Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, April 1

We'll hear from Peter King coming up, talking about Trevor Lawrence. Finally, the seventeenth game voted on by league owners and we'll get to some proposed rule changes that will be voted upon in the coming weeks by the league ownership offseason workouts. The dates for those have been a now outs, but not much further beyond that will go around the National Football League as well, including an ownership dispute in Southern California.

Jeff Logerman, good afternoon. What's up man? It's all good JP. And by the way, is that People's magazine? I don't know, but People Magazine? Uh, last time I checked, you weren't the sexiest man in that magazine. Probably probably that might have been the cover of the like you know, when you go to the fair and they superimpose your face on the magazine cover. Right, Yeah, that might have been. I'll take whatever I can get. I'll put it that way.

That's fine with me. Look like, here's the deal though, I mean, look, I don't want anybody getting confused thinking that that's a real deal story. I mean it's why not because some people might actually think that that's the truth. Remember, it's just exactly. Remember when we did the oh it was the the Jeff Lockman behind Football thing that we did for the television Pro show some years ago. We did a parody of the NFL network um behind the

Chains or whatever. It's good and we did the Jeff Logaman when and it was so well done by Patrick Kavanaugh, David Canis and the crew. I think I did the voicing of it, all this stuff, and they ran it on the TV show and there are people that called the TV station saying, hey, when is when is the when does it actually air? Like they were looking for this thing, but they didn't know it wasn't real. It was pretty good. Excuse me, it was very well done.

And by the way, Happy April Fool's Day, Yes, yes, happy Happy April Fools. Is that is there such a thing? I don't know. You just brought it up. So we're gonna get a little later. We got a guy in the league who's you know, included the Jaguars on his April Fools, but we'll get to that a little bit later though. Well, I got the old Teacher, their Ultimate teach. I can't wait to see that and hear that. But

I'm looking forward to it. A lot going on, so here, here's the one thing that we will say, Okay Wettle disclaimer. We will not give anybody false information on this show today. Even though we don't do a Fool's Day, we don't do it. Ever. We're always pretty straightforward here we are. We're very straight up and on especially today, because anything today could be taken. You gotta double check on a day like today. A tweet today, right, So Roy Williams.

I was talking to Urban Meyer earlier today and he said, they're not taking Trevor Roy right. You know. Then imagine Action puts out the tweet today that Roy Williams is retiring, and everybody's like, wait a minute, Oh, wait a minute, he is retiring, you know, like they had to really kind of double check and make sure. Now see if if you was coming it is real, If that's real, you don't put that out on April one, you think everybody celebrates Tapril fools. You hold it or you do

you do it the day before. I mean, if you if you release it on April one, you had the information on the last day in March. I mean, have a little awareness there, just saying but it's true. I mean, what do what you gotta do? Like waited other day so all the jokes can get out. Yeah, I mean what if you want to die hard? Would you not? I mean you would be like, that's that's come on, pulling our leg. It's April fir come on. So uh nothing, We're gonna shoot it straight here today. So there's a

lot going on. We'll hear from Peter King coming up. He was on the ozone podcast. Of course, Peter had Urban Meyer on his podcast earlier in the week and had some news come out of that. But around the league, and we had last week on the show, we had Judy Batista on from NFL Network. It was going into the owners meetings. Well, the owners have met and voted seven team games down in the regular season, three preseason games.

The Jags have picked up the Atlanta Falcons. The seventeenth game will feature teams from opposing conferences that finished in the same place within their division the previous season. This year, the a f C gets the home game and the FC South just happened to match up with the NFC South this year, so the Jags get the Falcons. Both teams were in last place last season, and it moves back to the Super Bowl another week as always, and it also adds logs, which was in this story. In

the release, it adds a rotation of international games. Beginning in two every team in the league will play internationally at least once every eight years, up to four neutral site games per year. Scheduled initially focused on listen to This focused on Canada, Europe, Mexico, South America, and the

United Kingdom. So I'll look to expand the international Let me just say one thing, because you said it's gonna add it's really not adding games, because it's using games that are going to be on the schedule and then they're gonna be played overseas. So I want I want to make sure because when you say they're adding them, some people might get the impression that, Okay, these are gonna be on top of the stunt. I just wanted

that we that, you know. But uh, I like the idea of how they're they're coming up with the formula for the seventeenth game. Here's what it's gonna do. It's gonna create some amazing matchups, right, I mean, because you're taking essential equal finishers and opposite conferences and matching them up in whatever division you don't play already in the sixteen there's so so now you're gonna get a division champion versus division champion. I mean, you're talking about marquee

games here, now, some fantastic games. Uh. The Atlanta Jacksonville game is not exactly a marquee game if you were looking at it from a national perspective at all. Uh, other than you could end up having two rookie passers or future quarterbacks on both teams. I mean, the Falcons could conceivably draft. Uh. But you know, here, here's the thing. The owners voted on the seventeenth game. It was a foregone conclusion, and we knew that it was gonna happen.

Everybody knew that it was. It was just a formality for the owners to go ahead and improve that. And jud pats To actually said the same thing to us last week, that it's a done deal because that was negotiated with the players union, and that was the whole thing about the extent of the current deal. And and I was jokingly talking to Judy and pose the question about, well, if you end up adding one game, you should subtract two preseason games, because one regular season game is equal

to two preseason games. But the reality is is that ownership will never give up that preseason game because that's a bargaining ship for the future. Because if they in fact do want to go to a teen games, which you know what, a lot of people say, Oh, that's not gonna happen. It was very hard getting a seventeen. The reality is is that at some point in the future, eighteen games lies in the NFL's future. And whether they get to that with expanded rosters or however they do it,

that means more money for the league. That means more players out of the rosters. And uh and with the union having a lot of change of membership at a pretty constant rate, I can tell you right now that eighteen games is gonna happen. I don't know how far out it's going to be, but at some point in the future it's gonna be. That's why the ownership won't go, Okay, we're gonna play seventeen games and we're just gonna go

to two preseason games. They're losing the game. At some point in the future, they're gonna say, okay, okay, well, you know what the agreement says, we're gonna have twenty games. Now we're gonna go to eighteen and two. You know. So I don't know, Like I said, I don't know when that's gonna happen, but at some point in the future that will happen. And to my I don't know this, but I guarantee you that it will. And number two

is that is that safe for the players both? I mean, I mean, that's you know, that's the one thing I think. I'm all for seventeen games because it provides more entertainment

for me. I'm okay with that. Sure, Okay, But if I was still playing and the player membership and the league is talking about player safety, player safety, player safety, when you add games, is that adding the player safety, is that making the game safer or players if you don't put in some other kind of measures to protect players.

I just think that there's no doubt that the league has has made leaps and bounds progress with trying to protect the players from the concussions and the protocols that they all have to go through and everything of that nature. They have. They have improved it dramatically. But they still need to to to not stop in the progress that they have made to make the game safer for players.

And the one thing that I hope that happens is that this past year, with the roster expanded like it did with COVID, I hope that going forward that they continue to have some type of roster expansion on a more permanent basis and not make it something that was just unique because of the COVID issue that we all

were faced with. So going back to the preseason games, three of them this year, you know there's some football types across the hall, I'm sure that would argue, Hey, we need all these preseason games to evaluate these guys and and see who we really want on this roster. Right, they didn't get a chance to do that last year. You can do that in three games. It will just will just change the way those three games looks. Getting three.

What was game three in the past where it was kind of the dress rehearsal, Probably game two now, right, and then game three will be all the guys who are on the bubble. Any coach that will tell you that they need to have three presect preseason games to determine whether a guy can play is is it's hogwash. You can find out in a couple because you're you're looking at players constantly on a daily basis, practice, through out training camp, etcetera. I mean, but if you have

the opportunity to, wouldn't you rather have it? Okay, we've got the still, yeah, you'd like to have twenty to evaluate your roster. I mean in a perfect world, right, I mean because you know, hey, well let's make sure let's add twenty games, you know, the preseason, because you know, then we really know, you know, we know that once he gets into the grind, how's he going to react? You know. I don't know if there is a magic number, but I think two is plenty. And here's the reality.

College football has never had any problem getting ready for their regular season with how many preseason games they play. Huh, isn't that amazing. There's some teams that sleepwalk a little bit that first week though. Oh yeah, sure. But here's the here's the reality. It's still good football. I mean last year, no off season, no preseason, was it pretty darn good football right out of the game. Yeah, the lot out here was the same way. Everybody's worried about that.

All of a sudden they come back and and and here and here's the thing. I get it, I understand it. It's about money, and that's what the preseason game is. You still get gay, you still get concessions, you still get parking and uh, and you still have a card in your vest, so to speak. If your ownership in the future, with the current agreement that you have with the players, that maybe you could expand eighteen games in the future, because the agreement currently says twenty and it's

all about negotiations and uh. And also about who holds the power and if your ownership, you're not giving up that power to have twenty games and and utilize every one of them right now, So that's a bargaining chip in the future. If you're looking for a way to stay active and eat healthy, you can join Jack's alumni players as they teach football fundamentals and join members of

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first pick in the draft. He is the closest thing to Andrew Luck since Andrew Luck. I think in this case, John, you shouldn't overthink it. You ought to just take the guy who's far and away been the best candidate. And look, it could be that Zach Wilson, Trey Lance, one of these guys has a better NFL career. You just can't tell. But I think it would be I don't want to say irresponsible, that's that's the wrong word, but I think it would be very strange if they if they wouldn't

have taken Trevor Lawrence. That's Peter King from the NBC Sports Group, Now on the Ozone podcast available in the official Jaguars podcast network. It went up this morning. Check it out free subscription. You can catch all our shows from Jaguars Broadcasting. There but a nice long conversation between Oshan and Peter King. I welcome back to Jaguars Happy r J P. Shadrick, Jeff Lagerman, Glad you're along with

us today. And that has been really the big talking point of the week logs is Urban Meyer's comments to Peter King on his podcast earlier in the week. You know, the question came up about can you really hear the football come out of a quarterback's hands, and he basically invited Peter to, hey, come listen to him the guy who's not you'll eat and then him and you'll hear the difference. And then the next question was, so, was there really any question you're taking Trevor Lawrence. He said, well,

it feels like we're gonna go in that direction. Let the owner officially make that decision a little later, but we're headed in that direction. That's the most definitive statement any decision maker has had around here publicly. Is it uh shocking, No, not at all. It's not. It's not

shocking because he finally said something. Well, he says something and uh, and that kind of goes a little bit against the grain as far as what the league actually wants from teams that have the first overall pick, because the league would surely like to have a little bit of suspense involved with the draft. But is there you know, there's no, there's not any suspense. But I mean, it's it's a you go back a few years ago, and the contracts in some cases were already being negotiating at

this point. You don't need to have that. And some people may ask, well, you know, why don't why doesn't the team go ahead and start the contract negotiations with Trevor Lawrence. Well, the the draft now is slotted. You know what the amount is going to be. It's not like it's a negotiation process where you can negotiate above and beyond a certain number. It's it's a fixed number. You know. So in the first round pick gets a percentage of your rookie pool, and then the second round

pick gets another percentage of it. And some of the structure of the contract is negotiable, but for the most part, all of that stuff has been determined by the previous draft picks of previous classes and the percentages and such. We'll following suit. So there's not a whole lot to be done there. So I don't think it's any kind of earth shattering news, but it's I think it was pretty neat that Urban actually said that, just because it kind of goes against the grain of what the NFL

typically has done. Well, you know, we're not sure. You know, we're we're still looking at the fields. And you know, the kid in North Dakota, Now that's a bunch of hogwash, you know, And that's what it was has been in the past. And look, Trevor Lawrence is um widely viewed as a a generational prospect and and everybody's looking forward to having him in Jacksonville. You know, he announced that he's not going to go to Cleveland for the draft.

He'll be at Clemson watching the draft with family. Some some top prospects will go. The league has opened that up, but it sounds like Trevor is gonna do his own thing. Well, there's there's a couple I think opinions on that. One of them is it players should be grateful for the opportunity and thankful to the league because they're gonna be able to make millions of dollars and some fans believe that. And then the flip side of that is the players are that are being asked to go to the draft

in Cleveland. They're not being compensated by the NFL. They would be compensated as far as whatever travel expenses that they would incur, but they're not being paid. And should the league pay prospects to participate in the draft. My opinion is yes, I mean why not? Does it not sell a product? Are they not selling the NFL Draft? And does the NFL not make money? And the networks don't they make money off of the broadcast of the draft. I think that they should pay the prospects to come.

And would that change the mind of a young man like travel Lawrence. Maybe not, maybe not. Maybe he wants to spend that day showing the appreciation for the people that got them there. And I totally get that, totally get that, because if you can spend time at such a special moment with your family and friends and the people that got you there, why would you want to do something different and spend it with a bunch of people that you don't know, just so that maybe you

could hug Roger Goodell. You have the photo op on stage. Look, I don't want a man hug Roger Goodell that dad. I mean for me, I'd rather spend it with family,

and uh so good for Trevor. And another benefit of that too is that if he is in at Clemson for the draft spending it with family, then it's a very short plane ride from Jacksonville, Okay, to Clemson and then obviously my guess is the jet will be on the tarmac and Clemson and then after the pig has made hugs kisses, load up, some family come to Jacksonville,

you know, so we'll see, we'll see. You know, it's one of those two who is was taglub with the commissioner when you were uh still Rose, I can't remember. I believe it was was Roselle, So that was it was rosel Yeah, so you know that because it was Jeff Lackman. Would you have gone though, like you select Jeff. This is before players even were a thing, and I probably would have gone just to go, just because I don't think that everybody was aware of where and what

the draft has become. And I'm glad that I didn't get the opportunity because uh, they might have had to have security to protect me in New York, right, You know, I wasn't a very popular selection JP in New York to say the least. Absolutely love it, but I was you know at the time, I would have done it because I would have thought it would have been a rare, cool opportunity. And uh, like I said, I'm glad I didn't go, but at the same token, it would have

been a pretty neat opportunity. Something different. Yeah, But today, I mean, look to get everything's changed. You know. Even there's a there's a class action lawsuit that's going on right now that is taking the n c A and the lead attorney is Jeffrey Custler, who actually lead the NFL Players Association in the ntry trust lawsuit, and and he is leading a group of players to go against the n c A. That that is actually I think gonna end up He's gonna win, and that's going to

open the door for college players to be paid. So hang on because I think that's coming next and that that's that's the difference in awareness nowadays from what it was. And the other reality is JP, the the NFL Draft now is big business, big broadcast revenues, making a lot of money, and it's on multiple networks. And if something's

on multiple networks, it's making pretty good money. You know, Trevor Lawrence will be the first pick, and you know he'll be sitting wherever he is in Clemson, whether it's the team facility or at his house or with his fiancee or whatever. Right, but there'll be a camera wherever he is. His people, I'm sure are already working on marketing deals for him in general, but for that night in particular, he better be drinking out of a dunkin Donuts coffee cup with the Nike shirt on or whatever

like the NASCAR driver. Right, let's have everything sponsored and start getting some money flowing it. Why not? I mean, if you're the first overall pick in the draft, it doesn't matter where you're gonna land, whether it's Jacksonville, New

York or whatever, You're gonna be a marketing figure. And if I'm working in Trevor Lawrence's camp, I'm getting all the money that I can for whatever sponsorship that I could for because is I guarantee there's gonna be cameras in Trevor Lawrence's house or wherever that he's gonna be at a Clemson and so it's a great opportunity to generate revenue off of that. Also, if you're in that camp, you're looking right now at copyrighting and and uh making sure that a lot of things in the future are

taking care of. In other words, brought into the camp of Trevor Lawrence, whether it be Trevor Town, Trevorville, all these names, QB. Jack's, you know, whatever, anything that is attached with his name, Trevor Lawrence and Jacksonville, any association.

You're gonna try to go ahead and garner all of those entities and take them now, because at some point in the future you don't want somebody else capitalizing and making money off of your name because they were the ones that filed for the copyright and got it so or they can just go buy it from you. Because it sounds like you're already ahead of the game, Lugs,

you probably already have all those done. The copy I've got all well, no, I mean, if I should have, I would not be surprised one bit if there has been some people that are not associated with Trevor Lawrence that have already tried to capitalize on his name and the association with Jacksonville, and I hope that Trevor Lawrence's camp has been aggressive and making sure that those things are going to be owned by them. There you haven't, so yeah. Catch the full Ozon podcast available in the

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Hour continues on this Thursday afternoon. We've got plenty to discuss around owners meetings and now you know there's proposed rule changes. We'll get to those in just a few minutes. But the league has sent a memo to clubs outlining the early part of the off season program. Just the start date correct now. The Jaguars were among the teams with a new coaching staff that were supposed to start in about a week's time from now next week. Basically

that's no longer. Every team will start on the same date, April nineteenth, Phase one of the off season program can begin. That means players can work out of the team facility in small groups. Teams should also prepare to conduct meetings virtually when the off season program begins, all virtual and and and all virtual workout program is not expected, so they're expecting players on the field for organized team activities. There's no schedule for the start of those yet. The

only Phase one has been scheduled. At least there's a date on the calendar. Froll and the reason why none of that has been scheduled is that that has to go through the negotiation process with ownership in the union. I mean, that's pretty simple, and so the league just can't say, well, you know what, we're gonna start and do virtually for a week and then once we get into May, Okay, we're in person and we're good to go. That's all part of the process that's just got to

take place. It's so volunteery though off season program, well, I mean it is, but I mean JP, I mean when it's when it's virtual, I mean it's it's the old rule of thunk, I'm busy doing things. Okay, you can choose to be a volunteer and have a job if you're a decent player. If you're an elite player, then yeah, you can choose not to volunteer and still have a job. But the reality is you're gonna get paid more even if you're an elite player if you're

happy to volunteer. And so you know, and look, uh, you want to do the right thing, and so players that choose to volunteer and do the right thing are the ones that typically are the ones that end up making more money the long run anyway. So I just I don't think there's a question anymore with that JP.

The one question I think that UH will be interesting is if you are a volunteer and you're doing everything virtually, do you get paid you're all season workout stuff, if you're doing things virtually, and I believe that they are. I thought last year, I think that they got paid for doing the virtual stuff that they should. I mean, they're putting the time in and it's not like it's a big money it's a standard amount that the players get. But at some point in the future I see the

league and the players coming into an agreement. And I said this before to where instead of having because in the past, and to go back to your point real quick about how urban Meyer's new coach and new coaching staff could have an extra time that's not really neat anymore. And then back in the day when you had a new coach, you actually used to have the ability to start early and you could have up to three mini camps, two additional ones if you had a new staff. Okay,

not not anymore. That they're just saying, okay, no, we're just gonna start everything and have it be the same and I think and I've said this earlier. Now. When I said earlier, I'm not talking earlier in the show. I'm talking to a couple of months ago. Is that I've pictured in the future this year that they would try to combine a lot of the all season into

one gathering. And when I say into one gathering, you are you are allowed or have been allowed in the past, you would have fourteen o t A days and then you would have a mandatory mini camps. There's essentially seventeen days of on the field activity. My guess is is that at some point they will agree that, hey, look, let's just get the players and the coaches together to be on the grass for a week and let's bring

them in. And at that point we may not all have the players tested, and they're not all gonna be not to test evact, they're not gonna have their their vaccination shots and everything, but at least we can kind

of control it a little bit more. So they will bring in an actively test and try and maybe even try to vaccinate some of the players while they're there, and uh, and it makes it a little bit easier if you can kind of condense it down instead of trying to say, okay, let's let's just get back to normal and half our fourteen days and then our mandatory minicamp condense it down to where you have a short gathering for a short period of time and then do

everything else virtually, and then I think it will work out a lot better that way for the league as a whole, that where you're not trying to coordinate a bunch of different gatherings. Because I mean, right now, JP, where do the NFL players fall when it comes the priority of being vaccinated? There? Yeah, most places, they're not twenty somethings. I mean twenty somethings. I mean, what are they going to get a vaccine? I mean, I don't know. I think fairly in Florida it's eighteen and up at

some point very soon. So I mean, look, it's coming up. It hasn't happened yet. And if and if I understand correctly, right now in our area, the people that are in their fifties have have been eligible. Now the people that are in the forties now are now eligible. Okay, so you know how much time is it gonna take to where we get down into the NFL players, which is in their twenties. I don't know. In another instant conversation to you, you can't. The league is not going to

impose this on the players. Still, you can't do that. You can't you can't make it mandatory. You can't make gives to organizations JP. The reality is is that the players are gonna want to be vaccinated because the restrictions if you're not are gonna be much different for the player that is unvaccinated. And uh, the amount of and and here's the thing. Okay, I can choose not and this is my guess how it would go. Okay, you

can choose not to get a vaccine. Okay, but since you're choosing not to have a vaccine, you still now or you now have to undergo daily testing and you have different rules for um, if you have been exposed to somebody who is positive, you're gonna have to quarantine for X amount of time. And okay, well you can't discriminate. And it's a player who chooses not to have a vaccine.

But I mean, if you're a general manager of coach and you're making decisions about roster and you've got a guy who you've got two players of the exact same type of player. One's vaccinated, one is not. Who are you gonna choose? Yeah, I mean, that's a vaccinated got to be in there, you know. So as a player, you know that you could fall into this category of that guy over there has got the same ability as me,

and he's vaccinated. I don't want to be vaccinated. Well, but guess what he's gonna take my job if I don't get a vaccine. A strange time, it really is. Who never Who would have thought we would have been talking about this two years? I don't know, But here we are in the league, and the and the players and all that can sit there and say that, you know, the players that choose not to get a vaccine will not be discriminated against, and they're not gonna it's not

gonna be held against them. They can say that all they want, but the reality is is that, I mean, NFELT is a business, and if you want to make good business decisions, you gotta make business decisions based on what the resources are that are available to you and how reliable and available they are. And if you have one players is unavailable because he doesn't have a vaccine, and if you can find the same type of player that has a vaccine. That's an easy decision to make.

Let's go through some of these proposed rules changes. I feel like we do this every year around this time on this show. Let's start with there's eleven proposals from either the Competition Committee or teams around the league. And if you're watching on video on Jake Social, you're seeing on your screen. So number one is eliminate overtime and preseason games. That's from the Competition Committee. I feel like that will probably pass. Logs nobody likes over the dog's easy.

That's an easy yes, we'll take the ties. That's fine. Number two, maximum number of players in the setup zone. It's a one year trial if it passes. This is a competition committee. This is on kickoffs. There's an area between restraining line and a fifteen yard window where they're trying to have a maximum number of guys close. Um, the current rules are just fine. Don't try to overcomplicate

it by adding another rule there. Okay. Number three expand the prohibition on blocking below the waist by the offensive end defensive players beyond five yards on either side of the line and two yards outside the tackles. So basically expanding the anywhere outside, and and and and it's a small window. Now they're just that's a yes. But for me, and I can hear Basselly yelling in my ear gone, it's a bunch of hog washes. Part of the game football,

it's part of player safety. You don't need cut blocks. Uh. I'm a yes on three. Number four permit replay officially and designated members of the officiating department to provide certain objective information to on field officials that we don't have the full detail on that just from the competition many there's another one later that would that's essentially adding a sky judge. So there's another one later that is that

as well. So let's get to the club playing rule proposals now Number five from the Chicago Bears, ensuring enforcement of all accepted penalties committed by either team during successive try attempts. We're getting the weeds there a little bit. Number six at a Losso down for a second forward passion behind the line and for a beast thrown after the ball returns behind the line. That's from the l A Rams and there. This is the one that's been

controversial in social media today. And I know you're a big Twitter guyalogs, but uh seven, expand jersey number options for certain positions. The Kansas City Chiefs have brought this to the table. They want defensive backs, linebackers, running backs to where to be allowed to wear single digit numbers. Um, I don't understand why that's an issue. The only numbers that they need to kind of make sure that there

are restrictions on on the offensive linemen. Everybody else should be able to well wear whatever the hell they want. That's basically what this is proposing. She's the way it should be. I don't what's the problem with social media? I don't. Well, no, I don't. I'm not. There's a lot of people for that. There's a lot of people for single digit defensive linemen and all that stuff, right,

So what's wrong with the system now? Because because it limits, it limits and it restricts the number of jersey numbers. I mean, you've got a bunch of numbers that aren't being utilized and in single digits, and you have rosters that are gonna be expanded. We're now you have guys in training camp that are wearing well, you know what,

he's defensive forty three, and we have an offensive forty three. Well, if we would make a single digit available, we wouldn't have two forty three's and JP it might make Joe fort Sinado's job as a spot or easier. You know, Joe's a spot or in the booth. He's got old eyes. Now you know he's gets two numbers. He can't tell the difference between one guy that's on offense or defense. And you know you're calling, okay, the guy on put team. Okay, Well is that offensive forty three or defensive? And I

like single digits, man, Single digits are cool. Okay, I'm just right right now. It's punters, kickers, and quarterbacks to the only places. Just don't don't bring the number zero in the NFL. They did that in college football last year. I'm not a fan. That's just me. That's personal preference. But leave that in college. If you don't number you're making an issue out of that. I'm not a fan

of anyway. Alright, Number eight, change options for a winner of an overtime coin toss and create a true sudden death format. Baltimore and Philadelphia brought that one. There's another one, number nine coming up as well. That's another overtime option, change possibility, change the options for the winner of the coin toss, Eliminate sudden death format, eliminate overtime in the preseason.

That's all from Baltimore. And then number ten, excuse me, number ten permitted team to maintain possession of the ball after a score. This is the onside kick rule, by substituting one offensive play a fourth and fifth team from the kicking teams twenty five in place of an on side kick attempt. The Eagles are bringing that. What do you don't like that? No, it's not traditional football, but there's no run up anymore. There's no run up on kickoffs,

so it's made on side kicks. Really tough? Okay, well, that's fine. Stop him earlier in the game where you don't have to depend on an onside kick. I mean it's I mean on side kick is an onside kick? Are currently in in in in use? Make an onside kick harder, well, play better earlier in the game and you won't have to onside kick. Seriously, I mean, uh,

get into the situation. Yeah, but you want you know, Judge number eleven an eighth official positions somewhere other than the field with full communication on field officials and access to a monitor, yeah, which is if you're trying to make the game right, okay, And and the view of the game because everybody at home gets to see what's

on TV. So why shouldn't you have the ability to have somebody that can see in the TV monitors what should or should not be on their couches, Like look right there, now, I think I think that's a sky judge should have parameters about what he can and cannot provide input on what judgment calls. Leave that to the guys on the field that are in the action. Yes, yes, yeah, he like he could have a voice, and he doesn't make he doesn't make the call, but he can't come

in and say, oh, that was past interference. No no, no, no, yeah, but but he should be able to say that that ball hit the ground before the catch, his foot was out of bounds and then not have to go to replay and then have you know, challenges and all this other stuff. We'll see a couple of weeks away from the league owners voting on some of those proposed and we'll come back at a moment we'll go around speaking of the league, the National Football there was a big

trade in the last week. Yes, yes, the big train, a couple of big trades, raft picks flying out the door, and we're just kicked back with our legs up, not worried about the carnage and the rear view. Well, there's there's one thing though, the Jaguars I think better be aware of, and that they need to be thinking about trading some picks themselves. We'll get to that coming up

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Visit Jaguars dot com slash community and fuel greatness from anywhere. J Be Shadrick, Jeff Lachman coming down the home stretch here on Jaguars Happy Hour. And as we started the show logs we were, we referenced April Fools Day well around the league. As we start our look around the National Football League, a couple of NFL players are getting in on the act, including George Kittle, the forty Niners

tight end. He put out a tweet earlier today. It says next chapter, thanks to the faithful for all the support hashtag do all, And there's a photoshopped image of him in a Jaguars jersey on it. Uh, wouldn't that be nice? I'm gonna I'm guessing it's an April Fools jo. I haven't heard anything otherwise. I haven't got an email on that. That would be pretty awesome. Make you think, right, what do you old? You have to give up for that?

A lot? A lot? But the forty Niners might be interested in finding some future draft picks to be able to replace all that they gave up to move up to the third overall pick, and the draft. There was a lot going on this never last week. So yeah, that's the first time we've had a chance to discuss all that. The Niners moved from twelve to three, Dolphins down to twelve, didn't they move five minutes later back

up to six. The Eagles go down to twelve, and all hell is breaking loose behind the Jags in the top ten. The Jags I ought to worry about it, which is great, Well, I mean it's it's great, but uh, I think it's gonna make the top of the draft extremely intriguing because nobody knows for sure exactly what the Jets are gonna do it. Too. Many people have an expectation they're going to take a quarterback from b y U. But now, what are the forty Niners gonna do it? Three?

It's gonna be a quarterback, because you don't give up that much equity to move up to three overall unless it's going to be a quarterback. But who And so that provides a little bit of intrigue, a little less intrigue with number two but still it's intrigue and uh, if I'm the Jaguars JP, to be perfectly honest with you, I'm thinking about packaging some of my picks that I have this year because you have obviously the multiple number

ones and you've got the multiple number two. I'm thinking about trading them away for more or higher future picks. And the reason why twofold one, you already had an extremely young roster. You're only gonna be able to fill so many holes. But by trading away picks from this year to future years, you're moving up. So if you trade a number two this year, typically you can get a number one next year. This football team needs one or just a it depends on you know how bad

you're gonna be. But the reason why is that this year I think is extremely tough for personnel departments to make sound decisions. I don't want to say that they're unsound, but you're not gathering as much information or pieces of the polof you have had the opportunity to gather in years past. For examp ample, there's some players you're scouting that did not play football and they have taken a snap since the seasons. There's some that uh, you haven't

been able to talk to in person. There's some that you're not having the combine to evaluate their medical So if you can trade current picks for future picks to get back to more normalcy, you're gonna be able to

make more informed decisions in the future. And I think you have to consider trading current picks this year for future picks in two and in bye by having the full scouting process back and play, which is expected for there wouldn't that make the most sense though, in like mid rounds of the draft, Like you need first and second round draft picks on your roster now, like to to get those guys going, and you'll have a lot of information on those guys. But later in the draft, four,

fifth round, sixth round, you know you're digging a little deeper. Yeah, no, no, I totally understand. But from this roster, you have to go play this year if if I can, if I can give up a late second round pick this year for a first round pick in twenty all day long, all day long. I'm not I mean, you can take a late second round and move up in the first round all I mean, why wouldn't you do that? I mean, if we're take a third round pick and move up into round two. I mean, I mean for me, because

here's the reality. Even though you may have the best scouting department in the in the universe, it's still it's still a gamble. The draft is still a gamble. And if you evaluate the draft from a percentage of standpoint, if you're doing, if you're if you're hitting, you're one of the best in the league. I mean, And even first round picks are about a proposition. And then as you get further into the draft, in rounds two, three,

the percentages dropped, and they drop dropped dramatically. So why wouldn't you increase and from a number standpoint, why wouldn't you increase your probability of having success by trading into into the future for more picks to increase your percentages of success? Just a thought. Okay, that is the Jeff Logoman soapbox for the day, And you would have more information to make those decisions on. That's a positive, Jeff Lockman,

the soapbox of the day. Trade all the picks away for all of them, he said, I heard it, Not all of them they gave here for eleven draft picks, they get three. They traded eight of them away. I would I would love if you've got eleven right now and you end up with seven seven and you four. I'm I'm all for it for the next year. I'm all for it. Okay, let's continue our look around the league. There's some drama now in the Los Angeles Chargers ownership group.

Apparently one of the sisters of the the Spano's family has They all have fifteen percent. There's four of them, and then there's the family trust that owns thirty of the team. Well, one of the sisters says the trust is deeply in debt and the only way to pay off the debt is to sell the team. Well, the three other siblings issued a statement today. Here's the quote. Blogs, you'll get a kick out of this quote. Our sister Dia seems to have a different and misguided personal agenda.

If Da no longer wishes to be a part of this family legacy, the three of us stand ready to purchase her share of the franchise, as our agreements give us the right to do drama indeed for the Chargers. Are you sure it's Dia not d I don't know. D d e A and her brother's name is d Dean, so why wouldn't her name just be d. It's probably d um. She's claiming that the trust is about nearly four million dollars in debt and there's no way to recoup UH and UH to keep it afloat unless they

sell the team. And the name Bezos has been bannied about about a potential buyer for the l A Charger. So that was kind of interesting to me just from an ownership standpoint. I didn't know the Dean span it was only a stakeholder in that team, and that a lot of family members had ownership. Interesting. His name is the one that always out there is the owner of

the Chargers, but is a family affair. J P. I will I will say this, The l A Chargers are known around the league as being one of the cheapest franchises in the NFL. As far as far as spending UH money on resources to have success, from what many would view as resources to have success, scouting, coaching, UM scouting services, the Chargers UH skimp a little bit in all those areas. Very well known. We have reached the conclusion logs. We'll talk to you again next week. Look

forward to it. Jeff Lockman all right, Joe Fortunado on the audio side as always, and today Blake Stewart steps in on video. I'm JP Shadrick will catch you next time. It's Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network.