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J.P. Shadrick Podcast: Fred Taylor · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into the j P. Shatterick Podcast. Today is Thursday, June.
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  Speaker 1: It's a relatively quiet time around the Jags organization in
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  Speaker 1: the heat of the summertime. It's vacation time for many
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  Speaker 1: were right at a month away from the first on
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  Speaker 1: field work of training camp that can come a little
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  Speaker 1: bit later. People are enjoying their downtime right now, but
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  Speaker 1: it's also charity time for some of the Jaguars players.
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  Speaker 1: The day after Mini Camp, Leonard for Nat returned to
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  Speaker 1: his hometown of New Orleans and held a football camp
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  Speaker 1: for hundreds of kids around the area. Miles Jack and
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  Speaker 1: Mark Keasley were a couple of his teammates there in
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans on the ground at the Saints facility as coaches.
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  Speaker 1: Really cool to see now. This past weekend, the Blake
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  Speaker 1: Bortles Foundation held its annual golf tournament down to the
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  Speaker 1: World Golf Village in St. Augustine. The pre party in
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  Speaker 1: concert was Sunday Night with Maggie Rose, seth Ennis and
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  Speaker 1: John Party is the main entertainment. The next day, the
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  Speaker 1: golf tournament was at the King and Bear A great
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  Speaker 1: cause certainly for Blake Portles. And now to our guest
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  Speaker 1: today on this podcast. You've seen a few written segments
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  Speaker 1: on Jaguars dot Com the last few days, in a
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  Speaker 1: series called eleven on eleven, we catch up with a
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  Speaker 1: number of former Jags players to get their thoughts on
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  Speaker 1: the organization these days. They're old position groups now and
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  Speaker 1: what they're up to Ashelan Sullivan, John Osan, Bryan Sexton,
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  Speaker 1: and yours truly Well, we all visited with the guys
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  Speaker 1: the last few weeks, and you'll see the visits on
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars dot com. Over the next few weeks. You'll hear
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  Speaker 1: select visits on this podcast, starting today with a guy
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  Speaker 1: you know very well, our colleague on Jaguars Radio post
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  Speaker 1: game and Pride of the Jaguars, running back Fred Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Let's Fred start with last season. I mean, it's a
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  Speaker 1: ten win season. They get in the playoffs, they went
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  Speaker 1: at home playoff game, they go to Pittsburgh and beat
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  Speaker 1: those guys twice, and then they go to the FC
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  Speaker 1: Championship game there five minutes away from the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: This is from what they did two, three or four
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  Speaker 1: years ago to last year's night and day, and it
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  Speaker 1: seems like the Jags are back. Do you feel that way?
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  Speaker 1: And what's your reaction to what happened last season. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think, um, well, last season was was amazing. Unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: it was cut short, a game short for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: and and that that always due to Yeah, well I
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  Speaker 1: can't get fined about the officiating. And um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody asked me during that FC Championship game, what are
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  Speaker 1: you rooting for? Come on, would you really ask that question?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a Patriots alarm, but you know, Jacksonville
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  Speaker 1: raised me, my hearts and Jacksonville all that stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots gone to They've gone to enough in the
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  Speaker 1: last decade. So my heart was with Jacksonville, and I
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  Speaker 1: truly believe that the ref can give him a fair shake.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to sound like a cry baby baby,
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  Speaker 1: but that one hurt me more than us losing to
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  Speaker 1: the tight ends, because I know it's all about you know,
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  Speaker 1: the guys walked away saying next year, next year. We
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  Speaker 1: got next year. It's not always that way, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But what they do have, you know, they have a
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  Speaker 1: consistent front office who's done some good jobs, good good
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  Speaker 1: things for drafting and uh, you know, building in free agency,
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  Speaker 1: you know, establishing discipline and establishing the identity and that's
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  Speaker 1: what they have been lacking, uh the years prior to
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  Speaker 1: them making that that sort of run they made this
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  Speaker 1: past season. So I think going forward, man, I believe
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  Speaker 1: they'll be pre solid. They're gonna have to have the
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  Speaker 1: ball bounced their way, like you know, like any anything
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  Speaker 1: goes any any season. Ball bouncer away, ball doesn't bounce away.
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  Speaker 1: You get breaks, you don't get breaks. Yeah, that SC
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  Speaker 1: championship game could have got a break. Miles Jack play
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  Speaker 1: That kicks me every single time I think about it.
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  Speaker 1: But that's that's going right. So um this year is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a bit of the same. They defenses donna
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  Speaker 1: look like it's gonna be stronger, gain um offense that
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  Speaker 1: they're going to continue to improve and and hold up
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  Speaker 1: their end of the bargain. And I look forward to him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, pushing you know, a lot of teams around
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  Speaker 1: and doing a bit of what they did last year.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk running game now, and and let's focus on
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  Speaker 1: Leonard uh Fred. You know, rookie season over a thousand
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  Speaker 1: yards earlier in the season, the the average per game
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  Speaker 1: was a little higher the last five or six games.
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  Speaker 1: They just didn't have that overall push in the run game.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't. There were times well you felt like they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't really run it when they needed to. And even
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. You know a lot of the numbers from
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  Speaker 1: leading the league in Russian came earlier in the year,
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  Speaker 1: but specific to that Leonard. For Nett's part of that was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he had the little ankle issue middle of
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  Speaker 1: the season, missed a couple of games, missed the team
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  Speaker 1: photo and all that, but then bounced back to to
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  Speaker 1: finish the season. And um, overall, where does this ranking
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  Speaker 1: rookie seasons for running back. It may I'll be the
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  Speaker 1: best ever. Certainly wasn't the worst ever. It was a
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  Speaker 1: good start for Leonard though right now, it was definitely
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  Speaker 1: a great start. And it's sort of uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: visit a little bit here, and they're due to you know,
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  Speaker 1: the reasons you you mentioned, you know, in along with
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  Speaker 1: whatever they didn't share with the media. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those things, right There are certain teams
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  Speaker 1: you play, you know, there's certain uh game playing opportunities
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  Speaker 1: had a better versus certain squads and other one again
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  Speaker 1: going back to having the ball bounce your away and
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  Speaker 1: not just talking about turnovers, I mean the injury side
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  Speaker 1: of it, right, Uh, the offensive line suffering, guys ending
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  Speaker 1: out this week that week, and Leonard himself being fresh. Um,
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback position, you know, things breaking down the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: getting on the edge and making certain things happen, which
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  Speaker 1: helps to run game, help those numbers, uh, and it
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  Speaker 1: helps create a discipline. Took the defensive ends that they're
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  Speaker 1: playing against, and they're not just going to run up
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  Speaker 1: the field trying to get sacks because they have to
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  Speaker 1: account for Blake's ability to get out of the pocket
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  Speaker 1: and do some things with his legs. Um. I think
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  Speaker 1: you know, with with going back with Leonards rookie year,
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  Speaker 1: though the question you asked before, I saw about all
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  Speaker 1: over the place. You know he all right, he I
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  Speaker 1: thought he had a solid rookie year. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: was hoping that he would have broken my rookie uh
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  Speaker 1: my yardage marks, simply because if he had done that,
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  Speaker 1: that only spells good things for the team. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: that type of person. Um, But I do think he
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  Speaker 1: had a solid rookie year. The first thing I told
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  Speaker 1: him after the Patriots game there on the sideline was
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  Speaker 1: that next year is going to be you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a lot more exciting. You know, his awareness
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  Speaker 1: is just gonna you know, increase. The game is gonna
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  Speaker 1: slow down that much more. And and I'm I'm willing
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  Speaker 1: to go out on limb and say he rushes for
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  Speaker 1: at least fift um if they commit, and if they
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  Speaker 1: play defense and allow you know, the opportunities to start
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  Speaker 1: a defense, to get the ball back to the offense,
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  Speaker 1: and those things add up, he will definitely rush for
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  Speaker 1: fift plus. Just in talking to him, Fred, do you
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  Speaker 1: do you feel like he has that work ethic and
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  Speaker 1: drive to to be able to do it year after
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  Speaker 1: year after year and and and do it really twelve
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  Speaker 1: months a year. You know, it's not just a part
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  Speaker 1: time job here. No, it's a lot of part time job.
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  Speaker 1: You have to commit, You really have to commit. We
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  Speaker 1: haven't had that, you know, that brotherly heart to heart
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  Speaker 1: in that sense. I've seen you know, some things posted
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  Speaker 1: on the social media where you know he's out there
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  Speaker 1: grinding and then working. And yeah, and these guys all days,
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  Speaker 1: they have these facilities that they can just work year round.
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  Speaker 1: You know. The key for Leonard, everybody's gonna work. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the key is is maintaining your yourself taking care of
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  Speaker 1: your body, making sure your address the little things before
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  Speaker 1: they turn into big things and before they turn into
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  Speaker 1: nagging injuries, you know, and not overlooking those things. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'll be okay. Trying to tough it out.
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  Speaker 1: He has to, you know, make sure he pays attention
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  Speaker 1: and listens to his body because he's a big guy,
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  Speaker 1: big strong, powerful young young man and um, he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: have those challenges where he's going to have to make
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  Speaker 1: sure his flexibility is great, his core strength is great.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise if he don't, if he doesn't pay attention to
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  Speaker 1: that sort of stuff, he's gonna deal with sprains and
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  Speaker 1: you know all that those other injuries. That's slowly down.
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  Speaker 1: But I think he has good, you know, work habits.
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  Speaker 1: From what I'm hearing talking to Coach Wheatley, it seems
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  Speaker 1: that he has good work habits. Um. Coach Wheatly and
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  Speaker 1: I we share some things, uh. During the comeby in
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  Speaker 1: the airport there, we had a conversation for a while
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  Speaker 1: about Leonard. Um, I'd like to see Leonard have more
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  Speaker 1: opportunities that third down. He's a big guy who can
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  Speaker 1: pass protect. Yeah, I know this year he'll the offensive
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  Speaker 1: the defensive looks and those things. They're slow down for him.
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  Speaker 1: And on third down he can make some money on
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  Speaker 1: third down because he can catch the ball out of
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  Speaker 1: the backfield deceivingly, you know, a pretty solid route runner.
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  Speaker 1: So I believe he's gonna have a really, really, really
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  Speaker 1: good season. But to that point, I mean, he can't
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  Speaker 1: be the only guy at the position. And you know
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  Speaker 1: the rest of this group here is is capable of
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  Speaker 1: certain things that might not have a complete package like
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  Speaker 1: Leonard has. I mean, what t J. Yeldon is not
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  Speaker 1: really a home run hitter, you know, but he's he's
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  Speaker 1: pretty good on third down and if you need him
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  Speaker 1: in a certain situation. We saw Corey Grant in the
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  Speaker 1: playoff game in New England earlier in the game get
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  Speaker 1: wide and all of a sudden, they didn't really have
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  Speaker 1: an answer for it. But they didn't go back to
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  Speaker 1: him much. Big guy Tim Cookers around. It seemed like
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  Speaker 1: him they got both hand in the fullback I mean,
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  Speaker 1: besides for that, they do have some guys that can
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  Speaker 1: play some roles at running back here, right, and they
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  Speaker 1: do when you name it. Uh. And the thing about Yoda,
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  Speaker 1: Yoda and Leonard, they have completely opposite you know, running styles. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: what I I think you'll get from Yelling is the
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  Speaker 1: fact that when he can, he can pass protect as well.
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  Speaker 1: He has good lateral ability and he's not a blazer,
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  Speaker 1: but he's he's gotten out there in the open field.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's not the home run guy, but he
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  Speaker 1: has the ability to get you know, make some guys
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  Speaker 1: miss at the line of scrimmage and get the ball downfield.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's a great compliment to Leonard style.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when guys on the defense they're expecting you know, punished, punished,
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  Speaker 1: punished downhill one cut by Leonard. And now you have
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  Speaker 1: a guy in Yelled and who can jump cut, get
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  Speaker 1: louder on, get back north, you know, without missing a beat.
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  Speaker 1: So I like Yelled in his game. And you know
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  Speaker 1: he's fought through some stuff since his UH rookie draft
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  Speaker 1: what was at in So you know in the team,
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  Speaker 1: they obviously like him. They let Chris Ivory go, you
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  Speaker 1: know for whatever reasons. Uh, you know, Yelling, he's he's
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  Speaker 1: a guy who's still has an opportunity to make the
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  Speaker 1: squad and and help Leonard out there. Um, Corey Grant,
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned Corey. I love Corey's game. I think of
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  Speaker 1: all the running backs, I think Corey has the best
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  Speaker 1: vision in the group because he finds those lanes and
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  Speaker 1: when he finds him, he's out of there and that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't happen slow to the whole and explosives throughout, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I think he's gonna earn himself some more opportunities
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  Speaker 1: because he's gonna be a staple on the special team
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  Speaker 1: that's in the brainer and uh, he continuously shows those
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  Speaker 1: glimpses of what he can do in the back sell
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of coaches they tend to like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the guys who the patient, they grind out three
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  Speaker 1: here for their three here bang fifty seventy and Corey
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  Speaker 1: he has that ability and he can catch the ball
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  Speaker 1: out of the back shield as well. So with those
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  Speaker 1: three guys, with those two guys along with Leonard, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and you mentioned Tim Cooke, Yeah, who can come in
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  Speaker 1: there and push to be a fourth guy for the
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  Speaker 1: fourth running back, I think it's a good group. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a good group. I think they realized what
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  Speaker 1: they want their identity to be h with with having
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  Speaker 1: released Ivory because he was just a veteran guy you
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  Speaker 1: know in the mix. Really not much different than than Leonard,
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  Speaker 1: not a whole lot different than yelled in. So let's
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  Speaker 1: go with look from youth, let's trim some money the
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  Speaker 1: salary cap by removing his salary. I think that was
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  Speaker 1: a smart move. So now you have your group and
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna go with that group. You're gonna hope that group,
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  Speaker 1: you know, finishes, you know, in the top as they
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  Speaker 1: did a year ago. So just general thoughts about you.
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  Speaker 1: I think you touched on in a minute ago there.
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  Speaker 1: This organization is in a pretty good spot right now,
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  Speaker 1: certainly with the ownership, with the football leadership. They've got
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  Speaker 1: the coaching staff back for another year. Nobody lost off
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  Speaker 1: the staff, and the roster for this football team is
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  Speaker 1: is among the best in the league right now. This
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  Speaker 1: is the window is open to be good right now.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think this can be sustained for a few years?
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  Speaker 1: And what's your feeling for the next year or two? Here? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I was gonna say, man, consistently, Consistency is
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  Speaker 1: the key. You know, you have an owner who he's committed,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with with nothing else. You know, he's constantly
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  Speaker 1: having to answer those questions about if they're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: in Jacksonville? Are we gonna be in jackson Is he
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  Speaker 1: gonna remove the team? He's committed to be in Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 1: And we've seen it, and I would just hope those
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  Speaker 1: questions would just go away and let them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: run the ship as as they're doing. Uh, bringing coach
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  Speaker 1: Coffling back in there, it doesn't get any you know,
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  Speaker 1: more disciplined and you know, straightforward black and white than
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  Speaker 1: than TC and UM. And they need that the players
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  Speaker 1: respect that. Now. I'm a guy who I've learned to
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  Speaker 1: love transparency. I think these young guys they understand it
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  Speaker 1: a lot quicker than other guys would transparency and that
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  Speaker 1: this is a coach, you know, former coach who has
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  Speaker 1: two super Bowl championships, and uh, you know, so now
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  Speaker 1: it's easier to believe and buy in to what he's selling,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And uh, it wasn't always like that around there.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It was a lot of gray areas in
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville for a long, long long time. And the thing
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  Speaker 1: would be a successful organization, you out to have consistency,
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  Speaker 1: you said, the coaching staff is intact bingo, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And I remember, and I'm not not mocking Jack. We
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  Speaker 1: all learned, you know, when they're coach. Dear Real was there.
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  Speaker 1: We had a different coach or two at each position
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  Speaker 1: every single year to where people would say, those are
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  Speaker 1: just Jack's ponds. We know somebody's gonna be out of
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  Speaker 1: there the next year, and that inconsistency, it disrupts the chemistry,
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh with the coaching staff, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: they developed their relationships with the players and the coaches,
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  Speaker 1: because those are relationships that you're affecting, you know, because familiarity.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you just have this this trust factor that
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  Speaker 1: this guy is gonna get it done, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not looking over my shoulder saying, hey, what is
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  Speaker 1: this coach thinking. You know, what is he gonna do?
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  Speaker 1: Is he gonna be a rat or is he gonna
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  Speaker 1: be my boy or you know, whatever it's gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: That's just the thought process of the players and the coaches,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not looking at each other sideways. So I
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  Speaker 1: think that that that's a big thing too. The front office,
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  Speaker 1: the scouting department, they're all intact, and and and and
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  Speaker 1: again just just going back to just having the players,
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  Speaker 1: your core group of players. You know, when you used
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  Speaker 1: to look at the old Stellers and those old teams.
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  Speaker 1: You look at their defensively eight guys that you remember
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  Speaker 1: from the previous year. That's the consistency and it allows
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  Speaker 1: them to play faster, smarter, and they plug in one
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  Speaker 1: or two guys, three guys, and they're off in the
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  Speaker 1: In the success of the franchise going forward, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: is that that consistency factor where you have your nucleus
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  Speaker 1: of guys, your your leadership, and you know, and you
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  Speaker 1: have a young guy here too that follows that leader.
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  Speaker 1: That leader can show him how to do it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for about three years and now you're not missing a
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  Speaker 1: beat and those guys are just falling in line. So
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars has an opportunity. They have an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: create their consistency and be a team to uh reckon
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  Speaker 1: with in the FC South and throughout the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. As long as they continue to have keep
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  Speaker 1: that that mindset, that consistent, you know, that consistency theme
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  Speaker 1: going around the building, I think they'll be fine. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta tell you, I think that's one of the best
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  Speaker 1: answers you've had working with us in a few years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I mean because I lived it. It's so easy because
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  Speaker 1: that's what we didn't have. So if with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of this, I'm just filling in the pustle, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and just talking about, man, if we would have had,
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  Speaker 1: if we would have had or maybe if we would
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  Speaker 1: have had So basically I'm just you know, just answering
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  Speaker 1: it where it just makes sense and when you look
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  Speaker 1: at it, you step back, you know, when you look
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  Speaker 1: at the movie on the big screen, like you're watching
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  Speaker 1: a television show, this is about to happen. I've seen
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  Speaker 1: this already before it this is what's going on. So
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  Speaker 1: that's that's where the good teams, the teams that are
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  Speaker 1: good for five, eight, you know, ten years, they have
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: those type runs. Those are the teams that that that
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: they're consistent. They don't mess with the coaching staff a
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: whole lot. They give him an opportunity. And I guarantee you,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: and I know for a fact that if if every
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: single Jaguars fan that complained about getting rid of coach Calfland,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: you know when when he was let go by the Weavers,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: I guarantee you all of them are saying, hey, maybe
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: that wasn't such a great, you know, a great complaint
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: by us. You know what I'm saying, Like he was
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: always the same coach. You're gonna have some hiccups here
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: and there, but you know, you want to say we're
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: developing men. We're developing young men and two men. The
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: core is disciplined and you might have a hiccup, but
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: it's gonna always come back to that and eventually the
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: success that the successful follow because of the discipline. So
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: and that's something that you know, we missed out on
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: some of that, some of that consistency. So I think
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: there will be a successful Uh, I don't want to
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: say they. I think we will be a successful organization
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: as long as consistency is the thing. Um. Final thought here, Fred,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: we know what you're doing with us with radio and
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: in the stadium and stuff, but just if you could
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: give us a general idea of what your life outside
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: of the Jaguars is like right now, what you're working on,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: You've got the family around, What's what's going on with
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: you down in South Florida. Well, I can tell you this, JP,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I'm not retired. Everybody always asked me what it feels
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: like to be retired, and if retirement feels the way
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: this feels I will never ever nowhere. Retirement feels like
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: because I mean, I got my boys. There's never a
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: dull moment with those guys. You know, every day is
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: something new, something challenging. I wish I can to pay
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: for tutor hours because I do there. I don't do
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: their homework, but we're doing homework every day. And uh,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: you know, I have uh uh small minority business that
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: was continue to try and grow. We uh distribute industrial
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: equipment and uh we're minority certified. I invest. I'm an investor,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: so I'm always looking for opportunities. That makes sense because
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I was once burned, you know, throughout my career, uh
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: and not necessarily understanding deals that I was being a
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: part of just saying, you know, just agreeing to just
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: shake my head, yeah, yeah, I understand. So I practice
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: my discipline as well nowadays. I don't just hop into
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: things that I don't absolutely love. And sometimes I procrastinate
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: to the point where I missed opportunity. So I'm here
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: just trying to you know, continue to grow and learn business. Uh,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: grow and be better dad for a better husband, um
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: and also a better friend because I've I've done a
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: terrible job at some point throughout a career at IT,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: and I was I was busy. I was focused on
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: my thing and that was that was football. So I
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: didn't always answer the phone. You know, I'm a I'm
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: a first round screener. I will screen your call and heartbeat.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: UH can eventually get back to you. But I'm just
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: working on being the best. You know. UH going to
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: third person here, Freddy t that I could possibly be
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: j P. Thanks to Fred Taylor for his time earlier
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and coming up next week on the website, Brad Meastern,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Mike Hollis, and David Garrard in the eleven on eleven series.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: The next audio version is coming up in two weeks
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: with former cornerback Rashin Maths. Thanks to Jaguars manager of
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Radio Joe Fortunado, and we'll catch you next time on
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: the j P Shadrick Podcast