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Vaulky reaction. The head coach and the gm both spoke with the media this week, and out of those availabilities, we found out that the offensive line could remain intact this year. The defense is a bit of a rebuild though, starting up front the back end as well. They're looking for playmakers on offense, aren't we all? And we'll go around the National Football League with us in person today is Jaguars analyst Jeff Logerman and logs it is good to see a man. What's sounds good to be seen.

That's like the best time. I mean, you're you're above ground. It's good. It's all good, no doubt. A lot going on. I mean, we're a week away, inside a week away from the start of the league year and free agency. They finally figured out what the salary cap is gonna be, and there's a lot of moving parts. So we called it the the hot stove of the off season. That's a baseball term, but it's the same idea in the NFL.

This is the time of year or everybody's either getting cut or resigned or free agency is about to begin, and finally big offseason news is here. Finally, locks. I mean, look, it's uh, it's about time we get there, you know, because sometimes it seems like you're never gonna get the free agency. I'm glad that the league came out and find only stopped messing around and trying to figure out exactly what the salary cap is gonna be, and now

teams can start making decisions. And now you're starting to see movement. And the reason I say that is because this team doesn't need to do the movement, but the movement affects them and what their ability as far as bringing the movement in. So uh so, I mean, that's

that's good. And I think that there's been a lot of evaluation on some players that maybe they were hoping to get and then with the tags that have been announced so far, there's probably a little bit of disappointment on some guys that are not going to be available, and that's part of it. Leonard Williams, I'm sure would I'd like they have had him. It would have been nice. So so that's good. I mean, it's a good time

of year. It's the fun time of the year because you know what here here, here's I was just talking to James coming in, you know James, and James, James works the front desk, and and uh, it's always good to talk to James, and and he was asking me, you know, what do you think about this team and what what's the first thing that they're going to be doing.

And my opinion is is that this is such a young roster that you're gonna get better in the next couple of weeks in free agency, and you need to you need to address your roster to get some some proven playmaking ability because the draft is great, no doubt, but this is gonna be a buyer's market for people that do have money to spend, which this team is going to be one of them, and this team needs proven playmakers to go along with this young roster to

help this young roster grow. So busy week here in Jacksonville. Of course, urban Meyer spoke with the media on Tuesday and then actually on Wednesday sat down with the Jack's business staff in the stadium for a discussion about his history his family coaching tendants. Is really a cool thing for the business side to be able to interact a lot with with urban Meyer yesterday, and then the Trent Balky spoken a video conference yesterday as well. Let's start

though from Rban Myers press conference on Tuesday. It is a different feeling set up this year between personnel and the coaching staff. So you have great respect for the ones that dive deep. You know, it's it's not recruiting, and I understand the difference, but um free agency to me is a labor intensive m proposition that means that the hardest working, the deepest digging stabs a lot like recruiting,

they get the best players. Ultimately, the tight end coach is response for who walks in that room, and he's going to utilize every resource. And that's called scouts, that's called scouting directors, that's called a general managers, called a head coach and coordinator and they're gonna do a deep dive. It's also called zoom calls and finding out as much as he can about that person walking in his his unit room. So that's the way we go about a business. Ultimately,

it's a position. Position coach is going to have a heavy hand and who comes in there. Yet Trent and his staff obviously are the number one resource we use. So it's a different feeling set up than what a lot of times happens in the NFL. That LOGS feels like a college recruiting set up where the position coach really leads the way. I wouldn't say it's like a so much like a college set up, but it's different and it's certainly different than what has been around the

stadium for many years. And what I mean by that is that urban's talking about the tight ends coach will determine who is in that room, and that the scouts are gonna be resources, and that they're gonna be doing a deep dive into obviously the decision making process and in the personnel to be able to come to that conclusion. In years past, for the most part, around here, it's been personnel going here's your guys, coaches, and go ahead

and coach them up. And uh, you know, even though if you're making chicken salad what we just gave you pork, make it work work. I mean, so I think this is kind of it's it's interesting and it's a little bit different to hear that the coaches tell saying basically that the position coaches are gonna have a lot of say so as far as the decision making and who

comes in. And I kind of interpreted it from free agency and also from the draft and that the resources the quote number one resources Trent balky and his staff. So uh, this clearly a lot of people were kind of speculating is urban Meyer holding the power? And obviously this tells you that the coaching staff and Trent Balky is is a resource and and that's there's nothing wrong

with that. Trent Balky is gonna be a valuable person to this organization because he's the one that's got the knowledge and and the time and the commitment, uh more so than coaches, because coaches are gonna be coaching when it comes to the fall. But Trent Balky is gonna give that information to the coaches. Then they're all gonna work together, but the coach is gonna be the one that's going to be making that final determination on who's in that room. And I just find that it's different.

You know, it's different. And Trent Balky is a is a proven commodity and uh and and here's the thing. Uh, if you're a resource, you've gotta be spot on. And so even though you sit there and you say, okay, well the coaches one that's making the decision, But if you're getting the information from Trent Balking his staff, you know, well, who's really making the decision. It's kind of it's kind of both, but ultimately the position coaches the guy who

has the ultimate say. So that's different than it's been here in the past. And you know, actually Urban said the other day that a new higher, a fairly new higher, Ryan Stamford will have a voice on draft night in the draft room as well. I thought that was a really interesting some of the quotes he had on that. Yeah, and you know, Stanford is from here in Jacksonville. What's

the first coach? High school um and then went to the University of Florida, played linebacker on two national championship teams and was at Ohio State with Urban as player development. It was assistant athletic director or associate athletic director towards the end of his time in Columbus. So he's here director of player Assessment to make sure that title, you know the way, have you ever heard that title? I

have not, not in the NFL. No, No. I mean, and and essentially, what Ryan Stamper is from what Urban said is that Ryan Stamper is gonna make sure that the players that we acquire are a fit and uh a culture fit. So, I mean, I think there's a lot of different ways to describe it. I mean there's culturally, there's physically, I mean, all all of the above. JP

I think is is what that falls underneath. So Ryan Stamper is gonna have a tremendous amount of sway as far as how this roster is shaped and the opinions that will get shaped, as far as the information that gets brought to the coaches. So Ryan's gonna make sure that these are the guys that we need to have that are good for our program. They're gonna have a positive impact, They're gonna make those around him better. Uh So.

Uh but it's unique. I've just I've never heard that title, and I'm not I'm not saying that in a in a derogatory way. I'm saying and that I'm it's it's difference.

It's yeah, it's just different, and and it could be really positive if, uh, if Ryan Stamper has a great feel for for those character traits that you always look for, because I'm just telling you, look, if you can find the Klaiss Campbell type guys, the Josh Alan type of guys that are committed, that are professional, that are good people, that do things the right way, that are coachable, I mean,

that's what you want for your program. And also the great leaders to go along with him, no doubt about that. And we've heard nothing but great things about Ryan Stamper. I haven't had a chance to meet him in person yet, but he's from here, know people that know him, and and it's uh, it should be a really good higher for the Jaguars organization. Now, let's hear from general as

you're Trent Balky, he spoke on Wednesday. Two and a half million dollars is the cap this year, down eight percent from a year ago, and lungs as you said a second ago. That can help the Jaguars cause with players that might not be on the market normally now starting to flood the market. But the question for Balky the other day yesterday was do you gonna do you have to spend all the money this year or are you gonna plan to spread it out for the future.

But we figured it would be somewhere between one eight one five, and that's what we planned on as far as spending. Uh, you know, we're we're always gonna look to push the envelope and spend spend to the cap on a three year rolling cycle, whether you're above or below, but on over a three year period, hoping to spend to the camp. And we have an ownership that's willing to do that, and and and we want to do that, so uh, we're gonna we're gonna use the dollars. I

spoke earlier about value. I think value is critical. You know, you have to get the value of the players right. And uh, you just like building a stock portfolio. If you if you get a bunch of overpay you know overprais stocks, you buy high and sell low. Eventually that catches up with you. So get the checkbook ready lugs. It feels like they're gonna spend some money next year. I wouldn't say that, but I would say that I

think the impression is first. The most important information piece of information there is that ownership has quote just kind of I guess you could say, this is uh, summarizing from what Trent Bulky said, that ownership has given them the ability to spend the cap, and so they're totally okay with doing whatever it takes to build a winner. But you don't spend of the cap just to spend of the cap. Look, I mean, JP, I'd love to pay you to start left tackle and give you twenty millions.

You're not uh you know, you you're not even worth minimum. So we're not gonna give you a franchise twenty million because you're you stink, you're not very good at left tackle. So my point is is that you you want to spend to the cap, but you have to have justification to spend of the cap, which is where Trent Balky's talking about value, which means you need to find the

players that that tell you you're getting what the value is. So, in other words, if you're paying somebody fifteen million a year. You're getting fifteen million a year and performed on that investment. And if you're spending five million on another guy, and if you can get ten million in performance, there's your value. So you've got to be able to make sure that you're getting a return on investment or r o I.

It's a term jp that you might understand. If you get r o I as a general manager, you're doing your job and you're doing it very well, and so you may not be spending the cap in year one, and essentially it may take a number of years for you to spend to the cap because you're rolling dollars over and you also have a young quarterback expected to be in so that obviously impacts the team. But yeah, if you if you have the permission from ownership to

spend the cap. I mean, you're talking about a franchise that can compete. You just need to make sure you find the guys that are valued at that dollar amount to make you compete. We have plenty ahead and it includes the offensive line. We'll get into the Cam Robinson franchise tag Andrew Norwell. Sounds like those guys could be around. Check out the official Jaguars podcast Network at the free subscription on Apple, iTunes or Spotify. Give us that five

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seven o'clock this evening. That's gonna be fun. Logs can't which it's it's gonna be really good, And um I think I think it helps because I really believe that the building a fan base is all about building an interest, and interest is by providing good product, which is a good team on the field and on also great access in Irban Meyer having I'll spend some time the media business is not shy about participating with some of these things.

And obviously he's not going to be uh letting you look at their their draft ranking board and saying, oh, yeah, they got Trevor Lawrence right there at number one. Look at that. You know you're not gonna see that, but look, uh, it's it's pretty cool stuff. And uh and uh, I really don't know if you're gonna be able to get that from any other team in the National Football League

like this. I mean, that's that's pretty impressive. There are a few doings similar, but this is, uh, this is next level stuff and and it'll be every and I will say that, look at it takes a lot of trust to to uh to do something like this and uh and the Jaguars have uh not to give him a big head or anything, but the Jaguars have some great people and some great people that can be trusted and uh and given the access and be trusted with the content and the information that's being put out and

and I think it's it's gonna be amazing for this organization and for the fan base to be able to have that kind of access. I think it's gonna be tremendous. Let's get to the offensive line. I'm gonna watch it. It sounds like you are and you know what, I will too, and all of you should as well. It's tonight at seven o'clock on the Jags YouTube channel. Offensive

Line big part of the media conferences. The other day, Cam Robinson this franchise tagged and after the salary cap number was finalized, it's just under fourteen million dollars the tag number. Let's hear from Urban Meyer and he likes what Cam Robinson has to offer. He has a great future. His ceiling is very high. I've studied him very much.

I spent some time with him. Uh. We feel that the way this free agency, these free agency is moving is that left tackle position as always, but even more now this year from hearing from the guys who have been in an NFL, this is a tough year for that left tackle position. And we feel just what's out there and with coaching, culture and development. Cam Cam has a lot of talent. So that's Herban Meyer on the

Jags left tackle. It is a lot of money, just under fourteen million for a year, and it sounds like Urban said otherwise in that press conference that they want him around here for a while too, not just the one year. Well, I think also you you also can and for some other things there and he says, look, you know the way that the market is now, our way the position is now, because look, your decision making is always based upon can you do better elsewhere? Right? Sure?

Because if you can do better elsewhere, and I don't care if you're TB twelve, if you can do better than Tom Brady, you're gonna go get better than Tom Brady. And there's not much better than Tom Brady. I know what you mean, but my point being is that if you and do better, you're gonna do better. And with the market, when he said they look at it, you know they evaluated it. And Trent Williams is probably gonna get tagged in San Francisco. There's not a lot out there.

The draft may not have a lot of the high level left tackle prospects that that they think or that they believe that they can get. And here's the other thing, Cam Robinson. I love a lot of things about Cam Robinson. Tough, he's physical, he finishes. He's got some things that he needs to fix that have been well talked about, some of the footwork issues. But but he's got the things that are the most important, which is the commitment to drive and the toughness to be able to continue to

get better. And those are the things that I think that that coach probably likes about Cam Robinson, and obviously George Warhop likes about Cam Robinson. So and here's the other thing. The when you franchise tag him, it's not like you're paying him twenty million dollars, is okay, We're not paying JP twenty million dollars to replace Cam Robinson. Okay, we're paying him what is it thirteen just under fourteen? Okay, thirteen and change or blow un fourteen. And that's not

a lot of money for a left tackle. Because if you had to go and pay in free agency for a guy, you're gonna pay a lot more than that. And and so it gives you the opportunity if you do not extend him for the long term to at least to see where he ends up after another year of developing to then make a determination. And at that point, the determination that you make at that point will be

where is he at? And then assess where is he at compared to what's gonna be available in free agency and what's gonna be available in the draft next year. And it gives an opportunity for him to play in a most likely new offense with a new quarterback and maybe a new situation in games they're not trailing, maybe as much, hopefully, and he's getting pass Russians all game long a lot of times when you're behind the circumstance of the game might help the tackle Asian too. Well,

you hope, I mean, you hope. I mean the reality is to so you gotta You're gonna have a very different team this year with the first year NFL coach, with a more than likely rookie quarterback who hasn't played down in the National Football League. And that's a that's a lot to sit there and to to expect them to all of a sudden change the way that the games go. Let me look at this past year was horrendous as far as how the games went you should be better, you should be more competitive, And I think

that's the point you're talking about. You want them to be in a better situation where the team is more competitive in every game, which takes a little bit of that pressure off of your tackles having a past protect because that's where they did not perform very well, was in they were when they were in obvious past protecting situations. That's where your tackles did not perform where you needed

them to perform. Urban also on Tuesday, said that he loves Andrew Norwell, and if you ask all to the fan base, they may not agree with that, but Norwell was at Ohio State. Urban Meyer inherited him when he showed up in Columbus and said that Norwell was the really a big piece of turning that offensive line at Ohio State into what was one of the worst in the Big Ten to the best in the Big Ten in his final few years in Columbus. He's gone on

now we know. Uh. He said some of the reasons why he thought he got that the big free agent contract here to come from Carolina when he did, and uh, he wants him a piece of the Jaguars organization. There was a report earlier in the week that the Jaguars had asked him to take a pay cut and then

maybe they could deal him. But here and Herbert Meyer talk about it, logs, it feels like much more Well is gonna be around here, and especially the core of the interior, that offensive line, the middle three guys that he was really speaking highly of the interior guys that really formed the core. When I saw the report that they were gonna maybe ask him to take a pay cut or that he could be released, I was going, wait a minute. He he is, He's tough, he's physical,

he's dependable. The majority of the of the cap pit has passed in his contract. He's not an expensive guy at this point. Uh, would you like him to be able to take a pay You liked everybody to take a pay cut to minimize their their effect on the cap. But the reality is is that Andrew Norwell's is a good football player, is a really good football player, and he's much like Cam Robinson and that he's been available, he's been tough, and Uh, in the last two years

he played exceptionally well. Now, a few years ago, in the first year of his free agent contract, did he perform at the level that you expected him to perform at. No, he did not. But the last two years there's absolutely nothing to complain about when it comes to the production or to use Trent Baalky's termed the value of his play. So all five could be back on the offensive line. I said this before. I'm a big fan of not taking a jar off the shelf until you find a

jar this better. So you bring all of the ones that you got back and then you don't take them out of your roster until you find somebody better. That's the only way you get better. You don't get better by just cutting a guy and saying, well, we'll get somebody better, or thinking you may get somebody better. It's always better to have it proven that somebody's better, and

then you make the subtraction. And on Wednesday on the Huddle Up Podcast, Bucky Brooks joins us each week each week their logs, and he made the point, you know, especially the interior of the line at center, Lenda and those guys, especially Lender with a rookie quarterback, let the line take care of the calls and the checks. Let Linda do that and let the quarterback just be the quarterback at least early until he's more comfortable to do that.

So having continuity up front in that checks that was that was the point he was making, and he's right, and he's right. But here's the other thing that you'd like to have happen. It's for Lenda to stay healthy. Well, that would be a positive for all the games as your rookie quarterback play. It's been tough for him to do that because it's, uh, it hasn't happened very often, and so, uh, you know, there's there's gonna be also a very important decision of Lender's back, which you expect

Brandon Lendard to be back. In the last couple of years, you've had a really really strong backup that you felt really good about. And Tyler Shatley, who, by the way, he's going to be a free agent. What do you do at that position? Do you know, can you can can you bring him back to do you bring him back? Do you look to the future, do you find somebody in the draft? Do you continue to to work with a j Can as a backup center and to continue

to develop his ability to move in and play center. So, I mean there's a lot of things to think about it, and look, you never like to make decisions based on well, you know, we've got a guy and we really like him, but you know he's got a history of not being available, so we really got to get a good backup. That's not where you want to be, but I mean that's kind of the reality of where you are with Lender and that you have to be ready for his lack

of availability when he's out there. Though he's he's a good, really good player, he's not. He hasn't. He's been a borderline Pro Bowl caliber caliber center, okay, and uh to be though at that level, the consistency has to be there. The availability has to be there, and that's not what has been for for Brandon Linder. And love him though, I mean, when he's been playing, he's been really good, but you've got to be out there consistently. Let's come

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any location do val Motor Company dot com. Offensively, we're you know, I think we have some really good receivers. We're not done with that room. However, just thinking if you've covered our teams over the years, I just the need for speed, the big play opportunity was not with the Jaguars last year, and we're gonna we're searching for the big play kit at the receiver position. It's that coch urban Meyer on Tuesday as media video conference and

welcome back, it's Jaguar's Happy Hour. J P. Shadrick, Jeff Lockerman, Well, he was going through he was asked on Tuesday, you know, you've had time to evaluate the team. What do you have, what do you need? And he started with, of course you want to get the quarterback room, right, that's number one. Then it's defensive line. Start there on defense, then go to secondary. There's a lot of work to do. It sounds like in the secondary here at least from his perspective.

And then playmakers at wide receivers, speed and a big playability down the field. That goes hand in hand though the quarterback position to it all kind of works together. But those are at least the first four things. Let's start at quarterback, and obviously everybody's talking about the kid from Clemson. Um. But you know, the other question is what will that room look like. That's the thing he said, we want to get the quarterback room how we want it. Not just one guy this is this is a multiple

different players that will be in that room together. Yeah, I think it's gonna be interesting to see, you know what that room does look like. You know, do you retain the guys that you currently have? Do you look at bringing in a veteran who can quote unquote mentor a young Trevor Lawrence in that room. I don't know.

I don't know what the answer is. If if you feel like that you have a great quarterback coach, which you do, you've got somebody who's very well respected in league circles, then you can get away with having that that veteran presence in the room. But you know, I will say this, sometimes it's even it's it's even better that even if you have a great coach, to add that veteran mentor, because sometimes it means more coming from

a teammate than it does from a coach. It's just it's no different than growing up as a kid and your mom and dad used to tell you don't touch that son, don't tell just don't touch that, and you sit there and you go, yeah, mom and dad, you know, just being parents, and then your buddy would tell you, hey, man, don't touch that, you know, and you'd be like, he's probably right, what do you what were you trying to touch? Blogs? Just okay, you never don't know if there's a lot

of things, right, Okay, you don't touch you don't. You don't do that in the world we're talking about here, dude, don't touch it though, whatever it is, your hands off, don't go there please. Anyways, same idea, I know what you're talking about. That makes sense. It makes a lot of sense. You need to that's one idea, or you know, the status quo, right, I mean, Luton was here, Gardner was here, he has some starting time. Do they fit

into the mold of what they want? I think I think it's I think it's gonna be wildly interesting to see if they feel like Gardener Mincio is a fit for that room. And I mean, let's talk about the elephant in the room. You know, he's a guy that felt like he should have been the starter last year, made it known that that he was disappointed. Then when he wasn't and uh uh at times last year didn't want to throw the football in pregame warm ups if

he wasn't gonna be the guy. Uh for me. Uh, that doesn't make for somebody that's gonna make a room very strong for me. So so I don't know. I I think it's gonna be interesting to see where that ends up. But uh, because you want to mean not just a quarterback room. You want to make every room that you have as strong as possible because the stronger the room is, the better the performance of the room is. And I don't care if there's only one guy playing

out of that room, like the quarterback position. If it's a stronger room, you're gonna get a better performance out of the individual that's playing if it's a strong room. So I think it's gonna be interesting to see where they end up with a lot of rooms. I mean, the other one that that I look at JP is running back room and and reading Trent Balky's press conference and and reading what he said, I think he's dead

on the money. Look, look he said, I we appreciate what James Robinson did and he's a great workhorse back. He was consistent, he was great, especially where he came from being an undrafted guy. But then he added, we need to add some explosiveness to that room. Damn race, you do, you know? And so when Urbans talking about the need for speed, I don't think he's just talking

about just a wide receiver position. You get. What you want is whoever touches the ball that you hold your breath and that they could legitimately score any time that they touched the ball. That's not just limited to being somebody who wears an eighties number or a teen's number. That person can wear a forties number. That person can wear a twenties number, a thirties number. Could be a

running back, it could be a tight end. It could be uh a hybrid type guy that plays special teams defense and then every game down again he plays on offense. I mean, there's so many different ways that you can be explosive or to gain that that quote need for speed. So I mean, you gotta you gotta get playmakers anywhere you can get them. It's not just the wide receiver position for the quarterback. It can be any position. You know, just touching on the receiver position a little bit though

a little bit deeper here. You know it's gonna be chart right, He's going into a contract year, Chant and charts got to improve. We did not have a good year last year. He was beat up, um. Body language wasn't great, the quarterback play wasn't great, and obviously that impacted it a lot. And uh, you hope culture change strong culture urban Meyer. Given the players the best of the best, expecting the best of the best makes it

better for DJ because he needs be better. And then you got Colin Johnson, young guy was his rookie year last season, and we'll see what he can do. Ways to go, but I mean JP looks did some impressive things last year, and he's got the range he's got. I think he does a really good job of gaining separation for a quarterback. I think, you know, he got a big wide receiver. It can be of quarterbacks best friend. And with the amount of separation that Colin Johnson gets,

it's been impressive. So uh, I mean, so there there there's some guys that are gonna, I think, going to get better and give a young quarterback some some opportunities. The other guys that contributed a lot at wide receiver last year, Keeling Cole and Chris Conley are both pending free agents, and he got well, they're pending free agents. Keelan Cole you'd like to be able to bring back, and he's made it known that he would like to

be back. And then you have Laviska Chennault, who is tough as nails, bit was beat up a little bit last year, played through it. Give him credit for that, but he's got to find a way to get healthy because if he can get healthy, then he can get better. If you if you can't get healthy, it's hard to get better. I look, I've proven that when when you're beat up, you're just trying. You're trying to tread water

to keep your head afloat. When you're beat up, you don't get better when you're beat up, and when you're hurt. I'm sorry, just it's it's physically impossible. And so for guys like Leavisca Chenal dj Chark, they gotta get healthy so that they can get better and so that they can get better for this offense and for this football team. For a young quarterback, curious to see what type of additions they have at wide receiver, whether they go with a veteran guy and free agency that will cost him

a little bit of money. Though a guy like Samuel, who Urban knows well from the Ohio State days, he'll be twenty five and the season starts, by the way, coming out in free agency. I don't think Wattle will be there in the draft at he'll go earlier than that. Tondaris Tony has been mocked there a few different places. So what type of guy do you want? What type of receiver do you really somebody that has that ability to that would for me at least, you know, go

in motion, line up in the backfield. That type of thing dolls all that does. But the one thing that Lavisca doesn't do is just flat out run by people. Right, He runs over people. He runs over people. He ran by on the one deep ball that he had to think. It's something that he does. Consist he can open it up straight line, I think, and run. But but it's not something that he does. Look, he's it doesn't look

like he's Jimmy Smith. Which when Jimmy Smith went his in his heyday, and I think when Urban was talking about the need for speed, he said, look, we're not just looking for guys that are four three guys. The first person that came to my mind was Jimmy Smith. I mean Jimmy Smith when he was on the clock. You know, stop Watch, Jimmy wasn't running a four three, But when you turned on the film, Jimmy ran by

all the defensive backs. How does he do that? He just he had this this extra gear that and I don't know if it was just because he put on this football gear all of a sudden, it gave him the energy, or it gave him the extra speed, or with the extra weight, he was able to not lose any speed and everybody else lost a little bit. All I know is that Jimmy on the clock was never the fastest guy on the field, but when he was on the field, he seemed like he was the fastest

guy all the time. And when the ball was in the air, JP he was the fastest guy every time. And so if if you can find guys like that, you know, absolutely for a young quarterback that that can see and stand in the pocket and throw it along ways, man, if you can get a guy that can run away from people, take him every time. Welcome to a new era of Jaguars football and the reload has begun with do head coach urpan Meyer. Don't miss out on the

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elite begins. And that's why I look for my coaching staff and free agency and then draft, that's we're looking for players. That's head coach Urban Meyer on The Hunt's debuts tonight, episode one on the Jaguars YouTube channel and Jaguars dot Com seven o'clock. It will drop. It will be archive and available as well, and a lot of behind the scenes access and some really good stuff there from head coach Aban Meyer, Trent Baulk involved in, and a lot of folks behind the scenes making that happen.

So be sure to check it out tonight. Logs. I'll be checking it out seven o'clock tonight on YouTube YouTube channel Jaguars Ute Channel. I got the I got the YouTube app on my TV. I'm startling. I'm starting to learn how to do all that stuff. Welcome to the twenty one century Logs. That's glad to have you here. Find you know, look at Sometimes it takes a little while, that's okay. Nobody said I was a fast learner. JP.

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and the ways of the twenty one century JP. Let's go around the National Football League. A lot going on around the league, a lot going on in Kansas City. On their offensive line. They've released their starting tackles Eric Fisher, Mitchell Shworts, and their center Austin Rider is going to go to free agency, So three fifths of the starting offensive line for the Chiefs will be different next year. I think they could bring back some of these guys that may be a reduced amount of pay. I think

that may be part of it. Fisher, I thought, I thought Eric Fisher they gave him much, much, much, too big of a contract, and I thought the value wasn't there for the contract they gave him. Uh. Shorts, the right tackle has been her lot when he is healthy.

Good football player, I mean really good football player. So somebody if if he gets back to being healthy, because that's a guy that has played nick before and he's tough, and he had a consecutive game streaks played that was a long amount of time before he ended up getting hurt this year, and he will provide great value for somebody at the right tackle spot. The look changes, UH, is always happening in the Ken said Chiefs. I'm sure we'll find some solutions to some of their change. The

Saints have plenty of change as well. They were so far over the cat they're having to clear out guys to make the cap numbers. And ours Jenkins a cornerback at whack today, Kwan Alexander linebacker, wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders, a little bit of a little bit ago a couple of days ago, uh, And then they've moved salary money into bonus money for a bunch of different guys, and they're really kind of up against it here. So there's some names coming out of New Orleans that will be

out and available in the market. Well, they got a reboot, I mean that essentially they don't have a choice with their salary cap situation. But you know, the crazy thing is the question is still out there who's gonna play quarterbacks? And Breeze has not announced anything. There was a report that there was an announcement pending, but that was a while ago. And I just get the feeling that that Drew Brees is not done. And I look, uh, it sure looked like he was done the way he walked

off to the super Dome. Look when you when you walk off the field and you and he lost, I mean when who looks good with that? I mean he and he didn't play particularly well down the stretch at times. But will it be then for for Drew Brees or does Drew Bee breeze? Watch what Tom Brady did and go, man, you can still do that? You know, I'm I'm not as old as him. Why should I stop now? Right? And and hopefully Drew Brees has saved his money got some of that money back from all those diamonds that

he bought four years ago. That was one of the one of the most bizarre stories maybe aver that a that an NFL quarterback is going to invest in diamonds and trust somebody on their word and yeah, I'm gonna buy all these diamonds. I'm gonna make a lot of money. And then you find out that the diamonds that you paid for you were paying full freight. What are you doing. I don't know. We've all made mistakes. I don't know, yeah, JP, but I mean that was Yeah, it was a weird one.

I'll say that. How many millions of mistake was that? Anyway? So a strange thing. But it'll be interesting to see what happens with Drew Brees in New Orleans and and what happens with the Saints if Drew Brees does not play. What are they gonna do at quarterbacks? A great question. Um, let's go speak in a quarterback. North Dakota State quarterback Trey Lance will not run the forty his pro daylogs. He said, look at the GPS the National title game

a couple of years ago. He ran for forty four yard touchdown in that game and GPS that he had on clocked him at twenty one and a half miles an hour. That would have ranked twelve in the NFL last season among ball carriers and tops among quarterbacks. So you talk about game speed, talking about Jimmy Smith game speed, you can actually see that statistically now on GPS, which I think it's amazing. I mean, you've got a quarterbacks you can run twenty one miles an hour and maybe it.

That's a that's insane. I would love to know what some of the other quarterbacks in the National Football League, namely the one in Baltimore, how fast he has run before because he is electric right, according to this, it would have been most among quarterbacks, so it wouldn't have been this fast. But I still want a quarterback that

can throw the ball instead of run fast. Okay, okay, because the job description of the quarterback is to get the ball into the hands of multiple guys that run fast, and that those guys can also take the pain and an abuse a lot better than one person that plays quarterback. Speaking of that, guys who can get the ball in hands of other playmakers and guys that are making a lot of money doing that. Dak Prescott four years, hundred sixty million dollar deal Jerry Jones paid less for the

Dallas Cowboys franchise. In he paid a hundred and forty million dollars to buy the Cowboys and the franchise is now worth five and a half billion with a B dollars by the way, and he said in the Prescott fence, Jerry Jones said, if anyone has ever taken advantage of me financially, I'm proud it's the one next to me, and he pointed to Prescott right there. He's gonna get seventy five million paid out in the first year. Literally, the contract dwarfs any other quarter, any other contract in

the history of the NFL. Patrick Mahomes is vastly underpaid. Tom Brady is grossly underpaid. Everybody else Now when you look at the Dak Prescott contract is under paid or do you say that Dak Prescott is overpaid because Dak Prescott held all the cards in the negotiations with the Dallas Cowboys, and the Dallas Cowboys have nobody to blame but themselves because they continued to use the franchise tag instead of striking the deal early on, which they could

have done at a much cheaper rate. And so that's that's the part. You know that as a as a franchise, you you want players to prove their worth, but at the same token, you'd like to kind of be ahead of the game a little bit and pay them before they prove their worth, because then you get value when they prove their worth and you have to pay them and then multiple times franchise them. Guess what the player is getting paid more than their value, as in the

case with Dak Prescott. What is the way to live up to that contract? Super Bowls? Yeah, I mean for that kind of money, you've got to win super Bowls, and if you don't win super Bowls, he will be judged off of that. It's no different than when Andrew Norwell came in here and did not play well his first year, monster contract, highest paid guard in the league, didn't play like the best guard in the league. Okay, then he got judged and many people viewed him as

a disappointment. People still do. Some people still do because they never got over that year. The reality is that he's played to the level of the recent contract Dak Prescott. Though at that level you gotta win super Bowls. That's been tough for the Cowboys to find the postseason, and

much less winning the postseason. If you compare Dak Prescott's contract in every way, shape or formed, from the payout in the first year to the payout in the first two years, the guaranteed money, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, it is by far the richest contract that there is in the National Football League. And you're talking about a quarterback who hasn't won a Super Bowl yet. Who oh, by the way, last year had a major injury, right right,

So is that value? We'll find out. I guess what that value is. And it's one of those things, you know, what, what should you have done? Should you have just let him walk? Well they didn't. They didn't. Did it? Now if he walks, Now he's carrying a bag over his shoulder, and he's got to have a will barrel helpth Cary. There's a brinkstruck. Pull it up to his house. I a lot of money cornerback here. All right. That's done it.

For another program of Jaguars Happy Hour, check out tomorrow on the official podcast network, The Jacks Broadcast weekend review highlights from the shows and press conferences all week long that will be up in the early afternoon tomorrow. Logs, great to see you actually in person. Great first time it along, Yes it is, and we'll talk to you again soon next week soon Thursday to Happy Hour. That's

Jeff Logaman, I'm JP Shadrick. Our thanks to Joe Fortunado Blake in the back room getting it done today on the video side, and for our entire crew. I'm JP Shadrick. It's Jaguars Happy Hour on the Jaguars Digital Network.