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Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, March 25 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, March. This is Jack Bars Happy Hour,
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Speaker 1: jack Wars Happy Hours presented by Duvo Motor Company and
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Speaker 1: now a guy who finished just behind Marvin Jones Junior
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Speaker 1: on American IDOL. J P. Welcome in Jaguars Happy Hour
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Speaker 1: on this Thursday. Yes, I am j P. Shadrick. Jeff
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Speaker 1: Lockerman is along with us today and we have a
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Speaker 1: busy program ahead. Free agency review. Some of the new faces,
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Speaker 1: new names for the Jaguars, will go through, some of
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Speaker 1: those with logs and maybe a quarterback on the move.
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Speaker 1: At some point, we'll discuss the rumors around Gardner Minshew.
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Speaker 1: NFL media reporter Judy Batista schedule to join us in
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Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes. Will get a big scope view of
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Speaker 1: things going on around the NFL and her thoughts of
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Speaker 1: what the Jaguars have done last a couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: Jaguars reporter Ashland Sullivan on the schedule at four thirty today.
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Speaker 1: She had some sit down conversations with some of the
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Speaker 1: new Jaguars and we'll get some highlights from her of
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Speaker 1: those conversations, and we'll go around the National Football League
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Speaker 1: as we always do. Jeff Loghman, Good afternoon. What's up.
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Speaker 1: It's all good. JP. The Jaguars are rolling in free
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Speaker 1: agency right now. Yes, a lot of new guys here, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: a lot a lot of new guys. But it the
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Speaker 1: I don't want to say, the rebuild or the retooling
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Speaker 1: of the roster, I think is what was needed to
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Speaker 1: add some veteran presence and some some guys that have
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Speaker 1: been proven and uh and I like that aspect of it.
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Speaker 1: And and the beautiful part of that is is that
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Speaker 1: you're creating competition at as many places as you can,
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Speaker 1: and that's what makes teams better. They you know, early
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Speaker 1: in free agent, the first day or what where the
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Speaker 1: negotiation windows open um. I think Jake fans on on
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Speaker 1: social media are starting to freak out a little bit
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Speaker 1: that they're not signing anybody. What's going on, They're not
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Speaker 1: getting the big name tight ends, like what's happening? And
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Speaker 1: then after a couple of days you realize, Okay, there's
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Speaker 1: a different approach here. They might have wanted one of
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Speaker 1: those tight ends, but they're not gonna spend twenty eight
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Speaker 1: million dollars to go get one. Well. I think Urban
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Speaker 1: alluded to that, and he was talking about how a
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Speaker 1: lot of times, you know, you you like to find
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Speaker 1: or get guys. Then all of a sudden you find
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Speaker 1: out that the asking prices, you know, twenty eight million
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Speaker 1: a year or whatever. Forgot he was kind of exaggerating
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Speaker 1: obviously by saying twenty eight million. But we get his point,
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Speaker 1: you know, and that, uh, you gotta compete, and this
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Speaker 1: is not college football, and he knew, he knows that,
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Speaker 1: and everybody knows that it's about the almighty dollar. And
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Speaker 1: then when the dollars are similar, then certain things can
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Speaker 1: come into play, like who the coach is, where the
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Speaker 1: market is, how successful a team is, and all those
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Speaker 1: other things factor in. But but make no mistake about it.
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Speaker 1: To go back to one of the famous movie quotes, ever,
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Speaker 1: show me the money. Yes, it's all about the dollars. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I've been in free agency and look and and and
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Speaker 1: I can tell you, you know, in order to have
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Speaker 1: a conversation, the conversation needs to be started by money.
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Speaker 1: Then you can progress. By the way, we have some
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Speaker 1: breaking news, some Jaguars breaking news that has just happened.
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Speaker 1: The Jaguars have resigned defensive end Adam Gotsis. He's back
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Speaker 1: six two eight seven pounder and played in all sixteen
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Speaker 1: games and started fourteen last year for the Jags, thirty
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Speaker 1: seven tackles, four tackles for lost, three passes defense. He
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Speaker 1: was in Denver before that. He's from Australia and went
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Speaker 1: to Georgia Tech. So he has been resigned. He's got
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Speaker 1: a great accent. Yes, love listening to the guy talking. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, how do you play? Last year? For you?
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Speaker 1: I thought he was solid, and I thought that coming
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Speaker 1: out of training camp you could tell that his knee
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Speaker 1: wasn't quite a hundred percent. But as the season kind
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Speaker 1: of wore on, he got a little bit better, a
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Speaker 1: little bit stronger, and uh, you know, with with the
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Speaker 1: Joe Collin defensive coordinator, you're gonna see obviously some principles
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Speaker 1: of the three four, and I think Adam Gotsis fits
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Speaker 1: will fit that role of being able to play in
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Speaker 1: a three four or four three. I think it fits
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Speaker 1: into a t I'm not saying he's gonna become a
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Speaker 1: pro bowler. That's not gonna happen, but I think he's
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Speaker 1: a good, solid rotational player. It feels like some of
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Speaker 1: these other signings in the trade and there are guys
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Speaker 1: that can play in both fronts if needed, right, I
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Speaker 1: mean that they have multiple places they can play on
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Speaker 1: the line, So versatility is key for Joe Colin on defense.
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Speaker 1: I think we also in another well, the one thing
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Speaker 1: I think that they did pretty good in Baltimore. They
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Speaker 1: had some guys that fit the four three better and
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Speaker 1: some that fit the three four better, and they were
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Speaker 1: able to rotate them kind of in waves. And if
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Speaker 1: you were a better fit for the four three, then
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Speaker 1: when they went to a four or three, you were
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Speaker 1: playing and and the guy that was better in the
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Speaker 1: three four, he was sitting on the bench and then
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Speaker 1: backing up that role as far as playing in that
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Speaker 1: other defense. So you know, look, most of the defenses
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Speaker 1: nowadays have become interchangeable for the most part, a lot
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Speaker 1: of the principles because you know, we've got we get
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Speaker 1: this question every year, you know, should the Jaguars play
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Speaker 1: three four? If you look at teams that play a
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Speaker 1: three four, A lot of teams that play the three
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Speaker 1: four in the National Football League now are playing the
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Speaker 1: three four with principles of the four three. So it's
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Speaker 1: not like the old school three four where you've got
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Speaker 1: head up defensive ends and you've got this zero technique,
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Speaker 1: head up nose tackle it's just they don't play that
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Speaker 1: way anymore when teams are playing the three four some
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Speaker 1: of the other editions. Of course, you know, defensive line
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Speaker 1: was priority number two for Urban Myron after quarterback in
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Speaker 1: the off season, and we'll get the quarterback coming up.
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Speaker 1: So they did a lot of work there on the
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Speaker 1: defensive line. The secondary, of course, a killed Griffin ray
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Speaker 1: Sean Jenkins added, and then a wide receiver and Rban Meyer.
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Speaker 1: After the first wave of free agency when they added
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Speaker 1: Marvin Jones and Philip Dorsett, Meyer said, of course he
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Speaker 1: likes those additions, but he does love the players that
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Speaker 1: are in place. But the one position I've been please with,
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Speaker 1: and I actually when I first started watching the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: is DJ Shark and Lavisca are two guys that I
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Speaker 1: think you can build their young They've I've spent a
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Speaker 1: lot of time with them. They've been in to see me.
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Speaker 1: They're anxious, they're ready to go. I hired an excellent
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Speaker 1: receiver coach in san Jay lal Uh. That position is
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Speaker 1: going to be a huge part of our offense. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'd say. And then they had the two guys they
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Speaker 1: did in free agency, lugs in Marvin Jones and Philip
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Speaker 1: Dorset to go with Shark and Chennault and Colin Johnson.
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Speaker 1: That's a pretty good five right there. By the way, Well,
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Speaker 1: I think it's solid. Uh, Philip Dorset, to me, he's
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Speaker 1: got a lot to prove. I mean, he's fast, but
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Speaker 1: can you be a good wide receiver. I mean he's
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Speaker 1: yet to prove that where he can be a dominant
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Speaker 1: force in in the National Football League. He bounced around
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Speaker 1: a lot. When a guy bounces around a lot, that
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Speaker 1: means that there's some questions about him. But there is
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Speaker 1: reason to be excited. Leaviska Chanlt young player that that
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Speaker 1: you liked what he did last year. Colin Johnson, who
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Speaker 1: I I still believe has more upside than Laviska Chanlt.
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Speaker 1: He's a big guy, he's got speed, he gets great separation. So, uh,
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of guys. And I think
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Speaker 1: the one category and the why and I think the
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Speaker 1: wide receiver position is good, but it's not set by
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Speaker 1: any means. They said a little more work, Well, a
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Speaker 1: little more work, and there's gonna be a little bit
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Speaker 1: more work when you get into the draft. And uh,
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Speaker 1: and but you you you really need to find what
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Speaker 1: I what I would term the easy targets for your quarterback,
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Speaker 1: and you still got work to do in that area.
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Speaker 1: And that's tight end and running back. And when I
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Speaker 1: say running back, I'm not talking about a guy that
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Speaker 1: can carry the rock on first and second down. I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about a guy that can make defensive coordinators hold
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Speaker 1: their breath. How are we going to cover this guy?
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Speaker 1: Are we gonna cover them with safety, We're gonna cover
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Speaker 1: them with a corner, or we're gonna cover them with
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Speaker 1: a linebacker. Because if you have a great running back
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Speaker 1: who's great out of the backfield, that stresses the defense
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Speaker 1: in a big way. And as as I said, it's
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Speaker 1: an easy target for your quarterback. Tight ends and running
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Speaker 1: backs are easy targets for a young quarterback. If you're
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Speaker 1: to fuel greatness from anywhere. We continue our conversation with
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Speaker 1: the Quarterback room, speaking of throwing the ball around, they've
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Speaker 1: added a quarterback this week, c J. Bethard was signed.
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Speaker 1: He is from San Francisco. Two years, five million dollar
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Speaker 1: deal to and ten record as a starter in San Francisco.
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Speaker 1: Passer logs thirty five yards or so in his career,
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Speaker 1: eighteen touchdowns and thirteen picks. A third round pick back
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Speaker 1: in out of Iowa. So the Jaguar's quarterback room at
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Speaker 1: the moment is c J. Bethard, Jake Luton, Gardner, Minshew.
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Speaker 1: That's alphabetical order. By the way, I first of all,
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Speaker 1: his grandfather. I have a huge debt of gratitude for
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Speaker 1: Bobby Bethard. When I was coming out as a college player,
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Speaker 1: was the general manager of the Washington Redskins, and uh
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Speaker 1: and through a friend of a friend, my dad, my family,
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Speaker 1: we were able to ask Bobby a lot of questions
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Speaker 1: about agents, the NFL, the process of the draft, and
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Speaker 1: he was incredibly helpful to me. And so uh big
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Speaker 1: thank you to Bobby. And obviously Bobby his which is
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Speaker 1: CJ's grandfather, is a Hall of Famer. So uh so
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Speaker 1: I like him already because I know he comes from
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Speaker 1: good people. And I got a text from a friend
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Speaker 1: of mine and I shared it with you earlier. A
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Speaker 1: friend of mine that lives in Iowa, and he said, uh,
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Speaker 1: in his text, he's at first and foremost. I want
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Speaker 1: to tell you that you guys got a stand up
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Speaker 1: quality guy first and foremost. And then he started talking
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Speaker 1: about you know, he's smart, he's got strong arm, tough
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Speaker 1: as nails, great team player, and these are all the
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Speaker 1: things that you need for a team that's expected to
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Speaker 1: draft the future of the franchise. Somebody that's a team player,
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Speaker 1: and somebody that can help a young quarterback along because
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Speaker 1: he himself is smart, but he but it's not just
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Speaker 1: about having hiring another coach. You gotta have a guy
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Speaker 1: that can play, and certainly c. J. Bethor has proven
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Speaker 1: that he has some traits that are pretty strong. You know,
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Speaker 1: the name has been floating out there a lot in
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Speaker 1: the last few weeks with the Jack's quarterback backup situation
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Speaker 1: was Alex Smith, Right. I mean that was the big
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Speaker 1: consuming to conclusions a little bit because of the past connection,
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Speaker 1: and that was the name is out there, So you
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Speaker 1: think c. J. Bethor is is the veteran quarterback he's
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Speaker 1: going to be he can be absolutely yeah. I mean
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Speaker 1: they don't go after somebody else. Does this stop you
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Speaker 1: from signing Alex Smith? No, could it? Sure? Because here's
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Speaker 1: the thing. Do you want to pay? What is Alex
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Speaker 1: Smith gonna cost? I mean the backups right now have
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Speaker 1: been going for ball park three three and a half
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Speaker 1: million in some cases maybe a little bit more than that,
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Speaker 1: but not many. With Alex's um injury history, does he
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Speaker 1: go past that? I don't think so. You know, so
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Speaker 1: he would probably cost him that rain. So I mean,
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Speaker 1: could be interested, you know, he mightn't even be interested.
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Speaker 1: I mean Alex Smith. I mean, look, when you come
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Speaker 1: back and you fight back from what he had, do
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Speaker 1: you want to come back just to be a backup
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Speaker 1: or you want to come back and be a starter?
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Speaker 1: You know? Look, I I get if he wants to
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Speaker 1: be a starter, but the starter jobs are drying up.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know what that means for for Alex Smith,
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Speaker 1: but I think the writing is on the wall for
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Speaker 1: Gardner minshow that was gonna be the next question? What
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Speaker 1: does that mean for the must day? I think I
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Speaker 1: think that he's not going to be a Jaguar sooner
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Speaker 1: rather than later or well. I mean, first of all,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna try to get anything that you can for him,
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Speaker 1: even if it's a biscuit. I mean, because look, you
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Speaker 1: don't want to you don't want to cut a player
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Speaker 1: if you can get something for him. And uh, and
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Speaker 1: I think that that this does mean that Gardner Minshew
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Speaker 1: is gonna be gone. I didn't talk to anybody that
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Speaker 1: told me that either. That's just what I infer when
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Speaker 1: you sign a C. J. Bethard, when you have another
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Speaker 1: young quarterback who has some of the physical traits that
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Speaker 1: you wanted, a quarterback, young, strong, arm, tall, can see
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Speaker 1: the pocket, can see the field, and that's what you have,
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Speaker 1: and a young player in Jake Luton, then I think
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Speaker 1: that it would probably be time to move on from
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Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew. And look, I hope he gets an opportunity
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Speaker 1: to go somewhere, and I hope he gets an opportunity
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Speaker 1: to play and compete because here he's not getting at
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Speaker 1: urban Meyer called him a competitive maniac. We're talking about
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Speaker 1: and and and there's nothing wrong with that, and uh
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Speaker 1: urban Meyer and I I anybody that's in the position
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Speaker 1: of erden Meyer is gonna do nothing but praise and
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Speaker 1: compliment any player that they have on their roster, even
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Speaker 1: if they want to look at trading them, just because
13:12
Speaker 1: you certainly don't want to make any other comments. You
13:15
Speaker 1: want to build up any of the resources that you
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Speaker 1: have so that you can get the top amount and
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Speaker 1: return eventually if you'd like to trade them. And and like,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if they're gonna let C J. Bethord
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Speaker 1: and Gardnerment should compete. They might, they might, they might.
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Speaker 1: Uh for me, I don't see that happening. Let's come back.
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Speaker 1: Plenty of show ahead. We'll return with NFL Network reporter
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Speaker 1: Judy Batiste has covered the league for a long time.
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Speaker 1: his first taste of NFL business the last for weeks um,
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Speaker 1: you know, and he was asked, you know, this is
19:04
Speaker 1: not like recruiting where you get everybody on your list.
19:06
Speaker 1: You know, when all of a sudden, that guy on
19:08
Speaker 1: your list cost twenty eight million dollars. It's almost a
19:11
Speaker 1: welcome to the NFL type moment. Judy Well, I loved
19:15
Speaker 1: his pies that he thought the system was terrible, that
19:17
Speaker 1: you're signing these guys two big contracts and guys you've
19:21
Speaker 1: never met before, you've never looked in the eye. I mean,
19:23
Speaker 1: he's right, the system is terrible. But you know, welcome
19:26
Speaker 1: to the NFL. I mean, this is this is what
19:28
Speaker 1: it's like. It's not like being at Florida and Ohio State,
19:31
Speaker 1: that's for sure, Judy. Sometimes we and Jacksonville can look
19:36
Speaker 1: at things with teal cutter glasses. What is the rest
19:41
Speaker 1: of the NFL. How do they look at what's going
19:44
Speaker 1: on in Jacksonville With Urban Meyer, Well, I think there's
19:48
Speaker 1: a real sense of anticipation and and hope not just
19:53
Speaker 1: for urban Meyer, but because of what we expect as
19:56
Speaker 1: going to happen in the draft, that this is a
19:58
Speaker 1: real opportunity to to turn the page rather quickly. There's
20:03
Speaker 1: a lot of draft ammunition. You know, you were pretty
20:05
Speaker 1: active in free agency, and I think we're all curious
20:08
Speaker 1: to see how urban Meyer does in the NFL. That's
20:13
Speaker 1: been the case for years, right, I mean, he's been
20:15
Speaker 1: successful literally everywhere he's been in college football, and so
20:19
Speaker 1: I think we're all curious to see how he does
20:22
Speaker 1: in the NFL. But I think a real sense of
20:24
Speaker 1: anticipation of him, paired with Trevor Lawrence, we assume um
20:29
Speaker 1: and and that potentially the franchise can really take off
20:32
Speaker 1: kind of quickly. Curious, Judy, you know, he's been a
20:36
Speaker 1: clear and concise communicator so far, and I'm not sure,
20:40
Speaker 1: really sure what we all expected on that front here,
20:43
Speaker 1: but it has been nice. You know, every time he's
20:46
Speaker 1: been on a zoom call, he's been pretty much straight
20:49
Speaker 1: to the point, he answers questions thoroughly. I'm curious, though,
20:52
Speaker 1: when when the balls on the tea in September and
20:56
Speaker 1: there's sixty people in the stadium and there's another football
20:59
Speaker 1: team in the sideline and things adversity hits, which it will.
21:03
Speaker 1: How will that happen for Urban and how? I think
21:06
Speaker 1: that's the big question he wants to answer himself too. Yeah,
21:11
Speaker 1: And look, I mean, he obviously faced adversity as a
21:14
Speaker 1: college football coach and you know, did just fine. The
21:18
Speaker 1: results speak for themselves, So I don't think it's that.
21:21
Speaker 1: I mean, certainly the NFL, the spotlight of the NFL
21:24
Speaker 1: is immense. He had an awful lot of spotlights on him, though,
21:28
Speaker 1: So I don't think that's going to be it. We
21:30
Speaker 1: have seen. The fact is, we've seen a lot of really,
21:34
Speaker 1: really great college football coaches not do so great in
21:39
Speaker 1: the NFL. And that's why it's always so intriguing, right,
21:42
Speaker 1: I Mean, we all look at Nick say, but now,
21:45
Speaker 1: maybe things would have been different. They almost certainly would
21:48
Speaker 1: have been different if the doctors had cleared Drew Brees
21:51
Speaker 1: and they had signed Drew Brees in Miami. But I mean,
21:53
Speaker 1: this is arguably the greatest college football coach in the
21:56
Speaker 1: history of the sport and he and he didn't do
22:00
Speaker 1: great in the NFL. And so that's the most recent example,
22:03
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, Chip Kelly wildly successful in college,
22:06
Speaker 1: not so much in the NFL, you know. I I
22:09
Speaker 1: think urban Meyer coached at a high level at high
22:13
Speaker 1: level universities with tremendous results. Um. It's as close as
22:18
Speaker 1: you can get to being an NFL coach without being
22:21
Speaker 1: an NFL coach. UM. So now we're going to see
22:24
Speaker 1: what he does at this level. He knows how to coach. UM.
22:27
Speaker 1: I think the only real question is, you know, what's
22:30
Speaker 1: what's his judgment of players, and you know, how does
22:33
Speaker 1: he assemble a roster and is that what what he
22:35
Speaker 1: needs to does he need to improve on it um
22:39
Speaker 1: at the NFL level or does he know exactly what
22:41
Speaker 1: he's doing right out of the game. Judy with with
22:44
Speaker 1: with a coach that's viewed is is outstanding? They want
22:47
Speaker 1: to coach And you've got to have an off season
22:50
Speaker 1: and players in front of you to be able to coach.
22:53
Speaker 1: What do you envision the NFL all season looking like
22:57
Speaker 1: with COVID still kind of at the front lines of
23:01
Speaker 1: things in the NFL. Well, I I certainly don't expect
23:05
Speaker 1: it's going to look anything like in the off season
23:07
Speaker 1: like you used to have to have. UM, it's gonna
23:10
Speaker 1: be UM. I think something closer to what we had
23:13
Speaker 1: last year. As as you well know, the players Union
23:15
Speaker 1: wants to keep it like it was last year all
23:17
Speaker 1: virtual they liked it that no surprise. Veteran players in
23:21
Speaker 1: particular don't want to have to show up for mandatory
23:24
Speaker 1: mini camps um that is being hashed out now between
23:27
Speaker 1: the league and the players Union. Obviously the league coaches
23:32
Speaker 1: in particular, but some owners to very much want some
23:36
Speaker 1: in person work. Uh. I talked to an owner who said,
23:40
Speaker 1: you know, I said to him, like, did the did
23:41
Speaker 1: the level of play really drop off you think last
23:43
Speaker 1: year because you didn't have any offseason work And he said, well,
23:46
Speaker 1: you know, when you talk to position coaches, they will
23:49
Speaker 1: point out, you know, parts of the fundamentals of the
23:51
Speaker 1: game that they just did not think we're being performed
23:54
Speaker 1: at the right level, and that that's the kind of
23:56
Speaker 1: thing you can do when you have time during the
23:58
Speaker 1: off season program that you just can't do once you're
24:01
Speaker 1: in season and you're working on a game plan day
24:03
Speaker 1: to day. So certainly there's going to be some push
24:06
Speaker 1: and pull there. I suspect they will go somewhere in
24:09
Speaker 1: the middle, but it's I don't think it's going to
24:11
Speaker 1: be a normal off season program. Judy Batista with us
24:15
Speaker 1: from NFL Media and NFL Network here on Jaguar's Happy Hour.
24:21
Speaker 1: Next week the NFL annual meeting. Speaking of virtual that
24:24
Speaker 1: will still be online, and there's some big things on
24:28
Speaker 1: the docket, some rule changes that are pending. I mean,
24:32
Speaker 1: there's a lot going on. What is the most notable
24:35
Speaker 1: news nugget we will get out of next week, Well,
24:39
Speaker 1: they are going to go ahead with the seventeen game
24:42
Speaker 1: regular season. That's definitely going to be the big thing. Actually,
24:45
Speaker 1: the rules changers are not going to happen at this meeting.
24:47
Speaker 1: They're pushing that down the road a little bit. They're
24:49
Speaker 1: going to have another meeting in May, and that's something
24:51
Speaker 1: they'll probably vote on rules changes. But the big thing
24:54
Speaker 1: is that they're going to go ahead with the seventeen
24:56
Speaker 1: game regular season and trim the preseason down to three games.
25:00
Speaker 1: I don't think you'll get too many people crying about
25:02
Speaker 1: the loss of a preseason game, um, but that's that's
25:06
Speaker 1: the big change. I mean, it's a huge change. And
25:08
Speaker 1: they will talk about how those games are going to
25:10
Speaker 1: be scheduled and what the matchups will be. But that's obviously,
25:13
Speaker 1: a gigantic change to the NFL calendar pushes everything back.
25:16
Speaker 1: The super Bowl will get played a week later. I
25:19
Speaker 1: think now we'll fall on President's Day weekend. So that's
25:21
Speaker 1: actually really good for your super Bowl parties that you'll
25:24
Speaker 1: have the next day off. Um, but you know, that's
25:27
Speaker 1: a that's a huge, huge change for the NFL. That's
25:30
Speaker 1: a big change. I'm surprised it's going to stay at
25:33
Speaker 1: three preseason games, Judy. I mean, one regular season game
25:37
Speaker 1: is worth two in the preseason all day long. You
25:41
Speaker 1: can argue that point all day long. And I think
25:44
Speaker 1: what the owners would come back and tell you is, like,
25:47
Speaker 1: you know, there's revenue. Like if you've cut a preseason game,
25:50
Speaker 1: you lose revenue, You lose ticket sales, you lose parking,
25:54
Speaker 1: you lose concessions, and all of that money comes out
25:56
Speaker 1: of the pot that gets split with the players. So
25:59
Speaker 1: that's how arrived at seventeen and three, Judi Batista with us.
26:03
Speaker 1: One of the big offseason storylines around the NFL is
26:06
Speaker 1: in this division down in Houston, and what has happened
26:09
Speaker 1: with that organization that the storylines just keep piling up.
26:13
Speaker 1: You know, there was the falling out between DeShawn Watson
26:16
Speaker 1: and the organization. He doesn't want to play there, they
26:19
Speaker 1: don't plan to move him. And now it's already been
26:23
Speaker 1: a big story. There's all this the wild term recently,
26:27
Speaker 1: all these lawsuits are alleging sexual assault and harassment involving Massus'
26:32
Speaker 1: is with DeShawn Watson. Where are we with this and
26:35
Speaker 1: what's next? Judy, I think we're really only at the
26:40
Speaker 1: very beginning of this. Frankly, the NFL is going to investigate.
26:44
Speaker 1: That's just at the very beginning. I mean literally, it
26:47
Speaker 1: is at the you know, NFL sending a letter to
26:50
Speaker 1: the lawyer who has filed the civil suits, um, saying
26:54
Speaker 1: we want to investigate, Will your clients cooperate? Will you cooperate?
26:58
Speaker 1: So it is at the already beginning, um, you know.
27:02
Speaker 1: I mean, these allegations are shocking, um, certainly not anything
27:07
Speaker 1: that anybody saw on the horizon, um, you know. And
27:11
Speaker 1: just to set aside the troubling nature of the allegations
27:14
Speaker 1: for a second, I mean, the fact that they're happening
27:17
Speaker 1: at the same time as there's all of this talk
27:19
Speaker 1: about his future as a football player in Houston makes
27:23
Speaker 1: it even more complicated because of course, you know, over
27:26
Speaker 1: here you're talking about well would they trade him? And
27:29
Speaker 1: you know now the question is, well would anybody trade
27:31
Speaker 1: for him? With all of this hanging over him, you
27:34
Speaker 1: have no idea how it's going to be resolved or
27:37
Speaker 1: when it's going to be resolved, And so everything is
27:40
Speaker 1: at a standstill right now. Not I don't think anything
27:42
Speaker 1: happens until the investigation proceeds. Um that's that's what comes next.
27:46
Speaker 1: And and I don't think that's going to be a
27:48
Speaker 1: particularly quick process. I mean historically, you know, we've seen
27:51
Speaker 1: other investigations in the NFL. They take some time and
27:54
Speaker 1: they require some cooperation, and it's going to be interesting
27:58
Speaker 1: to see the degree of cooperation they get and and
28:00
Speaker 1: high powered lawyers involved on both sides, so you know,
28:05
Speaker 1: you should expect quite a bit of public posturing in
28:07
Speaker 1: the interim. Rusty Harden has a history. Yes, LUs it's
28:11
Speaker 1: going to be out of Snail's pace. The more lawyers,
28:13
Speaker 1: the slower it's going to go. And Judy with Commissioner Goodell,
28:16
Speaker 1: obviously he'll have a role in that at some time
28:19
Speaker 1: in the future. Labor piece TV deal in place. What's
28:23
Speaker 1: next for Roger dal He probably wants to take a nap.
28:28
Speaker 1: It has been some year. I mean, it's been a
28:32
Speaker 1: very good year for him, but obviously an incredibly stressful,
28:35
Speaker 1: busy year for everybody in the NFL. UM they got
28:39
Speaker 1: the labor deal done a year ago. It passed by
28:42
Speaker 1: sixty votes of the players. I mean, it was a
28:44
Speaker 1: very slim margin, and then almost immediately they had to
28:48
Speaker 1: turn right around and go back to the negotiating table
28:50
Speaker 1: because you realize you're going to play a season in
28:52
Speaker 1: the middle of a pandemic. They had to make a decision,
28:54
Speaker 1: are you playing a season in the middle of a pandemic.
28:57
Speaker 1: They had to redo the labor deal to account for
29:00
Speaker 1: what they knew was going to be a drop in revenue,
29:02
Speaker 1: and then they had to navigate through a pandemic, which
29:04
Speaker 1: was no small undertaking. I mean, I think this has
29:09
Speaker 1: been his finest work getting them through the pandemic. It
29:12
Speaker 1: took a lot, It took a lot of will, and
29:14
Speaker 1: it took a lot of manpower, and certainly it took
29:16
Speaker 1: a lot of financial resources. Um but they did it,
29:19
Speaker 1: and they did it on time. And that's a great
29:22
Speaker 1: deal of credit has to go to the commissioner who
29:25
Speaker 1: decided early on they were going to keep moving and
29:27
Speaker 1: they were going to keep the season on track and
29:29
Speaker 1: they managed to do it. Um And now you've got
29:32
Speaker 1: the big media deals. And I think if you asked
29:36
Speaker 1: the commissioner he would tell you himself like that's the
29:39
Speaker 1: last c B A and the last media deal he
29:41
Speaker 1: is going to be around for as the commissioner. I
29:43
Speaker 1: don't think he wants any part of of those processes
29:47
Speaker 1: in another ten years. Judy great stuff. Is always appreciate
29:51
Speaker 1: you jumping on with us today and we'll talk to
29:53
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Speaker 1: Thanks for the time. What's up. But we're hanging in
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35:07
Speaker 1: Part of their tour Ashland was was sitting down with
35:10
Speaker 1: you in that environment. Um, and let's start with Marvin Jones.
35:14
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy, obviously we know the statistics and
35:16
Speaker 1: what he's done, especially the last couple of years in Detroit,
35:20
Speaker 1: but you learned a lot about him off the field
35:23
Speaker 1: down the hall, Yeah, I did. He was definitely one
35:27
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35:29
Speaker 1: And a little nugget we actually sat down with wide
35:32
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35:34
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35:41
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35:44
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35:46
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35:52
Speaker 1: And one thing DJ said, I have the power now
35:55
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35:58
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36:00
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36:02
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36:04
Speaker 1: Jones is that veteran presence that the wide receiver room
36:07
Speaker 1: definitely needed, Ashlyn. One of the guys that I really
36:11
Speaker 1: enjoyed listening to was Jihad Ward. When you talk about
36:15
Speaker 1: bringing in guys that can carry a message and carry
36:19
Speaker 1: the coaches message, I'm sitting there listening to him, going,
36:22
Speaker 1: I'm hearing Joe Colin speak through Jihad Ward. Am I
36:25
Speaker 1: be a mistaken there? Not at all? He brought up
36:29
Speaker 1: Joe Colin. The very first thing that we asked him
36:32
Speaker 1: was that relationship, and urban Meyer said that he banged
36:36
Speaker 1: the table for him to come into this building. And
36:38
Speaker 1: I asked Jahad Ward, what's that relationship like? And Jahad
36:42
Speaker 1: War said, Oh, Joe Colin, that's my o G. That's
36:45
Speaker 1: the coach that I always talked to no matter where
36:48
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36:49
Speaker 1: relationship with. So safe to say they know each other well,
36:53
Speaker 1: I like each other. He goes back to even when
36:56
Speaker 1: when Ward was coming out in the draft. I think
36:58
Speaker 1: Colin was helping him work out and do something so
37:00
Speaker 1: that that is a really tight relationship. I think Colin
37:03
Speaker 1: Loggs has that with a lot of guys around the league.
37:05
Speaker 1: He is well respected and certainly among defensive line. Joe's
37:09
Speaker 1: always made his presence felt everywhere he's been, no doubt,
37:12
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. So that's another fine edition. One
37:15
Speaker 1: of four defensive lineman added to this team, but Ashton,
37:19
Speaker 1: they also did some work on the back end of
37:20
Speaker 1: the defense. That was one of the focus is for
37:23
Speaker 1: Urban Meyer this offseason work on that secondary. They had
37:26
Speaker 1: a lot to a lot of work to do. Their
37:28
Speaker 1: Shaq Griffin we heard from earlier in the show, was
37:30
Speaker 1: probably the big name, the big splash name that really
37:33
Speaker 1: stands out. But they also have a starting in caliber
37:36
Speaker 1: safety back there in ray Sean Jenkins. Yeah, and I
37:39
Speaker 1: think that almost got a little bit overlooked when you
37:42
Speaker 1: did sign Shot Griffin. Ray Shon Jenkins was a starter
37:45
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, is coming off the best year of
37:47
Speaker 1: his career, and I asked him, you know, what is
37:50
Speaker 1: it like with this trust that you just got a
37:52
Speaker 1: big time contract in the NFL and the Jaguars. You're
37:56
Speaker 1: gonna be a key contributor to this team. And he said,
37:58
Speaker 1: you know, for them to pay me all this money,
38:00
Speaker 1: and I respected that. He brought up the contract and
38:03
Speaker 1: he brought up the money. How life changing it was
38:06
Speaker 1: for them to trust me with this contract is huge.
38:10
Speaker 1: And now you look at this safety room with Jared Wilson,
38:14
Speaker 1: Daniel Thomas, Andrew Wingard, now with ray Shawn Jenkins, you
38:18
Speaker 1: feel a lot better about that this is gonna be
38:20
Speaker 1: one of your starting safeties and a guy that's coming
38:22
Speaker 1: off one of the best years of his career. I
38:24
Speaker 1: still think they can go draft one. Logs pretty high. Yeah, yeah,
38:28
Speaker 1: you you still draft one because the one thing about
38:30
Speaker 1: the safety position. First of all, you'd love to have
38:33
Speaker 1: three or four guys, but the ability to contribute on
38:36
Speaker 1: special teams from the safety position is a big part
38:39
Speaker 1: of teams. Yeah, and he you know, his first couple
38:42
Speaker 1: of years in his career, Jenkins were talking about here
38:44
Speaker 1: he was a special team player, that was it, and
38:46
Speaker 1: he wasn't getting defensive snaps. And then there were some
38:48
Speaker 1: injury issues out in l A. So he had to
38:50
Speaker 1: jump in the lineup and he's taken full advantage of it.
38:52
Speaker 1: So in Ashlyn, when you look at the safety position,
38:56
Speaker 1: the heighth weight speed. I mean, that's exactly what you're
38:59
Speaker 1: looking for with special teams. And ray Sean Jenkins cut
39:02
Speaker 1: his teeth. That's where he got to start at. Yeah,
39:06
Speaker 1: he's definitely hungry. And we asked him about that versatility.
39:08
Speaker 1: I have the list here, he said, I can play
39:11
Speaker 1: Amanda Man, I can do the post, I can come
39:14
Speaker 1: down in the box, I can help with run support.
39:16
Speaker 1: I can play on special teams. We probably had more
39:19
Speaker 1: things to say if we didn't cut them off. So
39:21
Speaker 1: he's ready to help in all kinds of areas of
39:23
Speaker 1: the game. Love it, good stuff, and those visits available
39:27
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39:30
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39:32
Speaker 1: I'm sure right, yes, they will later on this week
39:36
Speaker 1: Jaguars dot Com. You can see them all. Looking forward
39:38
Speaker 1: to that. And hey, thanks for your time, Shelynn, great
39:41
Speaker 1: to see you have a good one. Thank you for
39:44
Speaker 1: having me so long, fellas so long. Ashland Sullivan out
39:47
Speaker 1: of here, Jaguars reporter joining us in great job. I
39:50
Speaker 1: mean those some of these and you know what I
39:52
Speaker 1: like about this crew, the free agency crew that have
39:56
Speaker 1: come in here. It seems like they all have their
40:00
Speaker 1: act together, like they're at least the presentation that they
40:03
Speaker 1: had on the zoom call or the team's call. Excuse me, um,
40:08
Speaker 1: they're they're all pretty sharp guys. Well, you have two
40:11
Speaker 1: people whose sole job is to to find guys they're
40:15
Speaker 1: gonna fit the culture. I mean literally, you have two guys.
40:18
Speaker 1: Okay they are, they're on staff that make sure that
40:22
Speaker 1: who they bring in fits what they want to be.
40:25
Speaker 1: And I'm talking about from uh everything is a player
40:30
Speaker 1: to the way that they carry themselves away from this facility.
40:33
Speaker 1: We're talking about two gentlemen, Ryan Stamper and Marcus Pollard.
40:37
Speaker 1: And Ryan Stampers from Jacksonville. Marcus Pollard has been here
40:40
Speaker 1: for quite some time and and obviously Marcus Pollard has
40:43
Speaker 1: played the game and he knows what it what it
40:45
Speaker 1: takes to be a pro. And Ryan Stamper has a
40:47
Speaker 1: huge amount of trust from the head coach, Urban Meyer,
40:51
Speaker 1: no doubt. And now those guys will really be key
40:54
Speaker 1: in the draft process too. You know, they got a
40:56
Speaker 1: lot of phone calls to make j petts because that's
41:00
Speaker 1: the one thing about the draft is because i mean
41:03
Speaker 1: similar to free agency and an Urban talked about You know,
41:05
Speaker 1: you can't meet these guys or talk to them much
41:08
Speaker 1: before you've given them all these contracts. The draft is
41:11
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41:13
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41:15
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41:17
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41:20
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41:22
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41:26
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41:30
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41:33
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41:35
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41:38
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45:47
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Speaker 1: season have their opportunity to get your seats. Locked in
46:50
Speaker 1: because they will go quickly. To go back to when
46:54
Speaker 1: the Jaguars acquired Callers High, Yeah, the first time, that's right.
46:59
Speaker 1: That was a result of roster mismanagement. In my opinion.
47:04
Speaker 1: You didn't have a deep enough running back room and
47:07
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you got kind of desperate
47:09
Speaker 1: and then you had to do a trade and it
47:11
Speaker 1: didn't work out because it was just it was you
47:14
Speaker 1: can't do that if you had managed the position better
47:18
Speaker 1: leading up to the season and you brought in more
47:21
Speaker 1: people that could compete at that position, which they didn't
47:25
Speaker 1: do and uh, and it cost him. It cost him
47:28
Speaker 1: a draft pick and not a lot of production out
47:31
Speaker 1: of the guy that you acquired. Now, now that Carlos
47:34
Speaker 1: Hide is here and he's gonna have full, you know,
47:36
Speaker 1: the full amount of time to get ready to play.
47:39
Speaker 1: As we've seen where he's been elsewhere, he's been good
47:42
Speaker 1: against this team, Yes, he was good. So the blame
47:46
Speaker 1: on the first go around for Carlos Hides lack of production,
47:50
Speaker 1: in my opinion, does not fall on Carlos Hide. That
47:53
Speaker 1: falls on the Jaguars roster mismanagement. At the time you
47:57
Speaker 1: have it, he's back, it's a new world. It's really
48:00
Speaker 1: new team for him, new leadership, new half the locker
48:03
Speaker 1: room at least will be new next year as well,
48:06
Speaker 1: and will be interested to see. You know, he's obviously
48:08
Speaker 1: James Robinson is the guy, but what hides role is
48:12
Speaker 1: here will be interesting to look. He's gonna be a
48:16
Speaker 1: guy that can spell him. I mean, flamew simple. He's
48:20
Speaker 1: along the same lines of player. He's a veterano, he's dependable,
48:25
Speaker 1: and he's tough, and he's been available throughout his career.
48:28
Speaker 1: But you, as I said before, you need to find
48:31
Speaker 1: somebody else in that room that makes you hold your breath,
48:35
Speaker 1: that makes easy completions in big plays for your quarterback,
48:38
Speaker 1: for your young quarterback. Let's go around the National Football
48:43
Speaker 1: League some more signings, free agencies open. Of course, the
48:47
Speaker 1: big first wave is pretty much done, but there's still
48:50
Speaker 1: some names out there, but not Malcolm Butler. He signed
48:53
Speaker 1: with the Cardinals, adding to the list of big names
48:56
Speaker 1: added in Arizona. J. J. Watt, A. J. Green, just
48:59
Speaker 1: a couple of those that they've added earlier in this
49:01
Speaker 1: offseason logs. And now they've got Malcolm Butler going to
49:04
Speaker 1: the place where he made the interception in the Super
49:07
Speaker 1: Bowl well, and that's why he has a big name.
49:11
Speaker 1: But if you look at these three guys in particular, Okay, J. J.
49:17
Speaker 1: Watt doesn't look like J. J. Watt that we've known.
49:21
Speaker 1: If you watched him last year, he's slowing down. When's
49:24
Speaker 1: the last time he has moments? JP? But he's not
49:28
Speaker 1: the same place, not just a couple of years. When's
49:30
Speaker 1: the last time A. J. Green was dominant? It's been
49:33
Speaker 1: a little bit. Okay, And in Malcolm Butler, he made
49:36
Speaker 1: a great play in the Super Bowl, but he's a
49:38
Speaker 1: number one corner, you know. So even though you say
49:42
Speaker 1: they're big names, they're not big time players in my
49:46
Speaker 1: opinion anymore. They all three have a lot to prove,
49:50
Speaker 1: and they may prove it. I'm not saying they can't,
49:52
Speaker 1: but they got a lot to prove. A J. Green
49:54
Speaker 1: in the same division now is Jalen Ramsey. They're old buddies. Yeah,
49:57
Speaker 1: they might have a little Kumbaya moment, right That could
50:00
Speaker 1: be an interesting watch. We'll have to watch those Cardinals.
50:03
Speaker 1: Rampsy Green lost his cool little uh yeah say so?
50:08
Speaker 1: Flipped him around on the field twice. Wide receiver t
50:11
Speaker 1: Y Hilton returning to the Colts one year ten million
50:13
Speaker 1: bucks eight million guaranteed his tenth season and ND it's
50:17
Speaker 1: where he's going to end his career. It feels like he's,
50:19
Speaker 1: uh he's a solid player. He is not. He doesn't
50:24
Speaker 1: make you hold your breath like he used to in
50:26
Speaker 1: the early days he did. And when when t Y
50:29
Speaker 1: was in the first you know, five six years of
50:32
Speaker 1: his career, he was fantastic, and his uh rate of
50:36
Speaker 1: putting up numbers was was tremendous the last couple of years, uh,
50:40
Speaker 1: you know, and part of that has been also due
50:42
Speaker 1: to the lack of great quarterback play in Indianapolis. And
50:46
Speaker 1: I think he got back a little bit last year
50:48
Speaker 1: when he had the ability to play with Philip Rivers,
50:50
Speaker 1: but he got a couple of years before that that
50:52
Speaker 1: were kind of lost. And uh, a good signing for him,
50:55
Speaker 1: you know, to go back and hopefully finished his career
50:58
Speaker 1: out as a cult. It's a air contract eight million
51:01
Speaker 1: plus two million incentives, and uh, I hope he doesn't
51:05
Speaker 1: earn any of those incentives against the Jaguars. The NFL
51:09
Speaker 1: has cleared the way for Washington owner Daniel Snyder to
51:12
Speaker 1: buy out the minority investors in the team finance committee.
51:16
Speaker 1: A prof Snyder's application for a four hundred fifty million
51:20
Speaker 1: dollar debt waiver. Other owners will vote at the meeting
51:23
Speaker 1: next week on whether to approve the deal. It needs
51:26
Speaker 1: twenty four votes in favor to pass. The total amount
51:29
Speaker 1: of the deal for the remaining shares is eight hundred
51:32
Speaker 1: seventy five million dollars. He would have to repay that
51:35
Speaker 1: debt by well, because the league has if people didn't
51:39
Speaker 1: know this, they have rules about the amount of debt
51:43
Speaker 1: that each team can carry, and that's what why they're
51:47
Speaker 1: saying that they're allowing this to happen, but it has
51:51
Speaker 1: to be repaid by and Daniel Snyder and the owners
51:55
Speaker 1: other owners. There's been a lot of things that have
51:59
Speaker 1: been reported about how contentious that relationship has been and
52:04
Speaker 1: that some of the accusations about Dan Snyder and the
52:09
Speaker 1: happenings in the organization were a result of some of
52:12
Speaker 1: the other owners maybe providing the information to people to
52:18
Speaker 1: expose Daniel Snyder. And there's still the investigation going on.
52:21
Speaker 1: I think the league investigation as to some of those
52:24
Speaker 1: and and here's the reality jp the league is not
52:27
Speaker 1: approving all this debt relief. If the investigation is going
52:31
Speaker 1: to go anywhere you have it. The NFL memo added
52:35
Speaker 1: another detail to team's draft preparations logs, relaxation on masking
52:41
Speaker 1: and distancing requirements. If all individuals in the draft room
52:45
Speaker 1: are fully vaccinated, there can be a maximum of ten
52:49
Speaker 1: fully vaccinated individuals in the draft room for the team.
52:53
Speaker 1: If all are fully vaccinated, physical distancing is relaxed, eating
52:57
Speaker 1: and drinking will be permissible. Friday is the deadline for
53:00
Speaker 1: draft room plans to be reviewed and approved by NFL
53:04
Speaker 1: Chief Medical Officer Dr. Alan Sill. So there you go.
53:08
Speaker 1: An additional change, which is uh. I hate to say this.
53:13
Speaker 1: A lot of that too, is also for appearances and
53:17
Speaker 1: because look, when you're when you're a successful league like
53:21
Speaker 1: the NFL is, you don't want to do anything to
53:24
Speaker 1: have a negative pr hit. And so the league is
53:29
Speaker 1: going to do everything it can to make sure that
53:32
Speaker 1: no negative publicity comes out of these draft room cams.
53:37
Speaker 1: And uh and and it's and it's good business, it's
53:39
Speaker 1: smart business to do that. A bad story turned into
53:43
Speaker 1: a good story. Out in Tempe, Arizona, New England, Patriots
53:46
Speaker 1: reserve offensive tackle Justin Herron works out out there in
53:50
Speaker 1: the off season. He was honored by the Tempe Police Department.
53:53
Speaker 1: This week, he helped stop an attempted sexual assault at
53:56
Speaker 1: a park over the weekend. The suspect was seen pushing
53:59
Speaker 1: a have any one year old lady to the ground
54:01
Speaker 1: in broad daylight? Mind you? Um hereon and another man
54:05
Speaker 1: intervened when they heard yelling. They yelled at the man,
54:09
Speaker 1: pulled him off the lady and told him to sit
54:11
Speaker 1: down and wait on the cops. And they intervened and
54:14
Speaker 1: saved her. And they have been honored by the police department.
54:18
Speaker 1: I hope that he gave the suspect a little bit
54:22
Speaker 1: of a the business, a little bit of a calmer,
54:27
Speaker 1: you know they call a calmer, you know, you getting
54:30
Speaker 1: a little feisty, Give him a couple of wraps upside
54:33
Speaker 1: the head, calm them down. I hope he got a
54:36
Speaker 1: little bit of that. Yeah, given him the extra pushing
54:40
Speaker 1: down to send me your one year old woman, come on.
54:44
Speaker 1: Crazy story. It turned out the suspect probably ran into
54:48
Speaker 1: a couple of trees while he was trying to run
54:50
Speaker 1: away from some folks there. That that can happen probably.
54:54
Speaker 1: Let's finish today with veteran sportscaster Dick Stockton retiring from
54:58
Speaker 1: Fox Sports well fifty five years as a play by
55:02
Speaker 1: play announcer at least hundred and forty five network television
55:07
Speaker 1: games across four major pro sports leagues, the NFL, MLB,
55:11
Speaker 1: NBA in the NHL. That's more than any sports broadcaster ever,
55:15
Speaker 1: including seven hundred fourteen NFL games. And and uh and
55:20
Speaker 1: I was a part of a couple of them and
55:21
Speaker 1: had production meetings with him. Super gracious guy, super nice guy.
55:26
Speaker 1: And uh, I wish him the best. He's what seventy
55:28
Speaker 1: eight now. I hope he enjoys every moment that that
55:33
Speaker 1: he has in retirement. He deserves it. He um. He
55:36
Speaker 1: called the Carlton Fisk nineteen seventy five World Series home
55:39
Speaker 1: running Game six, And remember that I was not alive yet,
55:44
Speaker 1: No I know that, but you remember as far as
55:46
Speaker 1: watching the highlights, because that's one of the greatest calls ever.
55:49
Speaker 1: Absolutely was. And he started back in Philadelphia, his hometown,
55:53
Speaker 1: Joe Fortunado's hometown in nineteen sixty five. So congratulations on
55:57
Speaker 1: the retirement and curious to see what happened. So are
56:02
Speaker 1: you going to fill his shoes? Jakes? I don't think so.
56:04
Speaker 1: Come on, that's our look around the NFL, all right,
56:08
Speaker 1: so we've got a few minutes left your lock, So
56:10
Speaker 1: what is your what's your favorite free agent addition so
56:15
Speaker 1: far for the Jakes, what's one stands out the most
56:17
Speaker 1: to you? Well, do you have one yet? I really
56:22
Speaker 1: don't have one yet, but but here's what I do like.
56:26
Speaker 1: Everybody that has come in here has said the right
56:30
Speaker 1: things as far as when you come in you know
56:34
Speaker 1: you don't have no you don't come in and having
56:36
Speaker 1: an expectation of what you deserve. The players have come
56:39
Speaker 1: in and said, I'm willing to do anything for this
56:42
Speaker 1: team to win, and they keep using that word win.
56:46
Speaker 1: It's not about me and the attention that I get
56:49
Speaker 1: and the role that I'm gonna fill. It's about winning.
56:53
Speaker 1: And I think that's the thing for me that's been
56:55
Speaker 1: the most impressive is that everybody that has had a
56:59
Speaker 1: chance to get in of the MIC has always talked
57:01
Speaker 1: about team first and team goals before they talked about themselves.
57:06
Speaker 1: And that's critical to any team's success, especially one you're
57:10
Speaker 1: trying to rebuild. You know who I'm excited to hear from.
57:14
Speaker 1: We haven't heard from yet. Tyson, one of the best
57:18
Speaker 1: guys ever. I don't know what he's scheduled. I don't worry,
57:21
Speaker 1: but I don't need to hear from Tyson. Ala already
57:24
Speaker 1: know what kind of a guy he is. He's one
57:27
Speaker 1: of the best guys that has ever walked through these doors.
57:31
Speaker 1: Marvin and I will tell you Marcedes Lewis Tyson a
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Speaker 1: La Wallu. I mean, two of my all time favorite
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Speaker 1: guys that have ever graced these hallways. And I'm excited
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Speaker 1: to have Tyson back because he is as good of
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Speaker 1: a guy as there is, and he's still a really
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Speaker 1: good football player. You mentioned Mercedeses. I failed to include
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Speaker 1: him in the NFL notes. He signed a new year,
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Speaker 1: new deal, two years, eight million bucks. Another guy that
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Speaker 1: just continues to defy father father time, just like Tyson,
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Speaker 1: no doubt. So there you have it. Our look around
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Speaker 1: free agency and coming up next week, we're well, we're
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Speaker 1: about a month away from the draft logs. It is
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Speaker 1: coming quick. Wonder who they're going to pick for Wonder
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Speaker 1: that's a great Maybe we'll have week maybe next week
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Speaker 1: names that might be candidates. See if anything sticks, you know,
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Speaker 1: that's a good idea. The real drama will be at
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Speaker 1: twenty five though, of course, and all these mock drafts
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Speaker 1: are are coming out. You know, John Ozier on Jaguars
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Speaker 1: dot Com doesn't like a mock draft tracker where he
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Speaker 1: tracks all these mock drafts. Obviously, that's why it's named that,
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Speaker 1: and everybody unanimously has been number one, Trevor Lawrence. But
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Speaker 1: twenty five is a crap shoot, you don't know. I mean,
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Speaker 1: every mock is different, and it just depends on the
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Speaker 1: scenario above. And we'll see we could end, could be tight,
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Speaker 1: it could be safety, could be tackle, anything could really
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Speaker 1: it could be any thing, could be the best available.
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Speaker 1: Here's one thing that's for sure, not a kicker upon
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Speaker 1: You need to find a serious contributor with that. I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about somebody that's gonna walk in and play and
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Speaker 1: contribute to make this team better immediately. That's what you
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Speaker 1: expect with first round picks. Thanks to Judi Batista NFL Media,
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Speaker 1: one of the best in the business, Ashlyn Sullivan, Jaguars reporter,
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Speaker 1: joining us as well. Brent Reaver on the video side,
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Speaker 1: Joe Fortunato on the audio side, Jeff Logaman to my
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Speaker 1: left side, your right side, I'm J P. Shadrick. We'll
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