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Speaker 1: Hey guys, this is Greg Rosenthal for NFL Daily. You'll

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Speaker 1: taped the intro. We taped the whole show. We taped

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Speaker 1: three different parts of the show. I got Jordan Rodrig

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Speaker 1: coming up. I got Nick Shouk coming up. I got

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Speaker 1: Stacey Dale's talking about the Bears. But I am growing

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Speaker 1: increasingly insane, wanting to get every bit of news possible

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Speaker 1: into this show. And we had breaking news on CD

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Speaker 1: not get on the Cowboys playing on Tuesday over to

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Speaker 1: and I want to make sure that was in the show.

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Speaker 1: Cowboys can't be surprised letting it get this close. They've

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Speaker 1: been here before, by the way, Zach Martin held out

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. Ezekiel Elliott had a really

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Speaker 1: long holdout you'll remember in twenty nineteen that didn't end

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Speaker 1: till the season almost started. It doesn't seem like this

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Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb contract is particularly close at this point, but

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Speaker 1: he will not be there. It is not devastating for

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys to be missing a wide receiver during training camp.

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Speaker 1: It is not the same as if Matthew Stafford had

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Speaker 1: missed training camp for the Rams. We'll get to that

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Speaker 1: in the next couple of weeks. Between Lamb, maybe Dak

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Speaker 1: some point and Cede Lamb should not accept anything less

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Speaker 1: So Cowboys camp starting off on an annoying note, but

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Speaker 1: they love the attention, even if it's negative attention, and

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys seems like they've had plenty of that this offseason.

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Speaker 1: A lot to get to on today's show, and now

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Speaker 1: I'm going to send it over to myself and start

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Speaker 1: off this show with Nick Schuk to get to all

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Speaker 1: the news. All the teams are back on the practice field.

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Speaker 1: It really feels like the NFL season started on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: And excited to have you aboard. Welcome to NFL Daily,

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Speaker 1: where we would not look better blonde. I'm Greg Rosenthal

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Speaker 1: and beyond lucky today to be joined by my friend

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Speaker 1: Nick Shook of NFL dot Com NFL Network, and he

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Speaker 1: misses the days when he had hair to potentially color. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Fun fact, Greg, when I was like six years old,

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Speaker 2: I have a picture from my dad's wedding to my

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Speaker 2: former stepmom. I had flowing locks, blonde hair. It was

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Speaker 2: So I'm bald now, but it was in the past.

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Speaker 1: It there. I don't know if you could pull off

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Speaker 1: the platinum look that Joe Burrow did on the way

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Speaker 1: who can like make national news just by changing his

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Speaker 1: hair color. I'm punt. I just feel different today, Nick.

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Speaker 1: Twenty three teams showed up to work on Tuesday for

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Speaker 1: training camp. Really feels like it's all happening. It started.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of news that happened today, and so

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Speaker 1: we are going to get to all of it. We're

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Speaker 1: also going to talk about the Matthew Stafford contract adjustment

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Speaker 1: the story there with one of our great contributors, Jordan

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Speaker 1: Rodrieg of the Athletic also going to do a deep

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Speaker 1: dive on the Bears, who have been in camp now

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Speaker 1: the show. But before we do that, Nick, let's roll

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Speaker 1: through the news. Hit it Randy Jews Okay, outside of

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Speaker 1: the bat. Brandon Ayuk, we've talked about how he requested

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Speaker 3: I think again, no absolutes there. We fully intend on

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Speaker 2: The fact that Ayuke showed up I was a little

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Speaker 2: I don't think they really understand exactly where they are

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Speaker 4: you know, the team handled that situation. And the only

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Speaker 4: Last time you needed this, you got me traded. So

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Speaker 4: that's been my only thing.

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Speaker 1: Man, Yeah, I would want to stay in Miami if

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Speaker 2: there's just a little bit less to work with if

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Speaker 2: he's your guy, you pay him. But I understand the

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Speaker 1: And they just gave him a ton of money two

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Speaker 1: just always keep renegotiating, and that contract starts to look

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Speaker 1: losing a lot of money. Hassan Reddick is due to

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Speaker 1: At the time of the trade, the Jets were quote

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Speaker 1: this is the bit of drama that they have to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a bummer too, because he's part of a

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Speaker 2: he's going to cash in, it's got to be right now.

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Speaker 2: So I understand the sense of urgency from him. But

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Speaker 2: usually when you see these deals happen, you see extensions

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Speaker 2: just not quite handling the situation the best.

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Speaker 1: It just sounds it says there may have been a miscommunication,

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Speaker 1: it was a deal. It was a deal last year.

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Speaker 1: It affected Hassan Reddick. He was not happy and I

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Speaker 1: don't know if it affected his play, but they knew

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Speaker 1: Yes. Although the you know, the Bengals, Joe Burrow, they

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Speaker 1: is great. It's Bo Nix, It's Jared Stidham, and it's

431
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Speaker 1: our friend Zach Wilson. The Dolphin sign. Emmanuel Ogba mentioned

432
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Speaker 1: a couple of shows ago how Shaq Barrett retired Agbah

433
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Speaker 1: gets five million dollars, was the best pass rusher available,

434
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Speaker 1: so that makes sense. He might be starting in Week one.

435
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Speaker 1: He probably is for them. They're so banged up. They

436
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Speaker 1: also put Odell Beckham on the pup list. Not a

437
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Speaker 1: great sign there. Kadarius Tony is playing running back in practice.

438
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Speaker 5: No, Greg.

439
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Speaker 2: I mean, look, I understand trying to get the football

440
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Speaker 2: Canaria is Tony's hands. He's a great athlete and everything,

441
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Speaker 2: but he's also not the most resilient physically. I fear

442
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Speaker 2: the idea of Kadarius Tony running between the tackles. That's

443
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Speaker 2: not the Chiefs offense, but it just scares me. Maybe

444
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Speaker 2: you get him out on the perimeter, a little orbit motion,

445
00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:17,760
Speaker 2: that type of thing, and it makes sense.

446
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Speaker 1: But they got a chance, a chance to make the team, Shooky,

447
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:21,679
Speaker 1: it's his chance to make the team. He might not.

448
00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,480
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson was out for a fourth Street Day with

449
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Speaker 1: an illness. Jacobe Brissett is the starter with the Patriots

450
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Speaker 1: according to their coach Drod Mayo, but Drake may could

451
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Speaker 1: absolutely play his way into being the starter week one

452
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Speaker 1: if he outplays Perssett and camp Mayo said it's not

453
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Speaker 1: about like hitting certain benchmarks or like whether whether may

454
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Speaker 1: is ready. He's just like, if he outplays Perset, he'll

455
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Speaker 1: be a Week one starter. I don't think they want

456
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Speaker 1: that to happen. Chase Brown, a lot of Chase Brown hype,

457
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Speaker 1: has the opportunity to be the guy in Cincinnati. According

458
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Speaker 1: to Duke Tobyn, what do you think about that? Yeah,

459
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Speaker 1: that's strange.

460
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, they got rid of Joe Mixon

461
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Speaker 2: and they were like, all right, we're gonna go Zack Moss. Yeah,

462
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Speaker 2: this is it. And I looked at that backward and

463
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Speaker 2: I thought, committee is somebody else gonna pick up some

464
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Speaker 2: of the slacks.

465
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Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. And I like Chase Brown.

466
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Speaker 1: I like Chase Brown. That it probably will be a

467
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Speaker 1: committee Zach Moss, Chase Brown. But it does show that

468
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Speaker 1: they like Chase Brown quite a bit. And finally, Antonio Pierce,

469
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Speaker 1: the latest coach to join the UR starters, will play

470
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Speaker 1: in the preseason brigade. Yeah, it's kind of happening all

471
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Speaker 1: over the league. At least a handful of teams are like,

472
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Speaker 1: we're gonna play start as Drodmeyo was another one. I

473
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Speaker 1: feel like it's almost a pushback to the trend that's

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Speaker 1: been happening.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're facing a future in which you might have

476
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Speaker 2: one less preseason game. These guys need tune ups. These

477
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:37,800
Speaker 2: are not the days of old with two A days,

478
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Speaker 2: so let's get them some reps.

479
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Speaker 4: Why not?

480
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Speaker 1: That's it chooky light work for you. This is like

481
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Speaker 1: when you go to the gym and you just don't

482
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Speaker 1: have time. Does that ever happen to you? Or I

483
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Speaker 1: when you just make it happen and you're just like,

484
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do thirty minutes just on my thighs or

485
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Speaker 1: I don't know.

486
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Speaker 2: That's why I pound out some quick cardio and then

487
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Speaker 2: I run.

488
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Speaker 1: Through shoulders real quick and it's just in and out.

489
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Speaker 1: So light work for Shook today. He is going on

490
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Speaker 1: a well deserved couple days off coming up, So enjoy it,

491
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Speaker 1: my friend, and we will get to you next week.

492
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Speaker 1: And we're going to get to Jordan Rodrieg of the

493
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Speaker 1: Athletic right after the break to talk a little Matthew

494
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Speaker 1: Stafford back on NFL Daily. It's Jordan rodrig of the

495
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Speaker 1: Athletic and a surprise appearance. Look, we didn't know, Jordans

496
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Speaker 1: that the Rams were going to make news today, but

497
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Speaker 1: you were there when the news was being made and

498
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Speaker 1: I thought you had a great perspective on it, and

499
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Speaker 1: so wanted to get you on. We're actually going to

500
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Speaker 1: start for the first time ever in the history of

501
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Speaker 1: NFL Daily with an appearance by a previous version of

502
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Speaker 1: our guests before the actual guest. So listen to Jordan

503
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Speaker 1: Rodrieg doing real reporter stuff at a press conference earlier

504
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Speaker 1: today talking to Sean McVay about this Matthew Stafford contract adjustment.

505
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Speaker 6: So it's just just to be clear, respectfully, just so

506
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Speaker 6: what it was.

507
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Speaker 7: There was some financial commentent, but also there were additional

508
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Speaker 7: things you guys wanted to talk.

509
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Speaker 8: Through, and there's a lot of layers to these things, Shortan,

510
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Speaker 8: and I think you know that as well. And what

511
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Speaker 8: I here's what I would say, I would prefer and

512
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Speaker 8: I totally respect and understand. Just there's a lot of

513
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Speaker 8: layers to it. There was a lot of conversations in dialogue,

514
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Speaker 8: some of which, you know, maybe was somewhat close, some

515
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 8: of which was really far off. And so all I

516
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 8: really cared about was what I heard from him. What

517
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Speaker 8: was important that Jimmy communicated to our group and then

518
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Speaker 8: we were able to get it solved with less Kevin

519
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Speaker 8: Tony and myself, and that I am grateful for.

520
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Speaker 1: Muh, just kind of a weird press conference, weird day

521
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Speaker 1: with the rams weird, right, the actual transaction shouldn't be

522
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Speaker 1: that weird, Like Matthew Stafford wanted more money, and we

523
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Speaker 1: don't have all the details, but I believe you're reporting

524
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Speaker 1: at the Athletic has that there is more guaranteed money

525
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Speaker 1: into future years of his contract and the devil will

526
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Speaker 1: be in the details there. That's that's not strange. But

527
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Speaker 1: even your question there that Sean McVay referred to it

528
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Speaker 1: wasn't all about the money. What was your takeaway with that?

529
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I was so when this situation started unfolding many

530
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Speaker 7: months ago. I guess that answer doesn't necessarily surprise me.

531
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Speaker 7: Although openly talking about how it wasn't necessarily all financially

532
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Speaker 7: related or admitting that it wasn't all financially related. In

533
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Speaker 7: terms of how the conversations unfolded, he made some allusions

534
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Speaker 7: and references to previous situations, and he even talked about,

535
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Speaker 7: you know, previous failures that he had gone through, And

536
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Speaker 7: I wondered for a minute if that was potentially talking

537
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Speaker 7: about some of the lack of communication that is very

538
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Speaker 7: much on the record about having happened between himself and

539
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Speaker 7: Jared Goff before or he traded Jared goff and so

540
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Speaker 7: I think wanting to avoid that this time around. You know,

541
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Speaker 7: this situation dragged on. Obviously they weren't ever talking about,

542
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 7: you know, that drastic of a move, but in terms

543
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,919
Speaker 7: of this contract adjustment, you know, wanting to make sure that,

544
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Speaker 7: even on something that you would think is relatively simple

545
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,640
Speaker 7: like this, that you're communicating very clearly, and there were

546
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Speaker 7: just I think some things that they needed to hammer

547
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Speaker 7: out and clear up. I think that you have two

548
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 7: people who are you know, similar in age and in

549
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,160
Speaker 7: you know, status and importance in that building in terms

550
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Speaker 7: of what they feel they contribute and what they feel,

551
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Speaker 7: you know, kind of is necessary and how to have

552
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Speaker 7: that ecosystem work. And I also think that one of

553
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Speaker 7: them is kind of revisiting his career in a way

554
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Speaker 7: where he's thinking, you know, I'm going to be a

555
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 7: coach for a lot longer now, and another one is

556
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Speaker 7: really thinking about, Okay, how much longer am I going

557
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Speaker 7: to do this? And my impression from the very jump

558
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Speaker 7: of this In April, when Ian Rappaport was the first

559
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Speaker 7: to report that Matthew Stafford was looking for more guarantees

560
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 7: on his existing contract, which Sean mcvayh confirmed that that

561
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Speaker 7: reporting was accurate.

562
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Speaker 9: You know he was. To me, it was a signal

563
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Speaker 9: almost like Matthew felt.

564
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Speaker 7: So good to this is my opinion, and kind of

565
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 7: me reading the tea leaves not just of Sean sort

566
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Speaker 7: of wanting to make sure he didn't let past failures

567
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 7: and communication lapses sneak into current and existing relationships, but

568
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Speaker 7: also on the other side of it, Matthew Stafford maybe

569
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Speaker 7: sending a signal out there saying I'm going to be

570
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Speaker 7: that dude for more years than all the rest of you,

571
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Speaker 7: not just Rams, but the rest of the league maybe

572
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 7: thinks I'm going to be because of the year that

573
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Speaker 7: he had in twenty twenty three where he was significantly,

574
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Speaker 7: you know, in the top seven, top five quarterback play

575
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Speaker 7: week after week and did elevate that roster so significantly.

576
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Speaker 7: But I think it's important too to remember in something

577
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Speaker 7: like this when you're talking not just about the financials.

578
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Speaker 9: Some of it is financial.

579
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Speaker 7: I mean, the quarterback market has inflated, and Matthew Stafford,

580
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Speaker 7: you know, who played the way that he played, he wasn't.

581
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Speaker 9: He fell to like eleven or twelve.

582
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Speaker 7: In terms of average annual And while that can be

583
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 7: skewed a little bit because he did make it like

584
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Speaker 7: what sixty five million over the course of one calendar year.

585
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Speaker 7: At one point the guarantees just maybe weren't quite where

586
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Speaker 7: they were. There's fifteen of twenty seven million guaranteed in

587
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Speaker 7: twenty twenty five, but none guaranteed in twenty twenty six,

588
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Speaker 7: and so fixing that, correcting that probably was a part

589
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Speaker 7: of the mission, but also clearing up some of the

590
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,920
Speaker 7: language around that was probably part of the mission as well.

591
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Speaker 7: When Sean McVay was addressing communication errors and just different

592
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Speaker 7: types of things and clearing up like he said, you

593
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Speaker 7: know that he didn't want people, he didn't want to

594
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Speaker 7: think that people were not accurate, but things did need

595
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Speaker 7: to clear up, be cleared up between sort of the

596
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Speaker 7: narrative around this entire situation, which I found.

597
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Speaker 1: To me, I'm not that clear. I'm not that clear

598
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Speaker 1: nocause what is it their relationship? I thought it was

599
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Speaker 1: just what's interesting that you said, maybe it's a signal

600
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Speaker 1: to the league, not just the RAMS but also the

601
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Speaker 1: RAMS that he believes he can get play at a

602
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Speaker 1: high level for a long time, and maybe he did

603
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Speaker 1: not want to be in this year to year situation.

604
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Speaker 1: But the contract that he got guaranteed fifteen million in

605
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. That sort of slicing it down the

606
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Speaker 1: middle where I don't know that.

607
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Speaker 7: Was to be clear, that was the previous That was

608
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Speaker 7: the previous contract. So the point of this is that

609
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Speaker 7: the new will should it should according to an everything

610
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Speaker 7: I've heard so far, we don't have the official details.

611
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Speaker 7: That's how frenetic this came together when they realized they

612
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 7: didn't actually know a lot of the people in the

613
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Speaker 7: building didn't actually know whether he was going to show

614
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Speaker 7: up this more recording this on Tuesday morning. They didn't

615
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Speaker 7: know whether he was going to show up to camp

616
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Speaker 7: or not, or whether he was actually he could potentially

617
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Speaker 7: actually have been, you know, committing to a holdout and

618
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Speaker 7: so getting this done. I mean, Sean may Faye was

619
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Speaker 7: scheduled to talk at nine point thirty this morning, to

620
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Speaker 7: the point where the team even started playing the live

621
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Speaker 7: stream of the lectern and he just wasn't there. And

622
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Speaker 7: so then obviously that's when I texted you, Greg and

623
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Speaker 7: I was like, Hey, we're going to get ramps news today.

624
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and he didn't. He didn't show up for three

625
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Speaker 1: more hours, and it did have a happy ending and

626
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Speaker 1: I guess because of the guaranteed money, it seems that

627
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Speaker 1: he would be there in twenty twenty five barring anything crazy. Right,

628
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Speaker 1: he has had his injury history, and that hangs over

629
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Speaker 1: all of this as it's a commendment thing too.

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Speaker 7: Twenty twenty six, previously not having now I'm doing taking

631
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Speaker 7: a You're being a great mentor to me, Greg, because

632
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Speaker 7: I totally.

633
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Speaker 9: Just cut you off just now.

634
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Speaker 1: That's great if you have the right if it's the

635
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 1: right time for it, don't wait.

636
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Speaker 7: So that twenty twenty six, Previously having no guaranteed money,

637
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Speaker 7: specifically in twenty twenty six of a twenty six million

638
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 7: dollar base salary. That's like a mercenary type of vibe there,

639
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Speaker 7: Like if you think you're going to be playing, you know,

640
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Speaker 7: un till near forty and maybe even beyond that. And

641
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 7: that's just again that's the tea leaves I'm reading from

642
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 7: this whole thing. Wanting that guaranteed money, then you're not

643
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 7: going to be wanting to play on a mercenary type

644
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 7: of deal. I mean that's basically one year, nothing guaranteed,

645
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 7: and then you want commitment from the team that has

646
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 7: previously positioned you as the star.

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Speaker 9: The franchise quarterback who made.

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Speaker 7: A documentary about you in the off season. I mean,

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Speaker 7: it just feels like some of the things that Sean

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Speaker 7: McVeigh was commenting on a bit openly about the non

651
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Speaker 7: financials had to do more so of like communicating needs

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Speaker 7: and wants in.

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Speaker 9: A very simple and straightforward way.

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Speaker 1: Frankly, does it change and we'll wrap on this. I

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Speaker 1: do appreciate you coming on how you think about Stafford's

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Speaker 1: future with the Rams, because that to me was it

657
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Speaker 1: wasn't the takeaway from today, but it was just like, oh,

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Speaker 1: this is something to watch maybe in a little more

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Speaker 1: than I thought. You know that Dak Prescott could be

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Speaker 1: out there next year, like who knows? Does this just

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Speaker 1: put the Stafford in Rams relationship a little bit more

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Speaker 1: on your radar, ironically on a day where they're committing

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Speaker 1: to him financially more.

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Speaker 7: I think if he would have held out, then that

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Speaker 7: would have been a significantly more dramatic story because there

666
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Speaker 7: are roster casualties that happen all across the ecosystem.

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Speaker 9: If a quarterback who.

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Speaker 7: Does lift the roster as much as Matthew does holds out,

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Speaker 7: then you're not You can't get your offense off the

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Speaker 7: ground and they don't have reliable backup play because Jimmy

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Speaker 7: Garoppolo would be you know, suspended for the first two

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Speaker 7: games of the season if the holdout potentially extended. So

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Speaker 7: I would have probably been more concerned or more flagged

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Speaker 7: about that. I just think that it's really interesting that

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Speaker 7: Sean McVay again reiterated the importance of communication and said

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Speaker 7: he thinks and the other thing that I flagged a

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Speaker 7: little bit was that he thinks that he and Matthew's

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Speaker 7: relationship is better for having undertaken the situation. But again,

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Speaker 7: like I can't emphasize enough, like all of this happened

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Speaker 7: Tuesday morning, over the course of three hours. Again, so

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Speaker 7: it's like, you know, the deadline. They seem to very

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Speaker 7: at that point, very much take the deadline seriously and

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Speaker 7: potentially avoided a fracture down the line because they're able

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Speaker 7: to get in a room, you know, get in a

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Speaker 7: room and talk talk about again simple wants and needs

686
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Speaker 7: and just wanted to I did just get it to.

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Speaker 7: Just wanted to clarify too. Adjusted contact adjusted contract means

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Speaker 7: adjusted contract.

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Speaker 9: Don't really know.

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Speaker 7: What it's going to look like in terms of year

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Speaker 7: over year guarantees. But it does seem like some of

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Speaker 7: the existing guarantees and then maybe a bump in some

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Speaker 7: of those existing guarantees will be moved and reallocated over

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Speaker 7: different courses of the contract.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we will look for that. And yeah, just a

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Speaker 1: little surprised, little little extra something.

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Speaker 7: On this getting spicy too, Greg throwing out, thrown out

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Speaker 7: a name, thrown out another name in the mix here?

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Speaker 1: Oh why not? Let's I've been saying it on this podcast.

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Speaker 1: Let's get a little more NBA like we can spend

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Speaker 1: half the season if like Stafford, like the team is

702
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Speaker 1: struggling a little bit, I could see it. It's like

703
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Speaker 1: Paul George and Clippers, will we leave Willy not that's

704
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: we need more of that. I feel like in the NFL,

705
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Speaker 1: and there's no bigger names than you could have them

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Speaker 1: Dak and Stafford. Maybe they could flip spots. I don't

707
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Speaker 1: think it's got to happen, but just a little fun

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Speaker 1: addition to our Tuesday show. Thank you, Jordan, little extra

709
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Speaker 1: Jordan on this week. And yeah, you're you're off and

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Speaker 1: running now. Training camp is training camping.

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Speaker 9: I'm off in sweating actually is more like it.

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Speaker 6: So it's good.

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Speaker 9: I think the longer the more I'm awake, the bigger

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Speaker 9: my hair expands.

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Speaker 1: So I love it all right, We'll see you next

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Speaker 1: time in the studio after the break, I talked to

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Speaker 1: the great Stacey Dales about the Chicago Bears back after

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Speaker 1: this Welcome back to NFL Daily. It's Olympics week, and

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Speaker 1: so we brought on the only Olympian I know personally

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Speaker 1: that Stacy Dale's former number three overall pick in the

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Speaker 1: w NBA Oklahoma Hall of Famer. Does it disgust you, Stacey,

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Speaker 1: to work with so many people that are so much

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Speaker 1: less athletic than you, like myself?

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Speaker 6: A discuss is discussed is a strong word. Greg. I

725
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Speaker 6: don't think I would go there. But you're also aging

726
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Speaker 6: me a little bit, so thank you for that.

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Speaker 1: How did I do that?

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Speaker 6: As my dogs come in the room?

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Speaker 1: How did I age you? I did not say when

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Speaker 1: you played in the Olympics. I did not say when

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Speaker 1: you were the number three overall pick. I just pointed

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Speaker 1: out that you are an athlete covering great athletes, and

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Speaker 1: then you got to talk to someone like myself supposedly

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Speaker 1: on an equal level. And if I were you, I

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Speaker 1: would just be thinking like give me a break. I

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Speaker 1: was big time.

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Speaker 6: Come on, Yeah, I mean I set the standard. I mean,

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Speaker 6: what else can I say?

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 6: I think it's because of all the injuries that I've

741
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Speaker 6: had post career from all those years ago. But it

742
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Speaker 6: was incredible. Olympic Week is amazing. It's amazing because there's

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Speaker 6: no greater plat, there's no greater galvanizing global experience uniformly

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Speaker 6: that is so positive than the Olympics. And it's the

745
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Speaker 6: best of the best. I mean, so for me, it's incredible,

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Speaker 6: and it was incredible, and it's an incredible week to

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Speaker 6: watch and kind of follow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that must have been, like of all the things

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Speaker 1: you've done in your career, that has to be up

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Speaker 1: there just as a cool experience. It's a really cool

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Speaker 1: experience for me to just have you on this show.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about bears, and I will point out

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Speaker 1: for anyone that's watching on YouTube that it's not just

754
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Speaker 1: your dog, Rudy. Now back there on the couch. You

755
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Speaker 1: got both dogs. We got both dogs hanging out and

756
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Speaker 1: they're beautiful.

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Speaker 6: I got more during the pandemic. Greg. Okay, so Blue,

758
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 6: she's eighty pounds eighty plus and she likes to take

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Speaker 6: over the bench and their sisters and Ruby is the

760
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Speaker 6: oldest to her, I have another one who's older. But

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Speaker 6: people liked my dogs more during the pandemic because of

762
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Speaker 6: the whole home camera thing than my actual NFL reporting,

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Speaker 6: So go figure.

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Speaker 1: Why not both? You know, the eye candy and then

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Speaker 1: the info and you had you were at Bear's camp

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday as we're recording this, and you've gotten to

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Speaker 1: see one of the most fascinating teams in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I finally am happy. I'm sure you are too, as

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Speaker 1: someone that lives nearby that the Bears are actually as

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Speaker 1: interesting as the amount of attention that they get nationally

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Speaker 1: because they always get attention, they always get primetime games.

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Speaker 1: But now with Caleb Williams and a lot of optimism,

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Speaker 1: what is your feel And you've spent time with them

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Speaker 1: this off season about how Caleb's adapting. We're about four

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Speaker 1: days into camp for them. They have not started practicing

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Speaker 1: in pads yet, and then more specifically kind of like

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Speaker 1: what they're building for him, like what kind of offense

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Speaker 1: and what they want to accomplish with him in his

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Speaker 1: rookie year.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Greg, So, by the way, kudos to the Bears

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Speaker 6: for sending Jonathan Owens while not sending him, but you

782
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Speaker 6: mentioned to start this thing off with the Olympics to

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Speaker 6: watch his wife Simone Biles, which is you know, I'm

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Speaker 6: Canadian and Americans, so I'm rooting for her.

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Speaker 1: Congrats. By the way, a new American citizen is that.

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Speaker 6: Yes, And she's the greatest of all time. So that's

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Speaker 6: just a cool storyline. But there's so many with the Bears, Greg,

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Speaker 6: it's the best roster we've seen in totality in Chicago

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Speaker 6: and at a point where I can't actually remember. I

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Speaker 6: mean the last time they had a total think about

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Speaker 6: the offense along Greg, the last time they had had

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Speaker 6: a total you know, top five I think it was

793
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Speaker 6: scoring offense and top five total offense was in the J.

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Speaker 6: Coulor days in I think twenty thirteen.

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Speaker 1: And good team. That was a decent team.

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Speaker 6: It was it was they had a couple of good receivers,

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Speaker 6: a good running back and cutt he could throw the

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Speaker 6: ball a little bit. This is different though. This is

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Speaker 6: there's a positivity being at practice, There's a there's an energy.

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Speaker 6: I really think this defense is the best part of

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Speaker 6: the whole group. Like they are spectacular and I say

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Speaker 6: that hesitantly because the receiving corps is spectacular. To watch

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Speaker 6: the ball come out of Caleb's hands, and he was

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Speaker 6: so good today you talk about one day they're not

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Speaker 6: in pads. He can change his platform in a moment's

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Speaker 6: notice the way he's with his arm angles, and that

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Speaker 6: coupled with his eyes and his ability to see the

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Speaker 6: field in the in the amount of time of quarterback

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Speaker 6: STAPs of football, it's unbelievable what they're able to do.

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Speaker 6: That's why your offensive line has to be really the

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Speaker 6: stal word of what you do, right, Greg, But you're

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Speaker 6: talking three seconds, maybe four if you're lucky, to really

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Speaker 6: figure out and navigate where your reads are one, two, three, boom, boom, boom,

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Speaker 6: and then find the right one. He'll take the check down,

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Speaker 6: he'll hit the long down as I would as I

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Speaker 6: would say, I mean, he's going to do it all.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. To me, his his tape was so fascinating to

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Speaker 1: watch because I think he was more mature than people

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Speaker 1: gave him credit for. For all the big playmaking that

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Speaker 1: he tried to do in this last season, keeping up

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Speaker 1: with a bad defense and overcoming a bad offensive line.

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Speaker 1: Maybe really not great skill position players either he barely

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Speaker 1: put the harm ball in harms away like there were

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Speaker 1: not many interceptions. There were not many near interceptions. He

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Speaker 1: made good decisions. It actually makes me think, And I

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Speaker 1: don't know how much RPO stuff they're doing here at camp.

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Speaker 1: They did a lot of RPOs in college. He's so

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Speaker 1: good throwing to the left. I can't remember a prospect

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Speaker 1: or almost any quarterback a right hand or being able

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Speaker 1: to throw to the left. And you're right, he has

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Speaker 1: a great feel that he almost reminds me a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a tennis player. Sometimes tennis players like a

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Speaker 1: Roger Fetter is a good example on Jibor would be

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Speaker 1: another one. When they have so many tricks in their bag,

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Speaker 1: when they have so many different things they can do,

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Speaker 1: it can actually take them a little while to figure

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Speaker 1: out what they should focus on and when to use

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Speaker 1: what trick or what club in the bag. And I

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Speaker 1: do wonder with him, do you get a feel from

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Speaker 1: him or the Bears, like, what are the focuses for

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Speaker 1: this rookie season.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you're going to see a lot of

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Speaker 6: motion and that's part of going to be part of

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Speaker 6: his development. The number one thing they tried to figure

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Speaker 6: out this offseason with him is the cadence and delivering

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Speaker 6: the play call and getting the play call and delivering

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Speaker 6: it to the huddle because he didn't have to do

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Speaker 6: that in college. I mean, he wasn't required to be

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Speaker 6: in command of you know, X, ABC, D, E, F G, X,

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Speaker 6: Y and Z like like all of that, all of

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Speaker 6: that goes into one call to make sure everybody's on

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Speaker 6: the same page. He's now having to do. I can

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Speaker 6: tell you that when he left from the mini camp

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Speaker 6: phase to now the training camp phase. So what is

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Speaker 6: that roughly a.

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Speaker 1: Month, uh, six weeks.

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Speaker 6: There's palpable improvement. I mean, and everybody told said told

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Speaker 6: me that, and everybody publicly denoted that, including head coach

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Speaker 6: Matt Eberflus. You know when you mentioned like the RPOs

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Speaker 6: and stuff. I watched him today just again call it

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Speaker 6: on air. Right, we're not in pads, but just just

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Speaker 6: a simple play action, you know, walk through kind of

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Speaker 6: routine drill that they were doing. The way he contorts

864
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Speaker 6: his body and is able to change on an angle. Right,

865
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 6: So he comes like you're saying, to the left, Greg,

866
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 6: he comes out to the left, he rolls out to

867
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 6: the left, and he's able to just kind of cider

868
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 6: on that thing and get his body in a very controlled,

869
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 6: yet contorted position. And that is important stuff. Patrick Mahomes

870
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 6: does that kind of stuff right, And the best part

871
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 6: about it all is his willing to work, his willingness

872
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 6: to work his fixation. As I've talked to his coach,

873
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 6: his former coach, Lincoln Riley about on his air, his

874
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 6: his you know, things that he's not perfect at or

875
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 6: you know, challenges for him or things that didn't go right,

876
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 6: mistakes that he's made. He is a grinder now. So

877
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 6: it's like anything right you might mentioned federer if you

878
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 6: are that gifted athletically and you do the things necessary

879
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 6: fundamentally to become and enhance those athletic traits and innate

880
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 6: abilities and enhance them to become this total package. Now

881
00:43:56,640 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 6: you're talking like special stuff. And so I think that's

882
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 6: what they fell in love with, and his personality has

883
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 6: backed it all up here in Chicago.

884
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, the over underwin total, you know, projected in the

885
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: Desert is eight and a half, which is the highest

886
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: they've had since since twenty nineteen. And that's it's mostly

887
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: about him, it's a little bit it's also about the

888
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 1: defense and how they finished out last year, and I

889
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: know everyone's excited about the receivers around Caleb Williams, Keenan Allen.

890
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: I was worried. I saw he wasn't practicing today, but

891
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:30,439
Speaker 1: then they said it was a veteran day. It was like, Okay, great, Yeah,

892
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: Roma Dunze is out there practicing. We know how good

893
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: Dj Moore is. Tyler Scott's made some practice, so I'm

894
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: not worried about that. I will get to my concerns

895
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: in a bit, but I want to talk to the

896
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: defense because that has been the identity of this team.

897
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 1: I think they've built up that secondary. Like to me,

898
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 1: that's if you want to see Matt Eberflus, you know

899
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: Ryan Pols, their stamp on the team. It's that defense

900
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,799
Speaker 1: where they give Jalen Johnson all that money. Tyreek Stevenson's

901
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 1: been good, Jakwan brisk or Kyler Gordon, that's their identity.

902
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,400
Speaker 1: They have to be special. I thought Jalen Johnson was

903
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: interesting this week saying he's kind of sick of hearing

904
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,959
Speaker 1: about the potential of this team and now it's action time.

905
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,720
Speaker 1: And I do wonder what you think about that, because

906
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: like there is a lot of expectation on this team

907
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 1: to be good right away, but it is a rookie quarterback,

908
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 1: and I do think there are some issues with this

909
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 1: team that maybe aren't the case with Green Bay and

910
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: in Detroit in the same division. So how do you

911
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 1: bow how do you think they're going to balance that

912
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 1: all this attention hard knocks higher expectations with the reality

913
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: that it is a rookie quarterback. And I you know,

914
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: I don't see them as some playoff type of favorite.

915
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 1: I mean I don't, and so can they handle that?

916
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 6: No, Well, if I want to Before I answer that,

917
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 6: I want to come back to what you said, you

918
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 6: think that maybe Detroit and Green Bay we have the

919
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 6: upper edge. I'm curious to know.

920
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: Why line play that. That would be where I start,

921
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: you know, on both sides of the ball. I think

922
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: I always look when you're looking for surprise teams, good

923
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 1: or bad, who has the best combined offensive line defensive

924
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 1: And I think that's probably where Chicago's the weakest on

925
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball, And so that really worries me.

926
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 1: I think you pop under the hood in some of

927
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 1: the numbers, like FDN Almanac, which is done by Aaron Shatz,

928
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 1: used to be football outsiders, like their main protection for

929
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: the Bears was six point five and partly I think

930
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 1: because of that line play, partly because the defense improved

931
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 1: so much down the stretch. They were thirtieth in the

932
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 1: first half of the year sixth in the second. You

933
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 1: can say, yeah, they brought in Mantes sweat, but a

934
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 1: lot of that is interceptions. Can you keep the defense

935
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 1: at that high a level? And yeah, I just think

936
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: Green Bay and Detroit are more talented and they're better upfront,

937
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: and they've done it before. Then they have proven coaches too.

938
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,399
Speaker 1: Like everyone wants to all focus on how last year

939
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: ended for eber Flus, but I think that the year

940
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: and a half before matters too, And so I think

941
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: eight and a half is a perfectly fine over under.

942
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: That sounds about right, that they're about eight or nine wins,

943
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 1: But that's not making it to the playoffs, Like you know,

944
00:46:57,480 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 1: that's all I'm saying.

945
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 6: No, this is a fascinating conversation because one one would

946
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 6: argue that if you look at Detroit and what they accomplished, right,

947
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 6: they went to the NFC Championship game. I was there

948
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,879
Speaker 6: at that game. They lost to San Francisco, who went

949
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 6: on to the Super Bowl. What happened to them in

950
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:17,280
Speaker 6: the second half. They couldn't stop rock Perty, They couldn't

951
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 6: stop the forty nine ers offensively. The big question for

952
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,319
Speaker 6: them is is this going to be the year with

953
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 6: all the talent they added defensively, including the youngsters to

954
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 6: the back end of their defense, you know, guys like

955
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:32,400
Speaker 6: Terry and Arnold and nx Racetraw, nnes Rakestraw that you

956
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 6: know they're going to improve what has been a struggling,

957
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 6: you know, defense through the air. I would say there, yeah,

958
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 6: in this division, to me, you have to have a

959
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:51,319
Speaker 6: bulldozer of a defense and the ability to run the

960
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 6: ball in cold weather, and you have a have to

961
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 6: have a dynamic quarterback.

962
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:56,400
Speaker 1: I think it's just a tough division. I don't think

963
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,880
Speaker 1: the Vikings that either. And when I look at the

964
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:02,720
Speaker 1: line or the Bears, I see two to three question

965
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 1: marks on the offensive line maybe and not much pass

966
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 1: rush outside a sweat. On the defensive line. They were

967
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: twenty fifth in pressure rate. Other than sweat. I think

968
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 1: they're starting to Marcus Walker. It just they seem a

969
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 1: little thinner upfront, and so that that worries me. That

970
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 1: the case for them is just Caleb Williams covers all

971
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:22,239
Speaker 1: that up and the eber flues, you know, glow up.

972
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: How he's looking very handsome and the defense is playing better.

973
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:28,799
Speaker 1: That it's for real and that it carries over kind

974
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: of like the lines that a year ago and that

975
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, it's not gonna it's not gonna fall.

976
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:33,919
Speaker 6: Back at all now and this is this is why

977
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:37,879
Speaker 6: it's great to be underdogs in the NFL. I think

978
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 6: any team you talk a lot of teams you talk

979
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 6: to Greg would be like, yeah, the underdogs were coming

980
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 6: after you whatever, whatever. This this this Bears team is

981
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 6: going to be different. I think there are both sides

982
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 6: of the trenches are going to be different. Right now.

983
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 6: They have a battle at center. That's one of the

984
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 6: most intriguing storylines when it comes to Ryan Bates and

985
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 6: Coleman Shelton. They are battling it out. They're trying to

986
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 6: figure out which one of those two is going to

987
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 6: be snapping the football to Caleb Williams, and so that

988
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 6: that's going to be critical. We heard from Darnell Wright,

989
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 6: who was a rookie last season, he's going to be

990
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 6: so different. Every player is, but especially I would say,

991
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 6: you know, lineman coming into their second year. As I

992
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 6: say that, Gervon Dexter is going to be a name

993
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 6: that you need to remember. He is going to have

994
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 6: a breakout campaign. He's going to be unleashed. He's going

995
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,359
Speaker 6: to be unleashed up front. They know they need more

996
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 6: push besides Monteese sweat. They do that now.

997
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 1: He was solid. He's a second round pick defensive tackle

998
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: who did some good things as a rookie, and so

999
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:43,919
Speaker 1: that is that is a good counterpoint that he could

1000
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 1: have a breakout year as a second year defensive tackle. Yeah.

1001
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 6: And Eric Washington, by the way, comes most recently from Buffalo.

1002
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,719
Speaker 6: We know how good that pressure was in Buffalo, right,

1003
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 6: and has been with Sean McDermott and and Eric Washington

1004
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 6: was a big part of that. So he's the new

1005
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:05,479
Speaker 6: defensive coordinator. We presume Flus will call the defense during

1006
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:08,239
Speaker 6: the regular season. Eric Smyann kind of handling that here

1007
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 6: through the off season. So it's been a nice, nice

1008
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 6: relationship that they they've really spawned together. They have nine

1009
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 6: returning starters. Okay, you mentioned what they were good at

1010
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 6: last year, right, They got interceptions, they got takeaways, they

1011
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 6: were top five in both and they were the best

1012
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,880
Speaker 6: run defense in football, the number one run defensive football.

1013
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 6: I asked Eric Washington, the defensive coordinator, literally today, you know,

1014
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:40,839
Speaker 6: what do you envision this past rush looking like? They

1015
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 6: like their depth they think I think there's some names

1016
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 6: on their roster, greg that are going to emerge. I

1017
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 6: just mentioned Jeron Dexter coming into a second season that

1018
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 6: are gonna surprise people, no different than for instance, like

1019
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:57,520
Speaker 6: an Allen McNeil in Detroit, who's one of my favorite

1020
00:50:57,520 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 6: players in the league, and he's, you know, one of

1021
00:50:59,880 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 6: the best at his position. Up front, they're going to

1022
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 6: rush with four and they want to rush with four consistently.

1023
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 6: What's that going to do when you're able to just

1024
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 6: rush with four, as you know, you have numbers on

1025
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 6: the back end and with the type of secondary, as

1026
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:15,360
Speaker 6: he said to me, we want to be able to

1027
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 6: rush with four and take advantage of just this unbelievable

1028
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 6: secondary that they have. And that group is a monster group.

1029
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 6: Their swagger is off the charts. Brisker and Kevin Byard's

1030
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 6: new in the mix, and Kyler Gordon you mentioned Tyreek

1031
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 6: Stevenson like that group. Jalen Johnson is one of now

1032
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:40,800
Speaker 6: the top lockdown corners. The Bears paid him for a reason.

1033
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:45,919
Speaker 6: How much will he get targeted this year? How How

1034
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 6: will Jakwan brisker.

1035
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 1: It be less? I have a stat for you. They

1036
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 1: face the lowest percentage of passes to a number one receiver.

1037
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 1: That just that says it all about him of any

1038
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: team in the league. That's how good he was a

1039
00:51:59,680 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 1: year ago.

1040
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, and he's his technique has become so good. I

1041
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 6: think defensive backs don't get the credit they deserve when

1042
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 6: you consider technique and what they have to do to

1043
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 6: defend every single week every Sunday. You got DeVante Adams.

1044
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 6: Now you've got Justin Jefferson. You have just named one

1045
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 6: like the best receivers in the game. Today, you got

1046
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 6: Stuff Diggs like it's it's a task. And so I

1047
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:38,840
Speaker 6: just think that guys like him going to another level.

1048
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:43,520
Speaker 6: With nine returning starters and a couple of emerging players,

1049
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:45,959
Speaker 6: I think this defense is going to be nasty this year.

1050
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: I I love it. I love the optivist. It sounds

1051
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:50,279
Speaker 1: like you're going you think it'll be more than eight

1052
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 1: and a half wins? You think? You also live in

1053
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 1: Chicago and I've never met a fan or talked thought

1054
00:52:56,160 --> 00:53:00,319
Speaker 1: of a fan base that's more optimistic every time I'm

1055
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: despite evidence to the country. So I get it. They

1056
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:05,439
Speaker 1: now have good evidence that they actually will be good,

1057
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 1: and so I feel it, and you've kinda you've kind

1058
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: of convinced because the back seven on defense is fierce

1059
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:14,439
Speaker 1: and great continuity. It is as good as maybe any

1060
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: back seven of the linebackers are going to be year

1061
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 1: two it there's a lot to like. And then you

1062
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 1: combine that with a quarterback. To me, I'm as excited

1063
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:26,240
Speaker 1: about as anyone since Andrew Locke to come into the NFL.

1064
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: That's a great combo. So you're you're going over I

1065
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm thinking like eight and nine. But they

1066
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 1: are somehow better than that, you know what I mean.

1067
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:36,399
Speaker 1: Like they're a better team than they were a year ago.

1068
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:38,879
Speaker 1: But it just takes it takes a little more.

1069
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 6: I just I'm quick to pump the brakes at this

1070
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:43,759
Speaker 6: time of year and picking wins because.

1071
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 1: Okay, our reporter anyways, that's putting you into No.

1072
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:49,320
Speaker 6: When I think about just this division, I think about

1073
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 6: like I think about the receiving cores and who's going

1074
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:54,080
Speaker 6: to throw them the football in Minnesota like that that

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Speaker 6: shoot Jordan Addison and Justin Jefferson. That that is a

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Speaker 6: d mcdoo right there. Right. The offense Detroit had was

1077
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Speaker 6: one of the best in the league last year. What

1078
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Speaker 6: is Green Bay gonna look like with Jeff Haffley, who

1079
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Speaker 6: like under Joe Berry, I love Joe Berry, but like

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Speaker 6: they're gonna cut it loose under Halfley, and he is

1081
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Speaker 6: very defensive back friendly. I mean, he coached d backs

1082
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Speaker 6: for a long time of a long part of his

1083
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Speaker 6: career and wants to unleash those guys and they're going

1084
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 6: to come after you up front. I think a little

1085
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Speaker 6: bit differently. So it's just it's a brutal division, not

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Speaker 6: unlike how brutal the AFC North is.

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Speaker 1: I think they're the two best divisions. You could convince

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Speaker 1: me either way, but I almost.

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Speaker 6: I would say gruesome divisions. I think they're just they're

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Speaker 6: pound for pound, they're just so gruesome, you know what

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Speaker 6: I mean, Like, like look at the AFC West, right,

1092
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Speaker 6: they just float the ball all over the place in

1093
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Speaker 6: that division with Mahomes and Herbert And we'll see what

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Speaker 6: happens in Denver.

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Speaker 1: But like, I don't know, I love it. I love it,

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Speaker 1: like I love that Bears Packers, which is always the

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Speaker 1: like a Sunday night game. It's like now, it's like

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Speaker 1: when Stafford got to Detroit. I was so happy that

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Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving games were just better for me that net

1100
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Speaker 1: because the Bears are always on and I'm always getting

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Speaker 1: sold a bill of goods. But now it's it's for real.

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Speaker 1: This kid is for real. I can't wait. You are

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Speaker 1: for real again. The only Olympian I know. So when

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Speaker 1: Canada and the US go against each other, I mean,

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Speaker 1: in women's basketball, that's not much of a competition. I

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Speaker 1: don't even know if Canada mad. Maybe I'm just saying

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Speaker 1: right now, the USA has and lost. I'm just saying,

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Speaker 1: who when was the last time? They literally have never

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Speaker 1: lost in the Olympics. I'm saying, who do you root for? Here?

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Speaker 1: They're pretty good men's basketball. That could be that could

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Speaker 1: be frisky.

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Speaker 6: That's a good question. I'm going to plead the fifth

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Speaker 6: on it because I just became a US citizen, so

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Speaker 6: I mean, it's.

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Speaker 1: Pretty cool hereful Well, it's a treat to have you on, Stacey,

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Speaker 1: and I hope to do it again throughout this season.

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Speaker 1: One of your dogs is leaving the frame. That means

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Speaker 1: it's time for us to go. That is it for

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Speaker 1: NFL Daily. Looking forward to Thursday's show, we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: some fantasy with Pat Darty and walso get you caught

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Speaker 1: up on all the news of the day until then

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Speaker 1: for Nick Schuk and Stacey Dale's We'll see you next day.