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Speaker 1: I saw the report last week about how the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: aren't getting a lot of calls right now for the
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Speaker 1: number one overall pick. I'm not sure why that's news breaking.
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Speaker 1: We still have two weeks ago. I wouldn't imagine you're
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Speaker 1: getting called at this moment. Welcome to Jaguars Reporters presented
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Speaker 1: by t I a A Bank with Brian Sexton, John Osher,
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Speaker 1: Ashlyn Sullivan, and J P. Shag. Jaguars Reporters presented by
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Speaker 1: t I a A Bank starts right now. Welcome into
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars Reporters podcast on Monday, April eleven, JP Shadrick,
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Speaker 1: Ashland Sullivan, Brian Sexton, John Osier, and thanks for listening
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Speaker 1: off season program is upon US players arrived today for
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Speaker 1: Phase one weightlifting and meetings. Brian, I think we should
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Speaker 1: should highlight the fact that it's a voluntary workout, very
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Speaker 1: much so, right um, And it would be interesting to
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Speaker 1: see how many people volunteer to come work out. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, last year there was everyone was here as
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Speaker 1: quite the headline U and everyone was, you know, on
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Speaker 1: the football side of the former staff, we're beating their
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Speaker 1: chest about it. Um. I get the sense that you're
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Speaker 1: going to have a good turnout because people are gonna
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Speaker 1: like to work for Doug, But I don't know that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and you would think they want to come in and
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Speaker 1: end me and be here for the first team meeting.
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Speaker 1: I saw Josh Allen was walking in traps E T
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Speaker 1: and you know, the guys you would expect to be here.
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Speaker 1: But it's something we talked about every single year, and
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Speaker 1: that was a huge headline last year that everyone was
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Speaker 1: here and look how it turned out. So I think
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Speaker 1: it's a little bit overplayed the attendance in this time
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Speaker 1: of year. I always go back to my favorite Edgrein
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Speaker 1: James quote. He said, I didn't graduate from Miami, that
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Speaker 1: was there long enough to know volunteering and h I
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Speaker 1: think in the spirit of that, my impression, my understanding
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Speaker 1: is that Doug Peterson very much understands that and that
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Speaker 1: is another sign of a couple of things that he played.
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Speaker 1: And usually ex coaches who have played typically view the
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Speaker 1: off season very uh maturely, if you will, and they
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Speaker 1: don't put quite as much emphasize on it. They know
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Speaker 1: what it is and isn't. Uh. My impression strongly is
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Speaker 1: that Doug Peterson really considers this voluntary. If you're here, fine,
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Speaker 1: If you're not here, no pressure. You gotta be ready
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Speaker 1: for training camp when it comes around. But I think
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Speaker 1: he knows most players are gonna be here. These are
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Speaker 1: grown men, and they're gonna be here as much as
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Speaker 1: they need to be here to prepare or they won't
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Speaker 1: be here. And I think you're always going to see
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Speaker 1: the Draguars numbers be higher than maybe the league average
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Speaker 1: because guys live here, right. I mean, it's not like
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Speaker 1: you're in Green Bay or Minneapolis where you're leaving in
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Speaker 1: the off season and want to work out at home
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Speaker 1: in Texas. When you live in North Florida, it's just
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Speaker 1: as easy to come work here with these coaches and
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Speaker 1: get the added benefit if there is an of being
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Speaker 1: around the building and around your teammates. Um, so you're
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Speaker 1: always going to see the Jaguars numbers be good. I'm
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Speaker 1: with John. I mean, I can barely remember last offseason.
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Speaker 1: You know profile what you saw on the field and
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Speaker 1: where you know where the storylines were. It just doesn't
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Speaker 1: matter at this time of the year. What matters is
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Speaker 1: if the veterans understand what it takes to be ready
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Speaker 1: to play and show up ready to play. They got
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Speaker 1: from A to B, which was big so that sometimes
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Speaker 1: they did get I don't think it's insignificant either, And
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Speaker 1: I don't know. As we talked to players, I think
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Speaker 1: we'll get this vibe um of the professionalism and the
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Speaker 1: calmness of Doug Peterson and the the overall sense. And
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Speaker 1: I'm don't told. I don't try to putting it into words.
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Speaker 1: I've been there, I know what I'm doing. Utability, the
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Speaker 1: fact that it's starting today and not last Monday. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if he was trying to send a message
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Speaker 1: with that, but I think it's very symbolic of I
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Speaker 1: know how long we need to prepare to get ready,
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Speaker 1: how long we're allowed to get ready, and maximizing every
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Speaker 1: minute is not really his thing. It's this is how
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Speaker 1: long we need, this is what we need to get done.
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Speaker 1: And I do think if players don't sense it already,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna sense that very quickly. Quick story. Last night,
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Speaker 1: I was at a speaking engagement and a guy who
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Speaker 1: is around this franchise on the Periphery came out to
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Speaker 1: me to tell me that he had been at a
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Speaker 1: golf club where Doug was was a guest for lunch
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Speaker 1: and how many people walked away. I mean, there's people
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Speaker 1: who are around this franchise. This is not foreign to them. Said,
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Speaker 1: I've never been around a football coach who was so relaxed,
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Speaker 1: who was so down to earth, who was so normal. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And that's the that's that's the vibe he gives off
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Speaker 1: to everyone he goes. And I can't stress enough. These
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Speaker 1: are people who have been around here, they understand it,
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Speaker 1: and for them to say it stuck out to me. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I was talking to someone in the break room just now.
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Speaker 1: I was getting my coffee on this audio only podcast
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Speaker 1: where you can't see my coffee. Yes, And they were saying, okay, well,
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Speaker 1: how was the first team meeting? It was, well, it
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Speaker 1: was about twenty minutes and it was pretty sure. And
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Speaker 1: he said, yeah, let's get to work. I got it.
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Speaker 1: No hooplah, no hurrah, just yep, you're here, thanks for
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Speaker 1: being here, let's go. He's a professional football coach. And
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Speaker 1: that was my big takeaway JP from the from the
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Speaker 1: podcast that I did with Dan Pompey who wrote his book. UM,
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Speaker 1: I can't tell you how I'm glad I was to
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Speaker 1: hear this quote from Dan POMPEII, and it was basically
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Speaker 1: that he thought Doug was high, high and e Q.
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Speaker 1: And I'm sure Brian knows what e Q is that
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Speaker 1: I know it's it's extra quotient. It's not that, but um,
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Speaker 1: it's emotional quot and it's about can you please explain
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Speaker 1: what that means? The way Dan explained it, who wrote
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Speaker 1: the book was it's very much about how you deal
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Speaker 1: with people, how you handle people, and how you bring
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Speaker 1: along a group, and how you lead. And I think
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Speaker 1: I've gone on and on for five or six years
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Speaker 1: now about how I think that's the most important thing
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Speaker 1: about NFL coaching. If players look at the front of
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Speaker 1: the room and believe in this guy, no matter what
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Speaker 1: he's saying. Technically, if they believe in the head coach
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Speaker 1: and the leader and they trust this guy and he
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Speaker 1: can create an environment to succeed, then you're in good shape.
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Speaker 1: And I just can't believe that. It appears to me
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Speaker 1: like Doug Peterson is gonna be the best we've had
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Speaker 1: around here a long time at that they're getting good
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Speaker 1: Friday off this Friday Friday. Imagine that. So this is Friday, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: no doubt. This is the Jaguar's Reporters podcast. Now, of course,
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Speaker 1: the meeting portion of this phase one is vital because
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Speaker 1: you're it's the first time you're being able to talk
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Speaker 1: football with the players and install a new offense and
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Speaker 1: a new look defense. Now, there'll be some changes once
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Speaker 1: they actually get on the field and see what guys
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Speaker 1: can do. Mike Colbo was in with us on Thursday
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Speaker 1: on Happy Hour, the defensive coordinator, and he basically said that,
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Speaker 1: you know, well, we'll see what they can and can't do,
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Speaker 1: and then we'll adjust the scheme around that once we
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Speaker 1: get on the field. But these two weeks ahead, Ashton
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Speaker 1: are big to at least get something on the screen
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Speaker 1: in front of these guys. Yeah, and I think we
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Speaker 1: we overplay at times. You know, we'll see on Twitter
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Speaker 1: the weightlifting and all of them together and that makes
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Speaker 1: you excited. But we've said it before. I mean, what's
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Speaker 1: crucial right now is them being together in a film. Well,
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Speaker 1: and I'd be surprised if you didn't see a hundred
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Speaker 1: percent of the guys come through here at least once
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Speaker 1: in the next two weeks. Right, It might not all
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Speaker 1: be a hundred percent Monday through Thursday, but over the
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Speaker 1: course the next couple of weeks, you will see everybody
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Speaker 1: work their way through here because JP, as you mentioned,
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Speaker 1: you can interact with the coaches, and they're all going
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Speaker 1: to want the advantage of having face time with whoever
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Speaker 1: their position coaching coordinator is. Quarterback, I would not be
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Speaker 1: against at some point. Most quarterbacks do it anyway, quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: it being mandatory in the off season, like most of
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Speaker 1: the great ones do it anyway, and until you get
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Speaker 1: it beyond that, voluntary, very much voluntary as long as
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Speaker 1: you as long as you know it, as long as
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Speaker 1: you get it, that's fine. When you're eating up ten
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Speaker 1: percent of the salary cap, that doesn't seem unreasonable. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I wonder like someone like a Shack Griffin, you
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Speaker 1: know you qush okay, I know he lives in Miami.
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Speaker 1: Is he gonna come up here every single day? He's
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Speaker 1: gonna stay here for two weeks? I get, you know,
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Speaker 1: the voluntariness of it. Come for a couple of days,
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Speaker 1: go back type of deal. It's voluntary. You know. I
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Speaker 1: went four years to Alabama, and I know the voluntary
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Speaker 1: as well. Right, we all understand anything at Alabama volunteer,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. The Jaguars are future focused and ready
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Speaker 1: for a new look in two joined us to the
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Speaker 1: bank this season as head coach Doug Peterson quarterback Trevor
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Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back to Jaguar's reporters. The Dailies Place
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Speaker 1: Did not? Brian? We're over four in fact on this desk,
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Speaker 1: But I heard it was fantastic. I heard it was
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Speaker 1: I liked the reality series back in the nineties. Osborne.
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Speaker 1: we're just over two weeks until the NFL Draft, That's right,
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Speaker 1: around the corner as well. So the question today, how
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Speaker 1: are he's feeling at number one overall? If you're picking today,
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Speaker 1: Ashland will start with you, who are you picking at
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Speaker 1: number one? I'm staying with Hutchinson. I'm molding. I'm not
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Speaker 1: changing at all these past two weeks, two weeks going forward.
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna stay with it. I think it's the
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Speaker 1: obvious choice. And I saw the report last week about
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Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport saying how the Jaguars aren't getting a lot
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Speaker 1: of calls right now for the number one overall pick.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure why that's newsbreaking when we still have
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Speaker 1: two weeks ago. I wouldn't imagine you're getting calls at
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Speaker 1: this moment. Maybe draft night, But that was a big
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Speaker 1: headline that the Jaguars are. Most people don't follow it
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Speaker 1: as closely as we do, obviously, and they don't realize
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Speaker 1: that you can't just trade out of number one because
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Speaker 1: you want a bevy of pigs. They don't. They don't,
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Speaker 1: they don't follow the circumstances. But this was clear from
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Speaker 1: the very beginning that this would not be a position
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Speaker 1: based on the players available at the top, where the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars would be able to move. Yeah, I'm gonna stick
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Speaker 1: with Hutchinson. Um, although I I feel like I'm sticking
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Speaker 1: with Hutchinson out of a familiarity, and I really don't
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Speaker 1: believe that they are absolutely locked in on him yet
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Speaker 1: UM reports are and senses they're doing their due due diligence.
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Speaker 1: Trayvon Walker would not surprise me at this point. Anything
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Speaker 1: outside defensive front would surprise me at this point. But
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Speaker 1: that said, in the mock drafts that I always put
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Speaker 1: together every Monday, there is more legitimate, what I would
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Speaker 1: call really respected analysts who still think Evan Neils in play. Um.
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Speaker 1: I still think offensive line and is in play because
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Speaker 1: there are people who think he's really, really really good.
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Speaker 1: So um, and you can play multiple positions. Going to
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Speaker 1: be careful and analyzing this of getting too caught up
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Speaker 1: in sort of the wave everybody's saying Aidan Hutchinson. Well,
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Speaker 1: what happens a lot of times is I say and Hutchinson,
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Speaker 1: or actually what happens is Ashton says Aidan Hutchinson. That
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Speaker 1: sounds good, and then all of a sudden, for three
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Speaker 1: weeks people don't know that much about it, are sort
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Speaker 1: of piggybacking off that and then it becomes well the
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Speaker 1: buzz is, well, I'm not the buzz. So the only
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Speaker 1: buzz that matters is that Trent Balky and not Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson on this. And you know, my impression is that
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Speaker 1: I have heard nothing from them to make me think
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Speaker 1: they're locked in on anybody, So we don't know. I
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Speaker 1: am not going with Hutchinson. Um. I am a best
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Speaker 1: player available guy, and the best available player in this
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Speaker 1: draft is your boy, Ikey Aquanu. Um. I've spent a
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Speaker 1: lot of time watching and reading about this kid. You
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Speaker 1: realize not only was he a great football player, but
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Speaker 1: he was a state champion wrestler. He ran the fourth
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Speaker 1: leg of the four by one meter relay as a
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Speaker 1: two five pounder on a state qualifying team. Um is
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Speaker 1: as well rounded a person as he is a player.
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Speaker 1: And I read this in Dane Bruegler's analysis of him,
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Speaker 1: which forced me to dive in. He says, when he
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Speaker 1: blocks you, he doesn't just want to move you. He
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Speaker 1: wants to take your soul. Right. That's the way he plays.
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Speaker 1: Give me him. That's what I want at number one.
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Speaker 1: Whether it's a defensive end who destroys the end, or
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Speaker 1: whether it's the offensive tackle who is so nasty you
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Speaker 1: worry about penalties because he's going to finish every play.
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Speaker 1: I love watching Quentin Nelson when the Colts offensive line.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna tell me there's a left tackle I can
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Speaker 1: have there, or I can get a really good pass
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Speaker 1: rusher who may physically be as good as he's ever
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Speaker 1: going to be the day he walks in, but will
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Speaker 1: always work hard. No, give me the guy with more upside,
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Speaker 1: and I don't care whether it's offensive or defensive line.
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Speaker 1: I don't care whether they're keeping Came or not. By
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Speaker 1: the way, he hasn't signed the tender as of this recording.
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Speaker 1: Give me a quantu as the guy at the top
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Speaker 1: of the draft JP. That's how you do radio, right, people,
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Speaker 1: So every every podcast A yeah, I'm going to say
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Speaker 1: who's on the list, but hey, by the end, one
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Speaker 1: of us in trouble. Football is not a game for
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Speaker 1: well adjusted men, right. This kid had offers from Harvard,
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Speaker 1: a m i t. Academic, so he appears to be
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Speaker 1: that perfect blend of maladjusted football player and really well
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Speaker 1: adjusted human being. If that's the case, and he's a
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Speaker 1: great player, man, I'm not taking a second tier player
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Speaker 1: because it's a Neat, I'm taking the number one guy.
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of leaning towards Traybon Walker the more I
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Speaker 1: hear and see him about him, you know, as a
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Speaker 1: starter all last year, but flashed a lot earlier in
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Speaker 1: his career and you know, stood out on a really
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Speaker 1: good Georgia defensive lot. Of course, we're two and a
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Speaker 1: half weeks away. That could change three times, but it's
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Speaker 1: a fact. But that name has popped up more and
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Speaker 1: more and more over the last month and a half,
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Speaker 1: and there's reason behind it. The guy can play fascinating
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Speaker 1: draft and I think we started started feeling at the
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Speaker 1: Senior Bowl and really felt that at the Combine that
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Speaker 1: this was his conversation was going to keep taking place
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Speaker 1: and it was going to be real until until draft week.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that we're going to see reports the
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Speaker 1: Friday before the draft. Hey, Jaguars are locked in on X.
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Speaker 1: I think the conversation and there are legitimate, the reason's
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Speaker 1: legitimate arguments for each guy, and it's close enough at
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Speaker 1: the top with the team there needing. You know, I
15:21
Speaker 1: know we hate that word, but it's not unreasonable to
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Speaker 1: draft a left tackle. Still, it's not unreasonable to draft
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Speaker 1: and Edgdresher here. Um, if there was a you know,
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Speaker 1: a quarterback in the conversation, well you would know that
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Speaker 1: Jaggars weren't taking that point. So it is as wide
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Speaker 1: open at the top of the draft as I can remember.
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Speaker 1: Details about the Jaguars first round Draft party should be
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Speaker 1: coming this week as well. I think a little later
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Speaker 1: in the week. The announcement will come. No matter what.
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Speaker 1: The announcements will have coverage on Jaguars dot Com of
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Speaker 1: course from the event, and on our Jaguars social channels
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Speaker 1: as well, Twitter and Facebook and YouTube. And you'll be
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Speaker 1: in Las Vegas headed that way two weeks from tomorrow. Um.
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Speaker 1: Now that is a place, Brian, you can lose your soul. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not. I'm not worried about not bring
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Speaker 1: it back. I'm not. I'm not a big Vegas guy.
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Speaker 1: I've been to be honest with you, I hope that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Nashville did the best job. I thought Nashville
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Speaker 1: was amazing. Uh, Vegas is just going to turn the
16:22
Speaker 1: lights and you know they will do something that will
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Speaker 1: blow your eyes out. I guess they're doing something in
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Speaker 1: the fountain at Bilancio. Um okay um to me, they've
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Speaker 1: got to they got to really do something special to
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Speaker 1: equal what Nashville did. I thought it was the best
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Speaker 1: site I've been to. I've never been a vase. Really.
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Speaker 1: I assume at some point that Jaguars will play and
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Speaker 1: they'll make me here of the game. So it is
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Speaker 1: a stunning city. It's been about ten years for me
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Speaker 1: were it was. It was in the Pacific Coast League. Okay,
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Speaker 1: they were in the league, but that's a long time ago.
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Speaker 1: It's just so it really doesn't affect me. It just
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Speaker 1: it just never stops that. That thing is They're just
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Speaker 1: constant visual stimulation, you know, the just lights and people
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Speaker 1: and it's it's not just ye just at some point
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Speaker 1: it becomes overpower, which is why I suppose most people
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Speaker 1: just going for the weekend. Yes, my mother always says
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Speaker 1: only two days there, that's her rule. It's amazing. The
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Speaker 1: flight into Vegas. Everybody's excited, Oh yeah, Vegas. Like the
17:23
Speaker 1: flight leaving Las Vegas is the most depressing flight you'll
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Speaker 1: ever fly on. It is defeated the absolutely So coming
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Speaker 1: up this week drive time on Tuesday, Slim what you
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Speaker 1: got for us? We are going to have a player
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Speaker 1: guests coming and tell us all about Doug Peterson's first
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Speaker 1: team meeting. Yeah, so we're gonna hear all about that.
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Speaker 1: Players back in the building, so hopefully getting more player
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Speaker 1: appearances now that guys are back here, not vacationing and such.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, we're getting going here, looking forward to that. Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: we'll have Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks podcast as well
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Speaker 1: on the Official Jaguars Podcast Network Thursday and Happy Hour
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Speaker 1: we're out the offensive coordinated Press Taylor. Last week it
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Speaker 1: was Mike Caldwell, but Press schedule to join us this week.
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Speaker 1: Um zone, who you got this week? Uh, focusing on
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Speaker 1: the draft, hoping you get Mike McCoy at some point.
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Speaker 1: Videos on podcast, but focusing on the draft primarily in
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Speaker 1: in the written on topic will be uh, starting in
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Speaker 1: with Bucky Brooks breaking down the draft forth on Jaguars
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