December 20, 2024 • 14 mins
Jaguars QB Mac Jones has been called back to start under center the last few weeks. Despite the Jagaurs record, he's still fighting, overcoming mistakes and taking opponents down to the final moments. John Oehser catches up with the fourth-year quarterback about his experience in the starting role for Jacksonville, his connection with breakout WR Brian Thomas Jr. and his aspirations for the future. Learn more about Mac Jones on this edition of The O-Zone Podcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome to this week's Ozone podcast. And this
is a podcast I was hoping to do at some point.
I guess I was hoping to do it, not hoping
to do it because nobody wants the starting quarterback hurt.
But I've been looking forward to talking to Jaguars quarterback
Mac Jones.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Mack. Thanks for doing this, Yeah, no problem, thank you
for having me.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
So. First of all, I asked you about the team.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
You've talked about on the podium some but as you
go into these last three games, I guess, how do
you sort of stay focused as a team? And I
would think you're pretty proud of how the effort has maintained.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, for sure. I think that's just testament to Doug
and the coaching staff of just getting us ready to play,
and then also the players for really understanding each other
and really the why behind each guy. So why do
you play football? And for me, obviously, it's to have
fun and try and win, and some people it's money,
some people it's for their family. So you just you
got to find out what each guy's why is. And
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I feel like we've done that this year, and we
just got to finish strong here and continue to have
fun and don't put too much pressure on ourselves.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Is that tough at as you get into this, just
sort of stay focused on the pride and the professional
as an aspect because it's a little bit of a
cliche for sure, Yet if you're going to succeed in
this league, you got.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
To grasp it, right Yeah, I mean, yeah, the reality
is it's it's a it's a business for sure, and
it's a tough business. But at the same time, like
I've always played that fun, like I said, and I
understand it's a business, but I don't really think about
it like that. I think about it as I'm privileged
to be able to play this game with really great
people from all over the country, right you know, you
meet people on your team that are some people are
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from California, some people are from New York. So it's
just I love that part of the game. Just being
with my brothers and being here has really opened myself
back up to that, just the brotherhood and the team,
even though the results maybe haven't been there as much
as much as we wanted sure so far, but that's
going to eventually turn into something great.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And we talked and you've talked about it a lot
on the podium some we talked about it a little
bit before we went on the air. Yeah, but playing
for your hometown team, and I think people sort of
see that story and they read that story and think.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It'd be cool.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, but it's got to be on some level even
though you're not having success, almost surreal.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah in a way.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, Yeah, I mean it's it's awesome. It's I always
wanted to play NFL football and really to do it here.
It's cool for this year, and I'm gonna keep fighting.
I think one thing I've shown is I'm going to
battle to the end, and we've shown that as a team.
So that's my personality, That's who I am. So I
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know the win some of the wins haven't been there,
but really you just got to focus on battling all
the way through and eventually it'll go your way.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
You strike me as a guy watching you play. A
lot of players talk about.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I'm just embracing the moment and play and play to play. Yeah,
something about you though, you really do it?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Has that always been that way? Or think.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And gracefully? So, because like I feel like that was
one of my challenges and still is is just taking
each play one play at a time, and it's such
an emotional sport and I put a lot of passion
and time into the game, so I expect great results
if that makes sense. And I'm a little bit of
a perfectionist, but I'm kind of moving away from that
and just playing trying to play functional if that makes sense. Sure,
(03:21):
And that's helped me a lot, and I got to
continue to do that better for you know, there's some
games I'm doing it for fifty eight minutes. I just
got to finish the end there. So I know that.
I know I can't put too much pressure on a
certain play and that's a big part of it. And
I learned a lot of that from coach Saban, to
be honest, just taking each play one play at a time.
And I mean, he's he's an awesome guy. And learned
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a lot from him. But he won so many games
and never talked about winning, you know what I'm saying.
So he never once said like we need to win
this game. It was always like, you need to do
your job and together and indeed the process. So that
was interesting. And coach Doug does the same stuff. So
it's interesting to see differences between each coach, but I
definitely learned that from from both.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So when you say you are a little bit of
a perfectionists, sounds like that means.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You're a lot of bit a lot of Yeah. I
try to just eliminate that word because that has it's
a really good thing, right. You want to be very
detailed and love the game and love the preparation, but
also the whole point of football is to is to
make it hard on the quarterback and the players, and
you have to realize that it's a tough game and
it's not going to be perfect, and the defense is
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going to make plays and people do make forty fifty
million dollars that you're playing against. So you got to
understand that this is part of the game of football.
It's it's responding really to how those bad plays.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Really, that's what it comes on that front.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Ye, the dynamic of going from a backup, which is
very much sort of I guess following Trevor's lead in
terms of being the leader in.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
The locker room.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, I know it has to be an element of that.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, to within one week of going to the starter
where it's has.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Got to be to point your team.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, how tricky is that? And is it something you
started to think about as you're doing it?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah. I mean I've always been in different roles on
different teams, so that's really helped me a lot. Been
a starter, been second, been third, so kind of been everything,
been fourth, So you have to understand your role, and
to me, it doesn't matter. It's it's all about doing
whatever your job is on that day. Like when I
was running the scout team, I wanted us to make
every play and I think we we didn't make every play,
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but we came pretty close throughout the year, just having
fun making plays and challenging the defense. So that's where
it starts, and then carrying that over to how do
you do that when you're starter And the process hasn't
really changed because every week you're preparing like a starter.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Now, you've always ever since you got here, people and
Jacksonville followed your career, I would say, because you're from here.
But since you've gotten here, you've had that reputation of
being a fun, loving guy, enjoying the moment. Has that
always been your personality or Okay, so even with the perfectionist.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
It's definitely yeah. I think as you just play more
plays and get older, you kind of just realize it's
you don't have to put so much stress and pressure
on one bad play or one good player. So I
have learned that and I need to continue to work
on it. I'm still technically young in my career. I know,
I've played a lot of football, but I'm still learning
and and that's the fun part about the game. It's
it's learning about not only the x's and o's and
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the people you're working with, but yourself and your mentality
for each game, which can change.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Got you now.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I was asked to ask about your relationship with BTJ. Yeah,
you guys are pretty tight and at first I guess
you were like one of the few people who could
get him to laugh.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's kind of been your It's kind
of my claim to fame. You know, I should get
like a T shirt or something that says what kind.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Of I mean on that front.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
He's he's low key reserved young, which is, as you know,
most rookies are not coming out of their show real quick. Yeah,
but it sounds like he's a guy who's got a
lot of personality in there as well.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, he does, and it definitely shows on the field,
and he's very three B in his own way. But
I always talk about the first time, you know, in
the first game, he's like talking smack the Jayleen Rambay.
I'm like, that's my guy right there. Right away. I
was like, Yeah, you want guys like that on your
team and really guys that you can build. I know
Jackson will be able to build with him and throughout
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the years really you know, hopefully he'll be here for
a long time and continue to make plays. But very
humble guy. And he's starting to wear some more jewelry
and whatnot, so he kind of he got a new grill.
He kind of blinded me with the.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Other day about.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, just a little bit. I didn't know he had
it in and.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
You can't pull it off problem.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
No, I can't. I mean maybe the one he had
was nice, was like the silver or white gold. It
was pretty cool, but I didn't know he had it on.
And he smiled, and I was like, whoa, there's a
lot of money right there.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
You've played, especially in college, with a lot of special
at that position. Yeah, I in terms of just being
able to do it naturally, he's got it.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Right, Oh yeah, yeah for sure. And yeah, I've played
with some great players both in the NFL and college
with that position and skill positions. And I've also I
love football, so I love to watch great players like
that wide receivers that can make plays. And that's young
and old. But he has a lot of good characteristics
of a great receiver. And I hope he just continues
to work and it's not always going to be, you know,
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the highest of highs. Like I'm not saying it, you
want anything bad to happen, But he just has to
understand like it's a it is a journey and you're
gonna have your up and downs. But he just he
does a great job preparing and putting himself in a
good position.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
This is an impossible question to answer in our format,
but it's always struck me as it struck everybody.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You play for Quirky and coach Rogers, who I covered. Yeah,
the paper I call hi quirky.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You put Quirky, Saban and Belichick. There may not be
a player ever played in the NFL he's played for
coaches with more rings, right.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Yeah, I mean you've seen it.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
The influence that just that sort of coaching leadership has
had on you has to be you probably even realize
it because you went through it. Yeah, but I would
think it's pretty extreme.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, it's tough. I always say, like playing for those
guys is like one year is really like three years.
So it was tough. But I definitely have a lot
of good notes and things that I've written down and
things that I've carried with me to this day. And
with coach Rogers, same thing, as you know, he's a legend.
Coach Saving and coach Belichick and Doug they've all won
championships at their respective positions multiple times and that's something
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that you know, you look at their body of work
and you want to figure out how they did it
right each person. And obviously the first thing is everyone
loves football. So if you if you love the game
and you stick with it, eventually things will.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Go your way. Is that in your future? Do you think, yeah,
you definitely want to coach?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah? I think the notes and the oh yeah, yeah,
I definitely, Uh, one day I want to do that.
Hopefully I can can keep going, but we'll see what happens.
I definitely love the game, and one I obviously have
a family and enjoy my family, but we'll see what happens.
I think that they definitely are good examples.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
It's a stunning it's a stunning resume.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
So I got to ask you, with your personality, which
of those three.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I think a lot of people watching this podcasts I
probably know quirky a little bit. Obviously, which of those
three would you see, Mac? Or is it just going
to be a different.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, I think just take the good from each and
then learn from the yelling experiences from everybody else. But
I feel like I'll be you know, we'll see. But
if I even want to do that. But at the
end of the day, I know I'm always, like I said,
I'm gonna have fun, and sure that's something my dad
and my mom have always told me. That's that's what
I meant. My best is just whether I was playing dodgeball,
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at bowls or football, I was just having fun and
really that made that made me better and allows me
to play free. And if I'm doing something else, I
think that's the same mindset I'll have.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Got you now if you're remiss not to ask you
sort of about on field Mac, which is sort of
you know, I got home the other night, my wife said,
you know, he's cocky, but I want him to win.
So I said, you know what, that sort of defines it.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Have you always sort of had that edge to you
when you play?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
That so it makes it fun, right.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah. I think confident would be a better word, but
I mean I don't really. I think if you go
out there with no confidence, you don't have a chance.
So I've been there before to be honest, and to
get back and have my confidence really just hitting the
reset button. You know, you've seen the men in Black movie.
When they hit the button, then you forget everything. I
try to do that each week really and go out
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there and say, hey, I'm a great player. I can
do this and I can help our team win. And
I think the guys feel that when I'm out there,
and that'll never change, you know, even maybe if I
didn't have a great game the week before, because I'm
gonna have confidence because of the work I put in.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
So, yeah, you're enjoying on some level. You really are
enjoying this experience, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, it's for sure.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
No more.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
The last thing we do here I call it the
ozone five. It's five quick questions. I have some fun
h Mac Jones. What was your last binge watch?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Actually, this is a great one, Harry Potter. We watched
me and Sophie, my girlfriend, we watched all seven during
the bye.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Week, So yeah, had you watched that before?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah? So they were all giving me crap for it
because I hadn't seen it, you know, the offensive line
and everybody. So I was like, you know what, I'm
gonna watch it during the bye week and not watch football.
So that's what I did.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Who's the biggest Potter nerd on the offensive line?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Probably Blake Hants. I mean he dressed up is one
of the characters for Halloween, him and his wife, so.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
It's pretty high end.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yeah, he's pretty locked in. But the offensive line, I'd
say they have some some good Potter fans in there.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
What's the last song you listened to on the way
in this morning?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Oh that's a great question. I usually just click like
the wrap playlist and just shuffle it. So we could
have been anybody, probably like Gunner or somebody.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I got it were other than football.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
That you would have played tennis?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah, my sister was a big time tennis player.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, my dad was pro pro tennis player and coach.
And then my sister played at college at Charleston.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Big time program. Yeah, so yeah, she my son played tennis,
So I've got Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I can still hit it around pretty good. In my
backhand needs a little work, but everything else is good.
I can hit with her, which is impressive.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
But it is impressive. The person or people most responsible
for you being here.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Definitely my parents and my family, just everybody, my grandma,
my grandpa who's not here anymore, but really just give
me the opportunity to, you know, grow up, go to
great school and and really do everything they could to
help me play well at football. And there's a lot
of coaches along the way, and one person is my
private quarterback coach, coach Joe d Joe Dickinson, So shout
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out to him. He's been with me since I was
you know, eight nine years old, so you know, everyone
has their their mentors, but he's definitely one of them
that I talked to every day. So and see my parents,
you know, they they are awesome people. And anybody that's
met my dad or my mom, you know they they
love football and they love following me around and supporting
me and I appreciate that for them, for all they done.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Final question, uh most memorable Jaguars moment, not since you've
been here, but growing up.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
I honestly, I know there weren't that many.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, there were some good ones. I mean, I like
the AFC, I mean getting to the FC Championship game
and I still think, you know, Miles Jack wasn't down.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
So you will have uh many Jaguars.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
And that was against my former team. So I was
watching it in college and I was like, I really
wanted the Jacks way for them to get there. I
was like, all right, we can build on that had tears.
It was a sad moment, but a great, great season
for them, So no doubt.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Mac Jones.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I know during a busy week, this is a tough
thing to do. I appreciate your time and thank you
for joining those own podcasts.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Cool, thank you, Appreciate you
All right, welcome to this week's Ozone podcast. And this
is a podcast I was hoping to do at some point.
I guess I was hoping to do it, not hoping
to do it because nobody wants the starting quarterback hurt.
But I've been looking forward to talking to Jaguars quarterback
Mac Jones.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Mack. Thanks for doing this, Yeah, no problem, thank you
for having me.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
So. First of all, I asked you about the team.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
You've talked about on the podium some but as you
go into these last three games, I guess, how do
you sort of stay focused as a team? And I
would think you're pretty proud of how the effort has maintained.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, for sure. I think that's just testament to Doug
and the coaching staff of just getting us ready to play,
and then also the players for really understanding each other
and really the why behind each guy. So why do
you play football? And for me, obviously, it's to have
fun and try and win, and some people it's money,
some people it's for their family. So you just you
got to find out what each guy's why is. And
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I feel like we've done that this year, and we
just got to finish strong here and continue to have
fun and don't put too much pressure on ourselves.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Is that tough at as you get into this, just
sort of stay focused on the pride and the professional
as an aspect because it's a little bit of a
cliche for sure, Yet if you're going to succeed in
this league, you got.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
To grasp it, right Yeah, I mean, yeah, the reality
is it's it's a it's a business for sure, and
it's a tough business. But at the same time, like
I've always played that fun, like I said, and I
understand it's a business, but I don't really think about
it like that. I think about it as I'm privileged
to be able to play this game with really great
people from all over the country, right you know, you
meet people on your team that are some people are
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from California, some people are from New York. So it's
just I love that part of the game. Just being
with my brothers and being here has really opened myself
back up to that, just the brotherhood and the team,
even though the results maybe haven't been there as much
as much as we wanted sure so far, but that's
going to eventually turn into something great.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And we talked and you've talked about it a lot
on the podium some we talked about it a little
bit before we went on the air. Yeah, but playing
for your hometown team, and I think people sort of
see that story and they read that story and think.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It'd be cool.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, but it's got to be on some level even
though you're not having success, almost surreal.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah in a way.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, Yeah, I mean it's it's awesome. It's I always
wanted to play NFL football and really to do it here.
It's cool for this year, and I'm gonna keep fighting.
I think one thing I've shown is I'm going to
battle to the end, and we've shown that as a team.
So that's my personality, That's who I am. So I
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know the win some of the wins haven't been there,
but really you just got to focus on battling all
the way through and eventually it'll go your way.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
You strike me as a guy watching you play. A
lot of players talk about.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I'm just embracing the moment and play and play to play. Yeah,
something about you though, you really do it?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Has that always been that way? Or think.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And gracefully? So, because like I feel like that was
one of my challenges and still is is just taking
each play one play at a time, and it's such
an emotional sport and I put a lot of passion
and time into the game, so I expect great results
if that makes sense. And I'm a little bit of
a perfectionist, but I'm kind of moving away from that
and just playing trying to play functional if that makes sense. Sure,
(03:21):
And that's helped me a lot, and I got to
continue to do that better for you know, there's some
games I'm doing it for fifty eight minutes. I just
got to finish the end there. So I know that.
I know I can't put too much pressure on a
certain play and that's a big part of it. And
I learned a lot of that from coach Saban, to
be honest, just taking each play one play at a time.
And I mean, he's he's an awesome guy. And learned
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a lot from him. But he won so many games
and never talked about winning, you know what I'm saying.
So he never once said like we need to win
this game. It was always like, you need to do
your job and together and indeed the process. So that
was interesting. And coach Doug does the same stuff. So
it's interesting to see differences between each coach, but I
definitely learned that from from both.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So when you say you are a little bit of
a perfectionists, sounds like that means.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You're a lot of bit a lot of Yeah. I
try to just eliminate that word because that has it's
a really good thing, right. You want to be very
detailed and love the game and love the preparation, but
also the whole point of football is to is to
make it hard on the quarterback and the players, and
you have to realize that it's a tough game and
it's not going to be perfect, and the defense is
(04:28):
going to make plays and people do make forty fifty
million dollars that you're playing against. So you got to
understand that this is part of the game of football.
It's it's responding really to how those bad plays.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Really, that's what it comes on that front.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Ye, the dynamic of going from a backup, which is
very much sort of I guess following Trevor's lead in
terms of being the leader in.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
The locker room.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, I know it has to be an element of that.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, to within one week of going to the starter
where it's has.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Got to be to point your team.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, how tricky is that? And is it something you
started to think about as you're doing it?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah. I mean I've always been in different roles on
different teams, so that's really helped me a lot. Been
a starter, been second, been third, so kind of been everything,
been fourth, So you have to understand your role, and
to me, it doesn't matter. It's it's all about doing
whatever your job is on that day. Like when I
was running the scout team, I wanted us to make
every play and I think we we didn't make every play,
(05:28):
but we came pretty close throughout the year, just having
fun making plays and challenging the defense. So that's where
it starts, and then carrying that over to how do
you do that when you're starter And the process hasn't
really changed because every week you're preparing like a starter.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Now, you've always ever since you got here, people and
Jacksonville followed your career, I would say, because you're from here.
But since you've gotten here, you've had that reputation of
being a fun, loving guy, enjoying the moment. Has that
always been your personality or Okay, so even with the perfectionist.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
It's definitely yeah. I think as you just play more
plays and get older, you kind of just realize it's
you don't have to put so much stress and pressure
on one bad play or one good player. So I
have learned that and I need to continue to work
on it. I'm still technically young in my career. I know,
I've played a lot of football, but I'm still learning
and and that's the fun part about the game. It's
it's learning about not only the x's and o's and
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the people you're working with, but yourself and your mentality
for each game, which can change.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Got you now.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I was asked to ask about your relationship with BTJ. Yeah,
you guys are pretty tight and at first I guess
you were like one of the few people who could
get him to laugh.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's kind of been your It's kind
of my claim to fame. You know, I should get
like a T shirt or something that says what kind.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Of I mean on that front.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
He's he's low key reserved young, which is, as you know,
most rookies are not coming out of their show real quick. Yeah,
but it sounds like he's a guy who's got a
lot of personality in there as well.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, he does, and it definitely shows on the field,
and he's very three B in his own way. But
I always talk about the first time, you know, in
the first game, he's like talking smack the Jayleen Rambay.
I'm like, that's my guy right there. Right away. I
was like, Yeah, you want guys like that on your
team and really guys that you can build. I know
Jackson will be able to build with him and throughout
(07:16):
the years really you know, hopefully he'll be here for
a long time and continue to make plays. But very
humble guy. And he's starting to wear some more jewelry
and whatnot, so he kind of he got a new grill.
He kind of blinded me with the.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Other day about.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, just a little bit. I didn't know he had
it in and.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
You can't pull it off problem.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
No, I can't. I mean maybe the one he had
was nice, was like the silver or white gold. It
was pretty cool, but I didn't know he had it on.
And he smiled, and I was like, whoa, there's a
lot of money right there.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
You've played, especially in college, with a lot of special
at that position. Yeah, I in terms of just being
able to do it naturally, he's got it.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Right, Oh yeah, yeah for sure. And yeah, I've played
with some great players both in the NFL and college
with that position and skill positions. And I've also I
love football, so I love to watch great players like
that wide receivers that can make plays. And that's young
and old. But he has a lot of good characteristics
of a great receiver. And I hope he just continues
to work and it's not always going to be, you know,
(08:17):
the highest of highs. Like I'm not saying it, you
want anything bad to happen, But he just has to
understand like it's a it is a journey and you're
gonna have your up and downs. But he just he
does a great job preparing and putting himself in a
good position.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
This is an impossible question to answer in our format,
but it's always struck me as it struck everybody.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You play for Quirky and coach Rogers, who I covered. Yeah,
the paper I call hi quirky.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You put Quirky, Saban and Belichick. There may not be
a player ever played in the NFL he's played for
coaches with more rings, right.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Yeah, I mean you've seen it.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
The influence that just that sort of coaching leadership has
had on you has to be you probably even realize
it because you went through it. Yeah, but I would
think it's pretty extreme.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, it's tough. I always say, like playing for those
guys is like one year is really like three years.
So it was tough. But I definitely have a lot
of good notes and things that I've written down and
things that I've carried with me to this day. And
with coach Rogers, same thing, as you know, he's a legend.
Coach Saving and coach Belichick and Doug they've all won
championships at their respective positions multiple times and that's something
(09:26):
that you know, you look at their body of work
and you want to figure out how they did it
right each person. And obviously the first thing is everyone
loves football. So if you if you love the game
and you stick with it, eventually things will.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Go your way. Is that in your future? Do you think, yeah,
you definitely want to coach?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah? I think the notes and the oh yeah, yeah,
I definitely, Uh, one day I want to do that.
Hopefully I can can keep going, but we'll see what happens.
I definitely love the game, and one I obviously have
a family and enjoy my family, but we'll see what happens.
I think that they definitely are good examples.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
It's a stunning it's a stunning resume.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
So I got to ask you, with your personality, which
of those three.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I think a lot of people watching this podcasts I
probably know quirky a little bit. Obviously, which of those
three would you see, Mac? Or is it just going
to be a different.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, I think just take the good from each and
then learn from the yelling experiences from everybody else. But
I feel like I'll be you know, we'll see. But
if I even want to do that. But at the
end of the day, I know I'm always, like I said,
I'm gonna have fun, and sure that's something my dad
and my mom have always told me. That's that's what
I meant. My best is just whether I was playing dodgeball,
(10:41):
at bowls or football, I was just having fun and
really that made that made me better and allows me
to play free. And if I'm doing something else, I
think that's the same mindset I'll have.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Got you now if you're remiss not to ask you
sort of about on field Mac, which is sort of
you know, I got home the other night, my wife said,
you know, he's cocky, but I want him to win.
So I said, you know what, that sort of defines it.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Have you always sort of had that edge to you
when you play?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
That so it makes it fun, right.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah. I think confident would be a better word, but
I mean I don't really. I think if you go
out there with no confidence, you don't have a chance.
So I've been there before to be honest, and to
get back and have my confidence really just hitting the
reset button. You know, you've seen the men in Black movie.
When they hit the button, then you forget everything. I
try to do that each week really and go out
(11:36):
there and say, hey, I'm a great player. I can
do this and I can help our team win. And
I think the guys feel that when I'm out there,
and that'll never change, you know, even maybe if I
didn't have a great game the week before, because I'm
gonna have confidence because of the work I put in.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
So, yeah, you're enjoying on some level. You really are
enjoying this experience, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, it's for sure.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
No more.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
The last thing we do here I call it the
ozone five. It's five quick questions. I have some fun
h Mac Jones. What was your last binge watch?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Actually, this is a great one, Harry Potter. We watched
me and Sophie, my girlfriend, we watched all seven during
the bye.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Week, So yeah, had you watched that before?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah? So they were all giving me crap for it
because I hadn't seen it, you know, the offensive line
and everybody. So I was like, you know what, I'm
gonna watch it during the bye week and not watch football.
So that's what I did.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Who's the biggest Potter nerd on the offensive line?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Probably Blake Hants. I mean he dressed up is one
of the characters for Halloween, him and his wife, so.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
It's pretty high end.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yeah, he's pretty locked in. But the offensive line, I'd
say they have some some good Potter fans in there.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
What's the last song you listened to on the way
in this morning?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Oh that's a great question. I usually just click like
the wrap playlist and just shuffle it. So we could
have been anybody, probably like Gunner or somebody.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I got it were other than football.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
That you would have played tennis?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah, my sister was a big time tennis player.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, my dad was pro pro tennis player and coach.
And then my sister played at college at Charleston.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Big time program. Yeah, so yeah, she my son played tennis,
So I've got Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I can still hit it around pretty good. In my
backhand needs a little work, but everything else is good.
I can hit with her, which is impressive.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
But it is impressive. The person or people most responsible
for you being here.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Definitely my parents and my family, just everybody, my grandma,
my grandpa who's not here anymore, but really just give
me the opportunity to, you know, grow up, go to
great school and and really do everything they could to
help me play well at football. And there's a lot
of coaches along the way, and one person is my
private quarterback coach, coach Joe d Joe Dickinson, So shout
(13:51):
out to him. He's been with me since I was
you know, eight nine years old, so you know, everyone
has their their mentors, but he's definitely one of them
that I talked to every day. So and see my parents,
you know, they they are awesome people. And anybody that's
met my dad or my mom, you know they they
love football and they love following me around and supporting
me and I appreciate that for them, for all they done.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Final question, uh most memorable Jaguars moment, not since you've
been here, but growing up.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
I honestly, I know there weren't that many.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, there were some good ones. I mean, I like
the AFC, I mean getting to the FC Championship game
and I still think, you know, Miles Jack wasn't down.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
So you will have uh many Jaguars.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
And that was against my former team. So I was
watching it in college and I was like, I really
wanted the Jacks way for them to get there. I
was like, all right, we can build on that had tears.
It was a sad moment, but a great, great season
for them, So no doubt.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Mac Jones.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I know during a busy week, this is a tough
thing to do. I appreciate your time and thank you
for joining those own podcasts.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Cool, thank you, Appreciate you
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