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O-Zone Podcast: Peter Schrager · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast presented by by Star credit
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Speaker 1: with Jedguars Senior writer John Osan. All Right, welcome to
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Speaker 1: this week's Ozone podcast has ended by a by Star
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Speaker 1: and I'm excited about this week's guest, and I'm sure
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Speaker 1: a lot of people are gonna be h His profile
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Speaker 1: has really taken off in the last few years with
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Speaker 1: a show that I consider, along with a lot of others,
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Speaker 1: the best football show on television. But he's been doing
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Speaker 1: it a long time before that knows the league as
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Speaker 1: well as any national guy that you're gonna see. Uh,
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Speaker 1: Peter Schrager from the NFL Network from Good Morning Football. Honestly, Peter,
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Speaker 1: We've known each other a long time, but I've never
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Speaker 1: really interviewed you in this format. Uh. First of all, welcome,
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Speaker 1: thanks dude. I mean the second you reached out to me,
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Speaker 1: of course, and and I know that the work you
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Speaker 1: did for a long time covering the Jags and now
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Speaker 1: what you're doing in this multimedia platform, it's as good
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Speaker 1: as it is. So when it comes to all the
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Speaker 1: different teams and when you're getting the information, I always
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Speaker 1: know that when you're talking Jaguars, you don't really know it.
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Speaker 1: You can also be objective about it, which I love well.
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Speaker 1: That means a lot. I appreciate that. It's a I
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Speaker 1: guess the first thing I want to talk to about it.
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Speaker 1: Obviously we'll go knee deep into the Jaguars very soon,
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Speaker 1: but I'm fascinated. I can remember when Good Morning Football
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Speaker 1: first started, and at the time it was sort of
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Speaker 1: one the latest of some shows that NFL Network Hald tried.
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Speaker 1: It seemed like they were trying to find the right combination,
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Speaker 1: and then somehow the chemistry between you guys just took off.
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Speaker 1: I'm assuming here, but I'm assuming that you're going to
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Speaker 1: tell me that that chemistry is what really makes this
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Speaker 1: show work. I'd like to think so. But there's also
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Speaker 1: really good uh producers and a lot of hard work.
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Speaker 1: It's a grind in that we do show for three
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Speaker 1: hours every day, Monday to Friday, and we do it
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Speaker 1: fifty two weeks a year. So right now we're in March,
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Speaker 1: we're doing prospects and draft and quarterback rumors, but in
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Speaker 1: June will be doing it, in July will be doing it,
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Speaker 1: and August will be doing it. So it's really part
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Speaker 1: of our lives and we all loved the work and
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Speaker 1: we love working with each other, so it's great. But
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Speaker 1: to your point about you know there was a chemistry
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Speaker 1: and wasn't gonna hit. We never did a show together
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Speaker 1: till our first show. There was no rehearsals, no auditions.
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Speaker 1: It kind of just came to together. We all were
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Speaker 1: hired individually, not as a group. Um, I'd never met
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Speaker 1: Kay Adam before we did it, and the Perlson and
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Speaker 1: I knew each other, and Kyle and I had going
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Speaker 1: on to Rome show, which you worked on for years.
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Speaker 1: But uh, it's pretty lucky. And we get a lot
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Speaker 1: of credit to Mark Quinndel, who runs the NFL network,
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Speaker 1: and uh to two gentlemen, a guy named Jordan Levin
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Speaker 1: who used to work at the network, and then Michael Davies,
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Speaker 1: who I know Jaguars fans might be watching the Premier
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Speaker 1: League a little bit. He's one of the two guys
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Speaker 1: on Men and Blazers. He's also one of our exact
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Speaker 1: the producers. Um, he's he's European and he's you know,
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Speaker 1: British in his in his presentation on on the Soccer World.
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Speaker 1: But he also pitched this idea as a producer for
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Speaker 1: the NFL Network that we do a show based in
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Speaker 1: New York talking football, but it's not your typical shirt
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Speaker 1: and tie buttoned up, everyone in a suit, and we're
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Speaker 1: gonna be talking next to and now is in fact,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna maybe go a little bit outside the lines
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Speaker 1: of what we really do on football shows. It's a
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Speaker 1: pretty cool thing in a sense that you know, I've
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Speaker 1: been following the league since I was a kid, so
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Speaker 1: probably nineteen seventy unfortunately for me. Uh, and I would
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Speaker 1: put this show right now up among you know, the
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Speaker 1: Old Earth Cross just passed yesterday, but the CBS show
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Speaker 1: when I was growing up, Um, you know the shows
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Speaker 1: that sort of define and where people get their message. Uh.
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Speaker 1: It changes over the years based on media. It changes
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Speaker 1: over the years based on how people are consuming information.
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Speaker 1: But right now I feel like you guys are it.
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Speaker 1: When you guys say something, everybody knows what Good Morning
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Speaker 1: Football is. I guess my question to you is do
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Speaker 1: you get an idea from talking to players and people
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Speaker 1: around the league that there's that level of connection. It's
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Speaker 1: pretty powerful. Yeah, and you better watch what you say.
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Speaker 1: I mean, truly, you know, I can go on I
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Speaker 1: can go on a couple of sports radio shows and
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Speaker 1: may make a comment here and there and doesn't really
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Speaker 1: get picked up. But I'll give you an example. I mean,
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Speaker 1: last week I said on the air, I said, I
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Speaker 1: spoke with Sean McVeigh and he's giddy about the Matt
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Speaker 1: Staffer Trigg. And it's true. I spoke to Sean McVeigh,
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Speaker 1: and you know, whether or not the word guinea were
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Speaker 1: used or whatever else, I could just tell a sense
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Speaker 1: an excitement in him over like what's going on. But
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Speaker 1: the trade hadn't been done yet, so technically Sean McVeigh
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be commenting on that. And technically he hasn't spoken
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Speaker 1: with the local media yet. And I've started a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a you know what storm out in l
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Speaker 1: A because the locals hadn't I got a chance. He's
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Speaker 1: not addressing it, So how am I able to talk
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Speaker 1: to little things like that? It just shows that people
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Speaker 1: around the league are watching, the media is watching, and
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Speaker 1: the players more than anyone is watching. If you if
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Speaker 1: you wanna, you know, be critical of a player, you
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Speaker 1: better be willing to look at that player in the
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Speaker 1: face and say, yeah, I believe what I said. And
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Speaker 1: it only leads to more authentic and more truthful segments. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, on our show, we're genuinely positive show. But
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Speaker 1: if I come on the air like I did today
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Speaker 1: and said I think the I think the Patriots and
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Speaker 1: can look outside of Cam Newton at quarterback, well there's
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Speaker 1: a chance Cam Newton saw that, and I'll have to
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Speaker 1: deal with Kim Newton at some point and have to
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Speaker 1: address that. I think that the Patriots have to look
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Speaker 1: somewhere else other than Kim Newton at quarterback. That just
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Speaker 1: goes with the territory of having a show that as
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Speaker 1: well well viewed. But to your point, yeah, you mentioned
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Speaker 1: the passing of earth Cross, who was a legend that
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Speaker 1: of course I grew up watching too. When you think
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Speaker 1: about that show the NFL today, it was Brent Musburger,
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Speaker 1: it was earth Cross, a former player, It was Phyllis George,
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Speaker 1: and then it was you know, Jimmy the Greek and
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Speaker 1: it wasn't your typical four X players talking. If that
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Speaker 1: can be the blueprint and if you somehow even can
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Speaker 1: compare our show to that one, which is what we
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Speaker 1: strive to some day to be considered, um in the
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Speaker 1: same league as that's that's the ultimate honor. And I
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Speaker 1: appreciate that final question along these lines, and again, I
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Speaker 1: could talk this show with you forever be I'm fascinated
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Speaker 1: by the path there. Um. Was there a show early
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Speaker 1: or a time where you sort of knew it was
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Speaker 1: gonna click because you had had different gigs, you had
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Speaker 1: done a lot of things, and you know, we're established,
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Speaker 1: but hadn't really been any part of of a thing
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Speaker 1: like this that took off. Was there a moment or
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Speaker 1: was it just sort of a feeling? Yeah, there was.
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Speaker 1: I mean it's funny because you do the show on
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Speaker 1: this little studio for for for four months and you
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Speaker 1: finish it up and then say okay. For the first year,
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Speaker 1: we were like all right, and I'm going to Houston
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Speaker 1: to go to the super Bowl, or like all right,
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Speaker 1: we're doing the show super Bowl, which you know, we've
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Speaker 1: done shows a super Bowl and all these networks and
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Speaker 1: all the newspapers and all these radio shows you always.
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Speaker 1: We got there and there was actually like at six
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Speaker 1: in the morning, so in the morning they were like no,
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Speaker 1: not a huge amount, but there was you know, twenty
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Speaker 1: fans waiting and think they am to watch the show
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Speaker 1: in person, and I was like, oh crap, Like there
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Speaker 1: are people are waiting, waking up at this hour to
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Speaker 1: watch our show, okay. And then the more and more
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Speaker 1: is the events would pile up, whether it be the
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Speaker 1: All of Fame or whether it be the draft or
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Speaker 1: we're not go to the owners meetings, there will be
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Speaker 1: more and more feedback. So that's the kind of stuff
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Speaker 1: that really means a lot when we do it for
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Speaker 1: each other, and we do it to put on a
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Speaker 1: good product. But then when you see that we're connecting
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Speaker 1: with the fans at home and that people actually are
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Speaker 1: motivated to go to the show in person and share
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Speaker 1: their uh, their appreciation for the show, that that's when
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Speaker 1: it's like, wow, it's clicking. Okay, we're kind of making
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Speaker 1: an impact here, all right. I gotta talk Jags. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: it's the Jaguars show, and you follow the league as
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Speaker 1: closely as any national guy. Talk to me about the
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Speaker 1: turnaround in tone in the last month and a half,
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Speaker 1: about the Jags, just with Urban, with with assuming Trevor Peter,
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Speaker 1: we're assuming now, But just what's the difference in terms
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Speaker 1: of vibe and perception, I guess would be the first question.
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Speaker 1: I can't. I mean, look, I think and I know
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Speaker 1: the cons might be like I think there was a
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Speaker 1: feeling maybe internally or maybe um with Jaguars fans are
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Speaker 1: like they were like, oh my god, they got urban
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Speaker 1: Meyer and they're doing flips. But we've been hearing about
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Speaker 1: urban Meyer flirting with the NFL for for five years now,
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Speaker 1: So when the actual thing actually happened, I don't think
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Speaker 1: it moved the needle as much as maybe everyone thought
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Speaker 1: where it was gonna be like, oh my god. We've
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Speaker 1: also seen college coaches the past few years, whether it
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Speaker 1: be a Cliff Kingsburyer and Matt Rule, make the transition
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Speaker 1: to the pros and it not be a huge name
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Speaker 1: like a Nick Saban or even a Chip Kelly when
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Speaker 1: he went. When you're getting getting guys from Baylor and
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Speaker 1: Texas Tech getting NFL jobs, it's almost like, yeah, of
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Speaker 1: course urban Meyer can coach in the NFL, and of
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Speaker 1: course he's got a shot to be a coach, but
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Speaker 1: he's been doing broadcasting. But did anyone really, in their
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Speaker 1: heart of hearts think that urban Meyer had shut the
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Speaker 1: door and was done. No, So here's the team he
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Speaker 1: ends up with. I think it's a very interesting potential
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Speaker 1: match of urban Meyer and this really young team and potentially,
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Speaker 1: again we can't talk about it is a done deal.
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Speaker 1: Potentially the greatest quarterbacks into the NFL in the past decade.
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Speaker 1: I think that is what everyone's saying in their head
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Speaker 1: on here. It's optimism and it's curiosity. But by no
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Speaker 1: means is it a slam dunk that Urban Meyer is
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Speaker 1: gonna have great success? And by no means was there
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Speaker 1: this great like I guess reaction around the league of
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Speaker 1: being like watch out for the Jaguars because Urban Meyers
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Speaker 1: the coach. I still think that NFL coaches have a
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Speaker 1: lot of pride and they're like, let's see how you
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Speaker 1: do on this level. What is it about? I mean,
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Speaker 1: it seems like, as you mentioned rule Kingsbury, Uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: they haven't been the playoffs, so it's hard to say
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Speaker 1: they've had great success. But it doesn't seem like the
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Speaker 1: transition is as daunting as maybe people thought it was before.
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Speaker 1: Is that strictly because the style of play in college
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Speaker 1: in pro is starting to mesh more than maybe it
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Speaker 1: did decade ago. Yeah. I also think those two coaches
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Speaker 1: specifically are players coaches and players. Thinks I love to
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Speaker 1: play for Kingsbury and that he's this cool young guy,
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Speaker 1: and that rule comes in with a high energy. I
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Speaker 1: don't think Urban's that guy. So I'm curiously how it
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Speaker 1: goes Urban Meyer as much as his Ohio State in
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Speaker 1: Florida players absolutely love and cherishing, He's not necessarily players coach.
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Speaker 1: He's certainly a disciplinarian. He's gonna be, you know, hard
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Speaker 1: line with a lot of these guys. So I think
10:27
Speaker 1: the game is always a little bit more advanced as
10:30
Speaker 1: far as scheme and and uh, I guess advancements and
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Speaker 1: some different bold things in the college game. So anything
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Speaker 1: I've been doing in the NFL, the college game probably
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Speaker 1: saw a couple of years ago. And even if Urban
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Speaker 1: has been coaching necessarily in a day to day and
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Speaker 1: doing these on a nightly basis, he's very plugged in
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Speaker 1: in college football. He's been covering college football. And I
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Speaker 1: have no doubt that the RPO is not gonna throw
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Speaker 1: Urban Meyer for a major loop. He's been seen it
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Speaker 1: for a decade. You know he'll be able to fake
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Speaker 1: year it out. You think what Trevor Lawrence, Um, obviously
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Speaker 1: you guys have been talking about him tangently for a
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Speaker 1: long time. I'm sure, uh, how much conversation about that
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Speaker 1: how confident are you that he's the real deal. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm all in. I I usually am a
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Speaker 1: load of caution and skepticism on our show, and I'm
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Speaker 1: very often the web blanket over and let's slow down,
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Speaker 1: let's see it before we before we go nuts over
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Speaker 1: this guy. But there's a couple of prospects in the
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Speaker 1: last few years that I have loved. I love Joe
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Speaker 1: Burrow last year, but I openly did not love Justin
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Speaker 1: Herbert and I did not love to Uh. I thought
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Speaker 1: those guys were getting crowned a little too early. UM.
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Speaker 1: I feel that one about Zack Wilson right now. I
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Speaker 1: feel that fields where before we say let's push out
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Speaker 1: Sam Donald or even a Mitch Robinsky and let's crown
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Speaker 1: these guys, I don't know where they shown. Trevor Lawrence,
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Speaker 1: he's the outlier. Trevor Lawrence is awesome. He's shown us
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Speaker 1: everything physically gifted, smart, has dealt with all the pressure
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Speaker 1: of the last three years and experience plays every year
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Speaker 1: and such a huge college football games and thinks to
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Speaker 1: deliver and all of them. I think he's a can't
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Speaker 1: miss prospect, and they're really most underrated thing that. I
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Speaker 1: don't think we've really been discussed with Jacksonville's. You guys
12:17
Speaker 1: have a really good offensive line, Like if Cam Robinson
12:20
Speaker 1: comes back, we're talking about an excellent offensive line. But
12:23
Speaker 1: when you go through the list of guys that are
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Speaker 1: all coming back, I mean, it's four of the five
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Speaker 1: starters that we know, and it's consistent. So Minshew and
12:31
Speaker 1: Glennon and whoever else played last year, I gotta say
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Speaker 1: they were fine and they were well protected. They weren't
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Speaker 1: running for their lives, which I think is a huge
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Speaker 1: thing because you look at Joe Burrow last year. You
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Speaker 1: had to do a lot behind a makeshift offensive line
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Speaker 1: eventually did get injured. How much can a player like Lawrence,
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Speaker 1: beyond just what he does on the field, impact for franchise? Uh?
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Speaker 1: I guess how big a deal do you think he
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Speaker 1: will be in the NFL and house? Obviously, I has
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Speaker 1: to have success, but you don't always get sort of
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Speaker 1: I guess ready made brands coming in if you follow me.
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Speaker 1: He's a rarity in that everybody knows who this kid is,
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Speaker 1: maybe even more so than they knew who Burrow was. Right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because Lawrence was winning national titles and playing in huge
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Speaker 1: games before Burrow even got to suit up for them.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it really is a three year deal with
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. He's fantastic. I look at it, it was
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Speaker 1: like a handful, right, you got Andrew Luck, you got
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Speaker 1: John Elway, and I'm trying to think of another first
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Speaker 1: overall pick that was such a sure thing. Trevor Lawrence
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Speaker 1: is as the number one guy might be Peyton Manning,
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Speaker 1: and even Peyton Manning had to fight off the Ryan
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Speaker 1: Leaf comparison and and win that job. So I think
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Speaker 1: he's once in every twenty years you get one of
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Speaker 1: these guys that it's just a complete slam bunk. Maybe
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Speaker 1: twice if you want to include Andrew Luck. But I
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Speaker 1: mean Trevor Lauren. Your grandma knows Trevor Lawrence that she
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Speaker 1: watches any sports. Your aunt knows Trevor Lawrence, your nephew
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Speaker 1: knows Trevor Lawrence. And it's before he's even suited up.
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Speaker 1: It's like he's a household name already, and he hasn't
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Speaker 1: taken the NFL deal. What do you expect sort of
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Speaker 1: shifting gears here to the league in general, um as
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Speaker 1: we move forward. Obviously, Covid is remains a huge topic.
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Speaker 1: But beyond that, what trends are you following right now, Peter?
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Speaker 1: What interests you about the league right now that maybe
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Speaker 1: I'm not thinking about. Uh, you know, something that's interesting
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Speaker 1: obviously is the quarterback carousel. But I think big name
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks who have just gotten paid or are do big
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Speaker 1: money speaking out and using their voice. You know, the
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Speaker 1: Stafford trade happens, and then now you have the Wentz trade.
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Speaker 1: But gosh, both those guys I don't even consider in
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Speaker 1: the same breath as Russell Wilson or DeShawn Watson. And
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Speaker 1: you're doing a daily show on Good Morning Football every morning.
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Speaker 1: That's like gold to us. It's not just us pulling
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Speaker 1: crap out of thin air. When you've got agents talking
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Speaker 1: on the record, the Russell Wilson lifting teams, and when
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Speaker 1: you've got the Shawn Watson requesting trades. This is a
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Speaker 1: brand new world, and you know, a brave new world.
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Speaker 1: And as recent as a couple of years ago, if
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Speaker 1: you're telling me a quarterback would sign a hundred and
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Speaker 1: thirty million dollar contract and then demanding a trade less
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Speaker 1: than six months later, I'd say, well, shame on that player.
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Speaker 1: Sham on that player. That's not the narrative anymore. The
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Speaker 1: narratives like player empowerment and these guys are gonna want
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Speaker 1: to have more and more. Say so to me, that's
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Speaker 1: the trend. Unhappy quarterbacks, despite being paid a ton and
15:34
Speaker 1: despite being given the keys to the franchise in the city,
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Speaker 1: still wanting more and more. I'm just fascinating to see
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Speaker 1: where it goes. At the risk of sounding like, oh,
15:42
Speaker 1: get off my lawn, guy, is that good for the
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Speaker 1: league or is it just is what it is. It
15:47
Speaker 1: is what it is, and it wasn't good for the NBA,
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Speaker 1: and now we have the NBA where you've got you know,
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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving and James Harden and Kevin Durant suitting up
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Speaker 1: for the same team. It's random city that none of
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Speaker 1: them ever had any connection to. I'm curious to see
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Speaker 1: if that comes to the NFL. Free agency is gonna
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Speaker 1: be interesting because I think a lot of players are
16:06
Speaker 1: going to be released because of salary cap issues and
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Speaker 1: just the way that things are gonna be in and
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Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see a lot of guys bonding
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Speaker 1: together and saying, hey, let's go get a ring. Just
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Speaker 1: as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers did a year ago, boy,
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Speaker 1: and it's funny. I'm with you. Five years ago, I
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Speaker 1: would have never seen that, and I would have told
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Speaker 1: you to my dying breath that you would never see
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Speaker 1: it because football wasn't set up that way. But it
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Speaker 1: really feels like it's going that way, doesn't it. You know?
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Speaker 1: The crazy thing is the media narrative. No one is.
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Speaker 1: All you hear about Deshaun Watson is what a great
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Speaker 1: guy is. And I kind of like it that we're
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Speaker 1: not burying the players for doing this. And Russell Wilson,
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Speaker 1: no one said a foul word about him, and it
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Speaker 1: sounds absolutely ludicrous on paper that you would trade or
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Speaker 1: that he would want to be traded despite this signing
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Speaker 1: a hundred and thirty million dollar deal. I think the
16:54
Speaker 1: way that media is covering these players, and I think
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Speaker 1: the way of these players are speaking uh is definitely different.
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Speaker 1: And wherever it goes, I'll be following it. Final question
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Speaker 1: from this in Peter um, how do you see free
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Speaker 1: agency playing out? Me? Thank you mentioned earlier you anticipate
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Speaker 1: significantly more guys being available, uh, but it feels like
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a weird one because of the cap
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Speaker 1: coming down. Do you anticipate the fans being able to
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Speaker 1: see how different this is. I think it will be
17:27
Speaker 1: a weird year. I think that there's gonna be a
17:29
Speaker 1: bit of a problem for the NFL's middle class. The
17:33
Speaker 1: thirty year old player who makes in the top of
17:38
Speaker 1: his position group might be gone. But I think there's
17:40
Speaker 1: still always going to be a star quality to this league.
17:43
Speaker 1: Those guys are gonna get paid. But you know, I
17:45
Speaker 1: look around the league and there's a lot of players
17:48
Speaker 1: that probably don't know it this morning, as we talked
17:50
Speaker 1: on March first, that will be unemployed in a couple
17:52
Speaker 1: of weeks because these teams are gonna be looking at
17:54
Speaker 1: the salary cap and saying, I do want to spend money,
17:56
Speaker 1: but gosh, I can get this player who's not that
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Speaker 1: far off in value or or in skill for a
18:03
Speaker 1: lot cheaper. I don't see a spending bonanza like we're
18:06
Speaker 1: used to in free agency. I think a lot of
18:08
Speaker 1: teams are gonna be a lot more prudent and what
18:10
Speaker 1: they do as far as free agent acquisitions go. I said,
18:13
Speaker 1: final question, but close this out talking about the Jags
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Speaker 1: one last time. One in fifteen last year, potential generational
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Speaker 1: quarterback coming in what's realistic for year one? And I
18:25
Speaker 1: know it's impossible because they haven't drafted yet, they haven't
18:28
Speaker 1: done free agency, but you know, you follow it again
18:31
Speaker 1: more than people locally do. Yeah, look, I don't. I
18:35
Speaker 1: don't know what you think of the two first round
18:37
Speaker 1: picks last year. I think they showed some promise the
18:40
Speaker 1: corner and the defensive end. I think Josh Allen had
18:43
Speaker 1: a you know, for solid first years of his career.
18:46
Speaker 1: There's talent on the Jaguars. It's not like they don't
18:48
Speaker 1: have talent um, but it's a it's a big lift
18:51
Speaker 1: to go from one and fifteen to relevant. I would
18:53
Speaker 1: think Trevor Lawrence makes them at least interesting in a
18:56
Speaker 1: way that even Minshew didn't who I thought Minshew had
18:59
Speaker 1: a ark to him. It was fun to watch. But
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Speaker 1: I think Trevor Lawrence is another worldly type quarterback. There's
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Speaker 1: only a few of them on the planet. He's one
19:06
Speaker 1: of them. At the very least. We're watching the Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if they're gonna come out of the
19:11
Speaker 1: gates with a new coach, new offensive coordinator, and new
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Speaker 1: quarterback year one still in a pandemic. If you will
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Speaker 1: with the offseason if they're gonna make a major splash,
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Speaker 1: I would say this is a long term deal. I
19:22
Speaker 1: would think that if we're looking at a five record
19:25
Speaker 1: or beyond, you're one of urban Meyer. I think that's
19:28
Speaker 1: the pretty fair gold is set. And of course he
19:30
Speaker 1: would say super Bowl is the goal, and I appreciate that,
19:33
Speaker 1: but I'm just being realistic, especially in a loaded an
19:35
Speaker 1: FC South, which is what that is. So the headline
19:39
Speaker 1: will be that you're predicting playoffs. Has that um predicting mediocrity? Yes,
19:43
Speaker 1: now I'm predicting, predicting a playoff possibility, but I think
19:48
Speaker 1: the headline is otherworldly. Trevor Lawrence, I think that will
19:51
Speaker 1: get me a lot more trouble, no doubt. Peter Strager,
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Speaker 1: I can't thank you enough for taking the time. I
19:56
Speaker 1: know your schedules packs, so I appreciate you taking a
19:58
Speaker 1: few minutes to uh talk to us. Fantastic job is always.
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Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing you down the road. I
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Speaker 1: always appreciate you, my friend. I can't wait to see
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Speaker 1: again in person. Badly won't be at the combine, but
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Speaker 1: hopefully soon, John, hopefully soon, Sunday soon, Buddy. We appreciate
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Speaker 1: you all right, brother, thank you