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Drive Time: Buckle up! · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Jack Wars. Did you know Jaguars? Jaguars? Did you know
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Speaker 1: Jaguars drive to ran Brian Sexton, John Osher, Ashland Sullivan.
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive Time starts right morrow. Here we go. Welcome
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Speaker 1: Tuesday morning, Jags drive Time. Cloudy, rainy, or you can
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Speaker 1: see for yourself. It's one of those days. It looks
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Speaker 1: like we're gonna be in it all day long, so
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Speaker 1: try to keep a smile on your face. Welcome Jack's
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Speaker 1: drive Time. Uh. Brian Sexton along with John Osier and
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Speaker 1: Ashlyn Sullivan. And Ashlyn liked sitting here at the desk
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Speaker 1: so much that she decided she was just gonna join
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Speaker 1: us from now on here. I like being close to John.
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Speaker 1: I get you know. For a minute there he was
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Speaker 1: hesitant about the idea, and then you mentioned being close
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Speaker 1: to John, and then he kind of understood. He doesn't
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Speaker 1: have as much for him to flap his arms and such,
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Speaker 1: but he'll be okay. Well, it is a raining in Jackson.
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Speaker 1: How are you guys this morning? Great? God keeping smiles
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Speaker 1: on faces. This still feels like an off season week.
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Speaker 1: Next week is shaping up like it's not going to
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Speaker 1: be an off season week. There was a lot on
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Speaker 1: the docket for next week. It starts with Paulpa's Lesnie's
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Speaker 1: retirement ceremony. Uh. Then there's the big state of the
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Speaker 1: franchise with a uniform unveiling, and we anticipate the schedule
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Speaker 1: to come sometime next week. I mean, all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: these quiet, sort of lazy days of the off season
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Speaker 1: are slipping away well, and from media standpoint, I believe
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Speaker 1: the is the opening of the off season program. I
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Speaker 1: believe we're getting one of my reasons on Tuesday, and
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Speaker 1: on Friday is the draft if it's a luncheon but availability,
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Speaker 1: so yeah, it's it's the regular season, or it's the
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Speaker 1: it's the off season busiest week. And then the week
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Speaker 1: after that is the draft, and then O T A
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Speaker 1: s too follow So I guess getting to the end
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Speaker 1: of January made the offseason seem even shorter. All right,
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Speaker 1: how it is time for big things? What are you selling?
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Speaker 1: You don't want to work? So I'm ready, I'm ready away.
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Speaker 1: I have to get used at this. I'm normally here
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Speaker 1: right and now I have to go here. It's what
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Speaker 1: a professional has to do, and I will somehow endure it.
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Speaker 1: But it's time for big things and Ashlyn Sullivan is
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Speaker 1: right over here instead of right over there. We'll get
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Speaker 1: through hi big thing. Number one, heavy on the quarterbacks.
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Speaker 1: Recent moth drafts have almost six quarterbacks going in the
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Speaker 1: first round. That means a lot of talented players will
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Speaker 1: be pushed down a number twenty nine, not number twenty nine.
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Speaker 1: Of one of those six is there? Do you take them? Well,
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Speaker 1: here's the big picture on this one, John. If you
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Speaker 1: look at four quarterbacks going in the top ten, right,
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Speaker 1: then that that means that the Packers at number fourteen
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Speaker 1: have a top ten pick excluding quarterback. Right. I mean
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Speaker 1: the quarterback position is going to change the dynamic of
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Speaker 1: the first round because you've got Lamar Jackson and now
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Speaker 1: people are talking abou Mason Rudolph, you know, the quarterback
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Speaker 1: from Oklahoma State being a first round guy. Guy who
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Speaker 1: could go anywhere from you know, fifteen at Arizona on
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Speaker 1: down to the end of the first round. So that's
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Speaker 1: six guys, non quarterbacks that are going to be pushed
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Speaker 1: down the board. One of those might be a guy
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Speaker 1: that Jaguars really like and didn't know that he would
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Speaker 1: be close to them. The other could be a guy
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Speaker 1: that someone else really likes and thinks I'm gonna jump
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Speaker 1: back into the first round and see if I can't
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Speaker 1: get him at nine. Well, and I think that's the point. Um.
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Speaker 1: I don't think the answer to with the Jaguars take
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Speaker 1: a quarterback if he felt the number twenty nine is
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Speaker 1: necessarily a yes, But if it's the right quarterback, if
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Speaker 1: the guy that they think is one of the top
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Speaker 1: two or three players in the draft and is an
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Speaker 1: all the time. Um. But I don't think they're at
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Speaker 1: all in a situation where they take any quarterback. I
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Speaker 1: don't think they will take a quarterback because I can't
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Speaker 1: imagine one of the top two or three guys, the
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Speaker 1: true prototypes, the true can't mess that they would just
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Speaker 1: fall in love with with slides. So I think the
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Speaker 1: more likely scenario is that their draft is dramatically affected
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Speaker 1: by the fact that there could be I think it's
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Speaker 1: more likely five ahead of them. I don't think Rudolph
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Speaker 1: will go that high, but if he does, then all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're right. It means instead of picking
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Speaker 1: twenty nine, they're actually picking twenty three out of the
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Speaker 1: positions that they would actually come it. Well. I talked
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Speaker 1: to a guy yesterday that I trust have known for
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Speaker 1: a long time. Who believes that Rudolph will go in
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Speaker 1: front of the Jaguars. There are enough teams that like
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Speaker 1: him and think that they need a quarterback that he'll go.
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Speaker 1: But regardless, five quarterbacks is enough that it could create
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Speaker 1: depending on who goes where, you could see a flurry
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Speaker 1: of trades. And what what this area was just playing
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Speaker 1: to me was was that teams who want a quarterback
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Speaker 1: and there are a couple of them sitting in that range,
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Speaker 1: are going to feel the heat and want to get
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Speaker 1: a guy. And so you're gonna see teams vaulting and
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Speaker 1: talking about getting up in front of Buffalo at eleven
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Speaker 1: or it was Owner at fifteen, or whomever it might be.
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Speaker 1: It could create a firestorm of trades. Now we say
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Speaker 1: that all the time, there'll be a lot of trades,
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Speaker 1: and then that doesn't always happen. But her quarterback, if
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Speaker 1: it's gonna happen, it's easily gonna happen for quarterback. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And if chaos are gonna happen in the first rounds,
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Speaker 1: easily gonna happen for quarterback. And again, I think you've
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Speaker 1: got a combination of at least five guys who are
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Speaker 1: worth coveting, and you have a lot of teams this
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Speaker 1: year who actually covered them. When Aaron Rodgers slid, remember,
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Speaker 1: a big issue was, well, one team needed a quarterback,
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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you got to arrange
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Speaker 1: where you knew he was gonna slide because there weren't
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Speaker 1: a lot of teams who were quote seeking quarterbacks. So
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Speaker 1: it's a lot less apt to have a long slide
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Speaker 1: this year. I believe it's just interesting that you say
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Speaker 1: five quarterbacks that teams are covering. Is anybody covering Lamar Jackson? Well,
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Speaker 1: somebody's going to do you think so? I mean if
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Speaker 1: he goes in the first round, somebody covering, Well, okay,
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Speaker 1: I mean I guess that's that. Maybe that's the very
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Speaker 1: definition of covering that you but the quarter the cover back,
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Speaker 1: the quarter cover You got me twisted quarterbacks in the
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Speaker 1: first round. You can use the fifth year option on right.
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Speaker 1: So that's why teams would take a guy like Lamar
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Speaker 1: Jackson maybe if they thought he belonged to nine instead
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Speaker 1: of taking him in the second round, because you get
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Speaker 1: that fifth year leverage towards the position. I just wonder
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Speaker 1: if there are enough teams that think, wow, I've got
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Speaker 1: to have Lamar Jackson or if he's a guy that,
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Speaker 1: outside of the fact that he's a quarterback, would sit
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Speaker 1: at the top of the second round instead. You see
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I don't know that there's enough questions
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Speaker 1: about him. I don't know does anyone covered him well,
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Speaker 1: I mean he put butts some seats, that's for sure.
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Speaker 1: He's an exciting player to watch. Well, if you think
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Speaker 1: that a guy that throws a lot of interceptions right
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Speaker 1: in his first year is because rookie quarterbacks, he's going
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Speaker 1: to go in the first round. Uh, he's gonna take
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Speaker 1: the first round pick, the round pick. Uh. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: think he'll go before the Jaguars select. And I'm not
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Speaker 1: trying to suggest that the Jaguars would select him. If
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Speaker 1: there's the four guys that no one questions, and then
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Speaker 1: there's Lamar Jackson and seems like he could go anywhere
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Speaker 1: from eleven to thirty two, and I think Rudolph could
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Speaker 1: go anywhere from twenty to somewhere in the second. So
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Speaker 1: we'll see. Well, it's gonna be an interesting first round.
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Speaker 1: It always is because of the quarterbacks, as you mentioned,
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Speaker 1: and then there's another position group that you might see
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Speaker 1: in that's offensive linement. That's the next group that could
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Speaker 1: start a run, because as we've talked about, there's only
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Speaker 1: thirty three that were drafted last year, thirty three in
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Speaker 1: the entire draft. There at a premium, and there's a
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Speaker 1: number of dynamic of guys getting pushed up. When we
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Speaker 1: first started doing mock drafts in February, Uh, Mike mcglinchley,
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Speaker 1: for example, was a guy that you saw mock to
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars at twenty nine. Now all of a sudden
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Speaker 1: you're seeing him eight fift somewhere in there, which I
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Speaker 1: don't think. I think that is a example of a
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Speaker 1: guy being pushed up. I don't know that he's necessarily
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Speaker 1: a quote top ten pick, but the need for that
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Speaker 1: position is very great. Well, it's also pushing other guys
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Speaker 1: up the board. To the Colton Miller kid from u
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Speaker 1: C l A, the Brian O'Neil kid from Pitt the
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Speaker 1: converted tight end are both guys who are on the
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Speaker 1: fringes now of the first round. Sitting there between you know,
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Speaker 1: twenty eight and thirty two. There's some guards. Will Hernandez
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Speaker 1: from UTEP, Billy Price who heard himself at the combine. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, so you're seeing Quinton Nelson obviously
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Speaker 1: is very very very high in this thing, but you're
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Speaker 1: gonna see offensive linemen and quarterbacks that I think we'll
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Speaker 1: create an interesting dynamic in the first round. And I
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Speaker 1: think the jack always go offensive line. Yeah, I think
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Speaker 1: that makes the most sense for this team. Although I'm
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Speaker 1: a best available player guy. Depending on who's sitting there.
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Speaker 1: We've talked about the salary cap ad nauseum for this
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Speaker 1: We'll leave that alone for today's discussion. But you can
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Speaker 1: never rule out a defensive player if one is sitting
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Speaker 1: there that you like a lot, a lot. All let's
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Speaker 1: you're Ashland Sullivan here, quiet before the storm. As we
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Speaker 1: mentioned off the top, But busy week next week, not
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Speaker 1: the least of which is the start of the off
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Speaker 1: season program which takes us a big thing Number two
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Speaker 1: one to watch. We all picked one player that we're
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Speaker 1: intrigued and interested to see entered this building. Players will
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Speaker 1: enter this building on Monday. My player that I'm excited
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Speaker 1: to watch is austin Severian Jenkins so excited on Twitter
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Speaker 1: to be coming to Jacksonville, especially with the departure Marcedes Louis.
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Speaker 1: I'm excited to see him getting this building and see
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Speaker 1: if he'll get that tight end number one spot. For sure,
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Speaker 1: Austafarian Jenkins is my guy. Well, they're paying him to
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Speaker 1: be that guy, so you better get that. I'm interested
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Speaker 1: in him because when they cut Mercedes, they were taking
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Speaker 1: a guy who they counted on to seal the edge
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Speaker 1: in the running game. If you go back and look
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Speaker 1: at the nineteen yard touchdown run in Pittsburgh in the
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Speaker 1: playoffs that Leonard had, you can see Bud Dupree just
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Speaker 1: be pushed out of the picture by Mercedes. That's something
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Speaker 1: they've counted on around here. And I asked Dave called, well,
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Speaker 1: he said he's two d seventy pounds he can block.
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Speaker 1: So I just watching him last year in New York
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Speaker 1: when we played the Jets, I didn't see two seventy.
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Speaker 1: I'm interested to see him when he gets back. Absolutely
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Speaker 1: exciting guy to watch, that's for sure. What do you think?
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Speaker 1: What sure? Why not? Yeah? I mean I think what
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Speaker 1: they absolutely need in the position if he can give
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Speaker 1: them if Mercedes was a seven, which I don't think
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Speaker 1: he was a ten anymore by the time he left
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Speaker 1: in terms of run blos. But if Mercedes was a
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Speaker 1: six or seven, if Safari and Jenkins can give them
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Speaker 1: a four or five and get close and give them
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Speaker 1: some sort of edge in the passing game. Uh, it's
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Speaker 1: important for every quarterback. I think it's really important for
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Speaker 1: Blake Bortles, and it's if he can give them anything
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Speaker 1: in that in that area, it would be a huge
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Speaker 1: boost because the Jaguar you know, it has been a
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Speaker 1: dry area for the Jaguars for too long. So if
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Speaker 1: they can get anything out of it, if they can
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Speaker 1: get a twenty two yard game in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the game that they weren't getting before, goodness, what does
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Speaker 1: that open up? And I think that's a really big
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Speaker 1: thing that there I was a counting on them to bring.
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Speaker 1: I wonder I still like what you threw out there
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Speaker 1: three or four weeks ago of drafting somebody and going
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Speaker 1: full board to receiving tight ends, like the Pager's still
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Speaker 1: very intriguing to me. Uh, Usually things you say aren't,
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Speaker 1: but that one is. And I'm kidding, but that one
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Speaker 1: is stuck with me because there's an element where you think,
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Speaker 1: if they're gonna go this route, do you draft aligneman,
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Speaker 1: draft a tight end, and draft a running back and
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Speaker 1: go really full board to this idea. We're gonna use
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Speaker 1: the tight ends, We're gonna use the running backs, and
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Speaker 1: this is gonna be our offense, and the wider c
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Speaker 1: vers are going to be supplemental rather than the main
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Speaker 1: part of the offense. Well in conjection with the running game,
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Speaker 1: especially if you go back and I did this week
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Speaker 1: and look at the Patriots in two thousand and eleven,
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Speaker 1: two thousand and ten, they drafted Gronkowski in the second
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Speaker 1: round and Aaron Hernandez from Florida in the fourth round
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Speaker 1: in two thousand and eleven, so their second year together,
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Speaker 1: which should have been the epic tight end draft of
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Speaker 1: all time because Aaron Hernandez, despite everything else, was really good.
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Speaker 1: He was a tremendous player. Tremendous player. Um they combined,
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Speaker 1: Gronkowski had ninety catches in two thousand and eleven, Hernandez
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Speaker 1: had seventy three. That's a hundred and sixty three. That's
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Smith, Keen and McCardell territory, right, So It makes
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Speaker 1: sense to me because Marone and Belichick think alike many
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Speaker 1: in many respects they do. And if you have a
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Speaker 1: quarterback whose deep accuracy isn't a strong suit, which the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars do, and yet the underneath stuff and the play action,
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Speaker 1: which it is. But I think it could be a
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Speaker 1: winning town. And there are some good tight end that
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Speaker 1: will be sitting there at twenty nine, and probably there'll
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Speaker 1: be a good one at sixty one also, But I mean,
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Speaker 1: I don't rank the players, so we'll let them decide
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Speaker 1: where the guy fits. But I just have this hunch
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Speaker 1: that that New England offense, which if you go back
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Speaker 1: and look again at that season eleven, they were very
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Speaker 1: difficult to match up with. It's a little dicey to
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Speaker 1: think that they would do it immediately, only because tight
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Speaker 1: end can be a tough position to transition to and
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Speaker 1: that's the one thing that sort of keeps you out
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Speaker 1: of it. But it didn't take long for them to
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Speaker 1: get that thing up and running. And uh, of course
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Speaker 1: they had a quarterback named Brady, So it's never hard
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Speaker 1: when you got a guy like that, for sure. Um,
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Speaker 1: how about you who you interested in looking at? Well,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's uh I stay away from Wineman when
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about O t A s because the obvious
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Speaker 1: one is say Andrew Norwell, but what are you really
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Speaker 1: going to see? Uh? I would say Dante Moncrief and
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Speaker 1: the rest of the receiving corps. How that's going to
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Speaker 1: play out. That's something you can watch in the off
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Speaker 1: seasons and something you can watch no T A S.
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Speaker 1: Can he bring an element of what they lacked last
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Speaker 1: year in terms of big play down field? Can he
15:05
Speaker 1: be a viable replaced from Fallen Robinson? And then just
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Speaker 1: sort of overall, how it's all going to fit together?
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Speaker 1: I think markis Lee, Healing, Cole d d Westbrook, Dante Moncrief,
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Speaker 1: how that's going to play out? Where these guys fit.
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Speaker 1: You get the feeling that it's going to be a
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Speaker 1: very split rotation between those four guys. But how it's
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Speaker 1: gonna play I think it's it's intriguing for this offense.
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Speaker 1: I will go with Cam Robinson and I get it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you really you can't see a lot from
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Speaker 1: the big guys until the pads go on. So how
15:34
Speaker 1: do I say this kindly? He's this great, big kid,
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Speaker 1: great player at Alabama, but still in a big kid's body. Um,
15:42
Speaker 1: they didn't have the time in Alabama in College Bowl
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Speaker 1: to build him up like they are doing right now
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Speaker 1: with Tom miss Linsky, and that strengths draft. Um. I'm
15:52
Speaker 1: really interested to see what he looks like when he
15:54
Speaker 1: gets a full year. So not really in terms of
15:57
Speaker 1: you know, how he's pushing guys off the line of scrimmage,
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Speaker 1: but if they can take especially his upper body, if
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Speaker 1: they can take it and really use and maximize the time.
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Speaker 1: Well one, right, Yeah, he's a young kid, so there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of man's strength that comes about in an
16:10
Speaker 1: offensive lineman that young as they grow from twenty I
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Speaker 1: expect that to happen for him. Good player, played well, um,
16:19
Speaker 1: but always looked at him and thought, all right, let's
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Speaker 1: see what you got in two years when Tom and
16:24
Speaker 1: his crew down in the weight room have had more
16:26
Speaker 1: time to work with you. So we'll see back to you,
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Speaker 1: Ashley for big thing three. We're looking at players again,
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Speaker 1: this time to the college kids or at least positions. Yes,
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Speaker 1: we're draft digging here, so first and second round all exciting.
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Speaker 1: We're looking way deep into the third round here. Not
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Speaker 1: with me, I think it's depth, especially with the defense.
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Speaker 1: Maybe linebacker there. I think you're really looking at building
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Speaker 1: depth on that job. Start. Um, I don't spend that
16:52
Speaker 1: much time looking beyond one and two because it's so
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Speaker 1: tough to names. They're going to do names are My
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Speaker 1: guess is they go. You know, it's gonna depend on
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Speaker 1: what they do. And in in one and two I
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Speaker 1: think they're gonna go offensive line and tight end early,
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Speaker 1: So that's where you might see linebacker. Uh, it makes
17:15
Speaker 1: sense because they need depth there. I agree with Ashton
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Speaker 1: that death will be the key, and I do think
17:22
Speaker 1: they're gonna want to try to find at least one
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Speaker 1: special teams guy out of that third and fourth. So
17:27
Speaker 1: I think somewhere in that third and fourth there's going
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Speaker 1: to be a secondary player or a linebacker that is
17:34
Speaker 1: expected to be involved at least somewhat in the rotation
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Speaker 1: by the end of the season. Yeah. See, I mean
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Speaker 1: I didn't want to get names specific necessarily here because
17:40
Speaker 1: you're right. I mean, we don't go to the depth
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Speaker 1: like these guys do. I I could throw out DeShawn Elliott,
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Speaker 1: the safety from Texas right or Tim Settle, the defensive
17:48
Speaker 1: tackle from Virginia Tech. And I only know it because
17:50
Speaker 1: I've done some time on it, but that I don't
17:53
Speaker 1: go any deeper than that. But position wise, I look
17:55
Speaker 1: at safety because you look at the two safeties the
17:57
Speaker 1: Jaguars have. Both of them are now getting older, obviously,
18:01
Speaker 1: both of them were undrafted rookie free agents, and both
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Speaker 1: something entirely different. John. You might even call little sinister
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Speaker 1: your sinister guy. Um wait, we're used to the whole
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Speaker 1: ozone thing, right, I mean we do it shamelessly at times.
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Speaker 1: But when you were gone two weeks ago, he really
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Speaker 1: wasn't the ozone because you weren't with us. So we
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Speaker 1: tried something different. We called it the Sullivan Oshan Sexton
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Speaker 1: Zone because we were answering the question. Really a lot
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Speaker 1: of feedback on it amazing, amazing, Yeah, I mean at
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Speaker 1: least from the people that matters, which was actually right,
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Speaker 1: So we changed it up a little bit. Okay, are
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Speaker 1: you okay? Are you upset? All right? We knew we
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Speaker 1: could count on that. Um, so actually is going to
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Speaker 1: ask the first question and then she might answer it. Okay,
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Speaker 1: we'll see how that goes. We will good. Thanks, thanks
21:23
Speaker 1: for your approval. All right, Chris, I'm worried that there's
21:26
Speaker 1: a smoke screen effort by the Jackson make everyone think
21:29
Speaker 1: we won't draft quarterback in round one when I was
21:31
Speaker 1: their hope and plan. Now knowing Dug Maron, I don't
21:35
Speaker 1: think he is doing any smoke screens. I think he
21:37
Speaker 1: would tell it how it is and there's no plan
21:39
Speaker 1: behind that. Well, I don't think they would say. Um,
21:43
Speaker 1: it's always funny to talk about smoke screens in the
21:45
Speaker 1: draft because there's sort of this perception that if something's
21:49
Speaker 1: out there, which is basically all analytics from the outside,
21:53
Speaker 1: that is the team sending out smoke signals. Um. The
21:57
Speaker 1: only smoke signal that you see is the fact that
22:02
Speaker 1: every time they've talked about anything, they say that Blake
22:05
Speaker 1: boys of their quarterback, and everybody I've talked to said,
22:08
Speaker 1: there's very little chance that they're going to draft a
22:10
Speaker 1: quarterback to compete with Blake or give any sort of
22:14
Speaker 1: a semblance of uh, you know, this guy is here
22:18
Speaker 1: to take his job. So, um, no, I don't think
22:21
Speaker 1: this guy has to worry about smokescreen. You know, the
22:22
Speaker 1: beautiful things about smoke screen is that now that teams
22:25
Speaker 1: don't have to send them out, there's enough of this,
22:28
Speaker 1: there's enough talking and tweeting, and there's enough social media
22:31
Speaker 1: that teams can just sit back and say nothing. They
22:34
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about letting the packers know, for instance,
22:37
Speaker 1: that the Jaguars are interested in the tight end or
22:39
Speaker 1: I mean, those games used to be played because there
22:42
Speaker 1: was no viable means by which teams could have a
22:47
Speaker 1: little bit of disconnect, right. Um. Nowadays they just sit
22:51
Speaker 1: and shut up and let it happen. Here's the thing.
22:53
Speaker 1: You may have said this just because we think it
22:58
Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything. Right, we can say, look, this is
23:01
Speaker 1: the best tight end on the board. Hayton Hurst is
23:03
Speaker 1: absolutely a first round pick. They should take him. And
23:06
Speaker 1: they may say we have a third round grade on
23:08
Speaker 1: the guy. Right, we don't know what their grades are neither,
23:12
Speaker 1: by the way to the Dame Bruglers and the Matt
23:14
Speaker 1: Miller's and and those you know, um guys at ESPN um,
23:20
Speaker 1: they don't know. They don't So the smokescreen thing doesn't
23:23
Speaker 1: have the same meeting that it wants. Did right, They're
23:25
Speaker 1: not taking a quarterback in the first round. I would
23:27
Speaker 1: be stunned if they did. Stunned. Well, there you go, Chris,
23:30
Speaker 1: All right, let's go Tarry from Jacksonville. Did the Jags
23:32
Speaker 1: address their needs and free agency? If so, best available
23:35
Speaker 1: receiver or titan should be the choice? Who would you pick? Brian?
23:39
Speaker 1: I talked about this about these kind of questions should
23:42
Speaker 1: be the choice? Yeah, well, and it's nice that the
23:46
Speaker 1: reader feels so passionately, but I don't know that that
23:49
Speaker 1: should be the pick. Um. I don't know. I believe
23:52
Speaker 1: it will be if if I'm putting percentages on it,
23:56
Speaker 1: I think offensive line in the first round. Um. Again,
24:00
Speaker 1: when you say that, they may get to the point
24:04
Speaker 1: where when it drops and plays out and they're at
24:06
Speaker 1: twenty nine, you don't want to take an offensive lineman.
24:12
Speaker 1: If you're the GM, you want to take the right
24:14
Speaker 1: offensive lineman. If the right offensive lineman is not there,
24:17
Speaker 1: then you have to have other options to come off
24:19
Speaker 1: the position. But when you're looking at it for the draft,
24:21
Speaker 1: you don't know how it's gonna slide. So I think
24:24
Speaker 1: the percentage chance would probably go tight end, I mean
24:27
Speaker 1: offensive line, and then probably tight end and then receiver.
24:33
Speaker 1: But if they've got a guy ranked number seven, he's
24:38
Speaker 1: a pass rushing defensive end, all of a sudden he slides, well,
24:40
Speaker 1: they're gonna take that guy, and then it doesn't matter
24:42
Speaker 1: what Johnny's percentage. I'm totally with you on that and
24:46
Speaker 1: that I made the point last week best available player,
24:49
Speaker 1: when don't you need the best available player If it
24:52
Speaker 1: happens to be one of those guys those offensive lineman
24:55
Speaker 1: that is sitting there and it's an offensive lineman and
24:59
Speaker 1: they have the same grade the tight end of receiver,
25:00
Speaker 1: I take the offensive lineman because of positional value. However,
25:05
Speaker 1: if the best available player, if Dron Payne, the defensive
25:08
Speaker 1: tackle from Alabama, slides, you're going to have a need
25:11
Speaker 1: because you have two very highly paid guys and you
25:14
Speaker 1: don't want to damage your salary cap for the long term.
25:17
Speaker 1: You better have some young guys behind Malie Jackson and
25:20
Speaker 1: Marcel Darius after this season, and you don't know necessarily
25:23
Speaker 1: if Michael Bennett's that guy, right, So if you have
25:26
Speaker 1: a highly ranked player that slides down the board, even
25:29
Speaker 1: though the perception is when I've got to go offense. Uh,
25:32
Speaker 1: you don't pass on a guy you have ranked way
25:35
Speaker 1: up here to take a guy you have way down
25:37
Speaker 1: here because you need it. You take the best available player,
25:39
Speaker 1: and you adjust in other places around the draft. So
25:42
Speaker 1: I wouldn't put anything past them other than quarterback. I
25:45
Speaker 1: don't see quarterback anything else, and I don't see running
25:48
Speaker 1: back at twenty nine either. Anything else though, I would
25:51
Speaker 1: say is on the table. Fair game, all right? Last one,
25:54
Speaker 1: Brandon Asheville, North Carolina. Do you think Healing Cole, indeed
25:58
Speaker 1: Westbrook can have a similar impact the A and Bros
26:00
Speaker 1: didn't when they both had over one thousand yards receiving
26:03
Speaker 1: in their sophomore year. I think yes. When you look
26:05
Speaker 1: at how much Healing Cole improved us in his first year,
26:09
Speaker 1: it was drastic. It's not given another year maybe so UM,
26:12
Speaker 1: I think no, because I don't think you're gonna have UM.
26:16
Speaker 1: I think they'd be throwing the tight ends. Well, yeah,
26:18
Speaker 1: I will keep them from being able to reach that
26:23
Speaker 1: thousand member. Allen Robins had fourteen touchdowns four hundred yards.
26:27
Speaker 1: Now the numbers are going to be skewed because I
26:29
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna pass enough to get to those numbers.
26:32
Speaker 1: But even the impact, I think Westbrook and Cole will
26:36
Speaker 1: have a tough time making the impact that Hearns and
26:38
Speaker 1: Robinson did because those guys were starting well in terms
26:40
Speaker 1: of numbers. Right, Okay, yeah, you're right, You're right. I
26:43
Speaker 1: think the receivers as a whole could but Healing Cole,
26:46
Speaker 1: Indeedy Westbrook right now, I don't think we'll be starting
26:49
Speaker 1: except in case of injury. Um So I think they'll
26:52
Speaker 1: have a tough time. I think they will have an impact.
26:54
Speaker 1: I think they can have a significant impact, but I
26:56
Speaker 1: don't think they will be the frontline receivers who are
26:59
Speaker 1: the star who are the fantasy football guys that those
27:01
Speaker 1: guys weren't agree The one thing they bring that neither
27:04
Speaker 1: Alan had was explosive speed. Both of those guys have
27:08
Speaker 1: the ability to get up the field in a hurry,
27:10
Speaker 1: so we could see some big plays, some explosive place.
27:13
Speaker 1: But I'm with you, John, I don't see either one
27:15
Speaker 1: of them having a thousand yards receiving. But if you're
27:19
Speaker 1: doing this height end things we're talking about, you don't
27:20
Speaker 1: need that. No, And I, just like I said, I
27:23
Speaker 1: had this hunch at the tight end we saw the
27:26
Speaker 1: way that Nathaniel Hackett put the game plan together for
27:30
Speaker 1: the Steelers game in the playoffs. I mean it was
27:32
Speaker 1: the short underneath, the short underneath stuff that dump off
27:35
Speaker 1: to koyak Um and they took their shot right to
27:38
Speaker 1: Helan Cole. I think that game showed us the way
27:41
Speaker 1: they want to play offense, and and it it worked.
27:45
Speaker 1: It played to Blake strength, It played to the running game,
27:47
Speaker 1: which played to the defense, which is your you know,
27:49
Speaker 1: your trump card. So I I see that tight end
27:52
Speaker 1: being an important position first or second pick for sure,
27:56
Speaker 1: because it gives you more options for the underneath stuff
27:58
Speaker 1: that Blake does so well. Here's how much they would
28:00
Speaker 1: like to use it. Mercedes Lewis played here twelve years
28:05
Speaker 1: and had a great career or a very very good
28:08
Speaker 1: career here. I don't think you would say in his
28:12
Speaker 1: last couple of years that he was a dynamic receiving
28:14
Speaker 1: tight end. They schemed enough last year to get him
28:18
Speaker 1: five touchdowns. Ah, that was a very high number considering
28:24
Speaker 1: that he was not a great receiving tight end anymore.
28:27
Speaker 1: If if you have a couple of players who are
28:30
Speaker 1: better at getting open and more dynamic receiving tight ends,
28:33
Speaker 1: I think you'll see that number for the tight end
28:35
Speaker 1: spot go up significantly as you go forward. So for
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