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Speaker 1: Oh that is beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the twenty in the Huddle Podcast presented by Microsoft,

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Speaker 2: and I am very excited to having rookie tight end

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Speaker 2: Sam Laporta to the twenty in the Huddle Podcast. Sam, Welcome,

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the team. Welcome to the podcast. Your first

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Speaker 2: it's great so far.

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Speaker 3: Spending a lot of time with my buddies, learning a

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Speaker 1: Yea, So it's been great so far. Sore, Okay, your

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Speaker 1: body's handling it. No, the body's holding up so far.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's great to get the giants in these

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Speaker 3: last couple of days and that, you know, that ramped

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Speaker 2: How important are those joint prices because coaches talk about

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the.

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Speaker 2: but you get thirty forty great reps against a new

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're basically game reps when you're out there against

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Speaker 1: You know, like you said that competitive juices are flowing.

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Speaker 2: pro stuff. Just how much information? Is it almost a

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Speaker 3: It's a lot of content, certainly, you know you mentioned

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Speaker 3: Jared's been great for me. He's kept the game really

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Speaker 2: A rookie to go work out with all those guys

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Speaker 2: The best ability availability, right, I say, Sam, everyone out

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Speaker 2: there is really excited to see you on the field.

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Speaker 2: If you play Friday and obviously keep trending in the

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Speaker 2: They love to use tight ends and you make plays

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, no problem, Sam Laporta. Welcome back

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Speaker 2: to the twenty in the Huddle podcast presented by Microsoft,

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Speaker 2: and I am very happy to welcome in the NFL

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Speaker 2: networks Stacey Dale's. She is the authority on the NFC North,

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Speaker 2: at least she is to me, Stace, thanks so much

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Speaker 2: for joining. Welcome to Alan Park.

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Speaker 1: Got to visit you know the Lions this week.

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Speaker 2: You got to stop in here. You were in Green

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Speaker 2: Bay already, you live in Chicago, you know them well.

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Speaker 2: So we're gonna go through the NFC North. But let's

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Speaker 2: start with this just first impressions of your visit to

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Speaker 2: Alan Park, maybe just some of the the excitement that's

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Speaker 2: maybe a little different than the past times you've been here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So first of all, Tim, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 4: I'm a big fan of you, and honestly, this team

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Speaker 4: I have been for a very long time. It's not

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Speaker 4: just you know, getting my time in here, and you

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Speaker 4: know kind of yeah, I.

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Speaker 1: Got to go to Detroit this yeah, yeah, yeah, No.

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Speaker 4: This is my fifteenth season covering the NFL humbly, and

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Speaker 4: I just love the trajectory I think, probably more than

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Speaker 4: ever here. So my takeaways are even just talking to

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Speaker 4: Dan Campbell today, you know, how do you temper some

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Speaker 4: expectations And he said, kind of the deal where well,

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Speaker 4: that's just the thing. You know, we're still on the

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Speaker 4: outside looking in. We didn't make the playoffs last year. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and although I felt like this team was playing the

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Speaker 4: think there's a level of we're going to build on this.

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Speaker 4: We want eight of our last ten games. And the

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Speaker 4: offense is dynamic. It goes without saying it starts that

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Speaker 4: a complete makeover in the most beautiful way.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, I think when I look at

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think to that point, to hear Dan

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Speaker 4: this from Brad Holmes was extraordinary to add Samuel Porta offensively,

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Speaker 4: huge additions. But these two guys defensively are going to

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Speaker 4: It's that's apparent. But when I look at the secondary

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Speaker 2: Back he only played three games last year exactly. Yes,

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Speaker 2: so stickier That's how Jared Golf described it earlier in camps. Stickier.

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Speaker 5: I love that.

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Speaker 1: I do too.

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Speaker 5: It's going to be I think it's going to be

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Speaker 2: And it's going to be a fun group to watch

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Speaker 2: You were there last week. The Jordan Love era has

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Speaker 2: They don't have a Hall of Fame quarterback. You know,

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm just going to throw that out there.

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Speaker 5: I've been saying that for years.

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Speaker 1: They're really spoiled. Yeah, but you were there.

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Speaker 2: What's the vibe from green Bay? Still got some young

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Speaker 2: But really it's so ali about Jordan Love, isn't it

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Speaker 5: To win in this league?

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Speaker 4: It's it's do you have a quarterback that can help

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Speaker 4: preparation for that trip to Green Bay is Matt We're

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Speaker 4: saying that initial week of camp, I feel like I'm

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Speaker 4: It was a twenty nineteen season, I think, so, yeah,

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Speaker 4: Well there's a difference. That's your first year with Aaron

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Speaker 4: but it's true, you know, he's got it. Probably one

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Speaker 4: So it's I think Green Bay fans have to be patient.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And look, they did the same thing with Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 4: He does. And I think it's going to be a

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Speaker 4: who am I missing Zach Taylor, like all these guys

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Speaker 4: who've had these various flavors of this. You know, Matt Lafleur,

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Speaker 2: They might be Romeo.

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Speaker 4: Dobbs and Christian Watson lookout standing, Jayden Reid. They're rookie

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Speaker 2: It's at the two tight ends at the Senior Bowl.

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Speaker 4: Great, great, and the two tight ends Musgrave and Tucker

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Speaker 4: I'm standing there after you know, practice and talking to

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Speaker 4: And I said, so, like, what about some twelve personnel? Right,

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Speaker 5: Because you know, Matt Lafleur.

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Speaker 2: You expect them to still be pretty strong, right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that, you know. I did spend some

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Speaker 5: Get after you and force the issue if you will.

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Speaker 4: And they're going to need big jumps from DeVante Wyatt

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Speaker 2: And getting a healthy Gary back is huge for them.

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Speaker 5: Huge.

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Speaker 1: Oh he really great.

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Speaker 4: By the way, Rashaun, Gary looked fantastic. He looks like

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Speaker 1: Really.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So it's.

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Speaker 1: Should be pretty close, you hope.

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Speaker 4: So and Eric Stokes as well from their secondary coming

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Speaker 2: What did you come away from those couple of days

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Speaker 2: thinking of Jordan Love watching him practice, watching him smooth, smooth.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, smooth. I mean he can really throw the ball.

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Speaker 4: So if you can establish the chemistry necessary and the

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Speaker 2: All starts there. Yeah, it'll do whatever you want if

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Speaker 5: Front, exactly exactly.

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Speaker 4: So I think figure out the right tackle spot in

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Speaker 1: Yeah. All right.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Minnesota, winners of the division last year,

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Speaker 2: and you look at them and it was kind of

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Speaker 2: They go to the playoffs, they get upset at home,

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Speaker 5: And I haven't been there yet.

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Speaker 2: Defensive names have changed that have been there for a

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Speaker 4: Norman, Well, this this is the only team the Lions

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Speaker 4: I covered the Vikings a few times last year and

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Speaker 4: I think they're dynamic offensively.

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Speaker 5: I just do.

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Speaker 4: Alex Madison takes over at the running back position, but

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Speaker 4: I think he's they've been preparing for that.

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Speaker 5: Jefferson, I've had.

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Speaker 2: head break to Justin Jefferson obviously the most dynamic receiver

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Speaker 2: in the game.

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Speaker 1: Well he is.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I guess Saint Brown would argue that they're

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Speaker 4: both They're different. So I'm and ras, like one hundred

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Speaker 4: and ninety six catches over two years, there's only three

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Speaker 4: players that.

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Speaker 5: Have done that. I know who one of them is, well,

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Speaker 5: Saint Brown.

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Speaker 1: I know who two of them are.

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Speaker 5: Just it is and who is the other?

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Speaker 2: Who's the other one?

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Speaker 6: Justin is the one New Orleans Saints, Oh, guard Guarden, Mike,

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Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure I would want to go double check,

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Speaker 6: but I think it was Michael Thomas.

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Speaker 1: Michael Thomas was it was?

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Speaker 2: Because I've written that too.

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Speaker 1: I'm so mad that one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it's just because I was like really reading

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Speaker 4: about it, because I I thought, wait a minute, I

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Speaker 4: need to.

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Speaker 5: Go back and double check that.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing.

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Speaker 4: This guy's on the jugs after practice every day to

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Speaker 4: are you kidding?

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Speaker 1: Every day?

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Speaker 4: So like Jared Goff has his thing, and Kirk Cousins

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Speaker 4: has his thing. I always just want to see more

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Speaker 4: from hat to said. He puts up monstrous yards, but

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Speaker 4: Kirk Cousins like, I need some big wins.

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Speaker 2: Big games, big games.

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Speaker 5: And these really good quarterbacks would really throw the.

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Speaker 2: Ball head coaches and quarterbacks in this league, and I

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Speaker 2: think you would agree your value in the wins and losses.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's just how it is, especially veteran quarterbacks. Yes,

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Speaker 4: the relationship with Kevin O'Connell has been excellent. I think,

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Speaker 4: you know, defensively, Lewis scene coming back healthy. I mean

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Speaker 4: he's had a really good training camp and their secondary

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Speaker 4: I was in London for his injury and it was devastating.

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Speaker 5: I think, you know, they should.

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Speaker 4: You know, I think Brian Flores is going to put

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Speaker 4: an imprint on this defense and they're going to you know,

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Speaker 4: play per the opponent to.

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Speaker 5: Try to take away that's what he's so good at.

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Speaker 5: And lots of pressure upfront. So we'll see.

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Speaker 2: And then let's move to Chicago. Okay, you're from there, Yes,

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Speaker 2: I live there. You live in Chicago, so you know

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Speaker 2: Bears fans, well, you know this team very well, justin

488
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Speaker 2: fields and when the Lions played him last year. I mean,

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Speaker 2: he went off a couple of times. You know, what

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Speaker 2: he could do with his legs is just dynamic. And

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Speaker 2: it was always can they put enough weapons in the

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Speaker 2: passing game around him? Can they have can they upgrade

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Speaker 2: the offensive line where he can stand back there, survey

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Speaker 2: and throw the football without feeling like he's got to

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Speaker 2: use his legs And then do they have guys on

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Speaker 2: the opposite and catch the football. I think they started

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Speaker 2: to address that a little bit more. Obviously, more coming

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Speaker 2: there is huge. Do we see a big uptick with

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Speaker 2: Justin Fields in year three?

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Speaker 5: I think so? Yeah, I definitely think so.

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Speaker 4: I think that he's been as dialed in as I

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Speaker 4: can remember. You know, it was funny, It's iron I

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Speaker 4: had the pleasure of interviewing David Montgomery while I've been

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Speaker 4: here today, and he said, now they're not teammates obviously anymore.

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Speaker 5: He said, this is the hardest worker I've ever witnessed Justin.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I said, wow, Like, you don't have to

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Speaker 4: say that now you're not even a teammate. But I

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Speaker 4: thought that was a really extraordinary comment about Justin. And

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Speaker 4: I can tell you having talked to people there he

510
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Speaker 4: has been so dialed him for him to turn down

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Speaker 4: the Quarterback Show on Netflix because he didn't want to

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Speaker 4: change the energy in the building and the leadership it is.

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Speaker 4: They're all hoping obviously, everybody in Chicago's hoping for like

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Speaker 4: a Jalen Hurts type jump, which we saw Jalen do

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Speaker 4: last year.

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Speaker 5: But there is more talent, so there's maybe a little

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Speaker 5: bit more.

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Speaker 4: Expectation that you know, you're not going to run for

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Speaker 4: a thousand yards anymore like DJ Moore. That's a real connection,

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Speaker 4: that's a real thing. Chase clay pool Fields has talked

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Speaker 4: about his attitude adjustment this offseason and now having a

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Speaker 4: full offseason with not coming in last year, coming in

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Speaker 4: with a full clean slate. Darnell Mooney, you know, Maddie

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Speaker 4: Riffers told me, it's they're all a little bit different.

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Speaker 4: But Mooney's going to be, I think a better player

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Speaker 4: than he was before his injury.

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Speaker 2: And then defensively, obviously went and spent They got some

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Speaker 2: you know, a couple off the ball linebackers and did

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Speaker 2: some stuff to their secondary. You know, they should be

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Speaker 2: better defensively as well. So it's an interesting team. You know,

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Speaker 2: they moved back in the draft, did some things, got

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Speaker 2: some pieces. I think they're a better football team, but

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Speaker 2: are they ready to take the next step? That's kind

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Speaker 2: of the question in Chicago, right Yeah, it'll be telling,

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Speaker 2: all right, so as you see it right now, final

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Speaker 2: one from me if you were not Look, there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of football to play.

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Speaker 1: We got preseason.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to preface this by saying, there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of things that can happen here. But ten days into

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Speaker 2: training camp, if you visited a couple you know. Another one, well,

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Speaker 2: if you were to set up the NFC North right now, one, two, three, four, Oh.

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Speaker 5: That's tough.

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Speaker 1: It is tough.

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Speaker 4: I can't out of my allegiance to the division. I

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Speaker 4: cover the division so much, so I gotta be careful here.

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, much fair?

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Speaker 5: You know who do you think is right now?

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Speaker 4: For me? And I'm it's not because I'm here, the energy,

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Speaker 4: the growth with Ben and Jared, I just the waste

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Speaker 4: last season ended. I think the Lions and their kind

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Speaker 4: of the reface, if you will, defensively, I just think

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Speaker 4: that just at this stage.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, because there's always.

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Speaker 1: Injury everything, they can be the equalizer.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, or what do you say? Yeah? I just I

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Speaker 5: love the energy here. I love what Dan's done.

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Speaker 4: And not to say that there isn't good stuff happen

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Speaker 4: in other places, but I think the Lions are like

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Speaker 4: just so, I don't even know the word starving. Yeah

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Speaker 4: for greatness, and I can feel it and.

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Speaker 2: The fans out there are starving for it too. It

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Speaker 2: has been nineteen ninety three, last time they won the division,

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Speaker 2: last time they had a home playoff game. She knows

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Speaker 2: everything about the NFC North. She is excited about the

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Speaker 2: Detroit Lions. That should make you guys excited about the

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Speaker 2: Detroit Lions. Stacy Dales, thank you for joining me. As always,

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Speaker 2: you are one of the best in the base.

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Speaker 5: Got the right