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Offseason Program Begins, Pederson & Baalke Prepare for Draft | Week in Review: April 21 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: This is the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend Review Podcasts presented by
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Speaker 1: TIAA Bank. I'm JP Shadwick with the best of the
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Speaker 1: week from Jaggs Radio, Jaguars dot Com, and our social
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Speaker 1: channels Jaguars Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. It's Friday, April twenty first,
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Speaker 1: and we're one week less than one week now to
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Speaker 1: the NFL Draft. Plenty of pre draft talk coming up,
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Speaker 1: but it was also week one of the offseason program
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Speaker 1: for the veterans, and we heard from three Jaguars players
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Speaker 1: at the podium speaking with the media earlier this week,
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Speaker 1: including quarterback Trevor Lawrence. On the Huddle Up Podcast Wednesday afternoon,
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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks, John Oser and I recapped the comments from
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Speaker 1: the third year signal caller. There are some expectations from
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Speaker 1: outside the building, Bucky, but you know Trevor said it.
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Speaker 1: We'll hear from them coming up. You know, they can't
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Speaker 1: worry about the outside expectations. It's about carrying what they
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Speaker 1: did and moving on and getting better week to week.
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Speaker 2: Yes, that's always about that. It has to be an
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Speaker 2: emphasis on the Jacks. It can't be about anybody else.
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Speaker 2: This offseason has to be about finding a way to
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Speaker 2: be better than they were last year, the last time
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Speaker 2: we saw them, and even though we can express satisfact
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Speaker 2: in the fact that they made the postseason they won
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Speaker 2: the division, still a lot of room to improve, and
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Speaker 2: so this year the bar will be raised. I think
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Speaker 2: Doug Peterson and company will certainly raise the bar because
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Speaker 2: this team has big time potential and so now it's
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Speaker 2: about pushing them to see if they can realize that
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Speaker 2: potential next season.
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence on the expectations from the outside and turning
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Speaker 1: them off.
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Speaker 3: Last year didn't in the way we wanted it to.
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Speaker 3: So it's you know, obviously it was a good year
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Speaker 3: for our team, for the city fits organization, but there's
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Speaker 3: more out there. I think we've set a new standard
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Speaker 3: of you know, who we're going to be, the team
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Speaker 3: we're going to be, and we got to start that
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Speaker 3: way this year, and so that's the mindset. I think
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Speaker 3: we don't really think about those expectations much because all
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Speaker 3: we can do is just try to keep getting better,
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Speaker 3: and we know for us, we feel like that's the floor.
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Speaker 3: So I mean, that's really the only expectations we think
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Speaker 3: of that for ourselves. But I just don't think it's
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Speaker 3: good to pay attention to that stuff.
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Speaker 1: More from the quarterback Trevor Lawrence earlier on Wednesday, and
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Speaker 1: for the first time in his NFL career, he's not
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Speaker 1: having to learn a brand new offense this offseason.
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Speaker 3: There's some I guess comfort in knowing that I already
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Speaker 3: know the system, and our guys, our core group of
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Speaker 3: guys already know obviously, you know, you get Calvin and
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Speaker 3: some guys up front, and then you know some some
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Speaker 3: new running backs all that that need to get up
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Speaker 3: to speed. But that'll happen, and we have so much
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Speaker 3: time to do it. I think it was nice this
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Speaker 3: off season being able to focus, you know, a little
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Speaker 3: bit more just on the physical side of you know,
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Speaker 3: training and get my body right, especially after a long year,
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Speaker 3: you know, with some just lingering, you know, maybe injuries,
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Speaker 3: little stuff from the season. So had a chance to
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Speaker 3: take a little break, help some of that heel up
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Speaker 3: and then really just you know, work on my body
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Speaker 3: and obviously prepping and there's things, you know, you watch
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Speaker 3: tape and you figure out some of the weaknesses from
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Speaker 3: last year individually as an offense, some of the strengths,
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Speaker 3: so you kind of figure out the stuff that you
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Speaker 3: want to work on. I was able to focus more
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Speaker 3: on that than already got a whole new system I
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Speaker 3: have to learn and I don't really you know, have
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Speaker 3: to kind of start from scratch. So it was nice
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Speaker 3: having that comfort and knowing, you know, I know the
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Speaker 3: system and that's not an opswallman to have to really
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Speaker 3: face this year. But now it's just how do we
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Speaker 3: take that next step, you know, for myself and for the.
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Speaker 1: Offense, Bucky, He's said a keyword there. Comfort. That's a
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Speaker 1: big step in the right direction. When you can just
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Speaker 1: walk into a place now you have that comfort level
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Speaker 1: and you can build upon things offensively.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, comfort is everything, and so being in the same
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Speaker 2: offense back to back years will certainly help him. The
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Speaker 2: familiarity in terms of the language, the familiarity with the
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Speaker 2: players around him and even the coaching staff that should
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Speaker 2: allow him to play better. And then the big thing
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Speaker 2: is nat that Doug Peterson knows exactly who he's working with,
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Speaker 2: what the strengths and weaknesses are. You now can begin
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Speaker 2: to expand the offense, making sure that you accinuate the stremps,
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Speaker 2: you minimize the weaknesses, and you always put number.
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Speaker 1: Sixteen in a position to succeed.
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Speaker 2: This should be a lot of fun to continue to
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Speaker 2: see how they kind of push the envelope over the
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Speaker 2: course of the off season until we have an opportunity
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Speaker 2: to watch the final product in September.
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Speaker 4: It doesn't grab headlines JP because we don't have proof.
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Speaker 4: But when you ask me, where can they improve the
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Speaker 4: most as a football team in the off season, meaning
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Speaker 4: you talk about the draft, you talk about free agency,
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Speaker 4: you talk about Cummington goings, Jwan Taylor leaving other people
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Speaker 4: coming that improvement, the ability for this offense to go
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Speaker 4: from what they were to keep improving under Trevor, or
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Speaker 4: under Trevor and Doug. That's where they're going to make
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Speaker 4: their biggest improvement. If this offense improves like you think
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Speaker 4: it should. The addition to Ridley will help, but Lawrence's
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Speaker 4: growth him going from a year two quarterback to a
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Speaker 4: year three. They weren't that far from being super Bowl
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Speaker 4: champions last year. Trevor Lawrence taking a jump, being consistent,
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Speaker 4: one more series of game, six more points a game.
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Speaker 4: That's where they're really going to get better. The other
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Speaker 4: stuff beyond the quarter position on this team. It's nice.
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Speaker 4: You have to support it.
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Speaker 1: He's the story The Huddle Up Podcast, available now in
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Speaker 1: the Official Jaguars Podcast Network and Jaguars dot Com. It
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Speaker 1: runs each Wednesday. Let's move down to wide receiver Calvin Ridley.
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Speaker 1: He visited with the Jacksonville Media for the first time
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Speaker 1: since his reinstatement by the NFL, and he's very confident
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Speaker 1: in his ability to return to form after nearly two
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Speaker 1: full seasons away from football.
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Speaker 5: Man, if I'm being real, I'm being honest. It's like
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Speaker 5: I've been good at football all my life, not to
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Speaker 5: be I'm trying to be humble.
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 5: Like I said, I've been pretty good at football all
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Speaker 5: my life. And I not only been good, I also
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Speaker 5: worked to be good. And you know, they say two
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Speaker 5: years off, But what about the healing process that I
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Speaker 5: got to be with that time off?
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Speaker 1: What about what if I got faster? What if I
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Speaker 1: got stronger?
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Speaker 5: Obviously I got wiser.
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Speaker 1: Why can't I be better? So I kind of look
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Speaker 1: at it like that.
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Speaker 5: Obviously, you know, two years off, I gotta go through
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Speaker 5: the tightness, the leg tightness, to go through all the crap.
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Speaker 5: But I mean, I see myself being a good player.
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Speaker 3: I do.
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Speaker 1: In an article he wrote for The Players Tribune, he
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Speaker 1: talked about being a fourteen hundred yard receiver, and he
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Speaker 1: explained that mindset again Wednesday.
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Speaker 5: I am a fourteen hundred yard type of player. Guy
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Speaker 5: is gonna determine what type of stats I.
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Speaker 1: Am gonna have.
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Speaker 5: And you know, football is not just you know, football
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Speaker 5: is serious. I mean, you don't just play seventeen games
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Speaker 5: straight and think you're gonna be in every one of
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Speaker 5: them and playing healthy in all of them. So what
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Speaker 5: I'm saying is, I am a fourteen hundred yard receiver.
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Speaker 1: Would have broke foot, you know what I'm saying. That's
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
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Speaker 5: So I know that I can make the plays and
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Speaker 5: I know that I'm one of the better receivers in
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Speaker 5: this league.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Finally, at the podium, defensive Captain
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Speaker 1: Foyer ya Luakan, the Jaguars linebacker who led the league
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Speaker 1: in tackles last season, but he still has plenty of
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Speaker 1: adjustments to make entering year two in the Jags defensive scheme.
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Speaker 7: It's really understanding the ski, understanding my teammates next to me,
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Speaker 7: and then we can all communicate together. So it's not
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Speaker 7: you know, I've been in the league a long time
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Speaker 7: it's not me communicating what I'm seeing, what I'm anticipating,
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Speaker 7: This kind of bouncing ideas off each other before the play,
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Speaker 7: seeing what we're seeing even during the play. So all
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Speaker 7: these guys coming under expect this guy coming over, you
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Speaker 7: know what I'm saying. So kind of the experience that
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Speaker 7: we all have of playing together and then within the
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Speaker 7: same scheme, being able to play faster, being one step
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Speaker 7: ahead of what we were was last year. Because I
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Speaker 7: definitely want to improve on what I did last year.
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Speaker 7: As a defense, what we did last year. We gotta
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Speaker 7: make more things happen.
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Speaker 1: Trent Balky and head coach Doug peters send with their
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Speaker 1: final public comments before the twenty twenty three NFL Draft.
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Speaker 1: Plus NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah gives us some options
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Speaker 1: Now for the pre draft comments from GM Trent Balke
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Speaker 1: and head coach Doug Peterson. They both spoke of the
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Speaker 1: pre drafts media luncheon Thursday at the bank and new
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Speaker 1: team reporter Kay Stevens and I recap some of the
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Speaker 1: highlights on Jaguars Happy Hour Radio Thursday afternoon. Today though
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Speaker 1: the annual pre draft media luncheon, Trent Balke and Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson speaking with the media, but they didn't really say
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Speaker 1: a whole lot at all. It's a tradition really unlike
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Speaker 1: any other, but bulky on the balance of value versus
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Speaker 1: need in the draft, especially in round one.
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Speaker 6: You're still setting the board based on value and then
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Speaker 6: once it's placed. Once you've got the board set on value,
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Speaker 6: then you start looking at the needs. You don't want
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Speaker 6: to push players up the board value wise just because
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Speaker 6: you have a need at that position. But we'll you know,
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Speaker 6: I've been doing this a while now, and most of.
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Speaker 1: The time the value in need come together.
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Speaker 6: You know, very few times if I looked at the
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Speaker 6: board and said, well, there's just no value at the
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Speaker 6: position of need that we have. You know, sometimes it's
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Speaker 6: a little it might be a card off, but it's
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Speaker 6: still close enough where you can address the need.
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Speaker 1: And he went on to say, kind a little later,
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Speaker 1: you know, later in the draft, you might be able
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Speaker 1: to push up a little further on need. Hey, we
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Speaker 1: really kind of need an extra player at this position.
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Speaker 1: Let's go get this guy in the fifth, sixth, seventh round.
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Speaker 1: But early, Hey, it is a balance and usually it
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Speaker 1: does come together. He's been at this, as he said,
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Speaker 1: for a long time, long time GM in San Francisco,
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Speaker 1: so he understands how a board can fall and you
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Speaker 1: just have to be patient at twenty four too. That's
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Speaker 1: the other trick of this thing.
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Speaker 9: And it's a little bit different for him, right because
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Speaker 9: this is the fourth draft that he's had. But you know,
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Speaker 9: you're not at the top of the list this time
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Speaker 9: because you guys had such a great season last year,
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Speaker 9: so picking up this position, obviously, these are the meat,
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Speaker 9: and you know that's the meat of your roster, right
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Speaker 9: these mid round guys, not necessarily late first round. But
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Speaker 9: I'm curious to see which way they go with it. Obviously,
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Speaker 9: there's still the option that you might trade back and
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Speaker 9: get a couple more picks out of it, and he's
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Speaker 9: not going to tell us, of course, so we can
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Speaker 9: just hypothesize about that all day.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, he's not scared to pull the trigger on
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Speaker 1: a trade on draft day. He's done that throughout his career,
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Speaker 1: both in San Francisco and and Jacksonville. Well, he also
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Speaker 1: mentioned today that there is a pretty specific number of
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Speaker 1: players they are truly considering in this draft. A little
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Speaker 1: bit of a surprise from Bulky.
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Speaker 6: You know, we have a specific way we set up
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Speaker 6: the board. So well it sounds like one hundred and
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Speaker 6: twenty seven, there's there's more numbers baked in there. Those
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Speaker 6: are the one hundred and twenty seven that we really
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Speaker 6: feel fit the culture we want and fit the value
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Speaker 6: that we have placed on him, and really, you know,
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Speaker 6: all the stars aligned. There's other there's other fallbacks that
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Speaker 6: we would go to, but really we're picking from one
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Speaker 6: to twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: And those are, as he said, perfect prospects in their eyes, right,
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Speaker 1: players on the field tape numbers to go with that
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Speaker 1: culture fits. Those are the perfect prospects that you really want.
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Speaker 1: And what there's how many picks. There are two hundred
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Speaker 1: and late two hundreds picks one hundred and twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: They're truly considering interesting.
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Speaker 9: It's mind boggling when you actually think about it, because
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Speaker 9: you've got to be like, how have you seen that
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Speaker 9: many players and actually like know or think that they
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Speaker 9: would fit in. Well, but I guess I mean a
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Speaker 9: lot of it's guests work when you get into the
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Speaker 9: later rounds. Of course, in terms of the top talent,
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Speaker 9: these guys are so talented, right, so it feels like
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Speaker 9: I can't miss and obviously there are misses, but the
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Speaker 9: talent in the first couple of rounds, it's just you know,
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Speaker 9: picking which one you.
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Speaker 1: Want, Yeah, and you know. And then he was asked
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Speaker 1: about this too. Doug Peterson was asked about this, and
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Speaker 1: at the end there Bulky was talking about, Hey, you know,
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Speaker 1: there are some other things we can go to if
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Speaker 1: one of the guys doesn't follow in those one twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: Do they fit in the culture of the locker room? Well,
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson wants asked about that if for some reason
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Speaker 1: there's something missing there. The locker room kind of handles
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Speaker 1: it themselves.
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Speaker 10: Our scouts do an outstanding job of of you know,
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Speaker 10: spending time with players and family members and as Trent say,
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Speaker 10: coaches and anybody we can talk to to get answers
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Speaker 10: on on on players and and so we feel like
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Speaker 10: the ones that are on the board are all great
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Speaker 10: fits for us, you know, and and again, but our
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Speaker 10: locker room can absorb that. And and you know, they
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Speaker 10: either buy in or they won't be here.
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Speaker 1: That's that's that's a fact that's for sure. In this
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Speaker 1: locker room is fantastic. Obviously, the last couple of years
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Speaker 1: of free agency, some veteran players drafted guys who've come
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Speaker 1: in to lead the way. So you better fit in
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Speaker 1: or if you don't, you will quickly and if not,
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Speaker 1: you're out of here in a hurry too.
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Speaker 9: Trent said the same thing, right, He was like, there's
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Speaker 9: tons of people that are talented, but they're just not
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Speaker 9: going to fit in here. And that's really important to
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Speaker 9: them obviously what they've been able to do in just
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Speaker 9: one season since Doug's been here, and they returned a
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Speaker 9: lot of that. So you'll have that set up ready
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Speaker 9: to go for whoever the rookies end up being. And
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Speaker 9: since it's like a strong core that's returning that is
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Speaker 9: not going to let anybody mess with the culture. They
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Speaker 9: should be pretty much set.
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy. Our radio airs Thursday at four o'clock on
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Speaker 1: ten ten Xlamjaguars dot com and Jaguars Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
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Speaker 1: Let's close this week with a piece of my conversation
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Speaker 1: with NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah. He was an area
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Speaker 1: scout for three different NFL teams in his career and
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Speaker 1: now has been a longtime analyst with NFL Network. He
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Speaker 1: took over the lead draft analyst role when Mike Mayock
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Speaker 1: took the Raiders GM job some years ago. Jeremiah and
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Speaker 1: I talked through some options for the Jaguars at number
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Speaker 1: twenty four. Overall, it's a much different place to be
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Speaker 1: in the first round than at number one, of course,
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Speaker 1: like the last two years, but the approach to the
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Speaker 1: preparation doesn't change too much.
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Speaker 11: I think it's not as different as maybe people would think.
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Speaker 11: I mean, obviously one to one is different. I mean
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Speaker 11: that's a different deal. But the difference between picking ten
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Speaker 11: and picking in the mid twenties, I don't think is
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Speaker 11: that great in a year like this one specifically, but
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Speaker 11: also you know, usually you know who's going to go,
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Speaker 11: you know, in those top picks, you know, those names
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Speaker 11: that are going to be gone at that point in time,
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Speaker 11: and I'm sure you know, the Jags can eliminate probably
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Speaker 11: eight to ten guys that they're fairly certain they are
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Speaker 11: going to be gone, and they can narrow their focus
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Speaker 11: for that first round pick on ten to fifteen names.
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Speaker 11: So you know whether or not they were picking ten
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Speaker 11: or picking in the mid twenties, you know, I think
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Speaker 11: the preparations is very similar, and they've probably locked in
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Speaker 11: and at this point in time, I'm sure they know
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Speaker 11: exactly what they're doing, but they probably narrowed that down
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Speaker 11: to three or four guys. They feel pretty good about
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Speaker 11: getting one of them, and maybe there's somebody that's within,
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Speaker 11: you know, within their culture and their belief system that
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Speaker 11: they're high enough on that they would even consider maybe
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Speaker 11: trying to move up a little bit to get.
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Speaker 1: Daniels Jeremiah with us. And we know Trent Balkey's history,
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Speaker 1: he's not afraid to move around in drafts that he
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Speaker 1: has controlled, both in San Francisco and of course now
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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville with the Jaguars. Three drafts in his two
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Speaker 1: drafts in control, here a bunch of those in San Francisco,
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Speaker 1: of course, but you know they've got the draft equity
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Speaker 1: to do some moving. There's three six round picks. I
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Speaker 1: don't know how much that can equate for a first
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Speaker 1: round move though, right.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, no, it's it's an interesting draft. It just kind
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Speaker 11: of depends on what you're targeting, and you can find
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Speaker 11: the ammunition being in this year's haul or next year's group.
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Speaker 11: If you want to find the picks to move up.
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Speaker 11: You know he's got the ammunition to go ahead and
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Speaker 11: get that accomplished. So to me, the only position that
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Speaker 11: would make sense probably on a move up, it would
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Speaker 11: be the tackle position, or you know, if they're looking
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Speaker 11: offensive line, that would be an area you could look to.
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Speaker 11: But outside of that, I mean, you know, corners there's depth,
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Speaker 11: edgdreshers there's depth. You know, there's a lot of different
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Speaker 11: areas they could go just sitting and picking where they are.
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Speaker 1: DJ. Let's get into some of these position groups, and
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Speaker 1: you mentioned the offensive line. Let's start off with the
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Speaker 1: idea of tackle. Of course, Juwan Taylor is in Kansas
16:57
Speaker 1: City and left in free agency, so you know they've
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Speaker 1: got Walker Little who can play there. Cam Robinson's on
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Speaker 1: the left side. They just got Josh Wells as the
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Speaker 1: swing tackle. He's an older player now, so that could
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Speaker 1: be a position of need down the line here for
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Speaker 1: this team. So you know, at twenty four or if
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Speaker 1: they move up, a guy like Darnell Right of Tennessee,
17:17
Speaker 1: is he a guy you could see that deep Well, yeah, I.
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Speaker 11: Don't think he'll get there. He's a really good player
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Speaker 11: on tape this year specifically, you know, look at him
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Speaker 11: the year before, he was a little up and down.
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Speaker 11: This year was very consistent start to finish. I mean
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Speaker 11: that to me, is going to come down to their
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Speaker 11: belief in Walker Little and how high they are inside
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Speaker 11: the building there of what he's going to continue to
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Speaker 11: grow into and be as he's given that opportunity. But
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Speaker 11: I think this draft is unique in that we've got
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Speaker 11: some kind of some guys that have some inside outside
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Speaker 11: versatility and flexibility. You know, if you're asking me, they
17:50
Speaker 11: always look at these different scenarios and say, Okay, who's
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Speaker 11: like a wild card player that nobody's talking about that
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Speaker 11: you could see sneak into the first round. Matthew bergeron
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Speaker 11: to me is an interesting one. Somebody who can play
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Speaker 11: tackle can play guard. I know, teams are trying to
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Speaker 11: find that flexibility. Now when you deal with the seventeen
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Speaker 11: game season, you're going to have guys in and out
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Speaker 11: of the lineup. You know, to have guys that can
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Speaker 11: you know, play inside, can play outside. Man, there's a
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Speaker 11: lot of value there at this point in time. So
18:17
Speaker 11: you know, I go through the jags and look at
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Speaker 11: you know, where the priority would be. I still think
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Speaker 11: corner is going to be sky high. You know, you
18:24
Speaker 11: look at defensive tackles, somebody in an area they could address,
18:29
Speaker 11: and then you know, looking at you know, adding continue
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Speaker 11: to add more and more weapons that I think all
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Speaker 11: these teams in the AFC, and you saw it, you
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Speaker 11: saw it up close last year in the playoffs, like
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Speaker 11: you can't have enough firepower when you've got the kind
18:42
Speaker 11: of the the Patrick Mahomes, the ghost of Patrick Mahomes
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Speaker 11: out there knowing what it's going to take to knock
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Speaker 11: them off on the postseason. If you've got a really
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Speaker 11: good offense, you still want more.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's aiming for thirty points per game. That's what it's
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Speaker 1: going to take. That that was the league high of
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Speaker 1: course last season. Daniel Jeremiah with us NFL Network, let's
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Speaker 1: touch on some of those corners. Now though I know
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Speaker 1: you mentioned firepower, but this is a group in Jacksonville
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Speaker 1: that doesn't have shat Griffin anymore. He was banged up
19:10
Speaker 1: last season. Now he's gone. Darius Williams good player, thirty
19:14
Speaker 1: years of age though now and moved outside towards the
19:17
Speaker 1: end of the season. Played a little better there. We'll
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Speaker 1: see what his future in the long term. Holes and
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Speaker 1: they love Tyson Campbell. So the last mack I think
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Speaker 1: you had. I know there's so many mocks out there, DJ,
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Speaker 1: but the last one you had, I think had Deontay
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Speaker 1: Banks from Maryland to the Jaguars. What kind of player
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Speaker 1: is he and what else could be in play there
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Speaker 1: for a cornerback?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean Banks is highweight, speed, he's big, he's physical,
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Speaker 11: He's some way that can play in a variety techniques.
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Speaker 11: You want to let him get up in your face,
19:46
Speaker 11: he can do that. He can play press man. He's
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Speaker 11: pretty fluid and smooth and off coverage. So he's a really,
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Speaker 11: really good football player. And I think that's about the
19:56
Speaker 11: range of where he goes. I think he ends up
19:57
Speaker 11: going in the twenties when it's all said and done.
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Speaker 11: Emmanuel Forbes is kind of a wildcard just because of
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Speaker 11: the size. His tape is outstanding come out of Mississippi State,
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Speaker 11: So you know, you look what he can bring from
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Speaker 11: a playmaking standpoint, and he's got six career pick sixes.
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Speaker 11: Has been talked about a bunch, but this guy's good
20:16
Speaker 11: at playmaking a corner, as we've seen. So if you're
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Speaker 11: at Jacksonville, you anticipate this offense being dynamic and being explosive,
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Speaker 11: and you know you want to play with the lead.
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Speaker 11: Somebody that can go get football. Forbes would probably even
20:29
Speaker 11: be a better fit from that standpoint if you're going
20:31
Speaker 11: to compare those two guys really really good football players,
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Speaker 11: but I actually really like to fit with Forbes there
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Speaker 11: as well.
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