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Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily, where we're all gonna try to

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Speaker 1: stay upright on this show. I'm Greg Rosenthal here with

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Speaker 1: Jordan Rodrigue, and we have breaking news from the Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: Convention Center. Jordan took a little bit of a spill

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Speaker 1: just a few moments ago, just feet away from Nick

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Speaker 1: Sirianni on live television.

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, it's killing me.

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Speaker 1: I didn't really see it as it was happening, But

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Speaker 1: just talk me through what was going through your mind

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Speaker 1: as it was happening.

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Speaker 3: You've never wanted to You've never wished you had seen

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Speaker 3: something more than when instead of listen, instead of running

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Speaker 3: over to try to help me up, like our wonderful producers,

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Speaker 3: camera people, audio guys did to run everyone ran over

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Speaker 3: to try to help me up.

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Speaker 4: Yak turns around and says, I wish I would have

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Speaker 4: seen that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, I'm a little guy on a

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Speaker 1: eye chair. It's a long way down for me to

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Speaker 1: get down and help you there. But thankfully Jordan's okay.

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Speaker 1: No twisted ankles helped a little pride, But hey, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot going on. There's a lot of people here,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of coaches here, there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: gms here. It feels like Groundhog Day. We have done

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Speaker 1: these Tuesdays at the Scouting Combine for years and it's

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Speaker 1: still going. For some reason, they've really kind of man

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Speaker 1: spread the press conferences throughout the day, and there's coaches

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Speaker 1: that are still going up up to up until five thirty,

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Speaker 1: but for the most part, like forty five of the

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Speaker 2: And what we're gonna do.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go through a ton of items and news

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Speaker 1: before a couple great interviews with two return guests, Bears

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Speaker 1: General Manager Ryan Poles and Raiders General manager John Spytek.

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Speaker 1: We have some other great interviews that you're gonna hear

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Speaker 1: throughout the course of the week, Brandon Bean of the Bills,

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Speaker 1: Omar Khan, the GM of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and then

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Speaker 1: the Panthers brain trust. We might have some more coming

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Speaker 1: up this week, but today there's so much news we

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Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite news days of the year

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Speaker 1: because it's not a ton of screaming news, but it's

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Speaker 1: a lot of just little items that push us in

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Speaker 1: the direction of figuring out how these teams are going

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Speaker 1: to be constructed this year. And I'm going to start

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Speaker 1: with the most surprising one of the day, which came

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Speaker 1: out just before we started taping, that Trent Williams could

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Speaker 1: be a free agent now could be is doing a

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Speaker 1: lot of work here. The report comes from Adam Schefter

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Speaker 1: of ESPN, But basically, Trent Williams and the forty nine

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Speaker 1: ers are in a surprising contract standoff. He has a

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Speaker 1: huge cap number that they want to lower. They can't

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Speaker 1: someone is saying that Trent Williams could be on the

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Speaker 1: free agent list, which makes me wonder where would he go.

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Speaker 1: That's for me to think about. While you tell me

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think this one's hard to tell because

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Speaker 4: This is why.

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Speaker 3: If it's coming from Trent Williams's camp, that's even more

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Speaker 3: interesting to me because that's immediately saying we're open for

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Speaker 3: in behind closed doors and a lot of these conversations happen,

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Speaker 1: Saying, hell, it's a leaky ship over there. With San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: they talk a lot. But I would imagine for this

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Speaker 1: you're probably even checking with your people on both sides.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, drama, drama, drama off the top of mind

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Speaker 3: to your point, because you asked, Hey, who could be

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Speaker 4: Whole hurdle would have to be worked out.

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Speaker 3: But I am of the firm opinion that as long

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Speaker 1: And when I look at my list of free agents,

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Speaker 1: drabs of interesting things about the Technans. But number one

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Speaker 2: I just like how clear Casario was.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps it was unfounded speculation that got this in the

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Speaker 2: I don't really know. That's not even a word. I'm

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Speaker 1: But I do like to know that that CJ is

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Speaker 3: Does that and John McClain doesn't have to run down

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Speaker 3: This is not surprising to me or probably many people

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Speaker 3: So chatter starts to gain in crescendo at that point

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Speaker 4: Robustly he's going through it.

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Speaker 1: He just made a speech which you can find online

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Speaker 1: And there are different levels of denial of stories like this.

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Speaker 1: This is the type of denial that you have that

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Speaker 1: And so I liked hearing this. I also thought it

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Speaker 1: big quote unquote on the running back market, and frankly,

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Speaker 3: My inclination would lead toward that ETN would be so

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so a lot of times when you see someone

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Speaker 2: That's on me. That's not on him. He's not a

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Speaker 3: Also, the listeners should know there are also several charts

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Speaker 2: On my phone.

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Speaker 3: That's not the point the Convention Center, so there really

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Speaker 2: Not the point. That's not the point.

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Speaker 1: The point is Darren Mugi is the Jets general manager,

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Speaker 1: at least for one more season. He says that Breeze

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Speaker 1: Hall will be tagged, which no one was really sure about.

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Speaker 1: So that that's when we got right. We were wrong

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Speaker 1: One less problem for them to worry about. Let's go

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Speaker 1: I'm going to count the running backs of Houston as

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Speaker 3: I know, I keep hearing about this show and I'm

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Speaker 1: Ian and this may you know, people were tweeting about this.

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Speaker 4: I do like them sort of putting it all out

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Speaker 1: The Giants and the Chargers I think will be in

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Speaker 4: We both got it wrong.

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Speaker 1: He said that he really believes, like Cooper dies, he

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Speaker 1: Like I don't know if it's fake it till you

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Speaker 3: You know when you were you got really excited about

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Speaker 1: How are you saying we can feel this interpretation of

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Speaker 3: You know, I am saying that, And also I'm saying

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Speaker 1: I wasn't that high on the Raiders really like going

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Speaker 1: What I was gonna say about Pete, Pete did kind

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Speaker 1: Let's listen to Joe Shane, someone who I don't really

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Speaker 6: But there's constant communication between Dawn, Coach har Ball, myself

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Speaker 4: I think, yeah, I can understand that.

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Speaker 1: It's in no win type of place, but I guess

442
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Speaker 1: I would say, well, show me show me with that.

443
00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,760
Speaker 1: I would believe you if you engage in serious contract

444
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Speaker 1: extension talks with Baker, and they very well might based

445
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Speaker 1: on what Jason Light said today, But I guess I'll

446
00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:24,320
Speaker 1: see when when that happens, that that hasn't happened yet.

447
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Speaker 1: If you had the guest, do you think Baker Mayfield

448
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Speaker 1: gets an extension or not this year he's entering a contract.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I think he does.

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Speaker 3: Yes, because the Bucks have a pattern where they will

451
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Speaker 3: continue to extend their own players, their guys, their core

452
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Speaker 3: guys that they like, until and they have patients, including

453
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Speaker 3: with the head coach, until it becomes overtly and extremely

454
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Speaker 3: clear that it is time to move on.

455
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Speaker 1: I've completely lost track. I've like skipped over some of

456
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Speaker 1: the things. I'm gonna have to circle.

457
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Speaker 4: Now you're all over.

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Speaker 1: I did want to mention Rob Brazinski is the new

459
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Speaker 1: it's not the general manager, but he's playing the role

460
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Speaker 1: of general manager for the Minnesota Vikings. And he said

461
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:06,080
Speaker 1: at quarterback they are casting a wide net. And Kevin

462
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:11,280
Speaker 1: O'Connell similar question about JJ McCarthy as a franchise quarterback.

463
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Speaker 1: Very confusing answer where he says, we don't feel any

464
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Speaker 1: different about him as a franchise quarterback, but the timeline

465
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Speaker 1: on it is different.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 1: Frankly, I don't know that is Gobbly goop to me.

468
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Speaker 1: I guess I would need to hear it. The casting

469
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Speaker 1: the wide net looking for quarterbacks is the key the

470
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Speaker 1: key phrase here. They're looking for someone to potentially replace

471
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Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy.

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Speaker 3: When you're fishing, Yes, you're not casting a net for

473
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Speaker 3: fish inside your.

474
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Speaker 4: Own boat, right, that's good net leaving ship.

475
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Speaker 1: That's the type of concise but nailed it type of analysis.

476
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Speaker 1: We need to get through all forty seven points finally.

477
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Speaker 4: Before it keeps shrinking the number.

478
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Speaker 2: I'm just making them up.

479
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Speaker 1: Not a lot of news on the rules beat this year,

480
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Speaker 1: so we'll circle back when there's harder news. They're talking

481
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Speaker 1: about adding replay officials to have a little more latitude

482
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Speaker 1: to throw a flag after seeing a replay, but it

483
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Speaker 1: might be very limited to plays like a punch. We'll see.

484
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Speaker 1: I almost don't want to get ahead of this story.

485
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Speaker 1: The main story to me was that the tush push

486
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Speaker 1: is no longer even being talked about, and for context there,

487
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Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni said they need to work on it because

488
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Speaker 1: they did not do as good a job doing it.

489
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Speaker 1: But it's kind of funny that now that the Eagles

490
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Speaker 1: are now no longer good at the tush push, that

491
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Speaker 1: the Packers are no longer bringing it up as a

492
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Speaker 1: potential rule.

493
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Speaker 3: Actually even worse now that the Buffalo Bills are running

494
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Speaker 3: it at the highest frequency of any team in the league.

495
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Speaker 3: Suddenly nobody's talking about it anymore. And Sean McDermott was

496
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Speaker 3: on the competition committee. He no longer is employed as

497
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Speaker 3: an NFL head coach.

498
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Speaker 1: So they said they being Rich McKay, who's in charge

499
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Speaker 1: of the rules Quinny that he thought the NFL is

500
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Speaker 1: in a good place in terms of rules. So I

501
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Speaker 1: don't think it's going to be a big year for

502
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Speaker 1: changing rules. Let's take a quick break and we will

503
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Speaker 1: be back with some more news. A lot of other

504
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Speaker 1: teams at the podium on Tuesday, from Indian nap back

505
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Speaker 1: on NFL Daily, the International Games, they just keep on

506
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Speaker 1: like dropping a different home team every week or so.

507
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,879
Speaker 2: I just to spread the excitement out.

508
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,920
Speaker 1: And how about the Detroit Lions are going to play

509
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,920
Speaker 1: their first game Internashley. I couldn't believe this for more

510
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 1: than a decade, and I think they were await team

511
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: that last time in twenty fifteen. But they're gonna be

512
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 1: playing in Munich. I still want to get to Germany.

513
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Speaker 1: It's the question, I get a lot, Where are you gonna?

514
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Speaker 1: I would like to go anywhere. If Henry Hodgson is listening,

515
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,880
Speaker 1: if Matt Schneider is listening, Jason English has left. We've

516
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,199
Speaker 1: taken too long here. Get us Germany would be a

517
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 1: good one.

518
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Speaker 3: That would be fun because when you see the clips

519
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,280
Speaker 3: of all the fans singing together and everything, you can't

520
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 3: not get goose bum some of the like really really

521
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 3: legendary clips from the modern international slate.

522
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Speaker 2: A great team, A great team.

523
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Speaker 5: Yeah.

524
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Speaker 3: And also, you know, Greg, you forget so easily. They

525
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 3: weren't playing internationally for a long time, because why would they.

526
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Speaker 4: They weren't a great team for a long time.

527
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,920
Speaker 3: Now and then now and teams a lot of times

528
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Speaker 3: have the opportunity to negotiate back and forth with the

529
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Speaker 3: league on.

530
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Speaker 4: Whether they are going to be Oh yeah, some tings

531
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 4: really want to go, some teams really want to go,

532
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:26,920
Speaker 4: some teams don't.

533
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,359
Speaker 3: And then with the Lions, maybe have a little leverage

534
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,359
Speaker 3: here saying you didn't want us when we were.

535
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Speaker 1: Bad, and now they're going over there, and that's good.

536
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Speaker 1: I like seeing a team that I feel like is

537
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 1: certainly going to be in the mix, although you never know.

538
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Speaker 1: Adam Peters, of the Commanders their GM, spoke on Tuesday.

539
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Speaker 1: He would not comment on a potential Brandon Ayuk interest.

540
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Speaker 1: I have to think about where I put Brandon Ayuk

541
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Speaker 1: on the top.

542
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Speaker 2: One oh one.

543
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Speaker 1: I want you to think about it for a second

544
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Speaker 1: while I tell the listeners that it is a priority

545
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Speaker 1: or the Commanders, according to Peters to extend Laramie Tuntl

546
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: and he has one year left on his contract. The

547
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 1: left tackle would maybe set the market that Trent Williams

548
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 1: could potentially fit underneath at this point because he's a

549
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:19,159
Speaker 1: little older. But Brandon Ayuk, I just command eft it.

550
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,400
Speaker 1: It's a it's a it's a logical it's a logical

551
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,200
Speaker 1: fit with the Commanders.

552
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:25,359
Speaker 2: They need a wide receiver.

553
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Speaker 1: They are paying a lot of money, of course, but

554
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 1: you know, to Terry McLaurin, but he might not cost

555
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:32,920
Speaker 1: as much. How much do we believe in a Brandon

556
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 1: Ayuk if if he becomes a free agent, not officially.

557
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 3: Yet, kind of a wild card, right because coming off

558
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,639
Speaker 3: the injury awesome, Yeah, well it could be awesome, but

559
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,920
Speaker 3: coming off this a significant injury as well. And yeah,

560
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Speaker 3: it's interesting. It's I command efed it in your top

561
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:49,360
Speaker 3: one on one.

562
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Speaker 1: No, I'm saying he's not there because he's not a

563
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Speaker 1: free I know. I was like saying, where would he go? Yeah, yeah, well,

564
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 1: I mean I'm saying, you can help me do the

565
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Speaker 1: work of where do I where do I put him?

566
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Speaker 1: He's still a top twenty because there was a point

567
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: where the Pittsburgh Steelers were giving up a second round

568
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: pick for him and he was gonna be one of

569
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: the highest paid wide receivers in the league. He did

570
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,680
Speaker 1: become one of the highest paid players in the league.

571
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: The forty nine Ers kept him. I think it's the

572
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 1: off the field. Is this guy too much to deal with?

573
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:18,880
Speaker 1: That is gonna well his mark?

574
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 4: And here's the thing.

575
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Speaker 3: You have Isaiah Likely at twenty and Onondale Robinson at

576
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 3: twenty one, and I would say wan Lee ahead of

577
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Speaker 3: those guys, both of them.

578
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 2: Is he ahead of Rashid Shaheed?

579
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: Is he ahead of Kenneth Walker and Devin Lloyd those

580
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 1: types of guys getting into the top ten?

581
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, well into the top ten. The other thing with

582
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 3: Rashid Shaheed is the playmaking ability and special teams too.

583
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 3: So I would say somewhere that in the sweet spot

584
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 3: behind Rashid Shaheed and behind Mike Evans, who you also

585
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,360
Speaker 3: have at sixteen here.

586
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 1: I think that's the right ballpark. Yeah, kind of You've

587
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: you've passed your first test to be thanks.

588
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 4: I really enjoyed it. You know how I love rankings, Zigliary.

589
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 1: I mean, this isn't about ranking this, it's about valuating

590
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 1: who's in our league.

591
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 2: Elliott Wolf.

592
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 1: The Patriots GM would not comment on whether Stefan Diggs

593
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 1: would be a member of their twenty twenty six team.

594
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: He did comment more on them being in contact with

595
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: Diggs and authorities about everything going on with his assault accusations.

596
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 1: It almost said like the team has a handle on that,

597
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 1: but he wouldn't commit to him being on the team

598
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 1: next year, So something to watch there. They also cut

599
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: Antonio Gibson, who is coming off of torn acl Just

600
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: a little item there. Speaking of players coming back, Josh

601
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 1: Jacobs is gonna be back for the Green Bay Packers.

602
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: Brian Guda Kuntz said that at the podium on Tuesday,

603
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: also said they want to get bigger on the offensive line, specifically,

604
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 1: what do you think about Jacob's returning to the.

605
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 3: Packers When he was on it was awesome And some

606
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 3: of the ways that they could just chip away in

607
00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 3: salt away at teams was great. You know, I think

608
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 3: there's a lot of wood I could have should a

609
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 3: with the with the Packers, especially with some of the

610
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 3: injuries that they had. I like the idea of them

611
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 3: getting bigger along the offensive line. I wonder if that

612
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 3: if he's meaning that as almost like a tipping his hand,

613
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 3: maybe they're adjusting their scheme a little bit.

614
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 4: Well, they think they've had a body type that they've

615
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 4: liked for a while.

616
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: Right, and they have been smaller, and I think they

617
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: started to tip it now in hindsight with the Aaron

618
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 1: Banks move, who's a massive human now that did not

619
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: work out for them. I think that, well, he's gonna

620
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 1: still be on the roster. I assume. I didn't think

621
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 1: Jacobs was a lock to get back. He's had a

622
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 1: great career.

623
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 3: But I think he's kind of a glue guy though,

624
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 3: And if you're gonna need if the anngst at which

625
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 3: they ended last season, and all the questions about Matt

626
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 3: l Floor and all of that, like, you want your

627
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 3: glue guys around if you're really going to try to

628
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 3: really do it this time.

629
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Speaker 1: Fair and he when he's right, he's awesome. He's worn

630
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 1: down in some seasons, He's had a lot of workloads.

631
00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 1: Sometimes they're running back. You want to get out a

632
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: year early than year late. By the end of last

633
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,959
Speaker 1: year was Emmanuel Wilson taking the big snaps because Jacobs

634
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 1: couldn't really finish those games.

635
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 2: But he will be back.

636
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: I should have mentioned, by the way, when I talked

637
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: Commanders a little earlier, they were also going to bring

638
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 1: back Andrew Wiley. Some of these free agent contracts are

639
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: starting to happen. He didn't even make my one on one,

640
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 1: but he would have been in like the top one sixty,

641
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: like a serviceable kind of swing tackle. Bradley Boseman, the

642
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 1: Chargers center retired, not that they weren't going to go

643
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 1: after Tyler Linderbaum anyways, but they are going to be

644
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: searching for interior alignment. They could cut Makai Beckton and

645
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 1: then the cuts. Yeah, they've kind of started. YEA, Kirk Cousins,

646
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: we knew he was going to get released, according to reporters,

647
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,959
Speaker 1: but their new GM Ian Cunningham said on ninety two

648
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: to nine the game that Kirk Cousins will be released

649
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: ahead of free agency.

650
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, the expected move.

651
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 3: It's nice to actually hear somebody say it out loud,

652
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 3: somebody with that authoritative power to make that cut actually

653
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 3: say it out loud. I am so CTE curious about

654
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 3: what happens next for Kirk and like where where he

655
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 3: is not crazy?

656
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 4: It's not crazy?

657
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: Kansas City, I was thinking would be kind of great

658
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: for him and for Andy Reid. I actually, the more

659
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 1: I've thought about that, I was like, if your Kirk Cousins,

660
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: wouldn't that be awesome to play for the Chiefs and

661
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Speaker 1: and then b Mahomes' backup and like be a part

662
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Speaker 1: of that.

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Speaker 3: I don't think Miami is crazy. No, I don't think

664
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Speaker 3: Arizona is crazy. Okay, In fact, with Michael Floor and Arizona,

665
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Speaker 3: now I think that we got to really watch that

666
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Speaker 3: one from Alik Willis and for Kirk Cousins, he is.

667
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 4: As we know of the tree, as as Patrick would say.

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Speaker 1: My underrating Cousins. This is an official Have they put it?

669
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Speaker 1: I sent my Oh, it is official, it's on there.

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Speaker 1: I sent an edit. They've been wanting Cousins to go

671
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Speaker 1: on to the top one to one. Now once you

672
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Speaker 1: get this is what him officially saying that does even

673
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: though it's not official, I was like, we could wait.

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00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: He's like, well, now that he gave a date to it,

675
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Speaker 1: we can put him on there. And my question to

676
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: smart people around the NFL and the NFL media sphere

677
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 1: today was Cousins of Rogers.

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Speaker 2: You know who would you rather have?

679
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 4: II Cousins.

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00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I went with that too.

681
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: I thought it was close enough that I put them

682
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: close in the rankings. Ultimately, Cousins is there for me

683
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: at fifty nine, just below his Falcons teammate Arnold Ebaketty

684
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Speaker 1: uh and only a handful of spots ahead of Rodgers.

685
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Speaker 1: I just thought, yeah, they occupy kind of the same space.

686
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: But he's got a little more versatility, and I think

687
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: he looked better last year, not just then he looked

688
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: the year before, but maybe then people realize. I think

689
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: it got better as it went, and by the end

690
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Speaker 1: of it, I was like, he's kind of an okay

691
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: bridge starter right now. Yeah, I don't think you'd want

692
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Speaker 1: him starting sixteen games.

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00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 3: Well, and you're also you're not going to pay him

694
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 3: a massive contract again, you know, I mean geez, I mean, but.

695
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Speaker 1: If he's a bridge starter, I've put your GM cap on.

696
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: Don't you think he's making like twelve plus at least

697
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Speaker 1: a year.

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Speaker 3: And it's nothing in a quarterback in a quarterback world,

699
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Speaker 3: So yeah, I think at least.

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Speaker 1: Twenty if like there are three teams in the mix

701
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: like I talked about, and then suddenly it's like, man,

702
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: we're playing twenty for Kirk Cuzzins.

703
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 3: All I'm just saying is just never underestimate Mike McCartney,

704
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:13,959
Speaker 3: his agent, who has been the one to get him

705
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 3: these finesse contracts year after a year after a year

706
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Speaker 3: after year.

707
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame bag getter Kirkcusins. John Eric Sullivan is

708
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Speaker 1: the new Dolphins general manager. He said that they are

709
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Speaker 1: not actively shopping, Uh Devon a Chan who why would

710
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Speaker 1: they that part? I don't get or Jalen Wattle, But

711
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Speaker 1: the way that he answered it made it sound like

712
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Speaker 1: they would listen more than maybe I was expecting going

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Speaker 1: into this week to.

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Speaker 2: Waddle to either.

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Speaker 4: He just he gave.

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Speaker 1: He gave the spiel that you know we're gonna hear

717
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: from Spike Tek in a bit, and it's it's totally

718
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: a fair answer, like, yeah, they're gonna listen. That's what

719
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: he said about Max Krott, like we'll always listen.

720
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Speaker 2: Because it would be a response.

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Speaker 3: To everyone will always listen right like this between the

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Speaker 3: lines said nothing.

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Speaker 1: They could have shot it down like he he didn't

724
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Speaker 1: really say it with his chest that we you know,

725
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: we we want them as part of our team.

726
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 2: It was like, maybe it's kind of like maybe that's

727
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Speaker 2: how I took it.

728
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's just kind of a chill guy honestly.

729
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 2: Okay, what do you.

730
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 1: Think about the accusations that I just heard from an

731
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Speaker 1: unnamed source. Won't won't reveal who it is that John

732
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Speaker 1: Eric Sullivan and Jeff Haffley resemble Beavis and butt Head.

733
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Speaker 4: What what is it? Because that tall hair, he's comedy legends.

734
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Speaker 2: Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

735
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Speaker 1: I like Halflee because I think there needs to be

736
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,399
Speaker 1: more short, short guy representation.

737
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Speaker 3: There's more of them now in the league. You know,

738
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Speaker 3: there's Micha Lafloor and Halfley and Mintor's Mite is but

739
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Speaker 3: a wheelag Mick mcdan.

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Speaker 1: McDonald's not a not a really tall guy either, but

741
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Speaker 1: Halflee even more than the rest. And this is going

742
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Speaker 1: to guarantee this will never get back to him, but

743
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: now it will because I said that, and there are

744
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: a lot of Dolphins bloggers. He looks more like a

745
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 1: media member than any NFL head coach, not just now,

746
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 1: but in a minute, like when he's just walking through.

747
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 1: He looks like he should have a backpack and he's

748
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,800
Speaker 1: going to the Titans like to ask to ask Salad.

749
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: You know about the quarterback situation, Cameron.

750
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Speaker 3: Earlier today when you said this, you did say this

751
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Speaker 3: sort of out loud to yourself.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

753
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Speaker 3: I just appreciate the moments where I can hear you

754
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 3: testing material before you actually.

755
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:32,919
Speaker 4: Use it on the show.

756
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Speaker 3: I had if it does come back to you, Greg,

757
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 3: You've had two chances now to say, you know what,

758
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Speaker 3: maybe I'm not.

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00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,240
Speaker 4: Going to use that material on the show.

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Speaker 1: It's something I learned from Dave danishek he would go

761
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,840
Speaker 1: around the newsroom and just try out stuff. To me,

762
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Speaker 1: it's it's not conscious as much.

763
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Speaker 4: I was just on his show.

764
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Speaker 3: I was on his show last week and we went

765
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Speaker 3: through an entire segment and it was it's always so fun.

766
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 3: We went through an entire segment before actually doing the segment,

767
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Speaker 3: basically just in conversations.

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Speaker 4: It was. It was epic. I was like, this is

769
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Speaker 4: what I always used to hear them talking about.

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Speaker 1: I love check everyone check out football America. Let's listen

771
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 1: to John Eric Sullivan talk about the team's potential interest.

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Speaker 1: This is the Miami Dolphins in Malik Willis as.

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Speaker 8: It pertains to the Miami Dolphins. Listen, I think I'd

774
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Speaker 8: be lying to you any team that is potentially in

775
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 8: a quarterback situahere, a needy quarterback situation, if they tell

776
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 8: you they're not talking about Malik Willis, that would be

777
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Speaker 8: a lie.

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Speaker 2: That's interesting.

779
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Speaker 1: And frankly, him out.

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00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 2: There with it.

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00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: The kids don't know, Beavis and butt Head was that good.

782
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 4: We're getting a laugh from the people and up behind

783
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Speaker 4: the booth. So I think I nailed that. I could.

784
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 4: I'm glowed to crown myself and that one, right.

785
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's rough. It's been a long time.

786
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Speaker 1: I love like honestly, I think it's one of the

787
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 1: most underrated like comedies of the last like forty years.

788
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Speaker 2: It It is amazing.

789
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Speaker 1: The being him being out there with this actually makes

790
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Speaker 1: me think, I don't know if they're that in on

791
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,879
Speaker 1: Milik Willis. Yeah, just him being like anyone of course

792
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 1: they're looking at Malik Willis, Like all the teams that

793
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 1: are interested are looking at Malik Willis, but him even

794
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Speaker 1: just yeah, you get into it like that.

795
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 2: I was like, I kind of you.

796
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Speaker 3: Be a little more coy, you know, you flirt a

797
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 3: little bit, you know, you just you say you dance

798
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 3: around the topic just a little bit more.

799
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Speaker 1: If you had listened to the Ian Rappaport show, you

800
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 1: would know he said he just doesn't think they have

801
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 1: the money. He doesn't think that they're swimming in the

802
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: deep waters that Milik Willis might might be this year.

803
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 3: I want to listen to the show, Greg, I want to.

804
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 3: I will get to it.

805
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 2: What did you do?

806
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: I think we're on good we're having we're on good pace,

807
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: which yeah, always the most I'm going to count afterwards.

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00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: I haven't written down what did you do last night?

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00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 5: Well?

810
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: I had a little dinner at sant Almos So I

811
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 1: did the thing, but I went back after dinner. It

812
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: was l I know you're out talking, making friends, making sources.

813
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: I think I walked walked by you yesterday. We haven't

814
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: even talked about that. In the hotel talking to a

815
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Speaker 1: general manager. I won't say who it is, of course,

816
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 1: but that was interesting just seeing you at work, kind

817
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 1: of in a spot right near the elevators where everyone's

818
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Speaker 1: going to be walking by.

819
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Speaker 4: Strategic that's a choice.

820
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Speaker 2: What did what was your night like on Monday night?

821
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Speaker 3: Yeah? So we had our athletic summit, and there's a

822
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Speaker 3: mixer as well, So basically a lot of you know,

823
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Speaker 3: really hoping all my bosses like me okay, okay, making

824
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Speaker 3: making you know, having catching up with people who I

825
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 3: usually only see on slack, which is really wonderful. And

826
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Speaker 3: then you know, you kind of do the circuit. You

827
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Speaker 3: see people you need to see, You talk to the

828
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Speaker 3: people you know, you position, you position yourself where people

829
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Speaker 3: are going to be walking, and and you see people you.

830
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Speaker 2: Know, you're you're saving your bullets.

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Speaker 1: The rest of the week is going to be a

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Speaker 1: lot of smooth and you've been doing a lot of

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Speaker 1: it here, doing a great job making NFL daily look better.

834
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Speaker 2: The Kansas City chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Just you know, except what I felt that Not enough

836
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Speaker 1: people saw it though. But it was like a body

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Speaker 1: sit the floor situation. It wasn't like she kind of

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Speaker 1: caught herself with the hand. It was like it was

839
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Speaker 1: the it was the whole. It was it was a hole.

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Speaker 1: I fallen and I can't get up until you you

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Speaker 1: did get up.

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Speaker 2: But that's what it looked like.

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Speaker 3: Not with your help, by the way, just to reiterate that,

844
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Speaker 3: not with your help.

845
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Speaker 1: Now, just a couple other things. Brett Veach that the

846
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: chiefs general manager says they're prepared if Travis Kelce wants

847
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Speaker 1: to retire. Obviously they hope that he comes back. Sounding

848
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Speaker 1: like he's gonna come back. I thought it was interesting

849
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: both Monte Austin for the GM of the Cardinals, and

850
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Speaker 1: Mike Lafleur, the new head coach, said they spoke with

851
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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray as we're getting closer and based on what

852
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: Ian said, I don't know if it's public posturing to

853
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: raise his trade value that's a possibility, or they're potentially

854
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 1: getting to a place depending on how other things go,

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00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: that Kyler is in a lock to leave.

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Speaker 3: What do you think, well, I think also if they

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Speaker 3: have a better understanding of potentially, for example, what Malik

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Speaker 3: Willis's market would be, or what a Kirk Cousins situation

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Speaker 3: would look like, or any any of these scenarios that

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Speaker 3: are not Kyler Murray, if you're looking at what they

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Speaker 3: could potentially cost or what resources you'd have to give up,

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Speaker 3: and you say, hey, we got a pretty good player

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Speaker 3: on our roster. New coaching staff like Ultra Ultra, you know,

864
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Speaker 3: for all the criticism and rightfully so, that he takes

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Speaker 3: Nathaniel Hackett is like the ultimate lovable quarterback guy, like

866
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Speaker 3: he guys love being in the quarterbacks room when he

867
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Speaker 3: is in it, and for all of his flaws, especially

868
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Speaker 3: when he was a head coach, that's a big reason

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Speaker 3: why Mike Lafleur went after him is because of that

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Speaker 3: vibe and that dynamic and any if anyone's gonna kind

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Speaker 3: of heal smooth over a vibe, I would think that

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Speaker 3: would be it.

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Speaker 1: My gut tells me he's still gone, and this is

874
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 1: vacuum of information we have to talk. Plus he might

875
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: be traded, but I do believe that they're that it's

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Speaker 1: one potential scenario. My gut would say he's still gone,

877
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: but that that's one of the more fascinating ones because

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Speaker 1: he would be a really interesting piece to throw into

879
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: all these quarterback waters. Uh Rashid Walker is a guy

880
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 1: we talked about left tackle the Packers who's hoping that

881
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 1: Trent Williams doesn't become available because before he was the

882
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,240
Speaker 1: best left tackle available and he's way lower on that list.

883
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: Like then he's suddenly waiting for Trent Williams. I found

884
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 1: it interesting just the teams that Jason lockanfora who used

885
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 1: to work with us at NFL Network throughout that are

886
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: expected to be the top suitors for him. The Patriots

887
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:46,800
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs left tackle Rashid Walker. HM spicy. Really

888
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 1: for both teams. It's interesting, but especially for the Patriots.

889
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 3: And I know exactly why you're you know, your eyebrows

890
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:55,720
Speaker 3: raised on that one, because you would love to see

891
00:41:56,480 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 3: not love. Mike Well kind of softened his comment on

892
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 3: his own comments that he came out really strongly about

893
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 3: not moving Will Campbell, even though maybe if he goes

894
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 3: back and watches it takes a step away. Maybe in

895
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 3: that moment, like I said, maybe he was just protecting

896
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,800
Speaker 3: his player as one should. Maybe he softens up and

897
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 3: maybe they try to go after a guy like that.

898
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: A couple other items, Joe Brady, the Bills coach, and

899
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: their general manager Brandon Bean, who's going to be coming

900
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: up later on the week, kind of revealed that Davis

901
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: Webb is going to be the new play caller for

902
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: the Broncos. If you don't remember, the Broncos elevated Davis Webb,

903
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 1: they're going to be their offensive coordinator, and Sean Payton

904
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 1: then confirmed it later on the podium, literally as we're

905
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:43,840
Speaker 1: talking and someone I'm not even sure who it is

906
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: put this into our document as we're taping. So I

907
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 1: appreciate that, and they were big on the Davis Web News.

908
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: I like that we're getting a few more participants. It

909
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: feels like in the combine this year doing all the

910
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: drills that are top players. I didn't get a chance

911
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: to talk about this with Ian, but Jeremiah Love the

912
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: running back of Notre Dame who's second on Daniel Jeremiah's board.

913
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 1: Rvel Reese, who's second or first on some people's board.

914
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: The linebacker pass rusher mkay Lemon, like Reese's teammate at linebacker,

915
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 1: Ty Simpson, who's the QB two. Not a surprise he

916
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 1: would work out. But it does feel like, for what

917
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: it's worth when you're watching this year, a few more

918
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 1: of the first rounders are actually participating, which I'm just it's.

919
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 4: Like a sliding scale.

920
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 3: It's like a sliding scale, like there's a lot of

921
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 3: jams and coaches who are not here right now, I

922
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 3: think more than ever before, or even if coaches are here,

923
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 3: they're not doing podium sessions.

924
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 4: So now as that decreases.

925
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 3: Combine's like, oh man, we got to get some pop

926
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 3: in here, so you know, you got more guys who

927
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 3: are actually participating in the workouts. That's good for the

928
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 3: fans and obviously hopefully everyone stays safe.

929
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:53,320
Speaker 1: Mentioned the Dolphins before they brought John Robinson, the former

930
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: Titans general manager back into the league to help out

931
00:43:56,320 --> 00:44:00,439
Speaker 1: that front office with John Eric Sullivan, and I did

932
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 1: want to mention they mentioned a ninety nine million dollar

933
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,879
Speaker 1: capit for to a ninety nine million dollar capit does

934
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 1: not make sense for them this season. That would not

935
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 1: work for them. And so if and when they cut them,

936
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: which is the expectation, even though they're saying they're trying

937
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,319
Speaker 1: to trade him, it will be a post June first cut.

938
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 2: They'll spread out the hit. But so that to a

939
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 2: contract's going to hurt them.

940
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 3: For which character is John Robinson? If we're talking lore here.

941
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 1: We'll talk later. But I think Halfley's butt head, right?

942
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 4: No, John Robinson? Which Robinson? Oh, but you said it.

943
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 4: You can't walk that one back.

944
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 2: Now we could, we could edit it out of the show.

945
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 1: Brad Holmes, the Brillian's general manager, said about David Montgomery,

946
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: they've spoken to him. They're running back that the situation

947
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,360
Speaker 1: is fluid, but you have to have guys who want

948
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,440
Speaker 1: to be here, so that sounds open. And then he

949
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: talked about maybe how I read it not being as

950
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: aggressive and free agency because they want again their twenty

951
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: twenty three picks to be around. Sam Laporta, Jamiir Gibbs,

952
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:09,280
Speaker 1: Jack Campbell, Brian Branch all are up for contracts sooner

953
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 1: than later, and so they might have to save the

954
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: money because they've been so good at drafting. That's a

955
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 1: good problem to have. It's the type of problem that

956
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:20,799
Speaker 1: any general manager would love to have. We're gonna talk

957
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: to a couple of general managers after the break.

958
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:23,840
Speaker 2: Here's what we're gonna do.

959
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break that we're gonna hear back

960
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 1: to back interviews from Raiders general manager John Spytech back

961
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 1: on the show and then fresh off an NFC North Championship,

962
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 1: Ryan Poles. You hear those two back to back, and

963
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: then we'll say goodbye. On the other side, we are

964
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: back with now regular guests. General manager of the Las

965
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders, John spy Tech, and look, John came over

966
00:45:58,280 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 1: before even they're waying.

967
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 2: Hello, what's up, Stephen, what's the name of your trainer?

968
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: Again and yes, last year at this time we talked

969
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 1: about Stephen my trainer, big Raiders fan.

970
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:10,319
Speaker 2: Do you have it? Do you have any message for him?

971
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 9: After last hang with us, Stephen. We're going to get

972
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 9: this right of promise.

973
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 3: You know.

974
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:15,240
Speaker 4: I met Steven.

975
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:15,919
Speaker 7: Oh you did.

976
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:19,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, And the very first thing he said was, oh

977
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 3: my god, John spy Tech. I said, yeah, regular on

978
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 3: NFL Daily, one of our favorite people to talk to,

979
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 3: one of our favorite ball knowers to talk to.

980
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:28,720
Speaker 4: Can we start with the quarterback questions?

981
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 7: Of course?

982
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 2: Well that was Stephen in the first place.

983
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 9: I was very I'm sure Stephen wants to know all

984
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 9: the answers, So let's.

985
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:34,919
Speaker 7: Do it for Steve.

986
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:36,399
Speaker 4: How over under?

987
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 3: How many Fernando Mendoza questions do you expect to get

988
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:39,759
Speaker 3: this week?

989
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 4: Including this one?

990
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 7: Forty two and a half, We're already over You saw.

991
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 3: Him play every I think the entire football world saw

992
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 3: those really great photos of you guys sort of taking

993
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 3: in the scene in the National Championship game, and then

994
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:56,439
Speaker 3: what a game to get to What did you think

995
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 3: of Fernando? What were some of the qualities that he

996
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:02,399
Speaker 3: has that you guys have sort of gleaned from him

997
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:04,840
Speaker 3: and scouted in him so far as Ian Rapifort walks

998
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 3: behind you.

999
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:07,319
Speaker 7: Little bombs us.

1000
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 9: Well, first of all, I would say there was a

1001
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 9: lot of great players on that field in the National

1002
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 9: Championship game, and we were there to see all of them.

1003
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 9: And I just love watching guys compete. And to go

1004
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 9: to a national championship game when it's all on the

1005
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 9: line and you know, the pressures high for those young

1006
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 9: men is such a unique and cool experience. And to

1007
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 9: see how many of those guys rise and play their

1008
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:30,479
Speaker 9: best game in a game like that, or their best

1009
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 9: in the big moments when the moment was required. It

1010
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 9: was just a great football game. And you know, I

1011
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 9: was I was grateful to be there. I just I

1012
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 9: love football so much of it. I would go to

1013
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 9: that game and do it the same way if I

1014
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 9: didn't have this job. So it was it was just

1015
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 9: cool to be a part of a game like that.

1016
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 3: You were kind of when you played, you were kind

1017
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 3: of an underdog yourself, like you kind of scrapped your

1018
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 3: way into into whatever you could.

1019
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 4: And Kurt Signetti, I was a compliment. It is a compliment.

1020
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 9: That was a backcision is that I was more of

1021
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 9: a star, But I was that's huge actually true, actually.

1022
00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 3: Right right, Well, you know, Kurt Signetti, nobody could call

1023
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 3: him an underdog at this point, but his story and

1024
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 3: like the way he gets that team playing, I think

1025
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 3: for a fan of the game and the sort of

1026
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:13,360
Speaker 3: the poetry and magic of the game itself, what was

1027
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 3: it like watching all of that kind of come to life.

1028
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 3: And just like the way that those guys were connected

1029
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 3: and all of those you know, three stars, two stars

1030
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 3: walk on, all of those guys coming together the way

1031
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:26,320
Speaker 3: that they did.

1032
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,360
Speaker 9: I just think it's a great example of why this

1033
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 9: is the greatest team sport. Yeah, you know, in Indiana,

1034
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:33,319
Speaker 9: they built the team. They built a great team, and

1035
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 9: you could see it the way they loved each other

1036
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:38,800
Speaker 9: after the games, and as they got notoriety, they didn't change.

1037
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 9: There was a humility there, there was a respect, you know,

1038
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 9: that was there. I mean I think you saw it

1039
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 9: with Team USA just win the gold medal too. I

1040
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 9: Mean that's there. It's a team sport, it's not any

1041
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 9: one individual, and you know, the superpower and that Indiana

1042
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 9: program feels like they really know how to build the team.

1043
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 9: And I mean that's that's paramount, that's what we're all

1044
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 9: trying to do.

1045
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 1: What do you think Fernando's biggest strengths out that's that's

1046
00:48:58,280 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: another one.

1047
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 4: So for forty three, Yeah, put that one on check.

1048
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:01,880
Speaker 3: Uh.

1049
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 9: You know, I I just love watching him play. I mean,

1050
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 9: he's a he's obviously a great competitor.

1051
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 7: You can see that. The teammates are drawn to him.

1052
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 9: You know, he he's he's got a lot of the

1053
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:12,759
Speaker 9: qualities you look for.

1054
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 7: But now we get a chance to meet him and

1055
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:14,760
Speaker 7: then see in person.

1056
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 1: Now you acquired Gena Smith last off season just because

1057
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 1: I'm still I'm not giving up my presidency of the

1058
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: Gena Smith fan Club.

1059
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:25,760
Speaker 2: Obviously, not his best season.

1060
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: Is there a scenario where where he's still there on

1061
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 1: the on the roster, of course, I.

1062
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 9: Mean he's we gave him, you know, a contract last year.

1063
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:36,960
Speaker 9: He's under contract this year. It's a it's a it's

1064
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,320
Speaker 9: a good number for a starting level quarterback in this league.

1065
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 9: And yeah, we'll learned long ago you can't have enough

1066
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,279
Speaker 9: good quarterbacks on your team. So I mean we're gonna

1067
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:47,280
Speaker 9: we're gonna talk about if we get through the combine

1068
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 9: and we get the whole coaching staff together, we're going

1069
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 9: to talk about the entire roster and try to figure.

1070
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 7: Out the best way forward.

1071
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:53,720
Speaker 3: We got a chance, and this is a humble brag

1072
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:55,360
Speaker 3: on on my part, but we got a chance to

1073
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 3: talk to Clint Kubiak after the Super Bowl and just

1074
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:00,240
Speaker 3: really refreshing.

1075
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 4: Uh. Just he has this.

1076
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 3: Sort of presence and and like a belief in his players,

1077
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 3: and we saw that with his work with with Sam

1078
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 3: Darnold and with that entire offense in general. What was

1079
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:14,800
Speaker 3: it about Clint that you guys discussed through the interview

1080
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 3: process and through the vetting process and talking to him

1081
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 3: getting to know him.

1082
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 4: What are some your gm What are.

1083
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,320
Speaker 3: Some traits that that stuck out to you about Clint

1084
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:25,479
Speaker 3: that you were that you were gravitated toward.

1085
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 9: You know, we when we were getting started, we put

1086
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 9: together a list of kind of the traits that we

1087
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 9: were looking for and a head coach. You know, none

1088
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 9: of them physical, but he just has a great, even

1089
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:39,959
Speaker 9: keel way about him. You know, there's a high level

1090
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:44,320
Speaker 9: of confidence that he presents, but with a wonderful amount

1091
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:48,800
Speaker 9: of humility. You know, his his intelligences is through the roof.

1092
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 9: He's done this for a long time.

1093
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:51,279
Speaker 7: You know.

1094
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 9: I think one of the cool things about him was

1095
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 9: the story that kind of broke about him working in

1096
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:57,200
Speaker 9: the oil industry for a little bit. And you know,

1097
00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 9: I think, like I think, like a lot of us,

1098
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 9: at some point we think like, maybe maybe we should

1099
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 9: do something else, you know, maybe we should and then

1100
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 9: you're drawn back to the game. And it's just that

1101
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 9: love of the game and the love of coaching that

1102
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 9: kind of shone through. And then it was undeniable as

1103
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 9: that team started to really roll. I mean, it just

1104
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 9: seemed to get better and better. And then just when

1105
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 9: you think, you know, I got to stop these these

1106
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,399
Speaker 9: these players. You know, Jayson has is the offensive player

1107
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 9: of the year, and everye's trying to stop them, and

1108
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 9: nobody can stop them or whether they takes a real wonderful,

1109
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 9: wonderfully coordinated offense and a and a great offensive mind

1110
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 9: to do things like that, and it's not an easy

1111
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 9: thing to do when you know they're trying to stop

1112
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:32,360
Speaker 9: that guy, and then they still get the ball to

1113
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 9: him and still in big moments, you know, that's awesome.

1114
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 9: So but really was about the man, the person that

1115
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 9: that drew us to him.

1116
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:41,840
Speaker 3: You know, I'm kind of I kind of set you

1117
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 3: up here, and I'm sure you expected it.

1118
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 4: I'm sorry about that.

1119
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 3: But with the Indiana question, how it felt that connect connectivity,

1120
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:51,920
Speaker 3: how those guys felt playing together, and then also with

1121
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 3: what Clint did and when what that Seattle see how

1122
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:57,840
Speaker 3: close they were, how they just like were like radically

1123
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 3: positive to each other all the time, just like loved

1124
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 3: up each other and we're confident. Ernest Jones quotes, you

1125
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 3: know if you don't like my quarterback, and I mean, like,

1126
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 3: how do you get that in Las Vegas? I know

1127
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:12,800
Speaker 3: you got some right young guys and some some culture

1128
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:14,840
Speaker 3: guys that that you like, but but how do you

1129
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 3: get from what happened last year into that that energy,

1130
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 3: that like that feeling. You're building a roster of players obviously,

1131
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 3: but bringing that into the space and making it a

1132
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:27,960
Speaker 3: part of what you are.

1133
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 4: How do you do that?

1134
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 9: It's it's it's a challenging part of it, you know.

1135
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:34,320
Speaker 9: I mean there's so many things that go into a roster,

1136
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 9: and guys from all different backgrounds, demographics. You know, they

1137
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,760
Speaker 9: they're older, they're younger, they're in different stages of their lives.

1138
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:44,640
Speaker 9: But you have to find a way to connect them together.

1139
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:46,879
Speaker 9: And you know, they obviously did a lot of really

1140
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 9: cool stuff in Seattle with Mike this year and Clint

1141
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 9: talked about a lot of that, and you know, at

1142
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:53,920
Speaker 9: the end of the day, it's about accountability to the

1143
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:55,960
Speaker 9: to the man lining up next to you. You've got

1144
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 9: to create that somehow, and you know, getting guys that

1145
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 9: love football and that will be there for each other,

1146
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 9: and there's like a selflessness and a humility to him.

1147
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 9: I think is is other wonderful traits to have. I mean,

1148
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 9: maybe some teams prioritize those more than others. I mean,

1149
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 9: to me, like it's it's a big thing. It's kind

1150
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 9: of how we built it in Tampa with the right

1151
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:13,879
Speaker 9: kind of people, and we're just going to continue to

1152
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,320
Speaker 9: stack the right kind of people in the entire organization.

1153
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 9: It's not just the players. It takes it takes literally

1154
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 9: the entire organization. And you know it's required every day

1155
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 9: to show up for your for the people next to you.

1156
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 1: I know, I would assume you see Max Crosby as

1157
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 1: as one of the people that has that right kind

1158
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 1: of stuff. How are you managing the reports and the

1159
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:38,960
Speaker 1: idea that you know he wasn't happy with how the

1160
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 1: way last season ended and you know, might want to

1161
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:44,240
Speaker 1: be playing elsewhere this next season.

1162
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,239
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean the reports will Kiss manages those for me,

1163
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 9: So I don't I don't know. I got too much

1164
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 9: to do to right now. I have a great relationship

1165
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:53,359
Speaker 9: with Max. You know, we talk all the time. We've

1166
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 9: had hard conversations. I mean, it's no secret that he

1167
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:59,360
Speaker 9: wasn't thrilled about it, but I I you can. I

1168
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 9: can sit in those things, you know, I can. I

1169
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:03,799
Speaker 9: can have that that stuff. And you know, I love

1170
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 9: seeing Max. I love seeing him every day. He works

1171
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:07,439
Speaker 9: his tail off right now. He's he's on the mend

1172
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:09,399
Speaker 9: to get to get healthy and to play the game

1173
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:09,920
Speaker 9: that he loves.

1174
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 1: And I have a question like, and this could be

1175
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:16,440
Speaker 1: related to Max, because like in Theory Tradium, you know,

1176
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:18,680
Speaker 1: you could get draft picks and you'd open up cap space,

1177
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:20,440
Speaker 1: but you have a ton of cap space. Is there

1178
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 1: such a thing as too much cap space? You have

1179
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 1: like ninety million dollars in cap space?

1180
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:24,959
Speaker 2: That too much.

1181
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:26,839
Speaker 7: I don't ever want to have that much again.

1182
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 9: I'd love to I'd love to love to have the

1183
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 9: challenge of Tom Delaneys struggling to piece it all together

1184
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:33,359
Speaker 9: and not just like you know, and then the other

1185
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 9: part of it too, is like, you know, the whole

1186
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 9: world knows we got a bunch of cap space, so

1187
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 9: what are they going to ask for, you know, more money?

1188
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 7: So we've got to sort through all that stuff.

1189
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:41,840
Speaker 9: But we've got a great opportunity in front of us

1190
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 9: this offseason to attack it with a with a new

1191
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 9: head coach, a young head coach, and build this roster

1192
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:48,360
Speaker 9: the right way. And that's that's really all I'm focused on.

1193
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 9: So we have what we have. I mean, there's no

1194
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:52,719
Speaker 9: denying it, and I'm not going to run from it

1195
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 9: with that.

1196
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:56,879
Speaker 4: I mean, I hear, I hear what you say.

1197
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:58,399
Speaker 3: I know it could be tempting maybe to go out

1198
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:01,280
Speaker 3: and it's been big in free agency those types of things.

1199
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 3: But the way that you guys built Tampa Bay, you

1200
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 3: drafted and developed guys who love football and we're going

1201
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 3: to be culture tone setters, and then you paid them

1202
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 3: your own guys.

1203
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:13,239
Speaker 7: It's the best way to do it, right.

1204
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:15,280
Speaker 4: So the patients that it takes.

1205
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 3: Last year, at this time, you know, everyone was fired

1206
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 3: up and talking about competing immediately. I think that was

1207
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 3: the expectation for all of us, I mean and yourself included.

1208
00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:27,040
Speaker 3: But now it's like there's going to be patients, more

1209
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:29,319
Speaker 3: patients in a build like this, the way that you

1210
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 3: want to draft and develop and those things. So what

1211
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:34,879
Speaker 3: is balancing like that amount of money? First of all,

1212
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:39,680
Speaker 3: finding the right guys in potentially in free agency who

1213
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:43,160
Speaker 3: are are are worth sort of helping lift the floor

1214
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 3: of the young guys who come in, and then balancing

1215
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,280
Speaker 3: that with what you want to do in the draft.

1216
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a delicate balancing act, all of it. And

1217
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:54,560
Speaker 9: I think what we're going to prioritize is guys that

1218
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:58,919
Speaker 9: can add to the culture right now, get us back

1219
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,919
Speaker 9: on the right track, and then be there when we're

1220
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 9: when we're ready to roll, you know, Like I mean

1221
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,320
Speaker 9: it's patience is not a word that I use a

1222
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 9: lot in this industry. So I mean there's not a

1223
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,360
Speaker 9: lot of patients, so that's not but like building it

1224
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 9: the right way, having a process over results, and sticking

1225
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 9: to that even when it's hard, even when you get

1226
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:19,399
Speaker 9: feel like there's urgency and you you get emotional about

1227
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 9: these deals and you don't want to lose the deal.

1228
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 9: I mean, we some of the best deals are the

1229
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 9: ones you walk away from. Just because you have the

1230
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 9: money doesn't mean you should do it. And so I

1231
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 9: it's all out in front of us right now, and

1232
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 9: we got to be mindful of that.

1233
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 1: So speaking of patients, and you've been very generous with

1234
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:34,960
Speaker 1: your time, we'll let you go with this. I do

1235
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:37,760
Speaker 1: feel like, like Steven and for the listeners that missed

1236
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,879
Speaker 1: that interview my trainer, which is a little embarrassing big

1237
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 1: time raders, he was losing a little patience. I gotta

1238
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 1: admit that the Raiders midway through last season. Just before

1239
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:49,880
Speaker 1: you go, do you have any message for him or

1240
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:53,120
Speaker 1: for Raiders Nation, how you're feeling here after a year

1241
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:53,360
Speaker 1: at the.

1242
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:55,399
Speaker 9: Helm, Steven, you gotta get after this guy a little

1243
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:57,080
Speaker 9: bit harder over one.

1244
00:56:57,400 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 7: And uh No, I just appreciate.

1245
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:02,719
Speaker 9: I ap people like Stephen and Raider Nation and well,

1246
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:03,960
Speaker 9: any trainer's supposed to get after you.

1247
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:04,839
Speaker 7: They're not supposed to make.

1248
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 9: You're not supposed to like leave a workout if you're

1249
00:57:08,719 --> 00:57:10,120
Speaker 9: a good trainer and be like that was easy.

1250
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:10,719
Speaker 7: You're supposed to.

1251
00:57:11,239 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 2: I mean, not exactly get your body beautiful over here.

1252
00:57:14,239 --> 00:57:15,799
Speaker 2: I was feeling feeling very old.

1253
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:15,920
Speaker 3: No.

1254
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 9: I would just say to Stephen in all ratidation, you know,

1255
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 9: we we appreciate all of them and the passion in

1256
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 9: this fan base is unmatched really anywhere I've ever been,

1257
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 9: and I've been some really cool places, and you know,

1258
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 9: we got a great opportunity in front of us, and

1259
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 9: just continue to support us and have a little bit

1260
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 9: of patience. Yes, but I'm not asking for a lot.

1261
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 9: That's not the way this thing works.

1262
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:36,240
Speaker 2: I love that, and there really is no other fan

1263
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 2: base like right like that.

1264
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 1: I really think Cowboys are interesting in the Raiders, but

1265
00:57:41,040 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 1: to me, those are the two truly national teams. So

1266
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 1: John Spytec, he knows the job that he has in

1267
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:48,360
Speaker 1: front of him. We appreciate the time.

1268
00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 7: Thanks guys. Always great to see you.

1269
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 1: Thanks John, Hope, Hope We're still two of your favorites.

1270
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 1: By the way you said that. Coming in, I was

1271
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:55,919
Speaker 1: like that was being a little generous to me because

1272
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:57,640
Speaker 1: he just felt bad in front of me two of

1273
00:57:57,680 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 1: my favorites.

1274
00:57:58,200 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 2: But thank you, Hope. He stayed that way.

1275
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 1: All good Here with Ryan Poles, general manager of the

1276
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears for the second time. Just want to point

1277
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 1: out after you came on for the first time, you go,

1278
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:13,240
Speaker 1: you went ahead and won the NFC right a little success.

1279
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 3: Yes, what I want to point out is that you

1280
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 3: called your shot in that last interview that we did,

1281
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:22,440
Speaker 3: because all we wanted to ask you about was the

1282
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:25,720
Speaker 3: offensive line and how aggressive you wanted to be in

1283
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:29,440
Speaker 3: rebuilding that foundational element of your offense and of your roster,

1284
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:31,439
Speaker 3: and then you went out and did the dang thing

1285
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:32,640
Speaker 3: and they were.

1286
00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 4: One of the best units in football this year.

1287
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:36,840
Speaker 3: So, first of all, how did it feel to call

1288
00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 3: your shot such in such fashion with such flair? And

1289
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:43,480
Speaker 3: second of all, I mean the growth of that unit

1290
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:45,480
Speaker 3: and just sort of what it was like to put

1291
00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:46,959
Speaker 3: them together in real time.

1292
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:49,440
Speaker 10: Yeah, I would say, you know, so call the shot.

1293
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 10: I wish it always worked out that way. You know,

1294
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 10: you have plans and you're always waiting for some type

1295
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 10: of wrinkle to throw it off.

1296
00:58:56,640 --> 00:58:58,920
Speaker 11: That's just part of this league. You never feel comfortable.

1297
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:02,320
Speaker 10: So it was seeing that come together and using different

1298
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:05,840
Speaker 10: ways of doing it in terms of trades and also

1299
00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:09,240
Speaker 10: for agency, and I think really the best part for

1300
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:11,560
Speaker 10: us is in for agency and trades.

1301
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:12,760
Speaker 11: Some of the tough things.

1302
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:16,480
Speaker 10: Are you don't know the player very well, you don't

1303
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 10: know their habits in terms of how they prepare and

1304
00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 10: all that good stuff. So with that, there was touch

1305
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 10: points with all three of those interior players that made

1306
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:28,919
Speaker 10: us really comfortable and we were able to obviously see

1307
00:59:29,160 --> 00:59:30,120
Speaker 10: the results.

1308
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 11: Come through for us.

1309
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,480
Speaker 10: And I got to give Dan Roschar and Kyle Devan

1310
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 10: are O line coaches a lot of credit for that.

1311
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Speaker 10: It's just because you plug in good players who oline

1312
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:42,000
Speaker 10: doesn't mean that it'll come together. They got to have

1313
00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:45,680
Speaker 10: chemistry and they were able to create that in really

1314
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Speaker 10: one of the best rooms that we had in the facility.

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Speaker 3: For the listener, Ryan cannot stop smiling every once in a.

1316
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Speaker 4: While talking about this group.

1317
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Speaker 3: You saw it in the past game of course, and

1318
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Speaker 3: Caleb is one of the best quarterbacks in the league

1319
00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 3: and not taking negative plays anyway. To combine it with

1320
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Speaker 3: that line was really cool to watch. But the run

1321
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 3: game came to life in such a multiple way for

1322
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 3: you guys, not just because of what those linemen could

1323
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:13,600
Speaker 3: do and we're capable of doing it as a unit,

1324
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:17,600
Speaker 3: but also your backs. And you know, we love Kyle Manangai.

1325
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:20,960
Speaker 3: We call him Kyle Manong Dude on this show. He's

1326
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:23,960
Speaker 3: a dude, and we loved watching that come to life

1327
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Speaker 3: all season. And so behind that line, what was that

1328
01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:27,920
Speaker 3: like watching Ben put that together?

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Speaker 11: It was amazing.

1330
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:32,360
Speaker 10: Again, when you pair Dan Roschar and Ben Johnson together

1331
01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:35,160
Speaker 10: and put a run game together, You're going to get

1332
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:39,160
Speaker 10: a tactical advantage in terms of getting the best you know,

1333
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:44,720
Speaker 10: opportunities to to get yards before being touched. Really so

1334
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Speaker 10: then when you add on the talent that we had

1335
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:49,000
Speaker 10: up front, some really good things can happen.

1336
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Speaker 11: And anytime that you have balance.

1337
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:54,439
Speaker 10: Your protection in the past, game is going to be better,

1338
01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 10: Your quarterbacks confidence is going to be better. So it

1339
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:00,960
Speaker 10: was really cool seeing that all come together there. Eric

1340
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:03,080
Speaker 10: Bande me who's now in Kansas City as though see

1341
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Speaker 10: did a fantastic job with our backs, Kyle's development, and

1342
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:10,120
Speaker 10: also seeing Swifty put together a really strong year maybe

1343
01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:12,520
Speaker 10: the best year of his career was was awesome. So

1344
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:15,520
Speaker 10: we look forward to picking up where we left off again,

1345
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:18,720
Speaker 10: there's always challenges for this league. You can't just take

1346
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 10: last year and apply it to this year. You got

1347
01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:24,160
Speaker 10: to continue to work on it and adjusts as things

1348
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 10: pop up.

1349
01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 11: So looking forward to But yeah, good group.

1350
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:30,320
Speaker 2: You mentioned DeAndre Swift having such a great year.

1351
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:31,720
Speaker 1: I was surprised to see him on some of those

1352
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:35,320
Speaker 1: articles that, like, you know, potential cap cuts. You guys

1353
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:37,560
Speaker 1: do have a tricky situation where you know, you got

1354
01:01:37,560 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 1: to cut some salary cap to see a guy you

1355
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:42,080
Speaker 1: feel good about for the twenty twenty six season on

1356
01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 1: a team.

1357
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:43,640
Speaker 11: Yeah, I do feel good about it.

1358
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:47,200
Speaker 10: You know, we'll get through this next two weeks, see

1359
01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:49,760
Speaker 10: what different opportunities kind of pop up.

1360
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Speaker 11: It's always difficult.

1361
01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 10: There's a lot of unknowns, a lot of different sequences

1362
01:01:55,520 --> 01:02:01,000
Speaker 10: that we've put together. How they come together is is

1363
01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:03,720
Speaker 10: is unknown right now. But I feel good about swifteen.

1364
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Speaker 2: Where's that one thing you alluded to it?

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Speaker 1: You had the Joe Toney trade, and you've kind of

1366
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:11,600
Speaker 1: pulled a big surprise almost every one of your off seasons.

1367
01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:14,480
Speaker 1: You started out with the Kyle Mack trade, you know,

1368
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:19,000
Speaker 1: leaving you. You know DJ Moore you got as part

1369
01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:23,520
Speaker 1: of that trade. I feel like you and and a

1370
01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:25,440
Speaker 1: few other gems have been part of a trend. There

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01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:29,320
Speaker 1: just have been more veteran trades in the NFL. I

1372
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Speaker 1: guess I'm just curious if you go through your process

1373
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:34,880
Speaker 1: of as a GM, how you use trades as part

1374
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Speaker 1: of kind of the the arsenal.

1375
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Speaker 2: And yeah, do you have another little fun one coming up?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 11: Question, we'll see, we'll see.

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Speaker 10: Usually they start popping up this week I'll say this

1379
01:02:48,440 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 10: kind of cool story. I've gotten a known I'm trying

1380
01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:56,680
Speaker 10: to I'm trying to blank and his name. There's an

1381
01:02:56,720 --> 01:03:01,680
Speaker 10: author who wrote Range and new books coming out inside

1382
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:05,360
Speaker 10: the Boxes about constraints and what we can learn from constraints.

1383
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:10,200
Speaker 10: And it's interesting because when I think back to our

1384
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:14,640
Speaker 10: first year, not having much money, not having many picks,

1385
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:17,480
Speaker 10: you learn how to, you know, live inside this box

1386
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:19,480
Speaker 10: and how can we make the most out of our situation.

1387
01:03:20,200 --> 01:03:22,600
Speaker 10: And we've been able to take that and apply it

1388
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:27,720
Speaker 10: along the way. And what that's taught us is to

1389
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:30,560
Speaker 10: just really keep an open mind on how to solve

1390
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:33,560
Speaker 10: some of these solutions. There's the basic way of just

1391
01:03:33,600 --> 01:03:36,360
Speaker 10: doing the draft and straight up for agency, but how

1392
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:40,160
Speaker 10: can we take advantage of some trade opportunities to bring

1393
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:45,240
Speaker 10: a talented player onto our roster by really starting fresh

1394
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:49,240
Speaker 10: and rebuilding from year one. We needed to get the

1395
01:03:49,240 --> 01:03:52,200
Speaker 10: talent level higher and higher, knowing that it takes a

1396
01:03:52,200 --> 01:03:55,000
Speaker 10: little bit of time to get draft picks developed along

1397
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:57,800
Speaker 10: the way, so how can we expedite it just enough

1398
01:03:57,920 --> 01:03:59,680
Speaker 10: but also bring in the right type of people. So

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01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:02,360
Speaker 10: I think think that experience from the very beginning has

1400
01:04:02,360 --> 01:04:05,600
Speaker 10: helped us take this kind of unique approach of using

1401
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:09,640
Speaker 10: trade cregency in and in the draft to help build

1402
01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:12,720
Speaker 10: our team. So we're always listening, we're always gonna analyze

1403
01:04:12,720 --> 01:04:14,840
Speaker 10: everything that we hear in terms of how to improve

1404
01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:17,160
Speaker 10: our team, and that's been able to create some cool

1405
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:17,880
Speaker 10: situations over the.

1406
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Speaker 11: Last few years.

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Speaker 3: One of my favorite things about football is how people

1408
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:25,120
Speaker 3: make decisions. And I think we always see on the

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Speaker 3: field the product of like a play caller sequencing plays together,

1410
01:04:28,080 --> 01:04:31,880
Speaker 3: and how combinations and permutations change over time and all

1411
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:33,400
Speaker 3: of the different avenues they can take.

1412
01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:35,400
Speaker 4: You mentioned something that sort of sparked for.

1413
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Speaker 3: Me when you were talking about DeAndre Swift, which is

1414
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:41,360
Speaker 3: we've we've sort of gamed out some of the scenarios

1415
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:44,160
Speaker 3: and some of the different combinations. What I think a

1416
01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:46,280
Speaker 3: lot of people don't know about your job is you

1417
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:49,880
Speaker 3: have to sequence out possibilities too, and you have to

1418
01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:51,720
Speaker 3: you have to run a lot of game theory on

1419
01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:54,440
Speaker 3: all of it. I'm curious if you could peel back

1420
01:04:54,480 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 3: not with this, maybe not with this specific situation, but

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Speaker 3: I mean if you want, if you want to, you can,

1422
01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:02,280
Speaker 3: But like how you do that and what that process

1423
01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:06,640
Speaker 3: actually is and looks like for the listeners, who might

1424
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Speaker 3: not be as.

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Speaker 4: Familiar with it.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I'll start with a calendar.

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Speaker 10: Really, once we finished the season, we have our early

1428
01:05:15,480 --> 01:05:17,360
Speaker 10: draft mating, so we bring all of our scouts in

1429
01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:19,840
Speaker 10: and we go through the board. We kind of call

1430
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:21,840
Speaker 10: it pinning the board up, so it's not set yet.

1431
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:24,960
Speaker 10: There's a lot of information to learn this week and

1432
01:05:25,040 --> 01:05:27,560
Speaker 10: through you know, the spring, but it gives us an

1433
01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:30,880
Speaker 10: idea where strengths and weaknesses are. And then for agency

1434
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:33,360
Speaker 10: we do the same thing and our pro staff does

1435
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:36,200
Speaker 10: an amazing job with that. What we also do is

1436
01:05:36,240 --> 01:05:40,360
Speaker 10: we add to our fre agency board, we add the

1437
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:45,080
Speaker 10: cap casualties. We usually overload that more than what's actually

1438
01:05:45,080 --> 01:05:47,360
Speaker 10: gonna happen, but we never want to be caught by surprise.

1439
01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:51,320
Speaker 10: So when we mesh those boards together, it gives us

1440
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:54,200
Speaker 10: some clarity of where strengths and weaknesses are, and it

1441
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:56,280
Speaker 10: allows us to understand.

1442
01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:58,680
Speaker 11: Really, all right, where do we have to be aggressive.

1443
01:05:58,680 --> 01:06:00,640
Speaker 10: Maybe we need to go to a trade trade route

1444
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:02,600
Speaker 10: to get this done because I don't know if the

1445
01:06:02,680 --> 01:06:05,479
Speaker 10: volume is there to feel comfortable with filling that need.

1446
01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:09,280
Speaker 11: So we go through that and then obviously there's a financial.

1447
01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:11,400
Speaker 10: Part of it, so we have one of the best

1448
01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:16,240
Speaker 10: cap guys in the league, Matt Feinstein. So I myself

1449
01:06:16,320 --> 01:06:18,560
Speaker 10: and now Jeff King will go through and list everything

1450
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:21,400
Speaker 10: with Ben, and then I'll bring in Matt and say, okay,

1451
01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:23,600
Speaker 10: we'll walk us through what's the short term and long

1452
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:24,480
Speaker 10: term effect.

1453
01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:30,280
Speaker 11: Of this financial Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1454
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:33,680
Speaker 10: So there's a lot of tough conversations there where you know,

1455
01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:35,960
Speaker 10: I'm like, come on, man, you can find more money somewhere,

1456
01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:38,760
Speaker 10: and he does. He does a great job, but he

1457
01:06:38,760 --> 01:06:41,320
Speaker 10: also knows there's some core things. I don't want to

1458
01:06:41,360 --> 01:06:44,480
Speaker 10: hurt herself down the road. I want to stay flexible. Also,

1459
01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:46,400
Speaker 10: you know, we got a quarterback that's trending in the

1460
01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:48,640
Speaker 10: right direction. I want to make sure that there's a

1461
01:06:48,640 --> 01:06:51,840
Speaker 10: planeted place for whenever we need to extend him if

1462
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:53,080
Speaker 10: everything continues to stay on.

1463
01:06:53,040 --> 01:06:53,680
Speaker 11: The same path.

1464
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Speaker 10: So how does all those decisions today fit that down

1465
01:06:57,800 --> 01:06:58,200
Speaker 10: the road.

1466
01:06:58,880 --> 01:06:59,760
Speaker 11: So it's complicated.

1467
01:07:00,520 --> 01:07:04,480
Speaker 10: It's like the most fun part of this job is

1468
01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:06,360
Speaker 10: a lot of putting out fires. But that that's the

1469
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:08,600
Speaker 10: part that you know, I'll sit there on a board

1470
01:07:08,600 --> 01:07:09,440
Speaker 10: and we're writing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a big week for that too, and especially

1472
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:17,200
Speaker 1: this offseason. Yeah, you have so many players in your

1473
01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 1: secondary up at the same time, and you might be

1474
01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:23,840
Speaker 1: looking for left tackle because you have an injury there

1475
01:07:23,880 --> 01:07:24,520
Speaker 1: from your draftic.

1476
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:26,160
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of game.

1477
01:07:26,240 --> 01:07:29,800
Speaker 1: You know, a game is being theoried out there, specifically

1478
01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:32,760
Speaker 1: with the secondary. You know, Jaquon Brisker was one of

1479
01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:36,440
Speaker 1: your first draft picks and Kevin bayerd Is is such

1480
01:07:36,440 --> 01:07:38,440
Speaker 1: an important part of your team in Nashon.

1481
01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:40,920
Speaker 2: Wright had such a breakout season last year.

1482
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 1: Where where are you with with those three guys specifically

1483
01:07:44,360 --> 01:07:47,320
Speaker 1: and your confidence of what you're going to be able

1484
01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:48,040
Speaker 1: to do to keep them.

1485
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:50,360
Speaker 10: Yeah, So I think part of this week and early

1486
01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:56,640
Speaker 10: next week is understanding what those markets are. Also, you know,

1487
01:07:56,760 --> 01:07:58,680
Speaker 10: we got to clear some space in terms of our

1488
01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:02,880
Speaker 10: cap and make sure that we're healthy there, and really

1489
01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:05,720
Speaker 10: it's then can we make that fit? And it takes

1490
01:08:05,760 --> 01:08:09,200
Speaker 10: both sides, you know, obviously agreeing that it works for

1491
01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:12,000
Speaker 10: each other. So we'll set up guardrails for each one

1492
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:17,519
Speaker 10: of those scenarios, knowing that once you prioritize and the

1493
01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:20,120
Speaker 10: first domino goes, that may take three off the board

1494
01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:24,400
Speaker 10: because of financial constraints. So once we get through this week,

1495
01:08:24,439 --> 01:08:26,880
Speaker 10: we'll go back to the room and the drawing board

1496
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:30,920
Speaker 10: and lay that out and then progress in this you know,

1497
01:08:31,640 --> 01:08:34,800
Speaker 10: we'll prioritize everything, progress through that list, and and and

1498
01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:35,679
Speaker 10: put it all together.

1499
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Speaker 1: Well, Ryan Pauls not only called a shot on the

1500
01:08:38,479 --> 01:08:41,080
Speaker 1: show last year. When you first got the job, you said,

1501
01:08:41,360 --> 01:08:43,599
Speaker 1: it's going to be our goal to take the North,

1502
01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:46,439
Speaker 1: the NFC North, and never give it back. But they

1503
01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:50,120
Speaker 1: they have taken the North. It is a very difficult division.

1504
01:08:50,160 --> 01:08:51,800
Speaker 1: So hopefully you know, you know next year when we

1505
01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:54,320
Speaker 1: talk to you, you still will not giving it back.

1506
01:08:54,400 --> 01:08:56,439
Speaker 3: We have any predictions, you know, do you want to

1507
01:08:56,439 --> 01:08:59,040
Speaker 3: call another do you want to call another shot this year?

1508
01:08:59,200 --> 01:09:01,360
Speaker 10: I just you know, our goal is to take the

1509
01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:04,000
Speaker 10: next step, and that's to get to the Championship game

1510
01:09:04,040 --> 01:09:07,000
Speaker 10: and eventually the Super Bowl. So I like to see

1511
01:09:07,520 --> 01:09:09,880
Speaker 10: our offense take the next step, which I know with

1512
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:12,160
Speaker 10: with Ben and and Caleb and the work they're putting

1513
01:09:12,160 --> 01:09:15,479
Speaker 10: into it, that that that that will happen. Obviously, the

1514
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:18,000
Speaker 10: again interestings that we can't control will always throw a

1515
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:20,760
Speaker 10: little bit of a wrinkle in it. But then on

1516
01:09:20,800 --> 01:09:22,800
Speaker 10: top of that our defense taking the next step, and

1517
01:09:22,840 --> 01:09:25,160
Speaker 10: I think if all that comes together, we should be

1518
01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:27,120
Speaker 10: in a in a in a situation where we're going

1519
01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:29,439
Speaker 10: to continue to improve and they keep moving up.

1520
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Speaker 1: Ryan Poles GM of the Bears, appreciate you awesome, thank you.

1521
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Speaker 2: Those were delightful.

1522
01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:39,719
Speaker 1: I you can tell like the vibe from Poles coming

1523
01:09:39,760 --> 01:09:44,000
Speaker 1: off like a championship season. You know, it's always interesting

1524
01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:46,280
Speaker 1: this time of year, like there's there's the guys who

1525
01:09:46,320 --> 01:09:49,160
Speaker 1: are riding high spy Tech's coming off a bad season,

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Speaker 1: but you wouldn't you wouldn't have known it, which which

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01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:54,439
Speaker 1: I appreciate. But sticking with Poles, uh, for us, I

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01:09:54,439 --> 01:09:57,639
Speaker 1: did just want to update an item that he talked

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Speaker 1: about on the podium.

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Speaker 2: We didn't get a chance to talk about that.

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Speaker 1: All their teams have expressed interest in Tyson Beigent and

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01:10:04,320 --> 01:10:07,000
Speaker 1: he believes there will be a trade market. He said

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01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:10,720
Speaker 1: that for Tyson Beagent. So I don't know if that's

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01:10:10,760 --> 01:10:12,759
Speaker 1: them trying to drum up a market.

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Speaker 4: But do you know what though, because there was it.

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Speaker 1: Reminds me of a very specific example. Go ahead that poll.

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Speaker 3: That Polls was the one saying it is interesting to

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01:10:23,560 --> 01:10:27,320
Speaker 3: me because like a week ago, there was a source

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01:10:27,760 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 3: report that the Cardinals were interested in Tyson beagent with

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01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:35,200
Speaker 3: that which at the time felt like an agent sort

1541
01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:37,720
Speaker 3: of putting stuff out there like that. But sometimes when

1542
01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:40,599
Speaker 3: you start to connect leaks with other leaks, it might

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01:10:40,680 --> 01:10:44,040
Speaker 3: not be anything as it pertains to Tyson Beagent specifically,

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01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:47,000
Speaker 3: but it could tell you a lot about both Arizona

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01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:50,120
Speaker 3: and Chicago and what they are either hoping or attempting

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01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:50,840
Speaker 3: to do right now.

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01:10:51,400 --> 01:10:53,439
Speaker 1: I think it says a lot now that I have

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Speaker 1: the full picture in him saying that about Chicago, and

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01:10:56,280 --> 01:11:00,160
Speaker 1: it reminds me on a lesser level, but similar to

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01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:04,280
Speaker 1: the Joe Milton Drake may situation, I actually think that

1551
01:11:04,439 --> 01:11:07,000
Speaker 1: they gave taste in beage a great contract, But it

1552
01:11:07,120 --> 01:11:09,799
Speaker 1: just might be a situation where you have a backup

1553
01:11:10,080 --> 01:11:14,639
Speaker 1: that's the same age that's really competitive, that wants to play.

1554
01:11:16,320 --> 01:11:19,479
Speaker 1: I'm not reporting anything, but just that you might see

1555
01:11:19,479 --> 01:11:22,880
Speaker 1: that the quarterback room is constructed better with like, hey,

1556
01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:26,320
Speaker 1: maybe we'd like to see Caleb with a different true

1557
01:11:26,360 --> 01:11:29,599
Speaker 1: backup and and Tyson could get a chance elsewhere. Maybe

1558
01:11:29,600 --> 01:11:33,440
Speaker 1: this isn't our forever pairing with him as a backup, because.

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01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:36,759
Speaker 4: You got it once you get a taste his success.

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01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:39,240
Speaker 3: And he did, and Tyson Bagent did, and he and

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01:11:39,280 --> 01:11:41,679
Speaker 3: he got the contract, and he heard the fan base

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01:11:41,720 --> 01:11:44,080
Speaker 3: and how for him they were and he got a

1563
01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:45,720
Speaker 3: taste of it, and so he's going to.

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Speaker 4: Want to be a vibe thing.

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01:11:46,960 --> 01:11:49,479
Speaker 1: I mean you heard with New England that yeah, like

1566
01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:51,840
Speaker 1: it was maybe a vibes thing that Joe Milton wasn't

1567
01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:53,840
Speaker 1: really thrilled to be in that position, and maybe Drake

1568
01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:56,960
Speaker 1: May wasn't thrilled to have a backup. That's his age,

1569
01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:01,920
Speaker 1: that's that's wanting to play. Really, Ryan Poles and John

1570
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:04,960
Speaker 1: spy Tech joining the show. The last thing with spy Tech,

1571
01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:08,160
Speaker 1: just I love the pop that he's he's still given Steven.

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Speaker 3: That was the first thing he said when he saw you. Yes,

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01:12:11,720 --> 01:12:13,479
Speaker 3: he also is he included you.

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01:12:13,479 --> 01:12:16,800
Speaker 1: You know, it was great that he's making him a

1575
01:12:16,800 --> 01:12:18,320
Speaker 1: part of the show. And I like the message to

1576
01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:22,760
Speaker 1: Raider Nation. And he was asked about Crosby in other

1577
01:12:22,800 --> 01:12:24,280
Speaker 1: places than us, so I did.

1578
01:12:24,120 --> 01:12:25,400
Speaker 2: Want to provide that context.

1579
01:12:26,479 --> 01:12:28,680
Speaker 1: He kept saying he expects Crosby to be back, but

1580
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:31,120
Speaker 1: we'll always listen. So I think that's one where just

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01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:33,240
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm sure they would like Baxcrosby to

1582
01:12:33,280 --> 01:12:34,720
Speaker 1: be back, but I think that's an I don't know,

1583
01:12:34,760 --> 01:12:35,360
Speaker 1: and we'll see.

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01:12:35,800 --> 01:12:38,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it seems to be, uh, you're dealing with

1585
01:12:38,439 --> 01:12:42,640
Speaker 3: a personality as well who seems to be in a

1586
01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:45,439
Speaker 3: sort of trying to stabilize his emotions toward the entire

1587
01:12:45,520 --> 01:12:47,960
Speaker 3: topic as well. And so you have to surf that

1588
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:49,320
Speaker 3: wave too when you come to it.

1589
01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:52,599
Speaker 1: Love surfing the wave. Just you just got to stay

1590
01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:54,680
Speaker 1: on your feet. You know, you don't want to you

1591
01:12:54,680 --> 01:12:56,920
Speaker 1: don't want to crash. That's going to be it from

1592
01:12:57,000 --> 01:13:01,439
Speaker 1: our show here in the Indianapolis can Mention Center. Not

1593
01:13:01,520 --> 01:13:05,400
Speaker 1: as many coaches by a long shot speaking on Wednesday,

1594
01:13:05,640 --> 01:13:07,680
Speaker 1: but we have some great interviews. We're gonna have a

1595
01:13:07,680 --> 01:13:10,880
Speaker 1: lot of news. This is quietly the first night where

1596
01:13:10,920 --> 01:13:14,920
Speaker 1: really every you know, media member has made it here

1597
01:13:14,960 --> 01:13:16,519
Speaker 1: from the snow, and everyone's in position.

1598
01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:18,800
Speaker 2: The entire league is now here.

1599
01:13:19,080 --> 01:13:21,759
Speaker 1: This is kind of the first night where the people

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01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:26,479
Speaker 1: like Jordan, who have all these contexts, they start talking,

1601
01:13:26,640 --> 01:13:29,240
Speaker 1: and people start talking to each other, and the insiders

1602
01:13:29,280 --> 01:13:31,759
Speaker 1: like Ian they start talking, and then we start getting

1603
01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:34,640
Speaker 1: some news dropping tomorrow. So look for that, look for

1604
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:37,599
Speaker 1: some more press conference updates, and then look for our

1605
01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:42,960
Speaker 1: interviews with some decision makers, including Bill's general manager Brandon

1606
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:45,920
Speaker 1: Bean and Steelers general manager Omar Con.

1607
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:46,639
Speaker 2: That is it.

1608
01:13:47,439 --> 01:13:52,439
Speaker 1: Let's go Let's be safe out there tonight in Indianapolis

1609
01:13:52,479 --> 01:13:56,240
Speaker 1: for Jordan and John Spiek and Ryan Foles.

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Speaker 2: See you next time.