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Best Fridays in Football: September 17 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Best Fridays in Football, presented by by
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  Speaker 1: Star Credit Union with New York Times best selling author
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  Speaker 1: Buddy Martin and Jacksonville Jaguar's head coach Urban Meyer. The
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  Speaker 1: Best Fridays in Football starts right now, sat now for
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  Speaker 1: a weekly podcast here on the Best Fridays in Football
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  Speaker 1: and Coach of Amira, of course, has been on with
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  Speaker 1: us since the beginning. I were looking forward to it
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  Speaker 1: this season as time allows us. Uh and coach hello,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, and secondly, just to set the ground rules.
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  Speaker 1: This podcast was never meant to be a post game
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  Speaker 1: discourse or an interview for breast goal or whatever it's
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  Speaker 1: or even a personnel evaluation, which I could do anyway.
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  Speaker 1: But we're talking ball, We're talking celebrating the game to
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  Speaker 1: people and what have you. And UH, so we'll have
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  Speaker 1: a few questions, and we have a few people who
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  Speaker 1: have written some questions. If that's all right with you,
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  Speaker 1: we'll proceed. Sure, great to be with you, to great
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  Speaker 1: to be with your coach. I'll ask a few questions
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  Speaker 1: along the way, like how do you keep a young
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  Speaker 1: player's confidence up when he's not having success? And is
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  Speaker 1: there a certain way you do that? Or do you
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  Speaker 1: do it I feel or I know you've been very
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  Speaker 1: successful with quarterbacks and Bible series, what have you. What's
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  Speaker 1: your technique on that? Yeah, the quarterback is such a
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  Speaker 1: unique position that I've always tried to play. But after
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  Speaker 1: they were ready, then before they're ready. But we believe
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  Speaker 1: Trevor is ready. Trevor made a couple throws he would
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  Speaker 1: like to add back, but other than that, he played decent. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, And I've always looked at the one common
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  Speaker 1: characteristic of a quarterback plays a great game. Everybody around
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  Speaker 1: it plays a great game, and when a quarterback struggles,
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  Speaker 1: it's usually not the quarterback. It's a group effort. So
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  Speaker 1: we certainly had a group effort. We had got behind
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  Speaker 1: the sticks a little bit with some penalties, and then
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  Speaker 1: I go back to scores fourteen and seven. We're driving
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  Speaker 1: a ball down the field and we get a fifteen
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  Speaker 1: or a thirteen yard run and the flag comes out
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  Speaker 1: of the back end of the defense. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: back judge called the holding on our center, and it
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  Speaker 1: just kind of threw us for a loop and then
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  Speaker 1: got us behind the chains. And because we want to
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  Speaker 1: establish the run a little bit with the young quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: and we're unable to do it. So to ask your question, um,
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  Speaker 1: experience and success is the only way to get confidence.
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  Speaker 1: And you've got a little subject there. I know you
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  Speaker 1: said you would like to run the ball more, and
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of figuring the whole thing out. But I
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  Speaker 1: think one of the qualities or quarterback you and I
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  Speaker 1: talk about your's just fearlessness. All these young quarterbacks that
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  Speaker 1: got in the NFL are credible, I mean, and Trevor
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  Speaker 1: is right there among them, uh, if not the best, uh.
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  Speaker 1: And the ability to go back, stand in there and
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  Speaker 1: get that job done, delivered the ball in time, get
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  Speaker 1: it to the receivers that were underneather. It's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of processing going on in the young man's head. How
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  Speaker 1: is your quarterback house, Trevor doing on that couch so far? Well, Trevor,
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  Speaker 1: are like a lot of college quarterbacks that came out
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  Speaker 1: of the spread system a lot of time, never really
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  Speaker 1: even called a huddle. A lot of times the players
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  Speaker 1: are signaled from the sideline, and he managed his game
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  Speaker 1: and distributes the ball, you know, in the NFL offense,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna do spread and NFL style, But he
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  Speaker 1: calls a plane huddle he's got to know what other
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  Speaker 1: ten guys are doing, and he's gotta you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: playing Alabama every week. You know, you don't have a
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  Speaker 1: talent advantage like we had an Ohio State or like
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  Speaker 1: he had a Clemson. So it's a challenge. I mean
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  Speaker 1: every week, you know your chin strap, man, it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be like this every week. Yeah. So, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: here's my first question to you. How do you like
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  Speaker 1: the NFL so far? Oh, they're getting your ass kicked
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  Speaker 1: in the first game. It's I love it. I love
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  Speaker 1: our team. I really believe. I believe in these guys.
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  Speaker 1: I believe in the way they worked. Um, I know
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna you know, you know I made a comment.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't a four or five year, six year plan.
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  Speaker 1: It's a one year plan. We went to these players
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  Speaker 1: and what's that means. That means we're gonna try to
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  Speaker 1: play and the best we possibly can. And we're on
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  Speaker 1: one now with our job is not to become on two.
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  Speaker 1: So it's O j T on the job, training and
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  Speaker 1: learning as should go and clean up the mistakes. I've
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  Speaker 1: known you alone time. I know you don't have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of tolerance for making the same mistake over and
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  Speaker 1: over again. And I though you also like to fix things.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say you fidget, but you get in there
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  Speaker 1: and get your hands in. You have to get things fixed,
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  Speaker 1: and you've been very successful. Is that different now, No,
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  Speaker 1: it's still in my mind, it's exactly the same. The
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  Speaker 1: difference is you have a little bit of a wide
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  Speaker 1: range of ages. You've got a twenty one year old
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  Speaker 1: quarterback or twenty two year quarterback, and you have a
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  Speaker 1: thirty year old often you know some linement and are
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  Speaker 1: a little older, and a thirty one year old wide receiver.
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  Speaker 1: So you just you know. The amount of repetitions, buddy,
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  Speaker 1: is a lot different in the NFL than it is
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  Speaker 1: in college. You don't get to practice when we have
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  Speaker 1: Pascale or seven on seven. You don't get your thirty
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  Speaker 1: five reps. You get twelve. You know it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: you gotta be very judicious about what you're practicing. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have ninety guys or a hundred guys on the
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  Speaker 1: sidelines that you're scout teaming. Your actual defense is your
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  Speaker 1: scout team during the week in practice. So that's the
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  Speaker 1: biggest difference. How do you get a young quarterback with
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  Speaker 1: such a few reps, how the abouts, the frustration of
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  Speaker 1: not getting it as fast as you'd like to get it,
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  Speaker 1: and also seeing a young quarterback grow and develop, which
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  Speaker 1: I know was going to be rewarded the long run.
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  Speaker 1: You have to temper both of them, don't you. Yeah. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean we've all been around long enough to understand that.
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  Speaker 1: That the whole game of football and really athletics in general.
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  Speaker 1: It's a process of how you learn how to win
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  Speaker 1: win and doesn't take place. You know, we we've had
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  Speaker 1: great success, a lot of quick turnarounds, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: it takes a minute. Now, it takes a minute for
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  Speaker 1: everybody on the same page. It takes a minute for um,
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  Speaker 1: everybody learned the quarterback and learn. You know, we brought
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  Speaker 1: a new offense, new defense, We signed several new players,
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  Speaker 1: so we're still figuring this thing out. I'll come about
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  Speaker 1: these new quarterbacks. I mean you talk about I know
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  Speaker 1: you don't coach on the whole years co jurors, but
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  Speaker 1: Trevor's and a class THEO with guys like Mac Jones
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal success early. But of course New England didn't win
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  Speaker 1: that game. Uh got Zack Wilson you've got trigged lass.
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  Speaker 1: These guys are coming right in and playing. That's different
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  Speaker 1: urban in the NFL. You grew up with an idea.
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  Speaker 1: You came and you sat. You don't have to sit anywhere,
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  Speaker 1: do you. Yeah. I don't know how many have actually
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  Speaker 1: done it, though, buddy, I think this year was a
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  Speaker 1: very rare year. You know, I think they have four guys. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you have Mac, you have Zack Wilson, uh, and you
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  Speaker 1: have Trevor starters, and then you have Trey Lance and
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  Speaker 1: Justin Fields. I believe they're back ups, but they're playing
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  Speaker 1: so um. You know. I I don't know the history
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  Speaker 1: that well, but I think that three starters, day one starters,
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  Speaker 1: that's a little unusual, very unusual. Uh, anybody coming up,
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  Speaker 1: any teams rising up early that you're looking at that,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're surprised about it. It's too early to make
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  Speaker 1: any declarations now, understand that. But Uh, some teams look
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  Speaker 1: like they're better than we expected after one game of summer.
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  Speaker 1: Not in your divisioned, Uh, you've got a few that
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  Speaker 1: are interesting. Can you talk about what you see there? Yeah, buddy,
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  Speaker 1: I'm such a focus you know, I never broncos that's it.
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  Speaker 1: And all our focuses on them. And I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: the other thing is just the roster management. You have
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  Speaker 1: to give full attention to that. You have fifty three players.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you bring guys in. We you know, brought
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of receivers that we're trying to get
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  Speaker 1: them ready, and then you on game day you have
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  Speaker 1: to announce five guys that aren't playing. So you get
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  Speaker 1: down and that's I mean that you talk about full
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  Speaker 1: attention to because now all your special teams are involved
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  Speaker 1: your offense. What kind of style do you need an
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  Speaker 1: extra D lineman? So my focus, you know, it's always
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  Speaker 1: I loved you know, offense and special teams, but a
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  Speaker 1: lot of it is in the roster management. You have
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  Speaker 1: a background in Colorado, you were a coach. You can
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  Speaker 1: come out of statement. The broncoster out there. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how much you interactive with them, you know how
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  Speaker 1: what their programs like. And I can see Jacksonville biggest
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  Speaker 1: city like Denver one day where that the team is
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  Speaker 1: so popular, what you can do with U Do you
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  Speaker 1: agree with that? That's why I came here. I love
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville and I think football is very very important here.
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  Speaker 1: I know that as a fact, a lot of Gator
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  Speaker 1: fans here, seminal fans and high school football is tremendous,
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  Speaker 1: and it's an opportunity to go grow something that's a
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  Speaker 1: build you know, that's that's that's what this place is.
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  Speaker 1: And every time I walk out in that beautiful stadium,
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  Speaker 1: you have this vision of packing that thing, and like
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  Speaker 1: you said, it becomes a destination place and and and
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  Speaker 1: the future looks really interesting with the facility. When I
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  Speaker 1: have you, I know, I know you're as you say,
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  Speaker 1: you're really focused on the next game, as you always are.
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  Speaker 1: But the place itself and the new facility that Shad
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  Speaker 1: Coin's gonna build in the city, once you get over
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  Speaker 1: that hump, that would be a chance to get everybody
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  Speaker 1: involved in that community, and it would be a dynamic
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  Speaker 1: thing if it happened. That's gonna happen, buddy. Uh So,
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  Speaker 1: you've got our commitment. We're gonna make this happen. We've
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  Speaker 1: got the young quarterback, We're gonna get them ready. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna continue to build a team around him and and
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  Speaker 1: do the best we can. All right, So let me
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  Speaker 1: just get to a couple of things and then I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna get questions from our listeners. By the way, if
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  Speaker 1: you ever like to try to get your question on
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  Speaker 1: the show, you can write ask Urban and send it
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  Speaker 1: to Buddy Martin Show at gamail dot com us Buddy
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  Speaker 1: Martin Show ama dot com and we'll see a coach. Ma,
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  Speaker 1: let'sn't make the cut, and we'll address your situations and
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  Speaker 1: talk about the thing. I'm gonna take you off script
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  Speaker 1: for a second because I remember the day that I
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  Speaker 1: was at Lake Melrose, who you were working in a book,
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  Speaker 1: and I remember our second day in and I remember
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  Speaker 1: that we were sitting there, uh in a dark five
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  Speaker 1: forty five six o'clock in the morning, and you looked
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  Speaker 1: up and saw the sunrise and you stopped, and I
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  Speaker 1: was so because we've been grinding, and I'm thinking Urban
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  Speaker 1: is focused on something else here. And for about five
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  Speaker 1: minutes you talked about going out in the boat with
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  Speaker 1: your son and you you having your coffee and the
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  Speaker 1: asses is cereal, and you sit there and watch the
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  Speaker 1: sun come up on and that's when I began to
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  Speaker 1: get a feeling of your soul, you know, and which
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  Speaker 1: I loved. And so I'm gonna ask you the question,
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  Speaker 1: have you seen any good sunsets. Have you talked to
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  Speaker 1: any old friends, have heard a good song? Well, have
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  Speaker 1: you done nine football recently? That comes to mind. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the grandfather world has taken over our lives. So we
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  Speaker 1: flow and flew them down for our first hone game
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  Speaker 1: in preseason, and Shelley's up there. She flies back today, actually,
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  Speaker 1: but she's up there. And I mean, buddy, I've always
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  Speaker 1: heard the story that it's great. It's better than great. That's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, other than my professional life. I think you
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  Speaker 1: know me. I don't do a whole lot. I do
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  Speaker 1: three wonderful kids that are all killing it doing great.
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  Speaker 1: A daughter that owns her own company, a daughter that
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  Speaker 1: there is the president of a company, and my son's
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  Speaker 1: a four point old students. So we hit the hit
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  Speaker 1: a home run with their kids, and then two beautiful
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  Speaker 1: grandsons be very blast. All right, let's get with the questions.
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  Speaker 1: It's real quick. Take you back to your previous life,
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  Speaker 1: and let's talk about all of a sudden things are
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  Speaker 1: different out of the USC so quickly in the season
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  Speaker 1: the job's opened. There was a time when your name
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  Speaker 1: came up for every job that was there. But that
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  Speaker 1: was a bit, and that was quick and this college
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  Speaker 1: football world is pretty violentil as you remember, and then
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  Speaker 1: that one was coming for a while, but now there's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be others. People don't have much Feller, it's anymore.
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  Speaker 1: No people have asked me the question the difference between
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  Speaker 1: NFL and college and schematically, it's never been closer. And
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  Speaker 1: I really think just the way the profession, coaching professions treated,
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  Speaker 1: the way the players are treated, certainly at the high
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  Speaker 1: level programs, I mean players are now. I mean there's
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  Speaker 1: a players at a high staking over a million dollars
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  Speaker 1: to play college football and the one guy hasn't played
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  Speaker 1: a snap yet. Um, you have a choice to leave.
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  Speaker 1: That's one thing different than a professional pro football. You
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  Speaker 1: can't have a choice to leave. But the transfer portal.
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  Speaker 1: It's a much different game than uh, than it was
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  Speaker 1: just five years ago. And we're going to see how
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  Speaker 1: this thing continues in the in the world of college
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  Speaker 1: sports for sure. All right, real quickly, ask Urban here
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  Speaker 1: are the questions, Jake again, write me at Buddy Mark
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  Speaker 1: show Amon dot com for your question. What's the most
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  Speaker 1: exciting part of your job, asked Sam from Crescent Beach.
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  Speaker 1: The most exciting job is here to see organization built
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  Speaker 1: you know, And that's I've talked to you about this
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  Speaker 1: before that I've been lucky. I've walked into four opportunities
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  Speaker 1: where it really Bowling Green was a complete rebuild, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Utah was one that needed to be cleaned up, and
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  Speaker 1: Florida and then Ohio State we lost seven games and
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  Speaker 1: you walk in there and and get it going. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as I reflect on my life in my career,
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that. I especially a great place like this.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great place. You've got great ownership and building
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  Speaker 1: blocks are in place, Uh, and building is what it's
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  Speaker 1: all about, all right, You this one had to come. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever look at film to evaluate college football
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  Speaker 1: players this early? And have you seen Anthony Richardson? I
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  Speaker 1: saw him live. I went to the game and sat
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  Speaker 1: with Scott Strickland and the old boat coach, the headboat coach,
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  Speaker 1: Steve Spurrier, and hung out with him. Um and Scott
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  Speaker 1: told me all about him, and Dan said something to
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  Speaker 1: me a while back about him, and then I got
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  Speaker 1: to see him live and you know, just he's a big,
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  Speaker 1: freakish looking athlete. I was actually working out today. On on
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  Speaker 1: on t V, they out someone's highlights. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: a highlight show waiting to happen, is he ever? I'm
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  Speaker 1: the most extending young quarterback i've seen it. Florida's a freshman,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll see how that turns out. And the fans
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  Speaker 1: are already clamoring for him. You know about that, right? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: here's from uh here's a guy from the series from Birmingham.
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  Speaker 1: Please ask Coach Fire about his remembers of playing Nick
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  Speaker 1: Saban in Alabama. I don't know which time you played him.
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  Speaker 1: A bunch of is anything you red called? Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: a well coached team. And one thing I remember the
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  Speaker 1: first time we played them in OH eight I believe
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  Speaker 1: oh eight SEC Championship. I talked to some people that
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  Speaker 1: coached against him, and it was especially in the throw
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  Speaker 1: game because that's his baby. You know, you have to
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  Speaker 1: do like if you run a curl, make it a
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  Speaker 1: curl and go. Run a slant, make it a slant
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  Speaker 1: and go, because it's gonna be so well coached on
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  Speaker 1: the on your base offense. So if you remember that game,
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  Speaker 1: we did a couple of double cuts. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: did some things that were unusual and we we won
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  Speaker 1: that one. We lost the second one, and then the
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  Speaker 1: most recent one we got him at in the Sugar
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  Speaker 1: Bowl when I was at Ohio State. So every game
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  Speaker 1: we've ever had, I think they'd be as good one time,
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  Speaker 1: but we've had some street fights for those guys. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about that two thousand and eight SEC championship game,
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  Speaker 1: one of the greatest games I've ever seen, and you
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  Speaker 1: did that without Percy Harvin. I might add, okay, here's
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  Speaker 1: the final one. Uh. Magellan from Vellano Beach says, once
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  Speaker 1: you won a Super Bowl, he's got you one of
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  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl A right. How about you and Steve
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  Speaker 1: Spury are opening a restaurants and sports bar and say
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  Speaker 1: Augusty and call Sperbs. I guess spur and Sperbs. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta get approved by Steve. We do that. We'll
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  Speaker 1: do it. We'll do it if we win one here,
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  Speaker 1: will do that. I'm not sure the name of every
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  Speaker 1: good A though to you, it's gonna be fun to
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  Speaker 1: watch you, and I know you, uh, you just want
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  Speaker 1: to get it done and and if I know you, well,
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  Speaker 1: you'll get it done. Appreciate it very much. Irban Meyer,
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  Speaker 1: the best fighter's gonna pootball at this podcast. Thank you Coach,
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  Speaker 1: thank you Buddy,