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- 0:03Speaker 1: It is Thursday, May seventh.
- 0:06Speaker 2: This is Jaguars Happy Hour. And now a guy whose
- 0:13Speaker 2: goal isn't to win the draft, but he can't drink
- 0:17Speaker 2: one or two or three jap or four chef.
- 0:25Speaker 1: Wellcome in.
- 0:26Speaker 3: It is Jaguars Happy Hour from the Hondai Studios, the
- 0:29Speaker 3: Miller Electric Center Test Drive aue Hunday today only at
- 0:32Speaker 3: your local Hyundai dealer. Here's what's coming up the next hour. Yeah,
- 0:36Speaker 3: Rookie Mini Camp Eve. It begins tomorrow. The players have arrived.
- 0:42Speaker 3: We've got a special guest in studio to get a
- 0:44Speaker 3: start at here in a moment an offseason program Phase
- 0:47Speaker 3: two US here.
- 0:47Speaker 1: The veterans have been in.
- 0:49Speaker 3: They are now out on the field with coaches starting
- 0:51Speaker 3: this past week.
- 0:52Speaker 1: The importance of these May practices.
- 0:55Speaker 3: We'll get into it with Jeff Logman and coach Mark
- 0:57Speaker 3: Duffner with us on ten to next lam Jaguars dot Com,
- 1:01Speaker 3: Jaguars YouTube. Good afternoon, gentlemen, but let's get right to it.
- 1:04Speaker 3: Our special guests to get us going part of the
- 1:06Speaker 3: Jaguars rookie draft class this year. Emmanuel Pregnant in the
- 1:09Speaker 3: Guard from Oregon. Good afternoon, welcome in.
- 1:12Speaker 1: How are you was up? I'm good. Thank you for
- 1:14Speaker 1: having me. Hey, I'm glad to have you here.
- 1:16Speaker 3: You guys arrived yesterday and then the building today, getting
- 1:20Speaker 3: the car wash done, right, you doing all the media things,
- 1:22Speaker 3: meeting coaches, physical how's it been today the whirlwind?
- 1:26Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we've done a lot of things, but
- 1:29Speaker 4: I mean, nonetheless, I'm just super stoked to be here
- 1:31Speaker 4: and excited and ready to work.
- 1:33Speaker 3: Congratulations by the way, Yeah, congratulations. It's a cool thing
- 1:36Speaker 3: for you and your family. So tell us about draft day.
- 1:39Speaker 3: What was it like, where were you at, who was
- 1:41Speaker 3: around you, and how was that moment?
- 1:43Speaker 4: Yeah, so draft day it was Yeah, I mean you
- 1:47Speaker 4: use the word WorldWind, and that's how I felt like,
- 1:50Speaker 4: just emotionally. I was with my family and I was
- 1:54Speaker 4: just remember sitting there and I just wanted an opportunity.
- 1:58Speaker 4: I just want wanted the opportunity, you know, a staff
- 2:02Speaker 4: that truly believed in me. And so I was sitting
- 2:04Speaker 4: there and I had to I remember, I had to
- 2:06Speaker 4: tell my family I had to go step out for air,
- 2:08Speaker 4: and I just took a walk and I was just
- 2:11Speaker 4: walking thinking to myself, and my agent came by. We
- 2:15Speaker 4: talked together and then we ended up going back to
- 2:18Speaker 4: the house and then that's when I got the call,
- 2:20Speaker 4: and so I just started. He was like, I was like,
- 2:23Speaker 4: who called? I was like the Jacks. He's like, the
- 2:25Speaker 4: Jacks call, Let's go. I was mad excited, and I
- 2:31Speaker 4: ran up to my family. My sister got like three
- 2:34Speaker 4: free flights of stairs in her house for some reason.
- 2:36Speaker 4: But I ran up the stairs and I got to
- 2:39Speaker 4: the top flight and then I put I immediately put
- 2:41Speaker 4: that cap on.
- 2:43Speaker 1: So yeah, pretty cool.
- 2:44Speaker 5: Yeah, the energy and the enthusiasm from your family there
- 2:47Speaker 5: was awesome. Man capture. That was terrific.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you have any idea?
- 2:52Speaker 3: I mean, because I, you know, I had flashed back
- 2:53Speaker 3: to some of the stuff when I got drafted and
- 2:56Speaker 3: before the draft, you know, hindsight's always twenty twenty, and
- 3:00Speaker 3: you kind of say, well, yeah, I did get a
- 3:01Speaker 3: lot of calls and I worked out for the coach,
- 3:03Speaker 3: And did you have any idea that the Jaguars were
- 3:06Speaker 3: going to be the ones that called?
- 3:07Speaker 4: I really didn't. I really didn't have any idea, to
- 3:10Speaker 4: be honest.
- 3:11Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of interesting because you know, the Jaguars
- 3:14Speaker 3: kind of sneaky. Now, Gladstone and Liam Cone, Tony Biselli
- 3:18Speaker 3: kind of keep things under wraps. They don't want to
- 3:19Speaker 3: let anybody know kind of what they're gonna do. And
- 3:22Speaker 3: you know, if they let him know kind of that
- 3:24Speaker 3: they're interested, all of a sudden the word gets out
- 3:26Speaker 3: and you might get snatched up before they pay.
- 3:29Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 3:29Speaker 5: I love that strategy too. Now they're really, really, really
- 3:32Speaker 5: good at what they're doing here in playing acquisition.
- 3:35Speaker 3: So congratulation. And I've told you before. I've watched your film.
- 3:39Speaker 3: You're you're a powerful guy. Watched you at Oregon, watched
- 3:44Speaker 3: a little bit of film at SC and most if
- 3:47Speaker 3: not all of the film that I watched, you played
- 3:49Speaker 3: left guard and you're one of those first off the
- 3:53Speaker 3: bus guys.
- 3:54Speaker 1: What's your height weight right now? My hide and weight?
- 3:57Speaker 6: Uh well, I'm six four and a half and my
- 3:59Speaker 6: weight is fourteen.
- 4:00Speaker 3: And it's not a this is a no joke, three fourteen,
- 4:04Speaker 3: the offensive lineman. It's got, you know, the Krispy Kreme
- 4:07Speaker 3: donut around the midsect. You're a big man. And the
- 4:10Speaker 3: first thing that I saw when I watched your film,
- 4:12Speaker 3: I was like, I wonder if he's played right guard
- 4:14Speaker 3: because I didn't see any snaps at right guard. How
- 4:16Speaker 3: many how many games have you played at right guard
- 4:19Speaker 3: versus left guard, and have you ever played any tackle
- 4:22Speaker 3: at the college level.
- 4:24Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, initially, like when I arrived to college, I
- 4:28Speaker 4: played tackle, so I was I didn't start, but I
- 4:33Speaker 4: played left and right tackle initially, and then I was
- 4:35Speaker 4: moved to right guard and then I started there for
- 4:39Speaker 4: about twelve games, twelve games or so and one game
- 4:44Speaker 4: at SC so about like thirteen games, and then I
- 4:48Speaker 4: was moved.
- 4:48Speaker 6: To left guard, started left guard ever since.
- 4:51Speaker 3: As you started your career at Wyoming and you red
- 4:55Speaker 3: shirted right a year at Wyoming, is that right?
- 4:57Speaker 2: Uh?
- 4:57Speaker 1: Yeah, I've done.
- 4:58Speaker 6: I read shirted and then we had the COVID.
- 5:01Speaker 1: That's right. Okay.
- 5:02Speaker 3: Yeah, It's kind of a strange time in college football
- 5:05Speaker 3: because all of suddennybody's transferring and going to three different schools.
- 5:09Speaker 1: Yeah. The challenge of having to.
- 5:11Speaker 3: Reset every couple of years for you Wyoming for two
- 5:14Speaker 3: or three years, going to LA that's a culture shock,
- 5:17Speaker 3: I'm sure, and then ending up in Eugene, Oregon. How
- 5:21Speaker 3: did you adjust each time you had to move and
- 5:23Speaker 3: change offensive line strategy and personnel and coaches in college?
- 5:28Speaker 4: Yeah, I will say that's one thing I hang my
- 5:31Speaker 4: hat on is being able to adapt to my environments.
- 5:34Speaker 4: So that wasn't really anything I really had any struggles with.
- 5:39Speaker 4: The Only thing I felt like I had to do
- 5:41Speaker 4: every spot I went to was really earned the trust
- 5:44Speaker 4: of the guys in the locker room. And so that's
- 5:46Speaker 4: what I try to do every time. You know, I
- 5:49Speaker 4: met new people.
- 5:50Speaker 5: You know, Manuel, all that experience is going to serve
- 5:53Speaker 5: you so well as you're now embarking on the NFL career.
- 5:56Speaker 5: I mean you've already adjusted to different teams, different coaches,
- 6:00Speaker 5: different teammates. Here, you're going to do that this week.
- 6:02Speaker 5: It's going to start today. Already has a little bit,
- 6:05Speaker 5: So that exposure and experience that you've had already is
- 6:08Speaker 5: going to be phenomenal as you move forward.
- 6:10Speaker 1: Yes, thank you.
- 6:11Speaker 3: So playing offensive line sometimes can be uncelebrated in a
- 6:16Speaker 3: lot of different ways, right, and but offensive lineman kind
- 6:20Speaker 3: of have their own thing, right. Everybody loves to do
- 6:23Speaker 3: certain things. What's the perfect play for you?
- 6:28Speaker 1: The perfect play?
- 6:30Speaker 3: So they would just give you the moment to celebrate
- 6:33Speaker 3: and jump up and down like a wide receiver score
- 6:35Speaker 3: a ninety nine yard touchdown?
- 6:37Speaker 1: What is that play for you? For me?
- 6:40Speaker 4: I mean, the perfect play for me is a touchdown.
- 6:44Speaker 4: But other than that, I would say, I mean, I
- 6:49Speaker 4: love I love duo. You know, I love the nitty
- 6:52Speaker 4: and gritty. They usually say, we don't get a lot
- 6:56Speaker 4: of yards during that concept during that play, But.
- 6:58Speaker 3: Explain to people what do is because there's some people
- 7:01Speaker 3: that are listening that are maybe football novices that don't
- 7:05Speaker 3: quite understand what duo is.
- 7:06Speaker 4: So do it was kind of like gap no pullers,
- 7:10Speaker 4: And it's kind of like if I were to like
- 7:12Speaker 4: related family wise, say anything is similar to like a
- 7:16Speaker 4: inside the zone concept if you're familiar with that. But
- 7:20Speaker 4: I just love it because I mean, like I said,
- 7:22Speaker 4: it's nitty and gritty and you get to dominate you know,
- 7:24Speaker 4: the person that across from the line of scrimmage of
- 7:26Speaker 4: you and really set the tone for the game and
- 7:29Speaker 4: how you're going to attack the game.
- 7:30Speaker 5: And that player, Oh, it's powerball now, I mean it's
- 7:33Speaker 5: it's knock you off the football and put those suckers
- 7:36Speaker 5: in the nickel sheets. I mean, the duo is trust
- 7:39Speaker 5: me is Jeff was saying that you're going to be
- 7:41Speaker 5: double teams. There two double teams inside on the three
- 7:43Speaker 5: technique and the one technique and give that ball inside
- 7:46Speaker 5: of the back and let's let's knock them back. It's
- 7:48Speaker 5: excellent ball made famous by the Steelers a long they've
- 7:52Speaker 5: run a long, long time ago.
- 7:53Speaker 1: And so does that play end with a pancake? Yes?
- 7:58Speaker 5: So if you if you want cod, you want Liam
- 8:00Speaker 5: to make a call? Boy, I sure, sure, hope you're
- 8:03Speaker 5: gonna call this particular play. It probably would be the duo, correct.
- 8:06Speaker 5: I like what I hear there.
- 8:07Speaker 6: Guarantee you I'm gonna move that person from I love it.
- 8:09Speaker 5: That's what we want. But we want physical and tough
- 8:12Speaker 5: and let's go get him.
- 8:12Speaker 1: Yes, we heard it here, he guaranteed it.
- 8:14Speaker 3: Emmanuel Pregnant in studio with this the Jaguars third round
- 8:18Speaker 3: pick eighty eighth overall out of the University of Oregon.
- 8:20Speaker 3: On the offensive line, What do you know about your
- 8:24Speaker 3: group in the offensive line room? How much research have
- 8:26Speaker 3: you done going into the draft and now since the
- 8:29Speaker 3: draft as to your teammates that you're gonna be joining here.
- 8:34Speaker 4: Yeah, so I know some of the guys. I haven't
- 8:37Speaker 4: got the chance to meet them in person, but I
- 8:39Speaker 4: do know. Yeah, who's starting tone?
- 8:42Speaker 6: Everybody?
- 8:43Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 8:44Speaker 3: And obviously what they did last year on the offensive
- 8:46Speaker 3: first first year offense last year? Did you watch the
- 8:49Speaker 3: Jags at all? I mean, what, what's your knowledge base
- 8:52Speaker 3: of this team coming in?
- 8:54Speaker 1: I mean.
- 8:56Speaker 4: Just previously, Like, yeah, I have, I've been watching tape actually,
- 9:01Speaker 4: you know, just trying to verset myself on all the
- 9:04Speaker 4: plays and the playbook and whatnot. So I've gotten a
- 9:06Speaker 4: chance to see more. I've watched them previously before that
- 9:10Speaker 4: when I was at Oregon, But yeah, I've been watching
- 9:14Speaker 4: so growing up, I.
- 9:16Speaker 3: Think everybody's got kind of guys that they look up to.
- 9:19Speaker 3: I remember when I was growing up as kid, Jack
- 9:21Speaker 3: Lambert was my guy. Pittsburgh Steel your dominant, dating yourself
- 9:24Speaker 3: a little bit in the seventies, It's okay, JP, I'm
- 9:27Speaker 3: not a young man anymore. And everybody's kind of got
- 9:30Speaker 3: a guy that, you know, either you model your game
- 9:33Speaker 3: after or you were just a big fan of it.
- 9:34Speaker 3: It doesn't have to be necessarily an offensive lineman. But
- 9:37Speaker 3: who is your guy that you like to watch growing up?
- 9:41Speaker 1: Growing up?
- 9:42Speaker 4: Well, I will say growing up versus when I got
- 9:44Speaker 4: to college was kind of like two different.
- 9:46Speaker 1: Things, but us both okay.
- 9:49Speaker 4: Growing up I like to watch guys like Trent Williams
- 9:52Speaker 4: or Larry Allen.
- 9:55Speaker 1: But I can see you in the moment singing my yeah.
- 10:01Speaker 4: But uh, I would say, like as of now, guys
- 10:06Speaker 4: that I've you know, continue to watch and view tape
- 10:11Speaker 4: on this, like Lake and Tomlinson, Laken, Tomlins and Quinn Miners.
- 10:18Speaker 3: Joe is so powerful. I'm like one of his biggest fans,
- 10:22Speaker 3: Quinn Miners. A lot of people don't know about him.
- 10:24Speaker 3: He is one of the most powerful offensive guards in football.
- 10:28Speaker 3: Plays for the Denver Broncos. Got long hair, kind of
- 10:30Speaker 3: crazy cut it last year though, But man, he's if
- 10:34Speaker 3: that's right up your alley, yeah, big time.
- 10:39Speaker 5: Yeah, that's old man.
- 10:41Speaker 1: Was like when you were growing up.
- 10:42Speaker 5: I loved what you're saying. Right there. There was a
- 10:44Speaker 5: great player I had the privilege to play against and
- 10:46Speaker 5: this is a long time ago named Herbs Scott that
- 10:49Speaker 5: played a long time for the Cowboys, and you remind
- 10:52Speaker 5: me of him. A guy that just again was his
- 10:54Speaker 5: physical finished, was durable, had great versatility, great players. So
- 10:59Speaker 5: you just mentioned the names we kind of addressed to
- 11:02Speaker 5: you too, So it's good.
- 11:03Speaker 3: So you grew up in Denver, so Broncos fan growing up, Yeah,
- 11:07Speaker 3: I was, Yeah, I mean, you know, it's kind of natural.
- 11:09Speaker 1: Right, So do you know the Jaguars we beat the Broncos.
- 11:12Speaker 5: Back in nineteen ninety at my.
- 11:16Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, and again this year actually at in the
- 11:19Speaker 3: regular season. Yeah, that's right, that happened, all right. So anxiety, nerves, excitement.
- 11:26Speaker 3: What's your feeling for rookie Minnie campus weekend?
- 11:29Speaker 1: Hungry?
- 11:31Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel very excited, you know, to hit the field,
- 11:36Speaker 4: meet the new guys, and I'm just honestly ready to work,
- 11:39Speaker 4: put my head down and there my job.
- 11:41Speaker 5: What would you say your strengths as a player are
- 11:44Speaker 5: I mean, in other which coach, I really believe these
- 11:46Speaker 5: are my strengths.
- 11:48Speaker 4: I will say as far as my strengths, I believe
- 11:54Speaker 4: I like to I mean I would say, like I
- 11:55Speaker 4: move people at the point of attack. I believe I
- 11:59Speaker 4: have had usage in the in the past game pass
- 12:02Speaker 4: pro and same thing in the run game.
- 12:05Speaker 5: Well, let me just I don't know if you guys
- 12:07Speaker 5: know this, and I don't mean to embarrass him, but
- 12:09Speaker 5: your past protection grade is phenomenal. I mean we're talking
- 12:14Speaker 5: like about ninety five percent, so folks that you know,
- 12:17Speaker 5: when I started to watch, I thought, okay, this is
- 12:19Speaker 5: a real good As you mentioned a lot likes to
- 12:21Speaker 5: move people, knock them off the ball. You know, run
- 12:24Speaker 5: run accelerator if you will in terms of the run game.
- 12:27Speaker 5: But your pass protection grade is off the chart too,
- 12:30Speaker 5: So again, keep up the good work on both of
- 12:33Speaker 5: those areas.
- 12:34Speaker 1: Sir Emmanuel, thanks for the time. Welcome to Jacksonville, man,
- 12:38Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
- 12:39Speaker 5: Yeah, we're glad to have you.
- 12:40Speaker 3: Emmanuel Pregnon from the University of Oregon Southern cal Why
- 12:44Speaker 3: holming before that. Now with the Jacksonville Jaguars third round
- 12:47Speaker 3: pick of the Jags back in the moment, plenty more ahead,
- 12:50Speaker 3: we are off and running on ten texxel am, Jaguars
- 12:54Speaker 3: dot Com and Jaguars YouTube.
- 12:55Speaker 1: This is Jaguars Happy Hour. Welcome back.
- 13:11Speaker 3: It is Jaguars Happy Hour, JP Shadrick, Jeff Logoman and
- 13:14Speaker 3: Mark Dufter. Glad you're along with us on this Thursday
- 13:17Speaker 3: afternoon Rookie Minicamp starting tomorrow thanks to Emmanuel Pregnant joining us.
- 13:22Speaker 3: Coming up shortly, Jalen Husky, third round pick safety.
- 13:27Speaker 1: Out of Maryland will join us. Well. Pregnant is an
- 13:30Speaker 1: oppressive guy, I guess right, Oh.
- 13:32Speaker 5: My gosh, Like Jeff said that, absolutely, the first guy
- 13:36Speaker 5: coming off the bus and as you said to Jeff,
- 13:38Speaker 5: the fact that I mean he is a he's three
- 13:40Speaker 5: hundred and fourteen pounds the way you want him to look.
- 13:43Speaker 5: There's no you know, loose skin or flab on this guy.
- 13:46Speaker 5: He's a rock.
- 13:47Speaker 1: No, he is. He is not a bad body.
- 13:49Speaker 3: I mean this is like definitely saying, first off, the
- 13:52Speaker 3: bus guy very well spoken, very mature, and I think
- 13:57Speaker 3: that that's kind of one of those things that you
- 13:59Speaker 3: know when the Jaguars talk about Jaguars DNA and tangibly rich,
- 14:04Speaker 3: that's what you're talking about right there. You know, a
- 14:06Speaker 3: guy that played a lot of snaps, that has a
- 14:10Speaker 3: lot of things going on personally, and excited to have
- 14:14Speaker 3: him be a part of this Jaguars football team because
- 14:16Speaker 3: I envisioned him as a mauling right guard when I
- 14:20Speaker 3: watched the film on him, I said, right guard, let's
- 14:24Speaker 3: think about where he fits into the future of this
- 14:27Speaker 3: offensive line. I mean, they got veteran guys on the
- 14:30Speaker 3: interior right now, at both guard spots and at center, who,
- 14:34Speaker 3: let me be honest, they're not going to be around forever.
- 14:36Speaker 3: So you're starting to stockpile younger talent underneath the Mannheim
- 14:41Speaker 3: Wyatt Milam of course last year and now Emmanuel Pregnant.
- 14:45Speaker 3: Those those guys are the next wave.
- 14:46Speaker 5: Duff on the interior, and I like what we see
- 14:50Speaker 5: and what we hear about those guys. I mean, I
- 14:51Speaker 5: like what I saw out of Mileam and and Mannheim
- 14:55Speaker 5: when they had opportunities in the past and the flexibility
- 14:58Speaker 5: they bring. And then this guy in terms of the
- 15:00Speaker 5: guy that's been a fifty one or fifty three game starter,
- 15:04Speaker 5: great versatility, played left and right guard, played some tackle
- 15:06Speaker 5: on his game, but a fiscal tough maller like Jeff saying,
- 15:10Speaker 5: I mean I'm telling you no, this is And the
- 15:12Speaker 5: fact that I said, you know, he said, what's your
- 15:14Speaker 5: favorite play? He comes out with duoh yeah. I mean,
- 15:17Speaker 5: je My heart was gosh, it was like you kidding me, Met,
- 15:22Speaker 5: I mean, so, I mean, this is the guy. This
- 15:24Speaker 5: is exciting.
- 15:24Speaker 3: Because that's the play that I watched so many times
- 15:28Speaker 3: and you just go, damn, he's moving guys, you know,
- 15:31Speaker 3: and that's.
- 15:32Speaker 1: The play, you know, And think about the maturity.
- 15:34Speaker 3: I mean, he's played a lot of college football, right
- 15:36Speaker 3: over fifty games in his career, three different schools. He's
- 15:38Speaker 3: going to be twenty five years old in October. That's
- 15:41Speaker 3: kind of the theme with this Jaguars draft class. If
- 15:43Speaker 3: you look at it now, there's a lot of guys
- 15:45Speaker 3: that have played a lot of games that are older.
- 15:47Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, the experience factor. You can't put a
- 15:50Speaker 5: price tag or a number on. I mean, this guy
- 15:53Speaker 5: is an experienced guy. He's gone to different programs, He's
- 15:56Speaker 5: had to learn and operate with different coaches and different
- 15:58Speaker 5: groups of players. Just what you want.
- 16:00Speaker 3: It was interesting to ask him before he came on
- 16:03Speaker 3: the air because with guys playing at a lot of
- 16:07Speaker 3: different schools, a lot of times it's the nil money,
- 16:09Speaker 3: and the change of schools for him had nothing to
- 16:12Speaker 3: do with money. It actually happened to do with a
- 16:16Speaker 3: coaching change that his coaches at Southern cal were no
- 16:20Speaker 3: longer there, and so he wanted to go and find
- 16:22Speaker 3: a coach that he'd be comfortable with.
- 16:23Speaker 1: Gotta love that.
- 16:24Speaker 3: Another special guest with us now third round pick one
- 16:27Speaker 3: hundred overall Safety out of Maryland, Jalen Husky, JP, Shadrick,
- 16:30Speaker 3: Jeff Flagerman, Mark Duffner. Great to see you. Thanks for
- 16:34Speaker 3: coming in to see us on a busy day here
- 16:37Speaker 3: at the Miller Electric Center and out here on Jaguars
- 16:40Speaker 3: Happy Hour. Well, congratulations. First of all, did you just sign?
- 16:44Speaker 3: Did I hear you sign? Appreciated? Obviously an emotional time.
- 16:50Speaker 3: We saw your video during the draft from Top Golf.
- 16:54Speaker 3: I don't even know what you scored at Top Golf.
- 16:55Speaker 3: It doesn't matter, no, I mean, but what an amazing
- 16:59Speaker 3: time and reaction. And now the whirlwind from then to
- 17:04Speaker 3: signing this contract.
- 17:05Speaker 1: Take us through the last couple of weeks.
- 17:07Speaker 7: Oh, you know, it's been super fun.
- 17:09Speaker 8: You know, after I got drafted, you know, celebrate for
- 17:13Speaker 8: the day, and then it's right back to work. You know,
- 17:15Speaker 8: I'm I'm a super super detailed guy, guy that wants
- 17:18Speaker 8: to work. So after we have the fun, it's time
- 17:21Speaker 8: to get back to work. And that's that's all I've
- 17:22Speaker 8: been doing, working out, having a little zoom meetings and
- 17:27Speaker 8: you know, now feed on Land.
- 17:28Speaker 7: It's time to get to work, all right.
- 17:30Speaker 3: So, Jalen, do you know any former Maryland head coaches?
- 17:34Speaker 1: By chance?
- 17:35Speaker 8: It?
- 17:35Speaker 1: You know, we're great Terrapin coaches and history. Ralph Freezing,
- 17:40Speaker 1: you're sitting right next to this is the longest tenure
- 17:44Speaker 1: Jaguars coach in history.
- 17:46Speaker 7: I did not know that crazy, but I was.
- 17:48Speaker 5: I was head coach at Maryland ninety two to ninety seven.
- 17:51Speaker 7: Yeah, that's before my time.
- 17:53Speaker 5: You weren't even born now yet. Imagine how you know again,
- 17:56Speaker 5: it's archaic, so to speak. But yeah, man, so track
- 18:00Speaker 5: we put the turtle in the stadium. Yeah, when our staff,
- 18:03Speaker 5: when our staff was there the test too. Though the
- 18:05Speaker 5: turtle was up by the library where everybody rubbed it
- 18:08Speaker 5: before exams, where I felt flipp it helping exams better
- 18:11Speaker 5: help some football. So we put it down in the stadium.
- 18:14Speaker 7: That's pretty cool. I never rubbed Testoodo.
- 18:16Speaker 8: I always just sit sit next to them before the
- 18:19Speaker 8: game and then just chill out.
- 18:21Speaker 5: Yeah, Testoodo. It was a big, big turtle that we
- 18:23Speaker 5: had on a on a you know, on a platform
- 18:25Speaker 5: if you will, much like to. I guess Clemson.
- 18:27Speaker 3: Rubs rocket the big turtle. But I was a Virginia guy,
- 18:33Speaker 3: so you know what we didn't.
- 18:34Speaker 7: We didn't get along with the Maryland you know, hated Yeah, but.
- 18:41Speaker 3: Will tell you. Okay, you're from Frederick, Maryland, I am okay.
- 18:45Speaker 3: Did you ever fish the Upper Potomac River growing up?
- 18:48Speaker 8: Actually, if anybody wants to help me fish, man, I've
- 18:51Speaker 8: been fishing four times and the only thing I've ever
- 18:54Speaker 8: called the rock, I mean, not a rock, A stick.
- 18:57Speaker 1: Stick might be able to help you out.
- 19:00Speaker 3: Help you out down here, give us an idea of So.
- 19:04Speaker 3: I remember seeing a clip of you at the Combine
- 19:07Speaker 3: podium with the media, yeah, saying that you wanted to
- 19:10Speaker 3: rip people's faces off for something like that.
- 19:12Speaker 1: Tell us about your play style.
- 19:15Speaker 7: I'm a super physical football player.
- 19:16Speaker 3: Uh.
- 19:17Speaker 8: I want you to remember that you played against Jalen
- 19:19Speaker 8: Husky when when when the game's over? So uh, I
- 19:22Speaker 8: go into every game wanted to impose my will and
- 19:25Speaker 8: then ultimately get the ball back and win. So that's
- 19:28Speaker 8: all I all I want to do here is win
- 19:31Speaker 8: and be me on the football field.
- 19:33Speaker 5: Congratulations on being named a captain of Maryland.
- 19:35Speaker 7: Thank you, you.
- 19:36Speaker 5: Know, probably the best award you could get from your
- 19:39Speaker 5: peers and your teammates. But again, the play that you've
- 19:41Speaker 5: had there where you've been very successful locating the ball,
- 19:44Speaker 5: intercepting the ball. Congratulations are in your career.
- 19:47Speaker 7: There, Thank you, I appreciate it.
- 19:48Speaker 3: So, so where do the ball skills come from? I
- 19:50Speaker 3: think I was reading somewhere where you had like something
- 19:52Speaker 3: like double digit interceptions of high school.
- 19:55Speaker 1: Wow.
- 19:55Speaker 8: Yeah, I've I've always like, I think my freshman year
- 19:58Speaker 8: of college the only year that didn't catch an interception
- 20:01Speaker 8: since I've been playing football since I was like four
- 20:03Speaker 8: years old, So I had thirteen interceptions. My sophomore year
- 20:08Speaker 8: at college, I think I had like twenty nine or
- 20:10Speaker 8: thirty high school, high school and college combined interceptions. So
- 20:15Speaker 8: just trying to continue that on. You know, I played
- 20:17Speaker 8: a little receiver back in my day, So okay, you.
- 20:20Speaker 5: Know the other thing that's great, I like how you're
- 20:22Speaker 5: honoring your sister number twenty two. Yeah, so congratulations on that.
- 20:28Speaker 5: That shows me a lot about your character and what
- 20:31Speaker 5: you're all about in terms of being a family person.
- 20:33Speaker 5: So well done there.
- 20:34Speaker 3: Explain to people that, because a lot of people may
- 20:38Speaker 3: be hearing you for the first time, did read your story?
- 20:40Speaker 3: What does twenty two mean to you?
- 20:42Speaker 7: So my sister, she passed away my.
- 20:45Speaker 8: Senior year of high school on February twenty second, twenty
- 20:48Speaker 8: twenty two, so the date reads all twos, and ever
- 20:51Speaker 8: since then, I've tried to work twenty two everywhere I've
- 20:54Speaker 8: been Bowling Green and then Maryland. So it just means
- 20:58Speaker 8: a lot for me and my family to to see
- 21:02Speaker 8: me with that number on the field, and it's like
- 21:04Speaker 8: she's with me on the field, and uh, it brings
- 21:06Speaker 8: a lot of joy and pride in our family.
- 21:09Speaker 3: So last I heard there was twenty two was being
- 21:13Speaker 3: used last year, but there was a number change. I
- 21:17Speaker 3: understand did George and Kyle had did did you get
- 21:20Speaker 3: twenty two?
- 21:22Speaker 8: I did get twenty two, And I'm extremely extremely grateful
- 21:25Speaker 8: for that, And uh, plan plan to keep it, plan
- 21:28Speaker 8: to keep it my entire career.
- 21:30Speaker 1: So and the best thing is it didn't cost you
- 21:32Speaker 1: any money.
- 21:33Speaker 7: Zero dollars. That's the best way to me.
- 21:38Speaker 5: Tell me, what would Teddy Monicino? Teddy Monico, who's your
- 21:41Speaker 5: defensive coordinator? He and I worked there. Yeah, he coached,
- 21:46Speaker 5: he coached, He coached d line here and the way back.
- 21:50Speaker 5: But at any rate, we worked to get a couple
- 21:51Speaker 5: of times. And what would he say to you? What
- 21:53Speaker 5: would he say about your play?
- 21:55Speaker 1: About you?
- 21:55Speaker 8: I would say, you say, I'm a I'm a worker.
- 21:57Speaker 8: You know I was in that building twenty four to seven.
- 22:01Speaker 8: You come in that building, you're gonna see me, whether
- 22:03Speaker 8: that's in the training room or in the meatia room
- 22:06Speaker 8: after practice and or before practice. You know, I just
- 22:09Speaker 8: always want to get better and leave by example and
- 22:12Speaker 8: then bring bring my teammates with me. You know, He'll say,
- 22:15Speaker 8: I'm I'm a football player. That's what I am. It's
- 22:18Speaker 8: it's it's part of my favor part of my being.
- 22:20Speaker 8: And I just I just hope you tell you all
- 22:23Speaker 8: all great things. So I've tried to put my best
- 22:25Speaker 8: foot forward with coach mona Quino.
- 22:27Speaker 7: That's my guy.
- 22:28Speaker 3: Jalen Husky with us from the University of Maryland, a
- 22:30Speaker 3: Jaguars safety third round draft pick. What do you like
- 22:34Speaker 3: about the jag scheme? How much did you know about it?
- 22:36Speaker 3: How much did you watch last season of the Jaguars,
- 22:39Speaker 3: And how will you fit into this group?
- 22:42Speaker 8: Well, I'm planning to fit in however they want to
- 22:43Speaker 8: use me. I mean, I pride myself on being super versatile.
- 22:47Speaker 8: But their scheme is pretty similar to the scene we
- 22:49Speaker 8: used at at Maryland. You know, some of the calls
- 22:52Speaker 8: are even the same, and the way we the way
- 22:55Speaker 8: we play is pretty much the same. And uh, I'm
- 22:59Speaker 8: just super excited, super excited. I didn't really watch much
- 23:02Speaker 8: of the of the actual games last year, but I
- 23:05Speaker 8: do like to watch the hunt.
- 23:06Speaker 7: Ever since my formal interview.
- 23:08Speaker 8: With the with the Jaguars.
- 23:11Speaker 7: At the combine, I was like, I'm going to the Jaguars.
- 23:14Speaker 1: I know it.
- 23:14Speaker 7: I know I'm going to the Jaguars. And uh. I
- 23:17Speaker 7: even had a little.
- 23:18Speaker 8: Draft video I posted on my Instagram. That's the videographer.
- 23:23Speaker 8: He asked me before before the before the draft, he goes,
- 23:26Speaker 8: where do you think you're gonna go? There's one team
- 23:28Speaker 8: that could call you. Where do you think you're gonna go?
- 23:29Speaker 8: And I said, Jaggs for sure. And so I'm just
- 23:33Speaker 8: super excited, super happy to be here. I'll fit in
- 23:35Speaker 8: anywhere they need me with special teams, defense, it doesn't matter.
- 23:38Speaker 8: I'll go play long snapper, it doesn't matter.
- 23:40Speaker 1: Did you say you watched the hunt?
- 23:42Speaker 7: I do Jaguars.
- 23:44Speaker 1: That's awesome. Come on, that's perfect. Well.
- 23:46Speaker 5: I think you're gonna be excited about this scheme and
- 23:49Speaker 5: this coaching staff because number one, they've get the most
- 23:51Speaker 5: out of their players. I saw that firsthand last year.
- 23:54Speaker 5: And then the way they utilized players like yourself first
- 23:57Speaker 5: and second down and on third down, You're gonna love it.
- 23:59Speaker 5: I think you're gonna have a lot of opportunity. And
- 24:01Speaker 5: also when the special teams area is so good for you.
- 24:03Speaker 3: For sure, So all right, I asked em Manuel this,
- 24:05Speaker 3: and I'll ask you this. You know, growing up or recently,
- 24:09Speaker 3: who was the guy that you followed in the NFL
- 24:12Speaker 3: to kind of that you were a fan of or
- 24:15Speaker 3: modeled your game after.
- 24:17Speaker 1: Who was it?
- 24:18Speaker 8: Well, I'd say, well, I grew up a Ravens fan,
- 24:22Speaker 8: so I loved Marlon Humphrey growing up.
- 24:25Speaker 7: He was really versatile.
- 24:27Speaker 8: I played corner my whole life until I got to Maryland.
- 24:30Speaker 8: So Marlon Humfley playing corner and nickel and even some
- 24:35Speaker 8: spot safety was really cool. So I even wore his
- 24:39Speaker 8: jerseys before my high school football games and stuff like that.
- 24:42Speaker 8: So I would say him, and you know old Jaguar
- 24:47Speaker 8: Jalen Ramsey. I loved how he hit people. I just
- 24:50Speaker 8: love how aggressive he is and how he comes down
- 24:53Speaker 8: and you feel him both physically and you hear him.
- 24:57Speaker 7: So I mean, yeah, a little bit, a little bit.
- 25:00Speaker 1: Well, you know, I thought you were going to say
- 25:02Speaker 1: Ed Reid, for that's where I thought you were going first,
- 25:05Speaker 1: because of the interception.
- 25:06Speaker 8: I never I never played safety until a year and
- 25:09Speaker 8: a half ago. So I loved ed Reid, of course,
- 25:12Speaker 8: but I never I never was like I want to
- 25:15Speaker 8: be like Ed Reed that was. It was always like
- 25:18Speaker 8: I want to see somebody like I take a little
- 25:21Speaker 8: bit like Ladarious web where or people like that like
- 25:24Speaker 8: Jimmy Smith. Those are those are my favorite player because
- 25:26Speaker 8: I played corners.
- 25:27Speaker 5: So yeah, Mary, I loved what coach Campanili, who I
- 25:32Speaker 5: don't know if you've met him yet, Okay, defensive coordinator.
- 25:35Speaker 5: But when asked about you, the first words out of
- 25:37Speaker 5: his mouth to work hitter. He's a hitter, So you
- 25:40Speaker 5: know everything you talked about. And like I said, the
- 25:42Speaker 5: application that you'll provide for the defense will be great.
- 25:46Speaker 1: Thanks for the time, jal.
- 25:47Speaker 7: Thank you graduations.
- 25:49Speaker 3: Looking forward to covering you and having you here in Jacksonville,
- 25:51Speaker 3: and we'll see you on the.
- 25:52Speaker 1: Field this weekend.
- 25:53Speaker 7: Man, thank you, appreciate you guys.
- 25:54Speaker 3: Jalen Husky Safety, University of Maryland, joining us plenty more
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- 27:07Speaker 3: Slash events all right. Initial thoughts on Jalen Husky coach Stuffner.
- 27:13Speaker 5: Well, I liked it. I liked his attitude. I like
- 27:15Speaker 5: that he's here to help the team any way shape
- 27:18Speaker 5: or for me. Can I think he recognize you. He's
- 27:21Speaker 5: got a lot to learn, he's excited, but what he's
- 27:24Speaker 5: seen already in the Jaguars type defense and scheme, He's
- 27:27Speaker 5: watched the hunt, So I mean this guy. Yeah, I
- 27:30Speaker 5: like a lot of what he said here he's in.
- 27:32Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 27:33Speaker 3: What really excited me is that it's not very often
- 27:35Speaker 3: that you can find defensive backs that really enjoy the
- 27:38Speaker 3: physical contact. Most of the time it's about picks, you know,
- 27:42Speaker 3: big plays and covering, and especially with a guy that
- 27:45Speaker 3: has the number of interceptions that he has, do you
- 27:48Speaker 3: ask him about, you know, making big plays and the
- 27:51Speaker 3: first thing comes out of his mouth is that I
- 27:52Speaker 3: love to be violent. You don't want to hit people
- 27:55Speaker 3: Like Okay, I like that guy, you know, and you
- 27:59Speaker 3: know he's going to be a good teammate. You don't
- 28:01Speaker 3: grow up in a household with thirteen kids and not
- 28:03Speaker 3: learn to be a good teammate.
- 28:04Speaker 1: I can tell you that, right it's gonna be a
- 28:07Speaker 1: problem throughout.
- 28:09Speaker 3: Let's shift gears a little bit here, you know what
- 28:11Speaker 3: the veterans are in right now? Phase two And the
- 28:14Speaker 3: last day of Phase two practice for this week was today.
- 28:17Speaker 3: Of course, the rookies come in tomorrow and Saturday. Earlier
- 28:21Speaker 3: this week, GM James Gladstone making an appearance on The
- 28:25Speaker 3: Rich Eisen Show. The GM is the Media Darling. Now
- 28:28Speaker 3: of course he does jags HQ each and every week
- 28:31Speaker 3: during the season with us here on this show.
- 28:34Speaker 1: But of course the.
- 28:34Speaker 3: Question pops up from Rich Eisen about Travis Hunter.
- 28:40Speaker 5: Are we done with the two way with him or not?
- 28:43Speaker 7: Absolutely not, No, he is set to play both sides
- 28:46Speaker 7: of the ball.
- 28:47Speaker 9: The piece that I think we can expect to see
- 28:50Speaker 9: is actually an uptick in in corner usage. Right last
- 28:53Speaker 9: year it was a higher volume, higher percentage of wide
- 28:57Speaker 9: receiver usage than it was corner We can expect to
- 29:00Speaker 9: see that corner percentile and count go up as we
- 29:04Speaker 9: move forward. That's not to say anything impacts his availability
- 29:08Speaker 9: and usage on offense. It just means that that cornerback
- 29:12Speaker 9: usage will increase.
- 29:13Speaker 1: All right, you heard it from the horse's mouth there.
- 29:16Speaker 3: It's not really breaking news around here, but it continues
- 29:20Speaker 3: to be a topic LOGS National. I think it's from
- 29:24Speaker 3: most of the people looking from the outside on the Jaguars.
- 29:27Speaker 3: It's probably the number one topic of conversation is Travis
- 29:32Speaker 3: Hunter and will he be a true two sport or
- 29:36Speaker 3: two way player in the NFL. And I get asked
- 29:41Speaker 3: that question all the time by family and friends that
- 29:43Speaker 3: don't live around here. And the first thing to ask is,
- 29:45Speaker 3: is Travis Hunt, are really going to play both ways
- 29:47Speaker 3: this year again.
- 29:48Speaker 1: And he's going to play more. It's huge.
- 29:50Speaker 5: No, I think it's Frankly, I think it's great because,
- 29:52Speaker 5: as you just said, it cross the nation right now,
- 29:55Speaker 5: when people are talking about the Jaguars are going to
- 29:57Speaker 5: talk about the quarterback, they're going to talk about Travis Hunter,
- 30:00Speaker 5: and in fact, Kenny in fact be a two way
- 30:02Speaker 5: player and effective two way player. So it's got the
- 30:05Speaker 5: Jaguars in national conversation. And that's what you want to love.
- 30:08Speaker 1: I know one thing, Yeah, you want to get him
- 30:10Speaker 1: on the field as a.
- 30:11Speaker 3: Corner more because you know last year it was kind
- 30:14Speaker 3: of okay, he was going to play just nickel and
- 30:19Speaker 3: on certain snaps, it wasn't going to be all the time.
- 30:22Speaker 3: But man, you see that skill set that he has
- 30:25Speaker 3: when he goes and he plays man coverage. I mean,
- 30:28Speaker 3: he can run with anybody.
- 30:31Speaker 1: He's got great ball skills.
- 30:33Speaker 3: He's got great timing, he's got great hit, he's got
- 30:36Speaker 3: all of the skills. All of this, and think about
- 30:39Speaker 3: the playoff game. The Jaguars are without their top two corners.
- 30:42Speaker 3: Jordan Lewis was out, Travis Hunter was out, and big
- 30:45Speaker 3: plays down the field happened on the outside.
- 30:47Speaker 5: As critical position as you have on defense and in
- 30:51Speaker 5: terms of guys that have to be superb and elite athletes,
- 30:54Speaker 5: and we've got one here. So you know, last year,
- 30:56Speaker 5: I think the distribution was about three hundred and twenty
- 30:59Speaker 5: snaps on offense, about maybe one almost two to one
- 31:02Speaker 5: one hundred and sixty on on defense. I achieve that,
- 31:05Speaker 5: you know, yeah, we can still play in both ways, right,
- 31:07Speaker 5: I think that that numbers will shift a little bit.
- 31:11Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 31:11Speaker 1: I've talked to a.
- 31:12Speaker 3: Couple of different personnel guys and football guys around the league,
- 31:17Speaker 3: and a lot of them are of the opinion that
- 31:20Speaker 3: he needs to play that flip flop, you know, more
- 31:24Speaker 3: on defense because it's it's they think it's harder to
- 31:29Speaker 3: find the elite corner than it is to find a
- 31:34Speaker 3: great wide receiver. And I don't know if that's the
- 31:37Speaker 3: case or not, but I think he's got the skill
- 31:39Speaker 3: set to be both. Well. Think about too, the Jaguars
- 31:42Speaker 3: offense did all of their real big performance after.
- 31:47Speaker 1: He went down with injury. Now, Joey Myers comes.
- 31:50Speaker 3: In partly because of Jakobe and also the evergence of Parker.
- 31:53Speaker 3: I mean, and those guys aren't going anywhere so where
- 31:57Speaker 3: can you slide him into different packages? Offense will be
- 32:00Speaker 3: a big question mark in this offseason, something we'll have
- 32:03Speaker 3: to watch a lot in training camp.
- 32:04Speaker 5: Well, we cut it down and as the offense went
- 32:06Speaker 5: on this season, as you guys know, we finished the
- 32:09Speaker 5: season twenty eight points a game, the offense was going
- 32:11Speaker 5: this direction, you know. Now to have this guy come
- 32:14Speaker 5: back into coach camp and Elie and the secondary plans
- 32:17Speaker 5: as far as that's concerned, Shoot, I mean, it's exciting
- 32:19Speaker 5: thiss heck to think about it. And then you talk
- 32:21Speaker 5: about to a big topic of the tight ends where
- 32:24Speaker 5: they're going to be in the offense. Our offense right
- 32:26Speaker 5: now has got a lot of weapons, a lot of
- 32:28Speaker 5: personnel groups that they can throw at the opponent to
- 32:31Speaker 5: make that defense nervous. Now, let's make the opponent's offense
- 32:35Speaker 5: nervous by putting this guy over at the corner and
- 32:37Speaker 5: let him shut their guys down.
- 32:38Speaker 3: You need to get some guys healthy in the back
- 32:40Speaker 3: end on defense, for sure, Lewis get them healthy as well.
- 32:43Speaker 1: You know.
- 32:44Speaker 3: So I want to see Buster Brown back in action,
- 32:47Speaker 3: you know, glad to see he's resigned, you know, And
- 32:50Speaker 3: then look, I want to see some young guys develop,
- 32:53Speaker 3: you know, I mean sometimes you can find guys and
- 32:56Speaker 3: it's not hard to do. It's not easy to do,
- 32:58Speaker 3: excuse me, to findners that are in the undrafted category
- 33:02Speaker 3: or young guys that have been late round picks in
- 33:04Speaker 3: the past. But man, if you can find one of
- 33:07Speaker 3: those somewhere somehow, I mean, that'd be huge, really.
- 33:11Speaker 5: Huge, and that'll help in a big way. There's no
- 33:13Speaker 5: doubt about that. The application of speed, speed and athleticism
- 33:17Speaker 5: is always coaches dreams, that's for sure.
- 33:19Speaker 1: I got a question.
- 33:20Speaker 3: About coach the second year of a regime. This going
- 33:26Speaker 3: into year number two for Liam Cohen, and let's talk
- 33:29Speaker 3: both sides of the ball. Yes, they had so much
- 33:31Speaker 3: success last year, wins and losses, the offense, the defense
- 33:35Speaker 3: rated highly in a lot of areas. How do you
- 33:39Speaker 3: manage year two going into the second year of a
- 33:43Speaker 3: regime when there has been some success. You don't want
- 33:45Speaker 3: to rest on that success. You want to continue the
- 33:48Speaker 3: arrow going up on both sides of the ball. Is
- 33:52Speaker 3: this in a lot of ways more challenging than year one?
- 33:57Speaker 5: I don't think so. And I'll just say why, because
- 34:00Speaker 5: you know, last year it was new coaches, new players
- 34:03Speaker 5: working together. Don't know how that ought's all going to go.
- 34:06Speaker 5: What the you know, everybody getting on the same page,
- 34:08Speaker 5: everybody having the right practice plans and assignments, all kinds
- 34:12Speaker 5: of things going on. I think now everybody kind of
- 34:14Speaker 5: knows their role and they've set the bar high. They've
- 34:18Speaker 5: raised the standards, the expectations. Yeah, that's the pressure, but jeez,
- 34:22Speaker 5: I mean you get they feel good about it in
- 34:23Speaker 5: terms of you know, everybody's back coordinators, special teams, I
- 34:27Speaker 5: mean across the board. So I think they can dig
- 34:30Speaker 5: deeper right now, not necessarily doing more, but maybe doing
- 34:33Speaker 5: things better. And that's the key that everything wants to
- 34:36Speaker 5: get better. We want whatever we decide we're going to
- 34:39Speaker 5: be on offense and defense and special teams make it better.
- 34:42Speaker 5: And they got I think a better seat to do
- 34:44Speaker 5: that in this year.
- 34:45Speaker 3: I think Liam two said said this, Look, you know
- 34:48Speaker 3: your roster better too. You know, there was a lot
- 34:50Speaker 3: of discovery in the first year, and now you kind
- 34:52Speaker 3: of know your player is so much better and so
- 34:56Speaker 3: you can dial in a lot of the finer points
- 34:59Speaker 3: of coaching specific to those players because you now know
- 35:02Speaker 3: their skill set, and you can also do a better
- 35:04Speaker 3: job of putting them in better positions. And the thing
- 35:08Speaker 3: that I'm also excited about is that, look, Liams called
- 35:11Speaker 3: plays for a long time, so last year wasn't his
- 35:13Speaker 3: first rodeo, but going to camp on defense, I mean
- 35:17Speaker 3: this is now year two for him calling plays and Duff.
- 35:21Speaker 3: I think going from year one to year two as
- 35:25Speaker 3: a play caller on the defensive side of the ball
- 35:28Speaker 3: is going to be a huge advantage and also great
- 35:32Speaker 3: experience for camp this.
- 35:34Speaker 5: Year, without a doubt. I mean, as I said, I
- 35:36Speaker 5: think he himself right now thinking about all that he
- 35:39Speaker 5: did for the first time, you just claimed perfectly right now.
- 35:44Speaker 5: He knows the coaching staff's in putting news, their thoughts,
- 35:47Speaker 5: their contributions, and just his own way of doing it,
- 35:50Speaker 5: his own instincts. He's you know, you get better when
- 35:53Speaker 5: you do things repetitively. All that was first time in jeez,
- 35:56Speaker 5: I mean, you know, all the things had to be
- 35:58Speaker 5: going through his head. The fact that he's fired that
- 36:00Speaker 5: gun a bunch of times right now in terms of
- 36:02Speaker 5: play calls is going to make things life so much better.
- 36:05Speaker 5: And the fact that he knows his players better, just
- 36:07Speaker 5: like Jeff's talked about, so taking advantage of their strengths
- 36:10Speaker 5: him having the repetition and having the you know, just
- 36:13Speaker 5: the experience of doing that. You get better by doing it.
- 36:16Speaker 3: And one thing I'll add in that you original question
- 36:19Speaker 3: was about, you know, taking the success of year one
- 36:22Speaker 3: and trying to the challenging part of year two. Right,
- 36:26Speaker 3: It's hard to do because you know, you look in Jaguars'
- 36:28Speaker 3: history and there's been one year wonders. You know, go
- 36:31Speaker 3: back to seventeen. It was a great year and then
- 36:34Speaker 3: fell off, you know, the toilet rim again, you know,
- 36:37Speaker 3: and it's happened, and so it's challenging to be a
- 36:42Speaker 3: consistent winner. The one thing I think that excites me
- 36:46Speaker 3: the most is that I think Liam coaching. Liam Cohen
- 36:49Speaker 3: does a great job of messaging and reaching his players
- 36:53Speaker 3: and challenging them and giving them things to focus in on.
- 36:57Speaker 3: I think that's a great gift that he has. He's
- 37:00Speaker 3: a great play caller, which there's a lot of great
- 37:03Speaker 3: play callers out there, but there's not many people that
- 37:06Speaker 3: can stand in front of the room and lead men
- 37:09Speaker 3: and lead men with messaging that challenges them and gives
- 37:13Speaker 3: them directive on a day to day basis. And I
- 37:16Speaker 3: think that's a special attribute that he has. And I'm
- 37:19Speaker 3: fired up to watch him in year two and also
- 37:22Speaker 3: year three and you're four, year five and continue on
- 37:25Speaker 3: because I think he has that gift and it truly
- 37:28Speaker 3: is special.
- 37:28Speaker 1: It's very rare.
- 37:30Speaker 5: Yeah. I think this staff, his starts with him. His
- 37:32Speaker 5: connectibility with the players is very very good. I mean
- 37:36Speaker 5: sometimes you can be up in front of him, but shoot,
- 37:38Speaker 5: they're looking, but they ain't. They're not with you, you know, no.
- 37:40Speaker 5: But you can see right now that his connectability and
- 37:43Speaker 5: his connection with the players and the coaches, the message
- 37:46Speaker 5: is the same and that's it's got to be that
- 37:48Speaker 5: way for things to be good.
- 37:50Speaker 3: We're back in a moment and we will talk to
- 37:52Speaker 3: computers stuff. What's the We got a category maybe categories
- 37:57Speaker 3: tight ends? Okay, all right, that's kind of appropos since
- 38:01Speaker 3: the Jaguars first draft pick was a tight.
- 38:03Speaker 1: End and they had two picks, they had two tight ends. Correct.
- 38:08Speaker 1: We'll get into some of that in Rookie Mini Caamp
- 38:09Speaker 1: coming up this weekend.
- 38:10Speaker 5: We kind of like it.
- 38:11Speaker 3: Well, we'll be back in just a moment on ten
- 38:13Speaker 3: to XLAM, Jaguars dot Com and Jaguars YouTube.
- 38:16Speaker 1: It is Jaguars Happy Hour.
- 38:24Speaker 3: Well, Welcome back, Final moments of Jaguars Happy Hour from
- 38:27Speaker 3: the Hondai Studios, JP Shadrick, Jeff Flogoman, Mark Dufner, ten
- 38:31Speaker 3: Toxxlamjaguars dot Com, Jaguars YouTube time for Jeff.
- 38:36Speaker 1: Logoman's favorite segment.
- 38:37Speaker 3: Each and every week, Microsoft co Pilot, we go to
- 38:40Speaker 3: the computer for answers to questions. Question is kind of
- 38:45Speaker 3: an opinion one today. Who is the best performing tight
- 38:49Speaker 3: end in Jaguars history? We asked Microsoft co Pilot and
- 38:53Speaker 3: the answer comes back. Barcedes lewis widely regarded as the
- 38:58Speaker 3: best performing tight end in Jaguars history based on fan
- 39:01Speaker 3: rankings and his long term impact on the franchise. Check
- 39:04Speaker 3: out Microsoft co Pilot and that is the right opinion. Yes,
- 39:10Speaker 3: us blocking tight ends and NFL history, I think that
- 39:14Speaker 3: would be a safe statement right there, Duff. I mean,
- 39:17Speaker 3: even if you've talked to people from around the league
- 39:20Speaker 3: during his tenure, which is nearly what is it like
- 39:23Speaker 3: twenty years now, unbelievable.
- 39:24Speaker 1: It's amazing.
- 39:25Speaker 5: You know, I had the privilege of coaching here when
- 39:27Speaker 5: he came on the scene, and again not only in
- 39:30Speaker 5: his career here, but when he's gone to other teams.
- 39:32Speaker 5: He was feared really as a blocker and certainly respect
- 39:36Speaker 5: as far as that's concerned. A guy that every snap
- 39:38Speaker 5: you know he was going to dent the defense a
- 39:41Speaker 5: little bit with his play and also as a receiver.
- 39:43Speaker 3: And the crazy thing is is that he won the
- 39:46Speaker 3: Mackie Award in college, which is for the best receiving
- 39:50Speaker 3: tight end, but that's not what he was in his
- 39:53Speaker 3: first contract year. It was all of a sudden, he
- 39:56Speaker 3: had like ten touchdowns. Well yeah, but he didn't have
- 39:58Speaker 3: a lot of catches though, and at times he didn't
- 40:02Speaker 3: look smooth as a receiver as you would expect from
- 40:05Speaker 3: a Mackiew Award winner. But I will tell you this,
- 40:09Speaker 3: if he ever wanted to convert the left tackle, oh yeah,
- 40:12Speaker 3: he could have converted and played left tackle in a minute.
- 40:16Speaker 3: He was the only guy, the only guy that I
- 40:19Speaker 3: had ever seen, that could block Dwight Freenie one on
- 40:22Speaker 3: one by himself. I mean seriously, one on one. They
- 40:27Speaker 3: would put Marcedes on Dwight Freenie and Marcedes would block them.
- 40:31Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no doubt about it. I mean, you know,
- 40:33Speaker 5: he was a good athlete, you know, and I know
- 40:36Speaker 5: you talked about him as a receiver there, but Jesus
- 40:39Speaker 5: Pete is a blocker right now. You felt that guy.
- 40:41Speaker 5: You heard James Husky, you heard Jay Lenhwski talk about
- 40:44Speaker 5: whether you could feel the guy. You could feel Mercedes
- 40:46Speaker 5: as he played as a tight end here he.
- 40:48Speaker 1: Was so so strong. Now here's a question for you.
- 40:51Speaker 3: Who would you consider to be the next best tight
- 40:55Speaker 3: ends in Jaguars history?
- 40:57Speaker 5: Cayle Brady probably the I had the privilege seeing him too.
- 41:01Speaker 5: I liked him too. I liked him Kyle, Yeah, I mean.
- 41:05Speaker 3: It's kind of an interesting it really has a guy
- 41:07Speaker 3: on the team right now has a chance by far,
- 41:10Speaker 3: Britton Strain, by far love this guy. Let's take a
- 41:12Speaker 3: look at the current Jaguars tight ends on the roster
- 41:15Speaker 3: right now. Of course, they added two more in the
- 41:18Speaker 3: draft this year, Borcatshire from A and M and Cozyule
- 41:21Speaker 3: from Houston. They also have an undrafted player Ethan Connor
- 41:24Speaker 3: from Troy to add to the group, Patrick Herbert, a
- 41:27Speaker 3: first year player Hunter long six year player Quinton Morris
- 41:31Speaker 3: just re signed another contract fifth year in the NFL,
- 41:34Speaker 3: and of course Brenton Strange leading the way in his
- 41:37Speaker 3: fourth year.
- 41:37Speaker 1: I think this is a really good room right now.
- 41:41Speaker 3: There's gonna be a lot of guys competing for roster
- 41:44Speaker 3: spots here, and there's gonna be some good players that
- 41:47Speaker 3: are gonna.
- 41:48Speaker 1: Let be let go keep four or five? What do
- 41:50Speaker 1: you keep?
- 41:51Speaker 3: I mean, it depends on you know, what your roster
- 41:53Speaker 3: construction is at. But I mean I'm thinking for just
- 41:56Speaker 3: because of the importance of that position in an Liam
- 42:01Speaker 3: Cohen offense, you know, because I mean you're going to
- 42:04Speaker 3: be playing three tight ends of time. And also what's
- 42:06Speaker 3: the special team for sure contributions level? And we know
- 42:09Speaker 3: Quin Morris is right there at the top out of
- 42:11Speaker 3: that whole group when it comes to special teams contributor.
- 42:14Speaker 5: Now, the special teams coach is going to want these
- 42:16Speaker 5: guys for sure. So I mean there's going to be
- 42:18Speaker 5: a great discussion on roster keeps and let goes as
- 42:21Speaker 5: far as this position is concerned. And I'll tell you
- 42:23Speaker 5: they've got a damn good coach, this coach, Rich Angulo.
- 42:26Speaker 5: Rich was a player when I when I was coaching,
- 42:29Speaker 5: and I liked him as a player, and he brings
- 42:31Speaker 5: most out of these guys. I watched him interact with
- 42:34Speaker 5: these guys last year and what strange did Geeze Pete.
- 42:37Speaker 5: I mean, I mean there was a receiver and as
- 42:39Speaker 5: a blocker. I mean, you know, I coached those outside
- 42:42Speaker 5: guys the last couple of years in Cincinnati and Strange,
- 42:44Speaker 5: I mean, he gets you, now, can they run the
- 42:47Speaker 5: split zone? And he's got them catch nervous, He'll either
- 42:50Speaker 5: cut you or he'll knock your butt back. And so
- 42:53Speaker 5: the physic county and the toughness and he's played in
- 42:55Speaker 5: addition to the playmaking as a receiver makes him a
- 42:58Speaker 5: very valuable.
- 42:59Speaker 3: Guy rookie many camps. This weekend, we saw the three
- 43:01Speaker 3: rookies on that tight end list. What do you need
- 43:04Speaker 3: to see out of them early in this offseason program
- 43:09Speaker 3: process to make you comfortable with those picks? Oh, I
- 43:12Speaker 3: mean it's I don't know if you necessarily need to
- 43:14Speaker 3: see anything specific.
- 43:15Speaker 7: You know.
- 43:16Speaker 3: The one thing I will say with the rookies, it's
- 43:18Speaker 3: it's it's transition to this and one of the big
- 43:21Speaker 3: reasons why you go back to the Dante Fowler tearing
- 43:24Speaker 3: his knee up in rookie mini camp. There's an acclamation
- 43:29Speaker 3: period for a lot of these rookies as they come
- 43:31Speaker 3: into the NFL teams. As it should be because these
- 43:35Speaker 3: rookies have been on a bit of a whirlwind. They've
- 43:39Speaker 3: been training for combine and testing, but not necessarily training
- 43:43Speaker 3: for football, and so it would be wise for the
- 43:47Speaker 3: team to slowly integrate them physically and mentally into the program.
- 43:51Speaker 1: Not so much slowly.
- 43:53Speaker 3: Mentally because you can challenge guys, but physically because look,
- 43:56Speaker 3: you don't know what a lot of these guys have
- 43:58Speaker 3: been doing, and they probably probably haven't been doing football
- 44:01Speaker 3: specific training yet. So I think there's a there's got
- 44:05Speaker 3: to be a period of adjustment here for a lot
- 44:07Speaker 3: of these young guys.
- 44:09Speaker 1: Yeah, rookie minny camps have changed over the years stuff.
- 44:11Speaker 5: Oh for sure, And that's I think. I think that'll
- 44:13Speaker 5: be the focus just now what Jeff has talked about,
- 44:16Speaker 5: getting them back into ball in the classroom, taking notes,
- 44:20Speaker 5: doing football related movement, agility, et cetera. Not just the
- 44:24Speaker 5: commminded jumps and all that that's in the rear view mirror,
- 44:26Speaker 5: but graduating them, so to speak, into that will be
- 44:30Speaker 5: a key as they assimilate to the roster with the
- 44:32Speaker 5: rets when the vents.
- 44:33Speaker 3: Are here, I mean, it's yeah, let me just add
- 44:36Speaker 3: this too, because I remember coming in as a rookie
- 44:38Speaker 3: and all of a sudden you're in a new place
- 44:40Speaker 3: with new faces, and you're trying to figure out where
- 44:43Speaker 3: to buy groceries, to figure out where to live, you know,
- 44:47Speaker 3: figuring out who's your new friends.
- 44:49Speaker 5: Shoot, you're trying to find the restroom. I mean it's unbelievable.
- 44:52Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't know where to go.
- 44:55Speaker 3: I mean it's like the first day at a new school,
- 44:57Speaker 3: you know, going from middle school to high school. And
- 44:59Speaker 3: also and everything's new. I mean, so it's a big
- 45:02Speaker 3: adjustment period. And these guys are also we're on scholarship
- 45:07Speaker 3: and they had classes and now they need to learn
- 45:09Speaker 3: how to manage their time and you know, to learn
- 45:12Speaker 3: how to be a professional, and so it's a big adjustment,
- 45:16Speaker 3: very much.
- 45:16Speaker 1: So it'll be a fun weekend.
- 45:18Speaker 3: Most of the draft picks that believe signed today, not all,
- 45:22Speaker 3: but that shouldn't be an issue certainly moving forward. So
- 45:26Speaker 3: they'll be on the field tomorrow. Media will be out
- 45:29Speaker 3: here on Saturday.
- 45:30Speaker 5: Tuff you coming, absolutely trying to sneak in tomorrow, but
- 45:34Speaker 5: they won't let me. But I'll be here Saturday. No,
- 45:37Speaker 5: but I'm coming Satday. No, I'm coming Saturday for sure.
- 45:40Speaker 1: Awesome. Looking forward to seeing that. And you know it's.
- 45:43Speaker 3: Always exciting when actual football type activities begin. Yeah, and
- 45:48Speaker 3: it's look, it's rookie Minnie can't there's it's not like
- 45:51Speaker 3: you have the full amount of bodies to do like
- 45:55Speaker 3: a normal football practice. A lot of individual teaching, specific
- 46:00Speaker 3: teaching them how you like things done, how you're doing
- 46:04Speaker 3: individual period, the techniques of the position, and then just
- 46:08Speaker 3: getting them acclimated to the verbiage of your offense and defense.
- 46:11Speaker 3: I mean, that's a lot of it. I remember last
- 46:14Speaker 3: rookie Minnie camp last year. It was a lot on
- 46:17Speaker 3: the offensive side of just getting to the line of scrimmage,
- 46:20Speaker 3: working on cadence and then not running a play like
- 46:23Speaker 3: how does a cadence work in the NFL? Because everybody's
- 46:26Speaker 3: used to looking at placards on the sideline and clapping
- 46:28Speaker 3: their hands.
- 46:29Speaker 5: So I mean, trying to get us, just as Jeff said,
- 46:32Speaker 5: a foundation of how we do things here. If they
- 46:34Speaker 5: can get that accomplished during the course of the next
- 46:36Speaker 5: couple of days, that'll be a huge thing. As they
- 46:38Speaker 5: get into the OTAs and the veteran mini camp.
- 46:41Speaker 3: You want to make sure that they know where the
- 46:43Speaker 3: chow hall is, the bathrooms, the weight room, the locker room.
- 46:50Speaker 5: They better know where it was vets set to now
- 46:51Speaker 5: in the meetings, now they don't don't get in the.
- 46:53Speaker 3: Wrong seats now that yeah, slowly slowly figure out where
- 46:59Speaker 3: you're going to be seen the city.
- 47:00Speaker 1: That in the individual meeting room and also in the
- 47:04Speaker 1: team media.
- 47:05Speaker 3: That's correct because there are certain seats that are taken reserved, correct,
- 47:10Speaker 3: so to speak.
- 47:11Speaker 1: Yep, coming up.
- 47:13Speaker 3: The schedule should be coming out soon, maybe next week.
- 47:16Speaker 1: So we'll have a really heard a rumor, maybe it
- 47:19Speaker 1: just pushed back. I mean, yeah, I heard a rumor
- 47:21Speaker 1: that may get pushed back. I mean there's been some
- 47:23Speaker 1: chatter on that. I think, I know.
- 47:25Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not involved in that conversation JP.
- 47:28Speaker 5: I think that the league understands though, that they've got
- 47:31Speaker 5: something a lot of people want to know about, and
- 47:33Speaker 5: the more they can kind of keep it on everybody's mind,
- 47:36Speaker 5: the better. So I think I don't think that's that's
- 47:38Speaker 5: part of it now.
- 47:39Speaker 3: And I will tell you that the person that wants this,
- 47:42Speaker 3: or the persons that want the schedule to come out
- 47:44Speaker 3: the most are the hobbses of the National.
- 47:48Speaker 1: Football League travel coordinators.
- 47:50Speaker 3: Okay, because for all of them are waiting for the
- 47:54Speaker 3: schedule to come out because they have like three or
- 47:56Speaker 3: four different hotels.
- 47:58Speaker 1: All on reserve waiting.
- 48:00Speaker 3: To hear what the schedule is going to be so
- 48:02Speaker 3: they can make the phone calls to make all the
- 48:04Speaker 3: travel arrangements for the football.
- 48:06Speaker 1: Book, the plane, you gotta do transportation, all of that.
- 48:12Speaker 5: Now that you're one hundred percent correct on that, now,
- 48:14Speaker 5: those coaches want it to now. I got to tell
- 48:16Speaker 5: you that I look forward to it in terms of, Okay,
- 48:19Speaker 5: when are we going to play the certain teams and
- 48:21Speaker 5: the work that you're doing in the off season, getting
- 48:23Speaker 5: that ready and getting ahead of it as far as
- 48:25Speaker 5: that's concerned. So you want that too.
- 48:27Speaker 1: It's coming up. Well, I hope it comes out sooner
- 48:30Speaker 1: rather than later. Yeah.
- 48:32Speaker 3: I mean here's the other thing too. I mean families
- 48:35Speaker 3: of football people are looking to make plans to do
- 48:39Speaker 3: different things as well. You know, like Duff, I'm sure
- 48:42Speaker 3: your wife know when the you know, the grand kids
- 48:45Speaker 3: could come in or the kids could come in to
- 48:47Speaker 3: see games.
- 48:47Speaker 5: She might have been happy I was getting out of
- 48:49Speaker 5: town and she want to know when that was going
- 48:50Speaker 5: to happen. I don't know, but she was hoping for
- 48:56Speaker 5: that one. Yeah.
- 48:57Speaker 1: I love that all right.
- 48:58Speaker 3: So rookie minnicamp this weekend schedule, he is coming up
- 49:01Speaker 3: very soon, as early as next week. And here we
- 49:05Speaker 3: are another show in the books, and we got to
- 49:07Speaker 3: meet a couple of rookies today, Emmanuel Pregnant Jalen Husky.
- 49:10Speaker 1: What a treat, huh. I loved it.
- 49:12Speaker 5: I freaking loved it. I mean having a chance to
- 49:14Speaker 5: see these kids and interact with them a little bit
- 49:17Speaker 5: and feel how they are right now and kind of
- 49:20Speaker 5: the most exciting time of their career right now coming
- 49:22Speaker 5: into the NFL. You kidding me. I thought it was great.
- 49:25Speaker 3: I think you could feel the excitement that they had,
- 49:28Speaker 3: both of them, you know, and that both of them
- 49:31Speaker 3: were ready and willing to do whatever the coach is asked.
- 49:35Speaker 5: And you know what, I can it just brought me
- 49:37Speaker 5: back I couldn't wait to see the guys when I
- 49:39Speaker 5: was coaching. In fact, I happened to be downstairs when
- 49:41Speaker 5: a bunch of them were coming on the bus, and flip,
- 49:44Speaker 5: it was like I was back again. I was starting
- 49:45Speaker 5: to hug them all, you know, but I mean, you know,
- 49:47Speaker 5: but I mean, it's just it's a great time for
- 49:49Speaker 5: the team, the coaches, the players, great.
- 49:51Speaker 1: Time tough, great stuff.
- 49:53Speaker 3: As always, We'll see again soon, look forward to on
- 49:55Speaker 3: Saturday for Mark Doffner and Jeff Logoman.
- 49:58Speaker 1: Always a pleasure.
- 50:00Speaker 3: P Shadwick our thanks to Joe Fortunato, Brent Rebert, David Choe,
- 50:04Speaker 3: and thanks to our rookies as well, Manuel Pregnant and
- 50:07Speaker 3: Jayleen Husky for joining us. Thanks to you for watching
- 50:10Speaker 3: and listening a Jaguars Happy Hour