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Press Pass | 1 on 1 with GM James Gladstone | 2025 NFL Draft · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: J. P. Shaddwick in the draft room with GM James Gladstone,
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  Speaker 1: first draft as a general manager. What are your feelings?
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  Speaker 1: Is there anxiety, nerves? How you're feeling just with only
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  Speaker 1: a couple hours to go.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I got to say, with all the work
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  Speaker 2: that's been done to date, all the collaboration across our
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  Speaker 2: coaching staff and scouting staff, feel firm in our plan
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  Speaker 2: heading into tonight, and I got to say it hasn't felt,
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  Speaker 2: in terms of sensation, all that much different than any
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  Speaker 2: draft previously. You know, you got everything sort of in
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  Speaker 2: the hopper and feel like you just fall back on
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  Speaker 2: what you had planned for and go from there. So
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  Speaker 2: we're looking forward to what unfold. But obviously it won't
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  Speaker 2: take long for us to be on the clock and
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  Speaker 2: we're looking forward to press and send there and making
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  Speaker 2: the call.
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  Speaker 1: Take us through your day so far, from the wake
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  Speaker 1: up to the morning prep to get to this.
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  Speaker 2: Point, you know, it's been low key, It hasn't It
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  Speaker 2: hasn't been all that different from my normal routine. Woke
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  Speaker 2: up at the same time, I got here at the
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  Speaker 2: facility fairly early and headed out to thee for a
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  Speaker 2: few laps before taking some calls to just tie up
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  Speaker 2: a few loose ends and have since been just chewing
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  Speaker 2: on the same thoughts that seemingly been circling for quite
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  Speaker 2: a few few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what's on your final checklist? Now? What do you
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  Speaker 1: lean on when the clock starts? And take us a
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  Speaker 1: little bit if you can through your process when time
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  Speaker 1: is of the essence.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, this first pick is going to be
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  Speaker 2: a little different than the next nine. Obviously we have
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  Speaker 2: some version of a controlled environment, knowing that there's only
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  Speaker 2: four selections ahead of us, and beyond that, I think
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  Speaker 2: what we'll lean into is a lot of the same
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  Speaker 2: things that I think we've preached over the last eight weeks.
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  Speaker 2: And really that's about focusing on players who are intangibly rich,
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  Speaker 2: and so that'll be top of mind at each pickpoint,
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  Speaker 2: and really the decisions that we'll make with each of
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  Speaker 2: the nine picks that lie beyond tonight, we'll be sure
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  Speaker 2: to lean into that and keep that as our north star.
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  Speaker 1: We all see rumors. Do you follow the TV coverage
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  Speaker 1: of draft and all the rumors draft day things that
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  Speaker 1: may or may not happen, And how busy has it
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  Speaker 1: been on the phones with the Jaguars.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I think I've got a pulse for what
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  Speaker 2: has seemingly been pushed out, which seems like every single
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  Speaker 2: scenario on planet Earth, which is exciting, entertaining. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's the business that we're in, and I think at
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  Speaker 2: pick number five we'll see some fireworks one way or another.
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  Speaker 1: James, you luck to appreciate the time.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it as well. Game on,