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O-Zone Podcast: Sexton, Shadrick, Sullivan · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ozone podcast featuring Jaguars dot Com Senior
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Speaker 1: writer John Oser and Jaguars executive producer Dave the Canadis.
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Speaker 1: So this week doing something a little different. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: be intro produced you guys, if you will, when I've
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Speaker 1: been looking forward to I think it's an interesting Thanks
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Speaker 1: for the interesting podcast we have Ashland Sullivan, Brian Sexton,
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Speaker 1: JP Shatrick. I could go over their titles. They have
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Speaker 1: many titles with us, but it's really the Jaguars media family.
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Speaker 1: I think I think we all agree with that. And
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a chance to get to know them
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Speaker 1: a little bit, to get their thoughts on the Jaguars season, uh,
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Speaker 1: their thoughts on life in general, which I'm sure we're
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Speaker 1: looking forward to his shatterck and it's just a chance
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Speaker 1: to look ahead of the season. So, without further ado,
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Speaker 1: let's talk some ball real quick. Everybody looking forward to
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Speaker 1: this season and are looking forward to season after the pandemic,
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Speaker 1: JP you start, you know, I hate to be a
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Speaker 1: Debbie Downer, but I'm a little skeptical of everything, um
1:08
Speaker 1: leading up to this season so far? Are we even
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Speaker 1: gonna get to the end of the runway. Here is
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Speaker 1: my question, just watching everything with with baseball going on,
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Speaker 1: and then once they get to the season, how long
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Speaker 1: can they maintain the season. So you know, yes, I'm
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Speaker 1: excited for football, but I'm still sitting in this wood
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Speaker 1: panel room at my house and I haven't seen a
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Speaker 1: football player in person yet, so it's not really quite
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Speaker 1: hit home, I guess for me yet. I guess that's
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Speaker 1: my general feel this whole thing. Maybe that's a little
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a downer, but that's just how
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Speaker 1: I feel right now. And you know, maybe that changes
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Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks when you're actually seeing some
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Speaker 1: contact on the practice field. Before Sam, let me clarify here,
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Speaker 1: this is a new role for me. Usually ASHLEYN, Bryan
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Speaker 1: and JP are interviewing John and I'm and I'm sort
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Speaker 1: of being, you know, the jackass for lack of a
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Speaker 1: better word. That's a good word. That's good. I get
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Speaker 1: to bring Brian and I get to cut Brian off,
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Speaker 1: which is the thing I'm really looking forward to today.
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Speaker 1: But Ashon, let's talk to you. You're the young person
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Speaker 1: in the group with the innocent perspective on life. Are
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Speaker 1: you optimistic? Are the young people who I always go
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Speaker 1: to you. You're one of the young people. Are the
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Speaker 1: young people optimistic about this thing allowing football to take place?
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Speaker 1: Or do you even talk to young people anymore because
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Speaker 1: you're always a question. Yes, I'm so used to talking
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Speaker 1: to you guys that I don't even get to talk
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Speaker 1: to any young people anymore. It stinks. But John, you're
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Speaker 1: doing a fabulous job hosting. So far, so good. I
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Speaker 1: must say that I think it's great to be optimistic, obviously,
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Speaker 1: and we all want football back, but I think you
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Speaker 1: definitely have to be realistic when you look at something
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Speaker 1: like this. I think, especially this generation, everyone was very
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Speaker 1: excited optimistic when we saw baseball comeback finally live spots,
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Speaker 1: and now you're seeing that is not going as well
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Speaker 1: as everyone had hoped going into three weeks into the season. Um,
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Speaker 1: So I think you've got to look at that and
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Speaker 1: then apply it to football. And you see the success
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Speaker 1: that the bubble is having with the m b A
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Speaker 1: and ratings are through the roof, and it's great to
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Speaker 1: have live basketball back. I think if you can meet
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Speaker 1: somewhere in the middle with the NFL and apply that
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Speaker 1: bubble lifestyle but also be realistic that this is football
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Speaker 1: it's a contact sport. Problems are going to happen, and
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Speaker 1: you just got to kind of see what happens and
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Speaker 1: roll with it day by day. Brian, I almost hesitate
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Speaker 1: to ask because I don't really think of you as
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Speaker 1: the eternal optimist. What is your take on I mean,
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Speaker 1: do you think there's a chance they finish up this season? Well,
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Speaker 1: first of all, compared to you, John, anybody is optimistic.
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Speaker 1: I mean, let's just be honest. There's time to take
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Speaker 1: shots later. I'll be honest with you. I mean, baseball
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Speaker 1: is talking about quitting after just a couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: So how in the world is football going to in
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Speaker 1: a much um closer games where can't be socially distant
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Speaker 1: from first to second to third base. How's football gonna
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Speaker 1: pull it off? Um? I'm not one of these people
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Speaker 1: that scared of this thing. I mean it to look
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Speaker 1: at we're already pulling Gardner Minshoe back to the the
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Speaker 1: active roster. I mean, this is not a deadly disease,
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Speaker 1: but from a political perspective, from a political correctness perspective,
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Speaker 1: and we all know the NFL is anything uh, it
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Speaker 1: is politically correct. They are not going to want to
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Speaker 1: be seen as spreading this virus. So they're gonna have
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Speaker 1: trouble because there's gonna be nothing but spread of this
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Speaker 1: virus in a game where men are laying on top
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Speaker 1: of each other. Yeah, unfascinated. See it turns out. I
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Speaker 1: think they'll find a place perhaps between the NFL, I
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Speaker 1: mean between the NHL in baseball, and they'll learn from mistakes.
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Speaker 1: But you just wonder even the most optimistic learning you
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Speaker 1: interdle play out. Well. I promised at the top we
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Speaker 1: would get to know you guys a little bit. I personally,
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Speaker 1: I'm fine with the level that we all know each other.
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Speaker 1: But for the purposes of our of our readers, I'm
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Speaker 1: an old newspaper guy, So I say, readers or listeners,
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Speaker 1: give me a little bit, maybe one or two sentences each. Brian,
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Speaker 1: you can have five h on on your background, and
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Speaker 1: I guess, just tell me why are you in this business? Ashlyn?
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Speaker 1: When do you remember wanting to do this? And was
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Speaker 1: it always your dream to be in this business? This
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Speaker 1: was not the dream. I'm in this business it is
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Speaker 1: it is the dream, and you know, getting the host
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Speaker 1: shows with you, what could be better. I'm in this
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Speaker 1: business because I love ball, love talking ball, especially with
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Speaker 1: you guys. That's my favorite, especially when John is hosting.
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Speaker 1: My parents will tell you I'm in this business because
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Speaker 1: I was never good at anything else, not good in school,
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Speaker 1: not the greatest grades. But when it came to football,
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Speaker 1: I worked hard, really enjoyed what I was doing, and
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Speaker 1: this has been the dream ever since I was little.
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Speaker 1: I used to steal the sports page from my dad
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Speaker 1: and we big fights over that. It's always in football,
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Speaker 1: straight ball. As you would say, John, JP, same story.
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Speaker 1: Different generation, Yeah, a little bit really, I mean a
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Speaker 1: generation ish earlier. Not that much earlier, I don't think,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean I grew up watching this Weekend
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Speaker 1: Baseball with Mel Allen right as the narrator and host.
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Speaker 1: And my dad had this this forty five record Shelenna
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Speaker 1: forty five is a smaller record album that you running
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Speaker 1: a faster speed on a turntable and then you hear
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Speaker 1: the audio through the speakers. So there was this cavalcade
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Speaker 1: who was a cavalcade of sports from like the forties
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Speaker 1: and fifties. My dad had it as a kid. Mel
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Speaker 1: Allen narrated it and it had red barbered Dodger calls
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Speaker 1: on it from Brooklyn. It had horse race in Kentucky
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Speaker 1: derby highlights. It was a two sided deal and I
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Speaker 1: listened to that thing over and over and over. Then
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Speaker 1: I realized that mel Allen's from Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't
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Speaker 1: know that when I was that little. Um and then
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Speaker 1: watching football over the years, you know, Keith Jackson on
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Speaker 1: TV all the Alabama of my games go into the games,
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Speaker 1: And that's what I wanted to do going into college,
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Speaker 1: was to be an announcer of some kind. I didn't
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Speaker 1: know what, but um, it started out in baseball and
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Speaker 1: then it's now moved over to football, and um, that's
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Speaker 1: really where the seed was planted. I think though, all
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Speaker 1: those all those old television and radio broadcast back when
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Speaker 1: I was young, just just wanting to do that. Brian,
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Speaker 1: you obviously a lot of people who are following this
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Speaker 1: note that you were the Jaguars voice from on. Uh.
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Speaker 1: You got the job very young. Was this something you
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Speaker 1: always wanted to do? Did you always think in the
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Speaker 1: NFL was going to be your path? Did you have
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Speaker 1: other sports? Just tell us about that. Well, I grew up.
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Speaker 1: You know, you and I are the same age, early fifties,
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Speaker 1: and so I grew up listening to the radio. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, we lived in the Midwest and everything was
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Speaker 1: a far drive, you know from whether we lived in
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Speaker 1: Kansas or Nebraska, or you know, we lived in Illinois
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Speaker 1: for a time. I'm you know, we were always driving
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Speaker 1: to see relatives. So I was listening to um, Jack
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Speaker 1: Buck do the Cardinals games on cam o X radio,
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Speaker 1: or Dan Kelly called the Blues games on cam o X.
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Speaker 1: And when we lived in Boston, I was listening to
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Speaker 1: Johnny Most called the Celtics games. So for years and
8:18
Speaker 1: years I listened to these guys tell stories. And I
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Speaker 1: like to talk, and I enjoy telling stories. Um. You know,
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Speaker 1: I go back to where Schlim was saying. She said
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Speaker 1: she's not really good at anything else. Well, you know
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Speaker 1: this is what we're best at, right. I'm best when
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Speaker 1: I'm in front of a group of people or a
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Speaker 1: microphone telling a story. Um. So when I went to college,
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Speaker 1: my dad said to me, hey, look, you know, I
8:41
Speaker 1: don't care what your study, but get a job where
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Speaker 1: you can sell something and raise a family. And I
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Speaker 1: said that sounds boring to me. I'm not doing that.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to do something where I can talk. So
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Speaker 1: I went to the student radio station the first day
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Speaker 1: I was on campus, and I just I found that
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Speaker 1: I enjoyed talking about what was happening, telling people the
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Speaker 1: story of what was going on. Whether I was sitting
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Speaker 1: below the the high jump or the the pole vault
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Speaker 1: at the Kansas Relays, or I was doing a game
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Speaker 1: with the KU women's basketball team in Norman, Oklahoma. I
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Speaker 1: just I decided that I liked telling people what was happening.
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Speaker 1: So I'll tell you when I decided that this was
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Speaker 1: really gonna happen for me. It was the World Series.
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Speaker 1: And you'll laugh because I'm not much of a baseball guy,
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Speaker 1: but that was the Oakland Series where um, they had
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Speaker 1: the earthquake and the bridges collapsed, and Al Michaels was
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Speaker 1: doing the game on ABC and he narrated beautifully. They
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Speaker 1: had Peter Jennings back in Washington, d C. But he
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Speaker 1: wasn't there, so they let al Michaels tell the story
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Speaker 1: of what was happening in the Bay Area. Because he's
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Speaker 1: from California, he knew it well. He could tell people
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Speaker 1: where the fires were, what that bridge was that had collapsed.
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Speaker 1: He did a magnificent job. And the next morning I
9:59
Speaker 1: went in to my journalism class, and the journalism professor
10:04
Speaker 1: guy named John Brohold started railing about how ABC should
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Speaker 1: have gotten this guy off and put Peter Jennings on.
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Speaker 1: At that moment, I knew I wanted to be a
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Speaker 1: sportscaster because sports guys could tell stories just as well
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Speaker 1: as the news guys. And from that point on, it's
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Speaker 1: just been a matter of finding the right opportunity. And
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars presented itself earlier. But I'm a storyteller and
10:26
Speaker 1: your journalism professor couldn't have been more wrong. But you
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Speaker 1: probably knew that at the time so well, And that's interesting.
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Speaker 1: That brings us to the next topic. Uh, trying to
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Speaker 1: tell this story this season. I think a lot of
10:42
Speaker 1: listeners know if they don't know, we're going to for
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Speaker 1: the most part, be working remotely this year, the three
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Speaker 1: of us. Some of us might go into the office occasionally,
10:51
Speaker 1: but for the most part, we're going into practice and
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Speaker 1: we're covering the team virtually, which for me, after five
10:57
Speaker 1: years of doing it one way, this is a completely
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Speaker 1: different way. Brian the same way, at Ashley, same way,
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Speaker 1: JP the same way. Um, guys, are we excited about
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Speaker 1: this apprehensive? Uh? Sure, I'll let you start I mean
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Speaker 1: you've been doing this, I guess since you hasn't set
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Speaker 1: a team with it, so to be a different sort
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Speaker 1: of body clock for you. Can this be done? How
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Speaker 1: will we get the fan uh intimate with the team
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Speaker 1: if you will. I think it's all about and I
11:27
Speaker 1: think with us we've done a pretty good job of
11:29
Speaker 1: doing this is just finding creative ways to maybe change
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Speaker 1: up some content. I mean, it's not going to look
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Speaker 1: the same. It can't look the same, and it shouldn't.
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Speaker 1: But with that, UM, I found it's almost at times
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Speaker 1: easier now to get players bought into something we're doing
11:42
Speaker 1: because it isn't at home set up and time management wise,
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Speaker 1: we're much more free to do things um and and
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Speaker 1: add more time to something like that. So I've definitely
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Speaker 1: taken advantage of of things like Instagram Live where you're
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Speaker 1: just having a candid conversation with a player for about
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Speaker 1: forty minutes and your fans jump thing on in commenting
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Speaker 1: and you have some teammates jumping in. UM. So I
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Speaker 1: think it's all about just finding a different way to
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Speaker 1: do things, and I think it's gonna be a lot
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Speaker 1: of trial and error for us. We've seen it so
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Speaker 1: far in the off season. But for example, the draft
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Speaker 1: was our first big production doing this virtually, and I
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Speaker 1: think we couldn't have done a better job with that.
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Speaker 1: And Brian, you've been doing it a certain ways just
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Speaker 1: like me for a long time. We'll be going to practice,
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Speaker 1: but how do you anticipate this changing in terms of
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Speaker 1: maybe how we talk to people around the building. It's
12:31
Speaker 1: going to be a new thing that we're not gonna
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Speaker 1: be able to do maybe quite as much this year.
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Speaker 1: I'll be honest with the John. I'm struggling with it.
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Speaker 1: I am. I am really struggling with it because for
12:40
Speaker 1: twenty five years, you know, at this moment in time,
12:43
Speaker 1: I knew exactly what I was supposed to be doing.
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Speaker 1: You know, practice may have changed, the names and the
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Speaker 1: faces may have changed, but I understood the process of
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Speaker 1: getting through August to September. And now we're skipping for
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Speaker 1: you know, relatively speaking, going right to September, and we
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Speaker 1: don't even know what that's going to be yet. So
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Speaker 1: I'm struggling because I'm used to walking out on the
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Speaker 1: practice field with an assistant coach and you know, getting
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Speaker 1: the rundown of what the meetings the night before. We're
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Speaker 1: all about and then off the field a player and
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Speaker 1: finding out their perspective on the coaching staff or the offense,
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Speaker 1: or the heat or the hotel or I'm used to
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Speaker 1: hearing what's going on from the people themselves instead of
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Speaker 1: being distant like this, feeling disconnected and trying to tell
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Speaker 1: the story. So I think it's gonna be a really
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Speaker 1: difficult lift early on until we get into some sort
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Speaker 1: of a rhythm with zoom and the phone and and whatever. Um.
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Speaker 1: In a sense, we'll be telling the story of telling
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Speaker 1: the story, but I don't want to do that all
13:43
Speaker 1: season right. At some point, I want to tell the
13:46
Speaker 1: story of the Jaguars as they navigate their way through
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Speaker 1: this most difficult season. And JP a little different role
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Speaker 1: for you, primarily because you post the radio, do doing
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Speaker 1: and weekly in the sense of hosting. Maybe your role
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Speaker 1: hasn't changed dramatically, but there's got to be some dramatic
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Speaker 1: changes in what you're doing. Well. I mean, it's this
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Speaker 1: is the same room I host the radio shows that
14:16
Speaker 1: now that's the big thing. So we're not in the
14:17
Speaker 1: same room together. Um. Over the summer. Unfortunate that over
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Speaker 1: the summer I had equipment at my house from some
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Speaker 1: side work that I do that we could work with
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Speaker 1: the radio station and could do the radio shows at
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Speaker 1: least have them on the air and make them sound
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Speaker 1: like I'm sitting in the studio at least. But now
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Speaker 1: that the trick is kind of getting zoom or Skype
14:41
Speaker 1: or however we do that to match with the video
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Speaker 1: side of it. And you know, that's the challenge that
14:48
Speaker 1: we're not in the same room together so much of
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Speaker 1: that stuff. And to touch with what Brian talked about too.
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Speaker 1: You know, going in that locker room for forty five
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Speaker 1: minutes some days is just painful because guys don't want
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Speaker 1: to talk or whatever. But that's a lot of times
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Speaker 1: where you get um a lot of your base information.
15:05
Speaker 1: You know, you're talking to a third string guy, you're
15:08
Speaker 1: talking to the backup guard about what's going on, and
15:11
Speaker 1: then you kind of navigate around that locker room over time.
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Speaker 1: So we won't have that this year, and I think
15:16
Speaker 1: that's part of the challenge of of really getting some
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Speaker 1: true storylines going and and following them throughout the season here.
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Speaker 1: But as for the radio shows, I mean, we've we've
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Speaker 1: been very fortunate this summer to be able to continue
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Speaker 1: to continue to do them. The sound and look might
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Speaker 1: be a little bit different, but I think this is
15:32
Speaker 1: going to be the sound and look of this coming season,
15:35
Speaker 1: so we might as well get used to it. Um.
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Speaker 1: But you know, everybody that's been on has either been
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Speaker 1: on the phone or now on Skype, and you know,
15:43
Speaker 1: it's just a little more communication leading up to the
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Speaker 1: show I think than probably was before. Not that we
15:49
Speaker 1: didn't have it before, but now you really have to
15:51
Speaker 1: coordinate and make sure everybody's on the same page on
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Speaker 1: your shows too, to make sure it looks and sounds great.
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Speaker 1: It almost feels odd. But you know, we're almost a
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Speaker 1: month from the regular season now and we haven't been
16:04
Speaker 1: on the field, so we haven't seen these guys up close.
16:06
Speaker 1: Is it too early to ask you, guys, what's your
16:09
Speaker 1: gut on this season? I mean, now that it's going
16:11
Speaker 1: to happen or not. But let's assume there's sixteen games. Brian,
16:15
Speaker 1: what do you think of this team? Or do we
16:16
Speaker 1: just not know you because we haven't seen Well, it's
16:19
Speaker 1: tough to say because we haven't had a chance to
16:21
Speaker 1: see Gardner Minshew, I you know, rest on his shoulders.
16:25
Speaker 1: As far as I'm concerned, I think they've made a
16:27
Speaker 1: lot of astute personnel moves to solidify places that were weak. Um.
16:32
Speaker 1: I don't think they're a top team, but I think
16:36
Speaker 1: with a good job by the coaching staff, they'll be
16:38
Speaker 1: a very competitive team. And then the difference is if
16:41
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew um has improved significantly, then they can do
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Speaker 1: what they did a year ago, which is compete week
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Speaker 1: to week and find themselves, you know, in the fourth
16:52
Speaker 1: quarter in the ballgame. UM, if he regresses, then you know,
16:57
Speaker 1: I think that they're looking at the top of the
16:59
Speaker 1: draft for a quarterback next year. But I can't tell
17:02
Speaker 1: you that because I haven't had a chance to see him. Now,
17:04
Speaker 1: I know he's gonna talk and we're gonna hear from him,
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Speaker 1: you know, periodically this August. But until we can see
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Speaker 1: him on the field and game like situations, I think
17:12
Speaker 1: it's tough to decide what the Jaguars are going to
17:14
Speaker 1: be in Swan. One glorious season for you and two
17:19
Speaker 1: pretty tough seasons since you've been here. Uh, how do
17:22
Speaker 1: you see this one playing at you? You probably talked
17:25
Speaker 1: to more of the young guys than any of us, uh,
17:29
Speaker 1: in some of the Instagram stuff you've done, and so
17:33
Speaker 1: do you get a good vibe from the rookie class,
17:35
Speaker 1: can they make an impact? And just overall, what do
17:37
Speaker 1: you need to Christine? Yeah, overall it seems like everyone
17:41
Speaker 1: is really meshing really well, and every single young guy
17:44
Speaker 1: that I have talked to in veteran with that, especially
17:46
Speaker 1: Chris Thompson, the veteran free agent that joined the team
17:49
Speaker 1: at running back. You definitely here almost immediately the impact
17:53
Speaker 1: Gardnermans who has had so far in the virtual off
17:55
Speaker 1: season meetings, and everyone has noticed the immediate difference that
17:59
Speaker 1: Gardner has taken this year now knowing that he is
18:01
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback. They basically said, with the circumstances of
18:05
Speaker 1: everything being virtual like he has handled it the best
18:07
Speaker 1: possible way he can, and I'll go to the other
18:10
Speaker 1: side of the ball. I think with Gardner, obviously it's
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Speaker 1: all on his shoulders. But you also have to look
18:14
Speaker 1: at the run defense. I mean we said run defense
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Speaker 1: about eighteen times a day at the second a half
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Speaker 1: of last season. I mean, that was by far the
18:21
Speaker 1: biggest Achilles heal for the Jaguars, and I really don't
18:24
Speaker 1: think you have a chance to win this year unless
18:26
Speaker 1: that's fixed. You have Al Woods now on the COVID
18:29
Speaker 1: reserve list, um not playing this season, opting out, And
18:32
Speaker 1: now it really is how big is that the Von
18:34
Speaker 1: Hamilton draft pick gonna be? Is he going to make
18:36
Speaker 1: the difference that the Jaguars need? You hope so, because
18:39
Speaker 1: that was a huge, huge thing that needed to be
18:42
Speaker 1: fixed over the off season. JP thoughts in the season well,
18:47
Speaker 1: to kind of echo Schlnn there. I think the offense
18:49
Speaker 1: has a chance to be pretty good. I think it
18:52
Speaker 1: all depends on what Gardner is gonna do. But letard
18:55
Speaker 1: four nets of a contract year. Not that he's not
18:57
Speaker 1: motivated before, but he certainly will be now. They believe
19:00
Speaker 1: in the offensive line. We heard Doug Morown i think
19:03
Speaker 1: last week talk about that, and you know, they didn't
19:06
Speaker 1: make a lot of changes on the offensive line in
19:08
Speaker 1: the off season. They've got a Pro Bowl receiver, They've
19:11
Speaker 1: upgraded the tight end room. Again, we'll see if it
19:15
Speaker 1: sticks this time, and it has stuck for about eight
19:17
Speaker 1: years around here, So you know, I'm not too concerned
19:21
Speaker 1: about the offensive side of the ball, to be quite
19:23
Speaker 1: honest with you, But as Ashland was talking about that
19:25
Speaker 1: defensive side stopping the run, that the gap integrity last
19:29
Speaker 1: year is just not great because you had guys out
19:33
Speaker 1: of place and then somebody would step over to to
19:36
Speaker 1: take over their mistake and then open another gap and
19:38
Speaker 1: then they go open for the long, long runs on
19:41
Speaker 1: this defense. So you add Showber to the middle moving
19:44
Speaker 1: miles outside. I like that move because that's two veteran
19:46
Speaker 1: guys at the linebacker spot. I think they'll have the
19:50
Speaker 1: stoutness up front. I'm not too concerned about that. I
19:53
Speaker 1: think one of my concerns though, Yeah, teams are you know,
19:56
Speaker 1: we're gonna try to run the ball in this defense.
19:58
Speaker 1: But the unknowns of the secondary right now? You know,
20:02
Speaker 1: Hayden is gonna play Nicol, that's fine. Um. The safeties
20:06
Speaker 1: are they great, They're solid, they can play good, they're good,
20:10
Speaker 1: good players at safety. But the unknowns from here at
20:13
Speaker 1: the corners. I mean, Trey Herndon as a young guy
20:15
Speaker 1: in the league, played okay last year, but he's you know,
20:19
Speaker 1: he hasn't been around the legal long time. And then
20:21
Speaker 1: you have a first round pick on the outside that
20:23
Speaker 1: you haven't seen on the grass at all yet. So
20:26
Speaker 1: that's my real concern. I think it is the defensive
20:28
Speaker 1: side of the ball, which is weird to say, because
20:30
Speaker 1: you have some some big names on that side of
20:33
Speaker 1: the ball. Still, Um, I can't give you a wind
20:36
Speaker 1: total right now, John, I know that's what you're gonna
20:38
Speaker 1: ask next. Yeah, well no, it's it's Uh. I agree
20:43
Speaker 1: with you, guys. I think there are so many unknowns.
20:45
Speaker 1: It could be a good season if all the things
20:49
Speaker 1: that they're optimistic about come to fruition. Usually in the NFL,
20:53
Speaker 1: all those things don't come to fruition. So uh, I'm
20:56
Speaker 1: kind of with you guys. I think six D eight
20:59
Speaker 1: wins would be an accomplishment, and that's sort of what
21:03
Speaker 1: I think they're realistically shouldn't shooting for. So the final
21:06
Speaker 1: thing we did, I know you guys look forward to
21:08
Speaker 1: this because you like getting to know each other slim
21:11
Speaker 1: Brian Shadick like getting to know who each other are.
21:14
Speaker 1: But it's called the Ozone five. We're gonna go around
21:22
Speaker 1: the horn and basically some quick answers to five quick questions.
21:28
Speaker 1: Brian Sexton, your last binge watch? Um, yellow Stone? Was
21:33
Speaker 1: it good? That was excellent? Uh? I love Cowboys and
21:37
Speaker 1: the wild the Wild West, and Kevin Costner's outstanding in
21:41
Speaker 1: his role. Where's both the White and the Black Path?
21:44
Speaker 1: And in the same show, so I thought, I thought
21:47
Speaker 1: it was well worth my time. Slim same question. Last
21:50
Speaker 1: Beans watch. Strangely enough, and I am sad to admit this,
21:54
Speaker 1: I have never watched The Office all the way through,
21:56
Speaker 1: So during this quarantine, I have watched the entirety of
21:58
Speaker 1: the Office. I believe now in the hype. I used
22:01
Speaker 1: to be a hero and say it's not that funny,
22:03
Speaker 1: it is that funny. Now recently I'm watching the new
22:06
Speaker 1: season of Last Chance You so far, so good. JP. Well,
22:11
Speaker 1: I'm not a big television watcher, at least before the pandemic.
22:15
Speaker 1: Um I subscribed. I subscribed to Netflix at the start
22:18
Speaker 1: of the pandemic because I was at home and I
22:20
Speaker 1: had nothing else going on. So I had never seen
22:23
Speaker 1: House of Cards, so I watched. I picked like a
22:27
Speaker 1: random episode in the second or third season. I think
22:30
Speaker 1: it was the one with the assassination attemptic game where
22:32
Speaker 1: he got shot. It might have been season three, and
22:34
Speaker 1: I watched from that point all the way to the
22:36
Speaker 1: end of the series. So that's my last true binge watch.
22:40
Speaker 1: I think that would call so you didn't watch the
22:41
Speaker 1: first season. No, I haven't watched the first two seasons yet,
22:44
Speaker 1: but every season three to the end. We're fantastic Season one,
22:48
Speaker 1: Season two or the best? Oh well, I need to
22:50
Speaker 1: go back, yeah, to look forward to. Last song or station?
22:56
Speaker 1: Did any of you listened to in the car JPU
22:58
Speaker 1: first oh song or station? Yeah, I mean, if it's
23:03
Speaker 1: a song or if it's sports song radio, Oh yeah,
23:06
Speaker 1: it's it's I have it on sports Talk when I
23:08
Speaker 1: get in the car. I mean just to hear what's
23:10
Speaker 1: going on, you know, But then I'll flip on either. Um.
23:14
Speaker 1: You know, the phone or c d s are still
23:17
Speaker 1: a thing in some automobiles, so I have those in
23:19
Speaker 1: the UM. I think Leonards Skinner right now. Actually, I'm
23:25
Speaker 1: on a skinnered kick these days, so I've got Skinners enters,
23:29
Speaker 1: the best of and Brian. Last song listened to in
23:33
Speaker 1: the car Magic Bus by The Who. I have The
23:37
Speaker 1: Who Essentials up on my Apple Music Classic and um,
23:41
Speaker 1: I was just looking right there to confirm it, but yes,
23:44
Speaker 1: The Who. It's amazing that it's Magic Bus because Slinn
23:48
Speaker 1: has a magic brush. She does John, I was very
23:53
Speaker 1: surprised you weren't going to go into some great elaborate
23:55
Speaker 1: detail of who the Who is and enlightened me go
23:58
Speaker 1: ahead that uh normally the Highway seer Sectum Country Station,
24:05
Speaker 1: Big country Gal. You wouldn't think being from South Florida,
24:09
Speaker 1: but I keep up. I like it. Who's your favorite
24:12
Speaker 1: country artist? Flynn? Sorry, I'm gonna ask a question. I'm
24:14
Speaker 1: a host, John my Bed, what's your favorite country? You're
24:17
Speaker 1: not the host this week we've talked about this. Luke Holmbs,
24:24
Speaker 1: I would say Luke Hombs. Most recently, he's really climbing
24:27
Speaker 1: up the chart. Spellas if you haven't paid attention, I
24:30
Speaker 1: haven't any world U. Each one of you your best
24:37
Speaker 1: sport growing up, Brian will start with you, the sack
24:40
Speaker 1: artist football. I was a This sounds like Al Bundy
24:46
Speaker 1: sitting on his couch, but I was a pretty decent
24:50
Speaker 1: three technique high school football player for a three time
24:54
Speaker 1: state champion in the Missouri class spot. So I rushed
24:58
Speaker 1: the pastor pretty well for a high school player, and
25:01
Speaker 1: had a sack in the state championship game. Forget okay,
25:05
Speaker 1: three two force fumbles and a fumble recovered. Yeah, never forget.
25:10
Speaker 1: How dare you just respect him? Jp? Sinquest? I was
25:15
Speaker 1: terrible at baseball. I could bunce, I was a catcher.
25:19
Speaker 1: I could throw pretty good until I hurt my shoulder
25:21
Speaker 1: and didn't realize it. But that was like two years
25:24
Speaker 1: I was young. I was pretty good at basketball. Um
25:27
Speaker 1: you know. That was after baseball. It was like eleven, twelve, thirteen.
25:30
Speaker 1: I played basketball, but then at a certain point there
25:33
Speaker 1: I wasn't as athletic as everybody else. But before all that,
25:37
Speaker 1: I played soccer. But I couldn't run fast, so they
25:40
Speaker 1: put me in gold and we won the city championship
25:43
Speaker 1: as like seven year olds, and I allowed like three
25:46
Speaker 1: goals all season, So I'm a goalkeeper at soccer. It
25:49
Speaker 1: was probably my best ball. I like this, Sla. You
25:52
Speaker 1: were a softball girl, correct, I was, but I was not.
25:56
Speaker 1: That's good. I played thirteen years. I don't know why
25:58
Speaker 1: I played so long when I was that good. That
26:01
Speaker 1: was what you call a flapper, which is a switch
26:04
Speaker 1: hitter sidebotted, left handed, and you basically run up to
26:07
Speaker 1: the ball, mack it down on the ground, run a
26:09
Speaker 1: fast you can, and hope that does for a stay
26:11
Speaker 1: and drops the ball and normally want to make it
26:13
Speaker 1: their in time. I like to be honestly, I was
26:17
Speaker 1: a basketball player for people who didn't know, and I was.
26:20
Speaker 1: I was not very good, So my best sport was
26:23
Speaker 1: not a good sport. Uh. Most memorable interview, and it
26:27
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be the Jaguars, but very quickly most interviewed,
26:30
Speaker 1: most memory interviewed for you in your life bright Bobby
26:33
Speaker 1: Thompson shot her round the world. He lived in Pond
26:36
Speaker 1: of Adrian. He came out to do a Monday evening
26:39
Speaker 1: Jaguars Live show that I used to do with the
26:41
Speaker 1: River City Brewing Company and uh, I can hear Russ
26:44
Speaker 1: Hodges call it in my head right now. It's one
26:47
Speaker 1: of the great calls in the history of the game. JP,
26:49
Speaker 1: being the baseball aficionado, can attest to that. And to
26:53
Speaker 1: sit with Bobby Thompson, um a hero of legend, was well,
26:58
Speaker 1: it was a thrill. I can still remember. I've got
27:00
Speaker 1: a signed a business card from him and he passed
27:03
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago and I thought fondly of
27:05
Speaker 1: him that day, aside from interviewing me, JP, what's your
27:09
Speaker 1: this interview? Well, it's it's odd that Brian mentioned Bobby
27:13
Speaker 1: Thompson because I was the first and no offense to
27:16
Speaker 1: all the other interviewees I've had over the years, but
27:19
Speaker 1: Ernie Harwell, it was probably the one for me and
27:23
Speaker 1: he was the announcer on television that day and his
27:27
Speaker 1: broadcast nobody has a recording of. So you know, I
27:32
Speaker 1: think Red Barber called it for the Dodgers, Russ Hodges
27:35
Speaker 1: for the Giants, and Ernie Harwell's on network television, but
27:38
Speaker 1: the only tape that exists is somebody rolling on the
27:41
Speaker 1: tape of Russ Hodges at their house and um. But anyway,
27:44
Speaker 1: but this is back and when I was doing Independent
27:47
Speaker 1: Ball and then early with the sons Um, I connected
27:50
Speaker 1: with him just a random email. I'm just looking for
27:53
Speaker 1: a guest to an interview, and he responded and was gracious.
27:57
Speaker 1: For like five straight years he did a linked the
28:00
Speaker 1: interview with me like the last four or five years
28:03
Speaker 1: of his life, and couldn't have been nicer. I don't
28:06
Speaker 1: know if anybody diced in the business, because I don't
28:08
Speaker 1: think he ever said no to anything like that, almost
28:12
Speaker 1: any request from any young broadcaster. And yeah, boys here
28:18
Speaker 1: he's a great gap u O. I would have to
28:22
Speaker 1: say it's a tie, but I'm going to go first
28:25
Speaker 1: with Calais Campbell doing the final video board interview with
28:28
Speaker 1: him last season against the Colt to me picked up
28:31
Speaker 1: the fumble for the touchdown, and and not being very
28:34
Speaker 1: up in the era of whether that would be most
28:36
Speaker 1: likely my last interview with him or not, and and
28:38
Speaker 1: doing it so with a big win in front of
28:40
Speaker 1: the home fans after a pretty difficult year was definitely
28:43
Speaker 1: something I'll always remembered because we all love that moment
28:46
Speaker 1: for him. Um. And secondly, I would have to stay
28:49
Speaker 1: going to New Orleans and doing an interview with Leonard
28:52
Speaker 1: for NET in the seventh board, seeing a totally different
28:55
Speaker 1: side of him, definitely had a much greater appreciation for
28:58
Speaker 1: how Leonard drew up after that. I would say at
29:00
Speaker 1: the Tide Final ozone five question favorite team growing up
29:07
Speaker 1: JP get the default for you, but we'll get to
29:10
Speaker 1: it later, Brian, your favorite team growing up Boston self
29:13
Speaker 1: of any sports the Boston Celtics. Um. We lived in
29:17
Speaker 1: Boston for a time back in the three Channel days.
29:21
Speaker 1: They were the team that was on the most with
29:24
Speaker 1: the Lakers and those great Celtic Laker Finals of the
29:28
Speaker 1: eighties where it seemed like they were playing in June
29:30
Speaker 1: against each other every year and Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. UM.
29:35
Speaker 1: I fell in love with the Celtics. At one point
29:37
Speaker 1: I was the only subscriber the Celtics Pride magazine in
29:40
Speaker 1: the state of Kansas, and they sent me a nice
29:43
Speaker 1: letter thanking me for following the Celtics from uPAR because Slynn,
29:47
Speaker 1: you can probably not appreciate this back then, Uh, to
29:50
Speaker 1: have fans spread out all over the country was we
29:54
Speaker 1: weren't connected. There was no internet at that point in time,
29:56
Speaker 1: so I only saw them when they were on network television. JP.
30:01
Speaker 1: Same question. I think everybody knows the answer. Yeah. I
30:03
Speaker 1: grew up born, raised an Alabama fan, went to the
30:08
Speaker 1: University of Alabama. UM, so from birth. Really, there's a shirt.
30:13
Speaker 1: There's a photo that my dad has, I think of
30:16
Speaker 1: me right after I was born, and it's it's me
30:20
Speaker 1: and one of those baby shirts. You know what babies
30:22
Speaker 1: were when they come in the hospital, right, they'll come.
30:25
Speaker 1: They don't come in it, but they put it on
30:26
Speaker 1: them after they're out anyway. So it was it said,
30:30
Speaker 1: hold on Bear, I'm coming with a picture of Bear
30:33
Speaker 1: Bryan because he was still alive at the time, right.
30:36
Speaker 1: So it really started there. And that's it Alabama football
30:40
Speaker 1: and their glory years, at least for in my generation.
30:43
Speaker 1: In the nineties with Geene Stallings, it didn't get better
30:45
Speaker 1: for that, Swann, Is it as simple as go gat
30:48
Speaker 1: same story as JP, but a better to go. I
30:54
Speaker 1: like that. I like the final shot, you know, and
30:59
Speaker 1: I will close with that. I think we should all
31:01
Speaker 1: go on talking forever and thank all of you all
31:04
Speaker 1: for doing this. At some point we might all see
31:07
Speaker 1: each other again. Until then, we'll see each other on Zoom.
31:11
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for doing this. It means a lot.
31:14
Speaker 1: Thank you John, you have a great future and hosting John.
31:17
Speaker 1: Thanks all right. I want to thank Ashland, JP and
31:22
Speaker 1: Brian for joining us for that. And it was interesting, Dave.
31:26
Speaker 1: We all get a chance to talk to each other
31:28
Speaker 1: on camera about the jaguars and maybe have to have
31:33
Speaker 1: a little bit of back and forth with each other. Um.
31:36
Speaker 1: I really didn't realize a couple of things I learned
31:38
Speaker 1: about Brian, JP and Ashland. I was wondering if you
31:41
Speaker 1: learned anything that's remotely interesting about three people that you're
31:45
Speaker 1: very lukewarm about personally. No, they're all great. No. The
31:50
Speaker 1: one thing I did learn wasn't about those three. I
31:52
Speaker 1: learned how far you've come, because when you first started
31:55
Speaker 1: doing this, you were just a writer who was all
31:58
Speaker 1: nervous and and awkward on on camera. Now look at you.
32:02
Speaker 1: You're a podcast host. You're telling telling the host to
32:05
Speaker 1: do right. Yeah, it's uh, it's really. I took this
32:09
Speaker 1: job in two thousand and eleven. As you know, you
32:11
Speaker 1: and I weren't working together. You were still at the
32:13
Speaker 1: TV station. So is Patrick Havanaugh, our our video producer,
32:19
Speaker 1: rising star within the organization guy um and through you guys, primarily,
32:27
Speaker 1: you really taught me a lot about being on the air,
32:30
Speaker 1: how to broadcast if you will, and just do experience.
32:34
Speaker 1: I feel like I can sort of stay out of
32:37
Speaker 1: my own way doing it. I certainly would still say
32:41
Speaker 1: that I feel far more comfortable with JP, Brian and
32:45
Speaker 1: Ashland running the interviews then with Johnny O running the interviews.
32:50
Speaker 1: But I appreciate the kind work. All right, Let's not
32:53
Speaker 1: equip being kind to each other. Let's uh, let's let's
32:56
Speaker 1: talk a little turkey well dirt about the broadcast team.
32:59
Speaker 1: So it's funny, it's just how how much we've grown
33:02
Speaker 1: and whatever. I guess since you've got high in I
33:05
Speaker 1: guess nine years. Since it was just you and then
33:07
Speaker 1: Patrick came in, and then JP, then me and the
33:11
Speaker 1: Brian and well and then Brian switched into the current
33:13
Speaker 1: role he's in. It's just funny how how we've grown
33:17
Speaker 1: exponentially over the last few years. And and sometimes I
33:21
Speaker 1: think about sometimes when we do stuff like this, about
33:24
Speaker 1: where we were and kind of the way we used
33:27
Speaker 1: to um where I remember watching you and back in
33:31
Speaker 1: the day of the broadcast department was basically an intern,
33:34
Speaker 1: a pr intern, and used to and John you still
33:37
Speaker 1: little reports from the UH from meat Wait Stadium in
33:41
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven which were always pretty funny to me. Yeah,
33:45
Speaker 1: the in two thousand eleven up until I think Patrick
33:49
Speaker 1: came on in two thousand and twelve, and my first fall,
33:55
Speaker 1: it was basically all writing on the website and when
33:59
Speaker 1: I could get the video intern or when he could
34:03
Speaker 1: get me to go out and do a stand up,
34:06
Speaker 1: which at the time was this pure writer just talking
34:10
Speaker 1: at the camera not knowing have any idea what I
34:12
Speaker 1: was doing. That was the extent of Jaguar's video unless
34:15
Speaker 1: the video guy went and got logiment on and he's
34:19
Speaker 1: doing the same thing, talking to the camera without any guidance.
34:22
Speaker 1: And as you said, we've since out. We now have basically,
34:25
Speaker 1: I guess four full time people who are on the
34:29
Speaker 1: air with another three, four or five people who worked
34:34
Speaker 1: inside the video department. So it is in nine years
34:38
Speaker 1: it has become you know, you're the TV background Dave,
34:42
Speaker 1: but it has become a fully functioning equivalent of a
34:50
Speaker 1: local television news department, and maybe even on a higher
34:55
Speaker 1: end than that because of some of the ship because
34:57
Speaker 1: some of the shows we do. I like that you're
34:59
Speaker 1: such a big start. You don't even know how many
35:01
Speaker 1: production people we have that big We got five five
35:07
Speaker 1: production people including including myself and Patrick and Max and
35:13
Speaker 1: Brent and Trent. They may come across social media every
35:18
Speaker 1: now and again, but you know, they do a great job.
35:20
Speaker 1: And everybody here really it's really been fun to kind
35:24
Speaker 1: of see this thing grow. So I was the second one,
35:27
Speaker 1: second production person after Patrick that kind of after the
35:30
Speaker 1: reincarnation of the broadcast department. Little background is so the
35:33
Speaker 1: Jaguars are actually one of the first teams in the
35:35
Speaker 1: NFL to have a broadcast department. And then when the
35:38
Speaker 1: economy downturned in in the early two thousands and the
35:43
Speaker 1: Weavers started getting ready to sell the team, they kind
35:47
Speaker 1: of let that broadcast department fade away and go away.
35:50
Speaker 1: And then after the cons bought it, um there was
35:53
Speaker 1: kind of resurgence of staffing and everything around the stadium,
35:57
Speaker 1: and that's one of the things they brought back was
35:58
Speaker 1: a broadcast department. And they've d have done it almost
36:01
Speaker 1: like one person at a time over that time, which
36:05
Speaker 1: which has been fun. It's cool to see how it's
36:08
Speaker 1: grown and and yeah, and you know, it's just I
36:12
Speaker 1: like to sometimes I'll get our website and this is
36:14
Speaker 1: how nerdy I am. I'll go back to like two
36:16
Speaker 1: thousand thirteen and fourteen and see what we were doing,
36:19
Speaker 1: see what we're doing now. And it's just cool for
36:21
Speaker 1: me if someone who was kind of part of the
36:23
Speaker 1: beginning of it to see where we've gotten to. Well,
36:28
Speaker 1: it's become a thing. I think where in the old
36:30
Speaker 1: days the broadcast department, you know, you wondered was there
36:37
Speaker 1: something for them to produce every day on a daily
36:40
Speaker 1: basis to went to the public. It was a different dynamic.
36:44
Speaker 1: And our growth since as they are is meaning our
36:50
Speaker 1: team that we have now has been more. It has
36:53
Speaker 1: felt very organic to me in the sense that in
36:56
Speaker 1: two thousand and eleven, two thousand and twenty, you've seen
36:59
Speaker 1: the growth of social media. You've seen every team now,
37:04
Speaker 1: every sports team puts out video every day, they have
37:07
Speaker 1: content online, they have shows that run on Twitter. So
37:12
Speaker 1: we have grown along with the demand for this, and
37:15
Speaker 1: I ain't safe to say over the next five ten
37:20
Speaker 1: years the growth we've seen now from eleven to two
37:25
Speaker 1: thousand twenty, my guesses will be dwarfed by the growth
37:29
Speaker 1: over the next ten years because it's going in that
37:32
Speaker 1: direction where fans expect to feel like they are there
37:36
Speaker 1: every day. They feel like they expect to feel like
37:40
Speaker 1: they're inside the building. Um, it's fine for me to
37:43
Speaker 1: write about it. It's but the days of just having
37:46
Speaker 1: a writer, you know, taking inside. Fans now want to
37:51
Speaker 1: see what they are being told about, and they expected
37:55
Speaker 1: in real time. So I expected to be much more
37:58
Speaker 1: like that. And at some unt you'll go on Twitter,
38:01
Speaker 1: Facebook and and feel like you're right there with the team,
38:04
Speaker 1: which we're getting closer and closer towards that. Now. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a really cool thing to be a part of two. Also,
38:10
Speaker 1: I want to kind of two. It's just it's just funny.
38:13
Speaker 1: Where So before I started working here, how they did
38:17
Speaker 1: some of the broadcast stuff was it was outsourced to
38:19
Speaker 1: their TV partners. So I worked at that TV partner.
38:22
Speaker 1: Patrick worked at that TV partner, and so it was
38:25
Speaker 1: a little more of a natural transition coming in here
38:27
Speaker 1: because we were already working with some of these you know,
38:31
Speaker 1: some of the Dan Edwards of the World's at the time,
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Speaker 1: Ron Robinson and side of the building when you came in, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and we were doing Coaches Show, so we were on
38:40
Speaker 1: the coach and all that kind of stuff. But so
38:42
Speaker 1: it was it was an easier transition, and so I
38:45
Speaker 1: think it was much more seamless going from nothing to
38:48
Speaker 1: having some because because the kind of the way it happened.
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Speaker 1: But you know, it's really cool to be a part
38:54
Speaker 1: of like and see the progression and see how we're
38:56
Speaker 1: doing more behind the scenes stuff and like you said, right,
38:58
Speaker 1: fans expect that and basically and every NFL team now
39:02
Speaker 1: has it, and I think it's a really cool thing
39:06
Speaker 1: for for fans to be I feel like they're more
39:09
Speaker 1: part of the team. The other thing I want to
39:10
Speaker 1: kind of mention is one more production person. Joe Fortunado,
39:13
Speaker 1: who's our manager of radio and also our podcast editor guru,
39:18
Speaker 1: who does a bang up job with this is also
39:20
Speaker 1: part of our team. So it's a really good, kind
39:23
Speaker 1: of close knit team. And I think the argument, Dave
39:25
Speaker 1: sort of close this podcast. We do a lot at
39:30
Speaker 1: as a team on the franchise, and probably even the
39:36
Speaker 1: most hardcore fan has to work to consume everything on
39:42
Speaker 1: a given week. But if you are a fan who
39:44
Speaker 1: consumes all the content on a given week, I make
39:47
Speaker 1: the argument that you that you know this team week
39:49
Speaker 1: to week pretty well. I mean there's a lot of content,
39:53
Speaker 1: and if you take all the angles that we cover,
39:56
Speaker 1: from drive times to coaches shows, to my writing to
40:00
Speaker 1: Inside a Minute to Ashland's uh Instagram work, if you
40:07
Speaker 1: get time to consume at all, you're gonna know what's
40:09
Speaker 1: going on with this franchise. So I would, uh, you know,
40:13
Speaker 1: I'm not really one to praise others. I'm much more
40:17
Speaker 1: about praising Johnny Up, but I would make the argument
40:20
Speaker 1: that this team, for the scope that we do, um,
40:28
Speaker 1: if you're watching Jaguars Media on a daily basis and
40:31
Speaker 1: consuming at all, this team brings you the story. And I'm,
40:35
Speaker 1: you know, on a on a serious note, proud to
40:39
Speaker 1: be a part of it and very happy that JP
40:42
Speaker 1: Ashlyn Bryan were able to join us today. With that,
40:45
Speaker 1: I'll thank Day and we'll mention Joe Fortunito again because
40:48
Speaker 1: you gotta mention Joe for making this thing sound good.
40:51
Speaker 1: I don't think this one sucks, and I look forward
40:54
Speaker 1: to the rest of the Ozone podcast during training. Camp
40:56
Speaker 1: is starting to rev up and this is getting good.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, stop b