Jaguars Happy Hour

Jaguars Happy Hour is a Thursday radio hour devoted to one football team, produced from the Hyundai Studios at the Miller Electric Center and carried on 1010XL, Jaguars.com, and the Jaguars YouTube channel. J.P. Shadrick opens each show after a joke-of-the-week introduction, runs the rundown, and then turns to former Jaguar Jeff Lageman. The two talk the way people talk in a press box hallway. A point gets tossed out, tested, corrected, and then compared against what another team just did. That looping quality is the show's engine. Recent episodes have tracked the run-up to the draft in unusual detail: James Gladstone's history of picking later in the round, where late-round value tends to hide, and what a team does when it has no first-round pick. Trayvon Walker's extension drew first reaction from Lageman. A fifth-year option decision got its own segment. The Jaguars' Orlando game in 2027 was covered the week it became official on a 32-0 ownership vote, with the earlier Daytona speculation folded in. Before the NFL annual meeting, proposed rule changes were run through one at a time for a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. The show is honest about the calendar. When the Jaguars have a slow news week, that gets said out loud, and the hour turns toward the rest of the league, the new office building, or awards for the medical, strength and conditioning, and equipment staffs. Guests show up when the timing warrants. General manager James Gladstone came in live during the opening days of the new league year to describe how the front office approaches free agency and roster building. Former Jags linebacker Coach Mark Duffner joined that same hour. Austin Lane has sat in as well, and the desk has used those player perspectives to explain what the days before a draft feel like from the inside. There is banter, but it does not run the show. A March Madness bracket discussion lasts about as long as it deserves. A running bit about querying an AI assistant surfaces most weeks. Sponsor reads are woven into the opening, which listeners of sports radio will recognize immediately. What holds it together is the assumption that the audience already knows the roster and wants the next layer down: draft capital, offer sheets, contract timing, front-office structure, and how a second year under a new regime is supposed to look. The tone stays practical rather than hyped, with praise and skepticism landing in the same breath.