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Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, April 14 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, April. This is Jaguars Happy Hour, Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Happy Hours filmed before live studio audience and now Jeff
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Speaker 1: Lagman's personal duck blind Jane Peace Sha comen. It is
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour on this Thursday afternoon on Tintin xl
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Speaker 1: podcast on the Heart radio app, the Jaguars dot com
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Speaker 1: podcast page, and hit us up on Twitter tonight at
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Speaker 1: j P Shadrick at logs five six coming up, of course,
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Speaker 1: it's Jaguars analyst Jeff Lagaman. Each and every week. Offensive
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Speaker 1: coordinator Press Taylor joins us in studio about four fifteen.
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Speaker 1: We'll hear from the new o C for the Jags,
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Speaker 1: his first coordinator role in the NFL and his first
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Speaker 1: week talking actual xs and ohs with the quarterback and
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Speaker 1: the offense. We're two weeks until the NFL Draft. Prospect
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Speaker 1: visits continue, the medical checks, everything going on, and we'll
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Speaker 1: go around the National Football League more quarterback news as
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Speaker 1: usually is the case. Jeff Blackman with us. Now, Hi, Jeff,
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Speaker 1: what's up? Hi? JP? Can you imagine being a young
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Speaker 1: Jaguars offensive coordinator like Press Taylor and to have a
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Speaker 1: star studded offensive cast of coaches. I mean, that's think
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Speaker 1: about that. That's kind of intimidating. You know, Doug Peterson,
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Speaker 1: who he worked with for a long time in Philly.
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Speaker 1: Mike McCoy was a head coach in the NFL, has
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Speaker 1: been around the game forever. Jim Bob Cooter christ name coordinator,
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Speaker 1: greatest name in the NFL. He's been around for a
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Speaker 1: while now. I mean, and then you've got the number
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Speaker 1: one picked from last year at the quarterback position. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot of input going in, I think to the
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Speaker 1: offensive staff. I don't think he's gonna be shy of
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Speaker 1: of opinions, but but I think it's a challenge to
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Speaker 1: when you're a young guy to step in a roll
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Speaker 1: of being the offensive coordinator with a staff like that.
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Speaker 1: To you, you you better have you better have reasons,
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Speaker 1: and you better substantiate your opinions, because if your reasons
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Speaker 1: or your information is flawed, you're gonna get called to
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Speaker 1: the table with that group of on the offensive staff.
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Speaker 1: But I mean, I I can tell you this. I
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Speaker 1: mean as far as if you're a team guy, that's
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Speaker 1: what you want. I mean, you want to have as
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Speaker 1: star studded as an offensive cast as you can get,
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Speaker 1: because a lot of times some of the and you
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Speaker 1: go back to the Baltimore Ravens when they were in
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Speaker 1: their heyday under Brian Billock, that was the staff that
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Speaker 1: had a lot of strong personalities on defense. A lot
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Speaker 1: of head coaches came from that staff, and when you
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Speaker 1: talk to those coaches, they will tell you about many
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Speaker 1: spirited discussions that they had in staff meetings, and spirited
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Speaker 1: discussions that sometimes ended up coming down to a little
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Speaker 1: bit of this, which I'm holding my knuckles up. I
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Speaker 1: was told. So I don't think it's gonna get to
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Speaker 1: that here in Jacksonville with the offensive staff, but you know, hey, look,
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Speaker 1: spirited conversation and discussion sometimes end up having some of
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Speaker 1: your best ideas come to fruition. Well here from Press
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Speaker 1: Taylor coming up in about fifteen minutes or so here
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Speaker 1: on Jaguars Happy Hour, the Jaguars offensive coordinator, well, he
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Speaker 1: does have his left tackle in place. Cam Robinson this
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Speaker 1: week signed the franchise center sixteen point six million guaranteed
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Speaker 1: dollars this year, and they have until July fifteenth to
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Speaker 1: work on a long term deal. If they don't get
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Speaker 1: to that long term deal. Well, he'll pay play for
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Speaker 1: sixteen point six million dollars this year. Drinks are on Camp, Well,
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Speaker 1: it's you want him to buy for you. That's okay. Uh,
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Speaker 1: sixteen million is now guaranteed because the franchise tag has
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Speaker 1: been signed. If and I think that's the right thing
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Speaker 1: to do from a players standpoint, Why would you not
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Speaker 1: because if you don't sign the franchise tag, that tag
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Speaker 1: can be removed and then you're put back out in
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Speaker 1: the marketplace. And by the way, there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: team that have spent their money already, So what would
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Speaker 1: the market be. I don't know. But a smart thing
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Speaker 1: to do by Cam because now in the meantime, now
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Speaker 1: you can work on a long term option with the
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Speaker 1: football team and if that is in fact the wishes
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Speaker 1: of both the team and Cam, and to see if
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Speaker 1: something can get done for a long term type of
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Speaker 1: situation because and but I think it makes it challenging
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Speaker 1: in this type of situation to work on a long
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Speaker 1: term deal because think about a JP. You had the
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Speaker 1: franchise tag last year that Cam signed. Okay, so now
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be he's got a franchise tag now, So
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Speaker 1: if they want to keep him under contract for next year.
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Speaker 1: So now you have another the other the the what
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Speaker 1: is another increase because there's last year to this year,
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Speaker 1: so it was thirteen last year. The actual number for
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Speaker 1: a franchise tag tackle anyway, this year was about sixteen,
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Speaker 1: but it's increase from last year, which is also right
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Speaker 1: around sixteen exactly. So it's gonna there's gonna be another
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Speaker 1: increase for next year. Okay. So my point is is
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Speaker 1: that if you're trying to negotiate a long term contract,
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Speaker 1: if you're an agent, the starting point in negotiations for
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Speaker 1: guaranteed money is the guaranteed money for franchise tag this
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Speaker 1: year plus the guaranteed franchise tag for next year. You
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Speaker 1: see what I'm saying. So you basically take sixteen plus increase.
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Speaker 1: You're looking on another let's just say eighteen for around purposes.
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Speaker 1: Let's say it's eighteen and I and it might might
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Speaker 1: even be more than that, but I think it's somewhere
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Speaker 1: in that range. But the rules change after a certain
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Speaker 1: number of years of being tagged. But so now you
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Speaker 1: add eighteen and sixteen. So essentially the contract the starting
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Speaker 1: point is thirty four million guaranteed right out of the
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Speaker 1: gate before you even and that's in the first two
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Speaker 1: years guarantee. So uh so that makes it a little
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Speaker 1: bit challenging, I think for some guys that have received
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Speaker 1: the franchise tag for more than just one year, because
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Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, this this conversation is kicking
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Speaker 1: into play different physician. I get it. But remember quarterback
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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins with Washington, he had two different franchise tag
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Speaker 1: season sixteen and seventeen, and then went to free agency
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Speaker 1: at eighteen and signed a fully guaranteed, three year, eighty
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Speaker 1: four million dollar deal. Yeah, I think that's the business
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Speaker 1: of football. He's winning. And I think the reason why
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Speaker 1: because I think in the in year three of your
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Speaker 1: franchise tag, there's a big jump it's like increase or
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Speaker 1: something of that nature instead of so it makes it
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Speaker 1: very very prohibitive. So and and I think that's the case.
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Speaker 1: So with Cam then, and when I was talking about, Okay,
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Speaker 1: thirty four million is your start at starting point, it's
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Speaker 1: actually more than that in that in that situation, I
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Speaker 1: think with the third consecutive tag, So congratulations to Cam Robinson. Yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: it's great. I mean, look, uh he deserves it. He's
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Speaker 1: a he's a good football player, and he I think
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Speaker 1: is the best part about Cam is I think it
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Speaker 1: was what Trent Balky talked about back when Trent Balky
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Speaker 1: and and Doug Peterson had this informal little sit down
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Speaker 1: with the media and Trent shared some of the stories
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Speaker 1: about Camp, saying, hey, look, here's a guy that's always
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Speaker 1: available because of availability always supersedes talent and ability always
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Speaker 1: And with Cam, he's a guy who loves ball. He's competitive,
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Speaker 1: he finishes um, he does all the things that you
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Speaker 1: want to have a good football player do. Now, can
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Speaker 1: he be better footwork wise and some of the some
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Speaker 1: of the basics of playing left tack When I say basics,
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Speaker 1: some of the basic footwork things, yes, he can get
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Speaker 1: better at that, but we all everybody can get better
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Speaker 1: even at your five or six or seven wherever. That
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Speaker 1: is a pro. The off season program is upon us now.
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Speaker 1: It started on Monday strength and conditioning meetings. It's all
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Speaker 1: very very voluntary, but important to get some things established
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Speaker 1: with a new coaching staff, new new terminology, and get
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Speaker 1: the ball rolling on. Just starting the organization a new
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Speaker 1: from the beginning. Trevor Lawrence spoke this week as well
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Speaker 1: about working with the receivers and getting things started with
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Speaker 1: a new coaching staff. We started throwing a little bit altogether.
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Speaker 1: This the first time we could use the facility, so
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Speaker 1: um offseason. Obviously, most of those guys that are new
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Speaker 1: didn't get here until right before we start O t A,
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Speaker 1: so they're trying to you know, find places all that,
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Speaker 1: so I didn't get to work with them much of
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Speaker 1: this off season. So now we got a lot of time.
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Speaker 1: You know, we have two weeks of just throwing our
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Speaker 1: own and then we'll have that period and after those
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Speaker 1: two weeks where we start getting out there with some coaches,
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Speaker 1: some routes on air, all that stuff, so you've got
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Speaker 1: time to progress into it. I feel like we're in
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Speaker 1: a good spot right now. It's I think more important
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Speaker 1: just to get everybody speaking the same language when we're
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Speaker 1: doing the installs, whatever it is. Get everybody on the
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Speaker 1: same page so when we're out there and we're all
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Speaker 1: saying the same things, because if you're out there and
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Speaker 1: no one really is on the same page and you
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Speaker 1: call routes different things, that makes it more difficult. So
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Speaker 1: we're getting there now. We're working towards it well. As
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Speaker 1: he said, they have some time. It is April, they
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Speaker 1: have another week and then they can get on the
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Speaker 1: field with the coaches and do some minor things. But
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Speaker 1: the language thing, I think is the big thing. There's
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Speaker 1: a brand new offense. It will be his at an
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Speaker 1: offense as a quarterback in the NFL. Like we said,
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Speaker 1: all these coaches come from different backgrounds as well. What
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Speaker 1: concepts are called is a very important baseline where they
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Speaker 1: have to all learn to speak the same language. And
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Speaker 1: that has to happen as a staff before that can
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Speaker 1: be passed on to the players and and there we
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Speaker 1: talked about it last week a little bit with Mike Caldwell,
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Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator, about everybody getting on the same page.
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Speaker 1: And so that's an important part to the all season.
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Speaker 1: But you know, I want to say this about the
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Speaker 1: off season program. If you're if you're a player and
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Speaker 1: you're signed under contract by whatever NFL team and you're
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Speaker 1: not participating in their off season program, you're not very smart.
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Speaker 1: And the reason I say that is that if you
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Speaker 1: are training on your own and you sustain some kind
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Speaker 1: of injury, you're on your own. I mean, so why
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Speaker 1: would you not use the facilities that the NFL has
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Speaker 1: every team, and and also the injury protection that is
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Speaker 1: built in that if you sustain some type of injury,
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Speaker 1: you're covered. If it's happening under the umbrella of the team,
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Speaker 1: If you're doing it on your own, you're on your own.
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Speaker 1: And I just I think it would be insane if
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Speaker 1: anybody were to not participate in the club's O t
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Speaker 1: A programs. Also, what Trevor said there about a lot
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Speaker 1: of guys getting moved back in the town. Look, this
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Speaker 1: is an amazing place to live, and a lot of
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Speaker 1: these guys are new to the football team, and so
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Speaker 1: some of them are trying to find where they're gonna
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Speaker 1: live and moving families, etcetera. So I get that the
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Speaker 1: guys that are already on the team, they should already
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Speaker 1: be here. And uh and because you want to be
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Speaker 1: able to work with your quarterback, Trevor is living here.
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Speaker 1: Look if I'm if I'm a receiver, I'm a tight end,
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Speaker 1: I'm here, man, I'm gonna be here living with my quarterback.
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Speaker 1: I'm in front of him every single day, if right,
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Speaker 1: and I want to want him see my face every day,
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Speaker 1: so that you know, you build the camaraderie. You build
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Speaker 1: a relationship and you build the trust. And so when
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Speaker 1: you catch balls from your quarterback, that's what it's all about.
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Speaker 1: You want to catch as many balls as you can
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Speaker 1: right now so that he has a comfort level with
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Speaker 1: you when you get to September. If somebody can't make it,
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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna go out there and take
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Speaker 1: the fill in. I know that'll be really productive for
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Speaker 1: the quarterback. If I were two run rounds, you j
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Speaker 1: not not quite Yeah, I don't think that's a hard No. Well,
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Speaker 1: the only thing thing that would help the quarterback is
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Speaker 1: that if you know, one of the big offensive lineman
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Speaker 1: ran around around the goal line, that's maybe the only
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Speaker 1: thing that you could simulate. Just trying to say thank
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Speaker 1: you very much. Um, this is Jaguars Happy Hour on
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Speaker 1: tint to Excel and Jaguars dot Com. J P Shadrick,
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Speaker 1: Jeff Logerman, Press Taylor coming up in just a few
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Speaker 1: minutes at his thoughts in the first few days talking
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Speaker 1: football with Trevor Lawrence and the offense. Well, all this
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Speaker 1: is happening and we're two weeks to the NFL Draft.
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Speaker 1: Logs of course, Um, you know the final runway before
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Speaker 1: the number one an overall pick and the last second
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Speaker 1: things are are likely happening now, last security checks, the
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Speaker 1: medical checks, a prospect visit, they're still going on. I
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Speaker 1: think there's a little more time for that. You know,
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Speaker 1: last year Jaguars had the number one pick for the
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Speaker 1: first time ever and it's quarterback Trevor Lawrence, and it
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Speaker 1: was built for it. Far from an ideal rookie campaign
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Speaker 1: for Trevor, but it's equally important this time another number
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Speaker 1: one overall pick. You gotta have somebody that can handle it.
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Speaker 1: I think when we learned this, not only I think
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Speaker 1: through the course of the season with with the boucle
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Speaker 1: of the Urban Myra regime, that Trevor Lawrence can can
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Speaker 1: handle anything. And part of being uh first overall draft pick, Look,
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Speaker 1: you always have that attached to you. And also you
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Speaker 1: have this, uh, this level of expectation that is nobody
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Speaker 1: else is going to have anything close to that because
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Speaker 1: you always and I don't say it's a stigma, but
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Speaker 1: you have. Hey, look the first overall draft pick. Okay,
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Speaker 1: it was built to handle it. He handled it like
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Speaker 1: a true professional all the situations that came his way
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Speaker 1: in the team's way last year. That weren't very favorable
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Speaker 1: for different reasons. I thought Trevor handled it beautifully. But
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Speaker 1: this year now you're you're looking at the first overall
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Speaker 1: pick again, and when you evaluate all these prospects that
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Speaker 1: are under consideration for the number one overall pick, you
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Speaker 1: better make sure that you're evaluating the person and can
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Speaker 1: they handle the scrutiny that's gonna come with being the
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Speaker 1: first overall pick, Because if you're gonna pick somebody who's
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Speaker 1: just happy to be there and it ain't gonna work.
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Speaker 1: If you pick somebody that can't withstand some criticism, then
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Speaker 1: that's not the person that you want. So I think
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Speaker 1: you have to have and do a really I mean,
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Speaker 1: because that's one of the reasons why the NFL has
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Speaker 1: all these extended opportunities to interview these potential draft picks
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Speaker 1: by bringing them in, by spending time with them at
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Speaker 1: the combine, by vetting them. And that's probably the most
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Speaker 1: important aspect is JP is not talking to the person
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Speaker 1: directly and be in a combine setting because that's all scripted.
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Speaker 1: When you bring them in, you get a little bit
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Speaker 1: more of an opportunity and and and seeing your building.
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Speaker 1: So there's a lack of comfort on the prospects side
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Speaker 1: of things to maybe make you get a little bit
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Speaker 1: more of a true feel on that person. But also
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Speaker 1: when I talk about the vetting process, you better make
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Speaker 1: sure that you're talking to a lot of people that
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Speaker 1: have been around that prospect for the last number of years.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to go back to his
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Speaker 1: high school time, you should do that, because if you
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Speaker 1: don't do that, then you end up having a situation
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Speaker 1: to where you have a player which is not the
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Speaker 1: kind of player that you want for your program. And
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna name any names that have been here
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Speaker 1: in the past, but I'm sure people can figure that out. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think they can, because I mean there's there's I mean,
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Speaker 1: the reality is the Jaguars have picked number one picks
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Speaker 1: overall in its history. Okay, that the players were not
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Speaker 1: properly vetted enough first round picks. Yes, yes, best first
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Speaker 1: pick for the franchise. Yes, I'm with you. So, I
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Speaker 1: mean that's when when you say vetting, you know, and
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Speaker 1: that's the term that's uh, it's very uh. I guess
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Speaker 1: you could say in a in a proper setting for
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Speaker 1: a lot of politicians, you know, you gotta vet a
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Speaker 1: candidate Okay, Well, look, I mean these candidates for your franchise,
15:31
Speaker 1: I mean that's no different. I mean, you've got to
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Speaker 1: have people that have an incredible high character, moral, morals,
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Speaker 1: et cetera. Because that's what you're building your program around.
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Speaker 1: And you've got an opportunity here with a new staff
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Speaker 1: and a new general manager. Uh that is uh much
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Speaker 1: more in charge than I think what he was last year.
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Speaker 1: So look, do it right, make sure it's right. Today,
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars announced the twenty two Duval Draft Party, presented
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Speaker 1: by Baptist Health. It's Thursday a six o'clock. The doors
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Speaker 1: open at Daily's Place. The draft party back at Daily
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Speaker 1: for the first time since nine. Gates one and four
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Speaker 1: and onstage appearances by head coach Doug Peterson and select
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Speaker 1: Jaguars players, and then at eight o'clock of course, watch
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Speaker 1: email for more. We're back in a moment. Press Taylor,
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Speaker 1: Jaguars offensive coordinator, joins us after this It's Jaguars Happy
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Speaker 1: Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network. I really keep the
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Speaker 1: mean and it's really really calm. I mean similar honestly
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Speaker 1: to to coach Devil as far as demeanor, really calm
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Speaker 1: never gets too higher, too low. Um. So I really
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Speaker 1: like that. It's the type of guy I could be around.
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Speaker 1: And then as far as just offensively brings some different
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Speaker 1: things to the table. Obviously, we haven't been together for
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Speaker 1: long and only we started on Monday, so I can't
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Speaker 1: say too much right now, but it's really like the
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Speaker 1: way he thinks about things and just how he offense
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Speaker 1: is so complimentary, um, and just how he schemes things up.
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Speaker 1: I think it's see does a really good job of
17:31
Speaker 1: finding the weak points of defenses and exposing him and
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Speaker 1: I just saying he's really smart and being able to
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Speaker 1: talk to him. I think we aligned pretty well and
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Speaker 1: we're what we're on the same page. That's Trevor Lawrence,
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Speaker 1: of course, Jaguars quarterback. Welcome back. It's Jaguars Happy hour
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Speaker 1: on a Thursday afternoon. J P. Schadwick with you, Jeff
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Speaker 1: log him in back in with us here in a
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Speaker 1: few minutes. And that's the quarterback talking about offensive coordinator
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Speaker 1: Press Taylor who joins us in studio. Now, it's some
17:57
Speaker 1: some nice words from the QB. What's up, coach? I
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Speaker 1: paid him to say that. Did you really? The check cleared?
18:02
Speaker 1: That's good news. So all right, so let's start with that.
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Speaker 1: The calm demeanor, the poise, the not streaming, you're not
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Speaker 1: that's not your style, and that fits right in apparently
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Speaker 1: with the quarterback. That relationship obviously is key for the
18:18
Speaker 1: success around here, right of course. Yeah, it's it's all
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Speaker 1: about putting all our guys in the best position to succeed.
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Speaker 1: But obviously that starts with the quarterback. A lot of times,
18:26
Speaker 1: when your quarterbacks playing well, everybody around him is playing well. Um,
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Speaker 1: and that that's given him things that he likes, put
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Speaker 1: in a position where he understands, and we can come
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Speaker 1: up with all sorts of football players. But if he
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Speaker 1: don't love it, don't believe in it, it's probably not
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Speaker 1: gonna work out. So we want to make sure we're
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Speaker 1: in lockstep with him as we build this thing. You know,
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Speaker 1: actually for uh started to talk football this week for
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Speaker 1: the first time. Maybe you've met him before, but you
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Speaker 1: actually get into the XS and os this week with
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Speaker 1: the offseason program finally there. What's the first thing that
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Speaker 1: stands out about Trevor when you sit down in a
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Speaker 1: football meeting room with him. He's very mature. He ask
19:00
Speaker 1: and a lot of times, you know, we haven't had
19:02
Speaker 1: a lot of football conversations, but he asked great questions,
19:05
Speaker 1: so that that's always one of the things that you
19:06
Speaker 1: know he's engaged. You know, you can kind of tell
19:09
Speaker 1: by the questions that a guy asked of kind of
19:11
Speaker 1: whether he likes it, where he's tracking, how he sees it,
19:14
Speaker 1: um and he he and really all the quarterbacks, Jake
19:16
Speaker 1: and c J. They've done a great job with the
19:18
Speaker 1: questions they asked, the response they're giving, the engagement they're giving.
19:21
Speaker 1: So it's exciting. You know, there's a lot of offensive
19:24
Speaker 1: minds around here. Obviously the head coach, you've been with
19:27
Speaker 1: him for a long time in Philly, UM Mike McCoy
19:30
Speaker 1: has been in the league for a long time as
19:32
Speaker 1: a head coach, Jim Bob Cooter. The passing game coordinator,
19:35
Speaker 1: crafting all those ideas and philosophies together as one with
19:39
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks involved. I'm sure as well. Um, you know
19:43
Speaker 1: you've been in all those roles, the quality control guy,
19:46
Speaker 1: assistant quarterback coach, QB coach past, you've done all these things.
19:50
Speaker 1: How does that help you take in information from all
19:54
Speaker 1: different types of mindsets. Yeah, I mean, I know. I
19:57
Speaker 1: think part of it is, like I know how I
19:59
Speaker 1: liked being treated in each of those roles, and and
20:01
Speaker 1: and what kind of input I could provide and things
20:03
Speaker 1: like that. So part of it's being clear in your
20:05
Speaker 1: communication with what your expectation is for everybody. And and
20:08
Speaker 1: then at the on top of that, with a lot
20:11
Speaker 1: of you know, former quarterbacks and guys that have coach
20:13
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are been coordinators in this league. A lot of
20:16
Speaker 1: it's everybody putting their egos side and realizing we we
20:19
Speaker 1: don't need to do what we all did in the past.
20:21
Speaker 1: This is about putting our guys in the best position
20:23
Speaker 1: to create the Jacksonville offense. And that's what we're trying
20:26
Speaker 1: to do. Press Taylor with US Jaguars offensive coordinator, you're
20:29
Speaker 1: balancing building the scheme. But free agency was here still
20:34
Speaker 1: is it never really ends. The draft is coming up,
20:37
Speaker 1: you know. That's all after arriving in like early February.
20:39
Speaker 1: It's not a lot of time to put all this together.
20:41
Speaker 1: How do you balance all the time for all three
20:44
Speaker 1: of those things, That's what I mean. At times, it
20:46
Speaker 1: feels like it's in season schedule where we're just kind
20:49
Speaker 1: of here all day. That's the good and the bad
20:51
Speaker 1: of this. This business necessarily is like when you do
20:53
Speaker 1: have a sudden move like this, which a lot of us,
20:55
Speaker 1: we all moved in from other places. Your family is
20:57
Speaker 1: kind of left behind. Now the bad part of that,
20:59
Speaker 1: you're with your family, which we all enjoy in the offseason.
21:01
Speaker 1: That's the great part about life in the NFL. But
21:04
Speaker 1: it gives you the ability. Then you come in early,
21:06
Speaker 1: you stay late. We get a chance to kind of
21:08
Speaker 1: make up that ground with that time where maybe it's
21:11
Speaker 1: you know, football in the morning, personnel in the afternoon,
21:13
Speaker 1: playing for the next day at night. So that's kind
21:16
Speaker 1: of been the schedule we've all kind of worked off
21:18
Speaker 1: since we kind of got here, really kind of hit
21:20
Speaker 1: the ground run. And when the players get here, that's
21:22
Speaker 1: the first thing you notice when you're digging into the
21:24
Speaker 1: Jaguars tape from a year ago. Obviously, you know we're
21:27
Speaker 1: in the division not looking at the Jags offense as much.
21:30
Speaker 1: On the other side with Indy last year, when you
21:32
Speaker 1: first slipped on the Jaguars offense, what stood out? What
21:35
Speaker 1: did you inherit as an offensive coordinator? Part of it
21:38
Speaker 1: on good and bad you get a chance to evaluate
21:40
Speaker 1: a lot of guys. But there's a lot of guys
21:42
Speaker 1: on the tape. You know, you saw a lot of
21:43
Speaker 1: guys that missed time with injuries and things like that
21:45
Speaker 1: that really affected a lot of things that it hurts
21:47
Speaker 1: the chemistry of some things as you go, but it
21:49
Speaker 1: gives guys good experience, gives us a chance to evaluate
21:52
Speaker 1: more actual game tape of some of these guys. But
21:54
Speaker 1: there's a lot of talent. There's a lot of young talent,
21:56
Speaker 1: which is exciting, you know, obviously starting with Trevor Um,
21:59
Speaker 1: but the pieces around there is young talent that we're
22:02
Speaker 1: excited to work with and look forward to press Taylor
22:04
Speaker 1: with us. You mentioned the family settled in. Everybody around
22:08
Speaker 1: everybody here, I mean, it's a whirlwind. In a month
22:11
Speaker 1: and a half two months time, we're finally settled in.
22:13
Speaker 1: So we got the keys to our houses last week
22:14
Speaker 1: and finally started moving in. So now it's I work
22:17
Speaker 1: all day, I go home, and I work all night
22:19
Speaker 1: at home trying to get boxes out and do all
22:21
Speaker 1: that type stuff. But definitely makes it life a little
22:23
Speaker 1: bit better when your family around. It never ends, of course,
22:26
Speaker 1: that the work never ends, that's for sure. This is
22:28
Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour on tinton x l j P Shadrick
22:30
Speaker 1: Jeff Lagman back in a moment, offensive coordinator Press Taylor
22:34
Speaker 1: joining us now free agent editions. Let's go through some
22:37
Speaker 1: of these guys because we've we've talked about them in
22:40
Speaker 1: so many different formats here, but it's nice to hear
22:42
Speaker 1: it from the guy who's putting the offense together. And
22:44
Speaker 1: let's start off with Christian Kirk thirty seven million guaranteed dollars.
22:49
Speaker 1: But the versatility, he said it in his opening press conference. Hey,
22:53
Speaker 1: I'm not just a slot receiver. I'm here to do
22:56
Speaker 1: a lot of different things. What can he bring for
22:58
Speaker 1: your offense? Yeah, I think it's the biggest thing. It's
23:00
Speaker 1: the versatility of we can align them all over the formation.
23:03
Speaker 1: He can do a number of different things. He can
23:05
Speaker 1: win on the outside. He's a great decision maker with
23:08
Speaker 1: great speed, which you know, you don't always hear that
23:10
Speaker 1: about receivers being great decision makers, but he really is.
23:13
Speaker 1: So you can put them in then in positions to
23:15
Speaker 1: be able to adjust things and get on the same
23:17
Speaker 1: page with Trevor Um. You know, probably something I didn't
23:21
Speaker 1: know about him was his demeanor. As we've been around
23:23
Speaker 1: each other for a week, He's got a great demeanor
23:25
Speaker 1: about himself. He again asked great questions similar to the quarterbacks,
23:28
Speaker 1: where I think that makes up for a lot of
23:30
Speaker 1: the less time on the grass, where they have the
23:33
Speaker 1: ability to just sit and communicate in the meeting room
23:35
Speaker 1: and get on the same page. And he brings that element.
23:37
Speaker 1: He brings a big plays, dynamic player. He's good with
23:40
Speaker 1: the ball in his hands. He's able to win a
23:41
Speaker 1: number of different ways, which is intriguing for us. Yeah,
23:43
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever heard decision maker used in
23:47
Speaker 1: a wide receiver. How do you know that? How do
23:49
Speaker 1: you find that out about a guy? Part of that's
23:51
Speaker 1: the way he talks the questions. He asked, like I'm saying,
23:54
Speaker 1: you know, verse this coverage, can I adjust this way? Verse?
23:57
Speaker 1: That would you expect me to do? This what does
23:59
Speaker 1: Trevor want? You know, he's asked those type of questions
24:02
Speaker 1: where it makes you confident and Okay, this guy's picking
24:04
Speaker 1: it up. And we knew a lot of that when
24:06
Speaker 1: we dug into him throughout the free agency period. Za
24:09
Speaker 1: Jones a guy who has been a couple of different
24:12
Speaker 1: places in the league. We've seen some highlights out of
24:15
Speaker 1: him too. What do you think so far? A few
24:17
Speaker 1: days into the offseason program? Za is a similar guys
24:19
Speaker 1: A is extremely cerebral. Another one that asked great questions
24:23
Speaker 1: and that's kind of gonna be the core with a
24:25
Speaker 1: lot of guys we talked about the high character guys
24:27
Speaker 1: love football is a little bit of a theme. Um.
24:31
Speaker 1: And that's not by accident. So these are guys that
24:33
Speaker 1: that we we kind of know from we've talked to.
24:36
Speaker 1: We researched these guys through players that they played with,
24:39
Speaker 1: coaches that coached them, college coaches that coached him. Um.
24:42
Speaker 1: So we have a good feel for what we're getting
24:44
Speaker 1: out of these guys. Uh And Zay has done nothing
24:47
Speaker 1: to disappoint Das. He's a great teammate. He's done a
24:50
Speaker 1: great job early on in this process of getting to
24:52
Speaker 1: know everybody and getting to learn some things. Let's go
24:54
Speaker 1: to the tight end room. You know, I was thinking
24:56
Speaker 1: about this earlier today before we're about to do this conversation,
24:59
Speaker 1: and I guess it was around right the Patriots got
25:03
Speaker 1: Gronk and Hernandez in that same draft together. And yes,
25:07
Speaker 1: there had been really good tight ends in the league
25:08
Speaker 1: before that, but that combination kind of change the mindset
25:12
Speaker 1: of a lot of offensive thinking around the NFL because
25:15
Speaker 1: of the success of that crew. Not calling this crew that,
25:18
Speaker 1: but Evan Ingram comes in. You've got Dan Arnold, two
25:20
Speaker 1: guys that can go out and catch the football. Having
25:23
Speaker 1: that option as a quarterback n OC has to help
25:26
Speaker 1: absolutely gives you the ability to create matchups. And that's
25:29
Speaker 1: what we're looking for. When we put Evan Inger on
25:31
Speaker 1: the field, who's going to cover him? Do you do
25:33
Speaker 1: you need to bring in a lighter body. Do you
25:34
Speaker 1: put a nickel on him? Do you put a safety
25:36
Speaker 1: on him? Do you put a linebacker on him? Which
25:39
Speaker 1: we would ask for if you get to pick um.
25:41
Speaker 1: But Evan kind of brings out with his his his
25:44
Speaker 1: speed overall first and foremost. But he's got he again,
25:48
Speaker 1: he's got a guy that's got a lot in his
25:49
Speaker 1: body in terms of the wiggle and the decision making,
25:51
Speaker 1: the ability to make the option routes, the read routes
25:54
Speaker 1: stretched stretched down the field, does a great job with
25:56
Speaker 1: the football in his hands. You know, if you just
25:58
Speaker 1: get him out, whether it's a check down, a fly route,
26:00
Speaker 1: whatever that may be, you get a chance to see
26:02
Speaker 1: that speed and space, which we're looking to do all
26:03
Speaker 1: the time. Press Taylor with us and we'll finish in
26:06
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Brandon Sheriff longtime pro of course and
26:10
Speaker 1: Washington perennial All Pro and Pro Bowl player and just
26:15
Speaker 1: brings that kind of attitude I think to that room,
26:18
Speaker 1: right and that's a big part of it is we
26:20
Speaker 1: we know we're getting in the room. Obviously, UH coach
26:23
Speaker 1: rosher had the ability to work with Brandon when they
26:25
Speaker 1: were in Washington together, so he could vouch for the
26:28
Speaker 1: character and the leadership and it was really off the charts.
26:31
Speaker 1: He kind of went on and on about it. And
26:33
Speaker 1: then obviously the talent on tape, the Pro Bowls, the
26:35
Speaker 1: all for all that stuff. He's an incredible talent um,
26:39
Speaker 1: you know, somebody that we look forward to adding and
26:42
Speaker 1: incorporating in our offense as we go press final thoughts
26:45
Speaker 1: with you here. In your past, you're kind of credited
26:48
Speaker 1: for some of the key plays in the Eagles run.
26:51
Speaker 1: We've known that from the old days, right, different role
26:54
Speaker 1: back then, you're now the offensive coordinator. Do you still
26:58
Speaker 1: try to dig and find new ways, new plays, steal
27:02
Speaker 1: ideas from college proteins? Is that still in your workflow?
27:07
Speaker 1: How much football do you watch on a regular basis
27:10
Speaker 1: otherwise beyond Jaguars tape and all that, and or does
27:13
Speaker 1: that come in a natural progression for an offense and
27:16
Speaker 1: your personnel. Yeah. Um, we're always looking for what we
27:20
Speaker 1: think fits us. So if you see a route on
27:22
Speaker 1: tape and Okay, that's a great route, do we have
27:25
Speaker 1: a guy that could do that, that would fitness skill set?
27:27
Speaker 1: Does it fit everything else around that we're doing? Um?
27:29
Speaker 1: How expensive is it? If it is something unique? That's
27:32
Speaker 1: one of the things we'll talk about a lot is
27:34
Speaker 1: how expensive is this? Do we want to invest in
27:36
Speaker 1: new ideas that are gonna cost a lot of time
27:37
Speaker 1: that we're not going to get a lot of return on.
27:40
Speaker 1: So you spend a lot of time And it's the
27:42
Speaker 1: things we're comfortable with, but the things that we feel
27:44
Speaker 1: like our players can do really well. Um, and we
27:46
Speaker 1: can teach really well. We can explain we have evidence
27:49
Speaker 1: of but you really you want to know what you're
27:51
Speaker 1: talking about. Obviously for the guys you want you have
27:53
Speaker 1: to be able to prove to them that you can
27:55
Speaker 1: put them in position succeed and then and then giving
27:57
Speaker 1: things that they do really well. All right, you're what
28:00
Speaker 1: more days in now to the off season program? Are
28:02
Speaker 1: you on track? What's coming up the next week or so?
28:05
Speaker 1: And and take us through just a normal day in
28:08
Speaker 1: the office right now, yeah, right right now. So it starts,
28:11
Speaker 1: you know, the players get in here about nine o'clock.
28:12
Speaker 1: Sometimes we have a team meeting, sometimes we don't. They
28:14
Speaker 1: get in there. They got the ability to lift and
28:16
Speaker 1: then we have the ability to meet with them. They
28:18
Speaker 1: go out and run with the strength coaches. But in
28:20
Speaker 1: this phase one portion we're not allowed to go on
28:22
Speaker 1: the grass with them yet. So it's actually great in
28:25
Speaker 1: terms of the teaching progression of things where we get
28:27
Speaker 1: a chance to sit in a calm environment. There is
28:30
Speaker 1: no pressure to go out and perform on this play
28:32
Speaker 1: two hours later in practice right now, So you get
28:35
Speaker 1: a chance to ask a lot of questions to to
28:37
Speaker 1: see what their retention is on things. But it's really
28:40
Speaker 1: it's a pretty good process in terms of the progression
28:42
Speaker 1: of things and how we can teach our offense and
28:44
Speaker 1: we learned going forward. But I mean, I can just
28:46
Speaker 1: see it in your face. You can't wait to get
28:48
Speaker 1: on the ground down sunny Florida too. I want to
28:50
Speaker 1: get outside. Hey, Press, thanks for the time, really appreciate it.
28:55
Speaker 1: Good luck to thank you, see you down the line.
28:57
Speaker 1: Press Taylor with us, the Jaguars are future focus and
29:00
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29:15
Speaker 1: it's Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network. Good morning.
29:29
Speaker 1: Our goals this season should be out of reach, but
29:33
Speaker 1: never out of sight. My job is to put these
29:36
Speaker 1: goals right in front of us, and so we're striving
29:38
Speaker 1: and attaining and we're trying to go after these goals
29:41
Speaker 1: every single day. Put it in your head right now
29:44
Speaker 1: that we plan on planning in January and February. That
29:51
Speaker 1: is a teaser for chapter two of the Hunt. It
29:55
Speaker 1: airs tonight seven o'clock on the Jaguars YouTube channel. That
30:00
Speaker 1: from the first team meeting of the off season program
30:03
Speaker 1: and of course head coach Doug Peterson in front of
30:05
Speaker 1: the room. Welcome back at Jaguars Happy Hour, j P. Shadrick,
30:09
Speaker 1: Jeff Logaman back with us now. Our thanks to Press Taylor,
30:11
Speaker 1: Jaguar's offensive coordinator, for spending some time today. It's a
30:15
Speaker 1: busy time lot going on draft, two weeks away, free agency,
30:18
Speaker 1: the players are in the offseason programs here, they're trying
30:22
Speaker 1: to build and craft this offense together. But it was
30:24
Speaker 1: nice of them to take a few minutes today. What
30:26
Speaker 1: stood out well a couple of couple of things. One,
30:28
Speaker 1: remember that they're behind the eight ball a little bit. Okay,
30:32
Speaker 1: they got a late start because it's a new staff.
30:35
Speaker 1: And then also, uh, it was one of the later
30:37
Speaker 1: staffs that was put together. So I don't want to
30:40
Speaker 1: say they're playing catch up, but uh, maybe in some
30:43
Speaker 1: cases they are so. But I think the one thing
30:46
Speaker 1: that stood out to me was was Press talked about
30:49
Speaker 1: how much time are you gonna invest in something to
30:52
Speaker 1: get what in return as an offensive play caller. And
30:56
Speaker 1: I thought that that was very telling because you want
30:58
Speaker 1: to make sure that you're efficient with your time and
31:00
Speaker 1: making sure that okay, let's not spend thirty hours and
31:04
Speaker 1: trying to design this one play that we're gonna use
31:08
Speaker 1: maybe one time through the season. And I think that
31:12
Speaker 1: that's very smart you want to make it because here's
31:14
Speaker 1: the thing all of this that we're talking about about,
31:17
Speaker 1: where the players are at right now, and that Okay,
31:20
Speaker 1: they come in, they can't go out on the coaches
31:23
Speaker 1: can't go on the grass with the players. That has
31:25
Speaker 1: to be on their own. Okay, they have a little
31:27
Speaker 1: bit of a meeting. It's all very limited because of
31:31
Speaker 1: the collectively bargained rules, and so there's only so much time.
31:35
Speaker 1: So you have to make sure that you have an
31:37
Speaker 1: economical way of navigating your time frame as coaching staff,
31:42
Speaker 1: especially when you have a new staff and you're gonna
31:44
Speaker 1: be installing a completely new system. So I think that
31:48
Speaker 1: was very smart on his part to talk about the
31:52
Speaker 1: amount invested in what you can actually potentially get in
31:54
Speaker 1: return here and Trevor Lawrence talk about it earlier this week.
31:59
Speaker 1: You know, he likes his demeanor is calm demeanor. Even
32:02
Speaker 1: everybody's calm JP in April and he walks in the
32:06
Speaker 1: room and okay, that makes sense. But when when it
32:09
Speaker 1: gets real, comes turn in a billy Bob screamer, you know,
32:14
Speaker 1: when it comes to September October, No remember, I mean,
32:17
Speaker 1: I don't know, but yeah, it's calm. Calm demeanors are
32:19
Speaker 1: always good for a quarterback because to play the position
32:23
Speaker 1: of quarterback. Could you imagine if last year's defensive line
32:27
Speaker 1: coach we're coaching the quarterback position. Okay, what was his name, Uh,
32:36
Speaker 1: Joe Cullen? Who was He was a coordinator who was
32:41
Speaker 1: very loud. Can you imagine Joe Collin trying to coach quarterbacks.
32:44
Speaker 1: I mean, he would do a fine job, but I
32:46
Speaker 1: mean it's just it's it's different. I mean, quarterback, you've
32:49
Speaker 1: got to be able to make great decisions, and you've
32:51
Speaker 1: got to be able to stay calm. Your mind has
32:53
Speaker 1: to work. You have to have a coach that kind
32:56
Speaker 1: of emanates that calmness about him, so that can be
33:01
Speaker 1: I guess duplicated by the quarterback on game day. So yeah,
33:04
Speaker 1: so that's a good fit. I like what Trevor said.
33:07
Speaker 1: I also like what Trevor said as far as about
33:09
Speaker 1: how things are working and uh and press Taylor. I
33:12
Speaker 1: think is gonna be really good for Trevor. I think
33:15
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good fit. I think the head
33:18
Speaker 1: coach is a good fit when it comes to making
33:21
Speaker 1: all of this work. And I think Doug Peterson obviously
33:23
Speaker 1: was the most important thing here in this hiring cycle
33:26
Speaker 1: for this football team, and he's done. I think he's
33:28
Speaker 1: done a masterful job of putting together a really strong
33:33
Speaker 1: offensive staff, really strong. Toosh Lapoi was his name, by
33:38
Speaker 1: the way, that from last year. He's like, I just
33:41
Speaker 1: wanted to go over and walk over to him and
33:43
Speaker 1: practices sometimes and go Tosh man, just just to to
33:47
Speaker 1: take do you have blood pressure medicine? Can I get
33:49
Speaker 1: you some? I mean, come on, man, let's hear from
33:52
Speaker 1: Shaquille Griffin. He spoke with the media earlier this week
33:55
Speaker 1: and has been around the league a few years now,
33:57
Speaker 1: obviously came in free agency last year and was asked
34:01
Speaker 1: about the difference from the coaching staff from last year
34:04
Speaker 1: to now. Get a chance to be with coaches who
34:07
Speaker 1: have experience in the lague. You know, the first day
34:09
Speaker 1: we met with coaching and people are saying, yeah, I
34:11
Speaker 1: was in the league ten years, eleven years, teen years,
34:13
Speaker 1: twelve years that have actually played. That's amazing to me.
34:17
Speaker 1: And that's a person who can understand anything that I
34:19
Speaker 1: might see or go through or maybe in the future
34:21
Speaker 1: that can help me out. So I'll like the atmosphere
34:24
Speaker 1: is different because it's so relatable. Yeah, it certainly is.
34:27
Speaker 1: And all the assistant coaches have that. The Shade Townsend
34:30
Speaker 1: as the cornerbacks coach, he has that certainly played in
34:32
Speaker 1: the league for a long long time. And then that's
34:35
Speaker 1: that's a big thing. When you have to stand in
34:38
Speaker 1: front of that room, you have you can relate to
34:40
Speaker 1: pretty much anyone. It gets their attention. But then after
34:43
Speaker 1: you have gotten their attention as a coach, you have
34:46
Speaker 1: to give them substance. But there's no question that a
34:49
Speaker 1: lot of the things that a player may go through,
34:52
Speaker 1: the coach can relate to that's played the game. And
34:55
Speaker 1: I think that matters just as far as relating to
34:57
Speaker 1: the players. And when it comes to mess the gene
35:01
Speaker 1: and uh and and and building a relationship, I think
35:04
Speaker 1: all of that helps. But again I'm gonna say this again,
35:08
Speaker 1: you have to be able to show the player that
35:10
Speaker 1: you can help them become a better player. If you're
35:13
Speaker 1: a former player and you're crappy coach, okay, you're gonna
35:16
Speaker 1: eventually be viewed as a crappy coach that can't help
35:19
Speaker 1: me play football better than what I'm playing right now,
35:21
Speaker 1: and it doesn't become of any use to a player.
35:23
Speaker 1: So it opens the door. Initially, it cracks the door open,
35:27
Speaker 1: but then the information, the teachings and everything else have
35:31
Speaker 1: to cast to keep that door open. Looking forward to
35:34
Speaker 1: seeing the cornerback room. By the way, Darius Williams on
35:38
Speaker 1: one side, Shaq Griffin, Tyson Campbell was on Drivetime earlier
35:42
Speaker 1: this week. Well, I think I think it's gonna be
35:43
Speaker 1: interesting to see how they formulate a plan for these
35:48
Speaker 1: three guys and beyond. I mean, I'm not talking about
35:51
Speaker 1: to train all those in the mix. I mean it's
35:54
Speaker 1: I don't want to, you know, cut anybody out here.
35:56
Speaker 1: But the obvious question is, Okay, you have a big
36:00
Speaker 1: free agent acquisition last year, you have a big free
36:03
Speaker 1: Asian acquisition this year, you have a promising young draft
36:06
Speaker 1: pick from last year. How do you make these three
36:10
Speaker 1: guys be the most productive for this football team? And
36:14
Speaker 1: that's what the coach's responsibility is, and they've got to
36:17
Speaker 1: find a way to make these personalities in these traits
36:21
Speaker 1: work for this defense, because everybody has a trait that
36:25
Speaker 1: that can help a defense and just it's real quick.
36:27
Speaker 1: I think that's always what has made Bill Belichick such
36:31
Speaker 1: a great coach, and that he can find guys that
36:35
Speaker 1: have a couple of traits that can help a football
36:39
Speaker 1: team win in a very defined role. He's not looking
36:43
Speaker 1: for a guy that's gonna eventually be a different role
36:46
Speaker 1: player three or four years away from the current moment
36:49
Speaker 1: that we're in. He he finds guys that, hey, this guy,
36:52
Speaker 1: he can fill this role this year and do it
36:55
Speaker 1: very well. And I think that's what you have to
36:57
Speaker 1: be able to do to be successful as coaching stuff.
37:00
Speaker 1: Find out what the players do well and then to
37:03
Speaker 1: find that role and allow them to thrive in that role.
37:07
Speaker 1: Let's come back in a moment. We'll take a live
37:09
Speaker 1: look outside of the Football Performance Center. There's a wall
37:13
Speaker 1: going I saw some center blocks JP. Yes, the walls
37:16
Speaker 1: are going up on Jaguars dot Com and or Jaguars
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Speaker 1: social channels. You'll see that. In a moment. We'll go
37:21
Speaker 1: around in the NFL. Also it's Jaguars Happy Hour on
37:24
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Digital Network. Also was like, man, I'm glad
37:32
Speaker 1: I don't have to go to the back. No, not definitely,
37:38
Speaker 1: just that's just a human element of it. Uh, just
37:41
Speaker 1: center results. You're definitely like, if there was any year
37:44
Speaker 1: to miss, I missed a very one. That is Travis E.
37:47
Speaker 1: T n Junior earlier this week quote of the week
37:51
Speaker 1: so far and welcome back Jaguars Happy Hour. We take
37:54
Speaker 1: a live look outside if you're watching on Jaguars dot com,
37:57
Speaker 1: Jags social media, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, the footprint of the
38:02
Speaker 1: Football Performance Center and there is concrete going yes down
38:07
Speaker 1: as foundation, but concrete wall going up. Plugs that would
38:12
Speaker 1: be center block center block wall is going up. That's
38:15
Speaker 1: kind of in the right hand sign of your picture.
38:18
Speaker 1: There that little gray boxy looking thing that center blocks
38:22
Speaker 1: and it's taller that it looks on the screen, so
38:24
Speaker 1: it actually looks like a construction site now instead of
38:27
Speaker 1: a motocross park. Right the footprint on the former UM
38:34
Speaker 1: practice field site, which before that was Wolfson Park. I
38:38
Speaker 1: wonder if the guy and the bulldozer would let me
38:40
Speaker 1: drive that for a little while. Are you qualified? You
38:43
Speaker 1: have a license for that thing. No. But I can
38:46
Speaker 1: drive a bulldozer, believe it or not, but not on
38:48
Speaker 1: this ground you can. No. No, no, that a license. No,
38:52
Speaker 1: that's against the That's like, that's like when you were
38:55
Speaker 1: a kid, j P. Did you not have talk that
39:00
Speaker 1: a stick? Or where they were? You had metal ones?
39:03
Speaker 1: You must have gotten some hand me down they were
39:06
Speaker 1: they were I don't know. I was too young to
39:08
Speaker 1: know where they came from. Joe had titanium steel, like
39:11
Speaker 1: old school red iron steel Tonka toy trucks. I had
39:15
Speaker 1: just the regular metal Tonka toy truck. You're gonna like this.
39:21
Speaker 1: I had a Tonka truck, big metal. It was a
39:25
Speaker 1: car carrier with four nineteen corvettes. That's where were ruined
39:31
Speaker 1: ever since then. That's why that explains a lot. Actually,
39:35
Speaker 1: that's where your problems started. Joe. Right, how many corvettes
39:39
Speaker 1: have you own in your lifetime? Real quick? Because this
39:41
Speaker 1: is why there's a reason why we're saying that the
39:44
Speaker 1: next one will be number nine? Good lord, wow, let's
39:50
Speaker 1: go around and might have a problem. See, that's that's
39:52
Speaker 1: like brainwashing. As a child, somebody gave you those Tonka
39:55
Speaker 1: Troy trucks with the Corvette carriers and you were ruined
39:58
Speaker 1: ever since. Well, at least he you know, he's picking
40:00
Speaker 1: nice He could have picked Hugo's. I mean he's picking
40:02
Speaker 1: corvettes now that JP The Hugos would have been for
40:05
Speaker 1: the for the monster trucks to drive over. The talk
40:08
Speaker 1: of trucks to drive over, not to be carrying them.
40:10
Speaker 1: Let's go around the National Football League and get into
40:14
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. Kyler Murray news came out today. I'm
40:18
Speaker 1: not really news, but he's in the headlines. At least
40:21
Speaker 1: he's not expected to play for the Cardinals without a
40:24
Speaker 1: new contract. He's doing about five million dollars this year,
40:27
Speaker 1: and with all the money flying around the NFL with
40:30
Speaker 1: quarterbacks as of late, Kyler Murray apparently thinks he should
40:34
Speaker 1: have some of that. Isn't it funny how some guys
40:38
Speaker 1: well do this, I guess social media protests. Okay, I'm
40:43
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna take off all of the likeness of
40:46
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals away from my Instagram and Twitter account
40:52
Speaker 1: because I'm mad I need a new contract. Well, I
40:56
Speaker 1: mean it's look, it's business, Okay, everybody's gonna Everything happens
41:00
Speaker 1: in a in a proper time frame. Okay, do you
41:03
Speaker 1: think that taking all names and likenesses of the Arizona
41:08
Speaker 1: Cardinals off of your Instagram account is gonna sway the
41:12
Speaker 1: ownership of the Arizona Cardinals saying, oh my gosh, we
41:16
Speaker 1: can't have that. Give me a break. Come on, man,
41:21
Speaker 1: do it the right way, be a pro. What are
41:23
Speaker 1: they gonna do? They don't have to give him anything.
41:26
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the reality, isn't Here's the thing. At
41:29
Speaker 1: the end of the season last year, he was not
41:31
Speaker 1: very good, although he was one of the most exciting
41:33
Speaker 1: quarterbacks by far in the early part of the season,
41:37
Speaker 1: the performance waned. So win a playoff game. Be about
41:43
Speaker 1: performance and leadership and everything else. Everything else will take
41:48
Speaker 1: care of itself. You don't need to have all these
41:50
Speaker 1: other trumped up protest okay, to to earn yourself a
41:55
Speaker 1: new contract. You earned that new contract, and that will come.
42:00
Speaker 1: Speaking of a guy who has done it the right
42:02
Speaker 1: way over the years and signed a three year extension
42:05
Speaker 1: with the Las Vegas Raiders, Derek Carr. He was scheduled
42:08
Speaker 1: to make twenty one million this season. That's now twenty
42:10
Speaker 1: four this season, the extension kicks in and twenty three,
42:13
Speaker 1: he'll be guaranteed another forty plus million. Then reported total
42:17
Speaker 1: value is a hundred and twenty one and a half
42:19
Speaker 1: million dollars went to the playoffs last year, and that
42:23
Speaker 1: is a it's a crazy division now they're trying to
42:26
Speaker 1: keep pace. Car gives them stability at the position. Yeah,
42:30
Speaker 1: and and look, uh, I think I think some people
42:32
Speaker 1: might have a pretty strong opinion, do you and should
42:35
Speaker 1: you have given that extension to him? Uh? But uh,
42:39
Speaker 1: he didn't. Look, they've got Josh McDaniels there now, and
42:43
Speaker 1: they've believe very strongly in him. Can he do that?
42:45
Speaker 1: Did he take all the Las Vegas Raiders names and
42:49
Speaker 1: likenesses off of his Twitter kind of guests? No? I
42:52
Speaker 1: don't think he's that kind of but it worked out
42:54
Speaker 1: for somehow. It's amazing. Man. Same draft class, by the way,
42:58
Speaker 1: is Blake Bortles. So he's been around for a long
43:00
Speaker 1: time with the boat. Yes, they came through here on
43:04
Speaker 1: like the same day on prospect uss What round? What
43:08
Speaker 1: round is Derek? Uh? He was pretty high, I think,
43:12
Speaker 1: but he wasn't first round. I don't remember exactly what
43:15
Speaker 1: I thought he was the second round. Yeah, that's right. Yeah,
43:18
Speaker 1: that's it's interesting. And um, and look, I'm not saying
43:23
Speaker 1: anything to criticize Blake Portals, but boy, if you had
43:26
Speaker 1: they've been able to switch the quarterback pick out would
43:29
Speaker 1: have been vastly different. At thirty sixth overall for yeah,
43:34
Speaker 1: so top of the second round. Yeah, Look, he's a
43:36
Speaker 1: good quarterback. And um, I think under the right tutelage,
43:41
Speaker 1: I think he can win. Is he a guy that
43:44
Speaker 1: you sit there and you go, hey, look, we're we're
43:45
Speaker 1: all in with him. No, I think you're still one
43:48
Speaker 1: of those guys that you still continue to shop. Okay, well,
43:52
Speaker 1: another guy that wants to be shopped right now, but
43:55
Speaker 1: isn't as of this moment as Baker Mayfield. He says
43:59
Speaker 1: he feels quote disrespected about how it ended in Cleveland.
44:03
Speaker 1: Quote here's the quote from a podcast this week. Because
44:07
Speaker 1: I was told one thing and they completely did another.
44:09
Speaker 1: That's what I'm in the middle of right now. I
44:11
Speaker 1: got my taste of it because I've had four different
44:13
Speaker 1: head coaches in four years, a bunch of different coordinators.
44:16
Speaker 1: End quote. He's still with the roster in Cleveland, and
44:18
Speaker 1: he also said that Seattle is the most likely option,
44:22
Speaker 1: though that may not be his decision. Seattle just signed
44:24
Speaker 1: Geno Smith to one year today. I mean, does that
44:27
Speaker 1: mean that Banker is gonna be uh or have a
44:30
Speaker 1: chance to go to Seattle? I don't know about that.
44:32
Speaker 1: Did they do them wrong? What does it matter? Look,
44:36
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. I mean that I think what you
44:39
Speaker 1: just said right there is the most important thing, because
44:41
Speaker 1: it does not matter. I mean, as a as a
44:43
Speaker 1: player that played hurt all year for the team and
44:47
Speaker 1: for the organization, does he have a right to be upset? Yeah,
44:53
Speaker 1: because he did play hurt and where a lot of
44:57
Speaker 1: other players or some other players might not have. So
45:00
Speaker 1: does a player feel disrespected about the treatment that he's
45:04
Speaker 1: received since then after he sacrificed his body for the
45:09
Speaker 1: team this past year. I totally understand his point. But
45:12
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, JP, You're right, it
45:15
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter. So it's about business.
45:19
Speaker 1: And they signed Deshaun Watson to a historic contract for
45:25
Speaker 1: a guy that has a lot of questions in his
45:28
Speaker 1: in his past and in the background, and also questions
45:30
Speaker 1: about his future. Is that the right thing that the
45:34
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns ownership did. I don't think so, but uh,
45:39
Speaker 1: but it is what it is. And at some point,
45:42
Speaker 1: the Browns will trade Baker Mayfield when it benefits them
45:46
Speaker 1: the most. And unfortunately that's the nature of the business.
45:50
Speaker 1: And at some point Baker Mayfield, if he plays well enough,
45:53
Speaker 1: then he will hold the cards. And but right now,
45:57
Speaker 1: a rookie contract, not great performance, is coming off injury,
46:01
Speaker 1: and a team that has just signed a guy to
46:04
Speaker 1: a record contract, he just has to wait and buy
46:07
Speaker 1: his time. Gino Smith, by the way, as you mentioned
46:10
Speaker 1: that one year contract, and was it not a huge
46:16
Speaker 1: It's not a bunch of money. He's in He brought
46:18
Speaker 1: in here to compete. They got he's got some off
46:20
Speaker 1: field issues. He had suspicion of d u I after
46:23
Speaker 1: a week eighteen in January, and he's got some court stuff.
46:26
Speaker 1: And then they got Andrew Locke, the former Broncos quarterback.
46:30
Speaker 1: As far as the trade that they had. So they've
46:33
Speaker 1: got some guys that are gonna be in there competing.
46:36
Speaker 1: Could they bring Baker Mayfield into that and and let
46:39
Speaker 1: him let him compete? I don't see why not. But
46:43
Speaker 1: the the Seahawks certainly had the room. Look they they
46:47
Speaker 1: clean house now, I mean Russell Wilson gone, Bobby Wagner gone,
46:50
Speaker 1: and they've got, they've got, they've got the cap room
46:53
Speaker 1: to be able to make some additional decisions at that
46:58
Speaker 1: quarterback position because the guy that they have, it's not
47:00
Speaker 1: like they're costing him a ton of money. They're not
47:02
Speaker 1: paying anybody over twenty million or I don't even know
47:05
Speaker 1: what the highest pay got because lock still on a
47:07
Speaker 1: rookie contract. Russell will Um, not Russell Wilson, but Gino
47:11
Speaker 1: Smith is probably on a one year, seven million deal
47:16
Speaker 1: mnd out to be that much. So it's not like
47:18
Speaker 1: it's gonna be prohibitive now if all of a sudden
47:21
Speaker 1: they trade for Baker Mayfield. Stop me if you've heard
47:24
Speaker 1: this before, Logs, but the Washington Commanders are in the
47:26
Speaker 1: news for something other than football. The U. S. House
47:30
Speaker 1: of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reforms sent a letter
47:33
Speaker 1: to the Federal Trade Commission saying the Commanders and owner
47:36
Speaker 1: Dan Snyder quote may have engaged in a troubling, long running,
47:41
Speaker 1: and potentially unlawful pattern of financial conduct that victimized thousands
47:45
Speaker 1: of team fans and the National Football League and quote.
47:49
Speaker 1: The Washington Post was the first to report withholding security
47:53
Speaker 1: deposits on premium seating and using the money for their purposes.
47:57
Speaker 1: They say the team under reported ticket revenue and what
48:00
Speaker 1: at times falsely claim a portion of revenue came from
48:02
Speaker 1: special events instead of games. There's allegations of two sets
48:06
Speaker 1: of books. This of course goes to the salary cap
48:09
Speaker 1: as well, that there's some issues that could come from
48:11
Speaker 1: the p A on this, and it's just another story
48:15
Speaker 1: in a line of long stories. Well I think this
48:17
Speaker 1: is uh a big one them. Well, all of this
48:20
Speaker 1: is pointing to what's going to be the death blow
48:24
Speaker 1: for the current ownership situation in Washington. A couple of things. One,
48:29
Speaker 1: class action lawsuits are going to be filed by the consumers,
48:33
Speaker 1: the people that had these uh large sums of money
48:38
Speaker 1: were essentially given to the teams for their luxury seating
48:41
Speaker 1: and then not refunded. They were trying to find creative
48:43
Speaker 1: ways to not give it back. There will be a
48:46
Speaker 1: class action lawsuit for that. And then when you start
48:49
Speaker 1: taking food off of the table of family, that's a
48:53
Speaker 1: major problem. And when I see food off of the
48:56
Speaker 1: table for family, their thirty one other owners in the
48:58
Speaker 1: National Football League. And if this is even remotely close
49:03
Speaker 1: to being truthful that they had two sets of books
49:05
Speaker 1: to to find ways to funnel money away from the
49:10
Speaker 1: shared revenue aspect. Daniel Schnyder's done. He has done the
49:15
Speaker 1: big story certainly. Um, your dad's here today in town.
49:19
Speaker 1: Good to see it. Thank you for joining us and
49:21
Speaker 1: from Texas Studio audience. Terr Logovan in here tonight. Our
49:26
Speaker 1: thanks to Joe Fortunado, Brent Reeber on the video side,
49:29
Speaker 1: and offensive coordinator Press Taylor joined us tonight. Thank you
49:34
Speaker 1: for your time for Jeff Logoman, I'm JP Shadrick. We
49:37
Speaker 1: will catch you next time. It's Jaguars Happy Hour on
49:39
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Digital Network.