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J.P. Shadrick Podcast: D.J. Chark · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into the j P Shadrick Podcast. Today is Friday,
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  Speaker 1: July nine, where three days into training camp, two practices in. Today,
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  Speaker 1: we'll recap the first two workouts in the field and
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  Speaker 1: we'll get a visit with Jaguars rookie receiver d J. Chark.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get right into it. The Jacks reported for camp Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: They went through medical checks, conditioning tests, and organizational meetings. Now,
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  Speaker 1: before last season, the first Jags training camp with Doug
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  Speaker 1: moronas the head coach was considered pretty tough by modern
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  Speaker 1: NFL standards. That camp paid off later in the year,
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  Speaker 1: of course, when the Jags found their stride and got
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  Speaker 1: into the postseason and we're only a few minutes away
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  Speaker 1: from the super Bowl. Early last year, though, you can
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  Speaker 1: hear a little grumbling from the players about the toughness
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  Speaker 1: of the camp. As for this year, Moreau's philosophy is simple.
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  Speaker 1: I like a little grumbling, to be honest with you,
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  Speaker 1: I think that if you don't have, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: there's not a little bit of grumbling, then then maybe
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  Speaker 1: you're you're you're not on the right thing. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I really believe that that goes back to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: being a little bit, you know, making sure that there's
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  Speaker 1: some some you know, being uncomfortable. You know, so I
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  Speaker 1: believe that it's hard. I don't put words that's grueling
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  Speaker 1: or grinding because you know, obviously a lot of us
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  Speaker 1: that played before been through uh tougher situations, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think I think the players understand. I think the
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  Speaker 1: ones that have been here, you know, can kind of
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  Speaker 1: understand what it's gonna be and um, but they understand why.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's the most important thing. I think people get
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  Speaker 1: into what's tough, what's this what you're trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't like I was trying to shock a team
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  Speaker 1: or do something different. It's just my philosophy of of
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  Speaker 1: really what I believe that you need to do to
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  Speaker 1: get ready to play this game and play it at
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  Speaker 1: a high level. And we want to be able to
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  Speaker 1: play it at the highest level we can. That philosophy
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  Speaker 1: will not change from our own, and you know it
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  Speaker 1: won't change for this Jaguars defense either. Last year they
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  Speaker 1: put up one of the best defensive seasons in franchise history.
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  Speaker 1: They single handedly won some games, They took the ball
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  Speaker 1: away all year long, and they scored points throughout the season.
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  Speaker 1: It's a group this year that wants to be considered
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  Speaker 1: one of the greatest defense is of all time. But
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  Speaker 1: for linebacker Telvin Smith, the first player to speak at
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  Speaker 1: the podium this year, it takes more than just one
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  Speaker 1: year to reach that level. Every great defense has has
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  Speaker 1: one at all, you know what I mean, And and
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  Speaker 1: that's what we are. We want to be. A great
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  Speaker 1: defense is not it's not mediocre. It's not you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's not to say I win to won a couple
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  Speaker 1: you know, championships and nothing. Now we want to say
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  Speaker 1: we dominated the world. So that's the next step, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's just honing in on
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  Speaker 1: the little stuff, honing in on the Mentalis was talking
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  Speaker 1: and a couple of times last year I think he
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  Speaker 1: said it was four times last year in games that
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  Speaker 1: we could have got our offense the ball back or
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  Speaker 1: it was on the defense to stop him, and all
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  Speaker 1: four times we did not get to stop um and
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  Speaker 1: the team ran the ball on this and stuff. So
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  Speaker 1: we gotta have the mentality of of crunch time, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's not yeah, we we we
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  Speaker 1: know we're not front runs. That's not you know. We
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  Speaker 1: we can bang with or whatever, but we just gotta
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  Speaker 1: put out it on your don't keep it h front
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  Speaker 1: the beginning to the end. Good stuff from telling there
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  Speaker 1: on the big picture adjustments necessary on defense. The next day, Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: was the first day on the field for the Jags,
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  Speaker 1: and there was plenty of focus on the Jaguars offense
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  Speaker 1: and yes, quarterback Blake Bortles. We heard about all off
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  Speaker 1: season Blake's handle of the offense, and now you seemed
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  Speaker 1: just all around comfortable on the field. And for the
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  Speaker 1: fifth year quarterback, it's bigger than just him. It's becoming
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  Speaker 1: a full grasp of everything happening on the field. The
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  Speaker 1: more you're doing obviously you know, playing quarterback, I think
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  Speaker 1: the order you get the more the easier it is
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  Speaker 1: to recognize what good football looks like from an offensive standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: And I think, you know, that's something that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning. You're just trying to make sure you
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  Speaker 1: don't mess up right, You're trying to do your job, um,
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  Speaker 1: And as you go you start seeing everybody else and
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  Speaker 1: start seeing it is one big picture and you know
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing, um, you know, which is how Nathaniel
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  Speaker 1: season and that's how he calls place, so I think
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  Speaker 1: to be able to try and get to that and
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  Speaker 1: be on the same page with him, to see the
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  Speaker 1: thing as a whole um, you know, kind of everything
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  Speaker 1: working in motion and being smooth. Everybody's in the places
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  Speaker 1: they need to be and and landmarks and all that. It's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a constant process of reps, and we got
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  Speaker 1: to get as many of them as you can so
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  Speaker 1: that we can get to the point to where everybody's
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  Speaker 1: in the right spot every play. Temperatures were in the
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  Speaker 1: high eighties on Thursday and it was mostly cloudy. But
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  Speaker 1: no matter the weather, there are always some struggles with
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  Speaker 1: players getting through that first day on the field physically.
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  Speaker 1: Moving to Friday, though it was bright, sunny, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: little bit hotter, but the second day seemed a little
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  Speaker 1: more manageable once getting back into football activities for this
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  Speaker 1: football team. After practice Friday, first team All Pro defensive
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  Speaker 1: in Klais Campbell Well, he was asked about some of
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  Speaker 1: his teammates making bold predictions about the season. Good, and
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  Speaker 1: we know that everybody in the locker room knows that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm glad that we have hot confidence. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, at the same time, we have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of work to do. A team like a sounds as
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  Speaker 1: we are and as hard as we work, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we should be very good because I think I'm pretty
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  Speaker 1: confident once they were probably hard to working the team
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  Speaker 1: in the league, you know. And that's it's a big
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  Speaker 1: statement because a lot of teams are working hard right
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  Speaker 1: now and doing things. But you know, they ask a
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  Speaker 1: lot of us, you know, But the guys you know
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  Speaker 1: sit there and and uh and respond. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: go out there, we push ourselves and with our talent
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  Speaker 1: and that kind of mentality and the work ethic, I
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  Speaker 1: think we should be pretty good. Wise words from the
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  Speaker 1: veteran defensive lineman. Confidence for this group, but plenty of
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  Speaker 1: work to be done now to our guests today out
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  Speaker 1: of the wide receiver room, rookie receiver d J. Chark,
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  Speaker 1: we flashed some during the off season program after the draft,
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  Speaker 1: but now in training camp it's go time for the
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  Speaker 1: second round receiver in that crowded room. We think so
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  Speaker 1: far today, I think we're doing good. We're coming along
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  Speaker 1: well mentally. Um, I felt like we did very well
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  Speaker 1: definitely at the beginning. Uh that he got to us
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  Speaker 1: a little bit at the end. I know, myself, Um,
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  Speaker 1: something I gotta you know, keep on working. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: we got twenty two practices and two against Minnesota, so
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  Speaker 1: I definitely have a lot of time to get better.
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  Speaker 1: Um and the team with me, the receivers, we've meant
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  Speaker 1: to coach treat me so but like, it's definitely a
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  Speaker 1: progress to be made. You know, the practice is one thing,
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  Speaker 1: two and a half hours long day on the fielders
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  Speaker 1: and walks away there. But it's a long day at
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  Speaker 1: the facility, and you're in earlier in the morning, you're
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  Speaker 1: here towards at night. That's gotta be a challenge to
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  Speaker 1: just the length of the day, right, Oh yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: wake up five five am and then I met the
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  Speaker 1: facility by six fifteen, which is really six twenty Coach
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  Speaker 1: Coughlin time. And then you know, you don't walk out
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  Speaker 1: the facility until nine thirty ish nine forty five, so
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  Speaker 1: I can't really get in bed into around ten ten fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta repeat the cycles. So it's definitely, uh, mentally
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  Speaker 1: draining and physically draining. But you know, this is what
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  Speaker 1: we're here for, and these long hours helped the team
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  Speaker 1: grow closer and you know, you can you're able to
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  Speaker 1: focus on what you have to focus on. Rookies were
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  Speaker 1: in about a week earlier than all the that's so
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  Speaker 1: that acclamation the week of meetings and such. Did that
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  Speaker 1: help you with that long day here? Oh definitely. We
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  Speaker 1: came in, we had conditioning tests and every day we
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  Speaker 1: was out in the heat running um lifting, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that helped me out a whole lot. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like if I would have came in you just had
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  Speaker 1: to get right into practice with it. The heat would
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  Speaker 1: hit me a little harder. But uh Stung coaches Molo
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  Speaker 1: definitely took care of us and make sure everyone acclimated.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck with us, take us through this room. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: is real competition all of a sudden, it gets real
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  Speaker 1: when training campus here, you got some vets on the roster,
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  Speaker 1: you get a lot of new guys trying to make
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  Speaker 1: the team here. You're one of the new guys draft
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  Speaker 1: pick as well. So I mean it's a it's an
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  Speaker 1: interesting group this wide receiver room. How have you guys
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  Speaker 1: gotten along the first couple of days and how does
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  Speaker 1: it work when you're when you're out running drills. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's always a competition kind of thing, right, Oh, definitely,
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  Speaker 1: it's a competition, but it's healthy competition. Uh. We have
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  Speaker 1: guys like the leaders and uh Lee Um that step up.
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  Speaker 1: You have Mine Reef and Cole and d d and
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  Speaker 1: uh shot guys that have been in the system. Dante
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  Speaker 1: knew but he picked it up pretty quickly. So those
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  Speaker 1: guys that I could lean on. And he had the
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  Speaker 1: freshman I mean, I said freshman, I still think I'm
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  Speaker 1: in college. Uh. The rookies me um Allen. You know, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we got Miller and we all working together to learn
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  Speaker 1: the plays. But we've been getting We've been getting better.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I begin a lot of reps, so
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  Speaker 1: I think they help a lot. Uh And with that
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  Speaker 1: come mistakes, But every day I cut down on the
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  Speaker 1: mistakes a little bit more. So I think I'm definitely
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  Speaker 1: getting to the swing of things. How do you with
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  Speaker 1: the quarterbacks on this roster, I mean just going through
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  Speaker 1: the reps? Is that how you guys kind of make
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  Speaker 1: a connection, like with Blake and and Kessler and those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Is it is it just working through drills for those
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  Speaker 1: guys or how do you how do you kind of
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  Speaker 1: make a bond with a quarterback? Oh, you know, you're
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  Speaker 1: going through the drills all the time, and you're learning
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  Speaker 1: different things about the each player. You know the tendencies.
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  Speaker 1: And we also all in the offensive meetings together, so
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  Speaker 1: we know what they're looking at, we know what they're thinking,
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  Speaker 1: and things like that helped the receivers out a lot
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  Speaker 1: when you know they make an emphasis and on what
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  Speaker 1: the lineman dude receivers due to back dude, quarterback dude.
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  Speaker 1: So everybody know, we're all thinking on the same page.
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  Speaker 1: Final thoughts time out here. So we we heard that
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  Speaker 1: you have to tell some rookie jokes today? Is that accurate?
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  Speaker 1: Little later in the meeting room, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: I was a little. Bertie told me that you want
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  Speaker 1: to try some some jokes on us here, d y
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  Speaker 1: are you even thinking? I'm actually glad you reminded me
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  Speaker 1: because I forgot so I'll have planned on Google and something.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm glad you reminded me because they asked me
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  Speaker 1: before and I didn't have a joke on hand, so
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  Speaker 1: I just got the joke that was next to me,
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  Speaker 1: and it was terrible. I don't even remember what it was.
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  Speaker 1: So this time, hopefully I can impress everybody. So I
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  Speaker 1: gotta go, uh look up Google. Good luck Man. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I thank so d J for his time after practice
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  Speaker 1: Friday on a hot practice field here in Jacksonville. The
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  Speaker 1: upcoming schedule includes a night practice Saturday. It's open a
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  Speaker 1: season ticket members only. The players are off Sunday and
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  Speaker 1: then back to camp Monday for the start of five
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  Speaker 1: straight days and full pads and those camp battles will
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  Speaker 1: really heat up then and those are open to the
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  Speaker 1: public as well. Jaguars dot com slash Training Camp to
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  Speaker 1: register for free admission. Look for full coverage of training
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  Speaker 1: camp presented by dream Finders Homes on the official team
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  Speaker 1: website Jaguars dot Com. Thanks again to DJ Chark for
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  Speaker 1: his time this week, and there's always a thanks to
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  Speaker 1: Jack's manager of radio, Joe Fortunato. We'll catch you next
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  Speaker 1: time on the j P. Shadick Podcast