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Jags Broadcast Week in Review: February 26 · 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 with you in.
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  Speaker 1: Today is Friday, February six, and we've got the best
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  Speaker 1: of the week from Jaguars Broadcasting, including NFL media reporter
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  Speaker 1: Steve White explaining the pre draft build up around Trevor Lawrence,
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  Speaker 1: should the Jaguars use the franchise tag on left tackle
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  Speaker 1: Cam Robinson, NFL media analyst Bucky Brooks ways in, and
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  Speaker 1: original Jaguars employee Dan Edwards explains his new role. If
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  Speaker 1: star rating. This would have been the week for the
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  Speaker 1: NFL Scouting Combine and Indianapolis, and this would have been
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars year to dominate the scene in Indy with
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  Speaker 1: a new head coach and Urban Meyer, the number one
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  Speaker 1: overall draft pick and another first round pick. Unfortunately, it
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  Speaker 1: is not being held this year due to COVID nineteen concerns.
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  Speaker 1: On the Huddle Up Podcast Wednesday, NFL media analyst Bucky Brooks,
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  Speaker 1: Senior writer John Oshan and I reminisced about what we
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  Speaker 1: miss about the combine in and out of the media
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  Speaker 1: center when they're on the podium, how they answer questions,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's I always like a guy who can carry
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  Speaker 1: on a little bit of a conversation and look reporters
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  Speaker 1: in the eye rather than feeling like they're on stage.
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  Speaker 1: There's a little bit of a different field that guys have.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I missed it a lot, other than always
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  Speaker 1: coming home sick, coming home sick, what do you you
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  Speaker 1: can't handle it? Okay? So so John, I'm gonna tell
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  Speaker 1: you something that my dad told me when I when
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  Speaker 1: I was younger. If you burn the candle at both ends,
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  Speaker 1: it will burn up. So you have to earmark your
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  Speaker 1: energy a little differently. So if you're gonna be missed
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  Speaker 1: a combine during the day, you can't be missed a
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  Speaker 1: combat at night too. So you gotta if you're not
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  Speaker 1: burning the candle at both And I'm buying. I see,
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  Speaker 1: I've seen you closing Prime every now and then. Yea,
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely closing. But Macana has a long wak. It
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  Speaker 1: takes all right. But I don't come on, I don't
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  Speaker 1: come on sick. It's taken years of conditioning for Bucky
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  Speaker 1: to get this. Ind No, but John, you mentioned something
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  Speaker 1: that always think is interesting, like listening to the prospects
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  Speaker 1: at the podium, particularly the quarterbacks, because this year would
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  Speaker 1: be very important to hear Tarma Lawrence there because you
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  Speaker 1: want to see how does he carry Can he can
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  Speaker 1: handle the weight of being the face of the franchise
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  Speaker 1: because he the quarterback is the most important guy in
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  Speaker 1: the room, because he represents and puts out the message
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  Speaker 1: that has been conveyed in the room. So can he
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  Speaker 1: handle those responsibilities. Bucky's thoughts on Cam Robinson and his
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  Speaker 1: top five tight end prospects coming up. A little bit later,
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  Speaker 1: we moved out Monday's Jaguars Reporters podcast. Ashan Sullivan, Brian Section,
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  Speaker 1: Oshan and I took a look at the wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: room for the Jags. Could the Jaguars let it ride
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  Speaker 1: without free agents or a high draft pick? Are you
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  Speaker 1: confident with the wide receivers you have on this roster
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  Speaker 1: if you do not add this offseason? And when I
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  Speaker 1: say add, I mean you go spend a ton of
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  Speaker 1: money and free agency to get a number one guy,
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  Speaker 1: or you use maybe your top four picks on a
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver. If the Jaguars do not do that, John,
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  Speaker 1: are you comfortable with where the roster stands a wide receiver? Comfortable?
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  Speaker 1: Idea A lot more comfortable with one more? I mean
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  Speaker 1: it's uh. I guess my answer is no. And it's
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  Speaker 1: not a knock on d J or Levis guy. I
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  Speaker 1: think those guys are are going to be very, very good,
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  Speaker 1: but I think in the NFL now, I think you
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  Speaker 1: need one more to that mix. So I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if that means a rob or if that means the
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  Speaker 1: top add one more and maybe have it be a
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  Speaker 1: bar pier speed guy already a rob JP, what are
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  Speaker 1: you thinking? Yeah, So I guess we're assuming that a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these guys are going to be free agents
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  Speaker 1: and Keelan Cole and Chris Conley and d D. Westbrook.
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  Speaker 1: So in that case, just by math, I'm not a
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  Speaker 1: math major. I took three classes and four years at
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  Speaker 1: Alabama and math. But you need more receivers on the field,
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  Speaker 1: So I'd say, yes, I need you need a speed, speed,
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  Speaker 1: speed guy, and that's what they don't have. I took
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  Speaker 1: all the classes they had in math at all three
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  Speaker 1: of them. Yes, I did. Oh one was remedial. But
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  Speaker 1: that's okay, Brian. I'm under the impression at that healing
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  Speaker 1: Cole stays with this equation. What do you think, especially
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  Speaker 1: if he stays, I'm comfortable with the group that's out there.
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  Speaker 1: You've got the size of the speed and I really
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  Speaker 1: like DJ Sharp's mindset. I think well, Mscus is a
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  Speaker 1: terrific Swiss army type of player. Can do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things. I like what we saw from College Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: We know what healing Cole can be. Now, if I
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  Speaker 1: could have a Rob, because I love a Rob personally,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like a Rob. But if you leave me with
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  Speaker 1: that group this year, okay? Alrighty do you have it?
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  Speaker 1: Go get one more or not. The Jaguars Reporters podcast
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  Speaker 1: runs Monday afternoon on the Jaguars Official podcast network. Tuesday morning,
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  Speaker 1: of course, it's Jags Drive Time. The Trevor Lawrence Talk continues,
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  Speaker 1: and this time a visit with a CC network analyst
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  Speaker 1: and former Clemson offensive lineman Eric McLane to see if
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  Speaker 1: Lawrence can lead the way in an NFL locker room. Eric,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for waking up with us and I have
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  Speaker 1: to ask before we start grilling you with questions. Are
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  Speaker 1: you tired of talking about Trevor Lawrence yet? No, not
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  Speaker 1: not at all. And first of all, thank you guys
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  Speaker 1: for having me on. I think that he is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that special level player that you know he deserves it.
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  Speaker 1: He really is this generational talent. I think that whatever
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  Speaker 1: franchise ends up taking him, I think we all are
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  Speaker 1: going to assume that it's going to be the Jaguars,
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  Speaker 1: and you guys that the team is gonna be very
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  Speaker 1: happy with what they get from this young man. Eric.
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  Speaker 1: Let's look forward to let's say August in training camp
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  Speaker 1: in Trevor Lawrence is in the locker room and we're
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  Speaker 1: just playing a hypothetical situation. What kind of guy is
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  Speaker 1: he in an NFL locker room? How do you see
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  Speaker 1: this going? Is he lead by example? Is he ro
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  Speaker 1: rock get the team together? Coming in as a rookie.
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  Speaker 1: How do you see this shaken out? Yeah? I think
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  Speaker 1: he certainly is going to be that guy that is
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  Speaker 1: going to lead by example early, right, But at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, you're an NFL quarterback, You're hoping
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  Speaker 1: to be a starting NFL quarterback. You've got to be
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  Speaker 1: the voice as well. And I think that's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: one thing that is very different from what we saw
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  Speaker 1: from him as a freshman at Clemson to now being
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  Speaker 1: a rookie in the NFL. You know, his freshman year,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't necessarily his team. You know, he didn't come
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  Speaker 1: in and start right away. He had to kind of
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  Speaker 1: earn that way, and certainly he will still have to
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  Speaker 1: do that with the Jaguars, but it's it's different. It
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  Speaker 1: is his team and is his franchise, and so I
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  Speaker 1: just have to believe that he's gonna be much more vocal,
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  Speaker 1: be much more competent, and knowing this is my offense,
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  Speaker 1: this is my team, let's go as far as we can.
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  Speaker 1: Drivetime here is Tuesday mornings at ten o'clock on the
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  Speaker 1: Jags social channels, with the podcast available later. Now more
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  Speaker 1: from the Wednesday Huddle Up podcast. The franchise tag window
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  Speaker 1: is open, but what could be the Jaguars approach with
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  Speaker 1: left tackle Cam Robinson. It's a two week window through Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: March ninth. The name most associated with this around the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars has been left tackle Cam Robinson. The cost Bucky's
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  Speaker 1: what fourteen and a half million dollars that would be
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  Speaker 1: exclusive for a year. Could they transition tag in this timeframe?
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  Speaker 1: Is that a different time frame? And other prices a
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  Speaker 1: little bit lower, but there's negotiation options for the player. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what's the feeling here? I mean, look, you could do
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  Speaker 1: the trans position tag and that will give you an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to mass to offer and if you didn't match it,
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  Speaker 1: then you would get compensation coming back. The exclusive offered
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  Speaker 1: means you can't negotiate anywhere. Is one time, one stop
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  Speaker 1: shopping is it is the team and the player. You
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  Speaker 1: have to figure it out. I do wonder what this
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  Speaker 1: looks like because we'll really get a great sense of
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  Speaker 1: what the Jaguars feel about Cam Robinson because are they
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  Speaker 1: willing to pony over that money? Are they willing to
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  Speaker 1: give him a long term deal We've always already talked about.
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  Speaker 1: The offensive line appears to be in pretty good shape,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, if you bring him back, um, you
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  Speaker 1: feel good about the coninuity you have, the offensive line
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  Speaker 1: coach being everytaking like everything is the same, and so
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  Speaker 1: maybe they give you a chance to kind of hit
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  Speaker 1: the ground running. But if you move on from Cam Robinson,
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  Speaker 1: either you elect to keep him on the franchise tag.
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  Speaker 1: That means maybe you have to look at the pool
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  Speaker 1: um bottom of the first round, top of the second round.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have to evaluate offensive tackles and those things?
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  Speaker 1: I will say this, does Youaguars have to evaluate Cam
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  Speaker 1: Robinson versus what could be available? And so what could
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  Speaker 1: be available in the twenties at offensive tacle versus Cam Robinson,
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  Speaker 1: what could be available at the top of the second
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  Speaker 1: round versus Cam Robinson? Because if they feel like potentially
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  Speaker 1: they could get a better option, a cheaper option, it
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  Speaker 1: then gives you even more cash to go and play
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  Speaker 1: play with it other at other positions. And so that's
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  Speaker 1: something for a team that's loaded with cast. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how any more discounts you need, but I mean
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  Speaker 1: you could go with a bigger checkbook and write bigger
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  Speaker 1: checks to maybe bring over some some Markey players. But
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  Speaker 1: there's also the case JPL. I'll play Devil's advocate on
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  Speaker 1: that a little bit. At number twenty five, if they
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  Speaker 1: don't like Cam, then you can easily go get a
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  Speaker 1: guy there. And it seems like there are guys to
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  Speaker 1: go get, but it's not like there's not other spots
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  Speaker 1: they can go get to so if you think you
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  Speaker 1: also have to decide, Okay, if we have to go
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  Speaker 1: get left tackle, what else is there at five and
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  Speaker 1: thirty three that we could better benefit ourselves, you know?
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  Speaker 1: So I think it would behoove them to franchise him
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  Speaker 1: with the idea that if you have to use that
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  Speaker 1: draft equity, then it's draft equity that you can't use
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  Speaker 1: on the safety, or you can't use on a corner,
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  Speaker 1: which they may need. Both, you can't use on a receiver.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like this team was rolling out
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of elite guys last year. So you can
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  Speaker 1: only do so much. There's only so much prime equity
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  Speaker 1: that you have, So I wonder if that won't play
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  Speaker 1: into it as well. That makes sense, John, And if
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  Speaker 1: you think of it this way, whether you have the
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  Speaker 1: intention of doing a long term deal or not, it
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  Speaker 1: makes it a nice stop gap for at least a year.
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  Speaker 1: You go status quo. You see I plays, and if
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  Speaker 1: he plays at a level where you want to extend
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  Speaker 1: him and sign him to a bigger deal. Perfect he
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  Speaker 1: gets a bunch of cash in his pocket this year.
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  Speaker 1: He may not show up for some things whatever, but
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  Speaker 1: eventually you show up to make sure that he cashes
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  Speaker 1: in on the big payday. Um, and then it does
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  Speaker 1: give you an opportunity if you're Urban Myron train barking
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  Speaker 1: to begin to build the team and the image that
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  Speaker 1: you see fit what players do. We need to kind
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  Speaker 1: of change the tide of the culture in the locker room,
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  Speaker 1: the results on the field, and those things. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's not a bad play. I would fully expect him
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  Speaker 1: to get some kind of tack initially if they can't
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  Speaker 1: get the long term deal done, because I mean just
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  Speaker 1: kind of like putting a little bookmark on it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and then you kind of see how it plays out.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't think it necessarily changes your draft plane
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  Speaker 1: at all. When we return, Steve White on the buzz
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  Speaker 1: surrounding Urban Meyer's arrival in the NFL look at the
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  Speaker 1: top tight end prospects in the NFL Draft, plus a
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  Speaker 1: which discusses the buzz around urban Meyer's arrival in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: plus the noise around other quarterbacks in the pre draft
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  Speaker 1: process outside of Trevor Lawrence. Is there a lot of
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  Speaker 1: interest to see if this works, if the college coach
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  Speaker 1: comes in and has success. Just what's the general field
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  Speaker 1: you get for that? Yeah, I think the college coach
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  Speaker 1: the NFL thing is I think that story's been written.
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  Speaker 1: You know once Jim Harball came in in one ball game,
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  Speaker 1: and we've seen other coaches. You know, people are really excited.
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  Speaker 1: I think Matt Rule is going to turn things around
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  Speaker 1: and Carroll linea. So I think with urban I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's really it's funny. There's not that much bus.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of a wait and see type of thing,
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  Speaker 1: and that's you know, I think I think there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot more intrigue as to what's gonna happen, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with some other team with Robert Sale and the Jets again,
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  Speaker 1: they've got number two. Are they gonna keep saying Donald?
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  Speaker 1: Are they gonna are they. So I think there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot more attention being paid to that, and I think
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  Speaker 1: with urban is kind of like, Okay, you know, Urban's
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  Speaker 1: got time. You know, they know that it is a
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  Speaker 1: rebuild type of things. So year one, maybe there's no
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  Speaker 1: snap judgments unless they come and have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: success out of the gate or it looks like another
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  Speaker 1: disaster out of the gate. I think everyone just kind
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  Speaker 1: of like, Okay, that's that's a patient thing. But they're
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  Speaker 1: just there isn't a whole lot of conversation at the
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  Speaker 1: moment right now about urban Meyer himself, about the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: draft situation, absolutely, but not so much about him. How
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  Speaker 1: often are we going to hear between now April twenty
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  Speaker 1: night that Trevor is not the guy? I think what
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  Speaker 1: I mean by that is there he's gonna make stuff
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  Speaker 1: up at this point, right So, I mean like they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna throw out Zack Wilson, They're gonna throw out justin
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're gonna look for reasons not to take
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  Speaker 1: him number one. Not this team necessarily, but people nationally.
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  Speaker 1: That's what happens with a story like this, right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The The intriguing thing um that I think it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be less than normal. Is there's gonna be no combine. Right,
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be no national video evidence. Right if Justin
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  Speaker 1: Fields has a great pro day, great, the only story
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  Speaker 1: when a quarterback has his pro day, the only time
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  Speaker 1: there's a real stories if he doesn't have a great
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  Speaker 1: pro day, like when Teddy Bridgewater didn't have a great product.
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  Speaker 1: These are all scheduled and set up away for everyone
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  Speaker 1: to succeed. You know, there's a certain roadmap. You know
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  Speaker 1: you're the one, you know, fifteen intermediate rounds, fifteen quick rowds,
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  Speaker 1: it's all set up, it's all rehearsed. So but the
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  Speaker 1: fact that there is no combine, the fact that there's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna be a lot of national visibility for these
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks working out. Yeah, we're going to NFL and network
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  Speaker 1: in ESPN alone's gonna show their pro days. But other
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  Speaker 1: than that, you're not gonna hear a lot of buzz
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  Speaker 1: about their interviews and somebody flops it and this and that.
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  Speaker 1: So again, I don't think there's gonna be just someone's
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  Speaker 1: gonna say, hey, the Jags, whatever I like to do. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: maybe Zack Wilson or or Justin Fields is a better fit.
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  Speaker 1: But but no, I mean it's just it's just it's
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  Speaker 1: like it's like, it's like Andrew Luck. You know, there
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  Speaker 1: was some conversation, Yeah, maybe Robert Griffin is is the guy,
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  Speaker 1: but there was more like, no, Andrew Luck was built
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  Speaker 1: for this, So Andrew Luck is going to be the
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  Speaker 1: first overall pick. You know, That's what I would like
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  Speaker 1: in the Trevor Lawrence thing too. The ozone podcast runs
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  Speaker 1: each week on the Jaguars Official podcast network and now
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  Speaker 1: more draft talk. This week on the Huddle Up podcast,
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  Speaker 1: we broke down Bucky Brooks top five prospects at the
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  Speaker 1: tight end position, a group that has been really difficult
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  Speaker 1: for the Jaguars organization to figure out over the last
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  Speaker 1: few years. These top five gentlemen in the tight end
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  Speaker 1: room will be on the target list. I think, Bucky,
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  Speaker 1: who you got, oh man, you talk about tight end position?
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  Speaker 1: You know, JP, If if not for taking the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: at number one, if the Jaguars had their normal customary
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  Speaker 1: top ten pick, Kyle Piss would be all over. It
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  Speaker 1: is number one, not at number one, but if it
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: was a top ten pick, top ten pick, I mean
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  Speaker 1: he's yeah, he's one of the top five players. In
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  Speaker 1: this draft class. He's a mismatch option, so he's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna be available for the jack. So we're we thinking
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  Speaker 1: first round, top of the second round. The two guys.
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  Speaker 1: Pat Freermouth from Penn State is a guy, big body,
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  Speaker 1: soft hands, is a great job of catching the ball
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  Speaker 1: over the middle of field. Can do the things that
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  Speaker 1: you would like to see done at that position. Hunter
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  Speaker 1: Long from Boston College and like, maybe I'm dating myself
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: having played with Pete Mitchell the Boston College thing. I
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: just always think about Boston College tight ends, even though
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Pete was like a little on the shorter stature, not
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: on the biggest statue. How long, How long is the
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: big body? He can post up over the middle of field,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: he can put his hand in dirt and block. Reminds
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  Speaker 1: me a lot of Kyle Rudolph from the Minnesota Vikings.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: He's a very interesting guy. And you think about in
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: the thirties, I think that's kind of the sweet spot.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Top of the second somewhere in there along could be
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: one that we talked about. Breverden Jordans was number four
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: in your list. A lot of Miami Buckey great athlete. Yeah, look,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: he's heard a lot I mean he's banged up, he's
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: injured a lot, but from an athletic standpoint, terrific athlete.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: And we've seen how these athletes have been able to
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: create problems. People are looking at Travis Kelsey and Darren
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Waller and the problems that they're able to give us.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Kind of those jumble size white House. He's not a
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: stretch tight end. Mean, he's not tall, but he is
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: very athletic and fast, just like Trey McKitty from Georgia,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: who doesn't have a lot of numbers. Trey mckitty's numbers
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: are not impressive, particularly in Georgia, but when he showed
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: up at the Senior Bowl, you saw him move around similar.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I think those two guys. If you think about the
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans John U. Smith, those guys are in that
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: that family, more athletic pass catchers. They kind of do it.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Maybe not be the the big, nasty guys that can
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: control the edge, but in the passing game, the dangerous.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: The Huddle Up podcast runs Wednesday mornings at eight o'clock
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: on the Jaguar's official podcast network and finally changes on
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: the business side and leadership for the Jaguars Senior Vice
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: President of Communications. Dan Edwards has been in the NFL
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: since the early eighties. He started his career as an
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: intern in the NFL League Office in New York, spent
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: a year with the Miami Dolphins and then a number
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: of years with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He joined the Jaguars
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: before the Jaguars even played a game in and he's
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: one of only a few Jags employees to be with
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: the organization from the start. This week, he took on
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: a new title and a new role Senior Vice President
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  Speaker 1: of Jacksonville Tradition and Alumni, and he joined Jeff Logoman
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: and me on Jaguars Happy Hour Thursday afternoon to explain
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: that new role and what it will mean for the organization.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Let's get into this new role, Senior vice President of
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Jacksonville Tradition and Alumni. What will be your day to
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: day duties now in this department that's still being created.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: This was this is a role that Mark Lampion and
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I've been talking about this and and uh, we saw
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: a need in a role, uh that that could be filled.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: And and as I told him, we've never been great
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: with our alumni relations. We've been okay, but I think
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: we can be better. We've got now some more history
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: to to to build and to um commemorate. Uh, the
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: NFL Legends Communities, a league wide program UM that really
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: helps support players in their post football career and life
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: and and so uh, this will really be my focus.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Those are kind of the three prongs UM in addition
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: to a lot of outreaching the community a lot of
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: That's why that title was kind of uh, kind of
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: strategic that the word Jacksonville is in it, because this
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: is really a focus on Jacksonville and connecting the franchise
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: with the city as it has been for the last
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: twenty five years. Maybe reconnecting in a lot of ways
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: um and and tradition rather than history, because tradition is
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: more commemorating the past, but looking forward, I think history
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: would be just a look at the past. And so
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: we wanted this to be kind of a a forward thinking,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: forward looking role that would would again help us connect
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: our fan base, connect the community, um and and become
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: a bigger part of what's going on in Jacksonville. Well,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: as you know this obviously better than most, there are
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: a lot of former players for the Jaguars that end
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: up staying in Jacksonville long term, and so there's a
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: lot of alumni guys around here every day. Yeah, there's
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: not only alumni players, but there's a lot of former
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: coaches that have decided to maintain Jacksonville as their home base.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: And uh, I think that's an amazing thing. And Dan
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: could tell you probably more more names and faces than
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I could, But you know, that's the pretty cool thing
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: about Jacksonville, is it ever since that we we've been
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: here since the very beginning. Dan obviously was here in
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: ninety four before the team even played a football game,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and and I came in free agency and ninety five
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and have been with the organization in some capacity through
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: every year. And so I've been fortunate to be able
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: to meet just virtually everybody that Dan has, and the
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: number of friendships that we've developed with players and coaches
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: that have just added to stay here in Jacksonville, it's
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: just it's amazing how big that number is and it's
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: just going to continue to grow because we live in
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: such a great community. Yeah, that's right, And I think
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: that that says a lot for the city in the community.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: When when when guys not only play their career here
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: and stay but You've got guys like like Mark Brunella,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Torno Bassali who went on and finished their careers in
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: other cities, but moved back here and move their families here,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: And I think that says a lot about the city,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: the community, what it has to offer. And again, we
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: want to really connect with those players, with those alumni
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: who were such an important part of our history. Thanks
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: to Dan Edwards for his leadership over the years and
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: for his time this week. He's right around the corner still,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: which is good news for the Jaguars organization. Jaguars Happy
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Hour Radio airs Thursday at four o'clock on TIN t X,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: L A M and on Jaguars social channels, and the
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: podcast available right after the show on this podcast network.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: And congratulations also to the new VP of Communications, Amy Palsik.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Sh'll report directly to head coach Urban Meyer and g
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: M Trent ball Key, and she'll be your great addition
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: for the Jaguars. Coming up this week, we're closing in
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: on the opening of the one NFL league year and
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: the start of free agency. That all gets going at
• 22:10
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