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London Games Announcement Reaction & Veterans Stepping up to the Plate | Huddle Up · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome into another edition of the Huddle Up Podcast. JP
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Speaker 1: Shadwick ton Osier from the Hyundai studios at the Miller
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Speaker 1: Electric Center in Jacksonville. Bucky Brooks in Los Angeles, busy
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Speaker 1: week in and outside of the building. Bucky, how are you?
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Speaker 1: What's up?
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Speaker 2: Man?
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Speaker 3: I'm good, guys. You know, this is my favorite time
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Speaker 3: of the year. Like this is when the speculation runs rampant.
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Speaker 1: We drop the schedule, we get ready to go.
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Speaker 3: See OTAs in mini camps and all those things. We
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Speaker 3: get to project who's who and what's what so far.
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Speaker 2: Wait a minute, your favorite time of year. This is
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Speaker 2: nobody's favorite time of year.
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Speaker 1: It's my favorite schedule.
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Speaker 2: Then you're in the you're in the sun watching ot as.
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Speaker 2: We've heard his favorite time.
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Speaker 1: We've heard it's Bucky's favorite time of year, like five
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Speaker 1: times a year.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: He loves the draft favor he loves this, he loves
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Speaker 1: the season.
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Speaker 2: He's burdened with joy.
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Speaker 3: Look, this is when you win games.
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Speaker 1: This is when.
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Speaker 2: It is not it's.
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Speaker 1: This is when you win games. All right.
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Speaker 2: I'm just saying you should go coach the team.
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Speaker 1: I'd rather December.
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Speaker 3: I'm just saying it's critical, critical time.
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Speaker 1: We'll uh, we'll get to Rookie Camp recap and the
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Speaker 1: International Series games coming up. But last night the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: and the City of Jacksonville presented a stadium agreement to
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Speaker 1: the City Council and more on the deal at Jacksonville
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Speaker 1: dot gov or first Downtown Jacksonville dot com. And there
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Speaker 1: will be a series of community huddles around town for
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Speaker 1: citizens to show support or ask questions of all the
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Speaker 1: leaders involved. The first one is tonight May fifteenth. Mander
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Speaker 1: In High School. May sixteenth at the Legend Center on
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Speaker 1: Hotel Road. That's on the north side. May twentieth, Fletcher
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Speaker 1: High School in Neptune Beach. May twenty ninth Sandalwood High School,
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Speaker 1: I guess that's on the south side, John right, and
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Speaker 1: then mat Arlington j It's in Arlington Technically Land Technically
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Speaker 1: got it, okay, And then May thirtieth, West Side High
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Speaker 1: School on Firestone Road. No rs VP required. All those
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Speaker 1: meetings from six thirty to eight pm. The freak come
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Speaker 1: on out, ask questions, show support, and there you have it.
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Speaker 2: That's what sandal Wood was. My wife went to sandal
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Speaker 2: Wood Well. I grew up hanging out with people in Santawood.
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Speaker 2: Santa was my I.
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Speaker 1: Really don't get off if I'm going through Arlington, I
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Speaker 1: don't get off.
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Speaker 2: Atlantic Santa was one of the first major high schools
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Speaker 2: of the early seventies. Sandalwood ed White built the same year,
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Speaker 2: really seventy one. How about that first seven through twelve
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Speaker 2: high school in town?
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Speaker 1: The Sandalwood like a big seven, a big big school
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Speaker 1: or do you know?
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Speaker 2: I don't. I went to get an agree for not knowing.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what's anymore. At one time it was
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Speaker 2: mammoth when I was first built. Sandal Wood and White
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Speaker 2: were sister schools, both the same year, and they were mammoth.
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Speaker 1: I know Mandarin High School is that's big?
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Speaker 2: I covered the first Mandarin High school Jambury. Matter of fact,
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Speaker 2: how about that Fred Weary, who later played at Florida,
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Speaker 2: ran the opening kickoff for the first play in Mandarin
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Speaker 2: history back for a touchdown.
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Speaker 1: Wow. Mandarin alum. Carson Beck quarterback at Georgia, Bucky right now.
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Speaker 1: Carson Beck.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, some people are speculating he maybe the number one
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Speaker 3: quarterback in the draft.
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Speaker 1: If you can believe that.
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Speaker 2: Well, so he would be the biggest, he'd be the
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Speaker 2: first number one overall quarterback taking out of Jacksonville, so
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Speaker 2: he'd be the biggest yeah thing.
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Speaker 3: I mean, who knew that Jacksonville was so such a
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Speaker 3: fertile ground for franchise quarterbacks.
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Speaker 2: It's getting there, it's getting better, trending the right way,
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Speaker 2: you know. One is a trend.
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Speaker 1: By the way, Well, the sneak preview of next year's
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Speaker 1: draft already, which is they haven't even played this college
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Speaker 1: season yet.
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Speaker 2: It was the best time of year for that.
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Speaker 1: This is the best time to hear I had about
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Speaker 1: the draft. There's never a bad time with Bucky on
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Speaker 1: the pod, John, that was rookie Winnie Camp.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it was, it was. It was Look, it was fine.
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Speaker 2: It was not dazzling. I can't sit here on a
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Speaker 2: podcast and say things caught your eye. I'm sure they
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Speaker 2: got done with any to get done. It is an
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Speaker 2: important thing for the people involved. It is not a
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Speaker 2: great thing to watch, but the thing you look for,
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Speaker 2: as Bucky and I talked about last week, you want
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Speaker 2: guys to look the part. Mason Smith looks like an
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Speaker 2: NFL defensive tackle. He has arms bigger than me, and
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Speaker 2: Brian Thomas Junior runs smoother, faster, makes hard things look easier,
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Speaker 2: better than anybody else. So they both looked apart. Your
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Speaker 2: first and second round picks looked exactly like you wanted
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Speaker 2: to look, so bucky. That's about all you can ask
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Speaker 2: from an observer's point of view. All those obviously very
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Speaker 2: important in terms of acclimating these guys.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, John, they didn't really have an opportunity to do
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Speaker 3: much of anything. It's kind of like an orientation session,
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Speaker 3: Like just from looking at the clips online and reading
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Speaker 3: all the stuff, there's a lot of a lot of
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Speaker 3: endo drills, a lot of work, a lot of let's
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Speaker 3: try and become acquainted with how the Jaguars go about
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Speaker 3: doing their business. I had a chance to see some
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Speaker 3: of the stuff with BTJ online. He does look I
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Speaker 3: mean in the scout yeah, and scouting part lance, they
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Speaker 3: would call them a show pony. He does look like
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Speaker 3: he is ready to go. He big, fast and physical.
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Speaker 3: Called the ball pretty well, you like that. And then
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Speaker 3: the big guys that you talked about, like the defensive
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Speaker 3: tackle and stuff like just imposing. So at least from
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Speaker 3: a look standpoint, if you're the scouting staff and the
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Speaker 3: coaching staff, at least they look like pros when you
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Speaker 3: bring him in we'll see what they look like when
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Speaker 3: they have an opportunity to go against the Vets.
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Speaker 1: But so far, so good.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and JP, that's one of those things I make
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Speaker 2: fun of that I make fun of OTAs they're important.
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Speaker 2: All these things are important. It's just almost it's impossible
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Speaker 2: to sit and watch and fans say how they look.
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Speaker 2: I had somebody I saw somebody wrote that one of
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Speaker 2: the rookie wide receivers was balling out. Yeah, well okay,
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Speaker 2: I got.
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Speaker 1: I got excited and no defense. Yeah it's great.
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Speaker 2: And again I've been there. You write a story, you
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Speaker 2: want people to read it, so you say there, you know,
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Speaker 2: but you don't ball out this time of year. You're
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Speaker 2: not judging. In this day and age, we feel compelled
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Speaker 2: to want to pass judgment on these things. Judging wise,
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Speaker 2: they're they they are not important from a process point
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Speaker 2: of view, from what they're trying to get done, they
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Speaker 2: are important. Uh. The disconnect is that we have to
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Speaker 2: watch it.
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Speaker 1: Wow deep thoughts, John Osier. Wow, read it all all
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Speaker 1: the all the coverage on Jaguars dot com of rookie
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Speaker 1: mini caamp and all ex glory last weekend offseason program continues,
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Speaker 1: though the rookies are involved now in Phase two. It's
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Speaker 1: winding down this week. Phase three begins Monday, organized team activities.
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Speaker 1: I had a chance to cut up catch up with
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Speaker 1: cornerback Tyson Campbell earlier this week, and he was banged
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Speaker 1: up a lot last year. He talks about his off
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Speaker 1: season and yeah, a new defensive coordinator and scheme.
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Speaker 4: Get stronger, get healthier, do the things I need to
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Speaker 4: do to get my body, you know, back to my
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Speaker 4: old self. And just as a team, you know, just
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Speaker 4: you know, have a reef asums set and harky mindset
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Speaker 4: ready for another opportunity to you know play in February
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Speaker 4: and Junior.
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Speaker 1: Initial reaction to Ryan Nielsen, new defensive coordinator. A lot
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Speaker 1: of new coaches around. So how's the interaction been and
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Speaker 1: what kind of defense can this group be this year?
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Speaker 4: Uh? You know, Ryan, this is a great coach, definitely
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Speaker 4: a fiery coach, all about you know, enthusiasm and emotion
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Speaker 4: and attention to detail. And you know, I feel like
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Speaker 4: this is what this defense need and I'm excited for
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Speaker 4: this defense.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 4: He just got a lot of you know, great players,
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Speaker 4: a couple of rookies coming in and definitely help us out.
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Speaker 1: That's Tyson Campbell full conversation on Jaguars dot Com and
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Social media. It is a contract year as well.
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Speaker 1: Obviously he didn't that much to say about that. I
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Speaker 1: did ask him and he didn't really go down that path.
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Speaker 1: But we all know what it is. Year four. You know,
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Speaker 1: he was a second round pick and this is the year.
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Speaker 1: It's a new defense. There's a lot going on Bucky
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Speaker 1: for Tyson Campbell and this is this is a big
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Speaker 1: opportunity for him, ahead, big opportunity for him.
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Speaker 3: I think two of the guys who probably are the
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Speaker 3: biggest lynch pins to whether this defense goes from good
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Speaker 3: to great are in the secondary, and that would be
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Speaker 3: Tyson Campbell is one.
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Speaker 1: Andre Cisco is another.
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Speaker 3: The reason why these guys are really important is because
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Speaker 3: as young players, as players that were kind of drafted
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Speaker 3: to be star wars in the back end, you need
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Speaker 3: them to play great. And Tyson Campbell we talked about
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Speaker 3: someone who has natural man demand cover or ability. When
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Speaker 3: you watch him at Georgia, that's what he did. Knows
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Speaker 3: knows he challenged people at the line. He has the
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Speaker 3: athleticism to do those things. And even though he has
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Speaker 3: six interceptions, I would say that his best quality is
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Speaker 3: going to be able to shadow whilde receivers down the field,
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Speaker 3: and I would say a good season for him is
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Speaker 3: one where he has a high number of past breakups,
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Speaker 3: not as many interceptions because his back is going to
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Speaker 3: be to the defense. Primarily For Andre Cisco, it is
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Speaker 3: can he be put in a situation where he can
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Speaker 3: make a bunch of plays on the ball. And the
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Speaker 3: trick to it is, he is a guy who's very instinctive.
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Speaker 3: He's a guy who has great ball skills and a
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Speaker 3: really high football IQ. But for him to play the
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Speaker 3: way that he needs to play, everyone in the back
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Speaker 3: end has to be on the same page, meaning that
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Speaker 3: he is talking, he's communicating with the rest of the group.
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Speaker 3: So when he is going to go make a play,
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Speaker 3: whether it is a predesigned trap that's going to allow
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Speaker 3: him to go make a play on the quarterback, or
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Speaker 3: if it's one where he is freelancing some within the
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Speaker 3: confines of the defense, he has to make sure that
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Speaker 3: everyone is on the same page when he's going.
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Speaker 1: To make those educated guesses.
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Speaker 3: And so between Campbell and Cisco, if they play at
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Speaker 3: a high level, this defense will play at a high level.
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Speaker 3: If they struggle, this defense is going to struggle. So
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Speaker 3: I'm really looking forward to seeing how Campbell plays his
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Speaker 3: role as the number one corner. But I'm also just
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Speaker 3: as interested in watching Cisco take his game up and
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Speaker 3: notch to be the playmaker that many of us think
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Speaker 3: that he can be.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, I think for both guys it's a
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Speaker 2: huge year. I didn't necessarily buy in last year. I
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Speaker 2: understood it was a contract year for Josh. I didn't
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Speaker 2: necessarily think he had as much to prove as a
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Speaker 2: lot of people thoughts. I thought he had been really,
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Speaker 2: really good every year of his career and really consistent,
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Speaker 2: just having me had the sacks with these guys, you a,
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Speaker 2: Tyson has played well enough that if he piles one
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Speaker 2: more really good year onto that he's gonna get paid.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's a frontline guy. He has also had
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Speaker 2: enough inconsistency where if he doesn't then I think people
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Speaker 2: will sort of latch onto the inconsistency and say, well,
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Speaker 2: that's what he is. So I think it could go
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Speaker 2: either way on him. I really like him when he's on.
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Speaker 2: He has to prove this year. Frankly, he can stay
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Speaker 2: healthy and be on the field, and he was. It's
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Speaker 2: not a willingness thing for Tyson. He was trying to
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Speaker 2: fight through. He wanted to be good last year, just
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Speaker 2: didn't have the health to allow that. I don't know
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Speaker 2: if he's going to be the long term answer. He
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Speaker 2: has to prove that this year. To me, a Cisco
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Speaker 2: Bucky is h he could by the end of this
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Speaker 2: season be one of the biggest free agents in the
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Speaker 2: league because I don't necessarily think that he is automatically
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Speaker 2: one of the best safeties in the NFL, but the
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Speaker 2: way he plays, he can put up wow plays and
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Speaker 2: find himself in the Pro Bowl things go right, right like,
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Speaker 2: he's a guy that when the ball is there, he
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Speaker 2: can make plays on it. If things break right, he's
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Speaker 2: a seven interception kind of guy. He can put up
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Speaker 2: those kind of numbers. So I think both those guys
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Speaker 2: I couldn't agree more. And I think it's it's a
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Speaker 2: huge money year for both those guys, maybe especially Cisco
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Speaker 2: because I think, again, the way he plays, he's gonna
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Speaker 2: make some mistakes, but the wow plays stand out for him.
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Speaker 2: I have a question for the Scout, though, the Scout,
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Speaker 2: do you think Tyson is a great fit for this defense.
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Speaker 2: I have heard it both ways. I hope he is,
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Speaker 2: but you seem to think he could really fit this skin.
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Speaker 1: Well.
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Speaker 3: I think so because I think Tyson is more of
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Speaker 3: a man and man cornered in his own corner. And
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Speaker 3: I think the important distinction between that guys who are
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Speaker 3: really good zone corners, the guys who have really good eyes,
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Speaker 3: guys who have really good ball skills, meaning they have
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Speaker 3: they can see it, they can catch it, they can
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Speaker 3: track it in those things. I would say in the past,
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Speaker 3: when you look at Tyson, he has struggled with the
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Speaker 3: ball skills in terms of like being able to make
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Speaker 3: plays on the ball, which is interesting because he does
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Speaker 3: have six career interceptions, so you know, you kind of
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Speaker 3: temper that or whatever because he has got his hands
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Speaker 3: on balls and made some plays. I think his athleticism,
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Speaker 3: the way that he's built, the way that he moves around,
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Speaker 3: he is a guy that you would like to say, hey,
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Speaker 3: let's take some of the clutter out of the game
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Speaker 3: and let's just say, hey, you have this guy, you
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Speaker 3: follow him all over the field and go make that place. Now,
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Speaker 3: does that mean that he is a shutdown corner like
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Speaker 3: we talk about, like the premiere shut down corners. No,
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Speaker 3: but he can be a very He can be a quality,
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Speaker 3: high end, top fifteen, top sixteen corner that you feel
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Speaker 3: really good about on your squad. But it's a matter
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Speaker 3: of him taking on the challenge of doing that and
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Speaker 3: then being really really signed within the first five yards
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Speaker 3: of coverage, because if they're going to do as much
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Speaker 3: bump and run and press shit than coverage, he has
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Speaker 3: to dominate those first five yards because if he dominates
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Speaker 3: the first five yards at the line of scrimmage, he's
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Speaker 3: gonna win most downs.
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Speaker 1: And we've seen him, you know, early in his career,
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Speaker 1: he had issues with the ball in the air, remember,
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Speaker 1: and you know, could he would turn back and lose
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Speaker 1: the ball and all of a sudden lose the man
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Speaker 1: and the man would have the ball behind it for
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Speaker 1: a touchdown. Well, that kind of thing has improved over time,
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Speaker 1: so you know, he has the football IQ the way
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Speaker 1: he was brought up to be able to understand that
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Speaker 1: type of what you just talked about between in the
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Speaker 1: first five yards, so it's there. He understands how to
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Speaker 1: do it and how to adjust if things aren't going well.
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Speaker 1: I think we've seen that in the past with him.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think repetition will really really help. So
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Speaker 3: sometimes when you're trying to do too many different things right,
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Speaker 3: you're trying to play a man, you're trying to play
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Speaker 3: his z own, you're trying to play up, you're trying
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Speaker 3: to play off. You don't have enough practice time to
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Speaker 3: master a skill. I am hoping that this is a
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Speaker 3: year where they spend a lot of time saying, he
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Speaker 3: we're gonna be a bump and run team. We're gonna press,
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Speaker 3: so every day the drills look exactly the same, because
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Speaker 3: then that will lead to a level of familiarity and
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Speaker 3: comfort doing the techniques that you're asking to do instead
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Speaker 3: of kind of switching up each and every week so
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Speaker 3: you're never really good at anything. Hopefully he can become
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Speaker 3: a master of that and that will lead to more plays.
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Speaker 3: The ball skills down the field, that is something that
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Speaker 3: you just have to continue to work on. It's a
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Speaker 3: very uncomfortable situation when.
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Speaker 1: You're running down the field.
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Speaker 3: Your eyes are on the man and you hear the
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Speaker 3: ball call because you hear the sideline say ball, and
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Speaker 3: rather than looking back at the quarterback, your first thing
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Speaker 3: is to look up because the ball is already in flight.
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Speaker 3: And can you find the ball while tracking it? And
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Speaker 3: because a lot of these guys didn't play baseball coming up,
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Speaker 3: it can be a bit of a challenge. And so
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Speaker 3: for Tyson it's a can We've worked that enough in
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Speaker 3: practice that you feel really really good about finding the
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Speaker 3: ball mid flight late while also leaning into the man
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Speaker 3: to knock.
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Speaker 1: The ball away. Let's come back and we'll take a
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Speaker 1: JP Shadwick, John Oser, Bucky Brooks. Premier Soccer, Premier Venue,
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Speaker 1: I liked the logo. It was like a radioactive wolf.
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Speaker 2: I play all the time that.
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Speaker 1: I just read this, They're coming. I didn't realize that
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Speaker 1: until I had to put put this in the show today.
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Speaker 1: That's cool. Premier League game at the Bank, Bucky, come on,
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Speaker 1: I mean I do like that.
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Speaker 3: I do like that you can kind of get that
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Speaker 3: done and do all of those stuff.
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Speaker 1: So that's that's that's cool.
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Speaker 3: Soccer is, you know, the world sport. We play American football,
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Speaker 3: but soccer is the one that everyone talks about.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, that's great.
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Speaker 2: That is as unenthused as a normally enthusiastic person. Good
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Speaker 2: for you, all joy except for soccer. That's Bucky. No.
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Speaker 1: So here's the thing.
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Speaker 3: I just don't know how to pick a team.
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Speaker 1: So it's hard for me to follow along a good choice.
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Speaker 3: You know, I know Fulham because of the ownership to that,
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Speaker 3: but I also know, like people always talk about Arsenal
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Speaker 3: and Man You and man City and all of these
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Speaker 3: others Chelsea and like I get all that, but it's like, like,
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Speaker 3: how do I pick a team? I just don't know
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Speaker 3: how to pick a team, Like I'm indoctrinated and to
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Speaker 3: do so. I understand it's easy to root for the Jags,
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Speaker 3: but how do I pick a soccer team when I'm
18:04
Speaker 3: either not from that area, I didn't play for a team.
18:06
Speaker 3: I don't have a I don't have a vested interest
18:08
Speaker 3: do I just like a kid pick colors?
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Speaker 2: Like it's like, what are we doing as my Sunday?
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Speaker 2: He started falling soccer and he followed Man City, which
18:18
Speaker 2: was like at the time, it was like, you know,
18:21
Speaker 2: you pick up baseball in the twenties and you follow
18:23
Speaker 2: the Yankees. It's always giving I was giving grief about that.
18:26
Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah, I think the team that's always
18:29
Speaker 1: on in winning, that's never about.
18:30
Speaker 2: They spent like a billion dollars a year.
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Speaker 4: Man.
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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, you're gonna be pretty good.
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Speaker 2: That's the way to go out on a limb.
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Speaker 1: Jake. Speaking of international sports, the International Series games were
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Speaker 1: announced on Wednesday morning. They had already announced the Packers
18:46
Speaker 1: Eagles Week one Friday game in sal Polo, Brazil at
18:49
Speaker 1: Corinthians Arena. Today fifteen kickoff down in South America first
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Speaker 1: NFL game on that continent, and then the London series
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Speaker 1: continues with the Jets Vikings Week five at Spurs that's
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Speaker 1: at nine thirty am Eastern in London, and then the
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Speaker 1: next week, Week six, the Jaguars against the Bears at
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Speaker 1: Tottenham that's also at nine to thirty. Then at week seven,
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars hosts the Patriots at Wimbley across Town. So
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Speaker 1: for the second straight year, back to back Jaguars games
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Speaker 1: in London, one road, one home. And then the final
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Speaker 1: International Series game of the year Week ten, the Giants
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Speaker 1: and Panthers at Allians Arena in Munich, Germany. That's also
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Speaker 1: at nine to thirty am kick So Jags won both
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Speaker 1: games in London last year, Falcons Bills, this year Bears,
19:39
Speaker 1: Patriots two rookie quarterbacks and Theory will be on the
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Speaker 1: field against them in London.
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Speaker 2: Guys think, yeah, I mean it's it's I anticipate that
19:51
Speaker 2: when you see the schedule come out, that people will
19:56
Speaker 2: target that because of what happened last year, meaning they
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Speaker 2: sort of got healthy. Things become sort of a theme
20:03
Speaker 2: in the NFL, and people will say, well, that'll be
20:06
Speaker 2: a great time for the Jaguars, they'll get healthy and
20:08
Speaker 2: the two teams that didn't win last year don't always
20:13
Speaker 2: work that way. So I know that that's how the
20:17
Speaker 2: Jaguars want to see London when they.
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Speaker 1: Go back to back.
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Speaker 2: You would love to have that be sort of a hey,
20:23
Speaker 2: we're going to get those two, Well sign me up
20:25
Speaker 2: if you always know which two you're gonna get, So
20:28
Speaker 2: that'll be a theme. But the Bears, especially Bucky, I
20:33
Speaker 2: don't know that Caleb Williams is going to be great immediately,
20:37
Speaker 2: but he's gonna be dangerous immediately.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's gonna be dangerous, and that team around him,
20:43
Speaker 3: the supporting cast, is really going to challenge the Jaguars.
20:47
Speaker 1: I think this is a great opportunity.
20:48
Speaker 3: We talked about last year where the Jaguars were able
20:51
Speaker 3: to win back to back games against the Bills and
20:53
Speaker 3: the Falcons respectfully. What it did is it kind of
20:56
Speaker 3: jumps started that team at that point of the season
20:59
Speaker 3: in terms of being a to get back on track.
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Speaker 1: We shout out to what that.
21:02
Speaker 3: Eight and three record at one point, Yes, where we're
21:05
Speaker 3: sitting pretty at the top of the ac Well, if
21:08
Speaker 3: the Jaguars have mastered kind of like the preparation process
21:11
Speaker 3: and recipe for being able to play and play well overseas.
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Speaker 1: Well.
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Speaker 3: That gives you back to back games against rookies where
21:17
Speaker 3: I mean without knowing what's happening. Let's say you win
21:19
Speaker 3: those two games. It provides you with an opportunity to
21:23
Speaker 3: build a cushion in a very competitive division if you
21:26
Speaker 3: take care of business and given the experience in terms
21:30
Speaker 3: of going over overseas and playing in London for over
21:34
Speaker 3: a decade, you kind of feel like you have a
21:36
Speaker 3: process and a plan to get your team ready to play.
21:40
Speaker 3: These other teams are experimenting do we go.
21:43
Speaker 1: Overlay, do we go over early? How long do we stay?
21:45
Speaker 3: What do we do?
21:46
Speaker 1: What do we stay?
21:47
Speaker 3: The Jaguars should have a competitive advantage over these two
21:49
Speaker 3: opponents because they're so comfortable playing overseas.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that as much as I sort of
21:54
Speaker 2: poo pooed the idea, the element that could give them
22:01
Speaker 2: the edge this year or that they should be able
22:03
Speaker 2: to take advantage of is obviously the fact that many
22:09
Speaker 2: of these guys were with them last year when they
22:12
Speaker 2: did the back to back thing, So they'll be the
22:16
Speaker 2: only team that's ever had sort of that a that
22:21
Speaker 2: advantage in the second week, which you would think it
22:23
Speaker 2: would be an advantage, but be the comfort level of
22:27
Speaker 2: knowing what you're going to do that week where it's
22:30
Speaker 2: it's familiar the second week, So it doesn't guarantee anything,
22:37
Speaker 2: but does it give you an advantage. Hey, I remember
22:41
Speaker 2: last year on Monday we did this. I remember last
22:45
Speaker 2: year on Tuesday we did this. That sort of comfort.
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Speaker 2: It does make the trip easier having done it JP.
22:53
Speaker 1: And the way I understand it this year. Last year
22:54
Speaker 1: they had to change hotels after the first game and
22:57
Speaker 1: go to a different hotel the second week, I don't
22:59
Speaker 1: think that's the case. I think they're at the same place,
23:02
Speaker 1: practicing at the same facility going into both games this year, which.
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Speaker 2: Which is really huge, really nice on Monday.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll be a fantastic change so that you have
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Speaker 1: at the International Series. Games announced eight o'clock tonight on
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Speaker 1: NFL Network. The rest of the schedule for the NFL,
23:18
Speaker 1: there have been some other key games announced. The kickoff
23:21
Speaker 1: game this year Ravens Chiefs at Arrowhead. That won't be
23:23
Speaker 1: any fun at all, No, I'm kidding, It'll be a
23:26
Speaker 1: fantastic game. Thursday Night Football Week two, the Bills and
23:30
Speaker 1: Dolphins at hard Rock. Yeah, good matchup in the AFC
23:34
Speaker 1: East Bengals chief sweep two at Arrowhead, and then two
23:38
Speaker 1: Christmas games will be on Netflix this year on a Wednesday.
23:42
Speaker 1: They haven't announced officially the teams yet, but we'll see
23:47
Speaker 1: that those are Those are some interesting games that have
23:49
Speaker 1: been announced already going into this podcast. Please don't man,
23:54
Speaker 1: it'll be rough.
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Speaker 2: No Christmas, that's your set games.
23:58
Speaker 1: It's the middle week. It's like another bye week.
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Speaker 3: You get to get the four weeks to chill out John,
24:04
Speaker 3: I mean we get to get the weekend look for.
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Speaker 1: His family break.
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Speaker 2: We know, you know five different times, loves everything except
24:13
Speaker 2: his family.
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Speaker 1: Five different times a year. Or is Bucky's favorite time
24:16
Speaker 1: of year? But there's there's certain facts Bucky that the
24:20
Speaker 1: the favorite time of year for John Osier is Christmas.
24:23
Speaker 1: That's it.
24:24
Speaker 2: But basically said he does not want to be around
24:29
Speaker 2: his can at Christmas. He would rather be on the
24:31
Speaker 2: road with the Jags.
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Speaker 3: I'm just saying you now could potentially have a long
24:35
Speaker 3: weekend where with the camp vo because Christmas falls in
24:38
Speaker 3: the middle.
24:39
Speaker 1: Of the week, like people will have to go back
24:41
Speaker 1: to work.
24:41
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not like you get the rest of
24:43
Speaker 3: the week off. So but now if we talk about
24:46
Speaker 3: in our case, if we have a Wednesday game, you
24:48
Speaker 3: get the rest of the week and the weekend off.
24:50
Speaker 3: And so since you love your family so much, you
24:52
Speaker 3: can put some I never said that.
24:53
Speaker 1: It depends on which I said you didn't love you
24:56
Speaker 1: which part of the family.
24:57
Speaker 2: And you can plan, and you can plan.
24:59
Speaker 3: You can plan it nice little trip for everybody while
25:02
Speaker 3: you have that extra time. You have a few extra
25:04
Speaker 3: days to take everybody away. Courtesy of Santa Bucky.
25:08
Speaker 1: You know he's just drop drop that out there. You
25:14
Speaker 1: can just take everybody away and have a good old.
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Speaker 2: Weekend Santa Bucky.
25:18
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's right, coming down the chimney. That'll do
25:24
Speaker 1: it for our pod today. Eventful and looking forward to
25:27
Speaker 1: seeing the schedule. I think we all are. It's when
25:30
Speaker 1: it kind of begins. You can schedule things out the
25:32
Speaker 1: rest of the season. We'll find out at eight o'clock tonight,
25:34
Speaker 1: and Bucky, we'll talk to you next week during ot as.
25:37
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, they're here. Will you be here?
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Speaker 2: Bud?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely?
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Speaker 3: How could I miss it?
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Speaker 1: I mean it's Christmas in the middle of the spring.
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Speaker 3: Why would I ever miss out on the opportunity to
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Speaker 3: go to Othas we've said, it's my favorite time of
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Speaker 3: the year.
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Speaker 2: We'll look forward to seeing anybody.
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Speaker 1: Look forward to being there. Should be fun. It's Bucky Brooks,
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Speaker 1: John Oser, I'm JP Shadwick Are thanks to Brent Reaver.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to you for listening to Huddle Up.