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Jaguars Post-Draft Show | 2025 NFL Draft · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: The Jacksonville Jaguars to lect Shravis Hunter.
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Speaker 2: And we're doing it because you're the one we've been
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Speaker 2: hunting up.
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Speaker 1: Have the best.
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Speaker 3: Decision, can't.
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Speaker 1: I know who.
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Speaker 4: I've already worked for it and I just have began
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Speaker 4: a tourist where it's gonna be fun.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait the start of a great weekend.
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Speaker 5: This is just outside of Green Bay, Wisconsin, America's dairy land,
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Speaker 5: and boy, what a weekend it was productive for the
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Speaker 5: Jacksonville Jaguars in the twenty twenty five NFL Draft. Out
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Speaker 5: of this room, the draft room at the middle of
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Speaker 5: Electric Center empty at the moment. They've got all the
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Speaker 5: draft picks. They've signed undrafted rookies as well. And welcome
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Speaker 5: into our twenty twenty five NFL Draft recap presented by
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Speaker 5: Dream Finders' Homes. And the Jaguars entered the draft, of course,
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Speaker 5: with ten picks. After a few deals, they come away
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Speaker 5: with nine drafted players and an impact on this roster
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Speaker 5: moving forward, a youth movement of sorts. Jap Shadwick, Brian Sexton,
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Speaker 5: and John Oser. And yeah, it's a massive score at
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Speaker 5: the top of the draft. We'll get to that coming up.
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Speaker 5: And all the picks, but a lot of intensibly rich
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Speaker 5: rookies coming to town bru.
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Speaker 6: Well, And that was the theme, right.
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Speaker 7: They set it earlier in the week before the draft began,
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Speaker 7: and they set it throughout the course of the draft.
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Speaker 7: They drafted team captains, They drafted guys who helped their
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Speaker 7: neighbors with their taxes. They drafted a guy who is
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Speaker 7: committed to his country from the naval academy. I mean,
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Speaker 7: it's just on and on and on. They were looking
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Speaker 7: for guys John who would come in here be great players. Look,
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Speaker 7: I mean, you can't bring him in here if they're
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Speaker 7: not going to contribute and be good football players. Some
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Speaker 7: of them great football players, but guys who come in
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Speaker 7: here and bring a certain level of the floors.
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Speaker 6: They like to say of character.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, when you're setting the tone and reshaping the organization,
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Speaker 8: you have to eventually reshape the organization and set a tone.
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Speaker 8: They also wanted versatility, clearly that was a theme. They
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Speaker 8: also wanted to get faster. Those are some of the
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Speaker 8: things they wanted on the field that you'd be able
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Speaker 8: to see.
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Speaker 2: But in the locker room, you're darn right.
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Speaker 8: They wanted guys who were bought in and they Football
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Speaker 8: also wanted guys who loved ball and had played a
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Speaker 8: lot of ball. They mentioned that in the press are afterward,
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Speaker 8: that yes, it mattered if you had played a lot
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Speaker 8: of snaps, and James Gladstone particularly talked about guys who
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Speaker 8: came in sort of ready, So I think that was
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Speaker 8: the theme.
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Speaker 2: They expect these guys to be able to play right away.
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Speaker 5: Let's hear from James Gladstone nine picks in his first
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Speaker 5: NFL draft as a GM.
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Speaker 1: He's with Kay Stevens.
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Speaker 9: James Gladstone, your first full draft class as a GM,
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Speaker 9: how did things go for you? How are you evaluating
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Speaker 9: the players you're able to get?
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Speaker 10: You know what, So far, so good. It's been an
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Speaker 10: exciting days here and now we got our coaching staff
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Speaker 10: and scouting staff working together through the undrafted college free
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Speaker 10: agency process. But you know, everything that we were hunting
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Speaker 10: up in each of these players is you know exactly
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Speaker 10: what we had preached coming in, and that's prioritizing people
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Speaker 10: who are intangibly rich, and every one of them embodies at.
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Speaker 9: I was talking to Liam obviously adding Travis Hunter kind
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Speaker 9: of a big bang off the top, but something you
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Speaker 9: guys have been working on for a little while before
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Speaker 9: it actually came to fruition on the first day. Was
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Speaker 9: that a thing that you really want to focus on
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Speaker 9: making a statement right out of the gate with your
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Speaker 9: first pick.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, I think making it known how we
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Speaker 10: intend to move, how we intend to operate, was a
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Speaker 10: piece to that puzzle. But at the same time, we
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Speaker 10: want Travis to be nothing more than who he is
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Speaker 10: naturally knowing that, you know, that's going to elevate the
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Speaker 10: space around him, just like it has that everywhere he's
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Speaker 10: been to date.
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Speaker 9: On offense, you focused on a couple different positions, offensive line, depth,
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Speaker 9: running back. What were some of the things you were
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Speaker 9: looking at. I talked to Liam about this, but what
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Speaker 9: were some of the attributes that you on those players
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Speaker 9: that you wanted to focus on.
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Speaker 10: You know what, that's a great question because I think
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Speaker 10: so often you got to let the board fall to you,
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Speaker 10: and obviously sometimes you're going to have to adjust and
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Speaker 10: remain agile. But the things that we keep sort of
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Speaker 10: top of mind are the items that we've sort of
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Speaker 10: preached to date, and that's the intangible pieces, and you know,
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Speaker 10: with each other one of these guys, it was the
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Speaker 10: physical and mental toughness, that really jumped out more than anything,
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Speaker 10: and it's always something of interest for us to address
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Speaker 10: the front in particularly that of the offensive line, and
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Speaker 10: being able to land two guys who fit just that
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Speaker 10: is really exciting.
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Speaker 9: We talked a lot about creating competition. We saw a
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Speaker 9: lot of defensive editions, some of which may play different
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Speaker 9: positions than they played in college. Is that versatility important
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Speaker 9: to you and kind of having different kinds of people
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Speaker 9: in different rooms.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, the multiplicity, the versatility, It certainly was in the
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Speaker 10: mix at each of these decisions that we made, and
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Speaker 10: you know, I look forward to seeing it come to
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Speaker 10: life and their usage being something that we can spread
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Speaker 10: across multiple spots, knowing that you can change the mass,
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Speaker 10: so to speak. When that's the.
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Speaker 9: Case, As you kind of take some time away from
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Speaker 9: this now and look back, do you feel as though
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Speaker 9: you have the players in place that you want? Are
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Speaker 9: there's still some points on this roster that you feel
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Speaker 9: you need to address before training camp starts.
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Speaker 10: I think it's fair to say that the work's never done.
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Speaker 10: So look forward to rounding everything out here today with
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Speaker 10: the undrafted college free agent process and you know, turning
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Speaker 10: the page tomorrow to seeing what spots still remain and
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Speaker 10: how we can move forward.
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Speaker 3: Very good, Thank you, thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: All right, next.
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Speaker 5: One, that's James Gladstone with Kyle Stevens. We will touch
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Speaker 5: on all nine of the draft picks. Let's get to
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Speaker 5: him starting right now. And it started with a bang
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Speaker 5: on Thursday night.
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Speaker 2: Go ahead and take a moment to soak this one in.
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Speaker 2: We're trading up in the draft.
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Speaker 1: We're moving from.
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Speaker 10: Pick five to pick two, and we're doing.
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Speaker 2: It because you're the one we've been hunting up.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, that's the best decision.
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Speaker 5: The Jaguars shocked the NFL and Travis Hunter is headed
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Speaker 5: to Jacksonville. You know, they said the reports were that
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Speaker 5: the basic parameters were in place about seventeen days before
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Speaker 5: the draft, and it finally came through. It's bold, it's
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Speaker 5: a little risky, more than a little risky, but it
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Speaker 5: all also could be a game changer in the National
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Speaker 5: Football League. He's the reigning Heisman Trophy winner, Blittnikoff Award winner,
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Speaker 5: Benerica Award winner, ball skills, elite route running, competitive nature.
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Speaker 5: The list goes on and on and on, but he's
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Speaker 5: looking to become the first regular two way player in
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Speaker 5: the NFL since the nineteen sixties. Confidence has never lacked
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Speaker 5: for Travis Hunter.
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Speaker 11: I kind of developed my confidence at a young age.
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Speaker 11: I started playing football when I was four. I have
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Speaker 11: older cousins, so they used to bully me, and I
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Speaker 11: was the youngest out there playing football with him, so
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Speaker 11: I had to get that confidence. I'm not gonna let
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Speaker 11: y'all bully me and push me around. So that's just
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Speaker 11: how I go about. If I'm not gonna let anybody
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Speaker 11: push me around tell me what I can't do, I'm
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Speaker 11: just go out and show him.
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Speaker 5: He started as a blue chip kid and then was
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Speaker 5: a blue chip prospect five stars, could go anywhere, and
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Speaker 5: college football he wanted to. Ended up at Jackson State,
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Speaker 5: then Colorado, blue chip player there, Heisman Trophy, and now
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Speaker 5: the number two overall pick.
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Speaker 7: Brian don't know that I've ever seen anyone like him.
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Speaker 7: And you mentioned all the awards. Would you walk away
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Speaker 7: with six trophies last year? I think he's the most
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Speaker 7: decorated college football player in the history of the game,
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Speaker 7: obviously for great reason. Fifteen touchdowns last year as a receiver,
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Speaker 7: what four or five interceptions as a defensive back. It'll
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Speaker 7: be interesting to see how they decide to use him.
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Speaker 7: I can only tell you what he told me on
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Speaker 7: Wednesday after the Play sixty event in Green Bay.
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Speaker 6: I'm playing both. And then he came into.
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Speaker 7: The area where we were in lambeau Field and said,
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Speaker 7: I told you I'm playing both.
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Speaker 6: So he believes he's playing both well.
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Speaker 8: And if you trade up in the first round to
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Speaker 8: number two, you can expecre somebody who's had a quarterback. Yeah,
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Speaker 8: he's gonna play both, and he's gonna be expected to
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Speaker 8: play at a high level. They've talked about.
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Speaker 2: Him changing the sport.
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Speaker 8: This is one I would say Trevor, law Tony Vasally,
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Speaker 8: and Travis Hunter are the three most important draft picks
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Speaker 8: in franchise history.
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Speaker 2: This is up there with Trevor. Let's hear from Liam Cohen.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's the one that's going to figure out how
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Speaker 5: to use this guy on both sides.
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Speaker 12: The offensive mind and you starts to get extremely excited, right,
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Speaker 12: and then you have to switch back to being Hey,
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Speaker 12: I'm a head football coach, and we know that he's
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Speaker 12: going to be able to do both. We feel that
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Speaker 12: in our bones we're going to set that up that way.
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Speaker 12: From a schedule, from an operations standpoint, the way that
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Speaker 12: we're going to operate for him to set him up
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Speaker 12: to have the most success that he can that, in fact,
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Speaker 12: then help the Jacksonville Jaguars become the best version of ourselves.
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Speaker 1: That's the head coach portion of it. Of course. James Gladstone,
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Speaker 1: he made that move to move up and get him.
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Speaker 5: A number two overall, he certainly has high expectations for Hunter.
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Speaker 10: There are players who have the capacity to alter the
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Speaker 10: trajectory of a team.
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Speaker 2: There are very few.
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Speaker 10: Players who have the capacity to alter the trajectory of
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Speaker 10: the itself. Travis Well, he has a lot to still
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Speaker 10: earn in our eyes, has the potential to do just that.
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Speaker 5: John, we don't hear altering the sport a lot when
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Speaker 5: we're talking about football prospects.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's.
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Speaker 8: It's as much expectation, frankly, as I've ever heard on
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Speaker 8: a player, you know. So the expectation is that he's
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Speaker 8: a perennial All Pro in Hall of Famer.
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Speaker 7: This is my thirty first NFL draft to never have
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Speaker 7: we seen one player as the best receiver, best corner,
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Speaker 7: and overall best player. I mean, it's the triple crown
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Speaker 7: and this is a guy that if you're going to
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Speaker 7: take your swing, and you mentioned there's a little bit
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Speaker 7: of risk there when you're trading away next year's number one,
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Speaker 7: when you're taking a guy who says, you know offense
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Speaker 7: and defense and you're not exactly sure how it's gonna work.
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Speaker 7: They took their swing, JP, and I mean, as of
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Speaker 7: this moment, I can't see how you can't just be
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Speaker 7: excited about the fact that this is a very talent
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Speaker 7: with a guy who's coming into your organization. John, You're
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Speaker 7: right in terms of the best players that this team
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Speaker 7: is drafted in terms of.
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Speaker 6: I mean, with all due respect to Fred Taylor, who
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Speaker 6: we all know and love, this is right there.
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Speaker 1: It's big. There are big storylines on this team in
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Speaker 1: this offseason.
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Speaker 5: Of course, how Trevor Lawrence adapts to the new offense,
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Speaker 5: how Brian Thomas Junior goes into the year two, what's
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Speaker 5: the defense gonna look like? But there is no bigger
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Speaker 5: storyline now than what Travis Hunter is doing on a
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Speaker 5: day to day basis.
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Speaker 1: Quarterback still the big one.
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Speaker 5: It's still big, but boy, Travis Hunter is right there,
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Speaker 5: close by John for sure. Let's move along to Day
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Speaker 5: two of the draft. The Jaguars had a little bit
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Speaker 5: of a slow start. They gave up that second round
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Speaker 5: pick to go up and get Hunter, so it was
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Speaker 5: a fast finish show with a pair of trades and
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Speaker 5: a pair of picks. In the third round, Caleb brandsaw
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Speaker 5: out of Chulane at number eighty eight overall. He will
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Speaker 5: play safety for the Jaguars, and after the selection he
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Speaker 5: explained why tackling is not an issue.
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Speaker 1: For him play.
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Speaker 3: So, you know, I've just always grown up. I don't
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Speaker 3: know how to wrap up and just make tapping. And
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Speaker 3: I've never been scared. You know, I got older brothers,
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Speaker 3: so you know, I was always a little and Ivy
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Speaker 3: try to be my brothers. You know, that's just something
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Speaker 3: that I've done, you know, just growing up, just just
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Speaker 3: going and tackling and tackling dummies in practice, just those
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Speaker 3: type of things. It just translated into the game.
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Speaker 5: The Jaguars then traded up to the number eighty nine pick.
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Speaker 5: While that previous pick was going on, they grabbed West
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Speaker 5: Virginia guard Wyatt Milam and he told Kay Stevens he
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Speaker 5: has one primary job.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna let no one touch you.
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Speaker 1: I'm promising that. So I felt like I did a
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Speaker 1: good job at West Virginia not let no one touch
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Speaker 1: the quarterback.
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Speaker 2: So that's my goal. I'm not gonna let anyone touch Trevor,
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Speaker 2: so I'm excited to that.
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Speaker 5: Let's stick with mylam here, guys, reigning Big Twelve Offensive
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Speaker 5: Lineman of the Year. It was a focus and free
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Speaker 5: agency to bring some new faces in and Brian continues undrafted.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 7: We talked about the awards that the Travis Hunter got.
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Speaker 7: If you just look at this guy week to week
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Speaker 7: as he was your value, people thought he was one
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Speaker 7: of the best offensive linemen in the entire Big Twelve Conference.
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Speaker 7: He's going to move inside to guard. He's a big
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Speaker 7: guy with a nasty finish in the run game. Good
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Speaker 7: They need that, John. I mean, this is a team
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Speaker 7: that has been unsuccessful on third down and short yardage
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Speaker 7: for the last two years, and that's put all the
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Speaker 7: pressure on the quarterback and all the advantage to the defense.
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Speaker 7: You hate to say that a rookie is going to
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Speaker 7: come in and be a game changer, but if he's
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Speaker 7: as good player as we think he is, he could
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Speaker 7: change the game too.
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Speaker 8: This is about getting nasty and it's about being better
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Speaker 8: on the interior of the offensive line, which has been
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Speaker 8: a topic for anybody who's watched this team.
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Speaker 2: So we'll say how it goes, but that's the idea.
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Speaker 1: And then on Ransaw quickly safety.
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Speaker 5: Now, he was playing a lot of nickel in college
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Speaker 5: at Troy and then down at Tulane for his final
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Speaker 5: year of college football.
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Speaker 1: Special teams would be big for him too.
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Speaker 7: Probably heard James Gladstone say small school guys going to
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Speaker 7: bigger schools and continuing the production. Well that's exactly what
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Speaker 7: he did going from Troy to Tulane. And every time
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Speaker 7: you see him on tape, his production just pops off
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Speaker 7: at you. It's exciting to think about how this secondary
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Speaker 7: can get better. Hunter in some role Renshaw, and they
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Speaker 7: added another defensive back later in the day.
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Speaker 8: I don't out of the guys past Hunter, I don't
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Speaker 8: know how quickly everybody starts or starts mattering.
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Speaker 2: I expect I ran So to start manning very quickly.
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Speaker 8: Out of all the guys after Hunter, this is the
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Speaker 8: guy that you hear people saying, watch this guy, he's
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Speaker 8: a stud.
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Speaker 5: Let's go to day three now and round number four.
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Speaker 5: The Jaguars had two early picks. They started with a
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Speaker 5: selection of running back bass Shoal Tootin from Virginia Tech
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Speaker 5: at one oh four overall and speed to burn for
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Speaker 5: the running back.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all good attributes that I have in my game.
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Speaker 3: Like you said, the speed, able to make guys miss,
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Speaker 3: stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: It's just so why I'm on the football field. And
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Speaker 2: you know that's the kind of swager I play with.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good swagger to have.
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Speaker 5: And then Jack Kaiser has a different kind of veteran swagger.
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Speaker 1: Six years at Notre Dame. Of course, the team captain
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Speaker 1: the end.
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Speaker 5: The team last year went to the National Championship game
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Speaker 5: and lost. But Kaiser, in an era of transfers and
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Speaker 5: nil money, he started the old fashioned way and stuck
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Speaker 5: it out.
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Speaker 4: And sup Ben, I was, you know, hoping to get
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Speaker 4: the cost of attendance check for five hundred bucks at
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Speaker 4: the end of the semester and that was a.
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Speaker 1: Big deal of me. Yeah, I knew.
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Speaker 4: I was at their name for four years and that
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Speaker 4: was you know, there was nothing else to it. And
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Speaker 4: so I think there's still that mindset to where, like,
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Speaker 4: you know, I'm still trying to fight for everything I
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Speaker 4: you know, I have. I understand you have to hearn
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Speaker 4: it first before you didn't give it.
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Speaker 1: So let's start with Kaiser here.
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Speaker 5: He's twenty five already, he's been around the block a
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Speaker 5: few times, John, And if you've been around campus for
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Speaker 5: six years, you've been to be a team captain at
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Speaker 5: the end.
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Speaker 8: Well, that's a good point if he sort of defines
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Speaker 8: what we talked about earlier, a guy who should be
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Speaker 8: ready to come in and play right away at twenty five.
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Speaker 2: He talked about he already knows his routine. He knows
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Speaker 2: how to get ready for a game.
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Speaker 8: At twenty five in the NFL, you better be ready
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Speaker 8: to go because at thirty, yeah, it's tough. So I
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Speaker 8: expect him to do what he is going to do
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Speaker 8: very quickly.
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Speaker 7: If you watched Notre Dame last year, especially during their
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Speaker 7: playoff run, you saw a very talented defense and he
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Speaker 7: was making play after play after play.
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Speaker 6: What I love the most.
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Speaker 7: About him was he was sitting outside on his family
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Speaker 7: farm in Indiana, being a Midwesterner. That hits right here,
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Speaker 7: you two having worked in Indiana, and he said that
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Speaker 7: as soon as he got his chores done, he sat
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Speaker 7: down right because he's on a family farm and that's
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Speaker 7: what they do that's why one of those super intangibly
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Speaker 7: rich guys who comes in here as a good player
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Speaker 7: and a guy that they expect to have a real
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Speaker 7: strong impact in the locker room.
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Speaker 5: And quickly back to Toot and the running back runs
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Speaker 5: in the four threes and was at North Carolina A
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Speaker 5: and T transferred to Virginia Tech.
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Speaker 8: John Yeah Cohen talked in the presser about improving.
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Speaker 2: Their quick strike ability. That's a theme. He defines that theme.
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Speaker 7: Score from anywhere on the field, was said more than
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Speaker 7: once in the post draft Prescott Prince, this feels like
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Speaker 7: his Bucky Irving, who was also a fourth round pick
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Speaker 7: and a guy with speed.
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Speaker 5: So the Jaguars continued on Saturday with no picks in
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Speaker 5: round five, but they finished out the draft with four
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Speaker 5: players over the final two rounds, including in the sixth round,
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Speaker 5: one hundred and ninety fourth overall Auburn linebacker Jalen McLoud.
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Speaker 5: He started at a state, transferred down to the Planes
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Speaker 5: twenty four tackles for the loss in twenty four games.
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Speaker 5: He was a hybrid linebacker, would play standing up in
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Speaker 5: early towns and then put his hand in the ground
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Speaker 5: and pass rushing downs.
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Speaker 1: With that, the senior Bowl in Bobile.
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Speaker 5: Later in the sixth round, two hundred overall, Raywan Lane
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Speaker 5: the third, a safety out of Navy, jumped into the
16:39
Speaker 5: starting lineup in Annapolis as a freshman and stayed there
16:42
Speaker 5: the rest of his time. He had offers to leave
16:44
Speaker 5: after his first two years to go to some other
16:47
Speaker 5: FBS schools, but decided to stay at the Naval Academy,
16:51
Speaker 5: and then in the seventh round, two twenty one overall,
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Speaker 5: senator Jonah Mannheim from southern California started at both tackle
16:57
Speaker 5: positions in twenty two and twenty three, but then he
17:00
Speaker 5: moved to center last season for the Trojans, where he
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Speaker 5: stood out and finally at two thirty six overall, Syracuse
17:06
Speaker 5: running back Laquin Allen, a two year starter for the Orange,
17:09
Speaker 5: one of two FBS players last year with over one
17:12
Speaker 5: thousand rushing yards and five hundred plus receiving yards Scataboo
17:17
Speaker 5: the other from Arizona State. The Allen family, of course,
17:21
Speaker 5: all fired up on the phone call. It's moments like
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Speaker 5: these that make the draft incredible. Television and social media guys,
17:37
Speaker 5: I mean, these last couple of round guys are gonna
17:40
Speaker 5: really have to fight and earn their way on but
17:43
Speaker 5: it's the moment of a lifetime for them and their family.
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Speaker 7: The NFL draft ratings will challenge some of the NBA
17:48
Speaker 7: playoff games this weekend, and it isn't because men in
17:51
Speaker 7: suits are walking across the stage. It's because they do
17:54
Speaker 7: a great job of sharing the humanity of people getting
17:58
Speaker 7: an opportunity.
17:59
Speaker 6: It was awesome watch this weekend.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, reality TV is often fake TV. That's reality TV.
18:04
Speaker 2: It's great.
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Speaker 5: It's as real as it gets. It's a lot of
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Speaker 5: youth for a new head coach Liam Cohen. Nine draft picks,
18:11
Speaker 5: over twenty undrafted free agents or thereabouts, So a lot
18:15
Speaker 5: of youth for Liam Cohen.
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Speaker 1: Who's with kuy Stevens.
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Speaker 9: You're with the Jaguars head coach Liam Cohen, your first
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Speaker 9: draft under your belt. Long three days, but they're fun
18:22
Speaker 9: three days. So how did the whole process go for you?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 12: I thought it was a great process. James and his
18:27
Speaker 12: staff did a phenomenal job. The collaboration between the coaching staff,
18:31
Speaker 12: the personnel staff throughout this whole process I thought was
18:34
Speaker 12: really clean. Right, You're never going to always completely agree
18:37
Speaker 12: on every single player, but I think we did a
18:40
Speaker 12: nice job of Hey, when we couldn't quite get to
18:42
Speaker 12: that point with each other. We just moved on to
18:44
Speaker 12: the next player and kind of kept them moving. But
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Speaker 12: I thought the process was really clean and was really proud.
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Speaker 2: Of the guys.
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Speaker 9: Obviously a huge splash off the get with Travis Hunter.
18:52
Speaker 9: You must be so excited and just thinking about those
18:55
Speaker 9: possibilities and how you're going to use him. Pretty much
18:58
Speaker 9: dream come true for your first player drafting.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, that was the whole point, right, was to try
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Speaker 12: to get a player that can come in and impact
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Speaker 12: our organization, our team, and hopefully our city, and also
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Speaker 12: along the way be the person that he is, the
19:11
Speaker 12: guy that just absolutely loves football, has a great smile,
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Speaker 12: walks around this place, you know, like a dream just
19:18
Speaker 12: came true for him. And that's really what this is
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Speaker 12: all about. Yes, this is about winning, it's about us,
19:22
Speaker 12: but it's really about these guys in the moment that
19:24
Speaker 12: they had this weekend.
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Speaker 9: On the offensive side of the ball, A couple running backs,
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Speaker 9: a couple of linemen. What were you looking for specifically
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Speaker 9: in those two positions that you wanted to add to
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Speaker 9: this team.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, ultimately continuing in to add depth at the offensive
19:36
Speaker 12: line position, right, depth and competition you can never have
19:39
Speaker 12: enough of those guys, especially with how volatile the position
19:43
Speaker 12: can be at times, you can never have enough good
19:45
Speaker 12: depth there and as well at the running back position, right,
19:49
Speaker 12: those are two positions that you can get thin really
19:51
Speaker 12: quick and you're always looking to add depth and competition
19:54
Speaker 12: at you know, last year it kind of dealt with
19:57
Speaker 12: it with the Tampa Bay Bucks. You know, Sean Tucker
20:01
Speaker 12: comes in as a great game for us against the Saints.
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Speaker 12: He was our number three running back. So when you
20:06
Speaker 12: can have depth there and competition, it always is a
20:08
Speaker 12: huge plus.
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Speaker 9: On defense, some defensive backs, added linebackers, a little edge rush,
20:14
Speaker 9: kind of some different options for you. What were you
20:17
Speaker 9: and coach Camp kind of focusing.
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Speaker 12: On, Yeah, I think you know, when we first got
20:20
Speaker 12: here early on, the focus was, hey, how do we
20:23
Speaker 12: continue to get players in the back end that are
20:25
Speaker 12: going to be able to hopefully get their hands on
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Speaker 12: the ball right and add the ability to either tackle,
20:31
Speaker 12: defend the ball, coverage skills whatever it is in that secondary.
20:35
Speaker 12: And then also at that linebacker position, we were able
20:38
Speaker 12: to add a couple of players there that have some diversity, right,
20:41
Speaker 12: They're able to play on the edge on the ball,
20:44
Speaker 12: off the ball and then also contribute on special teams.
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Speaker 12: So those were a couple of the positions that we
20:48
Speaker 12: were really loading up on.
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Speaker 9: Awesome congratulations, Thank you so much.
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Speaker 5: That's Liam Cohen of course, Jaguar's head coach, and thanks
20:54
Speaker 5: to Kay Stevens throughout the weekend.
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Speaker 1: Here some final thoughts here, guys, we hear.
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Speaker 5: A lot of these buzz words after the hiring of
21:02
Speaker 5: both the head coach and the GM. I think John
21:05
Speaker 5: this weekend we started to really see that come to
21:08
Speaker 5: fruition with some of the traits that we see out
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Speaker 5: of these prospects.
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Speaker 1: The next step is seeing it on the grass outside.
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Speaker 8: Bold I mean they said at the very top they
21:17
Speaker 8: wanted to be bold at the top the first round really,
21:20
Speaker 8: so we're talking about everything else, the first round is
21:22
Speaker 8: going to define this draft for a lot of people.
21:24
Speaker 8: It was a bold move that I think set the
21:26
Speaker 8: tone for what they want to be. It was a statement.
21:29
Speaker 8: Pick Glaston was talking about it what at the draft luncheon.
21:32
Speaker 8: So they did that and then I think overall they
21:36
Speaker 8: showed the versatility and they gave us a glimpse, Brian
21:39
Speaker 8: into how they're going to move forward with this.
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Speaker 2: With intangibly Rich yeah, favorite.
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Speaker 7: Well, I've used that a lot this week and I
21:47
Speaker 7: do like it. But to move away from that, there
21:49
Speaker 7: were a couple of themes that I came away with
21:50
Speaker 7: from this draft. You know, the Jaguars couldn't run the
21:53
Speaker 7: ball last year, last two years. We've already talked about that.
21:56
Speaker 7: They added two interior offensive linemen and two running backs, right,
21:59
Speaker 7: so boom they went after that. The defense was just
22:02
Speaker 7: that it bled the back end of the defensive particularly,
22:05
Speaker 7: just bled this team dry last year. And they got
22:07
Speaker 7: the best cornerback in the draft. Now how much he's
22:09
Speaker 7: going to play corner we'll find out. But two safeties
22:12
Speaker 7: that they added as well, So they went after some
22:14
Speaker 7: of the weak spots in this team and brought their
22:16
Speaker 7: own guys into the equation. We'll see how soon they
22:19
Speaker 7: get on the field. But I kind of like the
22:21
Speaker 7: fact that they knew exactly what they needed.
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Speaker 1: All right, guys, we got a ton another one of
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Speaker 1: the books.
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Speaker 2: Johnny thirty one maybe thirty one.
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