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Speaker 1: Hexam.

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Speaker 2: I'm Pennannie Stevens. We are hearing from head coach Doug

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Speaker 2: Peterson for the first time since free agency as the

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Speaker 2: NFL holds their annual league meetings in Orlando. We'll have

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Speaker 2: a live report a little later in the show as

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Speaker 2: John Oser checks in with us and tells us all

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Speaker 2: he's learned so far at the meetings. Brian Sexston is

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Speaker 2: here with me in studio. We also have a special guest.

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Speaker 2: We're going to start off with Big Thing one now,

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Speaker 2: been there and done that. In regards to those free agents,

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Speaker 2: a lot of them coming from winning teams, had coached.

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Speaker 2: Doug Peterson said that was kind of the goal in

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Speaker 2: who they were targeting.

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Speaker 3: This is the culture that I want to establish in Jacksonville.

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Speaker 3: And then this is the reason why you go get

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Speaker 3: guys like Mitch Morris and Eric Armsteads and the Darnell

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Speaker 3: Savages and the guys that have been to the postseason.

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Speaker 3: These guys have been captains on their team and you know,

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Speaker 3: they've been to Super Bowls, They've they've been to AFS

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Speaker 3: Championship games.

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Speaker 4: You know, so these guys know.

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Speaker 3: How to win, and that's the that's kind of the

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Speaker 3: influx of talent that we want to bring on to

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Speaker 3: this our young roster, the guys that have.

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Speaker 1: Been there, done that, been there and done that.

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Speaker 2: Brian, this is something we discussed a lot in the

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Speaker 2: off season, even the back end of last season. You're

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Speaker 2: setting a culture here, but you also want that winning

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Speaker 2: culture as well, and these guys know what that, know

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Speaker 2: what it means to win, you know.

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Speaker 5: Kyle, We've talked about it a lot since last November.

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Speaker 5: You remember when the Jaguars lost to the San Francisco

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Speaker 5: forty nine ers. It was a disheartening loss, thirty four

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Speaker 5: to three, and after the game, Doug Peterson said, we

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Speaker 5: haven't done anything yet. And the resounding thought from his

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Speaker 5: coaching staff, bringing Ryan Nielsen and all the guys they

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Speaker 5: assembled there to the free agents that they've brought in

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Speaker 5: has been about the quality of person and the quality

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Speaker 5: of their experience, whether they've been to Pro Bowls, Super Bowls,

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Speaker 5: been on winning teams. Doug has tried to reinvigorate his

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Speaker 5: locker room and his coaching staff with people of renown,

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Speaker 5: people who have gotten things done. So I'm going to

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Speaker 5: introduce you to somebody who got things done around here

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Speaker 5: for ten years, and you all know him. Jaguars center

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Speaker 5: Brandon Linder, now retire, joins US today. Hi Brandon, how

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Speaker 5: are you? I'm doing well and you are a spelt

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Speaker 5: two hundred and fifty pounds. You're getting it done at

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Speaker 5: home now.

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Speaker 6: I am yep, a lot of cardio and just eating

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Speaker 6: protein and veggies.

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Speaker 5: Do you miss the game?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, of course, of course I miss it, but it

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Speaker 6: was time for me to move on, and I couldn't

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Speaker 6: be happier.

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Speaker 5: We're going to talk about what you're doing and what

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Speaker 5: you think of the Miller Electric Center. And by the way,

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Speaker 5: it was wow which we walked through it. But you

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Speaker 5: heard Doug. You know the guys that he brought in,

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Speaker 5: and you know some of them, Mitch Morris and Eric Armstead,

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Speaker 5: guys who have proven themselves on the field and off.

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Speaker 5: You've been in the locker room a lot. Give me

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Speaker 5: a perspective of what it means to bring guys like

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a real exciting to see that you guys signed.

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Speaker 6: Mitch Morris, heck of a player, great feet, very quick,

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Speaker 6: brings his hips on contact. You'll see that throughout the year.

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Speaker 6: Great in the past game, great in the run game.

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Speaker 6: So that I mean, and that's where it starts, right

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Speaker 6: at the center position. And he's a smart dude too,

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Speaker 6: so relaying the calls obviously he'll figure out the plays.

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Speaker 6: And then Eric Armstead, lengthy guy, has a heck of

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Speaker 6: under as well. So now you're just adding another tool

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Speaker 5: Two guys like that who are accomplished come in and

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Speaker 6: No, I think when you come in as an established player,

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Speaker 6: you can definitely have an impact on the locker room. Right,

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Speaker 6: You've been other places, you've done it, you have a

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Speaker 6: going to look at that. They're going to lean on

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Speaker 5: The kay sounds like Doug Peterson's counting on that.

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Speaker 1: He sure is.

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Speaker 2: He's also counting on the fact that the way they

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Speaker 2: second big thing is fuel to the fire, specifically talking

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Speaker 2: about cornerback Trevor Lawrence does. So we've been in touch

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Speaker 2: with them obviously in the and he feels like the

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Speaker 7: Now he's playing meaningful games, he's playing he's taken the

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Speaker 7: last two years our team to the right there and

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Speaker 7: now we got to push through that and and so.

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Speaker 1: And now it bothers him.

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Speaker 3: That part bothers him, right, football bothers him.

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Speaker 1: And and that's a good thing. Brian.

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Speaker 2: We always talk about how Trevorson's very even keeled, but

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Speaker 2: Doug saying, you know, the way things finished got him bothered,

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Speaker 2: which is what you want to hear. You certainly don't

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Speaker 2: want to hear that he's fine with it. Will this

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Speaker 2: be the motivating factor.

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Speaker 1: For him going forward?

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Speaker 5: Well, it certainly seemed that way on the day that

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Speaker 5: they cleaned out their lockers at the end of last season,

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Speaker 5: just to look at his eye and my kids would say,

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Speaker 5: Trevor's chill, right, We'll get Brandon's thought on that. You know,

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Speaker 5: he's relaxed. He does it get too wound up. He's

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Speaker 5: he's level. But you could tell that day in the

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Speaker 5: bothered him. Brandon, you and I talked a lot about

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Speaker 5: Trevor in the last couple of months when we've connected.

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Speaker 5: You think his upside is incredible. How do you see

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Speaker 5: something like the last six games of last year when

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Speaker 5: nothing seemed to go right, taking a young player and

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean his upside's tremendous. And what happened last year,

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Speaker 6: you know that was a shame how it fell apart.

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Speaker 4: I have been a part of that, and it's not fun.

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Speaker 6: When I was with Trevor, I mean, he is so

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Speaker 6: invested in this team. All he wants to do is win.

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Speaker 6: That's all he's ever done in high school, college. So

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Speaker 6: you're going to see a guy that I believe. You know,

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Speaker 6: he's working, doing everything he needs to do this offseason,

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Speaker 6: and he's motivated. He's ready to come in and put

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Speaker 6: it just it takes the right parts, and I think

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Speaker 6: I think they have it. I think they've gotten it,

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Speaker 6: especially in free agency.

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Speaker 5: Don't let me put words in me rout, but I

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Speaker 5: think you maybe said you thought twice about retiring because

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Speaker 6: No, you're correct, and you know, I sometimes think, like man,

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Speaker 6: I wish my career would have aligned with Trevor's because

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Speaker 6: he is that special and you know that center quarterback connection,

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Speaker 6: it's it's a special connection. So yeah, I mean, I

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Speaker 6: definitely would have liked to have played more years with Trevor,

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Speaker 6: but that's not the case.

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Speaker 4: And that's all right.

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Speaker 5: We got enough good years with Blake, that's right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's one of my best friends to this.

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Speaker 5: Day, one of the fun guys we've had around Jacksonville

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Speaker 5: in the years.

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Speaker 4: Kay.

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Speaker 2: Our final big thing today is going to be position flexibility.

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Speaker 2: That was something Doug Peterson hammered home yesterday about being important,

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Speaker 2: whether it's in terms of free agents that they brought

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Speaker 3: You're starting to see more guys with position flexibility, you know,

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Speaker 3: just like you would offense a lineman, right. You know,

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Speaker 3: guards that can play center, tackles can play both sides.

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Speaker 3: You know, receivers you can move receivers around. I just

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Speaker 3: think it's a It just helps your overall team and

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Speaker 3: if you do have an injury at a position, you

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Speaker 2: Brian We saw a lot of musical chairs tally on

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Speaker 2: the offensive line last season. But there are players now

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Speaker 2: that they're bringing back they can play but multiple positions,

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Speaker 2: whether it's Ezra Cleveland or others. And also he's talking

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Speaker 2: Is it more about having a good player that can

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Speaker 5: Well, I'd like to have a really great player that

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Speaker 5: can do multiple things, but you'll take a good player

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Speaker 5: that can do that as well. And in particular, this

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Speaker 5: line of thought goes to Darnelle Savage and Antonio Johnson

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Speaker 5: because both guys can play nickel. In fact, Antonio Johnson's

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Speaker 5: a guy that's probably that big nickel that's more in

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Speaker 5: run support, but Savage can do that as well. We

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Speaker 5: have the perfect guy here in Brandon to talk about

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Speaker 5: positional flexibility because he came in as a rookie in

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Speaker 5: twenty fourteen and started at right guard. Kicked and domik ensues.

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Speaker 5: But if I recall in Week two against Miami and

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Speaker 5: the highest paid free agent in history. Not to lay

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Speaker 5: that at your feet, but I remember the day. So

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Speaker 5: the value in being able to do multiple things, and

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Speaker 5: not just in terms of your contract, right, but in

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Speaker 4: Oh, that's everything.

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Speaker 6: And as a player, all you're trying to do is

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Speaker 6: add value, right, you want that next contract extension, You

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Speaker 6: want to start and have play as many years as

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Speaker 6: you can.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 6: To do that, it's adding value to be able to

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Speaker 6: And I'm just going to speak on the offensive. Sure,

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Speaker 6: if you could play center, if you could play guard,

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Speaker 6: left guard, right guard, normally that's how you swing in

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Speaker 6: the inside and then tackle. If you can play both

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Speaker 6: I mean, you can really add value to yourself and

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Speaker 6: you prolong your career in the NFL.

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Speaker 5: So we've talked a lot about Mitch Morse and they

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Speaker 5: didn't sign him to coming to be the backup. He's

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Speaker 5: going to come in and be the starter, which means

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Speaker 5: that now Luke Fortner has a chance to learn to

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Speaker 5: play a couple of different positions. How hard will it

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Speaker 5: be for him to go from playing center to learning guard.

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Speaker 5: Do you think he can be effective at that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, of course I could. I think he can be effective.

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Speaker 6: And it's funny like going from left guard to right guard.

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Speaker 6: It's not as easy as you would think because it's

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Speaker 6: a completely different stance, completely different mechanics, right, You got

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Speaker 4: But you can learn that.

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Speaker 6: You can develop that in the offseason, develop that in

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Speaker 4: That's what that's for.

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Speaker 5: So ky when you bring in a guy like Mitch

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Speaker 5: Morse and you take Luke Fordner and move him around,

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Speaker 5: he's got thirty three thirty four regular season starts underneath

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Speaker 5: his belt. Now you create depth as well as versatility,

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Speaker 5: which gives Phil Rousher even more to work with in

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Speaker 2: Ditch just last week he his own vacation now was

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Speaker 2: He's at the annual League leading John. I know you

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Speaker 1: spots that I would guess, So I'll go either corner,

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Speaker 1: offensive line. But what do I know?

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Speaker 5: Depends on who's there, doesn't it. It always depends on who

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Speaker 5: might slide down the board and be there.

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Speaker 2: You know what, all, John, who's there, have a good

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Speaker 2: time in Orlando. We'll see you next week here on

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Speaker 2: Jags Am.

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Speaker 1: Stay here with us.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna check it with Brandon lend a little bit

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Speaker 2: more go over that offensive line and what he sees

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Speaker 2: out there. From Jack's stay with us, Move the freight,

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Speaker 2: Magellan Logistics dot com. Welcome back to jag Zam here

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Speaker 2: in the Hyundai studios and we have our special guest,

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Speaker 2: Branding Linder here with us, who's center for the team

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Speaker 2: offensive line and for the team center for many years.

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Speaker 2: The offensive line last year was a bit of a

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Speaker 2: trouble spot for the Jaguars, to say the least. A

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Speaker 2: lot of injuries, a lot of you know, kind of

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Speaker 2: moving parts. Head coach Doug Peterson said he felt a

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Speaker 2: lot of the issues were the fact that they didn't

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Speaker 2: really have a set lineup. But offensive line, I mean,

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Speaker 2: injuries are going to happen no matter what. How hard

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Speaker 2: is it when you go out there and you don't

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Speaker 2: know who's going to be next to you? Is it

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Speaker 2: a lot different when there's different players and different positions

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Speaker 2: on every game?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it is different.

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Speaker 6: And I've been a part of years where the line

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Speaker 6: was like that, where continually revolving door. I've also been

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Speaker 6: a part of lines where we started together the whole year,

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Speaker 6: and you definitely want to be next to the guy.

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Speaker 6: I mean, yes, they're the backups. Can have that same

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Speaker 6: kind of you know, to lepathy where I don't even

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Speaker 6: have to say, like AJ can like was was you know,

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Speaker 6: I played with him forever. There would be things where

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Speaker 6: I could just literally look at him or get like

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Speaker 6: just make some sort of audible noise and he would

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Speaker 6: understand what I'm saying. Right, So it's it's everything to

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Speaker 6: have that type of cohesion with each other. But that's

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Speaker 6: not this But that's not an excuse. You know, everyone

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Speaker 6: still needs to rise to the occasion.

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Speaker 1: What was it like for you?

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Speaker 2: I know we talked a little bit about that transition

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Speaker 2: from position, especially in the NFL. Maybe you haven't played

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Speaker 2: that position at all or in a long time, but

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Speaker 2: to kind of trans know that your role is now

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Speaker 2: a different position. Was that an easy transition for you?

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Speaker 6: It was just something that needed to be worked on.

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Speaker 6: I mean I started my first two years at right guard,

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Speaker 6: and I had played center in high school and in college,

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Speaker 6: and in college I moved from right guard to right tackle,

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Speaker 6: so I had that kind of you know, experience at

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Speaker 6: that But no, it was just taking the off season,

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Speaker 6: you know, learning how to snap at an efficient rate,

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Speaker 6: and then you know center, you know, iding the front

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Speaker 6: insideing the mike linebackers, you know, kind of taking the

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Speaker 6: calls and spreading him down the line.

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Speaker 4: So it was just that kind of change.

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Speaker 5: How hard is it if you're the quarterback and you

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Speaker 5: have Cam Robinson, you know, gone for four games, and

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Speaker 5: then he's in for eight games. Then he's gone for

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Speaker 5: four games. Right, he had four different starting left guards.

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Speaker 5: I mean, to be fair to Luke Fortner who struggled

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Speaker 5: last year, but he had constant turn over next to him.

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Speaker 4: How about the quarterback?

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Speaker 5: You know, when things didn't go well last year, he

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Speaker 5: didn't point fingers, but it had to be tough on him.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean he'll never point fingers, but not knowing

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Speaker 6: who is going to be playing on Sunday at that position,

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Speaker 6: you might not think it or say it, but in

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Speaker 6: the back of his head when he's dropping back, you know,

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Speaker 6: to pass, and he's going through his progressions making his reads,

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Speaker 6: there might be a little thing in the back of

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Speaker 6: his head like what's going on over here at the

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Speaker 6: left side. Right, do I need to float drift more

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Speaker 6: more over to the right. So yes, if everyone can

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Speaker 6: stay together, that's the best case. But again you have

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Speaker 6: to adjust teams.

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Speaker 2: Ring and Mitch Morse, you know who's in Kansas City

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Speaker 2: and Buffalo for a while, a veteran presence. What does

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Speaker 2: that do for a quarterback to have somebody you know

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Speaker 2: coming in really commanding in the center and has been there,

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Speaker 2: done that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. Then they're done that.

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Speaker 6: You know, he has the experience, he can you know,

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Speaker 6: he'll learn the plays, he'll learn the calls very easily,

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Speaker 6: and then they'll they'll create a bond together and.

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Speaker 4: And they'll you know, I'm sure they'll win a bunch

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Speaker 4: of games, which is exciting to see. And that's what

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Speaker 4: you hope happens.

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Speaker 5: How long does it take to form that that bond center?

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Speaker 5: So he had you as a rookie, and then he

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Speaker 5: had looke forward to the last two years. Now he's

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Speaker 5: got Mitch Morse going into his fourth year. Is he

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Speaker 5: old had enough to be able to do that quickly?

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Speaker 5: Or is that something that we're going to watch evolve

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Speaker 5: over the course of the season.

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Speaker 6: I mean it takes an off season, you know, OTAs

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Speaker 6: and by camp. Yeah, by and then by camp you're flowing,

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Speaker 6: and then by the season you should be hitting on

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Speaker 6: all cylinders. And then guess what, that next year is

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Speaker 6: going to be even better in the year after that, and.

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Speaker 1: You know, so it's a be a good one.

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Speaker 2: We saw some young talent in Anton Harrison. He was

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Speaker 2: one of the bright spots. Certainly last year at right

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Speaker 2: tackle to come didn't have that much success, is it.

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Speaker 1: When you came in?

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Speaker 2: I wasn't here, so please fill me in a little bit.

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Speaker 2: But did you feel like you had some anchor points

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Speaker 2: to kind of work off when you got here? Did

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Speaker 2: you feel like you learned as you went along? Was

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Speaker 2: there some lineman that kind of coached you along the way?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 6: Actually, when I got here, there wasn't very many. You know,

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Speaker 6: it was not a veteran group. Yeah, it was not

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Speaker 6: a veteran group. You know, there was a Beatles that

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Speaker 6: left guard. I leaned on him a lot, but it

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Speaker 6: was not a veteran group. So it was kind of

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Speaker 6: like thrown into the fire. And I was starting since

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Speaker 6: day one and kind of just figuring it out. But

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Speaker 6: like I told Brian, you know, off air, like there

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Speaker 6: was guys that I leaned on like paulpaz Lusny and

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Speaker 6: Mercedes Lewis, you know how to be professionals, what it

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Speaker 6: looked like, and just modeled, modeled my game in my

563
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Speaker 6: career after them, even though they were different positions, but

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Speaker 6: just how I went about my business.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, just thrown to the fire and I came

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Speaker 4: out all right.

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Speaker 5: Well, and look, Gus Bradley did not have a great

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Speaker 5: record as the head coach here, but I liked his

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Speaker 5: mentality about you have to be in order to be

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Speaker 5: a great teammate, you had to be a great individual.

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Speaker 5: You had to come to work every day, the idea

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Speaker 5: that it was on you to be your best and

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Speaker 5: not to worry, not to make it be about a

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Speaker 5: veteran guy next to you or someone else. It was

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Speaker 5: all about you coming in the door every day, focused

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Speaker 5: entirely on being the best Brandon Linder you could be.

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Speaker 6: Yes, I mean again, this is a team sport, right,

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Speaker 6: this is the Jacksonville Jaguars. But at the end of

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Speaker 6: the day, I'm an individual business, right, Each player is

580
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Speaker 6: an individual business. As soon as you're not as soon

581
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Speaker 6: as you're not performing or you're getting paid too much,

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Speaker 6: they're gonna they're gonna move on from you. So you

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Speaker 6: have to do everything you can, as Brandon Linder, as

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Speaker 6: Trevor Lawrence, to go out there and put put put

585
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Speaker 6: the best film out there, because that's that's your resume,

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Speaker 6: that's what they're looking at, and that's how you play

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Speaker 6: a long time in the league, and that's how you

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Speaker 6: can stay with the team for a while, and that's

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Speaker 6: how you can sign, you know, a contract extension.

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Speaker 5: When you have a locker room full of guys who

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Speaker 5: come in every day wanting to be the best version

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Speaker 5: of themselves, willing to work harder, willing to stay longer,

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Speaker 5: willing to eat the right thing and do the right

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Speaker 5: thing in terms of recovery and study, well, then you've

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Speaker 5: got something, right. I mean, they have to be good players, right.

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Speaker 5: We learned we didn't have enough good players when Guss

597
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Speaker 5: was trying to implement that philosophy. But had we had

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Speaker 5: enough good players. I think that philosophy is how it

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Speaker 5: works in.

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Speaker 6: Today's Yeah, and then that becomes part of the culture.

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Speaker 6: I mean that then you know you see other guys

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Speaker 6: doing it, well, I need to do that, all right.

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Speaker 6: It's it's contagious, right, And that's and I think in

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Speaker 6: seventeen when we had that success.

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Speaker 4: We had a lot of good players.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but you saw guys doing that and that's that's

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Speaker 6: what it takes to win, setting that standard.

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Speaker 2: Stay with us here on jag Zam. Brand is gonna

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Speaker 2: catch us up on what he's been up to and

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Speaker 2: we'll look ahead here on Jagsam. Jags fans joined us Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: Jaguars dot com slash Bright Futures. Back hereon Jack Zam, Brandon,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for joining us today. It's been

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Speaker 2: really nice to get your perspective. Thing.

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Speaker 5: It is too bad that you weren't here when Brandon

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Speaker 5: was playing. He was the most challenging interviewer interviewee in

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Speaker 5: the locker room. Well because he was focused. I mean,

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Speaker 5: now that he's retired, he'll tell you he was so

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Speaker 5: focused on what he had to do next. But it

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Speaker 5: was like, Brand, do you have time to talk? What

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Speaker 5: do you want sext? And what do you mean?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 6: I was just going from one thing to next, right,

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Speaker 6: I come off the practice field. Then it was a

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Speaker 6: cool downstretched ice tubs, gotta get my food, the meetings.

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Speaker 6: To me, I didn't have time for this, right I'm

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Speaker 6: trying to do everything I can to help the team win.

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Speaker 5: He was trying to be the best version of himself,

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Speaker 5: which is it's part of the relationship that you build.

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Speaker 5: You kind of understand to give him his room. But

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Speaker 5: as you've heard, the reason I wanted to hear from

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Speaker 5: him was because he always had something good to say

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Speaker 5: when I could stop him, but he was always so

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Speaker 5: focused on it. So last year we did Jags All Access,

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Speaker 5: Brandon came back up into town and we reconnected. I've

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Speaker 5: worked on a story for the Jags Legends alumni and

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Speaker 5: Brandon is up here today and I said, will you

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Speaker 5: do it?

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Speaker 6: It's like, yeah, because you want to do some of this, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 6: I do, and I want to. I want to be

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Speaker 6: a part of this community. I want to be a

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Speaker 6: part of this organization. I mean, I love Jacksonville. I

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Speaker 6: mean that that was a strategic plan my part two

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Speaker 6: to retire a Jaguar. There hasn't been many lifers. I

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Speaker 6: I plan on living here my whole life. I mean,

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Speaker 6: I love Jacksonville. So yeah, I want to I want

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Speaker 6: to be a part of it. I want to get

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Speaker 6: back in the organization, you know, part of the community

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Speaker 6: still doing stuff, which I'm actually here also to talk

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Speaker 6: about next year we're going to be doing a fishing tournament,

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Speaker 6: which start start figuring out the logistics of that. But

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Speaker 6: you know, affiliated with the Jaguars and and you know,

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Speaker 6: bringing awareness to a great cause.

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Speaker 5: Guess who one of his best boys was when he

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Speaker 5: was here, Punter Logoman, Oh Jean out doorsman of the day,

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Speaker 5: and probably the punter too. I mean, anybody who would

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Speaker 5: hunt fish, you would be offshore fishing, you'd be out

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Speaker 5: in the woods hunting.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Logan Cook, you have a great friend of mine

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Speaker 6: and Jeff, my rookie year. Uh he heard that I

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Speaker 6: that I like to hunt and fish and so that yeah,

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Speaker 6: I think it was your tas we started talking and

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Speaker 6: from there, Yeah, that that relationship bloomed.

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Speaker 5: Now ask him about his wife, because watch him beam

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Speaker 5: from side to side.

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Speaker 2: Yes, tell us about your wife.

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Speaker 1: Why not?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, No, she's she's amazing. She's in residency right now.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna be an orthopedic surgeon, and that's kind of

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Speaker 6: why I'm not living here in Jacksonville for right now,

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Speaker 6: but roughly three years we'll be back up here.

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Speaker 4: And uh and you know, calling this home.

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Speaker 6: But she's incredible, she's finishing out her five year residency.

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Speaker 4: And then and then yeah, orthopedic surgeon. Wonderful, it's amazing.

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Speaker 1: We love a power couple.

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Speaker 2: That's so exciting. Brandon, thank you for joining us today.

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Speaker 2: We hope to have you back soon and we love

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Speaker 2: your insights, so we'll hopefully see you in a couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for having us all right, that's dagsam.

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Speaker 2: We'll see you guys next week