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Speaker 1: We head out to the Kaoie Thomas Baring Health Hotline

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Speaker 1: and bring on Ian or Rappaport, our NFL Network Insider

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Speaker 2: Ian, Good afternoon, Thank you so much for the time.

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

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Speaker 3: How you guys doing?

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Speaker 2: We're doing?

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Speaker 4: Uh, we're doing, Grady, And I want to I want

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Speaker 4: to ask you to start, uh, not really an NFL question,

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Speaker 4: but about about football.

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Speaker 2: Link Iff and makes the decision.

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Speaker 4: He goes to LSU, were you ever hearing any buzz

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Speaker 4: whatsoever that there may have been a couple of teams

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Speaker 4: in the NFL that that reached out and engaged any

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Speaker 4: interest that he might have.

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Speaker 3: Uh No, I didn't didn't catch wind of that at all.

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Speaker 5: I mean I was to me and based on you know,

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Speaker 5: my knowledge of that situation, it was basically always LSU.

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Speaker 3: That was the job he.

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Speaker 5: Wanted, That was the job that I think fits invest

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Speaker 5: And yeah, I mean it's you know, look he did

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Speaker 5: obviously coach in the NFL was a disaster.

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Speaker 3: It probably wasn't ready to be head coach at any

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Speaker 3: level at that point, right, But you know, it's there's

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Speaker 3: not a good track record of college head coaches that

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Speaker 3: come into the NFL. And but I'm sure there'll.

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Speaker 5: Be some potential that we'll talk about, but like it

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Speaker 5: hasn't worked.

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Speaker 3: So I feel like at some point people will say,

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Speaker 3: you know what, let's just try and a gout coaches

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Speaker 3: and believe it there.

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Speaker 6: And when we watched the game yesterday, Justin Herbert suffered

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Speaker 6: an injury to his hand and I think he had

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Speaker 6: surgery today. Long term, how does this impact him? Because

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Speaker 6: I know I was reading something earlier and they said

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Speaker 6: that he was trying to play in next week's game.

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Speaker 6: I don't know if that's going to be possible. Well,

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Speaker 6: what is your thought process on his injury and now

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Speaker 6: it impacts the charges moving forward?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So, first of all, he hasn't had surgery yet,

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Speaker 5: but he will today probably actually probably doing it right now.

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Speaker 5: He is planning to play on Monday, and they have

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Speaker 5: the extra day they played the egos, I believe, so

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Speaker 5: he is planning to play on Monday.

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Speaker 3: And you know, it sounds to me like the.

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Speaker 5: Surgery doesn't hurt his window, like surgery to kind of

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Speaker 5: secure it and make sure that the bonus repaired to

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Speaker 5: the metacarpal fracture. That probably if anything accelerates things.

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Speaker 3: So you know, he's got a chance to play. We've

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Speaker 3: seen Aaron Rodgers do it all all injuries are not

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Speaker 3: the same, but ice Aaron Rodgers do it.

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Speaker 5: With a wrist injury a week after this is a

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Speaker 5: hand injury, but it's the same week.

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Speaker 3: So you know, my sense is that's possible, and I

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Speaker 3: believe he's planning to do it.

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Speaker 2: We were just.

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Speaker 1: Talking about the Broncos win, as you would imagine moments

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Speaker 1: ago on Sunday Night Football. Was what was your takeaway

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Speaker 1: from that game and more specifically of the Broncos nine

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Speaker 1: game winning streak now sitting in top of the AFC.

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Speaker 3: You know, I mean, first of all, it wasn't surprising.

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Speaker 5: That's basically they've played versions of that game so many

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Speaker 5: different times. I thought, you know, the play at the

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Speaker 5: end was interesting because you know, you can sort of

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Speaker 5: look at it and say, well, you know, the two

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Speaker 5: point conversion I'm talking about.

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Speaker 3: You said, well, you know, the Commanders it was open.

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Speaker 3: You know, it was I think it was Jeremy McNichol

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Speaker 5: But part of the reason that happens is because Nick

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Speaker 5: Benito is going to get after the quarterback and get

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Speaker 5: he has been unbelievable this year, really building off what

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Speaker 5: he did last year. And you know, it was a

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Speaker 5: similar kind of ending we've seen, which you know, I

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Speaker 1: Really that good.

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Speaker 3: They've sort of like pulled out some games in the end.

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Speaker 3: It's been a little crazy, but at some point you

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Speaker 3: do it enough and it's not random. At some point

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Speaker 3: it's like, all right, well, this team actually.

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Speaker 5: Knows how to really knows how to win and play

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Speaker 3: It matters most. And that really does seem to be

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Speaker 3: one of the core characteristics of this Broncos team, you know.

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Speaker 4: And when the season started, or actually before where the

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Speaker 4: it's been a crazy year when normally maybe one of

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Speaker 4: Joe Burrow got injured. I mean, those four teams that

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Speaker 4: over the last few years have been right atop the AFC,

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Speaker 4: they've all had their issues and all of them, for

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been a really interesting, strange year for sort

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Speaker 5: of like the teams that are always always in the mix.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned, you know, Jeeves and the Raymond. Raymond started

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Speaker 5: I think trying to you know, really trying to get

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Speaker 3: Really play some consistent football, and it hasn't happen yet,

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Speaker 3: you know. And so what that's done is open the

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Speaker 5: Say this, Sean Payton has never been shy, and he's

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Speaker 3: Is good enough to be in the Super Bowl since

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Speaker 3: So I think, well a lot of people are surprised.

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Speaker 5: He's no dummy.

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Speaker 3: And I never got the.

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Speaker 5: Censor was like a motivational technique I got essentially really

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Speaker 5: believed it, and now it's sort of like really wouldn't

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Speaker 6: And at the start of the season everyone was wondering,

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Speaker 6: what was this relationship between Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams

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Speaker 6: gonna look nice? And right now they are nine to three,

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Speaker 6: they have a number one seat as far as today

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Speaker 2: What has been your what has been your.

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Speaker 6: Take on the Chicago Bears and what you're seeing from

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Speaker 3: You know, we'll start with the quarterback position. I think

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Speaker 3: it's been okay. You know, Caleb seems receptive. He showed

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Speaker 5: Overall, you know, I think down in and down out,

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Speaker 3: There's definitely some inconsistency there. But when you hire Ben.

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Speaker 3: So like I was at the.

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Speaker 3: whatever you want to say about Calebe, if he just

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Speaker 1: Last one I have for Ian. I always appreciate the

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Speaker 1: time coming. Going back to the conversation the question Dave

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Speaker 1: had about how topsy turvy this season has been, and

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of ways it makes more interesting,

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Speaker 1: a lot more fun.

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Speaker 2: Who do you believe in? In the AFC?

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Speaker 1: Like, and you're taking a look at the standings right now,

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Speaker 1: And I'm not doing this because I need you to

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Speaker 1: say the Broncos, although that would be fun, but that

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Speaker 1: that has been the big topic right now is like, well,

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Speaker 1: you got the Buffalo Bills are the seventh seed, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Kansey Chiefs are the ten seed in Baltimore

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Speaker 1: those teams we usually say we believe in, and here

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Speaker 2: So in the AFC, I don't know, what do you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'm still trying to figure that out,

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Speaker 5: Efficient teams was the Colts for a long time yep,

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Speaker 5: as many close games, but two more makeup of a team.

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Speaker 3: And so it's like the one thing we're all going.

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Speaker 5: To have to be comfortable with is like a football

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Speaker 3: So it's like, you know, people are going to say,

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Speaker 5: Of one of them, but people are gonna say, you

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Speaker 3: It's like, well, true, definitely true.

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Speaker 5: They have Patrick Malmes if he watched them, they don't

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Speaker 5: And I think that's really going to be fun because

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Speaker 1: One last quick one, Adam Delan released today. Do you

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Speaker 3: No, but you know the I don't think it'll be

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Speaker 3: maybe he's definitely looked a little different this year. I mean,

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Speaker 3: sometimes this is sort of what the end looks like.

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Speaker 5: And it sucks because Neil had a great career, but

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Speaker 5: like you know, couldn't really contribute for an offense that

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Speaker 5: has not been exactly stellar.

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Speaker 3: And I'm not sure how much he has left.

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Speaker 5: I think best case he'd latch onto a play operate

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Speaker 5: a team, but I just don't know that there's that

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Speaker 5: many spots available on those offenses far in some short

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Speaker 3: But we'll see, all right.

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Speaker 2: We'll see. Ian. Always appreciate it, man. We'll check you

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Speaker 2: on the next week.

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Speaker 3: Okay, look forward to it.

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Speaker 2: Thanks guys, Thank you. Ian Rappaport our NFL Network Insider