Speaker 1: A farewell tour, not for Taylor, potentially for Travis Kelsey,
Speaker 1: but Patrick Mahomes says, yeah, I'm not so sure about that.
Speaker 1: We'll hear from Mahomes on his long time tight end
Speaker 1: coming up here in just a couple of minutes. Trey Harris,
Speaker 1: the Chargers rookie wide receiver, will join us shortly. He
Speaker 1: is off to a fantastic start by all reports coming
Speaker 1: out of Los Angeles, so he will join us to
Speaker 1: talk about that start to his NFL career.
Speaker 2: We'll make them carry our pads, our known pads, because
Speaker 2: we're reporting.
Speaker 1: Never mind, Michael Florio will be with us as well
Speaker 1: to talk about the fantasy outlook in the NFC North
Speaker 1: where Sam Darnold no longer plays.
Speaker 2: But the guy on the other side of these.
Speaker 1: Pastes does welcome inside with the insiders. Judy Batista joining me,
Speaker 1: Mike Garafalo here on a Thursday and Ota Thursday.
Speaker 2: We love OTA's.
Speaker 1: They continue to go on around the league, bringing us
Speaker 1: all kinds of news and insight. The folks who are
Speaker 1: gonna be joining us to talk to them by to
Speaker 1: talk about them. By the way, Steve Weisch, Omar Ruiz
Speaker 1: along in just a matter of seconds, Mark Ross as well,
Speaker 1: and I mentioned Michael Florio and Trey Harris, so it's
Speaker 1: stay tuned for their insights later. But for now we
Speaker 1: go to Patrick Mahomes and his insights because the Chiefs
Speaker 1: were at OTA's trying to get back to that Super
Speaker 1: Bowl to win it this time after a disappointing loss.
Speaker 2: To the Eagles. It all starts in the spring.
Speaker 1: Even Patrick Mahomes understands that the question is will be
Speaker 1: this be the final football spring for Travis Kelce. Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes says, not so sure.
Speaker 3: About that, you know, I mean you would if it's
Speaker 3: the last ride, you would never know. I mean the
Speaker 3: way he's talking about football, the way he's talking about
Speaker 3: working and trying to be even better this year than
Speaker 3: he was last year. I mean he's he's not done.
Speaker 3: Seem like a guy that it's his last Riley, he's
Speaker 3: tired of the job. I mean he's in there, he's working,
Speaker 3: and I know his body feels good. I think it
Speaker 3: feels better than even last year before going into last season,
Speaker 3: just because I think he's motivated to go out there
Speaker 3: and have it even better year than he had this last.
Speaker 1: Yeah, heir Steve Weisch and Omar Rouiz Natalie dressed as
Speaker 1: his duty and I'm slumming it once again, but Mark
Speaker 1: Ros's gonna match me. Stay tuned for that. That's coming
Speaker 1: up in just a couple of minutes. Steve, want to
Speaker 1: start with you Travis Kelcey. You did spend time with
Speaker 1: him recently. What is your thoughts on what mahomes is
Speaker 1: saying and what we might see from Kelsey this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 5: When I saw Travis was right after the conversation came up,
Speaker 5: and I believe he started as saying, you know, he
Speaker 5: lost twenty five pounds so he can be in better shape.
Speaker 5: I was like, twenty five pounds. He's like, yeah, you
Speaker 5: know that's bs, that's twenty five pounds because he'd be
Speaker 5: weighing about two twenty if he did he did that.
Speaker 5: He plays around two forty five, two fifty. But remember
Speaker 5: his numbers, his receptions numbers were high, he had ninety seven,
Speaker 5: but his yardage totals were low, and his postseason numbers
Speaker 5: including targets were low. So he really did seem dialed
Speaker 5: in in my conversation with him about having a really
Speaker 5: good season. You know, he seems really committed to come
Speaker 5: out playing well, get this whole offense rolling well. Because
Speaker 5: it wasn't just him whose numbers were down in some areas.
Speaker 5: Patrick Mahomes's numbers were down in total yards. So the Chiefs,
Speaker 5: their offense, they're wide receivers. Everything needs to get better
Speaker 5: to open him up. And again he seems committed at
Speaker 5: least going into twenty twenty five to having one of
Speaker 5: his better seasons. We'll see if it happens, because a
Speaker 5: lot of other things have to work, but at least
Speaker 5: for what he can control, he does seem like he's.
Speaker 4: On it, but just not twenty five pounds less of it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Steve's saying. Andy Reid saying that Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 6: Chris Jones, all the guys that he's leaned on over
Speaker 6: the years, and no surprise that Travis Kelce has been
Speaker 6: working the way he has, according to Patrick Mahomes, setting
Speaker 6: the standard that they have for the Kansas City Chiefs
Speaker 6: this year, trying to get to their sixth Super Bowl
Speaker 6: in seven seasons. They're starting out in Brazil, They're playing
Speaker 6: on Thanksgiving, they're playing on Christmas, so many different irregular schedules.
Speaker 6: Andy Reid saying, these guys are instilling the tempo with
Speaker 6: which they practice, and Patrick Mahomes saying, yes, he's not
Speaker 6: quite thirty yet, but this is his ninth season. He's
Speaker 6: learning to get with these young players, trying to get
Speaker 6: to know them as people before he mentors them on
Speaker 6: the field, pushes them on the field, and that goes
Speaker 6: to the same for those veterans who are new how
Speaker 6: they practice, because when they get into the season, they're
Speaker 6: playing on a Wednesday.
Speaker 7: Or a Thursday or a Friday, as.
Speaker 6: We've seen them over the years. Sometimes Andy Reid pushes
Speaker 6: them physically in practice, sometimes he pulls back, but mentally
Speaker 6: sharp is what always is the focus, and they're learning
Speaker 6: that here in OTAs. Then we'll take that into training
Speaker 6: camp and into the rest of the season as well.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 8: Guys, none of this matters if that offensive line does
Speaker 8: not get settled and there are a lot of moving parts.
Speaker 8: There is a job competition at guard. But most importantly
Speaker 8: what came out of the early OTAs was Andy Reid
Speaker 8: saying that Josh Simmons, the rookie slated to be the
Speaker 8: left tackle, might be a little bit further along than
Speaker 8: they had expected at this point in his recovery from
Speaker 8: the knee injury that he suffered in college.
Speaker 9: He has not done any teamwork yet.
Speaker 8: Andy said, you know, we just got to get him
Speaker 8: in there against a defense. But there is some hope
Speaker 8: that maybe at the end of phase three of the
Speaker 8: off season that they'll be able to get him in
Speaker 8: there at teamwork. That is the most important thing that
Speaker 8: can come out of this offseason for this offensive line
Speaker 8: to gel. It stimied them against the Eagles in the
Speaker 8: Super Bowl last year, it cost them a previous Super
Speaker 8: Bowl against the Bucks.
Speaker 9: It has hampered them.
Speaker 8: It has hampered the offense and what Andy and Patrick
Speaker 8: can do in it. That has to get settled or
Speaker 8: nothing else matters for the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Jay La Moore also received a ton of money to
Speaker 1: come over from the San Francisco forty nine ers fifteen
Speaker 1: million dollars per season. As Joe Tooney was the tackle
Speaker 1: the last time we saw the Chiefs on the field,
Speaker 1: not made to play that position now in Chicago as
Speaker 1: a guard. So the Kansas City Chiefs looking to fortify
Speaker 1: that offensive line as well as the tight end position,
Speaker 1: with Travis Kelsey to be clear, only one tight end,
Speaker 1: making it clear that this is likely his last season.
Speaker 1: That's Mercedes Lewis. That's later in the program. Stay tuned
Speaker 1: for that. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the AFC West, the Chargers
Speaker 1: year two under Jim Harball looking to take that next
Speaker 1: step forward. Joe Hortiz, the general manager, has been trying
Speaker 1: to fortify that roster, including at the receiver position, and
Speaker 1: we mentioned Trey Harris will be with us in just
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes. Why you want to kick it
Speaker 1: back to you, Let's talk defense. Let's talk Derwin James
Speaker 1: and the secondary, the leader back there for the Chargers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Mike the ode Omar and I were both out
Speaker 5: there at their oga's. We got to speak to defensive
Speaker 5: back coach Steve Klinkscales and he was talking about Derwin James.
Speaker 5: We know about the versatility of Derwin James. He's he
Speaker 5: going him play strong safety, free safety, some even outside
Speaker 5: linebacker stuff. But what was interesting with Clinkscales pointed out
Speaker 5: is that doesn't just show Derwin James versatility, but it
Speaker 5: forces all of the other defensive backs in that secondary
Speaker 5: to learn new positions, which is allowing Jesse mentioned the
Speaker 5: defensive cour coordinator to do things different schematically, so you know,
Speaker 5: we could say, hey, guys have to learn positions just
Speaker 5: cross training in case a player gets hurt. But in
Speaker 5: the Niner scheme, what this does, Omar is it allows
Speaker 5: a different player, a safety, to learn a corner spot
Speaker 5: or a slot spot, so they can scheme up a
Speaker 5: lot of different things in different situations. They think they're
Speaker 5: going to be even more creative this year in year
Speaker 5: two of the system, especially with Darren James coming off
Speaker 5: a bounce back year last year the way he did.
Speaker 6: And they said, they're not relearning that defense. They are
Speaker 6: picking it up from where they left us in that
Speaker 6: playoff loss to the Houston Texans, and they are going
Speaker 6: they are going against every day and practice that receiving
Speaker 6: corp that we were talking about. We saw that clip
Speaker 6: on social media, justin Herbert to Brendan Rice, one of
Speaker 6: those players that was flashing when we were out there
Speaker 6: at practice. Receeed and in general these receivers, there aren't
Speaker 6: many drop balls when you watch a practice. I think
Speaker 6: last year we would agree there were a lot of
Speaker 6: balls on the ground that when they were going on air.
Speaker 6: And this is a revamped receiver room. Obviously, Mike Williams
Speaker 6: is back in tow they drafted Trey Harris in the
Speaker 6: second round of speaking with general manager Joe Hortiz about him,
Speaker 6: who not only they're high on his his skill set,
Speaker 6: his impressive size on the field. He's six two to
Speaker 6: two oh five but gets in and out of his brakes,
Speaker 6: receives the ball well with his hands.
Speaker 7: But he has a.
Speaker 6: Presence, Hortez told me when he walks into a room
Speaker 6: when they're meeting with him at the combine, just a
Speaker 6: real confidence about his style. Then you have Vladi McConkey.
Speaker 6: Of course, that's back Quinton Johnson was out making plays
Speaker 6: and it seems like they're.
Speaker 7: All elevating each other.
Speaker 6: And speaking of that elevation, we've seen from one year
Speaker 6: to the next that Chargers roster really made in the
Speaker 6: mold that Jim Harbaugh wants to have. They are big,
Speaker 6: they are physical, they are imposing, and it really stands
Speaker 6: out when you see them out at practice.
Speaker 4: You really see what Horties and Harball have done.
Speaker 5: This is a massive physical team now in terms of
Speaker 5: just stature, even the quarterback room where justin Herbert, everybody
Speaker 5: else in the room is about the.
Speaker 4: Same size as him.
Speaker 5: When you've Takento account free Agencigny dj Ungalele.
Speaker 4: Who's about Lances out there? Big Dewy Lance. So they're
Speaker 4: big all the way across the board.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the on need those offensive linemen to come first
Speaker 1: off the bus. You can send the quarterback quarterback receivers
Speaker 1: just't fine.
Speaker 6: That's the thing we're coming to. Mike Bradley Boseman. The
Speaker 6: starting centers about six five three.
Speaker 7: P forty looks small next.
Speaker 2: To Maki Beckson.
Speaker 7: That's just how big those guys are all across the board. Yeah.
Speaker 1: McKay Beckton getting ten million dollars per season to head
Speaker 1: out there to the Chargers and hopefully if you're the Chargers,
Speaker 1: he can continue on the success that he finally finally
Speaker 1: got with the Eagles this past season. Omar and Weis,
Speaker 1: don't go anywhere, yeah, Air George George Pickens the newest
Speaker 1: addition to the Cowboys receiving.
Speaker 2: Room with a one handed catch.
Speaker 1: See like you got the slow motion from every team's
Speaker 1: social account, how about the no motion. That is a
Speaker 1: great look right there from the Cowboys social account of
Speaker 1: that one headed pick catch by George Pickens. Bryan shott Hier,
Speaker 1: the new coach down there in Dallas, New head coach,
Speaker 1: happy with what he sees so far.
Speaker 10: I think number one, he's doing an incredible job picking
Speaker 10: up the system. I talked about his intentionality last week.
Speaker 10: I believe just how hard he's working. But there was
Speaker 10: a play and it really wasn't anything George did, but
Speaker 10: we're in the red zone and we're in kind of
Speaker 10: a spread formation. We hit him for a touchdown. Joe
Speaker 10: did on a little a bender, like a little skinny
Speaker 10: post down the low red zone and CD was on
Speaker 10: the other side. And when ced broke out and he
Speaker 10: looked back to see where the ball went, and he
Speaker 10: saw George and the end zone kind of dragged his
Speaker 10: toes on. CD was like, yes, So I think his
Speaker 10: excitement for knowing that we've added some pieces which will
Speaker 10: add to the competition. It was cool to see a
Speaker 10: guy like CD be excited. And those two guys relationship
Speaker 10: is awesome. I'm sure you guys have probably done stories
Speaker 10: on it, but they're spending a lot of time together.
Speaker 10: I think it's great for CD to have someone like George,
Speaker 10: not that George is a young player, but someone that
Speaker 10: GP really looks up to. They obviously have trained some together,
Speaker 10: but that relationship is really cool and I'm enjoying kind
Speaker 10: of just sitting back and watching it develop.
Speaker 1: You know, it's badly needed when a number one wide
Speaker 1: receiver is happy that another receiver got the ball.
Speaker 2: That is the case with Ceedee Lamb, Mark.
Speaker 1: Ross joining us now for our front office perspective on
Speaker 1: matters here we're talking wide receivers. I think you and
Speaker 1: I thought maybe we were going to be talking about
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle if you pick up when I'm putting down
Speaker 1: with the shirts, but Judy going to you on the
Speaker 1: Cowboys wide receiver room with George Pickens added to it,
Speaker 1: like we talked about a much needed number two and
Speaker 1: call you number two.
Speaker 2: George, I'm just saying number two to ce D Lambs
Speaker 2: number one.
Speaker 8: Well, you can understand why ce D Lamb is saying,
Speaker 8: you know, hallelujah finally, because we've been talking about this
Speaker 8: for a few years that they needed a strong wide receiver.
Speaker 8: As you said, it's not really number two, it's more
Speaker 8: sort of like one A on one B right now
Speaker 8: to take some of the defensive focus off CD Lamb
Speaker 8: and another target for Dak Prescott. And don't forget for
Speaker 8: George Pickett's look, he wore out his welcome in Pittsburgh
Speaker 8: quite obviously, but he has the potential to be a
Speaker 8: dynamic playmaker. We did see that in Spurts last year.
Speaker 8: This is by far the best quarterbacking situation that George
Speaker 8: Pickens is going to be. And when he was in
Speaker 8: Pittsburgh he had the the Mitch Trubisky years last year.
Speaker 8: Obviously they had a quarterback shuffle there. He's had some
Speaker 8: tough Kenny Pickett was his quarterback there, so.
Speaker 9: He has not had elite, elite.
Speaker 8: Level quarterbacking like he is going to have with Dak
Speaker 8: And he also hasn't had a number one receiver next
Speaker 8: to him the caliber of Ceeddee lamp So the Cowboys
Speaker 8: not only have the potential to finally give ce d
Speaker 8: Lamb some help, but they finally have a chance to
Speaker 8: unlock everything that George Pickens can be. He's obviously tremendously
Speaker 8: talented physically. It didn't work out in Pittsburgh for a
Speaker 8: variety of reasons, but he certainly now has players around
Speaker 8: him that should give George Pickens the best chance to
Speaker 8: finally be the full George Pickens.
Speaker 11: And I think Judy the biggest thing about the relationship
Speaker 11: with Ceedee Lamb, is that mentor effect that he will
Speaker 11: have on the field and off the field. You talk
Speaker 11: about the flashes of brilliance, and I think when George
Speaker 11: Pickens sees how Ceedee Lamb prepares and how he goes
Speaker 11: about the game day of how he's always consistent.
Speaker 7: You know Ceedee Lamb, you know you can count on him.
Speaker 7: So George Pickens.
Speaker 11: Needs to look at how Ceedee Lamb handles his business
Speaker 11: in practice and on game day to say, oh, I
Speaker 11: need to have that consistency like CD does.
Speaker 7: But also you talked about him wearing out as welcome. Well,
Speaker 7: Ceede Lamb.
Speaker 11: Can have an effect on George Pickens also off the
Speaker 11: field in the locker room to say, Okay, this is
Speaker 11: how we show up to meet he's got time, this
Speaker 11: is how we prepare in the film room, this is
Speaker 11: how we do things the right way if you want
Speaker 11: to be an elite receiver and unlock all of your potentials.
Speaker 7: So it's an effect that Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 11: Can the Cowboys hope be positive on and off the field.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 1: And and you look at what the Cowboys have done
Speaker 1: this offseason selectively aggressive, that was this offseason right? Selectively
Speaker 1: they were selectively aggressive when it came to George Pickens mark.
Speaker 1: Have they been selectively aggressive enough to compete with the
Speaker 1: Eagles and the Commanders in the nfcast.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I still don't see that. Look, the Eagle is
Speaker 11: probably the best team in the league with the most.
Speaker 7: Talent in the league.
Speaker 11: The Commanders I think got tremendously better with getting Laramie
Speaker 11: Tumpsel and Deebo Sanduel and Air not even naming all
Speaker 11: the solid freeze and signings. And for Dallas, you're really
Speaker 11: just talking about the George Pickens trade that they got
Speaker 11: better Tyler Booker drafting him in the first round. But
Speaker 11: I still think there's a ton of question marks with
Speaker 11: this Cowboys team.
Speaker 7: Number one, with Dak Prescott.
Speaker 11: And his help to his ability to win big games,
Speaker 11: to win playoff game, breathe, the running back situation. We're
Speaker 11: talking about the receivers, but look at that running back room.
Speaker 7: There are a lot of question marks there.
Speaker 11: And then I think when you go to the defensive
Speaker 11: side of the ball, I think there's a ton of
Speaker 11: question marks there as well. So definitely best team in
Speaker 11: the league. Commander's knocking on the door. There's too many
Speaker 11: question marks in Dallas.
Speaker 1: Yep, we'll see, Mark, We'll see how it plays out.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of folks are underestimating Brian Schottenheimer.
Speaker 1: Underestimate him at your peril. I know he wasn't a
Speaker 1: hot head coaching candidate, at least not in the last
Speaker 1: fifteen years. He was years ago. But I think he's
Speaker 1: more prepared to be a head coach now. And we'll
Speaker 1: see how it goes down there in Dallas. By the way, Mark,
Speaker 1: Happy anniversary to you.
Speaker 2: How many years now with you and your lovely bride
Speaker 2: now twenty.
Speaker 11: Oh whoa, whoa look, thank you, thank me, you appreciate
Speaker 11: Oh Man, that's a good looking people right now.
Speaker 7: It's twenty some points twenty years. Man, I can't believe him. Man,
Speaker 7: you got it all here. This is perfect, You got it.
Speaker 7: Thank you. You don't miss the tick. Man.
Speaker 1: Is your account set to private? Because we blow right
Speaker 1: through those firewalls here on the inside.
Speaker 7: Should have to wait.
Speaker 1: We have a way of getting to the information. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: Happy anniversary to you twenty years.
Speaker 2: At least twenty we're going for like sixty more.
Speaker 7: Mark.
Speaker 2: I think you guys are going to make it.
Speaker 7: You too, love it.
Speaker 2: Congratulations, it was just about Oh.
Speaker 1: I don't know a year ago where we were saying, boy,
Speaker 1: the Chargers really have no real depth at wide receiver.
Speaker 1: And it's changed in a hurry, thanks in part to
Speaker 1: this guy, Mississippi wide receiver Trey Harris, the fifty fifth
Speaker 1: overall pick joining the Los Angeles Chargers and now joining
Speaker 1: the Insiders. Trey Harris with us right now. I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you, as far as first impressions go, and we're
Speaker 1: seeing this from Afar, Judy Batista and I are a
Speaker 1: lot of glowing reports. Early seems like you've hit the
Speaker 1: ground running there. Do you feel like that's the case.
Speaker 1: I know you got a long way to go, I
Speaker 1: get it. But what's led to this early success with
Speaker 1: you in OTAs?
Speaker 12: I definitely say just taking each day with what comes
Speaker 12: with it.
Speaker 13: To be honest with you, one thing that coach coach
Speaker 13: Harbo has harped on and one of the first things
Speaker 13: he told the htiography class was knockingham call when and
Speaker 13: that's what's important now and the way I took it is,
Speaker 13: you know, just go out there, take each day with
Speaker 13: what comes with it, Learn your place for the next day,
Speaker 13: learn what you got to do with assignments come with it,
Speaker 13: and that's all I've been doing, and I feel like
Speaker 13: that's what contributes to my success so far.
Speaker 8: Specifically, the early reports out of Okas are that you
Speaker 8: and Justin Herbert already had some good early chemistry going.
Speaker 8: What are your early impressions of him?
Speaker 13: Man, he's he lives up to the height that everybody's
Speaker 13: talking about, and you.
Speaker 12: Know he's he's a true professional. And you know every
Speaker 12: three he makes just right on around the point.
Speaker 13: And you know, you can't really complain about anything he
Speaker 13: does because he does everything the right way.
Speaker 12: And I'm super excited about play with a quarterback like that.
Speaker 1: You know, you in college played for Lane Kiffin, who
Speaker 1: seems like an interesting fun fella from.
Speaker 2: Time to time.
Speaker 1: And Jim Harball now in the NFL, he's got some
Speaker 1: interesting personalities from the head.
Speaker 2: How do these two stack up?
Speaker 1: And what's your initial impressions of Jim Harball as head
Speaker 1: coach to the Chargers.
Speaker 13: Well, my initial impressions are, there's nothing but good, to
Speaker 13: be honest with you. You know, everything that coach Harball preaches,
Speaker 13: you know, he lives by everything he teaches us.
Speaker 12: He's very involved in everything that we do.
Speaker 13: And that's something that I'm really enjoying, to be honest
Speaker 13: with you. You know, Kiffen and Coach Harbald are definitely two
Speaker 13: different personalities.
Speaker 12: For sure. Kevin, you can be.
Speaker 13: A little bit more laid back, but no Coach Harball,
Speaker 13: He's not afraid to, you know, get up in your
Speaker 13: face and tell you how he feels.
Speaker 12: And you're also not afraid, you know, let you know
Speaker 12: how he feels about any situation.
Speaker 13: So that's one thing I really do appreciate coming from him.
Speaker 8: You know, Trey Mike mentioned it a few moments ago
Speaker 8: that wide receiver has been an area of concern for
Speaker 8: this team and it was perceived as the biggest need
Speaker 8: going into this offseason. Give us the scouting report on you.
Speaker 8: What is the team getting. What are fans going to
Speaker 8: see you bring to that offense.
Speaker 13: Well, you're gonna get a guy who who's able to
Speaker 13: win verse. Man, that's one of the best things. I
Speaker 13: feel like, that's one of my best attributes. You get
Speaker 13: a guy's able to know go there contested catches and
Speaker 13: you know, make those big, those over the top catches
Speaker 13: as well.
Speaker 12: Just an e supposed receiver always making catches and plays
Speaker 12: down the field.
Speaker 13: So I feel like that's something you would get from
Speaker 13: me in every game I'm able to play in Gray.
Speaker 1: Take me back, because you're talking about your size speed combination.
Speaker 1: We saw that in all the scouting reports leading up
Speaker 1: to the draft. A lot of times around the draft,
Speaker 1: you know, the likes of us will say, well, this
Speaker 1: guy's going to be a second round pick, and then
Speaker 1: he's not taking the like the third or the fourth
Speaker 1: round because we project like sixty guys to go in
Speaker 1: the second round. You actually beat a lot of the
Speaker 1: projections that I saw. I mean, take me through a
Speaker 1: draft day and the fact that you get that call
Speaker 1: from at fifty five from the Chargers and what they
Speaker 1: told you about what you could do for them right away.
Speaker 13: It was, you know going through that draft day, man,
Speaker 13: it was it was ecstatic to me. I was so ecstatic,
Speaker 13: you know, just being able to hear mister Orts call
Speaker 13: my name and you know, give me that phone call
Speaker 13: and here from missus Spanos, you know that I'm coming
Speaker 13: to Charter.
Speaker 12: It was something that I'm always remembering, something that was amazing.
Speaker 12: Beyones with y'all.
Speaker 13: Couldn't even keep a smile from off my face. But
Speaker 13: I can't wait till, you know, really make my market
Speaker 13: in the league.
Speaker 8: All right, Trey, you are converted quarterback back in your
Speaker 8: high school days.
Speaker 9: You played with Melik Neighbors.
Speaker 2: In high school.
Speaker 8: You played with Jackson Dart in college. Mike and I
Speaker 8: both live in the New York area. This is a
Speaker 8: big topic of conversation here. How is Melik Neighbors going
Speaker 8: to like playing with Jackson Dart.
Speaker 13: One thing I can tell about those two is that
Speaker 13: they're actually very similar in their competitiveness, you know, both
Speaker 13: of them.
Speaker 12: They're both going at whoever it is in front of them.
Speaker 13: That's something I've picked up from both of them that,
Speaker 13: you know, that's one thing. They're fierce, fierce competitors and
Speaker 13: they don't want anybody to be better than them. I
Speaker 13: feel like that's going to just compliment each other really
Speaker 13: really well. And they're also extremely hard workers, you know,
Speaker 13: each both of these guys, both of them, they go
Speaker 13: out there and they put in the work doesn't need it,
Speaker 13: and they put an extra And that's something I'm super
Speaker 13: excited to see. You know, we do get to play them,
Speaker 13: so I can't wait. I can't wait for the opportunity
Speaker 13: as well.
Speaker 1: You know, backing up because Judy said, you're averted a
Speaker 1: wide receiver, excuse me, quarterback to wide receiver. A lot
Speaker 1: of times we'll see those guys throw some passes. In
Speaker 1: five college seasons, only one attempted pass. Were there more
Speaker 1: that we're dialed up or not dialed up? I guess
Speaker 1: we're in the game plan not called. And could we
Speaker 1: see that in the NFL?
Speaker 13: I don't know if we go see the NFL, I
Speaker 13: don't believe that because we're roaming and but in college
Speaker 13: we had some dialed up.
Speaker 12: But for the most part, I was just trying to
Speaker 12: go out there and ball.
Speaker 13: You know, I wasn't too worried about getting other people
Speaker 13: touched out trying to get my own behest with You're
Speaker 13: just trying to find a way to, you know, expose
Speaker 13: the defense.
Speaker 12: So wasn't too much to go into that conversation.
Speaker 8: All right, Now that you are about to embark on
Speaker 8: your rookie season, what's one thing you really want to
Speaker 8: do as a rookie?
Speaker 9: One thing you want to buy, one thing you want to.
Speaker 4: See O.
Speaker 12: Great. One thing I want to see for share.
Speaker 13: I want to go to the Lakers game that you
Speaker 13: know here, I haven't never at an NBA game, So
Speaker 13: that's something I'm definitely want to do that or go
Speaker 13: to a UFC event.
Speaker 12: Those two of my top two things right now. I'm
Speaker 12: not go lot.
Speaker 2: Never been to an NBA game.
Speaker 1: Well, we got to get you to one soon, to
Speaker 1: get a chance to see Lakers or Clippers out there
Speaker 1: in the in the markets, one or the other.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So Chargers Giants Week four, September twenty eighth, so you
Speaker 1: get to reunite with both of those teammates Jackson Dart
Speaker 1: and Malik Neighbors that we talked about.
Speaker 2: But you know, a rookie, don't get ahead of yourself.
Speaker 1: Okay, Friday September fifth, Chargers Chiefs.
Speaker 2: That game in Brazil.
Speaker 1: So looking forward to seeing that one and looking forward
Speaker 1: to seeing what you do in your first NFL season.
Speaker 1: Trey Harris, good luck, man, appreciate you joining the Insiders.
Speaker 12: Thank job. I having really appreciate you.
Speaker 1: It's going to be seeing plenty of him catching passes
Speaker 1: from Justin Herbert. Got to see plenty of Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: throwing the football for the Rams, the other LA team
Speaker 1: after he returned this offseason after flirting with some other team.
Speaker 1: Shot McVay happy, to have Stafford back, and we are
Speaker 1: happy to have our guys oh Ma, Ruiz and Steve
Speaker 1: Weish talking Rams.
Speaker 7: After this.
Speaker 8: Welcome back to the Insiders. The Los Angeles Rams made
Speaker 8: one of the most interesting moves of the off season,
Speaker 8: signing DeVante Adams to pair with Pukakua, giving Matthew Stafford
Speaker 8: a very nice set of weapons. Stafford talked about Adams
Speaker 8: during OTA's Yesterday.
Speaker 14: I was texting with him, you know, late last week
Speaker 14: a little bit and just saying, hey, man, you're a
Speaker 14: great player because of your skill set, and I'm going
Speaker 14: to continue to you know, work and watch and whether
Speaker 14: that's watching live after I throw and then go back
Speaker 14: and rewatch and make sure what I was seeing and
Speaker 14: feeling at that moment was real. Then we just talked
Speaker 14: about it too. Right after every single set. It feels
Speaker 14: like we're over there talking about, hey, this is kind
Speaker 14: of how I'm thinking I'm going to come out of
Speaker 14: this or feel that, and it's just constant dialogue. And honestly,
Speaker 14: you know, those are the best relationships I've had with
Speaker 14: receivers and the most success that I've had is the
Speaker 14: guys that you know want to talk to you on
Speaker 14: you know what they felt what they were doing, and
Speaker 14: I can also say, hey, this would have looked like
Speaker 14: from my angel and go from there. But he's definitely
Speaker 14: a he has that feeling as that understanding, and that's
Speaker 14: it's a huge positive.
Speaker 8: All if that sounds good, Omar and Steve, thanks for
Speaker 8: joining me. Omar, I want to start with you because
Speaker 8: you were at that practice. We are all going to
Speaker 8: be paying an awful lot of attention to the Stafford
Speaker 8: Adams relationship and dynamic.
Speaker 9: How was it looking to you?
Speaker 7: Early? Well, looked great.
Speaker 6: Avante Adams even in his you know, double digit season
Speaker 6: now in the NFL just still looks as impressive as ever,
Speaker 6: that seventeen getting up in the air making those impressive catches.
Speaker 6: But when you think about Matthew Stafford's first year with
Speaker 6: Cooper Cup, it was historically great, the Triple Crown, the
Speaker 6: Super Bowl MVP, and then his first year with Puka
Speaker 6: Nakua historically great, all time receiving record as a rookie,
Speaker 6: all time receiving yards record as a rookie, and then
Speaker 6: has the playoff performance, the rookie record against the Lions.
Speaker 6: So I'm thinking, Okay, what does he.
Speaker 7: Have in store?
Speaker 6: How will he in his first season with Devonte Adams
Speaker 6: make a mark? And I asked Sean McVay what's been
Speaker 6: the most impressive thing to him and how he gets
Speaker 6: this chemistry with his receivers. About Matthew Stafford, he said,
Speaker 6: it's his ability to connect, his ability to communicate like
Speaker 6: most quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: Have, but it's also his ability to.
Speaker 6: Listen with intention and that really endears him to his
Speaker 6: teammates that he is there to be a collaborator with
Speaker 6: those receivers. That not only does Matthew Stafford have the
Speaker 6: confidence and obviously the experience the skins on the wall
Speaker 6: to say, hey, this is how I like to see it,
Speaker 6: but also the humility to listen to his receivers and
Speaker 6: be able to implement that into the game plan.
Speaker 7: So that's one.
Speaker 6: And then Matthew Stafford also told me that it is
Speaker 6: motivating for him to want to work with a guy
Speaker 6: like Davonte Adams and have him have great success this
Speaker 6: season because that'll mean it'll be team success. And then lastly,
Speaker 6: I asked offensive coordinator Mike Lafleur about it and he said,
Speaker 6: when they get into the game, teams, Matthew Stafford still
Speaker 6: has that old school mentality where it's not so much
Speaker 6: about the play, it's not so much about the defense.
Speaker 4: He'll still go to his guy where the matchup is.
Speaker 4: And obviously, with.
Speaker 6: Poka Nakua across the way from Devonte Adams, you know
Speaker 6: Matthew Stafford is gonna like Devonte Adams matchup over those
Speaker 6: dvs a lot this season.
Speaker 5: Well, you know what's Pooka a coup in the seventeen highlights,
Speaker 5: Davante Adams is gonna be wearing seventeen, Puka's gonna be
Speaker 5: wearing twelve, and Davante's gonna be receiver one beat. We
Speaker 5: could talk all the Devonte Adams as we want. He's
Speaker 5: one of my favorite players. The guy's had five consecutive
Speaker 5: one thousand yard seasons. But Pooka Nakupa is still the
Speaker 5: guy for the Los Angeles Rams. I am so interested
Speaker 5: to see how they work off of one another from
Speaker 5: game to game.
Speaker 4: You know, Pooka is the.
Speaker 5: Great run after the Cats guy, incredibly powerful. Davonte Adams
Speaker 5: is a shaking and get open guy and score touchdowns guy.
Speaker 4: So from game to game how they feed off of
Speaker 4: each other.
Speaker 5: This is going to be a tough out for teams.
Speaker 5: Let's not forget their first round draft pick was a
Speaker 5: tight end. Tight End has not been a huge component
Speaker 5: of the Rams offense. It could be this year because
Speaker 5: the attention to the two guys going out wide.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Terrence Ferguson in there and Tyler Higbee coming back
Speaker 6: as well, right, and it's could play a much larger role.
Speaker 8: All right up the road in San Francisco. They were
Speaker 8: also on the field for ots after what was obviously
Speaker 8: a very disappointing twenty twenty four season. Kyle Shanahan, the coach,
Speaker 8: talked to reporters about why there is heightened energy at
Speaker 8: OTA's and he said it basically went back to the
Speaker 8: final team meeting at the end of the twenty twenty
Speaker 8: four season, and he said last year, the guys were
Speaker 8: not ready to come back to OTAs and he understood that.
Speaker 8: Not so understanding this year he wanted them back at OTA's. Steve,
Speaker 8: I guess the big question that's going to hang over
Speaker 8: this team is how do they bounce back from what
Speaker 8: was such an atypical season for them?
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think what Kyle was saying is they
Speaker 5: were burnt out right from going to the Super Bowl
Speaker 5: for the past couple of years and having just a
Speaker 5: short turnaround time. Now they've had a significant turnaround time.
Speaker 4: Everybody should be re energized.
Speaker 5: Look organizationally, they got the big contracts done Kittle, Fred Warner,
Speaker 5: brock Purty.
Speaker 4: So they got those guys in camp.
Speaker 5: So now the bounce back because they've had some roster
Speaker 5: turnover to me is going to be intriguing because he
Speaker 5: announced that Ricky Piersoll, who could be their lead wide receiver,
Speaker 5: that is the second year player. He's going to be
Speaker 5: out until training camp now with a hamstring. And you know,
Speaker 5: we know that they got rid of Deebo Samuel Brandon
Speaker 5: Ayuka's out with an ACL So it's up to Jwan
Speaker 5: Jennings to really come out and it show some stuff
Speaker 5: for brock Purty and that wide receiver group. They've still
Speaker 5: got some injuries to come off of in the secondary.
Speaker 5: Mustafa he's coming off of a knee injury. Jai ear
Speaker 5: forgetting get Brown ankle surgery. He's gonna be out though
Speaker 5: training camp. So they've got some injuries to young players
Speaker 5: they've got to get through. But again getting some of
Speaker 5: those young are those veteran players back and having more
Speaker 5: lead time coming in they are a little bit reduced.
Speaker 6: It was interesting that Kyle said that though today. For
Speaker 6: as much as they denied the Super Bowl hangover last year,
Speaker 6: it was an admission essentially that they did have that.
Speaker 7: And obviously that.
Speaker 6: Super Bowl run was the culmination of three straight conference
Speaker 6: championship game. So they're playing deep into the season. But
Speaker 6: I don't think we can underscore enough what a big loss.
Speaker 6: Christian McCaffrey was the ultimate chess piece in that Kyle
Speaker 6: Shanahan offense. Obviously out most of the season. Trent Williams
Speaker 6: wasn't there. He's been around here during the off season program.
Speaker 6: But today Kyle Shanahan saying that Kyle Christian McCaffrey is
Speaker 6: as healthy as he has ever been. They might have
Speaker 6: to dial him back a little bit to take take
Speaker 6: care of him, protect him from himself. But getting Christian
Speaker 6: McCaffrey back, more than anything else, could be the impact
Speaker 6: that for their twenty twenty five season going forward, for
Speaker 6: the forty nine ers.
Speaker 8: A site for sore eyes, not just for San Francisco fans,
Speaker 8: for the entire league.
Speaker 9: Guys, thank you very much, what.
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Speaker 1: Today, we are giving the fantasy outlook for the NFC North.
Speaker 1: We're starting with the Chicago Bears Ben Johnson. That should
Speaker 1: help the fantasy outlook for the Bears, right Yeah.
Speaker 15: I think the Bears getting Ben Johnson was the biggest
Speaker 15: move of the offseason, especially for fantasy. He runs a
Speaker 15: run heavy system. Every year in Detroit they were top
Speaker 15: three in rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 4: He throws a lot of passes to the.
Speaker 15: Running backs, which is why I think Deandres with is
Speaker 15: very underrated. He goes as an RB three but brings
Speaker 15: top fifteen, maybe even higher.
Speaker 2: Upside.
Speaker 15: Caleb Williams is also the biggest winner of this offseason
Speaker 15: because he gets Johnson, he gets a revamped O lined,
Speaker 15: and he is surrounded by first round picks, something Trubisky
Speaker 15: and Fields never had with the Bears. Him finishing somewhere
Speaker 15: in the QB six to ten range for fantasy is
Speaker 15: very possible.
Speaker 4: And then I won all.
Speaker 15: The pass catchers here as well, Love within more doomsday
Speaker 15: all of them. And then from the Bears to their
Speaker 15: biggest rival, the Green Bay Packers, Matt Lafour's offense have
Speaker 15: never ranked higher than fifteenth in pass attempts during his
Speaker 15: tenure with the Packers. It's why I don't love Jordan
Speaker 15: Love for fantasy. I think he's more of a TB
Speaker 15: two with Cats upside. Josh Jacobs, though, is going to
Speaker 15: eat here because he last year scored a career high
Speaker 15: sixteen touchdowns, second most touches and yards in his career.
Speaker 7: Very safe second round pick.
Speaker 15: And even though this offense scores points, they don't throw
Speaker 15: a ton, and they don't they have an abundance of
Speaker 15: wide receivers, so we don't know on a week to
Speaker 15: week basis who is going to be the guy there.
Speaker 15: So I don't like any of their wide receivers as
Speaker 15: anything more than a wide receiver for or a flex
Speaker 15: option for fantasy, and Tucker Craft more of a low
Speaker 15: and tight end one and a Barry Cravin system.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, noted? Now the Vikings.
Speaker 1: Look, you got a great offensive system, you got a
Speaker 1: team in a dome, You've got a tremendous skill position
Speaker 1: players there. You gotta change a quarterback, so it's a
Speaker 1: bit of a leap of faith. How do we handle
Speaker 1: this whole.
Speaker 2: Thing with the Vikings?
Speaker 15: Well, you mentioned Koc I think he is such an
Speaker 15: underrated play caller. His offenses have finished top six in
Speaker 15: passing yards and touchdowns every year he's.
Speaker 7: Been with the Vikings.
Speaker 15: It doesn't matter Kirk cousin, Sam Donald, the passionate Nick Mullens.
Speaker 15: This offense continues to produce. Which is why I think
Speaker 15: JJ McCarthy is a sleeper in fantasy, because no one
Speaker 15: expected Sam Donald to finish as the ninth best fantasy
Speaker 15: QB last year. And JJ McCarty he might even just
Speaker 15: be a waiver wire name when drafts start. And look,
Speaker 15: it doesn't matter who is throwing.
Speaker 2: The ball to.
Speaker 7: Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 15: He is top fourteen hundred yards every healthy.
Speaker 7: Season he has had.
Speaker 15: It's why he is the consensus number two wide receiver
Speaker 15: off the board. Addison is a quality wide receiver, but
Speaker 15: my favorite pass catcher there outside of Jefferson is Hawkinson.
Speaker 7: And then to the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 15: This might sound crazy, but they bring the most questions
Speaker 15: of any offense in this division because they lost Ben
Speaker 15: Johnson to the Bears, their past game.
Speaker 7: Coordinator went to the Jets.
Speaker 15: Now they have Brian Morton, who spent the last two
Speaker 15: years with the Broncos but has only been in OC once.
Speaker 2: And you still have to pay full price.
Speaker 15: For all of your Lions, right, Jamir gives a first
Speaker 15: round pick.
Speaker 7: I don't mind that.
Speaker 15: Aman Rose Brown same, I don't mind it, but I'd
Speaker 15: rather have Kopa and Nakua or Malik neighbors over in
Speaker 15: the intend to go later. Jamison Williams as a wide
Speaker 15: receiver to Laporta is a high end tight end. So
Speaker 15: you are paying full price for your Lions despite the
Speaker 15: change in play caller, which gives me a little bit of.
Speaker 1: Pause, changes in coaches, changes at the quarterback position in
Speaker 1: the NFC, NORF is a fascinating division to watch when
Speaker 1: it comes for when it comes to fantasy purposes.
Speaker 2: That's why Michael F. Florio has got you.
Speaker 1: On lock right now and throughout the entire offseason leading
Speaker 1: up to start of the regular season. Fired up to
Speaker 1: hear more from Florio here on The Insiders. Fired up
Speaker 1: to finally hear from Mark Andrews after this disappointing drop.
Speaker 1: You know how much this gutted him. He didn't talk
Speaker 1: to the media. Andrews finally spoke on Thursday. We'll have
Speaker 1: that for you on The Insiders.
Speaker 7: Next.
Speaker 1: Ota is continuing with Derrick Henry and the Ravens down
Speaker 1: there at Owings.
Speaker 2: Mills at the Castle.
Speaker 1: A disappointing and to the season for the Ravens in Buffalo.
Speaker 2: This past year.
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews had that key dropped. We know how integral
Speaker 1: he's been to the Ravens.
Speaker 2: He continues to be. There's a question whether or not
Speaker 2: he'd be back. He is back, and he spoke for
Speaker 2: the first time since that drop in the play.
Speaker 16: It's tough, you know, it's you know, as somebody, this
Speaker 16: is this is my this is my life. I put
Speaker 16: a lot of work into this, and you know, everything
Speaker 16: I do is kind of focused on everything I think
Speaker 16: about is focused on that, and so you know, it
Speaker 16: wasn't the way that you know I'd planned it, and
Speaker 16: U you know, but that's all part of the story.
Speaker 16: I've been using it and I've had an incredible off
Speaker 16: season and I'm excited to just to show what i
Speaker 16: can continue to do and continue to prove myself and
Speaker 16: step up in big moments. And yeah, so that's the
Speaker 16: thing about sports is doesn't always fall your way, doesn't
Speaker 16: always go your way, but it's how you bounce back.
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews and actually Isaiah likely what the Ravens are
Speaker 1: gonna do, They've got to extend one of them. That's
Speaker 1: one of the off season priorities in the AFC. Here
Speaker 1: are a bunch of other ones. Our guy Kevin Patra
Speaker 1: has a story on this on NFL dot com. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you look to see what the Bills are gonna do
Speaker 1: with James Cook right there. Colt's gotta finals as a quarterback,
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly, Yeah, I gotta establish it. Gonna be fascinating
Speaker 1: to see his return to the NFL. And yeah, we
Speaker 1: talked about the Chiefs in their need to fix things
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. Judy Batista back with me, and
Speaker 1: Steve Weisch as well.
Speaker 2: For the priorities in the AFC North.
Speaker 1: Let's start with those Ravens that we just talked about
Speaker 1: with Mark Andrews.
Speaker 7: Steve.
Speaker 5: Yeah, look, I'm gonna to defensive side of the ball,
Speaker 5: and to me is getting rookie safety Malachi Starks, who
Speaker 5: signed his deal today, getting him up to speed right away.
Speaker 5: Because remember our Darius Washington right after the draft, who
Speaker 5: is their starting strong safety.
Speaker 4: Last year, he hurt his achilles tendon.
Speaker 5: So they're gonna have to get Malachai Starks in and
Speaker 5: ready to rock and roll. And the Ravens ask their
Speaker 5: defensive backs to do an awful lot, especially with the
Speaker 5: way they move Kyle Hamilton around. But let's also go
Speaker 5: to getting pressure on the quarterback. We know they've got
Speaker 5: some good pass rushers a Dafe Oway, Kyle van Oway,
Speaker 5: they just drafted Mike Green out of Marshall. But I've
Speaker 5: got a player they could add if we're talking about priorities,
Speaker 5: and he said today he wants to keep playing. Thirty
Speaker 5: six year old Von Miller would be an excellent closer
Speaker 5: for the Ravens. And they're outside linebacker coach and pass
Speaker 5: rush specialist Chuck Smith. He has been the lead coach
Speaker 5: at Miller's pass rushing summit the offseason, something he does
Speaker 5: for all the pass rushers around the NFL for about
Speaker 5: the past six or seven years. I think Smith and
Speaker 5: von Miller finishing up their careers together, at least Miller's
Speaker 5: career together Baltimo would be a nice ad.
Speaker 1: Ravens haven't been shy about bringing in veterans at key
Speaker 1: positions late in their career. That would make sense, that
Speaker 1: would fit with that profile. Malachi Starks, by the way,
Speaker 1: his deal done. Sixteen point five million dollars plus on
Speaker 1: that deal, So congrats to him for inching his rookie deal.
Speaker 7: Judy.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Now, I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: a long list of things that the Steelers still need
Speaker 1: to do. Take anything on that whole list, Judy, for
Speaker 1: the Steelers in their priority.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm going to take the low hanging fruit. It's
Speaker 8: the most obvious thing. They've got to straighten out the
Speaker 8: quarterback situation. It is May twenty ninth, and the presumed
Speaker 8: starter for the Pittsburgh.
Speaker 9: Steelers is not on the roster yet.
Speaker 8: It's that guy Aaron Rodgers now still also signs point
Speaker 8: to him becoming e Pittsburgh Steeler. I'm told he continues
Speaker 8: to ask all the right questions about practice schedules, all
Speaker 8: those kinds of things. The only thing that hasn't happened
Speaker 8: is him saying I am on my way to Pittsburgh
Speaker 8: to join the team.
Speaker 9: So they are waiting for that.
Speaker 8: Obviously, if that falls through, they have to pivot and
Speaker 8: decide do they try to make a trade for Kirk
Speaker 8: Cousins or do they go forward with Mason Rudolph and
Speaker 8: rookie Will Howard and bigger picture. Even if Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 8: is the quarterback of this season, which is certainly what
Speaker 8: they hope for, they have to try to get a
Speaker 8: read on Will Howard whether he could be the quarterback
Speaker 8: of the future, because otherwise they don't have a quarterback
Speaker 8: of the future either, and they're going forward with a.
Speaker 9: Forty one year old quarterback.
Speaker 8: They are in a world of hurt with the quarterback
Speaker 8: situation until they get this figured out in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4: Well, Judy, speaking to quarterbacks, let's go to Cleveland.
Speaker 5: And we know that they're trying to figure out if
Speaker 5: it's going to be Joe Flacco is going to be
Speaker 5: Kenny Pickett, Dylan Gabriel, Shadu or Sanders.
Speaker 4: But I'm not going with the low hanging fruit.
Speaker 5: I'm going to the position group that they've got to
Speaker 5: throw the ball to. We know Jerry Judy really he
Speaker 5: just had a breakout year last year catching balls from
Speaker 5: Jameis Winston. He looked like one of the best young
Speaker 5: wide receivers in the NFL last year with some uncertainty
Speaker 5: of that position. But after we get to Judy, what
Speaker 5: is there Cedric Tillman. He had twenty nine catches last
Speaker 5: year from the wide receiver spot. Now he missed some
Speaker 5: games with a concussion, But they don't really have a
Speaker 5: ton of other depth right there.
Speaker 4: They've got Jamari Thrash right now. They're hoping he can emerge.
Speaker 5: But other than Judy and David Nijoku a a tight
Speaker 5: end those quarterbacks. Whoever starts, they're going to be searching
Speaker 5: for guys to get the.
Speaker 7: Ball to Judy.
Speaker 1: The Bengals two big check marks on their list when
Speaker 1: they got t Higgins and Jamar Chase's deals done, But
Speaker 1: still more work to do for them.
Speaker 2: What's the priority?
Speaker 8: They got to figure out a way to not have
Speaker 8: such slow starts.
Speaker 9: In the Zach Taylor head coaching era.
Speaker 8: They are four thirteen and one in the first three
Speaker 8: weeks of the season. They keep digging themselves holes that
Speaker 8: even as great as that offense is, as great as
Speaker 8: Joe Burrow is, they can't keep digging themselves out of
Speaker 8: these holes. One of the things to do is not
Speaker 8: have any distractions off the field. They got Jamar Chase done,
Speaker 8: They got t Higgins done. They need to get Trey
Speaker 8: hen duck Sen done. They need to get Timore Stewart
Speaker 8: into camp. His rookie deal is not done. They need
Speaker 8: to clear the decks so that they can focus on
Speaker 8: winning games right out of the gate. By the way,
Speaker 8: Jamar Chase said this week he wants to play in
Speaker 8: the preseason, and Zach Taylor appears to be open to
Speaker 8: finally playing his starters in preseason games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you pay that guy that much money and
Speaker 1: he's a star player for you, and he says that, yeah,
Speaker 1: you probably should listen to him.
Speaker 2: Judy Wish, thank you.
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