Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, July 23

are reporting, some quarterbacks showing up. Veterans are scheduled to show up next week. Jeff Loghman will join us. Jaguars analysts will break some of that down and what remains in the negotiations. We'll hear from Jaguars dot Com reporter Ashland Sullivan. She's been busy on the Jaguars social channels this week with some interviews with Jaguars players. Analyst Tony Basselli will join us around four thirty five today. We'll go around the National Football League as well. Bachelorette I'm

told was that open. I I would have no idea. I have never watched that television program. Jeff Loghuman joins us. Now, Jeff, I'm guessing if I were a betting man that you've never watched the Bachelorette either, Well, I was. I'm personally JP, I'm a big fan of the Bachelor show. Oh the other one? Okay? Heck no, I haven't watched that show and I haven't watched the other one. Is there a Bachelor show anyway? I think there is, But you know,

you fool me. I don't watch Joe he Fortunato, he knows he's he's a big fan of fairly so he put the the open together there? Oh my god? In this? What's up? Did it come to? How's your week? Today's a great day? Today is uh, today is July tyree, which is my dad's birthday. Al Right, Mr Lockhaman, how old is Mr Lockhaman? Today? He's got a big one today now he's a big eight zero. Wow. Yeah, so well, happy birthdays. I will pass it on. I will pass

it on to him. We got we got big plans and uh so far we've had a pancake breakfast and hanging out a little bit and we're gonna have some peza tonight. And you know, so with all the worldwide pandemic. Obviously, trying to be careful and all that kind of stuff, so we're not out hitting the hitting the bar scene or bar hopping or anything with pot when he's turning eighty.

Good idea. Jeff Jeff Lockman analys reports about fifteen twenty minutes ago, Logs at the NFL wants to finalize a deal with the players, so siation by Sunday or virtual work could continue indefinitely. Sunday is when the Chiefs and the Texans rookies are supposed to begin strength and conditioning.

There's still that conversation between the the p A in the league about money, mainly what happens if the season shortened to the players get their full salary, and the spread impact of a potential revenue shortfall um that the players apparently reportedly wanted over in eleven years cb A rather than two years. The next this season and next is the NFL is proposed. So that's the one thing left blogs and it sounds like they're um putting a

deadline of Sunday on it too. Go back home. Yeah, I don't know if if a deadline like that is truly gonna work. You know, the NFL is essentially trying to save the season. Because even if you're you're lacking a lot of the revenue streams, the typical revenue streams that you have with fans in the seats and concessions and part gain and in local ladd revenue, sponsorship, et cetera.

I mean, the TV revenue is immense. I mean, you're you're talking that that alone essentially would keep any NFL team afloat, you know, so you don't want to lose that, and so you've got to try to preserve that, try to make that make sure that that can happen if if you're trying to accomplish financial stability, but you've got to be able to do that while trying to do all the safety things that you can to make sure that the players are comfortable and the coaching staffs are comfortable,

the staff of the organizations that they're comfortable. So I mean it's quite a challenge. And then I know that there's even though you mentioned this weekend as a deadline, I mean there's there's kind of really other deadlines too, and that you want to make sure that from the owner standpoint, you don't want to get started. And then all of a sudden, you stop. And then from the player's standpoint, because if you start to play one or two games, then the players are going to get their money.

And when when with the owners or the players that you don't want to end up having to stop before you get started if you want to get your money, because then you're just not gonna get paid at all, you know. So for the owners, I think from their standpoint,

it's kind of either all or nothing. Either let's get this started and have a whole season, or let's just not get it started at all, because I mean, we don't want to pay salaries for two weeks and then all of a sudden we have to shut down, and then we still have to pay all the all the salaries that are are going to be guaranteed at that point. So it's an interesting situation and it's a complex situation. And uh, and I think the NFL is certainly committed.

I mean I read the and saw that they had committed with the company to where it would do the testing or handle all the bulk of the testing for COVID for the entire NFL. I don't know if it's true or not. We're talking like seventy million commitment. I mean, that's that's significant. That from what I read, that includes players on a daily basis until there's a point where

there's a percentage of negatives. That's I forget the exact number of negatives they have to have to make every yea, um, yeah, that's that's a league wide deal. And I think the teams, each individual team would have to pay for additional tests over a certain number each day. Yeah. So yeah, I mean so they're they're getting all their ducks in a row. I guess you could say, to try to make the

season happen. What are you shocked? Dogs? You're you can't be shocked that the last thing that it's going to come down to his money. You could have done that first before you do the testing stuff. It's really well well, I mean, look, I don't want to say it's all it's only about money, because I mean it's really not just about money. I mean money is a big part of it, but safety and and the players, health and well being, in the in the staff, safety and health

and well being. I mean those things are all a big part of it too. And they think that they have that part of it solves so now they're moving on to the money side of things, So so there's a lot to consider and uh and I know that, uh from the team's standpoint, I mean, they're all essentially preparing to make this happen. Um be even us, I mean, what what what's our role going to be? How much exposure do we get to the players? How much are

we going to be allowed to even see anything? You know, because you don't allow a lot of media members around your players. I mean, so there's there's even plans that are being put in place now to regulate any kind of exposure to the players from a media standpoint, from any outside kind of contact standpoint. So, look, the league is ready to make this happen, and I think it's great because I think people would be thrilled to have

a little bit of normalcy. But at the same token, you know, you just want to make sure that everybody is comfortable with that, and that's I think why they also have the opt out ability for players that maybe don't want to do it. Jeff Lockman with US Jaguars analyst on Jaguars Happy Hour on this Thursday. Can let me ask you a question, what would your comfort level be? I mean, let's say let's say you're a coach. Okay, your coach, you have a wife, you have kids at home.

You know, they're various stages from high school down to let's say, you know, fifth grade. What would your comfort level be. It's a lot of movies. It's a lot of moving parts. I'll say that because it's not a true bubble. You know, you're going home, you're interacting, you're coming back. Everybody else and that a so called work bubble is doing that, but it's not a true bubble. You're going out of the bubble coming back. So even

with everyday testing is still a day behind. Um. So yeah, if that were my second stands, I would feel a little bit differently than I do as a single person going to work. Sure, and I think I think also with from that standpoint, I mean, here, here's the other part of that. You know, the NBA supposedly they've had guys that have violated that bubble or that are thinking about violating that bubble. At the NFL players, we're not talking about keeping them in one city and keeping them

in a bubble. I mean they have to try to execute that bubble themselves, right, I mean it's on them as individuals to try to do the right thing when they're not at work. So, as a as a staff member, would you feel comfortable twenty three year olds you know that maybe aren't doing the right things. I mean, look, I mean, here's the reality. I mean, when you're twenty three, I mean your bullet proof. You're not worrying about some kind of virus. I mean, you're like a man, let's

just go. You know. So as a staff member, are you are you fully comfortable around you know, sixty five maybe a little bit more players that maybe some of them aren't gonna be doing the right thing. It's it's a fascinating question of how much that interaction would happen to write, how much virtu trual meeting time is there? I mean, you gotta be on the practice field at some point, but how close do you really interact? I

think that's all I don't know. I mean, it's it's uh and and here's the other thing with the Jaguars that uh, that also kind of puts a little bit of a I don't want to say, a pretty uh serious curve into the plans of having a training camp and everything else. Oh by the way, you have the Republican National Convention coming to Jacksonville. So if you have that, what do you do as an organization? Right? I mean

you're you're trying to create your own bubble. But then you have this massive number of people that are gonna be coming. I mean right there on your doorstep. Are you gonna have to pack up and roll out? And and if so, well you're trying to create another bubble, right, I mean, it didn't that, I mean another challenge of all things, right, just throw that on the top of

everything that's happened already. Yeah. I mean, look, it's hard enough to do it when you're comfortable in your own environment, but then you know, maybe you have to pack up and leave and go somewhere. I mean, wow, wow wow. Jeff Logan with US Jaguars analysts another report today. The expectation now is that face shields will be recommended, not required by players. Would you wear a full mask shield

if you played and had to play this year? Well, the face shields, and I'm talking about the the eye shields came out in in the nineties and Chris Doleman was a guy who wore it. Man, and then you know, you look cool because you kind of looked like Terminator.

You know. I had the dark the dark lens, the kind of thing, and I actually tried it, and I'm right there, kind of same deal as J. G. Watt because I remember reading how his experience was when he tried to pickular I shield and this is where this

is we're talking about. Now, it's just the ive eiser, that's just the eye when you're talking about the league's talking about so so so I'm I'm gonna relate it to my experience with the I part because when I had that on JP, I swear to you I had it on for one day and I felt I got claustrophobic. It was like, um, the difference between being in a closed hot building with no airflow whatsoever versus being in a pull barn and there's no walls, there's no doors.

It's just a breeze blowing freely with a face mask only. So now I mean talking about a face shield that covers the whole frontal area of your face mask. I mean you want to talk about the the heat build up, the claustrophobic claustrophobia. I don't even know if that's a word. But I mean I would hate it. I would hate it. It would be not I want to say impossible, but I mean for some guys it might be I mean from from a from a mental claustrophobic standpoint, they'd be like,

I can't do this. So uh yeah, I don't know how that would work, you know. And do you say, okay, well guys, let's put on face mask under the helmet, well JP, I mean we're we're all wearing we're all masking up these days, right. We got a grocery store, we mask up, We go to the hardware store, we mask up. We go to grab a beer, you know, at a brewery, you know, to walk out and carry

home or whatever. You put on mask on. And I don't know about you, but for me, man, I can't wait to get out of that store after five to ten minutes because that mask is driving me. Imagine running and pushing uh around you. No, I can't, I mean I just can't. That's yeah, Wow, that's that's hard. I mean, I don't. I don't understand how you would do that? What final thought? Whither here logs. There was a written story today on Jaguars dot com. UH media members around

the team. Here weighing in on who will be the Jaguars defensive m v P this year, You and I both went with Josh Alan. What can we expect from him in year two overall? Now, and how different for you, logs was year two for you coming off your rookie season. That's probably a good way to think about. Uh, well, it wasn't tremendously different from me because I was making a position switch and Josh won't be doing that. I mean,

so that's good for him. Um So I'd be kind of comparing apples to oranges, me and him on our experiences. But he's a mature, hard working, dedicated, He's got he's got everything you want and and that's just fun. I'm talking about just from the mental makeup standpoint. So you combine that with superior physical skills and a year under his belt. I mean, I just I expect him to get immensely better and it's going to be exciting to

watch him grow. You know. I think he's pretty unique too, because you know, by comparing to him to not Gockway, and I'm not trying to make the comparison here to knocking Gockway, but Josh is bigger, and I think when you have a bigger body, it gives you the ability to do some more things than if you're a little bit smaller. And I think that's the exciting part about Josh is that he's got the size, and he's got

the quickness, and he's got the speed. And when you have all of that put together in one package, first of all, it's very rare, but then it's also very exciting because I think that the ceiling is higher when you have all of the above over or under fourteen point seven five sacks. I mean I would always go under on that number, because I mean, fourteen is a phenomenal number. I mean, look, if you get double digit sacks in the National Football League, I don't care who

you are, that's a phenomenal accomplishment. Double digit sacts is the bar for me. I mean ten, you get over ten, you're an elite pass rusher and one of the best in the National Football League. And if you if you can stay there consistently, lot of good stuff. Tell Mr Loghoman happy birthday. I will do that, JP, and we'll talk to you again next week, all right, JP, Joe, I know you're listening there. Buddy, missen you guys. One of these days we're gonna get back together and have

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Let's go to the phone line and welcome in Jaguars dot Com reporter Ashlyn Sullivan, who joins us down Ashland. Good afternoon, Hello, how are you. I'm good here at home once again, nothing's changed. Getting used to it, I guess you could say, because we're here, might might as well get used to it. Right. If you're not used to it by now, you're never going to be used to it. Unfortunately, used to it by now, that's right. Um, you know, we're all ready for a little football though.

I think you know obviously we've sat here this whole offseason in the summer and went through the draft here at home, and I got to meet some of the players, the new guys virtually, and you know, just a lot of that stuff. Um. There was the one instance of the march from the stadium to j s O where there was a little bit, very little bit of interaction

with some people. That was that was really the only time but I think Ashley and we're all ready for this is the time where people get ramped up for training camp and football things happen, and um, if you're in this business or around the game or a fan, July late July is what you gear up for. But now we have to sit here and wait and see if it really gets off the ground. Yeah, right now

normally would definitely be go time. I think the hardest thing has been Normally, by now you at least have some understanding of what the draft picks are like and what the new PHRAE agents are like, obviously with rookie Mini Camp and ot and I think that's been at least. The weirdest part for me is not really knowing these

guys personalities. I mean, we know what the veterans are like and we still have a good relationship with them, but these new guys He's talked to maybe once or twice through a zoom call, but it just isn't the same. And sadly, I don't think we'll get to know these guys near as well as we've got to know you

guys past. Yeah, you have to have that daily interaction in the locker room and or on the practice field or in the hallway or the lunch room or wherever you run across these guys to really get a full scope of their personalities. And I think you're you're spot on there. You did. How you have been doing interviews different content on the Jags social channels? Um, I know you started one a few weeks back or a little while back. Now, Um, that's a throwdown, right? Is that

what it's called? Yeah, dag Wars Throwdown for them and by public. It is our bi weekly segments on Jaguars dot com. And we kind of got the idea just from watching different shows, and um, we never really had a segment where we really gave guys that competitive nature. It was always kind of just a conversations. We thought, why not put two guys together and lets them If we can't play football right now, you might as well play some type of game. It's all kinds of different games.

A really fun segment. Definitely get a different look at these players and their personality when you see another play player playing with them at a really brings out a different side of them. What was the last one that aired? And when's the next one? We're all clamoring for it. I hope that was a great description. Now everyone's gonna want to watch it. The last one that was actually the last week we film one that went out today on Jaguars dot Com and that was two of our

newest draft picks, Tyler Davis and Colin Johnson. That was our fourth episode, so we will have another one coming out in two weeks, but you could see the newest one out today on Jaguars dot Com. And our first one was Abrey Jones and DJ Hayden, and they definitely set a very high bar because Abrey Jones just does everything well on camera and gaming. He brings the heat he does Ash with Sullivan was Jaguars dot Com reporter

and a host on Instagram Live this week. You sat down with James O'Shaughnessy Jaguars tight end, and you know, I think that's that's the great mystery of about last year. And there's obviously issues with the tight end position. There have been issues with the tight end position around here for years, mind you, But James O. Shaughnessy had a little something going early last season, but in the fifth game tore up his knee. He was done for the year.

He's been going through rehab the whole time. How has James to deal with this week? And what do we expect from him in a newly formed tight end room this year. Yeah, he was definitely hopeful, and honestly I was.

I was pleasantly surprised that I'd sure you are aware as well, uh JP do in the lack of room at times and destinely with on camera things, James is it's not his favorite thing to talk on camera, but he was talking about as he was getting older and more experienced in the NFL, like he realized that he can use on camera things to his advantage and show

his personality. So it was definitely the best conversation I've ever had with James O'Shaughnessy through a camera, and he was talking about how difficult it was to know basically career was at the peak when he got hurt. He had such a good relationship going with Gardner Minshew and they had a great thing going to then get hurt, he said, definitely was difficult, and sadly it's almost the

point I was this tight end group. When you see guys like Josh Oliver and James O'Shaughnessy at times you forget about their impact because they did have such long injuries that you had to stay patient with. But he said kind of COVID has been a good thing for him because it's given him extra time to rehab. Like as of right now, he said, I would have had to sit out of O T as in mini camp

I would have been able to participate. That would have been like cutting open the wound all over again, not being able to be there on the field of my teammates. That now when we hit the field, I'll be ready to go. And if I'm not mistaken, He's one of the few players since he was in a rehab protocol before COVID hit that he was allowed to go the building and continue that rehab during this whole thing, he was,

he said, he's been there every single day. He said, as of right now, because of all the negotiations going on, he hasn't been able to be there the week or

a half or so. But he was big time crediting the trainers for with all of this stuff going on, all the coronavirus things, the athletic trainers had to deal with an adapt to He said he always felt like he was priority number one in that building, and he said, I'm almost kind of glad to have a brakes and nomb because I've been with them every single day since

mid October. Ashelan Sullivan, with US Jaguars dot Com reporter and host Jaguars dot Com written piece this week, I believe it, we're out today who will be the defensive m v P? And it was a host of media people around the team. You and I were included on that and we had the same answer, Josh Allen. You saw him though, you had a note in this article today that you had a close up look at him at the Pro Bowl and got a little more insight

to the way he operates around other pros. Yes, it was very cool to see Josh Allen in a Pro Bowl atmosphere. I mean, we've only ever seen him at the stadium Rdato Leagames. I've never really seen him outside of his comfort zone. It was like a kid in the candy shop. And I feel like like a time younger players like they kind of want to act cool and act like they've been there before. Josh was the complete opposite, Like he was saying how cool it was to be there every single time minute going up to

every guy you couldn't meet in introducing himself. Um, and the coolest thing, which I wrote in this article was he was walking up onto the field with von Miller and they were going through moves and you could just tell how cool it was to have a conversation with someone like that, and awesome for von Miller to take the time out and really, you know, teach him something. But it definitely seemed like it was an impactful thing for Josh to be there and meet all these people

that hopefully we'll get to their level one day. There're a couple of different answers from the group. This is the group around the Jags radio team, digital media team, on air, folks television group, all that stuff. So, um, there were a couple. There was a show Bert thrown in there. I think there was a Miles Jack in there as well, But the prevailing answer was Josh Challen. I think that's after his season. Yeah, that's pretty pretty

much the obvious one. Now. You know, if somebody else beats out Josh Allen and Josh still has a good year, well that's even better for this team. But going into it so far, Josh Allen kind of seems to be the guy. All right, So Ashlyn, what you got coming up? I know there's um, you know, that's the big question.

What is coming up? Because the schedules have changed a little bit, we're still waiting to see what the outcome is of this negotiation and the testing and so the actual I think daily shows starting is a little bit up in the air, but at least on social channels. What do you have coming up in the next week

or so, Yes, So we're exciting. Um this time of needs Instagram Live's been doing has kind of been something to build the time in the off season, and we're excited to say that we're going to continue this segment going into football season. I think it's a great platform to give these guys kind of a more casual conversation. We've seen a bunch of times where their teammates will jump in and common or they have their wives their family members comedy. So it's a great way to kind

of get them in a more relaxed atmosphere. So Instagram Live every Wednesday at five o'clock. Every week a different player. We have jag Wars Throwdown on all social outlets every two weeks, and some new things in the Hawker that we're working through, but very excited, definitely trying to get creative here with working from home and bringing some new things. It is um we've only just begun, so yes we are.

Give her a follow on Twitter if you haven't already at Ashland R. Sullivan A s H l y N. R. Sullivan h Jaguars dot Com reporter and good friend Ashland, thanks a lot, have a good one. Thanks for the plug DP appreciate it joining us. Uh good stuff there. Give her a follow she she does great work on the Jags social channels all the time. Good interviews, really insightful stuff there from Ashlands, So check her out. We're

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are scheduled to report for testing early next week. Let's go to the phone line and welcome in Jaguars analysts and our good friend Tony Vaselly. Tony, good afternoon. What's j d oh? Just another week here at home, you know, um, and but we're another week closer we think to football season.

You know, that's that's the goal, isn't it. I mean it's uh, it's interesting, you know, you know, ever since this COVID night team pandemic to start that, we've seen you know, sports league kind of you know, be canceled and going or be delayed and then as they all work to come back, and all of us are part of the kind of statback and watched is the conversations of the commissioners and then the unions versus the league and you know, whether it's been baseball was didn't go

very well at all. But now they're figuring out, you know, a shortened season, and we've seen what basketball has done with the bubble and the back and forth there, and golf is probably the easiest one to come back, UM in this process based on the environment that we're we all live in. And now, you know, in my thought, at least jap there and the whole time is like, oh, you know this is you know, the NFL figured out.

You know, you know by the by the time we get to football, you know, all this will be sorted out. And you fast forward and we sit here today, UM, and it feels like we're just still trying to figure it out. And now we're kind of in this similar situation we've seen the other leagues and where you know, you're hoping that you're gonna get started, but we don't know when, UM, and we really don't know what it's

gonna look like. As the league and the union kind of UM work through the the big issues that have to be solved, everything from the testing and protocols there, it looks like they've got that settled, but then you know all the things around the economics and what happens when someone test positive. UM, you know how that's gonna

be sorted out during the year. Um, and then all the antler things that kind of surround the game of football, like yours nice job, um calling the games on Sundays, and you know, shows and coverage and uh so it's uh, it's sure. Sure, it's an interesting time that we find ourselves in Tony Boselly with US Jaguars analysts on Jaguars Happy Hour, and I think I touched on this last week.

You know, we there's twenty five active players in baseball a little more at the start of this season because of the circumstances eleven players on the field for each team. In soccer, um, NBA has what twelve guys on the active roster. There's fifty three active players in the NFL and probably six team practice squad guys this year and

twenty coaches. I mean, it is by far the most challenging in terms of numbers of any sport I can think of, in terms of testing, well, the numbers, the way the game is played, with the you know, the contact and not you know, not just on game day, but also what it takes to be prepared for a game, so to camp and practice and uh and everything else. Yeah, I think it is the most complex, just because of the nature of the game and the number of players.

Uh tony part of that negotiation, it sounds like there are no preseason games. I haven't officially said that, but all the conversations kind of were coming out over the last few days. So how difficult is it to figure out your fifty three without preseason games? And how difficult is it for a late round pick or an undrafted player without those games to make a roster now? Um, I think it's difficult. I think it's tough because you know, if you're a head coach and GM like Dave Calon

and Doug Brone, you use camp in preseason games. You get a real sense of how um your draft picks, especially your late round draft picks, and the free agents that are going to kind of fill out the last you know, five ten spots off your roster, of how they can contribute on special teams as role players and as such. Um. And it takes time because you don't know these guys at all, um. And so now without those reps and without those opportunities, I think human nature

goes to, hey, let's go with what we know. The known quality of players that we have worked with, UM, that have been a part of our system, and by the way, if they haven't, we're gonna go with the ones that we've invested a lot of money in, you know, high price, high price free agents that you've seen playing other teams. You have a good sense to what they

can do. And then obviously you're you know, top three or four rounds of your draft because you've invested draft capital and in dollars around guaranteed money and those individuals. So UM, just by the very nature of what we're facing in the time crunch, in the lack of reps UM, I think you find yourselves. You know, it's always an until battle when you're undrafted, free agent or a late

round pick. Excuse me, but I think it's even more difficult now because you're just knock having the opportunity to show what you can do. Tony was Selly with US Jaguars analysts. I'm asked logs this earlier and I'm curious if you're thoughts on this as well. The face shield idea on helmets, we always not always sometimes some players where the visors, but now the expectations that face shields that cover the the nose and the mouth on the lower part of the face mask will be recommended but

not required. Oakley is developing these things right to limit the spread of droplets. But if you were playing Tony, would you or would you not wear one and one? I would not want to. I know that, um, because I like wearing as little as possible, and especially think in the heat. You know, I would want to test it at the very least understand you know, how much het will kind of hold within the face mask and

is breathing different or anything like that. So I know I wouldn't want to, Um what I you know, I don't know. Probably if I felt like it was going to keep the safer and people around the game safer so that we could play the game. So if there was some data point that the league had, or Oakley had, or some scientists had or medical doctor had that said, if you do this, it's gonna help um stop you know, limit the spread, and was going to give you a

better chance of playing all sixteen games, then I probably would. Now, if I'm stilling at my seat where I've already had it, and I feel like, you know, and I got the antibodies and that would my page kind of my stop process as well. But I would hope that my mind would be, what is this best way to ensure that we get to play a full season? If that meat means for this year, I need to wear this kind of plexi glass or some clear plastic h yes, you know,

mouth shield or no shield or whatever it is. Um that I probably would. Tony was SELLI with us the last couple of minutes with the pride of the Jaguars left tackle and Jaguars analysts, you know, all to go back, Tony to the conversation between the p A and the NFL. Here it's come down to a few different things, but that the money and and really how any shortfalls and

revenue artistpersed. One side would like it over an eleven years cb A, it would be the players, whereas we have reports that the league wants it over this year and next year. Where do you think that falls in the end of the day, Oh gosh, I mean, I think in all these things that you know, we go back to when the c b A is negotiated, and we go back to two thousand and eleven, where you know, it goes to eleventh hour. Um. Ultimately, I think it's going to get figured out, and I think, you know,

let me say what I hope. I hope what happens is that both sides understand and that there's gonna have to be sacrificed by each side because of what we're facing in these unprecedented times. And the hard part of the the players is um having a longer term view, because if you're a player that maybe that's on their last year or two, your mindset is like, hey, I need to get as much as I can right now. UM. But at the same time, you know, this is why

we have a union here. I'm hoping the union leadership is looking at the longer term view, working with the owners and understanding that because of this that if we don't get this right and if we don't work together, then there's gonna could be some really really uh tough

decisions next year. With the cat fluctuating downward a downward manner in a huge way that would you know, have a material effect on what teams would be able to spend on players, and you then would see I think a number of good players paid a lot of money UM probably let go, and a lot of movement that I don't think any that's good for the game, well, good for anyone, Tony good stuff. So you gotta run, appreciate your time. Always gonna catch up with you, you know,

j P anytime. How are you doing? I mean, I mean we you, you ask me, everyone else, and you're always so concerned about all of our health and safety and the league and everything else. How's JP shattered? Well, I'm here, I'm good. Um, you know, I'm not hiding at home though. I mean, I get out, I go eat, I come back, I wash my hands, I use the sanitizer and the mask, and you know, I go out and do my thing and come back. That's that's really, Uh,

that's really my day these days. I have I smoked a lot more cigars than I probably should, but that's you know, comes with a territory. That's okay. Though it's it's it's a tough time right now, and you know, and everyone listened to us, I mean, everyone's trying to

figure this out. And uh, and I think, you know, hopefully we're all thinking of not just ourselves but other people as we make decisions and what's the best way for us to hopefully get this COVID nine team behind us hopefully get to the vaccine or get to a point where we can get back to some normal normality. And I know, like you boy, I'm sure hoping we play football this year. I think that'd be a selfishly be great for me because I enjoyed so much and

I can't imagine the fall without football. But I think it'd be good for everybody to just to all the people who love this game and hopefully UH for a few hours on Sundays, Monday nights and Thursday nights that we can kind of take our mind off what's going on and UH loot for our favorite team. We're so close to getting off the runway for this preseason or at least thing, but I got we're not there yet. One more. Let's go one more a couple of minutes.

We've got a question for you. What do you what was your what was your reaction to the football Washington football team the changing of the name UH of the UH of the football team up in Washington, d C. I think it's a good move because it gives the organization a little more time to figure out the real right way to go with a nickname UM. They can do a little more research into it, get some more input from a bunch of different parties if they'd like,

And why not. You have soccer teams that are called you know, uh SO and so FC, so they don't have nicknames either, So why not try it for a year. Um, and you know, I'm we're gonna have to put a fine system in place. So for every time I say Redskins, I'll say that because it's not gonna go away easy. But um, but I think it's I think it's a good,

good move for this year. Gives them a little more flexibility. Well, we're always so you know, we're so trained to talk about teams like we have, I mean, calling them since we're kids and now covering them. I mean, how how often have we all slipped and said the San Diego Chargers and said Los Angeles start? It probably took, you know, a good year. We're seeing it in a half to kind of get over call. You know, call that that team the wrong name, no doubt. So we'll have that

same situation here, I think. But hey, good move. And they're keeping the colors. They're they're putting the numbers on the helmets like Alabama Tony So you can't you can't lose that way. Yeah, yeah, I really. You know, it's funny when you say that, because when I saw when I saw that today, I immediately thought, my goodness, here we go. I have to listen to to JP tell me about Alabama and the influence that it has across

the world of football. Well, I mean, half their rosters from Alabama anyway, so they might as well point they're all comfortable with it. They might as well put the numbers on there. Good stuff, Tony, Good to talk to you, all right, man talk Tony was Selly proud of the Jaguars left tackle joining us here on Jaguars Happy Area. Had a lot of news around the National Football League. We'll come back in a moment and touch on some of the other high points from around the league this week.

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and I drove downtown. I haven't been down that way by the stadium in a while. Uh. And the testing site has now gone out of lot J that has moved to a few different new testing sites around town, so the parking lot was empty. Didn't go anywhere near the building or anything like that. Once drove around Gator Bowl Drive and just to see and guess what, the the viaduct off of the heart Bridge to downtown has

gone totally gone and totally cleared out. And turning the corner in front of w j c T, the public radio station, they're heading towards downtown, all of a sudden you have the big view of the main Street bridge from there. It's wide open out of the river. Um and if you get a chance check it out down there. It's a stark difference, I think in a very good way. Hopefully for the months ahead to start some development in that area downtown. But pretty cool to see and that

that's happened. Well, they just started it at the start of the pandemic and now it's pretty much all then that the demolition work it seems to be done, so um. Now the next step is digging some holes in the ground across the street over there in a lot j Hopefully that will happen at some point soon. Also today we we mentioned all these other sports you know, starting back up soccer. Liverpool won the Premier League the Championship.

The Fulham yesterday full Football Club owned by shot Con had a chance to make it to the second spot in the in the standings, but they they had to have some things go their way. They didn't. They finished fourth, so they're in the playoff to get the third automatic promotion spot, which they a few years ago ended up winning that that big game at Wembley to get up. So good luck to full him over the next couple of weeks. And yes, other sports getting started tonight. Major

League Baseball is back. The Yankees and the Nationals in Washington at seven o eight. Dr Fauci will throw out the first pitch. Garrett Cole and Max Scherzer on the mound. I think the last time they met was in the World Series. And then tonight ten o'clock ten oh eight Eastern time, the Giants and the Dodgers. Johnny Quato for San Francisco and former Jacksonville's son Clayton Kershaw. It's the opening day start and he's been fantastic on opening day

with the Los Angeles Dodgers over the years. We'll see if you can do it again. But baseball is back for real tonight. Well, so let's hope football can get back at some point soon. Let's go around the National Football League and and Tony touched on this just a moment ago. The Washington football team. That's the new name, at least in the interim in d C. According to an announcement by Washington Today, the color scheme stays the same.

They'll take the logo off the helmet and they'll add numbers jersey numbers to the helmet in place of that old logo. The process of a permanent name and finding that name continues with the team said today they'll take input from players, alumni, fans, sponsors, and the community for the new team name, whatever it will be. But at see that this year they will be called the Washington Football Team, and merchandise with Washington Football Team will go online.

You're already seeing some of it pop up on social media in the last the few hours or so that since the announcement this morning, but it will go online and start selling in the coming days. Jets are in the news. Jets owner and US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Woody Johnson is under fire this week after a report of him making sexists and racist comments the government staffers

while serving as ambassador. Now Johnson denied that rapport on Twitter this week, and he also insisted that he didn't violate any government ethics rules. That was. A separate report suggested that he did by attempting to get the Open Championship commonly knows known as the British Open, played at a course owned by President Trump. Quote from Woody Johnson said, quote I followed the ethical rules and requirements of my

office at all times. End quote. We'll see where that story takes us moving ahead as well, um, and that is our quick look around the National Football League. One final note today late breaking green Bay apparently bidding to host the NFL Draft. Packers president Mark Murphy told shareholders in a virtual meeting that Green Bay as a finalist to host the draft that year. Of course, the Las Vegas lost the draft this year due to the pandemic,

so the league awarded the draft to Las Vegas. Is already slated for Cleveland, and then is scheduled in Kansas City. So green Bay is a knocking on the door as a finalist, they say in and I think the hopes here, of course, we're when Daily's place was open that at some point Jacksonville could be a candidate to host the NFL Draft. But it takes, in my opinion, it takes the development around all that to happen to attract events

like that as well. Because the infrastructure and the way things are set up as it sits today, it would be very difficult to bring in that type of crowd, that type of environment for three days straight, uh and really make it sing downtown. So I think lot J is is vital for any bid like that, not that

they couldn't bid already. And you know, probably executed, but to make it it's full extent that it could be and do the city in the NFL proud, I think it's gotta have that full development behind it as well. So we'll see what happens on the NFL Draft in a few years away. I mean, let's just get to the season before we we go too far down the

line here. That we already saw that can executed draft virtually, and it actually, in some ways it was a little better for television, I think than some of the things you saw in the years passed in the NFL Draft. This was a undraft to be a part of, to see in people's homes and and gm s and head coaches houses and the setups, and it was a it was a pretty cool scene. Um. But obviously we'd love to have the draft back in person. That means things

are back and open again. But I think you could take some pieces of what happened the draft this past year and the league will likely use some of those lessons they learned in covering the draft like that and move it to years ahead the occults today. A postpone Robert Mathis is induction of the Ring of Honor until of course Jaguars fans, no mathis very well. They wanted to have fans involved in that. So the only way really to do that to a full effect, to a full stadium is to wait a year or so, so

then you have it. Look around. The National Football League are show next week four o'clock Thursdays as always for Jaguars Happy Hour. There will be a Jaguars Drive time next Thursday morning as well, so check out the schedule coming up, check it on Jacks social media and uh we'll be with you obviously. We'll wait for the news to see what happens over the weekend between the Players

Association and the NFL. Let's hope things go well. Let's kick this thing off and have some Jaguars football here in thanks to Jeff Logoman, Ashland Sullivan, Tony Vasselli, Ryan Vonofan back in the studio, Max Hochman at t I A a bank deal for everyone involved. I'm J. P. Shadwick. We'll catch you next time. It's Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network.