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Speaker 1: Welcome in Jaguars Happy Hour. I am j P. Shadrick.
Speaker 1: Jeff Lagavan with us. We have a program for you today.
Speaker 1: Let's to get to well, not as much as we thought.
Speaker 1: We're still waiting on the staff announcement. We've seen all
Speaker 1: these names reported of assistant coaches linked to the Jacksonville Jaguars,
Speaker 1: but no official announcement as of yet from the team.
Speaker 1: We will talk about some of the names that have
Speaker 1: been linked, though, roster evaluation will touch on a few
Speaker 1: key positions. Once the staff has announced, they'll do that
Speaker 1: as well. If they haven't started already. I'm sure they
Speaker 1: have the scouting process changed. During the twenty season. We'll
Speaker 1: hear from Bucky Brooks he joined us on a podcast
Speaker 1: Wednesday and get his thoughts on some of that. Telvin tweets.
Speaker 1: Telvin Smith tweeted for the first time in a year
Speaker 1: and a half and that has stirred up Twitter in
Speaker 1: the Jaguar land. And yes, Super Bowl fifty five is
Speaker 1: right around the corner a few days away down in Tampa.
Speaker 1: Jeff Flagman joins us now from his home studio and
Speaker 1: logs it's good to see you and good to be
Speaker 1: with you, and happy Thursday. Yeah, happy Thursday, and good
Speaker 1: to be seen. I've gotta I gotta send this out
Speaker 1: because I was up in Georgia the last couple of
Speaker 1: days and the Jaguars reportedly hired His name is Tyler Bowen.
Speaker 1: Bowen be the tight Ends coach, and he obviously Penn State,
Speaker 1: and it is big news up in Middle Georgia because
Speaker 1: he grew up right in that area where we have
Speaker 1: a place up there, and so people are all tech
Speaker 1: than me and calling me friends of mine that live
Speaker 1: up there and Georgia say, yeah, you guys got one
Speaker 1: of our home guys. He's gonna be one of your coaches.
Speaker 1: And so a lot of people in Telfare and Wheeler
Speaker 1: County that are very proud to have him as a
Speaker 1: part of the Jaguar staff. Is that near Onion Country,
Speaker 1: Videlia and all that stuff. How far is all that
Speaker 1: far at all? Yeah? Exactly, not not far at all.
Speaker 1: And he's he was reportedly a really good football player there,
Speaker 1: and I think he played at Penn State. Uh, maybe
Speaker 1: even coached a little bit of Penn State. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so so my my phone the last two days as
Speaker 1: soon as the news broke, I guess that. And and
Speaker 1: it obviously hasn't been released by the team, but the
Speaker 1: reports that he took the job as the tight ends
Speaker 1: coach with the Jaguars, and obviously some of the people
Speaker 1: that I know up there, they were immediately calling me said, yeah,
Speaker 1: you got one of ours, and like that's great? Is that.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to meet him eventually, and hopefully I
Speaker 1: will be able to meet him face to face, and
Speaker 1: and hopefully the team will announce the moves, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure that that will be coming after the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: once Urban has assembled all of his staff. I think
Speaker 1: they're still waiting on a couple of the last signings
Speaker 1: to make them official before they put it out, So
Speaker 1: maybe tomorrow, but I think you're right, Logs. Next week
Speaker 1: is probably most likely that you'll see the official word
Speaker 1: from the Jaguars, and then maybe a media appearance from
Speaker 1: some of those new coaches as well. Yeah, and and
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if the league puts out
Speaker 1: something official, and they probably don't, but it's probably one
Speaker 1: of these ways in which they do it through the
Speaker 1: back channels, and that when it's the week of the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, they would rather not have any distraction whatsoever
Speaker 1: and have the entire focus on on the league when
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell speaks like he did today, and then also
Speaker 1: to have the focus on the game, because the game
Speaker 1: is what makes the NFL great, and so you have
Speaker 1: to have the focus at the important times on the game.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure that the league hasn't demanded or put
Speaker 1: out any freeze or anything official for that matter, but
Speaker 1: the league would prefer not to have any other announcements
Speaker 1: to take away from what a wonderful week this is
Speaker 1: gonna be and what a great game that this is
Speaker 1: gonna be. This weekend. Lots just touched on a couple
Speaker 1: of those names, and then last week we went through
Speaker 1: the coordinator hires and a few other names that were linked.
Speaker 1: But now there have been some other names that have
Speaker 1: popped out, and for me, you know, the the offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator certainly vital, and now they've apparently are hiring a
Speaker 1: passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach in Brian Schottenheimer. For me,
Speaker 1: those two spots whatever touches the quarterback room considering what's
Speaker 1: going to happen or if we feel like what's going
Speaker 1: to happen with the number one, number one overall, pick
Speaker 1: those two hires. I think we're the most important of
Speaker 1: the coaching hires for Urban Meyer this year. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: just real quick thoughts and prayers to the shot Timer family. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Marty Schottenheimer has been a big name in the National
Speaker 1: Football League for many years, and I know he's battling
Speaker 1: some some physical issues, and so thoughts and prayers to
Speaker 1: the Schottenheimer family. But to talk specifically about the Jaguars
Speaker 1: offensive makeup, I like the fact that they're kind of
Speaker 1: bringing in a blend of guys that are going to
Speaker 1: be able to provide offensive input because you're looking at Bevil,
Speaker 1: you're looking at Schottenheimer and urban Meyer himself, and in
Speaker 1: any time that you can get a conglomeration of very
Speaker 1: good minds that come together and be a force as one,
Speaker 1: I think that's a real positive. So I like what
Speaker 1: Urban has done on the offensive side, at least reportedly
Speaker 1: done on the offensive side of the ball, and I
Speaker 1: think he's done something similar to that on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. You've added some people that have
Speaker 1: kind of been there and done that as as defensive
Speaker 1: coordinators go and at different different levels. Obviously because with
Speaker 1: Joe Colin being a first time defensive coordinator, the more
Speaker 1: minds that are able to help him, and obviously the
Speaker 1: stronger that you can be as a coaching staff, stronger
Speaker 1: than mind individually in a collection of that makes your
Speaker 1: defense better. You mentioned that the defensive coaching staff and
Speaker 1: reportedly the D line coach Josh Loupoy from the former
Speaker 1: Alabama code defensive coordinator. He was the Falcons D line
Speaker 1: coach as well. Charlie Strong is apparently going to be
Speaker 1: on the defensive staff in some capacity than in Urban
Speaker 1: go way back to the Florida days. Zach Orr has
Speaker 1: interviewed and will be part of the staff reportedly as well.
Speaker 1: And the secondary coach Chris Ash and you know, on
Speaker 1: the defensive side, Logs, You've got to think about the
Speaker 1: the job that Chris Ash is going to have if
Speaker 1: he is announced as the secondary coach, because, as we
Speaker 1: talked about on a podcast earlier today, Logs is gonna
Speaker 1: come out tomorrow on Jaguars dot Com and the Official
Speaker 1: Jaguars Podcast Network there's really only one secondary position that
Speaker 1: is solidified as a starter, and that's C. J. Henderson,
Speaker 1: right everybody else, I think everything else is up for
Speaker 1: Grant was in the secondary, so there will be a
Speaker 1: lot of new faces back there for him to deal with.
Speaker 1: But I think you can say that for a lot
Speaker 1: of parts of the roster, with the exception of maybe
Speaker 1: the offensive line, where you feel pretty good about the
Speaker 1: percentage of numbers or the number of guys being back,
Speaker 1: but the secondary is going to be that way. The
Speaker 1: interior of the defensive line could be a little bit
Speaker 1: of a question mark. The linebackers you feel pretty good about,
Speaker 1: but the tight end group is one the wide receiver
Speaker 1: group is another one. JP if some guys don't resign.
Speaker 1: So that's just what you have when you have a
Speaker 1: new staff, you have a very young roster, and you
Speaker 1: have a team that hasn't had very much success. That's
Speaker 1: just that's just the nature of the business. So UH
Speaker 1: to have a young secondary to UH and have a
Speaker 1: coach come in and with the challenge of trying to
Speaker 1: put together a secondary look. That's part of the challenge,
Speaker 1: and that's why they pay coaches. You know, you've got
Speaker 1: to develop draft and developed. And then some of the
Speaker 1: guys that you get, maybe you're not drafting them, but
Speaker 1: either are older guys. And look, you've got to teach
Speaker 1: them your system and you've got develop them within your system.
Speaker 1: So that's why they pay coaches the big bucks. JP.
Speaker 1: That's right, Yes they do. And that's why Urban's gonna
Speaker 1: lean on his coaches and and not. You know, if
Speaker 1: there's a mistake made on the field by a player,
Speaker 1: he's gonna coach the coaches and then let those guys
Speaker 1: go touch the players right now, they'll they'll we talked
Speaker 1: about it goes downhill, right, Yeah, it's called the downhill
Speaker 1: right right, It rolls downhill, and that that's the way
Speaker 1: it should be. It's it certainly does. So we'll see,
Speaker 1: hopefully early next week we'll have an official announcement and
Speaker 1: a media availability maybe with some of these new coaches,
Speaker 1: because I think a lot of people are excited to
Speaker 1: hear from some of these guys to to get an
Speaker 1: idea of what this thing is going to look like.
Speaker 1: What's the offense going to one of the basic tenants
Speaker 1: of this football team. Well and and totally understand it, JP,
Speaker 1: And and here's the deal, the Jaguars got a new
Speaker 1: coach which is essentially a new CEO, and Urban Meyer,
Speaker 1: and people are starving for information. They want to they
Speaker 1: want to hear from them. They want to they want
Speaker 1: to understand what what they're gonna say. They want to
Speaker 1: hear what they're gonna say. And the curiosity factor in
Speaker 1: the excitement is at all time high and and rightfully so,
Speaker 1: because you have so much excitement that's gonna be building
Speaker 1: into this season. I'm not saying that the excitement is
Speaker 1: for this team and all of a sudden show up
Speaker 1: on the opening day and all of a sudden be
Speaker 1: a contender, that that's not it, but where this team
Speaker 1: could be headed with a a new CEO, new coach,
Speaker 1: and Urban Meyer, and then also what is expected to
Speaker 1: be a new quarterback, which the expectations are that it's
Speaker 1: going to be Trevor Lawrence. And so people want to hear,
Speaker 1: they want to hear about their football team. They want
Speaker 1: to they want to hear from Urban what it's gonna
Speaker 1: look like, what kind of defense are you gonna run,
Speaker 1: what's the offense gonna look like? What do you think
Speaker 1: about the players that are currently on this team? What
Speaker 1: do you think about the players that you could acquire.
Speaker 1: What kind of a players do you want to acquire?
Speaker 1: So there's so much curiosity and I fully understand it,
Speaker 1: and that's all part of the excitement that I think
Speaker 1: is gonna be building at a level that maybe hasn't
Speaker 1: been seen before in quite some time in Jaguars history.
Speaker 1: For three or three four? What do you running? Joe?
Speaker 1: And on defense? All that stuff. Man, that's that's uh,
Speaker 1: that's the fun part because people are excited about it.
Speaker 1: And it's just been a little bit since we've had
Speaker 1: anything official from the Jaguars football team. But I have
Speaker 1: a feeling that all is coming. And by the way,
Speaker 1: at what point can we stop kind of dancing around
Speaker 1: the number one pick? Like, come on, can we go
Speaker 1: ahead and just say it's gonna be right right hey?
Speaker 1: And the real the reality is JP is that it's
Speaker 1: got to be danced around until the name is announce
Speaker 1: or until they say something earlier otherwise, which I don't
Speaker 1: think they would. They're not gonna say anything early, you know.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing, here's the reason why why would
Speaker 1: you want to go ahead and sell yourself short as
Speaker 1: far as organizationally and give all of the suspend us
Speaker 1: now to the number two picks, because the more suspense
Speaker 1: that you create with the number one pick, the more
Speaker 1: conversation that there is about the Jacksonville Jaguars. And that's
Speaker 1: marketing one on one. Look, you want to be talked about.
Speaker 1: If all a sudden you just say, okay, Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: is the pick, then all of a sudden, the curiosity,
Speaker 1: even though maybe the curiosity is only five percent, it's
Speaker 1: still there because it's still unknown. So you want to
Speaker 1: still be the topic of conversation when it comes to
Speaker 1: the draft. So from a marketing standpoint, you do not
Speaker 1: let your hand be be known to the public. You
Speaker 1: don't turn it that way. You keep it that way
Speaker 1: and then allow the conversation to be about you and
Speaker 1: then at some point, okay, when the announcement is made,
Speaker 1: then great. I mean that's why when Joe Thiesman makes
Speaker 1: an announcement, I guess yesterday to day whenever it was that, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe it's gonna be some other quarterback will be drafted
Speaker 1: number one overall. Sure, I mean, that's that's that's Joe
Speaker 1: Thiesman try to bring attention to himself, which is Joe.
Speaker 1: That's what Joe does bet okay, and Joe does that
Speaker 1: incredibly well and uh and he's trying to get people
Speaker 1: to talk about himself and and totally get it. But
Speaker 1: the reality is that that's not even a possibility. And
Speaker 1: if and if Joe Thiesman thinks that, then Joe Spiesman
Speaker 1: needs to get a drug tipt Oh. Well, okay, then
Speaker 1: Brett Farves said Davante Smith should be the pick at
Speaker 1: number one. Well, it's a wide receiver, look and and
Speaker 1: and Brett knows quarterbacks and uh and and Brett's got
Speaker 1: and Brett's just you know, he's trying to be Uh.
Speaker 1: I guess you could say, look, he's a dynamic player,
Speaker 1: and there's no question he's an Alabama receiver, right j
Speaker 1: P the guy you're talking about player, Yeah, and what
Speaker 1: he was able to do in then in the National Championship,
Speaker 1: but I mean, he's just sick. I mean, the guy
Speaker 1: was just unbelievable and one of the best games ever
Speaker 1: in the history of college sports, and certainly on that
Speaker 1: level of in the stage that he was on. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't surpass that, or at least I haven't seen
Speaker 1: a performance that would have been able to surpass that.
Speaker 1: So I think Brett Farve is just making a point
Speaker 1: that if you had to go a different direction than
Speaker 1: it's certainly that's the one to make. But Brett barbould
Speaker 1: be the first one to tell you because Brett's no dummy,
Speaker 1: and that if he was making the decision, he'd be
Speaker 1: picking a quarterback. The man played the position, he knows
Speaker 1: how important quarterback is. And Brett's no dummy. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: he isn't a little hot water from some people about
Speaker 1: his discussion of the Deshaun Watson situation and glass houses,
Speaker 1: you live in one, you better not throw stones. He
Speaker 1: had a similar situation when he was trying to get
Speaker 1: out of Green Bay and on the Minnesota Brett Brett,
Speaker 1: Brett could Brett's gotta kind of walk a little bit
Speaker 1: careful because Brett could have a lot of stones thrown
Speaker 1: against his glass house, Okay, for a lot of things
Speaker 1: that he has had happened in his past. So Brett
Speaker 1: Brett Farve is certainly not above a lot of conversations
Speaker 1: or criticism. That's for sure. Let's come back. We've got
Speaker 1: plenty ahead. We'll touch on a couple of key positions
Speaker 1: for the Jacksonville Jaguars evaluate those. Free agency is next
Speaker 1: up really for the Jags in the offseason calendar of
Speaker 1: events in the National Football League a little later, some
Speaker 1: scouting changes in twenty because of COVID nineteen will go
Speaker 1: around the National Football League as well. Roger Goodell discussing
Speaker 1: London today and many more things. We're off and running.
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Speaker 1: which is cool. So I guess you can't say that,
Speaker 1: h come and see Trevor Lawrence yet right, but see
Speaker 1: you would you would go against what you just said earlier.
Speaker 1: That's the marketing I know, I know, you got you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta sell urban and I'm sure the Jaguars
Speaker 1: marketing department is going please just just let us imply
Speaker 1: that it's gonna be Trevor Lawres you know. But now
Speaker 1: you can't do that yet that uh, it's it's kind
Speaker 1: of understood. So I'm sure people don't need to actually
Speaker 1: hear the name Trevor Lawrence. But because they're going to
Speaker 1: get a really good football player at that number one
Speaker 1: pick overall, that that's exciting. Though, I mean, how many
Speaker 1: has there been? And this is something I honestly don't
Speaker 1: know the answer to. And this is the first time
Speaker 1: that the Jaguars have ever selected number one overall? How
Speaker 1: many teams in the National Football League have never selected
Speaker 1: number one overall? That's a great triviata question. And I
Speaker 1: don't know the answer to that. And maybe Joe or
Speaker 1: or JP maybe you know all the top of your head,
Speaker 1: I do not know. Uh, stand by I've got I've
Speaker 1: got a lead on this. While we're doing this live
Speaker 1: a good years. So standby, let me get to the
Speaker 1: proper thing I think we're gonna have. This is a
Speaker 1: few years ago, right, a few years ago. There were
Speaker 1: four active teams. This is three years ago. Broncos, Jaguars, Seahawks,
Speaker 1: and Ravens had never picked first overall three years ago. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I think that's still true. It's interesting, right, I
Speaker 1: mean there's only four teams, and uh, and the excitement level,
Speaker 1: especially with the it's it's no different than when Andrew
Speaker 1: Luck was available. I mean Andrew Luck. When when the
Speaker 1: Jaguars played the Polt that that last game of the season,
Speaker 1: it was pretty much generally understood that that was the
Speaker 1: suck for Luck campaign, right, and everybody knew it, even
Speaker 1: though at the time everybody was saying, all the colts
Speaker 1: are sued, they're not gonna, you know, definitely draft Andrew Luck.
Speaker 1: They're going to go through the process. But the entire
Speaker 1: campaign of that season, they were talking about teams sucking
Speaker 1: for Luck. I mean, that's you know, so and and
Speaker 1: this Trevor Lawrence thing, I think is very similar as
Speaker 1: far as the caliber of player that people are calling
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. At the collegiate level, this is comparable, and
Speaker 1: it creates excitement, and there's not many players that have
Speaker 1: come out of call that can create that level of excitement.
Speaker 1: And Andrew luck certainly was a unbelievable skill set, his measurables,
Speaker 1: his arm strength, his intelligence, all of those things. But
Speaker 1: then you add how Trevor Lawrence win to that, and
Speaker 1: it takes it to a different level because Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: has one like no other quarterback has ever one at
Speaker 1: the levels that he's played out so far, which is
Speaker 1: simply amazing. Big throws on big stages and big moments
Speaker 1: for three full years really at Clemson. So he's done
Speaker 1: it in a lot of different ways, and hopefully he
Speaker 1: can bring that to the National Football League. We're not
Speaker 1: saying it yet. We're not saying it yet, but we've
Speaker 1: got a lot of talk ahead in a few months
Speaker 1: ahead before the well it's not that far away now, right,
Speaker 1: it's February already. The draft will be at the end
Speaker 1: of April. Let's talk now, logs about a couple of
Speaker 1: key position groups here, and we could talk about offensive
Speaker 1: line and all day long, right, I mean, that's I
Speaker 1: think if we're if we're looking at it, the roster
Speaker 1: that's there now. The interior guys to me and I
Speaker 1: think we've had this discussion already. The three interior guys,
Speaker 1: you can keep and roll with those guys. I know
Speaker 1: it's a lot of salary there. There's some better play
Speaker 1: to be desired, to think, from the right tackle from
Speaker 1: last year, Jowan Taylor probably he would be the first
Speaker 1: to tell you he didn't play up two expectations. And
Speaker 1: then Cam Robinson was in a contract year last year.
Speaker 1: What will the new decision makers think of him? That's
Speaker 1: where we are in the offensive. And by the way,
Speaker 1: Andrew Norwell played under Urban Meyer his last two years
Speaker 1: at Ohio State. This is Urban's first two years as
Speaker 1: the coach at Ohio State. That's a long time ago,
Speaker 1: but it never hurts to have him in your corner
Speaker 1: from the old days. Um. But the big biggest question
Speaker 1: on the line logs is left tackle. And we could
Speaker 1: talk about Cam Robinson all day, but it's really a
Speaker 1: matter of what Trent Balky and and Urban Meyer I
Speaker 1: think he could do. What can they find in free agency,
Speaker 1: what could they find in the draft? Is it worth
Speaker 1: giving him a franchise tag. There's a lot of question
Speaker 1: marks around the left tackle. Well, I think the level
Speaker 1: of interest in Cam Robinson is gonna be directly related
Speaker 1: to what they think they can get elsewhere, and that's
Speaker 1: in free agency and also the college draft. And so
Speaker 1: there's a value that will be put on Cam Robinson
Speaker 1: based on those other opinions, and that's going to be
Speaker 1: formulated by the bright minds of Trent Balky, urban Meyer
Speaker 1: and then whoever the announced offensive lines line coaches. So
Speaker 1: but clearly, if you can get better at left tackle,
Speaker 1: then you go and get better. And getting better doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily mean going out and getting somebody different. It could
Speaker 1: mean improving from the guy that you currently have, which
Speaker 1: is Cam Robinson. So that's the nice about it is
Speaker 1: that you know you've got an opportunity to work to
Speaker 1: maybe resign him before free agency starts, which nobody else
Speaker 1: has an opportunity to do. So if your opinion is, look,
Speaker 1: we're not going to be able to do better in
Speaker 1: college in the college draft, or we're not going to
Speaker 1: be able to do better in free agency, then you
Speaker 1: can now go ahead and start trying to make efforts
Speaker 1: to retain Cam Robinson. Does that mean it will work? No,
Speaker 1: not necessarily, because if a player is smart. They try
Speaker 1: to get the free agency to find out what their
Speaker 1: direct value is. But the caveat this year is a
Speaker 1: little different, and that if you feel like the offer
Speaker 1: is really good, there is a limited number of teams
Speaker 1: that are going to have the money to spend, so
Speaker 1: you have to kind of take that into your into
Speaker 1: your thinking if you're a player. So it's a challenging
Speaker 1: the year for a lot of free agents. And I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna see a lot of teams and a
Speaker 1: lot of players that are more apt to spend money
Speaker 1: on shortener teams spending the money and the players taking
Speaker 1: the deals that are more short term oriented to be
Speaker 1: able to hopefully cash in later on once the league's
Speaker 1: economics to recover from the COVID pandemic. Alright, GM, Jeff Logeman,
Speaker 1: what would you do well? I mean, JP, I'd like
Speaker 1: to see the list. I just like I said, I'd
Speaker 1: like to see the list. Well, let me ask you
Speaker 1: a different way with my scout. Let me ask a
Speaker 1: different way then. Let me just ask about Cam Robinson's season,
Speaker 1: Because yes, we could go down the path of who's
Speaker 1: out there, I don't know yet all that stuff. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's just start with number seventy four, did he play
Speaker 1: well enough for you two? In theory, pay him twelve
Speaker 1: million on the franchise um, and twelve million is not
Speaker 1: that expensive for a football team that has the cap
Speaker 1: room and most franchise left tackles that recently in free
Speaker 1: agency were receiving sixteen seventeen million a year. So is
Speaker 1: twelve million an expensive number? Absolutely not. So I wouldn't
Speaker 1: hesitate to offer of that twelve million dollar and and
Speaker 1: a sign of one year value because you can franchise
Speaker 1: tagment twelve million and still try to acquire his eventual replacement.
Speaker 1: I would have no problem with that. If I was
Speaker 1: making the decision, I would feel really good about that,
Speaker 1: because you you know what he is. You know I
Speaker 1: get the best of both worlds. If I'm making that decision,
Speaker 1: I'm paying him twelve million, and I get to keep it.
Speaker 1: I get to keep him, and so I get to
Speaker 1: keep him. He can't go anywhere, and so he's on
Speaker 1: my roster this year, and then that gives me a
Speaker 1: year to find his replacement for the following year, or
Speaker 1: eventually maybe even for this year. To worry about this year.
Speaker 1: That gives you a little bit of a little bit
Speaker 1: of luxury. Yeah, one less thing to worry about. They
Speaker 1: had a long list of things to worry about already.
Speaker 1: If you can take a couple of those off the
Speaker 1: list by retaining or you know, changing the way things
Speaker 1: are done in contracts, then this could be the year
Speaker 1: to do that for sure, especially with the cap and
Speaker 1: the number coming down. There's plenty of room here. But
Speaker 1: all those changes can adjust everything around the NFL. How
Speaker 1: do you feel about the interior guys. I really liked
Speaker 1: the interior guys. First of all, I think Norwall had
Speaker 1: an excellent year. Excellent. See there's a lot of there's
Speaker 1: a narrative out there though that the fans just all
Speaker 1: over him all the time. That doesn't think I think
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago that was probably within reason
Speaker 1: because he didn't have a great year. He was nicked
Speaker 1: up a little bit, he didn't play very well. The
Speaker 1: team was throwing the ball a lot, which is really
Speaker 1: not his forte and didn't run the ball as well.
Speaker 1: And uh, but I thought the last two years, this year,
Speaker 1: of this past year especially, I thought Norwell played really well.
Speaker 1: Brandon Lender is a good football player when he's on
Speaker 1: the field. Gona be health the problem is that he's
Speaker 1: not always on the field JP. As we know, he's
Speaker 1: missed a lot of games over the last number of years,
Speaker 1: which has made the value of Tyler Shatley very high
Speaker 1: for this football team. I would not I would expect
Speaker 1: that Tyler Shatley is probably gonna get a pretty lucrative
Speaker 1: contract the offer potentially to be a starter somewhere else.
Speaker 1: And so you've got to find a guy that you
Speaker 1: feel confident that can play snaps at center if Brandon
Speaker 1: Lennard does get hurt again, and a J. Camp could
Speaker 1: be that guy, because a J has learned to snap
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years and he could slide
Speaker 1: from guard into the center. But you'd like to be
Speaker 1: able to find maybe a true center to groom and
Speaker 1: to develop to feel good about if Lender can't play
Speaker 1: all right, so that you have it our offensive line discussion.
Speaker 1: There are plenty of other names in the hot bird
Speaker 1: and the hat around here on that line, but we'll
Speaker 1: save those for a rainy day. We've got a lot
Speaker 1: of time between now and the end of April. Let's
Speaker 1: come back at a moment and discuss some of the
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Speaker 1: and how that could affect how teams look at prospects
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Speaker 1: and this year will be the year where you see
Speaker 1: kinds of difference between the have the haves and the
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Speaker 1: a Twitter pull out for a new name because it
Speaker 1: airs at posts at eight am on Wednesdays, So happy
Speaker 1: Hour makes that a long day if you're enjoying Happy
Speaker 1: Hour day they am. But well, j P, look they
Speaker 1: make something called Bloody Mary's Emotion. That's true. I guess
Speaker 1: you're right. Yes, maybe we should maybe a brunch. We'll
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Speaker 1: just created a new name right here on the program. Well,
Speaker 1: next week we'll go through the names Fort Bucky. We
Speaker 1: were talking about the changes in scouting technique this year,
Speaker 1: because scouts usually are on campus during the week getting
Speaker 1: to talk to players, getting an idea background information on
Speaker 1: guys sitting in the film room at Alabama or wherever
Speaker 1: they are, wherever they have to go, and they weren't
Speaker 1: allowed on campus this year, and there was a different
Speaker 1: system to go to games, so you weren't going to
Speaker 1: as many games in the place as you usually would.
Speaker 1: So to Bucky's point, if you have a stronger evaluation
Speaker 1: staff in your scouting department from tape, film and games, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you better have a solid rollodex of of
Speaker 1: people to refer to for background information some of these guys.
Speaker 1: It's just much different this year in the information gathering stage.
Speaker 1: And Bucket and I actually talked about this a little
Speaker 1: bit when when we had an upgrade a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, JP, when Ashlyn sat it for you. That's right,
Speaker 1: it's true, and uh joking, of course, it's just just
Speaker 1: just kidding anyway. But but but anyway, my point with
Speaker 1: that within with Bucky, we both kind of agreed that,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a year that scouts really have
Speaker 1: to earn their money, and that some players you have
Speaker 1: no film on because they opted out, or that their
Speaker 1: universities chose not to play, or that their universities were
Speaker 1: severe limited on the number of games that they could play.
Speaker 1: So scouts are or like to trust what they see
Speaker 1: and and totally understand that. And so the challenge this
Speaker 1: year is they is making a lot of decisions and
Speaker 1: rankings and evaluations based on projections and faith, and that's
Speaker 1: very hard to do because you can second guess guess
Speaker 1: those type of decisions very easily. And I think the
Speaker 1: one advantage that Trent Balky has with the Jaguars and
Speaker 1: being in place when he was hired January February whenever
Speaker 1: it was, is that he's had some time to kind
Speaker 1: of sit back. And I'm sure that that wasn't his plan,
Speaker 1: but everybody does this is that when you work with people,
Speaker 1: you have a tendency to to categorize them. You want
Speaker 1: to find out what their opinions are on certain players.
Speaker 1: You want to find out what kind of value that
Speaker 1: they have, how good they are at their jobs, to
Speaker 1: put it quite simply, So Balky has had an opportunity
Speaker 1: for the past year essentially to evaluate the current Jaguar
Speaker 1: scouting staff and to learn who he can trust from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of whose opinions are good and then also
Speaker 1: maybe who he can't trust, who he thinks opinions aren't
Speaker 1: very good on evaluating talent. So because Trent Balky and
Speaker 1: herber Meyer can't do the scouting process all by themselves.
Speaker 1: They have to have help, and you have to have
Speaker 1: people you can trust. And so Balky has had some time,
Speaker 1: approximately a year, to find out who he can and
Speaker 1: who he cannot trust. And when I say not trust,
Speaker 1: I don't mean that somebody's a bad guy and somebody's
Speaker 1: gonna leak information or something of that nature. But let's
Speaker 1: say Joe Schmoe, one scout is looking at a player
Speaker 1: who is he's saying is really good, and the other
Speaker 1: nine scouts say he stinks. And in the past that
Speaker 1: guy was totally wrong, so you you believe that his
Speaker 1: opinion is not very good. So anyway, it's my point
Speaker 1: is that you can find out who you can trust
Speaker 1: and you can't trust, and whose information is good and
Speaker 1: who information is not good. And that's that's important, especially
Speaker 1: for Trent Balky and herber Meyer because a lot of
Speaker 1: the scoutings daft changes don't happen until after the draft.
Speaker 1: The Trent Balky won't maybe change a director of whatever
Speaker 1: personnel under him until after the draft. So, uh so
Speaker 1: it's good that he's had some time to evaluate because
Speaker 1: if you have somebody that was brought in from the
Speaker 1: outside to come in. Now they're in a position to
Speaker 1: where they're going, Oh my gosh, I can't trust anybody.
Speaker 1: I just got to do it all myself. But I mean,
Speaker 1: you just can't do it. So you have to trust,
Speaker 1: and it's good to know who to trust. And then
Speaker 1: for those who aren't don't follow the scouting process in
Speaker 1: the in the building that closely. The reason why you don't,
Speaker 1: you're you inherit scouts and the scouting staff for the
Speaker 1: most part, And those changes happen after the draft because
Speaker 1: basically they've done all the work already. They know where
Speaker 1: all the bodies are buried. They know what So you're
Speaker 1: not gonna bring in a whole staff in theory, right,
Speaker 1: you know in the draft room, they know what's going on. Well,
Speaker 1: I think I think most scouting staffs or or the
Speaker 1: head of a scouting staf, general managers or director of
Speaker 1: player personnel, whoever's in charge, is less apt to let
Speaker 1: somebody go because they feel like that if you let
Speaker 1: a player go, or let a somebody go who's in scouting,
Speaker 1: let him go before the draft, they can take your
Speaker 1: information and and take it somewhere else, and they don't
Speaker 1: want people to do that. That's the bodies are buried.
Speaker 1: That's that's what they don't. We're not. We're not. They're
Speaker 1: not gonna burny buried bodies JP around at around the stadium.
Speaker 1: But but I get your point and that you don't
Speaker 1: want to allow that information to go somewhere else, because
Speaker 1: here's the reality. A lot of us don't even start
Speaker 1: trying to, Like, for example, Bucky Brooks just put out
Speaker 1: his draft rankings one point oh on the NFL network.
Speaker 1: I saw that he just put it out, and of
Speaker 1: course I read his stuff and I follow a lot
Speaker 1: of his stuff, and so it's stuff like that you
Speaker 1: want to read. But the reality is is that teams
Speaker 1: have been working on their draft rankings for a long time.
Speaker 1: I mean the work that they've been doing on draft
Speaker 1: eligible players for this spring. It started even before last
Speaker 1: year's draft, and so their ranking system probably has existed
Speaker 1: for months. And so I'm sure that they have the
Speaker 1: Jaguars one point oh two point oh, three point oh
Speaker 1: four point probably already. And then now that Trent Balky
Speaker 1: has has been hired, he doesn't want those those four
Speaker 1: draft rankings to leave the building and to depart with
Speaker 1: somebody else, even though it might not be on paper,
Speaker 1: but it might be up in their minds. So that's
Speaker 1: why you typically see most new general managers wait until
Speaker 1: after the draft to make changes. But there has been
Speaker 1: some instances where as soon as guys get hired, some
Speaker 1: guys get fired, and typically when that happens, it makes
Speaker 1: you go the person that got fired might have been
Speaker 1: a mold m there was a rat somewhere. Let's come
Speaker 1: back in a moment, we'll go around the National Football
Speaker 1: League and a former play retired Jaguar tweeting, interesting. We're
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Speaker 1: along with us today. It is Super Bowl week. We'll
Speaker 1: get to some of the comments from Roger Goodell coming up,
Speaker 1: the commissioner of the National Football League with his annual
Speaker 1: Super Bowl press conference today, will get his thoughts on
Speaker 1: London and a little bit more. Well, you know there
Speaker 1: was a former Jaguar who has on the retired reserved list,
Speaker 1: Kelvin Smith, Right, we all kind of know the story
Speaker 1: the last couple of years with him off the field. Well,
Speaker 1: he tweeted yesterday the first time in like a year
Speaker 1: and a half and he said I think it's time
Speaker 1: with the hand on his chin emoji, And of course
Speaker 1: Twitter is blowing up trying to figure out what in
Speaker 1: the heck he's talking about. I'm not here to try
Speaker 1: to figure out what he's talking about, because you try
Speaker 1: to do that on Twitter, You're you're barking up the
Speaker 1: wrong tree most times logs. So you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure the status of his legal issues, but um, I'm
Speaker 1: curious what could happen. Could he could he come back,
Speaker 1: he could unretire and technically right, sure sure? And uh
Speaker 1: and could this be uh his way of being kind
Speaker 1: of sneaky sneak keep press release. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean I don't know what people's intentions are sometimes
Speaker 1: on Twitter because JP sometimes Twitter just takes you nowhere
Speaker 1: and social media overall sometimes gets you nowhere. Boeically honest
Speaker 1: with you, right, So if you if you've got something
Speaker 1: to say, then say it has always been my opinion, Okay,
Speaker 1: don't don't try to be cute, And and if Telvin
Speaker 1: wants to play football again, and then Telvin need to
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Speaker 1: take necessary step to do so so and until something
Speaker 1: is said from Telvin, I'll just continue to ignore Twitter now.
Speaker 1: And also this also takes two to tango, by the way,
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, if you were on retire and jump
Speaker 1: through all the hoops and do that. I would guess
Speaker 1: that the organization is not quite having much momentum to
Speaker 1: move forward on that, you know, even though there's a
Speaker 1: new regime and all that that, With everything that's happened
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, I would think the appetite
Speaker 1: is really small right now. Well, Jeff, I mean, I
Speaker 1: mean all this talk is all hypothetical because we have
Speaker 1: you know, uh, because they have an announced the staff
Speaker 1: yet basically a forward Twitter response from a player who
Speaker 1: played for the Jaguars a few years ago. I mean,
Speaker 1: are we going to have an over reaction to that? Uh?
Speaker 1: I'm not. And I'm more excited about the things that
Speaker 1: are up and coming for this football team. And I'm
Speaker 1: not that excited for the unknowns. And I would categorize
Speaker 1: this into the unknown, so it is a different unknown.
Speaker 1: So on that note, let's move forward and discuss what
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell had to say today. The National Football League
Speaker 1: commissioner was in Tampa for his annual Super Bowl press
Speaker 1: conference and he was asked about the status of the
Speaker 1: London games logs. And here's what he said. To our
Speaker 1: good friend Richard Graves of Sky Sports. He was asked
Speaker 1: about the International Series in the future. During the pandemic,
Speaker 1: he said, we hope to get back there in one
Speaker 1: and we are planning for it. We will make that
Speaker 1: decision when we have enough information to do so. So
Speaker 1: the plans are still in the works. They're planning like
Speaker 1: they're going to be able to do it. We'll see
Speaker 1: obviously all the restrictions and everything if they stay in
Speaker 1: the UK and even here in the United States and
Speaker 1: in different locales, that could change everything. But plan as
Speaker 1: normal as you can until you're told otherwise. That's the
Speaker 1: basic thing. Now. The Jaguars do not have a contract
Speaker 1: currently for Wembley, for London, for anything, so the league
Speaker 1: would have to start this process of having the games
Speaker 1: happen and then um, we'll see what the Jaguars do
Speaker 1: in response. Well, here here's my thoughts on that. JP
Speaker 1: First and foremost, I think it would be incredibly tough
Speaker 1: to to make a plan or to formulate a plan
Speaker 1: that can be executed in to get a team to
Speaker 1: go on any team for that matter, to go over
Speaker 1: to play games in London. I think it would be
Speaker 1: incredibly challenging to expect the vacination levels to reach a
Speaker 1: point where you feel comfortable allowing a team to travel
Speaker 1: in nationally because so many variables that would come into
Speaker 1: play about trying to keep your team safe. So I
Speaker 1: think that's probably a little bit of maybe getting a
Speaker 1: little bit ahead of the game right there. But look,
Speaker 1: there's absolutely nothing wrong with trying to plan that way.
Speaker 1: And I think that the Jaguars, even though we sit
Speaker 1: there and say they don't have a contract, look uh,
Speaker 1: the the bargaining positions and and the and the talk.
Speaker 1: The Jaguars have done that dance before and I don't
Speaker 1: think it would take much to be able to accomplish
Speaker 1: and to reach an agreement with playing games and Wimbley
Speaker 1: again or at another facility if it suits the Jaguars interest.
Speaker 1: So um, they certainly have an advantage in that, and
Speaker 1: that the team has been willing to play in the past,
Speaker 1: and they have certainly become pretty good at executing the
Speaker 1: plans over there. They've had a London based office over
Speaker 1: there for a number of years and they have a
Speaker 1: presence over there. So I would not be surprised if
Speaker 1: if the Jaguars were the first team at some point,
Speaker 1: if the news finally does come out that teams are
Speaker 1: gonna play in London again that the Jaguars would be
Speaker 1: a part of that mix, and I would expect them
Speaker 1: to be so, but I think it's just gonna be
Speaker 1: incredibly difficult to accomplish that. Goodell also said that we're
Speaker 1: talking about the offseason program coming up. That's really the
Speaker 1: next big thing for the veterans, and that starts around April.
Speaker 1: Guys can come back in for offseason workouts in the gym,
Speaker 1: and then a few weeks later it's the phase system
Speaker 1: and all that. Well, they didn't have any of that
Speaker 1: last year because the COVID it was all virtual, and
Speaker 1: Goodell said today that virtual will be part of our
Speaker 1: life for the long term, So there will be I
Speaker 1: would guess obviously at some point they'll try to have
Speaker 1: guys back on the field. Who wasn't too specific today
Speaker 1: on that point, but the virtual part worked out pretty well.
Speaker 1: There were guys that took advantage of that opportunity. A
Speaker 1: guy like James Robbinson, right, undrafted guy was in the
Speaker 1: film room, in the meeting rooms every day, took it
Speaker 1: to heart and then when he finally had a chance
Speaker 1: to get on the field in July, you saw what happened. Yeah,
Speaker 1: here's the thing JP. I think you can definitely when
Speaker 1: when Rogers talking about virtual is going to be a
Speaker 1: part of our future, I think he's talking about more
Speaker 1: from in the past. We've seen the the O T
Speaker 1: A s and things of that nature, and I think
Speaker 1: that that the virtual aspect will probably replace some of
Speaker 1: that this year. So in other words, instead of having
Speaker 1: the fourteen organized team activities, you now have virtual meetings
Speaker 1: and such to replace that. But I believe this year
Speaker 1: that they will find a way to hold mini camp
Speaker 1: of some nature and to institute testing leading up to
Speaker 1: that to where they can feel safe about having their team,
Speaker 1: because the league proved that they can do it in
Speaker 1: a safe manner this past season. So you start to
Speaker 1: implement those type of procedures and and UH and principles
Speaker 1: and ace to to get ready to do a mini camp,
Speaker 1: and maybe the mini camp through collective bargaining and gets
Speaker 1: extended a little bit instead of being three days, it
Speaker 1: might be three days, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they changed the tempo and allow you to make it
Speaker 1: a little bit longer. Kay, let's bring all the players
Speaker 1: in and since we don't have O T S, will
Speaker 1: just make an extent in mini camps, will bring players in,
Speaker 1: have them tests, make sure everybody's safe. We're all safe,
Speaker 1: and and then that way we can accomplish a little
Speaker 1: bit on the field, because look, football isn't on the
Speaker 1: field sport. And even though that you had a guy
Speaker 1: like James Robinson who had a wildly successful rookie year
Speaker 1: and he was an undrafted player. Look, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of players that I'm sure slipped through the cracks just
Speaker 1: because they didn't have an opportunity to show what they
Speaker 1: have on the field and o t a s and
Speaker 1: mini camp and training camp because coaches and organizations are
Speaker 1: trying to hit the ground running and get ready for
Speaker 1: a season and they didn't have the luxury or the
Speaker 1: wherewithal to allow young player to develop. Now, the Jaguars
Speaker 1: were in a little different category last year. Hey, they
Speaker 1: had all young players. So it wasn't like they will say,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't want James Robinson, We're gonna use
Speaker 1: him instead, because their choices were James Robinson Leonard Fournette,
Speaker 1: and that was a pretty bold decision to make. But
Speaker 1: then the other choices, perfectly honest, with thee JP, they
Speaker 1: weren't that good. Right there, you have it so a
Speaker 1: couple of comments from the commissioner today and now it's
Speaker 1: of course Super Bowl coming up Sunday. Goodell also said
Speaker 1: today that Tom Brady was quote probably the greatest player
Speaker 1: to ever play this game. He's not far off. Wait wait,
Speaker 1: wait wait, did he actually use the word probably? Yes,
Speaker 1: that's right. Well, I mean, you know he's the commissioner.
Speaker 1: He can't just go out and Roger, right, I mean
Speaker 1: really probably. I mean we're talking about ten super Bowls.
Speaker 1: He could win his seven and you're using the term probably.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's played in a Super Bowl for half
Speaker 1: of his care ten out of how many how many
Speaker 1: championship games JP has he played in fourteen fifteen? And
Speaker 1: it's crazy fourteen fifteen, fifteen was this year? Was fifteen? Right,
Speaker 1: And we're saying probably he's played an eight team per
Speaker 1: cent of all Super Bowls all time. About that, Roger,
Speaker 1: I think we can say that Tom Brady is is
Speaker 1: the greatest of all time. And I think what we're
Speaker 1: watching right now is somebody that could be the next
Speaker 1: in line. And by the way, you want to say
Speaker 1: hi to my dog Jack Wars that com and Jack
Speaker 1: social my dog right here? Mer part of the show,
Speaker 1: and he says, Hi, Hey, Merle, welcome to the program.
Speaker 1: And I know there's probably a frisbee in his future, right,
Speaker 1: he loves frisbee. I wish uh. He probably is a
Speaker 1: little disappointed that his dad doesn't have the arm that
Speaker 1: some other people might have thrown a frisbee because I
Speaker 1: can't throw it far enough for him. Now that's a
Speaker 1: that's a frisbee chasing dog. No, no know what what's
Speaker 1: the breed? What's the breed? I mean, he is a
Speaker 1: miniature Australian shepherd and it's pretty cool. We named him
Speaker 1: Merle just because the coloring that he has is called
Speaker 1: blue Merle, and so they have like red mural Bluemarle,
Speaker 1: which is the redmulls like a brown and a mix
Speaker 1: of the other colors. The blue Earle is the gray
Speaker 1: with a mix of the other colors. So anyway, I
Speaker 1: like the name Merle, not because a Merle Haggard A
Speaker 1: lot of people think that's it, just because I like
Speaker 1: the name and that was the color phase he was.
Speaker 1: So anyway, when we got him, we didn't know this
Speaker 1: or didn't get him with the intention of this, that
Speaker 1: his grandfather was a grand national champion frisbee dog. And
Speaker 1: so when he was a puppy, I had this little
Speaker 1: cloth frisbees to roll in the backyard. None of this
Speaker 1: is totally off football, but eventually taught him to catch frisbees.
Speaker 1: And he's an absolute nut. You can throw frisbee two
Speaker 1: yards and he'll catch him out of the air, jump
Speaker 1: five or six ft high, catching them and and does
Speaker 1: all these things almost like the h you know the
Speaker 1: X game when dudes jump ride their bikes and jump
Speaker 1: and they kick it out and stuff. Okay, Merle does
Speaker 1: that when he catches frisbee. So we'll jump up the air,
Speaker 1: catch the frisbee and turned sideways and then land like
Speaker 1: a cat. So pretty cool. You've pretty cool. You've had
Speaker 1: a couple of very illustrious careers. National Football League player,
Speaker 1: radio broadcaster for a long time outdoor show and the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: If if it doesn't work out, you could go throw
Speaker 1: frisbees around at halftime of NBA games. Halftime, Baby, I
Speaker 1: am perfect. I am totally available for halftime entertainment. I
Speaker 1: can leave the booth, be down on the field, me
Speaker 1: and Merle put on a show and then be back
Speaker 1: up in the booth and you know. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I'm cheap. I mean, I'm really cheap for halftime entertainment.
Speaker 1: Aren't we all entertained? Yes, we are all right. So
Speaker 1: the game coming up Sunday in Tampa the Buccaneers and
Speaker 1: Tom Brady has been sitting at his house watching film
Speaker 1: for twelve days straight. By the time Sunday comes around
Speaker 1: without Giselle and the kids there and then the Chiefs
Speaker 1: have haircut issues. As you heard in the open of
Speaker 1: the program today, they've had a couple of guys added
Speaker 1: to the COVID list this week. They were a line
Speaker 1: of about twenty guys waiting to get their hair cut,
Speaker 1: and one was half done when they pulled the barber
Speaker 1: out of the facility after his positive test. I'm curious
Speaker 1: what his hair looks like. But uh, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: Those guys could come back on the weekend on Saturday
Speaker 1: and be eligible to play on Sunday if they remain negative.
Speaker 1: I think it's cheaps by ten. They pull away in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter with their speed outlasting Tampa Bay probably
Speaker 1: dirty five to somewhere in there. I would agree with you,
Speaker 1: and and not so much the speed, but I just
Speaker 1: don't think that Tampa's defense can can uh keep up
Speaker 1: with Kansas City. Kansas City almost has the ability to
Speaker 1: flip a switch whenever they want to and whatever they
Speaker 1: need to really to really amp it up. And Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes is a great talent. This might be j P
Speaker 1: one of the most anticipated Super Bowls for me personally,
Speaker 1: that that I just can't wait to watch it. I mean,
Speaker 1: we really are. We're watching, and we're very fortunate. We're
Speaker 1: incredibly fortunate that we're watching the greatest of all time
Speaker 1: and arguably the greatest young player of all time. And
Speaker 1: it's it's so rare that you have that type of
Speaker 1: situation on the field at the same time, and so
Speaker 1: we we've got to cherish it because something like this
Speaker 1: may never come along ever again. And and I can't
Speaker 1: wait to watch it. And Tampa's defense is going to
Speaker 1: have to play incredibly well for them to win. Tom
Speaker 1: Brady is going to have to protect the football because
Speaker 1: if he has a game like what he had against
Speaker 1: Green Bay, Kansas City will boat race them because they're
Speaker 1: that good on offense and they're that explosive on offense.
Speaker 1: So Tampa's got to play really well. And here's the
Speaker 1: crazy thing, Tampa has the ability to do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they certainly do. They certainly do. So get the Buffalo
Speaker 1: chicken dip, ready, lugs and enjoy the game and we'll
Speaker 1: talk to JP. I got ready, man, the chicken chicken
Speaker 1: in my blue cheese and Tiger sauce is ready. I
Speaker 1: love it. Jeff Lagman, Joe Fortunato, Brett Reaber, our entire crew.
Speaker 1: I'm JP Shadrick. Thank you for watching, Thank you for listening.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the Super Bowl. This is Jaguars Happy Hour on
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Digital Network.