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Doug Marrone Draft-Day Interview · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Head coach dmarrong with us on Draft night nineteen, the
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  Speaker 1: first round coming up a little bit later this evening.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're onto the players that are here now,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm curious about the process for you and your
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff leading up to the draft. At what point
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  Speaker 1: did you guys move forward to the players that were
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  Speaker 1: here and what was this, you know, the scenario for
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  Speaker 1: you guys on a day to day basis when you
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  Speaker 1: were looking at players. Yeah, I think I think for
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  Speaker 1: us when it starts off obviously the season ends, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, the first thing you do is you're you're
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  Speaker 1: looking at evaluations of your own team and you want
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  Speaker 1: to make sure you're correct on that. And then you know,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes down to acquiring players after that, your
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  Speaker 1: first process as the coaches is to look at, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the NFL free agents, free agents around the league that
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  Speaker 1: you know we can we think that can help our
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  Speaker 1: football team and and really you know, write evaluations on
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  Speaker 1: them and hand them to our you know, pro personnel department,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and they'll look at that. And then you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously coach Coughlin and Dave Call well look at those
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  Speaker 1: you know players and see which ones you know fit
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  Speaker 1: in both you know, financially and the ones that can
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  Speaker 1: help our football team. You know, that process goes on
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  Speaker 1: for a while UM obviously, and then you know, as
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  Speaker 1: you're working on UM you know, upcoming playbooks and schemes
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  Speaker 1: and schematics for the following year, you know, the next
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  Speaker 1: process that you have to be ready for is is
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  Speaker 1: the combine. So you know that's gonna be our first
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  Speaker 1: time where we really get to meet the players or
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  Speaker 1: sit down an interview with them. So you know, we
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  Speaker 1: try to do as much background as we can. We
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  Speaker 1: get tapes together, UM, and we really haven't had enough
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  Speaker 1: time to put a full UM report and yet, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, we get down to combine, we do that,
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  Speaker 1: then we start working on you know, the college players.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll get x amount each coach will that x
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  Speaker 1: amount of players. I'll get a certain amount of players
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  Speaker 1: that you know, we'll look at and basically we'll just
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  Speaker 1: rate those players like you know how you know, where
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  Speaker 1: do they you know, where do they fit? Who's the
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  Speaker 1: best one? You know, just simple and then you know, hey,
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  Speaker 1: if if we were acquired as players, this is how
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  Speaker 1: we would fit into our system. So you know, we
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  Speaker 1: we do reports on that and that gets handed in
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  Speaker 1: um obviously now to coach Coughlin and Dave Calwell, and
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  Speaker 1: it goes into our uh scouting services, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: looking at that and then basically, um, probably a week
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  Speaker 1: before the players report, you know, or basically about ten
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  Speaker 1: days it takes for us to sit down. We'll sit
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  Speaker 1: down with the scouts and everyone in a big room
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  Speaker 1: and we'll read our reports and what we liked and
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  Speaker 1: what we did, and we'll watch film, um pretty much
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  Speaker 1: on on each player that we've talked about, and then um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're getting ourselves ready for you know, the
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  Speaker 1: players coming in and you know, the players are coming
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  Speaker 1: in and we're in a phase one where we can
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  Speaker 1: meet with them, so you know, we're getting our meetings
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  Speaker 1: ready or cut ups ready or things like that. So
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  Speaker 1: we're not uh involved as much as I would say
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  Speaker 1: the people on the other side, the scouting department, which
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  Speaker 1: you know really they're doing this stuff all year around,
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  Speaker 1: so uh, they have a great understanding of the of
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  Speaker 1: all the players, you know, basically that involved. They have
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  Speaker 1: a better understanding of where these players will probably be chosen. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and we as coaches just sit back and you know,
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  Speaker 1: work with the players out of here because that's the
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  Speaker 1: one thing you can guarantee and then look forward to
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  Speaker 1: seeing what players you require that might be able to
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  Speaker 1: help our football team when you're looking at college players
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  Speaker 1: in that time frame. Um, how much do your way
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  Speaker 1: the tape versus the conversation with the player in your
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  Speaker 1: final grade and your final report. I think nowadays it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a difficult um process, meaning that you know, they
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  Speaker 1: take so many different types of test. You know that
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  Speaker 1: you know, evaluate their personalities, their backgrounds there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how them motivated and and and so you're going through
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  Speaker 1: all those and you know, you know, you're going through
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  Speaker 1: sources of things of that nature, and you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: create a picture in your mind of you know, the
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  Speaker 1: personality of the character of the player that you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: sit down and talk to. And sometimes when you sit
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  Speaker 1: down with them, you know, they may have past all
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  Speaker 1: the check marks, and you know, you may sit down
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  Speaker 1: on him and something may not feel right, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and you're gonna bring that up. And I would say
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  Speaker 1: the other way it goes is that there's there's you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of red flags and things that you want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure you address and have a better knowledge of that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you sit down with him, you say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: that makes sense. I understand where he is. Um. I
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  Speaker 1: try to when I sit down with the players, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get a sense of who they are, how they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be motivated, how they communicate, you know, how I
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  Speaker 1: can get to him, um, things that that nature, and
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  Speaker 1: have a plan for them outside of just you know
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  Speaker 1: what they're gonna do on the football field, but have
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  Speaker 1: a plan for them on you know, how you can
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  Speaker 1: develop them as a person and how you can you know,
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  Speaker 1: develop that type of trust in that relationship that I
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  Speaker 1: think you need to be successful in this league. Doug, tonight,
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  Speaker 1: what's your role in the draft room? You'll obviously be
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  Speaker 1: in there with Tom and Dave and the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the scouting staff and everybody involved. But what do you
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  Speaker 1: bring tonight to the table in that draft room? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I would like to sit here and say
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  Speaker 1: that I bring a ton but I don't think it'
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  Speaker 1: it works that way. I think that you know, I
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  Speaker 1: just you know, part of the process, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: ask questions. You know, Um, you know, what do you
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  Speaker 1: feel about this? What you feel like that? But we've
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  Speaker 1: done so much prepping I mean, there's there's so much
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  Speaker 1: that's done prior to you know, where you're going through,
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  Speaker 1: so many scenarios, so many different things You're going through
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  Speaker 1: the players, and you just keep doing it and doing
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  Speaker 1: it where you know, I'm a little bit more separated
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  Speaker 1: from the coaches and players, you know the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of days, you know, as we build up to this draft,
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  Speaker 1: to be involved in those conversations and be able to
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  Speaker 1: answer questions, and you know, basically I'm I'm pretty much
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  Speaker 1: there for support and whatever questions that you know people
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  Speaker 1: may have of how we feel like we're going to
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  Speaker 1: use someone, um, you know, just to reiterate those things.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's basically you know, you know what I'll
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  Speaker 1: be doing, and you know I'll be tracking what what
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  Speaker 1: the other teams are doing. Confident you'll get a solid
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  Speaker 1: football player at seven. I mean, you go into it
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  Speaker 1: and you think, you think that again. I you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously that's the expectations you want to you want to
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  Speaker 1: get you know, a football player at every player that
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  Speaker 1: you acquire, you know, via the draft. Like you know,
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  Speaker 1: I met with the players today and I told him,
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  Speaker 1: I said, you know, people have come here in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of different ways. And um, really how you're acquired
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  Speaker 1: really doesn't matter to me personally. You know, it's what
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  Speaker 1: you do on the field, and the best players are
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  Speaker 1: going to make this team. I think there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of success stories. You know, we we pointed out a
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  Speaker 1: J boy A today. Um, you know the great success
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  Speaker 1: story last year our secondary you know, three have out
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  Speaker 1: of a four starters or free agents. Uh. So there's opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: And I think when you have opportunity, you've got to
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of it. And you know, if you think
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  Speaker 1: you know, because of your status, the way you've been drafted,
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  Speaker 1: that you know you're you're you're a definite, you're in,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about it, I think that
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  Speaker 1: that creates a lot of problems for yourself. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a change from college to the NFL, and it's
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  Speaker 1: a transition, and you know a lot of these players
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  Speaker 1: be going through a lot of transition to the next
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Thank you, good luck tonight. All right,
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  Speaker 1: thank you,