Speaker 1: It's Thursday, all just six. This is Jack Large and
Speaker 1: now celebrating his triumph for return to the Premier Beer League. Jane,
Speaker 1: who said I ever left. First of all, I was
Speaker 1: never demoted from that Welcome in Jaguar's Happy Hour. J P.
Speaker 1: Shadrick from the home studio. Jeff Loghman from his home studio, logs,
Speaker 1: what's happening man, It's all good, j P. It's all good. Excited,
Speaker 1: uh to be one step closer to hopefully having a
Speaker 1: football season. Well, you know, as the weeks go by
Speaker 1: here we have a little more football activity going on,
Speaker 1: which is nice. The opt out days today and then
Speaker 1: you know, players are on the field going through that
Speaker 1: that ramp up period now and then next week when
Speaker 1: we talk, maybe there'll be some actual feel things happening
Speaker 1: by Yeah, and I think, uh, I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: hear some more news about other players deciding to opt
Speaker 1: out of me right now. The Jaguars had an additional guy,
Speaker 1: Rashawn Melvin, the cornerback, the veteran that they signed in
Speaker 1: free agency. He opted out, and uh, I mean, who
Speaker 1: knows who's gonna come in at the deadline. And I
Speaker 1: have a feeling that around the league. I think the
Speaker 1: numbers are over fifty as of last count yesterday, and
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the updated numbers. I'm sure it's gonna
Speaker 1: get to be a little bit more as we we
Speaker 1: hear news around the league today. But here here's the
Speaker 1: other thing. JP. Just because a guy doesn't opt out
Speaker 1: now doesn't mean that he's gonna just decide I'm gonna
Speaker 1: opt out for the season and just not take a
Speaker 1: stipend now, because that's what kind of the timing of
Speaker 1: why they're opting out now. You can opt out now
Speaker 1: and receive a hundred fifty thousand dollar stipend, which you
Speaker 1: have to pay back from next year's salary, and and
Speaker 1: then you don't play this year. If you have a
Speaker 1: medical condition that gives you a reason to opt out,
Speaker 1: you can get a three dollar but it's not a stipend.
Speaker 1: You get to keep it. It's uh, there's no strings attached.
Speaker 1: But the question still remains that, Look, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some guys that get involved in this process of preparing
Speaker 1: for an NFL season and they're not gonna like what
Speaker 1: they see, and they're gonna not gonna like maybe the
Speaker 1: feeling that they have when they decide to have contact
Speaker 1: with their teammates or have contact with opponents and say
Speaker 1: I gotta pass on it. And in that case, they're
Speaker 1: not going to have any of that money to kind
Speaker 1: of keep but other than what they have made thus
Speaker 1: far in the season. So I would not be surprised
Speaker 1: if we see uh, tens, twenties, maybe thirties. I think
Speaker 1: of players in the National Football League that decide to
Speaker 1: opt out, you know, after this deadline that was imposed
Speaker 1: at four pm today, and just not worry about the
Speaker 1: money at that. Yeah. I mean look, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: if you if you feel strongly about something and you're
Speaker 1: not comfortable playing the game, because here's the deal JP,
Speaker 1: I mean, right now, everything's hunky dory, Okay, Well, the
Speaker 1: players are socially distant. They're having meetings that are virtual.
Speaker 1: They're lifting in their own little cocoon. They're having all
Speaker 1: their meetings in their own little cocoon. Okay, but at
Speaker 1: some point, you're gonna get together and you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a huddle, you're gonna have practice, and that's gonna freak
Speaker 1: some guys out because they're not used to being close
Speaker 1: to people. You know, they've been sitting there teaching these
Speaker 1: guys look six ft distant, six ft distant, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, now you're asking them to huddle up,
Speaker 1: and then you're asking them to get as close as
Speaker 1: you can to some guys and cover them or hit
Speaker 1: them or tackle them, or you know, evade somebody. But
Speaker 1: whatever it may be. And it's a lot different than
Speaker 1: what we kind of have become accustomed too lately, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot different what the players have
Speaker 1: become accustomed to accustomed to. So it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: big adjustment. So it's a big adjustment walking in the door,
Speaker 1: Eddie used to all the protocols that they've got to follow.
Speaker 1: But when all of a sudden they decide to hit,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a big adjustment. And then there's also
Speaker 1: gonna be another adjustment when they decided to hit somebody
Speaker 1: else in the game, because you can't play football when
Speaker 1: you're hesitant. So it's gonna be interesting. Yeah, hesitant or
Speaker 1: socially distant and football, I mean the other teams scored
Speaker 1: and touchdowns. That's that's what that means. Here's what's coming
Speaker 1: up with the show today. Doug Moron at the Media Today,
Speaker 1: we'll hear some of the highlights from the Jags head coach,
Speaker 1: The Gardner Minshew Josh Allen, Brandon Lender spoke earlier in
Speaker 1: the week. We'll get some of the highlights from those
Speaker 1: guys as well, go around the National Football League as well.
Speaker 1: The logs will start with us. You touched on at
Speaker 1: the opt out deadline at four o'clock, so about four
Speaker 1: minutes ago Offishally, we'll we'll see if any others kind
Speaker 1: of roll in right before the deadline, but three Jaguars
Speaker 1: as at this moment have opted out, Al Wood's Laurentie McCrae.
Speaker 1: Those were earlier in the week. And then as you
Speaker 1: mentioned Rashaan Melvin free agent signing this past offseason. You
Speaker 1: guys been in the league for a little while now,
Speaker 1: an undrafted player back in ten has worked his way
Speaker 1: through a few different teams. Um, so three opt outs
Speaker 1: for the Jaguars, and you know there's three veterans, but
Speaker 1: really hasn't be around the league for a long time.
Speaker 1: Lauren is no spring chicken anymore. He's got some experience
Speaker 1: on him. And Melvin has been in since thirteen. So
Speaker 1: this kind of opens our conversation that we'll we'll hear
Speaker 1: from Doug on this a little later, you know, in
Speaker 1: on a year where a young player might not have
Speaker 1: as many opportunities. If you have three veteran guys as
Speaker 1: like this opting out, that should have open three more
Speaker 1: opportunities for a guy, at least on the practice field. Well,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt. I mean, there's there's some young guys
Speaker 1: that are right now that are quietly celebrating because those
Speaker 1: three guys right there were almost assured a roster's position
Speaker 1: or roster spot on this Jaguars football team. So it
Speaker 1: does create an opportunity, most likely for a younger player.
Speaker 1: So the younger player is probably going, yes, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, my opportunity just got better, you know. So,
Speaker 1: I mean good for them. And as a football team,
Speaker 1: I think if you're trying to build it, you're sitting there,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're general manager Dave Caldware, you're going, God,
Speaker 1: here we are. You know, we we we filled some
Speaker 1: of these holes with these veteran guys, you know, to
Speaker 1: maybe bridge us until the young guys are ready to
Speaker 1: take over full time. Well guess what, there's no more
Speaker 1: bridge you know, and and then next year maybe the
Speaker 1: entire reason that you sign that guy has evaporated because
Speaker 1: maybe the young guy now gains a year of experience,
Speaker 1: and so you know, I mean, what do you do
Speaker 1: in that situation? So it's it's kind of a different
Speaker 1: it's a different world, you know, JT. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: when Doug talks about how there's absolutely nothing normal about
Speaker 1: this year, there's not. I mean in and even in
Speaker 1: this instance where you're talking about three veteran guys that
Speaker 1: are opting out, I mean, there's what what experience do
Speaker 1: you have to reflect back on to make commentary on this?
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't. You know, everything is new, everything
Speaker 1: is different, And I think that's the one guarantee that
Speaker 1: we have for this season and whatever capacity it's gonna be,
Speaker 1: is that everything is going to be different and there
Speaker 1: will be no normal. Let's hear from head coach Doug Marone.
Speaker 1: He spoke earlier today and to this topic a bit
Speaker 1: about opportunities for younger players. Of course, we talked about
Speaker 1: it with him last week on the Doug Marone showed
Speaker 1: as well, you know, and a late round draft pick
Speaker 1: and undrafted rookie, those guys have limited opportunities anyway to
Speaker 1: put things on tape in a regular year with four
Speaker 1: preseason games and training camp. But it's even less so now,
Speaker 1: and that makes everybody job much more difficult to give
Speaker 1: those guys a chance, because it's tough enough to tell
Speaker 1: a guy he's cut off a roster anyway, but all
Speaker 1: of a sudden you you tell him and he hasn't
Speaker 1: had much of an opportunity. That's even tougher for Doug
Speaker 1: Moron anything in life, as long as you have an opportunity, um,
Speaker 1: it may not work out well, it may not even
Speaker 1: be fair, but at least there as an opportunity to
Speaker 1: at least show something. So immediately when it came out
Speaker 1: to ninety eighty, I didn't even blake. I I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to ninety. I just feel like it's just
Speaker 1: an important thing for me and what I believe is
Speaker 1: the right thing to do, and then I think it's
Speaker 1: right for a team also obviously, Well the obviously part
Speaker 1: there is this is a young football team, so there's
Speaker 1: a lot of youth. I think there's thirty rookies on
Speaker 1: this roster, twelve draft picks, eighteen undrafted guys, so that's
Speaker 1: a lot of young guys running around, but there may
Speaker 1: not be as many running around after that. Now you
Speaker 1: start the deadline is coming up fairly soon in a
Speaker 1: week or so to get it down to eighty, but
Speaker 1: for now it's ninety giving him much chance to do something. Well,
Speaker 1: let me kind of reflect back on what Ducks talking about,
Speaker 1: how he wants to give those guys a chance. I mean, look, uh,
Speaker 1: are these guys gonna get a great opportunity or a
Speaker 1: great luck? Probably not. I mean that's just that's just
Speaker 1: the reality of it. And as a football coach, when
Speaker 1: you're trying to decide what your roster makeup is gonna be,
Speaker 1: you're you're gonna go to something that's a little bit
Speaker 1: more proven and then you have more of a track
Speaker 1: record on than something that is totally unproven. And that's
Speaker 1: the reality that of a veteran guy, he now has
Speaker 1: a significant advantage because coaches have a trust factor or
Speaker 1: a belief that this guy can do it well. We're
Speaker 1: a lot of the young guys. You need to see
Speaker 1: some repetitive history with a young player to get comfortable
Speaker 1: with that player, and it's hard to accomplish that when
Speaker 1: you're talking about there's about eleven padded practices. That is
Speaker 1: going to happen before the Jaguars this year, before they
Speaker 1: have to make a decision to get their roster down
Speaker 1: to a game day type situ aation where they're at
Speaker 1: fifty three now. The roster being at nineties now, the
Speaker 1: ninety right now allows them to take a look at
Speaker 1: a lot of the young players. But once they get
Speaker 1: to the situation to where they are practicing I don't
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be at ninety anymore because if you're
Speaker 1: at ninety, then you have to split the practice up
Speaker 1: and uh. And look, if I've got two coaching staff,
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem splitting up and having two practices,
Speaker 1: but I've got one coaching staff. There's not enough time
Speaker 1: in the day to be able to do that. It's
Speaker 1: time to get focused and get prepared for the season.
Speaker 1: You know, you can't sit there and say, well, we've
Speaker 1: got to develop this guy. We've got to develop that guy.
Speaker 1: But they need to develop on their own. And if
Speaker 1: they can get on board, they get on board, and
Speaker 1: you've got to get ready for a football season. The
Speaker 1: clock is gonna be ticking, and I expect the Jaguars
Speaker 1: when it comes to getting ready to have any a practice,
Speaker 1: a real practice, they'll be down eighties so that they
Speaker 1: don't have to split the squad. Yeah, we're not talking
Speaker 1: about a junior varsity at a varsity squad. Guess what
Speaker 1: this is the NFL. You're ready to play or you're
Speaker 1: not playing. And let me add this JP. You know,
Speaker 1: dug Rone talked about how he referred back and this
Speaker 1: was last week and he talked about it in this
Speaker 1: press conference. He talked about how he reflected back on
Speaker 1: his time as a college coach and said, Okay, what
Speaker 1: did I do as a college coach to prepare guys
Speaker 1: for a season? We didn't have preseason games? Well. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The big difference is, though, is that in college you
Speaker 1: get to keep everybody. Yeah, they're all there. Okay, you
Speaker 1: get to keep everybody. And guess what if you have
Speaker 1: ten walk on you can keep them too if you
Speaker 1: want to. In the NFL, that worked that way. You know,
Speaker 1: you've got to make a decision. You gotta make a
Speaker 1: pretty quick decision and say can this guy play or
Speaker 1: can he not play? Let's hear from the quarterback Gardner Mins.
Speaker 1: You spoke for the first time in training camp back
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, and as you might expect Logs. He um,
Speaker 1: he's an interesting cat. He had a lot of things
Speaker 1: happen app but in this this conference he hear what
Speaker 1: to expect from the offense this year and how he's
Speaker 1: improved in the off season. But you know, he was
Speaker 1: a little delayed in coming to camp because he found
Speaker 1: himself on they reserved COVID nineteen lists. And for Gardner Minshew,
Speaker 1: that was a little bit of a struggle. The first
Speaker 1: day out yesterday, it has been like the first day
Speaker 1: of school, you know, like having my outfit picked out
Speaker 1: and everything. How to stay at home. That sucks, missed
Speaker 1: out played with all my friends. But yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: did not contract the virus. It took one luck at
Speaker 1: me ran the other way. It's probably in its best interests.
Speaker 1: So um, here we are. We're back on Tuesday. Right
Speaker 1: to Rolls had a good place in football. There is
Speaker 1: all ways a sound bite or three or four that
Speaker 1: come out of a Gardner Minshew press conference that you'll
Speaker 1: run for a long time. This adds to that list.
Speaker 1: It looks pretty good stuff from the quarterback. Well, there
Speaker 1: was a couple of things that certainly made you made
Speaker 1: your chuckle. One that that you know, the virus took
Speaker 1: one look at me and decided to turn the other direction. Uh.
Speaker 1: The other part was, yes, him barking like a dog.
Speaker 1: And I don't know exactly who was on the Microsoft
Speaker 1: Teams meeting, and I don't think Gene for NAT or
Speaker 1: I think it was John Shipley of had a dog
Speaker 1: in the background barking. We accused, we accused like three
Speaker 1: different people, but we found out it was John. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I mean, look, it happens, and Minshaw decides to
Speaker 1: bark back. But the most interesting thing to me was
Speaker 1: and if you listen to him, and then you also
Speaker 1: if you read the transcript, he said something to the
Speaker 1: effect of that, because he was talking about him in
Speaker 1: the wide receiver that he's room he's with, and he
Speaker 1: said something about, well, we got the anybody's down in Boca,
Speaker 1: And I almost got the impression that he was telling
Speaker 1: us that he got the virus down there in South Florida.
Speaker 1: So but I mean, am i am I missreading that?
Speaker 1: Nobody kind of fun up. Nobody followed up on that,
Speaker 1: But I mean, but that's what he said. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you go back and you read the the script,
Speaker 1: or if you go back and you listen to his
Speaker 1: press conference he talks about how you know, he said
Speaker 1: they got it when they were down there working out,
Speaker 1: and I said, well, somebody please follow up with that,
Speaker 1: and nobody did. So I'm not saying that he had.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that it made me wonder because if
Speaker 1: you go back and he watched his press conference and
Speaker 1: watched the video, it gave me the impression that he
Speaker 1: did have COVID nineteen, which is fine. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I mean there's millions of people that are getting effective
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying that that's a bad thing, but
Speaker 1: it also I'm not saying it could be a good thing.
Speaker 1: But if you're starting quarterback has the antibodies, he's already
Speaker 1: been through COVID nineteen and there's less of a chance
Speaker 1: of him contracting the virus once again, I mean, that
Speaker 1: could be a good thing for a football team. Doug
Speaker 1: Moron had some comments about Gardner Minshew, and as you
Speaker 1: I expect, Doug is not a social media maven lug,
Speaker 1: so he doesn't see a lot of this outside noise
Speaker 1: about the cornerback. He does see a different side of Gardener.
Speaker 1: There's so many people that tell me, you know, all
Speaker 1: those things about you know, social media, RVs and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. I see the guy that comes in with
Speaker 1: with with a mission and a focus every single day,
Speaker 1: you know, so um, you know when he's here or
Speaker 1: around myself. And not to say that we might not
Speaker 1: laugh about something or joke. We do, but I don't
Speaker 1: see that that other side, uh that people will be
Speaker 1: say the quirkiness to think of that nature he's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe I bring that out in people. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I'm just saying I see a guy
Speaker 1: that's focused and you know, it's ready to go. And
Speaker 1: every time he's here and he's working, he's on a
Speaker 1: mission and he's really working with his teammates. So I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously that's a great sign when the head coach sees
Speaker 1: that part of him in the building, and you know,
Speaker 1: he looks a little stronger. We see him if you're
Speaker 1: watching on Jags social he's been in the weight room
Speaker 1: a little bit and has kind of dedicated himself physically
Speaker 1: what you would expect from from Gardner. That's the kind
Speaker 1: of guy he seems to be. Like probably he definitely
Speaker 1: he looks more tone and uh, the one thing I
Speaker 1: think about Gardener Mitchew, I remember last year, my first
Speaker 1: impression of him when he was out there on the
Speaker 1: football field, I said, boy, looks like a fullback. You know,
Speaker 1: it looks like a walk on fullback. I mean, he
Speaker 1: doesn't look like a quarterback, because he does. He's a
Speaker 1: little shorter in stature and uh. And that's probably one
Speaker 1: of the reasons why that he was drafted where he is.
Speaker 1: And I mean the reality is that, I mean, does
Speaker 1: he look tall and lean and like a quarterback. I
Speaker 1: mean he doesn't, you know, he looks like I said,
Speaker 1: like a walk on fullback. And uh. But nonetheless, he's
Speaker 1: he had a very successful year. It looks like he's
Speaker 1: come back an excellent shape. He's got he's got some
Speaker 1: some hair growing out there, so I mean, he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to watch out and make sure that that doesn't
Speaker 1: block his vision when he's throwing the football. But I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see him play this year. And the quirkiness
Speaker 1: that Doug kind of mentioned there, he says he doesn't
Speaker 1: see it, Like, how can you not see it? I mean,
Speaker 1: he's definitely a little quirky, but in a good way.
Speaker 1: You know, He's different and uh and and I think
Speaker 1: the one thing about Minshew is is that it's not
Speaker 1: contrived and it's not an act. It's just kind of
Speaker 1: who he is. And I think because if it is
Speaker 1: an act, or if it's contrived or it's fake, that
Speaker 1: doesn't last in the locker room very long. And nor
Speaker 1: does a player if he's fake or have this contrived
Speaker 1: quirky acts, the respect doesn't last long in the locker room.
Speaker 1: So so that's good for Minshew because the quirkiness that
Speaker 1: actually can help him in the locker room. Because the quirkier,
Speaker 1: quirkier you are in the locker room, sometimes the broaderer
Speaker 1: reaches in the locker room. You know what helps broad
Speaker 1: reach as well is leading touchdown drive as winning football games.
Speaker 1: That certainly helps things too. And uh, you know there's
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence at least early in this training
Speaker 1: camp behind Gardner Minshew, Let's come back. We're gonna hear
Speaker 1: from Josh Allen speaking of confidence and guys, Doug Moron
Speaker 1: had a lot of good things to say about it.
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Speaker 1: m h. I try to be the best because I
Speaker 1: played in a Clinty I mean in the in the league. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's you know, high standards. I had a high standard
Speaker 1: last year and I kind of achieved that goal. But
Speaker 1: now you know, I set the bar really high for
Speaker 1: myself and I'm looking to stay there and stay at
Speaker 1: the top. And I'm gonna push myself as much as
Speaker 1: I could push each year, and this year is I'm
Speaker 1: not holding anything back. Man, I'm coming in as best
Speaker 1: as I can, the best version of me. He called
Speaker 1: Welcome Back Jaguar's Happy Hour j P. Shadrick Jeff Logan, Well,
Speaker 1: he can't love that guy Logs. Just his mentality of
Speaker 1: the way he goes about his business and his approach
Speaker 1: even on a call and in a media setting like that.
Speaker 1: He saw what he did on the field last year,
Speaker 1: but the way it's just it seems like a total package,
Speaker 1: which is a great, great sign for the organization. Really yeah,
Speaker 1: he's uh, I mean, let's face it, he's a stud.
Speaker 1: I mean he's uh. He's a stud in so many
Speaker 1: different ways. A stud because he has great physical tools,
Speaker 1: he has the personality to make up that you want
Speaker 1: you're great players to have. He's got some natural leadership ability.
Speaker 1: And when when anybody walks in the door and immediately
Speaker 1: kind of latches onto the coattails of Klais Campbell and says,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna follow this guy because I want to be
Speaker 1: like this guy. To me, I mean, holy cow, that's
Speaker 1: exactly what you're looking for. When you have young players
Speaker 1: that come in that think they know that and they
Speaker 1: think they've been there and done that, that's not the
Speaker 1: type type of player that you want. The players that
Speaker 1: come in that are wanting to be a sponge and
Speaker 1: realize that they have so much to learn. Those are
Speaker 1: the ones that realize that they're seiling, they haven't reached yet,
Speaker 1: that they're gonna do everything possible to try to become
Speaker 1: better players. And and I love listening to his interview.
Speaker 1: I love listening to him talk about how he prepared
Speaker 1: for the season and that obviously with all the restrictions
Speaker 1: that were in place, he did the smart thing. And
Speaker 1: then he went out and he got somebody to take
Speaker 1: him through workouts. He took and leaned on the advice
Speaker 1: of Clay's Campbell about trying to take care of your
Speaker 1: house and your business and your body first before you
Speaker 1: worry about anybody else. And I think that's the definition
Speaker 1: of a leader and that you do have to take
Speaker 1: care of yourself because in in the NFL, the reality
Speaker 1: is this. You can be a great leader, but if
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a leader, you've got to make sure
Speaker 1: that number one, you're doing the right thing and that
Speaker 1: you're a good football player. Because if you're not a
Speaker 1: good football player, do you think everybody else is gonna
Speaker 1: listen to you? No? No, You've you've got to have
Speaker 1: a little You gotta have some game if you're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to lead in the locker room. And I'm
Speaker 1: not saying you've got to be one of the best
Speaker 1: players in the you don't, but you've got to have
Speaker 1: some games. Now. I mean he would love to be obviously.
Speaker 1: That's his goal is to be one of the best,
Speaker 1: if not the best, player in the league. And head
Speaker 1: coach Doug Barron was asked about Alan today and his mindset.
Speaker 1: And you know, it doesn't start when you show up
Speaker 1: for training camp for the head coach. It starts much
Speaker 1: earlier than that. So immediately when the season was over,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm thinking to myself, this guy gets it.
Speaker 1: You know, um, you know this guy is is are
Speaker 1: all of a sudden starting to put together a plan
Speaker 1: for himself of of how he what he wants to
Speaker 1: do in the offseason, what he wants to do when
Speaker 1: he comes back, and is envisioning himself be a successful
Speaker 1: on the field. That you need that first before you
Speaker 1: need anything. Yeah, start with plan, follow the plan, executed,
Speaker 1: and helped the team as a whole win football games.
Speaker 1: That was another part that Doug talked about too. It's
Speaker 1: not just personal goals. He wants to win games. He
Speaker 1: this organization, the guys around him to do well for
Speaker 1: the Jaguars to to win football games. That's what it takes.
Speaker 1: I mean. And and if you're gonna lead this franchise
Speaker 1: and turn it around, you've got to have players that
Speaker 1: have that mindset that they're gonna be willing and they're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to do whatever is best for this
Speaker 1: organization and win football games. And obviously the success of
Speaker 1: the team is more important than the success of the individual.
Speaker 1: And that's the way it's gotta be. And uh, And
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is a good football player, and I like
Speaker 1: the way he also is. I don't want to say
Speaker 1: taking over that place Campbell role with Caleb and chays On.
Speaker 1: But he's kind of, you know, treated him like a
Speaker 1: brother in helping him along. And that's what you gotta have,
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta these get the young guys that
Speaker 1: come into your football team. You want to make sure
Speaker 1: that they latch on with people like a Josh Allen
Speaker 1: or like a Clays Campbell because you want them raise
Speaker 1: right and you want them to eventually to do the
Speaker 1: same thing to the younger guys that they start latching
Speaker 1: on to some in your locker room that you're like,
Speaker 1: uh and that that JP. We all know it. I
Speaker 1: mean there's guys in every locker room that you sit
Speaker 1: there and you go, uh, you know, and and we
Speaker 1: as as media members and as a former player and
Speaker 1: having been in that locker room, you have guys like that,
Speaker 1: you know, and you just want to make sure that
Speaker 1: nobody latches on the guys like that. But you need
Speaker 1: some of those guys to accomplish your goals because they
Speaker 1: have a good skill set and they fill a role.
Speaker 1: But at the same token, you don't need a guy
Speaker 1: like that mentor in anybody. And the Josh Allen is
Speaker 1: the perfect type of mentor, and he's he's a fantastic
Speaker 1: football player. And I'm excited to watch him play this
Speaker 1: year because he's gonna have one year of experience under
Speaker 1: his belt and he's only gonna get that much better.
Speaker 1: That was one question that Josh Allen was, what do
Speaker 1: you need to do better? What can you improve upon
Speaker 1: and back? Josh Allen certainly had an answer for that,
Speaker 1: being a complete player, man. And Uh, I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I worked on pass russ, but I
Speaker 1: worked on my whole game. Uh. You know it was
Speaker 1: it's so big to get caught up in the sacks.
Speaker 1: You know, this is just talking around people in the NFL. Uh,
Speaker 1: It's so big to get caught up in the sacks
Speaker 1: if you're considered a pass rusher. Uh. And I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to be considered just a pass rush and I'm
Speaker 1: trying to be considered a great defensive player. Um So
Speaker 1: I'm my main focus was stopping My main focus is
Speaker 1: gonna stop the run, tackle for losses. You know, plays
Speaker 1: that destructive the whole offense. He added also that priority
Speaker 1: number one for this Jaguars defense live just to stop
Speaker 1: the run. So that's coming from above. But uh, there's
Speaker 1: a reason why they have to stop the run before
Speaker 1: they can get to the opportunity to rush the pastor
Speaker 1: he knows that, how much better does he need to be,
Speaker 1: at least in in run defense and being a complete player.
Speaker 1: How can he do that? Well, He's he's got a
Speaker 1: lot of room to improve. Man, I'm I'm talking a
Speaker 1: lot of room to improve, because you're talking about a
Speaker 1: guy who at the University Kentucky didn't put his hand
Speaker 1: down on a three point stance hardly all, and when
Speaker 1: he did, it was only to rush the passer. So
Speaker 1: he had no comfort level whatsoever about playing the run
Speaker 1: from a three point stanch. Which, look, the reality is,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna play defensive end of the National Football League,
Speaker 1: you've got to learn how to do that. And and
Speaker 1: that's something that you can see that he worked on.
Speaker 1: He's did the footwork, the hand placement, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: He can get better at it. But that's what I
Speaker 1: appreciate about Josh is that even though he had a
Speaker 1: double digit SAX last year as a rookie, which is
Speaker 1: tremendous because you're an elite pass rusher in the National
Speaker 1: Football League. When you get double digit especially if you're
Speaker 1: a rookie. So he could just say, Hey, that's the glamour,
Speaker 1: that's how my name is gonna be made, that's how
Speaker 1: I make Pro Bowls, and that's what I am. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna be just a pass rusher. But he wants
Speaker 1: to be the complete player and uh and yeah, the
Speaker 1: Jaguar has got to have a strong focus on stop
Speaker 1: in the run because JP they weren't very good at
Speaker 1: it last year. You know, that was one of the
Speaker 1: reasons why they signed Joe Schobert linebacker, one of the
Speaker 1: reasons that they signed Out Woods. And now he's opted out.
Speaker 1: The big nose apple veteran guy, you know, so it's
Speaker 1: unfortunate that they lost him. But they've got to get
Speaker 1: better against the run, and Josh Allen has to be
Speaker 1: a big part of that. Big body helps. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's not a small guy. He's two hundred and sixty.
Speaker 1: That helps, right to have some stoutness to you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's you know, I think last year there were times
Speaker 1: that he played about two sixty five, maybe even all
Speaker 1: the way up the two hundred and seventy pounds. And
Speaker 1: the crazy thing is when he's to seventy, he's still
Speaker 1: he still moves unbelievably well, you know. And and compare
Speaker 1: that too in Gockway. And this is no Slidervingockway, because
Speaker 1: he's a great player in his own right. But he's
Speaker 1: about two hundred thirty five pound ballpark, you know. So
Speaker 1: the reality is that you can't do things at to
Speaker 1: thirty five that you can't at to sixty five or
Speaker 1: two seventy. Trust me, I've been there, I've tried it.
Speaker 1: You know, played years and when I was younger at
Speaker 1: the two hundred and forty pounds, and then I played
Speaker 1: years at two hundred seventy pounds, And there's obviously a
Speaker 1: comfort level for every player. And with Josh Allen, they're
Speaker 1: seeing should be a pretty wide comfort zone in which
Speaker 1: which he can play at and uh and when you
Speaker 1: have a guy that's two seventy pounds that can that
Speaker 1: can run like him. But I think the most impressive
Speaker 1: thing is that we're talking about a bigger defensive endom
Speaker 1: according to modern day standards. Now, I mean, we're not
Speaker 1: talking about going in league history, y j P. Because
Speaker 1: some of the modern day standards, most of your defensive
Speaker 1: ends are two fifties. Two fifty five is somewhere right
Speaker 1: and there. Josh is a little bit bigger than that.
Speaker 1: But his wind or his ability to to have a
Speaker 1: motor that is still running and I'm talking his speed
Speaker 1: is at a high level through the course of a play,
Speaker 1: because there was one place last year that sticks in
Speaker 1: my mind that's just unbelievable. And then he runs one direction,
Speaker 1: he stopped, he changed his direction, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden and he closes. And when he closed, he
Speaker 1: ran a guy down. Whereas most humans, okay after the
Speaker 1: first birth, will be like Josh was just like it
Speaker 1: was like he's like, all right, here we go. He's
Speaker 1: like he's fresh. It was like he just started and
Speaker 1: it was the second part of the second half of
Speaker 1: the play, and I'm going, how do you do that?
Speaker 1: I mean, what a gift that he has. And it's
Speaker 1: and it's fun to watch because I wish I had
Speaker 1: that kind of endurance in a play that Josh has.
Speaker 1: I will say that, you know, I've lost some weight lately, right,
Speaker 1: I touched too, six four six. Yeah, it's a little
Speaker 1: bit different for Josh than it was for me. Let's
Speaker 1: come back in the moment. Speaking of big guys will
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if a lot of guys
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Speaker 1: of things. It's Brandon Lender, Jaguars Center. He spoke with
Speaker 1: the media earlier this week. Jaguars Happy, our rolls along,
Speaker 1: We're halfway home. The Doug Moron Show starts at five
Speaker 1: o'clock today, and we'll hear from the head coach. But
Speaker 1: good to hear from Lender. You know, a guy who's
Speaker 1: been around here here for a long time, and earlier
Speaker 1: in his career, has battled some injury things, but logs,
Speaker 1: he's I think he made the point that, especially for
Speaker 1: veteran players, he's I think he called it a dream offseason.
Speaker 1: There's nothing on the field at all, right, so you
Speaker 1: should be fairly fast. I know what Lender's mindset is. Okay,
Speaker 1: Lender's thinking, Okay, no t a, no mini camp. I
Speaker 1: get to go more, I get to go fishing more,
Speaker 1: I get to go turkey hunt more. And so my
Speaker 1: schedule is clean. I don't have any commitments. I mean,
Speaker 1: so I know, I Lend. But but here's the Brandon
Speaker 1: Leonard still prepared for the season, and and he certainly
Speaker 1: I don't want to say that he thought that it
Speaker 1: was the dream season like, boy, we want to have
Speaker 1: every year like this, because the reality is nobody wants
Speaker 1: to have a year like we've had with with a
Speaker 1: global pandemic. But I think he's just referring to all
Speaker 1: the free time, no commitments football wise, and and you
Speaker 1: come back and you're kind of ready to go um.
Speaker 1: But I think you know, he also had in that
Speaker 1: interview talked about the importance and he realized the importance
Speaker 1: of the offensive line to the success of this season
Speaker 1: this year, because you're talking about a young quarterback in
Speaker 1: the second year, really the first year that he has
Speaker 1: been the name starting quarterback, and a defense that is
Speaker 1: gonna be an offense really that both sides of the
Speaker 1: ball is gonna be plugging in a lot of young players.
Speaker 1: So if you look at any position group across this
Speaker 1: whole football team, the offensive line is probably the one
Speaker 1: that has the most consistency or will have the most
Speaker 1: consistency to it. And uh and obviously, and I think
Speaker 1: it was one of the requests that John Oshan made
Speaker 1: to us j P all the media guys and said, hey,
Speaker 1: I need you guys to help me write these articles.
Speaker 1: And he asked different questions and one of the questions
Speaker 1: that he posed that was on Jaguars dot Com was
Speaker 1: what is the most important position? Group? Heading into mine
Speaker 1: was offensive Live And the reason I said that was
Speaker 1: two fold. One is that you have young quarterback. You
Speaker 1: have a lot of growth that's needed for him, and
Speaker 1: you got to give him room to do that. You
Speaker 1: need to have a running game, and the offensive line's
Speaker 1: gotta block and lead the way because that's probably going
Speaker 1: to be the most consistent thing to the offense, but
Speaker 1: also time of possession. By running the football, you also
Speaker 1: keep a defense off the field and so that the
Speaker 1: offensive line can help the defense and ways as well.
Speaker 1: So this offense has got to be good. This offensive
Speaker 1: line has got to be good, and Brandon Lennard has
Speaker 1: got to be a big, big part of that. You know,
Speaker 1: last year was the first year that he was able
Speaker 1: to make a complete season and stayed healthy and and
Speaker 1: I know he attributes the diet, the plots, the stretching stuff, uh,
Speaker 1: and good for him. You know, when players finally find
Speaker 1: what works for them, they got to stick with it
Speaker 1: and hopefully that that formula continues to work for Brandon Lenner. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he got dinged up a little bit last year, but
Speaker 1: everybody whole season. I mean, everybody gets that. If you're
Speaker 1: a football player and you don't get dinged up, you
Speaker 1: didn't play. You know, you're like on practice squad or
Speaker 1: or you're you're the water boy. I mean, if you're playing,
Speaker 1: you get dinged up. And that's just the fact, you know.
Speaker 1: But the whole goal is just to be able to
Speaker 1: fight through some of the things and still be available.
Speaker 1: You know, as we we've seen for many years the
Speaker 1: old saying availability supersedes what JP. Yeah, come on, availability
Speaker 1: supersedes what ability? Ability. Yes, availability supersedes ability because if
Speaker 1: a player is not available, it doesn't matter what an
Speaker 1: ability he has. And so for Brandon Leonard to be
Speaker 1: available for all sixteen games last year, uh, great job.
Speaker 1: And hope, hope, hope we see the same thing this
Speaker 1: year out of them. Yeah, the most important ability is availability.
Speaker 1: That's the way I've always different. That's why I was hesitant.
Speaker 1: And and here's the other thing, JP, I mean, the
Speaker 1: the offensive lines got some competition this year every week.
Speaker 1: Let's I mean, let's start with that real quickly. Let's
Speaker 1: start at left tackle, that's the one right Cam Robinson
Speaker 1: and then Will Richardson's moving over to the left tackle position.
Speaker 1: Is this a real deal? Uh? Am I breathing? That's real? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's real. Here. Look Will Richardson. Last year, when all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Cam Robinson is not ready to go,
Speaker 1: and then he was asked to play left tackle. He
Speaker 1: did a really good job. And the Sally you know
Speaker 1: who is Hall of Fame Cannet played the position. Even
Speaker 1: made the comment that, look, you know, you leave Will
Speaker 1: out there at left tackle because he arguably had been
Speaker 1: playing better than Cam has. And so to create competition,
Speaker 1: first off, it's gonna make Cam a better player. It's
Speaker 1: gonna make give Will an opportunity to earn a starting
Speaker 1: job and give him motivation. And and also in the
Speaker 1: event that Cam still wins the position, good for him.
Speaker 1: He obviously elevated his level of play. But then you
Speaker 1: also had a player who you know can play guard
Speaker 1: because he rotated last year at guard. Now a sudden,
Speaker 1: he can play guard, he can play tackle. He's the
Speaker 1: multi tool that now becomes your most important offensive lineman
Speaker 1: at that sixth position, because if anybody gets hurt, maybe
Speaker 1: besides the center position, he's going to be the first
Speaker 1: guy in. And Will Richardson, if he doesn't in fact
Speaker 1: beat out Cam Robinson, and then if he does, okay,
Speaker 1: well guess what. Cam's gonna have to learn how to
Speaker 1: play some guard and he's gonna have to learn play
Speaker 1: some right to or wherever they need him at. Let's
Speaker 1: hear again from Brandon Lender. We we've talked about guys
Speaker 1: getting dinged up. That happens, but the dinged up could
Speaker 1: be a little bit different this year. The social distancing
Speaker 1: and everything that's happening in the building right now, there's
Speaker 1: one thing, but at some point you have to line
Speaker 1: up across from the man across from you and butt
Speaker 1: heads with him and get face to face. As we've
Speaker 1: talked about logs before. I asked Brandon on the call
Speaker 1: the other day, would he consider wearing that new faced
Speaker 1: mask shield. You know, some guys have the visor only
Speaker 1: over the eyes, but there's an option now to wear
Speaker 1: one over the mouth and nose part of the face mask.
Speaker 1: And I asked him in general, was of having to
Speaker 1: be so closely involved in the trenches. Obviously we've been
Speaker 1: socially distancing ourselves. I've been taking this seriously. Um, I've
Speaker 1: been talking to the equipment guys about that shield. I
Speaker 1: guess that goes above right here, but I mean hot
Speaker 1: as it's been. I don't know that's gonna be tough.
Speaker 1: But I mean because I mean in the trenches. I
Speaker 1: mean you're just right here with another guy. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously there's your exhaling or spit. I mean, it's kind
Speaker 1: of crazy. But I don't know, we'll see. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take a look at it. Um, I don't know. It
Speaker 1: might be too hot in there to wear it. Yeah, hot,
Speaker 1: and at some point he has to make calls as
Speaker 1: well in their offensive line. Could be a little bit
Speaker 1: of an issue there. This is gonna be interesting to
Speaker 1: see because you can't really know if you like wearing
Speaker 1: that until you go try it on the practice field.
Speaker 1: They haven't been able to wear helmets yet. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I can tell you this, I'm not I haven't seen
Speaker 1: um it yet up close in person JP obviously because
Speaker 1: you know we can't be down at stadium. UM. But
Speaker 1: I can tell you this. You know, essentially what they're
Speaker 1: the objective is is to control this area here, which
Speaker 1: is your nose, kind of like a mask. And I
Speaker 1: had experience because you know, the visor thing has been
Speaker 1: around for for quite some time. Well, I remember back
Speaker 1: in the day that you know, like a guy like
Speaker 1: Tim Cofield and Chris Doleman and and guys wore the
Speaker 1: Darth Vader mask, you know that we used to call
Speaker 1: it because tinted out and you can't see their eyes.
Speaker 1: And I thought it looked pretty cool. And so I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, man, I got, I got, I
Speaker 1: think I want to try that, you know, so it
Speaker 1: looks pretty cool. You know, maybe offensive line won't see
Speaker 1: my eyes. I can look cool, you know, because when
Speaker 1: you're twenty two, you know, you kind of want to
Speaker 1: look cool too, you know. So I put one on
Speaker 1: for a practice and and this was in New York summertime,
Speaker 1: and it was stifling. It was it was like this
Speaker 1: this oven, and it's it's almost like being in a
Speaker 1: backyard jp that has twelve ft high fencing that is
Speaker 1: totally would and there's no breeze versus chain link fencing,
Speaker 1: and the breeze is blowing through. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: there's no there's no cooling effect whatsoever to just this part.
Speaker 1: You know. So now of fall of a sudden, you're
Speaker 1: talking all of this part right here. I mean Brandon's right,
Speaker 1: I mean, the the heat and look at if you're
Speaker 1: playing football in December, January, February, this might be okay,
Speaker 1: But Jacksonville in September, Uh uh, ain't happen. Ain't happened now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if if, if they can find a
Speaker 1: way to do something else that wouldn't be so prohibitive
Speaker 1: of the of the aeration part of it, getting into
Speaker 1: the helmet, I don't know. Uh, but that but that
Speaker 1: whole mask, face mask, plastic thing. As a player, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't wear it either. Let's come go around all league.
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Speaker 1: Logiven from our home studios. As we go around the
Speaker 1: National Football League, the deadline for opting out came and
Speaker 1: went for o'clock today. The players had to provide written
Speaker 1: notice by then their intention to opt out. Otherwise, the
Speaker 1: ability to opt out later logs will be limited to
Speaker 1: specific changes in circumstances. That will include the player receiving
Speaker 1: a new diagnosis of a health condition that puts him
Speaker 1: at a higher risk, or the hospitalization or death of
Speaker 1: a family member from COVID night in that's to receive
Speaker 1: is talking about a little bit earlier. That's the only
Speaker 1: way after four o'clock today that can happen. Well. And
Speaker 1: then also, I mean, I think the opt out stuff
Speaker 1: doesn't really end there. I think that that we'll still
Speaker 1: have some players that choose to retire and uh and
Speaker 1: then unretired. It's uh, it's not common for a player
Speaker 1: too to change his mind. And so what the player
Speaker 1: will do in that instance is that he doesn't have
Speaker 1: any opt out money that will be at stake, who
Speaker 1: will essentially walk away from his contract and he will
Speaker 1: be paid to date. But then the other thing that
Speaker 1: this factors in there, if the player does choose to
Speaker 1: walk away, then the player may have to refund a
Speaker 1: percentage of his signing bonus for the guaranteed money that
Speaker 1: he was already paid. So that's gonna be a factor.
Speaker 1: But I mean that is always an option for the
Speaker 1: players that maybe after today at four PM, they're not
Speaker 1: comfortable playing with a global pandemic, that they do have
Speaker 1: the option that they can walk away and just retire.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what the number is gonna be
Speaker 1: JP And and obviously the deadline has passed now for
Speaker 1: the players to submit their written letter in which they
Speaker 1: opt out. UM, it will be interested to see what
Speaker 1: the final number is. Certainly, and because you know there
Speaker 1: this is different, you know, I mean, and I think
Speaker 1: the league and the coaches and everything that I've read
Speaker 1: from their statements about when the players that does decide
Speaker 1: to opt out, that they have been completely understanding. I
Speaker 1: think there also has to be some understanding too that
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a little bit of an adjustment period
Speaker 1: once again when the players go to having practice and
Speaker 1: then the social distancing evaporates, and then there's games and
Speaker 1: you're you're hitting somebody else, and you know, like Brandon
Speaker 1: Lennard was talking about about how the face mask, you know,
Speaker 1: you're talking right here, you know, you're swapping spit and
Speaker 1: sweat and everything else, you know, because the contact is
Speaker 1: face to face. I mean, that's just that's football. So
Speaker 1: there's gotta gotta be a little adjustment period with that too.
Speaker 1: And I think the one thing that you hope that
Speaker 1: you don't have any hesitancy from the players, your players
Speaker 1: when they have or they're going through that adjustment period,
Speaker 1: because when you're hesitant, you're gonna get beat, uh and
Speaker 1: also you could get hurt when you are hesitant. The
Speaker 1: Player Association has said that fifth the six players have
Speaker 1: tested positive for COVID nineteen since players began reporting to
Speaker 1: training camps last week. That's about two of the players
Speaker 1: currently on NFL rosters. You know, that's not a bad percentage, right,
Speaker 1: That's that's a pretty small number relative. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: don't know the NFL hasn't tested for anybody's that I
Speaker 1: know of, So, I mean that's just in the testing
Speaker 1: protocols that they have instituted since the start of training camp.
Speaker 1: So is the percentage higher? Obviously it would be higher.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure that some players that were asymptomatic and
Speaker 1: maybe never even knew that they had COVID, and some
Speaker 1: players like von Miller that had it and they knew it,
Speaker 1: but they didn't test positive within the league's testing procedures
Speaker 1: that started at the opening of training camp. So it
Speaker 1: seems like a really low number, but the reality is that,
Speaker 1: you know, you try to go to get that number
Speaker 1: down to zero because if all of a sudden, you
Speaker 1: have one outbreak, you know, then you can have a
Speaker 1: team shut down. I mean, we saw with baseball what
Speaker 1: it can lead to. Were to baseball teams with Miami
Speaker 1: and St. Louis had major issues with trying to complete
Speaker 1: a season because of outbreaks. And you hope that the
Speaker 1: NFL doesn't have that and uh and hopefully the bubble
Speaker 1: that they can create will be good enough. By the way,
Speaker 1: the Marlins are in first place. They've won some games
Speaker 1: since they've started playing again, and they've got some some
Speaker 1: guys off of their taxi squad to come up and um,
Speaker 1: hey they're hot. Wouldn't that be something if the Marlins,
Speaker 1: of all teams, ended up in the World Series this year,
Speaker 1: probably against the Yankees. Um. We mentioned this last week,
Speaker 1: but Vic Beasley still has not shown up for Titans
Speaker 1: training camp. He did not opt out either logs, so
Speaker 1: his fines for not reporting so far fifty dollars a
Speaker 1: day for unexc used absences, So it's five hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars worth of fines now for Vic Beasley wherever he is. Wow. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I think he signed like a one year prove
Speaker 1: it deal with Tennessee because you know, he had a
Speaker 1: number of years with Atlanta. You know, the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: year that he had he was unbelievable and then kind
Speaker 1: of the performance dropped significantly, and so you've got a
Speaker 1: one year proven deal with the Tennessee title. He's not
Speaker 1: proven anything right now other than being a ghost. I mean,
Speaker 1: I hope he's okay. Uh. You hope that the individual
Speaker 1: is is not in any trouble or doesn't have any
Speaker 1: family issues or anything of that nature. But man, a
Speaker 1: little bit of communication with uh, with the general manager
Speaker 1: and head coach there in Tennessee would probably do himself
Speaker 1: some good. Today LUGS would have been the Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame game and can'ton Ohio. It's amazing that we would
Speaker 1: have already been teeing it up tonight at Benson Stadium
Speaker 1: and Kent playing in the Hall of Fame game stinks.
Speaker 1: I gotta say, Look, I've been playing at twice and UH,
Speaker 1: and it was pretty cool, uh to be able to
Speaker 1: play in it, just for the simple fact that the
Speaker 1: first time that I ever played, and it was John
Speaker 1: riggins induction into the Hall of Fame, and and I
Speaker 1: was on the field as he's driving around and he
Speaker 1: he'd had a few beers and he's waving and doing
Speaker 1: his best to sit up on the back of the
Speaker 1: car kind of this during the thing. And then uh,
Speaker 1: and then the other one obviously was with the Jaguars
Speaker 1: and Panthers. But having the extra preseason game is like
Speaker 1: the worst thing in the world, and especially when Tom
Speaker 1: Coughlin was your head coach. I have no fond memories
Speaker 1: of of of the Hall of Fame game. And Steven's
Speaker 1: point other than it was the first year of a franchise,
Speaker 1: in the birth of a franchise, and all those things
Speaker 1: were positive, but the grind of that JP that wasn't
Speaker 1: so much fun passed on that one for you put
Speaker 1: you down as exactly. It was a tweet earlier today
Speaker 1: James James Palmer NFL Network put a tweet out earlier today.
Speaker 1: It was one year ago they were recovering joint practices
Speaker 1: between the Ravens and then made a point about Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson's performances in those days. I was like, this guy
Speaker 1: is is really improved, he looks great as a quarterback. Well,
Speaker 1: he ends up being the m v P in the
Speaker 1: league last year. It's unbelievable. But that was a year ago.
Speaker 1: Today as well, we were in Baltimore practicing against the
Speaker 1: Ravens and those Yeah, I mean that's a well what
Speaker 1: would you like to have that back this year? You know,
Speaker 1: to where Okay, you got your team and are preparing
Speaker 1: for a season, and you're watching your young guys against
Speaker 1: their young guys and things are normal and you're you're
Speaker 1: not worrying about socially distant JT. We're going to the
Speaker 1: local pub across the street to get a burger and
Speaker 1: a beer and maybe some wings. I mean, those days,
Speaker 1: those days, I just wish we had more of them again.
Speaker 1: But JP will just have to maybe have it's happy
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Speaker 1: I don't have to I have to fill this up
Speaker 1: with something beside sweet tea, and we gotta our own
Speaker 1: little happy hour here going on. Yeah, we might have
Speaker 1: to do that after the show, but you know that's
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