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Jags Drive Time: Thursday, July 30 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Jeff Warris, did you do Jack, Jack Morris? Did you
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Speaker 1: go Jack Warris? Drive Time? Ryan Sex texted John Ashley.
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Speaker 1: Jeff Warris Drive Time starts right now. Welcome in Jack's
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Speaker 1: drive Time. J P. Shadrick in for Ashland Sullivan, who
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Speaker 1: is out training campus here. Bryan Sexton and John Osier
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Speaker 1: are here as well as usual. Good morning, gentlemen. Brian,
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Speaker 1: how are you I I'm great. You realized where Ashlands headed, right?
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Speaker 1: I mean she's going to Hallow Brown. Her brother is
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Speaker 1: graduating from the University of Alabama, God's country, of course.
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Speaker 1: Why not? Yes? Uh? That and you know what, that's
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Speaker 1: a that's a fine. When did they start getting degrees
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Speaker 1: from Alvanna? JP with that? Because it funny. They give
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Speaker 1: a lot more out than you would think. Uh, or
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Speaker 1: you can front of let's get to let's get to
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Speaker 1: our big things today, I guess go right into a
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Speaker 1: big thing. Number one is the strange training camp start
1:10
Speaker 1: players reporting, but it's unlike anything we've seen before in
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Speaker 1: the National Football League. There's daily testing, a ramp up
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Speaker 1: schedule once players are allowed in the building. Players around
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Speaker 1: the league, though some are opting out of the season.
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Speaker 1: So all this John has turned into a situation that
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Speaker 1: we really haven't seen it we might not see again
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Well, it's very much a you're basically
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Speaker 1: taking O. T. A S. Which I love, if everybody knows,
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Speaker 1: and training camp and sort of pushing them together. And
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Speaker 1: it's coom interesting to see how it plays out, if
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Speaker 1: this works, if if the quality of play is not
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Speaker 1: horrible in September, at some point in the future, you
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Speaker 1: could see the players trying to push for this, trying
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Speaker 1: to get rid of of of the previous offseason, and
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Speaker 1: if that will happen. Are probably entering the conversation, but
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Speaker 1: it's certainly going to be different. I'm still intrigued over
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Speaker 1: the next couple of days how many players around the
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Speaker 1: league opt out. I think that's the most interesting part
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Speaker 1: right now. I expected testing coming in to have COVID
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Speaker 1: positives this week. These don't concern me that much. It's
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Speaker 1: how players. It's how the stats start going once players
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Speaker 1: get into their bubbles. If that's what you that's what
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Speaker 1: you want to call them, Brian, this is uh, this
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Speaker 1: is a weird one. I mean, obviously you have to
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Speaker 1: the players have to pass three times have negative tests
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Speaker 1: before they even entered the building. There's gonna be some
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Speaker 1: virtual work until then. But just the way this thing
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Speaker 1: is timed out, you know, it's it's a tough one
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Speaker 1: because it's not a bubble situation. We'll get to the
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Speaker 1: other leagues here in a minute, but this is a really,
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Speaker 1: really different scenario. Well, I saw a photo on one
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Speaker 1: of the social media sites. Um, that was the Detroit
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Speaker 1: Lions locker room. And the way that they have advanted,
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Speaker 1: I assume the Jaguars had done something similar though, um,
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Speaker 1: none of us have been in so we don't know.
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Speaker 1: But they had two lockers and and at either end
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Speaker 1: of the two lockers together they had a big piece
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Speaker 1: of plexiglass and plexiglass wall. Um that to me spoke
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Speaker 1: to how weird this really, this really is. And that
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Speaker 1: and you know, normally we'd have the schedule of when
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Speaker 1: training camp starts and what they're doing every day through
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Speaker 1: the preseason right up until the point of the final cuts,
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Speaker 1: and and I can be honest with you, until our
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Speaker 1: call the other day, I had no idea what was
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Speaker 1: going on. And and when you start mapping out, you
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Speaker 1: know they've got a four day ramp up in eight
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Speaker 1: days of conditioning, and I mean the first time that
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Speaker 1: we're gonna see what looks like a training camp. Practice
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Speaker 1: isn't until I think the seventeenth of August. But then
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Speaker 1: there's no preseason games. What right, So the next game
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Speaker 1: is the first game, and John, you said something earlier
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Speaker 1: about you know, the quality of play and if it's
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Speaker 1: not too bad. I gotta be honest, I'm not very
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Speaker 1: optimistic that we're not going to be able to see it.
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Speaker 1: I think this is going to be early on. It's
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Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit bumpy. Now. Teams that have
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks and coaches that have been together, it might be better.
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Speaker 1: But I think we're gonna see why you need an
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Speaker 1: off season. I think what you just said to the
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Speaker 1: whole key Bryan teams with continuity, and unfortunately that doesn't
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Speaker 1: include the Jaguars because of j Grugen coming in. UH.
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Speaker 1: Teams that have experienced quarterbacks who have some common language
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Speaker 1: with coordinators I think to have an advantage. We'll see
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Speaker 1: if it plays out. All right, guys, let's get to
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Speaker 1: our second big thing this morning. How other leagues are
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Speaker 1: dealing with COVID nineteen. We've seen the NBA bubble, and
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Speaker 1: so far, at least it's been successful no negative tests
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Speaker 1: lately in the NBA, and they're starting regular season games
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Speaker 1: going towards that playoff coming up. NHL is about to
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Speaker 1: begin in two different bubble situations. They only have a
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Speaker 1: short period of time really in those leagues that they're
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Speaker 1: only playing to get into the playoffs and finish the
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball schedule a little different sixty game they're
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Speaker 1: not in a bubble. They've already had one outbreak with
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Speaker 1: the Miami Marlins. NFL will not be in a bubble either,
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Speaker 1: and they're trying to play the full regular season. So
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Speaker 1: other leagues have, you know, different scenarios obviously with schedules
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Speaker 1: to be played, Brian Um. That's why I think that
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Speaker 1: bubble situation can work a little better for NHL and
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Speaker 1: NBA because they're close to the end of the season anyway. Well,
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Speaker 1: you're exactly right, Jak, and take into account the number
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Speaker 1: that some people may or may not have seen. Three
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Speaker 1: tests in this first round with the NBA and zero positives.
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Speaker 1: So the bubble is working, and from what I can
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Speaker 1: they've been militant about it. You know, you can't leave
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Speaker 1: the bubble or then coming back in as quarantine. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna give you another number because the NFL is not
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Speaker 1: operating in a bubble um. We all took our shots
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Speaker 1: at Alabama. Now you all can take your shots at
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Speaker 1: the Jayhawks. But at KU, where I went to school,
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Speaker 1: and of course I followed them. They did their first
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Speaker 1: round of testing and they announced the results yesterday. Now
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Speaker 1: it's for all fall sports, so follow ball, across country football. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they do play a little brand of football. They're not
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Speaker 1: really good tests. No positives, right, and that's not a
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Speaker 1: true bubble situation. And those are college kids, so at
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Speaker 1: least you know from one example, not being in one
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Speaker 1: of these shutdown bubbles is working. Maybe Corona didn't know
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Speaker 1: where KU was exactly, but yeah, I mean there's a
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Speaker 1: question in the Other Zone mailbag later on about this,
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Speaker 1: so I won't get real real into it, but this
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Speaker 1: is clearly the way this will work. The success of
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Speaker 1: this is going to depend on player diligence and coaches diligence.
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Speaker 1: But you know, the people going into the pseudo bubbles
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Speaker 1: of the NFL, how how their lives are away from
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Speaker 1: football and how their families are as they're away, and
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Speaker 1: they can't do the same thing that the other leagues do.
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Speaker 1: So that's going to be the key. How do they
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Speaker 1: keep their lives from getting into the NFL if you will?
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Speaker 1: And I don't know the answer to it. I do
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Speaker 1: believe or hope that everybody reads about the Mammy Marlin
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Speaker 1: situation and that rather than that being a signal that
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Speaker 1: there will be an outbreak, you hope that the league
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Speaker 1: and the players within looked at that and say, that's
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Speaker 1: what can happen. This is real. We have to be
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Speaker 1: really careful. And unfortunately, at least so far from Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball, the team that they were playing had zero
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Speaker 1: positive tests after that series, so that's a good sign.
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Speaker 1: At least four Major League Baseball moving You had big
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Speaker 1: thing number three today, gentlemen, the league and the players
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Speaker 1: association worked together and negotiated for the good of the
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Speaker 1: entire NFL to get a deal done to make this work.
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Speaker 1: It's not ideal for either side. There are no preseason games. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: the ownership would want at least some preseason games here
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Speaker 1: the players one of the safety of their players to
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Speaker 1: be foremost, and I think everybody in in In the past,
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Speaker 1: these two sides have had their arguments over the years,
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Speaker 1: but Brian, it seems like this. This time around, they
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Speaker 1: did it for the greater good, and so far, so good. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know, the labor negotiations, the last couple of rounds,
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Speaker 1: as you just mentioned, had been acrimonious and and that's
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Speaker 1: the way it's supposed to work. You're supposed to have
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Speaker 1: both sides fighting for what they believe in and then
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Speaker 1: people coming to an agreement. But this was a real
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Speaker 1: test because you didn't have that year ramp up right,
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Speaker 1: and you didn't have the extended negotiations. These guys had
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Speaker 1: to get in a room and get something done, and
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Speaker 1: both sides had significant issues that had to be solved.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was a big gap that had to
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Speaker 1: be met, they had to be crossed, and they got
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Speaker 1: it done. So, you know, credit to them, to Roger
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Speaker 1: Goodell and to Maury Smith and their teams, because these
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Speaker 1: were not easy. Players had to give back money, owners
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Speaker 1: had they have concessions with respect and beyond um. This
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Speaker 1: was a real high pressure negotiation because they didn't want
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Speaker 1: the embarrassment of what baseball went through when the players
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Speaker 1: and the owners just kept digging their heels in and
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Speaker 1: pushing back on the season. So a great credit to
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Speaker 1: both the players and the olders were coming together and
9:19
Speaker 1: finding a great place in the middle. Yeah, I think
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Speaker 1: a couple of things came into play. One, they both
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Speaker 1: had incentive to get something done, because yes, they both
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Speaker 1: gave but I think both sides and it probably took
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Speaker 1: the players a little longer to realize this because you're
9:36
Speaker 1: trying to get information out two guys who are necessarily
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Speaker 1: in conversations. But both sides had incentive. Not you didn't
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Speaker 1: want to mess this up because you didn't want the
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Speaker 1: league not to be playing because that benefits nobody. All
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, you'd have what a two year absence
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Speaker 1: with no football, no side one and that. And they
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Speaker 1: had already completed their cb A talks, so that acrimony
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Speaker 1: was gone, and I think there was I'm sure they
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Speaker 1: benefited from, Hey, we talked about this, we talked about this,
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Speaker 1: this is already done. They weren't trying to gear up
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Speaker 1: for a huge c b A talk, which I'm sure
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Speaker 1: had to have helped there be no acrimony between the sides.
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Speaker 1: But all that said, huge credit for getting this done.
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Speaker 1: And it looks like the talks are not going to
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Speaker 1: be what delays anything Corona. Who knows it's worth mentioning.
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Speaker 1: Also JP Starry to step on you there, it's it's
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Speaker 1: worth mentioning. Roger GADeL gets a lot of grief from
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Speaker 1: the fans and and some of it's rightfully earned. But
10:36
Speaker 1: in this case, since getting the CBA done in late March,
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Speaker 1: right pushing through and then pushing through on the draft,
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Speaker 1: and then keeping everyone focused on getting the season started,
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Speaker 1: he's been doing keeping this train on the tracks. Now.
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Speaker 1: How long it can stay on the tracks is anyone's guests.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that more when we talked about the
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Speaker 1: bubble and how things work inside of it. But you've
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Speaker 1: got to give Goodell credit if you've been willing to
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Speaker 1: give him the baseball bat, you know, given the book
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Speaker 1: case right now because he's from the Yeah, no doubt, Brian,
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Speaker 1: into the ozone mail bag and let's get right to it.
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Speaker 1: John Arthur from Drexel Hill. Is it too late for
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Speaker 1: the NFL to rethink the bubble idea that the NBA
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Speaker 1: and the NHL are using well? In farness, Arthur, this
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Speaker 1: email came in right after the Marlins outbreak, so there
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Speaker 1: were a few reactions like this. You know, I don't
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Speaker 1: think it's it's so great to rethink anything, but I
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Speaker 1: think it's I think the NFL fought through everything it starts.
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Speaker 1: If the bubble concept had worked for the NFL, if
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Speaker 1: that had been remotely feasible, considering the length of season,
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Speaker 1: considering the number of players, I think they would have
14:42
Speaker 1: tried it. I already believe, guys that the NFL is
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Speaker 1: getting as close to a bubble as they believe is conceivable.
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Speaker 1: If something would go amiss and they would have to
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Speaker 1: rethink things and try to do a shorter thing at
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Speaker 1: the end of the season, maybe you could have some
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Speaker 1: contingency bubble, but to try to do what is it,
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Speaker 1: twenty one weeks? Uh, I don't think there's any appetite
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Speaker 1: for that, and I can't see them doing that because
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Speaker 1: it's just like, it's just not logistically feasible. I think
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Speaker 1: that's it, the logistics of it. And the NBA has
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Speaker 1: one bubble right in Orlando, and JP mentioned that the
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Speaker 1: NHL has two bubbles that they're working from in Canada.
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Speaker 1: You'd have thirty two different bubbles in the NFL because logistically,
15:27
Speaker 1: bringing the size of organization together that the NFL requires,
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Speaker 1: it just does it would take longer to ramp that
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Speaker 1: up than than the remainder of the season if they
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Speaker 1: started now. It's it's a huge undertaking. The other thing
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Speaker 1: is when this conversation first started about players going to
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Speaker 1: hotels and staying in bubbles, there was a lot of
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Speaker 1: pushback from professional athletes about how much time they'd be
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Speaker 1: away from their families. I think if you said to
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Speaker 1: them bubble, you'd have a lot more players opting out
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Speaker 1: and waiting until because they don't to be away from
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Speaker 1: their families for the next five months. Coaches, either staff
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Speaker 1: either UM. So yeah, I think it's too late for
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Speaker 1: them to do anything more then they've done. I think
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Speaker 1: the Apple site point is is good when John because
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Speaker 1: and and it's just the sheer numbers, right. NBA teams
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Speaker 1: have what twelve fifteen players, a handful of coaches, some
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Speaker 1: personnel staff around them. Three or four NBA teams as
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Speaker 1: a whole make one NFL team with ninety players eighty
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Speaker 1: if you're accounting what's gonna happen in the training camp,
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Speaker 1: the staff all around them, traveling party of a hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty plus a big difference in numbers in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Darren from Jacksonville. Have you heard any
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Speaker 1: estimates of what COVID nineteen is costing the teams? The
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Speaker 1: added expenses of testing and COVID precautions can't be cheap,
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Speaker 1: just curious. The only estimates I've heard. There was a
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Speaker 1: story a while back that the testing itself was gonna
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Speaker 1: cost I think, what was it seventy five million for
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Speaker 1: the league, which comes back to about two and a
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Speaker 1: half million for AIM. There's no way that's the only
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Speaker 1: expense in terms of what they're having to incur to
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Speaker 1: get everything set up. You know, there's no doubt it's
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Speaker 1: costing him a lot of money, but the money that
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Speaker 1: you would lose by not having a season dwarfs that.
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Speaker 1: So uh yeah, it's a lot. But from their point
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Speaker 1: of view, it's it's a necessary a lot millions to
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Speaker 1: create billions. I mean that the profit margin is going down,
17:29
Speaker 1: but make no mistake, NFL owners will not lose money.
17:33
Speaker 1: That's that's the idea of this business at least. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: Let's go to William from Merritt Island down on the
17:39
Speaker 1: Space Coast. How will the new opt out affect unique
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Speaker 1: in dock Way. Yeah, this is a tricky one. Um.
17:48
Speaker 1: You have to understand the opt out exactly what it means.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna affect him at all because
17:54
Speaker 1: my understanding is if he opts out, it only pushes
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Speaker 1: everything back a year, and that means that his situation,
18:04
Speaker 1: he would not get out of his situation if he's
18:06
Speaker 1: trying to get out of Jacksonville until and the big
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Speaker 1: element there, and I want to make sure I get
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Speaker 1: this right. If he is too opt out, what he
18:15
Speaker 1: has to do first is signed the franchise tag. If
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Speaker 1: he signs the franchise tag, then that means by opting out,
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Speaker 1: he would then be under a one year contract in
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Speaker 1: so my you know, I can't speak for Unique, I've
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Speaker 1: been spoken to him. All indications are he wants freedom
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Speaker 1: as quickly as possible. If he signs that tag, then
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Speaker 1: he's on a one year deal there. But he thought
18:41
Speaker 1: he was gonna be under The Jaguars could still then
18:45
Speaker 1: theoretically franchise him a second time in for him, I
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Speaker 1: think the opt out might create more problems from his
18:55
Speaker 1: perspective than he would want. And so I don't think
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Speaker 1: he'll be opting out quite. As I've said a million times,
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Speaker 1: he's a unique cat. I can't predict the action. I
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Speaker 1: doubt he would opt out. Um. We we've talked about
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Speaker 1: this ad nauseum um with Unique in John's writing doesn't
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Speaker 1: impact him at all. He has no leverage, He gains
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Speaker 1: no advantage by opting out. Seventeen point million dollars smells
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Speaker 1: like freedom to me, sure, and he hasn't the already.
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Speaker 1: I guess self opted out by saying he's not playing
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Speaker 1: for this team anymore. Well, he is, but people are
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Speaker 1: talking about could he possibly opt out use the system
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Speaker 1: despite the team, And I don't think that's possible. For him.
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Speaker 1: I don't think so. It's not sure that's going to
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Speaker 1: be a deal for him this year. He has he
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Speaker 1: has no leverage and the owners are not about to
19:51
Speaker 1: give leverage back to franchise players. There you have it,
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Speaker 1: Sexton with us, John Oser, senior writer with us as well.
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Speaker 1: Let's get to the top tweet to the week, and
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Speaker 1: you know players are reporting back to the buildings this week,
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Speaker 1: including Jaguars quarterback Bergner minshoot the second at Jaguars put
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Speaker 1: this tweet that QB one flow with Gardner Mintshew doing
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Speaker 1: his best Ronnie van Zan impression walking into the building. John,
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Speaker 1: that's fantastic, Hare, what a fantastic head of hair. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's it's uh. I think we're all the land. I know,
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Speaker 1: I am Brian. That's something else, isn't it. Now? If
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Speaker 1: he can play right, I mean he can walk the walk. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's see if you can talk to talk. He's done
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Speaker 1: all the right things in the off season at least
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Speaker 1: we've seen so far. And I know, I think he's
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Speaker 1: on the schedule a few days out and how to
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Speaker 1: speak with the media. That will be a fun stuff
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Speaker 1: coming up in a few days. Let's go now to
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Speaker 1: the players added to the reserve. COVID nineteen list on Monday.
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Speaker 1: This is new in this preseason. Here and the training
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Speaker 1: camp four rookies, including draft pick quarterback Josiah Scott. The
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Speaker 1: team is not allowed to explain why players are on
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Speaker 1: the list, but the player can. And here's what Scott said.
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Speaker 1: He said, my first test for COVID came back positive,
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Speaker 1: but he was retested multiple times following days after that
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Speaker 1: those results all negative. First test was a false positive.
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Speaker 1: So we're all good. Just had to do the protocol.
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Speaker 1: This is a different one, Brian, because you know, players
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Speaker 1: can come out and say why they're on the list,
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Speaker 1: but the organizations cannot distinguish why they're on the list.
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Speaker 1: They can't. They are not allowed to. Yeah, and and
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Speaker 1: I'm sure there's some hip violation in the area if
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Speaker 1: they do. The interesting thing, as far as I'm concerned,
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Speaker 1: when you put them on the list, it's it's COVID reserve,
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Speaker 1: don't we already know? I don't know that's the right.
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Speaker 1: There's some differences there in A player could be put
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Speaker 1: on that if he even enters the protocol, is my understanding,
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Speaker 1: because he said he was around somebody, so you really
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Speaker 1: don't know. But yeah, and get my point. The reason
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Speaker 1: he's on the list, is is because there's been either
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Speaker 1: exposure to or they tested, so it's COVID related, not knee, hip, ankle,
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Speaker 1: shoulder related. Right, And then they're leaving it up to
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Speaker 1: the player how much he wants to get into what
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Speaker 1: he went through, which I'm not sure there's really no solution. Again,
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Speaker 1: the major concerns here aren't necessarily from a league perspective.
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Speaker 1: Aren't necessarily if a player tests trying to get into
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Speaker 1: the bubble. It's if there are outbreaks once they're in
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Speaker 1: the bubble, And I think fans would be good to
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Speaker 1: realize there's a major difference there. They were going to
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Speaker 1: be players tests trying to get in because they've been
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Speaker 1: out everywhere. It's what happens now that they are into
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Speaker 1: the program and to get off the list. My understanding
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Speaker 1: is it's a case by case basis. The league officials
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Speaker 1: are involved as well, and I'm sure they're negative tests
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Speaker 1: included in that. It's still a little unclear exactly how
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Speaker 1: each player gets off the list because it is a
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Speaker 1: case by case basis. Our final top tweet, well, we
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Speaker 1: go to uh Bryan's homeland of Kansas. The Kansas City
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Speaker 1: Royals actually it's in Missouri. But the they put out
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Speaker 1: welcome to the Royals family, Patrick Mahomes hashtag already's royal.
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Speaker 1: They've announced that Patrick Mahomes became a min rty owner.
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Speaker 1: He signed a ten year deal recently with the Chiefs
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Speaker 1: up to five hundred three million dollars a hundred forty
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Speaker 1: million guaranteed, and Brian he is investing some of that
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Speaker 1: in Kansas City sports. Let me tell you, my family's
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Speaker 1: all in Kansas and we moved here in When a
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Speaker 1: Kansas City, he was the favorite son. And not since
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Speaker 1: George Brett and the Royals won the World Series five
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Speaker 1: has there been a player on any team, Royals, Chiefs,
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Speaker 1: anything that has captivated Kansas City like Patrick Mahomes. He
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Speaker 1: goes to the MLS soccer games. He goes across the
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Speaker 1: state when the St. Louis Blues we're playing in the
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Speaker 1: Stanley Cup and leads a contingent of Kansas City fans
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Speaker 1: over there. He goes to high school football games. He
26:23
Speaker 1: is not just a great person from everything I've heard,
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Speaker 1: and a great player, but somebody that that city has
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Speaker 1: completely embraced for the first time since George Brett. It's
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Speaker 1: interesting to see the people there love him, not just
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Speaker 1: the player, the person. He's no Freddie Pottek. But beyond
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Speaker 1: that pretty good stay. Remember they're all going. That's a
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Speaker 1: heck of a pool there, John, it really is. Uh.
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Speaker 1: here on Jags Drive Time, J P. Shadrick, in Frassion Sullivan,
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Speaker 1: Brian Sexton, John Osier, and here we are you know
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Speaker 1: if you're I know. I don't know about you guys,
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Speaker 1: but for me, it's we've been on a house since
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Speaker 1: March right doing these shows, and it's just a little
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Speaker 1: weird feeling now to see players back around the building virtually,
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Speaker 1: but not being there around them and not going into
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Speaker 1: that locker room and chatting with guys about the season ahead. Uh,
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Speaker 1: it's a little strange that it's here. But today is
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Speaker 1: the first media availability. Doug Morown kicks us off at
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Speaker 1: noon today. John, this is a different feeling obviously preseason. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and again, I think this will feel when we look
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Speaker 1: back on it. I think it will feel like O.
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Speaker 1: T A S piled on top of training camp. I
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Speaker 1: think once we're over there for practice, which for fans,
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Speaker 1: my guest is that will be August eleventh, August twelve,
29:43
Speaker 1: or some non contact and then you get going full
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Speaker 1: bar augustev Once you're there, I think it's gonna feel
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Speaker 1: like training camp. Right now, again, it feels like a
29:52
Speaker 1: weird O T A S where they're conditioning. Will do
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Speaker 1: some we'll do some interviews with them, try to get
29:57
Speaker 1: people abreast of storylines. But yes, to answer your question,
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Speaker 1: it's weird. I think the whole season be weird on
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Speaker 1: some level, But this period right now for us personally,
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Speaker 1: for all of us sit on this call, has to
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Speaker 1: be the weirdest. Yes, in terms of football, I don't.
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Speaker 1: I don't think this year will feel like football to
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Speaker 1: me at all, um, because we're not going to be
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Speaker 1: around the players and coaches like we are. I mean,
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Speaker 1: let's be honest, walking on the field with a coach
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Speaker 1: in the morning and you know, getting his take on
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Speaker 1: how the meetings went last night, or you know who
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Speaker 1: played well and practiced the day before. That's so invaluable
30:35
Speaker 1: to what we do. And then you know, walking off
30:37
Speaker 1: and getting to know a player, choose one Joan Taylor
30:39
Speaker 1: last year, Jusia Scott this year. You know what they're about,
30:43
Speaker 1: what's important to them, that kind of stuff, the personal stories.
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Speaker 1: It's it's what we do. It's why people are fans
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Speaker 1: of the game. They want to get to know the
30:51
Speaker 1: players and coaches before they watch them on Sunday. So
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Speaker 1: it's just gonna be a weird year, all right. We
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Speaker 1: get cranked up today don her own at noon, we'll
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Speaker 1: have Jaguars Happy Hour at four o'clock. The Doug Morons
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Radio Network. Brian John, great job, guys, Thank you
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