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Jaguars Happy Hour | Roster Review w/ Pete Prisco After OTAs · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It is Thursday, June fifth.
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  Speaker 2: This is Jaguars Happy Hour, Jaguars Happy Hours brought to
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  Speaker 2: you by dream Finders Home and now a guy who's
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  Speaker 2: willing to separate Pete and Austin on the island just
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  Speaker 2: to see how they react when they return to the
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  Speaker 2: final boundfire.
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  Speaker 1: Jay pe Chachard and welcome in Jaguars Happy Hour presented
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  Speaker 1: by dream Finders Homes Official home Deilder at the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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  Speaker 1: We're on Tintinexlam, Jaguars dot Com and Jaguars YouTube and
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  Speaker 1: a busy hour ahead. Yes you heard correctly. Austin Lane
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  Speaker 1: and Pete Priscoe with us today. OTA is coming to
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  Speaker 1: an end to today earlier mandatory Mini camp is next
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  Speaker 1: week than the end of the off season program. Jeff
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  Speaker 1: Loghman out this week. Austin Lane in Pete Priscoe of
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  Speaker 1: CBS Sports in as well. Good afternoon, gentleman. Austin, How
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  Speaker 1: are you? What's up? You're down in South Florida.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I'm doing great, Pete, It's great to see you.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, let me start by saying this, you
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  Speaker 3: better give your PR person a much needed higher wage
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  Speaker 3: gap here, because if I have to hear one more
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  Speaker 3: video on YouTube sorts coming from my son's iPad, because
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  Speaker 3: you're all over his algorithm right now, Man, I may
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  Speaker 3: lose it. So if I have to hear you blindly
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  Speaker 3: rank one more quarterback group, that that's gonna be it
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  Speaker 3: for me. Literally, just hanging out in the family dining
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  Speaker 3: room and I hear Joen Hurts, he's kind of he's
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  Speaker 3: not the probably put Jay Hurts behind him. I'm like, oh, Ronan,
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  Speaker 3: that's Pete Prisco, Like turn it, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: So it's great to see you again.
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  Speaker 4: Man, your your son has great taste, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, my god.
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  Speaker 3: That's kids. How old is he he's ten? He's ten.
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  Speaker 5: Well he's smart, man, he's got he's one up on
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  Speaker 5: his pop already.
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  Speaker 4: I mean your kid. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, that video you're talking about got me
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  Speaker 5: in so much trouble with the Philadelphia fans.
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  Speaker 4: They went nuts. They just were absolutely nuts.
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  Speaker 3: Well missing accomplished, man, because it found it's went at Jacksonville, Florida.
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  Speaker 3: My son's eye fad. So appreciate you for doing that.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, what he does. He's not scared of
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  Speaker 1: ruffle feathers, just as he sees it.
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  Speaker 5: No, you know what, In fact, as we start this program,
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  Speaker 5: I'm kind of sad because I'm missing the old GM.
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  Speaker 4: I used to ruffle his feathers all over.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's gone. Uh, there's a new there's a
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  Speaker 1: new sheriff in town sheriffs multiple in this place. Pete, Well, the.
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  Speaker 4: Guy that used to sit in that screen over there is.
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  Speaker 1: Now down the hole.
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  Speaker 4: He's the president of the team. How much football do
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  Speaker 4: we teach that guy during the course of this.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing how we saw him grow over the years, Pete,
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  Speaker 1: on this program. I mean, he came in as a
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  Speaker 1: little pup and then we raised him up and you
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  Speaker 1: sent him on to the to the executive level. So
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  Speaker 1: you did.
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  Speaker 4: He couldn't even he couldn't even the first year he
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  Speaker 4: was doing an ad.
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  Speaker 5: He tried to say sports coach and he watched it
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  Speaker 5: about fifty times. How many names did Butcher? I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it was just it's an amazing thing to
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  Speaker 5: think that that guy is now the president. Tony Bisselli
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  Speaker 5: is now the president of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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  Speaker 4: It's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Executive vice president technically, but yes, whatever is yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Whatever he's got you kid me, he's already trampling over people,
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  Speaker 5: you know.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about some big shoes to fill, though, Guys, I'm
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  Speaker 3: just sitting here like, well, uh, it's a Hall of
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  Speaker 3: Famer verse, a guy that made Andrew Luck swear at
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  Speaker 3: him for like one of his very first times in
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  Speaker 3: his career. So I guess I'll take that. But uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think Tony Viselli's got me beat in terms of
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  Speaker 3: the resume.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, let's hear that. What did you do to
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  Speaker 1: make Andrew Luck swear at you?
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  Speaker 4: So?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So it was a well known thing that you know,
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Luck, a very wholesome and smart individual, never cussed
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  Speaker 3: on the football field. Well, we played Andrew Luck Thursday night,
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  Speaker 3: Prime time. I happen to be a captain for that game,
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  Speaker 3: and it happened to be my birthday, so a lot
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  Speaker 3: of incentive to try to play, you know, outside my capabilities.
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  Speaker 3: Ended up getting a strip, sack fumble, Jeremy Mincey, you
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  Speaker 3: jumped on the ball and everything, and I think we're
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  Speaker 3: down by like twenty so the game was out of reach.
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  Speaker 3: But me being me, you know, quote unquote the bringer
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  Speaker 3: of pain, I had to give Andrew Luck a little
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  Speaker 3: extra you know, like, ah, thanks for coming to Jacksonville
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  Speaker 3: and kind of pushed his head down a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: So then after the game he came up to find
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  Speaker 3: me and he goes, hey, Lane, I go, what's up man?
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  Speaker 3: He goes, I gotta talk to you. He's like, you
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  Speaker 3: are one bad bleep bleep. I go, dude, I thought
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  Speaker 3: you didn't swear. It's like, I'm making an exception for you.
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  Speaker 3: I go, all right, man, right on preciates you.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, that's awesome. By the way, that Andrew lux the
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  Speaker 4: last time the Colts won a division.
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  Speaker 1: About that to think about too, And with their quarterback
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  Speaker 1: situation developing again today, Pete, it might be a minute.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's a problem.
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  Speaker 4: And every other team in divisions won it twice since
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  Speaker 4: they last won it. Think about that.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty wild.
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  Speaker 4: Even the Jaguars.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, the Jaguars too. Let's get to it. And
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  Speaker 1: Pete's first time we've had you on any of our
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  Speaker 1: programs since the twenty twenty five NFL Draft and the
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  Speaker 1: move from five to two to get tracked us Hunter,
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  Speaker 1: he's been playing both ways in practice. We've seen his
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  Speaker 1: ball skills on display on both sides of the football,
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  Speaker 1: with highlights coming out of camp here, What do you
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  Speaker 1: make so far of Hunter, what you've seen? What do
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  Speaker 1: you like? What's uh? What are some concerns you might
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  Speaker 1: have with the way they're approaching it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he's a special player. I mean it was the
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  Speaker 5: right move to go get him. It was definitely the
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  Speaker 5: right man. Everybody else look back and say, well, they
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  Speaker 5: gave up too much. You know they did not. And
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  Speaker 5: I'm not saying just because he plays both ways. If
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  Speaker 5: he's going to be what I think he's going to
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  Speaker 5: be as a wide receiver, then you made the right move.
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  Speaker 5: And so they went up and got him, and you
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  Speaker 5: add him to the mix, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 5: a team that wasn't fast a year ago is now fast.
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  Speaker 5: Brian Thomas can go, Travis Hunter can go, Diami Brown
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  Speaker 5: can go, Touton can fly. All of a sudden, a
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  Speaker 5: slow offense which was a plotting offense is now got
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  Speaker 5: dynamic playmates who can make plays down the field. I
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  Speaker 5: love him all the little clips I've seen of them.
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  Speaker 4: Look, he's still learning how to play both positions.
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  Speaker 5: He's raw in terms of what he's what he can do,
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  Speaker 5: but the athletic ability is incredible.
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  Speaker 4: As somebody said to me, he's Justin Jefferson. And if
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  Speaker 4: you compare Justin Jefferson with Brian Thomas or you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: score a lot of points, you.
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  Speaker 1: Think Austin so far.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, absolutely. And this is kind of a wild
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  Speaker 3: thing too, because you think of the draft capital that
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  Speaker 3: you use to get Travis Hunter, and anytime they used
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  Speaker 3: that much draft caphe you gotta think of like I remember,
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  Speaker 3: like remember when they got Julio Jones. That was a
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  Speaker 3: lot more draft capper, right, But Julio Jones had to
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  Speaker 3: come into Atlanta and be the guy from day one.
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  Speaker 3: Calvin Johnson had to go to Detroit and be.
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  Speaker 1: The guy day one.
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  Speaker 3: Travis Hunter, he's got to come in here and like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you want to see him be the guy. But you
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  Speaker 3: also got Brian Thomas Junior. So to me, it almost
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  Speaker 3: takes a little pressure off with Travis Hunter and be like,
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  Speaker 3: hey man, just play the game that you know how
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  Speaker 3: to play and they're gonna find you the football. Oh
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  Speaker 3: and by the way, Brian Thomas Junior, you just keep
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  Speaker 3: doing your thing as well. So I think it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a great matchup this year for the Jaguars
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  Speaker 3: in terms of just attacking, exploiting defenses, because like Pete
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  Speaker 3: just said, you have so much speed, you have a
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  Speaker 3: variety guys. You can throw the football now too, And honestly,
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  Speaker 3: with that, you hope the confidence girls now for Trevor
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  Speaker 3: Lawrence as well, Pete.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine the pressure is going to keep building
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  Speaker 1: on Liam Cohen as this offseason goes and training camp,
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  Speaker 1: when hey, defensive coach is going to be like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we would like this guy on our side a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more here, and the offensive coaches and Edgar Bennets
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  Speaker 1: wonn be like, hey, hold on, let's hold the phone here.
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  Speaker 1: He's a wide receiver that's only going to continue to build,
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  Speaker 1: it feels like Pete, So for Liam Cohen, he has
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  Speaker 1: to manage all those personalities in training camp and beyond.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I think it's really I think he's a receiver.
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  Speaker 4: First of all.
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  Speaker 5: I think you'll play almost every snap as a wide
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  Speaker 5: receiver and they'll spot him in on defense.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's the plan.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's ideally what they want to do, and
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  Speaker 5: you play him and then Nickels saw me play him
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  Speaker 5: in the reds him on defense.
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  Speaker 4: But as a receiver, he's going to play almost every
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  Speaker 4: stat for you. I mean, that's what he is. He's
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  Speaker 4: a dynamic, playmaking wide receiver.
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  Speaker 5: And look, Liam Cones should be sitting there drooling over
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  Speaker 5: what he has because you know, we talked about the
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  Speaker 5: receivers and Deanni Brown from every bethinning I've heard, has
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  Speaker 5: been as good as anybody out there in the off
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  Speaker 5: season work. Well, you also get Strange and remember Strange
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  Speaker 5: is one of those tight ends who flashed last year
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  Speaker 5: and they kind of went away from him. Remember strangely
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  Speaker 5: they who went away from him. It was so weird.
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  Speaker 5: But he's got the ability to catch the ball. They
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  Speaker 5: got so many different looks now, and Liam Cohen's a really.
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  Speaker 4: Good play call.
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  Speaker 5: Haven't been over at Tampa last week and talking to
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  Speaker 5: Baker about him and some of the other guys about him.
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  Speaker 5: They all raved about his ability to call plays and
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  Speaker 5: really get involved in the game. And you know, at times,
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  Speaker 5: now I did, some people around there did tell me
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  Speaker 5: he gets a little emotional at times on the sideline.
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  Speaker 4: It's got to rain that a little bit. But I
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  Speaker 4: think when you look at it, I think.
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  Speaker 5: It makes all the sense in the world that he
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  Speaker 5: should be excited about this group. And we said this
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  Speaker 5: all offseason, and I've said many different spots I've been
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  Speaker 5: on on our shows here at CBS.
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  Speaker 4: It's all on that guy right there is on the
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  Speaker 4: screen right now.
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  Speaker 5: It's number six, not Liam Khne, It's on number sixty,
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  Speaker 5: and it's everything is there. The table is set for
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  Speaker 5: you to take your game to the next level.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a big believer in him.
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  Speaker 5: I know there are a lot of people around the
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  Speaker 5: country who aren't, and they're all sitting there saying, play
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  Speaker 5: the show me game. Well, he's got the weapons, he's
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  Speaker 5: got a great play caller, he's got an improved offensive line.
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  Speaker 4: It's on him now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you're absolutely right, And this is on
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  Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence now right. And when you talk about Trevor Lawrence,
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  Speaker 3: we can sit here and make up the excuses. We
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  Speaker 3: can say, well, Urban Meyer the first year, did him
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  Speaker 3: zero favors, Well, there's a lot of drop balls. The
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  Speaker 3: past couple of seasons did him zero favors. You gotta
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  Speaker 3: feel now with the weapons that he has, with the
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  Speaker 3: play calling, and I think there's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: huge emphasis now on the run as well. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: make no mistake about it. Like we want to talk
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  Speaker 3: about Brian Thomas Junior. We want to talk about Trevis
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  Speaker 3: Hunter as we should. This is gonna be a running
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  Speaker 3: football team though as well. And you saw Baker Mayfield
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  Speaker 3: play the best football of his career in Tampa. With
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  Speaker 3: Liam Cohen. Why because they know how to run the football.
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  Speaker 3: And I think you look around the league, whether it's
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  Speaker 3: the Baltimore Ravens, they can run the football. But look
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  Speaker 3: at Lamar Jackson's passing numbers, those were great, Josh Allen,
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  Speaker 3: the Buffalo Bills, they started running the football. How did
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  Speaker 3: that affect Josh Allen? You want an MVP because of it?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 3: So, I think if you can run the football, if
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  Speaker 3: you can establish that that line of scrimmage and everything,
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  Speaker 3: that's only gonna pay dividends for Trevor Lawrence. The biggest
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  Speaker 3: thing for Trevor Lawrence going forward now, though, is that
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  Speaker 3: in that Liam Cohen offense, he's gonna have to make decisions.
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  Speaker 3: I always felt like that Doug Peterson type of offense,
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  Speaker 3: it was more of, Okay, just throw the ball here,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna guide you through it. I think with Liam Cohen,
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna be all right, Trevor. Here's Plan A, Plan B,
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  Speaker 3: Plan c you have to see it before anybody else
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  Speaker 3: sees it and where you're going with it.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's interesting you said a couple of points.
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  Speaker 5: You just made one in talking to Baker Mayfield.
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  Speaker 4: I said, you know you got all these weapons. Now,
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  Speaker 4: you got McMillan, you got a Bugah, you got.
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  Speaker 5: You know, art and emerged and he said, you know what,
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  Speaker 5: our offense will still go through the run game and
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  Speaker 5: through Mike Evans.
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  Speaker 4: That's what that's their offensive through.
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  Speaker 5: And so if you look at Jacksonville, it's going to
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  Speaker 5: go through the run game and through those receivers down
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  Speaker 5: the field. The big plays two you talk about, you know,
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  Speaker 5: all the quarterback at the line of scrimmage. Baker Mayfield
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  Speaker 5: when he was with Canalis didn't do a lot at
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  Speaker 5: the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 4: He was limited. They wouldn't let him do it. Well,
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  Speaker 4: with Liam Cohen, you have a lot of freedom at
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  Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage. You have to be able to
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  Speaker 4: get into the right play like you.
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  Speaker 5: Were talking about. And that's where it's going to be
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  Speaker 5: even more so on Trevor Lawrence.
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  Speaker 4: And by the way, I'm.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's going to be good in this offense.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's a good quarterback. I think he's had
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  Speaker 5: a lot of things work. You mentioned it Austin, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: the Urban Meyer disaster was a disaster or anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Shake.
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  Speaker 5: Then he had the injuries, and then you know, he's
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  Speaker 5: never been healthy and he had all the drops.
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  Speaker 4: Well now he has no more there's no more excuses
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  Speaker 4: provided he's on field. So it's his time. I think
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  Speaker 4: he can. You know, I thought he would have a
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  Speaker 4: big year a couple of years ago. It didn't work
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  Speaker 4: out that way. I think he have a big years this.
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  Speaker 1: Year, you know. And then today is the Assistant Coach
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  Speaker 1: Roundtable media day. So right before the show, the offensive
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  Speaker 1: coaches were in the room next doors, and I had
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  Speaker 1: a chance to sit down with Spencer Whipple, the quarterbacks coach,
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  Speaker 1: for a little bit, and for about the first three answers,
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  Speaker 1: he mentioned footwork and the changes they're trying to make
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  Speaker 1: and coordinating it with progressions and timing and drops and everything,
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  Speaker 1: and so far, so good for Lawrence. And it begins
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  Speaker 1: there Pete. And there were times, right, I mean, we've
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  Speaker 1: seen him Pete where it's in Austin where it's just like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I got to get out of this pocket, like there's
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  Speaker 1: there's no there's no rhythm, there's no there's nothing to it.
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  Speaker 1: And I think you got to start with that, Austin.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the footwork and how it works in this offense.
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  Speaker 1: It's all kind of new, but so far, so good.
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  Speaker 3: According to Whipple, Literally, man, it is all about rhythm.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I shared the lock room with a guy by name
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  Speaker 3: of Blaine Gabbert who when we were going through OTAs
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  Speaker 3: in the offseason, I turned to some teammates and said,
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  Speaker 3: this guy has an arm like I've never seen before.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, Jp, I think you were there in practice.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe Pete, you're there too, like you saw Blaine Gabbard
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  Speaker 3: in practice, and you saw, like, listen, this guy, if
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  Speaker 3: he has everything around him right, he could be a
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  Speaker 3: special quarterback. Well what happens He gets thrown in a
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  Speaker 3: little too soon. He wasn't ready, He got hit a lot,
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  Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, like that rhythm that
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  Speaker 3: you speak of, it wasn't there anymore, right, and then
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  Speaker 3: he almost got gun shy, and and his his internal
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  Speaker 3: clock was just all discombobulated and messed up. You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think in the past a little bit with Trevor
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  Speaker 3: Lawrence whether you know it's it's exiting the pocket a
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  Speaker 3: little too soon or fumbling the football like you've seen
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  Speaker 3: shades of that. But this is where I think that
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  Speaker 3: Liam Collen offense is going to come into be such
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  Speaker 3: a huge keep for him, because one, if you can
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  Speaker 3: run the football and take some of the pressure off
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  Speaker 3: your shoulders and keep that defense guessing, well, now all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden, that's going to help your internal clock.
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  Speaker 3: That's gonna help your rhythm even more.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And the other thing about Trevor Lawrence, you know
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  Speaker 5: you talk about the work JP, but one thing I've
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  Speaker 5: noticed too from some of the stuff I've looked at
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  Speaker 5: is his ball seems to be his release is quicker
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  Speaker 5: and shorter. You know, he had a long it's very
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  Speaker 5: long release, and you know how DB's they eat that
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  Speaker 5: alive and you've got to get the ball out. And
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  Speaker 5: I think that's one thing I haven't heard anybody talking
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  Speaker 5: about that. We hear about his feet, but I've noticed
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  Speaker 5: that his release, and I don't know if you guys
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: have noticed it, but his release looks quicker and shorter,
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: which I think it needed to get to. And I
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: think they've done a great job of kind of molding
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: him back into some of the bad habits that he had.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: All right, guys, putting ahead, We've got to get to
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: the defense when we come back. I don't know if
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: you remember this, Pete, but the defense was left a
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: lot to be desired last season.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: Did anybody throw any meat on the table?
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: You guys right, you've heard that story, haven't you.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: We'll come back again with the full story. I don't
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: think Austin has Pete. That's ahead defensive changes including well,
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: they maybe not eating that meat on the table. That's
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: part of the story as they trim up on the
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: defensive line, especially uh plenty ahead on Tinton Excel he
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: Am Jaguars dot Com, Jaguars YouTube JP Shadwick, Austin Lane
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: and Pete Prisco on Jaguars Happy Hour.
• 15:21
  Speaker 6: You know, when they presented the plan to me, I
• 15:23
  Speaker 6: was like, Okay, let's let's do it if if that's
• 15:26
  Speaker 6: you know, the best plan that you guys see fit.
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: And then shortly into the season, when we were in London,
• 15:32
  Speaker 6: I went to them and I said, you know, I
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: don't think it's necessarily working out. You know, I feel
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: like I can have bigger impact on the team if
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: I'm playing more inside where I'm you know, a better
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: pass rusher, and I'm on the field, you know, with
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: Josh and Trayvon and the rest of the guys, and
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: at that time, looking at the roster, it didn't happen,
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: even though I expressed that that's something that I wanted
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: to do when I thought would be better for the team.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: That is Eric Armstead on the Ozone podcast this past week,
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Available in the Official Jaguars Podcast Network, Jaguars YouTube, Jaguars
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: dot Com, and Jaguars Football is presented by Fresh from Florida.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: It's always in season, JP Shadwick, Jeff Logoman is out tonight.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Austin Lane is in as is CBS Sports senior writer
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Pete Prisco down in South Florida. Both of you guys
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: are in South Florida. Fight coming up in about a
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: month for Austin Lane. Pete Prisco gets in Twitter fights
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: all the time. That's what happens.
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: I've been nicer lately, though I haven't gotten into as many.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: What about that? From HEREK Carve stays, we get to
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: the defensive.
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: Port of well, I mean, the greatest mystery in the
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: I mean, there were so many mysteries last year that
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: was one of them why they played him an end
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: and nobody ever asked him during the season or he wouldn't.
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: Say remember, and we just badgered that all year.
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a dumb decision by a bad coaching staff.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: Okay, let's be real about it. But again it goes
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: back to what I said last year.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: I mean last segment, the meat story, and I've heard
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: the second hand. I haven't had.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Verified from many of.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: The players, but supposedly at some point they wanted the
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: players to get bigger, and the defensive coordinator came in
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: and threw a bunch of hamburgers on the on the
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: in front of him and said, you gotta get bigger
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: and stronger.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: And so you had remember how big he got.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Five at one last year?
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: Walker had to be three something plus at one point
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: because he got bigger too. And Armstead playing in they
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: wanted him to play in. He was a bigger guy.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: I mean, think about it. It didn't work and they
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: blew it. They botched the whole thing. And now Armstead's
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: back at defensive tackle. The two guys are lighter and leader,
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: which is what they should be. Hamilton seems like he
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: looks like he's healthy again, which is big for them.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: But the guy, and I said this on ten.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: Ten earlier last week, the guy that needs to be
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: the guy that changes the way they play is Mason Smith.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. That's the one.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: And at the end of last year, and there was
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: a whole other mystery about him too. Remember why didn't
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: he play in the field. You know there was talk
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: about him being overweight. Well nobody ever said anything about it.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: Why didn't he play that he was healthy? He was healthy, scratch.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: He played well down the stretch, and he's got to
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: be a bigger part of the defense going forward.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Do you think Austin.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: You know, when this defensive staff came in last year,
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: you know, I sang their praises because I listened to
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: that first press conference where they said we're gonna put
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: our players in position to make the plays. And I
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: get it, that's very basic coach speak, but I bought it.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: But for examples, like when you have a guy in
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Josh heinz Allen who had seventeen and a half sacks
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: and then you go up to me and go like, hey,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: you know what, that was a pretty good year last year.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Let's going to add another twenty pounds on to see
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: what happens like why, it makes zero sense. And this
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: is coming from somebody who I went from Jacksonville. I
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: had a game twenty five pounds in Kansas City to
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: play a three technique and a three four defense that
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: I had no business playing, and I was never the
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: same player again. So so to see a guy like
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Josh heinz Allen get that monumental season and go, you
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: know what, we think you can should change your body
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: a little bit, it makes zero sense for me. And yeah,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: obviously the Eric Armistead thing, all you had to do
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: was watch one YouTube highlight video of Eric Armstead in
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: San Francisco and realized that he was better suited to
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: play a three technique than he was an edge. Anybody
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: could have told you that. But at the end of
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: the day, when you had guys playing paper rock scissors
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: to see who goes in you know the game and everything,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: I can't say I'm surprised.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: It was one of their bad decisions. And they had
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: plenty of them in that group.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Remember the attack hat Pete and what was that? I
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: forget that they would wear he would wear a hat
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: into the press conference for a few weeks said an
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: attack on it.
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: I mean, look, nobody ever got to the bottom of
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: the Bronald Darby thing.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Ronald y.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: I love that story. Ronald Darby got benched and nobody
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: talked to him. I mean, there's a free agent, he
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: got bench somebody's got to go talk to him.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: He had a story out of did he just retire
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: like this week just retired?
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they drove him in the retirement.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Do you guys remember the whole paper oxygen story or not,
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: because we had Josh heinz Allen tell us that one.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: What was that one?
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: So that was when when I Yeah, so basically you
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: know when I was like third and long whatever and
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: their subbing because you know, it was like a hockey SUBBN,
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: like guys just chopping over the boards and going in.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: So when they would rotate, guys Josh heinz Allen and
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Traevon Walker would play paper rock scissors to see who
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: would go in.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: It was so bad.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: I mean I've watched ten year old playing football and
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: the like it's cutthroat where it's like, hey, you're not
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: playing right now, you just stay in there, Like I can't.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: I can't have them the hockey rotation I had so
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: much fun with that over the boards. Everybody in you're
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: up so.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Bad, so bad, you're speaking of losing weight. Devin Lloyd
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: looks like a totally different guy running around out there.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Pete, Well, you know what he's playing. You know what
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: he's playing for.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Uh huh.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: Kind need to get he didn't pick up his fifth
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: year option, so he's playing for a contract, whether it's
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: in Jacksonville or somewhere else. And and look his head
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: spun a bunch early in his career. Remember he missed
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: the beginning of that first year and it kind of
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: set him back.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: He was off the field.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: And then he's a good run player, gets lost in coverage.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: I wonder if he's losing weight will help him. Because
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: it's a big year. It's a big year for them.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: I mean, think about it, forty forty seven new guys
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: on this team. A lot they just they just took
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: every guy that they ever drafted, their sign and got
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: rid of every one of them.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: And they just added a couple this week as well.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Or new receiver, do a linebacker and defensive end. And smoot,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: who's back?
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: He bought smooth back?
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: I mean, you know, odd, but and gardnck gard Deck
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: because he's healthy, he's a good football player. You know,
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: he's coming off in acl all of a sudden. The
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: rotation that they had none of last year. Remember they
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: didn't have anybody. It could have called you, Austin, you
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: would have been getting minutes.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, they had Travis Gibson and then they
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: ended up trading him, which I thought was as a
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: giant shocker. And then obviously it was the whole Eric
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Armstead thing playing on the edge. But and make no
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: mistake about it, right like you have your bookends, you
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: have Treyvon Walker, and you have josh heinz Allen. But
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: any good defense that you watched, they can't do it
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: one hundred percent of the time. Like, yes, you do
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: need to rotate it now it can't feel like a
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: hockey rotation every four or five plays, but you do
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: have to spell those guys sometimes. And now what we're
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: not asking for, you know, all pros to come spell them,
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: but you're asking for dependable guys that can still caut
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: some chaos and get to the quarterback. I think those
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: guys that they brought in right now have the capabilities
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: to do that, or.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Somebody that you could come in on third down and.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: Kick Walker inside and rush inside because I think he
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: could do. He's good rushing inside.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: So you're right. It was a disaster last.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: Year and they've improved at a lot of spots, particularly
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: on that defense. I think getting those pass rushers in
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: the rotation will help a great deal.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: They've added ten million defensive back to this team this offseason,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: two pete and we know that was an issue last
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: year or so on the back end of this defense.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, Tyson Campbell's had some injury issues over the
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: last couple of years, mstring issues. They brought in Jordan
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Lewis at cornerback or nickel type idea there. They've brought
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: in all these names in this offseason and we'll see
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: how this shakes out in the back end of this defense.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Who's going to play where and win well.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: The guy that I heard good things about is Monterrek Brown.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: He's had a great offseason. And remember Monterrek Brown can't
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: press and play man.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: That's that's not who he is. And they asked him
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: to do that a bunch and he looked awful when
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: he did it. But this this group will play more
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: his own and I think this group, he fits.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: Better with what they want to do. So, you know what,
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: I've heard good things about the way he's played. I
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: think Jerry and Jones gives him some depth there. You know,
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Jordan Lewis is a pro. You know, he could do
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: a lot of different things. He said Campbell, it'll look
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: kick his contract to the side. He probably got a
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: little overpaid right out of the gate, but that was
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: the mo for that last regime. But he's still a
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: good corner. So they'll be better across the board there.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Safeties.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: I think those guys were kind of they were major
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: disappointments last Remember they started Savage at the slot.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: What the hell are they doing? I told I said
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: that in the training can remember JP. He's not a
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: slot player. I know he did it in Green Bay.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: That's not who he is. And so I think the
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: safeties will be better. I love the Ransom kid. That
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: kid has talent. The kid they drafted at a was
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: it too late Ransaw? Not Ransom Ransaw. He's got talent
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: and you know they played him as a box corner
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: safety in college. I think he could be a guy
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: that end up getting in the lineup at some point.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Not scared of contact Austin for sure.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: No, not scared of contact at all, and he's got
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: the speed to back it up. I'm not gonna lie.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: I was a little surprised when they drafted him when
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: they did, because if you're talking about safeties, I forget
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: the guy's name. It was at Xavier Watts, the guy
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: from Notre Dame. He was like the two times concepts
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: of All American.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: I thought they were going to lean more a little
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: towards him, just based off production and his resume and everything.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: They go with Ransa who I feel like could be
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: a little more of a project, but could be that
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: boomer bust guy. Right, guy around like what a four
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: to three something playing safety and he's not pay to
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: hit people, you know what.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: He played like he played corner over there, but they
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: played him like as a nickel corner, like in the box.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: And he was a good tackler and and he can run.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: I think he might They might hit on that one
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: in the long run.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: That might end up being a really good pick for that.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: I liked him.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Pete, how long do we have you today?
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Do you got to run?
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: Because I got Rogers stuff going.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Aaron Rodgers you might have heard has signed
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: with the Steelers.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, getting a long national nightmare.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Is over, you kid, It's only just begun. Pete.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Bring out the YouTube videos. Pete can't wait to see
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: the new ones.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: By the way, By the way, we didn't touch on
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: the offensive line.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: That group will be.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: Better just by the guys they signed. You know, Look,
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: Mitch Morris retired. He didn't play very well last year.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: Let's be real. The right guard was broken down. They'll
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: be better at those two spots.
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: Now.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: They don't have all pros at those two spots, but
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: they'll be better. I think the right tackle, he's got it.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: They're gonna put a foot this behind and he's gonna
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: play better. The left tackle. I think that's a competition.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: I know people say it's not.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: I think I hear it is.
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: I think it's going to be between Fred Johnson and
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: Walker Little. And remember this regime didn't give that guy
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: that contract. That was not who gave Walker Little the deal,
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: and so there's nothing they're not bound to him. And
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: then Cleveland. I guess right now they're running at first
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: team Cleveland and Walker Little. But I think that's going
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: to be training camp those two spots are going to
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: be decided.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: And by the way, Sean Sarett, offensive line coach, was
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: in that room just a little earlier on the record,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: said that Anton Harrison's been playing a little left as
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: well in some off season work, So keep that in mind.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: You never know he was a left tackle.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: I mean, and they want to be bigger. That's the
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: one you know they were.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: They want to be That's why I think Cleveland's working
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: at left guard, but he's more fits what the last
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: regime wanted, and left guard I'm not sure he fits
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: into with this, but he is running with the first
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: team right now. That's why the right keep an eye
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: on Milam. I like mylam he was a tackle at
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: West Virginia. Is a tough guy and he's gonna he's
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: a left guard now he's gonna be a He's gonna
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: be a good player.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: That's why they're all listed as offensive lineman now on
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the roster. There's no tackles or guards or centers or nothing.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: It's all O L.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Pete.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: We'll think about it as he's played guards and center.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: McCarry's played across the board. He's played every position in
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: the league. You know, I've got Harrison working at left tackle. Yeah,
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: there's some versatility. They'll put the biggest, best.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Five guys out there and and go run the football.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Love that, Pete, thanks for taking some time today.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: You got it.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Said good seeing you guys, and I will see you,
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: uh next.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Week here at mini camp. Pete Prisco will be in.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: A knock somebody's head off Austin.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: All right, sounds good man. I would say, you know,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: let's got some dinner sometimes, but I think you're kind
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: of outside my tax brackets. So I'm just gonna see
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: back in Jacksonville. Sometimes people by the way.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: By the way, Austin knocks somebody's head off, just make
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: sure it's not mine.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: You got it, man, Sound good, guys.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Pepe Prisco with us back in the moment. Austin Lane's
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: still with us. Will return with plenty more ahead at
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the end of organized team activities on tenon x l
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: A M, Jaguars dot Com, Jaguars YouTube, It's Jaguars Happy Hour.
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: He've been keep been asking a lot of questions. But
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: I mean it's just him trying to be the best
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: that he can be. Uh, just like talking like throughout
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: talking through little things plays and while were running Z
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: certain plays versus D certain looks. So just like little
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: things like that, I mean, he wants to be the best.
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: We both want to be the best. We just come
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: out and compete each and every day, and whatever he needs,
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: I'm gladly helping him.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Miss Junior Jaguars Wide Receiver after practice today discussing Travis
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Hunter Dynamic Duo now at wide Receiver for the Jags.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. It is a Jaguars happy hour. Thanks to
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  Speaker 1: Pete Prisco for joining us and hey, attention music fans.
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  Speaker 1: Austin Lane with Us Today Jeff Logobman out our thanks
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  Speaker 1: to Pete Prisco, CBS Sports Senior writer. Pete's a unique cat.
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  Speaker 3: Shut that way, Yeah, I mean listen, I love theete man.
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  Speaker 3: When I you know, I've been to a couple of
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowls and worked a couple of those, and I
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  Speaker 3: always see him there, man, and dude can command a room.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 1: I got a lot of.
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  Speaker 3: Respect for that guy. And he's a lot better dude
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  Speaker 3: than I am, because, yeah, some of the takes that
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  Speaker 3: he has sometimes I feel like, you know, he gets
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  Speaker 3: a little hate for it. I'm probably gonna hold off
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  Speaker 3: in the restraining order now with being on my son's
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  Speaker 3: iPad way too much in that algorithm, I'll probably hold
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  Speaker 3: off because I felt like the conversation went great today JP,
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  Speaker 3: but it was great to see him again.
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  Speaker 1: His one of his worst all time takes is that
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  Speaker 1: every football game should be played in a dome.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's I can't co sign on that one, man.
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  Speaker 1: And then we had this conversation on one of our
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  Speaker 1: shows last year, right and then and then he goes
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  Speaker 1: on one of your algorithm videos on CBO Sports and
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  Speaker 1: says and has a whole thing about it, like every
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  Speaker 1: game it's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's ridiculous, man. And once again I've been meaning
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  Speaker 3: to ask him. I don't know what's up with the
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  Speaker 3: whole Jalen Hurts thing, like maybe you're trying to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: pandered to the Eagles fan base. But I'm starting to
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  Speaker 3: see like a you know, a trend here with Jalen
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  Speaker 3: Hurts not really being the guy I guess, even though he,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he won a super Bowl. Like even to
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  Speaker 3: the point where my son was like, he doesn't like
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Hurts, does he. I'm like, yeah, man, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: have to tell you. You won a super Bowl, so he's decent.
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  Speaker 3: I guess. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with Jalen Hurts.
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  Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with Jalen just fine.
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  Speaker 1: They're just fine. Jaguars Happy our ten ten XL Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: dot Com, Jaguars YouTube. We just heard from Brian Thomas Jr.
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  Speaker 1: And Yeah, coming off a fantastic rookie season, but a
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  Speaker 1: lot of that rookie season was from Mac Jones throwing
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  Speaker 1: to him at the tail end, right, So this off
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  Speaker 1: season another big time for him to get some some
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  Speaker 1: chemistry going with Trevor Lawrence and of course all the
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  Speaker 1: new faces around him a wide receiver, but this this
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  Speaker 1: is building up to be a really good setup for
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  Speaker 1: him and for those receivers around him, because yeah, there
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be some focus on Brian Thomas Junior, but
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  Speaker 1: Travis Hunter is gonna get a lot of the headlines,
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  Speaker 1: so Brian might get some opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Brian will get some opportunities JP and listen,
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  Speaker 3: it's crazy when we talk about personal growth on this
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  Speaker 3: Jaguars football team. I don't think anybody has grown more
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  Speaker 3: from their first year into this up and coming year
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  Speaker 3: than Brian Thomas Junior because you look at what he
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  Speaker 3: was able to do last year. Right, Like, he gets
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  Speaker 3: drafted the first round and we're still kind of waiting
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  Speaker 3: to see what he can do, and you know, gets
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  Speaker 3: off to a little bit of a slow start and everything,
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  Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, what happens, Well, Christian Kirk
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  Speaker 3: goes down and then an Ingram goes down and you
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  Speaker 3: really have no one else left to throw the football too.
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  Speaker 3: And that's when Brian Thomas Junior steps up. Now, granted
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  Speaker 3: was with mec Jones more than Trevor Lawrence, but nevertheless,
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  Speaker 3: like he became the go to guy and he was
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  Speaker 3: getting what like ten eleven targets the game, it seems
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  Speaker 3: like so when you get put through that fire like
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  Speaker 3: that and you succeed and you accumulate all the hype
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  Speaker 3: deservingly so well, then going into your next year, you
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  Speaker 3: have like this built in confidence now right where it's
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  Speaker 3: like you're the guy the first year when weren't really
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  Speaker 3: expecting that much from you, you are the guy, and now,
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  Speaker 3: guess what, you can be the guy again in a
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  Speaker 3: new offense. That's probably only gonna help you out. The
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  Speaker 3: head coach loves you. Oh and by the way, we
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  Speaker 3: have a guy in Travis Hunter now that can take
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  Speaker 3: some of the tension off you and get you the
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  Speaker 3: bolve some more.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the game where he had like two targets. When
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  Speaker 1: was that Brian Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I remember, I remember because I'm in
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  Speaker 3: fantasy football Alic was feeling a certain type of way
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  Speaker 3: about that game. Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 1: There was a three he had three targets, two catches
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  Speaker 1: against Minnesota. That's right for twelve yards. That's I mean
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  Speaker 1: three targets to that guy. And there were a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of other games with only four.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, but then if you started seeing towards
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  Speaker 3: the end of the year, they started doing like more
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  Speaker 3: of those what are you gonna call him, like bubble
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  Speaker 3: screens and things like that, that just getting him the
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  Speaker 3: ball in open space, because even though he's a taller
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  Speaker 3: wide receiver, he's so quick and he's so agile in
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  Speaker 3: those spaces, and he's got great vision where if you
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  Speaker 3: give him two or three yards with nobody around him,
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  Speaker 3: he can turn up and take it to the whole distance.
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  Speaker 3: So once they started incorporating more of those plays as
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  Speaker 3: well and just getting in the football, you saw it
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  Speaker 3: pay dividends.
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  Speaker 1: Austin Lane with us today on Jaguars Happy Hour. We
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  Speaker 1: mentioned this a little bit with Pete, but a handful
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  Speaker 1: of new Jaguars this past week have been signed, including
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  Speaker 1: a guy who's not so new. Duan's smooth defensive end
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  Speaker 1: is back of the building a year with Buffalo last season.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, a couple of years ago, had the achilles
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  Speaker 1: injury in New York against the Jets and has lived
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  Speaker 1: a lot of life as an adult here in Jacksonville,
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  Speaker 1: makes his home here, family's here, and he is back
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  Speaker 1: in a Jaguar uniform, and I love it. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a really good place for him, certainly personally to be.
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  Speaker 1: And let's see how much it's obviously coming back from
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  Speaker 1: an achilles. I've never had one injury. I'm not an
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  Speaker 1: athlete like him anyway, So like, who knows, it's just yes,
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  Speaker 1: technology has changed in rehab and surgeries with achilles, it's
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  Speaker 1: still an achilles injury.
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  Speaker 3: Right two years ago, it's still an achilles injury. I'm
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  Speaker 3: just telling you, man, do some calf raisers or something, man,
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  Speaker 3: just cause though you're not running a lot, Like, let's
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  Speaker 3: let's make sure your achilles are good to go for
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  Speaker 3: the season. Man, we don't need you in the sidelines,
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  Speaker 3: so let's keep on doing some calf raisers and things
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  Speaker 3: like that. No, Like, I get it that advances of
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  Speaker 3: modern medicine have never been better, but I'm reminded of
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  Speaker 3: a guy like cam Makers a couple of years ago
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  Speaker 3: who was like supposed to be the next big thing
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  Speaker 3: with Los Angeles Rams. He tears his achilles, they brag
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  Speaker 3: about how he's gonna come back and whatever it was
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  Speaker 3: six or seven months, and granted, you know, he's still
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  Speaker 3: in the league, he's still doing his thing, but he
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  Speaker 3: he's not the cam Makers that you saw before that injury,
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  Speaker 3: and and you saw a guy in Smooth who was
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  Speaker 3: playing fantastic in Jacksonville. I feel like it was one
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  Speaker 3: of like the kind of the unsung locker room leaders
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  Speaker 3: of that group. He tears his achilles and he's kind
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  Speaker 3: of forgotten about a little bit. But I think it's
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  Speaker 3: a testament to his work ethic and how he goes
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  Speaker 3: about his business. Because he comes off that injury, he
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  Speaker 3: goes to Buffalo, and I mean I saw a couple
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  Speaker 3: of Buffalo games last year. Man, he was still popping up, right,
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  Speaker 3: So I saw. I think he has a little left
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  Speaker 3: in the tank. And there's always something to say when
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  Speaker 3: you go back to kind of you know where it
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  Speaker 3: all started. That gives you a little incentive as well.
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  Speaker 1: Another name signed this week linebacker Dennis Gardek. He spent
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  Speaker 1: his entire career with the Arizona Cardinals and he's from
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  Speaker 1: the original USF the University of Sioux Falls, Austin. So
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  Speaker 1: that's a positive and now all right, And then Lillam
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  Speaker 1: Cohen today after practice was asked about him and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is a guy that was on the board of
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  Speaker 1: game wreckers every week when they had to lineup against him.
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  Speaker 1: When he was coaching with the La Rams they were
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  Speaker 1: in the division. Of course, his name was always on
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  Speaker 1: a board in game prep, a special teams wizard. He said,
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  Speaker 1: so that's a positive in that regard, and then what
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  Speaker 1: can he bring on defense? We'll find out. He's coming
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  Speaker 1: off an ACL injury. I think it was in October,
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  Speaker 1: and that's one we're talking about Achilles, but the same idea, right,
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  Speaker 1: The timetable for ACL recovery has reduced over the years.
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  Speaker 3: No, without a doubt. I mean, once again, the advanced
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  Speaker 3: and modern meta and have been amazing, especially when I
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  Speaker 3: think it comes to knee injuries in the ACL. And
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  Speaker 3: I think, just being from you know, Sup Falls or
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  Speaker 3: whatever man that because here's suit Falls. You think of hockey, right,
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  Speaker 3: So I feel like this guy's gonna be hockey tough
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  Speaker 3: JP and he should be ready to go by the
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  Speaker 3: start of the season. And correct me if I'm wrong,
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  Speaker 3: But I think Liam Cohen alluded to this as well.
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  Speaker 3: I think the dude had like three sacks in one
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  Speaker 3: game for the Arizona Cardinals as well, which you know
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  Speaker 3: is quite defeating itself.
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  Speaker 1: Trenton Irwin wide receiver, another signing this week for the Jaguars,
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  Speaker 1: and I will see what he brings to the table
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  Speaker 1: was with the Cincinnati Bengals and played certain roles there,
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  Speaker 1: did not have massive numbers in Cincinnati. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: other guys did in that offense. This is how it works.
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  Speaker 1: But I will see he has to offer here as well.
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  Speaker 1: And at height and weight of six two two oh four,
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  Speaker 1: let's see him come out here and learn the offense
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  Speaker 1: and have a chance in camp.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I mean, this is gonna be a
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  Speaker 3: guy where I'm sure you bring in some more competition. Man,
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  Speaker 3: Let's see what he can do. Not mad about it, right,
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  Speaker 3: because I think there's a lot of positions in terms
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  Speaker 3: of trying to run out that roster that are going
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  Speaker 3: to be open. So yeah, let's bring this dude in.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see what he can do, and let's push them
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  Speaker 3: with other players, and you know, competition brings up the
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  Speaker 3: best of everybody.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, we'll come back in a moment and we're
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  Speaker 1: going to break out our baseball scouting acumen because Liam
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  Speaker 1: Cohen throughout the first pitch at the Jumbo Shrimp game
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  Speaker 1: last night. We will break it down when we come back.
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  Speaker 1: This is Jaguars happy hour.
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  Speaker 8: He's actually done a really nice job in the red zone.
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  Speaker 8: Really looking back to the first time that we did
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  Speaker 8: it last Friday, when we did it, I think he
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  Speaker 8: made some quick decisions. You know, everything is sped up
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  Speaker 8: in the red area, when the timing, the rhythm, the space,
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  Speaker 8: it's all tighter, it's all sped up. I thought he's
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  Speaker 8: done a nice job with his footwork in the red zone.
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  Speaker 8: Understand that concept.
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  Speaker 1: Said coach Liam Cohen today or earlier this week, rather
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  Speaker 1: talking about Trevor Lawrence in the red zone. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour j P. Shatrick with Austin Lane Jeff
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  Speaker 1: CBS Sports Senior Writers Winning US. I'm at the Hundai
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  Speaker 1: South Florida, preparing for a fight a little over a month.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of Liam Cohen Austin, yesterday afternoon, he went across
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  Speaker 1: the street and marched up that mound and through the
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  Speaker 1: ceremonial first pitch for the Triple A Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp
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  Speaker 1: Triple A affiliate of the Miami Marlins. And that looks
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  Speaker 1: like a strike to me.
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  Speaker 3: Austin offident straight heat, didn't you know, didn't wave off
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  Speaker 3: any of this knows, just stared down the pipe and delivered.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna give that like a nine out of ten. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think that.
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  Speaker 1: Was great fastball. Might be a little too strong. He
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  Speaker 1: called her a change up today, and he said he
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  Speaker 1: had some elbow issues from his baseball playing days as
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  Speaker 1: a youngster, so that still remained of whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, as far as the national media is concerned, this
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  Speaker 3: dude need to throw a strike, right, because if you'd
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  Speaker 3: have thrown a you know, like a fifty type of
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  Speaker 3: style ball where it hits in the dirt and bounces
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  Speaker 3: like twenty five feet past the catcher, yeah, that would
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  Speaker 3: have been that would have been the lead story of
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  Speaker 3: ESPN today. So I'm glad that he threw a strike
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  Speaker 3: and everything, and I'm glad we can, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: move on with our lives. And yeah, it was a
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  Speaker 3: great throw.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. We've seen a lot of bad ones over the years,
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  Speaker 1: certainly even from Jaguar head coaches. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's probably the best of New Jack. We've had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of New Jaguar head coaches around here, and most
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  Speaker 1: of them go across the street and throw a first pitch.
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  Speaker 1: He's yes, he was the best.
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  Speaker 3: I think, now did JP. Let's be honest, man like
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  Speaker 3: and assume that your achilles are good to go if
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  Speaker 3: you were asked to throw the first pitch. Are we
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  Speaker 3: getting this right here? What do we do?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna leave it short. Let's put it that way.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going it's getting there somewhere over there. My command
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  Speaker 1: is not quite what it once was.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, that's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. We got mandatory mini camp next week.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers just signed with the Steelers. Pete said, the
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  Speaker 1: long national nightmare is over. My point was like, oh no, no,
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  Speaker 1: it is only just beginning. It's just a place Stitzburg, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, without a doubt. I mean, it's so wild. We
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  Speaker 3: talk about Aaron Rodgers as being someone that you know,
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  Speaker 3: grew up in Wisconsin that fouled him very closely. It's
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  Speaker 3: wild how he was so beloved for such a long
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  Speaker 3: time in that community and then you know, towards the
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  Speaker 3: end of guy a little stale, and then he goes,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he leaves and goes to New York and everything,
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  Speaker 3: and now he's and once again it's all due respect,
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  Speaker 3: but I feel like he's with one of the biggest villains.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like are just one of the biggest polarizing
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  Speaker 3: figures now in the NFL, and he always wasn't like that.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know if it's more of like the
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  Speaker 3: whole celebrity thing. I don't know if it's the aluasca thing,
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  Speaker 3: if it's political, whatever the case may be. But I
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  Speaker 3: still remember when Aaron Rodgers was like, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: the dude next door that your mom loved, and now
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  Speaker 3: it's like, you know, get this guy off my television.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody felt so bad for him on Draft night. Remember
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  Speaker 1: he slid all the way down. He's waiting in the
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  Speaker 1: green room, the camera's in his face. I was, poor
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  Speaker 1: guy from cal can't catch a break.
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  Speaker 3: That is a good point that it's crazy too. And
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  Speaker 3: I try to tell my friends back in Green Bay,
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  Speaker 3: because you know, you go from Brett Favre to Aaron
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  Speaker 3: Rodgers and then to Jordan Love and I just told him, like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: it's not how it's supposed to be. There's supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be a couple of years where the quarterback's not gonna
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  Speaker 3: play off the bar, and then you got to figure
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  Speaker 3: it out and you have to go through the dark days,
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  Speaker 3: like don't don't get comfortable with Jordan Love now. Like
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  Speaker 3: he's a great quarterback, don't get me wrong, but I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: that's not how it's supposed to be. You're supposed to
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  Speaker 3: have a couple of years where it's like, Okay, maybe
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  Speaker 3: we have to draft somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: Indy had that run back to back with Peyton and
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  Speaker 1: your guy Andrew Luck, and they've paid for it since
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  Speaker 1: then with a lot of changes since Andrew decided to
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  Speaker 1: hang it up. But yeah, it doesn't happen for every
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  Speaker 1: team like that. Certainly, Mandatory mini camp next week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: The Wednesday practice open to the public. Go to Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: dot com and you can register to come see practice
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday morning. I think a little after nine o'clock
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  Speaker 1: is when the team will start their stretch. So nice
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  Speaker 1: morning practice before the big heat gets here. Hopefully beat
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  Speaker 1: some rain in the afternoon. Animals were lining up two
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  Speaker 1: by two here today, so that's how much it was
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  Speaker 1: raining this afternoon. What else do you want to see
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  Speaker 1: in the final three days mandatory mini camp. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what do you want to get out of it as
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  Speaker 1: a player, as a coach, as a fan, Like what
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  Speaker 1: are you looking for? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I mean obviously those are all different answers.
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  Speaker 3: I think from the coach, I just want to make
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  Speaker 3: sure and this is more let's talk about the offensive
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  Speaker 3: side of the ball quick. I just got to make sure,
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  Speaker 3: like listen, these guys aren't gonna know that the playbook
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  Speaker 3: fronts to back during this time, right, But I need
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  Speaker 3: to see a sense of urgency. I need guys to
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  Speaker 3: be lined up properly and at least show me that, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we're we're pretty and what we can do going forward
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  Speaker 3: Like that, that's the most important part for me because
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  Speaker 3: by the time you break and then it's time for
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  Speaker 3: you know, the real training camp, you want to go
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  Speaker 3: in knowing like, all right, these guys know kind of
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  Speaker 3: the ins and outs a little bit and now it's
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  Speaker 3: all just you know, just the x's and o's part.
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  Speaker 3: So that's from that side. On the defensive side of
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  Speaker 3: the ball, I think it's a little more open, just
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  Speaker 3: because you still got to figure out what you got right.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: We saw a lot of guys last year maybe whether
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: it's Eric Armstead playing out a position, you know, whether
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: it was some of the younger, younger guys who didn't
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: really play that much or for whatever reason didn't find
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: the field. So I think you're still trying to navigate
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: that situation of who's gonna be the starters, who's gonna
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: get the depth, who's gonna be maybe an outside looking in.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: So if i'm you know, coach Campinelle, that's what I'm
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: looking for now, is all right, Let's evaluate these players
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: the last couple of days, and by the time training
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: camp starts, it's not gonna be written in stone in
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: terms of a depth chart, but I'm gonna at least
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: have a feel for who I feel comfortable with going forward.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: It's coming up next week mandatory mini camp, and it'll
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: be then they're out of here. Then then the tail
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: lights of the cars leaving the parking lot scurs out
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: pretty good sight to see. Sometimes everybody needs some time off,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: and players will, coaches will be away for a number
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: of weeks, the rookies will come back earlier before training camp,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: and then it's game on towards the end of July
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: and into August. Certainly we're closed. Are you know, you're
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: you're in training mode right now down in South Florida.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: So take us through what's going on here? July twelfth
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: is the fight in Nashville. Yeah?
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'm not sure if we could even
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: announce that JP because it's not official. No no, no,
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: it's all good. Like, hey, I didn't say JP said
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: it right, But so fighting in July, and you know,
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: cam Ward maybe in attendance of where I'm fighting. That's
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: all I'm gonna say. Okay, that's all I can I
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: can legally say right now.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Fair my bad?
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: No, oh good man, trust me. There's there's so many
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: like MMA websites that have already leaked it out, but
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: like you know, the UFC being the UFC, it's like,
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: we got to make sure that he passes all his
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: physicals and all his blood work and spoiler alert, they
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: look good, so that the fight should be on July twelve.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Love that. Love that. So you're you're down South Florida.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: Get I mean, how many people do you train with? Like,
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: what's your group down here? Yeah?
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: So I'm at American Top Team, which is one of
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: the best MMA gyms in the entire world. On any
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: given day, I would say probably close to eighty to
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: ninety maybe even one hundred fighters will come through here
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: and get training in. You know, when we talk about
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: my weight division, the heavyweight division, it's usually like the
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: one eighty five ers, the two oh fivers and the
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: heavyweights that we all work together. So there's probably about
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: maybe like fifteen to twenty of us, but that worked together,
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: and then like as far as heavyweights are concerned, there's
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: about eight or nine of us, So I believe I'm
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: the only American in the group, which is always an
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: interesting dynamic. Yeah, you know, I'm kind of like the
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: whole what do you call it, Like a black sheep
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: of the group will call it. So I'm kind of
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: the black sheep of American top team here at the
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: heavyweight division. But everyone's embraced me with open arms, and
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: you know, we have fun. We laugh. I assume that
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: we're all laughing together and they're not making fun of
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: me behind my back, you know when they're speaking Portuguese.
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: But who knows. But no, it's been great work man,
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: and it's not a knock on jack So there's a
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: lot of great training in Jacksonville as well. But to
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: find guys my size and with my skill range, I
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: had to go to different places, right and thankfully it's
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: about a four hour drive down here. You know, I'm
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: right in Pete Prisco's backyard, even though I feel like
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: I can't afford his backyard, but yeah, I'm just I'm
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: right down here, man, and everything's going great so far.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, your Portuguese lacking a little bit. A lot of
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Brazilians with you, right, Yeah.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny because they're trying to teach me some things, man,
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: But like I don't have the mental capacity to like
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: to do sports shows, to train for a fight and
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: then try to learn Portuguese. Like maybe I can get
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: like a Rosetta stone or something, but like Portuguese is
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: like the last thing on my mind right now. But
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: I think I know a couple of words, but I'll
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: probably butcher them.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got a lot of other things on your mind,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: and you should.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, focus in for sure, Austin. Great stuff. Always a
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: pleasure to have you with us. Has been a fun
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: off season. We've had you on a bunch here over
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: the last few weeks.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: Man. Yeah, man, it's it's been an awesome off season.
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: Thanks for the hospitality. Thanks for taking part time custody.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: I guess you would me what would be of me? Man?
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: It felt like a new home. And I kind of
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: left the nest today, right, I'm kind of on my
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: own now and I'm I'm coming to you via zoom
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: and everything. But yeah, hopefully we'll get to see you guys,
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: maybe during the season as well.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Now you're still doing with the other show, you know,
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: while you're down there.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: I thought it was in the contract where we had
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: at least mentioned it three times.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: So I gotta get it. We got a minute and
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: a half left. I gotta get it in free time.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, to answer your question, I am still doing
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: the Brenton Austin Show. The Brent Austin Show is going great.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: And then I couldn't be happier doing the Brenton Austin Show.
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: That was three times.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, well you are happier doing this show, right,
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, hey.
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: Hey, once again, I say it all the time, JP.
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: It's called free lancing, right, and and that's the word
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: of the day for all your kids at home. The
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: word is freelancing, and I'm taking full advantage of it.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: And I'm having a blaster her as well.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: I love it. Austin will talk to you very soon.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: Best to luck to you down in South Florida and
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: the rest of this offseason.
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: Man, appreciate it all right, man, great talking to you. JP.
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: Stay casual.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: We'll see you down the road in Austin Lane with
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: us learning Portuguese in South Florida, with a busy few
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: weeks ahead, with a possible some kind of fight at
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: some point in mid July. Keep your ears open for
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: that one. Our thanks to Pete Prisco, CBS Sports senior
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: writer catching up with us also in South Florida today.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: He'll be here next week, so if you're coming out
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: to camp on Wednesday, you can heckle him in person
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: right here at the Miller Electric Center. Thanks of course
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: to Austin Lane, Brent Reeber, Joe Fortunado, David cho our
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: entire crew, and thanks to you for listening and watching.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: It's Jaguar's Happy Hour.