Press Pass | GM James Gladstone on Jaguars' Free Agency Approach
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Hi, everyone. We have General Manager James Gladstone available. Please raise your hand if you have a question. We can start with Jamal, then move to Demetrius. What's going on, James? How you doing? Life is good. How are you guys? Pretty good out here at TPC, so we might have to pull you out here. What do you like about Chris Rodriguez? I think there's a lot to like. You know, obviously... Liam has some familiarity with him dating back to his time at Kentucky. Beyond that, it's kind of fun, like if I unravel sort of diving into who he's been as a professional football player and get into the nuances of our exposure to him and lead up to the decision to prioritize him as an untendered RFA. You know, it's interesting.
When we watch players, Tony Buscelli has been a consistent presence in that. But he's fallen into the line of, if you watch the tape, right before sharing his perspective on each player. And we've kind of fallen into that becoming a funny comment, knowing that he's usually talking to a group of people that have watched the tape. And so with that, Chris Rodriguez is in fact somebody that if you watch the tape, you understand very quickly exactly who he is as a football player, the superpowers that he taps into consistently. And if you draw back to his time at Kentucky,
What insights does GM James Gladstone share about Chris Rodriguez?
it's remained a constant. He's very physical at the point of attack. He has a really good pace in his approach to the line of scrimmage and finding the lanes. Obviously an intimate understanding of the system and how Liam likes to call things. So there's a lot of strong matches just generally from how those two in tandem can really work together. And then also our interest in continuing to find ways to level up our capacity in the run game to make it a really balanced attack, being able to attack the perimeter and also the inside in really fair and balanced forms. And I think that Chris seamlessly provides that. You talk team building philosophy briefly. I mean, kind of quiet through free agency. There's been that frenzy and Jaguars fans not necessarily used to it.
So maybe a little bit of frantic waiting for you to do something there. And quite a bit different. than a year ago today, right? We came out the gates, what you might call as hot, signing double-digit free agents, external free agents, right off the bat a year ago. And the whole approach to that cycle was raise the floor of the football team. And that was a part of it. We're at a stage now where You know, a higher volume of draft capital is what we're hunting up in those compensatory picks. When you think about high priced free agents of ours ended up signing elsewhere, well deserved contracts. I mean, a lot of guys that have already announced this signing, I mean, they did their part to put themselves in really sound positions.
to earn that and excited for all those guys in return by not signing any outside free agents, we recruit 2027 draft capital. And I think on its surface, you would think, oh, okay, you're going to make picks in 2027. Whereas in reality, those draft picks and having more of them actually allows you the luxury of remaining in the hunt. at different intervals throughout the entire calendar year for acquiring players. You think about training camp a year ago and using a day three pick to acquire a wide receiver in Tim Patrick. You think about ahead of the trade deadline and being able to use two picks on day three to acquire a wide receiver in Jacoby Myers. Without that draft capital at your disposal, you may not be as willing or able to relinquish some of those future picks.
So by building that up now, it allows us the luxury of remaining sort of with the flexibility to do those sorts of things as we move into the next stages of the offseason and into the regular season. We'll go to Demetrius, then to Brent. Hey James, you sort of touched on this with the comp picks, but in terms of, I guess, letting, for lack of a better term, Devin Lloyd walk, how challenging was that for you guys? And just, you know, how does that sort of change the outlook of the linebacker room moving forward?
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