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Speaker 1: Jaguars. Did you know Jaguars Jaguars. Did you know Jaguars
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Speaker 1: drive to him? Brian Sexton, John Osher, Ashland Sullivan, Jaguars.
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Speaker 1: Drive Time starts right now. I'm happy Tuesday, Good morning, sun,
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Speaker 1: splash Field that ever Bank. Just a minute ago we
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Speaker 1: were looking at the Heartbridge Expressway. I always marvel at
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Speaker 1: how peaceful it looks. You know, people are out there,
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Speaker 1: maybe listening on tune in there it is um. Everything's
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Speaker 1: moving along, swimmingly. And yet when I'm out on that road,
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Speaker 1: I'm not in here. I think, oh my god, let
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Speaker 1: me get off this traffic. You just see the road rage?
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Speaker 1: Now are you you raged? That way? So peaceful road
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Speaker 1: road today. We know that during drivetime it often isn't peaceful,
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Speaker 1: but we hope you're having a nice morning here. Brian Sexton,
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Speaker 1: along with John Osier and Ashland Sullivan for Jacks Drive
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Speaker 1: Time got a big show four today. One thing we
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Speaker 1: want to start with something new as we get set
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Speaker 1: for a five day work week for this program starting
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Speaker 1: in the fall. If we announced that yet what we
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Speaker 1: just did, it could be Monday through Friday nine thirty
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Speaker 1: on this program every single day. One of the things
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Speaker 1: we want to do is a Twitter poll get you
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Speaker 1: engaged in the program since we stream live on Twitter,
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Speaker 1: um and today we have a Twitter pull up. In fact,
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Speaker 1: it probably is out there right now, thanks to darn
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Speaker 1: and the great folks over in digital and social for
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Speaker 1: getting it out there. We're asking you to answer this
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Speaker 1: question which a f C South team offers the greatest
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Speaker 1: challenge to the Jaguars repeating as division champions. So let
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Speaker 1: us know what you think. Obviously, Colts, Texans, Titans, and
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Speaker 1: then no one, what do you know? What do you think?
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that a little bit later in the show.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, guys, how are you? Good morning? I'm gonta
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Speaker 1: say the Jaguars off for their biggest challenge that a
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Speaker 1: little bit more. How it's been awesome? Right And speaking
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Speaker 1: of road rage, Ashlan, how are you? I'm great. I
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Speaker 1: didn't have any road okay, good? I got here nice
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Speaker 1: and early? All right? Good? I did not. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: think that's going to be a challenge for you just
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Speaker 1: to kind of adjust your schedule a little bit. No,
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Speaker 1: you really haven't, but early yet either, But on time
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Speaker 1: is on time? I guess, so I guess. So I
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Speaker 1: don't know if I co from time I have been downtime.
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Speaker 1: I think everybody's watching right now can certainly appreciate that.
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Speaker 1: So don't forget the Twitter poll. Also, since we're streaming
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Speaker 1: live on Facebook as well, if you've got comments, Ashlyn
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Speaker 1: over there with your computer in front of her will
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Speaker 1: be perusing them. So basically, in the last block of
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Speaker 1: the show, we're going to see how interactive we can
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Speaker 1: be with your thoughts and comments. Both hands on the wheel,
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Speaker 1: especially in the Heartbridge Expressway. But if you are in
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Speaker 1: a position where you can join us, we'd love to
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Speaker 1: have your thoughts in this morning program, our presentation drivetime.
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Speaker 1: So let's start with big things. Let's do it. Big
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Speaker 1: thing Number one is Rookies. They are here at the
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Speaker 1: stadium for the first time this week ever since two
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Speaker 1: thousand fifty when Dante Faller Jr. Tour that a c
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Speaker 1: L during Rookie Mini Camp, this program has changed a
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Speaker 1: little bit. So guys we're looking at this year, how
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Speaker 1: do you think it will differ at all from last season? Well,
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Speaker 1: the weekend this weekend, I probably won't. It's it's it's
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Speaker 1: very much an orientation and they asked by people in
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Speaker 1: the old days they used to open this and I've
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Speaker 1: asked by people, why don't they open it now? Well,
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Speaker 1: there's not much to see, is the biggest reason. It's
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's practice. The media doesn't even really get
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Speaker 1: to watch it. It's very much through, very right, and uh,
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Speaker 1: it's it's very much a walk through very much. Let's
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Speaker 1: get these guys ready so that they know the schedule,
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Speaker 1: that they know the drills, what's going to be expected,
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Speaker 1: the pace of things, and get them ready for when
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Speaker 1: they h the O t A s start in the
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Speaker 1: on field starts stuff with the veterans a little later
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Speaker 1: in matt You know, not everybody. Let's say everybody, the
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Speaker 1: thirty two teams all have their own philosophy how this
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Speaker 1: goes two thousand fifteen, so that would be three rookie
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Speaker 1: camps to go. I was standing next to Dan Edwards
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Speaker 1: and we're out there just chatting. You know, it's a bright,
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Speaker 1: sunny day, it feels like any camp and rookies are
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Speaker 1: running around. And by the way, it's not just the
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Speaker 1: draft class and the undrafted. They have a long list
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Speaker 1: of guys who were invited for tryouts so that they
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Speaker 1: could have enough guys to actually go through some of
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Speaker 1: these things. There's also some first year guys who are
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Speaker 1: around but don't have the experience actually be veterans, So
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Speaker 1: it's that much. So we're watching and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: down goes Dante Fowler couldn't tell the number, didn't even
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Speaker 1: know the number at that point. Were just handed the
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Speaker 1: roster first and I turned to Dan and I said,
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Speaker 1: is that the rookie first round picked out? And he said,
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Speaker 1: I believe that it is. And of course we know
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Speaker 1: he missed that season. And since then, the Jaguars changed
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Speaker 1: their approach, which in retrospect is really smart because these
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Speaker 1: guys are not in football shape. Now. The injury was fluke.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't even engaged with anybody. His knee just buckled.
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Speaker 1: But it really changed the approach to the rookie minicamp.
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Speaker 1: As you said, it's more about getting a man and
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Speaker 1: getting him up to pace, up to speed, not just
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Speaker 1: on the field, but in the weight room. How they're
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Speaker 1: going to work with Tom Mice Linskin, so that they're
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Speaker 1: ready to work. You know how it is on your
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Speaker 1: first day of work. You're all over the place, he
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Speaker 1: you're walking, you don't know what's going on. So they
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Speaker 1: want these guys to be as ready as possible, in essence,
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Speaker 1: so that they don't get in the veterans way as
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Speaker 1: much as anything, so that those guys can work and
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Speaker 1: then the rookies can catch up. And I'm not getting away,
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Speaker 1: but everything gets going. Now go back to Fowler. That
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Speaker 1: was a disappointment, I mean for everybody because we were
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Speaker 1: anticipating seeing this guy on the field, and the jack
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Speaker 1: were certainly needed the pass rush. At that point, they
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Speaker 1: were still a team struggling to create pressure on the quarterback.
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Speaker 1: It's different this year for the rookie class because, as
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Speaker 1: you've written and national folks have observed, none of these
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Speaker 1: guys may start, which is the first time we've had
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Speaker 1: this in a while, or the team hopes they don't start,
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Speaker 1: because for most of these guys, if they start, um
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Speaker 1: something else has gone wrong, someone's injured. Who starts if
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Speaker 1: everything else goes right. I don't think they want what
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Speaker 1: riches on the field at all this year. You would
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Speaker 1: like Harrison as a special teams player. Nobody below that
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Speaker 1: except the punder and Tavin Brian. You know, it's it's
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Speaker 1: almost not fair in this day and age to say
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Speaker 1: that Shark and Brian won't be starting because there's really
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Speaker 1: fifteen sixteen guys on each side of the ball who
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Speaker 1: matter like starters, So to say that they won't be
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Speaker 1: involved is to misrepresent what they want from those guys.
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Speaker 1: But they won't be number one on the depth chart
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Speaker 1: unless something goes wrong. It's really interesting about this, Ashley,
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Speaker 1: is that when we were growing up, Right and John
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Speaker 1: followed the Redskins, and I follow the St. Louis Cardinals
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Speaker 1: and then then the Kansas City Chiefs. When the Cardinals
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Speaker 1: went to Arizona, first round picks didn't come in with
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Speaker 1: the expectation of starting. There was the rare player that
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Speaker 1: was so good, but overall rookies were brought along and
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Speaker 1: we're for the first time, I think in my professional career,
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Speaker 1: which is twenty five seasons, we're at a point where
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Speaker 1: we're back to that where this roster has enough players
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Speaker 1: that you don't have to say the right tackle needs
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Speaker 1: to start, the safety needs to step in. Well, it's
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Speaker 1: really rare, because really rare. We started covering the league
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Speaker 1: and ninety four, remember that was right after free agency began,
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Speaker 1: and it was a few years after. In the old
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Speaker 1: days when I was growing up watching it, there was
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Speaker 1: really no free agency, so the only way you could
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Speaker 1: turn your roster was getting guys through trade where you
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Speaker 1: could get guys who were released or rookies. So as
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Speaker 1: a result, you would have eighteen nineteen twenty stars coming
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Speaker 1: back on a team and it would be notable when
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Speaker 1: I guest started, especially for the good teams. So the
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Speaker 1: thought that rookies come in right away Ashland is a
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Speaker 1: product of free agency which was came along right And
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Speaker 1: you look at this team's free agency the past few years,
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Speaker 1: They've acquired so many needs during that time that now
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Speaker 1: the draft, it's like they're just adding depth, which is
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Speaker 1: a good thing to have. Yeah, and as you said,
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Speaker 1: really really rare to be in this position. So just
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Speaker 1: you set the expectation level for what Harrison should be
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Speaker 1: this year, which is a terrific special teams player, maybe
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Speaker 1: a spot performer where they need him. How about the
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Speaker 1: first two picks though, Um, what's a fair expectation for
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Speaker 1: Tavin Bryant's contribution And I'm not saying a number of
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Speaker 1: tackles or sacks or any of that up thing for
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Speaker 1: DJ Chark, who with Montcrief in front of him, doesn't
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Speaker 1: have to step in and be the big play threat
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Speaker 1: right away. I would put you guys who want more
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Speaker 1: from Brian because it's a position where you would think
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Speaker 1: the defensive line is going to rotate. Um. If you
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Speaker 1: think about Smoots play last year, I would expect him
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Speaker 1: to be contributing a little quicker than Smoot his first
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Speaker 1: round pick and parried to a third round pick. Uh.
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Speaker 1: He's a guy who they expected at some point to
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Speaker 1: be a star down the road. I don't know that
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Speaker 1: they expect Smooth to be a star on that level.
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Speaker 1: They spected to be a very good player. UH. So
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Speaker 1: I would go back look Smith. I think Smooth played
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Speaker 1: two fifty to three hundred if memory serves plays. Uh
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Speaker 1: started playing more at the end of the season when
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Speaker 1: they wanted to give Clay's Campbell a little bit, a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a break. So I would think you'd
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Speaker 1: see him Smooth just played on that outside and spot.
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Speaker 1: I would think you'd see Bryant play a little bit
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Speaker 1: there and a little bit inside, try to figure out
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Speaker 1: where he works bad. And I think it's fair to
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Speaker 1: expect some more impact than you got from Smooth last year.
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Speaker 1: Smarent a couple of decent plays uh and played very
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Speaker 1: well in terms of getting them through spots where Campbell
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Speaker 1: wasn't in. But I would think you'd see Bryant make
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Speaker 1: a little bit more of an impact. Sorry, I think
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Speaker 1: you'll see him probably have You'll feel like he's contributing
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Speaker 1: more because he's an offensive guy, and every catch will
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Speaker 1: be noticeable. Five catches, you know, uh, if if he
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Speaker 1: can stretch the field, he can make an impact with
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Speaker 1: that actually having stats. I'll be interested by the way
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Speaker 1: and how the Drags used Brian because you know, on
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Speaker 1: Draft night they talked about how he can play a
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Speaker 1: couple of different roles for them. He can play the three,
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Speaker 1: he can play the five, you can play the seven,
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Speaker 1: you can play a couple of different the strong end
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Speaker 1: um in particular. You know with rookies they have around
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Speaker 1: here kind of focus them in one area. If they
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Speaker 1: just have Davin Bryant playing that three technique, it would
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Speaker 1: seem to me their expectations are writer than if he
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Speaker 1: plays the three and the five. You know, then they're
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Speaker 1: just trying to well, not Josh, but they're working him
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Speaker 1: in two different spots, trying to have him part of
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Speaker 1: the rotation. I think if he just works at the three,
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Speaker 1: well then it says we expect him to be a
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Speaker 1: guy who contributes in the role we give him. I'm
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Speaker 1: really interested to see how he learns and how quickly
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Speaker 1: he will When you're going up against that defensive line
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Speaker 1: and you're with them every day, Think how quick he'll
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Speaker 1: learn from guys like Klais Campbell and Malie Jackson. His
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Speaker 1: first day in that rep line, that's gonna be exciting.
10:27
Speaker 1: And I supposedly his m O is he's a hard
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Speaker 1: work or good learner and he should catch on fast.
10:31
Speaker 1: And I talked to Jerry Sullivan, the old Jaguars wide
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Speaker 1: receiver coach, about Shark yesterday. He loves the guy, said
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Speaker 1: if he was coaching in the NFL, this is the
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Speaker 1: kind of kid he would want. He started working with
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Speaker 1: the coach who worked with him. He was a consultant
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Speaker 1: last year. Jerry was but he's able to watch the
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Speaker 1: kids progress, and he said absolutely that he's got the talent.
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Speaker 1: There's some stuff he needs to work on in terms
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Speaker 1: of hands, but the character, the things that he likes.
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Speaker 1: I got the idea that he liked Shark in the
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Speaker 1: same way that he liked Dave rob Hearns leave that
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Speaker 1: bunch felt like talking to Jerry about those guys, which obviously,
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Speaker 1: look what you did with those guys. All right, So
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Speaker 1: Rookie Minicamp this week. They'll be in later in the
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Speaker 1: week and we will not obviously be out on the
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Speaker 1: practice field, but we'll get a chance to talk to
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Speaker 1: some of the guys on Friday and head coach Doug Morons,
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Speaker 1: who we'll have a rap of that next week here
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Speaker 1: on Jags Drive Time. Don't forget our Twitter poll which
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Speaker 1: is up and out there right now. Which team in
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Speaker 1: the a f C South is the greatest challenge for
11:30
Speaker 1: the Jaguars as they look to repeat as South Division
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Speaker 1: champions for the first time since they did it back
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Speaker 1: in back in the old a f C Central Facebook
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Speaker 1: thoughts as well. Ashland's all over that one. When we
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Speaker 1: return to Jack's Drive time here on a beautiful Tuesday
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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. It's big thing too and Big Thing three.
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Speaker 1: this Tuesday morning. Here with Big Thing number two. We're
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Speaker 1: looking at veterans now, the whole team, veterans and rookies,
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Speaker 1: adding them together. Looking at a few position groups here,
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Speaker 1: like running back guys, and they didn't draft a running
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Speaker 1: back you don't have a rookie to fill in that spot,
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Speaker 1: now what Yeah, and this is the time, obviously, if
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Speaker 1: you're where you start looking at your big round things, uh,
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Speaker 1: as opposed to the specifics of it. You wrote a
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Speaker 1: column yesterday. It's a story up on the jagg wars
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Speaker 1: dot com where you look position by position. Um I
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Speaker 1: thought the running back one was interesting because it's an
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Speaker 1: area they didn't address in the draft for whatever reason.
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Speaker 1: And when you've got a running back like Leonard Fernett,
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Speaker 1: who's that big, physical, bruising guy, my belief is you're
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Speaker 1: gonna need another one just like that because that's your personality,
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Speaker 1: your style. Tech Yelden's not that guy. Corey Grant not
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Speaker 1: that guy. Both of them have a role here. So
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Speaker 1: how do they address it? Well, um I had at
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Speaker 1: least one guy in the personnel department say we're excited
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Speaker 1: about what we think we're gonna get from t J.
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Speaker 1: Yelden this year. So clearly, and and you know last year,
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Speaker 1: Yelldon wasn't even active healthy but not active until Indianapolis
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Speaker 1: and he came up with a huge game dwo yards
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Speaker 1: in the fifty eight year touchdown against the Colts. Had
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Speaker 1: a big game with a couple of plays that stand
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Speaker 1: out in the passing game in Pittsburgh in the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: So clearly they're comfortable with where t J. Yeldon stands
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Speaker 1: as a part of the offense. I think that's the
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Speaker 1: biggest thing to remember, and Tim Cook, who's fourth right
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Speaker 1: now in that group, has a chance at some point.
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Speaker 1: Um it's easy to always look back and what happened
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Speaker 1: in the past and think, well, that has to be
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Speaker 1: the way it is going forward. Yelden's role was a
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Speaker 1: little bit more of a third down back, catch the
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Speaker 1: ball out of the backfield spot. When Ivory and Foett
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Speaker 1: Warren and when I asked about this, well, why didn't
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Speaker 1: you draft a running back to play in back a
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Speaker 1: for Net? And what I was told is, look at
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Speaker 1: how it broke down at the end of last season.
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Speaker 1: Chris Ivory, who everybody thought they sort of had to replace,
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Speaker 1: didn't play in the last two regulous season games, didn't
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Speaker 1: play in two of the three playoff games. He wasn't
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Speaker 1: getting on the field. So their thought was, we don't
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Speaker 1: have to replace an element that was not playing a
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Speaker 1: key role. The X factor there is does four Net
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Speaker 1: stay healthy enough where that does in bite him, but
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Speaker 1: they believe that yelled in can be effective. Moving a
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Speaker 1: little bit more into what Chris Ivory did last year.
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Speaker 1: So you can't really base it all on how it
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Speaker 1: played out last year. When you look like, say, worst
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Speaker 1: case scenario four, NET does get hurt and then you
15:48
Speaker 1: look at all of that depth chart, do you think
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars are okay with what they have right now? Um?
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Speaker 1: I think they're okay if yelled in is what they
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Speaker 1: started to believe he was last year. Remember at the
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Speaker 1: end of the beginning of last to year, you could
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Speaker 1: tell when Doug started talking about yelled in right before
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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis game, that he it's sometimes tough as a
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Speaker 1: coach to manage the roster. You want to get all
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Speaker 1: guys in, and there's and there's times you're playing guys
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Speaker 1: and you can't get a guy in. You can tell
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Speaker 1: he's sort of rethought t J yelled in, and he
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Speaker 1: said publicly a couple of times, we need to get
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Speaker 1: this guy in the game more. We like what he's doing.
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Speaker 1: So I think a lot of that I thought that
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Speaker 1: Doug was showing publicly last year went on again in
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Speaker 1: the off season. They said, you know what t j.
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Speaker 1: Yelden deserves a chance to be the backup, deserves a
16:35
Speaker 1: chance to be the guy for Nette can't go. We
16:37
Speaker 1: don't think of him like that because we really haven't
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Speaker 1: seen that sort of production out of him. That's how
16:41
Speaker 1: they're thinking of t J. You know, my answer to
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Speaker 1: your question is this, in today's game, if you have
16:46
Speaker 1: a good backup, you're okay right at quarterback. But if
16:50
Speaker 1: you lose your starter, you're in trouble. If for Net's
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Speaker 1: going for any length of time, I think they're in
16:54
Speaker 1: trouble because their personality is so built on him and
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Speaker 1: their ability to pound the ball. I think they'll be
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Speaker 1: okay with Yeldon. I think Corey Grant is a guy
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Speaker 1: who you know, we saw him in the season finale
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Speaker 1: in sixteen in Indianapolis run for over a hundred yards
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Speaker 1: and added some big plays. I saw him walking in
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Speaker 1: there that he looks terrific, by the way, not that
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Speaker 1: he doesn't always look good. He's a very about said looks.
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Speaker 1: But but Grant, I asked him, I said, you know
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Speaker 1: the question that I get most often this offseason at
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Speaker 1: a rotary club or a group wherever I am, is
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Speaker 1: how come Corey didn't get the ball more in the
17:28
Speaker 1: a f C Championship. He just smiles. I said, he's
17:30
Speaker 1: been asked that too. He said, yeah, I said, you
17:32
Speaker 1: want the ball. He goes, yes, he wants the ball.
17:34
Speaker 1: So they're good. They're comfortable with what they've got. But
17:38
Speaker 1: keeping for Net healthy is a priority for this football
17:41
Speaker 1: team because he's more than just the starting running back.
17:44
Speaker 1: He really is the hammer, the personality on the offensive side. Um.
17:47
Speaker 1: You know, tight end is another position that this team
17:50
Speaker 1: was thought to have high on its list and going
17:54
Speaker 1: to address um they did in free agency with Austin
17:57
Speaker 1: Sefarie and Jenkins and Niles paul at A to Ben
18:00
Speaker 1: koyak Um. But in talking to some guys and not
18:06
Speaker 1: just the Jags personnel guys, the impact of a rookie
18:09
Speaker 1: tight end historically has not Yeah, it has not been
18:12
Speaker 1: that good. And so spending a pick at a position
18:15
Speaker 1: where you're not going to expect a lot, where you
18:18
Speaker 1: can find some veterans seems to make more sense for
18:21
Speaker 1: this football team. And guys that I talked to, you you said,
18:25
Speaker 1: you know, even the top guys, the Hearsts of the world,
18:28
Speaker 1: uh and the Dallas Goddards, their impact this year likely
18:31
Speaker 1: to be a lot less than people think. Right, the
18:33
Speaker 1: best tight end I've covered in terms of receiver was
18:35
Speaker 1: Dallas Clark and Andy, and he had an impact, I believe,
18:40
Speaker 1: I believe it's coming out here. Was oh three didn't
18:42
Speaker 1: really make an impact in that offense till oh four
18:44
Speaker 1: oh five. And this is a kid who was playing
18:46
Speaker 1: in a pass oriented offense, had the skill set, was
18:49
Speaker 1: a first round pick. Was very similar in terms of
18:52
Speaker 1: when he came in to Hearst and Goddard and that bunch.
18:56
Speaker 1: So to think you're gonna get huge impact at a
18:58
Speaker 1: rookie tight end is it is that probably a little
19:01
Speaker 1: bit much. I thought they might go with the position
19:04
Speaker 1: just because if they got somebody there, they would have
19:07
Speaker 1: that stretch the field effect. They clearly believed that they
19:12
Speaker 1: could get that more out of DJ Shark than they
19:14
Speaker 1: could out of the tight end position. Either way, it
19:16
Speaker 1: seems like they got it. And don't forget that. In
19:19
Speaker 1: the playoff game in Pittsburgh and really through the playoffs,
19:21
Speaker 1: both Ben Koyak and James O'Shaughnessy young veterans, gave them
19:25
Speaker 1: some plays in the passing game. And there's the opportunity
19:27
Speaker 1: for both of those guys to improve this off season
19:29
Speaker 1: and see what they god, especially at that spot you're
19:32
Speaker 1: talking in you O'Shaughnessy and Koyak, guys who were drafted
19:35
Speaker 1: into this league. So their philosophy here was especially once
19:41
Speaker 1: they got passed the first three or four our rounds,
19:43
Speaker 1: because they said they looked at tight end early. They
19:45
Speaker 1: liked the idea, but they just couldn't get to it.
19:47
Speaker 1: Sometimes it happens in the draft. Rather than go with
19:51
Speaker 1: a fifth round tight end and you had to develop,
19:53
Speaker 1: They've already got a couple of those guys on the roster.
19:55
Speaker 1: They've already got uh O'shawns, they've already Koyak. It's sort
20:01
Speaker 1: of the same philosophy they took with linebacker, rather than
20:04
Speaker 1: go after a fifth round strong side linebacker, we've got
20:06
Speaker 1: one of those. We've got a last year and player Brown.
20:09
Speaker 1: So there's a belief that guys who have been in
20:11
Speaker 1: the system for a year have had time to develop.
20:13
Speaker 1: If their fourth or fifth round picks, they're gonna be
20:16
Speaker 1: more prepared to play right now than a second round
20:19
Speaker 1: rookie would be. At a lot of spots. Any other
20:21
Speaker 1: groups that stand out to you as you I mean,
20:23
Speaker 1: I imagine since you did offense yesterday, you might have
20:25
Speaker 1: a defensive story coming soon. Uh yeah, I might. I
20:29
Speaker 1: just think that. Yeah, well it's uh I write that
20:32
Speaker 1: up now. Thanks a lot. Probably linebacker stands out on
20:37
Speaker 1: defense because it's a strange position in that sometimes fans
20:44
Speaker 1: panic when they see a a position on the depth
20:49
Speaker 1: chart where they haven't heard or seen everybody. And I
20:53
Speaker 1: got a question the other day about the problem it's
20:55
Speaker 1: strong side linebacker. Well, it's a problem strong side and
21:00
Speaker 1: backer unless Blair Brown can play. To me, they looked
21:03
Speaker 1: at Blair Brown last year and said, we need a
21:06
Speaker 1: guy who can come in and play strong side, probably
21:08
Speaker 1: play snaps. He doesn't have to be a multidimensional player
21:13
Speaker 1: in that role. He can be a one dimensional guy
21:15
Speaker 1: who can play on first down for now. Maybe he's
21:17
Speaker 1: more than that, but what they need him to be
21:20
Speaker 1: is a thirty percent of the downs first down player.
21:23
Speaker 1: Uh So, if if they thought he couldn't do that,
21:27
Speaker 1: they would have moved that up in the priority list.
21:30
Speaker 1: They've obviously seen enough in him to think that he
21:32
Speaker 1: can be that guy. The question becomes what happens after that.
21:36
Speaker 1: The depth at that spot concerns you a little bit,
21:39
Speaker 1: only because you haven't heard of the guys who are depth,
21:41
Speaker 1: and that will be a concern if Telvin, if Miles
21:45
Speaker 1: can't play. Last year, remember when Telvin could play for
21:47
Speaker 1: a couple of games, paulpas Lesnie came in, played out
21:50
Speaker 1: of position a little bit for what he had been doing,
21:52
Speaker 1: but played at very high level. They had miss a beat.
21:54
Speaker 1: Do they have that depth of linebackers? And obviously they
21:57
Speaker 1: drafted a linebacker, the kid from Wisconsin in the seventh round.
22:00
Speaker 1: He's more of a strong side guy. So we'll watch
22:02
Speaker 1: his development see if he can provide some quality depth
22:05
Speaker 1: as we go through this UM. Big thing three, Big
22:09
Speaker 1: thing three. So you talked about the Twitter poll defending
22:12
Speaker 1: the a f C South. We're looking at the next
22:14
Speaker 1: few weeks all of those teams, but this week we're
22:16
Speaker 1: looking at the Houston Texans. Now they didn't draft until
22:19
Speaker 1: the fourth selection in the third round, guys. So I
22:21
Speaker 1: don't think the storyline is more so the draft this
22:24
Speaker 1: year is that the injury prone players that are coming
22:26
Speaker 1: back to Shaun Watson, J. J. Watt, those guys. That's one.
22:31
Speaker 1: Two is the fact that this is a team that's
22:36
Speaker 1: had to rebuild through free agency. Their offensive line was
22:38
Speaker 1: atrocious last year if you remember ten sacks they allowed
22:41
Speaker 1: the Jaguars that started the Saxonville train rolling down the
22:44
Speaker 1: tracks on opening Day. Um. So they did try in
22:48
Speaker 1: free agency and the draft to improve the offensive line,
22:52
Speaker 1: and the storyline if you recall on draft day was well,
22:55
Speaker 1: the Texans really got their draft last year when they
22:58
Speaker 1: traded those picks, got out of Brockos Wilder's salary, and
23:01
Speaker 1: drafted to Shawn Watson. Get that, But Shaun Watson's coming
23:05
Speaker 1: back from the knee and he's gonna need the offensive line.
23:07
Speaker 1: To me, line too one does the defensive starts returning.
23:11
Speaker 1: Storyline too is have to improve their offensive line enough
23:15
Speaker 1: to give the Shawn Watsonson protection. Yeah, and to me
23:18
Speaker 1: if i'd the Texans, if I'm covering the Texans, that's
23:20
Speaker 1: storyline one. Because Watson showed that he can be good
23:24
Speaker 1: last year. He showed during a six game stretch that
23:27
Speaker 1: he can get through that first part of the order.
23:29
Speaker 1: I always like it to a baseball pitcher. A quarterback
23:32
Speaker 1: can look very good early, teams are going to figure
23:34
Speaker 1: him out. Can he be a mobile guy to buy himself?
23:38
Speaker 1: So I didn't watch him enough last year to know
23:40
Speaker 1: exactly how he was playing. But if his game is
23:45
Speaker 1: built on quickness, elusiveness, getting away athleticism in the backfield,
23:50
Speaker 1: can he do that now that the knee is different. Secondly,
23:55
Speaker 1: can the Texans offensive line protect well enough to give
23:59
Speaker 1: him the time he needs the way? There's sort of
24:03
Speaker 1: a thing out there that, well, if DeShawn Watson had
24:06
Speaker 1: played last year, then the Jaguars season would have been
24:08
Speaker 1: different because the Texans would have been better. The Texas
24:11
Speaker 1: are favored over the Jaguars with the Super Bowl, and
24:13
Speaker 1: in in one odds thing I saw, there's this perception
24:17
Speaker 1: that if Deshaun Watson had played, then the Texans season
24:20
Speaker 1: would have been entirely different. For a lot of pressure
24:22
Speaker 1: on a young kide coming back, you know, that's what
24:26
Speaker 1: the odds say. So can that offensive line be good enough?
24:31
Speaker 1: I don't particularly care who was a quarterback in that
24:33
Speaker 1: first game against the Texas. Against the Texas for the Jaguars,
24:36
Speaker 1: you have ten sex and that kind of pressure, nobody
24:38
Speaker 1: was gonna be able to function on that side. So
24:40
Speaker 1: to me, you're exactly right the offensive line. I wonder
24:42
Speaker 1: at this point about J. J. Watt Um. He's a
24:45
Speaker 1: otherworldly player. It's been a long time since he's been that.
24:49
Speaker 1: Eight games in the last two seasons, that's all he's played.
24:52
Speaker 1: So you're almost talking about the same story with luck
24:55
Speaker 1: and with what luck in Indianapolis. Are these guys actually
24:59
Speaker 1: gonna get back? You hope they do for the sake
25:01
Speaker 1: of the game. Eight games in two seasons. They say
25:04
Speaker 1: it's a lot. I don't. I have more questions about
25:08
Speaker 1: the Texans than I do answers going in. All right,
25:11
Speaker 1: so one more question area and then we can talk
25:12
Speaker 1: about where they added on the on the defensive side
25:14
Speaker 1: of the ball. Running back Lamar Miller was okay, pretty
25:18
Speaker 1: good player. I think he had a hundred yard game
25:19
Speaker 1: against this team once in the last two years since
25:21
Speaker 1: he went from Miami to uh to Houston. Good player,
25:25
Speaker 1: but he needs good around right well. And then so
25:27
Speaker 1: they're they're banking a lot on Deanna to Foreman, but
25:29
Speaker 1: he tore his achilles and he did that in November.
25:32
Speaker 1: That isn't the injury that you come back from it.
25:36
Speaker 1: It has sidelined more careers than guys have come back
25:39
Speaker 1: from it. They're running game needs to be able to
25:42
Speaker 1: help DeShawn Watson, and that's the question mark I have
25:46
Speaker 1: I get the talent on defense, Merciless is there, Clowney
25:49
Speaker 1: is a game record. They add Tyron Matthew and he
25:52
Speaker 1: wrecked the Jaguars with that interception in Arizona late in
25:55
Speaker 1: the year, and Aaron Colevin is a good player. But
25:58
Speaker 1: to me, if they can't run the ball help Watson,
26:00
Speaker 1: that defense is going to be on the field. A
26:02
Speaker 1: lot more questions and answers for that dam and uh
26:06
Speaker 1: and I think most of its circles back to the
26:10
Speaker 1: offensive line. Can they function at some point? Probably gonna
26:14
Speaker 1: come down head to head Jaguars and Texans. At some point,
26:17
Speaker 1: cannad offensive line function against this defensive line. And as
26:20
Speaker 1: you mentioned, most of the odds makers think that the
26:22
Speaker 1: Texans are the biggest challenger to the Jaguars when it
26:25
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Speaker 1: all right, rolling right along here on Tuesday morning, Bryan Sexton,
28:01
Speaker 1: John Osier, Ashland Sullivan, Jaggs Drive Time and um, you know,
28:05
Speaker 1: we just came up with the idea of the Twitter
28:07
Speaker 1: pool yesterday. We're excited about it, but we don't know
28:08
Speaker 1: where to find it. So you're looking forward. I'm looking
28:11
Speaker 1: for it. I see it. I'm looking for the answers.
28:13
Speaker 1: I know there's eight and thirty votes, but I'm okay,
28:18
Speaker 1: you get us back to be here. I could lean
28:21
Speaker 1: in help, or that'd be horrible television. Yeah, and I
28:24
Speaker 1: don't think you can help. Oh, I don't know. Pretty
28:28
Speaker 1: hip with the sod they call tech savvy? Should they
28:31
Speaker 1: call me? Okay, John osre tech? I find that hard
28:34
Speaker 1: to believe. Well, let's go to Ozone. Unless you've got it,
28:37
Speaker 1: I don't need your help. Get out John, specialist titans.
28:44
Speaker 1: All right, what do you got? Alright, Ozone, let's go
28:48
Speaker 1: with Frank from Ponto Vedra Beach here. Bill Polian was
28:51
Speaker 1: quoted as saying, the best way to avoid a quarterback
28:53
Speaker 1: controversy is to not have a quarterback competition. Do the
28:57
Speaker 1: Jaguars subscribe to that school of thought? Brian, I'm so tired. Yeah,
29:03
Speaker 1: take this anymore. I mean, you just tried to explain
29:05
Speaker 1: it and people won't come to the water. Yeah. I
29:08
Speaker 1: mean I I've already done the beat in the head
29:11
Speaker 1: of the desk thing. Yeah. So it's a good visual,
29:13
Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna do it today. Um did Jaguars
29:17
Speaker 1: believe in Blake Bortles. They believe that given what was
29:22
Speaker 1: out there, they have things going in the right direction
29:27
Speaker 1: to make a quarterback switch this offseason for somebody either
29:33
Speaker 1: parallel or just below, or to bring in competition. You
29:39
Speaker 1: talked early in the offseason and enunciated better than I could.
29:44
Speaker 1: They learned a lot about Blake Bortles last year, not
29:47
Speaker 1: necessarily stats wise, but the ability to handle adversity, the
29:52
Speaker 1: ability to lead this team, the ability to be the guy.
29:56
Speaker 1: This time last year it was new Tom Coffins was
29:58
Speaker 1: coming in. Dugron hadn't worked with him. They didn't They
30:01
Speaker 1: thought they liked Blake, but they didn't know this is
30:05
Speaker 1: their guy. Now he impressed him. They believe it. And
30:09
Speaker 1: I get that. There are fans like Frank who every
30:12
Speaker 1: day of Blake Boy's question. He's not the only one.
30:14
Speaker 1: I get it. But you know, I guess it's just
30:18
Speaker 1: going to be a disconnect because when you talk to
30:21
Speaker 1: people in this building, there is not this thing of oh, well, yeah,
30:25
Speaker 1: but we Blake, but this it's this is our guy.
30:29
Speaker 1: And I know you've heard the same thing. I can't
30:31
Speaker 1: get it out of my head. Um, the Pittsburgh game.
30:35
Speaker 1: So here you go into Pittsburgh and there's pressure, not
30:38
Speaker 1: just because it's the playoffs, but to repeat to do
30:41
Speaker 1: what you did in October, which has beat the Steelers
30:44
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. They remember, the fans remember it. Uh, Roethlisberger's
30:48
Speaker 1: licking his chops at the opportunity because remember the post
30:51
Speaker 1: game he's talking about how he's washed up. Now there's
30:54
Speaker 1: all this pressure, and he came out and stake this
30:56
Speaker 1: team to lead. And then in the second half of
31:00
Speaker 1: that was the most impressive part in the second half.
31:02
Speaker 1: Every time roethlisbergram went down the field, here comes Blake
31:06
Speaker 1: right back down the field and doing a lot of
31:08
Speaker 1: it mentally as well as they played smart that game.
31:11
Speaker 1: The third down and eight throw to Marquis where he
31:14
Speaker 1: stood in the pocket and waited patiently and looked off
31:17
Speaker 1: the safety and then came back to him may have
31:19
Speaker 1: been his best throw in the game. And most people
31:21
Speaker 1: can't even recall it because it wasn't big, but it
31:23
Speaker 1: showed that sort of savvy veteran quarterback presence that people
31:28
Speaker 1: don't give him credit for. Um, I get it. He
31:31
Speaker 1: didn't play flawless football in the a f C Championship game.
31:34
Speaker 1: But if you look at the entirety of the postseason
31:38
Speaker 1: on which quarterbacks are judged, he is judged to have
31:41
Speaker 1: been a good quarterback for this team, judged favorably they do.
31:46
Speaker 1: And so from my perspective, people are just gonna have
31:49
Speaker 1: to understand they are building this offense around what he does.
31:52
Speaker 1: Well what comes of it. I'm breaking news. Dave Decanis
31:57
Speaker 1: texted me and I now know that you have to
31:59
Speaker 1: answer the Twitter pool to get the answers. I was
32:01
Speaker 1: trying to answer it and you were brushing me off,
32:05
Speaker 1: and I didn't know Tech. I know, Tech, Well, you
32:08
Speaker 1: didn't vote, so I didn't know, but you did vote
32:10
Speaker 1: for the Titans, which relieve these results that the Texans
32:14
Speaker 1: have won. This said they would be the biggest challenge next.
32:18
Speaker 1: None of them were confident about this football team. The
32:22
Speaker 1: Texans there at least seem like Blake Bordles is the
32:27
Speaker 1: quarterback and they don't need a competition at camp. Well, I,
32:31
Speaker 1: as I said at the top, I think the Jaguars
32:34
Speaker 1: are the biggest foe because if they do what they
32:38
Speaker 1: do well, if they build on what they did, if
32:43
Speaker 1: they're strong in the areas they're strong, then I think
32:46
Speaker 1: they'll control this. I don't think the last game of
32:49
Speaker 1: the season has to be for the division title to
32:51
Speaker 1: be that tight um, but health, all the things you
32:56
Speaker 1: talk about. I think this is the best team in
32:58
Speaker 1: the division if they play up to that. Anything else
33:01
Speaker 1: in these zones. Yeah, let's go with Emily from Tallahassee, Florida.
33:06
Speaker 1: Last year, many expected competition between Brandon Albert and Cam
33:09
Speaker 1: Robinson to start at tackle. Could you foresee the loser
33:12
Speaker 1: of the Jeremy Parnell will Richardson competition at right tackle,
33:15
Speaker 1: pushing A J. Cann from his starting spot on the line. Well, Brian,
33:19
Speaker 1: I don't because I don't think it's as much of
33:21
Speaker 1: a competition as the Albert Robinson thing would have been
33:25
Speaker 1: last year. Um, I think will Richardson is a guy
33:28
Speaker 1: that they like in two thousand nineteen. They want to
33:31
Speaker 1: see him going for They believe he has all kinds
33:33
Speaker 1: of talent. But I've got no sense that they think
33:38
Speaker 1: there's going to be a tight competition there with the
33:41
Speaker 1: other guys so talented that he kicks inside of where
33:44
Speaker 1: a J can remember the I thought last year was
33:46
Speaker 1: he would kick inside to the other guard Albert or Robinson, inside,
33:50
Speaker 1: Patrick mom Ay or you know, they had a couple
33:52
Speaker 1: of guys playing guard last year. They a j Can
33:56
Speaker 1: is not a Pro Bowl player, but there is not
33:59
Speaker 1: a feeling in the building of We've got to figure
34:02
Speaker 1: out something to do with a j Can's mission. They're
34:05
Speaker 1: fine with him starting, obviously if somebody else comes out
34:07
Speaker 1: and blows him out of the water. But there is
34:11
Speaker 1: not a thought of we have to fix this position
34:14
Speaker 1: over here. They believe he's a good NFL player out
34:17
Speaker 1: a Pro bowler, but he's okay. So I think that
34:20
Speaker 1: and I heard it on draft day when they talked
34:22
Speaker 1: about Richardson. They talked about his ability to slide in
34:24
Speaker 1: and competed guard um. But we mentioned earlier he's a tackle,
34:29
Speaker 1: and you know, I said throughout the off season, I
34:32
Speaker 1: thought they should draft a right tackle. Jeremy Partnell is
34:34
Speaker 1: an older player, uh, guy who had had a lot
34:37
Speaker 1: of braces on last year right elbow and knee. And
34:41
Speaker 1: it's a five million dollar cap it, which is not
34:43
Speaker 1: it's not a huge offensive tackle in this day and age.
34:45
Speaker 1: But for a team that's getting up against the cap
34:47
Speaker 1: right their cap space is shrinking, I thought, well, if
34:49
Speaker 1: you could draft one, well, then you can move on there.
34:52
Speaker 1: They didn't. They like Jeremy Parnell. They thought he played
34:54
Speaker 1: well last year and they are comfortable with him. So
34:57
Speaker 1: Will Richardson is too. You build for future. That's what
35:01
Speaker 1: Will Richard is right nineteen. It would be a perfectly
35:05
Speaker 1: time transition. I mean not to rush Jeremy out of
35:08
Speaker 1: the building, but it'd be a perfectly trans time transition.
35:12
Speaker 1: You get it. It's the way you draw it up, right,
35:14
Speaker 1: I mean, it's draft fourth rounder, haven't developed, haven't be ready,
35:18
Speaker 1: thirty out of it. It's perfect, but it doesn't have
35:21
Speaker 1: to happen right now. He's a tackle, Richardson is who
35:24
Speaker 1: could who could play guard, But they don't need him to.
35:27
Speaker 1: What they're trying to do when they say that on
35:28
Speaker 1: draft days, show you the athletic versatility that he has.
35:32
Speaker 1: If he doesn't pan out a tackle, which they don't
35:35
Speaker 1: know yet, well then maybe he could play guard. But
35:37
Speaker 1: the thought he is a good enough player that he'll
35:39
Speaker 1: eventually be your starting right tackle, not yet because you
35:42
Speaker 1: have porned out again. That speaks to the talent in
35:45
Speaker 1: the funnel, right, They've got players they can move through.
35:48
Speaker 1: That's not going anywhere. Of course, I'll have a graphic
35:53
Speaker 1: for that next week. Anything else from his own. Are
35:56
Speaker 1: we done with this, Let's do a Facebook comment. I
35:58
Speaker 1: got a few good ones. Good they're just thing tight
36:00
Speaker 1: end here. David A. S j was a monster against
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Speaker 1: our Jaguars d He was a problem for us when
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Speaker 1: we played the Jets. He had a twenty seven yard catch,
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Speaker 1: his longest of the season, right in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the field and Miles Jack was back in coverage and
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Speaker 1: Buried Church came up and they were they It was
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Speaker 1: pretty good coverage on the play. However, he got up
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Speaker 1: above it. He's big, big, and he got up the
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Speaker 1: six ft seven and snared the ball in for a
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Speaker 1: big first down on a drive at the end of
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Speaker 1: the second quarter. That's what's been missing that down the
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Speaker 1: seam tight end. This is a guy who can get there,
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Speaker 1: as you said, Brian, they also believe he can blot. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so seventy pounds. I was told. I said, can he
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Speaker 1: give you what Mercedes Louis gave you in the ground game?
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Speaker 1: I didn't get, well, no, but we're not asking him.
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Speaker 1: I didn't get close. I got he's two seventy. That
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Speaker 1: was the answer, of course, he is. Of course he is.
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Speaker 1: He can do it. I believe he can. We'll see
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Speaker 1: what else you got. All right, we got a last
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Speaker 1: o zone here, Rick. Oh, do you think the Jabs
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Speaker 1: will be willing to enter the season with just Leonard
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Speaker 1: for net T j yelled in and Corey Grant at
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Speaker 1: running back plus the full back to keep more talent
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Speaker 1: into players at other positions. Uh? Yeah. And the thing remember,
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Speaker 1: running back is not all positions are created equal in
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Speaker 1: terms of being able to replace in this league, um,
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Speaker 1: running back is definitely a spot where if you are
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Speaker 1: in a bind in training camp after the preseason, often
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Speaker 1: guys are available. If you need somebody just to run,
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Speaker 1: you can usually find a guy just to run. The
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Speaker 1: trick with the running back is finding somebody who can
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Speaker 1: fit into a complex offensive system if they get in
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Speaker 1: a bind and realize, you know what, the guys we
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Speaker 1: have in the roster can't do it. That is a
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Speaker 1: position you can pick up late in training camp, all
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Speaker 1: right before the regular season, as long as you're looking
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Speaker 1: for a backup. Perfect example, and I can't think of
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Speaker 1: the name, maybe you can help me with this. The
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Speaker 1: running back from Notre Dame, who we have on the
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Speaker 1: roster here in your own bets. He what do you
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Speaker 1: like a hundred and eighty three yards rushing on a
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Speaker 1: Sunday night football game for the Patriots. And then and
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Speaker 1: then he gone. The next year he went to Miami,
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Speaker 1: and then he ended up here. And the name is
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Speaker 1: escaping me. But short guy Stocky, Yeah, you can find
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Speaker 1: running backs, definitely, we can find your own better. The
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Speaker 1: fact that we can't think of his name proves your point,
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Speaker 1: which is you can find running backs who can come
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Speaker 1: in and give you something in short order. A lot
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Speaker 1: of guys out there who can run on the street.
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Speaker 1: The issue is can you find a guy who can
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Speaker 1: pick everything up in this offense? If you're just asking
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Speaker 1: a guy to run, you can pick a guy up.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that. I don't think they're looking to
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Speaker 1: do that, though clearly they're fine with what they've got.
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Speaker 1: They like t. J. Yelden, they know Corey Grant can
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Speaker 1: give them something. And this Tim Cook kid that you
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Speaker 1: keep writing about, I've mentioned a couple of times. All
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, i'm his fans. What can you tell
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Speaker 1: us about him? He's uh named Tim Cook? Okay, there
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Speaker 1: was a mistake, guy, right, I believe I thought, if
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Speaker 1: you say that, I believe as You're right it is
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Speaker 1: Oregan say he was in camp last year, big kid
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Speaker 1: in that range. Okay, so we all told you something
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Speaker 1: about him. As we come to the close of the show,
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Speaker 1: there's him cook right there from training camp last year.
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Speaker 1: Sounds guy there he is. Don't you think there should
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Speaker 1: be a passion on that uniform? This says Zone's guy,
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Speaker 1: a big Z kind of like where the captain's pasta,
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Speaker 1: so verified like the blue check in Twitter. Yes, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna fix your computer I don't need and I'm going
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Speaker 1: to sign off this crazy show. Thanks so much for
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Speaker 1: joining us for Jags, Drive Time for Brian Sexton. For
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Speaker 1: Bran Sexton, I'm Bran Seesson for Ashland Sullivan and John
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Speaker 1: you joining us today. Talk to you next week.