James Gladstone

real feeling on it and sometimes the idea that hey i got to be buttoned up or filtered can get in the way of the root coming to the top of the conversation or the unfiltered sentiment coming to the top so we've tried to get to a place where everybody fits that that mold and i think it's it's starting to show itself less where it's any one individual and it's actually in a very positive way unfiltered

That's an awesome question.

I think it's,

it does become apparent in the instances where let's just say the, the world is saying a player is going early, but you don't see the vision for how they would fit here as being, we just don't like them as much as, as maybe the, what you would label mock draft world is saying.

And the flip side of that, don't see this guy anywhere yet.

there's a lot of appreciation in some instances.

What we'll really focus on is taking players that we feel have a very clear fit within the way we operate, regardless of what that might mean in terms of the outward perspective, right?

It's what fits us and what makes sense to us.

And at the end of the day, if they help us win football games, that's a win for the Jaguars.

You know, typically it's not the spot we put the energy in, right?

I wasn't good with grades even back in elementary school, so why be good at them now, you know?

It's wins and losses.

The fact that the timeline of just the scouting cycle remaining consistent up to this point, I'm in a very similar place that I was this time last year with the draft, with pro free agency.

The piece that is obviously sped up is now the understanding of our current roster and not being forced to sort of dive into that with very little nuances and depth to it.

So I think that's a really helpful piece in order to make some

Now procedurally, we incorporated new functions and mechanisms that our scouting staff and our coaching staff didn't necessarily have experience with in the past.

So obviously those will be new wrinkles that we'll work in and looking forward to seeing those unfold in real time.

The connection between him, the coaching staff, was real.

He was being deployed in the right ways.

He felt confident in the ways that he was doing it from both defense and special teams.