are solid guys that you can play
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Speaker 1: with as you build your team. Nobody says, Hey, the
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Speaker 1: Jaggards is gonna be alaoff contender next year. Could they
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Speaker 1: win games and surprise people, Absolutely, But they're building in
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Speaker 1: a really stable way. And I love that that they
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Speaker 1: don't preclude themselves from taking anybody based on who they
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Speaker 1: have signed in free agency. Yeah, and I think it's
13:27
Speaker 1: it's almost a bit of a surprise, at least to
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Speaker 1: the national media. You're watching on ESPN because us to
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Speaker 1: the jag we're spending well that and you're also used
13:34
Speaker 1: to the flashiness of of urban meyer of coming in
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Speaker 1: here and all eyes being on him, and everyone expected
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Speaker 1: him to swing to the fences and make a statement.
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Speaker 1: But this is a new regime that you know, he
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Speaker 1: wants to build from the bottom up, and that doesn't
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Speaker 1: mean doing it all here right now. He's expecting to
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Speaker 1: be here for many years to come. And that's a
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Speaker 1: good thing. Now, don't get me wrong, John, And you
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Speaker 1: want to see a statement, go ahead, tune in April one.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty very pretty big statement, pretty bold statement, Don't
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Speaker 1: get me wrong. If they were to go after a
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Speaker 1: tight end, you know, if they were to go spend
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Speaker 1: some money and sign a big contract right now, I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't change my mind. I mean, I think that's great. Fine, right,
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Speaker 1: go and get that guy that you can't necessarily bring
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Speaker 1: in in free agency. I mean, yesterday we did on
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Speaker 1: the Jaggon's Reporters podcast, who do you want to see
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Speaker 1: until by the end of the week, Well, I said
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Speaker 1: Hunter Henry. I just had this vision of this tight
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Speaker 1: end in the middle of the field, a good sized
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Speaker 1: guy who moves well. I keep thinking of Nick Foles
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Speaker 1: and Carson Wentz with zach Ertz a couple of years
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Speaker 1: ago in Philadelphia in the middle of the field, I
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Speaker 1: think that, boy, will that open things up on the
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Speaker 1: edges for guys like d J H Hark. I want
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Speaker 1: to see that. Okay, Well, if they don't do it,
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Speaker 1: that must mean they've got the plan for one of
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Speaker 1: those guys in the draft. Um, you can't necessarily solve
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Speaker 1: every problem, but they have filled with some nice players,
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Speaker 1: even though no one knows them. Yeah, and I think
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Speaker 1: tight end would make the most sense John for all
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Speaker 1: of us. If you're gonna go big, that's where you
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Speaker 1: want to go big this week. Yeah, and again it
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Speaker 1: may not be big according to the lists, and I'm
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Speaker 1: okay with that. We've you know, the litany of free
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Speaker 1: agent busts at tight end are so big, not not
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Speaker 1: just for this franchise, but for many franchise. I have
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Speaker 1: no problem if they have a guy targeted a tight
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Speaker 1: end that they liked, that they feel like developing player.
15:29
Speaker 1: Johnny Smith is at the top of a lot of
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Speaker 1: list because he had eight touchdowns last year. And I'm
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Speaker 1: not knocking on john nw Smith, but having eight touchdowns
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Speaker 1: when everybody's worried about Derrick Henry is a different there's
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Speaker 1: a different school of fish than not doing it without
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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. So who knows if that was their thinking,
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Speaker 1: But I frankly didn't see tight ends at the top
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Speaker 1: of the list that I was like, Okay, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: do cart wheels. If they get here, I believe they'll
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Speaker 1: get a tight end. It'll it'll be a guy who
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Speaker 1: fits them. And then I think that's also a position
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Speaker 1: that they'll try to draft and get that guy that
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Speaker 1: they can develop on their own. That's usually how you
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Speaker 1: get big time tight end. Most of these guys. Everybody
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Speaker 1: talks about Gronkin in New England, Kittle and San Francisco,
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Speaker 1: Kelsey in uh Kansas City, not first round guys and
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Speaker 1: and guys who developed. So that's the way to do it.
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Speaker 1: It just won't If you do that, it won't be
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Speaker 1: week one of two thousand twenty one. And that's quite
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Speaker 1: Hunter Henry is still out there that could work. Patriots
19:12
Speaker 1: just signed him. What is going on in New England's Well,
19:15
Speaker 1: if you remember in uh, and you might not the um,
19:19
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots drafted Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez
19:24
Speaker 1: and for a couple of seasons there before Erin Hernandez
19:26
Speaker 1: got sidetracked. Um, the Patriots were a tight end center
19:31
Speaker 1: team and Tom Brady destroyed defense. Is in the middle
19:35
Speaker 1: of the field with those two guys, and I and
19:37
Speaker 1: I think if you look, they've tried over the years
19:39
Speaker 1: to kind of get back to that two tight end thing. Um.
19:42
Speaker 1: It appears that with Cam Newton back at quarterback, Bill
19:45
Speaker 1: Belichick is saying, we're going back to the days of
19:48
Speaker 1: tight end centered middle of the field. Uh, create mismatches
19:52
Speaker 1: for our guys on the outside. Okay, yeah, yeah, there's
19:57
Speaker 1: some money. Yeah wow yeah, why is right? So let's
20:01
Speaker 1: get to what's trending in the NFL. And we haven't
20:03
Speaker 1: had the chance to talk about Drew Brees and his
20:06
Speaker 1: career And it was on the Today Show yesterday, was
20:08
Speaker 1: watching live, big fan of the Today's Show and he
20:10
Speaker 1: is joining the teammates NBC. And if it's any surprise
20:15
Speaker 1: at all to Uh, absolutely, no one. John. He'll have
20:18
Speaker 1: a career in TV. Yeah, he'll do well. I mean
20:22
Speaker 1: he's he's an engaging guy, he has expertise. Uh you know, Uh,
20:28
Speaker 1: incredible career for a guy who was say out of
20:32
Speaker 1: the league at one point but incredible shoulder issues at
20:37
Speaker 1: some point, came back from it, first ballot Hall of Famer,
20:40
Speaker 1: and I'm sure he'll do fine on NBC. I'll never forget.
20:43
Speaker 1: I was sitting in this studio with Mike Malarkey doing
20:45
Speaker 1: his radio show one night, and the topic came up
20:49
Speaker 1: of Drew Brees, and so we waited and he told
20:52
Speaker 1: the story on air. He was the offensive coordinator with
20:55
Speaker 1: Nick Saban in Miami back when Drew Brees was making visits.
20:59
Speaker 1: And yesterday the story went around that the people in
21:02
Speaker 1: New Orleans makeing Loomis when Drew Brees left to go
21:05
Speaker 1: to Miami. They thought, well, there's no way he's coming
21:07
Speaker 1: back here. That's Miami, this is post Katrina New Orleans.
21:11
Speaker 1: You know, the Dolphins have had success, we haven't. Mike
21:14
Speaker 1: Malarkey told me that on the flight back to New
21:18
Speaker 1: Orleans and they hadn't signed him, was as depressed as
21:21
Speaker 1: he'd ever been. As a football coach because he had
21:23
Speaker 1: thought so hard for the Dolphins to sign Drew Brees
21:29
Speaker 1: that he was just glom the whole way. And Breese
21:32
Speaker 1: didn't really care because he knew he had had an
21:33
Speaker 1: offer coming. Um. Malarkey just just shoulders slumped as he
21:38
Speaker 1: told the story. One more Drew Brees story. Um, it
21:42
Speaker 1: was two thousand and eleven or twelve, and we were
21:45
Speaker 1: in New Orleans for a preseason game. And I was
21:47
Speaker 1: watching watching Drew Brees who stood at his own forty
21:51
Speaker 1: five yard line and was throwing go routes right and
21:54
Speaker 1: it was just at the five yard line, at the
21:56
Speaker 1: five yard line, the five yardland the ball. The receivers
21:59
Speaker 1: could just have done this and caught the ball because
22:00
Speaker 1: Drew Brees put it on the same spot every single time.
22:05
Speaker 1: It was amazing to watch him throw. Not the most
22:08
Speaker 1: physically gifted guy, he wasn't a great, big strapping guy. Um,
22:12
Speaker 1: but man with the ball in his hands. Will the
22:14
Speaker 1: numbers say at all? You know, all time leading passer. Yes,
22:16
Speaker 1: an incredible career. I know I look like Jim Kintory
22:20
Speaker 1: over here today because I keep on going to the
22:22
Speaker 1: year so I can't always hear what we said today,
22:25
Speaker 1: Uh Hunter Henry to New England. Have we talked about
22:27
Speaker 1: that off the top of the show, John, Sorry, I
22:33
Speaker 1: could barely hear. So it's okay, it's quite all right. Yeah,
22:39
Speaker 1: they're going back to the They're going back to the
22:41
Speaker 1: two thousand ten eleven team that that had to Hernandez
22:44
Speaker 1: and Gronkowski together and and that was a really dangerous team.
22:48
Speaker 1: Yes it was. Let's look at what else is trending
22:50
Speaker 1: in the NFL. This is something I woke up to
22:52
Speaker 1: this morning. I went, huh, I kind of like this
22:55
Speaker 1: Washington football team, Ryan Fitzpatrick. You know what I noticed
22:59
Speaker 1: from this is unique in Gonquay. Right, he got a
23:03
Speaker 1: two year, six million dollar contract. Um. Good for him, right.
23:09
Speaker 1: I Mean what was said about him when everyone was
23:12
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23:16
Speaker 1: was going to scare people with his ability to get
23:19
Speaker 1: lost in a game if you were not in a
23:23
Speaker 1: position to just all out attack the passer. So I
23:26
Speaker 1: think the Jaguars offered in fifteen or sixteen over four years,
23:29
Speaker 1: and he's settling for twenty six in two. Um. Now
23:34
Speaker 1: he's young, he's twenty six. He'll get another chance at
23:36
Speaker 1: it in two more years, but you don't know, you
23:39
Speaker 1: know whether he's going to get that big deal or
23:41
Speaker 1: not at what you are eventually kind of plays out
23:44
Speaker 1: in the NFL and he never got the big deal
23:48
Speaker 1: that he screamed about. It. Well, I was trying to
23:53
Speaker 1: keep up with this graphic and keep up with names,
23:55
Speaker 1: but so much has happened even since we started this show.
23:57
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24:00
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24:02
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Speaker 1: Unless we're trying to sign a top five free agent
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Speaker 1: and are saving money for something like that, I'm concerned
30:56
Speaker 1: that we're picking up depth players on day one of negotiations.
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31:02
Speaker 1: buying batteries on Black Friday. I don't think he got
31:06
Speaker 1: that go ahead. Well after he wrote that, he picked
31:10
Speaker 1: up his pitchfork and went down to the stadium. So, um, look,
31:15
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the perception of this. Rashon Jenkins is
31:18
Speaker 1: not a backup player. Uh. Robertson Harris not a backup player.
31:25
Speaker 1: Those were the moves that are front line starter guys.
31:29
Speaker 1: The rest of them are they backups? Are they role players? Uh?
31:33
Speaker 1: We'll see how it plays out, but um, you know,
31:37
Speaker 1: I guess I understand that there's going to be concerned,
31:40
Speaker 1: there's gonna be panicked, because so much of this lead
31:43
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31:47
Speaker 1: going and getting frontline guy free agency, that you're not trying,
31:51
Speaker 1: you're not improving. Uh, that's the nature of Twitter, the
31:56
Speaker 1: four cycle. I'm seeing people and say on Twitter calling
32:01
Speaker 1: this is a disaster. It's just not. It's one day
32:07
Speaker 1: and you don't pill the Super Bowl winning franchise based
32:10
Speaker 1: on your first day of free agency in the first week,
32:13
Speaker 1: in the first month of your regime. Brian I would say,
32:16
Speaker 1: take a deep breath and go back to uh, twenty nineteen. Uh.
32:20
Speaker 1: The Jaguars made the biggest of splashes when they acquired
32:24
Speaker 1: Nick Foles, and we talked all off season. You know,
32:27
Speaker 1: this was a big armed quarterback who had been in
32:29
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Super Bowl m VP would never buy
32:33
Speaker 1: a dinner or wait for a table in Philadelphia again, right,
32:36
Speaker 1: one of the great sports towns in America, and we
32:39
Speaker 1: only saw this thing going up. In fact, I remember
32:41
Speaker 1: telling the story that I didn't think that the Jaguars
32:44
Speaker 1: would have a shot at Trevor Lawrence because they were
32:46
Speaker 1: gonna win for a couple of years with Nick Foles, Um,
32:51
Speaker 1: how did that turn out? Different? Splashes are just that
32:55
Speaker 1: some of them are big and some of them are not.
33:00
Speaker 1: No matter how big you think they are, they don't
33:02
Speaker 1: turn out that way. So you've got to let these
33:04
Speaker 1: things play out a little bit. Here's I likened it
33:06
Speaker 1: earlier to the Patriots always Now they're they're out of
33:10
Speaker 1: character right here, okay with what they're doing right now,
33:13
Speaker 1: But they were always grabbing guys that you had really
33:15
Speaker 1: never heard of and plugging them into their system, you know,
33:19
Speaker 1: the Patriot way. And of course Tom Brady made a
33:22
Speaker 1: lot of that happen. This seems to me like just
33:25
Speaker 1: good solid players, some of whom will come in and
33:28
Speaker 1: play a role, some of whom will come in and
33:30
Speaker 1: get their chance to start, all at the right value,
33:34
Speaker 1: value value value. You also look at these positions that
33:38
Speaker 1: are being brought in and it makes sense. It is
33:40
Speaker 1: a need. They need these positions. It's not like they're
33:43
Speaker 1: just going and getting a guy to get a guy
33:45
Speaker 1: and saying, now you know, maybe we'll use you week three.
33:47
Speaker 1: They need these spots to be putting themselves in a
33:49
Speaker 1: position John to make good decisions on draft day, and
33:52
Speaker 1: as you mentioned the draft is where you build a winner.
33:56
Speaker 1: Free agency is where you supple it. One thing before
34:01
Speaker 1: we move on. Pet Prisco made the point what it
34:05
Speaker 1: was this morning or last night. The reason there's not
34:08
Speaker 1: a lot of movement at the wide receiver position right
34:10
Speaker 1: now is because you've got a lot of number two
34:14
Speaker 1: receivers looking for number one money. And that sort of
34:18
Speaker 1: sums up a lot of what happens in free agency
34:20
Speaker 1: and a lot of mistakes teams make. Is it's easy
34:24
Speaker 1: to get caught up in what the fans are saying,
34:26
Speaker 1: and oh, we've got to make sure that the fans
34:28
Speaker 1: are happy, or that we have a a depth chart
34:31
Speaker 1: filled out. No matter what the position, you don't want
34:34
Speaker 1: to pay number one money for a number two player.
34:39
Speaker 1: And I think Trent Balky gave us a hint of
34:41
Speaker 1: that when he talked about value every time he talked
34:45
Speaker 1: before all this started. It was once last week, and
34:48
Speaker 1: then as he was talking, anytime I heard him talk,
34:51
Speaker 1: he was talking about value. And he also talked about
34:53
Speaker 1: over a three year period, we're going to spend the cap.
34:57
Speaker 1: So sort of a precursor of all this was maybe
35:02
Speaker 1: not to expect so much building through the draft, Yes,
35:06
Speaker 1: being smart and measured in free agency. Again. I know
35:11
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be in the minority among fans, but I
35:13
Speaker 1: like it. As long as you're happy, John, We're happy.
35:17
Speaker 1: So let's go to Georgia. I'm not happy. I'm okay
35:20
Speaker 1: with this, all right, You're very rarely happy. But I
35:24
Speaker 1: have a feeling you'll be happy at the draft. Like
35:26
Speaker 1: you mentioned, let's go to Georgia. Our guys. Swamp Dude
35:29
Speaker 1: as a little confused. Let's clarify here. Please explain the
35:32
Speaker 1: reason for the national media writing about the Jags having
35:35
Speaker 1: no compensatory picks for eleven years and the formula for
35:39
Speaker 1: determining the comp picks. I'm confused. Well, I included this
35:44
Speaker 1: because I knew today was going to be all free
35:46
Speaker 1: agency all the time, so I thought we'd step away
35:48
Speaker 1: for a second. Compensatory picks came out last week. Jaguars
35:52
Speaker 1: haven't had one since two thousand and ten. It's very
35:55
Speaker 1: simple why they don't have one. It's not the league
35:57
Speaker 1: disliking the Jaguars. When you participate in free agency as
36:01
Speaker 1: much as the Jaguars have and you don't lose big
36:04
Speaker 1: time guys, Compensatory is all about this For the one draft.
36:11
Speaker 1: It's about whether or not you gained more than you
36:14
Speaker 1: lost in free agency the previous offseason. If you gain more,
36:18
Speaker 1: you're not going to get compensatory picks. If you lose more,
36:21
Speaker 1: you will. The Jaguars, because they've always been chasing free agents,
36:25
Speaker 1: haven't gotten one since two thousand ten. Hopefully, what will
36:30
Speaker 1: happen to this franchise? Start drafting, well, guys, starts, team
36:34
Speaker 1: starts signing your players. You don't need to participate in
36:37
Speaker 1: free agency as much. Then you get compensatory picks. That's it.
36:40
Speaker 1: In a nutshell, it all makes sense. The Ravens have
36:44
Speaker 1: done it masterfully. In fact, I read somewhere that the
36:47
Speaker 1: Zeitler move was all that. Kevin Zeitler, the guard, the
36:50
Speaker 1: former Bengal and Giant uh with an eye. The contractor
36:53
Speaker 1: structured so they can play with him for two years
36:56
Speaker 1: and then collect a third or fourth round compensatory pick
37:00
Speaker 1: in after two seasons are up and and his his
37:04
Speaker 1: it will be nine or ten year player. At that
37:05
Speaker 1: point they're ready to move on. So, I mean, they're
37:08
Speaker 1: really really good. Spend too much time. We're worried about
37:10
Speaker 1: compensatory picks, but that's just me. Well, it's a strategy.
37:15
Speaker 1: It's a strategy. It's one the Jaguars fans don't recognize
37:18
Speaker 1: because the Jaguars have never played it. So it's worth explaining. Yeah,
37:23
Speaker 1: it's worth explaining to people because third round picks are
37:26
Speaker 1: are generally starters. So hopefully in the next two or
37:29
Speaker 1: three years we all become better educated on how the
37:31
Speaker 1: formula works, let's hope. So that means things are moving
37:34
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