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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It is Thursday, February thirteenth. This is Jaguars Happy Hours.
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
It's Happy Hour. JP Shadwick with Jeff Loghman. Busy Hour ahead,
our first radio program after the hiatus of the off season,
after the twenty twenty four campaign, and planny to get
to today. The coordinators all spoke today with the media.
Well here's what the highlights of that cutting up. GM
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Speaker 4 (01:07):
JP Shadrick with Jeff Logeman. Could after do a JP?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
How the hell are you? I'm doing good? I'm doing good.
Had an ice break. A little disappointing that the last
week that we had off we got to watch a
Super Bowl. That wasn't that entertaining a little disappointment there.
So if you're an Eagles fan, but I'm not an
Eagles fan, I'm a I'm a football fan, and I
was hoping for a good game and didn't get it,
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got a got a whooping.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
The Chiefs look dead in the game.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You know it. It goes back to the philosophy of
it starts up front, and Kansas City was very fortunate
to be able to have Joe Tooney kind of get
them to where they were kind of limping along at
that left tackle spot, and then it just the damn
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kind of broke a little bit against the Philadelphia Eagles.
And they've got a lot of really good players up
front on both sides of the ball. And if it
was ever apparent that you need to build a good
football team from the front going back, I think that
would be the perfect example of that. Yeah, both lines
of scrimmage. In fact, well, I mean, the Eagles arguably
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have the most talented offensive and defensive lines in football.
Clear I think defensive line wise, the defensive tackle position
for the Eagles is just super powerful. The edges aren't
as good, but the interior is absolutely dominant, I mean dominant,
and the offensive line, I mean, what can you say
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about them? I mean that with Sakuon Barkley and Jalen Hurtz,
who is a threat to run the ball, I mean
kind of a perfect combination there. Just kind of like
what you saw in Baltimore, teaming up a great running
back with a mobile quarterback and Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry.
Now they're not going anywhere anytime soon.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Certainly.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
There's a lot of the stories down out after the
Super Bowl all the Chiefs are done and they're not
gonna be back, and Andy should retire. I'm like, you know,
there's still the Chiefs. They still have There's a reason
they've been.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
To all these super Bowls. It's not like they're just
going to magically stop winning.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
He's still the greatest quarterback in the National Football League
and Patrick Malks and and look, when you have the
greatest quarterback in the league, you're gonna have a chance
to win. And they've got it. They've got some work
to do in Kansas City to get back to where
they need to be with that offensive front that they've got,
and and defensively they've they've lost some talent. Chris Jones
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is starting to get a little bit older. Do they
have a guy that can be the next guy inside
for the Kansas City Chiefs? They don't. I mean, just
like this team, the Jaguars don't have a dominant inside presence.
You know, Ken Eric Armstead be that. You know, he's
kind of long and tooth. He didn't really play inside
this past year. Can he move inside and be productive
from that standpoint? You know, we'll see. But I mean,
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having on at interior players is what you want to
have to combine with really good edge players. This team
here in Jacksonville's got two good edge players. Where's the
help inside?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I gotta find it somewhere. We'll get to the coordinators
who spoke today, including Anthony Campanelli, the defensive coordinator who
talked about such things today, and we'll hear from him
coming up shortly.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Last we spoke you.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And I on the Air of any kind was the
day of the Liam Cohen press conference, introductory press conference.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
There's been a lot that's happened since that day.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Around here as well. Sure, Liam Cohen's in. The complete
coaching staff is in. Tony Boselli is in, right, I mean,
and they're working on the GM right now.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, and interviews are going on, and obviously it's very
important that they get the right fit. From a couple standpoints. One,
you want to have somebody that's going to work well
with everybody that's already in place, which is the most
important thing to art with. But then the reality is
is that the lifeblood of any franchise is the talent
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that's coming in and you've got to have the guy
that can pick the horses. You know, not trying to
be demeanium by saying players or horses, but you've got
to be able to bring in great athletes and great
football players because that's what you have to have to win.
And I think Howie Roseman might be the general manager
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of the National Football League right now. Year in and
year out, he's been able to add talent to the
roster in Philadelphia. Many people consider them the most talented
roster in all of football. And you've got to have
somebody that's going to come in here that can give
you starter in round one, really good player as well
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starting round two, starting round three, contributor in round four,
and then you know, it becomes kind of a mix.
Even though it's still a mixed percentage wise in the
early rounds. But when's the last time that this organization
has been able to get starter starter starter in rounds one, two,
and three. It hasn't happened. And that's you look at
some of the great historic teams in the National Football
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League and typically what coincides with that is great historic drafts.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Absolutely, And you know what he goes. All he has
to do is go to Athens. Like most of the
guys on defense came from Georgia for the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, I mean it wouldn't hurt, right, I mean, I mean, well,
I mean, look at the great college programs are. That's
where the hot bet is at. I mean, that's where
the talent is at. So if you want to get
good football players, go where some of the best college
football's played. I mean it's not just Georgia, Ohio State,
but you're you're right along Sai, Georgia, Ohio State, LSU,
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Penn State. Some of these teams that are competing year
in and year out. Obviously they've got good football players. Alabama,
you know, are they still there? By the way, with
Nick saban.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Go not, They're out, They're out of it.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Oh, but just look, that's going to be important for
this organization to get the right fit and to get
somebody that can do a great job of managing the roster,
of bringing talent and building talent for the coaching staff,
and building talent around the roster that you already have.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
And having Boselli in place as the executive vice president
of Football Operations, that means pretty much everything except the
personnel and the coaching anything football or later outside of
that is under Boselli's umbrella.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Well, and I think he'll have a little bit of
input in some of that stuff. I would think. I mean,
you know, when you have a working relationship and Tony
knows football, you know, And I've said this before, I'm
excited about Tony's presence and the job that he's going
to do. And I'm excited for him. I'm excited for
the organization. I'm excited for me because I think he's
going to have an impact, you know, because not to
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go back down that road, but you know, this organization
made a big mistake when they hired urban Meyer, and
the dynamic of the organization changed dramatically. When urban Meyer
was hired, there became this this abyss that existed between
the business side of the Jaguars and the football side
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a divide, and football was kind of given their own
I guess you could say, put this way, they didn't
work together. And in a market like Jacksonville, you have
to have everybody working together, the business side of things,
the football side of things. Everybody's got to be rolling
in the same direction. And that era of urban Meyer
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created separation. And I think Tony will help bridge that
gap to get everybody working together again. And I think
that's important because if you're not working together, then you're
not being the most efficient organization that you possibly can be.
And so I'm excited for what's ahead. I'm excited for Tony.
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I'm excited for the organization, and I think the fan
base should be excited as well, because I think they'll
do a great job.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
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The Jaguars coordinators all spoke with the media today, all
three of them. Let's start on offense with Grant Yudenski,
the offensive coordinator, twenty nine years of age, coaching a
quarterback in Trevor Lawrence that's not far away from his age.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
The physical talent you can see, and you guys probably
have had more time watching it than even me over
the course the past couple of years. The most exciting
thing for me is the guy and the person as
I've started to form this relationship, because, like I said,
the quarterback position is still played by a person. It's
still a human being back there who's got to stand
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back there and navigate tight pockets and hits and escape
and deal with eleven, you know, ten other guys in
the huddle, all eleven on defense and make those decisions
in snap judgment. So the person that we're getting to
deal with and work with on a day to day
basis is super exciting for me because listen, if we're
up here spending as much time as we do trying
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to pour ourselves into somebody he's the type of guy
that you want to invest time in.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
That's r.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Denski, who spoke with the media today the full press
conferences at Jaguars dot com and Jaguars YouTube. You can
tell pretty quickly in the press conference today why he
has risen so quickly up the ranks of the NFL.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Many people consider him a bright, young star and young
is right. How old is he?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Twenty nine?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I mean incredibly young, fast rising, And this is one
of the coaches that if everything goes as planned, you're
probably not going to have him for very long. And look,
that's okay. That means you're having success if all of
a sudden you're losing coaches. But what he was able
to do in Minnesota was Sam Donald, I think is tremendous.
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I mean, holy cal Sam Darnold had a career year,
and I think Yudinsky had a big part of that.
And what is Sam Donald going to make money wise
this year now? I mean he's probably going to get
an opportunity to be a legit starting quarterback in this league.
And I think prior to last year, many people viewed
him as a journeyman backup, as a guy that you know,
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you Okay, you might do a good job in a pinch,
but you didn't expect him to be the starting quarterback
for the whole rest of the season. And he did
a great job. And so you know, kudos to Yudinsky
and glad to have him here and glad to have
I looked, the more the more great minds that you
can have on offense, the better off you're going to be.
And so I don't care if they're twenty nine, thirty nine,
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forty nine, fifty nine, sixty nine. Hell Tom Moore, what
was he eighty? Give me all the bright minds that
you can get. Yeah, you know you need to get.
And here's the most important thing. When Seat Khan introduced
Liam Cone as the head coach, he talked about how
it was imperative that the whole Trevor Lawrence thing was
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in alignment with the views of the new head coach,
and Yudinsky's got to be a big part of that.
He's offensive coordinator. He's going to be working closely with
with Trevor as well as you've got a quarterbacks coach
that's going to be there as well. I mean, everybody's
got to be working in the same direction and getting
this offense to be as productive as it possibly can be,
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and getting the best and brightest coaching staff is obviously imperative.
But then now you need to start adding the players
to that. That's where we're at with this whole GM search.
So it's a puzzle, and the puzzle all fits together.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Of course you didn't. You will be involved in designing
the offense. Liam Cohen will call the place he announced
that Durgan. By the way, why was it such a
big deal? In a mystery last year as to who was.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Such a huge I remember having a conversation with Doug
Peterson and I was like, you know, I said, I
don't understand the mystery. I don't. I mean, if you
just answer the question, people will stop asking, it won't
be a big deal anymore. And for whatever reason he
chose to keep it this big secret anyway I did.
I didn't get it.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
It almost felt like he had fun like listening to it.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Which was strange.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Exactly, it creates a conversation that doesn't need to exist,
and what you're saying, distraction falls into that category if
it's a conversation that doesn't need to exist, and the
other part of that. I mean, are you not giving
any love or credit to your offensive coordinator, Press Taylor
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that's actually calling the plays? How does that make him feel?
When you don't want to answer the question, what are
you scared to tell people that the press is calling
the plays? By the way?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I first thing, I might have a little bit of
a beef. The first thing that happened. Ben Jonson gets
hired in Chicago, hires Press Taylor.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah, yeah, of course, okay, yeah, Look, I like Press
will be fine. I like Press. Good luck to him.
I wish him nothing but the best.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
You know how this goes, Like you know, how his
league goes, he'll sometimes at some point become a coordinator again,
and probably if they have success, he'll have a chance
to interview and be a head coach in the league.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
That's just how it's going to go.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
That's how the league works, how it goes. Success leads
to opportunities. Pact simple.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
We're back in a moment. We'll get to defense. Anthony Campanelli,
defensive coordinator speaking today as well. We'll hear from he's
farwell in a little bit, the special team coordinator, kept
on the staff and more on the GM interviews and
a possible timetable for completion of those run ten to Nexcel,
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Speaker 6 (15:26):
My vision for us defensively, We're wanna be a tough, fast, physical,
violent at the point of attack team. What does that mean?
Speaker 7 (15:36):
All right?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
That means that you got guys who take pride and
not getting blocked. Everybody talks about running to the ball.
I don't think there's another person in the world who
believes in running to the ball more than I do.
But you can't run to the ball if you don't
get all the blocks. And that is something that's gonna
be celebrated in our room. It's gonna be celebrated in
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the culture of our team. You know, there's gonna be
a point. There's a point in every play where somebody.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Tries to block you.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Right, your passion to not stay blocked is really what
makes plays on defense.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Welcome back at Jaguars Happy Hour and Jack's Football is
presented by Fresh from Florida It's Always in Season, JP Shadwick.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
With Jeff Logoman. That was Anthony Campadelli.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
The Jaguars defensive coordinator speaking with the media today and
coordinator day. We heard from Yudinsky earlier the OC we're
here from Farwell coming up the special teams coordinator. But boy,
the defensive side of the ball, there's plenty to discuss
here on this side. With the way things finished up
statistically last year. The staff has blown out, and we
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are with Campadelli coming in and a different kind of attitude.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
You heard some of it there, and a passion for.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Not getting blocked or not staying blocked at least getting
off blocks and running to the ball and be aggressive.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
You know, coming off of what was arguably the worst
defensive performance in franchise history.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
It's top two, I.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Know, if it's not number one, it's right there with
that twenty was that twenty twenty season?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Twenty twenty? Yeah, And and here's the reality. The twenty
twenty season that you're referring to, the defense was completely
void of talent. This defense from last year was not
void of talent, right, one of the worst coaching jobs
that I've ever seen from a defensive coordinator staff. Not good,
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wasn't good at all. And you know, unfortunately it was
a it was a poor decision there, and uh, you know,
and that's one of the reasons why you had you
had to kind of make a big change there. And
I like Campanelli. I mean everything that I've seen on him,
he seems to have a great mindset. It's a defense
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is not complicated. It's running, it's hit, it's hackling. Its
effort and I've been on some defenses to where effort
makes up for a lot of talent shortcomings. And when
you watch the Green Bay Packers play defense, extremely disciplined,
extremely well coached, did not leave any holes. And I
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think that's the key, is that you've got to give
yourself the best chance to possibly succeed by being in
the right position. And then the last year that was
like the anti definition of what the Jaguars were. Mental mistakes,
blown coverages, explosive plays time. It was downright terrible, brutal,
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it was it was hard to watch. And I think
Campanelli will help bring a disciplined, aware approach to this
defense and it's much needed.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
You've seen his the videos from his earlier stops when
he was in front of the team, from times there's
to Miami.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
A little salty salty language.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah I did see that, So he'll grab some attention
in the room.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah that's fine, it's fine. And then you know, the
reality is that I think the best coaches, number one,
give the players the tools to be better, because all
players want to be coached. It's not like players think
they've got it all figured out. If you if you
can show a player that you can help them be better,
then that coach immediately has respect because if a player
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gets better, it helps everything down the line for the player.
It helps his contract situation, he gets to get more money,
more fame, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, on down the line. And
so if you can find a coach that's a great
motive that's going to help the players and be better,
then look, take care of them. And then last year,
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I don't know what the heck that was last year,
it was disappointing.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Though.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Campanelli's a linebacker by trade when he was a player,
went to Rutgers and then, so that means he's always
has onlinebackers as a coach as well. When he was
up and coming, he's been a linebackers coach. He's the
coordinator now, but that also to me it's like, what's
going to happen with Devin Lloyd. How can he get
the best out of that type of player. There's been
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such a mystery around what he's doing at times.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Well, I think that that's going to be one of
the probably one of the first things that they will
look at, is you know, because last year Foyer Lucan
was changed out of the position that he had been
excelling at for years.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
He was coming off the field. Remember they were rotating
guys in the world that was.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
About and uh and and Devin. I think he's got
a great skill set and he's got an amazing talent
for making plays, but he's just got to clean up,
you know, the mental things. I mean, that's the part
that's got got to get better. And that was kind
of the calling card of Green Bay. And so if
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you're going to play I think in Campanell defense, you've
got to be able to be assignment clean and that's
got to get cleaned up. And there are some questions
and obviously a lot of that's going to be dictated
on what you do in the off season to add
to that as well. But you know, I always like
it when linebackers coaches get to the point where they
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become coordinators because some position groups don't float up front
and back end. So in other words, like defensive back coaches,
it's all about it's about coverage and then they work
their way forward. And then with defensive line coaches, it
kind of starts upfront and then it works its way back.
With linebackers, it kind of it starts both ways because
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they're coaching linebackers that have to be schemed because of
what's happening upfront, and then also what's happening back in
the back end. A lot of times a secondary coach
doesn't care what a defensive front is doing as long
as they work with the linebackers, but a lot of
times they're not working with what's going on up front.
So I think the combination of experience he says a
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linebacker coach, and and also it wasn't like he was
just a position coach. He was I think a run
game coordinator in Green Bay. So there's also a little
bit more responsibility entailed with that.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Interesting to see how this defense improves and what it
looks like, what it feels like.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Let's get rid of the whole hockey shifts thing. Okay,
everybody's gonna play, and you know, come on, there's a
reason why JP that some guys in football make a
lot of money, and there's a reason why some guys don't.
We don't have a depth chart, yet there's there's always
a chart.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
In fact, I never really got that whole thing.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Let's take one of our better players and not have
him on the field and see if that gets this.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Better for aluk but played what was that game was
in New Orleans? And he played like ninety snacks. Okay,
never had a snap to where he looked like he
was tired.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
He never came off the field in like his whole career.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Has literally has some of the best wind that I've
ever seen a football. Is incredible. We're going to take
him out for fifteen twenty snaps a game just because
we want to rotate guys. Last time I checked, he's like,
he's your best linebacker and best Mike linebacker too. By
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the way, let's change him the will. We're going to
reinvent the wheel. So what are we doing? Ill not
doing that anymore? I don't, I don't know. Hopefully we'll
get all that fixed.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
He's a fun conversation half.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
So we had an interview last I guess that was
earlier in the week on Jaguars dot Com Campanelly, just
some ideas of how he operates and how he goes
about it. And we talked about red sauce places in town,
big Italian food fan, the whole thing. Oh yeah, he's
he's a Jersey guy, right, Yeah, a Jersey.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Guy throw through. I mean tell that.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
And uh yeah, their family is a massive high school
coaching family in Jersey.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
They've been through it forever.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
He needs to go to ends us.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
See you're already putting commercials out there. Well, I'm just saying,
I'm just saying, let's come back in a moment. Special
Teams one of the holdovers from last year's staff.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
And for good reason too, to hold them.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Indeed, and for.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Good reason, we'll hear from Heath Farwell, the Special Teams coordinator,
when we come back to to Nexcel, Jaguars dot Com,
Jaguars YouTube.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
This is Jaguars Happy Hour.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Great energy, I mean that's what you're gonna see.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
You know, when you ever you talk to him, it's
always good energy. You know, he's young, energetic, and he's
gonna tell you how he feels, which I think is
a great quality. I mean, uh, you know him and
I have hit it off, you know, you know really well.
And the staff he's brought together, great energy, young young guys, uh,
and some of the cool stuff to camaraderie. I think,
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stuff that we're gonna do of getting together for some dinners,
you know, at the combine and some of those things.
That's really what's gonna bring the staff together. That's what
it's gonna take. It's gonna take bringing all this staff
together from different places, getting him ready to go.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
The player is gonna show.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Up and and in in in in no time at all,
So we got to get all on the same page.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
He's Farwell, the Jaguars Special Teams coordinator hold over from
last year. Welcome Back Jaguars Happy Hour with the Hundai Studios,
the Miller Electric Center, JP Shadwick with Jeff Logoman on
Tintin XL, Jaguars dot Com and Jaguars YouTube. Far Well
forty three years of age, and that's a little bit
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about a half year higher than the mean of.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
The average agent. I'm just saying.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
But Farwell's been around here since twenty twenty two. He'll
stay on as well his assistant Luke Thompson. So the
special teams groups, I was one bright spot for this Jaguars.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Team last season by far, and good decision to keep
both Heath and Luke on board. Look special teams, I
thought was a real bright spot for this football team.
Pro Bowl punter, pro Bowl long snapper, and you have
a Pro Bowl caliber rookie kicker. And if you watch
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the way that your rookie kick kicker handled all the
moments this year, highly impressed, highly impressed. And that I
think also is due to getting great coaching consistent. The
return game needs to be a little bit better, but
I think some of that has to do with a
little personnel. I'm excited that they kept both of those
eyes on because when you got good coaches, don't let
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them walk away. The coverage groups are always pretty consistently solid, right,
I mean, never really let anything.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Big break loose on them.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
No, and very consistent, you know, And I think that's
that's not easy with special teams, you know, week in
and week out because a lot of times injuries change.
You know, lot a lot of people don't think about this,
but when you know, with the Jaguars when and the
amount of injuries that they've had. When you have injuries
to starters, that impacts special teams across the board because
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now you've got to backup going into play defense. A
lot of times you got to find a replacement to
run on special teams. In some cases you still the
guy just basically gets extra reps. But I think they've
done a great job of managing the special teams and
managing the roster. And I've never had a player say
a bad thing about the special teams coaches here, with
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Heath and Luke Thompson highly respected coaches.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
He said today, you know there's kind of that window
right after the season where okay, am I staying and
then I go in you know, there's.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
They haven't hired a coach yet.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Sure, he said today, Hey, the Cons, you got a family,
we want you around and the ideas that we're going
to have you back around here. And then it worked
out that way once Liam Cohen was hired as the
head coach. I mean like the next day they announced
that Farwell was extended.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yeah, I didn't look. I'm sure there was a lot
of anxiety there, because you know, when you're a coach,
you know, and you get a new head coach coming
in and you're under contract, you don't know until you
get the word that you're coming back, and you know,
you got family and kids that are always involved, and
that's not easy to deal with. Unfortunately. That's the one
drawback to coaching. I think that's sometimes tough to be
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able to handle. You know. But credit Liam con for
keeping a good football coach and not just going you know, hey,
I just want to clean everybody out, just to clean
everybody out, you know, because a lot of times if
you do that, you end up missing out and keeping
a really good coach.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
If things, it's one least thing to worry about.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, and uh and and look uh how they managed
the Logan Cook has gotten better. I mean has he not?
I mean Logan Cook. We we've known for a number
of years that we thought that he was a Pro
Bowl caliber punter. He's had his best years under Heath
and Luke and so credit to him. And heck, you
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get a young rookie kicker to come in, and I
think the one thing it's hard to do is when
you have a rookie kicker's one is trusting him. But
and empowering him and keeping him confident. Did you ever
think for a minute that there was ever a situation
there was any type of wavering about sending the rookie
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kicker out there, Not one time, No nothing fazed, no
hesitation whatsoever. And I think a lot of that is
is allowing the player to thrive and to grow and
to groom him along the way, and coaching is a
big part of that.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
So congratulations to the special teams coaches. Farwell and Thompson
are back on the Jaguars staff.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Moving ahead.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
You know some of the other assistants we haven't gotten to.
We talked and heard about the coordinators here, but on
the offensive side football. He heard from Yudnsky today, the
offensive coordinator. You mentioned, those coaches around the quarterback, there's
a lot of them. Spencer Whipple will be the quarterbacks coach.
Shane Waldron will be the pass game coordinator. Waldron was
in Chicago, Whipple was in Arizona the last few years.
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Edgar Bennett is back in Jacksonville. Yeah, wide receivers coach
now for the Jaguars. Sean Seratt, the O line coach,
was a teammate at Cohen's back in College at UMass.
We met him just just long a little earlier. Today,
Chad Morton's a running backs coach. Richard Angulo sticks around
as the title.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Another coach that's done a great job and was kept
from the previous staff. Just one other thing I wanted
to mention here because I thought it was very There
was a moment there when Heath was talking about how
they had these design dinners and everything to kind of
kind of hit the ground running to get to know
each other, to get on the same page as the staff.
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When's the last time you heard anything like that? Did
you ever hear of anything like that? I don't know,
I didn't, you know, And I mean that that's good.
I mean part of forming a staff and being a
cohesive unit as a staff is getting to know the
people that you're working with and to be able to
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spend time together, to meld together as quickly as possible.
I mean, that's part of it. I mean, JP, we
do similar type things. We go out and we have
a lunch or we have a dinner, you know, because
we worked together. And I didn't hear of previous staffs
doing that. It's kind of odd.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I mean, usually you'll get the bill sometimes I'm just saying,
I mean, you want to be a good teammate, pick
up the bill.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Now we're talking.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Well, I just think it's I think it's a it's
a great thing that what Heath mentioned there, And it
kind of kind of went at first when I heard that,
I'm like, that's interesting to me because you know, you've
I've never heard that mentioned. And with the previous staffs. Oh,
you gotta remember too, they're little late in the game.
I mean, is February thirteenth, and they're just in. Look,
you got plenty of time.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
But free agency is coming up in a month, the
combines next week, so you gotta figure out all that
in the next.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Month, and then you're going to the draft. And by
the way, you got to find a general manager.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Yeah, right, that's on the plate too, right, so and
whatever he decides after the draft to do is staff
and scouting.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
And you do have an interim general manager right now.
So I mean, I think some of that stuff is
still moving ahead, and you know so, but I think
with the whole general manager thing, you want to get
that done as fast as possible.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
And by the way, the players show up two weeks earlier,
now because the new coaching staff seventh prest season program began, correct,
so you better have some things in place before they
show up. They'll have it in place, they'll be ready
to go, but you still got to go through the
meetings and the process to do it.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
It takes work. Even if the combine.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
I bet they're not gonna waste many hours when they're
not doing player interviews, just going and hanging out.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Having a cold bud Light, cold bud Light. You know,
I'm not a big fan of bud Light, but they
I think that there's gonna be not much time wasted.
Not a big beer guy, JP, No, No, not a
big beer guy. Sometimes.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Yeah, But my point is there's gonna be a lot
of work getting done.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
There's nothing wrong with working and having a cold beer though.
That's true, you know, I mean, that's kind of like
having dinner. Hey, let's get a little work done here.
Let's have a beer now. Don't get crazy or anything.
You know, you don't have any issues popping up, right,
you know, you don't want to make pro football talk
headline or anything like that for the wrong reasons. Correct, Okay,
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but but no, I love them run and there is
a lot of work to be done. And uh, how
many general manager interviews have they done so far?
Speaker 3 (34:05):
I think there's I's about ten four or five six. Yeah,
there's a it's a long list of guys. I would
I could see this wrapping up next week. I mean,
they can move through this thing fairly quickly the coming days.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yeah, you hope, and then uh, you know. Then then
I think also once you get the new general manager,
then you go through the draft process, and then you
have tweaks to the personnel department, you know, everybody that's
going to be underneath the general manager. Uh and look, uh,
let me say this, the the interim general manager, Ethan Wah,
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which by the way, I've got a high level of
respect for him. I think he's very good, and he's
in the mix and and very very talented, and a
lot of people have a high level of respect for
Ethan Wah. So you know, the Jaguars are in good
hands right now, but you want to make sure that
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everybody is, you know, in the same direction once the
decision is made. But for the time being, Ethan Waugh
is a very good person for the job.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Let's come back.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
We will wrap things up in our first show back
after the hiatus of the off season.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
We're back, baby, you know.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
And here's the thing that I hope JP the most. Yes,
that this team is back. I'm talking back in the
conversation of being a team that is consistently competing for
division titles and Super Bowls. That's what this team needs
to get back to.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
We're returning just a moment. It is Jaguars Happy Hour.
Welcome back. It is Jaguars Happy Hour presented by dream
(36:02):
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Speaker 2 (36:21):
The Jacksonville Jaguars logs.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Get ready, I want you to get ready for this.
What do you got schedule at Daily's place coming up?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I got a little.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I heard because I watched Drivetime with you and John
and uh sex Sex. Thank you, jacks Am, jacks Am,
so thank you drive Time what it used to be
called that?
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Okay, jags Am, I watched I watched it. You guys
did a great job by the way, and I had
heard you threw the lineup out. I'm like, what pretty good?
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Rod Stewart on the twenty fifth, that's about twelve days away.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
How old is Rod Stewart, I'll say eighty. What's your
favorite Rod Stewart song? Maggie Man, Hot Legs, Man, Hot
Legs come on?
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
All right.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Rod Stewart is born in nineteen forty five, so he
is eighty years old, right, still rocking the Coral reef
for band March fifteenth. That's Jimmy Buffett's backing band. Okay,
Buffett passed away of course recently. Teddy Swims coming up
May tenth.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
That'll be a good one.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Styx and Kevin Cronin and Don Felder all on June second.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Styx was my era. Those guys ain't young either.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
No.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
April Levine on June twenty third, Slightly Stupid June twenty six.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
My son loves Slightly Stupid, and they got a couple
of good, really good songs that I like.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
There's a kids Bop show in late June as well.
In July twenty ninth, Shann'aia Twain Ooh big time.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
That's a big time that's a big time show right there.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
I'd go check that out.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Yeah, No, she's I think she's great. Absolutely, she's very
pretty great voice, yes, and from what I heard, puts
on a great show.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
She's Canadian, you know that.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
I did not know that. Yes, huh.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
I think she's from like Calgary or something, which is
like a country music oddly enough, a country music and
a rodeo hotbed.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
You know. It's kind of kind of funny, you know what.
I didn't know this. So me and the wife we
had we had taken a vacation trip and we were
down in the Caribbean on an island called Saint Lucia.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
I've heard of it.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Do you know the most popular music in Saint Lucia?
It's country music? How does that happen? Doesn't she own
an island down there too? Who she does?
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Would owns an island? I think owns the island? I think,
come on, come on for real.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Yeah, I'm not making that up.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
But we had one night at the place where a
restaurant we were at, they had this guy that was
singing all of these popular country music hits and I
was like, get out of town. New York. You know,
you kind of expect to go to maybe like an
island like that and they're reggae or you know, stuff
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like that. But it was country music. And one of
the guys that we talked to on the island said
that years ago they were exposed to country music and
it just stuck. It was awesome. I was, I don't
want to say shocked, but I was wildly entertained by
the uh in this guy that we heard singing that night,
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he had a little what do they have that? A
little boxing that they can play and then they're singing
along with the other music. He was crushing it, crushing it.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
It was awesome. I didn't have a.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Whole lot of drinks yet, but it wasn't like I
was feeling really good in burn No, no, no, no,
he was great.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Tickets at dailiesplace dot com and if we're tickets and
show information all the whole schedule there as well coming up.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
So all right, do you have interviews?
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Are winding down?
Speaker 3 (40:15):
It feels like, and then two weeks away from the combine.
That's what's next in the docket for the Jaguars. The
official dates of the combine, So we're traveling to cover
on Monday Monday next week fourth then we'll be on
radio road TEK after last week and February and then
the testing Mondays, I believe, like Thursday or Friday, So
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all the media stuff is usually wrapped up through Thursday Fridays,
everybody's get out of there out and then yeah, because
they're usually coaches in GMS or Tuesday at Wednesday at
the podium, and then all of a sudden the prospects
come in by position a couple of days before they test,
so that that whole scene is blown up certainly over
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the last decade, but it's a scene now, and it's
in the Convention Center across the street from the stadium.
Will be over a thousand credentialed media for this wow
as always, and we'll be right there in the.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
Middle of it.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
It's become musty TV. I mean literally, I mean years
ago it was just like a medical check and there
was nobody there. There was no press for the most part.
And now it's a it's a big deal, it's a
it's become another media attraction. How everybody what's there? Forty
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times are how many times they bench press, how they
test and the other place that is it's kind of
like a job fare of sorts because there's a lot
of people that are there that are trying to make
connections with that may need a job or are you
looking for potential opportunities.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Well, like everybody in the entire NFL is an Indianapolis
at or not. And by the way, Indianapolis is arguably
the best city in the US for something like that.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
They've got to not move that they can't.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Well, I mean they've talked about it, but I mean
JP centrally located perfect. It's a convention center that's comparable
maybe to maybe one or two other markets in the
in the US.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
The hospitals right downtown that does all the exactly stuff
and the most important thing is to save on travel
and for everybody to have the ease of getting there
in the location of Indianapolis or you know, is awesome,
just like FedEx is in Tennessee, you know, Okay, based
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out of Memphis, Memphis, not Nashville Memphis away, right you
see that movie? Yes, And so I mean being centrally located,
it makes it convenient to get all of the prospects in. However,
many there are a little over a thousand I think, right.
Speaker 4 (42:50):
So that would be like three hundred prospects.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Okay, I don't know, three three and change. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I heard Deon Sanders one son did not get invited.
What's what, Shiloh Shiloh, Yeah, I heard he did not
get an invite to the combine.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
If Dion's gonna have something to say about probably he
says something to say about most everything, that's for sure. Oh,
but it'll be a first combine for Liam Cohen as
the head coach. The new GM will be there as well,
Miss Alli.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
The whole thing you would expect, right, I mean, yeah,
you would expect all that to be in place and
for them to be kind of banding together, working together
because everything is going to be new from the structure standpoint.
But yeah, coach, general Manager, EVP, they've all got their
hands full as far as getting everything going in the
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right direction.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
We're gonna have another one of these shows next Thursday
going on, but we'll be doing it again and hopefully
we'll be talking about.
Speaker 4 (43:50):
A GM by then.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
Well I hope, so, you know, and uh, you know,
and hopefully by then we know we've had an opportunity
to meet even more coaches.
Speaker 3 (43:56):
We met some of them today. Yeah, full disclosure. We're
obviously in the middle of Electric Center, down a hallway
from where the coaching and the personnel offices are. It's
a little bit away, but the photo room is right
across the hallway from us.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
Well, when you say the photo room, it's it's a
room where the coaches are getting their head shots taken. Right,
so they don a Jaguar shirt, you know, because all
the pictures that you've seen up until now are photo
shopped to have Jaguar jerseys on them. So now they're
taking actual pictures of them with Jaguar logo to peril.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
So we had the door open of the studio. These
guys are like right across the hall.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Pop. That's pretty cool. Yeah, it was good to see it,
have to meet some of them, Yeah, so looking forward
to that and hopefully as the off season progresses we
might maybe have one or on occasionally. He's that would
be great on the program. Yeah, talk some ball talk,
some ball talk, some ball talk, some philosophy on football,
so where they've been, get to know some of these
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co choose. I think that would be a great thing.
A lot of you mass connections that's I mean, look
at the minute, man, I think and a lot of
people some people may look at that and say, oh,
he's just hiring his You know, look, when you're when
you're putting together a staff, I think as a head coach,
you want to have people that one that you know,
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that you can trust and that you have a have
had a good working relationship with before. And the more
experienced that you have with somebody that you put on
your staff, the faster that you can be together going
forward as one. And so I think that's that's very wise.
I remember talking to a head coach years ago, and
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I'll keep him unnamed, but he actually talked about talk
about explain why he actually well, the reason I'm going
to keep him Nameles is because he made some comments
he said. You know, I asked him, I said, what happened?
You know when you had your opportunity to be a
head coach? He goes, the first mistake I made was
trusting somebody that I didn't know, and I don't need
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to reveal who was, but he said that he said
that cost him dearly. He said, I was thinking that
it would be very beneficial by getting this person that
might have had some more experience. When I had a
guy that I knew, that I trusted that didn't have
the experience, but I didn't hire him, and I trusted
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a guy that in the end I shouldn't have trusted.
And so having people around you that you trust, that
you know, I think is imperative and I think that's good.
That's good. It's good, smart and smart move by Liam Collen.
Speaker 4 (46:43):
Is this a former Jaguars coach?
Speaker 2 (46:45):
I will not say. Why not? Come on, JP, I've
been around the league for a long time. No coaches
here have known coaches elsewhere, So I'm asking you know.
And by the way, a couple of things I wanted
to mention this week. One on a sad note, the
passing of Dickjaron, who was the former defensive coordinator of
the Jaguars in the early years. He's one of the
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finest men I've ever known. Stand up guy. Uh literally,
if you ever want to write a biography as far
as how upstanding of a person that Dick Guron was,
I mean, he is the class of the class. The
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other thing, too, is that they're in this coaching cycle.
Very excited for Pete Carroll, who was my former coach
when I was in New York, and I'm excited that
he's got another opportunity at the age of seventy three,
you know, because there's I don't think there's anybody in
this business that literally has more energy than Pete. And
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I'm happy for him. And he's got his hands fulls
hands full.
Speaker 4 (47:52):
Yeah, you think.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
Building that program in Vegas, that's for sure. But if
there's anybody that can do it in a positive, energy
filled way, I think Pete Carroll was a good choice.
There pack of gum hates to see him coming, that's
for sure. But Dick John that was a great staff.
You know, we had Dick Gerron was the first defensive
coordinator in Jaguar's history. Defensive coordinator, you know, John Peaves
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was a defensive line coach and Dick Drohn worked very
closely with the secondary fine coach, Fine Man, also former
head coach of Buffalo and in Chicago. Just a fine man.
Seventy four years of it. Too young, Yeah, yeah, too young.
It's that big fan of his man, big fan hisn't
and never was a time that when you didn't see him.
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After he went on to become a head coach, elsewhere.
There never was a moment that he didn't take the
time to come and say hi, and how are you doing,
how's the family? You know, how's your life? You know?
You good? You need anything? One of those guys that
truly cared about the player as a person more than
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he cared about the player as a as a player
as a performer, And I think that really rang true
with a lot of guys.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
Last coached in the league in twenty twelve as the
defensive coordinator of the Browns, but after the Jags in
ninety eight was his last year. Here was the Bears
head coach from ninety nine to three, then the Lions
or defensive coordinator four to five, interim head coach and
five went to the Bills as the head coach six seven, eight, nine,
Eagles as a senior assistant in twenty ten, and then
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the Browns for a couple of years before his career ended.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Good Man all over the league. Yah, good Man, what
do you got coming up?
Speaker 3 (49:37):
Well, we got let's see Jaguars business. We've all talked
about the one thing that starts for me at this
time of year now, JP is now that the Super.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
Bowl is over, you turn to the draft a little bit,
and for me, it's watching some of the top quarterback prospects,
even though the Jaguars are not directly interested in that position.
When you have a quarter billion dollars invested in Trevor Lawrence.
You looked at Twitter today that some might argue, Yeah,
I mean, what was that all?
Speaker 4 (50:08):
It was silly stupid.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
So and obviously, with the Jaguars picking fifth overall, the
quarterback position will impact what's available to the Jaguars at
number five in a big way. So my month, I
start watching film. I watched the quarterbacks first. You want
you want to watch all the top you know, players
at that position, anybody that could be a potential first
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round pick is worth watching. And then we'll work on
the other positions after that. Sounds like a plan. We'll
catch up with you again next week. Logs, thank you
got it, Jeff Logan, JP Shaddick. Thanks to Joe Fortunado,
Brent Reaver, our entire crew. This is Jaguars Happy Out.
It is Thursday, February thirteenth. This is Jaguars Happy Hours.
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
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Speaker 4 (01:07):
JP Shadrick with Jeff Logeman. Could after do a JP?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
How the hell are you? I'm doing good? I'm doing good.
Had an ice break. A little disappointing that the last
week that we had off we got to watch a
Super Bowl. That wasn't that entertaining a little disappointment there.
So if you're an Eagles fan, but I'm not an
Eagles fan, I'm a I'm a football fan, and I
was hoping for a good game and didn't get it,
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got a got a whooping.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
The Chiefs look dead in the game.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You know it. It goes back to the philosophy of
it starts up front, and Kansas City was very fortunate
to be able to have Joe Tooney kind of get
them to where they were kind of limping along at
that left tackle spot, and then it just the damn
(01:59):
kind of broke a little bit against the Philadelphia Eagles.
And they've got a lot of really good players up
front on both sides of the ball. And if it
was ever apparent that you need to build a good
football team from the front going back, I think that
would be the perfect example of that. Yeah, both lines
of scrimmage. In fact, well, I mean, the Eagles arguably
(02:21):
have the most talented offensive and defensive lines in football.
Clear I think defensive line wise, the defensive tackle position
for the Eagles is just super powerful. The edges aren't
as good, but the interior is absolutely dominant, I mean dominant,
and the offensive line, I mean, what can you say
(02:41):
about them? I mean that with Sakuon Barkley and Jalen Hurtz,
who is a threat to run the ball, I mean
kind of a perfect combination there. Just kind of like
what you saw in Baltimore, teaming up a great running
back with a mobile quarterback and Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry.
Now they're not going anywhere anytime soon.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Certainly.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
There's a lot of the stories down out after the
Super Bowl all the Chiefs are done and they're not
gonna be back, and Andy should retire. I'm like, you know,
there's still the Chiefs. They still have There's a reason
they've been.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
To all these super Bowls. It's not like they're just
going to magically stop winning.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
He's still the greatest quarterback in the National Football League
and Patrick Malks and and look, when you have the
greatest quarterback in the league, you're gonna have a chance
to win. And they've got it. They've got some work
to do in Kansas City to get back to where
they need to be with that offensive front that they've got,
and and defensively they've they've lost some talent. Chris Jones
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is starting to get a little bit older. Do they
have a guy that can be the next guy inside
for the Kansas City Chiefs? They don't. I mean, just
like this team, the Jaguars don't have a dominant inside presence.
You know, Ken Eric Armstead be that. You know, he's
kind of long and tooth. He didn't really play inside
this past year. Can he move inside and be productive
from that standpoint? You know, we'll see. But I mean,
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having on at interior players is what you want to
have to combine with really good edge players. This team
here in Jacksonville's got two good edge players. Where's the
help inside?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I gotta find it somewhere. We'll get to the coordinators
who spoke today, including Anthony Campanelli, the defensive coordinator who
talked about such things today, and we'll hear from him
coming up shortly.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Last we spoke you.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And I on the Air of any kind was the
day of the Liam Cohen press conference, introductory press conference.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
There's been a lot that's happened since that day.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Around here as well. Sure, Liam Cohen's in. The complete
coaching staff is in. Tony Boselli is in, right, I mean,
and they're working on the GM right now.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, and interviews are going on, and obviously it's very
important that they get the right fit. From a couple standpoints. One,
you want to have somebody that's going to work well
with everybody that's already in place, which is the most
important thing to art with. But then the reality is
is that the lifeblood of any franchise is the talent
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that's coming in and you've got to have the guy
that can pick the horses. You know, not trying to
be demeanium by saying players or horses, but you've got
to be able to bring in great athletes and great
football players because that's what you have to have to win.
And I think Howie Roseman might be the general manager
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of the National Football League right now. Year in and
year out, he's been able to add talent to the
roster in Philadelphia. Many people consider them the most talented
roster in all of football. And you've got to have
somebody that's going to come in here that can give
you starter in round one, really good player as well
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starting round two, starting round three, contributor in round four,
and then you know, it becomes kind of a mix.
Even though it's still a mixed percentage wise in the
early rounds. But when's the last time that this organization
has been able to get starter starter starter in rounds one, two,
and three. It hasn't happened. And that's you look at
some of the great historic teams in the National Football
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League and typically what coincides with that is great historic drafts.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Absolutely, And you know what he goes. All he has
to do is go to Athens. Like most of the
guys on defense came from Georgia for the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, I mean it wouldn't hurt, right, I mean, I mean, well,
I mean, look at the great college programs are. That's
where the hot bet is at. I mean, that's where
the talent is at. So if you want to get
good football players, go where some of the best college
football's played. I mean it's not just Georgia, Ohio State,
but you're you're right along Sai, Georgia, Ohio State, LSU,
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Penn State. Some of these teams that are competing year
in and year out. Obviously they've got good football players. Alabama,
you know, are they still there? By the way, with
Nick saban.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Go not, They're out, They're out of it.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Oh, but just look, that's going to be important for
this organization to get the right fit and to get
somebody that can do a great job of managing the roster,
of bringing talent and building talent for the coaching staff,
and building talent around the roster that you already have.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
And having Boselli in place as the executive vice president
of Football Operations, that means pretty much everything except the
personnel and the coaching anything football or later outside of
that is under Boselli's umbrella.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Well, and I think he'll have a little bit of
input in some of that stuff. I would think. I mean,
you know, when you have a working relationship and Tony
knows football, you know, And I've said this before, I'm
excited about Tony's presence and the job that he's going
to do. And I'm excited for him. I'm excited for
the organization. I'm excited for me because I think he's
going to have an impact, you know, because not to
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go back down that road, but you know, this organization
made a big mistake when they hired urban Meyer, and
the dynamic of the organization changed dramatically. When urban Meyer
was hired, there became this this abyss that existed between
the business side of the Jaguars and the football side
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a divide, and football was kind of given their own
I guess you could say, put this way, they didn't
work together. And in a market like Jacksonville, you have
to have everybody working together, the business side of things,
the football side of things. Everybody's got to be rolling
in the same direction. And that era of urban Meyer
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created separation. And I think Tony will help bridge that
gap to get everybody working together again. And I think
that's important because if you're not working together, then you're
not being the most efficient organization that you possibly can be.
And so I'm excited for what's ahead. I'm excited for Tony.
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I'm excited for the organization, and I think the fan
base should be excited as well, because I think they'll
do a great job.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
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The Jaguars coordinators all spoke with the media today, all
three of them. Let's start on offense with Grant Yudenski,
the offensive coordinator, twenty nine years of age, coaching a
quarterback in Trevor Lawrence that's not far away from his age.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
The physical talent you can see, and you guys probably
have had more time watching it than even me over
the course the past couple of years. The most exciting
thing for me is the guy and the person as
I've started to form this relationship, because, like I said,
the quarterback position is still played by a person. It's
still a human being back there who's got to stand
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back there and navigate tight pockets and hits and escape
and deal with eleven, you know, ten other guys in
the huddle, all eleven on defense and make those decisions
in snap judgment. So the person that we're getting to
deal with and work with on a day to day
basis is super exciting for me because listen, if we're
up here spending as much time as we do trying
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to pour ourselves into somebody he's the type of guy
that you want to invest time in.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
That's r.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Denski, who spoke with the media today the full press
conferences at Jaguars dot com and Jaguars YouTube. You can
tell pretty quickly in the press conference today why he
has risen so quickly up the ranks of the NFL.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Many people consider him a bright, young star and young
is right. How old is he?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Twenty nine?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I mean incredibly young, fast rising, And this is one
of the coaches that if everything goes as planned, you're
probably not going to have him for very long. And look,
that's okay. That means you're having success if all of
a sudden you're losing coaches. But what he was able
to do in Minnesota was Sam Donald, I think is tremendous.
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I mean, holy cal Sam Darnold had a career year,
and I think Yudinsky had a big part of that.
And what is Sam Donald going to make money wise
this year now? I mean he's probably going to get
an opportunity to be a legit starting quarterback in this league.
And I think prior to last year, many people viewed
him as a journeyman backup, as a guy that you know,
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you Okay, you might do a good job in a pinch,
but you didn't expect him to be the starting quarterback
for the whole rest of the season. And he did
a great job. And so you know, kudos to Yudinsky
and glad to have him here and glad to have
I looked, the more the more great minds that you
can have on offense, the better off you're going to be.
And so I don't care if they're twenty nine, thirty nine,
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forty nine, fifty nine, sixty nine. Hell Tom Moore, what
was he eighty? Give me all the bright minds that
you can get. Yeah, you know you need to get.
And here's the most important thing. When Seat Khan introduced
Liam Cone as the head coach, he talked about how
it was imperative that the whole Trevor Lawrence thing was
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in alignment with the views of the new head coach,
and Yudinsky's got to be a big part of that.
He's offensive coordinator. He's going to be working closely with
with Trevor as well as you've got a quarterbacks coach
that's going to be there as well. I mean, everybody's
got to be working in the same direction and getting
this offense to be as productive as it possibly can be,
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and getting the best and brightest coaching staff is obviously imperative.
But then now you need to start adding the players
to that. That's where we're at with this whole GM search.
So it's a puzzle, and the puzzle all fits together.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Of course you didn't. You will be involved in designing
the offense. Liam Cohen will call the place he announced
that Durgan. By the way, why was it such a
big deal? In a mystery last year as to who was.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Such a huge I remember having a conversation with Doug
Peterson and I was like, you know, I said, I
don't understand the mystery. I don't. I mean, if you
just answer the question, people will stop asking, it won't
be a big deal anymore. And for whatever reason he
chose to keep it this big secret anyway I did.
I didn't get it.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
It almost felt like he had fun like listening to it.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Which was strange.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Exactly, it creates a conversation that doesn't need to exist,
and what you're saying, distraction falls into that category if
it's a conversation that doesn't need to exist, and the
other part of that. I mean, are you not giving
any love or credit to your offensive coordinator, Press Taylor
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that's actually calling the plays? How does that make him feel?
When you don't want to answer the question, what are
you scared to tell people that the press is calling
the plays? By the way?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I first thing, I might have a little bit of
a beef. The first thing that happened. Ben Jonson gets
hired in Chicago, hires Press Taylor.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah, yeah, of course, okay, yeah, Look, I like Press
will be fine. I like Press. Good luck to him.
I wish him nothing but the best.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
You know how this goes, Like you know, how his
league goes, he'll sometimes at some point become a coordinator again,
and probably if they have success, he'll have a chance
to interview and be a head coach in the league.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
That's just how it's going to go.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
That's how the league works, how it goes. Success leads
to opportunities. Pact simple.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
We're back in a moment. We'll get to defense. Anthony Campanelli,
defensive coordinator speaking today as well. We'll hear from he's
farwell in a little bit, the special team coordinator, kept
on the staff and more on the GM interviews and
a possible timetable for completion of those run ten to Nexcel,
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Speaker 6 (15:26):
My vision for us defensively, We're wanna be a tough, fast, physical,
violent at the point of attack team. What does that mean?
Speaker 7 (15:36):
All right?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
That means that you got guys who take pride and
not getting blocked. Everybody talks about running to the ball.
I don't think there's another person in the world who
believes in running to the ball more than I do.
But you can't run to the ball if you don't
get all the blocks. And that is something that's gonna
be celebrated in our room. It's gonna be celebrated in
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the culture of our team. You know, there's gonna be
a point. There's a point in every play where somebody.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Tries to block you.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Right, your passion to not stay blocked is really what
makes plays on defense.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Welcome back at Jaguars Happy Hour and Jack's Football is
presented by Fresh from Florida It's Always in Season, JP Shadwick.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
With Jeff Logoman. That was Anthony Campadelli.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
The Jaguars defensive coordinator speaking with the media today and
coordinator day. We heard from Yudinsky earlier the OC we're
here from Farwell coming up the special teams coordinator. But boy,
the defensive side of the ball, there's plenty to discuss
here on this side. With the way things finished up
statistically last year. The staff has blown out, and we
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are with Campadelli coming in and a different kind of attitude.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
You heard some of it there, and a passion for.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Not getting blocked or not staying blocked at least getting
off blocks and running to the ball and be aggressive.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
You know, coming off of what was arguably the worst
defensive performance in franchise history.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
It's top two, I.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Know, if it's not number one, it's right there with
that twenty was that twenty twenty season?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Twenty twenty? Yeah, And and here's the reality. The twenty
twenty season that you're referring to, the defense was completely
void of talent. This defense from last year was not
void of talent, right, one of the worst coaching jobs
that I've ever seen from a defensive coordinator staff. Not good,
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wasn't good at all. And you know, unfortunately it was
a it was a poor decision there, and uh, you know,
and that's one of the reasons why you had you
had to kind of make a big change there. And
I like Campanelli. I mean everything that I've seen on him,
he seems to have a great mindset. It's a defense
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is not complicated. It's running, it's hit, it's hackling. Its
effort and I've been on some defenses to where effort
makes up for a lot of talent shortcomings. And when
you watch the Green Bay Packers play defense, extremely disciplined,
extremely well coached, did not leave any holes. And I
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think that's the key, is that you've got to give
yourself the best chance to possibly succeed by being in
the right position. And then the last year that was
like the anti definition of what the Jaguars were. Mental mistakes,
blown coverages, explosive plays time. It was downright terrible, brutal,
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it was it was hard to watch. And I think
Campanelli will help bring a disciplined, aware approach to this
defense and it's much needed.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
You've seen his the videos from his earlier stops when
he was in front of the team, from times there's
to Miami.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
A little salty salty language.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah I did see that, So he'll grab some attention
in the room.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah that's fine, it's fine. And then you know, the
reality is that I think the best coaches, number one,
give the players the tools to be better, because all
players want to be coached. It's not like players think
they've got it all figured out. If you if you
can show a player that you can help them be better,
then that coach immediately has respect because if a player
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gets better, it helps everything down the line for the player.
It helps his contract situation, he gets to get more money,
more fame, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, on down the line. And
so if you can find a coach that's a great
motive that's going to help the players and be better,
then look, take care of them. And then last year,
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I don't know what the heck that was last year,
it was disappointing.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Though.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Campanelli's a linebacker by trade when he was a player,
went to Rutgers and then, so that means he's always
has onlinebackers as a coach as well. When he was
up and coming, he's been a linebackers coach. He's the
coordinator now, but that also to me it's like, what's
going to happen with Devin Lloyd. How can he get
the best out of that type of player. There's been
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such a mystery around what he's doing at times.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Well, I think that that's going to be one of
the probably one of the first things that they will
look at, is you know, because last year Foyer Lucan
was changed out of the position that he had been
excelling at for years.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
He was coming off the field. Remember they were rotating
guys in the world that was.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
About and uh and and Devin. I think he's got
a great skill set and he's got an amazing talent
for making plays, but he's just got to clean up,
you know, the mental things. I mean, that's the part
that's got got to get better. And that was kind
of the calling card of Green Bay. And so if
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you're going to play I think in Campanell defense, you've
got to be able to be assignment clean and that's
got to get cleaned up. And there are some questions
and obviously a lot of that's going to be dictated
on what you do in the off season to add
to that as well. But you know, I always like
it when linebackers coaches get to the point where they
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become coordinators because some position groups don't float up front
and back end. So in other words, like defensive back coaches,
it's all about it's about coverage and then they work
their way forward. And then with defensive line coaches, it
kind of starts upfront and then it works its way back.
With linebackers, it kind of it starts both ways because
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they're coaching linebackers that have to be schemed because of
what's happening upfront, and then also what's happening back in
the back end. A lot of times a secondary coach
doesn't care what a defensive front is doing as long
as they work with the linebackers, but a lot of
times they're not working with what's going on up front.
So I think the combination of experience he says a
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linebacker coach, and and also it wasn't like he was
just a position coach. He was I think a run
game coordinator in Green Bay. So there's also a little
bit more responsibility entailed with that.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Interesting to see how this defense improves and what it
looks like, what it feels like.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Let's get rid of the whole hockey shifts thing. Okay,
everybody's gonna play, and you know, come on, there's a
reason why JP that some guys in football make a
lot of money, and there's a reason why some guys don't.
We don't have a depth chart, yet there's there's always
a chart.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
In fact, I never really got that whole thing.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Let's take one of our better players and not have
him on the field and see if that gets this.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Better for aluk but played what was that game was
in New Orleans? And he played like ninety snacks. Okay,
never had a snap to where he looked like he
was tired.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
He never came off the field in like his whole career.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Has literally has some of the best wind that I've
ever seen a football. Is incredible. We're going to take
him out for fifteen twenty snaps a game just because
we want to rotate guys. Last time I checked, he's like,
he's your best linebacker and best Mike linebacker too. By
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the way, let's change him the will. We're going to
reinvent the wheel. So what are we doing? Ill not
doing that anymore? I don't, I don't know. Hopefully we'll
get all that fixed.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
He's a fun conversation half.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
So we had an interview last I guess that was
earlier in the week on Jaguars dot Com Campanelly, just
some ideas of how he operates and how he goes
about it. And we talked about red sauce places in town,
big Italian food fan, the whole thing. Oh yeah, he's
he's a Jersey guy, right, Yeah, a Jersey.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Guy throw through. I mean tell that.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
And uh yeah, their family is a massive high school
coaching family in Jersey.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
They've been through it forever.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
He needs to go to ends us.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
See you're already putting commercials out there. Well, I'm just saying,
I'm just saying, let's come back in a moment. Special
Teams one of the holdovers from last year's staff.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
And for good reason too, to hold them.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Indeed, and for.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Good reason, we'll hear from Heath Farwell, the Special Teams coordinator,
when we come back to to Nexcel, Jaguars dot Com,
Jaguars YouTube.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
This is Jaguars Happy Hour.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Great energy, I mean that's what you're gonna see.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
You know, when you ever you talk to him, it's
always good energy. You know, he's young, energetic, and he's
gonna tell you how he feels, which I think is
a great quality. I mean, uh, you know him and
I have hit it off, you know, you know really well.
And the staff he's brought together, great energy, young young guys, uh,
and some of the cool stuff to camaraderie. I think,
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stuff that we're gonna do of getting together for some dinners,
you know, at the combine and some of those things.
That's really what's gonna bring the staff together. That's what
it's gonna take. It's gonna take bringing all this staff
together from different places, getting him ready to go.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
The player is gonna show.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Up and and in in in in no time at all,
So we got to get all on the same page.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
He's Farwell, the Jaguars Special Teams coordinator hold over from
last year. Welcome Back Jaguars Happy Hour with the Hundai Studios,
the Miller Electric Center, JP Shadwick with Jeff Logoman on
Tintin XL, Jaguars dot Com and Jaguars YouTube. Far Well
forty three years of age, and that's a little bit
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about a half year higher than the mean of.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
The average agent. I'm just saying.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
But Farwell's been around here since twenty twenty two. He'll
stay on as well his assistant Luke Thompson. So the
special teams groups, I was one bright spot for this Jaguars.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Team last season by far, and good decision to keep
both Heath and Luke on board. Look special teams, I
thought was a real bright spot for this football team.
Pro Bowl punter, pro Bowl long snapper, and you have
a Pro Bowl caliber rookie kicker. And if you watch
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the way that your rookie kick kicker handled all the
moments this year, highly impressed, highly impressed. And that I
think also is due to getting great coaching consistent. The
return game needs to be a little bit better, but
I think some of that has to do with a
little personnel. I'm excited that they kept both of those
eyes on because when you got good coaches, don't let
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them walk away. The coverage groups are always pretty consistently solid, right,
I mean, never really let anything.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Big break loose on them.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
No, and very consistent, you know, And I think that's
that's not easy with special teams, you know, week in
and week out because a lot of times injuries change.
You know, lot a lot of people don't think about this,
but when you know, with the Jaguars when and the
amount of injuries that they've had. When you have injuries
to starters, that impacts special teams across the board because
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now you've got to backup going into play defense. A
lot of times you got to find a replacement to
run on special teams. In some cases you still the
guy just basically gets extra reps. But I think they've
done a great job of managing the special teams and
managing the roster. And I've never had a player say
a bad thing about the special teams coaches here, with
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Heath and Luke Thompson highly respected coaches.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
He said today, you know there's kind of that window
right after the season where okay, am I staying and
then I go in you know, there's.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
They haven't hired a coach yet.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Sure, he said today, Hey, the Cons, you got a family,
we want you around and the ideas that we're going
to have you back around here. And then it worked
out that way once Liam Cohen was hired as the
head coach. I mean like the next day they announced
that Farwell was extended.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yeah, I didn't look. I'm sure there was a lot
of anxiety there, because you know, when you're a coach,
you know, and you get a new head coach coming
in and you're under contract, you don't know until you
get the word that you're coming back, and you know,
you got family and kids that are always involved, and
that's not easy to deal with. Unfortunately. That's the one
drawback to coaching. I think that's sometimes tough to be
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able to handle. You know. But credit Liam con for
keeping a good football coach and not just going you know, hey,
I just want to clean everybody out, just to clean
everybody out, you know, because a lot of times if
you do that, you end up missing out and keeping
a really good coach.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
If things, it's one least thing to worry about.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, and uh and and look uh how they managed
the Logan Cook has gotten better. I mean has he not?
I mean Logan Cook. We we've known for a number
of years that we thought that he was a Pro
Bowl caliber punter. He's had his best years under Heath
and Luke and so credit to him. And heck, you
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get a young rookie kicker to come in, and I
think the one thing it's hard to do is when
you have a rookie kicker's one is trusting him. But
and empowering him and keeping him confident. Did you ever
think for a minute that there was ever a situation
there was any type of wavering about sending the rookie
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kicker out there, Not one time, No nothing fazed, no
hesitation whatsoever. And I think a lot of that is
is allowing the player to thrive and to grow and
to groom him along the way, and coaching is a
big part of that.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
So congratulations to the special teams coaches. Farwell and Thompson
are back on the Jaguars staff.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Moving ahead.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
You know some of the other assistants we haven't gotten to.
We talked and heard about the coordinators here, but on
the offensive side football. He heard from Yudnsky today, the
offensive coordinator. You mentioned, those coaches around the quarterback, there's
a lot of them. Spencer Whipple will be the quarterbacks coach.
Shane Waldron will be the pass game coordinator. Waldron was
in Chicago, Whipple was in Arizona the last few years.
(30:29):
Edgar Bennett is back in Jacksonville. Yeah, wide receivers coach
now for the Jaguars. Sean Seratt, the O line coach,
was a teammate at Cohen's back in College at UMass.
We met him just just long a little earlier. Today,
Chad Morton's a running backs coach. Richard Angulo sticks around
as the title.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Another coach that's done a great job and was kept
from the previous staff. Just one other thing I wanted
to mention here because I thought it was very There
was a moment there when Heath was talking about how
they had these design dinners and everything to kind of
kind of hit the ground running to get to know
each other, to get on the same page as the staff.
(31:09):
When's the last time you heard anything like that? Did
you ever hear of anything like that? I don't know,
I didn't, you know, And I mean that that's good.
I mean part of forming a staff and being a
cohesive unit as a staff is getting to know the
people that you're working with and to be able to
(31:31):
spend time together, to meld together as quickly as possible.
I mean, that's part of it. I mean, JP, we
do similar type things. We go out and we have
a lunch or we have a dinner, you know, because
we worked together. And I didn't hear of previous staffs
doing that. It's kind of odd.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I mean, usually you'll get the bill sometimes I'm just saying,
I mean, you want to be a good teammate, pick
up the bill.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Now we're talking.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Well, I just think it's I think it's a it's
a great thing that what Heath mentioned there, And it
kind of kind of went at first when I heard that,
I'm like, that's interesting to me because you know, you've
I've never heard that mentioned. And with the previous staffs. Oh,
you gotta remember too, they're little late in the game.
I mean, is February thirteenth, and they're just in. Look,
you got plenty of time.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
But free agency is coming up in a month, the
combines next week, so you gotta figure out all that
in the next.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Month, and then you're going to the draft. And by
the way, you got to find a general manager.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Yeah, right, that's on the plate too, right, so and
whatever he decides after the draft to do is staff
and scouting.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
And you do have an interim general manager right now.
So I mean, I think some of that stuff is
still moving ahead, and you know so, but I think
with the whole general manager thing, you want to get
that done as fast as possible.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
And by the way, the players show up two weeks earlier,
now because the new coaching staff seventh prest season program began, correct,
so you better have some things in place before they
show up. They'll have it in place, they'll be ready
to go, but you still got to go through the
meetings and the process to do it.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
It takes work. Even if the combine.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
I bet they're not gonna waste many hours when they're
not doing player interviews, just going and hanging out.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Having a cold bud Light, cold bud Light. You know,
I'm not a big fan of bud Light, but they
I think that there's gonna be not much time wasted.
Not a big beer guy, JP, No, No, not a
big beer guy. Sometimes.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Yeah, But my point is there's gonna be a lot
of work getting done.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
There's nothing wrong with working and having a cold beer though.
That's true, you know, I mean, that's kind of like
having dinner. Hey, let's get a little work done here.
Let's have a beer now. Don't get crazy or anything.
You know, you don't have any issues popping up, right,
you know, you don't want to make pro football talk
headline or anything like that for the wrong reasons. Correct, Okay,
(33:55):
but but no, I love them run and there is
a lot of work to be done. And uh, how
many general manager interviews have they done so far?
Speaker 3 (34:05):
I think there's I's about ten four or five six. Yeah,
there's a it's a long list of guys. I would
I could see this wrapping up next week. I mean,
they can move through this thing fairly quickly the coming days.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yeah, you hope, and then uh, you know. Then then
I think also once you get the new general manager,
then you go through the draft process, and then you
have tweaks to the personnel department, you know, everybody that's
going to be underneath the general manager. Uh and look, uh,
let me say this, the the interim general manager, Ethan Wah,
(34:40):
which by the way, I've got a high level of
respect for him. I think he's very good, and he's
in the mix and and very very talented, and a
lot of people have a high level of respect for
Ethan Wah. So you know, the Jaguars are in good
hands right now, but you want to make sure that
(35:01):
everybody is, you know, in the same direction once the
decision is made. But for the time being, Ethan Waugh
is a very good person for the job.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Let's come back.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
We will wrap things up in our first show back
after the hiatus of the off season.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
We're back, baby, you know.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
And here's the thing that I hope JP the most. Yes,
that this team is back. I'm talking back in the
conversation of being a team that is consistently competing for
division titles and Super Bowls. That's what this team needs
to get back to.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
We're returning just a moment. It is Jaguars Happy Hour.
Welcome back. It is Jaguars Happy Hour presented by dream
(36:02):
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Speaker 2 (36:21):
The Jacksonville Jaguars logs.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Get ready, I want you to get ready for this.
What do you got schedule at Daily's place coming up?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I got a little.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I heard because I watched Drivetime with you and John
and uh sex Sex. Thank you, jacks Am, jacks Am,
so thank you drive Time what it used to be
called that?
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Okay, jags Am, I watched I watched it. You guys
did a great job by the way, and I had
heard you threw the lineup out. I'm like, what pretty good?
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Rod Stewart on the twenty fifth, that's about twelve days away.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
How old is Rod Stewart, I'll say eighty. What's your
favorite Rod Stewart song? Maggie Man, Hot Legs, Man, Hot
Legs come on?
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
All right.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Rod Stewart is born in nineteen forty five, so he
is eighty years old, right, still rocking the Coral reef
for band March fifteenth. That's Jimmy Buffett's backing band. Okay,
Buffett passed away of course recently. Teddy Swims coming up
May tenth.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
That'll be a good one.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Styx and Kevin Cronin and Don Felder all on June second.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Styx was my era. Those guys ain't young either.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
No.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
April Levine on June twenty third, Slightly Stupid June twenty six.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
My son loves Slightly Stupid, and they got a couple
of good, really good songs that I like.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
There's a kids Bop show in late June as well.
In July twenty ninth, Shann'aia Twain Ooh big time.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
That's a big time that's a big time show right there.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
I'd go check that out.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Yeah, No, she's I think she's great. Absolutely, she's very
pretty great voice, yes, and from what I heard, puts
on a great show.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
She's Canadian, you know that.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
I did not know that. Yes, huh.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
I think she's from like Calgary or something, which is
like a country music oddly enough, a country music and
a rodeo hotbed.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
You know. It's kind of kind of funny, you know what.
I didn't know this. So me and the wife we
had we had taken a vacation trip and we were
down in the Caribbean on an island called Saint Lucia.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
I've heard of it.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Do you know the most popular music in Saint Lucia?
It's country music? How does that happen? Doesn't she own
an island down there too? Who she does?
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Would owns an island? I think owns the island? I think,
come on, come on for real.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Yeah, I'm not making that up.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
But we had one night at the place where a
restaurant we were at, they had this guy that was
singing all of these popular country music hits and I
was like, get out of town. New York. You know,
you kind of expect to go to maybe like an
island like that and they're reggae or you know, stuff
(39:23):
like that. But it was country music. And one of
the guys that we talked to on the island said
that years ago they were exposed to country music and
it just stuck. It was awesome. I was, I don't
want to say shocked, but I was wildly entertained by
the uh in this guy that we heard singing that night,
(39:44):
he had a little what do they have that? A
little boxing that they can play and then they're singing
along with the other music. He was crushing it, crushing it.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
It was awesome. I didn't have a.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Whole lot of drinks yet, but it wasn't like I
was feeling really good in burn No, no, no, no,
he was great.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Tickets at dailiesplace dot com and if we're tickets and
show information all the whole schedule there as well coming up.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
So all right, do you have interviews?
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Are winding down?
Speaker 3 (40:15):
It feels like, and then two weeks away from the combine.
That's what's next in the docket for the Jaguars. The
official dates of the combine, So we're traveling to cover
on Monday Monday next week fourth then we'll be on
radio road TEK after last week and February and then
the testing Mondays, I believe, like Thursday or Friday, So
(40:38):
all the media stuff is usually wrapped up through Thursday Fridays,
everybody's get out of there out and then yeah, because
they're usually coaches in GMS or Tuesday at Wednesday at
the podium, and then all of a sudden the prospects
come in by position a couple of days before they test,
so that that whole scene is blown up certainly over
(40:59):
the last decade, but it's a scene now, and it's
in the Convention Center across the street from the stadium.
Will be over a thousand credentialed media for this wow
as always, and we'll be right there in the.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
Middle of it.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
It's become musty TV. I mean literally, I mean years
ago it was just like a medical check and there
was nobody there. There was no press for the most part.
And now it's a it's a big deal, it's a
it's become another media attraction. How everybody what's there? Forty
(41:30):
times are how many times they bench press, how they
test and the other place that is it's kind of
like a job fare of sorts because there's a lot
of people that are there that are trying to make
connections with that may need a job or are you
looking for potential opportunities.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Well, like everybody in the entire NFL is an Indianapolis
at or not. And by the way, Indianapolis is arguably
the best city in the US for something like that.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
They've got to not move that they can't.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Well, I mean they've talked about it, but I mean
JP centrally located perfect. It's a convention center that's comparable
maybe to maybe one or two other markets in the
in the US.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
The hospitals right downtown that does all the exactly stuff
and the most important thing is to save on travel
and for everybody to have the ease of getting there
in the location of Indianapolis or you know, is awesome,
just like FedEx is in Tennessee, you know, Okay, based
(42:36):
out of Memphis, Memphis, not Nashville Memphis away, right you
see that movie? Yes, And so I mean being centrally located,
it makes it convenient to get all of the prospects in. However,
many there are a little over a thousand I think, right.
Speaker 4 (42:50):
So that would be like three hundred prospects.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Okay, I don't know, three three and change. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I heard Deon Sanders one son did not get invited.
What's what, Shiloh Shiloh, Yeah, I heard he did not
get an invite to the combine.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
If Dion's gonna have something to say about probably he
says something to say about most everything, that's for sure. Oh,
but it'll be a first combine for Liam Cohen as
the head coach. The new GM will be there as well,
Miss Alli.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
The whole thing you would expect, right, I mean, yeah,
you would expect all that to be in place and
for them to be kind of banding together, working together
because everything is going to be new from the structure standpoint.
But yeah, coach, general Manager, EVP, they've all got their
hands full as far as getting everything going in the
(43:42):
right direction.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
We're gonna have another one of these shows next Thursday
going on, but we'll be doing it again and hopefully
we'll be talking about.
Speaker 4 (43:50):
A GM by then.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
Well I hope, so, you know, and uh, you know,
and hopefully by then we know we've had an opportunity
to meet even more coaches.
Speaker 3 (43:56):
We met some of them today. Yeah, full disclosure. We're
obviously in the middle of Electric Center, down a hallway
from where the coaching and the personnel offices are. It's
a little bit away, but the photo room is right
across the hallway from us.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
Well, when you say the photo room, it's it's a
room where the coaches are getting their head shots taken. Right,
so they don a Jaguar shirt, you know, because all
the pictures that you've seen up until now are photo
shopped to have Jaguar jerseys on them. So now they're
taking actual pictures of them with Jaguar logo to peril.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
So we had the door open of the studio. These
guys are like right across the hall.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Pop. That's pretty cool. Yeah, it was good to see it,
have to meet some of them, Yeah, so looking forward
to that and hopefully as the off season progresses we
might maybe have one or on occasionally. He's that would
be great on the program. Yeah, talk some ball talk,
some ball talk, some ball talk, some philosophy on football,
so where they've been, get to know some of these
(44:59):
co choose. I think that would be a great thing.
A lot of you mass connections that's I mean, look
at the minute, man, I think and a lot of
people some people may look at that and say, oh,
he's just hiring his You know, look, when you're when
you're putting together a staff, I think as a head coach,
you want to have people that one that you know,
(45:20):
that you can trust and that you have a have
had a good working relationship with before. And the more
experienced that you have with somebody that you put on
your staff, the faster that you can be together going
forward as one. And so I think that's that's very wise.
I remember talking to a head coach years ago, and
(45:45):
I'll keep him unnamed, but he actually talked about talk
about explain why he actually well, the reason I'm going
to keep him Nameles is because he made some comments
he said. You know, I asked him, I said, what happened?
You know when you had your opportunity to be a
head coach? He goes, the first mistake I made was
trusting somebody that I didn't know, and I don't need
(46:08):
to reveal who was, but he said that he said
that cost him dearly. He said, I was thinking that
it would be very beneficial by getting this person that
might have had some more experience. When I had a
guy that I knew, that I trusted that didn't have
the experience, but I didn't hire him, and I trusted
(46:29):
a guy that in the end I shouldn't have trusted.
And so having people around you that you trust, that
you know, I think is imperative and I think that's good.
That's good. It's good, smart and smart move by Liam Collen.
Speaker 4 (46:43):
Is this a former Jaguars coach?
Speaker 2 (46:45):
I will not say. Why not? Come on, JP, I've
been around the league for a long time. No coaches
here have known coaches elsewhere, So I'm asking you know.
And by the way, a couple of things I wanted
to mention this week. One on a sad note, the
passing of Dickjaron, who was the former defensive coordinator of
the Jaguars in the early years. He's one of the
(47:07):
finest men I've ever known. Stand up guy. Uh literally,
if you ever want to write a biography as far
as how upstanding of a person that Dick Guron was,
I mean, he is the class of the class. The
(47:27):
other thing, too, is that they're in this coaching cycle.
Very excited for Pete Carroll, who was my former coach
when I was in New York, and I'm excited that
he's got another opportunity at the age of seventy three,
you know, because there's I don't think there's anybody in
this business that literally has more energy than Pete. And
(47:48):
I'm happy for him. And he's got his hands fulls
hands full.
Speaker 4 (47:52):
Yeah, you think.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
Building that program in Vegas, that's for sure. But if
there's anybody that can do it in a positive, energy
filled way, I think Pete Carroll was a good choice.
There pack of gum hates to see him coming, that's
for sure. But Dick John that was a great staff.
You know, we had Dick Gerron was the first defensive
coordinator in Jaguar's history. Defensive coordinator, you know, John Peaves
(48:14):
was a defensive line coach and Dick Drohn worked very
closely with the secondary fine coach, Fine Man, also former
head coach of Buffalo and in Chicago. Just a fine man.
Seventy four years of it. Too young, Yeah, yeah, too young.
It's that big fan of his man, big fan hisn't
and never was a time that when you didn't see him.
(48:38):
After he went on to become a head coach, elsewhere.
There never was a moment that he didn't take the
time to come and say hi, and how are you doing,
how's the family? You know, how's your life? You know?
You good? You need anything? One of those guys that
truly cared about the player as a person more than
(48:58):
he cared about the player as a as a player
as a performer, And I think that really rang true
with a lot of guys.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
Last coached in the league in twenty twelve as the
defensive coordinator of the Browns, but after the Jags in
ninety eight was his last year. Here was the Bears
head coach from ninety nine to three, then the Lions
or defensive coordinator four to five, interim head coach and
five went to the Bills as the head coach six seven, eight, nine,
Eagles as a senior assistant in twenty ten, and then
(49:30):
the Browns for a couple of years before his career ended.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Good Man all over the league. Yah, good Man, what
do you got coming up?
Speaker 3 (49:37):
Well, we got let's see Jaguars business. We've all talked
about the one thing that starts for me at this
time of year now, JP is now that the Super.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
Bowl is over, you turn to the draft a little bit,
and for me, it's watching some of the top quarterback prospects,
even though the Jaguars are not directly interested in that position.
When you have a quarter billion dollars invested in Trevor Lawrence.
You looked at Twitter today that some might argue, Yeah,
I mean, what was that all?
Speaker 4 (50:08):
It was silly stupid.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
So and obviously, with the Jaguars picking fifth overall, the
quarterback position will impact what's available to the Jaguars at
number five in a big way. So my month, I
start watching film. I watched the quarterbacks first. You want
you want to watch all the top you know, players
at that position, anybody that could be a potential first
(50:31):
round pick is worth watching. And then we'll work on
the other positions after that. Sounds like a plan. We'll
catch up with you again next week. Logs, thank you
got it, Jeff Logan, JP Shaddick. Thanks to Joe Fortunado,
Brent Reaver, our entire crew. This is Jaguars Happy Out.
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