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Speaker 1: lot of topics to talk about. I know who's playing tonight,
Speaker 1: but I have no idea who's playing tonight. We know
Speaker 1: it's the Niners and Packers. I'm not quite sure who
Speaker 1: the Niners are going to put out there at wide receiver.
Speaker 1: And also who's running the football for the Green Bay
Speaker 1: Packers their scheduled to play in San Francisco tonight. It's
Speaker 1: a Gopher right now. I was surprised this game wasn't moved.
Speaker 1: Patriots game a couple of weeks ago was moved to
Speaker 1: a Sunday. But this game might be the clearest illustration
Speaker 1: of a fact that's becoming clearer by the day. The
Speaker 1: NFL wants to get through this season as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1: The Niners top three wide receivers are on the reserve
Speaker 1: COVID list, and you also have their tackle Trent Williams
Speaker 1: on that list. Meanwhile, the Packers without their three top
Speaker 1: running backs. And this is something that we were concerned about.
Speaker 1: The NFL concerned about players in the same position. Group
Speaker 1: exposed to one another. Basically, the Niners might not be
Speaker 1: able to throw and the Packers might not be able
Speaker 1: to run. It was sort of like that in the
Speaker 1: NFC title game last year. San Francisco destroyed Green Bay
Speaker 1: with its running game and might be able to do
Speaker 1: that again. The bigger question is is it why is
Speaker 1: to play this game in prime time with the whole
Speaker 1: nation watching. It feels like it's a bad look. And
Speaker 1: hopefully the teams can limit the spread of the virus
Speaker 1: in their facilities and they'll probably view this as a
Speaker 1: blip on the season. But tonight's game seems like a
Speaker 1: challenge and possibly a bad look for the NFL. Ian
Speaker 1: Rappaport NFL dot Com will join us coming up, why
Speaker 1: haven't you know? Why hasn't the NFL moved this game?
Speaker 1: Because it feels like you have two teams at a
Speaker 1: decided disadvantage facing each other. Maybe it's an equal disadvantage.
Speaker 1: The Niners have been snake bitten this year. They lead
Speaker 1: the NFL in player games missed to injury. Now, this
Speaker 1: is even before COVID most games missed due to injury.
Speaker 1: These are the player games missed, San Francisco leading. It's
Speaker 1: not even close one and twenty four games missed by
Speaker 1: their players due to injuries. The Eagles are second at
Speaker 1: one oh seven, the Jets at eighty eight, Seattle eighty seven,
Speaker 1: Dallas eighty three. And in case you're wondering the teams
Speaker 1: that have had the fewest games missed due to player injury,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are of the best team and the healthiest team.
Speaker 1: The Steelers then next, and then the Atlanta Falcons. Yes,
Speaker 1: so the Falcons can't even plame injury. Usually if you say, well,
Speaker 1: we had a tough season, we're beat up all year.
Speaker 1: We'll get them next year. Falcons can't even pull that one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got ahead of myself though. Let me go through
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Speaker 1: Will have a poll question. We got a stat of
Speaker 1: the day play of the day coming up. You have
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford on the COVID list, but it's it's a
Speaker 1: different It's a list that I didn't even know existed.
Speaker 1: Do you have the official designation of Matthew Stafford's COVID
Speaker 1: list that it's on because it's he kind of came
Speaker 1: in contact with somebody who came in contact with somebody
Speaker 1: who also came in contact with somebody. Yes, Paully, this
Speaker 1: is a weird. One person who's been quarantined after been
Speaker 1: in close contact with an infected person. A person's non
Speaker 1: related to the team's high risk close contact from a
Speaker 1: non team member is Adam Schefer said about Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 1: That's is a lot of hyphens Dan high risk close
Speaker 1: contact non team member. That's three hyphens one sentence. We'll
Speaker 1: talk to Ian Rappaport about what's going on. All the
Speaker 1: Texans have shut down their facility. Ian Rappaport just tweeted
Speaker 1: that one Texans player has tested positive. In consultation with
Speaker 1: the NFL and medical experts, they've made the decision to
Speaker 1: close down the facility. That's all all the information that
Speaker 1: he and Rappaport has right now. Yes, point now, we
Speaker 1: all want my Matthew Stafford to play. Y'all want everyone
Speaker 1: to be healthy in play. But if he does not
Speaker 1: start on Sunday, do you know who would chase Daniel Oh?
Speaker 1: The eclipse is what I call Chase Daniel the Cicada.
Speaker 1: He's finally gonna show America that he can play the
Speaker 1: position every few years, the Cicada. Every seven years, he
Speaker 1: sticks his head out of the dirt and plays the football.
Speaker 1: Chicada Daniel. What's that lunar eclipse? Daniel? Yeah, the greatest
Speaker 1: preseason quarterback in NFL history. May get a shot. May
Speaker 1: get a shot? All right, mclovin, what kind of pull
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Speaker 1: Should the NFL play the game tonight? Yes or no?
Speaker 1: How do you think people would vote? Well? I want
Speaker 1: to see it, but I don't want to see it
Speaker 1: kind of in this capacity. You know, you still have
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers out there, and you want to tune in
Speaker 1: to see Aaron Rodgers Davante Adams, but I would like
Speaker 1: to see him at full strength. I'd really like to
Speaker 1: know and it's not going to happen because of the injuries.
Speaker 1: But I'd like to know has Green Bay answered any
Speaker 1: questions from last year's title game when they got blown
Speaker 1: out and San Francisco still run the ball right down,
Speaker 1: you know, the green Bay Packers throats. Green Bay's not
Speaker 1: stopping anybody on the run. I would I would move
Speaker 1: it because of the positive test. The injuries you can't
Speaker 1: do anything about, but just the look of it, it
Speaker 1: doesn't look good for the NFL like we're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna play this game. Okay, play the game, where in
Speaker 1: other situations they've moved games. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: this gets worse. I think later in the season it does,
Speaker 1: because I do think there will be maybe a carelessness
Speaker 1: on part of some of these teams. Some of these
Speaker 1: players they're not in the playoff chase, and you know, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to go out. It's been a long year,
Speaker 1: bad year, and you're probably gonna have some looser restrictions
Speaker 1: or at least in their own minds of what they
Speaker 1: can and can't do. That's where I think there's the
Speaker 1: potential for we gotta maybe shut down for a week,
Speaker 1: maybe have to add a week to get in these games. Yeah, Pauling,
Speaker 1: I wonder if the NFL is kind of trying it's serious,
Speaker 1: like they're trying the opposite thing where it's so close
Speaker 1: to game time on a Thursday, let's keep it and
Speaker 1: just whoever's there is there, and we don't want to
Speaker 1: get so backed up we have to move stuff. They're
Speaker 1: thinking right now. The playoffs and Super Bowls seem like
Speaker 1: they're intact at the time period they're scheduled, and we
Speaker 1: may have to have a few ugly nights like Thursday
Speaker 1: night to get to there. But this is a marquee
Speaker 1: game now. Even while without Garoppolo in there, you still
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers have no wide receivers and Green
Speaker 1: Bay doesn't have their running backs. If we wait a
Speaker 1: couple of days, can we at least be fair to
Speaker 1: both of these teams here? And that's all I'm saying
Speaker 1: that I know that you've got, you know, guys missing
Speaker 1: on both sides, but how about we get as close
Speaker 1: to full strength as possible? And I think waiting a
Speaker 1: couple extra days. But I'll ask Ian Rapaport about that
Speaker 1: coming up. Guess McLevin, Yeah, but are you going to
Speaker 1: run into a situation where if you push that back
Speaker 1: like it becomes a domino where you keep pushing back
Speaker 1: and pushing back and run out of time. Well, I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, they played Thursday Night last week. It just
Speaker 1: this happens. You have an alternative plan and you've used
Speaker 1: it before. It's not like you go and we don't
Speaker 1: move Thursday games. Fox spend too much money. We don't
Speaker 1: move those games. You've moved the game, And it seems
Speaker 1: like that that would be the smarter choice for both
Speaker 1: teams here. I mean, if I'm Green Bay, do I
Speaker 1: want to be traveling to San Francisco? No? I don't. Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: why don't we just have a couple of Mac teams
Speaker 1: on standby every week to play Thursday Night in case
Speaker 1: something goes squarely, you know, get bowling Green out there
Speaker 1: and getst Ohio and say, you guys, you got the
Speaker 1: national spotlight we're gonna have from football. Yeah. I watched
Speaker 1: a lot of action last night. It was fun. It
Speaker 1: wasn't great football, but it was still football. You've got
Speaker 1: football tonight. Utah State, Nevada, Wyoming in Colorado State. Money
Speaker 1: wins out in the NBA. The NBA is going to
Speaker 1: start December twenty second as opposed to January thirteenth, and
Speaker 1: you were looking at probably a half a billion dollars
Speaker 1: who was in play, and I think everybody came to
Speaker 1: their senses and realized, we'd love to have more time off,
Speaker 1: we should have more time off, and we're going to
Speaker 1: start December twenty second. The NBA is all in on
Speaker 1: those Christmas Day games. That's so important to them, and
Speaker 1: really that's when the season starts. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're gonna I always thought that down the road, will
Speaker 1: they start, like officially start around then, And I don't
Speaker 1: know if it can stick because there's so much money
Speaker 1: at stake and if you're going to reduce the let's
Speaker 1: say eighty two to seventy two games, I'm being just
Speaker 1: the amount of money salary CAP's gonna go down. You
Speaker 1: know the players are not going to stand for that.
Speaker 1: But it looks like December twenty second is when the
Speaker 1: NBA will officially start. Yes, mclovin, is that amazing? In
Speaker 1: less than two months, we'll see LaMelo Ball in an
Speaker 1: NBA jersey play. We're gonna see him play the draft.
Speaker 1: Is that's so close to the season. I don't know
Speaker 1: if many NBA fans are going, God, I can't wait
Speaker 1: for LaMelo Ball to be in a uniform. You're not curious.
Speaker 1: I think it's right now. I've seen him. I know
Speaker 1: what his game is. Really, Yes, I've seen this. I've
Speaker 1: seen this. He's wildly entertaining and talented, and he shoots
Speaker 1: a little better than his bigger brother. I watch a
Speaker 1: highlight reel. He shoots a sutshot from forty five feet away.
Speaker 1: It's the most bizarre thing I've ever seen from like
Speaker 1: and it's releases by his hip. Yep, not good. You know,
Speaker 1: when you're little and you shoot, you shoot down at
Speaker 1: your hip and most people grow out of that because
Speaker 1: you're stronger to be able to shoot it up top.
Speaker 1: He has that. He this is how he started, and
Speaker 1: he still shoots that with the little stuff. Curious though,
Speaker 1: toobow very little stuff, curier. Isn't that like very little?
Speaker 1: You know you were saying it was about shooting. Yes,
Speaker 1: doesn't he shoot the second he comes over half court
Speaker 1: just like Trey Young and he's gonna shoot forty three
Speaker 1: is a game. That doesn't mean he should be shooting.
Speaker 1: And if he's going to Minnesota, I can't imagine that
Speaker 1: Carl Anthony Towns is gonna be going, Yeah, keep shooting it,
Speaker 1: I'll rebound for you. I don't think anybody's going kind
Speaker 1: of can't wait to see lamellow Ball play basketball. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm anxious to see it, interested to see how it works,
Speaker 1: and who wants him, but the Golden State Warriors do.
Speaker 1: I'm curious about all those things. I wonder what Lebron
Speaker 1: does for the first month of the season. I don't know. Now,
Speaker 1: if you want to talk about minutes restrictions, you want
Speaker 1: to talk about, you know, game management here, I could
Speaker 1: certainly see that, Yeah, see, you gotta be rehabbing a thigh.
Speaker 1: Indrian Cobo I think the first month of this season, well,
Speaker 1: he's got a home somewhere in I don't know, Antigua
Speaker 1: or somewhere, so he could say that, you know, this
Speaker 1: is where my doctor is. I need to be here.
Speaker 1: Let's see. So we got Rappaport coming up. We'll check
Speaker 1: in with the Niners a little bit later on. Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence is going to be at the Notre Dame game.
Speaker 1: He's going to be on the sidelines. He's just not
Speaker 1: going to be playing I'm not sure what the ACC
Speaker 1: rules are, but I guess if he's tested negative or
Speaker 1: how many times he's tested negative, that he can be
Speaker 1: on the sidelines. But you know, keep in mind the
Speaker 1: information I gave you about this is a ten day isolation,
Speaker 1: but it's a fourteen day process in the ACC, and
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people thought, oh, he'll be back.
Speaker 1: I thought he was back until a source said no, no,
Speaker 1: this is fourteen days. He won't play ten day isolation
Speaker 1: protocols and he will have cleared that by today. But
Speaker 1: he also has some cardiovascular tests that he has to
Speaker 1: complete and they won't be done in time for Saturday's game,
Speaker 1: so he is going to be there on the sidelines.
Speaker 1: What other poll questions? Nick Clemson question, if Clemson loses
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, do we give them a pass? Are they
Speaker 1: still going to reach the final four? Do they get
Speaker 1: I'd like an asterisk on this loss, because no, Trevor,
Speaker 1: I don't know how the selection committee is going to
Speaker 1: view this because it depends on how how well or
Speaker 1: how poorly dj Ungele plays. If he plays well like
Speaker 1: he did, it's BC that was on their defense. But
Speaker 1: if he plays well, I don't know if they're gonna
Speaker 1: go well if Trevor had been in there, But if
Speaker 1: he doesn't play well, you know, Notre Dame has got
Speaker 1: a good defense. It's not great, but you're gonna you're
Speaker 1: really gonna test this. This is a freshman on the
Speaker 1: road against a formidable opponent. A good defense will probably
Speaker 1: do that. With Clemson, I'm gonna guess they're gonna do that.
Speaker 1: Go well if they'd had Trevor. But I'd like to
Speaker 1: see how the game is played, because if Notre Dame
Speaker 1: is scorn, it will then this isn't on the quarterback
Speaker 1: and I can't give you a hall pass. Yeah, only
Speaker 1: I go back to if Trevor Lawrence can stand on
Speaker 1: the sidelines with a mask on, why couldn't he go
Speaker 1: in the game with a mask on. No, they're saying
Speaker 1: he has to complete all of this, right, but I
Speaker 1: was saying, let's say he's staying there on the sidelines. No,
Speaker 1: it has nothing to do with wearing a mask. Ten
Speaker 1: day isolation, that's the protocol. He will clear that. Today
Speaker 1: he has to complete cardiovascular test and you know they
Speaker 1: have to check for inflammation of the heart, and they
Speaker 1: won't be done in time for Saturday. From what I'm told,
Speaker 1: and that's why he can go to the game. He
Speaker 1: will have tested negative and he can be on the
Speaker 1: sidelines and be a mentor to DJ. What else do
Speaker 1: you have in Clevin? Okay, I don't know when you
Speaker 1: want to get into it, but I have the top
Speaker 1: ten draft picks for twenty twenty one. That there's ten
Speaker 1: teams who are two and five or worse, and I'm
Speaker 1: curious which ones are full tank mode from now on. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Jets are own eight. Now we'll hold off. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because I want to know over under four quarterbacks taken
Speaker 1: in the top ten. That's what I want to know.
Speaker 1: Don't tell me. I'm just I'm curious here because we
Speaker 1: know too we're going to be taken up top. Trevor
Speaker 1: and Justin Field, Trey Lance, North Dakota State, Purty Rock
Speaker 1: Party is not the guy. Um Florida's Kyle Trask guy
Speaker 1: might be moving into the first round. Wilson from b
Speaker 1: YU is moving up rapidly. I don't know if there's
Speaker 1: any other quarterbacks. So there's there's five right there, right, yes,
Speaker 1: But it did a function of which teams need quarterbacks
Speaker 1: about how high those guys goes it, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? So or it could it be roll? Is
Speaker 1: that draft where everybody they took Jake Locker, Eid and
Speaker 1: Christian Ponder. It is that like twenty ten, So it's
Speaker 1: not just the quarterbacks are, it's also where the teams are.
Speaker 1: That was like those gms that day. They struck me
Speaker 1: as uh people who go into uh these stores on
Speaker 1: Black Friday and they just start buying things and going
Speaker 1: crazy like we don't need a TV, grab one, we
Speaker 1: don't need a vacuum grab one, and you're just buying everything.
Speaker 1: And you got to that draft and you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: all right, we got we got our draft board, we
Speaker 1: know who we're gonna take. And then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden it went crazy. First twelve picks, four quarterbacks, and
Speaker 1: it felt like everybody was under the impression we got
Speaker 1: to get our quarterback. Whether you needed a quarterback, he
Speaker 1: was the right quarterback for you you were drafting a quarterback. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's fair to say three of the four didn't work
Speaker 1: out right. Jake Locker Nope, mostly because of injury Playing
Speaker 1: Gabbett Nope. Christian Potter Nope, nope, Cam Newton, Cam Newton
Speaker 1: not going to the Hall of Fame. He worked out,
Speaker 1: but he worked out. He worked out, Yes, he worked out,
Speaker 1: but that was crazy. Where these you spend all year
Speaker 1: long going, let's get our draft board ready. We know
Speaker 1: who we need. You know, Dalton and Kaepernick. I thought
Speaker 1: Dalton was the best quarterback in the draft, and he
Speaker 1: went in the second round. Kaepernick went in the second
Speaker 1: round as well. But I thought Andy Dalton was going
Speaker 1: to be the best quarterback. I knew Cam had a
Speaker 1: lot of talent. I didn't know who was drafting him
Speaker 1: and how he would play or how they would set
Speaker 1: up their system. And Carolina did a brilliant job in
Speaker 1: doing that. He took him to a super Bowl and
Speaker 1: won an MVP. Yeah. Point my guy was Ricky Stands
Speaker 1: out of Iowa in the fifth round. Did not work out? Love,
Speaker 1: Ricky Stands. You put him in the fourth quarter. You're
Speaker 1: winning ball game? No die though. Yeah, all right, we'll
Speaker 1: take a break. Why is this game being played tonight?
Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport NFL dot com. We'll join us coming up next.
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Speaker 1: AMG Mercedes AMG Driving Performance. Dallas Cowboys a double digit
Speaker 1: home underdog for just the second time in the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl era. The undefeated Steelers thirteen and a half point
Speaker 1: favorite and an over under a forty two. Cowboys are
Speaker 1: still the only NFL team yet to cover the spread
Speaker 1: in all eight of their games this season. No, they
Speaker 1: are the only team to cover the spread in all
Speaker 1: eight of their games. They've failed to cover this season
Speaker 1: by an average of ten point who wrote this thing.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys haven't covered the spread in any of their games,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing is what they're saying, because it says they
Speaker 1: have failed to cover the spread by an average of
Speaker 1: ten points per game. If Dallas Lanthony, who claims to
Speaker 1: have spoken to a source with knowledge from someone close
Speaker 1: to Woods, says Tiger is struggling, damn it, I'm a professional.
Speaker 1: If Dallas fails to cover on Sunday, the Cowboys will
Speaker 1: become the first team in modern NFL history to go
Speaker 1: oh and nine versus the spread. I have no idea
Speaker 1: what that means. And I apologize to Ian Rappaport. You
Speaker 1: sound like me trying to talk sports him. Sorry, no,
Speaker 1: they cover, No, they didn't cover. Ian Rappaport, NFL Network
Speaker 1: National Insider, Sorry about that, Ian. Can you see a situation, man,
Speaker 1: not gonna lie right? Well, you work with Eisen, so
Speaker 1: you're worse you used to hearing that? Now? Why did
Speaker 1: I do that to Eisen? No business doing that to Eisen,
Speaker 1: best in the business. Yes, yes, so he's told me
Speaker 1: the Cowboys situation. Can you see a situation where they
Speaker 1: start to mail this in that they will truly give
Speaker 1: up on the Seaton. Could Jerry Jones possibly do that?
Speaker 1: I see, I don't know how really any team could
Speaker 1: do that. You know, we've we've heard this before. We've
Speaker 1: heard the Dolphins we're tanking for two and you know,
Speaker 1: now it's like the Jets tanking for Trevor. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think about it all the time because every year
Speaker 1: it comes up in some form or fashion. And you know,
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, I mean, they're looking like they're going
Speaker 1: to get a high pick now, just based on the
Speaker 1: way they're playing. The problem is, individual players don't tank, right.
Speaker 1: Players are playing for their jobs. They'd like not to
Speaker 1: get cut. They'd like to score touchdowns and get sacks
Speaker 1: and do all the things on the football field that
Speaker 1: are positive. So individual players aren't tanking. Coaches are not
Speaker 1: tanking because coaches would like to. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think Mike McCarthy would like to be one and done.
Speaker 1: I think you'd like to win some football games. They
Speaker 1: get this thing right, So I don't see tanking as
Speaker 1: an actual real thing. However, the direction they're going probably
Speaker 1: will do it anyway. I mean, the Cowboys have showed
Speaker 1: not a lot of optimism that probably at this point
Speaker 1: seems like they're going to be starting Garrett Gilbert on Sunday,
Speaker 1: which you know it's not tanking obviously, but he's not
Speaker 1: the greatest quarterback that gives the America's team the best
Speaker 1: chance to win on Sunday. So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: factors that are leading tour that I just don't think
Speaker 1: it's on purpose. Well, you've seen the Jacksonville Jaguars where
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew is being benched. Yeah, I know, jackson This
Speaker 1: feels like managerial tanking to me. I actually felt like
Speaker 1: the move to Jake Luton, who seems like he's in
Speaker 1: line to start on Sunday, is probably more from the
Speaker 1: coaches than anything. Just they would like to get some wins.
Speaker 1: And I think Gardner Minshew's stats are okay, his moxie
Speaker 1: and other football things are good. He just hadn't played great,
Speaker 1: throwing a bunch of interceptions, fumbles. I mean, for all
Speaker 1: the optimism who had about Gardner Minshew heading into the season,
Speaker 1: he has sort of stood up to none of that.
Speaker 1: I mean he's struggled. The team is struggled. They're playing
Speaker 1: from behind all the time. I think this is more
Speaker 1: the coaches trying to get a win. Apparently Jake Luton
Speaker 1: looks great in practice. I guess both the quarterbacks Glennon
Speaker 1: and Luton better than Minshew in practice. So it's more
Speaker 1: of the coaches being like, we need to get a
Speaker 1: win somehow to save this thing. Maybe this is the
Speaker 1: guy to do it. So they're kind of taking a
Speaker 1: shot with them. Why is this game being played tonight? Right?
Speaker 1: So I guess that's the big question that everyone has. Now,
Speaker 1: you have multiple COVID issues on both teams. Have aj
Speaker 1: Dillon for the Packers testing positive. You have Jamal Williams
Speaker 1: with a close contact, and now for the forty nine
Speaker 1: ers of Kendrick Bourne, you have Trent Williams who's now
Speaker 1: a close contact it is, and Brandon Iyuk, also one
Speaker 1: of the bright stars in this game not playing. The
Speaker 1: reason that's being played is because no one else is
Speaker 1: at further risk. So you have the COVID issue with
Speaker 1: the Packers, you have the close contacts go away. No
Speaker 1: one else is testing positive for the forty nine is
Speaker 1: you had one positive. They are able to examine the
Speaker 1: close contacts based on the connects on bracelets at the
Speaker 1: players wear to see exactly who could possibly have been
Speaker 1: in close contact with them, and so you isolate those
Speaker 1: guys they are out, and everyone else's deemed not at risk.
Speaker 1: So you're missing some big time players, but you play
Speaker 1: on because it's twenty twenty and nothing is perfect and
Speaker 1: no one is a further risk. Yeah, but we move
Speaker 1: the Patriots game. It's not like this would be unprecedented
Speaker 1: to move it to Sunday. Would moving it to Sunday
Speaker 1: be a little fairer to both of these teams. I'm
Speaker 1: just not sure why. I mean, first of all, they
Speaker 1: both are you know, for Packers it's running backs. For
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers, it's receivers. So it's like they both
Speaker 1: have in a weird way, it's it's kind of even.
Speaker 1: But the rules changed a little bit after the Patriots
Speaker 1: game was moved, right, the NFL went to a little
Speaker 1: bit of a stricter protocol. They isolated the high risk
Speaker 1: close context. They did a better job of saying instead
Speaker 1: of all right, we're just going to push the game,
Speaker 1: they were like, all right, which individuals are at risk?
Speaker 1: Remove those guys, keep testing, and then we can play.
Speaker 1: Because in the end, the NFL wants everything safe first
Speaker 1: of all, and then on schedule. And it's not perfect,
Speaker 1: but it seems based on who's missing on both sides,
Speaker 1: kind of fair. So they will play on. What do
Speaker 1: you make of Bill Belichick being a little sensitive to
Speaker 1: the Patriots struggling and he blamed it on we went
Speaker 1: all in those last five years, winning super Bowls, going
Speaker 1: to a Super Bowl, losing, going to the a FC
Speaker 1: tydle game. What is he saying and who is he
Speaker 1: saying it too? I liked it, and I know that
Speaker 1: he's getting some criticism. I've read it. I appreciated it
Speaker 1: because one, when Bill Belichick talks the business of football,
Speaker 1: there's nobody better. So I like the fact that he's
Speaker 1: actually instead of like monosyllabic answers after a press corfence,
Speaker 1: I like the fact that he's actually explaining, right, like
Speaker 1: we asked these guys questions. You want an answer. It
Speaker 1: could theoretically come out as defensive. I just if it's
Speaker 1: defensive and explaining, I will take the explaining part. I
Speaker 1: think he's right because last year they did spend right
Speaker 1: up to the top in cash. I also think they
Speaker 1: you know, this is a year where they got they
Speaker 1: had no cap space, literally none. All they could afford
Speaker 1: was a you know, Cam Newton one billion dollars plus contract,
Speaker 1: and then they got a little cap room due to
Speaker 1: some settlements, including the Aaron Hernanda settlement. Then they had
Speaker 1: all the opt outs and now they have a ton
Speaker 1: of cap space, but nobody has spended on so they
Speaker 1: lost the players couldn't replace him because you know, who
Speaker 1: are you gonna who are gonna spend the money on?
Speaker 1: There's nobody out there. So it's an actual rebuilding year
Speaker 1: for the Patriots, which they've never had, and they'll clear
Speaker 1: all the cap space and next year probably kind of
Speaker 1: start new and we'll see what happens at quarterback, but
Speaker 1: potentially the new quarterback as well. Yeah, I can't imagine
Speaker 1: Cam is back unless we see a drastic turnaround here.
Speaker 1: It feels like they've already you know, they have their
Speaker 1: opinion on Jared Stidham. Now you got to either go
Speaker 1: in the draft or free agency. Kind of possibilities are
Speaker 1: out there for the Patriots to find another franchise quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, if we'll see what the record ends up being.
Speaker 1: I'm of the opinion that the Patriots are always going
Speaker 1: to be fine, so I'd be surprised at this point
Speaker 1: if they are not like eight and eight, seven to nine,
Speaker 1: because they're always they're always fine, right, But we'll see.
Speaker 1: But if they have a high draft pick, could definitely
Speaker 1: take a quarterback. I mean, that's that's something we have
Speaker 1: not seen for real, for real since Jimmy Garoppolo, and
Speaker 1: that was a late too, So I think we could
Speaker 1: see that. The options if they don't take one in
Speaker 1: the draft, there's not a ton of them, but Sam
Speaker 1: Darnold would be potentially one, depending on how the Jets
Speaker 1: would do. Now that would take the Jets trading their
Speaker 1: former franchise quarterback to the Patriots. Yeah, I guess we've
Speaker 1: seen crazier things, but you know, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: And then you know the rest of the guys. You're
Speaker 1: looking at our franchise guys who may not be in
Speaker 1: a great place for the team. Matt Ryan probably stays,
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins contractually probably stays, Philip rivers Is towards the
Speaker 1: back end. I mean, there's just not a lot of
Speaker 1: trade options. The one that I think will get all
Speaker 1: of us talking is Jimmy Garoppolo because if you know,
Speaker 1: if he's got that could be a win win for
Speaker 1: both that Kyle Shanahan gets his quarterback, whoever that is,
Speaker 1: if it's Matt Ryan or Kirk d Cousins, and then
Speaker 1: Bill who loves him some Jimmy Garoppolo can get Garoppolo
Speaker 1: back and that might be his franchise quarterback. I thought
Speaker 1: about that, and I think that's one thing you'll hear
Speaker 1: a lot is is Jimmy Garppolo going back to the Patriots.
Speaker 1: The only thing that gives me a little pause about
Speaker 1: that is he didn't play a lot for the Patriots,
Speaker 1: right like, he only played I think two games. He
Speaker 1: was in the building for a while, and when Belichick
Speaker 1: called the forty nine ers about trading for him, he said, okay,
Speaker 1: I think if two is about right. So he valued
Speaker 1: him as a second round pick back then, which to me,
Speaker 1: he's a quarterback getting traded for a two. That if
Speaker 1: he thought he was a franchise quarterback, no matter what,
Speaker 1: he would have said, we need a one for this guy.
Speaker 1: That's my only thing that gives me pause about him
Speaker 1: reuniting with the Patriots still could make sense. I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of curious about that part of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't know what was going on behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: If you know, Brady wanted him out, and Bill had
Speaker 1: to make that decision of do I bet on the
Speaker 1: future do I bet on the president? And he wanted
Speaker 1: to keep Tom, keep Tom happy? And therefore, hey, if
Speaker 1: I hold out for a one, I might not get
Speaker 1: that one. I know I can get the two. I
Speaker 1: can put him in, you know, great hands with Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan in the forty nine ers. I don't know, it
Speaker 1: felt like that that was Belichick doing Garoppolo a favor
Speaker 1: and doing Tom Brady a favor as well. That's a
Speaker 1: really good point. I mean, because if he says, all right,
Speaker 1: I need a one, then he might just not be
Speaker 1: able to trade him. And I think the point of
Speaker 1: that for Belichick standpoint is just to get a good,
Speaker 1: clean deal done rather than like yeah, haggleback like just
Speaker 1: is it two? Do you want it? Yes or no?
Speaker 1: They did do Garoppolo a favor by sending him to
Speaker 1: a great place. All that is true. I think looking
Speaker 1: back now, you know whether or not Brady actually really
Speaker 1: wanted him out. I've never proved I've heard the suggestion.
Speaker 1: I've just never proven it. I've never had anyone right
Speaker 1: on the inside say yes, Brady wanted him out. I
Speaker 1: just think for the Patriots, once Brady stopped aging, once
Speaker 1: he basically was like, I'm gonna play till I forty
Speaker 1: five and I'm still gonna be good, then their only
Speaker 1: way to get real value was to trade him. Then
Speaker 1: that's that's they headed their bets by keeping Garoppolo for
Speaker 1: half a season. They were like, the only we're gonna
Speaker 1: get value trade him. Now we have to do it.
Speaker 1: That's my recollection of how it happened. What's the deal
Speaker 1: of the trade deadline that should have gotten done? I
Speaker 1: think Will Fuller probably should have gotten done. You know,
Speaker 1: he is, he's an electric talent. He's not always been
Speaker 1: on the field, but when he is, he's awesome. Packers
Speaker 1: could use a big play receiver to kind of take
Speaker 1: them over the top. The Texans wanted a two. If
Speaker 1: the Packers came to the Texans right at the deadline
Speaker 1: and said, you know, the Dante Fowler deal, will do
Speaker 1: it for three and a five, that is a tough
Speaker 1: decision to turn I mean, that's a tough pick to
Speaker 1: turn down, right, So I don't I just don't know
Speaker 1: that it ever really got to that. And I thought
Speaker 1: from where both sides stood that they should have come
Speaker 1: together and done a deal. Was JJ Watt ever in
Speaker 1: play now? I don't think so. I mean, now, you
Speaker 1: know those are deals made by owners, not well, they
Speaker 1: don't even have a GM right now, but they don't
Speaker 1: have a not interim people. You know, it's not a
Speaker 1: deal done by Jack Easterby, who's kind of filling in
Speaker 1: and running football, and those are done by owners. I
Speaker 1: never got the sense the owner would trade him, and
Speaker 1: I never got the sense JJ was like, you need
Speaker 1: to trade me. I think he wants to be there.
Speaker 1: He would just like the football team to be better.
Speaker 1: Is Michael Thomas playing Sunday night against the Buccaneers so
Speaker 1: looking that way? Not for sure for sure, because we
Speaker 1: did this two weeks ago and then he pulled a
Speaker 1: hamstring and in warmups and then didn't play for two weeks.
Speaker 1: But ankle's fine hamstring is getting better. Sounds like Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Sanders is probably back, so we will actually see the
Speaker 1: Saints team as they should. But now they've still won games,
Speaker 1: they just haven't looked the same. I think Michael Thomas
Speaker 1: is probably back Sunday. Yeah, it feels like there's more
Speaker 1: to this story there There there has been a lot there. Um,
Speaker 1: I would say it has not always been. There's not
Speaker 1: always been kumbaya. There's been you know, when you have
Speaker 1: a fighting practice and punch of teammate, Um, there's some
Speaker 1: feathers that get ruffled along with faces or whatever, assuming
Speaker 1: unless he was wearing a helmet, which whatever, there's anyway,
Speaker 1: Um yeah, I mean I think behind the scenes, there
Speaker 1: definitely has been some conversation and potentially some some things
Speaker 1: that needed to be settled, But I never got the
Speaker 1: sense it was something that was insurmount Ian. Thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us. We know you have a busy week and
Speaker 1: we'll be watching this weekend. Thank you very much. All right,
Speaker 1: I always happen to hang with you. Take care at
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Speaker 1: action live on NBC Sports. Prior to the Ian Rappaport interview,
Speaker 1: McLevin brought up a mock draft or a couple of
Speaker 1: mock drafts, and I was curious over under four quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the first round in the top ten top ten picks.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go I'm gonna go under because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say four quarterbacks will be taken in the top ten. Now,
Speaker 1: do you want Matt Miller, who's a draft noted draft analyst,
Speaker 1: or do you want Mike Renner, who has PFA's who
Speaker 1: we've had on is Okay, Who's who's going to agree
Speaker 1: with me? So? Wait? How many did you say the
Speaker 1: four of the top ten picks in next year's draft
Speaker 1: will beat quarterbacks? Matt Miller has four? Okay? Mike Renner
Speaker 1: has three in the top three, right, and I'm scrolling
Speaker 1: down here, Oh healing us three that I'm seeing? Okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm taking How about this over under three and
Speaker 1: a half quarterbacks taken in the first ten, it seems
Speaker 1: like that's the number. Okay, yeah, Pall, As of right now,
Speaker 1: this is the NFL draft order, the Jets at number one,
Speaker 1: Giants number two. If it held, the Giants held at
Speaker 1: number two, are they taking a quarterback today? One of
Speaker 1: the mocks. I saw they're taking h A. Farrell out
Speaker 1: of Oregons that right, Seul and he's Seuel that guy.
Speaker 1: I think he opted out. Did he come back in?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Were you point out they just
Speaker 1: took a left tack. I know they took a left
Speaker 1: tackle last year. But yes, a guy from Jaane's addiction. Yes,
Speaker 1: Perry that didn't realize. He's still at it eligibility I know,
Speaker 1: and he plays tackle. If you've seen Perry Farrell, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's small. Uh three Jacksonville, Yes for Miami. No through Houston. Yes,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get that pick. Yeah, I think that there
Speaker 1: they'll be satisfied with two five Dallas. As of right now,
Speaker 1: Dallas has a fifth pick. M I'm gonna say no,
Speaker 1: they don't draft a quarterback. The only reason why I
Speaker 1: pause is because that's going to cost you, you know,
Speaker 1: even if you're franchise him, which I think they will,
Speaker 1: what's at thirty seven million dollars unless you just want to,
Speaker 1: you know, go clean from Dak and move on. But
Speaker 1: are you getting a great quarterback there? A guy that
Speaker 1: you know is going to work out, and how long
Speaker 1: will it take before he gets to play? I think
Speaker 1: Dallas has other issues there. Yes, mclen you always say,
Speaker 1: though the five year formula, get that ri Yes, but
Speaker 1: you have to be If I'm the Jets, it works.
Speaker 1: If I'm Jacksonville, it works. But after that Wilson from BYU,
Speaker 1: Trey Lance from North Dakota State, Kyle Trask from Florida,
Speaker 1: like those aren't guarantees. Feel it feels like it's Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence and Justin Fields they're going to be franchise quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: The other ones I don't don't. I don't know. If
Speaker 1: you say Trey Lance for the Cowboys, Okay, I haven't
Speaker 1: seen I saw him when he was perfect the year before.
Speaker 1: He played one game this year and I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: that one out. It's like the judges, you know in
Speaker 1: figure skating. I'm gonna take out the high and the
Speaker 1: low and then when I'm left with he's an impressive quarterback.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if I if I'm the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: I go, yep, We're going all in. Yeah pulling. Cowboys
Speaker 1: are two and six. If they only won one more
Speaker 1: game this season and they lost to the Giants, they
Speaker 1: would have the number two pick in draft. How much
Speaker 1: would it change. If you had Dallas somehow had the
Speaker 1: two pick, then I would strongly consider taking Justin Fields
Speaker 1: because that team has spent a lot of money and
Speaker 1: wasted a lot of money. And now if I can
Speaker 1: save some money with what I'm gonna pay my quarterback,
Speaker 1: then yes, I would do that if I'm down. Atlanta
Speaker 1: has a sixth pick in the draft. So now unless
Speaker 1: they can trade Matt Ryan or that will expedite Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan to San Francisco. If not, I I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: drafted a quarterback there. Washington FC has it right now,
Speaker 1: seventh pick of the draft. I would certainly be looking
Speaker 1: at a quarterback. And then after that, Right now it's Chargers,
Speaker 1: Patriots Vikings Well, Patriots, yep, but she Vikings too, right well?
Speaker 1: They They've still got Kirk d. Cousins for another season,
Speaker 1: Paul and Alex Smith let him, let him mentor a
Speaker 1: guy from here, you know, because Kirk Cousins could end
Speaker 1: up in San Francisco. But I'm gonna go over under
Speaker 1: three and a half quarterbacks, and I'm gonna say, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say three quarterbacks are taken in the top ten.
Speaker 1: Somebody will get a little squirrely somebody will move up,
Speaker 1: somebody might drop down a little bit as far as
Speaker 1: the teams in that order or those quarterbacks. Because it
Speaker 1: trust me, the week before the draft, days before the draft,
Speaker 1: I will come on this program and say this guy
Speaker 1: is moving up, and a lot of times it's the
Speaker 1: guys we're not talking about, and then you'll go, Wow,
Speaker 1: where'd that come from? But that will definitely happen. But
Speaker 1: if I if I'm I think the key will be
Speaker 1: if the Giants remained this bad and they end up
Speaker 1: with his second pick. Overall, what are they taking? Who
Speaker 1: are they taking? Yeah? Mclub, I mean they rap on
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. Is the turnovers are just yeah, killing them? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he gave that game away. Yeah, but have you
Speaker 1: seen enough that that you can correct this that? That's
Speaker 1: what I don't know. And if you say, look he's
Speaker 1: he does these things or he's really good, he lacks anticipation,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, and I think he gets caught up
Speaker 1: and then you can almost see him think should I
Speaker 1: throw it? It's you gotta when you get in there
Speaker 1: and there's bullets firing, you gotta go. You got you
Speaker 1: gotta throw somebody open. This is in college, Yeah, Mclub.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is having the same problem I think, where
Speaker 1: he's just holding onto the ball looking for something. I
Speaker 1: think once you get injured at that position, it changes
Speaker 1: you from the standpoint if it's a knee injury and
Speaker 1: ankle injury, a killing. If it's something like that, there's
Speaker 1: always people at your feet and you can't help but
Speaker 1: think about that. It's like a jump shooter who sprains
Speaker 1: his ankle. You know, he's always looking at what's underneath him,
Speaker 1: always in the back of your mind. Carson Wentz can't
Speaker 1: help but think. And Tom Brady had to overcome this.
Speaker 1: Remember the season where he started out where he blew
Speaker 1: out his knee. Was that Bernard Pollard who hit him?
Speaker 1: And you have to get rid of that clutter around
Speaker 1: you in your mind, and that's really hard to do.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if Carson Wentz has been able
Speaker 1: to do that. Offensive line hasn't been good, and it
Speaker 1: feels like every time he goes back to pass, he's
Speaker 1: sort of thinking about what's around him, and it's hard
Speaker 1: to play the position. And when you factor that in,
Speaker 1: you're just a little more hesitant. Skip in Texas High Skip,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me? Today, Slow Dan, I
Speaker 1: wanted to take some issues with Rappaport. I know that
Speaker 1: they've moved games back earlier in the year for all
Speaker 1: this COVID stuff, and I don't understand why you wouldn't
Speaker 1: move it back for the Niners in Green Bay. I mean,
Speaker 1: you closed the filities on what Monday night? They play
Speaker 1: a Sunday game. Nobody's been able to practice, there's no
Speaker 1: receivers left. They already had a half a team, and
Speaker 1: then Green Bay comes in with a limited amount of
Speaker 1: team has to come in earlier. They shouldn't moved this
Speaker 1: game to Sunday or Monday. I agree. I agree with you, Skip.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is a good look for the
Speaker 1: NFL you want to have. This was one of those
Speaker 1: Thursday night games where he said, Wow, rematch of the
Speaker 1: NFC title. Okay, this will be great, and it's going
Speaker 1: to be a maybe a reasonable fac simile. The art
Speaker 1: is formally known as the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: I would just like if I could extend this to
Speaker 1: Sunday and allow these teams to be a little bit
Speaker 1: more at full strength. That's what I would want. Not hey,
Speaker 1: it's still Green Bay in San Francisco. It's Thursday night,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. We're going to do a good number. Yeah,
Speaker 1: mcclub I put up the polls should the NFL play tonight?
Speaker 1: Surprising results them now, Yeah, it's very strongly to one side. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess they want him to play. I mean,
Speaker 1: I want him to play, but I would like to
Speaker 1: see them as close to full strength as possible. More
Speaker 1: phone calls coming up, and are the Sixers interested in
Speaker 1: James Harden