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O-Zone Podcast: Right tackle Jawaan Taylor · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Oh, Welcome to the Ozone Podcast presented by by Star
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Speaker 1: Credit Union, featuring Jaguars Senior writer John Osher and executive
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Speaker 1: producer Dave de Candice. I'm looking forward to this interview today.
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Speaker 1: It's with a player that I think people are starting
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Speaker 1: to get to know around the Jaguars. It's a young
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Speaker 1: guy who has a lot to say, has led an
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Speaker 1: interesting life. He's one of the more interesting off field
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Speaker 1: young players on the Jaguars. I think by now people
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Speaker 1: probably have extent that I'm talking about Jaguars right tackle
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Speaker 1: Juan Taylor. Juan, first of all, thanks for doing this.
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Speaker 1: I know during the season this is a busy time
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Speaker 1: and to take this time, we really appreciate it. I
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Speaker 1: want to ask you first, so we'll get into a
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Speaker 1: lot of different things. David want to ask you first
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Speaker 1: on the field through five games, how do you feel
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Speaker 1: like Juan Taylor? I'll go the third person there? How
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Speaker 1: do you feel like Jawan Taylor is playing this year?
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Speaker 1: So far? I feel like I'm playing pretty well. UM.
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Speaker 1: I definitely definitely want to keep on progressing throughout the season,
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Speaker 1: getting better, being more consistent with my play, protecting my
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Speaker 1: quarter that better. UM. Different things like that I'm just
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Speaker 1: improving on, trying to keep improving on and listening to
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Speaker 1: what Cold War Hoop tells me and locking in every
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Speaker 1: day and practice on different things I need to get
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Speaker 1: better on. So I've been you know, just you know,
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Speaker 1: keying in on those things and I go to practice,
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Speaker 1: and man, sure I'm getting ready for Sundays right now,
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Speaker 1: just in the process of doing that. But so far,
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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm playing pretty well, but I'm definitely
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Speaker 1: trying to get better. I haven't talked to you about this,
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Speaker 1: and I'm curious. It kind of steps it back a
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Speaker 1: little bit and we're gonna move forward more than anything.
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Speaker 1: Tell me about your rookie year and how tough it
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Speaker 1: is for an offensive lineman in the NFL to adjust.
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Speaker 1: What was the biggest thing that you took away and
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Speaker 1: what was the toughest thing about that year. First off,
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Speaker 1: just coming in having to learn the actual NFL style
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Speaker 1: offense and actually, you know, lock me into that. Uh,
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Speaker 1: that was pretty tough at first, um, but then after
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Speaker 1: I learned that, it was just transitioning from the game
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Speaker 1: speeds a little different from college to the pros. And
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Speaker 1: then you know, um, going against great players every single day,
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Speaker 1: like I came in going against like Yannick and got
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Speaker 1: Quai and Kelis Campbell and Josh Allen, different guys like
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Speaker 1: that every day. So um, that definitely made me better
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Speaker 1: and had me prepared for, you know, my first game
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Speaker 1: in the in the NFL. So uh, you know, just
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Speaker 1: doing that, just the transition to that was hard itself.
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Speaker 1: But um, other than that, um, everything else was good.
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Speaker 1: You know, we're playing the game we love, and you
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Speaker 1: know we come in every day in the build and
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Speaker 1: you just come in with a great attitude and in
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Speaker 1: the great mindset and just you know, you gotta you
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Speaker 1: gotta be willing to learn every single day being a rookie. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, just be quiet in the back of the
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Speaker 1: meeting room and ask the question you need to ask questions,
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Speaker 1: and you know, listen to your your veterans because last
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Speaker 1: year I had all veterans next to me, and I
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Speaker 1: was the youngest on the old line and in the
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Speaker 1: old line room. So just soaking up everything. Brandon and
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Speaker 1: Cam and and all those guys were telling me a
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Speaker 1: j and and you know that that helped me out
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Speaker 1: a lot. So um that that helped me get through
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Speaker 1: through our rookie year for sure. Now. The reason I
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Speaker 1: asked you that is I think something maybe fans would
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Speaker 1: never realize, But I noticed early this offseason from it
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Speaker 1: seemed like the first week and a half after this
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Speaker 1: season ended. I saw you in the building. You're already back,
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Speaker 1: You're already lifting, You're already working towards this season. This
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Speaker 1: is pretty covid, but not every first year a guy
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Speaker 1: going into the second year is back like that. Does
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Speaker 1: that say anything about who you are your approach? It
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Speaker 1: struck me that you really were ready to get started
3:36
Speaker 1: as soon as this thing ended last year. Oh yeah.
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Speaker 1: Most definitely always had that work ethic and the hunger
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Speaker 1: in our drive to want to be better, be the
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Speaker 1: best that I can be, and most definitely just always
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Speaker 1: been available for my team being healthy, and I knew
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Speaker 1: different things I need to improve on from our rookie
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Speaker 1: you're going into this year, so um, I wanted to
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Speaker 1: take a little what we week long break and get
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Speaker 1: right back to it. Um, because you know, I'm young
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Speaker 1: and different things like I could just come right back
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Speaker 1: into it and get right back in the group of things.
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Speaker 1: So um, it wasn't no problem for me. UM. I
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Speaker 1: talked to the strength coaches and different things like that,
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Speaker 1: and and they put together a good plan for me
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Speaker 1: before the virus hit, and um, you know, as the
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Speaker 1: virus hid, of course we had to all go home
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Speaker 1: and quarantine and different things like that. But um, they definitely,
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Speaker 1: they definitely were working me hard when I first got back. So, um,
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Speaker 1: I had just locked into it and try to get better.
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Speaker 1: So then they get this straight. You're young enough that
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Speaker 1: after a sixteen game NFL season you're ready to start
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Speaker 1: working out a week later. Oh definitely. Um, And it's
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Speaker 1: crazy because I felt so great throughout the season. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, thank god, I just I just was healthy
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Speaker 1: all year. I played every single snap. Um, so it
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Speaker 1: was good man. I had a great routine and taking
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Speaker 1: care of my body. So it was crazy. I felt
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Speaker 1: first all year. Um so even when the CE season ended,
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Speaker 1: I felt like I didn't even play sixteen games. I
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Speaker 1: felt like I did a game one. I had a
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Speaker 1: little few things and bruises, but it wasn't nothing crazy.
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Speaker 1: So um, it definitely it was so easy. And plus
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Speaker 1: I'm only twenty two years old and then I was
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Speaker 1: twenty one, so um, just jumping back into it wasn't
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Speaker 1: that hard for me. Yeah, John let me give you
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Speaker 1: a hint when you're fifty four sitting behind the keyboard
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Speaker 1: all season. I needed two months. So that's what's coming.
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Speaker 1: Even if you're not congratulations on that. UM, tell me
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Speaker 1: about George warhop And I know you haven't had a
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Speaker 1: different NFL line coach, but we don't know him that well.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't talk publicly a whole lot. Uh, it seems
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Speaker 1: like he's helped you a lot. Amazing coach, amazing person
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Speaker 1: as well, you know, on the field, off the field. Um,
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Speaker 1: and he's the guy that you could talk to outside
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Speaker 1: of the building. You know, he's just like a great
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Speaker 1: mentor as well. So UM, you know, I knew coach
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Speaker 1: Warhock just going back all the way into the draft
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Speaker 1: process and you know, meeting with him in different things
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Speaker 1: like that. I did a private workout here before again
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Speaker 1: drafted here, and I just loved how he was and
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Speaker 1: how good, how great of a guy was so um,
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Speaker 1: you know, he's all about work ethic and straining and
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Speaker 1: finishing and you know, just being being the best that
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Speaker 1: you could be in planetor at your highest level. So UM,
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Speaker 1: the thing is, he's one of those I have to
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Speaker 1: try to push you to your absolute limit. Every single
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Speaker 1: day because he wants to see you be great. So UM,
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Speaker 1: I appreciate him for that, you know the most, cause
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Speaker 1: it makes me who I am so um every single day,
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Speaker 1: you know, I just trying to lock in a way
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Speaker 1: he's telling me and what he's teaching me because I know,
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Speaker 1: you know, he's coached some of the best. Um he's
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Speaker 1: been in his league, coaching for over twenty seasons now,
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Speaker 1: so you know all that, all that you know, knowledge
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Speaker 1: that he has, I'm just trying to soak it in.
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Speaker 1: So you know, he's a He's a great guy. Though.
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Speaker 1: I've got to talk about this fish here in a
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Speaker 1: second because we all saw the media and they even
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Speaker 1: asked about it. But one final football question before him
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Speaker 1: move on the offensive line. There was so much talk
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Speaker 1: all off season. People wrote it, there's gonna have to
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Speaker 1: be changed this offseason and if there wasn't, it was
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Speaker 1: going to be a disaster. But they brought this whole
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Speaker 1: group back and so far through five games, I would
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Speaker 1: make the argument of the offensive line is the best
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Speaker 1: unit on the team. You don't have to say that,
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Speaker 1: but um, what how much confidence did you guys have
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Speaker 1: coming into it, and how much his continuity help your group. Uh,
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Speaker 1: it's it's just you know, we came in confidence. Just
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Speaker 1: knowing our ability, that's the main thing. And you know
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Speaker 1: we we knew we had talent, We knew we had
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Speaker 1: everything we needed. And you know, just another year with
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Speaker 1: coach war Hoop and another camp just put it all together. Um.
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Speaker 1: We all practiced hard and um in all season and
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Speaker 1: you know, we grinded hard and worked out hard, and
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Speaker 1: you know we just always talked with very close and
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Speaker 1: you know, tighten it so um. You know, we talked
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Speaker 1: outside the building, hang out outside of the building, different
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Speaker 1: things like that when we can. UM. But you know,
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Speaker 1: it's just that's just how it is. Man. We we
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Speaker 1: just locked into it and invested our time into it.
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Speaker 1: So I feel like that's was making us better. Big guy. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: have you always been a football guy? Is this something
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Speaker 1: that you knew from early on you wanted to do? Oh, definitely,
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Speaker 1: I've been. I was saying I wanted to play NFL
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Speaker 1: at four years old, so and I started playing. I
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Speaker 1: started playing football at four years old. So I've been
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Speaker 1: playing football for nineteen years now. The football became came
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Speaker 1: before the drums. Oh yeah, football came for the Jones.
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Speaker 1: Drums came in six, football came in four. Now having
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Speaker 1: a chance to talk to you one on one like
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Speaker 1: this the drums. How much time did you spend as
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Speaker 1: the kid learning the drums? Was this a big part
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Speaker 1: of your life? It sounds like it was. Oh, definitely,
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Speaker 1: because my grandmother was a pastor. You know, my grandmother
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Speaker 1: passed away two thousand and ten, but she was a
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Speaker 1: pastor of the church that me and my you know
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Speaker 1: family grew up in and m even my parents all.
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Speaker 1: It's just a generational type of church. So and it's
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Speaker 1: like a family oriented church. So um, you know, she
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Speaker 1: was a pastor to church, and my brother was on
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Speaker 1: the music. My dad was also on the music. So um.
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Speaker 1: It's crazy because my brother is mostly talented, so he
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Speaker 1: could play a lot of different instruments. So um, when
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Speaker 1: he started to try and learning different instruments, that's when
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Speaker 1: I started picking up the sticks and trying to learn
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Speaker 1: how to play the drums. So, I mean, it didn't
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Speaker 1: really take long. It was kind of self taught, really,
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Speaker 1: just learning how to keep a beat, keep a tempo,
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Speaker 1: and just over the years it just I got better
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Speaker 1: and better at it. And how did the parents feel
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Speaker 1: that drum practice really cool with that. They hated it, man. Um.
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Speaker 1: I remember one Christmas they bought me and my brother
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Speaker 1: a drum said to share, and uh, you know, we
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Speaker 1: we put it in my brother's room at first. So
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Speaker 1: um it was crazy. They'll come home from work and
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Speaker 1: we're banging out on the set. You know, you could
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Speaker 1: hear down the street. They could hear it down the
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Speaker 1: road and they'll come in like, hey, that's enough, that's enough,
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Speaker 1: you know. So uh yeah, it's kind of hard playing
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Speaker 1: in the house. That's why I didn't even bring one
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Speaker 1: up here because I live in a condo here, so
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Speaker 1: I can't bring this set up here. But you know,
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Speaker 1: it was fun. There was a lot of fun. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I've got a kid four houses down. He practiced in
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Speaker 1: the garage. He's not popular. Um. The fish, this is
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Speaker 1: not something that a normal fisherman could catch dry. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you've got to be pretty experienced to catch it. Tell
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Speaker 1: me about how much you fish. Is there's something you
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Speaker 1: really love doing, and then tell me about that sesh
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Speaker 1: fishing all my life. That's the first thing I've been
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Speaker 1: fishing since I can remember. Um always had a passion
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Speaker 1: for um. I remember, just as a little kid, like
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Speaker 1: if we were you know, me and my dad or
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Speaker 1: me and my granddad, say we were about to go
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Speaker 1: fishing the next morning, and let's say the weather was bad.
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Speaker 1: I was a type to get mad because we can't
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Speaker 1: go anymore, you know, Like I was just always passionate
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Speaker 1: about fishing, So um, that was always a thing by me.
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Speaker 1: I could. My dad used to love it, so um
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Speaker 1: it kind of old me to love it. And then
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Speaker 1: we could sit on the water all day long fishing
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Speaker 1: like from sun up the sundown, just to pass what
10:05
Speaker 1: we have for So just over the years getting better
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Speaker 1: at that. And um, now you know, do a lot
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Speaker 1: of charters, especially in the all season. I did a
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Speaker 1: lot of charters, and um, just so happened this year
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Speaker 1: I went on that show Black Tip Age. It's like
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Speaker 1: a real popular fishing show on YouTube. So um, me
10:20
Speaker 1: and my agent we kind of set up the trip
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Speaker 1: to go together, and um, you know, we went out
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Speaker 1: to Jupi to Florida. We was originally out there to
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Speaker 1: catch snoop that day it was like a snook fishing show,
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Speaker 1: and we caught a bunch of big snook that day
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Speaker 1: and then like once the snook bite died down. They
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Speaker 1: were like, hey, you want to go catch a glia group.
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Speaker 1: I was like whoa, Like that wasn't in the schedule,
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Speaker 1: but let's do it, you know, like I'm not turning
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Speaker 1: that down, so right right, definitely it was. It was
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Speaker 1: a fish of a lifetime. So we went out there,
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Speaker 1: um like a mile off the beach, were only forty
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Speaker 1: of water, um, right over a wreck. So um, we
10:49
Speaker 1: just dropped the beneath. Well, it was like a circle
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Speaker 1: of life type effects. So we had to catch all
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Speaker 1: the bait before we dropped the bait down to catch
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Speaker 1: the goliah. So we call um these little small like
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Speaker 1: um bait fish. I think they're called greenbacks or something
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Speaker 1: like that, and um we use that with a sabeki
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Speaker 1: red and then after that we had to use that
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Speaker 1: to catch a bonita. So after the bonita where you
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Speaker 1: we cooked the bonita onto the big pole and dropped
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Speaker 1: it down about the middleway midway through the water colum
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Speaker 1: about twenty ft down And it wasn't even like three minutes.
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Speaker 1: You could see the goliaths coming up to it and
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Speaker 1: it was like a big school of glas about eight
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Speaker 1: golias under the boat, probably about three bullsharks under the boat.
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Speaker 1: It was all types of different fish under the boat.
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Speaker 1: And um, it was a bunch of boats around us
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Speaker 1: fishing on that same rex. So people start recording when
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Speaker 1: they see me about to catch the fish. And that's
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Speaker 1: when I started recording the video that I posted. So
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Speaker 1: it was it was crazy, man, And when it came up,
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Speaker 1: I couldn't believe I've never seen one of in person,
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Speaker 1: so it really was. It was a fish of a
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Speaker 1: lifetime man. So even for you and experienced fishing, and
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Speaker 1: that was a big deal. That was definitely, definitely I
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Speaker 1: was a fish of lifetime. I never called nothing bigger
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Speaker 1: than that. Um, it was four hundred pounds. So uh,
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Speaker 1: I hooked in the sharks before, but nowhere near that big. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you won't catch that many fish that wait more than you, right, no, never,
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Speaker 1: So tell me. I know you're a young guy, but
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Speaker 1: I kind of picture you when football is done. You're
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Speaker 1: fifty years old. You're playing drums and catching fish. I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's that's why they're playing drums, catching fish. Maybe traveling
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Speaker 1: a little bit. That's that's about it. I'm very simple.
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Speaker 1: We'll wrap up here in a couple of questions. But
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Speaker 1: I don't ask you pretty much every answer you've had today,
12:21
Speaker 1: for a lot of them have talked about your family.
12:24
Speaker 1: Uh strikes me. You know, one of my questions are
12:27
Speaker 1: gonna be what your biggest influences. But it sounds like
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Speaker 1: you wouldn't be who you are without your family. Sounds
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Speaker 1: like they've been a huge influence. Oh, definitely, especially my parents,
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Speaker 1: my older brother, my older sister, my uncle Marlon. He's
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Speaker 1: my mentor, um and my trainer since I've been in
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Speaker 1: seventh grade. So um, yeah, I'm very I'm very family oriented.
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Speaker 1: Even in the off season, every chance I had to
12:48
Speaker 1: get to go home, I was home. So almost every
12:50
Speaker 1: weekend I was going back home and spend time with
12:51
Speaker 1: my family because you know, during the season, we don't
12:53
Speaker 1: get the opportunity. Um. Plus, they have such a great
12:55
Speaker 1: support system. My parents have been married for twenty six
12:58
Speaker 1: years and they come to every game. Ain't home in
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Speaker 1: a way you know, before the virus situation, so um,
13:03
Speaker 1: you know it's it's been crazy, man, And you know
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Speaker 1: without them, I wouldn't be warmed at so um. They
13:08
Speaker 1: took me to every camp that I needed to go to,
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Speaker 1: anything that had to do with football. They did that.
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Speaker 1: You know, take off work, whatever it took. You know,
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Speaker 1: my Dada worked twelve fourteen hours and then drive take
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Speaker 1: me on the road to drive me to Georgia or
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Speaker 1: wherever I needed to go for a camp the next morning.
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Speaker 1: So um, they were just as dedicated as I was
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Speaker 1: to you know, be successful as well for my brother
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Speaker 1: and his success. So um, yeah, I wouldn't be worming
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Speaker 1: at without them. Got you the draft when you fell
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Speaker 1: from the first to the second round, Is that over
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Speaker 1: for you? Or will that always kind of drive you?
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Speaker 1: Is that a thing or do we make too much
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Speaker 1: out of it? It definitely drives me. Um, you know,
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Speaker 1: I never forget about that day at that moment. Of course,
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Speaker 1: I'm always you know, blessed and happy to be where
13:48
Speaker 1: I'm at and you know, to be having this opportunity
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Speaker 1: to play for Jacksonville. Um, but yeah, it definitely drives
13:53
Speaker 1: me and pushes me every day. Let me know that,
13:55
Speaker 1: you know, keep working, never get complacent, um, you know,
13:58
Speaker 1: just stay hungry. So that's what I do. It's how
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Speaker 1: I try care of myself when people now and pretty
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Speaker 1: much since he got here, the anythime you talk to
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Speaker 1: anybody in the organization, anybody nationally they look at you
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Speaker 1: and say, this is a guy who can be in
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Speaker 1: Pro Bowls. This is a guy who can have a
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Speaker 1: huge career. Uh. When you hear that, is that motivation?
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Speaker 1: Is that something that you feel like you can live
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Speaker 1: up to? Definitely? Um, that's what I'm trying to give
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Speaker 1: myself to now. I want to be the best to
14:23
Speaker 1: play this game. That's one of my goals. So I
14:25
Speaker 1: just want to be one of the best to play.
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Speaker 1: So I just try to, you know, push myself to
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Speaker 1: get better. Um, you know, just lock in on what
14:31
Speaker 1: my coaches tell me to do, and and I just
14:33
Speaker 1: try to get better every day. You know. Um, I'm
14:35
Speaker 1: nowhere near I want to be out yet, but I
14:37
Speaker 1: definitely want to be a pro bowler, all pros. It's
14:39
Speaker 1: a lot of different things I want to do in
14:40
Speaker 1: this league. The last thing we do is that what
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Speaker 1: we call the others one five. I just actually five
14:50
Speaker 1: quick questions. You can answer the short as long as
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Speaker 1: you want. John Taylor your last binge watch mm hmm.
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Speaker 1: I watched the show on YouTube. It's called Live p D.
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Speaker 1: It's like a police show. I love that show. I've
15:07
Speaker 1: been watching that show a live pretty funny too. The
15:10
Speaker 1: last song in either your iPhone or your car did
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Speaker 1: you listen to? M hmmm, probably a Hot Boy Don't
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Speaker 1: Need Time featuring a Little Baby. It's a loose song
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Speaker 1: that just came up. Yeah. H the best drummer and
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Speaker 1: why Oh that's a tough one and s either Calvin
15:35
Speaker 1: Rodgers or Eric Moore for me? Uh? And why because
15:40
Speaker 1: you know, they're just some of the best. Like if
15:41
Speaker 1: you watch your videos on YouTube, there's some of the
15:43
Speaker 1: most electrifying players. You know, the play the drums in
15:47
Speaker 1: the in the whole world. So um Stick Taylor is
15:50
Speaker 1: another good player. Um, he's another amazing player. If you
15:53
Speaker 1: watch any of those three guys, you know, you'll be
15:55
Speaker 1: very very amazed. Um. And they played for some of
15:57
Speaker 1: the best artists in the world too, So those three
16:00
Speaker 1: very very good from If he hadn't played football, what
16:03
Speaker 1: would your sport have been? Who? We um? Football always
16:07
Speaker 1: been the sport was so passionate about. But the only
16:11
Speaker 1: other sports I tried growing up with basketball for two years,
16:14
Speaker 1: and I tried a track for one year, and I
16:15
Speaker 1: was growing shot for us. So probably basketball, but I
16:18
Speaker 1: definitely I lose some weight for that. Uh. This is
16:22
Speaker 1: the final question. Your biggest influence my family, my parents,
16:26
Speaker 1: namely my parents were sure, Joan Taylor, thanks for being
16:30
Speaker 1: in the others on podcasts, get back to work. We'll
16:33
Speaker 1: talk to you s. Thank you. I appreciate it, thank you,
16:35
Speaker 1: buddy appreciation And as I say every week, these guys
16:40
Speaker 1: during the season, their schedule from you know, six am
16:44
Speaker 1: to four pm is pretty tight. So when they're willing
16:47
Speaker 1: to give us ten fifteen minutes for for my drivel,
16:50
Speaker 1: it's always appreciated. And Dave, I thought that Joan Taylor,
16:55
Speaker 1: I've you know, because of COVID with the young players
16:58
Speaker 1: in their first or second year. There's a good chance
17:01
Speaker 1: that I've talked to in some but not a whole
17:04
Speaker 1: lot face to face. And I'll admit I don't have
17:07
Speaker 1: as good a feel for some of these young guys
17:09
Speaker 1: I sent of the young players in the past. But
17:12
Speaker 1: I had been around Joan a little bit to expect
17:14
Speaker 1: him to be really good in this environment with these questions,
17:17
Speaker 1: and uh, he was great. As I said, for a
17:21
Speaker 1: couple of months now, dj Chart, Jowan Taylor, and Josh
17:25
Speaker 1: Allen to me are the future of this team. They're
17:29
Speaker 1: the guys that you want on and off the field.
17:31
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make this podcast about DJ or Josh,
17:34
Speaker 1: but Jowan is the kind of guy that you want
17:36
Speaker 1: around the franchise for a long time. It is funny
17:38
Speaker 1: kind of training camp is when you kind of learned
17:41
Speaker 1: some of these guys in the way training camp was
17:43
Speaker 1: this year. You can spend as much time. But yeah,
17:47
Speaker 1: I thought, I think the most interesting part about that is, uh,
17:50
Speaker 1: kind of how his family kind of related to a
17:53
Speaker 1: lot of parts of his life and part of his
17:56
Speaker 1: career too. Just seemed like his family was superportant to him,
18:00
Speaker 1: from fishing, the playing the drums to kind of being
18:03
Speaker 1: into football and and everything. So I thought that was
18:06
Speaker 1: pretty interesting. And you know, Jawn's always seems a good guy,
18:09
Speaker 1: always kind of says hello, always has time for you,
18:11
Speaker 1: and uh like you. I didn't know a ton. I
18:14
Speaker 1: haven't had a ton of interaction with him. Um. We
18:17
Speaker 1: had him miked up for the last game of the
18:18
Speaker 1: year last year and it was fun. So that was
18:21
Speaker 1: kind of our my introduction to him, UM on a
18:25
Speaker 1: more personal level. And uh, yeah, I thought was I
18:28
Speaker 1: thought it was a good interview. Yeah, he's the kind
18:31
Speaker 1: of guy that I respect and don't like, and I
18:34
Speaker 1: don't like him for this reason, Dave. He's twenty two
18:37
Speaker 1: and he's better at three things that I am at anything.
18:41
Speaker 1: And I resent that a little bit, but I mean, seriously,
18:44
Speaker 1: you think about it. He went deep into fishing, deep
18:47
Speaker 1: into drums, deep into football. There's a guy who in
18:50
Speaker 1: twenty two years has has accomplished a great deal. And
18:53
Speaker 1: it just shows you that unlike me who sits around
18:56
Speaker 1: the house all the time, if you have to get
18:58
Speaker 1: out and do something, you learn some things in life.
19:00
Speaker 1: And he and I'm joking, but he's certainly is a
19:04
Speaker 1: well rounded kid who it's clear from talking to him
19:09
Speaker 1: what a great influence his family. He talks about, you know,
19:14
Speaker 1: spending all day fishing with his dad. It's cool when
19:19
Speaker 1: you like your family and like spending time around them
19:22
Speaker 1: and that's what your life's about. And it's clear to
19:25
Speaker 1: me that's what that's the case with him. But I
19:28
Speaker 1: thought the most interesting football thing was something I wanted
19:32
Speaker 1: to bring up early, and I did. I can recall
19:36
Speaker 1: right after the season and all of us in in
19:39
Speaker 1: digital take a couple of days off, and then a
19:41
Speaker 1: lot of us kind of stream back in along with
19:43
Speaker 1: the players. Most times in January or February because players
19:46
Speaker 1: don't have to be there. You might see the occasional
19:50
Speaker 1: veteran around if they're just thirty year old married guy
19:56
Speaker 1: who is into routine. You would see pause all the
19:59
Speaker 1: time when you play eight here because he was the
20:01
Speaker 1: guy who was going to have his routine. You would
20:03
Speaker 1: see guy you don't usually see young players back in
20:07
Speaker 1: the building on January and I don't know the exact date,
20:10
Speaker 1: but Jowan was one of the first guys back way
20:14
Speaker 1: before O t s we're gonna start. I mean all
20:16
Speaker 1: that got next with COVID, but way before you usually
20:19
Speaker 1: see players back. He was back. You'd see him eating
20:22
Speaker 1: lunch with Milo. You tea him up in the breakup.
20:24
Speaker 1: That says something to me. He didn't go deep into it,
20:26
Speaker 1: but that says something to me about the kids want
20:29
Speaker 1: to and drive. Uh. If he's not great, it's not
20:33
Speaker 1: going to be because he didn't work for it. Yeah,
20:35
Speaker 1: the guys usually see come back early with the guys
20:38
Speaker 1: who are a little banged up during the year, and
20:39
Speaker 1: he came back to get better. I think sometimes see
20:43
Speaker 1: that to do that. You'll see guys who once they've
20:46
Speaker 1: been in the league five or six years, they realized Okay,
20:48
Speaker 1: my routine's got to start now. But most rookies are
20:53
Speaker 1: you know, they're booking flights, they're ready to get out,
20:55
Speaker 1: they're ready to go wherever it is they go. And uh,
20:59
Speaker 1: Jowan just I think he's a guy who has some
21:02
Speaker 1: pretty simple outside life and his whole focus right now
21:07
Speaker 1: is I want to be a great football player, and
21:10
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be back in the building and se who
21:11
Speaker 1: I can do to get there. And I wasn't gonna
21:13
Speaker 1: get him to say this, but he's playing at a
21:14
Speaker 1: pretty high level. He's improved a great deal from his
21:17
Speaker 1: rookie year, and everything you hear is that he's on
21:20
Speaker 1: track to be exactly what they thought he was gonna be.
21:22
Speaker 1: One story I remember is back in I guess it
21:25
Speaker 1: was two thousand, twelve or thirteen. Uh, there was Johnson Cyprian,
21:31
Speaker 1: former safety, and after his rookie year. I just remember him.
21:38
Speaker 1: So there's like a last open lockerroom period before everybody
21:41
Speaker 1: goes away for the year where you can interview and
21:44
Speaker 1: basically like all the reporters are interviewing people to let
21:47
Speaker 1: it last for like a month almost so there everybody
21:50
Speaker 1: gets interviewed. Jonathan Cyprian, so there's a lot of commotion,
21:53
Speaker 1: people packing up, there's a lot of stuff going on
21:55
Speaker 1: in the locker room, and Johnathan Cyprian was laying in
21:59
Speaker 1: his locker with his eat on his chair, sleeping because
22:02
Speaker 1: he was worn out from the season. Like just because
22:06
Speaker 1: when you're a rookie, think of it this way. I mean,
22:08
Speaker 1: you go from your your college football season, which starts
22:11
Speaker 1: in September, all the way through that. Then you pick
22:15
Speaker 1: up and you are getting ready for the combine. You
22:19
Speaker 1: go through the workhouse, go through the combine. Oh, you
22:21
Speaker 1: get two weeks off, and then you're at a rookie
22:23
Speaker 1: minicamp and then you're you're an NFL player. And just
22:27
Speaker 1: for him to still like felt fresh at the end
22:29
Speaker 1: of the seasons, pretty big compliment to him. He strikes
22:32
Speaker 1: me as that guy you were friends with in high
22:34
Speaker 1: school who was good at everything. Yeah, those guys weren't
22:37
Speaker 1: friends with me, but yeah, I get it. But uh yeah,
22:42
Speaker 1: a remarkable guy. And I'll say it again. I know
22:43
Speaker 1: I'm a broken record on it, but guys like Josh Allen,
22:46
Speaker 1: D J. Chark, and Jowan Taylor. Uh, for fans who
22:50
Speaker 1: look at the Jaguars right now and wonder where it's headed.
22:55
Speaker 1: I've these guys are guys that you want around year
23:01
Speaker 1: on the field and off and the off field quality
23:04
Speaker 1: of these guys, and I feel pretty strong that all
23:07
Speaker 1: three all three of these guys are quality guys and others,
23:09
Speaker 1: but they stand out to me I on these fronts.
23:14
Speaker 1: There's a lot to build a round around here in
23:15
Speaker 1: Jowan Taylor is one of those guys. So on that
23:18
Speaker 1: note day, I will thank Joe fort Shadow they do
23:21
Speaker 1: every week for taking me down better than I am.
23:23
Speaker 1: Thank you for being here for putting up with me
23:25
Speaker 1: as always. That was this week's Thow's Own podcast. I
23:29
Speaker 1: thought Jowan Taylor was great, certainly didn't suck. We'll look
23:31
Speaker 1: forward to talking to you guys next week