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Charles Davis shares his initial impressions of the new era of Jaguars Football | Countdown to Kickoff · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Charles Davis with us NFL on CBS, Sirius XM Radio
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  Speaker 1: NFL Network. It never stops for you, doesn't How do
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  Speaker 1: you juggle all of this? I think the same way
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  Speaker 1: you do. You know, you have multiple things that are
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  Speaker 1: going on throughout the year, And I feel like, what
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  Speaker 1: was that book? Everything I need to learn in life
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  Speaker 1: I learned in kindergarten. Most of the times they tell
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  Speaker 1: you the busier you are, the better you are, right,
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  Speaker 1: the more things you have going. I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: that's absolutely always true, but I think for the most
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  Speaker 1: part it is, and I think I enjoy being busy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm fortunate to be busy. And I had a conversation
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  Speaker 1: about that today where my dad and I kind of complained.
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  Speaker 1: My dad a little bit, my myself called work schedule,
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  Speaker 1: and he kind of let me wallow for a minute,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, I thought that was the goal. I thought,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you wanted in this, And he's right, So
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  Speaker 1: I can save myself fortunate. So then what's next? What's
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  Speaker 1: the next level for you? Are you always looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to something bigger, better? Are you kind of happy with
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? You know, it's it's one of those
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  Speaker 1: things where I think we all are in certain ways.
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  Speaker 1: But um, when Jim Trussell was head coached Ohio State,
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  Speaker 1: had a ballgame of his me and my crew, and
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  Speaker 1: he was talking a little bit about all right, guys
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  Speaker 1: have enjoyed me, and I go talk one of my
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  Speaker 1: assistant coaches and uh, he kind of said the way
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  Speaker 1: he said it, and I said, because you guys, something
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  Speaker 1: you gotta really talked to him about. And he goes, well,
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  Speaker 1: he goes, you know, he's chasing and he's trying to
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  Speaker 1: get to the next level, which we all want to do.
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  Speaker 1: But what he's got to learn is he spending more
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  Speaker 1: time chasing the next level instead of taking care of
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  Speaker 1: business right here, right now. I said, that's how you
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  Speaker 1: get your next job. Be great at what you're doing
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  Speaker 1: in the present. And I've never forgotten that. I know
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't the first time I heard it, but that's
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  Speaker 1: the first time it resonated with me. So be great
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  Speaker 1: at what you're doing, or or maybe I should rephrase that,
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  Speaker 1: be the best you can be at what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Strive for greatness at what you're doing, and everything else
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  Speaker 1: will fall after that. Charles Davis with us, let's get
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  Speaker 1: to football. Now, the last fourteen seasons around Jacksonville, only
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  Speaker 1: one season above five hundred in that time frame. Then
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  Speaker 1: the chaos of last year was Urban Meyer and everything
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  Speaker 1: that happened. That's all in the rear view. Now at
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday's camping around the building, what is now your first
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  Speaker 1: impression of yet another new regime and a new era
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  Speaker 1: of Jaguars football. I feel like we say reset, new era, change,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not cynical about it. It's kind of the
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  Speaker 1: way it goes in this league. When you aren't overly successful.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's trying to find that that key to success, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why they change coaches, change gms, change quarterbacks, change managment,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it may be. Unfortunate Jacksonville has had to do
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  Speaker 1: it more often than anyone would want to in the
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  Speaker 1: recent years. But it certainly did feel good out there today.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't say that just because of all we're
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  Speaker 1: sitting here in Jacksonville. Is the way the way, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the thing to say. Known Doug Peterson for a while,
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  Speaker 1: watched him building Philadelphia. I remember his first year at Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: I think they went seven and nine. Carson Wentz is
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  Speaker 1: his rookie quarterback. They came into Cincinnati late in the season.
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati was a really good team, and I they didn't
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  Speaker 1: win the game, but they were on a losing streak.
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  Speaker 1: But Doug Peterson was still the Doug Peterson that I
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  Speaker 1: knew from before. And I think the ability to withstand
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  Speaker 1: the tough times, the ability to transmit to his team
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  Speaker 1: what it looks like going forward, and also reading the room.
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  Speaker 1: He came into a team that whoever was around last year,
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  Speaker 1: they were a little beat down, for lack of a
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  Speaker 1: better term, confidence level low. I think he and his
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  Speaker 1: staff have done a really nice job of kind of
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  Speaker 1: trying to re establish trust communication. As one assistant coach
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  Speaker 1: told me today, say hey, man, the room locks from
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  Speaker 1: the inside. We want to keep them here. We're not
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  Speaker 1: trying to kick him out. And I think that the
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  Speaker 1: players have responded to that. I really enjoyed what I
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  Speaker 1: saw out of practice today. A lot of coaching, not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of screaming, and players responding really really well.
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  Speaker 1: Charles Davis with US NFL and CBS Series x M
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  Speaker 1: and NFL Network, Well, the most important guy was number sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback. It's your number two for him. Obviously, a
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  Speaker 1: new system, everything going on around him. But they've put
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  Speaker 1: a lot of pieces in place on the coaching staff
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  Speaker 1: around him, a lot of layers around the quarterback, and
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  Speaker 1: they spent a lot of money in free agency around
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  Speaker 1: him too. So it's all about number sixteen. If you
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  Speaker 1: have that guy and have him comfortable, then you can
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  Speaker 1: take the next step. Agreed. Absolutely. I love the way
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  Speaker 1: that you laid that out, because that's what you have
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  Speaker 1: to have in this league. I say it every year now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how many years I've been saying it,
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  Speaker 1: but this game of football has never been more quarterback
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  Speaker 1: centric than it is right now, and and it seems
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  Speaker 1: it seems to continue. Remember when you can kind of
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  Speaker 1: play around your quarterback a little bit doesn't happen very often.
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  Speaker 1: And I know a lot of people like to point back,
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  Speaker 1: like the Ravens when they won the Super Bowl with
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  Speaker 1: Trent Dilfer. Trent Dilf was a first round draft pick,
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  Speaker 1: so people have kind of forgotten that. You know what, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't have any talent, Okay, but did the defense
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  Speaker 1: handled They certainly did, because remember they went the whole
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  Speaker 1: month of October with that offensive touchdown, so obviously the
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  Speaker 1: defense carried off. That's one of the big examples, but
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  Speaker 1: you don't get it very often. If your quarterback can't play,
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  Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to keep up. You've gotta
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  Speaker 1: have a guy who can get it done down the stretch,
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  Speaker 1: and Trevor Lawrence has every opportunity to do that. And
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  Speaker 1: I think for him, all the things you laid out
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  Speaker 1: are perfectly aligned. Is exactly what he needs. But the
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  Speaker 1: big one for me is this year, going into the season,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't rehabbing. He was preparing, you know, rehabbing from
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  Speaker 1: shoulder injury. He told us you know today that he
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  Speaker 1: didn't start throwing until May last year after the shoulder surgery.
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  Speaker 1: So that means he's not in the weight room, he's
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  Speaker 1: not getting his body armor right, you know, he's not
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  Speaker 1: getting himself ready to go now that he's not trying.
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  Speaker 1: He just couldn't physically this year, that hasn't been the issue,
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  Speaker 1: and it just changes everything that you're doing. And he
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  Speaker 1: needed that with a coaching regime change. He needed that
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  Speaker 1: with a new playbook to learn, with new bonds to form.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll stop here on this. Doug Peterson in Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 1: I thought did a great job with his quarterbacks and
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  Speaker 1: how he how he coached him. Doug Peterson's the head coach,
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  Speaker 1: former NFL quarterback and play caller. Underneath him was Frank Wright,
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  Speaker 1: who was his offensive court now the head coached in
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  Speaker 1: Apple Cults and a quarterback coach, John d. Philippo. All
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  Speaker 1: three spoke with the same voice to their quarterbacks, but
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  Speaker 1: they all got a little something different from each of them. Right.
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  Speaker 1: How about here Doug Peterson, same position again, head coach
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  Speaker 1: and play caller, Press Taylor offensive coordinator, Mike McCoy quarterbacks coach.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same type of a formula he's trying to
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  Speaker 1: build here, Charles Davis with us, who are you most
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  Speaker 1: excited about in the offensive weapons? Say Jones, Christian Kirk,
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  Speaker 1: Evan Ingram, Travis C t N. Who do you look
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  Speaker 1: to first if you want to nail down to one
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  Speaker 1: for me? Travis e t N. Because with James Robinson
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  Speaker 1: coming back from injury, we know the quality that he brings.
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  Speaker 1: E t N didn't get to play last year, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought this was an excellent draft for the Jacksonville
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars to meet. E t N is like a bonus
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  Speaker 1: first round draft back because he didn't play last year.
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  Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of speculation about him splitting
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  Speaker 1: out and being a slot back and all that, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what the previous staff did and we'll see some
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  Speaker 1: of that, I'm sure, because he has the skills. But
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna carry the football. That's what he did really
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  Speaker 1: well at Clemson. I just thought last year before that happened,
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  Speaker 1: is one if that was overblown. You're taking a guy
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  Speaker 1: away that you're gonna turn and hand it to. And
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  Speaker 1: that's where he made his his his living, and now
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  Speaker 1: he turned him into something else. Let him be the
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  Speaker 1: primary thing he does best first and let the other
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  Speaker 1: part be the accessory. So he becomes the guy I
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  Speaker 1: look too. First. Although you mentioned some mothers Trisian Kirk
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  Speaker 1: becoming a wide receiver one Evan Ingram. Can he fulfill
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  Speaker 1: the promise that's there, because if he can, that's really explosive.
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  Speaker 1: And in Doug Peterson's offense, a tight end gets a
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  Speaker 1: lot of balls his way if he if he warrants it.
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  Speaker 1: Charles is slipping of defense. There's a lot of new
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  Speaker 1: around here the last two years in terms of personnel
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  Speaker 1: on defense, and of course the whole scheme is different.
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  Speaker 1: Now it might call well running it. But when you
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  Speaker 1: have two first round draft picks on defense in one
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  Speaker 1: season to go with a guy like Josh Allen and
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  Speaker 1: some of the big free agent names the last two
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  Speaker 1: years on the defensive line and in the secondary, that's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of new and a lot of talent. What
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  Speaker 1: is it supposed to look like on one day? Though?
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  Speaker 1: We don't have an answer for that. Do you have
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  Speaker 1: an answer for that? I sure wish I did, but
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  Speaker 1: we can we can look at what we've seen in
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  Speaker 1: the past from the people who are around it and
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  Speaker 1: running it. So that's Mike called Well the new defensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: Where did he come from Tampa Bay? Who was he
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  Speaker 1: under the Who is he he working under Todd Bowles?
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  Speaker 1: What does Todd Bowles like to do? As soon as
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  Speaker 1: like I always laugh, like every week, as soon as
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  Speaker 1: the first get the game's over, Todd Bowles has drawn
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  Speaker 1: up blitz is for the next week. Okay, Mink Martindale
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  Speaker 1: is the same type of guy who is now the
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  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator with the Giants that you know there's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be fifteen to eighteen new looks per game that they're
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  Speaker 1: going to throw at people. I don't know. Mike called
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  Speaker 1: Well will proceed quite that way with such a young defense.
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  Speaker 1: He meant to scale that back a little until they
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  Speaker 1: get their footing. But I like what they have on
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  Speaker 1: the edges now. Josh Allen has a tag team partner,
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  Speaker 1: Trayvon Walkers as a rookie enough to come along. I
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  Speaker 1: want to see Calevon Chason take a step and become
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  Speaker 1: a viable pass rusher. You know it can be the
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  Speaker 1: third guy and do it. I like what they have
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  Speaker 1: in and Smooth and Roy Robertson and and Uh and
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  Speaker 1: uh and that crew. So when you look at it overall,
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  Speaker 1: you like the makings of it. I just don't know
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  Speaker 1: if he's going to have them running before they can walk.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that would be a smart player Mike
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  Speaker 1: cald Wells part because if you can protect Devan Lloyd
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  Speaker 1: and let him just run and hit. Also like Chad
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  Speaker 1: move out of Wyoming. I know the opening game wasn't
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  Speaker 1: the greatest, but guess what, I think ultimately he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a player. He had a higher grade than
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  Speaker 1: Logan Wilson, who is a starting linebacker last year for
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals in the heart and soul of their defense.
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  Speaker 1: Coming out of Wyoming, athletically. I think Chad mom is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a really good player too. Final thought, whether
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  Speaker 1: here it's middle of training camp, it's preseason week one,
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  Speaker 1: give us your a f C South Power rankings, Charles Davis, Well,
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  Speaker 1: as much as you we're sitting here, I'd love to
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  Speaker 1: put Jacksonville one. I don't think I can do that,
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  Speaker 1: not just yet. Right now they're gonna be battling it
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  Speaker 1: out with Houston for that third spot. Because to me,
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  Speaker 1: it's Tennessee Indianapolis Indianapolis Tennis. However you want to look
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  Speaker 1: at it, I think I have to give the nod
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  Speaker 1: to tendency because they did it. Indianapolis had a great opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: but these Jaguars sent them home. And you and I
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  Speaker 1: were talking for earlier today. That was literally the team
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  Speaker 1: to about Indianapolis. Everyone else in THENFC was fearing at
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  Speaker 1: that point. They were like, oh god, if they get
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  Speaker 1: in and Jonathan Taylor running the football and that defense
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  Speaker 1: creating takeaways, and all of a sudden, you guys bounced
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  Speaker 1: them out, and there's like a sigh relief throughout. They
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  Speaker 1: have said, we have to tackle Jonathan Taylor now. But
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  Speaker 1: to me, that's where it is. But this team won
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  Speaker 1: three games last year. They're gonna win a lot more
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  Speaker 1: than three games. And when I say a lot more,
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  Speaker 1: you know, double that number. Maybe a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: than that. Just spends on how to break scale. We
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  Speaker 1: know every was seventeen. Last nineteen years in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: one team's gone from worst to first in the division.
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  Speaker 1: Could this be Jacksonville. I'm not predicting it, but I
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  Speaker 1: never rule anyone out in this league. Always great to visit.
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  Speaker 1: Keep up the great work man, appreciate it. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It's always great to see you. I hope I get
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  Speaker 1: to see you a bunch during the season. That means
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting here to Jacksonville. The Jags are winning as well,
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  Speaker 1: and that would be a whole lot of fun When
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  Speaker 1: and nounced another young quarterback on the scene, How cool
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  Speaker 1: would that be for the a FC