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Speaker 1: What is up everybody and will solving These are your

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Speaker 1: good morning football headlines for NFL Network. Well, twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: eight didn't go his plan for any of us, and

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Speaker 1: it didn't go his plan for Patriots quarterback Cam Newton.

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Speaker 1: On the field, new England went seven and nine and

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Speaker 1: missed the plans for the first time since the two

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Speaker 1: thousand and eighth season, Cam finishing with career lows and

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Speaker 1: passing touchdowns and passing yards per game. And during a

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Speaker 1: visit to the I Am Athlete podcast Listen to This,

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Speaker 1: Newton was asked if he's open to another year with

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Speaker 1: Belichick and company the Patriot. Wait, Like I said, it's

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Speaker 1: a mental stamina. Like it's hard to explain, but that's

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Speaker 1: the word. That's the definition. You have to have the

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Speaker 1: same as much energy as you have for the first

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Speaker 1: day of pads as the last day of pads, right,

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Speaker 1: and you're gonna practice, right. You gotta be mentally tough,

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Speaker 1: you gotta be physically tough, right, And that's what it is.

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Speaker 1: You can't blink, they said, arm strength as in what

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Speaker 1: it's supposed all its retirement. So I'm asking you right

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Speaker 1: here right now, let us hear it. But the people

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Speaker 1: gonna hear it too. Hell, all right, don't. No, you can't,

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Speaker 1: you can't. I can't go out like that. No, I

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Speaker 1: can't go out. I can't go out like fall. No

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Speaker 1: it's not even to the wheels fall. I can't go

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Speaker 1: out like that. No, you can't. Camp Well, Indianapolis is

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Speaker 1: going to have any starting quarterback once the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one season kicks off. Last year's start up Philip Rivers retiring,

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Speaker 1: so the team is expected to complete a trade to

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Speaker 1: acquire Phillis Carson Wentz once the newly year starts March seventeen. Now,

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Speaker 1: Carson wore jersey number eleven during his time as an

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Speaker 1: Eagle Colts white out. Michael Pittman, who wore that same

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Speaker 1: number his rookieyear in Indie, joined our virtual breakfast table

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Speaker 1: on Good Morning Football, So of course our guy, am

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Speaker 1: rob Michael Robinson asked, what about that jersey number situation?

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Speaker 1: Have you discussed switching the numbers with Carson Wentz? What

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Speaker 1: was that conversation all about? Yeah? Yeah, So he actually

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Speaker 1: texted me about two hours after the news broke and

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Speaker 1: he just asked me how I felt about it, and

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Speaker 1: I told him that I was gonna stay, and he

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Speaker 1: said that that was cool and that he would switch

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Speaker 1: numbers and it was that easy. I mean, he was

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Speaker 1: just a chill guy about it. So that was awesome. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's not given that up. Nope. Well, according to NFL

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Speaker 1: Network and Saturday Ian Rappaport, Wentz, his former teammate Alshon

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey will be released when the new league gear starts

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Speaker 1: next month. This comes after Philly announced the release of

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Speaker 1: veteran white out to Sean Jackson. No receivers on the

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Speaker 1: current Eagles roster has more than two years experience a

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Speaker 1: lot of change in Philly, potentially a lot of change

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Speaker 1: in Green Bay. The Packers have a number of key

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Speaker 1: free agents they have to make decisions on next month.

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Speaker 1: Included in that group our running backs Aaron Jones and

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Speaker 1: Jamal William. Williams ran for five hundred five yards with

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Speaker 1: a couple of Russian touchdowns in twenty twenty and was

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Speaker 1: asked if he wants to stay in Green Bay. I

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Speaker 1: really love to just be a Packer on my life

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Speaker 1: if I could, you know what I mean. They gave

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Speaker 1: me my first shot. I love Green Bay. It's just

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Speaker 1: a great place to be. But you know, things happen.

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Speaker 1: If things don't happen, then I'm just ready to take

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Speaker 1: my shot into the free agency and show my skills

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Speaker 1: to any team that's willing to take that chance on me,

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Speaker 1: because I'm just ready to go. Man, I'm just ready

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Speaker 1: to play, have fun, be myself, you know, just bring

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Speaker 1: that spark to any team that's willing to give me

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Speaker 1: that shot. Yeah, he's ready for it. Elsewhere, Jacksonville plans

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Speaker 1: on declining the option on tight end Tyler. Eiffert Ian

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Speaker 1: says the Jaguars tight end was set to earn a

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Speaker 1: little under five billion dollars in twenty twenty one, but

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Speaker 1: now becomes a free agent. Steelers star defensive line of

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Speaker 1: Cam Hayward has agreed to a contract restructure which create

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Speaker 1: it's seven million dollars in cap room for Pittsburgh and

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Speaker 1: speaking of the steel City, Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin

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Speaker 1: was diagnosed with COVID nineteen and is currently away from

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Speaker 1: the team facility. This according to Ian, Tomlin releasing a

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Speaker 1: statement saying he's had mild symptoms and it's thankful he's

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Speaker 1: in good health. Well for Unfiltered and enlightening convos that

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Speaker 1: and every time. Well, those are your good morning football

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