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Speaker 1: Oh, Welcome to the Ozone Podcast, presented by by Star

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Speaker 1: Credit Union, featuring Jaguars senior writer John Osher and executive

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Speaker 1: producer Dave de Candis. This week, we have a player

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Speaker 1: that I'm not sure that many Jaguars fans know that well.

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Speaker 1: With COVID and with the social distancing everything being video conference,

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Speaker 1: hasn't been that out there in the media. But he's

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Speaker 1: a guy that I think fans are going to enjoy.

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Speaker 1: He's a very interesting guy. He's got a long NFL career.

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Speaker 1: I love talking to veterans because I love finding out

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Speaker 1: what makes them tick and how a guy last in

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Speaker 1: this very difficult to last leave. The guest today on

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Speaker 1: the Ozone Podcast is Jaguar's veteran running back Chris Thompson.

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Speaker 1: And Chris, the first thing I gotta ask you, way

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Speaker 1: back when I was a younger soul, I covered a

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Speaker 1: Madison County High school football game against Lake City Columbia

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Speaker 1: back in that they were playing that game and just

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Speaker 1: for the old oaken bucket, right. Yeah, that was either

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Speaker 1: my sophomore year or maybe eighth grade. I believe it

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Speaker 1: was eighth grade, though I remember I remember that game.

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Speaker 1: It was a great game, but UM, I'm not I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure. Okay, I got you. Yeah, so the old

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Speaker 1: man's memory. I'm playing the old man. But I remember

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Speaker 1: how things were, right, Oh yeah, now I remember. I

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Speaker 1: remember that game. We always remember when we had to

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Speaker 1: play Lake City because it was always always a good

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Speaker 1: game for us. I understand it's been about ten years

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Speaker 1: since you were in that era, so we'll go back

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Speaker 1: and yeah, we'll get back with the Jaguars. Obviously a

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Speaker 1: crazy year. I know that you probably asked about this

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Speaker 1: a lot, but you know, you've played in the league

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Speaker 1: for a while, but this has got to be off

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Speaker 1: the charts in terms of stuff that you've had to

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Speaker 1: deal with. Be it's your transition being COVID, being all this,

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Speaker 1: What has it been like? First of all, Um, it's

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Speaker 1: just been tough, um and pretty aggravating too at the

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Speaker 1: same time, just uh, with all this COVID stuff going on,

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Speaker 1: and UM, I think just other stuff that's been going

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Speaker 1: on in the world too. UM. I feel like it

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Speaker 1: affects It affects all of us, especially me as a player. UM,

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Speaker 1: just seeing everything else that's going on on top of

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Speaker 1: COVID and being away from football, not getting a true offseason, Um,

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Speaker 1: I was in Virginia. I had a baby. Um, literally

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Speaker 1: a couple of surgery so we had to deal with that, um,

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Speaker 1: and then signing with Jacksonville, having to find a trainer here. Uh,

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Speaker 1: going on, and um, you know, it's it's I think

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Speaker 1: like for every team, for all the guys. I know, UM,

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Speaker 1: some of course, like our bodies enjoy having a break,

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Speaker 1: being away from you know, not having to do O

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Speaker 1: it's super important for you know, teams like what we

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Speaker 1: Just camaraderie. That's one thing that's that's super important. I

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Speaker 1: I think as a as a young team and as

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Speaker 1: this situation right now. Um. I knew we had a

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Speaker 1: room the way you normally what am I reading that? Right? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was tough and a big challenge and UM, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's just just not not what you want. Um, It's

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Speaker 1: it's no excuse at all. Um, you know for our

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Speaker 1: I know you've talked about this a little bit Jay

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Speaker 1: him his offensive system? I know you know what. We're

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Speaker 1: When he gets on him. You know, guys listening and

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Speaker 1: And he certainly seems like a guy who not only

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Speaker 1: its motivation or experience or whatever. Um. I was fascinated

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Speaker 1: and I always am guys who have to earn their

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Speaker 1: you're not on big contracts, each time you know, Dave,

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Speaker 1: you're around it, you know the league is always trying

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Speaker 1: to get you out because they want to be paying

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Speaker 1: younger guys. It's much easier to pay a second year

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Speaker 1: And I think I think Chris is in his eighth year,

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Speaker 1: because it's. Uh, he is a professional football player. And

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Speaker 1: when I say professional, I put the ampsas on the

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Speaker 1: professional part. You know. I'm sure he's a different guy

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Speaker 1: fascinating with him to hear him talk about why he

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Speaker 1: thinks he's been able to make it because he's a

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Speaker 1: guy that had been easy to cut for a long time.

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Speaker 1: He's not a name nobody would notice if he got cut,

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Speaker 1: and he is he's very self aware, Davis, what I thought,

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Speaker 1: he knows his role. He knows how he's been able

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Speaker 1: easy to see that he'll be successful in whatever he

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Speaker 1: tries to do after football. Yeah, and being self aware

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Speaker 1: is probably why it's lasted so long. And I want

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Speaker 1: to bring up one other point when he said, but

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Speaker 1: he asked about has been binge watched in the Disney

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Speaker 1: Plus show? I thought about it. I go, you know,

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Speaker 1: Plus show. A lot of DR stuff is going on

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Speaker 1: in my house, so DR stuff, and I've seen every

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Speaker 1: episode like four times unfortunately for me days, so I

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Speaker 1: can relate on that. When I was in your shoes

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Speaker 1: when my son was three or four, my bene watched

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Speaker 1: was Barney, which sucked quite frankly, Dave. Then we always

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Speaker 1: talked about with the Ozone podcast, not sucking that sucks

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Speaker 1: with that when Barney is our riff and it's the

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Speaker 1: Purple Dinosaur that I can still quote. Unfortunately, we'll close

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Speaker 1: this week's Those Own Podcast. I want thank Daved Candice

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Speaker 1: once again for making this better than it really is.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Joe unfortunate of for making it sound better than

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Speaker 1: it is really Thank Chris Thompsons for joining us and

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Speaker 1: thank him for sharing some things about the realities of

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Speaker 1: the NFL right now for players, that's this week's Those

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Speaker 1: On podcast. We'll see you next week. Well, so