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Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, March 17 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: It's Thursday, March seventeen, Happy St. Patty's Day. This is
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour. And now he may be an agent,
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Speaker 1: but he's certainly not free. J P. Chad Rick, and
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Speaker 1: welcome in. It is Jaguars Happy Hour on this Thursday afternoon.
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Speaker 1: J P. Shadrick with you. We've got a busy, busy
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Speaker 1: show ahead of us. As always on Thursday, Jaguars analyst
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Speaker 1: Jeff Lockherman will join us free agency frenzy. The Jaguars
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Speaker 1: have signed seven new players, many of them were in
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Speaker 1: the building today, and one of them will join us
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Speaker 1: on set at four fifteen here live. It's Brandon shuff,
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Speaker 1: the new guard for the Jaguars, five time Pro bowler,
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Speaker 1: first team All Pro back in he'll join us in
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Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes here on Jaguars Happy Hour. We'll hear
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Speaker 1: some highlights from the press conferences today here at t
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Speaker 1: i A. Bankfield. We'll go around the National Football League.
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Speaker 1: Jeff Flackman joins us now in LUGS. The Jaguars just
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Speaker 1: paid out one D fifty five million guaranteed dollars among
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Speaker 1: the big seven signings. How about that a lot of money,
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Speaker 1: a lot of case. Uh, And that's Uh. I hate
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Speaker 1: to say this, but I mean that's what you do
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Speaker 1: when you haven't essentially been really good at what the
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Speaker 1: lifeblood of the franchise is, which is drafting and uh.
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Speaker 1: And it was exactly what this organization needed to do
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Speaker 1: because at some point you need to change the culture.
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Speaker 1: And part of changing the culture, it's not so much
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Speaker 1: about mindset. Is it about getting better players. And in
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Speaker 1: free agency, getting better players cost you money. That's just
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Speaker 1: the reality of it. And I think they did a
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Speaker 1: very good job of making sure that they addressed positions
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Speaker 1: that they needed to address. Did they overpay, Yes, that's
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Speaker 1: what you do in free agency. That's just the way
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Speaker 1: it is. But the one thing I will say about
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Speaker 1: the contractual status of all of these guys, for the
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Speaker 1: most part, after two years, the risk is no longer. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Most of these deals are two year deals. Would you
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Speaker 1: like to see the players complete the deals? Yes, because
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Speaker 1: that means that the player is playing to the level
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Speaker 1: of the contract, and that's what you want to see.
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Speaker 1: But if something doesn't work out, then it's not like
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Speaker 1: you are gonna be stuck with like an Ezekiel Elliott
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Speaker 1: with the Cowboys right now, who has a guaranteed contract
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Speaker 1: that Ezekiel Elliott has not played to that level last
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Speaker 1: year and is not expected to pay play to that
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Speaker 1: level this year. So from that standpoint, I like it.
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Speaker 1: And around about that time is when hopefully, if things
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Speaker 1: go well, Trevor Lawrence's contract will start coming back around,
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Speaker 1: and that you're kind of looking at. That gives you
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Speaker 1: the luxury years down the line. And that gives you
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Speaker 1: the luxury because you have a quarterback on a rookie contract.
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Speaker 1: You hope that the quarterback gets to the point where
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Speaker 1: you have to make tough decisions and you're gonna have
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Speaker 1: to pay him fifty sixty million a year, you know,
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Speaker 1: which is I think that's essentially that's the going rate.
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Speaker 1: I mean, look at Aaron Rodgers new deal. I think
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Speaker 1: I think the new money averages sixty two million dollars
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Speaker 1: a year. And so let's look down the road four
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Speaker 1: years from now, that's what the going rate is. It's
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Speaker 1: going to be at least that because the captain theory
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Speaker 1: could keep growing, and a theory when has it ever
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Speaker 1: gone down with the action of it just keeps going
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Speaker 1: up and up and up. So you have that luxury
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Speaker 1: um and and I like the fact that they have
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Speaker 1: addressed both sides the ball. Most of the guys are,
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Speaker 1: you know, because Schuff is a little older. But for
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Speaker 1: the most part, these guys are young. And when I
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Speaker 1: say young, that they're they're approaching or are in their prime.
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Speaker 1: And that's what you want in the agent market. Can
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Speaker 1: you sprinkle in guys that might be a little bit older,
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Speaker 1: a little longer in the tooth, Sure, absolutely, but those
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Speaker 1: guys you typically want to try to acquire on shorter deals.
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Speaker 1: But but I like the list. I love the addition
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Speaker 1: of surf a J. Cann. I wish him the best
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Speaker 1: of luck with the Houston Texans is an upgrade, okay,
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Speaker 1: fact it will also help your right tackle position, whoever
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Speaker 1: that ends up being instead yesterday. They still have confidence
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Speaker 1: in Jowan Taylor there well, and I think the competition
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Speaker 1: needs to exist for Juan Taylor. I mean, let's not
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Speaker 1: sugarcoat it. Joan Taylor. I think it was a high
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Speaker 1: pick for a reason, and I still think with with
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Speaker 1: better coaching, he can become better. It's not like he's
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Speaker 1: done improving, But competition makes everybody better, even me and
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Speaker 1: you JP. We compete all the time, absolutely, and I
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Speaker 1: win most of those, Yeah, pretty much. I don't know
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Speaker 1: how with a microphone you win all the time. I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna argue that. So let's go through a Christian
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Speaker 1: Kirk and let me just say something about him, because
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Speaker 1: he's kind of he's kind of that cherry on the
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Speaker 1: top of this of this free agent class, thirty seven
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Speaker 1: million guaranteed to him, and that's the most money out
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Speaker 1: of all of these guys. There's been a lot of
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Speaker 1: little criticism online about that, which that happens because criticism
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Speaker 1: happens every year when you start talking about free agent
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Speaker 1: classes and you talk about guys that may not be
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Speaker 1: at the top of their position, but when they hit
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Speaker 1: free agency, they set the new market. And for wide
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Speaker 1: receivers around the league that may be upset that they
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Speaker 1: may be better than Christian Kirk, that are upset, wait
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Speaker 1: a minute, hey, guys, slow down, because the Christian Kirks
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Speaker 1: of the National Football League are good for your business
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Speaker 1: because if you are a better wide receiver than him,
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Speaker 1: when you do get to the opportunity to be on
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Speaker 1: the market, your price. We'll start at where Christian Kirk
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Speaker 1: ended up. I'm gonna say you better send him a
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Speaker 1: fruit basket or something. A thank you, Carter. But I
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Speaker 1: remember preparing for the Arizona Cardinals game and it was
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Speaker 1: a J Green and DeAndre Hopkins and fits and who
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Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald Fair Larry Fitzgerald, who you know obviously wasn't
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Speaker 1: it was not the same player that he was younger,
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Speaker 1: But Christian Kirk when you watch the film Great Weapon,
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Speaker 1: and I believe in in my opinion, he was the
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Speaker 1: most explosive player that they had in the wide receiving
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Speaker 1: corps with the Arizona Cardinals. And I think it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be exciting to watch to see where they play him.
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Speaker 1: And I know that Doug Peterson talked about they're gonna
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Speaker 1: play him anywhere and everywhere, depending on matchups, not just
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Speaker 1: a slot. And that's a good thing. And the more
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Speaker 1: weapons you have, the better off you are. Let's hear
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Speaker 1: from Christian Kirk today. He spoke with the media here
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Speaker 1: at t I a bank field and a lot of
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Speaker 1: thanks to go around. I just wanted to say, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, thank you to Mr Cohn, Mr Baky, Coach
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Speaker 1: Peterson and the Jaxonville Jaguars organization and for um giving
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Speaker 1: me the opportunity to be here. I'm super excited to
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Speaker 1: get to work, and it just feels great to be,
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Speaker 1: you know, a part of an organization that has shown
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Speaker 1: so much interest in you know, my potential, my ability
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Speaker 1: to be able to come here and uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: be a part of this organization. So I just want
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Speaker 1: to say that I'm ready to get to work. And
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Speaker 1: not the only receiver signed by the Jaguars, of course.
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Speaker 1: Zay Jones comes in from the Las Vegas Raiders. He's
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Speaker 1: out of East Carolina. Originally was with the Bills of
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Speaker 1: a second round pick, and then moved over to the
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Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders and then went on the move to Las
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Speaker 1: Vegas with the organization as well. He played in that
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Speaker 1: seventeen playoff game, the wild Card game here in Jacksonville
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Speaker 1: with the Bills. That was the last time he stepped
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Speaker 1: foot in the stadium until today in fact, and then
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Speaker 1: of course played the Jaguars in the Raiders final game
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Speaker 1: in Oakland. The Jaguars won that game as well. But
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Speaker 1: we heard from za Jones today as well and what
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Speaker 1: he could bring in, what the culture could be here
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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. I believe in it, um. I think it's
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Speaker 1: a I've talked to some other players that have been
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Speaker 1: with with Doug and these guys, and they've told me
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Speaker 1: a little bit about the offense and like how it
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Speaker 1: works and and schematically and things like that, but I
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Speaker 1: just had to take their word for it, do my
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Speaker 1: own research and things like that. But um, it's a
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Speaker 1: great team. Young quarterback who who to me looks very
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Speaker 1: very promising and very good and I believe in and
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Speaker 1: you know, I want to be a part of something
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Speaker 1: that's that's building towards the future. And ultimately, yeah, just
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Speaker 1: my heart, I was like, Yeah, this is the place
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Speaker 1: I want to go. Yeah, so Z Jones coming in,
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Speaker 1: what do you like about his game? I think he
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Speaker 1: adds competition to that positional group and that's what you needed.
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Speaker 1: And I know that, Uh, there's a lot of confidence
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Speaker 1: in the guys that were already in that room as
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Speaker 1: far as the younger players that they have and can
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Speaker 1: they continue to develop And that's great, and but you
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Speaker 1: can't be overconfident in the room to the point where
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Speaker 1: you stop adding guys to a room. And I think
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Speaker 1: the the running back room, to give you another example,
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Speaker 1: they didn't address it in free agency, but I really
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Speaker 1: believe that that's going to be addressed in the draft
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Speaker 1: because you feel good about the two guys that you have,
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Speaker 1: but they're coming off of injuries. And and again, you
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Speaker 1: can't ever stop adding to the room. Competition makes everybody better.
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Speaker 1: And I think that's a Jones is gonna come in.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna compete. He's got a little bit more size
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Speaker 1: than Christian Kirk, which a lot of people might find
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Speaker 1: that surprising. And uh, and he's a very fast guy.
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Speaker 1: So the faster players, the more speed that you can
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Speaker 1: get on the field for a young quarterback, the better
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Speaker 1: off that you're gonna be. And I think it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be fun to watch the competition at wide receiver because
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Speaker 1: think about it now, Uh, there's a lot of guys
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Speaker 1: that are gonna be fighting for one ball. There's only
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Speaker 1: one ball that they play with on the field, right,
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Speaker 1: and you're throwing the tight ends in the mix as well. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Evan Ingram, you know, comes from the Giants, was widely
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Speaker 1: thought to be one of these kind of the new
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Speaker 1: tight ends. And and look, it's it's no uh secret
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Speaker 1: that the Giants have had quarterback issues ever since the
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Speaker 1: departure of Eli Manning. They tried to address it with
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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. It hasn't quite worked out yet. And but
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Speaker 1: yet Evan Ingram still has caught a lot of balls,
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Speaker 1: and with an offense and a football team that hasn't
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Speaker 1: been very good, and I, uh, the one thing about
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Speaker 1: him I will say is that he's not a real
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Speaker 1: big guy. He's a move tight end. Okay, he's a
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Speaker 1: he's a true move tight end. But you you pair
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Speaker 1: him with Dan Arnold and now you have two tight
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Speaker 1: ends that are gonna have and create interesting matchups for
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Speaker 1: defenses to contend with. I look forward to watching that.
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Speaker 1: We'll come back in a moment. Brandon Schuff one of
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Speaker 1: the other offensive editions, I would say, one of the
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Speaker 1: biggest offensive editions. This guy's massive physically. Yes, he's gonna
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Speaker 1: join us here in studio. Yeah, he's a he's a
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Speaker 1: good football player. He's been real steady, hurt a little
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Speaker 1: bit the last couple of years. But when he is,
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Speaker 1: when he's healthy, he is, uh by far, I think
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Speaker 1: one of the best right guards in football. We'll get
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Speaker 1: in his head when we come back here in studio
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Speaker 1: a little later. We'll hear more highlights from the defensive
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Speaker 1: free agents added by the Jaguars. We are often running.
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Speaker 1: It's Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network. It's
11:25
Speaker 1: hitting in the right direction, and it's something that we
11:27
Speaker 1: had to you know, take a strong, hard look at,
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Speaker 1: you know, obviously to protect the quarterback, protect Trevor and
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Speaker 1: and and not so much in the passing game, but
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Speaker 1: also the ability to run the football. You know, we
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Speaker 1: feel like the running back room when healthy is is
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Speaker 1: a dynamic group. We feel like the tight ends are
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Speaker 1: a dynamic group and they're all part of the run game,
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Speaker 1: you know as well. So you know, we took some
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Speaker 1: really good, uh steps forward in that direction, um with
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Speaker 1: with keeping keeping can Cam and and obviously getting getting
11:53
Speaker 1: you know, Brandon Schriff and you got Juwan, you got
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Speaker 1: Walker Little mean, we've got guys shot Lee back. So
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Speaker 1: you know there's guys there now that we're putting the
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Speaker 1: pieces together and we still have, you know, the ability
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Speaker 1: in the draft to to add some more depth and
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Speaker 1: add some more value at that position. That is Jaguar's
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Speaker 1: head coach Doug Peterson on Jack's Drive Time yesterday and
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Speaker 1: welcome back to Jaguars Happy Hour on a Thursday afternoon.
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Speaker 1: J P. Shadrick with Jeff Lagman and Jaguars guard Brandon
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Speaker 1: Sheriff joining us in studio. It's good to see you man.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for the time. I know you're running around the
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Speaker 1: whirlwind today and thanks for taking some time out. Appreciate
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Speaker 1: you having me. Sorry, So we we gotta start with
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Speaker 1: the pronunciation because everybody you want to make sure the
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Speaker 1: duval gets it right. Okay, just think of that. There's
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Speaker 1: a new sheriff and town. Okay, suf I like that. Okay,
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Speaker 1: see you have a way with words. It's an easy
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Speaker 1: way to remember it because whatever. Yeah, that makes a
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Speaker 1: lot of sense. Welcome to Jackson, then thank you. Yeah
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Speaker 1: you uh, Iowa guy born and raised right, you know
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Speaker 1: Brad Measter, yep, I will know the name. Yeah, okay,
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Speaker 1: long time jaguar. You know that's so northern Iowa guy.
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Speaker 1: And go yea guy. But Aaron Campmon was here, you
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Speaker 1: know obviously for a little bit of method. Uh. And
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Speaker 1: then I just saw Mackay, sergeant from Iowa. So we're
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Speaker 1: getting there on Hawkeye is all over, that's right. So
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Speaker 1: a free agent process? Is this the first time that
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Speaker 1: you actually ever got into free agency as a as
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Speaker 1: a pro What what was the experience like for you? Uh?
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Speaker 1: You know, I worked out on let's see Monday, and uh,
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Speaker 1: my agent called me a couple of times and uh,
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Speaker 1: he said, I'll do all the negotiating and just just
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Speaker 1: sit by your phone and he says, we agreed the terms. Congratulations,
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Speaker 1: so we're excited. Didn't that crazy? How it is? I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's just all of a sudden. I mean back in
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Speaker 1: the day, there used to be, uh, at least a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a period of time where they'd fly
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Speaker 1: in and they'd wine and dine you. And nowadays it's
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Speaker 1: like like the draft. You know, that's what you have
13:47
Speaker 1: your you know, your not your official visits, but your visits,
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Speaker 1: and you go wine and dine with the coaches and
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Speaker 1: have your top five or whatever that you think you're
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Speaker 1: gonna go to, and you go to somebody absolutely completely different.
13:57
Speaker 1: So we we Brandon and I were talking kind of
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Speaker 1: kind of chuck and because Brandon has done a charity
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Speaker 1: event up in Iowa which is called Aiming for a Cure,
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Speaker 1: which I actually have done a couple of different times.
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Speaker 1: And we had a mutual friend who recently passed away,
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Speaker 1: Mr Tim Anderson of Mossy Oak, and UH and Brandon
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Speaker 1: played with the Redskins. I grew up in Stirling in Virginia,
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Speaker 1: which growing up as a kid, that's where the Redskins
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Speaker 1: training facility was located at. Well, now it's in Ashbourne, Virginia,
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Speaker 1: which is where I lived at for a period of
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Speaker 1: time when I was playing with the Jet So we
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Speaker 1: have a little bit of a connection there. But how
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Speaker 1: is your time in Washington? That was great? You know,
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Speaker 1: I met a lot of great people. I got coached
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Speaker 1: by a lot of great coaches, and those are you know,
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Speaker 1: members that are gonna last forever for me. So, you know,
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Speaker 1: taking a small kid out of Iowa to go to
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Speaker 1: big d C, you know, I wouldn't having any other way.
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Speaker 1: So I appreciate everybody that, you know, made an impact
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Speaker 1: on my life. All the coaches. UH coach Gruden is
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Speaker 1: one that drafted me, Coach Callahan, UH coach Phil Uh,
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Speaker 1: Coach Rivera coach, matsco coach Travelle. You know, I had
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Speaker 1: some amazing coaches, So I'm grateful for for all of them.
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson yesterday talked about when when they're signing you,
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Speaker 1: they wanted you in here as part of this culture build.
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Speaker 1: What does that mean to you? A culture build? I
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Speaker 1: mean I spoke about on a little bit earlier. I
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Speaker 1: think it's just just doing it everything the right way. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think, uh, you know, my dad instilled
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Speaker 1: that in me. And then coming into Iowa, you know,
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Speaker 1: coach Farren's uh, coach Doyle was a strength coach and
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Speaker 1: then coach Ray was the assistant strength coach there Reese
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Speaker 1: Morrigan just to laid the foundation on how to be
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Speaker 1: a man and how to practice and how to how
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Speaker 1: to conduct yourself inside and outside of football. Um. So
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Speaker 1: I think it's just a compliment that you're doing everything
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Speaker 1: the right way and people see that. So, you know,
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Speaker 1: that's one of the goals that I've ever had in
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Speaker 1: my life is to just um lead the way that
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Speaker 1: um people can look up to you and you know,
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Speaker 1: just kind of you're doing the right thing, so they
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Speaker 1: appreciate that. And and part of being a leader is
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Speaker 1: wearing the seat captain of a football team. And you
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Speaker 1: were a captain with the Redskins. How many years were
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Speaker 1: you were captain for the Redskins? And were you a
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Speaker 1: captain in Iowa? Uh? Three years? And then I don't
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Speaker 1: think they had captains. I think they just picked one.
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Speaker 1: But yes, I was, yes, Iowa. Yeah, coach appointed game
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Speaker 1: day captains. I hate when they do that. Coffin used
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Speaker 1: to do that here in early days. He'd picked captains.
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Speaker 1: He would never actually have anybody a name captare, but whatever,
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Speaker 1: But congratulations on the contract, Congratulations on being a Jaguar.
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Speaker 1: And uh, I know that the first time that I
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Speaker 1: got to free agency was in about your seven and
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Speaker 1: it's different. You know, you know, you're you're seven for
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Speaker 1: you and so it's, uh, it's fun and it's exciting.
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Speaker 1: And I think the one thing that it did for
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Speaker 1: me and and I don't know if you need the
16:36
Speaker 1: same thing or not, but it kind of re energized
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Speaker 1: me as a player because where I came from, we
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Speaker 1: didn't win a lot. And uh, and I know you
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Speaker 1: have the struggles in Washington, but also now the new environment,
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Speaker 1: the new teammates might kind of make things new and
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Speaker 1: fun again, right, you know. I had, like I said,
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Speaker 1: I had a blasting uh in Washington, and I you know,
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Speaker 1: some of my most favorite memories are just hanging out
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Speaker 1: at the house, you know, I said, I always speak
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Speaker 1: about ot has been one of my favorite, uh favorite
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Speaker 1: parts of the season, because that's where you get to
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Speaker 1: really figure out who your teammates are you know, just
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Speaker 1: not as football players, but you know you get to
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Speaker 1: see their families or wives or girlfriends or kids, so
17:10
Speaker 1: you get a you know, I always say Corey loo
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Speaker 1: con Striker was my center. We'd have a race from O. T. A.
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Speaker 1: S To his house because the girls will be out
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Speaker 1: of the pool, kids to be running around, and then
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Speaker 1: we just played volleyball offense versus defense for ten hours,
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Speaker 1: you know, and that was what everybody looked forward to
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Speaker 1: as a race of Corey's house. So just just doing
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Speaker 1: that and then you know, we'd have game nights at
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Speaker 1: our house with whoever wanted to come. Last year we
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Speaker 1: had oh, I don't know, forty people over for Thanksgiving
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Speaker 1: at our house last year. So we had Logan Thomas
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Speaker 1: and all the online helped pitching for a meal. So
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Speaker 1: we catered mealing for families and I'm available if you
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Speaker 1: guys need an extra you know, I can take a plate. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I thought you're gonna say you're gonna pay for about that.
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Speaker 1: I don't know about that. So what do you know
17:51
Speaker 1: about the group? Now? The offensive line coming in that
17:54
Speaker 1: you're you're coming into and this offense as a whole
17:56
Speaker 1: or some new pieces coming right now. You got a
17:58
Speaker 1: young quarterback. What do you know about this offense? Uh,
18:02
Speaker 1: Trevor's a heck of a quarterback. It's gonna be our
18:04
Speaker 1: you know, protecting him, just doing our job for him
18:05
Speaker 1: so he can do it for so he can do
18:07
Speaker 1: his job and not have to worry about people up front.
18:09
Speaker 1: Um Oline. You know, I was with coach Phil for
18:12
Speaker 1: two years, so I knew him pretty well. He's a
18:14
Speaker 1: great coach, and I'm excited to meet all the guys.
18:16
Speaker 1: I know, we got some hunter and fishermen out there.
18:18
Speaker 1: Son anxious to to bond that way and amen to
18:22
Speaker 1: that head coaches. Actually, I know he's just talking about
18:25
Speaker 1: I figured you did. I mean, it's uh, it's kind
18:27
Speaker 1: of crazy. We didn't talk any football. It was all hunting, fishing.
18:29
Speaker 1: So that's all right, that's all right. Well, and look,
18:32
Speaker 1: I know that they're still working through some things with
18:35
Speaker 1: Brandon Lennar, but you guys are you two guys are
18:38
Speaker 1: cut from the same ploth, And then I hopefully things
18:41
Speaker 1: work out with Brandon Leonard. He's a good football player
18:43
Speaker 1: and you and you absolutely love hanging out with him
18:45
Speaker 1: because I mean, he loves doing the things that you
18:47
Speaker 1: do the hunting and the fishing things. That's what cut
18:50
Speaker 1: my body, says. He says, exact same thing. He says.
18:52
Speaker 1: If you're get to meet him, boy, you guys are
18:54
Speaker 1: gonna be like brothers. You'll catch a lot more fish.
18:56
Speaker 1: I can tell you that. Yeah, amen to that. All right,
18:58
Speaker 1: So quick question shouting no Valley Sportsman, which is the hat?
19:02
Speaker 1: What is that? Oh, it's just the hat pick. But
19:04
Speaker 1: it's one of the preserves that I went to in
19:05
Speaker 1: uh Virginia, Shando Valley in West Virginia to German short
19:10
Speaker 1: hair pointers. If we had an off day or we
19:12
Speaker 1: played a Thursday night game, I do get treatment and
19:14
Speaker 1: then we'd have the off day. So I take my
19:15
Speaker 1: dogs and a couple of guys out and just go
19:18
Speaker 1: Pheasantant for a little bit German short hair pointers. Right,
19:21
Speaker 1: all right, Well we got a great great coil hunting
19:23
Speaker 1: down here. Awesome. Yeah, so that's gonna be right up
19:26
Speaker 1: your dogs, Alan, Absolutely, I think we're gonna have some
19:29
Speaker 1: nice conversations ahead of us with Brandon here. I mean,
19:32
Speaker 1: that's some hunting there's he does he host an outdoor
19:34
Speaker 1: show too, But yeah, or what, well, no, you can
19:40
Speaker 1: you can help us out in that cha. Yeah, I
19:45
Speaker 1: love that. Yeah, bush Light, I don't know what of
19:47
Speaker 1: bush light I do. I'll take it all. So all right,
19:50
Speaker 1: here we go. You signed a day. What's coming up
19:53
Speaker 1: the next few weeks? Offseason programs ahead? What are your
19:56
Speaker 1: plans for the next few months? Here, go back home
19:59
Speaker 1: tomorrow for that for a cure banquet on Saturday. We
20:01
Speaker 1: got a trap shoot, pheasant hunt all that. Um, hang
20:04
Speaker 1: out with the family, enjoy life, try to find a
20:07
Speaker 1: house out here, figure out where we want to be, um,
20:10
Speaker 1: and just honestly just enjoy it, you know, enjoy the process.
20:13
Speaker 1: Enjoy you know, meeting your new teammates and and bonding
20:15
Speaker 1: with them and getting ready to go. That's a that
20:18
Speaker 1: that's always an exciting process. And Um, and you gotta
20:22
Speaker 1: get moved down here now. You gotta establish residency so
20:24
Speaker 1: you can take advantage of this tax free state that
20:28
Speaker 1: we live in here on the state of Florida. So
20:31
Speaker 1: from from a financial standpoint, don't waste any time not
20:34
Speaker 1: get your license switched over and get your residence established.
20:37
Speaker 1: And I gotta go save that money, Brandon, that's right,
20:40
Speaker 1: trying to guide See you're good. Yeah, you've done this
20:43
Speaker 1: time or two before. If you established residents, you can't
20:46
Speaker 1: hunt in Iowa because I'm not a resident Iowa. That's
20:49
Speaker 1: the one thing that's crazy and mean him can have
20:51
Speaker 1: a whole conversation about this that even if you're a
20:53
Speaker 1: landowner in Iowa, if you don't live in that state,
20:56
Speaker 1: that doesn't guarantee hunt in America. How about that? Yeah?
21:00
Speaker 1: Did not know that? Yeah? Which is crazy? Which Iowa
21:03
Speaker 1: keeps out the riff raffle like Logoman coming up there
21:05
Speaker 1: and taking all your deer. Iowa and Illinois are probably
21:13
Speaker 1: the two biggest deer hunting states for guys that are
21:16
Speaker 1: just I mean, just crazy outdoors. But like I get
21:19
Speaker 1: what you're saying. That's all right, so plenty of time
21:21
Speaker 1: for that discussion. Congratulations, Thank you for taking the time
21:25
Speaker 1: with us today. It's man Brandon Sheriff, the new Jaguars
21:29
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21:33
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21:36
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22:03
Speaker 1: Jackson Bill Jaguars. You know, we went into it with
22:09
Speaker 1: the idea of getting better at all three levels. On
22:11
Speaker 1: the defensive side, we were able to do that, get
22:14
Speaker 1: more explosive, get more playmakers on the offensive side, get
22:18
Speaker 1: bigger and more physical upfront were and we felt we
22:21
Speaker 1: were able to address those needs. As General manager Trent
22:25
Speaker 1: Balky on Jack's Drive Time yesterday on Jaguars dot Com
22:28
Speaker 1: and welcome back Jaguars Happy Hour on this Thursday on
22:31
Speaker 1: tint to Next l A M and Jaguars Social media, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook,
22:37
Speaker 1: We're all over the place j P. Shadrick with Jeff Lagman,
22:40
Speaker 1: Brandon Scheff, the Jaguars new right guard, thirty million guaranteed
22:45
Speaker 1: dollars that'll that'll play, and five Pro Bowls and seven seasons,
22:51
Speaker 1: an All Pro, first Team All Pro two years ago
22:54
Speaker 1: with Washington and the first time out free here he
22:57
Speaker 1: is with a lot of money coming his way, and
23:00
Speaker 1: you know, as Doug Peterson said on the show yesterday, yeah,
23:04
Speaker 1: he's here to establish the culture and that's the culture
23:07
Speaker 1: you want. You want success at your position, you want
23:10
Speaker 1: Pro Bowls, you want winning offense and winning organizations. And
23:14
Speaker 1: he knows what that what that it should be like well.
23:17
Speaker 1: And and one of the things I brought up with
23:19
Speaker 1: Brandon here was about him being a captain. And when
23:22
Speaker 1: you talk about changing the culture, first of all, the
23:24
Speaker 1: player has to be good. But then they have to
23:26
Speaker 1: be I mean, true professionals and and that they do
23:29
Speaker 1: things the right way. And and look, they just don't
23:32
Speaker 1: give out sees willy nilly in the National Football League
23:36
Speaker 1: and so at uh, that's the kind of character guy
23:39
Speaker 1: that you want to have when you are when you
23:41
Speaker 1: are trying to change the direction of a franchise. He's
23:44
Speaker 1: a really good football player. He is he's athletic. Then
23:48
Speaker 1: he's more athletic than a lot of guards. And I
23:51
Speaker 1: think that's the one thing that stands out about the
23:53
Speaker 1: way he plays. And that's one of the reasons why
23:55
Speaker 1: he's been receiving the accolades as far as the Pro Bowls,
23:59
Speaker 1: you all pros and things of that nature, because he
24:02
Speaker 1: is very athletic. But he's athletic and he's strong. So
24:05
Speaker 1: he's a really good football player. He definitely helps his
24:07
Speaker 1: football team. And for a for a team that has
24:10
Speaker 1: a young quarterback that's gonna want to establish the running
24:13
Speaker 1: game a little bit to help a young quarterback and
24:16
Speaker 1: then also protect a young quarterback. Brendon Sheriff is the
24:19
Speaker 1: guy that you want and uh and I'm excited to
24:22
Speaker 1: have him because that's the type of guy that you
24:25
Speaker 1: need to add to this offense. You gotta protect your
24:28
Speaker 1: quarterback and you gotta make things easier on him by
24:31
Speaker 1: running the football. Let's stay on the offensive line. There
24:34
Speaker 1: was some news yesterday as Trent Bawky and Doug Peterson
24:37
Speaker 1: met with the writers and the media here at t
24:40
Speaker 1: i A bank Field and he was they were asked
24:43
Speaker 1: about Cam Robinson. He's had the franchise tag placed on him,
24:46
Speaker 1: he's not signed the tender, but news came out yesterday
24:49
Speaker 1: that they are working on a long term deal with
24:51
Speaker 1: Cam Robinson. At left tackle. They still have confidence in
24:54
Speaker 1: Jowan Taylor. We mentioned that earlier. At right tackle they
24:57
Speaker 1: got Walker Little who can move around and do some things.
25:00
Speaker 1: So the future and what's gonna happen with Brandon Lender
25:03
Speaker 1: came up yesterday as well, because he has no dead
25:06
Speaker 1: money on his contract and in the last year of
25:08
Speaker 1: his deal coming up nine and a half million dollars.
25:10
Speaker 1: Could they be working through something. It sounds like they
25:12
Speaker 1: might be. So what does this thing look like at
25:15
Speaker 1: the end of the day. Well, I was there yesterday
25:17
Speaker 1: and so I got to hear all the different Yeah,
25:18
Speaker 1: I was there, and so I got to hear all
25:19
Speaker 1: the comments, and and uh, I thought the story that
25:25
Speaker 1: in the comments that general manager Trent Ballky made about
25:28
Speaker 1: Cam Robinson, I think we're very revealing. And he talked about, hey, look,
25:32
Speaker 1: you know, Cam Robinson is a guy who loves football.
25:36
Speaker 1: You know, he's out there in practice and he might
25:37
Speaker 1: turn an ankle. He goes and tapes it up and
25:39
Speaker 1: then he gets right back in. He doesn't miss any
25:42
Speaker 1: anything in practice. Well okay, Well then he he tears
25:45
Speaker 1: a ligament tenant his thumb and he tapes it up
25:47
Speaker 1: and he and he finishes done miss any time. I mean,
25:49
Speaker 1: that's yeah, That's the one thing I've always said about Cam.
25:52
Speaker 1: I love the way he plays the game and he
25:54
Speaker 1: and he finishes and everything. Sometimes he he'd like to
25:57
Speaker 1: have him with his footwork be more lean at the
26:00
Speaker 1: left side. I still believe that he would be a
26:03
Speaker 1: phenomenal right tackle just because he has that attitude. But
26:08
Speaker 1: where is he at as far as left tackles? Um,
26:12
Speaker 1: he's probably middle of the road. Okay, middle of the
26:15
Speaker 1: road in the National Football League? Would you like to
26:17
Speaker 1: be able to lock up the middle of road type player. Look,
26:19
Speaker 1: you can't have everybody that's you know, top five at
26:22
Speaker 1: their position in the National Football League. But if somebody's
26:25
Speaker 1: not in the top five, you want to make sure
26:28
Speaker 1: that whoever that person is has other traits that are
26:31
Speaker 1: highly desirable. Toughness, loves ball, physical finishes, and that's what
26:37
Speaker 1: Cam Robinson has. And and I'm gonna say this again
26:40
Speaker 1: because I believe that there are some players on this
26:44
Speaker 1: offensive line because I said it last year and I
26:46
Speaker 1: said it the year before, but I did not see
26:47
Speaker 1: a lot of improvement. I still believe that this offensive
26:51
Speaker 1: line is not old enough to to lose the improvement
26:55
Speaker 1: from year to year. In other words, I think, with
26:57
Speaker 1: the proper coaching, Cam Robin sin can be better than
27:02
Speaker 1: just a middle of the road left tackle, which is fine.
27:06
Speaker 1: I believe that right tackle Jowan Taylor can be better,
27:09
Speaker 1: but I think he needs more competition. Look, competition makes
27:12
Speaker 1: everybody better, bringing more competition for everybody, and that helps
27:16
Speaker 1: solve a lot of the problems and it makes players
27:18
Speaker 1: more coachable. But but yeah, the comments about Cam Robinson,
27:24
Speaker 1: the backing of Juwan Taylor and and that backing was
27:27
Speaker 1: very firm and it wasn't wavering and uh, but I
27:32
Speaker 1: meant my opinion is is that you've got to create
27:34
Speaker 1: competition on that offensive line, and I think at right
27:37
Speaker 1: tackle it would be good. I think Linder will. They'll
27:41
Speaker 1: figure something out longer with him. Well, they said they're
27:43
Speaker 1: still working through that. Okay. The the salary that he
27:48
Speaker 1: was projected to receive this year was nine ish million. Okay.
27:52
Speaker 1: The reality is is that Brandon has been hurt for
27:55
Speaker 1: the last number of years. He's had one complete season
27:59
Speaker 1: in last four or five years. What does that tell
28:03
Speaker 1: you availability supersedes ability every time, and when a player
28:08
Speaker 1: can't be available on a every week basis that that
28:12
Speaker 1: lowers your value. That's a fact that cannot be disputed.
28:18
Speaker 1: So is there a comfortable range that the team would
28:22
Speaker 1: like to bring Brandon Lender back at? Sure? Sure? And
28:27
Speaker 1: I will tell you this, Brandon wears the C two. Okay.
28:31
Speaker 1: Brandon Lender is the kind of guy that you want
28:33
Speaker 1: to keep on a on a football team because two reasons. One,
28:38
Speaker 1: he's a good guy and he does things the right
28:40
Speaker 1: way and he's a good football player when he's on
28:43
Speaker 1: the field. Okay, so there's I hope that there is
28:47
Speaker 1: a way that they can find a common ground because
28:51
Speaker 1: if they can't find a common ground here, there's a
28:54
Speaker 1: couple options for Brandon. One is is that he goes
28:56
Speaker 1: to another team. Brandon loves Jacksonville. Okay, he loves the outdoors,
29:02
Speaker 1: he loves this football team. He's been committed to this
29:05
Speaker 1: football team. He was completely bawled in every year and
29:08
Speaker 1: has given everything is all and so he either continues
29:12
Speaker 1: to play for this team, goes and plays for another team,
29:15
Speaker 1: or he retires. I don't know if that's even an
29:16
Speaker 1: option for him, but I hope that they can find
29:20
Speaker 1: a way to make it work because when he's on
29:23
Speaker 1: the field, he's a good football player. This is Jaguars
29:27
Speaker 1: Happy are We continue with the recap of the free
29:29
Speaker 1: agent signings for the Jacksonville Jaguars. A number of them
29:32
Speaker 1: were in the building today signing the contract, making the rounds,
29:36
Speaker 1: taking the tour, meeting with the media. Let's move to
29:39
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the football now and to hear
29:42
Speaker 1: from some of these guys today. And we got to
29:46
Speaker 1: hear from Foyer A Louikon who is a linebacker from
29:50
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons and he led the league in tackles
29:54
Speaker 1: last year hundred ninety three tackles a season ago. What
29:58
Speaker 1: does he bring to this Jaguar his defense. I think
30:00
Speaker 1: there's a lot of upside to this organization. Uh, at
30:04
Speaker 1: the end of the day, these guys, you know, definitely
30:06
Speaker 1: put a lot of trust in me. Um. That's why
30:08
Speaker 1: they came in and got me in free agency. And
30:10
Speaker 1: I just want to bring it. You know. I definitely
30:12
Speaker 1: worked hard to definitely bring a lot of you know,
30:14
Speaker 1: intelligence and um to the defense and really just trying
30:17
Speaker 1: to bring people along with me is what I talked
30:19
Speaker 1: about a lot today with some of the coaches. So
30:22
Speaker 1: get everybody on that kind of hard and hard work
30:24
Speaker 1: and mentality kind of have you know, some great chip
30:26
Speaker 1: on his shoulder and being able to grind and work
30:29
Speaker 1: to get better every day. Uh, get more wins here.
30:31
Speaker 1: Foyer Litkin was a sixth round pick, but Yale guy
30:36
Speaker 1: out of Yale. Yes, that's football powerhouse of Yale. And
30:40
Speaker 1: then worked his way up. He was, like he said today,
30:43
Speaker 1: he was kind of a safety, kind of a slot
30:46
Speaker 1: coverage type guy, and then moved over to linebacker once
30:49
Speaker 1: he got in the NFL. And now he's built his
30:52
Speaker 1: way up into into this contract twenty eight million guaranteed
30:55
Speaker 1: dollars coming for years away. But led the league in
30:58
Speaker 1: tackles a year ago. Miles Jack has gone. Now that
31:01
Speaker 1: saved the Jacks. Remember the conversation we had a few
31:03
Speaker 1: weeks ago. We're comparing Damien Wilson's stats to Miles jack stats.
31:08
Speaker 1: Remember when we talked about that, and I said, look, said,
31:11
Speaker 1: the reality is is that Miles Jack is making a
31:13
Speaker 1: ton of money, whereas Damien Wilson came in here on
31:17
Speaker 1: a one year, a couple million dollar contract, and so
31:20
Speaker 1: something's got to give, right, Well, Jack goes and uh,
31:25
Speaker 1: and then you bring in Lucan and and he's a
31:27
Speaker 1: good football player and a lot of those categories that
31:31
Speaker 1: we talked about that Miles didn't fill, the tackles for losses,
31:34
Speaker 1: the sacks, the passes defense. Over the last two years,
31:38
Speaker 1: this young man has been able to to really put
31:42
Speaker 1: some serious numbers up in those categories, and the number
31:45
Speaker 1: of tackles that he makes. I mean, he's active as
31:47
Speaker 1: anybody at the position in the league. And and I think,
31:51
Speaker 1: now you you've got to start, Okay, do do you
31:54
Speaker 1: fill the other position? Is there a chance that they
31:56
Speaker 1: could bring a Damien Wilson back. Is there a chance
32:00
Speaker 1: that they fill that position from the current room and
32:03
Speaker 1: that's under contract, or do they look in the draft too,
32:06
Speaker 1: maybe add to that position in the draft. And but
32:10
Speaker 1: but they definitely need more than just one linebacker obviously
32:13
Speaker 1: because this is a two linebacker game, especially when when
32:16
Speaker 1: you get the nickel, you gotta have two guys that
32:18
Speaker 1: can really play in space. But interesting that, don't forget
32:21
Speaker 1: Dylan Moses. Either he's healthy and ready to go, they say, yeah,
32:26
Speaker 1: and that's that's uh, you know, basically one year completely
32:29
Speaker 1: away from football, he's got a serious knee injury. Is
32:32
Speaker 1: that's something that is going to be problematic? Is uh
32:35
Speaker 1: on a on an every year type of thing? I
32:37
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, that's a it's a great question,
32:40
Speaker 1: JP because Dylan Moses was supposedly a first round talent
32:44
Speaker 1: that obviously didn't get drafted in the first round because
32:47
Speaker 1: of injury concerns. Can can he be that type of
32:51
Speaker 1: a guy that would surprise you. That'd be awesome. Look,
32:53
Speaker 1: I'm all, I'm all four you got undrafted guys and
32:56
Speaker 1: you get six round picks and start turning into some
32:58
Speaker 1: really good football player for an organization. That's awesome. But
33:01
Speaker 1: because you know, the reality is to look at some
33:03
Speaker 1: of these free agents that you're signing. Okay lu Khan
33:05
Speaker 1: is a six round pick. Thought Okasi was a six
33:08
Speaker 1: round pick, and then Darius Williams was an undrafted guy.
33:12
Speaker 1: You know, So it would be great if you could
33:14
Speaker 1: find some of those guys right on your own because then, man,
33:19
Speaker 1: you talk about taking your football team to the next
33:21
Speaker 1: level because, as I've said before, the draft and finding
33:25
Speaker 1: young talent, that's the lifeblood of every franchise. Let's hear
33:29
Speaker 1: from fully Fighterkasi from the New York Jets, another former
33:32
Speaker 1: six round pick. He's out of Yukon, though noted run stopper,
33:35
Speaker 1: one of eight players with fifteen or more run stuffs
33:38
Speaker 1: and fifteen or more quarterback pressures last season alone. Some
33:43
Speaker 1: big names on that list as well, and earlier today,
33:47
Speaker 1: fully on why he chose Jacksonville really just came down
33:50
Speaker 1: to someone believing in me. Um, someone saw something in me,
33:55
Speaker 1: They saw something about my ability, um, and it took
33:58
Speaker 1: a chance on me. And I'm always for people that
34:00
Speaker 1: just just gives me a chance, because all you need
34:02
Speaker 1: is one person to believe you. And that's what made
34:05
Speaker 1: me come here. It's a blessing. You know. You put
34:08
Speaker 1: on a lot of time and effort and little blood,
34:12
Speaker 1: sweat and terris to get to this point. And you know,
34:15
Speaker 1: I can only thank God for it. But um, now
34:19
Speaker 1: that I'm here, at this point, it's all about what
34:23
Speaker 1: more could I do? You know? I mean, how much
34:26
Speaker 1: more could we inspire each other? How much more can
34:28
Speaker 1: we motivate one another fully? Fadokasi was a sixth round
34:32
Speaker 1: draft pick. His rookie season, he was the inactive guy
34:36
Speaker 1: most of the season. He played in like one game
34:38
Speaker 1: for the Jets, and as the years went on, found
34:41
Speaker 1: his way into a role there and found a way
34:44
Speaker 1: into that as you mentioned, longs that see on his
34:47
Speaker 1: chest that we just saw if you're watching on Jaguars
34:49
Speaker 1: dot com. And now a big free agent contract. Yeah
34:52
Speaker 1: that's uh yeah, there there's a trend here, right, yes, Okay, absolutely,
34:58
Speaker 1: When when coach and general manager emphasize and stress all
35:04
Speaker 1: about culture, change. Then you you do that with people
35:09
Speaker 1: that can do that. And again, the guy that wore
35:13
Speaker 1: the sea on his chest in New York, Fatakasi, captain
35:16
Speaker 1: of the New York Jets football team. Good football player,
35:19
Speaker 1: plays hard, plays every down hard. Is he a great
35:22
Speaker 1: pass rusher? No? Is he a pocket pusher? Absolutely this
35:28
Speaker 1: football team. At some point you gotta find dominant pass rushers.
35:33
Speaker 1: Many people are talking about Aton Hutchinson, the first overall pick.
35:37
Speaker 1: Could he be the guy? You know that's we'll have
35:40
Speaker 1: to wait and find out. I mean everything kind of
35:43
Speaker 1: leaning towards that way when you're kind of seeing what
35:47
Speaker 1: they've done in free agency. But at the same token,
35:50
Speaker 1: the outside edge position is not what needs to just
35:54
Speaker 1: be addressed. Also, the three technique interior pass rusher. If
35:58
Speaker 1: you can try to find a way to add an
36:00
Speaker 1: another guy on the inside and to help with the
36:04
Speaker 1: inside push, I think because Fakasi is gonna give you
36:07
Speaker 1: some good push, But do you have somebody that can
36:09
Speaker 1: give you numbers from the inside. And again, you've got
36:12
Speaker 1: twelve draft picks coming up to be able to address
36:15
Speaker 1: some of those positional needs as well, so you don't
36:18
Speaker 1: have to do it all in free agency. But but
36:20
Speaker 1: I like the acquisition of Podokos and I remembered him
36:23
Speaker 1: very well because he was a team captain with the
36:26
Speaker 1: Jets and he was one of the most challenging names
36:28
Speaker 1: to pronounce when you start doing your game boards. He's
36:31
Speaker 1: I mean, I remembered his name because I was like, Okay,
36:33
Speaker 1: how are we gonna pronounce this one? I know, Basselli's
36:36
Speaker 1: gonna butcher it. Okay, but let me make sure that
36:38
Speaker 1: I get it right. But I remember the Podokosi. I
36:41
Speaker 1: was like Ahadi. And he has a brother who was
36:45
Speaker 1: at Rutgers and did actually tapped out of the Gator
36:48
Speaker 1: Bowl to get ready for the NFL Draft, outside linebacker
36:51
Speaker 1: type who was living with him in Jersey and the
36:53
Speaker 1: whole thing. So we'll see if he makes it the NFL.
36:56
Speaker 1: Uh In the NFL Draft coming up. One other name
37:00
Speaker 1: signed or not signed yet agreed to terms. He's apparently
37:03
Speaker 1: arriving tomorrow to sign and it is Jacksonville area native
37:07
Speaker 1: cornerback Darius Williams out of Creekside High School in St.
37:11
Speaker 1: John's And this guy's story is incredible. He's twenty nine
37:15
Speaker 1: years old, he went to Creekside, of course, was at
37:20
Speaker 1: you A B. They canceled the program, had to come
37:23
Speaker 1: back home. Was working like an ace hardware for a
37:26
Speaker 1: little while, went to f S c J, took some
37:28
Speaker 1: classes U A B S program, came back. He went
37:32
Speaker 1: back to Birmingham and played for the Blazers and was
37:35
Speaker 1: an undrafted player. Worked his way up and moved over
37:39
Speaker 1: to the RAM. He was picked up by the Ravens
37:40
Speaker 1: right out after the draft. They cut him in October.
37:43
Speaker 1: He went to the Rams for the last four years
37:46
Speaker 1: and opposite Jalen Ramsey. He gets a lot of action
37:49
Speaker 1: in l A and all of a sudden he's coming
37:52
Speaker 1: back home, which is an amazing story of how his
37:55
Speaker 1: career took the scenic route to get here. And I
37:59
Speaker 1: I think that guys that have that kind of a story,
38:04
Speaker 1: I think are special because the guys that have a
38:08
Speaker 1: story like that develop a work ethic that can be
38:11
Speaker 1: incomparable to anybody else because they had to pay their dues,
38:15
Speaker 1: they had to work the extra hours to be able
38:18
Speaker 1: to get to where they are, and I think that's
38:20
Speaker 1: really unique. And when when you add guys to a
38:25
Speaker 1: locker room that that have had that kind of traveled road,
38:31
Speaker 1: I think it makes your locker room better because that
38:35
Speaker 1: kind of work ethic can rub off on other guys.
38:37
Speaker 1: And I've always said this and that you know, sometimes
38:40
Speaker 1: you find the first round picks that have incredible work
38:43
Speaker 1: ethics and there there's a reason why they were a
38:45
Speaker 1: first round pick. And then there are others that are
38:48
Speaker 1: first round picks because they have just a God given ability.
38:52
Speaker 1: God has blessed them with incredible traits. And then you
38:56
Speaker 1: have the guys that have had to work and work
38:58
Speaker 1: and work in some reason, and some of them had
39:00
Speaker 1: to work and work and work because they were late bloomers,
39:03
Speaker 1: and those are the ones that developed the better work ethic.
39:06
Speaker 1: And then eventually the talent started to show and started
39:09
Speaker 1: to develop. And I think that's a great story, and
39:13
Speaker 1: I think that that kind of a guy that you
39:15
Speaker 1: can add to the locker room. Again, we talked about
39:17
Speaker 1: this culture change. Okay, I keep using that word because
39:20
Speaker 1: that that means something for this year. I mean, that
39:23
Speaker 1: needs to be the focal point for this football team.
39:25
Speaker 1: Culture change. Bringing in captains, bringing in guys that have
39:29
Speaker 1: strong worth ethics, bringing in guys that can bring something
39:32
Speaker 1: to a locker room to elevate other guys. That's what
39:36
Speaker 1: this football team needs and that's what this coaching staff needs,
39:39
Speaker 1: and from judging the free agent class as a whole,
39:42
Speaker 1: it looks like they've addressed that very well. Lord's turned
39:45
Speaker 1: in a moment with a look around the National Football League.
39:47
Speaker 1: The Jaguars are one of the busiest teams, but some
39:51
Speaker 1: other teams are getting some big time acquisitions as well
39:55
Speaker 1: in free agency. We are only a day into the
39:59
Speaker 1: in NFL league year. A look around the league when
40:03
Speaker 1: we come back on Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars
40:05
Speaker 1: Digital Network, Welcome back as Jaguars Happy Hour. If you're
40:17
Speaker 1: watching us on Jaguars dot Com, Jaguars Twitter, Jaguars Facebook,
40:21
Speaker 1: Jaguars YouTube, the Jaguars Media Web if you will, you're
40:28
Speaker 1: watching a live look at the construction footprint for the
40:31
Speaker 1: Football Performance Center, schedule to open three just outside t
40:36
Speaker 1: i A Bank Field. They have moved a lot of dirt,
40:39
Speaker 1: they're pouring some concrete. The footprint has expanded over the
40:43
Speaker 1: last week or so. It looks like, um, they're, you know,
40:47
Speaker 1: doing some construction things, which is good. It's a good step.
40:51
Speaker 1: Where's the football field. They're not. They're they're covered in dirt.
40:56
Speaker 1: So yeah, so they've gotta figure that out. Of course,
40:58
Speaker 1: offseason programs coming up in April, it might be a
41:01
Speaker 1: combination the game field the indoor right now and then
41:05
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens come training camp and all that.
41:07
Speaker 1: But hey, it's it's it's off and running, which is
41:10
Speaker 1: good news. J P. Shadrick with Jeff Lockman. Thanks to
41:13
Speaker 1: Brandon Sheriff and for joining us here in studio, the
41:16
Speaker 1: Jaguars right guard. I wanted to kind of say that
41:20
Speaker 1: again because I wanted to make sure that everybody pronounces
41:22
Speaker 1: his name right, because I don't think there's anything worse
41:25
Speaker 1: than coming to a new place and then here people
41:27
Speaker 1: mispronounce your name. We got an old name, free agency class.
41:30
Speaker 1: I'll say that it's a little different. But he as
41:33
Speaker 1: he said, he said, think of sheriff. I shot the sheriff,
41:38
Speaker 1: and I said, there's a new sheriff in town, right, Okay,
41:42
Speaker 1: there's no eye in his name, thank you, but it's
41:45
Speaker 1: pronounced as if there is so sheriff. Thank you. I
41:49
Speaker 1: like it very good. I just want to make sure
41:51
Speaker 1: that people get it right. What are the other two?
41:53
Speaker 1: Trust me? When you grew up with a name like Lockerman, okay,
41:56
Speaker 1: and you've heard that name mispronounced as many times as
41:58
Speaker 1: I have. You'd like to have your name pronounced. Let's
42:01
Speaker 1: go through the other ones. Fully photokas uh fully photos
42:05
Speaker 1: and Foyer, Lou Khan, Yeah, a good football player, Okay,
42:10
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk Christians to one. It's a tough one to get.
42:15
Speaker 1: Darius Williams say Jones tongue twist. I don't know about
42:18
Speaker 1: that one. Did I get down right Williams? I don't know.
42:21
Speaker 1: We'll find out tomorrow. When he pronounced his name for everybody,
42:25
Speaker 1: Let's go around the national football Let's do that. The
42:27
Speaker 1: free agency frenzy continued, but not really with a player
42:33
Speaker 1: that's a free agent yet. Deshaun Watson has been meeting
42:36
Speaker 1: with teams. The Browns are out now. He met with
42:39
Speaker 1: the Falcons earlier this week. The Panthers and Saints were
42:41
Speaker 1: in the mix. There was a word earlier today that
42:44
Speaker 1: he might have a decision by today this afternoon. I
42:48
Speaker 1: haven't seen it yet. If it pops in the next
42:51
Speaker 1: eight minutes, we'll give it to you. But Deshaun Watson,
42:54
Speaker 1: all of a sudden is holding the cards well. And
42:56
Speaker 1: I said this to you kind of off the air.
43:00
Speaker 1: It's a crazy year in the National Football League here
43:03
Speaker 1: at the start of free agency, and it involves the quarterbacks.
43:07
Speaker 1: And this really is the first time ever in free
43:10
Speaker 1: agency that quarterback has been as hot of a topic
43:15
Speaker 1: and as a hot of a position in free agency.
43:18
Speaker 1: And I would wouldn't really call it free agency because
43:20
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson is not a free agent. But the trades
43:24
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, what's gonna happen with Aaron Rodgers the question
43:29
Speaker 1: marks there and here we are talking about DeShawn Watson,
43:32
Speaker 1: which could and is gonna set off a domino effect.
43:35
Speaker 1: It could be for Matt Ryan, could mean something for
43:39
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston. If because Jamis Winston, if if all of
43:43
Speaker 1: a sudden they signed to Shaun Watson, that's that's not
43:46
Speaker 1: the place in New Orleans now for Jamis Winston. But
43:50
Speaker 1: I don't see Deshaun Watson being embraced in Carolina. I
43:56
Speaker 1: think he would have a better chance of being in
44:00
Speaker 1: embraced in either Atlanta, which is his hometown, or New Orleans.
44:04
Speaker 1: And uh, and that's all in his control because he
44:07
Speaker 1: has a no trade clause. He has to okay where
44:11
Speaker 1: he is traded to and then at that point the
44:14
Speaker 1: terms have to be agreed upon with the Houston Texans.
44:18
Speaker 1: And then of course, if it's Atlanta. And by the way,
44:20
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson was a ball boy for the Falcons when
44:23
Speaker 1: he was growing up just outside of Atlanta. True story.
44:27
Speaker 1: Jimmy Luck was there the equipment manager and Deshaun Watson
44:30
Speaker 1: was working during training camp with the team. So if
44:34
Speaker 1: it's Atlanta, they have a former m v P quarterback
44:37
Speaker 1: is still on the roster in Matt Right. Yeah, they're
44:38
Speaker 1: gonna figure that out. Yeah, But and and here's what
44:40
Speaker 1: they have to figure out. They have to figure out
44:42
Speaker 1: a way to clear the cap number that Matt Ryan
44:46
Speaker 1: represents to to have the room to bring in a
44:51
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. And clearly they can make it happen, otherwise
44:53
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be having the conversations. But Matt Ryan is
44:57
Speaker 1: not the same Matt Ryan that into a Super Bowl
45:00
Speaker 1: a few years ago. JP, It's excellent point, I'm to
45:03
Speaker 1: say it. He's been there for a long time, and
45:05
Speaker 1: you gonna have that move now. But then there's a
45:07
Speaker 1: lot of other teams that are kind of waiting to
45:09
Speaker 1: see what happens with Deshaun Watson because then, okay, what's
45:13
Speaker 1: gonna happen and I know Baker Mayfield. There's still a
45:15
Speaker 1: question mark there with Baker Mayfield. He's in his own feelings.
45:18
Speaker 1: That sounds like, now, after that meeting the other day,
45:21
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen in Cleveland, What's gonna happen in Seattle,
45:23
Speaker 1: What's gonna happen in New Orleans, what's gonna happen in Atlanta.
45:26
Speaker 1: There's a lot of questions Indianapolis. What's gonna happen in Indianapolis?
45:32
Speaker 1: The Washington Commanders end up getting a guy that I
45:36
Speaker 1: wouldn't have given up anything. I got it right this time,
45:38
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. And I the R word or
45:42
Speaker 1: Washington football team. I'm proud of myself. Way to go,
45:45
Speaker 1: Way to go. Do you see, by the way, you
45:46
Speaker 1: see what Carson Wentz was wearing at his press conference? Yeah,
45:48
Speaker 1: it look terrible. He's wearing a a Berkeley suit with
45:53
Speaker 1: a yellow shirt and look terrible. But because let me
45:55
Speaker 1: tell you, I have fashion sense like no other. Okay,
45:59
Speaker 1: I mean look at me what I wear all the time,
46:01
Speaker 1: So I'm really I can judge, you know what. It reminded.
46:03
Speaker 1: It reminded me of Kenda Maccardell Kenyan used to dress
46:07
Speaker 1: outlandish back in the day. And uh, and he would
46:11
Speaker 1: laugh at it if he were here. So I'm not
46:13
Speaker 1: saying anything that I wouldn't tell him, but but he
46:15
Speaker 1: was always a guy that that wore very bright colors
46:19
Speaker 1: and different colors, and uh, but yeah, it was when
46:22
Speaker 1: I saw the suit, I'm like, dude that, uh, yeah,
46:25
Speaker 1: you might want to just kind of wear something neutral
46:29
Speaker 1: and show up your press conference and uh be a
46:33
Speaker 1: little bit more reserved. Let's go through a few other
46:35
Speaker 1: teams that have brought in a Hall in this time
46:39
Speaker 1: frame here, at least via trade or by free agency.
46:42
Speaker 1: The Bills get von Miller six years, one twenty million
46:46
Speaker 1: dollars for von six years. He's like thirty three years old,
46:51
Speaker 1: thirty four years old. He's gonna be about thirty eight
46:54
Speaker 1: running around chasing people. If he can see I he
46:56
Speaker 1: can still play, You can still play, but he doesn't.
46:59
Speaker 1: He doesn't. The one thing that I've watched with von
47:01
Speaker 1: Miller is that he doesn't play every down. S He
47:06
Speaker 1: takes certain plays off, and but he's still an exceptional
47:10
Speaker 1: pass rusher. He still can have an impact with with Buffalo,
47:14
Speaker 1: and I think he will provide some great leadership. But again,
47:18
Speaker 1: most of these contracts that you hear six years a
47:21
Speaker 1: bazillion dollars, right, there is some more realistic year and
47:27
Speaker 1: number that's associated with that contract, and it might be
47:31
Speaker 1: two years and thirty five million. I don't I don't
47:35
Speaker 1: know what that number is, but there's there's a more
47:37
Speaker 1: realistic number and a term to that contract than six
47:41
Speaker 1: years and whatever that number was. The a f C
47:44
Speaker 1: West was adding quarterbacks. They continue to add other players
47:48
Speaker 1: to that as well. The Broncos of course, got Russell
47:50
Speaker 1: Wilson via the trade. They signed Randy Gregory for five years,
47:53
Speaker 1: seventy million. The Chargers get wide by the way, Yeah,
47:57
Speaker 1: wide receiver Mike Williams goes to the Chargers. They got
48:00
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack in l A as well. I mean, that's
48:02
Speaker 1: that's carnage. That whole division is going to be, uh,
48:05
Speaker 1: just murderers. Row Well, Khalil Mack has familiarity with the
48:09
Speaker 1: head coach there. They when Khalil Mack first went to Chicago,
48:13
Speaker 1: the head coach now in l A was his coach
48:16
Speaker 1: in Chicago, so that there's a lot a lot of
48:19
Speaker 1: familiarity there. Uh, it's a it's a it's definitely been
48:23
Speaker 1: a very different free agent period. I think it's been
48:25
Speaker 1: one that's been very exciting, and particularly for this football team,
48:28
Speaker 1: but I think league wide, I mean, that's why this
48:31
Speaker 1: league is king because it and I remember, I'll never
48:34
Speaker 1: forget this. You go all the way back to when
48:36
Speaker 1: the NFL only had planed B and they were talking
48:40
Speaker 1: about going to unrestricted free agency, and I was having
48:42
Speaker 1: a conversation with our head coach at the time in
48:44
Speaker 1: New York, which was Bruce Cousin, and I said, Bruce,
48:46
Speaker 1: I said, I'm just telling you, when we get free agency,
48:48
Speaker 1: I said, it's gonna make the the interest in the
48:50
Speaker 1: sports just go through the refuge said, oh, it's gonna
48:52
Speaker 1: be bad for the game and this and that, and
48:55
Speaker 1: I mean, really think about I mean, how many times
48:57
Speaker 1: was the National Football League talked about in March for
49:00
Speaker 1: free agency started in the nineties, one talked about And
49:04
Speaker 1: so it's created a lot of interest, and it's given
49:06
Speaker 1: everybody hope because if you've got a bad football team, okay,
49:09
Speaker 1: and we've been a bad football team the last couple
49:11
Speaker 1: of years here, okay, but we still have hope because
49:14
Speaker 1: we just acquired seven guys in free agency that can
49:16
Speaker 1: help this football team win. That are proven players, and
49:20
Speaker 1: then you've got twelve draft picks to add too, And
49:21
Speaker 1: that's the beauty of the National Football League. You can
49:23
Speaker 1: always improve your football team if you do things the
49:27
Speaker 1: right way. And hopefully this football team has taken some
49:30
Speaker 1: steps and doing it the right way. And I believe
49:32
Speaker 1: that with these free agents in the way that they
49:34
Speaker 1: um have from a character standpoint, I think it's a
49:37
Speaker 1: great first step. We say goodbye to Miles Jackie's going
49:39
Speaker 1: to the Steelers, Andrew Norwell to Washington, d J Chart
49:42
Speaker 1: to the Lions. Are thanks to Brandon Sheriff for joining
49:45
Speaker 1: us in studio today and Blake Stewart on the videos side,
49:49
Speaker 1: Joe Fortunado on the audio side for Jeff Flagaman, I'm J. P.
49:53
Speaker 1: Shadrick and we'll catch you next time. It's Jaguars Happy
49:55
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