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J.P. Shadrick Podcast: Calais Campbell · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into the j P. Shadick Podcast. Today's Thursday, May
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  Speaker 1: dent than today, We've got a quick visit with All
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  Speaker 1: Pro defensive lineman Calais Campbell. He has a bowling event
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  Speaker 1: for charity coming up next week. Let's start off this
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  Speaker 1: week with a very busy time of the off season
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  Speaker 1: around ever Bank Field. It's phase two of the off
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  Speaker 1: season program, but it's winding down, so many of the
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  Speaker 1: vets on the roster are around for those voluntary on
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  Speaker 1: field workouts. But on Thursday, rookies arrived for the first
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  Speaker 1: time ahead of this weekend's Rookie Minicamp. After their arrival here,
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  Speaker 1: they made the rounds, getting fitted for helmets, meeting coaches,
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  Speaker 1: finding the lunch room, and getting familiar with their new surroundings.
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  Speaker 1: There will be sixty four participants in the camp this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: including the seven draft picks and thirteen undrafted rookie free agents.
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  Speaker 1: They'll fill out the camp with a number of players
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  Speaker 1: coming in on a workout basis. That means a busy
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  Speaker 1: time in the Jags equipment room with equipment going out
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  Speaker 1: for players already here at the same time as new
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  Speaker 1: guys and others who won't even be here after Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Head coach Duck Moron and draft picks Taven Brian and
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  Speaker 1: DJ Chark will speak with the media after Friday's practice.
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  Speaker 1: Full coverage of their availability will be on Jaguars dot Com.
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  Speaker 1: Now back to the veterans in the building. Wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: Dante Boncreefs joined the team in free agency this offseason.
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  Speaker 1: He signed a one year deal with the club, coming
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  Speaker 1: from the Indianapolis Colts. He and Mark kis Lee are
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  Speaker 1: the two veteran players in that group. They're both entering
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  Speaker 1: their fifth NFL season. That makes the leadership of wide
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  Speaker 1: receivers coach Keenan mccartel so much more important. Minecreef explained
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  Speaker 1: what the former NFL receiver brings to the room on
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars dot Com Live Wednesday. I mean, he played a position,
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  Speaker 1: so he knows he knows what the what the dudes
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  Speaker 1: and what the done is. He know what what you what?
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  Speaker 1: He won't he gonna get that. He's gonna work you hard,
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  Speaker 1: but at the same time, he's gonna have fun with him.
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  Speaker 1: He played the game, so he knows what it takes
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  Speaker 1: and just going on every day and learn from him
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  Speaker 1: watching him out there on the field when we're doing Drew.
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  Speaker 1: If you see something wrong, he'll go and run around
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  Speaker 1: and show you that this how is supposed to be.
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  Speaker 1: So you got a coach like that, that's that's only
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  Speaker 1: you have no choice about to go. A little later
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  Speaker 1: on the program, a surprise visit from linebacker Miles Jack,
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  Speaker 1: who was walking through the hallway and poked his head
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  Speaker 1: into the studio. Then he jumped on set with us,
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  Speaker 1: are you gonna get your Miles Jack wasn't down shirt out.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I didn't really want it. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a negative thing. But if the people want it,
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  Speaker 1: if you guys to get like a poll going, this
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  Speaker 1: is a love. Yes, this is love. Okay, so y'all
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  Speaker 1: want it. Let's get a post started or something and
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  Speaker 1: I can figure something out. We can definitely definitely get
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  Speaker 1: that going. But I appreciate the support. I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: I was down eithering Jaguars dot Com senior writer John
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  Speaker 1: Osier with the question they're good stuff on a Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: The full show archive available at Jaguars dot Com. Now
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  Speaker 1: we turn our attention to All Pro defensive lineman Calais Campbell.
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  Speaker 1: His foundation is hosting a bowling Classic on May fifteenth,
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  Speaker 1: that made event entertainment on Phillips Highway south of ninety five.
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  Speaker 1: We caught up about that event and a little football
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  Speaker 1: as well. What's up? How you doing? Living a dream man,
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  Speaker 1: trying to take it one day at a time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And it's the off season and there are some things
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  Speaker 1: going on around here. You've got a bowling event coming
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  Speaker 1: up with your foundation. We're gonna talk about that coming up.
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  Speaker 1: That's right around the corner in fact. But I gotta
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  Speaker 1: talk football with you while you're here, right, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: love talking football. Let's do it. Let's why not? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Off season program Phase two? Um, good participation. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of the groups here from a team that got deep
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs last year? Um, what are you passed?
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  Speaker 1: All that playoff run? Do you look forward from now?
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  Speaker 1: Is that behind you? Guys? Yet? Yeah? You have to
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a new chapter, you know, and you
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  Speaker 1: can't go back, and you know, worry so much about
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  Speaker 1: last year and everything that happened, you know, all the
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  Speaker 1: good things in the bath things you kind of got
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  Speaker 1: it put to the side. You know, you remember what
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  Speaker 1: the good parts of it and learn from the mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: But this is a whole new chapter. And so it's
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  Speaker 1: just kind starting back from you know, day one, and
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  Speaker 1: you know we've been in phase two having a great workouts, competing,
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  Speaker 1: trying to get better, same stuff that you know got
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  Speaker 1: us to where we want to be last year. What
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  Speaker 1: can your position group, defensive line and the guys across
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  Speaker 1: from in the offensive what they what can they get
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  Speaker 1: out of this time of year because you're not really
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're not you're not wearing pads, there's limited
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  Speaker 1: helmets later, you know, you're not you're not having contact.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of that comes in training camp, right, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what can you do now? But we're getting a lot
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  Speaker 1: more explosive, stronger, uh, you know, going more depth into
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  Speaker 1: the playbook, you know, getting better understanding of you know
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  Speaker 1: why we call things breaking down film uh, from you
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  Speaker 1: know how we can improve uh. And then on the
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  Speaker 1: football field, you know just uh you know, working on
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  Speaker 1: small details and technique and you know, just reading keys.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot to give you. I feel I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting better every day still, you know, And I know
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  Speaker 1: the young guys, you know, I mean you see the
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  Speaker 1: growth in them, you know, I mean just unique got
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  Speaker 1: way you know, as the maturity mentally he's had over
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  Speaker 1: the last year is impressive. It really is remarkable to
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  Speaker 1: hear him talk now and hear him a year or
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  Speaker 1: so ago. Different guy. Yeah, And that's how it works.
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  Speaker 1: You know that your three You know, that lightbulb comes
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  Speaker 1: on a little a little faster, you know, and he's
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  Speaker 1: just getting better and better each day. You're going into
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  Speaker 1: your eleventh year, right's a long time. Uh, preparation now
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  Speaker 1: is compared to maybe eight years ago for you this
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  Speaker 1: time of year? Do you take it more seriously? Now?
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  Speaker 1: Do you do more things? Since you're a little bit
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  Speaker 1: you know, longer in the tooth? Now, how is this
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  Speaker 1: time different than five, six, seven years ago? Well, I
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of stuff outside of the building, taking
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  Speaker 1: care of my body. You know. Um, during my younger years,
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  Speaker 1: the off season, you know, I didn't do anything. They
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  Speaker 1: care my body for the most part here and there.
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  Speaker 1: But now, I mean literally every day after you've done
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  Speaker 1: we'll work, I'm doing something to take care of my
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  Speaker 1: body because I's been a lot more hours outside of
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  Speaker 1: the built and trying to make sure I'm prepared and
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  Speaker 1: ready for the share. Take us through some examples of
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  Speaker 1: some some bad habits you might have had earlier in
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  Speaker 1: your career, and how did you get get rid of Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think really, I mean when you're younger, just you know,
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  Speaker 1: party and going out a lot drinking. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I try to be a lot more uh you know castus.
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  Speaker 1: I'm about putting my body I have been for the
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  Speaker 1: last few years. Uh, just trying to put better, feel
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  Speaker 1: like more just you know, cash out of my diet,
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  Speaker 1: making sure that I put the white stuff in. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: forget just just eating fried foods. And you know something
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  Speaker 1: that you know, I pick it, choose my days. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I have a cheat day, cheat meal more so than
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  Speaker 1: the cheat day, but I just crating, like just a
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  Speaker 1: healthy lifestyle and a healthy diet, trying to keep my
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  Speaker 1: energy high. And then uh but really I get you know, massides.
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  Speaker 1: Try a week. I do, cupping and acupuncture. I do um,
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  Speaker 1: you know some actively therapy. I do, uh yoga, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: stretch a lot. You know, I'm spending a lot of
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  Speaker 1: hours trying to you know, make sure my body is
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  Speaker 1: sacked together. Usually get during the season back in my
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  Speaker 1: younger years. Now I do it year round. How is
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  Speaker 1: yoga helped you? Just stretching you out a little bit, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: um uh, well consistently, you know, the last year and
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  Speaker 1: a half, two years. You know, I've been doing Plattis
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  Speaker 1: in yoga the last couple of years. Is it the
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  Speaker 1: hot yoga where they turn on the heat in the
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  Speaker 1: room and all that, or is that a little extreme
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  Speaker 1: for you? And I usually do the hot yoga, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I like the hot yoga. I mean, I'm down for
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  Speaker 1: all yoga, but hot yoga tends to make it a
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  Speaker 1: little easier to get warmed up, you know, It's just
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  Speaker 1: a little more flexible. What what the what the But
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  Speaker 1: I'm sweating a lot to those, so it's a balance.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, you mentioned cheat days a while yo,
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  Speaker 1: and you might have yours. I'm the king of cheat days, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so I know all about those. You got an event
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  Speaker 1: coming up with the foundation, the CRC Foundation big bowling event.
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  Speaker 1: I saw on social media I think last week that
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  Speaker 1: you and Blake and Telvin were out bowling and you
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  Speaker 1: had a photograph together at a bowling alley. Who's the
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  Speaker 1: best of the three bowlers in that group? Oh, black
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  Speaker 1: boardles he said, he said that was the best day
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  Speaker 1: ever bowl So maybe he's not because maybe it's just
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  Speaker 1: a good day for him because he had a he
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  Speaker 1: had an incredible day. I mean he was bowling and
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  Speaker 1: thinking on average like one fifty, you know, one sixty,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I'm sitting here like wow because he
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know, sold me like he couldn't play,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Okay, yeah, and the lights come on and
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  Speaker 1: trying to hustle me. Man, you trying to hustle you
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  Speaker 1: over here now. But it was fun, you know. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: just get some practice, you know, getting ready for the
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  Speaker 1: big event coming up May. That's next Tuesday. You and
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of teammates down at Main Event Entertainment on
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  Speaker 1: Phillips Highway in Jacksonville to support the foundation. That's a good,
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  Speaker 1: great cause. In fact, yeah, you know, we try to
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of good things in in our community,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And uh, I've done a lot in Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm really looking forward to trying to do a
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  Speaker 1: lot more here in Jacksonville. And um, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: just cool to be able to interact and get to
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  Speaker 1: know the fan base and raise some some funds and
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  Speaker 1: a good cause while having a good time bowling and
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  Speaker 1: competing and and hopefully that money we'll be able to
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  Speaker 1: raise a lot where we can. You know, I give
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  Speaker 1: away a scholarship ever a year, and UM, I do
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff for that to score program and
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  Speaker 1: teaching just life skills that you need to know that
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  Speaker 1: you don't really get in the classroom and the uh
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  Speaker 1: in the communities that are struggling. So trying to do
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  Speaker 1: some good things. This is not a new thing for you,
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  Speaker 1: but it might be new to the Jacksonville since second here,
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  Speaker 1: When did this start out west for you? Uh? It
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  Speaker 1: started pretty much after my second year, so this is
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  Speaker 1: your eight I guess a long time, learn a lot,
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  Speaker 1: that's for sure. Uh. But it really is a passion
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  Speaker 1: of mine. You know, an NFL dactually after my father
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  Speaker 1: because growing up, you know, we were really very involved
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  Speaker 1: in the community. You know, he was very uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: just adamant about you know, just giving to others and
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  Speaker 1: helping out as much as you can. And so I
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  Speaker 1: was raised with that mentality and now being as blessed
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  Speaker 1: as I've been, But I don't love my dream and
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  Speaker 1: play in the NFL. I feel like it's my duty
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  Speaker 1: just to give back and try to help other kids
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  Speaker 1: who come from, you know, similar backgrounds that I came from,
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  Speaker 1: just giving them you know a lot of resources that
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  Speaker 1: can be successful. Tickets are available for the public. They
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  Speaker 1: can come out and join this event as well. Sponsorships
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  Speaker 1: are available, and it's coming up soon next week. You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have some heavy hitters out there too, I hear right, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Blake Boarders is coming for net you know, for Nets coming. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know the D line, all the D line, the league, Marcello, John, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna be a lot of brides, my midles, Jack,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Uh, We're gonna have some fun. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a blast man on May fifteen, Tuesday, the CRC
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  Speaker 1: Foundation Bowling isn't a tournament. No, it's just it's you're
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  Speaker 1: having fun bowling. It's not a tournament, but you might
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  Speaker 1: try it. Sounds like Bars has already had a locked up.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Actually a couple of guys are pretty good
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  Speaker 1: bowlers too. A couple of the guys were I was surprised.
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  Speaker 1: You have some some really good bowlers on our team. Okay, Well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get the website out there and we'll get folks
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  Speaker 1: to the event. Thanks for coming on with us today, man,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Tickets are available. Throw a link
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  Speaker 1: on John Ozier's Jaguars dot Com article about that event.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great cause and a great guest list of
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  Speaker 1: heavy hitters. Enjoy the players at TBC Sawgrass over the
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  Speaker 1: weekend should be a perfect weekend for golf and everything
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  Speaker 1: that comes with it in Pontovidra. Thanks Toiclas Campbell for
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  Speaker 1: his time and as always, Jags manager of Radio Joe Fortunato.
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  Speaker 1: Catch you next time on the j P. Shadrick Podcast.