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Jags A.M. Podcast Ep. 235 | Reporting Live From Joint Practice vs. Saints! · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into Jags and brought to you by Field to
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  Speaker 1: Auto Group. We're coming to you live from joint practice
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  Speaker 1: with the Jaguars and the same kind of you and
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  Speaker 1: let's go on location. We like to mix things up
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, and of course this is exciting for
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  Speaker 1: us to get things going and finally get to go
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  Speaker 1: up against some other players. We're gonna go through our
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  Speaker 1: big things today, brought to you by g EJ Government
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  Speaker 1: As I mentioned, this is the first of three joint
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  Speaker 1: practices that the Jaguars are gonna be taking part of
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  Speaker 1: this preseason, and this is the first and only one
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  Speaker 1: that's on the road. Brian, it's finally nice to see
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  Speaker 1: some other competition and see what this team looks like
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  Speaker 1: stacked up against someone else.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, we get a chance really to gauge. I mean, guys,
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  Speaker 2: know what the practice schedule is at home. Now you're
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  Speaker 2: going against someone else, so you get the chance to
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  Speaker 2: really gauge who's playing well and who needs.
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  Speaker 3: To step it up.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to watch the running game today because
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  Speaker 2: Liam has been talking about that John since the spring,
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  Speaker 2: about improving there.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get a real opportunity today against the Saints.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and we're seeing really how Liam wants to run
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  Speaker 4: this thing. He actually, I think he would love to
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  Speaker 4: have a lot more. There's actually four. There's two against
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  Speaker 4: the Ducks in the last week and one against the
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  Speaker 4: Panthers next week. He believes, and a lot of coaches
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  Speaker 4: are increasingly believing this is a better way to prepare
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  Speaker 4: than preseason because you can control your environment, you can
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  Speaker 4: control the hitting. It's a safer way to get the
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  Speaker 4: competition that they want. This is the way of the future.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna have a big thing. Number two, which is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be opportunity to see the guys running out here
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  Speaker 1: now to get ready for practice. But they're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: taking this practice very seriously, which means the preset in
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  Speaker 1: the game won't see as many starters. John, So there's
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity for some of these younger guys, some of
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  Speaker 1: these rookies in the game action on Saturday, to kind
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  Speaker 1: of see what they look like as opposed to the
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  Speaker 1: starters that we know we will see come regular Sea.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and Liam, you almost got to run over there. Kai.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay. It's not a bad way to go out
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  Speaker 1: if you.
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  Speaker 3: Have to choose.
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  Speaker 4: He likes this because of that, and it's going to
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  Speaker 4: give young players an opportunity on Saturday, like you said,
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  Speaker 4: to show in the games. And it's very regimented Brian,
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  Speaker 4: meaning there's a plan to get the starters and get
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  Speaker 4: certain guys certain looks out here. And you know they
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  Speaker 4: want these guys to be ready. They want this to
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  Speaker 4: be a competition feeling. It's not just a practice. It's hey,
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  Speaker 4: we want these guys ready for this so they can
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  Speaker 4: get this work. Have a conversation with James Ladstone yesterday and.
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  Speaker 2: He decided for the best way to look at this
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  Speaker 2: is that today the joint practice who gets the Saints
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  Speaker 2: against the Panthers next week and the Buccaneers the week
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  Speaker 2: after is about getting ready for the season, right, That's
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  Speaker 2: what the preseason.
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  Speaker 3: Games always were.
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  Speaker 2: The preseason games now are about develop. It's about develop
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  Speaker 2: the evaluation of the young guys got a doubt, but
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  Speaker 2: about making sure you know who can play, who you
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  Speaker 2: should keep on the roster in the practice squad. So
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  Speaker 2: this has actually replaced in terms of evaluation the preseason games.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you can sort of see coming where if
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  Speaker 4: this isn't the norm for everybody. It's gonna be if
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  Speaker 4: they go to fewer and fewer and even no preseason games,
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  Speaker 4: you gotta do stuff like if they.
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  Speaker 2: End up going to eighteen regular season games and only
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  Speaker 2: two preseason games, everybody will everybody will be doing this
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  Speaker 2: every week.
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  Speaker 1: The Saints are doing something similar. They have three joint
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  Speaker 1: practices this preseason as well. Let's go to our final
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  Speaker 1: big thing today, which is going to be searing the ship.
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  Speaker 1: It's an opportunity for some of these younger players to
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  Speaker 1: show out in the preseason games, but also younger coordinator's
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  Speaker 1: great against He's gonna be calling plays for the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: in this preseason game, and we already know he had
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  Speaker 1: some head coaching opportunities. This is probably the next step.
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  Speaker 2: Ran and Liam Cohen said that he was grateful when
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  Speaker 2: Sean McVay gave him the opportunity in twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 2: to call plays in the preseason. It's also good for
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  Speaker 2: mcveckday for Liam, good for him to yeah, it gives
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  Speaker 2: him an opportunity to be that CEO head coach for
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  Speaker 2: a couple of games and to pay attention to what's
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  Speaker 2: going on defense, special teams, clock management, all of the
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  Speaker 2: other elements of a game that a non play calling
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  Speaker 2: head coach is dealing with.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I jokingly asked Grant this week if this was like
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  Speaker 4: his Super Bowl and he kind of laughed because obviously
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  Speaker 4: it's not. But it is, you know, And he's not
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  Speaker 4: going to get a job or not get a job
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  Speaker 4: based on his play calling on Saturday. But it is
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  Speaker 4: an opportunity to get that experience, to get it. And
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  Speaker 4: I thought Liam was interesting when he talked about it
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  Speaker 4: that until you do it, you can simulate it. I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure there's some virtual room where you can go call plays,
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  Speaker 4: but until you've done it in real time, you don't
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  Speaker 4: know what it is. So it's it's a good opportunity
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  Speaker 4: for Grant.
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  Speaker 2: Now, yeah, it's skill, right, It's it's something a talent
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  Speaker 2: that you have to develop. And I think realistically, this
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  Speaker 2: is going to be a really good opportunity him because
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  Speaker 2: look at all the guys he's not playing with. Another
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  Speaker 2: Look at all the guys he is playing with all
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  Speaker 2: that second line stuff. So his play calls are gonna
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  Speaker 2: have to be very deliberate to get guys in situations
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  Speaker 2: to get the most out of the looks they want
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  Speaker 2: for them.
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  Speaker 1: All right, stay with us here. We are live from
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  Speaker 1: joint practice with the Saints and the Jaguars coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Answer some of your fan questions after the break.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I just think that it's a it's a
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  Speaker 5: controlled environment that you can you're still getting physical work,
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  Speaker 5: but you're you're suttings. You know, you're not tackling to
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  Speaker 5: the ground, not as many like blind shots and hits
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  Speaker 5: that guys maybe aren't gonna see. And then just in
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  Speaker 5: a game, uh setting, obviously that that occurs right much more.
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  Speaker 5: And where we're at right now, especially from a health standpoint,
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  Speaker 5: we can't really afford to go into a game and
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  Speaker 5: just like let him roll and see what that would
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  Speaker 5: look like from an injury standpoint. And so I just
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  Speaker 5: think it's a more controlled setting you practice against, you know,
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  Speaker 5: pros that know how to practice, and you're with doing
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  Speaker 5: it with coaches that stress the same things of taking
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  Speaker 5: care of one another. And let's be pros about this.
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  Speaker 1: Second year head coaches Liam Cohen Kellen Moore working together
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  Speaker 1: as they get their joint practice together today, I think
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  Speaker 1: we'll see some scrimmaging and hopefully I think they're both
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  Speaker 1: trying to get something out of this so that when
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  Speaker 1: they go into the game they can let some of
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  Speaker 1: the younger guys get after it. We've talked about that
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  Speaker 1: off the top, but they seem to be on the
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  Speaker 1: same page. I know when we went to Miami it
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  Speaker 1: was a little bit different last year.
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  Speaker 3: Very well coordinated.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're going to make sure that they get
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  Speaker 2: the matchups they want. When you're talking about Trayvon Walker
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  Speaker 2: against their best offensive lineman or vice versa their past
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  Speaker 2: pass rusher lining up against Anton Harrison to get a
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  Speaker 2: good look at it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you want to get what you want out of it,
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  Speaker 4: and you also want to make sure as much as
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  Speaker 4: possible both teams are on the same page in terms of, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we're protecting each other out there. This is not the
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  Speaker 4: time to, you know, get your hand on fire for
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  Speaker 4: injury purposes.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get too crazy with it. Let's answer some of
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  Speaker 1: these fan questions brought to you by Sudis today. So
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  Speaker 1: Alex from Manchester, UK, trying to understand the preseason schedule
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. He says, during the preseason it looks
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  Speaker 1: from the outside as though teams only spend about two
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  Speaker 1: hours a day on the practice field. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: that's right? If so, how much additional time do they
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  Speaker 1: spend up meetings, film study, learning the playbook all the other.
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  Speaker 4: Well, well, it varies. It's a little less and less
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  Speaker 4: each year a little bit because it becomes more about
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  Speaker 4: the mental, more about these It's about two two and
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  Speaker 4: a half hours on the max days on the field then,
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  Speaker 4: and there's a forty five minute walkthrough that people really
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't recognize as football practice. It's very much a walkthrough.
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  Speaker 6: So it's it's much.
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  Speaker 4: More efficient work on the field, Brian than when we
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  Speaker 4: were in Stevens point thirty years ago. I mean it
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  Speaker 4: is not. You're not straining these guys physically and having
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  Speaker 4: them just go all out every day. The rules don't
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  Speaker 4: allow it, and common sense with the salary cap and
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  Speaker 4: need and keep players healthy all year, this doesn't allow it.
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  Speaker 2: I go back to what Gerald Ingram said the first
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  Speaker 2: day of training camp. Stress now is strategic, right, just
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  Speaker 2: like the matchups that they have coordinated with the Saints
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  Speaker 2: today to make sure they get the most of it.
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  Speaker 2: It used to be the training camp well with us,
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  Speaker 2: it was a month long, used to be six weeks long,
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  Speaker 2: and it was all about getting ready for the season.
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  Speaker 2: Now these guys have been getting ready all through the spring.
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  Speaker 2: It's about getting the best work possible. They wear those
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  Speaker 2: exos vests and they can tell when a guy is
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  Speaker 2: at his peak and when a guy is prone to
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  Speaker 2: get hurt because he's not at his peak, and so
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  Speaker 2: they have strategically placed opportunities in front of these guys
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  Speaker 2: every day on the practice field. The question also talked
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  Speaker 2: about meetings. They got meetings stacked throughout the course of
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  Speaker 2: the day. A typical training camp day for these guys
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  Speaker 2: starts before seven o'clock in the morning and now ends
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  Speaker 2: after seven o'clock in the evening. There's some rest time
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  Speaker 2: and some meal time and stuff like that, but it
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  Speaker 2: is stacked throughout the day to maximize their time together.
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  Speaker 2: Because four weeks has gone like that. Now all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden, you don't have that kind of time during
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  Speaker 2: the season.
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  Speaker 1: Second questions Tucker from Nashville. We talked a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about Zach Durfey, of course, the rookie this year, pass
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  Speaker 1: rusher John. How many defensive ends do you see the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars keeping on the active roster.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think they keep all the guys that people
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  Speaker 4: are talking about. I mean Trayvon and Josh Heinz Allen
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  Speaker 4: obviously guard x more of a linebacker, so he probably
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  Speaker 4: didn't count in that number. Wesley Williams, Zach Durfey, Danny Strigo,
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  Speaker 4: and bj Green. I'd be surprised if all the more
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  Speaker 4: on the roster. I don't know that all will be
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  Speaker 4: ready to contribute in a significant way, but they don't
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  Speaker 4: want to lose any of those guys. Wesley, Williams and
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  Speaker 4: Durfy are young, they're rookies. They may not be ready
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  Speaker 4: to make impact in September, just like some offensive linemen
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  Speaker 4: sometimes aren't. But they know these guys are gonna matter,
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  Speaker 4: so you're gonna have to keep them. So I think
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  Speaker 4: six that's probably a little high Brian than normal history.
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  Speaker 6: They like all the guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you got to keep well, they've done that before,
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  Speaker 2: right again, we used the Tyler Shatley example in twenty fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't want to keep ten linemen that year, but
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  Speaker 2: because of the market forces they knew Chattlee was gonna
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  Speaker 2: get picked up, they couldn't put him on the practice squad.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be interesting to see where they feel about that.
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  Speaker 2: Also, you've got the flexibility to keep three defensive tackles
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  Speaker 2: or four defensive tackles, because you know tray Von Walker
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  Speaker 2: is probably gonna slide inside on third down. It's not
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  Speaker 2: terribly different than Travis Hunter. One guy, two positions gives
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  Speaker 2: you some flexibility. Really, the roster math is so interesting
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  Speaker 2: because you know they want to play three tight ends.
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  Speaker 2: Does that mean they're gonna have to have four on
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  Speaker 2: the active roster or five?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it's very interesting. I really am
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  Speaker 2: high on Wesley. You've talked about Bingja Green in the
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  Speaker 2: camp he's had, and yet every time I try to
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  Speaker 2: dismiss Durfrey and what he's gonna be a guy that
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  Speaker 2: needs a little bit more time to develop. He's gonna
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  Speaker 2: have to go to the practice squad, people.
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  Speaker 3: Go, don't be so Quinn.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's someone of interest today. I think to see
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  Speaker 1: what he can get after and enjoying practice against a
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  Speaker 1: different team, what he ends up looking like. Our final
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  Speaker 1: fan question is from Josh from Atlanta. How are you feeling
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  Speaker 1: about the offensive line? Injury bug? Camp is camp, just
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  Speaker 1: like the regular season, guys get banged up. Any major
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  Speaker 1: concerns this evolves by the day. John's there's one to
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  Speaker 1: let you kind of touch base on it. Plus, you
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  Speaker 1: can't forget about col Van Lennon.
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  Speaker 4: It's a short term concern in terms of figuring out
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  Speaker 4: how you're going to practice and line up during practices
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  Speaker 4: in camp. My understanding that it's not a long term issue.
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  Speaker 4: They think they'll be fine for the regular season opener. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Remember the regular seasons a month away, so they're still
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  Speaker 4: time to get these guys healthy. Now, if it keeps
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  Speaker 4: being a short term issue every week, then all of
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  Speaker 4: a sudden that becomes long term. That's that's calendar algebra.
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  Speaker 3: I was no good at algebra.
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  Speaker 2: This is the only guy that I'm that I wonder
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  Speaker 2: about is because we haven't heard much about him.
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  Speaker 3: Is Walker lived and and the reason that you have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of concern.
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  Speaker 2: You have concern is because he was taking reps at
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  Speaker 2: left tackle, right tackle, and at guard.
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  Speaker 3: For you, he's he's a pivotal piece.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody asked me, would the Jaguars be interested if the
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  Speaker 2: Washington commanders called, because you know they lost Larumy Tunsil
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  Speaker 2: and offers you a good pick, have to be really
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  Speaker 2: good because he's so versatile and he's when he got
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  Speaker 2: the extension Kai with Wow, fifteen million dollars a year.
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  Speaker 3: Walker little but now it looks like a bargain.
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  Speaker 2: Is a guy who can play a lot of different
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  Speaker 2: positions for you along that line. So he's the one guy.
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  Speaker 2: But as John just said, you got a month to
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  Speaker 2: see where he's at.
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  Speaker 4: They're also fine with Tuma as a passlocker on the
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  Speaker 4: right side Tuma Adoga, so they wouldn't be panicking if
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  Speaker 4: that happens.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot of options, a lot of people moving
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  Speaker 1: in and around, and we'll keep an eye on that
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  Speaker 1: throughout camp. But I think by the time the regular
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  Speaker 1: season start may look very different but familiar faces. We'll
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  Speaker 1: be back and ready to go. Say this here on
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  Speaker 1: Jack XAM. We'll talk a little bit more about Saints
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  Speaker 1: and what we can expect from joint practice.
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  Speaker 4: The best thing is just get the opportunity to go
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  Speaker 4: out there and compete against other people.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've been going out of here against each
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  Speaker 1: other for quite a while.
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  Speaker 4: Old tas in camp.
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  Speaker 1: Now it'll be good.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be exciting, you know, something new or something fresh,
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  Speaker 2: So we're excited.
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  Speaker 6: To get down there.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're ready for this heat. We have a
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  Speaker 1: different kind of heat, but we're excited for a joint
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  Speaker 1: practice and go up against some different people.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Absolutely. Look, I was born and raising this heat,
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  Speaker 6: molded by it, some might say. And it helps when
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  Speaker 6: you can fit a donut around the wrist too, you
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  Speaker 6: know what I mean. Like, I'm built for the I'm
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  Speaker 6: built for this heat.
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  Speaker 2: Hey e t I E N N E.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. How does that become a chan? Can you explain that?
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  Speaker 1: Because a lot of people in jackson were like, they're
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  Speaker 1: running back formerly known as ETNA.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't know that it wasn't Travis E T N
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  Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, he signs here, it's
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  Speaker 2: Travis a chan.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: We do this a lot in New Orleans. There's a
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  Speaker 6: street downtown in the French Quarter that's spelled Burgundy. We
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  Speaker 6: pronounced it Burgundy. There's another one that spelled Calliope. We
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  Speaker 6: pronounced it KLi o This is just kind of how
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  Speaker 6: we roll down here as if you got that par right. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: We're not going to stray too far away from the
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  Speaker 6: tradition on that one. But yeah, yeah, no, it was
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  Speaker 6: I think a surprise for everybody, but you know, worth
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  Speaker 6: the clarification of course, now that he's back in his
• 14:08
  Speaker 6: home state, gets an opportunity to hear the name again well.
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  Speaker 1: As Trevor likes to say, he just called him Trav
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  Speaker 1: How is he looking so far? What's that split going
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  Speaker 1: to look like for your running back?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think we're at it. Yeah, I think we're
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  Speaker 6: gonna see a lot of Travis hn in this offense.
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  Speaker 6: He's going to be the focus in the run game.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe this split is kind of sixty percent him and
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  Speaker 6: then a big kind of wealth of Alvin Kamara, who's
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  Speaker 6: still very much a part of this system, still very
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  Speaker 6: much a part of this attack. And so far throughout
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  Speaker 6: camp he's looked great. I mean, all the things that
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure you guys have seen from him for years now,
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  Speaker 6: the ability, the vision, his ability to kind of cut,
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  Speaker 6: his breakaway, ability to speed, all of that's still very
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  Speaker 6: much intact here in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 3: Give us the quarterback situation.
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  Speaker 2: Tyler Schuck comes in last year and unheralded guy, and
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: yet he plays pretty well. You win the last four
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: games of the season.
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  Speaker 3: Is the job his?
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  Speaker 2: Does he have a chance to earn it this year
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  Speaker 2: or are they perpetually looking for that next guy?
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I think at this point the job is his. The
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  Speaker 6: answer that he kind of gets to work towards now
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: is to the question is he the franchise guy moving forward?
• 15:07
  Speaker 6: That's what twenty twenty six becomes about. He was excellent
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: last year, one of the NFL's best completion percentages on
• 15:13
  Speaker 6: third down, one of the NFL's best passer ratings on
• 15:15
  Speaker 6: third down one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: over the course of those nine starts. When it came
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: to the end of game situations too, two minute drails
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  Speaker 6: a couple of game winning drives all throughout and was
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  Speaker 6: a runner up effectively for Offensive Rookie of the Year.
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  Speaker 6: He's proved his opportunity to be the starter going into
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: twenty twenty six. Now, the question is what happens beyond.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: The injury bugs for these teams kind of lining up
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: We were talking earlier. The O line for US Real
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: banged up your D line, dealing with the interior D
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: line dealing with some of the same problems. What are
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: you hoping to see out here today in terms of
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: that battle?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, this was a really interesting run defense to watch
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: last year, and it all starts in the trenches, as
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: all things do for both sides of the football. But
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: defensively for New Orleans, they were a team that if
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: you look at the total rushing yards they gave up
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: last year, they were kind of nineteenth, just beyond the
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: lower half of the NFL. But then you look at
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: the fact that they faced the third most rushing attempts
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: last year, that's really what contributed to that. But for
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: a defense on a per rush basis, they were one
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: of the better teams in the NFL on that side.
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  Speaker 6: So what you're looking for out of this defensive line
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  Speaker 6: right now is can they hold the line instead of
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: getting moved off? That's the first part. The second part
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: is how does the second level attack some of this?
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: You know, these run gaps and run fits.
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  Speaker 2: I've talked to folks in Tampa, Carolina and Atlanta, and
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: all of them think this division is wide open. All
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: of them have their own little things they're working through.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Where do the Saints come into that? Do you see
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: this as a wide open division? Are the Saints in
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: a position with their roster and their coaching staff far
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: enough along to be able to make some noise in
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: the NFC South East.
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the team certainly believe so, and I think when
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: you look at the moves that they made over the
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: course of the offseason, I think all of that lens
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: towards what their goals are going into twenty twenty six,
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: which is to attack the top of the NFC South.
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: General manager Mickey Loomis said in one of his recent
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: press conferences that they hope not just to win the
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: NFC South, but they get back to dominating the NFC South.
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: That's their goal as they go forward. You saw them
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: load up the offense build around Tyler Shuck over the
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: course of the offseason, and then a defense under defensive
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: coordinator Brandon Staley that's continued to ascend in this second
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: year here with head coach Kellen Moore. The idea is
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: to push for the top of that division.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Ross, I know the offense hasn't looked great in New
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Orleans some of training camp so far. What are you
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: hoping to see now they're going up against, you know,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: not your own team. I think sometimes your team knows
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: you best. So what are you hoping to see out
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: of Tyler Shuck and the offense today?
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the opportunity to go up against an
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: unfamiliar opponent. These guys have been talked about it's game day,
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: it's game day, it's game day all day. So they're
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: really pomped. This is the first time the Saints have
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: hosted a joint practice and I think almost ten years
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: remember correctly, the last time was like twenty seventeen with
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: the Houston Texans, and so you guys know very well
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: and so when it comes to this day, this is
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: about kind of the charge of feeling competition and for
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: the first time being able to go against somebody that's
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: a little bit unfamiliar. Otherwise, in training camp, you're not
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: game planning to beat your own defense. You're game planning
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: to install your plays. This is where the game preps
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: access starts.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: So this isn't the first time that the Saints have
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: practiced with the jid Wars. Jim Haslett was the coach
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: and they came to Jacksonville in nineteen ninety seven.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: This summer. So I remember that that was the early days.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Of Jacks right a two today situation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah right, they went twice.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: That's not it, all right, say it's here on Jackson.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I'm coming up after the break. We'll come back talk
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: a little bit about what maybe we'll see in the
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: preseason game. Welcome back into joint practice. Jags and Saints
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: are already getting after it behind us, so we're gonna
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: keep this pretty quick here. But because we're gonna see
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of the veterans getting after it today, some
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: of the young guys will get a chance on Saturday. Ross.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: What are a couple of names of some young players
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: we might see on Saturday?
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think over in the offensive side, the Saints
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: invested big time in the wide receiver room in the
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: draft this year. They drafted three wide receivers for the
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: first time since nineteen ninety eight there were or nineteen
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: eighty nine. Actually there were twelve rounds in the draft
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: that time, almost seven now, and so Bryce Lance out
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: of North Dakota State University the Saints took in the
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: fourth round. He's been somebody that's really been coming on
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: here late and has been a lot of fun to
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: watch six foot three, four to three speed, So he
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: has both size, speed, all of that. So he should
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: be somebody to definitely keep an eye out on the
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: offensive side. On the defensive side, I'd watch out for
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: number thirty eight nickel corner Jaden Price. This is a
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: guy that also went to Northdakota State University, actually football
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: factory out there.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Scout was doing a lot of work.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they do some good work out there, and look,
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: these guys come in with a really really high standard.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: Jayden spent a year in the UFL last year and
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: is a great story of a guy that spent a
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: year on the practice squad developed and now is fighting
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: for a fifty three man roster spot. It might already
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: be in line for it, so he would be another
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: player that I'd be watching in the slot on defense.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: All right, Brian, any young guys you're looking for for.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Us, nobody that we really haven't talked about that much.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, you want to see some of the undrafted
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: guys like Jamar Taylor, right the running back because that's
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: been a storyline for us.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: You want to see the tight ends borer.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Obviously, the word on these guys from Brenton Strange yesterday.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Is that both he and Tanner Cooziol are really talented
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: guys who can make things happen. And then of course
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: France and Combs fighting with benro Miller out there on
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: the week side, that's going to be. Those two guys
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: are the only potential starters that are expected to play.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: So let's see him all right.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Join practice underway. We'll have more for you on Happy
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Hour tonight. Ross Jackson's locked on. Thanks, thank you for
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: joining us, and we will be back with you and
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: we'll have full coverage for you later today.