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Jags Broadcast Week in Review: April 22 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Let's begin with Friday's pre draft media luncheon. Usually the
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Speaker 1: food is fantastic, but the comments are bland, as the
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Speaker 1: football leadership usually hates to give up any idea of
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Speaker 1: what's going to happen in the draft. The last in
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Speaker 1: person pre draft event for the Jaguars football leadership was
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen with Tom Coughlin, Dave Caldwell and Doug Morone.
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Speaker 1: Times have changed in so many ways since then. Trent
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Speaker 1: Bulky was in charge of seven drafts with the San
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Speaker 1: Francis US Go from and Now, and there's his second
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Speaker 1: draft as GM of the Jags. We worry about our
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Speaker 1: board and how we have players valued. I really don't
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Speaker 1: pay much attention to what other people are thinking, we're saying,
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Speaker 1: because you don't know, you don't know what's fact, you
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Speaker 1: don't know what's fiction at this point. But this is
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Speaker 1: is a unique period where I think there's there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of guys that are are valued very similar. Uh,
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Speaker 1: the quarterback position is what it is this year, So
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Speaker 1: it'll be interesting how the top ten layout when it's
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Speaker 1: all said and done. Doug Peterson looks ahead to his
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Speaker 1: first draft. Is the Jaguars head coach? Well, from the
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Speaker 1: coaching standpoint of it, I mean, there's so much collaboration, honestly,
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Speaker 1: in so many meetings and and you know, as as
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Speaker 1: a staff, we look at the film along with Trent
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Speaker 1: and his guys, They look at the film when we
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Speaker 1: come together and and just have you know, numerous conversations
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Speaker 1: about everything, and so you know, that's where we become
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Speaker 1: more closely ingrained on on on players in the in
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Speaker 1: the talent level, and and um, you know, so that
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Speaker 1: to me has been I think the number one thing
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Speaker 1: that's really you know, in this whole process, right, it's
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Speaker 1: just that communication that we've had from from my staff,
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Speaker 1: you know the coaches and then obviously the person outside.
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Speaker 1: Do you guys already know who you're gonna be picking
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Speaker 1: or is that still a work in progress? Still a
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Speaker 1: work in progress? How is it still a work in progress?
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Speaker 1: I mean last year it was a slam dunk? Is
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Speaker 1: it not a slam dunk? This year? It's still a
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Speaker 1: work in progress? What? What? What? What's the progress? What's
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Speaker 1: the process from here until draft time to try and
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Speaker 1: get that settled? We still have we still have several
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Speaker 1: meetings to go through, a lot of discussion between the
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Speaker 1: coaching staff, the personnel staff. We're continuing to dig up
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Speaker 1: and do do research on these guys. Uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: the pick doesn't have to be made today. There's no
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Speaker 1: sense enforcing it right now. We've got plenty of time,
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Speaker 1: we've got to We're we're ahead of last year's schedule
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Speaker 1: in terms of preparation. We've worked hard to get there.
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Speaker 1: But you know, the decision doesn't have to be made
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Speaker 1: right now, so I make it. How different is this year,
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Speaker 1: you know, just in comparison to last year having a
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Speaker 1: number one overall pick in terms of you know, the
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Speaker 1: works how to be done for a number one pick,
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Speaker 1: But it was a pretty wicking sens this is gonna
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Speaker 1: be Trevors that this year it seems more kind of
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Speaker 1: up in the air. Yeah, I think you go into
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Speaker 1: every year though even last year. You go in, you
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Speaker 1: do it, You do your due diligence, You work hard,
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Speaker 1: you you bring in all the information, gather as many
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Speaker 1: facts as you can, put it together, and make decisions
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Speaker 1: off of those. But you know, there's so much that
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Speaker 1: goes into these decisions that you know, it's not just
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Speaker 1: the film, it's it's all the other things that go
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Speaker 1: into that guy having success or not having success. Most
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Speaker 1: of the time they don't fail because they're not physically gifted.
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Speaker 1: They fail for other reasons. So making sure that we've
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Speaker 1: done all of our due diligence in those areas is
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Speaker 1: critical to the decision making process. And then Doug, just
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Speaker 1: from the coaching side, in your perspective, homeporton is it
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Speaker 1: you know for that number one overall pick to kind
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Speaker 1: of be you know, kind of it might be cliche,
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Speaker 1: but you know, incident impact guy right away, you know
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Speaker 1: somebody can rely on to come Yeah, I mean you
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Speaker 1: better be right. And and that person you know is
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Speaker 1: going to come in and start I mean that's why,
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Speaker 1: that's why you pick them at one. You know whether
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Speaker 1: you're picking first overall or in our case a couple
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Speaker 1: of years ago, second overall. And we moved ourselves up
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Speaker 1: in the draft to do that. I mean, they're gonna
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Speaker 1: be They're gonna be guys who are gonna get in
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Speaker 1: the mixed right away. The full press conference archives available
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Speaker 1: on Jaguars dot Com or Jaguars social media. So who
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Speaker 1: do the Jaguars select Thursday night? Only time will tell.
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Speaker 1: But earlier this week, NFL Network analyst Bucky Brooks joined
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Speaker 1: John Osian and me on the Huddle Up Podcast. This week,
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Speaker 1: we had a discussion of offensive line building philosophy and
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Speaker 1: what it could mean for the Jaguars at number one overall.
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Speaker 1: Teams are looking at offensive line a little differently. You
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Speaker 1: don't necessarily have to have to follow that Cowboys model
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Speaker 1: of three or four number one draft picks. Teams are
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Speaker 1: now looking at you can build an offensive line with
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Speaker 1: the idea that it's as good as its worst part,
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Speaker 1: meaning as long as you don't have a breakdown guy
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Speaker 1: as your fifth guy, that you don't necessarily need elite
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Speaker 1: guys with an offensive line, you're probably better serving to
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Speaker 1: speak about that than me, But talk me through that
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Speaker 1: concept because it makes a little sense to me. So
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Speaker 1: the theory and the principle is no tomato cans. Like.
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Speaker 1: The one thing that you can have is you don't
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Speaker 1: necessarily need all a plus is around the board. But
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Speaker 1: you can't have any fs. You can't have any like
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Speaker 1: noticeable weak links where everyone in the stadium knows that
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Speaker 1: this guy is the tomato can get your quarterback, your
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Speaker 1: quarterback kill But and I think a lot of it
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Speaker 1: sometimes depends on the level of quarterbacks that you have
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Speaker 1: behind that offensive line. Let's look at the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, the Cincinnati Bengals, who everyone in the
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Speaker 1: NFL knows that they were struggling on the offensive line.
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Speaker 1: They were a Super Bowl for participant, and some could
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Speaker 1: say reasonably they should have won the Super Bowl. They
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Speaker 1: were three minutes away from winning the Super Bowl win
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Speaker 1: an offensive line that didn't have any notable players and
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Speaker 1: had some weak links. The l A Rams also don't
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Speaker 1: have any stars on their office line. For as much
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Speaker 1: as we made the Soup Bowl about Andrew Whitworth and
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Speaker 1: his farewell song and that they didn't have any great
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Speaker 1: players on the offensive line, but the quarterback play was terrific.
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Speaker 1: But then when you cast your gaze out outside on
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Speaker 1: the perimeter, there were a bunch of stars, a lot
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Speaker 1: of star power for the rams on the perimeter, Cooper
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Speaker 1: Cup or b j uh since then Beigos, Jamaar, Chase
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Speaker 1: te Higgins, Tyler Boyd, all those players. And so now
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Speaker 1: what you're saying is, if I have a good court
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Speaker 1: an A plus quarterback, I have really good skill guys.
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Speaker 1: If my offensive line is just okay where they can
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Speaker 1: get in the way, that might be good enough to
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Speaker 1: be able to get it done. And that's why in
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Speaker 1: the packing order of marquee positions, I think there's been
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Speaker 1: a shift. It used to be where you had to
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Speaker 1: have the quarterback, the elite left tackle, the pass rusher,
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Speaker 1: and those things. Now I believe it's the four ps,
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Speaker 1: but in disorder its passer, pass rushers, playmakers, and those
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Speaker 1: playmakers are typically passing game playmakers, wide receivers, and then
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Speaker 1: it's the pass protective. I don't even know if it's
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Speaker 1: necessary to have an elite cornerback in today's game, but
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Speaker 1: if you've got those p's accounting for, you have a
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Speaker 1: chance to put yourself in position because look at the
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Speaker 1: teams that are playing deep in the tournament. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if all of those guys had those auxility positions
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Speaker 1: um at an a level. Yeah, I couldn't agree more,
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Speaker 1: especially even sort of playing off your of your cornerback
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Speaker 1: comment to me drafting a safety or a corner high anymore.
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Speaker 1: If you've got an offense where the quarterback can get
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Speaker 1: rid of the ball and the wide re series have
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Speaker 1: time to make plays, cornerbacks only matter for about three
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Speaker 1: point five seconds or four seconds. Then these guys are
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Speaker 1: getting open because the rules are so skewed toward offense.
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Speaker 1: I do agreet. I think we're seeing and we're seeing
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Speaker 1: a huge shift and getting back to the offensive line point,
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Speaker 1: I wonder if that's not playing a little bit into
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Speaker 1: the decision at the top that yes, you know, the
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Speaker 1: offensive line here has been maligned for so long. I
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Speaker 1: don't think it's a bad offensive line. I've said for
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Speaker 1: years the Colts offensive lines that I covered were good.
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Speaker 1: They weren't great. They were no Tomato cans, but they
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Speaker 1: didn't have Jeff Saturday was a pro bowler, but he
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Speaker 1: was He was a pro bowler, unsavvy and experience. He
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Speaker 1: was a center but it wasn't an elite offensive line
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Speaker 1: because Peyton knew how to get rid of the ball
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Speaker 1: and get them into plays they could take advantage of
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Speaker 1: what they could do now, is Joe Burrow Peyton. No,
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Speaker 1: if you have a quarterback who can get rid of
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Speaker 1: the ball timely, not have the pass rush to be
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Speaker 1: as much of a factor, not take huge sacks when
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Speaker 1: there's a breakdown, I think you can get by with that. No.
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Speaker 1: Tomato can theory makes perfect sense to me, And on
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Speaker 1: that front, I just personally believe the Jaguars offensive line
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Speaker 1: just about as long now. We needed answers to really
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Speaker 1: important questions. Are you still big man dancing? By the way,
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Speaker 1: we found the video on YouTube the other day and
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Speaker 1: um there was a promo on like NFL Network and
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Speaker 1: the mid two thousand's I guess when the network started.
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Speaker 1: You're just I think finished playing or towards the end
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Speaker 1: of your career and there you go dancing across the stage.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I still dance. That's all great d lineman,
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Speaker 1: our skillful dancers, you know what I mean. That's a talent.
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Speaker 1: You got to have to be a good defensive line,
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Speaker 1: you know, bad slow feet, don't eat you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean, You got you gotta stay up on your feet. Well,
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Speaker 1: I'm always doing. I got three younger kids, so there's
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Speaker 1: always some kind of TikTok dance going on in the house.
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Speaker 1: And you know, growing up a lot, I danced a
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Speaker 1: lot party around. You know, I'm not the average big guy,
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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, I actually think I sort of
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Speaker 1: grew into this bottom like a dB a wide receiver.
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Speaker 1: They just found found out he liked eating a lot too,
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Speaker 1: and that took over. So it short to change my destiny,
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Speaker 1: you know, going down the line. But yes, I danced
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Speaker 1: every nothing. And then we're not gonna ask for it now. Well,
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Speaker 1: we'll wait until the practice field and all that. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure we'll we'll see it come out. So let's get
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Speaker 1: to your group now that you have inherited, you said,
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Speaker 1: the first thing you do is looking for agents. Then
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Speaker 1: you're popping in, hey what do you have here on
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Speaker 1: the team. At what point when you're up for a
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Speaker 1: job or you know you might be up for a job,
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Speaker 1: and then you land the job, do you get into
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Speaker 1: the tape of what you have and and what did
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Speaker 1: you inherit on the defensive line, here are you always
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Speaker 1: you know, before taking a job or if your name
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Speaker 1: is mentioned in their job, Oh, let's let's go see
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Speaker 1: what's in the cupboard. You know what I mean, and
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Speaker 1: you know, going and looking. And actually this year had
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Speaker 1: some insight because we actually played Jacksonville, you know, being
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Speaker 1: in Arizona, and you see the guys, Royal Robinson Harris
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Speaker 1: a guy that I've admired since he was in Chicago.
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Speaker 1: You know, a guy who was an outside linebacker defense
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Speaker 1: and foundly grew into his body now becoming a tior
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Speaker 1: defensive alignment. Davon was a guy at Ohio State that
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Speaker 1: I did plenty of background checks on and talking to
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Speaker 1: him in interviewing when he came out. Malcolm Brown has
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Speaker 1: been a player since he's been in this league, you know,
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Speaker 1: playing nose guard, disrupted three technique. Um, I've had I
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Speaker 1: had him as Oakland as a second second guy, as
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Speaker 1: a second year player, and you know, art and has
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Speaker 1: really developed, you know over time. Now he's coming into
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Speaker 1: being that player that a lot of people thought he
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Speaker 1: was gonna be coming out of l s U. And
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Speaker 1: he's matured a lot, and you know, the violence and
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Speaker 1: the smartness. Whish she's played, and then you know, you
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Speaker 1: start throwing in the free agents and let this go
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Speaker 1: to j J. To Foley. You know, I went to
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Speaker 1: his pro day, you know, doing doing COVID and worked
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Speaker 1: him outself. I got a lot of knowledge being around
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Speaker 1: these guys, and what I found out, you got a
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Speaker 1: good group, got a good group of guys, you know.
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Speaker 1: And I told him from day one, it's no magic
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Speaker 1: trick to being successful. And it's not an easy procedure.
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Speaker 1: You know, we got to come in first of all.
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Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta identify and claim what you did wrong.
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Speaker 1: You gotta you got to own it. You got to
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Speaker 1: own it. Now let's go correct it. Because all the time,
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Speaker 1: as a D line, you want to be the foundation.
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Speaker 1: And I used this analogy all the time. People you
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Speaker 1: drive out see uniful homes. Everybody want to talk about
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Speaker 1: the decorations, what the paint looked like, the roof. Don't
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Speaker 1: nobody remember the guys out there there was cultivating the ground,
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Speaker 1: landing the foundation, making sure it was thirdy enough to
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Speaker 1: build this house. And that's what the defensive line is.
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Speaker 1: And what we gotta do is eliminate the cracks and
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Speaker 1: get rid of all the bad pieces so when we
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Speaker 1: laid it foundation, Mike is gonna be able to build
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Speaker 1: a defense that can stand the test of time because
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Speaker 1: the defensive line has to be the sturdy foundation rest.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna ask you about, you know, individual prospects,
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Speaker 1: that's not fair, But I'm curious about the process of
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Speaker 1: evaluating those prospects when yeah, there's a combine, you're looking
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Speaker 1: at tape from the last couple of years, all that,
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Speaker 1: and then they come in for visits. We've seen the
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Speaker 1: name reporter that have allegedly come through here. So what
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Speaker 1: do you want to find out in that day that
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Speaker 1: they're in the building that you are you just filling
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Speaker 1: in holes in the evaluation with them? Do you just
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Speaker 1: want to sit them down? How much time do you
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Speaker 1: get with some of these guys when they come in.
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Speaker 1: What do you want to know? Person? I want to
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Speaker 1: feel out if I like you or not. I don't
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Speaker 1: want to coach somebody I don't like and I don't
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Speaker 1: want to be around because you know, we spend so
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Speaker 1: much time together, so you got to have that relationship
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Speaker 1: type of guy. I don't want no jerks. I don't
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Speaker 1: want to sit there and coach nobody that he don't
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Speaker 1: like me, I don't like him. We don't have nothing coming.
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Speaker 1: So really, when the guy comes and sit with me,
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Speaker 1: I pretty much know what you can do as a
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Speaker 1: football player. I talked to you and see how you respond.
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Speaker 1: You know, do you have tough skin? Do you laugh?
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Speaker 1: What you like to do it? You got a family?
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Speaker 1: What drives you? Because me as a coach, I got
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Speaker 1: to know all those variables before I coach you. It's
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Speaker 1: not just you walking here. I coach you and you
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Speaker 1: go home. I gotta know if you if something wrong
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Speaker 1: with you, something happening at home. I got the baby
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Speaker 1: to know that, and I gotta I gotta be sensitive
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Speaker 1: to that because I tell these guys all the time
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Speaker 1: when when you sit in that room as a final
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Speaker 1: jat war, I've entrusted everybody in this organization with their job,
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Speaker 1: and I gave it to you because I told Doug
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Speaker 1: and I told Trip, this guy can help us win.
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Speaker 1: Same thing. You got to entrust your family to me
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Speaker 1: that I can give you everything you need to take
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Speaker 1: care of your family. And so I want to see
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Speaker 1: those guys who are gonna be ready to reciprocate that.
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Speaker 1: You know, and some guys coming here and be great talent,
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Speaker 1: but I don't really want to coach this guy because
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Speaker 1: he's gonna be a me guy. You know, in my room,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be us. You know, on this team is
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Speaker 1: gonna be us. And so when you sit down, when
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Speaker 1: you get that, then when you go back to Doug
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Speaker 1: and Trent, hey, he's a Jaguar, he's an US guy.
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Speaker 1: It's all about what can he do for the team.
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Speaker 1: He wants to be a star in his role. He
16:26
Speaker 1: don't have to be the main attraction. I tell the
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Speaker 1: guys in the room, Tito Jackson never let us on.
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Speaker 1: But he got very grammy that Michael got when it
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Speaker 1: was Jackson five good. He got every he got everywhere.
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Speaker 1: So sometimes you have to be the background single. You're
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Speaker 1: gonna get all the awards. You might not get the
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Speaker 1: hold the mike, but you get all the benefits and
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Speaker 1: those the guys that you really want. When you're a team,
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Speaker 1: it's about the it's about the team. Yes, there were one, two, three, four,
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Speaker 1: five and the Jackson five last to checks right. Yes, Yes,
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Speaker 1: Now to Jack Drive Time Tuesday morning, Ashelan Sullivan, John
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Speaker 1: Osan and Brian Sexton visited with veteran tight end Chris Manherts,
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Speaker 1: who loves the changes around the organization and what they
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Speaker 1: could mean for the Jaguars tight ends. UM. I could
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Speaker 1: just tell just the energy of guys in the building,
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Speaker 1: the coaches. UM. Coach Peterson is is obviously his resume
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Speaker 1: speaks for itself. UM and and having a championship pedigree
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Speaker 1: and um you know, the work that he has put
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Speaker 1: in as a player is just exciting to be around it.
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Speaker 1: Now you're known as a run blocking tight end, but
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Speaker 1: you also have clearly receiving capabilities. Doug Peterson known for
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Speaker 1: that position, known for getting the most out of that position.
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Speaker 1: How excited are you about that and how do you
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Speaker 1: feel like you can benefit from that? I'm very excited. UM.
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Speaker 1: You know, you see a guy that heavily utilizes tight
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Speaker 1: ends in his offense. UM and there and integral part
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Speaker 1: of the offense. I think it's good for our room.
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Speaker 1: UM obviously have me Dan Arnold, Um, Evan Luke, UM,
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Speaker 1: and I think it's it's very complimentary for us to
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Speaker 1: work off of each other and whatever the scheme entails
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Speaker 1: for us in that particular week or you know, even
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Speaker 1: so for this year. You mentioned Evan Ingram Press Taylor
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Speaker 1: last week was mentioning how he can tell how in
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Speaker 1: tune is to the offense already by the questions he's asking.
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Speaker 1: And now you've been in a meeting room with him
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Speaker 1: for about a week. What have you seen out of him? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: exactly that. Um, I think at this point in time,
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Speaker 1: we're all just trying to get a grasp of off
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Speaker 1: the offense and the nuance that comes with the offense.
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Speaker 1: But um, those type of questions just being engaged it
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Speaker 1: could only help us in a you know, by the
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Speaker 1: time the season starts. What do you like about the
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Speaker 1: offense in terms of Jaguars fans, I think have seen it.
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Speaker 1: They saw it in Philadelphia a little bit. But how
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Speaker 1: do you feel like it's going to fit the personnel
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Speaker 1: you have here? I think it's very complimentary, and what
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Speaker 1: I mean by that is that it's pretty much terilored
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Speaker 1: by uh what the players can bring to the table,
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Speaker 1: and that has also been a point of emphasis for
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Speaker 1: us as a offense. And what coach wants. It's gonna
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Speaker 1: be Taylor to to to the skill sets, the best
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Speaker 1: skill sets on this team. So um, for me as
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Speaker 1: a player, you can't really go wrong with that. Jack's
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Speaker 1: Drivetime airs Tuesday at ten o'clock on Jaguars dot Com.
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Speaker 1: Mike McCoy back in the NFL, explaining his quarterback coach
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Speaker 1: role after this welcome back, Let's wrap this week with
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Speaker 1: Jaguars quarterbacks coach Mike McCoy. He's the former head coach
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Speaker 1: of the then San Diego Chargers and has offensive coordinator
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Speaker 1: experience in the league. After a few years away from football,
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Speaker 1: he's back and explained why. On the ozone podcast was
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Speaker 1: senior writer John Ozer, Why here? Why now? Why the Jaguars? Well,
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Speaker 1: first of all I'd like to say is the last
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Speaker 1: couple of years, Um, I wouldn't trade for anything. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this is kind of a little shout out to my
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Speaker 1: wife and my kids. Is that you know, as a
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Speaker 1: football coach, there's a huge commitment to the organization, to
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Speaker 1: your team, to your players, to the fans, and you
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Speaker 1: miss a lot of things with your family, you know,
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Speaker 1: the weekends being on the road traveling. Um, you know,
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Speaker 1: getting ready for the draft. There's so many things that
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Speaker 1: happened during the year, especially as a head coach, that
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Speaker 1: I've missed so many things. And the past couple of
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Speaker 1: years of time I've spent with my family. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I've got a Hall of Fame wife and Kelly, she's
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Speaker 1: the best. You know. I've been very successful in this
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Speaker 1: business and I couldn't have done it without her. UM.
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Speaker 1: And then my kids live. Who's a senior at University
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Speaker 1: of Arizona, my son's a sophomore in college and living
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Speaker 1: in San Diego. UM. To be able to do the
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Speaker 1: things with them, UM, you know, the Dad's Weekend in Arizona,
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Speaker 1: all the things I've done with Luke. UM, it's just
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Speaker 1: been I've had a time in my life doing that
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Speaker 1: with them. But as each year has gone on and
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Speaker 1: they know this, UM, I've got a little antsie each year.
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Speaker 1: The first year was easy, and then next year was
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Speaker 1: kind of like, hey, we got to get back into it,
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Speaker 1: and then you know, an opportunity like this came up. UM.
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Speaker 1: Having known Doug for a long time, UM, and the
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Speaker 1: type of coach he is, UM, the type of leader
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Speaker 1: he is to be able to work for somebody like that.
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Speaker 1: It was a great opportunity to come in and um,
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Speaker 1: you know, to see an organization that has a quarterback
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Speaker 1: like Trevor, the opportunity to work with someone who's so
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Speaker 1: talented as he is young in his career. It was
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Speaker 1: just a great opportunity to work with good people. Um,
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Speaker 1: and Doug's done a great job of putting a great
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Speaker 1: staff together. So we've enjoyed our shorter amount time we've
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Speaker 1: been together so far. I want to assume that that
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Speaker 1: is a conversation you've had with Doug, who sort of
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Speaker 1: had the same opportunity last year to be away from
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Speaker 1: it for a while. I've been around a lot of coaches,
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Speaker 1: and there are coaches who get into it at twenty
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Speaker 1: and I retired at sixty five and never have that opportunity.
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Speaker 1: So that's pretty unique. Both of you guys are coming
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Speaker 1: off of that. Yeah, you know, you you always want to, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, take the right job when you look at
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Speaker 1: certain things you look at it. Don't just take any
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Speaker 1: job to take the right job. And when Doug first
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Speaker 1: called me, you know, and and talk to me about
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Speaker 1: possibly joining him this year, you know, I was so
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Speaker 1: excited to be able to get back to work with
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Speaker 1: someone like Doug Um, someone like I've mentioned before. I've
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Speaker 1: known and for a while. Um he's been very successful
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Speaker 1: both you know, one Super Bowls as a player and
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Speaker 1: as a coach. The type of person he is, I
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Speaker 1: knew it was just a great opportunity that I couldn't
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Speaker 1: pass up. I haven't been a head coach. You see
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Speaker 1: things almost from above sometimes that you don't see as
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Speaker 1: an assistant. Um, how that shape you as a coach
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Speaker 1: in general, and how will help you in the position
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Speaker 1: of quarterback coach. Well, I was very fortunate when I
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Speaker 1: was the head coach in San Diego that I had
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Speaker 1: Ken wizzen Hunt on my staff, a former head coach. Um.
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Speaker 1: There's so many things that come across your desk when
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Speaker 1: you are the head coach that you know you always
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Speaker 1: want to run some things by at times for other
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Speaker 1: people had experience being a head coach, and not everyone's
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Speaker 1: done that, so things come up. So if there's ever
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Speaker 1: anything I could do to help anybody in the organization
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Speaker 1: with anything with my experience, I think it'd be a
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Speaker 1: great asset to the organization. And I think throughout all
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Speaker 1: the years that I've coached in different roles, from the
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Speaker 1: quality control days, quarterback days in Carolina, to the coordinator
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Speaker 1: days to head coaching days. I've done a little bit
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Speaker 1: of everything. So um, I've seen the good and the
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Speaker 1: bad one a lot. There's been a lot of great season.
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Speaker 1: There's been some tough seasons and part of you know,
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Speaker 1: some season you kind of start looking around going you
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Speaker 1: know what is going on? How do we change these things?
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Speaker 1: And then the rewards of turning organizations around? Um. So
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Speaker 1: I you know, I've been very fortunate to be around
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Speaker 1: some great players and some great coaches and to learn.
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Speaker 1: I think you take we all kind of look back
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Speaker 1: over your career and you take a little bit from
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Speaker 1: each person you've been around, both players and coaches, and
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Speaker 1: figure out in today's position. You know, how can I
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Speaker 1: be the best coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars and help
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Speaker 1: this team be great? How did we hunt, uh help
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Speaker 1: you the most? Well, there's a certain thing. You know,
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Speaker 1: you've become a head coach for the first time, and
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Speaker 1: you think you have this great plan and then all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, something comes across your desk and you're like, wait,
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Speaker 1: hold on a second, or then you play a game, right, Well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we haven't been playing in games yet, and all these
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Speaker 1: things are coming across. I've got to answer this question.
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Speaker 1: You know, isn't the PR Department's supposed to take care
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Speaker 1: of that. Well, you're the head coach. You need to
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Speaker 1: help us on this or uh, you know you look
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Speaker 1: in um when you're feeding the certain issues come up
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Speaker 1: with the food. The players come around and say, hey,
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Speaker 1: can we get this? Can we get that? And you know, okay, well,
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Speaker 1: I'm the head football coach and you do. There's so
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Speaker 1: many are things that come up. So it's just great
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Speaker 1: to have somebody on your staff that's been there, done that, um.
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Speaker 1: And because you're always looking, you know what what is
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Speaker 1: best for the football team. You know, how can we
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Speaker 1: help these players be successful? And that's the number one thing.
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