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Jags Broadcast Week in Review: May 14 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend Review podcast presented by
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Speaker 1: t I. A. A. Bank, J P. Shadrick With you
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Speaker 1: and today is Friday, May fourteen. We have the best
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Speaker 1: of the week from Jaguars Broadcasting, including a Rookie Mini
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Speaker 1: Camp preview, yes, Tim Tebow talk, plus Bucky Brooks provides
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Speaker 1: a Scouts perspective of Rookie Minicamp Weekend. Remember to subscribe
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Speaker 1: comment and a five star rating. Let's start off this
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Speaker 1: week with quarterback Trevor Lawrence. He sat down with Ashlan
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Speaker 1: Sullivan right after the selection at number one overall and
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Speaker 1: reflected on finally being picked and joining the Jaguars. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean honest, I never really had that specific dream
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Speaker 1: of being number one pick. And I was a little kid,
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Speaker 1: like all I want to do is play college football
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Speaker 1: and be a quarterback, Like that was That's what I
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Speaker 1: wanted to do. And I guess leading up to this point,
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Speaker 1: like that's become more and more real and I've kind
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Speaker 1: of been like trying to get ready for it. Um
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Speaker 1: and then after last night, just making an official UM
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Speaker 1: super special. You can't spend out all the people that
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Speaker 1: have helped groom me and shaved me into who I
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Speaker 1: am and been a part of my journey. I think
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Speaker 1: that was the coolest part is seeing them get to
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Speaker 1: be a part of it, and um, everyone to be
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Speaker 1: a part of it. So it was cool. We joked,
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Speaker 1: this was the worst cupt secret in football this offseason
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Speaker 1: is that you were going to be the number one
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Speaker 1: overall pick. We are so thankful that we don't have
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Speaker 1: to say if the Jaguars draft to the Lawrence because
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Speaker 1: here you are. But when that phone rang and you
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Speaker 1: had a good idea, was it still the coolest moment ever?
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Speaker 1: For sure. It doesn't take anything away from it. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: that's kind of what people have been saying. But for me,
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Speaker 1: I never want to put the car before the horse,
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Speaker 1: so I just always wanted to just be ready for anything.
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Speaker 1: So to get that call and talk to Coach Meyer
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Speaker 1: and Mr Colin and Mr Balking and all of them
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Speaker 1: was just great, super surreal. Like you said, thinking about
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Speaker 1: it for a long time, and it was special. It
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Speaker 1: didn't anything away from The full interview with Trevor Lawrence
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Speaker 1: available on the team website Jaguars dot Com. Lawrence and
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Speaker 1: the rest of the rookies will be on the practice
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Speaker 1: field this weekend for Rookie Minicamp. Lawrence will work out
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Speaker 1: in a limited capacity is he's still rehabbing after surgery
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Speaker 1: to his non throwing shoulder earlier this offseason. On Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Happy Hour Radio Thursday night, Jeff Logman and I discussed
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Speaker 1: who else we're excited to see this weekend beyond Trevor Lawrence,
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Speaker 1: because everybody's interested just to see him in the red
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Speaker 1: number sixteen jersey and then maybe throw the ball around
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Speaker 1: a little bit. What do you want to see out
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Speaker 1: of this weekend? Well, I mean that mean, that's the
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Speaker 1: beyond Trevor Lawrence, JP. I mean, I it's hard to
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Speaker 1: get beyond it when that's that's like the single soul
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Speaker 1: purpose of wanting to watch a mini camp. I mean,
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Speaker 1: because in reality, what am I gonna? I mean, First
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Speaker 1: of all, I want to see Travis uh et N
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Speaker 1: catch the football. Okay, I want to see how he
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Speaker 1: looks physically in person. I know he's a he's a
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Speaker 1: physical back. He's got great speed. I want to see
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Speaker 1: the speed. I mean, I want to see the size
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Speaker 1: of Campbell. You know, he's got the measurables and everything,
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Speaker 1: but I want to I want to see him, you know,
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Speaker 1: with my own eyes, to see the side. I can't
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Speaker 1: wait to see the size of Walker a little bit. Right,
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Speaker 1: How big is he really? Because when you when you
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Speaker 1: watch the film on him, and literally I watched his
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Speaker 1: entire twenty nineteen season yesterday. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: he is, he reminds me of And people don't get crazy, okay,
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Speaker 1: and don't start tweeting all this craziness out because I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna make the statement. Can't wait to hear it, and
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Speaker 1: I want to. Then I won't say it. Do you
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Speaker 1: want to record this? He reminds me. He reminds me
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Speaker 1: of some past great tackles that played in the National
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Speaker 1: Football League, not because of how great he is, but
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Speaker 1: just because some of the great tackles in the league
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Speaker 1: have had a natural size to him and they didn't
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Speaker 1: act like they were pumped up. We used that term before. Okay,
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Speaker 1: would you like to name some of those to really
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Speaker 1: get the Twitter machine? I probably shouldn't and I won't.
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Speaker 1: But he's a big man. He's a naturally big man
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Speaker 1: that moves very well. And when I say he moves
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Speaker 1: very well, you don't think he's a big man when
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Speaker 1: you watch him move, and what's pretty crazy. And JP,
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Speaker 1: I want you to watch for this and for for
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Speaker 1: Jaguar fans that when they finally get the opportunity to
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Speaker 1: watch Walker little, when you see him get in his stance,
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Speaker 1: watch sometimes how he maneuvers in his stance. He will
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Speaker 1: squat down and he's a his measurables pulled him up. Okay,
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Speaker 1: a six seven pound guy that can literally bend his
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Speaker 1: knees and squat down to where his his butt is
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Speaker 1: sitting on his his heels and he's just moving around.
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Speaker 1: He's got great flexibility, he's got great rain of motion
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Speaker 1: in all of his body parts to where you can
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Speaker 1: see that he has an athletic ben to him. And
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Speaker 1: this is a big man six seven five And when
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Speaker 1: you watch the film on him, he is effortless. His
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Speaker 1: feet are always measured. He never has to duck. You know,
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Speaker 1: we've talked about that before. Some tackles when they duck
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Speaker 1: and they lean. He doesn't do that. He doesn't need to.
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Speaker 1: He's a big man, he's athletic. He changes directions very smoothly.
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Speaker 1: I just hope the knee is is healed and that
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Speaker 1: he will be good to go, which at this point
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Speaker 1: there should be no problems with the knee beings that
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Speaker 1: it occurred in the first game of the twenty nineteen season,
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Speaker 1: there should be no issues with that great hands active
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Speaker 1: does a very good job with punching, and then he
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Speaker 1: also does a very good job to where he can
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Speaker 1: lock down on a guy and have strong hands and
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Speaker 1: hold him. But he also does a good job of
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Speaker 1: where he's punching and keeping space and knocking guys off balance.
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Speaker 1: He's a guy that I really want to just watch
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Speaker 1: the athleticism and his movement skills. Jaguars Happy Hour airs
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Speaker 1: Thursday at four o'clock on Tintin x L, a M
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Speaker 1: radio in Jacksonville and the teams social media channels. Another
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Speaker 1: name dominating the headlines this week, Tim Tebow. There were
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Speaker 1: reports earlier this week that a deal could be coming soon.
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Speaker 1: Ashlan Sullivan, Brian Sexton, and John Ozier discussed Tuesday morning
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Speaker 1: on Jack's Drive Time. Brian, there is apparently some news
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Speaker 1: in the air for us to talk about this morning. Well,
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Speaker 1: we've all heard the whispers, and the whispers grew to
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Speaker 1: a loud conversations, and then yesterday the word from Peter
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Speaker 1: King and Ian Rappaport was that Tim Tebow's signing was
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Speaker 1: imminent um And I can't tell you. You know, he's
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Speaker 1: thirty two, thirty three years old, and that has dimmed
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Speaker 1: nothing in his public persona. Here in Jacksonville, there are
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Speaker 1: so many people who are excited about the prospect of
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Speaker 1: what someone in his EARTI plerties, who hasn't played in
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Speaker 1: eight or nine years and is changing positions, is capable of. Uh.
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Speaker 1: There is no doubt he is the golden child, the
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Speaker 1: favorite son of Jacksonville, and there is a great deal
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Speaker 1: of enthusiasm about it. And I have to tell you, John,
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Speaker 1: if they didn't have Trevor Lawrence, I'd be like, WHOA,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing? But because Trevor Lawrence is on
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Speaker 1: this roster and the established quarterback, I'm okay with it.
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Speaker 1: Let's see what happens. I think there's a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a division. I do think there are certainly people
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Speaker 1: out there, like you're talking about Brian, who are really enthusiastic.
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Speaker 1: I've gotten a lot the other way. As well as
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Speaker 1: can be expected. Tim Tebow is about its polarizing a
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Speaker 1: football figure as you can possibly imagine. But I'm with you,
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Speaker 1: you know all of that. I think we get lost
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Speaker 1: in the minutia of this when the Tim Tebow thing
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Speaker 1: around here first, I mean, I can't even say when
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Speaker 1: it first started. When it first started with the Jaguars,
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Speaker 1: which was in two thousand and twelve, and it was
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Speaker 1: thought of bringing him in maybe as a quarter uh.
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Speaker 1: I didn't love that if you had asked me and
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Speaker 1: my pro con tibo at that point I was in
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Speaker 1: the con camp. But now he's being brought in as
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Speaker 1: a tight end. If it works, fine, If it doesn't work,
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Speaker 1: that's fine. I think the people who are really up
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Speaker 1: in arms, and as I came in this morning, Shelenn,
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Speaker 1: there were some you know, pitchforks at the gate, so
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Speaker 1: I avoided those because I'm agile. But I think the
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Speaker 1: people who were that upset about it, I think are
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Speaker 1: upset because of the polarizing aspect. To me, this is
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Speaker 1: sort of a no harm, no foul. If it works, great,
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Speaker 1: If it doesn't, shake his hand and say thank you
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Speaker 1: very much. Jack's Drivetime airs Tuesdays at ten o'clock on
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Speaker 1: Network draft analysts and host of the Move the Sticks podcast,
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Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah, who provided his thoughts to the pics of
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Speaker 1: Travis E. T N, Tyson, Campbell, Walker Little, and Andre Cisco. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and just being able to get some chunks right. It's
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Speaker 1: so hard to play station to station football, for lack
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Speaker 1: of a better term, you know, trying to bunt guys over. Now,
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Speaker 1: you've gotta be able to hit some home runs, hit
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Speaker 1: the ball out of the park um and have some
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Speaker 1: short drives. And I think E. T n gives you
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Speaker 1: that ability not only running the ball, but actually catch
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Speaker 1: the ball, and not just out of the back field,
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Speaker 1: but being able to use him in the slot and
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Speaker 1: do some of jet sweep stuff and different things that
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Speaker 1: you mentioned. Uh, you know Percy Harvin that that type
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Speaker 1: of a role, you can craft a role for him
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Speaker 1: in that way allows you to be creative. Um and again,
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Speaker 1: to me, it just comes back to they realized they've
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Speaker 1: got to have more explosives. They gotta have chunk of plays.
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Speaker 1: You're just not gonna be able to grind people out
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. It's too hard. Daniel has been a
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Speaker 1: full reboot on the defensive side of the football here
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Speaker 1: in this offseason. They started in free agency up front
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Speaker 1: on the defensive line. They did a lot of work
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Speaker 1: on the interior there. They've added some pieces on the
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Speaker 1: back end and free agency and they continue to add
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Speaker 1: pieces in the draft and Tyson Campbell. It feels like
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Speaker 1: you have to really have three starting caliber corners in
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Speaker 1: the league these days. So Tyson Campbell can jump right
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Speaker 1: in there and be one of those. Yeah, you might
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Speaker 1: even say more, right, might even say four. It was
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Speaker 1: always our joke in the draft from the defensive port
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Speaker 1: and if you had two good corners, he needed three.
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Speaker 1: If you had four, he needed five. You know, it's
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Speaker 1: on and on, like they've never had enough. Uh So, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the way the games played right now, you definitely got
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Speaker 1: to have at least three. And now when you look
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Speaker 1: at Tyson Campbell, everything is there, I mean the size,
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Speaker 1: the fluidity, the explosiveness, everything except just consistently finding and
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Speaker 1: playing the football. And there's a debate. You know, some
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Speaker 1: people believe that that that's hard to teach. You either
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Speaker 1: kind of have that innate ability or you don't, and
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Speaker 1: other people feel like you can get better, and mentioned
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Speaker 1: guys like Marlon Humphrey who had a similar issue coming
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Speaker 1: out of Alabama and has really grown to be one
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Speaker 1: of the best corners in the NFL. So it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be a good it's a good project there for that
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Speaker 1: for that defensive backfield coaching group, because man, all the
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Speaker 1: town is there. Um, you just gotta, you know, fix
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Speaker 1: that one little area of his game. If you do,
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Speaker 1: you ended up having an All Pro Daniel. Let's go
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Speaker 1: to the next couple of picks here and guys that
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Speaker 1: have been away from the game for different reasons the
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Speaker 1: last couple of years. Walker Little hasn't played football by
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Speaker 1: opening day. It will be darn your two full calendar
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Speaker 1: years before since he's taken a snappy hat the injury
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Speaker 1: nineteen of course, opted out last year the tackle lot
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Speaker 1: of Stanford and Andre Cisco had a knee injury early
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Speaker 1: last season, the safety at a Syracuse. But he's all
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Speaker 1: around the ball the time when he is playing. Um,
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Speaker 1: as you said earlier, get off the bus. You know
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Speaker 1: these guys are players when you look at him, but
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Speaker 1: you you're taking a little bit of a chance because
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Speaker 1: they haven't played in a while. Yeah. I think with
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Speaker 1: Walker's case, I think his pro day showing up in
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Speaker 1: the shape that he was in, moving around as well
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Speaker 1: as he did, is just a massive human being. Um.
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Speaker 1: I think that helped his cause. And again you mentioned
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Speaker 1: it even seeing this guy really play a lot of
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Speaker 1: football sinceeen so there is an air an eric risk
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Speaker 1: there and I don't think he really has to be
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Speaker 1: rushed onto the field when you look at this offense
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Speaker 1: line and the pieces that are there. Um, so you
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Speaker 1: can let let's be patient and see if he can
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Speaker 1: fight and earn his way uh into a starting position.
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Speaker 1: We'll see and then Uh, Cisco to me just one
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Speaker 1: of the you mentioned ball hawks. He's just got really
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Speaker 1: good instincts. Um, He's got outstanding ball skills. He takes
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Speaker 1: great angles. He was one of the guys I really
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Speaker 1: really liked in the safety class. And you know, the
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Speaker 1: injury and I probably cost him a little bit. At
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Speaker 1: the end of the day. If he'd have been healthy
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Speaker 1: throughout the season, I think you see him go a
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Speaker 1: little bit higher. The full conversation with Jeremiah available on
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Speaker 1: the official team website Jaguars dot Com. Schedule was announced
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Speaker 1: win to day night by the at NFL, and Thursday morning,
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Speaker 1: we recapped it on the Jaguars Schedule Review presented by
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Speaker 1: dream Finders Homes. In this segment, we discussed the final
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Speaker 1: ten games on the schedule, including a trip to Sophi
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Speaker 1: Stadium in Los Angeles to see a familiar face in
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Speaker 1: cornerback Jalen Ramsey. It's hard with these seventeen game to me,
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Speaker 1: it just feels like, John, the schedule is way longer.
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Speaker 1: I know it's only one extra game, but to me,
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Speaker 1: you're looking at this listen, You're like, dang, this is
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Speaker 1: a long season. Yeah, this is where it gets along.
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Speaker 1: And I think for the Rams, maybe it's an avenge
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Speaker 1: game for the Jaguars against Jalen Yeat. I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: how that will work. I see this second stretch as
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Speaker 1: a continuation of that second quarter. I mean this third stretch, uh,
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Speaker 1: really only one game against the team that I would
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Speaker 1: consider a lot of experts are gonna question coming into
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Speaker 1: this year San Francisco, which is the third game of
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Speaker 1: that stretch. I think they're gonna be a lot better.
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Speaker 1: They feel like they're going to be healthier, they feel
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Speaker 1: like they're going to have their quarterback situation better. I
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Speaker 1: would think, Uh, it could be the tray Lance Bowl,
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Speaker 1: uh or the tray Land Server Lawrence Bowl. You know,
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Speaker 1: these middle two stretches to me are really really tough.
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Speaker 1: If they can come out of here. Okay, maybe, but
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Speaker 1: you know, those nine games or those eight games difficult
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Speaker 1: to me. This is where the teeth came into the
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Speaker 1: schedule as far as I'm concerned, because you have three
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Speaker 1: powerhouse teams from last year, Buffalo, Indie and the Rams.
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Speaker 1: And don't forget that the Niners were largely upended by injuries,
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Speaker 1: especially to their defensive front last year, so they could
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Speaker 1: turn things around in a hurry and be back to
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Speaker 1: where they were at the conclusion of nineteen, which was
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Speaker 1: deep into the playoffs. I don't know what to make
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Speaker 1: of Atlanta, but Matt Ryan can still throw, and you
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Speaker 1: add Kyle Pitts to Julio Jones and Calvin Ridley, and
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Speaker 1: it's going to pressure your defense. This, to me, was
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Speaker 1: that treacherous part of the schedule. The playoff teams separate
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Speaker 1: themselves in the month of November onto the stretch run
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Speaker 1: December and January. For the Jacksonville Jaguars Week fourteen at
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Speaker 1: tennessee a second look at Derrick Henry and the Titans
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Speaker 1: for the season. The Texans come to town in week
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Speaker 1: fifteen at the New York Jets. Could it be Zack
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Speaker 1: Wilson against Trevor Lawrence. We'll find out the day after Christmas.
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Speaker 1: Then the new year January second at New England. That
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Speaker 1: is never an easy place to play anyway, especially late
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Speaker 1: in the season, and especially January second against the Patriots.
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Speaker 1: January nine, Week eighteen, the Jaguars finished at home against
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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts. And you know, I'm really looking forward,
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Speaker 1: Brian to this Jets Jaguars matchup. If the quarterbacks play
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Speaker 1: that deep, yeah, you know, and if those quarterbacks are
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Speaker 1: playing well and their teams look markedly improved, don't be
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Speaker 1: surprised if that isn't a game that gets flexed to
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Speaker 1: Monday night. This is the first year that they're allowing
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Speaker 1: teams to be flexed from a Sunday game to a
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Speaker 1: Monday night game. And perhaps that's one because of the
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Speaker 1: New York market place and because of the two quarterbacks.
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Speaker 1: You might see that game go. Now, if both teams are,
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Speaker 1: you know, looking at three or four wins at that point,
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Speaker 1: probably not, But if they're playing, well, that's a game
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Speaker 1: that that I think you might see, Ashlyn, what do
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Speaker 1: you like, demo scratcher? Looking at this block right here,
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Speaker 1: the thing that stands out is obvious. It's the three
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Speaker 1: divisional games. And you're walking around the building here and
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Speaker 1: you're seeing a f C South signs around this building.
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Speaker 1: There's a big emphasis right now on the division and
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Speaker 1: winning that division. So right here in this stretch, that's
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Speaker 1: got to be it. And you look at the Houston
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Speaker 1: Texans and you think, all right, you know you're starting
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Speaker 1: week one, what's going on with DeShawn Watson? I don't
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Speaker 1: think you can make that a gimme. Frankly, the division
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Speaker 1: as a whole is really competitive. So I'm looking at
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Speaker 1: those three games, John, I guess the difference to me
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Speaker 1: between five and four is a lot. Because these last
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Speaker 1: two graphics. In years past, these were always four game graphics,
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, it's five and this is
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Speaker 1: just gonna be a long final quarter of the season. Uh.
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Speaker 1: You wonder if players will start to feel that seventh
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Speaker 1: sevente game at this point. That's kind of what I'm
17:57
Speaker 1: gonna be watching. As far as the Jets, I was
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Speaker 1: a surprised, frankly, that the Jaguars only got one primetime game.
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Speaker 1: I thought they might get to I thought that Jets
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Speaker 1: game might be in September, with a prime time matchup
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Speaker 1: between those two quarterbacks. Once I saw that it was
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Speaker 1: in December, I wasn't surprised because they weren't going to
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Speaker 1: risk having a primetime game between two teams that struggled
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Speaker 1: last year. But that was the surprise to me that
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Speaker 1: the Jets game wasn't earlier in the season. Guys. The
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Speaker 1: schedule review available now on Jaguars dot com. Let's wrap
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Speaker 1: this week with the Huddle Up Podcast from Wednesday morning.
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Speaker 1: NFL media analyst Bucky Brooks, John Osan and I discussed
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Speaker 1: the scouting department and especially road scouts, area scouts for
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Speaker 1: the organization, plus what a scout thinks about the first
18:42
Speaker 1: time a player that he pushed for is on the field.
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Speaker 1: Areas scouts are often information gatherers and the relationships that
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Speaker 1: they have at the college are very important. I guess
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Speaker 1: elaborate on that someway. Yeah, so you know it's different.
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Speaker 1: The hierarchy is one at the top of the trough
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Speaker 1: chain you have the decision makers, and decision makers don't
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Speaker 1: necessarily need to be your best scouts. They need to
19:06
Speaker 1: be able to take in all the information, kind of
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Speaker 1: switch it around and make a really good decision based
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Speaker 1: on what is in the best senses of the organization.
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Speaker 1: Your road scouts, your area scouts, they're kind of the
19:18
Speaker 1: life blood of the scouting program. Now, some teams operate
19:22
Speaker 1: differently where the scouts are your information gatherers. They get
19:25
Speaker 1: the background and they do all the legwork in their regard.
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Speaker 1: But some teams employed what I call real scouts. Guys
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Speaker 1: that can see it, guy that can evaluate, Guys that
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Speaker 1: can give you a true, honest opinion on how a
19:38
Speaker 1: god projects to the league. Yes, they do the other stuff,
19:42
Speaker 1: but they evaluate it. And depending upon how you want
19:45
Speaker 1: to comprise your front office, you may have more of
19:48
Speaker 1: those guys. Because when you get into the think tank
19:51
Speaker 1: part of the pre jaft process. You want guys who
19:55
Speaker 1: can give you a real opinion on whether a guy
19:58
Speaker 1: can play and how he fits for the Jaguars. And
20:01
Speaker 1: so I think Norm baky Uh pretty well and knowing
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Speaker 1: how he's done business. They want football guys in those things.
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Speaker 1: They want guys that can really evaluate, guys to have opinions,
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Speaker 1: and guys that won't shrink when the room maybe against
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Speaker 1: their opinion. Guys that stand up and say no, I
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Speaker 1: believe in this player. I believe this player can play.
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Speaker 1: I'm always fascinating the guys that you just talked about.
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Speaker 1: The guys who don't shrink are really important because it's
20:26
Speaker 1: easy to shrink in that situation. If you've got it,
20:29
Speaker 1: you've got a GM who's the boss. He says, well,
20:32
Speaker 1: I don't like this guy. You know. The guy who
20:34
Speaker 1: will stand up and speak his mind is rare but
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Speaker 1: incredibly important. If that GM will listen to him, Yeah,
20:40
Speaker 1: it's really important. You gotta be strong. You gotta have conviction.
20:43
Speaker 1: I think the number one thing when you talk to
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Speaker 1: young scouts and you're teaching young scouts, you're saying half conviction.
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Speaker 1: Be able to stand on the table for your guy,
20:51
Speaker 1: don't worry about the way the room is leaning, or
20:53
Speaker 1: if it feels a certain way. Just hey, let's make
20:57
Speaker 1: sure that what you see, what you wrote your report,
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Speaker 1: you believe and then defended. And then there's the time
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Speaker 1: when you need to back off on it when it
21:06
Speaker 1: comes decision making time. But when you're presenting the player,
21:10
Speaker 1: go all in, do it with conviction. I think, as
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Speaker 1: the young guys say said, what your chest be bold
21:15
Speaker 1: and uh the way that you do it, because look,
21:17
Speaker 1: when you don't build a great team with mediocre evaluators
21:20
Speaker 1: and scouts, you have to have guys that are willing
21:22
Speaker 1: to swing for defenses and say, hey, I believe this
21:25
Speaker 1: guy is going to be a really great player. And
21:27
Speaker 1: here's why I want to see Bucky in a meeting JP. Well, no,
21:33
Speaker 1: I've heard the phrase pound the table. Bucky said, stand
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Speaker 1: on the table. He's up there, he's standing on the table.
21:41
Speaker 1: Is chest out. He would win that battle against me
21:46
Speaker 1: because we would all buy in to what has to say.
21:50
Speaker 1: It's true. No, I mean, I think that's it, and
21:52
Speaker 1: I think you have to know, man, you gotta have
21:56
Speaker 1: you gotta have some courage because when you think about
21:58
Speaker 1: the personalities that are the acis you makers. You think
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Speaker 1: about coach Meyer and you think about Balky. Those guys
22:04
Speaker 1: are not going to blink and their big personalities. And
22:08
Speaker 1: if you go up there meekly saying well you know, um,
22:11
Speaker 1: maybe in they don't want to hear that, Like they're
22:14
Speaker 1: gonna steal you down and be like your next all
22:17
Speaker 1: the way. So you have to build yourself up enough
22:19
Speaker 1: that when you make that presentation that you can sway
22:22
Speaker 1: them and you can captivate their attention, because if not,
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Speaker 1: you're wasting their talk. And then you gotta be right
22:28
Speaker 1: down the line to that also helps you gotta be
22:33
Speaker 1: able to chalk up. And so here's what's funny, Ricky
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Speaker 1: minicamp coming up. This is when you're the most anxious
22:40
Speaker 1: as a scout, right because the guy that you put
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Speaker 1: the big raid on, the guy that you stood up
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Speaker 1: on the table and say, hey, my little corner is
22:46
Speaker 1: gonna come in here. You're gonna light it up. And
22:48
Speaker 1: then you get there and you have to see the
22:51
Speaker 1: one on one reps and privably what you're doing. J
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Speaker 1: J and John. You're sitting there like, come on, we
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Speaker 1: can play, can play? You don't want to make a
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Speaker 1: play or you can feel validated, because the worst thing
23:06
Speaker 1: is when that guy goes along stretch without making a play,
23:10
Speaker 1: or if he looks like he's out of place, that's
23:13
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