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- 0:05Speaker 1: Welcome in to the Jaguars broadcast. We can review podcasts
- 0:08Speaker 1: presented by t I A. A Bank, J P. Shadrick
- 0:11Speaker 1: with you and today's Friday, July one, and we've got
- 0:15Speaker 1: plenty to get to. This week, training camp kicked off officially.
- 0:19Speaker 1: We'll hear from Doug Broon and his opening comments of
- 0:21Speaker 1: training camp. We'll hear from team physician Dr. Kevin Kaplan
- 0:25Speaker 1: as he explains the COVID nineteen protocol, plus first round
- 0:29Speaker 1: pick c J. Henderson and Cattle and Chason speak with
- 0:31Speaker 1: the media at the start of their first training camp.
- 0:34Speaker 1: Let's start with the opening of camp and all the
- 0:36Speaker 1: changes in protocols surrounding COVID nineteen. The NFL Players Association
- 0:41Speaker 1: and the NFL agreed to cancel all preseason games and
- 0:45Speaker 1: build up to the regular season with a strictly scheduled
- 0:48Speaker 1: training camp ramp up. To get to the ramp up, though,
- 0:51Speaker 1: involves testing for COVID nineteen, and Jaguar's head team position
- 0:54Speaker 1: Kevin Kaplan, sat down with me over Skype to explain
- 0:57Speaker 1: the testing procedure and some changes around the building. Well,
- 1:01Speaker 1: this is uncharted territory and the NFL has really been
- 1:03Speaker 1: working on this for for many months now, and each
- 1:07Speaker 1: team had to set up a specific plan in order
- 1:10Speaker 1: to try to get us back into the stadium as
- 1:13Speaker 1: safely and efficiently as possible. UH. And the something that
- 1:17Speaker 1: the NFL and the NFL Players Association, along with the
- 1:21Speaker 1: NFL Physicians Society has agreed upon is regular testing too. Obviously,
- 1:26Speaker 1: God forbid pick up if a player or a staff
- 1:29Speaker 1: member is affected by the COVID virus, and that involves
- 1:32Speaker 1: UH daily testing at least here at the beginning UH.
- 1:36Speaker 1: And we have a company bio reference, which is the
- 1:40Speaker 1: company in the NFL has hired UM basically stationed outside
- 1:43Speaker 1: our stadium, and we go there. We check off a
- 1:46Speaker 1: list of whether or not we've had symptoms, if we've
- 1:49Speaker 1: been exposed, if we've traveled, all the normal questions that
- 1:52Speaker 1: you get pretty much anywhere, even when you come to
- 1:53Speaker 1: my office, you get those types of questions. UH. And
- 1:57Speaker 1: then we go into the their lab and and we
- 2:00Speaker 1: do a nasal swab where they check for the virus UH,
- 2:03Speaker 1: and then we leave. And then obviously we can come
- 2:06Speaker 1: into the building when our test results come back negative,
- 2:10Speaker 1: and if God forbid it's positive, then we have a
- 2:12Speaker 1: plan on how we treat those players and what we
- 2:14Speaker 1: do and how we monitor those players. So there's a
- 2:18Speaker 1: very regimented right now plan that we have in place
- 2:22Speaker 1: in order to try to prevent a spread or an
- 2:25Speaker 1: outbreak if someone tests positive and hopefully nomin will test positive.
- 2:29Speaker 1: What about the frequency of testing? Is it every day? Now?
- 2:33Speaker 1: Does that change in time? For now? It's every day.
- 2:36Speaker 1: And if we fall below a certain percentage of positives,
- 2:40Speaker 1: you know there was less than five percent, then for
- 2:43Speaker 1: now the NFL has said we will change the frequency
- 2:46Speaker 1: with which we test. And I think that this is
- 2:49Speaker 1: an absolute moving target. You know, we really don't know
- 2:51Speaker 1: and no one really knows how this is gonna go.
- 2:54Speaker 1: And if you said to me, okay, if a player
- 2:56Speaker 1: tears an a c L, what's the what's the procedure here?
- 2:58Speaker 1: I could pretty much tell you within you know, certain
- 3:01Speaker 1: limits of time, you know how that is going to
- 3:04Speaker 1: play out. But this is so novel that we really
- 3:07Speaker 1: don't know, you know, which way it's going to go.
- 3:09Speaker 1: So we have to be able to kind of shift
- 3:11Speaker 1: our protocols as we move along. I know there have
- 3:14Speaker 1: to be plenty of changes around that building, especially in
- 3:17Speaker 1: the team areas, the locker room, the training table, dining room, UM,
- 3:23Speaker 1: the training room in fact to go get ankles taped
- 3:25Speaker 1: and everything involved there. The weight room, take us through
- 3:29Speaker 1: the distancing procedures there, water bottles, towels, all of that
- 3:34Speaker 1: procedure is totally different. This season. It's been so unbelievable
- 3:38Speaker 1: to think about how much contact we have between players
- 3:42Speaker 1: and staff and office, you know, front office members having
- 3:46Speaker 1: to change pretty much everything. And if you if you
- 3:49Speaker 1: think of of an athletic trainer in our football field,
- 3:51Speaker 1: you think of an athletic trainer with a water bottle,
- 3:53Speaker 1: and the player comes over and one gets a little
- 3:55Speaker 1: bit of water, and the next one gets a little
- 3:56Speaker 1: bit of water, and so I mean, none of that
- 3:58Speaker 1: can stay the same owls. You know, how many times
- 4:01Speaker 1: do you see a uh an athletic trainer have a
- 4:03Speaker 1: towel over his shoulder. Uh And you know, one player
- 4:06Speaker 1: will wipe his his mask off and then they put
- 4:08Speaker 1: the right back on his shoulder. So that has all
- 4:10Speaker 1: had to change. Everything is to become very personalized. You're
- 4:13Speaker 1: gonna have your own water bottle, You're gonna have your
- 4:15Speaker 1: own towel, the way we at least in training camp
- 4:18Speaker 1: when we have either ninety guys or eighty guys, depending
- 4:22Speaker 1: on how many guys are in the building. They have
- 4:24Speaker 1: to be spread out. We have to be able to
- 4:27Speaker 1: monitor who has contact with each other. So the NFL
- 4:30Speaker 1: is using a tracer system where we all have a
- 4:33Speaker 1: little contact tracers that we wear, and so you know,
- 4:36Speaker 1: if let's say person A, B and C all have
- 4:40Speaker 1: the contact tracer and somehow another person A becomes positive,
- 4:43Speaker 1: we'll be able to see did he interact with person
- 4:45Speaker 1: be de interact with person see and so we have
- 4:48Speaker 1: a very good look at where players are or anybody
- 4:50Speaker 1: staff and myself included where I am in the building
- 4:53Speaker 1: and who I've interacted with UH and so these are
- 4:56Speaker 1: all part of this either or this plan that we
- 4:59Speaker 1: have with the NFL that was just obviously approved before
- 5:02Speaker 1: training camp. We have an infectious disease specialist that's with
- 5:06Speaker 1: us as well, and an infection control officer that's one
- 5:09Speaker 1: of our athletic trainers that's really monitoring this program. So
- 5:12Speaker 1: it's one person now that's in charge of a lot
- 5:15Speaker 1: of different things, and we're all working together to keep
- 5:18Speaker 1: the building as safe and clean as possible. The full
- 5:21Speaker 1: interview with capitin available now on Jaguars dot Com and
- 5:24Speaker 1: a portion will air this weekend on Jaguars Weekend TV.
- 5:28Speaker 1: Let's get to Jack's Drive Time Thursday morning. I filled
- 5:31Speaker 1: International Sullivan this week with Brian Sexton and John Osier,
- 5:35Speaker 1: and as always, we dug into the ozone mail Bag,
- 5:38Speaker 1: this time for a discussion around players opting out throughout
- 5:42Speaker 1: the NFL and what it could mean for a certain
- 5:45Speaker 1: Jaguars defensive end. Let's go to William from Merritt Island
- 5:49Speaker 1: down on the Space Coach. How will the new opt
- 5:53Speaker 1: out affect Unique in dock Way. Yeah, this is a
- 5:57Speaker 1: tricky wint um. You have to understand opt out exactly
- 6:01Speaker 1: what it means. I don't think it's gonna affect him
- 6:03Speaker 1: at all because my understanding is if he opts out,
- 6:07Speaker 1: it only pushes everything back a year, and that means
- 6:12Speaker 1: that his situation, he would not get out of his
- 6:15Speaker 1: situation if he's trying to get out of Jacksonville until
- 6:19Speaker 1: and the big element there and I want to make
- 6:21Speaker 1: sure I get this right. If he is too opt out,
- 6:25Speaker 1: what he has to do first is signed the franchise tags.
- 6:29Speaker 1: If he signs the franchise tag, then that means by
- 6:32Speaker 1: opting out he would then be under a one year
- 6:35Speaker 1: contract in so my you know, I can't speak for Unique,
- 6:42Speaker 1: I've been spoken to him. All indications are he wants
- 6:45Speaker 1: freedom as quickly as possible. If he signs that tag,
- 6:49Speaker 1: then he's on a one year deal there. But they
- 6:51Speaker 1: thought he was gonna be under The Jaguars could still
- 6:55Speaker 1: then theoretically franchise him a second time. In me too
- 7:01Speaker 1: for him, I think the opt out might create more
- 7:04Speaker 1: problems from his perspective than he would want. And so
- 7:09Speaker 1: I don't think he'll be opting out. But as I've
- 7:11Speaker 1: said a million times, he's a unique cat. I can't
- 7:15Speaker 1: predict the action. I doubt he would opt out. We've
- 7:20Speaker 1: talked about this ad nauseum um with Unique. In John's writing,
- 7:24Speaker 1: it doesn't impact him at all. He has no leverage,
- 7:27Speaker 1: he gains no advantage by opting out. Million dollars smells
- 7:34Speaker 1: like freedom to me? Sure, And hasn't he already? I
- 7:40Speaker 1: guess self opted out by saying he's not playing for
- 7:43Speaker 1: this team anymore? Well, he is. But people are talking
- 7:46Speaker 1: about could he possibly opt out use the system despite
- 7:50Speaker 1: the team, And I don't think that's possible for him.
- 7:53Speaker 1: I don't think so it's not sure that's going to
- 7:55Speaker 1: be a deal for him this year. The archive of
- 7:57Speaker 1: Jack's drive time available on Jaguars dot Com or audio
- 8:00Speaker 1: available in the Official Jaguars podcast Network. Later Thursday, head
- 8:05Speaker 1: coach Dog Maron met the media virtually for the first
- 8:07Speaker 1: time in training camp and speaking of in Gakua, Baron
- 8:11Speaker 1: provided the latest about the only player that did not
- 8:14Speaker 1: report to Jaguars camp. And have you had any conversations
- 8:17Speaker 1: with Johnny? I have not. No, I have not. But
- 8:21Speaker 1: you know, like I said before, you know, he's one
- 8:24Speaker 1: player that I know is always ready. You know someone
- 8:26Speaker 1: told me, hey, you know someone someone's not here and
- 8:29Speaker 1: he's gonna come back, I mean or not. You know,
- 8:32Speaker 1: he's the player that's always always ready, always um, taking
- 8:36Speaker 1: care of himself. UM. Like I said before, I'm going
- 8:39Speaker 1: to reiterate it again, you know. UM. As a coach,
- 8:43Speaker 1: you know you love for that perfect harmony between you know,
- 8:46Speaker 1: management and the player as far as the business end
- 8:49Speaker 1: of things. And I think when you look at it,
- 8:52Speaker 1: you know both both sides, you know, have rights from
- 8:54Speaker 1: a management side to a player side. UM. I think
- 8:57Speaker 1: as a coach you're always looking for a solution. You
- 9:00Speaker 1: know that you can you know, you know, be part
- 9:02Speaker 1: of to to help bring parties together. But um, you know,
- 9:07Speaker 1: Dave would probably be able better to speak on where
- 9:10Speaker 1: everything is at um as far as you know, talks
- 9:13Speaker 1: or whether they've talked or not. Because with all the
- 9:16Speaker 1: stuff that we've had and the change, you know, you
- 9:18Speaker 1: gotta remember now we we didn't receive a lot of
- 9:20Speaker 1: this information or a deal wasn't struck with the p
- 9:23Speaker 1: A until you know, really close to the time. Well,
- 9:27Speaker 1: the amount of research, the amount of reading, the amount
- 9:29Speaker 1: of questions that come up, you know, I really the
- 9:32Speaker 1: majority of my time has been able to you know,
- 9:34Speaker 1: really been with the protocols and keeping the players safe
- 9:37Speaker 1: and being able to see what the best way is
- 9:39Speaker 1: to ramp this thing up. When we return, Maron provides
- 9:43Speaker 1: some background on his family life as camp begins, plus
- 9:46Speaker 1: Jaguar's first round picks c j Henderson and Kayla and
- 9:49Speaker 1: Chason explain the startup training camp, all that and more.
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- 10:20Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. Welcome back to the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend
- 10:24Speaker 1: Review presented by t I a A Bank. Yes, there
- 10:27Speaker 1: are plenty of guidelines for working at t I A
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- 10:33Speaker 1: the real challenge will be when players, coaches, and staff
- 10:36Speaker 1: leave the facility, can they stay virus free when interacting
- 10:40Speaker 1: with those outside the building? That coach jag Barone spoke
- 10:43Speaker 1: with the media midday Thursday, but later joined Jeff Loghman
- 10:46Speaker 1: and me on the first Doug Bron Show of the
- 10:49Speaker 1: season Thursday afternoon. The show airs each Thursday at five
- 10:52Speaker 1: o'clock on the Jaguars Radio networking Jaguars social channels. Maroon
- 10:57Speaker 1: explained that he's doing all he can to help the
- 11:00Speaker 1: stadium and the team virus free. But here we are
- 11:04Speaker 1: ind of July and typically we're talking about the Jimmy's
- 11:07Speaker 1: the Joe's and the xs and ohs, and you're still
- 11:10Speaker 1: talking about that, But then you have a whole anther
- 11:12Speaker 1: category of managing a football team with a global pandemic.
- 11:18Speaker 1: I mean, where's the manual for that? Well, you know,
- 11:21Speaker 1: I don't think there is a manual for that. I
- 11:23Speaker 1: think that Jeff I went through the same thing. So
- 11:27Speaker 1: I tried to do is change myself my my mentality
- 11:31Speaker 1: of you know, what we look at as you know,
- 11:34Speaker 1: a training camp, and but we look at as preseason
- 11:37Speaker 1: games and you know, and and some of the things
- 11:40Speaker 1: that go into that as a coach, I mean, and
- 11:43Speaker 1: you've seen it, you know from from that end where
- 11:45Speaker 1: coaches want to you know, as soon as the players
- 11:47Speaker 1: get in, you want to set the tempo, you want
- 11:49Speaker 1: to go. You want to you know, you know, set
- 11:52Speaker 1: that you know, physical mode and get on the field
- 11:55Speaker 1: and being pads and you know, here we go. Um,
- 11:59Speaker 1: I think you know, h with the weeks leading up
- 12:03Speaker 1: you know to what was going on, and obviously there
- 12:06Speaker 1: was a lot of anxiety of whether you know, um,
- 12:09Speaker 1: you know we were able going to get something done
- 12:11Speaker 1: with obviously the protocols being in place. Um, you know,
- 12:15Speaker 1: I've I've talked to the coaches. I've talked to the rookies.
- 12:17Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to the veterans about Hey, listen, you know,
- 12:20Speaker 1: it's just truly a ramp up period. We have some time,
- 12:24Speaker 1: uh you know, about four weeks, four and a half
- 12:26Speaker 1: weeks to get the team ready to play. Um, you
- 12:29Speaker 1: got about fourteen days of padded practices and we'll get
- 12:32Speaker 1: to that. But our mentality as coaches, you know, we
- 12:36Speaker 1: have to change, you know, we have to have you know,
- 12:39Speaker 1: this is this is called patients. You know, this is
- 12:41Speaker 1: called education with acclimating the players in my opinion, Um,
- 12:47Speaker 1: you know, to the safety protocols that are in place
- 12:49Speaker 1: and talking about you know, not only just self discipline,
- 12:55Speaker 1: but also more importantly the responsibility that we all have,
- 12:59Speaker 1: you know, to make sure that we don't bring this
- 13:01Speaker 1: virus into the building and spread this virus. And you know,
- 13:05Speaker 1: it's it's a little bit you know, it's it's it's
- 13:08Speaker 1: a little bit more than you know, Hey, just coming
- 13:10Speaker 1: into this building getting tested every day. It's a lot
- 13:12Speaker 1: of it is, hey, what you do outside, and you
- 13:15Speaker 1: know it's tough. I've been going through it now for
- 13:17Speaker 1: a couple of days. Uh, not really really almost two
- 13:20Speaker 1: weeks now where you know, I haven't been in touch,
- 13:23Speaker 1: you know, I haven't. You know, my children play a
- 13:25Speaker 1: U sports, My children are around, you know, my wife's
- 13:28Speaker 1: driving them around, you know, so you know, I basically
- 13:31Speaker 1: you know, been quarantined, you know, from them because obviously
- 13:36Speaker 1: I'm I'm committed to not getting it. And you know,
- 13:39Speaker 1: those are some of the things that are that are tough,
- 13:41Speaker 1: you know, um, you know, and I think we all
- 13:44Speaker 1: have all these different challenges and that's why I like,
- 13:46Speaker 1: you know, we see players opting out or things of
- 13:49Speaker 1: that nature, and and you know, I respect that decision.
- 13:53Speaker 1: I think that, you know, at the same time, if
- 13:55Speaker 1: if we're gonna come in here and say that there's
- 13:56Speaker 1: no risk, there's of course there's risk. There's risk time
- 14:00Speaker 1: we go to the supermarket. There's risk every time we
- 14:02Speaker 1: you know, we're out there. But you know, I think
- 14:05Speaker 1: the awareness, I think the rules that have been put
- 14:07Speaker 1: in place or the protocols which um, you know obviously
- 14:11Speaker 1: at any time can change for the better. Which is
- 14:13Speaker 1: that what that's what we want? Like I said, this
- 14:15Speaker 1: thing is this thing is the best thing right here,
- 14:18Speaker 1: you know, this little uh you know, my contact thing.
- 14:21Speaker 1: You see it's flashing blue. You know what I mean?
- 14:24Speaker 1: And what is that we're getting into my space anyway,
- 14:27Speaker 1: So now this this is like now I got a
- 14:30Speaker 1: reason to keep people away from me. It starts flashing red.
- 14:35Speaker 1: It means, hey, get you asked away? You too close.
- 14:38Speaker 1: It's a contract tracer though logs, so everybody has one
- 14:41Speaker 1: in the building and it tracks where you are in
- 14:44Speaker 1: vicinity to somebody else and if it, if it goes red,
- 14:47Speaker 1: you better step away from the head coach. Well step
- 14:50Speaker 1: or the head coach step away from wherever. You know,
- 14:52Speaker 1: for all of us. Really it's it's it's really good.
- 14:55Speaker 1: And I think you know, part of the this plan,
- 15:00Speaker 1: know that, or this mindset that I had was, you know,
- 15:02Speaker 1: bring the coaches in, get them used to the protocols
- 15:05Speaker 1: of wearing masks. Having Again, we differentiated in another word,
- 15:10Speaker 1: virtual meetings or meetings we have with the players at home,
- 15:13Speaker 1: interactive meetings we have in the building. But we're all
- 15:15Speaker 1: spread out, so you're not having these full you know,
- 15:19Speaker 1: offensive meetings, offense defense special teams. They've broken up the
- 15:23Speaker 1: individual meetings we have in space well enough apart, so
- 15:27Speaker 1: you know that's all been different, but you know it's
- 15:30Speaker 1: it's it's different. You know, the normal is the abnormal
- 15:35Speaker 1: right now, you know what I'm saying. So so, and
- 15:38Speaker 1: then when the players came in, you know, obviously with
- 15:41Speaker 1: all these testing protocols are in place, you know, that
- 15:43Speaker 1: doesn't mean that everything's okay. You know, we still have
- 15:46Speaker 1: to you know, um, you know, go with the protocols
- 15:49Speaker 1: and keep uh, you know, the environment as safe as possible.
- 15:53Speaker 1: The full show Our Give available on Jaguars dot Com
- 15:56Speaker 1: or the Jaguars Official podcast Network. Now let's hear from
- 16:00Speaker 1: the first round picks from they're in the facility doing
- 16:03Speaker 1: strength and conditioning work and on field walkthroughs. Coming off
- 16:07Speaker 1: the field Friday, C J Henderson, and CALEV and Jason
- 16:10Speaker 1: met the media virtually. For Henderson at least so far,
- 16:13Speaker 1: the defensive concepts are similar to what he had that
- 16:16Speaker 1: in Gamesville. Oh well, you know, because Grantham prepared me
- 16:19Speaker 1: a lot, you know, on this, and I think we
- 16:21Speaker 1: have pretty much the same scheme. It's just a little
- 16:24Speaker 1: bit faster and probably a little bit more places. But
- 16:27Speaker 1: I think they have, you know, the same mindset, the
- 16:29Speaker 1: same aggressive mindset, and they like the player on the
- 16:31Speaker 1: same defense. So it's not it's not too difficult for
- 16:33Speaker 1: me to adapt to. Hey, c J, there's a couple
- 16:37Speaker 1: of different rookie cornerbacks on the team this year. Obviously
- 16:40Speaker 1: you guys are just done kind of walk through type things,
- 16:42Speaker 1: but you think it could be helpful to have a
- 16:44Speaker 1: couple of guys going through similar experiences like that almost definitely,
- 16:47Speaker 1: you know, Um, you know, I'm I'm very open guy,
- 16:50Speaker 1: So I'd like to you know, hear guys. You know
- 16:52Speaker 1: they're upbringing and how they got here as well. So
- 16:54Speaker 1: you know, training with those guys and here in this
- 16:57Speaker 1: perspective on on ball and how they played this that
- 17:00Speaker 1: that helps me out a lot as well. Jason joins
- 17:02Speaker 1: the defensive end and edge rusher group that has some
- 17:05Speaker 1: fantastic talent, of course, including second year defensive end Josh Allen,
- 17:09Speaker 1: who's coming off a Pro Bowl appearance in his rookie season.
- 17:12Speaker 1: Jason said that Alan has already taken him under his wing.
- 17:16Speaker 1: We've been talking a lot, We've we actually worked out
- 17:19Speaker 1: a few times as well with each other. Um, I
- 17:21Speaker 1: kind of look at him as uh the role model
- 17:24Speaker 1: just to fall after just obviously after success he had.
- 17:26Speaker 1: But um, from the I can say the bragged about
- 17:31Speaker 1: that people have it by this, his character and the
- 17:34Speaker 1: way he's displayed around facility is somewhere that I want
- 17:36Speaker 1: to look at as well. So Um, like I said,
- 17:38Speaker 1: I'll kind of look him as the big brother and
- 17:40Speaker 1: just kind of helped me, Um just walking my way
- 17:42Speaker 1: into the league and Derry Dean and try to be
- 17:44Speaker 1: a prost as best I can. You can check out
- 17:46Speaker 1: the archives of both media conferences on Jaguars dot com.
- 17:49Speaker 1: Next week plenty more media availabilities for players, including Tuesday
- 17:54Speaker 1: when second year quarterback Gardner meant Show meets the Media.
- 17:58Speaker 1: Must see TV and US listen audio there catch all
- 18:02Speaker 1: the Jaguars news video and audio on the official team
- 18:05Speaker 1: website Jaguars dot com. Thanks for listening. I'm JP Shadow
- 18:09Speaker 1: and we'll catch you next week on the Jaguars Broadcast
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