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Travon Walker looking the part & more from the HOF Game | Jaguars Reporters: Friday, August 5 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Welcome into another edition of Jaguars Reporters. It's Friday, August five,
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Speaker 1: j P. Shadrick Brian Sexton from the lobby of a
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Speaker 1: Holiday Inn and Canton, Ohio. It's our reaction to the
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame and Tony Boselli's weekend a head. That's
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Speaker 1: all coming up, but Brian, let's start with last night's
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame game. The Raiders out rushed to Jags
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Speaker 1: by one hundred yards. They had some key penalties, there
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Speaker 1: were third down issues on offense that marred the opener.
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Speaker 1: Last night, the Raiders won the game eleven. Let's start
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Speaker 1: positive though. Trayvon Walker was on the field and looked
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Speaker 1: the part well. First of all, I mean, you get
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Speaker 1: into broadcasting and you don't think that you're going to
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Speaker 1: be broadcasting on a podcast from a Holiday Inn and
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Speaker 1: can'ton Ohio in two So this is something new to
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Speaker 1: me and I just perspective. Thank you for bringing that. Trayvon.
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Speaker 1: On the very first play of the game, we saw
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Speaker 1: both everything that he's capable of doing and things he
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Speaker 1: needs to do better right because he hesitated with his
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Speaker 1: pass rush and that's been the knock on him is
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Speaker 1: is that he doesn't necessarily have that instinct as a
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Speaker 1: pass rusher. And why what are you Georgia that used
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Speaker 1: him in so many different ways? Um? But that that
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Speaker 1: offensive tackle he played was six seven with arms that
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Speaker 1: stretched forever like his and he picked that guy up
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Speaker 1: and threw him at the feet of the quarterback. And
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Speaker 1: then he said in the locker room after the game,
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Speaker 1: I was so close. I didn't want to miss the
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Speaker 1: chance to impact the play. Well, you already did. But
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Speaker 1: then he reached and he impacted the fly to the ball.
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Speaker 1: Forget the fact that Cole caught it. He did his job. Um.
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Speaker 1: You know, I mean I've been saying he's he's the
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Speaker 1: body of a Clydesdale with the movement abilities of a stallion,
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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, he's just this incredible physical specimen.
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Speaker 1: And to see him right out of the gate maker
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Speaker 1: play like that last night, I know, I was excited.
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Speaker 1: And I was sitting a couple of seats down from
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Speaker 1: Trent Bulky in the press box, you know, the guy
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Speaker 1: who made the controversial pick. Um, he was pretty excited too.
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Speaker 1: Of Course, the next drive he gets home and gets
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Speaker 1: a sack, which was a good thing, and then they
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Speaker 1: got him out of the game after that, So a
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Speaker 1: couple of nice drives for Trayvon to get his feet
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Speaker 1: wet a little bit, get out there and as we said,
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Speaker 1: look the part, but to actually get home and get
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Speaker 1: the quarterback that was another great move to kind of
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Speaker 1: straight on him the tackle and then the quarterback came
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Speaker 1: back underneath them and it turned into an easy set. Well,
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Speaker 1: imagine what happens when Josh Allen's on the other side
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Speaker 1: now and offensive coordinates have the game plan, figure out
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Speaker 1: who were gonna slide to, where's the background of Chip?
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Speaker 1: And then we saw I think he was an explosive
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Speaker 1: pass rush from Caleb and Chason, which was good and
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Speaker 1: Arden Keith finished it off and had two sacks last night.
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Speaker 1: So if you want to talk about coming in waves,
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Speaker 1: you know, we always referenced the two thousand seven New
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Speaker 1: York Giants in that Super Bowl win against Tom Brady
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Speaker 1: where they just pelted him with everything they had. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, you want to bring that and it it
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Speaker 1: looked like you have the pieces to get some of
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Speaker 1: that done. So it's it's exciting to think about what's possible. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: everything didn't look great last night, but when you start
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Speaker 1: thinking about what when when John Josh Allen's on the field,
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Speaker 1: what can we do? There was a lot of positives
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Speaker 1: JP Shadow, Brian Sexon and Shag Wars reporters. We mentioned
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Speaker 1: the rushing defense issues. Well they had offensive issues too,
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Speaker 1: but they were outgained on the ground by one hundred
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Speaker 1: yards last night. But as you mentioned, there were a
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Speaker 1: lot of defensive guys that weren't in that will be
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Speaker 1: key in the run defense. Fully fought a cast, he
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Speaker 1: didn't play, Josh Allen, didn't play, Foyer Leuk in the middle.
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Speaker 1: Linebacker Devin Lloyd hasn't practiced yet. I mean, it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be hard to stop to run against anyone if those
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Speaker 1: guys aren't in. So you have to have a little
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Speaker 1: perspective in this. Well here and here's a piece of perspective,
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Speaker 1: and Doug Peterson gave it to us in the postgame
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Speaker 1: locker room last night. Is that you're talking about, you know,
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Speaker 1: mixing and matching and putting guys into the line of
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Speaker 1: egg because you needed bodies because you had so many
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Speaker 1: guys that didn't play, but you wanted to see people
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Speaker 1: in certain situations. Well, let's just say you've got a
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Speaker 1: j to fele and he lines up next to you know,
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Speaker 1: some undrafted rookie free agent, and you know your your
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Speaker 1: rolling linebackers through. Well, one guy makes a mistake and
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Speaker 1: gets out of position, and it's it's more likely to
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Speaker 1: happen in that scenario than it is in a regular
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Speaker 1: season you know, third and seven situation, because you've got
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Speaker 1: so many guys are where am I supposed to be?
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Speaker 1: Who am I supposed to get? You saw guys jumping
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Speaker 1: out of gaps last night, just reacting, and that made
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Speaker 1: everybody look like they were, you know, tumbling downhill like
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Speaker 1: a row of dominoes. So it's really hard to evaluate.
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Speaker 1: Although you know set after the game, Hey, look if
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Speaker 1: we can't run the ball and stop the run, what
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Speaker 1: are we doing? So you wanted to see at least
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Speaker 1: the basics of that, But I'll give you the perspective.
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Speaker 1: They had eight practices j pe and and two of
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Speaker 1: those were in full pads. So I think, if if
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Speaker 1: I'm interpreting Doug Peterson's mindset, last night was a practice
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Speaker 1: kind of felt like that at times. It really did.
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Speaker 1: Uh that's Brian Sexton. I'm J P. Shadick. The offense,
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Speaker 1: it was without Trevor Lawrence C. J Bethard still coming
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Speaker 1: back from that growing issue at the end of the
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Speaker 1: offseason program. Top three receivers are out Puss Lavisca Chennault,
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Speaker 1: who was off to the side the last couple of
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Speaker 1: days of practice before the trip. Evan Ingram didn't play,
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Speaker 1: Tyler Shatley, and Brandon Sheriff didn't come close to the field.
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Speaker 1: So you were digging deep on offense last night to
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Speaker 1: certainly the quarterback position. Luton got the start. Sloughter came
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Speaker 1: in later and had a touchdown pass in the game,
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Speaker 1: but you know that was going to be the field
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Speaker 1: in this game, getting some of those younger guys some
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Speaker 1: reps in that first time out there, and then I
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Speaker 1: think is the week's move on. Certainly this week you
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Speaker 1: might see some of those guys come back here. We'll
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Speaker 1: tell you I paid almost no attention offensively. Is I'm
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Speaker 1: making my notes in the game. I'm I'm looking at
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Speaker 1: Jake Luton and these receivers and thinking, okay, so I
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Speaker 1: thought I won't focus on two guys. Luke partner the
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Speaker 1: center and walk a little the right tackle. And it's
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Speaker 1: tough to evaluate the center until you go back and
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Speaker 1: look at the table. But I thought Walker little show
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Speaker 1: those movement skills that we've been talking about since last
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Speaker 1: year and looked really good. And I asked him last
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Speaker 1: night in the postgame locker room, did you feel like
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Speaker 1: when you had that first team group together on the
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Speaker 1: practice field, you feel like you're making progress? And he
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Speaker 1: said yes. I said, do you feel like next week
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Speaker 1: when the Browns come to town you're all out there,
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Speaker 1: the fans will see the progress that they didn't see tonight.
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Speaker 1: His answer was short and sweet, Yeah, I do. I
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Speaker 1: think they will. So if folks are disappointed from what
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Speaker 1: they saw on the offense last night, hold on and
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Speaker 1: let's evaluate it next Friday night, when we're likely to
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Speaker 1: see guys, even if it's only for a series or two,
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Speaker 1: and then be able to say, oh, I see what
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Speaker 1: they did with the offensive line, I see what they're
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Speaker 1: doing with Travis Etn and stuff like that. Right, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna put this game to bed and we're gonna move
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Speaker 1: forward to enshrinement weekend when we return. This is the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Reporters Podcast. Welcome back to the Jaguars Reporters Podcast.
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Speaker 1: And with the Jaguars season right around the corner, there's
6:15
Speaker 1: no better time to lock in your seats for two
6:18
Speaker 1: unsure where to sit? Well, Brian, we've got you covered.
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Speaker 1: Joined the Jags at t i A bank Field Saturday,
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Speaker 1: August six, that's tomorrow from ten am to two pm
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Speaker 1: and you can test out available inventory in person. The
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame and Shrine at ceremony will be playing
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Speaker 1: on the big boards as well. Visit Jaguars dot com,
6:35
Speaker 1: Slash my Seat and r s v P. Today I
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Speaker 1: was sitting in the locker room and this big kid
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Speaker 1: from Mullets Baseball Cap came in, introduced himself and I
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Speaker 1: mean he's six ft seven seven pounds with the best feeds,
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Speaker 1: a good athlete. He was a ballerina playing offensive lift.
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Speaker 1: That was Tony's job. His job is to beat who
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Speaker 1: I don't give his Bruce Smith or Jason Taylor, Seawan Jones,
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Speaker 1: William Guinness, Regy Why Greg? If you're line up across room,
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Speaker 1: idot care who you are, You're going to get bored.
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Speaker 1: We just heard audio of the documentary is set to
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Speaker 1: be released this fall, entitled seventy one. There was a
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Speaker 1: teaser that went out on social media Friday morning interviews
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Speaker 1: with so many people around BUSSELLI discussing his career and
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Speaker 1: life away from football, and a lot of people working
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes for months, but from the announcement of
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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame through this weekend and beyond, Patrick Kavanaugh,
7:25
Speaker 1: Dave Decandice, who's sitting beside us, Everett Sullivan, Max Hockman,
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Speaker 1: Brent Reever, Trump Padilla, Gabby Dalton. The list goes on
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Speaker 1: and on and the work continues. I believe sometime in
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Speaker 1: the fall this will be released, Brian, and there's been
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Speaker 1: some incredible conversations coming out of this project. Yeah. So
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Speaker 1: I think the tentative date is just screen at the
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Speaker 1: weekend of October ninth, ninth, and tenth, when the Texans
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Speaker 1: are in town, because that's gonna be the alumni weekend,
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Speaker 1: so all of these former teammates will be in for that.
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Speaker 1: It it's exciting, it really is to get to get
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Speaker 1: to this point of the weekend and to think about
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Speaker 1: celebrating the Jaguars fans and Jackson. I go back to
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Speaker 1: ninety five when they drafted him and we all pointed
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Speaker 1: at him because he was a great player in college
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Speaker 1: and said that's our guy. And then for him to
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Speaker 1: actually be our guy, I mean when he got on
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Speaker 1: the field that first night against the Packers and Stone
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Speaker 1: Sean Jones, and he didn't get many reps against Reggie White,
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Speaker 1: but I don't think Reggie White wanted to mess with him.
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Speaker 1: He stayed over there on the other side of the
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Speaker 1: line from that moment all the way through his career
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Speaker 1: short and though it may be jp, he fulfilled his
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Speaker 1: potential as the number one pick, as a player and
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Speaker 1: as a person. He was the leader of the football
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Speaker 1: team on the field and a leader in the community,
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Speaker 1: and and this franchise leaned on him and he delivered.
8:37
Speaker 1: I can't think of of another player that no one
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Speaker 1: from that class that's ever come through here that you
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Speaker 1: can necessarily say that about. He is a tremendous human being,
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Speaker 1: as you well know, and his family is beautiful. He's
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Speaker 1: a member of our community. He said he was going
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Speaker 1: to be. It's just to me, it's just full circle.
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Speaker 1: It's amazing that he became what we all hoped he would.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned Reggie White, and a story just popped in
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Speaker 1: my head that he has told me at least before
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Speaker 1: and probably numerous other people, was one of the Pro
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Speaker 1: Bowls he went to and he's lined up at right tackle.
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Speaker 1: I think Vinny testa Verdie is the quarterback and here's
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Speaker 1: Reggie White lined up against him. So it's like the
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Speaker 1: first play of the game. He's like, Okay, this is
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Speaker 1: a half speed Pro Bowl, not for Reggie White. He
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Speaker 1: went right around Tony and hammered Vinny Testaverdie and Tony
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Speaker 1: is like, sorry, Vinnie, that dad. I didn't realize that
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Speaker 1: there was a little different time of the Pro Bowl
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Speaker 1: back then when they were actually trying to get after it.
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Speaker 1: But that that memory just kind of pops in my head.
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Speaker 1: And another one for me the first time I met
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Speaker 1: Tony Boselli. I had just started with the Jaguars in
9:41
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of the new guy in the PR
9:43
Speaker 1: department and I'm I'm excited, you know, all this new
9:47
Speaker 1: clothes and office, and I had brought my I got
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Speaker 1: this Alabama in the National Championship, right, So I had
9:54
Speaker 1: this something that that was the twelfth of now a
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Speaker 1: lot so but I had this poster of the returning
10:02
Speaker 1: starters that season, and I got an autographed by all
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Speaker 1: of them on the defensive side and it was great.
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Speaker 1: All of those guys got drafted. So I had that
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Speaker 1: frame and I brought it to the office and put
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Speaker 1: it in my office. Well, Tony Boselli walks in to
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Speaker 1: say hi and introduced himself. How are you doing? He
10:18
Speaker 1: looks at the at the poster. He's like, yeah, I
10:22
Speaker 1: blocked that guy. That guy wasn't good. He was okay,
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Speaker 1: but not great. I blocked him all day long, like
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Speaker 1: he went through the whole list. I'm okay, it's a
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Speaker 1: little different here. This guy is a totally different animal.
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Speaker 1: That was my first interaction with Tony. The first time
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Speaker 1: I met him was the Sunday morning. Back then, the
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Speaker 1: draft was Saturday and Sunday, so he was drafted about
10:43
Speaker 1: noontime on Saturday, and by Sunday morning he was in Jacksonville.
10:47
Speaker 1: I was coming back to the stadium to do some
10:49
Speaker 1: work and somebody goes, hey, grab that microphone. We're going
10:52
Speaker 1: to interview Tony Boselli. And when he's here already, Yeah,
10:54
Speaker 1: he's here, Come on's go. We go to the weight room.
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Speaker 1: I went, where's the weight room? Right? The stame was
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Speaker 1: all under construction, right, we're dodging worn clips and crates,
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Speaker 1: And there he is standing in a suit with Angie
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Speaker 1: uh in all. I mean, she looked like Miss California.
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Speaker 1: She's wearing this bright red jacket. And you just saw
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Speaker 1: these two and they were so friendly, they were so
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Speaker 1: genuine and excited to be here. And uh, Tony had
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Speaker 1: some moments when he was a player, when he's up,
11:18
Speaker 1: just a pain in the assis in the locker room.
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Speaker 1: He just like, man, I don't want to deal with
11:21
Speaker 1: him today. But but that's what you expect. You know,
11:24
Speaker 1: he was a cranky, offensive lineman, which is what made
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Speaker 1: him great. Edge and the edges would make him great.
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Speaker 1: But um, but the moment that that that I first
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Speaker 1: saw him, laid eyes on him and talk to him
11:35
Speaker 1: till now, I mean, I just I just have felt
11:38
Speaker 1: so honored to have to known him and to be
11:41
Speaker 1: you know, friends with him, and to to see his
11:43
Speaker 1: career go. They're just fabulous people. And I have to
11:45
Speaker 1: say this too about about Tony and blocking. You talk
11:47
Speaker 1: about all the guys he blocked. I remember early in
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Speaker 1: his career, guys would just watch him and just watch
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Speaker 1: him move and warm up and say he's gonna be great,
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Speaker 1: gonna be great, and and you just knew he was
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Speaker 1: better than everyone else. No one's ever said that about me,
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Speaker 1: or he's just better than everyone else at anything. Maybe
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Speaker 1: taking out the trash on Tuesday. I don't know. Um,
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Speaker 1: it's just I can't imagine what that's like, where you're
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Speaker 1: just the best, easy to be, I guess for him
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Speaker 1: as Brian Sexton, I'm JP Shatrick. It's Jaguar's reporters. We
12:21
Speaker 1: got to go to the Hall of Fame yesterday. Jaguars
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Speaker 1: All Access Television shot there. I had a chance to
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Speaker 1: walk around the hall and the Basselli exhibits are out
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Speaker 1: as locker is out there with some items that he
12:33
Speaker 1: sent to the Hall of Fame. A couple of his
12:35
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl jerseys areround, and then you go into the
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Speaker 1: bus room and there's the little platform where his bust
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Speaker 1: is going to go. And that's really really cool. And
12:46
Speaker 1: you know, it's fun to see all the people that
12:48
Speaker 1: have come up from Jacksonville for those two and I
12:50
Speaker 1: think you heard them during his introduction before the game
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Speaker 1: last night. I think it was the loudest cheer of
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Speaker 1: all the Hall of Famers, all the Jacksonville and the
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Speaker 1: Jaguar fans better here to support him. And he talked
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Speaker 1: about that during the game last night, how how meaningful
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Speaker 1: that was for him to to hear that kind of
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Speaker 1: response last night. I noticed that too. The Raiders fans,
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Speaker 1: Cliff Branches. Obviously the csed he died Ineen. They gave
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Speaker 1: him a nice ovation. But when Tony came across, I
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Speaker 1: saw him, I think hesitate and stopped. You know, probably
13:18
Speaker 1: the only time he ever hesitated going onto a football field.
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Speaker 1: I think. I think the moment grabbed him. And the
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Speaker 1: great thing about Tony is how sensitive he is to
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Speaker 1: the history of this game, to the to the franchise
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Speaker 1: and what it means not just to his family, but
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Speaker 1: to this franchise, which is you know, the extension of
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Speaker 1: his family and into the NFL. I walked around the
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame and I went looking for some of
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Speaker 1: the greats who played left tackle, and you know he
13:42
Speaker 1: he played in the golden era of left tackles. Us
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Speaker 1: do you think about Orlando Pace with the St. Louis
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Speaker 1: Rams and Walter Jones out in Seattle and of course
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Speaker 1: John Ogden in Baltimore. I think Tony was better than
13:53
Speaker 1: all of them. Now you can say, well, you're biased,
13:55
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I'm personally sure. But Anthony Munios
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Speaker 1: came to town in two thousand, used to host the
14:00
Speaker 1: Florida Sports Awards. The Jaspers. They called him and and
14:03
Speaker 1: backstage we were quizzing him and we said, who's the best. Remember,
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Speaker 1: everyone said Anthon Munios is the best, and he said,
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Speaker 1: you can say that, and I really appreciate it. But
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Speaker 1: if I'm honest with you, I look at him and
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Speaker 1: I think he's better than make. He's the best left
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Speaker 1: tackle to ever play the game. And at that moment,
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Speaker 1: I said, okay, he is. He's the best left tackle
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Speaker 1: to ever play the game. And I'll tell you I
14:19
Speaker 1: can't imagine anybody ever playing it better than he did.
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Speaker 1: The combination of length and nasty aggression and and look,
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Speaker 1: if this team needed someone to light a fire, needed
14:31
Speaker 1: somebody who sparked the way you wouldn't think the left
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Speaker 1: tackles the guy. Hey, let's focus on the left. But
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Speaker 1: Tony Boselli was always the guy out front. He was
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Speaker 1: like following me, let's go. Um. I love the guy.
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Speaker 1: It's been so much fun to watch him and and
14:42
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see that bust go into the
14:44
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame and we'll all kid him about how
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Speaker 1: big it is. I'm sure I already have actually on
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Speaker 1: the video or whatever. So the weekend to hand, we
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Speaker 1: will be following Tony throughout these events, but not the
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Speaker 1: Ray nitch Key luncheon that's for Hall of Famers only
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Speaker 1: on Friday. He said he was really looking for to
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Speaker 1: that tonight Friday night the Gold Jacket Dinner. Mark Burnell
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Speaker 1: officially will put the jacket on Basselli. That's to sit
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Speaker 1: down dinner before the program this evening and then Saturday
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Speaker 1: the en Trinement Ceremony at twelve noon at Tom Benson
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame Stadium, Baselia. Schedule to speak fiveth out
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Speaker 1: of eight speeches are set to be eight minutes or less.
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Speaker 1: They said they're gonna start the music Oscar style if
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Speaker 1: you get to eight minutes and try to force you
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Speaker 1: off the stage. Our friends in the desert Brian might
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Speaker 1: have Dick vermil is the favorite to cry tomorrow. Oh yeah, Dick.
15:32
Speaker 1: And look, the older we get, the more emotional we get.
15:35
Speaker 1: But Dick, for Meal, is one of those guys who
15:37
Speaker 1: loves the game. And there's an old saying in football,
15:41
Speaker 1: and it's the memories that make us rich. Right, It's
15:43
Speaker 1: the people, it's the experiences, it's the places and the
15:46
Speaker 1: things that we've done in this game. And Dick formal
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Speaker 1: has done a lot of them, and I would say
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Speaker 1: he'll be emotional, but I I'm kind of anxious to
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Speaker 1: hear Tony, you know, I mean, I really I know
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Speaker 1: that they've practiced this thing and they're gonna really hold
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Speaker 1: it to eight minutes. Um, I'm anxious to hear it.
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Speaker 1: And you mentioned Mark Brunell, and I have to tell
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Speaker 1: you those two were thickest thieves from the very beginning.
16:06
Speaker 1: I mean, they just they bonded and became friends. I
16:09
Speaker 1: don't know it's the Pact twelve thing or they had
16:10
Speaker 1: some friends in common, um, but they rode to work
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Speaker 1: together every day from marsh Landing to Jacksonville in the
16:18
Speaker 1: time that they played together, and they were just always together.
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Speaker 1: And so when people started asking, Hey, Tony, who's gonna
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Speaker 1: be your presenter, I thought, there's no question about this,
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Speaker 1: is there. I mean, it's gonna be Mark Burnell. And
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Speaker 1: so I'm excited to hear Mark. I'm decided to see
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Speaker 1: those two together. And again, it's the full circle. It's
16:34
Speaker 1: the culmination. You know. We put all of our hopes
16:37
Speaker 1: in them. And yeah, they didn't deliver Super Bowl, I
16:39
Speaker 1: get it, but they gave us great memories. They gave
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Speaker 1: us a history of this franchise that we lean on
16:44
Speaker 1: to this day. Through the lean years, we've pointed to
16:47
Speaker 1: those years and bonds, right, bonds. Fred Taylor is your friend,
16:51
Speaker 1: you know, Tony Boselli, Jeff Lockhaman those guys and and
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Speaker 1: Mark and Tony represent those and um, I just I'm grateful.
16:58
Speaker 1: I feel very very honored us do have been a
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Speaker 1: part of it all. And this weekend is the it's
17:04
Speaker 1: the icing on the cake. And just to be a
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Speaker 1: part of this weekend is is just an honor as
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Speaker 1: well to be involved, to be around it, to get
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Speaker 1: to see it in person. And I can't wait for
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Speaker 1: the next two days ahead. And we'll see who's next
17:19
Speaker 1: after that. That's a conversation I think for another time.
17:21
Speaker 1: Let's get through the first one before we really start
17:23
Speaker 1: digging deep into the next one. Yeah, are we going
17:25
Speaker 1: to hang a banner or something in the studio that's
17:27
Speaker 1: his Tony Boselli Hall of Fame? Mean, are we in
17:30
Speaker 1: his contract? Oh no, I'm just teasing him. But he'll
17:33
Speaker 1: get some good natured ribbing and then he'll come back
17:36
Speaker 1: and do what he does because football is football, and
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Speaker 1: family and faith to him are the the important three things.
17:41
Speaker 1: And he's enjoying this, and I imagine this whole year
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Speaker 1: is going to be incredibly special for him. Enjoy the weekend, Brian. Thanks. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to I've had fun. Thank you, Brian Sexton.
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