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Jags Broadcast Week in Review: April 17 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome into another Jags broadcast Week in Review podcast. I'm J. P.
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Speaker 1: Shadrick and today is Friday, April seventeen. This is a
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Speaker 1: look back at the best from the past week of shows, interviews,
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Speaker 1: press conferences, and really anything that ran on Jaguars broadcasting
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Speaker 1: or digital channels. As you listen to this, we are
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Speaker 1: inside a week away from the twenty NFL Draft, so
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Speaker 1: that meant last week's highlights are draft heavy. We'll hear
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Speaker 1: from a couple of former Jags running backs, a few
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Speaker 1: NFL Network analysts, a pair of current Jaguars players, and
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Speaker 1: g M Dave Caldwell and head coach Doug Moro. Let's
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Speaker 1: start with the former Jaguars running backs, going back to
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Speaker 1: last Friday. In fact, Brian Sexton caught up with Maurice
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Speaker 1: Jones Drew, now an analyst with NFL Network. Plenty of
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Speaker 1: Jaguars talk, of course in that conversation, but the talk
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Speaker 1: later moved to the upcoming draft and what the Jags
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Speaker 1: could do at number nine. What one player could they
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Speaker 1: take on the first night of the draft that would
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Speaker 1: have you say, Wow, Isaiah Simmons from Clemson if there,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's there or Derek Brown. I
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Speaker 1: mean when you talk about quarterback and I think two
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Speaker 1: is a guy. For me, that's just my that's my
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Speaker 1: personal opinion. I think he and he's he's a leader
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Speaker 1: and that's that's the most important to me. He's act,
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Speaker 1: he does all, he has all the answies, but he's
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Speaker 1: a leader. He's a true leader. Best player to me
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Speaker 1: would be Isaiah Simmons. I know a lot of people
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Speaker 1: like Chase Young, but it's funny because I knew he
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Speaker 1: was gonna run fast in the come. I don't know
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Speaker 1: he was gonna run that fast, but I actually stood
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Speaker 1: next to him. He's a man, the giant right six
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Speaker 1: four thirty pounds, and he can play safety, he could
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Speaker 1: play linebacker, he could play defensive bent on third, he
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Speaker 1: could rush the quarterback. He could cover tight ends and
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Speaker 1: slot receivers. But when you watch his tape, he plays
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Speaker 1: at four three all the time. The full conversation with
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Speaker 1: him j D now available on the team website and
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Speaker 1: we stay on the former Jack's running Back Team. I
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Speaker 1: caught up with Pride of the Jaguars member Fred Taylor
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Speaker 1: over zoom this week. He had plenty of thoughts about
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars season moves already, of course, but draft talk
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Speaker 1: took over there too. They could use another guy on
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Speaker 1: the outside right, I mean a wide receiver opposite chart.
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Speaker 1: That would be a really nice get earlier this draft.
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Speaker 1: It would be really nice. It would be really really nice.
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Speaker 1: The the receiver from Alabama, Jerry Judy. He's a great
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Speaker 1: skilled route runner, you know. I think he can get
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Speaker 1: better and catching the ball. He had some some drops,
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Speaker 1: but he's such a great route runner, and you need
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Speaker 1: that in the NFL because of the timing. You want
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Speaker 1: the precision. Uh and in the routes that the depths
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Speaker 1: the proper depths, knowing how to maneuver in zones, the
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Speaker 1: man versus man coverage. He's shown some great ability. So
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Speaker 1: I like Jerry Judy, and I also like Justin Jefferson.
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Speaker 1: You know, he's a guy I think would be really nice,
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Speaker 1: you know. And uh he's a guy who terrorizes the slot.
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Speaker 1: Think he was six one two oh five was somewhere
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Speaker 1: in that ball park and he showed outstanding hands at
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Speaker 1: L s U. Uh just his campaign last year was amazing.
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Speaker 1: So I and and he and uh DJ they have familiarity.
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Speaker 1: Then to L s U guys, I don't know if
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Speaker 1: we can handle three l s. U guys say we're
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Speaker 1: a little enough on tigers over here, Fred, But uh,
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Speaker 1: you know history usually works that way. Man. Uh those guys,
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Speaker 1: you know, they have some ability. We'll see what happens.
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Speaker 1: Or maybe even Derek Brown at nine. I mean I
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Speaker 1: liked every Brown at nine. First I said Calais was
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Speaker 1: you know, the priority was defensive line in my opinion. Uh,
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Speaker 1: he's the beast. He could play any position across the
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Speaker 1: board in my opinion. Uh, so I like him at nine.
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Speaker 1: You know I love that ninth pick. Ninth pick did okay?
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Speaker 1: Uh that was me for everything. Yeah, I couldn't. I couldn't. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: So that now I was ninth picking ninety eight. So
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Speaker 1: I got a lot of love for that slot. And
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Speaker 1: Derek Brown, like say, he's a beast out there, SEC
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Speaker 1: guy or either it just called back and get a
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Speaker 1: receiver at at twenty, who knows, but they got a
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Speaker 1: lot of room. The full video conversation with Freddie T
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Speaker 1: now on Jaguars dot Com onto a pair of NFL
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Speaker 1: Network Analyt's Charles Davis. First Off, as you've heard in
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Speaker 1: the build up to the draft, there are plenty of
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Speaker 1: ways that Jaguars could go at number nine. Here are
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Speaker 1: a few according to Davis. If somehow that young man
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Speaker 1: from Clemson, Isaiah Simmons drops to nine, I don't know how.
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Speaker 1: You don't hop on him there. Could they surprise us
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Speaker 1: all and grab one of those receivers early? Could they
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Speaker 1: go defensive line? Is Derek Brown still available from AUBURNE
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Speaker 1: is Javon kin Law in their wheelhouse from South Carolina
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Speaker 1: at number nine? And Dave called well as the GM,
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Speaker 1: I remember him pulling a fast one on all of
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Speaker 1: us with a guy named Blake Bortles then no one
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Speaker 1: saw coming. What if he decided, Hey, I'm gonna fool
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Speaker 1: you all in this draft and come back and get
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Speaker 1: another quarterback and create some competition for the guy already have.
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Speaker 1: Later in the week, former Redskins and Texans GM Charlie
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Speaker 1: Cassidy gave us some of the top cornerbacks that could
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Speaker 1: be available, not only at nine, but any I had
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Speaker 1: six corners in my first round. You know, you don't
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Speaker 1: have thirty two first round value picks. You never do.
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Speaker 1: Us to have about seventeen or eighteen on the average,
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Speaker 1: but you have thirty two picks. So some of these
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Speaker 1: guys I put at the end of the first round
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Speaker 1: were the best player available at the position of the
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Speaker 1: most need. That's how I got there. But we're they're
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Speaker 1: picking uh Henderson of Florida. To me, he's a second
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Speaker 1: corner in his draft, but I don't think he'll be there.
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Speaker 1: I gave him Fulton, Kristen Fulton from h L s U.
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Speaker 1: I think this guy can start. I think he's an
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Speaker 1: excellent athlete. I think this guy can press as the
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Speaker 1: athletic ability to play off but but certainly he can press.
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Speaker 1: So there's a name to watch. Trayvon Diggs of Alabama's
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Speaker 1: another name to watch in there. So those are a
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Speaker 1: couple of corners that I think should be available at
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Speaker 1: that point and could definitely help our Thanks to all
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Speaker 1: the folks in the NFL network for making those conversations
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Speaker 1: happen over the last couple of weeks. Let's check in
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Speaker 1: with Jaguar's Drive Time. On Tuesday, Ashlyn Sullivan, Brian Sexton,
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Speaker 1: and John Osher dug into the ozone mail bag with
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Speaker 1: a draft theme. Jim says, here we go. I'm looking
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Speaker 1: forward to the draft a sense of normalcy and a
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Speaker 1: trying time. Do you agree with the decision to not
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Speaker 1: postpone it. John. Yeah, and is why I didn't talk
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Speaker 1: more about this in Big Things, because we'll be talking
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Speaker 1: about it here. Um. I have no problem with it.
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Speaker 1: I mean it's I get that there are going to
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Speaker 1: be people who look at it as if it's tone deaf. Um.
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Speaker 1: At the same time, you know, I'm not passionate about
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Speaker 1: it either way. If they were to post opponent, I
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Speaker 1: could see the point, But I don't know that you're
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Speaker 1: talking about something that they can pull off without putting
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Speaker 1: people in danger. If you're going to have something televised,
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Speaker 1: this is the thing that makes perfect sense. It won't
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Speaker 1: be as smooth as has been in the past. They might,
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Speaker 1: I think, Brian we talked. I think they might be
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Speaker 1: delaying the first round a little bit to give him
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Speaker 1: more time. They'll be hiccups, but frankly, the g ms
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Speaker 1: can pull this off, and they can communicate. There's not
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Speaker 1: as much in draft conversation and arguing as you might
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Speaker 1: see in like a drama created. If if you're prepared
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Speaker 1: for the draft as a GM, you've got your board
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Speaker 1: and there's not a lot of pounding the table and
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Speaker 1: people arguing over certain decisions. You know what guys you want,
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Speaker 1: you know your group, you know your strategy. I don't
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Speaker 1: think you're going to have that many draft errors or
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Speaker 1: dms coming out complaining about, well I didn't get to
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Speaker 1: pick this guy because of this format. I think it's
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Speaker 1: fine and uh, I think it will give people something
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Speaker 1: to watch. And I made most importantly, Brian, it keeps
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Speaker 1: the league on a schedule that it will enable it
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Speaker 1: to get back to normal because you're not pushing anything
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Speaker 1: back it well, and look, if you were gonna push
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Speaker 1: it back, when would you put it on. You couldn't
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Speaker 1: really put a date on it right now? Two weeks
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Speaker 1: at this point. Yeah, I mean, so if you're gonna
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Speaker 1: give them more time to do more work once this
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Speaker 1: thing lightens up a little bit, I mean, at some
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Speaker 1: point you push it off into perpetuity and you don't,
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Speaker 1: you don't get anything done. Um. Free agency may have
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Speaker 1: been toned deaf because we're talking about so and so
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Speaker 1: signed for a hundred million dollars. Um. The draft is different. Um,
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Speaker 1: it's new, it's fresh, and I'll be honest with you.
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Speaker 1: I mean I'm a news junkie, and for the first
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Speaker 1: two weeks of this thing, I watched everything I know
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Speaker 1: how to apply for the loans that Congress just passed, right,
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Speaker 1: because I've watched too much of that stuff. I turned
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Speaker 1: on the President's news conference every evening, and and that's
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Speaker 1: it because I'm so burnt out on pandemic COVID nineteen.
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Speaker 1: Wash your hands. I get it. It's important, but maybe
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Speaker 1: we need something that's a little less important into our
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Speaker 1: lives again to remind us that it's not supposed to
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Speaker 1: be so serious all the time. And I think the
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Speaker 1: NFL is repeatly positioned as the biggest sports entity in
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Speaker 1: this country to give people a flavor, a taste of normalcy.
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Speaker 1: Jacks Drive Time airs Tuesday mornings on the Jaguars social
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Speaker 1: media channels, and a podcast is available each Tuesday right
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Speaker 1: here on this podcast network. Coming up Defensive End, Josh
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Speaker 1: Allen thinks back to his NFL Draft experience a year ago,
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Speaker 1: Joan Taylor wants to get stronger, and Dave Caldwell and
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Speaker 1: Doug Moron answer a tough question from a season ticket holder.
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Speaker 1: All that and more after these important words, h I'm
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Speaker 1: Tony Boselli, and I want to talk to you about
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Speaker 1: this coronavirus. It's real and it's serious. You've probably read
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Speaker 1: or heard by now that I got the coronavirus. Thanks
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Speaker 1: to the amazing healthcare workers at the Mayo Clinic, I'm
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Speaker 1: doing much better now. I'm recovering. I'm getting better today.
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about how you can protect yourself,
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Speaker 1: your family, and your community, and that's by wearing a
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Speaker 1: mask when you go out in public. Here, Jacksonville, were anywhere.
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Speaker 1: Put a mask on. It'll protect you, It'll protect your
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Speaker 1: family and all those that you come in contact with.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's really no different than the mask I
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Speaker 1: wore when I played football. I wore that mask to
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Speaker 1: protect myself, and now I'm asking you to wear a
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Speaker 1: mask when you go out in public. If we wash
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Speaker 1: our hands, if we do the social distancing, and we
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Speaker 1: wear a mask, we'll get through this faster, safely and together.
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Speaker 1: Wear a mask. Thank you, welcome back, and it's now
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Speaker 1: time to hear from the current Jaguars. Right tackle Jowan
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Speaker 1: Taylor held a video media conference this week and explained
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Speaker 1: what areas of his game are getting the most attention.
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Speaker 1: While getting prepared for a year two, I wanted to
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Speaker 1: get stronger, feel like that's something I definitely need to
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Speaker 1: improve on this game stir levels up, and too, I
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Speaker 1: feel like I improved my hand placement and cost penalties.
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Speaker 1: I need to clean up penalties as well. So those
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Speaker 1: main through things I'm really focusing on the most. He
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Speaker 1: mentioned the penalties there. Taylor had fifteen penalties called against
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Speaker 1: him last year, none of them declined. That's tied for
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Speaker 1: the league high and accepted penalties against any individual player
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Speaker 1: at any position. Hand placement technique are two big parts
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Speaker 1: of that. Taylor at it as well. The full conversation
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Speaker 1: would you Want available on the team website Jaguars dot com.
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Speaker 1: Taylor was the second round pick last year for the Jaguars,
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Speaker 1: of course, but defensive end Josh Allen was the first
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Speaker 1: round pick. On an Instagram live conversation with Ashland Sullivan
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Speaker 1: this week, Allen recalled that night a year ago He'll
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Speaker 1: never forget. Do you remember that time? And what do
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Speaker 1: you what? He stands out most? I guess from that night.
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Speaker 1: I mean that that time was just so surreal, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, just from just from thinking about
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Speaker 1: my journey on how I got there in the first place,
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Speaker 1: think about all the people that really helped me out
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Speaker 1: throughout the years man, and just having my name called
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Speaker 1: was definitely a surreal moment, and being able to walk
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Speaker 1: out there with Wesley Um was definitely something, you know,
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Speaker 1: definitely a moment I would never forget and and hopefully
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Speaker 1: at the moment he would never forget and just approve.
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Speaker 1: She eate just that failing man a year ago. Man,
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Speaker 1: That's that's crazy because a while but you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: Doova now. I'm glad they chose me, you know, and
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Speaker 1: I'm happy to be here. So Alan and Taylor were
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Speaker 1: the top two picks last year. Who will it be
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Speaker 1: this year? That's the million dollar question, of course. And
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Speaker 1: General manager Dave Caldwell and head coach Doug Marone held
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Speaker 1: their annual pre draft media conference this week. It's usually
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Speaker 1: held over a luncheon at the stadium, but this year
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Speaker 1: was held over Zoom and the Jaguars public relations staff
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Speaker 1: sent pizzas to each media member's house right after the conference.
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Speaker 1: It's always the last chance to discuss the draft with
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Speaker 1: the GM on the record, and Dave Caldwell knows with
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Speaker 1: twelve picks, there are plenty of options to improve this
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Speaker 1: football team. You know, this is the most draft capital
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Speaker 1: we've had here and and we need to hit on
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Speaker 1: all twelve and that's our and that's our philosophy and
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Speaker 1: in our processes that we want to make every one
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Speaker 1: of them count. And if if we could use one
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Speaker 1: of those to go maybe trade up and get a
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Speaker 1: guy that that we want in the select round, we'll
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Speaker 1: do that too. And and you never know, we may
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Speaker 1: we may acquaire some more throughout the draft. With speculation
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Speaker 1: surrounding the quarterback position in the draft this year, Doug
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Speaker 1: Maron was asked about Gardner Minshew's status and how the
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Speaker 1: team feels about the second year pro. We evaluate everyone
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Speaker 1: in his dram, so we evaluated, you know, the quarterback position,
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Speaker 1: just like we've evaluated the defensive en running back position, everything.
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Speaker 1: You know, And I think a lot of times you
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Speaker 1: look out there and you know, right now you know
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Speaker 1: this this question. I hope you already gets traight right now.
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Speaker 1: If we want to play garden men shows our guy,
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Speaker 1: and I'm excited about that. But do I want competition
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Speaker 1: for him? Absolutely? You want competition for everyone, though you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to make it where you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: answering this question and Maron is not a confident or
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Speaker 1: Maron wants competition. I want, you know, just for the quarterback.
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Speaker 1: I want competition for everyone. The one thing about Gardner
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Speaker 1: that you know, he has shown some good things last year.
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Speaker 1: You know we did win obviously six games with him. Uh,
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Speaker 1: he's the guy right now that's working in the app
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Speaker 1: off me still again, you know how we're working on
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Speaker 1: getting a better football team. Like Dave said, if we
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Speaker 1: to break some one in or you know, the other
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Speaker 1: thing is they bring some people in around that can
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Speaker 1: help that position at quarterback. And we end this week
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Speaker 1: on a light note. On Thursday, I moderated a season
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Speaker 1: ticket member town hall over Zoom featuring Caldwell and Maron,
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Speaker 1: answering submitted questions from ticket holders, but also answering a
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Speaker 1: few live on video. After all the football talk for
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Speaker 1: about twenty five minutes, the final question took a different
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Speaker 1: turn sunny thingg Pan and c J down in knock
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Speaker 1: it t joining us. What's up? How are you doing today?
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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us? C J? How old are you
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Speaker 1: are you in school right now? Or what's going on
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Speaker 1: at home schooling? I think everybody's homeschooling right now. Unfortunately
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Speaker 1: that's kinda kind of how it works. What is your
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Speaker 1: question for David Doug what do you got for us?
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Speaker 1: Who is your personal hero? Oh? Deep question, deep question?
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Speaker 1: To close this out, c J bringing the heat, Dave,
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Speaker 1: what do you got for us? Well, that's a fair question.
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Speaker 1: I uh, you know, I always kind of go back to,
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Speaker 1: uh my mom and my dad. I think, I think
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Speaker 1: what they did for me. I have two brothers, I
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Speaker 1: have two other brothers and another sister, and they put
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Speaker 1: us all through uh good educations and really took care
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Speaker 1: of us and put us in positions to uh have
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Speaker 1: the careers that we've had. And they sacrificed a lot.
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Speaker 1: We did not come from a lot, and I think
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Speaker 1: they did everything they could do for their children. Doug,
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Speaker 1: what you got for us? Both my parents worked, you know,
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Speaker 1: growing up they had to work, and my grandmother pretty
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Speaker 1: much wasn't around the whole time. So I give a
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Speaker 1: lot of credits to my grandmother, you know, from the
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Speaker 1: standpoint of, you know, teaching me about parties in life,
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Speaker 1: teaching me about faith being first, you know, which was
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Speaker 1: really strong. And you know, she was the one that
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Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to go to church, and
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Speaker 1: she would drag me to church and forced me to
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Speaker 1: do those things, which I appreciate now. Later in life.
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Speaker 1: You know, if you don't have that support or you know,
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Speaker 1: at home, it's it's difficult to do. Um. The job
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Speaker 1: that we do is as coaches. And you know, then
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Speaker 1: she she talked to me about you know, obviously education.
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Speaker 1: You know, education was the next thing, which was the
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Speaker 1: third priority. So you know, when I was growing up,
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Speaker 1: my grandmother, because I love sports so much and I
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Speaker 1: wanted to play sports, so I used to have to
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Speaker 1: come home and you know, I'd have to do all
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Speaker 1: my homework for us, make sure we've done right, you know,
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Speaker 1: before I can, you know, go ahead and play sports.
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Speaker 1: And you know, so at an early age, I I
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Speaker 1: realized that, you know, education is more important than go
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Speaker 1: ahead and becoming a pro football player or a pro
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Speaker 1: baseball player, you know, when I was young. And it's
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Speaker 1: something that I appreciated from her. You know, we all
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Speaker 1: can be, you know, personal heroes to someone. Great stuff, CJ.
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Speaker 1: What a question. Wait to close this out today, Good job,
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Speaker 1: a fun call and a fun week. I guess what
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Speaker 1: even more fun lies dad ahead next week because the
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Speaker 1: NFL Draft gets started Thursday. Draft logistics and much different.
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Speaker 1: Of course, our coverage will be much different than you've
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Speaker 1: seen before. And we're looking forward to it. More details
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Speaker 1: on the timing of coverage and shows will be announced
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Speaker 1: early next week. Thanks to all our contributors this week,
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Speaker 1: and thanks to you for listening. This is J. P.
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Speaker 1: Shaddrick and we'll catch you next week on the Jags Broadcast.
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