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- 0:01Speaker 1: It is Thursday, April twenty fourth. This is Jackuars Happy Hour.
- 0:10Speaker 1: Jaguar's Happy Hour is brought to you by dream Finders
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- 0:19Speaker 1: the Mister Irrelevant Award, J P.
- 0:24Speaker 2: Shack Holcommited.
- 0:25Speaker 3: Is Jaguars Happy Hour presented by dream Finders Homes. Twenty
- 0:29Speaker 3: twenty five NFL Draft is upon us just hours away.
- 0:34Speaker 3: JP Shadrick, Jeff Logoman, full busy hour ahead. We'll have
- 0:38Speaker 3: Tony Bassellian studio coming up, a live report from Green
- 0:41Speaker 3: Bay with Brian Sexton. James Gladstone in the draft room.
- 0:45Speaker 3: I caught up with him just a little bit earlier,
- 0:47Speaker 3: and yes we will predict some picks tonight. We're on
- 0:50Speaker 3: ten tonexxel Amjaguars dot Com, Jaguars YouTube, all the places.
- 0:56Speaker 3: JP Shaddick with Jeff Logoman and the Executive Vice President
- 1:01Speaker 3: of Football Operations, Tony VASSELLI.
- 1:04Speaker 4: You've dressed up for the draft. I see that's really there.
- 1:08Speaker 5: Well, I do have I do have clothes all changing.
- 1:10Speaker 4: I just got a little work out in so oh
- 1:12Speaker 4: good for you. Are the nerves there yet? How you feel?
- 1:15Speaker 4: And first draft? All the work and all the build.
- 1:17Speaker 6: Up, you know, I mean excited more than anything just
- 1:20Speaker 6: for the uh, for the opportunity to get in there.
- 1:23Speaker 6: And I think we're gonna actually I don't think. I
- 1:25Speaker 6: know we're gonna be better after this weekend as a
- 1:27Speaker 6: football team. But you know, we've done all the work.
- 1:31Speaker 6: I mean, we prepared, we put long hours in. The
- 1:33Speaker 6: scouts have done a great job. James has been amazing
- 1:36Speaker 6: leading our coaching staff, led by Liam getting in and
- 1:39Speaker 6: doing it together. So it's like at this point now
- 1:43Speaker 6: it's kind of you just kind of wait, and you know,
- 1:46Speaker 6: obviously we pick early, so less there's fewer variables.
- 1:51Speaker 5: To worry about.
- 1:51Speaker 6: But then we're gonna get into you know, you're get
- 1:53Speaker 6: in the rounds two through seven.
- 1:55Speaker 5: You're at the mercy of what happens a little bit
- 1:56Speaker 5: before you.
- 1:57Speaker 6: So you gotta you know, you have a plan, but
- 2:00Speaker 6: you got to be ready to pivot and kind of
- 2:03Speaker 6: be flexible.
- 2:04Speaker 7: So you're saying, there's less variable, so you're saying you're
- 2:06Speaker 7: not trading.
- 2:07Speaker 5: Back as we speak right now.
- 2:11Speaker 4: You know, we'll see.
- 2:14Speaker 7: All right. So the whole reason we brought you in here,
- 2:17Speaker 7: it's a that's a good cacking, that's a good catch.
- 2:24Speaker 5: A good player. Yeah, I think you know he'll be
- 2:27Speaker 5: a good football player. Listen, I think you know.
- 2:31Speaker 6: You look at the team and what we've done in
- 2:34Speaker 6: free agency was purposeful.
- 2:36Speaker 5: One.
- 2:37Speaker 6: We wanted to raise the floor, but we also wanted
- 2:40Speaker 6: to fill some gaps with guys who we were confident
- 2:42Speaker 6: could come in and start day one and so that
- 2:45Speaker 6: we weren't going to be forced to do anything when
- 2:47Speaker 6: we got into the into the draft. So because of that,
- 2:50Speaker 6: we feel really comfortable with our options. We've obviously targeted
- 2:55Speaker 6: a handful of players each round, because we picked five today,
- 2:59Speaker 6: and you know, as far as trading down, that's going
- 3:03Speaker 6: to be, you know, continuing to evolve as you know,
- 3:07Speaker 6: as we have conversations and kind of see what's available.
- 3:09Speaker 6: It has to be the right You don't just trade
- 3:11Speaker 6: down to trade down. You have to have a couple
- 3:13Speaker 6: of things, want a willing partner them. The compensation has
- 3:16Speaker 6: to make sense for us, and then we want to
- 3:18Speaker 6: make sure there's a guy we like in the first
- 3:21Speaker 6: round wherever we land, and so we'll evaluate everything, but
- 3:26Speaker 6: we feel pretty comfortable where we're at right now.
- 3:29Speaker 7: What has it been like to uh, to really understand
- 3:33Speaker 7: from really an intimate perspective of what intangibly rich really means.
- 3:39Speaker 6: Well, you know, Jeff, you and I watch tape all
- 3:41Speaker 6: the time, and in the past you probably actually watched
- 3:43Speaker 6: a little bit more than me getting ready for the draft.
- 3:46Speaker 6: But we'd watch tape and all you have to go
- 3:48Speaker 6: by is what's on film, because we don't we're not
- 3:51Speaker 6: back when we're doing radio and when I was doing
- 3:53Speaker 6: you guys do. It's not like you're diving into the
- 3:55Speaker 6: character and the background information. We don't have that information
- 3:58Speaker 6: available to us. But if you think back Jeff to
- 4:01Speaker 6: when we played, it wasn't always the biggest, strongest, fastest
- 4:04Speaker 6: guys who were the best football players. There's more than
- 4:08Speaker 6: just physical attributes. It's the competitive nature of the individual.
- 4:12Speaker 6: It's the football instincts. It's the you know, the love
- 4:16Speaker 6: of the game like love and ball, you know, all
- 4:19Speaker 6: these things going into it's how they learn intelligence. They're intelligence.
- 4:23Speaker 6: How much can they comprehend? How do they process information?
- 4:27Speaker 6: So these are all kind of what you'd say in
- 4:30Speaker 6: you know, watching film, you can evaluate some of that stuff.
- 4:32Speaker 6: You can see their play demeanor, if a guy's finishing
- 4:34Speaker 6: blox or finishing plays or chasing and pursuing you can
- 4:38Speaker 6: see that competitiveness there, but then it's taught. You know,
- 4:41Speaker 6: our scouts have done a great job they always have
- 4:43Speaker 6: of talking to the coaches, the strength coach, the equipment coach.
- 4:47Speaker 6: They're high school coaches who they're with, So that's kind
- 4:49Speaker 6: of what builds that overall profile. And ultimately we just
- 4:52Speaker 6: want good football players.
- 4:53Speaker 4: Tell me WASSELLI with us?
- 4:54Speaker 3: It's Jaguars Happy are on tentan Exaljaguars dot Com and
- 4:58Speaker 3: Jaguars YouTube closing in on Round.
- 5:00Speaker 8: One of the NFL Draft.
- 5:01Speaker 4: How do you know beyond the tape if a guy
- 5:04Speaker 4: loves ball? Well, how do you find that out?
- 5:07Speaker 3: Especially at this day and age with college and the
- 5:09Speaker 3: nil and things, the landscape has changed for prospects.
- 5:12Speaker 6: It's much more difficult, There's no doubt about it, because
- 5:15Speaker 6: you can't just go to the one university.
- 5:17Speaker 5: When Jeff and I played, I mean he went to Virginia.
- 5:19Speaker 6: I went to USC So it was a single place
- 5:21Speaker 6: the scouts can go to and say, tell me about
- 5:23Speaker 6: this individual. What's his work ethic? Like, what are that
- 5:26Speaker 6: in the weight room? How do they practice? And so
- 5:28Speaker 6: these are all kind of clues you can kind of
- 5:33Speaker 6: understand what the competitive nature of the individual is. It's
- 5:36Speaker 6: the same thing today, but now it's multiple colleges, it's
- 5:39Speaker 6: multiple phone calls, multiple touch points, and sometimes you got
- 5:43Speaker 6: to be careful because you might hear one thing about
- 5:47Speaker 6: a guy at his first school. He transfers and he's
- 5:51Speaker 6: only with this other school for one season, a very
- 5:53Speaker 6: short window, and they have glowing reviews. So is that
- 5:57Speaker 6: really who he is, right or is he putting on
- 5:59Speaker 6: an app act because it's a short window and he's
- 6:02Speaker 6: auditioning for a job. I mean, these are all the
- 6:04Speaker 6: nuances that we go through and try to do the best
- 6:06Speaker 6: we can to understand who the individual is now.
- 6:08Speaker 7: In the past, you would always see coaches and players
- 6:12Speaker 7: that were at one program. The coaches are trying to
- 6:14Speaker 7: get those players drafted as high as they possibly can
- 6:17Speaker 7: because it's it's it further sells the program that they're
- 6:19Speaker 7: trying to build. Yeah, I would think that having a
- 6:23Speaker 7: player having experience at a couple different places, you probably
- 6:27Speaker 7: get a little bit more of an honest perspective when you.
- 6:29Speaker 6: Get a whole rounded Yeah, And Jeffy, it's a great point.
- 6:34Speaker 6: I mean, we want to hear from that coaches. There's
- 6:36Speaker 6: no doubt about that. But yes, I also have to
- 6:37Speaker 6: be realistic. These guys are selling the program to the
- 6:40Speaker 6: next recruits coming and the last thing you want to
- 6:44Speaker 6: do as a head coach is bad mouth.
- 6:46Speaker 5: You're not gonna do one.
- 6:47Speaker 6: Of your players because the next guy's coming up. They
- 6:50Speaker 6: hear about that, and you know that's not well and
- 6:52Speaker 6: it does.
- 6:53Speaker 7: Get that player drafted. The higher you get to put
- 6:54Speaker 7: your drafted, the better exposure your program gets.
- 6:57Speaker 6: And so and anyone who's been football also understands. Go
- 7:02Speaker 6: talk to the trainers, Go talk to the wait coach,
- 7:05Speaker 6: Go talk to the equipment coach, Talk to the support
- 7:08Speaker 6: staff that spend a lot of time with.
- 7:11Speaker 7: Us as players, and they'll give you.
- 7:13Speaker 5: They'll give you, they'll give you a pretty good view
- 7:17Speaker 5: of who the individual is.
- 7:19Speaker 7: I would be in contact with every equipment staff about
- 7:22Speaker 7: that player that I was thinking about. Sure they know
- 7:25Speaker 7: all the intimate details I've said players, no doubt about that.
- 7:28Speaker 3: Yeah, JP Shatter, Jeff Lago and Tony WASSELLI with us
- 7:31Speaker 3: on Jaguars Happy Hour. Give us your behind the scenes
- 7:35Speaker 3: as much as you can. Look at James Gladstone in
- 7:39Speaker 3: the process he's put together to get to this point.
- 7:42Speaker 4: How impressive.
- 7:43Speaker 3: Is it what stands out the most about his efficiency,
- 7:47Speaker 3: his mindset, his his operation as a whole.
- 7:51Speaker 6: I'll just give you my perspective in all kind of
- 7:53Speaker 6: three areas. I was convicted that he was the right
- 7:56Speaker 6: choice when we hired him right before the combine, more
- 8:00Speaker 6: convicted now after working with him. His communication ability is
- 8:09Speaker 6: uncanny of how he can take in a lot of
- 8:11Speaker 6: information from a lot of different sources and kind of
- 8:14Speaker 6: correlate and synthesize all that information and communicate it to
- 8:17Speaker 6: the right stakeholders and make decisions from it. And then
- 8:20Speaker 6: the last thing, he is a he's a killer. I mean,
- 8:23Speaker 6: don't underestimate Jane Gladstone. I mean, he is very good
- 8:27Speaker 6: at what he does. He's very focused, understands it, and
- 8:30Speaker 6: throughout the process has done a great job of jumping
- 8:33Speaker 6: into the middle of the situation in bringing everyone together
- 8:40Speaker 6: to make sure he's getting all the right information that
- 8:43Speaker 6: we can get to the right decision.
- 8:44Speaker 7: A Number two. You we brought up the communicator. It's
- 8:47Speaker 7: unreadied just I mean, our opportunity that we get obviously
- 8:50Speaker 7: is not as wide as the perspective that you get.
- 8:54Speaker 7: But listening to him talk, it's impressive. And what I
- 8:56Speaker 7: love here is that you refer to him as a killer,
- 9:00Speaker 7: because look, the reality is, in that line of work,
- 9:03Speaker 7: you've got to be confident, uh and unwavering and your
- 9:06Speaker 7: commitment to your beliefs and an understanding of players that
- 9:09Speaker 7: you're gonna be picking and if you're if you're not,
- 9:12Speaker 7: then you're just gonna get beat up and tossed aside
- 9:14Speaker 7: with and get eaten up.
- 9:16Speaker 6: Yeah, And just to go step further what I mean
- 9:18Speaker 6: by killer because people are like, what do you mean
- 9:19Speaker 6: he's GM. It's not like he's out there on the
- 9:21Speaker 6: fields eating.
- 9:23Speaker 5: Guys up or anything. I'm not talking about the physical
- 9:26Speaker 5: side of it.
- 9:28Speaker 6: He he's very good at his job and and part
- 9:32Speaker 6: of that. And this is what we did when we
- 9:34Speaker 6: went through the interview process. And I'm glad it's worked out.
- 9:36Speaker 6: And we're still in the early stages, so we got
- 9:38Speaker 6: a long way to go. We'll hit the adversity and
- 9:41Speaker 6: I think we'll even see it more at that time.
- 9:43Speaker 6: But I wanted to make sure and so did Liam,
- 9:46Speaker 6: that we got that the individual there's gonna be the
- 9:49Speaker 6: GM that was gonna partner with us. Because Liam and
- 9:53Speaker 6: I talked about this a lot, no ego, not ego driven,
- 9:57Speaker 6: and not a personal hidden agenda, because those two things
- 10:01Speaker 6: kill an organization. And when I say there is none
- 10:06Speaker 6: of that, and there's a there's a lot of humility
- 10:10Speaker 6: combined with that attitude that he's just fearless. He is
- 10:15Speaker 6: not afraid to make tough decisions, in big decisions. And
- 10:20Speaker 6: that's what I say to Killer, He's unwavering and so
- 10:23Speaker 6: and then the last thing that I enjoy because we
- 10:26Speaker 6: have to come to work here and lead him the draft.
- 10:28Speaker 6: It's long hours. My favorite part about this job outside
- 10:32Speaker 6: of I got to work at this organization and do football.
- 10:35Speaker 6: I get to work with two really good dudes like
- 10:38Speaker 6: Liam and James as good dudes at the end of
- 10:42Speaker 6: the day. And Jeff knows it's being a locker room.
- 10:45Speaker 6: You want the locker room filled with a bunch of
- 10:47Speaker 6: good dudes because then you'll figure it out. As long
- 10:51Speaker 6: as they're competitive, love ball and they're good dudes, you
- 10:54Speaker 6: can get through about anything. And that's been probably the
- 10:56Speaker 6: most fun of the process.
- 10:58Speaker 7: And you can't build culture. She got good dudes doing.
- 11:01Speaker 6: It right, because you think about culture, culture is all
- 11:05Speaker 6: that really is at the end of the day, and
- 11:06Speaker 6: we use different words, and those are important. The words
- 11:08Speaker 6: are important. It's what we live out every day in
- 11:10Speaker 6: the building. And it starts with leadership. What is leadership
- 11:15Speaker 6: living every day because that gets filtered through the whole
- 11:18Speaker 6: building and then that's just who we are. And so
- 11:22Speaker 6: that's what we're trying to build. And we've had you know,
- 11:25Speaker 6: free agency, we got the draft. We were on the
- 11:27Speaker 6: field this week. That was fun with the voluntary uh.
- 11:32Speaker 5: Mini camp Vetri Mini caamp.
- 11:34Speaker 6: Great see the guys out there competing and uh, it's
- 11:37Speaker 6: one step at a time. But ultimately, you guys know this,
- 11:39Speaker 6: none of us are gonna be judged until September.
- 11:41Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll see.
- 11:42Speaker 3: You'll find out when the balls of the balls of
- 11:44Speaker 3: the t week one exactly right there. This could be
- 11:48Speaker 3: obviously a youth movement for the Jaguars, right you know,
- 11:50Speaker 3: ten draft picks, there's a lot of room on this
- 11:52Speaker 3: roster right now, Tony.
- 11:53Speaker 6: We have fifty nine signed players. That is the least
- 11:58Speaker 6: in the NFL. I'll put it this way. During Vetrian
- 12:02Speaker 6: mini camp, we had scouts and coaches playing scout team.
- 12:09Speaker 5: What were you playing? No, no, no, no, you.
- 12:12Speaker 6: Have to actually be able to run James, Yeah, and
- 12:16Speaker 6: we are wildly comfortable with that. We're gonna get ten
- 12:19Speaker 6: draft picks over the next three days. We're gonna go
- 12:23Speaker 6: target and try to get approximately twenty undrafted free agents,
- 12:28Speaker 6: and then we'll see if we fill out the rest
- 12:29Speaker 6: of the spots with a couple other veteran free agents
- 12:32Speaker 6: that are still out there. But you're gonna have training
- 12:36Speaker 6: camp when we're all sitting watching together as Liam and
- 12:40Speaker 6: our players and our coaching staff are out there working,
- 12:42Speaker 6: you were going to see a competitive environment because jobs
- 12:47Speaker 6: are wide open. Come grab one, and we're gonna have
- 12:49Speaker 6: a bunch of young guys who are hungry and fighting
- 12:52Speaker 6: for a spot on the roster.
- 12:53Speaker 7: You bring up the roster composition of the number right
- 12:56Speaker 7: now fifty nine. A lot of people, I think don't
- 12:59Speaker 7: understand as a lot of times you kind of really
- 13:02Speaker 7: have two. Well, there's multiple tiers of free agency, but
- 13:04Speaker 7: you have a second phase of free agency, which typically
- 13:07Speaker 7: happens after the draft and teams wait to see what
- 13:11Speaker 7: they draft to there for to see what they need
- 13:15Speaker 7: to plug in. I'm sure that's the approach there was.
- 13:18Speaker 5: We'll look at things. We have some good ideas.
- 13:19Speaker 6: I mean, well, we have a like I said at
- 13:21Speaker 6: the beginning, we have a plan of what we're gonna target,
- 13:23Speaker 6: we're gonna go after in each round.
- 13:25Speaker 5: But let's say we miss.
- 13:26Speaker 6: Let's say we don't get some of the guys we
- 13:28Speaker 6: want a certain positions. Obviously, we still there's a number
- 13:32Speaker 6: of still good players out there that have played in
- 13:34Speaker 6: starting games in this league, and we'll do what we
- 13:36Speaker 6: need to round out the roster. But expect a lot
- 13:40Speaker 6: of young guys running around here come two weeks from
- 13:44Speaker 6: now on working meeting camps there.
- 13:45Speaker 7: All right, So, so big question here. I think every
- 13:48Speaker 7: NFL team, for the most part that has has been
- 13:51Speaker 7: asked us, so is there an interest in Aaron Rodgers.
- 13:55Speaker 5: Less than zero Western zero?
- 13:57Speaker 3: I had to ask you that you heard it here
- 13:59Speaker 3: first you can I can confidently say we are not
- 14:03Speaker 3: going down that path.
- 14:05Speaker 5: Not going down that path.
- 14:06Speaker 9: We are.
- 14:07Speaker 6: We feel pretty good about our quarterback, and it was
- 14:11Speaker 6: good to see him out there throwing shoulders, coming along
- 14:15Speaker 6: good his left shoulder, the rehab, he's been working his
- 14:18Speaker 6: tail off and and we're excited about what he can do.
- 14:23Speaker 7: How about the the I guess how do you say this?
- 14:26Speaker 7: The immersion and the new offense. I mean, it's got
- 14:29Speaker 7: to be a challenge. I mean, it's a system three
- 14:31Speaker 7: for him. And look, he's a bright guy, but how
- 14:34Speaker 7: was that going.
- 14:35Speaker 6: Well, he's very bright and he's a very hard worker,
- 14:38Speaker 6: and so that combination he'll be fine and great. Yudinsky,
- 14:41Speaker 6: offensive corner is doing a great job, and we have
- 14:43Speaker 6: a really good staff. And I think one of the
- 14:46Speaker 6: smart things several smart things that Liam did when he
- 14:50Speaker 6: built the staff, he brought guys in here that he
- 14:53Speaker 6: did either worked with or had worked in the same system,
- 14:57Speaker 6: with the same language that he had. So it was
- 15:00Speaker 6: is it we're onboarding a whole offensive staff and our quarterback.
- 15:04Speaker 6: And then we brought in Nick Mullens who comes from
- 15:06Speaker 6: the system, Johnny Wolford who was in Tampa out of
- 15:09Speaker 6: that system, and at the RAMS out of that system.
- 15:12Speaker 5: And so what we've purposely.
- 15:13Speaker 6: Done is surrounded Trevor with a lot of guys who
- 15:16Speaker 6: understand to accelerate that that combined with his work ethic
- 15:19Speaker 6: and his intelligence, I'm not worried about it at all.
- 15:21Speaker 3: Good Tony Boselli, Executive vice president Football Operations, Welcome back
- 15:27Speaker 3: to TV Land.
- 15:28Speaker 5: Yeah, it's good to be back on how's it been going? Good?
- 15:30Speaker 7: Good? Actually, better than before after leaving to hang you
- 15:34Speaker 7: for the draft show that we've got tonight. It's a
- 15:38Speaker 7: long night.
- 15:38Speaker 5: Yeah, where are you guys doing that tonight? We're doing
- 15:41Speaker 5: the podcast. Okay, I'll jump down there.
- 15:43Speaker 6: It comes to Hi, do you guys after the pick
- 15:44Speaker 6: and chop it up a little bit?
- 15:46Speaker 3: Who do you?
- 15:47Speaker 5: I've been asking everybody.
- 15:48Speaker 6: I did some stuff with brand earlier in Austin, And
- 15:50Speaker 6: who do you guys want?
- 15:51Speaker 5: Five? Give me Jensi Jensie back.
- 15:55Speaker 3: Yeah, explosive, five foot eight and a half, hard to tackle.
- 15:59Speaker 4: Well, mind you a little bit watching them and you know,
- 16:02Speaker 4: not as wide as Maurice.
- 16:03Speaker 5: No, but bounces vision a little better vision.
- 16:06Speaker 6: But people, if you remember Maurice come out of UCLA,
- 16:09Speaker 6: people would like bounce off of us, right and similar
- 16:12Speaker 6: to yeah, he's a powerful.
- 16:14Speaker 7: We think logs wide receiver. Travis Hunter.
- 16:16Speaker 5: Travis Hunter. Yeah, yeah, well.
- 16:18Speaker 7: Everybody wants hit that wide receiver.
- 16:20Speaker 4: He ain't getting a five, so I mean so it
- 16:22Speaker 4: might have.
- 16:22Speaker 2: To move up a little.
- 16:24Speaker 4: Oh that's it.
- 16:26Speaker 5: We'll bring Jeff down about talk to just go make
- 16:29Speaker 5: the pick?
- 16:29Speaker 3: Ye uh, Tony, thanks man, Yeah, Tony, guys, it should
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- 16:46Speaker 4: Brian Sexton from Green Bay.
- 16:47Speaker 3: When we return, this is Jaguars Happy Hour.
- 17:04Speaker 7: A baby.
- 17:06Speaker 2: I was always under the light, so it changed nothing
- 17:09Speaker 2: about me.
- 17:10Speaker 9: You know.
- 17:10Speaker 10: The course is don't they don't really do anything to me.
- 17:12Speaker 8: I know, I know how to get through the courses.
- 17:14Speaker 8: I'm not answer it.
- 17:15Speaker 3: So that is Travis Hunter from Colorado, wide receiver and
- 17:20Speaker 3: cornerback at the NFL Draft yesterday. Some community events in
- 17:26Speaker 3: the Green Bay area and some of the prospects making
- 17:28Speaker 3: their way around town yesterday, all getting ready for the
- 17:31Speaker 3: big night at Draft Central outside lambeau Field, the nuts
- 17:36Speaker 3: so frozen tundra. Here at the end of April and
- 17:39Speaker 3: welcome back. It's Jaguars Happy Hour. JP Shadwick with Jeff Logman.
- 17:43Speaker 3: We're at the Miller Electric Center, just down the hall
- 17:45Speaker 3: from the draft room where the Jaguars leadership will make
- 17:48Speaker 3: the pick at number five.
- 17:50Speaker 4: Maybe we'll see what happens tonight.
- 17:52Speaker 3: Brian Sexton is in Green Bay, Wisconsin and he joins
- 17:56Speaker 3: US Now live from Draft Central.
- 17:58Speaker 4: How you feeling.
- 17:59Speaker 8: What's this scene?
- 18:00Speaker 4: Looks like there's a lot of a lot of fans
- 18:02Speaker 4: starting to file.
- 18:03Speaker 5: Into Green Bay.
- 18:05Speaker 11: Listen, if you see me do this, it means I'm
- 18:08Speaker 11: about to get run over because we're in the middle
- 18:10Speaker 11: of the parking lot, which seemed like a great spot
- 18:12Speaker 11: to set up about an hour ago. But all of
- 18:14Speaker 11: a sudden, there's just been this deluge of folks that
- 18:17Speaker 11: come through with either something to say or maybe just
- 18:20Speaker 11: sort of a threatening approach. It's a live and active crowd, guys.
- 18:25Speaker 11: I don't feel in danger.
- 18:26Speaker 2: But let's put it this way.
- 18:27Speaker 11: I feel like I could get knocked down by somebody
- 18:29Speaker 11: who's a little too boisterous.
- 18:31Speaker 7: All right, So, Brian, I mean many people did not
- 18:34Speaker 7: expect Green Bay to be hosting a draft. Of all places,
- 18:38Speaker 7: where is everybody staying in Green Bay? I don't know
- 18:41Speaker 7: if there's enough hotel rooms to fit everybody. Are they
- 18:44Speaker 7: reunning every house out in Green Bay? Now?
- 18:47Speaker 4: You know this?
- 18:48Speaker 11: This kind of feels a little bit like when Jacksonville
- 18:50Speaker 11: hosted the Super Bowl twenty years ago. They had to
- 18:53Speaker 11: come up with alternative plans, right, so we brought in
- 18:55Speaker 11: cruise ships.
- 18:56Speaker 2: They haven't quite done that.
- 18:57Speaker 11: I'm told that there are a lot of folks that
- 19:00Speaker 11: jumped onto Airbnb. We're staying in Appleton, which is about
- 19:03Speaker 11: half an hour from here. There's a lot of folks
- 19:05Speaker 11: who are staying north up towards Michigan, and plenty more
- 19:08Speaker 11: that are driving in from Milwaukee. It doesn't have the
- 19:11Speaker 11: infrastructure and so they're not expecting the turnout like they
- 19:14Speaker 11: had in Detroit last year. There was upwards of seven
- 19:17Speaker 11: hundred and fifty thousand people who attended the three days
- 19:19Speaker 11: of the draft at Cadillac Square in Detroit. They're expecting
- 19:22Speaker 11: about two hundred and fifty thousand. It's just it's narrow,
- 19:25Speaker 11: there's not a lot of places to park. It's they're
- 19:29Speaker 11: doing their best and they've got this whole title town
- 19:31Speaker 11: thing going, so that's pretty good.
- 19:33Speaker 3: Brian Sexson joining us from just outside lambeau Field in
- 19:37Speaker 3: Green Bay, Wisconsin. The twenty twenty five NFL Draft coming
- 19:40Speaker 3: up a little after eight o'clock tonight is the first round,
- 19:43Speaker 3: all right, So we heard from Travis Hunter they we'll
- 19:45Speaker 3: for some more prospects coming up throughout this evening. You
- 19:48Speaker 3: caught up with a bunch of those guys yesterday. What
- 19:51Speaker 3: stood out the most about some of your conversations.
- 19:55Speaker 11: Well so, Ted McMillan was the funniest because I asked
- 19:58Speaker 11: him the receiver from Arizona, have you heard from the jaguars?
- 20:01Speaker 11: And his response was, nobody's heard from the jaguars, am
- 20:05Speaker 11: I Trippman? Has anybody talked to the jaguars? And of course,
- 20:08Speaker 11: you know, we knew that they weren't doing their thirty
- 20:11Speaker 11: visit routine this year, but I was just curious if
- 20:13Speaker 11: in any way, shape or form he had had made contact.
- 20:16Speaker 2: He said no.
- 20:17Speaker 11: I asked Ashton Genty about being born in Jacksonville and
- 20:20Speaker 11: the potential of coming home, and he smiled and said,
- 20:23Speaker 11: duvall he knew about the history with Fred and the
- 20:26Speaker 11: comparisons to Maurice Jones. Drew Travis Hunter was great. I
- 20:30Speaker 11: asked him point blank, what position are you playing? He
- 20:32Speaker 11: said both. I said, you're holding on to that? He goes,
- 20:34Speaker 11: why shouldn't I? And Mason Graham was quiet. You know what,
- 20:40Speaker 11: lots of two and three word answers, but logs. He
- 20:43Speaker 11: had the biggest forearms. I mean, he made Tyson Alu
- 20:47Speaker 11: Alu look small with his just the dimension from his
- 20:51Speaker 11: elbow to his wrist so strong, powerful fit that he
- 20:55Speaker 11: was a heavyweight wrestling champion in the state of California.
- 20:58Speaker 11: They were all interesting, all good guys, which is what
- 21:01Speaker 11: everyone's looking for.
- 21:02Speaker 2: They're looking for good guys. I heard Tony on with you.
- 21:04Speaker 11: They're looking for good dudes in the locker room, and
- 21:07Speaker 11: all of those guys were good dudes.
- 21:09Speaker 7: Yeah, I think Mason Graham, I mean, you're talking about
- 21:12Speaker 7: the intangibles are way way, way high. But I don't
- 21:16Speaker 7: know if there's any intangibles that are higher than with
- 21:19Speaker 7: Travis Hunter Bryan. I mean, the more you read about
- 21:22Speaker 7: this guy, the more you get impressed with him. I mean,
- 21:26Speaker 7: he's just an outstanding individual on top of being an
- 21:30Speaker 7: outstanding wide receiver and defensive back.
- 21:34Speaker 11: Well to your point, Jeff, we were talking with him
- 21:37Speaker 11: and he talked about being a better corner, a better
- 21:39Speaker 11: wide receiver. He said he was really more focused on
- 21:42Speaker 11: being a better husband, which I thought was a great
- 21:45Speaker 11: line for him.
- 21:46Speaker 2: He's married to his high school sweetheart.
- 21:49Speaker 11: You probably saw the story in the Athletic that he
- 21:51Speaker 11: loves to bass fish is a very.
- 21:54Speaker 2: Competitive bass fisherman.
- 21:55Speaker 11: He's just a really good guy and has a great
- 21:58Speaker 11: head on his Shoulders. He was asked about the father
- 22:00Speaker 11: who's under house arrest or a confinement of some sort,
- 22:04Speaker 11: being allowed to come to the draft, and he said,
- 22:06Speaker 11: the only thing I can say is it's a blessing
- 22:08Speaker 11: to know that my dad's going to get a share
- 22:09Speaker 11: this night with me. Just a really grounded guy. And
- 22:12Speaker 11: I guess I was surprised Jay, Jeff and JP because
- 22:16Speaker 11: you know he's around Dion Sanders. You just would figure
- 22:18Speaker 11: he'd be this flamboyant character, two way player, the best
- 22:22Speaker 11: player in the draft.
- 22:23Speaker 2: No way.
- 22:24Speaker 11: I mean, he was humble, he was confident, but he
- 22:28Speaker 11: was just a normal guy man. If they would make
- 22:31Speaker 11: a move up for him, I'd be really excited about that.
- 22:35Speaker 2: And listen, if they take genty at five.
- 22:37Speaker 11: He was a real million megawatts smile, carried on a
- 22:43Speaker 11: great conversation, could just effortlessly move between reporters and questions.
- 22:48Speaker 11: And a young man came up and wanted to take
- 22:49Speaker 11: a picture, and he said, hold on, and he stepped out.
- 22:53Speaker 11: These guys that the Jaguars are considering at the top
- 22:55Speaker 11: of the draft, or I should say, are reportedly considering
- 22:57Speaker 11: at the top of the draft, our first class human
- 23:00Speaker 11: beings from my limited interaction with them yesterday at the
- 23:03Speaker 11: Play sixty events.
- 23:04Speaker 7: Brian, one of the things that's kind of been newsworthy
- 23:08Speaker 7: about the first round picks that potentially will be picked
- 23:11Speaker 7: tonight is that the number kind of dwindled a little bit.
- 23:15Speaker 7: I think the NFL started out with the hopes of
- 23:17Speaker 7: getting thirty players maybe there, and I think the numbers
- 23:20Speaker 7: down to about fifteen. So you probably got an opportunity
- 23:24Speaker 7: to talk to everyone that was there.
- 23:27Speaker 11: Well, listen, I was on my way to talking to
- 23:29Speaker 11: everyone and all of a sudden it started raining and
- 23:31Speaker 11: we had to go run in for the car, So
- 23:33Speaker 11: I only.
- 23:33Speaker 2: Got to talk to those few guys.
- 23:35Speaker 11: But you know, there was only what offensive lineman, Will Campbell,
- 23:38Speaker 11: there were a few defensive linemen. They're just this has
- 23:41Speaker 11: become the draft has become a spread out affair, and
- 23:45Speaker 11: guys throw their own parties and have their own, you know,
- 23:48Speaker 11: YouTube channels lined up, and so you don't have that
- 23:51Speaker 11: centralization they had when you were drafted and everybody was
- 23:55Speaker 11: in New York. There are some rumblings around here that
- 23:59Speaker 11: in future years Bill work to get a couple of
- 24:02Speaker 11: the big names from the second round on for Friday night,
- 24:05Speaker 11: so that They've got more players here, but more and
- 24:08Speaker 11: more of the top players. Although again the top players,
- 24:11Speaker 11: the big three that you've talked about, Hunter, Carter, and
- 24:14Speaker 11: Genty are all here. Cam Ward is here, Will Campbell
- 24:20Speaker 11: is here. There are some big names here, but there's
- 24:22Speaker 11: just not many of them.
- 24:24Speaker 7: And you can tell that the Green Bay locals don't
- 24:27Speaker 7: have much much experience with TV, Brian. They're all dancing
- 24:30Speaker 7: around behind you in the background.
- 24:33Speaker 11: Listen, I told you the guy came by earlier and
- 24:36Speaker 11: I thought he was gonna knock me over.
- 24:38Speaker 2: He wanted to get in front of the camera so bad.
- 24:40Speaker 11: I've never felt that way, but I'm like, you know
- 24:43Speaker 11: where there's a sniper on the roof.
- 24:45Speaker 2: I'm looking at him right now, and I want to.
- 24:47Speaker 11: Just do one of these. You got my back because
- 24:49Speaker 11: I can't see what's going on behind me.
- 24:51Speaker 7: Don't keep pointing up there.
- 24:52Speaker 8: Just stop the pointing up there.
- 24:53Speaker 2: Bright Oh god, I don't want his attention to either. Listen.
- 24:57Speaker 11: Overall this is this is a great environment. They have
- 25:02Speaker 11: so much here, and you know, the Jaguars haven't played
- 25:06Speaker 11: a regular game. They were here in twenty twenty logs,
- 25:08Speaker 11: but we were traveling back then. This place has changed
- 25:11Speaker 11: so dramatically since twenty twelve when Plaine Gabbert had his
- 25:14Speaker 11: I think his only three hundred yard passing day as
- 25:17Speaker 11: a Jaguars quarterback. I mean, there's so much that's been
- 25:20Speaker 11: built up around her. Title town is an office complex
- 25:23Speaker 11: with condos and all sorts of recreational opportunities. There's more
- 25:27Speaker 11: restaurants and hotels around here. Not four seasons hotels Hampton
- 25:32Speaker 11: in right, but there's there's a lot around.
- 25:35Speaker 2: Here these days, all right, Brian, So it's a cool place.
- 25:38Speaker 7: Last question for me, because you know when we were
- 25:40Speaker 7: in Steven's Pointless Consint going way back to the Jaguars
- 25:44Speaker 7: first training camp. Ever, Okay, one of the must that
- 25:48Speaker 7: you absolutely had to do when you were in Wisconsin,
- 25:51Speaker 7: especially around Green Bay, you had to have an order
- 25:54Speaker 7: of kurds and a pitcher or a glass frosty mug
- 25:58Speaker 7: of Point beer. Have you that yet?
- 26:01Speaker 2: Yep.
- 26:02Speaker 11: I will never touch a cheese curd. I don't care
- 26:04Speaker 11: who orders it. I will never ever touch it, smell it,
- 26:09Speaker 11: taste it. But the Point beer might have been on
- 26:12Speaker 11: tap last night, and I have fond memories of our
- 26:15Speaker 11: nearly six weeks in Steven's Point Wisconsin. For those of
- 26:19Speaker 11: us that were on staff that showed up a little
- 26:22Speaker 11: earlier than the union representative who refused to show up
- 26:24Speaker 11: one day early.
- 26:26Speaker 2: Oh that was you. No, But listen, lots of great memories.
- 26:30Speaker 11: But you know what's funny is is nobody here remembers
- 26:32Speaker 11: the Cheese League. It's gone. It was that brief moment
- 26:36Speaker 11: with the Bears and the Chiefs and the Saints, and hey,
- 26:39Speaker 11: thanks appreciate your participation in our show.
- 26:43Speaker 2: Are you right?
- 26:45Speaker 11: You see the crap I'm dealing with out here, But listen,
- 26:48Speaker 11: I'll take it for the team for happy hour.
- 26:50Speaker 5: Fantastic.
- 26:52Speaker 4: We just do the rest of the show like this
- 26:54Speaker 4: Green Bay.
- 26:55Speaker 2: Hey, listen, who do you want me to talk to?
- 26:56Speaker 5: Right?
- 26:57Speaker 2: The next guy that comes by, the next guy that
- 26:59Speaker 2: comes he's gonna get it.
- 27:04Speaker 1: All right.
- 27:04Speaker 4: Final thought.
- 27:05Speaker 8: We'll get you out of here before you get heckled anymore.
- 27:08Speaker 2: Who do you want?
- 27:08Speaker 5: Who do you think to go?
- 27:09Speaker 2: By the way, some of the wacky weed is, oh
- 27:12Speaker 2: who do I want?
- 27:15Speaker 11: There's there's a guy over here who's burning something he
- 27:17Speaker 11: shouldn't be burning. Then that's probably why I'm distracted all
- 27:21Speaker 11: of a sudden, So I think Ashton Genty makes the
- 27:24Speaker 11: most sense.
- 27:25Speaker 2: I've said this.
- 27:25Speaker 11: They need touchdown scorers, Jeff. They have to have touchdown scores.
- 27:30Speaker 11: You know you lost Christian Kirk. You don't have Evan
- 27:33Speaker 11: Ingram anymore. You don't have the production guaranteed from ETN.
- 27:37Speaker 11: I think genty makes a whole lot of sense, and
- 27:39Speaker 11: I like him a lot. If you want to go up, great,
- 27:42Speaker 11: If you want to go back, fine, But I like
- 27:44Speaker 11: genty at five.
- 27:46Speaker 4: All right, Brian, it's hard arguing entertainment here.
- 27:48Speaker 2: Listen, there's a lot going on.
- 27:51Speaker 11: If you want me to find more entertainment for you,
- 27:53Speaker 11: I'll find it.
- 27:55Speaker 3: It sounds like people are having a really good time
- 27:58Speaker 3: there in Green Bay.
- 28:00Speaker 4: Have a great night.
- 28:01Speaker 2: It's about to get spicy here.
- 28:03Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 28:03Speaker 3: We'll look forward to your reporting throughout the evening. We'll
- 28:06Speaker 3: see you back here when you get home. Brian Sexton
- 28:09Speaker 3: jus from Green Bay, Wisconsin.
- 28:13Speaker 8: Boy, what a scene there.
- 28:14Speaker 3: Ahead of the twenty twenty five NFL Draft, Jaguars Football
- 28:17Speaker 3: is presented by Fresh from Florida. It's always in season.
- 28:21Speaker 3: We'll come back in a moment. And here from James Gladstone.
- 28:24Speaker 4: I caught up with him in.
- 28:25Speaker 3: The draft room just a little bit earlier today ahead
- 28:29Speaker 3: of the NFL Draft, It's Jaguars Happy Hour. Welcome back,
- 28:43Speaker 3: it is Jaguars Happy Hour Whenny coming up ahead of
- 28:47Speaker 3: the twenty twenty five NFL Draft.
- 28:49Speaker 4: It begins at eight o'clock.
- 28:51Speaker 3: We've got about thirty minutes or so left on this program.
- 28:54Speaker 4: And the draft, of course, starts tonight.
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- 29:09Speaker 4: Today.
- 29:11Speaker 3: We're on ten Toinexcel, Jaguars dot com, Jaguars YouTube, and
- 29:15Speaker 3: it's Jaguars Happy Hour.
- 29:17Speaker 4: And as is tradition, on Draft Day, you catch up.
- 29:21Speaker 3: With the general manager of the Jacksonville Jaguars, this time
- 29:24Speaker 3: first year general manager James Gladstone in the draft room.
- 29:28Speaker 5: About an hour ago.
- 29:29Speaker 3: JP Shadwick in the draft room with GM James Gladstone,
- 29:33Speaker 3: first draft as a general manager. What are your feelings?
- 29:37Speaker 3: Is there anxiety, nerves? How you're feeling just with only
- 29:41Speaker 3: a couple hours to go?
- 29:42Speaker 10: You know, I gotta say, with all the work that's
- 29:44Speaker 10: been done to date, all the collaboration across our coaching
- 29:47Speaker 10: staff and scouting staff feel firm and our plan heading
- 29:51Speaker 10: into tonight, And I got to say it hasn't felt,
- 29:54Speaker 10: in terms of sensation, all that much different than any
- 29:58Speaker 10: draft previously. You know, you got every thing sort of
- 30:01Speaker 10: in the hopper and feel like you just fall back
- 30:03Speaker 10: on what you had planned for and go from there.
- 30:06Speaker 10: So we're looking forward to what unfold. But obviously it
- 30:09Speaker 10: won't take long for us to be on the clock
- 30:11Speaker 10: and we're looking forward to press and send there and
- 30:13Speaker 10: making the call.
- 30:14Speaker 3: Take us through your day so far, from the wake
- 30:17Speaker 3: up to the morning prep to get to this.
- 30:19Speaker 10: Point, you know, it's been low key, It hasn't It
- 30:22Speaker 10: hasn't been all that different from my normal routine. Woke
- 30:25Speaker 10: up at the same time, got here at the facility
- 30:27Speaker 10: fairly early, and headed out to the field for a
- 30:30Speaker 10: few laps before taking some calls to just tie up
- 30:34Speaker 10: a few loose ends, and have since been just chewing
- 30:37Speaker 10: on the same thoughts that have seemingly been circling for
- 30:42Speaker 10: quite a few few weeks.
- 30:43Speaker 8: Now, what's on your final checklist? Now?
- 30:46Speaker 3: What do you lean on when the clock starts? And
- 30:49Speaker 3: take us a little bit if you can through your
- 30:51Speaker 3: process when time is of the essence.
- 30:53Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, this first pick is going to be
- 30:55Speaker 10: a little different than the next next nine. Obviously, we
- 31:00Speaker 10: some version of a controlled environment, knowing that there's only
- 31:03Speaker 10: four selections ahead of us, and beyond that, I think
- 31:07Speaker 10: what we'll lean into is a lot of the same
- 31:09Speaker 10: things that I think we've preached over the last eight weeks,
- 31:11Speaker 10: and really that's about focusing on players who are intangibly rich,
- 31:16Speaker 10: and so that'll be top of mind at each pickpoint,
- 31:19Speaker 10: and really the decisions that we'll make with each of
- 31:22Speaker 10: the nine picks that lie beyond tonight, we'll be sure
- 31:26Speaker 10: to lean into that and keep that as our north star.
- 31:28Speaker 8: We all see rumors.
- 31:30Speaker 3: Do you follow the TV coverage of draft and all
- 31:33Speaker 3: the rumors Draft Day things that may or may not happen,
- 31:35Speaker 3: And how busy has.
- 31:37Speaker 8: It been on the phones with the Jaguars.
- 31:39Speaker 10: Well, yeah, I think I've got a pulse for what
- 31:43Speaker 10: has seemingly been pushed out, which seems like every single
- 31:46Speaker 10: scenario on planet Earth, which is exciting, entertaining. I mean,
- 31:50Speaker 10: that's the business that we're in, and I think at
- 31:53Speaker 10: pick number five we'll see some fireworks.
- 31:56Speaker 5: One way or another.
- 31:57Speaker 8: James, you luck to you appreciate the time.
- 31:59Speaker 10: I appreciate it as well.
- 32:00Speaker 3: Game on, game on logs, James Gladstone, the general manager
- 32:05Speaker 3: could see some fireworks one way or another.
- 32:07Speaker 4: That's what you like to hear.
- 32:08Speaker 7: That's that killer mentality that Tony Boselli was talking about
- 32:12Speaker 7: here a little bit ago. You know, I love listening
- 32:15Speaker 7: to him talk very seamless. I mean, he should have
- 32:18Speaker 7: considered a job in broadcasting, right. I mean, he's just something.
- 32:22Speaker 7: He's quick on his feet, he's very direct and doesn't
- 32:27Speaker 7: have any kind of a catchword to kind of gather
- 32:29Speaker 7: a thought. I mean, he's just impressed. And look, part
- 32:33Speaker 7: of being a leader also is being a great communicator,
- 32:35Speaker 7: and and Tony's dead on the money about that aspect
- 32:39Speaker 7: of him. It's fun to watch.
- 32:42Speaker 3: There is a fascinating article in The Athletic that just
- 32:44Speaker 3: came out recently about his rise through the RAMS organization
- 32:50Speaker 3: and now his step forward as a general manager and
- 32:54Speaker 3: some of the processes he's used to get.
- 32:56Speaker 8: To this point.
- 32:57Speaker 3: That's kind of what I was trying to get out
- 32:59Speaker 3: of there a little bit was some of the behind
- 33:02Speaker 3: the scenes data things that he'll use now in the
- 33:04Speaker 3: past year, we've seen a draft room with you know,
- 33:07Speaker 3: thirty people in there and ringing the room and all that.
- 33:10Speaker 3: I don't know if we'll have that this year with
- 33:12Speaker 3: James and he'll have access to people close by, it's
- 33:15Speaker 3: going to be a select few that are actually right there.
- 33:17Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it kind of focuses the room. I
- 33:21Speaker 7: think in a lot of different ways. I would probably
- 33:24Speaker 7: do something somewhere if I were ever in James's shoes,
- 33:26Speaker 7: just because you don't want to have a whole lot
- 33:27Speaker 7: of things that are moving parts, etc. But everything he's
- 33:33Speaker 7: done to date has been very impressive so far. But
- 33:36Speaker 7: this day, today is the start of the lifeblood of
- 33:40Speaker 7: this franchise. The reality is is that the organization has
- 33:44Speaker 7: not drafted very well in the past, and that's a fact,
- 33:47Speaker 7: and the fact is shown in the record that this
- 33:49Speaker 7: team has had and that needs to change. And how
- 33:52Speaker 7: it changes is that you bring better players into the organization.
- 33:56Speaker 7: James Gladstone is the key to this whole thing. He
- 33:59Speaker 7: lives the key to this whole success of this organization
- 34:03Speaker 7: going forward, and it starts today with him. It started
- 34:06Speaker 7: in free agency a little bit, but this is the meat,
- 34:09Speaker 7: and this is the potatoes of any organization today, tomorrow
- 34:13Speaker 7: and the next day.
- 34:14Speaker 3: It's pretty fascinating that you come in as a new GM,
- 34:17Speaker 3: but you inherit the scouting staff you don't bring. There's
- 34:21Speaker 3: been a couple of additions, right. The big change addition
- 34:24Speaker 3: a lot of times happens after the draft. So he's
- 34:27Speaker 3: inherited scouting staff and personnel staff and has from all accounts,
- 34:34Speaker 3: enjoyed that process. They've done a good job in figuring
- 34:37Speaker 3: out how he wants to communicate and work. And that's
- 34:41Speaker 3: got to be a difficult transition. I mean, you come
- 34:43Speaker 3: in and all of a sudden the staff's already in place.
- 34:45Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, just I mean for me personally, I
- 34:48Speaker 7: would probably have a very difficult kind of time of
- 34:54Speaker 7: trusting people, right, I mean, because look, there's a lot
- 34:57Speaker 7: of holdovers from the Trent Ball general manager era. And
- 35:02Speaker 7: you know, from what I understand, James has been very
- 35:04Speaker 7: open and honest and has worked with everybody and that's
- 35:07Speaker 7: that's amazing. But I'm sure, just like anybody else would
- 35:11Speaker 7: do that, there will be changes within the staff in
- 35:14Speaker 7: and around James Gladstone's room, and as it should be,
- 35:18Speaker 7: because as a general manager, you want to make sure
- 35:20Speaker 7: that you have voices that you trust and also ears
- 35:25Speaker 7: that you can trust.
- 35:27Speaker 3: Tonight, it's the first round of the twenty twenty five
- 35:30Speaker 3: NFL Drafts at eight o'clock start time, and we will
- 35:34Speaker 3: come back in this moment. We'll have John Oser, Jaguars
- 35:37Speaker 3: dot Com senior writer. He'll join us on set and
- 35:40Speaker 3: we're gonna make some picks.
- 35:42Speaker 7: We kind of already have logs, haven't we.
- 35:44Speaker 4: We kind of have I'm sticking with my Okay, well,
- 35:46Speaker 4: well don't ruin it now. We'll come back if you've.
- 35:48Speaker 7: Just joined us logs.
- 35:50Speaker 3: Is gonna make another pick, but it's probably the same pick.
- 35:53Speaker 4: That is this Jaguars happy.
- 35:55Speaker 9: Hour anytime somebody's excelling on the level the highest level
- 36:10Speaker 9: in the football league, for sure. But I also think
- 36:13Speaker 9: we can't overlook, you know, also guys in you know,
- 36:16Speaker 9: college football doing amazing things. Also in the NFL, there's
- 36:19Speaker 9: a lot of other greer running backs. Now, is he
- 36:22Speaker 9: the number one guy leading that?
- 36:23Speaker 8: For sure? Yeah?
- 36:26Speaker 3: That is Ashton Gent, the running back from Boise State
- 36:30Speaker 3: and the Heisman Trophy runner up last year, only a
- 36:33Speaker 3: little over two hundred points behind Travis Hunter and the
- 36:37Speaker 3: Heisman voting massive season a year ago, five foot eight
- 36:42Speaker 3: to eleven, tough to tackle. We'll see if he's there
- 36:48Speaker 3: at five, if he's the picker or not. JP, Shadwick,
- 36:50Speaker 3: Jeff Logan, John Osier joining us in the studio.
- 36:54Speaker 12: Now, Hi, John, I like the dramatic pause there. Yeah. Well,
- 36:56Speaker 12: when you're bringing me in said, uh, it's draft night.
- 36:59Speaker 12: I mean it's it's Uh, We've been through a lot
- 37:01Speaker 12: of these, and I think it's James Gladstone said a
- 37:04Speaker 12: couple of weeks ago. Uh, when you're picking number five
- 37:08Speaker 12: and it's the first pick of a new regime, Uh,
- 37:11Speaker 12: it's a tone center. So this is a big night.
- 37:14Speaker 12: And I think over all, Jeff, it's a big weekend
- 37:16Speaker 12: for me to see sort of what a James Gladstone
- 37:19Speaker 12: draft looks like. He does things differently. I'm curiously what
- 37:23Speaker 12: this looks like by the end of Saturday.
- 37:25Speaker 7: Yeah, and I think all three days are really tone setters.
- 37:28Speaker 7: I mean, look, you're you're adding ten. You know that's
- 37:31Speaker 7: the number you're at now, you know, prospects to your roster.
- 37:34Speaker 7: And by the way, JP, you kind of short changed
- 37:37Speaker 7: Jenny a little bit. Was a five, nine, two fifteen,
- 37:42Speaker 7: you know, and when you're five foot nine, okay, and
- 37:44Speaker 7: you get called to be five foot eight that that that.
- 37:47Speaker 8: First five and a half.
- 37:48Speaker 7: Yeah, that's he's five five foot eight and a half. Oh,
- 37:51Speaker 7: you're rounding up.
- 37:52Speaker 3: Okay, but a round up okay's not a round up
- 37:55Speaker 3: first okay.
- 37:56Speaker 7: But I will say just real quick about Jenny watching
- 37:59Speaker 7: the film with a guy, it's amazing to watch him
- 38:03Speaker 7: and how powerful he is. And the one area that
- 38:07Speaker 7: the Jacksonville Jaguars have great history with is the running
- 38:12Speaker 7: back position. Fred Taylor, Maurice Jones, Drew And how fitting
- 38:16Speaker 7: would it be to have a guy like Jenny to
- 38:19Speaker 7: follow up from those two.
- 38:20Speaker 3: Well, if it's at five, he's going to be at
- 38:23Speaker 3: that level, right to be a successful pick.
- 38:26Speaker 12: John, Yeah, it's making a mistake if you take a
- 38:28Speaker 12: running back at five. I said, I called this morning.
- 38:32Speaker 12: I called Leonard Frend you know, a mistake pick. And
- 38:35Speaker 12: I like Leonard. But when you take a guy four
- 38:38Speaker 12: and he's not a franchised, defining guy, all pro guy
- 38:42Speaker 12: at that position, then it didn't work. So if you're
- 38:45Speaker 12: going to take that position that high, really any position
- 38:49Speaker 12: that I five, but especially running back, when you're going
- 38:52Speaker 12: there and saying okay, it's maybe a five or six
- 38:54Speaker 12: seven year peak person. It's got to be Derrick, Henry Saquon.
- 39:01Speaker 2: Barkley level production.
- 39:03Speaker 12: Ap that's what you're expecting. So that's you know, whether
- 39:08Speaker 12: they say it or not tonight, if you take a
- 39:11Speaker 12: running back in five, that's what you're thinking is gonna be.
- 39:13Speaker 7: The position has been devalued, I mean over the years,
- 39:17Speaker 7: and people are saying, well, how can you can't use
- 39:19Speaker 7: high draft capital anymore to draft a running back? But
- 39:22Speaker 7: if you listen to Liam Cohene talking about helping Trevor out,
- 39:27Speaker 7: what's the one thing that he's talked about all off season?
- 39:30Speaker 7: Getting a running game and better up front around them?
- 39:33Speaker 7: And look, I want to get a better running game.
- 39:35Speaker 7: Bam Jenny.
- 39:37Speaker 2: Right now.
- 39:38Speaker 7: Number two gives you an instant running game. I don't
- 39:42Speaker 7: think there's any doubt on that.
- 39:43Speaker 12: And the position has been devalued, and that's a big theme.
- 39:48Speaker 12: It's always a big pre pre draft theme. Now hall
- 39:51Speaker 12: of famers haven't been devalued, so you're thinking, and I
- 39:56Speaker 12: say hall of famers, I mean with Derek Henry, the
- 39:58Speaker 12: guys we just mentioned, Henry Saquon Barkley, those are Hall
- 40:02Speaker 12: of Fame level talent. Fred Taylor Hall of Fame level talent.
- 40:06Speaker 12: That level of talent at that position hasn't been the value,
- 40:10Speaker 12: So that would be the counter argument to the devalued position.
- 40:12Speaker 7: Well, and it's kind of interesting to see all of
- 40:15Speaker 7: the draft talk kind of over the last six weeks
- 40:18Speaker 7: and where it's been with Jenny. I mean, there were
- 40:21Speaker 7: so many different people that were forecasting him going to
- 40:24Speaker 7: Chicago and then all of a sudden here recently now
- 40:27Speaker 7: some people are picking that he may come here to
- 40:29Speaker 7: the Jacksonville Jaguars. And it's interesting too because if you
- 40:33Speaker 7: look at what is in what's the common theme with
- 40:36Speaker 7: Chicago and the Jaguars. They have a very young quarterback
- 40:40Speaker 7: that really hasn't shown that he's going to be an
- 40:43Speaker 7: elite player yet, and so both teams may be looking
- 40:46Speaker 7: to get a running back to help out these young quarterbacks,
- 40:51Speaker 7: and he's a really good one. I said this to
- 40:54Speaker 7: you JP and Brian Sexton, I think last week, and
- 40:59Speaker 7: I said that, you know, there's three great players in
- 41:01Speaker 7: this draft, and I'm just talking just from watching film
- 41:04Speaker 7: that are head and shoulders above everybody. They are, and
- 41:07Speaker 7: that's Jenny, Travis Hunter, and Abdul Carter. Those three guys
- 41:12Speaker 7: are just ridiculously at high levels. I mean, they're so
- 41:15Speaker 7: separate from everybody else and at the top, and I
- 41:18Speaker 7: don't cam Ward's not even in that category, not even close.
- 41:23Speaker 7: But those three guys I think are just And the
- 41:27Speaker 7: future may say that there's more than just those three,
- 41:30Speaker 7: and maybe even not one of those three, but I
- 41:32Speaker 7: think right now, in my opinion watching the film, those
- 41:34Speaker 7: three guys are it.
- 41:36Speaker 12: And when people ask to a people, when is it
- 41:38Speaker 12: okay to take it back in the top five, it's
- 41:40Speaker 12: when what Jeff said is true. Meaning if that back
- 41:44Speaker 12: is one of three great players in the draft, and
- 41:47Speaker 12: there's another quarterback in there and maybe some team things
- 41:50Speaker 12: offensive lineman, that's the scenario where it's okay because any
- 41:56Speaker 12: GM you know, why did the Eagles win the Super
- 41:59Speaker 12: Bowl at year because they had a bunch of players
- 42:02Speaker 12: who were really really really good. How many really really
- 42:05Speaker 12: really good players the Jaguars have right now, BTJ and
- 42:08Speaker 12: a couple you know, So if you're adding that to
- 42:11Speaker 12: your group, then nets when top five running back makes sense?
- 42:16Speaker 3: John Ozier with us it is Jaguars happy hour, JP
- 42:19Speaker 3: Shatter because Jeff Loghman just a few minutes to go here.
- 42:22Speaker 3: This is the latest that we've been to an NFL
- 42:25Speaker 3: draft where every team has their original pick in the draft.
- 42:30Speaker 3: I think it was ninety three when the Chiefs and
- 42:33Speaker 3: the Niners made the deal for Joe Montana and traded
- 42:36Speaker 3: picks and such just a few days before the draft.
- 42:39Speaker 3: That was previously the latest it had gone. But all
- 42:43Speaker 3: even the years before this draft, everybody still has their picks.
- 42:46Speaker 3: It's an oddity. We'll see how long it lasts. I
- 42:49Speaker 3: guess tonight it feels like, you know, with with the
- 42:52Speaker 3: top four kind of there, the Jaguars might be that
- 42:56Speaker 3: fulcrum point in this first round tonight.
- 43:00Speaker 12: Well, it's good that you said the thing about the
- 43:02Speaker 12: trades now, because I think by eight forty five or so, yeah, oh,
- 43:06Speaker 12: it's gonna be. I think it'll be a lot of
- 43:08Speaker 12: trades once it starts. I think you got a little
- 43:10Speaker 12: momentum Jeff of Okay, Well, once teams hadn't traded by
- 43:14Speaker 12: a couple of weeks ago, then you wait and see
- 43:17Speaker 12: what Tennessee does, and then other teams can start talking
- 43:20Speaker 12: about it. My guess is there's been a lot of
- 43:22Speaker 12: calls around the league where the button's ready to be pushed.
- 43:25Speaker 12: As soon as you're on the clock, So I think
- 43:27Speaker 12: that would change.
- 43:28Speaker 7: Yeah, a lot of groundwork probably already been done. But
- 43:31Speaker 7: John's right. I think once once cam Ward goes number
- 43:34Speaker 7: one to Tennessee, then I think then the phones are
- 43:38Speaker 7: going to start ringing after the top five happened, because
- 43:42Speaker 7: the next two quarterbacks, which is obviously going to be
- 43:44Speaker 7: a big part of that conversation about who trades and
- 43:46Speaker 7: who doesn't. Where those guys end up fitting. I think
- 43:50Speaker 7: it's gonna be very interesting because you know, for a
- 43:52Speaker 7: long time people just thought that the trade was going
- 43:54Speaker 7: to be mainly around the Sheder Sanders. But Jackson Dart
- 43:57Speaker 7: is now in the conversation as to moving up into
- 43:59Speaker 7: the top half of the first round, which could make
- 44:03Speaker 7: that even more interesting.
- 44:04Speaker 12: Quarterbacks always figured out a way to get up there.
- 44:07Speaker 4: It's fascinating how that works.
- 44:08Speaker 3: I mean, that's all the media we've been seeing the
- 44:11Speaker 3: last couple of days is on Jackson dark But I mean,
- 44:15Speaker 3: I mean, I guess that boards have had him up
- 44:17Speaker 3: there all the whole time, Like they don't change their boards.
- 44:20Speaker 8: Just leave the process.
- 44:22Speaker 12: That's a huge isnamic in the draft too, is the
- 44:24Speaker 12: media sort of hops into this on an increasing level
- 44:28Speaker 12: after about the combine. So a lot of players whose
- 44:32Speaker 12: stock is rising, it's because a GM finally told somebody
- 44:38Speaker 12: in the media, hey, this guy's pretty good too. Oh
- 44:41Speaker 12: now his stock's rising exactly. And I think that's what
- 44:44Speaker 12: happened with Genti. Frankly, I think I think a lot
- 44:46Speaker 12: of NFL people knew that this kid was special. Everybody
- 44:50Speaker 12: assumed the back wouldn't get taken that high. So then
- 44:53Speaker 12: once it starts sort of flushing itself out, everybody realized, oh,
- 44:56Speaker 12: there's only three guys, this guy should be up there.
- 45:00Speaker 12: Some of that's finding out the information later.
- 45:03Speaker 7: And the other thing I think is going to be
- 45:05Speaker 7: fun to watch tonight, aside from the top of the
- 45:08Speaker 7: draft and the quarterbacks and Jenny and what the Jaguars do.
- 45:13Speaker 7: For me, just an interesting standpoint. This football team here
- 45:17Speaker 7: in Jacksonville's offensive lineman. Okay, so what happens in the
- 45:22Speaker 7: first round with all of these tackles that are there's
- 45:25Speaker 7: a lot of them that have a first round grade,
- 45:28Speaker 7: And so I'm going to be watching this first round
- 45:30Speaker 7: with an eye on what can the Jaguars do in
- 45:34Speaker 7: round two and who goes undrafted in Round one to
- 45:37Speaker 7: give this football team options at a position of need,
- 45:41Speaker 7: which is offensive line.
- 45:43Speaker 3: You always say it, You've been saying it for months.
- 45:46Speaker 3: If you're going to rebuild the offensive line, you better
- 45:48Speaker 3: start drafting offensive lineman high.
- 45:50Speaker 12: Yeah, And I think that's the dilemma when you're talking
- 45:53Speaker 12: about Jenny or you're talking about offensive skill player high.
- 45:58Speaker 12: I do believe that at some point point the Eagles,
- 46:01Speaker 12: right all those years where they invested in it and
- 46:05Speaker 12: it's not a sexy pick and your fans kind of go, Okay, well,
- 46:08Speaker 12: it's fine, But at some point you have to sacrifice
- 46:12Speaker 12: some next day pop to get that on one side
- 46:16Speaker 12: of the ball or the other. If you're going to
- 46:18Speaker 12: be a line centric team, you have start taking them early.
- 46:22Speaker 12: But I don't think. I don't think they're gonna be
- 46:24Speaker 12: a line centric tonight.
- 46:25Speaker 7: And I would add one thing here that you made
- 46:27Speaker 7: about the Eagles, right. The Eagles have drafted so well
- 46:32Speaker 7: over the years, and that's the key of this whole thing.
- 46:36Speaker 7: You've got to be able to stack good draft after
- 46:39Speaker 7: good draft after good draft. I'm talking consistently good drafts
- 46:44Speaker 7: to build a franchise. If you can do that, then
- 46:47Speaker 7: you can be where the Eagles are you know? And look,
- 46:49Speaker 7: they're winning super Bowls without a truly truly elite quarterback.
- 46:54Speaker 7: I think of Passer now, he's got his great traits
- 46:57Speaker 7: and special characteristics in his own right. Yes, But the talent,
- 47:01Speaker 7: the overall talent of that Eagles team is what has
- 47:04Speaker 7: carried that football team to where they are today. And
- 47:07Speaker 7: you hope that James Gladstone leaves this team in that
- 47:10Speaker 7: direction going forward.
- 47:12Speaker 12: In James, you trust, right, j Yes, yes we do.
- 47:15Speaker 3: And that begins tonight final couple of minutes here, guys.
- 47:18Speaker 4: So John, let's let's.
- 47:20Speaker 2: Get your pick.
- 47:21Speaker 4: If the Jags are at five, what are they like?
- 47:24Speaker 12: Look, I think there's guys out of their reach at
- 47:28Speaker 12: five that they love. I think Carter and Hunter, who
- 47:31Speaker 12: I don't think will be there at five. If they
- 47:33Speaker 12: could get those guys, boy, I think they love them.
- 47:36Speaker 12: I don't know if it's going to be too expensive.
- 47:38Speaker 12: There's reports out there about all kinds of different things.
- 47:41Speaker 12: The expense to move up I just wonder about. So
- 47:45Speaker 12: I'm gonna go genty if they stick at five.
- 47:47Speaker 3: Blogs, Oh goodness, we went through this earlier.
- 47:53Speaker 2: We know what you want.
- 47:55Speaker 7: Yeah, I wanted to trade up to get trash but
- 47:57Speaker 7: if they're.
- 47:58Speaker 2: At five, a lot of things.
- 47:59Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I know.
- 48:02Speaker 7: Look, I love Jenny, like I said, I think he's
- 48:05Speaker 7: one of the three elite players in this draft, and
- 48:07Speaker 7: I think that you can't go wrong there. But I
- 48:09Speaker 7: will say this, Mason Graham, Banks, the tackle out of Texas.
- 48:15Speaker 7: There's a lot of great players in this draft, and
- 48:18Speaker 7: I think that it's gonna be hard to mess this
- 48:21Speaker 7: fifth overall pickup.
- 48:26Speaker 3: I don't know if there's a long scenic route to
- 48:29Speaker 3: a pick, said Jenny.
- 48:30Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, but look, I like again, I like Mason Graham,
- 48:33Speaker 7: I like Banks the tackle from Texas, and those two,
- 48:36Speaker 7: all three of those guys are worthy at five. But
- 48:39Speaker 7: the truly elite player again, like I said, Hunter Carter
- 48:44Speaker 7: and then of course Jenny, those three are the elites.
- 48:46Speaker 8: In this dram.
- 48:47Speaker 3: See what happens ahead of the Jaguars tonight. It's at
- 48:50Speaker 3: eight o'clock start time. We're going to have pre draft coverage.
- 48:54Speaker 3: Apprecio is at seven point thirty. It's at Jaguars dot com.
- 48:58Speaker 3: All the Jaguars social media channels, including Facebook and x
- 49:02Speaker 3: Tonight will also be on Jaguars YouTube this evening, so
- 49:06Speaker 3: check that out. Seven point thirty for some final thoughts
- 49:09Speaker 3: leading into the NFL Draft, And we'll also have Bucky
- 49:13Speaker 3: Brooks on that show coming up tonight as well. John,
- 49:16Speaker 3: You're gonna have writing all night and all weekend long.
- 49:19Speaker 12: That's what I'm told. It will be on the website,
- 49:23Speaker 12: free website.
- 49:24Speaker 4: Free website, Jaguars dot com. Check it out, logs. You're
- 49:26Speaker 4: gonna be with us all weekend? What's the story or
- 49:29Speaker 4: just tonight?
- 49:30Speaker 7: I think tonight? Okay, tonight today? Yeah, I'm gonna bounce
- 49:33Speaker 7: around a little bit tonight.
- 49:34Speaker 4: Okay, love that.
- 49:34Speaker 8: Yeah, you got radio tonight, right, yeah.
- 49:36Speaker 7: Radio tonight, and I think it's pop on Martin now
- 49:38Speaker 7: a little bit. Maybe even with you, I don't know.
- 49:40Speaker 4: Oh wow, love all that. We'll see Jack of all trades.
- 49:44Speaker 7: I'm gonna try, you know again film. I've been watching
- 49:47Speaker 7: film for months of these guys.
- 49:48Speaker 4: Yeah, so use your analysis.
- 49:51Speaker 7: Look, I'm looking forward to this strap just because you know,
- 49:53Speaker 7: when you when you spend time watching these guys, you
- 49:55Speaker 7: really want to kind of see what your thoughts kind
- 49:57Speaker 7: of how they compare to the other, the true professionals.
- 50:01Speaker 7: You understood just a Draftnick, that's all.
- 50:03Speaker 8: That's it.
- 50:05Speaker 3: You're a whole lot more than that. Logs, you're a
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