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Jaguars Happy Hour: Wednesday, August 26 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, August. This is Jaguars Happy Hour, Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Happy Hours presented by the Fields Auto Group. And now
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Speaker 1: a guy who believes one of the greatest free agency
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Speaker 1: acquisitions of is Bucky Brooks. J. P. Shadrick. I don't
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Speaker 1: think there's any doubt about that. Welcome in Jaguars Happy
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Speaker 1: Hour presented by the Fields Auto Group. JP shatterick with you,
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Speaker 1: and we've got a program for you today, keeping the
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Speaker 1: team healthy in a different type of training camp. Will
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Speaker 1: get into maintenance days and what the organization has done
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Speaker 1: a couple of times so far in training camp to
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Speaker 1: keep guys healthy going into the regular season. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: up that defensive line some so many changes there, but
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Speaker 1: Jason Rebovitch, the defensive line coaches you would expect, is
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Speaker 1: excited about the group he has to work with. Have
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Speaker 1: they figured out the left tackle position? We'll hear from
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Speaker 1: George Warhoby, offensive line coach as well, and we'll go
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Speaker 1: around the National Football League. John Osier is with us
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Speaker 1: as always, Bucky Brooks is with us as always, and
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Speaker 1: I gotta John. I must say I think Joe of Fortunato,
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Speaker 1: who does our open was right that this acquisition of
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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks and free agency. It doesn't get any bigger
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Speaker 1: than that, John Well, I mean not just this offseason,
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Speaker 1: but here. I mean, if Bucky, then maybe plais Leon,
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Speaker 1: sarahcly Keena Macarille, the Buckey number one, no doubt, no
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Speaker 1: doubt that. Yeah, you used to film, but hey, Bucky's
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Speaker 1: the guy to do it. Man, That's how it works.
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Speaker 1: So uh new, what's new this week? Bucky? You're you're
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Speaker 1: out in California. We got another week under our belt
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Speaker 1: with looking around the National Football League here, just big picture,
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Speaker 1: we're another week closer to the season, and it seems
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Speaker 1: like most everybody in the league, at least COVID nineteen
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Speaker 1: wise is healthy. That's another week in the books, and
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Speaker 1: that's a good sign. Bucky. Yeah, it is a good
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Speaker 1: sign that we're able to get through this without a
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Speaker 1: lot of tests pop popping up. It says that the
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Speaker 1: protocols are working. It also says that the players are
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Speaker 1: taken everything seriously. So I'm more optimistic now than ever
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Speaker 1: that we're not only going to get the kick off,
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Speaker 1: but we're gonna have an all stand this season. There
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Speaker 1: may not have any hiccups. John is pretty remarkable to
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Speaker 1: see those numbers that they put out the other day.
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Speaker 1: The league said they were like fifty something thousand tests
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Speaker 1: and of eight thousand different people and zero players tested positives. That,
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Speaker 1: as Bucky said, they're taking it seriously. Now, you just
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Speaker 1: got to get to the starting line and then to
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Speaker 1: the finish line after that. John, that's still a lot
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Speaker 1: to ask, But so far, so good. Well, I thought
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Speaker 1: from day one that the I mean, I think everybody
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Speaker 1: sort of thought this, the reporting stuff was going to
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Speaker 1: cause a lot of brush fires and the meet you mean,
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Speaker 1: they were gonna be the teams that had multiple players report,
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Speaker 1: and the media was gonna go, you know, and I'm
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Speaker 1: criticizing what I used to do obviously, but we're gonna say,
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Speaker 1: oh my goodness, that it will never work. And it
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Speaker 1: was always going to be this period, except it sort
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Speaker 1: of told the tale of training camp. Once they got
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Speaker 1: into the pseudo bubble, how did it work? And I
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Speaker 1: can hear all the naysayers already because you see him
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Speaker 1: on Twitter. Well, this doesn't mean anything. It's whatever happens
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Speaker 1: during the regular season. But try to understand, this is
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Speaker 1: pretty close to zero right now in this bubble. I
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Speaker 1: don't think it has to be zero as the regular
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Speaker 1: season goes on. I think it just has to be controllable.
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Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be some flare ups. But I'm
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Speaker 1: like Bucky, even more so than in June July. I'm
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Speaker 1: really starting to think that they're gonna pull this thing
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Speaker 1: off and it's gonna be a relatively normal seat. And
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Speaker 1: I shouldn't say normal relatively pick up pre season that
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Speaker 1: I don't know that it's gonna be defined on the
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Speaker 1: field by COVID the way everybody is sort of assumed
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Speaker 1: for four months. Yeah, let's hope. Let's hope that's not
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Speaker 1: the case at all, Bucky. I mean, let's let's play
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Speaker 1: some football and and be as normal as we can
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Speaker 1: be in this environment. Yeah. No, I think that the
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Speaker 1: real tests will come once we get into the regular
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Speaker 1: season days, in the regular season practice periods and we're
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Speaker 1: out of kind of training camp mode, Because then what
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Speaker 1: happens is players are used to having a normal routine. Uh,
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Speaker 1: Tuesday's are off normally, that's when guys would kind of
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Speaker 1: get together and go out to eat or do their things.
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Speaker 1: And as you get later in the week, guys will
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Speaker 1: have like these dB nights or position groups will get together,
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Speaker 1: and so they will have to change the way that
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Speaker 1: they normally do business during the regular season. But I
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Speaker 1: think everyone understands what's at stake, and I think now
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Speaker 1: more than ever, UH players are taking precautions to make
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Speaker 1: sure they protect their teammates. John and your podcast this
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Speaker 1: week the ozone Podcast. Bucky has been a guest on
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Speaker 1: this podcast before, but this week you visited with the
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Speaker 1: head of the COVID department for lack of a better term,
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Speaker 1: for the Jacksonville Jaguars Omega Partake, Scott Truelock, the head
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Speaker 1: athletic trainer, and Cassie You tell what did you find out?
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Speaker 1: What was the biggest piece of that conversation that stood
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Speaker 1: out to you, maybe about the difficulty and how they've
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Speaker 1: executed things to get the Jaguars on the right track. Um,
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Speaker 1: probably the biggest takeaway, or the biggest thing I was
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Speaker 1: impressed with, was the enormous amount of information that had
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Speaker 1: to be taken in either from by Mega, from the
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Speaker 1: league office, by Scott and Cassie, from all of the
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Speaker 1: medical information that comes flowing in, and then you've got
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Speaker 1: to sort of take that and funnel it into something
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Speaker 1: useful for the team. And then into all these protocols,
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Speaker 1: and uh, I guess more than any specific takeaway from
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Speaker 1: anything they said was just the enormous job that these
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Speaker 1: people have had and the education process for Scott and
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Speaker 1: Cassie educating the players every day, because you've got a
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Speaker 1: lot of young guys, and as Bucky knows, football players
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Speaker 1: who are twenty two years old, you know, they're not
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Speaker 1: always getting the best information or they're not reading medical
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Speaker 1: journals that if you know that, Bucky, but they're probably
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Speaker 1: not reading medical journals and trying to figure out COVID.
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Speaker 1: So they they've had to try to get the players
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Speaker 1: to listen. And I think the biggest thing they told
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Speaker 1: me was players are taking this very seriously. They get
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Speaker 1: it and then it goes it goes back to them
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Speaker 1: we talked to on the show last week. Players aren't
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Speaker 1: trying to screw this up. They're not out there trying
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Speaker 1: to make mistakes. They realized that their livelihoods, the season,
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Speaker 1: livelihoods of others depend on it. And the Jaguars COVID
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Speaker 1: team really gave me the impression that the players, at
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Speaker 1: least so far, are very diligent, very professional. They get
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Speaker 1: what has to be done. Yeah, John it's funny that
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Speaker 1: you you talk about the players getting it. I think
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Speaker 1: we've seen a couple of examples where UH coach Marone
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Speaker 1: is able to stand in front of the room and say, hey,
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Speaker 1: up in Seattle, we had a situation, but the player
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Speaker 1: trying to sneak someone in. We cannot have that if
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Speaker 1: we want to accomplish where we want to accomplish. In Tennessee,
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Speaker 1: they had a player that was at an off campus
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Speaker 1: party on a college campus. UH twenty one year old.
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Speaker 1: Another opportunity for Moron to go back and talk to
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Speaker 1: his players about how we have to add we have
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Speaker 1: to be very, very professional. We have to take this serious,
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Speaker 1: and we have to make sure that we're doing everything
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Speaker 1: to keep the entire team safe and they althy doing
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Speaker 1: this pandemic. You know, of all the possible stories like that, Bucky,
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Speaker 1: that's really the only two I've heard of instances like that,
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Speaker 1: which kind of speaks to our point. The players, for
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Speaker 1: the most part of I've done a very good job
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Speaker 1: so far. Now let's get in to the football side
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Speaker 1: of things here. And we discussed this a little bit
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Speaker 1: on Monday Night with Pete Brisco and Tony Boselli on
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Speaker 1: Jaguars happy hour, but that the idea of maintenance days.
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Speaker 1: The other day, Bucky, there were twenty four Jaguars players
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Speaker 1: held inside. Doug Brone said that they still had as
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Speaker 1: much work done inside than they would have had in
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Speaker 1: pads hitting outside. They can track it. They have the
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Speaker 1: monitoring system where they can track the output of players pushing, pulling, lifting,
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Speaker 1: doing different things inside. You see the list right there
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Speaker 1: of the guys that were inside the other day. Um,
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Speaker 1: but it is a shortened padded practice camp. I mean
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Speaker 1: there's only a handful of padded practices left. And Bucky,
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Speaker 1: this is an interesting balance. How much work do you
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Speaker 1: get on the field in a very short time frame
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Speaker 1: as opposed to keeping your team healthy and maybe working
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Speaker 1: on some things that could linger as the season goes along.
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Speaker 1: That is a really really balance. Yeah, it is a
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Speaker 1: fine balance. And I had an opportunity to talk to
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Speaker 1: some coaches and they talked about the goal of training
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Speaker 1: camp is to make sure that you can get everybody
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Speaker 1: on your squad to the first game healthy. And so
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Speaker 1: you want to lead on your sports science information, you
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Speaker 1: want to lead on your medical experts to try and
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Speaker 1: figure out what is the best way to get our
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Speaker 1: team uh ready to go and performing at an optimal
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Speaker 1: level when the season kicks off, and so that may
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Speaker 1: require scaling it back a little bit, taking off the pads,
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Speaker 1: doing some maintenance day type things to make sure that
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Speaker 1: your guys are available. But given the importance of depth
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Speaker 1: and the availability of your top players, I don't think
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Speaker 1: this is a bad approach for the Jaguars to take.
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Speaker 1: But don't forget to j in a normal preseason when
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Speaker 1: you have four preseason games. I get the players hit
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Speaker 1: a couple of times during a preseason game, but the
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Speaker 1: way teams are starting to approach preseason games now, players
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Speaker 1: are playing what maybe a game and a half during
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Speaker 1: that they're skipping one or two preseason games at the start,
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Speaker 1: maybe at the end. So for a lot of these
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Speaker 1: players that are out for maintenance, had this been preseason
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Speaker 1: week one, they're taking Thursday as a really light day
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Speaker 1: and it maybe a travel day. They're not playing in
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Speaker 1: the game, and they're probably off the next day. So
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Speaker 1: I don't know that you're losing as much as youth
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Speaker 1: as appearances might give right there, because usually the preseason
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Speaker 1: is close to three days off. For all these twenty
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Speaker 1: four guys who are taking these maintenance days. John didn't
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Speaker 1: surprise you to see Gardner Minshew on that list the
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Speaker 1: other day. There was a later a later addition to
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Speaker 1: it a little and it sort of makes you wonder,
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Speaker 1: was maybe that, Hey, I'm feeling a touch of camp
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Speaker 1: and I'm speculating, but maybe it was I'm feeling a
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Speaker 1: touch of camp arm, And maybe they just said, you
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Speaker 1: know what, there's no veterans out here that you're throwing
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Speaker 1: to anyway outside maybe like a keel and coal, So
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Speaker 1: take today off. Don't worry about it today. I don't
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Speaker 1: know that it was camp arm, but you know, maybe
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Speaker 1: it was just, hey, let's prevent that. It wasn't planned.
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Speaker 1: But when they got to the case in the morning,
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Speaker 1: they may have just said, look, there's really no reason
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Speaker 1: for the quarterback out there. If nobody else is gonna
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Speaker 1: be out there, let's give him one day off. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: it surprised me a little. Yeah, what do you think, Bucky?
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Speaker 1: I mean, is that something that's obviously something to to
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Speaker 1: keep an eye on to the next week or two
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Speaker 1: to see what happens with Gardner, But it seemed like
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Speaker 1: there was no big storyline of that before with him. Um,
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Speaker 1: I'll see what happens the next week. I guess yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think. I think this is some of what you
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Speaker 1: do with the starting quarterback. He's kind of earned his stripes.
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Speaker 1: He's made his way into being the Jaguar starting quarterback,
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Speaker 1: and so they want to make sure that they're protecting him,
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Speaker 1: making sure they limit the amount of throws that he
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Speaker 1: has throughout the entire training camp. They want to make
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Speaker 1: sure that Garna mit you, is ready to roll when
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Speaker 1: the season kicks off. That is why they may have
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Speaker 1: some of these scheduled maintenance days in there to assure
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Speaker 1: that his arm and his mind they're fresh and ready
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Speaker 1: to go when they really needed to. All right, let's
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Speaker 1: touch a little bit on some of the new faces
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Speaker 1: around this Jaguars offense this year. We're not talking between
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Speaker 1: the white Lions. Were talking on the sideline. J Gruden
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Speaker 1: of course, the new offensive coordinator, but the new quarterback
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Speaker 1: coach has been Macadoo, former head coach of the New
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Speaker 1: York Giants who was fired by the Giants and then
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Speaker 1: kept it was out of football the last couple of years.
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Speaker 1: He was fired up to be back in it. There's
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Speaker 1: no doubt about that. When we heard from the McAdoo
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Speaker 1: earlier this week. You know, I told guys the other
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Speaker 1: day I would have took a job coaching a monkey
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Speaker 1: how to do hop scotch if I had to. You know,
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to get back in and I love coaching,
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Speaker 1: and I just love seeing and being around players and
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Speaker 1: helping them get better, doing everything I can to help
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Speaker 1: those guys get better. And uh, you know, I look forward, Uh,
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Speaker 1: I look forward to doing it. I'm not sure exactly
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Speaker 1: what a monkey doing hop scotch would look like, but
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Speaker 1: it's obvious that he wanted to get back in the
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Speaker 1: game of football after being out a couple of years.
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Speaker 1: What about his personality, Bucky, You know, it was a
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Speaker 1: tough go of it in New York did not end well,
13:28
Speaker 1: of course with Big Blue there. A couple of years
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Speaker 1: off might change your perspective on things a bit. And
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Speaker 1: now you get to come back in as a position
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Speaker 1: coaching and groom a young quarterback that that hopefully is
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Speaker 1: the future. Yeah. I was to say that Ben McAdoo
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Speaker 1: gets to go back and kind of go back into
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Speaker 1: a position that is is tied to the stress of
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Speaker 1: his character and his personality. He's an outstanding teacher and
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Speaker 1: quarterback developer, spend time in Green Bay, worked upunder Mike McCarthy,
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Speaker 1: understands how to deal with the quarterback position. And I
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Speaker 1: think he's going to be a great addition for garden
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Speaker 1: mention because in Green Bay for the longest time to
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Speaker 1: have what they called the Quarterback School, which is really
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Speaker 1: an intensive study and breakdown on footwork fundamentals and efficiency.
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Speaker 1: He did a terrific job with Eli Manning of making
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Speaker 1: Eli a more efficient passer, really encouraged him to use
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Speaker 1: the running backs out the backfield. And so when you
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Speaker 1: think about Ben McAdoo and Jake Gruden, I think we
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Speaker 1: can understand how this offense is going to look. And
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Speaker 1: with Chris Thompson and also Leonard for Nick catching the
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Speaker 1: ball out the backfield, you could see this offense be
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Speaker 1: a more efficient version of the offense that we saw
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Speaker 1: a year ago. He and coach, and I'm sorry, head
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Speaker 1: coaching position coach are two completely different jobs. I've got
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Speaker 1: no zone emails saying well, why would they hire this guy?
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Speaker 1: Didn't make it. None of that matters when it comes
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Speaker 1: to coaching position. But Bucky's exactly right that he can
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Speaker 1: obviously coach quarterback. He's been around great quarterbacks, which can't
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Speaker 1: hurt when you're going to gardener and saying, look, here's
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Speaker 1: what we did with Aaron Rodgers, Here's here's what you
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Speaker 1: do with the Eli Manning. Anytime you can add veteran experience,
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Speaker 1: which is what mcado and Gruden are, I'm all for it.
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Speaker 1: You know, the quarterback couldn't be in better hands considering
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Speaker 1: where they were when they started this offseason. The search
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Speaker 1: process to get to experienced guys with this level of
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Speaker 1: experience to work with the young quarterback. You know, uh,
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Speaker 1: it's probably the most experience, the most veteran sage heads
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Speaker 1: whatever you call them, that the quarterback has had this
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Speaker 1: franchise in all a long time. I don't see how
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Speaker 1: it doesn't help. Partner mentioned, Yeah, I agree, I think
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Speaker 1: it does help. I think it helps to have that experience.
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Speaker 1: And also, well, I would be remiss if I don't
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Speaker 1: mention Teary Whisky and tear Ybisky's experienced as an offensive coordinator,
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Speaker 1: having him around and dealing with the running backs and
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Speaker 1: being able to have that think you now talking about
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Speaker 1: a very very good coaching staff, particularly the offensive side
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Speaker 1: of the ball. I think that will matter when you
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Speaker 1: have so many young guys kind of working into the mix.
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Speaker 1: He's been at it for a long long time in
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Speaker 1: the National Football League, no doubt about that. So a
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Speaker 1: lot of experience on this Jaguars offensive coaching staff, for sure.
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Speaker 1: Let's come back in a moment. We'll dig into the
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Speaker 1: along with us. Um, let's get into the defensive line now.
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Speaker 1: And you know we've we've obviously talked about this on
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Speaker 1: in a few different shows John, but there's been so
20:03
Speaker 1: much change on that defensive line. We heard from Jason
20:05
Speaker 1: Rebrovich this week, defensive line coach, and for him, it
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Speaker 1: goes back to some things he learned when he was
20:13
Speaker 1: growing up. My dad raised bird dogs when I was
20:17
Speaker 1: a kid, and uh, you know his deal was if
20:20
Speaker 1: if he shot a shotgun and that dog shied away,
20:24
Speaker 1: that dog wasn't a bird dog anymore. So you know,
20:27
Speaker 1: you could sit there and say, hey, these are the
20:29
Speaker 1: guys that we got or or these are the people
20:31
Speaker 1: that we have, and uh, you know, you you shoot
20:34
Speaker 1: those shotguns off and you say, hey, let's let's let's go,
20:37
Speaker 1: let's blast, and let's get off there and play with
20:39
Speaker 1: whatever which ones we got out there. I'm not sure
20:44
Speaker 1: how many bird dogs there are in Los Angeles, Bucky,
20:47
Speaker 1: but that's uh, that's a sound bite if I've heard
20:49
Speaker 1: one there. The point is, obviously, is you find out
20:53
Speaker 1: right now, in this time period, who are the guys
20:56
Speaker 1: that are gonna go out there and get it done
20:58
Speaker 1: for you? And they gotta go out with they have
21:00
Speaker 1: out there, and and so far they're they're pretty positive
21:03
Speaker 1: about what they have. Bucket. Yeah, some people will see
21:06
Speaker 1: this situation as being a challenge, but I will say
21:09
Speaker 1: it's an opportunity. It's an opportunity for some guys to
21:11
Speaker 1: get it onto the field and show the coaching staff
21:15
Speaker 1: that they're ready to get it done. And I know
21:17
Speaker 1: we have seen a lot of guys fall by the
21:19
Speaker 1: wayside doing this training camp we're leading up to camp.
21:23
Speaker 1: We saw guys retired, We've seen people opt out, we've
21:25
Speaker 1: seen injuries impacted. But who is remaining and with the
21:29
Speaker 1: people who are remaining, they are certainly capable of getting
21:32
Speaker 1: it done. But it's going to take a massive effort
21:35
Speaker 1: for these guys to play at a high level. It
21:38
Speaker 1: means Tavin Bryant, Tim journey In, Dwayne Smooth. Those guys
21:42
Speaker 1: have to play at a high level. And then Josh
21:44
Speaker 1: Allen has to go from being what I call a
21:46
Speaker 1: pro bowler to being a superstar. If he plays at
21:49
Speaker 1: that level, they have more than enough ammunition to really
21:53
Speaker 1: attack people and play the kind of defense they want
21:55
Speaker 1: to see down there in Jacksonville. John, would you make
22:02
Speaker 1: of Rebrovich's comments the other day? And obviously you know
22:06
Speaker 1: he's gonna be confident about the group he has out there.
22:09
Speaker 1: That's that's part of his job is to get those
22:12
Speaker 1: guys ready to go. But and Bucky mentioned a couple
22:15
Speaker 1: of names there too, that they're really high on. Even
22:18
Speaker 1: still with Taban Brian off to the side and a
22:21
Speaker 1: week to week with a bone bruise on his knee,
22:23
Speaker 1: that was a name we heard a lot this pet
22:24
Speaker 1: in the fast few days. Um, a lot of positive
22:27
Speaker 1: talk about Taban Brian here. John, Yeah, I think REVS
22:32
Speaker 1: Dad shot my cell phone off my lap, which is
22:34
Speaker 1: why I lost contact you guys earlier. But it's it's
22:37
Speaker 1: a I think people are generally jumping the gun a
22:43
Speaker 1: little too much on woe is the Jaguars defensive interior.
22:47
Speaker 1: I get they lost Woods, I get they lost Gunter.
22:49
Speaker 1: Those are big losses. I don't know that we knew
22:51
Speaker 1: enough about don Tavius Russell to be that concerned about
22:54
Speaker 1: that loss. Um, and I want to sort of say
22:57
Speaker 1: a I mean, ask Bucky at the end of this
22:59
Speaker 1: to comment on us. Timmy journ again in the first
23:03
Speaker 1: couple of weeks or the first week or so he's
23:05
Speaker 1: been here, it's been remarkable how many players have made
23:08
Speaker 1: a point to say this guy, you know, he used
23:13
Speaker 1: Dwayne Smooths phrase, this guy is a dog. This guy
23:16
Speaker 1: is out there in practice. He had a rough first day,
23:19
Speaker 1: but the other players are impressed with what he's bringing,
23:22
Speaker 1: the energy. If Journe again, is Journe again? To me,
23:25
Speaker 1: that counters one of those other losses. I don't think
23:28
Speaker 1: you're in that bad of shape. I haven't been able
23:30
Speaker 1: to watch Jimmy journey and that much. I'm curious, Bucky,
23:32
Speaker 1: who watches a lot of film. What do you think
23:35
Speaker 1: of him? How good can he be? Quickly? This is
23:38
Speaker 1: a good gift for the Jaguars. When he came over.
23:40
Speaker 1: I was excited about it because watching him all the
23:43
Speaker 1: way back in Florida State, he was a disruptive playmaker
23:46
Speaker 1: at the point of attack. When you chronicle his career,
23:48
Speaker 1: how he played at Baltimore, how you played in Philadelphia,
23:51
Speaker 1: he's still very disruptive on the interior. Didn't necessarily have
23:54
Speaker 1: the year that he wanted a season ago. But he
23:57
Speaker 1: comes down and he's an energy as a bunny, he
23:59
Speaker 1: stro on, he's tough, he's physical. More importantly, he has
24:02
Speaker 1: experienced and when you put an explosive, energetic player like him,
24:07
Speaker 1: besides a Tavin Bryan who's also energetic and explosive man,
24:12
Speaker 1: you now could have problem on your hands. And just
24:15
Speaker 1: know everyone that has been down on Bran the life
24:18
Speaker 1: for young players typically goes off in their third year.
24:22
Speaker 1: We finally could see him realize his first round talent
24:25
Speaker 1: this season as the game settles down and slows down
24:28
Speaker 1: for him. Another guy that you mentioned earlier, but he
24:33
Speaker 1: was to want Smoot former well it was just now
24:36
Speaker 1: his fourth year in the NFL, which is crazy to
24:38
Speaker 1: think about, but he he talked this week about you know,
24:42
Speaker 1: he's trying to figure out what he actually is. Is
24:45
Speaker 1: he a big end? Is he a Russian? They moved
24:48
Speaker 1: him around a little bit, and you know, towards the
24:51
Speaker 1: end of last season you started to see him take
24:53
Speaker 1: some strides. What did you see out of him coming
24:56
Speaker 1: out in the draft And how difficult is that sometimes
24:59
Speaker 1: when I mean you have been moved around earlier in
25:02
Speaker 1: career to find out who you what kind of player
25:04
Speaker 1: you really are? Yeah, it's really hard because when you
25:07
Speaker 1: really talented, UH, coaches imagination sometimes can run wild. They
25:11
Speaker 1: can say, hey, he's a big end, he can go inside,
25:13
Speaker 1: he can do a bunch of different things. And I
25:15
Speaker 1: think for smoothness understanding where do I fit in the puzzle?
25:19
Speaker 1: Can I master my craft at one situation. I think
25:23
Speaker 1: he's more of a big and I think given what
25:25
Speaker 1: they're lacking, I think you want to see if he
25:27
Speaker 1: can be that based defense event. And then because Josh
25:32
Speaker 1: Allen is a uniquely talented player, with his athleticism and
25:36
Speaker 1: his traits, you want to leave him kind of as
25:38
Speaker 1: the open side, the LEO player, the guy that can
25:41
Speaker 1: kind of run and rush and do a bunch of
25:44
Speaker 1: different things. And so I believe in this defense Smooth
25:47
Speaker 1: his best position to be a based in to play outside,
25:51
Speaker 1: to kind of be the heavy handed player against him run.
25:57
Speaker 1: He didn't get them out like he didn't get can't
26:00
Speaker 1: say Leo Bucky, can't say Leo right here, um and many.
26:09
Speaker 1: But in terms of Smoot, I'll tell you what he is.
26:13
Speaker 1: He's exactly what good defensive lines in this league need.
26:18
Speaker 1: He's not necessarily a front line starter. I don't think
26:22
Speaker 1: he's going to Pro Bowl then he's getting twelve sacks.
26:24
Speaker 1: But what he was sort of talking about when he
26:27
Speaker 1: talked to Think it was yesterday, not really knowing what
26:29
Speaker 1: he is. The Jaguars know it is he's a guy
26:31
Speaker 1: who can play all those spots. Four guys never play
26:36
Speaker 1: on the defensive line in the NFL. Good defensive lines
26:39
Speaker 1: has six, seven, eight guys. Think of the Giants when
26:41
Speaker 1: they beat the Patriots, superwol you can come in waves.
26:43
Speaker 1: That's what Smoot gives them. He is a guy. If
26:47
Speaker 1: you're a good defensive line, you've got a few Duyne Smoots,
26:51
Speaker 1: because you've got guys who are necessarily superstars, but they're
26:55
Speaker 1: really good and they produced when they're in the game.
26:57
Speaker 1: But he's not a Leo. He's not a Leo. I
27:00
Speaker 1: got that leon does not exist a board point point taking.
27:05
Speaker 1: But here's what I say, John, As you make a
27:07
Speaker 1: good observation. And I think a lot of people are
27:09
Speaker 1: so used to thinking that a defensive line has to
27:12
Speaker 1: have guys that ring up these double digit sacks. But
27:15
Speaker 1: you can get away with it if you do it
27:17
Speaker 1: by committee. So let's just say Smooth is able to
27:19
Speaker 1: get you six or seven, Brian gives you four or five.
27:22
Speaker 1: Journal again gets you four or five. But then at
27:24
Speaker 1: the end of the year, if you're sitting around forty
27:27
Speaker 1: to forty five, that's a very productive year for a
27:30
Speaker 1: defensive line. Josh Allen has to carry the weight and
27:34
Speaker 1: maybe you get something from somebody else. But if the
27:36
Speaker 1: rest of the guys can give you four or five apiece,
27:38
Speaker 1: that is more than enough to be an effective unit,
27:41
Speaker 1: particularly against the past. Let's hear from one of the
27:45
Speaker 1: newest members of that defensive line unit, Calevan Chason, first
27:49
Speaker 1: round draft pick, and you know, it'd be nice to
27:51
Speaker 1: have him obviously contribute to some of those numbers this year.
27:54
Speaker 1: But learning how to do that, he says, won't be
27:57
Speaker 1: much of an issue. I feel like I'm a sell
28:00
Speaker 1: lady learner. M not trying to, you know, go and
28:02
Speaker 1: get to anybody else. But I feel like the way
28:05
Speaker 1: I learned things, it's not really hard for me to
28:06
Speaker 1: pick up on anything when it's academically a football like you, um,
28:11
Speaker 1: you give it to me on the playbook, on the video, film,
28:14
Speaker 1: on the field right then and there. I pick up
28:16
Speaker 1: fast and I learned quick. So that's never really kind
28:19
Speaker 1: of being anything. No learning curve hell back for me. Uh.
28:22
Speaker 1: I kind of just been putting in the work every
28:24
Speaker 1: day when it comes to watching film or studying the
28:26
Speaker 1: playbook or even being on the field. I'm taking a
28:28
Speaker 1: step by step, day by day and just trying to
28:30
Speaker 1: learn from everything. Bucky, I'll start with you here on
28:35
Speaker 1: Chase on You know, his sample size of L s
28:39
Speaker 1: U were somewhat limited because of injury down there, and
28:42
Speaker 1: he's still a very young man, um so what did
28:45
Speaker 1: you make when he was out there? Obviously, and you know,
28:49
Speaker 1: being that locked in as he says he is, that
28:52
Speaker 1: can only help a young player when he's trying to
28:55
Speaker 1: transition to a new league like this one. Yeah, look,
28:58
Speaker 1: Jason is an else an athlete. Looking back at my nose,
29:02
Speaker 1: I talked about being an urgent athlete. He was energetic,
29:05
Speaker 1: did a great job of running and chasing and playing
29:07
Speaker 1: from snap to whistle. The thing that he is right
29:10
Speaker 1: now is he's a newbie when it comes to being
29:12
Speaker 1: a pass rusher meeting. He doesn't have the full repertoire
29:15
Speaker 1: pass or skills to be able to really throw a
29:18
Speaker 1: bunch of different pitches at blockers. That said, his first step,
29:22
Speaker 1: quickness and his verse, he can be a guy that
29:25
Speaker 1: was very effective similar to Yannicking Gockway when he came
29:28
Speaker 1: into the league. He may not have everything at his disposal,
29:32
Speaker 1: but his speed, energy and tempo could enable him to
29:35
Speaker 1: be a guy against eight to ten sacks. Just playing
29:38
Speaker 1: on sheer talent, you put that opposite of Josh Allen
29:41
Speaker 1: because he is going to command double teams. He can
29:45
Speaker 1: win one on once and that could be enough to
29:47
Speaker 1: be a contributing factor right away as a rookie. It
29:52
Speaker 1: sounds John like what Josh Allen was last year. You know,
29:55
Speaker 1: if you're hearing Jeff Logavan say it in the last
29:57
Speaker 1: week or so, Allen on talent alone, got a lot
30:00
Speaker 1: of those sacks last year. Now you're starting to put
30:02
Speaker 1: some some pass rush moves together with that. John. That's
30:06
Speaker 1: a big difference. Yeah. And as far as Chase and
30:10
Speaker 1: you know, he has this athletic ability that jumps off
30:14
Speaker 1: the page when you're watching practice. You know, if you
30:17
Speaker 1: do anything about football, your eyes are drawn to him
30:19
Speaker 1: and you say, who's that guy? He looks different than
30:23
Speaker 1: everybody else. I think what's most encouraging for me on Chason.
30:27
Speaker 1: I haven't had a chance to talk to him face
30:28
Speaker 1: to face all the COVID stuff, but in listening to
30:32
Speaker 1: him in a few interviews and then making some calls
30:35
Speaker 1: and talking to people who have dealt with him inside
30:37
Speaker 1: the organization, his ability to communicate his maturity. JP. You
30:42
Speaker 1: remember this from Josh Allen last year as soon as
30:45
Speaker 1: Josh walked in the building, he felt different. When you
30:49
Speaker 1: talked to him. You knew he was going to gravitate
30:51
Speaker 1: the calais. You knew he was going to do the
30:53
Speaker 1: right things. And he held that all season, showing maturity
30:56
Speaker 1: on many different ways that I don't see very often
30:59
Speaker 1: from Rook From what you hear, Halevan is that thing
31:03
Speaker 1: kind of kid. To me, that's the key. There's no
31:06
Speaker 1: question about his athletic ability. If he combines that with
31:09
Speaker 1: this Josh Allen type maturity, that's what makes Josh the
31:13
Speaker 1: whole package. Boy, then you've got something special out of
31:16
Speaker 1: those two guys. It's too early to know on Caleban yet,
31:20
Speaker 1: but those signs to me are even more encouraging than
31:23
Speaker 1: what you see on the field because those signs mean
31:26
Speaker 1: he's gonna take advantage of his God given talent. Yeah,
31:31
Speaker 1: I agree with you, John, because he does have god
31:34
Speaker 1: get given talent. This was a big time basketball player
31:37
Speaker 1: coming up, someone who is still I would say, kind
31:40
Speaker 1: of new to the game in the position as it
31:42
Speaker 1: comes to being a pass rusher. But the reason I
31:45
Speaker 1: think is really important to talk about yannicking Goquay is
31:48
Speaker 1: because no one expected and got Wai to be the
31:50
Speaker 1: player that he emerged as for the Jaguars when he
31:53
Speaker 1: was drafted out of Maryland. I'm gonna say Chason is
31:56
Speaker 1: a more explosive, dynamic and athletic um prospect coming out. Now.
32:03
Speaker 1: It may take him a while to put it together,
32:05
Speaker 1: but there's no reason why early in his career he
32:08
Speaker 1: can't be a contributor despite not really knowing what he's
32:11
Speaker 1: doing coming off the edge. He's a better run player. Yes,
32:17
Speaker 1: then in Goay was coming out. I think has made
32:20
Speaker 1: him a first round pick and you assume it will
32:23
Speaker 1: be much stouter against the run in his career. Yeah,
32:27
Speaker 1: I think so. I think he has a lot of
32:29
Speaker 1: talent you're now putting him. And also this, I think
32:32
Speaker 1: the observation was made by both of you guys. You
32:33
Speaker 1: talked about his maturity. Because now Josh Allen is the
32:38
Speaker 1: leader of their room, we'll just assume he's the leader
32:40
Speaker 1: that de limee room. That competition is going to force
32:43
Speaker 1: Chason to step up his game because of the way
32:46
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32:48
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32:51
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32:56
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33:01
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33:03
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33:13
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Speaker 1: been a little bit of a development at the offensive
36:41
Speaker 1: line since we last spoke Bucky, and that was the development,
36:45
Speaker 1: George Warhop saying, well, yeah, he's important, Cam Robinson, because
36:49
Speaker 1: he's gonna be our starting left tackle. We had talked
36:52
Speaker 1: and there's been a little rumble of some competition you know,
36:55
Speaker 1: in camp. But Cam Robinson, at least Warhop said it,
37:00
Speaker 1: you know, has played the position much more obviously, and
37:03
Speaker 1: coming into camp was way ahead of Will Richardson. Now
37:06
Speaker 1: Richardson's working his way into and being comfortable at left tackle.
37:11
Speaker 1: But Cam Robinson is the guy. And I will say
37:13
Speaker 1: the other day, it must have been yesterday Cam Robinson
37:18
Speaker 1: and one on ones against Josh Allen. I don't think
37:20
Speaker 1: he lost against Josh Allen yesterday. So you see a
37:25
Speaker 1: guy who's motivated, who's in pretty good shape, who, according
37:29
Speaker 1: to Tony Boselli, has worked on his footwork and things
37:33
Speaker 1: are going well for Cam Robinson. That's a good sign, Bucky. Yeah,
37:36
Speaker 1: it is a very good sign to to hear those things.
37:39
Speaker 1: To hear uh, Jory's talking about what he's doing, him
37:43
Speaker 1: being in trench at left tackle, Tony Basselli talking about
37:47
Speaker 1: his improved footwork. Because coming out of Alabama, this was
37:49
Speaker 1: a ball of brawler. This was someone who was expected
37:52
Speaker 1: to be really a key player more as a run
37:55
Speaker 1: blocker than as a pass protector, and so a lot
37:58
Speaker 1: of how effective you will be we'll really depend on
38:01
Speaker 1: the design of the offense. Will we see the Jaguars
38:04
Speaker 1: commit the running to football. It's been a lot of
38:07
Speaker 1: time going forward with the offensive line instead of back feddling,
38:11
Speaker 1: because if we see them go forward, would they run
38:13
Speaker 1: throw off flay action? I think we will see the
38:15
Speaker 1: best version of Cam Robinson this season. John, how about
38:25
Speaker 1: George Warhop there and and and Cam's development over time? Here?
38:30
Speaker 1: You know this is this is a line you can
38:32
Speaker 1: start left tackle all the way across. They're all back
38:35
Speaker 1: from last year. But that's been the focus I think
38:38
Speaker 1: of a lot of conversation in the offense. Uh, this
38:42
Speaker 1: whole offseason is that left tackle position? And here it
38:46
Speaker 1: is contract year for Cam coming up. Yeah, it was
38:50
Speaker 1: my question that it prompted the answer and Bucky, as
38:54
Speaker 1: you know, it's not the first time that one of
38:55
Speaker 1: my questions has been absolutely laughed at with this Dane
38:58
Speaker 1: the way he did it. Uh. I wonder with Cam
39:04
Speaker 1: Robinson if we fully grasp as non players something like
39:10
Speaker 1: JP and I, how much the A C L can
39:13
Speaker 1: set you back and how much of an issue it
39:17
Speaker 1: can be to try to return from that. The following season,
39:21
Speaker 1: war Hoop talked about the biggest differ between Cam is
39:23
Speaker 1: he's able to practice every day. They're not maintaining him,
39:27
Speaker 1: to use that word, but they're not trying just to
39:29
Speaker 1: get him on the field. It sounds for listen to
39:32
Speaker 1: war up in Moron that there were many games last
39:35
Speaker 1: season where they were just trying to get Cam. I
39:37
Speaker 1: think it was Marone used the word just trying to
39:40
Speaker 1: get him to survive. Um, if that's what's going on,
39:44
Speaker 1: If he's back to where he was trying to get
39:48
Speaker 1: to before the injury, and if Seli is right that
39:50
Speaker 1: he has improved that much, then he is the key
39:54
Speaker 1: to the whole thing, then maybe that's what was missing
39:57
Speaker 1: last year. Bucky. I'm curious if if you ain, most
40:01
Speaker 1: fans grasp how difficult it can be for a player
40:05
Speaker 1: when he's not able to practice a dent the way
40:07
Speaker 1: Cam Wasn't you know, it's a huge challenge coming off
40:11
Speaker 1: in a c L injury. Normally John and JP, it
40:14
Speaker 1: takes about two years before you see that player returned
40:18
Speaker 1: to the form that we saw him prior to the injury.
40:20
Speaker 1: For Cam, this would be the first offseason. I mean,
40:23
Speaker 1: this would be the off season where he was able
40:25
Speaker 1: to actually work on his skills, meaning his fundamentals and
40:28
Speaker 1: footwork instead of rehabbing. That makes a huge difference in
40:33
Speaker 1: his development. One of the reasons why he is more
40:35
Speaker 1: comfortable in practice now is because even though they didn't
40:39
Speaker 1: have a true or traditional offseason, he was able to
40:42
Speaker 1: do football stuff as opposed to rehab. That has made
40:45
Speaker 1: the difference. And don't underestimate the confidence coming back in
40:50
Speaker 1: terms of the confidence in the knee. He now knows
40:52
Speaker 1: he can make all the movements. When you have that
40:55
Speaker 1: twins of doubt, a lot of times you're thinking about
40:57
Speaker 1: your leg and you can't think about the technique better
41:01
Speaker 1: or even the opponent that you're facing. Now he's able
41:04
Speaker 1: to really focus on the football part of playing the position.
41:09
Speaker 1: Let's touch on one of the new editions on the
41:12
Speaker 1: offensive line this year, Ben BArch Division three player from St.
41:17
Speaker 1: John's up in Minnesota, and he first came Bucky on
41:20
Speaker 1: a lot of our radars because it was Smoothie at
41:23
Speaker 1: the draft. You know, not many at least around here,
41:26
Speaker 1: I don't think watch Division three football. Um, how well
41:30
Speaker 1: known was he in the scouting community going into the draft,
41:35
Speaker 1: and you know, it seems like so far he's been
41:39
Speaker 1: able to do certain things in camp that make you say, Okay,
41:42
Speaker 1: this guy has a future of some kind. Don't know
41:45
Speaker 1: exactly what it is yet, but um, how does he
41:48
Speaker 1: continue to develop and when did he When did you
41:50
Speaker 1: first hear about Ben bart Well? Obviously on the All
41:53
Speaker 1: Star circuit his name was prominent because you don't find
41:56
Speaker 1: many D three players that are able to play at
41:58
Speaker 1: EASTAI in college All Star games, and then when you
42:01
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to watch him play, he's competitive, he battled,
42:05
Speaker 1: he didn't look like the game was too big for him.
42:07
Speaker 1: And so the biggest transition that you have to worry
42:09
Speaker 1: about when you get a player that is playing coming
42:12
Speaker 1: from playing D three ball to now playing in the
42:14
Speaker 1: National Football League, how long does it take him to
42:17
Speaker 1: get acclimated to the speed, tempo, and strengthened power of
42:21
Speaker 1: the game and the opponents that he faces. By all accounts,
42:25
Speaker 1: he's been able to hold his own and so it
42:28
Speaker 1: may be ugly at times this year as he's transitioning,
42:31
Speaker 1: but as he settles in. This was a player there
42:34
Speaker 1: was a dominant player on the D three level. If
42:36
Speaker 1: he can settle in and kind of have that confidence,
42:39
Speaker 1: he can be a very solid player on the interior. John,
42:43
Speaker 1: I was interested to see him in person just to
42:46
Speaker 1: see is he just a skinny guy that put on
42:48
Speaker 1: a bunch of weight. But I don't think he's that.
42:50
Speaker 1: I think he's broader than I expected just in general.
42:53
Speaker 1: And then he put on all the weight with that,
42:56
Speaker 1: Well so are you and I j So that's uh,
43:01
Speaker 1: he's with that right with us. He Uh, he's not
43:06
Speaker 1: overwhelmed at all. And I think the key to him
43:09
Speaker 1: not being overwhelmed is as you said, he fits physically. Uh.
43:15
Speaker 1: Had he played at Division one school in the last
43:17
Speaker 1: couple of years that he transferred from, it was I
43:19
Speaker 1: think he would have done fine. I talked to him
43:22
Speaker 1: once in a and o z own conversation that we did.
43:27
Speaker 1: I think it was mayor June talked to him face
43:29
Speaker 1: to face. What I was impressed with with him is
43:33
Speaker 1: he sort of understood the line of questioning about Hey,
43:37
Speaker 1: it's gonna be about transitioning from Division three, it's gonna
43:40
Speaker 1: be about all those things he's always heard, and he's
43:43
Speaker 1: not hockey about it. But you got the feeling that
43:47
Speaker 1: it didn't surprise him when he did well at the
43:50
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. He said there was pressure because it's always pressure.
43:52
Speaker 1: It's it's it's the biggest moment of his life. But
43:55
Speaker 1: once he got out there, that sort of went away,
43:58
Speaker 1: and he wasn't a prize to be competing at that level.
44:02
Speaker 1: I don't think he's surprised that he's holding his own
44:05
Speaker 1: against these NFL players. He did very well against Journey
44:07
Speaker 1: in the first day. He's lost a couple and one
44:08
Speaker 1: on ones. But I look at him as a guy.
44:12
Speaker 1: I don't think he's ready to start immediately. It wouldn't
44:15
Speaker 1: surprise me if he's pushing a j can By somewhere
44:18
Speaker 1: during the season. And I think if forced to play,
44:22
Speaker 1: I think this guy will do okay because I don't
44:25
Speaker 1: think the acclamation is gonna take him as long as
44:27
Speaker 1: maybe conventional wisdom says about a Division three player. I agree.
44:34
Speaker 1: I don't think this transition would be nearly as long
44:37
Speaker 1: as we think. And I think he also will be
44:40
Speaker 1: as good as the company that he keeps around him.
44:43
Speaker 1: We talked about Cam Robinson being able to play well.
44:46
Speaker 1: You think about a j Ken Andrew North like he
44:48
Speaker 1: has a lot of guys that he can learn and
44:50
Speaker 1: draw from. And if he's thrown in there um due
44:53
Speaker 1: to an injury or a different situation that puts him
44:55
Speaker 1: on the field, I think he will understand how to perform.
44:58
Speaker 1: And I also think the neighborhood meeting, the guys playing
45:02
Speaker 1: beside him, they can support him as he's beginning to
45:05
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Speaker 1: go around the league, Bucky, did you ever wear a
48:40
Speaker 1: microphone during a game when you played Curious? I never
48:44
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to wear a microphone, but I would
48:47
Speaker 1: have loved it. I would have loved to have like
48:49
Speaker 1: a running dialogue for everyone to hear my inner thoughts.
48:52
Speaker 1: I don't know that it always would have been positive.
48:54
Speaker 1: Would have been a lot of fun for me to
48:55
Speaker 1: share an express Maybe they have to put it on
48:59
Speaker 1: cable not over the year. I have a question. Yes,
49:07
Speaker 1: of course I would nobody who want to hear it?
49:08
Speaker 1: But um, Josh Allen, I never were going around the league.
49:14
Speaker 1: I've said it before, but every time I see the kid,
49:17
Speaker 1: to me, he is the hope for this franchise and
49:22
Speaker 1: Bucky talked about in the show. I am as excited
49:25
Speaker 1: and optimistic about the franchise because of him. I didn't
49:31
Speaker 1: cover Peyton's rookie year in India, covered him for ten
49:34
Speaker 1: years after that. To me, Josh Allen is the best
49:38
Speaker 1: young player the Jaguars have had in terms of culture
49:43
Speaker 1: everything you want, uh, maybe since Bisselli back in the day,
49:47
Speaker 1: maybe since Fred Taylor, maybe since guys like that. He
49:51
Speaker 1: is unbelievable in terms of what you want to see.
49:54
Speaker 1: To me, he's the reason that I have hoped for
49:56
Speaker 1: this franchise. Three unbelievable model draft pick to me, you
50:03
Speaker 1: know John two piggyback off of that. Coaches will always
50:05
Speaker 1: tell you the best teams, the best players are their
50:09
Speaker 1: hardest workers, and so Josh Allen is going to carry
50:13
Speaker 1: currency in that locker room because he not only has
50:15
Speaker 1: a production, he has the performance, but also the way
50:18
Speaker 1: he goes about his business. The young players that walk
50:21
Speaker 1: into that locker room will now step up their game
50:24
Speaker 1: because they know the best player always has his engine
50:27
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50:32
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50:35
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Speaker 1: Jaguars on social media. Let's go around the National Football League.
50:42
Speaker 1: The Arizona Cardinals made but A Baker the highest paid
50:46
Speaker 1: safety in NFL history four years fifty nine million dollars
50:52
Speaker 1: in the extension, but Bucky, he has exactly zero career interception.
50:57
Speaker 1: What's interceptions? What gives? Oh? It speaks to the changing
51:01
Speaker 1: dynamic of the safety position. We have seen it. Uh,
51:04
Speaker 1: These safeties that are dropping down in the box, playing
51:06
Speaker 1: like linebackers and doing a bunch of different things tackles, sacks,
51:10
Speaker 1: forced bumbles, being able to get around the ball and
51:12
Speaker 1: a varied different ways. Those things matter much more than
51:15
Speaker 1: just interceptions. That the safe the position a lot of
51:19
Speaker 1: money for safety. John. Yeah, good day to be a
51:24
Speaker 1: friend of him. And I'm calling him if I know
51:27
Speaker 1: it's you need I thank you need greatness of that
51:34
Speaker 1: position these days, Cardinals are clearly paying for it. It
51:38
Speaker 1: brings me back to the Jaguars. I hope they can
51:41
Speaker 1: get some level of play out of that position for
51:43
Speaker 1: them this year. I think it's key. The Detroit Lions
51:49
Speaker 1: yesterday decided to forego practice to protest the shooting of
51:53
Speaker 1: Jacob Blake and Kenosha Wisconsin. Uh. It's the most public
51:57
Speaker 1: display I think from the NFL team since that moment
52:01
Speaker 1: just a few days ago. Bucky. This is obviously a
52:04
Speaker 1: huge time for protests and things of that sort around
52:09
Speaker 1: these type situations, but it's another situations, and the Lions
52:13
Speaker 1: decided to take a big step, and that is a
52:15
Speaker 1: big step to skip a practice. Yeah, I think it's
52:19
Speaker 1: a big step. And what I think we're seeing and
52:21
Speaker 1: learning his map. Patrician is really trying to do a
52:23
Speaker 1: better job of connected with his locker room. Whenever you
52:25
Speaker 1: have these player led things and everyone was filling on board,
52:29
Speaker 1: including the coaches, it kind of brings the team together,
52:32
Speaker 1: much like we saw some of the protests that took
52:34
Speaker 1: place in Jacksonville and the team went out to support
52:38
Speaker 1: those things. Can't bring your luck room together if handled
52:40
Speaker 1: in the right way. Yeah, John Dubucky's point there. We
52:44
Speaker 1: saw it firsthand with Doug Marone and the Jaguars getting
52:48
Speaker 1: together this offseason too, to go to the police station
52:51
Speaker 1: and go downtown and do these things together. Yeah. And
52:54
Speaker 1: I think you're going to see more of it. I
52:56
Speaker 1: get there are fans who email with all the time, Hey,
53:00
Speaker 1: I don't want to see this. I want this as
53:02
Speaker 1: a break. The reality is athletics, sports and politics, culture,
53:08
Speaker 1: whatever you call it, have combined for years. Players it's
53:13
Speaker 1: okay for them to have opinions and actions on things
53:16
Speaker 1: they feel passionately about. Here's our weekly Joe Judge segments
53:23
Speaker 1: in New York Today. He said that the Giants have
53:25
Speaker 1: thought about taking Daniel Jones's red jersey off to quote
53:30
Speaker 1: pop his pads a little bit before the season opener. Uh,
53:34
Speaker 1: they said there aren't going to throw him into the
53:36
Speaker 1: quote royal rumble or anything. Bucky, what in the world
53:40
Speaker 1: is this about? Hey, look man, Joe Judge, how are
53:44
Speaker 1: you trying to establish a new identity for the New
53:47
Speaker 1: York Giants. He wants to be a tough team. He
53:49
Speaker 1: wants to be projected as a tough minded coach. But
53:51
Speaker 1: this would be stupid. And I mean, this is this
53:53
Speaker 1: is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. To expose your quarterback,
53:56
Speaker 1: the most important position on the field, to unnecessary It's
54:00
Speaker 1: I don't understand why George would even consider that. They
54:04
Speaker 1: want to play football for New York the football Giants. John, Yeah,
54:09
Speaker 1: what's next? Put him in the Oklahoma draw? I mean,
54:11
Speaker 1: it's it's ah. I doubt he'll actually do it. You
54:15
Speaker 1: would think if they do do it, it would be
54:18
Speaker 1: one play and get him out to serve a point.
54:20
Speaker 1: But I agree with Buddy, I mean, I agree with Bucky.
54:22
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, A couple of final thoughts here.
54:27
Speaker 1: Bengals quarterback Mackenzie Alexander left the team after his father
54:31
Speaker 1: wouldn't missing and call your county, Florida. That's deep southwest Florida,
54:35
Speaker 1: Naples area. Uh. And he was later arrested on one
54:38
Speaker 1: kind of battery, allegedly confronted the man who left behind
54:42
Speaker 1: his father on a very picking trip. This thing is
54:45
Speaker 1: still up in the air. He's I think about to
54:47
Speaker 1: be or has just been released on bond, so he's
54:50
Speaker 1: gonna help the search. That's a it's a tragic story.
54:53
Speaker 1: Hopefully it ends positively bucky, but that's a it's a
54:56
Speaker 1: crazy situation for him right now. Yes, certainly you're crazy
54:59
Speaker 1: since you waste and uh. Dawson prayers the McKenzie Alexander
55:02
Speaker 1: and his family hopefully they can find his dad. But
55:05
Speaker 1: I wouldn't condone the behavior. But I do understand if
55:09
Speaker 1: two guys go on a very picking trip and only
55:11
Speaker 1: one returns and the one that returns didn't bring the other,
55:14
Speaker 1: I mean, I can understand why McKenzie Alexander was very
55:17
Speaker 1: upset when he saw. Yeah, that's a this is a
55:21
Speaker 1: that's a strange one there, and just that we hope
55:23
Speaker 1: that things end well, John, I'm interested in your commentary
55:27
Speaker 1: on this. Next one in the league is considering the
55:29
Speaker 1: use of artificial crowd noise in the range of seventy
55:33
Speaker 1: to eighty five decibels for games without fans present. It
55:37
Speaker 1: would likely be constant throughout the game. What do you
55:40
Speaker 1: make of it? Yeah, I guess I'll have to hear
55:46
Speaker 1: it and see it. At first, I kind of get
55:48
Speaker 1: the instinct, um you know, I'm I'm hesitant on it.
55:53
Speaker 1: At the same time, I think it would be equally
55:56
Speaker 1: weird to sit there as a fan and watch a
55:59
Speaker 1: game where they're complete silence. So, you know, I haven't
56:03
Speaker 1: played in quite Frankly, I often prefer silence because I'm
56:09
Speaker 1: in the press box and trying to concentrate. I would
56:12
Speaker 1: be more interested to hear what Bucky, Who's played, Who's who,
56:15
Speaker 1: Who's in that environment. In that world, it doesn't bother
56:18
Speaker 1: me to have silent, But I'm usually in a very
56:22
Speaker 1: working capacity at the game. Bucky. I mean, I think
56:25
Speaker 1: it's I think it's weird to have piped in noise.
56:29
Speaker 1: We've seen it work a little bit in the bubble,
56:31
Speaker 1: but I think at the end of the day, it
56:33
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter. I think once players get in and
56:35
Speaker 1: they see the opposing team, they kind of lock into
56:37
Speaker 1: the competition. Maybe from a TV viewing perspective, it helps,
56:42
Speaker 1: but I don't know. It's all kind of weird when
56:45
Speaker 1: it's it's like a video game. To me, I can
56:48
Speaker 1: see piping in for the broadcast makes a little more sense,
56:53
Speaker 1: I guess. But I guess I'll have to see and
56:56
Speaker 1: understand it more to have a hot take on it. JP.
57:00
Speaker 1: But we've well, some teams might have experience already with it.
57:04
Speaker 1: We've seen some stories. I just said that. I just
57:10
Speaker 1: said that, Bucky um So and then we and it's
57:13
Speaker 1: with without fans present. So the Jaguars by that would
57:17
Speaker 1: not be involved in this because they're planning on having
57:20
Speaker 1: fans present for the game. That's our look around the
57:23
Speaker 1: National Football League. Bucky, we fooled him again, John, we
57:27
Speaker 1: did it. Yeah. I'm just trying to keep up with
57:35
Speaker 1: no no, no, we did. You guys make me take
57:38
Speaker 1: my game up and that I'm challenged. I'm challenged each
57:41
Speaker 1: every week. I love it. Well, we're just getting started.
57:45
Speaker 1: We're two down and uh a whole bunch to go
57:49
Speaker 1: on Wednesdays. We appreciate it. As always, John will look
57:52
Speaker 1: forward to your riding throughout the week. Bucky will catch
57:54
Speaker 1: up with you again next week. Thanks to our entire
57:57
Speaker 1: crew for Bucky and John, I'm J. P. Shadrick at you.
58:00
Speaker 1: Next week, it's Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network.