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Tom Coughlin Draft-Day Interview · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Tom Coughlin with us on draft day, the first round
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  Speaker 1: coming up in just about an hour or two. Now, Coach,
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  Speaker 1: how are you feeling to Are you confident? Are you tight?
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  Speaker 1: Are you nervous? Are you ready to roll? I'm excited?
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  Speaker 1: I am Uh the anticipation that day is finally arrived,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know there's always that that a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of anxiety that goes with you know, how are
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  Speaker 1: the first six going to go in front of us
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  Speaker 1: to tell us exactly where we're at with our number
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  Speaker 1: seven pick. And then there's always the idea that if
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  Speaker 1: somebody wants to come up, you know, uh, how worthy
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  Speaker 1: are they to to extend themselves in order to get
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  Speaker 1: up there? So it's uh, it's interesting. We know that,
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  Speaker 1: uh that this draft has to be very productive for us.
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  Speaker 1: We do have some spots that have to be manned
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  Speaker 1: and filled. We look around the league at teams that
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  Speaker 1: I've actually done very very well with young players, rookie players,
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  Speaker 1: and so we're confident that if we get the right
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  Speaker 1: guys that we can, um, we can step it up
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  Speaker 1: and and look forward to their their progress and their production. Coach,
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  Speaker 1: what is the feel ahead of you? Is there going
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  Speaker 1: to be some havocs, some some picks that maybe you
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  Speaker 1: haven't really that might surprise you per se. It all
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  Speaker 1: depends on what you believe, you know, I mean, everybody
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  Speaker 1: and their brothers got their pick. Uh. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of mock drafts out there. There's a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: with opinions about what starting with the very first pick,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and if if it's if it's not, Marie,
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  Speaker 1: they've done a heck of a job, you know. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I can tell you about that. But there usually
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  Speaker 1: is something uh that takes place uh in the first
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  Speaker 1: ten anyway that there are not that's not anticipated, and
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  Speaker 1: then it kinda can help you or it can hurt you.
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  Speaker 1: Has the phone rung for potential trades today? There were
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  Speaker 1: quite a few calls yesterday, to be honest, not as
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  Speaker 1: many today. I think people are sizing up their their
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  Speaker 1: circumstance today. But you know, with ten minutes on the clock,
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  Speaker 1: if you've been able to make contact with someone, and
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  Speaker 1: even if nothing final has been discussed, at least you
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  Speaker 1: can get right to the chase. So we'll we'll we'll
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  Speaker 1: find out shortly. How do you go about just the
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  Speaker 1: preparation of the weeks before do you do full mock
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  Speaker 1: drafts of the whole round? Do you have trade scenarios
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  Speaker 1: that you guys sit through in the draft room? How
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  Speaker 1: does that work for you? There's lots of scenarios. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's the key thing. Once you get to where you
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  Speaker 1: feel like your board is in good shape, now it
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  Speaker 1: comes to what ifs, and the what ifs amount to, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what if this guy's gone? What are you gonna do then?
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  Speaker 1: What if these two are both gone? What if somebody
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  Speaker 1: wants to come up? What's the price gonna be? How
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  Speaker 1: far back were they when they decided they wanted to
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  Speaker 1: come up. You're hearing things today about Washington wanted to
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  Speaker 1: come up into that first three or four spots. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's a tough one. Now, there were there was a
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  Speaker 1: time when you just said they can't be done. You know,
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  Speaker 1: got people would have to take their whole draft in
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  Speaker 1: order to be able to do that. So that's what
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  Speaker 1: goes on that. It's all about that. And then even
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  Speaker 1: as late as yesterday afternoon, you're you know, you may
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  Speaker 1: like this order and then be not quite that way
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  Speaker 1: and put this guy above above him, and that is
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  Speaker 1: all fine and dandy. What I like to do today,
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  Speaker 1: for example, yesterday late afternoon and today is to take
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  Speaker 1: some of those guys whose names do pop up but
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  Speaker 1: you haven't thought that highly of uh, and and look
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  Speaker 1: at them again to see if they if they might
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  Speaker 1: have a spot. Coach, you mentioned earlier that you got
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  Speaker 1: to get these picks right in this draft, but you
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  Speaker 1: gotta get the picks right every year. Right, it's not
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  Speaker 1: just this year. Is there added pressure this time around
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  Speaker 1: or is it just the same year? To your breath,
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  Speaker 1: always the same. The pressure is always implied by self.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be from someone else. That's what
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  Speaker 1: this business is all about. You've got to realize when
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  Speaker 1: good things can happen and have to happen. But it's
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  Speaker 1: the same every year. Um. You need players to come
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  Speaker 1: in and and play the game for you, and many
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  Speaker 1: times today it's there's nothing amazing about a rookie coming
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  Speaker 1: in and starting. Coach, We appreciate your time. Good luck
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  Speaker 1: to you tonight. Thank you, JP