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lesson here on the bonus show.
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Let me tell you what we got for you today.
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The possible expendables in the second half of the show, and we'll start the show by
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talking about, show me what you got for year two, all right, two, two players.
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Show me what you got.
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This is a show me what you got year for two players.
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So here's what we mean by that.
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Last year at this point, Parker Washington and Antonio Johnson, people were like, okay,
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well, what's their role moving forward?
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The Jaguars drafted two safety, signed Eric Murray, okay, what's that saying about Antonio
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Well, Antonio Johnson's probably going to start for the Jaguars and maybe even get a
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He was one of the players that was mentioned for a potential contract extension.
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Another is Parker Washington.
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After them adding down, he drowned, drafting, Travis Hunter, having Brian Thomas, junior
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on the roster, you sat there and you went, hmm, what's up with Parker Washington?
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What does that mean?
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Well, he ended up leading the Jaguars and receiving us.
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Because of injury, because of guys just having slumped.
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And then because of Parker Washington making them say, no, you got to play me, dude.
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And then there's prowess from special teams, all of those things.
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And now he's up for the multi million dollar contract extension.
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And then the Jaguars also went out and got your coping Myers.
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So they've shown you whatever we got to do, that's what we're going to do.
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Are there players this year that have a chance to show the Jaguars that they're a part
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of their future as well?
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You absolutely right there are.
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And I'm going to tell you who those players are right now.
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It's really three, okay?
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There are two guys in particular.
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I'm going to put them as one or I can just list all three of them.
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But I just couldn't decide who, so I'll tell you the one guy that's going to be on
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interest regardless.
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And that's Wyatt Mila.
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It's not make or break for Wyatt Mila.
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That's not what I'm saying.
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What I am telling you is, it is now, this is year two.
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They need to see a big enough step to know that he's the right or left guard of the future.
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Because this year with the tournament, what they do moving forward after this, do they,
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because I guarantee you the Jaguars, when I look at the depth chart, they're probably
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going to take another offensive line.
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I used to have these conversations with EVP Tony Becele.
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I used to talk to him a lot before the games.
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And I always say, man, I've been trying to tell these people, why don't they invest
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more in the offensive line?
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I say, draft two guys this year, one guy to next, two guys that year, one guy to next.
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That way, over four year period, you drafted six people.
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And you can still sign guys in three ages to two.
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You draft six people.
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If four of them hit, that means you get an offensive line in every year by average.
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That's how you keep them.
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Green Bay has done a real good job of that kind of stuff.
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And it hasn't always been first pick, first round picks.
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They've done a real good job.
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Philly has done a real good job as that as well.
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They're teams that seem like they know Dallas to be honest with you.
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There are always these teams that never seem like they need an offensive line.
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And then there are teams like the Bengals and in the past Jacksonville that always seem
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like the Titans, that always seem like the day in a dollar short when it comes to getting
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lime in that complaint.
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Cleveland had to go sign three or four veterans that they didn't have anybody on the offensive
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line blocking for in the last year.
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That was worth anything.
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It's a shout out to JC Treter, but he was falling apart from what I understand.
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So the Ravens were hurting on the interior.
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So teams, you find these teams.
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I'm telling you man, the offensive line will make a team look terrible if they're not
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So Wyatt Milam is the third round pick, day two pick that the Jaguars got.
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And this year's going to be, if he has to take a big step, he should be trying to push
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out one of those old guys.
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Wyatt Milam should be this year, the dude that the Jaguars are holding back the way you
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can see dog trainers, whole back protection dogs when they got him fired up.
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Wyatt Milam needs to have all of his teach on to show and prove that he's going to be that
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dude because of a year of development.
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He's going to spring up and challenge some all pro and pro bowl years at some point.
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If they don't see it this year, they already might be going to draft an interior guy if
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it's killing Rutledge.
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But then, you know, you can play guard at left or right card.
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So if they don't see it this year from Wyatt Milam, then they absolutely will be trying
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to go get that great player because every offensive line coach, every player who's ever
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played offensive line, every GM, every day, they at some point want dominance, right?
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They at some point want their version of Quentin Nelson.
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They at some point want their version of that dude that everyone points to and goes, there
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He's going number one.
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He's going one on one with all pro this game and we're going to leave him over there because
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we're going to live and die with the consequences.
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At some point, you have to find that.
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If Milam is just another Ezra Cleveland, that's good.
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He'll start for seven, eight years, but they're going to try to find that great player.
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You can either draft them or you can develop them.
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In my opinion, that's what they're going to try to see for Milam this year.
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The other name on that list and it's two of them.
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Yassir Abdul is one.
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I'm a big Yassir Abdul of fan, I am.
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And what I like about him is last year they went and got Dennis Gardek and you didn't see
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You saw him going special teams and make some bone jar and tackles on special teams.
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And coaches love that kind of stuff because it's like, this is what I talked about earlier
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Even though we went out and got some competition, we got a guy that maybe stole some of your
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minutes and you've done everything you're supposed to do.
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You still came to work every day with the work ethic, conditioning, played special teams
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and even made some plays in 11 and 11 on defense and proved your value.
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So Yassir Abdul is one of those dudes.
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Is he going to take that next step?
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Him and Jalen McLeod are going to be there in that Dennis Gardek role.
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Gardek has a one-year deal.
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This is where you allow Gardek after this year to move on at 32 years old and you make
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a decision about Yassir Abdul as a core special teams player and Sam Lymebacker.
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The other guy is Jack Kaiser, who's listed as a Sam Lymebacker, but he's the different type
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He's a Sam in a pure 4-3 that's going to play out in space and he's going to play off
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He also can play 4-2-5 and give you will and nickel.
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He's a little bit different from Yassir, but ventral Miller looks like the dude is going
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to get the chance to stay next to Foyola who come early in the season.
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Jack Kaiser has to show them that he can either be a good 3rd Lymebacker or a dude to replace
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Miller who is in a last year of his contract or potentially be the long-term replacement
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for Foyola who is as good as he is.
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He is getting a little bit older.
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So I think these are critical years for both of them to do a Parker Washington and Antonio
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Johnson did make themselves non-expendable members of this team.
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He's moving forward.
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Who are the possible expendables though like if they come out of the draft with players
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at their respective positions that they can't hold back?
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Who are some of the dudes that they could possibly look to move for future draft capital
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Possible expendables, possible players that if the Jaguars go in to the draft with all
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of those picks and it works out a certain way, and then they get in many camping, they
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see the players in the building and then they go out to training camp and they have one
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or two guys that they just cannot keep off the field, and they're like, man, look.
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Remember James Robinson and Camp?
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And they weren't even scrimmaging.
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They were just looking at tape because this was doing COVID.
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They saw James Robinson and Camp.
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And I think Chris Thompson running back said, he's our best runner back.
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In this new system, we were running because he's so instinctive with his cuts.
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James Robinson came out and they traded at Leonard Fordnet.
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You didn't see that coming.
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Fordnet went and won a championship and won a Super Bowl with Tampa, but James Robinson
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went over 1,000 yards.
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It was short live, though, because they moved on from him the first chance they got when
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every mile came in here.
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And he had an injury.
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And James never really been the same, but you get the point.
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What happened was they saw something in training camp and they were like, oh, yeah.
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We can move on from where they were.
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He wouldn't have better played on it or for that, but at the time where they were and what
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they wanted, he was more instinctive and they felt like he wasn't going to make a whole
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bunch of noise if they weren't a good team, which they were not a good team that year.
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So they made moves who can be those guys?
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Who are the expendables?
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Well, obviously, if they go into the draft and someone falls to them, I did mention that
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Caleb LeMue, if he falls to the end of the first round, that's a way for them to get
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great on the offensive line.
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Dylan Rutledge is another one.
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If they decide that they want to go get something that they can't get at 56 and that they'll
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never be in a position to get again.
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And the reason why I say that about this offensive line class because it is absolutely deep
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in terms of the early guys, the day one, first half of day two, there are both low to offensive
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There may be eight of these guys that end up going in the top 50, right?
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There may be even more than that, according to some people.
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And if you're a jaguars and you say, we ain't normally in position to get one because even
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if next year they hold onto their first round pick, and let's just say it's 26 or 32nd
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if they win the Super Bowl.
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I don't know if the offensive line, they'll always be good offensive lineman in a draft.
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There'll be somebody, but I don't know if the offensive line next year is good enough
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that you can say we can get a dude right there that we know as a sure fire, great player.
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You have to draft offensive lineman, you have to either get lucky, like the chief did
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It was their scouting, but it was fortunate that they were right about Creed Humphrey, who's
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This is what I mean.
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The likelihood that you're going to get to do like that there at that spot is hard unless
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he has some sort of deficiency, like his arms aren't long enough for, he's a tackle
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and he's only six, three and seven, eights and not six, four and a half, but to take him
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in, he ends up being a great player and everybody else regrets it.
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Well, the jack watch can definitely do something like that because they're a super power
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But walk a little if they get a tackle can be expendable along with Pat McCarrie if they
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get a guard because of their number.
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You can even, even with McCarrie, you can keep him because he's played everything, but
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you can rearrange some things and have him as your swing guy and get some compensation
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from a team that's thirsty for a tackle with walk a little.
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If you get a tackle that falls to you or you decide to trade up for one, go up and get
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a tackle, allow him to be your swing tackle for a year or move cove and land in the right
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See, I just did it.
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This is how you do it.
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This is how you eventually get good, how you eventually get great at the offensive line
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You tap in as we get closer and closer to the draft to lock, throw in Jaguar's with
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