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Best From Lawrence, Oluokun, Baalke & More Before NFL Draft | Week in Review: April 19 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: This is the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend review Podcasts presented by
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Speaker 1: ever Bank. I'm JP Shadwick with the best of the
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Speaker 1: week from Jags Radio, Jaguars dot Com, and Jaguars U two.
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Speaker 1: It was a busy week around the Miller Electric Center.
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Speaker 1: The players were back for the start of the off
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Speaker 1: season program. Trevor Lawrence and Foyer Luikin spoke with the
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Speaker 1: media to set the tone for the offseason. Plus, Thursday
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Speaker 1: was the pre draft media luncheon featuring GM Trent Bulky
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Speaker 1: and head coach Doug Peterson. Let's start with the return
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Speaker 1: of the Jaguars players for the off season program, strength
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Speaker 1: and conditioning for the first two weeks. Quarterback Trevor Lawrence
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Speaker 1: spoke Tuesday about how the team sets the tone for
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Speaker 1: the next two months of work.
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Speaker 2: You know, just kind of recapping obviously last year, and
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Speaker 2: you know, you gotta move on pretty quickly because it's
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Speaker 2: a new year. You know, now it doesn't matter who
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Speaker 2: won the Super Bowl last year. Now everyone's kind of
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Speaker 2: turning the page and going on to twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 2: So you move on. But you have to kind of recap,
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Speaker 2: all right, because we only had that one team meeting
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Speaker 2: right before we left to end our season last year,
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Speaker 2: and you talk about it, but it's hard to digest
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Speaker 2: that in one night before that meeting. So you know,
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Speaker 2: we talked about and dressed address some of the things
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Speaker 2: that happened, you know, maybe some things that we didn't
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Speaker 2: do well, some things that we might have done okay
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Speaker 2: and need to improve on. Just really everything we've done
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Speaker 2: that the last two days, and from coach Peterson's perspective,
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Speaker 2: from Press's perspective, and then players, you know, some stuff too.
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Speaker 2: So it's been really good. I think we're we're heading
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Speaker 2: in the right direction and we know what we need
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Speaker 2: to do, and we got to attack this offseason and
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Speaker 2: be really intentional. There's there's very tangible things that we
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Speaker 2: need to get better at. Obviously I'm not going to
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Speaker 2: go into all the details right now, but there's things
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Speaker 2: we need to get better at, you know, for myself,
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Speaker 2: for us as an offense, as a team, and we
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Speaker 2: kind of just put all those out there and now
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Speaker 2: we're all on the same page of where we're heading
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Speaker 2: and where we're going what we need to work on.
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Speaker 2: So I think it's it's necessary to do that at
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Speaker 2: the beginning of the off season. So you're not just
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Speaker 2: the worst thing you want to do is you don't
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Speaker 2: want to waste time. You don't want to just come
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Speaker 2: here and work out and go home and really not
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Speaker 2: know where you're heading and what you want to work on.
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Speaker 2: So I think it was good to get everybody centered
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Speaker 2: and know where we're going now that there's been time.
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Speaker 3: How did you digest it the last six weeks, especially
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Speaker 3: of just everything that transpire.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was obviously a disappointing season. I mean some
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Speaker 2: of the stuff that I said after the year, but
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Speaker 2: I think just being removed from it, it's a lot
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Speaker 2: easier to see the good after the fact, not necessarily
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Speaker 2: the good things that happened, but use the bad things
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Speaker 2: as good and to make yourself better moving forward. I mean,
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Speaker 2: there's just so many things that I learned last season,
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Speaker 2: whether it's you know, trying to stay healthy and dealing
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Speaker 2: with some things that I haven't had to deal with
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Speaker 2: in my career, or not playing as consistent as I
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Speaker 2: wanted to play, and to finish the year to whatever
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Speaker 2: it may be, maybe not mean some expectations that we
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Speaker 2: had for ourselves as a team, not playing well in
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Speaker 2: big games, all these things that have gone through my head.
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Speaker 2: I think you being removed from it, you can you
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Speaker 2: can take stuff from that and use it to make
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Speaker 2: you better. In the moment, it's hard to see the
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Speaker 2: big picture. So I'm thankful for that. I mean, all
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Speaker 2: the difficult times in my career, I mean, I think
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Speaker 2: back to my rookie season has made me a lot
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Speaker 2: better for it. You just have to use it. So
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Speaker 2: that's what I plan to do for from last season,
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Speaker 2: and I think that's our approach as a team too.
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Speaker 2: It's a waste if you don't use it. You went
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Speaker 2: through that experience and then you don't use it. It's
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Speaker 2: it's just it's double bad because it was it sucked
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Speaker 2: going through it, and then you didn't get better from it.
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Speaker 2: So I think that's our that's my mindset, that's our
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Speaker 2: mindset moving forward, and so many things to learn from.
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Speaker 4: You think when you heard about Josh Allen's new contract.
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Speaker 2: It's excited for him, super excited. Obviously won the season
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Speaker 2: he had, but just the guy that he's been. You know,
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Speaker 2: he's been here for he was here two years before
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Speaker 2: I got here and the three years that I've been here,
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Speaker 2: just consistent, one of the hardest workers in the team, dependable,
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Speaker 2: you know, as a person in the locker room, the
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Speaker 2: right type of guy you want. So he checks all
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Speaker 2: the boxes that you want as a leader on your
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Speaker 2: team him and obviously a great player too, So I
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Speaker 2: was just excited to get him back, you know, because
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of teams that I'm sure would love
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Speaker 2: to have Josh Allen on their team. So I'm excited
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Speaker 2: that we got that done and he's he's gonna be
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Speaker 2: a Jag for a long time. So I think that
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Speaker 2: was a that was a big box check for us,
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Speaker 2: and excited that he's that he's here, and obviously really
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Speaker 2: happy for him on just the personal and life side
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Speaker 2: of that's that's a big deal and can take care
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Speaker 2: of his family for for forever for a long time.
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Speaker 2: So I'm excited for him and he definitely earned it.
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Speaker 5: Ten year four So you start thinking about your contract
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Speaker 5: or potential extension. You have had any talks with Jags
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Speaker 5: at all about any of.
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Speaker 2: It or yeah, I mean there's there's definitely been some conversations,
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Speaker 2: you know, As far as where that's at now, it's
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Speaker 2: not really my focus, you know, I'd love to love
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Speaker 2: to obviously be a Jag, So for as long as possible.
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Speaker 2: We love it here and I love where we're headed
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Speaker 2: as an organization and feel like I'm just getting better
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Speaker 2: every year and my best ball is definitely ahead of me.
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Speaker 2: So from that standpoint, obviously, yeah, that that would be great,
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Speaker 2: But like I said, it's going into my fourth year.
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Speaker 2: It's not like this is necessarily gonna be my last season.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot that could happen, So not
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Speaker 2: really my focus right now. At the end of the day,
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Speaker 2: my job isn't going to change whether I get extended
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Speaker 2: or not before this season. My job is to go
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Speaker 2: win games and to be the best I can be
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Speaker 2: for this team so we can have a chance to
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Speaker 2: win a Super Bowl. So even if I get the
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Speaker 2: contract extension, that's still my job even more so, you know,
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Speaker 2: he's even more expectation and pressure on that. So for me,
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Speaker 2: I have the same focus in the same mindset. I
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Speaker 2: can't lie. Obviously, it would be nice to have to
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Speaker 2: have that done and you know, feel good about it,
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Speaker 2: but no, it's not really the focus right now. I
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Speaker 2: know where we're at, I know where we're heading, and
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Speaker 2: I know what I have to do, and you know,
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Speaker 2: there's some improvements that I have to make going forward.
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Speaker 1: Also, speaking Tuesday, linebacker Fourier Luikin, who recently signed his
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Speaker 1: third NFL contract, last year's collapse will fuel him for
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Speaker 1: the foreseeable future.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, never be in a rearview. Maybe next year after
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Speaker 6: this season. I mean, I got a lot of questions
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Speaker 6: on it throughout the offseason, and it's hard to think
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Speaker 6: about just winning even started. We started off winning, but
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Speaker 6: we weren't winning convincingly. How maybe the score might have
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Speaker 6: showed it, but we knew that we weren't playing our
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Speaker 6: best football. And I think a lot of those things
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Speaker 6: caught up to us. And then trying to right our
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Speaker 6: wrongs a little too late in the season. Then it's
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Speaker 6: a little bit more stressful when teams are hitting their
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Speaker 6: stride and we're trying to find out how to do
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Speaker 6: things right. Yeah, that hurt for sure, and I think
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Speaker 6: it will feel us. Everybody's committed to doing things right
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Speaker 6: this time around. You know, you don't want to say
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Speaker 6: we don't want to get in that position again, And
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Speaker 6: it starts from the first game all the way to
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Speaker 6: the last, you know, but just keeping improving every week,
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Speaker 6: no matter who the scoreboard is, you know, keeping our
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Speaker 6: standard every week because sometimes you win games that you
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Speaker 6: didn't play your best. Now you don't learn from them
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Speaker 6: if you're not trying to get better. I think that
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Speaker 6: kind of happened to us, and we're not going to
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Speaker 6: do that this year.
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Speaker 7: Boh yeah, how how much does your job role change
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Speaker 7: scheme to scheme?
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Speaker 6: As a linebacker, you pretty much have the same job description,
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Speaker 6: you know, be the captain of the defense, lead them,
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Speaker 6: call out what you see. Now the techniques and stuff
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Speaker 6: might change in terms of how you play a play,
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Speaker 6: but kind of always the same like being a linebacker.
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Speaker 6: So I have the most confidence of myself to be
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Speaker 6: able to adapt to whatever the scheme change is going
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Speaker 6: to be. But there's gonna be a scheme change, for sure,
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Speaker 6: do you think like I think.
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Speaker 7: You might have mentioned already a couple weeks.
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Speaker 4: So this this one could allow you to make more
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Speaker 4: plays just based on the style.
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Speaker 6: Se right, So everybody has a part in the defense.
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Speaker 6: I'm trusting everybody's going to do their part. We talked about,
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Speaker 6: I'm sure if you watch the film, playing in lighter boxes,
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Speaker 6: but dominating in lighter boxes as well, not just being
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Speaker 6: able to get through rundowns in a lighter box be
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Speaker 6: able to you know, make your plays and stuff. So
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Speaker 6: I think I talked about earlier, keeping our like matching
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Speaker 6: your coverage is more. It's just the way, you know,
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Speaker 6: his defense is set up. But I'm excited to play
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Speaker 6: in it.
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Speaker 1: The press conference availabilities at Jaguars dot com and Jags YouTube.
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Speaker 1: Also this week, I caught up with you Jaguars wide
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Speaker 1: receiver Christian Kirk, who missed the final five games last
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Speaker 1: season with a core muscle and groin injury. He's back
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Speaker 1: and ready to roll.
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Speaker 4: It was a tough way to end for me. Did
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Speaker 4: everything that I could to try to get back, but
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Speaker 4: just a couple of weeks behind. But I'm feeling really good.
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Speaker 4: You know, I spent about a month here after the
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Speaker 4: season just trying to get my body back to the
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Speaker 4: place that it needed to be. And you know, I'm
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Speaker 4: paying free now, and you know, just happy to be
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Speaker 4: back in the building around the guys and just you know,
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Speaker 4: with a new mindset and new mentality to just bounce
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Speaker 4: back from last year. Obviously, we didn't meet the expectations
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Speaker 4: that we had for ourselves, and you know, we have
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Speaker 4: a chip on our shoulder and we're gonna come in
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Speaker 4: every day in the off season program and work towards that.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, you saw it off to the side, but
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Speaker 1: in this locker room when all that went down the
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Speaker 1: last month and a half last season, So that drives
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Speaker 1: this team moving ahead. Or at what point do you
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Speaker 1: put what happened last season in the review mirror.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, we talked about it our first year here.
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Speaker 4: We set the expectations of what we expect from this
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Speaker 4: team and you know, tried to you know, play championship football,
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Speaker 4: and that's our sole goal is to make you know,
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Speaker 4: it to the championship and to the end. And you
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Speaker 4: know in twenty three and last year we didn't meet
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Speaker 4: those expectations. And so now it's just getting back to
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Speaker 4: our brand, really learning from last year that nothing's given
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Speaker 4: in this league and you have to go out and
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Speaker 4: take it. You have to take respect, and you have
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Speaker 4: to take you know, those wins that are hard to
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Speaker 4: come by. So we're learning right now, doing a lot
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Speaker 4: of reflection, and then you know, once we really go
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Speaker 4: ahead and line it up when it comes training camp,
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Speaker 4: I'm sure it will be flushed and we're ready to
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Speaker 4: take on this year.
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Speaker 1: The full Christian Kirk interview available on Jaguars social media,
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Speaker 1: Jaguars dot com, and of course Jags YouTube. On the
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Speaker 1: Huddle Up Podcast Wednesday, Bucky Brooks, John Osier and I
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Speaker 1: talked through how to schedule out the offseason program and
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Speaker 1: much more.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, now you got to execute it, and I think
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Speaker 8: it's important that everyone understands what needs to be worked
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Speaker 8: on and so you can kind of follow the plan
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Speaker 8: and put some mile marks to know where you're at
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Speaker 8: as it as you're progressing to the goal. And what
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Speaker 8: you want to do is you want to get to
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Speaker 8: training camp feeling good about the state of the team.
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Speaker 8: You want to feel good about the things that you
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Speaker 8: supposedly are working to clean up from last year while
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Speaker 8: building a plan to make the team even better going forward.
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Speaker 8: So for Trevor to acknowledge that, for the coaches and
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Speaker 8: stuff to be on the same page. Look, I look
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Speaker 8: for big things, and I know this year would be
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Speaker 8: different than last year in terms of the hype and
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Speaker 8: the expectations around the program. All of that has dissipated.
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Speaker 8: All of that has kind of gone to Houston where
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Speaker 8: they're marked as the team that should win the division,
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Speaker 8: should be one of the teams that is competing for
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Speaker 8: super Bowls and those things, and the Jacks have kind
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Speaker 8: of been forgotten about, and so this is an opportunity
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Speaker 8: to kind of go back to being the underdog, to
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Speaker 8: kind of reset, refocus, and really be a better team
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Speaker 8: than you were last year. Even though the record was
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Speaker 8: the same as the previous year. You have an opportunity
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Speaker 8: to kind of make your market maybe surprise people once
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Speaker 8: you clean up some of the issues that plagued the
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Speaker 8: team last year.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, and that's definitely the theme. I mean, Doug talked
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Speaker 9: about it at the combine, and both Foyer and Trevor
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Speaker 9: reiterated it that they're not going to let last season go.
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Speaker 9: There's a balance between looking ahead and using what happened
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Speaker 9: last season is fuel. But if there was ever any
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Speaker 9: human nature last year to let it ride or whatever
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Speaker 9: all the cliches were, you don't get the idea that
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Speaker 9: that will be the case this year. So I'm not
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Speaker 9: huge on that sort of the theme really carrying over
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Speaker 9: once you start playing games, But it's definitely the storyline
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Speaker 9: that we're going to follow all off season. So what
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Speaker 9: the heck I'll buy in for now?
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Speaker 1: JP We're in. John Oser is in moving ahead. Another
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Speaker 1: one of the nuggets that you mentioned is, yes, Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence and the Jaguars have talked about contract extension, and
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Speaker 1: you know they are quite ready to give up the
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Speaker 1: details of some of those conversations. But Trevor did say
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Speaker 1: John yesterday that they have happened to what extent is
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Speaker 1: a question?
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Speaker 9: Don't you kind of get the idea? And Bucky, I
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Speaker 9: don't know if you heard Trevor or not, but you
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Speaker 9: sort of got the idea listening to him that they
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Speaker 9: know that it's going to get done at some point.
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Speaker 9: I don't think they want to come out and say, yeah,
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Speaker 9: it's going to get done at some point. But there's
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Speaker 9: a feeling that Trevor Lawrence is going to be the
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Speaker 9: guy no matter how much you nitpick sort of what
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Speaker 9: he has or hasn't done. He's made there, he has
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Speaker 9: helped lift the franchise out of the Abyss, and twenty
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Speaker 9: four years old, the whole thing is still out in
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Speaker 9: front of him. All of those things. Some contracts you
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Speaker 9: wonder about and they cause stress and anxiety. I don't
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Speaker 9: really get the feeling that this is going to be
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Speaker 9: I think this is going to be more of a
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Speaker 9: when you get the message that it's done, you're gonna go, Okay,
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Speaker 9: what's done. And now I'm sure for the guy's sign
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Speaker 9: in the check, it's a little bit more than that.
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Speaker 9: But in terms of stress within the franchise, I don't
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Speaker 9: know that this is going to be a a you know,
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Speaker 9: a seismic worry, Budcky.
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Speaker 8: I don't think he should be a seismic worry, because
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Speaker 8: what good franchises do is they are proactive when it
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Speaker 8: comes to retaining their blue chip players. And we've seen
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Speaker 8: around the league, like to phil If Eagles made a
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Speaker 8: bunch of signings with some of their marquee stars. I
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Speaker 8: think at some point when the worm turns for the
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Speaker 8: Jaguars is you're proactively signing your star players, the players
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Speaker 8: that you expect to be the pillars of the franchise.
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Speaker 8: We see josh Allen jet We saw that he just
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Speaker 8: got done. Even though it probably took a little longer
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Speaker 8: than some of us would have wanted, it got done.
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Speaker 8: And so you have someone that is going to be
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Speaker 8: around the franchise for a long time. Trevor Lawrence is
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Speaker 8: next up, and with the rates in which quarterbacks are
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Speaker 8: being paid, it is in the best interests of the
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Speaker 8: franchise to pay him sooner rather than later. If you
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Speaker 8: feel good about what he brings to the team, not
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Speaker 8: only from a talent standpoint, but from intangible's leadership, the
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Speaker 8: way that he is trending in terms of a face
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Speaker 8: of the franchise guy, then you pay him, and you
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Speaker 8: may even have to overpay him what the current market states,
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Speaker 8: because the one thing we know about the quarterback market,
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Speaker 8: it never comes back, It only goes up. And it's
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Speaker 8: in your best interest to pay him now rather than
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Speaker 8: wait till later, because it's going to cost you more
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Speaker 8: if you wait. And he continues to play like he
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Speaker 8: has played and shown flashes are playing throughout his career
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Speaker 8: as always.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 1: The draft, of course is next week, but before that
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Speaker 1: Am Tuesday, Brian Sexton, John Ozer and I discuss the
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Speaker 1: off season so far.
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Speaker 3: That leaves us with just the draft, which comes up
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Speaker 3: a week from Thursday. So let me pitch it to
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Speaker 3: you JP Shadick, First of all, welcome to the show.
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Speaker 3: How's the off season gone in your estimation?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so far, so good. Right, they checked some boxes
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Speaker 1: and free agency that was the number one priority. A
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Speaker 1: lot of the fans might say, Oh, they missed out
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Speaker 1: on Calvin Ridley. That aside, they got Josh Allen Donn.
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Speaker 1: That was a huge priority for them. So that deal
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Speaker 1: is in the books and ready to roll and they
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Speaker 1: can move forward there. And now it's onto the draft
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Speaker 1: and the offseason programs here as well. So, so far,
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Speaker 1: so good in my.
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Speaker 3: Estimation, John, it seems like most of the questions have
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Speaker 3: already been answered.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think they've done what they had to do.
16:30
Speaker 9: You know, they had to fix center, they had to
16:33
Speaker 9: do some things on the defensive line to get more stout.
16:36
Speaker 9: It feels like they've done that. How free agency actually works,
16:40
Speaker 9: we'll see it play out on the field. But they did,
16:44
Speaker 9: as JP said, they checked the boxes. I think they've
16:47
Speaker 9: got themselves in a situation where they can almost draft
16:51
Speaker 9: just for best available player. I think there's a whole
16:53
Speaker 9: cornerback they need to fill, but I think they know
16:57
Speaker 9: what they want in the draft of that position.
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Speaker 3: All right, back to the big boy for big thing too.
17:01
Speaker 3: And that's the lights are on at the middle of
17:02
Speaker 3: elector at center yesterday, the player's return for the beginning
17:05
Speaker 3: phases of the off season program. And as guys are
17:09
Speaker 3: walking in and as you guys are getting ready to
17:11
Speaker 3: talk to players today and the coach and the general
17:14
Speaker 3: manager later this week, what's the number one storyline that
17:17
Speaker 3: you were interested in? Following John?
17:20
Speaker 9: Probably, it's probably pretty obvious. It's probably Trevor. To me,
17:26
Speaker 9: all the check boxes stuff, all of the hey, we
17:29
Speaker 9: fixed defensive tackle, we did this, we did this, those
17:33
Speaker 9: are all minimal improvements. Trevor Lawrence improving his turnovers, improving
17:39
Speaker 9: his overall efficiency. Uh, taking that next step. All votes
17:44
Speaker 9: will rise if the big ship rises.
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Speaker 1: JP, I no doubt about that, and that's where it starts.
17:48
Speaker 1: But for me, I think it's the bigger picture. You know,
17:51
Speaker 1: how high does this team rise with the tide? You
17:53
Speaker 1: know they were, they were right there on the doorstep
17:55
Speaker 1: and then collapse at the end of the last season.
17:58
Speaker 1: Can they get past that mentally as team? And they've
18:02
Speaker 1: proven the last two years there at least a nine
18:04
Speaker 1: win football team, different results both years, obviously, So what
18:08
Speaker 1: is the next step and as an organization, how do
18:10
Speaker 1: they take that. The quarterbacks the number one reason why
18:13
Speaker 1: they could take that step, but everything around that has
18:16
Speaker 1: to be really in good place as well. Jacks amare
18:19
Speaker 1: is Tuesday mornings on Jaguars dot Com and Jags YouTube.
18:23
Speaker 1: Let's move along now to Thursday and the annual Free
18:25
Speaker 1: Draft luncheon featuring GM Trimbalki and head coach Doug Peterson.
18:29
Speaker 1: It was plenty to discuss, of course, including how the
18:32
Speaker 1: free agency windows set up the approach leading into the draft.
18:37
Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: I think you try to address needs in free agency.
18:41
Speaker 10: You try to attack it that way. The less needs
18:43
Speaker 10: you have going into the draft, the better obviously, because
18:47
Speaker 10: it allows you to then stick to that form of
18:50
Speaker 10: draft and the best player available. But you know, we
18:54
Speaker 10: feel comfortable, you know, I think and coach can speak
18:57
Speaker 10: on that too. We feel comfortable with where we're at.
19:00
Speaker 10: We got we got a ways to go.
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Speaker 11: You know, I look at it too the same. You know,
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Speaker 11: the first thing we try to do every off season
19:09
Speaker 11: is try to resign our own guys, right, That's that's
19:11
Speaker 11: kind of the priority there. And then and then look
19:13
Speaker 11: outside the building, you know, to to fill as Trent
19:17
Speaker 11: was saying, to to fill those those immediate needs possibly
19:21
Speaker 11: there and and then obviously this third bucket is is
19:23
Speaker 11: the draft.
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Speaker 1: And so.
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Speaker 11: You feel good with the guys you got in the
19:28
Speaker 11: building because you were able to you know, answer answer
19:31
Speaker 11: a couple of questions and and now you know, heading
19:34
Speaker 11: into next week, you feel now you're just adding more talent,
19:38
Speaker 11: more depth and and the competition that as coaches we
19:41
Speaker 11: look for, uh as we continue to build.
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Speaker 5: When you're dealing with positions of need that you have
19:47
Speaker 5: and it just so happens to line up that it
19:49
Speaker 5: might be a deep group of players at those positions,
19:52
Speaker 5: does that complicate things in terms of what you want
19:54
Speaker 5: to do? Uh? You know, can you afford to wait
19:57
Speaker 5: a little bit more? Does it make you want to
19:59
Speaker 5: wait a little bit more or or you know before
20:01
Speaker 5: you grab one of those positions, or how does that well?
20:04
Speaker 10: So it's obviously it's more comforting to know there's a
20:07
Speaker 10: there's depth of a position where you have a need,
20:10
Speaker 10: because it gives you multiple opportunities within different levels of
20:13
Speaker 10: the draft, you know, and sometimes that you're splitting hairs
20:17
Speaker 10: and sometimes the guy that you got a little more
20:19
Speaker 10: value to doesn't doesn't play up to or doesn't play
20:22
Speaker 10: as well as the guy you got right behind him,
20:24
Speaker 10: So you know, there's a little luck involved as well.
20:27
Speaker 10: But we feel good about where the board's at now.
20:30
Speaker 10: We feel good about the where our needs lie and
20:33
Speaker 10: where the board, what the board is shaping up to
20:35
Speaker 10: look like. So you know, now we just got to
20:37
Speaker 10: wait and play it out.
20:39
Speaker 2: Sure.
20:39
Speaker 4: How do you feel about the talent pool in this
20:41
Speaker 4: year's draft?
20:41
Speaker 11: Is this a draft where you feel like you can
20:43
Speaker 11: get a guy on day or two, day three?
20:46
Speaker 10: I mean, yeah, I think it's no different than most drafts.
20:50
Speaker 10: I think there's it's a there's talent at all levels.
20:53
Speaker 10: You just got to find them, you know, and a
20:55
Speaker 10: lot of a lot of finding them is fit. A
20:57
Speaker 10: lot of finding them is opportunity, giving them opportunity. Once
21:01
Speaker 10: you get them, you know, on your on your program,
21:04
Speaker 10: within within the organization. So I think I think it's
21:07
Speaker 10: no different. I like this group of players coming in,
21:10
Speaker 10: it's a little bit older there. It's an older group
21:13
Speaker 10: because of the COVID situation and guys that went back
21:16
Speaker 10: for their fifth six years of college, so that's a
21:20
Speaker 10: little different for us.
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Speaker 7: Trying to mention how the four falls and how that
21:24
Speaker 7: can affect the approach that the already need aspect to
21:28
Speaker 7: this last with the quarterback last at the top, and
21:30
Speaker 7: maybe teams that are looking into that and how to
21:34
Speaker 7: be the effectibility.
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Speaker 10: Well, when you when you don't need a position and
21:38
Speaker 10: it's it's heavy at a position like like it is
21:41
Speaker 10: with quarterbacks, and you know, four or five are more
21:44
Speaker 10: than likely going to go off before we pick at seventeen.
21:47
Speaker 10: You know that's a good thing, you know, because that
21:50
Speaker 10: leaves the position players or or more position players available
21:54
Speaker 10: for us. You know, but again, you don't know what's
21:57
Speaker 10: going to happen one through sixteen. You know, you you
22:00
Speaker 10: think he got an idea. You go in with a
22:02
Speaker 10: pretty good idea what it looks like and what your
22:05
Speaker 10: options might be. You know, whether that's three or four
22:08
Speaker 10: players we're looking at right now, We're not there yet.
22:11
Speaker 10: You know, we still got a couple of days of
22:13
Speaker 10: going through coaching. I haven't sat down and go, excuse me,
22:17
Speaker 10: going through the final board yet. We'll do that on Monday.
22:21
Speaker 10: But we like how it's shaping up, but we still
22:23
Speaker 10: got some work to do.
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Speaker 1: The full press conference at Jaguars dot com and Jags YouTube,
22:29
Speaker 1: and let's cap off the week with Jaguars Happy Hour
22:31
Speaker 1: Radio Thursday afternoon, Jeff Logman and I reacted to the
22:35
Speaker 1: possibilities of trading in the first round next Thursday night
22:38
Speaker 1: in the NFL Draft, plus the history of the Jaguars
22:41
Speaker 1: doing so. I'm talking about trading up or down in
22:44
Speaker 1: the first round. So it costs you a lot to
22:46
Speaker 1: move up.
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Speaker 2: I know that well.
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Speaker 12: And also, look, you trade it up to get James Stewart, Okay,
22:51
Speaker 12: good football player, solid guy, I mean, great guy. Was
22:56
Speaker 12: it ultra productive? No? Reggiean Nelson seventeenth and you moved
23:01
Speaker 12: to twenty first offs trade back, but then you moved
23:04
Speaker 12: up to the eighth spot overall for Derek Harvey. That
23:07
Speaker 12: did not work out. It did not work out for
23:09
Speaker 12: Blaine Gabbert, but I get it. You're taking a shot
23:11
Speaker 12: at a quarterback sometimes you have to do that. You
23:14
Speaker 12: trade it up to get Justin Blackman. It didn't pay
23:17
Speaker 12: any dividends, okay. And then you also with Devin Lloyd,
23:21
Speaker 12: you traded up to get Devon And right now, if
23:24
Speaker 12: you're making an opinion on that, is was that a
23:27
Speaker 12: success or was that just kind of eh? I think
23:30
Speaker 12: we're still the jury is still still being determined.
23:32
Speaker 1: But right now.
23:33
Speaker 12: If you had to make a decision on it, you
23:34
Speaker 12: would say, eh, it's not wasn't a great wasn't a
23:37
Speaker 12: great trade, but it's not done yet. And then you
23:40
Speaker 12: know to trade back and to get Anton Harrison, you
23:42
Speaker 12: acquired so many extra pixel The lesson is to me
23:45
Speaker 12: is that trading up is not necessarily a positive thing,
23:49
Speaker 12: and Trent Balkey alluded to that in his press conference today.
23:52
Speaker 12: He said, Look, the analytics guys will tell you that
23:55
Speaker 12: trading up is never a good thing, and he's right.
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Speaker 12: I just unless you're going up to get a quarterback.
24:05
Speaker 12: In my opinion, for every other position, you just stay
24:08
Speaker 12: put where you are, or you try to move back
24:12
Speaker 12: and then take the best available player, not a guy
24:15
Speaker 12: that well he might be the best player, but we
24:17
Speaker 12: got a need there. No take the best available player always,
24:21
Speaker 12: in my opinion, unless.
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Speaker 1: You know for a fact, in your heart of hearts
24:25
Speaker 1: that the guy you're moving up for another position is
24:27
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame talent, right, And how do you
24:30
Speaker 1: really know? You don't know that.
24:31
Speaker 12: You don't know that. But if you haven't a percentage game,
24:36
Speaker 12: it's a percentage of game, you know. So if you've
24:40
Speaker 12: got Aaron Donald sitting there waiting on you. But that
24:42
Speaker 12: one was coming out from Pittsburgh, JP. I watched the
24:44
Speaker 12: film on him, and I'm sitting there watching the film.
24:46
Speaker 12: I'm going and he's really good. He's got quickness, he's
24:49
Speaker 12: got suddenness, but man, he's kind of small. I mean,
24:55
Speaker 12: like I said, I watched the film on him. I
24:57
Speaker 12: didn't see Hall of Fame guy. I watched the film
24:59
Speaker 12: on TJ. Watt and I was like, and I don't
25:02
Speaker 12: think he's a first rounder. He's probably a second rounder.
25:05
Speaker 12: He's one of the best players in the league right now.
25:07
Speaker 12: You know, so again, it's a percentage his game. But
25:10
Speaker 12: you know, when I watched the defensive end in Cleveland,
25:13
Speaker 12: Miles Garrett, hands down, this guy is a super freak.
25:17
Speaker 12: No doubt. This guy is a Hall of Fame type
25:20
Speaker 12: of talent. I mean, but I mean, so that's one
25:22
Speaker 12: of the guys that I probably watched. When I watched
25:24
Speaker 12: Clowney coming out, I was like, Clowney, this guy can
25:27
Speaker 12: do everything. He's studden, he's violent, he can play anywhere,
25:31
Speaker 12: he can be moved around. I don't know if he's
25:34
Speaker 12: a great pass rusher. Saw me. My evaluation on him
25:36
Speaker 12: was pretty fairly accurate. It wasn't perfect because I thought
25:40
Speaker 12: that he would be more of an impact throughout his career.
25:43
Speaker 12: But one of those guys, it's just you know, freakish
25:46
Speaker 12: and so again because it's a percentage his game. I
25:49
Speaker 12: don't ever think that you go into any pick saying
25:52
Speaker 12: this guy's a Hall of Famer. It just doesn't work
25:56
Speaker 12: that way.
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