JACKSONVILLE – Let's get to it …

Daniel from St Johns, FL

I'm not a podcast fan. They usually sound like Norm from Cheers leading a discussion about Duh Bears. But your EVP with Gladstone and Coen was awesome. I'm excited and all in for the new season, but really a bit in awe. I think Owners Shad and Tony Khan have built a management team that is amazing and may keep us thrilled for years to come. So, you need a question … Any chance you can interview our EVP and his boss? Khan has yet to be as successful with the Jags as he wishes, but he is still the most fascinating person in Jax as far as I'm concerned! Go Jags!

You're referencing the 2025 offseason's final EVPodcast, which can be found on Jaguars Media Channels. This version posted shortly after the mid-June end of the 2025 offseason program and featured not only Executive Vice President of Football Operations Tony Boselli but General Manager James Gladstone and Head Coach Liam Coen. The trio made the podcast memorable, showing their obvious camaraderie – and their enthusiasm for the job at hand. The episode indeed is another example of why there has been a very good feeling around the Jaguars about the new football direction since the trio's hiring this past offseason. As for having Khan as a guest on the EVPodcast … this is a good idea. I doubt it will happen in the coming weeks and months because the focus will be on football with an emphasis on Coen and what's happening on the field. Sometime in the future? We'll see.

Jim from Jagsonville

We always say you have to wait a few years to evaluate a draft class, so let's look back at 2022! Travon Walker, outside linebacker, Georgia: No. 1 overall (Round 1). Devin Lloyd, linebacker, Utah: No. 27 overall (Round 1). Luke Fortner, offensive lineman, Kentucky: No. 65 overall (Round 3). Chad Muma, linebacker, Wyoming: No. 70 overall (Round 3). Snoop Conner, running back, Mississippi: No. 154 overall (Round 5). Gregory Junior, cornerback, Ouachita Baptist: No. 197 overall (Round 6). Montaric Brown, cornerback, Arkansas: No. 222 overall (Round 7). How do we feel about this draft overall? Welcome to the Dead Zone...

I always have liked the Walker selection and continue to like it, and he remains one of the two or three best players on this team. I continue to pull for Lloyd to fulfill the potential that made him a first-round selection, and I look forward to seeing what he can do in defensive coordinator Anthony Campanile's scheme in 2025. Brown has been a very good selection for a seventh-round selection. Beyond that …

Chevin from Riverside, Jacksonville

Have you watched the interview CBS Morning did with the original R.E.M. members a little while back? If not, it's worth your time.

I hadn't watched it until I received your email. I watched it on YouTube and it delayed my day 45 minutes. You are correct. It was worth the time. Thank you.

Scott from Aruba

Which players on the team, if they step up the way we all hope than can, have a chance of Pro Bowl consideration this year?

Many starters fit this description. Quarterback Trevor Lawrence, wide receiver Brian Thomas Jr., defensive ends Travon Walker and Josh Hines-Allen, linebacker Foye Oluokun, Those players are at the top of the list, but any player who steps "up the way we all hope they can" can theoretically make the Pro Bowl.

Troy from Dover, PA

Do you think that they will go to an 18-game regular season anytime soon? It would help level out the schedule for teams within a division. They could all play the same teams and not have three games based on where they fell in the standings the prior year. All teams could play two games against teams in their division, and one game against all teams in three different divisions on a rotating basis each year.

I do believe the NFL will implement an 18-game regular-season schedule in the foreseeable future. And while your projected scheduling system indeed would "level" out the schedule, I kind of wonder if the league would adopt quite so "formulaic" a scheduling formula. Balance is nice, but it's nice to have a quirk or two mixed in as well.

Mark from Jacksonville

Not including "Rudy" in your football movie list is criminal. I don't cry when I watch it, because I'm a man. But I always just get some dirt in my eye.

Meh. I pulled for the Vince Vaughn character. I found him far more likeable than Rudy. Good music, though.

John from Jacksonville

I saw that Mike from Pensacola wants to talk football. Did they ever catch Antonio Brown? I heard he was on the run.

Former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown reportedly has a pending warrant for his arrest on an attempted murder charge with a firearm. According to a recent post on Twitter, he has left the country. I don't honestly know much beyond that and probably won't follow it particularly closely. I get older every day. At some point, you prioritize your interests.

David from The Island

Hotels aside, playing games in Orlando is good way to expand fandom footprint. Analytics say play the games in Orlando.

OK.

Bradley from Kansas City, MO

I've always considered myself an earthling first and an American second, but will I ever see another male tennis player from the USA win a slam in my lifetime which with a little luck should be 25-30 years?

This is a timely topic with Wimbledon well under way – and with no American men's tennis player indeed having won a major since Andy Roddick won the 2003 U.S. Open. Despite this two-decade drought, I do believe an American men's player will win a major in the next decade or so. Players such as Taylor Fritz, Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe are more serious "slam" contenders than any player since Roddick and the overall state of the men's game in this country is improving. Fingers crossed.

Scott from Aruba

Am I finally allowed to feel hope again, or is that still frowned upon in Duval?

Hope never has been frowned upon around the Jaguars, but it's fair to note that there have been plenty of times in the last decade and a half that offseason hope has proven false. This sometimes has happened early in regular seasons and sometimes it has happened late. Disappointment far too often has been the rule in these parts rather than the exception. I don't know what the 2025 season will hold for this team. What I do know is the hope around this franchise feels real. The direction feels positive. Maybe that means contending in 2025. Maybe not. But the thought here is that this regime will win and build steadily soon. Maybe sooner rather than later.

Larry from Wattsburg(h), PA

Have you read "In the Heart of the Sea?" Updated tale (not fluke!) that influenced Melville. Have you seen Burr's Wild Wing's sketch?! Never say Dead Zone!

I have not (no thought). I have (good stuff). OK.

Matt from Jacksonville

Probably before your time, but how do you rank the Boston albums?

Boston absolutely was not before my time. I saw Boston with Sammy Hagar opening solo at the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum on January 5, 1979. And a kid at a summer camp I attended either that year or the next played the original Boston tape on a boombox over and over again to the point where we had to stop him. That first Boston certainly was a classic regardless of genre. I had "Don't Look Back," but sort of lost interest after that as my tastes leaned in other musical directions.

Deane from Hill AFB via Daytona Beach, FL

Yo, O-Zone!!! Quick question for you as a journalist. If you had the flux capacitor (if needed) who would be the Top 5 coaches and/or players you would want to interview and why?

I confess I don't think along these lines much. I don't glamorize NFL players or coaches past or present to the point that I have many bucket-list interviews. For the sake of discussion, let's go with Vince Lombardi, Sid Gillman, Paul Brown, Bill Walsh and Joe Gibbs. I go with coaches over players because they usually have a bigger-picture perspective – and I'll go with those five because there's a lot of history of the NFL in there.

Brendan from Yulee, Formerly of the Moral High Ground

What's your favorite video game of all-time?

Super Tecmo Bowl for Nintendo, with a major nod to PGA Tour Golf II for Sega Genesis, FIFA 15 for Xbox One and Grand Theft Auto Vice City for PS2 – and, of course, that great Sega NHL game where you could make a guy's head bleed.

Gator from Gainesville for now …

So yur sayin there is an apartment above yur garage? Is it for rent? I can see us now bein best friends!

It's rented. (Thankfully.)