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Jaguars lock in offensive weapons for 2023 | Week in Review: March 10 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: This is the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend Review podcast, presented by
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  Speaker 1: We start the week with the reinstatement of wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley. He was suspended by the NFL for gambling
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  Speaker 1: and set out the entire twenty twenty two season. The
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars traded for his rights just before the trading deadline
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  Speaker 1: last season, and he was reinstated by the league Monday.
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  Speaker 1: By Wednesday, he was in the building getting his bearings,
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  Speaker 1: and he also sat down with Bucky Brooks an exclusive
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  Speaker 1: conversation on Jaguars dot Tom. After a year away from
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, what is it like to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of a team again. H First of all, year away
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  Speaker 1: from the NFL puts a lot of things in perspective
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  Speaker 1: for a young man like me. But um, year away
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  Speaker 1: from the game, um, and coming back now, it is
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  Speaker 1: just it shows me I missed the game more than
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  Speaker 1: ever and that I love football more than ever and
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  Speaker 1: football was something that I do and love and will
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  Speaker 1: always be what I love. You know, So um like
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  Speaker 1: knowing you like, I know football is always been big,
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  Speaker 1: but like the year away from it. Um, you know
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about falling back in love with the game,
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  Speaker 1: Like how did you come to the realization of falling
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  Speaker 1: back in love? Well, just watching that happen, to watch
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  Speaker 1: it happen, to watch it at home and knowing I
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  Speaker 1: really can't there's nothing I can do to get back
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  Speaker 1: into the game until I get approval, you know, so
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  Speaker 1: that you know, being again the game being picking away
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  Speaker 1: from me, and I was just like, man, I can't
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  Speaker 1: even I can't sit home all day. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: need a job. I mean what I do is I
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  Speaker 1: always worked every day. Football was my job for most
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  Speaker 1: of my life. So that was the hardest part of
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  Speaker 1: just not being ever to run and you know, be
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  Speaker 1: a part of a team and you know, feel important
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  Speaker 1: at that moment. So it was hard. So and thinking
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  Speaker 1: about that, Like, because as football players, we all are
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  Speaker 1: a part of the team. The team is everything. We
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  Speaker 1: grow up being on teams. It's always team over me.
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  Speaker 1: So what did you miss most about being a part
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  Speaker 1: of the team. Just getting up, the preparation to prepare
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  Speaker 1: I mean working out, I mean having a reason to
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  Speaker 1: work out, and preparing the working out for Sunday, getting
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  Speaker 1: up driving my car to work early in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: I missed every bit of it. I mean I missed
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  Speaker 1: every every second of you know, what I did to
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  Speaker 1: prepare for Sundays. You know, so it's been a while,
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  Speaker 1: Like you haven't playing the game since like October twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one. What is it gonna be like for you
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  Speaker 1: when you finally run out there as part of the Jacks. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be amazing for my mom, for my family.
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  Speaker 1: For me, it's just gonna and being I wait off
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  Speaker 1: my shoulders because I waited so long to get back
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  Speaker 1: to this point and just you know, I be excited
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  Speaker 1: to run through that tunnel and you know, show every
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguar fan who I am. The full conversation with
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  Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley available on the official team website Jaguars dot
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  Speaker 1: Com later in the week. Reaction to the addition. On
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour Radio Thursday, NFL Network analyst Brian Baldinger
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  Speaker 1: joined Jeff Logerman and me to discuss what Ridley could
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  Speaker 1: bring to the Jags offense. I think this and I
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  Speaker 1: think I heard it. I think we all heard it
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  Speaker 1: in that sound bite, very contrite about what he's done.
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  Speaker 1: He's been humbled and he's missed the game. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that wide receiver room was pretty good. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Christian Kirk had an amazing year. Nobody thought, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when they signed him to this time last year, that
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  Speaker 1: he was going to be that productive. Zay Jones was
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  Speaker 1: just a complete pro, Marvin the whole group. I think
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  Speaker 1: he's going to fit in. And if they say, you
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  Speaker 1: know this, Travis CTN could hit home runs. If our
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  Speaker 1: wide receivers are the way they are capable of downfield,
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  Speaker 1: I think he'll do whatever it takes to fit in
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  Speaker 1: and to be a part of the group. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he'll be any kind of an outlier when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to that. Baldi. He told the Players Tribute
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  Speaker 1: in a letter that he played a lot of those
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  Speaker 1: successful seasons with a broken foot. I mean they kept
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  Speaker 1: shooting him up and putting him out there, and then
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  Speaker 1: they had a change in staffs and they after quickly
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  Speaker 1: realized that it was broken. So that shouldn't be an issue.
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  Speaker 1: If you just putting up the numbers in the past
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  Speaker 1: with a broken foot, I mean, that's a good sign
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  Speaker 1: for the future ahead. Well, he's just a good player.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you go back to two nineteen twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: he might even with Julio Jones healthy, he was the
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  Speaker 1: number one wide receiver in Atlanta, and you can see why.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they've put you know, teams put their best
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  Speaker 1: corner on him. He beat the best corner. And that's
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  Speaker 1: really what it comes down to. If you're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a number one wide receiver, you better be able to
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  Speaker 1: beat number one corners. There's a bunch of good ones
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  Speaker 1: in this league. We saw a couple of rookies coming
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  Speaker 1: to this league last year and light it up. They're
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  Speaker 1: only getting bigger, they're only getting longer, they're only getting faster,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got to be able to beat him. He
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  Speaker 1: can be him with his release, he can beat him
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  Speaker 1: with his route running, you know, and he can flat
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  Speaker 1: out run by people. You watch him against Marshawn Lattimore
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  Speaker 1: and some of the elite corners of this league. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he can hold his own I think with anybody, and
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  Speaker 1: so I think that Jackiel did their homework. I think
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  Speaker 1: they got the right type of guy. And I just
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  Speaker 1: think anybody, especially as young as he is, that's been
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  Speaker 1: humbled at this point in his career, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you're going to see any kind of issues from you.
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  Speaker 1: tied end. Evan Ingram was franchise tagged by the Jags
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  Speaker 1: logoman and I got into a discussion of what that
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  Speaker 1: means moving forward. Evan Ingram tweeted after the fact, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: he's excited to be back in Jacksonville, but is looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to a long term deal with the Jaguars. So
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  Speaker 1: it could be just a placeholder, and that's fine. It
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  Speaker 1: could be. Um. Look that the tag is convenient to
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  Speaker 1: use at a couple of different positions fullback, running back,
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  Speaker 1: tight end, guard and center. The tag is not very
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  Speaker 1: expensive at those positions, and kicker and punter. Okay, but
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  Speaker 1: I was just focusing on offense. Yes, yeah, the premium
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  Speaker 1: positions on offense obviously are quarterback, wide receiver, tackle, and
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  Speaker 1: so the opportunity to use the tag to ensure that
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  Speaker 1: you're going to keep one of your core players and
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  Speaker 1: to continue to work on a contract extension. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of the tag. I wish
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  Speaker 1: the h the league would do away with it. Why Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think it penalizes some players. I mean, why should
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  Speaker 1: Evan Ingram not have the same ability to test the
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  Speaker 1: market like a Juwan Taylor? Is that fair to Evan Ingram?
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  Speaker 1: So I think it And when it was originally done,
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of a give and take obviously in
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  Speaker 1: the negotiations and collective bargaining, because you wanted to allow
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  Speaker 1: the owners to be able to keep some of their
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  Speaker 1: teams together. That was their main concern, and so the
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  Speaker 1: ability to use the tag was to help them kind
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  Speaker 1: of keep certain players well. It penalizes certain players on
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  Speaker 1: the opposite spectrum when you look at it from the
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  Speaker 1: player standpoint. But look, I'm glad that he's here. I'm
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  Speaker 1: extremely happy to see his response. Yes, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: that just goes to show you how mature and how
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  Speaker 1: much of a pro evan Ingram is because there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys that could have responded in a very
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  Speaker 1: derogatory way, and it's been consistent with him that the
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  Speaker 1: clean out day, the two days after the loss in
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  Speaker 1: the divisional round, we were in the locker room with
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  Speaker 1: him and ask him, Hey, you know what if they
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  Speaker 1: franchise you, would you be upset. He's like, you know, hey,
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  Speaker 1: it wouldn't be I want a longer deal. But if
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  Speaker 1: that's a placeholder for something longer, okay, that's fine. So um,
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  Speaker 1: he betted himself with this one year deal to come
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  Speaker 1: down here, and it's worked out, obviously for eleven million
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  Speaker 1: dollar franchise tag at least. I think it just goes
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  Speaker 1: to show you that he's the type of person that
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  Speaker 1: you do that you do want to do a long
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  Speaker 1: term deal. With because of the maturity level of the
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  Speaker 1: response that he had with the tagging. I thought that
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  Speaker 1: that was tremendous And when I saw that, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know that, I wasn't surprised because that's just how
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  Speaker 1: Evan is. I mean, he's a very mature player. He
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  Speaker 1: works hard and total pro and that's why you brought
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  Speaker 1: him in here. He's very similar to Zay Jones. He's
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  Speaker 1: very similar to Christian Kirk. You know last year's free
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  Speaker 1: agent class. I mean, Trent Balking and Look and Doug
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  Speaker 1: the straight a's on that free agent class, especially when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to the character category. I mean, fantastic. Jaguar's Happy.
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  Speaker 1: Our Radio here's Thursday at four o'clock on ten ten
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  Speaker 1: xl AM and Jaguars dot Com. We were out this
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  Speaker 1: week with Jags Drivetime. Tuesday, Brian Sexton and John Osan
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  Speaker 1: discussed the different offseason feeling for the Jags with little
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  Speaker 1: room on the salary cap and a late first round
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  Speaker 1: draft pick. In short, John, last week in Indianapolis was
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  Speaker 1: a different experience covering the draft then you've had with
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  Speaker 1: the number one draft pick the last couple of years. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time it feels like maybe
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, which makes sense because you won, was the
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  Speaker 1: last time you really had a a newsless offseason. And
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  Speaker 1: I say, there's obviously news, but in terms of not
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  Speaker 1: building up to a big splash. In nineteen you had
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  Speaker 1: Nick Foles. In twenty you were releasing a lot of guys,
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  Speaker 1: you know, or trading a lot of guys, but then
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  Speaker 1: active in free agency the last couple of years. We've
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  Speaker 1: been talking about it all year that this was coming
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  Speaker 1: a quieter, more maintaining free agency period. It's what you
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  Speaker 1: have to have. And I think Trent would probably laugh
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  Speaker 1: when he said not spending very much money because they're
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  Speaker 1: spending money on their own guys, and they're restructuring guys,
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  Speaker 1: means they're paying out signing bonuses. They're trying to get
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  Speaker 1: a deal done with Evan Ingram that would be signing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, teams can be active in freedency and not
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  Speaker 1: active over other people's players. You're still trying to win,
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  Speaker 1: You're still trying to do it. But the reality is
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  Speaker 1: you can't live long term and have any continuity doing
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  Speaker 1: what they've done the last couple of years. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Trent Ball could be the first to say the approach
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  Speaker 1: of the last couple of years was by necessity and
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  Speaker 1: because there was no other choice. The remarkable thing, Brian,
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  Speaker 1: is that they managed to build what feels like a
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  Speaker 1: core doing it that way. That's very rare. But you've
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  Speaker 1: got to pull off of that and get into what
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  Speaker 1: they're doing. Now. Hey, we should touch on the fact
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  Speaker 1: that it was reported last week that the Jaguars we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be willing to use the franchise tag on
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  Speaker 1: Evan Ingram. In fact, Trent Bulky said that at a
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  Speaker 1: season ending press conference in January, and today we know
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  Speaker 1: that they're going to apply the tag. It's the deadline,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not the deadline to get a deal done,
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  Speaker 1: a long term, cap friendly deal. They've got plenty of
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  Speaker 1: time to get that done. July fifteenth is the deadline
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  Speaker 1: for that. Yeah, you wonder, and they understandably don't talk
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  Speaker 1: about this publicly. If you get a long term deal
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  Speaker 1: done with Evan Ingram, then you can bring that initial
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  Speaker 1: cap figure way down from the eleven million. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know exactly why it helps you if you want to
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  Speaker 1: try to get you on Taylor done, which is why
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  Speaker 1: there's probably a concertive effort to get that done in
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  Speaker 1: the next week. Yeah, and then with Juwan Taylor, the
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  Speaker 1: cap figure if they franchise and would be eighteen. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't feel like that's in the water to do. But
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  Speaker 1: if you get a long term deal done, it's very possible.
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  Speaker 1: You get both cap figures low enough in the initial
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  Speaker 1: and then start pushing stuff out. There's going to be
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  Speaker 1: decisions down the road based on these things. But for
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  Speaker 1: right now, I think they're good shape. It's just a
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  Speaker 1: matter can they make the Juan Taylor deal get done.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not feeling it, but we'll see. And everything, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, is filtered through the lens of the quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: who they can redo after next season. And when I
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  Speaker 1: say I'm not feeling with Juan, I think they want
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  Speaker 1: him back. Well, yeah, everybody would love him back. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just saying in terms of getting it done that it's
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  Speaker 1: tricky because many talks. If you're Juwan, you're interested in
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  Speaker 1: what the market bears, because offensive tackles are among the
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  Speaker 1: highest paid players in the National Football League in recent season.
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  Speaker 1: Jack Strifetime Here is Tuesday mornings on Jaguars dot Com
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  Speaker 1: and Jags Social media. That's it for this week. Coming
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  Speaker 1: up next week, it's busy. The negotiation period ahead of
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  Speaker 1: free agency is early in the week and then the
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  Speaker 1: start of the twenty twenty three league year Wednesday at
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  Speaker 1: four o'clock Eastern time. That's when free agency opens, and
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  Speaker 1: though there could be some action for the Jags, it
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  Speaker 1: likely won't be the big waves of early signings as
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  Speaker 1: in the last couple of years. Still, check out all
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  Speaker 1: the coverage on Jaguars dot com and Jags social media.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy the week and thanks for listening. I'm J. P. Shadrick.
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  Speaker 1: We'll catch you next week on the Jaguars Broadcast Week
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