Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, June 11

March nineteenth was the last show we did at t I A A bank Field. We've been here ever since. We're gonna be here for a while. It feels like we've got a program. Today. Will review the Jaguars speeches from the last week or so, starting last Friday with the walk to j s O. And then we'll review Tuesday's walk with Leonard Fournette and Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry. You'll hear some of those speeches coming up little football Talk with senior writer John Ozier and analyst Jeff Loghuman

as well. We'll go around the National Football League as we continue the offseason program. A tweet Earlier today, Mark Long of the Associated Press put out a screenshot of Charles Jones's Instagram a tight end out of New Orleans and Tu Lane and there was a meeting. There was a photo of him and one box and Shot count on the other box. And apparently yesterday Jaguars owner Shot

con I met with the Jaguars team over zoom. Around one hundred people involved, players, coaches, staff around the team as well, And basically, Shot Khan did what he said he would do. He talked with the players and listened and he see sarious about the change happening, and we'll see what the next steps are. But following up on his op ed from last week, Shot John sitting down with his team this week, John Osier joins us now senior writer Jaguars dot Com. Back yet again, here we are, John,

what's up? John? Are good? How are you? How are you? Sir? Good? Good? Ray talks and football Ray talks in day. Yeah. Well, um, we'll get to that. You know, there's there's a lot

between now and that to come. Um, let's start with everything that's happened the last week or so since this program, there have been two Jaguars involved marches one of those from the stadium to j s SO last Friday, and then on Tuesday, Leonard Fournette with the mayor and the sheriff and a little duval had a meeting on the front steps of the city Hall and then they had

to march downtown. Leonard Fournett spoke after the fact as well, it's a lot going on, a lot of moving pieces right now, and it seems like the Jaguars are that the players are certainly involved in this heavily, and I don't think that's going to slow down at all. The momentum is there now. And you were at both events JP, and you know it's uh, it just strikes you that

right now, it's uh. The focuses on how do we continue and make this unbelievable uh change and unbelievable awareness and conversation, I guess the best way to put it, how do we have that continue to be productive and continue to make a difference, you know, all tease the Other Zone podcast next week a little bit next week, So've Done podcast talked to Marx Collard and Terror of UH and I think people who watched it on Friday realized the terror of Wisky, who's sixty five years old,

forty five years in the league. Lane Glass, coach for the Jaguars, was incredibly moved and sincere about what the Jaguars of the team, Doug marown shot con, the players, how this had come together, and how um open and honest and sincere on shot Con and Dug maro owns part as to have these conversations to make a difference. So I hope people listen to that podcast because it really expanded on a lot of what was said at these at these marches in a way that maybe is

uh able to go a little deeper. But I think that's the idea right now, is the conversations and the willingness to talk about these what has been for years sensitive awkward issues is incredibly uh you know accepting. Right now people are are wanting to have a conversation. How do they continue that and make it all matter? All right? That is what I feel like the tone I'm sure Con was on Zoom Calls players yesterday. That's where they're trying to get to. Next, we'll hear some of those

speeches from the last few days. Coming up with the next segment, we'll hear from Terry Rabiscue as well his speech on the steps at j s O last Friday. As you mentioned there, John will we'll hear the entire speech of him and Chris Connelly coming up. Then we'll also hear Leonard four Nette and Mayor Curry. And as you mentioned, for for this to really move forward and carry that momentum um, there has to be a purpose.

And uh you know ye that the purpose is fine, but have a little teeth behind the purpose, right if for lack of a term. Now that's what Leonard Fournette's did on Tuesday. First off, it was supposed to be Leonard four Nette starting downtown leading a march right then the night before Mary Curry says, hey, I'll be joining Leonard four Nette, And then you heard that Sheriff Mike

Williams was going to be there. Will duval the whole rest and then the hours leading up to that event, the statue is taken down in him in Plaza downtown. There was a lot of news moving in a in a lot of a short period of time there. But wonder for net with the mayor of the city, with the sheriff, I don't know if you can get much bigger than that at this time now. And you know, I give a Leonard for not a lot of credit. I mean it's uh, you know he has had since

he's been here. Uh, things that different things have been said about, you know, all the stuff that happened in his first couple of years. Just in the last couple of weeks or months, you know, the Jaguars decided not to pick up the fifty year option, which certainly leaves his future with the team. You know, you just don't know. He hasn't signed a long term perhaps he will, perhaps he won't, but still to make the commitment to the

city to call this his second home. You know that he could have easily done that in Baton Rouge or of where he grew up, where he is absolutely a lesson. It very comfortable to do that then, Um, but you didn't hear so a lot of credit to him, you know, I've been around him. To me, it was absolutely fantastic that he did that here. I thought the words that he used, the things that he said, Ah, you made

perfect sense to getting the mayor involved. All that. Again, two weeks ago, you couldn't have imagine he's situations happening in the way they played out the growth all of that. When I talked to Marcus and Terry on on this call, and I'll refer to that to some of things that

said are really interesting. Marcus talked a lot, and I think when I would say the same thing and now is when it gets difficult because the tendency of these things like this is you have a couple of mark, you make some very public place, and then you get back to life. Okay, it's football season, We're getting back. Everybody involved is saying, how do we make sure that this passion, this discussion keeps going once it's not our daily focus. So again, for the same way, answer the

first question. I think that's what everybody's thinking about. Now. Look, there's football seams to play. We know this stuff has to happen. How do we continue to march strong or to walk strong on this when it's not when the emotion of the first wave of the moment is gone, as Connelly said, making a movement, not a moment, that's probably the best way to fine. Johnson, with US senior writer Jaguars dot Com, not a football john the off

season program coming to an end. Well, Tom Peli Sero of NFL Network reporting this week that the NFL has notified teams the virtual period for the off season work will be extended through June, but no in person mini camps this month, So clubs have the option now John to extend their virtual off season program another two weeks or discontinue it after this week. Curious what the Jags will do. And as we had mentioned the last week or two, doesn't sound like there'll be anything on the

unfield this offseason program. And it's winding down a bit here. Yeah, it feels like there's always thinks maybe people don't really get because it's not very publicized, but usually OK, and maybe camp and this week that's when or many campaigns and o tas are over. So the processes that we all write about and talk about kind of stopped this

week and all off season. But the rookies stay around for a couple of more weeks to get further acclimated to me with Marcus Pollard, to actually player development, to get to get their feet wet. You know, I would use the phrase to keep finding out where the bathrooms are, just to sort of know a way around the NFL before camp starts, which comes up fast. My impression is leading the social off season open gives them, gives teams

a chance to continue that process. It gives teams a chance to continue meeting with veterans who want to be involved with it. I don't have the information on I think Doug is gonna speak tomorrow or I'm sure we'll speak at some point soon. I'm sure he'll tell us exactly how much meetings they're going to have, how this

will continue. But you know, I have thought for a while that it would be training camp before we see players on the field any kind of an official capacity, and uh, you know, unfortunately, unfortunately, it feels like that. There's also some reports this week John that the league and the players Association are discussing trimming the preseason down to two games. Um. That would be quite a change, I think a change that a lot of folks around

the league would enjoy. Um. But hey, you know, that's a that's a huge move considering everything that's happened the last few months. Well, so much of this and I'm not a scientist or a doctor, but with COVID, so much of it is reduced the risk as much as possible, reduced people being in contacting to as much as possible. So the NFL wants to play a regular season. So in the time leading up to that, I've heard some people say, well, they're being too cautious and all this.

I would assume from the NFL's point of view, there's no such things too cautious in this. So one more cautious step is instead of having these guys in a full contact, no holds barred, breathing and sweating on each other situation, Uh, let's give that another two weeks, three weeks because this whole thing has happened in three week periods because of the quarantine. You get a self quarantine and somebody comes up positive. Let's give ourselves one more

three weeks four weeks segments. Uh, because so much has changed in that period of time. Is so often during all this, the more time, the better, it feels like to me, Yeah, and you hit it right on the hedge, John. The regular season games are the ones that bring in the TV money. That's how that works. So they're the ones. And I think we saw in two thousand and eleven when everything was sort of truncated and there was no

off season because of the lockout. At the very beginning of that season, there was a sense of Okay, the first couple of games, maybe a little sloppier because there's been no off season. Maybe you make that argument, but by the end of the season, I don't think anybody was thinking about that being a a different sort of season. The lockout hadn't effected that. I think that was the year the Giants beat the Patriots. That season in terms

of history, it's not viewed with an aster. There's no difference. I don't think losing a couple of Priests games and maybe having a little bit of slopping us at the start is going to affect how people feel about this season. Their idea is, let's get sixteen regular seasons, then let's get the playoffs in, and let's have this as normal as possible in what obviously won't be a normal season.

John Osan Weathers, Senior writer, Jaguars dot Com. The Jags announced today that Doug Marone and Todd wash the defensive coordinator, will speak with the media. Tomorrow's the final time in the off season program that head coach Doug Marone will speak of the media. It's been every other Friday or so this off season, and since the last time he spoke with the media. Uh, he spoke at the at the rally on last Friday, but of course that was

all around that rally. We'll hear a little football stuff tomorrow. I'm I'm interested in how this week has gone since then. Now the conversations have have built around everything going on right now on this football team, and then it's the last chance to get with him in the off season. So what on would you like to hear from Doug morov A good question, Like everybody is so focused on non football topic, hadn't thought about that much? Um, you know, you know, I think people are gonna want to find

out now that you've seen the off season. It hasn't been on the field. But the storyline is sort of being Gardner Minshew taking over a lot of Zoom meetings by himself, Gardner Minshew being very much he has to have found a way or it sounds like he has found a way to make it as much his team as possible in a virtual way. And I think now that Doug's seen the entirety of that, I'm sure he'll speak to that. Uh. Beyond that, really, the Zoom calls

on Friday JB. They haven't been incredibly newsworthy in terms of football because the coach is getting on there and talking about how he gotta how he held a teleconference with some players. So there's not a whole lot of news out of that, but I do think you'll hear. I think Todd may be more interesting for me football newsy point of view, because I'm sure he's gonna get asked, what in the world defense are you actually run it? There's been all this talk about that. Yeah, so I'm

sure that's gonna be a topic. I think fans football on the one types of probably last. On the more of that, maybe it's an insight into how Todd and Doug Bows feel about what exactly are they going to try to do defensively. My guests JP is they won't say very much. I was gonna say you you might ask, but you might not find out either. That's okay, right, Yeah.

I don't think Todd's going to get on the white board and and explain exactly where Josh Allen's gonna line up on every play, and I guess is that won't happen. Virtual whiteboard That's what we're gonna have tomorrow with Todd watching of course, that's not going to happen, but it'll be good to hear from him and head coach Duck Moron tomorrow. Oshan, we'll look forward to that podcast next week. It comes out on mondays On Podcast this week with

Terry Robiski and Marcus Pollard. Good stuff. It's honestly, it's it's really worth the listen because they really went into detail about how it kind of came together and played out and these feelings behind it as it approached. So I certainly enjoyed it. I learned something I think people will too. But thank you. Oh, just have a great weekend, alright, Buddy John Osan, senior writer Jaguars dot Com jointing us

to kick off Jaguars Happy Hour. Good thoughts there. Yeah, it will be um curious to hear what Todd wash has to say. Haven't heard from him on the record this really this entire offseason. What have they been up to at defensive meeting room. We'll find out a little bit of that tomorrow, And of course Doug Moron, I'm sure we'll be asked about the last week or so with his football team and um, how the group maybe

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continued support. Our thanks to John Osier, Jaguars dot com senior writer for joining us. As we said, it has been an eventful week and it started really a little over a week ago and Jaguar's owner Shot Con wrote an released an op ed piece describing his background, his history, and his vision for moving ahead, including with the players and coaches and staff on his football team. And then on Friday, Jags players, coaches, in front office staff march from t I a bank field of the steps of

the j s O about a mile away. Before the march, D J. Churt spoke, Josh Lambeau spoke former lineman and our team chaplain Maurice Williams addressed the crowd as well. And then once after steps, former Jaguars tied in and out j S O officer Ernest Wilford spoke briefly to that group assembled and he said that their messages will be conveyed inside the j S. So then it was time for Jack's running backs coach Terry Robisky. Now a

little background if you're not familiar with Robisky. He joined the team before the last season, before the twenty nineteen campaign. He's from Louisiana. He signed with l s U and the signing class of seventy three, only two years after l s U signed their first African American players. By the way, he was an eighth round pick of the Raiders.

Played for the Raiders and Dolphins in his career. Now, that career was injury shortened a bit after five seasons, but he immediately went into coaching in the NFL and he's been in the NFL as an assistant since nineteen two. Think about that for a while. Long career and his perspective for what is happening in the NFL and around this movement is certainly rare. Here's what Robiski said on

the steps last Friday. I guess as the Vegian, the veteran on his staff, the old the guy get to do it, but just to touch a little bit on what Marcus talked about. When Marcus spoke earlier, he spoke about his his grandmother. Say, his grandmother was in a march and she got spent on a couple of times. I feel like I was in the march with her. I've been doing these for so long. Uh. I was

in my first march. I think back in nineteen sixty seven, nine six, the first time we had a march, and I been through about three or four NFL strike since then. I've had a bunch of marches since then. A little bit of what Josh was speaking on is as Americans, I think march is the way we have to let

our voice be heard. And all those places I've been, this is my I think my eight NFL team I've been with, and I think the biggest thing for me was sitting on the sitting in a meeting on Tuesday and they hear the head coach, the head coach of the organization step up and say we're gonna say something. I think as we all travel through life, we see we see actors, we see actresses, we see athletes, we see people all the time as an individual making statement.

We see Uh, some big name actors step out front and get arrested for what they believe in because they want to make a statement. We see Lebron James say things, we see Floyd mill Weather say things. This is the first time I can tell you, guys, in my lifetime, I felt the organization, an organization said something to have a head coach to step up with his family, to have a general manager to speak to all the players

in white and said we're gonna make a statement. I have never in my forty five years in the NFL, I've never seen it. And then I have the owner to come out and release the article he released and the racism that he felt and he still feels today was unbelievable. To the city of Jacksonville. I'm gonna say, we're here today as this group, all of Jacksonville, be proud. You have something I promised to be brought off. Everybody walking out here that they have a shirt on and

they said black lives matter m and it does. I swear to God, I'm black. My kids are black. I'll tell Josh, Josh, you may not see the results from this, but your grandkids will, your kids will, their kids will. We're watching today because a black man got killed and it started with that. And I know these T shirts read black lives matter. Life is all we got. Every life matter. I think Jodine knows me well enough to know if he was in the building and he was

burning down, I'd go get him. Dodd Walston, his life matters to me. I worry what him every day when that motistactly rise. Joe Danna, I love the people. I love guys. Y'all we got is each other, stay together, stick together, stand for what you believe in, and f the rest of it. Terry Robosky, Jars running backs coach. That was on Friday at the steps of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office as part of a few different speakers there, but it concluded on the steps with Jaguars wide receiver

Chris Conley. Powerful speech from Conley. Uh. He stepped to the microphone and and explains some of the history behind why this movement now might have more momentum than really any time in this generation that I remember. He also explained more of the meaning behind the movement and what to expect. I'm gonna try to keep this um as short as I can. There's a wealth of a welling up of emotions that has swept over me the past week. Um, and uh, I'm just gonna do my best to uh

keep things short. But I had to write it down because as I didn't want to get up here and just just have all that emotion overflow. Um. But watching watching the events that have happened with a Mad Aubrey, and starting with the mod Aubrey the video when it got released, I sat in my house upstairs in my office, and I just began to cry because I saw someone who looked like me, someone who looked like my brother, someone who looked like my friends get shot down and

fall on the street like an animal. And that hurt me because I've seen it time and time again. And so I forgive me if I'm long winded, but I'm gonna get through this. The events of the last few months have culminated and shook the nation for many, opening their eyes to something the marginalized have pointed out the whole time. What I and others know is that these atrocities have been foreshadowed. They have been allowed to manifest

because of year years of systemic indoctrination and oppression. I urge you today brothers and sisters to know this history, study it, seek it, because through it, though it may make you uncomfortable, it will lead towards change. George Santayana said those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it and the revend. Dr Martin Luther King said that we are not makers of history, were made by it. We can not allow comfortability of revisionist history to disarm

our minds and weaken our convictions. A Confederate monument sits a couple of blocks from here, praising the South dark past. Our revision is history would tell us that it is there to honor men fighting for states rights. But true history would tell us that. In the cornerstone, addressed Alexander Stephens said that our states are built on the fact that the negro is inferior, and slavery and subordination is

as normal and natural state. That's true history. This monument sits a block from where the acts handle Saturday happened in Jacksonville, a block from it, reminding people in this city of what's happened to them. True history would remind people that not only Confederate sympathizers butchered black people in

the streets, but police joined in too. Revisionist history is what allows us to believe that systemic racism isn't real, or that racism isn't of itself, is only isolated incidents, not instilled by government backed segregation, not instilled by a history of bias and policing. Revisionist history is what allows people to say, yes, these things happened, but that was the past. Can't we just move on? Richard Rosston said, let bygones be bygones isn't a legitimate wish if we

wish to call ourselves a constitutional democracy. Protests like this one and peaceful protests across the country are fighting for our constitution. They're fighting for our democracy. So I plead that everyone out there would get out and they would demonstrate, they would do it peacefully. And to those people who are trying to detract from this movement, who are trying to add on and instill hate and riots, we won't let you hijack this moment. We won't let you do it.

Fighting for inequality, Fighting inequality that allows longer sentences on average for African American men, Fighting inequality that allows black adolescence to be eighteen times more likely to be charged as adults. Everybody look around at the kids here. Man, a black adolescent is eighteen times more likely to be

charged and convicted as an adult. That's what we're fighting today. Yeah, we're fighting in equality that would allow this league to marginalize and to leave players in two thousand and sixteen, when they stood up and said that there was a problem, that's what we're here to fight today. That's what you're all here for today. Today we say no more. Today we see a nation that can't await change, the city

that won't sit still or be quiet. Today, I'm surrounded by brothers and sisters of every color who rallied together to echo the cries of George Floyd, to echo the cries of Brianna Taylor, to echo the cries of a Mod Aubrey and the countless others like them. Today, we're encouraged today, we're emboldened. Today, we know that that change will come. Today, I'm surrounded by you, and I pray for you that you would abound in love and knowledge and deep insight. Like Philippians one nine says, this is

a marathon and not a sprint. Every woman and child and man and can sustain this for more than just a moment, and make sure that this is a movement right now. I challenge all of you to learn this history, to learn our country's true history, not so that it makes you comfortable, but so that you can be empowered to go out and make true change, So that you can go out and, as they say, you can beat him at the ballot, so that you can weaponize the voters in this city to get people who will truly

represent each and every one of us. Voters can do this right now. Movements like this can do this right now. I want to say thank you. I want to say thank you to my black brothers and sisters who are out here. I want to say thank you to my white brothers and sisters who are out here. I want to say thank you to every single child who is out here, younger person who is out here, because you're seeing an example of what the future can be. You're seeing an example of a future that's fighting for you.

For you right now, I'm fighting for you. When I saw that video, I saw you. I saw you, I saw you. Thank you to all of you. This is only the beginning. Don't let people rile you up. Don't let people tell you that you're not worth it when they say black lives matter, the same black lives matter because they're hurt right now, we're not saying they matter more. And everyone here, I hope everyone here knows that. But let's show it. This is only the beginning here in Jacksonville.

Let's make sure that we maintain this momentum so it's not a movement, and this is a movement. Thank you, Chris Conley last Friday and steps through the Jacksonville Sheriff's office. Um, the change was coming. We'll come back in a moment. We'll hear from Leonard for that. We'll also hear from Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry as they spoke on the steps from city Hall on Tuesday. Jeff Loguman right around the corner to join us as well. And this is Jaguars

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thanks to John O. Shall. We heard some of the Friday speeches the steps of the j s oh and then the change happened. The night before Leonard Fournette was supposed to march from City Hall downtown and then Lenny Curry, Jaguar or Jacksonville Mayor I decided to and announced that he was going to join for that. They teamed up together with the sheriff. Let's hear Leonard for that on the steps of city Hall just before the walk on Tuesday, and hours after the statue was taking down taken down

and heming plaza good evening, good evening, good evening. Uh I appreciate everybody coming out here, man, and what was that Black lives do matter? I want you to understand that they do matter. I want to like thank my teammates, my coaches for coming out and supporting me and supporting us, you know. Uh do vas my second home, you know. And the biggest thing I want to get out give out to y'all and like everyone, it's not about the flag at all. I want you to understand that it's

about us. One of equal rights understanding. I'll place as young black men because it's all I'd been black out here right now. It is tough, you know what I mean. I want to be that voice for people like George Floyd, George Hill, you know, Artin Stirling, guys like that. Uh, this is a big step for all of us. You know. I'm happy to see blacks and whites out here together, you know, doing this. This is a This is a

wonderful thing. And the biggest thing I didn't grow up, you know, being racist or my parents teaching me racism. For number one, we gotta stop that. That's just bad man. You got to it's bad man. And uh, And the biggest thing, man, I just like to thank my support for my teammates, for no one. Uh, for Marcus you know he's coming out here for for helping me, you know what I mean. And I appreciate you all. I appreciate you. And also the fans, thank you all for

coming out. I appreciate you all and understanding. Uh, I have kids. I want you to put that out there too. My fear right now is my kids getting older, you know, getting stopped and I'm I'm keeping the real and them getting shot or anything, you know what I mean. And that's the biggest thing right now. So as y'all seen we came the gather, the statue is gone. It's another big thing. It's another big thing. And Uh, I'm gonna tell y'all, man, no matter what, man, I love all y'all. Uh,

this is bigger than me. This is bigger than football. So we're gonna continue to continue praying, coming together. Do we have to do to to to have a better generation? Five kids? The next generation? And uh, black lives matter. Let's keep fighting, y'all. That's Leonard for that. Tuesday, on the steps of City Hall in downtown Jacksonville, Mayor Lynn Curry spoke next, then the sheriff then a little do all of them may have the long march around downtown Jacksonville.

Here from the mayor coming up. Let's go on the phone line now. Jaguars analyst Jeff Flagerman joins this. Jeff, good afternoon. But what's up? How you doing? But doing well? And you know, I find it fascinating interesting all the words you can use similar to that that Leonard for that running back, first round pick, big name in Jacksonville.

Because of his prowess on the field and his role with the organization, he can bring Mayor Lenny Curry and sheriff Mike Williams and Will Duval, you know, bring those different types of people together in a moment like this. That's using that celebrity that he has in a positive way. And I thought that was a big part of what

happened on Tuesday. So it's pretty strong, you know. And and I think, uh, most importantly, a lot of athletes have probably underwhelmed and using their platform in the past. And I'm talking about athletes as a whole, and I think they're really starting to understand the power that they wield and certainly can institute a lot of change themselves. And so I think also that going forward, you know, this can't be on like a one time thing where

you just Okay, let's commit to this right now. I mean it's got to be This has to be a continuation, you know, something that doesn't just okay, we we talk about them now, then in a month, it's just it's over with and we forget about it. I think this

is something that has to continue. The work continues to have to be done, and and hopefully a lot of the athletes in the in the leadership in our country, the leadership and cities and the communities continue to work towards making sure that everybody has a voice that's heard.

And it feels like that's the focus of Jaguars owner Shot con as he wrote in his op ed piece earlier last week and then followed up to I think yesterday and visited with the Jaguars team about a hundred people in the organization, players, coaches and staff around the team, mainly and getting ideas, listening and following up and what he said, I think that's his focus, just as you said, not to make this a one time thing, to see how they can carry this momentum forward well. And I

think when you have conversations. I think that, you know, things can be accomplished, and I think the league offense,

I think, is a perfect example of that. I first thought, I thought that it was outstanding that Roger Goodell came out and made the statement that he did, and and that didn't happen until they decided to have essentially an open form with some of the employees at the League office, and a lot of the employees were and me personally, when I saw the statement that was released by by the league and the commissioner, I thought it was weak. And I think everybody in the League office thought it

was weak. And when they were able to get in the forum to voice the concerns to Roger Goodell that they also thought it was weak, which led to the video that was released with the players on it, and the kind of the road employee that did this video on his own. Eventually he let some of his superiors

know about it. I mean, I mean that was good stuff, man, and uh And so I was glad to see the commissioner come out and and say things and shotcome obviously having an open forum with employees and players and such like that, you know, it gets a great opportunity you know that to institute change, and not just change, but effective change that people want, and you can't and you can't. You can't do something that has changed just for the sake of change either, you know. I mean, you've got

to do something that's got meaning, that's gonna last. And at the same token, you have to you have to be very considerate of all parties involved. Jeff Logan with US Jaguars analyst Jaguars Happy Hour. The off season program is nearly complete logs. They've announced that they're going to expand it a couple of weeks, but some teams can shut it down as they're is tomorrow if they'd like to. And now there's other reports. I don't know if you saw these earlier the week that the league and the

players Association are discussing trimming the preseason. Can you imagine playing two preseason games instead of four or whatever you played back in the old days, six of them? Well, uh, here's a crazy thing. It's gonna take a global pandemic for the league to finally do the right thing when

it comes to preseason. Are you're right? I mean, we we've all been saying for years that having four preseason games is an absolute waste of time, and so this global pandemic may may cut it, you know, will it cut it by two to where it should be, which is what I think a team needs to get ready to play a season. I think it also gives enough opportunity to evaluate players, especially if you're going and practicing with other teams throughout the season and not necessarily getting

quote unquote game speed rets. I think there's plenty of opportunity to make a lot of the decision and coaches will tell you because it conan coaches or coaches, I mean they want to work, you know, they want to They're they're wired to do things a certain way, and when they're forced to do something, that's amazing how it still works, you know what I mean. I mean you

still are able to accomplish things. And so when you say that that we're finally are looking at possibly cutting preseason, you know, JP, I may end up buying you a beer that that's the case, because I would be one happy camper if that that truly happens. And also to say that the all season stuff is ending, um did it ever get started? I mean, is virtual still considered

all season training is it's still considered um productive. I mean when you're not on the grass and you're talking to somebody on Zoom or in teams or Facebook, Instagram, FaceTime, whatever, I mean, whatever all these avenues are. I mean, it's just not the same, I will say. I mean we'll

find that out. I think once the games get here, if if there's any impact, and you know, especially with a team like this that needs to be on the field working through some new things, certainly on defense, a new offense coordinator coming in and all that, I think we'll find out then. But I will say, the money is still real. They're all still getting paid, um, you know, being involved in the what what's what's the what's the

stadium gonna look like? You know, our our teams, our teams exercising right now, and my guests would be yes, that they are probably looking at ways to to have socially distant attendance. You know, are are they already doing that, you know, to where they're trying to configure stadium seating to where if you know, they've got to comply with certain standards, whether it be from from the state level.

I don't expect it to be instituted down from the federal level, but city levels or state levels or what have you. You know, could teams. I mean, teams have to be ready for for different things when it comes to seating people in a stadium. So and I'm sure that every team in the league right now is talking to local and state authorities and tign to configure what they're gonna want to do from a seating capacity and and everything else. And I think teams also got to

have the conversation JP. I mean, look, when when the Jaguars fly, they charter an airplane. Okay, you're chartering an airplane and you're typically traveling with a lot of people. You've got players, coaches, training staff, doctors, um, public relations staff, you've got people that work for broadcast asking departments. I mean, so are you going to look at trimming some of that, you know, to where you're exposing less number of people

to be around your football team on the road. I mean, I think all of these things have to be talked about by a football team in the league as a whole in preparation. And those those conversations I'm sure already started and and they'll be ongoing throughout the summer, and they could change as the summer goes on. I mean it could be trimming to two, it could be trimming to none in the preseason. That's not too far fetched either the way things so, but you just don't know.

You don't know how the summer is gonna go. No, you don't know. And is you know, not not having an all season it's it's certainly not good for football. I mean, I think football is better when it's like anything else. I mean, football is better when people can practice football. You know, you've got better, higher quality, and so not having some of the all season stuff, I think we're still good were I don't think it would be a noticeable difference, but I think for the trained,

I think it will be very different. The level of play, certainly with with certain players and young players and their lack of opportunities to get reps in training for towards the football season, young quarterbacks, you know, young teams as a whole. And and that's the Jaguars that we're talking about. So I think there's certainly some challenges, and the Jaguars are are right there when you start to talk about challenges with no all season training, the Jaguars are I

mean literally could be the poster child for that. When you talk about teams that have big challenges in well, Logs, I will say you can. I'll take you up on that beer you want to buy me early if you'd like to wait, you know, let's just say it happened. So given them the years to go. Hand of the bars are open, which is a good step. They are. And uh and you and you got barstool six ft away from each other. That's right, Oh, yell at you across the bar as Yeah, that's right. We'll do we'll

do like hand signal. Right, Logs, thanks for your time, man, always good to visit with you. We'll catch you soon. There is Jeff Flog and Jaguars analysts joining us on the program. We've made becoming a season ticket member easier

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on time today. But just short speech at the letter for that march on Tuesday explained a few things coming in the days ahead and they have since been followed up upon as well. So UM cheers every involved in Tuesday's march downtown Leonard for net the Jaguars players who were there, about twelve players. A couple of assistant coaches were there as well. Marylynn Curry, the Jacksonville sheriff, Mike Williams.

Little du Vaal was there. Actually bumped me in one of the post scrum interviews and I didn't even see him. That's how little he is. The name is true. Now he's good stuff from from those guys. UM, and uh, good event on Tuesday. We'll see what moves ahead here in the days ahead when it comes to that. Some breaking news this afternoon in the NFL is committing two hundred fifty million dollars over ten years to combat systemic racism.

That was announced today. Um. Obviously, what's happened over the last few years. Back four years ago with the Colin Kaepernick, he first took a knee in protest. That was nearly four years ago now, believe it or not, UM to today, it's it's quite different. Obviously the league has changed their stance at for was like in the last week's the Roger Goodell video that you heard Logs speak about there and um the NFL showing support for for this movement.

Now they're putting a little a lot more money where their mouth is and trying to follow up and see where those dollars go. Will be something to watch as well. And uh, there's a story in NFL dot com. It just came out just a moment ago. Judy Bautista, who has been on this program before in the recent months, has the article there checked that one out. According the Interest to Public Safety, the Panthers removed the statue of former owner Jerry Richardson from in front of Bank America

Stadium yesterday. He was the founding owner of the Panthers. The statue was given to him in his eightieth birthday back in I remember, he was fined over two million dollars by Roger Goodell after an investigation found evidence that substantiated claims of workplace misconduct. After allegations of racial and sexual misconduct, he sold the team in May of eighteen, and it wasn't long after all the those accusations were brought to light. So that's the biggest news around the

National Football League. The remote work period extending through the month of June, but teams can shut down. Tomorrow. We will hear from head coach Doug Marrone tomorrow. He'll speak at ten thirty. Todd Wash, the Jaguars defensive coordinator, is scheduled to join him as well, and it'll be the final chance to hear from Maron in this offseason. We'll hear what has happened in the last week or so.

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