This is the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend Review podcast, presented by t I A. A. Bank. It's Friday, May. I'm J. P. Shadrick with the best of the week from Jaguars Radio, Jaguars dot Com, and our social channels Jaguars Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Thanks for listening on Jaguars dot Com through the podcast link at the top of the homepage, or on the official Jaguars podcast network that's on I Heart Radio, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you download your pods. We love feedback, so leave us a comment at a five star rating. Let's begin this week with reaction to last weekend's rookie minicamp. Astlan Sullivan, John Osier, Bryan Sexton and I gave our first impressions of the first overall draft pick, Trayvon Walker. I think we're all to sort of lead with the same thought that it's easy to see why they drafted Trayvon Walker. He's uh put on this earth. God came down and touched him and said you will play pro football and his he's an unbelievable specimen. May the best specimen that they've ever drafted Number one, you know, or in the first round to come in here, unbelievably impressive and uh, you know it's just May, but wow, you know it's funny you say that. So I was thinking about the guys. Baselly obviously six seven and pounds when he walked in here. John Henderson, you know, bigger, if that's possible. When he came in here in two thousand and two, Um, Fred was impressive. You're like, okay, look at that. Oh yeah, I mean four three forty. I mean, unbelievable. But when you got up close to Walker, you saw a guy who physically the only guy that's I think come close to him in terms of looking like it's supposed to look as Tony Brackens Um arms just forever and then just catchers myths. I mean, just enormous hands. Um moves so fluidly, so effortlessly through the drills. When he hit the bag, remember something we were standing there. It was boom when the other kid from Norfolks date and he played at Norfolk State for re it right, I mean, he's pop pop pop, this kid Boom. When Walker hits it, it's he was, as John said, touched, he's supposed to play professional football, and I was We were just all in awe of what we saw in terms of you knew right away that's why they took him. And I maybe i've shared the story with you guys off Mike, but I mean I stood in front of Aidan Hutchinson in Vegas and he's impressive six six to sixty and that's a big, strong guy. But he is not built like this. I mean not in any way, shape or form, built like Trayvon Walker. Yeah, when Trayvon Walker came in not Friday after he was drafted, and he was in just a jumpsuit, you know, he's Wow, he's big walking down the hallway. But then when you see him on a football field in gloves and you look at his arms that are basically to his knees, my brother text me it's funny. I tweeted out a clip of one of his drills. My brother goes, my god, I'm scared of him. And I think that's the impression we all had from well, he looked like he was he was participating a padded practice, ye And it wasn't. And I've seen a few guys like that. When I covered Bob Sanders in the Colt Taste joke about that he he would walk out during O T A S and he looked like he was going to practice because he was that big and strong. Trayvon Walkers about three of Bob Sanders, but he's impressive. The Jaguars Reporters podcast runs each Monday on Jaguars dot Com and the Official Jaguars Podcast Network. Moving along to Jags Drive Time Tuesday morning, Jaguars right guard Brandon Sheriff joined the show to discuss his new environment with the Jags after spending his first seven NFL seasons with Washington. We're back Jaguars Drive Time, brought to you by Jet Home Loans. Excited to have offensive lineman Brandon Sheriff joined the show. Now, Brandon, welcome man and excited to be back on the football field. I can imagine it's finally for real, Karen Jackson. It's really nice and the weather is nice here too, so I'm enjoying myself. Not too hot though yet, right, not yet. I heard it gets I heard it gets worse. It's going to be yeah, yeah, yeah for about a week right, short summer up there. Amen to that. So tell us just how it's been going um with coach Peterson and just this off season program we out on the football field. Feel it's very relaxed but efficient. Do you feel the same way, yep, you know, just learn a new system with coach Peterson and coach Phil and then a new offense with Press Taylor. So I think they're just you know, trying to work some baby steps here and just stacking one day at a time. And coach Peterson always talks about the one percent getting one percent better, reaching every day and uh, just just coming to work and having fun. You had different head coaches in your time in Washington, but you were in Washington your whole career. What's it like now six seven years in to step up and try something new? Yeah, you know, change. You know, I enjoyed my I enjoyed my time in Washington. I had some great coaches and I'm so thankful for you know them, and I wouldn't be where I am without them. So but changed good, and you know, just it's all it's all pretty much the same. Just new terminology, just just a new way to do things. So just coming and uh, you know, just just grind and have fun. What were your impressions, uh of Doug Peterson and as an opponent for years and how they lined up. What are your impressions? Now, Yeah, he's a great coach. He's you know, he's one of the best. He's a smart coach. You want to he want a super Bowl for a reason, you know. So you know, I'm very fortunate to be able to play with him, to play for him, and you know, and learn from him too. So I think we got a heck of a heck of a team and we're excited to just keep building one out of time. We're spending a lot of time talking about you know who what, and we're on the offensive line. What's that like for you? First of all, you're stepping into a new group anyway, and now they're talking about competition at right tackle and who's gonna be the left guard and how do you build the cohesion when you don't know who's gonna be where. I don't think you can worry about that, you know, right now, you just gotta you know, we we haven't really stepped out on the field yet. You know, you're just doing individual stuff. You are, uh doing a few team team things, but it's all about just learning the playbook and that's you know, you gotta worry about yourself first. You know, make sure you know what to do and how to do it. And like Phil says, he's got three things. Know what to do, know how to do it, and be the same guy every day, so coming and coming and work and just and just show the coaches that you know what to do. So it sounds like you're not concerned about it. That comes together in August. Yeah, no, I mean, yeah, it comes together. It slowly comes together. But we also like to get people together during O t A s and and build that build that camaraderie together, you know, outside of practice too. So we just moved into a house. That's my goal is to finally get people over there and just enjoy it. Jack's Drivetime Air's Tuesday at ten o'clock on Jaguars dot com and the Jags social media channels. Another busy weekend, a head at Daily's Place Tonight Sting at Daily's Place Chicago will play this Sunday, May twenty second. Tickets and information at Daily's Place dot com and some great shows coming up over the next couple of months. Here Chad MoMA explaining his battle with type one diabetes, plus Devin Lloyd on how he's settling into Jacksonville as a rookie and a dog mentality with Bucky Brooks all that. After this, Jacks fans fill your wallet with one debit card that screams do all exclusively from t I A Bang the Jacksonville jag Wards. He said, to have a card comes with a fierce look, fantastic features, so you can pay with pride wherever you go and it's yours free when you open a you pledge checking account up your financial game today is the financial center near you? Or find us at t I A A Bank dot com slash Jacks Card. T I A A Bank is a division of t I A A FSP member fd I c at the official bank of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Welcome back to the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend Review podcast presented by t I a A Bank. The Jaguars are future focused and ready for a new look in join us at the bank this season. Single game tickets are on sale now for the two preseason home games the Browns and the Steelers come into the bank, and of course the regular season home games in Jacksonville feature the Colts, Texans, Giants, Raiders, Ravens, Cowboys, and yes, the Titans, lock in your seats, visit Jaguars dot com, slash tickets, or call nine oh four six three three two thousand. Rookie linebacker Chad MoMA sat down with senior writer John Ozier for this week's Ozone Podcast. They had plenty to discuss about football, of course, but Muma talked about a medical condition that he's dealt with since middle school. Diagnosed with type one diabetes when you're in seventh grade. Great, right, Uh, tell me first about that. I've read a little bit about it, but it's fascinating how you must try to deal with that at that age and then sort of as you play through it with a high level athletic career. Yeah. So when I was first diagnosed, I was, you know, thirteen years old, and I was going through all the you know, type one diabetes symptoms. So you know, you're drinking water all the time, You're always going to the restroom, You're you know, always tired, and so like every night I wake up and have to go to the restroom at least once, and I'm turning on the faucet for about five minutes and just sitting there with my head underneath and you know, after school. Every day, I'm coming home just going straight to taking a nap. And at the time, I was like, man, you know, puberty kind of sucks. I'm going through all this and everything. But uh, you know, after a couple of weeks, my parents kind of took notice of the symptoms and I actually lost about thirty pounds over that little course. Um, that's when you should be really putting on weight. And so that's when I went in and got checked out. And you know, at the time, I think my blood sugar was like five fifty and it was the morning time, which for a normal person there ranges between seventy and one fifty, and so mine was like five fifty or something like that. And uh so then I was in the hospital all day until I got some insulent in me and got my numbers back down. And you know, now it's just really about managing it and just making sure that I'm always staying on top of it so I'm in that range and I'm able to you know, go play football, go work out, go do these things. And so that's just kind of been something that you know, I have to live with daily, but just just be extremely disciplined with and you know, everything's all right with it, and it's something great me if I'm wrong that you monitor during games at the end of quarters or halfs in that and in practice at the same time. But it's also something you've been doing for what now ten years? Yeah, No, it seems like it seems like it's been going on for a while now. But you know, definitely in games, what I'll do is I'll test my blood sugar out each quarter, uh, and then I'll adjust my numbers based off of if I need to give myself insulent, if my sugar is too high, if my blood shirt goes too low, I'll uh drink some gatorade and eat some fruit snacks or something like that. And so it's kind of similar with practice. I'll test about halfway through and make sure my numbers are still stable and kind of just go for their And the main reason I asked in reading about this with you, it strikes me that it's very important for you to help in educating kids younger than you and to be sort of an inspiration. Am I reading that right? Yeah? So when I was yeah, I was thirteen years old, and you know, the first thing I did was search NFL players with type one diabetes. And you know, Jay Cutler was the one that came up and I was I'm from Denver and so at the time it was a really big Broncos fan. He was at Denver for a little bit when he got diagnosed, and uh, that was kind of it, but I knew it was possible. So I think it's kind of being that voice for the younger athletes and not only football, just just athletes in general, UM, that have type one diabetes and just let them know that, you know, don't let this disease hold them back from going out and you know, achieving all their aspiration and goals that they have. And I assume find out about j at the time, even though probably some doctors had told you that it was possible. That always helps see somebody who's actually doing it always helps you. I definitely think. So, you know, today, like in the NFL, you have guys like Mark Andrews and uh, you know, Noah Gray and a couple of others, UM, and so just having multiple guys with type one diabetes have that success, and you know there's other sports. I'm you know, I'm sitting down with a group called uh it's it's the group called hope Diabetes for Hope or something like that, and um, we're kind of getting together with different professional athletes and canna be able to help some younger athletes, uh and kind of be those voice for all those different sports. The full conversation on the ozone Podcast on Jaguars dot Com or the Official Jaguars podcast Network. Now to the Linebacker Room. On the Huddle Up Podcast, Lucky Brooks, John Ojan and I discussed the influx of talent at the middle linebacker position and what kind of role Chad MoMA could play. I for one, JP, I am worn out on there being so many good players around here. I mean, I guess that's why I'm mad. We've had too many of them. Been a problem for these coaching staff for uh for decades, you know, figuring out where to put good players. Well, I think so here's the thing, Like the best time, the last time we saw a really good defense and a really good team was twenty seventeen. Look at the linebackers that was that were on that squad and how they utilized them, Telvin and Jack and pause, Like, they found a way to utilize the talents and they put him on the field. I think you could have a similar situation. I'm not saying that they're going to recreate Saxonville because I still think we're lacking a little bit when from the past fresh aspect. But that defense had a lot of speed, a lot of athleticism, and a lot of versatility, and they were able to use that to their advantage. Remember JP on that two has a seventeen team. Uh, you know Dante Fowler, I don't know that he really had a true position on that team. You know, he wouldn't. I guess he was a starter, not really over yawn, you know. I like they're really well, I mean except for when he didn't that one. Yeah, but he really didn't you look back, he really didn't never roll per se. But he had ten sacks and forced a bunch of fumbles. And he wasn't the best player in that defense, but good enough to find a place for him. Aaron Coleman was the nickel you know, and played something. You know, so uh, I'm into what Bucky's saying. I mean, it's when you I've never known a team in the NFL had two whine about having too many guys who could play. Certainly haven't known it around here. So to me, the Moment pick was a huge step in the right direction philosophically for that reason. You know, yeah, I think I think it will pay dividends down the line. This is a really good player, man. I hate to keep comparing him to his former teammate Logan Wilson and what Logan Wilson has been able to do for the Sincinnati Bengals, but you have to compare him because stylistically, man, they play so similarly in terms of the way that they control the middlefield, the way they're able to play in coverage, the way they get their hands on the ball, and they make a ton of disruptive plays. Moment strikes me as the same kind of player. And what was impressive And I know sometimes like this stuff can be for show, but how quickly he wanted to dive into the playbook, how he wanted to playbook right away, and how he wanted ownership, and how I think ballk He was the one that mentioned, hey, he's a green dot player, and people have to understand the green dot player is the one who makes all the calls. He's the one that communicates with the coaches. He has the uh Mike and the earpiece in the helmet. He's the traffic cop. And for him to want to embrace that and to do what he's always done to me, that makes it easy because if he does become that, then it frees up the other guys to just focusing on plane and that allows them to play fast. That allows them to play free, and hopefully it leads to a bunch of plays, a bunch of splash plays. This is the Huddle Up Podcast J P. Shadrick, John Oshan and Bucky Brooks and a dog in the background. Bucky, what's what's the lay of the lay end with the dog situation? That dog has That dog has a dog dog mentality over there, dog mentality, so that that might be Luna. But I don't know if there's Luna or if there's Parmesan, because Parmesan is the dog next door and so sometimes they get to going. And so today I think you have the gardeners running around people all over the place. So has a gardener must be nice? Yeah, that's uh okay. Hey, Bucky, how's the gardener. I didn't say big as your garden. I didn't say it was my garden. There's a gardener running around next, that's a gardener that somebody who would name their dog Parmesan. It's fair and that's not my dog. Is my dog is the neighbor's dog? A dog mentality from Bucky but full Huddle Up podcast on Jaguars dot Com and the Official Jaguars Podcast Network. Let's wrap this week with the twenty seventh over roll pick in the two NFL draft, linebacker Devin Lloyd. He joined Jeff Lockerman and Me on Jaguar Is Happy Our Radio Thursday afternoon and explained his transition to the NFL so far. Let's get to arriving in Jacksonville. Now, rookie minicamp comes and goes, a couple of three days on the field, and now all of a sudden, this past week, we've been out there with the veterans for the first time. O t a s next week. How's it been mixing with these guys in the building finally for the first time. Yeah, it's been cool. It's been cool. Um, you know, it's definitely obviously different in college, but um, I think everyone's been really welcoming for the most part as far as just guys in the building, um, and really extending their hand to me and kind of um really just giving me advice you know, um on the field, um, even off the field, um, in the locker room things in that nature. So um, it's been a good vibe and I can tell everybody around here is hungry to win, which you know, I absolutely love you know what I'm saying. So um, it's been a good few days of work and uh, you know, I can't wait to keep it going for folks around here, Devon, it's a brand new linebacker room, right, I mean it feels that way. There's a few guys that are back, but it's been rebuilt. I mean that is from Luca and you're in momas in in the draft. That's a lot of change in one years. Stacked room. You guys feel that way too. Yeah, we got a lot of guys in there, um that are really good and that can do a lot of good things, you know for um the team. So um, it's competitive as you expect. Um. But I mean we're all, you know, getting each other better. We're all helping each other, um, you know, talking through things in the meeting room. So um, it's a it's a friendly competition, you say. I mean there's always a little bit of a bonding experience with the rookie class when you guys come in because you're the rookies, you know, and whether you guys are drafted or undrafted. And then also you've got a fellow first round draft pick and Drayvon Walker. That's probably, uh, one of the coolest experience I think that you'll ever have is coming in as a rookie because you'll have a bond with these guys because you came in together and you're gonna grow up in the league together. And have you gotten to spend some time I'm with some of the other guys so far. Yeah, Um, so I know me personally, I've been hammering my playbook in my free time, so I haven't been doing much outside of the facility. But um, in the facility and everything, yeah, well we'll chop it up and um you know, still you know, getting to really, um get acclimated with the large majority of you know, the players on the team. But um, but yeah, you know, i'd say, you know, the rookies are pretty pretty tight with each other. What's the what's the field with coach Peterson? What do you like about Yeah, um, you know, obviously he's very Uh, I say he's a player's coach just because you know he does know how to talk to the players, and um, you know he has uh pretty good um communication with the players, I guess you could say. Um. But also I can tell he's a winner. You know, he's got that mindset, um that he's gonna do whatever you can for the team and whatever is best for the team. UM. So you know I love that, and um, you know, I mean I'm just excited to keep it going, you know, continue to uh to see what everyone is about, you know, watching and watching the film on your Utah. You did so many different things. You were played will linebacker. Sometimes you were a deep medal third player when like a like a cover two playing that deep metal you blitzed off the edge. You had a lot of different staff filling numbers. What do you envision yourself doing in the National Football League at what type of position? Because you're so varied and you can do so many different things. What's your strongest suit and what do you see yourself doing? Me personally? UM, I mean I feel like especially in this three four scheme. Um, obviously I'm learning inside linebacker right now. Obviously I want to be able to transition to play any of those four, be interchangeable. Um, and do what I did you know in college, except at a higher level it um what more success? Um? I mean really I see myself see myself as somebody who can do anything that you can ask a linebacker to do, you know. And I think the game is transitioning more from you know, it's getting just you know, I mean, do is too. You've got to be athletes now too, you know what I'm saying. So, um, you know I kind of want to be you know that that type word. You know, he's positioned list you can play wherever and do it at a high level. Half success, not just be a liability and not just put him out there, but be able to be elite. Jaguars Happy. Our radio air's Thursday at four o'clock on Tin Tin, X L A M and Jacksonville and Jaguars dot com. On the Jaguars social channels Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. You can listen to all our podcast of course, click the top of the homepage at Jaguars dot com where it says yes podcasts, or where our podcasts also live the Official Jaguars podcast Network. It's on iHeart Radio Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. 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This is the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend Review podcast, presented by t I A. A. Bank. It's Friday, May. I'm J. P. Shadrick with the best of the week from Jaguars Radio, Jaguars dot Com, and our social channels Jaguars Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Thanks for listening on Jaguars dot Com through the podcast link at the top of the homepage, or on the official Jaguars podcast network that's on I Heart Radio, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you download your pods. We love feedback, so leave us a comment at a five star rating. Let's begin this week with reaction to last weekend's rookie minicamp. Astlan Sullivan, John Osier, Bryan Sexton and I gave our first impressions of the first overall draft pick, Trayvon Walker. I think we're all to sort of lead with the same thought that it's easy to see why they drafted Trayvon Walker. He's uh put on this earth. God came down and touched him and said you will play pro football and his he's an unbelievable specimen. May the best specimen that they've ever drafted Number one, you know, or in the first round to come in here, unbelievably impressive and uh, you know it's just May, but wow, you know it's funny you say that. So I was thinking about the guys. Baselly obviously six seven and pounds when he walked in here. John Henderson, you know, bigger, if that's possible. When he came in here in two thousand and two, Um, Fred was impressive. You're like, okay, look at that. Oh yeah, I mean four three forty. I mean, unbelievable. But when you got up close to Walker, you saw a guy who physically the only guy that's I think come close to him in terms of looking like it's supposed to look as Tony Brackens Um arms just forever and then just catchers myths. I mean, just enormous hands. Um moves so fluidly, so effortlessly through the drills. When he hit the bag, remember something we were standing there. It was boom when the other kid from Norfolks date and he played at Norfolk State for re it right, I mean, he's pop pop pop, this kid Boom. When Walker hits it, it's he was, as John said, touched, he's supposed to play professional football, and I was We were just all in awe of what we saw in terms of you knew right away that's why they took him. And I maybe i've shared the story with you guys off Mike, but I mean I stood in front of Aidan Hutchinson in Vegas and he's impressive six six to sixty and that's a big, strong guy. But he is not built like this. I mean not in any way, shape or form, built like Trayvon Walker. Yeah, when Trayvon Walker came in not Friday after he was drafted, and he was in just a jumpsuit, you know, he's Wow, he's big walking down the hallway. But then when you see him on a football field in gloves and you look at his arms that are basically to his knees, my brother text me it's funny. I tweeted out a clip of one of his drills. My brother goes, my god, I'm scared of him. And I think that's the impression we all had from well, he looked like he was he was participating a padded practice, ye And it wasn't. And I've seen a few guys like that. When I covered Bob Sanders in the Colt Taste joke about that he he would walk out during O T A S and he looked like he was going to practice because he was that big and strong. Trayvon Walkers about three of Bob Sanders, but he's impressive. The Jaguars Reporters podcast runs each Monday on Jaguars dot Com and the Official Jaguars Podcast Network. Moving along to Jags Drive Time Tuesday morning, Jaguars right guard Brandon Sheriff joined the show to discuss his new environment with the Jags after spending his first seven NFL seasons with Washington. We're back Jaguars Drive Time, brought to you by Jet Home Loans. Excited to have offensive lineman Brandon Sheriff joined the show. Now, Brandon, welcome man and excited to be back on the football field. I can imagine it's finally for real, Karen Jackson. It's really nice and the weather is nice here too, so I'm enjoying myself. Not too hot though yet, right, not yet. I heard it gets I heard it gets worse. It's going to be yeah, yeah, yeah for about a week right, short summer up there. Amen to that. So tell us just how it's been going um with coach Peterson and just this off season program we out on the football field. Feel it's very relaxed but efficient. Do you feel the same way, yep, you know, just learn a new system with coach Peterson and coach Phil and then a new offense with Press Taylor. So I think they're just you know, trying to work some baby steps here and just stacking one day at a time. And coach Peterson always talks about the one percent getting one percent better, reaching every day and uh, just just coming to work and having fun. You had different head coaches in your time in Washington, but you were in Washington your whole career. What's it like now six seven years in to step up and try something new? Yeah, you know, change. You know, I enjoyed my I enjoyed my time in Washington. I had some great coaches and I'm so thankful for you know them, and I wouldn't be where I am without them. So but changed good, and you know, just it's all it's all pretty much the same. Just new terminology, just just a new way to do things. So just coming and uh, you know, just just grind and have fun. What were your impressions, uh of Doug Peterson and as an opponent for years and how they lined up. What are your impressions? Now, Yeah, he's a great coach. He's you know, he's one of the best. He's a smart coach. You want to he want a super Bowl for a reason, you know. So you know, I'm very fortunate to be able to play with him, to play for him, and you know, and learn from him too. So I think we got a heck of a heck of a team and we're excited to just keep building one out of time. We're spending a lot of time talking about you know who what, and we're on the offensive line. What's that like for you? First of all, you're stepping into a new group anyway, and now they're talking about competition at right tackle and who's gonna be the left guard and how do you build the cohesion when you don't know who's gonna be where. I don't think you can worry about that, you know, right now, you just gotta you know, we we haven't really stepped out on the field yet. You know, you're just doing individual stuff. You are, uh doing a few team team things, but it's all about just learning the playbook and that's you know, you gotta worry about yourself first. You know, make sure you know what to do and how to do it. And like Phil says, he's got three things. Know what to do, know how to do it, and be the same guy every day, so coming and coming and work and just and just show the coaches that you know what to do. So it sounds like you're not concerned about it. That comes together in August. Yeah, no, I mean, yeah, it comes together. It slowly comes together. But we also like to get people together during O t A s and and build that build that camaraderie together, you know, outside of practice too. So we just moved into a house. That's my goal is to finally get people over there and just enjoy it. Jack's Drivetime Air's Tuesday at ten o'clock on Jaguars dot com and the Jags social media channels. Another busy weekend, a head at Daily's Place Tonight Sting at Daily's Place Chicago will play this Sunday, May twenty second. Tickets and information at Daily's Place dot com and some great shows coming up over the next couple of months. Here Chad MoMA explaining his battle with type one diabetes, plus Devin Lloyd on how he's settling into Jacksonville as a rookie and a dog mentality with Bucky Brooks all that. After this, Jacks fans fill your wallet with one debit card that screams do all exclusively from t I A Bang the Jacksonville jag Wards. He said, to have a card comes with a fierce look, fantastic features, so you can pay with pride wherever you go and it's yours free when you open a you pledge checking account up your financial game today is the financial center near you? Or find us at t I A A Bank dot com slash Jacks Card. T I A A Bank is a division of t I A A FSP member fd I c at the official bank of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Welcome back to the Jaguars Broadcast Weekend Review podcast presented by t I a A Bank. The Jaguars are future focused and ready for a new look in join us at the bank this season. Single game tickets are on sale now for the two preseason home games the Browns and the Steelers come into the bank, and of course the regular season home games in Jacksonville feature the Colts, Texans, Giants, Raiders, Ravens, Cowboys, and yes, the Titans, lock in your seats, visit Jaguars dot com, slash tickets, or call nine oh four six three three two thousand. Rookie linebacker Chad MoMA sat down with senior writer John Ozier for this week's Ozone Podcast. They had plenty to discuss about football, of course, but Muma talked about a medical condition that he's dealt with since middle school. Diagnosed with type one diabetes when you're in seventh grade. Great, right, Uh, tell me first about that. I've read a little bit about it, but it's fascinating how you must try to deal with that at that age and then sort of as you play through it with a high level athletic career. Yeah. So when I was first diagnosed, I was, you know, thirteen years old, and I was going through all the you know, type one diabetes symptoms. So you know, you're drinking water all the time, You're always going to the restroom, You're you know, always tired, and so like every night I wake up and have to go to the restroom at least once, and I'm turning on the faucet for about five minutes and just sitting there with my head underneath and you know, after school. Every day, I'm coming home just going straight to taking a nap. And at the time, I was like, man, you know, puberty kind of sucks. I'm going through all this and everything. But uh, you know, after a couple of weeks, my parents kind of took notice of the symptoms and I actually lost about thirty pounds over that little course. Um, that's when you should be really putting on weight. And so that's when I went in and got checked out. And you know, at the time, I think my blood sugar was like five fifty and it was the morning time, which for a normal person there ranges between seventy and one fifty, and so mine was like five fifty or something like that. And uh so then I was in the hospital all day until I got some insulent in me and got my numbers back down. And you know, now it's just really about managing it and just making sure that I'm always staying on top of it so I'm in that range and I'm able to you know, go play football, go work out, go do these things. And so that's just kind of been something that you know, I have to live with daily, but just just be extremely disciplined with and you know, everything's all right with it, and it's something great me if I'm wrong that you monitor during games at the end of quarters or halfs in that and in practice at the same time. But it's also something you've been doing for what now ten years? Yeah, No, it seems like it seems like it's been going on for a while now. But you know, definitely in games, what I'll do is I'll test my blood sugar out each quarter, uh, and then I'll adjust my numbers based off of if I need to give myself insulent, if my sugar is too high, if my blood shirt goes too low, I'll uh drink some gatorade and eat some fruit snacks or something like that. And so it's kind of similar with practice. I'll test about halfway through and make sure my numbers are still stable and kind of just go for their And the main reason I asked in reading about this with you, it strikes me that it's very important for you to help in educating kids younger than you and to be sort of an inspiration. Am I reading that right? Yeah? So when I was yeah, I was thirteen years old, and you know, the first thing I did was search NFL players with type one diabetes. And you know, Jay Cutler was the one that came up and I was I'm from Denver and so at the time it was a really big Broncos fan. He was at Denver for a little bit when he got diagnosed, and uh, that was kind of it, but I knew it was possible. So I think it's kind of being that voice for the younger athletes and not only football, just just athletes in general, UM, that have type one diabetes and just let them know that, you know, don't let this disease hold them back from going out and you know, achieving all their aspiration and goals that they have. And I assume find out about j at the time, even though probably some doctors had told you that it was possible. That always helps see somebody who's actually doing it always helps you. I definitely think. So, you know, today, like in the NFL, you have guys like Mark Andrews and uh, you know, Noah Gray and a couple of others, UM, and so just having multiple guys with type one diabetes have that success, and you know there's other sports. I'm you know, I'm sitting down with a group called uh it's it's the group called hope Diabetes for Hope or something like that, and um, we're kind of getting together with different professional athletes and canna be able to help some younger athletes, uh and kind of be those voice for all those different sports. The full conversation on the ozone Podcast on Jaguars dot Com or the Official Jaguars podcast Network. Now to the Linebacker Room. On the Huddle Up Podcast, Lucky Brooks, John Ojan and I discussed the influx of talent at the middle linebacker position and what kind of role Chad MoMA could play. I for one, JP, I am worn out on there being so many good players around here. I mean, I guess that's why I'm mad. We've had too many of them. Been a problem for these coaching staff for uh for decades, you know, figuring out where to put good players. Well, I think so here's the thing, Like the best time, the last time we saw a really good defense and a really good team was twenty seventeen. Look at the linebackers that was that were on that squad and how they utilized them, Telvin and Jack and pause, Like, they found a way to utilize the talents and they put him on the field. I think you could have a similar situation. I'm not saying that they're going to recreate Saxonville because I still think we're lacking a little bit when from the past fresh aspect. But that defense had a lot of speed, a lot of athleticism, and a lot of versatility, and they were able to use that to their advantage. Remember JP on that two has a seventeen team. Uh, you know Dante Fowler, I don't know that he really had a true position on that team. You know, he wouldn't. I guess he was a starter, not really over yawn, you know. I like they're really well, I mean except for when he didn't that one. Yeah, but he really didn't you look back, he really didn't never roll per se. But he had ten sacks and forced a bunch of fumbles. And he wasn't the best player in that defense, but good enough to find a place for him. Aaron Coleman was the nickel you know, and played something. You know, so uh, I'm into what Bucky's saying. I mean, it's when you I've never known a team in the NFL had two whine about having too many guys who could play. Certainly haven't known it around here. So to me, the Moment pick was a huge step in the right direction philosophically for that reason. You know, yeah, I think I think it will pay dividends down the line. This is a really good player, man. I hate to keep comparing him to his former teammate Logan Wilson and what Logan Wilson has been able to do for the Sincinnati Bengals, but you have to compare him because stylistically, man, they play so similarly in terms of the way that they control the middlefield, the way they're able to play in coverage, the way they get their hands on the ball, and they make a ton of disruptive plays. Moment strikes me as the same kind of player. And what was impressive And I know sometimes like this stuff can be for show, but how quickly he wanted to dive into the playbook, how he wanted to playbook right away, and how he wanted ownership, and how I think ballk He was the one that mentioned, hey, he's a green dot player, and people have to understand the green dot player is the one who makes all the calls. He's the one that communicates with the coaches. He has the uh Mike and the earpiece in the helmet. He's the traffic cop. And for him to want to embrace that and to do what he's always done to me, that makes it easy because if he does become that, then it frees up the other guys to just focusing on plane and that allows them to play fast. That allows them to play free, and hopefully it leads to a bunch of plays, a bunch of splash plays. This is the Huddle Up Podcast J P. Shadrick, John Oshan and Bucky Brooks and a dog in the background. Bucky, what's what's the lay of the lay end with the dog situation? That dog has That dog has a dog dog mentality over there, dog mentality, so that that might be Luna. But I don't know if there's Luna or if there's Parmesan, because Parmesan is the dog next door and so sometimes they get to going. And so today I think you have the gardeners running around people all over the place. So has a gardener must be nice? Yeah, that's uh okay. Hey, Bucky, how's the gardener. I didn't say big as your garden. I didn't say it was my garden. There's a gardener running around next, that's a gardener that somebody who would name their dog Parmesan. It's fair and that's not my dog. Is my dog is the neighbor's dog? A dog mentality from Bucky but full Huddle Up podcast on Jaguars dot Com and the Official Jaguars Podcast Network. Let's wrap this week with the twenty seventh over roll pick in the two NFL draft, linebacker Devin Lloyd. He joined Jeff Lockerman and Me on Jaguar Is Happy Our Radio Thursday afternoon and explained his transition to the NFL so far. Let's get to arriving in Jacksonville. Now, rookie minicamp comes and goes, a couple of three days on the field, and now all of a sudden, this past week, we've been out there with the veterans for the first time. O t a s next week. How's it been mixing with these guys in the building finally for the first time. Yeah, it's been cool. It's been cool. Um, you know, it's definitely obviously different in college, but um, I think everyone's been really welcoming for the most part as far as just guys in the building, um, and really extending their hand to me and kind of um really just giving me advice you know, um on the field, um, even off the field, um, in the locker room things in that nature. So um, it's been a good vibe and I can tell everybody around here is hungry to win, which you know, I absolutely love you know what I'm saying. So um, it's been a good few days of work and uh, you know, I can't wait to keep it going for folks around here, Devon, it's a brand new linebacker room, right, I mean it feels that way. There's a few guys that are back, but it's been rebuilt. I mean that is from Luca and you're in momas in in the draft. That's a lot of change in one years. Stacked room. You guys feel that way too. Yeah, we got a lot of guys in there, um that are really good and that can do a lot of good things, you know for um the team. So um, it's competitive as you expect. Um. But I mean we're all, you know, getting each other better. We're all helping each other, um, you know, talking through things in the meeting room. So um, it's a it's a friendly competition, you say. I mean there's always a little bit of a bonding experience with the rookie class when you guys come in because you're the rookies, you know, and whether you guys are drafted or undrafted. And then also you've got a fellow first round draft pick and Drayvon Walker. That's probably, uh, one of the coolest experience I think that you'll ever have is coming in as a rookie because you'll have a bond with these guys because you came in together and you're gonna grow up in the league together. And have you gotten to spend some time I'm with some of the other guys so far. Yeah, Um, so I know me personally, I've been hammering my playbook in my free time, so I haven't been doing much outside of the facility. But um, in the facility and everything, yeah, well we'll chop it up and um you know, still you know, getting to really, um get acclimated with the large majority of you know, the players on the team. But um, but yeah, you know, i'd say, you know, the rookies are pretty pretty tight with each other. What's the what's the field with coach Peterson? What do you like about Yeah, um, you know, obviously he's very Uh, I say he's a player's coach just because you know he does know how to talk to the players, and um, you know he has uh pretty good um communication with the players, I guess you could say. Um. But also I can tell he's a winner. You know, he's got that mindset, um that he's gonna do whatever you can for the team and whatever is best for the team. UM. So you know I love that, and um, you know, I mean I'm just excited to keep it going, you know, continue to uh to see what everyone is about, you know, watching and watching the film on your Utah. You did so many different things. You were played will linebacker. Sometimes you were a deep medal third player when like a like a cover two playing that deep metal you blitzed off the edge. You had a lot of different staff filling numbers. What do you envision yourself doing in the National Football League at what type of position? Because you're so varied and you can do so many different things. What's your strongest suit and what do you see yourself doing? Me personally? UM, I mean I feel like especially in this three four scheme. Um, obviously I'm learning inside linebacker right now. Obviously I want to be able to transition to play any of those four, be interchangeable. Um, and do what I did you know in college, except at a higher level it um what more success? Um? I mean really I see myself see myself as somebody who can do anything that you can ask a linebacker to do, you know. And I think the game is transitioning more from you know, it's getting just you know, I mean, do is too. You've got to be athletes now too, you know what I'm saying. So, um, you know I kind of want to be you know that that type word. You know, he's positioned list you can play wherever and do it at a high level. Half success, not just be a liability and not just put him out there, but be able to be elite. Jaguars Happy. Our radio air's Thursday at four o'clock on Tin Tin, X L A M and Jacksonville and Jaguars dot com. On the Jaguars social channels Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. You can listen to all our podcast of course, click the top of the homepage at Jaguars dot com where it says yes podcasts, or where our podcasts also live the Official Jaguars podcast Network. It's on iHeart Radio Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. 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