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J.P. Shadrick Podcast: Cam Robinson · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome into the j P. Shadrick Podcast. Today is Thursday,
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Speaker 1: May three, and today we'll recap the NFL Draft for
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars. Let's we'll catch up with a big piece
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Speaker 1: of the Jags offensive line and see how the off
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Speaker 1: season is going so far with left tackle Cam Robinson.
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Speaker 1: Let's start with reaction to the NFL Draft. The Jags
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Speaker 1: added seven players in the draft this year in the
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Speaker 1: first rounds twenty ninth overall, Taven Bryan, the defensive lineman
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Speaker 1: from Florida. In the second round at sixty one overall,
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Speaker 1: d J. Chark, the speedster wide receiver from l s
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Speaker 1: U ninety three overall. In the third round, Ronnie Harrison,
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Speaker 1: a hard hitting safety from Alabama in the fourth round
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Speaker 1: could be a swing tackle in the future at one
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Speaker 1: twenty nine overall, Will Richardson from NC State. Then they
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Speaker 1: took the fifth round off late in the sixth round
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Speaker 1: two and third overall, Tannerley, the quarterback from Nebraska via
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Speaker 1: TU Lane, and then to seventh round picks Leon Jacob's,
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Speaker 1: a big, strong line back here from Wisconsin, and Logan
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Speaker 1: Cook upon her from Mississippi State. After the draft was complete,
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Speaker 1: Jaguars dot Com reporter Ashlyn Sullivan caught up with Executive
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Speaker 1: vice president of football Operations Tom Coughlin. You know, you
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Speaker 1: go into the draft of priorities, you have an idea
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Speaker 1: as to how it will go. It's much different drafting
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Speaker 1: at the bottom, which we like. I'd like to move
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Speaker 1: a few places down for next year, but it's much
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Speaker 1: different than than drafting at the top. I think that
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Speaker 1: for me, one of the toughest parts today was the
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Speaker 1: bottom of the fourth to the bottom of the six
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Speaker 1: before we had another pick. So that that's a that's
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Speaker 1: a tough road to sit there and watch all those
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Speaker 1: players come off the board. But um, you know, I
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Speaker 1: think the draft uh solved the majority of the problems
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Speaker 1: or priorities that we had going in. Of course you
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Speaker 1: don't get them all done so um, but we like
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Speaker 1: the package that we have. Come on in here, guys,
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Speaker 1: and let's compete like heck, and let's make our team better.
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Speaker 1: You know, the night is beginning with undrafted free agents.
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Speaker 1: What is left on the checklist? If anything, Oh, there's
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Speaker 1: things left on the checklist. Believe me to be competitive,
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Speaker 1: to be to get younger at certain spots, etcetera, etcetera.
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Speaker 1: So we'll be in there banging away for a while
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Speaker 1: to try to get that solved. The jack scouts and
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Speaker 1: personnel people work to get that solved towards the end
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Speaker 1: of the draft in a battle with other teams to
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Speaker 1: sign the best players left undrafted. Over recent history, the
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Speaker 1: Jags have had some success from this pool defensive and
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Speaker 1: Ryan Davis was one of those. A few years ago,
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Speaker 1: wide receiver Alan Hearns, of course, and then last year
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Speaker 1: wide receiver Keelan Cole, just to name a few. This year,
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Speaker 1: the Jags added thirteen undrafted free agents and a few
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Speaker 1: standouts this year could include offensive lineman Tony Adams from
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Speaker 1: NC State. He was a teammate of fourth round pick
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Speaker 1: Will Richardson and Raleigh. Alan Lazard is a wide receiver
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Speaker 1: from Iowa State. I think he's another one to watch.
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Speaker 1: He was ranked number eighty on Mike Mayock's top one
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Speaker 1: hundred prospect lists entering the draft, and then Quentin Meeks,
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Speaker 1: a cornerback from Stanford, was ninety two on mayox list
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Speaker 1: before the draft. To make room for all these players,
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Speaker 1: the Jags released two veteran players this week, punter Brad
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Speaker 1: Nortman and wide receiver Jalen Strong. What's the national perception
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Speaker 1: of the Jags draft hall, it was pretty positive overall.
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Speaker 1: NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah joined us on Jaguars dot
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Speaker 1: Com Live Wednesday, and he thinks this Jags draft class
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Speaker 1: could be a success down the line. I love five
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Speaker 1: of their picks. I mean, I think they've got a
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Speaker 1: chance to get five starters to emerge out of this
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Speaker 1: group in six if you include the punter. Towards the
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Speaker 1: end of the draft Saturday night, Jeremiah said on the
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Speaker 1: TV broadcast that the Jags roster was scary good. But
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Speaker 1: he told us Wednesday where they rank in the league? Well,
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Speaker 1: I think if you just look at their roster and
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Speaker 1: there the talent that they've accumulated over the last several years,
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Speaker 1: and where they stand right now, if it's not the
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Speaker 1: most talent roster in the NFL, I think it's in
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Speaker 1: the top three without question, especially defensively with just the
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Speaker 1: massive amount of talent, the mulative Premier Blue Ship players.
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Speaker 1: And then now you look at what they've done on
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Speaker 1: the offensive line. You've got the running back um, You've
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Speaker 1: mixed in some towelong the with this receiving corps. Now,
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Speaker 1: I mean it is it is an impressive group that
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Speaker 1: they have in Jacksonville. The full Jaguars dot Com live
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Speaker 1: archive available, of course, on the team website. Finally, late
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Speaker 1: Wednesday afternoon, the Jaguars did not take the fifth year
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Speaker 1: option for defensive end Dante Fowler Jr. The first round
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Speaker 1: pick out of Florida, is entering his fourth NFL season,
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Speaker 1: but the decision had to be made by Wednesday afternoon.
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Speaker 1: About that fifth year, the Jags are hopeful of a
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Speaker 1: long term deal after the season for Dante. Speaking of
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Speaker 1: veteran players, phase two of the off season program is underway,
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Speaker 1: so players are on the field for individual drills. No
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Speaker 1: seven on seven, nine on seven or eleven on eleven
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Speaker 1: drills are allowed at this time. They'll save that for
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Speaker 1: Phase three. At O t a S. Left tackle Cam
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Speaker 1: Robinson enters his second NFL season and he's fired up
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Speaker 1: to be back on the field, even if it is
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Speaker 1: the off season. I guess this week on the j P.
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Speaker 1: Shadwick Podcast, left tackle Cam Robinson, what's up man? What's up? Man?
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Speaker 1: I'm good? How you doing great? Good to see it? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: good to see you've been in town or what? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I've been here um all season? Uh for the most part,
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Speaker 1: so just working out lifting, try and get a little stronger.
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Speaker 1: So I've been around, it's the number one goal for
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Speaker 1: you this offseason. There's the strength, Yeah, definitely, I think, um,
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Speaker 1: especially with someone like the little nagging injuries I had
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Speaker 1: last year. UM, I think a lot of it was
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Speaker 1: just due to uh, you know, meet me needing to
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Speaker 1: build my body up and just build and just you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Um, just add more muscle to
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Speaker 1: my frame, and I know I try to do that
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Speaker 1: for the most part this offseason. You know, it comes
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Speaker 1: as a shock sometimes to a lot of first year
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Speaker 1: players in the NFL the difference, and maybe it's not
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Speaker 1: as big of a difference for you since you were
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Speaker 1: an Alabama guy, but the difference in the weight program
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Speaker 1: and the players you're playing against, the grown man that
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Speaker 1: you're going up against every day, that's the big difference here, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean that that absolutely was a difference, I think.
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Speaker 1: And everybody talks about the speed, but I don't think
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Speaker 1: nobody really speaks you know what I'm saying about just
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Speaker 1: how much stronger the playoffs out here, Like you're going
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Speaker 1: against growing me and like, you know what I'm saying
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Speaker 1: when I when I play against the Patriots in this jam,
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at James Harrison on the other side over there.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, you know what I'm saying. So that's
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Speaker 1: what I gotta deal with. So, I mean, I think
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Speaker 1: everybody kind of speaks to you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: The speed difference, but there's definitely a strength difference as well.
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Speaker 1: Are you gonna start doing James Harrison sell workout videos
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Speaker 1: or No, I'm not. I'm definitely not doing that. I'm
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Speaker 1: definitely not doing it. I'm just thinking my workouts. Ken
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Speaker 1: Robinson is with us here. Um, so you've been in time,
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Speaker 1: you've been working out. It's phase two now, right, you
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Speaker 1: guys are on the field finally, but there's certain limitations.
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Speaker 1: There's no team activities out there, no team drills. You
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Speaker 1: can do some individual kind of position group type drill things.
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Speaker 1: Is that is that pretty accurate? How's it going so far? Oh? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's that's the right on And it's been. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's I think anytime you kind of you kind of
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Speaker 1: get that break and I'm saying it's it's good to
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Speaker 1: get your body or risks and uh, you know, just
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Speaker 1: kind of get away from the game, and you know,
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Speaker 1: I kind of get a family, um and vacation a
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Speaker 1: little bit, but um out there while you know just
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Speaker 1: what we do. So I mean, it's our job, so
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Speaker 1: you start to miss it, um, and so you know,
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Speaker 1: I think it's always fun when you know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: when you first get back and just getting back with
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Speaker 1: all the guys and um, you know, just saying, seeing
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Speaker 1: your coaches again, it's amazing, right, Kim, Because I mean
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Speaker 1: there's some guys just like you said, this is your job.
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Speaker 1: You gotta love the game of football, and if you're
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Speaker 1: not on the field, you gotta hate not being on
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Speaker 1: the field. And there's some guys that just maybe aren't
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Speaker 1: wired like that. But you to really be successful, you
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Speaker 1: have to be wired like that, right. And I get bored, man,
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Speaker 1: when I'm just I ain't got nothing to do too
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Speaker 1: much when I'm at the house, so I try to
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, five things to keep me busy.
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Speaker 1: But when I'm not up here doing something football related,
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm honestly boyed just sitting at the house watching
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Speaker 1: TV or playing video games or something like that. So
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Speaker 1: I don't do too much. What's the video game right now. Um,
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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm a mad and two K kind of guy.
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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people play like Fortnite and
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Speaker 1: all I just can't. I'm just mad and two KA
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Speaker 1: just football man, football and basketball? Is it? I wish
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Speaker 1: they would bring the college football guy. You know what
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Speaker 1: was the best? You and me both? And I think
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Speaker 1: I might have been unbeatable at that towo. I can't remember.
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Speaker 1: I don't remember the last time and I lost in
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Speaker 1: that game. It's been a while. Huh, Okay, we'll have
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Speaker 1: to we might have to bring that out, you PlayStation
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Speaker 1: guy x I WI PlayStation guy. Okay, well you know
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Speaker 1: we might have to work on this. Yeah, yeh yeah,
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Speaker 1: I most definitely have to do that. How's Andrew Norwell
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Speaker 1: so far? Man, I'm you know, saying we're just getting
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Speaker 1: to know him, just getting to know him as a
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Speaker 1: player again, to know him, you know, as a friend
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Speaker 1: and as a teammate, and him saying I love him, Um,
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Speaker 1: just from what I've from, from from what I've got
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Speaker 1: to know about him so far. Um, He's gonna fit
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Speaker 1: right in the world somewhere we're trying to get down.
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Speaker 1: He's picking up the playbook quick. Um. He's a very
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Speaker 1: hard working guy. We're in the weight room. That's that's
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Speaker 1: why I live with so um. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: I think I think it's gonna be the perfect fit.
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Speaker 1: Here's your lift partner, work with work out with him
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Speaker 1: Andrew Nor Yeah, definitely. Yeah. I mean guys are an
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Speaker 1: all pro. I mean, the guy is a Pro Bowl player.
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Speaker 1: He's us how to get things done in this league.
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Speaker 1: And he came from an undrafted exactly exactly. So I mean,
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Speaker 1: is it is it difficult for a guy like that
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Speaker 1: probably not to work into this type of environment, I
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Speaker 1: mean to come into a place. He has the credentials
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Speaker 1: to to get some respect right away, right Like you said,
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Speaker 1: he has a credentials, But I mean you also have
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Speaker 1: to look at his background and where he came from.
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Speaker 1: Like you said, he wasn't undrafted guy, Um that worked
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Speaker 1: his way all the way up to being you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, the all pro um Pro Bowl. You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, guard, And I think he might
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Speaker 1: be the highest pay guard in the league now. So Um,
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Speaker 1: I mean that's just that just shows I think it
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Speaker 1: kind of just shows the type of player that he
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Speaker 1: is and type of man he is. Let's go through
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Speaker 1: this offensive line. Now you're on the left side and
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Speaker 1: Norwell is gonna be on the left guards. But you
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Speaker 1: got Brandon Leonard, the highest Paige center in league history. Uh,
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Speaker 1: the right side, you know you got partner out right
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Speaker 1: tackle A J. Cann a right guard. He got a
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Speaker 1: draft pick coming in that could swing a little bit. Um,
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Speaker 1: where does this offensive line rank in the league. Where
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Speaker 1: do you guys feel you are and compared or do
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Speaker 1: you guys really care that much? Um? And I'm saying
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Speaker 1: always we always talked about us wanted to be the
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Speaker 1: best online in the league. I don't you know saying
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Speaker 1: I think it's not something we always go around what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, talking about it, putting it on like cameras
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Speaker 1: are talking to the media about it. But in our room, UM,
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Speaker 1: with us, we definitely want to be to UM. You know,
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Speaker 1: consider the bus office line in the league. And that's
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Speaker 1: why we That's how we work every day. And I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: that's the work we put in and that's that's what
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Speaker 1: we're aiming for. I mean, you guys led the league
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Speaker 1: in rushing last year. There was a point though, late
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Speaker 1: in the season that there were times where you wanted
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Speaker 1: to run the ball and it wasn't quite as effective
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Speaker 1: as it was early in the year. Is that a
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Speaker 1: combination of things on offense? Where did that all happen? What?
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Speaker 1: What was wrong with the run game? And was it upfront? Um?
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Speaker 1: I think it was, Uh, you know we we we
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Speaker 1: definitely will take say anytime the running game doesn't get
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Speaker 1: gonna will take the parfit that we just got to
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Speaker 1: do our jobs better. But you guys, I think I
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Speaker 1: think it was a combination of things starting with us,
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Speaker 1: and we just got it. We just weren't wasn't executing
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Speaker 1: as well, and we Yeah, we just have some things
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Speaker 1: we need to tighten up on. Yeah, this is a
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Speaker 1: good time to get that tightened up here in a
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Speaker 1: program as well. Alright, so coming up in Phase two
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Speaker 1: the next week or so, then O T A. S.
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Speaker 1: You'll have some teamwork coming up. I know you're fired
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Speaker 1: up for all this, man, I mean, because it's football
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Speaker 1: and you're on the field. It's something close to football.
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Speaker 1: You're not wearing pads. But the next few weeks are fun,
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Speaker 1: right right right? I mean, I think it just kind
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Speaker 1: of goes back to what I mentioned earlier. Just man,
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Speaker 1: we get understood. When we're not doing that, we just
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Speaker 1: get bored. And you know what I'm saying, the love,
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Speaker 1: I think your love for the game it kind of
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Speaker 1: when you're when you're not playing it, you kind of
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Speaker 1: almost like what do I do? I mean, you can,
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Speaker 1: you can go vacation, you spend time with your family,
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Speaker 1: but um, after why you just get kind of just
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Speaker 1: kind of you. I'm saying, you're ready to get back
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Speaker 1: into it. So, um, I think that kind of just
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Speaker 1: all times back into how much we love the game.
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Speaker 1: Do you it's a year since you got drafted. Do
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Speaker 1: you believe that the difference from now until then? I mean,
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Speaker 1: is it night and day? Almost? Yeah, definitely night and day.
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Speaker 1: And I can definitely tell there's been a year as
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Speaker 1: the longest year. Uh, what's the feeling? Yeah, a lot
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Speaker 1: of people. I don't know what people think. He goes
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Speaker 1: about quick without that rookie year is definitely long, just
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Speaker 1: because I mean you come in around around this time,
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Speaker 1: maybe a couple of weeks from now, and you you
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Speaker 1: you were in it. You mean you start with the
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Speaker 1: whole prepping for the combine and doing all that, and
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Speaker 1: that just kind of runs all all all of it
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Speaker 1: just almost runsing together. Don't really have an all season
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Speaker 1: your rookie year because you're you're playing late in the
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Speaker 1: bull season in the January with Alabama and then going
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Speaker 1: right into draft craft never, never and never a year
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Speaker 1: is long. Man. Do you watch the draft? Um? YEA
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Speaker 1: watched the first couple of days, like the first two days.
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Speaker 1: A lot of Alabama guys off the board. Yeah, it
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Speaker 1: was a lot of alatlem guys. Twelve total in the draft. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's just Hey, that's how it happened. What I was
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Speaker 1: coming here, Harrison, I'm super excited about that. What do
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Speaker 1: you know about? Um? That was actually a guy was
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Speaker 1: super close with UM. Just coming in I just kind
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Speaker 1: of uh, certain gay certain I think certain guys you
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Speaker 1: just kind of, um, you kind of take a liking
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Speaker 1: too as soon as you meet him. And that was
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Speaker 1: one of the guys, you know what I'm saying. We
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Speaker 1: was able to just from the jump, uh former good
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Speaker 1: relationship and uh it was almost like one of my
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Speaker 1: little brothers in the locker room. So, um, it was
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Speaker 1: just one of the guys I I was just super
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Speaker 1: close with. Tallahassee. Guy didn't get an offer from FSU
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Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people don't. I mean,
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Speaker 1: when you think Labama, you hear all the you know
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Speaker 1: what thing you think about, all the five star and
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Speaker 1: like the undarmed Our Army, all American guys. He really
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Speaker 1: wasn't one of them. I think he might have been
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Speaker 1: like a three star and it was crazy. I don't
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Speaker 1: even I don't even know if I ever told him
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Speaker 1: this story. I remember when he was in high school
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Speaker 1: and I think I was a freshman, and I remember
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Speaker 1: like watching him work out at the camp and that's
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Speaker 1: like that, like that was when he got his offer,
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Speaker 1: was at the camp, so I remember him and that
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Speaker 1: like nobody really knew he was. It was just a
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Speaker 1: long range, e deep like dB. It was all looking
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Speaker 1: like he might be all right. And then I think
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Speaker 1: that same day he got his offer, and uh, I
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Speaker 1: guess he never looked back from there. That's the fun
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Speaker 1: part about this team is that the defense is so
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Speaker 1: darn strong, especially on that defensive one. You guys gotta
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Speaker 1: face off against those guys, maybe not right now in
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Speaker 1: the off season program, but guys like that opposite you.
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Speaker 1: How does that help your game as a left tackle? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't do anything, but but um, but ultimately just
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Speaker 1: raise our game. I think if you watch look at
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Speaker 1: out of the line is we have maybe like full
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Speaker 1: three Pro bowlers on our defensive front. Amazing, and that's crazy.
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Speaker 1: And I just leave one of Marcella has been he's
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Speaker 1: been a Pro Bowl, so it's really four for Pro
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Speaker 1: bowlers so long. Um, it's just it's you get You
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Speaker 1: don't really got no choice but to be prepared for
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Speaker 1: whatever you're gonna see on Sunday because it's it's likely
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Speaker 1: you're not going to defensive front that you're gonna see it.
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Speaker 1: It's not going to be better than what you see
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Speaker 1: in your privy day game. It's good to have your
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Speaker 1: off season programs here and let you get a little
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Speaker 1: stronger and we'll see a little later. Man appreciate. Coming
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Speaker 1: up next week rookie mini camps. It's not open to
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Speaker 1: the public, but some coverage will be available on Jaguars
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Speaker 1: dot Com late in a week. Stay tuned for that.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to Cam Robinson for his time this week, and
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Speaker 1: as always, thanks to Jack's manager of radio, Joe Fortunado.
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Speaker 1: Catch you next time on the J P. Shadrick Podcast.
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