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Speaker 3: Welcome to Good Morning Football Live in New York City

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Speaker 3: tg IF. I'm Jamie Eerdl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, Jason mccordy. Kyle,

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Speaker 3: I asked you a question last September. Early September, we

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Speaker 3: make all these picks and predictions, and on who did

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Speaker 3: you want so badly to be your offensive rookie of

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, there are so many good players. I

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Speaker 1: was big into the Malik Willis camp. I was big

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Speaker 1: into him. I wanted him. I thought Malik Willison was

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Speaker 1: going to go big places, and maybe he still will.

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Speaker 1: But I also liked Kenny Picken.

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Speaker 4: Who did you did first quarterback?

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Speaker 5: Takehi?

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Speaker 3: We're even the starter that at the time would be

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Speaker 3: skicked him. Who was Trubisky?

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Speaker 4: And that's what's wild?

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Speaker 3: While watching that highlight, Peter, what do you remember of

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Speaker 3: the brief Trubisky era that led into what we know now?

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Speaker 4: Is Kenny Piketty?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 6: It was brief, and I think all off season and

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Speaker 6: certainly through August, I was hearing from Pittsburgh sources like

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Speaker 6: for Biskey's the guy. We're not rushing Kenny. And then

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Speaker 6: once Kenny got in, he took some lumps. But can

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Speaker 6: he Pickett? We're talking about him here on May nineteen.

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Speaker 2: Mister Bisky though just re signed.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Come on, Mitch Veteran, good back up.

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Speaker 2: It's Kenny Pickett's time.

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Speaker 4: Let's go.

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Speaker 3: Let's have Kenny Pickett be our lead block, laid block

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Speaker 3: b block. Taking to Pittsburgh, Kenny Pickett had an impressive

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Speaker 3: finish to his rookie season.

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Speaker 4: He won five of his last six starts.

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Speaker 3: That lone loss he got knocked out of the game

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Speaker 3: against the Ravens. The Steelers fell just short of making

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Speaker 3: the playoffs. Mike Tomlin, his head coach, joined the Rich

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Speaker 3: Eisen Show on the ROCCU channel yesterday and was not

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Speaker 3: shy about his expectations for his quarterback heading into year two.

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Speaker 7: So let's just jump into your quarterback here, coach, and

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Speaker 7: what you expect now from Kenny Pickett year two? It's

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Speaker 7: his team full control from jump. What do you expect here?

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Speaker 7: What do you talk to him about?

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Speaker 8: You know, I expect him to kill it and describe

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Speaker 8: what I mean by that. It's the second lap around

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Speaker 8: the track. He's no longer speculating in terms of what

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Speaker 8: this business is about, what the job demands, what the

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Speaker 8: challenges are, what the feel of the process is like,

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Speaker 8: whether it's getting ready for a season or getting ready

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Speaker 8: for a week. He has all of that experience, and

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Speaker 8: so I just think it's reasonable for him to have

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Speaker 8: significant growth in all areas with that understanding.

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Speaker 3: I was appreciating Mike Tomlin clarifies things specifically and allows

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Speaker 3: us to talk about his expectations because he just laid

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Speaker 3: it out for us. Kenny Pickett making a huge leap

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three, similar to what we saw a

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Speaker 4: Jason, you're buying into us.

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Speaker 9: I'm buying into Kenny Pickett making a huge leap from

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Speaker 9: year one to year two. As we all say, a

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Speaker 9: rookie from year one a year too, you make this

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Speaker 9: huge jump, especially at the quarterback position. I look at

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Speaker 9: Kenny Picket, I look at Trevor Lawrence last year going

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Speaker 9: making a huge jump being a really good quarterback last

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Speaker 9: Four game winning drives last season and showed a little

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Speaker 9: bit of that IT factor in Pittsburgh, and I think

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Speaker 9: now year two they have a chance to compete for

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Speaker 2: But when you say Kenny Pickett, make a Jailen.

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Speaker 9: Hurts type of jump, like, let's not downplay what Jalen

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Speaker 9: Hurts did last year. Up until the end of the

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Speaker 9: of people believe Jalen Hurts was the favorite to be

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Speaker 9: you're saying Kenny Picktt make a Jailen Hurts type of leap,

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Speaker 9: we're saying we think Kenny Pikett is going to be

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Speaker 9: amongst the best quarterback, not just one of them, but

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Speaker 9: at the very top and quarterbacks next year in the NFL.

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Speaker 9: I'm not going to go that far and say that.

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Speaker 9: And of course Jalen Hurts kind of came out of nowhere,

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Speaker 9: until last season, there haven't been many quarterback only three

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Speaker 9: quarterbacks have an MVP season in year two, and that

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Speaker 9: And I'm not gonna go that far and say, all right,

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Speaker 9: huge jump, yes, but the jump doesn't have to be that.

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Speaker 2: High to say an MVP worthy season.

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Speaker 6: I already think he might have had the huge and

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Speaker 6: now Tom says he's going to kill it.

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 6: Like, if you watched Pickett over the course of last year,

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Speaker 6: we saw a player.

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Speaker 2: Take a massively.

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Speaker 6: Let's go back to Week four, Steelers are hosting the Jets.

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Speaker 6: Kenny Pickett's first big action in the NFL, and it's.

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Speaker 2: Interception, and it's another interception.

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Speaker 6: Oddly enough, the young quarterback in this game in Week

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Speaker 6: four who everyone was going bananas about wasn't Kenny Pickett,

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Speaker 6: who gave the game away with some tough picks.

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Speaker 6: Zach Wilson came in and led the Jets to a

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Speaker 1: In weeks They caught a touchdown in this game, but

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Speaker 4: Awesome in this game.

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Speaker 6: And then you fast forward to the end of the

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Speaker 6: season and they're in a huge Saturday night game on

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Speaker 6: NFL Network, and it's snowy, and it's gross out, and.

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Speaker 1: It's Pickett who went six and.

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Speaker 6: Two to finish the season, who finished eighth in the NFL.

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Speaker 4: And quarterback rating.

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Speaker 6: Last year eighth overall. Pickett was awesome last year down

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Speaker 6: the stretch. So if Tomlin say he's gonna take a

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Speaker 6: leap from this, the sky is the limit, I thought

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Speaker 6: quietly in a sea of Burrow Mahomes two A talk

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Speaker 6: all that stuff. Kenny Pickett was awesome down the stretch

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Speaker 6: and did everything he possibly could to solidify himself as

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Speaker 6: the number one guy, not only in Pittsburgh, but.

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Speaker 1: To be a contender.

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Speaker 6: Kyle, I thought you were great yesterday on the show

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Speaker 6: when you came in and he said Bengals or Ravens,

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Speaker 6: who do you got?

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Speaker 5: And you're like, don't.

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Speaker 6: Sleep on the Steeler. Never you said that Jalen Hurts

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Speaker 6: I'm not putting these two guys the same breath. But

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Speaker 6: a year ago you might have Alan Robinson quietly joined

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Speaker 6: the Steelers in the offseason.

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Speaker 1: You could maybe say.

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Speaker 6: That hal Ae Rams was not what it was, but hey,

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Speaker 6: it's another weapon at the very least George Pickens is

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Speaker 6: in year number two, Like, I don't know what that

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Speaker 6: leap can be. He already made this guy's legit. He

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Speaker 6: was awesome last year and he almost willed them to

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Speaker 6: the playoffs on a team that had no business playing

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Speaker 6: in January.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. Mike Tomlin in nineteen ninety eight was

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Speaker 1: the defensive backs coach at Arkansas State. You know who

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Speaker 1: was in his defensive backs room. One of our bosses

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Speaker 1: here at NFL Media, David Jarenka played for Mike Tomlin

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Speaker 1: Arkansas State. It was a defensive backs coach. An incredible nugget.

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Speaker 1: Now Kenny Pickett does it, here's what happens. I love

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Speaker 1: this because when you lose your best player like they

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Speaker 1: bunch of games, a lot of fans just don't watch it.

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Speaker 1: You tune out, you don't see what's going on in

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Speaker 1: the back half of the season. So a lot of

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Speaker 1: what we're all talking about here about what Pickett did,

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Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of people took in. I

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Speaker 1: just don't think he was on their radar, and it's

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Speaker 1: we're looking at some It was really good I think

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Speaker 1: the Steelers have this formula when you have a young quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and I remember it vividly with Roethlisberger. Do not mess

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Speaker 1: the game up for us, Do not lose the game

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Speaker 1: for us. Roethlisberger tried hard to lose that first Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl that he won, but they won in spite of him.

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Speaker 1: Pickett already gets it. In that last eight games of

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Speaker 1: the season, he threw one interception, just one in two,

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Speaker 1: really bad. And I want to go to one game specifically, Peter.

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Speaker 1: You brought up a game that was not good for him.

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Speaker 1: November twentieth, Steelers Bengals. Pickett throws forty two passes against

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow and the high flying offense, and damn near

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Speaker 1: stole his game. They lost the game, and I know

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Speaker 1: that's Pittsburgh and it's not about losing. He was really good.

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Speaker 1: He threw a touchdown to Pickens at the end of

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Speaker 1: his entire career. I think in this loss that I

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Speaker 1: did not back down, he did not cower, he did

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Speaker 1: loved him in this game. Yes, it was a loss,

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Speaker 1: I don't care. The guy took care of the ball.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the season. Pittsburgh is going to

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Speaker 1: be way better this year. I love them. I'm already

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Speaker 1: I've already said it. I think they're going to be

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Speaker 1: a wildcard in the AFC next year. I think picks

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Speaker 3: It goes in hand with when you hear Mike Tomlin again,

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Speaker 3: I love the way he answers that question because Richeisen

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Speaker 3: asked him the question. He says he's going to kill it.

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Speaker 3: And then he doesn't even let Eisen fall up because

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Speaker 3: you mean he's gonna be better than bro?

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Speaker 7: He does.

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Speaker 3: No, No, let me put it into perspective for you. He

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Speaker 3: is going to kill it. And it was not for

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Speaker 3: X's and Oh's reasons. It was for all reasons that

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Speaker 3: I think We appreciate a lot about especially young quarterbacks

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Speaker 3: getting drafted and how much emphasis we put on how

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Speaker 3: their meetings went and how their draft process went, which is,

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Speaker 3: he's been around the building now for a whole year.

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Speaker 3: He knows how the week works, because Jay, you know

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Speaker 3: better than anybody. A young quarterback who doesn't know how

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Speaker 3: through his film and prepare scout and get with his guys,

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Speaker 4: Quarterback that's going to flounder.

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Speaker 3: So the fact that not only is Kenny Pickett benefiting

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Speaker 3: from the fact that he went to college in the Sea,

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Speaker 3: I don't discount any of that. A young man that

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Speaker 4: In that building. I did a list earlier.

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Speaker 6: He wasn't considered Trevor Lawrence, he wasn't considered one of

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Speaker 1: We're so excited. You see this guy three places in

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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm not mistaken.

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Speaker 10: Foundation dot org.

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Speaker 5: It's right there.

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Speaker 10: We're going to make a big social announcement. It will

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Speaker 10: be links to everything and all my social media's and

441
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Speaker 10: my foundation social media's and so all the details of

442
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Speaker 10: the way you.

443
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Speaker 5: Want to donate, the way you want to support.

444
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Speaker 10: But it's going to be streamed live on Twitch and

445
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Speaker 10: there's going to be eight players, so I won't tell

446
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Speaker 10: you the names yet. We're going to do a reveal,

447
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Speaker 10: But I'm very fortunate that a lot of these guys

448
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Speaker 10: around the NFL are willing to support and hopefully we

449
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Speaker 10: can do stuff and children's hospitals in all thirty two

450
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Speaker 10: NFL cities.

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Speaker 5: But the Logan Bowl.

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Speaker 10: It's going to be June third, and obviously there's going

453
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Speaker 10: to be a lot more information about it coming soon.

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Speaker 10: But June third, Logan Bowl, eight players, Madden tournament for

455
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Speaker 10: a great cause.

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Speaker 5: So hopefully we see you guys there.

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Speaker 1: That's fantastic because third there's very little going on in

458
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Speaker 1: the NFL counter it's a perfect time to have it.

459
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Speaker 1: Eight players that Christian is keeping close to the best.

460
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Speaker 1: There's some mystery. You want to go to it, you

461
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Speaker 1: want to contribute to it. Everything We love that you

462
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Speaker 1: do that, Christian. You don't have to do that, you

463
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Speaker 1: spend your personal time doing It's fantastic. We do have

464
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Speaker 1: to do this though. As we close, all four of

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Speaker 1: us here at the breakfast table have engaged in the

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Speaker 1: holy matrimony. We're all married, and we all want to

467
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Speaker 1: say congratulations to you and your new Olivia, who got

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Speaker 1: engaged last month. Christian, give us the dates. Were you nervous,

469
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Speaker 1: did you execute? Was she surprised? Just give us a

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Speaker 1: little taste of this beautiful couple.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate you saying that.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I was fired up, convinced her to say yes,

473
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Speaker 10: don't know how I did it, but now, yeah.

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Speaker 5: I was extremely nervous. We did it in Utah and

475
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Speaker 5: kind of in the middle of nowhere. It was. It

476
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Speaker 5: was a great time. Was a hard secret to hold for.

477
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Speaker 10: That long, but I got it done, made it work.

478
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Speaker 10: Was fired up about it and engaged. So you know,

479
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Speaker 10: to all the other engaged and married men, appreciate you

480
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Speaker 10: welcoming to the club.

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Speaker 3: Hell yes, well, Christian, I have one theory to run

482
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Speaker 3: by you as how you got her to say yes.

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Speaker 4: I saw your social media. You guys went on like

484
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Speaker 4: an RV like USA tour.

485
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Speaker 3: Was this proposal during that trip, and I think the

486
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Speaker 3: reason you got her to say yes.

487
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Speaker 4: Is because she had no other options. She were stuck

488
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Speaker 4: in that RV together.

489
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Speaker 3: You're like, I gotta say yes because we got like

490
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Speaker 3: six more states to go through.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was either going to go really well or

492
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Speaker 5: really terribly. I'm glad it went well. You know, we

493
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Speaker 5: got out of there fighte free. It was great. No,

494
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Speaker 5: but it was. It was incredible. We did we road trip.

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Speaker 10: We started in La went to Joshua Tree, I went

496
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Speaker 10: to Zion National Park, kind of explored, went in nature,

497
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Speaker 10: and then went to this beautiful place in Utah and

498
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Speaker 10: with to help with some some other people.

499
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Speaker 5: I got it done and it was a great time.

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Speaker 10: We came back, we spent time with our families, and uh,

501
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Speaker 10: it was just a great time in my life. Definitely

502
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Speaker 10: something you know outside of football that all those things.

503
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Speaker 5: Are much more important than football.

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Speaker 10: So it was it was cool for me to be

505
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Speaker 10: able to continue my relationship with her and just blessed

506
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Speaker 10: to have her in my life.

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Speaker 1: It's cool for us to hear about it. You say

508
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Speaker 1: you don't know how you got her. Do agree to

509
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Speaker 1: marry you?

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Speaker 5: Christian.

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Speaker 1: I saw you guys both int NFL honors. I don't

512
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Speaker 1: know how you did it either. I gotta tell you

513
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Speaker 1: that may be your.

514
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Speaker 2: Great and they call that outicking the cover.

515
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Speaker 1: Yeah, my gosh, you are truly the best, great guy,

516
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Speaker 1: great player. The logan bul June sixth, this is Christians thing,

517
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Speaker 1: and the next February there's something called the Super Bowl.

518
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Speaker 1: That'll be Christians thing, I think, right, So it's got

519
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Speaker 1: it all going on. Thank you so much, Christian, you're

520
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Speaker 1: the best.

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Speaker 5: Appreciate you guys having me man, Thanks a lot, what a.

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Speaker 1: Lad Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Christian McCaffrey Foundation dot org go check it out.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of the Eagles, Wace, I got we're going from

525
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Speaker 3: the forty nine ers to the Eagles because now we

526
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Speaker 3: have Nikobe Dean in studio here in New York City.

527
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Speaker 3: Somebody let him into the city, and you better get

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Speaker 3: out before the giants of the just find up.

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Speaker 11: Good morning football, all right, we'll salva an Eagles linebacker

530
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Speaker 11: Nakobe Dean is in studio at the breakfast table, and

531
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Speaker 11: he will be with us in mere moments. But first

532
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Speaker 11: some news and headlines from around the league, and the

533
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Speaker 11: Panthers will begin OTA's next week. As Bryce Young has

534
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Speaker 11: been impressing everybody in the facility already, that including his

535
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Speaker 11: quarterbacks coach Josh McCown, who says, the rookie has been

536
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Speaker 11: a sponge.

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Speaker 5: It's been good. He's been great. He is a worker.

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Speaker 12: He loves to be around it, and you know, he's

539
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Speaker 12: probably not up to date on all the things of

540
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Speaker 12: the CBA, but he's but he wants to be a

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Speaker 12: part of it as much as he can be. Every

542
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Speaker 12: time we step into a meeting with him, it's clear

543
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Speaker 12: that he's taking the material. Whatever was presented the day before,

544
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Speaker 12: he's taken that and he spent time with it at home,

545
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Speaker 12: and he's digested it and he comes with questions, and

546
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Speaker 12: that's what a pro does. He comes with questions. He's

547
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Speaker 12: got great questions, very insightful, you know a lot of

548
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Speaker 12: times well beyond just what a rookie would ask.

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Speaker 5: And so that's encouraging a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of excitement in Carolina.

551
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Speaker 11: Meanwhile, the NFL announcing Thursday that there will not be

552
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Speaker 11: a vote from the owners during next week's spring league

553
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Speaker 11: meetings in Minneapolis when it comes to the purchase agreement

554
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Speaker 11: for the Commanders. The Partnership Partnership group led by Josh

555
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Speaker 11: Harrison is awaiting approval by at least three quarters of

556
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Speaker 11: the league owners and the Eagles recently hosting their second

557
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Speaker 11: annual Girls Flag Football Championship for the top four teams

558
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Speaker 11: and Sylvania and New Jersey. Congrats to PA's Abington and

559
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Speaker 11: Jersey's Mastery Charter Camden, who came out victorious.

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Speaker 1: At the events.

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Speaker 11: Love to see the sports growing and being so inviting

562
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Speaker 11: to so many people, and the fact that there are

563
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Speaker 11: girls playing flag football and happens a workout that we

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Speaker 11: have an Eagle in studio, Jamie, So I'm sure he's

565
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Speaker 11: probably about that prospect.

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Speaker 4: Well, you just know how to thread the needle, my friend.

567
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Speaker 4: You just get it. What a perfect tea for the

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Speaker 4: fact that now in.

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Speaker 3: Studio we're joined by a player who played in a

570
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Speaker 3: National championship and then in a Super Bowl and back

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Speaker 3: to back seasons. I'm sorry, all right, he's ready to

572
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Speaker 3: take on a big role in Philadelphia this season in

573
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Speaker 3: that defense. Please give a warm welcome to Eagles linebacker

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Speaker 3: No Kobe d We.

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Speaker 4: Got to start though, with what we witness in this

576
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Speaker 4: year's draft. The Eagles. What are they doing?

577
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Speaker 10: Man?

578
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Speaker 4: You walked in the building and you're like, let's just

579
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Speaker 4: run it back.

580
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Speaker 3: With Georgia, not one, not to three Georgia Bulldog defenders.

581
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Speaker 3: Now reaction now that you get to join you and

582
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Speaker 3: Jordan Davis and how involved were you in that process?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 13: You know think got GM Howie Roseman did a good job,

585
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Speaker 13: you know, drafting those guys this year. I feel like

586
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Speaker 13: he picked the best available guys. I don't think he

587
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Speaker 13: gotta think for Georgia definitely being from Florida. Yeah, so

588
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Speaker 13: I think he picked the best available guys. You know,

589
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Speaker 13: he called me a lot acting about those guys. Kiwi

590
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Speaker 13: Jayleen Nolan, So I want to feel like I had

591
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Speaker 13: something to do with it.

592
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Speaker 4: But you know, you could just say you said a

593
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Speaker 4: good example. They want more to Kobe Demons.

594
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Speaker 13: Yeah, after the draft, I see him a little God dogs.

595
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Speaker 1: Oh you don't say, yeah, we like Nolan Smith.

596
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Speaker 6: But I'll tell you about this Will McDonald at Iowa

597
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Speaker 6: stadiums far superior. No, you don't, You're just you're objective

598
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Speaker 6: with these discussions about these players.

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Speaker 1: I mean, god, little bias. Well, the background is awesome.

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Speaker 1: I Knowlan Smith because you go way back a few

601
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Speaker 1: years twenty eighteen, your roommates. Yeah, he's also an engineer.

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Speaker 1: You're in major with you. So take us all the

603
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Speaker 1: way back to first meeting them, the origins of your friendship,

604
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Speaker 1: and now you guys are teammates the NFL. How did

605
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Speaker 1: it all start?

606
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Speaker 4: It?

607
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Speaker 13: Starreaded in recruitment, actually high school recruitment. You know Nolan

608
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Speaker 13: he had the personality. I wasn't as open and I

609
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Speaker 13: was able to talk to people like he could. But

610
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Speaker 13: I remember he was committed to Georgia early out of IMG.

611
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Speaker 13: So I remember seeing him on the visit. You know,

612
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Speaker 13: he talking, he loud, he got enough, he talked for everybody, right, Yeah,

613
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Speaker 13: you gotta get.

614
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Speaker 5: No one here.

615
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Speaker 13: Yeah, oh yeah, you gotta get him there, but he

616
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Speaker 13: just he was like, man, you come here, You're gonna

617
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Speaker 13: be my room. Maybe we're gonna have a good time.

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Speaker 13: We're gonna win that championship. It was like, all right,

619
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Speaker 13: let's do it. So when I got to Georgia, we

620
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Speaker 13: end up being roommates. It was four of us actually

621
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Speaker 13: in the room. So we end up all it was me, him,

622
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Speaker 13: Trayvon Walker, and Jersey Marshall.

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Speaker 5: He had Alabama.

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Speaker 13: Now oh but gosh, well yeah, uh, you know, just

625
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Speaker 13: being able to be here with him. You know, we

626
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Speaker 13: used to have talks, uh, in the little rooms, just

627
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Speaker 13: talking about being able to be in this position and

628
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Speaker 13: being able to go through it together. You know, just

629
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Speaker 13: just a blessing.

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Speaker 9: Those stories of your college roommate, especially when you first

631
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Speaker 9: get on campus you don't know what the hell is

632
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Speaker 9: going on. I'm blown away the fact that you two

633
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Speaker 9: majored in engineering played college football.

634
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Speaker 2: It's so time to mand it. So that is just awesome.

635
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Speaker 9: But we talked about you guys time at Georgia gonna

636
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Speaker 9: go win the national championship.

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Speaker 2: You guys did that.

638
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Speaker 9: You're drafted by the Eagles, you make it all the

639
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Speaker 9: way to the Super Bowl. It come up short, but

640
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Speaker 9: what was that experience like from the National Championship to

641
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Speaker 9: the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 13: It was definitely a blessing, you know, a blessing experience,

643
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Speaker 13: you know, being able to get to the you know what,

644
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Speaker 13: the pinnacle of football. Definitely your first year in the league.

645
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Speaker 13: It was long. It was long. Definitely a long year.

646
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Speaker 13: You know, It's like it was constant. It was no

647
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Speaker 13: kind of breaks. But you know, I love a bit

648
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Speaker 13: of it, you know, learning being in the league. You know,

649
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Speaker 13: every step of the way. I feel like I got

650
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Speaker 13: better as a player, as a man, you know, just

651
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Speaker 13: being there, being in the new city, being up north now,

652
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Speaker 13: so every everything about the lead, I just I just

653
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Speaker 13: fell a little with So. Yeah, so I was definitely

654
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Speaker 13: blessed just to be able to be in this position.

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Speaker 1: But you know, we got to fence.

656
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Speaker 2: This out there, championship, com Pro Day, visit, all that.

657
00:27:25,508 --> 00:27:27,028
Speaker 2: Finally what you call your first off season.

658
00:27:27,468 --> 00:27:28,188
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's sure.

659
00:27:28,188 --> 00:27:28,948
Speaker 2: It was the real deal.

660
00:27:29,508 --> 00:27:31,668
Speaker 6: A lot of talk about the Eagles as the big

661
00:27:31,708 --> 00:27:33,628
Speaker 6: favorites and the bullies in the NFC, which is not

662
00:27:33,668 --> 00:27:35,788
Speaker 6: always comfortable when it's may like, we don't really want

663
00:27:35,788 --> 00:27:37,588
Speaker 6: to be that team, and yet you lost your defensive

664
00:27:37,628 --> 00:27:40,308
Speaker 6: coordinator Jonathan Gannon, How do you feel about this defense

665
00:27:40,348 --> 00:27:40,988
Speaker 6: without Gannon?

666
00:27:41,068 --> 00:27:42,548
Speaker 2: Without Nick Rolise where he took with him.

667
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Speaker 13: I mean, I feel like the sidh you know, decide

668
00:27:44,628 --> 00:27:46,708
Speaker 13: to do a good job. You know he's gonna get

669
00:27:46,788 --> 00:27:48,588
Speaker 13: us right. I feel like everybody just got to put

670
00:27:48,628 --> 00:27:50,948
Speaker 13: our trust in the man and learn the scheme and

671
00:27:51,028 --> 00:27:52,268
Speaker 13: learn the way you want to do it. You know,

672
00:27:52,508 --> 00:27:55,388
Speaker 13: as long as everybody have that that mindset of wanting

673
00:27:55,468 --> 00:27:58,108
Speaker 13: to learn and wanting to get better, and then we'll

674
00:27:58,148 --> 00:27:58,628
Speaker 13: be all right.

675
00:27:59,148 --> 00:27:59,428
Speaker 5: You know.

676
00:27:59,588 --> 00:28:01,788
Speaker 1: It's a lot of height and it's very exciting though

677
00:28:01,788 --> 00:28:03,388
Speaker 1: you guys have earned that. You deserve it. You know,

678
00:28:03,828 --> 00:28:04,708
Speaker 1: it is what it is.

679
00:28:04,708 --> 00:28:04,908
Speaker 5: You know.

680
00:28:04,948 --> 00:28:07,188
Speaker 13: We I don't think we look at we we got

681
00:28:07,188 --> 00:28:08,548
Speaker 13: a lot of hundred dollars on a team, a lot

682
00:28:08,588 --> 00:28:09,948
Speaker 13: of people who play with a lot of chips on

683
00:28:09,988 --> 00:28:13,148
Speaker 13: their shoulders. So we will never sit back and act

684
00:28:13,228 --> 00:28:14,748
Speaker 13: like we're the ones that target on our back.

685
00:28:14,828 --> 00:28:17,388
Speaker 6: Don't watch nfl dot Com Power Ranking see egos one

686
00:28:17,428 --> 00:28:19,068
Speaker 6: and then kick back and say why even play the

687
00:28:19,108 --> 00:28:19,868
Speaker 6: game and we're good.

688
00:28:20,348 --> 00:28:23,428
Speaker 1: Never that. We definitely not.

689
00:28:23,668 --> 00:28:25,508
Speaker 13: We don't look at it like we got target on

690
00:28:25,508 --> 00:28:27,428
Speaker 13: our back. We look at it like we we're the

691
00:28:27,468 --> 00:28:28,428
Speaker 13: ones out there hunting.

692
00:28:28,508 --> 00:28:30,188
Speaker 9: So I love that you said that because you said

693
00:28:30,188 --> 00:28:32,348
Speaker 9: there's a lot of guys. Everybody's not in the same

694
00:28:32,388 --> 00:28:35,308
Speaker 9: situation as some guys. You have your Kelsey's and you're

695
00:28:35,308 --> 00:28:36,948
Speaker 9: a guy that now I want to step up and

696
00:28:36,988 --> 00:28:37,788
Speaker 9: prove what I can do.

697
00:28:38,268 --> 00:28:39,268
Speaker 2: So what is that experience?

698
00:28:39,268 --> 00:28:39,428
Speaker 8: Now?

699
00:28:39,468 --> 00:28:41,348
Speaker 9: Going from year one to year two, you guys lost

700
00:28:41,388 --> 00:28:43,708
Speaker 9: some guys in free agency. Now you possibly will be

701
00:28:43,748 --> 00:28:44,788
Speaker 9: the guy on the defense.

702
00:28:44,828 --> 00:28:47,148
Speaker 13: So it I mean exactly what it is is just

703
00:28:47,188 --> 00:28:49,588
Speaker 13: trying to step up and be better. You know, this

704
00:28:49,668 --> 00:28:51,668
Speaker 13: whole off season, we just kind of been working on

705
00:28:51,948 --> 00:28:55,068
Speaker 13: being the best versions of ourselves individually. Now we come

706
00:28:55,148 --> 00:28:57,828
Speaker 13: together the team and trying to put together. So you know,

707
00:28:58,148 --> 00:29:00,508
Speaker 13: I'm excited. I'm excited for the team. I'm excited to

708
00:29:00,508 --> 00:29:03,748
Speaker 13: get things going. You know, OTAs is rolling. So every

709
00:29:03,828 --> 00:29:06,868
Speaker 13: day I just with my guys. Oh yeah, oh yeah,

710
00:29:06,908 --> 00:29:09,508
Speaker 13: everybody good. Well I'm good, Oh.

711
00:29:09,548 --> 00:29:10,228
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm good.

712
00:29:11,108 --> 00:29:13,828
Speaker 9: Get better individually on the field. But off the field,

713
00:29:14,108 --> 00:29:16,268
Speaker 9: you're involved in the community. I know you're a part

714
00:29:16,268 --> 00:29:18,628
Speaker 9: of the Boys and Girls Club there in Philly. You're

715
00:29:18,668 --> 00:29:22,148
Speaker 9: part of a campaign and food insecurities. Just tell us

716
00:29:22,148 --> 00:29:23,428
Speaker 9: more about the work that you're.

717
00:29:23,228 --> 00:29:23,788
Speaker 2: Doing with them.

718
00:29:24,228 --> 00:29:24,468
Speaker 5: Yeah.

719
00:29:24,508 --> 00:29:26,508
Speaker 13: So I grew up in the Boys and Girls Club

720
00:29:26,508 --> 00:29:29,148
Speaker 13: first and foremost, so when food for my City came

721
00:29:29,748 --> 00:29:32,268
Speaker 13: and when my brain and age and everybody, when we

722
00:29:32,468 --> 00:29:34,188
Speaker 13: kind of came together because I wanted to do something

723
00:29:34,188 --> 00:29:36,948
Speaker 13: for the community, we thought where could we distribute the

724
00:29:37,028 --> 00:29:40,908
Speaker 13: food to try to fight food in securities. And I'm thinking, well,

725
00:29:41,028 --> 00:29:43,508
Speaker 13: I know the people, the heads of the Boys and

726
00:29:43,508 --> 00:29:45,748
Speaker 13: Girls Club in Philly. We can do that Boys and

727
00:29:45,748 --> 00:29:49,388
Speaker 13: Girls Club because I remember growing up and on Fridays

728
00:29:49,628 --> 00:29:51,708
Speaker 13: knowing that we wasn't gonna be in school to eat

729
00:29:51,748 --> 00:29:54,348
Speaker 13: school lunches and everybody everything the Boys and Girls Club

730
00:29:54,388 --> 00:29:57,388
Speaker 13: would give us like sack bags of food for the weekend,

731
00:29:57,788 --> 00:30:00,308
Speaker 13: so you know, little things like that. So just being

732
00:30:00,308 --> 00:30:02,868
Speaker 13: able to be involved with those kids because like when

733
00:30:02,868 --> 00:30:05,988
Speaker 13: I see them, I see myself. I see myself just

734
00:30:06,028 --> 00:30:08,588
Speaker 13: because I was in their seat. So I feel like

735
00:30:08,588 --> 00:30:11,708
Speaker 13: it's important for me to go to the clubs and

736
00:30:11,988 --> 00:30:13,948
Speaker 13: them put eyes on me and for me to tell

737
00:30:13,988 --> 00:30:16,388
Speaker 13: them they can do anything they want to do in life.

738
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Speaker 1: You know, they ain't got to be a ball, you know.

739
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Speaker 13: So that's why I'm working towards trying to finish my

740
00:30:21,188 --> 00:30:23,948
Speaker 13: degree to just you know, get him extra motivation.

741
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Speaker 4: It's an awesome thing you're doing. You're a Georgia Bulldog

742
00:30:27,308 --> 00:30:27,988
Speaker 4: almost a long.

743
00:30:28,108 --> 00:30:30,028
Speaker 3: We want to just make sure everybody understands that in

744
00:30:30,068 --> 00:30:32,628
Speaker 3: your time at Georgia you took mechanical engineering classes and

745
00:30:32,668 --> 00:30:34,948
Speaker 3: working towards that degree. Tell us some of the classes

746
00:30:34,988 --> 00:30:37,268
Speaker 3: you took and why you are so motivated to follow

747
00:30:37,308 --> 00:30:38,188
Speaker 3: that as your career power.

748
00:30:38,428 --> 00:30:40,508
Speaker 13: Some of the classes I took, the two I just

749
00:30:40,508 --> 00:30:43,308
Speaker 13: took was heat transferring fluid mechanics. We're not gonna get

750
00:30:43,308 --> 00:30:43,668
Speaker 13: into that.

751
00:30:43,668 --> 00:30:44,388
Speaker 5: That was real hard.

752
00:30:44,828 --> 00:30:48,588
Speaker 13: But I would say my motivation for engineering my mother.

753
00:30:48,748 --> 00:30:51,748
Speaker 13: You know, she was a veteran, so she's always take

754
00:30:51,788 --> 00:30:54,268
Speaker 13: me to the VA growing up. So I'll see a

755
00:30:54,348 --> 00:30:57,948
Speaker 13: veteran with lost limbs and everything. So I would think

756
00:30:57,988 --> 00:31:02,748
Speaker 13: that I want to, you know, just just make prosthetics.

757
00:31:02,748 --> 00:31:05,908
Speaker 4: That's a beautiful thing. Also watched the Shannon in the

758
00:31:06,028 --> 00:31:06,948
Speaker 4: Defense next season.

759
00:31:07,228 --> 00:31:07,948
Speaker 1: Have a great weekend.

760
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Speaker 6: H m hmm,