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Deep First Round Pick and Drafting to Fit the Culture | Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, April 20 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It is Thursday, April twentieth. This is Jaguars Happy Hour,
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  Speaker 1: and now a guy who's willing to play cupan along
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  Speaker 1: with Ian Sterling and Sarah Hyland, Jay pe Chagrig literally
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  Speaker 1: have no idea what that means. Welcome in. It's Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: Happy Hour. It is Thursday afternoon. It's a busy time
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  Speaker 1: of year. We have a busy hour ahead on this
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  Speaker 1: edition of Happy Hour. Trent Balke and Doug Peterson speaking
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  Speaker 1: today in the pre draft luncheon. We'll hear from the
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  Speaker 1: GM and the head coach and some highlights of their comments.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up yesterday, Trevor Lawrence, Calvin, Ridley Foyer look and
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  Speaker 1: all speaking setting the tone for the offseason program. We'll
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  Speaker 1: hear from those three in a little bit. NFL Network
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  Speaker 1: analyst Daniel Jeremiah we sat down earlier this week. The
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  Speaker 1: full conversation now on Jaguars dot Com. We'll hear again
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  Speaker 1: from DJ and get his thoughts what the Jags could do,
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  Speaker 1: what could be some options at least at number twenty
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  Speaker 1: four overall in the first round Next Thursday, a week
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  Speaker 1: from tonight, we'll go around the NFL. Also, analyst Jeff
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  Speaker 1: Logoman is out this week, new team reporter Kaynani Stevens
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  Speaker 1: is in Oh.
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  Speaker 2: And I loved the Love Island reference off the time.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what that was?
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  Speaker 2: But I love reality TV, so I knew it right away.
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  Speaker 1: What channel? And this is a dumb question, but hey,
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  Speaker 1: consider the source. What channel? Is that all?
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna get into the weeds on this. It's all
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  Speaker 2: on Hulu, so my girls will know about it if
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  Speaker 2: they want to. But it's British show, so they haven't
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  Speaker 2: in America too. But it's a British.
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  Speaker 1: Reality O British show.
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  Speaker 2: This is not a great impression. We can talk football.
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  Speaker 1: We'll go after a rousing start here, I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: you're taking a turn love. I had no idea what
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  Speaker 1: he was referencing there, which is kind of a part
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  Speaker 1: for the course. Welcome into the show us. You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be with us the whole hour tonight. Looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: catch it up with you and talking a lot of
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  Speaker 1: football coming up. But you're so you started Monday, Yes, this.
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  Speaker 2: Is my four day but I'm very excited to actually
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  Speaker 2: get to talk a little bit of football.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, fourth day in so give us a little background.
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  Speaker 1: I know you did this on social media every Yes,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of folks who listened to the show follow
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars on social media on Instagram and Twitter, and
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  Speaker 1: you did some video work on there this week introducing yourself.
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  Speaker 1: But for those who might be driving around and may
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  Speaker 1: have missed that, give us the brief elevator synopsis of
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  Speaker 1: your careers thus far and how you got here.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'll give you, guys, my little pitch. I
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  Speaker 2: did local TV for about ten years. I started in
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  Speaker 2: news and sports, and I eventually went to sports. Football wise,
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  Speaker 2: I've covered the Patriots about twenty sixteen to twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: which was a nice time to do that, and then
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  Speaker 2: most recently I was in Connecticut and I did a
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  Speaker 2: lot of University Connecticut. We'll give shout out to them.
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  Speaker 2: They're the national champions, so we'll give the basketball.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, basketball, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: The men. So I've kind of had, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of experience and everything. But I'm really excited
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  Speaker 2: to cover at the NFL full time again.
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  Speaker 1: You were with the Patriots when the Jaguars played, of
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  Speaker 1: course the Patriots in the AFC Championship game.
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  Speaker 2: I was there. I was not going to bring that up,
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  Speaker 2: but well, I just did.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and the Jags went up there in training
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  Speaker 1: camp too that year before the season did, and that
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  Speaker 1: was in twenty seventeen, and got to see Brady and
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  Speaker 1: in the operation and everything firsthand, and really towards the
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  Speaker 1: end of its prime, but still in its prime, but
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  Speaker 1: you got to see that every day for a long
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  Speaker 1: time and see how a winning organization really operates.
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  Speaker 2: I did. And it's obviously outside looking in, it's very structured,
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  Speaker 2: it's very regimented. But they had it that way for
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  Speaker 2: a reason. Obviously they had a lot of success for
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  Speaker 2: a long time and this is definitely a different situation,
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  Speaker 2: but the building blocks seemed to be there. I talked
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  Speaker 2: a little bit to Calvin Ridley earlier this week, and
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  Speaker 2: it was kind of giving the outside perspective, like, at
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  Speaker 2: least nationally, like people that don't follow the team every day,
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  Speaker 2: it just looks from the outside that you guys kind
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  Speaker 2: of have it all together going in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we you're on the team, you're part of the team.
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  Speaker 2: We do.
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  Speaker 1: You're in it. We'll hear from Calvin coming up and
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  Speaker 1: just a little by the way, I don't think you
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  Speaker 1: were on the Patriots media football flag squad that the
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars squad destroyed. I was that we dominated. I scored
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  Speaker 1: the first touchdown. Former PR director Tad Dickman scored a touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: dunked on the goalpost. Who blew him out? It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: even close. It was a blowout.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in the presence of greatness. That's great.
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  Speaker 1: I just I just wanted to throw that out. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: since you were a part of that, Let's get to football.
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  Speaker 1: Of course. It's one week to the NFL Draft. A
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  Speaker 1: week from tonight. It's Round one of the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: three NFL Draft in Kansas City. Will have covers throughout
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  Speaker 1: the weekend here on Jaguars dot Com, of course, with
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  Speaker 1: instant analysis after every pick and much more. The draft
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  Speaker 1: to party is Thursday night. We'll get to that coming
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  Speaker 1: up as well. Today though, the annual pre draft media luncheon,
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  Speaker 1: Trent Balky and Doug Peterson speaking with the media, but
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  Speaker 1: they didn't really say a whole lot at all. It's
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  Speaker 1: a tradition really unlike any other, but bulky on the
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  Speaker 1: balance of value versus need in the draft, especially in round.
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  Speaker 3: One, you're still setting the board based on value and
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  Speaker 3: then once it's play, once you've got the board set
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  Speaker 3: on value.
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  Speaker 1: Then you start looking at the needs.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want to push players up the board value
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  Speaker 3: wise just because you have a need at that position.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I've been doing this a while now,
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  Speaker 3: and most of the time the value in need come together.
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  Speaker 3: You know, very few times if I looked at the
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  Speaker 3: board and said, well, there's just no value at the
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  Speaker 3: position of need that we have.
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  Speaker 1: You know, sometimes it's a.
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  Speaker 3: Little it might be a card off, but it's still
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  Speaker 3: close enough where you can address the need.
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  Speaker 1: And he went on to say, kind of a little later,
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  Speaker 1: you know, later in the draft, you might be able
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  Speaker 1: to push up a little further on need. Hey, we
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  Speaker 1: really kind of need an extra player at this position.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go get this guy in the fifth, sixth, seventh round.
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  Speaker 1: But early, hey, it is a balance, and usually it
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  Speaker 1: does come together. He's been at this, as he said,
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  Speaker 1: for a long time, longtime GM in San Francisco, so
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  Speaker 1: he understands how a board can fall and you just
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  Speaker 1: have to be paid at twenty four too. That's the
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  Speaker 1: other trick of this thing.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a little bit different for him, right because
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  Speaker 2: this is the fourth draft that he's had. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're not at the top of the list this time,
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  Speaker 2: because you guys had such a great season last year,
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  Speaker 2: so picking up this position. Obviously, these are the meat,
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  Speaker 2: and you know that's the meat of your roster, right
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  Speaker 2: these mid round guys, not necessarily late first round. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm curious to see which way they go with it.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously there's still the option that you might trade back
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  Speaker 2: and get a couple more picks out of it. And
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  Speaker 2: he's not going to tell us, of course, so we
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  Speaker 2: can just hypothesize about that all day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, he's not scared to pull the trigger on
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  Speaker 1: a trade on draft day. He's done that throughout his career,
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  Speaker 1: both in San Francisco and in Jacksonville. Well, he also
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  Speaker 1: mentioned today that there is a pretty specific number of
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  Speaker 1: players they are truly considering in this draft. A little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a surprise from Bulky. You know, we have a.
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  Speaker 3: Specific way we set up the board, so well it
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  Speaker 3: sounds like one hundred and twenty seven, there's there's more
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  Speaker 3: numbers baked in there. Those are the one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: twenty seven that we really feel fit the culture we
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  Speaker 3: want and fit the value that we have placed on them.
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  Speaker 3: And really, you know, all the stars aligned there's other
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  Speaker 3: there's other fallbacks that we would go to, but really
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  Speaker 3: we're picking from one to twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: And those are, as he said, perfect prospects in their eyes, right,
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  Speaker 1: players on the field, tape numbers to go with that
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  Speaker 1: culture fits. Those are the perfect prospects that you really want.
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  Speaker 1: And what there's how many picks there are? Two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and late two hundreds picks, one hundred and twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: They're truly considering interesting.
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  Speaker 2: It's mind boggling when you actually think about it, because
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  Speaker 2: you've got to be like, how have you seen that
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  Speaker 2: many players and actually like know or think that they
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  Speaker 2: would fit in well, but I guess I mean a
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  Speaker 2: lot of it's guests work when you get into the
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  Speaker 2: later rounds. Of course, in terms of the top talent,
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  Speaker 2: these guys are so talented, right, so it feels like
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  Speaker 2: I can't miss and obviously there are misses, but the
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  Speaker 2: talent in the first couple of rounds, it's just you know,
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  Speaker 2: picking which one you want.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, And then he was asked about
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  Speaker 1: this too. Doug Peterson was asked about this and at
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  Speaker 1: the end there Bulky was talking about, Hey, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there are some other things we can go to if
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  Speaker 1: one of the guys doesn't follow those one twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: do they fit in the culture the locker room, well,
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  Speaker 1: Doug Peterson's asked about that, if for some reason there's
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  Speaker 1: something missing there. The locker room kind of handles it themselves.
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  Speaker 4: Our scouts do an outstanding job of, you know, spending
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  Speaker 4: time with players and family members and as Trent say,
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  Speaker 4: coaches and anybody we can talk to get answers on players,
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  Speaker 4: and and so we feel like the ones that are
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  Speaker 4: on the board are all great fits for us, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and and again, but our locker room can absorb that.
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  Speaker 4: And and you know, they either buy in or they
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  Speaker 4: won't be here.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's that's a fact that's for sure. In this
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  Speaker 1: locker room is fantastic. Obviously, the last couple of years
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  Speaker 1: of free agency, some veteran players, guys who've come in
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  Speaker 1: to lead the way. So you better fit in or
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  Speaker 1: if you don't, you will quickly and if not, you're
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  Speaker 1: out of here in a hurry. Too.
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  Speaker 2: Trent said the same thing, right, He was like, there's
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  Speaker 2: tons of people that are talented, but they're just not
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  Speaker 2: going to fit in here, and that's really important to them.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously what they've been able to do in just one
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  Speaker 2: season since Doug's been here, and they returned a lot
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  Speaker 2: of that course, so you'll have that set up ready
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  Speaker 2: to go for whoever the rookies end up being. And
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  Speaker 2: since it's like a strong core that's returning that is
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  Speaker 2: not going to let anybody mess with the culture, they
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  Speaker 2: should be pretty much set.
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  Speaker 1: That kind of reminded me a little bit of the
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  Speaker 1: process when we were going through the background of Kai
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  Speaker 1: Stevens too and getting her in here, turning over every stone,
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  Speaker 1: interviewing people. I'm not kidding, of course, but no, it's
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  Speaker 1: good to have you here. Thank you. We're looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to hearing your analysis. Of course. Throughout it's Jaguars Happy
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  Speaker 1: Hour on tentent XL Jaguars dot Com. JP Shadick Jeff
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  Speaker 1: Logoman is out this week. Kai Stevens is in, Trevor
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  Speaker 1: Lawrence and Calvin Ridley in about ten minutes from now.
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  Speaker 1: Let's hear some more from Trent Balky. We mentioned he
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  Speaker 1: likes to trade Kui twenty three draft day trades in
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  Speaker 1: his time as a leader of a draft room that
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  Speaker 1: officially is from twenty eleven through sixteen in San Francisco
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  Speaker 1: and now the last couple of years in Jacksonville. I
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  Speaker 1: also count the twenty ten season the GM in San
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  Speaker 1: Francisco about a month before the draft was sent off,
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  Speaker 1: and he really kind of took over the shots day
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  Speaker 1: to day. But twenty three trades. But the question is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, do you talk about this with other teams beforehand?
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  Speaker 1: But not really the case or balky.
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  Speaker 3: I've rarely have ever had conversations pre draft about trying
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  Speaker 3: to move. There's too much that can happen.
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  Speaker 1: There's too many scenarios to play out in your mind.
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  Speaker 3: I think is the is the board starts to unfold,
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  Speaker 3: you get a better feel for how it's trending, and
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  Speaker 3: then you miss. You start picking up the phone at
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  Speaker 3: the appropriate time. I just think it's too hard to
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  Speaker 3: play off coach that. I thought, it's so hard to
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  Speaker 3: play all the scenarios in your mind, and you could
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  Speaker 3: sit in that room to nauseam and go through all
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  Speaker 3: the different you don't put and then you know, the
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  Speaker 3: draft happens and three dicks into it. Your theories are
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  Speaker 3: your all, your work shot and you got to you know,
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  Speaker 3: swim from the hip anyway. So I think you're just
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  Speaker 3: better off set on the board, trusting the board, the
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  Speaker 3: values set and then let it unfold.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of day three picks kai here, so three
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  Speaker 1: sixth round picks and what nine total picks in this draft,
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  Speaker 1: and you would imagine there would be some movement, especially
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  Speaker 1: on day three, certainly knowing his history and you know
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  Speaker 1: he likes to just not sit there. If he wants
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  Speaker 1: to go get a guy, especially on day three, he'll
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  Speaker 1: go get him.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't say a lot, right, like talking a little bit
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  Speaker 2: around it, But I mean he's right because you have
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  Speaker 2: no idea what's going to happen. There's a reason there's
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  Speaker 2: a thousand different mock drafts because a thousand different things
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  Speaker 2: can happen. So obviously it'll depend who falls who you know,
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  Speaker 2: gets picked that they no one thought would get picked.
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  Speaker 2: But in terms of where the picks are distributed, you'd
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  Speaker 2: have to imagine he's gonna trade some of them.
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  Speaker 1: Right, you think, right, go away with nine players, right.
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  Speaker 2: Not what they have success roster already, Right, I would
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  Speaker 2: think at least maybe get them next year or something
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  Speaker 2: like that, right.
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  Speaker 1: Which has happened already in previous drafts, to get some
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  Speaker 1: picks into the next year. That has happened before, and
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  Speaker 1: you know they that's why they stockpiled these six rounders
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  Speaker 1: moving ahead on Day three and then finally the evaluation
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  Speaker 1: process of these prospects and it really start, It really
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  Speaker 1: started a couple of years ago when scouts are out
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  Speaker 1: on campus colleges talking to players coaches around them, and
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  Speaker 1: they build that scouting report over the years. But the
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff is very much involved in that process, and
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  Speaker 1: Doug Peterson today said they are fully involved in finding
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  Speaker 1: out the best and worst parts about prospects.
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  Speaker 4: This is what I appreciate about how how Trent handles
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  Speaker 4: this process with us. I mean, he involves us, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, he definitely wants everybody's input. And you're right,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, we're the ones coaching the players,
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  Speaker 4: and so you know, he wants us to have that
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  Speaker 4: input and.
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  Speaker 1: That say on guys.
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  Speaker 4: And and I think that's it just holds us as
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  Speaker 4: coach is more accountable right to the guys in that
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  Speaker 4: locker room. Now we're all on the same page, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's it's just a valuable part of the process.
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  Speaker 4: And the more, the more eyes and the more information
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  Speaker 4: we can get on players, the better, the better we
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  Speaker 4: can make selections.
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  Speaker 1: Not always like that everywhere in the league. I mean that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, some places it's a totally different scouting and
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  Speaker 1: personnel staff, and okay, the coach gets who they get.
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  Speaker 2: Not here, there's a lot of places where they're almost
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  Speaker 2: like two different departments, right, Like you've never seen them
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  Speaker 2: in the same place. But I feel like Trent and Doug,
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  Speaker 2: at least from my short time here, seem like they're
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  Speaker 2: definitely on the same page. And that's what you want,
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  Speaker 2: because if you pick somebody and your coach doesn't know
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  Speaker 2: what to do with them or doesn't want them, it's
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  Speaker 2: not going to be successful. So at least be aware
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  Speaker 2: kind of go after the right players. And from what
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  Speaker 2: it sounds like, it sounds like it's really kind of
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  Speaker 2: like a group project in the sense of like, oh, right,
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  Speaker 2: who do we like, not who do I like?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what scheme do we want to run? Where were
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  Speaker 1: we defihing in certain areas in the last year or
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  Speaker 1: so on both sides, and go draft guys to fill
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  Speaker 1: those holes. It's and send it over to the scouting staff. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go see it like that. It sounds so simple, right,
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  Speaker 2: They should just have the best guys take two days. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, oh, it's so easy, all.
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  Speaker 1: These years of scouting and then come on now, of
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  Speaker 1: course it's all. It all builds up to, of course,
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  Speaker 1: next week for the NFL Draft twenty twenty three. It
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  Speaker 1: starts on Thursday, two more rounds on Friday, and then
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  Speaker 1: In a moment, it's Trevor Lawrence entering season three in
• 15:34
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  Speaker 1: yard type of plate.
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  Speaker 5: Guy is gonna determine what type of stats and I'm
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: gonna have it.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: You know, football is not just you know, football is series.
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: I mean, you don't just play have a team games
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: street and you think you're gonna be in every one.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Of them and playing healthy in all of them.
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  Speaker 6: So what I'm saying is I am a fourteen hundred
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: ards See.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: What would have broke foot?
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Sure, that's what I'm saying.
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: So I know that I could make the plays and
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: I know that I'm one of the better receivers in
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: this league.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. That is Calvin Ridley, he spoke yesterday.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: This is Thursday and this Jaguars Happy Hour. Glad you're
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: with us.
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: J P.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Shadwick, Jeff Logman is out this week. Kai Stevens is in,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Max Hawkman on the video side, Joe Portunado on the
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: audio side. In about fifteen minutes, Daniel Jeremiah NFL Network
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: and what the Jags could do at number twenty four,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: including a surprise alignment to look out for undraft weekend
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: that's just a few minutes away. Calvin Ridley, though, one
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: of three Jaguars players that spoke yesterday. It's the offseason program,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: so no league rules on locker room opening for the media.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: That's the regular season. So three players at the podium yesterday.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: We'll hear from Trevor Lawrence coming up, Calvin Ridley just there,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: fo Yer Luik and as well. You know, let's start
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: with Calvin and we'll hear from him again coming up.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: But it was our first interaction with.
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  Speaker 2: Him, absolutely.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Bucky Brook spoke with him in a one on one
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: right after he was reinstated, so the impression was the
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: first one for all of us. And his energy was there, obviously,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: his confidence certainly was there, as you heard in that
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: sound bite, and I'm sure that oozed over into your
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: conversation with him as well.
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to sit down with some of them.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: They had the press availability, but I got to sit
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: down with some of them for some other stuff that
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: we're putting together. And it just exudes right out of him,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: he's so excited to be here, and obviously he's you know,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: he said that on social media and we assumed that,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: but he is just you can tell he's excited to
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: be back. He's excited to prove himself. And as he mentioned,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: he had some really great stats while he was injured,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: and he says he's healthy now. So what can we
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: expect from a healthy Calvin Ridley?
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: H Let's hear again from Calvin Ridley in that press
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: conference yesterday, and the questions will be, well can he
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: perform after nearly two years off? He had a pretty
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: straightforward answer to it.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: Man, if I'm being real and being honest, it's like
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: I've been good at football all my life, not to
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: be I'm trying to be humble, you know. Like I said,
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: I've been pretty good at football all my life, and
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: I not only been good, I also work to be good.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: And you know, they say two years off, But what
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: about the healing process that I got to be with
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: that time off?
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: What about what if I got faster? What if I
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: got stronger? Obviously I got wiser. Why can't I be better?
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: So I kind of look at it like that.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: Obviously, you know, two years off I gotta go through
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: the tightness, the leg tightness, I got to go through
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: all the crap.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: But I mean, I see myself being a good player.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: That's confidence. That's Calvin Ridley and just I like that approach.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, And if you're watching on Jaguars dot Com,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: you see his career numbers on your screen, and yes,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: he's put up some big numbers with some injury time.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: But yeah, a lot of folks might say, hey, yeah,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: he might not be the same guy, but he's had
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: time to get better, and that's a good approach. Why
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: not be better than he was before exactly?
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: And he's coming into an offense that was great last
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: year and you're bringing in another talent. It's only going
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: to open things up for other people. So we have
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: a healthy Calvin Ridley and already very good offense in
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: the second year with Trevor and coach. So you have
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: to hope. The hopes are high, the expectations are high.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: We'll see if it actually all comes together. But it's
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: looking good right now.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: You know. Bucky Brooks on Wednesday on Huddle Up mentioned
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: that the Jags could push to become a three thousand
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: yard receiver and a thousand yard rusher team that's only
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: happened twice in league history. Nineteen ninety five, the Falcons
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: had three receivers over one thousand yards and a running
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: back over one thousand yards. The four Colts with Peyton
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: of course at the helm, Marvin Harris and Reggie Wayne,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Brandon Stokely, and then Drin James is in the backfield.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: It's not out of the question with this team, with
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: the group of receivers that you're referenced and Calvin on
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: top and the running game, and you know they're going
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: to push to move the ball more and keep up
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: in points, so yardage comes with that, so why not
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: go for it.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: It's hard to predict, of course, right, I mean you
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: you said a lot of really good names right there,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: so you would hope they could do that. On paper,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: they look amazing. A lot of that comes down to
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: health and you know a lot of things have to
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: fall their way. But as we've seen, things can go
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: bad for them but then go very very good. So
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: let's I think we're all trying to hope that the
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: end of the last season was just the beginning of
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: what they're going to be able to do.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Let's move on to the quarterback, Trevor Lawrence, of course,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: and he has that new weapon and Calvin Ridley we
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: just heard from him the wide receiver coming off the suspension.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: But Trevor is fired up to have another weapon in
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the arsenal.
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: On offense, he's hungry, you know, he's he's excited to
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: be here. He's got the right attitude. I think that's
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: the biggest thing that I've noticed. And then on the field,
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: I mean, he's a freak, you know, just the way
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: he runs route, how explosive he is, great hands, you know,
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: it seems like he's he's picking stuff up. Obviously we
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: just started, but it seems like he's picking it up
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: pretty quickly. And he has that experience and he's played
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: for a few years, so he's used to, you know,
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: having some new systems, having to learn that and some
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: stuff obviously carries carries over through offenses.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: But he's been great.
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: You know, I'm just excited to have him to be
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: a part of our room.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a room now that is among the
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: best in the league in terms of top to bottom.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: There might be and I don't know if Calvin would
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: admit this he thinks he's among the best in the NFL,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: and rightly so. But as a whole, the wide receivers
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: that Trevor has to deal with now, it's right up
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: there near the top.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of people think can catch the ball
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: from him, right as he should be surrounded by talent.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: You have a generational talent, Trevor Lawrence. You should give
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: him all weapons in the world to be successful, and
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: of course protect him in the pocket. But going in,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, Calvin really is going to fit in immediately.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: We talked about his personality is great. Obviously, he's gotten
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: on the same page as Trevor and he used to
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: play in Atlanta with Foyer. They talk about each other.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: You know, they were in contact when he was suspended,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: you know, just supporting him. And I think that alone
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: means he's already on the inside of this. So when
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: you can join in and bring that kind of talent
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: but then also fit into the culture, I would hope
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: that means immediate success.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: More from the quarterback now. And it's just third NFL season,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the first off season though for him in the league
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: where he is not learning a whole new offense, and
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: that helps the entire group entering this offseason program.
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: There's some I guess, comfort in knowing that I already
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: know the system, and our guys, our core group of
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: guys already know obviously, you know, you got Calvin and
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: some guys up front, and then you know, some some
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: new running backs all that that need to get up
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: to speed. But that'll happen, and we have so much
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: time to do it. I think it was nice this
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: offseason being able to focus, you know a little bit
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: more just on the physical side of you know, training
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: and getting my body right, especially after a long year,
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: you know, with some just lingering, you know, maybe injuries,
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: little stuff from the season. So I had a chance
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: to take a little break, help some of that heel up,
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: and then really just you know, work on my body
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: and obviously prepping, and there's things you know, you watch
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: tape and you figure out some of the weaknesses from
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: last year individually as an offense, some of the strengths,
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: so you kind of figure out the stuff that you
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: want to work on. I was able to focus more
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: on that than all Right, I got a whole new
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: system I have to learn, and I don't really you know,
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: have to kind of start from scratch, So it was
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: nice having that comfort and knowing, you know, I know
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: the system and that's not an op squall'm and have
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: to really face this year. But now it's just how
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: do we take that next step? You know, for myself
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: and for the offense.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: He's already a star hive, but he's on track to
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: be a superstart out only in Jacksonville, but beyond in
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: the NFL if they keep playing, of course, like they
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: did down the stretch and in the playoffs last year.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: What was your first impression of Trevor yesterday?
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: He's as humble as you can imagine him to be
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: from the outside looking in, and you're like, oh, he
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: just seems really likable, right, Like he could have the
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: biggest head in the world and be terrible, but he's not.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: And I think that's only going to breed success. Not
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: to get over exaggerative, but Tom Brady's kind of like
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: that too. You assume he's so successfully he's gonna be terrible.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: He's very kind, looks you and I polite to everyone,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: and he could easily be a defund he's not, And
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: not that they're the same person, but that's the kind
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: of quality you want in a leader, right, you want
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: someone that's respects everyone and is respected back. And obviously
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: what he does on the field is amazing as well.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: So if that's someone you're able to draft and have
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: for their entire career, hopefully that's gonna build your team.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: And it's just it's to have that opportunity is really special.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: He's a guy that likes a calm environment around him,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: and that's Doug Peterson in a nutshell during a game.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Of course, the offensive coordinator is the same way and press.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Taylor quarterbacks coach Mike McCoy chill, relax, everybody's cool or
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: not panicking. There's not a lot of yelling and screaming.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Let's figure out the issue. Hey I just threw four interceptions. Eh,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: so hey, let's move on. And that I think permeates
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: the entire team. That kind of attitude. As you said,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: leader does it the right way, and it showed down stretch.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Last year exactly. I'm sure it show during that losing
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: streak too, right, because that is so easy to spiral
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: from that, right, if you've gone on a losing streak
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: like that, you could be like, oh it season's over,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: like we're done. But to be able to kind of
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: remain calm, and for Doug Peterson to be able to
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: get everybody to believe, you know, okay, we can get
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: back in this a little a little bit by little bit,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: and to then obviously end the season the way you
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: guys did is just impressive in that regard. And hopefully
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: now that everybody's kind of like, oh yeah, like he
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: knows what's going on, Look what we did last year,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: you're gonna get even more buy in if he didn't
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: have it already.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Shaguars Happy Hour, that's kind of Steven's I'm JP Shadwick
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: and we're on ten and am Jaguars dot com, Jaguars Twitter, Facebook,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: and YouTube. Let's flip into defense. Foyer, a little kun
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: defensive captain, the league leader in total tackles and solo
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: tackles a year ago, spoke with the media yesterday. It's
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: a lot to learn from for this defense moving into
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: First is going to be understanding our scheme, how people
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: attack our scheme. I think that when you play more
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: years in a scheme, then you can understand you know
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: where people are going to be sitting down or exactly
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: like down a distance where I should be looking at
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: what plays I can make, what plays I didn't make
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: last year. I mean we already started looking at I'm
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: here kicking myself. But you know when you take some
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: time off then come back to it. Now you're kind
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: of coming back to it as a student, and you
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: want to be able to apply what you learn going
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: in the next year so I can play faster and
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: make more plays for this team.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: You wore a T shirt that said think Turnovers with
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: a photo of the Thinker sculpture by Rodin on the front,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: and that was early in the season. They did a
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: pretty good job of taking the ball away and then
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: they got back to it in December and took the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: ball away a bunch and set up this offense for
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: that stretch run. But Foyer, who came in and then
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: free agency, really set the tone in a lot of
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: ways last season for this team.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: He did, but as he mentioned, thinking, he's been thinking
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: about that loss for months. When I saw that when
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: the meme was pissed, that was literally the first thing
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: out of his mouth. He's like, I'm still pissed about it,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: And that's kind of what you want. You want the
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: fire in the belly he's ready to get after it
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: because he's still mad about it. He wants to use
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: that as his motivation going forward. As you mentioned his stats,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, he had, you know, leading the league in tackles,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: one of the best seasons he's ever had, but that
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: wasn't good enough for him because he didn't, you know,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: get the ultimate You know, at the end of the day,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: there's always on every team is going to be upset
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: except for that one. But he's using that as his
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: motivation and as a leader of the defense, that's exactly
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: what you want to see.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: You got a lot of young linebackers around him too,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: of course, Devin Lloyd was the draft pick last year,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Chad MoMA. Those guys rotated starting time towards the middle
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: of the season, kind of the three quarter mark of
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: the season, and he kind of had to get all
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: those guys in the right place, which is tough to
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: do with young players sometimes. So the jump from year
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: one to year two for those line underneath are around Lucan.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: That's huge for this defense because those guys should make
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: big strides.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: I think that's what a lot of people are going
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: to kind of key in on, right see if they're
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: going to have that second your jump if they're going to,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: you know, figure things out a little bit and be
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: a little bit more consistent, because obviously there's talent around them,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: but can they do that? You know obviously workie year.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: There's a lot going on there and I think even
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: I think I was here last year, but some of
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: the people talking about Devin Lloyd just coming back in
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: his energy this year is totally different, so because I
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: know he started off well and then had a little
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: issue at the end. So to be able to kind
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: of get everybody on the same page from the get go,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: that has to be helpful for them when it goes
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: into training camp.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Have you been over to Daily's place yet, Kai, I
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: have not. Hey, guess what, there's a great schedule of
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: shows coming up. You'll have plenty of opportunity.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Let's do it.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Let's the Jacksonville Taco and Margarita Fest this Saturday, Old
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Dominion Friday, May fifth, Cody Jenks May twentieth, plenty more
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: on the docket in the coming weeks and months ahead.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: For a full list of shows and to get tickets,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: visit Daily's fifty five hundred seats opening air but covered.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: I'm going to see it on Thursday, I believe.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Yes, Next Thursday, the Draft party.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Hmm, I'm gonna be there hosting it. T Roy gonna
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: help me out a little bit. And I'm excited to
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: meet all the fans. Everyone has been so wonderful to
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: me on social media. I'm excited to meet everyone in person.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: All right. That's coming up next week, of course, a
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: week from tonight. NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah on the
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: preparation ahead of picking number twenty four as opposed to
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: number one overall. That's next on Jaguars Happy Hour.
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: You're doing something right when the expectations raised for your
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: for your team. So obviously that's just a byproduct of
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: the success we had last year. But still, you know,
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: we didn't last year didn't end the way we wanted
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: it to. So it's you know, obviously it was a
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: good year for our team, for the city fits organization,
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: but there's more out there. I think we've set a
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: new standard of you know, who we're going to be,
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: the team we're going to be, and we got to
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: start that way this year, and so that's the mindset.
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: I think we don't really think about those expectations much
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: because all we can do is just try to keep
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: getting better, and we know for us, we feel like
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: that's the floor.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Jaguars Happy Hour. That was a quarterback
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: of course, Trevor Lawrence, JP Shadrick with you. Jeff Logman
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: is out this week. Kai Stevens is in new team
• 30:26
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• 30:29
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  Speaker 1: No blue checks today though they're all gone. I know
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  Speaker 1: in the world.
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  Speaker 2: It was a sad day, man. Now I gotta pay
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  Speaker 2: for it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think so. I think we're good.
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  Speaker 1: But that's a good point from the quarterback though, talking
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  Speaker 1: about expectations. That's an outside noise, that's the floor, that's
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  Speaker 1: the internal drive is to pick up where they left
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  Speaker 1: last year, which is in reality it can be tough
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  Speaker 1: to do, but that's where they expect to be every
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: year inside the building now, not just outside and all this.
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  Speaker 1: There's a drive in that locker room to maintain that
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  Speaker 1: and go forward.
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  Speaker 2: Like he says, you set the standard right. You don't
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  Speaker 2: want to just be happy to be there. Oh, we
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  Speaker 2: had a good we made the playoffs. Like that can't
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  Speaker 2: be how you go into it. You have to be like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we did great, but now we're turning a page and
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  Speaker 2: we want to do even better this time around. And
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  Speaker 2: he's saying all the right things and everybody seems to
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  Speaker 2: be on the same page in that regard. So hopefully
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  Speaker 2: that equals success.
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  Speaker 1: That would be nice. Start fast and keep on going
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: this coming season. It's a week away from the NFL
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  Speaker 1: Draft of course, Round one Thursday night. It's in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah will be there with NFL Network, A former
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  Speaker 1: quarterback at Appalachian State, an area scout for three different
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  Speaker 1: NFL teams in his scouting career, and then he moved
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  Speaker 1: to the media side, and he's moved up the ranks
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  Speaker 1: at the network and now the lead draft analyst there.
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  Speaker 1: He's also the analyst for the LA Chargers radio broadcasts,
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  Speaker 1: which this entire offseason. I have heckled the heck out
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  Speaker 1: of this guy after the playoff.
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  Speaker 2: Game, as you should, bragging rights he deserved.
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  Speaker 1: Well deserved, indeed, but he's a good sport about it.
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  Speaker 1: And of course he stepped into the draft role, the
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  Speaker 1: lead draft analyst role, when Mike Mayock took the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: GM jobs some years ago. And I caught up with
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Daniel earlier this week and asked him about the difference
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  Speaker 1: in preparation for Trent Balkey with a pick deeper in
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  Speaker 1: the first round as opposed to number one. Overall, I
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: think it's not.
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  Speaker 8: As different as maybe people would think. I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 8: one to one is different, that's a different deal. But
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  Speaker 8: the difference between picking ten and picking in the mid twenties,
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  Speaker 8: I don't think is that great. And a year like
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  Speaker 8: this one specifically, but also you know, usually you know
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  Speaker 8: who's going to go, you know, in those top picks,
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  Speaker 8: you know those names that are going to be gone
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  Speaker 8: at that point in time. And I'm sure you know,
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  Speaker 8: the Jags can eliminate probably eight to ten guys that
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  Speaker 8: they're fairly certain they are going to be gone, and
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  Speaker 8: they can narrow their focus for that first round pick
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  Speaker 8: on ten to fifteen names. So you know whether or
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  Speaker 8: not they were picking ten or picking in the mid twenties,
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  Speaker 8: you know, I think the preparations is very similar, and
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  Speaker 8: they've probably locked in and at this point in time,
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  Speaker 8: I'm sure they know exactly what they're doing, but they
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  Speaker 8: probably narrowed that down to three or four guys they
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  Speaker 8: feel pretty good about getting one of them, and maybe
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  Speaker 8: there's somebody that's within, you know, within their culture and
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  Speaker 8: their belief system that they're high enough on that they
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  Speaker 8: would even consider maybe trying to move up a little
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  Speaker 8: bit to.
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  Speaker 1: Get Daniels Jeremiah with us. And we know Trent Balky's history,
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  Speaker 1: he's not afraid to move around in drafts that he
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  Speaker 1: I think it's not drafts in his two drafts in
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  Speaker 1: Control here and a bunch of those in San Francisco,
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  Speaker 1: of course, But you know, they've got the draft equity
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  Speaker 1: to do some moving. There's three six round picks. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how much that can equate for a first
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  Speaker 1: round move though, right, Yeah, No.
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  Speaker 8: It's an interesting draft. It just kind of depends on
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  Speaker 8: what you're targeting, and you can find the ammunition being
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  Speaker 8: in this year's haul or next year's group. If you
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  Speaker 8: want to find the picks to move up. You know
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  Speaker 8: he's got the ammunition to go ahead and get that accomplished.
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  Speaker 8: So to me, the only position that would make sense
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  Speaker 8: probably on a move up, it would be the tackle position,
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  Speaker 8: or you know, if they're looking offensive line, that would
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  Speaker 8: be an area you could look to. But outside of that,
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  Speaker 8: I mean, you know, corners there's depth, edgrushers there's depth.
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  Speaker 8: You know, there's a lot of different areas they could
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  Speaker 8: go just sitting and picking where they are.
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  Speaker 1: DJ Let's get into some of these position groups, and
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: you mentioned the offensive line. Let's start off with the
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  Speaker 1: idea of tackle. Of course, Juwan Taylor is in Kansas
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  Speaker 1: City and left in free agency, so you know they've
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  Speaker 1: got Walker Little who can play there. Cam Robinson's on
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  Speaker 1: the left side. They just got Josh Wells as the
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  Speaker 1: swing tackle. He's an older player now, so that could
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  Speaker 1: be a position of need down the line here for
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  Speaker 1: this team. So you know, at twenty four or if
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  Speaker 1: they move up a guy like Darnell Right of Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: is he a guy you could see that deep?
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  Speaker 8: Well, yeah, I don't think he'll get there. He's a
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  Speaker 8: really good player on tape this year specifically, you know,
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: look at him the year before, he was a little
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  Speaker 8: up and down. This year was very consistent start to finish.
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  Speaker 8: I mean that to me is going to come down
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  Speaker 8: to their belief in Walker Little and how high they
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  Speaker 8: are inside the building there of what he's going to
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  Speaker 8: continue to grow into and be as he's given that opportunity.
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  Speaker 8: But I think this draft is unique in that we've
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  Speaker 8: got some kind of some guys that have some inside
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  Speaker 8: outside versatility and flexibility. You know, if you're asking me,
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  Speaker 8: they always look at these different scenarios and say, Okay,
• 35:59
  Speaker 8: who's like a wild hard player that nobody's talking about
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  Speaker 8: that you could see sneak into the first round. Matthew Bergern,
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  Speaker 8: to me is an interesting one. Somebody who can play tackle,
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  Speaker 8: can play guard. I know teams are trying to find
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  Speaker 8: that flexibility. Now when you deal with the seventeen game season.
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  Speaker 8: You're going to have guys in and out of the lineup.
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  Speaker 8: You know, to have guys that can you know, play inside,
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  Speaker 8: can play outside. Man, there's a lot of value there
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  Speaker 8: at this point in time. So you know, I go
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  Speaker 8: through the Jags and look at you know, where the
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  Speaker 8: priority would be. I still think corner is going to
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  Speaker 8: be sky high. You know, you look at defensive tackles,
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  Speaker 8: somebody in an area they could address, and then you know,
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  Speaker 8: looking at you know, adding continue to add more and
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  Speaker 8: more weapons that I think all these teams in the AFC,
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  Speaker 8: and you saw it. You saw it up close last
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  Speaker 8: year in the playoffs, like you can't have enough firepower
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  Speaker 8: when you've got the kind of the the Patrick Mahomes,
• 36:51
  Speaker 8: the ghost of Patrick Mahomes out there knowing what it's
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: going to take to knock them off on the postseason.
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: If you've got a really good offense, you still want more.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's aiming for thirty points per game. That's what it's
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  Speaker 1: going to take. That was the league high, of course
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  Speaker 1: last season. Daniel Jeremiah with us NFL Network, let's touch
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  Speaker 1: on some of those corners now, though I know you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned firepower. But this is a group in Jacksonville that
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: doesn't have shat Griffin anymore. He was banged up last season.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's gone. Darius Williams good player, thirty years of
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  Speaker 1: age though now and moved outside towards the end of
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  Speaker 1: the season, played a little better there. We'll see what
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  Speaker 1: his future in the long term. Holes and they love
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  Speaker 1: Tyson Campbell. So the last Mack I think you had.
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  Speaker 1: I know there's so many mocks out there, DJ. The
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  Speaker 1: last one you had, I think've had Deontay Banks from
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  Speaker 1: Maryland to the Jaguars. What kind of player is he
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  Speaker 1: and what else could be in play there for a cornerback?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean Banks is highweight, speed, he's big, he's physical.
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  Speaker 8: He's somebody that can play in a rioty techniques. You
• 37:51
  Speaker 8: want to let him get up in your face, he
• 37:53
  Speaker 8: can do that. He can play press man. He's pretty
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  Speaker 8: fluid and smooth and off coverage. So really good football player.
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  Speaker 8: And I think that's about the range of where he goes.
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  Speaker 8: I think he ends up going in the twenties when
• 38:05
  Speaker 8: it's all said and done. Emmanuel Forbes is kind of
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  Speaker 8: a wild card just because of the size his tape
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  Speaker 8: is outstanding come out of Mississippi State. So you know,
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  Speaker 8: you look what he can bring from a playmaking standpoint,
• 38:18
  Speaker 8: and he's got six career pick sixes. Has been talked
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  Speaker 8: about a bunch, but this guy's good at playmaking a corner,
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  Speaker 8: as we've seen. So if you're at Jacksonville, you anticipate
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  Speaker 8: this offense being dynamic and being explosive, and you know
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  Speaker 8: you want to play with the lead somebody that can
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  Speaker 8: go get football. Forbes would probably even be a better
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  Speaker 8: fit from that standpoint if you're going to compare those
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  Speaker 8: two guys really really good football players. But I actually
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  Speaker 8: really like to fit with Forbes there as well.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah NFL Network. The full conversation with DJ available
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  Speaker 1: on Jaguars dot com, Jaguars YouTube channel, and social media
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  Speaker 1: as well. Let's continue the conversation about cornerbacks. Kai and
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  Speaker 1: Trent Balke made this point today. There could be a
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: bunch of quarterbacks that go early in the top five,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: seven ten picks that pushes some other position groups down.
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  Speaker 1: Corner could be one of those, and who knows who's
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  Speaker 1: available at twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I mean going into the draft, obviously, everybody
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  Speaker 2: wants a quarterback right, and this is a year where
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  Speaker 2: there's a couple or at least people feel like they
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  Speaker 2: can do a lot. Even Will Levis might go high,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if people are trying to get that franchise guy.
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  Speaker 2: So that pushes everybody else down. So depending where, obviously
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  Speaker 2: we can predict all day who could fall down there.
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  Speaker 2: They mentioned some names, Emmanuel Forbes obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Sati state. Yeah, he's about a buck sixty five, silk
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  Speaker 1: and wet, I think, so that's kind of but he's
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  Speaker 1: long and he's tall, true, but that's the knockout.
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  Speaker 2: We could go a Georgia guy kiey Ringo of course,
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  Speaker 2: might be available around that time at twenty four, depending
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  Speaker 2: if they you know, depending their way the board falls.
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  Speaker 2: But obviously they're going to try to address any This
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  Speaker 2: almost feels like they're going to trade out of it,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't want to say that's definitely what it's
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  Speaker 2: going to happen.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: I might call it She said a lock. We have
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: a first show lock by Kay Stevens. The Jaguars are
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  Speaker 1: going to trade out? Is that a lock by you?
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  Speaker 2: It's my lukewarm take is that they're going to trade
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  Speaker 2: the pick.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, you can't back out of a lock with.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to say it's super hot. I just
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  Speaker 2: want to say, yes, I'm locked in, she's locked.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: It's a lock that is aggressive, and I like it.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: I like the aggressive lock.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Got a call a shot, right, might as.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Well stand by it? Right? Why not?
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: I'll stand by it.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: You think they're getting.
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  Speaker 2: Out, I do because I think that late first round
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: talent is very similar to the top of the second round.
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  Speaker 2: So you can trade down and get a couple twos maybe,
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: and you might get your guy anyway, and.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: They in theory they could use multiple corners and.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Get an extra guy. Yeah, and then have them compete
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: a little bit and see what you actually have and.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that would be the next double lock is Hey,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: and they're draft in two corners in the second Now, that's.
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  Speaker 2: Not going that far.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: You're going, okay, this is the first show. We got
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: a week to figure that out. Okay. The full conversation
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: with Daniel Jeremiah, as we said, available on Jaguars dot Com.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: He had his final media conference call today as well,
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  Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure like the Brotherhood's government, my brids out
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: there were very similar want So I just want to
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: make sure we're keeping up that same standard that we
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: always tried to preach about in Atlanta when I was
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: first there, That same standard that we had going in
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: the end of last year, how we approached things, how
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: we making sure no excuses about things. Same thing got
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: to come to anybody new coming to the team, anybody
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: who's on the team last year, remember what got us there?
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: Even improve on that because it's easy to say, all right,
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: we got it. Now, be surprised some people then, but
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: they're gonna be ready for it. So it's like we
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: got to have that same standard, even improve on it
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: to make that same to make a leap from last.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Year's Foyer look and the Jaguar has been a linebacker,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: referencing his time in Atlanta. They were a Super Bowl team.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: It didn't win, obviously, but they were there and lost
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: to the Patriots. They did, and that was his rookie
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: season in the NFL. And and that kind of mindset
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: and the culture they want to emulate here as well.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: And that's a guy who's seen it at a high level.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Culture is important, but culture without winning, it's just losing.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Everybody's happy, but they're losing, right, So obviously, I think
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: that's what he was just trying to say, is like,
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: you can't just fall back on the fact that everybody's
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: cool and chill and has a good personality. You need
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: to also be serious about preparing and you know, taking
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: off the field to on the field and being successful
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: that way.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: If you're watching us on Jaguars dot Com, Jaguars social media, Twitter, Facebook,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: and YouTube, it's a live look outside at the Miller
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Electric Center under construction but closing quickly on the key
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: turn in for the Jaguars. They'll get it, at least
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: they're scheduled hopefully to get it by the end of June,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: so July first, be in there, start moving in, get settled.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Training camp starts at the end of July. How about this, Kay,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: they're gonna start putting in the SOD I'm told sources
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: say Monday.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: That's exciting. That's like the field goes in. It feels real, right, Obviously,
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: we see tons of crews out there when we come in,
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: working on it every single day, so it's getting closer
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: and closer. But when the field goes in, it feels
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: like it's almost there.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Wait till you walk through this thing, and I've walked
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: through it about three weeks ago, baby, and still obviously
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: construction zone. But you get an idea and the field
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: and the size and the scope of this thing, and
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: there will be a game changer for this organization. We're
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: looking forward to. We have some studio space over there.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, we're reworking everything too, as far as I'm aware,
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: it's going to be.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: It's a lot of working, a lot of reworking, a
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: lot of changes.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Coming up, good changes though, all new things. Yes, a
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: team's playing great, We're getting new facilities. Everything's gonna look
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: great as well. Look good, feel good.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: You're already dropping locks on us. I mean that, Hey,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: that's fantastic. Gotta come in hot, I think you have
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: for sure. The Jaguars are hosting the Duvall Draft party
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: at Daily's Place Thursday, April twenty seventh, a week from
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: to night. Gates open at seven o'clock. You'll watch the
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: draft on the big screen, live draft analysis, on stage
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: appearances from Doug Peterson and some players included schedule to
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: appear at least Trevor Lawrence, Christian Kirk, Zay Jones, Foyer,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Luke and Andre Cisco and Kay Stevens. As you mentioned earlier,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: you will be hosting all of this.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: I will be hosting all of this. Troy, who's the
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: in game host, will be there as well, and of
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: course all the fans that are going to come out
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: with us. I'm just excited to meet all the fans.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: I'm sure everyone is going to be pumped and considering
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: last season, and it's just gonna be good vibes all around.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: I think great vibes, kidding me. Yeah, off a winning season,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: off a playoff run. Drafting twenty fourth. Now, last year,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: the course traded back into the first round at twenty
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: seventh and got Devin Lloyd. I went back and looked
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: last night and or yeah, yesterday, and the tweak that
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: I sent when we traded back in it was at
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: ten fifty nine PM for the twenty seventh pick. So
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: do some math kind of back it up a little bit.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: It'll be probably in the ten o'clock hour when that
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: twenty fourth.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Pick comes, it's gonna be a late one, say if.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: It comes, if they don't trade out like you say, it's.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: Gonna be a late one. But we're gonna have fun
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: no matter what. So we'll have to pace ourselves. But
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: we'll be there for a little bit because there's no
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: top pick this year because of the success, which is
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: a good place to be on draft night because of
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: the success last year.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: How are you in front of a live audience fifty
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: five hundred people staring at you.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: I'm excited. I want to get some duvaul tips before that.
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  Speaker 2: I did my social media to volve, but I'm not ready.
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  Speaker 2: I just like, is it really guttural? Like what'sever? Just
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  Speaker 2: go for it, like I feel like when you're quiet,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, by yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing's stopping you now from trying it out right here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to do it today. I gotta save
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  Speaker 2: it up. I gotta save up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting ready, okay, and it's a week away. It's
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: the weekend project for you is to get the duval
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  Speaker 1: ready to go. But hey, there's plenty of plenty of
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: them out there. You can go reference online.
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  Speaker 2: Everywhere, and I'm gonna research.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're gonna be just fine, though. You're gonna
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: fit right in. Let's go around the National Football League
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: a few news and notes items from around the league.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Matt Patricia going to the Eagles as a senior defensive assistant.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Apparently the Eagles announced this, posted it, deleted it, and
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: then not long after that put it back up. He's
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: going to Philadelphia. You're around him in New England.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: He's very divisive. I will say, people love him or
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: they don't. And I know there might be some drama
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: in Philly in terms of their defense about some players
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: that may not be as fond of him, maybe from
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: his Detroit days. So we'll see what ends up happening there.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: He's very good defensive mind. Obviously did not do well
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: with the offense in New England when he went back
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: and did that, so we'll see how this translates.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean, they've got the offense to score
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: and do things. So if you got the quarterback and
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: everything on the other side of the ball, just fix
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: a few things on defense and he might be able
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: to outscore a lot of people. That might be the
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: idea around here too.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: I sure hope. So, I mean Obviously, everybody talks about
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: the offense, but the defense feels like they're in a
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: place where they want to just kind of up their game,
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: if only to get the ball back to the offense
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: to score some more pots takeaway.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: So he saw it on this T shirt on for you, lilokin. Sure.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Four months after the cardiac arrest on the field, Bill's
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: safety Tomorrow, Hamlin has been medically cleared to play again.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: He's taking part in the offseason program in Buffalo. He
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: met with a third specialist cleared by that person, and
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: they all agreed that his heart stopped as a result
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: of a direct blow at a specific point and his
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: heartbeat that caused the cardiac arrest. He's back. He was
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: at the podium the other day. It's remarkable, Store.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: It's phenomenal. I mean, obviously, everyone that saw that live
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: is just so jarring for everybody, and for him to
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: be able to make such a return in terms of
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: just his regular day to day health, but then also
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: to be able to play football. You got to be
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: so happy for him. And he's just such a wonderful person.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: From what it seems that we've been able to see
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: that this is just the best case scenario.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Dolphins quarterback to a tongue of Bailois said he considered
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: a retirement following the season. He said, quote, I love
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: the game of football. If I didn't, I would have
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: quit a long time ago. End quote. He had multiple
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: concussions last year, including one on that Christmas Day game
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: against the Packers. It was diagnosed the next day after
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: he had symptoms. He threw three straight interceptions in the
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: second half after banging his head on the turf in
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: the late in the first half before halftime. He missed
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: the rest of the season, missed four games in total,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: but now ky he's been training in jiu jitsu. He says,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: to learn how to avoid future head injuries when falling,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: grappling techniques, tucking your chin, dispersing energy. That's one way
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: to go about it. I suppose.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: Is that like the Mma mentality, like you can kind
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: of mind control it if you can keep your body
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: in the right position. Is that, I guess, assuming what
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: he's doing, I mean, if he didn't consider retirement at all,
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: I would I wouldn't trust his judgment. So obviously health
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: is number one. If he feels like he can go
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: about this in a safe way, then more power to him.
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: He's clearly going down every avenue he needs to to
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: make it.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: One final note this week, and a sad one as well.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Former Jags draft pick defensive en Chris Smith passed away
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: this week, thirty one years of age. A fifth round
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: pick of the Jags in twenty fourteen out of Arkansas,
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: played for the Jags, Bengals, Browns, and Texans. Also off
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: season time with the Panthers and Ravens, and he played
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: just last week with the Seattle Sea Dragons in the XFL.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: He will be missed. He was a fantastic guy. Kai,
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: Great to see you, well done, Welcome to the team,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: and give us a We were asked on Twitter a
• 49:43
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• 49:45
  Speaker 2: Sure it's Kai Nannie Kai Na n I s t
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: e v E n s.
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• 49:53
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• 49:57
  Speaker 1: entire crew, our thanks to Daniel Jeremiah, Joe Fortunato, Max
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: Hoffman for Kai Stevens. I'm J P. Shadwick. It's Jaguars
• 50:03
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