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Jags Drive Time: Friday, August 24 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: Jaguars. Did you don't, Jack Jack Warris, did you Jaguars
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Speaker 1: Drive Time? Bryan Sex steps that, John O says Ashley
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Drive Time starts right now here we go on
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Speaker 1: a Friday morning. The field painted yesterday, there were just
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Speaker 1: lines when we started the show. The numbers began to
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Speaker 1: appear by the time we were done. And today, well
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Speaker 1: look a whole lot closer to game day tomorrow night,
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Speaker 1: third preseason game the Jaguars and the Falcons here on
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Speaker 1: Fox TV and Jacksonville and of course some right here
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Speaker 1: at t i A a bank field. That guy right there,
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Speaker 1: did you Westbrook? Look you to cement his spot on
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Speaker 1: this roster. I think he's got one obviously, but his role,
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Speaker 1: I guess is probably the better way to put it.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that and more this morning on Jags
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Speaker 1: Drive Time. Hi everybody, Brian Sexton, Ashlyn Sullivan, John Osier,
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Speaker 1: good morning. You sounded fascinated by that whole lines thing.
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Speaker 1: It's like their appears people out there actually doing that knows,
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Speaker 1: but it was almost like a live time lapse for us.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday we went back and forth to it and it
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Speaker 1: started there were just lines, and then numbers appeared. Now,
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Speaker 1: and you know, he seemed amazed, like it was getting
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Speaker 1: in your kitchen at You know, when you spend as
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Speaker 1: much time here as we do during the course of
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Speaker 1: training camp, sometimes it's a little thing. It was fascinating.
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Speaker 1: There's no windows in this building, by the way, none,
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Speaker 1: so when you get the chance to see what's going
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Speaker 1: on live outside, what's like our own private window. We're
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Speaker 1: the only people in the building that have one. So
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Speaker 1: let us be amazed here this morning, smiling, nice to
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Speaker 1: see you. It's it's a beautiful day. Absolutely. Hey. Head
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Speaker 1: coach Dug Morow joined us in about seven or eight minutes,
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Speaker 1: So let's jump right into big things and knock those
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Speaker 1: out while we're waiting on coach man. What we got
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Speaker 1: Big thing one is new faces. On Saturday, we're going
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Speaker 1: to see some new guys on the field that we
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Speaker 1: haven't seen in games during the preseason, one of them
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Speaker 1: being Andrew Norwell and Tavin Brian. Tim and Brian expressed
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Speaker 1: how exciting was just to get back on the field
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Speaker 1: and get hit. And I know my own stress that
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Speaker 1: he needs to be available on the field to make
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Speaker 1: things has happened. Need the big guy. Yeah, and Doug
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Speaker 1: wants to see him get hit. Doug, you know, and
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Speaker 1: Tom Causton is the same way. This regime is so
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Speaker 1: much more upfront and says what they believe in terms
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Speaker 1: of Hey, whatever you do in practice is great, but
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Speaker 1: it's what you do in the game, and Doug is
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Speaker 1: always pushing that front and center in his conversation. I
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Speaker 1: think it's by design to make sure players, to make
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Speaker 1: sure that's the tone around here. It's like, Okay, it's
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Speaker 1: great if you practice what you gotta practice hard to
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Speaker 1: play well, but it's what you do between those lines,
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Speaker 1: and that's gonna what's and that's what's gonna get you
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Speaker 1: on the team. Taton Bryan's on the team, but overall,
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Speaker 1: guys get cut and make teams around here because of
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Speaker 1: how they do in the field. Keep in mind also,
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Speaker 1: he's a guy that can play that big end spot
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Speaker 1: and spell Calais. He's said in the locker room many
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Speaker 1: times he can play the three spot, which is Maleak
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Speaker 1: and that quick up the field guy. He's big enough
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Speaker 1: and strong enough. You think you could spell Abrie or
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Speaker 1: Morsel if they needed him to. They need the depth
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Speaker 1: with those older guys on that line, especially with Calais
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Speaker 1: out there. You want to maximize his body over the
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Speaker 1: course of a whole season. You need Brian to be
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Speaker 1: that guy. He's such a wild card for this year
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Speaker 1: in my opinions, you don't really it's easy to look
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Speaker 1: at last year and know that with or without Taven
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Speaker 1: Bryan they have a chance to be good. Um, if
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Speaker 1: he's what they think he can be, I doubt it
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Speaker 1: will happen first game of season said game of the season.
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Speaker 1: But if he's what they think he is and all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden starts giving you something extra, then a
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Speaker 1: as we've talked about, Brian Tavin Bryant's got to be
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Speaker 1: good in two thousand nineteen because somebody who's good is
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Speaker 1: not going to be here, so he's got to be
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Speaker 1: good in their place. And people saw right there. Uh,
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Speaker 1: Andrew Norwell is also that other guy. I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: we'll see a whole lot from how much he impacts
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Speaker 1: this game or this team until we get to the
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Speaker 1: regular season, because that's just how the running game goes.
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Speaker 1: But it's nice to see him out on the field.
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Speaker 1: Well that's lineman in general. You'll see more of them
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Speaker 1: week one than you do right now. Alright, big thing
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Speaker 1: to time on tasks. So Doug Moran believes this third
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Speaker 1: preseason game is it time for the players to get
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Speaker 1: on the field play and treated almost like a regular
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Speaker 1: season game. Brian you picked out a quote from his
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Speaker 1: press conference earlier in the week and it reads, I
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Speaker 1: think you have to play. That has been more my philosophy. Philosophy.
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Speaker 1: I like to gradually build it up, and I like
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Speaker 1: those guys to play mentally, play together communication. I have
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Speaker 1: always believed that you get better by playing faster than
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Speaker 1: you do by practicing. I tend to like to play
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Speaker 1: our starters in the third preseason game. So I saw
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Speaker 1: a quote from Todd Gurley this morning, the Los Angeles
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Speaker 1: Rams outstanding running back, who said that's the dream when
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Speaker 1: asked about not playing at all in the preseason. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: Julio Jones is not playing, Devonte Freeman not playing. Jones
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Speaker 1: says he's completely healthy. Freemans had some concussion and had
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Speaker 1: some knee issues late last year, so they're trying to
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Speaker 1: get these guys healthy. Um. In fact, we were told
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Speaker 1: yesterday by Dave Archer on this program, the Falcons color
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Speaker 1: commentator on their radio network, that they didn't expect to
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Speaker 1: see the Falcon starters too far into the second quarter
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Speaker 1: before they start pulling those guys. So philosophies are different
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Speaker 1: on this. I think used to be that the third
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Speaker 1: preseason game was completely addressed rehearsal. You expected starters into
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Speaker 1: the third quarter. Different guys have different philosophies these days.
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Speaker 1: Uh they do. And Doug Brown's philosophy, as he stated,
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Speaker 1: is likes to see guys play and likes to see
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Speaker 1: them play well in the preseason. It's an old school approach,
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Speaker 1: but it's what got this team ready last year. A
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Speaker 1: big things. Big thing three is names to know. Sweech
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Speaker 1: picked a guy that we were going to look at
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Speaker 1: this week and thought that he would have a strong performance.
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Speaker 1: I picked Ronnie Harrison, team leading five tackles last week,
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Speaker 1: fource bumble. I spoke to Barry Church and Gibson yesterday
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Speaker 1: and they said what an impact he has made. The
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Speaker 1: same thing almost with Leon Jacobs, where he doesn't even
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Speaker 1: seem like a rookie on that field. They both mentioned
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Speaker 1: the built by Bama philosophy that he came ready to
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Speaker 1: be in the NFL. All right, John, what you got?
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Speaker 1: I went Andrew Norwell and I wasn't sure if you're
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Speaker 1: gonna allow me to pick two or not. There could
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Speaker 1: be because you're you're the ring leader around here. It's
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Speaker 1: your show. Um and Jeremy point out because the offensive line, Uh,
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Speaker 1: these guys are veterans. They can play football. But as
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Speaker 1: Doug said this week, he said something interesting about seeing
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Speaker 1: these guys, not necessarily the continuity thing. He's not as
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Speaker 1: big on on field chemistry as maybe the media likes
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Speaker 1: to talk about, but seeing how they react to things
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Speaker 1: within games, meaning how they if something goes wrong, how
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Speaker 1: they communicate on the sidelines, how they fix it, how
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Speaker 1: they get that going. With Norwell especially, he hasn't been
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Speaker 1: through that with this group of teammates. So yeah, a
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Speaker 1: couple of series where he does that would help him
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Speaker 1: for week one. All right, And I went with Dante
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Speaker 1: Fowler Jr. So the Saturday morning that he returned to practice,
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Speaker 1: Coach Morone said in his news conference he was excited
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Speaker 1: to see him and I watched him that day and
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Speaker 1: he looked. I mean, I was calling the lion because
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Speaker 1: the guy's so athletic and he was flying around out
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Speaker 1: there and I thought, boy, this looks great. Then the
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Speaker 1: next day the fight and the unfortunate week long suspension,
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Speaker 1: and so then this week you come back and there's
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Speaker 1: all kinds of trade rumors out there, you know how
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Speaker 1: Twitter blows. But people would be interested in him because
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Speaker 1: he's such an incredible act and the Jaguars drafted him
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Speaker 1: third overall because he's got skills. So I'm interested to
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Speaker 1: see how he does in whatever amount of time he's
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Speaker 1: on the field. I would think it would be considerable
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Speaker 1: because remember h didn't playing in Week one, so this
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Speaker 1: will probably be his greatest chance to get out on
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Speaker 1: the field. I want to see him and see him
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Speaker 1: play with some energy. Remember, this is a guy who's
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Speaker 1: probably not here in nineteen. He's going to be a
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Speaker 1: free agent, so let's see if we're going to get
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Speaker 1: that kind of performance from him, that contract performance that
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Speaker 1: you love from a player in his final year. Three agreed,
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Speaker 1: all right, should we take a break because coach waiting,
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Speaker 1: the sensing, the coach feeling him. All right, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: welcome back to Jaguars Drive Time on a Friday morning
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Speaker 1: Jaguars and Falcons seven o'clock kick off on Fox. You're
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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville tomorrow night. Fred Taylor, Rashly and Sullivan, Brent
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Speaker 1: Martineau all on the broadcast. For now that we welcome in.
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Speaker 1: Head coach Doug Morons will join us on Friday mornings,
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Speaker 1: including the preseason how are you today. I'm doing well. Good,
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Speaker 1: nice to see it. Good seeing everyone. Um this week
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Speaker 1: there there appears for the first time. Not the first time,
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Speaker 1: but people kind are used to starters playing a lot
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Speaker 1: more in this third preseason game, and around the league,
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Speaker 1: varying teams are changing up their philosophies. Yours is to
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Speaker 1: play them in the third game. Is that because you're
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Speaker 1: not going to play him in the fourth? Well, I
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Speaker 1: don't want to. I don't even want to look ahead
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Speaker 1: really to the fourth game. Right now. I'm just looking
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Speaker 1: at you know, this game and what we have to
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Speaker 1: do for our team, and you know, for what I
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Speaker 1: believe is the best for our players. So you know,
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Speaker 1: I like, I like to play guys um in there.
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Speaker 1: But you know, you still have ninety you know, there's
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Speaker 1: still ninety people on a roster, and there's still some
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Speaker 1: decisions to make. But I do think you have to
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Speaker 1: get in there and play. I think playing is an
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Speaker 1: important part of preparing yourself, you know, for the for
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Speaker 1: the regular season. I think that you practice. Obviously that
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Speaker 1: helps to some areas, but I think that you know,
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Speaker 1: actually going out there and playing and adjusting and in
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Speaker 1: game adjustments and and the focus and working next to
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Speaker 1: people are working within your unit. Those types of communication,
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Speaker 1: you know, you don't really get that in practice. So, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, I look forward to seeing how we how
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Speaker 1: we react and um, you know this upcoming game. When
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Speaker 1: you talked about the offensive line someone one of your
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Speaker 1: press commences this week, you mentioned what you just said.
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Speaker 1: The communication off the field obviously be important, would be
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Speaker 1: important for the line, but is that important for everybody
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Speaker 1: in preseason just to get used to game situations, even
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Speaker 1: off field as you said, or on the sidelines. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think I think so, because you know, we try
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Speaker 1: to simulate that in practice as much as we can,
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Speaker 1: but there's nothing like really going out there and doing
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Speaker 1: it live. So you know, those situations will just come up,
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Speaker 1: you know, in the game and a lot of it.
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Speaker 1: You know, what I think about is, you know you
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Speaker 1: can see the sideline or halftime, you know, adjustments and stuff,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of it I always go back to
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Speaker 1: when I played. You know, those eleven guys that are
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Speaker 1: out there on the field and that huddle, there's there's
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Speaker 1: there's a there's probably a lot more communication going on
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Speaker 1: than then most people would think. When you're in that
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Speaker 1: huddle and you know, just to get that feel of, hey,
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Speaker 1: you gotta get a little bit closer, Hey you gotta
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Speaker 1: take this step, or hey you gotta cover me, cover
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Speaker 1: this gap a little bit more. You know, those are
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Speaker 1: the things that go on which you know happens during
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Speaker 1: the game. And I don't think I think it's hard
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Speaker 1: to simulate in practice from a situational standpoint. And I
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Speaker 1: asked you last week in Minnesota about about coaching situationally
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Speaker 1: on the practice field. Are you still in this third
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Speaker 1: game putting guys in different situations, you know, different lineup combinations,
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Speaker 1: especially on special teams, just to get a look at them. Well,
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Speaker 1: I think you're You're right, especially probably on the special teams.
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Speaker 1: And and there are positions that are still open, you know,
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Speaker 1: offensively and defensively. But I look at you know, you
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Speaker 1: know where you are now if guys that are fighting
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Speaker 1: for spots on his team, you know, really if if
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Speaker 1: it's it's if it's equal as far as what we
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Speaker 1: feel the talent level is, we're either off, it's the defense.
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Speaker 1: And I think the next thing you go to is
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Speaker 1: what what can they contribute on special teams? So you know,
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Speaker 1: I think you know, from a special team standpoint, it's
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Speaker 1: it's a big game for a lot of players. One
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Speaker 1: of the storylines this week has been a Leonard for
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Speaker 1: Nett his work on third downs. You talked about a
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Speaker 1: little bit. He talked about yesterday. He feels like he's
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Speaker 1: blocking better and he's just picking things up so much better.
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Speaker 1: Do you see that as well? I do, And I
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Speaker 1: think that was one of the things that was talked about,
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Speaker 1: you know, quite a bit last year, and I think sometimes,
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Speaker 1: you know, people forget that, like, you know, how come
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Speaker 1: he's not out there on third down? And it was
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Speaker 1: just a matter of just working, you know, working him
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Speaker 1: into it. So you know now that we had the
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Speaker 1: full off season and worked him into it and put
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Speaker 1: him out there. Uh, you know, we feel you know,
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Speaker 1: obviously he's a playmaker. Yelled as a playmaker. You know,
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Speaker 1: both those guys can make plays and from a third
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Speaker 1: down situation and being back there. So you know, the
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Speaker 1: more we can get our playmakers out on the field,
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Speaker 1: the better will be. I'm sure you're getting a lot
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Speaker 1: of looks at guys now about trying to make this team.
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Speaker 1: When does that decision happen for you? Is it one
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Speaker 1: day that you sit down and say, all right, he
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Speaker 1: looks good, he doesn't look good? Or is it more
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Speaker 1: are gradual knowing who's gonna make this team? Well, I
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Speaker 1: think you know, you know myself, Coach Coffin and Dave,
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Speaker 1: we we discuss it probably every single day, you know.
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Speaker 1: I think it's something that you know, we'll talk about,
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Speaker 1: you know, either position groups, players or maybe the whole
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Speaker 1: entire roster um, but you know, will constantly be evaluating,
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Speaker 1: constantly talking about the players, constantly seeing where they fit in.
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Speaker 1: We get great input from obviously the coaches and then
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Speaker 1: our scouts, so we've got a lot of sets of
13:26
Speaker 1: eyes that are watching it. Because the thing you don't
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Speaker 1: want to do is is is you know cut a
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Speaker 1: player that you think can really help you. So you
13:33
Speaker 1: want to make sure that you know your your dot
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Speaker 1: normal eyes crossing all the teas. When you have a
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Speaker 1: team that looks coach as settled, looks as settled in
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Speaker 1: many respects as your roster is, do you have a
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Speaker 1: more competitive camp? I mean, do you find because guys know,
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Speaker 1: there are a fewer spots on a team with these
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Speaker 1: many veterans, established players. Have you found that there's an
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Speaker 1: increased level of competition on this I think you're always
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Speaker 1: pushing for the increased level competition, whether you're a team
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Speaker 1: that you know people look and say, hey, they've got
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Speaker 1: a lot of guys coming back, or a team that
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Speaker 1: you looked at they say, hey, listen, everything is wide open. Um.
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Speaker 1: I think there's always a little bit more when you're
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Speaker 1: a new head coach, just because there's a lot more adversity,
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Speaker 1: meaning that the players don't really know what's gonna come
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Speaker 1: or how you're gonna run your camp. So to answer
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Speaker 1: your question, I think, you know, we always want that
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Speaker 1: competition because you know, like I told the players before,
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Speaker 1: what you've done in the past, hey that that's that's fine,
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Speaker 1: but we're gonna evaluate people on on what they do
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Speaker 1: for us. Now in this camp, there's two thousand and
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Speaker 1: eighteen season, and and it goes back to the mistakes
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Speaker 1: that you know that I've made as a coach, where
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Speaker 1: you know, I've had players and and didn't practice as
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Speaker 1: well after coming off a good football year, and we
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Speaker 1: you know, I know myself, I sit there and say, well,
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Speaker 1: you know, he did it last year, he'll be fine.
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Speaker 1: He did it last year, he'll be fine. You keep
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Speaker 1: saying that, Then you get into the season and you're
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Speaker 1: seeing the same things that he never gets back to
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Speaker 1: the way he plays. So you know, I've made mistakes
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Speaker 1: like that before and that's something that I don't want
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Speaker 1: to do again. So maybe you guys will agree. But
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Speaker 1: the competition that I've watched the most is that, uh,
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Speaker 1: that group at punt returner, you know, the fifth wide receiver,
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Speaker 1: the d D Westbrook, Rashad Green, uh, Jadon Mickens. How
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Speaker 1: is that played out about the way that you expected
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Speaker 1: it or somewhat surprised you. I think it's tough. I
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Speaker 1: mean it's a tough decision. I think you know, all
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Speaker 1: three guys have done things that you you look at
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Speaker 1: and say, hey, this can really help us, And I
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Speaker 1: think it'll be a tough decision, you know when we
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Speaker 1: get down to the you know, the final days. But
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Speaker 1: you know, we still have two more games to play,
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Speaker 1: and we have some practices in there and we'll just
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Speaker 1: have to see how it shakes out. Did you see
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Speaker 1: this coming from Rashad? I mean he missed twenty four
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Speaker 1: games the last two years, and you've been around here
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Speaker 1: a couple of years. Uh, he had a pretty good
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Speaker 1: O t A and had a pretty good camp and
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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, He's just made play after
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Speaker 1: play after play a building. Yeah, I think if I
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Speaker 1: wasn't here the first year with him, Uh yeah, I
15:50
Speaker 1: think I would be surprised. But I thought, you know,
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Speaker 1: looking back and seeing what he was able to do
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Speaker 1: prior to his injury, he was, he was playing well
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Speaker 1: and doing a very good job for us, and then
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Speaker 1: he wanted up playing in one game and had a
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Speaker 1: couple of drops and and kind of got pushed to
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Speaker 1: the side. So I'm not surprised to see him coming
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Speaker 1: back and competing. He's been a player that has a
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Speaker 1: lot of talent, and you know he's he's in a
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Speaker 1: tough competition along with a lot of those players. I
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Speaker 1: mean that's probably, um, you know, one of the tougher
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Speaker 1: competitions or tougher decisions, you know, the wide receiver group.
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Speaker 1: I always hesitate to ask you if you're happy about something,
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Speaker 1: it's probably not. But overall, with camp, I guess breaking
16:28
Speaker 1: after this game ne really being in training camp mode,
16:31
Speaker 1: have you gotten done what you wanted to get done
16:34
Speaker 1: in terms of straining them in terms of their legs.
16:36
Speaker 1: I know you have a plan for all that we do.
16:37
Speaker 1: We have a plan for all that I feel like
16:39
Speaker 1: we've we've we've gotten that done. Um, you know, like
16:43
Speaker 1: you said before, I think that, you know, I try
16:46
Speaker 1: not to be happy, you know, and I mean in
16:49
Speaker 1: a way that you know that I don't want to
16:52
Speaker 1: ever get complacent, So I've always want to keep myself,
16:55
Speaker 1: you know, on edge. And you know, I think, you know,
16:58
Speaker 1: if if anything, the payers have done a nice job.
17:01
Speaker 1: They've they've worked extremely hard. They seem you know, close
17:04
Speaker 1: as a team, and and that kind of stuff, like
17:07
Speaker 1: you know, you say that and people will be like, oh,
17:09
Speaker 1: that's that's great, you must feel great. Well that makes
17:11
Speaker 1: me nervous a little bit too, you know. I mean
17:13
Speaker 1: I like it, you know, and the players know that.
17:15
Speaker 1: I like it when they're they're on the edge that
17:17
Speaker 1: you know, I like it when they're complaining a little bit. Um,
17:20
Speaker 1: you know, I like that little edge, edge edging. This
17:23
Speaker 1: about a team and a coaching staff, and um, I
17:26
Speaker 1: think our players have handled things, you know, you know
17:29
Speaker 1: quite well. But really the most most part of camp,
17:31
Speaker 1: just like you don't want things to be great. I'm
17:33
Speaker 1: sure you don't want to say you're excited about guys
17:35
Speaker 1: coming back on the field, But with Tavin Bryan and
17:37
Speaker 1: Andrew are while coming back this Saturday. Are you looking
17:39
Speaker 1: forward to seeing them? Well, Andrew's a different I think
17:42
Speaker 1: those are two separate issues because you look at Andrew
17:44
Speaker 1: and and he's played in this league, and you watched
17:47
Speaker 1: him play, and you know he's chomping at the bit
17:49
Speaker 1: to get back. So you know, I think I have
17:52
Speaker 1: a vision in my mind of how he played based
17:54
Speaker 1: on his past performances and and based on how he's
17:56
Speaker 1: what he's done for us here. I think with with Brian,
18:00
Speaker 1: you know, being a first round pick coming out of Florida,
18:04
Speaker 1: you know, I see things that I like, but I
18:06
Speaker 1: haven't seen them in a real time action, so I
18:09
Speaker 1: don't know what the results are gonna be. So I'm excited.
18:13
Speaker 1: I am excited to see him out there, uh, finally
18:16
Speaker 1: to see what he can do, because you know, I
18:18
Speaker 1: really don't have a great evaluation right now. Um. Do
18:22
Speaker 1: you realize your media conferences are becoming much watch must
18:25
Speaker 1: watch around here? Um? You know when you're on on
18:28
Speaker 1: the TV, people now stop in our office. They want
18:30
Speaker 1: to see what you're gonna say. The The answer the
18:32
Speaker 1: other day to the Doug Peterson stuff was brilliant. It
18:36
Speaker 1: was I can tell you this, it was funny. And
18:39
Speaker 1: my my situation with the media and putting the word
18:43
Speaker 1: brilliant in there is is probably you're talking at tuxedos yesterday.
18:48
Speaker 1: I mean, it's people all of a sudden, Hey, what's
18:49
Speaker 1: Doug talking about today? Well, I mean those guys ask
18:52
Speaker 1: me questions, and you know, if they ask a question,
18:54
Speaker 1: I'm just, you know, I'm going to give him an answer,
18:56
Speaker 1: just like you know, I kind of look at the
18:59
Speaker 1: media is just kind of like what we're doing now.
19:01
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, I look at it where
19:03
Speaker 1: you know, it's just a bunch of guys um sitting
19:06
Speaker 1: and sitting at a bar having a beer, and you know,
19:08
Speaker 1: people ask you questions and you just tell them the
19:10
Speaker 1: truth and you just try to, um, you know, be
19:13
Speaker 1: who you are. I think that one of the things,
19:17
Speaker 1: you know, is that I appreciate from our media is that,
19:20
Speaker 1: you know, if you've asked me a question about injury
19:22
Speaker 1: or something of that nature, I'm just gonna, you know, say, listen,
19:25
Speaker 1: I'm not really gonna go there. And and and they
19:27
Speaker 1: pretty much, you know, they've done a great job, and
19:30
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I know they have to ask questions
19:32
Speaker 1: but they I appreciate that they understand that some some
19:35
Speaker 1: questions I can answer, and um, you know, I think
19:38
Speaker 1: it's it's it's made for a good relationship and uh
19:41
Speaker 1: um that that's just how I see it. I find it.
19:44
Speaker 1: I find it funny though all the time, because um,
19:47
Speaker 1: I'm probably one of the worst people in the media,
19:50
Speaker 1: and that's when that's been my bad. I've I've worked
19:52
Speaker 1: hard to get better at it. But um, the answer
19:55
Speaker 1: the thing was when everybody went to their focus, most
19:57
Speaker 1: people didn't really recognize the title of the book by
19:59
Speaker 1: the author, and they went to it and they just
20:02
Speaker 1: started smiling to laugh. It was just and I didn't
20:06
Speaker 1: mean it to take like a job or it wasn't
20:08
Speaker 1: something that was well thought. It's something that you know,
20:10
Speaker 1: for me personally, you know, uh, you know, and reading
20:14
Speaker 1: that book was a way for me to help myself,
20:17
Speaker 1: you know, get through things because I tend to my personalities.
20:20
Speaker 1: I keep things in you know, things you know build
20:23
Speaker 1: up in me. Um, you know, I I look at
20:25
Speaker 1: everything I don't you know, feel like I missed much
20:29
Speaker 1: and it's a lot of a lot of weight. And
20:31
Speaker 1: then sometimes what I'm trying to do a better job
20:33
Speaker 1: of is filtering through you know, what's what's what's what's important,
20:37
Speaker 1: and what's not. You know, before there was a lot
20:39
Speaker 1: of things that I look back out on my career
20:41
Speaker 1: and I say, you know, we'll shoot you know that
20:43
Speaker 1: I really have to, you know, go off the deep
20:45
Speaker 1: end on on that situation right there, that that that
20:48
Speaker 1: that's not really helping us win or lose. So you know,
20:50
Speaker 1: I try to, you know, read some some books in
20:53
Speaker 1: the off season to make sure that you know, it
20:55
Speaker 1: just helps me deal with some things, uh in a
20:57
Speaker 1: better way where I can just let things go, you know,
21:00
Speaker 1: off the top of my shoulder and then be able
21:02
Speaker 1: to coach his team to the best of my ability.
21:05
Speaker 1: Because Mark along from the AP is pretty sure you
21:07
Speaker 1: hadn't read the book right yet to convinced well, yeah,
21:10
Speaker 1: you know a lot of times they think, well, that
21:11
Speaker 1: goes back to what we were talking about before the
21:14
Speaker 1: the You know, this guy's not smart enough to figure
21:17
Speaker 1: that out, you know what I'm saying. I mean, he
21:18
Speaker 1: must have researched something or anything. I don't know, Mark,
21:21
Speaker 1: I do read books in the all season. I love reading.
21:24
Speaker 1: That's one of the things I do love. And you know, yeah,
21:26
Speaker 1: and then you know, I told him I have it
21:28
Speaker 1: in my office, so it wasn't like it was planned
21:30
Speaker 1: or anything like that. It's been on the best seller
21:32
Speaker 1: list for months. Yeah, yeah, and I and I actually
21:35
Speaker 1: just really happened to you know, most of the time,
21:37
Speaker 1: I'm a big Stewart Woods guy. You know, I read
21:40
Speaker 1: you know, Stone Barrington novels. I really enjoy it. You know,
21:44
Speaker 1: it's and the reason why I enjoy it because it's easy.
21:46
Speaker 1: You know, I can kind of figure things out, you know,
21:48
Speaker 1: I feel like I've accomplished something. You know. My wife
21:51
Speaker 1: gets on me because I don't. I don't read enough
21:53
Speaker 1: of of of fact, you know, but I but I do.
21:56
Speaker 1: I do read a lot of that stuff. And I
21:58
Speaker 1: was walking through an airport one day and just look
22:00
Speaker 1: at the best sellers list and I'm like, listen, yeah,
22:03
Speaker 1: I'd like to see that. It reminded me when I
22:05
Speaker 1: was younger, you know, when I watched that movie Risky Business,
22:08
Speaker 1: you know with Tom Cruise, when you know that one
22:10
Speaker 1: line comes up and he says that, and you know,
22:12
Speaker 1: it's like, well, you know, when I was a little
22:14
Speaker 1: kid growing up, was like, you know what, laughing at it,
22:18
Speaker 1: you know, and then you walk by and you see
22:19
Speaker 1: you know, you see the book. You're like, let me,
22:21
Speaker 1: let me read this. I mean, I mean, I'm in
22:23
Speaker 1: at the airport. But the only thing is I had
22:25
Speaker 1: to I had to take the cover off it because
22:27
Speaker 1: I was going on a plane. I don't want any
22:28
Speaker 1: children to see the cover. Risky business. As all I
22:35
Speaker 1: know coaches is that people want to hear what you're
22:38
Speaker 1: saying now. So if you wanted to be better at
22:39
Speaker 1: the media, job accomplished, it's been good. I don't I don't.
22:43
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, but I don't know how much people
22:45
Speaker 1: want to hear what I say. I think it's more
22:47
Speaker 1: it's more about what the players say. Well, there's some
22:49
Speaker 1: of that, but when you throw an answer out like that,
22:51
Speaker 1: you've got everybody's attention. Well, if anyone's looking for like
22:54
Speaker 1: a repeat of that type of performance, and they're gonna
22:58
Speaker 1: be highly disappointed. So it wasn't like a Ditka press conference,
23:02
Speaker 1: because when Dickie was coaching his press conferences, people would
23:05
Speaker 1: wait for them to come down on the satellite feed
23:07
Speaker 1: at the end of the day on Sunday because it
23:09
Speaker 1: was so bombastic. It was just so subtle. It was fun. Yeah,
23:12
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I don't really want to be
23:14
Speaker 1: that that guy. I really don't. I just want to
23:17
Speaker 1: be a guy that you know, you can get up
23:19
Speaker 1: there and get you know, talk to talk to the fans,
23:21
Speaker 1: tell them what's going on, you know, tell him about
23:24
Speaker 1: the team. You know. I don't try to be witty
23:27
Speaker 1: or any of those natures. I really don't, you know.
23:30
Speaker 1: I just want to tell them, Hey, we're working our
23:32
Speaker 1: butts off, we still got a ways to go, um,
23:35
Speaker 1: you know, and we're going to continue to keep working.
23:37
Speaker 1: And that's really the message that I try to I
23:39
Speaker 1: try to give out. It's it's it's never perfect, you know,
23:42
Speaker 1: even though that's what we're striving for. You know, we
23:44
Speaker 1: want to obviously, it's it's a very simple, you know
23:47
Speaker 1: process that we talk about, meaning that you know, one,
23:50
Speaker 1: we want to win the physical battle up front, you know,
23:53
Speaker 1: both on both lines, and then obviously we want to
23:55
Speaker 1: win to turn over battle, and we want to want
23:57
Speaker 1: to figure out a way they get into this fourth
23:59
Speaker 1: quarter and you know, games are close in this league
24:01
Speaker 1: and fighting scratch and you know, find a way to win.
24:03
Speaker 1: I think it's it's it's very simple from that standpoint,
24:07
Speaker 1: just one final thought camp breaks is John mentioned, um,
24:10
Speaker 1: are you sad to see camp break? Are you ready
24:11
Speaker 1: to get into a regular season routine? And do you
24:13
Speaker 1: enjoy camp like I do? I do enjoy camp. I
24:16
Speaker 1: enjoy camp for you know, really the main reason is
24:19
Speaker 1: that you know, everyone knows you're in camp, and when
24:22
Speaker 1: everyone knows you're in camp, you really don't get um
24:26
Speaker 1: people you know, calling you or asking you for things
24:29
Speaker 1: they know you're in camp, like, you know, hey, maybe
24:31
Speaker 1: I'll give my son a call. Well he's in camp,
24:34
Speaker 1: you know, me and me, you know, And I think
24:36
Speaker 1: when you get out of camp, they think it's like,
24:38
Speaker 1: you know, all he's coming in at nine and leaving
24:40
Speaker 1: in five, and that's not the case at all. So
24:42
Speaker 1: I like camp because it kind of it kind of
24:45
Speaker 1: isolates you to really focus on on what's important, which
24:49
Speaker 1: is obviously right now at this time football And then um,
24:53
Speaker 1: when camp breaks, and I think, you know, some other
24:55
Speaker 1: things start taking control. And I think that's a challenge
24:57
Speaker 1: for for our players, you know, especially the young once
25:00
Speaker 1: you know, when camp breaks and now there's a little
25:02
Speaker 1: bit more free time, there's a little bit more people
25:04
Speaker 1: out of grabbing at them, you know, try to stay
25:06
Speaker 1: in the same routine because the one thing I've learned
25:09
Speaker 1: about this league it's it's it's a long season and
25:12
Speaker 1: you have to have a heck of a routine um
25:15
Speaker 1: to stay at at the level you need to stay
25:17
Speaker 1: at to perform to win football game. So that's one
25:20
Speaker 1: of the things that you know, we talked about with
25:22
Speaker 1: the team quite a bit. All right, Jaguars and Falcons,
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27:06
Speaker 1: this Friday morning. We just heard from head coach Doug Morn.
27:09
Speaker 1: Now it's zones time. Ozone snapshot zone. Are you ready? Well,
27:12
Speaker 1: I look at those lines out look, get that end zone.
27:16
Speaker 1: Let's say it's happened by magic. That's a nice looking field.
27:19
Speaker 1: It is it is? Hey, I am easily amused I'm
27:23
Speaker 1: like coach just said, he likes to be simple, the
27:25
Speaker 1: little thing sometimes mean the moment. I'm ready, Oh goodness,
27:29
Speaker 1: here we go. All right, let's go embrain from Jacksonville.
27:34
Speaker 1: Is it possible Norwell Read or even Lender slide to
27:37
Speaker 1: left tackle. Read has gotten reps at center and it's
27:39
Speaker 1: playing like a starter at guard, seems if it turns
27:42
Speaker 1: out he's a better lineman than Cam Robinson, should he
27:45
Speaker 1: be in the top five? That is, if Linda or
27:47
Speaker 1: Norwell could work. That is, when Linda and Norwell could
27:51
Speaker 1: or would do it. Is there any thought in that direction? Sorry,
27:55
Speaker 1: you see this ash and this is knee jerk reaction
28:00
Speaker 1: to one tough game by Cam Robinson against by the
28:04
Speaker 1: way and outstanding young pass rusher into Neil Hunter. No
28:07
Speaker 1: matter who was against it was a tough game. But
28:09
Speaker 1: Cam Robinson's your left tackle? Uh? First of all the
28:13
Speaker 1: guys that you just reeled off, yes they could. Lender
28:18
Speaker 1: might be good enough to maybe kick out and play
28:21
Speaker 1: left tackle in a pinch. They've always talked about as versatility.
28:24
Speaker 1: But long term, you want Cam Robinson out there. You
28:28
Speaker 1: want him to play to the level he played last
28:32
Speaker 1: year and start the process of getting better from that. Uh.
28:37
Speaker 1: They're not moving anybody out to left tackle from the
28:39
Speaker 1: interior anytime soon, and I don't see that happening this year.
28:43
Speaker 1: Robinson has the ability to play, we think, at a
28:46
Speaker 1: much higher level than we saw last year. He's got
28:49
Speaker 1: the body style for it. To Ashland. You're talking about
28:51
Speaker 1: a guy who's tall and has length. Those pass rushers
28:54
Speaker 1: go wide on you want to be to get your
28:55
Speaker 1: hands on them. He has good feet. He wants to
28:58
Speaker 1: be able to drop and slide and be able when
29:00
Speaker 1: a guy comes back inside again to get the long
29:02
Speaker 1: arms out there. Uh. He has played to a higher
29:06
Speaker 1: level than he is right now. He was here all
29:07
Speaker 1: through the off season. I mean he was one of
29:09
Speaker 1: those guys that you saw, like Miles Jack getting out
29:11
Speaker 1: of his truck coming in here every day. He's put
29:14
Speaker 1: in the work. He's had a tough camp. I would
29:16
Speaker 1: think that after last year. And I come back to
29:19
Speaker 1: this all the time, the five interception game and everyone
29:21
Speaker 1: wrote off Blake. How about the fact that yesterday was
29:23
Speaker 1: the anniversary of him getting benched right in favor of
29:26
Speaker 1: Chad Henney, and we're thinking who's going to be the
29:28
Speaker 1: quarterback here? Right? So with that in our mind as
29:31
Speaker 1: our frame of reference. Don't don't overreact to the left tackle. Yes,
29:35
Speaker 1: it was tough and he has to play better. Um,
29:39
Speaker 1: but no, it's way too early to start thinking about this. Remember,
29:43
Speaker 1: they knew him coming in here. It was going to
29:46
Speaker 1: be a project for him to be ready to play
29:48
Speaker 1: at the NFL level. He played well as a rookie.
29:51
Speaker 1: I expect to play much better as we get into
29:53
Speaker 1: the season, agreed. And I think he has the right
29:54
Speaker 1: personality for it. He was the one that said and done.
29:56
Speaker 1: Brown said it. He's gonna be the first one to
29:58
Speaker 1: tell you he didn't play to the level he wanted
30:00
Speaker 1: to play. And with him being here every day during
30:02
Speaker 1: the off season, he's on the right track. He just
30:04
Speaker 1: has to get you know, and and for the first time,
30:06
Speaker 1: and I kind of like this. He was a little
30:07
Speaker 1: edgy in the locker room the other day. We were
30:09
Speaker 1: over talking to him and he had his phone up
30:11
Speaker 1: and he was answering the questions and he could tell
30:13
Speaker 1: he didn't he want to look into the camera. You
30:15
Speaker 1: don't want to look at the reporters. He didn't want that. Um,
30:18
Speaker 1: Now I don't want to see that going forward. Cam,
30:19
Speaker 1: We need you to look up and talk to us. However,
30:22
Speaker 1: I liked seeing that you were agitated by it because
30:25
Speaker 1: it meant you know, you can play better, Right, So
30:27
Speaker 1: I kind of like that little edginess from Cam Robinson. Hey,
30:30
Speaker 1: it's not a nice game and out there on the
30:32
Speaker 1: left side where you're playing against the Miles Garretts of
30:34
Speaker 1: the world. And if you saw him last night for
30:35
Speaker 1: Cleveland against Philadelphia, buckle up, you better be ready for that.
30:38
Speaker 1: Kind of like the edge. One reason it was so
30:41
Speaker 1: jolting because it hadn't happened before. Yeah, well, the fact
30:43
Speaker 1: that had happened before it leads me to believe that
30:46
Speaker 1: it's more of an outlier than a trend. I said
30:48
Speaker 1: this yesterday. When the Patriots signed James Harrison late last season,
30:53
Speaker 1: I thought, what are they doing? Thirty nine years old
30:56
Speaker 1: and late in the ball game he had two or
30:58
Speaker 1: three rushes that gave Cam trouble and forced a quick
31:00
Speaker 1: throw an errand throw by Blake. Two or three rushes
31:04
Speaker 1: was all. It was. What you want to see from
31:06
Speaker 1: Cam is on those two or three rushes that matter
31:08
Speaker 1: the most in a game, that he stops him right.
31:11
Speaker 1: You may not see that, obviously, until we get into
31:13
Speaker 1: a game in the fourth quarter, right ready for the
31:15
Speaker 1: next one? Oh, let's go Ambooge from Minnesota. Boy, do
31:21
Speaker 1: you think Jalen said all that stuff about so many
31:23
Speaker 1: quarterbacks is a way to bait them into throwing at him.
31:27
Speaker 1: As young corners go into the elite status, qubies tend
31:29
Speaker 1: to shy away from them on average, So perhaps his
31:33
Speaker 1: comments are a way to get more game action and
31:35
Speaker 1: maybe boost up his stats. Maybe he didn't want to
31:38
Speaker 1: be bored on Jalen Ramsey. Sorry for the conspiracy theory. Um,
31:44
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well. First of all, I included this
31:46
Speaker 1: because it's welcome back Jalen knight On on Saturday. So
31:49
Speaker 1: it's always good to get rams against the quarterback that
31:53
Speaker 1: he said was overrated, who was the m v P
31:55
Speaker 1: in two thousand sixteen. It will be good theater on
31:57
Speaker 1: that front. Um, you know, I don't necessarily know that
32:02
Speaker 1: it was a calculated thing where Jalen sat down before
32:05
Speaker 1: the interview and went, Okay, if I talk about these quarterbacks,
32:08
Speaker 1: then they're gonna there. Um. Perhaps after the fact he
32:13
Speaker 1: may have said, what's yeah, I mean if if they
32:18
Speaker 1: thought me great? Uh. My impression of Jalen from listening
32:23
Speaker 1: to him and talking to him, is that he answered
32:26
Speaker 1: a question, uh, that he was asked and really doesn't
32:30
Speaker 1: mind shooting from the hip and doesn't really care if
32:34
Speaker 1: they throw Adam or not. Would loving them to throw
32:36
Speaker 1: at him And if that's the if that's the consequence,
32:39
Speaker 1: great um. If it happens and he gets some picks
32:43
Speaker 1: out of it, then if asked, if he did it
32:46
Speaker 1: on purpose, he'll smile and let it be known that
32:49
Speaker 1: he did. He was smiling the locker room, you say,
32:54
Speaker 1: when he saw Max here the other end of the coin,
32:57
Speaker 1: the other end of the stick. There is that um
32:59
Speaker 1: with a boy on the other side. If you don't
33:02
Speaker 1: throw Jalen, you're throwing at him. And last year he
33:04
Speaker 1: was tied for third in the league with six interceptions.
33:07
Speaker 1: My thought is, if if Jalen is gonna cover the
33:09
Speaker 1: best receiver that you have, if he's going to cover
33:11
Speaker 1: Julio Jones or on opening day Odell Beckham Jr. They're
33:14
Speaker 1: gonna throw at him anyway. Not that they want to
33:16
Speaker 1: throw at him, but they want to throw to their
33:17
Speaker 1: best receiver. They're going to take the chance to get
33:19
Speaker 1: the ball in Beckham's hands against the Giants, So he
33:22
Speaker 1: didn't need to do that, all right? Last one, here
33:25
Speaker 1: we go, John Jason from Jacksonville. John, I guess, since
33:30
Speaker 1: Blake is the best quarterback you've ever seen next to
33:32
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning, I guess trading Fouler for Bridgewater would be
33:35
Speaker 1: a terrible idea. It would not help the Jaguars at all.
33:38
Speaker 1: Sounds like Jason wants to see Bridgewater in uh teal
33:42
Speaker 1: black and white. Yeah, you know, he's one of these
33:44
Speaker 1: questions where it's okay if you've got an extra grind five.
33:48
Speaker 1: I don't understand the point, but uh, I don't to
33:54
Speaker 1: get to the Bridgewater topic. Thankfully, it's sort of faded
33:58
Speaker 1: a little bit. Um. I don't see anyway in the
34:02
Speaker 1: world that there is a Bridgewater interest, nor should they be.
34:08
Speaker 1: Blake's the quarterback. And the one year anniversary is significant
34:13
Speaker 1: because what a difference a year has made for Blake
34:15
Speaker 1: Bortles in terms of the way this organization is behind him,
34:21
Speaker 1: the way this team is behind him, the growth. I
34:24
Speaker 1: see no reason why that growth won't continue. Ryan correct.
34:26
Speaker 1: And that's the big thing that I take from Blake
34:28
Speaker 1: is you've seen him go from here to here. I
34:32
Speaker 1: don't know why you would think that growth is gonna stop. Okay,
34:34
Speaker 1: so you've addressed it from the trade for Bridgewater. Let
34:37
Speaker 1: me address it from the trade Fowler. Don't do it right.
34:41
Speaker 1: You don't trade lions. You don't trade guys who can
34:44
Speaker 1: be difference makers. The last or last year, there's defense
34:48
Speaker 1: had their starterscent of the time. That's not going not
34:51
Speaker 1: gonna happen. We might never see that again. So why
34:55
Speaker 1: would you take a premium pass rusher and you didn't
34:57
Speaker 1: take him third? Overall? I get the off the field staff,
35:01
Speaker 1: but people have gotten away from the fact that this
35:03
Speaker 1: is a good football player, a guy who's capable of
35:06
Speaker 1: ten or more sacks. Like you told me you thought
35:08
Speaker 1: he could get twelve to fourteen. I totally agree with
35:12
Speaker 1: that you can. You don't trade that kind of a
35:14
Speaker 1: pass rusher for a backup quarterback. You don't do it.
35:17
Speaker 1: You don't trade him anywhere. I don't care who you're
35:18
Speaker 1: trading him for. You hold onto this guy. Particularly with
35:23
Speaker 1: what you expect this team to be this year. I
35:26
Speaker 1: expect this team to have leads. I expected to be
35:29
Speaker 1: chasing the quarterback and then this is an avalanche. Expect
35:31
Speaker 1: the defense to be playing a lot because they have
35:34
Speaker 1: leads and chasing a lot. Uh, that's why I say
35:38
Speaker 1: a lot of things. I'm sure I said Fowler at
35:40
Speaker 1: some point I could get twelve to thirteen. I think
35:43
Speaker 1: he can because of the fact that I think this
35:47
Speaker 1: defense will be chasing quarterbacks a lot late in games
35:50
Speaker 1: this year, which will set that up. You'll be playing
35:53
Speaker 1: in nickel. He plays hard. He is always playing hard,
35:57
Speaker 1: and he's always going to get the most out of
35:59
Speaker 1: whatever he's got in that particular game. I think this
36:02
Speaker 1: defense you just said you think they'll be playing a
36:03
Speaker 1: lot with a lead. I think if Leonard for Nette
36:06
Speaker 1: is running twelve yards a lot like the Ravens in
36:09
Speaker 1: two thousand, they're gonna be rested on the sideline. And
36:12
Speaker 1: if you're running waves of pass rushes, and if you're
36:14
Speaker 1: hitting them with Unique and Gogway and then sending Dante
36:17
Speaker 1: Fowler back on Wow, watch out, do not trade Dante Fowler.
36:22
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Speaker 1: Get something to say. I mean you just you look pleased.
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Speaker 1: Just I'm just I can't wait to see that game
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Speaker 1: with those lines on the field. It's gonna be awesome.
38:27
Speaker 1: What's going to make a night? You shouldn't give him
38:31
Speaker 1: any ammo. John could find ammo in a piece of
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Speaker 1: blank paper. All Right, are you ready? Is this top tweek?
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Speaker 1: But don't use the side with the lines lines. Alright,
38:46
Speaker 1: big line guy, all right, are we ready? We're going
38:50
Speaker 1: to start on a more serious note, but then we'll
38:52
Speaker 1: get into fun tweeks. Did you tell him exactly what
38:55
Speaker 1: you expect from him? I should lay this out. I'm
38:59
Speaker 1: going to read tweet. You're going to write out who
39:02
Speaker 1: you think said that tweet? Okay, said the tweeter typed it. Yeah,
39:07
Speaker 1: simple enough. All right, We're gonna start with a leader
39:10
Speaker 1: on this Jaguars team who is taking a stand off
39:12
Speaker 1: the field. I respect the flag, the military, our police officers,
39:16
Speaker 1: and the freedom bestowed to palm me from them. I
39:19
Speaker 1: also have hoped for racial equality. I don't plan to
39:21
Speaker 1: take a knee, but I don't plan to sit quietly
39:23
Speaker 1: about injustice either. Who said that? Nice John. We've taken
39:41
Speaker 1: a while, but it's a long name. Yep, that it is,
39:47
Speaker 1: and Brian got it. Did you guys see the tweet? Yes?
39:51
Speaker 1: I thought it was a great I did see the tweet,
39:53
Speaker 1: and the thing that I feel about it was that
39:56
Speaker 1: Clais is a guy in the locker room with a
40:00
Speaker 1: an unusual amount of influence. I mean he reaches across
40:03
Speaker 1: racial lines, positional lines, uh, financial lines. Right, the highest
40:08
Speaker 1: paid guy in the locker room can can interact so
40:11
Speaker 1: effortlessly with the lowest paid guy, the guy in the
40:14
Speaker 1: equipment room. The reporters who were there, um, we said
40:17
Speaker 1: last year when guys were taking a knee, don't just
40:20
Speaker 1: take the knee, offer some commentary on it, then go
40:23
Speaker 1: do something in the community, be proactive, make change, don't
40:27
Speaker 1: just make waves. Uh. He's one of those guys. So
40:30
Speaker 1: when I saw the tweet yesterday, I was like, you
40:32
Speaker 1: go get him close. Ye, that's exactly how you get
40:34
Speaker 1: things done and rally people to you and the cause
40:38
Speaker 1: that you seek to impact. He's such a I mean
40:41
Speaker 1: I did see the tweet yesterday. It was hard not to. Uh.
40:44
Speaker 1: If I hadn't, there would have been a high percentage
40:48
Speaker 1: chance that you get it right anyway, because you know
40:51
Speaker 1: what he's about, you know the way he speaks, and
40:53
Speaker 1: he's such a strong personality that he's the right guy
40:58
Speaker 1: to be discussing this it in a public form, and
41:01
Speaker 1: I think he will make the point in the correct way.
41:05
Speaker 1: In our business, words are sometimes enough, right, we we
41:08
Speaker 1: need the words, but in this case, actions are more important,
41:13
Speaker 1: and provides him he's the guy that's going to bring
41:15
Speaker 1: those actions absolutely. All right, Now let's go to our
41:18
Speaker 1: second one. Are you ready? John? Here we go? Three
41:24
Speaker 1: days I watched Nato and Baratto with my babies. Do
41:30
Speaker 1: you know what Narato and Barato is? Really good cartoon? God?
41:36
Speaker 1: I knew I would stump you on this one. All right,
41:40
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, Oh we are just stumped. There
41:43
Speaker 1: is nothing going on. I don't know how much time
41:47
Speaker 1: you have for thoughts. I think John's got her from already. Nope,
42:00
Speaker 1: da guess that's not an answer. Okay, all right, all right, John,
42:14
Speaker 1: John didn't even give an answer, but go ahead, did
42:24
Speaker 1: all right? Now that we're doing with that close? But no,
42:29
Speaker 1: it's the guy with the most personality on offense. You
42:33
Speaker 1: didn't say that bullets I shouldn't be given the most
42:35
Speaker 1: person Andrew Norwell, yes, you got it. Okay again, who
42:43
Speaker 1: has children? There we go, ding ding ding. I was
42:47
Speaker 1: going to say you were not. You stopped me. That
42:51
Speaker 1: was good. I knew that was a good one. I
42:53
Speaker 1: didn't see that I did not. All right, the final
42:56
Speaker 1: one isn't a Jaguars player, but it's very famous in
43:00
Speaker 1: the Jaguars world. Are we ready? Blake Bortles has never
43:06
Speaker 1: been shut out by a team coming off an oh
43:08
Speaker 1: in sixteen season. Hence to last night's game, the Eagles game.
43:15
Speaker 1: All right, John, looking good? Oh? I don't know about
43:18
Speaker 1: that one. This guy does because he's the author of
43:22
Speaker 1: the account. See, and I know it. Can we go
43:26
Speaker 1: to me first? I'd like to be right first. That
43:29
Speaker 1: is the n I may spelled his last name. That
43:31
Speaker 1: Mike is the guy who does Blake Bortles facts. He
43:36
Speaker 1: went above and beyond. Well, I read the story in
43:38
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal about him. No, no, no, this
43:41
Speaker 1: is deeper. This is a more significant answer because I
43:44
Speaker 1: know the name. I'm gonna give it to both of you,
43:48
Speaker 1: but we have to give it to both of us,
43:50
Speaker 1: because Mike is going to tweet it you and say, no,
43:52
Speaker 1: Brian's right, spell my name the account, not Mike. Whatever.
43:57
Speaker 1: You don't want absolutely right, you just want partially right.
44:00
Speaker 1: That's fine. Somebody gave it to him before the chef
44:03
Speaker 1: I read the story. Should we reveal to him what
44:06
Speaker 1: happened with the rappers? Or should we keep it a
44:09
Speaker 1: secret in house? Well, it's not a secret in house,
44:11
Speaker 1: since you've told everybody all of a sudden, John, I
44:14
Speaker 1: think we should reveal what happened with the rappers in Atlanta.
44:17
Speaker 1: I'll say it for another day. Okay. He was going
44:19
Speaker 1: to let me have my moment. We let you have
44:21
Speaker 1: that moment. We let you have it. Great, appreciate it.
44:25
Speaker 1: We'll keep it t Lse. I like the fact that
44:30
Speaker 1: you gave a trio and it was clever. Sometimes, Look,
44:34
Speaker 1: sometimes in life works in mysterious ways. Some oh God,
44:38
Speaker 1: do we know that? Look, sometimes you just have to
44:41
Speaker 1: own it sometimes. What was it that Gary Barnett said,
44:44
Speaker 1: maybe five that Northwestern went into Notre Dame and beat
44:49
Speaker 1: the fighting Irish, And he grabbed his team with about
44:51
Speaker 1: thirty seconds left and said, now look when we win.
44:55
Speaker 1: Pause for dramatically because they were gonna win. Act like
44:59
Speaker 1: we've been here before, right, Act like this is something
45:01
Speaker 1: that we do. I'll never forget that. Of course it
45:03
Speaker 1: was twenty years ago, your dignity act with class. Yeah right, yeah,
45:08
Speaker 1: right exactly. So just act like you've been there before,
45:11
Speaker 1: so you did with TLC. You just put it down
45:13
Speaker 1: there like I expect to win. This is calm, cool
45:17
Speaker 1: and Mike right, good account. So I'm right, all right,
45:22
Speaker 1: you win. Okay, time for some pregame thoughts, John, go ahead, Yeah,
45:26
Speaker 1: I got a thought on tomorrow night's game. I'm just
45:28
Speaker 1: riding high from my big wind just now. It's s
45:31
Speaker 1: hard for me to have any thought. Um does he
45:33
Speaker 1: know there's no price? It's it is dress rehearsal night.
45:37
Speaker 1: I would like to see the offense have a couple
45:40
Speaker 1: of drives out of their five with some efficiency. I'm
45:44
Speaker 1: not worried about the interception from Blake last week, but
45:48
Speaker 1: you would like with this offensive line playing. I don't
45:51
Speaker 1: think Brandon Lender will play, but overall it will be
45:53
Speaker 1: the offensive line. You might see some continuity things early.
45:57
Speaker 1: At some point. You would like to see that interior
46:01
Speaker 1: push we're talking about with Norwell, can I think Shatley
46:04
Speaker 1: is capable of that um and you would like to
46:06
Speaker 1: see one last warm up game from the defense where
46:11
Speaker 1: they look like they're swarming. I have confidence we'll see that,
46:15
Speaker 1: so uh. Overall, I liked your last question to Doug
46:19
Speaker 1: moron The punt returner battle is to me, the most
46:24
Speaker 1: high profile, most intriguing thing that I think we'll see
46:27
Speaker 1: play out over the last two weeks. And I think
46:30
Speaker 1: tomorrow night you'll see them do the same rotation with Westbrook,
46:34
Speaker 1: Mickens Green, seeing who's going to step up from that
46:37
Speaker 1: one thought, John one thought because you just took mine. Okay, look,
46:42
Speaker 1: I'm watching tomorrow night. I want to see Rashad Green
46:44
Speaker 1: uh dd. Westbrook to me makes this team. Uh, and
46:48
Speaker 1: I think he's got a really good shot at winning
46:50
Speaker 1: the punt return battle. But Rashad Green and Jada Mickens
46:54
Speaker 1: have done things as well this preseason. I think Green
46:57
Speaker 1: has an advantage of a Mickens because he's a slot receiver, right,
47:00
Speaker 1: but Mickens does some explosive things with the ball in
47:02
Speaker 1: his hands. It's maybe the most compelling battle that we've
47:05
Speaker 1: seen in training camp around here in a long time,
47:08
Speaker 1: and it's not the big guys. It's not the sexy names,
47:11
Speaker 1: but these guys are really fighting for their role, for
47:14
Speaker 1: their touches this year. Not just making the roster, because
47:17
Speaker 1: you can make a case for all three guys making
47:20
Speaker 1: the roster, but their role and how often they're going
47:22
Speaker 1: to see the ball. And I just think based on
47:24
Speaker 1: what we've seen from D. D. Westbrook and the package
47:26
Speaker 1: they've had for him on offense and the plays that
47:28
Speaker 1: he's made, but he's got so much upside. The other
47:32
Speaker 1: two guys, I think Green and Mickens are the two
47:34
Speaker 1: are going to fight it out. I'm anxious to see
47:36
Speaker 1: if one can get a leg up tomorrow night. I
47:38
Speaker 1: go back and forth on this. The thing I keep
47:40
Speaker 1: thinking about Jadeen though, is there's something when you watch
47:42
Speaker 1: guys return punts. Some guys have the knack for turning
47:47
Speaker 1: it up quickly, hitting the hole fast. That's what special
47:50
Speaker 1: teams coaches love is a guy who goes upfield fast.
47:53
Speaker 1: Get it. He's the best one on this team doing that.
47:55
Speaker 1: I get it. But I'll come back to the fact
47:56
Speaker 1: that the best, maybe the only pure slot inside receiver
48:00
Speaker 1: that you have is Green. Green is showing the ability
48:03
Speaker 1: to cover kicks, which Mickens does not do and Green
48:06
Speaker 1: has had a long return and as he held up
48:10
Speaker 1: he dropped the ball. I get it against the Saints,
48:12
Speaker 1: but he's been very productive. I think Green does more
48:15
Speaker 1: things for your team, more versatility than Mickens. I think
48:18
Speaker 1: it's an uphill battle for mckens. More situations are dilemmas
48:22
Speaker 1: made to it is. That's a good problem to have.
48:26
Speaker 1: My thought before the game is the offense as a whole.
48:29
Speaker 1: So when we watched the first preseason game, Blake Bortles
48:32
Speaker 1: drove down the field grade opening drive. Last week, not
48:35
Speaker 1: so much with the opening drive. I'd like to see
48:37
Speaker 1: the offense come out and have another impactful opening drive
48:39
Speaker 1: that made us go, wow, this is Blake's team. What
48:42
Speaker 1: a great opening drive. So there you go, We're done.
48:46
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