Speaker 1: It is third day June. Second is Jaguars Happy All
Speaker 1: and now the guys slate it to play Rooster's Dead
Speaker 1: in Topcome three. J jack Rick, I'm not sure the reference.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the second one yet. And welcome out
Speaker 1: of Jaguars Happy Hour. I'm J. P. Shadrick. We've got
Speaker 1: a busy, busy show coming up today. Organized Team Activities
Speaker 1: Week number two well underway now. Wide receiver Christian Kirk
Speaker 1: will join us in studio. Oh and about fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: or so, we'll get his thoughts on arriving in Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: settling into the Jaguars offense, the o t as, working
Speaker 1: with a quarterback, all the above, his past in Arizona.
Speaker 1: He's actually from the Phoenix area and then played for
Speaker 1: the Cardinals of course the first four or five years
Speaker 1: of his career before coming over here in free agency.
Speaker 1: Will will visit with him coming up. Senior writer John
Speaker 1: Osier will join us as well. That's at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the hour and he'll finish the show with us today.
Speaker 1: Jeff Loghman is out, but he'll be back at some
Speaker 1: point next week and we'll hear from Bloggs again in
Speaker 1: the final week of organized team activities will go around
Speaker 1: the National Football League as well well. Earlier this week,
Speaker 1: the organized team activities got back underway on Tuesday after
Speaker 1: the Memorial Day holiday. Three practices last week, and then
Speaker 1: the team was off Friday through Monday, the holiday actual
Speaker 1: holiday on Monday, and then back to work Tuesday. Three
Speaker 1: practices on the schedule for this week, and by league rule,
Speaker 1: they can't have more than two in a row this week.
Speaker 1: Next week there will be four on the schedule at least,
Speaker 1: and historically teams on that tenth and final O tier
Speaker 1: it's scheduled for Friday of next week. A lot of
Speaker 1: times do a team building activity or even you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes give the team off. We'll see what Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: as in mind on the tenth and final O t
Speaker 1: A of next week. But I will get a chance
Speaker 1: as media to be out there one day per week.
Speaker 1: We're out on the O t A number one last
Speaker 1: week and then out there on Tuesday this week. They
Speaker 1: started practice on the game field and then a little
Speaker 1: pop up shower came along. The rain was fine enough,
Speaker 1: and then a rumble of thunder and and bang, there
Speaker 1: you go. The lightning moved the practice indoors into the
Speaker 1: Dream Finders Homes Flex field for the remainder of the workout,
Speaker 1: and you know, of course, all eyes are on the
Speaker 1: quarterback Trevor Lawrence and this offense and how things feel.
Speaker 1: And maybe you get a better sense after a week
Speaker 1: of practices, at least from a head coach Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: three practices in going in to that fourth practice, he
Speaker 1: spoke before Tuesday's practice about maybe an overview of the
Speaker 1: team what he feels after one week of organized team activities.
Speaker 1: It was a good week, you know for us. Um again,
Speaker 1: it was the first time since that first mini camp
Speaker 1: several weeks ago to be you know out there and
Speaker 1: the way the way I've got to set up, you know, Um,
Speaker 1: we're working some first and second down, some third down,
Speaker 1: some red zone stuff and throughout the courts of the week.
Speaker 1: So we're throwing a lot at the guys. And right now,
Speaker 1: the guys have really handled the information. They've taken it
Speaker 1: from the classroom to the practice field and and that's
Speaker 1: really what we want to see right now. You can't
Speaker 1: see physicality and all that kind of stuff and tackling
Speaker 1: and all that yet, but um, you know, the guys
Speaker 1: are they're moving in the right way. They're they're practicing fast,
Speaker 1: they're they're protecting each other, and that's what we want
Speaker 1: to see, and that's what I want to see this
Speaker 1: time year. You gotta love that attitude from Doug Peterson.
Speaker 1: He just understands the pace of the off season. And
Speaker 1: we've talked about this and shows before the last few weeks. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna win the super Bowl today, but you
Speaker 1: can win the super Bowl by being ready to go
Speaker 1: for the regular season with your team healthy and motivated
Speaker 1: and locked in and ready. And that's what they're going
Speaker 1: for right now. The pace of just bringing in the
Speaker 1: class from the classroom to the practice field. Don't get
Speaker 1: anybody hurt right now. You know, we know exactly what
Speaker 1: we're gonna go over today in this time of year,
Speaker 1: and we can handle the rest, come training camp and
Speaker 1: into the regular season to get ready for the opponent
Speaker 1: week to week. So I'm not gonna reinvent the wheel
Speaker 1: and do this a different way. He's done it before,
Speaker 1: he's built it before, he's been in the league, as
Speaker 1: we've said all over this offseason, since he knows the
Speaker 1: schedule of how things are supposed to feel, and look
Speaker 1: around here, now. Part of the situation here is taking
Speaker 1: over what happened last year with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Of course,
Speaker 1: for Doug Peterson, taking over the remnants of the Urban
Speaker 1: Meyer regime and an organization that was shattered in a
Speaker 1: lot of different ways in that locker room after everything
Speaker 1: that happened a year ago. And there's a fine line
Speaker 1: though on as he said earlier this offseason, regaining the
Speaker 1: trust of the football team and the people on the
Speaker 1: football side after every thing that happened a year ago. Well,
Speaker 1: there's a fine line between that but still getting work
Speaker 1: done and pushing the team forward and striving for a
Speaker 1: few things. Yes, there might be limits to that in
Speaker 1: the off season program, but there's still some checklist of
Speaker 1: things they need to get done, and they have to
Speaker 1: push towards certain things and certain milestones in the off season.
Speaker 1: And Doug Peterson earlier this week understands that fine line
Speaker 1: between regaining the trust and still pushing the players the
Speaker 1: right way. As as I gained their trust, I can
Speaker 1: push a little bit harder, um, And there is a
Speaker 1: fine line there, and there is a balance there, and
Speaker 1: that just comes from just understanding and really reaching out
Speaker 1: to the players and and kind of you know, seeing
Speaker 1: how they react to certain things. Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: want to push them in practice. I want to challenge
Speaker 1: them in practice, but at the same time, I don't
Speaker 1: want to I don't want to really overstep my bounds
Speaker 1: a little bit right now, you know with them, and
Speaker 1: and uh, at the same time, when I do that,
Speaker 1: I want to see the turn you know, back, you know,
Speaker 1: towards towards what we're doing. And and That's what I've seen.
Speaker 1: And so the more the more that we continue to
Speaker 1: have that that that two way you know, communication and dialogue,
Speaker 1: I can continue to push a little bit harder. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, in the off season, we you know, we
Speaker 1: go a little bit easier. But I think it happens
Speaker 1: more in training camp when the pads come on and
Speaker 1: and it gets a little warmer outside and and we
Speaker 1: can we can really challenge them a little bit more. Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: you know, step by step, understand that relationship has to
Speaker 1: grow at some point. And once that relationship grows in,
Speaker 1: you can push the team a little bit further. He's
Speaker 1: been through it before as a player. He gets that
Speaker 1: whole push and pull that goes on between coaches and
Speaker 1: players and in the way. This thing has really started.
Speaker 1: Up here. It's Jaguars Happy Hour on Tintin XL A
Speaker 1: M and Jaguars dot Com. J P. Shadrick with you,
Speaker 1: Jeff log him and out this week coming up Christian
Speaker 1: Kirk Jaguars wide receiver, and then John Osan coming up
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour. Let's hear more from
Speaker 1: head coach Doug Peterson. Last week, Trevor Lawrence spoke and
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about the pace of the defense
Speaker 1: after the first O t A practice. There were a
Speaker 1: few plays in the eleven on eleven that we saw
Speaker 1: in that open practice and in O t A number
Speaker 1: one where defensive linemen are getting free and rushing the
Speaker 1: quarterback and he's having a hustle a couple throws out
Speaker 1: of there. Well, this week Peterson asked about the pace
Speaker 1: of defense. Is there really a limit to it? Yes,
Speaker 1: we know there's no contact officially, but is there a
Speaker 1: rule on the or a Jaguars rule of sorts against
Speaker 1: um maybe going a little too hard in practice. And
Speaker 1: here's what Peterson said. Listen, it's full speed, you know,
Speaker 1: full speed drills and again, because you're not in pads,
Speaker 1: it's really hard for the offensive defensive lines to really
Speaker 1: you know, kind of control the pace of place sometimes
Speaker 1: and and you know it's just it's hard, it's really hard.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, um, it's sort
Speaker 1: of it's sort of the fun of it, you know,
Speaker 1: the competition of it, and and really to see the
Speaker 1: competitive juices flowing a little bit out there on the
Speaker 1: practice field and you know, um, you know, obviously the
Speaker 1: quarterback feels it when when the pocket you know, is
Speaker 1: collapsed a little bit. But again, because we're not in pads,
Speaker 1: it's really hard to to anchor and you know, grab
Speaker 1: a hold of something you know, I guess like a
Speaker 1: shoulder pad to to stop a rushing line. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: it's tough to evaluate. Especially in the trenches this time
Speaker 1: of year, you'll get a little bit of work and
Speaker 1: they actually have flipped at least in the practice we
Speaker 1: saw this week on Tuesday, some of the positions on
Speaker 1: the offensive line from drill to drill. There was a
Speaker 1: walker little working at left tackle and then over at
Speaker 1: right tackle and the Jowan Taylor was getting some left
Speaker 1: tackle reps also. Just at least put him out there
Speaker 1: in a scenario or two and just see what you
Speaker 1: have Cama. Robinson was not available on two day and
Speaker 1: there was a report that he is back in the
Speaker 1: building or was back on the building on Wednesday and
Speaker 1: maybe the rest of the weeks. That's good news moving ahead,
Speaker 1: and maybe next week we'll see a little Cam Robinson
Speaker 1: in the building after he signed that big contract a
Speaker 1: little earlier this offseason. Another position group of note for
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, and it's been something this organization has been
Speaker 1: trying to deal with really since Marcedes Lewis left, and
Speaker 1: that's the tight end position, and they've thrown money at
Speaker 1: a bunch of different guys over the years. Of course,
Speaker 1: we know that Julius Thomas that didn't work out, Austin
Speaker 1: Seferi and Jenkins nope, Tyler Eiffort at a moment but
Speaker 1: not really. Um. Meanwhile, Morcedes Lewis, by the way, is
Speaker 1: still playing for the Green Bay Packers, and uh, you
Speaker 1: know it's going to take him a few years, but
Speaker 1: if he hung around a couple three more years, he'll
Speaker 1: be close to the most all time games played by
Speaker 1: a tight end in league history. It's Jason Witten at
Speaker 1: two seventy one, Mercedes at two thirty four. He's a Packer.
Speaker 1: He's not a jag R, but he was a long
Speaker 1: time Jaguar. They've been trying to figure it out since then,
Speaker 1: but now they've made some changes to that. Of course
Speaker 1: this year, Evan Ingram comes in this year and we'll
Speaker 1: hear from John Oser coming up. I think he caught
Speaker 1: up with Evan Ingram earlier this week, who came in
Speaker 1: in free agency and was a former first round pick.
Speaker 1: And we'll see what he can do in this offense.
Speaker 1: And you know the feeling just talking to guys like
Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks and some and Jeff Lockman who's seen him
Speaker 1: in practice. It's at least a time or two. The
Speaker 1: early field is that it's not just a true online
Speaker 1: tight end. I mean he's gonna be out there wide
Speaker 1: and making plays on the outside. That's the idea behind it.
Speaker 1: Dan Arnold's the same way he had moments of that
Speaker 1: last season and is healthy now and he's out on
Speaker 1: the practice field and that Luke Farrell was a draft
Speaker 1: pick last year. Chris man Hurts is the lead blocking
Speaker 1: option there. That was the idea going into last season
Speaker 1: and actually caught the first ever touchdown pass from Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence last season. Trivia answer a little later down the
Speaker 1: line in his career. But there's some other tight ends
Speaker 1: on the roster right now that our project idea type players.
Speaker 1: A guy like nas Bohannon who came in and the
Speaker 1: rookie minicamp as a tryout player, and well he's he
Speaker 1: played basketball at Clemson to wrap up his career and
Speaker 1: has not played football, but at least early looks the part,
Speaker 1: moves the right way, can make some plays in this
Speaker 1: o t a period. That's a project moving ahead. Other
Speaker 1: guys on the roster, great Grayson Gunner a rookie, and
Speaker 1: Garrett Prince also a rookie. So a deeper room right now.
Speaker 1: And Doug Peterson asked about the tight ends earlier this week.
Speaker 1: A lot of bodies in there, um, which is exciting.
Speaker 1: You know, I think it's uh, I think it's a
Speaker 1: strong part of our team right now. Um, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a really good group, veteran group, you know, leadership
Speaker 1: in there with with Dan and Chris and and even
Speaker 1: with Evan now you know, adding there and really like
Speaker 1: we're whoke is and how he's progressed this offseason and
Speaker 1: and then the young guys are still learning, you know,
Speaker 1: they've only been with us a couple of weeks now,
Speaker 1: but um, I'm I'm encouraged by that group, you know,
Speaker 1: and and really looking forward again too. I think training
Speaker 1: camp when when the Pats come on and watching them
Speaker 1: and their their physicality and blocking and and um, you
Speaker 1: know how how well they perform, and think about the
Speaker 1: tight ends and what the importance of that position was
Speaker 1: for the Eagles back in their championship run in and
Speaker 1: you'll get an idea of what that means for Doug
Speaker 1: Peterson and Press Taylor in this offensive group going into
Speaker 1: the campaign. At least, that's the hope that tied end.
Speaker 1: You mix those guys in with wide receivers like Christian
Speaker 1: kirk wool here from coming up and a veteran receiver
Speaker 1: like Marvin Jones who has a long streak of games
Speaker 1: with a reception, and you know, younger guys on this
Speaker 1: roster they feel like can be an impact group in
Speaker 1: this passing game than an improved quarterback on top of
Speaker 1: all that, that could be a nice combination for this
Speaker 1: Jaguars offense. That's the idea, at least moving into this season.
Speaker 1: We've got putting ahead on the show a little later
Speaker 1: we'll hear from John Ozer, Jaguars dot Com senior writer.
Speaker 1: That's at the bottom of the hour and also coming
Speaker 1: up in a moment, Christian kirk Jaguars wide receiver, the
Speaker 1: free agent signing from the Arizona Cardinals. The Jaguars are
Speaker 1: future focused and ready for a new look in join
Speaker 1: us to the bank this season as head coach Doug
Speaker 1: Peterson and quarterback Trevor Lawrence leave the charge through a
Speaker 1: great home schedule the games in Jacksonville this year preseason,
Speaker 1: the Browns and the Steelers are coming in and then
Speaker 1: in this order in Jacksonville the home games the Colts,
Speaker 1: the Texans, the Giants, Raiders, Ravens, Cowboys, and the Titans.
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Speaker 1: oh four six three three two thousand Wide Receiver Christian
Speaker 1: Kirkins Studio. And we return. It's Jaguars Happy Hour on
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Digital Network. Welcome back Jaguars Happy Hour on
Speaker 1: tinton x, l a M and Jaguars dot Com plus
Speaker 1: the Jaguars social media channels Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Busy
Speaker 1: schedule at Daily's Place coming up Saturday, June four, The
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Taco and Margarita Festival. The Doobie Brothers June five,
Speaker 1: two nights of the Dave Matthews Band The Black Crows.
Speaker 1: Much more ahead this summer. Tickets if they're available at
Speaker 1: Daily's Place dot com wide receiver Christian Kirk. Are you
Speaker 1: gonna go to any of these shows? You a concert guy?
Speaker 1: What's up? How are you? I'm great? Thanks for the time.
Speaker 1: I'll see. I was just looking at the at the schedule.
Speaker 1: I'll see if I can I can make one of those.
Speaker 1: It looks fun. It's a great schedule, and that it's
Speaker 1: only the beginning. I mean it's all June, July, August,
Speaker 1: going into the season, which you may not have time
Speaker 1: during the season. But right, thanks for the time. Welcome in.
Speaker 1: It's our first opportunity, I think to sit down together.
Speaker 1: And how are you feeling so far? O? T A S.
Speaker 1: Are here? Week two? What's up? It's great? You know,
Speaker 1: like you said, it's week two. O. T A S.
Speaker 1: And I was just talking about it a little bit
Speaker 1: early or it's it's hard not to to get into
Speaker 1: that that groove and and feel like, oh I gotta
Speaker 1: be ready, you know, and and be ready to play
Speaker 1: like we have a game on Sunday, and just the
Speaker 1: competitive juices are flowing and we're going against the defense,
Speaker 1: and just the important thing right now is just working
Speaker 1: through all the kinks. These are the times to make
Speaker 1: mistakes and uh, now that we're learning a new system
Speaker 1: and whatnot, you know, we're just trying to learn all
Speaker 1: the nuances and you know, get ready for training camp.
Speaker 1: I'm curious about that process of learning a new offense.
Speaker 1: We talked about the quarterbacks part of it all the time.
Speaker 1: He's got so many things to worry about. Line play,
Speaker 1: you guys on the outside, running back, the running everything.
Speaker 1: But from a wide receiver's perspective, how friendly is this
Speaker 1: offense for a guy like you? And how difficult is
Speaker 1: it to to learn all the nuances of it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very you know friendly for a receiver and you know,
Speaker 1: all of us as weapons because it allows us to
Speaker 1: be all interchangeable, and you know, it challenges you to
Speaker 1: know every position on the field and the more you know,
Speaker 1: the more opportunities you get to be in different ots
Speaker 1: to go out and make plays. And uh, Coach Peterson
Speaker 1: and you know Press have done a great job of
Speaker 1: you know, making this offense, Uh, you know, fairly easy
Speaker 1: to learn, and the transition has been you know, very
Speaker 1: fairly simple. And you know, we get a lot of
Speaker 1: time during O t A s you know, in the
Speaker 1: classroom man on the field, So uh, they don't just
Speaker 1: throw it all at you and tell you to learn it. Uh.
Speaker 1: They do a good job facilitating, you know, being able
Speaker 1: to to get through and get some reps and and
Speaker 1: just learning all the things that they want to accomplish.
Speaker 1: When you hear Trevor Lawrence talking through the offense and
Speaker 1: those different things you guys install over time, I'm guessing
Speaker 1: it comes out pretty clear from him that he knows
Speaker 1: what's up on this offense. Yeah, and you know he
Speaker 1: does a great job and meetings, um, you know kind
Speaker 1: of adding you know what he's thinking on a certain
Speaker 1: play or you know what he's expecting in certain expectations,
Speaker 1: you know, for us, and it keeps that open line
Speaker 1: of you know, communication and everything's transparent. So uh, you
Speaker 1: know he's done a great job in that aspect. Christian
Speaker 1: Kirk is with US Jaguars wide Receiver here on Jaguar's
Speaker 1: Happy Hour. You know there's a lot of new faces
Speaker 1: around here. You're one of them. Here's a Jones coming in,
Speaker 1: got a couple of Vets in that room, and Marvin
Speaker 1: Jones has been in the league forever. It feels like, um,
Speaker 1: how difficult is it or is it at all to
Speaker 1: to get that camaraderie? Is that overplayed? Is that overhyped
Speaker 1: sometimes that oh they gotta get time together and figure
Speaker 1: out the room or is that a real thing for
Speaker 1: wide receivers. I would say it's like the first week. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like it's like going to a new school,
Speaker 1: you know, especially for me. You know, you're you're learning
Speaker 1: all your classmates and you know who's who, and you
Speaker 1: know the different personalities. But you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: after that first week, I mean you settle in and
Speaker 1: you know, we're all guys out there playing football and
Speaker 1: having fun and um, you know, just our room in general,
Speaker 1: you know, we have so many good guys like you
Speaker 1: mentioned Za, you have Marv. You know who's the vet
Speaker 1: and you know it's played a lot of ball and
Speaker 1: it's always good to have a guy like that in
Speaker 1: the room and you know, still compete at a high level.
Speaker 1: And then you have Laviska and La Kwan, you know,
Speaker 1: and some younger guys that you know, it's it's a
Speaker 1: good dynamic that we have and you know, we have
Speaker 1: a lot of fun with it. And you know, Coach
Speaker 1: Jackson has done a great job just pushing us every day.
Speaker 1: What does coach Jackson do, especially you know, the first
Speaker 1: time with him, So what what stands about out about him? Honestly,
Speaker 1: I haven't had a chance to meeting yet, So what
Speaker 1: stands out about his his coaching? Yeah, I mean he
Speaker 1: brings energy every single day. And I think the big
Speaker 1: thing for us is, you know, we have so much
Speaker 1: talent in our room. We have to hold ourselves to
Speaker 1: a high standard and there's a lot of expectation from
Speaker 1: us and we know that and and that's our job
Speaker 1: to deliver. And so anytime anything is not up to
Speaker 1: our standard, uh, they're gonna, you know, be held accountable
Speaker 1: and uh, you know we like that, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we just want to go out and be the best
Speaker 1: group on the field every single Sunday and that's what
Speaker 1: we're working towards. Now. Christian Kirk is with us. It
Speaker 1: seems like, you know, we're just kind of meeting for
Speaker 1: the first time. But you've settled in a little bit here,
Speaker 1: right you've you're you're in the in the element now.
Speaker 1: But how much of a whirlwind was this offseason leading
Speaker 1: into free agency and everything that happened and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you're at a press cott, for instance, this
Speaker 1: contract coming in. Uh, it seems like that was just boy,
Speaker 1: let me get through this and get back to football.
Speaker 1: How wild was this offseason? It was nuts? You know,
Speaker 1: looking back at it, Um, there's so many unknowns and
Speaker 1: you have expectations and then your expectations are flipped upside
Speaker 1: down and you because everybody's process is different. You know,
Speaker 1: the guys that have been through a free agency and
Speaker 1: you know, I had to talk to a couple of
Speaker 1: guys that have been through it, and uh, they're like,
Speaker 1: it always ends up the opposite of what you think.
Speaker 1: And you know that's what it was for me. You know,
Speaker 1: I I had known that about Jacksonville. Obviously we had
Speaker 1: came here and played last year. But uh, obviously had
Speaker 1: no clue where I was gonna end up. And you know,
Speaker 1: after you know, got the call and then the next
Speaker 1: thing I know, I'm on a fly. I land here
Speaker 1: at two am. I'm up at five am for over
Speaker 1: here in the suit my suits you know, halfway wrinkled,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to pull it all together. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a little bit of a whirlwind. But I
Speaker 1: couldn't be happier, you know, being here, Christian k it
Speaker 1: was with us a Shiaguars happy hour on tinton x
Speaker 1: l a M and Jaguars dot Com. And all right,
Speaker 1: let's go back a little bit now. I mean, you
Speaker 1: grew up in Arizona, right Scott's just Saguaro High School.
Speaker 1: Did a little research here, David Spade went to school there,
Speaker 1: the comedian, A handful of NFL guys. Who else in
Speaker 1: the end, I mean, you guys had some really good
Speaker 1: football teams with Saguaro. So who other guys are anybody
Speaker 1: else in the league right now? Yeah? Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we we have Byron Murphy who was a teammate of
Speaker 1: mine in Arizona as well. Me and Byron played a
Speaker 1: year together at Sorrow, and then Dj Foster as well.
Speaker 1: Dj was a senior when I was a freshman. Um,
Speaker 1: but we've had you know, Mike Brown, and you know
Speaker 1: a couple of other guys you know go to the NFL.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, coach Mons has been coaching me
Speaker 1: since I was about I would say seven or eight
Speaker 1: years old, and he's the head coach over there now
Speaker 1: and they just won the Open division, you know, state championship.
Speaker 1: That that means you get the crown in Arizona. And
Speaker 1: I couldn't be more proud than than them. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, that was definitely some of the highlight of
Speaker 1: years of my career. You guys want a lot of
Speaker 1: state titles, right, don't call me sir, my bad, my bad.
Speaker 1: We won, We won three. We went three while I
Speaker 1: was there. Yeah, only three, only three? You missed one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's okay. It was sophomore. We're in a little bit
Speaker 1: of a rebuild. Were young. I'm curious to you go
Speaker 1: from Arizona to you go on the recruiting trail. I'm
Speaker 1: sure at some point and all of a sudden end
Speaker 1: up at A and M. That was coach someone's time
Speaker 1: there were you like being courted. That was probably when
Speaker 1: Manzielle was still quarterbacking at A and M. Right, was
Speaker 1: that that time period Johnny had left I want to
Speaker 1: say two years, so two years I was on the
Speaker 1: trail before you came. So, so Kenny Hill was a
Speaker 1: quarterback the year before I got there. So, um My,
Speaker 1: one of my best friends from Arizona, Kyle Island, who
Speaker 1: now plays for the Houston Texans. He was quarterback at
Speaker 1: Texas A and M and Kyler Murray. Me and Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray were in the same class. Uh so I had
Speaker 1: a lot of ties there and I wanted to play
Speaker 1: in the SEC, had always wanted to. And uh, coach
Speaker 1: someone had brought that spread offense and that dynamic offense
Speaker 1: to the SEC and had the opportunity to play early
Speaker 1: as a freshman. So it was a no brainer for me.
Speaker 1: Freshman of the Year in the SEC back in that
Speaker 1: mentioned Kyler Murray right then all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: get to play with him in Arizona. That kind of
Speaker 1: a quarterback, that kind of a dynamic player who all
Speaker 1: of a sudden Kentucket and run for fifty yards. How
Speaker 1: challenging is that? How rewarding is that for an offense too?
Speaker 1: Can go both ways when you have a guy like
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray's status. Yeah, you know he was. He was
Speaker 1: always dynamic and it was just another um facet of
Speaker 1: our offense that you know, you had to deal with.
Speaker 1: And uh that's what makes them special. He does things
Speaker 1: like that makes plays with his legs and with his
Speaker 1: arm as well, and all a sudden, you're running down field.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, you're running by me. What's happening right right? Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: there's there's there's plenty of times where that happened. Christian
Speaker 1: kirk Is with US Jaguars wide receiver. A couple more
Speaker 1: men us with you here. Um so a few weeks
Speaker 1: into this offseason program, now with two weeks left, well,
Speaker 1: this week, next week's the final we go tis, then
Speaker 1: there's the mandatory mini camp after that, all of sudden,
Speaker 1: us the off season, You've had all this time in
Speaker 1: the offense, as you said, step by step getting this
Speaker 1: thing going. Well, what's the field? Can can this be
Speaker 1: a unit that turns it in one year? It's possible
Speaker 1: with the NFL to do that. But do you have
Speaker 1: some of those pieces that foundation in place? You feel
Speaker 1: like right now, I definitely think we have the pieces
Speaker 1: and we're we're still laying the foundation. Um. I think
Speaker 1: some of those questions will be answered a little bit
Speaker 1: more and when we get into training camp. We want
Speaker 1: answers now. We don't want to wait to training. Hey,
Speaker 1: I want all the answers now too. I I want
Speaker 1: to know how many games we're gonna win and you
Speaker 1: know go to the playoffs as well. But uh, like
Speaker 1: I said, this is what this process is. But um,
Speaker 1: I have been you know, fairly impressed with how we've
Speaker 1: been able to progress every single day, you know, offensively
Speaker 1: and defensively. And um, like I said, just the energy
Speaker 1: in the culture around this this building, and you could
Speaker 1: tell there's just there's a sense of excitement and you
Speaker 1: know I have it as well, and you know we're
Speaker 1: gonna we're shooting, you know, for the for the for
Speaker 1: the sky's the limit. Starts with Doug, right, Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: and the way he kind of walks around every day
Speaker 1: and he's been there and done that as a player.
Speaker 1: As a coach, he's want to ring. He doesn't flash
Speaker 1: it in your face and everybody just goes to work.
Speaker 1: It's like, I mean, that's this game is confidence and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, having that mentality that uh you know, when
Speaker 1: you step on the field, you know you're you're the
Speaker 1: best team that day, and uh you know, especially individually too.
Speaker 1: So he definitely brings that swager in that confidence and
Speaker 1: it rubs off on all of us. All right, final
Speaker 1: thought here with the off season coming up. What are
Speaker 1: some of your plans. Do you're gonna get away, do
Speaker 1: you get to work? You're gonna do some work with
Speaker 1: a quarterback? How does that work in your off season
Speaker 1: coming up? Yeah, I'm definitely gonna spend some time with
Speaker 1: Trevor and Um, you know, making sure we're we're still
Speaker 1: you know, keeping connected, you know, going into training camp,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna head back to Arizona and pack up
Speaker 1: the rest of my stuff and bring it on out
Speaker 1: here to Jacksonville and get ready for an incredible season.
Speaker 1: You got all the stuff out there, but the golf
Speaker 1: clubs made it here apparently right, both says the golf
Speaker 1: clubs made it up. Yeah, yeah, both says made it
Speaker 1: out here. I don't travel without my golf clubs. That's
Speaker 1: a good, good way to live. So, who's the best
Speaker 1: golfer on the team? At least you've played with so far? Oh,
Speaker 1: final Tuck. I mean, I haven't played with a ton
Speaker 1: of guys. I'm sure the specialists are always good, so
Speaker 1: sure of you know, Logan is probably really good or
Speaker 1: you know, I I have Honestly, it's it's usually me
Speaker 1: and Trevor that play Um and I heard CJ is
Speaker 1: pretty good as well. You know, some of the QBS
Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks a lot of times are pretty good too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so how's the starting quarterback. He's getting there, he's getting there,
Speaker 1: but he's not there. I mean, are any of us there?
Speaker 1: We're never always Yeah. I mean, if you're an amateur golfer,
Speaker 1: are you are you even there? So where are you going?
Speaker 1: It was the question that that is I think we
Speaker 1: all I want to act like we can make it
Speaker 1: on tour at some point, but that's never gonna happen.
Speaker 1: So I don't think we're ever gonna You're already talking
Speaker 1: yourself out of it. I mean, you're already beating hopeful.
Speaker 1: Hopefully I play football long enough to where that that's
Speaker 1: not even a venture for me. Excellent point. Hey, Christian,
Speaker 1: thanks for the time. Man. It's great to see you,
Speaker 1: and I'm actually to have you as part of the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: We're back at the moment, we're just getting started. It's
Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network. What you
Speaker 1: want to see from elite quarterbacks. One, when they're throwing,
Speaker 1: the ball doesn't hit the ground. The ball doesn't hit
Speaker 1: the ground because there's a level of execution and consistency
Speaker 1: between thrower and catcher. Easy the ball doesn't hit the ground.
Speaker 1: It looks like they're in rhythm and is scenk and
Speaker 1: I saw that today. I saw what I would deem
Speaker 1: to be a high level set of execution up practices
Speaker 1: and what they're being asked to do from Trevor. I
Speaker 1: wanted to see the ball in the strike zone consistently.
Speaker 1: When we talk about the strike zone, the strike zone
Speaker 1: is Torso ball ways to hire inside the window. The
Speaker 1: receivers are not having to work a lot to make catches,
Speaker 1: and we're seeing that Revor Launce is very accurate. We're
Speaker 1: seeing the ball come out with plenty of pace and
Speaker 1: those things. And then the final part of it is
Speaker 1: when you transition from doing individual to group stuff to
Speaker 1: then compete against the team. Does Trevor know where to
Speaker 1: go with the ball and doesn't know how to do
Speaker 1: it in a timely fashion? I think he saw that
Speaker 1: even when they rented up in seven or seven and
Speaker 1: nine or seven things against the defense, he looked like
Speaker 1: he had a pretty clear idea where to go. That
Speaker 1: is Bucky Brooks from the Huddle Up podcast earlier this week.
Speaker 1: Um Jaguars dot Com imagine this. It's on the podcast
Speaker 1: link on the team website or the official Jaguars podcast network.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, It's Jaguars Happy Our J P. Shaddrick with
Speaker 1: you today and Jeff Flagerman will be back, will be
Speaker 1: back with us next week. John Osier is with us
Speaker 1: now Jaguars dot Com Senior writer. He's also a part
Speaker 1: of the Huddle Up podcast, Am and You heard it
Speaker 1: replacement for Jeff Logerman. I tell you that we we're
Speaker 1: glad you're here though, thank you for taking the time.
Speaker 1: We're should cheers to you, and um, there's plenty to
Speaker 1: discuss this week. O T a second week, you know,
Speaker 1: and then after the end of this week there'll be
Speaker 1: six O T s down, four officially left to go
Speaker 1: next week. Who knows about the tenth win. A lot
Speaker 1: of times that's a either a canceled or a team
Speaker 1: building or a one of those days. But hey, that
Speaker 1: that comment there from Bucky about just the cleanliness of
Speaker 1: the offense, right, that's that's kind of what you're looking
Speaker 1: for your You don't want the ball over the ground,
Speaker 1: all over the place. And I think you and I
Speaker 1: were kind of talking on the practice field the other
Speaker 1: day on Tuesday about this. It's really about sixteen. That's
Speaker 1: really what this thing boils down to. It's about him
Speaker 1: and how he's performing and feeling and the rest is great.
Speaker 1: But you don't have to get a trigger in the football. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, oversimplify it what you want right now.
Speaker 1: With Trevor, they've chosen. I mean, he's a guy number
Speaker 1: one overall. You choose he's the guy, and you better
Speaker 1: build everything around him to succeed. And then you want
Speaker 1: to get to a point where your roster is you know,
Speaker 1: similar better worst been in the same range as other rosters,
Speaker 1: and then that guy elevates you. Maybe that's not fair
Speaker 1: to every game, but over the course of time, if
Speaker 1: you're equal and you've got that guy behind center, then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, games should start going your way
Speaker 1: and you get to nine wins, ten wins, eleven wins. Um.
Speaker 1: You know. So, because he was number one overall pick,
Speaker 1: it's very much built around him. And then after five
Speaker 1: years and that contract goes up, he better be able
Speaker 1: to elevate everybody. Uh. I can't rightfully tell you JP
Speaker 1: based on a summertime, no pad practice. If he's elevating people. Yet,
Speaker 1: but as Buckey alluded to, the ball looks right coming
Speaker 1: out of his hand. It is going and the proper
Speaker 1: strikes own. You don't have a lot of guys reaching
Speaker 1: for it in seven on seven where it's horrible passes
Speaker 1: and you wonder what in the world this guy is doing.
Speaker 1: I mean that can hurt players too, if they're like
Speaker 1: reaching weird places and tweaks and this and that, and
Speaker 1: it overall just hurts confidence efficiency. Right now, this time
Speaker 1: of year, for a quarterback, it's supposed to be easy
Speaker 1: a lot with with you know, especially in non seven
Speaker 1: on seven, nine eleven. He looks comfortable. He looks, you know,
Speaker 1: like he's not clouded with his head, he's not thinking
Speaker 1: about other things. He looks like he's supposed to look,
Speaker 1: which you know, after nine ten years of talking this
Speaker 1: time of year, JP, you know, I always say at
Speaker 1: this point, you can't prove anything about how you're going
Speaker 1: to do next season, but you can look as good
Speaker 1: as you can possibly look. And right now, Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: in the offense, you know, to me, they look the
Speaker 1: part so far. I don't know what that means when
Speaker 1: not a had to go on but I'd rather be
Speaker 1: saying that than oh, we just hearned from Christian Kirk
Speaker 1: a moment ago Jaguars wide receivers in studio here and
Speaker 1: our first real chance to sit down with him, um
Speaker 1: since he since really the press conference, I think and
Speaker 1: uh kind of getting his head and it felt like
Speaker 1: that press conference just wasn't his comfort zone. Like every
Speaker 1: everything's going on, big contract everything, there's some outside criticism
Speaker 1: all that, but just hearing his tone in the last
Speaker 1: twenty minutes or so, he's locked in now and it
Speaker 1: feels like he's in his element where he's I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's running the wide receiver room per se.
Speaker 1: There are some veteran guys in there, but he might
Speaker 1: have that type of personality where he just does his
Speaker 1: business and kind of people follow the way he goes
Speaker 1: about it. And his skill set, obviously is something they
Speaker 1: were searching out in free agency. His ability to to
Speaker 1: learn and play different positions on the offense. And I
Speaker 1: don't think that's just his role. I think that's a
Speaker 1: lot of these receivers roles as you've got to learn
Speaker 1: these different spots, so play callers like Doug Peterson, the
Speaker 1: O C and press Taylor can move you around and
Speaker 1: match you up in different situations, and that's that's going
Speaker 1: to be perfect. I think for Christian Kirk, everything you
Speaker 1: hear about him is that he's a guy you want
Speaker 1: your wide receiver room. He approaches everything the right way.
Speaker 1: He's a pro if you will. Uh. That feels like
Speaker 1: what they were going after in free agency and the draft.
Speaker 1: He seems to define that. You know, at at five
Speaker 1: eleven six ft, I can't sit here and rightfully say
Speaker 1: that he's ever going to be a quote true X
Speaker 1: outside I mean true why wide receiver guy that's going
Speaker 1: to dominate opponents physically. But it does very much seem
Speaker 1: like if their goal was to upgrade the wide receiver
Speaker 1: position overall, create more talent, more ability to strain defenses,
Speaker 1: a guy who can play everything that you want him
Speaker 1: to play for you offensively at that receiver position. It
Speaker 1: seems like they've got that guy. Uh. I've had a
Speaker 1: lot of conversations about Christian Kirk with Pete Prisco, who
Speaker 1: covers the NFL Here covers the NFL and CBS Sports.
Speaker 1: He's very tight with Sean Jefferson, who coach Christian Kirk.
Speaker 1: Pete keeps telling me John Sean Jefferson believed really highly
Speaker 1: in this guy, says he controlled the room in Arizona
Speaker 1: with DeAndre Hopkins Larry Fitzgerald as an influence. UH. That
Speaker 1: seems real to me, you know, and it seems to
Speaker 1: line up. I talked I talked with Christian uh a
Speaker 1: day or two ago. He's impressive in how he approaches things.
Speaker 1: He's impressive and seems very professional. It seems like he's
Speaker 1: going to fit into this. You know, I can never
Speaker 1: pre dick when you first bring a guy in, how
Speaker 1: good they're going to be. You can get a bad
Speaker 1: feeling about a guy. Though. You don't have that feeling
Speaker 1: about Christian Shirk. Christian Kirky feeling no matter what happens,
Speaker 1: he's going to figure out a way to contribute and
Speaker 1: make this room better. I don't know how you look
Speaker 1: up to a contract and free hd JP. I mean,
Speaker 1: so throwing that out the window. What they wanted to
Speaker 1: do with free agency is raise and get and get
Speaker 1: this thing better. It seems like Christian Kirk did that
Speaker 1: eighteen million dollars better. I don't I don't know how
Speaker 1: you do that, but I don't think they care about that.
Speaker 1: That much in terms of how do you do that.
Speaker 1: I believe they're better with this kid on the team.
Speaker 1: You get a base level of player level better this
Speaker 1: team and that helps that. I mean, you just gotta
Speaker 1: have better players. Yeah, and it cost money. It certainly
Speaker 1: seems like he fits that bill to me. John Osan's
Speaker 1: with the Jaguars dot Com senior writer. It's Jaguars Happy
Speaker 1: Hour on tint xel am and Jaguars dot com and
Speaker 1: the Jaguars social media channels Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Oh
Speaker 1: you go from one pass catcher to another. That you
Speaker 1: caught up earlier this week with John and Evan Ingram.
Speaker 1: Another free agency edition that Jaguar spent some money, I
Speaker 1: think the most in free agency this year around the
Speaker 1: National Football League. I think a total of three million
Speaker 1: dollars over the contracts we're put out. That's that's a
Speaker 1: lot going out. A lot of that on offense, of course,
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk got the biggest bulk of that. Evan Ingram
Speaker 1: got a year's share of that though, and a former
Speaker 1: first round pick, uh, you know, and another guy who
Speaker 1: you can move around. He's not just a tight end
Speaker 1: off the right tackles, hit blocking, he's out there and
Speaker 1: they can catch us down the field wide. As we
Speaker 1: can see if you're watching on Jaguars dot Com. He
Speaker 1: he did some with New York with the Giants. That's
Speaker 1: the idea again here in Jacksonville, I think, and again
Speaker 1: this time of year, you're trying to project and you're
Speaker 1: trying to put in perspective what in my all mean.
Speaker 1: I there's something about the Ingram signing to me that
Speaker 1: seems overlooked. It seems like there was so much focus
Speaker 1: on Christian Kirk and so much talk among fans and
Speaker 1: observes about what they didn't do. Um. I think the
Speaker 1: way Ingram plays, I don't know that there's going to
Speaker 1: be that much difference in a lot of plays and
Speaker 1: how he's used, as it would be with the wide receiver.
Speaker 1: So there was a lot of anks among the families
Speaker 1: where they didn't improve wide receiver enough. They didn't do
Speaker 1: this enough. You know, Ingram is a tight end, but conceptually,
Speaker 1: if what you were doing was trying to add elements
Speaker 1: around Trevor Lawrence, this was a guy who did that.
Speaker 1: And again we're not gonna try to give away too
Speaker 1: much with what they're trying to do scheme wise, because
Speaker 1: they're not gonna show us everything anyway, But this guy
Speaker 1: is moving around a lot in the offense. Uh, he
Speaker 1: is going to be a piece. And I can't imagine
Speaker 1: that there aren't a lot of plays where he plays
Speaker 1: a role much like that quote one wide receiver that
Speaker 1: everybody wanted in the offseason. So, um, he might be
Speaker 1: the key of the free agent class and he might
Speaker 1: be the and Kirk's gotta be good, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: But the thing that pushes him over the top, thing
Speaker 1: that gives him that tool that maybe people thought they
Speaker 1: didn't go get is Angram And and he's I'll tell you,
Speaker 1: I don't always say hey, go listen to the podcast.
Speaker 1: You know Ingram is really an interesting guy to talk to.
Speaker 1: He has a really good perspective on this. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: he knows this is a huge chance and the one
Speaker 1: year deals approved deal, one year nine million dollar contractor Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's I have a good feeling about this guy and
Speaker 1: his his ability to do what they're asking to do
Speaker 1: in this game. He certainly thinks this is going to
Speaker 1: be the year that pushes him into I don't know
Speaker 1: what elite means, but but pushes him into a place
Speaker 1: where he goes and makes a lot of money. Uh.
Speaker 1: He thinks it's gonna be a year where he breaks out.
Speaker 1: He loves Doug Peterson's offense. He's wanted to play for
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson tight end. We've been talking about it for
Speaker 1: how many years? J V we talked about earlier. I
Speaker 1: mean I listened to some guys Julius Thomas, Safarian Jenkins,
Speaker 1: Tyler Eifford. I mean, I've tried so many different ways
Speaker 1: to figure it out since Mercedes. It feels like this
Speaker 1: group with Ingram Arnold ah manners more of a block
Speaker 1: and we can catch it. Feels like Ingram and Arnold. Uh.
Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but might be the guys
Speaker 1: at this position if this team has been waiting for
Speaker 1: for so long long and I laugh because we've been
Speaker 1: saying it for so long that it'll fall on deaf ears,
Speaker 1: But boy do they look different in O T A S.
Speaker 1: Then that position has looked ever here. I'm excited to
Speaker 1: hear the podcast because I haven't had a chance to
Speaker 1: visit with Evan Ingram yet. We'll be on our Jaguars
Speaker 1: media Yeah, on the website Jaguars dot com. On the
Speaker 1: podcast where that you listen to your podcast. Yeah, wherever
Speaker 1: you download your comment, but whatever you want. It's uh.
Speaker 1: We we love feedback. We didn't feed that exact if
Speaker 1: it's bad, and then I don't love to feed that.
Speaker 1: At least you know what it is. Criticism either way
Speaker 1: is constructive. No, you're not. You're not buying into all
Speaker 1: about praise. Okay, I love it. Hey, we'll take a
Speaker 1: time out. We'll come back. John. We're gonna go around
Speaker 1: the National Football League that you're sticking around with us. Sure,
Speaker 1: thanks not feedback. I appreciate it. Thank you. I really
Speaker 1: do around the league with John Osan when we come
Speaker 1: back and listen to his podcast. The ozone podcast on
Speaker 1: the official Jaguars podcast network is Jaguars Happy Hour on
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Digital Network Welcome Back Jaguars Happy Hour on
Speaker 1: a Thursday, and they look outside on Jaguars dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Jaguars social channels at the footprint of the
Speaker 1: Football Performance Center. Well earlier this week there was actual
Speaker 1: steel going up for the first time it's been concrete.
Speaker 1: The foundation. Some walls on the side are kind of
Speaker 1: there now being held up by props on the side,
Speaker 1: but they actually put some steel beams across a couple
Speaker 1: of those today, earlier this week. Actually, um, so they're
Speaker 1: moving right along. It's hard work. I spent some time
Speaker 1: out there of steel JP. I thought you looked strong. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's in the morning. That's what I did.
Speaker 1: That kind of a d drive I was that I was.
Speaker 1: That's yeah. I was going to mention something. You you
Speaker 1: look like you've been in the weight room. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a task. It's a heavy lift, as they said, it
Speaker 1: certainly is. That's why you leave it with the professionals.
Speaker 1: And of course that is scheduled to open training camp
Speaker 1: of three. And you know, we we eat lunch here
Speaker 1: um every day. Right, So after lunch I come, I
Speaker 1: walked down the ramp outside and I just I stand
Speaker 1: out over the ramp overlooking this thing, just to see
Speaker 1: what's going on, right, and just think on it, and
Speaker 1: just think on it, you know, think through it. See
Speaker 1: what's next. I wonder what beam is next, right, all right,
Speaker 1: wonder what concrete they have to pour next. But I
Speaker 1: stood out there a few weeks ago and watched them
Speaker 1: tear down the old coal zone building. Talk him about
Speaker 1: twenty minutes, I was gone, and here comes the beam.
Speaker 1: The other day. And um, I mean every day there's
Speaker 1: something new going. It's it's it's fascinating. So the footprints
Speaker 1: massive too, it's huge. It's it's been needed for a
Speaker 1: long time. Uh, it's it's tough to win free agents
Speaker 1: to maintain what you want in this league right now
Speaker 1: if your facilities are not at least on par as
Speaker 1: the league goes for it have to be the best
Speaker 1: every year. But you know, there is a changing face
Speaker 1: of the league and it does reflect Uh, players love
Speaker 1: that kind of thing, as they should. It reflects the
Speaker 1: direction of the organization. And I think this will be
Speaker 1: a a a huge thing for player retention, image, etcetera.
Speaker 1: It's been needed for a while and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: cool to say. I mean, it's and then they've talked
Speaker 1: about this, Mark Lamping has talked about it in the
Speaker 1: public settings before the space inside the stadium was so,
Speaker 1: I mean it's the original footprint and it's the smallest
Speaker 1: footprint in the NFL. And then you've got coaches and
Speaker 1: hallways and closets working, and the weight room spills out
Speaker 1: onto the concourse. I mean, that's the smallest in the league.
Speaker 1: The NFL um in was a different beast than it
Speaker 1: is now. You didn't have nearly as much marketing, you
Speaker 1: didn't have nearly as much forward facing. Our department didn't exist,
Speaker 1: it was none of that. It was well, there was
Speaker 1: a broadcast department, but it was it was smaller only digital.
Speaker 1: Uh my job didn't exist, which would be arguments to
Speaker 1: be made now. But yeah, but remember when I got
Speaker 1: to the Colts in two thousand one, which a few
Speaker 1: years after that. By the time I left there ten
Speaker 1: years later, that place had had to add on to
Speaker 1: it's building if I'm remembering right, at least once, perhaps twice.
Speaker 1: But they were off site. They were not inside their stadium,
Speaker 1: so there was room on their campus if you will
Speaker 1: to grow here. Remember there's no inside the building. You're
Speaker 1: inside the building. Um. So it's been very necessary, and
Speaker 1: you know, I would anticipate this place being built for
Speaker 1: growth not being an issue anymore. But it's been very
Speaker 1: necessary and it will be state of the art. It's
Speaker 1: been you know something, he's not updated for twenty seven years.
Speaker 1: It gets out of date. This new place will in
Speaker 1: no way be that. It's the first step in a
Speaker 1: line of things to come around and to the stadium.
Speaker 1: Of course, the Football Performance Center is number one to
Speaker 1: open the shipyards project four seasons. The office building over
Speaker 1: there is next on the docket, and I think they'll
Speaker 1: really start the summer to to make some true moves there. Um.
Speaker 1: And then the state of you in the future will
Speaker 1: will come up at some point down the line for
Speaker 1: the latest. Checkout first Downtown Jack's dot Com and you'll
Speaker 1: get the latest on the happenings around and with the
Speaker 1: stadium project and everything around the stadium too. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot there's dust flying, there's roads closed, John, you
Speaker 1: feel it every day. I remember a few weeks ago
Speaker 1: you try to come in and you got twisted and
Speaker 1: turned around. I couldn't find your way, but they were
Speaker 1: gonna let me in. I did make it. And you know, um,
Speaker 1: people who watch and read these shows, note I was
Speaker 1: here ninety three when they got the team, and then
Speaker 1: here when it first came about. Uh. I'm glad forever,
Speaker 1: however much longer I have in this business. There is
Speaker 1: a point of pride. It would be really cool to
Speaker 1: see this place. Go up the performance Center, to see
Speaker 1: the stadium renovated, which at some point it's going to
Speaker 1: be renovated, To see this environment down here. Uh, dramatically changed.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how close the prototypes
Speaker 1: will eventually be to what actually is. But considering where
Speaker 1: it came from DP old MANU to death, I can
Speaker 1: remember ninety four I was coming to the University of
Speaker 1: Florida and yes, yes they were uh, and I didn't
Speaker 1: I was living in Middleburgh. I was living sort of
Speaker 1: between Jacksonville and Games. Were working for the Florida Times Union,
Speaker 1: so I didn't drive into town that much. I remember
Speaker 1: one time driving across one of the bridges and looking
Speaker 1: over and seeing and people who were in town in
Speaker 1: the nineties will remember this dynamic You drove through and
Speaker 1: the stadium was basically up on a jacket, looked like
Speaker 1: because everything else had been taken away and it was
Speaker 1: just one of these pieces of the stadium was up there. Um.
Speaker 1: And I remember going to the old Gator Bowl, so
Speaker 1: so all that stuff to see what it's gonna be now,
Speaker 1: to see that it's going to be stable going forward,
Speaker 1: and state of the yard as it would be. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's a cool feeling for this old sentimental type. Good
Speaker 1: for you, man, I might even bring a tear to
Speaker 1: my eye. It looks like it might. There's no crying
Speaker 1: in baseball, No, there's not. Or football, Curly, let's go
Speaker 1: around the National Football League quickly. The Richmond Times Dispatch
Speaker 1: in Virginia is reporting this week the Commanders or proposing
Speaker 1: a new stadium that would have just fifty five thousand seats.
Speaker 1: Accordinated Pro Football Talk, FedEx Field had the league's largest
Speaker 1: capacity from old Ford to thousand. That's a big difference. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's uh. I grew up a huge fan of the
Speaker 1: Washington football team. UH two. I think that they're going
Speaker 1: from is staggering and telling um when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: which back in the day, the sellout streak was one
Speaker 1: of the staples of the league at that place. And
Speaker 1: it's understandable why they built it so large when they
Speaker 1: did it in uh go four four because the thinking
Speaker 1: at that point is bigger, bigger, bigger. It's telling that
Speaker 1: that stateium in that mark, even the team has struggled,
Speaker 1: is reducing to that's about the right number for the
Speaker 1: NFL these days, and it's about bringing it back in line.
Speaker 1: It's more about premium seating, luxuries, et cetera. But these
Speaker 1: cavernous stadiums of old uh you know, it's just too big.
Speaker 1: News nine in Denver reporting this week the Broncos ownership
Speaker 1: bidding down to a second round coming up Monday. Four
Speaker 1: groups are in the hunt. The hope is to have
Speaker 1: the transaction finalized by the start of the regular season.
Speaker 1: And John, you can probably hit the a t M
Speaker 1: for the price of five billion dollars and get the
Speaker 1: team if you wanted it. Well, it's it's but you
Speaker 1: know that it shouldn't be overlooked these old traditional franchises,
Speaker 1: which the Broncos are one of those, one of the successful,
Speaker 1: one of the glamour teams. I think they're maybe not
Speaker 1: quite in that old school, but they're there. Don't change
Speaker 1: hands that often, so it's a significant thing. Fully. Pat
Speaker 1: Bowling was a major owner in this league for a
Speaker 1: long time. We'll look forward to the ozone podcast coming up.
Speaker 1: It'll be good. I've been listening to it. Thanks for
Speaker 1: the time, man, Thanks always great to see it. Well,
Speaker 1: just walk outside with each other, that's true. John Ozar,
Speaker 1: Jaguars dot Com senior writer. Thanks to Christian Kirk as
Speaker 1: well Jaguars wide receiver Brent Reeber on the video side,
Speaker 1: Joe Fortunado on the audio. For everyone, involved. I'm JP Shadrick.
Speaker 1: We will catch you next time. It's Jaguars Happy Hour
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