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Ep. 63: Analyzing Jaguars' Roster After Free Agency Haul | Jags A.M. Podcast · Jags A.M.

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into de exam. I'm kind of on a Stephen's
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  Speaker 1: free agency in the NFL kicking off last Wednesday, and
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot of changes to this Jaguars roster have
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  Speaker 1: come about since that time. Brian Sexton is with me today,
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  Speaker 1: John Osier is off, and Brian, I think the big
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  Speaker 1: thing we need to talk about because at this point
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  Speaker 1: last week Calvin Ridley was still in the mix, but
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  Speaker 1: he has since signed with the Titans. So our first
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  Speaker 1: big thing today is zeroed in because Zero is no
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  Speaker 1: longer on this roster. Calvin Ridley getting a huge guaranteed
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  Speaker 1: deal fifty million guaranteed over ninety two million over four
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  Speaker 1: years as he heads to the Titans. Now, Brian, no
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  Speaker 1: one's excited when a Jaguar goes to play for the Titans.
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  Speaker 1: But when you saw that contract deal, it kind of
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  Speaker 1: made sense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you didn't want to pay that.
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  Speaker 3: The Jaguars had him here all year last year, and
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  Speaker 3: you know it was a contract year for Calvin, and
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  Speaker 3: yet he still struggled to be in the right place
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  Speaker 3: at the right time way too often.
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  Speaker 2: If you watched the.
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  Speaker 3: Jags last year, you know there were moments where you're thinking,
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  Speaker 3: what is he doing so. If he's going to get
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  Speaker 3: fifty million guaranteed dollars to go to a place where
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  Speaker 3: he might not be in the right place at the
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  Speaker 3: right time with the quarterback who's not that accurate, I
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  Speaker 3: say good luck.
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  Speaker 2: To you, Titans.
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  Speaker 3: Calvin Ridley's a dynamic talent. We watched him on the
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  Speaker 3: training camp field last year and had huge expectations for
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  Speaker 3: what he would do, and at times kai I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we went wow, what he has done, what he did
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  Speaker 3: in his only season in Jacksonville was you know, give
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  Speaker 3: us a glimpse, give us a taste.
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  Speaker 2: Of what he was capable of.
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  Speaker 3: And the Titans said, we love him, we'll pay him,
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  Speaker 3: and the Jaguars said, we'll move on a.
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  Speaker 1: Little bit of what could have been right because if
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  Speaker 1: you look at the situation a little bit differently, maybe
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  Speaker 1: if Josh Allen's contract gets sorted out a little bit sooner,
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  Speaker 1: you can franchise tag him, maybe get another year and
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  Speaker 1: see what that would turn into. But all for not,
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  Speaker 1: as Calvin is now headed to Tennessee. Our second big
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  Speaker 1: thing today is a big addition. Because they didn't spend
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  Speaker 1: that money on wide receiver Calvin Ridley, they were able
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  Speaker 1: to send it on a big guy, the big addition
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  Speaker 1: being Eric Armstead and the defensive lineman Brian We've been
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  Speaker 1: talking for a while about, you know, adding some big
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  Speaker 1: guys to line Those were big issues for this team
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  Speaker 1: last year and certainly fills a need both in leadership
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  Speaker 1: and on the field.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's big and he's got great wingspan.
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  Speaker 3: When you watch him play as we are right now,
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  Speaker 3: you see a guy who can make a play even
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  Speaker 3: when it seems like the play isn't there to be made.
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  Speaker 3: The quarterback sliding out of the pocket, but he can
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  Speaker 3: reach and pull a guy to the ground. Imagine what
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  Speaker 3: you can do with a big body like Eric Armstead
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  Speaker 3: pushing the pocket a We didn't have that last year
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  Speaker 3: where the pocket was making the quarterback decide to go
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  Speaker 3: to his left and Josh Allen or to his right
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  Speaker 3: and Trayvon Walker. So what you've got now is quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 3: if there is not a lot of time to throw
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  Speaker 3: the ball, are going to have to get on the move,
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  Speaker 3: which should set up the edge guys to make even
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  Speaker 3: more plays. And the other thing I think is really
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  Speaker 3: interesting is what you can do with two guys with
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  Speaker 3: great wingspan, both Trayvon Waller and Armstead are tall, have
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  Speaker 3: great length of shoulder, length of arm and are guys
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  Speaker 3: who can make plays. I think it's gonna be really
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  Speaker 3: interesting to see how Ryan Nielsen dials up different games
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  Speaker 3: and stunts with those guys on the same side of
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  Speaker 3: the line.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. One final big thing for US today receiver rumor.
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  Speaker 1: Now there was some talk of fellow forty nine er
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  Speaker 1: Brandon a Youth possibly getting traded over here, but now
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  Speaker 1: the focus kind of shifting to the draft. Is a
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver in the mix for seventeen because this is
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  Speaker 1: a deep wide receiver draft. Do we think that the
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  Speaker 1: team is done yet, Brian, or is this something where
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  Speaker 1: they're going to try to make a trade happen or
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  Speaker 1: are they already focusing on the draft?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know how you get anything, looks, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know how you got what you got done last
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  Speaker 3: week with as little cap room as they had, and
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  Speaker 3: with Josh Allen seeing they were twenty four million dollars
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  Speaker 3: on the cap.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know this, but I would.
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  Speaker 3: Guess that they can't do anything more really until they
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  Speaker 3: get something done with Josh Allen, and they have until
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  Speaker 3: July fifteenth, which is when they either have to stick
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  Speaker 3: the tag on him for the rest of the year,
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  Speaker 3: or get a deal done to get that number down
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  Speaker 3: and if they want, they can go play there. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, kay, look, the draft is filled with receivers.
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  Speaker 3: College football now plays the passing game that the NFL does,
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  Speaker 3: So receivers. I don't want to say they're a dime
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  Speaker 3: a dozen, but you can find good receivers later in
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  Speaker 3: the draft. If you have a chance at a Marvin
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  Speaker 3: Harrison junior, a Roma Dunze from Washington, all right, then
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  Speaker 3: maybe because that looks like a game changer. But where
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  Speaker 3: the Jaguars sit and where need is for them, we've
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  Speaker 3: talked about this. They have one offensive tackle under contract
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  Speaker 3: beyond this season one Cam Robinson and Walker Little's deals
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  Speaker 3: expire at the end of twenty twenty four, so you're
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  Speaker 3: going to want to go and get a young tackle
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  Speaker 3: somewhere in the first two rounds.
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  Speaker 2: They need a corner.
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  Speaker 3: Also, know what they've got will last for now, but
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  Speaker 3: you want a young corner to develop opposite of where
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  Speaker 3: you're sitting. So I can't imagine that they're going to
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  Speaker 3: spend a whole lot of time at wide receiver on
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  Speaker 3: seventeen unless the unthinkable happens and one of those guys
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  Speaker 3: starts to drop down the board and they say, well,
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  Speaker 3: what a the cost to go up?
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  Speaker 2: But I would say that receiver's going to be done
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  Speaker 2: until the draft.
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  Speaker 1: All about how the board falls. So we still got
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, so as we look forward to
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  Speaker 1: the draft in April, try to figure things out exactly
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  Speaker 1: what they're going to do. Stay with us here on Jagsam.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up after the break, we're gonna hear from some
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  Speaker 1: of those new additions from free agency. Freight Move the Freight,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back to Jagsam in the Hyundai Studios. Brian Sexton
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  Speaker 1: is with me today, John oser Off, I assume on
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  Speaker 1: a beach somewhere with a cocktail in his hand, at
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  Speaker 1: least I hope.
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  Speaker 2: So for John Stone, I strike you as a beach.
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  Speaker 1: Guy, absolutely, probably a giant I've seen his giant beach
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  Speaker 1: hats at training camp, so I assume he's a giant
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  Speaker 1: hat guy on the beach.
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  Speaker 3: I've never seen him at the beach. I like you
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  Speaker 3: would think the hat would be there if he was.
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  Speaker 1: All right, guys, if you're on a beach somewhere, go
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  Speaker 1: look for Ozone. I think he might be out there.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be back with us next week. But a lot
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  Speaker 1: of going on this week. I mean, we've had some
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  Speaker 1: different shows since then, but we haven't had a jags
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  Speaker 1: Am since all these new additions to the team. Brian,
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  Speaker 1: is there a name that sticks out to you so
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  Speaker 1: far that is kind of the jewel of the class.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like everybody kind of fits a need. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: Armstead is the newest and latest, which is great, but
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  Speaker 1: all of them kind of fit a need, which is great. Well.
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  Speaker 3: Trent Balkey, when he sat before the media in late January,
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  Speaker 3: Kai talked about getting more physical up front on both
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  Speaker 3: sides of the ball, and we assumed obviously that on
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  Speaker 3: offense that meant changing center right, finding a guy that
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  Speaker 3: you could count on that would help.
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  Speaker 2: You on third and short, which the Jaguar struggled at.
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  Speaker 3: So Mitch Moore immediately comes to mind when you watch
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  Speaker 3: the highlights of him and what he was able to
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  Speaker 3: do in that Bill's offense, which was more past centric, right,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they threw the ball first, but Mitch gets
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  Speaker 3: out there and moves guys, which we didn't see enough
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  Speaker 3: of with Luke Fordner last year. You need someone who
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  Speaker 3: can clearer space, especially on third down and short so
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  Speaker 3: Mitch Moore strikes that.
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  Speaker 2: But then you bring in Eric Armstead, who he.
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  Speaker 3: Came through here nine years ago on a rookie prospect visit,
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  Speaker 3: and I will never forget how tall and long he.
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  Speaker 2: Was for defensive tackle.
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  Speaker 3: Right We're all used to Calais Campbell, who plays out
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  Speaker 3: on the end, but this is a guy who's been
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  Speaker 3: an interior guy. And of course he went on to
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  Speaker 3: great success with the Niners and is not just a
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  Speaker 3: stud on the field but off the field as a
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  Speaker 3: four time NFL Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee
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  Speaker 3: from the Niners. So you're bringing in a big guy
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  Speaker 3: who will create a lot of havoc in the middle
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  Speaker 3: of the line.
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  Speaker 2: Makes we hope that he does.
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  Speaker 3: And I think those two guys are the ones that
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  Speaker 3: meet the test that Trent set out that day, which
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  Speaker 3: was we have to be more physical.
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  Speaker 1: I think Armstence specifically, probably one of Trent Balky's better
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  Speaker 1: draft picks. He was drafted by Trent Balkey in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: That relationship certainly has withstood time because he got him
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  Speaker 1: to sign here in Jacksonville, and Armstead spoke to us
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  Speaker 1: yesterday and said a little bit about what he's hoping
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  Speaker 1: to bring to his new team.
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  Speaker 4: The Jags were a good team before me, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: whenever I entered the situation, you know, not just football,
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  Speaker 4: but in life in general, and when I'm meeting people,
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  Speaker 4: when i'm you know, answering situation working with people, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I want to make the place better than what I founded.
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  Speaker 4: I want to make a positive impact on So I
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  Speaker 4: think this team was already a phenomenal team, and I
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  Speaker 4: think I can help get them to the next level.
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  Speaker 4: So having that opportunity is something I look forward to
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  Speaker 4: as well.
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  Speaker 3: I'm kind of interested to see how he is and
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  Speaker 3: Roy Robertson Harris play next to each other. He played
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  Speaker 3: at Oregon with the Forest Buckner, who we now know
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  Speaker 3: obviously is in Indianapolis, but he was drafted by the Niners,
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  Speaker 3: and so is Buckner, and they played next to each
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  Speaker 3: other in the same line in San Francisco. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you've got that size, that height, the length, the ability
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  Speaker 3: to block passes in the middle.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Roy's that guy.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he's six foot six and he's got the
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  Speaker 3: long arms as well.
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  Speaker 2: So you put those two guys next to each other
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  Speaker 2: in the middle.
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  Speaker 3: Longtime Jaguars observers will remember what it was like when
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  Speaker 3: you had Marcus Stroud at six six and John Henderson
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  Speaker 3: at six seven in the middle of the line. I
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  Speaker 3: mean it was like having a coke machine next to
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  Speaker 3: a Pepsi machine, right. I mean you had these two
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  Speaker 3: big bodies and you had to move around them.
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  Speaker 2: You had to go to the outside.
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  Speaker 3: And now on the outside here you've got Trayvon who's
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  Speaker 3: tremendous against the run, and Josh Walker, who's playmaker in
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  Speaker 3: every aspect. But the defensive line took a big step
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  Speaker 3: forward hitting a guy like Eric Armstead, and I think
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  Speaker 3: if you get Devon Hamilton back to himself, now you've
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  Speaker 3: got a game change up where you can completely flip
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  Speaker 3: the script and move things around and create some habit.
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  Speaker 1: I think one of the first things Armstead said when
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  Speaker 1: he was talking to the media yesterday is he wants
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  Speaker 1: to stop the run, which as we know, got away
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  Speaker 1: from the Jaguars at the end of last season. But
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  Speaker 1: they have the skill and talent level to be. You know,
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season, we saw they were
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  Speaker 1: one of the better teams at that So hopefully with
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  Speaker 1: that new defensive scheme with Ryan Nielsen and what they
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  Speaker 1: can work out with these new players, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a lot different.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and listen, you know what you've got in Indianapolis
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  Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor, right, although the Jaguars have done a nice
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  Speaker 3: job on him in recent matchups. And you're grateful that
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  Speaker 3: Dereck Henry has moved on to Baltimore and you don't
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  Speaker 3: have to face that runaway train. Although Joe Mixon now
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  Speaker 3: is in Texas and he always gave this franchise problems
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  Speaker 3: when he was with Cincinnati, so Houston has him, and
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  Speaker 3: you just better buckle up because it seems every particular
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  Speaker 3: Sunday afternoon in this division, what is jaj Spears kid
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  Speaker 3: in Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: You better be able to stop the running.
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  Speaker 1: This out global quarterbacks as well to also keep an
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  Speaker 1: eye on so some of our other editions gave Davis
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  Speaker 1: coming down from Buffalo, he said he was pretty excited
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  Speaker 1: just you know, when he saw some of the team
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  Speaker 1: names coming in. When he saw that Jacksonville was one
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  Speaker 1: of the teams I called. That was kind of a
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  Speaker 1: relief for him.
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  Speaker 5: As soon as I heard Jacksonville, I was like, thank
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  Speaker 5: god they call. I was like, thank god. I wanted
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  Speaker 5: to come back to Florida. I wanted to be around
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  Speaker 5: in guys that I knew, you know, coach that I loved,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, the team's great. See, we can never we.
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  Speaker 2: Can never beat him, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: So came, uh, came came here, and you know, soon
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  Speaker 5: as soon as they sent it in, you know, Negoshans
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  Speaker 5: winning and then boom. I was like, yeah, I'm a
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  Speaker 5: Jaguar man. Pretty easy decision.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: You look at him.
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  Speaker 3: People wanted to compare him to Calvin Ridley. How is
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  Speaker 3: he going to compare, you know, numerically catch his yards, touchdowns.
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  Speaker 3: I would offer to them to look at it a
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  Speaker 3: different way. Look at it as if he is Marvin
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  Speaker 3: jones replacement two years ago. Marvin Jones, Christian Kirk, Zay Jones,
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  Speaker 3: and Evan Ingram were the basis for which Trevor Lawrence,
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  Speaker 3: you know, launched into that second half of the season
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  Speaker 3: and really looked like that franchise quarterback that everybody expects
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  Speaker 3: to see every single Sunday. Gabe is taller, he's got
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  Speaker 3: longer arms. I don't know that he's faster, but he's
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  Speaker 3: at least as fast as Marvin Jones is.
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  Speaker 2: And it's been a clutch guy in Ball Tomorrow part
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  Speaker 2: in Buffalo the last couple of years. So I think
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  Speaker 2: that it is. I get it.
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  Speaker 3: Calvin Ridley is one of those guys that can put
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  Speaker 3: up fourteen hundred yards and I don't see that. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Gabe's never had a thousand. But if Gabe is a
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  Speaker 3: seventy catch, a nine hundred yard, eight touchdown guy, well
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  Speaker 3: then he's completely productive in this offense because we saw
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  Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence comfortable, willing to drop back, hit his back
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  Speaker 3: foot and find who's ever open, not try to force
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  Speaker 3: the ball to Calvin Ridley, which honestly, it felt like
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  Speaker 3: at times last year they were trying to force feed
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  Speaker 3: and that didn't work. So I think that they go
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  Speaker 3: back a bit to twenty twenty two where it's simply
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  Speaker 3: everybody is functioning in the offense. Whoever's opened, that's where
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  Speaker 3: the ball is going.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the best success we've seen so far. With
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence obviously not feeling the need he needs to
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  Speaker 1: go somewhere in particular, but having those options open to
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  Speaker 1: him seems to open up the offense as a well.
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  Speaker 3: And before we say that Gave Davis can't do what
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  Speaker 3: Calvin did. He had twenty seven touchdowns in four seasons
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  Speaker 3: and he wasn't the go to guy that was Stefan did.
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  Speaker 3: So you've got a guy that's used to getting the.
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  Speaker 2: Ball in the red zone.
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  Speaker 3: He had the four touchdown game in the playoffs when
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  Speaker 3: they played in the AFC Championship game in Kansas City
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  Speaker 3: a few years ago. This is a guy who knows
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  Speaker 3: how to make big plays and you bring him in now,
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  Speaker 3: it'll be interesting to see how long it takes to
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  Speaker 3: develop the chemistry with him, between Trevor and him, because
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  Speaker 3: you know Christian, you knows that you know Evan, but
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  Speaker 3: you get the sense that this is a guy who's
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  Speaker 3: going to get open and even if he's not, because
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  Speaker 3: fifty to fifty balls right, it looks like he's got
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  Speaker 3: the size and the length to go take that away.
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  Speaker 1: And we've talked about the team not really having that.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, you know that big receiver that can go
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  Speaker 1: up and take the ball from somebody else and that's
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  Speaker 1: a new you know, talent and skill.
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  Speaker 2: And an element that you're looking for is that tall receiver.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely all these players seem to have one thing in common.
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  Speaker 1: They all come in from winning franchises, winning teams. They
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  Speaker 1: know what that's going to take to win. Even Ron
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  Speaker 1: Darby talking a little bit about his previous experience with
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  Speaker 1: Doug and why that made him want to come and
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  Speaker 1: play on.
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  Speaker 6: This team, I'm miss saying it all day. He is
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  Speaker 6: straight for a coach, Like that's all of you ask
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  Speaker 6: for in a coach. You know, he gonna make sure
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  Speaker 6: you work, You're gonna make sure you know things get
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  Speaker 6: done the way and need to get done. He liked
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  Speaker 6: to wins just as much as the players, and like
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  Speaker 6: I trusted his schemes and we like he has success
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  Speaker 6: like a great coach.
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  Speaker 1: I have to remember in free agency, obviously these guys
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  Speaker 1: can pick where they want to end up, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure money is a big motivating factor of that, but
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  Speaker 1: you also want to go somewhere where you're comfortable, you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you're gonna win. There's other intangibles and you
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  Speaker 1: like your coach, and Doug seems to be winning over
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people in some of these interviews.
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  Speaker 2: And the other factor there kai is scheme, right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Ronald Darby is a press corner, and the
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  Speaker 3: Jaguars didn't really have a press corner. Tyson Campbell is
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: not necessarily a press corner, so they're gonna have to
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: teach him to play that better than he did when
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: he was a rookie and they tried to with him.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: Ronald Darby. That is to say, you've got a guy.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: That knows the scheme that's going to come in and
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: do exactly what Ryan Nielsen wants to get done. He's
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: thirty years old, he's a guy who's won. Before you
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: mentioned he was with Doug and won a championship. So
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: that's why you think, all right, in the first or
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: second round, if one of those corners is available, we
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: all know the names, you've got to go get yourself
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: one of those. So they can learn from Ronald Darby
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: how to play the position at the NFL level and
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: how to play this scheme.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: I'm so excited to see what Ryan Neilson actually does
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: with all this, because we're getting all these new parts.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: It's looking like a completely different situation. Obviously, we'll have
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: to see what that looks like in training camp, but
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: it's just gonna be a totally different vibe from the team.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would imagine that Ryan's having a little trouble sleeping.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: He's so excited about some of these guys. Right when
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: you walk in and you've got Josh Allen and Trey
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: Von Walker twenty seven and a half sacks, the most
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: productive one to two tandem in the league last year.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Now you get some strength up front, not just a
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: little strength, but a big, strong guy.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: If they could push.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: The pocket and force guys outside, now you can get
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: more production. Quarterbacks are going to be jumping, They're going
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: to throw the ball up, which means there's more opportunity
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: for turnovers and takeaways. We didn't talk about Darnell Savage
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: coming in and what that means for the rest of
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: the guys on the back end.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: There there's some versatility.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: Now there's some question mark still, right, but there's enough
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: pieces that he can go out and do what he
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: wants to do.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: There's enough and talent there to hold it together. But
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: then also the young guys are going to get a chance,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: right if it's Antonio Johnson or whoever it might be.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: On the back end to kind of see what they're
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: going to be able to contribute going forward. Even Andre Cisco,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: some of tho people are going to Tyson Campbell, whether
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: you're going to want to resign them long term? Is
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: there big prove of years for them.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: The name that you said that has the most excited
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: Antonio Johnson, because we saw him in training camp last
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: year and you just you saw a guy who was
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: comfortable right just coming out of Texas, a m was
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: comfortable on the field with what they asked him to do.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: He had the ankle injury and just wasn't healthy. But
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: late in the year he was blitzing right, he was
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: playing back in coverage. He could do anything you want
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: him to do. He's big, he's fast, He's got great length,
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: which means that he is a problem for smaller receivers,
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: and he can step up and play the run.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: He's going to be on the field a lot.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: A good young talent for sure. Stay with us on
• 16:45
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• 16:47
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• 17:24
  Speaker 1: questions presented by fanatics today because obviously viewer questions do
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: not halt just because Joan Oser is out at the beach.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: So people have things to.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Say, people have things to say, people have questions. We're
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: going to start out with Joel from Jacksonville says last season,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: there were several times where the coaches felt that an
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: injured Lawrence with limited practice was a better choice than
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: backup quarterback C. J. Betheart. So does the addition of
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Jones change those and any future decisions? Also, since Jones
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: is that first round pick and they still have the
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: fifth year option with him. So for me, I'm thinking
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: this is kind of low risk, high reward right with
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Mac because what he went through in New England was
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: not great. You know, so many different offensive coordinators, one
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: of which was not an offensive coordinator at all, and
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: it was a tough situation.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: So well, let's start with the back end of the question.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Because they traded for Mac Jones, Because because they traded
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: for him.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: His contract comes with him, so they.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Do have the fifth year option, but the fifth year
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: option for a quarterback, and I think I looked at
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: his numbers something north of twenty million dollars, so you're
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: probably not going to use that now.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Do I think it's an upgrade?
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a young, smart quarterback who's had success as
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: a starter in this league. Things went south, but you
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: know when you look at the Patriots and you covered
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: the Patriots, so you know this wasn't the same Patriots team.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: It wasn't like he had the same talent level around him.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: They were grabbing receivers in and out, trying to find
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: running back combinations that worked. I think the long short
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: of it is you're taking a flyer on a talented,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: smart quarterback. You're bringing him home and hoping that the
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: surroundings helping him get comfortable. And we heard him last
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: week when he was here talk about getting the trained
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: back on the track, so he's obviously motivated to come
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: in to a quarterback friendly system and see if he
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: can become the best version of himself.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: This is something to me where if you can rebuild
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: his confidence, you can get something out of him, and.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Without a doubt Doug Peter now if you mean get
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: something out of him on the field or perhaps be
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: able to convert him into.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: A draft pick.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I'm saying it based off knowing what the NFL is currently,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: as the many games as they play, your backup can
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: be a huge difference. We've seen it on several different
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: teams last year. I mean the Browns, the Bengals. We
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: saw it's that can play a role. If Trevor missus
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: one or two games, that can be the difference. We
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: would have made the playoffs if you win some of
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: those games. So I think that Mac can play a
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: huge role being given that confidence playing for a former
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: quarterback like Doug Peterson because a lot of Mac Jones's issues.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: The back end of that, we're just having no confidence
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: in yourself. When you're going out there as a quarterback
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: and you don't think you can do it, you're not
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: going to be successful.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: He's got more experience than C. J. Bethard, even though
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Bethant's been in the game longer, he was a starter.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Bethard has you know, twelve thirteen starts under his career.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: This guy has started for two and a half seasons
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: in the NFL. He was a first round pick for
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: a reason. He was hyper productive at the top of
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: the food chain in college football. I mentioned smart and
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: he was a four to zero, you know, academic All American.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: So you bring him in and give him a chance
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: to supplant. He's going to cost more than CJ. Bethard,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: but he's a guy that you can perhaps, as we mentioned,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: reclaim and have a guy on the field that can
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: get it done. And then you don't know what the
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: market does. Maybe you've got him for two years, or
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: maybe you get him to a year or two of
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: the contract and someone comes and says, I'll give you
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: a third round pick. I need a quarterback, and then
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: maybe it works out best for everybody.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: An intriguing option for sir. We'll see what Doug Peterson
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: can kind of work with mac. Another question from Fanatics
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: fan Questions for ozone mailbag is going to be Nick
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: from the Palm Coast. He says, with our new defensive scheme,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: who covers Ridley two times a year? Do we just
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: get up on the line of play physical with him
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: because that's shown to be less productive for him when
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: he's been harassed a little bit at the line.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Well, Ryan Nielsen plays press right and press meansor at
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: the line harassing. I would think that this would be
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Tyson Campbell, not only because he's the best corner the
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Jaguars have right now, but we watched and we talked
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: a lot about watching Calvin Ridley and Tyson Campbell lined
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: up one on one against each other and how much
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: fun it was. Anyone who was here at the open
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: training camp practices last year remembers watching those two. And
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: that was of course Calvin at his peak, when he
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: was playing so well in training camp, when all eyes
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: were on him, all cameras were trained on zero there.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: So I would think Tyson Campbell because he knows him.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: He practiced against him every day last year and they
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: were some of the most fun moments during training camp.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Now they could draft somebody, right, and if they do,
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: give him the opportunity, but I would think Tyson would
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: be the guy.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Curious ligning up with Hopkins. It's like pick your poison
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: a little bit. Then, Also, how the Titans end up
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: using him, because Calvin talked I think a little bit
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: in his press conference saying he didn't really get to
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: play different positions while he was hearing I mean he
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: kind of just you know, went deep most of the
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: time on the edges, didn't crossover. I mean, Christian Kirk's
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: the slot guy here, so he wasn't going to get
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: those opportunities. But maybe they'll utilize him.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: In the figure it out.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: You know another guy that I think has the ability
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: to play a little bit of corner and as a nickel,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: he might and that is Antonio Johnson. And he's got
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: the length and especially the strength to play at the
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: line of scrimmage, to play a bit of press.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Well, that would be fun.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Calvin would probably really not enjoy the afternoon with Antonio Johnson,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: as long and lanky as he is in his face
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: the whole game, harassing him at the line of scrimmage.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Here's hoping. I'm sure that's exactly what Jaguars are hoping happens.
• 22:36
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• 22:38
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• 22:40
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• 23:03
  Speaker 1: slash Bright futures. We're looking forward to the draft. Of course,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: you're heading to Detroit this year.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Going to Detroit, see if they can do as good
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: a job. Kansas City was outstanding last year.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Impartial to Kansas City, I am so.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you that the place I think that's done
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: the best job, but the draft is Nashville.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, it was there in twenty nineteen that it was
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: like the party year that was the Josh Allen Draft.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: If you've ever been to Nashville, you know Broadway. They
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: had cameras strung all the way up by the hockey arena.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: They're doing all the way down to the very end
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: of Broadway, running back and forth. Nashville is just a
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: great city to go and have a good time in.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: And they did an amazing job. Kansas City wasn't that
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: far behind. And yes, I am impartial, No, I'm sorry partial.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: I am partial to Kansas City because it's home. But
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: they did an exceptional job. And of course, you know
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: when you walk out with the trophy to start every
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: night and the crowd.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Goes wild, it gives a a vibe that most places
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: don't have.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Detroit will try. We'll see what they can put together.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: They had a really good year.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be good, it's gonna be eventful no matter what.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Just their fan base alone, I'm sure, so that's exciting.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: We'll be of course, looking ahead the next couple of weeks,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: giving you an idea of where the Jaguars may go
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: with their draft picks. But thanks for joining us on Jagsam.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: We'll see you again next week.