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O-Zone Podcast: Safety Jarrod Wilson · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Oh, Welcome to the Ozone Podcast, presented by by Star
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Speaker 1: Credit Union, featuring Jaguars senior writer John Osher and executive
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Speaker 1: producer Dave de Candice. This week's Yes, I think it's
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Speaker 1: somebody the Jaguars fans know by name, they know him
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Speaker 1: by sight on the field, and he's done some interviews,
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Speaker 1: some media, but I'm not sure people know him that well.
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Speaker 1: And hopefully today we'll get a chance to get to
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Speaker 1: know a little better. An interesting guy, a guy who's
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Speaker 1: turned into a leader on the Jaguars, and a guy
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Speaker 1: who's turned into a good football player with a changing
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Speaker 1: role over the years. It's Jaguars safety Jared Wilson and
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Speaker 1: Jared First, I appreciate you joining this second. This has
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Speaker 1: been a dis a faults off season on many fronts, unusual,
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Speaker 1: but personally, I want to talk to you about complete
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Speaker 1: season last year and now dealing with all this stuff
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Speaker 1: that you've dealt with this year. How has that been
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Speaker 1: different and how have you handled it? I suppose it
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Speaker 1: last year, you know, I played every snap, so I
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Speaker 1: was out there that every single play. So this year
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Speaker 1: I kind of went down with a hamstring injury that
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Speaker 1: I was battling through and Uh, definitely on and on
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Speaker 1: the upside of that with my rehab, was able to
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Speaker 1: finish the game last week, and uh, just trying to
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Speaker 1: build off that personally, but uh, just still seeking win, man,
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Speaker 1: trying to seek and win with drop seven straight, So
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Speaker 1: trying to find way to get a win and stay
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Speaker 1: healthy through the whole thing. You mentioned that as well.
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Speaker 1: One in seven. It's a young team. I know you've
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Speaker 1: been asked about this when you've met the media South.
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Speaker 1: How is it handling it. What's your vibe right now
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Speaker 1: in terms of how it feels going forward. I know
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Speaker 1: this is never easy. Yeah, it's it's definitely tough, but
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Speaker 1: I think the guy's spirit in the locker room is uh,
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Speaker 1: definitely just eager. Man. You know, we we were really
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Speaker 1: close on Sunday to winning the game. So we're getting there.
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Speaker 1: We gotta turn that corner and just definitely get it
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Speaker 1: dub and come out with a victory. At the end
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Speaker 1: of the day, there's no more victories, so just continue
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Speaker 1: to just uh kind of just chip away at it. Man.
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Speaker 1: We gotta find a way to get a win, no
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Speaker 1: matter the age group of a team or whatnot. I mean,
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Speaker 1: guys are here to play football. And do it professionally,
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Speaker 1: so I can't really make too many excuses about it.
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Speaker 1: You're obviously the veteran leader, which you know, you're not
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Speaker 1: an old guy, but for the secondary you're an old guy.
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Speaker 1: But and fans and media always talk about that, well,
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Speaker 1: the veterans gonna help the younger guys, and when you
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Speaker 1: guys talk about it, and sometimes you're talking cliches and sorry,
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Speaker 1: tell me exactly what you can do for younger players
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Speaker 1: like a C. J. Henderson the guys around you. Is
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Speaker 1: there anything that you do during the game, during the
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Speaker 1: week to help and lead? How does that really occur
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Speaker 1: for the fan who isn't inside of the meeting room
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Speaker 1: with you guys. Mainly is just communication. That's what I
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Speaker 1: feel like in my opinion. Um, I wanna say I'm
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Speaker 1: the most vocal person, but when I do communicate, I
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Speaker 1: think I'm very clear and sound. So especially with a
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Speaker 1: younger guy, you know, a C. J or maybe a DT.
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Speaker 1: Damn times, you got a lot of reps in the
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Speaker 1: secondary to ship just really communicated with them, uh, allowing
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Speaker 1: them to slow it down and see exactly what I'm
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Speaker 1: seeing since I've been here while in the same system. Uh,
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Speaker 1: continuously just like talking to those guys, and you know,
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Speaker 1: since it's COVID, it's been a difficult circumstance of trying
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Speaker 1: to get together and watch films. So kind of get
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Speaker 1: on the I pass together and lock in and do
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Speaker 1: some film study like in that nature virtually, so really
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Speaker 1: just communicating and seeing everything that I could see, like
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Speaker 1: trying to push it off on the them as well.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of ways where communication is key. I know you're
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Speaker 1: engaged to be married now and communication will be key
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Speaker 1: on that front, as you can imagine. But tell me
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Speaker 1: about that a little bit, and how has that changed
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Speaker 1: your perspective as you grow from a rookie to a
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Speaker 1: older player, more mature person, if you will, well compare
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Speaker 1: and like football to my relationship, communication is key in
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Speaker 1: both aspects, and I know within my relationship with my fiance,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's definitely got to be on the same page.
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Speaker 1: Can't really just be on two different pages or whatnot,
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Speaker 1: you know, so just trying to be on the same page.
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Speaker 1: Just just like lining up and playing of defense with everyone.
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Speaker 1: If there's one guy that's not knowing what he's gonna do,
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Speaker 1: it's uh, probably gonna be a bust and a big
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Speaker 1: player happened. So that's the same thing within the relationship,
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Speaker 1: to be on the same page and paying attention to
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Speaker 1: the details and knowing one another. And the main reason
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Speaker 1: I asked you that obviously she's had a huge influence
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Speaker 1: on how you've approached COVID. I being a nurse at
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Speaker 1: mayor maybe you're a little more in tune to all
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Speaker 1: this than your teammates. How did that help you approach this?
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Speaker 1: Have you talked to people in the locker room based
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Speaker 1: on the information that you know from her? How big
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Speaker 1: has that been for you? You know, last six seven months.
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Speaker 1: I think it's big from her standpoint, from just being
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Speaker 1: a nurse and really just being on the front lines
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Speaker 1: with it, you know, just as uh I could say
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Speaker 1: from that standport is more personal. But I think everyone
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Speaker 1: in and in its entirely throughout this whole COVID season,
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Speaker 1: the guys that didn't opted out, that decided that they
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Speaker 1: We're going to go along and play football. Um, I've
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Speaker 1: been real, just like receptive to anything we could do
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Speaker 1: to make sure we do not spread the virus m HM.
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Speaker 1: COVID is a big thing and it's over a million
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Speaker 1: people that have been infected by And I don't know
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Speaker 1: how many the death total in the US now, but
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Speaker 1: I know it's about two hundred thousand, maybe even two fifty.
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Speaker 1: So that's those numbers um itself just speak. So I
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Speaker 1: think everyone, including like myself, not because my fiance is
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Speaker 1: a nurse or whatnot, have been really just receptive of
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Speaker 1: the protocols that have been taking place and trying to
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Speaker 1: get information, you know, just stop the spread of the virus.
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Speaker 1: Did she make your decision to play easier or harder?
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Speaker 1: It was really just about taking them the needed precautions.
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Speaker 1: It was never, honestly, if I was gonna suit up
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Speaker 1: or not. There was a season going on, I definitely
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Speaker 1: gonna play, but I just knew that there would be
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Speaker 1: steps taken to protect myself first and foremost in my family.
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Speaker 1: Got Yeah, I was not implying that she would make
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Speaker 1: it harder on you in that sense. I just meant
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Speaker 1: the communication involved education is such a big part of
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Speaker 1: how guys approached this. I assumed that she would help
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Speaker 1: on that front. Going back to the beginning of your career,
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Speaker 1: and you've talked about this a lot, but undrafted guys
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Speaker 1: who make it always fascinate me. How difficult For fans
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Speaker 1: who haven't heard you talk about this, how difficult was
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Speaker 1: your road and do you still feel like you're overcoming
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Speaker 1: that all the time? Is that still a thing for you? Um,
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Speaker 1: first and foremost you had, the road isn't easy. Uh. Ideally,
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Speaker 1: if you can be good enough to go first or
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Speaker 1: second round, I would be ideal, But a lot of
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Speaker 1: second chances for those guys, right, Yeah, So I mean
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Speaker 1: you fall where you made a draft or if you
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Speaker 1: go on drafted like myself. But the main thing is
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Speaker 1: don't give up and just throughout this whole entire process,
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Speaker 1: it's just been a learning experience and you continue to
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Speaker 1: just get better as you as you just go through
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Speaker 1: your career. It's never easy. Um, each and every year
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Speaker 1: I've had to fight to make the team, including this year.
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Speaker 1: So I really think my mindset has never really been, um,
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Speaker 1: you're you're a guy that's for sure on this ball
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Speaker 1: club or for sure on this football team. So I've
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Speaker 1: just really been taking out approach since I've been here,
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Speaker 1: and uh, I'm going I'm in my fifth year now,
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Speaker 1: and it's just, uh, it's just been a process of
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Speaker 1: just trying to understand how you fit within the whole
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Speaker 1: scheme of things and then the really just going from there.
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Speaker 1: You know, now you started the last two years. But
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Speaker 1: yet you just told me that you feel like you're
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Speaker 1: fighting to make the team. Is that something you tell
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Speaker 1: yourself or or that's just how you feel about the NFL.
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Speaker 1: You're always fighting. I think that's how I feel about
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Speaker 1: the NFL. Um. I mean I did you got guys
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Speaker 1: that may obviously may not get cut. I mean you
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Speaker 1: got time radio your team or or or you know,
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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, how dearly they're gonna be there? Um, But
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Speaker 1: I feel like, besides, you know, you're your key guys,
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Speaker 1: guys that you kind of could for sure, like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't see him going. Um, you're never really knowing
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Speaker 1: this thing. You know, NFL was kind of not for long.
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Speaker 1: You've heard that a long time. That's not cliche. So, um,
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Speaker 1: it's definitely not for long. And yeah, in my opinion,
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Speaker 1: I'm always fighting because it's just a performers based league,
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Speaker 1: you know, so you got to perform a certain way
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Speaker 1: to continue to keep a job. Now I've got to
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Speaker 1: thank for a guy who was undrafted, Like you said,
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Speaker 1: take the approach that you take. Everybody's honored when they're
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Speaker 1: a captain. But Dad had to resonate with you quite
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Speaker 1: a bit being named the captain this year. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: appreciate it. It's really just um first time, you know,
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Speaker 1: captain is voting on the point you like by my peers.
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Speaker 1: So it's really been the first time that I've been
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Speaker 1: I've been a team and been on teams and been
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Speaker 1: what you would consider a leader, but not truly like
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Speaker 1: a captain in that sense. So just kind of just
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Speaker 1: having that respect out of my teammates is pretty good,
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Speaker 1: you know what I means, Uh, just a blessing of
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Speaker 1: being a position and just honored to Just like I said,
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Speaker 1: I try to communicate as much as possible, not just
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Speaker 1: with my guys in the back end, but every younger team,
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Speaker 1: you know, if they ever anything. I just always try
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Speaker 1: to be opening, give my insight on anything I can.
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Speaker 1: Fans who are listening to this, they care about Jared Wilson,
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Speaker 1: but they also care about the Jags. Give them something
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Speaker 1: second half the season. What are you seeing right now
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Speaker 1: inside the locker room at practice that makes you believe
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Speaker 1: this thing is going in the right direction? What are
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Speaker 1: fans not seeing what gives you hope? So just throughout
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Speaker 1: the weeks. Um, we've dropped seven games in the road,
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Speaker 1: but I wouldn't say that, uh, you haven't got better.
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Speaker 1: I think I honestly think you can get better within
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Speaker 1: the loss within a week. So um, constantly through this thing.
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Speaker 1: We're a young team, man, So even with the losses
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Speaker 1: we've taken, we continuously just got better. And it's like
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Speaker 1: chopping wood, you know, Um, we haven't reached that pinnacle
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Speaker 1: of just getting that second win in the in the season,
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Speaker 1: but with no one in the in the locker rooms
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Speaker 1: discouraged about it or nothing like that, and we just
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Speaker 1: come to work, just got off the field today and
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Speaker 1: just had a really good practice. It's really just like
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Speaker 1: buying in and stand on the Details's just the basis
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Speaker 1: and fundamentals. You hear the same things over and over
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Speaker 1: and it can get monotonous, but kind of just sticking
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Speaker 1: to it and honing in and eventually a w will
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Speaker 1: come from. Not for sure, there's a difference when the
10:37
Speaker 1: team's sort of on the decline rather than on the
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Speaker 1: way up. It sounds from what you're saying that you
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Speaker 1: feel like these guys are still you know, it's still
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Speaker 1: going in the right direction. I guess is what I'm
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Speaker 1: getting at in terms of feeling, In terms of mood,
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Speaker 1: I've heard from people that, hey, there's no fighting on
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Speaker 1: the sidelines. This is a team that knows that the action.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, man, Um, we just we've just been trying
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Speaker 1: to work our way through it. There hasn't been any animosity,
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Speaker 1: no um disagreements, no guys turning on one another. There's
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Speaker 1: no players versus coaches. I think everybody's all in this thing. Oh,
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Speaker 1: He's a group and we're just trying to find a
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Speaker 1: way to get a win for the gy Wars. It's
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Speaker 1: not really no one Yeah, no divide within the team.
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Speaker 1: I love the team honestly. I just like the relationship
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Speaker 1: we have and the ability that we have to communicate
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Speaker 1: with one another, and we all care for one another.
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Speaker 1: That's really key. Okay, the final thing we do, Jared,
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Speaker 1: I caught the ozone five five quick questions with you
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Speaker 1: answer as quicker as lengthy as you want so they
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Speaker 1: can go fast. First question, what's your last binge watched?
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Speaker 1: My last binge watched? It may be Snowfall that's on
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Speaker 1: f X, that's on Hulu, Snowfall Atlanta, snow All Atlanta
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Speaker 1: with chot was a gamble um. Also I've been I
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Speaker 1: mean they through Dave Chappelle Dave Pappelle show Back on Netflix,
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Speaker 1: so that they did that. Yeah, it's hard to turn
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Speaker 1: away from that once you get gone, last song on
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Speaker 1: your iPhone, your car, last song you listened to before
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Speaker 1: it came in this morning on My Level by whis
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Speaker 1: Khalifa and too Short got you Me too, by the way,
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Speaker 1: same thing. So there's a question specifically for you, short
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Speaker 1: hair like you've got now or dreads, Which do you prefer?
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Speaker 1: Which do I prefer? Yeah, because you you went dreads
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Speaker 1: for a long time here right, Yeah, you know. With hair,
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Speaker 1: I mean it's just phases. It's not like I intended
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Speaker 1: to kind of like playing out my hair or whatnot,
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Speaker 1: but it just kind of phases of me. Uh you know,
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Speaker 1: short hair now kind of got the program right now,
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Speaker 1: but last year at wave, at dressed before that for
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Speaker 1: about seven years. So it's neither nor like neither or
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Speaker 1: which one I prefer. But it's just like for me,
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Speaker 1: my hair is about phases of me, you know. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'm a little bit older now, so decide I wanted
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Speaker 1: to go with the cut. Now I'm kind of rocking
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Speaker 1: the aft for on them when I was in college.
13:17
Speaker 1: Before I got to college, I decided to throw grids
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Speaker 1: just phases for me. What sport would you have played
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Speaker 1: if it hadn't been football? I mean I played growing up,
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Speaker 1: I played basketball. I played a little bit of baseball
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Speaker 1: when I was younger, but I kind of was sold
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Speaker 1: on football for day one. I really look at another
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Speaker 1: athletic path I need. Football was kind of for me.
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Speaker 1: I played basketball, though. Let me tell them, let me
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Speaker 1: tell that I'm I'm a ball player. You know. Now,
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Speaker 1: the final question, I know the answer to them. Give you.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a chance that answer it Lebron
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Speaker 1: or m JA. This was a question all summer. But
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Speaker 1: I know your answer, right, Yeah, Michael Jordan's is Michael Jordan.
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Speaker 1: And it's no disrespecting. I mean, God says the goat,
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Speaker 1: perfectly fine with that. We can agree to disagree. But
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Speaker 1: I'm rolling with Brown. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah. That's not influenced
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Speaker 1: by being from Acre, now, is it. I mean there
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Speaker 1: may be some bias. It's some bias there for sure.
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Speaker 1: You know, he's a it's definitely a hometown guy. You know,
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Speaker 1: he's from the carib So I can't go against him,
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Speaker 1: but just honestly, I think is his um over his
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Speaker 1: whole entire career, it's just been Marvit's he's been in
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Speaker 1: his prime since he was like eighteen. Yeah, I mean
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Speaker 1: I think, uh, not like a big like stat guy
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Speaker 1: whatever as far as knowing his stats, but it's been
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Speaker 1: averaging like close to twenty seven points since like year
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Speaker 1: with two and he's in year seventeen eighteen now, so
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Speaker 1: you go with that. I mean, he's the all time
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Speaker 1: leader and he'll finish probably all time leader in playoffs
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Speaker 1: and points, rebounds, assists. It was rebound uh three pointers
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Speaker 1: made whatnot? So and he got four ships now and
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Speaker 1: you know everybody throws the rings out there, but like
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Speaker 1: rings are a team achievement. Michael Jordan didn't win to
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Speaker 1: stats free to Chicago Buller one. So Lebron got four
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Speaker 1: with three different teams. So it just goes on and on,
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Speaker 1: but is not done yet. Brown's mine. He's my number
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Speaker 1: one for sure. Jared. I appreciate you doing this. I
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Speaker 1: always appreciate it. On a busy week, you're taking the time.
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Speaker 1: Well forward to talking to you. So thanks for being
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Speaker 1: on the Other Zone podcast, and no problem I appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: God bless all right, buddy, thank you you too. Oh
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Speaker 1: to thank Jared, as we always do for guys who
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Speaker 1: join us and record this on Wednesdays on really their
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Speaker 1: busiest day. So to take ten or fifteen minutes to
15:52
Speaker 1: listen to my spield and my stick is is uh,
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Speaker 1: probably above and beyond the call of duty for him,
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Speaker 1: So I appreciate it. Jared's a guy who frankly he's
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Speaker 1: been around for five or six years, but as a reporter,
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Speaker 1: as a guy who's in the locker room, I've talked
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Speaker 1: to him a few times, but he hasn't been a
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Speaker 1: guy that I've gotten to know all that well. He's quiet,
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Speaker 1: he's a little reserved, and he frankly didn't play a
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Speaker 1: major role until last year. But Dave, you know, a
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Speaker 1: good guy, a lot to say on a lot of topics,
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Speaker 1: and I a credit to him. I'm always fascinated by
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Speaker 1: the undrafted free agent story. Some guys make it, but
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Speaker 1: he really made it on a longer trek than a
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Speaker 1: lot of U d f A s, meaning some U
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Speaker 1: d f A say James Robinson come in the automatically
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Speaker 1: make it another set in the league. He worked his
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Speaker 1: way up special teams guy, special teams guy, special teams,
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Speaker 1: got in safety, then starting safety, now team captain. That's
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Speaker 1: a long road. And as he said, I kind of
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Speaker 1: get why he thinks he's still making the team every year. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's probably good mentality to have in the NFL. Um. Yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: super good guy guy you root for when you're around
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Speaker 1: the team. Just uh, a real good guy. Uh. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean his his road was a long, like you said,
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Speaker 1: And it's one of those things, is uh, it probably
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Speaker 1: creates a little bit of character, creates you know, whatever
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Speaker 1: you wanna call it, is that mentality of hey, I
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Speaker 1: gotta make it every year. I gotta make it. Even
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Speaker 1: when he's wearing the sea on his chest and he
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Speaker 1: still knows, you know, he's gotta work and and and
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Speaker 1: make make this team. And it is being around being
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Speaker 1: on the field on game days of being around it,
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Speaker 1: he's you know, you could tell he's a leader. Um
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Speaker 1: this year, I mean he talks in the huddles, when
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Speaker 1: the DVS get to the sideline, he's talking to him,
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Speaker 1: He's walking up and down the sideline. Um. You know,
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Speaker 1: it just got you root for and uh, and it's
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Speaker 1: just kind of funny to see where you know, in
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Speaker 1: our world, how how that grows because it's because it's
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Speaker 1: one of those those guys. Is you know, there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of kind of undrafted free agents, uh workie free agents,
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Speaker 1: you know, practice squad or whatever, and you see him
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Speaker 1: around and you don't know him because there's not a
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Speaker 1: whole you know, there's not a whole lot of fan
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Speaker 1: interest there from what we we don't talk to him
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Speaker 1: a lot. And it's kind of funny as so they
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Speaker 1: don't talk to him a lot. And as they grow
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Speaker 1: into the roles and now been around like Abrian Jones
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Speaker 1: is another guy that kind of reminds me a lot
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Speaker 1: of it's like and and then you realize, to those guys,
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Speaker 1: are you know, regular workman kind of mentality kind of guys.
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Speaker 1: You know, they're they're usually pretty good people when they're
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Speaker 1: they're hanging around for that long and there's an appreciation
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Speaker 1: they have for the game. Often, you know, guys who
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Speaker 1: are drafted early don't really realize until the end of
18:37
Speaker 1: their careers. This is sort of football one oh one
18:39
Speaker 1: or media one oh one. They don't really realize they
18:41
Speaker 1: can be taken away from them until it's almost taken
18:44
Speaker 1: away from them, and then you know, you'll often see
18:47
Speaker 1: me and Prisco used to always talk the guys at
18:49
Speaker 1: the end of their careers would always be a little
18:51
Speaker 1: nicer to the media than they were at the start
18:53
Speaker 1: of their careers because they sensed it ending. And that's
18:55
Speaker 1: sort of an aside, But yeah, Jared has always been
18:58
Speaker 1: a good guy. And for fans who don't watch the
19:02
Speaker 1: safety position, I don't know that Jared's ever gonna be
19:05
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl guy. I don't know that he's gonna
19:07
Speaker 1: be at that level because I don't know if the
19:10
Speaker 1: Jaguars are gonna be good enough in the next couple
19:12
Speaker 1: of years. Who knows. But you know, profile is often
19:16
Speaker 1: a thing that gets guys that sort of recognition. And
19:19
Speaker 1: he's not flashy. He's had a huge interception guy. But
19:23
Speaker 1: what he is is a is a really really good
19:26
Speaker 1: solid safety, a pro who can make the calls back there.
19:31
Speaker 1: If he weren't on the Jaguars, he'd be playing for
19:33
Speaker 1: a lot of for a lot of teams, is my
19:37
Speaker 1: point right now. And the defense there's not you, there's
19:39
Speaker 1: some guys playing who you wonder because it's it's a
19:42
Speaker 1: really underman defense. He's a good player. He's a solid professional,
19:47
Speaker 1: solid veteran. And when you talk to Todd Wash about him,
19:51
Speaker 1: even as coordinator, he always has guys lined up right.
19:55
Speaker 1: He's never gonna make a mistake. He's always going to
19:57
Speaker 1: be in the right spot you can always rely on.
20:00
Speaker 1: You talked to his teammates about his leadership. Fifth year guy,
20:05
Speaker 1: first year as a starter. Last year, he was already
20:08
Speaker 1: doing that. So a very intelligent player. And again, this
20:12
Speaker 1: has been a struggling defense this year, is no secret
20:14
Speaker 1: about that. But it struggled a lot more when he
20:18
Speaker 1: wasn't in the game because the communication, the ability to
20:22
Speaker 1: get guys lined up in the right spot. They depend
20:25
Speaker 1: on him. They are a better defense when he's in
20:27
Speaker 1: the game than when he's not. This year, I think
20:29
Speaker 1: there's two players that really kind of stick out for
20:31
Speaker 1: me with him. I remember when we played London against
20:35
Speaker 1: against the Texans last year and there was a long
20:40
Speaker 1: passing or catching run or maybe it was a long run,
20:43
Speaker 1: and Jared ran down the guy and knocked the ball
20:46
Speaker 1: out off the two yard line. It was a touch
20:48
Speaker 1: back and the game was over. But but I mean
20:51
Speaker 1: he was, you know, still putting in that effort, still
20:54
Speaker 1: going all out and then the interception he had against
20:59
Speaker 1: Houston there at houston right place was at the right
21:03
Speaker 1: place when Sidney Jones took that ball, He's in the
21:05
Speaker 1: right place to get an interception, and then ran all
21:08
Speaker 1: over the field to get as many yards as he
21:10
Speaker 1: could on the return um to set the offense up.
21:13
Speaker 1: I think those are just kind of two players. I
21:16
Speaker 1: kind of let you know what kind of player and
21:17
Speaker 1: what kind of guy Jared is. Yeah, and I will
21:20
Speaker 1: close with this, Dave, and fans can't see it, but
21:24
Speaker 1: Dave can see that behind me on November eleven, there's
21:28
Speaker 1: a Christmas tree. So Jared's getting married. He doesn't realize
21:34
Speaker 1: that after a couple of years of marriage. This is
21:36
Speaker 1: what you're looking at, Dave. November eleventh, with the guys
21:40
Speaker 1: are completely skipping Thanksgiving. I mean, I'm not gonna tell you,
21:44
Speaker 1: but you know, the wife wanted to have this out
21:47
Speaker 1: on Labor Day. I had to fight her on that.
21:49
Speaker 1: So it's it's quite a scene at Christmas at the
21:53
Speaker 1: Ozone household, Dave. Growing up in my neighborhood, we had
21:56
Speaker 1: an old related that lived on her street and she
21:58
Speaker 1: left her Christmas tree up all year and from whatever,
22:02
Speaker 1: from January through November. Should just throw a sheet over it.
22:05
Speaker 1: You guys could do the same thing the christ strip.
22:08
Speaker 1: That would be easier for me, that would be, but
22:11
Speaker 1: it would be I'm the one who would just take
22:13
Speaker 1: it in and out. So that's what's waiting for Jared
22:15
Speaker 1: in about a year. So that's uh, that's where it's coming.
22:19
Speaker 1: So anyway, on that pathetic note of my life, we'll
22:23
Speaker 1: end today's A Zone podcast. I want to thank Davy.
22:25
Speaker 1: Candis has always thank you, too fortunate for making me
22:27
Speaker 1: sound better than I really am. This one didn't suck, Dave.
22:31
Speaker 1: So far. I think we're about eleven and twelve and
22:33
Speaker 1: I'm not sucking. We'll see you next week. We'll see
22:35
Speaker 1: everybody next week on the Ozone Podcast.