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- 0:03Speaker 1: It is Thursday, May fifteenth. This is Jaguars Happy Hours.
- 0:11Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour is brought to you by dream Finders
- 0:15Speaker 1: Homes and now a guy who doesn't have the brain
- 0:19Speaker 1: of Albert Einstein, but did get the looks of his brother,
- 0:23Speaker 1: Frank Japha.
- 0:27Speaker 2: And welcome in.
- 0:28Speaker 3: It is Jaguars Happy Hour on this Thursday. Busy hour ahead,
- 0:33Speaker 3: busy week in the NFL. The schedule has been announced officially.
- 0:38Speaker 3: NFLVP of Scheduling Mike North we visited earlier today. We'll
- 0:42Speaker 3: have part of that conversation coming up shortly. They get
- 0:46Speaker 3: an idea of how the sausage is made in the
- 0:49Speaker 3: New York offices on Park Avenue. He'll break it all
- 0:52Speaker 3: down for us. We'll go ahead to OTA's next week
- 0:56Speaker 3: and yes, we'll go through the Jaguars schedule coming up.
- 0:58Speaker 3: Jaguars Happy Hour prison sented by dream Pinders Homes, official
- 1:01Speaker 3: homebuilder of the Jacksonville Jaguars ten ten XL Jaguars dot Com,
- 1:06Speaker 3: Jaguars YouTube each and every Thursday, JP Shadwick, Jeff Logoman.
- 1:11Speaker 3: Today we begin the show though with Kay Nannie Stevens
- 1:13Speaker 3: and studio with us.
- 1:14Speaker 4: Thank you, gentlemen, Hi Kai Hi, how are we?
- 1:17Speaker 2: Oh we are, I'm well. Are you well? I'm great? Hi,
- 1:20Speaker 2: log great, great to have you.
- 1:21Speaker 4: Oh, thank you. Thank We got Jeff off the canoe
- 1:24Speaker 4: off fishing in for the day.
- 1:25Speaker 2: So that's all I do for a little bit, a
- 1:28Speaker 2: little bit. It's that Timm, you know I did. I
- 1:30Speaker 2: haven't fish yet this week, last week three days and
- 1:34Speaker 2: this week. Uh, a little tractor work this week. Gotta
- 1:38Speaker 2: take care of business. Gotta gotta do it.
- 1:41Speaker 3: Doesn't do itself, No, nope, I'll be great, JP.
- 1:45Speaker 2: If you would learn how to drive a tractor, I
- 1:46Speaker 2: could use your help. I mean, I can be persuaded financially.
- 1:51Speaker 4: You got the cowboy boots, you can do it.
- 1:53Speaker 2: Yeah, I can be persuaded financial.
- 1:55Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:55Speaker 2: And a nice thing is that we would actually put
- 1:57Speaker 2: some scuffs on those boots. You know, they would be
- 2:00Speaker 2: so pretty. Oh man, yeah, get some dirtle. Yeah, that's
- 2:04Speaker 2: a song, well, dirt of my boots. That's a song
- 2:07Speaker 2: for a party. Right. If it's not, I think so,
- 2:11Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 2:13Speaker 3: Hey, schedules out. We've got plenty to get to around that,
- 2:16Speaker 3: and we'll go through it. Let's go through it, Let's
- 2:19Speaker 3: go through it. Yeah, I'm ready we can pick wins
- 2:22Speaker 3: and losses right here. I know you love how to
- 2:23Speaker 3: do that. Oh, that's right up your alley.
- 2:26Speaker 2: Wins and losses. Are we going to start with the preseason? No? No,
- 2:29Speaker 2: not at all negative.
- 2:30Speaker 3: A Week one Jaguars at home against Carolina, Week two
- 2:35Speaker 3: at the Bengals, Week three home against the Houston Texans,
- 2:39Speaker 3: Week four at San Francisco, and then week five Monday
- 2:42Speaker 3: night football at home against the Kansas City chief That
- 2:47Speaker 3: I like that.
- 2:48Speaker 2: I like that schedule. It's not easy.
- 2:50Speaker 3: It's right out of the gate challenging, so you better
- 2:53Speaker 3: be ready to rock and roll. And I think you
- 2:55Speaker 3: got to get that first game against a team that's
- 2:57Speaker 3: been struggling in the Carolina answers and they have a
- 3:01Speaker 3: lot of question marks still what quarterback?
- 3:03Speaker 2: You know? And Dave Canallis is trying to work his
- 3:05Speaker 2: magic with a young man, but I don't know if
- 3:08Speaker 2: it's really kind of hitting home yet.
- 3:11Speaker 4: There's a lot of missing parts, so I mean, there's
- 3:13Speaker 4: a lot going on in Carolina. So I think that
- 3:15Speaker 4: definitely didn't help him to come into that situation there.
- 3:19Speaker 4: So I think he stabilized the little Bryce Young stabilized
- 3:22Speaker 4: little bit the back end of last season, so I
- 3:23Speaker 4: don't exactly know what to expect, but in my mind,
- 3:26Speaker 4: that's a must win game. When you look at the
- 3:27Speaker 4: rest of those first five games. If you don't win that,
- 3:30Speaker 4: that's a big a problem to me because I would
- 3:33Speaker 4: like I looked at the schedule, I see this and
- 3:36Speaker 4: there's another section I don't know, second or third section
- 3:39Speaker 4: that are probably the most difficult. So to me, if
- 3:42Speaker 4: you can get out of that, even two and three
- 3:45Speaker 4: would be fine. Three and two would be ecstatic because
- 3:49Speaker 4: this is the toughest. To me, this was the most
- 3:51Speaker 4: difficult section. I feel like there's we'll get to the
- 3:54Speaker 4: end of the schedule, but I feel like with the
- 3:56Speaker 4: more division games at the end, that gives you an
- 3:57Speaker 4: opportunity if you can stay afloat to that point.
- 4:00Speaker 3: Questions questions around Bryce Young with the next four and
- 4:03Speaker 3: that I'll have quarterbacks in place, and certainly well high
- 4:07Speaker 3: end quarterbacks.
- 4:08Speaker 2: Well, I mean with Carolina, it all starts at the top.
- 4:11Speaker 2: I mean ownerships of mess I mean that's been an
- 4:14Speaker 2: issue ongoing in Carolina for a number of years now. Look,
- 4:20Speaker 2: everybody's kind of pumping up Houston. I don't get it.
- 4:24Speaker 2: They won the division. Yeah, no. I know they won
- 4:26Speaker 2: the division, and trust me, I'm a huge CJ. Stroud fan,
- 4:31Speaker 2: but their offensive line is still a huge question mark.
- 4:34Speaker 2: I mean a huge question mark. And it's not like
- 4:37Speaker 2: they finished out last year just rolling downhill through the division, right,
- 4:43Speaker 2: I mean, it was kind of like everybody else was
- 4:45Speaker 2: so bad.
- 4:46Speaker 4: It wasn't any competition.
- 4:48Speaker 2: They were the only team that was just halfway decent.
- 4:51Speaker 4: Sure, So I think that's a great opportunity. I think
- 4:53Speaker 4: to get a divisional win in Week three, if you
- 4:56Speaker 4: can beat the Panthers at two and one, and then
- 4:57Speaker 4: I feel like, like I said, two and three out
- 4:59Speaker 4: of five of the first five, I would be well.
- 5:01Speaker 2: And Cincinnati doesn't start very well. I mean, when's the
- 5:04Speaker 2: last time Cincinnati started a season out fast? That's a
- 5:07Speaker 2: good question. They have not been out of the gate.
- 5:11Speaker 4: And here's the other issue, and their defense is bad
- 5:13Speaker 4: and they got Trey Hendrickson holding out well.
- 5:16Speaker 2: When you go from one organization that has issues at
- 5:20Speaker 2: the top with Carolina Panthers and temper and look Cincinnati's
- 5:25Speaker 2: you know, they open up the wall and a little bit,
- 5:29Speaker 2: but now they've tightened it back up again and now
- 5:31Speaker 2: they've got some issues going on. You know, I think
- 5:36Speaker 2: it's a great opportunity to get them.
- 5:37Speaker 3: Let's move along after that five game stretch to begin.
- 5:41Speaker 3: The Jaguars are at home against the Seattle Seahawks in
- 5:44Speaker 3: Week six. Then it's over to London under the Arch
- 5:46Speaker 3: at Wembley against the LA Rams. There'll be plenty of
- 5:49Speaker 3: storylines between the front offices there. Of course, bye week
- 5:53Speaker 3: is week eight, and then the cocktail party week is
- 5:56Speaker 3: Week nine Florida Georgia games, so the Jaguars are on
- 5:59Speaker 3: the road at the Vegas Raiders. Week ten, the Houston
- 6:04Speaker 3: Texans hosts the Jaguars down to NRG Stadium Kai And
- 6:07Speaker 3: you know, the one that sticks out here is London
- 6:09Speaker 3: and LA and Gladstone and Cohen revenge game and all
- 6:12Speaker 3: the storylines that'll come.
- 6:13Speaker 2: Around that one.
- 6:14Speaker 4: Sure, I mean, that's self explanatory. Obviously they worked there before.
- 6:18Speaker 4: They're kind of trying to build their version of what
- 6:20Speaker 4: they've taken from the Rams organization here in Jacksonville. It's
- 6:23Speaker 4: also the first time we've seen the bye after the
- 6:26Speaker 4: London game because the previous coaching staff and administration didn't
- 6:29Speaker 4: like to use it. Then they like to push it
- 6:30Speaker 4: later in the season, so now we'll see the bye
- 6:32Speaker 4: week right after the London trip. It's only one game
- 6:35Speaker 4: in London this year instead of the two games we've
- 6:36Speaker 4: done the last couple of years, so that's a little
- 6:39Speaker 4: bit different as well. I mean you have to I
- 6:41Speaker 4: feel like just the consistency we've had in London recently,
- 6:44Speaker 4: so in terms of just being comfortable doing the trip,
- 6:48Speaker 4: that might play some advantage. Obviously, going from LA to London,
- 6:51Speaker 4: it's along a trip, so that could be helpful. But yeah,
- 6:54Speaker 4: and then a couple of those West Coast trips, they
- 6:57Speaker 4: spread them out pretty evenly throughout the season, which was
- 7:00Speaker 4: nice to see because they were going to make four
- 7:01Speaker 4: trips to the West Coast this year, so we spread out.
- 7:04Speaker 2: The Rams game is going to have so many different storylines.
- 7:07Speaker 2: It's I think it's going to be fantastic, you know,
- 7:09Speaker 2: and uh, I think it will draw a lot of
- 7:11Speaker 2: attention from around the league. So that's good for this
- 7:15Speaker 2: football team.
- 7:16Speaker 4: Uh.
- 7:16Speaker 2: Going back the week before that with the Seattle Seahawks,
- 7:20Speaker 2: I'm not scared of their quarterback. I mean, look, I
- 7:23Speaker 2: don't even know if they're that good of a football team.
- 7:26Speaker 1: Really, that's a.
- 7:27Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's one of the ones where I'm
- 7:28Speaker 4: not really sure what you're gonna get when they get here,
- 7:30Speaker 4: so that in that way it makes it winnable because
- 7:34Speaker 4: you don't really know what it's going to be.
- 7:35Speaker 2: So at Vegas fantastic. I'm kind of excited because we
- 7:39Speaker 2: found a really good steakhouse.
- 7:40Speaker 4: They'll get an extra day, probably because it's Florida, George.
- 7:45Speaker 2: That's that's what else a really good steakhouse. So we
- 7:48Speaker 2: have two different steaks. Yeah, so probably we'll have a
- 7:51Speaker 2: steak there. At Houston is always a good trip. And uh, look, CJ.
- 7:57Speaker 2: Strout again, the kind of weird thing is is that
- 7:59Speaker 2: you will have already have played Houston twice and you
- 8:03Speaker 2: have yet to face either of the division other of
- 8:06Speaker 2: the Division O ponents. Crazy, which is kind of wild, right,
- 8:09Speaker 2: I mean, you've played Houston twice, you haven't even played
- 8:12Speaker 2: Indy or Tennessee yet.
- 8:14Speaker 4: I think this is a JP. We were talking about
- 8:16Speaker 4: this the other day. This is the latest in the
- 8:17Speaker 4: season it'll be until they've played at least one of
- 8:20Speaker 4: the divisional opponents at this point, because I don't think
- 8:23Speaker 4: we play Indianapolis until pretty late, so it'll take a
- 8:26Speaker 4: while to get to that point. But that very much
- 8:27Speaker 4: backloaded at the end with divisional games.
- 8:29Speaker 2: I wish you could get Indianapolis early though, you know
- 8:32Speaker 2: what I mean? Yeah, who's going to play quarterbacks? Right?
- 8:36Speaker 2: You know you don't want to? And maybe it's not
- 8:39Speaker 2: such a bad thing. I mean maybe once you get
- 8:42Speaker 2: to the latter part of the season, they'll be going
- 8:43Speaker 2: back and forth from one quarterback to the other and
- 8:46Speaker 2: then it'll be a total show. See you know what
- 8:48Speaker 2: I mean. I like that, you know kind of show
- 8:50Speaker 2: I'm talking about it. Yeah, yes, I'm aware, okay, just
- 8:54Speaker 2: making sure most are Jaguars happy. How we're going through
- 8:57Speaker 2: the Jaguars schedule.
- 8:58Speaker 3: Kay Stevens Jeff log, but I'm JP Shadrick on ten
- 9:01Speaker 3: Xljaguars dot Com and Jaguars YouTube. We move along now
- 9:04Speaker 3: as the schedule continues in November. Week eleven, November sixteenth,
- 9:10Speaker 3: home against the La Chargers, it's a one o'clock kickoff time,
- 9:13Speaker 3: that's ten am West Coast time. And then week twelve
- 9:17Speaker 3: at the Arizona Cardinals, Week thirteen at the Tennessee Titans,
- 9:23Speaker 3: Week fourteen back home against the Indianapolis Colts, and here
- 9:27Speaker 3: we go as we get into the holidays.
- 9:30Speaker 2: So Nita Steakhouse recommendation for Arizona.
- 9:34Speaker 4: Okay, I still have something.
- 9:37Speaker 2: Twenty in Glendale. Love going to Nashville at the end
- 9:41Speaker 2: of November. That's great.
- 9:42Speaker 4: Finally not January.
- 9:44Speaker 2: The weather's fantastic. The leaves are in full change. That's
- 9:48Speaker 2: lovely and it feels like football. I'm excited for you.
- 9:53Speaker 2: It's you know, you got that crisp kind of cool
- 9:56Speaker 2: air at the latter part of November. That's a could
- 10:00Speaker 2: have couldn't have timed that trip up any better. That's
- 10:03Speaker 2: a Thanksgiving weekend by the way, Yes, Saturday, thanks.
- 10:06Speaker 4: It'll post Turkey win in Nashville. Be nice. Beat the time.
- 10:09Speaker 2: Oh yeah, beat it. I'll be I'll be like ten
- 10:12Speaker 2: pounds overweight and then looking for another steak.
- 10:15Speaker 4: And then follow it up.
- 10:18Speaker 3: Let's go down the stretch now, the final few weeks
- 10:21Speaker 3: of the season. Week fifteen home against the New York Jets,
- 10:24Speaker 3: and then Week sixteen at the Denver Broncos Mountain time
- 10:28Speaker 3: Zone game four h five Eastern kickoff, and then at
- 10:31Speaker 3: week seventeen at the Colts, and then Week eighteen, final
- 10:36Speaker 3: week of the season. They always wait to schedule. All
- 10:38Speaker 3: these games will be two scheduled on Saturday, and then
- 10:41Speaker 3: the remaining games will be on Sunday and two different
- 10:44Speaker 3: two windows, and then a primetime ultimate game on Week eighteen,
- 10:49Speaker 3: no times or dates yet against the Titans here at
- 10:52Speaker 3: home to wrap it up.
- 10:53Speaker 2: Kai.
- 10:54Speaker 4: Yeah, so weeks thirteen and fourteen, those are Colts and
- 10:57Speaker 4: Titans as well. So for the last six or AFC
- 11:00Speaker 4: South games, they're all AFC games, so they all will
- 11:03Speaker 4: impact if you're in the playoff positioning point if we're
- 11:06Speaker 4: thinking about that at that point in the season, that
- 11:08Speaker 4: will be affected by that. For me personally, in terms
- 11:11Speaker 4: of scheduled games, I think that that Broncos game is
- 11:14Speaker 4: really intriguing to me. I just think on the road,
- 11:15Speaker 4: that's a cool environment. Obviously they had a great and
- 11:19Speaker 4: ending into the playoffs for their last season. John Payton coach,
- 11:23Speaker 4: like I just think that's that'll be a cool matchup
- 11:25Speaker 4: to see. That's something I'm looking forward to a little
- 11:28Speaker 4: bit later four PM game two, So maybe get a
- 11:30Speaker 4: couple more eyes on it, depending who's on at that time.
- 11:32Speaker 4: But if you put yourself in a position where you
- 11:36Speaker 4: don't get out of it early, this is about as
- 11:38Speaker 4: good as you could ask for. On the back end
- 11:40Speaker 4: of this, you will have opportunities within the AFC South.
- 11:45Speaker 4: And I think I said on our schedule show, last
- 11:47Speaker 4: time we had a new coach and you played the
- 11:48Speaker 4: Titans in the last game of season in Jacksonville, went
- 11:50Speaker 4: pretty well. So here's hoping.
- 11:54Speaker 2: First of all, I'm excited to have the road trip
- 11:57Speaker 2: to Denver. That's a great place.
- 11:59Speaker 4: I've never been to my high I'm very exciting.
- 12:00Speaker 2: And the weather could be an issue there in December as.
- 12:03Speaker 4: Well, there will be snow weather exactly snowing, we'll see.
- 12:07Speaker 2: But I love I mean, that's a great football place.
- 12:09Speaker 2: I mean, look, great memories. They are obviously going back
- 12:13Speaker 2: to the early days. But the fan base there is
- 12:17Speaker 2: really into it. It's a great environment. They've got a
- 12:21Speaker 2: good football team. They're excited about their team, they're excited
- 12:24Speaker 2: about their coach, and that's going to be a great environment.
- 12:27Speaker 2: And I think when you travel and you get on
- 12:30Speaker 2: the road, you know, from a lot of fans standpoint
- 12:33Speaker 2: and from my standpoint, first of all, you want to
- 12:35Speaker 2: you want to have a great environment to be able
- 12:37Speaker 2: to enjoy calling games or whatever. But the competition when
- 12:41Speaker 2: it's ratcheted up, and then the environment and then the
- 12:44Speaker 2: team's expectations are high. I mean, it just makes for
- 12:47Speaker 2: a lot of great things to happen on those certain
- 12:50Speaker 2: games like that and Denver I think is a great environment.
- 12:54Speaker 2: I think the Vegas Raiders is. I think the environment
- 12:57Speaker 2: there's going to be even better. I mean, you've got
- 13:00Speaker 2: a quarterback who's going to give them some capable play.
- 13:03Speaker 2: They got a new head coach, an excitement level that
- 13:06Speaker 2: hasn't been around that organization in a number of years
- 13:09Speaker 2: with Pete Carroll. So I like this schedule, and it's
- 13:13Speaker 2: I think it's that you don't have, like Ky you
- 13:15Speaker 2: were talking about, any long road trips to where you
- 13:19Speaker 2: got you know, one after another after another. They're all
- 13:21Speaker 2: kind of spread out. So yeah, I like this schedule.
- 13:24Speaker 2: I mean from a if you're looking at it from
- 13:26Speaker 2: a football standpoint, if you're coach Liam Cohene and you're
- 13:29Speaker 2: looking at the schedule, you're going, yeah, this this is good.
- 13:33Speaker 2: This is an okay schedule.
- 13:34Speaker 3: There's nothing here that looks, you know where it's going
- 13:37Speaker 3: to be super challenging. I think it's a good schedule overall.
- 13:41Speaker 3: And you know, the flex game goes later in the year.
- 13:44Speaker 3: I mean, if you're playing better, if you're in the hunt.
- 13:47Speaker 3: There's always that possibility.
- 13:48Speaker 2: As well in a night game. Yeah, yeah, it would
- 13:52Speaker 2: be good. You can play. You might get you might
- 13:54Speaker 2: get one. So what's the what's the record? Looks? Oh
- 13:59Speaker 2: want to pick them? Let's go. I mean, JP, we
- 14:01Speaker 2: don't even know what this defense and this offense is.
- 14:04Speaker 2: And you're asking me. I'm here every day, I'm asking
- 14:07Speaker 2: you the record. I don't know, I have no clue.
- 14:09Speaker 2: Let me let me look at.
- 14:14Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 14:15Speaker 2: I think. I mean with my till.
- 14:16Speaker 3: Colored glasses, I mean, ten to eleven wins, you're going
- 14:19Speaker 3: to win the division.
- 14:19Speaker 2: I think should absolutely.
- 14:21Speaker 4: I think that's all it would take to win the division.
- 14:23Speaker 2: Ten ten, ten probably will win it.
- 14:25Speaker 4: Ten will win it, and a lot of it is.
- 14:28Speaker 4: I think if you go two and three, three and two,
- 14:31Speaker 4: I think you can do that.
- 14:32Speaker 2: In the beginning, Yeah, you got to begin.
- 14:34Speaker 3: The beginning.
- 14:34Speaker 4: Is the beginning is everything to me.
- 14:36Speaker 3: Yeah, before the buy you got to get out of
- 14:38Speaker 3: that with the chance, and then for the next five
- 14:40Speaker 3: after the buyer on the road, no matter the opponent,
- 14:43Speaker 3: they're away from here, then okay, you're coming back home.
- 14:46Speaker 4: You got a lock in, and that needs to be
- 14:48Speaker 4: majority wins, and you get.
- 14:49Speaker 3: A chance if you get to Thanksgiving with a chance.
- 14:51Speaker 3: Most every team thinks this way, right if you if
- 14:53Speaker 3: you're in the hunt and Thanksgiving, you got a real
- 14:56Speaker 3: chance to win the division.
- 14:57Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, I think when you're your mindset,
- 15:01Speaker 2: when when you're a player and when you're a coach
- 15:04Speaker 2: is look, just take it one game at a time,
- 15:07Speaker 2: the old cliche, right, and nobody wants to hear that,
- 15:10Speaker 2: But just take it one game at a time. Win
- 15:13Speaker 2: your home games, which has been a problem here. It's
- 15:16Speaker 2: been in most places, you know, because you always have
- 15:19Speaker 2: goals on the board when your when your division games,
- 15:22Speaker 2: when your home games, those are always at the top
- 15:24Speaker 2: of the list. And those two categories have been an
- 15:27Speaker 2: issue with this football team the last couple of years.
- 15:30Speaker 2: What's this team's record been at home the last two years?
- 15:33Speaker 2: Been terrible bad, not good? Been terrible, not good. You
- 15:38Speaker 2: change You got to change that. They try to blow
- 15:41Speaker 2: that one too ot as Monday.
- 15:44Speaker 4: Sure are I'm excited about We're gonna hear from a
- 15:47Speaker 4: head coach Trevor Lawrence will be speaking, I believe as well.
- 15:51Speaker 4: And you're a new offensive coordinator, Grant Edinski, cool offensive
- 15:54Speaker 4: side of football on Monday.
- 15:57Speaker 2: Check that out on Monday, and then you got Jags
- 16:00Speaker 2: a m jagsam.
- 16:01Speaker 4: Will recap all that on Tuesday, and then yeah, you're back.
- 16:06Speaker 4: You're back after that, the JP scheduled program Huddle.
- 16:09Speaker 2: Up on Wednesday and this show on Thursday. That's next.
- 16:13Speaker 2: I'm just glad they're finally hitting the field and doing
- 16:15Speaker 2: football stuff, you know. I mean, that's that's what kind
- 16:18Speaker 2: of gets you going for the whole the excitement level.
- 16:22Speaker 2: You know, the whole schedule release. They've kind of turned
- 16:24Speaker 2: that into a little bit of a circus show that
- 16:26Speaker 2: doesn't really exist, right.
- 16:30Speaker 3: Because I mean, you knew all the opponents, you just
- 16:32Speaker 3: didn't know how they were gonna end up being laid out.
- 16:34Speaker 3: But boy, everybody's talking about it at a time where
- 16:37Speaker 3: there's nothing no I know, that's why NHL playoffs going on.
- 16:40Speaker 2: Everybody's talking about this. That's why the league does what
- 16:43Speaker 2: they've done with the schedule release, you know. But the
- 16:46Speaker 2: whole like.
- 16:47Speaker 3: Leaking out a little bit here and a little bit there,
- 16:50Speaker 3: just put it out. I mean, it's I get a
- 16:53Speaker 3: little bit that it's a little tiring with the little leaks.
- 16:56Speaker 2: Then leading up to oh at eight o'clock. We're gonna
- 16:59Speaker 2: give it out.
- 17:00Speaker 4: Okay, Well, Jeffrey're trying to throw us off for you
- 17:02Speaker 4: the one leaking of information.
- 17:03Speaker 2: Yeah, you're the one. You're the leaker. No, I'm not
- 17:06Speaker 2: the leaker at all, trust me.
- 17:09Speaker 3: Kai, Thank you, thank you, thanks for hanging out with us.
- 17:12Speaker 2: Kay Stevens joining us Taguars reporter and that we're back.
- 17:15Speaker 3: In just a moment, we'll hear from Mike North, NFL
- 17:19Speaker 3: VP of Broadcast Planning and Scheduling. How is the sausage made?
- 17:24Speaker 3: We'll find out after this. It's Jaguars Happy Hour. Welcome back.
- 17:34Speaker 3: It's Jaguars Happy Hour and Jaguars Football is presented by
- 17:38Speaker 3: Fresh from Florida. It's always in season, JP Shadwick with
- 17:42Speaker 3: Jeff logman O. Thanks to Kai, Nannie Stevens joining us
- 17:45Speaker 3: in the Hyundai studios. We're inside the middle of Electric
- 17:48Speaker 3: Center to ten XL, Jaguars dot Com and Jaguars YouTube.
- 17:51Speaker 3: Jaguars Happy Hour continues. The NFL schedule fully announced last
- 17:57Speaker 3: night eight o'clock Eastern. There have been leaks all week long,
- 18:00Speaker 3: scheduled leaks in on unscheduled leaks, but throughout the week
- 18:05Speaker 3: and then finally the full announcement last night. Mike North
- 18:08Speaker 3: has been in the league office for nearly thirty years,
- 18:11Speaker 3: the NFL VP of Broadcast Planning and Scheduling, and most
- 18:15Speaker 3: of the time in the league in the broadcast department.
- 18:18Speaker 3: He gives us insight, as we caught up earlier today,
- 18:21Speaker 3: on how the schedule is created and some of the
- 18:23Speaker 3: musts that happened year to year when creating the NFL schedule.
- 18:29Speaker 6: Yeah, honestly, those haven't really changed much. I mean, it's
- 18:32Speaker 6: a very different process obviously than when you know, I
- 18:34Speaker 6: first started thirty years ago, and we used to sit
- 18:37Speaker 6: in the scheduling room with the peg board and Vow
- 18:39Speaker 6: Pinchbeck would hang the tags up one at a time. Obviously,
- 18:43Speaker 6: the computers are doing a million times faster what we
- 18:47Speaker 6: were doing over the course of fourteen weeks back then.
- 18:49Speaker 6: But the goal hasn't changed, right, Each of these games
- 18:53Speaker 6: are assets that belong not to us, but to our fans,
- 18:58Speaker 6: and we want to make sure that the games that
- 19:00Speaker 6: warrant the most attention, the must see TV games, are
- 19:03Speaker 6: in windows where our fans can get to them. So
- 19:06Speaker 6: we're not doing our jobs if we're putting the very
- 19:08Speaker 6: best games on you know, a Sunday afternoon at one
- 19:10Speaker 6: o'clock where it's surrounded by eight or nine other games,
- 19:13Speaker 6: and it might only be available in fourteen percent of
- 19:15Speaker 6: the country. So maximum viewership, maximum opportunity for our fans
- 19:19Speaker 6: to see the games they want to see, and obviously
- 19:22Speaker 6: the flip side of that is going to be competitive's
- 19:24Speaker 6: fairness to our clubs. You know, you could make the
- 19:27Speaker 6: perfect television schedule, and maybe the teams are going to
- 19:30Speaker 6: have to take the short straw. You can make perfect
- 19:33Speaker 6: team schedules, and maybe the television isn't as good as
- 19:35Speaker 6: you want. So somewhere in here is the balance. And
- 19:38Speaker 6: the whole job is to push the engagement, to reach
- 19:41Speaker 6: the viewership, the fan value quotion or whatever it is,
- 19:45Speaker 6: as high as you can and then maybe for a
- 19:48Speaker 6: slightly better schedule you're willing to take on slightly more
- 19:51Speaker 6: team pain, but not too much. There's a line we
- 19:54Speaker 6: shouldn't cross on the team competitive inequities, and just want
- 19:57Speaker 6: to make sure that even if we walk right up
- 19:59Speaker 6: to that line, we don't us over. So find that
- 20:01Speaker 6: balance between you know, fan friendliness, viewership and also competitive fairness.
- 20:07Speaker 3: Mike, a lot of Jaguars fans immediately look for primetime games.
- 20:12Speaker 3: There was a drought around here for a long time,
- 20:14Speaker 3: no Sunday night or Monday night games for I mean
- 20:16Speaker 3: a decade or so, at least in the Monday night
- 20:19Speaker 3: since that's changed the last couple of years. And of
- 20:22Speaker 3: course this time in Week five, the Kansas City Chiefs
- 20:25Speaker 3: come to town on Monday Night football. We know about
- 20:27Speaker 3: the Chiefs, obviously, but what was it about the matchup
- 20:30Speaker 3: with the Jaguars that made that a primetime worthy football game?
- 20:35Speaker 6: Yeah, like you said, the Jags have found themselves on
- 20:37Speaker 6: the national television schedule. Obviously didn't have the season they
- 20:39Speaker 6: hoped for last year. But you know, I think our
- 20:43Speaker 6: clubs get a mulligan. Right when the quarterback gets hurt
- 20:47Speaker 6: and the record isn't what you thought it was, It
- 20:49Speaker 6: doesn't necessarily mean you know the roster is falling apart.
- 20:52Speaker 6: You know, you have bad years. It happens. It happened
- 20:55Speaker 6: to San Francisco last year.
- 20:57Speaker 2: Right.
- 20:57Speaker 6: That's a team coming off a Super Bowl appearance that
- 20:59Speaker 6: we were counting on and had all over the national
- 21:01Speaker 6: television schedule down the stretch, and you know, they didn't
- 21:05Speaker 6: have the season they want. They're still well represented on
- 21:07Speaker 6: the national television schedule this year. So as we look
- 21:09Speaker 6: at the Jaguars schedule, you know, you always get that
- 21:11Speaker 6: one national television game in London, maybe more as we
- 21:15Speaker 6: move forward. And then you look at the roster of
- 21:19Speaker 6: opponents and you see a game like Kansas City, and
- 21:21Speaker 6: you know, every Kansas City Chiefs game is an event.
- 21:25Speaker 6: They can't play all of their primetime games at home
- 21:28Speaker 6: as much as coach Red would probably like to. So
- 21:31Speaker 6: which of the Kansas City Chiefs road games are worthy,
- 21:35Speaker 6: if you will, of a national television window. And it's
- 21:38Speaker 6: interesting we actually had k C Jacksonville penciled in before
- 21:43Speaker 6: the draft. And then when you know the organization makes
- 21:46Speaker 6: the move that it does aggressively to go get the
- 21:49Speaker 6: Heisman Trophy winner, I think fans are gonna be really
- 21:52Speaker 6: intrigued to see is he gonna play both ways? Can
- 21:55Speaker 6: he do it at this level? Can Trevor come back
- 21:57Speaker 6: and be healthy? Know, an opportunity for the team. You know,
- 22:02Speaker 6: maybe you start a little quieter relative to the national
- 22:06Speaker 6: television but then by about week four or five, wherever
- 22:08Speaker 6: that game fell, I think we had you on a
- 22:11Speaker 6: Monday night game in week three last year, I think
- 22:13Speaker 6: it's week five this year, so a couple of games
- 22:15Speaker 6: under your belt, that long trip out to San Francisco,
- 22:19Speaker 6: an extra day coming back from that long trip, and
- 22:23Speaker 6: then ready to welcome in the perennial Super Bowl contender
- 22:26Speaker 6: Kansas City Chiefs to the building. I think it's going
- 22:29Speaker 6: to be a lot of energy, a lot of fun
- 22:31Speaker 6: in the building. And I think I might even come
- 22:34Speaker 6: down and see it for myself and see if Tony
- 22:37Speaker 6: BISSELLI will take me golfing on Tuesday. I got the
- 22:39Speaker 6: time when if you win, But that was a game
- 22:41Speaker 6: we had earmark for Monday Night Football even before the draft,
- 22:43Speaker 6: and felt even better about it after the moves that
- 22:46Speaker 6: the team made on draft night.
- 22:48Speaker 3: We know quarterbacks moved the needle, but how rare is
- 22:50Speaker 3: it that Travis Hunter a wide receiver defensive back. It
- 22:53Speaker 3: doesn't come around too often like that, right.
- 22:55Speaker 6: It really doesn't. Right, we're talking generational. I know Dion
- 22:57Speaker 6: did it a little bit. I remember Troy Brown did
- 23:00Speaker 6: it a bit up in New England. But I mean
- 23:02Speaker 6: people still talk about, you know, Chuck bed and Erik
- 23:05Speaker 6: playing both ways, like what is that in nineteen sixty
- 23:08Speaker 6: I mean, this is a once in a generation. And
- 23:13Speaker 6: you know, he was not just doing it as a
- 23:16Speaker 6: stunt in college. He was spectacular and for him to
- 23:20Speaker 6: be able to, you know, curious to see if he
- 23:22Speaker 6: can do it at this level. It's obviously a different
- 23:24Speaker 6: game up here with grown men, but I think we're
- 23:28Speaker 6: all gonna be intrigued. It's curious to see how coach
- 23:30Speaker 6: is going to use him, and I think it's gonna
- 23:32Speaker 6: be one of the early season storylines, quite honestly.
- 23:35Speaker 3: Mike North was from the National Football League talking scheduling.
- 23:38Speaker 2: Of course, you mentioned the London game.
- 23:39Speaker 3: Every year last couple of years has been two games,
- 23:42Speaker 3: one away, one home. This year the home game at
- 23:44Speaker 3: Wembley only for the Jaguars. But now seven international games
- 23:48Speaker 3: for you to deal with, six of those in Europe,
- 23:50Speaker 3: three of those in London. You know, are those done earlier?
- 23:55Speaker 3: Do you know those ahead of time? Are those kind
- 23:58Speaker 3: of in place before you work the rest of the ski?
- 24:00Speaker 3: How do you mix that in.
- 24:01Speaker 6: The home team's in place, the designated team, I should
- 24:04Speaker 6: say the designated team is in place. So we knew
- 24:07Speaker 6: by I would say Super Bowl that we were playing
- 24:11Speaker 6: the Chargers in Brazil, we were playing the Jets, the Jags,
- 24:15Speaker 6: the Browns in London. We were playing in Madrid and Berlin.
- 24:18Speaker 6: We knew the home teams, we didn't know the visiting teams.
- 24:21Speaker 6: So interesting story is you talked about the Jags have
- 24:23Speaker 6: gone over and stayed for a couple of weeks each
- 24:26Speaker 6: of the last two years because it happened to match
- 24:28Speaker 6: up that they played one of the other teams, whether
- 24:31Speaker 6: by standings or by rotation. Didn't work out this year
- 24:34Speaker 6: for them. They don't play the Jets as a road
- 24:36Speaker 6: team or Cleveland as a road team, excuse me, So
- 24:39Speaker 6: it didn't work out for them to be able to
- 24:41Speaker 6: do it. We had an opportunity to do it with
- 24:43Speaker 6: the Vikings, so we had reached out to them originally
- 24:47Speaker 6: and said, look, you can see the schedule. You know
- 24:49Speaker 6: you're a possible opponent for the Steelers and you know
- 24:52Speaker 6: they're going to Dublin. You know you're a possible opponent
- 24:54Speaker 6: for the Browns, you know they're going to London. And
- 24:56Speaker 6: they asked us, quite frankly, what did the Jags think
- 24:59Speaker 6: about it when they done it the last couple of years.
- 25:01Speaker 6: And I wouldn't be shocked at all if somebody from
- 25:02Speaker 6: the Vikings reached out to at least the operations guys
- 25:05Speaker 6: at the Jags and talk about, you know, what do
- 25:07Speaker 6: you do. Do you stay in one place and then
- 25:08Speaker 6: move just for game day or do you move and
- 25:10Speaker 6: practice in the place where you're gonna play the following week.
- 25:13Speaker 6: I don't remember exactly how the Jags played it if
- 25:15Speaker 6: they stayed in the same place the whole time, But
- 25:17Speaker 6: obviously Minnesota's gonna learn a little something from Jacksonville having
- 25:21Speaker 6: done it the last couple of years. So they're gonna
- 25:23Speaker 6: be this year's Guinea Pig as a team, first time
- 25:25Speaker 6: ever playing two road international games in two different countries,
- 25:28Speaker 6: and it may lead to us thinking about things like
- 25:30Speaker 6: that as we expand the international footprint. Like you said,
- 25:33Speaker 6: Commissioner Goodell has been very public about this. He wants ten, twelve,
- 25:36Speaker 6: maybe sixteen international games.
- 25:38Speaker 2: Someday.
- 25:39Speaker 6: We might have to find teams willing to play a
- 25:41Speaker 6: couple of them, and maybe you do go to Europe
- 25:44Speaker 6: on your way to the Middle East or something like that.
- 25:46Speaker 6: So this will be yet another test run for us,
- 25:49Speaker 6: and we'll see what the Jags do moving forward in
- 25:51Speaker 6: terms of maybe playing multiple games in there when the
- 25:53Speaker 6: stadium's getting renovated. So This is all learning experiences for
- 25:57Speaker 6: all of us, and I'm sure the Vikings are gonna
- 26:00Speaker 6: rely heavily on the Jaguars experience over there the last
- 26:02Speaker 6: couple of years.
- 26:03Speaker 3: That's Mike North, NFL VP of Broadcast Planning and Scheduling.
- 26:06Speaker 3: The full conversation coming soon on Jaguars dot Com and
- 26:10Speaker 3: Jaguars YouTube, but JP Shadwick, Jeff Flagman Jaguars Happy Hour.
- 26:14Speaker 3: Some interesting thoughts there about what moves the needle for
- 26:18Speaker 3: a schedule maker in the NFL is usually the quarterback
- 26:23Speaker 3: and you have a two way player that's a Heisman
- 26:25Speaker 3: Trophy winner.
- 26:26Speaker 2: That doesn't happen often. He didn't make any bones about
- 26:30Speaker 2: it that that was a factor in the Jaguars getting
- 26:33Speaker 2: a Monday night game was because of the move that
- 26:37Speaker 2: they did on Draft Day. They had it penciled in
- 26:39Speaker 2: before they used the pen after. Yeah, I think that's
- 26:42Speaker 2: pretty cool. And look, I think great interview, by the way,
- 26:45Speaker 2: and I thought a ton of information in there, and
- 26:48Speaker 2: what I really liked and enjoyed was him talking about okay,
- 26:53Speaker 2: schedule competitive balance, and then also the fan engagement, you know,
- 26:59Speaker 2: factor to make sure that the fans are getting the
- 27:01Speaker 2: eyeballs or the most opportunity to get their eyeballs on
- 27:04Speaker 2: what they want to see, you know, and being fair
- 27:07Speaker 2: to the teams and how he you know, trying to
- 27:10Speaker 2: strike a balance there. And so I thought that that
- 27:12Speaker 2: was really interesting and I would have loved to have
- 27:14Speaker 2: been kind of in that room when they made some
- 27:17Speaker 2: of those decisions to see how some of that conversation
- 27:20Speaker 2: would have went. But then also the little kind of
- 27:23Speaker 2: nugget that he gave there about, hey, look, you know
- 27:25Speaker 2: the football team two road games. You know, we're maybe
- 27:29Speaker 2: having them be the guinea pig because you know, at
- 27:31Speaker 2: some point maybe a team goes to the Middle East.
- 27:33Speaker 2: WHOA wait a minute, Well, I think there's been some
- 27:37Speaker 2: talk of Dubai as a possible destination for an NFL game.
- 27:40Speaker 2: Could that be what he's referring to?
- 27:42Speaker 3: Well, next year there's one in Australia, for goodness. So
- 27:46Speaker 3: I thought that was very interesting. And then also right
- 27:49Speaker 3: there at the very end, he talked about the Jaguars future.
- 27:51Speaker 3: When the stadium reconstruction closes it down for the year,
- 27:56Speaker 3: what's going to happen with the Jaguars and the number
- 27:58Speaker 3: of games that they play over there. So all interesting
- 28:01Speaker 3: stuff to me. And and obviously the heavily reliance on
- 28:06Speaker 3: computers to generate a lot of that stuff for them.
- 28:09Speaker 3: Can you imagine trying to do that like he was
- 28:11Speaker 3: talking about on the old peg board nowadays with because
- 28:15Speaker 3: you know, the one thing that they have to factor
- 28:17Speaker 3: in too, is that, you know, stadium availability other events
- 28:20Speaker 3: that might be concert tours and football games here, and
- 28:25Speaker 3: I mean everything.
- 28:26Speaker 2: And they've got to take that into consideration across the
- 28:29Speaker 2: board with all all teams. I mean, that's a huge undertaking.
- 28:34Speaker 3: And I remember back when teams actually shared stadiums with
- 28:37Speaker 3: baseball teams too, they would have to work out the
- 28:40Speaker 3: league baseball schedule. Yeah, which that's no more, that's crazy,
- 28:44Speaker 3: it's kind of it was the last one. Well and
- 28:46Speaker 3: then you've got, you know, two teams sharing the stadium, right, No,
- 28:50Speaker 3: you can't have a double header that day, no, No,
- 28:53Speaker 3: So it's it's it's definitely very interesting to me.
- 28:56Speaker 2: And uh, I mean, the league's popularity is just floating.
- 29:00Speaker 2: And I love I love the whole the early part
- 29:03Speaker 2: of the schedule where you've got so many games opening
- 29:06Speaker 2: week and the opportunity to watch so many different games
- 29:10Speaker 2: throughout the season because I mean, JP, I mean, I'm
- 29:13Speaker 2: a football NFL junkie, and the more games that are
- 29:17Speaker 2: available to me at odd times, because you know, typically
- 29:20Speaker 2: the regular times were busy, so I like those odd times.
- 29:24Speaker 3: Which is where when you hear the full conversation on
- 29:26Speaker 3: Jaguars dot com and Jaguars YouTube. I asked him, Hey,
- 29:29Speaker 3: what's the next step? What are some time and windows
- 29:32Speaker 3: that you haven't been able to touch yet? He'say, well,
- 29:35Speaker 3: it could be one of those. We have a nine
- 29:36Speaker 3: to thirty AM London, then the you know, one o'clock,
- 29:40Speaker 3: four o'clock primetime. Is there a market for We're going
- 29:45Speaker 3: to have a ten pm Eastern Monday night football game
- 29:48Speaker 3: this year at one point, because there's a double header
- 29:51Speaker 3: one of the weeks early in the season, could there
- 29:52Speaker 3: be a window where it's nine to thirty all the
- 29:54Speaker 3: way until if you're playing like a far East game?
- 29:57Speaker 2: Cool?
- 29:58Speaker 3: Right, And that's a possibility. So we'll see what happens
- 30:01Speaker 3: in the future. Moving ahead, our thanks to Mike North
- 30:03Speaker 3: from the National Football League. We'll come back in a moment.
- 30:05Speaker 3: Travis Hunter is in the building. Lugs two way player
- 30:08Speaker 3: might have heard of him.
- 30:09Speaker 2: Uh yeah, just a little bit.
- 30:11Speaker 3: It was on the field last week Rookie Mini camp
- 30:13Speaker 3: and he's been on the field this week in Phase
- 30:16Speaker 3: two and we'll hear from the Jags head coach of
- 30:19Speaker 3: what impressed him at least the first couple of days
- 30:22Speaker 3: on the field in rookie Mini camp. When we come back,
- 30:24Speaker 3: it is Jaguars Happy Hour.
- 30:39Speaker 7: Now.
- 30:40Speaker 5: You know when he got here after the draft, you know,
- 30:43Speaker 5: we got to hang out with him for a little
- 30:46Speaker 5: bit there and you felt it right away, right you did.
- 30:49Speaker 5: You felt that infectious smile that he has that he
- 30:51Speaker 5: provides and brings into the building. Very serious about football,
- 30:56Speaker 5: very serious about his process in order to put himself
- 31:01Speaker 5: in a position to ultimately just be in a physical
- 31:03Speaker 5: shake to be able to do this and to run
- 31:05Speaker 5: forever and to have the stamina and strength to be
- 31:08Speaker 5: able to do this at a high level. But you
- 31:10Speaker 5: see him out there dancing and having fun and that's
- 31:14Speaker 5: really cool to see. You know, we want to see
- 31:16Speaker 5: some more of that. And when he goes out there
- 31:17Speaker 5: and he's doing his thing, he is serious about this process.
- 31:21Speaker 3: That is Liam Cohen, Jaguars head coach. This is Jaguars
- 31:25Speaker 3: Happy Hour. JP Shatterck with Jeff Logoman there. Thanks to
- 31:28Speaker 3: Kay Stevens winning US earlier Mike North from the NFL
- 31:32Speaker 3: and we're at the Hounday Studios inside of the middle
- 31:34Speaker 3: of Electric Center and ten tonight Excel, Jaguars dot Com,
- 31:36Speaker 3: Jaguars YouTube. All the places after Rookie Millicamp this past
- 31:41Speaker 3: weekend logs are out there.
- 31:43Speaker 2: I was. I was in a good showing out there
- 31:47Speaker 2: by the fans, people up in the in the bleachers,
- 31:50Speaker 2: and boy, how about the weather window that we got.
- 31:54Speaker 3: It was nasty on Saturday morning and then the.
- 31:59Speaker 2: Sky opened up, son came out and it was a
- 32:02Speaker 2: little partly cloudy. I mean, it was perfect because.
- 32:05Speaker 3: That's for a better Not thought the weather would have
- 32:07Speaker 3: scared some people off, but no, it was packed up.
- 32:09Speaker 2: The people were waiting in line when I pulled in
- 32:11Speaker 2: at like ten thirty.
- 32:13Speaker 3: And of course, Coach Cohen, they are talking about Travis Hunter,
- 32:16Speaker 3: wide receiver, defensive pack, Colorado Heisman Trophy winner and pretty
- 32:20Speaker 3: much anytime he did anything on the field on Saturday,
- 32:24Speaker 3: there were big tears from that grand Stone.
- 32:25Speaker 2: Oh man, yeah he was and that one moment he
- 32:30Speaker 2: kind of made some gestures to the fans and appreciation
- 32:34Speaker 2: and they just erupted, and you know, and you can
- 32:38Speaker 2: tell I mean, there's a lot of eyeballs on Travis Hunter.
- 32:40Speaker 2: I mean, people are very curious about what he's doing,
- 32:43Speaker 2: how he's doing it. For me, I just wanted to
- 32:47Speaker 2: watch him to see how he moved and watching him
- 32:51Speaker 2: on the practice field, Remember I said that he was
- 32:54Speaker 2: the most effortless athlete that I ever watched film on.
- 32:57Speaker 2: When you watched him on the field, that was the
- 33:00Speaker 2: total case. And to use James Gladstone, he said he
- 33:04Speaker 2: had grace. He moves so fluid. He's such a great athlete.
- 33:09Speaker 2: It's it's impressive to watch and in person it's it's
- 33:12Speaker 2: even more impressive.
- 33:14Speaker 3: And the difference is noticeable when he's lining up against
- 33:18Speaker 3: other rookies. They may not be as drafted as high
- 33:20Speaker 3: as him. Right, I'll give you give you a different
- 33:22Speaker 3: just a different movement.
- 33:23Speaker 2: Give you a perfect example of how Travis Hunter is different. Okay,
- 33:28Speaker 2: So that day he was playing wide receiver exclusively for
- 33:32Speaker 2: the whole practice. So there was a drill that they
- 33:36Speaker 2: were throwing the ball on like an out route to
- 33:38Speaker 2: the wide receivers, and the receivers had to catch the
- 33:41Speaker 2: ball get their feet down before going out of bounds.
- 33:45Speaker 2: Travis does it and tap tap and the ball is
- 33:49Speaker 2: you know, he's got a good outstretched arms to make
- 33:52Speaker 2: the catch and adjust without even any kind of labor
- 33:58Speaker 2: movement whatsoever, gets his feet down and then stops his
- 34:01Speaker 2: momentum within about three and a half four yards of
- 34:04Speaker 2: the sideline. Well, the next guy that is up and
- 34:08Speaker 2: I don't remember who it was, Okay, it doesn't matter,
- 34:11Speaker 2: runs the exact same route, The ball is thrown in
- 34:14Speaker 2: the exact same location, and this guy literally taps his feet.
- 34:19Speaker 2: But because he's not the athlete the Travis is, he
- 34:22Speaker 2: literally almost runs into the side of the mech the
- 34:26Speaker 2: Miller Electric Center's wall because he can't stop himself, whereas
- 34:30Speaker 2: Travis stopped within like three and a half four yards.
- 34:34Speaker 2: It's just, I mean, he's just different. There was one
- 34:37Speaker 2: on Friday which was closed to the public.
- 34:40Speaker 3: That were a few select kind of fan things out here,
- 34:43Speaker 3: but I was out there to see it, and I
- 34:46Speaker 3: think we had video of it on shows earlier this week.
- 34:48Speaker 2: He was running the same kind.
- 34:49Speaker 3: Of route, kinding out and then gets to the top
- 34:51Speaker 3: of the route, breaks it to the sideline, loses a shoe,
- 34:56Speaker 3: still doesn't fall, doesn't slip on one foot, basically still
- 35:01Speaker 3: makes the cats gets both feed in and toe taps
- 35:05Speaker 3: the sideline, one sock, one shoe.
- 35:07Speaker 2: He's yeah, no big deal. He is just different the
- 35:10Speaker 2: way he moves, how athletic he is, how he doesn't strain,
- 35:16Speaker 2: it's just smooth and the stamina doesn't breathe hard. You know,
- 35:23Speaker 2: a lot of guys you see him, they're working on.
- 35:25Speaker 2: He's just so effortless and smooth. It's just so interesting
- 35:29Speaker 2: to watch. And he's having a good time, you know,
- 35:34Speaker 2: he's it's and you can tell that that energy kind
- 35:37Speaker 2: of rubs off on some of the other guys. And
- 35:41Speaker 2: the interesting thing too, is that you know there's not
- 35:44Speaker 2: just the sideline eyes on him. There's players on the
- 35:48Speaker 2: field that are watching him because they're just amazed at
- 35:52Speaker 2: some of the things that he can do. And I
- 35:54Speaker 2: think the first impression that most people have when they
- 35:57Speaker 2: see him as they're like, well he's not very big.
- 36:00Speaker 2: Well he's not. He's not very big, but he's a
- 36:03Speaker 2: heck of an athlete. He's got great hands. The way
- 36:05Speaker 2: he moves is just different. I can't wait to see
- 36:08Speaker 2: what this young man's going to be able to do.
- 36:10Speaker 3: Liam Cohen after that Saturday practice, also said that this
- 36:14Speaker 3: would be the week right now that he would start
- 36:17Speaker 3: getting some defensive work. It's the end of phase two
- 36:21Speaker 3: of the offseason program. No helmets allowed in phase two.
- 36:24Speaker 3: That begins next week in phase three with OTA's getting started.
- 36:28Speaker 3: But I mean, what do you need on the defensive side.
- 36:33Speaker 3: Offense is where you got to learn all these routes
- 36:35Speaker 3: and offense and you know, verbage and all these things
- 36:39Speaker 3: to go in a new offense and everything. Is it
- 36:42Speaker 3: much less on defense? Is it a different approach, more
- 36:45Speaker 3: read and react? I mean, how are we seeing this
- 36:47Speaker 3: on the defensive side for Hunter?
- 36:49Speaker 2: Well, I think on the offensive side of the ball,
- 36:51Speaker 2: there's a lot of subtleties. I mean, first of all,
- 36:53Speaker 2: you've got to learn the playbook and then there's a
- 36:55Speaker 2: lot of adjustments that can happen during the course of
- 36:58Speaker 2: a play, and then the finer detail of running routes,
- 37:01Speaker 2: which Edgar Bennett, by the way, former NFL running back,
- 37:05Speaker 2: is the wide receivers coach who's doing a work in
- 37:08Speaker 2: his rear end off to coach those guys up. And
- 37:11Speaker 2: on defense, it's a little bit more of just being
- 37:13Speaker 2: an athlete. There's a lot of technique and everything, but
- 37:16Speaker 2: the precision of the route running is not like you know,
- 37:20Speaker 2: it's you can't compare that to the defensive techniques. It's
- 37:24Speaker 2: a little different. The playbook is not as thick. There's
- 37:28Speaker 2: still adjustments that got to be made, you know. But
- 37:31Speaker 2: I would assume that on defense they'll probably start with
- 37:35Speaker 2: like a package and allow him to kind of focus
- 37:38Speaker 2: in on that one positional package so that he can
- 37:41Speaker 2: kind of get his feet wet and then expand the
- 37:44Speaker 2: more that he understands. And you know, the great thing
- 37:46Speaker 2: is is that, by the way, kudos to Travis Hunter
- 37:49Speaker 2: for graduating and what did he have like a four
- 37:52Speaker 2: point zero or pretty close to it, I plogy, which
- 37:56Speaker 2: is tremendous. So, I mean he's got he's got the
- 37:58Speaker 2: brains upstairs, he's got the work ethic, and obviously he
- 38:02Speaker 2: has the athleticism. So I mean literally, I think everyone
- 38:07Speaker 2: in the league and that has been around the league
- 38:09Speaker 2: for a number of years can't wait to see what
- 38:11Speaker 2: he's going to be able to do because he's about
- 38:14Speaker 2: to embark on something that just has never been done
- 38:17Speaker 2: in the modern era. We'll come back in a moment.
- 38:20Speaker 3: He's already creating connections with fans too that don't even know. Yeah,
- 38:25Speaker 3: my wife a couple of mornings ago showed me a
- 38:29Speaker 3: Facebook post and she said, check this out.
- 38:31Speaker 2: Well, we'll hear from about this when we come back. Cool.
- 38:34Speaker 2: Yes it is.
- 38:35Speaker 3: We're on ten TOEXXL Jaguars dot Com, Jaguars YouTube. Fifteen
- 38:40Speaker 3: minutes left in Jaguars Happy Hour, Welcome back. It is
- 38:49Speaker 3: Jaguars Happy Hour. JP Shadick, Jeff Flaghman.
- 38:52Speaker 2: Busy, busy, busy time at Daily's place. Log's coming up.
- 38:58Speaker 2: What do you got?
- 38:59Speaker 3: We got Kodak Black replacing t Pain on the May
- 39:02Speaker 3: thirty first show, and then we've got sticks with Kevin
- 39:07Speaker 3: Cronin and Don Felder. June second, Old Dominion June sixth,
- 39:11Speaker 3: Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend, Yeah, June twelfth, Class Animals, April
- 39:18Speaker 3: Levine Avril Levine Avril.
- 39:24Speaker 2: Slightly stupid. That's me.
- 39:25Speaker 3: That's June twenty sixth and plenty more. Had two nights
- 39:28Speaker 3: of Shania Twain in July. Man, how old is she now?
- 39:33Speaker 3: Just out of curiosity? That's a rude question. No, I
- 39:35Speaker 3: mean has probably taken offense to that.
- 39:38Speaker 2: Well, I mean she's been around for a while, I
- 39:40Speaker 2: mean super highly successful. Yeah, I mean she had some
- 39:44Speaker 2: monster concerts back in the du she was the top
- 39:47Speaker 2: of everything. She was selling out stadiums, I think, yeah,
- 39:51Speaker 2: I mean she was a stadium time with the Super
- 39:53Speaker 2: Bowl one time. Remember that. God, I'm just curious how
- 39:57Speaker 2: old she is off looking up whatever? More than sixty five?
- 40:01Speaker 2: Is fifty nine? Yeah, pushing sixty she's look, she's uh,
- 40:07Speaker 2: she's still top of her game. Good for her tickets.
- 40:10Speaker 3: Dailyesplace dot com for tickets and show information.
- 40:14Speaker 2: I go check her out. I see that show. I
- 40:18Speaker 2: would like to see that. Yeah, you think we can
- 40:20Speaker 2: get Biselli's couch? I think we need to ask for that.
- 40:23Speaker 2: We got to ask. I think we should. Does he
- 40:27Speaker 2: have a bigger couch now? Since he's he has whatever
- 40:29Speaker 2: the hell he wants, you know, because he had the
- 40:33Speaker 2: couch before.
- 40:35Speaker 3: Well yeah, well I don't think it was his technically, Okay,
- 40:38Speaker 3: I think he had sources to get him the couch
- 40:41Speaker 3: at Daily's place, by the soundboard and all that.
- 40:44Speaker 2: So we gotta we gotta ask, We gotta grease got Yeah,
- 40:46Speaker 2: we gotta we gotta see if we can get that.
- 40:48Speaker 2: We gotta that'd be nice. That would be a pretty
- 40:50Speaker 2: good night. Yeah, I think so. Jaguar's happy. Our final moments,
- 40:54Speaker 2: j P. Shadwick, Jeff Logoman and uh.
- 40:57Speaker 3: Coming up next week, it's Organized Team Activity's Phase three
- 41:01Speaker 3: ran actually do some stuff. You know before rookie Minnie Campdome,
- 41:07Speaker 3: we mentioned Travis Hunter walked in the commencement ceremony at
- 41:10Speaker 3: the University of Colorado got his degree, but then.
- 41:13Speaker 2: He had to fly back.
- 41:15Speaker 3: Well, he had a chance encounter with this lady on
- 41:18Speaker 3: the airplane who posted on her Facebook page and put
- 41:21Speaker 3: a photo of her and Travis Hunter up and said,
- 41:24Speaker 3: you know he had She had the most wonderful flight
- 41:26Speaker 3: home from Denver. Met the nicest young man who said
- 41:29Speaker 3: next to me off and to moved my bag in
- 41:31Speaker 3: the overhead compartment, helped me with the tray, always polite.
- 41:34Speaker 2: All these things had this.
- 41:35Speaker 3: And she had had no idea who he was, no idea,
- 41:38Speaker 3: And then people were walking by saying congratulations in great
- 41:42Speaker 3: job or taking pictures with him. She's like, who am
- 41:44Speaker 3: I sitting next to And then saw the Jaguar pants
- 41:47Speaker 3: that he had on, and he said, yeah, I'm Travis
- 41:51Speaker 3: and I was drafted by the jag So she already
- 41:53Speaker 3: wants this jersey and had nothing but glowing things to say.
- 41:57Speaker 2: The next day, After this post.
- 42:00Speaker 3: The folks at the NFL network Good Morning Football, found
- 42:02Speaker 3: Sandy Combs who made the post, interviewed her on the show.
- 42:06Speaker 2: Here's what she had to say.
- 42:08Speaker 7: By the time I sat down, everybody else started boarding,
- 42:12Speaker 7: and people would stop buying, say congratulations man, congratulations, a
- 42:17Speaker 7: good job, man, good job. And once everybody went burt,
- 42:22Speaker 7: I turned to him and I looked at him and
- 42:24Speaker 7: I said, ma'am, I ask you a question. He said yes, ma'am.
- 42:28Speaker 7: I said, am I sitting next to you? He smiled
- 42:35Speaker 7: and I said, really, what am I sitting next to
- 42:39Speaker 7: and he just kept smiling. I said, are you a
- 42:43Speaker 7: professional athlete or something? And he just kept smiling. And
- 42:47Speaker 7: I looked at the pants and they were Jaguar pants.
- 42:51Speaker 7: I said, are you a professional athlete? A professional football player?
- 42:58Speaker 7: And he looked at me and smile. I said, did
- 43:00Speaker 7: you just get drafted?
- 43:03Speaker 6: He said yes, ma'am.
- 43:04Speaker 7: I said, he said yes, ma'am, and my name is
- 43:09Speaker 7: Travis and it's still didn't register who he was. I'm like, okay, congratulation.
- 43:17Speaker 2: That's awesome stuff.
- 43:18Speaker 3: A full interview and Jaguars social I think they pulled
- 43:21Speaker 3: it from the Good Morning Football Show.
- 43:23Speaker 2: The other day.
- 43:23Speaker 3: But that just shows you the type of character and
- 43:28Speaker 3: class that Travis has and the interaction the fans have
- 43:30Speaker 3: with him too, the excitement they have they're bored in
- 43:33Speaker 3: the plane ticket photos with the guy.
- 43:35Speaker 2: That tells you what kind of star power he can have. Yeah,
- 43:38Speaker 2: and he's he's very gracious from everything that I've read
- 43:42Speaker 2: and heard and had the chance to meet him. On
- 43:45Speaker 2: Monday night, the organization had a little rookie dinner and
- 43:50Speaker 2: brought in some of the former players cool who always
- 43:52Speaker 2: have myself, Kevin Hardy, Fred Taylor Bisselli of course was there, Yeah,
- 44:01Speaker 2: and a few other guys, and it was great and
- 44:04Speaker 2: it was a lot of fun to meet the different
- 44:06Speaker 2: rookies and we sat with different guys, you know, in
- 44:09Speaker 2: the position groups just kind of, you know, to pass
- 44:11Speaker 2: on a little bit of knowledge and share our experiences
- 44:14Speaker 2: to maybe help one of these younger players at some
- 44:17Speaker 2: point in their young careers. So was it like, hey,
- 44:20Speaker 2: each guy gets up at the podium and talks or
- 44:23Speaker 2: is it just kind of one person at each table
- 44:25Speaker 2: or how'd you guys work it out? If you don't
- 44:26Speaker 2: mind me asking, Well, and I'm sure you're going to
- 44:28Speaker 2: see some of the stuff on the hunt because they
- 44:30Speaker 2: were filming a lot of this stuff. But Fred was
- 44:32Speaker 2: the one who talked to all of the rookies. And
- 44:33Speaker 2: then we were sitting in the back some of the
- 44:35Speaker 2: other you know, former Jaguar players and and Fred gave
- 44:41Speaker 2: a great speech and passed on a lot of great
- 44:43Speaker 2: knowledge because Fred's got a great story to tell because
- 44:46Speaker 2: Fred kind of came into the league very young and
- 44:49Speaker 2: immature and then really grow, really grew throughout his career.
- 44:52Speaker 2: And it was a great message. And then after Fred
- 44:55Speaker 2: got done, Tony shared a little bit of his experience,
- 44:57Speaker 2: and then we went all into the cafeteria and then
- 45:01Speaker 2: we sat down with you know, I sat down with
- 45:03Speaker 2: about three different guys, you know, Strigau from Minnesota and
- 45:08Speaker 2: undrafted free I sat down with a bunch of defensive
- 45:10Speaker 2: linemen and uh and Kevin Hardy sat with some of
- 45:13Speaker 2: the linebackers, you know, and on and on and on
- 45:15Speaker 2: down Ray and then we we had dinner with them
- 45:18Speaker 2: and it was great. I had a lot of fun.
- 45:20Speaker 2: That's cool. That's really good. Yeah, it's it's a good experience.
- 45:23Speaker 2: You know. Marcus Pollard, who does a lot of the
- 45:26Speaker 2: player program things to help educate the young players was
- 45:29Speaker 2: obviously one of the guiding forces in all of this.
- 45:32Speaker 2: He's done it in years past, and uh, it was outstanding.
- 45:36Speaker 2: I had a really really good time with it, and
- 45:38Speaker 2: it was a great meeting all the different rookies.
- 45:41Speaker 3: Let's say JP Shadrick is a rookie defensive end and
- 45:46Speaker 3: he's drafted pretty high as you were. If you were
- 45:50Speaker 3: sitting at that dinner and I was sitting across from me,
- 45:52Speaker 3: what would be your first piece of advice?
- 45:55Speaker 2: Well, and I shared this with some of the guys
- 45:57Speaker 2: at the table because I got that question. They said,
- 45:59Speaker 2: if you're going to pass on anything, what would it
- 46:02Speaker 2: be the most important thing that you believe? And I said,
- 46:05Speaker 2: you know, as a young player, the one thing that
- 46:08Speaker 2: you've got to do is to make sure that your
- 46:09Speaker 2: house is in order. You know, when I say your house,
- 46:12Speaker 2: that means your personal life and your personal situation, because
- 46:15Speaker 2: if all of that is not taken care of, then
- 46:19Speaker 2: it's hard to focus and concentrate on playing football and
- 46:22Speaker 2: being the best that you can be. And so I said,
- 46:25Speaker 2: you know, you've got to make sure that you take
- 46:27Speaker 2: care of your own little world so that your football
- 46:30Speaker 2: world can be at its best, whether or that's you
- 46:33Speaker 2: know a lot of times JP when you have somebody
- 46:35Speaker 2: that's drafted, and some of these guys even mentioned that
- 46:37Speaker 2: it was happening already. You know, everybody wants to be
- 46:40Speaker 2: your best friend because you're now, you know, a pro
- 46:42Speaker 2: football player at all. You've got lots of money now,
- 46:46Speaker 2: and people are kind of pulling on you in different directions.
- 46:49Speaker 2: And some of those are friends and some of those
- 46:50Speaker 2: are even family that just and you've got to be
- 46:52Speaker 2: able to say no, and you've got to be able
- 46:55Speaker 2: to say, hey, look I can't do that. And that's
- 46:58Speaker 2: all part of keeping your house clean so that your
- 47:01Speaker 2: football world can be out its best. And that's that's
- 47:03Speaker 2: the one thing that I shared. I didn't go in
- 47:05Speaker 2: a great detail and have all these crazy stories, but
- 47:08Speaker 2: it was great. They asked a lot of questions, and
- 47:10Speaker 2: I asked a lot of questions of them. You know
- 47:13Speaker 2: where they're from, and uh, you know what different positions
- 47:16Speaker 2: they play and what's their strength and so it was.
- 47:19Speaker 2: It was a great time. I really enjoyed it. Really cool.
- 47:22Speaker 2: Good stuff there.
- 47:23Speaker 3: Coming up next week Phase three Organized Team Activities. They
- 47:29Speaker 3: start Monday, OTA number one ten OTA practices Over the
- 47:33Speaker 3: next few weeks and then the mandatory mini camp, so
- 47:37Speaker 3: the last day of that is June twelfth. Then the
- 47:41Speaker 3: dead zone begins. So we're inside a month away from
- 47:45Speaker 3: being out of here for the summer. Coming quick still
- 47:48Speaker 3: work out, I mean, all the bulk of the stuff
- 47:51Speaker 3: is still to come, the OTAs in the mini camp.
- 47:54Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, although you know, there's a lot of
- 47:56Speaker 3: stuff that's already been done, but I mean the meat
- 47:59Speaker 3: and potatoes are coming.
- 48:02Speaker 2: What do you want to see the next week? Well,
- 48:05Speaker 2: I mean, first of all, I want to see what
- 48:06Speaker 2: the offense is going to begin to look like, you
- 48:09Speaker 2: know what I mean. No, but I mean, but you'll
- 48:12Speaker 2: see kind of some of their concepts h And I
- 48:15Speaker 2: want to see the coaches on the grass. I want
- 48:17Speaker 2: to see how they interact with players. I mean, I'm
- 48:19Speaker 2: a big people watcher, and I think it's a when
- 48:23Speaker 2: I say I'm a people watcher, is that I love
- 48:25Speaker 2: the dynamic the coach the player, and how the coaching
- 48:28Speaker 2: staff interacts amongst themselves, how they interact with the players,
- 48:32Speaker 2: how the players respond. I mean, all of those things
- 48:35Speaker 2: to me are interesting to watch and to see what
- 48:39Speaker 2: the energy level is, to see what some of the
- 48:41Speaker 2: focus and the intensity is on, and of course, you know,
- 48:47Speaker 2: I'm going to be like everybody else. I mean, I'm
- 48:50Speaker 2: dying to see if Travis Hunter is going to play
- 48:53Speaker 2: offense defense? Will he do both in one practice? How's
- 48:57Speaker 2: that going to work? What's it going to look like?
- 49:00Speaker 2: I mean, we're about to see something that's never been
- 49:02Speaker 2: done really, I mean in this modern era, like I
- 49:05Speaker 2: said before, and so the curiosity curiosity of that is
- 49:08Speaker 2: obviously high. But also right there at the top with that,
- 49:13Speaker 2: I would put where's Trevor Lawrence at? Injured? Last year?
- 49:18Speaker 2: Not a great year? Can he get back to the
- 49:22Speaker 2: form They're propelled this football team into the playoffs a
- 49:25Speaker 2: couple of years ago, the magical comeback against the Chargers?
- 49:30Speaker 2: Where is he at? Is he there? Is he back
- 49:33Speaker 2: into that neighborhood? And how does this offense suit him?
- 49:37Speaker 2: And there's a lot of progressions that are built into
- 49:40Speaker 2: the system that are all timing based that Trevor's talked about,
- 49:44Speaker 2: that Liam's talked about that I'm looking forward to seeing
- 49:48Speaker 2: it's coming up next week.
- 49:49Speaker 3: There'll be media coverage of OTA practice number one on
- 49:53Speaker 3: Monday afternoon on Jaguars dot Com, Jaguars social media, all
- 49:58Speaker 3: the Jaguars places will have Jags a m on Tuesday
- 50:01Speaker 3: to recapital as well.
- 50:03Speaker 2: See you logs, Yeah, we'll see you next week. I'll
- 50:05Speaker 2: see you next week. I'll be here next at some point,
- 50:08Speaker 2: at least on Thursday. Yeah, definitely see you on Thursday.
- 50:11Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 50:12Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll see it next Thursday for sure.
- 50:13Speaker 3: Thanks to Mike North from the NFL Kai Stevens Jaguars
- 50:17Speaker 3: Reporter for joining us, and thanks to you for listening
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