Speaker 1: It is Thursday, June. This is Jaguars Happy Hour, and
Speaker 1: now a guy who would never undermine the integrity of
Speaker 1: a well smoked pork butt, j Pete Jack, welcome in
Speaker 1: its Jaguars Happy Hour on this Thursday afternoon. And a
Speaker 1: busy show ahead coming up Jaguars analyst Jeff Lockman in studio.
Speaker 1: As always, we'll hear from cornerbacks Shaquille Griffin with a
Speaker 1: new peanut pickoff promotion this year from Laray Boiled Peanuts.
Speaker 1: We'll hear from CBS Sports senior writer Pete Prisco. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he'll have some things to say about Bruce Smith's
Speaker 1: comments regarding Tony Basselli. That's coming up about four thirty today.
Speaker 1: We'll go around the National Football League. If we can
Speaker 1: get Pete off the phone. Uh. Jeff lockhaman is with
Speaker 1: us now. It's up man. Happy Thursday. Yeah, Happy Thursday.
Speaker 1: And it'll be quite some time before folks here from us.
Speaker 1: After today. We get a little bit of a break.
Speaker 1: After today. It goes to that what do we call
Speaker 1: that the zone, the dead zone zone, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be it's not gonna be dead for us. We're gonna
Speaker 1: do all kinds of fun things. This is the time
Speaker 1: to do them coming up. Yeah, because once the season
Speaker 1: starts then we don't have a whole lot of time
Speaker 1: to do a whole lot of fun stuff other than
Speaker 1: football fund stuff. But a busy week and that and
Speaker 1: that the mini camp or what I guess you would
Speaker 1: call a mini camp occurred, and uh, sit down with
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson. That was interesting and I thought, very very
Speaker 1: cool thing to do. And uh, and then Bruce Smith
Speaker 1: just shakes the earth in Jacksonville. Amazing. Right, we'll get
Speaker 1: into this in depth coming up, but uh, you know,
Speaker 1: just it just felt like we're a month and a
Speaker 1: half until the enshrinement. Out of nowhere it comes. Here
Speaker 1: comes Bruce Smith off the top rope. I didn't know
Speaker 1: he could even climb to the top rope anymore. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I I thought that the the great approach or the
Speaker 1: great response is no response, because when when you want
Speaker 1: a waller in the mud, you don't stoop down to
Speaker 1: the level of waller and in the mud with somebody
Speaker 1: like that. And it's very clear that Bruce Smith is
Speaker 1: very salty about getting his ass kicked. I mean, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but that's the term that is a fact and he
Speaker 1: got his rare end kicked against the Jaguars in the
Speaker 1: playoffs in Buffalo. That's the way it is. Okay, so
Speaker 1: years ago, But there was some great responses too, because
Speaker 1: he posted this on Instagram right and and some of
Speaker 1: the best responses I have ever seen were written on
Speaker 1: his Instagram account. One of them was like brad Or
Speaker 1: said that, uh, Bruce, you are so mad. Why don't
Speaker 1: you get a cape and be supermad? There was another
Speaker 1: one I think which was the best, said, dang, Tony
Speaker 1: has been living rent free in your head for over
Speaker 1: twenty years apparently apparently, So I just I don't get it.
Speaker 1: And you know, Bruce, Bruce said some things that I
Speaker 1: thought were ridiculous, and I wanted to just take a
Speaker 1: couple excellent from what Bruce said. Yeah, and we'll get
Speaker 1: to the full part of this coming up a little
Speaker 1: later in the show. Yes, well, but I just want
Speaker 1: to touch on it now. Pick a couple of them out.
Speaker 1: He accuses a campaign to promote Tony into the Hall
Speaker 1: of focusing in on one performance and acts as if
Speaker 1: the campaign was run by Tony himself had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with it. Tony had outstanding games against great player
Speaker 1: after great player after great player, the first game that
Speaker 1: Tony ever started in his career. If you wanted to
Speaker 1: focus in on one game for a Hall of Fame campaign,
Speaker 1: and you can go to the very first game that
Speaker 1: he played against Sean Jones. Wear them out. I couldn't
Speaker 1: stay on the bench. I was watching the mayhem that
Speaker 1: Tony was unleashing on Sean Jones. It was ridiculous. So
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Bruce, because he says, I'm quite flattered to
Speaker 1: be considered the gold standard. Boy. Way to be humble, Bruce.
Speaker 1: You know you're a Hall of Famer, one of the
Speaker 1: greatest players ever. I mean, he might be. You don't
Speaker 1: need to say that you're the gold stand because you
Speaker 1: know what, Bruce, You're not the only gold standard out there.
Speaker 1: There's other guys in the Hall that are wearing yellow jackets.
Speaker 1: And you know what, many thought that you couldn't carry
Speaker 1: Reggie Weiss Jock. Okay, So take a little chill on
Speaker 1: your own importance. And then he follows this up later
Speaker 1: on and says, the Hall of Fame is an exclusive
Speaker 1: fraternity that follows a tacit code of conduct which foster's
Speaker 1: respect and brotherhood between its members. Well guess what by
Speaker 1: releasing this statement, you just violated that code of conduct.
Speaker 1: And then he follows it up with maintaining harmony and
Speaker 1: goodwill in the Hall of Famous paramount. Well, you call
Speaker 1: this harmony and goodwill by what you're saying about Tony
Speaker 1: Basselli going in the Hall of Fame and after the fact. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you had an opinion about Tony Boselli going in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, have it before he goes in. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: the last six years has been a debate, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's that's the way it's worked. Now he's in and
Speaker 1: there's no debate anymore. It's over. He's in. Like what
Speaker 1: you had six seven years to do this? A couple
Speaker 1: more things here. Tony was a formidable opponent. No, Tony
Speaker 1: was not a formidable opponent. Tony was one of the
Speaker 1: best left tackles to ever play the game. Okay. Did
Speaker 1: he have a short career? Yes, Okay, So that point
Speaker 1: that you make, Okay, that's valid. Okay, he said, Um,
Speaker 1: I find it difficult to compare the totality of his
Speaker 1: body of work with those of the NFL's greatest left
Speaker 1: left tackles, Muonios and Ogden and Roof and Walter Jones,
Speaker 1: which they are tremendous players. But he said, during my
Speaker 1: nineteen years in the NFL, I went against several outstanding
Speaker 1: left tackles. Bruce Armstrong, Richmond Webb, Will Wolford all had
Speaker 1: stellar games against me. I'm here to tell you, Bruce,
Speaker 1: those guys couldn't carry Tony's jock. And I played against
Speaker 1: all those guys. Okay, they're not in the same category
Speaker 1: as a Tony Bassell and John Ogden and an Anthony
Speaker 1: Mounos or Walter Jones. I'm sorry, but anyway, I just
Speaker 1: had to say that to get the Well. It's very
Speaker 1: disappointed because it was totally unnecessary and and Tony's classy guy.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna respond publicly to it, but I'm sure
Speaker 1: Pete Prisco will and we'll hear from him coming up.
Speaker 1: At about four thirties, I texted BISSELLI when I when
Speaker 1: I saw I saw Bruce comments and I said, so,
Speaker 1: did you just like swinging the canton and happened to,
Speaker 1: you know, defecate on Bruce's bust at the hall or
Speaker 1: what did you do aggressive? Let's come on, I mean
Speaker 1: the kind of response that Bruce had I mean, are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? That's ridiculous, Bruce. So more on that
Speaker 1: coming up about four thirty today when Pete Prisco CBS
Speaker 1: Sports joins us and we'll get into that discussion a
Speaker 1: little bit more mandatory mini camp. The veterans were told, hey,
Speaker 1: stay away, you're done, most of them. A few guys
Speaker 1: stuck around coming off a little injury here there. We
Speaker 1: saw James Robinson out there doing some stuff on the
Speaker 1: side yesterday, Jamal Agnew all three days, Rudy Ford yesterday
Speaker 1: was out there La Visca Attle Bright, So that's a
Speaker 1: good thing. But mostly rookies were out there, and I
Speaker 1: mean each practice logs was less than an hour. I
Speaker 1: mean forty five minutes they were in and out, well
Speaker 1: maybe you know, maybe forty five minutes. And the newly
Speaker 1: signed defensive player um Ray was the last name he
Speaker 1: was out there. So I mean there was a mix
Speaker 1: of veterans and rookies and uh yeah, and it was good.
Speaker 1: It's good work, I mean, and here's the best part
Speaker 1: about that. For for guys that are young, guys that
Speaker 1: are maybe new to the team, or guys that maybe
Speaker 1: missed a lot of the offseason program because of of
Speaker 1: injury or for whatever reason that it was. This gives
Speaker 1: them an opportunity to catch up. And I don't mean
Speaker 1: hines catch up. I mean catch up with the terminology,
Speaker 1: catch up with the physical training aspect of the game,
Speaker 1: to catch up with building a relationship with your teammates,
Speaker 1: with your coaches. And so from that aspect, it was good.
Speaker 1: And I liked the thought process that that Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: had for this and that hey, look and I appreciate this.
Speaker 1: I really do from a from a players standpoint, having
Speaker 1: played the game for for a decade, and that the
Speaker 1: program that just completed prior to this week was all
Speaker 1: completely voluntary. Correct. The attendance was outstanding. Guys are committed,
Speaker 1: Guys are hard working. You had the extra minicamp because
Speaker 1: you have a new head coach, you have all of
Speaker 1: the O t A available days, and all of these
Speaker 1: guys came for all of it. So and I'm not
Speaker 1: saying you throw a bone to your players, but you
Speaker 1: reward them for the hard work. And so I appreciate
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson. And I know Doug talked a lot and
Speaker 1: the off the record thing that he had the other day,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't really off the record. He said, Look,
Speaker 1: everything's on the record, but it was kind of called
Speaker 1: that to begin with, but he did maybe you didn't
Speaker 1: hear that's off but he did say that looked at
Speaker 1: this felt like this team needed to heal. And I
Speaker 1: thought that that's, uh, that's pretty strong words to say
Speaker 1: for a head coach, because I don't know if have
Speaker 1: you ever heard a head coach talk of those terms? Now?
Speaker 1: He said that a few times this offseason that, But
Speaker 1: I mean, have you ever heard anybody else to talk
Speaker 1: about anything? No, I mean not here, definitely not here.
Speaker 1: But have you ever heard of anybody talking about that ever?
Speaker 1: In football when it comes to a change, a change
Speaker 1: of the coach from the previous year, I don't remember
Speaker 1: that ever being set. I'm just trying to think of
Speaker 1: other instances that were like last year in other places,
Speaker 1: and I don't remember one like that in the NFL. No,
Speaker 1: there might have been a couple of college when similar,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't you know, it was a little different.
Speaker 1: And here's the crazy thing, JP, I mean, more stories
Speaker 1: could probably come out about last year. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's part of the goal to the offseason program, right, Um,
Speaker 1: And we're gonna hear from Shaq Griffin coming up in
Speaker 1: just a few minutes. I'm curious his thoughts on this too.
Speaker 1: He's obviously was here last year and he's been around
Speaker 1: the league a few years now. Doug has talked about
Speaker 1: this offseason trying to build that trust back, and it
Speaker 1: felt like this was probably the culmination of that. This
Speaker 1: this offseason, into the off season program O T A
Speaker 1: S and then into this mini camp because once they
Speaker 1: come back in five weeks to training camp, time for
Speaker 1: that's over the building of this time to move forward,
Speaker 1: you're you're moving forward to twenty two and beyond. There
Speaker 1: should be no more questions about one or what happened
Speaker 1: last year or the changes or any of that stuff.
Speaker 1: Get that out of the way now, because I think
Speaker 1: once training camp hits, it's full speed ahead. It is,
Speaker 1: and and Doug I think was very specific about that.
Speaker 1: He said, Hey, look, you know, once we get into camp,
Speaker 1: we we need to put the pads on. We're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna grind, We're we're gonna be moving forward. We're
Speaker 1: not slowing down. And so from that aspect of it,
Speaker 1: where you're talking about is that you know now that
Speaker 1: that's behind them, and now it's all full speed ahead.
Speaker 1: That's why it's got to be because there's a lot
Speaker 1: to accomplish between the time that you will. Let me
Speaker 1: rephrase that, there's a lot to accomplish between Queen now
Speaker 1: and the first game that counts because it's not over, okay,
Speaker 1: just because you've completed your off season program and everybody's
Speaker 1: going in different directions. Now is the most critical time
Speaker 1: to where guys are tuning their bodies and getting it
Speaker 1: ready for the regular season. Mentally, it's time to get
Speaker 1: away and take a break, but you really never do.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you jp the the closer that
Speaker 1: you get to training camp as a player, the more
Speaker 1: you dream about football, the more restless you become. Because
Speaker 1: you know you're about to enter a grind that doesn't
Speaker 1: end for six months and it's incredibly demanding. And so
Speaker 1: you will have dreams about camp. You'll have dreams about
Speaker 1: the strain, you have dreams about getting hurt, You'll have
Speaker 1: dreams about success, and I mean your mind just starts
Speaker 1: to work over time when you start to get into July. Okay,
Speaker 1: in that training camp, bell is close to ringing it.
Speaker 1: It's a it's A. It's a it's just different, it
Speaker 1: really is. It's hard to sleep and it's hard to
Speaker 1: relax from a player standpoint, because once you come back,
Speaker 1: it's demanding in a lot of different ways physically and mentally.
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Speaker 1: with us in just a little bit. Jaguars cornerback ship
Speaker 1: kill Griffin in with us now, Shack, what's up? Are
Speaker 1: you doing? Doing good? Doing good? Getting a chance to
Speaker 1: hang out a little bit, you know, take the kids
Speaker 1: to some certain places to hang out. Enjoyed yourself and
Speaker 1: went to Nickelodeon Resort recently right there in can Koon.
Speaker 1: So he had a blast. Slime people still they still
Speaker 1: slim people. Um, it was a little bit everywhere they
Speaker 1: actually do a slime right at the water park. I
Speaker 1: don't think he liked that as much. I enjoyed it
Speaker 1: because I always want to go as a kid, so
Speaker 1: kind of taking this moment a little bit. But we
Speaker 1: had to share that. But he didn't really liked the slime,
Speaker 1: but I did. How old? How old are we talking?
Speaker 1: Two years? Oh? Two years old? Yeah? Here be three
Speaker 1: in September. But yeah, he uh, he ain't like the slime,
Speaker 1: but everything us was amazing, getting harder to catch moving forward. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the runs of the family. Yeah, so here we are
Speaker 1: off season programready in the cancoon. You're back in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: Now for how long? What is your schedule coming up
Speaker 1: to to stay in shape and everything. Well, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: be here for the next couple of days, but might
Speaker 1: actually uh be moving around when it comes to training.
Speaker 1: I'm going back home for a few weeks back in St. Petersburgh,
Speaker 1: get a chance to trade with train with ray Shon Jenkins. Uh.
Speaker 1: My thing is, I want to train with the guys,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying personally, they get a chance
Speaker 1: to continue to build that chemistry. Then um, in July,
Speaker 1: I'll be moving to Miami to get with Tyson Campbell
Speaker 1: and other guys that will meet up back in Miami
Speaker 1: get a chance of training together. So the whole thing is,
Speaker 1: you know, we're pushing each other all O T A
Speaker 1: s during the mini camp and we gotta keep that going,
Speaker 1: you know. So we're gonna put each other in the
Speaker 1: rest of the off season and come back ready for
Speaker 1: fall camp. You talked about that before, the importance of
Speaker 1: bonding as a group, and maybe not just the cornerbacks.
Speaker 1: If there's some other guys that want to get involved
Speaker 1: with that too. I'm sure you guys would open the doors. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt. You know. Uh, My thing is I try
Speaker 1: to get somewhere, was space enough for anybody who might
Speaker 1: just put up for a couple of days and you
Speaker 1: can come stay with me. You know, it'll make it work.
Speaker 1: But anybody, you know, we try to get anybody on
Speaker 1: the team, anybody on the team out, just anybody on
Speaker 1: the team. You know, imagine again some of the offensive
Speaker 1: guys there, you know, against some of the d line
Speaker 1: or whatever it mate takes the we can work on drops,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. You know, I get a chance to
Speaker 1: continue to build that chemistry, you know, on both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball. Chat Griffin is with us. You know,
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of talk, and there's question I
Speaker 1: think has asked a lot because it's the first offseason
Speaker 1: program with a new coaching staff and everything and Doug
Speaker 1: Peterson and now that you're out of the building for
Speaker 1: the offseason, looking back on the last few months when
Speaker 1: the veterans were in with with Doug leading the way
Speaker 1: and a veteran coaching staff, how positive was that is
Speaker 1: that oversold? How positive an environment this has been the
Speaker 1: last couple of months or is that is it act? No,
Speaker 1: It's very accurate, and you know, some things you got
Speaker 1: to over emphasize, you know. Being a new coaches, it's
Speaker 1: a lot going on and try to bring the organization
Speaker 1: back to where we need to be and getting the
Speaker 1: players to believe in the message that he's given us,
Speaker 1: you know. And I feel like he handled it very
Speaker 1: well going to his offseason, you know, treating the guys
Speaker 1: you know, like the men that we are, you know,
Speaker 1: and letting us be exactly who we are in the
Speaker 1: field and let us contributing the way that we feel
Speaker 1: like can help the organization win. And he's figured that out,
Speaker 1: you know. So it's a very same time to get
Speaker 1: that chance to really be with the guys here, be
Speaker 1: what coach Doug here, you know, and starting to work
Speaker 1: with each other. And you know, we still have a
Speaker 1: lot left to do, a lot left to accomplished, and
Speaker 1: we all understand that, you know, and I feel like
Speaker 1: we truly all on the same page and that's what
Speaker 1: we needed. It feels like that was it was building
Speaker 1: up as this offseason went to get to the mandatory
Speaker 1: mini camp to earn that trust to the players who
Speaker 1: have been here, because once training camp comes along, we're
Speaker 1: not asking questions about last year anymore. It's about two
Speaker 1: and beyond. I think that was the goal. It feels
Speaker 1: that he reached that goal. The trust to the teams,
Speaker 1: they're most definitely you know, everything I thought process and
Speaker 1: everything is moving forward about this team, this coaching staff,
Speaker 1: this organization, and that's what you need. We shouldn't have to,
Speaker 1: you know, go back and I have to review what
Speaker 1: happened last year because it's a new team. It's a
Speaker 1: new start, and everybody believing that and we're gonna make
Speaker 1: something different. We're gonna make something better out of what
Speaker 1: we have now. So you know, everybody's buying in and
Speaker 1: that's the great part. He definitely has our trust. You know,
Speaker 1: we're ready to run through a brit wall for Duck.
Speaker 1: So what we're ready for? Cornerbacks? Shaquille Griffins with us
Speaker 1: here on Jaguars Happy Hour. What do you like about
Speaker 1: the defense? Oh, the defense is definitely gonna be ruthless.
Speaker 1: I can tell you that. Ruthless and fast, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely definitely fast. You know, we've got some people that
Speaker 1: can move around in different places. We can switch it up.
Speaker 1: But the thing is, we have a team full of
Speaker 1: confident guys. We don't care who we have to face,
Speaker 1: who we're going to be playing against. We're going to win,
Speaker 1: you know. And that's the process going into each day,
Speaker 1: each practice. And you know, now I feel like we
Speaker 1: have defense where we want everybody to succeed. You know,
Speaker 1: we're not just competing. We're trying to create a new
Speaker 1: you know, situation when it comes to having everybody ready
Speaker 1: for any scenario, you know, and that's the best part
Speaker 1: because everybody want to see everybody be better. And I
Speaker 1: love that about our defense. And take the ball away,
Speaker 1: of course, football, take it and keep it, do it
Speaker 1: over and over and over, of course, you know. And
Speaker 1: now we have our own little in competition Who're gonna
Speaker 1: have the most picks? And I'm already calling it, of course,
Speaker 1: because I've been working my butt off to make sure
Speaker 1: I do. But you know, everybody wants a piece of it,
Speaker 1: and that I love that. You know, we're over emphasized
Speaker 1: getting the ball, and we're getting the ball in practice.
Speaker 1: You know that who it starts and we're making it
Speaker 1: happen so that to continue to build on it. And
Speaker 1: they gotta make it work. It's Jaguars Happy, our attention.
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Speaker 1: You said you're motivated already to get those picks with
Speaker 1: with this peanut pickoff promotion. You're super motivated now we
Speaker 1: got we got to, you know, and I'm super motivated
Speaker 1: to continue to you know, to give back and give
Speaker 1: the others. So I gotta make these plays for myself
Speaker 1: and for everybody else who's watching, you know. So we
Speaker 1: can't go ahead and get them done nations going, but
Speaker 1: we're definitely gonna make sure we get that to happen.
Speaker 1: You're a vegan, right vegan friendly, you're a full vegan,
Speaker 1: full vegan, so boiled peanuts are right up your ally. Then, yeah,
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of them. That's that's perfect for that.
Speaker 1: But when you make a lifestyle choice like that, you
Speaker 1: have to kind of obviously make some decisions about what
Speaker 1: you're putting your body. And then you have the option
Speaker 1: of boiled peanuts from lay. You go for that almost
Speaker 1: every time, and of course it's not easy being vegan,
Speaker 1: so to have that choice, to have more options, I
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Speaker 1: how many picks the Jaguars will have this year on defense?
Speaker 1: When my goal is to lead the league, So whatever
Speaker 1: that number is, you gotta be a lot coup. We
Speaker 1: gotta lead the league and we want to be number
Speaker 1: one and that's our goal. So I can't put a
Speaker 1: number on it. It's gonna be a lot of m sessions,
Speaker 1: a lot maybe if you ended the end zone. Also, yes,
Speaker 1: I definitely need a couple. I don't want to say
Speaker 1: want I need a couple in the ends in the
Speaker 1: end zone. And I remember when you first got here, Shack,
Speaker 1: you said, Hey, the first pick six I have, I'm
Speaker 1: finding the first of my jersey and I'm giving them
Speaker 1: to that still stands still. Once I see that twenty six,
Speaker 1: you get the first one. You deserve it. I like that, Jack,
Speaker 1: Thanks for the time, good luck with the promotion this
Speaker 1: year the Peanut Pickoff presented by Larray World Peanuts. Shack
Speaker 1: will talk to you and training Camp. We're back with
Speaker 1: more in a moment. Jeff Lockman will return. After this
Speaker 1: is Jaguars Happy Hour and the Jaguars Digital Network. But
Speaker 1: the checks in Ville, Jaguars, if you face this man
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, you knew he was destined for canton.
Speaker 1: One of the most dominant tackles of the nineteen nineties
Speaker 1: and the first ever Jacksonville Jaguar, Tony Vasselly, welcome back.
Speaker 1: It's Jaguars Happy Hour. That was Bruce Smith introducing Tony
Speaker 1: Biselli into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, or the
Speaker 1: announcement that he had been elected on NFL Honors Welcome back,
Speaker 1: it's Jaguar's Happy our j P. Shadrick, Jeff Logaman. Well,
Speaker 1: that was, of course a few months ago, right around
Speaker 1: Super Bowl time. Then there was earlier this week on
Speaker 1: Bruce Smith's Instagram page, a long string of issues with Vasselli,
Speaker 1: apparently in part saying a large part of the campaign
Speaker 1: to promote Tony Basselli into the Hall of Fame seems
Speaker 1: to hyper focus on a single successful performance he had
Speaker 1: against me in a playoff game. He later went on
Speaker 1: to say, I and other Hall of Famers believe it
Speaker 1: sets a horrible president to negatively zero in on a
Speaker 1: standing member of the Hall's play in order to validate
Speaker 1: the candidacy of a nominee. He said, much more, we'll
Speaker 1: get to it coming up. Pete Prisco of CBS Sports
Speaker 1: might have a few things to say about this as well.
Speaker 1: Good afternoon toil your Pete. What's up? What's up? JP?
Speaker 1: You know, look, it's it's nice to see Bruce saying
Speaker 1: those things because we've gotta knocked the sell you down
Speaker 1: a few pegs before the theomony, don't we I'm getting
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, JP, A we ever talked about
Speaker 1: is how giant his head is. Well, that thing is
Speaker 1: going to be out of control in the next two months,
Speaker 1: So I mean, you know, bringing him down a little
Speaker 1: bit is not a bad thing, right. That was not
Speaker 1: what I was expecting to hear. But yeah, I guess kidding.
Speaker 1: And I just don't understand where Bruce is coming from.
Speaker 1: And why why now, why all of a sudden do
Speaker 1: you pop that out there and say that, and and
Speaker 1: it just isn't a good look for him. And this
Speaker 1: is an exclusive club, and welcome to the club everybody.
Speaker 1: You know, by the way, I'm gonna take a shot
Speaker 1: at the guy who's now coming into the club. It
Speaker 1: just Bruce Smith looks terrible, uh, with way he handled
Speaker 1: this thing. And I think that's getting a lot of pushback,
Speaker 1: and he's getting a lot of pushback, which is the
Speaker 1: way it should see, Pete. And then the other thing
Speaker 1: I think that's disappointing is that he makes a statement.
Speaker 1: But then in that statement he uses the line and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read this because I think this is important.
Speaker 1: He says, um I and other Hall of Famers. He
Speaker 1: uses that as if there's other Hall of Famers that
Speaker 1: believe the same as him. That's I mean, that's that's
Speaker 1: not okay to say, well, you know, I got some
Speaker 1: other guys that are in the Hall of Fames that
Speaker 1: don't appreciate what's happening here. Don't do that because of me.
Speaker 1: Names Bruce, Well, you don't name names, because you know what,
Speaker 1: let them attach their own thoughts to their own name.
Speaker 1: You don't just drag a couple more guys in anonymously
Speaker 1: to help make your point. I mean, I just think
Speaker 1: that that was just that was just chicken, you know what.
Speaker 1: You know who one of those guys is. And and
Speaker 1: I've because I've actually talked to him over the years
Speaker 1: and I've argued with them, and it's one of those
Speaker 1: guys that never thought Tony was that good. Was John Randall.
Speaker 1: And the reason being, you remember the game up there, Love,
Speaker 1: when you were on the team that year, right, that
Speaker 1: was the year Jonathan Quinn? Were you You were still there?
Speaker 1: Weren't you? What year was that when Jonathan Quinn had
Speaker 1: to play quarterback at Minnesota on a Monday? Maybe you were,
Speaker 1: maybe you weren't on the team. That don't know, but
Speaker 1: but it was a nobody everything. Johnathan Quinn was the
Speaker 1: third team quarterback and he had to start the game.
Speaker 1: And the Vikings were one of the better teams in
Speaker 1: the league that year, and they went up there and
Speaker 1: got ambushed, and Tony had a bad game, like everybody did.
Speaker 1: And Tony will be the first admit he says it
Speaker 1: now to this day. I didn't play well against Randall.
Speaker 1: And John Randall will sit there and say Tony wasn't
Speaker 1: a good player. And I go, John, you can't say
Speaker 1: that off of one game. Give me a break. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. And and so that's probably the other guy
Speaker 1: that Bruce Smith's talking about. But never let John Randall
Speaker 1: speak his mind. I mean, don't don't write, I don't
Speaker 1: say that. I just don't understand what was the reasoning
Speaker 1: for it. It's not just one game. By the way,
Speaker 1: he played him again and handled him in the next
Speaker 1: time they played too. Remember that. People don't realize that
Speaker 1: he dominated him again as the second time he played him.
Speaker 1: So I just I think it's a bad look for
Speaker 1: Bruce Smith. It's a really bad look. And Pete, when
Speaker 1: you look at the comments on Bruce's Instagram page, I
Speaker 1: thought that the people did a great job responded some
Speaker 1: of Bruce's comments and some of the great And I
Speaker 1: said this earlier because I had I had to get
Speaker 1: it off my chest the very first segment of our
Speaker 1: show here and I said, this was the best one.
Speaker 1: And the line was that Tony Bassally is living in
Speaker 1: Bruce Smith's head for over twenty years, Rent Free. That's
Speaker 1: the truth. It is true. And and I'll be honest
Speaker 1: with you. You know, over the years, I've tried to
Speaker 1: get stuff out of him to help Tony's cause, and
Speaker 1: he would never do it. He would never do it,
Speaker 1: never would and he never remember he never shook his
Speaker 1: hand after the game either. I mean, he just got
Speaker 1: a fuse and then ran for the high hill. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't have a problem with that though.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, there's a lot of guys that haven't
Speaker 1: shaken hands after our game because you know, there's anger
Speaker 1: or disappointment everything else. But yeah, but okay, that's still
Speaker 1: that go go shake a hand. I mean, okay, he
Speaker 1: didn't shake his hand, but then, but then this is
Speaker 1: going on for you know, fifteen years. He never wanted
Speaker 1: to say anything. Every time I did. You know, I
Speaker 1: go to Vick Caruccio. I know, years I go Vick.
Speaker 1: You know, bout Smith. Can you get him say something
Speaker 1: about Tony so we could put in the packet for
Speaker 1: the Hall same thing, and he would never do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just, it's just. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I told Tony the other day, Tony, all he had
Speaker 1: to do is respond to just say three word. Watch
Speaker 1: the tape. All anybody has to do is watch the tape.
Speaker 1: He abuse the guy. Pete Briscoe, CBS Sports senior writer,
Speaker 1: is with us. Are a couple more quotes will get
Speaker 1: to if you're watching on Jaguars dot com. The Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame is an exclusive fraternity that follows a Tacit
Speaker 1: code of conduct, which foster's respect and brotherhood between its members.
Speaker 1: He later went on to say, resorting to underhanded tactics
Speaker 1: like targeting a Hall of Famer and hyping a one
Speaker 1: game matchup to bolster nominees Merit, as some of Tony's
Speaker 1: supporters have done, undermines the integrity of the Hall's election process.
Speaker 1: There's plenty more than that. That's all we'll get to here.
Speaker 1: But Pete, what happened to the respect and brotherhood and
Speaker 1: the Tacit code of conduct? Yeah, and that's the most
Speaker 1: amazing thing. About that because person guys in the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame that didn't get along, they never got along,
Speaker 1: and yet when they get into the Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: together their their brotherhood. It's a brotherhood. You put the
Speaker 1: jacket on your part of the brotherhood, you sign your
Speaker 1: name h O F. You make a ton of money.
Speaker 1: But you know, brag every brag on everybody, boast them
Speaker 1: all up, boost them all up. And what happened. He's
Speaker 1: not even in yet and he's taking jobs at I
Speaker 1: just don't get it. Just it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: And I think they have talked and I think they'll
Speaker 1: fix it, but that was just a bad look for Bruce.
Speaker 1: I would have a hard time talking with Bruce if
Speaker 1: I'm Tony, and I may talk and make it look
Speaker 1: good on face value, but I mean if I'm Tony, well,
Speaker 1: now you know what he really You're never gonna forget that.
Speaker 1: You don't forget that, just like you don't forget how
Speaker 1: you dominated them. You don't. There's some things forgotten. You
Speaker 1: know what Tony should have said long he should have said,
Speaker 1: you know what, Bruce, you you were the defensive player
Speaker 1: that year, that year and you're about number four on
Speaker 1: my list the guys if I had to rank them
Speaker 1: in terms of gave me, gave me the most trouble,
Speaker 1: because what Mike McCrary was number one? Absolutely Tony said
Speaker 1: that for years. Yeah, so I don't know, I just
Speaker 1: it's just it's weird. And then anybody says, oh, it
Speaker 1: was one game. Well, he did dominate him again at
Speaker 1: the second time he played him, by the way, just
Speaker 1: that's why I was. That was the next year. And
Speaker 1: Bruce thinking that that he's the only guy that Tony dominated.
Speaker 1: I mean, Pete, you remember the very first game that
Speaker 1: Tony played, and you remember it was against the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers and Sean he crushed him, crushed him. Jason
Speaker 1: Taylor one dominated. The best one is that Derrick Thomas
Speaker 1: one though, when Derrick Thomas I think had seven sacks
Speaker 1: that the week before he played you guys, and and
Speaker 1: and Phil Simms always tells this story. And Simms was
Speaker 1: at the pre production meeting and pre you know, he says, hey, Tom,
Speaker 1: how are you gonna handle Derrick Thomas? And he goes,
Speaker 1: my guy, and he stoned them. He didn't near him,
Speaker 1: dominated him. And so yeah, he dominated a bunch of
Speaker 1: really good players. And and he looked you practice against
Speaker 1: him every day great? I know it was that we've
Speaker 1: I've never have been I've never I've been around somebody
Speaker 1: that out of the gate gave me fits as a veteran. Never,
Speaker 1: there's never, there's never been a rookie that I went
Speaker 1: against it. I was like, SEEZ you kidding me? Hi,
Speaker 1: I didn't have an answer. The only one that I
Speaker 1: think that I would even compare to Tony was John Ogden, Like,
Speaker 1: right out of the gate, he was great long. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously he was playing guard that very first time, but
Speaker 1: then the first time that he played a tackle one
Speaker 1: against him and it was one of those things where
Speaker 1: you just you didn't know what was gonna work. And
Speaker 1: with Tony it was the same way in practice. Peter's like, God,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. You know, you didn't
Speaker 1: you didn't have anything that you felt good about that
Speaker 1: you could beat him with. And then the intensity that
Speaker 1: he played with in the finish that he played with
Speaker 1: was so far above And it's so disappointed that Bruce
Speaker 1: would mention a Will Woolford or a Richmond Webb or
Speaker 1: a Bruce Armstrong along the same lines of BASSELLI. I
Speaker 1: mean Pete. You watched those guys. I played against those guys.
Speaker 1: That's not the same category. No, they're not that Tony's
Speaker 1: in the category was Ogden and Walter Jones and Anthony
Speaker 1: and Junio's and and the great you know, he's better
Speaker 1: than pay he was better than Pace and Pace, he's
Speaker 1: better than Willie rof and they both went in before him.
Speaker 1: Even the category the elitied lead the other thing to like, oh,
Speaker 1: he left handed quarterback wasn't protecting the backside? Well, Anthony
Speaker 1: Unio is blocked for boomers science and he didn't protect
Speaker 1: the backside either. I mean, you know, it's ridiculous. And
Speaker 1: by the way, the blocking schemes were entirely different back then.
Speaker 1: Those guys were man up one on one situations where
Speaker 1: they were in past protecting. They didn't get a lot
Speaker 1: of help. But including in that playoff game. There wasn't
Speaker 1: a lot of help for Tony in that playoff game.
Speaker 1: Entirely give balls out now too. It wasn't seven step
Speaker 1: drops like it is back and they didn't give give
Speaker 1: Tony any help. I mean, and whether you had a
Speaker 1: left handed quarterback or not, you were facing the most
Speaker 1: athletic pass rusher of every team. Let's say it's still
Speaker 1: Bruce Smith lining up against you on that side, then Bruce,
Speaker 1: why don't you on the other side, Bruce, you know
Speaker 1: it was Bruce is saying that maybe that if Tony
Speaker 1: had gone against Phil Hanson, maybe it would have been
Speaker 1: tougher for Mark Burnell on the other side. By the way,
Speaker 1: he did get a hit. I think he got a
Speaker 1: half sacked the lext time they played, and I went
Speaker 1: back and actually rewatched that game. He got it on
Speaker 1: the guard. He slanted inside on the garden. The guard
Speaker 1: didn't put a block up, so he didn't get it
Speaker 1: on Tony either. That's pete. It's just a shame that.
Speaker 1: I mean, Look, Bruce Smith is a great player, great player,
Speaker 1: I mean arguably one of the top ten defensive players
Speaker 1: ever to play the game, with longevity, performance to height,
Speaker 1: the height of his level of playing, and to do
Speaker 1: this it's just a bad look. It's a bad look,
Speaker 1: and I think it it causes some concern. And in
Speaker 1: my eyes, that is he okay, Is Bruce okay? When
Speaker 1: I say that, yeah, I mean because you know what,
Speaker 1: this is not something that happens every day. Coming from
Speaker 1: a Hall of fame, his mouth. Is he okay? Because
Speaker 1: this isn't something that somebody that's okay would say. And
Speaker 1: what what was the impetus for it? Did somebody ask
Speaker 1: him about it? Or he just put it on his Instagram?
Speaker 1: Now he put it on his Instagram. Mean it's it's
Speaker 1: this is this is totally prepared. I mean, reviewed multiple
Speaker 1: pages on Instagram. Pete. This isn't something that's a knee
Speaker 1: jerk reaction to anything. This is something that he thought
Speaker 1: out or somebody helped him create or or what I mean.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I can tell you this man
Speaker 1: he saw he's salty, salty about that, performed doubt about that.
Speaker 1: Pete Prisco, CBS Sports Senior writer with us, Well, we
Speaker 1: have you, Pete, last couple of minutes with you here.
Speaker 1: What is your We haven't seen you around here in
Speaker 1: a few minutes. So what's the outside perception of what
Speaker 1: the Jags have done this offseason so far? By the way,
Speaker 1: I was going to come at one point for minicamp
Speaker 1: work during the t A S, but there was a
Speaker 1: little glitch in the plan and I'll tell you about
Speaker 1: it at a different time. Um, Let's say, uh I,
Speaker 1: what did they say hello to the quarterback, and it
Speaker 1: might not have been a possibility to say that, but
Speaker 1: um so anyway, so uh yeah, I I look, I'm
Speaker 1: excited about watching this team next year. I'm a big
Speaker 1: believer in the quarterback. I think what we saw against
Speaker 1: in he was just a precursor what's gonna happen. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be a big time player and I think the
Speaker 1: improvement on the offensive line will help him. You know,
Speaker 1: I think Kirk is gonna be much better than people
Speaker 1: give him credit for. Everybody pings the contract. Who cares
Speaker 1: guys get paid, and he's gonna be a seventy five
Speaker 1: catch guy for them. And Sean Jefferson, I've known him
Speaker 1: for years. He was the wide receivers coach in Arizona.
Speaker 1: He raves about the kid. He said he owned the room.
Speaker 1: Think about that. Hopkins was in the room and it
Speaker 1: was Kirk who owned it, and that tells you a
Speaker 1: lot about Christian Kirk. So I and I think defensively
Speaker 1: they're gonna be really good. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: if they'll be great rush in the past or next year.
Speaker 1: It might have you know, it depends on what Walker
Speaker 1: is and they're gonna play him standing up and he's
Speaker 1: gonna play a rush linebacker, which he hasn't done much of,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't have that sudden issue like usually in
Speaker 1: that position. A going to be an adjustment for him.
Speaker 1: But I think defensively, they have talent, so they're gonna
Speaker 1: be better. How much better to be determined? Hey, Pete,
Speaker 1: just one more question here. One of the things that
Speaker 1: we obviously love here, me and JP and and people
Speaker 1: that have been around this team for the last couple
Speaker 1: of years has been the change in the coaching staff,
Speaker 1: obviously and the job that Doug Peterson has done with
Speaker 1: his coaching staff. I mean I'm talking quality and one
Speaker 1: guy that I want to point to in particular, because
Speaker 1: the more I see, the more I like his defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator might called Well. I love how he handles himself.
Speaker 1: I love how he answers questions. I mean there's just
Speaker 1: sometimes you just get a feel for a guy, and
Speaker 1: that the way that he answers questions. You sit there
Speaker 1: and you go, he's a guy that's gonna be able
Speaker 1: to have a really good pulse on his room. What
Speaker 1: do you think of might call Well. I love him.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be a star in the
Speaker 1: profession and heard that for a long time from guys
Speaker 1: in this league and being over and I go to
Speaker 1: Tampa a lot, and I've known those coaches over there
Speaker 1: for a while. They raved about him, and you know, rightfully,
Speaker 1: so he gets it. He's played in the league. He
Speaker 1: understands what it takes. But he's smart. He's gonna be aggressive,
Speaker 1: and I love that. I love the idea that now
Speaker 1: I do want to see how those corners play in
Speaker 1: that system, because you remember, in that system, you play
Speaker 1: a lot of man and when you look at the
Speaker 1: at the you know, Jaguars corners, you wouldn't ideally say
Speaker 1: they're all man cover corners. If he particularly, Campbell played
Speaker 1: much better when he didn't play as much BAND last year. No,
Speaker 1: I think he can do it. So it'll be an adjustment,
Speaker 1: but I'm bullish on my call. But I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a head coach in the league. And I
Speaker 1: think they have themselves a really good, bright defensive mind.
Speaker 1: I think the staff is good and it's the pros
Speaker 1: pro staff. I mean, it's it's an NFL staff, and
Speaker 1: I think Doug. It starts with Doug. Doug is a pro.
Speaker 1: He gets it. He played in the league. He understands
Speaker 1: what it takes. I'm gonna get around and call Mr
Speaker 1: Softie for giving him the rest of mini camp off.
Speaker 1: But I mean, doesn't that I think he's done a
Speaker 1: great job. Pete. You wouldn't let anybody slide on that one. No,
Speaker 1: of course not. By the way, before you go, JP,
Speaker 1: you'll appreciate this. And I know Logs well too. I
Speaker 1: was leaving for from the draft in Vegas and I
Speaker 1: get to have My flight was the late twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: It was red eye. Finally get there. I'm sitting there
Speaker 1: and I see the big giant standing over at the
Speaker 1: Mrs Fields Cooks. Wasn't Mrs Field's cookie thing getting about
Speaker 1: twelve a bucket of cookies or something? I know, jeezus,
Speaker 1: the Sellen you gotta get shape for the wall same ceremony.
Speaker 1: What the hell are you doing? I knew you were gonna.
Speaker 1: I knew that that was where you were going on
Speaker 1: that I just for some reason I knew it was
Speaker 1: the Sally at the cookie stand. Of course, you know it, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't like Jeff. You know, when you
Speaker 1: want to have a cookie to get the taste out,
Speaker 1: you know, you wanna have something sweet after meal or
Speaker 1: something he had like a I mean it had to
Speaker 1: be like ten of them, twelve of them in there
Speaker 1: of course, unbelievable heat. We will see you in training camp.
Speaker 1: Enjoy your summer, and if we don't see you before,
Speaker 1: you'll see me in camp before. Can't. So that's one
Speaker 1: of my first stops. I'm the come to Jacksonville because
Speaker 1: they start early, and then I will be in Canton
Speaker 1: for a couple of days as well. Thanks for the time, Pete.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, take care. CBS Sports Senior writer Pete
Speaker 1: Briscoe with us. We're back in a moment. We'll take
Speaker 1: a live look at the construction of the Football Performance Center,
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Speaker 1: That is Jaguars owners shod Con Monday. The announcement of
Speaker 1: the Miller Electric Center. The naming right steel announced Monday
Speaker 1: in a press conference. Just outside the construction footprint Welcome
Speaker 1: back to It's Jaguars Happy Hour j P. Shadrick with
Speaker 1: Jeff Flagman and a look outside. If you're watching on
Speaker 1: Jaguars dot com or Jack's social media, a live look
Speaker 1: at the construction. There is steel going up, continues to
Speaker 1: mean changes by the hour. Really logs us to see
Speaker 1: this thing continue to grow. They keep pouring some concrete
Speaker 1: they're doing. The walls have been there for a little while.
Speaker 1: Some of the walls, Uh, the elevator shafts, the stairwells
Speaker 1: are there. The big concrete. It's taller than I thought
Speaker 1: it was going to be. I'll be honest with you, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I wasn't kind of expecting that
Speaker 1: to have that kind of profile going up. But it
Speaker 1: looks fantastic. It's gonna be an amazing facility. And the
Speaker 1: great thing is is that they still have room to grow,
Speaker 1: you know, because there's quite a bit of land that's
Speaker 1: still around that and parking lots that at some point. Look,
Speaker 1: if you want to do even expand it even further,
Speaker 1: that you could do that. The pace that they're working
Speaker 1: at is unbelievable. I mean, there is I don't know exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean, they might be going however many days or
Speaker 1: ever how many hours a day, but sometimes it seems
Speaker 1: like that they just don't quit. It does, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: And it was nice to see at that event on Monday,
Speaker 1: the construction workers on site took the lunch break. They
Speaker 1: had the lunch under the tent right there. That which
Speaker 1: is pretty cool. Good to hang out with some of
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Speaker 1: president Mark Lamping was on the days. Mayor Lenny Curry,
Speaker 1: Henry Brown, the Miller's CEO, council President Sam Newby, Trent Bulky,
Speaker 1: and Doug Peterson part of the press conference as well,
Speaker 1: and then Mark Lamping joined the group on Jack's Drive
Speaker 1: Time earlier this week on Tuesday, discussing the construction progress.
Speaker 1: The progress is visible literally every day, hour by hour.
Speaker 1: Great collection of subcontractors are performing the work, really hard
Speaker 1: workers on site, and uh, you know, it's one of
Speaker 1: those things where you you have to get it done
Speaker 1: on time, you know. So we have to absolutely have
Speaker 1: to be complete by the end of June next year,
Speaker 1: about a year from now, so that when the team
Speaker 1: comes back for training camp that can move right into
Speaker 1: the new facility. To be very disruptive for them to
Speaker 1: have to do that as it gets closer to the
Speaker 1: season or even in in the middle of the season.
Speaker 1: The full conversation with Mark Lamping available on the archive
Speaker 1: of Jags Drive Time that's on Jack's social media from
Speaker 1: Tuesday or on Jaguars dot com. Plenty to discuss with
Speaker 1: him with the shipyards coming up and the construction of
Speaker 1: course right here, and a lot of things happening with
Speaker 1: the football team, and I think the one thing that
Speaker 1: Mark talked about about the timeliness, Okay, I gotta be
Speaker 1: done by June of next year. But the one thing
Speaker 1: that is not being sacrificed is the quality of the work.
Speaker 1: And that's not easy to do. And that's why when
Speaker 1: Mark's talking about what a great collection of subcontractors and
Speaker 1: how incredibly hard they're working. Yeah, you can see it.
Speaker 1: I mean, every day you see progress and that's that's
Speaker 1: the impressive part. And I just can't wait to see
Speaker 1: this facility come to fruition. We've had the the experience
Speaker 1: and the opportunity to see many other NFL teams facility,
Speaker 1: you know, the notable ones, the Vikings, the Ravens, the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons, going way back, there were one of the
Speaker 1: first ones that actually him up with this concept of
Speaker 1: this big, giant facility on a lot of acreage that
Speaker 1: they have. And now the Jaguars are going to be
Speaker 1: right in the mix. And I know it's not really
Speaker 1: an arms race in the National Football League because but
Speaker 1: I mean, the reality is jp is that the NFL
Speaker 1: now recruiting is involved because sometimes for years many people said, oh,
Speaker 1: it's about the money, It's only about the money. Well,
Speaker 1: it is about the money. A lot of times money
Speaker 1: is equal. So when money is equal, if you have
Speaker 1: a facility like this and you're competing against the team
Speaker 1: that doesn't, maybe that sways a free agent to come
Speaker 1: in your way. So from that aspect of it, the
Speaker 1: arms race does exist in the NFL for good reason.
Speaker 1: Let's go around the National Football League a few notable
Speaker 1: storylines NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will testify at a US
Speaker 1: House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing next week. You
Speaker 1: will testify virtually. Washington owner Dan Snyder declined to be interviewed,
Speaker 1: imagine testify. Congress launched an investigation into the Washington workplace
Speaker 1: misconduct in October last year after the League did not
Speaker 1: release a report on the independent probe. Snyder, of course
Speaker 1: stepped away from day to day business of the club,
Speaker 1: but the lack of a written report prompted that congressional inquiry.
Speaker 1: Something to watch. Does does the Congressional inquiry press further
Speaker 1: to get Daniel Snyder to testify? But the interesting thing
Speaker 1: for me is the report that came out not that
Speaker 1: long ago about about Dan Snyder skimming off of the
Speaker 1: top before allowing that percentage to pass into the pool
Speaker 1: that's shared by other owners. That to me is the
Speaker 1: thing to watch. The workplace environment absolutely something that's important,
Speaker 1: But when you violate the trust of those who you
Speaker 1: work with, that can create what in essence, would be
Speaker 1: the death penalty for his ownership in Washington. Something to
Speaker 1: watch the next few months ahead, the Steelers made mink
Speaker 1: of Fitzpatrick the highest paid safety in Laite history logs
Speaker 1: big money four year extension worth more than seventy three
Speaker 1: million dollars according to Ian rampat Word of NFL Network,
Speaker 1: thirty six million of that guaranteed. It's an average of
Speaker 1: just over eighteen million per season. It's a great player.
Speaker 1: And uh, they traded. If you compare what the what
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers gave up to get him, and compare
Speaker 1: that to what the Seahawks gave up to get jamal
Speaker 1: Um the safety from the Jets. From the Jets. Okay, Adams, Adams,
Speaker 1: thank you. Okay, you compare with each team gave up,
Speaker 1: you'll understand why the Pittsburg Steelers have been kind of
Speaker 1: the standard of the way to do business. They didn't
Speaker 1: overpay for a guy like men of Fitzpatrick. They gave
Speaker 1: one draft pick away, that was it. And how many
Speaker 1: did they give up for Jama A whole lot and
Speaker 1: there wasn't a contract attached to it. They had to
Speaker 1: pay him. Yeah. So uh. Colts starting safety Carry Willis
Speaker 1: is retiring after three NFL seasons. He was a fourth
Speaker 1: round pick by the Colts in nineteen played fourteen games
Speaker 1: that year, nine starts, fourteen starts in ten starts last season,
Speaker 1: he had about four career interceptions. He said he's devoting
Speaker 1: the remainder of his life to further the advancement of
Speaker 1: the Gospel of Jesus Christ. So he's getting out of
Speaker 1: football three years in and moving on with life. Good
Speaker 1: for him. In life, you follow your passion. That that's
Speaker 1: your passion, go for it. And that takes a lot
Speaker 1: of courage to do that, because I mean, if you're walking,
Speaker 1: stepping away from millions of dollars of potential income to
Speaker 1: follow your calling, that calling is loud. I give him credit.
Speaker 1: Takes courage, no doubt, because it's you can't come back.
Speaker 1: Tough to come back at least back. Yeah, but it's
Speaker 1: tough come back. I mean it's not like, uh, you're
Speaker 1: leaving the PGA to go play this other tournament. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to come back. They may not come back. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is uh. The gospel is not as an l
Speaker 1: I V. I guess I'll do it for our look
Speaker 1: around at National Football League. We mentioned this earlier. It's
Speaker 1: our last show. We'll be back until we won't be
Speaker 1: back until the last week of July. That's July, Yes,
Speaker 1: first day, Yes, and we'll have a full slotm uh,
Speaker 1: a lotment of shows that week as training camp begin.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to training camp this year in
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame game and and can't wait
Speaker 1: for for Tony Boselli's induction into the Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: and the hell of Bruce Smith. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: fantastic moment and well deserved and very excited to be
Speaker 1: able to witness the induction ceremony. And I can't wait.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. Man, looking forward to that, looking
Speaker 1: forward to a little time down and then get back
Speaker 1: at it. Here we go, late July, Jack our football,
Speaker 1: rock and roll. Let's go, let's do it. Let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's win some guys, go, let's win some football. W
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Speaker 1: talk to Jim. Thanks to Shatt Griffin, Jaguars cornerback and
Speaker 1: CBS Sports senior writer, Pete Brisco, Joe Fortunado, Brent Reaverer
Speaker 1: for Jeff Logoman, I'm JP Shadrick. We will catch you
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