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Speaker 1: Soon. Welcome to the Ozone Podcast with Jaguars senior writer

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Speaker 1: John Oser.

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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome to this week's Ozone Podcast with Jaguars

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Speaker 2: general manager Trent Balky and Trent, we have you in

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Speaker 2: here obviously to look back in the draft a little

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Speaker 2: bit and to look I guess a thirty thousand feet

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Speaker 2: view in the team right now with two weeks to

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Speaker 2: sort of decompress, and I know you decompressed in Wisconsin

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Speaker 2: getting away a little bit. Uh, thoughts on the draft

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Speaker 2: looking back on it, Uh, just something general about that

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Speaker 2: period and that player acquisition period.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, obviously nobody at this point in time

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Speaker 1: is going to tell you they had a bad draft,

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Speaker 1: so I'm not going to be the first. But now,

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Speaker 1: if the board really did fall in a lot of

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Speaker 1: cases how we felt it was going to fall, there's

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Speaker 1: always a little some twists and turns that go with it.

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Speaker 1: But we were able to you know, draft thirteen guys

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Speaker 1: and thirteen guys that we feel good about, you know,

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Speaker 1: at different levels of the draft. You know, we had

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Speaker 1: all the way from first through the seventh round a

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Speaker 1: lot of Day three picks, So it was it was

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Speaker 1: fun and exciting and rewarding.

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Speaker 2: All in one, and so many people try to analyze

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Speaker 2: the draft, and I've always thought that people analyze it

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Speaker 2: based on what they think a team should do, which

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Speaker 2: is completely different than what a team goes in trying

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Speaker 2: to get out of it. You know, it's the age

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Speaker 2: old thing when you're looking at a long term versus

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Speaker 2: short term with the draft, how do you try to

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Speaker 2: bantle it to balance that as a GM because people

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Speaker 2: think you sort of have a plan, but you can't

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Speaker 2: really go in think I'm going to take a tackle

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Speaker 2: and a guard, and you know that's not the way

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Speaker 2: the draft works, and if you do, you're setting you're

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Speaker 2: setting yourself up for a lot of reaching and failure.

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Speaker 1: Right Yeah, I just I don't put a lot of

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Speaker 1: or should do. You know, you have a plan, You

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Speaker 1: head coach and the coaching staff and the personnel staffs.

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Speaker 1: You have a plan going into it. The plan is

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Speaker 1: never going to be executed exactly how you want it

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Speaker 1: to be because you don't have there's too many variables,

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Speaker 1: too many things out of your control. But for the

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Speaker 1: most part, you got to stick to your board, and

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Speaker 1: we did that. You know, the plan wasn't to go

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Speaker 1: in and draft three offensive players necessarily in a row.

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Speaker 1: That's just what happened, right, But we're excited about what happened.

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Speaker 1: So again, you worry about what you can control. You

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Speaker 1: worry about the plan that you have set forth internally,

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Speaker 1: and you let other people judge it however they want to.

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Speaker 2: How much of a difference between what you read about

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Speaker 2: the draft and what actually happens during the draft? A lot.

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Speaker 1: There's a big difference, you know, again a lot of times,

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Speaker 1: a lot of things that you read or sensationalize, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's just it is what it is. It's a big moment.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of there's a lot of speculation on it,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of eyes on it, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of people, you know, commenting on it, and from a

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Speaker 1: lot of different angles. Again, that's really one of the

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Speaker 2: I hadn't really planned this as a question, but as

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Speaker 2: you were talking, I was curious, who's maybe your biggest

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Speaker 2: influence in how you work a draft, how you plan it,

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Speaker 2: how you lay it out, Like when you're strategizing going

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Speaker 2: coach a draft, if you will.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think my experience with mister Haley and Coach

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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of what we do is still

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Speaker 1: a it's a time tested system that and those guys

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Speaker 2: Gotcha? Is there a tenant or two from that you like,

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Speaker 2: just a base philosophy.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think you don't make exceptions, you know, I

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Speaker 1: So you just try to stick to your philosophy. You know,

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Speaker 2: Jag Gotcha, Roocky, Mini Caamp. What did you want to

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Speaker 1: I wanted to see him stay healthy, you know, that's

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Speaker 1: Their season ends, and then they're they put on a

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Speaker 1: So they get here, they haven't done a lot, they're

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I think precisely that's happened here before, and

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Speaker 2: not a pleasant feeling for anybody. I want to go

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Speaker 2: maybe the top three draft picks, and he didn't see

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Speaker 2: quickly Anton Hair and what do you like about him?

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Speaker 1: Well, we see exactly what we saw on tape. You know,

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Speaker 1: a he's a basketball type athlete with quick hands, heavy hands,

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Speaker 2: There's a difference of just standing next to him when

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Speaker 1: He's got heavy hands, and you know, we did a

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Speaker 1: him if you will, you know, we had a lot

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Speaker 1: he certainly has done that thus far, but again, long

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Speaker 2: It's a bad feeling when they don't.

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Speaker 1: Well it canny, it cany.

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Speaker 2: Breton Strange sure looks the part. I mean, impressive kid.

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Speaker 2: What do you like about him?

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Speaker 1: Again, another guy that came in and showed us all

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Speaker 1: the things that we saw on film. You know, he's quick,

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Speaker 1: he's bigger than he measures. You know, when you stand

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Speaker 1: him than six o three seven. You know, he's a

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Speaker 1: really good athlete for his size. He's got good twitch,

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Speaker 1: But again, another young guy that's it's gonna you know,

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Speaker 2: Is Bigsby sort of a running back version of what

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Speaker 2: you're talking about. He'll fit in give you more of

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Speaker 1: Perhaps, Yeah, well we're looking, you know, iron sharpens iron.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're really happy with where that room is at.

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Speaker 1: We feel it's one of our deeper rooms right now.

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Speaker 1: On the team, we got you know, some guys in there,

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Speaker 1: six guys that can all play at this level, have

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Speaker 1: we got snooped from last year, we got tank from

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Speaker 1: and see what. See where that depth chart lays out

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Speaker 2: The depth and the I guess overall, the possibility of

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Speaker 2: the roster seems much advanced for maybe your first draft.

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Speaker 2: Are you closer to where you liked see a team

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Speaker 2: physically trait wise? It is this more of a balky team,

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, take me out of the equation if you would.

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Speaker 1: It's it's more what we envision right. You know what

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Speaker 1: want to be available. By what I mean by that,

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Speaker 1: we want healthy guys. We want guys that can stay,

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Speaker 1: if we can continue to add players like that that

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Speaker 1: then it's it's going to be how we envision it.

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Speaker 2: How much of it was there an element this off

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Speaker 2: off season is as a GM having to look ahead

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Speaker 2: to future off season's, future cap situations, Trevor's contract. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: at some point there's some pre planning that you have

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Speaker 2: the long term, right.

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Speaker 1: three years out constantly, you know, and obviously injuries come up,

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Speaker 1: things change. No plan ever goes executed right perfectly, but

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Speaker 1: we're definitely planning out two three years down down the

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Speaker 1: road for these contracts that you see coming. You know,

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Speaker 1: next year is going to be a big off season.

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Speaker 1: We got we got a significant number of guys that

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Speaker 1: are going to be up that we're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: address in it. You know, we're gonna be saying.

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Speaker 2: That every year, right, that was, but that was something

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Speaker 2: you knew. I remember some people miss this. You said

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Speaker 2: that a lot last year when active in free agency.

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Speaker 2: You said, look, twenty twenty three is going to be

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Speaker 2: different than twenty four, sort of a critical year. So

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Speaker 2: this has all been the plan and we're seeing a

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, everybody wants you to go out and

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Speaker 1: continue to sign, sign, sign, but the reality is you can't.

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Speaker 1: The reality is at some point the free agent market's

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Speaker 2: Do you like what you're seeing. So much of this

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Speaker 1: Really like where those guys are head. No, it's early.

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Speaker 1: know how to pace themselves, you know, and and that's

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Speaker 2: And that's such a huge factor for young kids starting

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I mean the anxiety that goes with trying to

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Speaker 2: That sort of thing doesn't always happen, and it's been

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Speaker 1: It it is. But I've said this before several times.

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Speaker 1: You know, Doug plays a huge role in that he's

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Speaker 1: You know, the things that he says, and you know

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Speaker 2: You mentioned after the draft, team's not built yet. Roster's

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Speaker 1: It's an ongoing process that never really stops. The first

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Speaker 2: What do you want to be able to say after

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Speaker 2: feel June fifteen, sixteen, I.

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Speaker 1: Want to feel, you know, I think we want to

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Speaker 2: Right. It always goes back to that.

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Speaker 1: Then, Yeah, that's in a good headspace that we feel

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Speaker 1: it's July seventeenth, I think is the first the coaches report,

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Speaker 2: Gotcha, Trent Valk. We always appreciate your time. Thank you

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Speaker 2: very much, and I appreciate you joining the Oways on podcasts.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John