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Jags Drive Time: Thursday, August 23 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Jeff Wars Digital Jack Jack Warris Digital Jack Wars Drive Time,
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Speaker 1: Brian sex Text, John O Says Ashley Jaguars Drive Time
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Speaker 1: starts right now. Hello, Good morning, Welcome to t i
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Speaker 1: A A Bank Field, where preparations are underway for Saturday
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Speaker 1: nights preseason contest against the Atlanta Falcons. We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: that game, this team, and much more over the next
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Speaker 1: hour or so. Welcome to Jack's Drive Time, brought to
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Speaker 1: you by our friends at the Field's Automotive Group. Brian Sexton,
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Speaker 1: Ashlyn Sullivan, Good morning, Good morning, Field, that's exact. That's nice.
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Speaker 1: We're excited for opening Day, which is against the Patriots
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Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks away. Working our way there
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Speaker 1: with this week's third preseason game and as you know,
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Speaker 1: that's the dress rehearsal. That's the opportunity for the most
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Speaker 1: playing time for the starters, and we'll talk about that.
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Speaker 1: Um an interesting vibe around this team, and we'll get
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Speaker 1: into the whole Blake Boardle situation. But it's news that
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Speaker 1: today was when he was benched a year ago, and
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Speaker 1: when you put some perspective on what happened last year,
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Speaker 1: and at this time last year, you were just starting here,
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Speaker 1: and you were caught up in this storyline at the quarterback?
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Speaker 1: Who's the quarterback? And I thought at the time, what
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Speaker 1: a great way for you to start, because there's nothing
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Speaker 1: that's more disruptive to a football team than not knowing
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Speaker 1: who the quarterback is? Can you remember the chaos that
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Speaker 1: I can't? I can remember it around here only talking
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Speaker 1: about that. There was no other storyline that mattered. It
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Speaker 1: was only that And that was one of my first
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Speaker 1: few weeks here and I was like, Oh, does this
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Speaker 1: happen everywhere? Right? Was this normal? It wasn't normal. No,
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Speaker 1: not at all. And it's it's even more disruptive than
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Speaker 1: a coaching change because that the coaching change just it
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Speaker 1: impacts everybody, right, um, but off the field in many senses, Uh,
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Speaker 1: the quarterback impacts the team's ability to win, and that's
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Speaker 1: what the players are so focused on, what does it
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Speaker 1: take to win? In fact, Doug Marone told us a
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Speaker 1: few weeks ago when we were talking to him before
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Speaker 1: the Saints game, that he had to make the decision
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Speaker 1: based on who was the player, as it would make
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Speaker 1: sense that would give him the greatest chance to win
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Speaker 1: because the players and here's the insight from him. The
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Speaker 1: players know who it is. He couldn't just choose Chad
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Speaker 1: Henny because he wanted to move past Blake Bortles. He
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Speaker 1: had to make the choice that the right quarterback was
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Speaker 1: there because you couldn't be as the players. And so
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Speaker 1: Bordles went on, as everyone knows, to have a very
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Speaker 1: good year and to lead this team to new heights.
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Speaker 1: And and you know what, I was reading a story
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Speaker 1: this morning from Albert Breer, the money mortar quarterback guy
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Speaker 1: now on Sports Illustrated, and he he was talking about
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Speaker 1: how Bordles ran the ball for eighty yards in that
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Speaker 1: in that Bills game, and he's right, he did. And
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Speaker 1: I thought, you know, Albert, you should have comma on
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Speaker 1: a day that you couldn't really throw it, not that
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Speaker 1: he couldn't really throw, which is what people imply. Well
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Speaker 1: remember that game when he only ran for eighty eight
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Speaker 1: yards and through for eight seven. Yeah, but wind gusts,
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Speaker 1: you couldn't throw it. So what did he do? He
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Speaker 1: ran the hall not because he couldn't throw it, but
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Speaker 1: because no one could throw the ball that day. It
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Speaker 1: was that the conditions. And that's what Bordles has always
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Speaker 1: dealt with, which is people do not give in the
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Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt. They stack it against him and said,
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Speaker 1: well he's Blake Bortles. He isn't any good. Uh. That
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Speaker 1: storyline no longer exists, and we'll talk about that a
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Speaker 1: little bit later coming up in the show. We're div
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Speaker 1: into big go ahead, you would have any big things
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Speaker 1: or you want to sure big thing? First round draft off?
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Speaker 1: It's okay. Tadan Bryan back on the field. So Taman
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Speaker 1: Brian hasn't played in an NFL game yet. He's expected
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Speaker 1: to play on Saturday, a long anticipated return. He's spoke
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Speaker 1: in the locker room and said how excited he is
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Speaker 1: to get back on the field. I just need to
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Speaker 1: get hit. That's that's why I played the game. I
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Speaker 1: mean I need to I need that first hit. Good
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Speaker 1: contact wakes me up a little bit, and uh, he
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Speaker 1: gets me going. He's a quirky kid. Yes, I don't
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Speaker 1: watch a lot of college football. You do, and you
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Speaker 1: did watch him in Florida obviously because you were there
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Speaker 1: when he was The more I watch him, I see
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Speaker 1: this great big guy he is. He is a bull
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Speaker 1: of a man um but move so effortlessly. I mean
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Speaker 1: he doesn't realize how big he is. It's remarkable how
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Speaker 1: efficient he is with his movement and how quickly he
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Speaker 1: can get where he wants to go. And you see
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Speaker 1: him in the locker room. He's a man of few words.
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Speaker 1: He's quirky, but he gets along with this locker room.
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Speaker 1: And a lot of people say he isn't a rookie.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't act like a rookie, and that's surprising coming
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Speaker 1: in his first year on and off the field. He
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Speaker 1: seemed to just mesh with this group. Well, I think
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Speaker 1: that group in the defensive line, they are very quirky.
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Speaker 1: They are a different you know, kettle of fish. There's
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Speaker 1: just so many different guys in there with different backgrounds,
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Speaker 1: And I mean, he's the guy who comes in from
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Speaker 1: Wyoming and no one has the background that he has
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Speaker 1: growing up on a ranch and you know, roofing houses
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Speaker 1: and throwing hay bales and all the things that he did.
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Speaker 1: But you can tell that he's Navy seal of a
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Speaker 1: father prepared him because Klaias Campbell talked extensively about how
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Speaker 1: he has just come into work and done everything that
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Speaker 1: they wanted to do right, and it seems like that's
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Speaker 1: just been his childhood, is working preparing for his family.
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Speaker 1: It was awesome every step of the way throughout his
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Speaker 1: contract him consider this getting to this team. His family
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Speaker 1: was present. You can tell he has a really great
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Speaker 1: family life and they really support him. Word is he's
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Speaker 1: playing on Saturday against the Falcons and that his family
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Speaker 1: will be here, which is probably an emotional moment for
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Speaker 1: them all. Obviously, first game in the NFL last week
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Speaker 1: in Minneapolis, we didn't get a chance to see Taman
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Speaker 1: obviously didn't practice, that didn't play, but he was a
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Speaker 1: topic of conversation in Calais. Campbell had this to say
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Speaker 1: about their rookie draft choice. He's the best rid you've had,
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Speaker 1: you know, in my career, which is kind of a
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Speaker 1: big statement. You know, some guys like you upset about that.
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Speaker 1: But he really has done everything that we've asked of him.
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Speaker 1: You know, he's did it with a smile on his face,
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Speaker 1: and he's just a good guy to be around. Uh
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Speaker 1: that indeed, he is fun to be around. So here's
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Speaker 1: the important part and go back to what we were
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Speaker 1: just talking about with Blake Bortles. Doug Maron said he
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Speaker 1: had to make the choice to put the best player
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Speaker 1: on the field because the players know who the best
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Speaker 1: players are. You've got great players in that line. You
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Speaker 1: know you've got incredibly Darius Molick, Jackson, unique, and got
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Speaker 1: wake Calais Campbell leads the whole effort, and he says
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Speaker 1: he's excited to see him play. That tells you not
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Speaker 1: not that the scouts opinion in the graves and where
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Speaker 1: he belonged to where he was drafted didn't, but tells
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Speaker 1: you just what they think of him. I'm excited to
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Speaker 1: see him play, even in a very limited capacity. And
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Speaker 1: at some point this year, say it again, this defense
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Speaker 1: was ridiculously healthy last year. Point four percent of the starts,
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Speaker 1: by the starters that will not hold up statistically for
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Speaker 1: another year, won't. Davin Bryan is going to have to
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Speaker 1: play some meaningful moments. Yeah, And you've seen him in
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Speaker 1: practice and he's held his own. He's getting advice from
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Speaker 1: the older guys, So I think when that time comes,
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Speaker 1: when it's ready for him to take the shining moment,
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Speaker 1: he's take advantage of it. And just we're focused on
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Speaker 1: this season, but just looking beyond. With the salary cap,
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars lead the league in dollars designated to the
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Speaker 1: defensive line room this year it's about sixty one million.
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Speaker 1: Next year jumps up to sixty five. They're either gonna
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Speaker 1: have to redo contracts or restructure the room. So the
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Speaker 1: ability to grab a young player like this who can
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Speaker 1: play at a very high level gives the Jaguars all
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Speaker 1: kinds of flexibility for Dave Caldwell and John Adzick and
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Speaker 1: Tim Walsh when they look at at salary instructure for
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Speaker 1: next year. So to see the rookie out absolutely alright.
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Speaker 1: Big thing too. Issues on defense, if there are any.
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Speaker 1: So every week we write a final analysis where we
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Speaker 1: give our opinions on the game coming up. One of
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Speaker 1: the questions was the issues on defense, and we all
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Speaker 1: had some trouble finding an issue on defense. We had
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Speaker 1: the depth at linebacker and you really had to dig
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Speaker 1: to find an issue. You said, you said that we
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Speaker 1: were sitting talking yesterday. I think death debit linebacker and
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Speaker 1: I said depth a linebacker and who's the fourth corner right,
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Speaker 1: which is not an issue. That goes to show you
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Speaker 1: that they just don't have a lot of issues on
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Speaker 1: the defense. Again, the asterisk and that is you know,
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Speaker 1: will they with injury? Could that happen? Could they have issues?
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Speaker 1: But I've heard people talk about the fourth linebacker. Well,
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Speaker 1: I mean, look, if you're onto your fourth linebacker, especially
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Speaker 1: when you have Kelvin Smith and Miles Jack in the lineup, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have trouble. And look, Leon Jacobs looks like
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Speaker 1: he's going to be a fantastic fine for them and
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Speaker 1: be a very productive football player. You lose a front
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Speaker 1: line guy, you can't They're not going to be the same.
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Speaker 1: They want so depth at linebacker. Well, Blair Brown is
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Speaker 1: a guy they like, and then they now think he's
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Speaker 1: a guy who can play off the ball. If you
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Speaker 1: wanted to really zero in, you say, well, who's going
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Speaker 1: to play behind Leon Jacobs? You didn't even know Leon
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Speaker 1: Jacobs was gonna play. You went three weeks ago. We
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Speaker 1: didn't know that. Who's the strong side? Can Blair Brown
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Speaker 1: be the strong side linebacker? Too? Well, who's going to
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Speaker 1: be his backup? Look on the defensive front, you got
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Speaker 1: backups on backups. You've got some young corners and safeties
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Speaker 1: that you like. Ronnie Harrison now looks like he is
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Speaker 1: a legitimate contender to be that next safety on the field. Hey,
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Speaker 1: you're great, right, You've got some depth in the interior
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Speaker 1: of the offensive line with Tyler Shatley. He's a guy
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Speaker 1: that you like a lot. T j yeld is providing
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Speaker 1: depth at running back. You've got depth at receiver, you
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Speaker 1: don't have depth at linebacker, and you don't have depth
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Speaker 1: at tight end. Well, it's all you're gonna do, right,
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Speaker 1: you can't find them all. You hope that does some
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Speaker 1: of these guys develop over the course of the year
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Speaker 1: and that when their time comes, they play above the
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Speaker 1: exs and ohs and they find a way to make plays.
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Speaker 1: This defense, Oh, you better knock on wood right now,
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Speaker 1: does not have issues. It just doesn't. If if the
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Speaker 1: issue is Jalen Ramsey was suspended last week, that's over
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Speaker 1: past that. Yeah, Dante Fowler Jr. May not be here
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Speaker 1: next year. Uh. The conversation about do you trade him? No, No,
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Speaker 1: you do not trade a lion, a guy who can
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Speaker 1: make that big of a difference, especially when you consider
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Speaker 1: that you have not had injuries on the defense. Play
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Speaker 1: the stats, game probability, stay with it. You don't have
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Speaker 1: issues on the defensive side of the ball. Right. The
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Speaker 1: issue is too much talent. And when Doug Moron was
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Speaker 1: asked about safety Ronnie Harrison, who we just talked about
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Speaker 1: he said the same thing. So much talent and takes
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Speaker 1: full advantage of the opportunities. He's given probably everything that
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Speaker 1: we were looking for, you know what I'm saying. One okay, okay,
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Speaker 1: You could tell that it was a complimentary right from
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Speaker 1: the start, set a lot from Duck. Yeah, so early
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Speaker 1: on and Doug was talking about how he prepared to
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Speaker 1: be a backup and then got the call an hour
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Speaker 1: or so before the game that you were going to
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Speaker 1: start in place at de Shaun Gibson. They've been working
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Speaker 1: Ronnie at both strong and free and he stepped in
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Speaker 1: and play free very very well. Look, you hear about
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Speaker 1: the defensive backs and the defensive backs from Alabama in particular,
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Speaker 1: being ready to play in the NFL, And you just
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Speaker 1: saw it right there. He's lining up to make a
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Speaker 1: form tackle and hits him at the right moment to
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Speaker 1: spin the ball out. He had five tackles, he forced
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Speaker 1: that fumble. UM Brian Baldinger, if you don't follow him
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Speaker 1: on Twitter from the NFL Network, does a great little
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Speaker 1: thing where he's watching tape and he uses his phone
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Speaker 1: and he videotapes that tape and has a little commentary.
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Speaker 1: And one of them was the hit that he had
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Speaker 1: on Mike Boone on the sideline where he absolutely blew
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Speaker 1: him up and it was formed. It was shoulder to shoulder.
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Speaker 1: This guy Harrison looks like he is going to be
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Speaker 1: a long term fixture in your defense. Six here's the
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Speaker 1: hit the Baldinger. I mean, just a perfect shoulder to
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Speaker 1: chest tackled right there in the sideline, delivered a blow.
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Speaker 1: Is the guy who live he's rangy and delivers a hit.
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Speaker 1: I love that pick in the third round, especially with
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Speaker 1: safety being a more important position in the defense than
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Speaker 1: it has been in my time in the league. It
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Speaker 1: really has become a critical position to have that safety.
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Speaker 1: And he has those huge hits and they're aggressive and
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Speaker 1: they're exciting. But when you watch the tape you see
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Speaker 1: how perfect his form is, and coming from Alabama, that's
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Speaker 1: no surprise. But a lot of times you get those
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Speaker 1: big pounding hits, but then you get a penalty with him,
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Speaker 1: it's perfect crisp. If three corners, you have three safeties.
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Speaker 1: If front of Harrison steps up, you may have four corners.
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Speaker 1: If Tyler Patman can play as well as he did
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Speaker 1: in Minnesota, played very very well, you may have five.
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Speaker 1: If if Trey Herndon, who is the undrafted rookie from
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Speaker 1: Vanderbilt who has had a nice camp, steps in there
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Speaker 1: and it looks like he might be able to do
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Speaker 1: that as well. So there's you have some depth. You
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Speaker 1: have a lot of talent. Uh, Todd wash doesn't want
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Speaker 1: to hear this. They're incredibly well coached. The scheme is outstanding. Uh.
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Speaker 1: This defense has a chance to be and I've said
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Speaker 1: it and I'll say it again if they get a
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Speaker 1: huge effort from the running game this year and the
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Speaker 1: offense controls the tempo of the game and the clock.
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Speaker 1: These guys are as talented, if not more talented than
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Speaker 1: that Baltimore Ravens bunch. In two thousand, People go, oh,
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Speaker 1: how's that possible. They had Ray Lewis. Yeah, Hall of
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Speaker 1: Fame player right in the middle of the defense, and
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Speaker 1: in two thousand that was where you wanted him because
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Speaker 1: it was still more of a running league. Now you
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Speaker 1: want him on the back end and your guys. Jalen ramsay,
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Speaker 1: So I think this defense can really put up a
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Speaker 1: number this year should be special. Sure. Yeah. So with that,
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Speaker 1: they're have no issues issues Alright, big thing three can
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Speaker 1: cam So we know that Cam Robinson, offensive lineman, struggle
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Speaker 1: a little bit last week in Minnesota. Doug said, Cam
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Speaker 1: is the first one to tell you that he did
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Speaker 1: not play well and is going to try to fix it.
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Speaker 1: So you had Andrew nor while practicing this week. Hopefully
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Speaker 1: he can play. But as the offensive line, can Cam
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Speaker 1: Robinson step up and believe be the player that he
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Speaker 1: wants to be well and add Josh Wells to that
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Speaker 1: as well. So on the right side, you know what
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Speaker 1: you've got with Jeremy Parnell. They know what they've got um.
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Speaker 1: And last year Cam Robinson played pretty well. He you know,
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Speaker 1: he was panned across the league and especially in the
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Speaker 1: a f C Championship game. Late in the bowl game,
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Speaker 1: thirty nine year old James Harrison turned it on. He
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Speaker 1: knew when to turn it on. Remember they signed him
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Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, what are they going to use him for? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we saw it when they needed him to pressure Blake
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Speaker 1: Borders late in the ball game with the game on
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Speaker 1: the line, he did it. Uh, that's the player that
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Speaker 1: Cam has to become. And to his credit, he was
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Speaker 1: here a lot in the off season, almost every day.
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Speaker 1: He was here through the off the field, at the
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Speaker 1: off the field, the ot A program, uh, and and
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Speaker 1: through the mini camp and has struggled a bit during
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Speaker 1: training camp. But he's working next to Andrew Norwell. That's
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Speaker 1: something that takes some time in some chemistry, and he's
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Speaker 1: not had the chance to work next to him much
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Speaker 1: because Norwell has been out with the calf um. I
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Speaker 1: think it'd be fine. I think he's long and athletic.
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Speaker 1: He looks stronger, bigger. Uh. He's agitated in the locker
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Speaker 1: room the other day. I like that too, because he's
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Speaker 1: tired of the questions. So can Cam, Yes, can camp?
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Speaker 1: And Cam better quicker because he's going to face the
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Speaker 1: best pass rusher that every team has every week, and
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Speaker 1: I think he's got the mindset for that coming from Alabama. Now.
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Speaker 1: The other one is Wells, and Wells he's been around
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Speaker 1: here for a couple of years, undrafted out of James Madison,
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Speaker 1: a swing guy, has started on the right, has played
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Speaker 1: on the left. They need him to be solid, they
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Speaker 1: need him to be a guy. They've always looked at
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Speaker 1: him as a guy who who had a higher ceiling
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Speaker 1: than he was playing at And after last week, I wondered, Uh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: maybe they mis evaluated that. Maybe he was closer to
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Speaker 1: his ceiling than they thought. He's got to pick it
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Speaker 1: up a little bit so that they can feel confident.
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Speaker 1: If Jeremy Partnell, who missed a couple of games last year,
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Speaker 1: got hurt in the Cincinnati game, miss San Diego, missed Arizona.
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Speaker 1: I think they lost the Arizona game because they didn't
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Speaker 1: have Jeremy Parnell because remember Chandler Jones just eight Wells
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Speaker 1: he alive on that side or the tight end, but
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Speaker 1: you know he dominated the ball game with a couple
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Speaker 1: of sacks, so well, he's gotta pick it up. They
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Speaker 1: need that swing thing. You can't expect the offensive line
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Speaker 1: to be healthy and have the starters for the entire season.
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Speaker 1: And eventually Will Richardson, the fourth round pick from North
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Speaker 1: Carolina State, will grow into that role. But we knew
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Speaker 1: when he came in that he wasn't ready to play
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Speaker 1: that spot, and you can't expect them to. So the
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Speaker 1: pressure is on Cam and Wells this week. And however
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Speaker 1: they much they played, well, he's just gonna play in Tampa.
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Speaker 1: However much Cam gets in Tampa, if he gets any
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Speaker 1: of it all, they really need to fine tune it,
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Speaker 1: do I expect him to play better when the season begins. Yeah. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Last year, Remember at this time we're talking about who's
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Speaker 1: the quarterback and look what happened. So when the game
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Speaker 1: gets out of training camp mode and you get into
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Speaker 1: it's time to play for real, I think Cam absolutely can.
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Speaker 1: Let's hope that he does. He has the right attitude,
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Speaker 1: like you said in the locker, and you could tell
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Speaker 1: he was agitated by his performance. Doug said, he's the
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Speaker 1: first one to tell you he didn't play the way
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Speaker 1: he wanted to play. So it's good that he realizes it.
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Speaker 1: Knowing Cam Robinson, he's going to try to fix it.
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Speaker 1: It's not like he is lazy and not working. He
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Speaker 1: was here almost every day during the off season programs,
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Speaker 1: so he's putting in the work. It just all has
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Speaker 1: to equal up. Okay, I cut you off to begin
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Speaker 1: big things. Is there any chance you remember what you
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Speaker 1: were going to say? Was I gonna say? That was
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Speaker 1: way too long ago? Who knew? And I'm the guy
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Speaker 1: with the memory issue? All right, we take a break.
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Speaker 1: When we come back to Dave Archer from the Falcons
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Speaker 1: Radio Network Good Guy joined us to share some thoughts
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Speaker 1: to Jack's Drive Time. Working to connect with Dave Archer
18:06
Speaker 1: from the Falcons Radio Network, and we will in a
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Speaker 1: couple of moments. We mentioned yesterday that we would not
18:12
Speaker 1: see Julio Jones or Devonte Freeman, and talking to West
18:17
Speaker 1: Durham and to Todave yesterday, it appeared that we also
18:22
Speaker 1: would not see I'm looking for him, Devandre Campbell or
18:28
Speaker 1: Jones in particular, a a Pro Bowl middle linebacker a
18:32
Speaker 1: year ago. Um. Different philosophies about sitting guys down. Julio
18:37
Speaker 1: Jones obviously there was you know, hold out he wanted
18:40
Speaker 1: to renegotiated contract. Um he is so. I saw him
18:45
Speaker 1: here in two thousand fifteen when they played, and there
18:48
Speaker 1: are big talented receivers all over the league. He's the
18:52
Speaker 1: guy who I think is the most demanding physical matchup.
18:55
Speaker 1: We guy, it's incredibly difficult to be able to contend
18:59
Speaker 1: with it, which is why it to see the Jalen Ramsey.
19:01
Speaker 1: Absolutely the long arms and the big hands and that
19:03
Speaker 1: whole thing. Perfect physical match up. Yeah, I mean he's
19:05
Speaker 1: a guy who's got so much potential UM on any play,
19:09
Speaker 1: I can remember him just strong arming his way through
19:12
Speaker 1: the secondary into the end zone. There are certain guys,
19:15
Speaker 1: and you know, we talk about the receivers, and we
19:16
Speaker 1: will with Blake Portle's coming up. And there's not a
19:19
Speaker 1: Julio Jones in this group. Although DJ Chart looks like
19:21
Speaker 1: a guy who can make a lot of big plays.
19:23
Speaker 1: But Julio Jones stands alone because of his body style.
19:26
Speaker 1: He's six four fifty pounds, not not even not that happy.
19:31
Speaker 1: He looks like he's two fifty. He's probably two thirty
19:34
Speaker 1: um and just muscles guys, just gets them out of
19:38
Speaker 1: the way, plays the game like a linebacker. And you
19:41
Speaker 1: just don't you don't get enough of that. So while
19:43
Speaker 1: we wait for Dave, should we jumple things up a
19:45
Speaker 1: little bit? We can absolutely? Uh so, Max, if you're
19:50
Speaker 1: what's his favorite thing? If you're back there and you're
19:54
Speaker 1: paying attention to us out here, oh, it looks like
19:58
Speaker 1: we're gonna get Dave. We're about to have Dave. And
20:01
Speaker 1: you don't even realize, Dave, the pressure that we're putting
20:04
Speaker 1: on you to come up with your best stuff right now.
20:06
Speaker 1: Because Max is in the back room going okay, are
20:08
Speaker 1: we going here? Are we staying here? One way or another?
20:11
Speaker 1: And so we have our friends Dave Archer, Good morning, Dave.
20:15
Speaker 1: How are you. I'm good, man, I'm good. What's happening
20:19
Speaker 1: up there? Oh? Well, the weather is good and uh
20:23
Speaker 1: we're excited about that. It's a little cooler up here.
20:25
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, it's football season, so today is
20:29
Speaker 1: kind of one of those early uh fall days. You say,
20:32
Speaker 1: I think, Okay, football's right around the corner. Now we're
20:36
Speaker 1: we are still at least two and a half months
20:39
Speaker 1: away from one of those days. So enjoy it because
20:42
Speaker 1: you won't have it on Saturday when you get down here. Pal.
20:44
Speaker 1: You know what, I'm having a tough time hearing you
20:46
Speaker 1: guys n have to call uh that to redo the call. Okay,
20:51
Speaker 1: we'll do that now, Joe will call you right back
20:53
Speaker 1: and we will we'll do this. So Max, now we
20:56
Speaker 1: are going to shuffle things around and we're gonna talk
20:58
Speaker 1: about Blake Bordles and Joe. You can take a moment
21:00
Speaker 1: and call him back and we can reset it for
21:02
Speaker 1: the top of the hour. Uh. So Bortles news conference
21:05
Speaker 1: just today was very telling. It was and we didn't
21:07
Speaker 1: expect it to be. Let's always give or take with
21:09
Speaker 1: those you know. And that's the thing. Brent Martineau sent
21:11
Speaker 1: a tweet out and said, you know, it's a good
21:13
Speaker 1: thing that the rest of the league doesn't doesn't really
21:15
Speaker 1: like Blake. We love him and he always gives you
21:18
Speaker 1: something in a news conference. So lead us through this
21:21
Speaker 1: because you went back and watched it. I heard you
21:23
Speaker 1: chuckling over there as you went back through it, how
21:25
Speaker 1: much you enjoyed it. So today is the one year
21:28
Speaker 1: anniversary of Blake Bortles getting bench. So he started last
21:32
Speaker 1: week's or yesterday's press conference, and the question was how
21:35
Speaker 1: far have you come? And he goes, well, I'm just
21:37
Speaker 1: thankful that I'm not getting bench this week. Take a look.
21:40
Speaker 1: I mean, it feels good to not to not get
21:42
Speaker 1: benched this week. Um, that's a positive. But you know
21:47
Speaker 1: it was it didn't play good. And you know what
21:50
Speaker 1: happens at this level is if uh it was the
21:53
Speaker 1: way he deadpanned it. I mean he meant it seriously.
21:55
Speaker 1: He was answering the question, but that's his way of
22:00
Speaker 1: being able to express how frustrating last year was to him.
22:04
Speaker 1: He didn't let anybody show it. You know he talks
22:06
Speaker 1: and Brandon Linder, one of his close buddies right the Center,
22:10
Speaker 1: has said over and over and over he didn't let
22:12
Speaker 1: things get to him. He didn't care what you write,
22:14
Speaker 1: what you say with the national media things. He cares
22:17
Speaker 1: what his teammates thing. But he doesn't worry about the
22:19
Speaker 1: people who were outside the locker room. And he really doesn't.
22:23
Speaker 1: And he showed that to you. He showed that to
22:26
Speaker 1: you at the top of the news conference when he
22:29
Speaker 1: was asked the question about, well, what's it like, right,
22:32
Speaker 1: and he's aware. I mean he said it himself. I
22:34
Speaker 1: didn't plague enough to be the starting quarterback. It's not
22:36
Speaker 1: like he was boo hoong and saying, oh, the coach
22:38
Speaker 1: has made the wrong decision. He knew that he wasn't
22:41
Speaker 1: playing at the level to be a starting quarterback. He
22:43
Speaker 1: fixed that and now he is well, he's refreshing in
22:45
Speaker 1: the sense that he says it like you or I
22:48
Speaker 1: or Joe or Dave or Max anybody might. It's just
22:51
Speaker 1: didn't play very well. And there are some guys who
22:53
Speaker 1: are very guarded about their public opinion and what they
22:56
Speaker 1: say and how they say it. He's just not He
22:59
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna take you reathing, he thinks, but he's
23:01
Speaker 1: not guarded and telling you. I think he said to
23:03
Speaker 1: a couple of different dumb a national media broadcast, which
23:06
Speaker 1: is surprised people, I'm not a natural pastor at the ball.
23:08
Speaker 1: When you read that, you're like, but you're a quarterback? Yeah,
23:10
Speaker 1: who said? Who says this? I mean he does. And
23:14
Speaker 1: and the expression on his face yesterday when he said,
23:17
Speaker 1: you know, what do you do? His biggest thing is
23:20
Speaker 1: he's not a natural passer, but he's a playmaker. He
23:23
Speaker 1: wins games. The entire locker room has said that, without
23:25
Speaker 1: even conversing with each other, that he finds a way
23:27
Speaker 1: to win ball games and that's why they love them.
23:29
Speaker 1: All right, how about does some of the other things
23:31
Speaker 1: from his news conferences today? So when asked about against
23:34
Speaker 1: the Vikings game, he got it sacked a few times
23:36
Speaker 1: and asked, when you know when that happens and the
23:38
Speaker 1: offensive laban completely with and you get sacked, what do
23:41
Speaker 1: you say to him? In in radio terms, it's it's
23:44
Speaker 1: oh crap, take a look. Everybody handles that differently as
23:47
Speaker 1: a quarterback. You know, I think there's different ways to
23:49
Speaker 1: handle that. Um, I've always kind of been the guy
23:51
Speaker 1: that you know he didn't. He's not whiffing on purpose,
23:53
Speaker 1: just like I'm not throwing picks on purpose. He's trying
23:55
Speaker 1: as hard as he can to do his job. And
23:57
Speaker 1: everybody here does that. And I think, you know, as
23:59
Speaker 1: a group, we understand in that about each other. You know,
24:01
Speaker 1: there's times where it takes somebody getting on somebody else
24:04
Speaker 1: in order to kind of get him going. Um. But
24:07
Speaker 1: I think you know, I know for sure that the
24:09
Speaker 1: five guys that I played behind, um do everything they
24:12
Speaker 1: can to make sure I don't get hit. Yeah, And
24:15
Speaker 1: I'm just so not like that. It is not that
24:17
Speaker 1: I would be pointing my finger and blaming everybody, but
24:19
Speaker 1: i'd be I would be, hey, you know, I'm standing
24:21
Speaker 1: back here. I'm I'm the one who's not completing the past.
24:24
Speaker 1: I'm the one throwing the interception. You're getting me killed.
24:27
Speaker 1: And maybe he says that in general terms, but again,
24:29
Speaker 1: it's one of the reasons why his teammates love playing
24:32
Speaker 1: with him, right, the young guys the older guys that
24:35
Speaker 1: he's our quarterback was what you heard because of that attitude,
24:38
Speaker 1: because he just kind of dust himself off. It says,
24:40
Speaker 1: all right, it's third nine. Now, let's go make something
24:43
Speaker 1: happen automatically onto the next play. You watch him in
24:45
Speaker 1: the huddle, and if he does get sacked, there's no conversation.
24:49
Speaker 1: He just gets up play card, let's go next, right,
24:51
Speaker 1: and just steady Eddie and just kind of keeps things
24:55
Speaker 1: moving forward. Anything else. Last one so asked about we
25:00
Speaker 1: heard this so much in the off season. You don't
25:01
Speaker 1: have that number one guy, that number one RDE receiver,
25:04
Speaker 1: No Julio Jones, no Antonio Brown. But he says he
25:06
Speaker 1: wouldn't trade this wide receiver group for anyone. It's kind
25:10
Speaker 1: of a receiver by committee. I mean, we we've run
25:11
Speaker 1: guys out there different groups at all times, and uh,
25:14
Speaker 1: and they're all really good football players. They know where
25:16
Speaker 1: they're supposed to when they're supposed to be, and you
25:17
Speaker 1: give me a chance, they're gonna make a play. So
25:18
Speaker 1: I love those guys and I think, um, you know,
25:21
Speaker 1: I'd take him over any other group in the league.
25:25
Speaker 1: And yesterday talking to the guys in the locker room,
25:29
Speaker 1: Marquis Lee in particular, Um Healing Cole, those guys feel
25:34
Speaker 1: the exact same way. He would not trade them. They
25:38
Speaker 1: would not trade him they've developed and understanding of how
25:41
Speaker 1: they play. And you look at that guy right there.
25:43
Speaker 1: He is DJ Jark, the rookie from l s U.
25:47
Speaker 1: He's the guy who gives you the greatest opportunity to
25:50
Speaker 1: have that number one receiver. I believe no disrespect to
25:53
Speaker 1: anyone else out there, but he is a physical mismatch,
25:57
Speaker 1: six four two pounds long. Him's huge hands and speed,
26:02
Speaker 1: real speed. He's maybe a ways from being that guy,
26:06
Speaker 1: but when you want to have a number one and
26:09
Speaker 1: you start thinking about it, it is probably going to
26:12
Speaker 1: be him. All right, let's do this. We we finally
26:14
Speaker 1: have reconnected with Dave Archer. Let's take a quick one
26:16
Speaker 1: minute time out. We'll come back, reset and bring on
26:19
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Speaker 1: Saturday evening, good guy. So let's move forward in our
28:04
Speaker 1: show and go to We mentioned yesterday that the Competition
28:09
Speaker 1: Committee had a conference call about the helmet rule and
28:14
Speaker 1: they reach some resolution, and I think we have it
28:16
Speaker 1: for you. We do tweet that says there there was
28:20
Speaker 1: no change to the resolution. So statement from NFL Executive
28:24
Speaker 1: Vice President of Football Operations, and if you can go
28:26
Speaker 1: to the next one, Max, I can read the statement.
28:29
Speaker 1: The NFL Competition Committee met today by conference called to
28:31
Speaker 1: discussed the new use of the helmet room through the
28:33
Speaker 1: first two weeks of the preseason. Moral of the story
28:36
Speaker 1: is they're keeping that rule the way it is and
28:39
Speaker 1: that's not unexpected. You're only two weeks into it. Now.
28:44
Speaker 1: They are still putting together video tape that they and
28:49
Speaker 1: that tape, but they're putting together videos that they can
28:52
Speaker 1: send out so that players and coaches can get a
28:54
Speaker 1: good feel for where they are. The thing right now
28:57
Speaker 1: that stands out from last weekend is get your head
29:00
Speaker 1: to the side, get your head dramatically to the side. Now,
29:03
Speaker 1: a J boy would say he thought that he did
29:05
Speaker 1: have his head to the side on this particular play,
29:08
Speaker 1: and that it was c. J. Hamm, the running back,
29:10
Speaker 1: who lowered his head first, and even Mike Zimmer, the
29:14
Speaker 1: Vikings head coach, acknowledged that he probably did that. I mean,
29:17
Speaker 1: look how he dropped his helmet. And so even if
29:21
Speaker 1: if boy has his head off to the side, right,
29:25
Speaker 1: he doesn't look that way. So, and Jeff Logaman explained
29:28
Speaker 1: in the film room on Monday night on Jaguars All Access,
29:31
Speaker 1: how this play right here is probably a result even
29:34
Speaker 1: though it was to the chest and not to the head,
29:37
Speaker 1: but the defenseless player is a result of the new
29:42
Speaker 1: helmet rule and an abundance of overcaution. So that's kind
29:47
Speaker 1: of where we're at with it right now. It makes sense,
29:50
Speaker 1: and as we talked about yesterday with John Osier, this
29:53
Speaker 1: is something that's going to evolve all season. That's why
29:58
Speaker 1: these conferences are going to half to keep happening weekly
30:01
Speaker 1: because every week you're gonna have something else happened like that.
30:03
Speaker 1: That's why in the preseason I don't know if it's
30:05
Speaker 1: fair to find the players because they're trying to learn
30:08
Speaker 1: on the fly as well. Right, I don't think they should.
30:10
Speaker 1: So let's bring on Dave arching out. We believe we
30:12
Speaker 1: have connected with him. Are you there, Dave? It's amazing
30:16
Speaker 1: that we're talking through cans. I guess from Jacksonville to Atlanta.
30:19
Speaker 1: That's a heck of a string, baby, that is a
30:21
Speaker 1: heck of a string. Hey, what we're just talking about
30:24
Speaker 1: the helmet rule and obviously the Competition committee yesterday reviewed it,
30:28
Speaker 1: had a conference call, and they left it the same.
30:31
Speaker 1: Have you seen in your first two preseason games the
30:34
Speaker 1: helmet rule called called too often, called incorrectly, um called confusingly.
30:40
Speaker 1: What's been your take on this, Dave? Well, maybe the
30:45
Speaker 1: last the last option is probably the one Brian has
30:48
Speaker 1: probably hit us. Kiano Neil had a hit in the
30:52
Speaker 1: Kansas City game that we thought in the open field.
30:56
Speaker 1: He had his face up and he was some contact
31:01
Speaker 1: with a helmet. But I mean, that's gonna be tough
31:03
Speaker 1: to not have contact with your helmet when your face
31:05
Speaker 1: up on a guy. And we thought it was a
31:07
Speaker 1: clean hit and they flagged it. So I think that
31:10
Speaker 1: there's and we talked to Rich McKay pregame as we
31:12
Speaker 1: do every week on our on our broadcast with him
31:17
Speaker 1: being on the competition committee, a great guy to go to,
31:19
Speaker 1: and he talked about how there's going to be a
31:21
Speaker 1: degree of learning both from the officials and from the players,
31:24
Speaker 1: and he felt like that this preseason was something they
31:27
Speaker 1: were gonna have to kind of fight through and live
31:29
Speaker 1: through because there were going to be some stuff called incorrectly.
31:33
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to go back as as officials and
31:35
Speaker 1: sit down and look at the taps and say, you
31:36
Speaker 1: know what, we screwed that one up. Now this one's okay.
31:39
Speaker 1: And we got also got to take into into consideration.
31:42
Speaker 1: You know, they're not reviewing it. It's a it's a
31:44
Speaker 1: it's a play that's called in real time. So um
31:48
Speaker 1: Rich seems to think that it's gonna work itself out.
31:51
Speaker 1: Um and doesn't think it's gonna be called nearly as
31:54
Speaker 1: much during the regular season. But all of us are
31:55
Speaker 1: kind of holding our breath that do games like you
31:58
Speaker 1: and I and West do that. Wow, how many how
32:01
Speaker 1: many games are we get get screwed up because somebody
32:03
Speaker 1: makes a call late in the game on a play
32:05
Speaker 1: that's clean, And so I think we're all our breath
32:07
Speaker 1: on it. Well, what confused a lot is that? So
32:10
Speaker 1: last week and you may or may not have seen it,
32:12
Speaker 1: A J. Boy A out of the backfield collides with C. J.
32:16
Speaker 1: Ham Ham. The running back actually drops his head. A
32:19
Speaker 1: J said he thought he had his to the side.
32:21
Speaker 1: So it was interesting that on Monday, after the Saturday game,
32:24
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer agreed with A. J. Boy A that it
32:27
Speaker 1: wasn't dependalty on the defender, it probably should depend dependalty
32:30
Speaker 1: on his own guy, which you never hear. You never
32:33
Speaker 1: hear coaches admit that kind of stuff, So that made
32:36
Speaker 1: it interesting. As a guy who played the game and
32:37
Speaker 1: who's been around football his entire life, do you see
32:43
Speaker 1: this as being a moment where the game has to
32:46
Speaker 1: figure this out? In other words, in order to save football,
32:50
Speaker 1: they've got to get this part of it right. Or
32:52
Speaker 1: are you on the other side of the line that
32:54
Speaker 1: says just lead football like it was? No, I think
32:57
Speaker 1: they need to get this right. I don't think there's
32:59
Speaker 1: any question that we know that the guys are bigger, stronger,
33:03
Speaker 1: and faster playing now, and so we do need to
33:07
Speaker 1: make an adjustment in the game to keep guys as
33:10
Speaker 1: safe as we can, or we're going to have more
33:13
Speaker 1: of the Ryan Shazier type situations because the players, like
33:18
Speaker 1: I just said, are bigger, stronger, and faster, So there's
33:21
Speaker 1: gonna be more pounds per square inch and more more
33:25
Speaker 1: collisions that are detrimental to the spine. So if we
33:28
Speaker 1: don't get these guys would get their heads back up
33:32
Speaker 1: and put the spine in the proper spot. Now, obviously
33:35
Speaker 1: we all have to relearn some things. Now, none of
33:38
Speaker 1: the players have ever been taught. I know you've done
33:39
Speaker 1: a number of interviews around the Jacksonville team. None of
33:42
Speaker 1: these players were able taught to dip their head to hit.
33:45
Speaker 1: It's just become a natural reaction because there is a bigger,
33:48
Speaker 1: stronger guy coming at you potentially, or you're trying to
33:51
Speaker 1: cushion yourself for impact, that the natural thing is to
33:54
Speaker 1: drop your head. They were never taught to tackle that
33:57
Speaker 1: way and never taught to hit anybody that way. So
33:59
Speaker 1: we to get back to training and get back to
34:02
Speaker 1: guys realizing that you got to hit on the rise,
34:04
Speaker 1: gotta have your face up, things like that. So I
34:06
Speaker 1: think that the player will adjust, just like we've adjusted
34:09
Speaker 1: the rules throughout the game. Over the years, We've changed
34:12
Speaker 1: rules and adjusted the players always adjust. This is this
34:15
Speaker 1: one is more of a lifestyle deal and the fact
34:19
Speaker 1: that we're trying to keep you guys safe. Just one
34:20
Speaker 1: more thought on this and then we'll talk about your
34:22
Speaker 1: football team. And that is And so my kids and
34:25
Speaker 1: I coach in a junior development heads up football league
34:28
Speaker 1: from uh USA Football. And I really see this as
34:33
Speaker 1: something instead of it being from the top down, in
34:35
Speaker 1: other words, college learning from the NFL, high school modeling college,
34:38
Speaker 1: and then junior football. I think this is a generational
34:41
Speaker 1: thing going up. I think they're teaching kids to drop
34:44
Speaker 1: their hips and to lead with their shoulder more than
34:47
Speaker 1: they ever have. And I think these guys are gonna
34:49
Speaker 1: have to learn how to do it. But the next
34:51
Speaker 1: generation of football players, maybe two generations from now, will
34:55
Speaker 1: be the guys who actually play the game that way. No,
34:58
Speaker 1: I think I couldn't agree with you more. I think,
35:00
Speaker 1: did you have to teach the kids you know, don't
35:02
Speaker 1: don't emulate what you're seeing on TV. Just throwing yourself
35:05
Speaker 1: in there with your head down. I do think there's
35:06
Speaker 1: any question about that, Brian. I think it's a good call.
35:08
Speaker 1: But in the interim, we've got to have guys at
35:11
Speaker 1: the highest level, you know, change what they're doing and
35:14
Speaker 1: and do present some kind of example and maybe even
35:17
Speaker 1: be ambassadors where you get them on the air talking
35:20
Speaker 1: about it and saying, hey, this is something that needs
35:22
Speaker 1: to be adjusted, an appeal to the younger player that hey,
35:25
Speaker 1: this is important. So pay attention to your coaches in
35:28
Speaker 1: your different little area, different areas that you're playing little
35:30
Speaker 1: league football or whatever. So Dave, now on to the Falcons.
35:34
Speaker 1: We heard that Julio Jones and a few other first
35:36
Speaker 1: string guys will not be playing on Saturday. From the
35:39
Speaker 1: Jaguars standpoint, I know Jaguars defensive guys are disappointed in
35:43
Speaker 1: that they wanted to see Julio Jones and all those
35:44
Speaker 1: offensive weapons. What is the reaction in your locker room? Well,
35:49
Speaker 1: you know, obviously you can't put guys in bubble wrap,
35:51
Speaker 1: but to a certain extent, we put Jones and DeVante
35:54
Speaker 1: Freeman and bubble wrap. That is exactly what we've done.
35:56
Speaker 1: And we you know, we want those two guys healthy
35:58
Speaker 1: on that Thursday night game we go to philadel for you,
36:01
Speaker 1: I don't want him nicked up. Those two guys have
36:03
Speaker 1: a have a history of playing through injury. They're both Warriors,
36:06
Speaker 1: in battle. But you know, coach Quinn has talked about
36:10
Speaker 1: how let's not do that again this year. Let's not
36:12
Speaker 1: come into the season with DeVante. DeVante has had a
36:16
Speaker 1: couple of concussion issues. You want to try to keep
36:17
Speaker 1: them away from any of that kind of stuff. He
36:19
Speaker 1: runs with a running style that belies his size. Uh,
36:22
Speaker 1: and so we we need to try to keep him healthy.
36:25
Speaker 1: And Jones did need to be nicked up either. They're
36:27
Speaker 1: doing a tremendous amount of work in practice. Uh. And
36:30
Speaker 1: I know you can't simulate game speed, but I think
36:32
Speaker 1: they're very comfortable with where those two guys are. We
36:34
Speaker 1: got a couple of guys nicked Kean Jones are outstanding
36:37
Speaker 1: inside linebacker is a little bit nicked up. And so
36:40
Speaker 1: for the same reasons, if we were in a game
36:42
Speaker 1: where we were playing the regular season, if we're playing
36:44
Speaker 1: Philadelphia this weekend, keep be planned. But because we're not,
36:48
Speaker 1: because we need to aim ready in two weeks um,
36:51
Speaker 1: then he probably won't play either. So we've got a
36:54
Speaker 1: couple of guys that are going to be out And
36:56
Speaker 1: I get it. I understand where Jackson Bill is coming from.
36:58
Speaker 1: In fact, I'm encouraged that we get a chance to
37:01
Speaker 1: play ja Jacksonville's defensive front, because I think it's gonna
37:04
Speaker 1: be a real test for us offensively. We're trying to
37:07
Speaker 1: figure out a couple of things on our offensive line,
37:09
Speaker 1: and nobody better than to go against the arguably the
37:12
Speaker 1: best defense in the league, certainly up front that we
37:15
Speaker 1: could face. So we're excited about that. Let's be honest,
37:17
Speaker 1: it would be fun to see Matt Ryan trying to
37:19
Speaker 1: attack Jalen Ramsey with wholio right. I mean, why beat
37:23
Speaker 1: around the bush on that one. When you open your mouth,
37:24
Speaker 1: you expect it. And those of us that know Jalen,
37:27
Speaker 1: you know, the guy's a guy who can walk the
37:30
Speaker 1: walk and talk to talk. It's not like he's a
37:32
Speaker 1: quarterback or an offensive lineman talking where he needs guys
37:35
Speaker 1: protecting him, you know what I mean? That would have
37:37
Speaker 1: been fun, no question, then, Bryan. I I talked him.
37:40
Speaker 1: I talked to Matt yesterday about it. I was a
37:41
Speaker 1: flowery branch the facing training camp yesterday and I asked,
37:44
Speaker 1: you know, I had to do. I do a pre
37:45
Speaker 1: pregame interview with him every week that we are on
37:47
Speaker 1: our pregame show, and I asked him about Jalen Ramsey
37:50
Speaker 1: and then he said, he said, hey, you know what,
37:54
Speaker 1: I've been in the league long enough now where I've
37:56
Speaker 1: heard a number of people say something disparaging about me
37:59
Speaker 1: or something that I can't do, he said, But that's
38:02
Speaker 1: what they want you to do, is they want you
38:03
Speaker 1: to get caught up in that to where Okay, hey,
38:05
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a shot at Jalen Ramsey right here
38:07
Speaker 1: when it doesn't really dictate that you do that. And
38:10
Speaker 1: he said the first he said this this week was
38:13
Speaker 1: the first time he's ever seen Jalen Ramsey on tape.
38:16
Speaker 1: So he didn't even know, really, he said, he heard
38:19
Speaker 1: about it. He knew he was a good player, but
38:23
Speaker 1: he there's no reputation attacks to Jalen Ramsey around the
38:27
Speaker 1: league or anything like that. Not to be disparaging to
38:29
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey. I think he's a heck of a player,
38:31
Speaker 1: but frankly hasn't been around long enough to have any
38:34
Speaker 1: kind of reputation that precedes him. And unfortunately, what precede
38:40
Speaker 1: him right now is his mouth. And so he's got
38:42
Speaker 1: an opportunity to uh see a number of quarterbacks around
38:46
Speaker 1: the league, and you know, hey, the guy's got a
38:48
Speaker 1: lot of moxy about him. He's got a lot of swagger.
38:50
Speaker 1: He's a good player, encouraging people. Maybe he's tired of
38:53
Speaker 1: people not throwing at him, you know, he wants people
38:55
Speaker 1: throw over there so we can have seven rate interceptions.
38:57
Speaker 1: I don't know, but Yond is one of his close friends,
39:01
Speaker 1: and obviously he's kind of modeled his uh, his conversational ability.
39:06
Speaker 1: After that, he's he is a heck of a player
39:08
Speaker 1: and he makes it fun around here. And so next
39:11
Speaker 1: year nineteen, the Jaguars and Falcons will play in the
39:13
Speaker 1: regular season. So we'll we'll wait to see that matchup then.
39:17
Speaker 1: J Yeah, yeah, right exactly. It can't wait to see that.
39:24
Speaker 1: Um hey was the Calvin Ridley pick uh an effort
39:27
Speaker 1: to keep Julio healthy all season long, to take some
39:31
Speaker 1: of the pressure off of him. I mean, look, if
39:34
Speaker 1: I'm picking a receiver to build my team around, it's
39:37
Speaker 1: Julio Jones and and it's a distant second to find
39:39
Speaker 1: the next guy. Um And I gotta imagine that Matt
39:42
Speaker 1: Ryan will always turn towards Julio Jones first. But when
39:46
Speaker 1: you get an explosive guy like Calvin Ridley in the offense,
39:49
Speaker 1: that that creates some opportunity for Julio. Yeah, I think so.
39:54
Speaker 1: I think it is a question that we were We
39:55
Speaker 1: fell off from our sixteen numbers, so we're thirty three
39:58
Speaker 1: points a game in sixteen. Year of that, Falcons went
40:00
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. Last year, jot down to twenty two,
40:03
Speaker 1: so Atlanta was not scoring touchdowns. They were moving the
40:05
Speaker 1: ball from twenty to twenty, but red zone really bogged
40:08
Speaker 1: down and felt like there was a lot of attention
40:11
Speaker 1: paid to Julio Jones, maybe too much attention by the
40:14
Speaker 1: Falcons trying to get him the ball. So the year,
40:17
Speaker 1: the year the Falcons with the Super Bowl, Julio had
40:19
Speaker 1: six touchdowns, but he also Taylor Gabriel had six touchdowns
40:23
Speaker 1: and he had thirteen other guys catch touchdown passes in
40:25
Speaker 1: that season. I think they want to get back to that.
40:27
Speaker 1: And what Calvin Ridley does, it gives you another weapon.
40:30
Speaker 1: He scored last week against Kansas Citty in the red zone,
40:32
Speaker 1: made a great read against zone coverage, sat down Matt
40:35
Speaker 1: match Shop pounding for a touchdown. He's got a great
40:38
Speaker 1: understanding of how to play the position across the board,
40:41
Speaker 1: not just in slot outside the numbers. Were you line
40:43
Speaker 1: him up so that weapon. I think creates problems from
40:46
Speaker 1: a preparation standpoint as you get ready for the Falcons.
40:49
Speaker 1: Julio Jones is the he Obviously it's gonna be the
40:51
Speaker 1: focal point, as you justly suggested, but there's a lot
40:53
Speaker 1: more weapons to potentially go to, and I think it
40:56
Speaker 1: takes some of the pressure off Julio Dave. Going forward
40:59
Speaker 1: to Saturday, third preseason game, we've been calling it dress
41:01
Speaker 1: rehearsal around here, seeing the starters, seeing how they will
41:04
Speaker 1: be in game action. But it seems like the Falcons
41:05
Speaker 1: are going to arrest some of their starters, like we
41:07
Speaker 1: just talked about, So what are you looking for in
41:09
Speaker 1: Saturday's game. Yeah, the Falcons aren't looking at it like that.
41:12
Speaker 1: They are going to play a lot of their players
41:15
Speaker 1: obviously a few more series, but to think that they're
41:18
Speaker 1: going to play him to halftime may not be realistic.
41:22
Speaker 1: I think that Quinn takes a different approach to it
41:24
Speaker 1: in the fact that he's very comfortable with his roster
41:27
Speaker 1: and he's very comfortable with his front line players. So
41:30
Speaker 1: now he's trying to find guys and put guys in
41:33
Speaker 1: stressful situations to see how they respond. They may not
41:37
Speaker 1: necessarily be those frontline guys. He feels good about his
41:40
Speaker 1: is eleven on defense, or twelve if you want to
41:42
Speaker 1: count the nickel or fourteen if you count that extra
41:45
Speaker 1: rusher that comes in and then on the other side
41:47
Speaker 1: of the same thing offensively when you're bringing your nickel
41:49
Speaker 1: package and extra receivers. He feels good about that group
41:52
Speaker 1: of people, but he wants to find out about some
41:55
Speaker 1: of the young players they've brought in and some of
41:57
Speaker 1: the other guys are expecting to count on, you know,
41:59
Speaker 1: to Monte Casey, who's a safety that's really come on
42:02
Speaker 1: from They grafted him a year ago. Was a special
42:04
Speaker 1: team's ace for him, but he's made a couple of plays.
42:07
Speaker 1: He had eleven tackles against uh the Jets in the
42:09
Speaker 1: first week of the season, at interception last weekend against
42:12
Speaker 1: Kansas City. He's a guy they think has a tremendous upside.
42:16
Speaker 1: They want to put those guys in stressful situation, so
42:18
Speaker 1: they're gonna make play calls and defensive calls and things
42:21
Speaker 1: like that that are gonna put those guys up the
42:24
Speaker 1: bat to see how they respond, more so than to
42:27
Speaker 1: try to go out and and beat Jacksonville or keep
42:30
Speaker 1: their player regular players on the field. Hey, one final
42:33
Speaker 1: thought day before we let you go. We we focused
42:35
Speaker 1: almost exclusively on offense. But when you look at the rundown,
42:38
Speaker 1: there are players on all three levels of this defense.
42:42
Speaker 1: Who's the best. Who's the guy who kind of sets
42:44
Speaker 1: the tempo for this defense? Well, unfortunately he's not gonna play.
42:47
Speaker 1: Dion Jones is probably that guy. The middle linebacker. He
42:50
Speaker 1: has been outstanding. I think that he's a guy that
42:52
Speaker 1: is he They really forced him into a you know,
42:56
Speaker 1: drinking through a fire hose when he first got here.
42:58
Speaker 1: I remember him line it up at a back went
43:00
Speaker 1: motion in the middle livebacker, coach Jeff Albrics yelling and
43:03
Speaker 1: you've gotta go with him. This is when he's a rookie.
43:05
Speaker 1: Now he's telling people what to do, and it's been
43:08
Speaker 1: neat to watch him grow. I would say he is
43:11
Speaker 1: number one, and probably Ricardo Allen, the safety who knows
43:15
Speaker 1: everybody's job. He can't rush the passer or can't defend
43:19
Speaker 1: the run from the d tackle spot, but if he
43:21
Speaker 1: was two hundred ninety pounds, he wouldn't know how to
43:23
Speaker 1: do that. Even though he's been the back end. He's
43:25
Speaker 1: a guy that knows everybody's position, knows the opposing team
43:29
Speaker 1: extremely well, studies like nobody's business. So those are probably
43:33
Speaker 1: the two most important guys to have on the field
43:36
Speaker 1: for He could play across the board, but I think
43:38
Speaker 1: there are some of his their parts on defense. They've
43:41
Speaker 1: got to have all those guys in the Brady Jarrett
43:43
Speaker 1: dedrin Sonata new draft pick. All those guys are gonna
43:46
Speaker 1: need to be on the field for them be successful.
43:47
Speaker 1: Lots of young talent though on all three levels. You
43:49
Speaker 1: can certainly see where dan Quinn is building this thing.
43:51
Speaker 1: Thanks for being persistent and patient with us this morning
43:54
Speaker 1: as we tried to connect. We really appreciate your time.
43:57
Speaker 1: Always good to be on with you. Man. You take
43:58
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44:00
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