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Jaguars Happy Hour | Discussing Free Agency Mentality With Gladstone · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It is Thursday, March twelfth. This is Jaguars Happy Hour.
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  Speaker 2: And now a guy willing to bring you Jaguars information,
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  Speaker 2: analysis and entertainment ending a physical of course, Jay p
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  Speaker 2: Check It's always pending.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in.
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  Speaker 3: It is Jaguars Happy Hour from the Hundai studios at
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  Speaker 3: the Miller Electric Center. Test drive a new Hyundai today
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  Speaker 3: only at your local Hondai dealer. Busy show coming up
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  Speaker 3: on Thursday March twelfth. The new league year is here
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  Speaker 3: as of yesterday. At four o'clock, we'll get a free
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  Speaker 3: agency update from general manager James Gladstone. He'll join us
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  Speaker 3: in the studio live momentarily. Coach Mark Ductor with us today,
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  Speaker 3: will break in all the Jaguars re signings and we'll
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  Speaker 3: go around the NFL. We'll continue our look through the
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  Speaker 3: AFC South. We'll wrap it up today with Titans announcer
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  Speaker 3: Taylor is Zarzer and see what the heck the Titans
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  Speaker 3: have done, which has been a lot ree agency as well.
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  Speaker 3: We're on ten tex l AM, Jaguars dot Com and
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  Speaker 3: Jaguars YouTube JP. Shadwick with you, Jeff log him out
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  Speaker 3: this week. Former Jags linebackers coach Mark Duffner is in.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, coach, Hey, good to be with you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm active right now too in free agency card. Oh
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  Speaker 4: I am So you're out there, Well, I'm I'm available. No,
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  Speaker 4: I haven't gotten any calls yet at at any rate,
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  Speaker 4: I am available.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, that's okay. We're glad you're here. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: coming in. Very privileged to be with you that you know.
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  Speaker 3: We had you on on Thursdays throughout the season on
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  Speaker 3: this Happy Hour program and that was a real highlight.
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  Speaker 1: I think of the whole season.
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  Speaker 4: It was a highlight. Respective let me say a highlight
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  Speaker 4: for me. It was a pleasure to be here and
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  Speaker 4: to be with you guys and watch the continued progress
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  Speaker 4: and success that the Jaguars put forth.
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  Speaker 1: It was very very special. I'm very appreciated for it.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna have GM James Gladstone come in here in
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  Speaker 3: just a few moments. He's wrapping up with the media
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  Speaker 3: right now on a zoom call. He'll come visit with us.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys I've ever met before,
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  Speaker 4: well we haven't, but I kind of referred him as
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  Speaker 4: the He and Tony and Liam as the three wise men.
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  Speaker 4: They've done a tremendous job They have clearly brought gold
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  Speaker 4: Frankensenson mirror here to Jacksonville, and we're looking for that
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  Speaker 4: to continue.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, I mean it's a fantastic star for this group.
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  Speaker 3: For a team that was expected to win seven, eight,
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  Speaker 3: nine games depending on who you asked, it went thirteen.
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  Speaker 5: You go to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: No, as I've mentioned a lot, if I was an opponent,
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  Speaker 4: I'd be looking at everything that's going on in Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 4: I think with James and his staff and the coaching
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  Speaker 4: staff are put together here is very very special. I
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  Speaker 4: mean they handled everything in a heck of a way
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  Speaker 4: last year and so again that the secret sauce they've got,
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  Speaker 4: let's keep it secret, but it's working.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is James Gladstone season. Free agency is here,
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  Speaker 3: the negotiation window two days before the start of the
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  Speaker 3: league year, and the Jaguars didn't do much. They resigned
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  Speaker 3: some internal players that were pending free agents. They got
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  Speaker 3: that done with Quintin Morris, the tight end, Dennis Gardeck,
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  Speaker 3: monterk Brown will dig into those guys coming up. Since
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  Speaker 3: the league year started, they've added a running back and
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  Speaker 3: Chris Rodriguez Junior with a connection back to the.
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  Speaker 1: Head coach back in his college days.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, a lot of folks outside the building
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  Speaker 3: want big headlines and you know, big money spent, and
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  Speaker 3: we've seen that happen around here before, not the case
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  Speaker 3: this year. And you know what that means is in
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  Speaker 3: a pretty good spot.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. I applaud where they are right now.
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  Speaker 4: When you have nineteen plus players that signed and ready
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  Speaker 4: back from last year, I would tell you that every
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  Speaker 4: single team in the league would be dying to sit
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  Speaker 4: in those chairs the way this team is right now
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  Speaker 4: in terms of a team coming back.
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  Speaker 1: That's in order.
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  Speaker 4: So I applaud the work that this staff has been
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  Speaker 4: doing to build this program and to have the team
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  Speaker 4: in the right direction.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to dig deeper into each of those re
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  Speaker 3: signings coming up in just a little bit, and of
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  Speaker 3: course the new addition as well will get the GM's
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  Speaker 3: perspect on that, you know, and then there's all the
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  Speaker 3: things around the league that happened. Obviously, the Max Crosby
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  Speaker 3: debacle is a stunner when they trade two first round
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  Speaker 3: picks for him and then sign all these players after
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  Speaker 3: they traded him allegedly, but the trade's not official until
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  Speaker 3: the start of the league year and they backed out
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  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 1: The Ravens backed out of well.
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  Speaker 4: As Jogi Berra says, is not over till it's over,
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  Speaker 4: and it wasn't over. But the Ravens continue to make
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  Speaker 4: big moves. I mean, signing Trey Hendrickson, who had the
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  Speaker 4: privilege to coach and be around for four of his
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  Speaker 4: seasons in Cincinnati, was a great lick for him. They
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  Speaker 4: maintained draft picks and so I think a lot of
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  Speaker 4: positive moves going on. But I would just say this,
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  Speaker 4: I'm very confident in what James Gladstone and those guys
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  Speaker 4: have done here in terms of player acquisition, not only
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  Speaker 4: at this time of year free agency and also what
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  Speaker 4: they've done in the draft, but even during the season
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  Speaker 4: when you look at the players they brought aboard. Let's
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  Speaker 4: just talk about Myers. I mean, you talk about unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: So I'd say this man that's coming in, we might
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  Speaker 4: refer to him as my because he's kind of had
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  Speaker 4: the golden touch, and I hope that.
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  Speaker 3: James Gladstone, this is Mark Dufner and we're getting the
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  Speaker 3: introduction for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: You're on Jaguars Happy Hour.
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  Speaker 6: Great afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how are you James, good to see you.
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  Speaker 6: Life is good. Thanks for asking. How do you guys
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  Speaker 6: hold up good?
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  Speaker 1: Doing very well?
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  Speaker 3: Slide the microphone a little closer to you if you
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  Speaker 3: don't mind, and get into it.
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  Speaker 1: How is the media conversation on the zoom just now?
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  Speaker 6: It was great?
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  Speaker 7: You know, I think there's a little bit of fomo.
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  Speaker 7: They seem like, you know things, things are going well
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  Speaker 7: with the players, so you know they're staying dry, you know,
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  Speaker 7: so definitely a little bit of interest in maybe next year,
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  Speaker 7: trying to set that thing up where I take an
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  Speaker 7: in person visit see for that conversation.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, you're not gonna get out there this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Are you too busy?
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  Speaker 6: Time will tell? Okay, time will tell.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we'll see what you have on the docket.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we've you've been fairly busy. It's not the
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  Speaker 3: big headline inducing busy that I think a lot of
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  Speaker 3: fans and people outside the building sometimes look for this
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  Speaker 3: time a year. But it means there's stability around here
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  Speaker 3: and you don't have to throw all this money around.
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  Speaker 3: You can resign key pieces internally, and a couple of
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  Speaker 3: key pieces, and as we talked about earlier today, it's
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  Speaker 3: only two days into free agency. There's a whole off
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  Speaker 3: season ahead to sign.
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  Speaker 7: Guys, right, I think we're about we might be Oh,
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  Speaker 7: we're about twenty four hours and six minutes since the
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  Speaker 7: start of the league year.
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  Speaker 6: So this is just the start.
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  Speaker 7: You know, there are plenty of other intervals here that
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  Speaker 7: I think we'll be able to tap into to make
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  Speaker 7: sure that this team gets built out the right way.
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  Speaker 7: And you know, it never ends, right you think about
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  Speaker 7: some of the guys that we were able to sign
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  Speaker 7: back here over the last month. When we acquired those
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  Speaker 7: guys in the last year. In Dennis Gardek, it was
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  Speaker 7: post draft and Quinton Morris it was post draft. And
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  Speaker 7: here we are a year, a little less than a
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  Speaker 7: year later and they're getting extensions. So you know, that
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  Speaker 7: doesn't stop just because the opening buzzer happened this week.
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  Speaker 7: You know, life goes on, Decisions continue to be made,
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  Speaker 7: and the effort to make sure that we are the
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  Speaker 7: best version of you know, the twenty twenty six Jacksonville
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  Speaker 7: Jaguars is something that will continue to do all the
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  Speaker 7: way up until the end.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And just as an observer and former coach in
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  Speaker 4: the league, I loved what I saw throughout the year
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  Speaker 4: last year, the additions, the player acquisition that you've made and.
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  Speaker 1: Made this team better.
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  Speaker 4: And I, for one, I would love to be part
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  Speaker 4: of an organization where we've got nineteen players back signed,
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  Speaker 4: ready to roll. And there's many teams in the league
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  Speaker 4: that love to be in those chairs where we are
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  Speaker 4: right now. So kudos to everybody in your staff.
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  Speaker 6: I appreciate you saying I know this.
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  Speaker 7: It's it's somewhat of uncharted territory for me to have
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  Speaker 7: as many guys back that we currently do, especially those
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  Speaker 7: that have had experience starting. There's not a position group
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  Speaker 7: at this stage without somebody slotted in who has started.
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  Speaker 6: A game in the NFL.
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  Speaker 7: You know, there have been plenty of drafts that I've
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  Speaker 7: been a part of where there are multiple positions where
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  Speaker 7: starters do not exist, and you have to answer that
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  Speaker 7: bell at that stage, and it can force your hand
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  Speaker 7: a little bit, and you know subconsciously it can. It
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  Speaker 7: can make you lean towards addressing that position based off
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  Speaker 7: need as opposed to anything other than that, and you
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  Speaker 7: can convince yourself of such at different pickpoints in the
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  Speaker 7: draft and things of that name.
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  Speaker 4: I would suggest James that most of the teams right
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  Speaker 4: now are sitting in those chairs, and I've been part
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  Speaker 4: of them for a long time in my twenty eight
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  Speaker 4: years in it and having not to anybody's sitting back
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  Speaker 4: and restaurant in the world because you're never Like you said,
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  Speaker 4: it's a constant process. But like I mentioned, I observed
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  Speaker 4: with respect and admiration the way you moved through the
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  Speaker 4: season through preseason last year adding players. It's a constant process.
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  Speaker 4: As you said, every week you're looking how can we
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  Speaker 4: improve the roster? And it was done and I think
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  Speaker 4: in a good way, and I wish you the best.
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  Speaker 1: As you can do.
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  Speaker 6: I appreciate you saying that we'll keep a good thing going.
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  Speaker 1: That's way.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, Like I said, I was if I
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  Speaker 4: was an opponent, I'd be sneaking around here trying to
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  Speaker 4: figure out what's what's been going on. Sure is working,
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  Speaker 4: you know, as far as that's concerned.
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  Speaker 1: Keep the doors locked, James, welcome back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, James led some of us Jaguars General man Joelet's
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  Speaker 3: get to some of these guys that have signed back
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  Speaker 3: with the Jaguars.
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  Speaker 1: Monteric Brown seventh round draft pick.
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  Speaker 3: Few years ago at Arkansas and just kind of has
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  Speaker 3: stuck with it and stayed with it and improved as
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  Speaker 3: the years have gone along. Where did you see him
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  Speaker 3: grow the most last season, your first season as the
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  Speaker 3: general manager here, And what do you expect now that
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  Speaker 3: he's finally getting a bag? Oh?
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  Speaker 7: You know what I think as I think back to
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  Speaker 7: Montera's growth over the last year, what he was able
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  Speaker 7: to do during the spring in the lead up to
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  Speaker 7: the offseason program coming to an end was nothing short
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  Speaker 7: of impressive, and that carried over into the regular season.
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  Speaker 7: But his body morphed. You look at his head shots
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  Speaker 7: over the years, Go ahead and google it. You're gonna
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  Speaker 7: see his neck morph from the three years prior to
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  Speaker 7: what he looked like this year when he took that
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  Speaker 7: photo and you give him adap and wrap your arm
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  Speaker 7: around him, you're going to feel that back poking out.
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  Speaker 7: He put a lot of effort and energy and preparing
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  Speaker 7: for this past season and it showed. And obviously at
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  Speaker 7: training camp very early in the down he sustained an
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  Speaker 7: injury that left him sidelined for the first couple of
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  Speaker 7: weeks of the season. But when the op presented itself
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  Speaker 7: again and he was available, you know, he didn't flinch
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  Speaker 7: and that carried through the course of the season and
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  Speaker 7: made plays plays on the ball, plays on ball carriers
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  Speaker 7: that you know, really made an important dent on the
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  Speaker 7: outcome of a number of our games.
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  Speaker 6: And the marriage.
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  Speaker 7: Between the scheme his skill set. It's a mesch that
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  Speaker 7: you know, all of us are constantly looking for at
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  Speaker 7: every position. And the fact that Coach Campy, all the
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  Speaker 7: coaching staff, and Montic see that so vividly is a
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  Speaker 7: really cool thing. Montaic wanted to be here, We wanted
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  Speaker 7: him to be here, and when that's the case, you're
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  Speaker 7: usually able to bridge that gap. And luckily, the night
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  Speaker 7: before the legal negotiation period came, we were able to
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  Speaker 7: come to an agreement, and you know, he was here
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  Speaker 7: the next day with his family and celebrating and really
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  Speaker 7: cool to see that what he really put forth in
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  Speaker 7: the energy and effort was earned financially, and it brings
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  Speaker 7: with it a chance to run it back with a
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  Speaker 7: defensive coordinator for the first time in his career that
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  Speaker 7: he hadn't had to do one after the next.
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  Speaker 6: One season after the next was coming.
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  Speaker 1: Not a great match.
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  Speaker 4: I mean again, like you said, he just had his
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  Speaker 4: best season ever. I saw a publication where he was
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  Speaker 4: ranked the best zone coverage corner in the league, and incidentally,
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  Speaker 4: there was zone coverage being a highlight of what we
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  Speaker 4: do schematically here. So you talk about a great fit
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  Speaker 4: and Montera exercised great intelligence and making the decision to return.
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  Speaker 4: But it's a great win for everybody as well.
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  Speaker 1: Done.
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  Speaker 3: Another guy that you like is Dennis Gardak, who signed back.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously had two different knee injuries in Arizona, came back
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  Speaker 3: last season. We're still rehabing in training camp and kind
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  Speaker 3: of built back up as the season. When Long you
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  Speaker 3: referenced this a minute ago, James with Duff, you love
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  Speaker 3: what darlight.
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  Speaker 1: I coveted him coaching in the league.
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  Speaker 4: When Arizona had him the progress that he had there,
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  Speaker 4: and when I saw that he was coming here, I said, well,
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  Speaker 4: this is gonna be a good lick.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been a terrific lick.
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  Speaker 4: A productive player, a guy that had eleven special teams tackles,
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  Speaker 4: which is value across the board, but also a great
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  Speaker 4: role player in this defense, and incidentally, the last thing
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  Speaker 4: that's critically important, a four time captain in Arizona. So
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  Speaker 4: you're getting a productive player, a versatile player, and a
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  Speaker 4: leader what a great pickup.
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  Speaker 7: JP might call that intangibly rich. He probably would, right
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  Speaker 7: the fun thing with you know, I think anybody that
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  Speaker 7: loves football loves Dennis Garter.
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  Speaker 6: You know what I mean, It's he's pure right.
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  Speaker 7: He is the one that does everything that you would
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  Speaker 7: ever ask within the scope of the game, and the
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  Speaker 7: energy that he brings to the team and multiple phases
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  Speaker 7: is an extremely helpful piece to our cause.
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  Speaker 6: And you know that that's where I.
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  Speaker 7: Think about the idea of team building process being ongoing,
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  Speaker 7: and we talked about it briefly, but you know, who
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  Speaker 7: are we talking about this time next year That fits
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  Speaker 7: the same bill for somebody that post draft we were
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  Speaker 7: able to tie up with, to come to an agreement with,
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  Speaker 7: to add to our roster. And you know, I just
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  Speaker 7: look forward to finding those pieces to the puzzle over
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  Speaker 7: the course of the next calendar year and being able
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  Speaker 7: to sit back down a year from now and talk
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  Speaker 7: through those guys as well.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds like a plan to me. James Gladstone with
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  Speaker 3: US Jaguar funeral manager. A couple of offensive pieces, Clinton
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  Speaker 3: Morris tied end and more special team snaps than offense
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  Speaker 3: last year, but some key offensive play in some big
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  Speaker 3: time homes, especially in the blocking game. And then after
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  Speaker 3: the league year begins, Chris Rodriguez Junior, a running back,
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  Speaker 3: comes in connected to Liam back at Kentucky in twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty one. How much did that play into it? How
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  Speaker 3: much does the running back by committee that he played
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  Speaker 3: in the last few years play into it?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that has a lot to do it
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  Speaker 7: with it, and I think first from Key Morris, I
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  Speaker 7: think it's pretty clear. You know, as we talk about Dennis,
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  Speaker 7: you know, very close in timing to when we signed
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  Speaker 7: q it was that was a situation where he didn't
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  Speaker 7: make the initial fifty three man roster. He signed back
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  Speaker 7: to our practice squad, waited a few weeks, began to
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  Speaker 7: get standard elevated as we were going through injuries, and
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  Speaker 7: earned his place through that avenue. It's not easy to do,
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  Speaker 7: but when we make a decision to sign him in
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  Speaker 7: season to the active rosters based off of the product
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  Speaker 7: that he was putting out on the field and how
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  Speaker 7: he was helping the football team as a whole, for
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  Speaker 7: him to earn you know, significant snaps with the absence
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  Speaker 7: of Brenton Strange and be able to produce in the
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  Speaker 7: run game and pass game and the way that he
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  Speaker 7: was a couple of touchdowns, a couple of pancake blocks.
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  Speaker 7: You know, it's some really good stuff. And that's that
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  Speaker 7: doesn't come without a lot of commitment on his end,
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  Speaker 7: and you know, to be able to get him back.
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  Speaker 7: It just gives us a lot of flexibility, a lot
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  Speaker 7: of momentum at the position group, knowing that there's continuity
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  Speaker 7: and earned trust across two different phases offense and special teams.
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  Speaker 7: It's it's just an exciting piece with him and I
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  Speaker 7: can get into into sea ride.
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  Speaker 6: But first it seems like you might have thought.
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  Speaker 1: I can talk a lot. But let me tell you this,
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  Speaker 1: the word is out.
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  Speaker 4: If you come to Jacksonville, you're going to get opportunities
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  Speaker 4: and you're going to be rewarded for opportunities. In other words,
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  Speaker 4: it's across whether it's players that made the team as
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  Speaker 4: college free agents that are playing that have gotten not
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  Speaker 4: play snapps, starting roles, or opportunities to be active week
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  Speaker 4: after week. Players are looking for that. Coaches, as coaches,
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  Speaker 4: we're building depth. You want to have depth like that.
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  Speaker 4: It's done here. It's not lip servers. There's true fact
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: and figure. As far as that's concerned. So again I
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: think putting an example of that in these additions, some
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: of them as you mentioned late in the down So
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: I mean it's going good man coaching.
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  Speaker 6: That's a big point of emphasis for us.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: We don't want it to just be talked.
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  Speaker 7: We want to be about action and make sure that
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: what we say is matched with that action.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, we we were able to highlight a
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  Speaker 6: lot of.
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: Our approach this time last year, and that was before
• 16:08
  Speaker 7: we ever played a game to see the results that
• 16:10
  Speaker 7: we got this one thing. But we're about the process,
• 16:13
  Speaker 7: and we're about leaning into you know, the words we
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: share on these mics, actually showing themselves and what comes next.
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: And we got such a passionate, curious fan base that
• 16:25
  Speaker 7: you know, want to continue to answer the questions that
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: they have, to make sure that they understand what lies
• 16:30
  Speaker 7: in front and rest assured that we're doing everything that
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: we feel like is in the best interests of the
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: Jacksonville Jaguars, not only twenty six, but also beyond and
• 16:39
  Speaker 7: doing our part.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: Last couple of thoughts, ETN signs with New Orleans, you
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: bring in Rodriguez and the running back back committee. It
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: feels like that's how this thing, at least early in
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: the league years is starting to form.
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's fair to say.
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: And the you know, the exciting thing for Travis is
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: obviously he gets to go back to his home state
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: and obviously got so much money, so I'm money to
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: do it, and did so much for the Jacksonville Jaguars
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: over the course of his rookie contract and this last
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: year was extremely impressible, impressive, extremely helpful, and you know,
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: there was there was a lot of connectivity with him
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: and really excited for him to sort of step into
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: this next phase of his career. And you know, beyond that,
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: really excited for the guys that were behind him this
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: past season and being able to.
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: Get increased ops.
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: And you know, two rookie runners who really had significant
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: contributions in different ways and can carry those contributions forward
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: and build off of those.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: And now you.
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: Insert Chris, who obviously has prior experience with Liam, which
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: is going to be helpful to the onboarding process. A
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: lot of the same language, you know, an understood skill set.
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: And the cool thing with Chris is it's been a
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: constant what was his superpower in college has been his
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: superpower in the NFL, and we don't anticipate that shifting.
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: What he'll be able to do is provide the complementary
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: skill set, in particular when it comes to the inside running,
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: the hidden yards that come with his style of play.
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: You know, the tough demeanor.
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: You know, that's a real thing, and when given a
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: higher workload, it can wear out, you know, those that
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: have to stop it from going forward, and he does
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: a good job of going forward.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Last thought with you here, James. You know there's this
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: time of year. You see all these rumors out on
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: social media. The Jags are doing this, the Jags are
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: talking to people about trading this. And how much do
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: you read into that? How much do you follow it?
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: I know you're a huge social media maven. Let me
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: let's say that tapped in.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: I know, what, how.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Do you ignore that stuff this time of year or
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: do you? Or is it part of the where you're
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: at right now?
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: I think it's understood that it's a part of it.
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: I don't think you ignore certain things. You want to
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: be aware. You know, it's unfortunate.
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: I think for in many instances whatever weight players might
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: have to bear as a part of that, especially when
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: it's just fraudulent. But you know, it's part of it's
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: part of this, it's part of being in the entertainment business.
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: But I can say this, when it comes to the
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: way we operated offensively, especially at the end of the year,
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: that's something we want to carry forward. That's momentum that
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: we want to carry into the next season. We don't
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: want to disrupt that.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: That is very important.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: The passing game was really clicking, and that's something that's
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: chemistry that you don't want to You don't want to
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: try and do anything different with other than elevate, not
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: not take any negative, disruptive sort of steps in that process.
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: And then you know, as I think about the idea
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: of how we want to move going forward and building
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: out the team as a whole, we'll explore avenues that
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: we feel like or are going to be helpful to
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: that cause. And we won't ever you know, press mute
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: or turn off the phone or anything along those lines.
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: There's always conversations to be had, and you know, I
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: think to the ex extent that we can, we're gonna
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: do everything within our means to ensure that this football
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: team in twenty twenty six is going to be the
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: best that we can possibly be, and obviously, over the
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: course of the next handful of months and into the
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: regular season, we look forward to bringing that to life.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad we finally got you, Duff and James together.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you, yead. How about that's what it is about.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: It feels James, yeah, thank you, Yeah.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Sure no, but I admire what you're doing.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: I appreciate you saying that. Coach James, thanks till the
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: next one. Appreciate you guys having.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: We'll do it against James Gladstone Jaguars GM with US
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: plenty ahead reaction to that. Coming up, we'll hear from
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: the voice of the Titans tailors, ourser as well as
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: what they're doing in free agency, and we are off
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: and running.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Its Jaguars Happy.
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: Hour, just somewhere always wanted to be. You know, I
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: got drifted to hear you know, Jaguars took a chance
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: on the seventh rounder and man, this I enjoying my
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: time since I've been here.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: And man, just play with.
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: These guys, these coaches, this organization. Man, it just means
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: a lot to me.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: And I want to continue that Monteric Brown Jaguars cornerback
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: meeting with the media after signing and an extension with
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: the Jaguars. Welcome back, it is Jaguars Happy Hour from
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: the Hondai Studios ten to NeXT's Lam, Jaguars dot Com,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Jaguars YouTube JP Shadwick coach Mark Dufner in with us
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: this week. We just had James Gladstone, the general manager
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: in as well. And that's that Monteric Brown bite right
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: after he signed the deal for reportedly three years, thirty
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: three million dollars from a seventh round pick to eleven
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: million year coach.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: I mean again, you as coaches and personal people, you
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: pray for succession and pickups like MONTERK. Brown, where a
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: seventh round pick becomes a starter, becomes allegedly or likely
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: the best cover corner in the league by his own standards.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: I mean, come on, I mean, I think it was
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: a great, great signing by by our staff and by monterak.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: He just had his best season ever and this staff,
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: so the coaches did well, personnel did well.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: He did well. Bodes well for us moving forward at
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: a key position.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: It was your first meeting with James Gladstone. You were
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: impressed anyway before he came in here, but after the visit.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Well, well, first, I've been most impressed all the way through.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: But you talk about a guy that is well thought out,
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: that's poised, that's got a plan. You can feel it
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: is enthusiastic about it. I mean, I'd love to be
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: listening to him because I can learn a lot for
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: a young fellow. He's got a really good vision and
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: good decision making skills. And the moves that he's made
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: so far, I like the aggress and I like the confidence.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: It's a plus, big plus, and a lot of them
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: have worked out too. That obviously is the big key.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: At the very end of the day.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: You can make all the aggressive moves you want, but
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: more often than not, they need to work out, and
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: so far they have.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Well, that's why I caught That's why I kind of
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: gave him the Midas call in here that you know,
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: everything he's touched has gone to gold.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: So we'd like that to continue. We certainly was, Yeah,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: no doubt about that.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: We are thanks to James Gladstone for jumping in with
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: us right after his visit with the media today. And yeah,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: so it is relatively quiet and and we'll hear from
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: the Titans coming up, and we're gonna get into what
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: they've done. They have been far from quiet in Nashville.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: We'll get to that just a little bit. Some of
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: these teams are spending all this money. I mean there
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: was I mean right before even before the league year,
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: the two day negotiation window. Oh magically, twenty minutes into
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: the negotiation window, there's a multi year deal for one
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: hundred million dollars. Yeah.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: But but here's a great thing. I mean, JP, we
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: sit in a terrific position. This organization right now has
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: brought back players they know there's no there's no guestimate
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: or hope for or wish, you know, moving forward. We've
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: got nineteen players signed that they've got i think, real
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: good focus and evaluation in terms of where they want
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: to go, as they already have made moves in free
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: agency and will as time goes on. You look at
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: the moves they made last year after the fact, sometimes
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: months after the fact of free agency, and they all
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: turned into productive moves. So I'm very confident in the plan,
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: which is a fluid plan. It's constantly movement because you're
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: dealing with people's people's health and everything else as you
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: move along. But very confident where things are heading.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: And you have to remember too this time of year
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: that these players are free agents a lot of times
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: for a reason either didn't work out with a previous
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: team or that team didn't feel like they were a
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: core player for the future. And then you got to
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: figure out why if you're signing that player that it
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: didn't work.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Out at the other place without a doubt, and they
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: may not tell you no for sure.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: That takes exhaustive research. And I think sometimes too in
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: acquisitions there's a Scotia, luck and vob but you leave
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: very little to chance as far as that's gone. You
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: want to be as thorough as possibly. We've demonstrated here
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: that we're doing that at a level I haven't seen
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: in a very very productive way. So again, I like
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: where we sit right now. I'm interested to watch how
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: we move forward, but both in free agency in the draft,
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: I think it's very exciting.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Your thought on Devin Lloyd signing with the Panthers.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: I was a little surprised by that. I thought perhaps
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: that he might go to a team that was a
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: little more and not that the Panthers haven't been. I
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: think they're solid on defense, but I was looking for
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: and to maybe go to a Pittsburgh Steelers type team
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: or someone along that. But he opted to go there
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: and they made him and Phillips. They brought in Jalen Phillips.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: I mean they made two big moves with some I
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: think very good players and so you know, he saw
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: that and kudos to what he saw and he got
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: a good paycheck. But you know, I thought maybe he
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: was going to go somewhere else. You know, you never know.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: His career arc is. We'll be fascinating to see what
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: happens from here, because it was so he was so
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: miscasts the first couple of years have felt like and
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: then finally last season making impact plays. Still has some
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: deficiencies and coverage down the field, right, that was just
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: kind of his achilles heel. I think throughout early in
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: his career, how he develops from here and how they
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: use them in Carolina obviously will be the key well.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: For sure, And that's why I was very hopeful that
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: he would stay, because he just did have the best
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: year of his career by a mile.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: You fit in.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: I think the coaching staff utilized his skills, put made
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: the shoes fit, if you will, in terms of how
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: they put him in the lineup and had him do
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: different things in the game plan. And you know, I
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: know money talks, but jeez, will Pete to have the
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: kind of season that he just had. I was hoping
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: that he would say, well, I can continue to thrive here.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Statistics over the years, they may have changed a little bit,
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: but statistics over the years, when teams or players go
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: and they've been pretty good in the system and they
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: go to a new system, it doesn't the stats were
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: that doesn't translate very often to similar success. So you know,
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: you roll a little bit of the nice when you
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: do that as a player coming off of a career year.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: We'll see if they have in mind too. Free agency
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: far from done, it's never really done, and then the draft.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Ten draft picks as well from the second round and beyond.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: But I can't wait to see how they utilize those
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: right now. And you know, I just I just like
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: the the process that's going on here. I wish I
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: was more involved with it so I knew more what
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: they were doing, because it's very very interesting the type
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: of moves they've made and the successes that they've had.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: It's it's again, I'm not trying to be a Homer here.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: I just am very pressed with that, and and I'd
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: love to be part of it to see what, in
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: fact how they're doing it. I got a feeling how
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: they're doing They're being very very thorough. They're being uh,
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: you know, very smart and making decisions or not letting
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: outside noise impact that. I think they've got a good
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: plan understanding with it.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: We've got plenty ahead. Coach will come back and get
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: into the Tennessee Titans. Yeah, and it has been a
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: busy off season in Nashville.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Very active.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Jezel Pete probably one of the two or three most
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: in the whole league. Thanks so interesting.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Yes, Voice of the Titans, Taylor Zarzer. We caught up
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: at the Combine a couple weeks back. We'll hear that
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: conversation and update it from there. Since free agency has
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: started a lot of change in Nashville. And this is
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Jaguars Happy Hour. Welcome back. It is Jaguars Happy Hour
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: from the Hyundai Studios on Tentenexlam, Jaguars dot Com, Jaguars YouTube.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Glad you're along with us.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: The new league year is here as of four o'clock yesterday,
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty six, officially in the National Football League, and
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: this week we continue and wrap up our look around
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: the AFC South with announcers from each team. The last
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: two weeks, we've heard from Mark Vanderby or the Houston Texans,
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Matt Taylor of the Indianapolis Colts. Today Taylor Zarzar going
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: into his second season as the voice of the Tennessee Titans.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: A lot of change in Nashville. The whole coaching staff
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: has changed. They've had a lot of work in free
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: agencies since this conversation that we had the Indiana at
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: the Indiana Convention Center at the Scout and Combine and
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago an off season again of
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: major changes in Nashville.
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: Yeah, JP Shatrick, I never knew meant Jared Patrick.
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: I didn't know. My mother put it in for the credential. Yeah,
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: me too. Evidently I'm going by Robert Zarzer.
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: That's my first name. But it's great to see. You've
• 29:16
  Speaker 9: been a great friend for a long time. And yeah,
• 29:18
  Speaker 9: it's an exciting time.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: JP.
• 29:20
  Speaker 9: The Titans are on their way up. They hit the bottom,
• 29:24
  Speaker 9: as you know, and this is an organization that was
• 29:28
  Speaker 9: really sort of running the division for a while and
• 29:31
  Speaker 9: then in twenty twenty two, they're seven and three and
• 29:35
  Speaker 9: as you know, lost those last seven games, culminating with
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: that loss at the Jaguars to finish that season. And
• 29:41
  Speaker 9: it's been rough since then six and eleven and twenty
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: three and then two consecutive three and fourteen seasons, and
• 29:47
  Speaker 9: so certainly the organization decided to start over and started
• 29:50
  Speaker 9: over with a new general manager in Mike Borganzi, and
• 29:53
  Speaker 9: started over with a new coaching staff, one that you
• 29:55
  Speaker 9: know extremely well, and old Jags head coach Gus Bradley's
• 29:58
  Speaker 9: defensive coordinator, Rob Sala, who also was in Jacksonville for
• 30:02
  Speaker 9: a while, is the head coach, and Brian Dable is
• 30:05
  Speaker 9: the offensive coordinator. And they have extremely qualified people in
• 30:10
  Speaker 9: the front office and on the sideline, and now it's
• 30:13
  Speaker 9: time to pick some players that have some talent that
• 30:15
  Speaker 9: they're going to be able to coach moving forward.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Let's get into first impressions of Robert Sala and maybe
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: the differences in approach in day to day feel in
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: the office since he's arrived.
• 30:27
  Speaker 9: Yeah, he just commands respect. The players really feel a
• 30:32
  Speaker 9: connection to him. He is constantly working on relationship building.
• 30:37
  Speaker 9: He's holding people accountable, but he is just day to
• 30:40
  Speaker 9: day coaching these guys. There are a lot of people
• 30:44
  Speaker 9: in life that keep it looser, and then when it's
• 30:46
  Speaker 9: time to be serious, they're serious. Salas somebody that every
• 30:51
  Speaker 9: day seems just as important as the next, and you
• 30:53
  Speaker 9: can really feel that throughout the building right now.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: That's the way he's treating it. So it does.
• 30:59
  Speaker 9: It does feel like somebody that has total control of
• 31:02
  Speaker 9: his football team, even though there aren't all the players
• 31:05
  Speaker 9: around every day in February, when the players are around,
• 31:08
  Speaker 9: you can certainly sense that there's a big connection there.
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: And that's exactly what the Titans needed.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: He's brought in Brian Dable as the offensive coordinator. Cam
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Ward's development has to be the number one priority of
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: the organization. We'll get to what's going to be around him.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Who knows moving ahead that's coming up. But cam Ward's
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: first season and then all these changes around him, how
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: does he continue to ruse?
• 31:30
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think that anyone that watched the Titans play
• 31:33
  Speaker 9: last season would say, all right, they've got a quarterback,
• 31:36
  Speaker 9: and as you said, they have to put some more
• 31:38
  Speaker 9: pieces around him. But the way that this guy operates,
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: the reps that he received, the way he played against
• 31:44
  Speaker 9: the Jags.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: I thought the Jags were.
• 31:45
  Speaker 9: The best team that we saw in the AFC last year,
• 31:48
  Speaker 9: and the way he played against what I thought was
• 31:50
  Speaker 9: the most complete team in the AFC twice until that
• 31:53
  Speaker 9: injury against the Jags on that last drive of the
• 31:56
  Speaker 9: season that he had, he showed a lot of progress.
• 31:59
  Speaker 9: Now he gets somebody as his offensive coordinator that looked
• 32:03
  Speaker 9: like he was willing to trade the draft away for
• 32:05
  Speaker 9: him to play for the Giants. Last year, there was
• 32:07
  Speaker 9: all sorts of reports here the Dable and the Giants
• 32:10
  Speaker 9: were going to try to offer a bag to the Titans.
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: To get cam Ward.
• 32:14
  Speaker 9: And since he's come into the building, Dave's is just
• 32:17
  Speaker 9: over the moon to coach cam Ward and it goes
• 32:19
  Speaker 9: both ways. Now, having said that, I don't think it's
• 32:21
  Speaker 9: all going to be sunshine and rainbows. I think the
• 32:24
  Speaker 9: Dable is going to come after cam and really challenge
• 32:27
  Speaker 9: him to take that next step. I think working on
• 32:30
  Speaker 9: improving his body and how he looks at film will
• 32:34
  Speaker 9: be important. But the guy's work ethic JP is off
• 32:37
  Speaker 9: of the charts, his leadership is off of the charts.
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: He has a ton of talent. There's a lot.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Of potential there, Taylor Zarza with his voice of the Titans.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Now those players around him, Chiga Konku is the leading receiver.
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: He's a free agent coming up.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: There's some other guys going out in free agency that
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: have been around this team for a number of years.
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: Where do you begin to find guys around cam Ward.
• 33:00
  Speaker 9: That you need to go find a deep vertical threat
• 33:02
  Speaker 9: because cam has a cannon for an arm and he
• 33:05
  Speaker 9: loves to throw the ball down the field. Old jag
• 33:08
  Speaker 9: Calvin Ridley was injured almost the entirety of last season.
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: He was supposed to be the deep threat. If you
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: go back to the last.
• 33:15
  Speaker 9: Preseason, he looks like he's in the greatest shape of
• 33:18
  Speaker 9: his life at thirty years old, and looks so good
• 33:20
  Speaker 9: as they got ready for the season, and then he
• 33:22
  Speaker 9: couldn't stay out there almost at all due to injury.
• 33:25
  Speaker 9: Whether he comes back or you go find a collection
• 33:28
  Speaker 9: of deep threats, I think that is the huge priority
• 33:31
  Speaker 9: for the Titans this offseason, whether it's through the draft
• 33:34
  Speaker 9: and or it's through free agency, and then that all
• 33:38
  Speaker 9: of a sudden, if you have to really respect the
• 33:40
  Speaker 9: Titans down the field, that changes everything underneath. With those
• 33:43
  Speaker 9: tight ends you're talking about with slot receivers, with Tony
• 33:47
  Speaker 9: Pollard or anyone else that's in the backfield. So I
• 33:50
  Speaker 9: think the Titans have to gain respect from the opposition
• 33:53
  Speaker 9: stretching the field vertically this offseason.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Gus Bradley's there is a defensive coordinator of course, former
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Jags head coach we know, and a lot of that
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: staff very well. What are the expectations for the Titans defense?
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: What do you think this thing's gonna look like?
• 34:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think the defense is in pretty good shape.
• 34:10
  Speaker 9: I don't it's a whole, but I think it's further
• 34:12
  Speaker 9: along than the offense is, certainly because you have one
• 34:15
  Speaker 9: of the best players in the league in Jeffrey Simmons
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: in the middle of that defensive line, coming off of
• 34:20
  Speaker 9: his best season, and he thinks he said this before
• 34:23
  Speaker 9: they hired Solid. He thinks he's better in a four
• 34:25
  Speaker 9: to three scheme than he is in the three to
• 34:27
  Speaker 9: four that he's leaving. So that being the case, I
• 34:30
  Speaker 9: think that gives the Titans fans a lot of optimism.
• 34:33
  Speaker 9: But JP they've got to go find a big time
• 34:35
  Speaker 9: pass rusher to support Simmons, and then in the secondary,
• 34:40
  Speaker 9: they've had a number of injuries. I would look at
• 34:42
  Speaker 9: for them to try to find a shut down corner
• 34:45
  Speaker 9: this offseason. Receiver, pass rusher and shut down corner are
• 34:48
  Speaker 9: really the biggest needs the Titans have. But like you said,
• 34:51
  Speaker 9: you've got Salah and Bradley, two of the best defensive
• 34:54
  Speaker 9: minds to coach them.
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: So there's a lot of optimism there.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Get ready to describe Leo and Otto two positions in
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Gus's defense.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: That's right, Ready for that?
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: That's right, Yes, I know new terminology. How far away
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: are the Titans from being a contender? Again?
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: Your opinion?
• 35:08
  Speaker 9: I mean, you know, the Jacksonville Jaguars in twenty twenty
• 35:12
  Speaker 9: four looked like they were far away, such a disappointing season,
• 35:16
  Speaker 9: And as I just said, I'm not just playing to
• 35:18
  Speaker 9: people in North Florida right now. I really thought they
• 35:21
  Speaker 9: were the best team in the AFC. And if the
• 35:23
  Speaker 9: Jags beat the Bills, I think they were going to
• 35:25
  Speaker 9: the Super Bowl. So the New England Patriots instead went
• 35:29
  Speaker 9: and they were four and thirteen. There's no one in
• 35:31
  Speaker 9: the world that thought that they would be the AFC
• 35:33
  Speaker 9: representative in the Super Bowl.
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: Having said that, the Titans.
• 35:37
  Speaker 9: Mike Borgonzi, the general manager, would tell you there's a
• 35:39
  Speaker 9: lot to do. There's a lot of talent that needs
• 35:41
  Speaker 9: to come into this building in order for them to
• 35:43
  Speaker 9: be a complete championship team. Could they make a run, sure,
• 35:47
  Speaker 9: but in order to have sustained success, I think they're
• 35:51
  Speaker 9: probably two more drafts away from doing that.
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: They stacked last year's draft.
• 35:56
  Speaker 9: They have to do it again, and they have to
• 35:58
  Speaker 9: really do a good job with all the money they
• 36:00
  Speaker 9: have the most in the NFL this offseason.
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: They put two more great off seasons.
• 36:05
  Speaker 9: Together, then I think you're going to see a championship contender.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Taylor As ours are the voice of the Tennessee Titans.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: We spoke at the Combine a couple of weeks ago.
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: J P.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Shadick with you.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Coach Mark Dufner back with us now and since that
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: conversation with the Titans stuff, have been absolutely busy in
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: free agency, trades, everything going on in Tennessee.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe as busy as anybody. And you know it
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: starts with Mike Bargonzi, a guy that had a great
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: reputation for his time in Kansas City. He certainly had
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: a pretty good game plan to study from what he
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: did there with a chief and taking that to Tennessee.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: But they have been very, very active and I think
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: really have mates moves to improved that roster.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Wandale Robinson wide receiver, comes in nineteen million dollars a year,
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: a four year deal for him, but obviously was in
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: New York. Those Dables system and Ridley as Taylor's are
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: as we was talking about there underwhelmed last year.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: He's still on the roster.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: But Robinson ads to the mix and gives another weapon
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: for cam Ward.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Without a doubt.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: And I think again the familiarity that Coach Stables got
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: with him that the Taylor identified wide receivers there they
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: needed to go. They went out immediately and got this
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: guy and have addressed other areas right now that they
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: have needs for that's for sure.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and let's go to defense now.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: They traded to Andandre sweat Away to the Jets, got
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: an edge rusher and Jermaine Johnson. They added John Franklin
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Myers on the defensive line. They added Alante Taylor at
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: corner at twenty million dollars a year.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: He's your instance starter.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Cordell Flott comes over three years, forty five million dollars.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: They are revamping this defense for gus no doubt about it.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: And with good players at key key positions, they identified
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: that they needed a rusher. Jermaine Johnson right now, a guy,
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: a former Pro Bowl player who's reunited with Aaron White
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: Cotton who was on the staff here, was on the
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: staff in New York, who's been one of coach Sala's type,
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: got top guys, and so they've gotten him. He's going
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: to be the guy that fill in the edge. They've
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: also brought in, as you mentioned, the corner Taylor Jaseel Pete,
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: I mean, a guy that had really fifty three games
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: of starting play in New Orleans, very very productive. Address
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: that situation with flood also, and I think they brought
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: another cornerback coming in too. So they've been adding players
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: as far as that's concerned. Then in the middle of
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: the line, they signed John Franklin Myers, a guy that
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: again a very productive player. So again across the board,
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: a lot of activity, a lot of production, bringing in
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: starters for that defense to make that group better.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: I was looking at a list of free agent additions
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: with Titan. There's fifteen guys in free agency they've signed.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, Like I said, that's a lot it's
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: in a way you don't want to be that way
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: as a team in some respects because Jesel, you're still
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: not sure what you're getting. But there is some familiarity
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: with a lot of the coaches on these players that
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: they've added, and we'll see how they come to fruition.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Dus Bradley still in it as a DC.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, really good football coach, you know when I had
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: the privilege to work with him here in twenty thirteen.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: A guy that's very bright, that's well thought out out,
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: that has good connectability with players. You know, I have
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: high regard for what Gus does both as a teacher,
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: coach and a man.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: And and most of that defensive staff either was around
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: here or had been close to Gus before. And Robert solitude, which.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: Again is going to be an advantage for them right now.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: They're not having to go in and teach new systems
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: to people. They've already got that in place, and they've
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: they certainly have even moved along in terms of what
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: their scheme is all about. So again, a lot of
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: those things will be you know, positive in terms of
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: their progress.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Well, there's not much better in life than when the
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Titans lose, so let's let's hope that continues. No offense
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: to Robert Sala and Gus and those guys, No.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: We pull for them in every game.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: But when they played the teal, so that you know
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: that's that's no issue there.
• 39:44
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• 39:45
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• 39:50
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• 39:55
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  Speaker 3: Chris Rodriguez junior stats at Kentucky in twenty twenty one?
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: And Chris Rodriguez Junior put up one of the strongest
• 41:29
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• 41:32
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• 41:43
  Speaker 3: carry that year in thirteen games, thirteen hundred yards, nine
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  Speaker 3: rushing touchdowns, three receiving touchdowns. That was when Liam Cohen
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: was the offensive coordinator for the Kentucky Wildcats and now
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: Rodriguez after a few years with Washington with the Jaguars
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: and Liam Cohen JP.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something.
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: I was coaching with the Bengals at that time, and
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: you know, University of Kentucky and Lexington's a little bit south,
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: not too far away from Cincinnati, correct, And this Chris
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: Rodriguez made a lot lot of loud noise with his
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: play for the Wildcats. I mean, this guy was all
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: over the headlines, was all over the field. You just
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: talked a lot about the stats that he had, but
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: you talk about a guy that can move the ball,
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: that's physical, that has the ability to run inside and outside.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think what and the connection he's got
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: with our head football coach. I mean, geez, how I
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: mean we got to be thinking again the Good Lord
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: sending these gifts to us. I mean, this is unbelievable. So,
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: I mean, a great pickup for us as far as
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: that's concerned. And the other thing on that tape you
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: just showed. I liked how James and Campy started recruiting
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: Montera's young baby already, so you always they're in the
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: evaluation in people, business, connection business, so you know, whether
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: it's Montak or his son.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Let's get going. Good stuff. That Kentucky Tea the way
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: won ten games. They were ten and three.
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: This guy was again the key, one of the absolute
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: key components. Again loud with his play. I mean, as
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: soon as I saw that we signed him, a holy
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: flipp I mean, this is a good one for us now,
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, I mean it's sincerely.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: The team lost to Georgia Mississippi State and Tennessee three
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: straight weeks and then won the rest of the way.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: Those those wins, by the way, were vacated later n CIA.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: Something will happened later. I had to go take into why.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: But yeah, on the field, that was a really good.
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: Team, very very good football team, and one that, as
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: I said, was really interesting to follow, exciting to follow
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: a lot based on the play Rodriguez at running backs.
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: Well, he's part of the group now with ETN gone
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: to New Orleans, make him thirteen million dollars a year,
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: New Orleans and about two hour drive from his hometown.
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I was sad for his departure as
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: far as the team is concerned here, but happy for him.
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: I thought what he did for this team this past
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: season on and off the field, with the consistent element
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: of his play all that. Like I heard from James,
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: you know, you're happy for this guy, and you want
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: this guy to continue to do well. If he's not
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: for us back in his home state, no doubt about that.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: Hey, coming up a couple of weeks away from the
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: NFL Annual meeting, the owners meetings at the end of March,
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: and then we should have an official ownership vote on
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: the Jaguars plans for home games in the twenty twenty
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: seven season. They're waiting for the official stamp of approval
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: from the league before announcing anything. That's really kind of
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: next on the docket. We'll see what James Gladstone and
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: his team do the next week or two with free
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: agency underway and no, you know, no, you can do
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: whatever you want from here on the next few weeks,
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden it's April and the
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: players don't come in because there's no coaching change. They
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: don't come in until I think the week of the draft.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: They're in for the offseason.
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: Parts slightly right after the draft actually, So I think
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: that's a good thing too. And as evidenced here as
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: we've seen James Gladstone and his staff, they're working year long.
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: It's not just in this free agency period. It's not
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: just during draft week or draft time period. It's year
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: long the evaluation and player acquisition that they do. And
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: that's what's exciting about how this team continues to get
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: better and better at the standards they've established.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: So that's what's coming up the next few weeks, and
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: it's just that time of year, not a lot of
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Jaguars headlines. That's by design, and that's a good thing.
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: Moving ahead, but well, like we said, a couple of
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: weeks away from that league meeting and you'll see the
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: GM and the head coach and the media the air
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: with the coach's breakfast in that event coming up in
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks. You're gonna make it to the
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: players coach, you already went out once.
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: I was out there yesterday and highly impressed with the
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: organization that the players group, the tournament does, with their
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: volunteer group, with the staff out there. Well well done,
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: course outstanding. Certainly the best field I think of players
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: that there isn't all of golf come to this place,
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: and so it's an exciting thing for this area. I
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: think just one the gyms that we've got, the many
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: gyms that we've got here in Jacksonville. You a golfer,
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: I played generally on ones that have windmills and things
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: like that, so I'm gonna want to be but I
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: play very little but would love to play more.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: We had a rain delay, I guess a little earlier today,
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: but as of right now, Maverick McNeely a five hunder
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: opening round, leading the way sixty seven on his first round,
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: Justin Thomas and Russell Henley and Taylor Moore a shot
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: off the lead at the moment.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this mcneelly.
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: I watched this guy hit He hit a drive three
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: hundred and forty yards like he was just warming up.
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: I mean, jeez, this guy can cutt and he can drive.
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: So you know, again, the best field there isn't golf.
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: Get out there and see these guys. It's awesome, no doubt.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: And I'm sure there'll be a lot a large Jaguars
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: presence there.
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: There usually is.
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: I think the coaches at some point get to go
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: out this weekend as a group, which is nice.
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, when I was here the eight season, so I
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: was here, we used to go out on Fridays and
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: what a treat that was to just again watch the
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: play these guys and dreamed that maybe you could sometimes
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: do something like that. Unfortunately I haven't, but it's been.
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: It was a great treat and as I said, great
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: for the fans here in town.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: So this time of year, as a coach, what are
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: you working on?
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: Well, a lot of you know right now, they've they've
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: probably have finished all their scheme evaluation for sure. They're
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: also through probably with all the evaluations of candidates for
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: free agency, so they're right now delving into the evaluations
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: of players in the draft and probably well into that
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: and so you know positioning. That also probably traveling around
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  Speaker 4: to different pro days that are going on, so some
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  Speaker 4: of that's going to be off campus or off site
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  Speaker 4: travel in terms of valuation. Then they're also got projects
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  Speaker 4: going on right now, whether it be film study of
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  Speaker 4: the opponents or areas of focused red zone, short yardage,
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  Speaker 4: goal line, backed up defense, offense, all that put together
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  Speaker 4: two minutes, so they're really delving into scheme improvement, player
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  Speaker 4: acquisition improvement, player evaluation. I mean it's people think, well,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's quiet around here, so there's not much
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  Speaker 4: going on. Shoot, it's with the wheels are going, man,
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  Speaker 4: I mean you can steal smoke coming out of the
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  Speaker 4: building because because people are working like crazy. So it's
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  Speaker 4: a good time as a coach to be part of
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  Speaker 4: this type of schedule.
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  Speaker 3: How do you have to I mean, yeah, you're trying
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  Speaker 3: to get all this work done and there's a scheduled
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  Speaker 3: out for everybody, but in general, what time are you
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  Speaker 3: coming in?
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  Speaker 1: What time are you leaving? Well, how did you do it? Well?
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  Speaker 1: I came in.
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you my plan. I used to come in
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  Speaker 4: around six o'clock to get my work out in. I
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  Speaker 4: get that in from like six to seven, and then
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  Speaker 4: I spent any football study that I had generally was
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  Speaker 4: from the morning till lunchtime, so football projects, studies, all
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  Speaker 4: those type things at that time, and then in the
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  Speaker 4: afternoon till you know, five or six. In the afternoon,
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  Speaker 4: I was in player evaluation, whether it was watching pro days,
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  Speaker 4: whether it was continuing the evaluation, preparation and ranking for
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  Speaker 4: the draft, going through any kind of phone calls or
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  Speaker 4: zoom calls that I had with players. They're all doing
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  Speaker 4: the same thing. Coaches are here. So generally the afternoon
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  Speaker 4: was player acquisition and study. In the morning, it was
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  Speaker 4: more scheme development, football study, trying to enhance anything we
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  Speaker 4: can do to make the scheme better.
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  Speaker 1: It never ends, doesn't, but that's a good thing. I
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  Speaker 1: does never end, but I enjoyed it. I really.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you're learning all the time, and things change
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  Speaker 4: when every player is different every year, as you're adjusting
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  Speaker 4: your scheme, it's different. So it's an ongoing situation that
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: I enjoyed very much.
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  Speaker 3: Duff always a pleasure. Thanks for taking the time out
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  Speaker 3: to come into Jimny.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for asking. I enjoyed it very much. Former
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  Speaker 1: Jaggs linebackers coach Mark Duffner.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks to James Gladstone as well, Jaguars GM for joining
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  Speaker 3: us our thanks to Joe Fortunato, Brent Reaver, and thanks
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  Speaker 3: to you for watching and listening.
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  Speaker 1: This is Jaguars Happy Hour.
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