Speaker 1: It is Thursday, May twenty six, Jack Waise Happy Hour,
Speaker 1: and now a guy who believes got a stands for
Speaker 1: Order ten appetizers. Jay Peace, Yeah, it's not wrong. Welcome man,
Speaker 1: it's Jack Horns Happy Hour. Well, I'm j P. Shadrick. Well,
Speaker 1: we've got a busy show ahead. O Taser here, Jeff
Speaker 1: Lockhaman is here. As always, we'll hear from Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: and Trevor Lawrence to get their reaction to the opening
Speaker 1: of Order ten appetizers, and we'll go around the National
Speaker 1: Football League as we always do. Plenty of news around
Speaker 1: the league, some rules changes in terms of roster numbers
Speaker 1: for the practice squads and things like that coming up.
Speaker 1: Jeff Lockhaman with us. Now, what's up, Jeffrey, it's all good.
Speaker 1: It's all good. Jp. By the way, what's wrong with appetizers? Nothing?
Speaker 1: Especially ten of him. Yeah. That's the best way to
Speaker 1: go about dinner sometimes is you know, you get a
Speaker 1: sample order about five or six appetizers for a couple
Speaker 1: of people, get a side salad, you go, you call
Speaker 1: it tap us and you can charge two more dollars. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the same thing. Yeah, that's a good idea. Gonna do.
Speaker 1: I'm a big appetizer guy, especially when it comes to seafood. Shrimp, cocktail, shrimp, cocktail,
Speaker 1: fried shrimp, bang bang shrimp. I feel like I'm on
Speaker 1: forest from seared tunor. Yeah. Yeah, so we winned to
Speaker 1: get to organized team activities are here, of course. The
Speaker 1: only session this week open to the media was Monday,
Speaker 1: and Doug Peterson Loggs met the media ahead of practice
Speaker 1: and explains what he wants to see as the offseason
Speaker 1: program continues. I think just continuing to grow as a
Speaker 1: football team, coming to other um, you know, as we
Speaker 1: build towards training camp. I think that's probably the number
Speaker 1: the number one thing, you know, really is is just
Speaker 1: building that cohesiveness again. The players and coaches are getting
Speaker 1: getting to know each other still, you know, and and um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's a that's a big part
Speaker 1: of these next you know, three and a half, four
Speaker 1: weeks whatever we got left, so they have it, um yeah,
Speaker 1: getting to know each other, taking it from the classroom
Speaker 1: onto the field. What do you think of the pace
Speaker 1: of practice and everything the other Well, it was good
Speaker 1: and it's certainly a different pace than the rookie camp
Speaker 1: because the rookie camp is much slower. It's more methodical.
Speaker 1: There's more explanation where when the veterans get out there.
Speaker 1: And there by the way, there were a few guys
Speaker 1: that were not in attendance. Remember the O t A
Speaker 1: s are voluntary, and most of the guys that weren't
Speaker 1: there had good reasons for not being there. Doesn't but
Speaker 1: the tempo is much higher compared to the rookie minicamp
Speaker 1: because that's what you would expect. I mean, there's guys
Speaker 1: that have been around and been playing football for a
Speaker 1: longer period of time than just the rookies, and so
Speaker 1: the veterans kind of established the tempo the rookies have
Speaker 1: to keep up and uh and I really liked the tempo.
Speaker 1: I like the way that the coaching happened in practice.
Speaker 1: There wasn't screaming and yelling. There wasn't a megaphone telling
Speaker 1: you what period it was and remember to focus when
Speaker 1: you're not in and it's plus two and this and that.
Speaker 1: It felt serious, relaxed, and a very deep teaching hour
Speaker 1: and a half. And that's the way it should be
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. And it was good to
Speaker 1: watch some of the guys that we haven't seen in
Speaker 1: a long period of time, and it was good to
Speaker 1: see some of the guys that were hurt last year
Speaker 1: either working in practice or working on the side. It
Speaker 1: was including Travis E. T N who got hurt. Full
Speaker 1: go and that's a good thing. Cut and moving, running, jumping,
Speaker 1: the whole deal. Yeah, and he and he looked good.
Speaker 1: I mean he had he had a drop one time,
Speaker 1: but look, everybody has that. And uh. I think the
Speaker 1: thing that surprised me the most is typically when you
Speaker 1: have O. T. A. S there's the old saying that
Speaker 1: the offense doesn't run or hit come out of the
Speaker 1: gate as fast as the defense, because the offense is
Speaker 1: about timing and continuity and rhythm, whereas the defense it's
Speaker 1: about speed, athleticism, aggressiveness, which it's a lot easier to
Speaker 1: get to that speed as the defense compared to the offense.
Speaker 1: But I thought that the offense held its own. I
Speaker 1: thought Trevor looked very sharp. Besides the one pass that
Speaker 1: he ended up throwing right to Divon Hamilton's on a
Speaker 1: kind of a he's trying to dump it off to
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram. I think it was underneath and it's not
Speaker 1: a very um well thought out throw by Trevor in
Speaker 1: that case because he has thrown back to the middle
Speaker 1: across the body. Not what you want to do. But
Speaker 1: number fifty two is a large human being. Yes, he
Speaker 1: is between the five and the two. He is, and
Speaker 1: he did a good job. He caught its great, ran
Speaker 1: with it, ran with it, and the defense had a
Speaker 1: great moment in practice. Yes, so, and glad to see
Speaker 1: that Trevor didn't try to make a touchdown saving tackle
Speaker 1: that stay away with the red jersey, don't don't touch
Speaker 1: the quarterback. So yeah, good to see some of those.
Speaker 1: Good to see some of the new faces that are here.
Speaker 1: Obviously the free agent guys, we we got our first
Speaker 1: chance to look at Christian Kirk had a couple of
Speaker 1: catches that, uh seem to have a little something going.
Speaker 1: Do you buy the the whole building of an unfield
Speaker 1: connection now to pay dividends later in training camp in preseason?
Speaker 1: Absolutely you do. I think. I think the timing, the relationships,
Speaker 1: the communication between quarterback and all of his weapons is
Speaker 1: critical to build at this moment. And there's a lot
Speaker 1: of guys that are getting reps because they're still trying
Speaker 1: to figure out who those guys are gonna be once
Speaker 1: it starts coming down to kick off time for a
Speaker 1: real game. But for the most part, they who those
Speaker 1: guys are gonna be. But it's a it's critically important
Speaker 1: that those guys get the reps now, which is kind
Speaker 1: of surprising. I know we're gonna get to around the
Speaker 1: league later on, but you've got other guys and other
Speaker 1: teams in the league that aren't having everybody in attendance
Speaker 1: like the Jaguars do, which look, the Jaguars had the
Speaker 1: worst record in football two years in a row. They
Speaker 1: need to get the work together like the Ravens. For example,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson is not in the O Tater at the
Speaker 1: O t a s. Tom Brady is doing some and
Speaker 1: not doing others. But he's the goat. He doesn't need
Speaker 1: to do a lot of that stuff. But Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: and and his guys they need to get every rep
Speaker 1: possible for two reasons. One, it's a completely new system
Speaker 1: with the new coaching staff, and they need to not
Speaker 1: only to learn how to understand the new system, but
Speaker 1: also to communicate with their coaches and their teammates. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the biggest reason why. And if you don't take
Speaker 1: advantage of that when you're ball team that hasn't been
Speaker 1: very good, you've got no chance. And so it's good
Speaker 1: to see everybody out there. It's Jaguars Happy Hour on
Speaker 1: Tinte next selling Jaguars dot Com. J P. Shadrick with
Speaker 1: Jeff Logabun. Let's hear from Trevor Lawrence, Jaguars quarterback, on
Speaker 1: the start of the organized team activities. We've got a
Speaker 1: couple different phases. Now we're back into competing against the defense,
Speaker 1: and um, that's a little easier to measure because you can,
Speaker 1: you know, you can put a grade on it, you
Speaker 1: can say it was that successful or not, you know,
Speaker 1: complete and complete all those things. It's a little tougher
Speaker 1: on air. I think having those few weeks though to
Speaker 1: prepare and really master the system helps And now like today,
Speaker 1: I feel like we were pretty clean. Obviously, you're gonna
Speaker 1: always have a few a few things here and there
Speaker 1: you want to clean up. But I really like where
Speaker 1: we're at. I feel like we're I don't want to
Speaker 1: say ahead of schedule, but I really feel like we're
Speaker 1: right where we need to be. Um the way that
Speaker 1: you know, Coach Peterson press all those all of our
Speaker 1: our whole staff is installed. The offense, you know, really strategically,
Speaker 1: and um, I really like where we're at and the
Speaker 1: guys are picking it up great. The question to Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence here was how do you measure um success? Building?
Speaker 1: Is it day to day? You know, how do you
Speaker 1: as an offense and as yourself? How do you? And
Speaker 1: that was his answer. Well, and if you pulled thirty
Speaker 1: two teams quarterbacks, they would all have a very similar answer.
Speaker 1: We really like where we are. We're doing really well.
Speaker 1: Our tempo is great, We're building the camaraderie, we're building
Speaker 1: towards the season. I mean, so everybody has a winning may, right,
Speaker 1: everybody has a winning journey. We're undefeated and may and
Speaker 1: absolutely so. I mean you would expect some of the
Speaker 1: answers that he has, but but it's good. It's good
Speaker 1: to see the amount when when you talk about the
Speaker 1: brain power of the offensive side of the ball that
Speaker 1: they have there with Press Taylor and Mike McCoy and
Speaker 1: and of course Duff Peterson as the head coach, Jim
Speaker 1: Bob Cooter the passing game coordinator, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: guys on that side of the ball that are gonna
Speaker 1: be able to provide some great insight into the offense
Speaker 1: and into the performance of the offense and into the
Speaker 1: design of the offense. And I think that's that's really
Speaker 1: a strong, really strong thing about this offense and a
Speaker 1: strong thing about Doug Peterson's staff. The offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball has a lot of really good minds and
Speaker 1: a lot of minds JP that have very good experience,
Speaker 1: great experience working with the quarterback in the NFL, in
Speaker 1: the NFL, not at some college school. And that's that's
Speaker 1: great what you gotta have. And the defense has some
Speaker 1: great experience too, Okay, not as much as the offense,
Speaker 1: and that's okay, part of I think sometimes the one
Speaker 1: thing I think that you've got to be careful of
Speaker 1: is that when you have, when you have that many
Speaker 1: minds and that many people that you know, I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here talking about the great virtues that they bring to
Speaker 1: the offense of the offense to staff, you have to
Speaker 1: make sure and I don't want to say be cautious,
Speaker 1: but there needs to be a very specific set of
Speaker 1: marching orders and about job description because you can't have
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks coach, okay, disagreeing with the offensive coordinator because
Speaker 1: he's been a head coach and he's been an offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator before. I mean, there's there's you've got to make
Speaker 1: sure that you know the old saying, you can't have
Speaker 1: too many chefs in the kitchen. Okay, you need to
Speaker 1: have the one guy that's kind of the head of
Speaker 1: the of the kitchen, and then everybody else has certain
Speaker 1: jobs and responsibilities to do. And of course you have
Speaker 1: the the master chef. I thought there was too many
Speaker 1: cooks in the kitchen, however you want to call it
Speaker 1: chef's cooks JP. Okay, the kitchens you go to a
Speaker 1: lot of kits, they're cooks. The kitchens that I go to,
Speaker 1: Chef Gordon White, the whole thing. Yeah. Me on the
Speaker 1: other hand, Yeah, but I I do. I I like
Speaker 1: the the experience that the offense has. I think it's
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun to watch. I mean, there's there's
Speaker 1: a lot of bright minds on that side of the
Speaker 1: ball now, and if Trevor Lawrence doesn't have the ability
Speaker 1: or cannot find a way to soak in all of that,
Speaker 1: are as much of that knowledge as possible. But I
Speaker 1: believe that Trevor Lawrence is going to be able to
Speaker 1: soak in as much as possible. And the one thing
Speaker 1: I want to see him out of him JP, because
Speaker 1: you know that we only saw the first day and
Speaker 1: there's a long way to go and O T A. S.
Speaker 1: And and also you have the mandatory minicamp coming up
Speaker 1: in the middle of June. But you want to start
Speaker 1: to see the leadership of Trevor Lawrence, the ownership of
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence in the offense. And and that takes time.
Speaker 1: That's not something that just happens automatically the first day
Speaker 1: that he's out there with his with his new teammates
Speaker 1: and his new coaches. That's something that has to be built.
Speaker 1: The confidence has to be gained. But at some point
Speaker 1: you want to see that to where you see him
Speaker 1: starting to correct guys, starting to demand more of his teammates.
Speaker 1: And when you when you start to see that, I
Speaker 1: think then he starts to say, yeah, Okay, Now now
Speaker 1: you can feel it, you can feel how his ownership
Speaker 1: is making a difference. Hey, imagine this. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: more from Trevor Lawrence coming up. Good Jaguars quarterback and
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson Jaguars head coach. We'll hear from g M.
Speaker 1: Trent balky Is as well. A little later, he joined
Speaker 1: John Ozan the Ozone Podcast earlier today, the Jaguars are
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Speaker 1: in a moment with little defensive talk, get logs thoughts
Speaker 1: on the front seven is actually and all the new
Speaker 1: faces there for the Jaguars defense is Jaguars Happy Hour
Speaker 1: on the Jaguars Digital Network right here. I'm really excited
Speaker 1: about the future. Obviously we all learned a lot last year,
Speaker 1: but being able to build on what we have now
Speaker 1: and we really create something here, something special. Um. I
Speaker 1: feel like we have a lot of the right people
Speaker 1: and that's that's what you need is good people, and
Speaker 1: we got that. So I'm looking forward to it. That
Speaker 1: was Trevor Lawrence and that is the Hunt tonight, chapter
Speaker 1: three on the Jaguars YouTube channel and Jaguars dot Com,
Speaker 1: Jaguars Social media. But check it out tonight, and I
Speaker 1: think it's a long one, like twenty minutes or something like,
Speaker 1: it's nice behind the scenes acts. You can't minutes that's
Speaker 1: a long one. Yes, that's a lot. I mean they've
Speaker 1: been working on this for a long time. Max Hawkman,
Speaker 1: our entire broadcast crew and digital crew, and um, it's
Speaker 1: it's um, it's twenty minutes. I mean, here's a here's
Speaker 1: a reality. Because these videos that they put together have
Speaker 1: been fantastic. When you say twenty minutes, it's a long.
Speaker 1: When it doesn't feel long, it'll fly by. But it's
Speaker 1: access you don't get literally anywhere else that cool stuff.
Speaker 1: But put it this way, I watch it. Wow, they honestly,
Speaker 1: I watch it and I enjoy it. I mean it's uh,
Speaker 1: I think it's very entertaining. I think they do a
Speaker 1: great job. Whether the production on, it's awesome. And congratulations
Speaker 1: to all the guys that contributed to do that because
Speaker 1: they do a wonderful job. So check it out tonight
Speaker 1: on the Jaguars YouTube channel about seven o'clock or so.
Speaker 1: And let's move along to defense now logs. A lot
Speaker 1: of new faces on defense around here. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: draft picks, some free agent guys have come in. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's hard to tell on a lot of things
Speaker 1: right now because there's no contact going on. But what
Speaker 1: stood out the most to you on the defensive side
Speaker 1: the other day, I think, first and foremost some of
Speaker 1: the free agent guys that you signed, the big guys.
Speaker 1: It's hard to tell on them. I mean, because the
Speaker 1: big guys aren't pounding. You don't really kind of learn
Speaker 1: anything about the big guys other than man, he looks
Speaker 1: really big in clothes. But you'll find out more about
Speaker 1: them when the pads go on. But I really like
Speaker 1: the energy of a little con the guy. He practices
Speaker 1: like I watched him on film, which means ton of energy,
Speaker 1: has never ending energy, is always all over the field,
Speaker 1: and that was good to watch. Now. Fotakasi big dude.
Speaker 1: You know, big dude, And I think I think the
Speaker 1: one thing that I want to see more of is
Speaker 1: that the guys that were drafted the last couple of
Speaker 1: years that are that are in that position to have
Speaker 1: an opportunity to contribute, for them to step Bob. You
Speaker 1: go back a couple of years ago, Devon Hamilton's was
Speaker 1: a third round pick. We were talking about this before
Speaker 1: we came off. And when you expend a third round
Speaker 1: pick on the defensive tackle. You want to start to
Speaker 1: see some dividends. And last year de Von Hamilton's I
Speaker 1: thought took a step back. Well, this is a third
Speaker 1: round pick defensive tackle. You want to see him take
Speaker 1: a step up. Okay. Last year's fourth round pick J
Speaker 1: two fell A didn't make much of an impact, was
Speaker 1: hardly active for any games at all last year. Okay,
Speaker 1: these are two guys that play the same position of
Speaker 1: photo Kassi, who you went and signed in free agency
Speaker 1: and gave a bunch of money to in free agency
Speaker 1: because you felt like there maybe those other two guys
Speaker 1: weren't quite where you needed them to be at. If
Speaker 1: those other two guys are playing, well, maybe you don't
Speaker 1: go out and get a photo COSI. So I want
Speaker 1: to see some of these younger defensive tackles, some of
Speaker 1: these guys that they've picked of the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: all of them, not just the defensive tackles, even you know,
Speaker 1: the young safety they got from Syracuse last Cisco, I
Speaker 1: want to see him take a step up. I mean,
Speaker 1: these are the guys that are gonna be the guys
Speaker 1: that either make this team better and help this team
Speaker 1: climb out of the whole that they've been in the
Speaker 1: last two years or they don't. And they've got to
Speaker 1: find a way to get production out of these draft
Speaker 1: picks that they've had in the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about just Okay, he's got a
Speaker 1: role because he's playned. I'm talking about being a significant
Speaker 1: contributor to winning winning. That's there's a big difference between
Speaker 1: being a contributor and being a contributor to winning. At
Speaker 1: some point, you just gotta you gotta put Cisco on
Speaker 1: the field. That was part of the thing last year, right, Well,
Speaker 1: I just didn't put him out there, you know. And look, look,
Speaker 1: I don't really quite understand. I mean, he was coming
Speaker 1: back from an injury at Syracuse, and so you understand
Speaker 1: some of the Okay, we're gonna make sure that he
Speaker 1: comes back and he's healthy and he's good, and we
Speaker 1: don't want to put too much on his table. And
Speaker 1: there's always a little bit of a an adjustment period
Speaker 1: for every rookie that comes in, and it's different for
Speaker 1: every rookie. And I think Cisco has tremendous ball skills
Speaker 1: and you've got to find a way to get him
Speaker 1: on the field. No offense to Andrew Winger okay, but
Speaker 1: Andrew Winger can't make plays on the ball like like
Speaker 1: a Cisco. He can. Just look at the numbers, look
Speaker 1: at the numbers of the opportunities that both of these
Speaker 1: guys had in college, and I think those numbers speak
Speaker 1: very very loudly that Cisco makes plays on the ball
Speaker 1: and that wingered. I think the best role for him
Speaker 1: is as a sub safety, which means that he's a
Speaker 1: backup and that he is one of your core for
Speaker 1: special teams players, and and there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1: He can have a very long career and be a
Speaker 1: very very valuable piece to this football team in that role.
Speaker 1: Everybody's got to have a role, and I think that's
Speaker 1: the best role for him. Devin Lloyd, what stands out
Speaker 1: when you first see him running around with the veterans.
Speaker 1: We saw a rookie mini camp, of course, but then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, here he is on the field
Speaker 1: with all the old guys. I thought he blending in
Speaker 1: a little bit. When I say blended in, which means
Speaker 1: that he didn't stand out as much with the veterans,
Speaker 1: just because there's a little bit of an adjustment period.
Speaker 1: You're trying to keep the pace in the tempo the
Speaker 1: veterans who have been doing it for a little bit,
Speaker 1: and also you're trying to understand the tempo the way
Speaker 1: that you're supposed to practice and that the way that
Speaker 1: the veterans and the coaches established that. So his athleticism
Speaker 1: definitely still stands out. But when you go from the
Speaker 1: rookie camp to where you just go, wow, that guy
Speaker 1: is really athletic and he really stands out, and you
Speaker 1: put him around a lot more talented athletes and other
Speaker 1: talented linebackers, you're like, Okay, he definitely fits in, but
Speaker 1: he's not standing out yet. That will come with confidence
Speaker 1: and and when he understands his sister him a lot more.
Speaker 1: But he's still in that learning phase. Remember JP, the practice,
Speaker 1: the only practice that we all have seen is the
Speaker 1: very first one, and so that's just such a small
Speaker 1: sample size. And it's also the first sample size, which
Speaker 1: typically is something that is a little bit slower for
Speaker 1: the younger players that they're they're still in the mode
Speaker 1: of taking things in and digesting them. Trayvon Walker was
Speaker 1: not in attendance on Monday in the open practice. Reports
Speaker 1: today that he was attending a funeral and is back
Speaker 1: with the team now, So we didn't get a chance
Speaker 1: to see him out there with the veterans on Monday,
Speaker 1: but hopefully next week we will. Um. You know, then
Speaker 1: there's guys who've been around here for a minute, right,
Speaker 1: Um you mentioned some of the middle round draft picks
Speaker 1: on the d line, like Calebon chaise On, he's a
Speaker 1: first round pick, logs like, at some point you gotta
Speaker 1: get something more production out of him at that position.
Speaker 1: And now there's there's all these new faces coming in
Speaker 1: at outside linebacker with Walker and John Chalons still there,
Speaker 1: and uh, a guy like cheeses On is one of
Speaker 1: those guys get something out of caleban Is is going
Speaker 1: to be fighting for a roster spot. I mean that's
Speaker 1: I mean, that's plain and simple. I mean that's you're
Speaker 1: You're you're fighting for a job. I'm not. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's in the situation of, Okay, he's fighting for
Speaker 1: for playing time. Okay, because if he's fighting for that,
Speaker 1: who is he gonna take time away from? Is he
Speaker 1: gonna take time away from Josh Allen, No, Trayvon Walker, no,
Speaker 1: Um Smoot No. Now, last year he's he kind of
Speaker 1: split time with Smoot Smoot clearly showed last year that
Speaker 1: Smoot deserves to be definitely ahead of Calebn chays On.
Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to the down Calebancha and he
Speaker 1: just he has to take significant steps up in his
Speaker 1: game for him to earn a role as a regular
Speaker 1: contributor on defense. So act, I mean, that's just the
Speaker 1: way it is, and right now he is. I don't
Speaker 1: want to say he's a low man on the totem pole,
Speaker 1: but he's lower in the pecking order than being a
Speaker 1: regular rotation guy because you've added to that position in
Speaker 1: the draft with a first overall draft pick who has
Speaker 1: a ton of talent. And so I think that that's
Speaker 1: something to what what what he says to be determined,
Speaker 1: he's got to earn it. He's good. He's definitely got it.
Speaker 1: I thought he took a step up last year, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't a significant step up. We thought early on
Speaker 1: that he was starting to show a significant step, but
Speaker 1: then as the season wore on, it's like, it's kind
Speaker 1: of okay, he's got to be better. He would be
Speaker 1: four and a half million dead cap this year. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna let him go. He's gonna make the roster. Well,
Speaker 1: when I when I say he's he's trying to find
Speaker 1: a spot, When I say he's trying to find a spot,
Speaker 1: I'd say find a role, not so much a spot.
Speaker 1: That's that's much difference. Sorry, and I should have explained
Speaker 1: that a little bit more. But I mean, he is
Speaker 1: a guy that's gonna be fighting for a spot. Now
Speaker 1: would you would you cut a guy like that? I
Speaker 1: don't see that first round pick and you find a
Speaker 1: place for it. Well, he's got to earn it. I mean,
Speaker 1: he just don't find a place. He's not gonna be
Speaker 1: given a place. He's still gotta he's still got to
Speaker 1: earn something. But the amount of money that he's gonna
Speaker 1: get is guaranteed anyway, So you're gonna have to pay
Speaker 1: him regardless of whether he's on the roster or not.
Speaker 1: So I think that comes into place that gives him
Speaker 1: an advantage over a guy that even might be slightly
Speaker 1: better but would be a minimum salary guy. You said, Darren, go, Well,
Speaker 1: I mean he's a first round pick. We can't give
Speaker 1: up on him after two years. We've got to give
Speaker 1: him in a year three, right, So you're gonna give
Speaker 1: him every opportunity getting better. But he's got to start
Speaker 1: to show that he's getting better. Yeah, and where do
Speaker 1: you play him? Is he's still a true outsideline? But
Speaker 1: I think that's a great question. I think that's a
Speaker 1: great question. And I think that he's been an outside guy.
Speaker 1: I mean's outside guy, l s U outside guys, rookie,
Speaker 1: y're outside guy year two. He doesn't strike me as
Speaker 1: stout enough to to go put a hand on the
Speaker 1: ground in this. No, no, no, no, no, no no no,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking out loud here JP. And that Okay. The
Speaker 1: only other position that you would maybe playing at would
Speaker 1: be at an inside linebacking position. But they're stacked there
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, I don't know. I think that's interesting.
Speaker 1: So I think you sit there and you go, okay, Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, you need to find a way for
Speaker 1: him to get better at the outside linebacking position. Boy,
Speaker 1: wouldn't it be great if he could cross train where
Speaker 1: he could be one of those guys that could play
Speaker 1: inside and outside. And then also you have to be
Speaker 1: a core for special team or when I say core for,
Speaker 1: you know your four main special teams kickoff, kickoff return,
Speaker 1: punt and punt return. That that's that's your core for
Speaker 1: special teams. Okay. And when you say he needs to
Speaker 1: be a core four special teamer, that means that he's
Speaker 1: on every one of those units. Okay. He has the speed,
Speaker 1: he has the power, he has the agility to play
Speaker 1: on every one of those units. So you would love
Speaker 1: to find or or you would love to see that
Speaker 1: he has the ability to be a core for guy
Speaker 1: and then continues to work at his craft and outside
Speaker 1: linebacker and finds a way that he can contribute. Planting ahead,
Speaker 1: we'll hear from Doug Peterson again on what Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: in the offense should look like at the end of
Speaker 1: O t a s plus Trent Balky with John Osier
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Speaker 1: you just wondering. It's kind of assualt or no salt,
Speaker 1: no salt. I agree, yeah, no salt. You know, we
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Speaker 1: donate anymore. It's funny to come. We're back in a moment.
Speaker 1: We'll hear from Doug Peterson as Jaguars Happy Hour on
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Digital Network, Jaguars fans, you know, for him
Speaker 1: just again staying comfortable and getting more comfortable with the offense. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I really like his his dialogue with you know,
Speaker 1: with coach McCoy, impressing myself and things that he likes
Speaker 1: and doesn't like him. Um. I just want to see
Speaker 1: that that growth in him here as we you know,
Speaker 1: sort of wind down you know the off season and
Speaker 1: Europe with training camp. But you know, he's been he's
Speaker 1: been focus, he's been here, he's he's been attentive, he's
Speaker 1: done a good job on the football field. He's a leader.
Speaker 1: Uh and those are the things that we want to
Speaker 1: continue now, you know as we hit entertaining. That's head
Speaker 1: coach Doug Peterson earlier this week Welcome Back, It's Jaguars
Speaker 1: Happy Hour. J P. Shadrick with Jeff Logman, Joe Fortunado
Speaker 1: print re were along with US sand Glad gr with
Speaker 1: us Son Tintin, XL A M and Jaguars dot Com
Speaker 1: and the jag social media channels Twitter, which Logs is
Speaker 1: using right now. Facebook, he might be using that more
Speaker 1: and YouTube. Do you think I use Facebook more? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're you're of that um you know um experience of life, Yes,
Speaker 1: experience of life. What are you trying to say? You
Speaker 1: have that age? That's all. That's all I'm saying. That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying. That's it. Is there an age classification?
Speaker 1: So yes? So Twitter is for a certain age, Instagram
Speaker 1: is for an age Facebook Facebook is a different age. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I think there's a statistic are you Are you the
Speaker 1: metrics guy? I don't know. I'm just I don't know
Speaker 1: what those metrics are, but I'm guessing that. Okay, So
Speaker 1: give me give me your idea, Give me your idea
Speaker 1: of the age categories of these three different social media platforms.
Speaker 1: So I would say, like Snapchat, which I don't have
Speaker 1: anything to do with is super young like teenagers to
Speaker 1: you know, college kind of right. Twitter is probably like
Speaker 1: college too. You know my age and how old is
Speaker 1: that old enough? And then and I think the Facebook
Speaker 1: is like forty two infinity. What about Instagram? It depends
Speaker 1: on if you like taking photos or not. I think
Speaker 1: that's probably younger, trends younger. That's my guests, his view
Speaker 1: of the world. What do you think? So, so what
Speaker 1: would Joe be since, uh, you know, Facebook goes to
Speaker 1: my age. Hey, Joe is a little older than me.
Speaker 1: He's he still uses pony Express popular mechanics, right exactly.
Speaker 1: It comes in the mail, a JP, you know what
Speaker 1: you're getting old now? Okay, so you're starting a transition
Speaker 1: into this Facebook. I'm not getting old category. I'm just old.
Speaker 1: Let you know your Facebook age. That's what it is. Man.
Speaker 1: Life happens, Reality life happens. Reality HiT's your face sometimes.
Speaker 1: So the question there for Doug Peterson was what does
Speaker 1: this offense need to look like at the end of
Speaker 1: O t A s like, what is the end game?
Speaker 1: What do you want it? When? Will you be kind
Speaker 1: of happy? And that was his answer there. And I
Speaker 1: think that there's a there's a there's a lot of
Speaker 1: ways to measure success with an offense, but it's hard
Speaker 1: to measure success when you're when you're not really having
Speaker 1: a true measuring stick to the measuring, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. And that's why sometimes the off season can
Speaker 1: always be a little you can mislead you sometimes for
Speaker 1: for lack of a better way of describing it. But
Speaker 1: the one thing that you want to see with the
Speaker 1: offense is that the components that you have to start
Speaker 1: gaining a strong understanding of the offense to where and
Speaker 1: what I mean by that is that people are more
Speaker 1: functional when they're confident and in the know of what
Speaker 1: they're supposed to do. Athletes can perform better when they're
Speaker 1: not thinking about what they're supposed to do. They're just performing,
Speaker 1: they're just reacting, they're just being an athletic. Quarterbacks can
Speaker 1: perform better when things become second nature. So all of
Speaker 1: the components of the offense work better with great experience
Speaker 1: and great repetition. And that's what you're trying to gain
Speaker 1: in the off season. Now, at the end of an
Speaker 1: all season, are you gonna be able to fix it
Speaker 1: great and say, okay, you know, we're you know, if
Speaker 1: you if you're Doug Peterson. Well, you know, we're hoping
Speaker 1: we will get to level ten at the end end
Speaker 1: the conclusion of the all season, but well we got
Speaker 1: to like level eight and a half. Is there a
Speaker 1: way to measure that? I think that's an interesting question,
Speaker 1: But I don't think there's a way to truly measure
Speaker 1: it because you haven't and the coaches haven't seen these
Speaker 1: people perform. So what's the expectation? So I think in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, their vention venturing into the great unknown,
Speaker 1: and that they're not sure what a lot of these
Speaker 1: players can do because they haven't seen him in person.
Speaker 1: They've watched film, but some of them are very young
Speaker 1: and haven't been put in great positions to have success yet.
Speaker 1: So I think that that's a that's a it's a
Speaker 1: very open ended question that has a lot of different
Speaker 1: ways to answer it. Yeah, you got to see what
Speaker 1: a player's capabilities are before you can really craft a
Speaker 1: scheme or something around him. And here's a here's a
Speaker 1: perfect example. Okay, Travis c t N. Yes, you want
Speaker 1: to you want to get him involved, right, he's the
Speaker 1: first round draft pick last year who was unable to
Speaker 1: play because he ended up having a Liz Frank was. Essentially,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a midfoot sprain. He had surgery, surgery
Speaker 1: to fix it. Now he's back, he's been cleared to
Speaker 1: do everything. Okay, but what is your expectation for him? Well,
Speaker 1: he's a high first round pick, so your expectation is
Speaker 1: is that he's going to be a significant contributor to offense.
Speaker 1: But the reality is that you haven't seen him yet
Speaker 1: play and at the pro level. Okay, So where where
Speaker 1: do you expect him to be when you haven't seen
Speaker 1: him perform yet? M And I think that that's part
Speaker 1: of what you need to find out this year. Okay.
Speaker 1: You you would love to have this great role for
Speaker 1: Travis Etien. For example, last year with urban Meyer and
Speaker 1: the offensive staff, they had they had this vision for
Speaker 1: Travis e t N of being this X factor that
Speaker 1: he's not just a running back that you hand the
Speaker 1: ball off to. He's he's doing routes. So you got
Speaker 1: Jay Robin the backfield and you have Travis E t
Speaker 1: N split out why so essentially kind of like a
Speaker 1: tight end where you get a mismatch where e t
Speaker 1: N can get him that you can get him in
Speaker 1: space and get him against the linebacker who can't cover
Speaker 1: a guy who runs four four? Well? Is that the
Speaker 1: same vision that that Press Taylor and Doug Peterson and
Speaker 1: Mike McCoy and and Jim Bob Cooder. Is that the
Speaker 1: same vision that they have for Travis E. T n
Speaker 1: and this offense? I don't know, and you can't tell
Speaker 1: from watching one practice so far. This is something I
Speaker 1: think that's going to evolve. But I think it's an
Speaker 1: interesting question. Where do they see him at and where
Speaker 1: is the expectation for him to perform at. Because he's
Speaker 1: a first round pick, we all kind of have these
Speaker 1: high expectations, but the reality is is that we haven't
Speaker 1: seen him perform yet. So can we can we have
Speaker 1: a reasonable expectation for him? I mean, I think we
Speaker 1: all have a certain level, But where is that level
Speaker 1: and what's and what's reasonable? I don't know. You know,
Speaker 1: it seems like at least the one day we saw him,
Speaker 1: there was no issues with the foot. Yeah he looked good. Yeah, look,
Speaker 1: I mean, look he looked like he was moving. Okay,
Speaker 1: did he look like put it this way. Did we
Speaker 1: look at him and go, boy, that guy is really special?
Speaker 1: Did you get that impression? I mean, you know he's
Speaker 1: he's got something. No no, no, no, j P. Did
Speaker 1: your eyes when you watched him? I mean, considering what
Speaker 1: they're doing out there exactly exactly, And I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to say that that's a negative. I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to say that at this point, what with what
Speaker 1: they're doing and with I guess you could say how
Speaker 1: much he is opening it up, You're not. You're not
Speaker 1: seeing where you go, Wow, he's not like shaking five
Speaker 1: guys and running an eight yards. You're not gonna see
Speaker 1: that until real games happened. So but I mean, at
Speaker 1: some point you're gonna want to see that when it's live.
Speaker 1: But I think it's a It's interesting because you know,
Speaker 1: there's so many different components to saw offence that you
Speaker 1: sit there and you go, Okay, then you have a
Speaker 1: vision or you have this thing imprinted in your mind
Speaker 1: about how guys can contribute. Evan Ingram, Okay, we're number
Speaker 1: seventeen when you When I first saw it, I was like,
Speaker 1: who's that guy wearing seventeen? Got big seventeen, I mean,
Speaker 1: And so I looked at the back of the jersey
Speaker 1: and I saw Ingram Ingram, Who's Ingram. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 1: I was like, he got a haircut. So Evan Ingram
Speaker 1: got a haircut. Got me fulled. Okay, look, and and
Speaker 1: he's not a real big guy. And fact, if he was,
Speaker 1: if he was over working out with the wide receivers,
Speaker 1: and if he stood next to laviisco Chanlt. You go, dude,
Speaker 1: check out the size of those two wide receivers. But
Speaker 1: when you see him over in the tight end group,
Speaker 1: you go, is he with the right group? I mean,
Speaker 1: because he's not a real big guy, but I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be very good for a quarterback. Dan Arnold
Speaker 1: looks good. Dan Arnold looked really good, I thought. So
Speaker 1: here's another thing we mentioned earlier. Defensive line, it's hard
Speaker 1: to tell, you know, they're moving guys around. That's certainly
Speaker 1: the case on the offensive line too. We haven't touched
Speaker 1: on these guys yet. Um, but there's a couple of
Speaker 1: things that you you see Brandon Sheriff for the first
Speaker 1: time in person, impressive. Yeah, well, look, these guys are impressive.
Speaker 1: I think Walker Little's trimmed some weight down a little bit.
Speaker 1: Looks like well, and what we what we saw on Monday,
Speaker 1: because Cam Robinson wasn't there for whatever reason. Uh, doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: But so you know we the expected competition at right
Speaker 1: tackle with Walker Little and Juan Taylor. Well, Walker Little
Speaker 1: was playing left because Cam Robinson was not there at practice,
Speaker 1: and uh, Tyler Shatley ran with the ones at center.
Speaker 1: You know, your draft pick Fortner from Kentucky. You know,
Speaker 1: watched him practice, you know, got an up close personal
Speaker 1: look at him. And then oh, by the way, I'll
Speaker 1: get to the game film that I watched in a minute. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but in practice, there was a lot of guys were
Speaker 1: lined up in position that they're probably not going to
Speaker 1: be lined up at once you start doing stuff for real.
Speaker 1: So uh, but I will tell you if Joan Taylor
Speaker 1: better have a a little bit of a different mentality
Speaker 1: this year, because this competition for right tackle is not
Speaker 1: drummed up. This is real and he is going to
Speaker 1: be fighting for a job. When I say a job,
Speaker 1: starting job, okay, not necessarily a roster spot. I don't
Speaker 1: want to kind of want to get you confused again, Jim,
Speaker 1: and I think that that's gonna be interesting to watch.
Speaker 1: Tyler Shatley, I think, is going to be the starting
Speaker 1: center until he's not. And at what point will that be.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I I thought earlier that it might
Speaker 1: take some time. But Fortner is a very smart player.
Speaker 1: Watched the film on him this week. What'd you watch?
Speaker 1: What you watch for? If you're gonna watch? If you
Speaker 1: we're gonna watch one Kentucky game and you wanted to
Speaker 1: see Fortner go against the best of the best in
Speaker 1: the SEC? Which game would you want? Well, considering this,
Speaker 1: Kentucky is in the SEC East, which means every year
Speaker 1: they have to play the Georgia Bulldogs. Georgia had the
Speaker 1: best defense, so I would want to watch the game.
Speaker 1: That's the one. And I went and watched that game
Speaker 1: because that's the best defensive line. Mean, you're you're you're
Speaker 1: essentially watching Kentucky play against an NFL future NFL caliber
Speaker 1: defensive line. Okay, three of those guys got drafted extremely
Speaker 1: high in the first all of them pick first round picks.
Speaker 1: Five on the defense, three on the defensive line. Right,
Speaker 1: and here's the crazy thing. Okay, here's really what's crazy.
Speaker 1: JP the best one that they got up front in Athens,
Speaker 1: it's still in Athens, were night. That's crazy. How did
Speaker 1: heat fair like against the guys I thought he did
Speaker 1: really well there. Now, there was a couple instances where
Speaker 1: Jalen Carter, Okay, threw him a little bit, happens, it
Speaker 1: does happen. But the overall performance that he had in
Speaker 1: that game, I thought put it this way. After I
Speaker 1: watched that game, it changed my thinking about when he
Speaker 1: could become the starter after watching that. He's strong, he's aware,
Speaker 1: he's smart, He's got very good balance, rarely, if ever
Speaker 1: on the ground. He uh plays the game, I think
Speaker 1: with great adaptability. So in other words, when and and
Speaker 1: BASSELLI was one of the best guys at this and
Speaker 1: because Tony always understood what the player that he was
Speaker 1: going against was or was not. For example, if he
Speaker 1: was going against a guy that had great power, okay,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna try to finesse the guy. He knew
Speaker 1: that the guy was gonna play with power. It's it's
Speaker 1: understanding your opponent. When you watch Fortner play the game,
Speaker 1: especially against Georgia, you could tell that he understood the assignment.
Speaker 1: He understood the players that he was assigned to block,
Speaker 1: so he knew how to approach them. And I thought
Speaker 1: he did a very good job. And it wasn't perfect
Speaker 1: because Georgia's got some really good players up there. But
Speaker 1: I thought it was an excellent performance. And here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I think that was a little bit surprising in that
Speaker 1: game because you're watching Georgia and Kentucky play, here's a
Speaker 1: great opportunity at watching Trayvon Walker and he's on that team.
Speaker 1: He had a quiet game in that game. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was okay, but it wasn't one of those games
Speaker 1: where you go, wow, you know that guy, he was
Speaker 1: really good. It was just kind of an okay game.
Speaker 1: But I will I will say Fortner had a had
Speaker 1: an excellent game and it made me and I liked
Speaker 1: the size of him when he blocked for the Georgia Bulldogs,
Speaker 1: which is a player that sometimes which By the way,
Speaker 1: he was the what overall pick for the Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 1: and what's his name? Ninety nine it was, which went
Speaker 1: to Green Bay and then he had nine nine Jordan
Speaker 1: and okay, and then nine who went to Green Bay
Speaker 1: late in the first round when everybody was thinking they
Speaker 1: would take a wide receiver because they wanted to appease
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, but they didn't. They took number ninety five
Speaker 1: from the Georgia Bulldogs. The other defensive tackle DeVante Wyatt. Okay,
Speaker 1: Partner did a very good job on both of them.
Speaker 1: But man, when Jordan Davis wants to play sometimes in
Speaker 1: games he can tear everybody up. But he didn't. He
Speaker 1: did not against Fortna Fortner handling. That's good news, very
Speaker 1: because he's gonna be playing. I like that every week. Um,
Speaker 1: we'll come back in a moment. Well, I look around
Speaker 1: the National Football League. Also here from Jaguars GM Trent Baulky,
Speaker 1: Who is it? With John Osier earlier today on the
Speaker 1: ozone podcasts Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network.
Speaker 1: As evaluators, we can't get caught up in in the
Speaker 1: xs and ohs. You know, we're caught up in the
Speaker 1: Jimmy's and Joe's. If you will, that's nothing. You say
Speaker 1: a lot. You bring a player in and it's apt
Speaker 1: to the coach to using right. Yeah, you know one
Speaker 1: phrase I you know, I take from coach Parcels all
Speaker 1: the time, as you can't coach the team when you're
Speaker 1: a GM or you're an evaluator. It's not your job,
Speaker 1: it's not your role. Let's let the coaches coach and
Speaker 1: find players that fit what they want to do from
Speaker 1: a schematic standpoint, you know and and trust that once
Speaker 1: you give them a player that can do certain things,
Speaker 1: they're gonna ask that that player does those things and
Speaker 1: keep them away from things that he maybe doesn't do well.
Speaker 1: And that's I mean again, it's just the collaborative effort
Speaker 1: that you go through to make sure you're getting the
Speaker 1: right players that fit your your your organization from a
Speaker 1: cultural standpoint and a physical standpoint. That is General Manager
Speaker 1: Trim Bulky on the ozone podcast earlier today, Available now
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Speaker 1: a five star rating while you're at it. What did
Speaker 1: that fox start be good? An interesting comment there by
Speaker 1: Trent Balking and one thing that I would I would
Speaker 1: uh because he talked about how when you when you
Speaker 1: give a coach a player, you want to make sure
Speaker 1: that he's doing the things that he does best, which
Speaker 1: is true. But the one thing that I would add
Speaker 1: to that and at sometimes what happens in the process
Speaker 1: of working with a new player. There's a discovery part
Speaker 1: of it. When I say there's a discovery part of it,
Speaker 1: you may learn something about the player that you didn't
Speaker 1: know from working firsthand with him. You may discover that
Speaker 1: he also has a skill set that might be good
Speaker 1: at doing some other things that might be doing, might
Speaker 1: be doing things on top of what you evaluate and hey,
Speaker 1: look he really does X. Well, Look he also might
Speaker 1: do X and Y and then F really well. So
Speaker 1: you could expand or even you would understand that maybe
Speaker 1: you thought he does X very well and what you
Speaker 1: envisioned him doing for you, well, then you get him
Speaker 1: and you say, well he can do X, but he
Speaker 1: does why better? I mean, sometimes there's things that you
Speaker 1: don't know about a prospect that you learn while working
Speaker 1: with him. And so I would add that to Trent Balking.
Speaker 1: That's part of what the coaching staff role is because
Speaker 1: and when he says it has to be a what
Speaker 1: did he say? That was the term collaborate of effort
Speaker 1: Very true because it's not just about Okay, here's the
Speaker 1: player and he has to do this. The coaches also
Speaker 1: have to be able to look at the player and say, look,
Speaker 1: we really like what he does and what you kind
Speaker 1: of envisioned, but we also like him in this role.
Speaker 1: It's up to the coaches to end up making that decision.
Speaker 1: Let's take our weekly look. If you're watching on Jaguars
Speaker 1: dot Com or Jacks social media outside of t I
Speaker 1: a a bank field at the Football Performance Center construction process.
Speaker 1: There's some walls going up, they're moving some more dirt around.
Speaker 1: They're digging a couple of big holes in the ground
Speaker 1: for apparently pools in the one part of the center
Speaker 1: and uh, we're on track, man. There we go um
Speaker 1: training camp, they'll be ready to roll. That's ah, that's
Speaker 1: a lot of work, a lot of work. And I
Speaker 1: can tell you this, they're working incredibly hard JP. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they're I mean they work from early
Speaker 1: in the morning until well into the even name weekends.
Speaker 1: There they've been going and there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: putting a lot of hours in to make that happen.
Speaker 1: It's looking good looking forward to the final product as well,
Speaker 1: and not this coming training camp, but the training camp
Speaker 1: after and renderings are are really neat. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: one of the best in the league. And there's uh,
Speaker 1: there's some great ones in the league. I remember years
Speaker 1: ago when when I went to the Atlanta Falcons facility
Speaker 1: and the Atlanta Falcons would I mean, they were on
Speaker 1: the cutting edge. They had this new expanse of facility
Speaker 1: that when you looked out, it looked out on the
Speaker 1: giant expanse of fields, and then you had all of
Speaker 1: these apartments wrapped around the field down at the bottom, Like,
Speaker 1: what in the world is all that. Well, that's where
Speaker 1: they all stayed for training camp. They had housing for
Speaker 1: players for staff and uh, I was like, wow, that's different.
Speaker 1: And then we had the opportunity not long ago to
Speaker 1: see what the Minnesota Vikings did. Wow, that's impressive. This
Speaker 1: will be the arms race has entered the NFL. That's right,
Speaker 1: and the Jags are in it now, which is a
Speaker 1: good thing. Let's go around the NFL quickly. Some big
Speaker 1: nuggets from around the league from the Associated Press. The
Speaker 1: NFL said Wednesday it will appeal a ruling denying a
Speaker 1: request to move John Gruden's lawsuit against the league from
Speaker 1: a public courtroom into a closed door arbitration so it
Speaker 1: stays in the public court. Gruden's lawsuit accuses of the
Speaker 1: NFL of leaking his emails to force him to resign
Speaker 1: last October. So there you go. Yeah, the league is
Speaker 1: not happy about that decision, I can. I can assure
Speaker 1: you of that. They were. We're hoping that it would
Speaker 1: be moved behind closed doors. Colin Kaepernick gotta work out
Speaker 1: with the Las Vegas Raiders yesterday, no where yet on
Speaker 1: out when he hasn't played in the NFL and over
Speaker 1: five years. He had a free agent visit with the
Speaker 1: Seahawks and may have seventeen through in front of some
Speaker 1: NFL scouts at halftime of the Michigan spring game this
Speaker 1: past April. Of course, Jim Harbaugh is there, last played
Speaker 1: with them. Yeah, that's gonna be an interesting situation to watch.
Speaker 1: Could uh could a team? I mean, if I were
Speaker 1: to pick the perfect place for Kaepernick with his skill set,
Speaker 1: because he's I view him as a running quarterback. I mean,
Speaker 1: wouldn't a great fit be Baltimore behind Lamar Jackson? I mean,
Speaker 1: wouldn't the scheme fit him perfectly? If he were to
Speaker 1: have he can still run like I mean, if if
Speaker 1: he could do the same things that he once did,
Speaker 1: Can he still run like that? I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Five years out, it's a long time some
Speaker 1: leagal rule changes. Players designated for a turn from the
Speaker 1: reserve injured list are now four games, not three to
Speaker 1: come back on the on the regular roster. It was
Speaker 1: the number of changed to you. You're allowed I think
Speaker 1: eight eight players that you can bring back from me
Speaker 1: who to reserve. Practice squads are now sixteen players, up
Speaker 1: from fourteen. You can elevate individual players from the squad
Speaker 1: to the game day roster a maximum of three times
Speaker 1: per season now rather than two. Yeah, and and and
Speaker 1: that's smart. You should be able to do that. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you've got them on practice squad, why would you
Speaker 1: not have the ability to utilize them for for competitions.
Speaker 1: I mean, it just makes no sense. And here's the
Speaker 1: other reality the league. The original design of the expanded
Speaker 1: practice squads was was a reaction to COVID. COVID. Okay,
Speaker 1: well now that I want to say they are beyond COVID,
Speaker 1: but they're still dealing with some of the the implication
Speaker 1: ramifications of COVID. It's still there. But here's the reality.
Speaker 1: There's two other leagues under spring. The league wants to
Speaker 1: make sure that they keep more roster spots open for players.
Speaker 1: I'll do it for our program today. Brent Reaber, Joe Fortunado,
Speaker 1: that's Jeff Lagoman. I'm JP Shadrick. Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next time as Jaguars Happy Hour on
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Digital Network st