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Speaker 1: He was everybody. I'm Will Salva and these are good

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Speaker 1: morning football headlines from NFL Network. All right, so let's

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Speaker 1: start with the big news concerning Big Ben. Yesterday, it

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Speaker 1: looks like Ben Roethlisberger is going to be Pittsburgh starting

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Speaker 1: quarterback for the twenty twenty one season. All right, you

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Speaker 1: can exhale Steelers fans. NFL Networks a d D kick

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Speaker 1: Cab Wallace spoke with his agent, Ryan Tooler, who expressed

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Speaker 1: confidence Roethlisberger will restructure his contract now. According to the

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Speaker 1: website over thecap dot com, big Ben has a cat

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Speaker 1: bigger of forty one point three million dollars this upcoming season.

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Speaker 1: He led the Steelers to eleven or no start with

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Speaker 1: the team lost four of his final five games down

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Speaker 1: the stretch, including that home playoff loss in a wildcard

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Speaker 1: round to the Browns. Well, yesterday, the franchise and Transition

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Speaker 1: tag period window officially opened up and a number of

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Speaker 1: star players could get tagged. According to NFL Networks in Rappaport,

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys are very confident quarterback Dak Prescott's rehab, stemming

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Speaker 1: from multiple surgeries on a fractured ankle he injured back

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Speaker 1: in October Dallas wants to do a long term deal

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Speaker 1: with him. Last year, he played out of the franchise

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Speaker 1: tag for thirty one point four million dollars soul. The

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Speaker 1: question is would they franchise tag him for a second

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Speaker 1: consecutive season. The until March ninth to make that decision. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers to her wide receiver Chris Godwin is also a

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Speaker 1: candidate for the franchise tag. The Super Bowl champ appearing

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Speaker 1: on the Pat McAfee show yesterday saying, quote, I want

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Speaker 1: to be in Tampa, but at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: I want to get paid to Atlanta as a new

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Speaker 1: head coach, former Titans offensive coordinator Arthur Smith, and of

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Speaker 1: course a new general manager. Terry vonne Von met with

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Speaker 1: reporters and said all options are on the table as

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Speaker 1: far as who they'll select with the fourth overall pick

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Speaker 1: in this year's draft. It's a prime spot to be

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Speaker 1: in and being at that number four spot, and there's

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Speaker 1: so many different scenarios. They're gonna be some really good

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Speaker 1: players there, or we can move up and we can

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Speaker 1: move down and acquire more pits. There's just a lot

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Speaker 1: of different scenarios to really go through. So it's it's

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Speaker 1: a prime spot to be in. It's not somewhere we

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Speaker 1: want to be in very often with this team. So

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take advantage of that, and we're gonna be

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Speaker 1: open to all possibilities. Oh the intrigue in the atl

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Speaker 1: We'll see what they end up doing. Buffalo fans, we're

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Speaker 1: treated to a special season. Last year, the team won

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Speaker 1: its first division title since nineteen ninety five in advanced

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Speaker 1: to the AFC Title Game for the first time since

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three. Bill's corner Josh Norman, was a guest

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Speaker 1: on NFL Now and was asked if he's going to

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Speaker 1: return to Buffalo. I'm just so fright and fortunate enough

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Speaker 1: to be in the position that we are in. This

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Speaker 1: has been my tenth year coming in. I feel very good.

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Speaker 1: My knowledge and strength of the game that's proved dramastically

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Speaker 1: and from what I feel like it has been. Things

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Speaker 1: has been given to me and not given to me

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Speaker 1: but presented itself as obstacles. We pretty much overcame those

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Speaker 1: things and we had fun doing it and was in

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Speaker 1: a place where I felt like everybody was on the

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Speaker 1: same page, and who knows what may happen. I'm not

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Speaker 1: a guy to sit up here and go back and

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Speaker 1: forth about the what ifs. But if something was to

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Speaker 1: happen to where a challenger or a team there that

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Speaker 1: I just want to compete for a championship. Hey, look, man,

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Speaker 1: services are rendered and we'll be a part of that

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Speaker 1: as well as it should be a part of that.

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Speaker 1: Josh Well twenty twenty comeback Player of the Year Alex

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Speaker 1: Smith telling GQ magazine hiss comeback through a quote wrench

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Speaker 1: in the Washington Football Team's plans. He added, the franchise

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Speaker 1: didn't want him there, but after everything he went through,

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Speaker 1: he couldn't have cared less. Smith is signed through twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two with the team, however, head coach Ron Rivera,

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Speaker 1: saying he's evaluating all of their options. Hey, NFL legend

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Speaker 1: and my buddy, Michael Robinson and former Super Bowl winning

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Speaker 1: head coach Brian Billick hosts Total Access the Locker Room podcast.

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Speaker 1: United States representative and x NFL player Anthony Gonzalez joining

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Speaker 1: them on the new episode, which debuts today. You want

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Speaker 1: to make sure to check that out. Well, those are

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Speaker 1: your good morning football headlines from NFL Metworks