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O-Zone Podcast: Peter King · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ozone Podcast presented by by Star Credit
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Speaker 1: with Jedguars Senior writer John Osan. All right, welcome into
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Speaker 1: this week's Ozone podcast presented by by Star and uh,
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Speaker 1: sort of an obvious guest this week an incredibly timely guest.
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Speaker 1: But for me, any week that I can talk to
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Speaker 1: Peter King of Football Morning in America is a good week. Peter,
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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us. We'll get to Urban Meyer,
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Speaker 1: who's obviously the topic of our conversation today next. And
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna ask you about Tony to Sally this time?
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Speaker 1: How about that? So talking Tony anytime? You know that? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we'll put that on hold. But are first of all,
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Speaker 1: league wide, how are you in terms of covering the
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Speaker 1: league right now? Are you back to normal at all?
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Speaker 1: And any impressions right now? What's going on with the lead? Um?
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm hoping I see Tom Pellisero of NFL
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Speaker 1: Network has reported that it appears that most offseason programs
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Speaker 1: will be able to begin in the month of April.
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Speaker 1: So that's obviously welcome to all the teams in the league. Um,
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Speaker 1: And and look, I as of right now, John, my
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Speaker 1: intention is to travel to one or more places for
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Speaker 1: the draft this year, not not to Cleveland, but you know,
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Speaker 1: I always try to go to a very newsy team
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Speaker 1: or teams. And I haven't really decided yet, because I'm
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Speaker 1: telling you right now there are some teams that are
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Speaker 1: going to be open to the media on draft weekend,
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Speaker 1: and there are some teams that say we're doing it
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Speaker 1: virtual again. So that's why I don't. I don't have
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Speaker 1: a great fee ill for how this whole thing is
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Speaker 1: going to go. But you know, whatever the rules are,
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Speaker 1: all abide by them and and just try to get
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Speaker 1: be as insightful as I can. You know, are the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars as as fascinating a team as you're seeing or
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Speaker 1: I guess the question is are they as fascinating nationally
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Speaker 1: as they appear to us here locally? Oh? I think
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Speaker 1: they are. What I see right now is is a
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Speaker 1: team that has gotten the jolt of adrenaline and then
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Speaker 1: some um from Urban Meyer, from Trevor Lawrence, from seventy
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Speaker 1: million in cap room, from all those things. And you know,
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Speaker 1: we'll see what happens, and we'll see what develops. But
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Speaker 1: I think the most interesting thing about the team right now,
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Speaker 1: and you know, Urban said it to me the other
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Speaker 1: day is uh is basically if you think about it,
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Speaker 1: and and I mean it's a difficult, difficult thing to
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Speaker 1: quantify because you really have to go way back, but
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Speaker 1: if you think about it, what he says is absolutely true,
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Speaker 1: which is that it's probably the most important offseason that
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Speaker 1: this team has had. When you think about it, you know,
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Speaker 1: the new coach, the new franchise quarterback, um, the most
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Speaker 1: money of any team in free agency. Those are all
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Speaker 1: huge factors in the sort of redevelopment of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it reminded me of Peter and as you know, I
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Speaker 1: was fortunate enough to be around when the whole thing
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Speaker 1: was sort of built and going on to me, it
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Speaker 1: feels like sort of a combination of two or three
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Speaker 1: of those off seasons because back then you knew there
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Speaker 1: was expansion, there was sort of a five year plan.
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Speaker 1: In an era where five year plans made more sense.
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Speaker 1: This sort of feels like all of it put together
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Speaker 1: other on steroids because of the number one pick, which
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Speaker 1: they've never had. So just sort of my two cents,
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Speaker 1: but um, I want to give you a lot of
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Speaker 1: room to breathe on a couple of topics because I
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Speaker 1: respect your opinion a great deal on NFL people. Uh, first,
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Speaker 1: just give me your overall impressions of talking to Urban.
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Speaker 1: I don't how much you talked to him before, never
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Speaker 1: in mind very much. It never had to get him.
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Speaker 1: What were your overall impressions. You've talked to a lot
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Speaker 1: of people over the years, a lot of important NFL people,
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Speaker 1: maybe all of them. Yeah, I mean, I think the
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Speaker 1: biggest the biggest takeaway is that, um, he's he's got
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Speaker 1: a plan. And as you've noticed, John, I'm sure you've
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Speaker 1: been around him now enough to know that he's he's
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Speaker 1: got a plan. He's he's very much drilled down to um,
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Speaker 1: the smallest things that you have to worry about. You know,
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Speaker 1: I once heard one of the Patriots say about Bill Belichick,
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Speaker 1: you know I want. I once said, and it's so,
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Speaker 1: it must be so difficult to play for Bill all
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Speaker 1: the time. Must be great in some ways, but difficult,
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Speaker 1: And he goes the greatest part about playing for Bill
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Speaker 1: Belichick is that when I walk into training camp every year,
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Speaker 1: I feel like everybody else in the NFL is starting
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Speaker 1: at the goal line and we're starting at the forty
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Speaker 1: yard line. You know, like, we got a forty yard
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Speaker 1: head start on everybody else in football. And and I
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Speaker 1: think one of the things that you've noticed with Urban
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Speaker 1: Meyer as he's gone an gone in his career, he
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Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of ramp up time when you
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Speaker 1: think about it. And it's easy to hit the ground
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Speaker 1: running and to win ten games in Columbus, Ohio, in Gainesville, Florida.
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Speaker 1: But you know, his first job, he took over a
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Speaker 1: losing team with a losing ethos at Bowling Green and
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Speaker 1: they won right away. And they won pretty much right
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Speaker 1: away too, and you taught And so I think, honestly
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Speaker 1: that that is the biggest takeaway I had that he's
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Speaker 1: just he's got answers for everything. And again we'll have
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Speaker 1: to see if those answers are all the right answers,
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Speaker 1: and he certainly does have I can see very much.
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Speaker 1: One of the things when I was talking to Jimmy Johnson,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe a month ago about Urban or
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Speaker 1: maybe even longer than that, before he took the job.
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Speaker 1: One of the things that Jimmy said basically is that, hey,
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Speaker 1: Urban is not stupid. Urban sees the opportunity in Jacksonville,
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Speaker 1: and john when you think about it, even though the
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Speaker 1: Jaguar arguably we're the worst team in football last year
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Speaker 1: and their record showed it. Um, how often do you
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Speaker 1: get advantages like taking a true franchise quarterback with the
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Speaker 1: first pick, like having more cap room than anybody in
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Speaker 1: the NFL? Uh and uh having sort of a blank slate.
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Speaker 1: Uh that Urban Meyer has because Shod Khan has given
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Speaker 1: that to him. So he's got a really good opportunity
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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. Yeah, I wouldn't call it unprecedented, but it's
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Speaker 1: certainly rare. Yeah, I think you and that's uh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's an incredible opportunity. Do you know, Peter, I covered
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Speaker 1: the Colts from ninety or from two thousand one on,
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Speaker 1: but I missed their very beginning. But it strikes you
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Speaker 1: a little bit like that when they were drafting Peyton,
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Speaker 1: they had brought in Bill Polian. It was a clear reset.
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Speaker 1: They had a couple of good players. They had Marvin
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Speaker 1: Harrison to start that tar glance and guys like that.
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Speaker 1: It's some pieces, but we're also pulling very rare instances.
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Speaker 1: That was years ago, so it doesn't happen very often.
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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, no doubt, all right, we buried
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Speaker 1: the lead enough theater we have. You know, you and
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Speaker 1: I are both longtime journalists. You don't bury the lead
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Speaker 1: like this. We've done it the Trevor News. Uh. Obviously
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Speaker 1: urban told you basically the pick has all been made. Uh,
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Speaker 1: however you want to paraphrase it. Take me through that question.
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Speaker 1: Did you expect him to answer like that? Because it
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Speaker 1: seemed to me like it was just in the course
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Speaker 1: of an interview That's exactly what it was. I had
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Speaker 1: no Look. I think sometimes it's um fairly preposterous when
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Speaker 1: an NFL coach or general manager before the draft, when
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Speaker 1: everyone knows exactly what you're going to do in this draft,
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Speaker 1: you know it. It is Uh, it's foolish to see
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Speaker 1: them play twists themselves into knots to play word games. Okay,
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Speaker 1: And to me when he said, uh, I'm certainly I'm
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Speaker 1: looking at it right now, I'm certainly not stepping out
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Speaker 1: a line that that's certainly the direction we're headed. Uh,
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Speaker 1: I'd have to say that's the direction we're going. So,
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Speaker 1: I mean, John, you you know from covering this league
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Speaker 1: for a long time that usually people will sidestep questions
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Speaker 1: like that. Um, I mean, he didn't say we are
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Speaker 1: drafting Trevor Lawrence. But he might as well have said that,
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Speaker 1: and thank you. I basically thought to myself, um but
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Speaker 1: but but honestly, nobody really thought that there was a
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Speaker 1: chance they weren't going to take them. And I understand
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Speaker 1: and the the enthusiasm and ramped up excitement about Zack Wilson,
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Speaker 1: and rightfully so, he looks like he's a really good player.
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Speaker 1: But you know, honestly, when you when you when you
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Speaker 1: really think about it, I think you have to you
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Speaker 1: almost have to take the bird in the hand, the
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Speaker 1: guy who for the last three years everyone has said
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Speaker 1: when he comes out, he's going to be the first
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Speaker 1: pick in the draft. He is the closest thing to Andrew.
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Speaker 1: Look since Andrew Luck. Uh, And so I think in
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Speaker 1: this case, John, you shouldn't overthink it. You ought to
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Speaker 1: just take the guy who's far and away been the
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Speaker 1: best candidate. And look, it could be that Zach Wilson,
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Speaker 1: Trey Lance, one of these guys has a better NFL career.
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Speaker 1: You just can't tell. But I think would be I
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Speaker 1: don't want to say irresponsible, that's that's the wrong word.
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Speaker 1: But sure, I think it would be very strange if
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Speaker 1: they if they wouldn't have taken Trevor Lawrence. I know
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Speaker 1: you don't do draft year round, but you certainly talked
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Speaker 1: to more than enough people around the league had a
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Speaker 1: grasp over a prospect of Trevor Lawrences caliber. Um, you
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Speaker 1: mentioned Andrew Luck thing and you're talking to people there
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Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be very much doubt about this kid.
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Speaker 1: I is it since Luck that you've heard I guess
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Speaker 1: conversations like this, You know what I'm getting at. I
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Speaker 1: think that, um, even and I was just thinking about this,
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Speaker 1: I think people are more confident in him than they
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Speaker 1: were in Joe Burrow, which is really saying something because
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow probably had the best season against the best
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Speaker 1: competition in college football history of any quarterback. Um. But
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Speaker 1: I think the reason for that, John, is that people
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Speaker 1: have loved Trevor Lawrence for three years people love Joe
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Speaker 1: Burrow for three months. And that's really the difference that
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Speaker 1: I see anyway, And that meant they had plenty of
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Speaker 1: time to try to pick Trevor apart and obviously had
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Speaker 1: trouble doing it, which that's something I guess too. I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you've got to look at it and say, and of course,
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Speaker 1: if you have long enough time to pick somebody apart,
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Speaker 1: you can figure out his weaknesses, um, whatever they would be.
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Speaker 1: But I think the biggest thing when you look at
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence UM is that he's a big, mobile, very smart,
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Speaker 1: strong armed passer who can make all the throws and
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Speaker 1: against the best level of competence Titian over a three
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Speaker 1: year period, possibly of any quarterback ever, he went thirty
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Speaker 1: four and two. So I mean, as I say, don't
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Speaker 1: don't over don't overthinkth that's the money. It's a pretty
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Speaker 1: easy decision. I got you. I'm gonna ask a very
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Speaker 1: uh elementary question, but I want to get your take
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Speaker 1: on it. How is it more important these days? I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's twenty five years you've been doing it longer more
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Speaker 1: important these days? They have a franchise guy just as important.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I'm trying to give fans some
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Speaker 1: perspective on just how much this can change a franchise
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Speaker 1: and and the answer is it changes everything. But I'm wondering,
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Speaker 1: from your perspective, how you would put that into words. John.
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Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing that I have seen in
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Speaker 1: the last five, maybe ten years is the absolute desperation
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Speaker 1: to make sure that you have a quarterback. And that's
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Speaker 1: even ratcheted up since before there was always that, but
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Speaker 1: it's more, it's more, it's more now, it's more now.
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Speaker 1: Look at I mean, I started covering the NFL in four.
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Speaker 1: I covered the Cincinnati Bengals, and I could pull out
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Speaker 1: the standings of the Bengals right now, and are the
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Speaker 1: standings of the NFL in and half the teams in
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Speaker 1: the league um had an okay or less quarterback situation
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Speaker 1: and you did not see at all the following off
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Speaker 1: season the kind of desperado behavior. I mean, the San
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Speaker 1: Francisco forty Niners, let's just say their pick is Mac
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Speaker 1: Jones at number three. Let's just say the San Francisco
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Speaker 1: forty Niners would have devoted three first round draft picks
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Speaker 1: to a quarterback. And I think there's a very good
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Speaker 1: chance that they're bringing Jimmy Garoppolo back. And if they
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Speaker 1: bring Jimmy Garoppolo back, imagine the quarterback of two years
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Speaker 1: ago was the quarterback on your Super Bowl runner up team.
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Speaker 1: You won the NFC with this quarterback, he's in his prime,
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Speaker 1: he's still young, and two years later, you spend three
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Speaker 1: first round picks on a guy who's going to succeed him. So,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, last year the Carolina Panthers got
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Speaker 1: decent play out of Teddy Bridgewater. They have no they
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Speaker 1: have no compunction to hang on to Teddy Bridgewater. They
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Speaker 1: are going to try aggressively in the next month to
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Speaker 1: do better than Teddy Bridgewater. So this just is merited Peter.
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Speaker 1: Or is it overkill? I mean, is it overreaction or
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Speaker 1: do we know that yet? I don't think we know it.
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Speaker 1: But in my opinion, I just think it's it's people
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Speaker 1: in the NFL who are desperate to win and don't
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Speaker 1: want to enter a season thinking to themselves, well, if
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Speaker 1: we don't get it right this year, we'll get it
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Speaker 1: right next year. That's kind of what the Philadelphia Eagles
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Speaker 1: are doing right now. But most teams are thinking to themselves,
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Speaker 1: you know, like Urban Meyers said, I have no interest
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Speaker 1: in uh, you know two or what and I'm paraphrasing,
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Speaker 1: but sure, he's trying to win right now, and so
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Speaker 1: you know, good for him. I and I think the
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Speaker 1: players on that team are gonna like that. Okay, I
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Speaker 1: got you. That's fascinating. That's probably the best explanation that
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Speaker 1: I've heard. It's such a desperation right now to get one,
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Speaker 1: and it's I've never seen it like that before you.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I see a couple more things about Urban
17:07
Speaker 1: before we close up, because you spent a lot of
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Speaker 1: time with him, and you interview people as well as
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Speaker 1: anybody I've ever been around. Your thoughts on what he
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Speaker 1: said about his future. I I have been struck in
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Speaker 1: the interaction and the zoom calls that I've seen with him,
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Speaker 1: on how candid he has been since he's gotten here.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what I expected. I didn't really expect that.
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Speaker 1: I I guess your thoughts on what he told you
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Speaker 1: about his future and sort of where he's coming from
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Speaker 1: on that. I was fascinated by the answers. I mean,
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Speaker 1: when when this is now about three months ago, when
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Speaker 1: it first started coming out that the Jaguars were seriously
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Speaker 1: in serious talks with Urban Meyer, I just said to myself,
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Speaker 1: what I mean, here's guy who retired from Florida at
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Speaker 1: forty five, came back a few weeks later and said
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Speaker 1: he was going to continue coaching. Then he retired at
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Speaker 1: six after his next year, and then eleven months later
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Speaker 1: he takes the Ohio State job and then he retires
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Speaker 1: from that one at age fifty four. So you know,
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Speaker 1: I I my first thought was and I called somebody
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Speaker 1: who knows Shot Khan and I said, I mean this,
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Speaker 1: this seems a little, uh precipitous. And he said, well,
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Speaker 1: he said, Shot has really drilled down on that with
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Speaker 1: Urban because obviously this they don't want to shoolation. They
18:48
Speaker 1: don't want to Saban situation like in Miami. And obviously
18:51
Speaker 1: everybody knows Nick Saban took the Dolphins job with a
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Speaker 1: five year contract in two thousand five, and twenty three
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Speaker 1: months later, sitting at his kitchen table uh with his
19:05
Speaker 1: wife and Wayne Hyazenga then the owner now the late
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Speaker 1: Wayne hyazenger the owner of the Dolphins, and he's pleading whatever,
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Speaker 1: beseeching him. I don't want to do this. I want
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Speaker 1: to go back to college. And so Hyazenga said, okay
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Speaker 1: go And so obviously, you know, look, Nick Saban wasn't
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Speaker 1: saying I'm leaving after two years when he took the
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Speaker 1: Dolphins job. I guarantee you that, but I got the impression,
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Speaker 1: especially from how straighten Ah urban Meyer was with me
19:43
Speaker 1: when he said zero chance of that happening that he
19:47
Speaker 1: was going to be a short timer. So you know,
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Speaker 1: we'll take him at his word and we'll see what happens.
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Speaker 1: Final thought, And I was fascinated by his answer when
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Speaker 1: you asked him this, You asked him, what do you
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Speaker 1: expect you from this season? He did give you sort
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Speaker 1: of a coach speak answer there, which I completely expect.
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Speaker 1: No coach is going to predict records. What are your
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Speaker 1: thoughts on the Jackboys? Is he what will you be
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Speaker 1: watching for? How fascinated will you be? And what do
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Speaker 1: you expect? John? I think the the thing that's so
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Speaker 1: interesting about this team is that so much of it
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Speaker 1: is going to be new. Um, you know, the coach
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Speaker 1: on his staff that I like a lot and I
20:31
Speaker 1: think is going to have a huge impact on year one.
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Speaker 1: Obviously Myer is gonna have more impact than anybody, but
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Speaker 1: the you know, the assistant coach is gonna have the
20:41
Speaker 1: biggest impact is Joe Culin Because on that one, I agree.
20:46
Speaker 1: Joe Cullen has been waiting for this moment since he
20:50
Speaker 1: almost totally screwed up his life. Um, you know with
20:55
Speaker 1: alcohol whatever it was twelve years ago. Uh, and you
21:00
Speaker 1: know he took the hard way of getting back into
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Speaker 1: the NFL. He basically, you know, threw himself on the
21:08
Speaker 1: mercy of the court with Roger Goodell, and Goodell was
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Speaker 1: behind him taking baby steps at first to come back
21:16
Speaker 1: into the league. And I've gotten to know Coloring a
21:20
Speaker 1: little bit over the years, and I just think he
21:25
Speaker 1: he is so uh, he's he's he's so out to
21:30
Speaker 1: prove that. Um. I'm glad people believed in me because
21:36
Speaker 1: I'll take that for the rest of my career and
21:39
Speaker 1: I'll make sure that I never put myself in a
21:42
Speaker 1: bad situation like I did when when he was in Detroit.
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Speaker 1: So I I like I like the fact that I
21:50
Speaker 1: think their defense is going to be good, um, And
21:54
Speaker 1: I think their defense is going to be energetic. And
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Speaker 1: you know, the one other thing I would say, John, Look,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what they're going to do in the
22:02
Speaker 1: draft after the quarterback, but they're going to be in
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Speaker 1: great position to do great things in the draft. But
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Speaker 1: I also think the other smart thing that I think
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Speaker 1: they've done is they've left themselves with forty million dollars
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Speaker 1: in cap room, because I believe every year you see
22:24
Speaker 1: loosen the cutting of some players, honor about June one,
22:30
Speaker 1: because you know, obviously teams want to be able to
22:34
Speaker 1: you know, uh, separate the financial burden of those teams
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Speaker 1: of those players from two thousand and two thousand, twenty two.
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Speaker 1: So there will be, in my opinion, a bunch of
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Speaker 1: good players on the street on June one, two three
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Speaker 1: right in there. And I would be surprised if the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars don't don't nab two or three of those. So
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Speaker 1: I don't think their free agent experience is over at all.
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Speaker 1: And everybody has been who hum about free agency with them,
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Speaker 1: But look, the Patriots spent a jillion dollars and probably
23:23
Speaker 1: are a lot better. I get that. But the recent
23:29
Speaker 1: history of the NFL, the road is littered with teams
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Speaker 1: that thought they bought greatness and ended up buying mediocrity instead.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, free agency is just not nirvana. And so
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Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. But as I as I say,
23:50
Speaker 1: the player acquisition side of the Jaguars, uh, obviously one
23:57
Speaker 1: month from now is going to get see snificantly ramped up.
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Speaker 1: And then a month after that, um, you know, after
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Speaker 1: the month of May, when they get into June, they're
24:10
Speaker 1: gonna get more players in June. So the Jaguars are
24:14
Speaker 1: gonna be virtually unrecognizable from the team that walked off
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Speaker 1: the field on January three, and I bet that most
24:22
Speaker 1: of Duval County is saying Hallelujah for that. Peter has
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Speaker 1: always tell you anything. I could talk football with you
24:29
Speaker 1: all day. You're one of my favorite guests, one of
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Speaker 1: my favorite people in the NFL. Uh I know Jaguars
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Speaker 1: fans always appreciate your insight on a at a busy time.
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Speaker 1: I can't thank you enough for joining us, and thank
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Speaker 1: you for being on the A Zone podcast this week.
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Speaker 1: Peter King, thank you. They no problem. John, have a
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