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Jags Broadcast Week in Review: May 22 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Jaguars Broadcast Week and Review podcast presented
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Speaker 1: by t I A. A. Bank J P. Shadwick with you.
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Speaker 1: It's Friday, May two. We've made it another week and
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Speaker 1: this is our weekly look at the best of Jaguars
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Speaker 1: broadcast and digital shows from the past week, including this week,
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Speaker 1: former Jags linebacker Paul pazz Lusni figuring out a career
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Speaker 1: after football, two time m v P quarterback Kurt Warner
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Speaker 1: comparing his career path to Gardner Minshew, and CBS Sports
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Speaker 1: play by play announcer Ian Eagle sharing where he was
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Speaker 1: at the start of the COVID nineteen sports shutdown and
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Speaker 1: the path ahead. Let's start this week with a discussion
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Speaker 1: of quarterback Gardner Minshew the second. His development is the
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Speaker 1: most important piece of the story, not only for the
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Speaker 1: twenty Jaguars team, but for the franchises next five to
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Speaker 1: ten seasons as well. If he plays well and shows
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Speaker 1: he can be a franchise quarterback, than great. If not,
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Speaker 1: then the Jaguars could make a move in the one draft.
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Speaker 1: Was some big names coming out next year. Thursday, the
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Speaker 1: at QB Country twitter account posted a fifty four second
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Speaker 1: video of Minshew throwing in drills at one of their sites,
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Speaker 1: our first look at anything. Then she was done on
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Speaker 1: a field with a football this offseason, So, as expected,
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Speaker 1: the social media world ate it up. Social media wasn't
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Speaker 1: quite a thing yet when the NFL Network analyst Kurt
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Speaker 1: Warner was playing. Warner's rise to a starting role was
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Speaker 1: similar to Minshew's, and Brian Sexton got the two time
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Speaker 1: m VP to provide his take in a zoom conversation.
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Speaker 1: So here's Gardner, Minshew's sixth round pick, no expectations for
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Speaker 1: him last year, and the high dollar quarterback Nick Foles
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Speaker 1: goes down with an injury. From your experience, what is
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Speaker 1: it like to be a guy who nobody he knows
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Speaker 1: all that much about and be has any expectations of
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Speaker 1: heading into the season. Well, I mean, there's always a
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Speaker 1: couple of different ways to look at it, you know,
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Speaker 1: in my situation and a little different because you know,
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Speaker 1: at the time, I was twenty eight years old, and
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Speaker 1: so I knew this was it for me. And so
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Speaker 1: even though there may not have been high expectations around me,
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Speaker 1: I knew I had to play well early or I
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Speaker 1: that was probably my last shot to play, and so
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Speaker 1: that made it a little bit different. I think a
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Speaker 1: guy like Gardner who came in last year, I don't
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Speaker 1: think anybody expected anything. I think he exceeded expectations that
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Speaker 1: excited about him, you know, as you mentioned, ready to
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Speaker 1: kind of hand the keys over to the car at
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Speaker 1: least for this year to him. But I think there's
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Speaker 1: there's automatic pressure that comes with any team handing you
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Speaker 1: the ball and saying, Okay, you're our guy. You're our
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Speaker 1: guy at the most important position on the football field.
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Speaker 1: You're going to have to play well for us to win.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it just it doesn't happen any other way
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Speaker 1: with the way the NFL is is shaped right now.
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Speaker 1: And so, um, although I don't think the expectations are
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Speaker 1: extremely high that you know that it can necessarily weigh
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Speaker 1: him down. UM. I think anytime you're a guy that
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Speaker 1: nobody expects anything from and you would give an opportunity
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Speaker 1: and you want to jump into that opportunity and excel,
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Speaker 1: you want to hold onto that opportunity. And so I
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Speaker 1: think that's gonna be the balancing act for Gardner is
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Speaker 1: is to understand play within yourself, be who you are.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, I know you want to
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Speaker 1: play well, so you can hold onto this job and
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Speaker 1: prove to the Jags, I deserve to be your franchise quarterback.
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Speaker 1: So balancing that out and being able to to be
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Speaker 1: yourself and let the game come to you, I think
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Speaker 1: is always the best advice, but it also can be
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Speaker 1: the toughest thing to do, because, um, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: tough to wait. When you get that chance, you want
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Speaker 1: to go out there and set the world on fire
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Speaker 1: and let everybody know, hey, this is my job to
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Speaker 1: keep really good perspective there. From one of the full
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Speaker 1: conversation available on Jaguars dot Com. Now to the weekly
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Speaker 1: ozone podcast available in the Official Jaguars Podcast Network or
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Speaker 1: Jaguars dot Com. This week, senior writer John Osian visited
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Speaker 1: with former Jags middle linebacker paulp. Was Low's name. He
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Speaker 1: hung it up after the seventeen season, but since then
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Speaker 1: he's been trying to figure out a path after football.
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Speaker 1: I know you you said it's it's it's odd for you.
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Speaker 1: It's very odd for me not to be not to
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Speaker 1: be at Jacksonville Jaguar. It still feels I mean, this
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Speaker 1: is going on. You know, once this season starts, it
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Speaker 1: will be year three away from the game. But it
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Speaker 1: still feels different, and it's been a it's been an
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Speaker 1: interesting process trying to figure out what's next. You know. Once,
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Speaker 1: once I stopped playing, I started a graduate school program
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Speaker 1: to get my m b a UM in an effort
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Speaker 1: kind of just to learn what else is out there.
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Speaker 1: I had a great opportunity in my first year out
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Speaker 1: of Ball to work UM at Malone Air Charter, local
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Speaker 1: air charter company that um, you know, just a chance
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Speaker 1: to be around aviation and aircraft and be surrounded by
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Speaker 1: great people, and that was that was an unbelievable opportunity.
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Speaker 1: I loved every day of it, and that was a
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Speaker 1: passion for you, right, absolutely, Yeah, I've always you know,
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Speaker 1: I always loved everything about aviation, and my father was
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Speaker 1: a long time I'm aircraft mechanic for US Air, and
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Speaker 1: then American was always around in some aspect, and I
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Speaker 1: guess I just wanted to learn more. You left that
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Speaker 1: to go pursue a graduate school. I was doing doing both.
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Speaker 1: I started graduate school and was doing that and then
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Speaker 1: actually another opportunity came up that had that was more
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Speaker 1: geared towards I guess my educational background. That was with
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Speaker 1: t I A bank. So I'm actually with t I
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Speaker 1: A right now. I was joking with you beforehand. I
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Speaker 1: wanted to stay connected to the Jaguars in some way,
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Speaker 1: so um, it took the corporate relationship. But another thing,
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Speaker 1: great people, awesome learning experience, and I love what I'm
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Speaker 1: what I'm doing, and it's a it's more associated with
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Speaker 1: with my education in the NBA program that I'm in.
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Speaker 1: So it's been an unbelievable experience. The ozone podcast runs
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Speaker 1: each Monday, and next week a current Jaguars defensive back
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Speaker 1: makes an appearience. We moved now to a couple of
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Speaker 1: new faces for the Jaguars, starting with running Chris Thompson,
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Speaker 1: who was recently signed as a free agent. He's expected
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Speaker 1: to be a third down type running back and could
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Speaker 1: be used a number of different places and coordinator Jay
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Speaker 1: Gruden's offense. That's a big reason why Thompson is here.
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Speaker 1: In fact, he explained his background and relationship with Gruden
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Speaker 1: in a media video conference this week. Jay is I
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Speaker 1: would say he's one of the biggest reasons why I
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Speaker 1: was able to have the success that I had in
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Speaker 1: Washington and to be able to stick around there. Um,
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Speaker 1: because the first year he got there, I was on
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Speaker 1: practice squad. So while I ended up being put on
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Speaker 1: cut and put on practice squad, Um, he talked to me,
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Speaker 1: um afterwards for a while after that last preseason game
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Speaker 1: and just kinda you know, told me what the situation was.
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Speaker 1: And and you know, he let me know from day one.
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Speaker 1: He was like, look, UM, I know it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: a hard year for you, and UM, you know you're
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Speaker 1: probably mad and upset at everybody because you got cut.
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Speaker 1: But he was like, I want you to come back
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Speaker 1: here because I feel like, you know, I know the
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Speaker 1: type of player that you can be, and I feel
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Speaker 1: like you're gonna be a bigger part of the future
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Speaker 1: here Um at Washington, and I know you'll be able
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Speaker 1: to have a great impact on on this team and
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Speaker 1: on guys guys on the team and had that talk
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Speaker 1: with me, and I really appreciated that, and that was
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Speaker 1: one reason why I ended up going back or coming
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Speaker 1: back and just spending that practice squad a year. Um,
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Speaker 1: it was tough, but just having him and knowing that
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Speaker 1: he had my back and it really meant a lot.
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Speaker 1: And throughout this whole process, all my time there in Washington,
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Speaker 1: I mean, he believed in me. He gave me every
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Speaker 1: single opportunity that he possibly could. So, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: me going here, coming here to Jacksonville with him being
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Speaker 1: one of I guess two guys because I fort is
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Speaker 1: here that's familiar with his offense. I think it would
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Speaker 1: be it's good for me and him to be able
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Speaker 1: to help, you know, the younger guys be able to
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Speaker 1: grasp this offense and and know what also j is
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Speaker 1: expecting from from his playmakers. How new look will this
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Speaker 1: JAG's offense be. We'll find out come training camp and
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Speaker 1: the regular season. There could be some new looks on
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Speaker 1: the defensive side to One of the additions in free
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Speaker 1: agency was outside linebacker and defensive end Cassius Marsh. Could
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Speaker 1: this Jaguars defense move to more three four looks this
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Speaker 1: year than in years past? Marsh explained his history playing
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Speaker 1: outside in a three four defense and how he could
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Speaker 1: help the rest of the group. Ad just where you
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Speaker 1: kind of see your role in that and and can
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Speaker 1: you help some of those guys that really haven't played
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Speaker 1: in it before kind of get the hang of it.
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna you know, I'll be playing to Sam
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Speaker 1: and UH gonna work my my hardest to uh to
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Speaker 1: compete and hopefully earn a starting job at the same position,
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Speaker 1: and uh and bring my best every day. You know,
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Speaker 1: I think that. UM. You know, I think it's a
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Speaker 1: great opportunity and it's a great defense. UM, and I'm
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Speaker 1: looking forward to to the olenge for me. I came,
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Speaker 1: I came into the league, UM on a team that
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Speaker 1: was super deep with defensive alignment and pass ushers and
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Speaker 1: um just just good age players. You know. They had
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Speaker 1: each one teach one mentality where the vets really um
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Speaker 1: took took young guys or any guy who need to
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Speaker 1: help under the wing. And so whatever knowledge that that
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Speaker 1: I have that I feel I can help guys, I'm
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Speaker 1: always open to sharing it and you know, helping whoever
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Speaker 1: needs help. So I'm looking forward to getting out there
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Speaker 1: and getting to know my teammates better. Plenty still to
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Speaker 1: the state of Florida? It was great. Well, I'll tell
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Speaker 1: do you feel about that? Feel great? Feel great? The
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Speaker 1: those practice habits. Get fired up, man, get fired up.
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Speaker 1: The Jacksonville Jaguars select Laviska. Stop right now. I'm just
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Speaker 1: gonna keep on leveling up, Von Hamilton and appreciate you're
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Speaker 1: giving me the opportunity to well, you earned it, so
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Speaker 1: and Brian Sexton always dig into the ozone mailbag. Let's
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Speaker 1: go all the way to Nashville. Steve, can you describe
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Speaker 1: new Jaguars offensive coordinator j Gruden style of offense and
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Speaker 1: how it does or does not mesh with our current roster? John? Well,
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Speaker 1: this is always tough because people want to take an
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Speaker 1: offense like you're playing Madden and take it and drop
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Speaker 1: it down into another team's personnel. The reality is offenses evolve.
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Speaker 1: The West Coast offense was started in what at the
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Speaker 1: late seventies early eighties is not the West Coast offensive
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Speaker 1: is now because it evolves every year. So it's a
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Speaker 1: s Coast based scheme. John Gruden runs it. Jay Gruden
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Speaker 1: runs it very similar. It's about getting the ball out quickly,
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Speaker 1: timing passes. Uh, It's about being able to run effectively
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Speaker 1: early so you can play action off of it. And
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Speaker 1: people listen to will say, well that sounds a lot
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Speaker 1: like a lot of offenses. Well, yeah, you don't necessarily
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Speaker 1: see this unbelievable change and how teams play because it's
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Speaker 1: still dictated to what the quarterback does well, to what
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Speaker 1: the players do well. But that's the gist of it.
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Speaker 1: And you know, if if, if Minshoe is able to
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Speaker 1: grasp it, which he's a smart guy in can Grass,
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Speaker 1: then I think they'll use a lot of the offense.
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Speaker 1: If not, then they'll scale it back. But I don't
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Speaker 1: know if if if in this day and age, it's
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Speaker 1: necessarily fair to say, well, this offense doesn't fit this personnel.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be about how it meshes. It's gonna be
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Speaker 1: about what Keenan wants to do with the wide receivers,
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Speaker 1: what McAdoo wants to do a quarterback. It becomes a
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Speaker 1: acumen as Brian would say, it becomes a dictionary back
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Speaker 1: out a group process. The only thing I can add
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Speaker 1: to that is when he was in Cincinnati, I recall
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Speaker 1: he was very good at using personnel groups to get
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Speaker 1: miss matches right. In this league, you scheme players, not schemes,
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Speaker 1: and he was very good at scheming players to get
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Speaker 1: certain guys in certain matchups to get them open. That
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Speaker 1: was something that John Gruden talked about when he did
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Speaker 1: games that involved his brother, so it sticks in my mind.
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Speaker 1: John's absolutely right. His offense will look different in Jacksonville
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Speaker 1: than it did in Washington and Cincinnati because the players
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Speaker 1: are different. But one thing that you can count on
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Speaker 1: is he's a guy that will use different personnel groups
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Speaker 1: to get the matchups he wants incredibly effectively. Every offensive
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Speaker 1: coordinator wants to do that, talks about doing that. Some
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Speaker 1: are better at it than others. I my understanding is
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Speaker 1: he's one of the guys that's really good at that.
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Speaker 1: We shall see what it looks like, hopefully coming soon.
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Speaker 1: The Ozone Q and A written piece runs every morning
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Speaker 1: on jaguars dot Com and Jack's Drive Time. Here's Uesdays
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Speaker 1: with an archive available in this podcast channel. We moved
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Speaker 1: to Jaguar's Throwdown presented by Publix, a battle for supremacy
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Speaker 1: between teammates. The players this week offensive lineman Jowan Taylor
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Speaker 1: and linebacker Quincy Williams. The judge Ashland Sullivan Juan seconds
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Speaker 1: to tell me what word would describe the two thousand
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Speaker 1: nineteen draft class. Amazing. Um, you know we all got
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Speaker 1: there on the field and got the chance to play. Um.
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Speaker 1: I thought we all did great of course Josh, of
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Speaker 1: course me Um, Josh, Oliver, Josh, Josh, Allen Gardner, all
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Speaker 1: of us we did great. So um, it was good
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Speaker 1: to see all us get out there on the field
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Speaker 1: and play together. Time perfect. Twenty seconds, your words amazing, Quincy,
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Speaker 1: twenty seconds. What word would you use to describe the
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Speaker 1: two eighteen draft class? Sensationally cheesecake. I'm a future fan
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Speaker 1: and also so I had to shout out to my
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Speaker 1: boy really but yeah, because like you said, everybody in
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Speaker 1: tend to play um, big factors. Of course, my boy,
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Speaker 1: MISSU coming name mission magic. Uh so sensasional just ADDI
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Speaker 1: he just picked a better word. The winner this week,
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Speaker 1: Quincy Williams. We're looking forward to the next edition already.
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Speaker 1: And we wrapped this week with Jaguars Happy Hour, presented
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Speaker 1: Social channels. This week, we caught up over Zoom with
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Speaker 1: CBS Sports, Westwood One Radio, and NBA television play by
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Speaker 1: play announcer i An Eagle. He's a long time voice
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Speaker 1: of the New Jersey and now Brooklyn Debts and has
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Speaker 1: covered the NFL on CBS since he has a unique
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Speaker 1: multi sport perspective to this whole shutdown, starting with when
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Speaker 1: it all went down in mid March. Where were you
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Speaker 1: when the shutdowns started? What do you remember about that
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Speaker 1: day and where were you working? Yeah, JP, I was
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Speaker 1: in Sam Francisco. I had just worked TNT game the
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Speaker 1: Warriors against the Clippers, and I actually stayed in the
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Speaker 1: Bay Area because the Nets were coming in to play
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Speaker 1: the Warriors two nights later. First game was on a
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Speaker 1: Tuesday night. I knew that I had Wednesday off and
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Speaker 1: walking around San Francisco that day normally a lot of
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Speaker 1: hustle and bustle, and there was nothing happening. It was
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Speaker 1: very surreal. I changed hotels and I walked about three
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Speaker 1: quarters of a mile with my luggage on wheels, and
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Speaker 1: there was nothing happening. Very strange. And then later that night,
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Speaker 1: that Wednesday night, the President spoke to the country, talked
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Speaker 1: about the travel restrictions, and then about two hours later,
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Speaker 1: Rudy Joe Gobert I was announced had tested positive for coronavirus.
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Speaker 1: NBA shutdown. I jumped on a red eye flight immediately
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Speaker 1: to get back to the New York area. My family
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Speaker 1: was all spread out. My wife and my daughter were
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Speaker 1: in Australia where my daughter was studying. My son was
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Speaker 1: in l A. So that initial reaction was very personal
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Speaker 1: of trying to get everybody situated and back home. And
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Speaker 1: then the professional side started to come into focus. Atlantic
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Speaker 1: Ten Championship. I was supposed to work that Sunday canceled
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Speaker 1: and a tournament canceled. Obviously, we know what happened with
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Speaker 1: the NBA, and we are still feeling that domino effect today.
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Speaker 1: The NFL business as usual, but we know that there's
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Speaker 1: some trepidation moving forward as to whether or not they're
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Speaker 1: going to be able to start on time and play
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Speaker 1: the games at the schedule that they just announced recently.
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Speaker 1: I an eagle with US. You touched on a moment
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Speaker 1: ago the NFL. You know, everything in this off season
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Speaker 1: has pretty much gone business as usual, at least scheduling wise.
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Speaker 1: They've had the draft, they did it, virtually the off
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Speaker 1: season programs going on right now, Virtually nothing on the field.
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Speaker 1: They announced the schedule, for goodness sakes, that went out
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Speaker 1: without a hitch. But now the question moving ahead is
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Speaker 1: what happens around training camp and do they have to
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Speaker 1: start pairing games down games without fans. It's all a
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Speaker 1: big question. Nobody has an answer right now. But right
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Speaker 1: so far it's been so good, but you get the
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Speaker 1: kind of feeling that it might not last that long.
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Speaker 1: JP The greatest advantage that the NFL has had is
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Speaker 1: time on their side. This happened to coincide with their offseason,
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Speaker 1: and although there might have been some people initially that
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Speaker 1: thought it was a bit tone deaf, the reality is
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Speaker 1: after the reaction that we saw from the NFL draft
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Speaker 1: and the people around the country, it was welcomed and
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Speaker 1: it was a nice distraction. We understand where sports fits
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Speaker 1: in to the grand landscape. We miss it, but it
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Speaker 1: is not the top priority. The top priority is getting
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Speaker 1: our country and our society back up to speed. But
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Speaker 1: sports plays a role in that. It certainly covers a
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Speaker 1: lot of jobs, and the economy is a if it
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Speaker 1: buy it, and I think just the general demeanor of
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Speaker 1: people are affected by it in a positive way if
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Speaker 1: sports is involved. So the NFL did fill avoid, but
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Speaker 1: they're now facing grander questions, and that's how do you
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Speaker 1: continue with an offseason program. You can do it via zoom.
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Speaker 1: You can have meetings that works short term, but eventually
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Speaker 1: the physical part comes into play, and you've got to
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Speaker 1: get your players ready and you have to practice. There's
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Speaker 1: no sport, in my mind out there that requires more
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Speaker 1: of the repetition and the practice in order to do
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Speaker 1: your job well and in order to avoid injury. So
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Speaker 1: it's interconnected in that manner. The way the schedule is
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Speaker 1: set up, they could push it, they could move it
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Speaker 1: and shift it, and they could shorten it. That's not
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Speaker 1: their goal. Their goal is to play a seventeen week schedule,
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Speaker 1: sixteen games for each team, still respecting the buy but
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Speaker 1: understanding they might have to come up with an alternative
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Speaker 1: if we're not at a point where the safety measures
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Speaker 1: are in place to have fifty three players on a
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Speaker 1: team and a practice squad and everybody accounted for day
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Speaker 1: in and day out at a facility. You can limit
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Speaker 1: the amount of people going in, but let's face it,
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Speaker 1: when players go back home, you don't know who they
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Speaker 1: are connecting with and who they are interacting with. So
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Speaker 1: I think that's where the jigsaw puzzle is going to
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Speaker 1: get very challenging for the league. A lot of players,
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Speaker 1: a lot of people and staff involved in the NFL
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Speaker 1: more so than any other sport our Thanks to Ian
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Speaker 1: Eagle for his time and insight this week. Plenty more
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Speaker 1: coming in the weeks ahead as we continue in the
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Speaker 1: virtual offseason program. Catch all the Jaguars news, video and
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Speaker 1: to all our contributors this week, and thanks for listening.
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