Speaker 1: A big season for rookie quarterbacks just keeps getting bigger.
Speaker 1: We know we'll see that guy Caleb Williams out there when.
Speaker 2: Week one rolls around.
Speaker 1: Why another rookie got the starting nod today and the
Speaker 1: possibility we could have at least one more getting that
Speaker 1: same opportunity here in the coming days. We know Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers will be out there come week one as well.
Speaker 1: A lot of pressure this year on the Jets as
Speaker 1: well as the Cowboys. Bucky Brooks here to tell us
Speaker 1: why it's win now or else. I Meanwhile, some big
Speaker 1: name wide receivers still waiting for their bags, Brandon Aiyuk
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb Jamar Chase.
Speaker 2: When will we finally see them on the field. I
Speaker 2: can tell you this much.
Speaker 1: Until they actually get out there, we'll keep on talking
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: That's what we do here.
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Speaker 1: Ian Rapaport and Mike Garafullo, who is coming to us
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Speaker 2: I am Tom Pelisero.
Speaker 1: Tons and tons to dig into here, seventeen days out
Speaker 1: from the regular season opener, just days away from the
Speaker 1: final preseason week, Let's start out in Washington, where we
Speaker 1: got the long awaited news earlier today.
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, Jaden Daniels, the.
Speaker 1: Number two overall draft pick, is QB one for the
Speaker 1: Commander's an expected move. It was tipped off when Daniels
Speaker 1: was out there as the starting quarterback in the preseason opener.
Speaker 2: So why was now the right time? Dan Quinn?
Speaker 3: I told you about a month ago that naming our
Speaker 3: starter at QB wasn't a secret.
Speaker 2: And it was a process.
Speaker 3: And when that process was time, i'd know, he'd know,
Speaker 3: and I'd let you know. And as much as we
Speaker 3: knew Jayden would get there, Adam and I were most
Speaker 3: excited about watching how he would and the how has
Speaker 3: been absolutely outstanding. He went through the whole thing. He
Speaker 3: didn't miss a beat, hit the target that you know
Speaker 3: we had put in front of him. You know, we
Speaker 3: talked about the practices against the other teams the game.
Speaker 3: So he's ready and he's earned the right to do that.
Speaker 4: Just a blessing that d q AP trust me to
Speaker 4: go out there and lead the team, lead the franchise
Speaker 4: to hopefully win some games. So big ups to them.
Speaker 4: It's a blessing. Something I dreaded it by as a
Speaker 4: kid to be at this moment, to experience this moment. Uh,
Speaker 4: It's not that I can say too much.
Speaker 1: Ian we thought this day was coming from basically the
Speaker 1: day that the commanders locked in the number two overall
Speaker 1: pick and took Jaydan Daniels. But this does seem to
Speaker 1: be another indication of what we've heard from Dan Quinn,
Speaker 1: Adam Peters and others, which is everything Jayden Daniels has
Speaker 1: done so far is what they expected and more. Now
Speaker 1: they feel like he is ready. It's go time. He's
Speaker 1: going to be out there week one.
Speaker 5: You know, during the pre draft process we talk so
Speaker 5: much about the physical tools and the arm strength and
Speaker 5: what Jaden Daniels put on tape and how much better
Speaker 5: was from the previous years, and the athleticism, how fast
Speaker 5: is all of those things all are very very important.
Speaker 5: I remember being there with Mike actually during training camp,
Speaker 5: and all the commanders talked about was the presence, how
Speaker 5: he processes, how well he has done learning the offense,
Speaker 5: picking it up, recounting it, teaching it to other people,
Speaker 5: getting in out of the huddle, the operation part of
Speaker 5: being quarterback, which if you're gonna name a starter, if
Speaker 5: you're gonna name a rookie starter. All of that is
Speaker 5: I would say as important, maybe more important, than the
Speaker 5: physical tools. The fact that Jayden Daniels has showed them
Speaker 5: so much so early reinforces what the Washington commanders think,
Speaker 5: which is they.
Speaker 2: Got a guy.
Speaker 5: In a league mic where either you have a guy
Speaker 5: or you don't have a guy. The commanders believe that
Speaker 5: they got a guy. And the fact that he checked
Speaker 5: off every box as easily as he did, I think
Speaker 5: makes for a lot more optimism in Washington right now
Speaker 5: than we have seen in a pretty long time.
Speaker 6: The end that day, we were there at training camp,
Speaker 6: which was relatively early in the case. Now he had
Speaker 6: the spring obviously, but it was early in training camp,
Speaker 6: and you could see how comfortable he was.
Speaker 7: You could see how comfortable they were with him.
Speaker 6: I mean, some of the things that they were bragging
Speaker 6: about you wouldn't notice just watching on the sideline.
Speaker 7: They were talking about.
Speaker 6: How he checked to a run the other day, and
Speaker 6: oh my, what a great call it was, and how
Speaker 6: he saw that that's exactly what he had to do
Speaker 6: in that situation. And then for good measure, later in
Speaker 6: that practice, he throws an absolute dime down the sideline
Speaker 6: to Terry McLaurin on a go ball right over Emmanuel
Speaker 6: Forbes in the perfect place. So he's showing them everything
Speaker 6: with his mind, with his arm, and with his legs
Speaker 6: as well. You talked about his presence just in a
Speaker 6: couple minutes that he was talking to us, you could
Speaker 6: see that presence on display, the fact that it didn't
Speaker 6: really feel like it was too big for him. He's
Speaker 6: got a quiet confidence about him. So, yeah, they wanted
Speaker 6: to just go through the process, but he kept on
Speaker 6: checking all these boxes, so let's go.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 1: The one thing that stood out to me watching back
Speaker 1: that game that he played this past weekend was the
Speaker 1: play where he scrambles and doesn't get down and takes
Speaker 1: a hit and you and see him immediately pop up,
Speaker 1: look at dan Quinn.
Speaker 2: Quinn's going, you know, He's like, I know, I know,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: That's one of the biggest things we heard all the
Speaker 1: way through the process was he's not the biggest guy.
Speaker 2: Protect yourself.
Speaker 1: It's obviously's been a lot of communication on that, and
Speaker 1: he is fun to watch when he's out there. You
Speaker 1: know what else has been fun to watch bow Knicks
Speaker 1: and the Denver Broncos in.
Speaker 2: Fact, let's watch him right now. How about a highlight
Speaker 2: right here.
Speaker 1: Don't worry Packers fans, We're not really going to show
Speaker 1: you anything of your team there, Purt Frankly, a whole
Speaker 1: lot of highlights.
Speaker 2: We'll show you a lot of bow Nicks.
Speaker 1: Here he is in the first quarter throwing the touchdown
Speaker 1: pass off the scramble to Javonte Williams. That's a fourteen yarder,
Speaker 1: but called back because he was just I don't know,
Speaker 1: that's so close. They're saying he was across the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Doesn't end up counting. It's going to be
Speaker 1: a field goal. Still, a pretty nice play. Start of
Speaker 1: the second quarter. Now, bo Nicks Courtland Sutton, who had
Speaker 1: pancaked the guy on the previous snap. That's why they
Speaker 1: adjusted the contract, made sure they got Courtland Sutton back.
Speaker 1: Follows that up two plays later, second and goal from
Speaker 1: the two. Patrick, how about that story consecutive season inning injuries.
Speaker 1: Look at the players pour off the sideline to celebrate
Speaker 1: with Hitt. Patrick Guess a twenty seven to two win
Speaker 1: for the Denver Broncos. Sean Payton Mike still not saying
Speaker 1: yet that he's ready to name the starting quarterback, although
Speaker 1: I'd put this pretty close to the category of Jadeen Daniels,
Speaker 1: where it seems like it's when, not if, Dix gets
Speaker 1: the nod at.
Speaker 6: This point, I mean, we all felt like that earlier
Speaker 6: in the process. How could you not feel like that
Speaker 6: at this point, And you've got Nix who started out
Speaker 6: as third on the depth chart, and even at that
Speaker 6: point we were like, all right, this is Sean Payton saying, Hey,
Speaker 6: the rookie's got to earn his way up. Which is
Speaker 6: not to say that Zach Wilson Jarrett Stead have really
Speaker 6: had all those skins on the wall as veteran quarterbacks,
Speaker 6: but Bo Nix was the guy where you just felt like, Okay,
Speaker 6: Peyton is making him earn his spot, which is an
Speaker 6: indication that he must have liked what he had seen
Speaker 6: from him in the spring leading into training camp. Well,
Speaker 6: everything he's put on display and his command and his bill,
Speaker 6: we'll do the process thing and things and get the
Speaker 6: ball where it needs to be. Even that play, I mean,
Speaker 6: I've seen the likes of Eli Manning and Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 6: come right up against that line of scrimmage, so I
Speaker 6: don't even mark him and say, oh, that was a
Speaker 6: terrible amount of awareness.
Speaker 7: No, he was trying to make a play. He made
Speaker 7: a pretty good play.
Speaker 6: It was by his toenail the fact that he was
Speaker 6: barely over I like the headiness there to try to
Speaker 6: make a play. Sean Payton clearly likes what he sees
Speaker 6: from boon Nicks, just not quite ready to say he's
Speaker 6: the guy.
Speaker 5: That heady this This is a lot of the reason why
Speaker 5: the Denver Broncos, and really specifically Sean Payton targeted bon Nicks.
Speaker 5: Wanted Bonnicks, but a lot of people, including me, not
Speaker 5: that it matters, thought that he would be a back.
Speaker 2: End of the first round pick.
Speaker 5: The Broncos were like, yeah, we don't care, We're just
Speaker 5: going to take him, because it does seem that had
Speaker 5: they not taken him at twelve, there were at least
Speaker 5: two other teams behind them who said, you know what,
Speaker 5: maybe we'll just take this guy anyway. Wasn't worth the
Speaker 5: risk of the Broncos an indication that they think that
Speaker 5: he is a guy as well, just like we're talking
Speaker 5: about with Jaden Daniels and you know, the read on
Speaker 5: Bonnicks during the draft process and really throughout the entire
Speaker 5: summer was that he was one of the most pro
Speaker 5: ready rookie quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Well, he for sure.
Speaker 5: Has shown that how high is the ceiling his play
Speaker 5: is going to show right. I mean, he's hard to
Speaker 5: be hard to be coached better than Sean payn is
Speaker 5: going to be coaching him, especially early on, even though
Speaker 5: it's a lot of the offense to handle. But the
Speaker 5: fact that he can come in look like similar to
Speaker 5: Mike what you're saying about Jayden Daniels, Like it's not
Speaker 5: too big fat that he can use his athleticism and
Speaker 5: do different parts of his game and look normal doing it.
Speaker 5: This is a very very good situation right now for
Speaker 5: the Broncos, and I would agree with you guys. Feels
Speaker 5: to me like when and not if.
Speaker 1: Bo Nicks being QB one in Denver will give us
Speaker 1: three rookie starting quarterbacks, and it might still be too
Speaker 1: early to one hundred percent rule out the possibility we
Speaker 1: get a fourth. Drod Mayo, the Patriots new head coach,
Speaker 1: speaking earlier to reporters today and reiterating the same thing
Speaker 1: that he had previously said after the game last Thursday,
Speaker 1: which is that it's too soon right now. He's not
Speaker 1: yet made a decision on who's going to be the
Speaker 1: starter now. Jacoby Brissett also spoke and said he still
Speaker 1: is treating this as if he's the starter. But there
Speaker 1: was a lot to get excited about Ian from Drake
Speaker 1: May's second performance. Everybody saw the first one. He didn't
Speaker 1: play a whole lot. There was a bunch of nonsense
Speaker 1: going around about they don't want to put him on
Speaker 1: the field. Well, this guy behind a pretty patchwork offensive
Speaker 1: line certainly showed the ability why they took him number
Speaker 1: three overall, even though he does ultimately need some more
Speaker 1: seasoning here.
Speaker 5: The Patriots are very high on Drake Man. I want
Speaker 5: to make that pretty clear. Not that it's not clear,
Speaker 5: but just judging from the reports of training camp, people
Speaker 5: maybe started to wonder.
Speaker 2: The Patriots are very high on Drake May.
Speaker 5: And it was interesting, I would say the last week
Speaker 5: or so, the Patriots wanted to make sure he got
Speaker 5: time in front of the starting offensive line. They want
Speaker 5: to make sure he get real game and practice naps
Speaker 5: in front of the starting offensive line, at least showing
Speaker 5: us they haven't completely ruled out the possibility that he
Speaker 5: would begin this season as the starter. You know, we
Speaker 5: also heard Jacoby Brissett say he believes he is a starter,
Speaker 5: and we talked to him at training give he you know,
Speaker 5: was pretty it was pretty evident that that's where he
Speaker 5: thought it was going to go. When you have a
Speaker 5: rookie quarterback who's as talented as Drake may that it
Speaker 5: really does, you know, sort of take a different It's
Speaker 5: possible it could take a different a different lane.
Speaker 2: I would say, we'll see which way this one goes.
Speaker 5: With the fact that the early returns are so positive,
Speaker 5: I would say is pretty good.
Speaker 6: In New England, you know the Patriots' schedule as it
Speaker 6: lines up, and you know you can do it based
Speaker 6: on last year's records. I don't like to do that.
Speaker 6: Our buddy, Cynthia Freeland has her expected wins for each team.
Speaker 6: The New England Patriots schedule, if you plug in all
Speaker 6: the expected wins, is the toughest schedule in the NFL,
Speaker 6: and really it starts brutally. Five of the first six
Speaker 6: games are against teams that she expects to be double
Speaker 6: digit win teams.
Speaker 7: Now down the ste it softens up a little bit.
Speaker 6: There's really no easy stretch with this schedule, especially when
Speaker 6: you play in an AFC East where you look at
Speaker 6: those other teams, and you know, all three of those
Speaker 6: other teams are going to be pretty good football teams.
Speaker 6: So when you look at Drake may and you look
Speaker 6: at the Patriots situation, not even so much for his development,
Speaker 6: but really off the bat, wouldn't you like to have
Speaker 6: a veteran out there, a veteran who has played serviceable
Speaker 6: to good football in the past. And I like the
Speaker 6: way that Jacoby Brissett has really expressed that confidence, not
Speaker 6: only what he said recently back when Ian you interviewed
Speaker 6: him with Scott Pioli, in the way that he talked
Speaker 6: about that room, I was really feeling like, who's going
Speaker 6: to be the starter? He's had that confidence in himself.
Speaker 6: So I think on a team that we're not expecting
Speaker 6: to make the playoffs this year, I think maybe you want.
Speaker 7: The veteran early on. It's got to be something that's
Speaker 7: going through girod Mayo's mind right now.
Speaker 1: Also some interesting decisions down the Patriots depth chart because
Speaker 1: Joe Milton, who they also drafted, flashed in that first
Speaker 1: preseason game. Hard to imagine with those traits you're going
Speaker 1: to try to slip him through waivers. Bailey Zappi your
Speaker 1: former starter is also still out there. Is there a
Speaker 1: possibility of a trade? Could they try to slide him
Speaker 1: through to the practice squad? Some interesting decisions for Drodmeo,
Speaker 1: Elliott Wolf and company to make. The Chargers have done
Speaker 1: some shuffling down their quarterback dep chart. They waved Max
Speaker 1: Duggan earlier today. That's in part because they got that
Speaker 1: guy back onto the field. Justin Herbert for the first
Speaker 1: time since deal with that plantar fascia issue back on
Speaker 1: July thirtieth, Not in spikes, not doing the whole practice,
Speaker 1: but he was leased on the field, which was music
Speaker 1: to Jim Harbaugh's ears.
Speaker 8: I deal to have Justin back out there practicing.
Speaker 9: Oh great, great, I felt like the music should be playing.
Speaker 9: I haven't thought I felt. I thought I heard music,
Speaker 9: voices of angels maybe, Oh great? Felt great.
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford also back out on the practice field, only
Speaker 1: did stretching in individual drills today, but certainly a step forward.
Speaker 1: Sean McVay said they had to hold him back here.
Speaker 1: Stafford wants to be on the field. No concerns at
Speaker 1: this point about Week one, so much to talk about,
Speaker 1: and yes to the NFL front office source who texted
Speaker 1: me during that segment.
Speaker 2: This show is live seven pm Easter Time every night.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for watching Dak Prescott, Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: A lot of pressure on those teams in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks off Lee's break it down next on The Insiders.
Speaker 2: Well, we haven't seen Aaron Rodgers on the field in
Speaker 2: the preseason so far.
Speaker 1: Jets wrap it up on Saturday night against the New
Speaker 1: York Giants. Dak Prescott and the Cowboys wrap up their
Speaker 1: exhibition schedule on Saturday against the Chargers. Then the real
Speaker 1: games begin and our Bucky Brooks, you read his column
Speaker 1: NFL dot Com slash Brooks says, both these teams face
Speaker 1: a similar pressure cooker heading into a twenty twenty four seas.
Speaker 1: It is, in Bucky's words, win now or else. Time
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back to the Insiders, also presented by Best by
Speaker 1: Tom Pellicero, Ian Rappaport, Mike Garafalo, and the aforementioned Bucky Brooks. Bucky,
Speaker 1: let's start out here with the Dallas Cowboys. We've talked
Speaker 1: about this before. I can't think of another situation where
Speaker 1: you're head coach and your quarterback are both going into
Speaker 1: a contract here, much less a team that's won twelve
Speaker 1: games in three consecutive seasons. Here, take me inside your
Speaker 1: analysis and your evaluation of this Cowboys team what.
Speaker 2: They're facing in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 7: Hey, guys, it's really baffling.
Speaker 10: A team that has won twelve games in each of
Speaker 10: the past three seasons has a care coastest in the
Speaker 10: hot seat. Not only do you have a head coastess
Speaker 10: on the hot seat, you have a quarterback who can't
Speaker 10: get a deal done when most teams would be happy
Speaker 10: to secure a quarterback that has won thirty six games
Speaker 10: over the past three seasons, but the Cowboys operate differently.
Speaker 10: They don't appear to want to pay this Jerry Jones
Speaker 10: appears to like the pressure that is putting on the
Speaker 10: team to perform at a high level. I just think
Speaker 10: it's crazy to think that the Dallas Cowboys are entering
Speaker 10: a season coming on the heels of three successful regular
Speaker 10: seasons where there's so much uncertainty about whether the head coach,
Speaker 10: the quarterback, the star wide receiver, the star pass rusher,
Speaker 10: if they're going to be there for the long call.
Speaker 10: It is crazy that this self imposed pressure is really
Speaker 10: going to impact the way the team prepares to play.
Speaker 10: But hey, Jerry Jones, like this America's team is going
Speaker 10: to see if they can do it because it's win
Speaker 10: or go home for a bunch of different people that
Speaker 10: are part of that organization.
Speaker 5: Buck, you explained it, well, it does seem the Dallas
Speaker 5: Cowboys and Jerry Jones in particular, really do like the
Speaker 5: pressure that is being put on the players and coach
Speaker 5: Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 2: Mean, this is set up as a make or break season.
Speaker 5: Rim did not get a contracts extension, playing out the
Speaker 5: final year of his deal, and you know, I think
Speaker 5: there's a couple of things at player. First of all,
Speaker 5: the Cowboys really do not love not that any team does,
Speaker 5: but specifically they don't love dead money. They're only paying
Speaker 5: guys who aren't there. They don't like paying players aren't there.
Speaker 5: There's no thought for them, So you know, we just
Speaker 5: should extend them because that's what a lot of people do.
Speaker 2: They are fine with not doing it, knowing that the
Speaker 2: only option for MIKEL.
Speaker 5: McCarthy is either to win or as you say, else,
Speaker 5: they like the pressure. They want the pressure, and if
Speaker 5: you're the Dallas Cowboys. If you're the brass, if you're
Speaker 5: the players. Part of the reality with being in Dallas
Speaker 5: is this is there all the time. So the fact
Speaker 5: that the management amps it up a little bit, they
Speaker 5: think that's okay.
Speaker 6: I got a new camera set up here I'm gonna
Speaker 6: use from time to time, and I'm never gonna do
Speaker 6: this again. But the lights can change colors behind me
Speaker 6: and our producer, Jeff Collett's cool. I gotta change colors.
Speaker 6: We're talking Cowboys. So I went blue here.
Speaker 7: For better or worse. The Cowboys believe in their.
Speaker 6: Ability and Will McLay, their personnel guy who a lot
Speaker 6: of folks have tried to interview and pry him away, and.
Speaker 7: He's been in Dallas this whole time.
Speaker 6: They believe in their ability as a front office, with
Speaker 6: Will running pretty much personnel to draft guys and to
Speaker 6: develop guys. So Ian, you talked about all that money
Speaker 6: that they didn't spend this offseason, and I can't tell
Speaker 6: you how many countless times I heard from Cowboys fans, what.
Speaker 2: Are we doing?
Speaker 7: We're doing nothing.
Speaker 6: Well, they're doing nothing because they're relying upon their depth
Speaker 6: and maybe some guys we haven't talked about.
Speaker 7: So that's putting the pressure on themselves.
Speaker 6: If it doesn't work out, because there was the ability
Speaker 6: to go out and spend money, and even your fan
Speaker 6: base was like, let's go do it.
Speaker 7: So the pressure is there. Let's see if their approach
Speaker 7: works out.
Speaker 1: Though I do know the Cowboys are really excited about
Speaker 1: this rookie class.
Speaker 2: There's probably four of them.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to step in start definitely play big
Speaker 1: roles for this team. Also, maybe obviously a couple moves
Speaker 1: to bring in veteran players on the defensive side.
Speaker 2: Canna be interesting to follow.
Speaker 1: Right, Let's turn the attention to the Jets, Mike, if
Speaker 1: you got the clicker, we're gonna need green back there.
Speaker 1: Bucky O'Brian Rodgers lasted four snaps last season. Of course,
Speaker 1: that's been very well documented at this point. It's been
Speaker 1: a fairly by Jets standards quiet off season, other than
Speaker 1: the Hassan Reddick holdout that continues to be on going here.
Speaker 1: Rodgers said it himself back in OTAs, Hey, we're either
Speaker 1: going to need to win or a bunch of us
Speaker 1: are going to be out of here after the season.
Speaker 1: It certainly seems like from the quarterback on down everybody
Speaker 1: understands what's at stake in New York.
Speaker 10: Yeah, look, there's a lot of pressure in New York
Speaker 10: because you have a quarterback who's in the twilight of
Speaker 10: his career, but everyone is counting on him to play
Speaker 10: at the MVP level.
Speaker 11: And I understand he's a four time.
Speaker 10: MVP, but so many things are hanging on his play,
Speaker 10: and his play is hanging on a bunch of older
Speaker 10: players or guys who've been hurt to come back and play.
Speaker 10: I would say at career levels, you think about Mike
Speaker 10: Williams on the outside. He's supposed to Peri Garrett Wilson
Speaker 10: to give them a nice dynamic tandem on the outside,
Speaker 10: and he think about the old edge blockers that they have,
Speaker 10: Morgan Moses on one side, you have Tarvin Smith on
Speaker 10: another side. Can they stay healthy and be available? And
Speaker 10: then defensively, you make a trade to get Hassa Reddick
Speaker 10: to help you kind of upgrade up pass rus that's
Speaker 10: already pretty good. He doesn't want to come to camp,
Speaker 10: And so you have all of these little things circling
Speaker 10: around this team.
Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, Aaron Rodders is.
Speaker 10: Returning from an achilles injury that could change the way
Speaker 10: that he plays. It's a lot going on, particularly for
Speaker 10: in battle Head coach and Robert Sala, who needs to
Speaker 10: win to save his job.
Speaker 11: Just seems like a lot in the Big Apple.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I get what you're saying. Buck is said.
Speaker 6: The green is weird, Like that doesn't even look like green, right,
Speaker 6: I got green round being here.
Speaker 7: That's no, the green is maybe a rare white sometimes
Speaker 7: oh here you go. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So yeah, So when you're over there and you're talking
Speaker 6: to the Jetss I've done a couple of times this
Speaker 6: spring and summer, it's almost like the pressure was on
Speaker 6: us last year, right, and Rogers goes down with the Achilles,
Speaker 6: and now it's not the hard knocks thing. It's year two.
Speaker 6: They added pieces to that offensive line as you were
Speaker 6: talking about Buck, So they almost feel like there's more
Speaker 6: of a quiet confidence this year. It's not as much
Speaker 6: of a hullaballoo over there in Flora Park.
Speaker 7: So it's almost like the.
Speaker 6: Not house money, right, because you didn't do anything last year.
Speaker 6: I'm struggling to come up with the exact phrasing for it,
Speaker 6: but they feel really good about where they are. And
Speaker 6: Aaron Rodgers the way that he's been kind of over there.
Speaker 6: He's has his hands and everything. You know, he's not
Speaker 6: just dealing with the quarterbacks and the target. He's talking
Speaker 6: to everybody offense, defense, offensive line. You could tell it's
Speaker 6: not pressure in his mind so much as urgency.
Speaker 7: We shall see.
Speaker 5: Let's talk about lights more, talk about phrasing anyway.
Speaker 2: I will offer the counterpoint here.
Speaker 5: First of all, I don't view this just me myself
Speaker 5: Bucky as a win or else for the Jets, because
Speaker 5: they have a really good young corps, really good young
Speaker 5: corps on defense specifically, but plenty of weapons on offense
Speaker 5: as well, and you know they're not great. Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 5: is probably going to be real mad about it and
Speaker 5: want to come back next year as well.
Speaker 2: It's a great opportunity. They have everything there to win.
Speaker 2: But I don't view it as something where if they don't,
Speaker 2: it's rip it all apart.
Speaker 11: We'll see.
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Speaker 1: You're back with us in just a little bit to
Speaker 1: talk about the number one overall pick. Caleb Williams certainly
Speaker 1: is flashed all the reasons that they took him where
Speaker 1: they did. So what does it mean for the regular season.
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Speaker 1: A lot of news around the nfls we count down
Speaker 1: these final seventeen days to the regular season, or some
Speaker 1: big news from late last week. Matthew Judon now officially
Speaker 1: and Atlanta Falcon traded for a third round pick by
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. Still has not gotten a new contract,
Speaker 1: but that hasn't stopped him from feeling pretty good about
Speaker 1: being in Atlanta.
Speaker 12: It's my first time being traded, you know, I was.
Speaker 12: I signed a free agency. I think when you go
Speaker 12: to a new team that just means they want you there.
Speaker 12: You know, I wasn't picked off off waiver wire or
Speaker 12: something I wasn't like to fill an empty spider or boy.
Speaker 12: I think the team looked at they roster and was like,
Speaker 12: this guy can improve that room. And so I just
Speaker 12: got to come out here and do what I do,
Speaker 12: be me, and then I think that'll help and the
Speaker 12: pieces will fall what they may.
Speaker 1: Stefan Gilmour also officially has a new home, signing his
Speaker 1: contract with the Vikings today one year at up to
Speaker 1: ten million dollars, A reunion with Brian Flores, who he
Speaker 1: played for in New England and obviously liked enough that
Speaker 1: he wanted to get back together with the Vikings.
Speaker 2: Welcome back.
Speaker 1: We're back together here on The Insiders, presented by Best Buy.
Speaker 1: Tom Pelicero, Ian Rappaport, Mike Garafollo. Mike, we've talked a
Speaker 1: little bit over the past. I don't know six months
Speaker 1: about Brandon Ayuk. It is felt for the past i'd
Speaker 1: say week plus, like this thing is just stalled at
Speaker 1: the one yard line. It doesn't feel like anything has
Speaker 1: moved substantially. Where do we stand right now with Ayuk again,
Speaker 1: now three weeks away from.
Speaker 2: The forty nine ers opening game against the Jets.
Speaker 6: Yeah, got the red lights going behind me? Brandon Ayuk,
Speaker 6: that's not in the forty nine ers. That Tom, that
Speaker 6: doesn't feel like there's been a lot of progress. We
Speaker 6: had that move a little over a week ago where
Speaker 6: the forty nine ers came back and made an offer
Speaker 6: to him after really not making an offer for months
Speaker 6: on end, which is part of what was irritating Brandon
Speaker 6: a Yuk after they had gone out and surveyed the
Speaker 6: trade market and said, well, if we trade them away,
Speaker 6: we got to fill the hole and let's go try
Speaker 6: to find another guy. And really it's going to cost
Speaker 6: us as much to get another guy who's not as.
Speaker 7: Good, so we might as well keep branding on you.
Speaker 7: And it felt like they were really close. They were
Speaker 7: really close.
Speaker 6: I mean, the sides have agreed on the hardest parts
Speaker 6: of the deal. It sounds like you just wanted to
Speaker 6: make wanted them to make one final move in the
Speaker 6: last year of that deal, and they have not been
Speaker 6: willing to do it because I since the Niners are like, look, man,
Speaker 6: enough is enough, Like we gave you a whole lot,
Speaker 6: like we don't want to make this final move, and
Speaker 6: Ayuka is going, look it's all or nothing and I'm
Speaker 6: going to continue my hold in sort of the same
Speaker 6: for Trent Williams, who wants an adjustment to his contract,
Speaker 6: has wanted it all along here and feels like he's
Speaker 6: still the top tackle in the game and not being
Speaker 6: paid like it now. There's no guarantees moving into the future,
Speaker 6: so he certainly wants that as well as the adjustment
Speaker 6: to the contract itself. Kyle Shanahan has felt confident it
Speaker 6: was going to get done. We're not there yet. It's
Speaker 6: time for like the pressure of here comes the start
Speaker 6: of the regular season to really resolve both of these situations.
Speaker 1: I feel this is an important week because we are
Speaker 1: getting to that point in the calendar where not being
Speaker 1: on the field in camp does start to have some
Speaker 1: level of impact over what type of role you can
Speaker 1: play early in the season. And with regard to Brandon Ayuk,
Speaker 1: we know from Ayuk's own Instagram comment, in his mind,
Speaker 1: it's two options.
Speaker 2: It's either I'm back.
Speaker 1: With the forty Niners on a long term deal, or
Speaker 1: I'm traded to the Steelers. Ian reported recently that the
Speaker 1: sides between Pittsburgh and San Francisco have an idea on
Speaker 1: the framework and an agreement of what this trade would
Speaker 1: be At some point. If the player is not going
Speaker 1: to be ready to play, or at least not be
Speaker 1: full speed in September, that impacts the trade value, and
Speaker 1: so that offer might potentially have to be adjusted as well. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys, Ian there's no trade talk surrounding
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb, another one that kind of seemed to be
Speaker 1: limping along. There was communication late last week, but it
Speaker 1: does not sound like anything's imminent on that front.
Speaker 5: I get the same feel nothing emminent on the cow
Speaker 5: Boys in CD LAMB. The fact that this could turn
Speaker 5: with one phone call always sticks out, which is why
Speaker 5: you never really want to say there's nothing doing. Because
Speaker 5: you make one phone call, you cave on a little bit,
Speaker 5: the other side caves on a little bit.
Speaker 2: You can always get a deal done.
Speaker 5: Pretty clear where this CD LAMB deal is going to
Speaker 5: come in hard to imagine he beats Justin Jefferson. He's
Speaker 5: the highest paid receiver in the NFL. But right under
Speaker 5: it makes a lot of sense. But there's so much
Speaker 5: of the deal. There's term, how many years, there's overall
Speaker 5: average per year, there's a guarantee, which is something for
Speaker 5: sure the Cowboys have. You know, I'd say it's obvious
Speaker 5: that's been a little bit of a fight. He remains
Speaker 5: a holdout, And you're right, we're getting to that point
Speaker 5: of the season where got to show up at some
Speaker 5: point soon to be ready for the season.
Speaker 2: And I would say the Cincinnati.
Speaker 5: Bengals of Jamar Chase are in a somewhat similar situation.
Speaker 2: Not with contract.
Speaker 5: They are nowhere near to my knowledge as far along
Speaker 5: as the Cowboys are on contract talks. But Jamar Chase
Speaker 5: continues to not practice, and at some point, if he's
Speaker 5: going to play week one, if he's going to be
Speaker 5: ready for the season, he's got to practice and be ready.
Speaker 5: Otherwise you're looking at hamstring growing, all those different soft
Speaker 5: tissue injuries. It's getting to the time where these deals
Speaker 5: got to get done.
Speaker 1: Cev Lamb of course, entering year five to mar Chase
Speaker 1: entering year four, the math is more complicated figuring out
Speaker 1: exactly what that extension needs to look like. We know
Speaker 1: those guys are playmakers, and the Bears are.
Speaker 2: Pretty confident right now. They got one with the number
Speaker 2: one pick, snap to catab Williams.
Speaker 1: Dancity moving in the pocket, pressure escape spins to his left.
Speaker 11: I'm a move again outside of the numbers.
Speaker 1: Now he's gonna tuck it and go with Tayland Jakins
Speaker 1: in front, He's it.
Speaker 13: For the touchdown.
Speaker 7: Let's scramble of seven for number eighteen.
Speaker 2: Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1: Let's welcome back in our buddy, Bucky Brooks to the show. Bucky,
Speaker 1: you've been breaking down all these rookie quarterbacks across the league.
Speaker 2: We've seen a bunch of.
Speaker 1: Them who are either in line to start or are
Speaker 1: going to be the starters. Caleb Williams had the starting
Speaker 1: job in Chicago. Oh, I'd say a little before the combine,
Speaker 1: probably back in February. Here, you've watched him through these
Speaker 1: first couple of preseason games.
Speaker 2: What have you seen.
Speaker 10: He's as advertised, He's exactly what the Bears expected he
Speaker 10: would be when he showed up from USC. And this
Speaker 10: is on the heels of coming off. I was saying
Speaker 10: up and down final campaign at USC. But since he's
Speaker 10: gotten to Chicago, he has shown all the flashes that
Speaker 10: made him a Heisman Trophy winner. He has big time
Speaker 10: arm talent. He has great improvisational playmaking ability. He can
Speaker 10: do it on platform off platform. He can do it
Speaker 10: in a spectacular fashion while also showing the patients and
Speaker 10: the discipline that you wanted to see him do it
Speaker 10: from the pocket. The Bears have to be pleased with
Speaker 10: their young quarterback because he's checked off all the boxes
Speaker 10: that you want to see a franchise quarterback check off
Speaker 10: during preseason. The next step for him is to take
Speaker 10: the same things that he's been doing in preseason and
Speaker 10: execute them in the regular season. He has a talented
Speaker 10: cast to playmakers around him, but if he continues to
Speaker 10: be patient and discipline within the pocket, this Bear's offense
Speaker 10: is going to light it up.
Speaker 1: Jaden of course got the nods QB one in Washington today,
Speaker 1: will Bo Nixon Drink may potentially joined him. Stick around, Bucky.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get more from you on that in just
Speaker 1: a little bit. Right now, let's kick it back to
Speaker 1: you and Mike.
Speaker 2: You mentioned it, Tom.
Speaker 5: The Washington Commander's name Jayden Danos as their starting quarterbacks
Speaker 5: something I think it's fair to say we have expected
Speaker 5: ever since the moment they draft him. But the fact
Speaker 5: that he has earned it, the fact that he really
Speaker 5: has grinded his way there has been a very very
Speaker 5: good sign for the Washington Commanders.
Speaker 2: But don't just take my word for it.
Speaker 5: Let's talk to someone who is there, right there in person,
Speaker 5: not just at the commander's last game, although certainly he was,
Speaker 5: but also at the week of practice. Cameron Wolf, Welcome
Speaker 5: inside to the insiders. Tell me a little more about
Speaker 5: Jaden Daniels and what did you learn for your time
Speaker 5: watching him.
Speaker 11: I'm ready.
Speaker 14: Those are the words that Jayden Daniels told to me
Speaker 14: Thursday after practice. First two words, and he said, I'm
Speaker 14: counting down the days to Tampa. I can't wait for
Speaker 14: it to be real. And we learned today he's officially
Speaker 14: been named the starting quarterback. But this has been what
Speaker 14: they've been prepping for for months in Washington. When I
Speaker 14: talked to Dan Quinn after that practice, he was discussing
Speaker 14: about how Daniels was getting ready for the Tampa Bay
Speaker 14: Bucks by facing the Dolphins, xotic blitzes and this Florida
Speaker 14: heat and so really, this is a rookie quarterback who
Speaker 14: Quinn called California cool.
Speaker 11: He's earned this job.
Speaker 14: With impressive camp command, comfort within this offense all summer,
Speaker 14: and it was really impressive watching Daniels this week. He's
Speaker 14: shining in the red zone and practice shredding the middle
Speaker 14: of the field.
Speaker 11: Which was a pre draft question.
Speaker 14: Mark had a lot of touchdowns there and in the
Speaker 14: game he had excellent ball placement. There was a play
Speaker 14: there that we're seeing in the highlights here where he
Speaker 14: threw a Terry McLaurin pass three yards literally threw him
Speaker 14: into yards after catch seventeen yards after there. That's something
Speaker 14: Washington really wants him to magnify. And when I talked
Speaker 14: to Daniels, he said the biggest adjustment for him has
Speaker 14: been the speed of the defensive fronts. They get there
Speaker 14: really fast, and so the way they've adjusted to that
Speaker 14: lot really quickly. His time to throw from snap to
Speaker 14: throwing out was less than two seconds in the preseason,
Speaker 14: the fastest of any quarterback. That's intentional. They want to
Speaker 14: have no huddle and tempo. They want him to be
Speaker 14: able to protect himself given all the pressure he's going
Speaker 14: to face. And one last thing, he did run in
Speaker 14: one play a thirteen yard rush and he did not slide.
Speaker 14: Dan Quinn said he's in double secret probation. A little
Speaker 14: animal house reference there. That's going to be a balance
Speaker 14: for them all season. Jane Daniels says he's never practiced
Speaker 14: on a slide, but they have to keep him upright
Speaker 14: and so they're comfortable and confident women's quarterback.
Speaker 11: Just hopefully he slides a little bit more.
Speaker 5: One of the most important things get these guys to slide.
Speaker 5: You need him healthy for as many games as they
Speaker 5: could possibly be out there. All right, great stuff on
Speaker 5: Jane Daniels. You are also our Tua tug of lo expert.
Speaker 5: You watched him as well during the joint practices in
Speaker 5: the game two preseason games.
Speaker 2: In what have we learned about Tua and this Dolphins offense?
Speaker 14: Ian first stood out that tuatungue Ailoa asked to play
Speaker 14: on Saturday. He was missing his top three receivers Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 14: Jaylen Waddell, Odell Beckham, and two of his offensive line starters,
Speaker 14: but he wanted the reps and he went out there.
Speaker 14: One drive, one touchdown, five for five and he was
Speaker 14: pretty flawless in there, a fourth down touchdown on a
Speaker 14: fade routes River prey Craft. In the locker room, I
Speaker 14: talked to his right tackle, Austin Jackson, and he simply said,
Speaker 14: you couldn't ask for anything more from your quarterback.
Speaker 11: Right being able to march down.
Speaker 14: The field without an incomplete pass always in rhythm and
Speaker 14: it helps build us confidence. And Mike McDaniels said it
Speaker 14: was the least amount of nerves he seemed to have
Speaker 14: on a football field. And so they're all ready for
Speaker 14: the regular season. The one thing they have to get
Speaker 14: right is those injuries. Odell Beckham is progressing, but he's
Speaker 14: still not practicing. He's on his pup list, and they
Speaker 14: had so many injuries in the running back.
Speaker 11: Room last year.
Speaker 14: They had to play a wide receiver in the second
Speaker 14: half at running back, and so a lot of minor
Speaker 14: tweaks in that room. They hope to be ready Week one,
Speaker 14: but this is a team that's trying to get ready
Speaker 14: for the long haul of what they hope is a
Speaker 14: playoff season.
Speaker 5: No, Cam, we talked so much about Tua and his
Speaker 5: contract extension and when it was coming. Now that it's here,
Speaker 5: it's nice to talk about him as a player and
Speaker 5: where he is trying to get to great stuff.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you, Thank you, Cameron Wolf. We will talk to
Speaker 2: you very soon.
Speaker 5: Meanwhile, another quarterback situation that is certainly not as settled
Speaker 5: as the Miami Dolphins or the Commanders justin field, Russell Wilson,
Speaker 5: what is happening in Pittsburgh, Coming up on The Insiders
Speaker 5: presented by Best.
Speaker 6: Bob, Welcome Back to the Insiders presented by Best Buy,
Speaker 6: and pretty good bye for the Las Vegas Raiders and
Speaker 6: free agency. When they signed Gardner Minshew, he went up
Speaker 6: against Aidan O'Connell, who started.
Speaker 7: About ten games for the Raiders last year.
Speaker 6: Minshew named the starting quarterback for Antonio Pierce's Raiders heading
Speaker 6: into the twenty twenty four season. I'll have one more
Speaker 6: preseason game to iron things out. We now bring in
Speaker 6: Omar Ruiz and if Tom Pelisaro is making cracks about
Speaker 6: my shirt off the top of the show, wait till
Speaker 6: he gets a load of this one. Omar, I think
Speaker 6: you look fantastic the Raiders now.
Speaker 7: Pierce said that he.
Speaker 8: Wished, well, you know, I always heard there's any network polos.
Speaker 8: I wanted to feel like I'm going to Jimmy Buffett
Speaker 8: concert as well.
Speaker 2: That's it. Yeah, well.
Speaker 7: Maybe in the past, rip Jimmy. We love you so.
Speaker 6: Antonio Pierce wishes that both quarterbacks had ended on a
Speaker 6: higher note. Had to make a decision or felt like
Speaker 6: he had to make a decision at this point, so
Speaker 6: they decided to go with Minshew.
Speaker 7: Who can give you.
Speaker 6: Some stuff off script if things break down, sometimes with
Speaker 6: his legs.
Speaker 7: He's done that in the past. It's also got the
Speaker 7: better inexperience.
Speaker 6: Your thoughts on Antonio Pierce naming Minshew the starting quarterback.
Speaker 8: Well, he's naming the starting quarterback Gardner Minshew for at
Speaker 8: least the first quarter of the season. Antonio Piers saying
Speaker 8: that they want to get off to a fast start,
Speaker 8: and they have the Chargers, the Ravens, the Panthers, and
Speaker 8: the Browns to start this season, and Gardner Minshew winning
Speaker 8: that job, which was obviously a comprehensive competition. Both Antonio
Speaker 8: Piers and offensive coordinator to Luke Getzi said they were
Speaker 8: evaluating everything beginning from the OTAs through mini camp and
Speaker 8: training camp, but the one consistent message that stood out
Speaker 8: above everything else was, like you mentioned, Antonio Pierce saying
Speaker 8: he wants somebody who can extend plays, make some magic
Speaker 8: outside of the pocket, but take care of the football.
Speaker 8: Luke Getsy also saying for his offense, he wants somebody
Speaker 8: who can take calculated risk, take educated chances, but take
Speaker 8: care of the football. And you look at the production
Speaker 8: between Gardner Minshew and Aidan O'Connell in their three most
Speaker 8: competitive situations that they've had in this training camp, the
Speaker 8: two preseason games, and the scrimmage that they had earlier
Speaker 8: in training camp. In the scrimmage, Gardner Minshew had the
Speaker 8: two loan passing touchdowns. In the preseason games, Gardner Minshew
Speaker 8: had explosive passes to Trey Tucker forty eight forty four
Speaker 8: twenty nine yards, there had zero intercept. Aid and O'Connell
Speaker 8: took a ten yard sack against the Vikings, and of
Speaker 8: course against the Cowboys had the pick six that eventually
Speaker 8: cost them the game. Now, obviously Pierce saying that one play,
Speaker 8: that one game didn't decide this competition. But when you're
Speaker 8: looking at all of that in totality, not to mention
Speaker 8: the energy, the leadership that is infectious that Gardner Minshew
Speaker 8: can bring to the locker room, that can bring to
Speaker 8: the organization all factored into that decision. Gardner Minshew going
Speaker 8: to start the season as a Raiders starting quarterback start
Speaker 8: the season.
Speaker 6: So Aid and O'Connell, if you're watching, and who doesn't
Speaker 6: watch The Insiders on a Monday, just because Gardner Minshew
Speaker 6: is the guy week one, doesn't mean that He's going
Speaker 6: to be the guy all the way through week eighteen.
Speaker 6: Antonio Pierce wanted to see told us when we were
Speaker 6: there a training camp that he wanted to see a
Speaker 6: little bit more personality, a little bit more of a
Speaker 6: vocal presence from aide O'Connell. Let's see how he responds
Speaker 6: to not winning this job. It is not over yet,
Speaker 6: aide O'Connell. Thank you very much, Omar Ruiz for joining
Speaker 6: us on this Monday. We talked about Jimmy Buffett. Come Monday,
Speaker 6: you know everything will be all right, right, That's what
Speaker 6: he said.
Speaker 2: Whoof those shirts are still sorry? My eyes are out
Speaker 2: at this point.
Speaker 1: The only other quarterback competition that involved two veterans and
Speaker 1: not a rookie still undecided in Pittsburgh. Mike Tomlin referring
Speaker 1: to it as an incomplete study, which might be a
Speaker 1: softer way of saying what he really thought based upon
Speaker 1: how the Steelers offense and the whole team has looked
Speaker 1: here over the first couple of preseason games, Tom pilaicero
Speaker 1: I and Rappaport back here on The Insiders presented by
Speaker 1: Best Buy and there's been a lot of stuff going
Speaker 1: on with Pittsburgh that's not just the quarterback, namely, the
Speaker 1: offensive line just has not played very well to this point,
Speaker 1: and they have been banged up and they've been shorthanded
Speaker 1: in their first round pick hasn't been out there. What
Speaker 1: do you make a where things stand right now between
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and Justin Fields. Knowing that it's fair to say,
Speaker 1: at least based upon the games we've seen, it's not
Speaker 1: as if somebody's exactly reached out and grabbed this job.
Speaker 5: True and best case scenario for the Pittsburgh Steelers would
Speaker 5: be one of these guys, and really it doesn't matter who.
Speaker 2: You sort of would think it'd be.
Speaker 5: Russell Wilson considering he had pole position coming into preseason,
Speaker 5: but Justin Fields had a really really good started preseason.
Speaker 5: Either of those guys could take the job right now,
Speaker 5: gravel to it, and be the start of the fact
Speaker 5: that that doesn't happen, that has not happened is not great.
Speaker 5: But it's not like Mike tom was saying, this is disappointing.
Speaker 5: It's really just he hasn't fully been able to evaluate
Speaker 5: his quarterback position.
Speaker 2: No doubt some of that is because of the offensive line.
Speaker 5: Maybe some of that is the fact that they don't
Speaker 5: exactly have the second marquee receiver like Brandon Au could be.
Speaker 2: You have to wonder if that maybe is part of
Speaker 2: the product. They don't have an answer yet, not that
Speaker 2: they won't, they just don't.
Speaker 5: And look, this also is shaping up to be a
Speaker 5: situation where the Steelers could end up at some point
Speaker 5: during the season playing both of these quarterbacks if one
Speaker 5: doesn't stand out incomplete study. Yes, those are the words
Speaker 5: of Mike Tomlins. Certainly no mistake using that description.
Speaker 1: Tom'll see how things play out here in the final
Speaker 1: preseason week. Mike Tomlin never in a rush to do
Speaker 1: something before he's ready to do it, he said, along
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson in the pole position, you would think if
Speaker 1: neither guy separates himself this week, it may well be
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson out there in week one? Will it be
Speaker 1: bow Nicks out there for the Broncos in week one?
Speaker 1: He has certainly staked his claim to the job. Does
Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks think he's earned it? Our expert rejoins to
Speaker 1: discuss that right after this on The Insiders presented by
Speaker 1: Best Buy.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: If Sunday Night against the Packers was the test of
Speaker 1: how ready Bonnicks is. He's certainly scored well on it
Speaker 1: eight to nine, passing eighty yards in a touchdown, had
Speaker 1: another touchdown wiped out because of penalty. John Payton said
Speaker 1: after the game, not yet ready to make any proclamations
Speaker 1: on who's going to start, but all signs continue to
Speaker 1: point to the rookie number twelve overall pick. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Insiders, presented by Best Buy Tom Pelliicero, joined
Speaker 1: once again by Bucky Brooks.
Speaker 2: Bucky, he broke this one down. You'll watch bo Knicks.
Speaker 2: What'd you see? Look?
Speaker 10: It appears to me that Sean Payton has a sweet
Speaker 10: tooth for athletic quarterbacks. Were playmaking ability with high football
Speaker 10: I cubes, because that's what bo Nicks is. And given
Speaker 10: Sean Payton's history with Drew Brees, you can see why
Speaker 10: he likes the young quarterback that came out of Oregon.
Speaker 10: When you look at bow Knicks and you break him down,
Speaker 10: you can see the maturity. You can see a guy
Speaker 10: who has tremendous command of this offense as someone who's
Speaker 10: playing with a lot of confidence. Now that makes sense
Speaker 10: when you look at bo Nix's history sixty four stars
Speaker 10: as a collegiate played at all, but then Oregon really
Speaker 10: came into his own at Oregon and you see a
Speaker 10: lot of those traits from what he did with the
Speaker 10: Ducks translate to success with the Broncos. Smooth timing, rhythm, anticipation,
Speaker 10: passer who really understands how to execute the plan according
Speaker 10: to the way that Sean Payton likes it.
Speaker 1: I will say Bucky watching him, just seeing Bonick's physically
Speaker 1: and watching the way that he moves. I also got
Speaker 1: some Taysom Hill vibes in terms of that aspect of
Speaker 1: his game. Obviously, Sean would love to find a combination
Speaker 1: of those guys that he can work with there in Denver.
Speaker 1: What about Drake May Bucky, We're still hearing from Drod Mayo.
Speaker 1: No decision on the quarterback. The plan was never It
Speaker 1: seemed to push the number three out pick out there
Speaker 1: in year one. But the door at this point remains
Speaker 1: a jar.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, Jacoby said, left the door jar because the
Speaker 10: offense isn't really moving when he's at the helm, and
Speaker 10: so Drake may comes in. He excites everybody because he
Speaker 10: has big time arm talent, he has playmaking ability, the athleticism,
Speaker 10: he's inexperienced, but sometimes that inexperience can be overshadowed by
Speaker 10: his athleticism. If you're the New England Patriots, you want
Speaker 10: to go slow and easy with the quarterback, but he
Speaker 10: might be too good to keep on the bitch, especially
Speaker 10: when you're making the competition between him and Jacoby Verssett.
Speaker 7: This offense has responded with Drake May's been in the game.
Speaker 10: Gerard Mayo may have to give the ball to the
Speaker 10: young quarterback and kind of lived through some of the
Speaker 10: growing pains that he ultimately experienced.
Speaker 1: NFL dot Com, slash Scouts, Notebookie and read a lot
Speaker 1: more from Bucky Brooks.
Speaker 2: Bucky, thank you as always for being here.
Speaker 1: You might have seen this about a thousand times to
Speaker 1: your social media feeds. Patrick Mahomes did something even Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes we haven't seen do in a game before. Let's
Speaker 1: revisit some of the best most unique throws in NFL history.
Speaker 13: Next on the insights, Mahomes keeps it goes behind them,
Speaker 13: Kelsey's got it for the first day.
Speaker 2: How do you like that?
Speaker 13: Well, they talked about it in practice this.
Speaker 12: Week, and Mahomes even talked about the fact that he
Speaker 12: said Andy wants him to do it in a game.
Speaker 2: Well, guess what here?
Speaker 1: It is great call by our guy Ari Wolf right there.
Speaker 1: Mike got us thinking before the show. Here, what's another
Speaker 1: one of your favorite throws that you've ever seen in
Speaker 1: NFL history?
Speaker 6: Oh, I would say in its spot. Eli Manning to
Speaker 6: Mario Manningham super Bowl forty six.
Speaker 7: The movement with the feet. They really worked at his
Speaker 7: feet that year.
Speaker 6: So for him to create that laying the throw away
Speaker 6: from the pressure, given it just another hair, and then
Speaker 6: put it exactly where it needed to be.
Speaker 2: Perfect spot, so perfect. Here's another one that's perfect. Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers to Jared.
Speaker 5: Cook twenty seventy Divisional Round Game, three seconds left, third
Speaker 5: and twenty. You can't do it better than that. I
Speaker 5: literally yelled at the screen because it was such an
Speaker 5: absurd throw. All time favorite for me.
Speaker 1: In terms of things I've never seen before or since.
Speaker 1: How about this one? I was in the Metrodome for
Speaker 1: this play, Randy Moss. This is the final seconds of
Speaker 1: the first time it's expiring over the shoulder to Moe
Speaker 1: Williams for a touchdown. Dante Culpepper after the game called
Speaker 1: it saucy an adjutate. I have not heard before or since.
Speaker 1: I'm bringing it back another saucy edition of the Inside
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: See it ye