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Press Pass | Patrick Mekari on Being A Part of Change & Doing Things the Right Way · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Twenty twenty five. Three agency underway. We're hearing the Miller
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  Speaker 1: Electric Center in Jacksonville. A lot of new faces are
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  Speaker 1: coming into town. Offensive linemen Patrick McCarey, you are one
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  Speaker 1: of them. Welcome to Jacksonville. Excited to have you. What's
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  Speaker 1: this process been like for you to kind of come
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  Speaker 1: to a new team in why Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 2: It's been good. It's been a little bit of an
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  Speaker 2: actorate week early on, but excited to be here, Excited
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  Speaker 2: to get signed, be in the building, meet the coaches. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's been good. It's an exciting organization, a lot of energy,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of new staff, new players, excited to be
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  Speaker 2: a part of it.
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  Speaker 1: It is a lot of changes in this offseason for
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  Speaker 1: the whole team. The front office is new, we got
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  Speaker 1: a new head coach and Liam Cohen was Was that
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  Speaker 1: exciting to you to kind of be a part of
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  Speaker 1: something from the ground up obviously being rebuilt with the
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  Speaker 1: new staff that's here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, It's It's an exciting team. You know, a
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  Speaker 2: good coaching Cohen this great football mind. I've heard a
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  Speaker 2: lot about him. And just to be a part of
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  Speaker 2: something that could uh change and be great. I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do that. So it's good to be here as alignman.
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  Speaker 1: I know you played a lot of different positions. You
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  Speaker 1: have that versus utility When you think about kind of
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  Speaker 1: coming and working with a new group, what's exciting about
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  Speaker 1: that for you? Is that kind of just learning the
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  Speaker 1: new people around you, bringing a little bit of your
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  Speaker 1: own experience. What's exciting about that new operata?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, building new relationships, you know, seeing how the
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  Speaker 2: guys mess together, building new bonds with the team, especially
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  Speaker 2: with the opensive line group, and uh, just seeing how
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  Speaker 2: great we could be, you know, win games and be great.
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  Speaker 1: Sure. Yeah, I'm gonna be protecting Trevor Lawrence. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: that's part of the decision making process. Is that always
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  Speaker 1: kind of like who am we gonna be protecting? Running
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  Speaker 1: around with as well? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know Trevor's uh, great guy, great quarterback. Excited
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  Speaker 2: to be here with him, and we have a job
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  Speaker 2: to do to keep him up right and keep him clean,
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  Speaker 2: to let him do his thing. Uh so that's what
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna plan on doing.
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  Speaker 1: Alright. What did Jacks fans need to know about you?
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  Speaker 1: What are they gonna see when you take the field.
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  Speaker 2: Someone that works hard? Does it the right way. UH
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  Speaker 2: competes and make the fan base proud.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely alright. Welcome to Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it, Thank you now. M.
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  Speaker 1: Sieu the wid