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Speaker 1: Hello from Denver, and welcome to Between the Horns, presented

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Speaker 1: by your Southern California tell you to dealers with senior riders.

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Speaker 1: Du Jackson, DeMarco far I am JB.

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Speaker 2: Long. Oh that' stu. I was gonna say, Maurice looks different.

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Speaker 1: Laurie looks good.

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Speaker 2: He does look good spelt.

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Speaker 1: Maurice will be with Andrew Ceciliano on your TV broadcast

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Speaker 1: for preseason game number three, the Broncos and the Rams,

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Speaker 1: coming up six o'clock Pacific on Saturday. We're hanging outside

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Speaker 1: the team hotel. I have my trustee Hotel Penn Nice

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Speaker 1: Love Hotel Pens. They get me through the season. DeMarco

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Speaker 1: arriving in town, stud you've been here taking in these

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Speaker 1: joint practices. Why don't you kick us off? What do

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Speaker 1: you observe between the Broncos and the Rams for two

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Speaker 1: days of practice?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I think the biggest thing, honestly, is just Matthew Stafford

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Speaker 3: looking sharp and like the quarterback we all remember from

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty one. He's reiterated it multiple times and said

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Speaker 3: he's felt great physically several times, and it's shown with

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Speaker 3: the throws he's made you the arms you know, you

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Speaker 3: see all that, being able to change his angle on

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Speaker 3: you know, the launch point like he's always done and

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Speaker 3: so been really impressed with that, and that's certainly been

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Speaker 3: a positive to see. And then also just you know,

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Speaker 3: seeing somebody like Logan Bruss, you know, who obviously had

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Speaker 3: that lateral ankle spring against the Raiders being able to

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Speaker 3: get some snaps this week was was really huge and

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Speaker 3: really important too, I would say. And also just having

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Speaker 3: guys like Cooper Cup and Darian Kendrick out there has

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Speaker 3: also been really big as well. I mean, there's been

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Speaker 3: a host of other things going on too, but those

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Speaker 3: are really just at the top of mind. As far

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Speaker 3: as some of the key updates and storylines that you know,

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Speaker 3: I've been following and paying attention.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure it got louder with DK on the field.

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Speaker 4: I love the way that guy plays, and I love

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Speaker 4: the way he talks too. Darien Kendrick absolutely the best

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Speaker 4: part about him is he's good. The other part about

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Speaker 4: him is he'll tell you he's good, So that's awesome.

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Speaker 4: I love the confidence and Bruss is going through it

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Speaker 4: hitn't he. You know, when little kids dream about playing

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Speaker 4: in the NFL, they never talk about the injury bug

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Speaker 4: and I have to fight back from that. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: well we'll see how tough he is. But I wonder,

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Speaker 4: with all these quarterbacks, the TV shows and the hard

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Speaker 4: knocks about Aaron Rodgerson listening to the quarterbacks, is it

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Speaker 4: disrespectful to put Matthew Stafford in the top ten or

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Speaker 4: should it be higher?

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Speaker 1: Well, if I'm not mistaken, his peers didn't even vote

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Speaker 1: him a top one hundred player in the league this year, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean that just one thing that we could point

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Speaker 1: to in terms of how everyone's suffering from recency buys.

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Speaker 1: But still correct me if I'm wrong. From what I

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Speaker 1: saw today, even if you weren't following the football, you

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Speaker 1: could tell just by the rams body language that the

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Speaker 1: offense at least is ready for Seattle in Week one. Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: I mean just even seeing a couple of the deep

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Speaker 3: completions that Stafford had to Van Jefferson down the field

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Speaker 3: that easily thirty five forty yard gains. You looked at

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Speaker 3: the way that you know, Cam cam Akers and Kyen

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Speaker 3: Williams were running the ball and also even making plays

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Speaker 3: as past catchers at different points throughout practice. You know,

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Speaker 3: all things that are really encouraging to see the offensive

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Speaker 3: line is still you know, working through some things obviously,

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Speaker 3: you know, as Joe Noteboom deals with, you know, with

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Speaker 3: Sean mcvagh has said is an undisclosed injury, and they're

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Speaker 3: airing on the side of caution with him, and you know,

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Speaker 3: taking being smart as far as you know, limiting him

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Speaker 3: just individual drills for now, but overall, you know, grand

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Speaker 3: scheme of things, the offense is looking pretty good. Well.

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Speaker 1: Digging into that offensive line in just a second, but

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Speaker 1: I do want to point out, like the local sentiment

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about those who covered the Broncos was that

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Speaker 1: the Rams dominated yesterday and I thought they did well

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Speaker 1: again today. And because the Broncos were not a good

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Speaker 1: team last year, you can maybe dust that aside and

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Speaker 1: say that's not a big deal. Let's not forget they

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Speaker 1: were a great defense last year. Good roster, they were

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Speaker 1: a very very good defense. Just because the Rams put

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Speaker 1: a fifty burger on him on Christmas Day does not

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Speaker 1: mean they didn't have a good season. And still this

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Speaker 1: roster I think is very capable here in Denver on

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Speaker 1: the defensive side. So I come away encouraged. I come

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Speaker 1: away very encouraged and it.

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Speaker 4: Could be that Sean Payton is running them into the

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Speaker 4: ground and they retired. So I mean, you don't know

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Speaker 4: this early in the season what that means when you

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Speaker 4: do these practices. So I mean, it only matters when

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Speaker 4: you play when you play Denver in the preseason and

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Speaker 4: then in the regular season. But you know, I mean

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Speaker 4: going back to Boom for a hot minute, and Matthew Stafford,

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Speaker 4: when you get into these arguments about how the Rams

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Speaker 4: are going to be, Oh, you know this is a throwaway,

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Speaker 4: they're tanking for a draft pick, it just drives me

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Speaker 4: nuts because I keep thinking of all these passes I

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Speaker 4: see Matthew Stafford making. And I know the team is young,

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Speaker 4: but I'd rather have a young roster with a veteran

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Speaker 4: quarterback than the other way around. So the one thing

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Speaker 4: we did notice from day one, even OTAs Matthew Stafford

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Speaker 4: looks terrific, he looks like he spent the entire offseason

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Speaker 4: getting ready for this. So I hope he's disrespected. I

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Speaker 4: hope the offensive line stays together. I hope we find

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Speaker 4: out what's ailing Joe Noteboom, because I think that was

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Speaker 4: the problem last year. It wasn't Stafford dropped off. Is

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Speaker 4: you couldn't protect the guy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, your bullpen is not always indicative of how

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Speaker 1: you're going to pitch that day. How you play in

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Speaker 1: the driving range doesn't mean you're going to go out

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Speaker 1: instead of course record. But I'm telling you, if Matthew

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Speaker 1: Stafford plays this season like he's played this summer, this

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Speaker 1: is an NFC playoff team. I don't care what anybody

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Speaker 1: thinks about this roster. I can't wait to see it

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Speaker 1: live and in person in coming up on September the

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Speaker 1: tenth week one. But to that question about the offensive line,

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Speaker 1: there's been kind of another bump in the road, and

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of the problems the Rams have

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Speaker 1: had problems in air quotes have been productive, healthy, like

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Speaker 1: good competitions, having two viable centers, having two viable left tackles,

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Speaker 1: But if they were gravitating to stud to putting boom

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Speaker 1: with that configuration yet. Essentially four joint practices the last

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks against the Raiders, now the Broncos, he

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Speaker 1: hasn't been in the lineup. He's been out there, but

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Speaker 3: That's right. And so because of that, that's given some

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Speaker 3: more opportunities for Tremaine Akram to show what he can

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Speaker 3: do it at right guard. And you know it's gonna

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Speaker 3: it's him being there will make a difference because Sean

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Speaker 3: McVay when he was asked about this week if if

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Speaker 3: Joe Noboom went healthy, was one of their five best

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Speaker 3: offensive winemen, he said yes, he said, you know that

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Speaker 3: he has been outstanding as far as the way he's

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Speaker 3: know when when he does get to that point where

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Speaker 3: he can get back out there, especially in the team

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Speaker 3: drills in the live setting, uh, you know, that's that's

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Speaker 3: gonna make a real difference. I know, DeMarco, for you,

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Speaker 3: this is something we talk about all the time as

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Speaker 3: far as what difference that makes on the interior when

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Speaker 3: you have guards of say Joe Noteboom size or even

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Speaker 3: Steve Avila's size on the interior there. I imagine for

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Speaker 3: he's out there, Oh.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, Boom is athletic, he's got the long arms,

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Speaker 4: he's a tackle, so he can get on you quick

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Speaker 4: So does Tremaine ankorm same thing. I mean, he's a

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Speaker 4: set himself in there. And he looks like he's doing

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Speaker 4: a pretty good job. Even asked him, I said, you

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Speaker 4: look pretty good at guard. Have you played this before?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 4: Not really, this is new for me. I'm like, Wow,

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Speaker 4: it looks like you've been there a while, so that's good.

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Speaker 4: But a villa was born to play guard. I mean,

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Speaker 4: he's he's he's a he's a phone booth with with

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Speaker 4: with cleats on, and his head is made for ramming

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Speaker 4: people and it looks like he enjoys throwing people around.

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Speaker 4: You haven't had that brand of nasty here and I

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Speaker 4: don't know how long on the offensive line, and it

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Speaker 4: really stands out on film. So I told you guys

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Speaker 4: this via text. He may be the first Pro Bowl

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Speaker 4: guard Sean McVay has had because he's going to get

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Speaker 4: that name recognition by going after people. And there isn't

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Speaker 4: another Aaron Donald to go after or to somebody that

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Speaker 4: can come back on him. So as long as he

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Speaker 4: keeps getting reps and getting his feet wet and getting

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Speaker 2: He's going to be just fine in their guard.

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Speaker 1: Did Aaron tell you that? I hope Aaron told you that. No,

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Speaker 1: I know You've got good sources on the Rams.

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Speaker 2: Today. I can watch.

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Speaker 1: Guy's gonna be the Pro Bowl guard.

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Speaker 4: I can watch, I can see, I can tell the

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Speaker 4: guy isn't afraid of anybody or anything.

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Speaker 2: And he's mean and I love it.

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Speaker 4: So when you see a guy that plays to the

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Speaker 4: off and he's a rookie, Yeah, that guy's going place.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Congratulations Aaron and Eric on the rival

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Speaker 1: of their new son. Hey, awesome news. He's not here

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Speaker 1: with the team this week, And I think all the

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Speaker 1: more encouraging that the Rams per formed as well as

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Speaker 1: they did head to head against the Broncos without the

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Speaker 2: Can you name him depoint defensive player of the depot?

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, middle maybe yeah, But look, as we do

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Speaker 1: get within two weeks shortly of the opener, I understand

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Speaker 1: the consternation about, Okay, if you're gonna put Nopum in

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Speaker 1: at a position that he's not specialized in previously, how much

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Speaker 1: does he need to play at full speed to be

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Speaker 1: comfortable going up against the Seahawks and that configuration. Hypothetically,

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Speaker 1: let's just say that it is anchorum starting week one

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Speaker 1: at right guard. Maybe the optics aren't what you would

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Speaker 1: hope because of the contract and the money that Nopum

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Speaker 1: is making, the fact that you drafted him, But like,

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Speaker 1: is it the worst thing to have him waiting in

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Speaker 1: the wings, either interior or at the tackle position.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's too Joe, Yeah, it's too late.

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Speaker 4: If Look, if he's got to rotate to the bench

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Speaker 4: because you've got other players that are better than so

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Speaker 4: be it.

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Speaker 2: You'll take that up in the offseason.

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Speaker 4: Whoever decided to, you know, pay him that you're gonna

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Speaker 4: have to answer for that. But if you've got two

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Speaker 4: better players, or three better guys or four better guys

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Speaker 1: Just a group of five that you're more comfortable with,

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Speaker 1: more secrets.

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Speaker 4: Then you got to go and look if something goes

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Speaker 4: wrong and you got to bring him in.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. That's yeah, you started, not how

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Speaker 1: you finished, absolutely lottest that more than anything.

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Speaker 2: No doubt.

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Speaker 4: I mean, look, you need a healthy five and if

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Speaker 4: you can keep all five together that used to be

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Speaker 3: Perhaps it might be for me the easy choice because

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Speaker 2: I think if you're a.

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Speaker 1: But are you saying that you're now comfortable saying Stefan

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Speaker 3: I would I I wholeheartedly agree. I mean I think

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Speaker 1: Why do you say yes? Is that more about him

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Speaker 4: Well, I think all his mistakes are coachable, and man,

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Speaker 2: That you can build around at some point.

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Speaker 4: But the thing that stands out the most is in

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Speaker 4: So watching him move around and scramble to throw or

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Speaker 1: Who else has stepped up through two preseason games in

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Speaker 2: For you, Well, it's the easy one. It's Trey Tomminson.

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Speaker 4: I mean, look, every time he's on the field practice

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Speaker 1: Let me stay in the secondary. Quin Lake, I think

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Speaker 4: Ben Skarnick is a tough guy, but I think that

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's been a reliable target, especially for Stetson

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Speaker 1: All right, so let's go to the next forty eight

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Speaker 1: Certainly Saturday's participation will play into that for the final

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Speaker 1: Think you can make the case for seven at receiver,

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Speaker 1: your tight end three. So what do you do with

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Speaker 4: Look, one of you guys is gonna have to cover

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Speaker 4: is gonna have to play special teams and really really

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Speaker 4: maximize that. That's gonna be your job until you get

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Speaker 4: But it just depends where you go heavy. You're gonna

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Speaker 4: have to take from and I don't think you can

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Speaker 1: Also don't want to take from the secondary. Oh.

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Speaker 4: I think every one of those guys, with the exception

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Speaker 4: You have to trust the technique and they're watching. If

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Speaker 4: If you do the technique and you get beat physically,

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Speaker 4: that's one thing. But it's gonna be hard to cut

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Speaker 4: a guy that can only do one thing and just

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Speaker 4: play receiver. I mean, some of these guys are gonna

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Speaker 4: have to like work in the mail room of playing

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Speaker 4: special teams and play it well to stay.

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Speaker 1: So don't be afraid of the practice squad. Like when

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Speaker 1: you draft fourteen rookies and then you add twenty plus

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Speaker 1: more in college free agency, you know that there aren't

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Speaker 1: gonna be enough roster spots for all of these projects.

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Speaker 1: But the good news is if the rest of the

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Speaker 1: that you don't have the strongest roster, then yeah, good

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Speaker 1: for you in terms of I think there's a higher

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Speaker 1: and by October, November, December might have a chance of

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Speaker 1: helping you win some games. That's especially true on special

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Speaker 1: teams and demarc Wo. I know you wanted to finish

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Speaker 1: there with what you've seen, especially from the A punting

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Speaker 2: Well, young roster.

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Speaker 4: I know with young teams there's gonna be some young

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Speaker 4: moments and every game is gonna be tough and tight,

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Speaker 4: but not impossible to win. And I would hate that

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Speaker 4: if you've got a game in hand and you blow

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Speaker 4: it because you miss a kick or you out kick

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Speaker 4: your coverage and it gets returned. That would just be terrible.

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Speaker 4: So if your young punter can learn to dial it

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Speaker 4: in and if he can't, then angle kick, punt it

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Speaker 4: out of bounce. Just make sure you don't hurt the defense,

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Speaker 4: hurt the football team. Place kicking. Look, you got one job,

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Speaker 4: and I like place kickers there some of those guys

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Speaker 4: are my best friends. But you got one job. You

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Speaker 4: got to bang it through the uprights. If not, then

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Speaker 4: guess what, There's gonna be five guys lining up for

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Speaker 4: your job the next day.

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Speaker 2: That's the way it is.

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Speaker 4: So teams has got to improve, and that's going from

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Speaker 4: last season to this season. But it's definitely have to

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Speaker 4: improve from what we've seen this preseason so far.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, between now and when we speak again next week

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Speaker 1: after that initial fifty three man roster has made a

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Speaker 1: lot of tough decisions. But what I find interesting is

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Speaker 1: the front office is going to have to to thread

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Speaker 1: a already find needle here in terms of you do

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Speaker 1: have some waiver wire priority this year, right, which is

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Speaker 1: new for the Sean McVay rams, where someone you might

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Speaker 1: be interested in comes available. Because all thirty two teams

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Speaker 1: are dealing with this reality. But you have to counter

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Speaker 1: that with the financial reality. That the Rams find themselves

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Speaker 1: in this year, right, and then also not wanting to

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Speaker 1: stunt the growth of some of these players who have

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Speaker 1: had their moments this offseason, and you would really like

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Speaker 1: to keep to develop with your coaching staff, with whom

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Speaker 1: they've already developed a rapport and learned some of your system.

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Speaker 1: All right, A lot of unknowns, including the final preseason

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Speaker 1: game against the Broncos from here in Denver on Saturday night.

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Speaker 1: I hope you'll join us either on the TV or

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Speaker 1: radio side, Sue DeMarco and I will be back with

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Speaker 1: a whole lot more coverage next week. A loaded week.

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Speaker 1: It is that gap week between the preseason and the

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Speaker 1: opener in Seattle. But a whole lot to report on

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Speaker 1: and to discuss as your twenty twenty three RAMS roster

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Speaker 1: is formulated. All right, we'll stop there from Denver, as always,

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Speaker 1: Between the Horns is presented by your Southern California Toyota Dealer.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy preseason game number three and the rest of your

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