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20190815-Drivetime AUDIO.mp3 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Jeffuars, did you don't Jack Jack Wars? Did Jaguars drive
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Speaker 1: Time right? And sex steps there? John says it actually
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive Time starts right now. It's game day. We
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Speaker 1: start this game day morning with some Jags drive Time
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Speaker 1: present by Fields Auto Group. The second preseason game tonight
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Speaker 1: against the Philadelphia Eagles. Kickoff is at seven o'clock and
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Speaker 1: that game is presented by pet Paradise. Now, Doug Marron
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Speaker 1: has said a lot of starters won't be playing again. Yes,
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Speaker 1: he's confirmed that for us. He has confirmed that for us.
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Speaker 1: But still a fun night, first game back in the
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Speaker 1: bank for this year, and that has something to it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean it's a it's a bummer. People want to
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Speaker 1: see Nick Foles and Jaguars fans are not going to
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Speaker 1: get a chance to see him live and in person
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Speaker 1: until opening day against Kansas City. But you don't have
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Speaker 1: to wait that long. That's right around the corner. Don't
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Speaker 1: get me wrong, it's not that far, um, but you
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Speaker 1: know we're ready to see this guy because there was
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Speaker 1: so much made of this is the quarterback. However, it's football. Um,
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Speaker 1: it's August and this is the time where at least
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Speaker 1: guys like me who have been doing this a long
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Speaker 1: time look forward to the chance to see younger talent. Um,
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Speaker 1: I'm excited to see Gardner Minshew and people go, what
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Speaker 1: did you watch him last week? What more do you
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Speaker 1: need to see? Doug brown has been harping on him
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Speaker 1: all week about how he has gotten better, how he's
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Speaker 1: had a good week of practice, how he wants to
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Speaker 1: see him take that step forward and really execute this week.
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Speaker 1: So um, you know, I mean, it's you. On one sense,
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Speaker 1: it's preseason football. On the other sense, it's preseason football.
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Speaker 1: It's the time to see these young guys who can
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Speaker 1: make that final roster's spot. And dun Browne keeps preaching,
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Speaker 1: mentioning Gardner Minshew how tough he is. If he's really
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Speaker 1: that tough, he'll come out tonight and have a rebound game.
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Speaker 1: And Doug Rown has preached the toughness in the football IQ.
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Speaker 1: This is his chance and would make sense for him
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Speaker 1: to come out and have a great game. This call
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Speaker 1: me crazy, but he was wearing the spart of the
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Speaker 1: star Spangled banner bandanna yesterday. The man is not messing around,
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Speaker 1: not this week. Yeah, well, he's bringing out the big
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Speaker 1: one I think he's ready to go. I do want
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Speaker 1: to point this out before we get start with big things.
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Speaker 1: When I look at the Jaguars secondary standing out on
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Speaker 1: the practice field, I see a lot of undrafted rookie
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Speaker 1: free agents Pray Herndon, Quentin Meeks, Tay Hayes, Andrew wingerd
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Speaker 1: uh Jared Wilson. There are a number of guys that
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Speaker 1: tells you the value of tonight's game and of the
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Speaker 1: next two games. The Jaguars are building some depth. They
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Speaker 1: have to. They've got hype priced players or they're going
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Speaker 1: to have high price players. Right when Jalen Ramsey makes
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Speaker 1: twenty million dollars and he probably will make more than
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Speaker 1: that next year, you have to go find guys who
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Speaker 1: play for a lot less who can play right. So
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Speaker 1: when you look at the guys that are out there,
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Speaker 1: it's nice to see a bunch of guys that you think, well,
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Speaker 1: maybe he can develop, he's developing. He's a guy that
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Speaker 1: we think is going to be good. Um, And that's
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Speaker 1: what you're hearing right now. So that's the real value
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Speaker 1: is to find guys because you're gonna have at least
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Speaker 1: one highly paid defensive back, one really highly paid linebacker
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Speaker 1: because Miles Jack is coming up against it. Do Now
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Speaker 1: you've got the quarterback, You've got some weapons on offense.
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Speaker 1: You've got to find complimentary players. You must find them,
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Speaker 1: and this is where you identify them. Yeah, Jared Wilson,
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Speaker 1: I think is the perfect example of why preseason is important.
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Speaker 1: Right now, He's a starter, starting safety. But you go
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Speaker 1: back and I talked to him a few days ago
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Speaker 1: and he was the one who went up to dumb
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Speaker 1: barone this week and said, no matter what I know,
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Speaker 1: I'm a starter, I still want to play in this game.
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Speaker 1: And I asked him why, why would you volunteer yourself
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Speaker 1: and he said, I've never had the opportunity or the
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Speaker 1: chance not to play in the preseason. Well, this is
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Speaker 1: what I know, and I need these reps as the
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Speaker 1: preseason changes, and we detailed yesterday that it is changing.
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Speaker 1: There are dramatic changes ahead. August becomes important for these guys.
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Speaker 1: Whatever August becomes, whether it's a series of joint practices
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Speaker 1: with the Bucks, the Dolphins, the Falcons, the Saints, you know,
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Speaker 1: regionally speaking, you can make that happen easier than traveling
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Speaker 1: to Baltimore, Minnesota and New England. Whatever August becomes is
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Speaker 1: important for these guys and less important in a sense
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Speaker 1: for the players who you're counting on to be your stars.
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Speaker 1: But reps are so important this month, no doubt. You
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Speaker 1: gotta get him in. You gotta get him in a
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Speaker 1: controlled setting. We're finding right, All right, let's get into
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Speaker 1: big things. Big thing one is game day. It is
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Speaker 1: game day. Kickoff is at seven o'clock tonight, Philadelphia Eagles
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Speaker 1: against the Jaguars preseason game number two. Big thing, too
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Speaker 1: is improving. What is improving? What are we looking for
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Speaker 1: this week? Well, especially on the offensive side the ball,
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Speaker 1: We're looking for some points. We're looking for the offense
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Speaker 1: to at least move down the field. Defense had a
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Speaker 1: good game last week. We've looked for the about the same.
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Speaker 1: And also we want to see some personality we don't
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Speaker 1: really know backup wise, what the personality of this team is.
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Speaker 1: Doug myr Own gives his thoughts. When that player works
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Speaker 1: so hard and has that good week, you want him
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Speaker 1: to show something because you want It's a great example
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Speaker 1: of if you put the work in and you go ahead,
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Speaker 1: how hard you work that you can go out there
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Speaker 1: and perform. And finally, Big thing three is the reunion.
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Speaker 1: It's no joke that the storyline of this week is
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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles coming to town. Obviously, Nick Foles his
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Speaker 1: old team. It's been the storyline of the week. He
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Speaker 1: cannot escape that the old team is coming here. And
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Speaker 1: obviously he's very passionate about that city. He gave some
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Speaker 1: memories earlier in the week. You know, I mean a
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Speaker 1: lot to see those guys pre game and catch up
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Speaker 1: with all those guys, and they're their family to me,
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Speaker 1: always will be. So it would be good to see
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Speaker 1: a lot of their faces and you know, talk to them,
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Speaker 1: see how they're doing. Um. You know, I know that
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Speaker 1: they're grinding through camp as well, so it'd be good
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Speaker 1: to catch up with, you know, a lot of them.
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Speaker 1: The storyline of the week. And even though Nick Foles
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Speaker 1: is not starting and most likely not playing this game,
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Speaker 1: it's definitely important to watch him pregame and post game
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Speaker 1: because we've heard how much he means to the city.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna have Adam Kaplan, who's a Philadelphia Eagles insider,
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Speaker 1: in the next block. We've heard it, we haven't seen
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Speaker 1: it in person, but we're going to see it tonight.
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Speaker 1: I want to go back to improvement. Um Gardner Minshew
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Speaker 1: is a guy who started at Troy, transferred to North
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Speaker 1: Mississippi Junior College, then East Carolina, then Washington State and
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Speaker 1: had success all along the way. But that was you know,
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Speaker 1: setting Pac ten pac ten. That's how it's changed. Pack
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Speaker 1: twelve records last year at Washington State. Consider that he's
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Speaker 1: never played back to back years in the same system,
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Speaker 1: with the same talent around, in the same coaching step.
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Speaker 1: Can we give him back to back weeks? I mean,
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Speaker 1: people are so quick these days to make a judgment, Oh,
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Speaker 1: he can't play. How about Taven Bryan is an example, right,
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Speaker 1: here's the guy. He played one year at Florida. One
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Speaker 1: year was all he saw action on the field, comes
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Speaker 1: in based on his talent as a first round pick,
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Speaker 1: and last year doesn't light it up. Well, he's a bust.
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Speaker 1: Too often we want to throw labels and decide can play,
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Speaker 1: can't play. I know it may be hard for people
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Speaker 1: in your age to remember, in your group generation, there
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Speaker 1: was a time when first round picks never played. You
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Speaker 1: didn't see the first round pick had to be exceptional
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Speaker 1: to get on the field as a rookie. Now we
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Speaker 1: expect him not only to come on and play, but
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Speaker 1: to star. Relax. Guys are allowed to take the coaching
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Speaker 1: and get better. I got like minshoot you you're not
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Speaker 1: counting on him for anything except to be a backup.
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Speaker 1: And you hope you don't see him. You hope three
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Speaker 1: years from now he looks good enough, maybe you can
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Speaker 1: trade him, right like Rob Johnson became became a draft
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Speaker 1: pick that became Fred Taylor. You hope he evolves and
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Speaker 1: gets better. What he does we don't know. But Tavin Bryan,
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Speaker 1: for goodness sakes, the coaching staff has been raving about him.
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Speaker 1: Doug Morone came into our television production meeting yesterday and
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Speaker 1: couldn't say enough good things about it. And there are
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Speaker 1: people who will have a different opinion for sure. However,
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Speaker 1: the coaching staff really likes what they're seeing. These guys
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Speaker 1: are allowed to get better and take the coaching. What
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Speaker 1: you see against the Ravens doesn't mean that's what you're
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Speaker 1: going to see against the Dolphins next week. Right, and
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Speaker 1: taking the time to improve. People forget it. They think
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Speaker 1: you are what you are. It's not. It's not the
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Speaker 1: case in what you do for a living. It's not
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Speaker 1: the case in what these people do for a living. Well,
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Speaker 1: even take Josh Allen for example. We know he's going
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Speaker 1: to make an impact, but can you expect him his
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Speaker 1: first year to come out and beat Klai's Campbell know
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Speaker 1: and or Tony Brackens or any of those guys. However, boy,
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Speaker 1: that play he made, the very first play against the
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Speaker 1: run shows you the value of a true multidimensional pass rusher,
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Speaker 1: a guy who can put his hand on the ground
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Speaker 1: and play the run. No, he definitely is going to
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Speaker 1: make an impact, and he's an athlete that these coaches
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Speaker 1: are really impressed with. But everyone is thinking that he's
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Speaker 1: game changing, season changing on the defense. That's at least
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Speaker 1: what I've heard from, you know, talking to some people
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Speaker 1: over the personnel department, they think if they get six
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Speaker 1: sacks from him, that's a good season for a rookie.
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Speaker 1: If they now, they love more, right, they don't want less.
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Speaker 1: But if you get a rookie pass rusher who can
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Speaker 1: come out and give you six sacks, you're getting something.
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Speaker 1: And remember, sacks are just the end result of a play.
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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that his pass rushers aren't impacting the quarterback,
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Speaker 1: making him move his feet, throw the ball too quickly,
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Speaker 1: make an errant judgment. He'll have an impact in some way,
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Speaker 1: shape or form. But the number I keep hearing is, hey,
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Speaker 1: if we get six, we think that's a great first
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Speaker 1: start for him. Absolutely. Going back to Taban Bryan, I
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Speaker 1: thought Leon had a really good point yesterday when he
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Speaker 1: was talking about how Taban doesn't have the splash superstar
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Speaker 1: plays and that's why fans don't really notice him and
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Speaker 1: that's why he's gone under the radar. But Leon was saying,
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Speaker 1: if you watch him, he gets pressure and he gets
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Speaker 1: push on tackles. It's just not the superstar splash play
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Speaker 1: that fans look for. You know, It's like the home
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Speaker 1: running baseball or the the slam dunk in basketball. Everyone
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Speaker 1: wants the sack, the big dramatic play, and you get
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Speaker 1: those from guys. Some guys just have to do their
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Speaker 1: job very well. If he is pushing collapsing the pocket
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Speaker 1: on a regular basis, what you're going to see is
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Speaker 1: unique in gock Way and Josh Allen and Calais Campbell
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Speaker 1: getting more sacks, they'll get more credit. People want people.
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Speaker 1: The average fan doesn't understand the nuances of the defensive
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Speaker 1: tackle position unless you have a pass rushing defensive tackle
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Speaker 1: like an Aaron Donald. Right, they don't get the three
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Speaker 1: technique and the zero technique and that you're pushing the
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Speaker 1: pocket and you're not going to get the sacks or
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Speaker 1: the stats or the glory, but you're doing your job
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Speaker 1: at a very high level. Big guys who can push
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Speaker 1: two gaps like he can are rare and he's raw.
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Speaker 1: He's just figuring it out. All right. When we come back,
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Speaker 1: definitely knows a thing too about the Jaguars new quarterback
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Speaker 1: Nick Foles. Adam, how's it going? Guys could have talked
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Speaker 1: to it. I injured my two days with the Jaguars,
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Speaker 1: And yeah, it's Nick Foles now in a Jaguar uniform
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Speaker 1: going up against one of his former teams. You know
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Speaker 1: Philly so well, you live there is Philly and fools.
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Speaker 1: Has he climbed to a status and icon status there
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Speaker 1: where he'll never have to buy a beer, He'll he'll
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Speaker 1: never have to wait for a table at a restaurant.
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Speaker 1: Is he up there with the great legends of Philadelphia sports? Oh,
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Speaker 1: they call you Brian, they call him st Nick. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's not gonna play tonight, but look, the bottom line
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Speaker 1: is that no one will ever forget it. You know Philly,
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Speaker 1: It's though they have four professional sports teams, it's the
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Speaker 1: Eagles and everyone else. That's just the way it is.
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Speaker 1: And Nick's sort of ascension to the top in was
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Speaker 1: really remarkable after Parson Want suffered as a c l Andrew.
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Speaker 1: No one ever saw this because Nick Nick was a
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Speaker 1: guy guys. After with the Rams, looks like he was
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Speaker 1: going to retire. He was lean toward it until and
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Speaker 1: he read talked him out of retirement. And it just
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Speaker 1: didn't look good for Nick to come back. And it
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Speaker 1: just looked like when he came back with the Eagles
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Speaker 1: he would be a just a backup quarterback. And as
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Speaker 1: everyone's learning, you better have a good backup quarterback in
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Speaker 1: the National Football leagueuse if you don't, you may not win.
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Speaker 1: The thing about him is his presence is so different
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Speaker 1: at him than a lot of quarterbacks, any quarterback I've
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Speaker 1: ever been around. His focus on his teammates, Um, it
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Speaker 1: seems epic to me. Yeah, His his ability to relate
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Speaker 1: to to his to his teammates and the supportive it's
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Speaker 1: really remarkable. And also this coach is uh And obviously
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Speaker 1: he's got a great relationship with offensive coordinator John D. Filippo.
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Speaker 1: They got reunited here. You know, Nick such a great leader,
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Speaker 1: and you know the Jaguars they give him credit well
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Speaker 1: before they decided to bring the Filippo And I'm told
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Speaker 1: that Nick was going to be the guy, no matter
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Speaker 1: who was the offensive coordinator, and this is their guy,
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Speaker 1: and they're supporting Nick, and Nick supporting everybody. And you
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Speaker 1: know Marcus Hayes of the Todphi dal and he was
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Speaker 1: an inquiry he but we're a great piece of Nick.
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Speaker 1: And you saw also there are a lot of TV
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Speaker 1: people from Philly they went up to see Nick. I mean, clearly,
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Speaker 1: I think we all get this is Brian you bring
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Speaker 1: up the subject Nick is a Philly legend and you
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Speaker 1: and it's funny you made the point about, um, he'll
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Speaker 1: never have to buy beer in Philly. That's what everyone
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Speaker 1: said as soon as the Eagles won the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: He'll never have to ask for a beer again because
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Speaker 1: we'll just give it to him. So really a great
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Speaker 1: story of perseverance. That's the thing about life when you
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Speaker 1: get knocked down as Nick did. I mean, I know
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Speaker 1: talk of the Rams. I mean they one RAMS person
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Speaker 1: said to me we had to bet him for his
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Speaker 1: own Bok because he just he just had lost it
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Speaker 1: and to regain it in a big way to have
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Speaker 1: one of the best games in NFL history and the
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl is just really remarkable. So you refer to
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Speaker 1: the st Nick and and around here he is held
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Speaker 1: in high regard and he hasn't even taken a snap
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Speaker 1: in a game yet, preseason or otherwise. So what's the downside?
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Speaker 1: Where where do you have concerned for Nick? Back in
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Speaker 1: the starting lineup playing sixteen games? Is there anything that
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Speaker 1: you think, well, they gotta watch out for this. He
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Speaker 1: better be able to overcome that. Yeah, that's what. But
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Speaker 1: see that, Brian, that's the issue. He's never put together
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Speaker 1: a full season. I know the Jaguars will argue, hey, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but if you look it over his last sixteen games,
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Speaker 1: but you can't really do it like that. You've got
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Speaker 1: to look at one is he really done it? And
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Speaker 1: that's that's the concern. He does it in spurts like
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Speaker 1: let's let's and you you asked about what would you
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Speaker 1: can turn about? Nick can be very, very streaky. When
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Speaker 1: he's at the top of his game, he looks like
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Speaker 1: he's a Hall of Fame quarterback because he's plays which
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Speaker 1: such reckless abandoned in such a good way, and he's
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Speaker 1: got such juice he got he's just so confident and
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Speaker 1: everyone rallies around him. And then you know, I remember
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Speaker 1: in the seventeen season when when Wentz got hurt. He
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Speaker 1: had some games, especially the Monday Oakland game, Monday Night
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Speaker 1: game when Derek Carr and Foals played poorly. You wondered
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Speaker 1: how far he goes go in the playoffs. And then
17:31
Speaker 1: he didn't do a great in Atlanta game, and then
17:33
Speaker 1: he turns it on against Minnesota in the championship game.
17:36
Speaker 1: Is incredible. They topped it off with you know, we
17:39
Speaker 1: we mentioned that the Super Bowl game against England. So
17:42
Speaker 1: Brian answered the question, sometimes you don't know which nick
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Speaker 1: folks you're gonna get. I would say this, if they
17:47
Speaker 1: protect him, he's gonna have a solid season, But to
17:51
Speaker 1: be special, he's never been able to do it over
17:54
Speaker 1: full season. I'm not saying he can't, but we just
17:58
Speaker 1: have not seen it. But the quarterback position is one
18:00
Speaker 1: which I've studied for decades. Guys get into their thirties,
18:04
Speaker 1: sometimes they played they played better than they did in
18:06
Speaker 1: the twenties. It's really one of the anomalies of the
18:08
Speaker 1: quarterback position. You could play well and nip you turned
18:11
Speaker 1: thirty in January. I mean I remember talking Rich Gavin
18:13
Speaker 1: about it. Sometimes you get with the right coach and
18:16
Speaker 1: and and no one knows pulls better than John d Philippo.
18:20
Speaker 1: If these if these guys get you to work together
18:22
Speaker 1: well and every everything I've heard has been terrific. In fact,
18:25
Speaker 1: I can tell you talking to Jaguars Folse has been
18:26
Speaker 1: better than they expected, and they've been expecting to this point,
18:30
Speaker 1: he continues in the regular season, maybe this seems a
18:32
Speaker 1: little better than we thought. Adam, How is our guy,
18:36
Speaker 1: Malik Jackson doing. We have sought such high praise for
18:38
Speaker 1: him here, even when he lost the starting job last year.
18:41
Speaker 1: He was such a prose pro, always in a good
18:43
Speaker 1: moon and really handled his business professionally. How's he doing
18:46
Speaker 1: in Philly? Ashley, Yeah, he's gonna start. Um he I
18:49
Speaker 1: know he's got a chip in her shoulder after being banched,
18:51
Speaker 1: and he's got a lot of pride in the The
18:54
Speaker 1: egos love him. Um. Your Fletcher Cox, who's their star
18:58
Speaker 1: defensive tackles, never really had a one who could rush
19:00
Speaker 1: the passer opposite him, and now he's got someone. The
19:04
Speaker 1: Cox is not going to play to night by the way.
19:05
Speaker 1: He's come back from toe surgery, but it's worked out
19:09
Speaker 1: really well to this point, and he's got a chip
19:11
Speaker 1: on his shoulder, so I expect him to play well,
19:13
Speaker 1: and the Eagles are probably it's not the deepest team
19:17
Speaker 1: at defensive tackle on in the NFL, they're one of
19:18
Speaker 1: the deepest. They're just they're they're legit four or five deep,
19:21
Speaker 1: and they're probably gonna have to win up cutting some
19:23
Speaker 1: players at that position. You could probably play in the
19:25
Speaker 1: league before we let you go. Where is the future
19:29
Speaker 1: for the preseason? I mean, now you get the Jaguars
19:31
Speaker 1: aren't playing anybody for the second straight game. They won't
19:33
Speaker 1: plenty one in game four. Um. I think that's becoming
19:36
Speaker 1: the trend. We saw it last year bit with the Rams.
19:39
Speaker 1: Even when starters are on the field, you know, you
19:42
Speaker 1: see them handing off. You don't see complexities. They're they're
19:46
Speaker 1: taking it easy. How much longer is the preseason viable
19:50
Speaker 1: in in the form of being able to sell tickets
19:53
Speaker 1: and get people to watch on TV if no one's playing, right,
19:56
Speaker 1: I think Brian I talked to several general managers and
19:59
Speaker 1: coaches on my my eight team training camp tour here
20:02
Speaker 1: and the prevailing thought as most of them say that
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Speaker 1: they would be happy to move down to just two
20:07
Speaker 1: preseason games and do either inter squad scrimmages or do
20:11
Speaker 1: the scrimmages like we saw last year when the Jaguars
20:13
Speaker 1: are in Minnesota and here for the Colts hosting the Browns.
20:17
Speaker 1: The coaches love that going against other teams in the
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Speaker 1: training camp. The only issue that they have is teams
20:24
Speaker 1: that are not very professional, that go away from script,
20:27
Speaker 1: and then you know, you you you get concerned about
20:29
Speaker 1: practicing against those teams. But more often than not, the
20:32
Speaker 1: teams are professional, and I think that's probably the way
20:35
Speaker 1: of the future. But this is a cb A issue,
20:37
Speaker 1: and the money issue. Remember, it's gotta be collectively bargain
20:40
Speaker 1: in terms of of amount of preseason games. But I
20:43
Speaker 1: think based on my talks with people and my my
20:46
Speaker 1: tool here, I think it's very clear coaches and executives
20:49
Speaker 1: would love to do just two games because they as
20:52
Speaker 1: you said, Brian, we're starting to see that so many
20:55
Speaker 1: starters are being arrested more than by the way, more
20:57
Speaker 1: than ever, and we know the Jaguars are really banged
20:58
Speaker 1: up right now, so were the Eagles. And you're gonna
21:01
Speaker 1: see an in tonight's game, several starters. I mean, you're
21:05
Speaker 1: you're don't be shocked at You're gonna see over twenty
21:08
Speaker 1: starters from both teams rested at a bare minimum. I
21:12
Speaker 1: can tell you Doug Morow is not playing anybody. We
21:14
Speaker 1: sat with him, We called last week, right, right, said
21:18
Speaker 1: last week and you know what. Look Doug knows when
21:22
Speaker 1: I was there for two days. Look you you you
21:24
Speaker 1: It's all about the regular season. Andy Reid told me
21:26
Speaker 1: years ago. That was his phrase when I asked him
21:28
Speaker 1: about why he would rest a lot of startings. Is
21:30
Speaker 1: my job to get my guys healthy and they have
21:32
Speaker 1: to be available week one. So how much does the
21:34
Speaker 1: preseason really matter anymore? It doesn't, That's what that And
21:38
Speaker 1: I think we're coming to the time where the preseason
21:39
Speaker 1: is going to be non existent. But that's a different conversation.
21:42
Speaker 1: We know you've got another hit to do for Philly Radio. Adam,
21:44
Speaker 1: thanks for your time this morning. It was great to
21:46
Speaker 1: see and hopefully we reconnect throughout the course of the season.
21:49
Speaker 1: Guys anytime. Thank you, Thanks Adam, Adam, all right, when
21:52
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25:34
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Speaker 1: He might be your sixth receiver because he's dependable, he's
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25:52
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25:55
Speaker 1: Traymic Bride might have a chance at number six. He's
25:57
Speaker 1: got to play well tonight. Yeah. And it's not in
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Speaker 1: all this week really that we've been talking about him.
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Speaker 1: time of years. Guys have a chance to improve, all right,
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Speaker 1: My he will, he won't. He might is nase good linebacker.
26:13
Speaker 1: He will play tonight. Doug wants to see more of him.
26:15
Speaker 1: He told us that. And it's the perfect opportunity with
26:18
Speaker 1: Quincy Williams hurt at weeks side linebacker, for someone like
26:21
Speaker 1: this to take advantage of a spot opening up. He
26:24
Speaker 1: won't let the stage be too big for him because
26:27
Speaker 1: ever since the start of training camp he's been making plays.
26:30
Speaker 1: But that linebacker unit and that defense is so talented
26:33
Speaker 1: it's kind of been overshadowed at times. But ever since
26:35
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26:39
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26:43
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26:46
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26:48
Speaker 1: Bron always points out that Nase Good played at West Virginia,
26:51
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26:54
Speaker 1: the only one, though. You know, they have some depth
26:56
Speaker 1: at linebacker, and that's been the position that people have
26:59
Speaker 1: picked on because there's no Telvin Smith because we haven't
27:02
Speaker 1: seen Quincy Williams since the second week of camp and
27:04
Speaker 1: won't until early in the season. But they went and
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27:20
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Speaker 1: Ramikos with the Rams last year. Good has been with
27:26
Speaker 1: a couple of teams, most recently the Colts. Um they've
27:29
Speaker 1: got some guys that they can count on. Now, are
27:31
Speaker 1: they the amazing playmaker that Quincy Williams is? No, No,
27:35
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27:37
Speaker 1: front of them on the depth chart. But they're good,
27:40
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27:43
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27:45
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27:51
Speaker 1: they've got a measure of um depth at linebacker that
27:55
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27:58
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28:24
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28:28
Speaker 1: But with Quincy Williams out, it's beginning a great opportunity
28:30
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28:34
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Speaker 1: number two Eagles versus Jaguars. Brian Sexton ley On seriously
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32:08
Speaker 1: Leon being a former offensive lineman, he's looking heavily at
32:11
Speaker 1: that right guard battle that we've talked about all week.
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32:24
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32:26
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32:29
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32:32
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32:34
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32:37
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32:39
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32:42
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32:45
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32:49
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32:52
Speaker 1: We're not going to see Joan Taylor or Cam Robinson
32:55
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32:58
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33:00
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33:03
Speaker 1: We don't know which one it is. Maybe we'll find
33:05
Speaker 1: out tonight. That's the only spot in the offensive line
33:09
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33:12
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33:14
Speaker 1: And you remember that huge hit on Gardnerment She basically
33:17
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33:19
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33:22
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33:26
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33:28
Speaker 1: Obviously we'll look at the backup tackle situation because if
33:30
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33:33
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33:36
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33:38
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33:42
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33:45
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33:50
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33:55
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33:57
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