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Speaker 2: Everybody, Good Morning Football. That's right, Thursday, June fifth. Look

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Speaker 2: at the crew that we have today. Of course, you

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Speaker 2: know I'm Jamie, Jane Slater, Cynthia Freeland, Kelsey Conway. She's

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Speaker 2: getting the Kyle Brand treatment in New York. Kelsey, we

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Speaker 2: got to find out what Kyle's left behind. If there's

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Speaker 3: It's GMFB. It's a Thursday.

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Speaker 4: Ron Good Morning Football.

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Speaker 2: That's right, GMFB. Welcome in, everybody. It's a Thursday in

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Speaker 2: early June, which means we have so much to talk

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Speaker 2: about in the NFL. It's just the gift that keeps

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Speaker 2: on giving, right Cynthia, Cynthia Freeland, Jay and Slater, Kelsey

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Speaker 2: Conway's in New York. Listen, you know. Kelsey's writing from

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Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Bengal. She writes for This is Aday Inquirer

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Speaker 2: in USA Today, James all over the beat for the

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Speaker 2: Cowboys and the Saints, and frankly anywhere we need to

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Speaker 2: send her for NFL Network. She's on the field since

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Speaker 2: Freeland usually Sunday mornings.

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Speaker 3: You get the treatment.

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Speaker 2: And all over our fantasy coverage as an analytics expert.

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Speaker 3: How is your alarm clock today? Actually I was pretty excited.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I'm going to take you a little

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Speaker 5: bit behind the curtain. And Jane slept over at my house,

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Speaker 5: so we had a really good time. The dogs were up,

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Speaker 3: Oh great, it was perfect. How are you Jane good?

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Speaker 6: I mean, first of all, I love coming out and

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Speaker 6: here for the LA assignment. But yeah, absolute treat. You know,

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Speaker 6: it's been since college, you've lived with a roommate, and

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Speaker 6: the night before. Because we know we've got eyeballs on

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Speaker 6: Gail King who once said our margin of error is

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go, Kelsey. First time on GMFB, first time

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Speaker 2: sitting in that chair in New York. Can you give

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Speaker 2: GMFB and Cincinnati and the coverage that the Bengals get.

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Speaker 7: Big fans of the show, and that's why it took

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Speaker 7: cool for me to be on with you guys today

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Speaker 7: because I watch the show every morning. So I'm thrilled

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Speaker 2: Oh Man, we will decide if we're going to share

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Speaker 2: that with him, guys. In true GMFB territory, we have

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Speaker 2: a brand new segment to try out on everybody today,

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Speaker 2: So it sounds like the perfect.

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Speaker 3: Time to do it.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna go four down territory. We're ripping through four topics.

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Speaker 2: Everyone's got to have a take. As Jane mentioned in

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Speaker 2: our first course, we got to start in Cleveland with

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you can see them all when in

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Speaker 2: I'm supposed to say it's written here. There's been a

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Speaker 2: Is it the most interesting storyline to you heading into

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Speaker 6: So let's talk about the quarterback groom, because for me,

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Speaker 6: the Saints is the most intriguing Jamie, Yes, I mean

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Speaker 6: this was a five and twelve team. You've got Shook

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Speaker 3: Except I were talking about this last night. Well, he

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Speaker 6: And then after that you've got Jake Hayner. And then

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Speaker 6: Basically, what I'm saying is we've got a lot of questions.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know that about Iowa Western Community College. We

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Speaker 2: You never know, Kelsey Conway, what you got? Is it

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Speaker 7: So if you asked me, is this going to be

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Speaker 6: I just also wonder if there's a little bit of

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Speaker 3: That is an interesting storyline. So maybe that's why it's

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Speaker 5: Well, the storyline that we heard last year I think

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Speaker 3: That's Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 5: DK, You've brought in an absolute like that's that's a

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Speaker 5: now you don't necessarily you're trusting handshake decision?

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Speaker 6: I mean, isn't this team really need that?

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Speaker 5: No one believes that you're waiting on this handshake, and

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Speaker 5: I think yet again, Aaron Rodgers has us with bated breath.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, to talk about it.

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Speaker 2: The Steelers aren't a funk, and it's like that awkward.

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Speaker 2: We love being five hundred. We make it the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: and you have to imagine Mike Tomlin wants to work him.

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Speaker 2: last week, and congratulations to them. Despite coming off his

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Speaker 8: What I love about Josh is Josh is his demeanor,

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Speaker 8: So when he walks into the building, you don't see

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Speaker 8: it's it's impressive and I feel like you're in a

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Speaker 3: That's a good way to put it.

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Speaker 2: He's doing more, So I have to work less.

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Speaker 3: That's a good job to have.

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Speaker 2: If you're Josh Allen's oc tea and up second down,

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Speaker 2: Josh Allen, Jane is he the best quarterback in the

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Speaker 6: Well, perfect segue, and we're talking about doing more with less.

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Speaker 6: I think you have to consider both Josh Allen and

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Speaker 6: give the edge to a Patrick Mahomes when you look

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Speaker 6: at the records. For the most part, these guys are

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Speaker 6: pretty similar, but it's the postseason and when we talk

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Speaker 6: I think more often than not, when we look at

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Speaker 3: Good news, Kelsey.

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Speaker 6: I think the AFC North quarterbacks look at that schedule

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Speaker 5: Well, I think that being able to execute Mike McDaniel's

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Speaker 7: And the only way for them to be able to

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Speaker 6: Gosh, you know, the way you address that is you

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Speaker 2: a friend of our show is coming on now. Jane Skinner, goodell,

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Speaker 2: good morning to you.

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Speaker 3: Jane. How are you?

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Speaker 11: Good morning?

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Speaker 9: Nice to see everybody love the selection on the desk today, Jamie,

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Speaker 9: thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: So we're happy to have you, and we're all happy

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Speaker 2: to be here today talking everything in the NFL. But

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Speaker 2: first and foremost, Jane, we always assess our guests, especially

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Speaker 2: in the commercial, on their backdrops where they decide to

447
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Speaker 2: represent themselves on GMFB. Where have you chosen to seat

448
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Speaker 2: yourself today to discuss all things NFL?

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Speaker 3: Where are you? Yeah?

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Speaker 9: I hope I get a ten out of ten for

451
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Speaker 9: this room writer. No, don't tell me. I'm actually in

452
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Speaker 9: the Commissioner's man cave. This your viewers may remember during

453
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Speaker 9: April of twenty twenty during COVID, this is where he

454
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Speaker 9: did the NFL draft for three days and we're like,

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Speaker 9: gradually he started falling asleep. People thought he was drinking

456
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Speaker 9: too much. He actually wasn't. I think he was just

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Speaker 9: like punched roun.

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Speaker 3: But this is it.

459
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Speaker 9: This is the chair that went the following year to

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Speaker 9: Cleveland when the draft was in person, and then they

461
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Speaker 9: sent it to Canton, so like thousands of people sat

462
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Speaker 9: in it, and they called and said, Okay, we're sending

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Speaker 9: it back, and I'm like, if I want it in

464
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Speaker 9: my house, but you know what, we wiped it down

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Speaker 9: and I can see why he spends thirteen hours on

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Speaker 9: Sundays in this chair.

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Speaker 11: It's pretty comfy.

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Speaker 6: It reminds me of the that remember the chair from

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Speaker 6: Married with Children that used to sit.

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Speaker 3: In all the time.

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Speaker 6: It just looks so comfortable, and I'm like, you, I

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Speaker 6: like an aesthetic in my home.

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Speaker 3: I might let that one play. Yep, that's a good one.

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Speaker 3: Keep it.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, Well, it.

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Speaker 9: Sits in the basement, so it's necessarily like main part

477
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Speaker 9: of my decor. But we've given it a pass. But

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Speaker 9: it's pretty nice this morning.

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Speaker 3: So Kelsey, what you got?

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Speaker 7: Jane, You've been a football fan long before.

481
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Speaker 3: You met your husband.

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Speaker 7: Can you tell us a little bit about your relationship

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Speaker 7: with the game of football and your dad?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 9: Sure, you know it's funny. People ask me all the

486
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Speaker 9: time do you actually like football? Do you understand football?

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Speaker 11: And I think it would be very hard to live the.

488
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Speaker 9: Life that we live if I didn't have such passion

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Speaker 9: for it. I'm really lucky. I grew up in Chicago.

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Speaker 9: I'm the youngest of three. I have two older brothers,

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Speaker 9: the only girl, and my dad got there season tickets.

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Speaker 3: So that's me.

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Speaker 4: So this is me.

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Speaker 11: My nose is bright red because I was crying.

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Speaker 9: The story goes that I wasn't allowed in the picture

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Speaker 9: with the football boys my brothers, and so they let

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Speaker 9: me in at the last minute. You can see the

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Speaker 9: space between I wasn't really part.

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Speaker 11: Of the team. I always wanted to be part of the.

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Speaker 9: Team, and so my dad got season tickets to the Bears,

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Speaker 9: which he still has in seventy two. My dad's watch

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Speaker 9: turning eighty seven next week, so it's been We've had

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Speaker 9: them in our family for a very long time.

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Speaker 11: And you know, I.

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Speaker 9: Often say like I didn't know the difference, but being

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Speaker 9: a little girl in Soldier Field in the seventies, it

507
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Speaker 9: was such an anomaly. And now we're so lucky.

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Speaker 10: We go to.

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Speaker 9: Games and there are women and girls of all ages,

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Speaker 9: and it's just it's been so fun to watch that evolution.

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Speaker 9: But yeah, so I grew up very intense he was

512
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Speaker 9: a pretty tough task master, like there were a lot.

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Speaker 11: Of losing seasons in the seventies.

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Speaker 9: Is Christly incredibly cold there during and I remember when

515
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Speaker 9: year making the playoffs and my feet were like so cold,

516
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Speaker 9: and he took my boots off and started rubbing them

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Speaker 9: for the second half.

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Speaker 11: And then the next.

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Speaker 9: Week he came back and said, I bought you socks

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Speaker 9: with had like nine volt batteries in them.

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Speaker 11: Because not doing this anymore.

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Speaker 9: You get the fourth ticket, you got to, you know,

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Speaker 9: suck it up. So that I'm very lucky, But I actually,

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Speaker 9: you know, thinking back, I think my mom is the

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Speaker 9: most intense fan. She's almost eighty seven too, and she's

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Speaker 9: a little bit like Virginia McCaskey, who, like you sit

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Speaker 9: at a game of her and she doesn't want to

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Speaker 9: hear the chitter chatter.

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Speaker 11: She wants to focus on the game. My mom's a

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Speaker 11: little like that.

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Speaker 9: But I think she actually gave me that fourth ticket

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Speaker 9: as a little girl. She wanted me to kind of

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Speaker 9: have that experience. So sorry, Mom, thank you.

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Speaker 4: I love that.

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Speaker 5: Speaking of family, you have twin girls, and we hear

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Speaker 5: their vikings and Seahawks fans. They're really passionate about the game, right,

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Speaker 5: we hear this a little bit about how that dynamic

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Speaker 5: plays out in your family.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, so my brothers tease me a lot.

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Speaker 9: Like how did you give birth to a Viking? No

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Speaker 9: Marris fans, but we laugh that. I guess the rivalry

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Speaker 9: would be worse if we were a Packers fan.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 9: It's incredible to watch though there. Well Jamie knows this

545
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Speaker 9: because she has met my Viking's daughter, and my daughter

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Speaker 9: walked away after talking like such Vikings minutia with Jamie

547
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Speaker 9: that that was amazing Someboddy to relate to me as

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Speaker 9: a female. But it's really really fun because the four

549
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Speaker 9: of us do a lot of games together and so

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Speaker 9: we kind of get to pick a game to go

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Speaker 9: to each season, and sometimes our teams will play each other.

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Speaker 11: We'll do that, which is.

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Speaker 9: We're pretty supportive of the others until you know we're

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Speaker 9: playing each other. So, but it's really really fun to have.

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Speaker 9: Like my girl gang, I love to watch too. It's

556
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Speaker 9: just a it's a really fun dynamic. And this man

557
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Speaker 9: cave used to be years ago when they were little.

558
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Speaker 9: It was literally half American girl doll, half stuffed animals,

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Speaker 9: half pink plastic and then.

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Speaker 11: Half footballs and bigies.

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Speaker 9: So did Roger has kind of moved that out as

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Speaker 9: they've gotten older, so now it's fully masculine.

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Speaker 5: Also smart that she picked an indoor stadium, just saying, yeah,

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Speaker 5: so you don't have that boot problem.

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Speaker 3: No one needs socks, right, that's true.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, how about that stadium too.

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Speaker 3: Oh it's incredible best. I mean, I'm I just I love.

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Speaker 6: Too that Roger gets to view the game through that lens.

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Speaker 6: You know, the fact that his daughters are such a

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Speaker 6: big fans, that you're such a big fan, that your

571
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Speaker 6: mother was a fan. You can kind of see a

572
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Speaker 6: little bit of that footprint across the league. Speaking of footprints, though, Dane,

573
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Speaker 6: one of the big announcements last months was that there

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Speaker 6: were going to be seven international games.

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Speaker 3: You've attended a lot of them. What do you think.

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Speaker 6: About how this international series is expanding and where do

577
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Speaker 6: you see it going?

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Speaker 3: And to add on to that, you know, I.

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Speaker 6: Did Brazil last year and I was so fascinated with

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Speaker 6: It's not like they're coming and showing up just for

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Speaker 6: the Green Bay Packers or just showing up for the

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Speaker 6: opposing teams. You will see so many jerseys in the

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Speaker 6: stands what stood out for you?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, So when my kids were little, I think the

585
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Speaker 9: first game we went to it Wembley was like fifteen

586
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Speaker 9: years ago or something, and we would count on the

587
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Speaker 9: way into the stadium because when do you ever see

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Speaker 9: that that rainbow of jerseys.

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Speaker 11: You wouldn't see it in the stets, right, So we'd

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Speaker 11: count and see.

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Speaker 9: Like could we get all thirty two teams? That definitely

592
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Speaker 9: stands out. And by the way, what a perch to

593
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Speaker 9: be able to go see these games. I'm the luckiest person,

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Speaker 9: and I think that stands out in a you see

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Speaker 9: the rainbow of jerseys be the sophistication of the fans.

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Speaker 9: Tooteen years ago, you could tell they didn't they wanted

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Speaker 9: to be there, the game sold out. They didn't really

598
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Speaker 9: understand the game as much. But now it's a completely

599
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Speaker 9: different experience. Demand is obviously intense and very much there.

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Speaker 9: You know Rogers talking about sixteen games in the next

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Speaker 9: five years, Australia in twenty six. I don't know, it's

602
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Speaker 9: pretty exciting, and I know there are a lot of logistics.

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Speaker 9: I give the NFL team who manages these events. They

604
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Speaker 9: are like kind of mini super Bowls in each of

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Speaker 9: these cities. Peter O'Reilly and his team, I give them

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Speaker 9: such credit for this. It's they do an incredible job.

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Speaker 9: You feel like, you know, in the United States, like

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Speaker 9: a game in so Far is going to be very

609
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Speaker 9: different from a game in Nashville. And that's what it

610
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Speaker 9: feels like there. You feel the city that you're in

611
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Speaker 9: and that experience is just it's such a blast, and

612
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Speaker 9: everybody in that stadium is having a blast too, so

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Speaker 9: it's the energy is kind of unmatched.

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Speaker 2: Jane, really excellent to have you on GMFB this morning. Seriously,

615
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Speaker 2: thank you so much for being so gracious with your time.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate it so much.

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Speaker 11: Great to see you guys have fun.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Jane Skidrigdell, everybody joining GMFP for the first time

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Speaker 2: talking all coverage, and you know she watches on Sundays,

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Speaker 2: probably that lady on the sideline, CBS Sports Lead, NFL

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Speaker 2: sideline reporder Tracy Wilson, fresh off her Emmy win, talking Commanders, Rogers,

622
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Speaker 2: maybe a harbar or two. GMFB next on a Thursday.

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Speaker 3: Comes down to one last play.

624
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Speaker 4: And it's gonna be getting longer by the second.

625
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Speaker 2: You're all the way back at the thirty yard line.

626
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Speaker 4: Now you can step into it. Here comes the.

627
00:27:35,948 --> 00:27:39,108
Speaker 3: Hail Mary with the game on the line and.

628
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Speaker 4: The balls talk talk, It's America. It's still a crowd.

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Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, he's so cool, come and collected.

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Speaker 3: How are you right now? Can you describe that final play?

631
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Speaker 3: Nothing but god, man, nothing Magon?

632
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Speaker 10: What is it about his commander's team?

633
00:28:02,028 --> 00:28:05,028
Speaker 4: Yeah? Keep fighting, man, we keep fighting. We had a

634
00:28:05,028 --> 00:28:06,588
Speaker 4: great locker room, great brotherhood.

635
00:28:06,948 --> 00:28:07,108
Speaker 5: Man.

636
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Speaker 7: Nobody else I'll rather go to war.

637
00:28:09,868 --> 00:28:11,988
Speaker 3: Jade and Daniels truly look so unbothered.

638
00:28:12,228 --> 00:28:15,228
Speaker 2: Seconds after that hail Mary, one of the biggest plays

639
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Speaker 2: that to find the twenty twenty four season, and there's

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Speaker 2: Tracy Wolfson standing there trying to get to the bottom

641
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Speaker 2: of the moment from the NFL and CBS joining GMFB.

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Speaker 3: Tracy, great to see you, my friends.

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Speaker 10: I love being on. Thank you so much. I heard

644
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Speaker 10: Jane earlier the girl gang. I mean, this is really awesome,

645
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Speaker 10: So thanks for having.

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Speaker 3: Me, absolutely so, Tracy.

647
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Speaker 2: You are a part of so many moments like that

648
00:28:36,948 --> 00:28:39,828
Speaker 2: in the regular season, yet you are able to capture

649
00:28:39,868 --> 00:28:42,988
Speaker 2: it so perfectly that one specifically, you have to treat

650
00:28:43,028 --> 00:28:44,308
Speaker 2: it so differently because that's.

651
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Speaker 3: A rookie right there.

652
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Speaker 2: When you were walking up to Jaden, What was going

653
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Speaker 2: through your mind? It's often a question that we asked,

654
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Speaker 2: but how are you approaching that interview?

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Speaker 10: Well, first off, you just want the emotion. You're just

656
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Speaker 10: teeing them up. You want to get too complicated. And

657
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Speaker 10: I just was in shock at his reaction. And we

658
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Speaker 10: can go back to the other hail Mary I did,

659
00:29:03,348 --> 00:29:06,948
Speaker 10: which is Rogers to back in twenty fifteen. Sorry, Cynthia,

660
00:29:07,308 --> 00:29:11,148
Speaker 10: but I mean it was that one. Rogers was elated.

661
00:29:11,188 --> 00:29:14,348
Speaker 10: He compared it to winning the super Bowl. Here, Jayden

662
00:29:14,468 --> 00:29:17,428
Speaker 10: Daniels is just so calm about it. And like you said,

663
00:29:17,468 --> 00:29:19,828
Speaker 10: he's a rookie, you don't really know. Is our first

664
00:29:19,828 --> 00:29:23,748
Speaker 10: time covering him. But that's what stands out about Jayden Daniels.

665
00:29:23,828 --> 00:29:26,748
Speaker 10: It's just another day at the office for him. He's

666
00:29:26,788 --> 00:29:29,228
Speaker 10: wise beyond his years. I think we all saw that

667
00:29:29,308 --> 00:29:32,668
Speaker 10: in his first season. It was really incredible and all

668
00:29:32,708 --> 00:29:33,268
Speaker 10: you want.

669
00:29:33,188 --> 00:29:34,148
Speaker 3: Is to see that emotion.

670
00:29:34,308 --> 00:29:36,588
Speaker 10: He was like, I know it was going to be.

671
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Speaker 3: All good all along.

672
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Speaker 5: Maybe you're like the indicator of when a hail Mary

673
00:29:41,108 --> 00:29:42,908
Speaker 5: is going to work because he's brought up at Aaron

674
00:29:42,988 --> 00:29:44,308
Speaker 5: Rodgers jail Mary, and.

675
00:29:44,268 --> 00:29:45,988
Speaker 3: You cover a lot of games in Pittsburgh.

676
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Speaker 5: How do you feel about the potential marriage between Aaron

677
00:29:48,668 --> 00:29:51,028
Speaker 5: Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Do you think it's going

678
00:29:51,108 --> 00:29:52,548
Speaker 5: to be magical? Are there going to be lots of

679
00:29:52,588 --> 00:29:54,108
Speaker 5: hail Mary's? What do you think is gonna happen?

680
00:29:54,988 --> 00:29:57,668
Speaker 10: I don't know, talk about potential, I mean, is it

681
00:29:57,708 --> 00:30:00,548
Speaker 10: going to happen? I think we all we all kind

682
00:30:00,548 --> 00:30:03,348
Speaker 10: of want it to happen, especially for the Steelers. They're

683
00:30:03,548 --> 00:30:05,988
Speaker 10: so important to league. I know for CBS we have

684
00:30:05,988 --> 00:30:09,708
Speaker 10: a lot of Steelers game potentially on our schedule. I

685
00:30:09,748 --> 00:30:13,548
Speaker 10: love being around Aaron Rodgers. I enjoy covering him, although

686
00:30:13,548 --> 00:30:15,508
Speaker 10: it didn't get much of a chance to get when

687
00:30:15,548 --> 00:30:17,708
Speaker 10: he was with the Jets, considering they weren't good enough

688
00:30:18,028 --> 00:30:20,748
Speaker 10: to be on our air all the time. But I

689
00:30:20,788 --> 00:30:22,868
Speaker 10: will say I would like to see him. I think

690
00:30:22,908 --> 00:30:26,268
Speaker 10: it would be a tremendous marriage for them. Certainly with

691
00:30:26,388 --> 00:30:28,748
Speaker 10: Mike Tomlin as a head coach, he seems to make

692
00:30:28,828 --> 00:30:33,188
Speaker 10: anything works. There's always success there in Pittsburgh. They have

693
00:30:33,228 --> 00:30:35,948
Speaker 10: a better defense, of course, and then you know they

694
00:30:35,988 --> 00:30:38,668
Speaker 10: have weapons, and so just throw Aaron Rodgers out there.

695
00:30:38,668 --> 00:30:41,748
Speaker 10: But the problem is the longer it takes the longer

696
00:30:41,788 --> 00:30:44,868
Speaker 10: this isn't going to work. They certainly need time to

697
00:30:44,908 --> 00:30:47,428
Speaker 10: get out there and gel and I'm sure there's frustration

698
00:30:47,548 --> 00:30:49,548
Speaker 10: in the locker room. And then you have Mason Rudolph

699
00:30:49,548 --> 00:30:52,188
Speaker 10: and who's going to start in place if Rogers isn't

700
00:30:52,188 --> 00:30:55,228
Speaker 10: There So a lot of question marks still in Pittsburgh.

701
00:30:55,268 --> 00:30:57,548
Speaker 10: And I won't believe it until I actually see it

702
00:30:57,748 --> 00:30:59,028
Speaker 10: when Rogers shows up there.

703
00:30:59,868 --> 00:31:02,548
Speaker 7: Tracy, First of all, congratulations on your Emmy.

704
00:31:02,628 --> 00:31:03,428
Speaker 3: That's incredible.

705
00:31:03,468 --> 00:31:04,388
Speaker 11: I got to start by that.

706
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Speaker 7: But when I was watching that clip of the Hail Mary,

707
00:31:07,188 --> 00:31:10,588
Speaker 7: I couldn't help but think that that Commander's team this

708
00:31:10,708 --> 00:31:13,348
Speaker 7: year reminded me so much of the twenty twenty one

709
00:31:13,388 --> 00:31:15,428
Speaker 7: Bengals team where they kind of came out of nowhere

710
00:31:15,468 --> 00:31:17,828
Speaker 7: and you had the young quarterback in Joe Burrow and

711
00:31:17,868 --> 00:31:20,588
Speaker 7: they just went on this magical run and the country

712
00:31:20,668 --> 00:31:21,788
Speaker 7: just fell in love with them.

713
00:31:22,188 --> 00:31:23,468
Speaker 3: Did you feel that way?

714
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Speaker 7: And what do you think is going to be happening

715
00:31:26,828 --> 00:31:28,948
Speaker 7: this year for the Bengals to take that next step

716
00:31:28,988 --> 00:31:32,828
Speaker 7: and get back into AFC postseason contention after two years

717
00:31:32,828 --> 00:31:33,828
Speaker 7: of missing the playoffs.

718
00:31:35,228 --> 00:31:37,828
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, certainly that was a magical year for them.

719
00:31:37,868 --> 00:31:40,628
Speaker 10: They really it was kind of Joe Burrow's coming out party.

720
00:31:40,788 --> 00:31:42,748
Speaker 10: It put them on the map. They were a threat

721
00:31:42,788 --> 00:31:45,108
Speaker 10: every time they stepped on the field. They were a

722
00:31:45,108 --> 00:31:49,508
Speaker 10: threat to the Chiefs. You know, I think what's been

723
00:31:49,548 --> 00:31:51,628
Speaker 10: the issues there on Kelsey, you know better than anyone

724
00:31:51,668 --> 00:31:54,508
Speaker 10: being around this team, is these slow starts these last

725
00:31:54,508 --> 00:31:57,948
Speaker 10: two seasons have certainly set them back. It hurts morale

726
00:31:58,028 --> 00:32:01,188
Speaker 10: in a locker room. It's not a great feeling going

727
00:32:01,268 --> 00:32:03,948
Speaker 10: in behind the eight ball already, especially in a difficult

728
00:32:03,988 --> 00:32:06,028
Speaker 10: division and with a difficult schedule.

729
00:32:06,068 --> 00:32:07,428
Speaker 3: And you know, I love.

730
00:32:07,308 --> 00:32:10,748
Speaker 10: Joe Burrow taking the blame for this season. He had

731
00:32:10,988 --> 00:32:13,428
Speaker 10: probably the best season of his career. He was in

732
00:32:13,508 --> 00:32:17,108
Speaker 10: the MVP talks. It is certainly not Joe Burrow. I

733
00:32:17,148 --> 00:32:20,268
Speaker 10: think there needs to be an improvement on the defensive side.

734
00:32:20,348 --> 00:32:23,108
Speaker 10: I don't believe it was lou Anarumo's fault either. I

735
00:32:23,148 --> 00:32:26,428
Speaker 10: think it's providing the playmakers out there on the defensive

736
00:32:26,468 --> 00:32:28,668
Speaker 10: side of the ball to give them some balance. And

737
00:32:28,708 --> 00:32:31,788
Speaker 10: I think that's what we haven't seen from the Cincinnati team.

738
00:32:32,108 --> 00:32:35,148
Speaker 10: And hopefully we do al Golden coming in, but you

739
00:32:35,228 --> 00:32:37,708
Speaker 10: need to have the right players there. Certainly on the

740
00:32:37,748 --> 00:32:41,228
Speaker 10: offensive side, they don't really seem to have some issues there.

741
00:32:41,548 --> 00:32:43,748
Speaker 10: They just need to be able to have more balance

742
00:32:43,788 --> 00:32:46,628
Speaker 10: and they certainly can't start from behind coming into this

743
00:32:46,708 --> 00:32:50,268
Speaker 10: season with the schedule they have, and certainly in that

744
00:32:50,388 --> 00:32:54,988
Speaker 10: AFC North that is so challenging. As we talked with Pittsburgh,

745
00:32:55,028 --> 00:32:57,948
Speaker 10: if potentially they get Rogers, then you of course have

746
00:32:58,068 --> 00:33:01,268
Speaker 10: Baltimore and Lamar Jackson to deal with, and then the

747
00:33:01,308 --> 00:33:03,748
Speaker 10: rest of that schedule where you'll be playing you know

748
00:33:03,788 --> 00:33:07,108
Speaker 10: those o they're difficult teams on the road. So I

749
00:33:07,148 --> 00:33:09,068
Speaker 10: think that's the key for the Bengals this year is

750
00:33:09,108 --> 00:33:10,668
Speaker 10: certainly getting off to that quick start.

751
00:33:11,308 --> 00:33:13,468
Speaker 3: Justice for Lou. We love to see Lou get some of.

752
00:33:13,388 --> 00:33:16,348
Speaker 6: The shine in an Indian half's situation for him there.

753
00:33:16,428 --> 00:33:17,068
Speaker 3: We love Oil.

754
00:33:17,988 --> 00:33:20,348
Speaker 6: We also love the Kansas City Chiefs, and I know

755
00:33:20,388 --> 00:33:21,988
Speaker 6: you cover them a lot, but are they the top

756
00:33:21,988 --> 00:33:24,268
Speaker 6: dogs in the FC? Because I have to wonder, Tracy,

757
00:33:24,828 --> 00:33:26,988
Speaker 6: what is it going to take for Lamar Jackson and

758
00:33:27,108 --> 00:33:29,668
Speaker 6: Harball to get over the hump and a hoisted trophy?

759
00:33:29,708 --> 00:33:33,588
Speaker 6: When we talk about how tricky that just one division is.

760
00:33:34,708 --> 00:33:37,188
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, it's it's hard. I mean you talk both

761
00:33:37,228 --> 00:33:39,508
Speaker 10: sides of the ball right there, because when you talk

762
00:33:39,508 --> 00:33:41,668
Speaker 10: about the Chiefs, and yes, I feel like I should

763
00:33:41,708 --> 00:33:45,188
Speaker 10: have an apartment there either there all the time. But

764
00:33:45,388 --> 00:33:47,588
Speaker 10: I do love covering them. They're one of my favorite

765
00:33:47,628 --> 00:33:50,188
Speaker 10: teams to be around, and they are always the team

766
00:33:50,228 --> 00:33:52,628
Speaker 10: to beat. I mean, how can they not be. And

767
00:33:52,668 --> 00:33:55,148
Speaker 10: I think they're more motivated than ever coming off a

768
00:33:55,188 --> 00:33:56,068
Speaker 10: Super Bowl loss.

769
00:33:56,108 --> 00:33:57,228
Speaker 3: And when you think.

770
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Speaker 10: About them, you know, Patrick Mahomes, you know, comes off frustrated, right,

771
00:34:01,548 --> 00:34:03,908
Speaker 10: didn't feel like he played his best. You know, they

772
00:34:03,948 --> 00:34:06,468
Speaker 10: didn't have I have really the weapons all together at

773
00:34:06,468 --> 00:34:09,028
Speaker 10: the wide receiver position. You talk about Rashid Rice and

774
00:34:09,108 --> 00:34:12,228
Speaker 10: Xavier Worthy in Hollywood Brown, they didn't play one game together.

775
00:34:12,788 --> 00:34:14,908
Speaker 10: If they can stay healthy, they can be out on

776
00:34:14,948 --> 00:34:17,948
Speaker 10: that field. And then you throw in Travis Kelce, who

777
00:34:17,948 --> 00:34:22,348
Speaker 10: seems to be reinvigorated. I mean, this team again is

778
00:34:22,388 --> 00:34:24,428
Speaker 10: going to be that team to beat. And then you

779
00:34:24,508 --> 00:34:26,588
Speaker 10: talk about Steve Spagnola and what he's built on the

780
00:34:26,588 --> 00:34:29,188
Speaker 10: defensive side of the ball, and certainly that's been the

781
00:34:29,308 --> 00:34:31,868
Speaker 10: reason for these last two years that they've been able

782
00:34:31,908 --> 00:34:34,508
Speaker 10: to get so far, not necessarily what Patrick Mahomes in

783
00:34:34,588 --> 00:34:37,588
Speaker 10: this offense has done. And of course they've committed more

784
00:34:37,628 --> 00:34:40,348
Speaker 10: to the run game, something Andy Reid doesn't necessarily love,

785
00:34:40,388 --> 00:34:42,948
Speaker 10: but he knew that he had to embrace. And I

786
00:34:43,068 --> 00:34:45,948
Speaker 10: love how this team is made up. So again, they

787
00:34:45,988 --> 00:34:48,828
Speaker 10: certainly are going to be the hunted. Yes, he talk

788
00:34:48,908 --> 00:34:51,708
Speaker 10: about Lamar Jackson, talk about Baltimore. I'd love to see

789
00:34:51,748 --> 00:34:54,548
Speaker 10: them take the next step. I really saw a maturity

790
00:34:54,908 --> 00:34:57,748
Speaker 10: from Lamar Jackson this year, and not only on the

791
00:34:57,788 --> 00:35:01,308
Speaker 10: field and his progressions, but even off the field. And

792
00:35:01,388 --> 00:35:03,908
Speaker 10: I think they're just waiting to take that next step.

793
00:35:04,428 --> 00:35:07,108
Speaker 10: Always what it's gonna come down to. I'm sure Cincinnati

794
00:35:07,148 --> 00:35:09,468
Speaker 10: will be in the mix again, no doubt. And of

795
00:35:09,508 --> 00:35:13,148
Speaker 10: course Buffalo. We've got those four you know, big teams

796
00:35:13,188 --> 00:35:16,508
Speaker 10: that always wind up colliding come playoff time, and you know,

797
00:35:16,628 --> 00:35:19,228
Speaker 10: throwing at Denver, maybe at Houston, and who knows what

798
00:35:19,268 --> 00:35:22,588
Speaker 10: Pittsburgh does if they do get Rogers. But it should

799
00:35:22,588 --> 00:35:25,428
Speaker 10: be really an exciting season in the AFC.

800
00:35:25,708 --> 00:35:27,268
Speaker 3: Tracy, you're all over it this morning.

801
00:35:27,268 --> 00:35:29,748
Speaker 2: We appreciate it so much, and of course that is

802
00:35:29,868 --> 00:35:32,388
Speaker 2: why a couple of weeks back you won your second

803
00:35:32,508 --> 00:35:38,828
Speaker 2: consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Sideline Reporter. I mean, we've got

804
00:35:38,828 --> 00:35:40,028
Speaker 2: one of those trophies up there.

805
00:35:40,068 --> 00:35:40,788
Speaker 3: Where's the other.

806
00:35:40,668 --> 00:35:42,748
Speaker 2: One, we got to get the bam bam and the

807
00:35:42,788 --> 00:35:47,308
Speaker 2: backdrop for these interviews where it is.

808
00:35:47,628 --> 00:35:50,948
Speaker 3: Don't hide it, trick is coming this. Yeah, exactly, terracy.

809
00:35:51,108 --> 00:35:53,948
Speaker 3: It's just your coverage is just so thorough and great.

810
00:35:53,988 --> 00:35:57,148
Speaker 2: And what I often say about being on television, specifically

811
00:35:57,188 --> 00:35:59,228
Speaker 2: in this role, is like people have to like to

812
00:35:59,268 --> 00:36:01,028
Speaker 2: want to be around you. You have to be a

813
00:36:01,028 --> 00:36:04,028
Speaker 2: likable person for Lamar, for James Daniels, for these coaches

814
00:36:04,028 --> 00:36:06,148
Speaker 2: to come up and want to talk to you repeatedly.

815
00:36:06,228 --> 00:36:07,908
Speaker 2: You just said you should have a condo in Kansas

816
00:36:07,908 --> 00:36:10,148
Speaker 2: City because of how many production meetings you might have

817
00:36:10,148 --> 00:36:13,028
Speaker 2: to sit with Andy Reid or Patrick Mahomes. What's something

818
00:36:13,108 --> 00:36:16,268
Speaker 2: that people might not know about the intricacies of this

819
00:36:16,428 --> 00:36:19,068
Speaker 2: job and the one that you carry that people covet

820
00:36:19,148 --> 00:36:19,708
Speaker 2: so much.

821
00:36:20,948 --> 00:36:23,308
Speaker 10: I think there's two things. I think one thing is

822
00:36:23,388 --> 00:36:26,708
Speaker 10: you just pointed out Jamie that the relationships you build

823
00:36:26,748 --> 00:36:29,708
Speaker 10: with these coaches and players make your job easier and

824
00:36:29,828 --> 00:36:31,948
Speaker 10: allow you to do a better job when you get

825
00:36:32,228 --> 00:36:34,948
Speaker 10: onto the sidelines, when you're in these meetings, the trust

826
00:36:34,988 --> 00:36:38,508
Speaker 10: factor they have with you, certainly the interview process becomes

827
00:36:38,548 --> 00:36:41,228
Speaker 10: a little bit easier. You get better soundbites out of it.

828
00:36:41,708 --> 00:36:44,628
Speaker 10: That trust and building that trust and keeping that trust

829
00:36:44,748 --> 00:36:47,788
Speaker 10: is so important, and it develops over the years. Certainly

830
00:36:47,828 --> 00:36:50,708
Speaker 10: twenty years in this business, eleven years in the NFL.

831
00:36:51,068 --> 00:36:54,468
Speaker 10: It takes time. And even the relationships I built in

832
00:36:54,708 --> 00:36:57,588
Speaker 10: college when I covered college football and the NANCC have

833
00:36:57,668 --> 00:37:00,268
Speaker 10: carried over to the NFL. That certainly helped as well.

834
00:37:00,308 --> 00:37:02,748
Speaker 10: And I think second, it's really the stuff you do

835
00:37:02,868 --> 00:37:05,228
Speaker 10: behind the scenes. Of course, that prep work we know

836
00:37:06,068 --> 00:37:08,948
Speaker 10: going INCA games, but when we're on the field, it's

837
00:37:08,988 --> 00:37:11,388
Speaker 10: not just those thirty second bites. It's not the five

838
00:37:11,428 --> 00:37:13,788
Speaker 10: times you're on the air. But it's everything you're doing

839
00:37:14,188 --> 00:37:17,068
Speaker 10: during the game, behind the scenes, the communication you have

840
00:37:17,188 --> 00:37:20,668
Speaker 10: with the booth, everything I'm telling Jim and Tony, maybe

841
00:37:20,668 --> 00:37:24,948
Speaker 10: off camera in a time out, in a commercial break,

842
00:37:25,028 --> 00:37:27,628
Speaker 10: everything I'm talking to my producer Jim Rickoff or my

843
00:37:27,908 --> 00:37:30,148
Speaker 10: director Mike Arnold. I might be saying this is happening

844
00:37:30,148 --> 00:37:31,988
Speaker 10: over here, make sure you get a camera over here.

845
00:37:32,068 --> 00:37:33,868
Speaker 10: This is what the official just said, This is what

846
00:37:33,908 --> 00:37:37,228
Speaker 10: the quarterback told the offensive line. A lot of that stuff.

847
00:37:37,308 --> 00:37:39,228
Speaker 10: First off, you can't get on the air. You don't

848
00:37:39,268 --> 00:37:40,988
Speaker 10: have time, it's not the right time.

849
00:37:40,828 --> 00:37:41,388
Speaker 4: Of a game.

850
00:37:41,788 --> 00:37:43,628
Speaker 10: You might be in a red zone. They might have

851
00:37:43,708 --> 00:37:45,308
Speaker 10: just called time out. We might be going back to

852
00:37:45,388 --> 00:37:48,908
Speaker 10: commercial break. Who knows, so all of that communication. There's

853
00:37:48,948 --> 00:37:51,108
Speaker 10: so much I'm doing behind the scenes that no one

854
00:37:51,188 --> 00:37:54,068
Speaker 10: really sees that's really important to the broadcast.

855
00:37:54,388 --> 00:37:56,988
Speaker 6: And it's so hard to see the whole field, our

856
00:37:57,108 --> 00:37:59,668
Speaker 6: ground level. I don't think people realize how hard that

857
00:37:59,788 --> 00:38:00,188
Speaker 6: job is.

858
00:38:00,668 --> 00:38:02,508
Speaker 3: And you're back by the end of the day when

859
00:38:02,508 --> 00:38:03,188
Speaker 3: you hear it too.

860
00:38:03,308 --> 00:38:06,668
Speaker 10: But I'm maneuver everywhere, and I just do you learn,

861
00:38:06,868 --> 00:38:10,188
Speaker 10: like as you know and Jamie you know this really well,

862
00:38:10,348 --> 00:38:13,388
Speaker 10: is like you learn where to be at what time.

863
00:38:13,708 --> 00:38:16,628
Speaker 10: And Patrick Mahomes throws an interception, You're going right over

864
00:38:16,668 --> 00:38:18,588
Speaker 10: to Mahomes to see his reaction and.

865
00:38:18,548 --> 00:38:20,428
Speaker 3: You're just hoping you don't miss.

866
00:38:20,148 --> 00:38:23,388
Speaker 10: Something because you can't be on both sidelines at once.

867
00:38:23,548 --> 00:38:26,668
Speaker 10: And so I think that comes with feel and comes

868
00:38:26,668 --> 00:38:29,588
Speaker 10: with overtime of being in this business. But I love

869
00:38:29,668 --> 00:38:32,708
Speaker 10: that part. I'm like a you know, investigative reporter down there.

870
00:38:32,788 --> 00:38:35,148
Speaker 2: Yes, it's a classic, Like the play's going this way,

871
00:38:35,148 --> 00:38:37,388
Speaker 2: and I swear Tracy's eyes probably go to the head

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Speaker 2: coach or the coordinator, like she's watching for the reaction.

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Speaker 3: Everybody else is watching the ball go that way. But

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Speaker 3: that's what makes you great.

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Speaker 2: Tracy Wilson, thank you so much for coming and always

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Speaker 2: a pleasure to discuss the NFL and your entirety of

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Speaker 2: your coverage. Tracy, you're a great there she has two

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Speaker 2: time Emmy winner Tracy Wilson,