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Jags Drive Time: Tuesday, March 1 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jacks Drive Time with Ashlyn Sullimsell, John Oshan,
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Speaker 1: Brian Sex Changs Drive Time and he starts right now.
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Speaker 1: I think that last year's last year, and and we're
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Speaker 1: starting we're starting fresh, we're starting new, and we're starting
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Speaker 1: from the ground floor. And that's what I'm excited about it.
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Speaker 1: And that's that's why I think just just moving forward
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Speaker 1: a big picture, That's that's the that's the great thing
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Speaker 1: about you know, taking over with what having a quarterback,
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Speaker 1: you know, much like what we did in Philly, you know,
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Speaker 1: with with Carson and how in his second year, you know,
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Speaker 1: we saw the growth and and everything in him. And
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Speaker 1: Trevor's coming into that that second year this year and
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Speaker 1: and looking forward to working within this spring. So, um,
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Speaker 1: I think sky's a limit, you know. Obviously We've we've
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Speaker 1: got some work to do. Um nothing, nothing is perfect,
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Speaker 1: and we're looking forward to that the start of a
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Speaker 1: new year. Officially for the Jaguars new head coach dud Peterson.
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Speaker 1: In this entire are coaching staff as this is the
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Speaker 1: first event where they are all together here at the
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Speaker 1: NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. Lie from Radio Roal localmen
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Speaker 1: A Jaguars Drive time at Ashland Sullivan and John Ozier
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Speaker 1: here for you. Our first day of coverage. And it
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Speaker 1: has been a long day, but Tuesday is always the
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Speaker 1: longest day because Trump Bulky and Doug Peterson speaks the
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Speaker 1: media and it is a big day here in the
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Speaker 1: convention Center. Well, it's been a long day and notably
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Speaker 1: it's our first time back. It's the NFL's first time
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Speaker 1: back at this event in two years, so there is
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Speaker 1: a feeling of you're seeing people around saying hello to
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Speaker 1: each other. They haven't seen each other, you know, in
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Speaker 1: two years in a lot of cases. So the convention
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Speaker 1: of the league, which is what this is, is back.
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Speaker 1: And uh, the Jaguars are in business with what we
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Speaker 1: now know is the management structure of football side moving forward. Yes,
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Speaker 1: absolutely so big news. This Tuesday morning, Jaguars owner Shotcom
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Speaker 1: released a statement that the Jaguars will not be hiring
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Speaker 1: an executive vice president, which means that Trent Balky and
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson will be working even more close so than
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Speaker 1: they already are. And Doug Peterson spoke about that today.
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Speaker 1: From the day I walked in that door and really
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Speaker 1: goes all the way back to our interview process. You
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Speaker 1: know how collaborative we've been in the questions that we've
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Speaker 1: been able to bounce off each other, and and I
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Speaker 1: and I want it to be that way. I wanted
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Speaker 1: to be transparent. I wanted to be open and honest.
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Speaker 1: And we're not always going to agree. I mean, that's
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Speaker 1: that's part of this process. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: you know, we can walk out the door and be united.
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Speaker 1: And and that's the most important thing that we're We're
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Speaker 1: keeping the organization, We're keeping the players first, um and
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Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing that that we've been able to
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Speaker 1: do and and and building on that relationship each and
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Speaker 1: every day. So Doug Peterson and Trent trump Bulky were
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Speaker 1: already working very closely together. Now they will be even
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Speaker 1: more so. And a lot of people were questioning when
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Speaker 1: are they going to hire an EVP? Why is it
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Speaker 1: taking so long? Now a decision comes that they aren't
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Speaker 1: going to hire an e v P, and Shot Khan
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Speaker 1: said it that he's been in the building these past
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Speaker 1: three weeks. He's seen Doug Peterson work, and he has
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Speaker 1: the confidence that he doesn't want to add more to
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Speaker 1: the mix because he feels like what they have right
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Speaker 1: now is working right. There's a strong vibe that dougs
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Speaker 1: the right guy and that he's brought the unity, the
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Speaker 1: you know, all the things that you expected him to,
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Speaker 1: the positive culture, if you will. And my impression, I
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Speaker 1: haven't talked to Shot, but I talked to people you
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Speaker 1: know around him in the decision a little bit um.
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Speaker 1: You know, don't throw something else into the mix yet
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Speaker 1: until you know what's needed in that mix. So uh,
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Speaker 1: right now, it appears very much that Doug and Trent
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Speaker 1: are working well together. They both talked about it a
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Speaker 1: lot today. When you listen to Doug Peterson talk about
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Speaker 1: the kind of thing, you get the idea that he's
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Speaker 1: not gonna say something if he doesn't mean it. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot of sincerity there. And Shod used the word
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Speaker 1: pause with the executive vice president situation. I don't think
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Speaker 1: that kind of thing is off the table in the
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Speaker 1: long term. What that will eventually look like, if it happens,
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Speaker 1: What an assistant GM could look like, What a VP
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Speaker 1: of personnel, which is what Trent Baulk you mentioned today.
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Speaker 1: You know, I think there will be the Jaguars overall
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Speaker 1: managed instruction on the football side won't look exactly like
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Speaker 1: it is now. How it will look, I think is
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Speaker 1: something that Shod con wants to determine over the appropriate
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Speaker 1: amount of time. As you said, Ashland, not force something
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Speaker 1: right now that doesn't need to be forced. Well, it
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Speaker 1: also seems like you have to have the perfect ideal
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Speaker 1: candidate for that, and you're not going to just fill
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Speaker 1: that position. To fill that position and create something like
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Speaker 1: this one, there's already so many moving parts, everyone's trying
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Speaker 1: to figure each other out, there's so much to do
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Speaker 1: this offseason. I just think forcing that right now it
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Speaker 1: just it doesn't seem the right fit. So I hear
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Speaker 1: what you're saying that we shouldn't say that the e
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Speaker 1: VP position is closed forever. It's just not right now,
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Speaker 1: and that's okay. And again, what you want to do
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Speaker 1: is make sure that if you feel like the direction
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Speaker 1: that Doug has got things moving is good, and all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden you bring in a VP, you know,
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Speaker 1: and it doesn't quite fit, then maybe that runs counter
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Speaker 1: to that. You know. Again, at some point, Shod we'll
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Speaker 1: talk about the decision publicly and we'll get more of
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Speaker 1: his thoughts on that. But it just seemed like right
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Speaker 1: now it's not gonna happen in the quote foreseeable future.
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Speaker 1: So let's make sure people understand that it's paused for
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Speaker 1: right now, so that the questions don't continue every time
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Speaker 1: that Doug speaks, every time that Trent speaks. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: have to be a topic every time. Now the doors closed,
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Speaker 1: just for now, and that is our breaking news of
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Speaker 1: the day here at the Scouting comment we come back
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Speaker 1: on Jaguars Drive. I'm all about what Trent Balky and
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson said at the podium. Coming up, we're back
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive time from the NFL Scouting Combine, live in
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Speaker 1: Indianapolis from Radio Row. It is Tuesday. It is our
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Speaker 1: first day of Combine coverage here on Jaguars dot com,
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Speaker 1: and it was a big day because Trent Falky and
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson met the media, not for the first time,
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Speaker 1: but this is really the first time where the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: coaching staff is all together, and it's kind of the
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Speaker 1: official first event for the new league year. It's a
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Speaker 1: lot of newness going on, and I will say the
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Speaker 1: biggest thing that I took from the press conferences in
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Speaker 1: the interviews that will be up soon on Jaguars dot
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Speaker 1: com it's Doug Peterson and Trent Bulky both said with
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Speaker 1: confidence that they're gonna be really aggressive in free agency. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And we asked Doug and Trent on that when about
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Speaker 1: that when we had them on, uh, Doug being the
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Speaker 1: coach was a little more over the top, he's little wy. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna be aggresive. Trent, being the GM said something interesting.
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Speaker 1: The most interesting takeaway I had from it was he said, yes,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna be aggressive, and then he talked a little
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Speaker 1: bit about wanting to make sure that that that the
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Speaker 1: players they got when they introduced them into the locker room.
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Speaker 1: We're good enough players that the other players understood why
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Speaker 1: they were signed, and it's an important they remember in
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Speaker 1: free agency, these players know who's good and who's not good.
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Speaker 1: Trent was basically saying, you don't want to sign a
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Speaker 1: guy just for the sake of signing them, have him
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Speaker 1: come in not be able to play, and then all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, your contracts structure is all out of whack.
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Speaker 1: So um. The other interesting thing that I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: we were planning to talk about. Trent talked a lot
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Speaker 1: about the need to resign the team's own players. Doug
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Speaker 1: talked about that as well. Clearly, now it takes a
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Speaker 1: while to get to that because you've got to draft
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Speaker 1: the right guys. But both of them talked extensively about
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Speaker 1: we need to resign our own guys. We need to
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Speaker 1: keep guys in the building who are good players. That
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Speaker 1: hasn't happened enough. Boy, that is a it's a pretty
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Speaker 1: good sum up of the culture and what has gone
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Speaker 1: wrong around here for a while that we've gotten to
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Speaker 1: that point through various things going wrong. Both of these
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Speaker 1: guys know it's imperative that that get fixed and that
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Speaker 1: starts to be a thing that they're known for rather
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Speaker 1: than known for not doing. Yeah, it's kind of addressing
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Speaker 1: what is outside the building. And truthfully, in in my
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Speaker 1: five years year, I never heard a GM or coach
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Speaker 1: talk about that, talk about what everyone says is why
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Speaker 1: don't you keep your own players? And this is the
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Speaker 1: first time that both of them said that. And I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't take it as oh, they're absolutely going to resign
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Speaker 1: Cam Robinson and d J. Chart that's that's what they
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Speaker 1: must mean. It was more so saying and starts here.
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Speaker 1: It's starting to draft your own players and making sure
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Speaker 1: they're the right picks when you draft them, and Coach
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Speaker 1: Peterson says, hey, that starts today, right. You can't resign
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Speaker 1: DJ Shark necessarily just because we want to sign our
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Speaker 1: own guys. But over the long haul they have to
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Speaker 1: draft well developed, well get back to that all gms
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Speaker 1: want to do. A day called well talked about it.
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Speaker 1: Anybody's been a GM talks about doing that. It was
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Speaker 1: interesting though to me that they both talked about it
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Speaker 1: with such emphasis here at their first combine. They clearly
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Speaker 1: know they have to get back to that. They have
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Speaker 1: started doing that, right. It's imperative. How that plays out
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Speaker 1: in the short term is interesting. How it plays out
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Speaker 1: in the long term is imperative for sure. And another
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Speaker 1: big talking point I guess she'll say from here is
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Speaker 1: this room is buzzing about the dumb one overall pick,
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Speaker 1: and everyone keeps talking about Evan Neil. So we asked
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Speaker 1: Coach Peterson and Trent Bulky, there are you taking? That's
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Speaker 1: what you said, right? You got who you got? And
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Speaker 1: he said not so fascinating, but the offense of line.
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Speaker 1: And I thought it was interesting when Doug Peterson said,
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Speaker 1: you know, we don't really know yet because we have
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Speaker 1: to see how free agency shakes out. And once we
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Speaker 1: know with Cam Robinson and free agency, okay, then we
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Speaker 1: know how to place the offensive line right now, we
9:11
Speaker 1: kind of gotta wait for that to know what's going
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Speaker 1: on with this line. Yeah, and there's there's two weeks
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Speaker 1: to go until free agency. And when they were asked
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Speaker 1: about this, uh, I'm not sure. We asked some specifical
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Speaker 1: about the franchise tags. But when they were asked about
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Speaker 1: free agency and the franchise tag in a in a
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Speaker 1: local media scrum, if you will, I thought was, they're
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Speaker 1: not quite there yet. They're trying to figure it out.
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Speaker 1: That's what you would expect them to say. The negotiating
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Speaker 1: period for free agency, I believe it starts two weeks
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Speaker 1: from today. That's when I think we'll start getting an
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Speaker 1: idea of what they're gonna be able to do. It
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Speaker 1: sounds to me like they like Cam back. I didn't
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Speaker 1: really ask him much about DJ today, but overall, it
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Speaker 1: sounds like they would like pieces of the offensive line back.
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Speaker 1: They have to figure out what those pieces are gonna
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Speaker 1: look like and how realisting is to bring those guys back.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately for us on Jaguars dot Com right it's stay tuned. Yes,
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Speaker 1: it's a lot of question marks. It's a lot about
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Speaker 1: money and injury status. You know Brandon Linder with his
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Speaker 1: injury status the last year. Can he stay healthy to
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Speaker 1: come back. There's there's question marks at every single position
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Speaker 1: of the offensive line. So it's not as easy as
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Speaker 1: saying we'll just draft Evan Neil and it's all fixed,
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Speaker 1: no problem. It was interesting. Uh. We asked Doug on
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Speaker 1: the air, uh, what positions he liked, and he talked
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Speaker 1: a little bit about tight end. Likes the tight end room,
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Speaker 1: which was interesting. Likes the running back room. There's concerns
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Speaker 1: there with Travis cy Tan and James Robinson, how healthy
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Speaker 1: they come back. Uh. But obviously when we talked, I
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Speaker 1: asked him what he likes about the roster and he
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Speaker 1: sort of started to answer, and the first thing he says, well,
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Speaker 1: quarterback so well, And that's a good sign, yes, because
10:46
Speaker 1: he clearly likes it and he's got a bunch of
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Speaker 1: guys to coach. Yes he does. We said he set
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Speaker 1: a record for having coaches in the building that have
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Speaker 1: quarterback experience, and he left and said, yeah, I know.
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Speaker 1: It was at Yah, that's a lot. It was a lot.
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Speaker 1: So those are impressions from the coach and gm S
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Speaker 1: pressers here at the common week come back. We're looking
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Speaker 1: at the prospects and the rest of a busy week
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Speaker 1: here for Jaguars dot Com at the Scouting Combine. So
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Speaker 1: stay with us. We're about Jaguars Drive Time live from
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Speaker 1: the Scouting Combine here in Indianapolis and live on Radio
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Speaker 1: Row on a Tuesday where Dud Peterson and Trent Bulky
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Speaker 1: met the media today was very much all about the
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Speaker 1: coaches in GM the NFL. Yet every coach in this
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Speaker 1: building tomorrow really starts the prospects, and it starts at
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Speaker 1: the wide receivers that will be at the podium on field.
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Speaker 1: Workouts do not start till Thursday. But I'm I'm excited
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Speaker 1: to see these wide receivers. And it's interesting because it's
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Speaker 1: so obvious. Everyone talks about the Jaguars need for speed
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Speaker 1: and you gotta get speed on this roster. But when
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Speaker 1: you look at these wide receivers, they're falling the top
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Speaker 1: ones at least fifteen twenty. The Jaguars don't sit there obviously,
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Speaker 1: they're at thirty three, So does one of them fall?
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Speaker 1: That's where, yes, you need speed. But you can't necessarily
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Speaker 1: reach for that position in the first round. What certainly
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Speaker 1: sounds like, you know, I'd be surprised if they took
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Speaker 1: wide receiver now one overall, I think that's a big
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Speaker 1: reach at this point. Nobody thinks that will happen. Um
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Speaker 1: could one of these receivers are talking about who's rated
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Speaker 1: between twelve and twenty slipped to twenty six or twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: A lot of the Jaguards to trade up for it.
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Speaker 1: Possibly are there enough where they could wait to get
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Speaker 1: one at number thirty three. Those are tough things to
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Speaker 1: speculate about right now with any sort of certainty, because
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Speaker 1: it's so far off and you're talking about thirty three
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Speaker 1: picks in front of it. What was interesting today when
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Speaker 1: Trent was talking on the podium, you mentioned a couple
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Speaker 1: of things that caught my ear. He likes the draft,
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Speaker 1: he said, he thinks it is. It is a deep
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Speaker 1: draft and very good draft. A lot of different positions.
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Speaker 1: That leads me to believe, you know, Trent likes his picks,
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Speaker 1: he likes trading, but at leads me at leads me
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Speaker 1: to believe that he thinks he's in good shape at
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Speaker 1: the top of a lot of rounds to get guys
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Speaker 1: that maybe people aren't talking about right now. All people
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Speaker 1: really want to talk about the comma is number one overall. Um,
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Speaker 1: it sounds like, you know, he was asked on the podium,
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Speaker 1: he's not give anything away. He was asked a lot
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Speaker 1: of out the difference between offensive line and edge rusher.
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Speaker 1: He said, it's a very deep draft for edge rusher.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that means you take tackle first edge rather rushing
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Speaker 1: in the second round. That's just meat play and not
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Speaker 1: draft nick. Uh. But he likes the draft. And he
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Speaker 1: was asked about possibly trade in the pick, and he
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Speaker 1: was very GM like in it. He said, well, you know,
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Speaker 1: you don't say no, but you don't say yes all
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Speaker 1: of that. I think it'll be tough to trade that
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Speaker 1: pick because I'm not sure that there's the value at
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Speaker 1: the top of the draft to entice people to come up.
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Speaker 1: But he certainly addressed it. So it's worth uh, somebody
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Speaker 1: going on and hearing what he had to say about it.
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Speaker 1: Most interesting most interesting takeaway from Trent today the fact
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Speaker 1: that he thinks it's a deep draft. I think they're
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Speaker 1: optimistic that first, second, third, fourth, fifth round they can
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Speaker 1: get value out of all those spots. Um, that's not
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Speaker 1: a sexy thing to talk about a combined day, but
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Speaker 1: he could impact the franchise for a long time. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And a lot of people are also talking about with
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Speaker 1: free agencies. So soon in two weeks we're getting asked, okay,
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Speaker 1: well what about free agency? And we asked Trump, Balky, Okay,
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Speaker 1: do you add speed and free agency or you had
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Speaker 1: speed in the draft and you just look at a
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Speaker 1: matter of factly and said both. Yeah. And I think
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Speaker 1: the key thing to remember about free agency especially, it's
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Speaker 1: what Trent talked about. If you know, if guys go
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Speaker 1: off the board at at the premium spots, meaning you
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Speaker 1: got three or four wide receivers right that people are
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Speaker 1: talking about, if two or three of those guys resign,
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Speaker 1: you know they may not necessarily go spend for the
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Speaker 1: sake of spending. They need to get faster there. You know,
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Speaker 1: I don't speak for Trent. To me, the way you
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Speaker 1: get better at wide receiver along run is drafted because
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Speaker 1: the premier guys often aren't there. Davante Adams is there. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you feel differently about it, but that strikes me. I
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Speaker 1: just feel it at the top of the second round
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Speaker 1: wide receiver is where I think they can start making
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Speaker 1: hay with it. But Trent certainly didn't tease that in
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Speaker 1: any way to us today on Jaguars Out. But the
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Speaker 1: key can't really tease anything, especially at the Combine. You've
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Speaker 1: got so much going on that you can't give anything
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Speaker 1: away right now. And why would he'd be silly too,
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Speaker 1: Yes he would. So those are our expectations for free
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Speaker 1: agency and draft. We are very far away from that.
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Speaker 1: But we are live here at the Scouting Combine and
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Speaker 1: we have one more segment here for you on Jaguars
15:05
Speaker 1: Drive times to stay with us. We're back Jaguars Drive
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Speaker 1: timeline from Indianapolis, live from the Scouting Combine and live
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Speaker 1: from Radio ROWA busy Tuesday that we're wrapping up here
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Speaker 1: on Jaguars dot com, and we will be here till
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Speaker 1: Friday collecting all kinds of content for you on Jaguars
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Speaker 1: dot com. On field workouts start on Thursday and tomorrow
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Speaker 1: we have a busy day shooting a lot of behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes features and it was interesting. We were asking
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Speaker 1: head coach Doug Peterson what was the most impactful thing
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Speaker 1: of the combine for him, and he said the interviews
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Speaker 1: are crucial and those start tonight at seven o'clock. They're
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Speaker 1: only fifteen minutes long. And for trim Bulky, he said really,
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Speaker 1: he said all of its impactful, but he mentioned the
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Speaker 1: on field workouts and I thought it was really interesting
15:53
Speaker 1: what he said where we asked a fan, I guess
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Speaker 1: expectations as if a guy who runs an awesome forty,
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Speaker 1: it must mean you have to draft him, and he
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Speaker 1: said not necessarily, but it forced you to go back
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Speaker 1: and watch more tape and say, why do we miss this?
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Speaker 1: Why is he testing so well? And what are we
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Speaker 1: missing on film? Well, coaches historically and Dougs obviously long
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Speaker 1: time coach love the interview process because it gives them
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Speaker 1: some insight into what they might be dealing with if
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Speaker 1: they get the player, what the guys like to be around.
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Speaker 1: Uh So I'm not surprised that Doug loves that. To transpoint,
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Speaker 1: and it rings true every GM you talk to. We'll
16:29
Speaker 1: tell you the difference between how the combine is perceived
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Speaker 1: publicly and how it's perceived within NFL circles is dramatically different.
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Speaker 1: NFL people are here for the measurables, for the medicals
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Speaker 1: and a little bit for I mean for the interviews.
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Speaker 1: Coaches like those a little bit for the on field stuff.
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Speaker 1: But teams do not go back Ashland and on Monday
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Speaker 1: and Tuesday. They don't go in and start tearing magnets
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Speaker 1: off the board and start throwing him and and now
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Speaker 1: re rank their board. This is a piece of the puzzle.
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Speaker 1: And what Trend said is what I've always heard. It's
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Speaker 1: exactly right. If a guy excels here, if there's a standout,
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Speaker 1: if there's a red flag in one direction or the other,
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Speaker 1: it will cause them to go back, take that magnet
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Speaker 1: aside and discuss that player again. And he used the
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Speaker 1: phrase that's dead on and find out what did we miss?
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Speaker 1: Are we missing something on this guy that we hadn't
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Speaker 1: seen before, And they'll check it, and if they're missing
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Speaker 1: the miss something, they'll go back and do the research.
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Speaker 1: It is another piece of the puzzle that causes these
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Speaker 1: teams to go back and make sure that the research
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Speaker 1: they've already done is right. But in no way does
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Speaker 1: this event. You know, you will hear about rising and
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Speaker 1: falling players from now to the draft. It's a vastly
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Speaker 1: overrated term. And uh, the combine certainly does not usually
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Speaker 1: cause guys to rise and fall, and usually guys only
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Speaker 1: rise and fall in one direction. They usually fall down
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Speaker 1: if something negative comes up. It's hard to rise significantly
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Speaker 1: at the combine. Yeah, and I thought it was interesting.
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Speaker 1: I learned this a couple of years ago with the
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Speaker 1: medicals and how important it is for someone like Jamison Williams,
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Speaker 1: for example, out of Alabama, who unfortunately towards a C
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Speaker 1: on the National Championship game. They're gonna be so many
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Speaker 1: questions about him, and that was probably the best wide
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Speaker 1: receiver in the class until that happened. So for the
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Speaker 1: chance for each team to get their hands on this
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Speaker 1: guy and really see, Okay, how much has he recovered,
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Speaker 1: that's big time, especially for a medical standpoint, And they'll
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Speaker 1: certainly look at guys like Williams who hurt last year.
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Speaker 1: Where the combine really helps these teams is it's their
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Speaker 1: first chance to do a full medical evaluation on players
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Speaker 1: that they don't know much about. They sort of know
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Speaker 1: that Williams has the A C L right. What they're
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Speaker 1: looking for primarily is all the hurts, all the past injuries,
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Speaker 1: how it's affected when they do their X rays. They're
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Speaker 1: looking to see, Okay, could this crop up at some point,
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Speaker 1: how um, how physically able is this player going to
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Speaker 1: be to withstand these things? How much wear and tear
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Speaker 1: he already has? Uh. Those are the things that aren't
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Speaker 1: very exciting for us to talk about, but that once
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Speaker 1: they get behind closed doors into our ranking their boards,
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Speaker 1: it comes into play. Big dog. Absolutely so very busy
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