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Stadium Built for Jax and Franchise Future | Huddle Up: Wednesday, June 7 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: The Fields Auto Group proudly presents Huddle.
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  Speaker 2: Up with Bucky.
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  Speaker 1: Brooks, JP Shadrick, John Oser, and NFL Network analyst and
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  Speaker 1: former Jaguar Bucky Brooks bring you the latest on your
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  Speaker 2: We're not done.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to continue to work to build this team
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  Speaker 3: to make his as potent as we can going into
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  Speaker 3: the regular season.
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  Speaker 4: Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks starts right now.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome into the Huddle Up Podcast. It is Wednesday, June seventh.
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  Speaker 5: JP Shadwick with NFL Network analyst Bucky Brooks, Jaguars dot
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  Speaker 5: Com senior writer John Oser coming up. He's in with
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  Speaker 5: the writers right now with Jaguars President Mark Lamping on
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  Speaker 5: a busy day at TIAA bank Field. Give us a
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  Speaker 2: Bucky, here we go, rendering c is here.
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  Speaker 5: The stadium of the future is upon us, and it
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  Speaker 5: looks spectacular.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I am great, but I think the people of Jacksonville
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  Speaker 3: should be uh feeling even better than I feel because
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  Speaker 3: looking at the renderings of the stadium.
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  Speaker 6: Man, it's a spectacular place.
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  Speaker 3: I can only imagine what it will eventually be to
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  Speaker 3: look at a game there. You talk about just the
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  Speaker 3: modernization of the stadium. Yeah, it should be a lot
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  Speaker 3: of fun the man to play there and to work there.
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  Speaker 5: No doubt we're looking forward to that. It's the neighborhood
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  Speaker 5: around the stadium as well, and this will be obviously
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  Speaker 5: talking points for the next year or so to come
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  Speaker 5: as the conversations continue. John Ohser're joining us now, senior writer,
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  Speaker 5: fresh out of the meeting with Jaguars President Mark Lambing,
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  Speaker 5: who will hear from coming up. I had a chance
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  Speaker 5: to catch up with him as well today and you'll
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  Speaker 5: hear that conversation on Jaguars dot com.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, it's been a long road.
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  Speaker 5: To get to this point where the official vision is
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  Speaker 5: out there, years of building towards today.
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  Speaker 4: John, Yeah, and you know, I'm not sure what you
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  Speaker 4: guys have already discussed, not much, Okay, it's remarkable the
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  Speaker 4: vision for it and what it would mean to the city,
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  Speaker 4: would have mean downtown, And again I always refer back
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  Speaker 4: I was here before the Jaguars. I've been here for
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  Speaker 4: most of the Jaguars, but it's so needed what they've
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  Speaker 4: put out to get this stadium and this market on
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  Speaker 4: equal footing with the rest of the league. And it's
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  Speaker 4: an idea that's time has come. It's going to be
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  Speaker 4: a long road because things like this aren't done overnight,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, it's it's a remarkable prototype that needs
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  Speaker 4: to happen, and it needs to happen. As Mark just said,
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  Speaker 4: the thought of the team is, you know, there's no threats,
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  Speaker 4: there's no ultimatums and all that stuff. It's just the
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  Speaker 4: fact that right now is the time for this. It
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  Speaker 4: started in ninety six. It's a twenty seven year old
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  Speaker 4: stadium that's now outdated. They have to move into the future.
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  Speaker 4: And with the new mayor, with the design, with knowing
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  Speaker 4: the timing, the time is now for this to happen.
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  Speaker 4: And it feels right and let's hope it does.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, let's hear from Mark Lamping now. I have a
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  Speaker 5: chance to catch up with him earlier today. The full
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  Speaker 5: conversation soon on Jaguars dot com, and I asked him,
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  Speaker 5: how did we get to the point today.
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  Speaker 7: We first started the discussion, the public dialogue regarding the
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  Speaker 7: need to deal with the stadium back in twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 7: and three years ago we began a formal process with
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  Speaker 7: the city of Jacksonville, and you know, today marks the
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  Speaker 7: end of that three year process with the unveiling of
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  Speaker 7: the design. It was a very extensive process. It began
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  Speaker 7: with a thorough evaluation of the existing stadium, which led
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  Speaker 7: us to the conclusion that there was a possibility we
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  Speaker 7: could meet meet our needs through a renovation. We then
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  Speaker 7: talked to our fans and other stakeholders, primary amongst them
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  Speaker 7: the University of Florida, University of Georgia, the tax Layer
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  Speaker 7: Bowl got input from them in terms of what they
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  Speaker 7: would like to see in a stadium in the future.
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  Speaker 7: We then had a very extensive design competition. Firms from
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  Speaker 7: across the country presented their conceptual designs and last December
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  Speaker 7: we selected hok And since then we've been refining the design,
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  Speaker 7: working on the constructibility, working on pricing, and we were
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  Speaker 7: just very excited to be able to unveil today you
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  Speaker 7: know what the future could look like.
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  Speaker 5: So we're gonna hear from the designer coming up, Bucky.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, all these new stadiums around the NFL,
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  Speaker 5: most of them are brand new, full stadiums.
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  Speaker 2: This will not be the case here.
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  Speaker 5: As you heard Mark Lamping say, this is a refurbishment
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  Speaker 5: a you know, on the existing build, which saves money
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  Speaker 5: obviously the long run, but I mean, considering the scope
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  Speaker 5: of this thing, it might as well be a new stadium, Bucky.
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  Speaker 2: And this will be a game changer.
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  Speaker 6: It will be a game change.
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  Speaker 3: It kind of reminds me of what the Bears did
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  Speaker 3: with Soldier Field for a little bit when they try
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  Speaker 3: to remake it and do all those other things. But
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  Speaker 3: this is great, and it will take some time, and
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  Speaker 3: I think everyone has to be patient while it's being constructed.
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  Speaker 3: But when you just think about how important it is
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  Speaker 3: to modernize the stadium and what it can mean from
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  Speaker 3: a revenue standpoint but also a fan experience standpoint, like
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  Speaker 3: so much of the game is Shane since the Jaguars
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  Speaker 3: originally moved into that stadium, and you think about just
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  Speaker 3: all the amenities and the things that you want to have.
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  Speaker 6: To rarely enhance the experience.
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  Speaker 3: What takes time to put that together, and so just
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  Speaker 3: looking at the renderings, it should be a fantastic spot
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  Speaker 3: to watch a game.
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  Speaker 5: What flied concourse is easy entry shade everywhere the whole deal.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I have questions all the time, why don't
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  Speaker 4: they just the stadium's fine? Why don't just keep playing it?
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  Speaker 4: I've been playing it forever. Well, the reality is it
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  Speaker 4: is not fine. It's it's already behind every NFL. It's
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  Speaker 4: behind every NFL stadium that's not currently being planned for
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  Speaker 4: a replacement, and in ten years it's going to be
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  Speaker 4: woefully behind. Staying in this facility is not an option.
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  Speaker 4: And if you want to be in the NFL, you
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  Speaker 4: must play and have venues that are what the league
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  Speaker 4: considers NFL standard, and this one's not. And in order
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  Speaker 4: to get in order to stay in that game, this
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  Speaker 4: is what's necessary in this day and age. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: to say again, I've gotten some email as well. If
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  Speaker 4: all they're going to do is renovate, if this is
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  Speaker 4: not this is not me redoing my kitchen. I mean this,
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  Speaker 4: except I would say this in name and price only,
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  Speaker 4: which the price is a big deal. In name and
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  Speaker 4: price only, is this not a complete new stadium being
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  Speaker 4: able to use and I'll take Mark Lamping's phrase, the
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  Speaker 4: bones of what's here, the infrastructure, uh, and being able
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  Speaker 4: to build it on this saves about a billion b
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  Speaker 4: JPE and uh so that's why they're not building it
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  Speaker 4: at another site. It's why they're not going down to
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  Speaker 4: you know all that. So, but don't I'm glad the
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  Speaker 4: renderings are out or these are out, because now I
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  Speaker 4: think people will not will no longer think that they're
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  Speaker 4: just painting a concourse, re establishing some things and putting
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  Speaker 4: in a kitchen. I mean, this is a stadium that
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  Speaker 4: will be rival anything in the league.
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  Speaker 5: And this is why we heard from HOK Design principal
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  Speaker 5: Peter Broder today as well. Why did HK take this
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  Speaker 5: project on.
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  Speaker 8: The potential for this project as a catalyst, not only
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  Speaker 8: for the surrounding development for all of downtown Jacksonville was
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  Speaker 8: enormously exciting for us. Really from the outset.
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  Speaker 3: Of the design.
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  Speaker 8: The design process was equally thorough as Mark outlined, and
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  Speaker 8: we really prioritized fan comfort and fan experience first and
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  Speaker 8: foremost throughout every decision made through the design process, and
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  Speaker 8: that factors into some of the amenities that you see
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  Speaker 8: in the artwork that was unveilt today. Tremendously excited about that,
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  Speaker 8: and it really begins with that experience has shown here
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  Speaker 8: walking the promenade and entering through a new landscape and
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  Speaker 8: new garden ways that lead you to the concourse and
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  Speaker 8: to the front door of the building. The concourses themselves
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  Speaker 8: now significantly expanded, as shown here, expanded to the point
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  Speaker 8: where we've now doubled, tripled, and in some areas quadrupled.
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  Speaker 8: This the width of those concourse spaces a lot of
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  Speaker 8: discussion and excitement obviously around the facade and the roof
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  Speaker 8: that was designed in such a way again to maximize
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  Speaker 8: fan comfort, to reduce solar heat gain, to shield from
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  Speaker 8: inclement weather. Additionally, it becomes a really signature and iconic
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  Speaker 8: element to the design as well. It's seldom I think
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  Speaker 8: that renovations are discussed as an icon, and this venue
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  Speaker 8: certainly has the opportunity to be just that an icon.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of room for activities and of all sorts,
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  Speaker 5: football and otherwise. It's a design that will allow for Florida,
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  Speaker 5: Georgia more seats for college games. They can spread out
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  Speaker 5: the bottom and make room for international soccer field play.
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  Speaker 5: There's different elements there, concerts, everything is in play here
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  Speaker 5: and this is going to be now. The next step
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  Speaker 5: is the trick the huddles around the community. There's fourteen
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  Speaker 5: community huddles. Mark Lamping is scheduled to appear at all
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  Speaker 5: fourteen around Duval County. We won't read through them here.
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  Speaker 5: You can check out the schedule on Jaguars dot com
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  Speaker 5: over the next two weeks where you can go talk
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  Speaker 5: to Mark Lamping. You hear from the leadership on this
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  Speaker 5: project firsthand, ask questions, get some thoughts out.
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  Speaker 2: There if you need to.
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  Speaker 5: And that's what these are for, is John to you know,
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  Speaker 5: have the community voice be heard.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. And Mark's so good at I mean, these are complex,
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  Speaker 4: broad issued projects. If you will, I mean, there's many,
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  Speaker 4: many things to go into it, and I would encourage
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  Speaker 4: and I would encourage fans who don't quite get a
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  Speaker 4: reason for X, or a reason for why if you're
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  Speaker 4: not sure why it should take so long. I would
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  Speaker 4: encourage fans to go to these because he's out. He's
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  Speaker 4: the best person. And this isn't always the case with
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  Speaker 4: people who run franchises, but he really is the best
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  Speaker 4: person to tell you why this is necessary. He's off
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  Speaker 4: the charts good at communicating messages like this and sort
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  Speaker 4: of seeing both sides. He's not again in this meeting
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  Speaker 4: we just had. There's some legitimate questions on where might
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  Speaker 4: they play things they are not quite ready to get
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  Speaker 4: into yet. He understands the questions, but he's also very
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  Speaker 4: good at putting into words what the issues are in
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  Speaker 4: a way people can understand them, and they're hard to understand.
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  Speaker 5: And understanding the order of operations. To get to that point, right,
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  Speaker 5: they've got to get a stadium deal done before they
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  Speaker 5: worry about how to build the stadium and the time
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  Speaker 5: will take to be away and then what that means
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  Speaker 5: the cost of So that's where it is right now, Bucky.
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  Speaker 5: And then obviously after the huddles the inauguration of the
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  Speaker 5: new mayor is July first, at some point those discussions
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  Speaker 5: will begin. If they have it already, I'm sure in
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  Speaker 5: the transition a little bit least, but we'll see. That's
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  Speaker 5: the next step, and then we're you know, it's gonna
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  Speaker 5: be quite a year ahead, Bucky, with all this back
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  Speaker 5: and forth.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, quite a year ahead, and coming on the heels
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  Speaker 3: of the new practice facility.
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  Speaker 6: You can just tell what the Jaguars are trying to do.
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  Speaker 3: They're trying to put themselves in a position where they
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  Speaker 3: can keep.
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  Speaker 6: With the top teams in the league, and as much as.
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  Speaker 3: We love Florida, and we love like no state tax
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  Speaker 3: and those things. What you would like to present not
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  Speaker 3: only for your fans but for aspiring free agents. Are
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  Speaker 3: interested creagents? Hey man, look we got top of the
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  Speaker 3: line everything here. The facility is new, the stadium is
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  Speaker 3: going to be new. Why would you want to go
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  Speaker 3: somewhere else. You got great weather, no state tax. This
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  Speaker 3: is a destination place. And so in part of building
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  Speaker 3: up the ability to recruit top free agents, the stadium
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  Speaker 3: and the practice facility and all those things kind of
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  Speaker 3: play into it.
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  Speaker 4: I keep circling back to it. I understand that any
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  Speaker 4: discussion that involves public money is going to have fighting
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  Speaker 4: over it and much discussion, and there is going to
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  Speaker 4: be contentiousness. I mean, it's it's if you if you
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  Speaker 4: follow any of these that have ever happened, there's always
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  Speaker 4: going to be people who don't want that. But in
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  Speaker 4: order to be in the NFL, in order to be
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  Speaker 4: in the state of the art league in this nation
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  Speaker 4: right now, you must be playing in a state of
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  Speaker 4: the art stadium. And I'm fortunate enough to have visited
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  Speaker 4: probably every I I've been in every stadium that's been
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  Speaker 4: in the league over the last thirty years. And the
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  Speaker 4: reality is, except for Buffalo, this is the most anticated,
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  Speaker 4: out of date stadium and it can't be the stadium
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  Speaker 4: going forward. And you can't just build a stadium that is,
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  Speaker 4: if you're gonna build one, you don't build you want
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  Speaker 4: to build number thirty two because then all of a
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  Speaker 4: sudden you're already behind. You have to build something that's
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  Speaker 4: going to have you competitive fifteen twenty years down the road.
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  Speaker 4: Because that's what everybody's doing. It's an arms race. And
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  Speaker 4: in order to be in the league, in order to
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  Speaker 4: have the league approve this, it has to be funded
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  Speaker 4: the right way. It has to be built the right way.
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  Speaker 4: It has to be with the league considered state of
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  Speaker 4: the art. It can't just live up to Jacksonville standards.
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  Speaker 4: It has to live up to the league standards. That's
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  Speaker 4: an important thing remember in all this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And the reason why it's important because if you
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  Speaker 3: want to get in the mix to have another Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 3: you have to have a reason. You have to give
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  Speaker 3: the NFL a reason to award you. And so the
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  Speaker 3: stadium has been the thing that's been out there. We
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  Speaker 3: saw the Super Bowl go to Minneapolis, we see you
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  Speaker 3: go to sofar and some of these other places where
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  Speaker 3: you had new stadiums and so it's the same thing.
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  Speaker 6: So you want to be able to be in.
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  Speaker 3: The mix for that, whether it leads to the super
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  Speaker 3: Bowl directly coming to Jacksonville or not, you have to
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  Speaker 3: have it in place just in case you want to
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  Speaker 3: see if you can get it to come to the Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, not just the super Bowl, college Football playoff possibility,
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  Speaker 5: the expansion of that NFL Draft, any of these big
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  Speaker 5: events other than even a Final Four in theory you
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  Speaker 5: could have inside here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think draft is probably the more realistic five
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  Speaker 4: or seven year goal after the stadium. The city's coming.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, this city is growing, and I think in
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  Speaker 4: my lifetime you're going to see which is running out
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  Speaker 4: JP by the way, But I think in my lifetime
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  Speaker 4: you will see automatically different downtown. I don't know that
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  Speaker 4: it will be super Bowl hotel wise for a while.
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  Speaker 4: But everything else you mentioned is the vision, without question,
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  Speaker 4: and it's a tatal vision. It's why this is being
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  Speaker 4: done to get the big concert to get It's not
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  Speaker 4: just an NFL deal. It's about the entire area of
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  Speaker 4: the stadium and about these events we're talking.
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  Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence speaking with the media earlier this week after
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: at Ota practice. He likely has life visit with the
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: media until training camp in late July, and he was
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: asked about his summer plans this time around with the receivers.
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  Speaker 1: From a poat trip in your one small group to
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Bahamas and before year two, you feel.
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  Speaker 2: The need to ramp it up every year.
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  Speaker 9: Now, we'll see, we'll see, we got we got some plans.
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  Speaker 9: I like to keep it under wraps because people are
• 17:21
  Speaker 9: people can be kind of weird sometimes and kind of
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  Speaker 9: get get there ahead of us. So but yeah, we
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: got a we got a good trip planned. I will say,
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  Speaker 9: we're gonna stay in the States this year. It makes
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  Speaker 9: it a little easier on uh, logistically, So we're gonna
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  Speaker 9: stay in the States. And but we'll have we'll have
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  Speaker 9: we'll have the guys out there and it'll be it'll
• 17:37
  Speaker 9: be fun. It's great just just bonding getting to know guys.
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  Speaker 9: Think that helped us a lot and just to build
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: those relationships.
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  Speaker 5: Trevor in good spirits of course, as always this time
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  Speaker 5: of year, but certainly just feels a little more comfort.
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  Speaker 5: And we've talked about it over the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's the same offense first time in the NFL.
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  Speaker 5: He's not having to learn the basics of an offense again.
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  Speaker 5: And John, you had a chance to sit down with
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  Speaker 5: him on the ozone podcast this week finally, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: I think that's probably a good word for it. It's
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  Speaker 5: just a little more comfortable than he has been.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's absolutely the sense, and uh, look, how couldn't
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  Speaker 4: he be more comfortable he if you know what rookies
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  Speaker 4: go through between the draft, between coming in and then
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  Speaker 4: he came into a situation that we've has been well
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: chronicled it was not ideal, and then even last year
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: being an ideal situation, which I think most people would
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: say that you know, the culture got fixed. It's a
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: perfect situation for him. Doug Peterson wonderful head coach. There's
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: still anxiety when you you know, when you were coming
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: in a situation with a new coach, you don't know
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: it first, and then there's the learning, and then there's
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: a figuring out and then they're figuring out what their
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: routine is. I think JP the difference in your comfort
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: level the second year year here compared to the first,
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: just knowing who you're working with. Now Trevor's into that
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: for the first time, you can certainly see it. I
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: just think I think you're gonna see as good as
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: he was last year, there were a lot of inconsistencies
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: as well. I think what you're gonna see is a
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: lot more of the high high level and a lot
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: fewer of the O no moments, and I think that's
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: what's going to manifest itself. And I think he's I
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: think he's going to be a lockdown Pro Bowl guy
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: making a run of like the top five MVP. I
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: think he's going to be that good this year.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Very steady, Bucky, which was good news.
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, very steady.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: He's been so impressive since he's kind of stepped in.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: But I'm really impressed with what he's been able to
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: do on Dick Peterson, not just on the field, but
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: off the field in terms of the leadership, in terms
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: of how he connects with the guys, the fact that
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: he's having a trip with the skill guys and they
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: can get some work in and some fellowship. That really
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: is important because one of the things that we've seen,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: the best teams have a level of of chemistry, camaraderie,
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: and connectivity that you can see and you can feel.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: And as this team continues to emerge as a title contender,
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: you want to make sure that everyone is on the
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: same page. And the only way you can do that
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: is you have to spend time with one another. And
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: so for championship caliber teams you're here. People talk about
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: the words commitment, accountability and trust. The only way you
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: can develop those traits within your team, you have to
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: be around each other a lot. Trevor Lawrence is trying
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: to take some initiative to make sure that he's around
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: his guys.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: One interesting thing, he said, I don't give the whole
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: thing away because my people actually listen to the ozone podcasts. Yeah,
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: but I asked him, and I think the most remarkable
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: thing about Trevor that you have seen since he arrived
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: here is it has not been all good on the field.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: It was not very good in the field personally or
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: as a team in twenty one, and then it took
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: about a half season last year. So I actually asked him,
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: and then what you saw that was always remarkable was
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: the poise and the confidence. You never looked at him
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: and thought, this guy's wondering if he's going to eventually
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: be good. You know, there was always an inner confidence.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: And I kind of asked him, I said, was that
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: bs or? I mean, were you just putting on sort of.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: A show.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: And he said, you know, there is a front and
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: a confidence you want to project. But he also said
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: he had confidence. He just always has a belief that
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: he's going to come out on the other side, and
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: it was pretty heartfelt response. And you know, I think
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: that says a lot about who he is as a
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: quarterback and about why he is going to be great.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: You know, I don't know that every quarterback has that,
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: and he sure had it. And to me, that was
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: the most interesting thing we talked about that we hadn't
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: heard him.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Talk about before.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: And I guess, Bucket, the question to you is not
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: every quarterback has that. It's pretty critical for a guy,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: and that's situation. If you're going to be Mahomes, if
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: you're gonna be Burrow, there has to be something in
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: your gut that just knows doesn't there.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: It has to be there, and it has to be
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: conveyed not just through your words, but through your actions.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: And so one thing that I've noticed since I've been
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: on the sideline and been around watching Trevor Lawrence is
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: his body language and his optimism matches up. It is
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: rare that you see him come off the field with
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: the shoulders slumped, head down, not knowing where to go
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: and what to do and how he's gonna dig himself
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: out of a difficult situation. I'll point back to the
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: playoff game when they are down to the charges, he's
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: having one of the worst performances you can imagine a
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: young quarterback to have and the first time playing in
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: the playoff game, and yet he was able to kind
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: of dig deep right the situation and then end up
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: thriving in that situation. And so one of the things
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: that you look for when you're searching for a franchise
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: quarterback is does this guy have all the stuff that
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: when we put the ball in his hands, you have
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: hope in knowing that, Okay, our guy has the ball
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: more times than not, we're gonna find a way to
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: get this done. Trevor Lawrence after last season, I think
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: everyone around Jacksonville hopes that hope, that optimism is bremen
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: because he is a guy who.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: Has special talents.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Now let's see if we can take it to the
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: next level, because if he does that. You talked about
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: a team having a chance to go from good to
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: great in a hurry, and a lot of it is
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: tied to Trevor Lawrence's ability to continue to send up
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: the ranks as an elite quarterback.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna show my age here, JPA Again. As
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: a fan, I grew up just hating the Dallas Cowboys, right,
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, you're a Washington as a Washington fan American.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: I still don't really like Roger Staalbuck all that much,
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: just because it's ingrained in me. But I can remember
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: either Cliff Harris or Charlie Waters, one of the safeties
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: on that Cowboys team that I hated. And I don't
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: know I remember the quote, but after some games somebody
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: asked him, you guys came back, you kept believing, and
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: either ether Waters or Harris said, well, of course, we believe.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: We've got Captain America over there. And there is something
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: too that you know, some quarterbacks of different eras just
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: inspire that conference. I covered one in Peyton and Bray.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: You know there are guys who their teammates just figure, well,
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: we got that guy, so we got a shot. And
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: I think it's only a handful of the league in any
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: one time, and I think this team has one. So anyway,
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: just a chance to say how much I hated the
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: dallascout was.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: I knew you were trying to get that in there.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: So yeah, what a team that was.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: I mean, what a team that was.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: But look, it's it's true and when you have one,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: it changes everything. It changes the way the offense and
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: the defense plays. The defense plays a little bit different
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: because they all say to themselves, man, as long as
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: we get the ball back to sixteen, we have a chance.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: And so Layton games when they're down and it appears
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: that all hope is lost, they still have the confidence knowing, man,
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: if we can just kind of figure a way to
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: just get the ball back one more possession and put
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: it in the hands at number sixteen, he's going to
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: find a way to get it done. That is when
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: your team, and that's when you have a quarterback that
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: is like at the elite stat within the elite ranks
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: of the quarterbacks in the league.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: And so Trevor Lawrence has been knocking on that door.
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: He flashed.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: You look over the last nine games, how he performed,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: how he played in the playoffs. Yeah, everyone is waiting
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: for him to make that next leap. But if he
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: does that, man, you're not only talking about a guy
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: who is firmly in the conversation as a top ten quarterback.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: You talk about now you've got to make room for
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: him as a top five quarterback.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: I asked him, JP, what are the things. I asked
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: him again not to give away the whole interview start.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: From the beginning.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: He said, well, yeah, let's give it away.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: First thing I said was, hey, how's it going. I say,
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: what's your most memorable play? What's your favorite NFL play?
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: And he gave me two, So look for that in
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: the interview, and it was interesting. One of them was
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: not the stiff arm, and I thought it would be,
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: and he kind of said, nah, I kind of I
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: can't go to the stiff arm because I really was
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: didn't do what I was supposed to do on that play.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: So anyway, it was interesting to hear him talk about
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: that because I wasn't shocked at the answers. But I'll
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: let you listen to the.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: Can get wait to hear the official Jaguars podcast network,
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: check out the ozone podcast and and John, there's only
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: one week left in the off season program.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm struggling with that. It's one week. It's tough,
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: you know, it's it's uh m hm, that's how it is, though.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, I have one more week to chart plays,
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: and I'm assuming I'm gonna be charting plays of the
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: third string quarterback.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: That's probably a good guess.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: So that's really my wheelhouse.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Nathan Rourke.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not even sure that's his name, but it not,
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: but I will be charting it either way.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: So Bucky, Yeah, one more week of this.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's an exciting time.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: And you know, if you talk about one week left,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: you probably gonna take some of the best off the
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: field that the young guys get to work, make sure
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: they're ready to go for training camp.
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: In terms of their knowledge base.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: They've been exposed to most of the things that they
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: will see early in training camp, so we can do
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: in the evaluation phase. Man, just I still play free
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: from clutter. As you get closer to regular season, then
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: it becomes a little hairy, comes a little different.
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: But but now this is just.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Opportunity to see the young guys fly around, to see
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: how the young guys take to the practice plan, to
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: see what the coaches are experimenting with based on their
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: off season research to self scout and research projects. So
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: it's look, it's a fun time. And then what the
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: coaches would do is after this last stretched practices and
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: OTA's they'll go back look at all the stuff from
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: the spring and they'll begin to whittle away at their
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: kind of like.
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: Ideal game plan.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: They'll begin to be able to put some real teeth
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: in and the kind of figure out. Hey, we may
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: have to play this way with our personnelity and where
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: our quarterbacks.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: John, for the record, it is Nathan Moore. Yeah, that
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: third string court all right.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: I was thinking it was routse that I was right,
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: not surprising.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Bucky will talk to you again next week. Appreciate it.
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: Man, Hey, thanks for having me.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Gus, Bucky Brooks, John Osier, I'm JP shadwick Ar. Thanks
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: to Brent Reaber and Joe Fortuneado as well. Thanks to
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: you for listening to the Huddle Up Podcast.