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Jags Drive Time: Tuesday, May 5th · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Jack Bars, did Jack Jack Wars? Did you Jaguars drive time?
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Speaker 1: Brian Sex steps to John Act Jaguars drawing a time
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Speaker 1: starts right now. Welcome in Jack Warns drive line. Tuesday morning,
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Speaker 1: May five, big sinko to my ow day, celebrating from home,
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Speaker 1: our seventh week working from home. But Brian, I know
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Speaker 1: this to be true. I know flying Iguana next to
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Speaker 1: your house has reopened, and I know you'll be getting
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Speaker 1: a prickly pair of margharita and celebrates. I will because
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Speaker 1: my oldest son is a sinko to my o baby
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Speaker 1: so and my wife's birthday was yesterday, So we will
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Speaker 1: find our way down there to help celebrate some reopening.
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Speaker 1: We will support our local economy. Yeah I do that.
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Speaker 1: Come on, buy, I'll buy you one too, say less.
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Speaker 1: I'm there with twenty of my friends. Oh all right, guys,
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Speaker 1: So Tuesday today. A big time announcement came yesterday from
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Speaker 1: the NFL as a whole. No more London games, no
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Speaker 1: more games being played anywhere except the United States. Two
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Speaker 1: more games coming back from Jack's to Jacksonville. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: have Chad Johnson, director of sales for the Jaguars, join us.
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Speaker 1: But initial thoughts. I mean, that was such a big
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Speaker 1: deal when that was announced. Two games are going to London.
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Speaker 1: Now they're back. Well, I'll tell you this. I think
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Speaker 1: there's a chance that you don't have London this year
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Speaker 1: or next year. And the reason that I say that
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Speaker 1: is I think that the international stuff is probably going
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Speaker 1: to become dependent on a vaccine and that's going to
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Speaker 1: be something that's gonna take some time, because the story
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Speaker 1: from the League is about protocols, right, and the protocols
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Speaker 1: in Europe are different than the protocols in the United States.
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Speaker 1: And I just don't know if we're going to see
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Speaker 1: the international series back until there's a vaccine. So short term,
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Speaker 1: we know that there's two games that will not be
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Speaker 1: played in London this year. I think it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: something we're gonna be asking the question again next year,
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Speaker 1: Hey is London back in or are we waiting until
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Speaker 1: there's a vaccine. Yeah, certainly think international protocols when you're
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Speaker 1: dealing with traveled other countries are gonna take a lot
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Speaker 1: more time and not ready to right off. But it
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Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me if you're right, Brian Um in terms
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Speaker 1: of getting the games back. You know, I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: exactly what it means because the dynamics of it are
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Speaker 1: so much different than the dynamics war when these decisions
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Speaker 1: were made in what January February when the announcement came.
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Speaker 1: I still don't know if you're looking at two games
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Speaker 1: in London for the long haul. I've always thought that
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Speaker 1: might be a temporary thing, but for right now it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be too. Although I don't have any doubt Brian
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Speaker 1: that at some point they'll be back in London because
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Speaker 1: that presence matters a lot. Well, you're right, and I
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Speaker 1: don't need to imply that London's off the table. I
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Speaker 1: just think it might be more than just this year
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Speaker 1: in till they get there. I think in this country
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Speaker 1: there's so many questions that have to be asked about
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Speaker 1: what you can do absent a vaccine, and the international
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Speaker 1: side of it is interesting. The one thing that you
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Speaker 1: feel for is all those international fans. I mean, you
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Speaker 1: guys go. You know that the Jags UK club, it's huge,
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Speaker 1: and the amount of people there that they've connected with,
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Speaker 1: both personally when the team is over there and and
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Speaker 1: through Twitter and Facebook and the Internet and all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: When we're not over there. Um absence will make the
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Speaker 1: heart grow fonder for one year, it will make it
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Speaker 1: even more crazy when we do get back over there.
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Speaker 1: I just think that this virus is messing with some
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Speaker 1: things that people thought would never be messed with. And that's,
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Speaker 1: by the way, been the theme of the last two months.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely and that leads us right into big Things. Big
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Speaker 1: Thing one is no Flendon. Like we were just talking about,
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Speaker 1: the NFL announced all games will be played in the
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Speaker 1: United States in the season. That means to more home
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Speaker 1: games in Jacksonville that we were not accounting for. And
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Speaker 1: our next segment, Chad Johnson, Senior vice as of Sales
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Speaker 1: will join us talk much more about that big thing.
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Speaker 1: To a look at the running backs. The Jaguars have
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Speaker 1: announced they have declined Whenard Brnett's fifth beer option. He
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Speaker 1: will become a free agent after the season. They've signed
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Speaker 1: veteran Chris Thompson, So we'll dive into what this means
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Speaker 1: for the running backs this year with all of those
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Speaker 1: things going on at that position. And finally, Big Things three. John,
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Speaker 1: I don't like to say this, but you were right.
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Speaker 1: This unique and Gockway situation has gotten uglier, worse than
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Speaker 1: it expected to get better. We saw that with the
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Speaker 1: Twitter fight. When we're also taking into consideration Dave Cobbol's
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Speaker 1: comments after the draft saying, we expect you can Gockway
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Speaker 1: to be in Jacksonville, and when he comes back, we'll
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Speaker 1: welcome him with open arms. So let's start here, guys.
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Speaker 1: I think it's the most important thing today. It's almost
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Speaker 1: to the point now where it seems like Unique has
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Speaker 1: two options. It's either playing a Jaguars uniform or be
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Speaker 1: on the Jaguars and not play at all. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: I'll preface what I'm gonna say by saying, I have
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Speaker 1: no idea how to predict what this young man is
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Speaker 1: gonna do. I didn't think it was necessarily logical what
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Speaker 1: he did last year. I don't know that he always
5:11
Speaker 1: operates from a place that observers would consider logical. But
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Speaker 1: I also know that he's a prideful guy who doesn't
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Speaker 1: mind taking a stand, doesn't mind betting on himself. And
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Speaker 1: uh so, I don't really know how to preach whether
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Speaker 1: a player or not. Financially, it would behoove him to
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Speaker 1: play from a financial standpoint next year. Whenever it's time
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Speaker 1: to resign with somebody I also believe it would behoove
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Speaker 1: them to play for this reason. He said, under double
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Speaker 1: digit sacks two years in a row, he didn't get
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Speaker 1: the contract or the trade that he had hoped. I
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Speaker 1: still think he needs to prove himself a little bit
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Speaker 1: if he wants that big money contract. Those are the
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Speaker 1: reasons for himself that I think he may play next year.
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Speaker 1: I'd be surprised if he does didn't play. But considering
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Speaker 1: unique and the things that he's done that it has
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Speaker 1: surprised me already. Brian, it wouldn't shock me if he
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Speaker 1: doesn't play well. See, it would shock me because I
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Speaker 1: think a lot of players learned after Levian Bell's mistake
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Speaker 1: from eighteen. You know, he lost fourteen and a half
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Speaker 1: million dollars and then came back to the marketplace and
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Speaker 1: took a deal from the New York Jets that wasn't
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Speaker 1: equal to the deal that the Pittsburgh Steelers offered him.
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Speaker 1: So not only does he not get the money that
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Speaker 1: he thought that he was deserving of, but he he loves.
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Speaker 1: He leaves fifteen million dollars on the table that he'll
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Speaker 1: never get back. And if I'm unique in his people,
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Speaker 1: and I'm not Okay, I wouldn't have handled it the
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Speaker 1: way that they handled it in some situations. But I
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Speaker 1: have to look at Jadaveon Clowney and think, I mean,
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Speaker 1: this is a guy who was the first overall pick
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Speaker 1: in the draft and he's not getting anywhere near the
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Speaker 1: money that he wants so much so that he's staying
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Speaker 1: and waiting for offers at the very end, he's being patient.
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Speaker 1: So I would be shocked if he does that. You know,
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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't hang out with Unique. I don't
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Speaker 1: know him personally other than from the guy that I
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Speaker 1: meet locker room. And as you're surprised at that hanging
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Speaker 1: all the time, I'm going to get apecially Mago with
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Speaker 1: you tomorrow. Well, I look, if he wants to come out,
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Speaker 1: I'll get him one um. I had a conversation with
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Speaker 1: him when he came on a visit before he was drafted,
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Speaker 1: and one of the questions that I had to ask,
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Speaker 1: because it was one of those questions and answer was
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Speaker 1: what will you do with the money? Okay? Uniques a Catholic.
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Speaker 1: He pulled out his rosary and he held it out
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Speaker 1: and he said to me, I'm not about the money.
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Speaker 1: I'm about people. I'm going to help the people I
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Speaker 1: care about. Okay, that's never left me. I've never told
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Speaker 1: that story, but I've never forgotten that he's not that
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Speaker 1: thing money money money guy. He wants to get what
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Speaker 1: he deserves, but he's not a guy who is. If
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Speaker 1: he made seventeen new point million dollars next year, he
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Speaker 1: could be happy the rest of his life. Right. I
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Speaker 1: just don't think you could walk away from the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to be able to walk away if you have to.
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Speaker 1: So I think he comes in plays um. I think
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Speaker 1: Dave's offering of peace might even equal. Look, the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: are a hundred and thirty million under the cap next year.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if it's gardener An Minshew, if it's Trevor Lawrence,
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Speaker 1: whatever the quarterback situation is, they could pay him. They
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Speaker 1: could maybe find a deal and work a deal out.
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Speaker 1: I think he comes in any place, and I think
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Speaker 1: he's a pro, just like he has been. But we'll
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Speaker 1: here's some more grumbling before it's all said and done.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think this is far from over. But
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Speaker 1: I do agree with you, Brian. I was talking to
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Speaker 1: John before the show, and I always go back to
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Speaker 1: when he first came back during training camp, and I
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Speaker 1: couldn't help but to have the stick with me is
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Speaker 1: he kind of let everything go by the wayside. And
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Speaker 1: once that press conference hit and he addressed that he
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Speaker 1: was unhappy with the situation, we did not hear anything
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Speaker 1: else about that. The rest of the season. A pro
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Speaker 1: played every single practice, every game, So I think we
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Speaker 1: will hear more drama, but I think once it's all
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Speaker 1: said and done, lips will be sealed for the season.
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Speaker 1: Don't mistake me. He does not want to work for
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Speaker 1: less than he is worth, right, I'm just saying that
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Speaker 1: for a guy like that, it isn't that he's got
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Speaker 1: to have all that money so he can go out
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Speaker 1: and pended. He's a guy that's not gonna miss the
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Speaker 1: chance to make eighteen million bucks. Not with his background.
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Speaker 1: He'll be here. I agree. So let's quickly go into
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Speaker 1: a big thing too then, because it's kind of similar
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Speaker 1: declining Leonard for nets fifth year option. Now Leonard for
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Speaker 1: Net will be free agent after this season. I think,
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Speaker 1: along with Unique, it was in Leonard's best interest to
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Speaker 1: do exactly what he did last season over one thousand,
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Speaker 1: six hundred yards from scrimmage, making up almost thirty percent
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Speaker 1: of the Jaguars offense had a great year him leading
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Speaker 1: into this now almost possible new contracts. You expect Leonard
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Speaker 1: to want to have another huge year this year. But
9:34
Speaker 1: people are talking about these things like their unprecedented and
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Speaker 1: like the Jaguars have done something wrong to these players.
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Speaker 1: Players play under these situations all the time. Players play
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Speaker 1: on franchise tags. That's why the tag is invented. It's
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Speaker 1: very unusual to do with Lady on Bell does. It's
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Speaker 1: not unusual for the Jaguars to expect unique to show up.
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Speaker 1: It's not unusual for a player to play on the
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Speaker 1: fourth year option without the promise of the fifth year option.
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Speaker 1: At Leonard for an now, the incentive is just what
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Speaker 1: Ashlyn said. Leonard Fournet needs a monster year. If he
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Speaker 1: has a monster year, what the Jaguars did in in
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Speaker 1: not picking up his option plays incredibly to his favorite.
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Speaker 1: If he has a monster year, he hits free agency.
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Speaker 1: And he is a rock star. So he's certainly smart
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Speaker 1: enough to know that. And you know, I get these
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Speaker 1: questions all the time, how are they going to mend
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Speaker 1: the bridges, how are they gonna are they gonna reach
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Speaker 1: out to Leonard Fernet this is professional football. He may
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Speaker 1: not be happy every day. Unique may not be happy
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Speaker 1: with the contractor, but there's a dividing point. You can
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Speaker 1: be on board with the coaches and the players you
10:42
Speaker 1: work with and despise the front office. That's pretty calm
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Speaker 1: that saying these players despise it. But just because you're
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Speaker 1: in a contract thing doesn't mean you can't have comaradier
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Speaker 1: with the team. How about through my headphones. This has
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Speaker 1: got me riled up, Brian. Look, every Tuesday, Unique Leonard
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Speaker 1: can come back to their bank at count and see
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Speaker 1: that fat check sitting in their account and say, I
11:04
Speaker 1: can do this for six, seven, eight, nine, ten more weeks,
11:07
Speaker 1: whatever it is. I Ashley does that all the time
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Speaker 1: because I gotta work with Bryan or the check is
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Speaker 1: the happiness thing. Professional football is about the money, So
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Speaker 1: these guys want to get paid. They may not be
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Speaker 1: happy with every circumstance, and I'm sure that the people
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Speaker 1: who are watching this aren't happy with every circumstance in
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Speaker 1: their professional lives either. These guys will not walk away
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Speaker 1: from the income that is so beyond the average person's
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Speaker 1: ability to understand because they're unhappy that somebody disrespected them.
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Speaker 1: They'll take the money. Trust me, I haven't been happy
11:41
Speaker 1: since two thousand fourteen. Get over and Leonard picked a
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Speaker 1: bad year to be healthy for fifteen games. If you
11:51
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, he was healthy all season long.
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Speaker 1: What are the odds that that big, physical, bruising style
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Speaker 1: of running back will be healthy all fifteen games this year? Now,
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Speaker 1: I didn't think fifteen games was possible, so I could
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Speaker 1: be wrong, but man get it, he did it last year. Yeah,
12:10
Speaker 1: good luck to you, Leonard, go get the money. If
12:13
Speaker 1: he goes and gets the money, everybody wins. Yep, and
12:17
Speaker 1: we'll all be calling saying, Leonard, remember that one time
12:20
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Speaker 1: Tuesday morning. Masis thrilled to be joined the senior vice
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Speaker 1: who talked about it in Big Things, those two London
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Speaker 1: games that we have talked about so often, Now coming
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Speaker 1: back to Jacksonville. The NFL makes you a statement on Monday.
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Speaker 1: So first off chat before we get into that. How
15:04
Speaker 1: has business been with this coronavirus. I know you guys
15:06
Speaker 1: are still working hard on the phone, but this has
15:08
Speaker 1: had to be difficult. Yeah. You know, our original deadline
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15:20
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Speaker 1: But what's been encouraging is the week leading into the
15:26
Speaker 1: draft was our best week since the beginning of March,
15:29
Speaker 1: and it has continued coming out of the draft right now,
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Speaker 1: So that's very encouraging for us. You know, our staff
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15:42
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Speaker 1: encouraging and we've got some momentum to build on, and
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Speaker 1: this announcement just gives us one more piece to keep
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Speaker 1: moving forward. And I think the biggest question for fans
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Speaker 1: is now that there are two more home games in Jacksonville,
15:58
Speaker 1: how does that work with ticket ices, season ticket members?
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Speaker 1: How much does this now change the plan you guys
16:04
Speaker 1: originally had. Yeah, so we've had some fans that have
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Speaker 1: had a deadline yet. Both of those audiences will have
16:16
Speaker 1: the ability to add on the additional two games. You know,
16:19
Speaker 1: as you know, the schedule hasn't come out, so the
16:22
Speaker 1: opponents weren't announced as to who would be playing where.
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Speaker 1: So right now we'll go out to all those ticket
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Speaker 1: members and let them know they have the choice of
16:29
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16:33
Speaker 1: the original eight game package we went out with or
16:35
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16:38
Speaker 1: been calling today. Our staff was excited because the phones
16:41
Speaker 1: are really busy this morning when this news hit um
16:45
Speaker 1: and our goal has been the same, Phil t I
16:48
Speaker 1: a bank field for every game here in Jacksonville and
16:51
Speaker 1: create a home field advantage for our Jaguars. We now
16:53
Speaker 1: have two more opportunities to do that, and we're rolling
16:56
Speaker 1: our sleeves up and get into work. So how have
16:58
Speaker 1: you changed things to deal with the fluid situation you
17:02
Speaker 1: know that is the pandemic chet. How have you made
17:05
Speaker 1: the ticket process and the cost or adjustments so that
17:09
Speaker 1: people feel like it's a good value and it's flexible
17:14
Speaker 1: for them. Yeah, so right away, you know, we have
17:17
Speaker 1: a very large sales and service staff, and that's by intent.
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17:23
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17:26
Speaker 1: the very next day, reaching out, seeing how they're feelings,
17:29
Speaker 1: seeing what's happening, and hearing what's going on in their lives,
17:33
Speaker 1: and a lot of the plan that we built was
17:35
Speaker 1: based off of that feedback. There's some cautious optimism right now.
17:39
Speaker 1: I think we all feel it, but there's still some uncertainty.
17:42
Speaker 1: So what we tried to do is help erase the
17:44
Speaker 1: uncertainty and then give you options. What's so great about
17:48
Speaker 1: this back to Football flex plan. Not only do you
17:51
Speaker 1: have choices with your payments and how can you defer
17:54
Speaker 1: some of those payments, but we're offering a full cancelation
17:58
Speaker 1: refund policy, which is really kind of unheard of in sports.
18:02
Speaker 1: So if you decide to renew your tickets today and
18:05
Speaker 1: before the season, your situation changes, or you're not comfortable
18:09
Speaker 1: with where things are going, you can cancel that with
18:12
Speaker 1: no questions asked. So it kind of helps erase the uncertainty. Then, Brian,
18:17
Speaker 1: we saw to some of our fans maybe have a
18:19
Speaker 1: compromised immune system and may be forced to take the
18:22
Speaker 1: year off until the vaccines available. But we wouldn't want
18:26
Speaker 1: someone that's been sitting in those same seats for twenty
18:28
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18:31
Speaker 1: those cases, we will allow you to pause your season
18:34
Speaker 1: ticket membership, still keep the benefits throughout the year and engaged,
18:39
Speaker 1: and then rejoin us back in those same seats next year.
18:42
Speaker 1: And that's really kind of also an unheard of piece
18:44
Speaker 1: of the puzzle here that we really want to be
18:46
Speaker 1: accommodating to them. So I think this plan really addresses
18:50
Speaker 1: all of that, the uncertainty, the flexibility needed, and the choices.
18:54
Speaker 1: And so far today it's only a sample of size
18:56
Speaker 1: of a couple hours. Um phones ringing in. Our staff
19:00
Speaker 1: is excited, Yad. This strikes me as just a mammoth
19:05
Speaker 1: educational process that you guys are trying to get this
19:07
Speaker 1: message of people, but are you sensing from the people
19:10
Speaker 1: you've talked to on staff the fans are grasping it
19:13
Speaker 1: and there stuff. I mean, it's a lot to take
19:15
Speaker 1: in for fans and a lot to understand right. Yeah.
19:18
Speaker 1: By launching this plan with all the different components to
19:21
Speaker 1: it and choices and one year deferment plans and all that,
19:26
Speaker 1: it will take a lot of time. The reason we
19:28
Speaker 1: push that renewal deadline all the way back to June
19:30
Speaker 1: five is so that we give ourselves the time to
19:34
Speaker 1: talk to every season ticket member that needs to hear
19:37
Speaker 1: more about this. Like I mentioned just a minute ago,
19:40
Speaker 1: so far, the feedback has been fans are calling in,
19:44
Speaker 1: We're having long, meaningful conversations which at the end will
19:49
Speaker 1: produce results. We don't want them to have any uncertain
19:53
Speaker 1: terms about what lies ahead. So I think you know,
19:55
Speaker 1: I can track the call times and phone calls, and
19:59
Speaker 1: the amount of time per phone call really leading into
20:02
Speaker 1: the week of the draft is more than double what
20:05
Speaker 1: it traditionally would be. So that also tells me fans
20:08
Speaker 1: just are excited to talk about football again. M hm.
20:11
Speaker 1: Did you, Chad see the plan that the Dolphins made public? Uh?
20:17
Speaker 1: I assume that because you're from South Florida and you
20:20
Speaker 1: know that area well, that maybe you saw that. Do
20:22
Speaker 1: you have such a operational plan in place for this
20:26
Speaker 1: pall how things will be different in the stadium yet? Yeah?
20:29
Speaker 1: We're so we're working through that. We know that the
20:31
Speaker 1: league has always been on the forefront of safety and security.
20:34
Speaker 1: We've seen that in every aspect, whether it be the
20:36
Speaker 1: introduction of clear bags and mags and first generation plans. UM.
20:40
Speaker 1: We're still working through what the league will look for
20:44
Speaker 1: teams to do UM. So, I think although their plan
20:47
Speaker 1: is well thought out, it's a little early to understand
20:50
Speaker 1: what's going to happen in the future. But there will
20:52
Speaker 1: be a reopening protocol. It will be communicated and again
20:56
Speaker 1: going back to our plan, that's why we set that
20:59
Speaker 1: cancelation policy there, to make sure fans had that information,
21:03
Speaker 1: knew what the reopening protocol was, and would be comfortable
21:06
Speaker 1: with it going into the season. So we think we
21:08
Speaker 1: took that into account with our decisions. And I guess
21:11
Speaker 1: this is going to be a crazy question for the
21:13
Speaker 1: guy who runs the sales operation, but are you trying
21:15
Speaker 1: to sell every seat? Yeah? As of right now, we
21:18
Speaker 1: are still moving forward with football as usual and filling
21:23
Speaker 1: t I a bank field. When decisions are made that
21:26
Speaker 1: may have to adjust from that plan. I think we've
21:29
Speaker 1: shown to be nimble and even today we announced these
21:33
Speaker 1: two games coming back and right on the heels of
21:35
Speaker 1: it were able to come out with our new messaging,
21:37
Speaker 1: So I think we're preparing for all scenarios and h
21:41
Speaker 1: our fans are what are in our minds first and foremost, right,
21:45
Speaker 1: and that's everything we've built has been around retaining and
21:49
Speaker 1: growing our fan base and making sure we do so
21:52
Speaker 1: in a meaningful way. Absolutely, two more home games coming
21:56
Speaker 1: to Jackson Chat before we let you go. Of a
21:58
Speaker 1: fan has a question, wants to talk to someone, who
22:01
Speaker 1: can they call? Where can they go? Because I know
22:03
Speaker 1: this is a lot of information right now. Yeah, I'm
22:05
Speaker 1: sending everyone to our sales hotline, the nine oh four
22:08
Speaker 1: six three three two thousand number. Although that's the Jaguars
22:11
Speaker 1: ticket hotline, it is going to all of our reps
22:13
Speaker 1: who are working from home, so they're there to take it.
22:16
Speaker 1: And like we just discussed, it really takes a conversation
22:19
Speaker 1: and education conversation, so I encourage them to do that.
22:24
Speaker 1: I'm talking to many of them myself every day, and uh,
22:27
Speaker 1: it's just re energizing to see the spirit of our
22:30
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22:34
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Speaker 1: visit the ozone mail bag. We're starting off going very
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Speaker 1: far away to the North Pole and think, yes, the
25:12
Speaker 1: North Pole, Jason from the North Pole up has quite
25:15
Speaker 1: the question here, John, I'm beginning to feel like Unique
25:18
Speaker 1: will show up Week one, fake and injury and collect
25:21
Speaker 1: a paycheck. Every player is banged up during the season.
25:24
Speaker 1: We just operate under the assumption they do all they
25:26
Speaker 1: can to be on the field. He's gonna show up,
25:29
Speaker 1: collect his paycheck and hurt the rest of you. Jaguars
25:32
Speaker 1: fans are gunshot because what happened with Jalen. To me, first,
25:36
Speaker 1: Yawn's not that guy. Uh. I don't see that out
25:41
Speaker 1: of him. And unlike Jalen, Jalen was going to get
25:44
Speaker 1: traded for equity, for big time equity because he was
25:47
Speaker 1: perceived as the best cornerback in the NFL. Yahn's not
25:52
Speaker 1: perceived that way. As a defensive end. He's valuable, not
25:54
Speaker 1: that valuable. He has a lot to gain by showing
25:57
Speaker 1: up and playing. If he shows up, I don't think
26:00
Speaker 1: it could be a problem. The reason he's so prickly
26:03
Speaker 1: in the locker room all the time. Is because he
26:05
Speaker 1: cares intensely and b is a little sensitive, um, but
26:10
Speaker 1: he cares intensely. He's not the kind of guy that's
26:13
Speaker 1: ever going to let people point and say, well, he's
26:15
Speaker 1: not trying. Ben is not going to let that happen. No,
26:19
Speaker 1: I don't want to be that guy. Let's go to
26:21
Speaker 1: unhip cats here. Regarding tank for Trevor, I'm not sure
26:26
Speaker 1: how that could work what Gardner mentioned the second would
26:28
Speaker 1: be in on it, or would there be a player's
26:30
Speaker 1: accept Gardner only meeting and they just wouldn't tell him
26:33
Speaker 1: that they were tanking for Trevor. Brian is tanking thing
26:38
Speaker 1: is one of these things that it um. It's fun
26:43
Speaker 1: to say for fans on Twitter, and it's I guess
26:47
Speaker 1: it's interesting to talk about on ESPN on their round tables,
26:50
Speaker 1: but it just doesn't work. And I had Dave Caldwell
26:53
Speaker 1: in the ozone podcast this week and I sort of
26:55
Speaker 1: asked about a little bit and he said, look, we
26:58
Speaker 1: have an owner who wants to win in now it's
27:02
Speaker 1: it's doubly absurd to think that this team would do it.
27:05
Speaker 1: But no team does Anyway, GMS don't go into seasons
27:07
Speaker 1: like that. Coaches, They're not tanking for Trevor. And the
27:11
Speaker 1: biggest thing about this is even if they have a
27:13
Speaker 1: bad roster, which I don't think they do, it takes
27:17
Speaker 1: the quarterback being awful to go one in fifteen or
27:21
Speaker 1: two and fourteen. Everything has I don't know what Gardner
27:24
Speaker 1: Minshew is, but I do know he's good enough to
27:27
Speaker 1: sneak out and will use some wins somewhere on the line.
27:31
Speaker 1: If you wanted to tank for Trevor, you wouldn't be
27:34
Speaker 1: starting Gardner Minshew. Well, how did the tanking for to
27:37
Speaker 1: a go for the Dolphins late one? Were they won
27:41
Speaker 1: four or five games there at the end of the
27:43
Speaker 1: season and they were sitting at five and they weren't
27:46
Speaker 1: guaranteed to us. I mean with the with the Lions
27:49
Speaker 1: and the Giants both talking up until draft today about
27:53
Speaker 1: being open for people who wanted to to jump up,
27:55
Speaker 1: they had to wait. They ended up getting to at
27:58
Speaker 1: number five. Now, the flip side of that is I
28:00
Speaker 1: understand why people say it because Trevor Lawrence looks to
28:03
Speaker 1: be the surest thing since Peyton Manning, right. I mean,
28:07
Speaker 1: if you could have Peyton Manning and open door to
28:10
Speaker 1: long term sustained winning. I might say, yeah, I take that,
28:14
Speaker 1: but I get the owner, the coaches, the players. They
28:17
Speaker 1: can't think about next year because they could all be
28:19
Speaker 1: gone next year. Their career could be over next year,
28:22
Speaker 1: you know, Coaches get five, players get injured. They're playing
28:26
Speaker 1: for the here and now. Fans think about the tank
28:28
Speaker 1: for Tah and what tanking for Tuah Trevor is is
28:32
Speaker 1: in their minds saying Okay, we lost this week. I'll
28:35
Speaker 1: live with it because that's what I want the end
28:37
Speaker 1: goal to be. Oh we lost this week, I'll live
28:39
Speaker 1: with it because that's what I want the end goal
28:41
Speaker 1: to be. That's how people justify the losing. Um. But
28:45
Speaker 1: for the people in the building, John, as you said,
28:47
Speaker 1: there is no way, it's hard to express how far
28:51
Speaker 1: they are from that thought. Yeah when your one, yeah,
28:58
Speaker 1: or it's almost an insult a few to bring that
29:01
Speaker 1: up in the locker room. Yeah, Like, don't don't talk
29:03
Speaker 1: about that here, not today, not to season, not ever.
29:07
Speaker 1: Let's go to read from the Ozone comments section. Hi, John,
29:11
Speaker 1: what's the difference between retooling, a reset, and a rebuild
29:15
Speaker 1: when it comes to the NFL team roster management. You
29:19
Speaker 1: don't even know anymore. I mean, it's another question that
29:22
Speaker 1: I had with Calledwell when we talked, you know, rebuild, retool, whatever.
29:28
Speaker 1: It was interesting when I talked to Dave about it
29:30
Speaker 1: because I went down the road of this question and
29:33
Speaker 1: the automatically said, what it is for us is we
29:37
Speaker 1: think we're better than we were last year. Now that
29:40
Speaker 1: seems absurd, Brian, to people who see, well, Klaiis isn't
29:43
Speaker 1: here and a J boy is not here. But I've
29:45
Speaker 1: been saying for three or four weeks when they traded
29:48
Speaker 1: those guys, they believe that those players are there on
29:51
Speaker 1: the end of their career and that they will be
29:53
Speaker 1: better overall in the direction they're going. You don't insult
29:57
Speaker 1: those guys on the way out, but they're late in
29:59
Speaker 1: their career and they had been playing to the level
30:01
Speaker 1: that people thought they were. This team believes they're better.
30:05
Speaker 1: I don't know if they are, don't know they are
30:07
Speaker 1: until the season starts, but there's no thought among the
30:09
Speaker 1: people running this that they're not better than they were
30:12
Speaker 1: three months ago. Okay, so let me define it. Um,
30:14
Speaker 1: you're rebuilding. If you finish with three or fewer wins,
30:18
Speaker 1: you are retooling if you finish with three to six wins,
30:23
Speaker 1: and you are resetting if you finished with more wins
30:25
Speaker 1: than last year. So if they win seven games, they're resetting, right.
30:30
Speaker 1: People want they want to know what it means. Well,
30:32
Speaker 1: I mean, there you go. I mean you are in
30:34
Speaker 1: full rebuild if you can't even get up off the
30:37
Speaker 1: ground like you said with the quarterback, and you are
30:40
Speaker 1: retooling meaning you're letting the calais is in the A
30:43
Speaker 1: J's go and bringing in new player and that means
30:46
Speaker 1: it's gonna be rocky. And maybe you finished somewhere in
30:48
Speaker 1: your last year. Um, and you're resetting, meaning hey, we
30:51
Speaker 1: pushed this button here and all of a sudden we
30:53
Speaker 1: had a team. As Dave said, it was better than
30:55
Speaker 1: last year's team, and we won seven games. So there's
30:58
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31:02
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33:54
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33:58
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Speaker 1: I'm clawing. Yeah. So, guys, we have no really date,
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34:16
Speaker 1: work at any point and be back in the stadium.
34:18
Speaker 1: A lot of talk right now there's even gonna be
34:20
Speaker 1: a football season. But rough estmate, when do you guys
34:23
Speaker 1: foresee this getting back to normal football? Wyes, Well, you know,
34:29
Speaker 1: I have no idea on that front. I would expect
34:33
Speaker 1: us probably sometime and maybe June would be the most optimistic.
34:38
Speaker 1: I guess I've heard some mid May dates kicked around,
34:40
Speaker 1: but it just feels like no team is going to
34:43
Speaker 1: be able to do anything until all teams can do something.
34:47
Speaker 1: Uh So, not really knowing what other states have to do,
34:51
Speaker 1: I think we will be one of the last to
34:52
Speaker 1: go back here locally. But that's just a guesstimate on
34:54
Speaker 1: my part. Rind, Well, when you look at the things
34:57
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34:59
Speaker 1: if if the NFL opens their doors and starts letting
35:03
Speaker 1: teams back in and people get sick and they have
35:07
Speaker 1: to close them up again, it would seem to be
35:09
Speaker 1: a setback. I don't think there's any rush for the
35:11
Speaker 1: League to allow people in. If the virginal is working, um,
35:17
Speaker 1: they would do better to procrastinate and put it off
35:20
Speaker 1: and give themselves more time to get into the summer,
35:23
Speaker 1: have this thing die down a little bit. I don't
35:25
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35:28
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35:33
Speaker 1: June because of all the states that are opening their
35:35
Speaker 1: models say that we'll see a lot more fatalities per
35:39
Speaker 1: day in June. My guess is is that we're not
35:42
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35:47
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35:54
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35:57
Speaker 1: open it up, And when you take in all the
36:00
Speaker 1: political economic factors, I just think the League is not
36:03
Speaker 1: in a rush right now. There's no reason to do it,
36:06
Speaker 1: and so they're not going to and we're not going
36:09
Speaker 1: to see the light of day for a while. You're
36:12
Speaker 1: not being in a rush is the key, Ryan, I
36:14
Speaker 1: think what's their risk right now? If you have been
36:18
Speaker 1: working from home? I think what you said is the key.
36:23
Speaker 1: Why rush it when the only thing that can really
36:26
Speaker 1: happen is maybe negative as opposed to any perceived positives. Well,
36:31
Speaker 1: it's just just set back. It just it means that
36:33
Speaker 1: we have to go into this quarantine period again in
36:35
Speaker 1: the league, and there's gonna you're gonna see it. There's
36:38
Speaker 1: going to be people in the league, coaches, players, broadcasters,
36:42
Speaker 1: there are gonna be people who get sick, and it's
36:44
Speaker 1: going to raise that question do they do this too soon?
36:47
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter who the president is, it doesn't matter
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36:52
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36:55
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36:58
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37:00
Speaker 1: league can be patient and try to wait this thing out.
37:04
Speaker 1: To the point, look, teams are just gonna get used
37:07
Speaker 1: to the fact that this is going to be a
37:08
Speaker 1: difficult season, all right. I guess we all could adopt
37:11
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37:14
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