James Gladstone

It's just an accelerated understanding of who we are as the Jacksonville Jaguars that is now in play.

James, you mentioned the experience that you saw from the rookies.

How do you kind of project growth and expanded roles for them going forward as you kind of look at the makeup of the roster?

Yeah, I think naturally you anticipate that.

You can plan for it in some ways by making sure that those runways are available to them.

I think it may be a misconception that there was endlessly

that the players we drafted in Los Angeles were immediate contributors as rookies, where that wasn't truly the case.

Now at the end, when you think back to Pukunukua, obviously having a significant role as a rookie, and then Jared Verse and Braden Fisk having significant roles as rookies, that can maybe overshadow what the sort of year-over-year outlook was.

Like Kyron Williams,

And Quinton Lake, who both received contract extensions this year, did not play as rookies.

They were both injured that season.

So I think that that's probably a fair representation of what now is the Jacksonville Jaguars, and having seen multiple rookies have injuries surface, that you can think back to like, oh, wait.

And also, as I consider who took jumps in their third year or now fourth year with the Jacksonville Jaguars and were quick to rush to an assumption around whether or not that was some version of a hit or a miss, you know, everybody's on different timelines and certainly have a ton of optimism around what the roles look like moving forward and look forward to seeing that come to life.

And obviously, we get a whole offseason before that.

That'll show itself, but I feel like we're in a good place.

Yeah, I think so, and at the end of the day, we're still in preliminary discussions around what our approach, our process, our decisions could look like heading into the real parts of this offseason.

We'll take the time, and Liam, Tony, myself, being able to break away, just the three of us, we'll invest energy with our coaching staff, our support staff, our scouting staff mid to late February and really have a firm grip on that

But at this point, we're all sort of bringing those thoughts to the surface and then beginning to map that out in a more strategic and formalized manner.

Coach James, thank you, sir.

Thank you all for the coverage.