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Speaker 1: Welcome Inside with the Insiders. Alongside Ian Rappaport, I am

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Speaker 1: Tom Pelicero. Seven weeks from tonight, the NFL regular season

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Speaker 1: kicks off with the Ravens and the Chiefs. So much

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Speaker 1: as always, we are jammed pack Dion Dawkins, the Bills

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Speaker 1: He is going to be on this show. We'll also

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Speaker 1: have Michael f Florio, our fantasy guru, taking a fantasy

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Speaker 1: span on some recent news around the NFL. We'll allstock Bears,

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Speaker 1: will talk Bucks, Commanders, and Dolphins. But let's start out

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Speaker 1: in Houston because for the first time today we had

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Speaker 1: a real live NFL practice the Texans, the first full

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Speaker 1: squad report. There. They are out on the field. Different

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Speaker 1: expectations for that team this time around. Do you think

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Speaker 1: about all the TJ Strow It's only year two for me,

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Speaker 1: so I have a lot to learn.

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Speaker 2: I want to get better.

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Speaker 3: I'm willing to get better, and I'm willing to be

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Speaker 3: vulnerable about that, you know. And I asked questions as

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Speaker 3: hard questions, you know, And I want to know.

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Speaker 1: Why I'm doing what I'm doing.

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Speaker 3: And you know, and last year I got to see

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Speaker 3: a lot of success from that.

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Speaker 2: Also some things that I need to get better at.

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Speaker 4: Now is your second year, and now it's you know you.

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Speaker 4: They say there's a comfort level, so you can be

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Speaker 4: a little bit more vocal right to the entire team,

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Speaker 4: not just speaking to the offense, but the team has

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Speaker 4: bit more. And just CJ doesn't have to change anything.

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Speaker 4: CJ just has to be himself right, and that's what

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Speaker 4: it's made CJ is special players is him being.

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Speaker 5: Himself talking number one games, expectations, ever one games, good

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Speaker 5: football and good execution win football games. So ultimately, that's

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Speaker 5: what it's going to come down to. So the rest

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Speaker 5: of it, honestly, it's a big waste of time for

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Speaker 5: us to spend time on things that don't.

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Speaker 6: Matter or that we don't control.

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Speaker 1: Nick Canceario has been a big busy man through the

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Speaker 1: course of this off season. Big names like Joe Mixon,

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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs, the Neil Hunter now all a part of

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Speaker 1: this Texans team. You can tell at times in the

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Speaker 1: Nick Casseio spent a couple of decades with Bill Belichick

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Speaker 1: because that answer that we clipped there was actually like

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Speaker 1: ninety seconds long of him saying everything about none of

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Speaker 1: this matters. We're just getting better day by day, one

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Speaker 1: day at a time. It's a friend of the show,

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Speaker 1: but realistically, here Ian, this is a different landscape for

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Speaker 1: the Texans to come into as opposed to the team

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Speaker 1: that won ten games over the previous three seasons combined,

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Speaker 1: it won ten games last year. If they won a

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Speaker 1: playoff game, what's next.

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Speaker 7: Well, when you have the general manager out there on

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Speaker 7: the first day, his words really set the tone for

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Speaker 7: speak from the heart when he says they haven't done

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Speaker 7: anything yet, which is all true. What the Texans have

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Speaker 7: done is set the table for themselves, right. I mean,

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Speaker 7: the reason they have these expectations are because one they

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Speaker 7: have acted like a team that has money to play

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Speaker 7: with it. I hate the term all in, but that's

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Speaker 7: giving up future assets. They traded first Stefon Diggs, They

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Speaker 8: They have set themselves up for future success.

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Speaker 7: But as Casiriro said, it's really a matter of just

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Speaker 8: To get better. They got to do it. But everything

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Speaker 1: For all the losses and all the upheaval the Texans

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Speaker 1: see about this Houston Texans team in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: They're not the only team getting back in the building.

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Speaker 1: The Jets rookies also reported the training camp today, including

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Speaker 1: have been a lot of changes for Washington over the

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Speaker 1: Jason Wright no longer the Commanders team president and is

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Speaker 1: There are few organizations that had more challenges, more pitfalls,

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Speaker 8: That's right.

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Speaker 7: And usually we wouldn't spend a ton of time talking

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Speaker 7: news is because of what it symbolizes. Basically, Jason Wright

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Speaker 8: And look, we've spent a lot of time, a lot

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Speaker 7: Of days and weeks and months talking about all the

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Speaker 7: And Josh Harris and all his people that he brought

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Speaker 7: And look, they're going to have a search now, They're

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Speaker 7: but I think it's also clear if he gets another job,

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Speaker 1: The Commanders are one of the big mystery teams in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. To me, you've got a second time head

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Speaker 1: East Division. All Right, let's take a break here, because

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Speaker 1: coming up, we've got a very big man who is

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Speaker 1: very very happy to be here. Dan's Dion shows the

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Speaker 1: moves Bill's tackled. Dion Dawkins Next on The Insiders this

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Speaker 1: week on July sixteenth, Dion Dawkins and his Dion Dreamers

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Speaker 1: Foundation co host of the seven to one six Community Day,

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Speaker 1: an annual opportunity for community building, kids' activities, and free

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Speaker 1: products for Buffalo residents. The event was the latest in

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Speaker 1: Dion Dreamers mission to advocate for and support vulnerable communities.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to of the insiders. Tom Pellicero and Ian

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Speaker 1: Rappaport joined right now by that guy, Dion Dawkins. Dion

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Speaker 1: lot to talk about with you. But first off, I'll

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Speaker 1: just say I thought it was fifty to fifty. What

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Speaker 1: do you'd have a shirt on for the interview? So

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Speaker 3: You are so on point because I thought about it,

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Speaker 3: but I said, I'm a chill today.

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Speaker 1: I'm a chill, So tell me about the Dion Dreamers Foundation,

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Speaker 1: this event. I know you love giving back to the community.

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Speaker 1: What's all this about for you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Man, this was a beautiful one.

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Speaker 3: Like you know, trust it gives helped put this event

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Speaker 2: It's just like a big kind of like a big block.

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Speaker 8: Awesome event.

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Speaker 7: Pictures and video look great and very very cool thing

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Speaker 7: that you do. We got a lot going on here.

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Speaker 7: You guys are about to start camp. We got a

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Speaker 7: pretty quickly. First, a couple months ago, we were I

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Speaker 7: think it's fair to say unsure about your status with

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Speaker 7: three year, more than sixty million dollar deal. Two questions,

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Speaker 7: First of all, do you hate all of us? And

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Speaker 7: second of all, how does it feel to have some

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Speaker 3: much I have so much fun. I think that you

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Speaker 3: to poke and pull when I can. And being a

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Speaker 1: You know, that was the best most all encompassing answer

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Speaker 8: The thank you man. That that was all we wanted.

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Speaker 8: That's all we wanted.

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Speaker 1: Chick around after this Ian shirt comes off, or we

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Speaker 1: That's right, the number one pick. He's back in the

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Speaker 5: With the first pick in the twenty twenty four NFL draft,

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Speaker 1: Quarter back on the cowbarning stud.

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Speaker 9: Williams is absolutely ludicrous.

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Speaker 1: Robot Junjay what open Jay dude. Welcome back to the

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Speaker 1: our friend Stacy DALs is going to have a lot

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Speaker 10: Hey, Tom anyan absolutely great tea up Tom, because that's

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Speaker 10: But my takeaway talking to Bears folks this offseason, including

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Speaker 10: We know that he has really had to take a

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Speaker 7: You know, say see I remember in January and into February,

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Speaker 7: Why don't they just say they're going to take Caleb Williams,

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Speaker 8: It wasn't like they needed film study. It's not like

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Speaker 7: I think it was very obvious he was the number

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Speaker 7: But Tom, it really is an unbelievable challenge for Caleb Williams.

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Speaker 7: I would say, even more so than most rookie quarterbacks.

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Speaker 7: First of all, there's so much he has to learn.

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Speaker 1: terms of potentially getting the contract done prior to the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins reportant for training camp next week. And Cam, you've

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Speaker 1: told us repeatedly not only is to a slim down substantially,

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Speaker 1: but also he did not do everything through the course

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Speaker 1: of the spring. So how far along are we in

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Speaker 1: terms of potentially getting a deal done And if it's

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Speaker 1: not done by Tuesday, what do we expect from Tua

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Speaker 1: in training camp?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, Tom, negotiation is still ongoing. I've been told they

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Speaker 11: have made a lot of progress. They're hopeful still to

446
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Speaker 11: get something done before the start of the season.

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Speaker 2: But nothing done yet.

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Speaker 11: And as far as timeline, that soft marker that I

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Speaker 11: would watch is the date that you mentioned, July twenty third,

450
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Speaker 11: that's five days from now when they report for veterans

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Speaker 11: for training camp. And you know, Chris Greer has talked

452
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Speaker 11: about this to us in the past and said, hey,

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Speaker 11: there's no deadline, but they are hopeful and it's ideal

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Speaker 11: to get something done before the started training camp. And

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Speaker 11: if you look at quarterback deals in the past, justin

456
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Speaker 11: Herbert Steel was done July twenty fifth last year, a

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Speaker 11: day before the started training camp. Joe Burrow was done

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Speaker 11: till September seventh, a day before the start of the

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Speaker 11: regular season. So often training camp and regular season starts

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Speaker 11: are those markers when deals are done. So we'll keep

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Speaker 11: an eye on it in the next couple of days,

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Speaker 11: but if it's not done by training camp, the eyes

463
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Speaker 11: will be on what does Tua do. I'm told that

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Speaker 11: he's in great shape. He's been getting his teammates ready

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Speaker 11: this offseason for kind of social events off the field,

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Speaker 11: and he's with the mindset of having an even better

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Speaker 11: year than he had last year. But he was honest

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Speaker 11: with us last month and saying that he felt antsy

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Speaker 11: with no deal. He struggles to separate business from personal

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Speaker 11: and so does he skip any practice eleven on elevens

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Speaker 11: like he did in camp. That's a question that will

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Speaker 11: come up if there is no deal in five days,

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Speaker 11: and his teammates have definitely been extremely vocal about getting

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Speaker 11: a deal done. His left tackle, Toronto Armstead, set on

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Speaker 11: up in Adams earlier. He said it's going to happen.

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Speaker 11: He said, we need to to go anywhere we're trying

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Speaker 11: to go. All our dreams, goals and aspirations are relying

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Speaker 11: on number one and the organization knows that. So you

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Speaker 11: got Toronto Armstead, Tyreek Hill, Jaylen Waddle, Javon holland Jayalen

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Speaker 11: Ramsey all maybe their top five players outside of Tua

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Speaker 11: being very vocal they need to get something done, and

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Speaker 11: so I don't hear any worry they're going to get

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Speaker 11: something done. I think right now is just the win.

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Speaker 7: Is the question that's exactly right, And it's not like

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Speaker 7: the question is really like does he deserve an extension?

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Speaker 8: It really would be.

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Speaker 7: I haven't talked to anybody in any facet of life

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Speaker 7: who does not believe too deserves an extension. It's really

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Speaker 7: just a matter of finding the right price. Is it

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Speaker 7: kind of right around Jared Goff? Is it right around

491
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Speaker 7: Trevor Lawrence? Is it a little below them? The quarterback

492
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Speaker 7: market is very well defined. It's going to start with

493
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Speaker 7: a five, it's going to be in the fifties. Just

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Speaker 7: is it more like fifty three? Is it more like

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Speaker 7: fifty five? Or is it kind of a little bit

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Speaker 7: on the lower end. And you know, Tua did seem

497
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Speaker 7: to lay out the playbook of how he's going to

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Speaker 7: handle things. He's a good dude, He's a classy dude.

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Speaker 7: He's also a quarterback who is a leader. So hard

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Speaker 7: to imagine someone like him doesn't show up. More likely,

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Speaker 7: if a deal doesn't get done by training him, he'll

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Speaker 7: kind of be careful.

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Speaker 8: He'll sit out, he'll take.

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Speaker 7: Care of himself and make sure he didn't put himself

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Speaker 7: with harms the way before he gets that money. But

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Speaker 7: certainly this does feel like something that is coming. It

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Speaker 7: does feel like there's a lot of optimism that eventually,

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Speaker 7: at some point, soon it's going to get done.

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Speaker 8: And you know, for the Dolphins and.

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Speaker 7: For Tua, it's really a victory for everyone because if

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Speaker 7: you had gone back four years, three years, there was

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Speaker 7: real questions about whether or not Tua is a franchise quarterback.

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Speaker 7: I don't believe there's any questions anymore as far as

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Speaker 7: that goes.

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Speaker 8: Just no matter of what's the rice price to pay.

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Speaker 1: Him, well, if the priss gets too high at some point,

517
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Speaker 1: that's where the Dolphins have decisions to make as well.

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Speaker 1: I had a GM for another team tell me recently,

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Speaker 1: if it gets up in that high fifty sixty million

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Speaker 1: dollar range, I'd let him play it out. In other words,

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Speaker 1: if you want to leave all this money on the

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Speaker 1: table after everything we've been through organizationally with you, then

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Speaker 1: that's fine. Let's play it out and let's see where

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Speaker 1: we are next March. Of course, as we also know,

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Speaker 1: when you wait on these big contracts, the price generally

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Speaker 1: ends up going higher. Cam, Thank you very much. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure we'll talk with you about this again in the

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Speaker 1: very near future. Let's stay in Florida after this, because

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Speaker 1: that guy Baker Mayfield did get his deal back in

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Speaker 1: March locked in a Tampa starter. Will it be another

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Speaker 1: NFC sells title for the Bucks. Sarah wats joints to

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Speaker 1: discuss that.

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Speaker 6: Next the insight, Baker is playing with green HEADI they

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Speaker 6: took sore ribs on his left side and a spring ankle.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, here you go up easy completions and we're gonna

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Speaker 4: stay ahead of them the whole game.

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Speaker 6: Little Stuff's gonna work you guys.

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Speaker 1: Keep breaking tackles, Chap. This fights a little buck, gets

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Speaker 1: through a tackle, spins off a tackle. He fights us

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Speaker 1: way to the fifty yard line.

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Speaker 6: Here's another broken tackle.

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Speaker 8: This is the rookie tile comer.

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Speaker 6: Tuck stops night of miss tackles.

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Speaker 2: Play.

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Speaker 1: If you're throws it up for grabs towards the it's

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Speaker 1: calm tuck stuff tackle bang.

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Speaker 9: Oh my goodness, welcome back to the insiders, Tom pilisero

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Speaker 9: Ian rapport joined now by Sarah Waltsh and Sarah Baker Bayfilot.

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Speaker 1: He got his contract, no longer on a one year deal,

550
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Speaker 1: no longer wondering as he bounced around multiple different teams

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Speaker 1: in a single season. But I'll try to capitalize with

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Speaker 1: the Tampa roster that's undergone some changes. So they're back.

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Speaker 1: They report to camp on Tuesday. What are the Bucks

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Speaker 1: going to be looking for?

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Speaker 12: When you talk about changes, I can tell you one

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Speaker 12: thing that never changes. Mike Evans is the guy here

557
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Speaker 12: in Tampa for more than a decade now. He has

558
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Speaker 12: been building that Hall of fame resume and then linked

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Speaker 12: up with Chris Godwin when he was drafted by the

560
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Speaker 12: Bucks in twenty seventeen, and together those two have been

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Speaker 12: one of the most productive receiving.

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Speaker 13: Duos in the league.

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Speaker 12: However, one of the questions for the Buccaneers is they

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Speaker 12: really need someone to emerge.

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Speaker 13: Is that number three threat for this offense?

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Speaker 12: Since twenty twenty two, Mike and Chris combined for seventy

567
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Speaker 12: two percent of the Buccaneers receiving yards.

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Speaker 13: So the Bucks would love for somebody.

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Speaker 1: To step up.

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Speaker 13: Now there's a new offensive court and Liam Cohne.

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Speaker 12: He had said that Godwin would move back into the slot,

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Speaker 12: which is where he does best. But when you talk

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Speaker 12: about the candidates who are we keeping an eye on

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Speaker 12: at training camp as that approaches, well, there's a couple.

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Speaker 12: Trey Palmer was a rookie last season. He had three touchdowns.

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Speaker 12: One was in the season opener, another one was a

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Speaker 12: fifty six yard touchdown. In the postseason against the Eagles,

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Speaker 12: he had just under four hundred yards.

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Speaker 13: They would love for him to emerge and be that guy.

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Speaker 12: And then this year they drafted a rookie by the

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Speaker 12: name of Jaalen McMillan out of Washington in the third round.

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Speaker 13: Cohen was really high on him.

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Speaker 12: When I talked to him a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 12: he said, he's really flashed in these off season workouts.

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Speaker 12: They signed Sterling Shepherd, Baker's old college teammate from Oklahoma

586
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Speaker 12: back in June. They're not entirely sure what we're going

587
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Speaker 12: to get out of a Shepherd at this point, and

588
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Speaker 12: so one of those three guys, I mean, look, they

589
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Speaker 12: would love it for all of them to be productive,

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Speaker 12: but you have to have Mike and Chris healthy. Baker

591
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Speaker 12: knows that, and then you really to be successful need

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Speaker 12: a third guy behind them. And then another name I

593
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Speaker 12: threw out there as Kate Atton, one of their tight ends,

594
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Speaker 12: really came on late in the season, was really good

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Speaker 12: in the postseason.

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Speaker 13: So they hope that they can continue to see the.

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Speaker 12: Emergence of cade Aughten, because look, everyone knows it's Mike

598
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Speaker 12: and Chris, and they would love to have some more

599
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Speaker 12: help there when it comes to being a receiving threat

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Speaker 12: for the Buccaneers, Baker and Todd would love nothing more,

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Speaker 12: guys than to spread the wealth around a little more.

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Speaker 8: God, what a great problem to have.

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Speaker 7: You know, this Bucks team really has a feel of

604
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Speaker 7: like a reboot, right, I mean basically what they did.

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Speaker 7: I mean there's some changes on the roster obviously, and

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Speaker 7: there's still some deals to be done. Tristan Worth certainly

607
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 7: potentially the highest pay tackle in the NFL at some point,

608
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Speaker 7: certainly has a deal that is out there and could

609
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Speaker 7: get done at some point. But they basically resigned all

610
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Speaker 7: their guys. They rebooted things that you know, what we

611
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Speaker 7: did last year, we liked it. Let's try to do

612
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Speaker 7: it again, but a little bit better, of course, this

613
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Speaker 7: time with offensive coordinator Liam Cohen as probably the most

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Speaker 7: the biggest new face and most important new face there.

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Speaker 7: But a third receiver is an amazing problem because basically

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Speaker 7: what that means is the Bucks have almost everything else,

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Speaker 7: and that's kind of what it feels like. And so

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Speaker 7: to me, for Baker Mayfield to have some stability, to

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Speaker 7: have some security, to have different offensive coordinator, yes, but

620
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Speaker 7: certainly a familiar system and a lot of familiarity there,

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Speaker 7: it feels like this is probably the best situation they

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Speaker 7: could be in, the best situation.

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Speaker 2: He could be in.

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Speaker 7: And why I think there's some optimism they could be

625
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Speaker 7: just a little bit better than last year and kind

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Speaker 7: of continue their upward trajectory.

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Speaker 12: I think they assume that they're going to be a

628
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Speaker 12: little bit better than last year because there was so

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Speaker 12: much uncertainty with Baker and you didn't know if he

630
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Speaker 12: was going to run away with the job the way

631
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Speaker 12: that he did. But going back to that number three threat,

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Speaker 12: they really haven't had that since Antonio Brown when they

633
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Speaker 12: put him on the field, and then you of course

634
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Speaker 12: had Gronk back in the day. They just had options,

635
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Speaker 12: and as soon as he was gone, no one's really

636
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Speaker 12: seized that position.

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Speaker 13: So that's what they're looking for.

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Speaker 12: And then of course that becomes even more important given

639
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Speaker 12: the issues that they have had with the running game.

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Speaker 13: They would love to run the foot better.

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Speaker 12: That has been an issue for the last couple of years,

642
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Speaker 12: and Liam that's obviously high on his chart of things

643
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 12: to get going. But when you can't run the football,

644
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,719
Speaker 12: it was really obvious who they're going to go to.

645
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Speaker 12: Chris has had an issue with his knee not last year,

646
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Speaker 12: but Mike has just been the epitome of good.

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Speaker 13: Health for all his years playing here in Tampa.

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Speaker 12: So they've been really fortunate in that sense that they

649
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Speaker 12: have those guys and that they're available and they push

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Speaker 12: through things and they're the toughest guys you could possibly

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Speaker 12: ask for. But for this team to take the next

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Speaker 12: step and go to the next level, and Baker has

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Speaker 12: said over and over again that is the plan. We're

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Speaker 12: not happy just going to Detroit and losing in that

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Speaker 12: divisional round. Now it's how do we get to the

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Speaker 12: next step. They have much bigger aspirations. But I think

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Speaker 12: something you said is really interesting and to me because

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Speaker 12: when the big flashy news stories that you're typically breaking

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Speaker 12: getting the monster contracts.

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Speaker 13: There were some monster contracts on the Bucks.

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Speaker 12: I just think that they're not as heavily publicized because

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Speaker 12: it's just the Bucks returning to the Bucks. And that's

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Speaker 12: what Jason Lay said. He goes, if you know, if

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Speaker 12: you out looked at my hall, if you went out

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Speaker 12: and said you've signed this guy and this guy and

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Speaker 12: this guy, you'd go, this is a pro bowler. This

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Speaker 12: He's like, I've got a Pro Bowl haul. It was

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Speaker 12: just those guys are my own guys, right, So I

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Speaker 12: think that goes under the radar a little bit. He

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Speaker 12: had an all star class that he signed. He just

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Speaker 12: happened to already have them in his building.

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Speaker 1: Sarah, thank you as always, will be catching up with

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Speaker 1: you again soon as we continue to get closer and

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Speaker 1: closer training camp and real live NFL regular season football,

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Speaker 1: also getting closer to fantasy football. What does Brandon Iuk's

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Speaker 1: Florio has answers next on The Insiders, football is back

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Speaker 1: celebrating as one celebrate I could talk by watching his

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals now today that running back Corey Dillon and

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Speaker 1: nose tackle Tim Crumrie will be inducted to the team's

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Speaker 1: Ring of Honor during their Week three game on Monday

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Speaker 1: while Crumrae holds the Bengals record for the most regular

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Speaker 1: season games played by any offensive or defensive lineman. Kyle Pitts, well,

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Speaker 1: I'd be trying on a new position here, working not

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Speaker 1: only at the tight end position, but also at wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: Everybody who's been riding the hike trade on Kyle Pitts

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Speaker 1: for several years now and thinking about him in fantasy,

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Speaker 1: is this the breakthrough? Is this the time a new

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Speaker 1: coaching staff, a new offense. Is this the Kyle Pitts

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Speaker 1: breakouts season? We got just the man to tell us.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Insiders. Tom Pelisaro, joined now by

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Speaker 1: our fantasy guru, Michael f Floria. Michael left with the

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Speaker 1: wider receiver slash tight end tag. Now potential that could

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Speaker 1: be there. I'm having like Marcus Colston flashbacks. The difference

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Speaker 1: there was that was a fake tight end. It was

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Speaker 1: really a wide receiver. This is a tight end who

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Speaker 1: might play some wide receiver. What, if anything, does it

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Speaker 1: mean to you about Kyle Pitch's value in upcoming fantasy drafts?

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Speaker 14: It matters, but it doesn't change a whole lot because

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Speaker 14: this is what he did last.

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Speaker 2: Year as well.

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Speaker 14: And as someone who's been chasing the Kyle Pitts hype

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Speaker 14: train for years now, I could tell you, like I'm excited,

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Speaker 14: but last year, twenty nine percent of his snaps were

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Speaker 14: out wide, forty eight were from the slot, only twenty

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Speaker 14: two were used as a traditional tight end. But what

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Speaker 14: matters is the new play caller and the new quarterback

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Speaker 14: two years ago, if he had the highest rate of

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Speaker 14: uncatchable targets at sixty percent last year, Ritter and Heineke

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Speaker 14: combined to be bottom two in catchable target rate.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 8: Was top two.

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Speaker 14: So he's gonna get a lot more catchable targets and

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Speaker 14: we know what he can do with that. We saw

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Speaker 14: flashes of that this rookie year, this is the year

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Speaker 14: every on the Kyle Pitts breakout. It's happening now, or

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Speaker 14: it may never happen.

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's move on to somebody who was a

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Speaker 1: full time wide receiver though he wasn't there to do

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Speaker 1: anything in mini camp. Brandon Ayuk, after a month long

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Speaker 1: standoff with the forty nine Ers that is still ongoing,

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Speaker 1: officially requested a trade earlier this week. My understanding has

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Speaker 1: been that has not changed the forty nine ers perspective.

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Speaker 1: They've always been in the camp of you're going to

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Speaker 1: be on the team in twenty twenty four from a

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Speaker 1: fantasy perspective, and maybe the possibility even that Ayo could

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Speaker 1: miss some time into camp, maybe even toward the season,

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Speaker 1: what does that do to his stock?

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Speaker 14: I think realistically he's going to end up playing this

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Speaker 14: year in San fran and I think that's the best

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Speaker 14: case scenario for everyone involved. Ayuk has become their top

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Speaker 14: d threat, their top receiver in the red zone.

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Speaker 8: He is so efficient.

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Speaker 14: His yards per route ran last year was the fourth

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Speaker 14: best and the next gen stats era. I think his

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Speaker 14: efficiency would go down if he left, Maybe his volume

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Speaker 14: would go up and make up for that. He only

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Speaker 14: had one hundred and five targets last year. If he

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Speaker 14: was to leave, maybe Washington, Buffalo, the Chargers some places.

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Speaker 2: That could help.

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Speaker 14: But Rock Perdy better be hoping that he does not leave,

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Speaker 14: because last year half of his deep completions went to

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Speaker 14: Brandon Ayuk and just about half of his deep yards

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Speaker 14: and touchdowns also went to Ayuk. So that would take

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Speaker 14: party and make him more of a QB two for

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Speaker 14: fantasy purposes if he was to lose his top white.

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Speaker 1: Outright, everybody's always looking for additional quarterbacks, especially me, who suddenly,

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Speaker 1: after like fifteen years in the same league, they decided

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Speaker 1: to add a super flex spot and I voted against it,

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Speaker 1: and nobody cared. And now people are starting two quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: and I don't properly allocate my cap dollars and so

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Speaker 1: I never have a worthwhile. Second one, tell me about

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, who certainly seems to be progressing in the

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Speaker 1: right direction. He's not gonna be on puff to start camp.

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Speaker 1: He's got maleak neighbors. Now, is he's somebody worth drafting.

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Speaker 8: In super flex?

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Speaker 14: Yeah, in one quarterback league it's a lot more borderline,

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Speaker 14: but in two quarterback formats for sure. Forget that just

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Speaker 14: in twenty twenty two, a less than two years ago,

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Speaker 14: he was a top ten fantasy quarterback. Now, I know

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Speaker 14: that was largely due to what he gave with his legs.

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Speaker 14: So the knee obviously, to see it healthy is a

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Speaker 14: huge plus. But the big thing you mentioned the Lak Neighbors.

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Speaker 14: He's gonna have the best receiver that I think he's

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Speaker 14: ever played with in Neighbors, who is being drafted right

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Speaker 14: now as a top twenty four wide receiver. So you

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Speaker 14: want Daniel Jones healthy if you're investing in the Elak Neighbors,

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Speaker 14: and this can only be a good thing for his

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Speaker 14: fantasy value.

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Speaker 1: Michael f thank you as always your fancy insights. We

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Speaker 1: will have them every week throughout this NFL season. Once again,

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Speaker 1: always appreciate you being here. Speaking of the Giants, Darius

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Speaker 1: Slayton had some interesting comments recently on the All Gas,

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Speaker 1: No Breaks podcast talking about the newest member of the Giants'

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Speaker 1: Elik Neighbors.

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Speaker 15: Honestly, in my opinion, he was just he reminds me

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Speaker 15: of Jamar Chase. It's like a clone. Yeah, that's the

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Speaker 15: comp I had for him too there right, How tall

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Speaker 15: is Jamar though.

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Speaker 8: Jamorrow was at least six feet Jamorge is six He's

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Speaker 8: listed six.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, so Leak's about six foot yeah, about the same size,

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Speaker 15: Like dimensionally they're about the same and his body.

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Speaker 8: Movements, it's it's actually kind of weird.

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Speaker 1: Trading camp's continuing to ramp up, and we've got some

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Speaker 1: news on a pretty significant player for a team in

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Speaker 1: the NFC. South as Ian Rapport tweeted a short time

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Speaker 1: ago getting clarity on NFL rules. Saints offensive tackle Ryan

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Speaker 1: Ramcheck is now out for the season. Officially. That comes

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Speaker 1: as a result of the veteran tackle who's been dealing

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Speaker 1: with lingering knee issues landing on the reserve physically unable

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Speaker 1: to perform lists.

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Speaker 14: Ian.

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Speaker 1: Let's welcome in back into the conversation here. As we

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Speaker 1: all know, there are some confusing parts of NFL rules,

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Speaker 1: and there have been a lot of changes recently to

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Speaker 1: how the lists end up playing what happens based on

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Speaker 1: when guys go on list. But for Ramcheck, it is

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Speaker 1: abundantly clear he's not playing in twenty twenty four and

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Speaker 1: you have to wonder if this is the end of

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Speaker 1: the line.

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Speaker 7: It certainly could be the end of the line for

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Speaker 7: Ryan Ramchik really one of the cooler success stories, emerged

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Speaker 7: as a big time offensive tackle for the New Orleans Saints,

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Speaker 7: signed a massive contract nearly one hundred million dollars.

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Speaker 8: Is going to end up collecting a lot of.

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Speaker 7: That, but his career for sure could be over now

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Speaker 7: he is out for the season.

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Speaker 8: He's dealing with a knee is sure, and he of course.

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Speaker 7: Has had some injury concerns over the years, but dealing

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Speaker 7: with the kneessue now.

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Speaker 8: They thought it was going to get better. I thought

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Speaker 8: it was going to turn the corner.

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Speaker 7: It just did not improve like the Saints and of

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Speaker 7: course like Ramcheck had hoped, and by virtue of him

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Speaker 7: being placed on the reserve pup list rather than the

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Speaker 7: active pup list before the roster cutdown date. He is

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Speaker 7: now out for the season, not able to play this

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Speaker 7: season obviously, as you mentioned, it may not play next season.

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Speaker 7: The Saints drafted Tyali Fawanga in the first round there

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Speaker 7: tackle the the future, a clear sign that they knew

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Speaker 7: this was coming.

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Speaker 1: And just so people don't freak out, because there's going

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Speaker 1: to be dozens of these pup moves coming up here.

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Speaker 1: As Ian just mentioned guys who go on active pup.

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Speaker 1: You can be activated from that at any time. That

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Speaker 1: can be for a variety of different reasons. Reserve pup

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Speaker 1: at this time of year is season ending, and it

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Speaker 1: is for Ryan Ramchick. So some bad news there for

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Speaker 1: Derek Carr in the Saints' offense. They're hoping good news

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Speaker 1: We're going to see in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 7: This was tough because like cool throwbacks are kind of

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Speaker 7: a thing now. And for those of us who are

872
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 7: our age, you know, early forties ish, this is kind

873
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 7: of our childhood, right, But for me it was.

874
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 8: I said early forties.

875
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 7: Anyway, it's Seattle, It's the Seahawks, it's the like early

876
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 7: nineties Seattle. I mean those are beautiful, right, that's Steve Largent,

877
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 7: Walter Jones?

878
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: Is it larger?

879
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 8: Is there a Bosworth out there? I mean those are

880
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 8: some Those are some great teams.

881
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 7: Walter Jones was also one of my favorites because he

882
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 7: never went to training camp and then all he did

883
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 7: was be a pro bowler and he was awesome. Just

884
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 7: held out, held out, then showed up in bald You

885
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 7: gotta like those kind of guys. These uniforms are sweet.

886
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 7: Definitely my favorite.

887
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 1: Some other good ones from like the eighties style, those

888
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: Broncos ones that looked like they were introduced in a

889
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: light beer ad. We're pretty solid. But you know what

890
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say here, Ian not true throwbacks. You throwbacks

891
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 1: to several eras, but the giant century red You're not

892
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 1: ten pants? Maybe love me some tan pants. Look at

893
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 1: how gorgeous those are going to be? Ian, did you

894
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 1: get the ten jersey said maybe to a country club. No,

895
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 1: that's what I said. Did you get one of those

896
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: jerseys sent to you the Canadians.

897
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,879
Speaker 7: No, I got a Jaguars, but what giants didn't send

898
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 7: me anything yet at least, but you know I do have.

899
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 7: I'm not saying i'm I'm just saying my dress is