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Jags Drive Time: Tuesday, February 15 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jacks Drive To with Ashlyn Sullimson's John Ocean
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Speaker 1: and Bryan set Jacks Dry Time. It starts right now.
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Speaker 1: You know how I feel about your game, man, right? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I've told you a year after year, Welcome to camp.
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Speaker 1: No one else, man, no one else. Thank you, And
0:48
Speaker 1: it is an honor and a privilege. Man, do what
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Speaker 1: I wanted to be. Well, now you know we both
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Speaker 1: play to that see, but now we can say we're
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Speaker 1: teammates forever. I love coolest moments ever for Tony Basselly.
1:04
Speaker 1: What a weekend for him into the Hall of Fame,
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Speaker 1: very much deserved. He was patient, took his time, but
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Speaker 1: he is finally in. Welcome into Jaguars Drive Time, our
1:13
Speaker 1: first show back of the off season. So much to
1:16
Speaker 1: talk about. It is truly onto next season. Woke up
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Speaker 1: yesterday morning, I said, oh my gosh, the combine is
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Speaker 1: in two weeks. We gotta get going that fast. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it really does. And and when you realize how much
1:28
Speaker 1: has to get done in terms of getting a staff
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Speaker 1: in here, because the process went so much later than
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Speaker 1: it did last year, there's a lot on the to
1:34
Speaker 1: do list across the hallway. Is there a Biselli Jersey
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Speaker 1: on our city. We're doing that at some point we
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Speaker 1: got I don't think that's gonna happen. I think this
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Speaker 1: is gonna be here for a couple of weeks. Be
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Speaker 1: a life size I think there is a life size
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Speaker 1: cut out of Baselly coming. Well that's probably there's already
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Speaker 1: one in his house. Well yeah, right, John, Before we
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Speaker 1: get into big things, that was awesome, awesome moment for Anthony.
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Speaker 1: You knows to come and that meant so much to him.
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Speaker 1: I know you were in Los Angeles over the weekend,
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Speaker 1: So tell us briefly what it was like. I know
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Speaker 1: you choked up a little bits when he told me.
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Speaker 1: And you know, we've gone out two try to be
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Speaker 1: with Tony at the moment several times and was dot com.
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Speaker 1: We try to cover as well as we can. So
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Speaker 1: we've gone to Tony before and said, look, we know
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Speaker 1: you're gonna find out can't tell. So he told me
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and you know, I've covered
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Speaker 1: him since and I went out to his home and
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Speaker 1: met his parents when he was a rookie. Uh So,
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Speaker 1: knowing Tither a long time and when he told me,
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Speaker 1: I did tear up a little bit the big man
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Speaker 1: teared up a little bit. If that's not okay, that's
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Speaker 1: not it's very okay. And I that's the first time
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Speaker 1: I've seen that piece of video. And I had the
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Speaker 1: emotional reaction because I remember standing with Anthony Munio's remember
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Speaker 1: the old four Sports Awards when he came to present
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Speaker 1: Tony an award on stage here twenty two years ago,
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Speaker 1: back in two thousand and I just I asked him
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Speaker 1: for one of our television shows, where does Tony fit?
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Speaker 1: You know, because it was the golden age of offensive tackles? Right,
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Speaker 1: he had to Orlando Pace in St. Louis, and John
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Speaker 1: Ogden in Baltimore, and Walter Jones when a hall of famers, all, um,
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Speaker 1: where does he fit? And he said he's the best?
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Speaker 1: And I said, so, like second now to you, because
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Speaker 1: you're considered the best. He said, I think Tony's the best. Um.
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Speaker 1: So to have him there just brings it all full
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Speaker 1: circle to me. Right from the day he showed up
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Speaker 1: here after the draft in until then when he was
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Speaker 1: when he was brought to the forefront back in l
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Speaker 1: A where he came from. I mean, what just what
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Speaker 1: a great story for a great family. Yes, we'll move
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Speaker 1: on the U. When he told me, I said, well,
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Speaker 1: had you find out? And and he briefly told me
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Speaker 1: the mooniest thing. I said, that had been unbelievable. And again,
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Speaker 1: you know, I imagine Tony doesn't get emotional every time,
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Speaker 1: and he said, yeah, it was unbelievable, so quickly unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: I was getting ready. I was going to Kansas City
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Speaker 1: for the f C Championship. Him and I got on
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Speaker 1: and here came a whole group of guys that I
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Speaker 1: knew from the NFL films crew and some talent that
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Speaker 1: I knew, and I, what are you guys doing here? Well,
4:08
Speaker 1: by the way, silly, I kind of I pieced it
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Speaker 1: together because I kind of figured out who was there,
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Speaker 1: and I didn't know for sure. Obviously they didn't find out,
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Speaker 1: but um, that was my clue, and I'm like, I
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Speaker 1: think he's in. And it was love that they didn't
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Speaker 1: want to tell you people I know they're like and
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Speaker 1: keeps anything at gold you really can't. And you know,
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Speaker 1: I did a last Wednesday or Thursday, the day of
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Speaker 1: I talked to Meno's and I knew that he knew,
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Speaker 1: so I told him, like, I know, you know, and
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Speaker 1: I know what you're talking about. Stayed in character. We
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Speaker 1: talked for a little while afterwards, and he said, look
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Speaker 1: what a great job Angie did setting that up. And
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Speaker 1: one thing Angie also did, it's out there now. She
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Speaker 1: got a video from Tony's dad who passed last year,
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Speaker 1: who to speak to Tony before that. Um, what an
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Speaker 1: amazing moment that had to have been for Tony and
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Speaker 1: what an amazing time it is and so well deserved.
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Speaker 1: It's an incredible story. And because it's incredible story, I'll
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Speaker 1: put up with the jersey on the front. We we can't,
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Speaker 1: we will, you will hear. You will see a lot
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Speaker 1: of bassellly stories and there's still there'll be some new
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Speaker 1: ones that you haven't heard through the year, and I
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Speaker 1: know you we gotta start. I just want to say this,
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Speaker 1: Angie BASSELLI uh is as strong a presence in the
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Speaker 1: community as Tony is, but not as visible. And for
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Speaker 1: the things that she's done through the years here, this
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Speaker 1: is really cool for her because she's always been super
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Speaker 1: NFL player's wife and mom. Um, So big congratulations to her,
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Speaker 1: Yes and the whole entire family. Big weekend for the Bassell's.
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Speaker 1: All Right, let's get into big things. Big thing one
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Speaker 1: is start the clock thirty days until free agency begins,
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Speaker 1: and it's time to start making moves. Combine draft Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame and shrine it. As we start talking about
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Speaker 1: make in additions to this team. The general manager is
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Speaker 1: feeling good overall about where the team is at this moment.
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Speaker 1: You know we're gonna go through this process. We're in
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Speaker 1: a very good situation with the franchise quarterback in place.
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Speaker 1: We've got a lot of ammunition with draft picks, twelve
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Speaker 1: graphicks this year, eight stored up for next year, and
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Speaker 1: and then cap spaced second I think believe second most
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Speaker 1: in the league as we see here today. So there's
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Speaker 1: some there's gonna be some changes, and in this league,
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Speaker 1: I think if you look at what Cincinnatti did, you
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Speaker 1: can make these changes fairly quickly. We're gonna go through it.
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Speaker 1: The first thing is Doug and I sitting down with
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Speaker 1: the rest of the staff went once we get them
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Speaker 1: in place, and going through the roster and released, putting
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Speaker 1: a plan together for free agency, for the draft, and
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Speaker 1: address the needs that we have. I ain't the thing
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Speaker 1: to keep in mind, we got a lot of good
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Speaker 1: young players here and the cupboards, not bar we just
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Speaker 1: have to add to that. We have to have we
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Speaker 1: have to add some pieces at the right spotts and
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Speaker 1: get the right people in here. And it's the type
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Speaker 1: of players were looking for. Our players that love the game,
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Speaker 1: high character guys that are going to fit the style
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Speaker 1: of play that we want and the culture that we
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Speaker 1: want to build here. So that's the starting point to
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Speaker 1: getting the coaches in here and then collaborating the Seeds deck.
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Speaker 1: We all we're going to address the needs that we have.
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Speaker 1: Big thing too, is begin again. It seems like we
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Speaker 1: were right here just a year ago, a new head coach,
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Speaker 1: number one overall, pick lots of draft picks and salary
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Speaker 1: cap space. But as of right now, it feels different,
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Speaker 1: very different because of this guy, a great opportunity to
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Speaker 1: really to really flip this organization and get it, get
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Speaker 1: it back in the direction that it said. It's I
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Speaker 1: know that Nick jod Kan wanted to go, and we
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Speaker 1: all wanted to go. And you know, to have have
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Speaker 1: the quarterback in place, that's obviously a key thing and
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Speaker 1: kind of drew me to obviously this this franchise. And
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Speaker 1: then you know, as you mentioned, the draft capital and
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Speaker 1: and we feel it's just it's just one piece of
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Speaker 1: one piece of the time. You're the first Jaguars head
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Speaker 1: coach who has played the position in quarterback. How does
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Speaker 1: your experience as a player translate to coaching the condition.
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Speaker 1: I just feel like I can see it through the
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks eyes. You know. I was never the starter a lot,
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Speaker 1: you know, but I had had that career backup. I
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Speaker 1: was always doing account of coaching, sort of a mentor,
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Speaker 1: you know. I see the game through the quarterbacks eyes,
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Speaker 1: and I think that's important to understand what they're what
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Speaker 1: they're seeing with those guys are staying out on the
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Speaker 1: football field. And then obviously haven't been coached by some
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Speaker 1: some great coaches and you know, head coaches in my career.
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Speaker 1: It's something now that I can you know, pass on
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Speaker 1: to a to a guy like Trevor and just just
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Speaker 1: create that desire which is already there, but you want
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Speaker 1: to enhance the desire to be great, and he wants
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Speaker 1: to be he wants to be that way. I want
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Speaker 1: that for him. And again, teams that have this position
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Speaker 1: right are the ones that have had success in this league.
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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, Jacksonville has gotten it right. And finally,
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Speaker 1: big thing three, we talked about the beginning of the show,
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville's big night. Tony Baselli inducted into the Hall of
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Speaker 1: Fame at late Thursday night, a moment that was very
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Speaker 1: much deserved but hasn't quite hit him yet. It's funny
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Speaker 1: you talk about the sign your name and no more
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Speaker 1: number if I was you. Every time I go somewhere,
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Speaker 1: you know, get a group of guys on autographs. Always,
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Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I get a little bit jealous. I'm
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Speaker 1: watching other guys sing, you know, Anthony h and I'm
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Speaker 1: sitting right in the torn not like hopefully one day
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Speaker 1: I got to put that h o a our teammates,
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Speaker 1: as Deacon Jones used to say when he was alive,
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Speaker 1: we're on the team. Now you're on the team. You
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Speaker 1: can't get cut, you can't get weight, you can't get it,
9:40
Speaker 1: and there you have it. Those are big things. Doug Peterson,
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Speaker 1: as the new Jaguars head coach, we haven't had the
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Speaker 1: chance to really talk a lot about that, at least
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Speaker 1: on Jaguars Drive Time, and we mentioned big thing to
9:50
Speaker 1: the Jaguars are basically right back where they were a
9:53
Speaker 1: year ago, except totally different. You have it feels like
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Speaker 1: you have a grown up in the room. Not to
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Speaker 1: be smirch anyone else. But last year felt like an experiment, right,
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Speaker 1: and it was um and you know it was all
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Speaker 1: the huge staff that came in and all of that stuff.
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Speaker 1: This feels like a proven commodity and it should with
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl ring on it. Um. It's almost as
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Speaker 1: if he's like, I got this, just come with me.
10:18
Speaker 1: It's that big brother effect that we talked about, having
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Speaker 1: somebody who could put their arm around the franchise and go,
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Speaker 1: we got this. Yeah. And again not to smirch big word,
10:26
Speaker 1: you use it, you won't hear anymore. Well, that was
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Speaker 1: a surprise to me and I'm learning this as I go. Uh.
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Speaker 1: That was the reality with urban Meyer, and the reality
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Speaker 1: with Doug Peterson is he played in the league twelve years,
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Speaker 1: thirteen years back up and has coached for twelve He's
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Speaker 1: had twenty five years and this there's not gonna be
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Speaker 1: a whole lot thrown out and he doesn't know the
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Speaker 1: franchise needs that now. It's just gotta work. It can
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Speaker 1: work if he's got the quarterback. But he said there's pieces.
10:56
Speaker 1: This team needs a lot of pieces. Don Shula, Mike
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Speaker 1: whole grin Andy Reid, the coaches that he played for.
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Speaker 1: It is a strong pedigree. Here we go, Yeah, just
11:06
Speaker 1: been there, done that you can and it's not a cockiness,
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Speaker 1: it's just an emulated confidence. His first day in the
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Speaker 1: building and he mentioned what I love the most was
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Speaker 1: just surrounding himself with good guys. And he's going through
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Speaker 1: interviews right now to build that coaching stuff, but it
11:20
Speaker 1: was a point of emphasis, just bring good people in here.
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Speaker 1: It can be that easy. NFL head coaching of it
11:26
Speaker 1: on a day day basis is handling the crisis of
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Speaker 1: the day, handling the crisis of the moment. Uh. You know,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure last year there were moments that came up
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Speaker 1: that the coach hadn't seen before. When things come up
11:39
Speaker 1: this year, the coach will have seen it before. And
11:41
Speaker 1: there'll be a lot of situations where somebody comes into
11:43
Speaker 1: this coach, we gotta do this, and he'll say, we'll
11:44
Speaker 1: just do this, yeah, and and it will move on easily.
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Speaker 1: And I think that is a huge thing for this franchise.
11:52
Speaker 1: Right as you go to break, I just want to
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Speaker 1: say congratulations to Leeward Butler as well. For two guys
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Speaker 1: to go into the Hall of Fame in the same
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Speaker 1: class from the smallest market in the league. Um, really
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Speaker 1: huge weekend. Was a great guy, very deserving, absolutely speaking
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Speaker 1: of Jacksonville. Jacksonville resident and native Shaquille Quarterman, linebacker for
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Speaker 1: right time Tuesday morning, our first show back of the
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Speaker 1: off season. And speaking of off season, we're going down
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Speaker 1: to Miami. Jaguar's linebacker Shaquille Quarterman is there training. I believe, Shaquille.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Thank you for joining us. Good morning, good
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Speaker 1: morning to you as well. Thank you for having absolutely right.
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Speaker 1: So tell us how the off season is going, How
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Speaker 1: is training going. It's going great. It's honestly going great.
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Speaker 1: You know. Getting the chance to come back a little
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Speaker 1: bit earlier than most, you know, it definitely gives you
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Speaker 1: the time to do a lot of things you're away,
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Speaker 1: you know, get ahead started, Shack. You're Jacksonville guy, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean you followed this team, you understand the personalities.
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Speaker 1: Tell us your thoughts on the big weekend. Uh, Tony
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Speaker 1: Boselli's a guy obviously, you know. I'm assuming you probably
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Speaker 1: know Leroy Butler as well. Talk about the Hall of
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Speaker 1: Fame in your hometown. I think it's it's just really
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Speaker 1: amazing to see, you know. Um, I just want to
13:54
Speaker 1: give a huge thank you shout out to to both
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Speaker 1: those guys, man, because what they did for the city
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Speaker 1: is just something that you can't it's hard to put
14:02
Speaker 1: in the words, you know, but for those guys to
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Speaker 1: do that, man, it's given every resident in Jacksonville, Florida,
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Speaker 1: the right to really, you know, just go even harder
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Speaker 1: for my team. You know, I could talk a lot
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Speaker 1: of talk about my my guy, Tony Boselli. Man, it's
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Speaker 1: just really really an honored dog, you know, and we
14:18
Speaker 1: have so much love for the team and for the
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Speaker 1: city that you know, these are things that should have
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Speaker 1: been came to pass. So just finally see it, you know,
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Speaker 1: it really grows on you know, it makes your heart warm. Seriously. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I know you had a chance to meet that Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson when he was in town or when you were
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Speaker 1: here for his introductory press conference. Impressions and thoughts moving
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Speaker 1: forward with Coach Peterson, I'm getting the chance to meet him.
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Speaker 1: I actually got the chance to meet him right before
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Speaker 1: I hopped on the road to go down the train,
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Speaker 1: and that was that was really the ice on the
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Speaker 1: cake for me. You know, I think he's a really
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Speaker 1: poised guy. You know, that's the first impression I got
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Speaker 1: from him. And the second lea is that he's really
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Speaker 1: embracing the Jaguar culture, the Jaguar lifestyle. You know, he's
14:59
Speaker 1: really be ready to work. He's very hungry and just
15:02
Speaker 1: seeing that in his eyes, man, that's the type of
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Speaker 1: coach that is it's not hard to play for at all.
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Speaker 1: So seeing that from him and him getting to work
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Speaker 1: so fast and at the ferocity that he's doing it,
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Speaker 1: you know, it made me get on the road at
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Speaker 1: ninety five and go get my work in, you know,
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Speaker 1: along those line track. You were on the field a
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Speaker 1: lot over the second half of the season. You took
15:20
Speaker 1: a big step forward from your first year to your
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Speaker 1: second year. Talk about this scheme, this three fourth scheme
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Speaker 1: that you played in. We've heard that perhaps if Mike
15:29
Speaker 1: Coldwell is the defensive coordinator, that we're going to see
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Speaker 1: more of that. How do you see yourself in your
15:33
Speaker 1: career progressing here as you go to your three Honestly,
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Speaker 1: I just continue to do what I know how to do,
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Speaker 1: man and get better at the things that I'm not,
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Speaker 1: you know, where I want to be at, and that
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Speaker 1: by itself will give me the opportunity to continue to
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Speaker 1: you know, push up for and propel myself to be
15:49
Speaker 1: a great linebacker, you know in his defense. You know,
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Speaker 1: the schemes may change, you know, but the players are
15:56
Speaker 1: are the players, and I take great pride in that.
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Speaker 1: So just being available and ready to learn and play
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Speaker 1: the game in which I know how to play the game,
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Speaker 1: I'm just very excited, you know, for the opportunity to play,
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Speaker 1: you know, underneath the staff and have the stability to
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Speaker 1: really you know, find my home in any defensive scheme
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Speaker 1: that we play. You know, but I have great, great
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Speaker 1: dreams about what's on the cusp for us as a defense. Ah,
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Speaker 1: you mentioned stability. I haven't had a lot. It's your
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Speaker 1: third head coach, third coordinator. How do you approach that? Um?
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Speaker 1: I guess how do you approach that? That's gotta be difficult. Um,
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Speaker 1: it is difficult, you know, going through going through you know,
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Speaker 1: these first couple of years. But it's life though, you know,
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Speaker 1: and you don't get to choose, you know. I think
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Speaker 1: it's a blessing that I get to do this. So
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Speaker 1: at any point, you know, um, most of us, I
16:46
Speaker 1: keep reminding the gods on the team that we went
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Speaker 1: through harder things and I adolescents just to get here.
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Speaker 1: So this, you know, rolling with the punches is merely
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Speaker 1: just our job, you know. So thinking about it like that,
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Speaker 1: I just can't help but be excited for what's on
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Speaker 1: the cuss for all of us. Man. I think if
16:59
Speaker 1: we I'll shore you're ready to work, ready to put
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Speaker 1: in a good, honest effort. Man, without you know, as
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Speaker 1: many or at least distractions as possible, we're gonna be successful.
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Speaker 1: We're going to be successful. So I can't nothing really
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Speaker 1: changed my mind on that set very true. Love to
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Speaker 1: hear it. Shack Quarterman, thank you so much for joining
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Speaker 1: us this morning. Enjoy Miami train hard and we'll see
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Speaker 1: you back here in Jacksonville. Yes man, thank you for
17:22
Speaker 1: having go Jay. Thanks jobs absolutely when we come back
17:26
Speaker 1: on Jaguars Drive Time and inside, look at this reported
17:29
Speaker 1: coaching staff coming soon here to Jacksonville. Stay with us
17:32
Speaker 1: on Jaguars Drive Time. Staff is important, you know, and
17:51
Speaker 1: it's it's I I love guys that are high, high
17:54
Speaker 1: energy guys, you know, because I'm gonna be that way
17:56
Speaker 1: on the field. Um and and guys that are a
17:59
Speaker 1: great teachers, great communicators, and you know, it doesn't always
18:02
Speaker 1: have to be your your best friend or you know,
18:05
Speaker 1: because there's some great coaches out there, and there's some
18:07
Speaker 1: there's some some guys that that it's just unfortunate. But
18:11
Speaker 1: there's only just so many spots right on the coaching
18:14
Speaker 1: staff and and there you could fill them with with
18:16
Speaker 1: a lot of good coaches. And and at the end
18:18
Speaker 1: of the day, I get the decision to make to
18:21
Speaker 1: make that choice, and and and through communication and again
18:24
Speaker 1: our our process here and that's why I want to
18:26
Speaker 1: surround myself with and and it's still in the You know,
18:29
Speaker 1: it's an ongoing process right now. Nothing nothing is set,
18:32
Speaker 1: nothing has been established, and I'm gonna be working on
18:35
Speaker 1: that here in the coming days. Head coach Doug Peterson
18:38
Speaker 1: working hard to get a coaching staff together. We expect
18:41
Speaker 1: that to be finalized late this week early next week.
18:44
Speaker 1: But lots of reported names going on. So we're gonna
18:46
Speaker 1: go over the big three if you will this report.
18:49
Speaker 1: It's not finalized, but we believe this will become final
18:52
Speaker 1: at some point this week. Let's go to Press Taylor,
18:55
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, senior offensive assistant with the Colts quarterback coach
18:59
Speaker 1: with the goes under Peterson called the Philly Special. That's
19:03
Speaker 1: enough for you. What do we think about this guy? Um? Well,
19:06
Speaker 1: he obviously has a strong connection to Doug. I picked
19:08
Speaker 1: up the phone and called a friend of mine who
19:10
Speaker 1: was on that staff in Philadelphia and started asking about
19:13
Speaker 1: guys that but he thought might come to Jacksonville. That
19:16
Speaker 1: was the first name he mentioned, right, He said, Press
19:19
Speaker 1: Taylor is gonna be your offensive cordinador. So I mean
19:22
Speaker 1: that tells you no more what they think. It was
19:24
Speaker 1: almost like Doug going, yeah, I'm really confident in getting
19:27
Speaker 1: my staff together. It was that much confidence in who
19:29
Speaker 1: this well and he knew and a lot of hiring
19:34
Speaker 1: your first coaching staff for the new organization is guys
19:38
Speaker 1: you know you can get who are available because it
19:41
Speaker 1: it's tough for somebody who's a coordinator somewhere to move.
19:45
Speaker 1: So I'm sure that he knew Press Taylor was there.
19:49
Speaker 1: There is a strong connection. He is a young guy,
19:52
Speaker 1: he has not been a play caller, but he needs
19:54
Speaker 1: that first shot to become that. Uh, the synergy there
19:57
Speaker 1: with those two, it makes perfect sense to me that
20:00
Speaker 1: if you're a play calling head coach that you would
20:03
Speaker 1: go with somebody you know because you're going to depend
20:06
Speaker 1: on them very much. You want to make sure that
20:08
Speaker 1: game play each Sunday. But you'll be involved with but
20:10
Speaker 1: you won't be as immersed in it as if you're
20:12
Speaker 1: the coordinator. You need to be of like mind and
20:15
Speaker 1: almost the same mind. And I'm sure Press Taylor and
20:18
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson, I'm sure they disagree at times, but they
20:23
Speaker 1: have spoken the same language. If you will for it
20:25
Speaker 1: or nine years on, this thing makes perfect sense. It
20:27
Speaker 1: is and I love when he said at the sound
20:29
Speaker 1: we heard coming back, where he said they don't have
20:30
Speaker 1: to be your best friend. That's so true. But it
20:32
Speaker 1: seems like he's just so comfortable with the guys he
20:35
Speaker 1: has that he's not really taken any chances with this. Well,
20:37
Speaker 1: he's a youthful rising coach too. I mean you think
20:40
Speaker 1: he's in his early thirties. Zack Taylor's brothers, so we
20:43
Speaker 1: obviously has those kinds of conversations about plays and designs.
20:49
Speaker 1: He is an interesting guy to come in and do
20:51
Speaker 1: it and exciting. A storyline will be look at the
20:54
Speaker 1: defense in a minute, because this uh plays into it.
20:56
Speaker 1: It's a young staff in terms of experience. Now, defensive
20:59
Speaker 1: coording nator Mike called, well, if he's the guy has
21:02
Speaker 1: not been a coordinator, this is Press Taylor's first shot
21:04
Speaker 1: and it's a young offensive line coach. That will be
21:07
Speaker 1: a theme. Uh, Doug's going with the guys he believes in.
21:11
Speaker 1: So we'll get to my called well, yes we will.
21:13
Speaker 1: The reported defensive coordinator position bucks and sidelinebackers coach, teammate
21:18
Speaker 1: and assistant with the ego. So been with Doug Peterson
21:20
Speaker 1: a very long time in fourteen years as a defensive assistant.
21:25
Speaker 1: So relatively young, but but he has that experience. He
21:27
Speaker 1: played a number of years too, and I remember him
21:29
Speaker 1: as a player, especially with the Baltimore Ravens on some
21:32
Speaker 1: excellent defenses. And he was just most recently with Todd Bowles.
21:36
Speaker 1: So he brings the experience of playing the game and
21:38
Speaker 1: of recently coaching with one of the hot defensive coordinators
21:41
Speaker 1: in football. So, uh, it's an important position because if
21:45
Speaker 1: it holds to form from Philly, the defensive coordinator has
21:49
Speaker 1: a lot of autonomy because Doug is very involved in
21:51
Speaker 1: the entrance. Yeah, you like the fact that he's been
21:54
Speaker 1: around Todd Bowls. Todd bowl is one of the best
21:56
Speaker 1: defensive minds going right now. It certainly seems like they're
21:59
Speaker 1: gonna stick to it. Three four. Doug Peterson alluded to
22:02
Speaker 1: that at the at the intro pressor. I'm all for
22:05
Speaker 1: the young guy without the background. Man, let's say background,
22:11
Speaker 1: but without the coordinating experience, because these guys need shots,
22:14
Speaker 1: and you don't know if a guy can do it
22:16
Speaker 1: until he gets a shot. So I like the approach. Uh,
22:19
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a storyline it Well, what was so
22:21
Speaker 1: telling it was the Buccaneers postgame availability and Devin White
22:25
Speaker 1: spoke so highly as well as Bruce Arians. But give
22:27
Speaker 1: this guy a shot, and when you hear coaches and
22:29
Speaker 1: players speak so highly of something like that, you know
22:32
Speaker 1: it's a good pick. Absolutely. All right, let's go to
22:34
Speaker 1: our last one. Quarterback coach Reportedly Mike McCoy, former Chargers coach,
22:38
Speaker 1: roommate with Doug Peterson back in the playing days, so
22:42
Speaker 1: they go way way back. Cardinals offensive coordinator back in
22:45
Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen, has taken a little break from football.
22:48
Speaker 1: But but this one's really interesting. Well, this one makes
22:50
Speaker 1: a lot of sense if you're gonna have a young,
22:52
Speaker 1: inexperienced staff, right to have a guy that not only
22:55
Speaker 1: was he the head coach of the Charges, but remember
22:56
Speaker 1: he was the offensive coordinator in Denver and Peyton Manning
23:00
Speaker 1: first arrived. So you've got a guy who's done it
23:03
Speaker 1: that Doug can lean on, that Trevor can lean on.
23:07
Speaker 1: But we've heard the name Jim Bob Cooter is a
23:08
Speaker 1: potential guy for the passing game coordinator. There's another guy
23:11
Speaker 1: who's done it before, you know, been a coordinator. So
23:14
Speaker 1: it's a young staff, but Doug surrounding himself with some
23:17
Speaker 1: experience that he can lean on as well. This one
23:19
Speaker 1: makes perfect sense, if only because of the Peyton man
23:22
Speaker 1: in connection because the things he did helping Peyton later
23:25
Speaker 1: in his career. There's a Peyton Manning there. Uh uh.
23:29
Speaker 1: Connection with Jim Bob Cooter as well, when Jim Bob
23:31
Speaker 1: was really young starting out with the Colt. This one
23:33
Speaker 1: makes perfect sense. He's the only former head coach on
23:37
Speaker 1: the staff. You need that, You frankly need a guy
23:41
Speaker 1: who can be there in this COVID situation. Uh. If
23:45
Speaker 1: the head coach can't be there, and I'm making assumptions
23:49
Speaker 1: that Mike would probably step in and be that guy,
23:51
Speaker 1: or at least could, it's fair. It's important to have
23:54
Speaker 1: at least one person there as a head coach who's
23:58
Speaker 1: done it before. Where shod Con talked during the presser
24:01
Speaker 1: about more brain power, Well, Mike McCoy is a guy
24:04
Speaker 1: that Doug Peterson can go to and say, Hey, when
24:06
Speaker 1: you were doing this, how did you handle it. Doug
24:09
Speaker 1: doesn't need that necessarily, but I'm sure that conversation will
24:11
Speaker 1: take place at some point. Well, Doug had last year off,
24:14
Speaker 1: but it didn't mean that, he said. Still, he talked
24:15
Speaker 1: about visiting camps, he talked about talking to guys around
24:18
Speaker 1: the league, and he knew he was going to get
24:20
Speaker 1: back into coaching. So this is this isn't a all right,
24:22
Speaker 1: let's go, it's the plan is already in place. He
24:25
Speaker 1: has been thinking about this since last year. Yeah, and
24:29
Speaker 1: it's no secret with the interview process, and it's taking
24:31
Speaker 1: some time those weeks when Doug Peterson had his first
24:34
Speaker 1: interview to a second interview, picking up the phone, making calls,
24:37
Speaker 1: putting feelers out there. They're waiting to make the whole
24:39
Speaker 1: statement of the coaching staff. So there are some pieces
24:42
Speaker 1: in place. They're just waiting for those final pieces. So
24:45
Speaker 1: an announcement coming soon, we hope. I would anticipate it soon, Yes,
24:49
Speaker 1: very soon, possibly late this week, early next week. We'll
24:52
Speaker 1: wait and see here on Jaguars dot com when we
24:54
Speaker 1: come back on Jaguars Drive Times. Some closing thoughts about
24:57
Speaker 1: Tony Baselli. This is a sick year and you get
25:16
Speaker 1: the phone call say you're not in and you're like, okay,
25:18
Speaker 1: well maybe next year, and everyone else is crying. They're going,
25:21
Speaker 1: who's supposed to be sad here? And I'll be honest
25:24
Speaker 1: with you, if I could, uh, I wouldn't trade it
25:27
Speaker 1: how this works, because there's no one else I'd rather
25:29
Speaker 1: knock on the door. You know, the guy I looked
25:31
Speaker 1: up to and who I think is the greatest to
25:33
Speaker 1: ever play the game at the position I played. We
25:36
Speaker 1: went to school together and I remember when people used
25:40
Speaker 1: to compare me to him, and I'm like, well that's nice,
25:43
Speaker 1: but I think he's better than I am. Uh, Steve.
25:45
Speaker 1: My only regret is, you know, my dad passed away
25:48
Speaker 1: uh last year, so I was hoping last year would
25:50
Speaker 1: have been so he could have done it been a
25:53
Speaker 1: part of it, um. But I know he's uh in
25:56
Speaker 1: heaven watching down smiling right now, So that would be
25:59
Speaker 1: my only regret. Than that, I wouldn't change anything. Incredible
26:03
Speaker 1: moment for Tony Boselli and his family Anti Munos there
26:07
Speaker 1: as well. It was such an awesome week. And if
26:09
Speaker 1: you know anything about Tony, he talks about his kids nonstops,
26:13
Speaker 1: so I love that they were a part about it.
26:14
Speaker 1: I do too. Here's what I'm We're gonna hear a
26:17
Speaker 1: lot of stories. It would be a lot of stories
26:18
Speaker 1: told about Tony Basselli. There was a four year period
26:21
Speaker 1: from two thousand two when they put him um into
26:24
Speaker 1: the expansion pool until two thousand and six when he
26:26
Speaker 1: when he reconnected with the Jaguars and Mr Weaver where
26:30
Speaker 1: he was in Texas and Tennessee. I can't wait to
26:32
Speaker 1: talk about those years where he was away from the
26:34
Speaker 1: franchise um because I think it's going to lead to
26:37
Speaker 1: the reunion, which I think is an amazing story that
26:40
Speaker 1: people haven't told yet. It's there's a great story in
26:43
Speaker 1: there of adversity and reunion. Yeah. And the one thing
26:47
Speaker 1: he did say later that he did regret to was
26:50
Speaker 1: that he didn't get to play more football and he
26:52
Speaker 1: really had his career taken away from him and he
26:54
Speaker 1: played seven years not nearly enough time. Uh. We've talked
26:58
Speaker 1: a lot about how that hurt him. For the Hall
26:59
Speaker 1: of Fame, I've talked to him before about just you know,
27:04
Speaker 1: got taken away from him what he loved to do.
27:08
Speaker 1: That's why I was so happy for him for the Hall. Uh.
27:11
Speaker 1: He didn't get those last six or seven years of
27:14
Speaker 1: his career that he should have. Good for him that
27:17
Speaker 1: he got this moment. And as much as I teased Tony,
27:20
Speaker 1: I love that this happened. I didn't have to take
27:22
Speaker 1: this long because he looked the part of a Hall
27:24
Speaker 1: of Fame or the day he stepped on the field. Yep,
27:26
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