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Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily, where it's always West Coast, Best Coast.

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Speaker 1: We are here in the Chris Westling podcast studio, and

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Speaker 1: by we, I mean myself and Jordan Rodrigue of the Athletic.

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Speaker 1: It's like we're back in New Orleans. Its just a

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Speaker 1: two person show, the two of us.

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Speaker 2: I know, I feel like I just saw you, Greg,

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Speaker 2: although you went through some things you did between the

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Speaker 2: last time I saw you and now, so glad you're doing.

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Speaker 1: Better you did. You saw us on Tuesday show with

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Speaker 1: Colleen Wolf. Remember that that was great. I started the

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Speaker 1: show saying West Coast, best Coast. Because we're talking a

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Speaker 1: little NFC West. We are continuing our off season division

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Speaker 1: previews with the NFC West, a division. You have been

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Speaker 1: intimately familiar with a lot of drama for the last

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Speaker 1: five years as you've covered the Los Angeles Rams, and

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Speaker 1: the West Coast really is the best coast. And it's

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Speaker 1: not just because all you suckers back east are just

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Speaker 1: dealing with all that snow and everything like that. Like

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Speaker 1: that's the number one thing, But the number two thing

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Speaker 1: is the time zones is better, Like the Pacific time

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Speaker 1: zone is just better for sports. And if you're listening

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Speaker 1: to the show sports is probably important to you. It's

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Speaker 1: important to me.

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Speaker 3: I would actually push back on that slightly.

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Speaker 2: Watching sports it's the best to be in Pacific time.

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Speaker 3: However, when you come into this time.

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Speaker 2: Of year, which we like to refer to as Greg's season,

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Speaker 2: often the news happens on East Coast time, so you

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Speaker 2: need to be up at an on godly hour in

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Speaker 2: order to make sure that you're keeping up to pace

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Speaker 2: with everything. Luckily, a lot of these NFC West teams

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Speaker 2: they actually do transactions on West Coast time too, So

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Speaker 2: just everyone else that you got to worry about.

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Speaker 1: That's a fair point. Now that I'm on old man

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Speaker 1: time and a child's time, I'm up early anyways, so

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Speaker 1: give it to me. I love it. I love it all.

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Speaker 1: We're going to go through all four teams in the

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Speaker 1: NFC West. We'll ask one big question about those teams.

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Speaker 1: We'll look at guys that could get cut, stuff like that,

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Speaker 1: and we are going to start with you. Let's start

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Speaker 1: with the Seattle Seahawks. I don't want it to be

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Speaker 1: predictable with you starting with the Rams. How do you

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Speaker 1: want to kick it off with the switch ten minutes

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Speaker 1: on the clock, let's go. Yes.

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Speaker 2: I think the biggest question for the Seattle Seahawks actually

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Speaker 2: interconnects to many other questions about how they're going to

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Speaker 2: a get under the cap and then be balance their

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Speaker 2: roster and the future of their roster structure. It is

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Speaker 2: how will they and will they overhaul their offensive line

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Speaker 2: this year? I think that they could stand to replace

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Speaker 2: four of the five spots.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, greg if they can do that all

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Speaker 2: in one off season between the draft and free agency.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs had that season where they're like, we're going

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Speaker 1: to fix the offensive line. We're going to do it

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Speaker 1: in one year, and they did it. But yeah, good

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Speaker 1: luck trying to draft Creed Humphrey and Tray Smith in

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Speaker 1: the same Yeah, it's just so easy. It's not that easy.

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Speaker 1: But they threw money at the problem and they did it.

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Speaker 1: That is a that's one place to start. And it

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Speaker 1: was really interesting listening to John Schneider speak on a

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Speaker 1: local radio show. Is the first time he had spoken

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Speaker 1: since after the season, and he said, we know exactly

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Speaker 1: what our deficiencies are and then immediately started talking about

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Speaker 1: how good the Eagles are at developing their offensive line.

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Speaker 1: So he left no mystery he knows what the problem is,

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Speaker 1: and yet he's been there the whole time and it's

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Speaker 1: been a problem the whole time, and he hasn't really

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Speaker 1: done a very good job. He said, we got to

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Speaker 1: develop offensive lineman better, but like he's done a bad

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Speaker 2: We're all trying to find the guy who did this

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Speaker 2: right exactly. So, yeah, this is an issue. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you could see where they've tried. They've tried to fill

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Speaker 2: could see potential spurts and flashes. We'll get to that

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Speaker 2: in a minute, but if you're looking at again, four

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Speaker 2: Cross is due for an extension. PFF had him rank

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Speaker 2: their tenth left or their tenth tackle of one hundred

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Speaker 2: and forty one tackles in the NFL this year, but

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Speaker 2: everybody struggled and it derailed so much about their offense.

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Speaker 2: It did not help that then coordinator Ryan Grubb just

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Speaker 3: Running the ball was a big issue. Pass protection for.

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Speaker 2: Gino Smith was a significant issue.

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Speaker 3: It just was something we.

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Speaker 2: Talked about all last year at nauseum and they're looking

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Speaker 2: that we've talked about that enough. Literally had a center

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Speaker 2: retire on them. They just brought in to help alleviate

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Speaker 2: some of those issues. And then they're struggling at their

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Speaker 2: guard spots, and certainly on the right side they had

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Speaker 2: no answers all year. That was the one of the

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Speaker 2: worst problems anywhere along any offensive line in football was

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Speaker 2: that right side of their line. And it is interesting

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Speaker 2: that you brought up John Schneider because last year, wasn't

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Speaker 2: he the one that was just talking about how guards

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Speaker 2: paying guards is overrated and guards are overpaid and we

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Speaker 2: should draft them, and it's like we're still waiting.

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Speaker 1: Well, on one hand, he could be there's something right

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Speaker 1: about him, which is the I think an offensive line

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Speaker 1: can find the right one. But they never have found

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Speaker 1: the right one, and so they hire Clint Kubiak. He

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Speaker 1: also brought in offensive line coach John Benton, who is

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Speaker 1: with him in New Orleans, who's a veteran coach. So

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Speaker 1: you're hoping that that can help things out. That the

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Speaker 1: offensive line was okay. In New Orleans last year they

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Speaker 1: had a center Oloatammi who helped. They had a young

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Speaker 1: late pick La Maya sent Tail Mayo like, you're trying

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Speaker 1: to develop these guys, you're gonna throw money out the problem.

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's look big picture. Seahawks thirteen million dollars

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Speaker 1: actually over the cap. They have a lot to do.

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Speaker 1: They do have three comp picks coming to them this year,

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Speaker 1: so that's nice. Here's some of the decisions that they'll

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Speaker 1: have to make in terms of getting under that cap space.

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Speaker 1: Gino Smith, do you extend him? Do you do that

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Speaker 1: to lower his cap number which is forty four million

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Speaker 1: new system. Tyler Lockett a seventeen million dollar cap hit,

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Speaker 1: Even when teams are over, it's not that hard to

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Speaker 2: You know, it's easy to get under the cap. But

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Speaker 2: in terms of the investments that Seattle might have to

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Speaker 2: make in free agency with this offensive line some of

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Speaker 2: the top tier guys, I don't even know if they're

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Speaker 2: they significantly restructure the way that they're going to handle

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Speaker 2: this cap situation. Not just a release of Tyler Lockette

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Speaker 2: which would save them seventeen million dollars, not just the

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Speaker 2: Jones release, not just a potential what would the numbers

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Speaker 2: on a potential Geno Smith contract extension look like in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five versus in the year's past. That would

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Speaker 2: it help alleviate issues in twenty twenty five, But then

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Speaker 2: you know, he's what thirty five years old, and you

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Speaker 2: have to think about what comes after twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 2: especially pairing him with a third offensive coordinator in three seasons,

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Speaker 2: and you can't be certain that you actually have fixed

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Speaker 2: the offensive line at that What do you think?

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Speaker 1: Do you think they want to commit to Geno pass

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Speaker 3: I don't I couldn't tell you what they're thinking.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but what do you do?

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Speaker 3: I would I mean I would.

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Speaker 2: I would say he could probably play till he's probably

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Speaker 2: thirty eight. And I think what you can see sometimes

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Speaker 2: with a lot of these veteran players is the preference

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Speaker 2: to do some of these two or three year deals.

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Speaker 3: Now would he take that?

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Speaker 2: Now? I can't speak for what you know would or

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Speaker 2: would not, except he's been through it the last couple

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Speaker 2: that there's been some chaos and dysfunction around him. But

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Speaker 2: they also have a lot of players coming up that

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Speaker 2: they have to start thinking about beyond this year. Boya, Mafe,

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Speaker 2: Rikuol and DK Metcalf, they're all entering their contract years.

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Speaker 2: We haven't even talked about yet whether they're going to

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Speaker 2: money out of whichever team, including Seattle. So they're thinking

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Speaker 2: they have to think in twenty twenty five. How they

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Speaker 2: actually invest in key positions that would help Geno Smith.

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Speaker 2: But then they also have to think about Geno Smith

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Speaker 2: and what load that contract is beyond this year when

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Speaker 2: some of their star players at premium positions are are due.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Gino, like I said, forty four million dollars cap hit,

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Speaker 1: then he could suddenly, like you, be headed to free

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Speaker 1: with that cap number. But I think it makes sense

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Speaker 1: if you wanted to extend about I think he'd take whatever,

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Speaker 1: not not whatever. But he's at that mid level quarterback.

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Speaker 1: He's not going to make the Joe Burrow money. But

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Speaker 1: his money, which you know this year is going to

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Speaker 1: be plenty of salary, is not that far below like

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Speaker 1: he's in that you know, forty to fifty million dollar range.

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Speaker 1: If they wanted to extend that out another year or two,

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Speaker 1: I guess they would do it. You you have a

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Speaker 1: good point mentioning Riequill, and I think both him and

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Speaker 1: DK Metcalf are sneaky trade possibilities if you didn't think

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Speaker 1: you were going to pay both of them.

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Speaker 2: It is interesting though, because you can tell based on

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Speaker 2: listening to Clint Kubiak, who spent a little time with

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Speaker 2: Justsin Jefferson, Like you can tell that he really wants

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Speaker 2: to work with him. Now, whether that's I don't think

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Speaker 2: Gina with DK, oh with DK, I don't think, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: why wouldn't you.

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Speaker 1: By the way, everyone in Seattle who's like, how come

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Speaker 1: they don't trade DK metcal It's like, why would he trade?

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Speaker 3: He's a monster?

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Speaker 1: Like, yeah, he's not quite a J Brown, He's not.

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Speaker 1: He's certainly not Jamar Chase. But having a top fifteen

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Speaker 1: wide receiver with a very defined skill set is very valuable.

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Speaker 2: And all I'm saying is, I don't think that Clint

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Speaker 2: is coming in there, you know, his first day on

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Speaker 2: just don't think that they operate.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's going anywhere.

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Speaker 2: To be cleary, yeah and so, but yes, obviously he

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Speaker 2: will receive interest every year that they don't have an

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Speaker 1: Be a little uh cheaper zero perfect. Let's talk Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: This is the season that Monty asen for is gonna push.

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Speaker 1: It's the regular season, okay, Manti asin For. They have

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Speaker 2: I think the smart thing and what I would do

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Speaker 1: So this is why it's great to have you aboard

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Speaker 1: That's it's intriguing a T. Higgins if he's like there

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Speaker 1: Recap it quickly, Connor is there? Yeah, in the backfield,

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Speaker 2: You can see what I do like about this Cardinals roster,

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Speaker 3: You're doing the walk around defense thing.

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Speaker 2: You're just doing trying whatever you can and see, okay,

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Speaker 1: Pretty much the whole defense except the secondary, I mean

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Speaker 3: The interesting thing is, I think some of this, too

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Speaker 1: To take time. It's time to spend. They need to do.

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Speaker 2: Every three years you have to hit a minimum spending threshold.

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Speaker 1: I actually like this exercise. I just said that they're

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Speaker 1: was a mid season trade acquisition that really didn't do well.

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Speaker 1: And I'm only putting m on the one oh one

436
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Speaker 1: just because he poss ye, he's never really produced.

437
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Speaker 2: I keep waiting for him to take that next step

438
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Speaker 2: because you see, you see the tools, and I keep

439
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Speaker 2: waiting for him to put it together.

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Speaker 1: So they are in a really great position where the

441
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Speaker 1: kind of the world is their oyster and the Austin

442
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Speaker 1: Fork connection. I knew there was a reason I wrote

443
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Speaker 1: Simmons down. He was with Jeffrey Simmons in Tennessee as

444
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Speaker 1: the director of player personnel, and that's a player that

445
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Speaker 1: might be available. But I think you're absolutely right. They

446
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Speaker 1: could really use some linemen, and they could use edge guys,

447
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Speaker 1: and they could especially use like three down, you know,

448
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Speaker 1: just bigger like run stoppers. They are gonna be adding.

449
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Speaker 1: Maybe they're not all gonna be big splashes, but I

450
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Speaker 1: think there's gonna be some big splashes. I'm excited about

451
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals.

452
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm always excited about the Cardinals bait when this

453
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Speaker 2: new regime came in because I really like the way

454
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Speaker 2: that they think.

455
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Speaker 3: I like the way that they game plan.

456
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Speaker 2: I like the way that they are super fluid and multidirectional,

457
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Speaker 2: multifunctional on offense and defense, even though they've been super

458
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Speaker 2: limited and personnel on defense. And I think that Drew

459
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Speaker 2: Petsing and Nick Rollis and them coming back as these

460
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Speaker 2: young offensive and defensive coordinators, Jonathan Gannon now having some

461
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Speaker 2: more head coaching experience under his belt. I think it's

462
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Speaker 2: all good things for Arizona. They just can't flail in

463
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Speaker 2: the middle of the season. They can't just lose steam because.

464
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Speaker 3: They had they had the NFC West. They had it.

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Speaker 1: They did and if you look at the whole picture,

466
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Speaker 1: they had the progress that they should have had. Like

467
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Speaker 1: this roster, like I was saying, especially on defense, was

468
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Speaker 1: not great. They've played about it was lacking. I think, yeah,

469
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Speaker 1: like they've played over their skis really so overall, I

470
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Speaker 1: like that it's been steady progress. You didn't think we

471
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Speaker 1: would be able to do this in under ten minutes.

472
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Speaker 1: You thought we'd honk too much. But we're having great

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Speaker 1: pace here. Let's take a quick break, just count it down.

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Speaker 1: You be back in a second. Back on NFL Daily

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Speaker 1: previewing the off season for the NFC West. Still in

476
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Speaker 1: the mix, I think as the best division in football.

477
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Speaker 1: I know they're not coming off their best season. Got

478
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Speaker 1: a lot of teams in this division where you would

479
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Speaker 1: say it wouldn't be that surprising if they were playing

480
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Speaker 1: in the division round. I think all four teams you

481
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Speaker 1: could say that. There aren't many divisions like that. We're

482
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Speaker 1: gonna go to the forty nine Ers, one of the

483
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Speaker 1: best teams in the NFL over the last decade, really

484
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Speaker 1: half decade, and coming off a brutal season. But they

485
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Speaker 1: have a lot going on this off season. Let's start

486
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Speaker 1: the clock here, Eric, forty three million dollars in cap

487
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 1: space already, and uh, you know, can can open up

488
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:14,360
Speaker 1: more room? Uh inn extra three compicks. They've already redone

489
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,919
Speaker 1: a lot of their deals that they've signed, so actually

490
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:20,360
Speaker 1: they're a team that can't restructure too many guys. They've

491
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Speaker 1: they've they've gotten to the bank so many times. Fred

492
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 1: Warner is actually the one guy I think they can

493
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Speaker 1: go to the bank for and open up even more space.

494
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Speaker 3: But NFL Daily Star Fred Warner, Yeah.

495
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Speaker 1: They don't have a fifth round pick. I learned this.

496
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Speaker 1: I didn't know this because they quote unquote miscalculated the

497
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Speaker 1: salary cap last year. But they weren't found to have

498
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Speaker 1: done nothing wrong. They just miss calculated. Why is it

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Speaker 1: always the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 3: By the way, the wrong button on the calculator.

501
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know about that. So they had their

502
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Speaker 1: fifth round pick taken away. My big question is how

503
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Speaker 1: does a team that needs to get younger get younger

504
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Speaker 1: in free agency, Because this is a team that's gonna

505
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Speaker 1: have to be a free agency.

506
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Speaker 2: They will, but I don't know that that's the best

507
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Speaker 2: spot to be in again with this free agency class.

508
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,920
Speaker 2: And you know that's that's I think the biggest question,

509
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,479
Speaker 2: because they need some youth, they need some revitalization, they

510
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 2: need some energy. To me, when I look at the

511
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Speaker 2: forty nine ers and they've been such a powerhouse for

512
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Speaker 2: so many years, and really the aggressors to so many

513
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Speaker 2: teams across the entire league, not just the NFC West,

514
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Speaker 2: I see burnout. I see a team that is just

515
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Speaker 2: it's burnt out, that's tired, that really needs to commit

516
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Speaker 2: one way or another to either infusing with this draft

517
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Speaker 2: class and infusing with that kind of personnel and really

518
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Speaker 2: nailing that class to to kind of replace it or

519
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Speaker 2: eventually replace in the next two years or so some

520
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Speaker 2: of the aging stars that have been so productive for

521
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Speaker 2: them for so long, or again they're going to keep

522
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Speaker 2: patching this with older players, and I don't know in

523
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Speaker 2: this free agency class that that's necessarily the best thing

524
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Speaker 2: to do.

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Speaker 1: Say burnout and I just have the image of Kyle

526
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Speaker 1: Shanahanson's not just looking out into the This was a

527
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,640
Speaker 1: burnt out team last year. Now I think they're gonna

528
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Speaker 1: at least talk a big game all off season of

529
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Speaker 1: like we're revived. We you know, we had a shorter

530
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Speaker 1: off season, like we're ready to come back. But how

531
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Speaker 1: do you infuse the team with youth when you're gonna

532
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Speaker 1: have to fill some real holes in free agency? And

533
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Speaker 1: that's by not going after the Leonard Floyd's and maybe

534
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Speaker 1: the I guess you Grossmatos wasn't like an older free agent.

535
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Speaker 1: They've they've had a tendency to go after older free

536
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Speaker 1: agents like Trent Williams. They're gonna have to find some

537
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Speaker 1: younger free agents that can play for them, Like if

538
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Speaker 1: it was a Diodengbo from Indianapolis some of the whether

539
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Speaker 1: it's Diami Brown not that they're probably going after a

540
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Speaker 1: wide receiver. Thos a bad example some of the younger

541
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Speaker 1: free agents, because they absolutely will be going after free

542
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Speaker 1: agents to cut to address a number of news moves.

543
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna lists some players I think are likely gone

544
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Speaker 1: from this team. Number one, Charvarius Ward. He says he

545
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: wants to leave. He's one of the best free agent

546
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Speaker 1: cornerbacks out there. Had personal tragh kind of a heartbreaking Yeah,

547
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Speaker 1: and he said it's really been hard for him to

548
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Speaker 1: be in California after the tragic loss of his kid.

549
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Speaker 1: You really feel for him. Talana Hufanga, they're pretty good

550
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,680
Speaker 1: at safety right now. He's been injured after that All

551
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Speaker 1: Pro season. Probably gone. Javon Hargrave. They say they're either

552
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Speaker 1: going to cut him or he'll accept a pay cut

553
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Speaker 1: to stay. Most likely he'll hit free agency. And then

554
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 1: Aaron Banks, their guard who they mentioned earlier. Deebo Samuel

555
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 1: also is very likely to get traded if he doesn't

556
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Speaker 1: get cut. Leonard Floyd likely to get cut. So there's

557
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Speaker 1: a lot of players that had pretty big roles that

558
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Speaker 1: probably will not be on this team next year.

559
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's interesting there are some replacements that you

560
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 2: could see potentially taking over for some of those guys.

561
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Speaker 2: I know that they really love Hufanga, but he just

562
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Speaker 2: might have a pricier market than they're willing to pay.

563
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 2: Brown would probably be back starting for them in that case,

564
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 2: and then their receiving corps. That's where I have a

565
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 2: lot of questions. Actually, I mean everywhere on this roster.

566
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Speaker 2: I I have a lot of questions. But their receiving

567
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Speaker 2: corps is Brandon Ayuk, who significantly underwhelmed after signing that deal,

568
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 2: Juwan Jennings, Ricky Pier saw Jacob Cowing.

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Speaker 1: And then I think they're good there. Honestly, I'm not.

570
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 1: That's one position group, but.

571
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Speaker 2: They'll have to play different They're going to be playing differently.

572
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 2: They have to play differently.

573
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Speaker 1: They gotta get better playing in.

574
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Speaker 3: The past that those guys do have to get better.

575
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Speaker 2: But also they're becoming with those players, they're more of

576
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 2: a perimeter team than necessarily some of the like the

577
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 2: Yak Bros. Style that we saw with Debo, with Kittle,

578
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 2: with McCaffrey when he came in as a receiving threat

579
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Speaker 2: as well. They're just gonna have to shift their place

580
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 2: down now. I do think that brock Purty showed he

581
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Speaker 2: can be that type of a thrower at the beginning

582
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Speaker 2: of this season. I think he was making the most

583
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Speaker 2: of a sort of a sketchy situation up there with

584
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Speaker 2: some of the just alternating personnel, and he was throwing

585
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Speaker 2: the ball downfield in a way that we hadn't necessarily.

586
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Speaker 2: You know, there was a lot of chatter we I think,

587
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 2: we like brock Purty, but there's a lot of chatter

588
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 2: about can he actually do this? So that's where some

589
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 2: of the like new blood I guess will come from,

590
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 2: some of those younger receivers. I could see them drafting

591
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 2: a running back as well.

592
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Speaker 3: I mean, you can't.

593
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying Christian McCaffrey is like done for at all,

594
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 2: but that's a scary injury, and we see when he's

595
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 2: at his best he is the best. But I could

596
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 2: definitely see them getting younger and infusing a little bit

597
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 2: more in there too. Well.

598
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Speaker 1: It HiT's Kyle Shanahan, so he always loves to draft

599
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: a running back, whether it's in the you know, third round,

600
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Speaker 1: fourth round, fifth round. Grendo last year was a fourth

601
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Speaker 1: round pick, Jordan Mason. It was pretty good as a backup.

602
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Speaker 2: Really, Greg, What I'm curious about here with the forty

603
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 2: nine ers is do you think that they're maybe going

604
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,479
Speaker 2: to be stronger in the trade market than necessary they

605
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 2: would be in free agency. My colleague at the athletic

606
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 2: Matt Barrows. He actually sees them being interested in a

607
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 2: Miles Garrett getting on the phone for a Miles Garrett.

608
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 2: I know that Miles Garrett is like again, another older player,

609
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,239
Speaker 2: but he's Miles freaking Garrett. So but I wonder if

610
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 2: that's where they're kind of maybe looking to just infuse

611
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 2: other personnel into this roster, just to do something a

612
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 2: little different, to shake it things up a little bit,

613
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 2: move the furniture around a bit.

614
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Speaker 1: I think it makes sense for them to go big

615
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: on defense. When you look at their offense, it's all

616
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: coming back basically except for Aaron Banks and Debo, but

617
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: they've really prepared for the Debo. Defense, to me is

618
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: almost a bigger concern from a team building perspective. That

619
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 1: defensive line that they were known for year after year

620
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: really calcified. I mean, even when Hargrave was healthy, they

621
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Speaker 1: were thinner than before. But then Hargrave got hurt and

622
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Speaker 1: suddenly it was Nick Bosa in three or four replacement

623
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Speaker 1: level veterans. So I look at both their lines as

624
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 1: something they could really stand to improve. They've never really

625
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 1: invested like a ton of resources outside of Trent Williams

626
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 1: and you know, some early ist draft picks, but not

627
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: a ton. I really feel like they need to rejuvenate

628
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: their lines, ideally with draft picks to get younger. But

629
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Speaker 1: maybe maybe it'll be with a big time player. And

630
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Speaker 1: it's a theme with all these conversations that if it's

631
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Speaker 1: not Garrett like, it could be a different edge like

632
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 1: a like a Trey Hendrick center.

633
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and then but I mean in free agency

634
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 2: they will have they will be competitive. I think for

635
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 2: some of the guys, the Josh Schwetz that that kind

636
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 2: of a player. At the same time, like, we can't

637
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 2: forget that Bob sala is back there a defensive coordinators,

638
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 2: So they're going to go back to that sort of

639
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 2: og wide nine that they were playing. So they need

640
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 2: to add at least one more strong, if not very strong,

641
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 2: edge rusher and probably draft somebody to eventually, you know,

642
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 2: fill in once they enter a world without Nick Bosa.

643
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 2: You're not going to obviously replace him one to one,

644
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 2: but you got to at least start onboarding somebody to

645
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 2: take maybe some snaps eventually if you need to.

646
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Speaker 3: And they also don't need a really.

647
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 2: Stout, strong, aggressive, disruptive defensive tackle like just because those

648
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 2: edges are what everyone looks at in the wide nine.

649
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 2: You mentioned this, You know, some of the personnel shifting

650
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Speaker 2: that they did on the interior the last couple of

651
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Speaker 2: years really hurt them. And they absolutely need a disruptive

652
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Speaker 2: like three tech or like a nose hybrid player in

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Speaker 2: order to really make that thing.

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Speaker 1: Saying they have a lot of needs, I mean, their

655
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Speaker 1: best defensive tackle right now is Malik Collins. Second best

656
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Speaker 1: is like Jordan Elliott. They don't they don't even have

657
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Speaker 1: a second EDG Dresher. I guess it's your tur Gross Moados,

658
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Speaker 1: but they could cut him. In addition to Leonard Floyd,

659
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Speaker 1: who I mentioned, I fully expect will get cut this

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Speaker 1: off season. One name I didn't mention that I should

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Speaker 1: have in terms of free agents is Drake green Law.

662
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Speaker 1: And the word is that, yeah, your boy, Bob Sala

663
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Speaker 1: wants him back. That's going to be a tricky contract

664
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Speaker 1: because if you remember, he tore his achilles during the

665
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl and he returned last year and for the

666
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Speaker 1: three quarters he would on the field. He actually looked

667
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: like the best linebacker in football for the three quarters.

668
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Speaker 1: They're like, wow, he's over the achilles, But he quickly

669
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Speaker 1: reinjured his calf, which is, you know, in the same area,

670
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Speaker 1: didn't play the rest of the season, and will be

671
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Speaker 1: someone I think teams that run this defense across the

672
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Speaker 1: league will be looking at. So he won't necessarily be

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Speaker 1: easy to keep. So they they have a lot going

674
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Speaker 1: on this offseason. It's it's gonna be tricky. Is John

675
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Speaker 1: Lynch gonna just be their GM forever? Does he? Not

676
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Speaker 1: so much would they get rid of him, but more

677
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Speaker 1: like does he want the job forever? He a former

678
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Speaker 1: announcer and stuff. Here's some whispers he might not be

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Speaker 1: there forever.

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Speaker 2: So that's interesting, Yeah, because I honestly, when I always

681
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Speaker 2: look at the power structure up there, everything goes through

682
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Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan and the owner.

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Speaker 1: So that's where all the more reason to think, like

684
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Speaker 1: maybe John Lynch isn't there forever, even if it's his decision,

685
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: like he's not the one running the show.

686
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is an interesting question. And then should be

687
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Speaker 2: noted too that Josh Williams, who is kind of his

688
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Speaker 2: number two out there, is in the final list interviews

689
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Speaker 2: for that Jaguars GM job. So is there a contingency plan?

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Speaker 2: This is they have sort of one foot in their

691
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Speaker 2: previous era and one foot that needs to step into

692
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Speaker 2: their new era. And I think that's really fascinating for

693
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Speaker 2: them because any sort of pivot into a half measure

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Speaker 2: I don't think is going to.

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Speaker 1: Work right, because they actually have drafted some players to

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Speaker 1: prepare for this day, Ronardo Green, leonor Malik Mustafa in

697
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Speaker 1: the second half. I love some some good young players,

698
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Speaker 1: obviously Brock Purdy, you know, some of their wide receivers.

699
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Speaker 1: And yet who are their best players. It's it's Trent Williams.

700
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Speaker 1: It's George Kittle, it's Nick Bosa, it's Fred Warner. It's

701
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Speaker 1: still all those guys, and they're not going anywhere. I

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Speaker 1: should mention before we go to the next team. The

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Speaker 1: word from the forty nine ers is they do expect

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Speaker 1: Trent Williams to return to the team next year, and

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Speaker 1: John Lynch made it clear they are welcoming him back

706
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Speaker 1: under his big salary. So that that's big off season

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Speaker 1: news for them. Let's wrap up with them.

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Speaker 3: Nicely done.

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Speaker 2: That's an experienced veteran host right there. Incredible. Yeah, So

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Speaker 2: my big question for the Rams is actually kind of

711
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Speaker 2: interestingly similar to the forty nine ers, which is will

712
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Speaker 2: they keep one foot split into their previous Super Bowl

713
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Speaker 2: era with a couple of their aging stars, not just

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Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford, but also Rob Havenstein and Tyler Higbee.

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Speaker 1: Or will they.

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Speaker 2: Completely move into this readier to win sooner than expected

717
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Speaker 2: era of young players because they've nailed the last two

718
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Speaker 2: draft classes. Obviously, the question starts and ends with Matthew Stafford.

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Speaker 2: We've talked so much about Matthew Stafford that I don't

720
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Speaker 2: really think we need to do a ton more other

721
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Speaker 2: than sort of maybe refreshing that conversation. But they if

722
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Speaker 2: they do decide to step into this new era, they're

723
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Speaker 2: gonna have holes to fill at both tackle spots, right.

724
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Speaker 2: They're gonna need a bona fide tight end because Sean

725
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 2: McVay is tired of rotating three tight ends who are

726
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 2: like subpar, and they're gonna need a new number two

727
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Speaker 2: receiver to be in tandem with puku Akua.

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Speaker 1: And a number three receiver.

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Speaker 3: And a number three, number four and a number four.

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Speaker 1: Received Marcus Robinson, who was productive for them, and too

731
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Speaker 1: Too at Well are both free agents in addition to

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup expecting to get traded or cut if they

733
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Speaker 1: can't find a trade from more than anything. When I

734
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Speaker 1: was looking at the Rams roster and situation, they have

735
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Speaker 1: thirty seven million dollars in cap space, which is which

736
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Speaker 1: is a ton, which is more than enough, and they

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Speaker 1: can open up some more. They do not have a

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Speaker 1: second rap pick. More than anything, I thought, Man, it's

739
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Speaker 1: hard to rebuild the team on the fly. What are

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Speaker 1: you laughing at?

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Speaker 2: My advice to the Rams is, don't go spend that

742
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Speaker 2: money yet, because their second second year players that like

743
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 2: ten of them start for them are gonna come do

744
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 2: and a couple of them, including Steve Avula, Puka, Kobe Turner,

745
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 2: they're gonna be due Byron Young Doe for early extensions.

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Speaker 2: And they just started that, like that spending window, that

747
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 2: three year window, the minimum threshold window. They just started

748
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 2: it last season and they did not spend other than

749
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Speaker 2: on a guard that does not play for them currently,

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Speaker 2: which we'll get to in a minute.

751
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Speaker 3: But my advice is, don't go spend in free agency.

752
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Speaker 2: Don't go by because they don't have a good track

753
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 2: record when they actually go out and acquire veteran free agents.

754
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 2: That third tier is where their money is made. There,

755
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 2: the picking up cheap veterans, the Achello, Witherspoons, some of

756
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 2: the guys they brought in in twenty twenty three to

757
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Speaker 2: help supplement that young.

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Speaker 1: Marcus Rabbins rising, guys.

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Speaker 2: Like that, role players when they've gone out and actually

760
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Speaker 2: spent big money on free agents. And I fully expect them,

761
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Speaker 2: by the way, to overhaul this process, similar to when

762
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Speaker 2: they overhauled their draft process a couple of years ago

763
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Speaker 2: under James Gladstone. I feel like they have to just

764
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Speaker 2: avoid it right now because it's Alan Robinson, it's Bobby Wagner,

765
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Speaker 2: it's Jonah Jackson, who again they have to figure out

766
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Speaker 2: what to do with. That's a three year, fifty one

767
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Speaker 2: million dollar guard. If you cut him or trade him

768
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Speaker 2: before June first, it's an eleven and a half million

769
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Speaker 2: dollar in dead money hit and then you have dead

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Speaker 2: money in the you know, in the coming year too,

771
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 2: And it's basically like you're not playing him, So what

772
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 2: are you gonna do?

773
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Speaker 1: What do you? What do you write? They would save

774
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: nine million dollars to the cap at least you know

775
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Speaker 1: you're spending a lot of cash. If they spread that

776
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: out as a post to June first, you mentioned Hanstein,

777
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Speaker 1: they would save nine million dollars if you cut him,

778
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Speaker 1: they're left tackle. Alerc Jackson, an undrafted player who's played

779
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 1: pretty well for them, is a free agent. Do you

780
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Speaker 1: think they might keep him or no? Because he actually

781
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 1: is the Is he my top tackle available? Because he's

782
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 1: young and he's been serviceable and there just aren't guys

783
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: like that. Cam Robinson I believe I have ranked ahead

784
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 1: of him, but Alaric Jackson, He's.

785
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Speaker 3: Gonna have a market. That's the thing.

786
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Speaker 2: I don't think they're willing to be super competitive in

787
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Speaker 2: that market, but they don't have a plan behind it.

788
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Speaker 1: They have huge needs. That's the thing. It shows how

789
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Speaker 1: hard it is, and that's what I was trying to

790
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Speaker 1: get to, that how hard it is to rebuild on

791
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: the fly. Because their last couple drafts could not have

792
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 1: gone better. Practically everyone they've drafted has been an offensive

793
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:03,720
Speaker 1: or de defensive. Rookie of the Year finalists. Pukinakua, Steve Avuola,

794
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Speaker 1: he wasn't a finalist, but he could have been, Kobe Turner,

795
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:11,479
Speaker 1: Braden Fisk, and Jared Verse. All these like massive hits.

796
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Speaker 1: Although they are missing their second round pick this year

797
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: because they use that to trade up for Braiden Fists,

798
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Speaker 1: so it's a good, good job that you hit on

799
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Speaker 1: that guy. I hate doing yeh, I get it. Two

800
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Speaker 1: picks for one guys.

801
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Speaker 2: For a defensive Rookie of the Year finalists, you got

802
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Speaker 2: to hit probably would have.

803
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Speaker 1: Won it, depending on you gotta hit. It's very risky,

804
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: and they did it. They do have an extra third

805
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 1: round compensatory pick because Raheem Morris took that job with

806
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: Atlanta and as part of the Rooney rule that that's

807
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 1: something they get, so that that's a positive. But man,

808
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 1: despite all that, they have some massive issues cornerback. They

809
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 1: don't really have cornerstone guys to build around linebackers. They

810
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: literally just don't even have any linebackers. You mentioned tackle

811
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: wide receivers like and and then oh, by the way, quarterbacks.

812
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Speaker 1: So despite all of the good things that they've done,

813
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,800
Speaker 1: and they could have won the Super Bowl in the

814
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 1: last couple of years potentially if things had gone right.

815
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: They weren't in the top three or fourteens, but they

816
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,319
Speaker 1: were in kind of that six, seven eight range when

817
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 1: the season ended. It didn't happen for them, and they

818
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Speaker 1: still have a lot to work on.

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Speaker 2: I would say for the Rams, if I were them,

820
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 2: I would operate. I would go into this off season

821
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Speaker 2: as if they have like literally zero players at left

822
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Speaker 2: or right tackle. And I say that because they are

823
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Speaker 2: simply not going to get into a high dollar, super

824
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:32,919
Speaker 2: competitive market with Aleric Jackson. If if he wants to stay,

825
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 2: and if like they want to try to extend him

826
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Speaker 2: before free agency hits, if if it's a good fit,

827
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Speaker 2: if he liked you know, there's all these other variables

828
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Speaker 2: that could come into play.

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Speaker 1: But I have to work ahead a little bit.

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Speaker 2: I expect these moves, but I expect him to have

831
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Speaker 2: a robust market, and it's just not something as of

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Speaker 2: my last understanding and my last reporting on this, it's

833
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 2: not something that they're gonna like get into the highest

834
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 2: levels of salary with him. And then Rob Havenstein's entering

835
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 2: the last y're on his deal now. The right the

836
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 2: offensive line was far less functional statistically, and you could

837
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Speaker 2: see it a Olliver the tape when he was not

838
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 2: on the field versus when he was on the field.

839
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Speaker 2: But he's had trouble staying on the field for the

840
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Speaker 2: last couple of seasons, and he is one of those

841
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Speaker 2: players along with the Tyler Higbee, who are again similar

842
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 2: to Cooper Cup representative of that previous era of this

843
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 2: RAMS roster when they have showed no qualms about moving

844
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 2: forward into this new phase. But I would operate as

845
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 2: if they have no tackles because I don't think their

846
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 2: backups are good options.

847
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Speaker 3: War McClendon.

848
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Speaker 2: And then it was Joe Noteboom on the left side

849
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 2: who was just not a good again, another free agent

850
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 2: signing that they paid that they should not have paid,

851
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 2: and then became a backup left tackle and it just

852
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 2: it didn't work out for them. And so they have

853
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 2: to operate as if they have a surplus at guard,

854
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:49,320
Speaker 2: which they do because now bo Limmer will probably be

855
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 2: their their full time starter moving forward, and he's a

856
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 2: fifth round pick from last year. He started most of

857
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,240
Speaker 2: the season, played well other than the last two snaps

858
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 2: of that Eagles game when he fell for Jalen Carter's

859
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 2: fake step, and are set at left and right guard.

860
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 2: They need those tackles and that to me is the

861
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 2: absolute number one priority.

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00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: And it also think quarterback would be high up there

863
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: though if they don't have one.

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Speaker 3: But well, I'm glad they all these other things.

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Speaker 2: Glad that you jumped in to finish my sentence before

866
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 2: and actually finished it, but that the number one thing

867
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 2: that they have to do is figure out what that

868
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 2: left and right tackle financial structure is going to look

869
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,959
Speaker 2: like in tandem with whatever their plan is for either

870
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 2: a year to year situation with Matthew Stafford, a two

871
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 2: year that's front loaded with him, or or trading him.

872
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 1: I think they could be Why not be a Kirk team.

873
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: They're kind of a sneaky then the Weeds. Why not

874
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 1: because if they're if they have all these other issues

875
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: and they're still sort of rebuilding, and they seem very

876
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:48,720
Speaker 1: open to moving on from Matthew Stafford and maybe getting

877
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 1: younger too, with some picks that they could get back

878
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:52,839
Speaker 1: for him. I think this feels like an in between year,

879
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: and Jimmy g seems like the most likely guy with

880
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 1: a pick potentially, but Kirk Cousins is potentially another.

881
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 2: I think that they watched him play football, and they

882
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 2: know Raheem Morris and Zach Robinson really well, and I

883
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 2: don't think anyone is rushing to endorse that situation, but

884
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 2: I do think that a bridge quarterback could be a

885
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 2: solution for them if they do decide to move on

886
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 2: from Matthew Stafford, which again, the best way that they

887
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 2: stay competitive is.

888
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 3: Getting a deal done with Alerc Jackson.

889
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 2: I'm not sure they're going to be able to do that,

890
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 2: and also getting a deal done with Matthew Stafford and

891
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,760
Speaker 2: kind of just running this group back for another shot

892
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 2: and figuring out what you're going to do with Jona Jackson,

893
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 2: and then maybe bringing in a run stopping, disruptive defensive

894
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 2: tackle who you don't actually need to play a full

895
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 2: snapshare because you've got the middle of that short up

896
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 2: on pass rushed down.

897
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, their linebackers get picked on. They need some young

898
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: cornerstones at cornerback. It's just a lot. There are a

899
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:56,800
Speaker 1: million kind of bridge quarterbacks available though, so that is

900
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 1: one thing. There's a lot of They've got that going

901
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:03,439
Speaker 1: for to justin feel it's a jamis you know a Mariota.

902
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,799
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones, I think he really great fit.

903
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 1: Then draft a second round quarterback or something with your

904
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,320
Speaker 1: Stafford pick, you know, you know, some sort of combination.

905
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, And they have Darius Williams in the second year

906
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 2: of a three year deal. So and he played really

907
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 2: well down this backstretch when after he came back from

908
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 2: the hamstring injury. But they usually only pay one corner

909
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 2: at a time, so I would expect them to go

910
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 2: deep into the draft in that position. They tried that

911
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 2: three years ago. None of those picks really panned out.

912
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 2: Kobe Durant is solid, but he was in a rotational

913
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 2: role by the end of last season.

914
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 3: They're good. I think they're good.

915
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 2: They're set at safety because of some of the again,

916
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 2: some of the drafting that they did and some of

917
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 2: the undrafted free agents that I brought. They brought in

918
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 2: Jayalen McCullough and then Cam Kitchens was their third round pick.

919
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 2: It's interesting because they do have so many questions that

920
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 2: inside linebacker yet again, and they they were the team

921
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:05,240
Speaker 2: that infamously chipped out Ernest Jones, probably too early, you know, weird,

922
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 2: but they did it because they believed in Omar Spates

923
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 2: and Omar Spates really emerged.

924
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 3: But they need a second line back.

925
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:13,880
Speaker 1: We ended the NFC West recap the only way we

926
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 1: could with an in depth Omar Spates discussion. I love it.

927
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: That was the NFC West. I keep like going through

928
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 1: these divisions and thinking, man, this team's got a lot

929
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,920
Speaker 1: of to do. Man, this team's going to be in

930
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: the mix. Like it's a big off season. Every every

931
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 1: team thinks they're having a big off season, that's what

932
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: it's just, it's just not easy. Like these four teams especially,

933
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: I think the Seahawks are in a kind of a

934
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: medium position, that the Cardinals are in a kind of

935
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 1: a great position where where you want to be, where

936
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 1: it's all push, all additive, Whereas the forty nine ers

937
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 1: in the Rams are having to do a lot of

938
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: different things, holding on while pushing forward at the same time.

939
00:44:55,800 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: And let's need John Lynch, monte Asin fort and yes,

940
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: John Schneider, They're all be earning their salaries this offseason.

941
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Speaker 3: It is interesting.

942
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 2: We presented a lot of problems right for them to solve.

943
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 2: But it kind of feels like all of these teams,

944
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 2: any one of them, are maybe one or two correct

945
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 2: decisions away from being ultra competitive again if they already,

946
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 2: if they weren't already. And so that I think is

947
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 2: the sign of a really strong NFC West. It's a

948
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 2: sign of really strong team building for the most part

949
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 2: all around.

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00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 1: I I'm always fascinated by this division. That's it for

951
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:28,479
Speaker 1: our NFC West off season.

952
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:32,839
Speaker 3: We did it in time, We're alive, plenty of time.

953
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:38,359
Speaker 1: We're going to keep these off season previews going. We're

954
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 1: going to have some NFC South talk coming up, but

955
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: this is it for today's show. Look, when we're criticizing

956
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 1: Mantyasen for it's regular season, that didn't make any sense.

957
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 1: I wasn't criticizing him.

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00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 3: We like him.