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Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, May 19 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, May nineteen. Jaguars Happy Alum, and now
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Speaker 1: a guy who believes you're gonna borrow money from any
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Speaker 1: sandwich shop in Utah because they all offer a provo moon.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, even Devin's not laughing at that. When
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jaguars Happy Hour. My name j P. Shadrick's.
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Speaker 1: We've got a busy show ahead. Of course, Jaguars linebacker
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Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd coming up. Jack's analyst Jeff Lockman, as always,
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Speaker 1: will review the rookie mini camp from last week. We
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Speaker 1: will preview organized team activities coming up next week, and
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Speaker 1: of course a lookal in the National Football League. J P. Shadrick,
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Speaker 1: Jeff Lockman, Devin Lloyd in studio with us. Great to
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Speaker 1: see you, Thanks for the time. What's up? Of course,
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Speaker 1: a horrible joke, wasn't it? It was pretty bad. I
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Speaker 1: can't even lie. Yeah, way to go, Joe. You set
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Speaker 1: a new low. He's got. He's got a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a wacky mind, you know what I mean. But
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Speaker 1: I give him credit though to come up with provo
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Speaker 1: provolone has something to do with Salt Lake City. I
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Speaker 1: might like it more, but because it was provo, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I got you. Yeah, it's a big steak. Well, welcome
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Speaker 1: to Jacksonville. You you're finally starting to get a little
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Speaker 1: bit settled. Yeah, i am. I'm getting acclimated out here. Um,
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Speaker 1: looking for a house is not going so well. I
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Speaker 1: mean it's going okay. You know, that will probably finally
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Speaker 1: allow me to like really settle in. But I mean,
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Speaker 1: you know, getting to know everybody in the locker room
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Speaker 1: is going great. And you know, getting my playbook, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's been good. I think that's for everybody right now.
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Speaker 1: Looking for a house. It's kind of tough these days. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a little a little different market nowadays, you know,
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Speaker 1: but but it's a big step. I mean, first of all, congratulations,
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Speaker 1: first round raft pick. You know, sometimes guys grew up
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Speaker 1: with the NFL being a lifelong dream. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if it was one of yours, but congratulations, thank you,
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Speaker 1: Thank you for sure some really, Um, since I started
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Speaker 1: playing football, you know, I always wanted to go to
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Speaker 1: the next level, really go to UM college and then
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Speaker 1: go to the NFL. So I'd always aspired to play
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. And um, you know, I'm just glad
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Speaker 1: to be here. Man, So take us through. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: go back a little bit. Well we'll get to rookie
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Speaker 1: camp coming up and what's coming up on O T. A.
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Speaker 1: S And all that and just a little bit. But
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Speaker 1: I'm coming from the state of California to Utah. How
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Speaker 1: did you end up in Utah and why did you
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Speaker 1: decide to go to Salt Lake? Yeah? Um, really for me, Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, Kassala was never really on the radar. Um.
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Speaker 1: You know, I never really saw myself going there until
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks before signing day. Actually, um, really
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Speaker 1: when they started recruiting me heavily. UM. And they actually
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Speaker 1: offered me a couple of weeks before signing day, they
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Speaker 1: had offered me um at a basketball game. Um. But
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Speaker 1: up until that point, you know, my recruiting was relatively low. Um.
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Speaker 1: I was playing you know, free safety and wide receiver
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Speaker 1: and UM, you know it was it was tough. Um.
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Speaker 1: You know, I was a tweener. There was a lot
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Speaker 1: of things in my recruiting process that didn't really sweep
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Speaker 1: my way. But um, when Utah came into the picture,
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Speaker 1: you know, it was a great opportunity for me. Um.
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Speaker 1: First of all, it's a great institution. Um, They've been
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Speaker 1: producing a lot of people in the UH in the NFL,
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Speaker 1: and I mean really it just came down to, you know,
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Speaker 1: they were, you know, my best choice as far as
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Speaker 1: everything I wanted to accomplish. Pack twelve school to twelve school.
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Speaker 1: They are my only five. So good about Pack twelve.
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Speaker 1: A CC is where it's at. Man, he's an Alabama Virginia.
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Speaker 1: You know, we got different things. Actually do play football
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Speaker 1: in the Pac twelve. Believe it. But it's it's actually
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Speaker 1: kind of what the NFL is, isn't that. It's it's
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Speaker 1: more in the air. And you you you talk about
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Speaker 1: maybe being a tween or hurt you, but here in
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Speaker 1: the long run, being a tweeter has actually probably helped
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Speaker 1: you because of what the game has become. Because you're
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Speaker 1: starting to see more guys that play college football or
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Speaker 1: come out of high school that played safety that convert
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Speaker 1: the linebacker because of the speed of the game and
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Speaker 1: the way it's become a passing game. So that's got it.
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Speaker 1: That's how that has to have helped you in your
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Speaker 1: journey in the long run. For Sara, and really just
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Speaker 1: heard me, probably in the recruiting process, but in the
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Speaker 1: long run, like you just stated, yeah, I definitely has
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Speaker 1: helped me for sure. Alright, So would you study at Utah?
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Speaker 1: Got your degree? Where you at communications? I got my
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Speaker 1: degree in communications? Actually nice, congratulations. I mean that's I
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Speaker 1: think that's a big deal. I mean, and the studies
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Speaker 1: have shown that in the National Football League players that
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Speaker 1: have a degree have a longer career by I think
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Speaker 1: three years in fact. You know, so congratulations to you,
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Alright, So take us through a little bit
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Speaker 1: lass Utah thought here. We've talked about this before. We've
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Speaker 1: heard the story there the last couple of years off
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Speaker 1: the field with that football team, and then that group
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Speaker 1: stayed together. How close was that team at the very
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Speaker 1: end of it? Obviously won the Pack twelve went to
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Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl for the first time ever in Utah history.
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Speaker 1: But that's a long road to get to that point
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Speaker 1: with everything that happened off the field there. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: would say that team, um was extremely close, and I
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Speaker 1: mean it was pretty much identical to the team we
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Speaker 1: had last year. Excuse me, because nobody left, you know,
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Speaker 1: everybody came back, so we already you know, we're familiar
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Speaker 1: with everybody. And then um, you know, obviously went through
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Speaker 1: um some tragedy and that brought us even closer. But um,
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Speaker 1: really that whole last couple of years that I was there,
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Speaker 1: that team was really strong, you know, as far as
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Speaker 1: just being close with everybody, everybody, um, you know, respecting
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Speaker 1: and loving one another. Really that was that was a
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Speaker 1: huge thing. I would have to think that not only
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Speaker 1: the tragedy that you guys went through Utah, but you
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Speaker 1: guys went through a pandemic. Okay, so you put all
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Speaker 1: these things together and you talk about closeness. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if anybody could come more together than what you
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Speaker 1: guys were going through at that time, not just with
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Speaker 1: the tragedy, but with what's going on, what what was
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Speaker 1: going on in the world at that time. Yeah, definitely
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Speaker 1: for sure. The pandemic whenever UM occurred and you know
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Speaker 1: we were kicked out the building essentially, Um, that kind
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Speaker 1: of the divided us because I wouldn't say dividers, but
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Speaker 1: we just weren't in the locker room together. Nobody was
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Speaker 1: there with one another. So when we did come back
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Speaker 1: and we were finally all together, um, you know, it
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Speaker 1: was like a joy, you know, like finally getting to
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Speaker 1: see everybody um and you know, be there. And I
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Speaker 1: mean I think that just started to build on top of,
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Speaker 1: you know, everybody's relationship. Devin Lloyd with US Jaguars linebacker,
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Speaker 1: first round draft pick, twenty seventh overall selections, Jaguars Happy
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Speaker 1: Hour on Tin Texel and Jaguars dot Com. J P.
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Speaker 1: Shadrick with Jeff Flaguman. All right, so what we we
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Speaker 1: love the video on draft night? You're you're sitting back
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Speaker 1: in the green room. You're in Las Vegas. First off,
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Speaker 1: that had to be pretty darn cool to be in
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Speaker 1: Las Vegas for the draft, I would guess, right, yeah,
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Speaker 1: big blessing. Um. You know, I'm glad I had the
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Speaker 1: opportunity to be there. You know, that was extremely special
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Speaker 1: for myself and my family. And then second you hear
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Speaker 1: your name called and you go on the stage, You're
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Speaker 1: throwing the commissioner around, You're yelling at Melissa Stark. I
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Speaker 1: mean that that moment when you hear your name, the
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Speaker 1: reaction is finally that dream come true. Take us through
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Speaker 1: that that experience relief, um, satisfaction, UM. I mean every
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Speaker 1: emotion that it is, um that you can think of. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know I had it at that moment. Uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'll be honest, you know I didn't expect to fall
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Speaker 1: that late. But when I did, um, you know, get
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Speaker 1: the call, Um, you know, it was just just so much,
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Speaker 1: you know, just joy, you know, just all kind of
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Speaker 1: let out. It's like, Okay, I know where I'm going. Um,
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Speaker 1: this is where God has sent me, you know, and
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Speaker 1: I mean really just um, it was just special. You know.
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Speaker 1: I was glad to finally find out, you know, where
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Speaker 1: where I could call home. You know, I've I've watched
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Speaker 1: a couple of different interviews that you've done, and you talk,
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Speaker 1: I mean literally glowingly about your mom and dad and
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Speaker 1: how much of an impact that they had on your
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Speaker 1: life and where you are today. Uh. And I think
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Speaker 1: that's awesome to have both parents to have that kind
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Speaker 1: of good things to say about them. They obviously did
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Speaker 1: a great job. Yeah, a hundred percent. Um, I'm just
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Speaker 1: so grateful and blessed, um, you know for the parents
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Speaker 1: that I had, and how much you know they love me,
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Speaker 1: and I mean truly they want nothing but the best
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Speaker 1: for me. And I mean nobody's perfect, but that's all
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Speaker 1: I could truly ask for, you know, um, from my parents.
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Speaker 1: So you know, I'm grateful for them. Nab Brat your
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Speaker 1: navy Brat right. Okay, is that right? So what's the
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Speaker 1: connection with the navy. U. Well, my dad um did
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Speaker 1: thirty years, just retired a little over a year ago.
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Speaker 1: My mom um ten years. Yeah, they both met in
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Speaker 1: the military. Um, her mom Navy as any were they
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Speaker 1: have stationed in Jacksonville at anyone. My mom actually had
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Speaker 1: did some training out here. Um, so she was out
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Speaker 1: here for a little bit. Dad. I don't think he
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Speaker 1: was a run here. Okay, well she hat because we
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Speaker 1: have a couple of them here, we have any accident
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Speaker 1: we have mayport. Did you ever find out We're just
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Speaker 1: talking to her literally about this a couple of days ago.
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Speaker 1: She doesn't even remember that because it happened so long ago.
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Speaker 1: This is we're talking twenty plus years ago. So and
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Speaker 1: it was Jacksonville was way different than it is now. So, um,
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Speaker 1: she doesn't even remember. But yeah, it was somewhere here.
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Speaker 1: I got so me and j P we're talking and
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Speaker 1: Utah bms that it's the big time football program that
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Speaker 1: it is. We're sitting there trying to think who's the
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Speaker 1: greatest player to ever come out of Utah to play
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Speaker 1: in the National Football League. And there's a couple of
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Speaker 1: good ones now top of the list. Luther or Ellis
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Speaker 1: comes to mind because he played back kind of what
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Speaker 1: I did. And then Steve Smith also a guy that
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Speaker 1: uh now doing broadcasting on TV. But in your opinion,
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Speaker 1: who is the greatest player beside yourself? Can't can't can't
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Speaker 1: use yourself the greatest player to ever play in the
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Speaker 1: National Football League that came from Utah. Well, I can't
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Speaker 1: give you one defined answer, um, but I can give
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Speaker 1: you a list of a few people. Um, a couple
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Speaker 1: that you mentioned. Luther Ellis, Um, Steve Smith, obviously Eric Whittle. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know he just came back and wanted so well, so, Um,
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Speaker 1: you know he's a great player as well. Um. Here
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Speaker 1: was somebody that I just had on the top of
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Speaker 1: my head that I'm missing, Oh Alex Smith. Yeah, uh so. UM,
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Speaker 1: I mean we've we've had some island and you know
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Speaker 1: you definitely. I mean, I can't put you know a
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Speaker 1: number one on it. First of all, I'm biased, you know,
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Speaker 1: I love all of them, Um, but I mean really
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Speaker 1: I think just you know them coming from Utah and
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Speaker 1: you know, having success in the league is amazing. So
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Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd with US Jaguars linebacker, let's get to arriving
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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. Now, a rookie minicamp comes and goes, a
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Speaker 1: couple of three days on the field, and now all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, this past week, you've been out there
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Speaker 1: with the veterans for the first time. O t as
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Speaker 1: next week. How's it been mixing with these guys in
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Speaker 1: the building finally for the first time. Yeah, it's been cool.
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Speaker 1: It's been cool. Um. You know, it's definitely obviously different
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Speaker 1: than college, but um, I think everyone's been really welcoming
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Speaker 1: for the most part, as far as just guys in
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Speaker 1: the building, um and really extending their hand to me
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Speaker 1: and kind of um really just giving me advice, you know,
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Speaker 1: um on the field, um, even off the field, UM,
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Speaker 1: in the locker room, things in that nature. So UM,
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Speaker 1: it's been a good vibe. And I can tell everybody
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Speaker 1: around here is hungry to win, which you know, I
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Speaker 1: absolutely love, you know what I'm saying. So, um, it's
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Speaker 1: been a good few days of work and uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to keep it going for folks around here, Devon.
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Speaker 1: It's a brand new linebacker room, right, I mean it
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Speaker 1: feels that way. There's a few guys that are back,
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Speaker 1: but it's been rebuilt. I mean that is from Luca
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Speaker 1: and you're in momas in in the draft. That's a
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Speaker 1: lot of change in one years. The stacked room. You
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Speaker 1: guys feel that way too. Yeah, we got a lot
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Speaker 1: of guys in there, um that are really good and
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Speaker 1: that can do a lot of good things, you know
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Speaker 1: for um the team. So um, it's competitive as you expect, um,
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Speaker 1: But I mean we're all you know, getting each other better.
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Speaker 1: We're all helping each other, um, you know, talking through
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Speaker 1: things in the meeting room. So um, it's a it's
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Speaker 1: a friendly competition that you said. I mean, there's always
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a bonding experience with the rookie
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Speaker 1: class when you guys come in because you're the rookies
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Speaker 1: you know, and whether you guys are drafted or undrafted.
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Speaker 1: And then also you've got a fellow first round draft
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Speaker 1: pick and Drayvon Walker. That's probably, uh, one of the
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Speaker 1: coolest experience I think that you'll ever have is coming
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Speaker 1: in as a rookie because you'll have a bond with
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Speaker 1: these guys because you came in together and you're gonna
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Speaker 1: grow up in the league together. And have you gotten
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Speaker 1: to spend some time with some of the other guys
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Speaker 1: so far. Yeah, um, so I know me personally, I've
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Speaker 1: been hammering my playbook and my free time, so I
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Speaker 1: haven't been doing much outside of the facility. But um,
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Speaker 1: in the facility and everything, yeah, well we'll chop it
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Speaker 1: up and um you know, still you know, getting to really,
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Speaker 1: um get acclimated with the large majority of you know,
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Speaker 1: the players on the team. But um, but yeah, you know,
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Speaker 1: i'd say, you know, the rookies are pretty pretty tight
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Speaker 1: with each other. What's the what's the field with coach Peterson?
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Speaker 1: What do you like about Yeah, um, you know, obviously
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Speaker 1: he's very uh I say he's a player's coach, just
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Speaker 1: because you know, he does know how to talk to
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Speaker 1: the players, and um, you know, he has uh pretty
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Speaker 1: good um communication with the players, I guess you could say. Um.
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Speaker 1: But also I can tell he's a winner. You know,
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Speaker 1: he's got that mindset, um that he's gonna do whatever
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Speaker 1: you can for the team and whatever is best for
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Speaker 1: the team. Um. So you know I love that, and um,
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Speaker 1: you know, I mean I'm just excited to keep going,
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Speaker 1: you know, continue to uh to see what everyone is about,
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Speaker 1: you know, watching and watching the film on your Utah.
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Speaker 1: You did so many different things. You were played will linebacker.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes you were a deep metal third player when like
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Speaker 1: a like a cover two playing that deep metal you
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Speaker 1: blitzed off the edge. You had a lot of different
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Speaker 1: staff filling numbers. What do you envision yourself doing in
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Speaker 1: the National Football League at what type of position? Because
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Speaker 1: you're so varied and you can do so many different things.
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Speaker 1: What's your strongest suit and what do you see yourself doing?
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Speaker 1: Me personally? UM, I mean I feel like, especially in
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Speaker 1: this three four scheme. Um, Obviously I'm learning inside linebacker
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Speaker 1: right now. Obviously I want to be able to transition
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Speaker 1: to play any of those four, be interchangeable, um, and
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Speaker 1: do what I did you know in college, except at
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Speaker 1: a higher level it um, with more success. UM. I
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Speaker 1: mean really, I see myself see myself as somebody who
13:54
Speaker 1: can do anything that you can ask a linebacker to do,
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Speaker 1: you know. And I think the game is transitioning more
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Speaker 1: from you know, it's getting just you know, I mean,
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Speaker 1: dudes too, you've gotta be athletes now too. You know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So, um, you know I kind of
14:08
Speaker 1: want to be you know that that type word. You know,
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Speaker 1: he's positioning list. You can play wherever and do it
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Speaker 1: at a high level, have success, not just be a
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Speaker 1: liability and not just put him out there, but be
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Speaker 1: able to be elite. You know, the more you can do,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you're you're pigeonholding to one spot. If you
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Speaker 1: can play three or four spots, it's gonna help along
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Speaker 1: get your career. Really, that's what it comes down to.
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Speaker 1: You've got to You've got a position coach that played
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Speaker 1: the game. Uh and Tony, how how how nice has
14:36
Speaker 1: it been to have a coach that's played the game,
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Speaker 1: Because I know that sometimes that's important because it opens
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Speaker 1: the ears a little bit, and that your coach that's
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Speaker 1: telling you things. Okay, You're like, Okay, he's been there,
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Speaker 1: he's done that, right, Yeah. Yeah. TG's perspective is UM huge. Um.
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Speaker 1: Like you said, he's played the game, so he's been
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Speaker 1: in our shoes. He knows what it's like to be
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Speaker 1: in our shoes, and so I think that perspective is huge.
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Speaker 1: And him as a coach, you know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: it helps me so much as well as far as
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Speaker 1: UM teaching me little techniques and UM sometimes not over
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Speaker 1: complicating things, which huge for me. I'm somebody who likes
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Speaker 1: to keep it simple, try to maximize everything you can, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, while keeping it simple. And I think he
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Speaker 1: helps me do that. So alright, final thoughts with it
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Speaker 1: here before we get you out of here. I know
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Speaker 1: it's the last thing you gotta do today before you
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Speaker 1: leave the building. So o t A is next week.
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Speaker 1: Um what are you looking forward to? You can actually
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Speaker 1: do some eleven on eleven stuff. Finally some nine on seven,
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Speaker 1: but no contact, none of that. Closer to football, al right,
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Speaker 1: closer to football, and um, really what I'm excited for
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Speaker 1: is just to get out and um go compete, especially
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Speaker 1: against you know, our offense, who I know is gonna
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Speaker 1: be really good this year. So um, I'm just I
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Speaker 1: just you know, love competing. So you know, I'm excited
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Speaker 1: to get out there and first of all, see where
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Speaker 1: my game is at stacked up against you know, an
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Speaker 1: NFL caliber offense. But um also just you know, find
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Speaker 1: a way to get better. You know. Now, the rookie
15:56
Speaker 1: year is a little bit of a whirlwind because you
15:58
Speaker 1: did you you know, you have to dry half. You
16:00
Speaker 1: were prepping for the combine, You're prepping for this, you
16:02
Speaker 1: were prepping for that and the one crazy thing about
16:05
Speaker 1: your rookie year, you haven't been prepping to play football yet,
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Speaker 1: it seems like so so it's got to feel good
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Speaker 1: to get back to football. Yes, it's so relieving, so relieving.
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Speaker 1: Like you said, I've been focused on everything except football,
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Speaker 1: you know, and I tried to squeeze it in here
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Speaker 1: and there, but you're so focused on thing from time
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Speaker 1: to time. So now whenever I can just focus purely
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Speaker 1: on football. Um, you know, it's breath of fresh air. Really, hey,
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Speaker 1: thanks for taking some time out to join us today.
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Speaker 1: Really good to visit with you, and uh, I hope
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Speaker 1: we get to do it again soon. You're communications got
16:33
Speaker 1: come on in anytime. We linebacker Devin Lloyd joining us.
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Speaker 1: The Jaguars are future focused and ready for a new look.
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Speaker 1: In to join us at the bank is head coach
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson in linebacker Devin Lloyd lead the charge through
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Speaker 1: three three two. We're back in a moment. We'll review
16:55
Speaker 1: that conversation and talk about Devon behind his back. It's
16:58
Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguar's digital network. Let me
17:13
Speaker 1: go on, let me go on, Duver. Yeah, welcome back
17:22
Speaker 1: at Jaguar's Happy Hour. That is Devin Lloyd at the
17:26
Speaker 1: draft steal the microphone from Melissa's stark, JP Shatrick with
17:31
Speaker 1: Jeff Lagerman, go fortunate over at Weber with us. Also
17:34
Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd with us in studio in the opening segment,
17:37
Speaker 1: and you know we're talking about it during the commercial
17:41
Speaker 1: break logs. You know, we see what he can do
17:44
Speaker 1: on the field, what has what he has done on
17:46
Speaker 1: the field at Utah. You get to spend some time
17:48
Speaker 1: with him like we just did, and hear how he
17:51
Speaker 1: approaches the game, how he approaches things off the field.
17:55
Speaker 1: You can't help but be really excited for what he
17:57
Speaker 1: could be for this organization. I've always been a big
18:01
Speaker 1: believer in that. Uh, if you want to if you
18:03
Speaker 1: want to change the culture, then you get good people.
18:06
Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, that's the only way you do it.
18:08
Speaker 1: You get good people that are really good football players.
18:11
Speaker 1: And he fits the bill and both of those categories
18:14
Speaker 1: when you when you listen to him interview, because the
18:18
Speaker 1: the the interview process through the off season leading up
18:22
Speaker 1: to the draft was lengthy, the NFL, they have these
18:25
Speaker 1: formal interviews that they do that league wide they can
18:28
Speaker 1: look at him. Every team does formal interviews that they
18:31
Speaker 1: tape and that they can review. And he is an
18:35
Speaker 1: A plus character player and he's an A plus player,
18:39
Speaker 1: So you put the two of those things together and
18:42
Speaker 1: this is the kind of building block that you want
18:45
Speaker 1: to have this that on your football team so you
18:49
Speaker 1: can change the culture. And so I'm really excited about him. Uh.
18:54
Speaker 1: I can be totally honest with you and that your
18:58
Speaker 1: your top picks of this year's draft AFT are all
19:01
Speaker 1: A plus character guys and that makes a big difference
19:05
Speaker 1: in past years here you saw the where there was
19:08
Speaker 1: some question marks. There has been absolutely none of that
19:13
Speaker 1: this year with Doug Peterson and Trent Balky, they are
19:17
Speaker 1: getting players that are good people, that are good players
19:21
Speaker 1: to help change this culture. A lot of linebackers, and
19:25
Speaker 1: that's not a bad thing to have a lot of
19:27
Speaker 1: linebackers with talent of Foyer. Louis Kann is here in
19:30
Speaker 1: free agency, of course, the league's leading tanckler a year ago,
19:33
Speaker 1: and of course they drafted MoMA this year to j
19:37
Speaker 1: were already here. Yeah, but specifically the mini camp because
19:41
Speaker 1: we watched it over the weekend. We didn't get to
19:43
Speaker 1: see Louis Khan and some of the other veteran guys,
19:47
Speaker 1: but we had a really good opportunity to watch this
19:49
Speaker 1: rookie class, and it was the drafted players, the free
19:53
Speaker 1: agent guys, and and also some that were here on
19:56
Speaker 1: a tryout basis. And watching Devon move, he's very athletic,
20:02
Speaker 1: he's very slippery. He's very different then how Muma moves.
20:06
Speaker 1: Mom is kind of like this classic shoulders square, big
20:11
Speaker 1: broad shoulder kind of linebacker. And if I had to,
20:15
Speaker 1: you know, if this were a four three defense, Muma
20:18
Speaker 1: would be the mic because he's the big, brawny kind
20:22
Speaker 1: of bigger guy, and then Devin would be the will,
20:26
Speaker 1: kind of like what Kelvin Smith was a few years ago.
20:30
Speaker 1: Because he's athletic, he moves, he can blitz. I think
20:34
Speaker 1: he's gonna give the Jaguar is a great option as
20:37
Speaker 1: a rusher. When you say rush er, what do you
20:40
Speaker 1: mean by that. I don't envision him as a guy
20:42
Speaker 1: that's gonna put his hand in the ground on third
20:44
Speaker 1: down and be a pass rusher. I don't. I think
20:48
Speaker 1: he'd get eaten up just because he's not that size
20:50
Speaker 1: and he doesn't have that length. But I really believe
20:54
Speaker 1: that when you start mixing things up with positional players
20:58
Speaker 1: that can play multiple positions, So like a Trayvon Walker
21:03
Speaker 1: that can play defensive end or play linebacker, he can rush,
21:05
Speaker 1: he can cover. If you are you start confusing offenses
21:09
Speaker 1: and you're all of a sudden dropping a Trayvon Walker,
21:12
Speaker 1: and then you're sending Devin Lloyd because he is a
21:15
Speaker 1: good blitzer. Okay, now we're talking. But I envisioned that
21:20
Speaker 1: he will get numbers in the sack department, but not
21:23
Speaker 1: as a hand in the ground pass rusher, but as
21:26
Speaker 1: a what I call a zone dog blitzer or an
21:29
Speaker 1: extra blitzter and man coverage. I mean, his stats at
21:33
Speaker 1: you tell are nuts. I mean especially every he was
21:36
Speaker 1: all over the ball, like he had four picks last year.
21:39
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy's sacking the quarter. They had more
21:41
Speaker 1: sex than Traylon Walker did last I mean, that's just
21:44
Speaker 1: the way the kind of game he played out there.
21:46
Speaker 1: Well when uh, you know, that's a conversation in and
21:50
Speaker 1: of itself about he had more sacks than Trayvon Walker.
21:53
Speaker 1: But the one thing I love about Devon is that
21:56
Speaker 1: it's always about the ball. Correct. Yes, you remember a
22:00
Speaker 1: couple of months ago we were talking about Miles Jack
22:03
Speaker 1: and free agency and do you bring him back? I
22:06
Speaker 1: remember that, and we were talking about, okay, what are
22:09
Speaker 1: his numbers in the categories that are about the balls,
22:15
Speaker 1: cause fumbles, interceptions, right, the numbers that the difference making plays.
22:21
Speaker 1: And I think some people were a little bit in
22:23
Speaker 1: shock when I said, look, show me the numbers that
22:27
Speaker 1: warrants keeping Miles Jack. And I'm not wasn't trying to
22:29
Speaker 1: get rid of Myles Jack. Wasn't far from that, But
22:32
Speaker 1: I was just saying, is that you brought in a
22:35
Speaker 1: linebacker in free agency last year that had better numbers
22:38
Speaker 1: than Miles Jack and his salary was about seven or
22:42
Speaker 1: eight million dollars less, And so you've got to find
22:45
Speaker 1: a way to get more impactful numbers from that position.
22:50
Speaker 1: And here's Devin Lloyd coming from Utah that filled every
22:54
Speaker 1: one of those categories that we're talking about. The numbers
22:57
Speaker 1: that are about the ball, about the ball, what it's about,
23:02
Speaker 1: I mean, played good defense. Okay, you take the ball away,
23:05
Speaker 1: you impact the ball, you impact the passer. Okay, Sacks, interceptions,
23:09
Speaker 1: cause fumbles, recovered fumbles, those are all game changing plays,
23:13
Speaker 1: and those are the plays that Devin Lloyd makes and
23:16
Speaker 1: what I love about him. Did you hear him talking
23:18
Speaker 1: about how he hasn't had that much time to chop
23:22
Speaker 1: it up with the guys who use that quote chopping
23:24
Speaker 1: up on hip? Now, Okay, he's not chopping it up
23:26
Speaker 1: with the guys except for when he's in the building
23:28
Speaker 1: because he's into the playbook. I mean, listen, he's gone
23:35
Speaker 1: home at night studying the playbook. I mean that's awesome.
23:39
Speaker 1: That's awesome. And was he I mean, muma, Okay, didn't
23:44
Speaker 1: he ask one of our cohorts can I get a playbook? Absolutely? Yes,
23:50
Speaker 1: they all they want it, they want that's nothing wrong
23:52
Speaker 1: with that. Those are the guys. Those are the guys
23:54
Speaker 1: you need. Those are the guys you want. Those are guys.
23:57
Speaker 1: They're gonna help you change the direction of your organization logs,
24:00
Speaker 1: we're gonna find out what concerts you're coming to Daily's
24:03
Speaker 1: place because the busy schedule ahead. Didn't they just have
24:06
Speaker 1: the lumin Ears the last two nights? Yes I missed him.
24:11
Speaker 1: Uh this Friday Sting Sunday Chicago and then next Saturday,
24:18
Speaker 1: June four, The Jacksonville Taco and Margarita Festival and then
24:21
Speaker 1: June five the Doobie Brothers with Michael McDonald singing with them,
24:27
Speaker 1: and then two Nights of the Day Matthews Band June
24:30
Speaker 1: six and seven. Black Crows Unit eleventh. I mean this
24:33
Speaker 1: is a Black Crows. Yes, they're great. I saw them
24:37
Speaker 1: in concert Long Island and like nineteen nine two, Well,
24:41
Speaker 1: you're about to hear the same exact album because they
24:44
Speaker 1: play the whole Shake Your Moneymaker album and this tour,
24:47
Speaker 1: so get ready for that. At Daily's Place dot com,
24:51
Speaker 1: we'll return with organized team activities a preview. What does
24:55
Speaker 1: logs want to see the next three weeks, well four
24:58
Speaker 1: weeks including the mini camp. This is Jaguars Happy Hour
25:01
Speaker 1: on the Jaguars Digital Network. You know what it already
25:09
Speaker 1: has for me? Um with this team, I think about
25:12
Speaker 1: just the you know, the numbers of the guys that
25:15
Speaker 1: are here in the off season program. That just shows
25:17
Speaker 1: the character, isn't a um you know, sort of who
25:21
Speaker 1: these guys really are and football is important to them.
25:23
Speaker 1: You know, winning is important to them, and they they're
25:25
Speaker 1: they're willing to change and wanting to change and meeting
25:28
Speaker 1: meeting it to change obviously and um, it's a credit
25:32
Speaker 1: to the players, you know, in the leadership of this
25:33
Speaker 1: football team that uh um, you know we have this
25:37
Speaker 1: many guys you know, you know, you know, off season
25:39
Speaker 1: program right now, Welcome back Jaguars Happy Hour. That's head
25:43
Speaker 1: coach Doug Peterson last week ahead of Rookie Mini Camp.
25:46
Speaker 1: J P. Shadrick, Jeff Lockaman. We're on tinton Am Jaguars
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Speaker 1: us up on Twitter at Logs five six. He watches
26:01
Speaker 1: that all the time, le we tell you, and at
26:04
Speaker 1: j P. Shadrick. So there you have it. That's Doug
26:07
Speaker 1: Peterson talking about the culture. You can already kind of
26:10
Speaker 1: see some change in the building and the way guys
26:13
Speaker 1: are going about their business and wanting to get this
26:15
Speaker 1: thing right from a year, especially the guys that are
26:18
Speaker 1: coming back. Well, the way you truly measure it is
26:20
Speaker 1: when the scores start mattering. Okay, when you get to
26:23
Speaker 1: a regular season, but you know, and everybody feels great
26:26
Speaker 1: about where you're at this point of the season. All
26:28
Speaker 1: thirty two teams and uh, you know, the rookie Minicamp
26:32
Speaker 1: just one of those steps, and it was it was
26:34
Speaker 1: a joy to watch. A little different than in past
26:38
Speaker 1: rookie minicamps because the practice was conducted inside the stadium
26:42
Speaker 1: because of the construction that's going on outside of the stadium.
26:46
Speaker 1: Everything is happening, uh in the stadium, which is a
26:49
Speaker 1: pretty cool kind of an introduction for some of these
26:52
Speaker 1: young players. And that when you step out onto the
26:54
Speaker 1: practice field, you look up and you go, oh my goodness,
26:58
Speaker 1: there's a lot of seats in here. Okay, this is
27:00
Speaker 1: probably a little different than one of the places that
27:03
Speaker 1: I played at. Maybe not for a guy like Kevin
27:07
Speaker 1: Austin Jr. Went to Notre Dame, the guy from the
27:10
Speaker 1: guy went to watch it to State or watch it
27:12
Speaker 1: to Baptist was yeah that yeah, he was probably like,
27:16
Speaker 1: oh my god, right, a little different, but it was
27:19
Speaker 1: good to watch. And of course the majority of the
27:22
Speaker 1: media it was like the pie piper. They were all
27:25
Speaker 1: following Trayvon Walker and everywhere he went, the media followed,
27:31
Speaker 1: and uh, I think some were even actually documenting his
27:34
Speaker 1: wins and losses against the sled Guess what I'm guessing
27:40
Speaker 1: he was undefeated at look. I will tell you this, Uh,
27:44
Speaker 1: big strong powerful young man. And I think that that
27:49
Speaker 1: was very clear when you watch the film, and then
27:52
Speaker 1: when you watch him in person, it's you're just you're
27:55
Speaker 1: confirming it. He's athletic, he moves well. I still believe
28:00
Speaker 1: he's got some learning to do and getting a plan
28:03
Speaker 1: to pass rush. But he will not get pushed around,
28:06
Speaker 1: I can tell you that. And watching him almost exclusively
28:09
Speaker 1: stand up in a two point stance, I don't want
28:11
Speaker 1: to say it was eye opening, but it was. I
28:14
Speaker 1: was anticipating how he would practice, would he play with
28:18
Speaker 1: his hand in the ground, would he be up? And
28:20
Speaker 1: clearly he's gonna be up in a two point stands
28:23
Speaker 1: And he looked good. He looked a part. And do
28:27
Speaker 1: you think he can cover consistently? Oh? I don't think
28:30
Speaker 1: that that's gonna be his strong suit. I mean, look,
28:32
Speaker 1: you're not. Here's the thing. That's not why you're not
28:35
Speaker 1: drafting anybody first overall unless they are a corner to cover. Okay,
28:41
Speaker 1: linebacker slash defensive end has got one job. Go get him,
28:47
Speaker 1: Go get the guy that's throwing the football. And if
28:50
Speaker 1: you're drafting a guy to drop in the coverage with
28:53
Speaker 1: in that position, you've made a big mistake, but I like.
28:57
Speaker 1: I like the way he moves athletically and obviously his strength,
29:01
Speaker 1: his size. He's a big guy. Watching Devin Lloyd, He's
29:05
Speaker 1: just athletic. He moves extremely smooth. Uh Snoop Connor the
29:10
Speaker 1: running back, exactly what you kind of expected. A really
29:13
Speaker 1: big upper body, powerful runner. He's a guy that when
29:19
Speaker 1: he was at what the Arkansas or Old miss I mean, uh,
29:23
Speaker 1: he was a downhill, one cut type of a guy. Uh. Fortner,
29:29
Speaker 1: the center from Kentucky, Okay, looks the part, incredibly smart
29:35
Speaker 1: from all the reports. He's got two degrees and working
29:37
Speaker 1: on his m B A. And that's the kind of
29:41
Speaker 1: guy that you want to have a center, right, the
29:43
Speaker 1: guy that's calling the adjustments up front, taking pressure off
29:48
Speaker 1: your quarterback because he's got the front, he's got the adjustments,
29:52
Speaker 1: and he's got some things that he needs to work on,
29:55
Speaker 1: some of his lateral movements, second level blocking. He's got to,
29:59
Speaker 1: you know, continue to get better at that, which I
30:00
Speaker 1: think he will. He was impressive. The two corners that
30:06
Speaker 1: were the six and seventh rounders, one from Watchitah State
30:09
Speaker 1: the other one from Arkansas, Okay look like typical six
30:12
Speaker 1: and seventh round corners. They've got they've got the skill set,
30:16
Speaker 1: but now can they get the production and you want
30:19
Speaker 1: to see them more in live action. But from the heightweight, measurables,
30:23
Speaker 1: the speed, those all look positive. The one guy that
30:27
Speaker 1: I think that is very interesting, that is are two
30:30
Speaker 1: guys that I would say that for me are very
30:33
Speaker 1: interested in the undrafted category wide receiver Kevin Austin Jr.
30:37
Speaker 1: From Notre Dame. Uh. When you watch the film on
30:41
Speaker 1: him at Notre Dame, he's a guy that if it's
30:43
Speaker 1: a contested ball, he catches it and he's going up
30:45
Speaker 1: and I'm talking making contested catches, but most importantly on
30:49
Speaker 1: the top of the route, when he's making adjustments to
30:52
Speaker 1: the ball, he makes them almost effortless. And he's a
30:56
Speaker 1: big guy. And then he ran a four or three
31:00
Speaker 1: four forty yard dash after it. I mean that's I mean,
31:04
Speaker 1: how does a guy like that not go get drafted?
31:06
Speaker 1: But the production at Notre Dame was a little bit
31:09
Speaker 1: up and down. The last half of his senior season
31:12
Speaker 1: supposedly was very good. But just looking at him, he
31:17
Speaker 1: looks the part. His numbers say that he can be
31:20
Speaker 1: a part of the part. That was interesting. The other
31:23
Speaker 1: one that, Uh, I think is interesting because when we
31:27
Speaker 1: were watching Trayvon Walker, there was a guy that was
31:30
Speaker 1: working with him that we were going that other guy
31:33
Speaker 1: is pretty big too, right, remember that? And so in
31:37
Speaker 1: his name is DeShawn Dixon and he was wearing number
31:41
Speaker 1: forty seven during the rookie minicamp and he's from Norfolk
31:45
Speaker 1: State and JP there's no film on him. I tried
31:49
Speaker 1: to find it. I didn't find any film. I know
31:52
Speaker 1: it's got to be somewhere. Just pick him off a
31:55
Speaker 1: lineup it I couldn't. I tried to find it. I
31:58
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta start and ask him some questions to
32:01
Speaker 1: get the film on this guy, because he's an interesting prospect.
32:04
Speaker 1: He's uh, he's a six four five ish two sixty
32:09
Speaker 1: maybe two sixty five pound guy that was doing some
32:13
Speaker 1: of the same things that Trayvon Walker was doing. And
32:16
Speaker 1: when you watch these two guys, you go, wow, those
32:18
Speaker 1: are outside linebackers. I mean they're big, I mean big guys.
32:23
Speaker 1: So I mean I want to say I don't wanna
32:24
Speaker 1: say that that's that's all that I saw out there,
32:26
Speaker 1: but those are some of the things that, uh that
32:28
Speaker 1: impressed me. Watching Muma move was classic linebacker. And when
32:33
Speaker 1: you watch Muma and Devin Lloyd is kind of two
32:37
Speaker 1: different trades. You know, Mauma being the shoulders square, he's
32:42
Speaker 1: uh moving laterally like a classic linebacker, where Devon is
32:47
Speaker 1: is more of that athletic just turn and run, and
32:50
Speaker 1: they're both gonna be I think, very effective linebackers. And
32:53
Speaker 1: I think they're both wired the way you want to
32:55
Speaker 1: have linebackers and that they're just they're they're they're a
32:57
Speaker 1: thirst for knowledge. So uh so, so far, so good.
33:01
Speaker 1: I mean, the one thing you don't want to have happened,
33:03
Speaker 1: and this has happened before here, is that when you
33:07
Speaker 1: go out there for a rookie camp and you watch
33:11
Speaker 1: some of the guys that you just invested draft picks
33:14
Speaker 1: in or free agent contracts in, and you watch them
33:16
Speaker 1: when you go that doesn't look that good. You didn't
33:21
Speaker 1: have any of those moments. That's a good thing. So
33:24
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. That's a good step in the
33:25
Speaker 1: right track. There's been one draft pick in Jaguar's history
33:28
Speaker 1: where you went out there mini camp and you went
33:30
Speaker 1: two of them actually where you went, did they actually
33:34
Speaker 1: draft that guy? Is that the guy? It is? I'm
33:39
Speaker 1: not gonna ask you the name name. I don't want
33:40
Speaker 1: to name names on that, but I think everybody wants
33:43
Speaker 1: you to name names of that. You can't do that.
33:45
Speaker 1: We're not gonna go there. Okay, let's move along a
33:48
Speaker 1: couple of different regimes. I mean have been one, you know,
33:50
Speaker 1: one way back. If digging at him, he might give
33:53
Speaker 1: us what we're looking for. U. We're gonna see the
33:57
Speaker 1: activities schedule coming up the next three weeks of O
34:01
Speaker 1: T A S SO ten on the schedule they can
34:03
Speaker 1: get ten over three weeks. There will be one each
34:07
Speaker 1: week open from media the first of each week Monday
34:10
Speaker 1: this week, Tuesday next week, and then um Monday the
34:13
Speaker 1: week after that, and then there's a three day mandatory
34:16
Speaker 1: veteran many camp June. When we speak again, that would
34:21
Speaker 1: be on June, the day after many camps done on
34:26
Speaker 1: this program. What do you want to say about a
34:30
Speaker 1: the Jaguars team at that point and be the Jaguars offense.
34:34
Speaker 1: Where do you want this to feel like on that day? Well,
34:37
Speaker 1: first off, where they're at? I mean you're not gonna
34:39
Speaker 1: really have a measuring stick of where they're at. But
34:43
Speaker 1: in a simple, one one word answer, health, you want
34:48
Speaker 1: to make sure that everybody comes out of everything that
34:51
Speaker 1: you're doing healthy. I don't want to have any setbacks,
34:55
Speaker 1: don't want to lose anybody. Um, you know. To be
34:59
Speaker 1: a little bit more long winded, you'd like to have
35:02
Speaker 1: the offense starting to showing some signs of of them
35:05
Speaker 1: clicking to where the quarterback and the receivers are starting
35:10
Speaker 1: to build, the camaraderie, the timing guys are starting to
35:16
Speaker 1: get get to know each other. So the communication is happening.
35:21
Speaker 1: And but you know, a true measuring stick, I mean,
35:25
Speaker 1: there's really not a measuring stick per se because you're
35:29
Speaker 1: going against yourself. But you just want to have everybody
35:32
Speaker 1: to continue to work their craft, to continue to get better,
35:35
Speaker 1: to gain an understanding of what they're doing. Because everything
35:38
Speaker 1: is new JP. Everything is new through system new coaches,
35:43
Speaker 1: coaches need to learn, players need to learn. Familiarity is
35:47
Speaker 1: something that you want to be able to after the
35:50
Speaker 1: conclusion of the all season program, when you're going into camp,
35:54
Speaker 1: you're not so much worrying about Okay, what do I
35:57
Speaker 1: do when this check is made? And that, oh yeah,
36:00
Speaker 1: when we make this check, I'm doing this. Now I
36:02
Speaker 1: can focus in on the defender and what he's doing,
36:05
Speaker 1: so it's a reactionary thing, and you can be athletic
36:08
Speaker 1: instead of the mind slowing you down. So that's what
36:12
Speaker 1: the off season program I think is is all about.
36:14
Speaker 1: Is that is establishing that core of knowledge so that
36:19
Speaker 1: when you get to the season, you're working on your craft,
36:23
Speaker 1: but more from a physical standpoint, because you've you've gotten
36:26
Speaker 1: a really strong understanding of the mental part of the
36:29
Speaker 1: game down. We'll come back in a moment. We'll go
36:32
Speaker 1: around the National Football League. And I got one other
36:35
Speaker 1: rookie oh that I didn't mention, oh, on the offensive
36:40
Speaker 1: side of the ball. That. Uh. I'm not saying he's
36:43
Speaker 1: gonna be all world. I'm just saying somebody to keep
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Speaker 1: an eye on when we come back. Because everybody kind
36:49
Speaker 1: of expected Austin, right, he went to Notre Dame. Okay,
36:53
Speaker 1: but this one, Nope, I didn't go to Notre Dame.
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Speaker 1: Wasn't on anybody's radar. But when you want him in midicamp,
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Speaker 1: you went, huh, hey, that guy moves pretty good. Okay,
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Speaker 1: he moves pretty good. That might narrow it down a little.
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Speaker 1: It would be a skill position. Okay, Well, that's all
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Speaker 1: the that's all the hints we need. We're back in
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Speaker 1: just a moment with plenty more ahead of Jaguars Happy
37:17
Speaker 1: Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network. Always kind of diving
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Speaker 1: and dipping in the outside line by the world where
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Speaker 1: just strictly working on outsideline, by the things of the practice.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm truly getting more comfortable with the
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Speaker 1: position and learning a lot more techniques coming from that
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Speaker 1: position and not have to learn so many different positions.
37:41
Speaker 1: You know, we have a lot of techniques to learn.
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Speaker 1: Or have these guys opened your eyes up already to hey,
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Speaker 1: you've been really good at the clesial level, but you
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Speaker 1: can learn this much more. Oh yeah, They definitely just
37:53
Speaker 1: always room for the poom and come from George, there
37:55
Speaker 1: was a lot of techniques that we went over, but
37:57
Speaker 1: also coming here, like at George we run the out
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Speaker 1: of tatanies, but once I got here breakdown a lot
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Speaker 1: of those tatanys doutline at Jordan, didn't put him into
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Speaker 1: a family and focused on that one thing that is
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Speaker 1: Trayvon Walker number one overall pick Jaguars outside Linebacker and
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Speaker 1: welcome back. It's Jaguars Happy Hour j P. Shadrick with
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Speaker 1: Jeff Logerman and construction continues at the Football Performance Center
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Speaker 1: just outside t i A Bank fields. Some walls are
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Speaker 1: going up there looked like some concrete stairwells and some
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Speaker 1: elevator shafts that are going up. And we're moving right
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Speaker 1: along logs if you're looking on Jaguars dot com. A
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Speaker 1: lot of heavy equipment, a lot of dirt, me being
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Speaker 1: moved around. And I think when this thing gets done,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be outstanding, excuge. It's gonna be huge, square
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Speaker 1: feet thousand, I think it is or something crazy. I
38:51
Speaker 1: was talking to Hams of this past week during the
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Speaker 1: rookie minicamp days before the practice, and he was giving
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Speaker 1: me a Hams of my rector travel for the Jags,
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Speaker 1: and he's doing some of the facilities work and he's
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Speaker 1: got the layout of how everything is gonna look and
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Speaker 1: uh so he was kind of giving me a little
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Speaker 1: a little tutorial off of the architectural drawings. I was like, Man,
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Speaker 1: that's gonna be impressive, pretty cool. Yeah, excited for that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah me too. I'm excited for it. Players should be
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Speaker 1: very excited for it. And not that there's anything wrong
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Speaker 1: with the facilities they currently have. I mean, this is
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Speaker 1: still an excellent facility here, but by the modern day
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Speaker 1: NFL arms race standard. I guess you could say that
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Speaker 1: it's not keeping pay so the new one will do that. Oh,
39:36
Speaker 1: this is not even close currently. It's it's crazy how
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Speaker 1: things have changed. College football always had to have that
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Speaker 1: because it's recruiting. It's that's everything. In the NFL, it's
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Speaker 1: not so much that is it as you need the functionality.
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Speaker 1: But now that you have free agency in the NFL
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Speaker 1: and it's becoming bigger and bigger and bigger, it is.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to it's a necessary thing anymore, but
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Speaker 1: it's certainly become, uh more necessary than ever before. And
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Speaker 1: on the other side of the street, the Shipyards project
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Speaker 1: is a go. The final conceptual approval by the Downtown
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Speaker 1: Development Review Board last week, so that means, uh, it's
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Speaker 1: a green light and now everything else for seasons involved
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Speaker 1: to make sure this thing is is top not and
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Speaker 1: I have no doubt it will. It will be when
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Speaker 1: it's done. Well. I'm looking forward to at some point
40:31
Speaker 1: to where you can walk along the river because I mean,
40:35
Speaker 1: right now you're going from Riverside to essentially what used
40:38
Speaker 1: to be the Jacksonville Landing. There's this beautiful river walk
40:41
Speaker 1: that you can ride your bike and walk and jog
40:44
Speaker 1: and and do whatever you want to do. But it's
40:47
Speaker 1: it's just it's incomplete. You know, it ends now at
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Speaker 1: the Berkman Plaza, right and you you wanted to keep
40:53
Speaker 1: on going all the way down to the stadium and
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Speaker 1: this whole entertainment area and when it all gets done,
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Speaker 1: it's I think it's going to be fantastic. Can't wait.
41:03
Speaker 1: I can't gonna be a little while though, they're gonna
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Speaker 1: they get a lot of work to do, all right,
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Speaker 1: So you're ready for my You left us with a
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Speaker 1: cliffhanger before the last commercial time out? What do you
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Speaker 1: have for us? What rookie us? This nas Bohannon? Okay, yes, okay, yes,
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Speaker 1: what position? He's a tight end, but he was also
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Speaker 1: a forward and basketball. I think that's all he played. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he was, I think, and I had to kind of
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Speaker 1: read up on him. But he played last year at
41:29
Speaker 1: Clemson but not football, played basketball, and then the years
41:34
Speaker 1: before that he played four years at Youngstown State Penguins. Yeah,
41:41
Speaker 1: the Penguins for real, that's their name. Interesting, So he's
41:44
Speaker 1: got basically a basketball career and then his basketball season
41:49
Speaker 1: was completing and not much of a future I guess
41:52
Speaker 1: in basketball, and he was a football player in high
41:54
Speaker 1: school and the agent that he ended up signed with,
41:58
Speaker 1: This is an interesting story is Glenn Schwartzman, and Glenn
42:03
Speaker 1: Schwartzman had Marcus poll who has the same background, same background,
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Speaker 1: played college basketball, didn't play college football, ended up going
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Speaker 1: with the Colts and played for a very long time.
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Speaker 1: Currently working with the Jaguars and a couple of different
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Speaker 1: UH capacities including player programs, player development, and this agent
42:25
Speaker 1: though has uh I had a number of players like that,
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Speaker 1: Mike Marcus Pollard, um Antonio Gates, Moley Cox most recently.
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Speaker 1: But the reason I bring him up is not because
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Speaker 1: of the story, in the connection with Marcus Pollard any
42:42
Speaker 1: of that, but watching him in the rookie mini camp,
42:47
Speaker 1: he was athletic. I mean, his athleticism is very noticeable.
42:53
Speaker 1: Now there's a long way to go for a guy
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Speaker 1: that played college basket ball to get to the point
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Speaker 1: to where he's going to be an effective NFL player.
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Speaker 1: Tight end got to learn to block, you know, is
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Speaker 1: does he have the level of tough toughness, does he
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Speaker 1: have the level of strength, because they list him at
43:13
Speaker 1: about six five six six five ish, he's gonna have
43:17
Speaker 1: to be a little bit bigger than that. And but
43:21
Speaker 1: the one thing for certain, if you're a tight end
43:24
Speaker 1: and you can block a little bit and you can catch,
43:28
Speaker 1: you can create some major headaches for defensive coordinators. And
43:32
Speaker 1: this is an interesting this is an interesting thing something
43:35
Speaker 1: to follow. I'm not saying he's gonna be a great player.
43:38
Speaker 1: I'm just saying something to keep an aisle. Another guy
43:41
Speaker 1: who went through that was Chris man Hurts. He played
43:44
Speaker 1: college basketball only and got a chance to try and
43:46
Speaker 1: became a blocker. Yes, but how does that have How
43:49
Speaker 1: funny is that? Right? But he said last year during
43:51
Speaker 1: the Tebow experiment whatever, that it took. Chris said it
43:55
Speaker 1: took him two years to really understand the physicality knee
44:00
Speaker 1: did to play as he figured he figured it out,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like it took that long.
44:04
Speaker 1: So he definitely figured that end of it out because
44:07
Speaker 1: he's a very good blocker. The you know, and this
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Speaker 1: is the kind this is the kind of move that
44:15
Speaker 1: you do when you're an NFL team. Okay, you have
44:19
Speaker 1: roster spots and opportunities to maybe say, hey, look let's
44:23
Speaker 1: see if we can develop this guy you don't bring
44:26
Speaker 1: and no offense to Tim Tebow, but you don't bring
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Speaker 1: a guy that is thirty something years old into camp
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Speaker 1: and seeing if he can be a congregular contributor at
44:37
Speaker 1: tight end. So but this is the smart thing, and
44:41
Speaker 1: it's fun to watch. It's fun to watch his athleticism.
44:45
Speaker 1: He caught one ball on a crossing route and I
44:47
Speaker 1: was like, whoa who who's like that? And I got
44:53
Speaker 1: my rookie roster sheaed out. I was like, okay, I
44:56
Speaker 1: never heard of him. He's a tryout player and what
45:00
Speaker 1: he's signed, and then I kind of went back and
45:03
Speaker 1: read up on him because I was curious. But just
45:05
Speaker 1: like the the young man from Norfolk State, I go
45:08
Speaker 1: to watch film on this nas Bohannon, No, no, no
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Speaker 1: film to watch some acc basketball, Like I wonder what
45:19
Speaker 1: the problem is? And then I found out, you know,
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Speaker 1: later on that he was a basketball player. Hey, let's
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Speaker 1: go around the National Football League in our five minutes
45:26
Speaker 1: remaining and start off with Ravens. Punter Sam Coke retired today,
45:32
Speaker 1: So yeah, uh, well, that means the only player left
45:35
Speaker 1: in the NFL from the two thousand six draft is
45:39
Speaker 1: Marcedes Lewis. No kidding left in the entire league. Entirely. Yes.
45:45
Speaker 1: Of course, there's a few players from earlier draft still around.
45:47
Speaker 1: You know. Tom Brady is still from the two thousand draft. Uh,
45:51
Speaker 1: there's Aaron Rodgers from the OH five draft, three from
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Speaker 1: the OH seven draft from me. By the way, just
45:58
Speaker 1: a little note on cook At excellent player, excellent punter,
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Speaker 1: excellent hang time. He had arguably some of the best
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Speaker 1: hang time of a punter in the last to three
46:13
Speaker 1: decades of any punter that that has been special teams
46:17
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. But he was notorious for his gross average
46:23
Speaker 1: and his net average. The differential was incredibly small. Very
46:27
Speaker 1: good player. The l A Chargers broke down broke ground
46:31
Speaker 1: on their new football complex and El Segundo fourteen acre
46:34
Speaker 1: sites slated for completion in July twenty four. The temporary
46:38
Speaker 1: headquarters is in Costa Mesa, down in Orange County, and
46:42
Speaker 1: the new headquarters three miles from l A X seven
46:45
Speaker 1: miles from so far. The Lakers and Kings are also
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Speaker 1: down in El Segundo, so they're getting started with a
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Speaker 1: complex of permanent complex ahead of the Rams. The Rams
46:53
Speaker 1: have just a simple complex on the campus of California Lutheran,
46:58
Speaker 1: some temperature trailers and because they spend all their money
47:01
Speaker 1: on the statius, right, that's what it is. It's functional,
47:04
Speaker 1: it's what it is. And they got like where their
47:07
Speaker 1: equipment goes. Like for the equipment room, they have these
47:11
Speaker 1: portable container things that go on ships. They have three
47:14
Speaker 1: of those. They open them up, they throw all the
47:16
Speaker 1: stuff in there. That's it interest but it works. They
47:18
Speaker 1: want a Super Bowl. Yeah, oh darn. I would not
47:22
Speaker 1: want to break tradition. I would keep it status quo
47:25
Speaker 1: to make sure that you don't break the mojo. UH
47:29
Speaker 1: Giants head coach Brian Dable said in January he wasn't
47:32
Speaker 1: sure if he'd be calling the offensive plays. Well, Mike Kafka,
47:35
Speaker 1: former Jaguar, by the way, is the offensive coordinator A
47:38
Speaker 1: hot minute for yeah A couple of days said Thursday
47:41
Speaker 1: that Kafka has been calling plays at practice, but the
47:44
Speaker 1: team has not made any decision about the process and
47:46
Speaker 1: how it will go in the regular season. If you're
47:48
Speaker 1: calling plays now, plays in the fall, let's let's say this,
47:53
Speaker 1: j Okay, when you call plays and practice, it's not
47:58
Speaker 1: like calling plays in a game. Okay, you're not in
48:02
Speaker 1: the heat of the moment. You're not having to look
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Speaker 1: at your call sheet and go, okay, we got second
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Speaker 1: and seven. Okay, let me see second and seven calls, okay,
48:09
Speaker 1: And then you're looking at a list of to pick
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Speaker 1: from and I'm sick. Yeah, that's not what you do, right.
48:14
Speaker 1: It's all scripted in practice this time of year. So
48:17
Speaker 1: if KAF goes calling plays, I could call plays in
48:21
Speaker 1: a scripted practice. Joe Burrow took fifty one sacks last
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Speaker 1: regular season, the league high nineteen extra sects in the postseason,
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Speaker 1: and on the Full Scent podcast this week, said you
48:32
Speaker 1: look at when they happen third down sacks. Who cares
48:35
Speaker 1: about third down sacks. I'm gonna try to extend the
48:37
Speaker 1: play as long as I can. I get the first
48:39
Speaker 1: down on third down unless I'm in field goal range.
48:41
Speaker 1: He also said there are good sacks and bad sacks.
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Speaker 1: Do you buy that? Yes, But he's also trying to
48:48
Speaker 1: protect his offensive line a little bit from the criticism.
48:51
Speaker 1: And I understand that, and that's what a good leader
48:54
Speaker 1: and a good quarterback will do. So, uh, defend and
48:58
Speaker 1: make sure that you own some of those sacks, and
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Speaker 1: that's exactly what he did. The fact of the matter is, though,
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Speaker 1: is that if Joe Burrow wants to have a long,
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Speaker 1: illustrious career and a highly successful career of that number
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Speaker 1: has to come down. Throw it away, Joe. The Bills
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Speaker 1: and the NFL Foundation have donated four hundred thousand dollars
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Speaker 1: to Buffaloes East Side Community in the aftermath of the
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Speaker 1: recent killings at a local grocery store, two hundred thousand
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Speaker 1: to the Buffalo Together Community Response Fund, the remainder to
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Speaker 1: various nonprofits on emergency response efforts addressing immediate needs of residents.
49:30
Speaker 1: Good stuff from the Bills are good. Good job, Buffalo Bills.
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Speaker 1: What a tragedy. So that'll do it for our show today. Yeah,
49:36
Speaker 1: that's craziness. Yea our thanks to devn Lloyd, Jaguars. He's awesome,
49:42
Speaker 1: gonna be a good football player now and always a
49:45
Speaker 1: great visit. I think that's gonna be whatever we can
49:48
Speaker 1: get him on shows, it's gonna be great. I can't
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Speaker 1: wait to see him live and I'm talking live and
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Speaker 1: in past. Yes, with that number thirty three going Brent Reabert,
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Speaker 1: Joe Fortunado or thanks to devn Lloyd for Jeff Flagman,
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Speaker 1: J P. Shadrick. This is Jaguars Happy Hour on the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Digital Network. Mmmmm.