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Jaguars Reporters: Monday, February 28 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: The Hamilton guy who's really really special and you look
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Speaker 1: at the measurable almost six four almost if he's the
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Speaker 1: best player and he's the safest player. Welcome to Jaguars
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Speaker 1: John Osher, Ashlyn Sullivan, and j P. Shag Presented by
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Speaker 1: t I a A Bank starts right now. Welcome to
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Reporters, j P. Shadrick, Bryan Sexton, Ashlyn Sullivan, John Osier.
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Speaker 1: The NFL Scouting Combine is here, but we'll have full
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Speaker 1: coverage on Jaguars dot com coming up starting Tuesday, when
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Speaker 1: Trent Baulky and Doug Peterson are slated to speak to
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Speaker 1: the media in Indianapolis. Um, John will start with you,
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Speaker 1: what do you want to hear from these guys? Well,
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Speaker 1: you'd like to hear I think first of all, you're
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Speaker 1: gonna hear much what you heard at the end of
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Speaker 1: your press conference and there was what they want to say.
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Speaker 1: What I'd like to find out from them from people
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Speaker 1: asking questions is direction, uh, perhaps some hints about offensive line.
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Speaker 1: Uh what direction they may go. They're not gonna give
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Speaker 1: you the blow leblow detail of it, but do they
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Speaker 1: like certain guys, perhaps get a hint about the franchise tag,
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Speaker 1: hint about what they might want to do with DJ Chark.
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Speaker 1: That's typically where you start getting some movement on offseason plans.
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Speaker 1: And when I say movement, I don't mean they're gonna
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Speaker 1: outline everything, but you start getting a better idea. And
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Speaker 1: I think that's okay with this bunch, because at the
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Speaker 1: intro press conferences, Doug Peterson didn't know enough to really
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Speaker 1: talk about those issues. So this is the time where
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Speaker 1: you see that story move forward. They've had time to meet,
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Speaker 1: they've had time to get their thoughts. I would anticipate
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Speaker 1: at least hints along those lines, you know. And I
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Speaker 1: think the two dominoes that we're all kind of looking at,
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Speaker 1: And by the way, because we're looking at it doesn't
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Speaker 1: mean they are, but it seems logical Cam Robinson and
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Speaker 1: d J Chark because we all know that they've got
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Speaker 1: to get faster and more of an alpha quality at receiver.
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Speaker 1: And then the offensive line is it's the it's the
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Speaker 1: big issue in in this offseason with the line. And
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Speaker 1: it's funny I went back and looked at the two
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Speaker 1: thousand nine draft and don't really remember that when or not,
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Speaker 1: But that was when Jason Smith, the big offensive tackle
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Speaker 1: from Baylor, went two or three to St. Louis. And
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Speaker 1: right behind that was Andre Smith, who I think was
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Speaker 1: an Alabama guy who went to Cincinnati, and then Eugene Monroe.
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Speaker 1: And there are all these tackles and none of them
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Speaker 1: were any good. None of them lasted all that long.
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Speaker 1: Uh Sebastian Volmer who was a second round pick, and
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Speaker 1: so you start thinking about, all right, well the offensive
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Speaker 1: tackle better be really special if he's going to be
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Speaker 1: that guy. And at this point in time, we can
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Speaker 1: all interpret, you know, the ink blots and try to
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Speaker 1: figure out what it's saying. I'd really like to find
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Speaker 1: out where they stand with Cam Robinson hint as you
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Speaker 1: say with d J H. Yeah, with all the prospects
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Speaker 1: that are going to be at the combine, and we're
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Speaker 1: gonna almost force the conversation. It's going to push the
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Speaker 1: conversation of you keep Cam Robinson, where do you see Walker?
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Speaker 1: A little? And it's going to have to decide how
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Speaker 1: high do you want to take a wide receiver? So yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think it'll force those conversations and the E V
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Speaker 1: P as well. I think that's a big question. And
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Speaker 1: not to say that Trent Bulky and Doug peter Ston
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Speaker 1: are going to have the answers for that, but they're
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Speaker 1: gonna get asked, and we're waiting just here is this
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Speaker 1: going to happen. We've heard zoom interviews are taking place,
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Speaker 1: so I think we'll try to get an update on that,
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Speaker 1: and they probably won't have the answer, which is okay. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't expect very much moving on that unless Shod
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Speaker 1: is ready to say something. I assume when she was
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Speaker 1: ready to say something, they'll be an announcement. DJ and
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Speaker 1: Cam to me, are both uh, your two sides the
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Speaker 1: same coin, if you will good players. The Jaguars have
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Speaker 1: to decide if they want to pursue elite there I mean,
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Speaker 1: and they're very very good with the potential to be that.
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Speaker 1: But I think you're okay if both of them are
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Speaker 1: starting for you. I think you're okay if both of
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Speaker 1: them are playing key roles. UM. But is there a
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Speaker 1: feeling among this bunch of we've got to go get
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Speaker 1: a lead at left tackle? We think Neil is this
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Speaker 1: or you know, we've got to go get this a
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Speaker 1: wide receiver. Um? So they have to decide is this
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Speaker 1: where we want to try to upgrade majorly? Are there
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Speaker 1: other positions and we're okay here? Um, I think it'll
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Speaker 1: what they do with those guys. I think we'll show
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Speaker 1: you how they feel about the entire groups that those
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Speaker 1: guys are in and how fast they think that they
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Speaker 1: can get up and going. I mean, you keep Cam
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Speaker 1: Robinson to g J. Chark, what you're saying is is
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Speaker 1: they're going to help us win faster as opposed to rookies. Well,
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Speaker 1: I think the big question too is financially, what's it
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Speaker 1: going to cost to keep those guys around? Franchise tag
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Speaker 1: or if you franchise Cam again, it's about sixteen and
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Speaker 1: a half million dollars um and then the franchise tag
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Speaker 1: for the wide receivers that's playing up to that level.
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Speaker 1: Or do you just do you work out a smaller,
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Speaker 1: you know, shorter term deal kind of approve a deal.
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Speaker 1: Those are questions we're gonna have to hear, Trent ballop
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Speaker 1: the interesting parties. Will will they get I mean, will
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Speaker 1: anybody see d J. Chark and go he's twenty million
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Speaker 1: dollar player? I mean not twenty, but I think you're
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Speaker 1: gonna see thirteen or fourteen from somebody. When he take that,
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Speaker 1: I think that's an interesting question. Also. I think that's
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Speaker 1: a question for him. I mean the injury pro and
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Speaker 1: the production and and if that's what he wants, then
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Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna get it here. So I
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Speaker 1: think looking at the mere for DJ Chark and seeing
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Speaker 1: how much can I make somewhere else? Possibly, but I
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Speaker 1: think it's in his best future in the Jaguars to
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Speaker 1: work out a short term deal. DJ is the interesting
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Speaker 1: one to me. I mean, I think I've said this.
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Speaker 1: Cam Robinson I think is a nice player. I think
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Speaker 1: he's as good as he's going to be. Uh, And
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Speaker 1: I don't He's not a seventeen million dollar year player.
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Speaker 1: D J Chark at thirteen or fourteen, Okay, I think
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Speaker 1: I'd like that because if his his physical attributes and
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Speaker 1: we haven't gotten enough from him, he hasn't got enough help. Um.
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Speaker 1: But that's just you know, one person's opinion. The interesting
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Speaker 1: issue that's always there with these free agents. Um, you
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Speaker 1: gotta do it by March thirteen, because if they hit
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Speaker 1: that negotiating when it's it's fine to say theoretically they
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Speaker 1: can come back and go see with the Jaguars. I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure I've ever seen it, or it's very very rare.
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Speaker 1: Once that negotiating window hits. If if a guy that's
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Speaker 1: yours gets out there, that thanks skyrockets, then all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, you know, sticky and drama. You know, there's
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Speaker 1: guys asking to dance and you can't turn them down.
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Speaker 1: And uh so again that's uh March thirteen and today's
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Speaker 1: March one or so it's coming up fast. Clock is
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Speaker 1: ticking and the first real big offseason event, the NFL
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Speaker 1: Scouting Combine, coming up this week in Indianapolis. Trimp, Balky
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Speaker 1: and Doug Peterson schedule to speak Tuesday. We'll have coverage
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Speaker 1: on Jaguars dot Com. Back in a moment. A couple
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Speaker 1: of prospect thoughts for players heading to Indianapolis on Jaguars Reporters.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Jaguars Reporters, j P Shadrick, Ashlan Sullivan,
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Speaker 1: John Osier, Brian Sexton. Well, it was announced Monday that
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Speaker 1: Evan Neil will not work out at the Combine. He's
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Speaker 1: gonna wait for the Alabama Pro Day and work out
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Speaker 1: in Tuscaloosa instead. He's been one of the big time
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Speaker 1: names mocked to the Jaguars over the last months, a
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Speaker 1: couple of months or so, Aidan Hutchinson and the other one.
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Speaker 1: You know, Slynn. Does that change anything for you that
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Speaker 1: he's not working out, he's still gonna do interviews. No,
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Speaker 1: And I think that's the trend we're scene with more
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Speaker 1: and more prospects. I think as the years go on
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Speaker 1: and we'll see more and more not work out at
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Speaker 1: the combine. And from what we've discussed with coaches and scouts,
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Speaker 1: it's really the medical and the interviews are key, and
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Speaker 1: they're gonna still go to Evan Neil's pro day and
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Speaker 1: they're going to see him work out. So I don't
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Speaker 1: think it changes much at all, And I think this
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Speaker 1: is a trend we're going to see way more of. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I don't remember when they had the concept they were
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Speaker 1: gonna do a bubble and the NFL got the pushback
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Speaker 1: from the players. No, there was a lot of conversation
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Speaker 1: then that players didn't need to be at the combine
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Speaker 1: for anything more, And in fact, there were some people
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Speaker 1: in league circles that we're talking about. Really the thing
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Speaker 1: that they get is the medical reach out, which comes
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Speaker 1: in in early April when the player's report back to
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Speaker 1: Indian Napolis. Um, I saw enough of Neil watching Alabama
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Speaker 1: last year to be intrigued by his prospect. I can
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Speaker 1: wait until late March to figure out what he can do.
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Speaker 1: What the interviews, that kind of stuff. He's gonna do
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Speaker 1: those anyway. Um, No, it doesn't change anything for me. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the workouts are The on field workouts have always been
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Speaker 1: overrated because the media season the fancy them and they
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Speaker 1: get excited about it. The football people have usually done
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Speaker 1: their research enough to where that's not going to cause
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Speaker 1: a gad a riz and fall. It's always been the
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Speaker 1: medical it's always been the interviews. Um, it's interesting that
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Speaker 1: he's not working out, because it was Bucky Brooks on
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Speaker 1: Our Herd of the podcast JP said last week, there's
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Speaker 1: really not a whole lot of point to not working
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Speaker 1: out because, as Bucky said at though, was really insightful,
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Speaker 1: they only take the best forty time, so there's really
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Speaker 1: no danger if you run a six oh forty at
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Speaker 1: the combine and come back and run a four nine
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Speaker 1: at your pro day, they take the pro daytime. So, UM,
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Speaker 1: it's fine. It doesn't buy me either way. I know.
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Speaker 1: I think fans and observers will interpret it in ways
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Speaker 1: that probably NFL scouts and personnel people who don't care
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Speaker 1: that much about But what does a forty yard dashtime
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Speaker 1: mean for a six ft seven sixty pound offensive linement? Right,
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Speaker 1: You're looking at the ten second split, you know, or
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Speaker 1: the ten yards split? I guess, Um, I don't think
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Speaker 1: it's all. What I want to see with him is
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Speaker 1: the way, right. I mean, how many times can you push? Um? Not?
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. But He's Here's the thing
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Speaker 1: I love about him, and I know I've said there's
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Speaker 1: three times. The athleticism that I saw from him, not
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Speaker 1: just the box jump, but just watching him play with
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Speaker 1: a length that he has. He reminds me of the
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Speaker 1: great tackles of the nineties because of his size and
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Speaker 1: his ability to move um. And I heard something this week.
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Speaker 1: There was a podcast with someone talking about him UM
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Speaker 1: that said he had a killer instant, that he had
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Speaker 1: a nasty streak to him. And I've never heard that before. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I like that, give me the nasty streak. Florida to Okachobe,
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Speaker 1: I went to i MG and then ended up in Tuscaloosa.
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Speaker 1: Aidan Hutchinson, the defensive end outside linebacker from Michigan, put
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Speaker 1: together a huge season obviously for the Wolverines and was
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Speaker 1: the Heisman runner up. And I think a lot of
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Speaker 1: people are excited to see what he does at the
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Speaker 1: combine because it seems like Ashley he'll be able to
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Speaker 1: test and test very well. If he decides to go
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Speaker 1: work out. I mean it's Monday, some of these guys
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Speaker 1: might back out. Yeah, I think it's incredibly interesting to
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Speaker 1: see what road they go down. You can make such
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Speaker 1: an argument for both roads. And we always say there's
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Speaker 1: nothing wrong with having another defensive end, but you look
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Speaker 1: at this line too. I go back and forth and
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Speaker 1: I changed my mind all the time, so I can
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Speaker 1: imagine they are too. But gosh, you can make an
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Speaker 1: argument for both of those guys. I think he'll really
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Speaker 1: shine is in the interview room. You know, growing up
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Speaker 1: in the sport with his dad um and the kind
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Speaker 1: of kind of guy. He was really the leader of
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Speaker 1: that Michigan team from that side of the ball. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's got a J. J. Watt quality to him, uh
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Speaker 1: that you know every team is always looking for. So
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Speaker 1: the opportunity for him is there? The question with him
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Speaker 1: and as soon as he didn't play all that well
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Speaker 1: against Georgia, it became a is he gonna play well
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Speaker 1: against the best competition? And again I'll defer to Bucky
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Speaker 1: on this because I don't I don't scout these guys
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Speaker 1: enough to be able to dig deep on him. But
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Speaker 1: he said he thinks he's gonna be really, really, really good.
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Speaker 1: And if the Georgia game was an outlier and you
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Speaker 1: played great against Ohio State, yeah, And so it feels
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Speaker 1: like that's going to be for the people who want
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Speaker 1: to not like him, that's going to be the game
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Speaker 1: they use. Um, and there's gonna be a danger of
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Speaker 1: people over playing that game. I don't know the answer
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Speaker 1: to it, but you know it's Shlynn talked about do
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Speaker 1: they take offense or defense? And it's gonna be the
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Speaker 1: hot hot hot debate. Um, just make sure the guy
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Speaker 1: can play, don't draft a bust for goodness, And by
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Speaker 1: Georgia scheme, that whole plan to take him away to
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Speaker 1: take him out of the game worked and they were
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Speaker 1: laying on top of him to put you on a
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Speaker 1: pedestal for a moment, which I don't know normally like
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Speaker 1: to do. Can you handle that? Something that you said
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Speaker 1: last week is starting to resonate with me, and that
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Speaker 1: is that Kyle Hamilton's might be the most special the
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Speaker 1: safety from Notre Dame because right. And the reason I
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Speaker 1: say that is I was just going back and looking,
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Speaker 1: you know, trying to decide what was a safer pick,
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Speaker 1: an offensive lineman or a pass rusher, and from big
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Speaker 1: schools and small schools, just talking to people, they think
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Speaker 1: that the Hamilton's guy is really really special. And you
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Speaker 1: look at the measurables almost six four almost to the
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Speaker 1: way that he runs, the way that he closes. I
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Speaker 1: went back and watched a couple of Notre Dame game
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Speaker 1: games last week. If he's the best player, then he's
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Speaker 1: the safest player, right, I mean, if he is special elite,
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Speaker 1: I'd be okay with that one too, And that would
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Speaker 1: be and it's a neat I mean, you can make
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Speaker 1: an argument for all these positions with the amount of
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Speaker 1: work that Jaguars have to do on the roster. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's the get. He's just so good no matter what
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Speaker 1: you do with him. I think, Mike, I think he
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Speaker 1: might end up getting more interest in the top two
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Speaker 1: picks after he works out. Then people are giving him
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Speaker 1: now and that's where position of value does come into
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Speaker 1: play because you know, if it's close, if if you
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Speaker 1: think Neil is generational, if you think he's uh Tyron
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Speaker 1: Smith from Dallas, or hard to pass on that the
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Speaker 1: Williams kid from San Francisco. Yeah, if you think he's that,
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Speaker 1: If you think Neil is that, then it's hard to
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Speaker 1: pass on him for even an elite, elite safety because
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Speaker 1: the tackle position so hard to find. If you don't
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Speaker 1: think Hutchinson or Neil are generational and you think this
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Speaker 1: other kid is uh, Hamilton's, that's where it becomes tough.
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Speaker 1: But if if they're equal, teams will go safe. I
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Speaker 1: mean teams will go tackle and pass rusher because they're
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Speaker 1: so hard to find and they're so important. You'd always
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Speaker 1: really have a pass rusher than the safety because they
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Speaker 1: disrupt the quarterback like you made me think. So I
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Speaker 1: went back and watched them a little bit more, and
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Speaker 1: sure looks the part. I guess we'll find out in
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Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks. You sure stirred the pot there,
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Speaker 1: John think way to go, I could be dangerous. Renewed
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Speaker 1: we return, the schedule ahead in Indianapolis on Jaguars Reporters.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Jaguars Reporters. J P. Shadrick, Bryan Sexton,
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Speaker 1: Ashlan Sullivan, John Osier, The Dailies Place schedule starting to
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Speaker 1: heat up for the spring. The first concerts coming up
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Speaker 1: April eight, Brothers Osbourne, Sleni'll be there right check, okay,
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Speaker 1: Azz No, no, I don't believe he's related. Little Dirk.
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Speaker 1: April Nights just so much better than Big Dirt, I've
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Speaker 1: always said. And then we get into the Brian Sexton
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Speaker 1: portion of the schedule Sting May twenty, Chicago May twenty two,
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Speaker 1: The Doobie Brothers June five. Yeah, that's more Joe Fortunato,
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Speaker 1: but I like Sting, Okay, very nice. And then that
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Speaker 1: two nights of the Dave Matthews Band John David Candice
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Speaker 1: will be there, Bells he may sit in, he might,
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Speaker 1: in fact, and then the Black Crows June eleventh, that
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Speaker 1: that'll be a good one. So all the schedule and
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Speaker 1: taken information at Daily's place dot com schedule ahead of course,
15:38
Speaker 1: everybody's here in Jacksonville today. Um, you guys are flying
15:41
Speaker 1: up today and then starting work at Radio Road tomorrow. Right,
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Speaker 1: it's a very busy week and we expect to have
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Speaker 1: Trent Baky and Doug Peterson on the podium and then
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Speaker 1: uh duck come over and join us to talk all
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Speaker 1: things Jacks. Yeah, and you can watch that ons dot com, yes,
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Speaker 1: free web site in fact. And then um, there's all
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Speaker 1: kind of radio row national media types swing by two.
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Speaker 1: I actually got a few of those on the docket. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think it'll be interesting because we just debated who
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Speaker 1: do you take at number one overall, and I think
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Speaker 1: everyone has a different opinion, especial national media wise. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna ask everyone about that and make a little story
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Speaker 1: about that because Evan Neil seems to be the consensus.
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Speaker 1: But we just made an argument right here for other guys,
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Speaker 1: So I'm curious to see what the building thinks about that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Evan Neil is the consensus right now, but that's what
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Speaker 1: sort of happens before the combine every year, did the
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Speaker 1: mock drafts sort of start in the opinions start in
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Speaker 1: January and then through February you start to get a
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Speaker 1: feeling of when you're watching these of it sort of
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Speaker 1: becomes group think and people are doing their mock drafts
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Speaker 1: and they're throwing them out there until you get the combine.
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Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to hear the thinking coming out of
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Speaker 1: the combine on that if there's if people talk to
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Speaker 1: Jaguar's people on the side, if they start getting hints
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Speaker 1: that it might not be that Uh. That's usually what
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Speaker 1: the combine is the best for. Is in March, some
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Speaker 1: of the storylines that you've heard for two months change.
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Speaker 1: If all things are equal, if they all have the
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Speaker 1: exact same grade, I still want the offensive tackle first, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: just me protect the quarterback well, creative chance to have
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Speaker 1: a dominant offensive line. Um, but we'll find that out. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of news maybe to come in the
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Speaker 1: next week, two weeks, months, two months ahead, two months, right,
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Speaker 1: it was this March first tomorrow, Wow, exactly two much
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Speaker 1: because day says it's coming up quick. Look for our
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Speaker 1: coverage on Jaguars dot Com throughout the week. Brian Sexton,
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Speaker 1: Nash and Sullivan, John Osher, and for Jofunato, I'm J
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