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Why Jarrian Jones' Best Football is Ahead of Him | The O-Zone Podcast · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Soon.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast with Jaguars senior writer John Osher.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, welcome into this week's Ozone podcast, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: joined this week by I think somebody the people are
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  Speaker 2: going to be excited about. If you saw the draft coverage,
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  Speaker 2: you saw how excited he is to be in Jacksonville
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  Speaker 2: and what the NFL means to him. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: start off with that topic. But first, welcome to the
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  Speaker 2: Ozone Podcast. Jaguars Cornerback now no longer f SU Cornerback
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  Speaker 2: Jerry Jones.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, how all going? So?
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  Speaker 2: How does that sound to Jaguars cornerback NFL? I know
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  Speaker 2: this means a lot to you, It means a lot
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  Speaker 2: to everybody who's drafted to the NFL. But it really
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  Speaker 2: struck me that you appreciate the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the one was big.
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  Speaker 3: Like when you get drafted, you kind of get like
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  Speaker 3: a flashback of all the tough moments, the rough moments
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  Speaker 3: it took to get here, and then you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: just superponsal for me because I was being able to
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  Speaker 3: stay in Florida and play for the Dad Watson it
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  Speaker 3: kind of all the most concept.
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  Speaker 2: So when you're sort of thinking that who are you
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  Speaker 2: thinking about? Who were you sort of thinking in that moment?
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  Speaker 2: Obviously family, friends, coaches who got you there, but sort
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  Speaker 2: of take me through who was most important in that
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  Speaker 2: moment to you?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: You know, first given of the guy for everything he's
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  Speaker 3: put me through, got out of me, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: best me to be able to see and it's beastically
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  Speaker 3: to be able to be there in the moment. But
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  Speaker 3: I would say my mom, Like, my mom's big for me.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of like my rock, you know, that's my
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  Speaker 3: goal to for everything. And my grandmother. You know, those
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  Speaker 3: are two people I hold like really close to my heart.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, my siblings. I got four other siblings.
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  Speaker 3: I got a younger brother and three younger sisters. So
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of like my core found kind of like
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  Speaker 3: mean where everything goes to.
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  Speaker 2: And then so you're there and in that moment, obviously
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  Speaker 2: people saw the emotion and just how overcome you are
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  Speaker 2: when you sort of start thinking about, hey, I get
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  Speaker 2: to go keep playing football. That's sort of what struck
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  Speaker 2: me and listening to it that you know, you play
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  Speaker 2: all your life and then you're not guaranteed to play
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  Speaker 2: after college. You have to sort of be in an
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  Speaker 2: elite group, and you're probably told from the time you're
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  Speaker 2: fourteen or fifteen, hey, you can't count on it, but
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  Speaker 2: you still dream it. When you realize you're going to
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  Speaker 2: get to keep going. What did that mean?
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  Speaker 3: I kind of got known a little bit, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because I kind of fell in love with the process,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the process of being great, all the hard moments,
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  Speaker 3: all the tough moments, all the highs and lows and
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  Speaker 3: all in between. That you kind of fall in love
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  Speaker 3: with those moments and that rush you can get from football,
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  Speaker 3: it was a little different, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So just being able to further my career.
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  Speaker 3: In it and be able to do it at the
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  Speaker 3: highest stage against the best, it was a blessing and
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  Speaker 3: I'm so ready for it.
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  Speaker 2: I talked to your decordinator at FSU last week and
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  Speaker 2: he was talking about how you were able to not
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  Speaker 2: only face adversity but sort of get better from it.
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  Speaker 2: Is that how you saw your college as well?
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  Speaker 3: Like I just told you about the highs and the
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  Speaker 3: low you know, coming into college, especially coming to the
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  Speaker 3: Forest State, I had in my mindset of what it
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  Speaker 3: was supposed to look like, and I wanted everything to
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  Speaker 3: be perfect, you know, but through my time on four Stay.
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  Speaker 1: I learned that you're gonna go through some things.
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  Speaker 3: Anything worth having is hard to obtain, you know, so
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  Speaker 3: it's not always gonna be perfect.
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  Speaker 1: But you got to make that decisions, wake up and
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  Speaker 1: go chase it every day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he said almost that exact thing he said. You know,
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  Speaker 2: once he figured out, meaning you, once you figured out
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  Speaker 2: that it wasn't always gonna look perfect, it's sort of
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  Speaker 2: freed you up to actually go and be the best
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  Speaker 2: version of yourself, right, like you weren't putting much pressure
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  Speaker 2: on yourself off.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe yeah, yeah, because I was a big perfectionist. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I want everything to be this way. Had it go
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  Speaker 3: this way because I put a lot of time into it.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, just through your growth process, you just
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  Speaker 3: start to understand that everything is not gonna go exactly
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  Speaker 3: how you en visit you but you got to learn
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  Speaker 3: to battle it and fight it through all the adversity
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  Speaker 3: to come through it.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me your uh, your favorite m JD play of
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  Speaker 2: all time? Is there one that strikes out or it was?
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  Speaker 3: It's not really like one that strikes up, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because when I was young, you know, I had the
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  Speaker 3: jersey I had to I had to everything, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So like watching him when I was young, like I
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  Speaker 1: just had.
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  Speaker 3: A collective opinion of what he was, you know. I
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  Speaker 3: always like he was my go to like a man
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  Speaker 3: and everything, you know. So I didn't really have like
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  Speaker 3: a specific play. He was just the player that I
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  Speaker 3: always grow up watching.
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  Speaker 2: How many yards did you run?
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  Speaker 1: For?
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  Speaker 2: Him? And Madden every week by two?
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  Speaker 3: Because I was a big I was a big affirmation
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  Speaker 3: guy and that was back you know, back in the old.
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  Speaker 1: Man that was a big thing to do. Man, it's
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  Speaker 1: not really.
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  Speaker 3: Big, right, but I was a big firm got so
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  Speaker 3: many stretches right left inside zone dive and he going
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  Speaker 3: crazy like that.
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  Speaker 1: Don'tbody mean him? Man?
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  Speaker 2: And anybody who played knew that right back.
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  Speaker 3: Then then nobody want to see me if I got
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  Speaker 3: the jazz and it was over it.
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  Speaker 2: Have you had a chance to reach out to him
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  Speaker 2: yet or is that still coming?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: It's still coming. But he hit me up on Instagram
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  Speaker 1: and just let me know.
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  Speaker 3: He was like, I'm a big fan of you too,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm so happy with Draft, Like I've been watching
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  Speaker 3: for a while.
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  Speaker 2: And that's one of those moments, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: The notification came on my phone and said Jones Drew,
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  Speaker 3: I thought somebody was playing. I thought like a fan
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  Speaker 3: baig and I went to it and they was like
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  Speaker 3: verified and they show like him being on TV. I
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  Speaker 3: was like, oh man, it's in for real. It was
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  Speaker 3: like one of them crazy moments.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a good guy. You enjoy meeting him?
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  Speaker 1: He so.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me. Uh And again, I know before your senior
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  Speaker 2: season started, meeting twenty twenty three, they came to and said,
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  Speaker 2: once you play nickel after playing outside now with corners,
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  Speaker 2: that can sometimes be no, I want to be the
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  Speaker 2: outside guy. But again you sort of embraced that and
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  Speaker 2: really took your game to a different level. What did
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  Speaker 2: that transition? I guess what did it take for you
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  Speaker 2: to commit to that? And then once you committed to it,
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  Speaker 2: what was it like?
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  Speaker 1: It didn't really it really take me.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I wouldn't say no time to commit to
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  Speaker 3: it because you know, I had been like I was
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  Speaker 3: practicing it a little bit like as we went. So
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  Speaker 3: it kind of started in the spring and we're practicing
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  Speaker 3: it was like you might going to Nikels just.
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  Speaker 1: Practiced a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: So I was just practiced it, but not knowing I
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  Speaker 3: was gonna end up being a four time Nickel. So
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  Speaker 3: I got close to the season and then fall camp
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  Speaker 3: I ended up breaking my hand.
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  Speaker 1: So I broke my hand. I couldn't do the entire
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  Speaker 1: fall camp.
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  Speaker 3: So like that week before the game, like when I
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  Speaker 3: started coming back, that's when they brought it to me,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And I really didn't really have no problem
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  Speaker 3: with it because I understood like it gave me a
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  Speaker 3: sense of like it gave me a sense of.
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  Speaker 1: Like titlement in the defense.
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  Speaker 3: It was you I had to be on my p's
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  Speaker 3: and Q so everyone else could be on their piece
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  Speaker 3: and Q because and I defense the NUKA had to
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  Speaker 3: make a lot of the calls and it just chick.
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  Speaker 3: So it gave me a sense that and titled me
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  Speaker 3: like I gotta be my best so everyone else can
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  Speaker 3: be their best, so that's how we can win. So
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  Speaker 3: and it kind of feel my personality like I'm kind
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  Speaker 3: of an outgoing person, like I got a lot of energy,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so just being a Nickel kind of killed
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  Speaker 3: me in the line of fire, like kind of killed
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  Speaker 3: me engaged in the game, you know, not just moving
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  Speaker 3: to nigga.
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  Speaker 1: Just let me make plays, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I definitely believe that like I'm I'm a playmaker.
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  Speaker 1: I like to make plays. You know.
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  Speaker 3: It just put me closer to the ball. I can
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  Speaker 3: do a lot of things. I can live, I have
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  Speaker 3: to play coverage, you know, I just do a lot
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  Speaker 3: of things, you know. So it just being a niuk
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  Speaker 3: I kind of let me bring up my full skill set.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna aspect the last part because you know,
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  Speaker 2: it sort of varies from defense to defense, but in
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  Speaker 2: most defenses, the nickel has to be. Uh, the more
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  Speaker 2: aware of player, the more you know, and there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot more going on inside at the nickel, a lot
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  Speaker 2: more responsibility than there is just asking a guy to
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  Speaker 2: go cover a guy. So I've always thought football players
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  Speaker 2: play nickel, meaning you've got to know what's going on
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  Speaker 2: in the field. An athlete can go cover a guy outside.
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  Speaker 2: Is that how you see yourself football player? You've been
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  Speaker 2: playing a long time game awareness and that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a strength?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why I see myself as I've defecated a
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  Speaker 3: lot of my instincts and I put a lot of
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  Speaker 3: time into my preparations for the game, you know. So
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  Speaker 3: I like to think that I always like to put
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  Speaker 3: myself in the best position. You know, so just being
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  Speaker 3: a nickel it lets me be a football player.
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  Speaker 1: Like it lets me just go make plays, go playball.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, would you have been You're
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  Speaker 2: a fifty year guy coming out, We're in college, five
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  Speaker 2: years you transferred, You've been through a lot in college.
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  Speaker 2: Would you have been ready to go to the NFL
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  Speaker 2: a year or two ago maturity wise? Or is this
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  Speaker 2: the right time for you to be coming out, meaning
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  Speaker 2: you've learned a lot in college.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is the right time for me
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  Speaker 1: coming out.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I definitely think I still needed to grow,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I still think I needed to go through
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  Speaker 3: some things by myself, right Like that was a big
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  Speaker 3: thing for me, trusting me going on Florida State, Liavingssissippi.
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  Speaker 3: It was some things I needed to go through by myself,
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  Speaker 3: and I didn't need no help in hand.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't need nobody to be on my side. You know.
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  Speaker 3: So this at this point in time in my career,
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  Speaker 3: I felt like it was a perfect time, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because I went through those challenges. I built Ford tough,
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  Speaker 3: you know. I went through all the all the band stuff,
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  Speaker 3: all the high the lows in between, and I stood
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  Speaker 3: the test. You know, I stood up in and became
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  Speaker 3: a man, So I definitely felt like this was the.
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  Speaker 1: Time for me to go. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I saw the combine time for three eight right now.
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  Speaker 2: You know, your teammates when you get here are gonna say,
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  Speaker 2: are you really a four to three eight? Is that real?
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  Speaker 2: You run that before? Man, that's fast for a nickels,
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  Speaker 2: Why I ask.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, I exercised, gonna run faster than that. It
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  Speaker 3: was supposed to be faster than that. But once I
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  Speaker 3: seen it four three on the time, I was just like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna run again.
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  Speaker 2: But you're and on.
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  Speaker 1: Teammates, don't think I am that fan. Definitely creating brass
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  Speaker 1: how early?
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  Speaker 2: And how many people call you jar jar?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's something just the Internet came up with.
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  Speaker 3: My career nickname is Jada. Okay, call him and Jada.
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  Speaker 3: Even the fans at for State, everybody knows them boy Jada.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody really called him Jarry okay, and I laughed when
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  Speaker 3: people call me Jerry because it's like the wrong pronunciation
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  Speaker 3: of it's called it's jarring. But my real nickname is Jada.
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  Speaker 2: Though I got you, so uh, it seems like and
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  Speaker 2: again this is what your coach said, that you're still
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  Speaker 2: growing and developing as a player. Uh so you feel
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  Speaker 2: I assume you still feel like sky's the limit for you.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot more for you to grow and a
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  Speaker 2: lot more for you to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I definitely feel like my best football is
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  Speaker 1: a hit of me. You know. I was one of
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  Speaker 1: those guys.
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  Speaker 3: So the summer between my sophomore year a high school
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  Speaker 3: with my junior year, that's when I started, you know,
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  Speaker 3: playing and I played receiver that entire time. So when
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  Speaker 3: I got to college, that's when I started playing and
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  Speaker 3: dB and so like through this into my entire college departs,
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  Speaker 3: I say, I need to go to some things and
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  Speaker 3: learn and grow because I was learning how to play
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  Speaker 3: dB every year. Like every year you can see like
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  Speaker 3: the progression of me playing dB, you know. So I
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  Speaker 3: definitely feel like now I don't found it, Like I
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  Speaker 3: don't found it now, so now I'm learning every year.
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  Speaker 2: I think Doug Peterson and Trent Balkey both talked about
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  Speaker 2: when this guy gets here, you guys are gonna see
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  Speaker 2: the personality like it just comes through. Do you bring
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  Speaker 2: that to a team. That's something that even as a rookie,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna bring right, it's just you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just me.
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  Speaker 3: I think I just love football, you know, and me
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  Speaker 3: being at Forest State. Anybody that was on that knows
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  Speaker 3: of coach Novella was running at Forest State program. Like,
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  Speaker 3: if you don't love football, it's going to show up
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  Speaker 3: every day, you know. I think it showed up every
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  Speaker 3: day that I love about. It's just something I like to.
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  Speaker 1: Do, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I just like to playing around, like we get to
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  Speaker 3: play football, like we don't have to, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So I come in with it every day and I just
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  Speaker 1: want to have fun.
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  Speaker 2: And so this is Monday for people who don't know,
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  Speaker 2: it's probably gonna be posted later in the week, but
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  Speaker 2: you come into your first mini camp. You'll get here Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: last couple of days. Just can't wait to get started.
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  Speaker 2: I as soon.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I can't wait. I can't wait. I can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to be in the building.
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  Speaker 3: My teammates need to learn schemes, you know, start understanding
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  Speaker 3: their culture, just building that with my brotherhood, with building
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  Speaker 3: that brotherhood with my brother So when the season comes,
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  Speaker 3: we all ready go.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Jarian, I appreciate you joining us. I know it's
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  Speaker 2: an exciting time for you. It certainly comes across that
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  Speaker 2: you appreciate what you're going through and you appreciate the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: I know Jaguars fans are looking forward to getting to
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  Speaker 2: know you. Hopefully this will help. Thank you for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: That's I appreciation.