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Speaker 1: of course, it's Jaguars analyst Jeff Lagaman. Each and every week.
Speaker 1: Offensive coordinator Press Taylor joins us in studio about four fifteen.
Speaker 1: We'll hear from the new O C for the Jags,
Speaker 1: his first coordinator role in the NFL and his first
Speaker 1: week talking actual xs and ohs with the quarterback and
Speaker 1: the offense. We're two weeks until the NFL Draft. Prospect
Speaker 1: visits continue, the medical checks, everything going on, and we'll
Speaker 1: go around the National Football League more quarterback news as
Speaker 1: usually is the case. Jeff Lockman with us. Now, Hi, Jeff,
Speaker 1: what's up? Hi? JP? Can you imagine being a young
Speaker 1: Jaguars offensive coordinator like Press Taylor and to have a
Speaker 1: star studded offensive cast of coaches. I mean, that's think
Speaker 1: about that. That's kind of intimidating. You know, Doug Peterson,
Speaker 1: who he worked with for a long time in Philly.
Speaker 1: Mike McCoy was a head coach in the NFL, has
Speaker 1: been around the game forever. Jim Bob Cooter christ name coordinator,
Speaker 1: greatest name in the NFL. He's been around for a
Speaker 1: while now. I mean, and then you've got the number
Speaker 1: one picked from last year at the quarterback position. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of input going in, I think to the
Speaker 1: offensive staff. I don't think he's gonna be shy of
Speaker 1: of opinions, but but I think it's a challenge to
Speaker 1: when you're a young guy to step in a role
Speaker 1: of being an offensive coordinator with a staff like that,
Speaker 1: to you, you you better have you better have reasons,
Speaker 1: and you better substantiate your opinions, because if your reasons
Speaker 1: or your information is flawed, you're gonna get called to
Speaker 1: the table with that group of on the offensive staff.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I I can tell you this. I
Speaker 1: mean as far as if you're a team guy, that's
Speaker 1: what you want. I mean, you want to have as
Speaker 1: star studded as an offensive cast as you can get
Speaker 1: because a lot of times some of the and you
Speaker 1: go back to the Baltimore Ravens when they were in
Speaker 1: their heyday under Brian Billock, that was a staff that
Speaker 1: had a lot of strong personalities on defense. A lot
Speaker 1: of head coaches came from that staff, and when you
Speaker 1: talk to those coaches, they will tell you about many
Speaker 1: spirited discussions that they had in staff meetings, and spirited
Speaker 1: discussions that sometimes ended up coming down to a little
Speaker 1: bit of this, which I'm holding my knuckles up. I
Speaker 1: was told. So I don't think it's gonna get to
Speaker 1: that here in Jacksonville with the offensive staff, but you know, hey, look,
Speaker 1: spirited conversation and discussion sometimes end up having some of
Speaker 1: your best ideas come to fruition. Well here from Press
Speaker 1: Taylor coming up in about fifteen minutes or so here
Speaker 1: on Jaguar's Happy Hour, the Jaguars offensive coordinator, well, he
Speaker 1: does have his left tackle in place. Cam Robinson this
Speaker 1: week signed the franchise tender sixteen point six million guaranteed
Speaker 1: dollars this year, and they have until July fifteenth to
Speaker 1: work on a long term deal. If they don't get
Speaker 1: to that long term deal. Well, he'll pay play for
Speaker 1: sixteen point six million dollars this year. Drinks are on Camp. Well,
Speaker 1: it's you want him to buy for you. That's okay. Uh,
Speaker 1: sixteen million is now guaranteed because the franchise tag has
Speaker 1: been signed. If and I think that's the right thing
Speaker 1: to do from a players standpoint, Why would you not,
Speaker 1: because if you don't sign the franchise tag, that tag
Speaker 1: can be removed and then you're put back out in
Speaker 1: the marketplace. And by the way, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: team that have spent their money already. So what would
Speaker 1: the market be. I don't know. But a smart thing
Speaker 1: to do by Cam because now in the meantime, now
Speaker 1: you can work on a long term option with the
Speaker 1: football team if that is in fact the wishes of
Speaker 1: both the team and Cam and to see if something
Speaker 1: can get done for a long term type of situation
Speaker 1: because and but I think it makes it challenging in
Speaker 1: this type of situation to work on a long term
Speaker 1: deal because think about a JP. You had the franchise
Speaker 1: tag last year that Camp signed. Okay, so now it's
Speaker 1: gonna be he's got a franchise tag now, so if
Speaker 1: they want to keep him under contract for next year,
Speaker 1: so now you have another the other the the what
Speaker 1: is another increase because there's last year to this year,
Speaker 1: so it was thirteen last year. The actual number for
Speaker 1: a franchise tag tackle anyway, this year was about sixteen,
Speaker 1: but it's increase from last year, which is also right
Speaker 1: around sixteen exactly. So it's gonna there's gonna be another
Speaker 1: increase for next year. Okay. So my point is is
Speaker 1: that if you're trying to negotiate a long term contract,
Speaker 1: if you're an agent, the starting point in negotiations for
Speaker 1: guaranteed money is the guaranteed money for franchise tag this
Speaker 1: year plus the guaranteed franchise tag for next year. You
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying. So you basically take sixteen plus increase.
Speaker 1: You're looking on another let's just say eighteen for around purposes.
Speaker 1: Let's say it's eighteen and I and it might might
Speaker 1: even be more than that, but I think it's somewhere
Speaker 1: in that range. But the rules change after a certain
Speaker 1: number of years of being tagged. But so now you
Speaker 1: add eighteen and sixteen. So essentially the contract the starting
Speaker 1: point is thirty four million guaranteed right out of the
Speaker 1: gate before you even and that's in the first two
Speaker 1: years guarantee. So uh so that makes it a little
Speaker 1: bit challenging, I think for some guys that have received
Speaker 1: the franchise tag for more than just one year, because
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, this this conversation is kicking
Speaker 1: into play different position. I get it. But I remember
Speaker 1: quarterback Kirk Cousins with Washington. He had two different franchise
Speaker 1: tag season sixteen and seventeen, and then went to free
Speaker 1: agency at eighteen and signed a fully guaranteed, three year,
Speaker 1: eighty four million dollar deal. Yeah, I think that's the
Speaker 1: business of football. He's winning. And I think the reason
Speaker 1: why because I think in the in year three of
Speaker 1: your franchise tag, there's a big jump it's like increase
Speaker 1: or something of that nature instead of so it makes
Speaker 1: it very very prohibitive. So and and I think that's
Speaker 1: the case. So with Cam then, and when I was
Speaker 1: talking about, Okay, thirty four million is your story at
Speaker 1: starting point, it's actually more than that in that in
Speaker 1: that situation, I think with the third consecutive tag, So
Speaker 1: congratulations to Cam Robinson. Yeah, no, it's great. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: uh he deserves it. He's a he's a good football player,
Speaker 1: and he I think is the best part about Cam
Speaker 1: is I think was what Trent Balky talked about back
Speaker 1: when Trent Balky and and Doug Peterson had this informal
Speaker 1: little sit down with the media and Trent shared some
Speaker 1: of the stories about Cam, saying, hey, look, here's a
Speaker 1: guy that's always available because of availability always supersedes talent
Speaker 1: and ability always. And with Cam, he's a guy who
Speaker 1: loves ball. He's competitive, he finishes um, he does all
Speaker 1: the things that you want to have a good football
Speaker 1: player do. Now, can he be better footwork wise and
Speaker 1: some of the some of the basics of playing left tackle.
Speaker 1: When I say basics, some of the basic footwork things, yes,
Speaker 1: he can get better at that, but we all everybody
Speaker 1: can get better even at your five or six or
Speaker 1: seven wherever that as a pro. The off season program
Speaker 1: is upon us now. It started on Monday strength and
Speaker 1: conditioning meetings. It's all very very voluntary, but important to
Speaker 1: get some things established with a new coaching staff, new
Speaker 1: new terminology, and get the ball rolling on. Just starting
Speaker 1: the organization a new from the beginning. Trevor Lawrence spoke
Speaker 1: this week as well about working with the receivers and
Speaker 1: getting things started with a new coaching staff. We started
Speaker 1: throwing a little bit altogether this first time we can
Speaker 1: use the facility, so um offseason. Obviously, most of those
Speaker 1: guys that are new didn't get here until right before
Speaker 1: we start O t A, so they're trying to you know,
Speaker 1: find places all that, so I didn't get to work
Speaker 1: with them much of this off season. So now we
Speaker 1: got a lot of time. You know, we have two
Speaker 1: weeks of just throwing our own and then we'll have
Speaker 1: that period and after those two weeks where we start
Speaker 1: getting out there with some coaches, some routes on air,
Speaker 1: all that stuff, so you've got time to progress into it.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're in a good spot right now.
Speaker 1: It's I think more important just to get everybody speaking
Speaker 1: the same language when we're doing the installs, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Get everybody on the same page so when we're out
Speaker 1: there and we're all staying the same things. Because if
Speaker 1: you're out there and no one really is on the
Speaker 1: same page and you call routes different things, that makes
Speaker 1: it more difficult. So we're getting there now. We're working
Speaker 1: towards it well. As he said, they have some time.
Speaker 1: It is April, they have another week and then they
Speaker 1: can get on the field with the coaches and do
Speaker 1: some minor things. But the language thing, I think is
Speaker 1: the big thing. There's a brand new offense. It will
Speaker 1: be his at an offense as a quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Like we said, all these coaches come from different backgrounds
Speaker 1: as well. What concepts are called is a very important baseline. Yeah,
Speaker 1: where they have to all learn to speak the same language,
Speaker 1: and that has to happen as a staff before that
Speaker 1: can be passed on to the players. And then there
Speaker 1: we talked about it last week a little bit with
Speaker 1: like Caldwell, the defensive coordinator, about everybody getting on the
Speaker 1: same page. And so that's an important part to the
Speaker 1: all season. But you know, I want to say this
Speaker 1: about the off season program. If you're if you're a
Speaker 1: player and you're signed under contract by whatever NFL team
Speaker 1: and you're not participating in their off season program, you're
Speaker 1: not very smart. And the reason I say that is
Speaker 1: that if you are training on your own and you
Speaker 1: sustain some kind of injury, you're on your own. I mean,
Speaker 1: so why would you not use the facilities that the
Speaker 1: NFL has every team, And and also the injury protection
Speaker 1: that is built in that if you sustain some type
Speaker 1: of injury, you're covered. If it's happening under the umbrella
Speaker 1: of the team, If you're doing it on your own,
Speaker 1: you're on your own. And I just I think it
Speaker 1: would be insane if anybody were to not participate in
Speaker 1: the club's O t A programs. Also, what Trevor said
Speaker 1: there about a lot of guys getting moved back into town. Look,
Speaker 1: this is an amazing place to live, and a lot
Speaker 1: of these guys are new to the football team, and
Speaker 1: so some of them are trying to find where they're
Speaker 1: gonna live and moving families, etcetera. So I get that
Speaker 1: the guys that are already on the team, they should
Speaker 1: already be here. And uh, and because you want to
Speaker 1: be able to work with your quarterback, Trevor is living here.
Speaker 1: Look if I'm if I'm a receiver, I'm a tight end,
Speaker 1: I'm here, man, I'm gonna be here living with my quarterback.
Speaker 1: I'm in front of him every single day, if right,
Speaker 1: And I want to want them see my face every day,
Speaker 1: so that you know, you build the camaraderie, you build
Speaker 1: a relationship and you build the trust, and so when
Speaker 1: you catch balls from your quarterback, that's what it's all about.
Speaker 1: You want to catch as many balls as you can
Speaker 1: right now so that he has a comfort level with
Speaker 1: you when you get to September. If somebody can't make it,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna go out there and take
Speaker 1: the fill in. I know that'll be really productive for
Speaker 1: the quarterback. If our two run rounds you yeah, JP,
Speaker 1: you not not quite un Yeah, I don't think that's
Speaker 1: a hard No. The only thing thing that would help
Speaker 1: the quarterback is that if you know, one of the
Speaker 1: big offensive linemen ran around around the goal line. That's
Speaker 1: maybe the only thing that you could simulate. Just trying
Speaker 1: to say thank you very much. UM, this is Jaguars
Speaker 1: Happy Hour on tint to Excel and Jaguars dot Com.
Speaker 1: J P Shadrick, Jeff Lockman, Press Taylor coming up in
Speaker 1: just a few minutes at his thoughts in the first
Speaker 1: few days talking football with Trevor Lawrence and the offense. Well,
Speaker 1: all this is happening and we're two weeks to the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft logs of course, UM, on the final runway
Speaker 1: before the number an overall pick, and the last second
Speaker 1: things are likely happening now, last security checks, the medical checks,
Speaker 1: a prospect visit, they're still going on. I think there's
Speaker 1: a little more time for that. You know, last year
Speaker 1: Jaguars had the number one pick for the first time
Speaker 1: ever and it's quarterback Trevor Lawrence and it was built
Speaker 1: for it. Far from an ideal rookie campaign for Trevor,
Speaker 1: but it's equally important this time another number one overall pick.
Speaker 1: You gotta have somebody that can handle it. I think
Speaker 1: when we learned this, not only I think through the
Speaker 1: course of the season with with the boucle of the
Speaker 1: Urban Myra regime, that Trevor Lawrence can can handle anything.
Speaker 1: And part of being uh first overall draft pick, Look,
Speaker 1: you always have that attached to you. And also you
Speaker 1: have this, uh, this level of expectation that is nobody
Speaker 1: else is going to have anything close to that because
Speaker 1: you always and I don't know say it's a stigma,
Speaker 1: but you have. Hey, look is the first overall draft pick. Okay,
Speaker 1: true was built to handle it. He handled it like
Speaker 1: a true professional. All the situations that came his way
Speaker 1: in the team's way last year that weren't very favorable
Speaker 1: for different reasons. I thought Trevor handled it beautifully, But
Speaker 1: this year, now you're you're looking at the first overall
Speaker 1: pick again, and when you evaluate all these prospects that
Speaker 1: are under consideration for the number one overall pick, you
Speaker 1: better make sure that you're evaluating the person and can
Speaker 1: they handle the scrutiny that's gonna come with being the
Speaker 1: first overall pick, Because if you're gonna pick somebody who's
Speaker 1: just happy to be there and it ain't gonna work.
Speaker 1: If you pick somebody that can't withstand some criticism, then
Speaker 1: that's not the person that you want. So I think
Speaker 1: you have to have and do a really mean because
Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons why the NFL has all
Speaker 1: these extended opportunities to interview these potential draft picks by
Speaker 1: bringing them in, by spending time with them at the combine,
Speaker 1: by vetting them. And that's probably the most important aspect
Speaker 1: is JP is not talking to the person directly and
Speaker 1: be in a combine setting because that's all scripted. When
Speaker 1: you bring them in, you get a little bit more
Speaker 1: of an opportunity and and and seeing your building. So
Speaker 1: there's a lack of comfort on the prospects side. Of
Speaker 1: things to maybe make you get a little bit more
Speaker 1: of a true feel on that person. But also, when
Speaker 1: I talk about the vetting process, you better make sure
Speaker 1: that you're talking to a lot of people that have
Speaker 1: been around that prospect for the last number of years.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to go back to his
Speaker 1: high school time, you should do that, because if you
Speaker 1: don't do that, then you end up having a situation
Speaker 1: to where you have a player which is not the
Speaker 1: kind of player that you want for your program. And
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna name any names that have been here
Speaker 1: in the past, but I'm sure people can figure that out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they can, because I mean there's there's I mean,
Speaker 1: the reality is the Jaguars have picked number one picks
Speaker 1: overall in its history. Okay, that the players were not
Speaker 1: properly vetted enough first round picks. Yes, let's first pick
Speaker 1: for the franchise. Yes with you. So, I mean that's
Speaker 1: when when you say vetting, you know, and that's the
Speaker 1: term that's uh, it's very uh. I guess you could
Speaker 1: say in a in a proper setting for a lot
Speaker 1: of politicians, you know, you gotta vet a candidate. Okay, Well, look,
Speaker 1: I mean these candidates for your franchise. I mean that's
Speaker 1: no different. I mean, you've got to have people that
Speaker 1: have an incredible high character, moral, morals, et cetera. Because
Speaker 1: that's what you're building your program around. And you've got
Speaker 1: an opportunity here with a new staff and a new
Speaker 1: general manager. Uh that is uh much more in charge
Speaker 1: than I think what he was last year. So look,
Speaker 1: do it right, make sure it's right. Today, the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: in a moment. Press Taylor, Jaguars offensive coordinator, joins us
Speaker 1: after this. It's Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network.
Speaker 1: I really get mean and it's really really cold. I
Speaker 1: mean similar honestly to to coach Devil as far as demeanor,
Speaker 1: really calm, never gets too higher, too low. Um. So
Speaker 1: I really like that. It's the type of guy I
Speaker 1: could be around. And then as far as just offensively
Speaker 1: brings some different things to the table. Obviously we haven't
Speaker 1: been he got along and only when he started on Monday,
Speaker 1: so I can't say too much right now, but it's
Speaker 1: really like the way he thinks about things and just
Speaker 1: how he's offense is so complimentary, um, and just how
Speaker 1: he schemes things up. I think it's see does a
Speaker 1: really good job of finding the leak points of defensives
Speaker 1: and exposing them, and I just think he's really smart
Speaker 1: and being able to talk to him, I think we
Speaker 1: aligned pretty well and we're what we're on the same day.
Speaker 1: That's Trevor Lawrence, of course, Jaguars quarterback. Welcome back. It's
Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour on a Thursday afternoon. J P. Chadwick
Speaker 1: with you, Jeff log him in back in with us
Speaker 1: here in a few minutes. And that's the quarterback talking
Speaker 1: about offensive coordinator Press Taylor who joins us in studio. Now,
Speaker 1: it's some some nice words from the QB. What's up?
Speaker 1: Coach paid him to say that? Did you really? The
Speaker 1: check cleared? That's good news. So all right, so let's
Speaker 1: start with that. The calm demeanor, the poise, the not streaming,
Speaker 1: you're not that's not your style, and that fits right
Speaker 1: in apparently with the quarterback. That relationship obviously is key
Speaker 1: for the success around here, right of course. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's all about putting all our guys in the best
Speaker 1: position to succeed. But obviously that starts with the quarterback.
Speaker 1: A lot of times, when your quarterbacks playing well, everybody
Speaker 1: around him is playing well. Um, and that that's given
Speaker 1: him things that he likes, put in a position where
Speaker 1: he understands, and we can come up with all sorts
Speaker 1: of football players. But if he don't love it, don't
Speaker 1: believe in it, it's probably not gonna work out. So
Speaker 1: we want to make sure we're in lockstep with him
Speaker 1: as we build this thing. You know, actually for uh
Speaker 1: started to talk football this week for the first time.
Speaker 1: Maybe you've met him before, but you actually get into
Speaker 1: the xs and ohs this week with the offseason program
Speaker 1: finally there. What's the first thing that stands out about
Speaker 1: Trevor when you sit down in a football meeting room
Speaker 1: with him. He's very mature. He ask and a lot
Speaker 1: of times, you know, we haven't had a lot of
Speaker 1: football conversations, but he asked great questions, so that that's
Speaker 1: always one of the things that you know he's engaged.
Speaker 1: You know, you can kind of tell by the questions
Speaker 1: that a guy asked of kind of whether he likes it,
Speaker 1: where he's tracking, how he sees it, um and he
Speaker 1: he and really all the quarterbacks, Jake and c J.
Speaker 1: They've done a great job with the questions they asked,
Speaker 1: the response they're given, the engagement they're given. So it's exciting.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of offensive minds around here.
Speaker 1: Obviously the head coach, you've been with him for a
Speaker 1: long time in Philly, UM Mike McCoy has been in
Speaker 1: the league for a long time as a head coach.
Speaker 1: Jim Bob Cooter, the passing game coordinator, crafting all those
Speaker 1: ideas and philosophies together as one with the quarterbacks involved,
Speaker 1: I'm sure as well. Um, you know you've been in
Speaker 1: all those roles though, quality control guy, assistant quarterback coach,
Speaker 1: QB coach, pass you've done all these things. How does
Speaker 1: that help you take in information from all different types
Speaker 1: of mindsets? Yeah, I mean, I know. I think part
Speaker 1: of it is, like, I know how I liked being
Speaker 1: treated in each of those roles, and and and what
Speaker 1: kind of input I could provide and things like that.
Speaker 1: So part of it's being clear in your communication with
Speaker 1: what your expectation is for everybody. And and then at
Speaker 1: the on top of that, with a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: former quarterbacks and guys that have coach quarterbacks, have been
Speaker 1: coordinators in this league, a lot of it's everybody putting
Speaker 1: their egos side and realizing we we don't need to
Speaker 1: do what we all did in the past. This is
Speaker 1: about putting our guys in the best position to create
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville offense. And that's what we're trying to do.
Speaker 1: Press Taylor with US Jaguars offensive coordinator, you're balancing building
Speaker 1: the scheme. But you know free agency was here still
Speaker 1: is it never really ends, the draft is coming up.
Speaker 1: You know. That's all after arriving in like early February.
Speaker 1: It's not a lot of time to put all this together.
Speaker 1: How do you balance all the time for all three
Speaker 1: of those things? That's what I mean. At times it
Speaker 1: feels like it's in season schedule where we're just kind
Speaker 1: of here all day. That's the good and the bad
Speaker 1: of this. This business necessarily is like when you do
Speaker 1: have a sudden move like this, which a lot of us,
Speaker 1: we all moved in from other places. Your family's kind
Speaker 1: of left behind. Now the bad part of that, you're
Speaker 1: out with your family, which we all enjoy in the offseason.
Speaker 1: That's the great part about life in the NFL. But
Speaker 1: it gives you the ability. Then you come in early,
Speaker 1: you stay late. We get a chance to kind of
Speaker 1: make up that ground with that time where maybe it's
Speaker 1: you know, football in the morning, personal in the afternoon,
Speaker 1: playing for the next day at night. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of been the schedule we've all kind of worked off
Speaker 1: since we kind of got here, really kind of hit
Speaker 1: the ground running when the players get here. That's the
Speaker 1: first thing you notice when you're digging into the Jaguars
Speaker 1: tape from a year ago. Obviously, you know, we're in
Speaker 1: the division not looking at the Jags offense as much.
Speaker 1: On the other side with Indy last year, when you
Speaker 1: first slipped on the Jaguars offense, what stood out? What
Speaker 1: did you inherit as an offensive coordinator? Part of it
Speaker 1: on good and bad you get a chance to evaluate
Speaker 1: a lot of guys. But there's a lot of guys
Speaker 1: on the tape. You know, you saw a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that missed time with injuries and things like that
Speaker 1: that really affected a lot of things that it hurts
Speaker 1: the chemistry of some things as you go, but it
Speaker 1: gives guys good experience, gives us a chance to evaluate
Speaker 1: more actual game tape of some of these guys. But
Speaker 1: there's a lot of talent. There's a lot of young talent,
Speaker 1: which is exciting, you know, obviously starting with Trevor Um,
Speaker 1: but the pieces around there is young talent that we're
Speaker 1: excited to work with and look forward to press Taylor
Speaker 1: with us. You mentioned the family settled in, everybody around
Speaker 1: everybody here, I mean, it's a whirlwind. In a month
Speaker 1: and a half two months time, we're finally settled in.
Speaker 1: So we got the keys to our houses, last week
Speaker 1: and finally started moving in. So now it's I work
Speaker 1: all day, I go home, and I work all night
Speaker 1: at home trying to get boxes out and do all
Speaker 1: that type stuff. But definitely makes it life a little
Speaker 1: bit better when your families around. It never ends, of course,
Speaker 1: that the work never ends, that's for sure. This is
Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour on tinton X l j P Shadrick
Speaker 1: Jeff Lagman back in a moment. Offensive coordinator Press Taylor
Speaker 1: joining us now free agent editions. Let's go through some
Speaker 1: of these guys because we've we've talked about them in
Speaker 1: so many different formats here, but it's nice to hear
Speaker 1: it from the guy who's putting the offense together. And
Speaker 1: let's start off with Christian Kirk thirty seven million guaranteed dollars.
Speaker 1: But the versatility, he said it in his opening press conference. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm not just a slot receiver. I'm here to do
Speaker 1: a lot of different things. What can he bring for
Speaker 1: your offense? Yeah, I think that's the biggest thing. It's
Speaker 1: the versatility of we can align them all over the formation.
Speaker 1: He can do a number of different things. He can
Speaker 1: win on the outside. He's a great decision maker with
Speaker 1: great speed, which you know, you don't always hear that
Speaker 1: about receivers being great decision makers, but he really is.
Speaker 1: So you can put them in then in positions to
Speaker 1: be able to adjust things and get on the same
Speaker 1: page with Trevor Um. You know, probably something I didn't
Speaker 1: know about him was his demeanor. As we've been around
Speaker 1: each other for a week, He's got a great demeanor
Speaker 1: about himself. He again asked great questions similar to the quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: where I think that makes up for a lot of
Speaker 1: the less time on the grass, where they have the
Speaker 1: ability to just sit and communicate in a meeting room
Speaker 1: and get on the same page. And he brings that element.
Speaker 1: He brings a big plays, dynamic player. He's good with
Speaker 1: the ball in his hands. He's able to win a
Speaker 1: number of different ways, which is intriguing for us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever heard decision maker used in
Speaker 1: a wide receiver. How do you know that? How do
Speaker 1: you find that out about a guy? Part of that's
Speaker 1: the way he talks the questions. He asked, like I'm saying,
Speaker 1: you know, versus this coverage, can I adjust this way?
Speaker 1: Verse that? Would you expect me to do this? What
Speaker 1: does Trevor. Want you know, he's asked those type of
Speaker 1: questions where it makes you confident and Okay, this guy's
Speaker 1: picking it up. And we knew a lot of that
Speaker 1: when we dug into him throughout the free agency period.
Speaker 1: Za Jones a guy who has been a couple of
Speaker 1: different places in the league. We've seen some highlights out
Speaker 1: of him too. What do you think so far? A
Speaker 1: few days into the offseason program? Za is a similar
Speaker 1: guys A is extremely cerebral. Another one that asked great
Speaker 1: questions and that's kind of gonna be the core with
Speaker 1: a lot of guys we talked about the high character
Speaker 1: guys love football. This is a little bit of a theme, um.
Speaker 1: And that's not by accident. So these are guys that
Speaker 1: that we we kind of know from we've talked to.
Speaker 1: We researched these guys through players that they played with,
Speaker 1: coaches that coached them, college coaches that coached him. UM.
Speaker 1: So we have a good feel for what we're getting
Speaker 1: out of these guys. Uh And Zay has done nothing
Speaker 1: to disappoint Das. He's a great teammate. He's done a
Speaker 1: great job early on in this process is getting to
Speaker 1: know everybody and getting to learn some things. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the tight end room. You know, I was thinking
Speaker 1: about this earlier today before we're about to do this conversation.
Speaker 1: I guess it was around right the Patriots got Gronk
Speaker 1: and Hernandez and that same draft together. And yes, there
Speaker 1: had been really good tight ends in the league before that,
Speaker 1: but that combination kind of change the mindset of a
Speaker 1: lot of offensive thinking around the NFL because of the
Speaker 1: success of that crew. Not calling this crew that, but
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram comes in. He got Dan Arnold, two guys
Speaker 1: that can go out and catch the football. Having that
Speaker 1: option as a quarterback, n OC has to help. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: It gives you the ability to create matchups and that's
Speaker 1: what we're looking for. When we put Evan Inger on
Speaker 1: the field, who's going to cover him? Do you do
Speaker 1: you need to bring in the lighter body. Do you
Speaker 1: put a nickel on him? Do you put a safety
Speaker 1: on him? Do you put a linebacker on him? Which
Speaker 1: we would ask for if you get to pick um.
Speaker 1: But Evan kind of brings that with his his his
Speaker 1: speed overall first and foremost. But he's got he again,
Speaker 1: He's got a guy that's got a lot in his
Speaker 1: body in terms of the wiggle and the decision making,
Speaker 1: the ability to make the option routes, the read routes
Speaker 1: stretched stretched down the field, does a great job with
Speaker 1: the football in his hands. You know, if you just
Speaker 1: get him out, whether it's a check down, a route,
Speaker 1: whatever that may be, you get a chance to see
Speaker 1: that speed and space, which we're looking to do all
Speaker 1: the time. Press Taylor with us and we'll finish in
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Brandon Sheriff longtime pro of course in Washington,
Speaker 1: perennial All Pro and Pro Bowl player, and just brings
Speaker 1: that kind of attitude I think to that room, right
Speaker 1: and that's a big part of it is we we
Speaker 1: know we're getting in the room. Obviously, UH coach rosher
Speaker 1: had the ability to work with Brandon when they were
Speaker 1: in Washington together, so he could vouch for the character
Speaker 1: and the leadership and it was really off the charts.
Speaker 1: He kind of went on and on about it. And
Speaker 1: then obviously the talent on tape, the Pro Bowls, the
Speaker 1: for all that stuff. He's an incredible talent um. You know,
Speaker 1: somebody that we look forward to adding incorporating in our
Speaker 1: offense as we go. Press final thoughts with you here
Speaker 1: in your past, you're kind of credited for some of
Speaker 1: the key plays in the Eagles run. We've known that
Speaker 1: from the old days, right, different role back then. You're
Speaker 1: now the offensive coordinator. Do you still try to dig
Speaker 1: and find new ways, new plays, steal ideas from college proteins?
Speaker 1: Is that still in your workflow? How much football do
Speaker 1: you watch on a regular basis otherwise beyond Jaguars tape
Speaker 1: and all that, and or does that come in a
Speaker 1: natural progression for an offense and your personnel? Yeah? Um,
Speaker 1: we're always looking for what we think fits us. So
Speaker 1: if you see a route on tape and Okay, that's
Speaker 1: a great route, do we have a guy that could
Speaker 1: do that, that would fitness skill set? Does it fit
Speaker 1: everything else around that we're doing? Um? How expensive is it?
Speaker 1: If it is something unique? That's one of the things
Speaker 1: we'll talk about a lot is how expensive is this?
Speaker 1: Do we want to invest in new ideas that are
Speaker 1: gonna cost a lot of time that we're not going
Speaker 1: to get a lot of return on. So you spend
Speaker 1: a lot of time and it's the things we're comfortable with,
Speaker 1: but the things that we feel like our players can
Speaker 1: do really well. Um, And we can teach really well,
Speaker 1: we can explain, we have evidence of but you really
Speaker 1: you want to know what you're talking about. Obviously for
Speaker 1: the guys you want you have to be able to
Speaker 1: prove to them that you can put them in position
Speaker 1: succeed and then and then giving things that they do
Speaker 1: really well. All right, you're what four days in now
Speaker 1: to the offseason program? Are you on track? What's coming
Speaker 1: up the next week or so? And and take us
Speaker 1: through just a normal day in the office right now, yeah,
Speaker 1: right right now. So it starts, you know, players get
Speaker 1: in here about nine o'clock. Sometimes we have a team meeting,
Speaker 1: sometimes we don't. They get in there. They got the
Speaker 1: ability to lift and then we have the ability to
Speaker 1: meet with them. They go out and run with the
Speaker 1: strength coaches, but in this phase one portion we're not
Speaker 1: allowed to go on the grass with them yet. So
Speaker 1: it's actually great in terms of the teaching progression of
Speaker 1: things where we get a chance to sit in a
Speaker 1: calm environment. There is no pressure to go out and
Speaker 1: perform on this play two hours later in practice right now,
Speaker 1: So you get a chance to ask a lot of
Speaker 1: questions to to see what their retention is on things.
Speaker 1: But it's really it's a pretty good process in terms
Speaker 1: of the progression of things and how we can teach
Speaker 1: our offense and we learn going forward. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I can just see it in your face. You can't
Speaker 1: wait to get on the ground down sunny flward or too.
Speaker 1: I want to get outside. Hey, Press, thanks for the time.
Speaker 1: We really appreciate it. Man. Good luck to you. Thank you.
Speaker 1: We'll see you down the line. Press Taylor with us,
Speaker 1: the Jaguars are future focus. Stand ready for a new
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Speaker 1: Jeff Lagerman returns in a moment, it's Jaguars Happy Hour
Speaker 1: on the Jaguars Digital Network. Good morning. Our goals this
Speaker 1: season should be out of reach, but never out of sight.
Speaker 1: My job is to put these goals right in front
Speaker 1: of us, and so we're striving and attaining and we're
Speaker 1: trying to go after these goals every single day. Put
Speaker 1: it in your head right now that we plan on
Speaker 1: planning in January and February. That is a teaser for
Speaker 1: chapter two of the Hunt. It airs tonight seven o'clock
Speaker 1: on the Jaguars YouTube channel. That from the first team
Speaker 1: meeting of the off season program, and of course head
Speaker 1: coach Doug Peterson in front of the room. Welcome back
Speaker 1: at Jaguars Happy Hour, j P. Shadrick, Jeff Logaman back
Speaker 1: with us now. Our thanks to Press Taylor, Jaguar's offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: for spending some time today. It's a busy time lot
Speaker 1: going on draft, two weeks away, free agency, the players
Speaker 1: are in the off season programs here, they're trying to
Speaker 1: build and craft this offense together. But it was nice
Speaker 1: of him to take a few minutes today. What stood
Speaker 1: out well a couple of couple of things. One, remember
Speaker 1: that they're behind the eight ball a little bit. Okay,
Speaker 1: they got a late start because it's a new staff.
Speaker 1: And then also, uh, it was one of the later
Speaker 1: staffs that was put together. So I don't want to
Speaker 1: say they're playing catch up, but uh, maybe in some
Speaker 1: cases they are so. But I think the one thing
Speaker 1: that stood out to me was was Press talked about
Speaker 1: how much time are you gonna invest in something to
Speaker 1: get what in return? As an offensive play caller. And
Speaker 1: I thought that that was very telling because you want
Speaker 1: to make sure that you're efficient with your time him
Speaker 1: and making sure that okay, let's not spend thirty hours
Speaker 1: and trying to design this one play that we're gonna
Speaker 1: use maybe one time through the season. And I think
Speaker 1: that that's very smart you want to make it because
Speaker 1: here's the thing all of this that we're talking about about,
Speaker 1: where the players are at right now, and that Okay,
Speaker 1: they come in, they can't go out on the coaches
Speaker 1: can't go on the grass with the players. That has
Speaker 1: to be on their own. Okay, they have a little
Speaker 1: bit of a meeting. It's all very limited because of
Speaker 1: the collectively bargained rules and so there's only so much time.
Speaker 1: So you have to make sure that you have an
Speaker 1: economical way of navigating your time frame as coaching staff,
Speaker 1: especially when you have a new staff and you're gonna
Speaker 1: be installing a completely new system. So I think that
Speaker 1: was very smart on his part to talk about the
Speaker 1: amount invested in what you can actually potentially get in
Speaker 1: return here. And Trevor Lawrence talked about it earlier this week.
Speaker 1: You know, he likes to demeanor is calm demeanor. Even
Speaker 1: everybody's calm JP and he walks in the room and okay,
Speaker 1: that makes sense. But when when it gets real, comes
Speaker 1: turn in a billy Bob screamer, you know, when it
Speaker 1: comes to September, October, November. I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's calm. Calm demeanors are always good for
Speaker 1: a quarterback because to play the position of quarterback. Could
Speaker 1: you imagine if last year's defensive line coach we're coaching
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. Okay, what was his name? Uh, Joe Cullen?
Speaker 1: Who was He was a coordinator who was very loud.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine Joe Collin trying to coach quarterbacks. I mean,
Speaker 1: he would do a fine job. But I mean it's
Speaker 1: just it's it's different. I mean, quarterback, you've got to
Speaker 1: be able to make great decisions, and you've got to
Speaker 1: be able to stay calm. Your mind has to work.
Speaker 1: You have to have a coach that kind of emanates
Speaker 1: that calmness about him so that I can be I guess,
Speaker 1: duplicated by the quarterback on game day. So yeah, so
Speaker 1: that's a good fit. I like what Trevor said. I
Speaker 1: also like what Trevor said as far as about how
Speaker 1: things are working, and uh and press Taylor. I think
Speaker 1: is gonna be really good for Trevor. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a good fit. I think the head coach
Speaker 1: is a good fit when it comes to making all
Speaker 1: of this work. And I think Doug Peterson obviously was
Speaker 1: the most important thing here in this hiring cycle for
Speaker 1: this football team, and he's done. I think he's done
Speaker 1: a masterful job of putting together a really strong offensive staff,
Speaker 1: really strong. Tosh Lapoy was his name, by the way,
Speaker 1: from last year. He's like, I just wanted to go
Speaker 1: over and walk over to him and practices sometimes and go,
Speaker 1: Tosh man, just just to take do you have blood
Speaker 1: pressure medicine? Can I get you some? I mean, come on, man,
Speaker 1: let's hear from Shaquille Griffin. He spoke with the media
Speaker 1: earlier this week and has been around the league a
Speaker 1: few years now. Obviously came in free agency last year
Speaker 1: and was asked about the difference from the coaching staff
Speaker 1: from last year to now get a chance to be
Speaker 1: with coaches who have experience in the league. You know,
Speaker 1: the first day we met with coaching and people are saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was in the league ten years, eleven years, teen years,
Speaker 1: twelve years they have actually played. That's amazing to me.
Speaker 1: And that's the person who can understand anything that I
Speaker 1: might see or go through or maybe in the future
Speaker 1: that can help me out. So I'll like the atmosphere
Speaker 1: is different because it's so relatable. Yeah, it certainly is.
Speaker 1: And all the assistant coaches have that. The Shade Townshend
Speaker 1: as the cornerbacks coach, he has that. Certainly played in
Speaker 1: the league for a long long time. And then that's
Speaker 1: that's a big thing. When you have to stand in
Speaker 1: front of that room, you have you can relate to
Speaker 1: pretty much anyone. It gets their attention. But then after
Speaker 1: you have gotten their attention as a coach, you have
Speaker 1: to give them substance. But there's no question that a
Speaker 1: lot of the things that a player may go through,
Speaker 1: the coach can relate to that's played the game. And
Speaker 1: I think that matters just as far as relating to
Speaker 1: the players. And when it comes to mess the gene
Speaker 1: and uh and and and building a relationship, I think
Speaker 1: all of that helps. But again I'm gonna say this again,
Speaker 1: you have to be able to show the player that
Speaker 1: you can help them become a better player. If you're
Speaker 1: a former player and you're crappy coach, okay, you're gonna
Speaker 1: eventually be viewed as a crappy coach that can't help
Speaker 1: me play football better than what I'm playing right now,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't become of any use to a player.
Speaker 1: So it opens the door. Initially, it cracks the door open,
Speaker 1: but then the information, the teachings and everything else have
Speaker 1: to cast to keep that door open. Looking forward to
Speaker 1: seeing the cornerback room. By the way, Darius Williams on
Speaker 1: one side, Shaq Griffin, Tyson Campbell was on Drivetime earlier
Speaker 1: this week. Well, I think I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: interesting to see how they formulate a plan for these
Speaker 1: three guys and beyond. I mean, I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: to train all those in the mix. I mean it's
Speaker 1: I don't want to, you know, cut anybody out here.
Speaker 1: But the obvious question is, Okay, you have a big
Speaker 1: free Asian acquisition last year, you have a big free
Speaker 1: Asian acquisition. This year, you have a promising young draft
Speaker 1: pick from last year. How do you make these three
Speaker 1: guys be the most productive for this football team? And
Speaker 1: that's what the coach's responsibility is and they've got to
Speaker 1: find a way to make these personalities in these traits
Speaker 1: work for this defense, because everybody has a trait that
Speaker 1: that can help a defense and just it's real quick.
Speaker 1: I think that's always what has made Bill Belichick such
Speaker 1: a great coach, and that he can find guys that
Speaker 1: have a couple of traits that can help a football
Speaker 1: team win in a very defined role. He's not looking
Speaker 1: for a guy that's going to eventually be a different
Speaker 1: role player three or four years away from the current
Speaker 1: moment that we're in. He he finds guys that, hey,
Speaker 1: this guy, he can fill this role this year and
Speaker 1: do it very well. And I think that's what you
Speaker 1: have to be able to do to be successful as
Speaker 1: coaching stuff. Find out what the players do well and
Speaker 1: then to find that role and allow them to thrive
Speaker 1: in that role. Let's come back in a moment. We'll
Speaker 1: take a live look outside at the Football Performance Center.
Speaker 1: There's a wall going on. I saw some center blocks JP. Yes,
Speaker 1: the walls are going up on Jaguars dot com and
Speaker 1: or Jaguars social channels. You'll see that in a moment.
Speaker 1: We'll go around the NFL. Also, it's Jaguars Happy Hour
Speaker 1: on the Jaguars Digital Network. Either also was like, now
Speaker 1: I'm glad I don't have to go to No. Not definitely,
Speaker 1: just that's just a human element of it. Uh, just
Speaker 1: center results. You're definitely like if there was any year
Speaker 1: to miss, I missed a great one. That is Travis
Speaker 1: et In Junior earlier this week quote of the week
Speaker 1: so far and welcome back Jaguars Happy Hour. We take
Speaker 1: a live look outside if you're watching on Jaguars dot com,
Speaker 1: Jags social media, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, the footprint of the
Speaker 1: Football Performance Center and there is concrete going yes down
Speaker 1: as foundation, but concrete wall going up. Plugs that would
Speaker 1: be center block. The center block wall is going up.
Speaker 1: That's kind of in the right hand sign of your picture.
Speaker 1: There that little gray box. He looking things that center blocks.
Speaker 1: And it's taller than it looks on the screen, so
Speaker 1: it actually looks like a construction site now instead of
Speaker 1: a motocross park. Right the footprint on the former UM
Speaker 1: practice field site, which before that was Wolfson Park. I
Speaker 1: wonder if the guy and the bulldozer would let me
Speaker 1: drive that for a little while. Are you qualified you
Speaker 1: have a license for that thing? No? But I can
Speaker 1: drive a bulldozer, believe it or not, but not on
Speaker 1: this ground. You can. No. No, no, that a license. No,
Speaker 1: that's against the That's like, that's like when you were
Speaker 1: a kid, j P. Did you not have talk that
Speaker 1: a stick or where they you had metal ones? You
Speaker 1: must have gotten some hand me down. They were they
Speaker 1: were I don't know. I was too young to know
Speaker 1: where they came from. Joe had titanium steel like old
Speaker 1: school red iron steel Tonka toy trucks. I had just
Speaker 1: a regular metal Tonka toy truck. You're gonna like this.
Speaker 1: I had a Tonka truck, big metal. It was a
Speaker 1: car carrier with four nineteen Corvettes. That's where were ruined
Speaker 1: ever since then. Why that explains a lot. Actually, that's
Speaker 1: where your problems started. Joe. How many Corvettes have you
Speaker 1: own in your lifetime? Real quick? Because this is why
Speaker 1: there's a reason why we're saying that the next one
Speaker 1: will be number nine? Good lord, wow, let's go around
Speaker 1: and might have a problem. See that's that's like brainwashing.
Speaker 1: As a child, somebody gave you those Tonka Troy trucks
Speaker 1: with the Corvette carriers, and you were ruined ever since well,
Speaker 1: at least he you know, he's picking nice He could
Speaker 1: have picked Hugos. I mean he's picking corvettes now that
Speaker 1: JP The Hugos would have been for the for the
Speaker 1: monster trucks to drive over. The talk of trucks to
Speaker 1: drive over, not to be carrying them. Let's go around
Speaker 1: the National Football League and get into the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray news came out today. I'm not really news,
Speaker 1: but he's in the headlines. At least he's not expected
Speaker 1: to play for the Cardinals without a new contract. He's
Speaker 1: doing about five million dollars this year, and with all
Speaker 1: the money flying around the NFL with quarterbacks as of late,
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray apparently thinks he should have some of that.
Speaker 1: Isn't it funny how some guys well do this, I
Speaker 1: guess social media protests. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: off all of the likeness of the Arizona Cardinals away
Speaker 1: from my Instagram and Twitter account because I'm mad I
Speaker 1: need a new contract. I mean, it's look, it's business, Okay,
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna Everything happens in a in a proper time frame. Okay,
Speaker 1: do you think that taking all names and likenesses of
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals off of your Instagram account is gonna
Speaker 1: sway the ownership of the Arizona Cardinals saying, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: we can't have that. Give me a break. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: do it the right way, be a pro. What are
Speaker 1: they gonna do? They don't have to give him anything.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the reality, isn't. Here's the thing. At
Speaker 1: the end of the season last year, he was not
Speaker 1: very good. Although he was one of the most exciting
Speaker 1: quarterbacks by far in the early part of the season,
Speaker 1: the performance waned. So win a playoff game. Be about
Speaker 1: performance and leadership and everything else. Everything else will take
Speaker 1: care of itself. You don't need to have all these
Speaker 1: other trumped up protest okay to to earn yourself a
Speaker 1: new contract. You earned that new contract and that will come.
Speaker 1: Speaking of a guy who has done it the right
Speaker 1: way over the years and signed a three year extension
Speaker 1: with the Las Vegas Raiders Derek Carr. He was scheduled
Speaker 1: to make twenty one million this season. That's now twenty
Speaker 1: four this season. The extension kicks in in twenty three.
Speaker 1: He'll be guaranteed another forty plus million. Then reported total
Speaker 1: value is a hundred and twenty one and a half
Speaker 1: million dollars went to the playoffs last year, and that
Speaker 1: is a it's a crazy division now they're trying to
Speaker 1: keep pace. Car gives them stability at the position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and look, uh, I think I think some people
Speaker 1: might have a pretty strong opinion to you and should
Speaker 1: you have given that extension to him? Uh? But uh,
Speaker 1: he didn't. Look, they've got Josh McDaniels there now, and
Speaker 1: they've believe very strongly in him. Can he do that?
Speaker 1: Did he take all the Las Vegas Raiders names and
Speaker 1: likenesses off of his Twitter kind of guests? No? I
Speaker 1: don't think he's that kind of but it worked out
Speaker 1: for somehow. It's amazing. Oh man, same draft class, by
Speaker 1: the way, is Blake Bortles. So he's been around for
Speaker 1: a long time with the boat. Yes, they came through
Speaker 1: here on like the same day. On prospects. What round?
Speaker 1: What round is Derek? Uh? He was pretty high, I think,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't first round. I don't remember exactly what
Speaker 1: I thought he was the second round. Yeah. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: it's interesting. And um, and look, I'm not saying anything
Speaker 1: to criticize Blake portals. But boy, if you had been
Speaker 1: able to switch the quarterback pick out would have been
Speaker 1: vastly different. At thirty sixth overall for yeah, so top
Speaker 1: of the second round. Yeah. Look, he's a good quarterback,
Speaker 1: and um, I think under the right tutelage, I think
Speaker 1: he can win. Is he a guy that you sit
Speaker 1: there and you go, hey, look we're we're all in
Speaker 1: with him. No, I think you're still one of those
Speaker 1: guys that you still continue to shop. Okay, well, another
Speaker 1: guy that wants to be shopped right now, but isn't
Speaker 1: as of this moment as Baker Mayfield. He says he
Speaker 1: feels quote disrespected about how it ended in Cleveland. Quote
Speaker 1: here's the quote from a podcast this week. One because
Speaker 1: I was told one thing and they completely did another.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm in the middle of right now. I
Speaker 1: got my taste of it because I've had four different
Speaker 1: head coaches in four years, a bunch of different coordinators.
Speaker 1: End quote. He's still on the roster in Cleveland, and
Speaker 1: he also said that Seattle is the most likely option,
Speaker 1: though that may not be his decision. Seattle just signed
Speaker 1: Geno Smith to one year today. I mean, does that
Speaker 1: mean that Banker is gonna be uh or have a
Speaker 1: chance to go to Seattle. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: Did they do them wrong? What does it matter? Look,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. I mean that. I think what you
Speaker 1: just said right there is the most important thing, because
Speaker 1: it does not matter. I mean as a as a
Speaker 1: player that played hurt all year for the team and
Speaker 1: for the organization, does he have a right to be upset? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because he did play hurt and where a lot of
Speaker 1: other players or some other players might not have. So
Speaker 1: does a player feel disrespected about the treatment that he's
Speaker 1: received since then after he sacrificed his body for the
Speaker 1: team this past year. I totally understand his point. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, JP, You're right, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter. So it's about business.
Speaker 1: And they signed Deshaun Watson to a historic contract for
Speaker 1: a guy that has a lot of questions in his
Speaker 1: in his past and in the background, and also questions
Speaker 1: about his future. Is that the right thing that the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns ownership did. I don't think so, but uh,
Speaker 1: but it is what it is. And at some point
Speaker 1: the Browns will trade Baker Mayfield when it benefits them.
Speaker 1: The most and unfortunately that's the nature of the business.
Speaker 1: And at some point Baker Mayfield, if he plays well enough,
Speaker 1: then he will hold the cards. And but right now
Speaker 1: a rookie contract, not great performance, is coming off injury,
Speaker 1: and a team that has just signed a guy to
Speaker 1: a record contract, he just has to wait and buy
Speaker 1: his time. Gino Smith. By the way, as you mentioned
Speaker 1: that one year contract, and was it not a huge
Speaker 1: It's not a bunch of money. He's in there. He
Speaker 1: brought in there to compete. They got he's got some
Speaker 1: off field issues. He had suspicion of d u I
Speaker 1: after a week eighteen in January, and he's got some
Speaker 1: court stuff coming. And they got Andrew Locke, the former
Speaker 1: Broncos quarterback as far as the trade that they had.
Speaker 1: So they've got some guys that are gonna be in
Speaker 1: there competing. Could they bring Baker Mayfield into that and
Speaker 1: and let him let him compete. I don't see why not.
Speaker 1: The the Seahawks certainly had the room. Look they they
Speaker 1: clean house now, I mean, Russell Wilson gone, Bobby Wagner gone,
Speaker 1: and they've got they've got they've got the cap room
Speaker 1: to be able to make some additional decisions at that
Speaker 1: quarterback position because the guy that they have, it's not
Speaker 1: like they're costing him a ton of money. They're not
Speaker 1: paying anybody over twenty million or I don't even know
Speaker 1: what the highest pay got because lock still on a
Speaker 1: rookie contract. Russell will Um, not Russell Wilson, but Gino
Speaker 1: Smith is probably on a one year, seven million deal.
Speaker 1: It might not be that much. So it's not like
Speaker 1: it's gonna be prohibitive now if all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they trade for Baker Mayfield. Stop me if you've heard
Speaker 1: this before, Logs, but the Washington Commanders are in the
Speaker 1: news for something other than football. The U. S. House
Speaker 1: of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reforms sent a letter
Speaker 1: to the Federal Trade Commission saying the Commanders and owner
Speaker 1: Dan Snyder quote may have engaged in a troubling, long running,
Speaker 1: and potentially unlawful pattern of financial conduct that victimized thousands
Speaker 1: of team fans and the National Football League and quote
Speaker 1: the Washington Post was the first to report withholding security
Speaker 1: deposits on premium seating and using the money for their purposes.
Speaker 1: They say the team under reported ticket revenue and what
Speaker 1: at times falsely claim a portion of revenue came from
Speaker 1: special events instead of games. There's allegations of two sets
Speaker 1: of books. This of course goes to the salary cap
Speaker 1: as well that there's some issues that could come from
Speaker 1: the p A on this, and it's just another story
Speaker 1: in a line of long stories. Well I think this
Speaker 1: is uh a big one them. Well, all of this
Speaker 1: is pointing to what's going to be the death blow
Speaker 1: for the current ownership situation in Washington. A couple of things. One,
Speaker 1: class action lawsuits are going to be filed by the consumers,
Speaker 1: the people that had these uh large sums of money
Speaker 1: essentially given to the teams for their luxury seating and
Speaker 1: then not refunded. They were trying to find creative ways
Speaker 1: to not give it back. There will be a class
Speaker 1: action lawsuit for that. And then when you start taking
Speaker 1: food off of the table of family, that's a major problem.
Speaker 1: And when I see food off of the table for family,
Speaker 1: their thirty one other owners in the National Football And
Speaker 1: if this is even remotely close to being truthful that
Speaker 1: they had two sets of books to to find ways
Speaker 1: to funnel money away from the shared revenue aspect, Daniel
Speaker 1: Snyder's done he has done the big story certainly. Um,
Speaker 1: your dad's here today in town. Good to see you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us and from Texas Lodge Studio audience.
Speaker 1: Mr Logovan in here tonight. Our thanks to Joe Fortunado,
Speaker 1: Brent Reeber on the video side, and offensive coordinator Press
Speaker 1: Taylor joined us tonight. Thank you for your time for
Speaker 1: Jeff Logoman, I'm JP Shadrick. We will catch you next time.
Speaker 1: It's Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network.