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Jags Drive Time: Tuesday, June 14 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jacks Drive Jime with Ashlyn Sulise, John Oshan,
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Speaker 1: Bryan Sex Jacks Drive Time and it starts right now.
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Speaker 1: Welcome in Jaguars Drive Time. It is June four teenth
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Speaker 1: year life here on a Tuesday, as it is the
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Speaker 1: week of mandatory minicamp for veterans. But it looks a
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Speaker 1: little different this year. This is our last drive time
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Speaker 1: of the off season as we all get ready to
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Speaker 1: take a little break here for summer, about a month
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Speaker 1: away from the stadium, and when we come back, we're
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Speaker 1: really getting going. Yeah, you don't seem excited about that too.
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Speaker 1: It's uh about five weeks away, and I'll be excited.
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Speaker 1: Uh on July twenty third, Well, I think this is
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Speaker 1: that time of that year where you do kind of
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Speaker 1: unplug a little bit and everybody out there has a
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Speaker 1: busy job and a busy life, and uh, the NFL
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Speaker 1: just seems to be NonStop, and especially as we've done this,
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Speaker 1: you know, it has just expanded to fill you know, February,
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Speaker 1: you know, when the Super bowls over all the way
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Speaker 1: until now and then picks right back up at the
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Speaker 1: end of July and away it goes again. Um, So yeah,
1:10
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people who were starting to think
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Speaker 1: about getting a little time away. But I'm like John,
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Speaker 1: I mean, watching this team on the field yesterday, even
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Speaker 1: in a rookie camp, I'm excited about some of these kids.
1:19
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see, you know, this coaching staff in particular,
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Speaker 1: this coaching staff is really really impressed me. And I
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Speaker 1: can't wait to see how they run training camp. Yeah,
1:28
Speaker 1: and the coaching staff. And I talked to people and
1:31
Speaker 1: they say, oh, well, why are you so busy in
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Speaker 1: the offseason. I said, well, look what this team has
1:34
Speaker 1: been through the past couple of years, bringing in a
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Speaker 1: new coaching staff. It's a lot of work, but you
1:38
Speaker 1: just see how much smoother it has been this offseason.
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Speaker 1: It's just a totally different world than where we were
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Speaker 1: a year ago. And it's just I think, you know,
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Speaker 1: canceling the veteran mini camp is a great example of that. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I was asked the other night when I was out,
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Speaker 1: what do you do for money when they don't have games?
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Speaker 1: And I said, I said, well, frankly, I can't share that,
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Speaker 1: but it's it is a busy offseason. But overall, um,
2:05
Speaker 1: you hate to sit here every year and say how
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Speaker 1: how good. It looks in the off season because people
2:10
Speaker 1: are tired of hearing it. But Doug Peterson, you can
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Speaker 1: see why Brian he was able to overcome adversity in
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia on his way to Super bowls. Um, there's a calmness,
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Speaker 1: there's I've been there before attitude. Think about he lost
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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz went to the Super Bowl that year. They
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Speaker 1: overcame uh tough starts and made the playoffs two times interrupt.
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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that Jaguars can do that, because they've
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Speaker 1: still got to prove they can do that. But to me,
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Speaker 1: that's what an NFL coach does. He makes players believe
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Speaker 1: in him. You can certainly see why players believe in this.
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Speaker 1: Have you read the book yet or is that on
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Speaker 1: the plan between now? It is so worth it. It
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Speaker 1: just gives you read some of a couple of years back.
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Speaker 1: It gives you. It gives you a really good appreciation
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Speaker 1: for him and underscores and highlights the things that you
3:00
Speaker 1: already seem so sorry. I can't. He's not paying me
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Speaker 1: to plug the book as much as I do. I
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Speaker 1: just of all the books I've read, the book explains
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Speaker 1: everything I think he's doing. Okay with that book, I
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Speaker 1: was all right, let's get into big things. Big thing
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Speaker 1: one is see you in July or last week here
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Speaker 1: in the building, our last drive time of the Austina
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Speaker 1: before everyone takes a much needed break for summer. This
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Speaker 1: week has looked a little different than years past for
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Speaker 1: veteran mandatory mini camp, and coach Peterson explains why I
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Speaker 1: dismissed the veterans a little early. No, it's all based
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Speaker 1: on what they've done. Um, you know, I've done this
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Speaker 1: kind of thing in the past, But at the same
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Speaker 1: time I wanted to. I wanted to see this group
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Speaker 1: work and work together. Um. You know it wasn't final
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Speaker 1: until you know, just within the last week or so
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Speaker 1: for me to make to make the decision. And again,
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Speaker 1: these guys have worked extremely hard. They've earned it, they
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Speaker 1: deserve it, and um you know we got done. Um
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Speaker 1: as a staff what we needed to get done, and
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Speaker 1: we get ready for KIMP. Big thing too is sparkles, splitters, rainbows,
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Speaker 1: you name the adjeive to describe first round overall pick
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Speaker 1: tray Von Walker, who was impressing everyone in this building.
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Speaker 1: All he had to do was step on the football
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Speaker 1: field to do back in defensive coordinator Mike Callbell is
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Speaker 1: high on the list. Can you think about the size,
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Speaker 1: the hype, his weight, his speed is left a uniform.
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Speaker 1: He's unique and he plays that way and you see
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Speaker 1: it on tape. You see the burst, you see the speed,
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Speaker 1: see the moves. He asked, So we're excited about him,
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Speaker 1: and I think he will be ready. And finally, big
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Speaker 1: thing to me is what does he have? What is
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Speaker 1: he got? Question mark that is running back Travis E
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Speaker 1: t n and so many questions around this guy, and
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Speaker 1: our biggest question will will he have an explosive speed
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Speaker 1: that we saw in college after facing this major injury.
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Speaker 1: Offensive coordinator Press Taylor thinks, so, yeah, the speeds real.
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Speaker 1: I mean that was obviously something everybody knew coming out
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Speaker 1: of college, not having a chance to see a lot
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Speaker 1: of the stuff he was able to do Um Street
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Speaker 1: because you weren't able to play. So the speed is
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Speaker 1: very real. He did a good job of just showing
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Speaker 1: understanding of the different roles we're trying to see and
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Speaker 1: we're throwing him in all the different positions just to see,
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Speaker 1: you know, what he's comfortable with, what he needs to
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Speaker 1: work on as we move forward. Give him plans moving
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Speaker 1: into the offseason or moving further into summer, coming back
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Speaker 1: for training camp. But he's been really receptive to everything.
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Speaker 1: He's showing, you know, an ability to grasp a lot
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Speaker 1: of different things and and show that he's capable of
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Speaker 1: doing things. And then he had it. Those are big things.
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Speaker 1: Let's go back up to big thing. One big thing too,
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Speaker 1: you know. Sparkles, Yeah, glitter rainbows, you see that. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what nickname we're gonna give him, but I'm
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Speaker 1: not going to be the one to walk up and Sparkles.
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Speaker 1: I mean that might give me a good punch in
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Speaker 1: the teeth. Yeah, and he could punch it from a
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Speaker 1: long way away because he's got big hands in long arms. Hey,
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Speaker 1: Sparkles walker. Yeah, I think she just tried to say, yeah, okay,
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Speaker 1: I thought we were trying to a nickname and oh no,
6:00
Speaker 1: although I mean, I won't lie to you. And when
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Speaker 1: I walked on the field the first time and I
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Speaker 1: was a hundred yards away from him and I saw him,
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Speaker 1: my eyes sparkled. I went, WHOA, Well, if he wants
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Speaker 1: to be called Sparkle, I have no problem. Yes, he
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Speaker 1: told me that, and that's why I put it. I
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Speaker 1: got him on the Ozone podcast tomorrow. I'll I'll ask
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Speaker 1: you if that's his game. I heard you told you
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Speaker 1: like your name to be Sparkles a thing one Veterans
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Speaker 1: being released early. We were told this about two weeks ago,
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Speaker 1: that there was thoughts that this would happen. And keep
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Speaker 1: in mind that O T started early for this team,
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Speaker 1: so the Veterans have had an extra week of work
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Speaker 1: on the field. When that happened, I thought, awesome move
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Speaker 1: by coach Peterson, but I also knew, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 1: fans are going to freak out. Well, but he also
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Speaker 1: has the week the early week of training camp because
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Speaker 1: of your fame game, So it's calculated on a part.
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Speaker 1: But look, he gave them these three days so they
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Speaker 1: could start their vacation, they could start, you know, having
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Speaker 1: a little downtime away. It sends a really strong message
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Speaker 1: to the players who really like this guy and like
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Speaker 1: this coaching staff and like the way that they approach it.
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Speaker 1: You guys know where I'm going with us. But it's uh. Look,
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Speaker 1: they also had a three day extra mini camp right
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Speaker 1: before the draft. Um because he's a new coach. You
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Speaker 1: have to remember when O T a s began way
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Speaker 1: back in the day. They were much more spiritually voluntary
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Speaker 1: than they are now. Now they're voluntary, but there's this
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Speaker 1: implication of oil boy, you better be there. So they
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Speaker 1: had a veteran mini camp at the end that was
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Speaker 1: mandatory to make sure these guys got some work. Well,
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Speaker 1: these guys have already gotten some work. My understanding is
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Speaker 1: it was close attendance and Peterson was thrilled with the
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Speaker 1: attendance throughout. So if that's the case, why do you
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Speaker 1: need the three day mandatory. The three day mandatory was
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Speaker 1: put in to make sure that the guys who didn't
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Speaker 1: feel like coming in came in got the work. They
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Speaker 1: got there three days, they learned the offense, they got
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Speaker 1: to look at it. This is about teaching and preparing
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Speaker 1: for training camp. They're not evaluating what they do out
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Speaker 1: there is as an offensive guard is not going to
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Speaker 1: make them a great offensive guard. Come we say, we
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Speaker 1: can't even evaluate the big guys. So there you have it.
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Speaker 1: This team isn't a much different somebody for lamping. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: this week, like for example, I saw it was on
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Speaker 1: National News this morning that the DK metcalf to not
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Speaker 1: show up to mandatory mini camp. And we've seen that before,
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Speaker 1: where that's the headline is who doesn't show up to
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Speaker 1: this part? And then you see for the Jaguar's sake,
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Speaker 1: almost participation when they didn't have to be here. So
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Speaker 1: that is why he let him go early. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: at that's made perfect times. By the way, as he
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Speaker 1: said this spring, hey, it's it's voluntary, it's volunteer. He's
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Speaker 1: explained that right, he said, he totally gets He let
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Speaker 1: that card be played early so that the players knew
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Speaker 1: that he understood and that he wasn't going to be
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Speaker 1: that guy who goes, I don't want you here even
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Speaker 1: though it's voluntary. He wasn't going to play that game.
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Speaker 1: We had that guy. We've seen that before. All right,
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Speaker 1: do you want to talk about sparkles or are you
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Speaker 1: okay moving a Big Thing three? I want to check
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Speaker 1: with you before him. Well he's got the nickname now
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Speaker 1: no matter what you do, breath, okay, Big Thing three?
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Speaker 1: What's he got all about Travis et and and the
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Speaker 1: questions we have with him? And looks great on the
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Speaker 1: football field right now, is present, which is a win
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Speaker 1: in itself that he's on the football field after that
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Speaker 1: injury he faced. But Brian, you talked about it a lot.
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Speaker 1: We won't really know till trail camp. But for Press
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Speaker 1: Taylor to say, yeah, I've seen the speed, it's there,
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Speaker 1: that's the biggest question. But I don't know if we
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Speaker 1: can truly tell that. Well. I watched and I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's fast, but I don't know if he
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Speaker 1: is what he was before the injury. And as you mentioned,
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Speaker 1: it's something that I've been waiting to see and I
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Speaker 1: don't know that we'll see it until August. You know,
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Speaker 1: can he get up after a rough day on the
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Speaker 1: practice field and practice the next day or does the
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Speaker 1: foot need rest? Um? We we we just we won't know.
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Speaker 1: Does he look good, well, yeah, he looks good. He
9:58
Speaker 1: was a first round pick, um, but is he going
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Speaker 1: to be what he's capable of being or was capable
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Speaker 1: when they drafted him. We won't know. Yeah, And he's
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Speaker 1: such an he's such an X factor because even before
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Speaker 1: the injury, Um, we didn't see him very much last year.
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Speaker 1: So he feels like a rookie coming in in the
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Speaker 1: sense that you're always wanting to see can a rookie
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Speaker 1: really do it in the pros I did in college?
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Speaker 1: So you have the wondering is he what he was
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Speaker 1: before the injury. Plus if he's what he was before
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Speaker 1: the injury, is that special in the NFL. We don't
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Speaker 1: know that yet. But I'll go to the other route
10:36
Speaker 1: since we've already talked about the fact that you can't
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Speaker 1: tell anything about him really until pads go on give
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Speaker 1: him credit and give the doctor's credit for this uh
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Speaker 1: A list. Frank can be very very serious. He had
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Speaker 1: at last August, so it's it's what ten months seven
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Speaker 1: eight months out when he first got back. There could
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Speaker 1: have been a scenario on this where Okay, he's gonna
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Speaker 1: come back during O t A. He's not ready for
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Speaker 1: the start of the off season. He's gonna come out
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Speaker 1: during mini camp he's not ready, and it's gonna commit
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Speaker 1: during training camp. He has been as out there and
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Speaker 1: as participating as he possibly can be. So far, so good.
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Speaker 1: He's done everything he's supposed to do. There's no reason
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Speaker 1: to think that he won't be fine. And just to
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Speaker 1: give that an underscore in the highlight, Corey Grant, you
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Speaker 1: all remember broke his foot did the Liz Frank in
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Speaker 1: Kansasy and never got back to this in October of
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Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen, not just that John, I never saw
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Speaker 1: him again. You normally when guys are rehabbing, you see
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Speaker 1: them around the building. I never saw him again ever,
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Speaker 1: but that the morning in Kansas City. The last time
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Speaker 1: I saw him in October of two eighteen. So to
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Speaker 1: have him out here on the field, he's a really
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Speaker 1: encouraging sign. It's just as John said, is he going
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Speaker 1: to be special in the NFL? We have to see
11:45
Speaker 1: that before we can say, let me, I think he
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Speaker 1: probably will be. Oh, I mean he's seen it yet.
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Speaker 1: He's that he's that chess piece. You can get him
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Speaker 1: moving all over the place. He has the chance to be.
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Speaker 1: We just got to see it before we can say
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Speaker 1: he's there. Yeah, he'll be a huge storyline in training camp,
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Speaker 1: maybe the biggest story time training camp in there. All right,
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Speaker 1: that is big things. When we come back on Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Drive Time, team president Mark Lamping joins the show to
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Speaker 1: talk about that new football facility being built in the
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Speaker 1: parking lot. Right now, stay with us. The biggest stadium
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Speaker 1: tour of the year comes to Jacksonville this summer. See
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Speaker 1: Rock and Roll Legends, Death Leopard, Motley Crue, Poison Jones,
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Speaker 1: com today. You know, on behalf of myself, General Manager
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Speaker 1: tramp baal Ki, all the coaches and players, we gotta
12:42
Speaker 1: say thank you, thank you for this great opportunity. UH
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Speaker 1: to Miller Electric, Mr Brown for your commitment, long standing
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Speaker 1: commitment here in Jacksonville and building building what's going to
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Speaker 1: be a state of the art facility for any any
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Speaker 1: NFL organization. It's gonna be cutting edge. We're looking forward
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Speaker 1: to it as coaches obviously next summer handing the keys
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Speaker 1: over to us so that we can go in and
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Speaker 1: get to work. And then to Mayor Curry, thank you
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Speaker 1: for your commitment as well. You know it just it
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Speaker 1: just goes to show the partnership that the Jaguars in
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Speaker 1: the city of Jacksonville have And so from the bottom
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Speaker 1: of my heart, thank you, and we're looking forward to
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Speaker 1: getting this thing going. Head coach Doug Peterson an attendance
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Speaker 1: at the Miller Electric Center naming rights yesterday're taking a
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Speaker 1: live look at that construction as team president Mark Lamping
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Speaker 1: joins us now on Jaguars drive time. Good morning, good morning,
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Speaker 1: you brought your hats. We love that's I did. I did.
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Speaker 1: That's a that's a nice memento from a very significant
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Speaker 1: day that was. That was a big announcement on Monday,
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Speaker 1: and you know it, it means so many things on
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Speaker 1: so many different levels. Absolutely, And I think when we
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Speaker 1: hear about this construction project and you see the magnitude
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Speaker 1: of the construction project, you think, all right, this might
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Speaker 1: take some time. But I am truly amazed every Monday
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Speaker 1: when I walk into this building, you see progress. You
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Speaker 1: see a difference in that football facility. It seems like
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Speaker 1: it's moving really quickly. Yeah, it's happening. Uh. You know,
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Speaker 1: the the progress is visible literally every day, hour by hour,
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Speaker 1: great collection of subcontractors or performing the work, really hard
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Speaker 1: workers on site and uh, you know, it's one of
14:22
Speaker 1: those things where you you have to get it done
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Speaker 1: on time, you know. So we have to absolutely have
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Speaker 1: to be complete by the end of June next year,
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Speaker 1: about a year from now, so that when the team
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Speaker 1: comes back for training camp that can move right into
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Speaker 1: the new facility. Be very disruptive for them to have
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Speaker 1: to do that as it gets closer to the season
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Speaker 1: or even in in the middle of the season. You
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Speaker 1: know said yesterday, somebody said it yesterday. How significant is
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Speaker 1: to have a local company like Miller put their name
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Speaker 1: on it. I can remember when those trailers were out
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Speaker 1: there building this stadium and there was a Miller Electric trailer. Um,
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Speaker 1: what's it mean to have a company like that, a
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Speaker 1: local company step up to the plate to help the whatever,
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Speaker 1: well it goes, It goes way deeper than that, you know. Uh,
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Speaker 1: Miller Electric has their roots here in Jacksonville. They're almost
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Speaker 1: a year old company, but they're a national company there.
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Speaker 1: They're known for their innovation in their in their field,
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Speaker 1: and they're also uh, you know, they employ thousands of
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Speaker 1: people across the country. They employ many many people here
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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. They provide jobs. They're they're continuing to recruit
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Speaker 1: and try to add to their their work their their workforce.
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Speaker 1: But the other thing they have in common, uh with
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars is their real deep commitment to the community.
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Speaker 1: And you know, you see that in a lot of
15:44
Speaker 1: different ways. But you know the leadership of that organization,
15:48
Speaker 1: their public servants, you know, they have a long history. Um.
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Speaker 1: You know Rhyna Auttery, h Henry Brown, who's a who's
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Speaker 1: a stalwart forms most recently ahead of the Jacksonville Chamber.
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Speaker 1: So they care about the community. They put people to
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Speaker 1: work UM, and they share shots confidence in in the
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Speaker 1: potential of downtown and particularly development around the sports complex.
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Speaker 1: Beyond having the naming rights done on the facility, how
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Speaker 1: important is it for the franchise and downtown just to
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Speaker 1: have that facility going up. It feels like it's an
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Speaker 1: overdue project. Well, it it unlocks a lot of other things.
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Speaker 1: That's why at the time when we were able fortunate
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Speaker 1: enough to get approval for this project, I said it
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Speaker 1: was something that's going to be really, really significant in
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Speaker 1: the history of the Jaguars. The reason for that is
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Speaker 1: it was the necessary first for us to be able
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Speaker 1: to really dig into UM the stadium of the future.
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Speaker 1: What are we gonna do to make sure that t
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Speaker 1: I a bank field UH meets the needs of our
16:51
Speaker 1: of our of our of our fans, of other stakeholders,
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Speaker 1: of the Universities of Florida and Georgia, the Gator Bowl
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Speaker 1: concert promoters. We have to make sure that the stadium
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Speaker 1: can meet the needs of all of those parties going
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Speaker 1: well in the future so that we can achieve our
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Speaker 1: ultimate goal, which is to ensure that there's NFL football
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Speaker 1: here in Northeast Florida for generations to come. Where is
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Speaker 1: that stadium project right now? You know? We uh, we
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Speaker 1: kicked it off about two years ago with the with
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Speaker 1: the city of Jacksonville. We've gone through a series of
17:21
Speaker 1: necessary first steps, against some of them pretty boring, a
17:24
Speaker 1: full assessment of the of the stadium. But something really
17:28
Speaker 1: important came out of that, which is the structural systems
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Speaker 1: within the stadium are in are in good shape and
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Speaker 1: and and that's an important finding because it opens up
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Speaker 1: the possibility for a renovation versus having to replace the facility.
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Speaker 1: We then went to the next step of of developing
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Speaker 1: three D drawings of the stadium as it exists right now. Um,
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Speaker 1: we have been communicating, uh, you know, with with our fans.
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Speaker 1: We've had over well over five thousand responses to a
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Speaker 1: survey fans telling us those things that are in wardant
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Speaker 1: to them in in this uh in the future stadium.
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Speaker 1: And we actually you know, engaged a handful of sports
18:08
Speaker 1: architects to give us their ideas and concepts, and we're
18:11
Speaker 1: beginning to to to narrow that down and and if
18:14
Speaker 1: we can get to the point where we think we
18:16
Speaker 1: can come up with a design that that meets the
18:19
Speaker 1: needs of of our customers, that meets the needs of
18:22
Speaker 1: the other stakeholders, that meets that the needs of Jaguars
18:25
Speaker 1: and our employees we're here every day, and then we
18:28
Speaker 1: can begin to get some idea of what something like
18:31
Speaker 1: that might cost. Then we're in a position to really
18:34
Speaker 1: dial up our our conversation with with the city. The
18:38
Speaker 1: city has been involved from the beginning. I feel really
18:40
Speaker 1: comfortable about the working relationship. Uh, you know that we
18:43
Speaker 1: have and you know again this is this is the
18:46
Speaker 1: really really important first step, you know, the Miller Electric Center,
18:50
Speaker 1: and now we can really get into probably the most
18:52
Speaker 1: the more important issue, which is how do we make
18:54
Speaker 1: sure we have a stadium is going to meet the
18:56
Speaker 1: needs of all involved for you know, decades to come. Mark,
18:59
Speaker 1: you've been involved with an incredible amount of this kind
19:03
Speaker 1: of construction. Uh built MetLife or we're heavily involved with MetLife.
19:09
Speaker 1: How different is a potential renovation than building? How much
19:14
Speaker 1: more complicated? Well, it's it's it's cheaper to renovate than
19:19
Speaker 1: to build new. Right, you don't have to go find
19:22
Speaker 1: another site, you know, you don't have to, you know,
19:25
Speaker 1: repeat all the infrastructure that's necessary to support a new
19:29
Speaker 1: stadium site. So it's cheaper. It is more complex, particularly
19:33
Speaker 1: when you're trying to take a thirty year old building
19:35
Speaker 1: and get it get its state of the art because
19:37
Speaker 1: it's retro fitting, I guess, and that sort of so
19:40
Speaker 1: many things have changed and you have so much that's
19:42
Speaker 1: embedded into this building. It is easier to build new.
19:45
Speaker 1: You know, it's less disruptive to build new. You close
19:49
Speaker 1: one down and you move into the next one that's
19:51
Speaker 1: completely done. So renovations generally take longer, you know, they
19:56
Speaker 1: they're stretched out a little bit, just like we're dealing
19:58
Speaker 1: with with the construction of the you know, the the
20:02
Speaker 1: Miller Electric Center. The football team is a little inconvenience
20:05
Speaker 1: right now because they're having to practice each and every
20:08
Speaker 1: day on the game field out. You know, they really
20:10
Speaker 1: like it so far, the players love it. I think
20:11
Speaker 1: it adds a good atmosphere. Um But you know, that's
20:14
Speaker 1: that's something that will will not be necessary to do
20:17
Speaker 1: once we get the new facility open and it even
20:20
Speaker 1: things like this, this this studio right here will be
20:22
Speaker 1: over in the um. Uh, the Miller Electric Center will
20:26
Speaker 1: have better accommodations for the media, significantly better accommodations for
20:31
Speaker 1: our players, and hopefully all of that will lead to
20:34
Speaker 1: a better development process, um, easier coaching and uh, you know,
20:40
Speaker 1: more wins to come. So much going on right now.
20:43
Speaker 1: Everyone wants to know about the shipyards in the four seasons.
20:46
Speaker 1: Where is that project right now? Well, we're we're moving
20:50
Speaker 1: ahead now. There's no question We've we've had to deal with,
20:53
Speaker 1: you know, a bushelfull of issues. But at anyone who's
20:57
Speaker 1: involved in construction these days, whether you're doing a innovation
21:00
Speaker 1: at your house or you're building a new home, you
21:02
Speaker 1: know how difficult it is. And and that's a result
21:05
Speaker 1: of so many things that are happening. It's really a
21:07
Speaker 1: unique time. You have this unprecedented level of inflation. You
21:12
Speaker 1: have the remnants of of COVID that are still impacting
21:17
Speaker 1: you know, supply chain as it relates to getting materials.
21:21
Speaker 1: You have the financial market unrest, which is related to
21:25
Speaker 1: some of the global uncertainties that we're dealing with right now.
21:28
Speaker 1: And and you have a real difficult time as it
21:31
Speaker 1: relates to what's happening in the construction industry. You've got
21:34
Speaker 1: so much work that's out there. You don't have enough
21:37
Speaker 1: labor to be able to support that work, and it
21:39
Speaker 1: makes it difficult to be able to get a healthy number,
21:44
Speaker 1: in many cases a healthy number of of subcontractors to
21:47
Speaker 1: bid on your work. All of those things combine drive
21:50
Speaker 1: cost up, and you know you have to deal with that.
21:52
Speaker 1: It's not a condition that's gonna last forever, but it is.
21:56
Speaker 1: It's it's something we've been dealing with. But you know, again,
21:59
Speaker 1: this this this project is so important to Shod, It's
22:02
Speaker 1: so important to his his his belief of of something
22:06
Speaker 1: that can be a real catalyst to help downtown Jacksonville
22:10
Speaker 1: realize it's full potential and to degree that Jacksonville fulfills
22:14
Speaker 1: it's it's it's full potential as it relates to people
22:16
Speaker 1: working here, people visiting here, people living here. If those
22:21
Speaker 1: things are all addressed, that has great benefits to the
22:24
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguarson are our long term stability here in northeast Florida,
22:28
Speaker 1: which is the Shod stated goal from day one. And
22:31
Speaker 1: my neighbor was planning to build a garage two years
22:33
Speaker 1: ago and he decided not to because of the cost.
22:36
Speaker 1: That's not really an option for you. Yeah, well, it is.
22:39
Speaker 1: It's it's a it's an option for a lot of people.
22:41
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of projects are canceled because as
22:43
Speaker 1: the costs go up, the returns go down. And and uh,
22:47
Speaker 1: but this, this this project was is much more than
22:50
Speaker 1: just an economic decision. Uh. You know by shot it's
22:54
Speaker 1: it's something that he believes can go a long way
22:58
Speaker 1: in uh, spurring even more development downtown by other developers,
23:01
Speaker 1: not by us, but by other developers. You've been leading
23:03
Speaker 1: the effort now for a decade. Um. You have a
23:05
Speaker 1: long history in sports, going back to the Cardinals in baseball.
23:09
Speaker 1: The last ten years have been really eventful, haven't they.
23:11
Speaker 1: I mean you look at London and COVID and the
23:13
Speaker 1: shipyards and is it Is it what you thought it
23:16
Speaker 1: might be? Or um, are you are? Are you? Are
23:20
Speaker 1: you where you thought you might be? I guess it
23:22
Speaker 1: is a better way to ask it. Well, and that's
23:25
Speaker 1: that's really interesting. And you didn't mentioned Fulham and Daily's
23:29
Speaker 1: Place and the music activities that we're doing. Um M
23:33
Speaker 1: I am. I am blown away with the quality of
23:36
Speaker 1: the staff that we that we have. I never thought
23:38
Speaker 1: that we'd be able to build such a such a
23:42
Speaker 1: great um um collection of committed men and women to
23:47
Speaker 1: work here. You know, we inherited a lot of great
23:50
Speaker 1: employees to begin with, but we've been able to supplement
23:54
Speaker 1: that with with many others. So I don't I'm I'm
23:58
Speaker 1: really really pleased with the with the quality of our
24:01
Speaker 1: of our staff. UM. I didn't really understand the scale
24:08
Speaker 1: of Shod's ambition and commitment to growth, and that has
24:13
Speaker 1: been probably the most interesting thing of of of my
24:15
Speaker 1: job certainly has been you know, shods constant support of
24:21
Speaker 1: efforts to grow the franchise and and uh, you know
24:27
Speaker 1: lead to the stability that you know, I think we
24:30
Speaker 1: uh we are enjoying. So all those things you mentioned,
24:33
Speaker 1: it makes it more interesting if you're on the business
24:35
Speaker 1: side here. You know, nobody wants to just be going
24:39
Speaker 1: through the motions of of of just day to day
24:42
Speaker 1: the business of football, you know, So it's it's it's
24:46
Speaker 1: it's really interesting. You've seen the growth on on your
24:48
Speaker 1: guys side of the business in terms of the digital
24:51
Speaker 1: platforms that have that have been built. So you know, obviously,
24:55
Speaker 1: you know, no one is is pleased with what our
24:58
Speaker 1: performance has been on the feel, um, but I think
25:02
Speaker 1: you know, maybe it's maybe because it's been ten years.
25:04
Speaker 1: Maybe we're sort of just convincing ourselves that, you know,
25:08
Speaker 1: it's it's now is maybe our time. Uh, there's a
25:11
Speaker 1: really high level of confidence. And you know, I really
25:13
Speaker 1: I chucked that up to uh two two dug and
25:16
Speaker 1: and the calming h impact he has had on the organization.
25:23
Speaker 1: It's just things are really so normal. There's no surprises,
25:27
Speaker 1: and it's a and uh, you know, I give I
25:31
Speaker 1: give him him and Trent all the all the credit
25:34
Speaker 1: in the world to not get distracted by all of
25:37
Speaker 1: the noise that came out of the end of last
25:40
Speaker 1: year and all of the rhetoric during the off season.
25:44
Speaker 1: And you know, you couldn't you couldn't turn on the
25:47
Speaker 1: radio without nine out of tend people, you know, ridiculing
25:51
Speaker 1: the organization. You know. And and I I understand fans
25:56
Speaker 1: um right to express their feelings and they do that
25:59
Speaker 1: because they care. You know. You what when when you
26:03
Speaker 1: should get concerned is when there's people that are just quiet,
26:06
Speaker 1: you know, and they just stopped caring. So look, you know,
26:10
Speaker 1: we're in the criticism business. Unfortunately we've probably gotten pretty
26:14
Speaker 1: good at it for a good reason. But I think,
26:17
Speaker 1: but but I really, I really think and I don't
26:19
Speaker 1: think I'm just talking myself into this because I think
26:22
Speaker 1: it shared throughout the building. I think, you know better
26:25
Speaker 1: days you're coming in, They're gonna come soon. Totally agree.
26:27
Speaker 1: We're excited for all the newness. We all noticed the
26:30
Speaker 1: calming presence of coach Peterson and Trent Bulky. It's been
26:33
Speaker 1: a nice change that Bok I have. I did read it.
26:36
Speaker 1: Yeah it's good, isn't It gives you good insight into him. Yeah,
26:38
Speaker 1: it sort of that gave me flashbacks to uh Gillette
26:42
Speaker 1: Stadium in the ANFC championship game. But other than that,
26:45
Speaker 1: you know, reminded me of of that how close we
26:48
Speaker 1: weren't again. You know that's that's ancient history. But you know,
26:52
Speaker 1: things can happen quickly in the in the NFL. You know,
26:54
Speaker 1: we saw it happen with with Cincinnati. You know, Kansas
26:58
Speaker 1: City came in here for the first game. Uh you know,
27:02
Speaker 1: I guess it was four years ago. They had the
27:04
Speaker 1: number one pick in the draft. Remember that they picked
27:07
Speaker 1: I guess the offensive lineman Fisher. So things can happen
27:10
Speaker 1: to hurry if you if you have a quarterback, and
27:12
Speaker 1: I think there's a there's a high level of confidence
27:15
Speaker 1: that we do. You know that we do. He's the guy. Yes, well,
27:18
Speaker 1: Mark Lamping, thank you so much for joining us on
27:20
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27:23
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27:52
Speaker 1: We're about to Jaguars Drive Time on a Tuesday, our
27:54
Speaker 1: last show of the off season. Thank you to Mark
27:57
Speaker 1: Lamping for joining us. Great insight on this facility that's
27:59
Speaker 1: being build very quickly in the parking lot, and it
28:02
Speaker 1: is time for Ashlan ask getting back on the football
28:05
Speaker 1: field for some questions about this team. Alan asked number
28:09
Speaker 1: one fellas who needs a bigger season this upcoming year?
28:15
Speaker 1: Levisca chanlts or Calevan Chase on Lesa. Both of these
28:21
Speaker 1: guys really ridiculed and you know, judge for their lack
28:24
Speaker 1: of success so far this year, especially with both of
28:27
Speaker 1: them being high draft picks. So who would you say
28:30
Speaker 1: needs a bigger year in twenty that Brian was leaving
28:35
Speaker 1: there for a minute, now we might have forgotten the
28:37
Speaker 1: white board, but we have them. Brian, I was just improvising.
28:40
Speaker 1: I'll say calebon Um. I think the Jaguars have dramatically
28:44
Speaker 1: upgraded both wide receiver and at a pass rushing defensive end. Um.
28:51
Speaker 1: But I just get the sense that you know, when
28:52
Speaker 1: you bring in Travon Walker to go with Josh Allen,
28:56
Speaker 1: if you want to spot here, you need to prove
28:59
Speaker 1: it and and should Alt as a guy who could
29:01
Speaker 1: do a bunch of different things. We saw him returning
29:03
Speaker 1: punts I think one day during O t S. I
29:05
Speaker 1: just don't know that the pressures on him like it
29:06
Speaker 1: is on to get after the quarterback. So I'll say Chas, yeah,
29:09
Speaker 1: I'll go with visca Um, I guess because he went
29:13
Speaker 1: with Caleb. And I don't know that either of them
29:17
Speaker 1: needs it bigger than the other. I think they both
29:19
Speaker 1: need big seasons. They both need to show what they're
29:24
Speaker 1: going to be in the NFL, and I think this
29:26
Speaker 1: is the third year for both of them. I think
29:28
Speaker 1: this is an important year for both of them, uh
29:31
Speaker 1: to be in the league long term. I mean Chason
29:35
Speaker 1: has talent, he has not had an impact here and
29:38
Speaker 1: hasn't really shown that he's a big time NFL player.
29:41
Speaker 1: Yet I think the same is probably true of Visca.
29:44
Speaker 1: He's had some moments. What is he going to be
29:46
Speaker 1: in the NFL? So I'll go with Viscar for the
29:49
Speaker 1: sake of argument. Um, I think they both need years.
29:52
Speaker 1: I think they both need to prove they're gonna be
29:54
Speaker 1: a long term NFL players, and I hope they are.
29:56
Speaker 1: I like both of them a lot. They're two of
29:59
Speaker 1: the most pleasant kids I've dealt with in a long
30:00
Speaker 1: long time. I hope it works out for him. But
30:02
Speaker 1: they need years where they show their NFL players they do,
30:05
Speaker 1: and I think especially for Leviscashnal, he is the person
30:08
Speaker 1: who realizes that the most he has been here every
30:11
Speaker 1: single day. He was there yesterday when he didn't have
30:13
Speaker 1: to be. You just you sense the sense of hungry
30:16
Speaker 1: nous with him, and I think he very much so
30:18
Speaker 1: realizes the ridicule of him and I think, um, he
30:21
Speaker 1: definitely is putting the work in to get where he
30:23
Speaker 1: wants to be. Yeah, I don't think I want to
30:26
Speaker 1: is a problem for you these Yeah, I think it's
30:28
Speaker 1: it's a tough league and they it's important yearsful, Yes,
30:32
Speaker 1: it is all right AshEL Nas number two. This of
30:34
Speaker 1: course is based on the offensive package you run and
30:37
Speaker 1: will change week to week, but with four options right
30:40
Speaker 1: now at running back, let's go to week six. We
30:44
Speaker 1: are Week six and it's pregame who is the starting
30:48
Speaker 1: running back mid season? John? Um, I'll go to Jay
30:53
Speaker 1: rob I mean, James Robinson is the proven running back
30:57
Speaker 1: on this team. I think if if he's health uh,
31:01
Speaker 1: and if he's who he's been when he's been at
31:06
Speaker 1: his best his first two years, uh, he's the starting
31:09
Speaker 1: running back. And then if that scenario happens, and I
31:13
Speaker 1: think E. T. N is your jack of all trades
31:16
Speaker 1: and it is playing like a twelve or thirteenth starter.
31:19
Speaker 1: But I think he's in the LINEUPO yep, curve on well.
31:25
Speaker 1: And here's why, Um, I we haven't seen Robinson yet.
31:29
Speaker 1: The Achilles is a serious injury. Um. What has he
31:32
Speaker 1: had six months to recover? I don't. I don't know
31:36
Speaker 1: that we'll see much of him, uh until maybe we
31:39
Speaker 1: get into the later part of the season. Um. Then
31:43
Speaker 1: I think Etna is still obviously, I think he's a weapon.
31:47
Speaker 1: I don't know that you're gonna line him up in
31:49
Speaker 1: the backfield and run him like a running back every play. Um,
31:53
Speaker 1: Connor's a big, strong, strapping, young legs kind of guy,
31:58
Speaker 1: and you might see him in the end up doing
32:00
Speaker 1: more than you would have expected. I could have gone
32:03
Speaker 1: with Rock Armstead too, because carried the ball out out there,
32:05
Speaker 1: and he's a veteran a guy. You could have. Um,
32:08
Speaker 1: I just think there's We've said it all spring long,
32:10
Speaker 1: So why change the injury that DTN suffered in the
32:13
Speaker 1: injury that James Robinson suffered, or injuries that can be
32:16
Speaker 1: career ending for running backs and both of them have
32:18
Speaker 1: to get over it. So I'll go with the young
32:21
Speaker 1: legs and say Connor in which the healthy one makes sense.
32:24
Speaker 1: All rights number three our final one. Looking at this defense,
32:28
Speaker 1: who is the starting safety Week one? Now you're free safety,
32:33
Speaker 1: strong safety obviously, UM four options ray Sean Jenkins, Andre Cisco,
32:37
Speaker 1: Andrew Wingard and Danielle Thomas. Who are we thinking is
32:41
Speaker 1: in the starting lineup as of right now? Weak one?
32:45
Speaker 1: I'll go with and uh god, ray Sean Jenkins. I mean,
32:50
Speaker 1: I think if if they're healthy, that's your combination, that's
32:55
Speaker 1: who they wanted to be. Uh. They I think are
32:59
Speaker 1: the most most talented of the four. And summer to
33:02
Speaker 1: go with those two. Well, they've they've they've sung the
33:04
Speaker 1: praises of Cisco, and I didn't have another paper towel,
33:07
Speaker 1: so I'm not going to use that. Um, they've anybody
33:09
Speaker 1: you've asked about Cisco. They've talked about his intellect. Um,
33:12
Speaker 1: they've talked about his athleticism. So I think he's one
33:15
Speaker 1: of them. And I would agree Rat Shawn is a
33:17
Speaker 1: guy They've paid a lot of money to us. He's
33:19
Speaker 1: got all the measurables you'd won. But I'm a fan
33:21
Speaker 1: of Daniel Thomas and I have been since, you know,
33:24
Speaker 1: the moment that he got into the lineup in Houston
33:26
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. Um, I think he is
33:28
Speaker 1: a terrific player. I think he's overlooked in many respects. Um,
33:32
Speaker 1: he had the broken arm. He remember he had that
33:33
Speaker 1: interception against the Steelers and then broke his arm. Um,
33:37
Speaker 1: and we didn't see him again his rookie season last
33:40
Speaker 1: year was last year, which was a disaster in so
33:42
Speaker 1: many respects. I have a sense that he's going to
33:44
Speaker 1: work his way into a position where people canna be
33:46
Speaker 1: talking about him when the season begins. What about do
33:49
Speaker 1: we your guy John no I mean I think he
33:54
Speaker 1: will be uh, a value special teams guy and a
33:58
Speaker 1: guy who's got experience in the starting line if he
34:00
Speaker 1: has to play because of injury. I you know, he
34:02
Speaker 1: has proven that uh, that slot and that thinking about
34:07
Speaker 1: him wrong before he sounds hard. He's last year. Uh
34:13
Speaker 1: is it absurd to think he might start? No, he
34:16
Speaker 1: he started last week. Nobody thought he would. But if
34:19
Speaker 1: he does started to failure for Cisco, isn't what he's
34:21
Speaker 1: supposed to be? Then? Right, means are the guys that
34:26
Speaker 1: you know I'm going with chalk here, These are the
34:29
Speaker 1: guys ever expects to start. I think they will start.
34:31
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34:33
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35:00
Speaker 1: for one more segment before we head into the off season.
35:03
Speaker 1: For good about a month break here on our Jaguars
35:06
Speaker 1: digital network of no shows. That's because the football teams
35:09
Speaker 1: on on the field and we wouldn't really have much
35:11
Speaker 1: to talk about except our personal lives, which I don't
35:13
Speaker 1: think anyone wants. No but John, you have a big
35:18
Speaker 1: ozone podcast guess before we take our summer break. Yeah,
35:22
Speaker 1: I do. The plan now is Trayvon Walker Sparkles. Did
35:25
Speaker 1: you call him? I will be on on the show
35:27
Speaker 1: this week, so uh, I'm hoping that comes to being
35:31
Speaker 1: um and I think it'll be interesting. I've I've talked
35:33
Speaker 1: to him on zoom or on in in press common situation,
35:37
Speaker 1: having a chance to get to know him. He seems
35:40
Speaker 1: like a kid. My impression of him is maybe not
35:42
Speaker 1: his outgoing, doesn't love the media, but very engaging and
35:47
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to getting to know. Yeah, maybe in
35:49
Speaker 1: a podcast, since when you don't have around doing a
35:52
Speaker 1: camera shoved in your face might be a little more
35:53
Speaker 1: comfortable for you. I think it'll be fun. Yeah, Brian
35:56
Speaker 1: summer plans, oh, chasing kids foot old camps all over
36:00
Speaker 1: the southeast, that kind of stuff. Um, you'll retreat the mountains,
36:04
Speaker 1: get out of it a little bit. Stuff that we
36:06
Speaker 1: normally do. Also spending some time with some alarm some
36:09
Speaker 1: of the Jags alumni. UM and I had a nice
36:11
Speaker 1: conversation with montell Owens, who people might remember as a
36:14
Speaker 1: three time Pro bowler, a guy who showed up as
36:16
Speaker 1: an undrafted rookie running back and became maybe the best
36:20
Speaker 1: special teams player this franchise has ever had. It's nice
36:22
Speaker 1: to see him back in Jacksonville, growing family, UH member,
36:26
Speaker 1: the community, and UM Jacks fans can't expect to see
36:29
Speaker 1: and hear from him and a lot of other guys
36:31
Speaker 1: that they may have um misplaced in their mind or
36:33
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years. When we get to
36:35
Speaker 1: the fall, love it what we will stay tuned for that.
36:37
Speaker 1: Thank you all for tuning in a Jaguars Drive time
36:40
Speaker 1: every single week this offseason and has certainly been an
36:43
Speaker 1: eventful off season and we're looking forward to a little
36:46
Speaker 1: break here about a month break, so we will see
36:48
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