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Jags Broadcast Week in Review: April 3 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Jaguars Broadcast Week in Review. I'm J. P.
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Speaker 1: Shadrick and this is Friday, April three, and it's our
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Speaker 1: weekly Listen to some of the highlights from the last week,
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Speaker 1: and what a week it was on Jaguars Broadcasting. Highlights
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Speaker 1: from team president Mark Lamping coming up, head team physician
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Speaker 1: Kevin Kaplan visited with Ashland Sullivan, and Yes, Tony Basselli
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Speaker 1: returned to the broadcast airwaves to describe his comeback from
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Speaker 1: the coronavirus. Let's start with one final note from last week.
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Speaker 1: Senior correspondent Brian Sexton caught up with former Jaguar and
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Speaker 1: current NFL Network Draft analyst Bucky Brooks, and he got
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Speaker 1: his thoughts on the upcoming draft and much more. Give
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Speaker 1: us your perspective on the Jaguars to date from you know,
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Speaker 1: ten thousand feet sitting out there in California. They've obviously
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Speaker 1: had a bit of a purge to the roster, made
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Speaker 1: some moves to get some draft choices. How do you
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Speaker 1: see the Jaguars right now? I mean, like, what's normal
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Speaker 1: is you typically have about a turnover over your roster
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Speaker 1: each year. I think whether Jaguars are doing I think
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Speaker 1: Dave Caldwell and Doug Moron are trying to put their
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Speaker 1: stamp on the team, like now that they are fully
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Speaker 1: in control and fully have the ability to kind of
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Speaker 1: build a team in the image that they want. I
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Speaker 1: think you can tell how they're going. I think you're
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Speaker 1: seeing a team that is a little more blue collar oriented,
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Speaker 1: a little more um, hey, we're gonna go about our
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Speaker 1: business without a lot of fanfare. I think the chemistry
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Speaker 1: and the connectivity between player the player, player the coach, UM,
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Speaker 1: I think that matters. And so I think what you're
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Speaker 1: going to get are a lot of hard hat and
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Speaker 1: munch pall guys. When you look at the free agent signings, UM,
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Speaker 1: a lot of those guys have been productive, but then
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Speaker 1: productive without a lot of fanfare. And so most teams
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Speaker 1: are kind of built in the image of image of
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Speaker 1: their coach. And I think you're beginning to see Doug
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Speaker 1: Marone really kind of put his stamp on how this
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Speaker 1: team is going to look like. And I think that
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Speaker 1: will probably extend into the draft, like I would expect
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Speaker 1: those players to kind of fall in line with that
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Speaker 1: that model. Sexton also asked Brooks about what could be
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Speaker 1: available outside of quarterbacks. With the ninth overall and overall picks.
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Speaker 1: Mob drafts are one thing, but I think my drafts
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Speaker 1: give you a little perspective on what could be available.
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Speaker 1: And I think when you track the mock drafts for
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars, Derrick Brown has typically been available. Uh, Jeffrey
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Speaker 1: Couter has suddenly been a guy that has popped up
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Speaker 1: and been available. Um, they're also guys when you think
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Speaker 1: about like us C. J. Henderson that played down the
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Speaker 1: road at Florida, cornerback who's very, very talented. Uh, those
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Speaker 1: guys could be available. And then at twenty it's a
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Speaker 1: matter of how do you attack the top of the draft.
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Speaker 1: If at nine you're able to get uh an interior
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Speaker 1: defensive presence, Um, now I'm looking for a cornerback that
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Speaker 1: can step in and play. Uh. Let's be honest. Since
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Speaker 1: they lost Jalen Ramsey and then you trade away a J. Bowyer,
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Speaker 1: you have to have an elite type cornerback to show
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Speaker 1: up at some point. Is that guy available at twenty
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Speaker 1: or do you find a guy available at nine? I
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Speaker 1: think if you're Dave Calwell and you run in the draft,
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Speaker 1: you going through all these scenarios. But the thing that
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Speaker 1: has to be clear and apparent. You gotta walk away
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Speaker 1: with two high end starters. When you have capital like
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Speaker 1: they have in the draft, you have to make sure
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Speaker 1: that in the first round you hit on your picks.
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Speaker 1: Great stuff from NFL Network analyst Bucky Brooks. The full
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Speaker 1: visit from last Friday is available on Jaguars dot com.
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Speaker 1: Now to this week, and we got started Monday with
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Speaker 1: a business side look at the Jaguars response to the
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Speaker 1: coronavirus pandemic. It's changed the way the team is working
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Speaker 1: with partners and customers on a day to day basis,
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Speaker 1: that's for sure. The Jaguars President Mark Lamping joined me
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Speaker 1: over a skype call and explain that it's more than
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Speaker 1: just business. We talk about, you know, football as a
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Speaker 1: family that you know, the Jaguars are a family. That
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Speaker 1: we're a family with our fans and in our community.
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Speaker 1: Now it's really the time to show that, you know,
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Speaker 1: so proud that shot stepped up and h uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: provided real leadership in terms of making a million dollar
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Speaker 1: donation to help with COVID relief efforts here in the
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville area. In addition to that, um, we're very proud
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Speaker 1: of our partners We've been working closely with our partners,
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Speaker 1: particularly those in the service industry and the food and
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Speaker 1: beverage industry, and I think we've purchased almost twenty five
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Speaker 1: dollars worth of gift cards with our partners, and some
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Speaker 1: of our partners like Daily's, have have joined us in
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Speaker 1: the effort, and um we've put to put all these
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Speaker 1: gift cards together and we're distributing them to you know,
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Speaker 1: the people in this community that are really the unsung
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Speaker 1: heroes right now, the people that are working day in
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Speaker 1: and day out in the hospitals to to to keep
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Speaker 1: us all healthy and putting their own health on the line.
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Speaker 1: So doing what we can to communicate with our fans,
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Speaker 1: but at the same time knowing that we have a
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Speaker 1: real responsibility not only to our employees, but to this community.
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Speaker 1: The full lamping visit available on the team website Jaguars
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Speaker 1: dot Com onto Tuesday, and the football side of each
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Speaker 1: NFL organization, well, they're all trying to figure out how
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Speaker 1: to approach the upcoming NFL draft, and the league is
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Speaker 1: working to make a level playing field for all teams
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Speaker 1: in different markets with different governmental restrictions these days. A
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Speaker 1: major part of that pre draft build up or the
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Speaker 1: medical reviews, the physical exams, and getting a hands on
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Speaker 1: look at past injuries for prospects. Ashelan Sullivan caught up
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Speaker 1: with head team physician Kevin Kaplan and got his view
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Speaker 1: on the week's coming up. This time. You're in the
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Speaker 1: off season. You're so used to the pre draft visits,
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Speaker 1: especially going into this month, that no longer exists because
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Speaker 1: the coronavirus. So how weird has that been? Football? Such
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Speaker 1: a game of your team. You're used to that it's
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Speaker 1: no longer there. It's different, you know, we're used to
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Speaker 1: ramping up right now. Once the combine starts, then we're
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Speaker 1: looking at players, you know, and they have those usually
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Speaker 1: those thirty visits and rookies come in and they can
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Speaker 1: invite and when we see those guys and go over
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Speaker 1: their medical history. Uh. April ninth and tenth, I was
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Speaker 1: supposed to be going back Indianapolis and doing the reject
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Speaker 1: where we were seeing some of the athletes that have
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Speaker 1: had injuries and some notable ones that you've see in
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Speaker 1: the media that we were going to be looking at
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Speaker 1: again and and and seeing how they're progressing, because that's important.
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Speaker 1: It's an important part of the process. And then obviously,
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Speaker 1: like you said, the free agents, trying to piece things
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Speaker 1: together is very difficult when you don't get to see
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Speaker 1: someone face to face and you don't get to put
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Speaker 1: your hands, you know, on somebody's knee or someone's shoulder.
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Speaker 1: So it's a challenge trying to gather that information and
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Speaker 1: relay that information to to Dave Caldwell and to coach
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Speaker 1: Marone and in preparation for who they're going to draft.
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Speaker 1: The full interview available with Dr cap put on the
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Speaker 1: team website, and Happy birthday to Ashlan Sullivan today Friday,
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Speaker 1: April three. She's also the host of Jack's Drive Time
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Speaker 1: on Tuesday mornings with Sexton and senior writer John Losier,
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Speaker 1: and this week the trio discussed the Jaguars wide receiver
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Speaker 1: position and the possibilities of improving it as you go
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Speaker 1: position by position. In the off season, we discussed a
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Speaker 1: lot of positions, but we have not talked about wide receiver,
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Speaker 1: and I think that's because we feel fairly confident in
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Speaker 1: who the wide receivers are for the Jaguars right now,
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Speaker 1: particularly the number one guy that you're going to see
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Speaker 1: right now on that graphic, and that is d j R. Jr.
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Speaker 1: We know from last season he is the number one
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Speaker 1: guy as of now. John, I gotta jump in here
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Speaker 1: because you were the one last year who kept saying
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Speaker 1: over and over despite the fact that so many folks
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Speaker 1: you know, in your forum and on this show, we're
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Speaker 1: calling for wide receiver to be a position of priority.
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Speaker 1: You're the guy who kept saying, they like what they've got,
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Speaker 1: they like what they've got. Do they still like what
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Speaker 1: they've got this year? Or in a receiver rich draft,
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Speaker 1: is this something that they need to pull the trigger on.
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Speaker 1: I think they sort of like what they've got, But
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Speaker 1: with this draftwide receiver, I think they have to get
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Speaker 1: something opposite DJHR can call it. Put the second round
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Speaker 1: tender on Chris Conley was productive last year. D D.
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Speaker 1: Westbrook I don't think was as productive as they had hoped.
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of that was probably his injury
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Speaker 1: that I feel like he gutted through. So credit to him.
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Speaker 1: But there's three guys opposite DJ chart that I don't
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Speaker 1: know if you look at them and think, Okay, they're
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Speaker 1: really gonna push for that other number two one a
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Speaker 1: type of thing. I would be stunned at this point
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Speaker 1: with a draft that supposedly goes deeper than any in
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Speaker 1: the history of the league a wide receiver. You talk
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Speaker 1: to analysts who talked about there being thirty and thirty
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Speaker 1: five guys and about they're being big time players in
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Speaker 1: the third and fourth round. It would shock me if
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Speaker 1: they don't do something a wide receiver either between rounds
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Speaker 1: two and four to get that. And it wouldn't shock
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Speaker 1: me if they think special is in the first round
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Speaker 1: available to them. As much as I want them to
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Speaker 1: go big guys, this team needs to score touchdowns. Wouldn't
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Speaker 1: shock me if they see a wide receiver touchdown maker
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Speaker 1: at number nine or twenty, It wouldn't stun me to
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Speaker 1: see him do that. Jack shrive Time airs each Tuesday
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Speaker 1: morning on the Jaguars social pages and the website. Audio
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Speaker 1: podcast of on this podcast channel. Let's move on to
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Our Radio Thursday, and we had a nice
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Speaker 1: visit with SEC Network analyst Colt Cubliic. He's a former
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Speaker 1: Auburn center. We won't hold that against him though, but
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Speaker 1: he's all over the SEC prospects available in the NFL draft,
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Speaker 1: especially those big names that you see near the top.
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Speaker 1: You heard Bucky Brooks earlier mentioned Derek Brown. Cubula gives
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Speaker 1: you a little more insight to what Brown brings to
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Speaker 1: the table. You gotta get the ball away from him,
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Speaker 1: but then he actually tracks plays down extremely well. It's
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Speaker 1: something One of one of the parts of his games
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Speaker 1: that I like the most is you've got a three
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Speaker 1: pounder that when the ball runs away from him, you
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Speaker 1: see him tracking those plays down, often coming from the
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Speaker 1: backside to be able to help make tackles. The energy
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Speaker 1: is there, the hustle is there, the motor is there,
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Speaker 1: Finishing plays is there. You're not gonna be able to
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Speaker 1: just double team and get away with it. You can't
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Speaker 1: single him up. He's loose enough to win one on
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Speaker 1: one pastor us situations and obviously has the power to
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Speaker 1: be able to withstand just about anything that's gonna be
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Speaker 1: a be thrown at him. So I don't think you
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Speaker 1: can go wrong with Derek Brown. Um, he's mature, He's
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Speaker 1: not gonna be a behavioral problem once you get him
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Speaker 1: into your facility. He's got a little boy uh you know,
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Speaker 1: he loves to play video games, so he's gonna be
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Speaker 1: in the house doing that. So I think he can
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Speaker 1: be a dominant destructive force on the interior of any
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Speaker 1: NFL defensive line because I think he has versatility, something
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Speaker 1: that helps him. You've seen him as a stand up
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Speaker 1: outside rusher, you see him as a three technique, you
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Speaker 1: see him as a nose guard, you see him out
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Speaker 1: playing the five technique. He can do a lot of
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Speaker 1: different things, and I think no matter who selects him
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Speaker 1: or where they play him, you're gonna get value with
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Speaker 1: Derek Brown. The full visit is available on the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Happy Our archive or a video that's due to come
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Speaker 1: out early next week on the team website. And finally,
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Speaker 1: our friend and colleague Tony Basselli made his broadcast return
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Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon after battling the coronavirus the last two weeks.
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Speaker 1: He was tested a couple of weeks ago, and his
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Speaker 1: condition deteriorated over that first week. He spent five days
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Speaker 1: in the Mayo Clinic intensive care unit, all alone, with
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Speaker 1: plenty of time to think. It's scary, that's for sure.
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Speaker 1: You know your mind runs, and obviously you know that
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Speaker 1: people are dying from this, and and you're in the
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Speaker 1: hospital and you're in the I see you, and you
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Speaker 1: know no one can cut you can't leave the room.
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Speaker 1: And no one come see you unless you're in a
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Speaker 1: fool you know, a protective suit and all the protective equipment.
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Speaker 1: So it's really scary. Your mind runs and you just
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, you know, you can't see your
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Speaker 1: family or anybody until you get better. Thankfully, I'll tell
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Speaker 1: you the people, the doctors, you know, the p a s,
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Speaker 1: the nurses, I mean, the tacks, I mean, everybody that
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Speaker 1: I dealt with was unbelievable. And they you know, they
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Speaker 1: they take their own you know, they know they're at risk,
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Speaker 1: and thankfully they have the right equipment, but they're still
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Speaker 1: at risk and they come in there and serve you,
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Speaker 1: and so they made it a lot better. And even
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Speaker 1: all the way to the individuals have to come in
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Speaker 1: every day and clean my room. And um, so that
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Speaker 1: was I mean, seeing somebody in you know, these individuals
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Speaker 1: that are taking care of you and talking to you
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Speaker 1: and trying to encourage you. That was helpful. But it
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Speaker 1: was pretty experience, pretty interesting experience, and uh, there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of times to kind of lay there and uh,
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Speaker 1: just you and your thoughts. We did talk a little
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Speaker 1: football just to make things seem somewhat normal for Tony
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Speaker 1: and Baselly thinks that unique and got Quay could be
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Speaker 1: on the move. Before the draft. They got him under
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Speaker 1: contract because of the franchise tag. And I've been you know,
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Speaker 1: reading Twitter, you know, through Twitter and stuff a little
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Speaker 1: bit here and there, and obviously, you know, he's a
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Speaker 1: big deal and he's a very good player, and he's
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Speaker 1: a guy that's done a lot of really good things.
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Speaker 1: And the Jaguars user leverage. They have it, and John's
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Speaker 1: got to make a decision and I can't imagine him
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Speaker 1: not playing if it comes to, you know, making nineteen
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Speaker 1: million dollars or nothing. And uh, I know he wants
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Speaker 1: to be traded, but you have to find a partner.
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Speaker 1: He's willing to give you what you want. And I
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Speaker 1: think the Jags are gonna sit back and be very
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Speaker 1: patient because they do have the leverage. And I think
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Speaker 1: they're probably pretty confident that he would play if pushed
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Speaker 1: games to show, because you know, he wants to make
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Speaker 1: his money. It's unfortunate it's come to this, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's obviously I have a guy who's upset mad, and
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Speaker 1: that's what happens a lot of times organizations. You feel
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Speaker 1: like cheenies are done wrong. It gets emotional and and
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Speaker 1: a lot of feelings comes up, and a lot of
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Speaker 1: bad you know, bad feelings come up, and those are
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Speaker 1: hard to overcome. But this is the business side of it,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of times in these situations, no one
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Speaker 1: side is not happy. Right now, it's it's not happy
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Speaker 1: and we'll see where it goes. But my guess is,
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Speaker 1: at some point in the next two weeks, I think
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Speaker 1: the Jags will probably get an offer that they want
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Speaker 1: that makes sense to them, and then uh, you will
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Speaker 1: probably see Unique traded. But with that said, you have
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Speaker 1: to find somebody's willing to pay one million dollars a
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Speaker 1: year or you know, that's what it's reported he wants.
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Speaker 1: There has to be a trade partner. It's not only
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Speaker 1: willing to give you the draft pick, but it's willing
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Speaker 1: to pay the long term deal that Yawning's looking for.
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Speaker 1: So they'll prefun the right trade, Parker. I think they will. Uh,
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Speaker 1: And my guest is before the draft that y'all equal
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Speaker 1: be on a different team, Tony. It's uh weird that
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Speaker 1: football seems so irrelevant compared to what you've been through
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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. Yeah, I tell you, JP.
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Speaker 1: It puts things in perspective, that's for sure for you
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know for me going through something like
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Speaker 1: that to try to find you know, what can you
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Speaker 1: learn from it? You know what what can I tell you?
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Speaker 1: And I think for me, what it's done is more
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Speaker 1: than anything. Is reminded me of. You know, how many
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Speaker 1: great people have my life and great friends and I
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Speaker 1: cannot I mean I talked about the healthcare workers and
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Speaker 1: they're just complete studs. I mean, the people that dealt
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Speaker 1: with me are studs. There's no other way to say it.
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Speaker 1: There's no regard for themselves. And to take care of
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Speaker 1: me like that's awesome. But also the people have my
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Speaker 1: life and my family, so many good friends, to the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars organization and people at my church, and I can't
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Speaker 1: tell you how many people have dropped meals off and
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Speaker 1: taking care of my family when I would be really sick,
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Speaker 1: and making sure we have everything we need from medicine
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Speaker 1: to everything else because everyone's been quarantined here. So really
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Speaker 1: thankful for you know, I feel pretty blessed by God.
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Speaker 1: We're a great life. But part of that is the
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Speaker 1: great friends and the great people that we've put in
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Speaker 1: my life. Means that so many people reaching out to
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Speaker 1: me and still do by text and awesome what they
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Speaker 1: do and bring food over and everything else. It's just
15:21
Speaker 1: been amazing. So I've got great friends and that all
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Speaker 1: those things you look back and you're thankful for and
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Speaker 1: I get it. Work for a great organization, you know,
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Speaker 1: like the Jaguar is also my other company that worked
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Speaker 1: with has been great of them. It's you said, you
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Speaker 1: feel pretty blessed to have that many people care about
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Speaker 1: you and really kind of take care of you in
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Speaker 1: a time like this. Tony Baselli first radio appearance since
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Speaker 1: we're turning home. We love you, man, and glad you're
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Speaker 1: getting healthier by the day and I can't wait to
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Speaker 1: see you soon. Man, Thanks for you and that's good news.
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Speaker 1: As soon as I get this last test back. You
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Speaker 1: don't worry about socialist things for me. So what we
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Speaker 1: can do the ship, We'll do the show together. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: come on over to the house next time. We're certainly
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Speaker 1: and our friend is getting better and stronger by the day.
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Speaker 1: Check out all the archives of Jaguars broadcasting on Jaguars
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Speaker 1: dot com, the Jacks social media channels, or official Jaguars podcast.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. This is J P. Shadrick and
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Speaker 1: we'll catch you next week on the Jaguars Broadcasting Week
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Speaker 1: in Review,