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Jags Broadcast Week in Review: May 8 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend Review podcast presented by
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Speaker 1: t I A. A. Bank J P. Shadrick With you,
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Speaker 1: and this is our weekly look at the best of
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Speaker 1: Jaguars broadcasts and digital shows from the past week, including
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Speaker 1: this week Senior VP ch Had Johnson explaining updated ticket policies,
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Speaker 1: linebacker Joe Schobert discussing the virtual offseason program reaction to
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars schedule release from head coach Doug Marone, and
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Speaker 1: NFL Network reporter Judy Batista providing the league's perspective on scheduling.
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Speaker 1: We'll bounce around all over the week, but let's start
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Speaker 1: with former Jaguars defensive coordinator Mel Tucker. He's now the
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Speaker 1: head coach at Michigan State, but last year he was
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Speaker 1: the head coach at Colorado and had wide receiver Levisca
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Speaker 1: Chenault Jr. As an offensive weapon. Last week we heard
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Speaker 1: him discuss how they used Chennault outside, inside, at receiver,
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Speaker 1: even at tight end and in the backfield. Well, this week,
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Speaker 1: Tucker described what Chennault was like off the field. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's a he's a really quiet guy and uh and
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Speaker 1: really two he gets to know you, um and uh
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Speaker 1: so when I first got to voter Um, he was,
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Speaker 1: you know, very shy, and so it was a kind
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Speaker 1: of a process of him opening up, you know, once
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Speaker 1: he got to know me and the staff. But once
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Speaker 1: he kind of got used to us and kind of
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Speaker 1: found out what we were all about. I mean, he's great,
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Speaker 1: you know, and he's like I said, he's a fun guy.
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Speaker 1: He's always got smile on his face. He loves his
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Speaker 1: team as he loves his coaches. He competes, he practices hard. No,
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Speaker 1: but for people you know initially that he's not familiar with,
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Speaker 1: he's gonna be He's gonna be quiet's gonna be reserved.
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Speaker 1: He's got the he's got the braids. You know, they'll
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Speaker 1: be covering his face every now and then. But he'll
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Speaker 1: he'll he'll come out of it eventually, and uh and
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Speaker 1: you guys will work well together. Thanks to coach Tucker
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Speaker 1: for his time last week. The full interview available on
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Speaker 1: Jaguars dot com Jaguars Instagram. Live interviews have taken over
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Speaker 1: social media recently, and this week Ash from Solomon caught
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Speaker 1: up with China and included some fan questions for the
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Speaker 1: new IT. What's your biggest goal for year one? Rookie year.
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Speaker 1: My biggest goal for year one is to gag respect,
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Speaker 1: not only for the people inside the locker room, but
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Speaker 1: the whole Jacksonville, the whole doo ball county. Of course,
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Speaker 1: Like my goals is to make it to the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 1: make the Pro Bowl, or break records like that should
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Speaker 1: already be like that's already known, Like that's what that's
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Speaker 1: what I'm supposed to do, Like that's what I'm here for.
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Speaker 1: So like my goal is to gang respect. Really, my
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Speaker 1: biggest goal is to game respect from everybody. All the
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Speaker 1: i G Live videos from the week will be available
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Speaker 1: on Jaguars dot com. At the start of the week,
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Speaker 1: news broke that the league was moving all international games
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Speaker 1: stateside for the season. That means both Jaguars London games
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Speaker 1: will be played in Jacksonville this year, but it also
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Speaker 1: means some updates and new ticket packages available for the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars season. Senior VP of Sales and Service Chad Johnson
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Speaker 1: joined Ashville Sullivan, John Osier, and Brian Sexton on Jack's
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Speaker 1: Drive Time Tuesday warning to explain there's some cautious optimism
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Speaker 1: right now. I think we all feel it, but there's
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Speaker 1: still some uncertainty so what we try to do is
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Speaker 1: help erase the uncertainty and then give you options. What's
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Speaker 1: so great about this Back to Football flex plan. Not
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Speaker 1: only do you have choices with your payments and how
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Speaker 1: can you defer some of those payments, but we're offering
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Speaker 1: a full cancelation refund policy, which is really kind of
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Speaker 1: unheard of in sports. So if you decide to renew
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Speaker 1: your tickets today and before the season, your situation changes
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Speaker 1: or you're not comfortable with where things are going, you
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Speaker 1: can cancel that with no questions asked, So it kind
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Speaker 1: of helps erase the uncertainty. Some of our fans maybe
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Speaker 1: have a compromised immune system and may be forced to
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Speaker 1: take the year off until the vaccines available, but we
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Speaker 1: wouldn't want someone that's been sitting in those same seats
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Speaker 1: for twenty plus years to be penalized because of that.
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Speaker 1: So in those cases, we will allow you to pause
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Speaker 1: your season ticket membership, still keep the benefits throughout the year,
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Speaker 1: and engaged and rejoin us back in those same seats
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Speaker 1: next year. And that's really kind of also an unheard
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Speaker 1: of piece of the puzzle here that we really want
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Speaker 1: to be accommodating to them, So I think this plan
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Speaker 1: really addresses all of that, the uncertainty, the flexibility needed,
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Speaker 1: and the choices. And so far today it's only a
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Speaker 1: sample size of a couple hours. Um phones ringing in.
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Speaker 1: Our staff is excited. Drivetime audio is available on this
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Speaker 1: podcast channel and video on JAG social media and the
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Speaker 1: team website. Let's get back to football. The offseason program
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Speaker 1: is upon us and that means virtual meeting rooms for
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Speaker 1: position groups. This is the time of year that offensive
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Speaker 1: and defensive plans are installed, but usually you can go
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Speaker 1: out on the field and walk through it to see
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Speaker 1: it for yourself. As newly acquired free agent middle linebacker
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Speaker 1: Joe Schoberd explained in a video conference with local media,
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Speaker 1: it's a major change this year. So we're going through
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Speaker 1: our first install o to day. And usually you go
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Speaker 1: through an install I go through the class room, which
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Speaker 1: I just did, and I feel like I got a
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Speaker 1: pretty good understanding of what we tried to installiday. But
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Speaker 1: then usually you go on the field and you get
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Speaker 1: to walk through it, and then you get the practices,
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Speaker 1: so you put it in the practice and like I
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Speaker 1: can go in my backyard and I can go through steps,
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Speaker 1: but I can't see the offense doing anything. I can't
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Speaker 1: communicate to miles next to me or to the d
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Speaker 1: n s to make some some calls here and there
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Speaker 1: to to get through work through it. So it's a
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Speaker 1: it's definitely gonna be different. Um, you just gotta be
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Speaker 1: really studious and kind of pay attention in the in
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Speaker 1: the classroom or in the virtual classroom way more and
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Speaker 1: kind of go through the film. I think it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be a lot more just watching film and putting yourself
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Speaker 1: into the shoes of the guys who are in it
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Speaker 1: because you're not gonna be able to talk. I mean,
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Speaker 1: we have zoom meetings that we get I get to
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Speaker 1: talk to making our calls in our checks, um through
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Speaker 1: the zoom meetings. But no, it's not the same. The
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Speaker 1: entire league is dealing with these issues and trying to
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Speaker 1: figure out the best way to work around them and
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Speaker 1: still get the most out of the meeting times. In
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Speaker 1: a media video conference, Friday head coach Dog Moron explained
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Speaker 1: how the virtual process has changed and could change even
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Speaker 1: further later in the off season and training camp, including
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Speaker 1: the addition of a virtual simulator kind of get you
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Speaker 1: off your feet and people can use it in their
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Speaker 1: meetings that I first heard about it years ago in
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Speaker 1: Green Bay. Green Bay had it, you know. So what
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Speaker 1: they did is they just you're able to project like
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Speaker 1: a full It's it's really impressive if you have the
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Speaker 1: room basically a whole picture of let's just say, an
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Speaker 1: offensive team breaking the huddle and and there as their formation,
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Speaker 1: you know, and it's on a wall like a driving movie,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And then you know you're
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Speaker 1: a defense that you're sitting there and they break the formation,
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Speaker 1: you make the calls and you can actually line up
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Speaker 1: on those players as you go. Then as a motion
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Speaker 1: and move you can make your calls and you can
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Speaker 1: get more reps that way. From physical standpoint, you're down
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Speaker 1: on your feet, you know, especially during training camp. You know,
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Speaker 1: when you're on your feel a lot. You know you're
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Speaker 1: able to, you know, walking around on the grass obviously
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Speaker 1: you're on your feet. You're able to, you know, go
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Speaker 1: in there and get a lot of mental reps, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. As you go. There were a
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Speaker 1: couple of teams, not many, A couple of teams have them.
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Speaker 1: There was a little big push this year and I
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Speaker 1: think more and more teams are starting to get it
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Speaker 1: now knowing that, because I think that when you look
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Speaker 1: at how we've evolved from a time restraint standpoint, you
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Speaker 1: know from like when I was first playing, and then
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Speaker 1: you know where we are now. You know, times of
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Speaker 1: the essence and and you've got to look to maximize that.
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Speaker 1: We went and visited when we were at the combine,
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Speaker 1: you know, with the with the that that does that,
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Speaker 1: along with Mike Perkins, so you know, we felt that
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Speaker 1: we would really be able to help our football team.
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Speaker 1: So it's not something that's new and sooner to us,
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Speaker 1: but um, it's something that's been around, but I think
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Speaker 1: you'll see more and more teams starting to use that
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Speaker 1: stuff now. Maronas slated to meet with Jaguars media each
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Speaker 1: Friday during the off season. Program plenty of still to
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Speaker 1: defenders battling for supremacy and reaction to the schedule a
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Speaker 1: a new content series started this week, Jaguars Throwdown, presented
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Speaker 1: by Publix. It features Jaguars teammates battling head to head
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Speaker 1: to answer questions from Ashvin Sullivan this week to defensive
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Speaker 1: players with personality, defensive tackle Avery Jones and cornerback d J. Hayden.
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Speaker 1: If you were stuck on a deserted island, it can
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Speaker 1: only pick one player or coach to be with you.
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Speaker 1: Who would you choose and why? Okay, if I could
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Speaker 1: choose one player to be with me, I'll probably pick
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Speaker 1: Brandon Linda because he a hunter. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: He'd be out there hunting and doing all types of
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Speaker 1: crazy stuff. So we need like some food or like
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Speaker 1: some I don't know, like some some gadgets or something.
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Speaker 1: He'd be he'd be a great guy for that. I think.
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Speaker 1: I think Linda will be great for that. Alight. For
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Speaker 1: me player, I probably take Smoot with me because me
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Speaker 1: and Smooth we always bump heads a lot of arguments.
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Speaker 1: There's not gonna be much to do. I gotta have
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Speaker 1: someone to talk to and then, you know, just in
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Speaker 1: case if we ever get close to some technology, maybe
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Speaker 1: Smoothing there's a little something to get away around things.
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Speaker 1: If coach, I'm gonna take Coach Revs because every offseason
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Speaker 1: he goes to a cabin of North by himself, so
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Speaker 1: honestly he knows how to surviving. The little in this
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Speaker 1: technology and technology, you're gonna be hungry, you're gonna be nirsty,
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Speaker 1: but you can work an iPhone point for DJ. The
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Speaker 1: winner this week. D J. Hayden will look forward to
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Speaker 1: this each and every week on the Jaguars website. Now
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Speaker 1: to the biggest news of the week. The NFL announced
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Speaker 1: the schedule Thursday evening. The jack schedule is available on
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Speaker 1: the team website. We won't go through it game by
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Speaker 1: game here. Tickets are available now, of course. Immediately after
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Speaker 1: the announcement, head coach Doc Marone joined John, Brian and
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Speaker 1: I to give us his initial thoughts on the schedule
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Speaker 1: release show presented by McCallan's heating and air conditioning coach.
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Speaker 1: Are all tough as the NFL. We get that, but
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Speaker 1: what is your initial reaction when you see the schedule
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Speaker 1: coming Well, I think, you know, initially, having gone through
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Speaker 1: of this now for you know, I guess about ten
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Speaker 1: years and then throughout my career as an assistant coach,
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Speaker 1: I really don't put a lot of thought into it
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Speaker 1: hire to the schedule coming out, because you really don't
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Speaker 1: have any control over it, you know, as far as
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Speaker 1: you know when the time you're playing, or how they're
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Speaker 1: gonna set the teams and where you're gonna play them
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Speaker 1: in the year. I don't try to look too forward
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Speaker 1: in that because you know that's you know who well
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Speaker 1: who gets hot, injuries come into play. There's a lot
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Speaker 1: of things. Basically what I look at is, uh, you
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Speaker 1: know where the bye week is and just kind of
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Speaker 1: the travel. So you know, those are the things I
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Speaker 1: look at. And you know, we've got to be ready
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Speaker 1: to play each week, and you know, the schedule comes
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Speaker 1: out and you know the week if it's early, you
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Speaker 1: might do some things different. You know, you like it
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Speaker 1: somewhere in the middle, you know, week six to eight.
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Speaker 1: But even then, you know, if you have an injury
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Speaker 1: early and you want the bye week early to get
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Speaker 1: your players back. So I think you can mitigate anything
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Speaker 1: that you you know, however you want to you know,
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Speaker 1: represent you know what what the schedule is, so it
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Speaker 1: is what it is. We're excited that it's out now.
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Speaker 1: Gives us a chance to start planning. There's your radar
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Speaker 1: go up at all when you see two a FC
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Speaker 1: South games right out of the gate. There's pluses and minuses.
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Speaker 1: The one thing that that I like is that you know,
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Speaker 1: we know both teams, but they also know us, you know,
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Speaker 1: so you know those things that go into that so um,
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Speaker 1: you know, and it's a chance an opportunity. You know,
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Speaker 1: they get yourself uh elite, you know, and in the
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Speaker 1: division because we know that, you know, the best way
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Speaker 1: to make the playoffs is obviously to win your division.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's that's set. So I think you know,
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Speaker 1: going in there and going early and then finding out
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Speaker 1: about your football team, you know what I'm saying. Really,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you go through training camp, you
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Speaker 1: you may have a vision what you're gonna be and
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Speaker 1: how you're gonna play, but until you get out there
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Speaker 1: in the preseason. At times, I've been fooled quite a
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Speaker 1: bit by the preseason. I've had great preseason, i haven't
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Speaker 1: played as well. I've had a poor preseasons and and
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Speaker 1: and played well, and you know, so you want to
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Speaker 1: get everything together. But basically you want to get to
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Speaker 1: that and you know those games, and you want a
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Speaker 1: healthy football team that's ready to go. That show archive
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Speaker 1: is available on all the Jags social channels and the
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Speaker 1: team website Jaguars dot com, and finally to Jaguars Happy
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Speaker 1: Our Thursday. This show aired before the official announcement of
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Speaker 1: the schedule, but longtime NFL reporter Judy Batista joined us
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Speaker 1: over the phone. Judy covered the NFL for The New
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Speaker 1: York Times from and has been with NFL media, including
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Speaker 1: NFL Network since then. She had great perspective and what
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Speaker 1: the league's approach has been leading up to the schedule
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Speaker 1: and what it will be moving ahead. Their pass throughout
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Speaker 1: the off season, and you know, it's worked so far
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Speaker 1: is to just stay on schedule and do league business
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Speaker 1: as as much as you can normally. Now obviously they
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Speaker 1: had to make adjustments with the draft, doing it virtually
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Speaker 1: and they're having the virtual off season program now. But
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Speaker 1: but they've managed to get business done. Um, and so
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Speaker 1: they're just sort of going. They just keep going down
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Speaker 1: the calendar and and doing the next thing. And so
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Speaker 1: this is the time when you would release the schedule.
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Speaker 1: They you know, they intend to play a regular season
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Speaker 1: sixteen games in seventeen weeks and the Super Bowl February
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Speaker 1: seventh in Tampa. Um, you know, kicking off September tenth.
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Speaker 1: That's the intention. Now it's May. Um, it's four months away.
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Speaker 1: They will be prepared to make adjustments if if they
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Speaker 1: have to as this, you know, as things go along. Um.
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Speaker 1: But their intentions certainly is to play a full schedule.
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Speaker 1: Is there any idea of a timeline of when they
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Speaker 1: would start paring it down or changing it or is
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Speaker 1: it too soon to say? I think it's way too soon.
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Speaker 1: You know, in another memo that the commissioner sent to
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Speaker 1: the team saying, like, nobody has any idea what's going
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Speaker 1: to happen over the next four months. I mean, let's
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Speaker 1: face it, four months ago, none of us could have
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Speaker 1: imagined where we are right now, right, So, I mean,
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Speaker 1: who knows what things are going to look like in
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Speaker 1: four months, for better or worse. So, uh, they've got look,
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Speaker 1: they of all the leagues, have the luxury of sometime, right.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the NBA and the NHL are trying to
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Speaker 1: get back to have a postseason. Major League Baseball is
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Speaker 1: just trying to start the season. So I mean the NFL,
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Speaker 1: you know, the calendar is working in their favor a
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Speaker 1: little bit. Day at least have some time to see
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Speaker 1: how things play out and to see how the other
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Speaker 1: leagues do it. I was told, you know, to keep
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Speaker 1: an eye on Major League Baseball because if they can
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Speaker 1: get their season started, you know, now the reports are
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Speaker 1: it looks like maybe they would try to start the
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Speaker 1: season July one, go back to sort of a second
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Speaker 1: spring training a few weeks before that in June um
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Speaker 1: and if if they can do that, if they can
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Speaker 1: play games safely even if there are no fans in
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Speaker 1: the stands like that would be a really good sign,
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Speaker 1: you know, for football season. It's always an insightful conversation
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Speaker 1: with Judy Batista. For more on how the league schedule
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Speaker 1: makers adjusted the early season schedule across the league in
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Speaker 1: case of early season cancelations. Take a look at Sam
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Speaker 1: Farmer's article in The l A Times that ran late
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Speaker 1: Thursday night. It's an in depth look at how it
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Speaker 1: all shook out. It it's very interesting. Thanks to all
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Speaker 1: our contributors this week and thanks for listening. I'm J. P.
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Speaker 1: Shadrick and we'll catch you next week on the Jaguars Broadcast.
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