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- 0:11Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive Time starts right now. Happy Tuesday morning. Welcome
- 0:18Speaker 1: into Jaguars Drive Time, brought to you by Jet Home
- 0:21Speaker 1: Loans this morning in the off season. Getting kind of
- 0:25Speaker 1: busy this week though, as we get ready to head
- 0:26Speaker 1: to the NFL Combine next Monday. No show next week's
- 0:30Speaker 1: We'll talk a lot about the Combine on this episode.
- 0:32Speaker 1: But first, boys, how was your weekend? It was great.
- 0:36Speaker 1: I came in yesterday, which was awesome. You did why? Uh?
- 0:40Speaker 1: Nobody told me? As president? So I pulled up to
- 0:44Speaker 1: the parking lot? And who did you blame for that?
- 0:46Speaker 1: You dare we not set an email reminding philosophy is
- 0:51Speaker 1: when in doubt, blame others. So did you walk into
- 0:54Speaker 1: the building or did you see the empty parking lot?
- 0:56Speaker 1: I walked into the building and just sort of double
- 0:58Speaker 1: check because I was fuse at that point. Um. Well,
- 1:02Speaker 1: often we are traveling to the Combine on President's Day,
- 1:06Speaker 1: and this year we left it didn't fall that way. No,
- 1:09Speaker 1: I knew the combine wasn't this week, but it was nice.
- 1:12Speaker 1: It was quiet. It's quiet. I got some office supplies,
- 1:16Speaker 1: you thought, Max. And that's what I do when I'm
- 1:18Speaker 1: here alone. You steal the office other people's office supplies.
- 1:23Speaker 1: So it was hence why my pencil cups empty. It
- 1:25Speaker 1: was a good day, lovely day. Now I know who
- 1:28Speaker 1: to blame, well, I always blame others, of course. All right,
- 1:31Speaker 1: let's get into big things, shall we Heading to the
- 1:33Speaker 1: Combine next Monday. Big thing one is doug In Day.
- 1:36Speaker 1: We will hear from head coach Doug Ron and general
- 1:38Speaker 1: manager Dave Cogwell next Tuesday at the NFL Combine. If
- 1:42Speaker 1: your call. Last year, that press conference at the Combine,
- 1:45Speaker 1: that's when we found out that Marcel Darry is gonna
- 1:48Speaker 1: stay at Jacksonville Jaguar had met with Dave Cogwell, and
- 1:51Speaker 1: that was a big moment at the Combine, and that
- 1:53Speaker 1: was big news coming out of that combiny. So maybe
- 1:55Speaker 1: we'll find out some news about Unique and dock Way,
- 1:58Speaker 1: Kalis Campbell. Perhaps hopefully something comes out of that press
- 2:02Speaker 1: conference next Tuesday. Big thing to new staff and new hirings.
- 2:07Speaker 1: We haven't talked a lot about the new offensive Cordier,
- 2:10Speaker 1: a new quarterback coach on this fine program. Jay Gruden,
- 2:13Speaker 1: Ben macadoo both joining the Jaguar staff. Ben McAdoo. Who's
- 2:17Speaker 1: gonna coach Gardner? Minshew nick Foles. We don't know Jay Gruden,
- 2:21Speaker 1: what is his offensive philosophy gonna be? Don't know that
- 2:24Speaker 1: as well. What we do know is that this was
- 2:26Speaker 1: Doug Brown's decision to bring in these two guys he
- 2:29Speaker 1: had the power to hire. This staff. Will talk much
- 2:31Speaker 1: more about that. Finally, Big Thing three prospects, our first
- 2:36Speaker 1: look at who could potentially be the first round draft
- 2:39Speaker 1: pick of the Jaguars next week at the NFL Combine,
- 2:43Speaker 1: And as we were getting prepared for the Combine last week, guys,
- 2:45Speaker 1: it's funny to look last year at the list of
- 2:48Speaker 1: targets of guys who wanted to pay attention to. T J. Hawkinson,
- 2:51Speaker 1: no big time tight ends. Josh Allen wasn't even on
- 2:55Speaker 1: that list of guys to even pay attention to at
- 2:57Speaker 1: the COMMA because we thought there is no way he
- 3:00Speaker 1: is there for the Jaguars to take. So it shows
- 3:03Speaker 1: that as much as you want to prepare for this
- 3:04Speaker 1: compin in all the draft prospects, most likely something will
- 3:07Speaker 1: shake out that you don't expect. Well, especially at number nine.
- 3:11Speaker 1: I mean, the lower you get in the first round, obviously,
- 3:13Speaker 1: the more can happen in front of you. So I
- 3:16Speaker 1: imagine we'll be looking at defensive tackles, offensive tackles next week,
- 3:22Speaker 1: maybe some cornerbacks. But when you're picking nine and twenty,
- 3:25Speaker 1: you have general ideas, but you don't know for sure.
- 3:27Speaker 1: With here well, and I think that the quarterback crop
- 3:29Speaker 1: in this year's class. Obviously Burrow was sitting there at
- 3:32Speaker 1: the top. But you know, whatever to ends up doing
- 3:35Speaker 1: in terms of workout. Um, justin Herbert, was he the
- 3:39Speaker 1: star of the Senior Bowl. I mean, he certainly was
- 3:40Speaker 1: one of the bigger stories coming out of the Senior Bowl.
- 3:43Speaker 1: With these guys, and who knows what Jordan's love does,
- 3:45Speaker 1: but he's got a lot of attention to You could
- 3:48Speaker 1: find teams that are vaulting up ahead of you and
- 3:50Speaker 1: driving players down the board, because a run on quarterbacks
- 3:54Speaker 1: is entirely possible, right. I think offensive tackles another one.
- 3:57Speaker 1: It probably doesn't start that high, but you never know
- 4:00Speaker 1: how these guys great out, so trying to decide who
- 4:03Speaker 1: will slide, but someone will. There'll be someone sitting there
- 4:05Speaker 1: at nine that you don't expect because it's seven. Last
- 4:09Speaker 1: year was a guy that no one could have thought
- 4:11Speaker 1: would have fallen that far. It wasn't even on the list.
- 4:13Speaker 1: We had a list probably a thirty guys to pay
- 4:15Speaker 1: attended to go to their press conference. Wasn't even on
- 4:18Speaker 1: the list. And it's funny to look at that list
- 4:19Speaker 1: and say, where did this guy even? And now you know,
- 4:21Speaker 1: I point out again, I'm on the phone in Nashville
- 4:24Speaker 1: and I'm being told to go look for t J. Hockinson.
- 4:26Speaker 1: And then it was hold on, wait stop. The Giants
- 4:29Speaker 1: had just made the selection and Josh Allen was there
- 4:31Speaker 1: and it changed. So you were right on target last
- 4:33Speaker 1: year with Hockinson. It's just that that unexpected occurrence changes
- 4:37Speaker 1: all the plans. And if that's the case, you hope
- 4:40Speaker 1: that they go with best player available again this year.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Another thing that is interesting about the combine is that
- 4:45Speaker 1: the behind the curtain gossip talk of the week. We
- 4:49Speaker 1: all know that happens where you all of a sudden
- 4:50Speaker 1: see a bunch of trades happening the week after the
- 4:53Speaker 1: NFL Combine, Guys talking at restaurants and the bathroom line.
- 4:57Speaker 1: That stuff happens at the Combine. So possibly something could
- 5:00Speaker 1: happened with maybe a Nick Foles trade something like that.
- 5:03Speaker 1: I mean, we know the Jaguars are dealing with cap
- 5:05Speaker 1: issues space, Maybe something like that happens next week. Yeah,
- 5:08Speaker 1: it's always a conversation like that. I are big thing
- 5:11Speaker 1: one is you know what Doug and Dave will say. Um,
- 5:16Speaker 1: you never know what to expect. I wouldn't expect them
- 5:18Speaker 1: to have unique and got way news on that front.
- 5:21Speaker 1: That's in. That's a negotiation, that's a pretty high profile.
- 5:25Speaker 1: The Marcel thing was a renegotiation that he sort of
- 5:30Speaker 1: came to the teams that I want to stay. How
- 5:32Speaker 1: do we make this work? Was how Dave put it. Uh,
- 5:35Speaker 1: I would expect him to be asked about Calais Campbell.
- 5:37Speaker 1: I expected to be asked about Marcel Again, these guys,
- 5:40Speaker 1: I don't know that when this they have a bombshell moment.
- 5:42Speaker 1: But usually those combine talks are more about the GM
- 5:46Speaker 1: than the head coach. The head coaches, you know, there's
- 5:49Speaker 1: not much that he can say in terms of news
- 5:52Speaker 1: personnel wise, usually follows the GM. So Dave's press commence
- 5:56Speaker 1: next week usually has a couple of nuggets and I
- 5:58Speaker 1: expect more of a Usually when Dave talks at that
- 6:01Speaker 1: you get more of a feeling about what they're gonna
- 6:04Speaker 1: do rather than hard news, Hey, this is what we're
- 6:07Speaker 1: doing X player, why players Z player wether three weeks
- 6:10Speaker 1: out when Dave talks from the start of free agency.
- 6:13Speaker 1: I don't think they can say anything about Yawn until
- 6:16Speaker 1: they decide what they're doing with Campbell R right. I
- 6:19Speaker 1: mean that to me is the interesting lynch pin, you know.
- 6:22Speaker 1: I mean you say chicken or the egg. Do you
- 6:24Speaker 1: go ahead and agree to a deal with Yawn and
- 6:26Speaker 1: then figure out what you're doing with Campbell? Or do
- 6:28Speaker 1: you figure out what you're doing with Campbell and then
- 6:30Speaker 1: you know, attack it? Um. But no matter what they do,
- 6:32Speaker 1: they're gonna have to create some cap room in order
- 6:33Speaker 1: to be able to get Unique and Gockquay under the
- 6:35Speaker 1: cap so to make this whole thing work. Um. That
- 6:39Speaker 1: one feels to me like we will be in training
- 6:42Speaker 1: camp still wondering about Unique and Godoys, and I would
- 6:45Speaker 1: be surprised that under the tag, and I'd be surprised
- 6:49Speaker 1: if he likes that. Um. In fact, that might be
- 6:52Speaker 1: the answer. Next week. You that you hear, you may
- 6:54Speaker 1: hear what we're prepared to use the tag if we
- 6:55Speaker 1: can't get something done. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure he
- 6:58Speaker 1: will say if they having anything done, I'm sure say
- 7:01Speaker 1: they're prepared to. I think it's that day, that it's
- 7:04Speaker 1: the first day they can do it, but they don't
- 7:06Speaker 1: have to do it until I think it's March ten.
- 7:09Speaker 1: So he'll be asked about it, and I'm sure the
- 7:11Speaker 1: story will be Dave calledwell says things are a possibility. Well,
- 7:16Speaker 1: everything's possibility. But I'm sure he'll say that, you know
- 7:18Speaker 1: you have mentioned Gardner Minshew as well. Will there be
- 7:20Speaker 1: any news there. I just don't think from a negotiating standpoint,
- 7:23Speaker 1: from a trade standpoint, you say anything about him at
- 7:26Speaker 1: all that you know their stance has been. You know,
- 7:29Speaker 1: we'll have two quarterbacks and will be competing with two quarterbacks.
- 7:31Speaker 1: Whether it's you know that your conversation with shod Khan
- 7:34Speaker 1: or you know Doug and Dave and what they've said today.
- 7:37Speaker 1: You know, if you're gonna get anything for Nick Foles,
- 7:39Speaker 1: you have to let people know that you you're prepared
- 7:42Speaker 1: to go to camp with him, and it's not just
- 7:44Speaker 1: gonna be given away. The message has been clear on
- 7:46Speaker 1: all fronts from multiple people. Two quarterbacks is just fine. Right,
- 7:50Speaker 1: it's got to be a fair deal. It's got to
- 7:51Speaker 1: be something that works for both sides. So I would
- 7:53Speaker 1: think if you're still gonna get the Hey, we've got
- 7:55Speaker 1: two quarterbacks and we're prepared to play with whichever one
- 7:57Speaker 1: can win the job. Right, So let's go to big
- 7:59Speaker 1: three prospects. We're making the list of guys to pay
- 8:02Speaker 1: attention to at the combine, and these three guys stand
- 8:05Speaker 1: out above the rest, especially with the mock draft. John,
- 8:07Speaker 1: I read your lovely article on Jaguars dot com. This
- 8:11Speaker 1: guy was mocked the Jaguars at number ninety of Derek Brown,
- 8:14Speaker 1: Javon Kinlaw, and Andrew Thomas as three guys to definitely
- 8:17Speaker 1: pay attention to, especially at the combine next week. Well,
- 8:20Speaker 1: there's so many right now I've done I think to
- 8:23Speaker 1: mock drafts kin Law and Derek Brown from Auburn, we're
- 8:27Speaker 1: guys that came up. I'm sure as I if if
- 8:31Speaker 1: I do a three or four more, I'm sure there
- 8:34Speaker 1: will be other guys who make sense. Offensive tackles are
- 8:37Speaker 1: going to be mocked to them, cornerbacks are gonna be
- 8:39Speaker 1: mocked to them. Jeff Acuda, I think you pronounce the
- 8:43Speaker 1: name from my home state. Uh, he's so far up
- 8:45Speaker 1: most teams. Draft boy, you wouldn't think he can get
- 8:47Speaker 1: to nine. He could be a guy who slides. You've
- 8:49Speaker 1: seen him and mocks um. These are some of the
- 8:53Speaker 1: guys people are talking about as possibilities. And I always
- 8:56Speaker 1: mock draft mock is the big work and they mean nothing.
- 9:01Speaker 1: They're interesting to talk about. But it wouldn't shock me
- 9:04Speaker 1: if one of these two guys in Jaguars uniform and
- 9:07Speaker 1: uh April, because they just makes sense. Well, but most
- 9:11Speaker 1: folks seem to think that Derek Brown is going to
- 9:12Speaker 1: be gone well before nine. However, I'll go back to
- 9:15Speaker 1: Leonard Williams was the big name, the big tackle from
- 9:18Speaker 1: USC that most people thought was the number one overall
- 9:21Speaker 1: defensive player, and he slid the six. This would be
- 9:24Speaker 1: a situation if if Brown is there, I mean, that's
- 9:27Speaker 1: a run with his name on a card to the
- 9:29Speaker 1: commissioner and get this one done. Because he is so
- 9:32Speaker 1: big and so strong. He when you watch him on tape,
- 9:36Speaker 1: you see a guy that he kind of has a
- 9:38Speaker 1: Baselli frame. You know, there's great, big, long arms and power.
- 9:41Speaker 1: Nobody gets into his body. He keeps him out here
- 9:43Speaker 1: and he has power out here where most guys don't.
- 9:46Speaker 1: If he gets there, you run to it, and there's
- 9:48Speaker 1: a chance he could get there. But to me, he
- 9:50Speaker 1: only gets there if if the quarterback run happens and
- 9:53Speaker 1: you've got guys trading up. Yeah. Yeah, but if you've
- 9:56Speaker 1: got potentially three quarterbacks, he could go. He could happen.
- 10:00Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that could easily happen, and teams do odd
- 10:03Speaker 1: things as we saw. Nobody thought Josh Allen was going
- 10:06Speaker 1: to be there. And all you need is one need
- 10:09Speaker 1: is one pin fall and then one more team at
- 10:13Speaker 1: eight that doesn't write, you know, and all of a
- 10:16Speaker 1: sudden he's there. He would be this year's Josh Allen.
- 10:18Speaker 1: That that would be a major coup if he is
- 10:20Speaker 1: sitting there, And from what I talked to people that
- 10:23Speaker 1: I've talked to, Javon Kinlaw would be no consolation prize.
- 10:26Speaker 1: He's a terrific player too. All Right, we will see
- 10:28Speaker 1: what happens NFL Combine next week. We will be there
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- 12:25Speaker 1: Time Tuesday morning, heading into the zone. Mail bag right
- 12:29Speaker 1: here in Jacksonville, John, right in the John. So how
- 12:35Speaker 1: did so many conclude from a four game span after
- 12:37Speaker 1: recovering from injury and playing with a suspect offensive line
- 12:41Speaker 1: that Nick fools More from a clutch Super Bowl MVP
- 12:44Speaker 1: quarterback to a has been Are we being a little
- 12:48Speaker 1: quick to judge here? Well? A little too quick to
- 12:52Speaker 1: judge is the world we live in. And so that's
- 12:56Speaker 1: that's what happened. Is he played a good eleven plays.
- 13:01Speaker 1: Uh struggled when he came back at mid season with
- 13:05Speaker 1: a It's the age old things. It's what is what
- 13:08Speaker 1: we talked about every offseason for a long time around here. Uh.
- 13:12Speaker 1: What caused the struggle was that the quarterback was it
- 13:15Speaker 1: was going on around him. Uh, nick Foles for three games,
- 13:19Speaker 1: played sort of the way that Blake Bortles and Blaine
- 13:22Speaker 1: Gabbert and all these other storylines we've had for a
- 13:24Speaker 1: decade where you spend the offseason thinking, well, did this
- 13:27Speaker 1: guy struggle because of this? Because it X because of
- 13:30Speaker 1: hy Um. I don't think Nick Foles is a bad quarterback.
- 13:33Speaker 1: I think he played in the team, played poorly around,
- 13:36Speaker 1: so he's gonna get the blame. Uh. It struck me.
- 13:40Speaker 1: I was putting these those own questions together, and it
- 13:41Speaker 1: struck me during this show and Brian, we've talked about
- 13:43Speaker 1: at Ashland. I know less and am able to predict
- 13:49Speaker 1: less about this team going in the next year than
- 13:51Speaker 1: any team that I can remember around here. It just
- 13:54Speaker 1: seems like everything is uncertain. You don't know the quarterback.
- 13:56Speaker 1: When I think about the offensive line, there's two or
- 13:58Speaker 1: three different ways that go on the offensive line. I'm
- 14:00Speaker 1: not sure really what the biggest need is in the draft.
- 14:02Speaker 1: There's so much uncertainty. It's a huge job that they have,
- 14:06Speaker 1: and I don't even know that they know for sure
- 14:09Speaker 1: Nick Foles or Minshew because they haven't even It seems
- 14:13Speaker 1: like Jake Gruen has been here forever he's been here
- 14:14Speaker 1: like three or four weeks, so he's been looking to tape.
- 14:18Speaker 1: I haven't heard for sure what director they're going to quarterback,
- 14:20Speaker 1: So well, I don't think you will. In answer to
- 14:23Speaker 1: this question, Uh, unless they make a trade, I don't
- 14:27Speaker 1: think you will. Yeah, we were too quick to judge,
- 14:29Speaker 1: and I think some of this as much as fans.
- 14:31Speaker 1: And we're gonna talk about Minshew mensa, Minshew, I think
- 14:34Speaker 1: this is still going to play out. Well. When I
- 14:36Speaker 1: read that's my first reaction was you think because you
- 14:39Speaker 1: remember at the time he came back and he didn't
- 14:42Speaker 1: play well against Indianapolis, all right, and then he came
- 14:45Speaker 1: back the next week and didn't play well, and back
- 14:47Speaker 1: to back weeks, and then the Tampa game was an
- 14:49Speaker 1: absolute I mean it was a disaster. It was a
- 14:51Speaker 1: dumpster fire. The turnovers and down twenty five to nothing
- 14:54Speaker 1: before you could even had to do something. They had
- 14:56Speaker 1: they had to make the change with him. But no,
- 14:58Speaker 1: when you look at at hit, at the few plays
- 15:02Speaker 1: that we got from him in Miami in the preseason,
- 15:05Speaker 1: and then the throw to Chark before he got injured
- 15:07Speaker 1: to play that he got injured on against Kansas City,
- 15:10Speaker 1: you saw a guy who could get the job done,
- 15:12Speaker 1: and I don't doubt that he absolutely can get the
- 15:14Speaker 1: job done. If we think that Minshew can play better
- 15:17Speaker 1: with better offensive line play and a tight end, why
- 15:21Speaker 1: can't we expect the same thing from a guy who's
- 15:22Speaker 1: been a Super Bowl MVP right with a big arm. Yes, absolutely,
- 15:28Speaker 1: we were too quick to judge. But John, you said
- 15:30Speaker 1: it right. In the in the world that we live
- 15:33Speaker 1: in with social media and instant analysis in twenty four
- 15:36Speaker 1: hour news cycles, it's all about having an opinion and
- 15:39Speaker 1: getting that opinion out. It doesn't matter whether it's right
- 15:42Speaker 1: or not. But the reality of it is is he's
- 15:43Speaker 1: still a talented enough guy that this team could win
- 15:46Speaker 1: with him this year. And as weird as it sounds, now,
- 15:51Speaker 1: there's a bunch of scenarios where falls place quarterback next year?
- 15:53Speaker 1: When's the job or you know, it's not like Minshew
- 15:57Speaker 1: had such an incredibly consistent season last year that you
- 16:01Speaker 1: could see him starting and just locking down the You know,
- 16:06Speaker 1: if he struggles for a couple of games, would it
- 16:08Speaker 1: shock you if the storyline in week eate next year
- 16:11Speaker 1: is that Folds has come in and played very well
- 16:13Speaker 1: as a backup kind of turned things around. That's sort
- 16:15Speaker 1: of what he's done his whole career. So we all
- 16:19Speaker 1: think we know it's gonna play. I can kind of think, men,
- 16:21Speaker 1: she's going to be the guy. But this is a
- 16:23Speaker 1: guy who's been involved with weirder stories than him coming
- 16:26Speaker 1: back and playing well this year and being a very
- 16:29Speaker 1: good quarterback for this thing. If you want to know
- 16:31Speaker 1: what Fools is capable of, maybe that's wrong. What was it?
- 16:35Speaker 1: If you want to know what other people think, just
- 16:36Speaker 1: look around the league and see how many people are
- 16:38Speaker 1: putting him in different cities, you know, whether it's back
- 16:40Speaker 1: to Philadelphia or to Chicago, you know, anywhere where he
- 16:43Speaker 1: might be able to step into a quarterback situation and
- 16:47Speaker 1: improve it. There are a number of scenarios that were
- 16:49Speaker 1: out last week when Bill Barnewell did his his carousel
- 16:52Speaker 1: on on ESPN, which was very well done. Um, you know,
- 16:56Speaker 1: Los Angeles, Carolina Chargers, Carolina, uh, Chicago, Philadelphia. There were
- 17:02Speaker 1: a lot of places where nick Fole's name came up.
- 17:04Speaker 1: One of them was even New England. If Tom Brady
- 17:05Speaker 1: doesn't come back. So people still think very highly of
- 17:08Speaker 1: him in this and the Jaguars aren't in a bad
- 17:11Speaker 1: situation because they have a quarterback that people think highly of. Yea, yeah,
- 17:14Speaker 1: and you wouldn't be surprised during training camp. Every day
- 17:17Speaker 1: we're coming back on the show talking about how they
- 17:18Speaker 1: dueled it out one in two reps. Who gets first
- 17:20Speaker 1: reps today? You could so see that happening. Remember what
- 17:23Speaker 1: we said last week, here is it talking to people
- 17:24Speaker 1: in the building. It isn't as if someone's going no, no no,
- 17:26Speaker 1: Minshew is the man right. No one is saying we
- 17:29Speaker 1: haven't heard that, No, we haven't heard that. People talking
- 17:32Speaker 1: about what they liked and what they still want to see.
- 17:34Speaker 1: But it's not asificote. Here's our Deshaun Watson. His name
- 17:37Speaker 1: is Gardner Minshew. They're not doing that yet, which means
- 17:39Speaker 1: it's still open. If he gets to what Ashton talked about,
- 17:42Speaker 1: which is very possible. Um Folds is gonna look better
- 17:46Speaker 1: I think in a training camp situation than Minshew will,
- 17:50Speaker 1: just because so much of what Minshew does is based
- 17:53Speaker 1: on when everything's live and he creates KAO. There's not
- 17:57Speaker 1: as much chaos in a training camp. Everything so scrypted
- 18:00Speaker 1: and the things that he does well count, by the way,
- 18:02Speaker 1: and those are the real game things. And I'm not
- 18:04Speaker 1: knocking him, but in a training camp situation, Remember, Folds
- 18:06Speaker 1: look so much better last year, and and our gardener
- 18:09Speaker 1: looked like he might make the team, but when it
- 18:11Speaker 1: all came to count, then garden really stepped up. So
- 18:15Speaker 1: if it gets to that situation, is gonna be interesting
- 18:16Speaker 1: because you're gonna hear a lot of what we gotta
- 18:18Speaker 1: start falls because he looks so good, but you gotta
- 18:20Speaker 1: remember what the other kid did in the games. Gonna
- 18:22Speaker 1: be interesting. All right, let's go to Bryce. What do
- 18:24Speaker 1: you have for us? Head coach dun Brown is clearly
- 18:27Speaker 1: bringing in guys who have experienced as leaders of a team.
- 18:31Speaker 1: The move seem to make sense. Hopefully the new approach
- 18:34Speaker 1: can turn things around. Optimistic Bryce, yea, And this was
- 18:38Speaker 1: about our big thing too with Ben McAdoo and h
- 18:41Speaker 1: Jay Gruden. Um, you know, I the point I would
- 18:47Speaker 1: make on these two guys, I don't know how big
- 18:51Speaker 1: a tangible difference you're gonna see what the quarterback position
- 18:53Speaker 1: because Ben mcadoos there. I don't know how you're going
- 18:56Speaker 1: to measure that. Jay Gruden, you be able to judge
- 18:58Speaker 1: by the play calling if they had hired these two guys,
- 19:04Speaker 1: If you had hired Ben McAdoo for this job in
- 19:06Speaker 1: two thousand was at seventeen when he got the Giants job.
- 19:10Speaker 1: If you had hired Jay Gruden for this job, and
- 19:12Speaker 1: I think he got the Redskins job in two thousand fourteen,
- 19:16Speaker 1: if you had hired these guys for these two positions
- 19:19Speaker 1: before they got their head coaching jobs, well A, you
- 19:24Speaker 1: couldn't have hired them for these positions because they were
- 19:26Speaker 1: too hot. They were the some of the best offensive
- 19:30Speaker 1: minds in the NFL at the time. Well that hasn't changed.
- 19:33Speaker 1: There's still those minds. So um, I think Doug made
- 19:37Speaker 1: it clear after he hired Jay. They didn't think or
- 19:41Speaker 1: he didn't think, we had time to learn on the fly,
- 19:45Speaker 1: didn't need coaches who had a learning curve, didn't need
- 19:47Speaker 1: a twenty eight year old offensive coordinator who was going
- 19:49Speaker 1: to grow into the job. They need guys who can
- 19:51Speaker 1: help them win right now. If you had said before
- 19:55Speaker 1: at the end of last season, when everybody said, well,
- 19:57Speaker 1: this is a lame duck situation, Doug Brown's got to
- 19:59Speaker 1: win now, nobody's gonna come. If you had told me
- 20:01Speaker 1: they could get Gruden and McAdoo for those two spots
- 20:05Speaker 1: in their situation, those two higher. They're absolutely the best
- 20:09Speaker 1: possible and I think they were a dream scenario. How
- 20:12Speaker 1: it works out, I don't know, you know, um So,
- 20:14Speaker 1: Ben McAdoo took over for Kevin Gilbride, former Jaguars offensive coordinator.
- 20:19Speaker 1: Great guy, good offensive mind, and the Giants in fifteen
- 20:23Speaker 1: and sixteen climbed dramatically both in torrant terms of offensive
- 20:27Speaker 1: efficiency and in points. There were twenty eight in points
- 20:31Speaker 1: when he took over and they finished sixth in points.
- 20:33Speaker 1: What do they miss? No, I just did a thing
- 20:36Speaker 1: on my coffee. I didn't mean to um okay for
- 20:40Speaker 1: what's gonna say? No, the Giants exploded offensively, and yeah,
- 20:46Speaker 1: he was very highly regarded and he got the job.
- 20:49Speaker 1: In part. The sense was he got the Giants job
- 20:53Speaker 1: because they felt like they couldn't afford to lose this
- 20:56Speaker 1: great offensive mind. And there was a lot of conversation
- 20:59Speaker 1: in sixteen with Tom having hired Ben, and that was
- 21:02Speaker 1: the year that Tom allegedly gave Ben the entire offense
- 21:05Speaker 1: run your scheme. Would you never think of a coach
- 21:07Speaker 1: like Tom Coughlin would who was an offensive guy? Absolutely,
- 21:10Speaker 1: and yet he had enough confidence in Ben McAdoo. And
- 21:12Speaker 1: of course McAdoo came from a stint with Aaron Rodgers
- 21:16Speaker 1: and Mike McCarthy, so he had a bit of a pedigree.
- 21:19Speaker 1: It fell apart obviously in New York very quickly, and
- 21:22Speaker 1: we've seen things fall apart quickly around here lately too.
- 21:25Speaker 1: Um Jay Gruden, I went back and I looked at
- 21:28Speaker 1: the years he had terrific seasons, not like the the
- 21:32Speaker 1: you know, explosion in terms of um rising up the
- 21:36Speaker 1: ranks or yards or point, but just really good offense
- 21:40Speaker 1: for what they were trying and right he was a
- 21:43Speaker 1: really really high regarded coordinator. And in Washington also he
- 21:46Speaker 1: you know, in two thousand sixteen, I think he had
- 21:48Speaker 1: the second best passing attack in professional football. So I mean,
- 21:52Speaker 1: these are guys that over the course of their career
- 21:53Speaker 1: have distinguished themselves. Now, now here's the key. How did
- 21:57Speaker 1: they take the talent that's here or whatever are going
- 22:00Speaker 1: to add? How do they make it better? You don't know.
- 22:04Speaker 1: You don't know. But if you had told me in
- 22:07Speaker 1: December that they would get two head coming and two
- 22:12Speaker 1: coaches with seven years of head coaching experience and with
- 22:16Speaker 1: accomplished you know people for years, well, why don't they
- 22:20Speaker 1: hire a coordinator? Who's done it. Well, these guys have
- 22:22Speaker 1: done it, So I don't know how it's gonna work.
- 22:25Speaker 1: But I don't know that you were going to get
- 22:27Speaker 1: better highers than these two guys in this situation. I
- 22:29Speaker 1: think they're remarkable highers. Everybody says, well, why would Doug
- 22:32Speaker 1: hire somebody with head coaching experience is waiting to take
- 22:34Speaker 1: his job. Doug ain't thinking that one. Doug's thinking how
- 22:38Speaker 1: could he? He's confident in himself. He's thinking, how can
- 22:41Speaker 1: I get these guys better right now? And these are
- 22:43Speaker 1: two good highers. What's remarkable two is is that you've
- 22:45Speaker 1: got two guys to come in on essentially what's a
- 22:47Speaker 1: one year deal, right, I mean it's year to year now.
- 22:49Speaker 1: So that was a that was a heck of a
- 22:51Speaker 1: cell job by Maron to get these guys. And we said,
- 22:53Speaker 1: what a great opportunities for coach Maron to bring in
- 22:55Speaker 1: the guys that he truly wants, getting the power completely
- 22:58Speaker 1: to him and saying hey, make the decisi and for
- 23:00Speaker 1: him to get both those guys. Pretty good job there.
- 23:03Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to Jeff from Orange, California with
- 23:07Speaker 1: the Jaguar seemingly having lots of needs to fill through
- 23:10Speaker 1: the draft. Do you see this year as being more
- 23:12Speaker 1: probable than past years for a trade back in round
- 23:15Speaker 1: one to collect more picks. Um, it's always tough to
- 23:22Speaker 1: predict trades because you have to have a partner. I think,
- 23:25Speaker 1: I think just makes sense. But my senses, if somebody
- 23:30Speaker 1: like Ken laarsony like Derrick Brown, you don't want to
- 23:33Speaker 1: trade too far back out of the top ten and
- 23:36Speaker 1: risks not getting that kind of a player, elite talent.
- 23:40Speaker 1: And often when we analyze the draft, people make the
- 23:46Speaker 1: mistake of saying so and so is a Round one
- 23:49Speaker 1: player and thinking they're all created equal. Some of this
- 23:52Speaker 1: falls the Tavin Bryan situation. Everybody said, well he he
- 23:55Speaker 1: was a complete bust, and they put him in the
- 23:57Speaker 1: same category as say, when you miss on Blake Bortles. Um,
- 24:02Speaker 1: a twenty ninth overall pick is not remotely the same
- 24:05Speaker 1: thing like a second round as as a as a
- 24:07Speaker 1: five pick. So the point being, you don't want to
- 24:10Speaker 1: trade back out of nine, trade back to fifteen and
- 24:14Speaker 1: get a guy who's pretty good compared to Ken Law
- 24:17Speaker 1: or Brown who might be defense changing, So don't trade
- 24:22Speaker 1: too far back. But yeah, I guess there's a possibility.
- 24:26Speaker 1: And I think to your point earlier in the the show, Brian,
- 24:28Speaker 1: the chance of trading back to get a lot would
- 24:34Speaker 1: be if one of those quarterbacks is sitting there at
- 24:36Speaker 1: nine and you decide you don't want them. The quarterbacks
- 24:39Speaker 1: we're gonna make. There are enough offensive tackles in this
- 24:42Speaker 1: traft that no one's going to start a run at seven, right, Uh,
- 24:46Speaker 1: sav thing with wide receivers. I mean there's wide receivers
- 24:48Speaker 1: way into the third round from you know what I
- 24:51Speaker 1: gather so far. There's not a tight end. There's not
- 24:53Speaker 1: a running back, you know, the the only position that's
- 24:56Speaker 1: going to drive your ability to go back as quarterback.
- 24:58Speaker 1: So follow the quarterback next week at the combine and
- 25:01Speaker 1: throughout their workouts and see who climbs. Oh. I have
- 25:04Speaker 1: a feeling we will be doing that. If I remember
- 25:06Speaker 1: anything about last year's combine, it was the crowd around
- 25:09Speaker 1: Kyler Murray's press conference. I think it was absolutely absurd.
- 25:13Speaker 1: Probably say this in every show, but careful now, don't
- 25:16Speaker 1: try to trade away from quarterback. That could be a
- 25:17Speaker 1: difference maker just because you think, well, I've got minshow
- 25:20Speaker 1: or I've got folds and I got to win this year.
- 25:23Speaker 1: If one of those guys are sitting there at nine,
- 25:24Speaker 1: you better take a good hard look at them too.
- 25:26Speaker 1: And I think, Brian, that's sort of the huge underlying
- 25:31Speaker 1: story of this draft that will never be able to
- 25:35Speaker 1: officially write or talk about because they're never gonna say it, obviously,
- 25:39Speaker 1: but it's going to be easy to steer away from
- 25:43Speaker 1: quarterback the entire time leading up to it, and you
- 25:46Speaker 1: just don't know what they're thinking on that front. It's
- 25:47Speaker 1: gonna be fascinating if one of those guys is at nine,
- 25:51Speaker 1: If one of them are at nine, how do you
- 25:52Speaker 1: pass it up? And we're all gonna be sitting there
- 25:55Speaker 1: going if you're not really talking about or thinking about it,
- 25:59Speaker 1: But it's gonna be am just something to consider. This morning,
- 26:01Speaker 1: mill Hiper put out his second version of his mock
- 26:04Speaker 1: draft and he's talking about two agoing three to the Lions.
- 26:07Speaker 1: Of course, he's making the case this that or the other,
- 26:09Speaker 1: but he put the Jaguars in a group of player
- 26:11Speaker 1: of teams that might be trading up for a quarterback.
- 26:15Speaker 1: Now people in Jacksonville going, no, we're not doing that right. Look,
- 26:20Speaker 1: the Texans traded up for Watson, The Chiefs traded up
- 26:24Speaker 1: for Mahomes. If you want one of those guys, if
- 26:27Speaker 1: you think one of them is the guys, you're gonna
- 26:29Speaker 1: have to go out and get them. Right. The one
- 26:31Speaker 1: thing I'd say is neither one of these teams. The
- 26:34Speaker 1: chiefs of the Texans were for sure, but they felt
- 26:37Speaker 1: they're great. Their sense told them these guys are gonna
- 26:40Speaker 1: be really good. There are franchise quarterback If you have
- 26:42Speaker 1: that sense, you have the draft capital this year and
- 26:45Speaker 1: next to be able to go do it. If you
- 26:47Speaker 1: want a quarterback, chances are you're not getting him at nine.
- 26:50Speaker 1: You're gonna have to go up and get him. And
- 26:51Speaker 1: an interesting point remember shod Con last year he said
- 26:56Speaker 1: this in London, was adamant that they get backup quarterback.
- 27:01Speaker 1: Um says, well, they've called on Doug Maroon. They're trying
- 27:05Speaker 1: to win now. They would never draft a quarterback. There's
- 27:08Speaker 1: all these things out there there. You know, if you're
- 27:10Speaker 1: the owner, you have to tell them right. Well, and
- 27:12Speaker 1: at think for the GM. I think if you're Dave,
- 27:14Speaker 1: you realize the job in itself is always what's best
- 27:19Speaker 1: for the franchise over the long term. And he has
- 27:21Speaker 1: said that constantly over the years, no matter what situation
- 27:24Speaker 1: and talk there is you've got to do his best
- 27:26Speaker 1: for franchise long term. So um as much as people
- 27:30Speaker 1: won't talk about that a whole lot, I do think
- 27:34Speaker 1: the quarterback has to be something that they're talking about,
- 27:36Speaker 1: trying to figure out how do we do what's best.
- 27:38Speaker 1: It's been deficient for too long. You can't ignore it.
- 27:40Speaker 1: Go back to that seventeen season and we saw in
- 27:43Speaker 1: the second half when the Texans pulled their starting quarterback
- 27:45Speaker 1: I can't remember his name, the kid from Pitt and
- 27:48Speaker 1: they put in Watson and all, even though the game
- 27:50Speaker 1: wasn't close, You're like, WHOA, look at this guy. And
- 27:53Speaker 1: then memory towards a c l in October on the
- 27:55Speaker 1: practice field and the league is like, WHOA, what a
- 27:57Speaker 1: bummer because we're just starting to see this kid emerge.
- 28:00Speaker 1: Homes only got in the last game of the year
- 28:02Speaker 1: when the playoffs were already assured for that team, and
- 28:04Speaker 1: he lit it up in Denver and everyone, WHOA, Right,
- 28:08Speaker 1: if one of these guys is that kind of guy,
- 28:13Speaker 1: get him. Yeah, And it doesn't seem honestly that far
- 28:16Speaker 1: fetched if say, Justin Herbert is your guy, because that's
- 28:18Speaker 1: the first time I've seen two of going to the
- 28:20Speaker 1: Lions at three. Was this morning's Neil Kuiper's Draft, Well,
- 28:23Speaker 1: what he was saying, well, and again depending on how
- 28:26Speaker 1: you grade him right. The one thing we don't know
- 28:29Speaker 1: is how they're going to grade them right. And you
- 28:31Speaker 1: can make mistakes on quarterbacks as well. But the point
- 28:35Speaker 1: that the Kiper was making is he doesn't do trades
- 28:37Speaker 1: in his draft, but two belongs to three. Someone's going
- 28:40Speaker 1: to three to get him. They think, whether it's the
- 28:42Speaker 1: Lions or not, if the Dolphins, whoever it might be,
- 28:45Speaker 1: the Chargers, whoever wants him, is going to have to
- 28:47Speaker 1: go to three. That was what he was saying this
- 28:48Speaker 1: morning with the mock draft. Interesting and he's probably right
- 28:51Speaker 1: because usually this time of year you don't see that
- 28:53Speaker 1: mocked and by a week before the draft or on
- 28:56Speaker 1: draft night. And there's been a trend over the last years.
- 29:00Speaker 1: It's been jumping up to get the quarter well, and
- 29:03Speaker 1: then you could, I mean that could just pull the
- 29:04Speaker 1: cork and all of a sudden, you could just just
- 29:06Speaker 1: wash away what you thought was going to happen with
- 29:08Speaker 1: the top ten or twelve picks, because all of a sudden,
- 29:11Speaker 1: someone's gonna go up to get Herbert and then someone's
- 29:12Speaker 1: gonna go we love love, you know, we gotta go
- 29:14Speaker 1: get him an eight, and all of a sudden everything changes.
- 29:17Speaker 1: And then and then Derek Brown Brown is sitting in
- 29:19Speaker 1: your laugh and you're thinking, Okay, here we go. We've
- 29:21Speaker 1: got two guys that we can work with. This is
- 29:23Speaker 1: a guy we can't pass out. Here we go again,
- 29:25Speaker 1: all right, when we come back our new segment here
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- 31:46Speaker 1: Good Year. Are you guys ready to talk tight end
- 31:51Speaker 1: all suck the valve? Let's look at the type end
- 31:55Speaker 1: depth chart currently for the Jaguars. You currently have eight
- 31:58Speaker 1: tight ends on your roster. I just put here because
- 32:00Speaker 1: I couldn't fit it. James O'Shaughnessy, Josh Oliver, Jeff Swain, Bonkoy,
- 32:04Speaker 1: accept de Val along with a few others. The two
- 32:07Speaker 1: at the top are really the big questions because James
- 32:09Speaker 1: O'Shaughnessy that big injury. Josh Oliver big injury, A lot
- 32:13Speaker 1: of hype with him during training can't be thought. What
- 32:15Speaker 1: a great draft pick that was. We still have so
- 32:18Speaker 1: many questions about Josh Oliver, whether or not he can
- 32:21Speaker 1: be a productive tight end. James O'Shaughnessy was Gardner Minshew's
- 32:24Speaker 1: guy before he got hurt, playing well, really productive, seemed
- 32:27Speaker 1: like the number one tight end. With that injury, you
- 32:30Speaker 1: never know it's a loss. If the three guys at
- 32:32Speaker 1: the bottom of the screen there are on your roster
- 32:35Speaker 1: and opening day, I mean no offense to any of them.
- 32:38Speaker 1: But they're guys that you find all over the league.
- 32:40Speaker 1: Every team has two of those guys. You need James
- 32:43Speaker 1: O'Shaughnessy to come back from the a c L and
- 32:48Speaker 1: Josh Oliver to show us what we saw from him
- 32:52Speaker 1: on the practice field before he got injured with the hamstring.
- 32:55Speaker 1: I you saw the six found guy running down the
- 32:58Speaker 1: field like a wide receiver. You thought, right, this third
- 33:01Speaker 1: round pick from San Jose State's got something. And John D.
- 33:03Speaker 1: Philippo told me before he left, Oliver is a guy
- 33:06Speaker 1: that has huge upside, right, and he's very high on
- 33:08Speaker 1: what he was capable of doing. You're gonna go into
- 33:11Speaker 1: free agency and the draft looking for a guy that
- 33:14Speaker 1: can be your featured guy, hoping that Oliver can be
- 33:17Speaker 1: your future guy, and you have to And then O'Shaughnessy
- 33:20Speaker 1: is your third and you know you can go get
- 33:23Speaker 1: Ben Quick the jag Wars have gotten him again and
- 33:25Speaker 1: again and again, and then Seth the Valve and Jeff Swain.
- 33:28Speaker 1: You can go find those guys, um, but you need
- 33:31Speaker 1: that that stretch, that guy who I mean, You're not
- 33:35Speaker 1: gonna go find Kelsey. I mean, there aren't many guys
- 33:38Speaker 1: like that at all, but you know, the Chiefs got
- 33:41Speaker 1: kind of lucky with him too. What was the third
- 33:42Speaker 1: round pick? You just you gotta go and you gotta
- 33:45Speaker 1: improve the position, and you've got the chance to with
- 33:48Speaker 1: two guys that are on your roster right now. It's
- 33:50Speaker 1: a tricky spot because usually tight ends and this is
- 33:56Speaker 1: a little bit different, there are some free agent tight
- 33:58Speaker 1: ends available. They could be a quick fix. That's rare. Um.
- 34:02Speaker 1: It's usually a position where it's it's hard to go
- 34:05Speaker 1: get uh elite guy to come in and help. It's
- 34:08Speaker 1: been exceptions. Jimmy Graham was an exception, But it's it's
- 34:12Speaker 1: hard to go get the guy who's gonna come in
- 34:13Speaker 1: and help you right away. And so teams usually find
- 34:17Speaker 1: them in the draft, but they used to take a
- 34:19Speaker 1: couple of years to develop, you know. And again there's
- 34:21Speaker 1: exceptions of that, but generally speaking, so I think you
- 34:25Speaker 1: need to draft one. But I don't know that there's
- 34:27Speaker 1: a tight end in this draft that's gonna come in
- 34:30Speaker 1: and help you right away necessarily. So Hunter Henry or
- 34:34Speaker 1: these three guys see on the screen all makes sense. Um,
- 34:38Speaker 1: As you said, it's not a knock on the guys
- 34:40Speaker 1: on the roster because swam Oliver O'Shaughnessy. All might be fine.
- 34:46Speaker 1: Aliver might be great, But I don't think you can
- 34:48Speaker 1: take a chance that any of those guys don't develop
- 34:51Speaker 1: or her. I think you need some impact right away.
- 34:54Speaker 1: At you said it. You you see these guys they
- 34:56Speaker 1: take time to develop. Well, you've got one developmental guy
- 34:58Speaker 1: in there right now, and that's Oliver right, a guy
- 35:01Speaker 1: who you expect to develop you. That's why you used
- 35:03Speaker 1: a third round pick on him. You you need to
- 35:06Speaker 1: go and add a couple of these guys. I mean again,
- 35:08Speaker 1: I mentioned Travis Kelsey, but what about George kittle Right,
- 35:12Speaker 1: he was a fifth round pick. You they could have
- 35:14Speaker 1: really loved him and thought he was gonna be great.
- 35:15Speaker 1: But two time all pro I mean that quickly you
- 35:19Speaker 1: have to go and find these guys and hope that
- 35:21Speaker 1: you uncover one that's got a lot of upside um.
- 35:24Speaker 1: The one name on that list that I would be
- 35:25Speaker 1: stunned if he got to free agency is Hunter Henry.
- 35:28Speaker 1: Because you look at the Chargers hill injuries have been
- 35:30Speaker 1: an issue. They may be ready to give up on that.
- 35:33Speaker 1: You would then let the buyer beware, right, because then
- 35:37Speaker 1: you're taking on theirs. The the issue with him is
- 35:39Speaker 1: as though, is that he's a terrific player, and terrific
- 35:43Speaker 1: tight ends aren't necessarily easy to find. You need to
- 35:45Speaker 1: be able to hold onto some star players. You're talking
- 35:48Speaker 1: about Melvin Gordon going, Philip Rivers is gone, and your
- 35:50Speaker 1: star players are only on the defensive side. I'd be
- 35:53Speaker 1: stunned if he gets to free agency. But I mean,
- 35:55Speaker 1: the crazier things have happened. It's a maddening position for
- 35:58Speaker 1: this team because you've known forever that it needs to
- 36:02Speaker 1: be addressed. They've always, even when Mercedes was here, still
- 36:06Speaker 1: felt like you needed a receiving tight end. You've always
- 36:09Speaker 1: I feel like you needed it. And yet, much like
- 36:11Speaker 1: last year, to me, the last draft sort of to
- 36:14Speaker 1: find how it's tough to get that position. They knew
- 36:16Speaker 1: they wanted t J. Hopkinson, but then all of a sudden,
- 36:19Speaker 1: there was this position that made so much more sense
- 36:21Speaker 1: because Josh Allen was there value well, and it was
- 36:24Speaker 1: a it was a no brainer pick. It should never
- 36:28Speaker 1: be criticized, but it shows that's why it's sometimes tough
- 36:31Speaker 1: to get tight end because you've got all these other
- 36:33Speaker 1: positions that you sort of prioritize. It's a no brainer
- 36:35Speaker 1: go get defensive end over tight end. But by doing
- 36:38Speaker 1: that over time, you sort of have remained deficient tight end.
- 36:43Speaker 1: And there are franchises they have a tough time finding.
- 36:46Speaker 1: That's finding positions. For whatever reason, tight end has sort
- 36:50Speaker 1: of been at They haven't had a horrible play tight
- 36:52Speaker 1: end for years, but they haven't been able to find
- 36:55Speaker 1: their Travis Kelsey, zach Ertz, those guys. It's been elusive.
- 37:00Speaker 1: You watch the Chiefs or the Niners play this year,
- 37:03Speaker 1: and of course in the Super Bowl, the mismatches because
- 37:05Speaker 1: if their size, in their athletic ability and the matchups
- 37:08Speaker 1: they are able to get on the outside. Uh, you've
- 37:10Speaker 1: got to have that position, you absolutely do. The one
- 37:12Speaker 1: thing I have seen so far is there doesn't appear
- 37:15Speaker 1: to be a first round tight end. Last year you
- 37:17Speaker 1: had a couple of guys with first round grades. Maybe
- 37:19Speaker 1: the kid from Notre Dame slides in at the end
- 37:21Speaker 1: of the first round. But there are plenty of names
- 37:24Speaker 1: of guys who belong in the second and third round.
- 37:28Speaker 1: So there's gonna be someone they can choose. And it
- 37:29Speaker 1: sounds as if this is one of those years you
- 37:32Speaker 1: can't afford to let it go too far. Yeah, Actually,
- 37:34Speaker 1: I was reading El Kuiper's draft this morning. He actually
- 37:36Speaker 1: doesn't have a tight end mocked until forty six and
- 37:38Speaker 1: then it is the not hit out of Notre Dame.
- 37:40Speaker 1: But you look at last year t J Hawks and
- 37:42Speaker 1: no one fan all those guys, so it seems like
- 37:44Speaker 1: you they were going to be first round, right. So
- 37:46Speaker 1: it seems like if you're the Jaguars and you need
- 37:47Speaker 1: a tight end right away, it seems like free agency
- 37:49Speaker 1: would just make more sense this year because the free
- 37:51Speaker 1: agent market was way more this year tight un friendly
- 37:54Speaker 1: than it was last year. It does, but I don't
- 37:56Speaker 1: think I don't get the impression and this is just
- 37:59Speaker 1: an impress and I don't get the impression they're going
- 38:02Speaker 1: to be market setters for any position though. And if
- 38:05Speaker 1: you're not a market setter, I don't know that you're
- 38:07Speaker 1: gonna get Austin Hoop right, get Hunter Henry. So they
- 38:10Speaker 1: may change that, but it doesn't feel like they're going
- 38:13Speaker 1: to be going after that type. So then all of
- 38:14Speaker 1: a sudden, you're back into hoping that Josh. I think
- 38:17Speaker 1: it's a weird position for this team. The only way
- 38:19Speaker 1: that you can set a market for any player at
- 38:21Speaker 1: the tight end is if you get unique Gogoys deal done,
- 38:24Speaker 1: I mean they just what they're trying to manage with
- 38:27Speaker 1: him is going to preclude them from doing it. So
- 38:29Speaker 1: let's just say that you get Eric Ebron right, and
- 38:32Speaker 1: he's not He's not going to be a market contract,
- 38:34Speaker 1: that big deal. You still have to go draft somebody.
- 38:37Speaker 1: I don't care whether it's the fourth round or the
- 38:38Speaker 1: fifth round. You've got to go and find another developmental
- 38:41Speaker 1: tight end because John's right, they take some time to
- 38:44Speaker 1: develop in this game. If you hit on it, great,
- 38:47Speaker 1: but you're gonna have to develop some guys and you
- 38:49Speaker 1: need it. I think it's a weird spot because Josh Oliver,
- 38:55Speaker 1: you know, there's a percentage chance out there that they
- 38:59Speaker 1: did it already. What we're talking about, they've already done it.
- 39:02Speaker 1: Maybe they've already done it, but do you have confidence
- 39:05Speaker 1: in that knowing that you haven't seen it. It's it's
- 39:08Speaker 1: a strange, buddy, wouldn't you talking they said, Hey, we
- 39:11Speaker 1: feel like we've already done this. Sometimes and there is
- 39:14Speaker 1: a school thought in this league sometimes you've got to
- 39:16Speaker 1: trust what you drafted, and maybe that's their approach. I
- 39:20Speaker 1: think that would be risk. Well, he was injury prone
- 39:22Speaker 1: last year, obviously missed most of the season, So get
- 39:25Speaker 1: another one, draft, another one somewhere along the line, especially
- 39:29Speaker 1: when you're talking free agency with all of those contracts
- 39:31Speaker 1: we were talking about, you can't depend on that this
- 39:33Speaker 1: year with the cap space. All right. When we come
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- 41:36Speaker 1: Drive Time Tuesday morning, playing the jamp today. John's into it.
- 41:40Speaker 1: I wanted to start this segment with one questions by
- 41:44Speaker 1: and I was told we won't be playing that on
- 41:47Speaker 1: this program. So here we are. If here's twenty one
- 41:51Speaker 1: questions that's not exactly child friendly. I was told it's
- 41:54Speaker 1: not whatever. We're mature here, aren't we. You guys ready ready?
- 42:00Speaker 1: That is a sin in hand? All right? We started
- 42:05Speaker 1: Ashlen asked with more draft talk surprise surprise. As a
- 42:09Speaker 1: number one, who would you be selecting at number nine?
- 42:12Speaker 1: If you are Dave Codwell, who are you calling? We're
- 42:18Speaker 1: not taking trades into account. We're not taking trades into account.
- 42:21Speaker 1: We're saying, realistically, who's there at number nine? Who are
- 42:24Speaker 1: you taking if you're but we all think trades are
- 42:31Speaker 1: gonna happen. Hence Wooden's gets tricky. Well, let's just say
- 42:34Speaker 1: for the sake of the game, but there's no trades
- 42:37Speaker 1: and you're still at number nine, we may have picked
- 42:41Speaker 1: the same guy. I didn't see you. Go ahead, Um,
- 42:47Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Ken Law from South Carolina. I
- 42:50Speaker 1: think if if Brown's there, I think you take him.
- 42:53Speaker 1: I'm mocking this with the assumption that he'll be gone.
- 42:57Speaker 1: I just think kin Law makes a lot of sense
- 42:59Speaker 1: in terms of no matter who's bag, no matter if
- 43:02Speaker 1: they get Marcel back, uh, whatever happens in the defensive interior,
- 43:07Speaker 1: I don't think you hurt yourself getting a guy who's dominant.
- 43:11Speaker 1: They're getting a potential star there. I think if you
- 43:14Speaker 1: put Ken Law next to Josh Allen, next to all
- 43:16Speaker 1: their defensive front talent, you're an off a good defensive
- 43:19Speaker 1: front for a long time. I started with that, and
- 43:21Speaker 1: then I remember that there are some defensive tackles that
- 43:25Speaker 1: I have read about that I've talked to people about
- 43:27Speaker 1: that aren't on anyone's radar screens as first round picks,
- 43:30Speaker 1: but have first round talent. Remember Aaron Donald was thought
- 43:33Speaker 1: to be too short and he slid in at the
- 43:35Speaker 1: back end of the first round. The Ramps got him
- 43:37Speaker 1: really late in the first round the year that he
- 43:39Speaker 1: came out of pit. And there are some guys, not
- 43:41Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, but some talented guys who are available. Um,
- 43:44Speaker 1: So I went with Isaiah Simmons because I'm trying to
- 43:47Speaker 1: make the point about best available player, and he's going
- 43:49Speaker 1: to be there. And he makes sure run defense better
- 43:52Speaker 1: because he's a running hit linebacker. He's also a guy
- 43:54Speaker 1: who can blitz, a guy who can play safety, a
- 43:56Speaker 1: guy can play out in the slot. He is the
- 43:57Speaker 1: most versatile defensive player in the draft from everything that
- 44:01Speaker 1: I hear and read and see. And you can't pass
- 44:04Speaker 1: on that. I don't think, not on that kind of
- 44:07Speaker 1: a players got options, and if you don't need a
- 44:09Speaker 1: defensive tackle right away, that could be a good option.
- 44:12Speaker 1: You gotta improve your run defense. Best available player, alright,
- 44:16Speaker 1: ashless number two? What is the biggest question going into March?
- 44:20Speaker 1: We're only a couple a week away from March, two
- 44:23Speaker 1: weeks away from March. Heading into March, what's the biggest
- 44:26Speaker 1: question you have to ask regarding this team? Is it
- 44:29Speaker 1: are they going to sign Unique and gock Way finally
- 44:31Speaker 1: and pay him? Is it is clay As cambell is
- 44:33Speaker 1: going to be in a Jaguars uniform next year? Is
- 44:36Speaker 1: it is Gardner Minshew the quarterback? Or have you they
- 44:39Speaker 1: traded Nick Foles yet? What's the biggest question going into
- 44:43Speaker 1: the month of March? This is always the biggest question.
- 44:46Speaker 1: Who's your quarterback? Right? Still in a quarterback league? There
- 44:51Speaker 1: you go? Good? Right? I mean it's it's football one
- 44:54Speaker 1: oh one? Who's your quarterback? Um? If you I mean,
- 44:58Speaker 1: if you think you're not gonna have of um uh,
- 45:02Speaker 1: Unique got Way? Because if a holdout, you still have
- 45:05Speaker 1: Josh Allen, you know, I mean, who is your quarterback?
- 45:09Speaker 1: Is always the most important question that you ask, and
- 45:11Speaker 1: until you don't have that question to ask, you keep
- 45:14Speaker 1: asking it. It appears that was your question. Yeah, Well,
- 45:19Speaker 1: I'll say first all of them because As I said earlier,
- 45:22Speaker 1: I don't recall an off season where there were so
- 45:25Speaker 1: many questions and so many things where if they go
- 45:30Speaker 1: a route and you're on the field in April and
- 45:33Speaker 1: they've done this, you're like, well, I didn't expect it,
- 45:36Speaker 1: Like I don't know that there's a whole lot that
- 45:38Speaker 1: is absolutely common knowledge. But what they're gonna do, I
- 45:40Speaker 1: think there could be a lot of new players on defense.
- 45:43Speaker 1: Wouldn't shock me if if Nick Foles is the quarterback. UH,
- 45:48Speaker 1: don't really know what they're gonna do. Offensive line. I
- 45:50Speaker 1: think they need to improve the offensive line. I'm not
- 45:52Speaker 1: sure specifically. There is no player on the offensive line
- 45:57Speaker 1: that I would be shocked if they were on the
- 45:59Speaker 1: team next year. And I guess the only player that
- 46:03Speaker 1: I'm sure is going to be in in their exact
- 46:05Speaker 1: spot would be Taylor and Lender. So all of that is,
- 46:10Speaker 1: but for the sake of this answer, I'll say, uh,
- 46:13Speaker 1: I'll say Clay's Campbell because you know, I don't think
- 46:16Speaker 1: he was as good last year as he has been
- 46:18Speaker 1: in seventeen and eighteen. But he clearly can make plays.
- 46:22Speaker 1: He clearly has can be impactful in the right situation
- 46:28Speaker 1: when he's on. He still maybe one of the best
- 46:31Speaker 1: two or three players. He was dominant against the Colts
- 46:33Speaker 1: at the end of the season. So, uh, what they
- 46:36Speaker 1: do with him, I think is still a huge question
- 46:41Speaker 1: to answer. As much as I see the cap, as
- 46:45Speaker 1: much as I see that situation, it's still tough for
- 46:48Speaker 1: me to imagine walking in there on the first day
- 46:51Speaker 1: o t a s, first day the offseason program and
- 46:53Speaker 1: him not being here. I just think they find some
- 46:55Speaker 1: way to get it done, and if he won't take
- 46:57Speaker 1: a pay cut, I think they pay him. And I
- 46:59Speaker 1: don't think Yahn is even a question because I think
- 47:01Speaker 1: he's going to be here, whether whether they franchise him
- 47:04Speaker 1: or whether they get a deal done, whether it's a
- 47:06Speaker 1: hold on training camp. The owner said it, Davis said
- 47:09Speaker 1: it not a question. The question with him is just
- 47:11Speaker 1: you know, when does he get here and how much
- 47:13Speaker 1: does he get paid? A lot? Yeah, all right, So
- 47:16Speaker 1: it's been somewhat of a negative off season. In season,
- 47:21Speaker 1: there's been some doubters, there's been some upset people. Yes,
- 47:26Speaker 1: John has been one of Them's so crappy lately. So
- 47:29Speaker 1: let's look at the positives. When you look back at
- 47:32Speaker 1: the two thousand nineteen season, I know there's not a lot,
- 47:35Speaker 1: but let's be optimistic this morning. When you look back
- 47:38Speaker 1: at two nineteen, what's the biggest positive? What do you
- 47:44Speaker 1: look back on and smile and say, ah, that was
- 47:48Speaker 1: a good time. It could be a game, It could
- 47:50Speaker 1: be a moment. It could be a player that you
- 47:52Speaker 1: didn't think was going to break out into that was nineteen.
- 47:57Speaker 1: When you look back at last year makes you smile.
- 48:01Speaker 1: Can even be Max Hawkman, Max getting engaged. That makes
- 48:07Speaker 1: me smile. That's top ten at least. Okay, go ahead,
- 48:12Speaker 1: now you go first. First, I'll go Josh allen Um
- 48:16Speaker 1: And because I think as rough as this season was
- 48:23Speaker 1: and as uncertain as things feel now, I can easily
- 48:26Speaker 1: envision us sitting here in and saying, this guy is
- 48:34Speaker 1: the key to your franchise. This guy is I mean,
- 48:36Speaker 1: obviously the quarterback will be the key, but this guy
- 48:40Speaker 1: has a chance to be. When you think of the
- 48:42Speaker 1: Damon Broncos, who do you think do you think of
- 48:44Speaker 1: von Miller? He's got a chance to be that level
- 48:47Speaker 1: of defensive player. He's got a chance to be a
- 48:50Speaker 1: rock star a huge place. He's got a chance to
- 48:52Speaker 1: mean everything to this franchise that people for a couple
- 48:55Speaker 1: of years hoped that Jalen Ramsey would mean in terms
- 48:58Speaker 1: of iconic player, and here's a superstar in terms of
- 49:01Speaker 1: all that, and I think he's the complete package. The
- 49:06Speaker 1: way he played was almost lost somehow because of the
- 49:09Speaker 1: of the record. But ten and a half sacks, constant
- 49:12Speaker 1: impact never looked lost as a rookie Bryant and that's rare. Well,
- 49:17Speaker 1: and he kind of got lost in the shuffle because
- 49:19Speaker 1: Nick Bose had a similar year. Uh and then Bosa
- 49:22Speaker 1: had that Super Bowl that you know, he was a
- 49:24Speaker 1: world So you know, now even further people have said, well,
- 49:27Speaker 1: you know, Josh Allen had a good year, but Nick
- 49:28Speaker 1: Bose it was supers for most of the year. No, no,
- 49:33Speaker 1: it was surprised. If he has similar kind of game.
- 49:34Speaker 1: That's my point. He's that level. He's that level player.
- 49:37Speaker 1: Even though people don't see them as being the same player,
- 49:39Speaker 1: they absolutely are the same player. Um, I couldn't decide
- 49:43Speaker 1: on a player because I could have easily gone with ye.
- 49:47Speaker 1: I went with a win in Oakland. He didn't you
- 49:49Speaker 1: with a winning quite Cackland. My hands are red because
- 49:54Speaker 1: I don't have a I don't have anything to wipe
- 49:56Speaker 1: it with. I wasn't wiping again Oakland h And here's why,
- 50:00Speaker 1: because that was a game by all accounts, the Jaguars
- 50:02Speaker 1: had no business winning. When did they left? You can't
- 50:04Speaker 1: even spell their name? When do they moved to Vegas?
- 50:07Speaker 1: Who wants to play in cacklin Man alone? We get it.
- 50:14Speaker 1: It says that doesn't deserve an NFL um. When we
- 50:18Speaker 1: pulled in that day, if you recall the parking lot,
- 50:21Speaker 1: I mean, it looked like the apocalypse. It was right.
- 50:23Speaker 1: I mean, it was an incredible scene. So many people.
- 50:26Speaker 1: All you could say is, wow, they're leaving this right.
- 50:28Speaker 1: I mean, the fandom was unbelievable. And that was a
- 50:32Speaker 1: team that was surging at the end of the season
- 50:34Speaker 1: and going to the playoffs. And I thought it took
- 50:35Speaker 1: an incredible amount of fortitude, especially when they fell behind early.
- 50:39Speaker 1: And it was a shocking win for this and and
- 50:42Speaker 1: that was the point. And I think maybe Doug Maron
- 50:44Speaker 1: maybe saved his job, you know, in that in that
- 50:47Speaker 1: situation right there where the team rallied in the second half,
- 50:50Speaker 1: played great defense, Minshu led the two fourth quarter touchdown drives,
- 50:54Speaker 1: and they came away with the wind that just it
- 50:56Speaker 1: had the fans ready to tear the place apart. I
- 50:58Speaker 1: mean they were going to tear souvenirs and take them home.
- 51:01Speaker 1: Instead they were throwing them onto the field. Remember we
- 51:03Speaker 1: were trying to go out on the field to shoot
- 51:05Speaker 1: and feel hit by a chair. It was. It was.
- 51:08Speaker 1: It was a massive win, uh for the guys who
- 51:12Speaker 1: were coming back next year, because the understanding is this
- 51:16Speaker 1: is how you play. You go on the road and
- 51:17Speaker 1: you win a game you're not supposed to until your
- 51:19Speaker 1: point without if the season had ended after the third
- 51:26Speaker 1: quarter of that game, I don't know that anybody is
- 51:32Speaker 1: talking about Gardner Minshew as a potential started going forward
- 51:36Speaker 1: in the and in the last in the in the
- 51:39Speaker 1: fourth quarter of that game, he didn't play it well
- 51:41Speaker 1: against Atlanta, but then in Indianapolis. Without those five quarters
- 51:48Speaker 1: the fourth quarter that game Indianapolis, I think the conversation
- 51:51Speaker 1: around Gardner minship is completely different. So I think that
- 51:53Speaker 1: when again, the fourth quarter of that game is what
- 51:56Speaker 1: is one of the things that makes you think maybe
- 51:58Speaker 1: he's the guy that always remember Cacklin always never, because
- 52:05Speaker 1: if you can win, you can win anywhere. You're gonna
- 52:09Speaker 1: be sorry wrote that because that we're never gonna forget
- 52:11Speaker 1: that we're going to talk about it for too much.
- 52:13Speaker 1: Will you make a mistake? Just wait? You know one's coming. Oh,
- 52:17Speaker 1: I know. They happen every day. Bro, can't spell to
- 52:19Speaker 1: save were life? No, I would spell it like that.
- 52:22Speaker 1: I don't know why I did that, but I did.
- 52:25Speaker 1: All right, No Jaguars Drive time. Next Tuesday, we will
- 52:27Speaker 1: be live at the NFL Combine. Stay tuned in Jaguars
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