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Speaker 1: The Super Bowl matchup is set and we're going to

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Speaker 1: party like it's twenty fifteen Seahawks Patriots. Thankfully for Seattle,

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Speaker 1: no Malcolm Butler this time. Our team of analysts and

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Speaker 1: reporters will be here tonight to break down a super

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Speaker 1: showdown in Santa Clara. There's a new head coach in

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and it's a homecoming for Mike McCarthy. We will

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Speaker 1: break down why the Steelers tab the Pittsburgh native to

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Speaker 1: and what it could mean for Pittsburgh's plans at quarterback.

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Speaker 1: The NFL Draft now, believe it or not, just three

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Speaker 1: months away, which means we have officially entered mock draft season. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza gotta come off the board pretty quickly, but

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Speaker 1: we'll dive deep on the rest of Daniel Jeremiah's first

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Speaker 1: round projection for a whole lot more. Welcome inside with

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Speaker 1: the insiders alongside Mike Garafalo.

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Speaker 2: I am Tom Pellicero.

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Speaker 1: Here at the epicenter of the pre draft process. It

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Speaker 1: is the twenty twenty six Hanini Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama.

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Speaker 1: There were well the players actually all walked by me

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Speaker 1: as did a marching band out there on the street.

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Speaker 1: A lot of festivities around this place tomorrow, though, we've

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Speaker 1: got live practices right here on NFL Network. Not one,

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Speaker 1: not two, but three episodes of The Insiders will get

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Speaker 1: into all that as teams try to find well. Frankly

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Speaker 1: there Drake may Is. Two years ago, the Patriots drafted

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Speaker 1: him at number three overall. He's now going to be

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Speaker 1: the second youngest quarterback ever to start in a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold meanwhile in the Seahawks first remember the vaunted

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen quarterback class to start a Super Bowl. It

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Speaker 1: took him aways to get here, but when it mattered,

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Speaker 1: he stepped up on the biggest stage. Let's get into it.

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Speaker 1: The NFC Championship games started off in the late second quarter.

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Speaker 1: Twenty five seconds left Darnold looking for a wide open

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Speaker 1: Jackson Smith and Jagba Bold strategy not covering JSN in

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Speaker 1: the end zone. That is a touchdown. Seahawks take the lead,

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Speaker 1: seventeen to thirteen. Third corn Now, Seahawks still up seventeen thirteen.

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Speaker 1: Michael Dixon with the punt, and Xavier Smith makes a

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Speaker 1: flies in like the sixth grade in baseball. So I

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Speaker 1: didn't play outfield a whole lot longer. Sean McVay cannot

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Speaker 1: believe it. That is Smith's first career fumble ensuing Seahawks drive,

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Speaker 1: Donald once again going for who Jake Bobo with one

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Speaker 1: of the nastier roats you're going to see. Fourth catch

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Speaker 1: for Bobo all season long. Darnald pumped up Seahawks making

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Speaker 1: twenty four to thirteen. Next Seahawks drive after a Rams touchdown,

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Speaker 1: Donald this time for the former Ram Cooper cup underneath.

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Speaker 1: We've seen him do this so many times. You know

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Speaker 1: that one felt good right there, Cup into the end zone.

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Speaker 1: Thirty one twenty Seahawks and suing Rams drive now Matthew

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Speaker 1: deep for Pooka Nakua, nearly picked off by Rieke Woolan.

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Speaker 2: What a moment for Woolan.

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Speaker 1: Just walk off the field and go ahead and just

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Speaker 1: That's a taunting penalty. Would have been fourth and twelve. Well,

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Speaker 1: were going, why not take it fifteen yard penalty, automatic

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Speaker 1: first down. Very next play, McVeigh goes, now, let's throw

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Speaker 1: In that moment, touchdown Rams. They cut it two thirty

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Speaker 1: one to seventeen. Rookie nick Emon warri By the way,

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Speaker 1: there's some leadership from the rookie right there. Get in

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Speaker 1: the face of Woolen on the sideline. They calm things down.

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Speaker 1: Fourth quarter now, Rams still down by four points. Matthew

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Speaker 1: Late fourth quarter, now ten seconds to go, last gas

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Speaker 1: Chidia to the conversation. Mark, you watched this game unfold.

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Speaker 1: It was exactly as good as you might have thought

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Speaker 1: What was the difference here for Seattle going on to

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Speaker 3: Well, besides being the most complete team, I've been saying

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Speaker 3: this for weeks, they're the most complete team on both

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Speaker 3: situations where there's pressure, big third downs, that's when Sam

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Speaker 3: kind of faltered in the year's pass even somewhat this

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Speaker 4: In his face.

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Speaker 3: The Rams were close to him, they were in his face,

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Speaker 3: they were around him. So it wasn't like he was

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Speaker 3: for me. It really was after that second Rams game

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Speaker 3: like that second half, I unlocked something.

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Speaker 4: You know. It's like Neo and the Matrix where he

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Speaker 3: Feeling it all Jeff, And now that's really scary for

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Speaker 3: the Patriots going into the super Bowl because a confident

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Speaker 5: I love a Matrix reference from Mark here because I'm

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Speaker 5: old school like that too when it comes to movies.

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Speaker 5: But I got to tell you, I'm right with you

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Speaker 5: with Sam Darnald the way he played. I was happy

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Speaker 5: to slay one more demon. A lot of people when

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Speaker 5: he got to Seattle were thinking about what happened at

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Speaker 5: not just quarterback play here, Mark, but Roster building.

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Speaker 4: You're the GM here.

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Speaker 5: And I've had a number of gms talk to me

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Speaker 5: about just how we're entering into a new phase of

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Speaker 5: fifth of what they want to have and they have a.

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Speaker 4: Great roster around him.

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Speaker 1: Certainly for Sam Donald, one of the nicest guys that

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Speaker 1: There's still time for all those analysts who got on

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Speaker 1: you can delete that. That's the thing that you can

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Speaker 1: and their GM at John Schnyder. Mean, while on the

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Speaker 1: other side, there was a lot of drama at this

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Speaker 1: time of year ago about Matthew Stafford in his future.

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Speaker 1: All he did was go out and if he doesn't

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Speaker 1: win the MVP at minimum played MVP caliber football. So

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Speaker 1: it struck Sean McVay as perhaps a little off when

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Speaker 1: someone asked if he expects Stafford to be back next season.

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Speaker 5: Don do you.

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Speaker 6: Expect Matthew Stafford to be back next season?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean that's I mean, if he still wants

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Speaker 7: to play. The whole kind of question is that. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: you have to ask him, and we've been totally present.

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Speaker 7: I know that if he wants to, he's still playing

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Speaker 7: at a PREVIM good clip.

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Speaker 6: I mean, he's the MVP of the league. And if

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Speaker 6: he's not, you know that. I got respect for everybody.

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Speaker 7: Else, but this guy played at a level it's just different.

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Speaker 6: I appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 1: And ship thank you, all right, Sean McVay certainly not

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Speaker 1: wanting to hear that Jeffrey moments after his season end.

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Speaker 1: It's never did not play like his age through the

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Speaker 1: course this season. Fair though, anytime that the guy gets

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Speaker 1: want to do it? What say you about the possibility

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Speaker 1: if any of Matthew Stafford saying this is the time

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Speaker 5: Going to be thirty eight in February, so that's a

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Speaker 5: it's hard for me to think he's going to walk away.

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Speaker 5: He had a chance to win his first MVP, He's

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Speaker 5: won a championship with Sean mcfay. He loves being with

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Speaker 5: this franchise. They're still going to have a lot of

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Speaker 5: the key pieces there for next year, a lot of

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Speaker 5: it's I don't see him walking away when he's that close.

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Speaker 5: This team was a fourth down away from winning this game.

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Speaker 5: He has some tough grades with one for right on

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Speaker 5: third downs, but as Big Big said, the way he's playing, Mark,

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Speaker 5: you just cannot walk away from that.

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Speaker 4: When you're that talent of a player.

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Speaker 3: One percent agree. You know, a player two away from

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Speaker 4: They don't like pressure.

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Speaker 3: They can't move around as much and the Matthew Stafford

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Speaker 3: I saw this year is almost a spry Matthew Stafford,

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Speaker 4: Pressure doesn't bother him.

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Speaker 3: He looks like a prime or even better Matthew Stafford,

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Speaker 3: not showing those signs of which you usually see in

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Speaker 4: He's like, yeah, I still got it.

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Speaker 3: I'm playing at an MVP level which he should win,

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Speaker 3: and let's run this thing back if if my body holds.

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Speaker 1: Up for me there, Tom only fitting that in the

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Speaker 1: year of the NFC West was clearly the best division

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Speaker 1: forty nine Ers and the Rams both for a third

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Speaker 1: time to get into the Super Bowl. Meanwhile, Mike over

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Speaker 1: on the AFC side, we had a familiar matchup with

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Speaker 1: an interesting end.

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Speaker 4: We did.

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Speaker 6: Tom. This was the AFC Championship Game one eleven years ago.

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Speaker 6: I believe it was ten years ago.

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Speaker 8: Jared Stidham zero passed the steps in two seasons. Bo

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Speaker 8: Nicks out for the postseason with that broken ankle looking

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Speaker 8: like a three to four month recovery so Drake May saying,

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Speaker 6: Well, jareded Stidham gets.

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Speaker 8: Leonard Taylor, the third call up from the practice squad

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Speaker 6: The night before excuse me, alters the King. Broncos have

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Speaker 8: After a Patriots three and up Stidham from Marvin Mems

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Speaker 8: And that interception on the daily enter in thirty thirty

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Speaker 10: What are you feeling, I'm feeling very excited, very happy

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Speaker 10: I'm just very excited for him, very excited for the

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Speaker 2: You see, you've seen a lot of the hard moments.

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Speaker 10: Discipline, discipline and work. It's not like, oh, you wake

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Speaker 10: It's disciplined, simple, hard discipline.

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Speaker 9: And last one for me, I know, he talked about

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Speaker 2: He said, you are really a football girly before.

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Speaker 9: But now you're joining the brigade and the Patriots are

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not a bad start as a football fan, not

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you, Carter, enjoy it.

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Speaker 6: Big baseball fan Cardi B. Campwolf was a machine.

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Speaker 8: The number of one on one interviews he was getting

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Speaker 6: You were obviously there.

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Speaker 8: You saw the game, you covered the game leading up

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Speaker 9: First of all, forever moment for me, I thought, hello,

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Speaker 9: I was thinking throughout that Cardi B.

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Speaker 9: You know, I will say this, the Patriots defense is

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Speaker 4: He is literally shaky.

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Speaker 9: He can't wait to express all that he's had pent up.

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Speaker 9: He said, what are they going to say now? What

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Speaker 9: The last eight drives of the game, the Broncos had

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Speaker 9: They were dominant, dominant, dominant. And it starts up front

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Speaker 9: with those two defensive tackles, Milton Williams Christian bar where

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Speaker 9: I've never set that for anyone else team wise that

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Speaker 8: Take cam single, shout again, how do you already have

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Speaker 6: See are they real pictures? How are they so clear?

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Speaker 9: My producer. Took them in the five degree snowy weather.

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Speaker 8: Steve Weisch, what will the Broncos be thinking about all

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Speaker 6: And I did a rant on Good Morning Football.

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Speaker 8: A couple of weeks ago where it's like not enough

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Speaker 11: First of Mike, you and I are not dripping with

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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy hired as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers,

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Speaker 1: his third head coaching opportunity coming with his hometown team.

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Speaker 1: A celebration in Pittsburgh, unless you're getting your information from

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Speaker 12: One of the worst days in Pittsburgh Steeler's history. I

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Speaker 12: totally agree with you. You have to give this a grade

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Speaker 12: for change. It was a big deal to get rid

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Speaker 13: I hope we're all prepared to continue to trend to

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Speaker 13: mediocrity for the next five years minimum. I have a

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Speaker 13: PSA and a message for Steeler Nation what we need

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Speaker 13: to do on Draft night with We need to let

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Speaker 12: The second know exactly how we feel.

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Speaker 13: Sell the team, chance, sell the team shirts, sell the

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Speaker 6: How sickened we are by this hire.

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Speaker 1: You want to hear what a spoiled brat sounds like.

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Speaker 1: Just keep tuning in to calls like that. I've got

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Speaker 3: my phone about.

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Speaker 4: There to being distraught about this hire.

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Speaker 3: So so look, hey, look in a vacuum. I think

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Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy probably would have been better fit for like

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Speaker 3: an organization like Tennessee that needed an established coach that

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Speaker 3: has won. But I think the Pittsburgh fans it's just

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Speaker 3: I think it's more of the same. Some fantastic memes

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Speaker 3: going around on the internet comparing McCarthy to Mike Tomlin.

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Speaker 3: But look, you can't argue with what he has done,

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Speaker 3: and he has had a success, but can he take

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Speaker 3: the organization to another level or is this just more

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Speaker 3: treading water.

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Speaker 4: And it's almost what we've seen from.

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Speaker 3: Pittsburgh over the last what ten years or so, of

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Speaker 3: that being stuck in the middle. And you know, with

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Speaker 3: the success of the Mike McDonald's there in the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 3: the Liam Cohens, the Demico Ryans, the Ben Johnson's who

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Speaker 3: have instantly come in bringing that young, fresh perspective, I

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Speaker 3: think that's what most Pittsburgh fans really wanted, something different

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Speaker 3: and not to just be stuck there in the middle.

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Speaker 3: So definitely understand the frustration there and it's just good coach,

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Speaker 3: but can he take them to the next level.

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Speaker 8: He's won a lot of games, Mark, I mean, he's

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Speaker 8: won a lot of games in the regular season and

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Speaker 8: making the playoffs and getting yourself in what football people

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Speaker 8: like to call the tournament.

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Speaker 6: It's not a bad thing.

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Speaker 8: And Mike McCarthy coming in and maybe it's not the

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Speaker 8: boom of you could hire your fourth coach since as

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Speaker 8: Tom has been quick to put it out the moon

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Speaker 8: landing and have that guy there for twenty years or

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Speaker 8: fifteen years or whatever you want to talk about. You know,

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Speaker 8: Mike McCarthy's probably not going to be there for fifteen years.

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Speaker 8: But to me, of all the coaches that are on

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Speaker 8: the market, this is the one I'm maybe most confident

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Speaker 8: is going to come in and win games and get

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Speaker 8: you in the playoffs and get you to do that.

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Speaker 8: There are other issues besides head coaching. This team needs

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Speaker 8: to figure out at some point when they're going to

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Speaker 8: find themselves a franchise quarterback, and it's hard to do

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Speaker 8: that when you've won as many games as Mike Tomlin.

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Speaker 6: I haven't been eyeing up in the draft order.

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Speaker 8: It's time to get creative in Pittsburgh and figure out

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Speaker 8: a way to give Mike McCarthy a franchise quarterback in

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Speaker 8: the way that he's had in the two previous stops

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Speaker 8: as well. Could be Aaron Rodgers potentially at least for

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Speaker 8: one more year here as they start to figure that out.

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Speaker 6: But they've got to find a way.

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Speaker 8: To get aggressive and find themselves a franchise quarterback for

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Speaker 8: Mike McCarthy.

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Speaker 3: To coach, Mike, you're one hundred percent right. That has

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Speaker 3: been the problem the aging Big Ben. They never really

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Speaker 3: properly addressed it and didn't identify the quarterback situation when

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Speaker 3: they had a chance either because you want to hold

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Speaker 3: on a big ben too long. Lamar Jackson was a

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Speaker 3: thirty second pick in that first round. Jalen Hurts the

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Speaker 3: second round pick. So they did have a chances to

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Speaker 3: not just take a quarterback that didn't go in the

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Speaker 3: top five or top ten. But they just didn't fail.

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Speaker 3: They just failed to have addressed that. And you know, really,

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Speaker 3: this shows the power of relationships. Why he's there. Of course,

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Speaker 3: the GM there, Omar Kahn assistant GM Andy Widel, and

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Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy worked together in the Saints.

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Speaker 4: Back in the day.

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Speaker 3: And just like I talked about with the Miami his

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Speaker 3: with a two Green Bay person people and the head coach.

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Speaker 3: This to me seems like that as well shows you

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Speaker 3: the power of relationships. Always keep those release relationships in tech.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I would say to the people calling into

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh talk radio, to the Steelers fans watching this right

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Speaker 1: now and getting deep. Yeah, give me the single, Come

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Speaker 1: in real close here. I want to tell you something.

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Speaker 1: You you're asking every word I hear there is you

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Speaker 1: want something different? This is more of the same. Why

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Speaker 1: don't we do something different? This is different? You have

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Speaker 1: consistently hired for fifty plus years the young, rising defensive coach,

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Speaker 1: and it's worked out very well for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 1: What the league is telling you right now, with all

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Speaker 1: the hires you're seeing from John Harbaugh to the Giants,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski to the Falcons, Robert solid to the Titans,

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Speaker 1: is that that young, up and coming group has been

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Speaker 1: picked over for so many years that those candidates right

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Speaker 1: now are not available.

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Speaker 2: So what do you do?

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Speaker 1: This is not more of the same in Pittsburgh. For

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Speaker 1: the first time in all those years since the moon landing,

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Speaker 1: since the Beatles broke up, whatever metric you want to indicate,

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine, they've hired an offensive minded head coach.

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Speaker 1: You know how many consecutive years it's been that the

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Speaker 1: Steelers have been one of the least effective offenses in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Eight years in a row they have ranked

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Speaker 1: twenty third or worse in yards per game, a.

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Speaker 2: Single metric, how much are moving in the football?

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Speaker 6: They're in the.

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Speaker 1: Bottom third eight years in a row. Mike McCarthy's been

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Speaker 1: a head coach for eighteen years in the NFL. He's

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Speaker 1: in a top five scoring offense ten times. Over half

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Speaker 1: the time. They've been number one five times, including two

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Speaker 1: years when he was in Dallas and made Dak better,

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Speaker 1: when he made Aaron Rodgers better in Green Bay and

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Speaker 1: won four NFL MVPs from a guy who's just coming

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Speaker 1: to the league.

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Speaker 2: And edd and started.

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Speaker 1: Brett Favre was practically done in his second year with

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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, he's the runner up.

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Speaker 2: For the MVP. They go to the NFC Championship game.

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Speaker 2: You go back to rich Gannon in the nineties.

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Speaker 1: Everywhere mcmike McCarthy has been, he has elevated the level

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Speaker 1: of the offense. He has elevated the level of the

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Speaker 1: quarterback play. Whether this is Will Howard, Bason Rudolph, Is

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Speaker 1: there another quarterback coming in or maybe one more run

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Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers. The track record here is not mediocrity,

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Speaker 1: to steal the word for Pittsburgh Talk Radio. The track

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Speaker 1: record here is you're competing every year. Mike McCarthy has

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Speaker 1: more playoff wins than any active coach except Andy Reid

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Speaker 1: and John Harbaugh. And if you blind resume McCarthy, Sean Payton,

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Speaker 1: John Harbaught and Mike Tomlin.

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Speaker 2: They're extremely similar. All I'm saying, I'm not saying.

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Speaker 6: He gotta love the hire.

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Speaker 2: I understand it.

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Speaker 1: You want the long term answer as your head coach,

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Speaker 1: but give it time and trust that are Earnie the

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Speaker 1: Second and Omar Kahn, who went through this process and

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Speaker 1: interviewed some of those young coaches, interviewed the defensive coaches,

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Speaker 1: came to the conclusion for a reason, you will actually

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Speaker 1: see the Steelers scoring points this season for the first

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Speaker 1: time since.

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Speaker 2: Antonio Brown was running routes.

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Speaker 1: Let's see how it works out, and then we'll find

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Speaker 1: a way for you to call into this show. If

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Speaker 1: I'm completely wrong with this, this entire thing ends up

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Speaker 1: face planning here, all right. A lot more to talk

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Speaker 1: about here as we roll on in this show, and

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Speaker 1: I appreciate I appreciate the producers really staying on that

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Speaker 1: single for you know, as long as as long as

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Speaker 1: we possibly could. We still have other head coaching vacancies

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Speaker 1: across the NFL right now. There's four of them, the Bills, Browns, Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: and Raiders still looking for their head coach. Mike and

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Speaker 1: in the case of the Cleveland Browns, they have been

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Speaker 1: looking and looking and looking some more.

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Speaker 8: Philip Rivers has withdrawn from that coaching search. It sounds

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Speaker 8: like he enjoyed the process and that he interviewed.

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Speaker 6: Well, it's just not.

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Speaker 8: The right timing for him and his family right now,

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Speaker 8: so rivers withdrawals. He did gain some head coaching interview experience,

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Speaker 8: and I do expect him to be on the radar

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Speaker 8: for NFL head coaching jobs in years to come. In

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Speaker 8: the meantime, the Bills interviewed Davis Webb of the Broncos

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Speaker 8: as well as Nate Sheelhouse this evening of the Rams.

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Speaker 6: Who's house not the Rams House? Sealhouse?

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Speaker 1: Tom, that was coming. I've been waiting for the Rams.

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Speaker 1: She loves joke the entire week. A lot of these

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Speaker 1: same names in the four remaining searches. Davis web also

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Speaker 1: interviewing tonight with the Las Vegas Raiders, who spent time

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Speaker 1: earlier today with Bill zovinsive coordinator Joe Brady. Meanwhile, the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals interviewed Anthony Weaver on Sunday, into today, tonight,

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Speaker 1: and into tomorrow. They also are speaking with Rams offensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator Mike Lafleur about that job. We will be with

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Speaker 1: you all week long as things continue to develop on

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Speaker 1: the coaching front. We'll be with you all night long,

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Speaker 1: right here on the Insiders to talk about the matchup

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Speaker 1: in Super Bowl sixty Seahawks Patriots.

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Speaker 2: We'll go deep on it next on the Insiders.

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Speaker 6: All right, super Bowl, I see now I'm looking.

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna be looking at all these graphics for hints

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Speaker 8: about who's going to win the Super Bowl based on

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Speaker 8: that preseason one that had Drake May and Sam Darnold

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Speaker 8: out in front of all the other quarterbacks and players.

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Speaker 8: But here you go super Bowl sixty in the May

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Speaker 8: area where Super Bowl fifty was played.

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Speaker 6: Seahawks Patriots. We're gonna be talking about this for the

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Speaker 6: better part of two weeks.

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Speaker 8: But Jeffrey Jenia says, I'm going to get right to

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Speaker 8: the points, all five of them. The five biggest factors

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Speaker 8: that will determine super Bowl sixty. You can find it

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Speaker 8: at NFL dot com slash first read. Let's start with

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Speaker 8: a big one. Let's start with Sam Dartle.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, an obvious one, because can he saved the best

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Speaker 5: for last. He had a great game and the Nantcy

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Speaker 5: Championship game win, and you saw him slay some demons.

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Speaker 5: I said earlier, but he's been a gay manager for

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Speaker 5: most of the second half of the season, and playing conservatively,

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Speaker 5: letting that defense take over. I want to see if

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Speaker 5: he's going to come in against his Patriots defense, which

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Speaker 5: you know with Mike Rabel is going to be ready

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Speaker 5: for him, is going to come after him and try

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Speaker 5: to make life hard for him. He's going to be

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Speaker 5: able to do what he did this past Sunday and

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Speaker 5: win a championship. And secondly, the other side of the coin,

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Speaker 5: looking at Drake May, is he going to return to

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Speaker 5: regular season four because we haven't seen that this entire postseason.

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Speaker 5: This is the guy who led the league a completion

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Speaker 5: percentage led the league and passer ready and he's at

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Speaker 5: fifty five percent. He's got fifteen sacks, he's got five turnovers.

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Speaker 5: They're winning in spite of him. He's done some great

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Speaker 5: things with his legs. He's made some plays, but he's

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Speaker 5: had to make them. But he's going against the best

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Speaker 5: scoring defense in the league. He's going to have to

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Speaker 5: make played with his arm to beat the Seattle Seahawks.

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Speaker 5: And then finally Kena Newland Patriots contained.

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Speaker 4: Jackson Smith and Jigma.

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Speaker 5: He's been the best receiver in the league all season,

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Speaker 5: led the league at receiving yards, blew up against the

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Speaker 5: Rams once again with ten catches, one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 5: three yards and a touchdown. He is impossible to stop

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Speaker 5: when he gets going. I love the matchup with Christian

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Speaker 5: Gonzalez taking him on. Carlton Davis third has been a

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Speaker 5: good quarterback for the Patriots. This will be a great

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Speaker 5: matchup to see if you can handle him.

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Speaker 8: About the coaching matchup here, you've got Mike Rabel, who

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Speaker 8: has Super Bowl experience as a player, but not as

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Speaker 8: a head coach here and you've got Mike McDonald on

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Speaker 8: the other side.

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Speaker 6: How do you break this one down?

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Speaker 5: I love him both and it's hard to find an

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Speaker 5: heads here because there are a lot they're the same

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Speaker 5: guy in a lot of ways. The way our teams

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Speaker 5: play their physical detail oriented. Both teams play like they

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Speaker 5: have the answers to all the tests they take, and

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Speaker 5: so you know that they're going to have something stored away,

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Speaker 5: a little rinkle, a little detail, a little play they've.

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Speaker 4: Been storing up for this moment.

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Speaker 5: But I love this matchup because as much as we

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Speaker 5: talk about quarterbacks, this is about the coaches. Then finally,

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Speaker 5: the next factor I want to a touch on is Rashishi.

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Speaker 5: One of the best trade deals of the deadline. He's

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Speaker 5: been a big play machine for this team, special teams players,

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Speaker 5: kick returns, he had the huge catchers against the Rams.

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Speaker 5: It's hard to think he's not going to be a

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Speaker 5: big factor in this game.

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Speaker 4: It's going to be a close game. He could be

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Speaker 4: the difference.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we talked about it the trade deadline.

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Speaker 8: We said the Seahawks that was a position of strength

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Speaker 8: for them, and they said, we're going to move to

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Speaker 8: make it stronger. We're going to add another dimension there,

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Speaker 8: and also a dimension added to the return game as well.

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Speaker 8: One of the best in season trades that we have

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Speaker 8: seen in recent NFL memory, and basically a reason for

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Speaker 8: teams to be aggressive at the trade deadline again next year.

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Speaker 6: So tune in for that.

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Speaker 8: But in the meantime, you know we're going to play

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Speaker 8: the Super Bowl, So check out NFL dot com Slash

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Speaker 8: first Read. We're all of Jeffrey's insight on the game

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Speaker 8: that you will overadalyze over the next couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Tom Pilisero here at the twenty twenty six Panini Senior Bowl,

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Speaker 1: joined now by Cam Wolf, who was at that game

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Speaker 1: as well as their front office analyst Mark Ross. Cam

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Speaker 1: there was snow, there were conditions, There were a lot

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Speaker 1: of different challenges in that game, but so not the

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Speaker 1: performance the Patriots wanted to have offensively. How do they

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Speaker 1: get this thing back on track knowing that they might

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Speaker 1: have to match fire with fire against Seattle.

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Speaker 9: Tom One of the coolest nuggets I learned postgame was

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Speaker 9: that last play the Patriots had third and five, the

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Speaker 9: key play two minutes left, Drake May takes the naked

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Speaker 9: boot leg. That was a dummy call in the huddle.

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Speaker 9: They were going to hand the ball off. They told

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Speaker 9: the huddle to the running back. Drake May takes it

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Speaker 9: himself with his legs, gets the first down, clinches the game.

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Speaker 9: And it's those simple plays, those plays what Mays legs

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Speaker 9: that took the Patriots over That is not going to

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Speaker 9: be enough against the Seahawks. He was banged in, bruised

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Speaker 9: running the ball throughout the game, but they're going to

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Speaker 9: need his arm. They made a decision at halftime, with

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Speaker 9: the weather conditions getting the way they were, they were

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Speaker 9: going to protect the ball and protect their quarterback. The

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Speaker 9: one thing they really have to figure out, how do

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Speaker 9: we protect Drake May. He's been sacked fifteen times in

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Speaker 9: three playoff games, five times each. They were doing kind

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Speaker 9: of this unique cup blocking thing with Will Campbell all

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Speaker 9: game because he was struggling with Nick Benito. They have

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Speaker 9: a tough challenge with Biron Murphy, Leonard Williams, DeMarcus Lawrence

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Speaker 9: in this front. They've got to find ways to protect

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Speaker 9: their quarterback to get that pass game going. That's something

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Speaker 9: they're already getting to work on. They did enough against Denver.

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Speaker 9: But Drake May is the most important player in the

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Speaker 9: Super Bowl because he has to get that regular season

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Speaker 9: mode back for this Patriots offense to win the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Just like everyone predicted back in September, We've got a

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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold, Drake May's Super Bowl mark.

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Speaker 2: Who's got the ende of this Well.

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Speaker 3: It's got to be the Seahawks and been saying it

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Speaker 3: for the while, just because the overall talent where they

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Speaker 3: have not just good players, they have absolute playmakers in

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Speaker 3: just about every position group on the field on both

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Speaker 3: sides of the ball and special teams. And that's what

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Speaker 3: makes them so scary is that most of the season

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Speaker 3: you could rely on some games where the defense goes

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Speaker 3: and shut teams, shuts teams down, or hey, they just

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Speaker 3: go score points and put the offensive position to go

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Speaker 3: score points and then the offensive side of the ball.

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Speaker 3: It was really the explosive plays that got them through

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Speaker 3: the downfield, explosive plays from donald to JSN. Well, now

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Speaker 3: you bring this guy in here, Rashid Shihed and I

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Speaker 3: always thought the Sleeping Giant was the run game with

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Speaker 3: Kenneth Walker really not breaking out. Well, now Kenneth Walker

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Speaker 3: is finding his groove over the last four games or so,

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Speaker 3: which makes that offense even more balanced and scary, because

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Speaker 3: now Seattle can either beat you methodic league with this

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Speaker 3: guy right here or with the explosive plays, or a

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Speaker 3: little bit of both.

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Speaker 4: So that's what makes them so good.

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Speaker 3: Is that they have playmakers everywhere and are well coached team.

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Speaker 3: So don't turn the ball over, Sam Donalds. Could be

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Speaker 3: a nice victory in Seattle. Redeem those demons from these

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Speaker 3: highlights you'll see of Malcolm Butler all two weeks.

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Speaker 2: Can we run highlight one more time? Talk about it?

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm just kidding. We'll get to that other time.

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl sixty thirteen days away, cam Mark, Thank you

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Speaker 1: both very much. This is how the Patriots sealed their

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Speaker 1: spot in Super Bowl sixty in a second half where

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Speaker 1: the footing was awfully rough, the snow was coming down,

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Speaker 1: the lines on the field were fake, Drake May this

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Speaker 1: is like running across a patch of ice right there.

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Speaker 1: Sean Payton had a lot to think about a couple

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Speaker 1: of things.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, man disappointment.

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Speaker 14: You know, you hurt for every one of those players

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Speaker 14: in that locker room. You don't know that it's going

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Speaker 14: to be like this three point game, but it became

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Speaker 14: apparent that with each possession a field goal, that type

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Speaker 14: of thing was going to be real important.

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Speaker 4: Sean, you mentioned the field goal.

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Speaker 1: What was the decision making on the fourth and one

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Speaker 1: early in the second quarter to go for it?

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Speaker 14: Yeah, just like, man, we had momentum to get up

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Speaker 14: fourteen and felt like we had a good call and

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Speaker 14: where we at yard line wise there? Yeah, ron point, Yeah,

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Speaker 14: I think I think the feeling was, man, let's let's

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Speaker 14: be aggressive.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the insiders, Tom Pilisero, Mike Girafolo, joined

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Speaker 1: once again by our Steve White. Steve will never know

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Speaker 1: what the AFC Championship game might have looked like if

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Speaker 1: they had their quarterback in bow knicks. But from a

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Speaker 1: bigger picture, perspective. If there's a hump the Denver needs

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Speaker 1: to get over in twenty twenty six, how do they

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Speaker 1: do it?

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Speaker 11: Well, a couple things, Mike, I mean, Boonix has to

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Speaker 11: come back.

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Speaker 4: And continue to improve.

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Speaker 11: I'm the high wire act of them winning games late

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Speaker 11: week after a week. That's a dangerous road to travel,

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Speaker 11: especially with Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs likely to retool

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Speaker 11: and be back and play as a playoff contender. So

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Speaker 11: that's one thing Bonnicks again, continue to improve. Maybe he

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Speaker 11: sits down with Drew Brees in the offseason it gets

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Speaker 11: more or the idiosyncrasies of this offense down together.

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Speaker 4: But they also have to give him some weapons.

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Speaker 11: They've got to give him a secondary receiver besides Courtland Sutton,

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Speaker 11: and that might come in the form of a tight end.

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Speaker 4: You know, the Evan Ingram acquisition.

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Speaker 11: We thought before the season was going to give him, Hey,

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Speaker 11: this is his Jimmy Graham that Drew Brees had down

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Speaker 11: in New Orleans, but that didn't quite materialize. But they

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Speaker 11: do have to give another receiving option, if not a

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Speaker 11: second one, maybe at a little depth in the backfield.

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Speaker 11: JK Dobbins, his contract is going to be expiring. They've

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Speaker 11: also got a fortify their offensive and defensive material lines

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Speaker 11: with depth and potential starters. Jonathan Franklin Meyers defensive tackle, he's,

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Speaker 11: you know, a good player. His contract is up. Both

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Speaker 11: inside linebackers contracts are up, so fortify there, but not

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Speaker 11: a lot to retool on the roster. They just got

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Speaker 11: to understand they're going to be, even though they were

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Speaker 11: the number one seed, gonna be a lot more of

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Speaker 11: the hunted next season.

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Speaker 4: Week to week.

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Speaker 8: They've got to figure out a way to be what

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Speaker 8: Sean Payton's Saints teams were over the years. You look

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Speaker 8: at the rankings for his.

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Speaker 6: Teams right now.

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Speaker 8: The Broncos tenth in offense this season actually climbed up.

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Speaker 6: They were middle of the pack for much of the season.

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Speaker 8: Just really not explosive in the way that Peyton and

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Speaker 8: Breeze had those Saints teams humming, where they were number

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Speaker 8: one for a number of years, top five basically a

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Speaker 8: year in a year out, definitely top ten consistently for

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Speaker 8: like fifteen sixteen seasons in a row.

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Speaker 6: We just haven't seen that with the Broncos.

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Speaker 8: And look, the defense has been tremendous and I'm sure

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Speaker 8: they played a lot of these games into well, we

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Speaker 8: know what our defense is going to be, so we

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Speaker 8: don't have to necessarily be that explosive and maybe make

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Speaker 8: some decisions along the way to play that way. We've

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Speaker 8: seen it in spurts and they were explosive for some

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Speaker 8: fourth quarter.

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Speaker 6: Go back to that game that.

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Speaker 8: They won against the Giants where they had that comeback,

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Speaker 8: and need to see that more consistently from the Broncos.

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Speaker 6: In twenty six, the.

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Speaker 1: Draft starts in Mobile, Alabama. Set of the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: six Panini Senior Bowl. Full coverage starting tomorrow right here

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Speaker 1: on NFL Network. Daniel Jeremiah's going a new mock draft out.

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Speaker 1: We'll invil it right after this of the insiders Daniels

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Speaker 1: Heeremiah unleashed is mock Draft one point zero today, Fernando

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Speaker 1: Mendoza up there at the top, rvel reset number two,

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Speaker 1: and then a bunch of guys that I will be

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Speaker 1: learning right here with you over the next three months

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Speaker 1: leading up to the NFL Draft. Pre draft process continues

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Speaker 1: at the Combine. You can catch live coverage right here

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Speaker 1: on NFL Network starting on February twenty six. Quarterbacks, the

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Speaker 1: much anticipated throwing session one pm Easter time on February

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Speaker 1: twenty eighth. Meanwhile, East West Shrine Bowl is this week

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Speaker 1: the game Tuesday Night.

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Speaker 2: Here's Mike Yam.

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Speaker 15: Guys, when it comes down to the East West Shrine Bowl,

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Speaker 15: there's some names that certainly have been popping for us.

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Speaker 15: But take me through this process. How important is for

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Speaker 15: these guys to ball out?

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Speaker 6: Well?

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Speaker 4: It is huge. I mean you talk about the ability

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Speaker 4: to work.

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Speaker 16: With some of these NFL coaches throughout the week, be

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Speaker 16: able to sit in the meeting rooms, adapt to what

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Speaker 16: their schemes are and then take it to the game

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Speaker 16: right and go out there and do your best, put

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Speaker 16: your best foot forward so that all the thirty two

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Speaker 16: teams have opportunity to see what you're up.

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Speaker 4: Kabo off as.

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Speaker 17: Your final job interview in pass. So this is what

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Speaker 17: it means. Can you show up and show out? That's

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Speaker 17: what everyon wants to see when you come these games.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, and there's a lot of accomplished players who've done

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Speaker 15: a whole lot on Saturdays trying to make a name

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Speaker 15: for themselves on Sundays.

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Speaker 6: Who's the quarterback that stood out to you? Haines King.

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Speaker 17: Hayes came from Georgia Tech, scored over one hundred touchdowns

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Speaker 17: during his tenure in the collegiate game. And he's a

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Speaker 17: duel three at playmaker who has a lot of ability.

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Speaker 17: But what I love about him, I love his toughness,

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Speaker 17: his resilience. He's going to show somebody gritty play here,

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Speaker 17: and how he performs here will give guys a better

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Speaker 17: understanding of how he can play at the next level.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna go on the flip side.

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Speaker 16: I'm gonna go with the Jaylen Daniels quarterback out of Kansas,

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Speaker 16: somebody who necessarily doesn't have the stature that you're looking for,

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Speaker 16: six foot tw hundred, twenty pounds, but throws one of

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Speaker 16: the prettiest balls that you can ever imagine. Twenty two touchdowns,

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Speaker 16: seven interceptions. He makes good decisions, He's done well in practice.

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Speaker 16: Will to show up in the game.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, looking forward to seeing the four time captain at

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Speaker 15: Kansas certainly ball out and we are certainly looking forward

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Speaker 15: to bringing you the one hundred and first edition of

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Speaker 15: the East West Shrine Ball. You can catch it tonight

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Speaker 15: at seven Eastern time right here on NFL Network.

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Speaker 1: Yeahm Er Bucky Brooks, Isaiah standback on the Call of

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Speaker 1: the East West Shrine Bowl seven pm Eastern Time on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: Right here, Tom Peliser, Mike Garrafalo, We've got live insiders,

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Speaker 1: a couple of them. Tomorrows was live practice coverage. All

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Speaker 1: starts at two pm Eastern time. Assuming Mic that you

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Speaker 1: get through the winter storm and actually make it here

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Speaker 1: on time, should be fine.

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Speaker 6: Tom.

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna take that flight tomorrow, gonna be down there.

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Speaker 8: Got insiders from Mobile. What is this off season that

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Speaker 8: you speak of, I know nothing about it.

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Speaker 1: Nope, we call it the pre draft process. That's the

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Speaker 1: off season. At least that's what my wife says. All right,

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Speaker 1: lot to come stick around to my practices. It's football.

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Speaker 2: Be here, see you