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Jaguars Defense and League Changes | Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, March 30 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, March. This is Jaguars Happy Hour and
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Speaker 1: now a guy who can most certainly benefit from a pitchblock,
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Speaker 1: Jay Peace chad Ra, welcome in. It's Jaguars Happy Hour.
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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, and it is the offseason. We've got
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Speaker 1: a busy show ahead though. For the next hour or
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Speaker 1: show here on ten ten AM and Jaguars dot com.
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Speaker 1: We'll hear from Jeff Flageman coming up, Jaguars Analyst, a
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Speaker 1: review of the NFL Annual Meeting. We'll hear from Jaguars
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Speaker 1: owners Shot Con who sat down with John Osier at
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Speaker 1: the Arizona Builtmore earlier this week. Doug Peterson, Jaguars head
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Speaker 1: coach at the AFC Coach's Breakfast on Monday. We'll hear
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Speaker 1: some thoughts from the Jaguars head coach, will go around
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Speaker 1: the NFL as well. We're on ten toon AM, Jaguars
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Speaker 1: you want to find us you can. We're all over
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Speaker 1: the place. We're also on Twitter at JP Shadrick at
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Speaker 1: Logs five six. That's Jeff Logerman's handle. Jeff Logerman. Hey, well,
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Speaker 1: I should be saying hi to you. How you do man?
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Speaker 1: It's been A'm doing good. Yeah, it's been. It came
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Speaker 1: out of the darkness retreat. I was gone for a
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Speaker 1: little while, hung out. No, it was it was by myself,
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Speaker 1: and I came, I got some things together and now
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Speaker 1: I'm back. Baby. Where would you ever consider doing a
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Speaker 1: darkness retreat? Well, I mean it seemed like the Rogers
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Speaker 1: when wasn't quite you know, as advertised like that you
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Speaker 1: could turn on the lights anytime he wanted to, and
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Speaker 1: they had food bring, you know, like room service. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't like he was roughing it. Yeah, I don't I
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Speaker 1: don't get that. I don't know, man, I mean who knows.
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Speaker 1: Just kind of have a who knows conversation with somebody
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Speaker 1: last week and I was sitting there saying, I was it,
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Speaker 1: isn't sunlight really good for you vitamin D? Well, if
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Speaker 1: you're a vampire. Darkness is sometimes, you know, like when
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Speaker 1: if you look at the incidences of depression of the
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Speaker 1: cities that don't have as much sun or where the
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Speaker 1: highest incidents of depression is. So why would you want
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Speaker 1: to put yourself in seclusion in darkness? I don't know.
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Speaker 1: That's a good question for him, but we're not covering
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Speaker 1: the Packers or the Jets beat thing. He needs a
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Speaker 1: little sun is what he needs. We've got plenty to
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Speaker 1: get to in this show. We'll get to the Rogers situation.
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Speaker 1: What's the next step there? Lamar Jackson All that coming
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Speaker 1: up a little bit later in the show, but let's
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Speaker 1: start with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Imagine that Jacks owners Shot
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Speaker 1: Con doesn't have a lot of media interviews throughout the year.
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Speaker 1: There's only a few times a year he speaks. One
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Speaker 1: of those is normally at the NFL annual meeting commonly
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Speaker 1: known as the owners meetings. That happened this week in Arizona,
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Speaker 1: and he sat down with Jaguar senior writer John Oser
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Speaker 1: at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix this week, and the
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Speaker 1: question was about the reaction of the Jaguar success from
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Speaker 1: other owners around the league. You know, I think we've
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Speaker 1: cracked the code. You know, we've got a great head coach,
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Speaker 1: we've got a great general manager, and we have a
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Speaker 1: great quarterback. And that's the trifecta for success in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: And you're enjoying it. You've waited a while to have
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Speaker 1: this feeling hanity. Yeah, I mean absolutely, I think it's
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Speaker 1: taken a while. But I'm glad it's happening. I'm glad
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Speaker 1: for me, I'm glad for all the fans. All right,
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Speaker 1: so that's the owner. Of course they haven't. Yeah, head coach,
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Speaker 1: GM quarterback. That's the trifecta. They've cracked the code. He said,
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Speaker 1: all right, that's a good start. Well you hope so,
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Speaker 1: but you know, sustained success is where you want to
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Speaker 1: be at. You don't want to have one year or
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Speaker 1: you had that back in seventeen and then the next
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Speaker 1: year you just kind of fell by the wayside. I'm
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Speaker 1: not saying that this team is going to do that.
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Speaker 1: I think this team is going to be successful for
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Speaker 1: a very long time because of the quarterback situation that
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Speaker 1: they have. But but that's what you're shooting for. And
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Speaker 1: and by the way, Shot Con I mean just dapper dap. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: if you watch that on Jaguars dot com, John, can
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Speaker 1: we get him a clothing allowance sponsorship? We need to
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Speaker 1: work on this, come on, yeh. But but but Shot
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Speaker 1: looks good man, he's he's sharp. Oh you know, I
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Speaker 1: think there were some travel issues, their baggage got lost.
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Speaker 1: Excuse like they don't have clothing stores in Arizona. Really,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what happened. That is truthful. I'm just
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Speaker 1: saying I don't know. Okay, anyway, you gotta do what
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Speaker 1: you gotta do. Yeah, well you, uh but but anyway, uh,
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Speaker 1: Jaguars dot com, you can see the whole interview, the
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Speaker 1: whole thing I think it went. Happened this morning, Okay,
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Speaker 1: in fact, so check it out. Yeah, the full conversation
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Speaker 1: about eight minutes or so. Did you lose your luggage?
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Speaker 1: I wasn't there. Oh you didn't get invited? No, oh
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Speaker 1: I was not invited yet again that's okay, though not
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Speaker 1: better about it at all. It's fine. The the accommodations
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Speaker 1: at the biltmore, from what I stand, are just a
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Speaker 1: little bit plush. They don't really hold those uh no
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Speaker 1: offense to the Motel six but at those kind of places,
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Speaker 1: you know, the holiday ends quite Motel sixes. I'm not
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Speaker 1: gonna happen. No, no, no, they're you know, they try
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Speaker 1: to alternate it on one time it's on the West
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Speaker 1: Coast somewhere out there, usually in Arizona, and another time
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Speaker 1: it's in Florida. They've had it an assortment of places
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Speaker 1: here in Florida, the Breakers in Palm Beach, They've had
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Speaker 1: it at the Ritz in Orlando. They is warm weather,
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Speaker 1: warm weather, Okay, nice accommodations, It's very nice accommodations. Yes,
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Speaker 1: usually a beach or some kind of outdoor area involved. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of sand in Arizona, but not much.
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Speaker 1: It's true. Good point. This is Jaguars Happy Hour on
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Speaker 1: Tinton Nexcel Jaguars dot Com JP Shadrick with Jeff Logaman Well.
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Speaker 1: Earlier in the week. Doug Peterson, Jaguars head coach, speaking
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Speaker 1: at the meetings this week. The AFC Coaches Breakfast was
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Speaker 1: Monday morning. Of course, a big season for quarterback, Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence said, the head coach has high expectations moving ahead.
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Speaker 1: I truly believe that he there's so much more for
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Speaker 1: him and and and he's he wants that, you know,
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Speaker 1: and he's willing to He's willing to do what it
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Speaker 1: takes to to work. And and uh, that's what you
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Speaker 1: want um as the leader of your football team, right,
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Speaker 1: and that that rubs off on the rest of your team. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: So you start with a quarterback that confidence is now
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Speaker 1: year two in the system. They've added a weapon around
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Speaker 1: him and Ridley, They've got all the other guys back.
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Speaker 1: They've spent some equity in the draft, obviously in free
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Speaker 1: agency last year in the offensive line as well to
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Speaker 1: bolster that. I mean, if they don't succeed offensively, it's
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Speaker 1: not for a lack of trying and personnel and people
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Speaker 1: around the quarterback. Well, you still have to add components,
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Speaker 1: and then the players that have success last year need
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Speaker 1: to continue to build on their game. So you just
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Speaker 1: don't assume, Okay, well, you know, Christian Kirk is going
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Speaker 1: to be great again this year and and uh Etn
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Speaker 1: is going to be explosive again. I mean, you don't
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Speaker 1: assume anything in this game. I think the one thing
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Speaker 1: that's imperative to happen in this offseason, and it's specifically
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Speaker 1: with Trevor Lawrence and the great teams have quarterbacks that
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Speaker 1: had the ability to raise their level of play each
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Speaker 1: and every year early in their career, and then once
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Speaker 1: they reach a certain level, then okay, then it's about
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Speaker 1: maintaining that level and still performing at that high level.
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Speaker 1: But it's important for Trevor to be even more diligent
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Speaker 1: and more hard working this year to show his teammates
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Speaker 1: that that's what it's all about, that that's what it takes.
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Speaker 1: That's what it took last year, and that's what it's
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Speaker 1: going to take this year. When the quarterback is your
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Speaker 1: tone center with work ethic, you have great leadership. And
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Speaker 1: if you need an example, look at the Tom Brady example.
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Speaker 1: I mean, was he not one of the hardest workers
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Speaker 1: in the off season. The way he trained, the way
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Speaker 1: he prepared, the way he worked with his teammates, He
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Speaker 1: set the example. And if Trevor can do that, great
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Speaker 1: things can happen, and he can take not only himself,
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Speaker 1: but then he takes the people around him to a
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Speaker 1: really high level. And that's that's where you achieve greatness.
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Speaker 1: And that's where an individual can achieve greatness is by
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Speaker 1: being great himself, but then by pulling those around him
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Speaker 1: to a higher level that they could not have achieved
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Speaker 1: on their own. Is that, Hey, let's go to the
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Speaker 1: high school field and throw a bunch. It's whatever it takes,
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Speaker 1: whatever it takes, whatever it takes, whether it's hey, look
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Speaker 1: let's get together and watch they did that last year. Yes, yeah,
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Speaker 1: getting together and some other location that you can the Bahamas.
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Speaker 1: They did that last to three or four hours and
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Speaker 1: then the rest of the time you have some fun. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So I mean there's a there's a tremendous opportunity for
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Speaker 1: him in year two when I say year two, year
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Speaker 1: two hundred, Dug Peterson year three in his career to
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Speaker 1: where he can he can take others to a higher level,
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Speaker 1: because that's the true greatness of leadership is being able
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Speaker 1: to elevate those around you, and that's what Tom Brady
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Speaker 1: did for years. I mean, you look at the offensive
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Speaker 1: line as an individual person, you look at the skill
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Speaker 1: positioned players that he had did. I mean, the greatest
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Speaker 1: player he ever had was Randy Moss and the year
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Speaker 1: that they had together was I mean unbelievable it was.
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Speaker 1: But then some of the other wide receivers that he had,
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're not Hall of Fame guys. They were
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Speaker 1: system guys. Well, I mean they were called system guys.
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Speaker 1: But the one thing they all had in common those
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Speaker 1: guys worked sure. I mean worked. They worked in the games,
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Speaker 1: they worked in the off season. And that's the kind
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Speaker 1: of people. That's the kind of culture that you want
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Speaker 1: to establish. And when you have the quarterback that is
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Speaker 1: establishing that man does it make it easy, But they
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Speaker 1: worked to have that system down so cold. That was
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Speaker 1: the work is every little nuance of the offense. They
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Speaker 1: didn't miss a beat. They could find an opening in
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Speaker 1: a defense, they could find it something in a route
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Speaker 1: that they had worked on in April that carried over.
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Speaker 1: And that's what that's about. That's what the work is for. Well,
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Speaker 1: and that's what's the next step of this offense too.
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Speaker 1: There might have been a few nuances of the offense
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Speaker 1: first year in that maybe they missed a few things,
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Speaker 1: a couple of reads here or there. Well, now they
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Speaker 1: can build upon that. Well, yeah, you're trying to build.
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Speaker 1: And then I mean it's just like you go to college.
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Speaker 1: You have a college major. You start out and you're
10:33
Speaker 1: one hundred level classes, two hundred level classes. What was
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Speaker 1: your major, Economics? And then in your latter years of college,
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you're starting to go to
10:42
Speaker 1: four and five hundred level classes. You know, you're starting
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Speaker 1: to to really dig deeper into some of the nuances
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Speaker 1: and the principles of the subject that you're studying. And
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Speaker 1: it's no different in football. I mean, you get to
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Speaker 1: a certain level in a system. Okay, now this is
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Speaker 1: year two. Okay, now you're you're you're going to take
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Speaker 1: a look at some of the three hundred level classes,
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Speaker 1: the four hundred level classes, because a lot of the
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Speaker 1: stuff that the time that you're spending now is not
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Speaker 1: teaching the system and the plays. Now you're teaching some
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Speaker 1: of the finer points. Hey, look you know what to do. Okay,
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Speaker 1: but now when you do that, look for this, and
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Speaker 1: you can expand and and uh and even have adjustments
11:23
Speaker 1: off of that because you're taking it to the next level.
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Speaker 1: It was your minor football. I thought the other way around,
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Speaker 1: fall JP, it's University of Virginia. I forgot. It's a
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Speaker 1: learned institution of higher learning. Corrects right, by the way,
11:39
Speaker 1: did you know that Thomas Jefferson founded that? I was aware. Yes,
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Speaker 1: that's right. The nil money, though, it is killing UVA
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Speaker 1: to pony up it sounds like, huh, it's just you know,
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Speaker 1: some some of the alarms need to pony up. It
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Speaker 1: sounds I would love to see the difference of nil
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Speaker 1: money at the University of Virginia come paired to the
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Speaker 1: niile money of Alabama. I know Texas Tech is like
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Speaker 1: the highest. I don't think you want to see that.
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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think so. No. UVA probably would
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Speaker 1: pay nil money for students, like for the academia. That's
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Speaker 1: what they did for you, right yeah, That's why you
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Speaker 1: got in there, because everything above the shoulders, right yeah. Hey,
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Speaker 1: In a moment, Doug Peterson needs more from Trayvon Walker
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Speaker 1: and Josh Allen on defense. That's next on Jaguars Happy
12:53
Speaker 1: Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network. Welcome back, It's Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Happy Hour. It is Thursday, JP Shatrick with Jeff Flagerman,
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Speaker 1: and we continue with our review of the NFL Annual
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Speaker 1: Meeting in Arizona earlier this week, well coming up in
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Speaker 1: the next few weeks. We're gonna move forward to the
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Speaker 1: NFL Draft preview. We're inside a month from the traft flogs.
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Speaker 1: It's unbelievable, it's almost I mean, obviously April is coming
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Speaker 1: up soon. Well, it goes fast when you're when your
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Speaker 1: team's in the playoffs and doing well, right, you don't
13:28
Speaker 1: have an offseason. I mean, the off season gets shorter
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Speaker 1: and then you're still kind of relishing the moment that
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Speaker 1: you had in the playoffs, not even thinking about the draft.
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Speaker 1: Whereas when you finished the season with the worst record
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Speaker 1: in the National Football League, the first thing you're starting
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Speaker 1: to think about is how this team can get better
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Speaker 1: and free amac number one and number two the draft,
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Speaker 1: especially when you have the number one overall pick two
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Speaker 1: years in a row. Yeah, it's it's gonna be nice.
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Speaker 1: We're actually just talking about this. It's gonna be nice
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Speaker 1: not to have the first overall pick in the draft.
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Speaker 1: But then it's also gonna require some further studying, which
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Speaker 1: you like to do. You're to be able to be
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Speaker 1: able to I think, to be able to talk eloquently
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Speaker 1: about the prospects that may be available for the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: at twenty four. Well, here's what we're gonna do for you, logs.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna give you a head start over the next
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Speaker 1: three weeks or so on this show, at least on Thursdays,
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Speaker 1: we're going to dedicate sometime to a different position group
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Speaker 1: of need for the Jags, and we'll do that starting
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Speaker 1: next week. Okay, all right, and we'll try to We'll
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Speaker 1: probably have some guests on that know a little better
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Speaker 1: about the prospects are in it every day. Some draft
14:36
Speaker 1: guru type people might join us. We should do to
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Speaker 1: start it out just because the quarterbacks it's the hot
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Speaker 1: sexy topic, and we know that the Jaguars have no
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Speaker 1: chance of drafting a quarterback in the first round, right
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Speaker 1: we should start with the quarterbacks because of all the
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Speaker 1: the well the trade that's already happened with Carolina, the
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Speaker 1: other teams that obviously are going to be picking quarterbacks,
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Speaker 1: and our quarterback needy. I think that's uh, that makes
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Speaker 1: sense to you, doesn't it make sense to me? Everybody's
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Speaker 1: looking for a quarterback until they have one. Well on
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Speaker 1: this team right here, you know, can you imagine being
15:15
Speaker 1: in the position that the Indianapolis Colts were. You go
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Speaker 1: from Peyton Manning to Andrew Luck and you think you're
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Speaker 1: good for a decade and then he besides, he doesn't
15:28
Speaker 1: want to play football anymore, which is fine. I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's that was his decision, and I respect the heck
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Speaker 1: out of it. I mean a guy walked away from
15:37
Speaker 1: thirty forty fifty million dollars a year for a decade.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you can't respect that, some people would say,
15:46
Speaker 1: how can you respect that? That's crazy? He had money.
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Speaker 1: But I mean he's getting his brains beat in. But
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Speaker 1: here the Colts are who's their quarterback? They don't know yet,
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Speaker 1: they don't know, They do not know who's going to be.
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Speaker 1: So well, yeah, we'll get the position you want to
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Speaker 1: be in, all right. I like that. Well, we'll get
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Speaker 1: to quarterbacks next week, and you know, we'll talk corners,
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Speaker 1: we'll talk defensive line all that in the weeks ahead
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Speaker 1: and get some professional perspective on that from the outside
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Speaker 1: as well. Let's continue from this week in Arizona and
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Speaker 1: onto the defense now from head coach Doug Peterson. He
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Speaker 1: was asked at the AFC Coach's Breakfast Monday, what needs
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Speaker 1: to improve the most on the defensive side. It's an
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Speaker 1: easy answer, but it all starts up front. Putting pressure
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Speaker 1: on the quarterback. And whether we're doing that with four
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Speaker 1: guys or five guys. Um, you want to see Treyvon
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Speaker 1: take take that next step in the year two, you know,
16:43
Speaker 1: you want to see Josh come along again as an
16:45
Speaker 1: edge rusher, you know, and and and really in his
16:48
Speaker 1: fifth year, you know, make an impact you know with
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Speaker 1: the team, and um, you know, we're confident that both
16:54
Speaker 1: those guys can do that. We're we were excited to
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Speaker 1: extend Roy, you know, and get him back. And you know,
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Speaker 1: I think I think the Photocosi is a guy that
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Speaker 1: can really make another step in the in the in
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Speaker 1: the right direction within the scheme. And so the pieces
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Speaker 1: are there, and now it's just a matter of continuing
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Speaker 1: to coach and uh improve in all areas. All right.
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Speaker 1: So the last couple of years they've spent a lot
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Speaker 1: of equity, draft equity free agent money on the defensive
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Speaker 1: line and the pass rush possible solution. They haven't really
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Speaker 1: found that solution in the big picture yet, so helps
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Speaker 1: not on the way this year. It feels like they
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Speaker 1: didn't spend anything in free agency on it, really big
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Speaker 1: money on It's over JP. I'm just telling you frontier
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Speaker 1: free agency it's not coming. So you got to lean
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Speaker 1: on those first round picks Josh Allen year five, contract year,
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Speaker 1: let's go, and then Trayvon Walker number one overall pick.
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Speaker 1: You need to get improvement, improvement from within, but then
17:51
Speaker 1: you also need to get healthy from within. Fatakasi is
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Speaker 1: a perfect example. Yeah, I mean really wasn't available much
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Speaker 1: last year. And also so finding his best position also
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Speaker 1: would be helpful. You know, is that a nose tackle
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Speaker 1: position is at a three technique. I think his perfect
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Speaker 1: position as a nose tackle. And if you can get
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Speaker 1: improvement from Devin Lloyd, Trayvon Walker, Chad Muma, maybe one
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Speaker 1: of your young corners all of a sudden takes a
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Speaker 1: big step forward can be a contributor safety. Having to
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Speaker 1: continue to get improvement out of your young first round
18:30
Speaker 1: or a couple of second round pick from a couple
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Speaker 1: of years ago from St. Cisco having him getting even better.
18:34
Speaker 1: I thought he made significant steps last year as the
18:38
Speaker 1: season went on. But that's what you gotta have. But
18:42
Speaker 1: as I said before, it's not over yet. I mean
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Speaker 1: there's still an opportunity for this team to get better.
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Speaker 1: Now the market starting to kind of dry up a
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Speaker 1: little bit. When I say dry up from two perspectives. One,
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Speaker 1: from the standpoint of the talent is starting to dry up,
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Speaker 1: but there's still some out there. And number two is
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Speaker 1: that dry up means that there's not as much money
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Speaker 1: available to the people that are left. So there's an
19:10
Speaker 1: opportunity to bring in guys on a one year prove
19:15
Speaker 1: it deal that they want to go back in unto
19:16
Speaker 1: the market next year. And since they've done in the
19:19
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks a week or so, they've added
19:22
Speaker 1: they've added some guys. And some of those guys, you
19:24
Speaker 1: who are they right? Okay, they're I don't want to
19:27
Speaker 1: say they're roster fillers, but they're gonna be role players,
19:30
Speaker 1: okay with this football team. So that's what needs to happen.
19:34
Speaker 1: But first and foremost, if you're not getting getting better
19:37
Speaker 1: from your draft, then you're you're gonna have a tough
19:41
Speaker 1: time of it because you don't have the kind of
19:44
Speaker 1: money because you've spent the money last year. I think
19:48
Speaker 1: last year is like a record three hundred and twenty
19:49
Speaker 1: three million dollars of contracts or something like that last year,
19:53
Speaker 1: So you spent a ton of money last year. You've
19:55
Speaker 1: restructured some guys there are still some opportunity to restructure
20:00
Speaker 1: more guys or to sign extend guys av an Ingram
20:03
Speaker 1: that helps your cap situation. Still got to sign your
20:06
Speaker 1: draft picks when they come in seven to ten million,
20:10
Speaker 1: somewhere in that range for your rookie class. And here's
20:15
Speaker 1: the one thing that you just have to kind of
20:17
Speaker 1: keep in the back of your mind while you're looking
20:20
Speaker 1: at spending money, is that you cannot do anything to
20:24
Speaker 1: jeopardize the future of the big money that's going to
20:28
Speaker 1: be going to Trevor Lawrence, which could be in the
20:30
Speaker 1: next offseason. So you have to be mindful of where
20:34
Speaker 1: your cap is at and the really not too distant future.
20:39
Speaker 1: How does tray Von Walker take a step? What does
20:42
Speaker 1: that look feel like for the former number one overall pick? Well,
20:47
Speaker 1: I think number one is is it you need to
20:48
Speaker 1: figure out where he's going to be best at. And
20:51
Speaker 1: that's that's a I think a coaching staff decision where
20:54
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to look at it and say, hey, look,
20:57
Speaker 1: what's the best position that he can help us win.
21:01
Speaker 1: Is that focusing on one position? Is that playing multiple positions?
21:07
Speaker 1: Is that inside outside? Does he need to gain weight,
21:12
Speaker 1: does he need to lose weight. I mean, all of
21:13
Speaker 1: those things I think are on the table to find
21:16
Speaker 1: out what role does he provide the best impact for
21:21
Speaker 1: this football team. I think his best position would be
21:25
Speaker 1: more in line with the defensive end and a four
21:28
Speaker 1: three type of system. But this team has been running
21:31
Speaker 1: a three four system. Could they tweak it a little
21:35
Speaker 1: bit and ye maybe run a little bit more four
21:37
Speaker 1: three principles. I mean, if it's good for the team, okay,
21:41
Speaker 1: then you maybe look at that. What's the best position
21:45
Speaker 1: for Devin Lloyd? Right, there's another one ye first round pick.
21:49
Speaker 1: Can you do more with him as far as having
21:54
Speaker 1: him be more of an edge edge presence with this
21:57
Speaker 1: defense instead of being in control linebacker that's in a
22:03
Speaker 1: two point stands four yards deep, trying to cover guys
22:06
Speaker 1: down the field too. You know, and look, he's got
22:09
Speaker 1: to be able to do that, But the percentages of
22:12
Speaker 1: doing that versus lining up on the line of scrimmage
22:15
Speaker 1: and maybe being a guy coming off the edge, maybe
22:18
Speaker 1: you want to find a way to be able to
22:19
Speaker 1: do some of that well within more So, those are
22:23
Speaker 1: the questions I think that this coaching staff went into
22:26
Speaker 1: the all season one self evaluation and then number two
22:30
Speaker 1: now where do we go from here? I guarantee you
22:32
Speaker 1: that was at the top of their list. The draft
22:35
Speaker 1: and develop philosophy is, yeah, you can draft, but the
22:39
Speaker 1: developer is the part of it too. These guys have
22:40
Speaker 1: to go get better on their own, and that's what
22:44
Speaker 1: you say there is true when you say get better
22:47
Speaker 1: on their own, because they're prohibited from working with the
22:50
Speaker 1: coaching staff at this point. The collective bargaining rules apply,
22:54
Speaker 1: and there are ways that players can go and get better.
22:58
Speaker 1: There's tight ends that gather in the off season and
23:02
Speaker 1: they get together and work out and kind of have
23:05
Speaker 1: what they call tight end you or something like that,
23:07
Speaker 1: defensive ends. I know Von Miller gathered a bunch of
23:10
Speaker 1: guys pass rush you or whatever they called that, going
23:14
Speaker 1: and learning from guys that did it for a long
23:16
Speaker 1: period of time at a high level. You know, had
23:19
Speaker 1: taken an opportunity maybe talk to some of the greats
23:21
Speaker 1: of all time and spend some time with them. Going
23:25
Speaker 1: back and maybe even working with your college coach, working
23:28
Speaker 1: out with your college to get into the best physical
23:30
Speaker 1: shape that you can prior to coming in for the
23:34
Speaker 1: off season workouts. I mean getting better physically, getting better mentally,
23:38
Speaker 1: improving your diet, reshaping your body, training your body. There's
23:42
Speaker 1: so many different ways to get better, and it's as
23:45
Speaker 1: such a league has just has advanced so far and
23:51
Speaker 1: a short amount of time. When I say a short
23:53
Speaker 1: amount of time to go back in the late eighties
23:57
Speaker 1: in the league, guys just kind of worked out a
24:00
Speaker 1: little bit in the off season at their home, and
24:03
Speaker 1: then they got real serious about it when they kind
24:05
Speaker 1: of came in for camps, and then Jimmy Johnson came in.
24:08
Speaker 1: It became a year round thing. And now it's guys
24:11
Speaker 1: are hiring trainers to work out from the end of
24:14
Speaker 1: the season until they can get together into April. Personal
24:17
Speaker 1: trainers working out at high end fitness type places. And
24:22
Speaker 1: then once you get together then it's all about ball
24:24
Speaker 1: and working out here with the facility, because number one,
24:29
Speaker 1: why would you risk working out anywhere else getting hurt
24:31
Speaker 1: and then you don't get paid. That's one thing I
24:35
Speaker 1: never figured out. A lot of guys are all the
24:38
Speaker 1: dice though on then that's insanity. Why would you take
24:42
Speaker 1: that risk. A lot of guys work out on their
24:44
Speaker 1: own if they get their own in their own their
24:45
Speaker 1: own but you can't, you know, you can't work out
24:47
Speaker 1: with the quarterback and all that stuff on a field
24:50
Speaker 1: here though, so you can't any of that stuff you
24:52
Speaker 1: have to you have to be away, yes, but weight
24:55
Speaker 1: room and all that you can be here, but you
24:58
Speaker 1: still have the What I mean by by that JP
25:02
Speaker 1: is then some guys choose not to come to the
25:04
Speaker 1: voluntary on the field page and then they want to
25:07
Speaker 1: do some of that on their own. When they do
25:10
Speaker 1: that on their own, then they're on their own. Then
25:12
Speaker 1: they're on their own if they get hurt, and then
25:15
Speaker 1: it would have what would be classified as a non
25:16
Speaker 1: football injury where they could potentially not get paid. Whereas
25:20
Speaker 1: if you get hurt out hurt while you're working out
25:23
Speaker 1: here at the facility doing a team drill of some kind,
25:27
Speaker 1: then the risk goes to the team if the player
25:30
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26:46
Speaker 1: we continue with the conversation out of the NFL annual
26:49
Speaker 1: meeting and this is one of the obviously the big
26:53
Speaker 1: major meetings of the offseason for the ownership, and they
26:56
Speaker 1: have multiple meetings throughout the year, but this is one
26:58
Speaker 1: where they on new playing rules, a few things around
27:05
Speaker 1: the league as well, and there's a few that stood
27:07
Speaker 1: out this time. A lot of them passed, some of
27:10
Speaker 1: them are tabled for later discussion, but the one that
27:13
Speaker 1: really stood out was Thursday night football flexing. It was
27:17
Speaker 1: on the docket during the annual meeting this year and
27:20
Speaker 1: the possibility of expansion of short week games for each
27:23
Speaker 1: team that actually passed, so there's a maximum of two
27:27
Speaker 1: and so you can have multiple normal Thursday night football
27:31
Speaker 1: games in a season. But the Thursday night football flexing
27:35
Speaker 1: idea was tabled until the May meetings. And basically you
27:39
Speaker 1: would have a fifteen day window. You'd have to flex
27:43
Speaker 1: it fifteen days before the actual game, and then you
27:47
Speaker 1: could move a game off Sunday to Thursday, you know,
27:50
Speaker 1: And there's two for me. Let's start with this. I
27:53
Speaker 1: get the players side of it. It's horrible to be
27:55
Speaker 1: moving games around an extra short week and player safety
27:58
Speaker 1: and guys may not be ready off a Sunday. That's
28:01
Speaker 1: a quick turnaround once in a year, you know, and
28:04
Speaker 1: then obviously you do it a couple of times, then
28:06
Speaker 1: you're up against it again. So I'm not a huge
28:09
Speaker 1: fan of it from that regard, But from a viewing
28:12
Speaker 1: perspective in December, when the games really matter and hey,
28:17
Speaker 1: you want a better Thursday night game, I'm kind of
28:20
Speaker 1: for it. If you're into just the viewing portion of
28:23
Speaker 1: this thing. Well, what they're trying to do is to
28:26
Speaker 1: keep from having a snoozer in December on Thursday Night,
28:29
Speaker 1: and to make the Thursday Night package more attractive hence
28:33
Speaker 1: more valuable to Amazon and then also more valuable to
28:38
Speaker 1: whoever buys it into the future. And I totally understand it,
28:42
Speaker 1: but it's very difficult to ask a football team and
28:47
Speaker 1: a fan base that they're making plans for a Sunday game.
28:51
Speaker 1: For example, let's say the Jaguars, We're getting ready to
28:54
Speaker 1: face the Tennessee Titans, and all of a sudden it
28:56
Speaker 1: was a division game, which that division game in December
28:59
Speaker 1: might determine a huge situation within the division. And when
29:03
Speaker 1: they say two weeks before, hey, we're gonna make that
29:07
Speaker 1: a Thursday night game instead of being on Sunday, Well,
29:09
Speaker 1: what happened to all the people that may have made
29:11
Speaker 1: plans to attend that game in Jacksonville or in Nashville
29:15
Speaker 1: wherever it was on a Sunday. Now sudden they have
29:19
Speaker 1: to maybe look at changing plans and making it happen
29:22
Speaker 1: on a Thursday. That's hard to do, and gate revenue
29:26
Speaker 1: is obviously very important, but TV revenue probably exceeds the
29:31
Speaker 1: gate revenue, especially when it comes to a league wide
29:36
Speaker 1: standpoint TV revenue and the Giant's owner, I believe it
29:40
Speaker 1: was mister Merrill. Yeah, would was one of the ones
29:45
Speaker 1: that spoke vehemently against it, and he said, we can't
29:47
Speaker 1: do that to our fans. Roger Goodell kind of softened
29:50
Speaker 1: that a little bit by saying that we have to
29:52
Speaker 1: be able to look at it from the TV audience
29:54
Speaker 1: perspective as well. And look, I get it. I think
29:57
Speaker 1: that is an interesting situation. I don't like the possibility
30:03
Speaker 1: of flexing something that quickly from a Saturday or a
30:08
Speaker 1: Sunday to a Thursday just doesn't work for me. If
30:11
Speaker 1: you wanted to flex it to where you move it
30:14
Speaker 1: a time slot, have had it, you know, have had it.
30:18
Speaker 1: I mean, what's wrong with doing that? Okay, but to
30:22
Speaker 1: make a team potential. Let's say you had a West
30:26
Speaker 1: Coast trip on a Sunday and then the league flexed
30:31
Speaker 1: you because of this matchup. They did it fourteen days ago.
30:34
Speaker 1: So now you're flying back and they flexed your game
30:37
Speaker 1: the one the week's coming up, So you're landing at three, four,
30:41
Speaker 1: five am in Jacksonville and then you're trying to turn
30:45
Speaker 1: around and play a game on Thursday night that might
30:47
Speaker 1: be on the road. See, I would like to think
30:51
Speaker 1: that the league would take all that into consideration and
30:54
Speaker 1: be somewhat well, JP, if they were taking all that
30:56
Speaker 1: into consideration, they would take all of that into consideration
31:00
Speaker 1: about moving it just from Sunday to a Thursday, regardless
31:02
Speaker 1: of any of that, right. I mean, so when you
31:04
Speaker 1: say that, well, they should take that into consideration, Well,
31:07
Speaker 1: they're not taking it into consideration about having the fans
31:11
Speaker 1: be penalized, having the teams be penalized because it's an
31:13
Speaker 1: attractive game. We want to make the Thursday night package
31:16
Speaker 1: more attracted to do a national audience. So I mean
31:19
Speaker 1: it's it's there by by saying that they want to
31:22
Speaker 1: do that, that's not really saying that they would consider that. Right.
31:27
Speaker 1: So it's tabled until another meeting in May, which in
31:32
Speaker 1: which they could probably vote on it. Typically, what the
31:35
Speaker 1: league will do is on something like this that can
31:39
Speaker 1: be viewed as controversial, because it can be viewed as
31:43
Speaker 1: controversial from a fan standpoint, wait till the Players Association
31:46
Speaker 1: gets involved. Is that they they throw it out there
31:51
Speaker 1: to kind of test the waters a little bit, you know,
31:53
Speaker 1: and now hold their finger up to see which way
31:55
Speaker 1: the wind's bowing a little bit, and then they kind
31:58
Speaker 1: of let it simmer for a little while, and for
32:02
Speaker 1: two reasons. One to see how the reaction would be.
32:06
Speaker 1: Number two, to maybe let the idea kind of settle
32:11
Speaker 1: on the minds of those that follow the NFL and
32:14
Speaker 1: the fan base and the teams and the coaches and
32:16
Speaker 1: the players, and then maybe circle back to it so
32:19
Speaker 1: that when you go back to it, it's not such
32:22
Speaker 1: a complete and utter surprise if something were to pass.
32:28
Speaker 1: A couple of other changes of note, one of those
32:31
Speaker 1: impacting the Jaguar is pretty quickly here, and that was
32:34
Speaker 1: the adoption of the numbers zero as a jersey option.
32:38
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley the first in the league to announce he's
32:41
Speaker 1: changing to number zero or using it for the first
32:44
Speaker 1: time as a Jaguar. He announced it with a team
32:46
Speaker 1: immediately after the results were announced after the voting, and
32:51
Speaker 1: he will wear number zero for the Jags. It's been
32:53
Speaker 1: a while since there's been number zero in the NFL.
32:57
Speaker 1: The most I guess the most famous was double zero
33:01
Speaker 1: Jim Otto, Right, yeah, no, by far. I don't you know.
33:06
Speaker 1: It's cool that they they have allowed the flexibility with
33:09
Speaker 1: the numbers, you know, and I know Tom Brady spoke
33:12
Speaker 1: against it a couple of years ago, and I don't
33:15
Speaker 1: quite get his argument about from a quarterback standpoint, it's
33:19
Speaker 1: hard to figure it out. Look, you figure it out,
33:21
Speaker 1: you adapt and adjust. I mean, it's not that big
33:23
Speaker 1: of a deal in my opinion on a quarterback. But
33:27
Speaker 1: the zero number, I think is unique. And I'm wondering
33:32
Speaker 1: did they allow other Jaguars the opportunity to have first
33:37
Speaker 1: DIBs on the zero. I'm gonna tell you. I mean,
33:39
Speaker 1: it came out so fast after the announcement of all
33:42
Speaker 1: these changes that I would I don't know. I doubt it.
33:45
Speaker 1: I doubt it. Do you like zero? I didn't at first.
33:51
Speaker 1: When it's changed to college a couple of years ago,
33:53
Speaker 1: I like it. But what do I care? Does it matter? No,
33:56
Speaker 1: You're still gonna play the game. Tell you it really
33:58
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, right, But you bet you better play well
34:01
Speaker 1: if you're wearing a zero. The one I don't like
34:03
Speaker 1: in college is single digits on defensive lineman. That one
34:07
Speaker 1: bothers me. I don't like that well because it makes
34:09
Speaker 1: him look fat. I just don't not a fan it does.
34:13
Speaker 1: But let's understand the single digits. It's something about the
34:16
Speaker 1: defensive line wrong, but I look zero, it's great. I
34:21
Speaker 1: hope Calvin Ridley represents it well. He'll be the very
34:24
Speaker 1: in a very unique situation. He's going to be the
34:26
Speaker 1: first Jaguar in history to wear the number zero. Pretty
34:30
Speaker 1: cool stuff. And it's already out there. I don't know
34:32
Speaker 1: if any other teams that have officially announced it yet.
34:34
Speaker 1: See the other Kudos to the social media team for
34:37
Speaker 1: the Jags who helped get that out pretty quick too,
34:40
Speaker 1: and the design folks everything. The rugby scrum is gonna continue, yes, yes,
34:46
Speaker 1: And that was also came out the Philadelphia Eagles and
34:49
Speaker 1: they should not have changed that role. I know they
34:51
Speaker 1: were talking about it, and you think it's okay. Some
34:54
Speaker 1: of the people that are on the competition committee that
34:57
Speaker 1: are talking about this play being a higher risk of injury,
35:05
Speaker 1: I mean, in theory, here's here's their argument. I'm not
35:09
Speaker 1: saying it's right or wrong. You've got JP who got
35:12
Speaker 1: hurt this past year because of that play, nobody, but hey,
35:17
Speaker 1: in theory, you've got a quarterback who's two hundred and
35:20
Speaker 1: twenty five pounds in the middle of four big defensive linemen,
35:26
Speaker 1: four or five offensive linemen all crunched in together, and
35:30
Speaker 1: then he's getting pancake from behind by a running back
35:33
Speaker 1: or two or three. Okay, and he's in the middle
35:36
Speaker 1: of all that. How many quarterbacks got hurt doing that
35:39
Speaker 1: that I know of that I watched that. It's it's
35:41
Speaker 1: a minimal contact. And when I say minimal contact, there's
35:44
Speaker 1: bodies that are making contact, but it's it's not a
35:47
Speaker 1: high speed, a distance apart contact because it's kind of
35:52
Speaker 1: everybody's packed into a very tight area. So here's the
35:55
Speaker 1: next step of it. Right, if the quarterbacks exposed somehow,
35:58
Speaker 1: like on top of the pile, is he fair game?
36:00
Speaker 1: He's a runner, damn right, So at some point somebody's
36:04
Speaker 1: going to take a shot at a quarterback and that's Look,
36:07
Speaker 1: he's got to be able to make sure that he
36:08
Speaker 1: runs it in a smart fashion. They've got to make
36:10
Speaker 1: sure that they protect and teach their quarterback to protect himself.
36:16
Speaker 1: This is also coming from the guy who chased down
36:19
Speaker 1: quarterbacks for a living. Well, look that's your view. Look, Look,
36:23
Speaker 1: I'm one of the guys that have said that I
36:24
Speaker 1: believe that they should protect the quarterbacks. I believe that
36:28
Speaker 1: I liked a lot of the rules that were reasonable.
36:30
Speaker 1: Now some of them that were unreasonable, some of the
36:34
Speaker 1: hits that were penalized. And I know part of the
36:37
Speaker 1: discussion at the league meetings was to make the hits
36:40
Speaker 1: on quarterbacks reviewable. Yeah, I hate that because there were
36:44
Speaker 1: some hits this past year that were just ridiculous that
36:46
Speaker 1: we're called rough beings. They do that, they're going back
36:49
Speaker 1: to the past interference reviewable thing. It's a judgment call.
36:51
Speaker 1: You can't. You can't review judgment calls JP that are JP.
36:56
Speaker 1: You can't. You saw the same I'm just I'm talking
37:01
Speaker 1: about and they were embarrassing calls. You can't review roughing,
37:07
Speaker 1: you can't do it. Well, I think they should make
37:10
Speaker 1: it reviewable because when our guy's instant reaction is is that, oh,
37:14
Speaker 1: you got hit, he throws the flag just out of
37:17
Speaker 1: reaction because oh it's the quarterback. Well, that doesn't necessarily
37:21
Speaker 1: make it a foul. I don't like. I think that
37:25
Speaker 1: that should have been reviewable, in my opinion, because it
37:28
Speaker 1: goes beyond judgment because a lot of times the official
37:31
Speaker 1: throws it out of a reaction anticipation almost it really does,
37:35
Speaker 1: instead of let me look at that play and then no,
37:40
Speaker 1: it's okay, or yeah it's was a foul. It was
37:43
Speaker 1: almost as soon as contacts made because the league has
37:47
Speaker 1: almost ingrained and a lot of the officials had to
37:49
Speaker 1: protect the quarterbacks, protect the quarterbacks, protect the quarterbacks. If
37:52
Speaker 1: they don't throw a flag, they view or concerned that
37:55
Speaker 1: they may get downgraded anyway. Also, one more, we are
38:00
Speaker 1: back to one preseason roster reduction date after the final
38:04
Speaker 1: preseason game. They used to have multiple cutdowns, from ninety
38:07
Speaker 1: to eighty five, eighty five to eighty, then eighty to
38:10
Speaker 1: fifty three. Now it's from ninety to fifty three after
38:13
Speaker 1: the final preseason game. That's official now. Yeah, and then
38:17
Speaker 1: obviously the practice squad gets filled in. So I mean,
38:20
Speaker 1: even though you look at ninety and fifty three, it's
38:23
Speaker 1: really not that dramatic. It really goes from ninety to
38:29
Speaker 1: seventy one, two, three, four, five somewhere in that range,
38:33
Speaker 1: because you're gonna have guys that go on injury reserve,
38:36
Speaker 1: you're gonna have guys that go to the practice squad,
38:38
Speaker 1: and some that will be on the non football injury
38:40
Speaker 1: list or etc. That will still be there. So it's
38:43
Speaker 1: not as dramatic as ninety to fifty three, and that'll
38:46
Speaker 1: help out obviously, the last preseason game, your starter's body go, hey, guys,
38:52
Speaker 1: your chance to get some tape? Yeah, bodies you know,
38:55
Speaker 1: and the look I think it's great. I mean, why
38:59
Speaker 1: not continue to allow some of these younger players to
39:02
Speaker 1: get younger players to get snaps, to continue to have
39:05
Speaker 1: an opportunity to show what they can do. I like
39:10
Speaker 1: the single cut as opposed to the graduated cut, but
39:15
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. I will tell you that whenever the
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Speaker 1: cuts happened, it was always dramatic, no matter what the
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Speaker 1: step was. When you went down to that final number
39:26
Speaker 1: of fifty three, it's a dramatic change in the locker
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Speaker 1: room because you go from ninety all sudden. Even though
39:32
Speaker 1: you have sixteen practice squad, it's still that's a pretty
39:35
Speaker 1: dramatic change because a lot of times those guys are
39:38
Speaker 1: in another locker room. Now if we're in another locker room,
39:42
Speaker 1: but it's it's very different. We're back in a moment.
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Speaker 1: We'll go around the National Football League and we'll look
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Speaker 1: at the Miller Electric Center and logs are going to
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Speaker 1: talk art art arts, a art art art and give
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Speaker 1: me a little bit of it involves the Miller Electric Center. Oh,
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Speaker 1: when we come back, it's Jaguar's Happy Hour on the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Digital Network. Welcome back, It's Jaguars Happy Hour. And
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Speaker 1: if you're watching on Jaguars dot Com Jaguars Social Media,
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Speaker 1: it's a live look outside at the Miller Electric Center.
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Speaker 1: We are closing in unmoving day for the Jaguars. July
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Speaker 1: first is still the scheduled date to get the keys
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Speaker 1: to the building. The practice fields have the what do
40:33
Speaker 1: you call the watering? How you do the irrigation? Oh,
40:37
Speaker 1: that's in and they're about to put the thank you.
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Speaker 1: The grass is coming soon. They're gonna start growing that
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Speaker 1: and then they'll have training camp out there in pretty
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Speaker 1: pretty impressive facility. I can't wait to see it once
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Speaker 1: the doors open up. I walked through it a couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks ago. Pretty cool, big, yeah, large, Oh yeah
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Speaker 1: yeah yeah. And the stands are great. It's gonna be
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Speaker 1: beautiful and and also shaded, shaded stands, shaded balconies for
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Speaker 1: the offices for the coaches and all this. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's it's in the indoors. Huge too, by the way. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: really nice. So that's coming very soon now, this week,
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Speaker 1: the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville and the JAGS announced
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Speaker 1: the artists that have been selected for the Miller Electric
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Speaker 1: Center projects. So the goal is to infuse public art
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Speaker 1: into the design and the partnership was announced back in September.
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Speaker 1: More than one hundred and fifty artists from around the
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Speaker 1: world answered calls put forth by the Cultural Council for
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Speaker 1: this and they were representing twenty five states and nine countries,
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Speaker 1: and six artists have made the cut for different parts
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Speaker 1: of the project around or on. In one instance, the
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Speaker 1: Miller Electric Center, Aisling Miller McDonald of Jacksonville will create
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Speaker 1: a steel sculpture and it represents various aspects of community
41:57
Speaker 1: and that'll be outside of the Miller Electric Center. Casto
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Speaker 1: Solano of Spain will have an illuminated sculpture of a
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Speaker 1: jaguar head that's gonna be south of public lobby. That'll
42:07
Speaker 1: be cool. Oh yeah. Will Dubois of Missouri four sculptural
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Speaker 1: goalpost shape bike racks for fan use. Timothy Smith of
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Speaker 1: California will produce a mural for the north exterior facade
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Speaker 1: of the indoor practice facility that's over four hundred feet wide.
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Speaker 1: That's a lot. It's a big lot of space. I
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Speaker 1: don't know. I was going to take him what do
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Speaker 1: they call that? What do they call like an artist?
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Speaker 1: What he when? He what? He draws on canvas? Yeah,
42:34
Speaker 1: it's a lot of canvas, right, so yeah, right, it's
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Speaker 1: a lot of paint. Yeah. I'll say that arln. Graand
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Speaker 1: of Ohio will have two murals on vinyl for the
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Speaker 1: fan amenity Grandstand area, and DOS of North Carolina will
42:47
Speaker 1: do an additional mural on vinyl for that area as well.
42:50
Speaker 1: So a lot going on there. Um. You can check
42:52
Speaker 1: out all everything on Jaguars dot com if you haven't
42:55
Speaker 1: seen the photos. That'll be impressive. I mean it's that
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Speaker 1: they're doing that. I mean, it's uh. I mean, art
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Speaker 1: is a beautiful thing. And and I hope that they
43:05
Speaker 1: also have um a place in there to show the
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Speaker 1: history of the franchise, you know, some of the pictures
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Speaker 1: and stuff from the early days, because I think that's
43:19
Speaker 1: very history is important. You're gonna need a space for
43:22
Speaker 1: Lombardi Trophy as well at some point that would be great,
43:25
Speaker 1: you know, or two that would be great. Not asking
43:27
Speaker 1: too much, just saying, you know, least some space deer
43:31
Speaker 1: heads on the wall. No, is that part of the
43:34
Speaker 1: broadcast area? No, No, it's not. No, that's not not
43:38
Speaker 1: what you're looking for. But you're you know, you know,
43:40
Speaker 1: like a bust of Tony Biselli that's kind of replica
43:45
Speaker 1: of the Hall of Fame. There's not a building big
43:48
Speaker 1: enough for that. Some of the pictures from the early days,
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Speaker 1: you know, the the names that are on the inside
43:53
Speaker 1: of the stadium, to have kind of tributes to them
43:56
Speaker 1: and kind of what I would call the Jaguars Hall
43:59
Speaker 1: of Fame kind of area or something of that nature
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Speaker 1: would be cool. I like that. Yeah, I like that
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Speaker 1: a lot. What's the logoment area you're gonna have in it?
44:06
Speaker 1: There's no logoment are No. No, the dear head, that's
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Speaker 1: what you're gonna have. No, let's go around the National
44:11
Speaker 1: Football League now logs and bringing on home. Two different
44:14
Speaker 1: bids on the table for the Washington Commanders, each at
44:17
Speaker 1: six billion dollars. There could be another one on the way,
44:22
Speaker 1: as Jeff Bezos next to bid on the team six
44:26
Speaker 1: billion dollars at least as a base starting line for
44:29
Speaker 1: this team. Well, the reports are that there's one bid. Okay,
44:35
Speaker 1: it's there's a lot of reports that are saying that
44:38
Speaker 1: there's two that are at six billion, but the financing
44:42
Speaker 1: supposedly is not in place for one of those two. Okay, bidders.
44:47
Speaker 1: It's the whole point of a bid is to have
44:49
Speaker 1: the financing too. You've got to have League approved when
44:53
Speaker 1: it comes to the finances. And I'm sure that Daniel
44:57
Speaker 1: Snyder would love nothing more, even though it's been reported
45:00
Speaker 1: that he doesn't want to sell it to Bezos because
45:02
Speaker 1: of the long standing rivalry between Daniel Schneider and The
45:06
Speaker 1: Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, who also
45:09
Speaker 1: owns Amazon by the way, But yeah, he would love
45:13
Speaker 1: to have Bezos come in and make an offer of
45:16
Speaker 1: six and a half or seven million dollars, whatever it
45:19
Speaker 1: may be. I'm just glad and hopeful that this saga
45:24
Speaker 1: and the Washington Commander's history, Slash Redskins history can be
45:29
Speaker 1: put into the past, because it has been kind of
45:34
Speaker 1: an embarrassing stretch and a little bit of a stain
45:37
Speaker 1: on the National Football League, the situation in Washington. Klais
45:44
Speaker 1: Campbell signing with the Falcons, he said, quote, it really
45:47
Speaker 1: came down to where I felt like I could have
45:49
Speaker 1: the biggest impact both on and off the field. Are
45:52
Speaker 1: you doing Marvin Jones junior back with the Lions. He is.
45:58
Speaker 1: He spent a lot of his time there before the Jaguars.
46:01
Speaker 1: But Calais made a visit through here reportedly the other
46:04
Speaker 1: week and then went on a vacation, came off the vacation,
46:07
Speaker 1: and he'll be in Hotlanta. Nah. You know, look, I
46:10
Speaker 1: would have loved to have had him back here, just
46:13
Speaker 1: because he's an exceptional person, excellent football player, but most
46:20
Speaker 1: importantly exceptional person. Love having him around. Special really is.
46:24
Speaker 1: And but I wish him nothing but the best. Will
46:26
Speaker 1: always be a fan of his no matter what uniform
46:29
Speaker 1: he wears. Just have to beat him this year, Jeff
46:31
Speaker 1: Falcons are on the schedule, aren't they? I don't know,
46:34
Speaker 1: are they they are? Yeah? I kind of surprised that
46:37
Speaker 1: he went to Atlanta. Who's their quarterback? They just signed
46:40
Speaker 1: a guy? Um, they just signed somebody for pretty good
46:44
Speaker 1: money too, their quarterback. Yeah, okay, JP, I'm just telling
46:49
Speaker 1: you they do. They have a franchise quarterback. No exactly.
46:54
Speaker 1: And so if you're Calais, why Desmond Desmond Ridder was
47:02
Speaker 1: the rookie last year. He's a starting quarterback and he's
47:05
Speaker 1: not a starting quarterball. That's what they just named in
47:07
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback. Yeah, they did for now because they
47:12
Speaker 1: don't have anybody else. Heineck's there. Heineke's who I'm thinking of.
47:15
Speaker 1: That's who they just saw, Taylor Heineke from the Commanders,
47:18
Speaker 1: and he couldn't hold a job down in Washington, so
47:22
Speaker 1: they don't have a quarterback situation. That's why I was
47:25
Speaker 1: surprised that he went there. I figured that he would
47:26
Speaker 1: go to some type of contending team, whether it be here,
47:31
Speaker 1: Buffalo back to the Ravens. But with the situation with
47:35
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson being really up in the air in questionable,
47:40
Speaker 1: I don't know if the Ravens are a viable candidate.
47:44
Speaker 1: New playing service installed at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford,
47:47
Speaker 1: New Jersey. There's been some widespread criticism over the last
47:50
Speaker 1: few years of the surface. It's improved synthetic turf a
47:54
Speaker 1: FieldTurf core system, so five forty nine ers suffered lower
47:58
Speaker 1: body andrews in the same game against the Jets back
48:00
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. Ravens cornerback Kyle Fuller towards ACL there
48:04
Speaker 1: a week one last year. That's also where to wind
48:06
Speaker 1: smoot towards Achilles at the end of last season on
48:09
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football. Right. Yeah, so they've changed, They've changed
48:12
Speaker 1: the whole field well, and I hope it's a it's
48:15
Speaker 1: a great service. I wish every team in the league
48:18
Speaker 1: had natural grasp, but I know that that's not an
48:21
Speaker 1: option for some because especially like in New York where
48:24
Speaker 1: you have multiple well New Jersey, where you have multiple
48:27
Speaker 1: teams and events that are going to be on and
48:30
Speaker 1: in that stadium. So it's just a it's not a
48:33
Speaker 1: realistic approach. But there are really really, really good synthetic surfaces,
48:39
Speaker 1: and I hope that every team in the league gets
48:42
Speaker 1: it squared away. Look, there's some the situation that was
48:47
Speaker 1: what in Arizona for the Super Bowl, Yeah, slipping inside
48:50
Speaker 1: and that's not good, no, just because you had the
48:54
Speaker 1: humidity levels that increase as it gets darker and all
48:58
Speaker 1: sudden gods are on ice skates everywhere around. I mean,
49:01
Speaker 1: you can't fix that. And I guess they kept it
49:03
Speaker 1: inside too long. That's the field you can actually pull
49:06
Speaker 1: outside to the natural sun. But they brought it in
49:09
Speaker 1: apparently a little too early and let it the water
49:11
Speaker 1: has stayed on it. Yeah, and they kind, not that
49:14
Speaker 1: I'm a underplayed the surface after the fact. Oh yeah
49:18
Speaker 1: it was fine. No, it wasn't fine. It shouldn't have
49:21
Speaker 1: been that in that type of situation at all. If
49:24
Speaker 1: it's a Super Bowl, the field should be impeccable, and
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Speaker 1: it was not. Thanks to our entire crew, Brent Reebru
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Speaker 1: on the video side, Joe Fortunado on the audio side,
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Speaker 1: social media, all the design folks, everybody behind the show
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Speaker 1: each and every week for Jeff Lageman, I'm JP Shadrick.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for watching and listening. It's Jaguars Happy Hour
49:43
Speaker 1: on the Jaguars Digital Network.