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this afternoon Organized Team Activities presented by Baptist Health. We'll hear from Urban Meyer some post practice comments about how the team is coming together off the field. We'll have some comments about what happened on the field today too, and we'll hear from center Brandon Linder. We caught up right after practice today with the eighth year center for the Jaguars. We'll go around the National Football League as we always do. Jeff Blackman, good afternoon, Jeff. It is

a good afternoon. It's a little warm, but but a good one. I think I lost some weight today just standing out. I don't think so, No, maybe I didn't. Okay, I think you're good Okay, well there's a work in progress. You must have hydrated really well, because good, that's it. So some of the players out there looked like they

were they were losing some pounds though. It was interesting they you know, this first time we've seen o t A. So the last time we were out on the field was Rookie Minicamp, right, so, and well the weather for Rookie Minicamp was just absolutely gorgeous and today, uh, temperatures, I mean when you go out to the practice field at twelve o'clock, I mean, that's right. And what I always consider the doldrums of the heat in Florida, which you don't have a lot of a breeze and you

don't have anything protecting you. The sun is right over top and it's hot. I mean, that's just the way it is. But look, that's always been one of the advantage of being a team in Florida is that when teams come here and they've got to come to your environment and your place and playing your heat, so you gotta get used to it. And uh, the players definitely look like they were getting used to a little bit, I would say going into today, since it was our

first chance to see some of this stuff today. You want to see what Trevor is doing right. The big news story nationally is Tim Tebow? What did he look like today? And maybe some of the pieces on defense, and see how they've been working in the off season. I think those are the three real priorities for me today,

at least. Well it was. It was interesting because when when you when you kind of surveyed where the media was at, because you know, the media is allowed to be on one side of the field, and for some reason, the table started to tilt towards the east. And what I mean by tilted to the east, there were a group of about twenty Okay media members there were all over to the far eastern side of the area, which where they were allowed, which also happens to be the

area where the tight ends were at. Okay, so they wanted to get a first hand, up close look at the tight end group. And I'm sure part of that was Tim Tebow and uh so. But it was interesting because you know, there's like fifteen twenty of them all over there. Don't underestimate Ben Ellison. He draws a crowd. The rest of them we're kind of scattered about, you know, along the northern boundary of the field. But man, at

one side, there was a whole bunch of them. And I'm sitting there and saying to myself, I mean, are are you really? Are you really expending that much energy wanting to focus in on Tim Tebow when And I'm not trying to to to downplay him whatsoever, but as far as impactful players with this organization, there's somebody else on the other side of the field that's wearing number sixteen that might have a a lot bigger impact on

this football team. You might want to be watching, you might is, yes, instead of watching but he first day out there, and you only get one day a week out there this year. We're not an old ten. We're only at what three o t a s of the ten and then the three day minicamp after that, so that there the options are limited to have a chance to see some of these Sure, but a lot of people are gonna be asking how to Timmy look? Let

me ask you Timmy look? Uh. And I didn't spend all of my time over there like some others that might have a better opinion on By mean, I watched him a little bit when it was more in a team setting to see how he did, and he looks like he's a player that's making a position switch and that's trying to find his way, you know, which means that uh, compared to some of the other tight ends that that are more veteran, he looked a little slower, a little bit kind of trying to figure it out.

But you know, that's to be expected for a guy who hasn't played, you know, at ball and quite some time, has never really played the position for the most part. So uh, But he gave great effort and you can tell that he he had the attention there and he was trying to get better and working hard. I mean, so, I mean, all those things were there and and those

are the things that you always knew about it. But as I said, there's other areas of this football team that I think are going to have a much bigger impact on this team's success going forward than number eighty five. Right now, let's hear from head coach Urban Meyer. This is the organized team activities portion of the off season Phase three. How's it going with this team camaraderie off the field. If you said in January, what would be your ideal vision of what the team looked like in

what is May. And once again, I'm not talking about execution. I'm just talking about camaraderie, ownership, work, ethic, sports, performance, changing bodies, health of players. You know, I'd great at an A plus. I can't be more happy with everybody talks about the draft and free agency. I'm not gonna let people forget there's a great core group of players in the Jaguars organization that want to win, and um, it's our coach's job to give them an opportunity to win.

So they're all here. They all enjoy being around each other, they enjoy being around the staff. And uh, it's been it's been really good. That's a good sign. Ninety players were here today. Everybody in the roster was here. And there are a few teams around the league that are they don't have anywhere close to that. The Browns I don't think had anybody or you know, single digits players coming in because J C. Traders there. You know, he's

the player rep. So uh, they're here, which is uh, you know what urban I think the organization would like to change the culture and have those guys around here as much as possible. Well, and uh and I think it's smart for players to be in attendance. UM. And I was a Union guy, and I understand that j C traders than National Football Players Association, UH, president, and understand it. Look, he's obviously discouraged the Brown's players from participating in the O t A and good. I mean,

if that's his progative, that's his progative. But I think there's value of having teammates work together and be together. And like I said, I was a vice president of Union when I when I played, so I differ a little bit. Especially I differ a little bit because when it comes to putting yourself at risk, UH, there's no protection when you work out on your own or you choose to not be a part of what the team is doing. So but look, I was impressed with the

day they had high energy. I think the thing that impressed me the most JP was I mean, you kind of kept saying this a few different times while we were standing together for a period of the practice that we were watching. We were saying, get off the ground, get off the ground, off the ground. There was the energy, of course, and I consider that a little something. It's energy, yes,

but it's also it's it's the competitive aspect. And really, when you're when you're training in the off season and you're part of the off season team activities, you have to really kind of walk a fine line. You want to make sure that you're being careful, but at the same token, you want to have your players be competitive.

And uh, and I think they're okay. And I think that obviously as they go along, they'll they'll learn the pace and the tempo and and be a little bit better at protecting each other and and uh and things of that nature. But I thought it was good. I thought it was good. And because you know, you don't get better unless you get players that are willing to compete against each other. That's how you get better. What's the old line, it's better to say woe than getting up. Yeah,

and there's an old thing. You can't uh teach a you know, a dog how to fight, and the fights either in the dog or not, you know. So uh, as Lawrence Taylor, I used to always say when he was on the field, be like a crazy all go out there when he'd be like doing his park thing and all that kind of stuff. But yeah, I mean it was good. It was fun to watch today, and it was great to see everybody out there. I thought that Trevor Lawrence had an okay day. It wasn't an

exceptional day. There were times that he looked really good. Urban said they worked a lot of red zone today and just kind of okay. It wasn't you know, but you know, and and a lot of people may look at that and go, wow, you know, well, you want your first overall pick to be better than the red zone. I'll say this throughout the course of practice, his throws and his timing and his placement of the ball is really good. One of the areas that are that's harder

to master for quarterback a couple of things. One is the red field because the field shrinks, windows get smaller, time, everything gets sped up. And then also the two minute draws. I mean, those are the things that I think are more challenging for a quarterback making that transition from the College of the pros, because it's hard are already move

into the pros because the windows are already smaller. Well, then all of a sudden they get even smaller in the red zone because the field shrinks a little bit. And then the time obviously is spit up and then the two minute drill because it's, uh, it's kind of a change constantly on the go. So I mean those are things that will come around. And Trevor Lawrence is

not going to have a growth curve without bumps. I mean, that's just even the great ones had difficult times earlier in their career, and I'm not saying that he's going to have a difficult time. I think that he's going to have a little bit easier time of it than some of the other quarterbacks because he has a mobility factor.

And then you also have the ability to tailor some of your play calling in in the NFL has embraced some of the the r p O and the read option principles in the game, whereas you go back to some other errors in the NFL, they didn't embrace those things, and so quarterbacks just kind of had to to learn right away to function in the pocket and didn't have the ability to use, Okay, let's run some of the things that I had in college to help me along the way, where Trevor Laiss is going to have some

of that ability because now a public address announcer of practice too sounds like Fernando Lovo is the chief of staff, and he uh during practice, uh says what's next and counts down the clock, just so guys are aware one least thing to have to think about. It kind of cuts down on the screaming from coaches to go where they're going next. And I think it also helps organize the coaches a little bit, probably because the coaches know

where they need to be or not to be. And I can tell you this is a many players that played the game. If they heard that, they would probably have a lot of fun with him throughout practice. For example, he's giving you a countdown, you know, how much time is allowed to or left remaining in the period. You'd be probably yelling from somewhere how much time is it? Again? From how much you'd be that guy? And then Uh,

there's another thing he says, you know, hydrate, hydrate. You know, there's a period where they want them to hydrate, so they're drinking a lot. And then there's another one that's like a it's a shorter, more abbreviated water break, and it's called rents. And so that begs the natural comment a Fernando, if it rents, I can't I can't drink it, do I have spit it out. I mean, just things like that. You would have a lot of fun with

them on that. But but I think it's good and that it keeps things on tempo, on pace, and on schedule, and uh, it makes the players very aware and it kind of gives a little bit of the impression that things are always high energy and that you know, you're trying to keep that tempo and finished strong. And he's

and he's always encouraging. Hey, look he's making statements like when you're not on if you're not on the field, get the mental reps, things of that nature to kind of reinforce how you can get better not just by being on the field, but being better as a team, being better by not just necessarily taking the snaps themselves. So I thought thought it was pretty cool. It reminds me of I just thought of this. Actually, the Jaguars

practiced at Bartram Trail High School during training camp. I remember that, and guess who is the public address announcer going through the practice schedule on the on the p A system. Who? Because I would go through it and up next to seven on seven, I explained to the crowd what it was and this and that that's exactly what it is. I don't know why I just thought of that, but you didn't have motivational things kind of plus two take it to level eleven, get the rents here. Yeah,

So that was interested. I just had I had visions in my mind of some of the the guys that I played with and we're around that didn't necessarily play with, but it was around as uh in the role that I do now, the brand barriers, the Kyle Brady's, how much fun that they would have had with with that.

It was an interesting scene today though. I mean it was exciting because you're out there and you're on the same field with Irvan Meyer and Trevor Lawrence, Tim Tebow and Travis et In and then all the rest of stars and that have been around here on defense already. So I think the one thing is definitely is that, look,

there's a there's a new culture. And make no mistake about it, that things are things are different and they always they always, and a lot of people say that when you have a change of the staff, and that's natural because this team and this organization obviously needed to change the direction where it was at and where it was going wasn't gonna work. And so I think the most important thing is that it just it feels better.

And on top of feeling better, it looks better. And when you watch sixteen and you've you've seen where sixteen has been and where you believe that he can go while bringing others along with him, you feel like that this organization has a chance at great things. And it's not gonna be easy. But with urban Meyer at the home and and there's a lot of there's a lot of talk and a lot of positiveness that has been created from this and it's all real, and it's all real,

and I'm excited for it. I mean, I haven't been it's been it's been a while since I've been excited about this football team. And I'm excited to see what they can do this year. And obviously it's not gonna happen overnight, but it's it's gonna be a little bit of a process. And I don't want to use that term that because people grow frustrated with it because it gets used too often. But it's gonna take some time, but uh, it's gonna happen. I just believe that is

gonna happen. Brandon Lender is now on his third head coach and we will hear from the Jaguars Center when we come back. He's in his eighth NFL season. Did you have the dump button? When you have interviewed him, Lender likes to fire off a few expletives. He is not shy about pulling the trigger on some of those from time to time. Let's say that are you playing the clean version? I believe we're gonna run a clean version.

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Johnny Ow and Joann You know it. It's funny and uh, I would happen to be at a Robert Randolph concert a couple of years ago, a year or two ago, now, I guess his rookie season. It was at the Florida Theater and it was unfortunately not well attended. It was like during the middle of the week and it just didn't hit you know, but it was probably five people in the place, and all of a sudden addle the concert. Hey, I'm gonna bring out my good friend of one Taylor

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you know? And I was disappointed personally to not hear that John Bottom, Yeah was not mentioned. Yeah, but if you want to find out whose favorite drummer is, tune in tomorrow on the Official Jaguars podcast network. Let's hear from Brandon Lender. It's his eighth season in the National Football League. You can't see a lot without pads on right now. Obviously on the offensive line though, helmets on. But they can't hit, can't hit yet. And but everybody's back.

We'll hear what Lender thinks of that about Urban fire, who walked through our interview in fact, and much more from Brandon Lender. Jaguars Center. Jaguars Center Brandon Lender with us after O t a number three A hot one today, it felt like, but take us. I mean, there's ninety guys. Everybody's here around the league. A lot of teams can't say that. Why is that? And what's the energy feel like inside the locker room? Oh? Well, I mean I

think we got a young team. Um, you know, a new coaching staff, so obviously you've got guys coming in, uh, trying to get better and show their value. Um. It's been exciting, man. You could see the culture changing. You could feel the culture changing. Um. And I mean everyone's ready to work and get this thing moving in the right direction. You're in your eighth season. I mean you don't have to be here so personally for you, why are you around? Uh? You know I'm here because everyone

else is in here. You know, I'm with the team, you know, trying to build this cohesion. Um. And I mean I live here already, so heck, might as well come in. I could be on a boat, but hey, I'm I'm not coming and get my work. It's time for the boat a little later in the summer. All right, let's let's get to the quarterback room. So far, that's obviously a very important, uh friendship relationship you have to build with Trevor Lawrence. How it is Trevor so far

to deal with and the first few weeks around him. Yeah, I've had. I've had a couple of conversations with him. Um, great kid, obviously, he's one everywhere he's been. Uh you can see you know, I mean he throws a damn good ball now. Um, but I haven't had too much work with him on the field. Uh, just been a little bit. But no, it's exciting, man. I mean the kids want everywhere he's been and he's a great, great talent, so I know everyone's excited to get you know, get

it wrong. There's a draft pick on the offensive line as well. Walker Little. You probably are a little closer to him. I would say, since he's in that room, what do you make a Walker so far? I mean, a good kid comes to work, you know, wants to work. And right now, you know, he doesn't say much. He's just soaking it all up, and I mean that's what you should do as a rookie. But now he's good. I mean you can see already see the progress in

his feet, in hands, So he's doing great. It seems like there's confidence in the offensive lind since all the shorters are back and the the offensive line coach George warhops back. What did that tell you about last year's performance as a group and then keeping it together. Keeping that cohesion is how important is that for an offensive lind to be back together? Yeah, I mean it's huge. Um. I was so excited when find out that warhops you know,

gonna be staying. And then obviously you know, we got all the same guys in that room. Um, I mean we're fired up. You know we were. It's a tight it's a tight group, tight room. We hang out outside the building. I mean we're truly you know, friends, and we truly love each other. So I know we're excited and we're excited to set the tone starting with starting with our you know group. All right, Urban Meyer is he has advertised you hear about him. You've seen him

on TV. You know, you've won a lot of football games in his past. What's he like in this building as the head coach. He's been doing great here is right now now, he's been changing the culture. Um, I mean it's been great again. That's a guy who's won. I mean, the guy's one everywhere. He's got you know, he's got a successful formula. So I mean there ain't no question here. Everyone's bought in. Everyone's all in, and

I mean he's a he's a player's coach. You know, he's given us the best something we haven't had around here in a while. Um, he's given us everything we need to succeed. But in return, you know, he's he's gonna ask it out of us, right, you know we got when we get on that field, we're ready to work. And that's the whole mentality that he's been that he's been driving home. So No, it's been great. I'm fired up. And yeah, he's huge on the performance side of things,

athletic training, recovery, all that. Not that it wasn't an importance before, but it seems like there's more of a focus and a little more time spent at the start of practice uncertain things. Yeah, definitely performed performance orientated. Um again giving us the best you know, dry needling. Uh, everyone in the training room, showing in the in the weight rooms, is showing their value and helping us succeed and get us in the get us where we need

to be. You know, um dialed in when we get out there, so we can again go out there and go hard and perform. You gotta ask an elephant in the room, how's Tim so far? Tim Tebow, have you have you dealt with him so much much yet? And what's he like in that longer Yeah, I know, I've had a couple of conversations with Tim again, another guy that's coming here to show his value, and I mean I love it. I mean why not, I don't you know, you hear you hear this and that, But why not

you know, come giving another shot. I mean, if you can help us, that's great. I love it, you know so, And he he brings a lot of leadership qualities and you know, you can pick his brain. He's been he's been around long enough, and he's done a bunch of different things that he kind of has different experiences than most most players have had. So that's something that you can tap into and learn from. You got about three

weeks left in this offseason program. What as a team do you guys have to get done in the next three weeks? Is there a checklist you guys still have to do, you know, as a team captain and a leader around this team, Yeah, I mean there's I think again we just following just building this culture, right that's what we're trying to do right now, and that we're trying to lay the groundwork and you know, what we're preaching out there is fundamentals and that's what we've been doing.

And you know, so there's nothing that's glaring. It's just getting everyone on the same page. The cohesion right and uh, just understanding what the culture is gonna be and you know, how we want to play. So that's what we're trying to replicate out there. Great stuff. Appreciate your time and appreciate it. JA. That's Brandon Lender Jaguar's Center his eighth NFL season. Always pretty good visit with Brandon when he's locked in and ready. He's not a huge media guy

during the season. It's just kind of been his which is fine. He'll talk, but it's it's this is this is the time of year where you can get some things out of Brandon. I think he's really act, you know what I mean, Like a lot of players are. You know, when you get in the season, all of a sudden, you've won one out of fifteen, it's kind of hard to have a conversation. I don't want to talk to him either at that point. Now he's look, he's a really good football player, and the only thing

that's that's holding Brandon Lender back. That has held him back is availability in the past. If he can stay healthy, he is a is a really good football player for this football team. When he has not been able to be healthy, obviously, that's a that's the one negative, part two or aspect to Brandon Lender. And that's why Tyler Shatley has been pretty valuable over the last couple of years here is because he's been able to fill in when Brandon hasn't been available. You know, a couple of

years ago, Brandon played all sixteen games. You only credited a lot of the uh ability to stay durable to some of the yoga and the things that he started doing as far as strength and flexib build a plates and stuff. He's doing all that stuff, and then last year he's still doing all those things, but it just didn't it just didn't happen. He got he got nicked

and and missed some time again. So I hope he's able to stay healthy for this football team because this is a much better football team with Brandon Lenner in in the lineup and healthy. Let's come back. We'll hear from Trevor Lawrence. He's been making the national media rounds the last couple of Days, NFL Network, Dan Patrick Show, The AP Football Podcast, will hear from the Jaguars Quarterback and plenty more ahead We're halfway Home, It's Jaguars Happy

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it's a lot of differences. I mean, it's still football, um since it's been a lot of fun to get out there with all the new guys and you know, new teammates and kind of get used to everyone. So that's been fun. But it's just different. You know, I'm a pro now and just the way people handle their business, the expectations, all those things in a good way. You know, you're just expected to to, you know, be prepared and play at a high level because this is this is

our job now. So it's been a cool adjustment for me. That's Trevor Lawrence, Jaguars quarterback on NFL Network earlier this week and Welcome Back Jaguars Happy Hour j P. Shadick with Jeff Lagman. Yeah, Trevor and making the national media rounds. He was under the Dan Patrick Show today NFL Network was on an AP football podcast earlier in the week, and just so he's getting out there a little bit and rightly. So you're gonna see him all over the place in this off season. And he's the number one

overall pick. So he is a star. He's a big conversation piece. And yeah, he's uh, you know. The one thing I kept thinking when I was watching him today, because you know, he's young, comes into the NFL and he what are the listing that heighthwight Trevor Lawrence is six twenty, that's the listing, all right? Uh if he's two twenty and I don't know about Yeah, they got him on two twenty, and you know he's he might

be to twenty. But I I see him a year or two down the road being a little bit more um thicker up top, you know, weighing two thirty pounds, but not really losing any speed because of it. I think, I think the natural way that that the body matures. I know that a lot of players change when they when they get into that three year old range. It

may be a different weight program to you know. Sure, And then like like he was talking about how this is a job now well, I mean when it becomes a job, you know, obviously all your folks and attention on is on playing quarterbacks biology class. Yeah, so, um, I look, I think he's gonna be a Marlins football player, and I think that obviously the environment you want to have around him as good as you possibly can have

it to help the success that he's gonna have. But I envisioned him at some point being a classic in the pocket quarterback that has you know, spark mind, can

make the reads, can make the throws. But I think early on he's gonna be a little bit more dynamic as far as they'll utilize some of the things that he can do with his legs so that they can kind of help the learning curve in the pocket, so function while he's functioned as a team and being effective from the quarterback position doing other things that's just besides just being a drop back quarterback, pocket passer. And that's good. I mean, there's a lot of quarterbacks that they have

done that. You know, you let them do some things with their mobility while they learn to be better in the pocket, and it's a natural transition. Early on they run a little bit more. Later on, they run a little bit less and do better from the pocket. So that's just the natural I think progression that he's going to be on we here. Brandon Lender earlier say he hasn't had a lot of on field work with him

yet because he is still somewhat limited. He's not able to take snaps from center yet and hand the ball off. So they're trying to protect that left shoulder, the surgically repaired one, and it's more caution area I think at this point. But it sounds like as the weeks here go on, maybe by many camp he could be close to That's what I think he's gonna He's gonna be fine. I don't think the shoulder is going to be an impediment to his development whatsoever. I don't think. I think

it's a non factor. They're just being cautious and that's that's smart. The other thing that I like how they're doing in practice, they're spreading the reps around so that no one quarterback is you know, they're not sitting there making Trevor Lawrence take all the reps now because they're

trying to get them ready to be the starter. I mean, Minshew's still getting reps and Luton still getting reps and beth Ord's getting reps, and they're actually doing something where they rolled it along fast sometimes where they break it up and they're like four different groups and then they have kind of all four quarterbacks and one goes, the

next goes, the next goes, the next goes. And you know, because you're when you're in uh an o t A and you've got ninety people, you've got enough numbers to where you can have a lot of people and a lot of groups working at the same time. So it's not a matter of forcing reps and trying to make make have reps just for the sake of having reps. They're still making quality reps about it. I like the way that some of the practices are organized to make

sure that everybody's getting a lot of reps. Yeah, and then then yeah and then once uh that's would be the case of the next three weeks too. I don't think they would change that approach now. I mean, this is the time of year for that. No, and you're not training camp. You'll you'll divvy it up a little more closer to games and scores later in training camp. You'll get your starters some more time, and with O T A, you're you're not you're limiting how much eleven

on eleven that you're doing in practice. So uh, that's uh, you know that's not really allowed yet so to speak. So um, you know, so I think it's it's a it's a work in progress and and they will gradually start to do more and uh and progressively move forward with some of their their play installation, playbook installation, both on both sides of the ball. So look, and let's not forget there's a defensive side of the ball of this football team too. I was about to bring that up.

We haven't really gone on that side of the ball in this program today, but initial impressions today, they had a pretty good day at the office and the red zone today, I'll say that. But you know it's an O T A number three. The defense, I thought it looked pretty good, had lots of energy, and I Joe Cullen has always been a high energy coach. I've missed that voice in the practice field. I'm glad to hear that. And I'm a people probably know I'm a big Joe

Clin fan. I always have been, even when he was a defensive line coach here when he he termed changed the name of defensive lineman to rushmen. And as far as I know that, that's not still the case here. It's he's got they've got a defensive line coach. It's not a rushman coach. But I understand his way of thinking there. But you know, it's it's fun watching and practice because you know, he's a first year defensive coordinator. In the first year defensive coordinator, you're still trying to

to figure out. And I remember talking to some other defensive coordinators that have done this, and I was like, what was your first year like? And they're always like, well, you know, you're trying to figure out what to do. You know, because if you don't have a position group and you're the defensive coordinator, you're like, all right, so they're all broken up in a position drills. What do I do? You know? Do I go hang out with the defensive backs? Do I go hang out with the linebackers?

Do I hang out with the defensive line? And Joe he hangs out with all of them, but he also drifts towards that defensive line because I mean, that's his comfort zone and and and it's totally cool. But when he gets into the team type type of teaching drills, he I think he's doing a really good job of communicating with all the position groups, and I like his energy and and he's made the comments to the team out there on the practice field that, look, we can

lead the league and effort, and that is true. If you can, if you can give great effort, you always have a chance. And and that's I think certainly will be one of the calling cards of this Jaguars defense led by Joe Colin. I'm excited to see at some point this secondary kind of settle in, you know, when we figure out who might be the lead dogs in that secondary. We're not quite there yet. It's earlier. Some

guys off to the side right now. You know, a lot of guys off to the side, a lot of guys that side, a lot of new faces back there. Who really sticks when we say guys off to the side, Guys that are not practicing because you know, maybe they had a nick or an injury or something of that nature. We don't know because obviously it's offseason and they're not telling us. Also, and so it's got a knee and he's got an ankle and then we don't get that

stuff and it's not our job to report it. But there's a there are some guys that are not playing and practice and or not practicing, so that obviously, um, you'd like to have him healthy when they go to training camp and not be worried so much about now. But that's there. There's a lot of work to do on the defensive side of the ball. And I say

there's a lot of work to do. I think there's a lot of work to do to find out who's gonna be your starters number one and number two, how's your rotation gonna work, and how you know, will your defense rotate with the scheme that you will be playing, because this is gonna be a blended defense where they play some three four and some four three, which for the most part it's kind of the same, but you can put different personnel groupings out there to kind of

have an emphasis only and lean either way. So but there's a lot there's a lot to be determined, you know, from who's playing along the defensive line, who's going to be playing in the linebacker spots, because I think there's gonna be some strong competition at that linebacker spot. And I'm talking I think all of them, with the exception of two guys. I mean, and if you're playing three four, I think you know Josh Allen is obviously going to be a starter and he's gonna be a real good player.

And Miles Jack, I think there's no doubt that he's going to be a starter. And I think the rest of them, I think they're all gonna be competing Cale monchs on Joe Schober, They're gonna be competing for playtime. There's guys that are on this roster that have been brought in that will compete with some of these guys for playing time and defensive line. I don't think it's so much important or so important. It's not so much about who's starting. It's a matter who's gonna be rotating

because they're gonna be playing multiple guys. That's just a sign of Joe Cohen, give me great effort, go ahunter Miles an hour, and then let's get another fresh guy in there and get a break for that guy, and then we rolling, We keep rolling them waves. Single game tickets on sale now for one Jaguars preseason and regular season that Jaguars dot Com or called six three three two thousand, A team of representatives is ready to help

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as they make their favorite dairy snacks. Visit Jaguars dot com slash community. Let's go around the Jaguars front office first before we go down the National Football League, and congrats ther an order for Mega Parek and Kelly Flanagan, both promoted to executive vice president Roles. Mega's now and already was the chief Legal Officer. She adds executive vice president to her title and handles the legal portion of the Jaguars business a w some fulham stuff, some development,

all this stuff. So Mega's all over the place. Same for Kelly flannagain the e VP of business Planning for the Jaguars. So congratulations to those two in order. They are rock stars in this office, and rock star when you say that, rock stars to the people that work here. Because both Kelly and Mega have great respect and great I mean I'm I mean great respect and the work that they do. And congratulations to both of them, very well deserved. And I don't remember them getting much time away.

It's like they're always on, you know, if there's a text or an email or something. It's pretty quick spots all the time. And they got it almost twenty four hours a day, and they really work hard. Let's go around the National Football League. Boy former Jaguars executive has now been hired. Bloggs, who Dave Caldwell, is now a personnel executive for the Philadelphia Eagles, announced today working for

Howie Roseman. Yes, and uh, they they have. There's been reports that have come out of Philadelphia about ownership and Howie Roseman and uh, some people getting active in a role maybe that they necessarily shouldn't be involved in. So I mean, good for day. I'm glad he got a job. I always wish people to stay employed and continue the

work that they love to do. And Dave obviously loves personnel in the National Football League and and I hope things work out in philip Philadelphia for him, And uh, the quarterback situation there and Philly is gonna be interesting this year, that's for sure. You don't think Hurts is just gonna win it out right, Well, I mean he may, I mean because right now there's not a whole lot of competition with him, right, you know, But is he

the long term answer? I don't know. I thought that they were a little bit premature and giving Carson Wentz the contract that he got, which obviously has been proven to beat for a very accurate and that they shouldn't have given him at that point in that stage. But nonetheless, look, I always hope the Eagles do well because the Eagles are close second to the Jaguars when it comes to Joe Fortunato's heart. That's true. Yeah, he is uh Philly

born and raised. The Atlanta Falcons have been in discussions with a few teams, apparently for Julio Jones wide receiver, and reports say that it includes an offer for a future first round draft pick and that the deal could

happen as early as next week. Well it could, I mean a future first round pick that may or may not happen because there's a price tag associated with Julio Jones as far as the money that he's gonna make this year, and most of the reports out there state that the the amount paid to acquire Julio Jones will also depend upon how much of the contract that the Atlanta Falcons pay. So, in other words, let's say he's guaranteed fifteen I think the number of fifteen or six

his base salaries fifteen three. Okay, So let's say the Falcons say, hey, look, we're gonna trade Julio to so team out there, Jacksonville Jaguars, and we're gonna pay eight million of the fifteen point three. That way, it's only

gonna cost you seven. Then the Jaguars might be willing to give up more and draft pick compensation because the price that they actually have to pay Julio Jones is not that much, whereas if the Eagles only want to be willing or not the Eagles, but the Falcons may only be willing to pay let's say five million, maybe the draft compensation drops because they're not willing to pay

a much of the contract. So that's kind of got an interesting thing there, because it not only involves it's not just a matter of about acquiring a great player, but it's also has a financial aspect that is kind of tied into what the compensation willer won't be. So that's gonna be interesting watch. He uh. He signed a three year, sixty six million dollar contract with the Falcons twenty five million dollars signing bone as sixty four million guarantee.

He's made a lot of money and he's been a great player JP, but he's been hurt the last couple of years up and they he couldn't find the end zone a lot a couple of years ago. Either she hasn't and so make no mistake of that. It's not like you're getting a sure fired all pro guy, which he's been in the past. I mean he he hasn't played or hasn't been available quite a bit. And he's thirty two years old this year. Also, at some point the play might deteriorate down the stretch of Tim Tebows

thirty three. And here you are saying, Julio Jones getting old at thirty two. You always I gotta see this point. I'll say that I gotta say this about Tim Tebow. He physically, he is in great shape. Got the cat's been hitting the weight room now and I know you probably don't like that term cat. The guy has been hitting the weight room. He's buff. There's a photo that Monday morning quarterback put out from practice today on their Twitter account. Check it out because he is yoked. It

is ridiculous. Definitely out logs. He is listed, by the way, since we're on this topic, not to beat the Tim Tebow thing to death, but he's six three five. I also six three to fifty five. But my six three two fifty five is much different than Tim Tebow six three. If he's six three, though, what do you think he is eleven six too? He's I'm kidding, of course he's Yeah,

that was cheap show. But did you hear that? But it seems like that, you know, the other tight ends are, you know, fans of happy gonna be happy with a lot anyway, So it seems like the other tight ends are a bit taller than Tim was a little bit. Yeah, yeah, he you know he actually. I mean if if you looked at him, is he just is walking by and you ignored the number that he's wearing, Because a lot of times when you look at a jersey number, you have preconceived notions of what a position that a guy

may play. If you just looked at him from a physical standpoint, you would think fullback, you know, fullback type of guy, maybe linebacker, one of the two, you know, because he's he's not super tall, he's not long, but he's he's muscled. He's ripped. Yeah, he's muscled, no doubt. Brandon Marshall, linebacker, former Jaguars draft pick in twelve. By the way, I don't know if you remember that Lost Smith's last last draft correct fifth round pick out of Nevada.

He's working out for the forty Niners. He last played for the Broncos in eighteen. He signed with the Raiders in nineteen but never played in the game. He's been out for a little bit. Yeah, a pretty good little run in Denver where he had some solid seasons of play for the good player and he was the same draft as Justin Blackman. Yeah, he was good. He was a good player. What about him, Well, he's he's working out for the forty niners, Okay, because he's been he's

been a good player in the league. I mean when when he left here, because he wasn't a great player here for the Jaguars, but when he left here and especially when he was with the Broncos, he was a good football player. He was there when I believe when they won the Super Bowl with Peyton Manning. I mean he he was one of the better linebackers in the league for a little period of time. Now he wasn't

an elite linebacker, but he was a good linebacker. Adam Vinntary, our final note today, announced his retirement after twenty four NFL seasons. Bill Belichick called him the greatest kicker of all time, who made the greatest kick of all time in the two thousand one divisional playoffs. That was a direct quote from Bill Belichick, and I don't think I have much of an argument that moment was huge in his career. Is you're talking about the snow kick the

tuck rule game. Yes, amazing kick. You look at when you every every year when we would prepare because we were able to watch Adam military play for an incredibly long time. Obviously with the Patriots and mccolt You know, you always add notes on players on on my game board, and with Adam Vinatari, one of the notes that you always had to write down was the number of game winning kicks that he had in his career, and then when you considered where some of those came in. Bill

Belichick does not sugarcoat things. He is dead on the money when he says the greatest kicker of all time because the moments that he had were bigger than any other kicker, more big kicks by Adam Minitary than anybody else. They'll do it for our program today here thanks to Joe Fortgnando, Brent Rievery, Trimpada, our entire crew, Jeff Flagerman, have a great Memorial Day week. I'm J. P. Shadrick and this is Jaguars Happy Hour, the Jaguars Digital Network