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The Winners of the 2025 NFL Draft...THE JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ! · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It's twenty eight degrees in Jacksonville, twenty four degrees in
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  Speaker 1: Blackburn's twenty two degrees at the Giants Causeway. But look,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie the weather. It's quite nice at
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  Speaker 1: the moment. This is still Talk, the Official Jacksonville Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: UK and Ireland Podcast, presented by Gallagher. I'm Jay Lawrence,
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  Speaker 1: in no relation. He's Key Ramsuran.
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  Speaker 2: Why are we talking about Giants cause where we should
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  Speaker 2: be renaming it Jags cause well, jackson calls the winners
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  Speaker 2: of the twenty twenty five NFL Draft, your Jacksonville Jaguars.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a heck of a few days, Key, heck
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  Speaker 2: of a few days. Yeah, I mean a roller coaster
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  Speaker 2: in a half that The Guardian gave Jagster Winn, Yahoo Sports,
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  Speaker 2: CBS Sports, Bleacher Report all.
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  Speaker 1: Gave the Jaguars an A. I think it's fair to
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  Speaker 1: say did the Jags shock the draft? I feel like
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  Speaker 1: they shocked the draft. We nabbed the big.
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  Speaker 2: One Ah, arguably the best player coming out of the
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  Speaker 2: draft ends up at the Jags.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know what right? Are we getting into this
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  Speaker 3: right now? Or shall I wait a little bit?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, let's go go on. If you've got a point.
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  Speaker 3: You've got a point.
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  Speaker 2: Give me Sus Parkinson, right. The host of the show
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  Speaker 2: has been talking about the Jags getting Travis Hunter honestly
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  Speaker 2: since about October last year, and I'm like, Reece, it's
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  Speaker 2: not going to happen, Like, the chances of that happening
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  Speaker 2: are so low. And he's been like making his fantasy
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  Speaker 2: team for next year with Travis Hunser in it. I'm like, Reece, no,
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  Speaker 2: And then it happened. I couldn't believe it, honestly, could
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  Speaker 2: not believe it.
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  Speaker 3: Why what a moment My.
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  Speaker 1: Jaw like dropped to the floor when when it was
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  Speaker 1: announced that the Jags had traded up on the show today, unsurprisingly,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a lot of draft talk. Jason
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  Speaker 1: Bell is going to be coming up as well, speaking
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  Speaker 1: about the Jags draft class of twenty twenty five, and
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  Speaker 1: in fact, I mean, this is going to be an
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  Speaker 1: amazing conversation to have as well. Because our International of
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  Speaker 1: the Year, Jamie Phillips, he was on a few episodes ago,
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  Speaker 1: if you remember, we revealed that he would be going
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  Speaker 1: to Green Bay as part of his prize to the draft.
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  Speaker 1: He's fresh back from Wisconsin. We're going to hear all
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  Speaker 1: about what it was like to you know, actually go
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  Speaker 1: see the draft, and if you're going to go see
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  Speaker 1: any drafts, I think Jamie went to the right draft.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely this morning, and I was like looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: hearing about it, and he said, yeah, I'm just writing
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  Speaker 2: it all down before I forget it. So I think
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  Speaker 2: he might have got the sickness sickness bug that you
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  Speaker 2: had in New Orleans. Maybe maybe maybe I feel like
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be taking a lot of notes because
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  Speaker 2: there's going to be a lot to talk about for him.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, i'd love for there to be like it
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  Speaker 2: did to hear his reaction of you know what what
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  Speaker 2: he felt like when he saw the Jags trade up
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  Speaker 2: and when they got you know, we.
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  Speaker 3: Saw it, he was on he was on the telly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like even better.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, let's catch up with him about it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we're going to We're going to catch up with
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  Speaker 1: him in a little bit. Look to what I'll do,
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  Speaker 1: key is I'm going to go through all of the
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  Speaker 1: draft picks very quickly, okay, and then we'll go into
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  Speaker 1: it a little bit before j Bell comes on. So
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  Speaker 1: obviously Round one, Travis Hunter, the wide receiver slash dB
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  Speaker 1: phenom from Colorado round three, and obviously we didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a round two pick because it was traded to the
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns as part of the trade up. My alma matter,
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  Speaker 1: the two Lane University's Caleb Randsaw. I'm not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 2: I was incredibly hyped to see two lane on the board,
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  Speaker 2: let alone to the Jackson Jaguars.
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  Speaker 1: The nickelback Wyatt Millum, the guard and tackle as well,
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  Speaker 1: played a bunch of different positions for West Virginia as well.
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  Speaker 1: I apologize if I'm pronouncing his name wrong. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's Beai shal Twoton, the running back from Virginia Tech
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  Speaker 1: that was the round four pick. Another round four pick
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  Speaker 1: as well, Jack Kaiser, the linebacker from Notre Dame. That
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  Speaker 1: one actually, that draft pick was done by j Bell
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  Speaker 1: at Stoneheck Stadium, where Sam Garrison's play in London. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: Jalen McLeod, the linebacker from Auburn. Again, I might pronounce
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  Speaker 1: this wrong. Rayan Lane the third, the safety from Navy
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  Speaker 1: that was the round six pick. Round seven, joanah Mannheim,
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  Speaker 1: the offensive lineman from USC and another running back actually
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  Speaker 1: in round seven as well, the Quinn Allen from Syracuse
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  Speaker 1: as well. We don't need to go into all of these, Key, okay,
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  Speaker 1: because you know I don't have too much knowledge on
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  Speaker 1: Rayon Lane. The third, the safety from Navy, to be honest.
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  Speaker 3: With you, the second, I do not.
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  Speaker 1: The third it's dad. It's dad. I could do it
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  Speaker 1: that all day. And you know, myself and j Bell,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about Travis Hunter a little bit in a moment,
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  Speaker 1: but you know this is I think let's just let's
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  Speaker 1: just look at the big picture here. Key. Yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: is a Jagg's statement, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: It is a for effort, but b for bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Like the move to go for Travis Hunt excellent, but
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  Speaker 2: the addressing the needs was big for me. There are
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  Speaker 2: certain areas that, based on last season, needed looking at,
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  Speaker 2: and they got looked at in free agency. I think
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  Speaker 2: short term needs were addressed. This draft I think has
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  Speaker 2: addressed long term like the next decade. Getting a guard
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  Speaker 2: that is going to play guard for ten years fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's I think we've done really well. James Gladston,
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  Speaker 2: good job man, flippy neck.
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  Speaker 1: James, Yeah, he and I mentioned it. Wanted to speak
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  Speaker 1: to to j bellin Abe. He's got this aura around him.
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  Speaker 1: I think James James Gladstone one of the most talked
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  Speaker 1: about GM's in the Last Future.
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  Speaker 2: You know what, sometimes when James Gladston is talking, he
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  Speaker 2: reminds me of the architects from the Matrix. That's so specific,
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  Speaker 2: But do you know that kind of like flowing intelligent
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  Speaker 2: narrative that about five words in. I'm lost, I've got
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  Speaker 2: that what he's talking about anymore. But he knows exactly
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  Speaker 2: what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember a few weeks ago, a few months ago,
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  Speaker 1: when we were talking on the podcast about if there
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  Speaker 1: was like a big billboard up, you know, on the
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  Speaker 1: freeway in Jacksonville, you know, a big Jags billboard, and
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  Speaker 1: there was three players up there. Do you remember this
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  Speaker 1: conversation that we had who would be those three players? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think that we've decided which three players are going
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  Speaker 1: to be already for this new season. Trevor Lawrence, Brian
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Jr. And Travis Hunter.
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  Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence right and looking down the field and going
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  Speaker 2: bdj or Travis Huns.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine having those options.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's And what I'm really interested to
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  Speaker 1: see is how much he's going to play on each
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball as well, because you know, this
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  Speaker 1: is a player who's played on both sides of the
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  Speaker 1: ball of Colorado. That's his whole thing and that's why
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  Speaker 1: he's seen such an amazing player going into this draft.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like he might be playing offense. I do want
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  Speaker 1: to just say one thing though, is I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you saw the conversation, the draft conversation, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when they call him, say we're going to pick you,
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  Speaker 1: and I felt like he was bombarded a little bit
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  Speaker 1: because he spoke to about eight people, Travis Hunter, eight
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  Speaker 1: people from the organization, you know, both coordinators, James Gladstone,
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  Speaker 1: Liam Cohen, Tony Biselli, mister Kahn of course as well.
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  Speaker 1: But one thing that I thought was really interesting is
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  Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator, Anthony Caperanelli said that he was the
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  Speaker 1: most fired up person in that room, and I thought
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  Speaker 1: that's interesting because what does that say about what he
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  Speaker 1: wants to do with Travis Hunter in the defensive side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball. You know, we can talk about him
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  Speaker 1: on the offense and maybe he'll be a bit on defense.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean it could be that we'll see much
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  Speaker 1: more defense than we and we might think it's going.
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  Speaker 3: To be very interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's needs in both of those positions, so
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  Speaker 2: it's going.
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  Speaker 1: To be very interesting, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people assume, because of the
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  Speaker 2: flare and the fanfare that comes with a wide receiver,
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  Speaker 2: that that's where he's going to be. But he's equally
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  Speaker 2: talented in both positions. So yeah, and let's be honest,
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  Speaker 2: even if he only played one of those positions, fantastic
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  Speaker 2: if he ends up playing both, as long as it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't stretch him too much. I think, yeah, there's great
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  Speaker 2: potential here.
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  Speaker 1: Man. That's a big thing, isn't it. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: thing that we can't answer at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: And college is different to the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Man, so like we can't just expect for him to
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  Speaker 2: transition and do as much on offense and defense as
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  Speaker 2: he was in college. That I just don't think that
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  Speaker 2: can happen.
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  Speaker 1: I could speak for a long time about Caleb Ransell,
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  Speaker 1: the nickelback from two lane, most of all because I
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  Speaker 1: just want to speak about too lane to be honest,
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  Speaker 1: But again, good to have somebody in Jaggs. Is no
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  Speaker 1: secret to say they didn't have a good pass defense
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL in twenty twenty four. Need somebody, somebody
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  Speaker 1: young obviously coming up through the draft that they can
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  Speaker 1: build and they can hopefully be a mainstay for years
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  Speaker 1: to come. Again, it's like you said before picking, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a position of need.
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  Speaker 2: Position of need long term as well. Yes, like fixing stuff,
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  Speaker 2: getting some vexing short term fantastic, but this draft with
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  Speaker 2: addressed long term and this is one of the positions
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  Speaker 2: that needed looking at.
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  Speaker 3: Good pick.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. A couple running backs in the draft as well,
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  Speaker 1: which I think is interesting because this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be an interesting we'll have to see how it all,
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  Speaker 1: you know, works over the next few months before the
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  Speaker 1: NFL season starts. A couple of running backs taken in
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  Speaker 1: the draft obviously, Travis het and Junior and Tank Bigsby
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  Speaker 1: there as well, So you know, it's good to be
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  Speaker 1: giving Trevor Lawrence essentially these options trying to build up
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  Speaker 1: round as well.
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  Speaker 3: Bro.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's a very good point returns that might
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  Speaker 1: be what they're thinking about there. And the round four pick,
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  Speaker 1: number one oh seven was Jack Kaiser, the linebacker from
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame, and that was picked, as I mentioned before,
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  Speaker 1: from Stoneeck Stadium in North London by Jason Bell. He
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  Speaker 1: did a very good job. I was there and it
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  Speaker 1: was an amazing Jack Tag event as well. I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you what. We'll get into that and I'll talk a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about what went down on the day, but
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  Speaker 1: first let's hear from the NFL analyst, the former cornerback,
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  Speaker 1: the former special team at Jason Bell, talking about the
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  Speaker 1: Jags draft class, Jaybell, as I live and breed, I
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  Speaker 1: should say, j Bell just announced a draft pick.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, funny, hilarious. I was just telling you.
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  Speaker 5: A friend of mine who was a head coach in
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  Speaker 5: the NFL just sent me a text message with laughing emojis,
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  Speaker 5: like what are you doing out here? So people are watching,
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  Speaker 5: which is good, and that's why I told the kids.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, you know, this is significant, right, somebody's
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  Speaker 5: life is about to change.
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  Speaker 4: You're about to be a part of their moment. Draft
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  Speaker 4: is so. I mean, the.
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  Speaker 5: Experience is unbelievable for these kids. It's just changed their
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  Speaker 5: lives a lot of these players, and now we got
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  Speaker 5: to share it with them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's true. Jack Kaiser, who's the guy that
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  Speaker 1: you announced to the linebacker from Notre Dame, he watched
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  Speaker 1: that because he's been yea his entire life, entire life,
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  Speaker 1: no pressure for his name, right or whatever.
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  Speaker 5: But you're right because I was thinking about that when
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  Speaker 5: it was happening. You know, getting your name called, all
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  Speaker 5: the work, it took, all the sacrifice of your family,
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  Speaker 5: your friends, people buy you. I'm so glad the NFL
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  Speaker 5: makes this an event. I'm glad the teams make it different. Right,
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  Speaker 5: He's got his name announced here in London, mind blown.
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  Speaker 5: You know, people celebrating him as a pick. That's great, man,
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  Speaker 5: I'd love to see that.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So we're just in the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: fourth round action. I'm having this conversation, so we don't
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  Speaker 1: know who the Jacks are gonna draft and in later round.
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  Speaker 1: But I feel like there are certain things that we
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  Speaker 1: can talk about, certain people that we can talk about.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, some things might have happened.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, my first question is my first question is give
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  Speaker 1: me your reaction. Give me the thoughts that went through
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  Speaker 1: your head when you saw that the Jacksonville Jaguars had
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  Speaker 1: traded up from five to two.
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  Speaker 5: So you hear everybody talking about the noise right now,
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  Speaker 5: it's late for us, so I'm hearing something might happen,
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  Speaker 5: but you don't know. My first inclination was if something
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  Speaker 5: is bruin, it better be somebody special. You better make
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  Speaker 5: a splash. So when I saw that it was Travis Hunter,
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  Speaker 5: I lost it. Now, obviously I'm a home teamer. I
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  Speaker 5: love the Jaguars right they're here. I want to see
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  Speaker 5: them play well. I love Trevor Lawrence. So I'm looking
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  Speaker 5: at this pick with the new offensive coordinator with a
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  Speaker 5: GM that's come from a mentality of hey, we got
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  Speaker 5: to make bold decisions.
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  Speaker 4: And it all makes sense.
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  Speaker 5: If you're a Jacksonville fan, you're loving this. If you're
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  Speaker 5: an NFL fan, who are you now going to watch
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  Speaker 5: the Jacksonville Jaguars. You're gonna see what are they doing?
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  Speaker 5: What's bruin? This is special. This is a generational talent
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  Speaker 5: right here. Kind of player.
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  Speaker 4: People love him.
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  Speaker 5: I mean you saw how he was when he got
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  Speaker 5: on stage. I mean the way he relates. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: this is gonna be This is gonna be fantastic, dynamic,
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  Speaker 5: not only because who he is on the field, but
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  Speaker 5: the person he will be in the community.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what, we had this conversation on the
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  Speaker 1: podcast a few weeks ago about you know who the if.
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  Speaker 1: It had like three guys for the Jackers. You know,
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  Speaker 1: like you go past, you're on the you're on the
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  Speaker 1: motorway or whatever. There's a big poster and it's got
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  Speaker 1: the three guys from the Jags. Well we know who
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  Speaker 1: they are now, yeah, we know who they are because
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  Speaker 1: Travis Hunter literally has just inserted himself into that conversation.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what, I can't tell you how excited
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  Speaker 1: that I am. I can't tell you how excited that
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  Speaker 1: non Jags fans are gonna be that Travis Hunter is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be playing both ways, probably in London. In London.
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  Speaker 5: This is what's so special, right we you only have
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  Speaker 5: so much attention. So you're gonna watch your team. You're
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  Speaker 5: a fan of that, You're gonna watch certain players. Now
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  Speaker 5: you're gonna have all these players that are Travis Hunter fans,
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  Speaker 5: all these fans that are that love him as a player,
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  Speaker 5: They're gonna watch him. But you're gonna have so many
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  Speaker 5: people and so much attention on this team because let's
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  Speaker 5: not forget Trevor Lawrence is right there. He's on the
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  Speaker 5: precipice of great I believe, in the best situation with
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  Speaker 5: two receivers he has now as dynamic as this offense
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  Speaker 5: can be People are going to want to watch this team.
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  Speaker 1: Just talk to me a little bit about you know,
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  Speaker 1: how you see him on the team? AI do you
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  Speaker 1: see him? Do you think he's primarily going to be
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  Speaker 1: on offense? Defense? Do you genuinely think we can see
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  Speaker 1: him play a lot of snaps on both sides.
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  Speaker 2: Of the goal.
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  Speaker 5: So Liam Cohen's your new head coach, right, what does
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  Speaker 5: he do? He's there to fix the offense. This is
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  Speaker 5: his guy. So that's where you're going to see a
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  Speaker 5: lot of the attention. And remember what he's done before
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  Speaker 5: in Tampa Bay. He's had an outside, big ex receiver.
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  Speaker 4: You got that.
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  Speaker 5: You got an explosive guy on the outside, that Thomas Man.
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  Speaker 5: He is special. So you look at the way Chris
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  Speaker 5: Godwin played for Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 4: Now you look at.
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  Speaker 5: What Travis Hunter can do. Short area quickness, explosive playmaker.
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  Speaker 5: Just get him the ball in his hand. You've seen
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  Speaker 5: this formula before. You might see it duplicated again. So
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  Speaker 5: I see him being on offense, being that guy, and
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  Speaker 5: then you play him in different spots on defense. They
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  Speaker 5: are looking for a corner still too, so that can happen.
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  Speaker 5: It's gonna be all about what he can take as
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  Speaker 5: far as volume of information, and they're gonna test him
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  Speaker 5: in the training camp.
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  Speaker 1: Well, actually, let's just go on that a little bit
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  Speaker 1: for a second, because you know, that's what a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people have said. You know, no matter which team
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  Speaker 1: he joined, you're focused in one position group. You've got
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  Speaker 1: that you usually have the one coach. You're in that
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  Speaker 1: one room. You're gonna be splitting your time potentially if
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna be the cornerback you know, you know on
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  Speaker 1: an offense as well. You know how much will that
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  Speaker 1: impact it?
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  Speaker 5: Do you think it's tough? It's difficult. You don't see
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  Speaker 5: rookies do that because.
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  Speaker 4: You're just trying to learn. The Patriots have done it before, guys.
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  Speaker 5: I mean think of how you know, think of the
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  Speaker 5: receivers they've used to play corner Okay, you know they've
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  Speaker 5: done it before. I think this is where good coaching
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  Speaker 5: comes in, meaning if we're going to use you in
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  Speaker 5: the game plan during the week, it's specific, this is
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  Speaker 5: what we are requiring you to do.
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  Speaker 4: Learn this.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to call plays and put you in a
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: situation where these.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Are your rules.
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: We're not gonna overload you. And I think that's what's
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: gonna have to happen. He can handle this volume because
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: he's special. He's done it before. But it's about how.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: You package it and teach it to them. This is
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: on coaches now.
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: This is why coaches are teachers who can teach him
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: the best and get him ready to roll because he's talented.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw the conversation as well
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: with Travis Hunter and James Godstone, you know, making the
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: call and all that.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: I like James.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: I I don't know if you've seen in recent memory,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: maybe in the last few years, maybe that's someone but
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: a GM come in and be like, no, this is
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: how I'm this is how I'm doing it. I'm making
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: a splash. He's got this. I don't want to make
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: him seem like he's some other, you know, godly being whatever,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: but he's got this sort of or around it, doesn't
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: he Yeah.
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: So he's worked under Lesnid when he was the RAMS,
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: and you hear him talk about that and that experience
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: and what he learned.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: You can see he's ready for the moment.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: A lot of time, it's all about preparation, and you
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: meet that situation and you're ready to go and he's
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: prepared and you can see it.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: Now he's going to be judged on results. How did this?
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: How does these picks? How do they turn out? How
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: do they play? Right now, we're celebrating it because it's splashy.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: I will say this. You see that everything is a line.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: From ownership down to the coaches, because this pick was
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: all about a splash. It was all about getting the
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: best player in there, getting attention, saying you need to
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: focus on our team, and that's what I love.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: You can always roll with that. It's it's a roll
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: of the dice.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: You don't know what's going to happen with these players,
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: but you gotta be willing to take a chance.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: And that's what we saw.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go through some of the other position
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: groups that have been covered over the last couple of days.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: My alma mater Tulane University.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Lane. I like Tulane. I'm not a great player. That's
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: a nice, beautiful campus.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Look, we can talk for ten minutes, but anyway, beautiful.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: I was very pleased to see two lane playing coming
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: footboard for the Jacksonville jack Quarns.
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: You saw a lot of they went on a run
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: on that position too, which is is a skillful position, right,
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: You got to get a guy who plays there. You
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: got the threat of the running game, you gotta be
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: quick in there. It's specific skill sets you need to have.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: So when you identify one of those players, you go
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: get him, because as we know, everybody is running five
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: DB's now, so you gotta have somebody who can specifically
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: play that.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Lineman as well. And what's interesting, I think, well, God,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: but you know he got experience playing left tackle and
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: right tackle as well. Looks like we might go to
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: use him in different positions. And I guess when you're
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: the Jags and when you're looking at your offensive line,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: you need someone that can do a bunch of things.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, especially if you're the swing guy. You're not going
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: to be the starter. The more you can do, there's
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: only so many people for.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Your career as well.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, there's only so many people that can line
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: up on You can only have so many right on Sunday.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: So the more you can do, the more positions you
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: can play, especially on offense. If somebody goes down, key
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: play guard, can you play tackle? But this is all
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: about protecting your quarterback, right. One thing about Trevor. Sometimes
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: he's a long strider in the pocket. When he steps up,
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: you do not want that pressure in his face. Those
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: guards have to be sturdy and stout, and that's why
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: you go out and try to get.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: One linebacker of course, and a running back as well.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Let's just touched on the running back room as well,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: because new running back for Jaguars and another we've obviously
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: got Travis tn Junior there as well. Looks like it's
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: going to be an interesting room there.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, what you're trying to do is you're trying to
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: get talented young players that fit your ethos, you know,
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: fit how you want to be identified, how do you work?
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: Because those guys are going to go out there and
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: even if they're not starters, how are they getting you
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: prepared each week? And when you think about it as
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: a GM and a team builder, that's what you're trying
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: to do. You're trying to build this identity of who
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: we are, how we go about our business, and it
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: starts with these young players that are going to be
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: on your ros that if they don't, they might have
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: to contribute.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: And when they do and they're ready to go, what
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: do they look like?
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: How do they approach it and you're and that's why
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: you're picking personalities that fit this profile. That is the
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: identity of the team, and that's what we are going
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: to see.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Well, that's what James Gottstein's been all about. He's talking
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: about the personality, he's intangibles, you know and all of that. Okay,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: so full rounds down. How you feeling about the Jags?
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Is there any position groups you'd like to have seen
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: them go for?
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: You know what, it's all about the splash man. You know,
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: when you start to look at how they're building, anything
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: that happens, we're going.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: To evaluate throughout the season.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: Like I love the game, I love watching the draft,
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: but I am a week in week out kind of
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: like this matchup. Who are we playing? Who's producing? So
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: when I look at this team in week eight, you
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: know what young players are stepping up, What guys have
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: they drafted that have had to get them through a
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: game or they're a surprise. Now with Travis Hunter, it's
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: all about how they use him, how unique he is,
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: how they showcase his skins set, and because of that,
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: you gotta look at this draft and it's an a
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: only because for me, it's attention. It's an a for attention, man.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: That is important. We are going to be locked in
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: to see what this team is doing, the same way
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: we were when they drafted Trevor. We're gonna see that
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: all over again.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: So that means I'm gonna leting done this. Just tell
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: me this. How hot to you to see Travis Hunter
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: in London?
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh? Hey man, So we know the same people.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: I know some people that work for him. I am
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: going to be asking for some favors. I'm gonna be like,
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: come on, man, like I know it's people that do
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: a lot of his marketing stuff. My friend actually owns
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: the company, Michael Strahan. So i'mna be like stray please sorry.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, your friend Michael stra Boy.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: He's point. He comes out here all the time.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying me and straight, that's my guy, man,
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: that's my boy.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: So yeah, you're gonna ask him, man, let me let
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: me get that interview, man, because it's everybody's gonna want
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: to talk to this kid. And uh, he's so friendly,
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: so dynamic, so explosive. I'm I'm just think of how
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: lucky we are. Lucky, man, I mean, this is what
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: we do. My guy Jason.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Bell, who I think it's said to say quite excited
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: about Travis Hunt being a jag Quite excited. I mean
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I am as well, And this is what I mentioned
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: to him. Quite excited about seeing Travis Hunt to play
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: at Wembley Stadium two key, Yeah.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I mean I've never seen j Bell not excited about
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: to see that.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: He is excited about this.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: And it was an amazing day as well, because obviously
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: the draft pick, you know, happened from Stone Next Stadium,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: But it was an amazing day of jag Tag UK with
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: the AO as well.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Because Jay, was it your first drag Tag experience?
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was my first jag Tag experience.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: It might have been. I mean my memory is not
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: very good, to be honest with you, it might have been.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: But what actually I tell you my big the big
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: thing that I really took from that event, And this
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: is going to sound dumb, This is going to sound
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: really dumb. It's well, is how unbelievably talented these players are.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: We're talking like kids that are, like, you know, ten
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: eleven years old. They are throwing the ball much like
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: better than you know, anybody I know, quite genuinely they
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: are extremely like talented flag football players and you know
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: there was a Baffer clinic that was going on at
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the same time. Yes, amazing to see, like, you know, well,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: this is this is something that maybe you could do
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: in the future if you wanted to. You know, it
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: was an amazing day just to see these really talented
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: players from all around the UK go to to you know,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: were Saracen's player as well. It's an amazing stadium and
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: be part of the draft experience, you know, being in
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the background of when j Bell did his pick as well.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: So you know, amazing for them. Yeah, amazing for me
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: as well to be able to watch it and just
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: be kind of like in awe of how genuinely talented
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: these players are.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: What a fantastic for them, what a fantastic experience the thing, right,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: So I've been going to see Jagtag for quite a
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: few years now, I think, like I can't remember how
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: many years, but quite a few years and talking to
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Andy Scott, we've had him on the podcast Grassroots UK.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: One of the ideas.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Is that they have a journey to go on, so
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: they start off with Jagtag then can go to Baffer
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Clinics and then potentially you know, Olympics further down the
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: line for flag and all of this sort of thing.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: And the fantastic thing is it's not just talk. You
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: see it happening. We're not because I've been going for
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: a few years. You see it happening. You see these
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: kids getting better and better and better and progressing and
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: taking this journey. And to see that happening and it
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: not just being something that we've been talking about, unbelievable. Man.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: And like you say, some of these kids are really good.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they are really good. And also I think it
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: was quite funny that, you know, almost the nonchalance almost
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: because it's just normal to them for scoring these amazing touchdowns.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: There was an amazing one was it was a last
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: second play and it was a touchdown from the other
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: end of the field that I watched, and I was
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: just like, this is I was quite jealous. I was
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: quite envious that I didn't do it when I was younger,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? Because it just looked
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: like so much fun as well.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: All right, next week Jamie and you in the park.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, I feel like we need to get back to
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: draft talk. And there's somebody that we need to speak
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: to because we have a big question every every episode,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: don't we on the podcast? This time we're going to
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: be doing the big question. I love it. Jamie Phillips
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: joins us. Jamie is our International Fan of the Year.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Jamie we announced it him on the podcast two episodes
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: ago that he was going to the draft. He is back.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: What is our big question?
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Key, Jamie Phillips Jaguars International Fan of the Year.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: How was the draft man?
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Still recovering right now. But it was a phenomenal experience.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: Everything was just just amazing. I kind of kind of
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: put into words kind of what a great week I've
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: had over in Green Bay, meeting so many great like
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: minded fans from the Jaguars to every other thirty one
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: teams that was there as well, with fans from the US,
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: from the UK, Australia, Canada, Brazil. It's just been a great,
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: great experience.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Number one highlight, Jamie number one gives.
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: Us number one highlight. There's obviously a million highlights in there,
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: you could say. Obviously actually doing a draft pick that
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: is obviously huge in itself, But for me, I think
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: is the kind of the global picture that's circulated everywhere
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: of us picking up Travis Hunter, and the very first
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: thing he did after being picked was coming joining us
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: in the Jaguars in a circle area and having that huge,
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: huge sealfie picture. And there's my crazy mug face right
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: behind him, like shouting and cheering, losing my voice, just going.
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: Wild and just being in that moment in that selfie picture.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: And I see the Jaguars have used that picture now
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: as their profile picture with half of my eye everybody
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: else around it. It's still in that picture. So that
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: picture's obviously had millions and millions of you. So I'll
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: take that. That's my claim to fame. One eye, my
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: left eye.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: But you know that's the bit that everyone's talking about
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: actually in that picture as well, so you should you know,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: they're really saying, well that I left.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Oh and look there's the Travis Hunter.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but really the left eye, yeah is yeah.
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: That stands out more than the pink suit he was wearing.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: That's it. That's it, I mean, it must have been.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Actually tell us your reaction. Tell us reaction when you
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: saw I, presumably up on the screen that the Jags
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: had traded up. Tell us what went through your mind?
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: Everything was just just so crazy. Obviously, you're put into
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: this area of the inner circle amongst all the other fans,
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: and there's fifteen of US Jaguars fans obviously altogether in
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: this little group, everyone's all hight and we sat next
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: to Titans because you sat in your divisions, so Titans
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: are next to us, and obviously they're the first pick,
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: and they're all getting excited. There's cameras all surrounded them,
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: and then it starts to kind of mellow down just
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: a little bit, and it's all kind of a bit chilled,
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: and then the next moment, someone's tapping on your shoulder
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: and going the Jackets have traded up, the Jaggers are
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: traded up, and like then it just goes wild because
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: it's like, we're gonna get Dravis's Hunter. We're gonna take
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: Dravis's Hunter. And everyone's going insane because we don't know
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: we're gonna get Travis's Hunter because that hasn't been announced yet.
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: I'll see, we're waiting for the pick.
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: To be announced, but we're presuming that's what's happening, and
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: the excitement that we've traded up and we don't know
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: what we've lost at this stage, we don't know what
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: we've traded away, and we we didn't care because we've
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: just picked up this obvi see second pick. So the
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: cameras obviously move away from the Titans, and they just
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: instantly just literally in your face. You're talking ten twelve
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: cameras just literally there like ESPN, Fox, every single camera
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: is just there and watching your reactions. We're all stood there,
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: all so excitedly, like shouting, cheering. We've got we've got
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: these giant billboards, which therefore us I had a big
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: duval sign. Everyone's all holding those, and there's Trevor Lawrence
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: signs and stuff. And then obviously we have Eric Armstead
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: come out. We've obviously give him some great duvals and
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: if you watch back on the video of that actual pick,
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: he actually looks over to his left and he's actually
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: looking at us. They's reacting to us kind of shouting
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: and cheering him as well because we're excited to see him.
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: And obviously then he announced.
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: The pick, and then the whole theater just goes insane.
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: It's not just just the Jaguars kind of area going insane,
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: just the whole stage area, just everywhere is just going wild.
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: And see Travis Hunter comes out does his thing, and
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: we've all still got the cameras around us, and it
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: all goes insane. And then yeah, then obviously Travis then
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: comes down on the down the stairs like I said,
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: and then he comes over and has that stealthy and
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: we're just then we're just honestly, it's just wild. We
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: know we haven't got any other picks for the rest
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: of the night, but we're all.
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: On such us and it was just insane.
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: We'd pop off to so the toilet or afterwards, and
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: everybody's just coming up to you and go them jegs
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: eh like and just.
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: Literally just wanting to talk about what we've done.
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: And everybody was annoyed that they didn't get Travis and
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: we're the one that made that blockbus to trade to
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: get get the guy everybody is basically talking about.
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: So that was just so surreal.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Jamie, what do you think it says to go away
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: from the experience of it a little bit, I want
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: to know what you think it says about what this
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: organization is trying to do and trying to say for
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five season. What does that specifically that
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: moved to trade and pick Travis Hunt.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: What does it say for us?
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: I think it means to me an absolute business. We're
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: not here to just do what the script says. We're
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: here to make a statement ourselves, and I think it's
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: the right thing to have done. I don't think anybody
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: predicted it. I mean, I've seen rumors that apparently there
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: was talks about two weeks to go, but I hadn't
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: heard a single word of that even potentially happening. I
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: know when we did my announcement on here, you had
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: rees on and he said we're going to get Travis Hunter.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it was it's almost annoying that he knew,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: do you know what I mean?
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: Absolutely so it never came into anybody's minds that were
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: going to make this absolute bold move. So I think
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: that's absolutely something that they needed to do to show
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: that they mean business and they aren't just going to
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: settle into the league and just do what the league
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: tells them to do.
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: If that makes sense, that just does does the norm.
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: They've gone and just made that.
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: Huge bold statement of see trading up to the second
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: the second pick, which is something that we don't be well,
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: we're very rarely.
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: Done in kind of the history of kind of the draft, so.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Big stage of it. I also think it's kind of
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: cool when you know you're looking forward to, you know what,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: it's a big night. You know, you're already looking forward
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: to you know anything, really and then somehow it seeds
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: your expectations because something you know amazing happens that you
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: didn't you know, think was going to happen. I think
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: that's a really good example of it. Tell us about
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the rest of your experience, Jamie, and what else you did,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: and you know, and what else you did draft wise
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so as part of the part of the whole experience.
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: So the very first day we had a Q and
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: A with Roger Goodell. Unfortunately I was unable to ask
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: him the question of what we'd have inside the stadium
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: the ludicrous ball pitch. There was no opportunity to ask
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: him that question, which.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Probably a good thing wouldn't fit in the plans are
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: going very well for it.
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, So that's how the whole event kicked off, which
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: obviously just a great start to the whole week. Then
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: on the first day before even the first day of
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: the draft, we had a draft theater tour, so we
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: got to get up on stage, how some good picture opportunities,
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: and we got to learn a little bit more about
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: just the whole theater and the setup itself and how
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: long it's taken Green Bay to set up. Then we
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: was able to go backstage and go and see the
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: green room where the where you would have seen all
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: the prospects were staying. We won't allowed to take any pictures,
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: but we was in that room with them and we
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: saw how it was all kind of furnished and stuff.
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: And then we got to do the nice walk.
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: Down the down a bit where it's got all the
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: wooden plaques of all the logo. We've got to do
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: the walk down there as well on that first day,
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: and even that alone was just just phenomenal, and that
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: was just the start of the events. Then after that
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: we then checked in for the day. Actually is a
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: part of the experience of the draft. We then got
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: to do a red carpet walk, so actually in Lambeau Field,
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: right by the side of the field in the stadium,
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: we got to do red carpet walk where we was
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: putting our.
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: Clusters of fans.
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: So I was with the fan of the Year, Melissa
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: and obviously myself an international Fan of the Year. We
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: was introduced with lots of people sat in the stands
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: and they introduced us and allowed us to videos and
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: stuff as we did a red carpet walk and had
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: a good picture opportunity and stuff there as well.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: What's lambeau Field feel like? Does it? Can you feel
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: history there?
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's it's insane, Like it's just so surreal.
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: They don't have chairs like the stadium, they're just just
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: all benches.
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: It just feels so naturally old.
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: It's it's crazy and if you haven't done it before,
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: if anybody hasn't done it before, I definitely would recommend it.
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: I was fortunate to actually have a tour on the
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: following days. On the Friday evening we did get like
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: a back of house tour of lambeau Field and we've
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: got to see the history of all of the basically
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: how it's just expanded, and we saw the old concrete
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: building when it was twenty levels high and then all
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: the expansions which is all paid for by by the fans.
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: So all the fans that they they had pride in
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: telling us that they're all shareholders of the packers, which
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: in the shareholder means absolutely nothing in monetary value, but
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: the fact that they can say they're a shareholder of
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: the stadium and they've helped develop whatever it is an
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: extra five thousand seats in the stadium, or they've developed
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: by adding a box here, and they're into the hospitality
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: and stuff like that.
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: It's it's just amazing.
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: And to see all the names of the Hall of
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: Famers around the side of the side of the stadium
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: on the when you're on the inside, it's just it's
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: just absolutely great to see. Then after that first day,
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: we then had obviously the draft, which we can just
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: blow over that now because we're.
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: Discussed about how great the first day was.
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: And then the next day we then got to do
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: a tour of the draft selection room.
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: So we've got to go into the room kind of.
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: Where all kind of the magic happens that you don't
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: actually see, and there's like a team of twenty odd
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: people all sat there with obviously video call video phones
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: and lawyers et cetera, et cetera, dealing with trades and stuff.
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: So getting to see that was also just a huge
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: opportunity to kind of see how kind of the engine
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: room really kind of runs for the NFL draft, and
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: they got to tell about a few stories when if
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: someone doesn't put a draft pick in that people can
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: bump up your order. So it's great to kind of
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: hear all that as well. And we also had an
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: opportunity to meet the international Pathway players as well, so
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: they was there and we had an opportunity to chat
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: with them. So to chat with the two British guys
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: that are amongst the amongst the crowd in there is
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: really really good and obviously they're excited at the thought
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: that they could potentially be draft or get selected, but
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: this weekend just gone so really good to have a
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: chat with them as well, which really kind of brought
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: it home a little bit as well, if that makes sense.
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: So we've been put on this experience and obviously it's
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: the American dream we'll get in this draft, but to
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: actually see, like speaking to one of the guys who
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: lives in who was from like Nottingham Spolding area, you know,
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: it's just like it's absolutely great to kind of see
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: their kind of living that dream as well and just
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: being a part of that kind of process, which was
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: just absolutely absolutely phenomenal.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean just just quickly on him because
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: his name's Mas Mwanza. Yeah yeah, he got into playing
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: American football whilst at UNI and just watched like Last
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Chance You And now he's joined the Carolina Panthers, which
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: is mad, crazy crazy.
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely insane. Stories from all five of the individuals
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: that we met. Actually there was a couple ossly from
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: like Australia and stuff as well, and just that their
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: stories were all the same and they were just very
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: normal guys, like you never just played rugby and someone
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: said we should go along and try playing this and
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: I played a bit of madder and now here they
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: are like in the at the NFL stage after trying
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: to play American football for literally just a year.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: So absolutely mental really, So what was your highlight then?
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Do you think of the whole whole experience the one highlight, the.
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: One highlight I'll see, as I've already mentioned obviously, the
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: Cherry Hunter thing is probably is the biggest thing for me.
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: If you wanted to set the draft sort of element aside,
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: I would say just the people of green Bay absolutely amazing.
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: Absolutely everybody was completely like consider it polite with I'll
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: see the algorithms of Facebook et cetera. When you see
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: in Green Bay, you see local news and feeds and
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: stuff as well.
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: There was one arrest the whole weekend.
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: From what we've seen, just everybody there was just it's
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: so well behaved. It's just a lovely, clean city, and
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: just the local people were just phenomenal. We went out
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: in ubers and an Uber driver took us out for breakfast,
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: didn't charge for the Uber and paid for the breakfast
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: as well. Took us to a local spot and paid
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: for our breakfast.
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: Also.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the most shocking thing of this whole episode.
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: That's that just puts into context that the way that
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: people were there and.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: One stuff your highlights.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: How did you not lead with that?
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: I want to I had a good time at the draft,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: but the Uber driver, that is.
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: Crazy, Sean, if you wanted to know shortened.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: From Green Bay, Wisconsin, the Uber driver, Yeah, wow, uh
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: it was crazy.
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: I did obviously announce that when I did my when
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: I did my pick, obviously on the stage on day three,
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: I did reference to the local Green Bay and I
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: mentioned a couple of their their items that they're really
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: proud of there, just to kind of get the crowd
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: on board, because I couldn't deal with the booing of
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: over two hundred thousand fans that are in attendance, like
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: a couple of my friends who obviously I met through
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: the International Fan of the Year, So I shout out, Kimmy,
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: she's Chicago Bears.
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: International Fan of the Year.
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: Obviously, she went out to a crazy amount of booze,
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: obviously being a Bears fan, and perhaps off to her
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: being able to go out and deal with that, and
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: she rocked it how she did with her experience, and
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: she kept the booze going on purpose and with some
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: of the things actually said on stage. I couldn't do that.
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: So I had to have them on side and get
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: a cheer from them before I announced our draft picks.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: So I think that's a way to do it. My friend,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: my friend Dan, as a Packers fan, and he did
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: the draft pick last year when it was in Detroit,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: and he was geeking it up, getting as many booze
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: as possible the ball, and I was thinking, I don't
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: think that my ego could take it.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Someone's got to play here.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Bro, Jamie. Look, I cannot tell you, first of all
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: how jealous I am. I'm going to speak on behalf
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: of key as well. How jealous we are, but how
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: how good we feel that you got to experience that delighted.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: It just sounds like a week of joy.
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: To say yeah and special thanks to you guys. It
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: was you guys that announced it. You guys have kind
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: of been here along the whole way and it's been
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: it's been great. I can't obviously thank you guys and
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: the organization enough for this opportunity.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: Jamie, who do you of course, man, who did you
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: take with you?
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: Took fellow Jacks fan Darren Darren Abbott decided to take
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: him along.
• 40:49
  Speaker 7: I thought it was the right thing to do.
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: I did mention on the previous part about not bringing
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: my wife, which wasn't going to go down very well.
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: But it's still being very.
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: True and honestly, day it wouldn't have been the right
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: thing to take my wife. As much as she would
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: have loved a trip to Green Bay doing the whole
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: NFL thing, she's not into that sort of stuff. It
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: was very long, like there was a lot going on,
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: and then Jaguars went like ninety odd picks without and
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: without a pick basically, especially on day three. Day one
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: to day two, there was like eighty odd places we
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: had to wait, so my wife was sat there, I'd
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: be consciously having to worry and think about her. So
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: I thought the only right thing to do was to
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: bring another fan to just experience the same as what
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: I want to experience.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: And kind of get Darren's the real winner then, isn't
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: he a Darren's the real winner? Like, yeah, Darren is.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: We should be like credit to Darren. He just to
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: go on a trip to Wisconsin to the draft.
• 41:47
  Speaker 7: I mean videos of me and cheer me on when
• 41:49
  Speaker 7: I go on stage. What we had to do.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jamie, look, thank you so much for coming on
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: to your talk. We are so happy that you got
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: to experience that. And I mean it just sounds like
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: just sounds like a bucket list item, just a big
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: bucket list item just sort of ticked off. So we
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: are unbelievably happy that you've got to experience that.
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: Man, Yeah, it was. It was obviously absolutely great. I've
• 42:15
  Speaker 6: brought back some great little bits of memorabilia from.
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: The Yeah you gottah, So I kept my in front
• 42:21
  Speaker 7: of me, my draft, put.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: It to camera. This is why you've got this is
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: why you've got to watch if you're not watching on
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: YouTube right now as well. You've got to get on
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: YouTube so you can see. You can see the draft
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: pick that Jamie did that is framable on the wall.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: You've got to get that signed.
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: Man is trying to reach out to Rayon Lane as well,
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: so we'll see if it gets back to me or.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Oh I do hear that the Jacks do and they
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: do turn up in London every now and again, so
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 42:53
  Speaker 7: Hope, I've already said that. Hopefully is there.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: That's that's how I led with the message I messaged
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: you on Instagram. He hasn't read it yet, so I
• 43:01
  Speaker 6: hope he's just so busy with all these nests received.
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: But yeah, I've already reached out to him and said
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: I'm looking forward to meet you in London when you
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: come over for the game.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: So that's it. That's it. Jamie, thanks so much for
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: coming on today. I really appreciate it.
• 43:15
  Speaker 7: Thank you for having me back on and I'll catch
• 43:18
  Speaker 7: up with you all soon.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Well, a wonderful guy, incredibly jealous experience. Could you tell.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: It's just an incredible thing to do, and the amount
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: of things that he did their key as well, It
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: wasn't just oh, let's go and experience the draft. It
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: was all of the things that he did whilst he
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: was there while so of him saying and then we
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: did this, and then we did that, and then we
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: did it, and then he went and that was day one.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: And that's not even including the fact that he did
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: a draft pick as well. So it was just, yeah,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: unbelievable few days. Unbelievable few days for Jags fans I
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: think around the world, especially unbelievable a few days for
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: mister Jamie Phillips too, and his mate, particularly his mate.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: You've just got to go, I mean, like you just
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: got you want to come to a draft. I think
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: that that probably wraps up the podcast today, Key, And
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say that we went through
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: quite a lot.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: Been a good one.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: I'm sure that we've probably missed quite a lot as
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: well at the same time, probably, but it's it's just
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: what happens with a when it comes to the draft,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: doesn't it. But I think I can speak speak on
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: behalf of Jags fans in the UK and Ireland around
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: the world. What a few days, Key, what a few days?
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: What a few days? I honestly, and I'm not just
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: saying it. I haven't come out of a draft weekend
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: feeling as excited and impressed as I have for maybe
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: maybe ever.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Honestly, yeah, yeah, I agree. Now, look, we're going to
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: be back at the end of May, aren't we.
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: Key.
• 44:48
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