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Speaker 2: Ian.

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, sir.

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Speaker 2: How are you what's going on? How you guys doing.

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Speaker 2: We're doing great, very.

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Speaker 1: Very busy day for you, of course, especially some Baltimore Ravens.

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Speaker 1: I want to start there because the laundry list of

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Speaker 1: guys that were not participating today seems extreme. Let's start well,

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Speaker 1: I guess with Lamar Jackson here. I thought your point

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Speaker 1: this morning, because there was reports that he's going to

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Speaker 1: be out two to three weeks. You push back on

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Speaker 1: that a little bit.

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Speaker 2: What do you got, Well, I mean, you know, as

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Speaker 2: far as the report goes, I mean, honestly, it wasn't.

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Speaker 2: It was just saying he might miss Sunday, he might

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Speaker 2: miss the next game, he might be out two to

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Speaker 2: three weeks. Like if we know, we know, and if

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Speaker 2: we don't, like it's okay to say, like he's week

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Speaker 2: to week, and that is my understanding, Like to have

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Speaker 2: a game this week, him not being out there for

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Speaker 2: the Wednesday, you know, first, a big practice of the

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Speaker 2: game week with a hamstring injury obviously points you to

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Speaker 2: potentially not playing. We don't know for sure, but that's

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Speaker 2: what it sort of points to. And then one more

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Speaker 2: game and then to buy so like if you want to,

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Speaker 2: you know, extend it out. It's possibly misses three weeks

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Speaker 2: with two games. It is possible, but he's gonna keep

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Speaker 2: being evaluated day by day and then not this week,

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Speaker 2: will be evaluated next week. But you know, either way,

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Speaker 2: I mean every team sort of goes through this at

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Speaker 2: some point in de Greens, but like that is a

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Speaker 2: lot of injuries, so a lot of really good players,

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Speaker 2: and you know, health a lot of times can determine

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Speaker 2: where a team is. And the Ravens have been reeling.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna have to figure it out and they're gonna

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Speaker 2: have some challenges along the way.

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Speaker 3: Ed Rick Lewis here a question about Tyreek Hill's injury. Uh,

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Speaker 3: it's starting to look like he may not only miss

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Speaker 3: this year, but at least a portion of next year.

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Speaker 3: And the tough part for the Dolphins is he's their

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Speaker 3: main asset that they could trade to get some talent

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Speaker 3: to kind of rebuild this team. So really tough luck,

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Speaker 3: not only for him but the franchise.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I you know, I always obviously sort

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Speaker 2: of wondered if around the trade deadline he'd be someone

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Speaker 2: you could trade. Now, I mean obviously that's not going

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Speaker 2: to happen. I mean, it's you know, this is a

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Speaker 2: series as it gets. It's a multi ligament injury. Dislocated

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Speaker 2: me you know, basically means a tour either everything or

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Speaker 2: almost everything. And you know the recovery time can be

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Speaker 2: twelve months. So is he gonna be ready for the

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Speaker 2: start to the season, to start the season, Like, I

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Speaker 2: don't know for sure. I don't know that anybody knows,

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Speaker 2: certainly not Tyreek Hill. I mean, the fact that he

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Speaker 2: was able to get you know, everything repaired in one

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Speaker 2: surgery yesterday is a good sign that you know, could

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Speaker 2: mean an accelerated recovery. But you know, ten months from

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Speaker 2: now is basically the start of the season, Like that

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Speaker 2: would be an unbelievable challenge. And even if he's ready,

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Speaker 2: how ready is he going to be? Right? So now

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Speaker 2: you know, contractually you do thirty six million dollars next year,

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Speaker 2: none of it is guaranteed, So you know, something is

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Speaker 2: going to have to change if he's going to remain

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Speaker 2: on the Dolphins. If he's not, then he's not. But

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Speaker 2: either way, I mean, there's there's a lot going on

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Speaker 2: with Tyreek Hill, and certainly a trade is no longer

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Speaker 2: no longer coming.

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Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport joining us, I want to get you read

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Speaker 1: on the Eagles situation. There was the message form AJ

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Speaker 1: Brown after the game. We know what the numbers look like.

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Speaker 1: They're thirtieth in yards, they're thirty first in passing, they're

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Speaker 1: even sixteenth in running. So certainly the numbers are not

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Speaker 1: what we're used to seeing with an elite team, but

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Speaker 1: they are four and oh, it's a weird situation with

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Speaker 1: the Eagles. What's you read on it?

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Speaker 2: You know, that's what it's sort of always like with

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Speaker 2: because they're feur and oh and you know, all the

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Speaker 2: talk has been about why is the offense not good enough?

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Speaker 2: Whereas like every other team would love to be foreigna.

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Speaker 2: You know, they've gotten it done in different ways. And

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Speaker 2: like it's not you know, play calling doesn't exist in

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Speaker 2: The A J. Brown think was interesting to me. He

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Speaker 2: I think is good. You know, that's sort of what

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Speaker 2: of saga for the Eagles and you know, one of

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Speaker 3: There was a lot of hype of course around the

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Speaker 3: Broncos at two and two are still in a pretty

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Speaker 2: Yes. Now I would also say I would also say that,

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Speaker 2: you get to evaluate, you get to figure out where

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Speaker 2: where I would say they're okay. They've played perfect. No,

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Speaker 2: bo Nick says has played Alrighty has been a little better.

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Speaker 2: I think the defense falling to know, the defense is

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Speaker 2: going to be there. To me, everything is still out

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Speaker 2: But I haven't seen anything that would make me think

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Speaker 1: Last couple here for you Ian Dylan Gabriel named the

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Speaker 1: that in your opinion for Dylan Gabriel, because again there's

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Speaker 2: As you know, I don't think it's gonna be one game,

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Speaker 2: but the turnovers were bad. It was enough, And but

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Speaker 2: I think you know, they'd like to get enough of

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Speaker 2: the looks, you know, like do we have a guy

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Speaker 2: So I would say, at least you're looking at a

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Speaker 2: I would say a couple of games, several games, and

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Speaker 2: then you know, go kind of reassess from there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, stick with the Browns here real quick. One more

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Speaker 3: question he and regarding sha Duor. We were just talking

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Speaker 3: at some point? It's almost like he's trying to force

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Speaker 3: himself out of Cleveland, right.

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Speaker 2: Now, you know, I get a different read. You know, look,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure he wants to play. I don't know that.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that anybody thinks he's ready to play

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Speaker 2: right now. And that is okay. Like, you know, what

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Speaker 2: sir George Sanders is for the Browns is a lottery ticket.

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Speaker 2: a fifth round pick. Who cares team's messed up fifth

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Speaker 2: round picks all the time, it doesn't matter less. But

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Speaker 2: if you're gonna you know, there is a possibility that

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Speaker 2: he is a guy. Like again, with quarterbacks, you just

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Speaker 2: never know. I don't get the sense they would trade

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Speaker 2: what's the point? I as well keep him, as will

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Speaker 2: develop him, might as well see and you know.

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Speaker 4: The reality is if he gets good enough to just

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Speaker 4: four years, that.

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Speaker 2: Is good value draft pick wise, like a fifth rounder

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Speaker 2: to be the backup quarterback costing zero dollars, that's pretty good.

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Speaker 4: And I also, you know, I think he wants.

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Speaker 2: To play, because everybody wants to play, But I don't

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Speaker 2: really get the sense he sort of disgrunt. So I

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Speaker 2: think today the miming thing him not answering questions was

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Speaker 2: really about him trying not to get in trouble, honestly,

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Speaker 2: than anything else makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Ian, appreciate you. We'll check out in the next week.

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Speaker 2: All right, Thanks guys, take care, Thanks thank you.

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Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport our NFL Network insider