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Jaguars Reporters: Monday, February 14 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: I was walking Bruce Smanto his car in the parking lot.
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Speaker 1: I mentioned to Delhi and Uh, it was not a
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Speaker 1: happy compic. Guys, Bruce the Big Man. Welcome to Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Reporters presented by t I A A Bank with Brian Sexton,
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Speaker 1: John Osher, Ashlyn Sullivan and j P. Shadri. Presended by
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Speaker 1: t I A A Bank. Starts right now. Welcome into
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars Reporters podcast on Monday, February fourteen, JAP Shadrick,
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Speaker 1: Brian Sexton, Ashman Sullivan, John Osier and Pritty To get
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Speaker 1: to today reaction of Tony Basselli heading to the Pro
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Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame Assistant Coaching Staff announcement company coming
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Speaker 1: this week. We'll break down some of the big names
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Speaker 1: and our final thoughts of Super Bowl fIF Well. Tony
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Speaker 1: Basselli elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The
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Speaker 1: announcement came Thursday night at NFL Honors. John, you were
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Speaker 1: on the ground in Los Angeles. The reaction here in
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville is as you would expect, certainly very excited. You
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Speaker 1: were there with him. What was the scene in l A. Well,
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Speaker 1: it was It's an odd scene. Now, I mean all
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Speaker 1: I'll share that I did know going out there that
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Speaker 1: he had gotten in because you have to plan and
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Speaker 1: you have to figure it out. So they now it
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Speaker 1: used to be that they found out hours after the vote.
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Speaker 1: You could keep it secret. Now I think some people
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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville had an idea. But I would have been
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Speaker 1: confident anyway. I thought all along, this is going to
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Speaker 1: be his year. So when he did tell me, I
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Speaker 1: wasn't surprised. I'll be honest with you. You know, it's
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Speaker 1: probably the first time I've ever hugged a player, you know,
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Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, I won't get into the habit,
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Speaker 1: but you know I was. I had tears of my
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Speaker 1: eyes when he told me, because you know, it's been
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Speaker 1: a long road for him. And I think if it
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Speaker 1: was a normal player, I probably wouldn't have felt that way.
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Speaker 1: Meaning somebody who would played out his career and had
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Speaker 1: the entire career he should have the way his career ended,
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Speaker 1: only playing six and seven years, knowing him, knowing what
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Speaker 1: the game meant to him. Brian, you and I watched
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Speaker 1: him play his entire career. Uh, he wasn't just great.
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Speaker 1: He played the game with a passion that, uh, everybody
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Speaker 1: always talks about to play against Cincinnati where he ran
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Speaker 1: down Atrell Hawkins. Uh. An amazing play for a offensive
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Speaker 1: lineman to make. He played with a passion. He deserved
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Speaker 1: this moment. I thought. The coolest thing that was a
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Speaker 1: surprise was when Bruce Smith announced him. That was really
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Speaker 1: cool because you know, I can share this story as well.
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Speaker 1: In I went up to do a story on Rob Johnson,
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Speaker 1: who was playing with the Bills, and I also went
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Speaker 1: and talked to Bruce Smith about BASSELLI. It was not
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Speaker 1: a happy topic. It was. I was walking Bruce to
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Speaker 1: his car in the parking lot, I mentioned bessellly and
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Speaker 1: and uh, guys, Bruce is a big man, and uh,
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Speaker 1: there was there was not pr around two break up,
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Speaker 1: a crushing blow to the ozone that day. He obviously
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Speaker 1: didn't get physical, but he was. He didn't like the question. Uh,
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Speaker 1: and for a long time he didn't like the question.
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Speaker 1: I think it was Ashlan a couple of years ago
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Speaker 1: and and sort of broke the ice. So it was
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Speaker 1: cool to see that. And I'll shut up about it,
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Speaker 1: but uh, you know, I don't get very emotional about
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Speaker 1: players and events anymore. But that was really cool to
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Speaker 1: see you guys. So the thing that said. Two things
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Speaker 1: stood out to me. One is just the passion the
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Speaker 1: way he played the game. Um, you know, whether it
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Speaker 1: was what what John mentioned with that Cincinnati game. Also
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Speaker 1: a night on Monday Night football, Monday Night Football brought
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Speaker 1: a camera to Ice, so a left tackle an offensive
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Speaker 1: lineman for the first time in the storied history of
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Speaker 1: Monday night football. And you know that caught everyone's attention.
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Speaker 1: And there was that play where you know, the Jaggers
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Speaker 1: hit the long touchdown. He's doing this come on back,
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Speaker 1: come on back act to um to Jason Taylor, who
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Speaker 1: you know, it's a Hall of Fame pass rusher who's asked.
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Speaker 1: He was kicking mercilessly that night, um. And it was
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Speaker 1: just it was so much fun to watch Tony Basselli play.
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Speaker 1: And you guys, I know you read Peter King's column
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Speaker 1: that's now in Pro Football Talk. I mean it's it's
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Speaker 1: the it's the Bible of the NFL on Monday mornings
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Speaker 1: during the season, and he always spends time, you know,
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Speaker 1: going through the methodology of of the Hall of Fame process,
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Speaker 1: you know what they considered and matching guys up and
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Speaker 1: looking at numbers. I'll say this, you didn't need any
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Speaker 1: of that. When you watched Tony BASSELLI you knew you
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Speaker 1: were watching a Hall of Fame player. I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: just it's just obvious. It was obvious to anybody that watched.
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Speaker 1: You could have grabbed five people from the stands. We
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Speaker 1: were there for that game on Monday night against the
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Speaker 1: Dolphins and said vote, and they would said Hall of
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Speaker 1: Fame and player. Uh. The other thing was his rookies
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Speaker 1: the weekend they drafted him, right, So back then the
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Speaker 1: draft was Friday, Saturday Sunday. Um no, then the draft
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Speaker 1: was Saturday Sunday. So they flew him in on from
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Speaker 1: New York because the draft was only in New York
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Speaker 1: in and they flew him down on Sunday morning. And
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Speaker 1: I was going to the stadium that we're doing a
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Speaker 1: long radio program, and someone tapping me on the shoulder said, hey,
5:15
Speaker 1: come on, you're gonna interview the first round pick. I said,
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Speaker 1: Bissell's here. Uh huh. So we've only been in the
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Speaker 1: offices for six weeks at that point. I barely knew
5:23
Speaker 1: my way to the weight room. So we're running, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's out of the stadiums under construction, and we're dodging
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Speaker 1: people who were working, and I walked into the weight
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Speaker 1: room and there's Tony Basselli, right, a young Tony Basselli
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Speaker 1: and Angie who was pretty tall as well, wearing this
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Speaker 1: brilliant red coat, and all you could think of is
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Speaker 1: that's the future of the Jaguars. And as they both
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Speaker 1: turned around with these million mega watts smiles, I realized
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Speaker 1: that they got their guy. And it was sort of
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Speaker 1: full circle for me JP when he walked out into
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Speaker 1: that stage last week, because it was the same thing.
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Speaker 1: That's the Jaguars guy, Ashlyan. We know how close Tony
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Speaker 1: is with his family, and just seeing the reaction of
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Speaker 1: of Angie and and the kids and and everyone around
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Speaker 1: it when it all went down, and seeing the reaction
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Speaker 1: on social media and the videos and the photos that
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Speaker 1: are going up. You know, we all know Tony very well,
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Speaker 1: but just to see that smile and the entire family
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Speaker 1: is going in the Hall of Fame too. As he said, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's cool. They just released I think it'll come out today.
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Speaker 1: NFL Films was in the house when he got the
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Speaker 1: knock from Anthony Munos, and Tony is not necessarily an
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Speaker 1: emotional guy, but when I saw his wife and his
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Speaker 1: kids crying. That made me cry because Tony he said,
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Speaker 1: these past years, you know, his wife would cry, his
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Speaker 1: kids would cry. When he went to get in, He's like,
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Speaker 1: what are you crying for? This is an incredible honor
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Speaker 1: that I'm even mentioned. But from to finally get in
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Speaker 1: and finally show that emotion was was really cool. So
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Speaker 1: I encourage people to watch it. It It was a really
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Speaker 1: cool feature that NFL networked in on it. Yes, John, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I had been uh fortunate or unfortunate enough to be
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Speaker 1: in the hotel room think three or four times when
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Speaker 1: Tony got the wrong call, And there were a couple
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Speaker 1: of times where I was you know those rooms you
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Speaker 1: would wait for like an hour, hour and fifteen minutes
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Speaker 1: because you didn't know when they were actually going to
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Speaker 1: call the guy. And uh, I remember one year I
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Speaker 1: was actually sitting right next to him talking because he
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Speaker 1: would sort of separate from the family a little bit
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Speaker 1: at times. He took different approaches different years because he
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Speaker 1: was just trying to sort of maintain his his composure
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Speaker 1: during it. And I remember the one time I was
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Speaker 1: sitting right near him, he looked at the phone and
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Speaker 1: he saw the can't know Ohio number, and he said, well,
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Speaker 1: I'm not getting in because you know, they sort of
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Speaker 1: knew based on that call what the routine was. And uh,
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Speaker 1: Tony ever cried during that, but you could obviously see
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Speaker 1: the disappointment when it didn't happen. But being there and
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Speaker 1: seeing the disappointment of his kids during those times, his
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Speaker 1: daughters and Angie, it was. It was very cool. The
8:00
Speaker 1: other night, I happened to be able to go to
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Speaker 1: the event that Shod Khan had for Tony. Rob Johnson
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Speaker 1: was there, an old Jaguars name, Pete Prisco, Sam Covaris,
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Speaker 1: a lot of Jaguars people, and to see Tony walk
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Speaker 1: in with the usc fight song playing. Uh, you know
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Speaker 1: it was. Andy did a great job planning that and
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Speaker 1: seeing that again. Brian keeps using the word for full
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Speaker 1: circle for those of us who covered him at the time,
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Speaker 1: it really was full circle. And one final thing I'll
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Speaker 1: say about it, it's a rare thing to have the
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Speaker 1: first pick ever in the franchise history become the first
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Speaker 1: player to be inducted into the Pride of the Jaguars,
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Speaker 1: and Brian you can speak to this. There was no
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Speaker 1: doubt he was gonna be the first player he was
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Speaker 1: the right guy to have at that. UM. I love
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Speaker 1: Fred Taylor, I love Jimmy Smith, I love a lot
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Speaker 1: of those players. I covered the Sally to me was
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Speaker 1: the best player on those teams with Fred right there
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Speaker 1: by a hair. But you know Tony dominated his position. Uh,
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Speaker 1: he was the right guy to have this. He usually
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Speaker 1: doesn't come full circle like that where your best, your
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Speaker 1: first pick works out. How many busts are there to
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Speaker 1: have worked out to that degree is an unbelievable story,
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Speaker 1: and it does sort of tie the knot on a
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Speaker 1: career that was too short, but that was unbelievable. Jaguars
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Speaker 1: fans can count all the busts. I'll just say this,
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Speaker 1: Tony Basselli was the unquestioned leader of those Jaguars in
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Speaker 1: the first five years when they had all that playoff success.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't Mark and Marco point to him and say no,
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Speaker 1: it was Tony, Jimmy, Fred, all the great players that
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Speaker 1: were here, all of them followed Tony Basselli. When he
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Speaker 1: walked into the room. There was no doubt. You know
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Speaker 1: you're going to war with this guy on Sunday afternoon.
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Speaker 1: And I'll say this in the closing of the Tony
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Speaker 1: basse Portion. We're talking about his family and the kids
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Speaker 1: and and interesting we see all everybody's all happy, everybody's together.
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Speaker 1: It's a tight group. But you have it lived until
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Speaker 1: you spend a Christmas at the Bissell House. I was
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Speaker 1: fortunate enough to do that one year. And yes, the
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Speaker 1: cuse the boys are grown a little older now and
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Speaker 1: that the girls are a little bit older, but uh,
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Speaker 1: it is still mayhem and bedlam, and uh, it's it's
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Speaker 1: a it's a treat and it's uh, it's a pleasure
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Speaker 1: to have him as a friend and a colleague. For sure.
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Speaker 1: We're all excited for a Tony Bossely to be elected
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Speaker 1: and and we'll soon be inducted and forever inshrined to
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Speaker 1: the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Plenty ahead on the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Reporters podcast will discuss the assistant coaching staff. When
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Speaker 1: we return on Jaguars Reporters, Welcome back to the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Reporters Podcast. J P. Shadrick, John Osier, Ashlan Sullivan and
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Speaker 1: Brian Sexton. Well, we've seen all the reports over the
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Speaker 1: last a couple of weeks, a week or so since
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson has been hired as head coach. All these
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Speaker 1: names are being reported. Nothing official from the Jaguars yet,
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Speaker 1: but there's a feeling that would come. I would say
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Speaker 1: earlier in the week. This week, there could be an
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Speaker 1: official announcement of the assistant coaching staff. That's at least
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Speaker 1: my gut on it. Let's talk through some of the
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Speaker 1: big positions here, and you know, I would argue Ashlan
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Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator is the big one because there's so
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Speaker 1: many offensive names. Doug Peterson's going to call the plays.
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Speaker 1: We've seen all the offensive names reported. But hey, Mike Caldwell,
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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, you're kind of on your own over there.
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Speaker 1: But um, get this thing going on defense? Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: the That's the I guess thought we had after listening
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Speaker 1: to Doug Peterson's introductory press conference when he said he
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Speaker 1: was going to call the plays. That wasn't a surprise,
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Speaker 1: but it very much was the motto that defensive coordinator,
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Speaker 1: it would have to be a guy that could completely
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Speaker 1: control the defense. And I think we're seeing with all
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Speaker 1: these reported names, just the relationships that Doug Peterson has.
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Speaker 1: He said, firstly, he wanted guys that were good guys
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Speaker 1: in this building. I think you're seeing that with those
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Speaker 1: reported names and and guys that have a long time
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Speaker 1: connection to Doug Peterson, he isn't necessarily taking any chances.
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Speaker 1: He trust these guys. So I agree, we're gonna see
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Speaker 1: a big announcement of all these names, and I would
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Speaker 1: think Wednesday to Friday that's happening. But we all know
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Speaker 1: he's been working tires lee to get this staff together.
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Speaker 1: We saw him with the introductory press conference. We haven't
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Speaker 1: seen him since because he's doing all these interviews, so
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Speaker 1: working really hard to get these names together. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think within the next few days we'll have a
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Speaker 1: final announcement. He was supremely confident when I when I asked,
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Speaker 1: I think Mark Long asked the question, are you you know? Yes,
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be okay? And this is good to hear
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Speaker 1: from Peterson. And you know, Mike called well John fourteen
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Speaker 1: years as a defensive assistant, his first coordinator, gig and uh,
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Speaker 1: we'll see what else he builds around that. It's a
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Speaker 1: it's a young staff, Press Taylor, a young guy the
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Speaker 1: offensive line coach whose name is escaping you right now.
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Speaker 1: I was just writing about him last night. Uh, also
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Speaker 1: a young guy. Um, if if you wanted sort of
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Speaker 1: a fresh look in a fresh field. You got it. Uh,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of synergy the lines up. UM. I
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Speaker 1: haven't done a deep dive into the coaching staff yet,
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Speaker 1: having been in l A last week, but it will
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Speaker 1: be interesting to see how the defense approaches it. It
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Speaker 1: sounds like they're gonna stick with three four basics to
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Speaker 1: this UM. To me, it's intriguing on a experience level.
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Speaker 1: For Doug Peterson, how quickly he put this staff together.
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Speaker 1: I you know, I think it speaks to the contrast
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Speaker 1: again and I hate to keep bringing up Urban Meyer,
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Speaker 1: but we're just right off of that took a long time,
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Speaker 1: and looking back, had to study a little bit how
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Speaker 1: to put together a staff during the process, and it
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Speaker 1: took a while. Doug Peterson, the reason you hired him
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Speaker 1: is he knows the NFL. He has relationships already. It was.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty clear from the speed of it to me, Brian,
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Speaker 1: he knew guys he wanted. He probably had every position, uh, one, two, three,
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Speaker 1: probably went over that was shot during the interview. Whenever
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Speaker 1: there tlent balky during the interview. No real interviews necessary,
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Speaker 1: as much as calling a guy and saying, hey, you're
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Speaker 1: my guy, can you come or you're available, let's go.
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Speaker 1: You know, the night that Doug was hired, I picked
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Speaker 1: up the phone and I called a couple of people
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Speaker 1: who know him, uh, some who have coached with him
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Speaker 1: or played with him, and they were able to tell
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Speaker 1: me the guys he was going to hire. I mean, Doug,
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Speaker 1: he had a list, right. The great coaches keep track
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Speaker 1: of the great young coaches and they know who the
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Speaker 1: guys are that they want to bring along. Press Taylor,
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Speaker 1: as people are reading about, is young Zach Taylor's brother.
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Speaker 1: But he coached with Doug for a number of years
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Speaker 1: in Philadelphia and then he went with Frank Bright to Indianapolis.
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Speaker 1: So these guys keep track with one another. You look
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Speaker 1: at a guy like Caldwell, who he played with in Philadelphia,
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Speaker 1: and then who he had on his staff in Philadelphia. Uh,
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Speaker 1: he's a guy he was on Andy Reid's staff when
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Speaker 1: Doug was a coach on Andy reid staff in Philadelphia.
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Speaker 1: So they had a list, they knew who they wanted.
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Speaker 1: And that's that's the difference between a college coach who's
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Speaker 1: coming in and figuring it out and a professional coach.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, I think it's the difference between
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Speaker 1: Byron left, which is candidacy, and Doug Peterson's because a
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Speaker 1: young coach like Byron, he's never done it before. He's
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Speaker 1: gonna have to really grind to get guys and compete
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Speaker 1: for guys. Whereas Doug picks up the phone and says, hey,
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Speaker 1: Press Taylor, Mike Caldwell, I want you to come and
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Speaker 1: work with me. Yep. Done. It's a known quantity and
15:31
Speaker 1: it allows this thing to spin up even faster. Obviously,
15:35
Speaker 1: the number one priority is the quarterback position and getting
15:38
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence right and getting guys around him. How about
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Speaker 1: the names around him now? Of course, Doug Peterson will
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Speaker 1: call the plays on offense. Mike McCoy's the quarterbacks coach.
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Speaker 1: Press Taylor is the offensive coordinator. Jim Bob Cooter is
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Speaker 1: the passing game coordinator, and he worked with Peyton and
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Speaker 1: with Stafford over his time as an assistant in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: Like McCoy is a former head coach. As you mentioned,
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Speaker 1: Brian Press Taylor has has been around this system for
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Speaker 1: a long time. Those are some significant names around the cornerback.
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Speaker 1: They're not missing the assignment, which is the quarterback has
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Speaker 1: to develop, but Coyyer recall, was with the Broncos when
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Speaker 1: Peyton Manning went there and was the offensive coordinator there,
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Speaker 1: So they touched a lot of pieces in places. They'll
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Speaker 1: get him right now. You have to work to put
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Speaker 1: some weapons around him. The draft is seventy three days away,
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Speaker 1: like free agencies a month away, so that's gonna become very,
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Speaker 1: very critical. But these guys who are coming in to
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Speaker 1: work with the passing game, to work with the quarterback,
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Speaker 1: they have a pedigree, they have a resume that speaks
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Speaker 1: to their success, and that's critical. I've gotten some emails
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Speaker 1: some people wondering why, if if Doug's gonna call plays,
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Speaker 1: why you have an offensive coordinator Press Taylor, And just
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Speaker 1: to clarify for people, everybody on on his call and
16:52
Speaker 1: knows um most head coaches who called plays, they still
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Speaker 1: have an offensive coordinator. He writes the game playing during
17:00
Speaker 1: the week, he goes over it. I think it's significant
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Speaker 1: that Press Taylor is right out of the Andy Reid,
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson tree. I don't think there's gonna be any
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Speaker 1: philosophical arguments during the week about what to do offensively.
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Speaker 1: Press Taylor can lay out the game plan with input
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Speaker 1: from Doug. It allows Doug to be to go be
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Speaker 1: a head coach during the week and sort of pick
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Speaker 1: up the game plan and call plays on Sunday. It's
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Speaker 1: not that simplistic. Obviously Doug will have an idea before Sunday.
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Speaker 1: But you know, Nate Hackett and Green Bay did this.
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Speaker 1: It's very common. The enemy did it in Kansas City
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Speaker 1: with Andy Reid. Uh. For the coaches you called the play.
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Speaker 1: They need a good coordinator and that guy remains important
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Speaker 1: even though he's not doing the active play calling on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: I think sometimes that gets lost a little bit and
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Speaker 1: they think a coordinator who doesn't have play calling duties
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Speaker 1: is just sort of sitting there playing Madden all week.
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Speaker 1: It's not that what. Yeah, And Doug also mentioned that
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Speaker 1: he didn't close the door that if things get to
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Speaker 1: have Dick or something happens where he just takes that
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Speaker 1: play call and hands it off to the offensive coordinators.
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Speaker 1: So he did wasn't an egotistical thing or slamming the
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Speaker 1: fifth that I'm calling the place from now on forever.
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Speaker 1: He he left the door open that things could change.
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Speaker 1: It just was for now. Yeah, and Ashton, you you
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Speaker 1: spoke with Trevor right after the announcement or the day
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Speaker 1: of the announcement and presentation of Doug Peterson. And I
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Speaker 1: just kind of got the vibe from him, and you know,
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Speaker 1: you know him better I think than any of us
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Speaker 1: on this podcast, um that he's going to be excited
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Speaker 1: to have some real, a full staff of experience around him.
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Speaker 1: He had some experienced assistance around him last year, yes,
18:39
Speaker 1: but to really kind of move this thing forward. It
18:43
Speaker 1: just kind of got a sense of disappointment from last
18:45
Speaker 1: season the way things were going. Is the second half
18:47
Speaker 1: of the season came along. Now we can reset move forward.
18:50
Speaker 1: I think Trevor will probably be in a good mind frame. Absolutely.
18:53
Speaker 1: We saw him on he was on NFL Total Access,
18:55
Speaker 1: I think, and he kind of repeated what he said
18:57
Speaker 1: in our Jaguars dot Com interview. We we talked about
18:59
Speaker 1: the coach of Doug Peterson and and the history behind it,
19:02
Speaker 1: but he kept going back to Doug Peterson playing at
19:05
Speaker 1: this level and he said, yes, he's accomplished so much
19:07
Speaker 1: as a coach, but to have a coach that's played
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Speaker 1: this position and understands what I'm going through. He keeps
19:12
Speaker 1: talking about that. So I think something we should hone
19:15
Speaker 1: in on is it's very rare. I think that you
19:17
Speaker 1: have a coach right now in the NFL who's also
19:19
Speaker 1: played quarterback in the NFL, So it's he just gets it,
19:23
Speaker 1: and I think that's gonna be really helpful for Trevor
19:25
Speaker 1: in his young career. Yeah. I want to go back
19:27
Speaker 1: to something that John said, and that is there won't
19:30
Speaker 1: be philosophical differences between the head coach and the offensive coordinator. Look,
19:35
Speaker 1: people didn't hear this last year, but there were philosophical
19:38
Speaker 1: differences between the NFL coaches on that staff and the
19:41
Speaker 1: college coaches last year who wanted to do more things
19:44
Speaker 1: from the Clemson playbook than from an NFL playbook. You're
19:47
Speaker 1: coming in now with NFL coaches who the quarterback can
19:51
Speaker 1: trust to put him in the right spot where they're
19:55
Speaker 1: all going to be of the same mindset working together.
19:59
Speaker 1: For Doug, that really matters. It's critical for the quarterbacks
20:02
Speaker 1: development that he trusts Mike McCoy, Jim Bob Cooter, Press Taylor,
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson to all be in alignment. And because Doug is,
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Speaker 1: as Ashley just said, has played the position and understands
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Speaker 1: the quarterback development cycle, they're all going to be in
20:18
Speaker 1: alignment in his best interests, and that wasn't always the
20:22
Speaker 1: case last year. We'll take your time out when we
20:24
Speaker 1: return our thoughts of Super Bowl fifty six and what's
20:28
Speaker 1: ahead this week. This is the Jaguars Reporters Podcast. Welcome
20:33
Speaker 1: back to the Jaguars Reporters Podcast. J P. Shadrick, Ashlyn Sullivan,
20:37
Speaker 1: Bryan Sexton, John Osier. The day after Super Bowl fifty six,
20:41
Speaker 1: the Rams rally to beat the Bengals of fifteen plays,
20:46
Speaker 1: seventy nine yard touchdown drive that took four minutes and
20:50
Speaker 1: forty eight seconds. Matthew Stafford a Cooper Cup with a
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Speaker 1: minute twenty five remaining for the win. Cups the m
20:56
Speaker 1: v P. What a game, What a What a season
21:00
Speaker 1: for the Rams? This was really the big season. They
21:03
Speaker 1: went all in, as they tweeted in November, and traded
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Speaker 1: a bunch of people in, They got the quarterback, and
21:10
Speaker 1: it paid off with a Super Bowl championship. Bryan, It's
21:13
Speaker 1: a style that not a lot of people are familiar with.
21:16
Speaker 1: It's sort of against the grain in NFL circles to
21:20
Speaker 1: trade away first round picks, and they haven't had one
21:22
Speaker 1: since and they're not gonna have one. Right they throw
21:27
Speaker 1: salary cap dollars around. I mean like like they're souven airs.
21:30
Speaker 1: You know, you're something for you, for you, for you.
21:32
Speaker 1: But last night, in the fourth quarter, especially that last drive,
21:35
Speaker 1: all the guys that they traded for came up with
21:37
Speaker 1: big plays. Jalen Ramsey, who gave up those two big
21:40
Speaker 1: plays early in the game. Was money locked those guys down.
21:43
Speaker 1: Von Miller, Aaron Donald, Cooper Cup, Matt Stafford. The money
21:48
Speaker 1: they spent, the draft picks they spent, all came through
21:51
Speaker 1: with five minutes left to play. And I know less
21:54
Speaker 1: Need he was, you know, with the Jaguars in the
21:55
Speaker 1: early days of his career, and he was always an
21:58
Speaker 1: aggressive guy. Congratulated today less Snet because his aggressive style
22:03
Speaker 1: paid off handsomely. And you know they'll be in contention
22:06
Speaker 1: again next year because this team will still be together
22:08
Speaker 1: and if they win two Super Bowls, they don't care
22:10
Speaker 1: if they have a couple of down years. You're exactly right, Brian.
22:13
Speaker 1: They did go all into the trades. Um, there are
22:17
Speaker 1: two best players are still guys they drafted. So you know,
22:21
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup and Aaron Donald are the two best players
22:23
Speaker 1: on that team. They were draft picks. So if you're
22:27
Speaker 1: gonna play the way the Rams do meeting, go after
22:29
Speaker 1: and be aggressive in free agency. You still need to
22:33
Speaker 1: hit on your guys. Those are still their core guys,
22:35
Speaker 1: so um, you still got to do both. In credits
22:39
Speaker 1: him doing both. I I was sort of pulling for
22:43
Speaker 1: the Bengals because I just like the way Joe Burrow plays.
22:46
Speaker 1: I like that if if the Jaguars can sort of
22:49
Speaker 1: emulate that, and boy, what a team they must be
22:51
Speaker 1: to follow. I kind of came away from this season
22:55
Speaker 1: credit the Rams because they went and got it done.
22:58
Speaker 1: But I didn't really get the feeling this year. This
23:02
Speaker 1: seemed like a weird year to me. I didn't feel
23:04
Speaker 1: like at any point in the playoffs, I thought we
23:06
Speaker 1: were watching great games. I never got the feeling we
23:08
Speaker 1: were watching a great team play. I still don't feel
23:12
Speaker 1: that way this This kind of feels like a year
23:15
Speaker 1: that you're looking that you look back and say, well,
23:17
Speaker 1: the Rams won it. I if they win it again
23:20
Speaker 1: next year, then I guess this year all of a
23:21
Speaker 1: sudden becomes sort of feels like a team of greatness.
23:25
Speaker 1: Just felt like a transition year in the NFL to me,
23:28
Speaker 1: and and the Rams went and got one when it
23:32
Speaker 1: was sort of a wide open field. I guess if
23:33
Speaker 1: you will. I mean they wanted the fourth seed. The
23:35
Speaker 1: Niners were the sixth seed. In the FC Championship game,
23:37
Speaker 1: the Bengals came out of nowhere. Um. It made for
23:41
Speaker 1: a fun year. I wonder if this year will be
23:45
Speaker 1: remembered as a great year or one where the Rams won.
23:48
Speaker 1: But you know they'll take it. I'm not saying that,
23:52
Speaker 1: you know, you take that ring, but it's uh, you know,
23:56
Speaker 1: just sort of my thought in the playoffs, that's true.
23:58
Speaker 1: I never thought about that there was one team that
24:00
Speaker 1: really separated themselves by a mile. And you see the
24:03
Speaker 1: closeness of all those playoff games, and it was awesome
24:05
Speaker 1: to watch and it made it really entertaining. But it
24:07
Speaker 1: is true. It was so close through the the neck
24:10
Speaker 1: of it, and I thought it was really impressive. With
24:11
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Jr. Going down, I thought the Rams were
24:14
Speaker 1: in trouble. You shall, the shakiness of the offense Matt Stafford.
24:17
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know if they can pull
24:18
Speaker 1: this off without him, and they came back, so credit
24:21
Speaker 1: to him, and he solved the clutchness of Cooper Cup
24:23
Speaker 1: in that final drive. It shows why you pay the
24:26
Speaker 1: good guys a lot of money to keep them around
24:28
Speaker 1: because those guys come up clutch in big moments. What
24:31
Speaker 1: we've got in this league is now, if you have
24:32
Speaker 1: a quarterback who is playing great, you have a chance
24:35
Speaker 1: to win. I don't know if there is a roster
24:38
Speaker 1: that is destined for greatness in terms of being a
24:41
Speaker 1: powerhouse team, like some of the teams that we've seen
24:44
Speaker 1: in you know, almost thirty years of doing this. Um,
24:47
Speaker 1: it's all about the quarterback now, and if you've got
24:50
Speaker 1: one playing well, you have a chance to go take one.
24:52
Speaker 1: But I think free agency and the salary cap have
24:55
Speaker 1: leveled the playing field in many ways to the point
24:58
Speaker 1: that you don't need to have a powerhouse team if
24:59
Speaker 1: you of a powerhouse quarterback. Yeah. And maybe I'll feel
25:02
Speaker 1: differently as we go on, but I've completely turned. I
25:06
Speaker 1: would not draft a corner in the top fifteen anymore.
25:10
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, good for Jaalen, he got the
25:14
Speaker 1: he got his ring. I'm glad his back held up
25:15
Speaker 1: throughout the whole game. I was concerned about that, but
25:18
Speaker 1: you know, uh, it's it. It's pressure up up front,
25:24
Speaker 1: it's quarterback play, and it's wide receiver play, right now
25:27
Speaker 1: the Bengals got to Super Bowl. Uh, it finally bad
25:30
Speaker 1: him a little bit. Their offensive line play last night.
25:32
Speaker 1: I thought they got the Super Bowl. Given up a
25:34
Speaker 1: lot of sacks, but the Bengals could pressure. You saw
25:38
Speaker 1: that last night. The Bengals front was a very disruptive front.
25:41
Speaker 1: Build your defensive front, get a quarterback and some wide
25:44
Speaker 1: receivers and roll the dice. That feels like the way
25:47
Speaker 1: the league's playing right now, and uh, I'm not sure
25:49
Speaker 1: it's gonna change. Hey real quick, last night proved anything.
25:54
Speaker 1: Draguars should address offensive line with their first pick because
25:57
Speaker 1: that quarterback in the fourth quarter, Uh, he was hobbling
26:01
Speaker 1: around because of the hits that he was taking. I mean,
26:03
Speaker 1: if you don't go get a big guy and fortify upfront,
26:06
Speaker 1: I think you're missing the point. A guy like Evan
26:08
Speaker 1: Neil from Alabama, the kid from North Carolina State, if
26:11
Speaker 1: that's who you think is the best, would go and
26:12
Speaker 1: give more big bodies because you better protect these quarterbacks. Finally,
26:17
Speaker 1: halftime show, best song California Love Slynn? What do you
26:21
Speaker 1: think Mary J. Blige? My mom loves her and she
26:24
Speaker 1: was freaking out, so I thought she was a hit.
26:27
Speaker 1: I just thought it was cool to see the collaboration
26:29
Speaker 1: and everything together and in the NFL really taking a chance,
26:32
Speaker 1: and I think it paid off. We think John I
26:35
Speaker 1: like the show. I, Um, you know, I love Here's
26:39
Speaker 1: what I love. I'm not a hardcore hip hop guy,
26:42
Speaker 1: believe it or not, but but I do have an
26:47
Speaker 1: appreciation of music. I watched a lot of music documentaries.
26:51
Speaker 1: I always try to watch documentaries on n w A. Uh,
26:55
Speaker 1: you know Dr Dre. Their story is always fascinating to me.
27:00
Speaker 1: What an unbelievable moment for those two guys. This is
27:02
Speaker 1: what I took away from And I was talking to
27:03
Speaker 1: my son Jake about it, who does like a lot
27:05
Speaker 1: of the music that I'm just too old to understand. Um,
27:09
Speaker 1: what an unbelievable moment for those two growing up in
27:13
Speaker 1: l A not too far away from that stadium. Um,
27:16
Speaker 1: it's safe to say, if you know those kids stories,
27:20
Speaker 1: that was not where they thought they were going to
27:21
Speaker 1: be when they were coming up. So what an unbelievable
27:25
Speaker 1: symbolic moment, uh for the hip hop genre, which again,
27:30
Speaker 1: you know, not my you know, it's not my core
27:33
Speaker 1: on my iPad, but I thought that was really really
27:37
Speaker 1: cool and the way they did it. Uh, you know
27:41
Speaker 1: what a moment for that style of music which has
27:46
Speaker 1: come along in the last thirty years and become American music.
27:50
Speaker 1: A very cool moment. And uh, I can't imagine what
27:53
Speaker 1: those guys were thinking as they were walking on. That
27:55
Speaker 1: had to be really cool. Yeah, I mean that neighborhood
27:57
Speaker 1: is what about three miles from the stadium where a
28:01
Speaker 1: lot of those drives grew up, which is pretty incredible.
28:04
Speaker 1: All right, So what's coming up Brian? This week? We
28:06
Speaker 1: got drive Time back? Is that I heard rumors there's
28:10
Speaker 1: rumblings on the building coming back that there's drivetime tomorrow.
28:13
Speaker 1: Is that right? We always have things to say JP,
28:16
Speaker 1: and once again now there's a venue to say it. Yeah,
28:18
Speaker 1: Drivetime come back Tuesday tomorrow and it's a weekly thing now.
28:22
Speaker 1: So because as I mentioned, the draft is um at
28:25
Speaker 1: the draft free agencies thirty days away and we're gonna
28:28
Speaker 1: have coaching now. It's gonna get busy here really quickly.
28:32
Speaker 1: Thirty days away. Oh my gosh, that's crazy. Can we
28:35
Speaker 1: talk about I forgot to mention this. How weird? The
28:38
Speaker 1: rock at the beginning of the Super Bowl was I
28:41
Speaker 1: hate to be a Debbie Downer, but that was so weird.
28:44
Speaker 1: I hated every minute of it. The players like, let's
28:46
Speaker 1: wrap this up, let's go, we have a game to play.
28:48
Speaker 1: It was just weird. I didn't like it one bite.
28:51
Speaker 1: Sometimes when you try so hard, you miss and with Yeah,
28:58
Speaker 1: the NFL has turned into such a mega production that
29:04
Speaker 1: you you try a million things, um, and not all
29:08
Speaker 1: of them exactly work. And when you're putting it out
29:12
Speaker 1: there on the national and international stage, sometimes when you win,
29:14
Speaker 1: it's gonna look strange. And that, yeah, that did look
29:17
Speaker 1: a little strange, but it's a you know, the the
29:21
Speaker 1: old man in me would have preferred a lot less
29:25
Speaker 1: of a lot of things yesterday, but that air is
29:29
Speaker 1: not coming back for us. Brian. That was a case
29:34
Speaker 1: of too many ingredients, right, I mean, when you're when
29:36
Speaker 1: you're cooking and you have this at your hands and
29:39
Speaker 1: you can go grab this and this and this, you
29:41
Speaker 1: can use too many ingredients. Because they were in l
29:43
Speaker 1: A with all the the stars and all of the
29:47
Speaker 1: entertainers there, they just that was one too many. At
29:51
Speaker 1: some point. It is the Super Bowl. Just roll the
29:54
Speaker 1: ball out and kick it off, and I'm glad that
30:00
Speaker 1: it's a draft. Spec feel better now, Thank you, Ashley,
30:02
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Thank you for joining to say on Jaguars Reporters,
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Speaker 1: John Osier, Ashton Sullivan, Brian Sexton, I'm J P. Shadrick.
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Speaker 1: We'll catch you next time on the Jaguars Reporters podcast