Speaker 1: Welcome into the NFL Report on a Thursday, James Palmer, Steve,
Speaker 1: whitch with you. I Am heading for vacation next week.
Speaker 1: Steve's gonna be heading to the owners meeting, so him
Speaker 1: and Judy Batista are gonna have a dynamite show on Monday.
Speaker 1: Check out the guest list for that one when Monday
Speaker 1: rolls around. But how about our guest list. You saw
Speaker 1: him right there, Kenny Moore. The Indiapolis Colts resigned their
Speaker 1: Starslock Corner to a massive new contract. We love to
Speaker 1: talk about that position on this show, Steve. Also we
Speaker 1: have Brian Baldinger breaking down which three teams improved themselves
Speaker 1: the best through the trenches on the Lancer line. Speaking
Speaker 1: of the trenches, talks about the top edge rushers in
Speaker 1: this draft where they could potentially go off the board.
Speaker 1: We'll also have Alvin Rbie who in an inspire change
Speaker 1: initiative with the NFL.
Speaker 2: Steve.
Speaker 1: He is the founder of Barbershop was It Books, which
Speaker 1: is an incredible initiative to get kids to go out
Speaker 1: there and read. And I know, Steve, you spent some
Speaker 1: time in a higher institution. That was the University of
Speaker 1: Southern California at their pro day with Caleb Williams. I
Speaker 1: need to know what happened at that pro day when
Speaker 1: everybody knows he's going number one to the Bears.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look a really interesting thing real quick.
Speaker 3: Kenny Moore, by the way, JP is the first repeat
Speaker 3: performer I think here.
Speaker 2: Second time around. Yes, it is on the NFL report.
Speaker 3: So Kenny Moore, right, I Caleb Ford to have I
Speaker 3: love for it, asould say either having you back on. Well,
Speaker 3: let's get to Caleb Williams because again we're all assuming
Speaker 3: safely that he's going to be the first overall pick
Speaker 3: on the Chicago Bears who have that pick. They came
Speaker 3: about eight d James. It's standing right behind Caleb during
Speaker 3: this workout was Matt e Reflus to head coach Ryan Poles,
Speaker 3: the assistant GM. You're seeing eb Reflus and Polls right
Speaker 3: there right behind him over his right shoulder, keeping a
Speaker 3: close eye on. And there's a lot of communication between
Speaker 3: all the Bears, Brass and Caleb throughout the morning. So
Speaker 3: but the one with Caleb that we saw was that
Speaker 3: you know, he stayed in the pocket, right, nothing real
Speaker 3: flashy like this is how good I can be under
Speaker 3: calm circumstances, I said, is the case for most of
Speaker 3: his junior season at USC, even though the year before
Speaker 3: he was absolutely fantastic and winning the Heisman. So after
Speaker 3: this workout, which is calm, Google actud fifty scripted throws,
Speaker 3: no tight ends is part of that workout.
Speaker 2: I caught up with Caleb.
Speaker 3: But here's what he had to say about some of
Speaker 3: the next moves coming up. Yeah, I'm sitting here with
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams and Caleb a nice a nice workout right there.
Speaker 4: Just your assessment and also the fun.
Speaker 3: You had because we saw you laughing with you guys,
Speaker 3: hugging up everybody after the workout.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's always one of the most important things.
Speaker 1: Is to have fun.
Speaker 5: I made sure my guys heard that a bunch of times,
Speaker 5: whether it was last night when I sent him a text,
Speaker 5: and then throughout this you know, this morning, in this
Speaker 5: day so far, making sure that was the first and
Speaker 5: first thing that I said to them in the text
Speaker 5: or when I'm talking to him. So I had to
Speaker 5: go out there and show that I was having fun
Speaker 5: and by example, and then obviously go out there and
Speaker 5: handle business.
Speaker 2: Now we do.
Speaker 3: The majority of your workout is gonna be from the pocket,
Speaker 3: just kind of assess how do you think things went?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I missed a couple. I missed a couple of
Speaker 5: passes down the field deep ball, wise, vertical, and then
Speaker 5: I had I think one or two I think one
Speaker 5: behind my receiver. So you know, work on those things, right,
Speaker 5: It's all right.
Speaker 4: It still was a very good workout.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Look, we know you're the presumpted number one pick yep.
Speaker 3: The Bears had a large contingent here in fact, coach
Speaker 3: Matty Ebrafolus and GM mind Poles right behind you. Just
Speaker 3: the fact that they traded justin fields and they cleared
Speaker 3: some runway for you to land.
Speaker 4: Is that your full expectation to be headed there?
Speaker 5: It's a good question. I wouldn't say it's my full expectation. Obviously,
Speaker 5: things can happen, things can change throughout this time. I
Speaker 5: think it's around thirty three days or so, thirty days
Speaker 5: until you know April twenty fifth, and so you know
Speaker 5: a lot can change. You take it day by day,
Speaker 5: handle it and handle and control which you can control.
Speaker 3: And with that is your head coach here at USC
Speaker 3: Lincoln Riley, and he said, expectations is something you've dealt
Speaker 3: with even coming out of high school today, all thirty
Speaker 3: two teams were here. How have you and how do
Speaker 3: you deal with everything that's going to be expected of you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, first and foremost, I have a great mom and dad.
Speaker 5: It starts there, started there, from when I was born
Speaker 5: and them raising me to this twenty two year old now.
Speaker 5: And then you know, I took and I took my
Speaker 5: own road, and and and you know, as I got older,
Speaker 5: and then obviously I got coach Riley. I've had coaches
Speaker 5: in high school Coach Andy Driver's uh, Danny Schefter and
Speaker 5: and things like that.
Speaker 1: So you know, help keep molding me. And I'm still molding.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna be the man I am, you know
Speaker 5: many years from now, twenty years from now when I
Speaker 5: retire hopefully and and can play ball hopefully for a
Speaker 5: really long time.
Speaker 4: Great last question, just what what's next?
Speaker 3: I mean, what's on your schedule in terms of visits
Speaker 3: things like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're still.
Speaker 5: Figuring the visits out. We'll have all of that solved
Speaker 5: pretty here, pretty soon. We wanted to make sure we
Speaker 5: came out here, put on a show for everybody, and
Speaker 5: and focusing on my training for you know, my first
Speaker 5: my first game and o t as of of the NFL.
Speaker 3: I know it's the last question, but quickly Keenan Allen, Yeah,
Speaker 3: receiver was here. What about seeing him? It was right,
Speaker 3: you guys, hang it up for a minute.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I've known I've known Keenan for a little
Speaker 5: bit now hung out. He was at the he was
Speaker 5: at the Chargers of the time obviously, and then you know,
Speaker 5: now he's at the Bears for like I says, here
Speaker 5: for a fourth round pick, which is crazy last year.
Speaker 4: You know, he's a beast, good guy, awesome dude to
Speaker 4: be around.
Speaker 1: He can give you a lot of knowledge.
Speaker 4: All right, Caleb, Hey, thanks for the time, man, Well done,
Speaker 4: Thank you, good luck, Thank you.
Speaker 2: There'd be a couple of.
Speaker 3: Things I just wanted to make sure to clarify coming
Speaker 3: out of that interview. First off, even though he failt,
Speaker 3: he's going to go on his visits after the workout,
Speaker 3: the Bears brass was there.
Speaker 2: I was told by someone there.
Speaker 3: They got there Monday, They had dinner with Caleb, they
Speaker 3: spent time with him.
Speaker 2: So they've done a tremendous amount of homework.
Speaker 3: The communication going on to the Bears and Caleb really
Speaker 3: leaves no question as to what's going on and what
Speaker 3: I said, you expect to be the pick.
Speaker 2: By the Bears.
Speaker 3: He was like, well, I can't expect it. You wanted
Speaker 3: to say yes, but he says, look, you know they
Speaker 3: could trade the pick. They can do this or that.
Speaker 3: Add Some folks on social media like, well, he didn't
Speaker 3: sound too enthusiastic. You'll be just fine to be get
Speaker 3: drafted by the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I completely agree. I love that Keenan Allen was there.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've never seen a player that is probably
Speaker 1: going to be the number one target of that quarterback
Speaker 1: that's going to go number one at the Pro Day.
Speaker 1: I've just never seen it. You see guys go back
Speaker 1: to the ra Alma mottern. Keenan Allen's a cow guy,
Speaker 1: so this is usc. He was there to see his
Speaker 1: future quarterback, which I thought was really cool. The second
Speaker 1: part of it, Steve, is I love that you described
Speaker 1: this as the exact opposite of what we've seen from
Speaker 1: a lot of top quarterbacks and what can they do
Speaker 1: with wow throws? What can they do moving? I remember
Speaker 1: going to a variety of these, from Trevor Lawrence to
Speaker 1: Mac Jones to CJ. Stroud, what can you do athletically
Speaker 1: outside of the pocket. That's what we need to sell
Speaker 1: these scouts on. That's not anything Kayleb Williams needs to
Speaker 1: sell anyone in the NFL on on what he can
Speaker 1: do with his legs outside of the pocket, creating scrambling,
Speaker 1: what he was able to do inside the body. And
Speaker 1: the big thing I hear as I throw this back
Speaker 1: to you around the league is his footwork staying within
Speaker 1: the pocket is maybe unmatched in this draft coming up,
Speaker 1: and that is extremely important with messy pockets in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And I love that that's the kind of the approach
Speaker 1: he had with this pro.
Speaker 3: Dem and that's one of the things that a lot
Speaker 3: of people say give the comparison to Patrick Mahomes, not
Speaker 3: that he's Mahomes, but footwork and things like that. Somebody
Speaker 3: who knows a lot about Caleb Williams, head coach Lincoln Riley,
Speaker 3: brought him from Oklahoma to USC.
Speaker 2: I caught it with him.
Speaker 3: Here's some thoughts about Caleb's future as you go to
Speaker 3: the NFL.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think he probably will be just about as
Speaker 7: prepared as you could be to go into situation like that.
Speaker 7: And that's one of those things that you probably can't
Speaker 7: completely simulate it until you actually get in the middle
Speaker 7: and experience it. But you know, winning a Heisman Trophy
Speaker 7: at USC, you know, in the middle of Los Angeles
Speaker 7: is probably about as close.
Speaker 1: As you can get.
Speaker 7: And so he's used to being under the microscope, used
Speaker 7: to kind of having his game and everything he does
Speaker 7: and everything that he says dissected every which way. There's
Speaker 7: certainly some new challenges and I know he's going to
Speaker 7: have some ups and downs, just like every rookie that
Speaker 7: goes into that league.
Speaker 1: But you know, he loves the game.
Speaker 7: I think he's going to continue to improve and I
Speaker 7: think you know, whatever team he ends up with will
Speaker 7: be very happy with him coach.
Speaker 8: Lastly, just when you look at the metrics of everything
Speaker 8: he's done for only fourteen interceptions in his three years
Speaker 8: as a starter, one that tells you he's accurate, but
Speaker 8: too he's a good decision maker. In coaching him and
Speaker 8: seeing all of that high touchdown to low interception ratio,
Speaker 8: how do you think that translates to the NFL, because
Speaker 8: we know those are two things that are significant at
Speaker 8: playing at that level.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it's important. I mean, I think it
Speaker 7: shows that he values the ball. You know, sometimes I
Speaker 7: think people turn on a highlight and they think he's
Speaker 7: just this reckless player, that's this gunslinger, and honestly he's not.
Speaker 7: He's he's at times, even early in his career, was
Speaker 7: even maybe even more conservative than I wanted him to be.
Speaker 7: But he always valued taking care of the ball. He
Speaker 7: always had a patience that honestly was even better on
Speaker 7: game day than it was on the practice field, which
Speaker 7: for a lot of young qbs it's the opposite. He
Speaker 7: always seemed to kind of calm down and settle down,
Speaker 7: even be a little bit more patient on game day
Speaker 7: even as a young player, which I loved and so
Speaker 7: so Yeah, it's going to be obviously very important as
Speaker 7: the windows tightened down in that league as you face
Speaker 7: the type of pass rushers that he's getting ready to face.
Speaker 7: But to show that he's already had that ability at
Speaker 7: a young age, I think bodes well for him.
Speaker 1: What insight from Lincoln Riley with you there, Steve into
Speaker 1: the makeup of Caleb Williams, The main things that jump
Speaker 1: out at me. One is the way he maybe takes
Speaker 1: more risks in practice, which is probably where you should
Speaker 1: be with the football at the quarterback position a little more,
Speaker 1: you know, deliberate with the way he throws it during
Speaker 1: the games. When you have one thousand and ninety nine
Speaker 1: pass attempts in fourteen interceptions over three years, I think
Speaker 1: is pretty good at protecting the football. Because the last
Speaker 1: three years with the Bears, they had fifteen interceptions, fifteen
Speaker 1: interceptions and twenty interceptions Kayleb Williams fourteen over his last
Speaker 1: three I look at the receiver group that he's going
Speaker 1: to walk into, Steve, and you look at Keenan Allen
Speaker 1: and Dj Moore and Cole Kament and Gerald Everett. All
Speaker 1: of these guys have high football IQs and they're where
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be. And I think that's huge for
Speaker 1: the system that he's walking into and.
Speaker 2: That's going to be perfect.
Speaker 3: Look the one thing again, ninety three career touchdowns as
Speaker 3: a collegiate starter, fourteen interceptions. He has put the ball
Speaker 3: on the ground with fumbles. Okay, again the numbers are
Speaker 3: all over the place. Of what we've seen, he has
Speaker 3: put the ball on the ground, hasn't lost many, but
Speaker 3: that's something he is going to have to tighten up.
Speaker 3: But like you said, when he goes to Chicago, the
Speaker 3: situation is much better than what Justin Fields walked into
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago when he was the first
Speaker 3: round pick. Well, coming up, we're talking about quarterbacks going
Speaker 3: into good situations. Ryan Baldinger is going to let us
Speaker 3: know which teams have moved in the trenches, including those
Speaker 3: teams that might be rafting a rookie quarterback. Next on
Speaker 3: the NFL Report, roll that tape, ELC.
Speaker 1: Welcome back into the NFL Report, James Palmer, Steve Whitch,
Speaker 1: I have my popcorn. That means, Baldy, we're back in
Speaker 1: the thickest things. We're evaluating everything post free agency. Brian
Speaker 1: Baldinger joins us for Baldy's favorite films, and Baldy, we
Speaker 1: came to you with this question your three teams that
Speaker 1: during free agency improved themselves in the trenches. We'll start
Speaker 1: with number three, Carolina Panthers. Two massive guards come there
Speaker 1: and Robert Hunt and Damian Lewis. What do you see
Speaker 1: out of what Carolina did I do like that those
Speaker 1: guys have blocked for shorter quarterbacks in their past. In
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson into a tongue of Iolo I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if that matters, but they have.
Speaker 9: Well, you know, Bryce Sengi is the biggest guy, but
Speaker 9: he needs better protection than what we saw last year.
Speaker 9: You're gonna take Bryce number one like they did, and
Speaker 9: there was this struggle by everybody in that organization. Coaches fired,
Speaker 9: gms fired, everything changed. You got to do your very
Speaker 9: best to support your franchise quarterback and give them every
Speaker 9: opportunity be successful. And I think Robert Hunt played very
Speaker 9: good for the Miami Dolphins. They ran the ball very strong.
Speaker 9: Tua had a good season, back to back good years there,
Speaker 9: especially when healthy, and Damian Lewis has been doing that
Speaker 9: you know in Seattle. So I think they got two
Speaker 9: really good guards. I think they got to figure out
Speaker 9: the center position still, but it's a good draft for centers.
Speaker 9: I would expect them to draft one. You know, Austin
Speaker 9: Corbett got hurt last year and it just kind of crumbled.
Speaker 9: But I think Carolina they look better inside right now.
Speaker 6: With Hunt and Lewis than they did at any point
Speaker 6: last year.
Speaker 10: And Baldy.
Speaker 3: You know, when you look at Carolina right now, the
Speaker 3: way they're you know, they're trying, I guess, to remake
Speaker 3: their team Is this the best way to for them
Speaker 3: to kind of start. We keep talking about how they
Speaker 3: didn't have any why receivers, but to fortify that interior,
Speaker 3: Is this the best first step, so to speak.
Speaker 6: Yeah. And I always think that it's like everybody's going.
Speaker 9: To pay attention to the tackles, especially in this draft,
Speaker 9: and it's a good class for tackles. But I mean,
Speaker 9: if your interior, if your center isn't strong, if your
Speaker 9: guards can't just keep the pocket flat. I don't care
Speaker 9: if you're Bryce Young or if you're Joe Burrow or
Speaker 9: if you're Mahomes. I mean, you've got to get those
Speaker 9: positions fixed so that your quarterback has a chance to
Speaker 9: deliver the ball short yards goal line.
Speaker 6: You got to get a yard.
Speaker 9: You better be able to move people up front and
Speaker 9: be able to retain possession, finished strives in the end zone.
Speaker 9: All those kind of things are really important to the
Speaker 9: success of any offense, but especially in offense that's trying
Speaker 9: to be rebuilt and try to you know, compete right
Speaker 9: now this year, I think it starts up front and
Speaker 9: in the trenches.
Speaker 6: I think they got two you know, guys that are
Speaker 6: still young.
Speaker 9: You have the best football right in front of them
Speaker 9: on their second contracts.
Speaker 6: You can build with those guys and around those guys.
Speaker 1: Your quarterback sack sixty two times, protecting him up the
Speaker 1: middle obviously extremely important. I just want them to change
Speaker 1: their identity as well. I want the Panthers to kind
Speaker 1: of have that, you know, in your face identity. I
Speaker 1: love that Damian Lewis said that when he was you know,
Speaker 1: at his press conference, I'm going to be the type
Speaker 1: of guy that puts your face in the ground. They
Speaker 1: need that in Carolina. Let's go to your second team.
Speaker 1: In terms of the trenches. In the Houston Texans, Nikosara
Speaker 1: not a big spender in free agency usually, but he
Speaker 1: went out and made a number of moves to help,
Speaker 1: especially this defensive line. We know the way Demiko Ryans
Speaker 1: thinks that if you need an elite defense, the D
Speaker 1: line's a big part of it. And if you want
Speaker 1: to be a contender in the AFC Baldy, you got
Speaker 1: to go after these AFC quarterbacks. No question.
Speaker 9: That's how Nick's thinking, That's how Demico's thinking, James, and
Speaker 9: so you know, Demiko comes from, you know, a franchise
Speaker 9: in San Francisco where they wanted to be eight deep
Speaker 9: on the defensive line, and so look Malik Collins, Sheldon Rankins.
Speaker 6: They were good last year, but they.
Speaker 9: Have now added you know, obviously Daniel high Turn after
Speaker 9: Chris Jones was signed re signed by Kansas City and
Speaker 9: giving that big, huge signing bonus. I thought Danil Hunter
Speaker 9: was the next best free agent and all free agency,
Speaker 9: coming off his best season playing opposite of Will Anderson
Speaker 9: right now. Then you add Deniko Autrey and I know this,
Speaker 9: I know Deniko got Nick Casario excited. This guy is
Speaker 9: just one heck of a football player wherever you play
Speaker 9: in Tennessee. Yeah, I thought he was part of the
Speaker 9: best defensive line of football three years ago. He can
Speaker 9: rush inside, outside, he's got counting the playoffs, James, He's
Speaker 9: got thirty sacks the last three years with the Titans.
Speaker 9: He's used to being in a dominant front four defensive team.
Speaker 9: That's what this looks like. Then you add fully Fooicosi
Speaker 9: and Mario you know, Williams, and you add some of
Speaker 9: those guys in front. You know, fully you know, can
Speaker 9: really be that that guy that can eat up the
Speaker 9: double teams, the free up Aziz al Shai here and
Speaker 9: you know, all the linebackers Christian Harris that they have there.
Speaker 9: I think this is quickly being built into one of
Speaker 9: the better defensive fronts and all the football.
Speaker 6: They were already great last year against the run.
Speaker 9: At one point last year they were number one in
Speaker 9: the NFL against the run. I think they finished number two.
Speaker 9: So they already kind of have that mindset that we're
Speaker 9: gonna stop the run. That's the first phase of getting
Speaker 9: after Mahomes and Josh Allen and Lamar and some of
Speaker 9: these teams that you got to get pasted in the AFC.
Speaker 9: They're on the way right now. I thought this front
Speaker 9: really took a step up in I life. I love
Speaker 9: Jonathan greenerd but when he's left to sign of Minnesota
Speaker 9: and they went after and got to Neil Hunter, I said,
Speaker 9: they just upgraded that position.
Speaker 3: Which is crazy because I mean, you're talking about how
Speaker 3: Grenard was just so good down there. But Hunters of
Speaker 3: guys continues to win, right He can win those individual
Speaker 3: and those double teams, and you got to consistently have
Speaker 3: that guy, but you also have to have tackles to
Speaker 3: keep those guys off your quarterbacks. This leads us to
Speaker 3: your number one team that is upgraded in the trenches.
Speaker 3: Who you got, Baldy, because I do think these moves
Speaker 3: are actually more hit or miss. You hit big or
Speaker 3: you miss big with these moves.
Speaker 9: Well, the New York Jets and so you know, obviously
Speaker 9: the Jets were a mess last year.
Speaker 6: Aaron Rodgers four plays. I mean, we know the story.
Speaker 9: But you know they have to get this thing right
Speaker 9: that nobody has been a more fractured injured offensive line
Speaker 9: than the New York Jets. They've just missed on players.
Speaker 9: And so Tyron Smith comes in. Look, he has protected
Speaker 9: the backside of Tony Romo and Dak Prescott over the
Speaker 9: last eleven years. He's been excellent, but he has miss time.
Speaker 9: You know, he did play fifteen games last year, So
Speaker 9: that's if they could get thirteen to fifteen games out
Speaker 9: of Tyrant.
Speaker 6: That's a win.
Speaker 9: Three years ago, the ahead Morgan Moses and he played
Speaker 9: great for him, and then they let him walk.
Speaker 6: To the Baltimore Ravens, where you literally, you.
Speaker 9: Know, was the starting right tackle a team that led
Speaker 9: the league in rushing, was a dominant player there. He's
Speaker 9: going into his eleventh season. He did miss a couple
Speaker 9: of games last year with an arm injury, but for
Speaker 9: the most part he's been healthy. They get Morgan Moses back,
Speaker 9: and then they went and signed John Simpson was a
Speaker 9: big fan of he came out of Clemson. He started
Speaker 9: every game last year for the Baltimore Ravens. They led
Speaker 9: the league in rushing. But it's it's not just that,
Speaker 9: it's the way that he plays. Steve like he's a puller,
Speaker 9: you know. They run traps, they run powers, they run
Speaker 9: counters like he's used to, getting in space and clearing
Speaker 9: bodies out of the way. And I can see an
Speaker 9: offensive line right now with John Simpson on one side,
Speaker 9: Ali Vera Tucker on the other side, where they get
Speaker 9: that power game going with Breeze Hall. They drafted Joe
Speaker 9: pitt Tipman last year to be their center. He became
Speaker 9: their center last year. I can see for the first
Speaker 9: time the Jets can put a starting five out there.
Speaker 9: I don't think they're finished yet. They're picking number ten.
Speaker 9: It's an offensive tackle draft, but I can't see them
Speaker 9: taking number ten right now with an offensive tackle.
Speaker 6: After what they've just done.
Speaker 9: They can start address the receiver position, the tight end position,
Speaker 9: some other things that could help Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Baal Jay bald these givens yet fans hope,
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, they're gonna lose their minds.
Speaker 1: I love it because this is what I wanted to
Speaker 1: get to, though, Baldi, with the players that they signed,
Speaker 1: and you mentioned the number tenth overall pick, and this
Speaker 1: is what I want your take on, because you're right,
Speaker 1: they can get another offensive lineman with ten and they
Speaker 1: could totally go that route and that guy is not
Speaker 1: plugged in to be an immediate need type of player
Speaker 1: in their rookie season maybe, But also you mentioned the
Speaker 1: other ways that they can go. I also look at
Speaker 1: the ability now if you're not forced into that, but yeah,
Speaker 1: you can go go brought Bowers, you could go to
Speaker 1: the tight end spot. You could go with rideyways you
Speaker 1: get an edge rusher to replace Huff. But also you
Speaker 1: could maybe maybe move back because they only have picks
Speaker 1: ten in seventy two in the top one hundred. That's it,
Speaker 1: so you could potentially if somebody wants a quarterback right,
Speaker 1: you could make a move to even get yourself a
Speaker 1: little bit deeper.
Speaker 6: No question.
Speaker 9: Joe Douglas from Baltimore and Philadelphia, where you know whether.
Speaker 6: It's Ozzie Newsom or Howie Roseman.
Speaker 9: The guys that he has worked for are used to
Speaker 9: dancing up and down that draft board and really recuperating value,
Speaker 9: and so that's certainly a possibility right now. Both tackles
Speaker 9: Tyron Smith and Morgan Moses. They're both thirty three years old.
Speaker 9: You know, you got to you gotta think about the future.
Speaker 9: But Aaron Rodgers, I don't know what, you know, what
Speaker 9: is his time frame here, two years at the most,
Speaker 9: like you should probably give him every chance to be
Speaker 9: successful and to see just you know, the talent that
Speaker 9: he is. Give him every chance right now. Obviously, signing
Speaker 9: Mike Williams might take him away from wide receiver, maybe
Speaker 9: brock Bauers, you know, you know, maybe other you know,
Speaker 9: a franchise type player. But at the same time, it's
Speaker 9: not a bad idea to kind of look to the
Speaker 9: future because Aaron Rodgers isn't going to be there forever.
Speaker 6: True.
Speaker 9: So they have a lot of flexibility at number ten
Speaker 9: to go up, to go down to draft the future,
Speaker 9: or to get themselves to start player where they can
Speaker 9: plug them and just say, you.
Speaker 6: Know what, we're going for it all. We're in this
Speaker 6: thing to win it. Let's go for it.
Speaker 9: This year and if it doesn't work out, yeah, we'll
Speaker 9: be back in the market again.
Speaker 3: They're going for it all Baldy.
Speaker 2: They got their hands up on the roller coaster.
Speaker 3: There is no planning for the future on this with Hey,
Speaker 3: so boal, let me get so we know at the
Speaker 3: top of the draft, the first three picks likely are
Speaker 3: going to be quarterbacks, right we also you got that cluster.
Speaker 3: You got the Vikings, Raiders, and Broncos. They also need quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: Which team, speaking of the trenches, is kind of best
Speaker 3: set up to help a rookie quarterback succeed in terms
Speaker 3: of an offensive line.
Speaker 9: Well, you know if the offensive lines also a function
Speaker 9: of you know, how your receivers win on the outside.
Speaker 9: And so if you're the Minnesota Vikings right now, and
Speaker 9: I know Sam Darnold is there but at eleven or
Speaker 9: if they you know, stay there and move whatever, if
Speaker 9: they're looking at a quarterback, I mean, you hand it
Speaker 9: off to Aaron Jones, It's going to be nice to
Speaker 9: throw to Justin Jefferson or Jordan Addison's or TJ.
Speaker 6: Hockinson's gonna be nice for anybody.
Speaker 9: But I feel like they've got a pretty good offensive
Speaker 9: line as it is they have protected Kirk Cousins. And
Speaker 9: you know, you think about last week's last year's big
Speaker 9: win from Minnesota when they beat the forty nine ers
Speaker 9: and Kirk Cousins dropped back forty five times in that game, Steve,
Speaker 9: he wasn't sacked one time. You know, they did a
Speaker 9: pretty good job of protecting a variety of quarterbacks last
Speaker 9: year after Kirk got hurt. And so I feel like
Speaker 9: the Vikings are the best set up right now to
Speaker 9: handle a young quarterback coming in and possibly potentially playing
Speaker 9: right away.
Speaker 3: Man, this is such great soft Baldy JP. This is
Speaker 3: such good stuff, Like this is what we love to
Speaker 3: do on the show, Baldy, have you on and just
Speaker 3: let's talk to real football stuff, not just the Hyperboley
Speaker 3: and all that, so real good stuff.
Speaker 2: But Baldi, we know you're ready on vacation. We're gonna
Speaker 2: be looking for.
Speaker 3: More of your breakdowns from underwater, So save travels, my
Speaker 3: friend bon voyage.
Speaker 9: Yeah all right, thank you, Steve. I did a crash
Speaker 9: course and I studied. All okay, I'll see you next week, guys.
Speaker 3: Coming on after the break Oh, we are talking edge
Speaker 3: rushers with more specifically Lance Zerline.
Speaker 1: Our draft analyst, and.
Speaker 2: Man, is he got it loaded up for you? Stick
Speaker 2: around and come back to the NFL Report. Pull the tape.
Speaker 3: Elsie back at the NFL Report and you look at
Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy, Tarol Austin, a Steelers defensive coordinator there at
Speaker 3: the Alabama Pro Day. Mike Tomlin was in the house,
Speaker 3: and they're probably keeping their eye on edge rusher Dallas Turner. Well,
Speaker 3: the top players in the country's supposed to be a
Speaker 3: very high pick. We're going talk about that in a minute,
Speaker 3: but before we get to that, let's go to our
Speaker 3: Tom pellisera who is at the pro day. We caught
Speaker 3: a spot with Dallas Turner.
Speaker 11: I feel that I should be the first defensive player
Speaker 11: off the board because of the tnasty I bring to
Speaker 11: the game, my IQ, how fast I play, you know,
Speaker 11: just being the most versatile agent and draft as well,
Speaker 11: you know, being able to pass, rush and drop me
Speaker 11: and you know, and just help my teammates and be
Speaker 11: the best team out can possibly be.
Speaker 6: So I know you're sticking around Tuscalos.
Speaker 1: After this, we got some team visits where all you headed.
Speaker 11: I'm headed to I know, I gotta go to Atlanta, Minnesota.
Speaker 11: I gotta go to Chicago and Arizona.
Speaker 3: Right doubtas Turner naming three teams that could use an
Speaker 3: edge rusher. But you look at this board right here,
Speaker 3: there's an awful lot you've got.
Speaker 2: The Bears will probably use a ninth pick on one
Speaker 2: if they use it.
Speaker 3: Atlanta, the Jack the Vikings, the Broncos, Seahawks, Rams, Dolphins, Buffalo, Bills, Lions.
Speaker 3: Who doesn't need an edge rusher? But James Palmer. We're
Speaker 3: back here on the NFL Report. We're gonna bring in
Speaker 3: our draft expert, Lanzer Lion who knows there is edge
Speaker 3: rusher as well. And Lance, you just saw Dallas Turner
Speaker 3: there with Tom Pellis hero say he should be the
Speaker 3: first defensive player off the board. First off, just your
Speaker 3: thoughts on Turner.
Speaker 10: Well, so, Dallas Turner, you know I first noticed him
Speaker 10: when he was really giving Charles crosswork at Mississippi State.
Speaker 10: When I was studying Charles Cross a couple of years ago,
Speaker 10: and I had to go to the roster because if
Speaker 10: you're not draft eligible, I have time to look at
Speaker 10: you right now. But I got five hundred players to
Speaker 10: write up. But I made note of who's number fifteen.
Speaker 10: Dallas Turner. Wow, I'm gonna remember this kid, and here
Speaker 10: we are two years later, and you know, I think
Speaker 10: he's a similar player. He's a little bit gangly looking
Speaker 10: on the hook, but he was over two hundred and
Speaker 10: fifty pounds at his pro day, which was heavier than
Speaker 10: at the Combine. I think that's great. Twenty reps in
Speaker 10: the bench, which I thought was nice. But really, Steve,
Speaker 10: what kind of separates Dallas Turner is? Yes, he comes
Speaker 10: from the Alabama pedigree of rushers, but he is a
Speaker 10: really elite athlete. I mean from an explosion standpoint. At
Speaker 10: the Combine, his speed numbers, his ability to bend and
Speaker 10: make things happen once he's inside the pocket, change direction
Speaker 10: in Hound quarterbacks were trying to get away from him.
Speaker 10: I think if you want a guy who has that
Speaker 10: the rush talent that's typical of Alabama rushers, and then
Speaker 10: you want to look at the athletic profile that it's
Speaker 10: an elite profile, including extraordinarily long arms and wingspan das
Speaker 10: Dallas gives you. Dallas Turner gives you a very unique
Speaker 10: set of skills, so to speak. When it comes to
Speaker 10: the pass rush. There's four key rushers in the first
Speaker 10: round but he's a guy that kind of blends all
Speaker 10: of them together.
Speaker 1: I love that he's a Liam Neesen. He blends it
Speaker 1: all together. Lance. I love you mentioned the speed, I
Speaker 1: mean four four seven at the combine that was about
Speaker 1: its fluid crist you could see a big man run
Speaker 1: in the forty as smooth as he looked. And you
Speaker 1: mentioned the athletic ability a fantastic basketball player in high school.
Speaker 1: I know everybody always kind of looks at those traits
Speaker 1: as well when they're evaluating some of these guys. To
Speaker 1: spread that out, you mentioned these edge rushers, and there's
Speaker 1: about four of them you mentioned. But where do we
Speaker 1: see I know you have another mock draft coming out
Speaker 1: soon and it's not out yet, but where would we see,
Speaker 1: as we hinted at it, the first defensive player go
Speaker 1: off the board. And will it be Dallas Turner?
Speaker 10: I think it could be Turner. I think it's going
Speaker 10: to be between Turner and Verse, Jared Verse, and I'll
Speaker 10: get into Jared Vers in a second. But you know,
Speaker 10: Chop Robinson from Penn State is a huge projection player,
Speaker 10: great traits, but he's not there yet, so I think
Speaker 10: he will probably be fourth. A lot to his draft
Speaker 10: standing is going to be, you know, determined by his medicals.
Speaker 10: But I think when you start looking at you guys
Speaker 10: talk to Balding, and you started looking at the way
Speaker 10: some of these teams are coming together from a free
Speaker 10: agency standpoint, and now it may change. You know, the
Speaker 10: Jets may look at a pass rusher, for example, with
Speaker 10: their selection. I think that you know, Minnesota obviously, if
Speaker 10: they ended up staying there and not making a move
Speaker 10: for quarterback, which we anticipate, I think they need rush
Speaker 10: and so I think probably the earliest you're going to
Speaker 10: see a pass rusher would be maybe the Falcons could
Speaker 10: be the absolute earliest at eight, but you could make
Speaker 10: a point for going even earlier than that, because these
Speaker 10: are really i think, high ceiling, high floor players at
Speaker 10: this particular position at the edge, and especially Jared. Let's
Speaker 10: start talking about Jared verse for a second. I mean,
Speaker 10: Jared Versus is a powerhouse. He is as explosive as
Speaker 10: it gets into the blockers, very heavy with his hands.
Speaker 10: He's good against the run in the past. You know,
Speaker 10: Dallas Turner is not going to be as good against
Speaker 10: the run as Jared Versus. He has become a real
Speaker 10: issue for tackles to handle the same way Aaron Donald
Speaker 10: was this unusually powerful guy inside for his size. Jared
Speaker 10: versus unusually powerful and twitchy with his upper body strength
Speaker 10: against tackles who are much heavier than him. He's got
Speaker 10: a great bull rush. He improved some of his rush
Speaker 10: technique and rush moves headed into this year. So I
Speaker 10: think going back to school, he really made himself a
Speaker 10: more complete player. But I don't think you know, we
Speaker 10: look how many of these things that we're showing you
Speaker 10: or run plays. That's one of the things that separates him,
Speaker 10: I think, from the other and why I think he's
Speaker 10: going to be the first guy off the board personally
Speaker 10: is that he is a two way defensive end with
Speaker 10: tremendous toughness.
Speaker 3: You know, I love hearing stuff like this because you
Speaker 3: talk about Atlanta there at eight. We know Raheem Morris
Speaker 3: kind of plays at hybrid thirty four. You know he's
Speaker 3: gonna give you that that even look. But you want
Speaker 3: to have somebody who can play the run in the
Speaker 3: past like him, And you've got a Grady jer and
Speaker 3: you've got David on Jamadi. You've got tackles who can
Speaker 3: make plays. So somebody like him might be a perfect
Speaker 3: fit right there.
Speaker 2: And you talk about a.
Speaker 3: Hybrid guy and this is a guy we both love
Speaker 3: lands out of the University of Missouri, Jarius Robinson, and
Speaker 3: this is everybody. But this is where I want you
Speaker 3: to educate people, because he's listed in some places as
Speaker 3: an edge, other places as a d tackle. A few
Speaker 3: years ago we'd say he's a thirty four or five
Speaker 3: tech team, but he's shown a little bit more than
Speaker 3: that though, Like when you're evaluating a combo big man
Speaker 3: like him, he's a big freaking guy, like two eighty five.
Speaker 3: How do you kind of put him in there when
Speaker 3: you're talking about the turners and the verses and chop Robinson.
Speaker 10: It's a it's a great question. It's what I had
Speaker 10: to do last year with Keon White, who ended up
Speaker 10: going to New England out of Georgia Tech. Very similar
Speaker 10: body type, similar gameplay. The Texas just signed Denico Autry
Speaker 10: in every The talk in Houston on my sports talk
Speaker 10: show is, well, wait a minute, is he gonna play edge?
Speaker 10: Is he gonna play defensive tackle? He's a little small,
Speaker 10: Dimico doesn't play a traditional odd front, So what are
Speaker 10: you gonna do? You want to put good football players
Speaker 10: on your team. Listen whether they're rushing or playing bass
Speaker 10: off the edge. I think the way I envisioned it
Speaker 10: Steve Is, I think he's gonna play bass edge on
Speaker 10: first down and second down. On the rundowns. You want
Speaker 10: that power off the edge. But then when it comes
Speaker 10: down to pure sub package rushing, when we're in third
Speaker 10: and six and you know they're gonna throw, we're gonna
Speaker 10: bump them inside and use his quickness and that lean
Speaker 10: mass to really overwhelm and out quick some of the guards.
Speaker 10: So I think, you know, for me, it used to
Speaker 10: be a bigger concern when you when you had players
Speaker 10: and they didn't fit neatly into a bucket. Now they're
Speaker 10: called hybrids. Now they're good. Before we used to call
Speaker 10: them tweeners, tweeters, no good, hybrids great. So you know,
Speaker 10: for me, Darius Robbins, whatever you want to do with them,
Speaker 10: Can he play defense tackle? Sure, he can gain ten
Speaker 10: more pounds and play there. He lost weight to play
Speaker 10: d end and he's in great physical shape right now.
Speaker 10: So I think it's a matter of what you wanted
Speaker 10: to do, And that's why I think it's such a
Speaker 10: good fit for the Lions. I keep plugging them in
Speaker 10: with the lions of my monographing. I just think it
Speaker 10: really fits when Aaron Glenn and Dan Campbell won up there,
Speaker 10: and I think he fits into that front that they're looking.
Speaker 3: For from Detroit too, So that would be huge.
Speaker 1: Anybody to help Aiden Hutchinson Man, you get him somebody
Speaker 1: else it is. It is going to be something to see. Lance.
Speaker 1: I love that and I love that that's the way
Speaker 1: you finished it because I was already thinking here and
Speaker 1: this is what I wanted to follow up with. You
Speaker 1: mentioned tweeers, and you mentioned those guys that you always
Speaker 1: kind of go, well, do they if they don't have
Speaker 1: a position, does that mean they they are a knock?
Speaker 1: But then when we see people play it at the
Speaker 1: highest level, say, I'm not making the comparison, but a
Speaker 1: Chris Jones that can move inside and outside, a different
Speaker 1: type of players that can do it. But if you
Speaker 1: can't do it at that type of level, is it
Speaker 1: a knock still? But if you if you don't get
Speaker 1: into that elite category to where you can do multiple things, I.
Speaker 10: Think it's tough. I mean, it really depends on who's
Speaker 10: drafting him. And I always when I put grades on players.
Speaker 10: My assumption is always that the team that views him
Speaker 10: as the best particular fit with the scheme is who's
Speaker 10: going to draft him. So if you have a zone
Speaker 10: scheme running back or a gap scheme running back, I'm
Speaker 10: assuming the offensive coordinator and the offensive play caller is
Speaker 10: going to get with the general manager and say this
Speaker 10: is the guy who fits, this is the guy who doesn't.
Speaker 10: So it's going to make sense if they're going to
Speaker 10: be on your board, if you have a game plan
Speaker 10: for them. And I think there's something also to be
Speaker 10: said for I think the best coaches understand how to
Speaker 10: get talent acclimated and how to work around as special
Speaker 10: players strengths and weaknesses COLLIDEJAKANTSI undersized defensive tackle, but he's
Speaker 10: already showing flashes over there with the Bengals, And I think,
Speaker 10: you know, is he small for a defensive tackle in
Speaker 10: the first round? Absolutely? But can he do something that
Speaker 10: makes the Bengals a good football team? Yes, he can
Speaker 10: keep him out of the instances where he's going to
Speaker 10: be double team by guards and centers and driven off
Speaker 10: the ball and put him in positions to be a
Speaker 10: pin trader. And the disruptor. So it's up to the
Speaker 10: team to put the player in the right type of scheme,
Speaker 10: in the right situation, and then for coaches to work
Speaker 10: around the weaknesses and accentuate the strengths.
Speaker 4: So let's let's stay here, let's stay in this pocket.
Speaker 3: When we look at the number of quarterbacks, look, Minnesota
Speaker 3: made to move you know, give us that second first
Speaker 3: round draft pick to probably move up. So let's say
Speaker 3: there's gonna be four to five quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: We're talking about these edge rushers.
Speaker 3: We also there's some elite wide receivers at the top end.
Speaker 3: How is that going to affect the stacking of the
Speaker 3: draft in terms of pushing talented players like maybe a
Speaker 3: Darius Robinson or top Robinson to the back part of
Speaker 3: the draft or some teams sitting there in their twenties
Speaker 3: could be like Merry Christmas.
Speaker 10: Yeah, So it's tricky. This draft seems to have a
Speaker 10: flow now. Free agency has kind of tricked it out
Speaker 10: a little bit. But it's gonna be an early you know,
Speaker 10: it's gonna be early quarterbacks, right, and then I think
Speaker 10: the next thing is going to be wide receivers. As
Speaker 10: start to go, we'll see the top three yride. Receivers
Speaker 10: come off the board with sprinklings of offensive tackles, so
Speaker 10: it's gonna be quarterback followed by wide receiver. Then comes
Speaker 10: offensive tackle with the chance of one rusher and Brock
Speaker 10: Bowers being considered there. Now Brock is the wild card.
Speaker 10: I don't know where Brock goes. I thought the point
Speaker 10: that you know, Baldy made the point about maybe Rock
Speaker 10: Bowers could go the Jets all of a sudden. That
Speaker 10: makes a lot of sense when you think about what
Speaker 10: they're trying to do with the all in approach for
Speaker 10: Aaron Rodgers. But you know, but then it's going to go.
Speaker 10: It's going to take on an offensive tackle followed by cornerbacks,
Speaker 10: and then here come the wide receivers led by Brian
Speaker 10: Thomas again and Chop Robinson. The wild cards in this
Speaker 10: one who could fall I think are a lot too
Speaker 10: due to health, Chop Robinson due to inexperience, and then
Speaker 10: Bowers just because tight ends are hard to slot in
Speaker 10: the top ten, top twelve pix of the draft, and
Speaker 10: I think Terry and Arnold versus Quinnon Mitchell is a
Speaker 10: real wild card in terms of who's going to be
Speaker 10: first corner off the board. I'm starting to think it's
Speaker 10: going to be Mitchell one, Terry and Arnold two.
Speaker 1: Man, Lance, we're going to get to these corners with
Speaker 1: you on another show because we had a plan for it,
Speaker 1: but man, we love these edge rusher so we had
Speaker 1: to stick with that. We will get you to the corners,
Speaker 1: I prom always. And I also like that you stole
Speaker 1: my idea of rock Bowers to the Jets and gave
Speaker 1: it to Baldy, so I appreciate that as well. But Lance,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the insight on all of
Speaker 1: these guys. I like Dallas Derner, you like Jared Verst.
Speaker 1: I love the way we're going because these two right here,
Speaker 1: it might be the first defensive player off the board.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be really, really, really fun to watch. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have you back to talk corners.
Speaker 10: Looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: Thanks, guys, appreciate it. Coming up on the NFL Report,
Speaker 1: Speaking of corners, how about Kenny Moore just got himself
Speaker 1: a handsome bag to return to the Indianapolis Colts and
Speaker 1: manned that nickel position. Steve, we love that spot. Love
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: to Kenny Moore after this on the NFL Report. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the NFL Report. James Palmer, Steve Witch with you,
Speaker 1: and Steve Weird joined by our first repeat guests. Let's go.
Speaker 1: And it's only fitting that Kenny Moore of the Indianapolis
Speaker 1: Colts joins us as our first repeats team because Kenny,
Speaker 1: you know what we think of your position on this show,
Speaker 1: how much we love talking about the slock corner spot,
Speaker 1: and how much we love to break down what you
Speaker 1: do in the middle of the field. First though, I
Speaker 1: have to say thank you for joining us, and secondly,
Speaker 1: congratulations on the contract. What's the first thing that goes
Speaker 1: through your mind once you know that is sign sealed,
Speaker 1: delivered and you know that you're locked in. What goes
Speaker 1: through Kenny Moore's mind?
Speaker 12: First off, is great to be bat with you guys,
Speaker 12: to be the first repeat that's pretty awesome. First of
Speaker 12: that went through my mind whenever we got the contract,
Speaker 12: you know, signs student to deliver. I was just thinking about,
Speaker 12: you know, I'm ready to go work again because I
Speaker 12: know I know where I'll be at, I know the
Speaker 12: people that I'll be with. You know, I get to
Speaker 12: see all my friends again. So from here we just
Speaker 12: got to you know, put some banners up and go
Speaker 12: back to work. So I'm fully excited to be with
Speaker 12: the organization again. And then, like I said, just to
Speaker 12: know you know where I'll be.
Speaker 3: I love that you're excited to do with the organization again.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean there was a lot of reports
Speaker 3: at least that nobody was really certain that was going
Speaker 3: to be the case. Were you Were you close with
Speaker 3: any other teams?
Speaker 12: I mean, yeah, there were negotiations and talks with you know,
Speaker 12: quite a few teams. But the coach, they were in
Speaker 12: it the entire way. They never pulled out. They never
Speaker 12: uh you know, came into the talks you know later
Speaker 12: later on in the h the process, but.
Speaker 13: They stuck it out the entire way.
Speaker 12: And you know, they believed in me and they wanted
Speaker 12: me back now in the organization.
Speaker 13: I'm glad to be back.
Speaker 3: So so with that, I mean, they want you back
Speaker 3: in the organization. What does it feel like as a
Speaker 3: player though, to know you've had an impact on a
Speaker 3: community and on a club as to where they invested
Speaker 3: with you the way they did in three more years?
Speaker 13: Oh man, that's a great question. They just know what
Speaker 13: I give at this point.
Speaker 12: You know, one thing of knowing you know, I guess
Speaker 12: what a player does and knowing what he gives. I
Speaker 12: think you know the world of that you know they
Speaker 12: value and appreciate. You know, not only the player that
Speaker 12: I am, but the person I am throughout a community
Speaker 12: and how I'm able to make an impact and just
Speaker 12: being the kind of guy that wants, you know, everybody
Speaker 12: to be included. So yeah, it's a great image to
Speaker 12: have on such a prestige and organization.
Speaker 6: I love that.
Speaker 1: And Kenny, you sign this contract three years, thirty million dollars,
Speaker 1: yet you're the highest paid guy for about I don't
Speaker 1: know a day, couple of days, and Daron Johnson gets
Speaker 1: paid too, and it's right up there with yours. Well,
Speaker 1: I won't know, does that.
Speaker 6: Bug you at all?
Speaker 1: But also, what is it like seeing you guys in
Speaker 1: this role when I talk to defensive coordinators and how
Speaker 1: important it is that you guys are getting your due
Speaker 1: playing this position.
Speaker 12: I like to say, you know, we're just pioneers of
Speaker 12: the position. You know, we wear the heavy.
Speaker 6: Hat and a hard hat.
Speaker 12: We do a lot of things that made a lot
Speaker 12: of things come together, and uh, you know, for this
Speaker 12: position to be rotating that safety to be able to blitch,
Speaker 12: to be able to cover, and to be able to
Speaker 12: you know, read zones and read the quarterback. And it's
Speaker 12: a lot of things that we got to be able
Speaker 12: to do to be able to be uh inside quarterback
Speaker 12: or a slot cornerback, you know, the outside corners. Everybody
Speaker 12: can't do it. And so you know, to run whenever
Speaker 12: he whenever he made.
Speaker 13: The jump to be the next highest paid it was
Speaker 13: really great for him. It was great for the position.
Speaker 12: And I think he and I and many more to come,
Speaker 12: you know, we got to walk for you know, the
Speaker 12: others to run you know later in the day, later
Speaker 12: and later in football. So I think we're just making
Speaker 12: history here and you know we're all just trying to
Speaker 12: play the position at the at the highest level.
Speaker 13: We just need you know, more Nichols to do the
Speaker 13: same thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is music car eers because like James said,
Speaker 3: we we love that slot dB position, especially the time
Speaker 3: when you seeing like you know, the regular safeties are
Speaker 3: are floating out there on the market like they are,
Speaker 3: so teams are reprioritized. Well, you talked earlier, Kenny about
Speaker 3: saying you're back in Indianapolis with your friends.
Speaker 2: The Colts have re signed.
Speaker 3: So many players that were free agents there, going from
Speaker 3: Zaia Franklin to some of the players like that, to
Speaker 3: Michael Pittman, the wide receiver. And what about you know,
Speaker 3: bringing back so many players, especially a guy like Pittman
Speaker 3: who you probably bang with a lot in practice.
Speaker 6: He said, what is it like?
Speaker 2: Yeah, bringing back so many guys who you know, who've
Speaker 2: been there before.
Speaker 13: Yeah, just having a continuity.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 12: You know, I was there a couple of years in
Speaker 12: before Michael Pittman Junior came into the Coast facility, and you.
Speaker 13: Know, I'm able to watch him grow over the years.
Speaker 12: You know, I was there when zay Yere was on
Speaker 12: the brink of going to another team, you know, getting
Speaker 12: cut his rookie year. To now he's been extended. It's
Speaker 12: been great, and his role has been, you know, the
Speaker 12: leader of the defense. He's been you know, with myself
Speaker 12: and Buck, you know, we're all just trying to do
Speaker 12: this thing together, and if we're gonna win, we want
Speaker 12: to win together. So we don't want to see anybody leave.
Speaker 12: We want to make sure that, you know, we stay
Speaker 12: accountable to each other and make sure we put the
Speaker 12: hard work in you know, day in and day out.
Speaker 13: And we can go out here and win some games together.
Speaker 12: You know, the guys that I'm actually proud of, you know,
Speaker 12: as the people that they are to you know, seeing
Speaker 12: them grow.
Speaker 1: You guys won some games. I'll say right here on
Speaker 1: this show, Kenny, I thought your head coach should have
Speaker 1: been Coach of the Year and what Shane Stikeen was
Speaker 1: able to do in his first year in Indianapolis. Now,
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew is out of the building, even though he
Speaker 1: played great subbing in for Anthony Richardson throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the season. Now this is Ars team. What have
Speaker 1: you seen or heard or talked to your quarterback about
Speaker 1: moving forward with him being the guy and the face
Speaker 1: of your franchise. If you're going to win more of
Speaker 1: these games in year two with your head coach and
Speaker 1: your quarterback.
Speaker 12: I think he has enough people in his ear, you know,
Speaker 12: telling him of what we need. And I'm pretty sure
Speaker 12: he knows exactly, you know, the position that he's in.
Speaker 12: They've given him an incredible position to be in, to
Speaker 12: lead the coach, to lead the.
Speaker 13: City and Indianapolis to win.
Speaker 12: So I talked to him on the day that I
Speaker 12: I'm back, and he was fired up to have me back,
Speaker 12: and I was just saying, way, just having him as
Speaker 12: my partner back and him there, you know, being supportive.
Speaker 12: But I'm ready to go and I'm ready to be
Speaker 12: supportive of him this spring as he gets back on
Speaker 12: the field and see what we can do together.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, you've made some more fans in Indianapolis with a
Speaker 3: good Samaritan act the other day taking somebody whose car
Speaker 3: broke down to the shop and give me some money
Speaker 3: to buy some tools to change his tire. So good
Speaker 3: for him. Kenny Moore, thank you so much. I wish
Speaker 3: you had more time, but again thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 2: Congratulations on everything.
Speaker 10: First repeat so much, absolutely so.
Speaker 3: When we come back on the NFL Report, you know
Speaker 3: you want to take your son and get.
Speaker 2: His haircut like Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3: Well, coming up, we'll be joined by someone who can
Speaker 3: tell you how you can get that type of crispy
Speaker 3: cut and enjoy reading.
Speaker 2: Books at the same time. Interesting stuff on.
Speaker 14: The NFL Report. Welcome back to the NFL Report.
Speaker 3: One of the many highlights of Super Bowl Week in
Speaker 3: Las Vegas was an event that had nothing to do
Speaker 3: with the outcome of the Chiefs forty nine ers Matchup.
Speaker 3: NFL Inspired Change, in conjunction with the Clark County Library District,
Speaker 3: hosted a grand opening to celebrate the launch of Barbershop Books.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: This is a nonprofit organization that focuses on creating child
Speaker 3: friendly reading spaces for boys in barbershops.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look.
Speaker 15: We are here today because the NFL and partnership with
Speaker 15: the NFL Foundation have helped Barbershop Books come to Las Vegas.
Speaker 16: Welcome, Welcome to the Las Vegas Park County Library. This
Speaker 16: is a great day and it's an incredible honor to
Speaker 16: be hosting the kickoff of Barbershop Books to our Las
Speaker 16: Vegas community today. The Barbershop Books literacy program is just
Speaker 16: another stellar example of bringing the library to more places
Speaker 16: where people gather.
Speaker 15: We're partnering with the Las Vegas Clark County Library District
Speaker 15: to create.
Speaker 1: Child family reading spaces and ten.
Speaker 15: Barbershops right here in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: We're going to be bringing together one hundred and fifty kids.
Speaker 10: That's a lot of kids.
Speaker 15: We'll have some reading stations, and then we're also going
Speaker 15: to be given away free haircuts and three books.
Speaker 1: To read.
Speaker 17: That one I've been in the education library sector for
Speaker 17: almost thirty years. Which has driven me in education and
Speaker 17: libraries and children has been just the impact and the
Speaker 17: change that literacy can have on kids.
Speaker 3: Are there, we go, what a great project, JP, And
Speaker 3: now we are joined by the founder of barbershop Books,
Speaker 3: that is Alvin Erbie. Alvin Banks are joining us here
Speaker 3: from New York and just tell us this concept of
Speaker 3: barbershop books.
Speaker 2: Where did it start?
Speaker 10: So?
Speaker 18: I was teaching first grade in the Bronx and there
Speaker 18: was a barber shop across the street from my school.
Speaker 18: So one day after school, I'm getting a haircut in
Speaker 18: one of my students, you know, comes into the shop,
Speaker 18: plops down on a sofa.
Speaker 1: And he's just kind of you know, auntsy, looking bored.
Speaker 18: And all I can keep thinking is like, he should
Speaker 18: be practicing his.
Speaker 13: Reading right now.
Speaker 18: And I wish I had a children's book, but I didn't.
Speaker 18: So it was really that chance encounter with one of
Speaker 18: my students, Alvin.
Speaker 1: I love the piece that we watched, I said, I
Speaker 1: have an eleven year old. I think I saw a
Speaker 1: couple of Captain Underpants books, a lot of different books
Speaker 1: that he reads at home as well. As we were
Speaker 1: looking through all this different stuff featured there. You do
Speaker 1: a lot of different things, and you have taken this
Speaker 1: to a grand scale. I mean, you've done Ted talks,
Speaker 1: You've been in the New York Times, You've been on
Speaker 1: you know, Oprah's type stuff. Where do you want this
Speaker 1: to go? Because you do have grand aspirations, So how
Speaker 1: far in your mind do you think this could go?
Speaker 18: I wanted in every barbershop where their children. You know,
Speaker 18: I think that over the next five years, we'd like
Speaker 18: to get to twenty five hundred barber shops.
Speaker 10: But I think that that's.
Speaker 4: Really just the beginning.
Speaker 18: I think there's there's so many opportunities with partners to
Speaker 18: create spaces in the community that inspire children to read
Speaker 18: for fun.
Speaker 3: Well, Alan, you know, look part of this, you know
Speaker 3: you're you're here on the show because your partners with
Speaker 3: the NFL and trying to get this done, and you
Speaker 3: just talked about getting in twenty five hundred barber shops.
Speaker 3: What does kind of the sponsorship and then being partners
Speaker 3: with a huge brand like the NFL do in terms
Speaker 3: of making headway for you to reach your goal.
Speaker 1: It's really important.
Speaker 18: I think that you know, it signals to other you know,
Speaker 18: organizations and entities that this is is work worth investing in.
Speaker 18: And I think that.
Speaker 4: What it did is it created a model.
Speaker 19: Right many of our cities have of local football teams,
Speaker 19: and so I think that, you know, it creates an
Speaker 19: opportunity for us to say, hey, look at this really
Speaker 19: great example of what's possible right when you come together
Speaker 19: with Barbershop Books and with amazing partners like the local library.
Speaker 1: I love that Altu real quick were tight on time.
Speaker 1: When Roger Goodell shows up in Las Vegas with you
Speaker 1: guys to read with kids, what impact does that make
Speaker 1: and what did you see from Roger Well?
Speaker 19: I mean one I was was.
Speaker 18: A little surprised, but also excited that he took the time.
Speaker 4: I think it signals again that this was.
Speaker 10: Something that really was important to the NFL and.
Speaker 18: To him for him to take time out and I
Speaker 18: saw him he was having a good time, you know.
Speaker 18: So I think it was just an impactful event all
Speaker 18: around the kids, the adults, everybody out whatever.
Speaker 3: The founder of Barbershop Books with a fantastic project. I
Speaker 3: was just in an inglewood in Ingwood, California to get
Speaker 3: my fade tied up. I'm a little crispy right now.
Speaker 3: The other day, and then we know books there the
Speaker 3: kids in the shop, so we got to get some books. Alvin,
Speaker 3: it's my barbershop. Thank you so much for let's go.
Speaker 3: Let's go all you love it all right? Coming up
Speaker 3: one day here on the NFL Report JP. You know
Speaker 3: that handsome guy in the great suit, he's gonna be
Speaker 3: on vacation, so that ugly guy in the blue shuit.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be joined by Judy Mattista from the league
Speaker 3: meetings down in Orlando seven pm Eastern. Also, remember it's
Speaker 3: the podcast. And by the way, people, that guy right there,
Speaker 3: Jay Palmer, he just jumped out of an airplane.
Speaker 1: I did. I did jump out of an airplane. You'll
Speaker 1: see that coming up soon, Steeve, have him blast in
Speaker 1: Orlando with Judy. You're gonna have him dynamite lineup excited
Speaker 1: to listen while I'm on vacation