Speaker 1: It is Thursday, May nineteen, Jack Wars Happy Hour. Hey, now,
Speaker 1: a guy who believes you have to borrow money from
Speaker 1: any sandwich shop in Utah because they all offer a
Speaker 1: provo moan. Oh my god, save even Devin's not laughing
Speaker 1: at that one. Welcome to Jaguars Happy Hour. My name
Speaker 1: J V. Shadrick. We've got a busy show ahead, of course,
Speaker 1: Jaguars linebacker Devin Lloyd coming up. Jack's analyst Jeff Lockman,
Speaker 1: as always, will review the rookie mini camp from last week.
Speaker 1: We will preview organized team activities coming up next week,
Speaker 1: and of course a lookal in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: J P. Shadrick, Jeff Blagaman, Devin Lloyd in studio with us.
Speaker 1: Great to see you, Thanks for the time. What's up?
Speaker 1: Of course, a horrible joke, wasn't it? It was pretty bad.
Speaker 1: I can't even lie. Yeah, way to go, Joe. You
Speaker 1: set a new low. He's got. He's got a little
Speaker 1: bit of a wacky mind, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But I give him credit though to come up with
Speaker 1: provo provolone has something to do with Soule Lake City.
Speaker 1: I might like it more, but because it was PROVOEA
Speaker 1: got you. Yeah, it's a big steak. Well, welcome to Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: You you're finally starting to get a little bit settled. Yeah,
Speaker 1: i am. I'm getting acclimated out here. Um, looking for
Speaker 1: a house is not going so well. I mean it's
Speaker 1: going okay. You know, that'll probably finally allow me to
Speaker 1: like really settle in. But I mean, you know, getting
Speaker 1: to know everybody in the locker room is going great.
Speaker 1: And you know, getting my playbook, you know, it's been good.
Speaker 1: I like that's for everybody right now. Looking for a house.
Speaker 1: It's kind of tough to these days. Yeah. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a little a little different market nowadays, you know, but
Speaker 1: but it's a big steff. I mean, first of all, congratulations,
Speaker 1: first round draft pick. You know, sometimes guys grew up
Speaker 1: with the NFL being a lifelong dream. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was one of yours, but congratulations, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you for sure something really. Um, since I started
Speaker 1: playing football, you know, I always wanted to go to
Speaker 1: the next level, really go to UM college and then
Speaker 1: go to the NFL. So I'd always aspired to play
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And um, you know, I'm just glad
Speaker 1: to be here. Man, So take us through We're gonna
Speaker 1: go back a little bit. Well we'll get to rookie
Speaker 1: camp coming up and what's coming up on O, T. A. S.
Speaker 1: And all that and just a little bit. But I'm
Speaker 1: coming from the state of California to Utah. How did
Speaker 1: you end up in Utah and why did you decide
Speaker 1: to go to Salt Lake? Yeah? Um, really for me, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Kassalak was never really on the radar. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, I never really saw myself going there until
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks before signing day. Actually, um, really
Speaker 1: when they started recruiting me heavily. UM. And they actually
Speaker 1: offered me a couple of weeks before signing day, they
Speaker 1: had offered me um at a basketball game. Um. But
Speaker 1: up until that point, you know, my recruiting was relatively low. Um.
Speaker 1: I was playing you know, free safety and wide receiver
Speaker 1: and UM, you know it was it was tough. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I was a tweener. There was a lot
Speaker 1: of things in my recruiting process that didn't really sweep
Speaker 1: my way. But um, when Utah came into the picture,
Speaker 1: you know, it was a great opportunity for me. Um.
Speaker 1: First of all, it's a great institution. Um, they've been
Speaker 1: producing a lot of people in the in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and I mean really it just came down to, you know,
Speaker 1: they were, you know, my best choice as far as
Speaker 1: everything I wanted to accomplish. Pack twelve school to Pack
Speaker 1: twelve school. They are my only Power five. So good
Speaker 1: about Pack twelve. A CC is where it's at. Man,
Speaker 1: he's an Alabama, Virginia different things. Actually do play football
Speaker 1: in the Pac twelve. Believe it. But it's and it's
Speaker 1: actually kind of what the NFL is, isn't that. It's
Speaker 1: it's more in the air. And you you you talk
Speaker 1: about maybe being a tweet or hurt you, but here
Speaker 1: in the long run, being a tweeter has actually probably
Speaker 1: helped you because of what the game has become. Because
Speaker 1: you're starting to see more guys that play college football
Speaker 1: or come out of high school that played safety, that
Speaker 1: convert the linebacker because of the speed of the game
Speaker 1: and the way it's become a passing game. So that's
Speaker 1: got it. That's how that has to have helped you
Speaker 1: in your journey in the long run. For Sara, and
Speaker 1: really just heard me, probably in the recruiting process, but
Speaker 1: in the long run, like you just stated, yeah, I
Speaker 1: definitely has helped me for sure. All Right, So what'd
Speaker 1: you study at Utah? Got to your degree? Where you
Speaker 1: at communications? I got my degree in communications? Actually nice, congratulations,
Speaker 1: I mean that's I think that's a big deal. I mean,
Speaker 1: and the studies have shown that in the National Football
Speaker 1: League players that have a degree have a longer career
Speaker 1: by I think three years in fact. You know, so
Speaker 1: congratulations to you, Thank you. All right, So take us
Speaker 1: through a little bit lass Utah thought here. We've talked
Speaker 1: about this before. We've heard the story there the last
Speaker 1: couple of years off the field with that football team,
Speaker 1: and then that group stayed together. How close was that
Speaker 1: team at the very end of it? Obviously won the
Speaker 1: Pac twelve went to the Rose Bowl for the first
Speaker 1: time ever in Utah history. But that's a long road
Speaker 1: to get to that point with everything that happened off
Speaker 1: the field there. Yeah, I would say that team, um
Speaker 1: was extremely close. And I mean it was pretty much
Speaker 1: identical to the team we had last year. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: because nobody left, you know, everybody came back, so we
Speaker 1: already you know, we're familiar with everybody. And then um,
Speaker 1: you know obviously went through um some tragedy and that
Speaker 1: brought us even closer. But um, really that whole last
Speaker 1: couple of years that I was there, that team was
Speaker 1: really strong. You know, as far as just being close
Speaker 1: with everybody, everybody, um, you know, respecting and loving one another.
Speaker 1: Really that was that was a huge thing. I would
Speaker 1: have to think that not only the tragedy that you
Speaker 1: guys went through Utah, but you guys went through a pandemic. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you put all these things together and you talk
Speaker 1: about closeness. I don't know if anybody could come more
Speaker 1: together than what you guys were going through at that time,
Speaker 1: not just with the tragedy but with what's going on,
Speaker 1: what was going on in the world at that time. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: for sure. The pandemic whenever UM occurred and you know
Speaker 1: we were kicked out the building essentially, Um, that kind
Speaker 1: of the divided us because I wouldn't say dividers, but
Speaker 1: we just weren't in the locker room together. Nobody was
Speaker 1: there with one another. So when we did come back
Speaker 1: and we were finally all together, um, you know, it
Speaker 1: was like a joy, you know, like finally getting to
Speaker 1: see everybody um and you know, be there and I
Speaker 1: mean I think that just started to build on top of,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody's relationship. Devin Lloyd with US Jaguars linebacker,
Speaker 1: first round draft pick, twenty seventh overall selections, Jaguars Happy
Speaker 1: Hour on Tin Texel and Jaguars dot Com. J P.
Speaker 1: Shadrick with Jeff Flaguman. All right, so what we we
Speaker 1: love the video on draft night, You're you're sitting back
Speaker 1: in the green room. You're in Las Vegas. First off,
Speaker 1: that had to be pretty darn cool to be in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas for the draft, I would guess, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: big blessing. Um. You know, I'm glad I had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to be there. You know, that was extremely special
Speaker 1: for myself and my family. And then second you hear
Speaker 1: your name called and you go on the stage, You're
Speaker 1: throwing the commissioner around, You're yelling at Melissa Stark. I
Speaker 1: mean that that moment when you hear your name, the
Speaker 1: reaction is finally that dream come true. Take us through
Speaker 1: that that experience, relief, um, satisfaction, UM. I mean every
Speaker 1: emotion that it is, um that you can think of. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know I had it at that moment. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, you know I didn't expect to follow
Speaker 1: that late, but when I did, um, you know, get
Speaker 1: the call, um. You know, it was just just so much,
Speaker 1: you know, just joy, you know, just all kind of
Speaker 1: let out. It's like, Okay, I know where I'm going. Um,
Speaker 1: this is where God has set me, you know, and
Speaker 1: I mean really just um, it was just special. You know.
Speaker 1: I was glad to finally find out, you know, where
Speaker 1: where I could call home. You know, I've I've watched
Speaker 1: a couple of different interviews that you've done, and you talk,
Speaker 1: i mean literally glowingly about your mom and dad and
Speaker 1: how much of an impact that they had on your
Speaker 1: life and where you are today. Uh. And I think
Speaker 1: that's awesome to have both parents to have that kind
Speaker 1: of good things to say about them, and they obviously
Speaker 1: did a great job. Yeah a dent Um. I'm just
Speaker 1: so grateful and blessed, um, you know, for the parents
Speaker 1: that I had, and how much you know, they loved me,
Speaker 1: and I mean truly they want nothing but the best
Speaker 1: for me. And I mean nobody's perfect, but that's all
Speaker 1: I could truly ask for, you know, um, from my parents.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm grateful for them. Navy Brat your
Speaker 1: Navy brat right. Okay, is that right? So what's the
Speaker 1: connection with the navy. Uh? Well, my dad um did
Speaker 1: thirty years, just retired a little over a year ago.
Speaker 1: My mom um ten years. Yeah, they both met in
Speaker 1: the military. Um, her mom Navy as well. Okay, any
Speaker 1: were they have stationed in Jacksonville at anyone? My mom
Speaker 1: actually had did some training out here. Um, so she
Speaker 1: was out here for a little bit. Dad, I don't
Speaker 1: think he was right here. Okay, well she at because
Speaker 1: we have a couple of them here, we have any
Speaker 1: accent we have Mayport. Did you ever find out? We're
Speaker 1: just talking to her literally about this a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago. She doesn't even remember that because it happened
Speaker 1: so long ago. This is we're talking twenty plus years ago.
Speaker 1: So and it was Jacksonville was way different than it
Speaker 1: is now. So um, she doesn't even remember. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it was somewhere out here. I got so me and
Speaker 1: JP we're talking and Utah bms. That's the big time
Speaker 1: football program that it is. We're sitting there trying to
Speaker 1: think who's the greatest player to ever come out of
Speaker 1: Utah to play in the National Football League, And there's
Speaker 1: a couple of good ones. Now top of the list. Uh,
Speaker 1: Luther Ellis comes to mind because he played back kind
Speaker 1: of what I did. And then Steve Smith also a
Speaker 1: guy that uh now doing broadcasting on TV. But in
Speaker 1: your opinion, who is the greatest player beside yourself? Can't
Speaker 1: can't can't use yourself the greatest player to ever play
Speaker 1: in the National Football League that came from Utah. Well,
Speaker 1: I can't give you one defined answer, um, but I
Speaker 1: can give you a list of a few people. Um,
Speaker 1: a couple that you mentioned, Luther Ellis, Um, Steve Smith,
Speaker 1: obviously Eric Wittle, Um, you know he just came back
Speaker 1: and wanted to so well, so, Um, you know he's
Speaker 1: a great player as well. Um. Here was somebody that
Speaker 1: I just had on the top of my head that
Speaker 1: I'm missing, Oh Alex Smith. Yeah uh so, UM, I
Speaker 1: mean we've we've had some island and you know you definitely.
Speaker 1: I mean I can't put you know, a number one
Speaker 1: on it. First of all, I'm biased, you know, I
Speaker 1: love all of them, Um, but I mean really I
Speaker 1: think just you know them coming from Utah and you know,
Speaker 1: having success in the league is amazing. So Devin Lloyd
Speaker 1: with us Jaguars linebacker. Let's get to arriving in Jacksonville. Now,
Speaker 1: rookie minicamp comes and goes, a couple of three days
Speaker 1: on the field, and now all of a sudden, this
Speaker 1: past week we've been out there with the veterans for
Speaker 1: the first time. O t A s next week. How's
Speaker 1: it been mixing with these guys in the building finally
Speaker 1: for the first time. Yeah, it's been cool. It's been cool. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, it's definitely obviously different than college, but um,
Speaker 1: I think everyone's been really welcoming for the most part,
Speaker 1: as far as just guys in the building, um and
Speaker 1: really extending their hand to me and kind of um
Speaker 1: really just giving me advice, you know, um on the field, um,
Speaker 1: even off the field, UM, in the locker room, things
Speaker 1: in that nature. So UM, it's been a good vibe.
Speaker 1: And I can tell everybody around here is hungry to win,
Speaker 1: which you know, I absolutely love, you know what I'm saying. So, um,
Speaker 1: it's been a good few days of work and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I can't wait to keep it going for
Speaker 1: folks around here. Devin, it's a brand new linebacker room, right,
Speaker 1: I mean it feels that way. There's a few guys
Speaker 1: that are back, but it's been rebuilt. I mean that
Speaker 1: is from Luca and you're in Momas in the draft.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of change in one year's stacked room.
Speaker 1: You guys feel that way too. Yeah, we got a
Speaker 1: lot of guys in there, um that are really good
Speaker 1: and that can do a lot of good things, you
Speaker 1: know for um the team. So um, it's competitive as
Speaker 1: you expect, um, But I mean we're all you know,
Speaker 1: getting each other better. We're all helping each other, um,
Speaker 1: you know, talking through things in the meeting room. So um,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a friendly competition. Like you said, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's always a little bit of a bonding experience with
Speaker 1: the rookie class when you guys come in because you're
Speaker 1: the rookies, you know, and whether you guys are drafted
Speaker 1: or undrafted. And then also you've got a fellow first
Speaker 1: round draft pick and Drayvon Walker. That's probably, uh, one
Speaker 1: of the coolest experience I think that you'll ever have
Speaker 1: is coming in as a rookie because you'll have a
Speaker 1: bond with these guys because you came then together and
Speaker 1: you're gonna grow up in the league together. And have
Speaker 1: you gotten to spend some time with some of the
Speaker 1: other guys. So far, yeah, um, so I know me personally,
Speaker 1: I've been hammering my playbook in my free time, so
Speaker 1: I haven't been doing much outside of the facility. But um,
Speaker 1: in the facility and everything, yeah, well we'll chop it
Speaker 1: up and um you know, still you know, getting to really,
Speaker 1: um get acclimated with the large majority of you know,
Speaker 1: the players on the team. But um, but yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: i'd say, you know, the rookies are pretty pretty tight
Speaker 1: with each other. What's the what's the field with coach Peterson?
Speaker 1: What do you like about Yeah, um, you know obviously
Speaker 1: he's very uh I say he's a player's coach, just
Speaker 1: because you know, he does know how to talk to
Speaker 1: the players and um, you know, he has uh pretty
Speaker 1: good um communication with the players, I guess you could say. Um.
Speaker 1: But also I can tell he's a winner. You know,
Speaker 1: he's got that mindset, um that he's gonna do whatever
Speaker 1: you can for the team and whatever is best for
Speaker 1: the team. Um. So you know I love that, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean I'm just excited to keep going,
Speaker 1: you know, continue to uh to see what everyone is about,
Speaker 1: you know, watching and watching the film on your Utah.
Speaker 1: You did so many different things. You were played will linebacker.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you were a deep metal third player when like
Speaker 1: a like a cover two playing that deep metal you
Speaker 1: blitzed off the edge. You had a lot of different
Speaker 1: stat filling numbers. What do you envision yourself doing in
Speaker 1: the National Football League at what type of position? Because
Speaker 1: you're so varied and you can do so many different things.
Speaker 1: What's your strongest suit and what do you see yourself doing?
Speaker 1: Me personally? UM, I mean I feel like, especially in
Speaker 1: this three four scheme. Um, Obviously I'm learning inside linebacker
Speaker 1: right now. Obviously I want to be able to transition
Speaker 1: to play any of those four, be interchangeable, um, and
Speaker 1: do what I did you know in college, except at
Speaker 1: a higher level. It Um what more success? Um? I
Speaker 1: mean really I see myself see myself as somebody who
Speaker 1: can do anything that you can ask a linebacker to do,
Speaker 1: you know. And I think the game is transitioning more
Speaker 1: from you know, it's getting just you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: dudes too, you've got to be athletes now too, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So, um, you know I kind
Speaker 1: of want to be you know that that type word
Speaker 1: you know, he's position list you can play wherever and
Speaker 1: do it at a high level half success, not just
Speaker 1: be a liability and not just put him out there,
Speaker 1: but be able to be elite. You know, the more
Speaker 1: you can do, I mean, you're you're pigeonholding to one spot.
Speaker 1: If you can play three or four spots, it's gonna
Speaker 1: help along get your career. Really, that's what it comes
Speaker 1: down to. You've got to You've got a position coach
Speaker 1: that played the game. Uh and Tony how how how
Speaker 1: nice has it been to have a coach that's played
Speaker 1: the game, Because I know that sometimes that's important because
Speaker 1: it opens the ears a little bit, and that your
Speaker 1: coach that's telling you things. Okay, You're like, Okay, he's
Speaker 1: been there, he's done that, right, Yeah. Yeah. TG's perspective
Speaker 1: is um huge. Um. Like you said, he's played the game,
Speaker 1: so he's been in our shoes. He knows what it's
Speaker 1: like to be in our shoes, and so I think
Speaker 1: that perspective is huge. And him as a coach, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, it helps me so much as
Speaker 1: well as far as UM teaching me little techniques and
Speaker 1: UM sometimes not over complicating things, which huge for me.
Speaker 1: I'm somebody who likes to keep it simple and try
Speaker 1: to maximize everything you can, um, you know, while keeping
Speaker 1: it simple, and I think he helps me do that.
Speaker 1: So alright, final thoughts with it here before we get
Speaker 1: you out of here. I know it's the last thing
Speaker 1: you gotta do today before you leave the building. So
Speaker 1: O t as next week, Um, what are you looking
Speaker 1: forward to? You can actually do some eleven on eleven stuff,
Speaker 1: finally some nine on seven, but no contact, none of that.
Speaker 1: Closer to football now right, closer to football, And um,
Speaker 1: really what I'm excited for is just to get out
Speaker 1: and um go compete, especially against you know, our offense,
Speaker 1: who I know is gonna be really good this year.
Speaker 1: So um, I'm just I just you know, love competing.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm excited to get out there and
Speaker 1: first of all, see where my game is at stacked
Speaker 1: up against you know, an NFL caliber offense. But um
Speaker 1: also just you know, find a way to get better.
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, the rookie year is a little bit
Speaker 1: of a whirlwind because you did you you know, you
Speaker 1: have to draw a half. You were prepping for the combine,
Speaker 1: You're prepping for this. You were prepping for that and
Speaker 1: the one crazy thing about your rookie year, you haven't
Speaker 1: been prepping to play football yet, it seems like so
Speaker 1: so it's got to feel good to get back to football. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's so relieving, so relieving. Like you said, I've been
Speaker 1: focused on everything except football, you know, and I tried
Speaker 1: to squeeze it in here and there, but you're so
Speaker 1: focused on thing from time to time. So now whenever
Speaker 1: I can just focus purely on football. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's the breath of fresh air. Really, hey, thanks for
Speaker 1: taking some time out to join us today. Really good
Speaker 1: to visit with you, and uh, I hope we get
Speaker 1: to do it again soon. You're communications got come on
Speaker 1: in anytime. We love it. Linebacker Devon Lloyd joining us.
Speaker 1: The Jaguars are future focused and ready for a new look.
Speaker 1: In to join us at the bank is head coach
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson in linebacker Devin Woyd. He didn't leave the
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Speaker 1: We'll review that conversation and talk about Devon behind his back.
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Speaker 1: little let me go on, Let me go on, duvery
Speaker 1: welcome back at Jaguar's Happy Hour. That is Devin Lloyd
Speaker 1: at the draft stealing the microphone from Melissa's start. J P.
Speaker 1: Shatick with Jeff Lackerman, Go fortunate op at Weber with us.
Speaker 1: Also Devin Lloyd with us in studio in the opening segment,
Speaker 1: and you know we're talking about it during the commercial
Speaker 1: break logs. You know, we see what he can do
Speaker 1: on the field, what has what he has done on
Speaker 1: the field at Utah. You get to spend some time
Speaker 1: with him like we just did, and hear how he
Speaker 1: approaches the game, how he approaches things off the field.
Speaker 1: You can't help but be really excited for what he
Speaker 1: could be for this organization. I've always been a big
Speaker 1: believer in that. Uh, if you want to if you
Speaker 1: want to change the culture, then you get good people.
Speaker 1: I mean seriously, that's the only way you do it.
Speaker 1: You get good people that are really good football players.
Speaker 1: And he fits the bill in both of those categories.
Speaker 1: When you when you listen to him interview, Because the
Speaker 1: the interview process through the off season leading up to
Speaker 1: the draft was lengthy. The NFL they have these formal
Speaker 1: interviews that they do that league wide they can look
Speaker 1: at him. Every team does formal interviews that they tape
Speaker 1: and that they can review. And he is an A
Speaker 1: plus character player and he's an A plus player, So
Speaker 1: you put the two of those things together and this
Speaker 1: is the kind of building block that you want to
Speaker 1: have this that on your football team so you can
Speaker 1: change the culture. And so I'm really excited about him. Uh.
Speaker 1: I can be totally honest with you and that your
Speaker 1: your top picks of this year's draft AFT are all
Speaker 1: A plus character guys. And that makes a big difference
Speaker 1: in past years. Here you saw the where there was
Speaker 1: some question marks. There has been absolutely none of that
Speaker 1: this year with Doug Peterson and Trent Balky. They are
Speaker 1: getting players that are good people, that are good players
Speaker 1: to help change this culture. A lot of linebackers, and
Speaker 1: that's not a bad thing to have a lot of
Speaker 1: linebackers with talent of Foyer. Louis Kin is here in
Speaker 1: free agency, of course, the league's leading tanckler a year ago,
Speaker 1: and of course they drafted MoMA this year to j
Speaker 1: were already here, yeah, but specifically the mini camp because
Speaker 1: we watched it over the weekend. We didn't get to
Speaker 1: see Louis Khan and some of the other veteran guys,
Speaker 1: but we had a really good opportunity to watch this
Speaker 1: rookie class, and it was the drafted players, the free
Speaker 1: agent guys, and and also some that were here on
Speaker 1: a tryout basis. And watching Devon move, he's very athletic,
Speaker 1: he's very slippery. He's very different then how Muma moves.
Speaker 1: Mom is kind of like this classic shoulders square, big
Speaker 1: broad shoulder kind of linebacker. And and if I had to,
Speaker 1: you know, if this were a four three defense, Muma
Speaker 1: would be the mic because he's the big, brawny kind
Speaker 1: of bigger guy, and then Devin would be the will,
Speaker 1: kind of like what Kelvin Smith was a few years ago.
Speaker 1: Because he's athletic, he moves, he can blitz. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna give the Jaguar is a great option as
Speaker 1: a rusher. When you say rush er, what do you
Speaker 1: mean by that. I don't envision him as a guy
Speaker 1: that's gonna put his hand in the ground on third
Speaker 1: down and be a pass rusher. I don't. I think
Speaker 1: he'd get eaten up just because he's not that size
Speaker 1: and he doesn't have that length. But I really believe
Speaker 1: that when you start mixing things up with positional players
Speaker 1: that can play multip positions, so like a Trayvon Walker,
Speaker 1: they can play defensive end or play linebacker. He can rush,
Speaker 1: he can cover. If you are you start confusing offenses
Speaker 1: and you're all of a sudden dropping a Trayvon Walker,
Speaker 1: and then you're sending Devin Lloyd because he is a
Speaker 1: good blitzer. Okay, now we're talking. But I envisioned that
Speaker 1: he will get numbers in the sack department, but not
Speaker 1: as a hand in the ground pass rusher, but as
Speaker 1: a what I call a zone dog blitzer or an
Speaker 1: extra blitzer and man coverage. I mean, his stats at
Speaker 1: Utah are nuts. I mean, especially every he was all
Speaker 1: over the ball, like he had four picks last year.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy's sacking the quarter. They had more
Speaker 1: sex than Traylon Walker did last I mean that's just
Speaker 1: the way the kind of game he played out there.
Speaker 1: Well when uh, you know, that's a conversation in and
Speaker 1: of itself about he had more sacks than Trayvon Walker.
Speaker 1: But the one thing I love about Devon is that
Speaker 1: it's always about the ball. Correct. Yes, remember a couple
Speaker 1: of months ago we were talking about Miles Jack and
Speaker 1: free agency and do you bring him back? I remember that,
Speaker 1: and we were talking about, okay, what are his numbers
Speaker 1: in the categories that are about the ball. There's no
Speaker 1: cause fumbles, interceptions, right, the numbers that the difference making plays.
Speaker 1: And I think some people were a little bit in
Speaker 1: shock when I said, look, show me the numbers that
Speaker 1: warrn'ts keeping Miles Jack. And I'm not wasn't trying to
Speaker 1: get rid of Myles Jack. Wasn't far from that, But
Speaker 1: I was just saying, is that you brought in a
Speaker 1: linebacker in free agency last year that had better numbers
Speaker 1: than Miles Jack and his salary was about seven or
Speaker 1: eight million dollars less, And so you've got to find
Speaker 1: a way to get more impactful numbers from that position.
Speaker 1: And here's Devin Lloyd coming from Utah that filled every
Speaker 1: one of those categories that we're talking about, the numbers
Speaker 1: that are about the ball, about the ball, what it's about,
Speaker 1: I mean, played good defense, Okay, you take the ball away,
Speaker 1: you impact the ball, you impact the passer. Okay, sacks, interceptions,
Speaker 1: cause fumbles, recovered fumbles, those are all game changing plays.
Speaker 1: And those are the plays that Devin Lloyd makes. And
Speaker 1: what I love about him. Did you hear him talking
Speaker 1: about how he hasn't had that much time to chop
Speaker 1: it up with the guys that use that quote chopping
Speaker 1: up on hip Now, Okay, he's not chopping it up
Speaker 1: with the guys except for when he's in the building
Speaker 1: because he's into the playbook. What I meant he's going
Speaker 1: home at night studying the playbook. I mean that's awesome.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. And was he I mean, muma, Okay, didn't
Speaker 1: he ask one of our cohorts can I get a playbook? Absolutely? Yes,
Speaker 1: they all they want it. That's nothing wrong with them.
Speaker 1: Those are the guys. Those are the guys you need.
Speaker 1: Those are the guys you want. Those are guys. They're
Speaker 1: gonna help you change the direction of your organization logs,
Speaker 1: We're gonna find out what concerts you're coming to Daily's
Speaker 1: place because the busy schedule ahead. Didn't they just have
Speaker 1: the lumin Ears the last two nights? I yes, I
Speaker 1: missed him. Uh this Friday sting Sunday, Chicago, and then
Speaker 1: next Saturday, June four, the Jacksonville Taco and Margarita Festival,
Speaker 1: and then June five, the Doobie Brothers with Michael McDonald
Speaker 1: singing with them, and then two Nights of the Day
Speaker 1: Matthews Band June six and seven. Black Crows Uni eleventh.
Speaker 1: I mean this is a Black Crows. Yes, they're great.
Speaker 1: I saw them in concert Long Island and like nineteen
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Speaker 1: and this tour, so get ready for that. Tickets at
Speaker 1: Daily's Place dot com. We'll return with organized team activities.
Speaker 1: A preview. What does logs want to see the next
Speaker 1: three weeks, well four weeks including the mini camp. This
Speaker 1: is Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network. You
Speaker 1: know what it already has for me? Um with this team.
Speaker 1: I think about just the you know, the numbers of
Speaker 1: the guys that are here in the off season program.
Speaker 1: That just shows the character is the um. You know,
Speaker 1: sort of who these guys really are and football is
Speaker 1: important to him. You know, winning is important to him,
Speaker 1: and they very willing to change and wanting to change
Speaker 1: and needing needing it to change obviously, and um, it's
Speaker 1: a credit to the players you know, in the leadership
Speaker 1: of this football team that uh um, you know we
Speaker 1: have this many guys you know, you know, you know
Speaker 1: off season program. I now welcome back Jaguars Happy Hour.
Speaker 1: That's head coach Doug Peterson last week ahead of rookie
Speaker 1: mini camp. J P. Shadrick, Jeff Logoman. We're on tinted
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Speaker 1: The podcast on the free I Heart radio app search
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars. Hit us up on Twitter at Logs five six.
Speaker 1: He watches that all the time, let me tell you,
Speaker 1: and at j P. Shadrick. So there you have it.
Speaker 1: That's Doug Peterson talking about the culture. You can already
Speaker 1: kind of see some change in the building and the
Speaker 1: way guys are going about their business and wanting to
Speaker 1: get this thing right from a year, especially the guys
Speaker 1: that are coming back. Well, the way you truly measure
Speaker 1: it is when the score start mattering. Okay, once you
Speaker 1: get to the regular season, but you know, and everybody
Speaker 1: feels great about where you're at this point of the season.
Speaker 1: All thirty two teams and uh, you know, the rookie
Speaker 1: Minicamp just one of those steps, and it was it
Speaker 1: was a joy to watch a little different than in
Speaker 1: past rookie minicamps because the practice was conducted inside the stadium.
Speaker 1: Because of the construction that's going on outside of the stadium.
Speaker 1: Everything is happening, uh in the stadium, which is a
Speaker 1: pretty cool kind of an introduction for some of these
Speaker 1: young players. And that when you step out onto the
Speaker 1: practice field, you look up and you go, oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of seats in here. Okay, this is
Speaker 1: probably a little different than one of the places that
Speaker 1: I played at. Maybe not for a guy like Kevin
Speaker 1: Austin Jr. Went to Notre Dame, the guy from the
Speaker 1: guy went to watch it to es State or watch
Speaker 1: it to Baptist was yeah that yeah, yeah, he was
Speaker 1: probably like, oh my god, right, a little different, but
Speaker 1: it was good to watch. And of course the majority
Speaker 1: of the media, it was like the pie piper. They
Speaker 1: were all following Trayvon Walker and everywhere he went, the
Speaker 1: media followed, and uh, I think some were even actually
Speaker 1: documenting his wins and losses against the sled I guess
Speaker 1: what I'm guessing. He was undefeated at look. I will
Speaker 1: tell you this, uh big, strong, powerful young man. And
Speaker 1: I think that that was very clear when you watch
Speaker 1: the film, and then when you watch him in person,
Speaker 1: it's you're just you're confirming it. He's athletic, he moves well.
Speaker 1: I still believe he's got some learning to do and
Speaker 1: getting a plan to pass rush. But he will not
Speaker 1: get pushed around, I can tell you that. And watching
Speaker 1: him almost exclusively stand up in a two point stance,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say it was eye opening, but
Speaker 1: it was. I was anticipating how he would practice, would
Speaker 1: he play with his hand in the ground, would he
Speaker 1: be up? And clearly he's gonna be up in a
Speaker 1: two point stands and he looked good, he looked apart.
Speaker 1: And do you think he can cover consistently? Oh? I
Speaker 1: don't think that that's gonna be his strong suit. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: you're not. Here's the thing. That's not why you're not
Speaker 1: drafting anybody first overall unless they are a corner to cover. Okay,
Speaker 1: a linebacker slash defensive end has got one job. Go
Speaker 1: get him, Go get the guy that's throwing the football.
Speaker 1: And if you're drafting a guy to drop in the
Speaker 1: coverage with in that position, you've made a big mistake.
Speaker 1: But I like. I like the way he moves athletically
Speaker 1: and obviously his strength, his size. He's a big guy.
Speaker 1: Watching Devin Lloyd, He's just athletic. He moves extremely smooth.
Speaker 1: Uh Snoop Connor the running back, exactly what you kind
Speaker 1: of expected. A really big upper body, powerful runner. He's
Speaker 1: a guy that when he was at what the Arkansas
Speaker 1: or Old miss I mean, Uh, he was a downhill,
Speaker 1: one cut type of a guy. Uh. Fortner, the center
Speaker 1: from Kentucky, Okay, looks the part, incredibly smart from all
Speaker 1: the reports. He's got two degrees and working on his
Speaker 1: m B A. And that's the kind of guy that
Speaker 1: you want to have a center, right, the guy that's
Speaker 1: calling the adjustments up front, taking pressure off your quarterback
Speaker 1: because he's got the front, he's got the adjustments, and
Speaker 1: he's got some things that he needs to work on,
Speaker 1: some of his lateral movements, second level blocking. He's got to,
Speaker 1: you know, continue to get better at that, which I
Speaker 1: think he will. He was impressive. The two corners that
Speaker 1: were the six and seventh rounders, one from Watchitah State.
Speaker 1: The other one from Arkansas, Okay, look like typical six
Speaker 1: and seventh round corners. They've got they've got the skill set,
Speaker 1: but now can they get the production and you want
Speaker 1: to see them more in live action. But from the heightweight, measurables,
Speaker 1: the speed, those all look positive. The one guy that
Speaker 1: I think that is very interesting, that is our two
Speaker 1: guys that I would say that for me are very
Speaker 1: interested in the undrafted category wide receiver Kevin Austen Jr.
Speaker 1: From Notre Dame. Uh. When you watch the film on
Speaker 1: him at Notre Dame, he's a guy that if it's
Speaker 1: a contested ball, he catches it and he's going up
Speaker 1: and I'm talking making contested catches, but most importantly on
Speaker 1: the top of the route, when he's making adjustments to
Speaker 1: the ball, he makes them almost effortless. And he's a
Speaker 1: big guy. And then he ran a four or three
Speaker 1: four forty yard dash after it. I mean that's I mean,
Speaker 1: how does a guy like that not go get drafted?
Speaker 1: But the production at Notre Dame was a little bit
Speaker 1: up and down. The last half of his senior season
Speaker 1: supposedly was very good. But just looking at him, he
Speaker 1: looks the part. His numbers say that he can be
Speaker 1: a part of the part. That was interesting. The other
Speaker 1: one that, uh, I think is interesting because when we
Speaker 1: were watching Trayvon Walker, there was a guy that was
Speaker 1: working with him that we were going that other guy
Speaker 1: is pretty big too, right, remember that? And so in
Speaker 1: his name is Deshaun Dixon and he was wearing number
Speaker 1: forty seven during the rookie minicamp and he's from Norfolk
Speaker 1: State and JP there's no film on him. I tried
Speaker 1: to find it. I didn't find any film. I know
Speaker 1: it's got to be somewhere just pick him off a lineup.
Speaker 1: I couldn't find it. I couldn't. I tried to find it.
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta ask him some questions to get
Speaker 1: the film on this guy, because he's an interesting prospect.
Speaker 1: He's uh, he's a six four five ish two sixty
Speaker 1: maybe two sixty five pound guy that was doing some
Speaker 1: of the same things that Trayvon Walker was doing. And
Speaker 1: when you watch these two guys, you go, wow, those
Speaker 1: are outside linebackers. I mean, you're big, I mean big guys.
Speaker 1: So I mean I want to say I don't want
Speaker 1: to say that that's that's all that I saw out there,
Speaker 1: But those are some of the things that uh that
Speaker 1: impressed me. Watching Muma move was classic linebacker. And when
Speaker 1: you watch Muma and Devin Lloyd is kind of two
Speaker 1: different trades. You know, Muma being the shoulders square, he's
Speaker 1: uh moving laterally like a classic linebacker, where Devon is
Speaker 1: is more of that athletic just turn and run, and
Speaker 1: they're both gonna be, I think, very effective linebackers. And
Speaker 1: I think they're both wired the way you want to
Speaker 1: have linebackers and that they're just they're they're they're a
Speaker 1: thirst for knowledge. So uh so, so far, so good.
Speaker 1: I mean, the one thing you don't want to have happen,
Speaker 1: and this has happened before here, is that when you
Speaker 1: go out there for a rookie camp and you watch
Speaker 1: some of the guys that you just invested draft picks
Speaker 1: in or free agent contracts in, and you watch when
Speaker 1: you go that doesn't look that good. You didn't have
Speaker 1: any of those moments. That's a good thing. So that's
Speaker 1: a good thing. That's a good step in the right
Speaker 1: There's been one draft pick in Jaguar's history where you
Speaker 1: went out there mini camp and you went two of
Speaker 1: them actually where you went. Did they actually draft that guy?
Speaker 1: Is that the guy it is? I'm not gonna ask
Speaker 1: you the name name. I don't want to name names
Speaker 1: on that, but I think everybody wants you to name
Speaker 1: names on that. You can't do that. We're not gonna
Speaker 1: go there. Okay, let's move along. There a couple of
Speaker 1: different regimes. I mean have been one, you know, one
Speaker 1: way back digging at him. He might give us what
Speaker 1: we're looking for. U Can I see the activities schedule
Speaker 1: coming up the next three weeks of O T A
Speaker 1: S so ten on the schedule they can get ten
Speaker 1: over three weeks. There will be one each week open
Speaker 1: for media the first of each week Monday this week,
Speaker 1: Tuesday next week, and then um Monday the week after that,
Speaker 1: and then there's a three day mandatory veteran Many camp June.
Speaker 1: When we speak again, that would be on June, the
Speaker 1: day after Many camps done on this program. What do
Speaker 1: you want to say about a the Jaguars team at
Speaker 1: that point and be the Jaguars offense? Where do you
Speaker 1: want this to feel like on that day? Well, first off,
Speaker 1: where they're at? I mean, you're not gonna really have
Speaker 1: a measuring stick of where they're at. But in a simple,
Speaker 1: one one word answer, health. You want to make sure
Speaker 1: that everybody comes out of everything that you're doing healthy.
Speaker 1: I don't want to have any setbacks, don't want to
Speaker 1: lose anybody. Um, you know. To be a little bit
Speaker 1: more long winded, you'd like to have the offense starting
Speaker 1: showing some signs of of them clicking to where the
Speaker 1: quarterback and the receivers are starting to build, the camaraderie,
Speaker 1: the timing guys are starting to get get to know
Speaker 1: each other, so the communication is happening. And but you know,
Speaker 1: a true measuring stick, I mean, there's really not a
Speaker 1: measuring stick per se, because you're going against yourself. But
Speaker 1: you just want to have everybody to continue to work
Speaker 1: their craft, to continue to get better, to gain an
Speaker 1: understanding of what they're doing. Because everything is new JP,
Speaker 1: everything is new, new system, the new coaches, coaches need
Speaker 1: to learn, players need to learn. Familiarity is something that
Speaker 1: you want to be able to after the conclusion of
Speaker 1: the all season program. When you're going into camp, you're
Speaker 1: not so much worrying about Okay, what do I do
Speaker 1: when this check is made and that oh yeah, when
Speaker 1: we make this check I'm doing this now, I can
Speaker 1: focus in on the defender and what he's doing. So
Speaker 1: it's a reactionary thing and you can be athletic instead
Speaker 1: of the mind slowing you down. So that's what the
Speaker 1: off season program I think is is all about. Is
Speaker 1: that is establishing that core of knowledge so that when
Speaker 1: you get to the season, you're working on your craft,
Speaker 1: but more from a physical standpoint, because you've you've gotten
Speaker 1: a really strong understanding of the mental part of the
Speaker 1: game down. We'll come back in a moment. We'll go
Speaker 1: around the National Football League. And I got one other
Speaker 1: rookie oh that I didn't mention, oh, on the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. That uh. I'm not saying he's
Speaker 1: gonna be all world. I'm just saying somebody to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on when we come back. Because everybody kind
Speaker 1: of expected Austin, right, he went to Notre Dame. Okay,
Speaker 1: but this one, Nope, I didn't go to Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: Wasn't on anybody's radar. But when you watched them in minicamp,
Speaker 1: you want, huh, hey, that guy moves pretty good. Okay,
Speaker 1: he moves pretty good. That might narrow it down a little.
Speaker 1: It would be a skill position. Okay, well that's all
Speaker 1: the that's all the hints we need. We're back in
Speaker 1: just a moment with plenty more ahead of Jaguars Happy
Speaker 1: or on the Jaguars Digital Network. Always kind of diving,
Speaker 1: dapping in outsideline by the world, but just strictly working
Speaker 1: on outsideline by the hand of practice. I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm truly getting more comfortable with the position and learn
Speaker 1: a lot more techniques coming from that position and not
Speaker 1: have to learn so many different other positions. You know,
Speaker 1: you have a lot of techniques to learn, or have
Speaker 1: these guys opened your eyes up, are ready to Hey,
Speaker 1: you've been really good at between your level, but you
Speaker 1: can learn this much more. Oh yeah, they definitely. It's
Speaker 1: always room for them poom to come from George. There
Speaker 1: was a lot of techniques that we went over, but
Speaker 1: also coming here like a George, we run the lot
Speaker 1: of tatanys. But once I got here, breakdown a lot
Speaker 1: of those titanis doutline that put him into a family
Speaker 1: and focused on that one thing that is Trayvon Walker
Speaker 1: number one overall pick Jaguars outside linebacker and welcome back.
Speaker 1: It's Jaguars Happy Hour. J P. Shadick with Jeff Logerman,
Speaker 1: and construction continues at the Football Performance Center just outside
Speaker 1: t i A. Bank Fields. Some walls are going up
Speaker 1: there looked like some concrete stairwells and some elevator shafts
Speaker 1: that are going up. And we're moving right along logs
Speaker 1: if you're looking on Jaguars dot com. A lot of
Speaker 1: heavy equipment, a lot of dirt being moved around. And
Speaker 1: I think when this thing gets done, it's gonna be outstanding.
Speaker 1: It's huge. It's gonna be huge. First square feet thousand,
Speaker 1: I think it is or something crazy. I was talking
Speaker 1: to Hams of this past week during the rookie minicamp
Speaker 1: days before the practice, and he was giving me a
Speaker 1: Hams of my director travel for the Jags and facility
Speaker 1: and he's doing some of the facilities work and he's
Speaker 1: got the layout of how everything is gonna look and
Speaker 1: uh so he was kind of giving me a little
Speaker 1: a little tutorial off of the architectural drawings. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be impressive, pretty cool. Yeah, excited for that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: me too. I'm excited for it. Players should be very
Speaker 1: excited for it. And not that there's anything wrong with
Speaker 1: the facilities they currently have. I mean, this is still
Speaker 1: an excellent facility here, but by the modern day NFL
Speaker 1: arms race standard, I guess you could say that it's
Speaker 1: not keeping pace, so the new one will do that. Oh,
Speaker 1: this is not even close currently. It's it's crazy how
Speaker 1: things have changed. College football always had to have that
Speaker 1: because it's recruiting. It's that's everything. In the NFL, it's
Speaker 1: not so much that is it as you need the functionality.
Speaker 1: But now that you have free agency in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and it's becoming bigger and bigger and bigger, it is.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say it's a necessary thing anymore,
Speaker 1: but it's certainly become uh more necessary than ever before.
Speaker 1: And on the other side of the street, the Shipyards
Speaker 1: project is a go. The final conceptual approval by the
Speaker 1: Downtown Development Review Board last week, so that means it's
Speaker 1: a green light and now everything else for seasons involved
Speaker 1: to make sure this thing is is top not and
Speaker 1: I have no doubt it will it will be when
Speaker 1: it's done. Well, I'm looking forward to at some point
Speaker 1: to where you can walk along the river because I mean,
Speaker 1: right now you're going from Riverside to essentially what used
Speaker 1: to be the Jacksonville Landing. There's this beautiful river walk
Speaker 1: that you can ride your bike and walk and jog
Speaker 1: and and do whatever you want to do. But it's
Speaker 1: it's just it's incomplete. You know. It ends now at
Speaker 1: the Berkman Plaza, right and you you wanted to keep
Speaker 1: on going all the way down to the stadium and
Speaker 1: this whole entertainment area and when it all gets done,
Speaker 1: it's I think it's going to be fantastic. Can't wait.
Speaker 1: Can't gonna be a little while though. They're gonna get
Speaker 1: a lot of work to do, all right, So you
Speaker 1: ready for my You left us with a cliffhanger before
Speaker 1: the last commercial time out? What do you have for us?
Speaker 1: What rookie us? This nas Bohannon? Okay, yes, okay, yes,
Speaker 1: what position? He's a tight end, but he was also
Speaker 1: a forward and basketball. I think that's all he played. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was. I think I had to kind of read
Speaker 1: up on him. But he played last year at Clemson
Speaker 1: but not football, played basketball, and then the years before
Speaker 1: that he played four years at Youngstown State Penguins. The
Speaker 1: Penguins for real, that's their name. Interesting, So he's got
Speaker 1: basically a basketball career and then his basketball season was
Speaker 1: completing and not much of a future I guess in basketball,
Speaker 1: and he was a football player in high school. And
Speaker 1: the agent that he ended up signed with, this is
Speaker 1: an interesting store is Glenn Schwartzman, and Glenn Schwartzman had
Speaker 1: Marcus Pollard, who has the same background, same background. UH
Speaker 1: played college basketball, didn't play college football, ended up going
Speaker 1: with the Colts and played for a very long time.
Speaker 1: Currently working with the Jaguars and a couple of different
Speaker 1: UH capacities including player programs, player development, and this agent
Speaker 1: though has UH. I had a number of players like that,
Speaker 1: Mike Marcus Pollard, um Antonio Gates, Moley Cox most recently.
Speaker 1: But the reason I bring him up is not because
Speaker 1: of the story, in the connection with Marcus Pollard any
Speaker 1: of that, but watching him in the rookie mini camp,
Speaker 1: he was athletic. I mean, his athleticism is very noticeable.
Speaker 1: Now there's a long way to go for a guy
Speaker 1: that played college basket ball to get to the point
Speaker 1: to where he's going to be an effective NFL player.
Speaker 1: Tight end got to learn to block. You know, is
Speaker 1: does he have the level of tough toughness, Does he
Speaker 1: have the level of strength because they list him at
Speaker 1: about six five six six five ish, he's gonna have
Speaker 1: to be a little bit bigger than that. And but
Speaker 1: the one thing for certain, if you're a tight end
Speaker 1: and you can block a little bit and you can catch,
Speaker 1: you can create some major headaches for defensive coordinators. And
Speaker 1: this is an interesting this is an interesting thing something
Speaker 1: to follow. I'm not saying he's gonna be a great player.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying something to keep an aisle. Another guy
Speaker 1: who went through that was Chris man Hurts. He played
Speaker 1: college basketball only and got a chance to try and
Speaker 1: became a blocker. Yes, but how does that have How
Speaker 1: funny is that? Right? But he said last year during
Speaker 1: the Teboaux experiment whatever, that it took Chris said it
Speaker 1: took him two years to really understand the physicality knee
Speaker 1: did to play as he figured he figured it out,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like it took that long.
Speaker 1: So he definitely figured that end of it out because
Speaker 1: he's a very good blocker the you know, and this
Speaker 1: is the kind this is the kind of move that
Speaker 1: you do where you're an NFL team, Okay, you have
Speaker 1: roster spots and opportunities to maybe say, hey, look, let's
Speaker 1: see if we can develop this guy. You don't bring
Speaker 1: and no offense to Tim Tebow, but you don't bring
Speaker 1: a guy that is thirty something years old into camp
Speaker 1: and seeing if he can be a congregular contributor at
Speaker 1: tight end. So but this is the smart thing, and
Speaker 1: it's fun to watch. It's fun to watch his athleticism.
Speaker 1: He caught one ball on a crossing route and I
Speaker 1: was like, whoa who who's like that? And I got
Speaker 1: my rookie roster sheet out and I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I never heard of him. He's a tryout player and
Speaker 1: what he's signed. And then I kind of went back
Speaker 1: and read up on him because I was curious, just
Speaker 1: like the the young man from Norfolk State. I go
Speaker 1: to watch film on this nas Bohannon No, no, no,
Speaker 1: to watch some a CC basketball, Like I wonder what
Speaker 1: the problem is. And then I found out later on
Speaker 1: that he was a basketball player. Hey, let's go around
Speaker 1: the National Football League in our five minutes remaining and
Speaker 1: start off with Ravens. Punter Sam Coke retired today, So yeah, uh, well,
Speaker 1: that means the only player left in the NFL from
Speaker 1: the two thousand six draft is Marcedes Lewis no kidding
Speaker 1: left in the entire league entirely. Yes, of course, there's
Speaker 1: a few players from earlier drafts still around. You know.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is still from the two thousand draft. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's Aaron Rodgers from the OH five draft, three from
Speaker 1: the OH seven draft. From me, by the way, just
Speaker 1: a little note on Cook. Excellent player, excellent punter, excellent
Speaker 1: hang time. He had arguably some of the best hang
Speaker 1: time of a punter in the last to three decades
Speaker 1: of any punter that that has been special teams in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: But he was notorious for his gross average and his
Speaker 1: net average. The differential was incredibly small. Very good player.
Speaker 1: The l A Chargers broke down broke ground on their
Speaker 1: new football complex and El Segundo fourteen acre sites, slated
Speaker 1: for completion in July twenty four. The temporary headquarters is
Speaker 1: in Costa Mesa, down in Orange County, and the new
Speaker 1: headquarters three miles from l A X seven miles from
Speaker 1: so far. The Lakers and Kings are also down in
Speaker 1: El Segundo, so they're getting started with a complex of
Speaker 1: permanent complex ahead of the Rams. The Rams have just
Speaker 1: a simple complex on the campus of California, Lutheran some
Speaker 1: temporary railers because they spend all their money on the stadiums. Right,
Speaker 1: that's what it is. It's functional. It's what it is.
Speaker 1: And they got like where their equipment goes, Like for
Speaker 1: the equipment room, they have these portable container things that
Speaker 1: go on ships. They have three of those. They open
Speaker 1: them up, they throw all the stuff in there. That's it.
Speaker 1: Interest it works. They want a Super Bowl. Yeah, oh darn.
Speaker 1: I would not want to break tradition. I would keep
Speaker 1: it status quote to make sure that you don't break
Speaker 1: the mojo. UH Giants head coach Brian Dable said in
Speaker 1: January he wasn't sure if he'd be calling the offensive plays. Well.
Speaker 1: Mike Kafka, former Jaguar, by the way, is the offensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: A hot minute for yeah A couple of days said
Speaker 1: Thursday that Kafka has been calling plays at practice, but
Speaker 1: the team has not made any decision about the process
Speaker 1: and how it will go in the regular season. If
Speaker 1: you're calling plays now, we call plays in the fall.
Speaker 1: Let's let's say this JP. Okay, when you call plays
Speaker 1: and practice, it's not like calling plays and game. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're not in the heat of the moment. You're not
Speaker 1: having to look at your call sheet and go, okay,
Speaker 1: we got second and seven, okay, let me see second
Speaker 1: and seven calls. Okay, And then you're looking at a
Speaker 1: list of to pick from and I'm sick. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: not what you do, right. It's all scripted in practice
Speaker 1: this time of year. So if Kafka's calling plays, I
Speaker 1: could call plays in a scripted practice. Joe Burrow took
Speaker 1: fifty one sacks last regular season, the league high nineteen
Speaker 1: extra sects in the postseason, and on the Full Scent
Speaker 1: podcast this week, said you look at when they happen
Speaker 1: third down sacks. Who cares about third down sacks. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try to extend the play as long as I can.
Speaker 1: I get the first down on third down unless I'm
Speaker 1: in field goal range. He also said there are good
Speaker 1: sacks and bad sacks. Do you buy that? Yes, But
Speaker 1: he's also trying to protect his offensive line a little
Speaker 1: bit from the criticism, and I understand that, and that's
Speaker 1: what a good leader and a good quarterback will do. So, uh,
Speaker 1: defend and make sure that you own some of those sacks,
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what he did. The fact of The
Speaker 1: matter is, though, is that if Joe Burrow wants to
Speaker 1: have a long, illustrious career and a highly successful career,
Speaker 1: that number has to come down. Throw it away, Joe.
Speaker 1: The Bills and the NFL Foundation have donated four hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to Buffaloes East Side Community in the aftermath
Speaker 1: of the recent killings at a local grocery store, two
Speaker 1: hundred thousand to the Buffalo Together Community Response Fund, the
Speaker 1: remainder to various nonprofits on emergency response efforts addressing immediate
Speaker 1: needs of residents. Good stuff from the Bills are good.
Speaker 1: Good job Buffalo Bills. What a tragedy. So that'll do
Speaker 1: it for our show today. Yeah, that's craziness. Yeahs our,
Speaker 1: thanks to devn Lloyd, Jaguars. He's awesome, gonna be a
Speaker 1: good football player now and always a great visit. I
Speaker 1: think that's gonna be Whatever we can get him on shows,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be great. I can't wait to see him
Speaker 1: live and I'm talking live and in past. Yes with
Speaker 1: that number thirty three going Brent Reabert, Joe Fortunado or
Speaker 1: thanks to devn Lloyd for Jeff Flagman, I'm j P.
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