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Jags Drive Time: Wednesday, August 22 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Jaguars, Did you don't Jack, Jack Warris did Jaguars Drive Time?
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Speaker 1: Ryan Sex Sex that John says it Ashley, Jaguars Drive
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Speaker 1: Time starts right now. Good morning, and welcome to Jack's
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Speaker 1: Drive Time, brought to you on Wednesdays by our friends
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Speaker 1: at Duval Motors. As you can see, it is a
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Speaker 1: bright sunny day. I like to say, a beautiful day
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Speaker 1: in Duval County. It'll be warm, it'll be storming. That's
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Speaker 1: your weather forecast. My buddy Mike First probably says a
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Speaker 1: little more complicated than that, but we'll leave it at that. Hi,
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Speaker 1: how are you this morning? Ryan Sex and along with
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Speaker 1: Ashlyn Sullivan and John Ozure. Now you missed him yesterday,
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Speaker 1: which I took personal offense to. I wasn't. Yeah that
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Speaker 1: I wasn't good enough to do. It's just a different dynamic.
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Speaker 1: I also don't have as much elbow room. When it
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Speaker 1: is different, you are different zone. It's taken as a compliment.
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Speaker 1: It takes everything. It's important not to have too much.
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Speaker 1: John Asier. If you have him every day, it can
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Speaker 1: wear you out of it. It gets a little have
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Speaker 1: lived with this all my life. It's not easy. So
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Speaker 1: what you're saying is that we should occasionally sit you down,
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Speaker 1: keep you on the bench. I need to be then,
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Speaker 1: all right, that's our Twitter poll the day by the
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Speaker 1: way bench who unanimous, needless to have there be a
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Speaker 1: little bit of mystery to it, but um, you know
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Speaker 1: we'd out of Atlanta, is we won't see Julio Jones
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Speaker 1: and probably not givon to Freeman even in the rehearsal game,
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Speaker 1: the third preseason game Saturday night here at t i
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Speaker 1: A A bank Field. So the question for you today
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Speaker 1: and you can join us on the Jags drive time
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Speaker 1: poll on Twitter, which Jaguar would you sit? The quarterback
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Speaker 1: Blake Bortles, the cornerback Jalen Ramsey, the running back Leonard
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Speaker 1: for Nette, And as always we like to leave you
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Speaker 1: the option of telling us who else should be on
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Speaker 1: the list. Simply join us in the comments section there
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Speaker 1: the quarterback, the cornerback, the running back, who do you sit?
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Speaker 1: To kind of counterbalance the whole thing from atlant this perspective,
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Speaker 1: because we're going there in big things this morning, right
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Speaker 1: out of the gate, we're going there. We are going there,
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Speaker 1: so a big thing when we just mentioned it is
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Speaker 1: not us. We just heard that no Julio Jones. No
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Speaker 1: Freeman coming to Jacksonville on Saturday. Now, this defense is
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Speaker 1: bummed about that Jalen Ramsey wants to go against Julio Jones.
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Speaker 1: This defensive line wants to stop Freeman as a whole.
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Speaker 1: They want to see the best of the Atlanta Falcons.
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Speaker 1: You know. So I wandered around the locker room yesterday
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Speaker 1: asking players, you know, if you've got to play in
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Speaker 1: the preseason, and all of them said, rather not, They'd
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Speaker 1: like to be the guy's bench. They kind of were,
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Speaker 1: I want to say, jealous, but they admired the situation
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Speaker 1: that Julio Jones is in up there. And I said
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Speaker 1: that if you're gonna play, though, and these are frontline
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Speaker 1: starters that I asked, wouldn't you like to see Julio Jones.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're Jalen Ramsey, are you're all that
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Speaker 1: excited about getting Bob Smith from Toledo? Not that there
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Speaker 1: is a Bob Smith from Plato. I'm just pulling that
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Speaker 1: name out of the air, But I mean, if you're
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Speaker 1: gonna if you gotta play in the preseason, you want
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Speaker 1: to go against the best to sharpen the skills. And and
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Speaker 1: and it's the preseason. We know it's it's an ongoing
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Speaker 1: issue with fans and players in full price and all
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Speaker 1: of that stuff. The bummer for me is is we
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Speaker 1: don't get to see Julio Jones versus Jalen Ramsey till
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Speaker 1: season when the Jags go through their rotation of the
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Speaker 1: NFC South. Yeah. The only problem I have with it
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Speaker 1: is is the full price thing. I get fans point
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Speaker 1: of view that if you're gonna sit guys, if it's
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Speaker 1: going to be this, I get all that. Um. I
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Speaker 1: guess I don't get excited enough about the preseason matchups
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Speaker 1: anyway to be bothered that Hulia is not going to
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Speaker 1: be there. I'd rather see them. But my head downs
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Speaker 1: in my laptop by the first quarter on on preseason
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Speaker 1: games because of that, Because it's from my perspective, there
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Speaker 1: are stories and things that you right out of preseason.
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Speaker 1: They don't necessarily match up with Julio Jones and Jalen Ramsey.
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Speaker 1: You're looking for who might be making the team, who
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Speaker 1: looks good when they're playing. Uh. Certainly, from a fans
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Speaker 1: point of view, you would rather see Julio. But from
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Speaker 1: a Jaguars point of view, I would rather not see
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Speaker 1: anybody that we've already seen, because get him healthy, get
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Speaker 1: him to the regular season. All of that said, I
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Speaker 1: don't think you should shorten the preseason because there are
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Speaker 1: so many things about evaluation and reps that all players need,
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Speaker 1: but the starters don't need it. Well, in that fourth
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Speaker 1: preseason game really is you know, the second and third team,
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Speaker 1: it's their chance to make it. It's it's that last
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Speaker 1: opportunity for you. For the coaches, obviously in the scouts
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Speaker 1: defined to not just the fifty three, but the guys
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Speaker 1: they want to bring back for the practice squad. I
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Speaker 1: believe they even even more from a logistical standpoint after
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Speaker 1: listening to Doug and Todd wash this uh off season.
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Speaker 1: And I've always believed you need four preseason games, and
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Speaker 1: I get not six. Now you don't need six, but
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Speaker 1: I used to play six before seven eight they played sales.
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Speaker 1: But they need. They have talked so much about the
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Speaker 1: fact that you can and to evaluate fully blocking, tackling,
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Speaker 1: the way these teams practice and the way they approached
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Speaker 1: training camp, they need the preseason to evaluate their players
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Speaker 1: for the regulous season. Now does that mean that you
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Speaker 1: have to have it as a full game. It's televised
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Speaker 1: that you have to pay for. Maybe not, but you
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Speaker 1: need something with that time because you've seen practice. You
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Speaker 1: can't evaluate whether a guys should be on the roster
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Speaker 1: based on what they're doing in practice this league anymore,
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Speaker 1: so they would have to change the dynamics to practice,
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Speaker 1: to change the dynamics of the preseason. I sound like
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Speaker 1: the old guy here. I mean I saw something on
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Speaker 1: Facebook the other day about how guys in our generation
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Speaker 1: grew up in cars without seatbelts and drank coke from
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Speaker 1: glass bottles. And you know what I mean. I never
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Speaker 1: sat in a car seat. It used to be right right.
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Speaker 1: I once fell out of a moving card about age four,
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Speaker 1: which maybe explained something to you. Um, But you know
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Speaker 1: they used to practice twice a day in full pads
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Speaker 1: and play six preseason games. I mean you used to
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Speaker 1: the priest. The games weren't as valuable back then as
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Speaker 1: the practices were, right because you had so many guys,
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Speaker 1: they had bigger rosters. You can bring more guys to
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Speaker 1: camp now. These games are so important, the fourth preseason
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Speaker 1: game in particular, for them to find tune the bottom
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Speaker 1: of their roster, put their list together guys that even
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Speaker 1: if they don't have them for the practice squad that
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Speaker 1: they can bring back at some point during the course
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Speaker 1: of the season. Guys they can go out and get
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Speaker 1: and a chance to watch other teams fourth games as well.
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Speaker 1: It's u It's just that in a preseason game, in
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Speaker 1: the third one, you kind of hope to have something
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Speaker 1: to sink your teeth into and we won't see that matchup. Now.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about a little bit more about you know
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Speaker 1: who who will play and how long they play and
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Speaker 1: all of that stuff a little bit later. It's just
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Speaker 1: they have not played Julio Jones or DeVonta Freeman in
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Speaker 1: the preseason games up in Atlanta, and that may be
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Speaker 1: what we see in the future from star players. They
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Speaker 1: don't even play in the preseason more. And you made
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Speaker 1: a good point. I think you may see and you
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Speaker 1: may start seeing this as a trend fewer and fewer
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Speaker 1: big name players playing in the preseason. It seems like
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Speaker 1: there's been more quarterbacks going that way lately. There's been
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Speaker 1: more of a trend towards not playing. If you know,
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Speaker 1: if you know you've got a stud elite quarterback. It
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Speaker 1: seems like more and more than are not playing in
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Speaker 1: the first and fourth preseason game. It doesn't feel like
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Speaker 1: they're reversing that and go in the other directions. And
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Speaker 1: when they do that, then they have to put zero
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Speaker 1: dollars and zero cents on the preseason ticket and just
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Speaker 1: jack up the cost of the regular season, right, because
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Speaker 1: the ticket cost is the ticket cost. If you have
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Speaker 1: a five season ticket, they spread it over ten tickets, right,
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Speaker 1: they'll spread it over eight. Sure, you're not going to
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Speaker 1: see the cost of your season ticket go down now,
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Speaker 1: but what you will see is the cost of the
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Speaker 1: preseason go down. Not that that makes anyone happier, No, Alright,
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Speaker 1: big thing too, big thing too is tight ends. Now,
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Speaker 1: whenever we say tight end, we automatically say Austin's Verry
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Speaker 1: and Jenkins. But this unit has more depth than that. John,
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Speaker 1: You and I saw James of Shaughnessy yesterday at practice.
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Speaker 1: He had a pretty good game against the Vikings, had
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Speaker 1: a big twenty nine yard reception, team leading three special
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Speaker 1: teams tackles. So I feel like we always talked about
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Speaker 1: Austin's Ferry and Jenkins, rightfully so, but there's more to
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Speaker 1: that unit. Well, clearly he is a guy with a
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Speaker 1: different dimension. Last year he had by himself fifty catches
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Speaker 1: for three fifty seven yards and three touchdowns. It was
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Speaker 1: his breakthrough season. And by the way, those are not
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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl all Pro tight end numbers. Those are rather
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Speaker 1: pedestrian in terms of the top tight ends in the league.
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Speaker 1: But the Jaguars with Mercedes Louis, James, o Shaughnessy and
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Speaker 1: Ben Koyak only had forty three catches, so seven fewer
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Speaker 1: than O'Shaughnessy, five yards and six touchdowns. In other words, O'Shaughnessy,
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Speaker 1: not O'Shaughnessy, Safari and Jenkins was brought here to make
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Speaker 1: a big difference in the game. And it was clear
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Speaker 1: to me John watching the Minnesota game, as much as
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Speaker 1: they threw at the tight ends Niles Paul and James O'Shaughnessy,
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Speaker 1: they really want to throw the ball to Austin Sefaria
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Speaker 1: and Jenkins. They gotta have him on the field. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they're deep and a lot of spots on this team. Um,
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Speaker 1: I think they're deep at tight end in terms of
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Speaker 1: being able to put guys out there that can function,
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Speaker 1: that can give you certain things in certain looks. I
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Speaker 1: think go Shaughnessy has a chance to be I would
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Speaker 1: say impact, but to make plays at receiver and help
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Speaker 1: them in certain situations. But they're not deep at tight
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Speaker 1: end in terms of having more than one guy who's
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Speaker 1: his versatile a Safarian Jenkins who has the size, who
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Speaker 1: has you know, who can be the guy There was
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Speaker 1: a sensor and O t a s And maybe it's
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Speaker 1: just because they were working on getting their chemistry that
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Speaker 1: Blake and Safarian Jenkins. I thought Safarian Jenkins might be
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Speaker 1: becoming a I would say go to but pretty close
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Speaker 1: to it. Uh. I don't think there's anybody else in
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Speaker 1: the in the tight end corps who can do that. Um,
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Speaker 1: because frankly, you just can't have two starters at every
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Speaker 1: position this league anymore. You have to pick your spots
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Speaker 1: where you're really really deep. They're not really really deep
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Speaker 1: tight end in terms of having guys like that, but
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Speaker 1: they're functional and as long as he's healthy, I think
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Speaker 1: they're in good shape there. But you haven't seen that yet.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned their relationship Bordles and Austin story. Jenkins and
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Speaker 1: you remember back to the beginning of training camp. That
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Speaker 1: was the best bite of training camp when he stuck
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Speaker 1: up for Blake portals and he told us in a production,
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Speaker 1: meaning that he goes to the quarterback meetings Austin Severian
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Speaker 1: Jenkins daily. What tight end does that. I've never heard
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Speaker 1: of one, and we've had some good tight ends around here.
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Speaker 1: I mean Kyle Brady and then followed by Mercedes Lewis.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a guy and look. Signing at
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville for him was about the opportunity. The money was good,
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Speaker 1: but it wasn't any different than Seattle, right, maybe a
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Speaker 1: little bit more than Seattle, but the opportunity to come
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Speaker 1: down here and be the guy in an offense that
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Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett wants to use. The tight ends, he could
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Speaker 1: come in and get an opportunity to build on what
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Speaker 1: he did last year. So he's clearly put a lot
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Speaker 1: of time and effort into finding ways to connect with Bordles.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you've paid attention to this during training camp.
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Speaker 1: He was always in his ear. He was always in
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Speaker 1: Bordles here and Bortles would come off from whatever team
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Speaker 1: all they were doing, and the two of them would
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Speaker 1: walk off the practice field together. I mean, this is
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Speaker 1: a relationship that both of them see as being a
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Speaker 1: huge I think they're cluing you in to how much
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Speaker 1: they're going to use him by how much time Bordles
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Speaker 1: has spent getting to know him and how he plays.
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Speaker 1: It's also very much for him. It's very and Jenkins nose.
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Speaker 1: There have been mistakes in his past that have held
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Speaker 1: him back from where he believes he ought to be,
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Speaker 1: and he has certainly come in with every attitude, every
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Speaker 1: correct approach towards maximizing his own ability. I think that's
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Speaker 1: what this is about for him. He's taking that approach.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to say now he has to stay
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Speaker 1: healthy because that I think last week was just more
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Speaker 1: of a let's be cautious with what happened in practice
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Speaker 1: last week, but it's it's a big chance he hasn't
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Speaker 1: been as good as he wants to be yet and
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Speaker 1: every opportunity will be there for him. I think he's
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Speaker 1: gonna have a huge year, and from what I've seen
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Speaker 1: so far, I think he's going to be a guy
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Speaker 1: that you see Blake's eyes go to him earlier than
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Speaker 1: they've gone to tight ends in the past. And I
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Speaker 1: know you're gonna smile with this because I brought up
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Speaker 1: his name a lot last year. But I think James
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Speaker 1: O'Shaughnessy can be a capable number two. He's not the crush.
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Speaker 1: It's a little bit of a man crush. I gotta
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Speaker 1: be honest with and that's fine. I think you can.
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Speaker 1: I think he can be a very capable number two,
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Speaker 1: not necessarily one, but he can stally make plays in
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Speaker 1: the past is out there with him on the field.
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Speaker 1: I think he can make play and you'll be a
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Speaker 1: very happy man, man crush, who knew? Alright, big thing?
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Speaker 1: John new Dress rehearsal who was playing? And how much?
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Speaker 1: And we look here mostly at Blake Worlds. We know
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Speaker 1: the third preseason game, most of the starters play. We
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Speaker 1: saw Blake Wortles play the whole first half of the
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Speaker 1: Vikings game. So now going into the third priest in
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Speaker 1: season game, how much is he gonna play? And now
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Speaker 1: you see the reason for the twitter pool. Right? You
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Speaker 1: know which drag war would you sit? The quarterback, the
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Speaker 1: running back, the cornerback? You know who would you sit? Um?
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Speaker 1: No One this game? Right? I mean this is that
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Speaker 1: because I'm not going to play him next week in Tampa. Right,
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Speaker 1: as much as I can sit guys, I'm gonna sit guys.
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Speaker 1: So I want one last tune up for my guys.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that I bring it back out in
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Speaker 1: the third quarter. I think I'd kind of go to
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Speaker 1: the same approach that I've had. I have a certain
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Speaker 1: number of players I want to see and and let's
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Speaker 1: move on. I think you'll see him. It's hard to
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Speaker 1: say what Doug is gonna do with this, be honest
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Speaker 1: with you, because he thinks differently about that. He thinks differently.
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Speaker 1: And remember, there's nothing to go on in terms of
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Speaker 1: how you approaches with the Jaguars because last year was
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Speaker 1: a different dynamic. In Week three, Yeah, Chad Hanny starting,
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Speaker 1: Blake Bois playing in the second half, so that was
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Speaker 1: in a very unusual situation where they're trying to figure
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Speaker 1: out who the quarterback was in Week three. I've never
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Speaker 1: been around that before. So will he take the approach
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Speaker 1: or is it Doug Zamo to take the approach. I've
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Speaker 1: got to play my quarterback into the third quarter. The
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Speaker 1: reason people do that, or the reason teams do that,
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Speaker 1: is in the third preseason game, you wanted to be
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Speaker 1: address rehearsal. Many coaches try to do it from the
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Speaker 1: very start of the week and break camp last week.
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Speaker 1: Doug hasn't done that. But you want meetings. You want
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Speaker 1: that game day to be exact and most important of
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Speaker 1: these coaches, they want halftime adjustments and then come out
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Speaker 1: and have one series where you're doing something that was
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Speaker 1: talked about at halftime. Is that important to Doug enough
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Speaker 1: to have all of his starters playing. I kind of
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Speaker 1: think you might see guy. I think you might see
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Speaker 1: him play guys less than normal. He's pulling back a
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Speaker 1: little bit this week. He's practicing them indoors. He's clearly
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Speaker 1: wanting them to have the process of starting to get
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Speaker 1: their legs back. I wonder if something that will happen
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Speaker 1: on Saturday. I also think we know who Blake Bortles
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Speaker 1: is and how he plays the game. We know he's
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Speaker 1: gonna throw an interception occasionally, like the one that Harrison
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Speaker 1: Smith grabbed the other day, and he already showed the
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Speaker 1: resiliency to bounce back with a twelve play drive, the
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Speaker 1: ability to carry the ball to the gold line himself,
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Speaker 1: you know, to set up an opportunity to score. That's
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Speaker 1: who he is. You're not gonna all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: at least, I don't think you're to see him on
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Speaker 1: Saturday night. Come on, you know nineteen and fifty five yards,
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Speaker 1: two touchdowns, and a quarterback efficiency rating a hund forty
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Speaker 1: point four. That's not we know how he plays. I
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Speaker 1: don't think you need to play him very much unless
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Speaker 1: what you're trying to do is build the relationship, build
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Speaker 1: the timing with the receivers, at which point, okay, then
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Speaker 1: you probably do. And my gut is Brian natal Swayett.
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Speaker 1: I'd particularly like to see that if a s J
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Speaker 1: is playing, if if all the receivers stay healthy there
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Speaker 1: the week, which is no reason to think that they won't,
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Speaker 1: If Andrew, if Andrew Orwell and Jeremy Parnell are playing, right,
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Speaker 1: I don't expect we're going to see Brandon Linder. But
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Speaker 1: if you've got them, you obviously want to give them
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Speaker 1: a little time, so maybe the first half to work
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Speaker 1: with the guys next to them. But other than that,
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Speaker 1: I just I think you're right. I think the less
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Speaker 1: is more for this team, which has such high expectations
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Speaker 1: this year is a different posture than last year. Defensively,
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure i'd play a starter. I'm exaggerating there,
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Speaker 1: but well, if you're not going to say but if
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Speaker 1: we're not gonna see Julio Jones, right, I mean for
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Speaker 1: the for the sheer. Let's get tuned up, Jalen right,
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Speaker 1: a j If you're not gonna see the best that
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Speaker 1: they've got, why would you put your guys out there? Right?
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Speaker 1: I gotta feeling that con tuned up for the open
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Speaker 1: all right, all right, more to come. Hey, don't forgive
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Speaker 1: the Twitter pool, folks. And that is which Jaguar would
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Speaker 1: you sit? If we're sitting, guys and we don't know
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Speaker 1: that we are not, uh, the quarterback, the cornerback, the
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Speaker 1: running back, Bortles Ramsey for net or someone else. You
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Speaker 1: c u A. Welcome back to Jack's Drive time on
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Speaker 1: this Wednesday morning, and update of our Twitter poll, Which
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Speaker 1: Jaguar would you sit until opening Day? No surprise here
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Speaker 1: if you ask me. Forty six the running back Leonard
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Speaker 1: for Nete. With his health, why would you play him? Yeah?
18:04
Speaker 1: He's you know, the ankle injury last year was something
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Speaker 1: that he labored with all season long. He looks healthy
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Speaker 1: right now. You know what he is. I mean, why
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Speaker 1: would you play him too much? Question? Yeah? I mean
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Speaker 1: the answer to that is that they want to see
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Speaker 1: him in third down situations and they clearly did that
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Speaker 1: last week. He played in six of the seven first
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Speaker 1: half third down situation. Yeah. So to answer your question,
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Speaker 1: why would you do it? There are guys on this
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Speaker 1: roster who when you asked that question, it would be like,
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Speaker 1: I don't see any reason for it with for Nette. Uh,
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Speaker 1: the benefit to having him in the game on third
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Speaker 1: downs is pretty strong in terms of if you can
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Speaker 1: get this guy out on a linebacker and he can
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Speaker 1: either run by him or run over him. Uh, that's
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Speaker 1: a very high percentage play on third down for this team.
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Speaker 1: It's been hard to have him in that because as
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Speaker 1: a rookie last year he went through what a lot
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Speaker 1: of running backs go through, which is difficulty picking up
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Speaker 1: the blitz as consistently as the veteran teach A Yelden
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Speaker 1: could do it. And since you bring up Yelden's name,
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Speaker 1: that's really the interesting dynamic here. You want to get
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Speaker 1: Leonard onto the field for his obvious talent, and you
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Speaker 1: need a guy who can be on the field all
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Speaker 1: three downs, which means he picks up the past protections.
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Speaker 1: But the way that Yelden's played in the interchangeability of
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Speaker 1: those two guys right to be able to give the
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Speaker 1: ball too yelled in and let him run. And I
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Speaker 1: think I was pretty clear about this. I wasn't sure
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Speaker 1: you could stay with the same running package with t. J.
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Speaker 1: Yeldon that you have with Leonard for Nett. He's shown power.
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Speaker 1: Now you've got two guys that can get out there
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Speaker 1: and do it and yelled and looked excellent the other
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Speaker 1: day on third down. With those five receptions in the screen,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of versatility to be had. It's gonna
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Speaker 1: be a very interesting dynamic because you get the sense
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Speaker 1: from watching preseason and from talking to t J yesterday
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Speaker 1: that there's a little bit more of a role on
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Speaker 1: the early downs for t J in store than maybe
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Speaker 1: you know, the common knowledge would think the the other
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Speaker 1: side of they as well, Why would you want to
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Speaker 1: get Leonard off the field because he's so good? Uh So,
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Speaker 1: I'm I'll be innterested to see earlier in the ry
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Speaker 1: other season how they used t J on early downs,
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Speaker 1: because I think they're going to try to give for
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Speaker 1: Net a break and use t J in that rolls.
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Speaker 1: It's a little less zone is better than a little
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Speaker 1: too much zone. I gotta think the thing holds true
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Speaker 1: with Yeah, I wouldn't. I would not ever tell for
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Speaker 1: Net that you're putting in the same categories me and
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Speaker 1: that's do you have the same reaction as he did
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Speaker 1: the Madden people. Oh God, that's scary, all right? Let's
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Speaker 1: go with Brian from Tampa. I'm not a big book writer.
20:30
Speaker 1: I'm a big drink of beer and tell a story guy.
20:33
Speaker 1: Epic quote. He's a good fit in Jacksonville. I'd go
20:36
Speaker 1: as far as saying he might be the perfect fit
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Speaker 1: for Yeah. This is about Doug Marons comments to the
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson book. And for those who haven't known, Doug
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Speaker 1: Peterson wrote a book, The Philip he was coached after
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, uh, and about two or three paragraphs
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Speaker 1: basically criticizing the Jaguars approach in the FC Championship game,
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Speaker 1: and Doug was epic in his press conference yesterday, handled
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Speaker 1: it just right. Um. I think deep down there is
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a why would you criticize another
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Speaker 1: coach when you don't really know what situations he was
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Speaker 1: dealing with Internally? I think most coaches would do that.
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Speaker 1: That seemed an odd thing on Peterson's part, But to
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Speaker 1: each his own, that's fine. Uh. But Doug handled it
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Speaker 1: pitch perfect in many ways, some of which we can't
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Speaker 1: get into on hereto it. He gave the author that
21:35
Speaker 1: was the beautiful part about this, and I think most
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Speaker 1: people have seen it. We would have loved to been
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Speaker 1: able to show it. Um he mark Manson's book. Manson's
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Speaker 1: the the author, and it had everybody it is looking up,
21:47
Speaker 1: what's the name? And this is a book, by the way,
21:49
Speaker 1: it's been on the best seller list, and it's the
21:51
Speaker 1: subtle art of not giving up, right. And so when
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Speaker 1: people went, you're alluding to a top tweet, given it away? Okay,
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Speaker 1: So but here's the beauty, here's the toy. It was
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Speaker 1: is that he pulled it off. He just he just
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Speaker 1: pulled it off. Incredible. It was with that sly little
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Speaker 1: grand that you have to really look to detect. It
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Speaker 1: was magnificent. So de Rock, writes. Maron's response included a
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Speaker 1: mention that had he recently read a best selling book
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Speaker 1: written by Mark Manson the title The Subtle Art of
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Speaker 1: Not Giving a Bad Word. A counterintuitive Approach to living
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Speaker 1: a good life. So he said this. We all left
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Speaker 1: the press conference room. We thought about it for like
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Speaker 1: five minutes, and we're like, oh, wow, that was a shot.
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Speaker 1: If you're a subtle shot, don't you sit back into
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Speaker 1: your office and say, touchet Doug, you're right, you know what, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: what do you expect? Get I get it? Yeah? And uh,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll be a topic week. Whatever week we
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Speaker 1: got to line, you can show that one again because
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Speaker 1: we can talk about that one. That was good. That
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Speaker 1: was good stuff. All right, let's go to Jacksonville here,
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Speaker 1: Please hold Kevin from Jacksonville. We still don't know what
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Speaker 1: it catches now, we don't know how to tackle within
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Speaker 1: the rules. Does anyone know what to do anymore? Well,
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Speaker 1: it's true, I mean it's what we do know what
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Speaker 1: it catches. Now they've clarified that. Yeah, we'll see. I
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Speaker 1: mean it's having had an issue in the preseason with
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Speaker 1: it with well, with the catch rule. I get that
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Speaker 1: we have an intu the preseason. Typically with the catch rule,
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Speaker 1: it's only a once every three or four weeks situation. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: at some point there's gonna be a controversy with the
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Speaker 1: catch because inherent in a football catch is that you
23:26
Speaker 1: always have to have judgment involved on some level. That
23:29
Speaker 1: was the problem with the catch before is they tried
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Speaker 1: to legislate any judgment out of a process that by definition,
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Speaker 1: because you have to have possession here two ft down,
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Speaker 1: there's no way to ever have a perfect catch rule
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Speaker 1: they tried. I do think that the judgment the way
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Speaker 1: they've modified it, it will be easier for everybody to
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Speaker 1: be able to say, yes, that's a catch. It will
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Speaker 1: bring more opinion until it's not. Because they had the
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Speaker 1: same rule back in the seventies and eighties and the
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Speaker 1: fact that there was controversy was why they created this rule.
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Speaker 1: So at some point it's gonna be its controversy. The
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Speaker 1: tackle rule. No nobody knows how to tackle right now.
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Speaker 1: But we talked about it at nauseum on Monday, and
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about it all year. This is a situation
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Speaker 1: that the league is into by I think, really no
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Speaker 1: fault of its own. They've got to try to do something.
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Speaker 1: I think we're seeing the rough draft of what they're
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Speaker 1: trying to do. Well, since you say that, NFL headline here,
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Speaker 1: Alert Competition Committee last evening called a special conference call
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Speaker 1: for today to start talking about it. A couple of
24:35
Speaker 1: weeks in. There's a lot of concern about it, and
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Speaker 1: that's the right thing to do. Work in draft well.
24:41
Speaker 1: And I've been writing ever since this thing came out
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Speaker 1: in March, writing and saying that we're not going to
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Speaker 1: know the rule until we see it on the field,
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Speaker 1: and I think that was true of the Competition Committee
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Speaker 1: and of the league that the problem is with this
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Speaker 1: tackle rule. You can't test it. There's no a at
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Speaker 1: tested in practice. There's no way to simulate it. It
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Speaker 1: has to be done on the field in the games.
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Speaker 1: You can't do it that we just talked about. You
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Speaker 1: can't do it in practice. We see how they practice.
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Speaker 1: You're not going to simulate head to head contact in
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Speaker 1: team drills out there. So it's got to be done
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Speaker 1: on the field, which means it's got to be done
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Speaker 1: in real time in front of the public. So this
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Speaker 1: is a public deal of how to work out the
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Speaker 1: best situation that nobody knows what it is yet. They'll
25:25
Speaker 1: work their way to it. But I think they can
25:26
Speaker 1: get better than it is now. They can get better,
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Speaker 1: and talking to guys like Tavin Bryan and Malie Jackson
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Speaker 1: this week in the locker room, they think that by
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Speaker 1: coaching by penalties by officials and having a conversation about it,
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Speaker 1: by the end of the season, they may have a
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Speaker 1: much better package on how this all works. But I'm
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Speaker 1: going to go back to what I talked about on
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Speaker 1: Monday and tell you that for a lot of the
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Speaker 1: rules in football, it trickles down the NFL does something,
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Speaker 1: college does it, high school picks it up. I think
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Speaker 1: this is going to go from the bottom up the
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Speaker 1: junior development league that my guys play in and we're teaching.
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Speaker 1: Then the heads up program that the USA Football folks
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Speaker 1: have devised will come up the ladder and you'll have
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Speaker 1: kids that will go through junior football, high school football,
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Speaker 1: into college knowing these rules. That's where you'll see the
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Speaker 1: change on this. It's too big. You're talking about muscle
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Speaker 1: memory for these guys who have been taught from the
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Speaker 1: time that they were junior football players to drop the helmet.
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Speaker 1: I think it's got to go the other way on
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Speaker 1: this one. I think you're right, and I think in
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Speaker 1: the short term on this, I think you will see
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Speaker 1: a better solution to what it is. The NFL will
26:36
Speaker 1: be the short term solution. But I don't think you're
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Speaker 1: going to see a controversy free helmet rule in the
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Speaker 1: NFL anytime soon. But I think you can get it
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Speaker 1: to where it's not dominating the game, and that's the
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Speaker 1: danger you will see the helmet rule. Though absolutely it's
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Speaker 1: not going away. They're not going to scrap it, as
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Speaker 1: Richard Sherman suggested. They do that's not the solution. I
26:56
Speaker 1: think it's great. I think more of these conference calls
26:58
Speaker 1: are going to have to happen, even if it's weekly,
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Speaker 1: because you watch when that happened with a j Boy,
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Speaker 1: Twitter blew up. Fans were upset, and you can't have
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Speaker 1: fans upset when they're watching the game an outline, outlook.
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Speaker 1: I can't think of the world I'm trying to say,
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Speaker 1: But conference called I think would be helpful. Well, we
27:11
Speaker 1: had you had players and coaches from opposing teams agreeing
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Speaker 1: that should have been a penalty. That shouldn't have been
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Speaker 1: a penalty. We had Mike Zimmer, the coach of the Vikings,
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Speaker 1: who had the advantage that penalty worked for him, suggest
27:24
Speaker 1: suggests say on Monday, that shouldn't have been a penalty. Well,
27:28
Speaker 1: and I think it's okay in this case for the
27:30
Speaker 1: NFL to say if they would say this, but to
27:33
Speaker 1: imply or to behave in such a way and say, look,
27:37
Speaker 1: we know this is not a perfect rule. Yet we're not.
27:41
Speaker 1: We didn't put this rule in and March with the
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Speaker 1: idea of saying we know all and we're going to
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Speaker 1: get it right. We know something has to be done.
27:50
Speaker 1: We're making an effort to find the right balance, and again,
27:54
Speaker 1: I think the issue. I got an email from somebody
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Speaker 1: this week saying, why didn't they just put it in
28:00
Speaker 1: for two thousand nineteen and practice this year so the
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Speaker 1: players to be ready for it. The problem is you
28:06
Speaker 1: can't practice it. It's a real time dent action rule
28:14
Speaker 1: that they have to see it and say, Okay, well
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Speaker 1: that doesn't work. Let's put this in and see if
28:18
Speaker 1: this does work. The very public discourse on this is
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Speaker 1: transparent and it's thoughtful, and it shows the players and
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Speaker 1: the owners and the officials and the fans are working
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Speaker 1: together to find a solution that's good for the league,
28:31
Speaker 1: especially in an age of litigation, that shows good faith.
28:35
Speaker 1: All right, ready for the last one? Oh, I was
28:37
Speaker 1: born ready yet? Let's go Gary from Virginia ozone. We
28:40
Speaker 1: have a difficult schedule this year rewards of a great
28:43
Speaker 1: season last year with the return from injury of two
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Speaker 1: exceptional quarterbacks Luck and Watson. Do you see us having
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Speaker 1: a real chance to not win the a f C
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Speaker 1: South Well, there's a lot of it. There's a lot
28:54
Speaker 1: of parts to sort of pass through with this one.
28:56
Speaker 1: Of course, they have a real chance not to win
28:57
Speaker 1: the NFC South, you know, you always have a chance
28:59
Speaker 1: not to in your division. They these two guys weren't
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Speaker 1: a factor last year and they won the South by
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Speaker 1: one game, So you're never guaranteed in the NFL, there
29:09
Speaker 1: are good teams in the NFL have a chance to
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Speaker 1: beat you. I'm not a big stress over the schedule guy,
29:15
Speaker 1: mainly because the schedule is really two games different for
29:19
Speaker 1: every team in the league, and it's the two games
29:22
Speaker 1: that aren't fit into your formula. The Jaguars played two
29:26
Speaker 1: division champions last year, they didn't play last year. Beyond that,
29:29
Speaker 1: you have fourteen games that are exactly like the rest
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Speaker 1: of your schedule or the rest of your division. It's tougher,
29:36
Speaker 1: but you really don't know how tough a schedule is
29:38
Speaker 1: until about six games in last year. The Jaguars lost
29:42
Speaker 1: most of the games that the team that fans looking
29:46
Speaker 1: at thought we're gonna be easy. They beat Pittsburgh in Seattle,
29:48
Speaker 1: which before the season people thought we're gonna be brutal.
29:50
Speaker 1: So a let this play out and be if they're
29:54
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl contender, which they think they are, go
29:57
Speaker 1: beat the teams on your schedule. So a year ago
30:00
Speaker 1: favorite in the A f C South was Houston, right,
30:03
Speaker 1: and they lost their quarterback and three key defenders, including
30:07
Speaker 1: their best two pass rushers, and they went from being
30:10
Speaker 1: the favorite to an also ran top five selection if
30:13
Speaker 1: they'd had one in the draft. So if you don't
30:15
Speaker 1: stay healthy, absolutely you have a real chance to not
30:18
Speaker 1: lose it. And again, the numbers on the defensive side
30:20
Speaker 1: of two nine possible starts last year including the playoffs,
30:23
Speaker 1: two d and seven were made by their starters. Right,
30:27
Speaker 1: the defense was entirely healthy point four percent of the time.
30:30
Speaker 1: You have injuries to that defense, Yeah, that's how it happens.
30:35
Speaker 1: I ain't thinking withstand injuries. I kind of go the
30:37
Speaker 1: other way. I think they're deep enough where I don't
30:39
Speaker 1: think this. You know, if you if you lose your
30:42
Speaker 1: best to pass rushers, if you take twenty six and
30:44
Speaker 1: a half sacks, if you're taken got Way and Calais
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Speaker 1: Campbell off the field for an extended period of time,
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Speaker 1: twelve games, you aren't winning, there'd be a difference. That's
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Speaker 1: for sure. Ought to be able to win, an that
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Speaker 1: ought to be able to I can't see it now.
31:01
Speaker 1: I feel some tension. No, there's no tempt I think
31:04
Speaker 1: we need to take a break. We'll do it now
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Speaker 1: poll once again, which Jaguar would you sit until opening day?
32:30
Speaker 1: It has not changed the running back Leonard for we
32:34
Speaker 1: don't need to see him week three or week four?
32:37
Speaker 1: All right, are we ready for Rationlan? As John? I
32:41
Speaker 1: was born right now? All right? I think I've heard
32:43
Speaker 1: that from you this morning. Yeah, that is his go
32:45
Speaker 1: to Ready, Yeah, let's go. What's that? What's what's the
32:49
Speaker 1: what's the what's the general topic of conferences? General topic
32:52
Speaker 1: of conversation is Atlanta because the Falcons are coming to town.
32:55
Speaker 1: We got some Atlanta trivia. I hope you know Atlanta.
32:58
Speaker 1: I was born ready, Okay, Ashlan asks number one. They're
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Speaker 1: over fifty streets in Atlanta with what name? All right, John,
33:22
Speaker 1: let's see it close. But no cigar. I don't think
33:29
Speaker 1: that that is such a generic. Guess first at the
33:37
Speaker 1: answer is peach Tree Street. No, it's so right, John
33:45
Speaker 1: gets that one. He was closest. Well, I didn't get it, winner.
33:49
Speaker 1: I wasn't quite sure. If you had said what fruit,
33:52
Speaker 1: I would have gotten. No, that's that's a street, main street.
33:55
Speaker 1: Good guests, though, of course you'd have gone under said fruit.
33:58
Speaker 1: That's the clue. Object. You could have said object. I
34:02
Speaker 1: would have had a better idea. I'll get one of
34:05
Speaker 1: these rights. Let's wait for John to compose himself. Are
34:09
Speaker 1: you ready? I was born ready. What is the name
34:13
Speaker 1: of the Atlanta Falcons mascot? If you can guess, that's
34:38
Speaker 1: not correct, that's wrong. Yes, but it's spelled with an eye.
34:45
Speaker 1: You didn't say spelling counts. I'm just saying, if we're
34:48
Speaker 1: being ready, Okay, my bad, how to say swoop? But
34:55
Speaker 1: that would have been That was a little too close
34:56
Speaker 1: to home. Common mishap with Ted and Freddy. I see
34:59
Speaker 1: what you're trying to do there, Teddy the Falcon? Yeah? Ted? Yeah,
35:03
Speaker 1: Tad good guys, Yeah, Ted, I gotta love them. Is
35:07
Speaker 1: there some sort of pop culture reference there that I missed? No, Ted,
35:10
Speaker 1: it's good. It's solid NA, especially for Falcon. Yeah. Makes
35:16
Speaker 1: a good name too. All right, last one, John, I
35:18
Speaker 1: have a feeling you're going to get this. Can you
35:20
Speaker 1: name three famous rappers from Atlanta? Where did this come from? Atlanta?
35:28
Speaker 1: As a hip hop town? Usher does not count? Don't
35:33
Speaker 1: put usher as you said? Oshan God too don't put
35:45
Speaker 1: Beyonce either. I'm gonna get this right technically, I think,
35:48
Speaker 1: and you're not going to give it to me. I
35:51
Speaker 1: have the list of the forty eight rappers from Atlanta,
35:54
Speaker 1: well peaceful, Oh that's only one. That's only one. It
36:02
Speaker 1: was a trio, please show ready. So yes, that's one
36:10
Speaker 1: of them, but they don't count as three three Lisa
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Speaker 1: left out. I'm gonna give it to you you, all right,
36:17
Speaker 1: Brian and my favorite. There's no way you savage, but
36:29
Speaker 1: I have three kids. I have three kids, Yes, I
36:37
Speaker 1: had before before I never heard you are streets. You
36:43
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36:45
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36:53
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36:57
Speaker 1: taken the title. Thank you very much. All right, that's
37:01
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37:04
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Speaker 1: for John's favorite thing in the world top tweets. Tweets
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Speaker 1: you were expecting. He doesn't even look excited top tweets.
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Speaker 1: I was expecting way more. All right, So let's go
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Speaker 1: back to what we talked about earlier in the show.
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Speaker 1: De Rock our friend from ESPN. Maron's response included to
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Speaker 1: mention that he recently write a best selling book written
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Speaker 1: by Mark Manson the title The Subtle Art of Not
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Speaker 1: Giving a Bad Word. The Counterintuitive Approach to Living a
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Speaker 1: Good Life. That was just such a cool way to Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was, it was, and I think it again speaks
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Speaker 1: to Doug's reputation coming into this job, as you know,
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Speaker 1: somewhat lacking personality, uh, too old school or being more
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Speaker 1: of a parcelian guy, all that stuff. Uh, He's not
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Speaker 1: well and his credit worked hard at about changing that perception,
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Speaker 1: but embracing who he is and allowing himself to be
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Speaker 1: known a little bit, which is not always easy for
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Speaker 1: a head coach. Uh. I do think it's also translated
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Speaker 1: into how he coaches the team, how he walks around here.
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Speaker 1: He is very comfortable with who he is, coaches that
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Speaker 1: way allows the players to see that, and I think
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Speaker 1: it it's part. I'm not saying this tweet is why
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Speaker 1: he's successful, But I think embracing that and being true
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Speaker 1: to himself, which I think he is, has greatly helped
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Speaker 1: him and helps his franchise. He told Fred and I,
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Speaker 1: we sit with Doug and a couple of players or friend.
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Speaker 1: Okay it not Freddie Falcon, Fred Taylor easily confused. We
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Speaker 1: sit a little broadcast inside for you. We sit and
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Speaker 1: the networks do this too. They do it on Saturdays
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Speaker 1: before games. We sat with or we do sit with
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Speaker 1: Doug and a couple of players the night before the
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Speaker 1: preseason game, just to get a feel for things. And
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Speaker 1: he said, he used the word change. I have changed. Right.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't subtle, he wasn't shy about it. He didn't
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Speaker 1: go into incredible depth in detail about it. But from
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Speaker 1: Syracuse to Buffalo to Jacksonville, he has become more of
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Speaker 1: who he is, right and not the football coach, the
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Speaker 1: paradigm football coach that does this and this and this.
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Speaker 1: One of his first press conferences, I can remember asking
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Speaker 1: him a question of what I thought was just absolute
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Speaker 1: this is a sick football ideology, and he goes, you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't I don't see it that way. And I
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Speaker 1: went what, and he said, no, No No, I tend to
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Speaker 1: look at it this way. And he's been consistent in
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Speaker 1: answering questions from media both local and national, over the
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Speaker 1: over the year and a half that he's been in
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Speaker 1: this job, um where he says not, I see it differently,
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Speaker 1: and I find that incredibly refreshing. Well, he's talked so
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Speaker 1: much about and you guys have heard him say this too,
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Speaker 1: not worrying anymore about anything except what's important to win
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Speaker 1: well when you and I don't speak for him, but
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Speaker 1: I think he would probably say something like this, when
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Speaker 1: you forget about all the all the distraction, what's not important,
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Speaker 1: you can be true to yourself. And you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure that he would have had this reaction in
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Speaker 1: Buffalo too, you know. And I didn't known my conversation though.
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Speaker 1: Uh So it is indicative of this is a guy
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Speaker 1: who's comfortable in his own skin in this role. It's cool,
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Speaker 1: it's cool, speaking of Buffalo. Top tweeting number two, Josh
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Speaker 1: Allen has the name the starting quarterback for Sunday's game
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Speaker 1: against the Bengals. Now, my question is going into Sunday
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Speaker 1: in the regular season. Does the stick or does his
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Speaker 1: performance on Sunday determine that? I think I think it sticks. Uh. Look,
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Speaker 1: they had a J. McCarron. They signed him to a
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Speaker 1: two year, ten million dollar deal, which is pretty modest
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Speaker 1: for a free agent quarterback, and they draft this guy
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Speaker 1: number seven overall, you might as well go with him.
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Speaker 1: And he's a big, strong guy. He made mistakes in
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Speaker 1: his time the other day, but I think he sticks. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: once you go to the rookie, if you're going to
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Speaker 1: go away from the rookie, there better be a pretty
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Speaker 1: explainable reason, because otherwise you get the perception stuff, you
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Speaker 1: get the it's is not a good look. So surprising
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Speaker 1: if they don't stick with They reported that McCarron broke
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Speaker 1: his clavical his collar bone, the Aaron Rodgers thing. Uh,
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Speaker 1: And then they went for a second opinion and found
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Speaker 1: out that it wasn't a break. So maybe McCarron, you know,
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Speaker 1: comes back at some point of the season, but you know,
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Speaker 1: from that at whatever point he comes act, I think
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Speaker 1: it's too far gone. He drafted this guy, put him
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Speaker 1: in and go. He's a strong arm guy, brought to
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Speaker 1: Buffalo to play in those conditions and to excel um
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Speaker 1: and he'll make his share of mistakes really on. But
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Speaker 1: I watched him at Wyoming quite a bit and I
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Speaker 1: was really impressed with him. I think he's going to
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Speaker 1: be a good quarterback. He can he can spin it alright,
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Speaker 1: football terminology. I liked it nice all right. Our last
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Speaker 1: top tweet I throw back to two thousand seventeen free agency.
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Speaker 1: It's a Klaius Campbell tweet. Malik Jackson says, Yo Calias,
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Speaker 1: come down to Duval and let's take over the league.
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Speaker 1: Fast forward to two eighteen training camp. You all should
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Speaker 1: grab your popcorn and stay glued the TV because the
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Speaker 1: Duval boys are about to put on a show. So
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Speaker 1: I guess we don't have the tweet, but it's coming
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Speaker 1: back to two thousand and seventeen, before Klais Campbell even
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Speaker 1: came to here to now with Malik Jackson and how
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Speaker 1: close Clais Campbell and him are, it's just a year difference. Well,
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Speaker 1: I said it before. It's been amazing to watch these
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Speaker 1: guys come together as quickly as they did off the
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Speaker 1: last year, and I think a lot of it has
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Speaker 1: to do with Klais. The way the free agents came
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Speaker 1: in last year, We've talked about a lot. Uh, clais Campbell,
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Speaker 1: boy A and Church were the right guys at the
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Speaker 1: right time to come in here. They didn't try to
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Speaker 1: come in and dominate the situation. They came in and
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Speaker 1: found their niche found their role. It was time for
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Speaker 1: you know. And Claius would have been Kalais regardless of
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Speaker 1: where he was, because of his personality in his presence.
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Speaker 1: But it's I think we'll go a long time in
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Speaker 1: the league until we see a team have as much success.
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Speaker 1: First of all, have as much cash it's been in
44:36
Speaker 1: the Jaguars the last two off seasons or the sixteen
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Speaker 1: seven seasons, and then have it all fit going back
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Speaker 1: to Sean Gibson, Malik Jackson, all that to come together,
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Speaker 1: those five free agents and be a core of your team.
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Speaker 1: It's uh, you know, I don't think anybody can predict it,
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Speaker 1: and I think it'll be a long time, maybe never
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Speaker 1: before it happens again. I stood out on the practice
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Speaker 1: field last year. Uh, and watch those two guys. They
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Speaker 1: were side buy side, These massive guys, big guys who
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Speaker 1: move effortlessly and with all due respect to sin Derrick
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Speaker 1: Marks and Roy Miller and Michael Bannett and to want
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Speaker 1: Smood and all these other guys who have either been
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Speaker 1: here or here. Now, those two guys stood out. They
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Speaker 1: the core. Now you've got Darius who's another one of
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Speaker 1: those guys, big guys that are um freakishly unusually incredibly
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Speaker 1: athletic guys. Um. You knew immediately last year when the
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Speaker 1: two of them were side by side that the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: y line had something. And that was before Yanique exploded
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Speaker 1: on the scene, right and Dante Fello Jr. Gave him
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Speaker 1: eight sacks in the regular season. The core of the
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Speaker 1: defense and the core of the defensive line was those
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Speaker 1: two guys in training camp last year. You knew they
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Speaker 1: had something. You just watched them and when you stood
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Speaker 1: behind them, you realized, Wow, these guys are bigger than
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Speaker 1: the guys who were here before them. And as silly
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Speaker 1: as that sounds in a big man's game, to notice
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Speaker 1: that and then to watch them moving the way they were,
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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, it transformed the defensive line. And then to
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Speaker 1: think that you're adding Tavin Bryan, who they say maybe
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Speaker 1: the equal physically of these guys. Yeah, it's uh special time.
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Speaker 1: So just standing on the practice fields in Minnesota last week.
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Speaker 1: Adam Kaplan, a long time with ESPN now serious satellite radio,
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Speaker 1: uh said to me that he never fails to be impressed.
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Speaker 1: And he's he's been around Calais from his time in
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Speaker 1: Arizona for you know, almost his entire career. He's seen him,
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Speaker 1: but he never fails to be impressed with just how
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Speaker 1: big Calias Campbell is. And this is the eleventh season.
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Speaker 1: People around the league see these guys and say, wow,
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Speaker 1: well six eight and he fills out the frame of
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Speaker 1: six eight. And what's remarkable. As you were saying that,
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Speaker 1: I thought he was going to go in another direction,
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Speaker 1: Lays is thirty one years old. You would think he's
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Speaker 1: fifty by the way he talks and by and I
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Speaker 1: say that with respect sage, with his perspective and his
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Speaker 1: ability to handle situations ut years old. He's twenty one
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Speaker 1: years younger than I am, but behaves with such experience
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Speaker 1: and such deserved leadership that and people laughed. I thought
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars overpaid on the field and off he has
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Speaker 1: been worth every single penny, especially Yea, even more so
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Speaker 1: nice having news John. Thanks right, We'll see you on
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Speaker 1: Friday at Doug Moron will be with us on Friday.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure Dadd's looking forward if you are here, Yeah,
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