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Jags Broadcast Week in Review: March 12 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend Review podcast presented by
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  Speaker 1: t I A. A. Bank J P. Shadrick along with
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  Speaker 1: you again and today is Friday, March twelfth. We have
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  Speaker 1: the best of the week from Jaguars Broadcasting, including ESPN's
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  Speaker 1: Rees Davis sharing Urban Meyer stories from his time at
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  Speaker 1: the network, Peter Schrager of Good Morning Football and NFL
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  Speaker 1: Network explaining the impact of that morning program, plus reaction
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  Speaker 1: to the Urban Meyer and Trent Balky press conferences. As always,
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  Speaker 1: remembered to subscribe to the Official Jaguars Podcast Network, available
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  Speaker 1: on Apple, iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Give us a comment and a five star rating. Let's
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  Speaker 1: begin Monday with the Jaguars Reporters podcast. Free agency opens Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: March seventeenth at four pm, and this could be a
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  Speaker 1: free agency class to remember for the Jaguars. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: see a free agency that will blow two thousand seventeen
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  Speaker 1: out of the water. And we all can recall that
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  Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen offseason of Calais Campbell and Barry Church
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  Speaker 1: and Laurento mccrawe, along with many other names. It was
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  Speaker 1: an incredibly active free agency year for the Jaguars. And
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  Speaker 1: my big thing is that this year is going to
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  Speaker 1: be even bigger. And I go back to last week.
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  Speaker 1: It was ESPN's Diana Russini who had a text from
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  Speaker 1: the NFL head coach that said, it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a massacre next week all around the league. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to see great, two good players on the NFL free
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  Speaker 1: agency market that have to be cut to get under
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  Speaker 1: the cap. And the Jaguars are going to have pickings
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  Speaker 1: to go get these guys because they have the money
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  Speaker 1: to do it. And that's a great position to be.
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  Speaker 1: In questions for you here, you've you've been around from
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  Speaker 1: day one. Was seventeen the biggest free agency by for
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars, the biggest return on the investment, Yes, without
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  Speaker 1: a doubt. I mean you can look at nine when
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  Speaker 1: Gary Walker and Kyle Brady, uh you know, came on
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  Speaker 1: the scene. But I mean nothing compares to nineties six.
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  Speaker 1: Compares he had Keenan and Leon and one free agency
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  Speaker 1: class that compares to boy And I mean I get
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  Speaker 1: there was I would put nineties six up there with
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  Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen, and uh, you've got two guys who
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  Speaker 1: they're not on the wall, but Leon and Keenan at
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  Speaker 1: some point could be on the I mean they're right
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  Speaker 1: below that, and Keena will be on the wall. You
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  Speaker 1: make a good argument those two guys the fourth season
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  Speaker 1: run never happens. Yeah, you're right. And then they picked
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  Speaker 1: up Natron means just on the waiver wire and that
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  Speaker 1: was just that was a lucky moment for them where
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  Speaker 1: he was available. Um, I guess I'm I leaned towards
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  Speaker 1: Seen because you know, there was They had been so
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  Speaker 1: poor for so many years, and they plug in, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Calais and Barry and and they take off. They jump
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  Speaker 1: so um and they got as far as the you know,
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  Speaker 1: those other guys didn't they I would argue they got
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  Speaker 1: further because they got within six minutes of the Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl because Miles Jack wasn't down. Yeah, because he wasn't down,
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  Speaker 1: bab but those two stand out. Yeah, if this is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be bigger, buckle up. Yeah, well I would say
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be bigger. I think the question for the
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  Speaker 1: and I'm you know, sort of splitting hairs here, the
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  Speaker 1: question for the Jaguars and their fans, will it be better?
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  Speaker 1: Because it's hard to be better in terms of impact
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  Speaker 1: than having to all pros and a j Boy and
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  Speaker 1: Clays camp. It's hard to be better in terms of
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  Speaker 1: impact than Keenan McCardell and Leon seriously, who were both
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  Speaker 1: maybe not all pros, but the long term those two classes.
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  Speaker 1: I get that they have a lot of money to
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  Speaker 1: spend this year, but it's hard in free agency to
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  Speaker 1: be that good because as much as people say great
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  Speaker 1: players are gonna be available next week, I'm gonna wait
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  Speaker 1: and see if they're really great, because I still believe
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  Speaker 1: teams will find a way to keep great players on
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  Speaker 1: their Austin We'll see. The Jaguars Reporters podcast runs Monday
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  Speaker 1: afternoon on the Official Jaguars podcast S Network. Also Monday.
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  Speaker 1: An interview on Jaguars dot Com with ESPN College Game
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  Speaker 1: Day host and the anchor of ABC's NFL Draft coverage
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  Speaker 1: coming up in late April, Rhese Davis. In bonus material
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  Speaker 1: that did not make the final cut, Davis shared some
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  Speaker 1: of the behind the scenes stories of Urban Meyer. When
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  Speaker 1: he was with ESPN just after his time at the
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  Speaker 1: University of Florida. He spent a ton of time wanting
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  Speaker 1: to know what made broadcasters successful, what made an analyst,
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  Speaker 1: the bet what about the people that that would be
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  Speaker 1: in charge? From a management perspective, what's the week like?
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  Speaker 1: You know, he wanted to know everything so that he
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  Speaker 1: would be ready and would be at the top of
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  Speaker 1: his game to be able to succeed. He wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: going in it, you know, saying I'm Urban Meyer, had
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  Speaker 1: my two national championship rins, and I know a lot
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  Speaker 1: about football, so I'm going to tell you people how
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  Speaker 1: this ought to be. You know, he went in with
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  Speaker 1: with the idea that I'm in a different world. Sure
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  Speaker 1: I know football, no question ship, but I'm gonna learn
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  Speaker 1: everything there is to know about television and about how
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  Speaker 1: football is broadcast on television. I would be very surprised
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  Speaker 1: if he's not taking a similar approach in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Sure he knows football, of course, he can evaluate talent.
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  Speaker 1: Of course he can motivate God. But now he's motivating
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  Speaker 1: grown men who have grown men responsibilities, who uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: might not respond to the same type of motivation that
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  Speaker 1: a seventeen year old that you recruited into his junior
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  Speaker 1: in high school would respond to. Urban Smart he knows that,
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  Speaker 1: and he'll I think he'll figure that out I think
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  Speaker 1: that he's going to have success there number one, because
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  Speaker 1: he's he's a relentless worker, sometimes too much so for
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  Speaker 1: his own good. But he also has the quarterback to
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  Speaker 1: build around, which is the starting point. I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to suggest Trevor's gonna come in as a finished product,
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  Speaker 1: but I do think he will come in and play
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  Speaker 1: well and be very successful, and we'll develop along with
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  Speaker 1: the UH with the program that Urban's putting together. If
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  Speaker 1: you got time for a real quick Urban story, it okay,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I just told you what I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you another one that, to be honest, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if he knows. I know this a long time. My
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  Speaker 1: long time studio partner and good friend Lou Holtz told
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  Speaker 1: me this story once. Louis connected with everybody in the
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  Speaker 1: football world. So when Bowling Green was looking for a coach, Urban,
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  Speaker 1: even though he hadn't been a coordinator or anything, was
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  Speaker 1: looking to be a head coach, and Lou at least
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  Speaker 1: got him in contact with people Bowling Green. So it
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  Speaker 1: came time to make the decision, and Bowling Green had
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  Speaker 1: decided that they were really impressed, as you might imagine,
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  Speaker 1: with Urban Meyer, and they were going to hire him.
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  Speaker 1: Then before the final decision was made, as I was
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  Speaker 1: told the story, Urban called Lou and said, you know, coach,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I'm going to take the job, to
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  Speaker 1: which Lu said why not? And Urban said, well, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure it's a good job. And Lu said, let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you something. Good jobs don't come open. Bad
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  Speaker 1: jobs do. It's your job to take a bad job
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  Speaker 1: and make it a good job. And if it were
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  Speaker 1: a good job that came open, why in the hell
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  Speaker 1: would they hire you? You know at that time? And uh,
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine that if I, even if embellished slightly
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  Speaker 1: by by the great Lou Holtz, the great storyteller, I
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  Speaker 1: would imagine if even something remotely similar happened, that, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: that Urban has has kept that in mind and realizes
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  Speaker 1: what it takes to walk into a new situation and
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  Speaker 1: and prove yourself and not expected to be a finished
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  Speaker 1: product just because of past successes you might have had, or,
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  Speaker 1: in the case of Bowling Green, great potential that he
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  Speaker 1: had which he has lived up to in the college
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  Speaker 1: game for sure. The interview with rhes Davis is available
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  Speaker 1: on the official team website Jaguars dot com. We moved
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  Speaker 1: now to the Ozone Podcast. Senior writer John Osier recently
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  Speaker 1: caught up with Peter Schrager, a long time writer in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL and current co host of the Emmy nominated
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  Speaker 1: show Good Morning Football on NFL Network. Back in the
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  Speaker 1: old days, when we were in the office every day
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  Speaker 1: of the week, the show was on television every day
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  Speaker 1: of the week in that office. And you can find
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  Speaker 1: that around the entire NFL pretty much, And of course
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  Speaker 1: people who cover the league and follow the league, and
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  Speaker 1: of course all the fans watch this popular show most
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  Speaker 1: every day, and Peter Schrager knows that firsthand. I've been
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  Speaker 1: following the league since I was a kid, so probably
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy. Unfortunately for me, I would put this show
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  Speaker 1: right now up among you know, the old Earth Cross
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  Speaker 1: just passed yesterday, but the CBS show when I was
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  Speaker 1: growing up, the shows that's sort of define and where
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  Speaker 1: people get their message. It changes over the years based
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  Speaker 1: on media, It changes over the years based on how
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  Speaker 1: people are consuming information. But right now I feel like
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  Speaker 1: you guys are it. When you guys say something, everybody
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  Speaker 1: knows what Good Morning Football is. Do you get an
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  Speaker 1: idea from talking to players and people around the league
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  Speaker 1: that there's that level of connection. It's pretty powerful. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and you better watch what you say. I mean truly.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I can go on I can go on
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  Speaker 1: a couple of sports radio shows and may make a
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  Speaker 1: comment here and there and doesn't really get picked up.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll give you an example. I mean, last week
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  Speaker 1: I said on the air, I said, I spoke with
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh and he's giddy about the Matt staff for Trigg.
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  Speaker 1: And it's true. I spoke to Sean McVeigh and you know,
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  Speaker 1: whether or not the word guinea were used or whatever else,
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  Speaker 1: I could just tell sense an excitement in him over
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  Speaker 1: like what's going on. But the trade hadn't been done yet,
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  Speaker 1: so technically Sean McVeigh shouldn't be commenting on that. And
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  Speaker 1: technically he hasn't spoken with the local media yet. And
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  Speaker 1: I've started a little bit of a you know what
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  Speaker 1: storm out in l A because the locals hadn't I
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  Speaker 1: got a chance. He's not addressing it. So how am
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  Speaker 1: I able to talk to little things like that? It
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  Speaker 1: just shows that people around the league are watching, the
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  Speaker 1: media is watching, and the players more than anyone is watching.
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  Speaker 1: If you if you wanna you know, be critical of
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  Speaker 1: a player, you better be willing to look at that
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  Speaker 1: player in the face and say, yeah, I believe what
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  Speaker 1: I said, and it only leads to more authentic and
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  Speaker 1: more truthful segments. Yeah, on our show, we're genuinely positive show.
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  Speaker 1: But if I come on the air like I did
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  Speaker 1: today and said I think the I think the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: and can look outside of Cam Newton at quarterback, well
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  Speaker 1: there's a chance Cam Newton saw that, and I'll have
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  Speaker 1: to deal with Cam Newton at some point and have
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  Speaker 1: to address that. I think that the Patriots have to
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  Speaker 1: look somewhere else other than Cam Newton at quarterback. That
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  Speaker 1: just goes with the territory of having a show that
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  Speaker 1: as well well viewed. But to your point, yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned the passing of earth Cross, who was a legend
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  Speaker 1: that of course I grew up watching too. What you
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  Speaker 1: think about that show the NFL today, it was Brent Musburger,
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  Speaker 1: it was earth Cross, a former player, It was Phyllis George,
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  Speaker 1: and then it was you know, Jimmy the Greek and
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't your typical four X players talking. If that
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  Speaker 1: can be the blueprint and if you somehow even can
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  Speaker 1: compare our show to that one, which is what we
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  Speaker 1: strive to someday to be considered um in the same
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  Speaker 1: league as that. That's that's the ultimate honor, and I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate that. The full interview available on the Jaguars Official
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  Speaker 1: podcast Network when we return of former Jaguars linebacker discusses
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  Speaker 1: what a culture of excellence looks like. Plus head coach
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  Speaker 1: Urban Meyer explains what the Jaguars have on the roster
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  Speaker 1: currently and what they're looking for moving ahead. All that
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  Speaker 1: Behind the scenes of building the Jaguars with exclusive access
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  Speaker 1: with urban Meyer and Trent Balky and much more. Episode
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  Speaker 1: YouTube page or Jaguars dot com. Moving along now to
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday Morning's Jags Drive Time Show. Former Jags linebacker Lonnie
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  Speaker 1: Martz joined Ashland Sullivan and Brian Sexton. Mars played for
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars and two thousand. He gave his perspective on
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  Speaker 1: free agency this year for the Jags and reflected on
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  Speaker 1: the culture that his former head coach Tony Dungee created
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  Speaker 1: in the Buccaneers locker room back in Mars was a
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  Speaker 1: part of that team as well. Free agency coming up
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  Speaker 1: next week. Who do you see fitting here in Jack's
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  Speaker 1: And they have a lot of needs, But they also
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of money, and that's that's what I
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  Speaker 1: think is the most important thing right now. They have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money and they have a lot of needs.
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  Speaker 1: So again I think it's whoever, whoever they feel like
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  Speaker 1: urban Meyer would like to have in his his corral
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  Speaker 1: is who they're going to go go get. And I
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  Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a wide receiver. And I also
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  Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a couple of lineman. And again,
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  Speaker 1: when you build teams that that win championships, which I
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  Speaker 1: know they want to do, you're gonna find lineman and
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  Speaker 1: it always starts with lineman, offensive lineman, defensive line. So
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  Speaker 1: um wide receiver. In some lineman culture is one of
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  Speaker 1: those words that just gets bandied about, like celebrity and
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  Speaker 1: diversity and culture. I mean, we hear them all the time,
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  Speaker 1: and we don't get enough context. You take me into
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  Speaker 1: that Buccaneers locker room for a minute and tell me
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  Speaker 1: what the culture was like, because urban Meyer is trying
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  Speaker 1: to create a very specific, championship caliber culture. What are
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  Speaker 1: you looking for in any free when you write that check?
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  Speaker 1: You're looking for a guy that's gonna come in and
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna be uh, you know, we talked about value.
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  Speaker 1: He has value and adding value. Nowadays seems like it's
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  Speaker 1: only about how you produce on the on the field,
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  Speaker 1: but value is is much more than that. And in
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  Speaker 1: the Buccaneers locker room, it was about value off the
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  Speaker 1: field as well as value on the field. Because we
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  Speaker 1: we would go to each other's houses, we would we
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  Speaker 1: would hang out with one another. It wasn't just on
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  Speaker 1: the field and in the office. We would literally hang
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  Speaker 1: out with one another and get to know each other's families.
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  Speaker 1: And so when you're playing with the guy and you
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  Speaker 1: know his family and you know what he's about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: morally and and just his values, you you tend to
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  Speaker 1: fight a little harder in in the in the battle
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  Speaker 1: when you're out on the field. And so building that
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  Speaker 1: is it takes time. Is chemistry, as they say, and
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  Speaker 1: not everybody's gonna get along, but for the most part
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  Speaker 1: we we we It was Buccaneers against the world, and
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  Speaker 1: so that that helps solidify our our culture. Jack's draft
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  Speaker 1: time here is Tuesday mornings at ten on the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: social media accounts and Jaguars dot Com. Finally, this week,
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars football leadership spoke with the media over video
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  Speaker 1: conferences leading into the new league year and the opening
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  Speaker 1: of free agency. Let's start with Jack's head coach Urban Meyer. Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: he was asked what he likes about the team so
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  Speaker 1: far and where they need to improve, and then NFL
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  Speaker 1: media analyst Bucky Brooks and I broke it down on
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  Speaker 1: Wednesdays Huddle Up podcast. You always start at the quarterback position. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Gardner was a guy that had so some success early here.
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  Speaker 1: I've spent a little bit of time with him, not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time with him, but they always start
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  Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. And we have the number one pick.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of speculation out there that you know,
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  Speaker 1: that will be the first pick. So the number one
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  Speaker 1: is just making sure we have exactly the quarterback room
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  Speaker 1: exactly the way we wanted from there. You look at
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  Speaker 1: the defense that really struggled in a lot of areas,
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  Speaker 1: and I always believe you start, you built your team,
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  Speaker 1: build your team around the defensive line, and then you
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  Speaker 1: move backwards. And so that's what we're gonna do. So
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  Speaker 1: our defensive line, you know, we feel it about a
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  Speaker 1: few hard players are pretty good. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: go into names right now. I don't think that's fair
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  Speaker 1: to the players. But defensive line will be solidified first,
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  Speaker 1: and then we moved to the back of the defense,
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  Speaker 1: and our defensive secondary needs to be revamped at a
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  Speaker 1: few spots. Offensively, we're you know, I think we have
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  Speaker 1: some really good receivers. We're not done with that room, however.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I just think if you've covered our teams
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  Speaker 1: over the years, I just the need for speed. The
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  Speaker 1: big play opportunity was not with the Jaguars last year,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna we're searching for the big play hit
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  Speaker 1: at the receiver position. Running back James, we feel pretty
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  Speaker 1: good about him. You know, he had a good year.
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  Speaker 1: So we want to build a room with him being
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  Speaker 1: an integral part of it. The tight end room, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's a room that's gonna have to be rebuilt in
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  Speaker 1: some ways. So on the offensive line, you know, especially
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: the interior the line. I feel really good about him.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: You know, Norwell, Lender and a j those guys are
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: good on our right tackle. I feel like his future
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: is ahead of them too. So the offensive line, if
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: we can keep I make the expectation as the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line being much better next year. Okay, so quarterback obviously
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  Speaker 1: number one is the big priority for him. Defensive line.
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  Speaker 1: Wants to build that defense from the line and then
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: move back from there. Those are the two big takeaways
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver. He wants playmakers on offense and you know what,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: so do I Bucky. Look. I think it's fun to
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: really hear him talk about it because I I do
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  Speaker 1: believe coming from the college game, he brings a unique perspective,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: right and because he's been so uh successful winning at
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: a bunch of different stops a few different ways. You know,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: I'm just curious about his football philosophy. And so a
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: couple of things that he mentioned makes sense. One the quarterback,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: because the NFL game is all about the quarterback. You
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: have to have a franchise quarterback, a marquee quarterback that
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: can get the team to the winner circle and whatever
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: style that looks like. But then when he talks about
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: building the team defensively from front to back, I think
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: it goes with what we've always talked about. What we've
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: always heard you gotta win into trenches and you have
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  Speaker 1: to have a playmaker. Well, defensively, we sat here week
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: after week and watched the team struggle stopping the run
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  Speaker 1: and struggle being unable to get to the quarterback. And
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: it's very apparent that you can't allow that to happen.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to be an elite team, you have
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: to be dominant at the line of scrimmage. So that's
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: big bodies inside stopping the run, elite playmakers getting after
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: the passer. And so that's where it starts. Because the
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: better your front end is, the lesser you need your
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: back end to be because the front end affects the
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: back end far more than the back end affects the
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: front and meaning stopping the run, rushing the passer, that's
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: far more critical than being able to cover guys on
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: the outside, because the quarterback can't complete passes if he's
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: on his back. Jalen wouldn't agree with that. Well, remember
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: three years ago, if you're depending on who you ask
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: in the defense, they might have never respective of that,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: absolutely and and and in a perfect world, and I
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: wonder when we go back and we talked about it.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: In a perfect world, I think there you have to
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: have tend to twelve blue chip players to be able
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: to be a championship team. And if you think about
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: it from the defensive standpoint, you need to pass rushers
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: either two outside guys or inside and outside guy. You
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: need three defensive playmakers and especially guys, so those defensive
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: playmakers two guys. Ideally you would like to have at
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: the second level your linebackers being able to make plays,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: a corner and a safety, so that would give you
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: six on defense. On the offense is always the same,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: it's quarterback. Ideally, a running back is three offensive linemen
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: and then one wide receiver someone that can make plays.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: In the past game, that's typically how it goes down.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: But I'm so curious to see how coach Meyer views
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the team right now and where he attempts to fill
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: in the gaps to make sure that they have ten
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: to twelve blue chip players to eventually get to a
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: competitive championship level. The Huddle Up Pod runs Wednesdays eight
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: am on the Jaguars Official podcast network. Next up Wednesday's
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: media availability for general manager Trent and Balky. Earlier in
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: the week, the league announced the salary cap would be
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: a hundred eighty two and a half million dollars for
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: eight percent decrease from last year. He reacted to that
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: number and then was asked if there are plans to
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: spend all the weight of the cap or let some
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: roll over plus we'll have reaction from Jeff Flagerman and
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: yours truly on Jaguar's Happy Hour Radio Thursday. We figured
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: it would be somewhere between one eight one five, and
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: that's what we planned on as far as spending. Uh,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: you know, we're we're always gonna look to push the
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: envelope and spend spend to the cap on a three
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: year rolling cycle, whether you're above or below, but on
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: over a three year period, hoping to spend to the camp.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: And we have an ownership that's willing to do that,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: and and and we want to do that, So uh,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna use the dollars. I spoke earlier
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: about value. I think value is critical. You know, you
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: have to get the value of the players right. And uh,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: you just like building a stock portfolio. If you if
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: you get a bunch of overpay you know, overpriced stocks,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: you buy high and sell lot. Eventually that catches up
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: with you. So get the checkbook ready, Lugs. It feels
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: like they're going to spend some money next year. I
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: wouldn't say that, but I would say that, I think
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: the impression is first. The most important information piece of
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: information there is that ownership has quote just kind of
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I guess you could say this is uh, summarizing from
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: what Trent Bulky said, that ownership has given them the
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: ability to spend the cap. So they're totally okay with
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: doing whatever it takes to build a winner. But you
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: don't spend to the cap just to spend of the cap. Look,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, JP, I'd love to pay you to start
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: left tackle and give you twenty millions. You're not uh
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: you know you. I'll tell outside if you're not even
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: worth minimum. So we're not gonna give you a franchise
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: twenty million because you're you stink, you're not very good
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: left tackle. So my point is is that you you
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: want to spend to the cap, but you have to
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: have justification to spend of the cap, which is where
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Trent Balky's talking about value, which means you need to
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: find the players that that tell you you're getting what
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: the value is. So in other words, if you're paying
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: somebody fifteen million a year, you're getting fifteen million a
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: year and performed the return on that investment. And if
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: you're spending five million on another guy and if you
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: can get ten million in performance, there's your value. So
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: you've got to be able to make sure that you're
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: getting a return on investment or r o I. It's
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: a term JP that you might understand. If you get
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: r o I as a general manager, you're doing your
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: job and you're doing it very well, and so you
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: may not be spent in the cap in year one
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: and essentially it may take a number of years for
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: you to spend to the cap because you're rolling dollars
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: over and you also have a young quarterback expected to
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: be in so that obviously impacts the team. But yeah,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: if you if you have the permission from ownership to
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: spend the cap, I mean, you're talking about a franchise
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: that can compete. You just need to make sure you
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: find the guys that are valued at that dollar amount
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: to make you compete. Jaguars Happy Our Radio airs Thursday
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: at four pm on Tin Tin x l AM Radio
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: and the Jaguars Social channels, plus the archives of both
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the Meyer and Balky media conferences on Jaguars dot Com.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Coming up this week, the opening of the league year
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: and the start of free agency. That's Wednesday at four pm.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: The negotiation window opens a couple of days before that,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: but no contracts can be signed until after the league
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: year begins. Expect plenty of activity from the Jags next week. Also,
• 23:53
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• 23:57
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• 24:00
  Speaker 1: week long schedule of podcasts on this network. Monday, it's
• 24:05
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• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Podcast Thursday, the Happy Hour Archive, and then the Ozone
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: podcast jumps in there occasionally, and of course on Friday,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: we wrap all up with this one, The Jags Broadcast
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Weekend Review. Have a great weekend, Thanks for listening. I'm J. P.
• 24:22
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