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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, March twelfth. This is Jaguars Happy Hour.

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Speaker 2: And now a guy willing to bring you Jaguars information,

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Speaker 2: analysis and entertainment ending a physical of course, Jay p

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Speaker 2: Check It's always pending.

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Speaker 1: Welcome in.

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Speaker 3: It is Jaguars Happy Hour from the Hundai studios at

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Speaker 3: the Miller Electric Center. Test drive a new Hyundai today

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Speaker 3: only at your local Hondai dealer. Busy show coming up

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Speaker 3: on Thursday March twelfth. The new league year is here

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Speaker 3: as of yesterday. At four o'clock, we'll get a free

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Speaker 3: agency update from general manager James Gladstone. He'll join us

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Speaker 3: in the studio live momentarily. Coach Mark Ductor with us today,

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Speaker 3: will break in all the Jaguars re signings and we'll

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Speaker 3: go around the NFL. We'll continue our look through the

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Speaker 3: AFC South. We'll wrap it up today with Titans announcer

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Speaker 3: Taylor is Zarzer and see what the heck the Titans

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Speaker 3: have done, which has been a lot ree agency as well.

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Speaker 3: We're on ten tex l AM, Jaguars dot Com and

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Speaker 3: Jaguars YouTube JP. Shadwick with you, Jeff log him out

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Speaker 3: this week. Former Jags linebackers coach Mark Duffner is in.

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Speaker 1: Hey, coach, Hey, good to be with you.

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Speaker 4: I'm active right now too in free agency card. Oh

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Speaker 4: I am So you're out there, Well, I'm I'm available. No,

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Speaker 4: I haven't gotten any calls yet at at any rate,

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Speaker 4: I am available.

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Speaker 1: Hey, that's okay. We're glad you're here. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: coming in. Very privileged to be with you that you know.

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Speaker 3: We had you on on Thursdays throughout the season on

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Speaker 3: this Happy Hour program and that was a real highlight.

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Speaker 1: I think of the whole season.

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Speaker 4: It was a highlight. Respective let me say a highlight

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Speaker 4: for me. It was a pleasure to be here and

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Speaker 4: to be with you guys and watch the continued progress

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Speaker 4: and success that the Jaguars put forth.

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Speaker 1: It was very very special. I'm very appreciated for it.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna have GM James Gladstone come in here in

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Speaker 3: just a few moments. He's wrapping up with the media

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Speaker 3: right now on a zoom call. He'll come visit with us.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys I've ever met before,

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Speaker 4: well we haven't, but I kind of referred him as

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Speaker 4: the He and Tony and Liam as the three wise men.

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Speaker 4: They've done a tremendous job They have clearly brought gold

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Speaker 4: Frankensenson mirror here to Jacksonville, and we're looking for that

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Speaker 4: to continue.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, I mean it's a fantastic star for this group.

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Speaker 3: For a team that was expected to win seven, eight,

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Speaker 3: nine games depending on who you asked, it went thirteen.

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Speaker 5: You go to the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: No, as I've mentioned a lot, if I was an opponent,

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Speaker 4: I'd be looking at everything that's going on in Jacksonville.

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Speaker 4: I think with James and his staff and the coaching

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Speaker 4: staff are put together here is very very special. I

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Speaker 4: mean they handled everything in a heck of a way

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Speaker 4: last year and so again that the secret sauce they've got,

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Speaker 4: let's keep it secret, but it's working.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is James Gladstone season. Free agency is here,

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Speaker 3: the negotiation window two days before the start of the

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Speaker 3: league year, and the Jaguars didn't do much. They resigned

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Speaker 3: some internal players that were pending free agents. They got

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Speaker 1: Head coach back in his college days.

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Speaker 3: But you know, a lot of folks outside the building

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Speaker 3: want big headlines and you know, big money spent, and

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Speaker 3: we've seen that happen around here before, not the case

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. I applaud where they are right now.

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Speaker 4: When you have nineteen plus players that signed and ready

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Speaker 4: in terms of a team coming back.

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Speaker 1: That's in order.

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Speaker 4: So I applaud the work that this staff has been

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Speaker 3: We're going to dig deeper into each of those re

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Speaker 3: course the new addition as well will get the GM's

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Speaker 1: The Ravens backed out of well.

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Speaker 4: As Jogi Berra says, is not over till it's over,

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Speaker 4: and it wasn't over. But the Ravens continue to make

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Speaker 4: I'm very confident in what James Gladstone and those guys

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Speaker 4: at this time of year free agency and also what

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Speaker 4: just talk about Myers. I mean, you talk about unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: So I'd say this man that's coming in, we might

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Speaker 3: James Gladstone, this is Mark Dufner and we're getting the

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Speaker 1: You're on Jaguars Happy Hour.

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Speaker 6: Great afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how are you James, good to see you.

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Speaker 6: Life is good. Thanks for asking. How do you guys

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Speaker 6: hold up good?

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Speaker 1: Doing very well?

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Speaker 3: Slide the microphone a little closer to you if you

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Speaker 3: don't mind, and get into it.

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Speaker 1: How is the media conversation on the zoom just now?

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Speaker 6: It was great?

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Speaker 7: You know, I think there's a little bit of fomo.

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Speaker 7: They seem like, you know things, things are going well

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Speaker 7: so definitely a little bit of interest in maybe next year,

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Speaker 7: trying to set that thing up where I take an

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Speaker 1: That's right, you're not gonna get out there this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Are you too busy?

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Speaker 6: Time will tell? Okay, time will tell.

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Speaker 3: All right, we'll see what you have on the docket.

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Speaker 3: You know, we've you've been fairly busy. It's not the

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Speaker 3: You can resign key pieces internally, and a couple of

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Speaker 7: Guys, right, I think we're about we might be Oh,

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Speaker 7: we're about twenty four hours and six minutes since the

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Speaker 6: So this is just the start.

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Speaker 7: You know, there are plenty of other intervals here that

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Speaker 7: I think we'll be able to tap into to make

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Speaker 7: And you know, it never ends, right you think about

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Speaker 7: some of the guys that we were able to sign

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Speaker 7: here we are a year, a little less than a

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Speaker 7: You know, life goes on, Decisions continue to be made,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And just as an observer and former coach in

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Speaker 4: last year, the additions, the player acquisition that you've made and.

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Speaker 1: Made this team better.

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Speaker 4: And I, for one, I would love to be part

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Speaker 6: I appreciate you saying I know this.

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Speaker 7: It's it's somewhat of uncharted territory for me to have

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Speaker 6: A game in the NFL.

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Speaker 7: You know, there have been plenty of drafts that I've

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Speaker 4: I would suggest James that most of the teams right

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Speaker 4: and restaurant in the world because you're never Like you said,

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Speaker 4: it's a constant process. But like I mentioned, I observed

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Speaker 4: As you said, every week you're looking how can we

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Speaker 4: improve the roster? And it was done and I think

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Speaker 4: in a good way, and I wish you the best.

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Speaker 1: As you can do.

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Speaker 6: I appreciate you saying that we'll keep a good thing going.

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Speaker 1: That's way.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, Like I said, I was if I

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Speaker 4: figure out what's what's been going on. Sure is working,

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Speaker 4: you know, as far as that's concerned.

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Speaker 1: Keep the doors locked, James, welcome back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, James led some of us Jaguars General man Joelet's

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Speaker 3: get to some of these guys that have signed back

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Speaker 3: with the Jaguars.

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Speaker 1: Monteric Brown seventh round draft pick.

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Speaker 3: Few years ago at Arkansas and just kind of has

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Speaker 3: the years have gone along. Where did you see him

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Speaker 3: grow the most last season, your first season as the

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Speaker 3: general manager here, And what do you expect now that

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Speaker 3: he's finally getting a bag? Oh?

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Speaker 7: You know what I think as I think back to

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Speaker 7: Montera's growth over the last year, what he was able

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Speaker 7: But his body morphed. You look at his head shots

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Speaker 7: over the years, Go ahead and google it. You're gonna

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Speaker 7: see his neck morph from the three years prior to

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Speaker 7: what he looked like this year when he took that

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Speaker 3: It sounds like a plan to me. James Gladstone with

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Speaker 4: If you come to Jacksonville, you're going to get opportunities

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Speaker 6: That's a big point of emphasis for us.

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Speaker 1: Sure no, but I admire what you're doing.

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Speaker 6: I appreciate you saying that. Coach James, thanks till the

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Speaker 6: next one. Appreciate you guys having.

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Speaker 3: We'll do it against James Gladstone Jaguars GM with US

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Speaker 3: plenty ahead reaction to that. Coming up, we'll hear from

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Speaker 3: the voice of the Titans tailors, ourser as well as

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Speaker 3: what they're doing in free agency, and we are off

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Speaker 3: and running.

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Speaker 1: Its Jaguars Happy.

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Speaker 8: Hour, just somewhere always wanted to be. You know, I

452
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Speaker 8: got drifted to hear you know, Jaguars took a chance

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Speaker 8: on the seventh rounder and man, this I enjoying my

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Speaker 8: time since I've been here.

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Speaker 1: And man, just play with.

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Speaker 8: These guys, these coaches, this organization. Man, it just means

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Speaker 8: a lot to me.

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Speaker 3: And I want to continue that Monteric Brown Jaguars cornerback

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Speaker 3: meeting with the media after signing and an extension with

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Speaker 3: the Jaguars. Welcome back, it is Jaguars Happy Hour from

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Speaker 3: the Hondai Studios ten to NeXT's Lam, Jaguars dot Com,

462
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Speaker 3: Jaguars YouTube JP Shadwick coach Mark Dufner in with us

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Speaker 3: this week. We just had James Gladstone, the general manager

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Speaker 3: in as well. And that's that Monteric Brown bite right

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Speaker 3: after he signed the deal for reportedly three years, thirty

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Speaker 3: three million dollars from a seventh round pick to eleven

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Speaker 3: million year coach.

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Speaker 4: I mean again, you as coaches and personal people, you

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Speaker 4: pray for succession and pickups like MONTERK. Brown, where a

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Speaker 4: seventh round pick becomes a starter, becomes allegedly or likely

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Speaker 4: the best cover corner in the league by his own standards.

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Speaker 4: I mean, come on, I mean, I think it was

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Speaker 4: a great, great signing by by our staff and by monterak.

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Speaker 4: He just had his best season ever and this staff,

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Speaker 4: so the coaches did well, personnel did well.

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Speaker 1: He did well. Bodes well for us moving forward at

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Speaker 1: a key position.

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Speaker 3: It was your first meeting with James Gladstone. You were

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Speaker 3: impressed anyway before he came in here, but after the visit.

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Speaker 4: Well, well, first, I've been most impressed all the way through.

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Speaker 4: But you talk about a guy that is well thought out,

482
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Speaker 4: that's poised, that's got a plan. You can feel it

483
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Speaker 4: is enthusiastic about it. I mean, I'd love to be

484
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Speaker 4: listening to him because I can learn a lot for

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Speaker 4: a young fellow. He's got a really good vision and

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Speaker 4: good decision making skills. And the moves that he's made

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Speaker 4: so far, I like the aggress and I like the confidence.

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Speaker 1: It's a plus, big plus, and a lot of them

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Speaker 1: have worked out too. That obviously is the big key.

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Speaker 1: At the very end of the day.

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Speaker 3: You can make all the aggressive moves you want, but

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Speaker 3: more often than not, they need to work out, and

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Speaker 3: so far they have.

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Speaker 4: Well, that's why I caught That's why I kind of

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Speaker 4: gave him the Midas call in here that you know,

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Speaker 4: everything he's touched has gone to gold.

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Speaker 1: So we'd like that to continue. We certainly was, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no doubt about that.

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Speaker 3: We are thanks to James Gladstone for jumping in with

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Speaker 3: us right after his visit with the media today. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: so it is relatively quiet and and we'll hear from

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Speaker 3: the Titans coming up, and we're gonna get into what

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Speaker 3: they've done. They have been far from quiet in Nashville.

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Speaker 3: We'll get to that just a little bit. Some of

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Speaker 3: these teams are spending all this money. I mean there

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Speaker 3: was I mean right before even before the league year,

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Speaker 3: the two day negotiation window. Oh magically, twenty minutes into

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Speaker 3: the negotiation window, there's a multi year deal for one

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Speaker 3: hundred million dollars. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: But but here's a great thing. I mean, JP, we

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Speaker 4: sit in a terrific position. This organization right now has

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Speaker 4: brought back players they know there's no there's no guestimate

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Speaker 4: or hope for or wish, you know, moving forward. We've

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Speaker 4: got nineteen players signed that they've got i think, real

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Speaker 4: good focus and evaluation in terms of where they want

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Speaker 4: to go, as they already have made moves in free

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Speaker 4: agency and will as time goes on. You look at

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Speaker 4: the moves they made last year after the fact, sometimes

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Speaker 4: months after the fact of free agency, and they all

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Speaker 4: turned into productive moves. So I'm very confident in the plan,

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Speaker 4: which is a fluid plan. It's constantly movement because you're

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Speaker 4: dealing with people's people's health and everything else as you

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Speaker 4: move along. But very confident where things are heading.

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Speaker 3: And you have to remember too this time of year

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Speaker 3: that these players are free agents a lot of times

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Speaker 3: for a reason either didn't work out with a previous

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Speaker 3: team or that team didn't feel like they were a

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Speaker 3: core player for the future. And then you got to

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Speaker 3: figure out why if you're signing that player that it

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Speaker 3: didn't work.

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Speaker 1: Out at the other place without a doubt, and they

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Speaker 1: may not tell you no for sure.

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Speaker 4: That takes exhaustive research. And I think sometimes too in

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Speaker 4: acquisitions there's a Scotia, luck and vob but you leave

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Speaker 4: very little to chance as far as that's gone. You

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Speaker 4: want to be as thorough as possibly. We've demonstrated here

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Speaker 4: that we're doing that at a level I haven't seen

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Speaker 4: in a very very productive way. So again, I like

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Speaker 4: where we sit right now. I'm interested to watch how

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Speaker 4: we move forward, but both in free agency in the draft,

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Speaker 4: I think it's very exciting.

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Speaker 3: Your thought on Devin Lloyd signing with the Panthers.

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Speaker 4: I was a little surprised by that. I thought perhaps

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Speaker 4: that he might go to a team that was a

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Speaker 4: little more and not that the Panthers haven't been. I

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Speaker 4: think they're solid on defense, but I was looking for

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Speaker 4: and to maybe go to a Pittsburgh Steelers type team

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Speaker 4: or someone along that. But he opted to go there

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Speaker 4: and they made him and Phillips. They brought in Jalen Phillips.

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Speaker 4: I mean they made two big moves with some I

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Speaker 4: think very good players and so you know, he saw

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Speaker 4: that and kudos to what he saw and he got

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Speaker 4: a good paycheck. But you know, I thought maybe he

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Speaker 4: was going to go somewhere else. You know, you never know.

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Speaker 3: His career arc is. We'll be fascinating to see what

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Speaker 3: happens from here, because it was so he was so

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Speaker 3: miscasts the first couple of years have felt like and

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Speaker 3: then finally last season making impact plays. Still has some

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Speaker 3: deficiencies and coverage down the field, right, that was just

560
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Speaker 3: kind of his achilles heel. I think throughout early in

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Speaker 3: his career, how he develops from here and how they

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Speaker 3: use them in Carolina obviously will be the key well.

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Speaker 4: For sure, And that's why I was very hopeful that

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Speaker 4: he would stay, because he just did have the best

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Speaker 4: year of his career by a mile.

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Speaker 1: You fit in.

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Speaker 4: I think the coaching staff utilized his skills, put made

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Speaker 4: the shoes fit, if you will, in terms of how

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Speaker 4: they put him in the lineup and had him do

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Speaker 4: different things in the game plan. And you know, I

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Speaker 4: know money talks, but jeez, will Pete to have the

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Speaker 4: kind of season that he just had. I was hoping

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Speaker 4: that he would say, well, I can continue to thrive here.

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Speaker 4: Statistics over the years, they may have changed a little bit,

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Speaker 4: but statistics over the years, when teams or players go

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Speaker 4: and they've been pretty good in the system and they

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Speaker 4: go to a new system, it doesn't the stats were

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Speaker 4: that doesn't translate very often to similar success. So you know,

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Speaker 4: you roll a little bit of the nice when you

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Speaker 4: do that as a player coming off of a career year.

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Speaker 3: We'll see if they have in mind too. Free agency

582
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Speaker 3: far from done, it's never really done, and then the draft.

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Speaker 3: Ten draft picks as well from the second round and beyond.

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Speaker 4: But I can't wait to see how they utilize those

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Speaker 4: right now. And you know, I just I just like

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Speaker 4: the the process that's going on here. I wish I

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Speaker 4: was more involved with it so I knew more what

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Speaker 4: they were doing, because it's very very interesting the type

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Speaker 4: of moves they've made and the successes that they've had.

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Speaker 4: It's it's again, I'm not trying to be a Homer here.

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Speaker 4: I just am very pressed with that, and and I'd

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Speaker 4: love to be part of it to see what, in

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Speaker 4: fact how they're doing it. I got a feeling how

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Speaker 4: they're doing They're being very very thorough. They're being uh,

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Speaker 4: you know, very smart and making decisions or not letting

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Speaker 4: outside noise impact that. I think they've got a good

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Speaker 4: plan understanding with it.

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Speaker 3: We've got plenty ahead. Coach will come back and get

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Speaker 3: into the Tennessee Titans. Yeah, and it has been a

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Speaker 3: busy off season in Nashville.

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Speaker 1: Very active.

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Speaker 4: Jezel Pete probably one of the two or three most

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Speaker 4: in the whole league. Thanks so interesting.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Voice of the Titans, Taylor Zarzer. We caught up

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Speaker 3: at the Combine a couple weeks back. We'll hear that

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Speaker 3: conversation and update it from there. Since free agency has

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Speaker 3: started a lot of change in Nashville. And this is

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Speaker 3: Jaguars Happy Hour. Welcome back. It is Jaguars Happy Hour

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Speaker 3: from the Hyundai Studios on Tentenexlam, Jaguars dot Com, Jaguars YouTube.

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Speaker 1: Glad you're along with us.

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Speaker 3: The new league year is here as of four o'clock yesterday,

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty six, officially in the National Football League, and

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Speaker 3: this week we continue and wrap up our look around

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Speaker 3: the AFC South with announcers from each team. The last

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Speaker 3: two weeks, we've heard from Mark Vanderby or the Houston Texans,

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Speaker 3: Matt Taylor of the Indianapolis Colts. Today Taylor Zarzar going

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Speaker 3: into his second season as the voice of the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 3: A lot of change in Nashville. The whole coaching staff

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Speaker 3: has changed. They've had a lot of work in free

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Speaker 3: agencies since this conversation that we had the Indiana at

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Speaker 3: the Indiana Convention Center at the Scout and Combine and

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Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago an off season again of

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Speaker 3: major changes in Nashville.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, JP Shatrick, I never knew meant Jared Patrick.

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Speaker 5: I didn't know. My mother put it in for the credential. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: me too. Evidently I'm going by Robert Zarzer.

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Speaker 9: That's my first name. But it's great to see. You've

628
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Speaker 9: been a great friend for a long time. And yeah,

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Speaker 9: it's an exciting time.

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Speaker 5: JP.

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Speaker 9: The Titans are on their way up. They hit the bottom,

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Speaker 9: as you know, and this is an organization that was

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Speaker 9: really sort of running the division for a while and

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Speaker 9: then in twenty twenty two, they're seven and three and

635
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Speaker 9: as you know, lost those last seven games, culminating with

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Speaker 9: that loss at the Jaguars to finish that season. And

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Speaker 9: it's been rough since then six and eleven and twenty

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Speaker 9: three and then two consecutive three and fourteen seasons, and

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Speaker 9: so certainly the organization decided to start over and started

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Speaker 9: over with a new general manager in Mike Borganzi, and

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Speaker 9: started over with a new coaching staff, one that you

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Speaker 9: know extremely well, and old Jags head coach Gus Bradley's

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Speaker 9: defensive coordinator, Rob Sala, who also was in Jacksonville for

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Speaker 9: a while, is the head coach, and Brian Dable is

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Speaker 9: the offensive coordinator. And they have extremely qualified people in

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Speaker 9: the front office and on the sideline, and now it's

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Speaker 9: time to pick some players that have some talent that

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Speaker 9: they're going to be able to coach moving forward.

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Speaker 3: Let's get into first impressions of Robert Sala and maybe

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Speaker 3: the differences in approach in day to day feel in

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Speaker 3: the office since he's arrived.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, he just commands respect. The players really feel a

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Speaker 9: connection to him. He is constantly working on relationship building.

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Speaker 9: He's holding people accountable, but he is just day to

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Speaker 9: day coaching these guys. There are a lot of people

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Speaker 9: in life that keep it looser, and then when it's

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Speaker 9: time to be serious, they're serious. Salas somebody that every

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Speaker 9: day seems just as important as the next, and you

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Speaker 9: can really feel that throughout the building right now.

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Speaker 5: That's the way he's treating it. So it does.

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Speaker 9: It does feel like somebody that has total control of

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Speaker 9: his football team, even though there aren't all the players

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Speaker 9: around every day in February, when the players are around,

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Speaker 9: you can certainly sense that there's a big connection there.

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Speaker 5: And that's exactly what the Titans needed.

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Speaker 3: He's brought in Brian Dable as the offensive coordinator. Cam

667
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Speaker 3: Ward's development has to be the number one priority of

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Speaker 3: the organization. We'll get to what's going to be around him.

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Speaker 3: Who knows moving ahead that's coming up. But cam Ward's

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Speaker 3: first season and then all these changes around him, how

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Speaker 3: does he continue to ruse?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think that anyone that watched the Titans play

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Speaker 9: last season would say, all right, they've got a quarterback,

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Speaker 9: and as you said, they have to put some more

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Speaker 9: pieces around him. But the way that this guy operates,

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Speaker 9: the reps that he received, the way he played against

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Speaker 9: the Jags.

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Speaker 5: I thought the Jags were.

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Speaker 9: The best team that we saw in the AFC last year,

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Speaker 9: and the way he played against what I thought was

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Speaker 9: the most complete team in the AFC twice until that

682
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Speaker 9: injury against the Jags on that last drive of the

683
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Speaker 9: season that he had, he showed a lot of progress.

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Speaker 9: Now he gets somebody as his offensive coordinator that looked

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Speaker 9: like he was willing to trade the draft away for

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Speaker 9: him to play for the Giants. Last year, there was

687
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Speaker 9: all sorts of reports here the Dable and the Giants

688
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 9: were going to try to offer a bag to the Titans.

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Speaker 5: To get cam Ward.

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Speaker 9: And since he's come into the building, Dave's is just

691
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Speaker 9: over the moon to coach cam Ward and it goes

692
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Speaker 9: both ways. Now, having said that, I don't think it's

693
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Speaker 9: all going to be sunshine and rainbows. I think the

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Speaker 9: Dable is going to come after cam and really challenge

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Speaker 9: him to take that next step. I think working on

696
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Speaker 9: improving his body and how he looks at film will

697
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 9: be important. But the guy's work ethic JP is off

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Speaker 9: of the charts, his leadership is off of the charts.

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Speaker 5: He has a ton of talent. There's a lot.

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Speaker 3: Of potential there, Taylor Zarza with his voice of the Titans.

701
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 3: Now those players around him, Chiga Konku is the leading receiver.

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Speaker 5: He's a free agent coming up.

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00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 3: There's some other guys going out in free agency that

704
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 3: have been around this team for a number of years.

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Speaker 5: Where do you begin to find guys around cam Ward.

706
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Speaker 9: That you need to go find a deep vertical threat

707
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Speaker 9: because cam has a cannon for an arm and he

708
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Speaker 9: loves to throw the ball down the field. Old jag

709
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Speaker 9: Calvin Ridley was injured almost the entirety of last season.

710
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Speaker 5: He was supposed to be the deep threat. If you

711
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Speaker 5: go back to the last.

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Speaker 9: Preseason, he looks like he's in the greatest shape of

713
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Speaker 9: his life at thirty years old, and looks so good

714
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Speaker 9: as they got ready for the season, and then he

715
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Speaker 9: couldn't stay out there almost at all due to injury.

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Speaker 9: Whether he comes back or you go find a collection

717
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 9: of deep threats, I think that is the huge priority

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Speaker 9: for the Titans this offseason, whether it's through the draft

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Speaker 9: and or it's through free agency, and then that all

720
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Speaker 9: of a sudden, if you have to really respect the

721
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Speaker 9: Titans down the field, that changes everything underneath. With those

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Speaker 9: tight ends you're talking about with slot receivers, with Tony

723
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Speaker 9: Pollard or anyone else that's in the backfield. So I

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Speaker 9: think the Titans have to gain respect from the opposition

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Speaker 9: stretching the field vertically this offseason.

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Speaker 3: Gus Bradley's there is a defensive coordinator of course, former

727
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Speaker 3: Jags head coach we know, and a lot of that

728
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Speaker 3: staff very well. What are the expectations for the Titans defense?

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Speaker 5: What do you think this thing's gonna look like?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think the defense is in pretty good shape.

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Speaker 9: I don't it's a whole, but I think it's further

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Speaker 9: along than the offense is, certainly because you have one

733
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Speaker 9: of the best players in the league in Jeffrey Simmons

734
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Speaker 9: in the middle of that defensive line, coming off of

735
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Speaker 9: his best season, and he thinks he said this before

736
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Speaker 9: they hired Solid. He thinks he's better in a four

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Speaker 9: to three scheme than he is in the three to

738
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Speaker 9: four that he's leaving. So that being the case, I

739
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Speaker 9: think that gives the Titans fans a lot of optimism.

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Speaker 9: But JP they've got to go find a big time

741
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Speaker 9: pass rusher to support Simmons, and then in the secondary,

742
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Speaker 9: they've had a number of injuries. I would look at

743
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Speaker 9: for them to try to find a shut down corner

744
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 9: this offseason. Receiver, pass rusher and shut down corner are

745
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 9: really the biggest needs the Titans have. But like you said,

746
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 9: you've got Salah and Bradley, two of the best defensive

747
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 9: minds to coach them.

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Speaker 5: So there's a lot of optimism there.

749
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Speaker 3: Get ready to describe Leo and Otto two positions in

750
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Speaker 3: Gus's defense.

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Speaker 5: That's right, Ready for that?

752
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Speaker 3: That's right, Yes, I know new terminology. How far away

753
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Speaker 3: are the Titans from being a contender? Again?

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Speaker 5: Your opinion?

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Speaker 9: I mean, you know, the Jacksonville Jaguars in twenty twenty

756
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:16,320
Speaker 9: four looked like they were far away, such a disappointing season,

757
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Speaker 9: And as I just said, I'm not just playing to

758
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 9: people in North Florida right now. I really thought they

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00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 9: were the best team in the AFC. And if the

760
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Speaker 9: Jags beat the Bills, I think they were going to

761
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Speaker 9: the Super Bowl. So the New England Patriots instead went

762
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 9: and they were four and thirteen. There's no one in

763
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Speaker 9: the world that thought that they would be the AFC

764
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Speaker 9: representative in the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 5: Having said that, the Titans.

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Speaker 9: Mike Borgonzi, the general manager, would tell you there's a

767
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Speaker 9: lot to do. There's a lot of talent that needs

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Speaker 9: to come into this building in order for them to

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Speaker 9: be a complete championship team. Could they make a run, sure,

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Speaker 9: but in order to have sustained success, I think they're

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Speaker 9: probably two more drafts away from doing that.

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Speaker 5: They stacked last year's draft.

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Speaker 9: They have to do it again, and they have to

774
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Speaker 9: really do a good job with all the money they

775
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 9: have the most in the NFL this offseason.

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Speaker 5: They put two more great off seasons.

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Speaker 9: Together, then I think you're going to see a championship contender.

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Speaker 3: Taylor As ours are the voice of the Tennessee Titans.

779
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,919
Speaker 3: We spoke at the Combine a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 6: J P.

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Speaker 1: Shadick with you.

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00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 3: Coach Mark Dufner back with us now and since that

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Speaker 3: conversation with the Titans stuff, have been absolutely busy in

784
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 3: free agency, trades, everything going on in Tennessee.

785
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Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe as busy as anybody. And you know it

786
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 4: starts with Mike Bargonzi, a guy that had a great

787
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 4: reputation for his time in Kansas City. He certainly had

788
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 4: a pretty good game plan to study from what he

789
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Speaker 4: did there with a chief and taking that to Tennessee.

790
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Speaker 4: But they have been very, very active and I think

791
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,320
Speaker 4: really have mates moves to improved that roster.

792
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Speaker 3: Wandale Robinson wide receiver, comes in nineteen million dollars a year,

793
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 3: a four year deal for him, but obviously was in

794
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Speaker 3: New York. Those Dables system and Ridley as Taylor's are

795
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 3: as we was talking about there underwhelmed last year.

796
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Speaker 1: He's still on the roster.

797
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Speaker 3: But Robinson ads to the mix and gives another weapon

798
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Speaker 3: for cam Ward.

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Speaker 1: Without a doubt.

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Speaker 4: And I think again the familiarity that Coach Stables got

801
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 4: with him that the Taylor identified wide receivers there they

802
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 4: needed to go. They went out immediately and got this

803
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 4: guy and have addressed other areas right now that they

804
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:18,879
Speaker 4: have needs for that's for sure.

805
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and let's go to defense now.

806
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 3: They traded to Andandre sweat Away to the Jets, got

807
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,320
Speaker 3: an edge rusher and Jermaine Johnson. They added John Franklin

808
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 3: Myers on the defensive line. They added Alante Taylor at

809
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:29,879
Speaker 3: corner at twenty million dollars a year.

810
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Speaker 1: He's your instance starter.

811
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Speaker 3: Cordell Flott comes over three years, forty five million dollars.

812
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Speaker 1: They are revamping this defense for gus no doubt about it.

813
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 4: And with good players at key key positions, they identified

814
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 4: that they needed a rusher. Jermaine Johnson right now, a guy,

815
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 4: a former Pro Bowl player who's reunited with Aaron White

816
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 4: Cotton who was on the staff here, was on the

817
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 4: staff in New York, who's been one of coach Sala's type,

818
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 4: got top guys, and so they've gotten him. He's going

819
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 4: to be the guy that fill in the edge. They've

820
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 4: also brought in, as you mentioned, the corner Taylor Jaseel Pete,

821
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Speaker 4: I mean, a guy that had really fifty three games

822
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Speaker 4: of starting play in New Orleans, very very productive. Address

823
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 4: that situation with flood also, and I think they brought

824
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,760
Speaker 4: another cornerback coming in too. So they've been adding players

825
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 4: as far as that's concerned. Then in the middle of

826
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Speaker 4: the line, they signed John Franklin Myers, a guy that

827
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Speaker 4: again a very productive player. So again across the board,

828
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Speaker 4: a lot of activity, a lot of production, bringing in

829
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Speaker 4: starters for that defense to make that group better.

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Speaker 3: I was looking at a list of free agent additions

831
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Speaker 3: with Titan. There's fifteen guys in free agency they've signed.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, Like I said, that's a lot it's

833
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 4: in a way you don't want to be that way

834
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Speaker 4: as a team in some respects because Jesel, you're still

835
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,919
Speaker 4: not sure what you're getting. But there is some familiarity

836
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 4: with a lot of the coaches on these players that

837
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 4: they've added, and we'll see how they come to fruition.

838
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Speaker 1: Dus Bradley still in it as a DC.

839
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Speaker 4: Yeah, really good football coach, you know when I had

840
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Speaker 4: the privilege to work with him here in twenty thirteen.

841
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 4: A guy that's very bright, that's well thought out out,

842
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Speaker 4: that has good connectability with players. You know, I have

843
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 4: high regard for what Gus does both as a teacher,

844
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Speaker 4: coach and a man.

845
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Speaker 3: And and most of that defensive staff either was around

846
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Speaker 3: here or had been close to Gus before. And Robert solitude, which.

847
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 4: Again is going to be an advantage for them right now.

848
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,240
Speaker 4: They're not having to go in and teach new systems

849
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 4: to people. They've already got that in place, and they've

850
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 4: they certainly have even moved along in terms of what

851
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 4: their scheme is all about. So again, a lot of

852
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 4: those things will be you know, positive in terms of

853
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Speaker 4: their progress.

854
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 3: Well, there's not much better in life than when the

855
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,800
Speaker 3: Titans lose, so let's let's hope that continues. No offense

856
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Speaker 3: to Robert Sala and Gus and those guys, No.

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Speaker 1: We pull for them in every game.

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Speaker 4: But when they played the teal, so that you know

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Speaker 4: that's that's no issue there.

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Speaker 1: We're back in a moment.

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Speaker 3: Well, we're going to talk to the computer coach Microsoft

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Speaker 3: co pilot.

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Speaker 1: Oh, very cool. When we come back. Yeah, I won't

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Speaker 1: understand anything you're talking about, but that's all good.

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Speaker 3: you coach Mark Duffner here on Tenenexlamjaguars dot Com Jaguars YouTube.

880
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Speaker 3: Is time to go to the computer, open the pod

881
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Speaker 3: bay doors. Hell, it's time to talk to Microsoft co

882
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Speaker 3: pilot and help us with a Jaguars signing. What were

883
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,799
Speaker 3: Chris Rodriguez junior stats at Kentucky in twenty twenty one?

884
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 3: And Chris Rodriguez Junior put up one of the strongest

885
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 3: rushing seasons in the SEC in twenty twenty one, finishing

886
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:36,280
Speaker 3: with over thirteen hundred rushing yards and double digit total touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: Get all the answers you need with Microsoft co pilot. Well,

888
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 3: to be clear, he averaged six point one yards per

889
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:48,919
Speaker 3: carry that year in thirteen games, thirteen hundred yards, nine

890
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 3: rushing touchdowns, three receiving touchdowns. That was when Liam Cohen

891
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:56,799
Speaker 3: was the offensive coordinator for the Kentucky Wildcats and now

892
00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 3: Rodriguez after a few years with Washington with the Jaguars

893
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Speaker 3: and Liam Cohen JP.

894
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you something.

895
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Speaker 4: I was coaching with the Bengals at that time, and

896
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 4: you know, University of Kentucky and Lexington's a little bit south,

897
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 4: not too far away from Cincinnati, correct, And this Chris

898
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 4: Rodriguez made a lot lot of loud noise with his

899
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 4: play for the Wildcats. I mean, this guy was all

900
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:21,319
Speaker 4: over the headlines, was all over the field. You just

901
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 4: talked a lot about the stats that he had, but

902
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 4: you talk about a guy that can move the ball,

903
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 4: that's physical, that has the ability to run inside and outside.

904
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 4: I mean, I think what and the connection he's got

905
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 4: with our head football coach. I mean, geez, how I

906
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 4: mean we got to be thinking again the Good Lord

907
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 4: sending these gifts to us. I mean, this is unbelievable. So,

908
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 4: I mean, a great pickup for us as far as

909
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 4: that's concerned. And the other thing on that tape you

910
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:48,800
Speaker 4: just showed. I liked how James and Campy started recruiting

911
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 4: Montera's young baby already, so you always they're in the

912
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 4: evaluation in people, business, connection business, so you know, whether

913
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 4: it's Montak or his son.

914
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Speaker 1: Let's get going. Good stuff. That Kentucky Tea the way

915
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 1: won ten games. They were ten and three.

916
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 4: This guy was again the key, one of the absolute

917
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 4: key components. Again loud with his play. I mean, as

918
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 4: soon as I saw that we signed him, a holy

919
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:12,799
Speaker 4: flipp I mean, this is a good one for us now,

920
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean it's sincerely.

921
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 3: The team lost to Georgia Mississippi State and Tennessee three

922
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 3: straight weeks and then won the rest of the way.

923
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,880
Speaker 3: Those those wins, by the way, were vacated later n CIA.

924
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:26,479
Speaker 3: Something will happened later. I had to go take into why.

925
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 3: But yeah, on the field, that was a really good.

926
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 4: Team, very very good football team, and one that, as

927
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 4: I said, was really interesting to follow, exciting to follow

928
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 4: a lot based on the play Rodriguez at running backs.

929
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Speaker 3: Well, he's part of the group now with ETN gone

930
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 3: to New Orleans, make him thirteen million dollars a year,

931
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 3: New Orleans and about two hour drive from his hometown.

932
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I was sad for his departure as

933
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 4: far as the team is concerned here, but happy for him.

934
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 4: I thought what he did for this team this past

935
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Speaker 4: season on and off the field, with the consistent element

936
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 4: of his play all that. Like I heard from James,

937
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 4: you know, you're happy for this guy, and you want

938
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 4: this guy to continue to do well. If he's not

939
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,879
Speaker 4: for us back in his home state, no doubt about that.

940
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Speaker 3: Hey, coming up a couple of weeks away from the

941
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Speaker 3: NFL Annual meeting, the owners meetings at the end of March,

942
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,839
Speaker 3: and then we should have an official ownership vote on

943
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,439
Speaker 3: the Jaguars plans for home games in the twenty twenty

944
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 3: seven season. They're waiting for the official stamp of approval

945
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:26,799
Speaker 3: from the league before announcing anything. That's really kind of

946
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 3: next on the docket. We'll see what James Gladstone and

947
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Speaker 3: his team do the next week or two with free

948
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 3: agency underway and no, you know, no, you can do

949
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,280
Speaker 3: whatever you want from here on the next few weeks,

950
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden it's April and the

951
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 3: players don't come in because there's no coaching change. They

952
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 3: don't come in until I think the week of the draft.

953
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 3: They're in for the offseason.

954
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:49,399
Speaker 4: Parts slightly right after the draft actually, So I think

955
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 4: that's a good thing too. And as evidenced here as

956
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 4: we've seen James Gladstone and his staff, they're working year long.

957
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 4: It's not just in this free agency period. It's not

958
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 4: just during draft week or draft time period. It's year

959
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 4: long the evaluation and player acquisition that they do. And

960
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,439
Speaker 4: that's what's exciting about how this team continues to get

961
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 4: better and better at the standards they've established.

962
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,959
Speaker 3: So that's what's coming up the next few weeks, and

963
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:19,320
Speaker 3: it's just that time of year, not a lot of

964
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 3: Jaguars headlines. That's by design, and that's a good thing.

965
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 3: Moving ahead, but well, like we said, a couple of

966
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 3: weeks away from that league meeting and you'll see the

967
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 3: GM and the head coach and the media the air

968
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 3: with the coach's breakfast in that event coming up in

969
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks. You're gonna make it to the

970
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 3: players coach, you already went out once.

971
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 4: I was out there yesterday and highly impressed with the

972
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 4: organization that the players group, the tournament does, with their

973
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 4: volunteer group, with the staff out there. Well well done,

974
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 4: course outstanding. Certainly the best field I think of players

975
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:55,760
Speaker 4: that there isn't all of golf come to this place,

976
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 4: and so it's an exciting thing for this area. I

977
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,319
Speaker 4: think just one the gyms that we've got, the many

978
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,920
Speaker 4: gyms that we've got here in Jacksonville. You a golfer,

979
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 4: I played generally on ones that have windmills and things

980
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 4: like that, so I'm gonna want to be but I

981
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 4: play very little but would love to play more.

982
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 3: We had a rain delay, I guess a little earlier today,

983
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 3: but as of right now, Maverick McNeely a five hunder

984
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 3: opening round, leading the way sixty seven on his first round,

985
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 3: Justin Thomas and Russell Henley and Taylor Moore a shot

986
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:27,760
Speaker 3: off the lead at the moment.

987
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:28,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, this mcneelly.

988
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 4: I watched this guy hit He hit a drive three

989
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 4: hundred and forty yards like he was just warming up.

990
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 4: I mean, jeez, this guy can cutt and he can drive.

991
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,320
Speaker 4: So you know, again, the best field there isn't golf.

992
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 4: Get out there and see these guys. It's awesome, no doubt.

993
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 3: And I'm sure there'll be a lot a large Jaguars

994
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 3: presence there.

995
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 5: There usually is.

996
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,359
Speaker 3: I think the coaches at some point get to go

997
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:51,879
Speaker 3: out this weekend as a group, which is nice.

998
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, when I was here the eight season, so I

999
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 4: was here, we used to go out on Fridays and

1000
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 4: what a treat that was to just again watch the

1001
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 4: play these guys and dreamed that maybe you could sometimes

1002
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:07,759
Speaker 4: do something like that. Unfortunately I haven't, but it's been.

1003
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 4: It was a great treat and as I said, great

1004
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:11,800
Speaker 4: for the fans here in town.

1005
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 1: So this time of year, as a coach, what are

1006
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:16,799
Speaker 1: you working on?

1007
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 4: Well, a lot of you know right now, they've they've

1008
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,359
Speaker 4: probably have finished all their scheme evaluation for sure. They're

1009
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 4: also through probably with all the evaluations of candidates for

1010
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 4: free agency, so they're right now delving into the evaluations

1011
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,359
Speaker 4: of players in the draft and probably well into that

1012
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 4: and so you know positioning. That also probably traveling around

1013
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 4: to different pro days that are going on, so some

1014
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 4: of that's going to be off campus or off site

1015
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 4: travel in terms of valuation. Then they're also got projects

1016
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 4: going on right now, whether it be film study of

1017
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 4: the opponents or areas of focused red zone, short yardage,

1018
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 4: goal line, backed up defense, offense, all that put together

1019
00:47:56,520 --> 00:48:00,280
Speaker 4: two minutes, so they're really delving into scheme improvement, player

1020
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 4: acquisition improvement, player evaluation. I mean it's people think, well,

1021
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 4: you know, it's quiet around here, so there's not much

1022
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 4: going on. Shoot, it's with the wheels are going, man,

1023
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 4: I mean you can steal smoke coming out of the

1024
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 4: building because because people are working like crazy. So it's

1025
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 4: a good time as a coach to be part of

1026
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 4: this type of schedule.

1027
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:20,799
Speaker 3: How do you have to I mean, yeah, you're trying

1028
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 3: to get all this work done and there's a scheduled

1029
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 3: out for everybody, but in general, what time are you

1030
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:27,359
Speaker 3: coming in?

1031
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 1: What time are you leaving? Well, how did you do it? Well?

1032
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: I came in.

1033
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 4: I'll tell you my plan. I used to come in

1034
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 4: around six o'clock to get my work out in. I

1035
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 4: get that in from like six to seven, and then

1036
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 4: I spent any football study that I had generally was

1037
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 4: from the morning till lunchtime, so football projects, studies, all

1038
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 4: those type things at that time, and then in the

1039
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 4: afternoon till you know, five or six. In the afternoon,

1040
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 4: I was in player evaluation, whether it was watching pro days,

1041
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:59,319
Speaker 4: whether it was continuing the evaluation, preparation and ranking for

1042
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 4: the draft, going through any kind of phone calls or

1043
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 4: zoom calls that I had with players. They're all doing

1044
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 4: the same thing. Coaches are here. So generally the afternoon

1045
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 4: was player acquisition and study. In the morning, it was

1046
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 4: more scheme development, football study, trying to enhance anything we

1047
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 4: can do to make the scheme better.

1048
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 1: It never ends, doesn't, but that's a good thing. I

1049
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 1: does never end, but I enjoyed it. I really.

1050
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 4: I mean, you're learning all the time, and things change

1051
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 4: when every player is different every year, as you're adjusting

1052
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 4: your scheme, it's different. So it's an ongoing situation that

1053
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:39,439
Speaker 4: I enjoyed very much.

1054
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,439
Speaker 3: Duff always a pleasure. Thanks for taking the time out

1055
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:43,720
Speaker 3: to come into Jimny.

1056
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 1: Thank you for asking. I enjoyed it very much. Former

1057
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:47,280
Speaker 1: Jaggs linebackers coach Mark Duffner.

1058
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 3: Thanks to James Gladstone as well, Jaguars GM for joining

1059
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,439
Speaker 3: us our thanks to Joe Fortunato, Brent Reaver, and thanks

1060
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 3: to you for watching and listening.

1061
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Speaker 1: This is Jaguars Happy Hour.

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