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Recap of Hall of Fame Weekend | Jags Drive Time: Monday, August 8 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jacks Drive Time with Ashlyn Sullo Suller, John
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Speaker 1: Oceans and Brian Sexton. Jacks Drive starts right now. No, Brod,
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Speaker 1: thank God for football, and I think I thank God
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Speaker 1: for the people of Jacksonville. I had to get this
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Speaker 1: in just one time, dude. Yes, it was the best
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Speaker 1: part of the Hall of Fame speech. What a weekend
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Speaker 1: for Tony Boselli, for the Jaguars as a whole. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna recap it all here on Monday on Jaguars Drive Time,
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Speaker 1: just coming off the practice field as well. A lot
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Speaker 1: of football going on this week. Welcome in the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Drive Time. Ashland Sullivan and Brian Sexton here with you.
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Speaker 1: And we were both in Canton. I was there for
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Speaker 1: a short while. Came back Friday morning. Yeah, I felt
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Speaker 1: bad for you. No, you didn't, and you were there
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Speaker 1: all weekend, but I know you got to witness that
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Speaker 1: awesome weekn We're gonna talk a lot about it in
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Speaker 1: the show, but briefly, well, here's here's what here's what
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Speaker 1: made it special. Was there and the entire organization was
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Speaker 1: counting on Tony Boselli when they drafted him, right, I mean,
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Speaker 1: he was the first player they drafted. He was going
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Speaker 1: to be a player of significance. We hoped he was
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Speaker 1: going to be a great player. He turned out to
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Speaker 1: be a great player and a great ambassador for this franchise.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know that you could ask, but I
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Speaker 1: don't know the jover get. I mean, maybe maybe Lawrence
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Speaker 1: is going to be that guy who means as much
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Speaker 1: to your franchise as he does. So twenty seven years later,
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Speaker 1: to be back at the Hall of Fame, enshrining him, uh,
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Speaker 1: celebrating him was a special feeling to me, you know,
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Speaker 1: as one of the people who was there and felt
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Speaker 1: that way for sure. Absolutely, Well, we have a lot
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Speaker 1: to talk about, a lot of football to talk about
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Speaker 1: as well. Recapped the first preseason game. Big thing one
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Speaker 1: is week two. We are officially in week two of
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Speaker 1: the preseason, prepared for the first home game and this
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Speaker 1: Friday against the Cleveland Browns. Practice has looked a little
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Speaker 1: different this week, a lot more physical, and that's coach
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Speaker 1: Peter since saying we're shifting gears. You know, we spent
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Speaker 1: the first two weeks camp really installing offense and defense,
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Speaker 1: and so there was a lot of I think from
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Speaker 1: a from a mental standpoint. There's a lot of things
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Speaker 1: too that we kind of through at these guys, and
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Speaker 1: now that we're kind of into the meat and potatoes
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Speaker 1: of training camp, things begin to you know, slow down
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Speaker 1: from an installation standpoint, and we can go back and
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Speaker 1: and really fine tune in detail, you know, some of
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Speaker 1: the assignments, some of the details that we would be
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Speaker 1: and some of the mistakes we made in the game,
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Speaker 1: and and um, you know, build towards this next one
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Speaker 1: big thing too is back to the game. Let's go
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Speaker 1: back to Thursday's Hall of Fame game having had the
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Speaker 1: chance to recap it. There are a lot of things
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Speaker 1: that the Jaguars need to improve on that we noticed,
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Speaker 1: but one thing that definitely stood out is the play
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Speaker 1: of Trayvon Walker. It definitely is because a lot of
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Speaker 1: people are doubt me or whatever you may say, a
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Speaker 1: lot of people's form as well, but I know who
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Speaker 1: I am and I know the type of that I
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Speaker 1: can be, so continue and away show other people as well.
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Speaker 1: Was this pretty steamless of what you've been doing? It
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Speaker 1: can't kind of just built upon that. Definitely, Like I said,
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Speaker 1: one per cent better every day if you get want
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Speaker 1: to sent better every day. Then you can't get no
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Speaker 1: worse than you already was. And big thing three is
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Speaker 1: Travis Etiena is back, and man was he back on
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Speaker 1: Sunday for live tackling drills. He took a couple of
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Speaker 1: pops that made me gasp where I'm thinking of gosh,
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Speaker 1: I hope he gets up, but he was saying, bring
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Speaker 1: it on, goverminder quickly. Is the physical game. But that's
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Speaker 1: all we played. That's all. We love it. Like you said,
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Speaker 1: I've been I haven't played it so long, Like I
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Speaker 1: want to get taple. I need to get tackled, just
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Speaker 1: to get that, to get my body, my body back
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Speaker 1: afflimated with that. I just been at home working out,
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Speaker 1: chilling on the couch, stuff like that. So has come
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Speaker 1: out here to get live loves and bruis. I missed that.
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Speaker 1: I missed that contact. You know, I may sound crazy,
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Speaker 1: but I missed kind of beating those card crashes. And
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Speaker 1: there you have it. Those are big things. We'll start
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Speaker 1: a big picture there. Sunday's practice. Yesterday's practice was the
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Speaker 1: most physical practice I have seen in training camp. Live
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Speaker 1: tackling to the ground, harder tackles than we normally see
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Speaker 1: game day on Sundays. It's something I've never seen. And
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Speaker 1: talking with coach Peterson and Josh Allen, it's them saying, hey,
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Speaker 1: we're not ready and we have to get ready. The
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Speaker 1: season is coming. And I know coach Peterson in his
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Speaker 1: book he mentions, you know, tackling and training camp and
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Speaker 1: maybe even in seasons. So this isn't out of the norm.
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Speaker 1: But it was different than what I've ever seen in Jackson. Well,
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Speaker 1: it's it's different than what they do now. When Doug
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Speaker 1: was a player, to say, you know, early nineties through
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Speaker 1: early two thousand's, that's what we did, right. I mean
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Speaker 1: they went twice a day and they were live. Now,
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Speaker 1: they weren't live in every period, right, but especially nine
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Speaker 1: on seven in the run game and the goal line
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Speaker 1: in the red zone, they were live all the time.
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Speaker 1: They've backed away from that. The salary cap has become
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Speaker 1: more of a central part of life, and as a
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Speaker 1: result of that, you want to be careful because if
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Speaker 1: you lose a high dollar player, it's really tough to
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Speaker 1: replace that guy. So they don't do that that much anymore.
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Speaker 1: But Doug said to me and a couple of other
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Speaker 1: people the first week at camp him, I'm gonna do this.
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Speaker 1: He's got two days in mind where he's going to
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Speaker 1: do it. Because you know what, Ashton, you have to
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Speaker 1: get used to tackling, right. Every period on game day
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Speaker 1: is live, right, so you can't not tackle. Guys have
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Speaker 1: to get their bodies ready for that. But they're very
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Speaker 1: smart about it. And um, I'm sorry I missed it.
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Speaker 1: We were on an airplane coming back from Canton and
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Speaker 1: I heard he's doing live today and it was great,
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Speaker 1: one of two and we're not going to be able
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Speaker 1: to see it. Funny enough, it was the day that
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Speaker 1: basically everyone was traveling back there. I think there were
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Speaker 1: five media members out there, so I felt very privileged
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Speaker 1: to people of the Hey, look the intensity level is high.
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Speaker 1: It was high today and they were in full pads,
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Speaker 1: but they didn't go full there weren't live all the
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Speaker 1: way to tackle. But you could tell that that period
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Speaker 1: impacted those guys. Watching Josh Allen and Trayvon Walker, you know,
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Speaker 1: walking over to do some of their individual work, you
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Speaker 1: could tell they were a bit gassed. Yesterday's practice had
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Speaker 1: an impact on it. After practice yesterday, Josh Allen was
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Speaker 1: sitting on a picnic table for for maybe fifteen minutes
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Speaker 1: and I walked up, I said you okay. He's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: today it was a little tough. So they're definitely feeling
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Speaker 1: the effects of it. You couldn't have watched set game
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Speaker 1: last Thursday, even though you didn't see many starters, and
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Speaker 1: and it would be hard for you to imagine the
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Speaker 1: coach saying anything other than we got work to do, right,
6:10
Speaker 1: we have got to get some things done. Um. And
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Speaker 1: so he did. But the one thing, and we will
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Speaker 1: say from last Thursday's game, when when you think of
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Speaker 1: the one positive, it has to be Trayvon Walker. Even
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Speaker 1: with the penalty, which was funny in the locker room,
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Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, I don't think they're mad about that penalty. No, no, no, no, no. Um.
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Speaker 1: The first snap of the game and he's coming off
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Speaker 1: the edge of Look, Brandon Parker is a five year veterans.
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Speaker 1: He's not their starter. Uh, he's I think he's got
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Speaker 1: thirty two starts in his career, so it's not like
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Speaker 1: he is Cam Robinson, right, but he's long, you know,
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Speaker 1: he's six seven and long arms. And to watch Trayvon
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Speaker 1: Walker sort of set it up. I wrote him my
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Speaker 1: quick thought that I thought he hesitated and watching it back,
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Speaker 1: I think maybe I was wrong. I think maybe he
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Speaker 1: was setting him up um and then bull rush six
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Speaker 1: ft seven. It's tough to bull rush those guys, especially
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Speaker 1: guys with long arms, because they tend to keep pass rushers,
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Speaker 1: you know, at a distance frame them. Man, he got
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Speaker 1: right into him, threw him to the ground, and then
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Speaker 1: got out there with his arm. And he said to
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Speaker 1: us in the postgame locker room, I was so close.
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Speaker 1: I was going to make an impact in the play.
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Speaker 1: Folks that he's everything we've been telling you. He's raw
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Speaker 1: in the pass rush, right. He doesn't bring like Josh
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Speaker 1: Allen brought from Kentucky, but a huge bevy of of
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Speaker 1: of pass rushing moves he didn't have. That. He's gonna
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Speaker 1: have to work on that. But what he brings is
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Speaker 1: immense physical ability on a huge frame. I told him
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Speaker 1: one last week, Clydesdale and the body stallion on the field.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the guy just he impresses you physically and
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Speaker 1: the way that he runs, not many people can do it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and I won't. I don't think I'll ever forget. When
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Speaker 1: they said over the loudspeaker in the stadium, Trayvon Walker
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Speaker 1: Sack and you just heard on the Jaguar sigling this
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Speaker 1: explosion of cheers, like, yes, this is what we've been
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Speaker 1: waiting for. And all the doubt and all the hesitation
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Speaker 1: of who to pick number one, overall it was that
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Speaker 1: clarity moments. You know, it was all, look, they want
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Speaker 1: off a to coordinators to worry about which one of
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Speaker 1: those guys that they can get help with, because one
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Speaker 1: of them is going to be one on one um
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Speaker 1: that first play had to make a bunch of guys
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Speaker 1: go yeah, okay, that's gonna be a difficult decision this one.
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Speaker 1: And finally, let's touch a little bit on travisy Tim.
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Speaker 1: We mentioned them needing to have tackling drills and Travisy
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Speaker 1: T and I love the honesty saying I haven't had
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Speaker 1: gotten hit and over a year. I need this right now.
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Speaker 1: And the biggest question we had all off season was
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Speaker 1: when you do have that live tackling practice, will travisy
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Speaker 1: TM be okay to come back? The next day? He
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Speaker 1: looked great today, done, he's back. Um. There was a
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Speaker 1: day on the practice field last week where he turned
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Speaker 1: it up and I think it was a week ago
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Speaker 1: Sunday and went up the sideline and a coach went
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Speaker 1: bye bye, and I remember thinking, Okay, he's done. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's ready to go. And then to see him on
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Speaker 1: the practice field today knowing that he went full yesterday.
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Speaker 1: That was the test. Can he go day to day
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Speaker 1: to day to day or is he gonna need to
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Speaker 1: rest it they're not resting him. And the suddenness that
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Speaker 1: he's showing in both the past seen game and the
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Speaker 1: patients and then electrifying suddenness in the running game. He's back, yeah,
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Speaker 1: and no hesitation. And Trevor Lawrence post practice today we
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Speaker 1: were talking about the hits Travis took and he said, Man,
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Speaker 1: I've never seen a back take hicks like that. Trevor's like, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: he does it all the time. He's fine, Yeah, he's
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Speaker 1: used to it. Don't worry about it here. Here's just
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Speaker 1: the amazing thing about this kid is that And we
9:23
Speaker 1: shouldn't forget the Liz Frank injury which he suffered has
9:27
Speaker 1: been a career ender for more guys at that position
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Speaker 1: than it hasn't been. Right, rare is the guy who
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Speaker 1: comes back, especially a guy like e. T n who's
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Speaker 1: planted that foot and explode up the field. Ability is rare.
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Speaker 1: It's why he was a first round pick. That's why
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Speaker 1: he was the a c c's all time leading rusher.
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Speaker 1: There was no guarantee he was going to come back,
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Speaker 1: to come back on this. It's a great story. It's
9:50
Speaker 1: a great story. It is, and he's been very honest
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Speaker 1: of how grueling and difficult it was for him, that
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Speaker 1: rehab process. So you just you can't help but root
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Speaker 1: for him and you're happy he's back on the field.
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Speaker 1: He's a sensational player. He's a great kid, he absolutely is,
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Speaker 1: and that is big things. We have much more to
10:03
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10:06
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10:29
Speaker 1: We are back Jaguars Drive Time. It is Monday. We
10:32
Speaker 1: just came off the practice field. It's still a bit
10:34
Speaker 1: warm in here from that very sticky today. But we
10:36
Speaker 1: have lost to talk about about this football team right now,
10:39
Speaker 1: going into the second preseason game. Now is when we
10:41
Speaker 1: start trying to figure out, all right, who's gonna make
10:43
Speaker 1: this fifty three man roster right now it is a
10:46
Speaker 1: ninety man roster, so a lot of dwindle down from
10:48
Speaker 1: there are, frankly, just a lot of bodies that we're
10:51
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what's going on. So we picked
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Speaker 1: two guys right now that we're trying to figure out
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Speaker 1: their role. So what do we know? What do we
10:57
Speaker 1: don't know? Brian Sexton has Caleb Jason? Yeah, uh, you
11:01
Speaker 1: know Jason. We know that. Athletically, I used to call
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Speaker 1: Dante Fowler a lion because when you watched him on
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Speaker 1: the field and watched him move, I mean it's so effortless.
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Speaker 1: He was like one of those big cats. Um. And
11:13
Speaker 1: and this guy reminds me of that, right, I mean
11:15
Speaker 1: athletically the last couple of years, he's been all around
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Speaker 1: the quarterback. The problem is he has mid plays. He
11:21
Speaker 1: can get there, but he doesn't get home. Um. I
11:24
Speaker 1: don't know whether that's instincts, I don't know what it is.
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Speaker 1: But the other night, second quarter, Um, he made an
11:30
Speaker 1: outside move at the snap of the bowl and then
11:33
Speaker 1: looped back inside and raced to the quarterback. I mean
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Speaker 1: from the angle where I was sitting in the press box,
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Speaker 1: he was coming right at the quarterback, and the quarterback
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Speaker 1: had to think this is gonna hurt, right, because here
11:45
Speaker 1: comes six ft pounds racing at me. He didn't make
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Speaker 1: the play. Arden Key looping in behind him, got the
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Speaker 1: first of his two sacks, and I thought, here's what
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Speaker 1: we know. Caleman Jason looks like a first round pick
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Speaker 1: to the moment he gets near the quarterback, and then
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Speaker 1: he looks lost. And that's what we know about him,
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Speaker 1: is that he's gonna get around the quarterback, but he's
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Speaker 1: not gonna make this play. The question is Ken Preston
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Speaker 1: Buckner and that crew right the defensive line coach and
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Speaker 1: um and and in the defensive coordinator my Caldwell, can
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Speaker 1: they can they help him get over the get over
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Speaker 1: that hump and be the guy who actually gets to
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Speaker 1: the quarterback. There is no doubt when he comes off
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Speaker 1: the edge, he's gonna make people go WHOA. But if
12:31
Speaker 1: you're the quarterback, I don't know if you worry very
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Speaker 1: much about him because he only has what one sack
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Speaker 1: in his career don't show and that's his m O.
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Speaker 1: As you see this guy that's freak of nature, and
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Speaker 1: you think, my gosh, look at the athleticism look at
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Speaker 1: the ability and it's just not showing up on game
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Speaker 1: day and you can't help but wonder why. I wonder
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Speaker 1: and wonder if he can get over that, because you
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Speaker 1: see why he was a first round pick and that
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Speaker 1: was the word on him coming out of l s
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Speaker 1: U Athletically gifted, I mean, supreme athletic talent. But he
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Speaker 1: has not become that pass rushing quarterback, sacking machine that
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Speaker 1: they hoped at number twenty overall, right, and it's very
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Speaker 1: similar to Leviscasonal in the similar draft class, and we
13:10
Speaker 1: have some transitions that so many questions about. You know,
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Speaker 1: this is the time when you see the jump, right,
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Speaker 1: and we have so many questions about this guy, Levis
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Speaker 1: Kasional as well. When is he going to make the
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Speaker 1: jump to be the playmaker we saw in college? And
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Speaker 1: very similar to Caleb and Chason live up to that
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Speaker 1: draft status. And maybe that's not fair to have because
13:28
Speaker 1: it's not the same staff and I'm frankly, I don't
13:30
Speaker 1: know if they care about when they were drafted, but
13:32
Speaker 1: that's what we think of is Okay, you're not living
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Speaker 1: up to where you're draft and we remember, you know,
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Speaker 1: for Levis Kasal after he was drafted. I remember Keena
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Speaker 1: McCardell running down the hallway cheering because he got this guy,
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Speaker 1: and Levisca telling us that he compares his game to
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Speaker 1: Antonio Brown, and we're thinking, Wow, you know this guy
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Speaker 1: is gonna be awesome for this franchise and it's not
13:52
Speaker 1: just living up. So what do we know about Laviska Shell.
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Speaker 1: We know he has a very unique skill set in press.
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Speaker 1: Taylor offensive coordinator talk this morning about trying to figure out, okay,
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Speaker 1: how to use it? And that's what I think we
14:02
Speaker 1: don't know and they don't know, is how to use it?
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Speaker 1: And is it's too similar to um Jamal Agnew And
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Speaker 1: where do you put him right now? Well, he's not fast, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean, so he doesn't threaten the field. He's a
14:18
Speaker 1: guy that you have to almost trick to get open.
14:21
Speaker 1: And that sounds disrespectful. I don't mean it that way,
14:24
Speaker 1: but you have to gimmick it a little bit to
14:26
Speaker 1: get him off the line of scrimmage. I've said since
14:29
Speaker 1: he probably the midway through his his rookie season when
14:32
Speaker 1: it was pretty clear that he was not fast. But
14:34
Speaker 1: he's a guy that is not a receiver, more of
14:38
Speaker 1: a tight end. Uh, an h back type. The question
14:42
Speaker 1: you have with a young player like that is will
14:43
Speaker 1: he accepted? Will he accept the fact that though he
14:46
Speaker 1: was a special college talent at Colorado, he's not that
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Speaker 1: in the NFL, He's going to have to be that
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Speaker 1: trickeration guy. Um, I don't know whether he's that or not.
14:57
Speaker 1: I I look at a guy who's six one and
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Speaker 1: two any pounds, and I watched him play at Colorado
15:02
Speaker 1: because I watched a bunch of that pack twelve stuff,
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Speaker 1: and I thought he was terrific and I love his
15:07
Speaker 1: physical style. Is he committed to it? Is he willing
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Speaker 1: to put in the work to create a role for
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Speaker 1: himself or is he just gonna say no, Hey, look
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Speaker 1: I'm a receiver. Someone will find a way to make
15:18
Speaker 1: me a receiver. I'll go be a receiver. I think
15:20
Speaker 1: if he would commit and buy in, they've Doug loves
15:27
Speaker 1: that stuff, Doug loves the creativeness, I would think that
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Speaker 1: they would find a spot for him. Um, but I
15:33
Speaker 1: haven't seen it. You haven't seen it, and I haven't
15:35
Speaker 1: heard it either. There was a point in the off
15:38
Speaker 1: season during oties where he was here every single day
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Speaker 1: and he was really committing and in the weight, and
15:42
Speaker 1: we're like, all right, here we go. Here's the redemption
15:44
Speaker 1: story for Laviska Schnal. And now in training camp, I
15:47
Speaker 1: still have hesitations and we're at the point where we're
15:49
Speaker 1: talking whether they keep a fifth or sixth receiver. Is
15:52
Speaker 1: it him or the Kwan tried? Well, Look, he was
15:54
Speaker 1: he was one of the guys that was that that
15:56
Speaker 1: stayed back when when the veterans went away and didn't
15:59
Speaker 1: take part of any camp. He was one of those guys,
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Speaker 1: the selected guys who they had for a couple of
16:04
Speaker 1: days on the practice field. Right. Well, if he didn't
16:07
Speaker 1: get the message, then they're not sold on you yet.
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Speaker 1: They're not sure what your role is. He missed the boat.
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Speaker 1: He better figure it out. I mean it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: on him to figure it out, to buy in and
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Speaker 1: be ready to be that I don't know how to
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Speaker 1: describe it, but that guy that they can use in
16:24
Speaker 1: a number of different roles, but he's you know, he's
16:26
Speaker 1: not going to the Hall of Fame as a receiver. Yes,
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Speaker 1: as you can see a great segment because we have
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Speaker 1: a lot of questions about these two and many more
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Speaker 1: on what we know, what we don't know when we
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Speaker 1: come back on Jaguroys Drive. I'm talking all Tony Boselli
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Speaker 1: recapping an awesome Hall of Fame weekend coming up on
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Speaker 1: I'm the boom to pick with the Hall of Fame
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna deal with it. Um, they ran out
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Speaker 1: of gear. I'm like, what do you expect? It's Jack
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Speaker 1: horror fans. These people are crazy. And plus I got
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Speaker 1: a big family. Two days ago, my kids went to
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Speaker 1: go by. There's no gear laft, there's nothing left, and
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Speaker 1: my kids get dead. What happened? I'm like, well, Jackson's
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Speaker 1: got here. Um, And so I'm gonna have to have
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Speaker 1: a little conversation with Jim Porter and we need to
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Speaker 1: make some more stuff. But that doesn't surprise me. Listen,
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Speaker 1: this is a great fan base. Jackson was a great
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Speaker 1: football town. I don't care what anyone says. You showed
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Speaker 1: me another city that would go through the seasons that
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Speaker 1: we have had, which I believe it is changing with
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson, and I think that every Lawrence is the
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Speaker 1: real deal. But forget about the future. But if you
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Speaker 1: just talk about these fans, what they've endured and what
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Speaker 1: they've gone through, and how they stand by this organization
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Speaker 1: and their players, and they stood by me since you
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Speaker 1: never a doubt in my mind that they were come
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Speaker 1: in full forth and they were. They dominated this weekend,
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Speaker 1: dominated Italy. They absolutely did. There were so many only
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Speaker 1: Beselly t shirts, jerseys and can't Ohio. It was an
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Speaker 1: awesome weekend for Tony besselling really anyone that had anything
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Speaker 1: to do with the Jaguars franchise. Welcome back to Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Drive Time, Brian. I know he were there for the
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Speaker 1: whole weekend, for the enshrinement, for the party, for all
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Speaker 1: the moments with his family. I will say the one
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Speaker 1: thing that stood out to me in his speech was
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Speaker 1: there was never a mean moment, and you know, look
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Speaker 1: at me and look what I've accomplished. It was faith, family,
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Speaker 1: football teammates, the ant and that's who he's been since
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Speaker 1: he arrived, before he had kids, it was Angie and
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Speaker 1: his parents and um, he's just he's never changed. He's
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Speaker 1: never changed. He's always been the same guy that he
18:37
Speaker 1: said he was going to be. And as I mentioned
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Speaker 1: off the top of the show, the fact that they
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Speaker 1: hoped he would be when they drafted him and then
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Speaker 1: got it is amazing. I mean, we've had lots of
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Speaker 1: first round picks, high first round picks that have not
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Speaker 1: turned out right. They weren't the player or the person.
18:54
Speaker 1: In some cases they weren't either. Um, he's as good
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Speaker 1: as we could have ever asked war and he's just
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Speaker 1: he's a great proponent of this market. And having him
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Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame and with that gold jacket, now, uh,
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Speaker 1: it gives the Jaguars a boost up, more credibility than
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Speaker 1: ever to have a guy like that. Yeah, and what
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Speaker 1: a guide to be the first one right. Yeah, there
19:18
Speaker 1: aren't enough words, there are enough adjective to describe as
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Speaker 1: he talked about his family. Um, and and they panned
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Speaker 1: the crowd. You know, I could see the look on
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Speaker 1: people's faces and they were dropping it on the screens
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Speaker 1: where I was standing, and um, I spent more time
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Speaker 1: looking at people's reaction to see how much they cared
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Speaker 1: about Tony, right, how important he was, and he's right.
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Speaker 1: The number of people that I saw that I talked to,
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Speaker 1: who made the trip up, who stayed as far away
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Speaker 1: as is Cleveland. Some people were in Youngstown. Um, they
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Speaker 1: wanted to be there to celebrate with their favorite player.
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Speaker 1: And twenty seven seasons, twenty seven years later, right, he's
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Speaker 1: still their favorite player. And I thought it was really
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Speaker 1: cool for It's Peterson and general manager Trent Bulky going
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Speaker 1: back with the team and coming back up for the party.
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Speaker 1: And asked Coach Peterson yesterday practice, I was how how
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Speaker 1: was it? He's like, man, like what and he he
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Speaker 1: said he didn't meet a lot of people, or he
20:11
Speaker 1: didn't know a lot of people going into it and
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Speaker 1: came out knowing all of these people of the Jaguars franchise.
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Speaker 1: So really cool that they made the effort as well.
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Speaker 1: And and I was standing there. He was talking with
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Speaker 1: Jeff Novak, who's one of Tony Boselli's best friends. He
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Speaker 1: was the starting left tackle for the first couple of
20:25
Speaker 1: games until Tony was ready to play. UM and Jeff
20:28
Speaker 1: played with Doug in Miami, and so they were having
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Speaker 1: a great conversation and Doug was just he enjoyed it.
20:34
Speaker 1: I saw Trent, you know, shaking hands and talking to
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Speaker 1: people and getting engaged in conversation. Um, you get the
20:41
Speaker 1: sense that this franchise is on the way up right,
20:44
Speaker 1: the building, the quarterback, the coach, uh Tony Biselli. Um,
20:49
Speaker 1: it was a very Saturday. Was a great day to
20:52
Speaker 1: be a Jaguars fan. I love that. So it was.
20:55
Speaker 1: It was very It was emotional for there were there
20:58
Speaker 1: were a handful of us, maybe eight who were here,
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Speaker 1: who were there in Canton as we talked about it.
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Speaker 1: You know, you could feel the emotion in the room.
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Speaker 1: It was. It was great. Yeah, such a full circle moment.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure it was. It really was. And and hopefully
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Speaker 1: in the next couple of years we see Fred Taylor
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Speaker 1: and Tom Coughlin go in Ashton. I've said this since
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Speaker 1: the early days. This is Green Bay, right, It's a
21:23
Speaker 1: one horse town. It's a football town. You're not going
21:25
Speaker 1: to see a basketball team here. You're not gonna se
21:27
Speaker 1: a baseball hockey. This is a football town. And as
21:29
Speaker 1: Tony mentioned, it's a great fan base. And what makes
21:32
Speaker 1: this green Bay right. They don't have the titles yet,
21:35
Speaker 1: but they can touch people can touch the Jaguars. They
21:39
Speaker 1: can see them at Publix, they can see them at
21:41
Speaker 1: the beach and in restaurants, and the players get to
21:44
Speaker 1: enjoy that aspect of it. When this becomes a title town,
21:48
Speaker 1: this will become a really special place the players want
21:50
Speaker 1: to play. Um, it already is, but it's got a
21:53
Speaker 1: little growing room left to doing it. This can be
21:56
Speaker 1: that place that that Green Bay of the South, and
21:58
Speaker 1: Jacksonville has that in front of and I think Tony
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Speaker 1: mentioned it. With this coach and this quarterback and the
22:03
Speaker 1: ownership and and the building and the plans, it's never
22:06
Speaker 1: been more solid and it's never looked so good. Yeah, absolutely,
22:09
Speaker 1: we can see that just from practice. Yes, strange today,
22:12
Speaker 1: totally different. All right. We have one more segment coming
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22:50
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