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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Jaguars Broadcast We Can Review podcast presented
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Speaker 1: by t I A. A. Bank, J P. Shadrick with
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Speaker 1: you and today is Friday, March Spith. We have the
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Speaker 1: best of the week from Jaguars Broadcasting, including a discussion
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Speaker 1: of how many new Jaguars players will be on the
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Speaker 1: final fifty three man roster, a veteran quarterback with connections
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Speaker 1: to the Jags leadership that could be a perfect fit,
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Speaker 1: and a preview of a conversation with ESPN College Game
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Speaker 1: Day host Reached Davis, who provides his insight to Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence on and off the field the last three years
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Speaker 1: at Clemson. If you haven't subscribed yet to the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars Reporters podcast. Ashman Sullivan, Brian Sexton, John Osier,
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Speaker 1: and I each asked a question of the others with
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Speaker 1: thirty seconds to respond. This week hard Knocks and Urban
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Speaker 1: Meyer as Coach of the Year. Aashlan is up with
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Speaker 1: the first question and JP should the Jaguars volunteer for
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Speaker 1: Hard Knocks. They can volunteer and put themselves on the show.
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Speaker 1: Should they do it? Thirty seconds go? Should they yes?
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Speaker 1: Will they no? I think urban Meyer it's his vision
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Speaker 1: around here, as we heard dot kan say right after
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Speaker 1: they hired him, and I don't think that vision includes
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Speaker 1: other people's looking into this organization while they're building the organization,
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Speaker 1: at least the first year. Should they sure it'd be
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Speaker 1: great for business, be great for ticket sales, be great
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Speaker 1: for merchandise. Will they know? I don't think so? All right, John, No, God, no, no.
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Speaker 1: Having these cameras around you know about old man, get
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Speaker 1: off my lawn? Oh way do I want hard Knocks here?
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Speaker 1: It's pretty personal. And by the way, that all generated
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Speaker 1: from NFL dot com writer linking to a story from
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Speaker 1: two thousand twelve. I get no feeling. And then he
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Speaker 1: had a premonition that Dave was gonna come here. They're
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Speaker 1: not gonna volunteer for it. I get no feeling it's
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Speaker 1: gonna happen. No, no, no, Brian, I'll answer quickly. No.
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Speaker 1: I don't think they'll need to. Uh. Trevor Lawrence and
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Speaker 1: urban Meyer by themselves will have the national media here
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Speaker 1: and cameras here all the time, so they don't need
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Speaker 1: to do this. But I will go back to Jaguar
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Speaker 1: summer of two thousand and four, UM and and having
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Speaker 1: those cameras around. It wasn't as intrusive as you thought.
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Speaker 1: I that production crew from NFL Films did an excellent job.
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Speaker 1: They were on every plane, they were on the practice fields,
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Speaker 1: they were around, but it wasn't so overpowering that it
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Speaker 1: would be um intrusive. I just didn't think it was.
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Speaker 1: But I wouldn't do this because I want to. I'd
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Speaker 1: want to quietly do it my way, and I don't
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Speaker 1: think I need them. So you have it, all right,
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Speaker 1: I guess the answers. No, I'll move on JP. What
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Speaker 1: do you got they might do in at that point?
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Speaker 1: But all right, here's my question. If the Jaguars win
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Speaker 1: eight or more games this year, five or better, should
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Speaker 1: Urban Meyer get consideration as coach of the year in
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Speaker 1: the National Football League? John, Yes, it would be wouldn't
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Speaker 1: be a record turnaround, but it would be up there
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Speaker 1: on the lists. Uh, if you deal with the rookie quarterback,
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Speaker 1: I don't care how good he is, so absolutely if
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Speaker 1: they went eight, nighth that said, it's a seven game improvement,
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Speaker 1: you'd be in the conversation, you'd be talked about all year.
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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, he should be considered for Yes, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: yes he should and not just that, but personnel guy
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Speaker 1: of the Year too, right, I mean, because this is
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Speaker 1: his show here um and and being facetious, but the
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Speaker 1: reality of it is is if he gets to eight
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Speaker 1: and eight, he's done a good job bringing the right
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Speaker 1: players in here, and not just the quarterback, but getting
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Speaker 1: this team and lifting it up. So I would say, yes, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: he should be in the conversation bring us. I say
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Speaker 1: yes as well. And I cringed a little when John
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Speaker 1: said a seven game improvement that hurts, but yeah, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: I mean eight and eight you take that any day
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Speaker 1: with the like John said, rookie quarterback and the first
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Speaker 1: year and the biggest question was Canner have been doing
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Speaker 1: in the NFL? That would absolutely prove yes, he can
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Speaker 1: do it. The Jaguars Reporters podcast runs Monday afternoon on
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars Official podcast network onto Tuesday's Jags Drive Time
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Speaker 1: and a discussion called Beyond Number One looking at yes,
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Speaker 1: the other ten draft selections beyond the number one overall
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Speaker 1: pick and this week a question about trading some of
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Speaker 1: those picks, all about draft eleven draft picks, and the
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Speaker 1: question is, John, do you take one, two, three of
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Speaker 1: those eleven draft picks and maybe trade them away and
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Speaker 1: get someone in free agency and the trades we've been
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Speaker 1: talking about. So let's pull up the teams that right
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Speaker 1: now are over the cap, and like Brian said, there
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Speaker 1: are many, but these are the ones that need the
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Speaker 1: most help. I guess you could say, so, John, let's
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Speaker 1: look at the Saints. There are lots of playmakers. Could
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Speaker 1: we foresee this top? Yeah, I think it makes sense.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you do it. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you want to get down from eleven draft picks.
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Speaker 1: The Jaguars have too six. I can remember the you know,
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Speaker 1: the infamous two thousand eleven draft around here where you
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Speaker 1: had five players. I don't know if you want to
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Speaker 1: get to that point, but I think the way the
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Speaker 1: Jags approached the draft last year, which was having twelve
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Speaker 1: guys and then addition, James Robinson gave you thirteen draft
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Speaker 1: picks rookies, heavily contributing another couple of rookie free agents.
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Speaker 1: If you add eleven and a couple of free agents
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Speaker 1: to that all of a sudden, you're twenty five or
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Speaker 1: twenty six, couple of street guys and first and second
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Speaker 1: year players. Uh do you need that many? You know?
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Speaker 1: Do you need some more experience? So yeah, I think, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know the gift that Dave calledwell and Doug Marone
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Speaker 1: gave this franchise obviously Trevor Lawrence, but also having the
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Speaker 1: equity and the capital to move around this year and
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Speaker 1: not feel like, hey, we need to uh replenished the
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Speaker 1: roster with youth. Well they've got youth, they can add
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Speaker 1: some more. But to give up a couple of young
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Speaker 1: roster spots for a really good player that you know,
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Speaker 1: don't trade for a thirty two year old, but if
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Speaker 1: you're trading for twenty six year old, twenty seven year
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Speaker 1: old who's got three or four years left makes sense.
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Speaker 1: I just think we're gone from the era of when
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Speaker 1: you would build in the past or rebuild however you
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Speaker 1: want to phrase it. I know Day when he was here,
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Speaker 1: it never liked the term rebuild. Um it used to beginning,
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Speaker 1: you took your lumps right, you were you know, four
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Speaker 1: and twelve or five and eleven, and then the next year,
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Speaker 1: you made some progress in your seven and nine, maybe
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Speaker 1: eight and eight cusp of the playoffs, and then the
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Speaker 1: third year was the year that you were swinging for it.
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Speaker 1: You're spending some money in free agency, and you were
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Speaker 1: going to get into the playoffs. I don't think you
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Speaker 1: can look at it like that. It's absurd to say
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Speaker 1: you're gonna go from one and fifteen to the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: But with the cap room they've got and the draft
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Speaker 1: picks they had last year, right, and the draft picks
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Speaker 1: they have this year, I don't think it's served to
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Speaker 1: say they can be eight and eight. The kid quarterback
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Speaker 1: looks to be. If we say that he's as good
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Speaker 1: a prospect has come out in a long time, is
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Speaker 1: he as good as Ben Roethlisberger, who had a great
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Speaker 1: run of success, albeit with a very talented team around him.
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Speaker 1: I guess what I'm saying is Ben Roethlisberger took that
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Speaker 1: team in two thousand four and they went to the
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Speaker 1: a C Championship Game. Not saying that that's going to happen,
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Speaker 1: but if you are strategic with your use of your
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Speaker 1: draft picks and your cap room this year, and that
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Speaker 1: means trades included. I know people are thinking draft free agency.
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Speaker 1: Bold on trades too. You can put yourself in a
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Speaker 1: position where you can have a lot more success than
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Speaker 1: most people will give you credit for having the ability
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Speaker 1: to have. This year, I think they can get something done.
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Speaker 1: Jack's Drive Time airs Tuesdays at ten am on the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars social channels and the Jaguar's official podcast network. Not
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Speaker 1: a Wednesday Mornings Huddle Up podcast with NFL media analyst
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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks, John Osier, and yours Truly. We discussed the
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Speaker 1: possibility of Alex Smith heading to free agency. Well, the
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Speaker 1: comeback player of the or in in the NFL was indeed
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Speaker 1: cut by the Washington football team Friday. Here's our conversation
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Speaker 1: Wednesday about the connections Alex Smith has here in Jacksonville
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Speaker 1: and what he could contribute to the Jaguars organization. So
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Speaker 1: does he want to play or is he willing to
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Speaker 1: be a backup because he want to compete. He has
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Speaker 1: a connection with Urban, He's a great salty vet. Bucky,
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Speaker 1: what do you think, man? This is a perfect fit.
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Speaker 1: This is exactly what the Jaguars needed to happen. Alex
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Speaker 1: Smith is the perfect backup quarterback for this situation. Knows
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Speaker 1: over my understands the culture that Urban wants to create
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Speaker 1: in the locker room has a relationship with tram Balky.
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Speaker 1: They were together in San Francisco. So the GM knows
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Speaker 1: that he can trust Alex to be prepared and ready.
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Speaker 1: And then when you have what Alex has gone through.
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Speaker 1: Former number one overall pick had a very rocky road
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Speaker 1: early in his career before becoming a Pro Bowl caliber player.
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Speaker 1: He has mastered the art of winning. When you look
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Speaker 1: at his record the last five, six, seven years as
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Speaker 1: a starter, he gets it. And so to have a
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Speaker 1: guy like that who was also mentored the likes of
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Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick, Patch Mahomes, what do you did with young
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Speaker 1: guys with the Washington football team? To have him as
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Speaker 1: kind of like that that that elder statesman in the
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Speaker 1: quarterback room with Trevor and whoever else would be in
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Speaker 1: their room, I think it's a no brainer. Now we
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Speaker 1: have to investigate and see if he wants to be
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Speaker 1: a starter or if he still just wants to be
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Speaker 1: around and involved in the game. But if he is
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Speaker 1: willing to come and just that mentor role, I think
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Speaker 1: this would be perfect. This be a slam dunk for
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Speaker 1: the Jacks. Yeah, and that's the question that you can't answer.
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Speaker 1: Only he can answer that. You know, it's been a topic,
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Speaker 1: so I've discussed it a couple of times. But like
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Speaker 1: I said on another show, the thing you have to
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Speaker 1: worry too. I don't think anybody is going to tell
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Speaker 1: Alex Smith, hey, we want you to come and be
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Speaker 1: our franchise quarterback. It's not that that's going to happen.
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Speaker 1: But there are certainly situations out there where logically, if
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Speaker 1: you're him, you're thirty six, thirty seven, if you think
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Speaker 1: you've got a couple more years in you, there are
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Speaker 1: other teams that it's a better possibility that that team
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Speaker 1: might pull their quarterback in event of their not being
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Speaker 1: an injury. In the Jaguars, it's gonna take a lot
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Speaker 1: for whoever they pick. It's gonna be Travor, but wherever
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Speaker 1: they pick, it's gonna take a lot for them to
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Speaker 1: bench a number one overall quarterback at any point. But
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Speaker 1: would he want a situation where there's another quarterback who's
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Speaker 1: on a little bit shakier ground a veteran he struggled before.
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Speaker 1: There's probably four or five teams out there that would
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Speaker 1: be more logical. Well, if this guy struggles, then this
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Speaker 1: other guy is gonna get a shot. So I don't
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Speaker 1: think he's gonna be a franchise guy anywhere. But would
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Speaker 1: he be tempted by someplace with a dicier situation? Only
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Speaker 1: he can answer that. I mean, I wonder at this
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Speaker 1: stage of his career because I'm not I'm not gonna lie.
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Speaker 1: Like I watched him come back, and I was it
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Speaker 1: was great to see him come back from that devastating
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Speaker 1: injury to get back on the field. But I held
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Speaker 1: my breath every time he was on the field, right
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Speaker 1: like I held my breath in terms of watching him
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Speaker 1: as a start and the fact that he couldn't finish
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Speaker 1: um the playoff run. I just wonder if he can
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Speaker 1: envision himself playing what they're talking about maybe sixteen seventeen games,
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Speaker 1: or if he just still loves the game and wants
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Speaker 1: to be around it and maybe he wants to give back.
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Speaker 1: And because of his comments in g Q when he
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Speaker 1: talked about the relationship with the team and not feeling
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Speaker 1: like he was wanted, well, you know Urban is going
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Speaker 1: to love him up because Urban Whin saw him in
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Speaker 1: Washington while he was hurting those things, and so you
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Speaker 1: know Urban can recruit if Urban can't recruit him, and
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Speaker 1: just say, hey, here's the situation right off in the sunset,
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Speaker 1: leave the game of better plays? Do these things show
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Speaker 1: these guys how to win and all those things? Would
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Speaker 1: that be a feeling appealing? And I wonder if it
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Speaker 1: would be appealing to his his family because I know
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Speaker 1: his family had to sit there also watching the game
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Speaker 1: through closed fingers making sure that he was going to
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Speaker 1: be okay. I think this would be a really good
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Speaker 1: fit for him. I know Chicago is in play because
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Speaker 1: of the Matt Naggy situation, but I mean how much
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Speaker 1: of Chicago I mean, really go man, Like he can
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Speaker 1: have an opportunity to be here to three years and
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Speaker 1: see Trevor and maybe step into some spots if there
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Speaker 1: was an injury or any situation like that we had
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Speaker 1: to step in and play. How much more can things
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Speaker 1: line up for this franchise right now that I mean
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Speaker 1: to have the number one pick to get Urban, to
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Speaker 1: get everything that's sort of fallen right yeah, also get
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Speaker 1: the backup, which, as you said, Meyer and Balky met
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Speaker 1: through Alex Smith. It almost seems like it's such a
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Speaker 1: logical thing that it won't happen, but come on like
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Speaker 1: like like here's here's what's happening, Like we gotta take
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Speaker 1: all the losing, whatever happened in the last decade, Like
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Speaker 1: we put all that out, like we left all that behind,
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Speaker 1: We left all that the one in fifteen and I
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Speaker 1: feel like I gained like five years and got a
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Speaker 1: really old then get really the life buck. So but
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Speaker 1: now is lining up the football guys are shining on
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Speaker 1: us like this is a perfect it's a perfect time,
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Speaker 1: like and we go from works to first this is
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Speaker 1: what it's like a naive little Becky. When we return.
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Speaker 1: More from the Huddle Up Podcast. With a question about
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Speaker 1: how many new players will make the roster, Jeff Lagerman
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Speaker 1: gives us a pending free agent tight end he wouldn't
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Speaker 1: mind seeing and teal plus what Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence
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Speaker 1: social media for a question about changes on the Jaguars roster.
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Speaker 1: Let's get our final question in today and again, thanks
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Speaker 1: for all the submissions on Tuesday on social media. We
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Speaker 1: appreciate it. This is from at Danton Thomas. What percentage
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Speaker 1: of players do you think will be new to the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars and what position group will be A surprised with
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Speaker 1: the number of changes, Well, this is this is pretty deep.
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Speaker 1: I think there's on the final fifty three, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: say the are thirty new players next year because eleven
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Speaker 1: draft picks a bunch of free agents coming in, undrafted guys.
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Speaker 1: They want their guys in there. You're gonna have some
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Speaker 1: starters back certainly on offense on the old line, and
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Speaker 1: some skill players. But other than that, like deeper down
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Speaker 1: the roster, I think it's thirty. That's my number. What
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Speaker 1: do you think? Yeah, that's that's about where I was.
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Speaker 1: I was at about I think I think your numbers right,
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Speaker 1: because I mean, let's be honest, like, how many ever
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Speaker 1: you're gonna retain from the team and the way the
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Speaker 1: team played, you have to flip it. You have to
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Speaker 1: flip it, particularly because you're change in scheme. I like that.
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Speaker 1: I think the biggest position group to change we're talking
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Speaker 1: about it the defensive tackle class, like the D line,
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Speaker 1: the interior tackles, and especially because the D line is
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Speaker 1: the D coordinator's baby. All those guys, all those guys
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Speaker 1: with the exception of the number one. We'll see a
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Speaker 1: new defensive line next season for sure, because it starts
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Speaker 1: right there. You have to you have to get the
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Speaker 1: trenches right. That's right. And again, if we're assuming that
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Speaker 1: it's a three four, which you know nobody's saying yet,
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Speaker 1: but let's assume it's a three four Hamilton's I think
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Speaker 1: Tavin at the big end, I don't think you'll see
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Speaker 1: him released, you know. I think most just comes out
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Speaker 1: in camp and is not not even close right that
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Speaker 1: that would be the only thing. Yeah, they liked him
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Speaker 1: at the end of the season last year. He played
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Speaker 1: better at big end than he had played at tackles,
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Speaker 1: So don't necessarily count him out of being a part
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Speaker 1: of them. I say he's gonna be the guy. But
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Speaker 1: I agree with you on as far as numbers thirty,
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Speaker 1: I almost think that's the minimum of new you're gonna
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Speaker 1: see it, because most teams have sixteen or seventeen new
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Speaker 1: just right out of the box, and because most of
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Speaker 1: your rookies make eat a couple of undrafted guys make it.
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Speaker 1: Most teams go nine or ten just rookies, and then
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're talking about four or five
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Speaker 1: new guys, so at least twenty five thirty. I mean
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot what happens, it's what happen
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Speaker 1: to be. I mean, you want to protende have to
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Speaker 1: flip it. You can't go, you can't run it back
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Speaker 1: with the same front back. We know we have to
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Speaker 1: we have to get everything about the changing schemes. New coach,
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Speaker 1: new culture, jenner, manager is all different. I just can't
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Speaker 1: imagine a lot of the same personnel coming back. I
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Speaker 1: think they move on from they try and do it
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Speaker 1: their own way. The Huddle Up podcast runs Wednesday mornings
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Speaker 1: at eight o'clock on the Jaguar's official podcast network. Moving
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Speaker 1: along to Jaguars Happy Our Radio Thursday, Jeff Loghman and
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Speaker 1: I got into a discussion about the tight end position
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Speaker 1: for the Jags and the swings and missus they've had
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Speaker 1: in free agency in the recent past. Loghman this year
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Speaker 1: likes one pending free agent especially Yeah, I'm gonna find
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Speaker 1: your guy. And when I say find your guy, you
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Speaker 1: need to find somebody that can threaten the field, that
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Speaker 1: has speed, that has quickness, that is going to provide
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Speaker 1: a comfort level for a young quarterback. I love Jonathan
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Speaker 1: Smith of the Tennessee Titans, and I've made that known
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Speaker 1: many times before, and I think he will be uh available.
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Speaker 1: The Tennessee Titans are going to have some cap issues
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Speaker 1: and so he's expected to be on the market now.
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Speaker 1: Last year he had a somewhat of an injury, played gear,
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Speaker 1: had some knee issues and was active for about fourteen games.
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Speaker 1: But I think a lot of the games that he
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Speaker 1: was active, he just wasn't very effective because of the injuries.
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Speaker 1: But when he is on his game, John new Smith,
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Speaker 1: I think is he's not at that top tier, but
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Speaker 1: I think he's a he's a notch below and looking
18:29
Speaker 1: if you can get a notch below that top tier
18:31
Speaker 1: of the guy who's in Kansas City and the guy
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Speaker 1: that's in San Francisco, you'll take that any day of
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Speaker 1: the week. And what I like about John and Smith
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Speaker 1: he is competitive is the day is long. He is
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Speaker 1: a good willing blocker. He's got quickness and he's got
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Speaker 1: the ability to do things after the catch, and that's
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Speaker 1: what you want with the tight ends. Jaguars Happy Hour
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Speaker 1: airing Thursday at four o'clock on tin tin x L
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Speaker 1: a M Radio and Jacksonville and the Jaguars social media channels.
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Speaker 1: The podcast available after the show on this podcast network. Finally,
19:03
Speaker 1: a preview of an interview that will run Monday on
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Speaker 1: Jaguars dot Com and Jacks social media. Rhees Davis has
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Speaker 1: been with ESPN since n and this week signed an
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Speaker 1: extension with the network. He's been the host of ESPN's
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Speaker 1: College Game Day since and before that, he was the
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Speaker 1: longtime studio host for espns pregame, halftime and postgame college
19:24
Speaker 1: football coverage. He has a unique perspective on urban Meyer's
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Speaker 1: legacy as a college coach, but also of the top
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Speaker 1: college players. We discussed urban Meyer's attendance at the Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence throwing session a few weeks back, and what kind
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Speaker 1: of player and person Lawrence is and will be in
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Speaker 1: the NFL. You've mentioned the quarterback Trevor Lawrence, and and
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Speaker 1: it's really the only look we've had of urban Meyer
19:47
Speaker 1: in the wild, if you will, since he's been hired here, right,
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Speaker 1: But it was front and center and Clemson the other week.
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Speaker 1: He's ten yards off the line of scrimmage, out in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the field. All the other NFL personnel
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Speaker 1: folks are on the sideline out of the way, Thanks
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Speaker 1: for coming, Enjoy the s O Club, Enjoy your private
20:04
Speaker 1: jet flight home. Because Urban I think was putting the
20:07
Speaker 1: message out, Uh, this is the guy. What kind of
20:10
Speaker 1: guy is Trevor. You've covered him for three years. He's
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Speaker 1: a tremendous person. First of all, he's he's grounded, he's humble,
20:19
Speaker 1: he's you know, anybody can look at him. You know,
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Speaker 1: you don't have to be Todd mcshade to look at
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence and see that he's got it all when
20:27
Speaker 1: it when it comes to being a quarterback. You know,
20:29
Speaker 1: he's he's got the prototypical size, he's got the whippy arm,
20:33
Speaker 1: he's a he's athletic. Um. You know, people are drawn
20:37
Speaker 1: to him. I think that he will he he will be.
20:41
Speaker 1: He will quietly establish his presence in the locker room.
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Speaker 1: Trevor is not allowed guy. But he speaks loudly with
20:49
Speaker 1: his play um. And I don't think there's a greater
20:53
Speaker 1: evidence of that than his first year at Clemson when
20:55
Speaker 1: he displaced Kelly Bryant, who is a really good player
20:58
Speaker 1: and really popular player on time since team. And you know,
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Speaker 1: Trevor was competitive yet respectful throughout the spring and the fall,
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Speaker 1: and I was there in fall practice. Now, hey look, Kelly,
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Speaker 1: good player, but you could see this guy was different.
21:15
Speaker 1: And so eventually the time came and he won the job.
21:17
Speaker 1: And um, I remember Christian Wilkins went to Trevor, took
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Speaker 1: him out to breakfast to ease any concerns that he
21:25
Speaker 1: had about being the quarterback because he had proven himself
21:27
Speaker 1: to his teammates by the way he conducted himself. Everybody
21:31
Speaker 1: could see he could play, but the way he handled
21:33
Speaker 1: himself in the competition in the first few games of
21:36
Speaker 1: that season spoke volumes. So you're getting a young man
21:40
Speaker 1: of tremendous faith. You're getting a highly competitive, tougher than
21:46
Speaker 1: you realize because of his sort of stoic demeanor. Guy
21:50
Speaker 1: who I would say that in terms of of watching quarterbacks,
21:55
Speaker 1: I in my professional career, I don't go back to
21:58
Speaker 1: the Bent Jeff George workout, but in my professional career
22:04
Speaker 1: at ESPN, UM I would say that only the only
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Speaker 1: guy that I've seen that I thought that I would
22:12
Speaker 1: say better than Trevor Lawrence coming out with the Andrew
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Speaker 1: Luck And it's only it's only by here, I mean,
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Speaker 1: you know, I I just thought Andrew Luck was one
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Speaker 1: of the best college quarterbacks I'd ever seen, and um,
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Speaker 1: and I think Trevor is certainly right in that category easy.
22:27
Speaker 1: You know, if he's not even with him, he's certainly
22:29
Speaker 1: nipping at the heels, you know. And certainly I would
22:32
Speaker 1: include Peyton in that too. But I think the you know,
22:35
Speaker 1: the edge that I would give guys like Andrew, Guys
22:38
Speaker 1: like Trevor are you know, they run to move a
22:42
Speaker 1: little bit better, They have a little bit one more
22:44
Speaker 1: dimensioned and you know, even a gall like Peyton or
22:46
Speaker 1: Drew Brees or somebody who I also you know, watched
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Speaker 1: Briece Davis and the Game Day Crew will have coverage
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Speaker 1: of the NFL Draft on ABC starting April twenty nine,
22:56
Speaker 1: and check out the full interview with Davis coming up
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Speaker 1: Monday for Morning louding his thoughts on Urban Meyer's legacy
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Speaker 1: in college football, and a couple behind the scene stories
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Speaker 1: of Meyer back in his ESPN days. Coming up this
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Speaker 1: week the closing of the franchise tag window and what
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Speaker 1: will the Jaguars do if anything. Stay tuned, Plus we're
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