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J.P. Shadrick Podcast: Abry Jones/A.J. Cann · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the J. P. Shatrick Podcast. Today is Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: August one, and we're halfway through the first full week
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  Speaker 1: of training camp. The third of five consecutive padded practices
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  Speaker 1: happened Wednesday, and today we'll hear from one of the
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  Speaker 1: big guys to see how he's holding up during this
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  Speaker 1: challenging week, veteran nose tackle Abriy Jones. Let's start with
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  Speaker 1: the big news from Tuesday. First team All Pro quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey reported the training camp for the first time
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  Speaker 1: since the birth of his daughter. All is well with
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  Speaker 1: mother and child, so Ramsey is now back to football,
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  Speaker 1: and he was asked what could the defense do better
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  Speaker 1: in UM At the end of the day, win games.
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  Speaker 1: If we can win games on the defense side of
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  Speaker 1: the ball, we can always ask for more, more turnovers,
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  Speaker 1: more toestdown, more opportunities given the bar back to the offense,
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  Speaker 1: just more of everything. He was also asked about the
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  Speaker 1: week one matchup against the New York Giants and All
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  Speaker 1: Pro wide received Odell Beckham Jr. As you would expect,
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  Speaker 1: Ramsey put together a classic response. I mean, let's get
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  Speaker 1: this out the way right now. He's a good receiver.
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  Speaker 1: We all know that, Um, but y'all know me at
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  Speaker 1: the same time. If y'all think that, yeah, he's good,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm good too. If y'all want to say he's
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  Speaker 1: the best his busiess I'm the best in my position.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna go at it. We're gonna get people's show.
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  Speaker 1: First game, the first game of the season. You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have some wins. I'm gonna have some wins. I just
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  Speaker 1: plan on having more wins. Um. You know that's the plan.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go in there with I'm gonna work my
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  Speaker 1: ass off to get to that point where I can't
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  Speaker 1: you know, Like I just said, um not let anybody down.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure he's doing on the other side too.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what y'all ask for. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: It's fans of the game, as you know, NFL everybody.
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  Speaker 1: That's what y'all asked for. So we're gonna We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: give it to you, for sure. I know I am.
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  Speaker 1: We're a little over a month away from that game
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  Speaker 1: at MetLife Stadium, but hearing that makes you want to
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  Speaker 1: tee it up. This Sunday. Ramsey not only brings it
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  Speaker 1: at the podium for the media, but that energy certainly
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  Speaker 1: helps the team on the field of practice. You can
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  Speaker 1: hear him from a mile away on the sideline when
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  Speaker 1: the second and third team groups around the field, and
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  Speaker 1: he's constantly got something to say to the offensive players
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  Speaker 1: across from him when he's lined up. For quarterback, Blake Bortles,
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  Speaker 1: having Ramsey around is better for the whole team. For
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback, though, do you avoid throwing his way or
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  Speaker 1: do you want to test number twenty? No? Yeah, I love.
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  Speaker 1: I love throwing out and throwing him as much as
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  Speaker 1: we can, you know, because he makes our guys better.
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  Speaker 1: Our guys gotta work too. I mean, if you catch
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  Speaker 1: a ball on Jalen, that's that's a good rep, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because he's gonna make you earn it. Um, So it
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  Speaker 1: challenges those guys and um, you know, I like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: challenging him as well. You know, there's times in games
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  Speaker 1: where people kind of avoid him. So I think, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to to to evenly disperse the way I
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  Speaker 1: trade it in practice, Just go through the reeds becauside,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry about who's playing corner. We got two really
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  Speaker 1: good ones and you know, through the game week in preparations.
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  Speaker 1: There's some guys that should throw away from or don't
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  Speaker 1: throw out as much. Um, but you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's important in practice to just go through the readson
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  Speaker 1: progressions and uh and whoever's running the it's gotta try
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  Speaker 1: and win, you know, against whoever's gardener. As John Ozer
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  Speaker 1: wrote on Tuesday, it feels like all is right with
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  Speaker 1: the Jags with their star defensive player in the building.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of Bordles, his first camp week overall has been
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  Speaker 1: very solid. Rewind the last season, Bordles through five interceptions
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  Speaker 1: in the first padded practice that was under the lights
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  Speaker 1: on the practice fields here, and the sky seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be falling. But there has been none of that really
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  Speaker 1: this year is number five, explained Wednesday after practice. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think the positive is that the lows aren't near
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  Speaker 1: as low as they were. Um. You know, there's still
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  Speaker 1: up and down, which is gonna be especially when you
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  Speaker 1: play our defense every day. Um, but I think you know,
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  Speaker 1: the floors has risen. I guess in a weird way
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  Speaker 1: of saying that that you know, the lows aren't as bad.
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  Speaker 1: It's one, two, three bad plays compared to you know,
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  Speaker 1: there were times last year, I go, I go a
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  Speaker 1: whole day having a bad practice and you know, not
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  Speaker 1: really feel good about it. Um. So I think as
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  Speaker 1: long as you continue, uh to to kind of make
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  Speaker 1: those lows, um not quite as bad as they you know,
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  Speaker 1: have been in the past, you know, I think we'll
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  Speaker 1: have a chance. We all remember the Jaguars rallying around
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  Speaker 1: borders last year in the midst of criticism from pretty
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  Speaker 1: much everywhere. Well, there's also a new Jaguars player that
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  Speaker 1: has his back so far, and that's tight end Austin
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  Speaker 1: Safari and Jenkins, who said perception and reality are far
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  Speaker 1: different with the Jaguars quarterback. I mean, people think whatever
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  Speaker 1: they think. I don't care. I don't think you should
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  Speaker 1: care what people think about you if you know who
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  Speaker 1: you are as a person. I know Blake knows the
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  Speaker 1: type of quarterback he is. I think he's a hell
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  Speaker 1: of a quarterback, you know. I think he makes plays
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  Speaker 1: when it when it counts. I think he wins football
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  Speaker 1: games when it counts. I mean, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: draft I'm pretty sure he's in my draft class. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know any other quarterbacks that want to playoff game
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  Speaker 1: and in our draft class, and he's the only one
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  Speaker 1: to do that. So I know quarterbacks are are drafted
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  Speaker 1: to win super Bowls and win playoff games and win
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  Speaker 1: big games. And he and he's done that, He's made
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  Speaker 1: that progression. I think, uh, the perception is wrong, and
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  Speaker 1: I think the perception needs to be changed because people
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  Speaker 1: aren't realizing, um, it's a progression. Another storyline early in
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  Speaker 1: camp are some of those camp battles. There aren't as
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  Speaker 1: many as in seasons past, but we've heard about strong
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  Speaker 1: side linebacker, who's gonna be the fifth wide receiver for
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  Speaker 1: this football team? That's up in the end. We won't
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  Speaker 1: know that for a long time. Another that was pointed
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  Speaker 1: out early by head coach Doug Moron was right guard,
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  Speaker 1: where fourth year veteran A. J. Cann has been working
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  Speaker 1: throughout most of his career. So far, so good, and
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  Speaker 1: camp for number sixty, But he does hear the noise
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  Speaker 1: from the outside and he understands the challenge ahead this
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  Speaker 1: week in pads. As we spoke on the practice field
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  Speaker 1: after Monday's workout, you know, that's what everybody says, that's
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  Speaker 1: what the press says, That's what I hear. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you try to try to go into it not
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  Speaker 1: not paying mind and just trying to work as hard
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  Speaker 1: as I can and UH and be the best, be
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  Speaker 1: the best I canna be for my team and for this,
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  Speaker 1: for the for the unit, for the offensive line and
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  Speaker 1: everything else to fall in place if it all works
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  Speaker 1: out a j can with us. Uh, it's the start
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  Speaker 1: of Today was the first of five consecutive padded practices.
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  Speaker 1: If you go through Friday and the scrimmage Friday night stadium,
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  Speaker 1: how challenging is a week like that? You guys had
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  Speaker 1: one like that last year. It's tough, right, kind of
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  Speaker 1: kind of separates things it does. You know, it just
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  Speaker 1: is uh mentally as much as much as it is physically,
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  Speaker 1: because you got to be able to um, be disciplined
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  Speaker 1: a night and go to sleep, be disciplined during the
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  Speaker 1: day and hydrated nutrition right and um. But at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, you know, you gotta be able
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  Speaker 1: to finish priv days and be able to practice physical
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  Speaker 1: for these next five days because it can't take a
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  Speaker 1: toll on you, man. But that's what it's for. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we work hard, and you know maybe the outcome would
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  Speaker 1: be much better when we UH continue to stack up
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  Speaker 1: these good practices with these filipaths on and that is
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  Speaker 1: the great challenge for the big guys, especially on a
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  Speaker 1: week like this, maintaining your body day after day and
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  Speaker 1: can so far has met the challenge a few days
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  Speaker 1: into pads. Now to another big man fighting the elements.
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  Speaker 1: This week, it's nose tackle Avery Jones. It's hard to
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  Speaker 1: believe a bit that Avery enters his sixth season with
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  Speaker 1: the organization. He's seen it all around here from the
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  Speaker 1: lowest to lows to last year's run of the f
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  Speaker 1: C Championship Game, and he's a major part of this
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  Speaker 1: defensive line. We discuss expectations for the defense this year,
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  Speaker 1: how he manages his body during camp, and how to
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  Speaker 1: practice live work against team every Jones with US training
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  Speaker 1: camp Week two, a lot of padded practices this week.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start big pictures though for this defense. There's not
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  Speaker 1: a lot statistically that can go better for this group
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  Speaker 1: from last year. But what are some expectations and where
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  Speaker 1: do you guys improve overall here and going into two.
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  Speaker 1: All expectations is to improve everything we did. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you can say there's not much to improve on, or
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  Speaker 1: we had a fantastic defense, but the day we ended
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  Speaker 1: the year without a ring. So for us personally, we
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  Speaker 1: feel like we got everything improve upon, and everyone is
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  Speaker 1: taking that personally on the defense, whole one is everyone
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  Speaker 1: is thinking of things that sacrifice and things to improve on.
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  Speaker 1: Well for you, what is it for me? I just
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  Speaker 1: wanna just be more in shape for the guys, be
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  Speaker 1: more solid on the run, and help out on the past.
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  Speaker 1: I think I could just help with that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we got tremendous pass rushers, but sometimes you know, they
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  Speaker 1: try to go full line, you know, pass block, and
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  Speaker 1: they like the double team my guys. So I gotta
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  Speaker 1: step up when I'm needed, be it in more shape
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  Speaker 1: for the guys. How do you start with that? Dude?
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  Speaker 1: I just run into our run and to that started
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  Speaker 1: looking like everyone is saying I'm looking good. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: just gonna keep running, you know, and then hopefully it
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  Speaker 1: pays off. And I feel like I was in pretty
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  Speaker 1: good shape this year, but I just want to take
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  Speaker 1: it to another level. It's running too one thing. Nutrition,
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  Speaker 1: You've got to kind of combine all that get in
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  Speaker 1: the weight room a little bit too, that all kind
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  Speaker 1: of works together in that regard. Right. Oh yeah, everything
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  Speaker 1: I think for the past to year, and I've been
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  Speaker 1: doing pretty well with my nutrition and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm still a big guy, but I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I got difference in the looks at my body.
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  Speaker 1: Hevery Jones is with us. No comment on that from me,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Um, the challenge of a week like this,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the weather has been pretty nice to the
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  Speaker 1: Jags this week with the rain yesterday, the clouds and
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  Speaker 1: all that. But five straight padded practices here. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we made a big deal that last training camp. First
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  Speaker 1: time that's happened in a while around here. But what
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  Speaker 1: is the challenge of a week like this? And how
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  Speaker 1: do you kind of fight through as the dogs get here? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: How the way I see is the biggest challenges is
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  Speaker 1: do you want to back up all you said you
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  Speaker 1: was gonna do for the team and what you want
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  Speaker 1: to do for yourself? Because I mean, to do what
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  Speaker 1: you said you was gonna do, you gotta go through
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  Speaker 1: days like this, and I think every day, you know,
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  Speaker 1: people come up. You know, it's practice. No one really
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  Speaker 1: likes to practice. You can get a little moaning, groaning,
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  Speaker 1: but there's no one out here saying we should be
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  Speaker 1: doing something else or we need to do less. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: comes out here as soon as they put on their helmets,
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  Speaker 1: like this is the day to get better, so no
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  Speaker 1: one's trying to waste no opportunities out here. And then
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  Speaker 1: that's the ad too. You gotta have on five days
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  Speaker 1: like this because the coaches know where they want us
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  Speaker 1: to go, and they know where we want to go,
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  Speaker 1: so they're not gonna pull up on us today. Late
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  Speaker 1: in practice, during that the four minute period, there was
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  Speaker 1: live to the ground contact there for this team. How
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  Speaker 1: do you balance that with not hurting the guy on
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  Speaker 1: the other side. You gotta get better, you gotta do
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  Speaker 1: it at some point. But the mindset of a defensive
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  Speaker 1: player in that if it's live, it's live, right, But
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  Speaker 1: to what extent is it live? Um? I mean, we're
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  Speaker 1: just trying to make sure that when we wrap our
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  Speaker 1: guys up in the pile, we don't try to clean
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  Speaker 1: off the pile. You know, make sure we keep our
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  Speaker 1: head up so we don't have no concussions and you
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  Speaker 1: know we don't have really have people just really just
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  Speaker 1: trying to take the legs from these people. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you got good form tackling, but it's always above the knee.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean we're always hit a live but We're
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  Speaker 1: just trying to make sure we're not trying to kill
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  Speaker 1: nobody or do anything over extra that's not needed. Referee
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  Speaker 1: John Perry and part of his crew is here this
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the week to work with you guys.
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  Speaker 1: They're out here practice on Wednesday today. How much does
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  Speaker 1: that help? With all the new rules that the heads
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  Speaker 1: up rules and all that I don't have you guys
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  Speaker 1: had a chance to talk with them. It's a great help.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, ever since the new rules have come out. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the coach has been good doing a good job of
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  Speaker 1: saving clips from practice. So when the offishers do come
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  Speaker 1: and they come to the meeting room, we're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: a whole role of clips with them to see and
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  Speaker 1: they can tell us what they think about it so
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  Speaker 1: they drastically improve our game. They appreciate it. Man, Good
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  Speaker 1: luck to you, no problem, Thanks all. Thanks for Avery
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  Speaker 1: Jones and A J. Can for their time this week
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  Speaker 1: on the practice field. After a couple of warm days
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  Speaker 1: in pads, coming up this week two more padded practices.
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  Speaker 1: Thursday morning is the last public practice at the Dream
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  Speaker 1: Finders Homes practice complex, and then Friday night another public
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  Speaker 1: practice the final one. Overall, that's a six pm start
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  Speaker 1: for the family night scrimmage inside t I A, a
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  Speaker 1: bank field registered for admission to both at Jaguars dot
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  Speaker 1: Com Slash Training Camp. Thanks as always the Jags Manager
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  Speaker 1: of Radio, Joe Fortunato, and we'll catch you next time
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  Speaker 1: on the j P. Shadrick Podcast