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Speaker 1: the show must go on with Ota is getting underweight

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Speaker 1: today in Pittsburgh. Who would give Mike Tomlins team the

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Speaker 1: best chance to win? We will break that down. Bill's

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Speaker 1: also kicking off OTAs today. No James Cook, no Joey Bosa,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen as you can see if slow motion is there,

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Speaker 1: and Judy Batista will tell you why the reigning NFL

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Speaker 1: MVP may be under a little more pressure. The only

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Speaker 1: pressure on the Garrett Blunt tonight comes from making.

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Speaker 2: His debut on this show.

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Speaker 1: He still looks like you could run over some people,

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Speaker 1: and not just Ian for whatever dumb question he's gonna

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Speaker 1: ask him. In it a little bit welcome inside with

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Speaker 1: the Insiders alongside Judy Batista and Ian Rappaport. I am

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Speaker 1: Tom Pelissero. I'd have been counting down the days to

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five NFL season, really since the Monday

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Speaker 1: after the Super Bowl. But this is the moment everybody

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Speaker 1: else can start your countdown clocks because we are officially

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Speaker 1: one hundred days away from kickoff. That's how close you

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Speaker 1: are that September fourth opener between the Eagles and the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: Is a variety of people point note to me on

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Speaker 1: social media earlier today, we're only like sixty five days

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Speaker 1: away from preseason football, but I say one hundred days.

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Speaker 3: That's the true countdown.

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Speaker 1: And we got OTAs getting going with twenty different NFL

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Speaker 1: team that includes in Pittsburgh where Robert Woods a new

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Speaker 1: addition to these Steelers, making his practice debut earlier today,

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Speaker 1: another high profile edition. You may have heard about Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers not there yet. Here's what Mace Rudolph had to say.

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Speaker 4: That's nothing new to me. There's been constant noise. That

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Speaker 4: is the nature of the NFL. So I have been

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Speaker 4: used to that for a long time. Now do nothing,

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Speaker 4: but you know, be the best that can be and

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Speaker 4: and help our team, help our team get better this spring.

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Speaker 5: Have you been in touch with on at all?

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Speaker 1: No Michael Pennix on the field in Flowery Brands, Georgia

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Speaker 1: where the Falcons got their OTAs underweight today, not picture

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Speaker 1: they're anywhere else. Kirk Cousins, who was a no show

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Speaker 1: on the first day of OTAs, he I'll start with

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Speaker 1: you here. Kirk Cousins has been there sporadically in Atlanta

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Speaker 1: through the course of the spring and the off season

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Speaker 1: workoff programs. They were kind of surprised when he showed

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Speaker 1: he's also made abundantly clear he wants me playing elsewhere

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Speaker 7: Well, first of all, this was always going to be awkward, right,

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Speaker 7: Whether Kirk Cousins showed up for conditioning, which you're right,

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Speaker 7: I think was a little unexpected in the building, whether

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Speaker 7: It's always going to be awkward and weird because you

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Speaker 7: to is no longer your start quarterback, but who does

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Speaker 3: Despite the fact that the best situation.

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Speaker 7: For him Cousins, I mean, is to get all the money,

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Speaker 7: get released, go pick whatever team he wants, and go

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Speaker 7: try to start somewhere. It just doesn't seem like the

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Speaker 7: said so. Terry Fino, the general manager, has said so

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Speaker 7: very publicly he expects Cousins to be there. Trading Cousins

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Speaker 7: makes far more sense than just cutting him and letting

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Speaker 7: of all, you've already paid him the money, So what's

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Speaker 7: He would be one of the best backup quarterbacks in

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Speaker 7: All that adds up to just plain weirdness until that

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Speaker 3: It's going to probably get weirder.

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Speaker 7: But I still believe based on what I know, that

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Speaker 8: Atlant I'm not sure Kirk Cousins has the backup is

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Speaker 9: The only team.

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Speaker 8: Left out there that doesn't have at least the people

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Speaker 8: They are waiting on Aaron Rodgers. The Steelers would be

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Speaker 8: But short of that, I don't know where he could

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Speaker 8: of course it all comes back to Aaron.

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Speaker 1: Rodgers, of course, and if it's all about the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: then all indications are at this point that that opportunity

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Speaker 1: some type of late switchy And because with Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: we know he's been talking with Mike Tomlin. It was

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Speaker 2: He made over the weekend.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean when Aaron Rodgers was and he was

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Speaker 7: But that's what this has been, right, I would say

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Speaker 7: It would be a surprise if Aaron Rodgers not in

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Speaker 7: I'm not saying retirements it, but it would be a surprise.

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Speaker 7: Maybe a better question is just when, And to me,

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Speaker 7: the one that makes the most sense is for Rogers

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Speaker 3: The news will come out right before mandatory minicamp show up.

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Speaker 7: Little media, get on the field, get the playbook, see

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Speaker 7: you later, goodbye for the summer.

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Speaker 7: Then everything is a go. Just reading the tea leaves,

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Speaker 7: that makes the most sense. But because it's Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 8: You know, Judy, I'm sorry, I thought we were going

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: Well, if they look at the quarterbacks who are currently

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Speaker 1: welcome in our Brian Baldinger to the conversation now, along

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Speaker 1: with Mark Ross Martlett. But I'll say it to you

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Speaker 1: as simply as possible. We talk about Aaron Rodgers, we

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Speaker 1: talk about Kirk Couns, we talk about Mason Rudolph and

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Speaker 1: the guys that are there. Who gives the Sailors the

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Speaker 10: Well, me and Mark I feel like We've been on

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Speaker 10: here debating Aaron Rodgers for like a year now, going

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Speaker 10: back to you know, a disappointing season with the Jets.

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Speaker 10: But I mean, he still gives the Steelers the best chance. Now,

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Speaker 10: how long you give him, how well he plays, how

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Speaker 10: he did not play well at the end of games

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Speaker 10: a year ago, especially early in the year before coaches

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Speaker 10: just began to get fired. You know, you can always

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Speaker 10: go to Mason Rudolph, who's got an eight to four

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Speaker 10: it still seems a little ludicrous to me.

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Speaker 11: Completely agree with that, Baldy, And we keep talking about

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Speaker 11: last couple of years he just doesn't have it anymore.

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Speaker 11: The Jets, he's trying to get the ball out of

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Speaker 2: He's another year older.

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Speaker 11: I just don't know why the Steelers faith will be

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Speaker 11: keep talking about him, Baldy said, we keep talking about him. Please,

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Speaker 11: let's just stop talking about him.

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Speaker 1: Tom Well, he keeps talking, Mark, and that's kind of

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Speaker 1: what we have to do. Respond every time Eric gives

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Speaker 1: us just that little extra bit of tea leaves that

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Speaker 1: we can read as we move forward. Mark Paldy, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much. Stick around a lot more from you

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Speaker 2: Of this show.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier the Bills back on the practice field.

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Speaker 1: That he includes their quarterback Josh Allen. No James Cook

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Speaker 1: We may not see him until training camp. Sean McDermott

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Speaker 12: We're staying in touch like you'd expect a player and

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Speaker 12: be here when he's ready to be here, and and

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Speaker 6: Their recent injury history that Joey has help concerning.

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Speaker 13: Is is it that we're already you know.

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Speaker 1: We've known that the James Cook situation has been evolving.

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Speaker 3: Sarah, the Bucks.

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Speaker 1: Are there at the end every year in terms of

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Speaker 14: Well, alluding to what you just said, they really feel

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Speaker 5: As for Baker Mayfield and company.

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Speaker 15: I don't know what that means. I don't have Twitter,

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Speaker 11: Those socials trip up a lot of people there. That

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of cash cap and draft capital in

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Speaker 14: On draft day, he said, when we took two corners

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Speaker 1: Guys, Sarah, good stuff, Thank you, Mark, stick around. More

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Speaker 1: special guest here tonight, Garrett Blunt, always one of the

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Speaker 7: That is chock full of memories right there for me

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Speaker 7: for this old Patriots speed writer. Chock full great games

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Speaker 7: and features by our next guest, Le Garrett Blunt, who

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Speaker 7: is taking over the network today, all before us, all

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Speaker 3: It is Le Garrett Blunt's day.

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Speaker 7: Very pleased to be joined by him right now along

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Speaker 7: with Judy Bautista on The Insiders. La Garrett, first of all,

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Speaker 7: very important, we'll start here. You are wearing sunglasses as

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Speaker 7: the day is so bright you just have to wear shades.

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Speaker 6: I'm havy to go with there.

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Speaker 16: I'm gonna have to go with d Playing tackle football

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Speaker 16: with a seven year old ends up getting poked in

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Speaker 16: the eye and you know, not one eyes red and

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Speaker 16: one eye is white and one won't stop watering.

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Speaker 6: So I'm, you know, me playing football with him. It's

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Speaker 6: worth it. So I'll do that every day of the week.

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Speaker 6: I'm trying to create so.

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Speaker 9: Much than in the end.

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Speaker 1: There you go.

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Speaker 8: Let's talk about some of your programming choices. First of all,

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Speaker 8: you went with the Philly Special super Bowl, your Super

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Speaker 8: Bowl with the Eagles. People think of that as the

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Speaker 8: Philly Special game, but you had a really good game.

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Speaker 8: Why why do you want everybody to see that game again?

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Speaker 6: That's my favorite super Bowl.

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Speaker 16: I had a blast in that game, my most productive

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Speaker 16: super Bowl in my career.

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Speaker 6: I think I almost had one hundred yards.

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Speaker 16: Men, Dudes keep on getting into it about a lot

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Speaker 16: not letting me get those extra ten because I don't

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Speaker 16: know a lot of guys that ran for a hundred

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Speaker 16: yards in the Super Bowl. So definitely definitely wanted that

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Speaker 16: hundred yard game. But by far my favorite super Bowl

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Speaker 16: because it was an opportunity for us to do something

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Speaker 16: that hadn't been done in Philly history.

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Speaker 7: I think either way, regardless of whether you got the

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Speaker 7: extra ten yards, I mean that game is in Super

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Speaker 7: Bowl War forever for a variety of reasons. You had

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Speaker 7: a couple more with the New England Patriots. Obviously your

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Speaker 7: time with the Patriots highlighted today. What is your best

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Speaker 7: Patriots memory, whether Super Bowl or otherwise.

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Speaker 16: My best Patriots memory, I would have to say the

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Speaker 16: first Super Bowl. It was my first time ever experiencing

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Speaker 16: anything like that.

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Speaker 6: It was crazy.

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Speaker 16: It was fun, jam packed with a lot of different

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Speaker 16: activities and a lot of different things to do. And

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Speaker 16: in that game, I didn't have a lot a lot

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Speaker 16: of yards, but it was really really fun to just

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Speaker 16: lay in that atmosphere, be there with obviously the best

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Speaker 16: quarterbacks ever played the game, and to see what it

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Speaker 16: feels like and looks like to win.

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Speaker 6: The Super Bowl. So that was great.

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Speaker 8: You played for five teams, right, the Bucks gave you

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Speaker 8: your start. You won two super Bowls with the Patriots,

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Speaker 8: one with the Eagles. You're in Detroit and Pittsburgh, Like,

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Speaker 8: what team do you still feel most attached to.

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Speaker 9: Like, what's the team that you still follow the most.

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Speaker 6: Oh, that's a good question.

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Speaker 16: So the team that I follow the absolute most, The

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Speaker 16: team that I follow the absolute most is I would

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Speaker 16: say the Philadelphia Eagles for the simple fact that they

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Speaker 16: always make different transactions with trades, with free agency. They're

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Speaker 16: always picking up some guys to get better and have

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Speaker 16: a better football team. So I'll follow Philly more closely

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Speaker 16: than anything.

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Speaker 6: I talked to them quite a bit.

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Speaker 16: They haven't They have switched out the coaching since I

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Speaker 16: was there. But Nick is awesome, very welcoming, dom as Doe,

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Speaker 16: mister Larry is awesome. So those guys are who I

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Speaker 16: gravitate to the most, even though it was only there

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Speaker 16: for one year.

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Speaker 7: All right, So let's let's stay right there and let's

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Speaker 7: talk about Philly because they got a running back named

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Speaker 7: Sakuon Barkley who is pretty good, pretty good, kind of

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Speaker 7: a little bit of a throwback just in how physically

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Speaker 7: is I mean, you got to be psyched with how

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Speaker 7: well teams are running the ball and focusing on that.

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Speaker 7: But Saquon recently said that in his mind, last year's

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Speaker 7: Eagles are a top five NFL team, you obviously have

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Speaker 7: been have won three Super Bowls. You know as much

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Speaker 7: about the NFL as and what do you think when

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Speaker 7: you hear that statement from this Eagles running back.

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Speaker 6: I agree with that. I one hundred percent agree with it.

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Speaker 16: I think that they are one of the better teams

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Speaker 16: in NFL history. It's not a lot of teams. I

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Speaker 16: had a guy like say Kwan on their team. It's

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Speaker 16: really really hard team to beat. And you know you're

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Speaker 16: going into the game, no matter what other thirty one

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Speaker 16: teams you are, You're going into the game knowing that

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Speaker 16: it's going to be a tough one all four quarters,

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Speaker 16: all four quarters, no matter if they have a couple

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Speaker 16: of guys down, no matter if you got a couple

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Speaker 16: of guys out, they have enough firepower to make it

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Speaker 16: a long day or night for you.

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Speaker 6: All all game.

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Speaker 16: On both sides of the on both sides of the

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Speaker 16: field is a is a I'm going to go out

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Speaker 16: on a limb and say he's going to end up

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Speaker 16: being one of the best backs to ever grace the NFL.

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Speaker 16: He's definitely on that, on that trajectory and pace, and

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Speaker 16: that's even with the first part of his career being

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Speaker 16: in New York.

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Speaker 8: Well, let's stay on the running backs. You obviously like

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Speaker 8: Saquon a lot. What are the running backs? Current running

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Speaker 8: backs do you like to watch?

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Speaker 16: Oh, Jamier Gibbs, Jamiir Gibbs, d John Robinson. Those young guys,

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Speaker 16: those are those are they? They are very very impressive,

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Speaker 16: They're very entertaining to watch. Jamiir Gibbs is one of

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Speaker 16: those guys. Well, I don't know, I'm just trying to think,

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Speaker 16: and I don't think that we've seen a guy like

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Speaker 16: that in the league in a long time.

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Speaker 6: And he puts in the mind of someone that is.

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Speaker 16: A version of sweetness, but not the same style of sweetness.

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Speaker 16: But he does have a really really really sweet running style.

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Speaker 16: He's very smooth, he's extremely fast and agile, has a

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Speaker 16: lot of balance. B John Robinson kind of the same thing.

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Speaker 16: I mean, the list goes on with these young guys

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Speaker 16: that that can, that can just outright play ball. So

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Speaker 16: those those are two of the younger guys that I

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Speaker 16: really really, really really like.

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Speaker 6: And I make sure I tune in to watch every

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Speaker 6: game that they play.

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Speaker 7: Really appreciate you hanging out with us and the insiders.

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Speaker 7: Enjoy your day on NFL Network. I know we will

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Speaker 7: as well.

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Speaker 1: Congrants to Travis Hunter, who married his high school sweetheart

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Speaker 1: Leanna d la Fuente over the weekend. Big couple of

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Speaker 1: months for Travis Hunter and Liam Cohen.

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Speaker 2: He's also doing that football.

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Speaker 9: Thing that was good, you know.

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Speaker 13: I mean, he's still learning. He's been learning a ton

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Speaker 13: defensively and offensively, as we know, you know, but that

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Speaker 13: was more so fundamentals techniques. It wasn't a ton of

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Speaker 13: eleven on eleven seven one. It was more fundamentals techniques communication.

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Speaker 13: That was what that kind of last Wednesday was. And

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Speaker 13: he's been learning with those guys and meet with him

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Speaker 13: extra as he's needed to.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Insiders, Tom Pilla, Serah Mark Ross

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Speaker 1: back with.

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Speaker 3: Us, joined now by Cam Wolf.

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Speaker 1: I feel like Cam, we can talk about this every

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Speaker 1: day until we actually see Travis Hunter in the game.

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Speaker 1: What do we make so far of what we're seeing

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Speaker 1: and hearing about.

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Speaker 2: The number two pick out of Jacksonville.

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Speaker 17: Well, Tom, first of all, this is just a fun

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Speaker 17: energy to bring on this franchise Duval Jacksonville.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned he got married this past weekend.

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Speaker 17: He brought some of those dance moves that he had

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Speaker 17: from the wedding onto the practice field to day. His

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Speaker 17: energy is just infectious and I can't wait to get

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Speaker 17: down to duvall in camp to be able.

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Speaker 2: To see him up close.

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Speaker 17: You heard Liam Cohen discuss it a little bit. They

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Speaker 17: have a clear plan for the two way star. He

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Speaker 17: has been primarily an offensive player, including today where he

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Speaker 17: played solely wide receiver, but he did get one day

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Speaker 17: of defense last Wednesday playing cornerback. But their plan is

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Speaker 17: for him to play wide receiver on the field most

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Speaker 17: of the days and OTA's and end of the training camp,

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Speaker 17: and they'll sprinkle in a day or two of defensive back. Now,

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Speaker 17: Cohen mentioned, we're not going to put him on the

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Speaker 17: field on both sides of the ball on one day

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Speaker 17: because we just think that's too much for him to

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Speaker 17: take on at this stage. But when we get in

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Speaker 17: the season, we expect him to be that two way

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Speaker 17: player who practices on both sides of the ball. But

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Speaker 17: I just can't wait to see this offense when it's

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Speaker 17: up to speed. They talked about Travis Hunter and what

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Speaker 17: he can do his route running, his ability to play

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Speaker 17: making ability. Don't forget about Brian Thomas Junior, who is

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Speaker 17: one of the most effective players, not rookies, but players

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Speaker 17: at the wide receiver position. Last year, you get him,

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Speaker 17: you get Travis Hunter along with Trevor Lawrence, and there's

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Speaker 17: a lot of belief that they can have a more

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Speaker 17: explosive offense down the field. A lot of eyeballs on

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Speaker 17: what they can do in your one for Liam Cohen,

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Speaker 17: but the hope is that they can have this explosion

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Speaker 17: that they have missed on offense with Travis Hunter.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, can the perfect compliment with Travis Hunter in his

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Speaker 11: skill set, going with Brian Thomas Junior, because Brian Thomas

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Speaker 11: Junior and you get run by anybody. He could do

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Speaker 11: the other things, but he can just really fly, whereas

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Speaker 11: Travis Hunter is more of the slick underneath route runner.

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Speaker 11: So they're a perfect compliment to one another. And the

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Speaker 11: plan that they have for them, I think is perfect.

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Speaker 11: When I first scouted Travis Hunter, just watching him on

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Speaker 11: both sides of the balls, like, this guy has to

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Speaker 11: be a receiver because you can get him the ball.

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Speaker 11: You want your best players to get the ball as

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Speaker 11: much as possible, and you can force feed him the

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Speaker 11: ball as a receiver whereas a corner he could go

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Speaker 11: through a whole stretch of game.

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Speaker 3: He don't even notice him.

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Speaker 11: So this is a perfect plan and for Jacksonville learning

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Speaker 11: the playbook on offense, as a corner, you can just

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Speaker 11: go say go cover somebody, but this is more of

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Speaker 11: also with Travis Hunter being on offense, this is it

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Speaker 11: for Trevor Lawrence. Like, there's no more excuses for Trevor Lawrence.

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Speaker 11: You got maybe top five explosive wide receiver duo there

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Speaker 11: in the league and Trevor just has to finally get

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Speaker 11: it done. There's no more he needs this, this needs

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Speaker 11: he needs more. It's time for him, being the number

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Speaker 11: one pick and the franchise quarterback there to say I

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Speaker 11: can raise my level, I can raise everybody else's level

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Speaker 11: on this team and not just throw for eleven touchdowns

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Speaker 11: and barely over two thousand yards last season no matter

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Speaker 11: who's around him. So this is really a make or

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Speaker 11: break gear for Trevor Lawrence and the Jacksonville franchise. And

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Speaker 11: if he doesn't do it with this group, whether they

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Speaker 11: go again, they reset once again.

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Speaker 1: So Jayguar's got Trevor Lawren's a big time weapon. The

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Speaker 1: Panthers hope that they got a big time weapon for

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Speaker 1: Bryce Young as well. He's out there this week at

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Speaker 1: OTAs to throw for the first time to his new

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Speaker 1: favorite target, Tete Rolla McMillan, the number eight overall pickerson

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Speaker 1: After the draft, Bryce Young was stumping for Carolina to

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Speaker 1: draft him. Now, certainly Bryce's happy team at as a Panther.

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Speaker 18: I've played against him in high school. I've seen him

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Speaker 18: and followed his career ever since since high school, so

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Speaker 18: I've always from whether it's playing against him or from afar.

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Speaker 18: I was always someone that had a ton of respect

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Speaker 18: for I loved his game. I've been around him before

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Speaker 18: that too, her great things, loved his work ethic, have

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Speaker 18: had seen him live, so just again, I had a

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Speaker 18: ton of exposures, so I was always kind of following,

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Speaker 18: always kind of looking, and you know, obviously just us

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Speaker 18: having that opportunity was I'm super grateful. Obviously I trusted

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Speaker 18: coach kanal Is and Dan with the decision. They were

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Speaker 18: going to do what was best for the team, and

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Speaker 18: you know, they they obviously felt that was what was best.

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Speaker 18: And you know, obviously for me, it's it's it was

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Speaker 18: music for my ears, Caam.

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Speaker 1: It was interesting because leading up to the draft, the

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Speaker 1: Panthers were taking a lot of calls, making calls, but

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Speaker 1: potentially moving down in round one.

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Speaker 2: But if they were at number eight, t Mac was

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Speaker 2: their guy.

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Speaker 1: They ultimately decided to Stan Patton obviously got the type

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Speaker 1: of weapon they really haven't had around the former number

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Speaker 1: one overall pick.

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Speaker 2: Yeah Tom.

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Speaker 17: Bryce Young said it was music to his ears to

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Speaker 17: hear the Panthers taking teddor Roe McMillan, California loved maybe

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Speaker 17: the music on.

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Speaker 2: The track for these duos.

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Speaker 17: They already are connecting deep down the field and OTA's

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Speaker 17: and these are two South California kids. As he mentioned,

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Speaker 17: they played against each other in high school. And from

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Speaker 17: what I was told, they had an off season throwing

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Speaker 17: session before the draft or one day throwing session together

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Speaker 17: that went excellent, and it really led to Bryce Young

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Speaker 17: telling the front office that, hey, yeah, we got a chance.

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Speaker 17: I'd love to get that guy. If you know anything

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Speaker 17: about Bryce Young, he's soft spoken. He doesn't speak up

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Speaker 17: a ton in these moments, so I'm sure that spoke

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Speaker 17: volumes to the front of office. And now they have

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Speaker 17: really supplied the offense that Bryce Young needs.

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Speaker 2: He got Xavier get last year, now he's got t Mac.

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Speaker 17: They invested in the offensive line and Robert Hunt and

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Speaker 17: Damian Lewis last year, and I talked to him as

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Speaker 17: Zach a few weeks ago and said, hey, give me

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Speaker 17: something that may surprise me this year. He said, the

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Speaker 17: Panthers being a top ten offense and making a playoff push,

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Speaker 17: which definitely would surprise a lot of people. But they

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Speaker 17: have the right talent and there's a lot of confidence

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Speaker 17: in Bryce Young out there. Coach Canal has said today,

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Speaker 17: if I'm very confident, if we saw the Bryce Young

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Speaker 17: I saw today on the field, then we're in good shape.

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Speaker 17: And I remember being there at the season finale game

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Speaker 17: they played in the Falcons Week eight team. He was

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Speaker 17: throwing deep balls, daggers all down the field. That gave

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Speaker 17: them the confidence to make him the unquestioned starter. And

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Speaker 17: now with Ted McMillan Xavier Lyguett, they think they have

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Speaker 17: something brewing in Carolina.

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Speaker 3: Cam Mark, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: The countdown is on, not just to see if the

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Speaker 1: Panthers can have a top ten offense to go to

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, but also with one hundred days left to

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Speaker 1: the season, much of these contenders perennially could be under

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Speaker 1: just a little bit more pressure. Judabatista will be back

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Speaker 3: Terms and conditions apply, as they always do in other

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Speaker 7: Meanwhile, it is now time for count on It, presented

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Speaker 7: by Toro let Us. Welcome in our good friends Judabautista

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Speaker 7: and Brian Baldinger.

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Speaker 3: Judy, you have an.

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Speaker 7: Article on NFL dot com about the team's most under

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Speaker 7: the microphone of microscope not microphone, that would be us.

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Speaker 3: I will start on this.

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Speaker 7: Which is the team in your s themation the needs

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Speaker 7: to win the Super Bowl?

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Speaker 8: Well, there's certainly quite a few candidates for this, but

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Speaker 8: I would go with the Buffalo Bills, who have come

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Speaker 8: achingly close to toppling the Kansas City Chiefs in the

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Speaker 8: AFC in recent years. They've lost in the conference championship

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Speaker 8: to them twice. They actually beat the Chiefs in the

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Speaker 8: regular season. They've got no problem doing that. But at

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Speaker 8: some point they're going to have to get past the

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Speaker 8: Chiefs and get over the finish line here. Obviously, their

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Speaker 8: championship window is wide open as long as Josh Allen

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Speaker 8: is on the field and healthy.

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Speaker 9: But to avoid looking back on.

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Speaker 8: The Josh Allen era the way they look back on

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Speaker 8: that era from thirty years ago when they kept falling

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Speaker 8: just a little bit short in the Super Bowl, They've got.

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Speaker 9: To finally win a Super Bowl. It's all set up

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Speaker 9: for them this year.

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Speaker 8: They've got the raining MVP, they did a lot of

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Speaker 8: work on their defense, and they have a really manageable schedule.

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Speaker 8: Six of their first seven games this season are against

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Speaker 8: teams that did not make the playoffs, so they certainly

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Speaker 8: have the uppernity to roll up a lot of wins

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Speaker 8: and maybe get home field advantage in the playoffs.

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Speaker 10: That's hard to argue with that picked you and he

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Speaker 10: especially playing in the AFC East where everybody's looking up

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Speaker 10: the Bills who have won five straight division titles. But

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Speaker 10: I'm gonna go almost to what Ian said, almost by mistake,

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Speaker 10: when he said what team is under the microscope the

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Speaker 10: most and that's the Dallas Cowboys.

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Speaker 2: They just are.

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Speaker 10: I mean, it's a twenty nine year drought since they

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Speaker 10: won a Super Bowl. I know plenty of prominent Cowboy

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Speaker 10: players that won Super Bowls in the seventies and the

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Speaker 10: nineties with the Cowboys, and they sincerely question whether they're

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Speaker 10: on the right path to do it. But yet the

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Speaker 10: schedule makers say, well, the Cowboys are national TV six times.

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Speaker 10: They start the season Philadelphia. It's time for the Cowboys

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Speaker 10: here to step up and show that they are relevant,

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Speaker 10: that even if they're not quite America's team, still that

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Speaker 10: they're still worth putting on national TV as frequently as

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Speaker 10: they are. So I'm gonna say to Cowboys they should

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Speaker 10: feel the sure and be under the microscope this season.

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Speaker 7: First year head coaching Brian Schottenheimer, a bunch of new

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Speaker 7: acquisitions that's gonna be fun to watch as well. This

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Speaker 7: team right here, Cincinnati Bengals on the field for OTAs today.

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Speaker 3: Joe Burrow, we know he got paid.

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Speaker 7: We know T Higgins and Jamar Chase got paid this offseason.

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Speaker 7: What does that mean for Jamar Chase's mindset go into

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Speaker 7: this season.

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Speaker 3: Let's find out.

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Speaker 19: I'll flay with more of it with a chip on

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Speaker 19: my shoulder like my rookie year. You know, was a

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Speaker 19: lot on my mind as everyone seen from my Kansas

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Speaker 19: City clip me crashing out. So I mean, I'm glad

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Speaker 19: that I got I got that off my chest.

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Speaker 3: How do you fabricate a chip on your shoulder if

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Speaker 3: there is none?

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Speaker 6: You've been paid now, I mean, how do you get

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Speaker 6: that chip again?

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Speaker 19: Stay motivated and find ways to have a chip, because

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Speaker 19: we didn't make the playoffs two years straight. So that's

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Speaker 19: my chip right there.

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Speaker 7: Speaking of make the playoffs, and I have a feeling

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Speaker 7: based on the sound we just ran that I know

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Speaker 7: where this is going.

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Speaker 3: But Judy, surprise me or not? Which team needs to

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Speaker 3: make the playoffs?

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Speaker 9: No surprise?

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Speaker 8: And Jamar Chase just said that the Cincinnati Bengals haven't

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Speaker 8: made the playoffs the last two seasons, which is kind

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Speaker 8: of a crime when Joe Burrow is your starting quarterback.

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Speaker 9: Now two seasons ago he got hurt.

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Speaker 8: Last season, he was coming back off the wrist injury,

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Speaker 8: and maybe that contributed to the slow start. There were

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Speaker 8: also contract situations, but they need to take advantage of

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Speaker 8: the Joe Burrow window. He said it a few seasons ago.

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Speaker 8: The championship window is his career. He's absolutely right. The

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Speaker 8: thing that the Bengals have to do is get out

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Speaker 8: to a faster start. This has been a problem for

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Speaker 8: them for a number of seasons. Again, contract issues have

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Speaker 8: sort of hung over them in previous off seasons. That

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Speaker 8: is not the case at least on the offense right now.

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Speaker 8: They got the receivers done. Joe Burrow is paid, Joe

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Speaker 8: Burrow is also healthy. Trey Hendrickson, though, is out there

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Speaker 8: with a contract issue.

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Speaker 3: They need to.

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Speaker 8: Clean that up, get him in, solve it, and then

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Speaker 8: go forward full steam ahead. Because if this team can

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Speaker 8: finally get out to a fester we saw what that

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Speaker 8: offense looked like at the end of last season, even

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Speaker 8: with the issues on defense, that team was coming on strong.

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Speaker 8: The Bengals need to make the playoffs this season.

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Speaker 10: Well, the defense will come and question Judy because the

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Speaker 10: offense should be very good. But for me, it's the

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Speaker 10: San Francisco forty nine ers. We know that they were

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Speaker 10: banged up last year, we know they were injured. We

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Speaker 10: understand going seven to ten. But at the same time,

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Speaker 10: when you look at this team, brock Perty just got paid.

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Speaker 10: They paid him to be a franchise quarterback. Well, now

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Speaker 10: he might feel a little bit of that pressure to

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Speaker 10: do it. They've let Deebo Samuel go. They re signed

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Speaker 10: and extended you know Fred Warner right here along with Jews.

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Speaker 2: Along with George Kittle.

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Speaker 10: They've got some of the highest paid players in the

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Speaker 10: league and maybe one of this offest schedules in the league.

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Speaker 10: This should be a classic bounce back year for the

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Speaker 10: forty nine.

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Speaker 2: It starts with the quarterback. The defense should be retooled.

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Speaker 10: They've got a new leader on there trying to get

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Speaker 10: this thing back on track where they can really start.

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Speaker 6: Taking the ball away again.

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Speaker 10: But offensively, there's no excuses for this offense not to

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Speaker 10: be very good and be in playoff contention.

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Speaker 7: One hundred days to go before kickoff, so much to

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Speaker 7: find out, guys, great stuff. Thank you very much As

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Speaker 7: always NFL dot com slash Batista for more goodies from Judy.

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Speaker 1: The weight is over and the countdown the kickoff has begun.

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Speaker 1: Colts owner and CEO Jim Mersey passed away last Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Beloved in that locker room as well as in the

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Speaker 1: community of Indianapolis. The team will honor the boss with

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Speaker 1: a jersey patch a trademark smiley face. Throughout the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five season, first round picks continue to get their

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Speaker 1: contracts done. That includes the Browns Mason Graham scene here

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Speaker 1: in slow motion. How else would you want to run

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Speaker 1: around those bags? Four year, forty point eighty seven million dollar,

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Speaker 1: fully year guaranteed contract that includes a fifty year option.

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Speaker 1: Travis Hunter, Will Campbell among nine first round picks not

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Speaker 1: yet signed. Eagles one of twenty teams getting things underway

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Speaker 1: today in OTAs the defending champs. Dalen Hurts is there.

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Speaker 1: Jalen Carter is there, like seven other guys named Jalen

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Speaker 1: are there, and also a Dallas. Sam Darnold's got new

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Speaker 1: digs in Seattle. It can be kind of break there

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Speaker 1: when you walk out of that that waitroom for the

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Speaker 1: first time. He was done squid and got some good

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Speaker 1: work in on OTA's kind of like our Brian Baldinger,

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Speaker 1: who is no stranger to the sun. He's also no

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Speaker 1: stranger to sures. Baldy. I'm gonna let you take it

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Speaker 1: from here. What in the world are you doing, man?

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Speaker 10: Well, Tom, I mean, I'm diving with some bull sharks

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Speaker 10: there off the coast of Jupiter, Florida. They chum the

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Speaker 10: waters to bring the sharks from the depth up and honestly,

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Speaker 10: you just got a channel your inner Jayden Daniels. You

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Speaker 10: just can't show any kind of fear. You don't show

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Speaker 10: the shark any fear. They don't pay any attention to you.

877
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 10: They just kind of swim and looking for some charm

878
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 10: or remora right there, and they kind of, you know,

879
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 10: just go on with the home the way. It was

880
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:32,799
Speaker 10: really quite quite peaceful day, quite fun. Really, it was

881
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 10: really a great experience. You can't wait to go back

882
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 10: out there again, you know.

883
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 7: I mean people have always said you can't show any fear,

884
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 7: but like, no, I'd be scared to death. So like

885
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 7: it's cool to say, don't show any fear, But how

886
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:51,320
Speaker 7: big do you have to be to not be scared

887
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 7: of sharks? Like, you know, sharks.

888
00:42:55,600 --> 00:43:00,399
Speaker 8: Those are really bull sharks are mean, Yeah they are,

889
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:00,880
Speaker 8: they are too.

890
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,800
Speaker 10: But I didn't like I said. I just like stared

891
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 10: right at them when they came at me. Uh was

892
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,919
Speaker 10: in the water for an hour with them. They didn't

893
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 10: really bother me. I kind of pushed them down by

894
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 10: the nodes away just to get them away.

895
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 6: I don't know.

896
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:19,320
Speaker 10: I can't wait to go back and give me more video. Yeah,