Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, April 14

of course, it's Jaguars analyst Jeff Lagaman. Each and every week. Offensive coordinator Press Taylor joins us in studio about four fifteen. We'll hear from the new O C for the Jags, his first coordinator role in the NFL and his first week talking actual xs and ohs with the quarterback and the offense. We're two weeks until the NFL Draft. Prospect visits continue, the medical checks, everything going on, and we'll go around the National Football League more quarterback news as

usually is the case. Jeff Lockman with us. Now, Hi, Jeff, what's up? Hi? JP? Can you imagine being a young Jaguars offensive coordinator like Press Taylor and to have a star studded offensive cast of coaches. I mean, that's think about that. That's kind of intimidating. You know, Doug Peterson, who he worked with for a long time in Philly. Mike McCoy was a head coach in the NFL, has been around the game forever. Jim Bob Cooter christ name coordinator,

greatest name in the NFL. He's been around for a while now. I mean, and then you've got the number one picked from last year at the quarterback position. There's a lot of input going in, I think to the

offensive staff. I don't think he's gonna be shy of of opinions, but but I think it's a challenge to when you're a young guy to step in a role of being an offensive coordinator with a staff like that, to you, you you better have you better have reasons, and you better substantiate your opinions, because if your reasons or your information is flawed, you're gonna get called to the table with that group of on the offensive staff.

But I mean, I I can tell you this. I mean as far as if you're a team guy, that's what you want. I mean, you want to have as star studded as an offensive cast as you can get because a lot of times some of the and you go back to the Baltimore Ravens when they were in their heyday under Brian Billock, that was a staff that

had a lot of strong personalities on defense. A lot of head coaches came from that staff, and when you talk to those coaches, they will tell you about many spirited discussions that they had in staff meetings, and spirited discussions that sometimes ended up coming down to a little bit of this, which I'm holding my knuckles up. I

was told. So I don't think it's gonna get to that here in Jacksonville with the offensive staff, but you know, hey, look, spirited conversation and discussion sometimes end up having some of your best ideas come to fruition. Well here from Press Taylor coming up in about fifteen minutes or so here on Jaguar's Happy Hour, the Jaguars offensive coordinator, well, he

does have his left tackle in place. Cam Robinson this week signed the franchise tender sixteen point six million guaranteed dollars this year, and they have until July fifteenth to work on a long term deal. If they don't get to that long term deal. Well, he'll pay play for sixteen point six million dollars this year. Drinks are on Camp. Well, it's you want him to buy for you. That's okay. Uh, sixteen million is now guaranteed because the franchise tag has

been signed. If and I think that's the right thing to do from a players standpoint, Why would you not, because if you don't sign the franchise tag, that tag can be removed and then you're put back out in the marketplace. And by the way, there's a lot of team that have spent their money already. So what would

the market be. I don't know. But a smart thing to do by Cam because now in the meantime, now you can work on a long term option with the football team if that is in fact the wishes of both the team and Cam and to see if something can get done for a long term type of situation because and but I think it makes it challenging in this type of situation to work on a long term deal because think about a JP. You had the franchise

tag last year that Camp signed. Okay, so now it's gonna be he's got a franchise tag now, so if they want to keep him under contract for next year, so now you have another the other the the what is another increase because there's last year to this year, so it was thirteen last year. The actual number for a franchise tag tackle anyway, this year was about sixteen, but it's increase from last year, which is also right around sixteen exactly. So it's gonna there's gonna be another

increase for next year. Okay. So my point is is that if you're trying to negotiate a long term contract, if you're an agent, the starting point in negotiations for guaranteed money is the guaranteed money for franchise tag this year plus the guaranteed franchise tag for next year. You see what I'm saying. So you basically take sixteen plus increase. You're looking on another let's just say eighteen for around purposes.

Let's say it's eighteen and I and it might might even be more than that, but I think it's somewhere in that range. But the rules change after a certain number of years of being tagged. But so now you add eighteen and sixteen. So essentially the contract the starting point is thirty four million guaranteed right out of the gate before you even and that's in the first two

years guarantee. So uh so that makes it a little bit challenging, I think for some guys that have received the franchise tag for more than just one year, because now all of a sudden, this this conversation is kicking into play different position. I get it. But I remember quarterback Kirk Cousins with Washington. He had two different franchise tag season sixteen and seventeen, and then went to free agency at eighteen and signed a fully guaranteed, three year,

eighty four million dollar deal. Yeah, I think that's the business of football. He's winning. And I think the reason why because I think in the in year three of your franchise tag, there's a big jump it's like increase or something of that nature instead of so it makes it very very prohibitive. So and and I think that's

the case. So with Cam then, and when I was talking about, Okay, thirty four million is your story at starting point, it's actually more than that in that in that situation, I think with the third consecutive tag, So congratulations to Cam Robinson. Yeah, no, it's great. I mean, look,

uh he deserves it. He's a he's a good football player, and he I think is the best part about Cam is I think was what Trent Balky talked about back when Trent Balky and and Doug Peterson had this informal little sit down with the media and Trent shared some of the stories about Cam, saying, hey, look, here's a guy that's always available because of availability always supersedes talent and ability always. And with Cam, he's a guy who

loves ball. He's competitive, he finishes um, he does all the things that you want to have a good football player do. Now, can he be better footwork wise and some of the some of the basics of playing left tackle. When I say basics, some of the basic footwork things, yes, he can get better at that, but we all everybody can get better even at your five or six or seven wherever that as a pro. The off season program is upon us now. It started on Monday strength and

conditioning meetings. It's all very very voluntary, but important to get some things established with a new coaching staff, new new terminology, and get the ball rolling on. Just starting the organization a new from the beginning. Trevor Lawrence spoke this week as well about working with the receivers and getting things started with a new coaching staff. We started throwing a little bit altogether this first time we can

use the facility, so um offseason. Obviously, most of those guys that are new didn't get here until right before we start O t A, so they're trying to you know, find places all that, so I didn't get to work with them much of this off season. So now we

got a lot of time. You know, we have two weeks of just throwing our own and then we'll have that period and after those two weeks where we start getting out there with some coaches, some routes on air, all that stuff, so you've got time to progress into it. I feel like we're in a good spot right now. It's I think more important just to get everybody speaking the same language when we're doing the installs, whatever it is. Get everybody on the same page so when we're out

there and we're all staying the same things. Because if you're out there and no one really is on the same page and you call routes different things, that makes it more difficult. So we're getting there now. We're working towards it well. As he said, they have some time. It is April, they have another week and then they can get on the field with the coaches and do some minor things. But the language thing, I think is

the big thing. There's a brand new offense. It will be his at an offense as a quarterback in the NFL. Like we said, all these coaches come from different backgrounds as well. What concepts are called is a very important baseline. Yeah, where they have to all learn to speak the same language, and that has to happen as a staff before that

can be passed on to the players. And then there we talked about it last week a little bit with like Caldwell, the defensive coordinator, about everybody getting on the same page. And so that's an important part to the all season. But you know, I want to say this about the off season program. If you're if you're a player and you're signed under contract by whatever NFL team and you're not participating in their off season program, you're

not very smart. And the reason I say that is that if you are training on your own and you sustain some kind of injury, you're on your own. I mean, so why would you not use the facilities that the NFL has every team, And and also the injury protection that is built in that if you sustain some type of injury, you're covered. If it's happening under the umbrella of the team, If you're doing it on your own,

you're on your own. And I just I think it would be insane if anybody were to not participate in the club's O t A programs. Also, what Trevor said there about a lot of guys getting moved back into town. Look, this is an amazing place to live, and a lot of these guys are new to the football team, and so some of them are trying to find where they're gonna live and moving families, etcetera. So I get that the guys that are already on the team, they should

already be here. And uh, and because you want to be able to work with your quarterback, Trevor is living here. Look if I'm if I'm a receiver, I'm a tight end, I'm here, man, I'm gonna be here living with my quarterback. I'm in front of him every single day, if right, And I want to want them see my face every day, so that you know, you build the camaraderie, you build a relationship and you build the trust, and so when you catch balls from your quarterback, that's what it's all about.

You want to catch as many balls as you can right now so that he has a comfort level with you when you get to September. If somebody can't make it, you know what, I'm gonna go out there and take the fill in. I know that'll be really productive for the quarterback. If our two run rounds you yeah, JP, you not not quite un Yeah, I don't think that's a hard No. The only thing thing that would help the quarterback is that if you know, one of the

big offensive linemen ran around around the goal line. That's maybe the only thing that you could simulate. Just trying to say thank you very much. UM, this is Jaguars Happy Hour on tint to Excel and Jaguars dot Com. J P Shadrick, Jeff Lockman, Press Taylor coming up in just a few minutes at his thoughts in the first

few days talking football with Trevor Lawrence and the offense. Well, all this is happening and we're two weeks to the NFL Draft logs of course, UM, on the final runway before the number an overall pick, and the last second things are likely happening now, last security checks, the medical checks, a prospect visit, they're still going on. I think there's

a little more time for that. You know, last year Jaguars had the number one pick for the first time ever and it's quarterback Trevor Lawrence and it was built for it. Far from an ideal rookie campaign for Trevor, but it's equally important this time another number one overall pick. You gotta have somebody that can handle it. I think when we learned this, not only I think through the course of the season with with the boucle of the Urban Myra regime, that Trevor Lawrence can can handle anything.

And part of being uh first overall draft pick, Look, you always have that attached to you. And also you have this, uh, this level of expectation that is nobody else is going to have anything close to that because you always and I don't know say it's a stigma, but you have. Hey, look is the first overall draft pick. Okay, true was built to handle it. He handled it like a true professional. All the situations that came his way in the team's way last year that weren't very favorable

for different reasons. I thought Trevor handled it beautifully, But this year, now you're you're looking at the first overall pick again, and when you evaluate all these prospects that are under consideration for the number one overall pick, you better make sure that you're evaluating the person and can they handle the scrutiny that's gonna come with being the first overall pick, Because if you're gonna pick somebody who's just happy to be there and it ain't gonna work.

If you pick somebody that can't withstand some criticism, then that's not the person that you want. So I think you have to have and do a really mean because that's one of the reasons why the NFL has all these extended opportunities to interview these potential draft picks by bringing them in, by spending time with them at the combine, by vetting them. And that's probably the most important aspect is JP is not talking to the person directly and

be in a combine setting because that's all scripted. When you bring them in, you get a little bit more of an opportunity and and and seeing your building. So there's a lack of comfort on the prospects side. Of things to maybe make you get a little bit more of a true feel on that person. But also, when I talk about the vetting process, you better make sure that you're talking to a lot of people that have been around that prospect for the last number of years.

I mean, if you want to go back to his high school time, you should do that, because if you don't do that, then you end up having a situation to where you have a player which is not the kind of player that you want for your program. And I'm not gonna name any names that have been here in the past, but I'm sure people can figure that out. Yeah, I think they can, because I mean there's there's I mean, the reality is the Jaguars have picked number one picks

overall in its history. Okay, that the players were not properly vetted enough first round picks. Yes, let's first pick for the franchise. Yes with you. So, I mean that's when when you say vetting, you know, and that's the term that's uh, it's very uh. I guess you could say in a in a proper setting for a lot of politicians, you know, you gotta vet a candidate. Okay, Well, look, I mean these candidates for your franchise. I mean that's no different. I mean, you've got to have people that

have an incredible high character, moral, morals, et cetera. Because that's what you're building your program around. And you've got an opportunity here with a new staff and a new general manager. Uh that is uh much more in charge than I think what he was last year. So look, do it right, make sure it's right. Today, the Jaguars announced the twenty two Duval Draft Party, presented by Baptist Health. It's Thursday, April six o'clock. The doors open at Daily's Place.

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to read it? Slash Official Draft Party starting tomorrow. To register for tickets. Season ticket members have early access starting right now, so check your email for more. We're back in a moment. Press Taylor, Jaguars offensive coordinator, joins us after this. It's Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network. I really get mean and it's really really cold. I mean similar honestly to to coach Devil as far as demeanor, really calm, never gets too higher, too low. Um. So

I really like that. It's the type of guy I could be around. And then as far as just offensively brings some different things to the table. Obviously we haven't been he got along and only when he started on Monday, so I can't say too much right now, but it's really like the way he thinks about things and just how he's offense is so complimentary, um, and just how

he schemes things up. I think it's see does a really good job of finding the leak points of defensives and exposing them, and I just think he's really smart and being able to talk to him, I think we aligned pretty well and we're what we're on the same day. That's Trevor Lawrence, of course, Jaguars quarterback. Welcome back. It's Jaguars Happy Hour on a Thursday afternoon. J P. Chadwick with you, Jeff log him in back in with us here in a few minutes. And that's the quarterback talking

about offensive coordinator Press Taylor who joins us in studio. Now, it's some some nice words from the QB. What's up? Coach paid him to say that? Did you really? The check cleared? That's good news. So all right, so let's start with that. The calm demeanor, the poise, the not streaming, you're not that's not your style, and that fits right in apparently with the quarterback. That relationship obviously is key

for the success around here, right of course. Yeah, it's it's all about putting all our guys in the best position to succeed. But obviously that starts with the quarterback. A lot of times, when your quarterbacks playing well, everybody around him is playing well. Um, and that that's given him things that he likes, put in a position where he understands, and we can come up with all sorts of football players. But if he don't love it, don't

believe in it, it's probably not gonna work out. So we want to make sure we're in lockstep with him as we build this thing. You know, actually for uh started to talk football this week for the first time. Maybe you've met him before, but you actually get into the xs and ohs this week with the offseason program finally there. What's the first thing that stands out about Trevor when you sit down in a football meeting room

with him. He's very mature. He ask and a lot of times, you know, we haven't had a lot of football conversations, but he asked great questions, so that that's always one of the things that you know he's engaged. You know, you can kind of tell by the questions that a guy asked of kind of whether he likes it, where he's tracking, how he sees it, um and he he and really all the quarterbacks, Jake and c J. They've done a great job with the questions they asked,

the response they're given, the engagement they're given. So it's exciting. You know, there's a lot of offensive minds around here. Obviously the head coach, you've been with him for a long time in Philly, UM Mike McCoy has been in the league for a long time as a head coach. Jim Bob Cooter, the passing game coordinator, crafting all those ideas and philosophies together as one with the quarterbacks involved,

I'm sure as well. Um, you know you've been in all those roles though, quality control guy, assistant quarterback coach, QB coach, pass you've done all these things. How does that help you take in information from all different types of mindsets? Yeah, I mean, I know. I think part of it is, like, I know how I liked being treated in each of those roles, and and and what kind of input I could provide and things like that. So part of it's being clear in your communication with

what your expectation is for everybody. And and then at the on top of that, with a lot of you know, former quarterbacks and guys that have coach quarterbacks, have been coordinators in this league, a lot of it's everybody putting their egos side and realizing we we don't need to do what we all did in the past. This is about putting our guys in the best position to create the Jacksonville offense. And that's what we're trying to do.

Press Taylor with US Jaguars offensive coordinator, you're balancing building the scheme. But you know free agency was here still is it never really ends, the draft is coming up. You know. That's all after arriving in like early February. It's not a lot of time to put all this together. How do you balance all the time for all three of those things? That's what I mean. At times it feels like it's in season schedule where we're just kind of here all day. That's the good and the bad

of this. This business necessarily is like when you do have a sudden move like this, which a lot of us, we all moved in from other places. Your family's kind of left behind. Now the bad part of that, you're out with your family, which we all enjoy in the offseason. That's the great part about life in the NFL. But it gives you the ability. Then you come in early,

you stay late. We get a chance to kind of make up that ground with that time where maybe it's you know, football in the morning, personal in the afternoon, playing for the next day at night. So that's kind of been the schedule we've all kind of worked off since we kind of got here, really kind of hit the ground running when the players get here. That's the first thing you notice when you're digging into the Jaguars

tape from a year ago. Obviously, you know, we're in the division not looking at the Jags offense as much. On the other side with Indy last year, when you first slipped on the Jaguars offense, what stood out? What did you inherit as an offensive coordinator? Part of it on good and bad you get a chance to evaluate a lot of guys. But there's a lot of guys

on the tape. You know, you saw a lot of guys that missed time with injuries and things like that that really affected a lot of things that it hurts the chemistry of some things as you go, but it gives guys good experience, gives us a chance to evaluate more actual game tape of some of these guys. But

there's a lot of talent. There's a lot of young talent, which is exciting, you know, obviously starting with Trevor Um, but the pieces around there is young talent that we're excited to work with and look forward to press Taylor with us. You mentioned the family settled in, everybody around everybody here, I mean, it's a whirlwind. In a month and a half two months time, we're finally settled in. So we got the keys to our houses, last week

and finally started moving in. So now it's I work all day, I go home, and I work all night at home trying to get boxes out and do all that type stuff. But definitely makes it life a little bit better when your families around. It never ends, of course, that the work never ends, that's for sure. This is Jaguars Happy Hour on tinton X l j P Shadrick Jeff Lagman back in a moment. Offensive coordinator Press Taylor

joining us now free agent editions. Let's go through some of these guys because we've we've talked about them in so many different formats here, but it's nice to hear it from the guy who's putting the offense together. And let's start off with Christian Kirk thirty seven million guaranteed dollars. But the versatility, he said it in his opening press conference. Hey, I'm not just a slot receiver. I'm here to do a lot of different things. What can he bring for

your offense? Yeah, I think that's the biggest thing. It's the versatility of we can align them all over the formation. He can do a number of different things. He can win on the outside. He's a great decision maker with great speed, which you know, you don't always hear that about receivers being great decision makers, but he really is. So you can put them in then in positions to be able to adjust things and get on the same page with Trevor Um. You know, probably something I didn't

know about him was his demeanor. As we've been around each other for a week, He's got a great demeanor about himself. He again asked great questions similar to the quarterbacks, where I think that makes up for a lot of the less time on the grass, where they have the ability to just sit and communicate in a meeting room and get on the same page. And he brings that element. He brings a big plays, dynamic player. He's good with the ball in his hands. He's able to win a

number of different ways, which is intriguing for us. Yeah, I don't think I've ever heard decision maker used in a wide receiver. How do you know that? How do you find that out about a guy? Part of that's the way he talks the questions. He asked, like I'm saying, you know, versus this coverage, can I adjust this way? Verse that? Would you expect me to do this? What does Trevor. Want you know, he's asked those type of questions where it makes you confident and Okay, this guy's

picking it up. And we knew a lot of that when we dug into him throughout the free agency period. Za Jones a guy who has been a couple of different places in the league. We've seen some highlights out of him too. What do you think so far? A few days into the offseason program? Za is a similar guys A is extremely cerebral. Another one that asked great questions and that's kind of gonna be the core with a lot of guys we talked about the high character

guys love football. This is a little bit of a theme, um. And that's not by accident. So these are guys that that we we kind of know from we've talked to. We researched these guys through players that they played with, coaches that coached them, college coaches that coached him. UM. So we have a good feel for what we're getting out of these guys. Uh And Zay has done nothing to disappoint Das. He's a great teammate. He's done a great job early on in this process is getting to

know everybody and getting to learn some things. Let's go to the tight end room. You know, I was thinking about this earlier today before we're about to do this conversation. I guess it was around right the Patriots got Gronk and Hernandez and that same draft together. And yes, there had been really good tight ends in the league before that, but that combination kind of change the mindset of a lot of offensive thinking around the NFL because of the

success of that crew. Not calling this crew that, but Evan Ingram comes in. He got Dan Arnold, two guys that can go out and catch the football. Having that option as a quarterback, n OC has to help. Absolutely. It gives you the ability to create matchups and that's what we're looking for. When we put Evan Inger on the field, who's going to cover him? Do you do you need to bring in the lighter body. Do you put a nickel on him? Do you put a safety

on him? Do you put a linebacker on him? Which we would ask for if you get to pick um. But Evan kind of brings that with his his his speed overall first and foremost. But he's got he again, He's got a guy that's got a lot in his body in terms of the wiggle and the decision making, the ability to make the option routes, the read routes stretched stretched down the field, does a great job with

the football in his hands. You know, if you just get him out, whether it's a check down, a route, whatever that may be, you get a chance to see that speed and space, which we're looking to do all the time. Press Taylor with us and we'll finish in the offensive line. Brandon Sheriff longtime pro of course in Washington, perennial All Pro and Pro Bowl player, and just brings that kind of attitude I think to that room, right and that's a big part of it is we we

know we're getting in the room. Obviously, UH coach rosher had the ability to work with Brandon when they were in Washington together, so he could vouch for the character and the leadership and it was really off the charts. He kind of went on and on about it. And then obviously the talent on tape, the Pro Bowls, the for all that stuff. He's an incredible talent um. You know, somebody that we look forward to adding incorporating in our

offense as we go. Press final thoughts with you here in your past, you're kind of credited for some of the key plays in the Eagles run. We've known that from the old days, right, different role back then. You're now the offensive coordinator. Do you still try to dig and find new ways, new plays, steal ideas from college proteins? Is that still in your workflow? How much football do you watch on a regular basis otherwise beyond Jaguars tape and all that, and or does that come in a

natural progression for an offense and your personnel? Yeah? Um, we're always looking for what we think fits us. So if you see a route on tape and Okay, that's a great route, do we have a guy that could do that, that would fitness skill set? Does it fit everything else around that we're doing? Um? How expensive is it? If it is something unique? That's one of the things we'll talk about a lot is how expensive is this?

Do we want to invest in new ideas that are gonna cost a lot of time that we're not going to get a lot of return on. So you spend a lot of time and it's the things we're comfortable with, but the things that we feel like our players can do really well. Um, And we can teach really well, we can explain, we have evidence of but you really

you want to know what you're talking about. Obviously for the guys you want you have to be able to prove to them that you can put them in position succeed and then and then giving things that they do really well. All right, you're what four days in now to the offseason program? Are you on track? What's coming up the next week or so? And and take us through just a normal day in the office right now, yeah, right right now. So it starts, you know, players get

in here about nine o'clock. Sometimes we have a team meeting, sometimes we don't. They get in there. They got the ability to lift and then we have the ability to meet with them. They go out and run with the strength coaches, but in this phase one portion we're not allowed to go on the grass with them yet. So it's actually great in terms of the teaching progression of things where we get a chance to sit in a

calm environment. There is no pressure to go out and perform on this play two hours later in practice right now, So you get a chance to ask a lot of questions to to see what their retention is on things. But it's really it's a pretty good process in terms of the progression of things and how we can teach our offense and we learn going forward. But I mean, I can just see it in your face. You can't wait to get on the ground down sunny flward or too.

I want to get outside. Hey, Press, thanks for the time. We really appreciate it. Man. Good luck to you. Thank you. We'll see you down the line. Press Taylor with us, the Jaguars are future focus. Stand ready for a new look in Join us in the bank this season as Doug Peterson, Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars lead the charge. Lock in your seats at Jaguars dot Com, slash tickets or called nine oh four six three three two thousand. Jeff Lagerman returns in a moment, it's Jaguars Happy Hour

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on the Jaguars YouTube channel. That from the first team meeting of the off season program, and of course head coach Doug Peterson in front of the room. Welcome back at Jaguars Happy Hour, j P. Shadrick, Jeff Logaman back with us now. Our thanks to Press Taylor, Jaguar's offensive coordinator, for spending some time today. It's a busy time lot going on draft, two weeks away, free agency, the players are in the off season programs here, they're trying to

build and craft this offense together. But it was nice of him to take a few minutes today. What stood out well a couple of couple of things. One, remember that they're behind the eight ball a little bit. Okay, they got a late start because it's a new staff. And then also, uh, it was one of the later staffs that was put together. So I don't want to say they're playing catch up, but uh, maybe in some

cases they are so. But I think the one thing that stood out to me was was Press talked about how much time are you gonna invest in something to get what in return? As an offensive play caller. And I thought that that was very telling because you want to make sure that you're efficient with your time him and making sure that okay, let's not spend thirty hours and trying to design this one play that we're gonna

use maybe one time through the season. And I think that that's very smart you want to make it because here's the thing all of this that we're talking about about, where the players are at right now, and that Okay, they come in, they can't go out on the coaches can't go on the grass with the players. That has to be on their own. Okay, they have a little bit of a meeting. It's all very limited because of the collectively bargained rules and so there's only so much time.

So you have to make sure that you have an economical way of navigating your time frame as coaching staff, especially when you have a new staff and you're gonna be installing a completely new system. So I think that was very smart on his part to talk about the amount invested in what you can actually potentially get in return here. And Trevor Lawrence talked about it earlier this week. You know, he likes to demeanor is calm demeanor. Even everybody's calm JP and he walks in the room and okay,

that makes sense. But when when it gets real, comes turn in a billy Bob screamer, you know, when it comes to September, October, November. I mean, I don't know, but yeah, it's calm. Calm demeanors are always good for a quarterback because to play the position of quarterback. Could you imagine if last year's defensive line coach we're coaching the quarterback position. Okay, what was his name? Uh, Joe Cullen? Who was He was a coordinator who was very loud.

Can you imagine Joe Collin trying to coach quarterbacks. I mean, he would do a fine job. But I mean it's just it's it's different. I mean, quarterback, you've got to be able to make great decisions, and you've got to be able to stay calm. Your mind has to work. You have to have a coach that kind of emanates that calmness about him so that I can be I guess, duplicated by the quarterback on game day. So yeah, so

that's a good fit. I like what Trevor said. I also like what Trevor said as far as about how things are working, and uh and press Taylor. I think is gonna be really good for Trevor. I think it's gonna be a good fit. I think the head coach is a good fit when it comes to making all of this work. And I think Doug Peterson obviously was the most important thing here in this hiring cycle for

this football team, and he's done. I think he's done a masterful job of putting together a really strong offensive staff, really strong. Tosh Lapoy was his name, by the way, from last year. He's like, I just wanted to go over and walk over to him and practices sometimes and go, Tosh man, just just to take do you have blood pressure medicine? Can I get you some? I mean, come on, man, let's hear from Shaquille Griffin. He spoke with the media earlier this week and has been around the league a

few years now. Obviously came in free agency last year and was asked about the difference from the coaching staff from last year to now get a chance to be with coaches who have experience in the league. You know, the first day we met with coaching and people are saying, yeah, I was in the league ten years, eleven years, teen years, twelve years they have actually played. That's amazing to me. And that's the person who can understand anything that I might see or go through or maybe in the future

that can help me out. So I'll like the atmosphere is different because it's so relatable. Yeah, it certainly is. And all the assistant coaches have that. The Shade Townshend as the cornerbacks coach, he has that. Certainly played in the league for a long long time. And then that's that's a big thing. When you have to stand in front of that room, you have you can relate to pretty much anyone. It gets their attention. But then after you have gotten their attention as a coach, you have

to give them substance. But there's no question that a lot of the things that a player may go through, the coach can relate to that's played the game. And I think that matters just as far as relating to the players. And when it comes to mess the gene and uh and and and building a relationship, I think all of that helps. But again I'm gonna say this again, you have to be able to show the player that

you can help them become a better player. If you're a former player and you're crappy coach, okay, you're gonna eventually be viewed as a crappy coach that can't help me play football better than what I'm playing right now, and it doesn't become of any use to a player. So it opens the door. Initially, it cracks the door open, but then the information, the teachings and everything else have to cast to keep that door open. Looking forward to

seeing the cornerback room. By the way, Darius Williams on one side, Shaq Griffin, Tyson Campbell was on Drivetime earlier this week. Well, I think I think it's gonna be interesting to see how they formulate a plan for these three guys and beyond. I mean, I'm not talking about to train all those in the mix. I mean it's I don't want to, you know, cut anybody out here. But the obvious question is, Okay, you have a big free Asian acquisition last year, you have a big free

Asian acquisition. This year, you have a promising young draft pick from last year. How do you make these three guys be the most productive for this football team? And that's what the coach's responsibility is and they've got to find a way to make these personalities in these traits work for this defense, because everybody has a trait that that can help a defense and just it's real quick.

I think that's always what has made Bill Belichick such a great coach, and that he can find guys that have a couple of traits that can help a football team win in a very defined role. He's not looking for a guy that's going to eventually be a different role player three or four years away from the current moment that we're in. He he finds guys that, hey, this guy, he can fill this role this year and do it very well. And I think that's what you have to be able to do to be successful as

coaching stuff. Find out what the players do well and then to find that role and allow them to thrive in that role. Let's come back in a moment. We'll take a live look outside at the Football Performance Center. There's a wall going on. I saw some center blocks JP. Yes, the walls are going up on Jaguars dot com and or Jaguars social channels. You'll see that in a moment. We'll go around the NFL. Also, it's Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network. Either also was like, now

I'm glad I don't have to go to No. Not definitely, just that's just a human element of it. Uh, just center results. You're definitely like if there was any year to miss, I missed a great one. That is Travis et In Junior earlier this week quote of the week so far and welcome back Jaguars Happy Hour. We take a live look outside if you're watching on Jaguars dot com, Jags social media, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, the footprint of the Football Performance Center and there is concrete going yes down

as foundation, but concrete wall going up. Plugs that would be center block. The center block wall is going up. That's kind of in the right hand sign of your picture. There that little gray box. He looking things that center blocks. And it's taller than it looks on the screen, so it actually looks like a construction site now instead of a motocross park. Right the footprint on the former UM

practice field site, which before that was Wolfson Park. I wonder if the guy and the bulldozer would let me drive that for a little while. Are you qualified you have a license for that thing? No? But I can drive a bulldozer, believe it or not, but not on this ground. You can. No. No, no, that a license. No, that's against the That's like, that's like when you were a kid, j P. Did you not have talk that a stick or where they you had metal ones? You

must have gotten some hand me down. They were they were I don't know. I was too young to know where they came from. Joe had titanium steel like old school red iron steel Tonka toy trucks. I had just a regular metal Tonka toy truck. You're gonna like this. I had a Tonka truck, big metal. It was a car carrier with four nineteen Corvettes. That's where were ruined ever since then. Why that explains a lot. Actually, that's where your problems started. Joe. How many Corvettes have you

own in your lifetime? Real quick? Because this is why there's a reason why we're saying that the next one will be number nine? Good lord, wow, let's go around and might have a problem. See that's that's like brainwashing. As a child, somebody gave you those Tonka Troy trucks with the Corvette carriers, and you were ruined ever since well, at least he you know, he's picking nice He could have picked Hugos. I mean he's picking corvettes now that JP The Hugos would have been for the for the

monster trucks to drive over. The talk of trucks to drive over, not to be carrying them. Let's go around the National Football League and get into the quarterback position. Kyler Murray news came out today. I'm not really news, but he's in the headlines. At least he's not expected

to play for the Cardinals without a new contract. He's doing about five million dollars this year, and with all the money flying around the NFL with quarterbacks as of late, Kyler Murray apparently thinks he should have some of that. Isn't it funny how some guys well do this, I guess social media protests. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna take off all of the likeness of the Arizona Cardinals away from my Instagram and Twitter account because I'm mad I

need a new contract. I mean, it's look, it's business, Okay, everybody's gonna Everything happens in a in a proper time frame. Okay, do you think that taking all names and likenesses of the Arizona Cardinals off of your Instagram account is gonna sway the ownership of the Arizona Cardinals saying, oh my gosh, we can't have that. Give me a break. Come on, man, do it the right way, be a pro. What are they gonna do? They don't have to give him anything.

I mean, that's the reality, isn't. Here's the thing. At the end of the season last year, he was not very good. Although he was one of the most exciting quarterbacks by far in the early part of the season, the performance waned. So win a playoff game. Be about performance and leadership and everything else. Everything else will take care of itself. You don't need to have all these other trumped up protest okay to to earn yourself a new contract. You earned that new contract and that will come.

Speaking of a guy who has done it the right way over the years and signed a three year extension with the Las Vegas Raiders Derek Carr. He was scheduled to make twenty one million this season. That's now twenty four this season. The extension kicks in in twenty three. He'll be guaranteed another forty plus million. Then reported total value is a hundred and twenty one and a half million dollars went to the playoffs last year, and that is a it's a crazy division now they're trying to

keep pace. Car gives them stability at the position. Yeah, and and look, uh, I think I think some people might have a pretty strong opinion to you and should you have given that extension to him? Uh? But uh, he didn't. Look, they've got Josh McDaniels there now, and they've believe very strongly in him. Can he do that? Did he take all the Las Vegas Raiders names and likenesses off of his Twitter kind of guests? No? I don't think he's that kind of but it worked out

for somehow. It's amazing. Oh man, same draft class, by the way, is Blake Bortles. So he's been around for a long time with the boat. Yes, they came through here on like the same day. On prospects. What round? What round is Derek? Uh? He was pretty high, I think, but he wasn't first round. I don't remember exactly what I thought he was the second round. Yeah. Yeah, that's it's interesting. And um, and look, I'm not saying anything

to criticize Blake portals. But boy, if you had been able to switch the quarterback pick out would have been vastly different. At thirty sixth overall for yeah, so top of the second round. Yeah. Look, he's a good quarterback, and um, I think under the right tutelage, I think he can win. Is he a guy that you sit there and you go, hey, look we're we're all in with him. No, I think you're still one of those

guys that you still continue to shop. Okay, well, another guy that wants to be shopped right now, but isn't as of this moment as Baker Mayfield. He says he feels quote disrespected about how it ended in Cleveland. Quote here's the quote from a podcast this week. One because I was told one thing and they completely did another. That's what I'm in the middle of right now. I got my taste of it because I've had four different head coaches in four years, a bunch of different coordinators.

End quote. He's still on the roster in Cleveland, and he also said that Seattle is the most likely option, though that may not be his decision. Seattle just signed Geno Smith to one year today. I mean, does that mean that Banker is gonna be uh or have a chance to go to Seattle. I don't know about that. Did they do them wrong? What does it matter? Look, it doesn't matter. I mean that. I think what you just said right there is the most important thing, because

it does not matter. I mean as a as a player that played hurt all year for the team and for the organization, does he have a right to be upset? Yeah, because he did play hurt and where a lot of other players or some other players might not have. So does a player feel disrespected about the treatment that he's received since then after he sacrificed his body for the team this past year. I totally understand his point. But at the end of the day, JP, You're right, it

doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter. So it's about business. And they signed Deshaun Watson to a historic contract for a guy that has a lot of questions in his in his past and in the background, and also questions about his future. Is that the right thing that the Cleveland Browns ownership did. I don't think so, but uh, but it is what it is. And at some point the Browns will trade Baker Mayfield when it benefits them. The most and unfortunately that's the nature of the business.

And at some point Baker Mayfield, if he plays well enough, then he will hold the cards. And but right now a rookie contract, not great performance, is coming off injury, and a team that has just signed a guy to a record contract, he just has to wait and buy his time. Gino Smith. By the way, as you mentioned that one year contract, and was it not a huge It's not a bunch of money. He's in there. He brought in there to compete. They got he's got some

off field issues. He had suspicion of d u I after a week eighteen in January, and he's got some court stuff coming. And they got Andrew Locke, the former Broncos quarterback as far as the trade that they had. So they've got some guys that are gonna be in there competing. Could they bring Baker Mayfield into that and and let him let him compete. I don't see why not.

The the Seahawks certainly had the room. Look they they clean house now, I mean, Russell Wilson gone, Bobby Wagner gone, and they've got they've got they've got the cap room to be able to make some additional decisions at that quarterback position because the guy that they have, it's not like they're costing him a ton of money. They're not paying anybody over twenty million or I don't even know what the highest pay got because lock still on a

rookie contract. Russell will Um, not Russell Wilson, but Gino Smith is probably on a one year, seven million deal. It might not be that much. So it's not like it's gonna be prohibitive now if all of a sudden they trade for Baker Mayfield. Stop me if you've heard this before, Logs, but the Washington Commanders are in the

news for something other than football. The U. S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reforms sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission saying the Commanders and owner Dan Snyder quote may have engaged in a troubling, long running, and potentially unlawful pattern of financial conduct that victimized thousands of team fans and the National Football League and quote the Washington Post was the first to report withholding security

deposits on premium seating and using the money for their purposes. They say the team under reported ticket revenue and what at times falsely claim a portion of revenue came from special events instead of games. There's allegations of two sets of books. This of course goes to the salary cap as well that there's some issues that could come from the p A on this, and it's just another story in a line of long stories. Well I think this

is uh a big one them. Well, all of this is pointing to what's going to be the death blow for the current ownership situation in Washington. A couple of things. One, class action lawsuits are going to be filed by the consumers, the people that had these uh large sums of money essentially given to the teams for their luxury seating and then not refunded. They were trying to find creative ways to not give it back. There will be a class

action lawsuit for that. And then when you start taking food off of the table of family, that's a major problem. And when I see food off of the table for family, their thirty one other owners in the National Football And if this is even remotely close to being truthful that they had two sets of books to to find ways to funnel money away from the shared revenue aspect, Daniel Snyder's done he has done the big story certainly. Um, your dad's here today in town. Good to see you.

Thank you for joining us and from Texas Lodge Studio audience. Mr Logovan in here tonight. Our thanks to Joe Fortunado, Brent Reeber on the video side, and offensive coordinator Press Taylor joined us tonight. Thank you for your time for Jeff Logoman, I'm JP Shadrick. We will catch you next time. It's Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network.