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International Fan of the Year, Maria Gigante, Louis Rees-Zammit & The New GM · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It's ten degrees in Oxford, seven in Ballet Castle, twenty
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  Speaker 1: four in Jacksonville. Actually, that's where we've just been kind
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  Speaker 1: of sort of but no, but not really watching the
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  Speaker 1: press conference with the brand new Jacksonville Jankuers General manager online.
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  Speaker 2: Key, Welcome to Duvald James Gladstone.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we need a random applause, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not quite the same and it's just me and you,
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  Speaker 1: is it? No, sounds pathetic, absolutely pathetic. Oh, anyway, we'll
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  Speaker 1: get into the appointment of the new general manager.
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  Speaker 2: In just a moment.
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  Speaker 1: And this is til Talk, by the way, the official
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville Janku's UK podcast, presented by Gallagher. I'm Jay Lawrence.
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  Speaker 1: Still no relation. He's Key Ram suren Key. This is
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  Speaker 1: a busy show for an off season show. This is
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  Speaker 1: an unbelievably busy show.
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  Speaker 3: This is bumper man. This is one of our biggest ones.
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  Speaker 2: It is and I feel like I need to try
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  Speaker 2: and do this in one breath.
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  Speaker 3: No, I won't take a big one.
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  Speaker 2: I can try. Okay, we have four guests coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars Vice President of UK Operations Maria Gaganti tells us
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  Speaker 1: about the Jaguars Foundation launching Wembley. Last week, Lewis rees
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  Speaker 1: Zammit talks about re signing with the Jaggs. Reeth Parkinson
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  Speaker 1: of Jaguars week Weekly UK on Sky Sports joins, us,
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  Speaker 1: I know I got the most.
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  Speaker 2: Of it and we have can we get a drum roll?
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  Speaker 1: I think we can get a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: drum roll, Producer Simon can put in a drum roll afterwards,
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: right because we announced the newly crowned Jacksonville Jaguars International
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  Speaker 1: Fan of the Year, we actually break the news to
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  Speaker 1: him as well, which is, you know, just just about
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  Speaker 1: me for a second.
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  Speaker 2: What an honor? And I'm just I'm sure literally how
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  Speaker 2: have you just loves moment for him?
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  Speaker 3: But more about me?
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  Speaker 2: What an honor? What an honor it is?
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, incredible to tell this person that
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  Speaker 1: they are going to be going to the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five NFL Draft as a representative of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Incredible.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to get to that person. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to say the name you know.
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  Speaker 3: Them of suspense Jay Lawrence.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you listen right now, there's a chance you
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  Speaker 1: might know him. Man, You're going to be really happy
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  Speaker 1: and excited. If you think it's you, chances are it's
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  Speaker 1: not because we've already done the conversation, so you'd be
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  Speaker 1: aware if you were part of the conversation. First though, Key,
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: we have just been watching coach Cohen speak to the
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  Speaker 1: media and the first press conference of the new GM
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  Speaker 1: James Gladstone, formerly of the Rams, according to Shad khan't
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  Speaker 1: exceptional in every regard.
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  Speaker 2: Who are we to disagree? First opinions please, Key, So.
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  Speaker 3: Jay, my thoughts are twofold right. Firstly, I thought James
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  Speaker 3: Ladsden was very considerate in his answer. I liked that
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  Speaker 3: he paused and was very thoughtful. That pleased me greatly
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  Speaker 3: because it's the opposite of me. Secondly, I think it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be really interesting based on how the Rams
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  Speaker 3: have been drafting with him being in that room to
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  Speaker 3: see what we do in the draft. So I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to withhold any opinions or any thoughts on it until
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  Speaker 3: we've drafted, because I think over the last few years
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  Speaker 3: we've had a history of drafting okay in the first round,
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  Speaker 3: maybe okay in the second round, but third round onwards
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  Speaker 3: maybe we haven't been as strong. So I think it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be really interesting to see what we can
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  Speaker 3: do in the later rounds of the draft this year.
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  Speaker 3: So let's see how it pans out. Man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it has to be said as well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about the draft that the Jags have so
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  Speaker 1: many draft picks over the next two years, specifically, I
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  Speaker 1: mean Jane Gladstone actually he mentioned that when asked about it,
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  Speaker 1: and that's something that previously when he was with the Rams,
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  Speaker 1: it was a really similar situation. And in his words,
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  Speaker 1: he said that he's in a unique position to be
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  Speaker 1: able to who I'm paraphrasing now get the most out
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  Speaker 1: of the next two drafts, because, as I say, the
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  Speaker 1: Rams are in a similar situation. You know, it also
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  Speaker 1: has to be said as well. Thirty four years old.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty four years old general manager of the Jacksonville Jacks.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of young blood just come in to the
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  Speaker 3: staff on the Jags, isn't the.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent? I mean Liam Cohen himself is thirty
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  Speaker 2: nine as well, which is young.
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  Speaker 3: I mean seeing ordinator is fourteen years old.
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  Speaker 1: Nine, I think he's twenty nine years old? Is Grant Yeddinski.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Campanelli is, by the way, the defensive coordinator that's
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  Speaker 1: been it's been put into that position over the last
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  Speaker 1: few weeks since our last episode as well. So a
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  Speaker 1: lot to be excited about. And I know this might
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  Speaker 1: sound not specifically team related, however, one of the first
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  Speaker 1: things that the new GM did when he was when
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  Speaker 1: he was being asked questions, actually before he was asked questions,
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  Speaker 1: he started getting emotional. He started getting emotional when he
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  Speaker 1: was talking about particularly his wife and his kids. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, he was saying how he was happy
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  Speaker 1: and wanted to be a high school teacher and a
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  Speaker 1: high school football coach, and obviously his life has changed
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  Speaker 1: over the last few years quite a lot, and he's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, been quite emotional about the whole thing. And
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  Speaker 1: when you see that something means so much to somebody,
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  Speaker 1: you can't help but feel, you know, on their side.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know what, Jay, It's the same thing that
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  Speaker 3: I feel about Tony Bisselli, who also now has a
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  Speaker 3: new position. I like people that wear their heart on
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  Speaker 3: their sleeve, which absolutely does as well. And with this
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  Speaker 3: first press conference and you see him getting emotional. I
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  Speaker 3: like human beings, man. I like to see that. I
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  Speaker 3: don't want a ridiculously media trained person giving all the
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  Speaker 3: right answers and stuff. I like to see that. It's exciting.
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  Speaker 3: How it's all going to work out. We don't know
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  Speaker 3: do We will have to wait and see. But immediately
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  Speaker 3: he as a person, I was like, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I like this. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And also I think it's worth mentioning the draft in
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  Speaker 1: respect because that's obviously what so many Jags fans have
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  Speaker 1: got in their mind right now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: We've got free agency over the next few weeks and
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  Speaker 1: then it's the draft, and that's, you know, something that's
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  Speaker 1: so massive when it comes to being a general manager. That's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a lot of your reputation is laid out
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  Speaker 1: on what happens over the next couple of months. When
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  Speaker 1: asked about what sort of player he looks for, he's
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  Speaker 1: looking for the intangibles. Apparently it is the intangibles that
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  Speaker 1: help the whole ecosystem that is the team, that is
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  Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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  Speaker 3: It's like saying good ones, extent good ones.
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  Speaker 1: It's not so much about traits, then, is it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's not necessarily going to go for the biggest guy
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  Speaker 1: or the fastest guy. He's looking for the things that
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  Speaker 1: you can't maybe put numbers on does that make sense?
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  Speaker 3: Like there's a lot of guys that can achieve certain
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  Speaker 3: numbers at the combine, right, But a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: time it's not necessarily just about those numbers. It's about
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  Speaker 3: intangibles like do they get on well, how will they
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  Speaker 3: be in the locker room, will they make them laugh
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  Speaker 3: in the interview? Do they seem like a decent person
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  Speaker 3: and so on and so forth. So maybe that's what
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  Speaker 3: he's referring to.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he said that as well, you know, he said
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  Speaker 1: what they're like off the field as well.
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  Speaker 2: That's something that they look at. I mean, that's what
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  Speaker 2: every you know, coach looks at.
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  Speaker 1: But it depends on how much you how much stock
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  Speaker 1: you put into it, I suppose. Regardless, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a big few weeks anyway for the Jacksonville Jackson
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a big few weeks for every
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  Speaker 1: single NFL team obviously, but the Jags are in his
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  Speaker 1: position where it's all fresh man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And I think, do you know what, there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of negative nancies out there at the minute,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm not about that at all. I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's fair enough, there's some inexperience there but there's also
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people who have come in very excited
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  Speaker 3: to prove themselves, is another way of looking at it,
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  Speaker 3: and I think this is really exciting. I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 3: to where we go man.
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  Speaker 1: And also lastly, we asked, you know, as much as
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  Speaker 1: you say in experience, as much as you say, as
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about the fact that they're young, it's not
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  Speaker 1: that they don't deserve to be in this position.
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  Speaker 2: No, of course not. They wouldn't have very exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard very good things about what James Gladstone did
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  Speaker 1: for the Rams, specifically when it comes to drafting as well,
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  Speaker 1: and with the Jags draft capital of the next couple
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  Speaker 1: of years.
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  Speaker 2: Exciting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no point being negative before they've had the
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  Speaker 3: chance to do anything. That's just silly. Man. Let's be
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  Speaker 3: excited and let's see what happens. That's why I say.
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  Speaker 1: Also, congratulations to Eric Hamstead over the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we spoke about what we had him on
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, didn't we a few weeks ago because he
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  Speaker 1: was going to he was a Walter Payton NFL Man
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  Speaker 1: of the Year nominee.
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  Speaker 2: Well, actually he's not a nominee anymore.
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  Speaker 3: He's a nominee. He's not a nominee. Tell us what happened, Jay,
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  Speaker 3: he won it.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations to witness it. I wasn't actually at the honors.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't there to be able to witness it, but
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  Speaker 1: I was. I was, you know, in the same city
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  Speaker 1: at the time. So congratulations to Eric.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I was in. I was in New Orleans
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  Speaker 2: at the time, which.
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  Speaker 1: Was for the You've got food poisoning j I No,
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  Speaker 1: it was genuine food poisoning. I'm not having this. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not having this people being like, oh, you had food poisoning.
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  Speaker 1: Did you did you go out for a drink or two? No,
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  Speaker 1: it was food poison I was meant to be on
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: one of the so they had like a mini Mardi
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  Speaker 1: Gras the day before the Super Bowl with parade, with
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  Speaker 1: the parade and you know, people throwing off of the
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  Speaker 1: floats and all of that.
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  Speaker 2: I was meant to be on the float. Key, I
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  Speaker 2: was meant to be on the float with you.
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  Speaker 3: Need to make better life decisions, then, don't you.
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  Speaker 2: What food getting food poisoning. I'm not having any of this.
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  Speaker 3: Key, that's bad luck. I was excited for you.
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: You still slightly gutted, but that said, you know, the
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: day after I went to my first Super Bowl key,
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  Speaker 1: so it was amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Tell us a little bit about it, because most of
• 9:46
  Speaker 3: us will never get to go.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was just exactly what you think it
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  Speaker 1: was going to be. To be honest, obviously, the game
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: itself was a little bit one sided. So the atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: in that way, I mean Chiefs fans in the second
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: half for pretty quiet. I think it's fair to say,
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: but it's just a whole experience and the city was
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: just overtaken by everything super Bowl related for the week
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: before I had there was some I'll be honest, and
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: I can say this, I can say this to you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we're all friends. There are some tears in
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  Speaker 2: my eyes on the on the lead up because I
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  Speaker 2: was like, you know.
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  Speaker 3: A special city to you as well, there's a netal.
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  Speaker 2: City to me.
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  Speaker 1: Used to live in New Orleans, so you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: it was. It was amazing to be there. Halftime show
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: Kendrick Lammer was unbelievable. So I don't really know what
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: to say except that it was just it's just weird.
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: When I think back to it and think that it
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: was just incredible, so happy, to have happy to have gone,
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: not happy to have eaten something dodgy.
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: But apart from that, it was it was amazing rough.
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: With the smooth dude. I'm really toughed for you man.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds great.
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was Actually do you know what was really funny?
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: Actually, I don't know if you know how like the
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: Week before works, but it's like a whole media center
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: or like radio row, where there's lots of lots of
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: radio stations and media organizations that are sort of like,
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: you know, there to to speak NFL players, former NFL players,
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: you know, celebrities and all that. That's where I spoke
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: to Tony Boselli on that you know, that special podcast.
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: If you haven't listened to it, by the way, speaking
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: about his new role and everything, you can listen to
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: that now. I do think it's quite funny though, in
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: the fact that you turn around the corner and then
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: there's just oh, massive NFL player or like you know,
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: it's just like you turn the corner, it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's Miles Garrett next to me, or Aiden Hutchinson next
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  Speaker 1: to me.
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: Drew Brees was next to me.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's just like strange when you're like when you
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: watch the NFL, especially in this country.
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  Speaker 2: Key, when you're so as much as you.
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: Want to be as ingrained as you can be, when
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: it comes to the NFL, you're still inherently in a
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: different country, so you aren't going to just randomly bump
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: into somebody in the middle of the street, you know
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: what I mean. But then when you're when you're just
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: walking about rubbing literally rubbing shoulders like you know.
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: Jay, Yeah, you say rubbing shoulders. You're five ft eight.
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  Speaker 1: I was at a bar one night and forty nine
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: is time end? George hes he just walks next to me.
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  Speaker 1: He is not five for eight. He is not five
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  Speaker 1: for eight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was an incredible time. It was
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  Speaker 2: an incredible time.
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  Speaker 1: So much to come on the show though, Key, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: lewis free, Sammit still exciting. Yeah, the former Welsh rugby
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  Speaker 1: player of course, a man who has just signed a
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: new deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars, Maria Gigante as well
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: the Jaguars vice president of UK Operations. And you don't
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: want to miss what's to come up. Regarding the Jaggs
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: International Fan of the Year. We're joined by Rhys Parkinson
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 3: The one I know, only I've missed him so much.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, joining us next on till to All. It's the
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  Speaker 1: face of Jacksonville Jaguars. Here in the UK. You might
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: have seen him on Jaguars Weekly UK. Reyes Parkinson, How
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: are you mate? How's your off season?
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  Speaker 4: Yeh, super good. Thanks for having me back on the podcast.
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: I just became infinitely better looking. Race.
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: Wow, that's the nicest thing you've ever said to me.
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  Speaker 2: How's your off season? What have you been up to.
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  Speaker 4: I've been trying to find ways that we can draft
• 13:09
  Speaker 4: Travis Hunter and I have assista. I think the Titans
• 13:13
  Speaker 4: trade away their pick. If they trade away their pick,
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  Speaker 4: that's how we land Travis Hunter because he's going to
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: go for QB's that's where we get Travis Hunter. So
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  Speaker 4: I think it's possible, and I've been calculating different ways,
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  Speaker 4: and that's my my go to on draft night. If
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  Speaker 4: we hear the Titans have traded away they're pick, we've got.
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  Speaker 1: Thh Do you know what I don't think Daniel Jeremiah
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: needs to to think. Do you know what I need
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: to look look over my shoulder for a new job.
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  Speaker 1: I think the draft Knicks might be all right.
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  Speaker 2: They might be right.
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  Speaker 3: When's your interview for GM race?
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  Speaker 1: Very good, very fair, That is fair, Reece, thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for joining us, and we're actually here to
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  Speaker 1: talk about the big question. That's why Reese, it's good
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: to get you on because we're joined by Jags fan
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  Speaker 1: here in the UK, Jamie Phillips.
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  Speaker 2: Jamie, what is the big question?
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  Speaker 5: Hello everybody, I hope you're all well.
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  Speaker 6: A bit of a fun one this time being the
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  Speaker 6: off season, with the stadium upgrades all happening starting from
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  Speaker 6: now of the next few seasons, what would you like
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  Speaker 6: to see inside the stadium and a bit of fun
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  Speaker 6: bit of upgrades.
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  Speaker 5: So at the moment we have the pool.
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  Speaker 6: At the moment in Jacksonville at Tottenham Stadium, we have
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  Speaker 6: the go kart track underneath the stadium or so you
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  Speaker 6: have the brewery inside as well as there's some cool
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  Speaker 6: fun element. What would you like to see if you
• 14:31
  Speaker 6: were a developer and you was developing this stadium, what
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  Speaker 6: would you have put into this stadium?
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  Speaker 1: It needs to be something slightly different and that's why
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  Speaker 1: I'm going straight to key instant thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: I would have a retractable ballpit, end zone to end
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  Speaker 3: zone that comes out in halftime, and every fans seat
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: is equipped with a spring loaded ejector button that can
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  Speaker 3: launch you from your s eat straight into the ball pit.
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  Speaker 3: That's my answer.
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  Speaker 1: Would be really fun for the first the first game.
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  Speaker 1: And are they refreshing it? They're refreshing all the balls,
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  Speaker 1: every single all of.
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  Speaker 3: The balls are provided by soft plays from around the country.
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  Speaker 2: Right, fantastic?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, that's a joke answer my serious answer obviously, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's a joke. Yeah, I'm not bit. My serious answer
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  Speaker 3: would be eighty foot statues of Reese Parkinson and JP
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  Speaker 3: Shadwick erected outside the stadium.
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  Speaker 2: Reese, are you on board with this? Am I on board?
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  Speaker 2: That was his serious answer. I have to take a
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  Speaker 2: serious answer, seriously, real.
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  Speaker 4: Key, there's no part of key that is serious. Although
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  Speaker 4: I did like the ejectibles. The ejectibles has got legs.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: I'll take that, Reese, what would you like to since
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: the stadium?
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: But I can do better, and I can see this
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: actually potentially happening. So any of you fans of Jack Harlowe.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: The singer, Yes, where it is going? Where is this?
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: Let me land? I would like to put in a
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: music recording studio in the new stadium, Cam Little I
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: think can drop a very fire wrap album featuring Josh
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: Allen and Brian Thomas studio. I want Trevor doing a
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: country album, and I think we have Jaguars the best
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: of all recorded at the stadium's music studio.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Thoughts, I don't I actually don't hate it.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna lie like this isn't even me
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: being you know, playing playing along land.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: Any guest that comes to the games music recordist can
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: use the booth.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles did a Christmas record.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: When does this happen? When are they recording? Are they
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: recording during the So? Is it like they come off
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: the field on a Saturn.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: Day and.
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: Straight to the booth.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Forget the press conference after They're straight in the booth.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: No press conference.
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: That's the plan before the game, like the hype video like.
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: And stuff. Yeah you need you need that, I think.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, Jamie, what are you saying?
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: Well, I didn't actually think about it that much, to
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: be honest.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: Your question, Well, I was thinking more like a bit
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: more serious, a bit more like of an immersive experience,
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: you know, kind of in the concourse area, maybe having
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: like a like the globe, like you're have in Vegas
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: kind of you're kind of inside in the pitch, kind
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: of more like a four D experience. That's kind of
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: where I was going. You too, when a bit a
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: bit elaborative.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Statues of recent JB would be very immersive.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: I think that we probably should get some player statues
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: before those two.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: I've got a serious one.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I've got a serious one, but it's it's playful but serious. Now,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: obviously in stadiums around the country, stadiums around the globe,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: there will be such a thing is a bar. They
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: will have them, of course in the new stadium as well,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: somewhere that somebody can get a drink. But why not,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: as the Jacksonville Jaguars, you know, put such effort into
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: the UK, why not bring the UK over to Jacksonville
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: and have a pub, have a pub inside the stadium.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: About a sticky floor, it has it permanently has a
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: sticky floor. The first day it had a sticky floor,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: and people are really confused, like why, and no one
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: knows why. But there's a sticky floor, and they clean
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: it and they clean it and they just can't get
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: rid of the sticky floor. Anyway, I feel like it
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: needs to be a pub with an old pub smell,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: an old pub look, and I don't want it to
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: be any like faux pub, you know, I don't want
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: it to be like faux leather. No, I want it
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: to go all out, all out, a proper Jacksonville Jaguars
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: pub thoughts.
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I like that idea, selling British ale, selling, yeah,
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: selling good drinks, Yeah, sticky floor.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: Very well worn dartboard.
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: But no one say yeah, yeah, how has it become
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: so warm?
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: You know one of those quiz machines that you put
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: a two quid in and you're like, now I'm going
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: to win this time.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: You never win.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: An old lady permanently dancing in the corner there's no music.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know what pubs you go to fair.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: I like the idea of relocating one bar staff member
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: from Wigan, another from Rotherham, but then get one from Carlisle.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Just make the Jags fans. Do we tell them what's
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: happening or not?
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah they're aware. Jamie.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: You've got final say, if you had to choose between
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the ball pit or the music studio, which one would
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: you choose?
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: I think practically, practically, I think it will have to
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: be in the music studio because I do not want
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: to go into a bullpit where beer has been spilt
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: into that.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: We can't have the pub and the bullpit.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: No, if you don't want that, Jamie, never go to
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Milton Keynes. That's what I'm where.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: I'm from.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: Down the road from me, Jamie. I am honored to
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: leave gone with the music Studio, and I'd love to
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: give you a placement there if you do want to
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: record it, you let me know.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: But I relocate absolutely to Jacksonville. Yet not a problem, Jamie.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: You're a man of taste, as we all know, and
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: I've well, we've got to speak to you about this before.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: But what got you into the Jags. You've got a
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: bit of a fascinating story.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: I feel like, Okay, so it starts off quite bland.
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: I suppose actually come from a rugby background, always played
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: rugby kind of throughout my kind of childhood and stuff,
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: and really wanted to try something new. And that was
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: back in probably twenty twelve twenty thirteen, when Jags actually
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: ironically started coming over to the UK. I wanted to
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: get into the sport of watching American football and wanted
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: to play something as well, and I originally started playing
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: flag American football for a local team because I didn't
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: have a clue about any of the rules or anything.
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: I didn't attend the first Jags London game. I actually
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: went the following year for the Cowboys game. Was my
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: kind of first kind of event I went to first
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: Jags event I went to, and I watched Jags get
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: beat get hammered. However, I liked I liked the color teal,
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: I liked the logo, and I hated Dallas Cowboys fans,
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: If I'm totally honest, and kind of it all kind
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: of then grew and stem from there. Obviously, the Jags
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: started coming over to the UK a hell of a
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: lot more. I then started to play kitted American football
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: as I started to grow and develop the no the
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: rules a lot better, and yeah, Jags just kind of
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: became my team that kind of went a bit crazy
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: for and a bit obsessed with. If I'm totally honest,
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: I've kind of attended every kind of Jags event they've
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: kind of done over here, coaching clinics to player academies,
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: flag tournaments, have kind of done a bit of everything, really,
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: and yeah, just kind of come a bit obsessed with
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: it all and seeing you guys every year in London
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: when you're recording in queues for player signings and stuff.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Well you say obsessed. I would probably say more than obsessed.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: We've done on the show a few quizzes with you
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: and you've only ever got one question wrong. And just
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: to set the context as well, some of these questions
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: are ridiculous.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: I e.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: The game in twenty fifteen, the field goal in the
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: second quarter, what yard was that taken from? And you're
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: thirty eight and it's usually right. So you've only ever
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: got one wronged.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: About that one wrong and that's a Trevor Lawrence stat so.
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: That it was.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, But Jamie, you make lots of content as well.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: You do loads of Jags related content and activity, So
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: talk us through some of those, because I don't even
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: think I'm aware of everything you do.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: Again with my obsession, like I said, following the Jags
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: maybe about four or five years ago. It was actually
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: during lockdown and trying to find other things to do
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: to kind of keep myself busy, decided to set up
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: a fan page for Jags UK fans, a slightly less
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: formal fan page compared.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: To obviously Jaguars UK. I set up Jacks.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: Across the Pond, set up a little community of what
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: I thought was only going to be maybe twenty odd
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: kind of fans who have kind of met over the years,
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: have get togethers, do giveaways and just buying and selling
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: kind of merchandise and memorabilia. And then I then set
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: up things like doing podcasts as well, and done a
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: couple of write ups for a couple of people on
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: x or Twitter. At the time, had no prior experience
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: of any sort of communications or kind of media kind
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: of stuff. Just kind of wanted to kind of do
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: something new and something that I really enjoyed obviously, which
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: was the Jackson and Jaguars. So I just started writing
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: up about games and boring different things to do and
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: made quite quite a nice little community of British Jacks fans.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, it says a lot about you because you
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: are extremely kind, personal and everyone in that community is
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: brilliant as well, So it says a lot about you. Jamie.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: I've got some new for you.
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Shall we tell him?
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Key and j what do you think you should?
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I think he deserves I probably should.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, Jamie, How would you feel if I said
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: to you that you are the Jaguars International Fan of
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: the Year for twenty twenty five No one?
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: No, wow?
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Well and mate, well deserve yes you are.
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: No. I was not expecting to hear that. This is
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: this is wind up, This is just.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: A Jamie wait for it, wait for it. It's not
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: just that.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Listen to this.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Your prize, real prize, Jamie, is a trip to the
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five NFL Draft in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: You and a plus one are on the way.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: You've got the red carpet treatment, You've got a Q
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: and A with the NFL Commissioner, so much more as well.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: And you deserve it, Jamie, you deserve it. How do
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: you feel?
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: I don't even know.
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: What to say, Like, I'm absolutely gobsmacked. I was definitely
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: not expecting to hear that on a on a day
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: after work today.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Like, wow, no way, give me that?
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: What Doval? Because now I'm a bit confused. Do we
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: do a coach Cohen Duval?
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Do the original?
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: I want the original?
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Original? Please? Mate?
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: You tell us, you got to tell us who you're
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: going to be taken.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: I don't know because.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: I'm free.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: The wife is going to kill me because it won't
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: probably be her.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: But the main reason for that is we do have
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: a baby at home, like we've had a newborn baby
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: in the lastulation. Yeah, that's that. That's the reason why
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: she probably won't be come in. It's probably going to
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: be a Jacks fan from from one of the from
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: my group to be honest, So probably put some feelers
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: out there, see who's.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Free feelers like that?
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Wow, Jamie, congrats man, I love this for you.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: Bro, I'm over the moon.
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: What does it mean to you, Jamie?
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: It means it means so much just to be recognized,
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: you know, for for something that I've been doing that
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: I'm just doing for fun, like I'm just I'm doing
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: it for my own kind of pleasure, like my own
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: bit of fun. And to be kind of recognized from
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: Jackuars and jack Uka and having a title of just
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: being in National Fan of the Year is just it's
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: just phenomenal. Something I never ever wanted or would have
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: never imagined would would happen. So I'm ecstatic, honestly, really really.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: Really am who.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: You deserve it mate, And it's you know, as you say,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: it's the the recognition as much as the trip out
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: to Green Bay for the draft will be insane. I
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: mean that recognition, that's the that's the thing that's I
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: think we'll hit you.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, dude, I'll send you my passport details
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: for the no worries man, Yeah.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: No problem.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: You deserve it, man.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: And honestly, is there a way that you can you're
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: going to celebrate tonight? Is there something you're going to do?
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: And what does it mean by putting feelers out?
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: I've got to have a hard fought on kind of
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: who i'd want to I'd want to come with me.
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: Who would be up for the draft experience because I
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: think that's a bit of a bit of a good time,
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: a good three days at the draft. So try and
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: tune in and watch it every year, so it would
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: be amazing to be there.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: So, Ami, what what would you ask the commissioner in
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: a Q and A.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: When's the Super Bowl coming to Jacksonville? Probably a standard one?
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Nice? What what would he put in the new Jags stadium?
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: Per music? Yeah?
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: I tell you what, Jbie.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: If if you were genuinely ask Roger Goodell what he'd
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: rather have in a stadium, A ball pit or a
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: music studio. Then that would be I mean, it'd be
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: a waste of a question. I'm not gonna lie, but
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: it would be amazing. It would be amazing.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Questions every day, Jamie, Jamie, what player or position do
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: you want us to take? Because you're you're you're essentially
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: our scout, Jamie is.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Going to go offensive line.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Surely it's going to be defensive line.
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, absolutely is Yeah, Charis Una would be nice.
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: I do think that we definitely pick up the defensive
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: side of the ball. I think that's kind of our
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: biggest priority to start off with. And yeah, that's going
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: to be I think that's going to be spent on
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: the defensive tackle.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: And usually you'd be sitting on the sofa watching it, thinking,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I wonder who the Jags.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Are going to take, but shattered as well.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: And now you'll be you'll be wrapped up at Green Bay,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: you'll be at the draft. That's a bucket list thing, mate,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: So congratulations to you.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: You really deserve it. Jamie. Can we have another round
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: of applause for Jamie? Please?
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I mean it's only quite sound graven. There's just three
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: of us crapping, to be fair, but you know put in, Yeah,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: the whole of the JAG's UK fan base will be,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: you know, clapping for you and supporting you, Jamie, and
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: we'll be watching it over here in the UK and
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: looking out for you on the telly.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: It's amazing. Thank you guys so much, really appreciate it.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: And thank you for coming on the podcast mentioned thank you.
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Unbelievable news, isn't it? Key unbelievable?
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: So lovely and honestly, I know we said it when
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: we were talking to him, but there is no one
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: more deserving than Jamie. The part that he plays in
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: the Jags UK community cannot be overstated. He is a
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: what do you call the most important part of a bridge,
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: the keystone. He's like the keystone of the JAG's UK
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: community and no one deserves it more than him.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's worth going on to our YouTube channel
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: as well to watch his reaction and our socials to
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: watch his reaction as well, because this is the problem
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: with podcast key is when someone gets amazing news half
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: the time, if not more than half the time, they're
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: literally lost for words, which in an audio medium it's
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: not particularly helpful.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Unless you're James Gladstone your emotions don't come across in
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: your voice, they come across in your face, right, honestly. Yeah,
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: So Jamie might not sound like he was emotional, but yeah,
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: he definitely was. Yeah.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, you need to go and check that own
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: on socials because he's just shocked loss for words, and
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: you know, as much as anything else, going to socials
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: just to see his background, like it's just incredible.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: All of the Jags gear and he's collected and that's
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: why he deserves it.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Nice that Rees joined us for that as well, because
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Reese and Jamie have a nice relationship. I thought that
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: was lovely.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Reese Catel was just is so on
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: board with it and so excited for him as well.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: I mean we all are.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: It's so funny, isn't it because when you're talking and
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: you know and we know what's coming up, and it's
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: almost like a little secret we've all got, Yeah, and
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: it's just exciting. It was just amazing and he really
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: deserves it as well. So congratulations to Jamie. He's going
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: off to the twenty twenty five NFL Draft.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: What a prize.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I just don't think there's many better prizes. I mean,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: that's just an unbelievable price correct and.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: With a new GM and new head coach as well
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: to be steering us. That's excellent, man, what a prize.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Speaking of our social channels, JAGS YouTube channel, the Jackson
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Jager's UK and Ireland a YouTube channel and what is.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: On it key Interestingly, there was a really lovely comment
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: a few weeks back that someone said how interesting they
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: find the content on the Jags UK YouTube channel, which
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: is really lovely. And a couple of the videos that
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: are doing well at the moment is one where we
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: go into the treatment rooms and we see like where
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: the players would get their physio and their massage and stuff,
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: and you get to see all that stuff which you
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: don't normally get to see that stuff, so that's quite
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: good access. And then you've got like access to the
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: weights room and the strength and conditioning coach talking about
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: like who lifts the most and that sort of thing.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: So those are a couple of the videos that are
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: doing well. And then in the off season we're going
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: to be posting some of the stuff that wasn't in
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: the show, that didn't make it into the Sky show,
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: so there's gonna be loads of unseen stuff and then
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: some other exciting stuff that I'm actually not going to
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: talk about, but I will mention one name, which is
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Brian Thomas Jr.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Ooh okay, yeah, yeah, the one and only Brian Thomas
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: junior reference in this show.
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: I was like, they asked me to make a video
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: and I was like, well, Brian Thomas Jr.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: We just do that.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Speaking of Jags wide receivers, congratulations to Lewis, ree Zammit
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: and Wales his own Lewis really examit to a former
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Welsh rugby star. Of course, signed on for another season
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: with the Jags. Came in last season. I actually really
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: quite late on yeah, in pre season. It really was
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: just before the season started, if you remember, he signed
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: with the Kansas City Chiefs, came to the Janguars and
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: changed positions there as well, so he moved from running
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: back to wide receiver. So it's really been, you know,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: a whirlwind over the last few months.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: And this will.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Be his first proper off season with the Jacksonville Jankuars,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: you know, playing the position that he wants to play,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: wide receiver. So I caught up with him to talk
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: about his new challenges in Jacksonville. All right, welcome Lewis
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: reezamit too till talk Now the Jaguars wide receiver who
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: has been announced is staying in Jacksonville.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: How do you feel?
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: Make Oh, I'm over the moon, very grateful for this
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: opportunity and can't wait.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: To get going.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: What was it about the Jaguars that you know that
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: made you want to stay?
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: There was a lot of things.
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: One from knowing most of my teammates, knowing the facility,
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: you know, all that kind of stuff. The receiver room's
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: pretty similar, so I can continue to learn from those boys.
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: And it's a very very exciting new coaching setup. So
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: I think it's one that I can I can kind
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: of thrive on. And the beaches in the weather that
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: also helps.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: You mentioned the new coaching self there, you know, quite
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: a lot to change actually over the last few weeks,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: hasn't it? In Jacksonville? New head coach in Lee and
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Cohen wondering if you've spoken or what is it about
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: him that you know really like you know? Makes you again?
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: What's to say? In Jacksonville?
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: He's very exciting. I think the way he kind of
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: plays his brand the football is very exciting. It's very
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: different in a way kind of uses offensive powers differently
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: to other teams, and that's exciting. So it's one that
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: I'm very much looking forward to learn learning, and yeah,
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: I can't wait for for OTAs and kind of preseason
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: to start. Obviously last year it was it was pretty
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: tough coming in Week one and not having a full
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: preseason with the team obviously changing positions completely as well,
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: So it was a great year to kind of experience
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: all of that and and learn from from the from
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: my teammates and especially that receiver room which is very
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: experienced and stacked. So you know, I'm I'm really excited
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: for this opportunity, and you know, I kind of can't
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: wait to learn this new playbook and you know, kind
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: of get started and and and start OTAs again because
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: you know, we've we've had a fair bit of time off.
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: Now I know we still got a lot more, but
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: you know, training started already, so you know, I'm really excited.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Is that you sound in a good way?
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: You sound impatient, Yeah, very impatient because I want to
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: get going.
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: This opportunity is one that I'm so excited about. And
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: to get a full a full preseason here is going
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: to be great and It's one that's going to allow
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: me to to grow and you know, grow faster than
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: kind of trying to learn like mid season. So getting
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: a full preseason ahead of me is going to be
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: It's going to be great just getting reps at receiver
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: because you know, obviously last year I was I was
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: playing running back in pre season, so it was very different.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: What are you specifically focusing on between now and then?
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: Just about my releases, you know, the rout tree, my routes,
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: just making them crisper, you know, my short, sharp explosive movements.
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: You know, all the kinds of stuff that you that
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: you really need as a receiver just to feel sharp again, really,
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: you know, before heading into OTAs and kind of kind
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: of ask the time to learn the playbook and and
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: usual the mental side of the game more than the physical.
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: So now the training now is more about you know,
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: feeling sharp, feeling ready for my brain to start to
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: start learning a new playbook and all of that kind
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: of stuff.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: And last time I saw you in October, you know,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: we had a conversation about how you could tell the
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: difference between you even like six or eight weeks earlier.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: You know, how much you've grown well the whole season.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: When you look back on where you were in September,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: let's say September, because you know when you joined the Jay, can.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: You what do you see?
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: What difference do you you see and does that give you,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: you know, does it make you feel excited for what's ahead.
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: When I first walked in that door, I was just
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: so I was just so happy to be able to
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: play receiver and just get raps at it. I mean,
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: my games come so far from then and that's you know,
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: that's evident in the in the footage and stuff like that. So,
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: you know, just being able to work with my receiver group,
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: Chad who was the coach, the receiver coach, you know,
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: just being able to work on all the routes, getting
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: in and out of breaks, my release, the kind of
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: the releases, which is one of the most important things
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: as a receiver. So you know, all of that kind
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: of stuff. Was was unbelievable to see me grow, you know,
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: throughout a whole season. So you know, I'm kind of
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: really looking forward to being able to continue that.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: And I know you were at the Super Bowl in
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: New Orleans as well a few weeks ago, and which
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: I'm sure was an amazing experience for you. Was there
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: like a pinch me moment at all?
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: I mean it was my first Super Bowl, so I've
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: always kind of dreamed of going to a Super Bowl
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: and being able to watch one. I can't really explain
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: the feeling. It was unbelievable. The next step is, you know,
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: being a player at one. So you know, I'm going
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: to try and do everything I can to to kind
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: of make this roster this year and then see what happens.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: I know that your dad's a big NFL fan, isn't
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: he right, So I was wondering if you know, were
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: you texting him when you were there or anything. Was
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: he happy for you but actually kind of livid at
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: the same time.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we faced me and.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: My brother face timed him at halftime.
• 38:28
  Speaker 7: And it was like it was like two am in
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: the UK and he was staying up for it.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: So yeah he was.
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: He was a bit he wasn't there, but I got
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: to FaceTime him and kind of show him around.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: So look, lastly, Lewis, I've got to mention the fact
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: that you're going to be over in London again with
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: the Jaguars again at Wembley Stadium again. I know it's
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: a while away, but it's.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Such a pivotal moment on the NFL calendar for the
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: How excited are you for that?
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: So excited?
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: Obviously, I was luckily enough to go last year, which
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: was switching an unbelievable kind of ten days with the team.
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: Hopefully this year, I'll I'll be playing in it. Obviously
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: watching it on the sideline last year, but my goal
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: is is kind of playing it this year. So you know,
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: we all love going to London and spending ten days there,
• 39:18
  Speaker 7: being able to see the city, being able to see
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: our Jags fans. Yeah, we're all really looking forward to it,
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: and no doubt I am as well.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Lewis, congratulations and yeah, hopefully we'll see you later on
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: this year in London.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Jacksonville jagus wide receiver Lewis rees xamit. Hoping to make
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: the fifty three of course this season and having that
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: you know, whole off season with the Jags is going
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: to make the world of difference.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Key nice man.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Excited to see where his you know, career with Jacksonville
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: ends up. And let's be honest as well, he'll probably
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: be on the podcast sooner rather than later, because he
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: is over it every now and again.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: Andy, Yeah, yeah, I mean I thought that was a
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: really lovely time, by the way, and I think you're
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: right about having a full off season leading into it
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: is going to make a big difference as to making
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: that fifty three. I think you're right about that.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: I know that my rugby knowledge isn't as up to scratches.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Maybe it should be, but I'm pretty confident that a
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: lot of Wales fans would quite like him to to
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: change back sports at the moment.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: Well, the only thing I know about rugby is they
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: throw the ball in the opposite direction.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Well done, well done, while you go in that way, guys,
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: it's funny because, like usually obviously when people with our accents,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: that was the only thing I know about American football
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: is they throw it forward. You just completely spurred.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: That flipped it on its head mate. I've always wanted
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: to be different.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Key.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: You went to the Jags Foundation launch in North London
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: last week, didn't you.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: What was that like?
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, not quite New Orleans, it was, do you know what?
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: It was? Excellent? I love what the Jags do, grassroots stuff.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: I've been to a lot of jag Tag stuff. And
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: I was fortunate enough to be at the launch of
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: the Union Jacks Foundation in twenty twenty three, so I've
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: seen it develop and I've seen and this was the
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: first event day that they did, and there was, you know,
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: around seventy kids there, I'm going to say, and they
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: have a nice full day of doing various sports inside outside, swimming, lunch.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, it was super funny. If I was a kid,
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: I'd have wanted to do it. But I could talk
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: about it for a long time. But Maria talks about
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: it much better than me. So let's hear what Maria
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: had to say about it. Maria, we are in a
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: leisure center in Willsden Green. Can you tell me why
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: are we in a center in Willsden Green.
• 41:46
  Speaker 8: Yes, so we're delivering our first ever Union Jacks Foundation
• 41:49
  Speaker 8: Day event. This is a day provided by the Union
• 41:52
  Speaker 8: Jacks Foundation where kids can come and have a full
• 41:55
  Speaker 8: day of activity. They did some swimming this morning, They're
• 41:58
  Speaker 8: going to have some lunch which is provided through the foundation,
• 42:01
  Speaker 8: and then we'll end the afternoon with Jagtag so they
• 42:03
  Speaker 8: get a little bit of everything they learn about the Jaguars.
• 42:06
  Speaker 8: We'll do a little coloring, we'll speak to the kids
• 42:09
  Speaker 8: and just give them a well rounded day.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: For anyone who doesn't know what jagtag is, tell.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Us what that is.
• 42:14
  Speaker 8: So Jagtag is our version of flag football. It was
• 42:17
  Speaker 8: started to remove any kind of barrier to playing American football.
• 42:22
  Speaker 8: So you really don't need a flag, you just need
• 42:24
  Speaker 8: a green space and of all, and we deliver it
• 42:26
  Speaker 8: across the country. In fact, last year we hit over
• 42:30
  Speaker 8: one hundred thousand kids playing Jagtag in the United Kingdom, arazing.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: Union Jack's Foundation give us a bit of a broad
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: overview as to what the idea is, what kind of
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: things have been going on, and what we can look
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: forward to.
• 42:43
  Speaker 8: Sure, So the Union Jacks Foundation was officially launched in
• 42:47
  Speaker 8: twenty twenty three and we established foundation to work with
• 42:52
  Speaker 8: government to receive grant funding to do events like today,
• 42:56
  Speaker 8: to expand our Jagtag outreach and to make sure that
• 43:00
  Speaker 8: kids are getting opportunities and underserved communities regardless of their abilities,
• 43:05
  Speaker 8: regardless of their race. And it's really just something we
• 43:09
  Speaker 8: wanted to do just to really establish ourselves as the
• 43:12
  Speaker 8: UK's team.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: And I mean there's some names involved with the foundation
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: because I was there for the launch day and we
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: had the commissioner.
• 43:20
  Speaker 8: You did, yeah, so the Commissioner was there. Jason Bell
• 43:24
  Speaker 8: is an ambassador for US, Phoebe Scheckter, Neil Reynolds. So
• 43:27
  Speaker 8: a lot of the football faces in the UK support
• 43:31
  Speaker 8: our foundation and we're really appreciative of all their efforts
• 43:34
  Speaker 8: and helping us get the message out.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: JAG's UK as a whole. What can we look forward
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: to as fans? What can we look forward to and
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: what are you looking forward to this season?
• 43:43
  Speaker 8: So we are looking forward to the podcast coming back.
• 43:46
  Speaker 8: We're looking forward to kind of a youth focused strategy,
• 43:50
  Speaker 8: really honing in on those one hundred thousand kids that
• 43:53
  Speaker 8: are playing jag Tag, trying to bring out the personalities
• 43:56
  Speaker 8: of our players. We're looking forward to being back at
• 43:59
  Speaker 8: WHEN in the fall, and we're looking forward to so
• 44:03
  Speaker 8: before Wembley, we're looking forward to draft, which we'll do
• 44:06
  Speaker 8: probably an event like this but on a bigger scale
• 44:09
  Speaker 8: in London.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: Can I ask you if you were GM who are
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: we drafting?
• 44:13
  Speaker 8: That is a question way above my pay grade.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Wembley. So we don't know who we're playing,
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: we don't know too many details, but how are we
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: feeling about being back at Wembley again.
• 44:24
  Speaker 8: Oh, very excited. Wembley is our home away from home.
• 44:28
  Speaker 8: We're excited to hopefully break records. We seem to be
• 44:32
  Speaker 8: doing that every year, so thank you to the fans
• 44:34
  Speaker 8: for coming out. But yeah, we're very excited. We hope
• 44:36
  Speaker 8: to know our schedule in the end of April, so
• 44:40
  Speaker 8: right after draft. Who were playing when we're playing and
• 44:42
  Speaker 8: get that information out.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: To our fans. Always love hearing from Maria. Do you
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: know what was my favorite bit of the day, Jay.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: Maria was hanging out with some of the kids and
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: she was showing them photos of Trevor Lawrence and their
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: reaction to his hair was fascinating. One of them saying
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: something like, why is he fifty years old?
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: Fifty? Yeah, mifty years old.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: These kids were like eight, so I think they thought
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: I was sixty years old as well.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: So well, that's more realistic than Trevor Lawrence being fifty
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: years old.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: Made up?
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Jay rap it up, who's babyface and long hair makes
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: him permanently twenty three?
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: So yeah, excellent day. Excellent day, nonetheless, And we should
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: say to learn more about the Union Jack's Foundation. All
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: the info is on Jaguars dot co dot UK. Go
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: there to check it out.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: I feel like I feel fairly exhausted, to be honest
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: with you, because that really was an episode. Yeah, fun
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: episode as well. This is what happens though, when a
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: lot happens in an organization, A lot happens with the Jags.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: So it's good to be able to talk about all
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: of this stuff. And the thing is, and let's be honest, key,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: is that it's the end of February. Now the next
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: two months are going to be They're going to be
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: They're going to be just as bumper because we're gonna
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: have free agency in March, we're going to have the
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: draft and eight or as well.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: A lot going on, not going.
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: Big times, exciting podcasts coming up.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Someone said to me recently, Actually, they said to me, oh,
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: you know, how do you you know, keep enthusiastic or
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, stay excited about the NFL and
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: when when it's the off season, it doesn't stop.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: This is why, this is why that goes on.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: More happened in February than in January.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: It's definitely true. Well, look, we're going to be back
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: at the end of March, aren't we. Key, free agency news.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: Who knows what else in the Jags world as well.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: It could be so much more, hopefully news as well
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: of a new recording studio in English theme pub in
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: the new stadium.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: I'm hopeful.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's why, that's what they should have been asking
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: on the press conference.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: I should have been asking. So I look forward to it.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: Key, Yeah, me too.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: I will see you then. Actually, I'll probably speach you
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: before then. Maybe it'll be a month of just no
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: communication until then.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: All right mate.
• 47:13
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• 47:22
  Speaker 2: We will be back at the end of March. Text
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: me in a minute, jy Yeah, I'll probab speach you
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: a bit yet