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Speaker 1: Welcome inside or with the Insiders, fueled by Gatorade, alongside

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Speaker 1: Judy Battista and Ian Rapaport, I am Tom Pilaicero. We

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Speaker 1: are alive at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, where

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl opening night set to kick off one

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Speaker 1: hour right now, Right back there. Mike Garrifolo is gonna

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Speaker 1: be joining us in New Orleans in a couple of

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Speaker 1: got the Eagles in the first hour, and of course

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Speaker 1: we'll have live coverage of this on NFL Network.

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Speaker 2: The Chiefs are in the later window.

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Speaker 1: There's some crossover Judy, there's the co interviews with the

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks and the head coaches. We know all this because

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Speaker 1: we saw them rehearsing if like the last seven hours

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Speaker 1: when it was in here.

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Speaker 2: What are you looking forward to tonight? Well, first of all, I.

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Speaker 3: Just saw out of the corner of my eye there's

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Speaker 4: Looking forward to that.

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Speaker 3: But really I'm looking forward to hearing from the Chiefs,

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Speaker 3: particularly Patrick Mahomes, about the possibility of a three peat,

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Speaker 3: what that would mean to them, what they think that

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Speaker 3: would mean for their legacy, their place in NFL history.

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Speaker 3: There's never been a three peak in the NFL. And

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Speaker 3: I want to know if they're feeling any of the

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Speaker 3: recent years. Does this feel any different with the possibility

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Speaker 5: Table, Why are you all yelling just bring it down.

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Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to sakuon Barkley this entire week, really

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Speaker 5: and just seeing him on this stage, watching him and

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Speaker 5: covering him through the postseason. And we may see the

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Speaker 5: play where he slapped himself in the head while he

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Speaker 5: was running for that touchdown against the Rams and said,

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Speaker 5: I need to be more of a cool customer. And

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Speaker 5: then after he scored the touchdown against Washington, he was like,

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Speaker 5: keep it come, keep it come.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 5: Everything's going to be on this big stage. Everything he

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Speaker 5: It's a dream week for him. It's gonna end with

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Speaker 5: him playing in the Super Bowl on his birthday. Will

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Speaker 5: he be able to keep that emotion and check. I

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Speaker 5: those moments though, a couple of those pinch me moments.

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Speaker 5: Everything he ever dreamed of, not only from when he

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Speaker 5: It is now a definite in Saquon Barkley's life.

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Speaker 6: I wonder if Jalen Hurts has any of those pinch

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Speaker 7: I mean, he has got to be the most serious,

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Speaker 6: Stage that we've seen in a very very long time.

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Speaker 7: Never breaks character, probably as discipline and interview as you

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Speaker 6: But it is pretty clear if Jalen.

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Speaker 7: Hurts wins, if the Philadelphia Eagles wins, his life changes.

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Speaker 7: He goes some really good quarterback potential MVP every year

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Speaker 7: obviously someone who has been very very heavily in the

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Speaker 7: You win a Super Bowl, You've become one of those

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Speaker 7: all that is at stake for him. He had a

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Speaker 7: How does it change him? What has been different? How mentally?

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Speaker 7: Is he preparing a lot of questions for Jalen Hurts

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Speaker 1: Some minor injury stuff in this game to a major

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Speaker 2: The bands starting, Mike, why don't you take it from here?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be quite the night.

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Speaker 5: Stay tuned here on NFL Network to see it all.

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Speaker 5: Rarefied air for the Kansas City chief the only NFL

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Speaker 5: team to do this five plus championship appearances in a

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Speaker 5: six season span. The Edmonton Oilers, the New York Islanders,

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Speaker 5: The Yankees and the Lakers did, but not in that

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Speaker 5: I tied you into all of these right here, including

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Speaker 5: It is time for Super Bowl Opening Night. There's almost

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Speaker 8: Yeah, they know what's going to happen, and then it

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Speaker 8: The Chiefs, of course, have the late slot tonight for

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Speaker 9: They get a lot of attention.

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Speaker 8: But how about some love for this Kansas City defense

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Speaker 8: Defensive coordinator Steve Spagnolo twice in the postseason has faced

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Speaker 8: They know that they have their work cut out for him,

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Speaker 9: But to your point, Mike Garrifalo. A lot of people have.

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Speaker 8: I'm a little nervous right now because I think Tom

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Speaker 9: I'm gonna be way way in the back.

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Speaker 10: Well, Sarah, just moral on Saquon, just as you talked

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Speaker 10: about Mike. Usually he wears you down and it's inevitable

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Speaker 10: Saquon so special is that at any moment he can

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Speaker 10: So the best version of Saquon Barkley right now is

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Speaker 10: wears you out. So yes, the Chiefs have had success

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Speaker 5: Eagles general lager Howie Roseman saying that everything that Sakwon

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Speaker 5: doing here? Sarah? Go go go get your position. Go ahead,

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Speaker 5: get out of here. We appreciate you, yeah, see ya,

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Speaker 5: appreciate your contributions tonight, Sarah. We'll talk to you all

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Speaker 1: Tom Eagles are in New Orleans. They're in the stadium

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Speaker 1: the Caesars Superdome for Super Bowl Opening Night. Jalen Hurts

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Speaker 1: bring in our station of DALs and multimately time that team.

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Speaker 2: This week'st the scene for me. Run this Eagles team.

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Speaker 1: You've been perched outside their hotel for the past day

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Speaker 6: What do you expect like an Eagle?

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Speaker 9: I've just perched outside the happy super Bowl. That's that's right,

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Speaker 11: What they're doing right now, Tom, is they're hunting, and

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Speaker 11: that's been really their slogan the Philadelphia Eagles throughout the postseason.

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Speaker 11: Let's hunt and the guy at the forefront. As we

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Speaker 11: just heard from Sarah Walsh and company and their conversation

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Speaker 11: about Saquon Barkley, what a task for Steve Spagnolo. And

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Speaker 11: he's really the headliner as you listen to this excitement

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Speaker 11: he's thirty rush yards away from becoming and passing Hall

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Speaker 11: of Famer Terrell Davis for the most ever in a

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Speaker 9: That is remarkable. But he's not chasing that, Tom, he

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Speaker 9: is chasing a super Bowl. He's never been in a

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Speaker 11: He became a Philadelphia Eagle because he knew, as you understand,

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Speaker 11: this was a team that he could win with. And

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Speaker 1: You can't be great with all your greatness stays you

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Speaker 2: We're hearing a lot more from you throughout Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: That's right time now for Active Mic, presented by the

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Speaker 1: We also had big news elsewhere during Super Bowl Week

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Speaker 6: A couple of days go by and Miles.

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Speaker 7: But the reality is a player this good, reigning Defensive

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Speaker 7: These guys are never available and never get traded. Andrew

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Speaker 3: I can't help but think that this is the fallout,

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Speaker 3: The subtext of that is he does not think that

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Speaker 5: I find this to be a fascinating situation because the

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Speaker 5: You can get a lot of that stuff back by

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Speaker 5: They're looking at the now. Right. They had a disappointing season.

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Speaker 6: In the fall.

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Speaker 5: It's why he has indicated that he does not intend

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Speaker 5: this can only end one of three ways. Miles Garrett

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Speaker 1: Remember, Miles Garrett has two years to believe what forty

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Speaker 2: We're gonna keep him here. He's gonna be a Brown

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Speaker 1: They would upgrade his contract, but again, this is not

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Speaker 2: And then if it goes this far, you're talking.

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Speaker 6: Do they wait till the start.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's only February.

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Speaker 3: Second. Also, it's worth saying he wants to win, so

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Speaker 1: I also know this, there are very very few players

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Speaker 1: A lot to come in the week ahead. Here in

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Speaker 13: complain about calls. I think that it's just a reflection

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Speaker 13: to the passion for those fan bases. It's actually nice

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Speaker 13: to be on the other side in terms of like

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Speaker 13: you're winning games because you're making plays and the officials.

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Speaker 4: Do a great job of it. It's a really hard job.

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Speaker 13: But I think if you go back and look statistically,

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Speaker 13: we've got a lot of calls go against us too,

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Speaker 13: And what we try to do is ignore the noise,

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Speaker 13: play the game and be successful.

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Speaker 3: All Right, We all focus on the head coach, Andy,

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Speaker 3: and we focus on Patrick, but it takes a.

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Speaker 9: Village treat to create this kind of sustained.

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Speaker 6: Success year after year after year.

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Speaker 3: Tell us about some of the things maybe we don't

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Speaker 3: talk enough about that contribute to where you are now.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 13: I think first and foremost is culture. I was doing

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Speaker 13: a great culture when I was in Philadelphia, and this

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Speaker 13: culture is really special as well.

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Speaker 4: It starts with.

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Speaker 13: Leadership, starts with the empowerment of Clark and the family.

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Speaker 13: Andy and I have worked together for almost eighteen years.

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Speaker 13: Brett and I have formed a fantastic relationship, and I

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Speaker 13: think what people don't realize is we're working together every

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Speaker 13: single day. We deal with a lot of things nobody

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Speaker 13: ever hears about or talks about, and we all know

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Speaker 13: that we have to do that really well in order

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Speaker 13: to allow our organization, our players, our coaches to do

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Speaker 13: their job really well. And He's got a great saying

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Speaker 13: eliminate distractions, and that's a big part of my job

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Speaker 13: is to help them just not have distracted.

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Speaker 4: So we can just focus on winning football.

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Speaker 1: Mid Andy on the Insiders recently and I asked him

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Speaker 1: the question only half kitty. I said, who's going to

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Speaker 1: retire first? You or Patrick Maholmes. He said, well, it's

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Speaker 1: probably me because I'm quite a bit older. Is there

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Speaker 1: a scenario you see where Andy's not doing this if

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Speaker 1: he's he eighty five years old, as long as Bapple

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Speaker 1: Holmes is somehow out there, he's still around me.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 13: I think Brett mentioned that to me when we drafted

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Speaker 13: Patrick and then after his first year of playing, he's like.

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Speaker 4: One of the best things about Patrick that.

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Speaker 13: No one talks about is the job security that he

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Speaker 13: provides for us because and he's not leaving this guy.

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Speaker 13: And that's proven to me a case. Look, I've watched,

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Speaker 13: as I said, Andy work for over eighteen years, and

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Speaker 13: this is what he does, and.

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Speaker 4: This is what he's passionate about.

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Speaker 13: It's obviously what he's one of the best ever at

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Speaker 13: and I think that drives him as much as anything.

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Speaker 4: But this is a special partnership. It's a special relationship.

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Speaker 13: And I go back to the culture point, like we're

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Speaker 13: in a situation, the three of us, especially where we're

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Speaker 13: really supported and we're really empowered by Clark and family,

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Speaker 13: and we're having such success that it's a special time

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Speaker 13: to be part of the organization.

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Speaker 4: I think he enjoys that as much as anyone else.

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Speaker 3: We're about to talk to jeff Lori, who you're pretty

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Speaker 3: familiar with.

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Speaker 2: You work for him too.

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Speaker 3: What commonalities are there in the two organizations? What through

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Speaker 3: lines do you see that maybe explain the sustained success.

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Speaker 4: Of both of them.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, it's interesting. First of all, it is a blessing

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Speaker 13: to be able to work with both of them. I

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Speaker 13: think they're very different individuals, but there they have some

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Speaker 13: common traits and passion for the team, passion for the franchise.

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Speaker 13: They're both incredibly I can't describe the level of competitiveness

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Speaker 13: with both of them. I've sat next to Jeffrey for

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Speaker 13: a lot of games. I sat next to it Clark

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Speaker 13: for every game the last sixteen years. And people don't

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Speaker 13: see that passion every day because they got to start

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Speaker 13: of play the role of leader of the organization. But

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Speaker 13: their passion, I think is one I think that makes

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Speaker 13: them special. And look, these two organizations have been in

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Speaker 13: this game multiple times over the past few years, and

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Speaker 13: I think it's a credit to the ownership that we're

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Speaker 13: both here and it goes back to that culture point

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Speaker 13: in both organizations.

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Speaker 2: ARC thanks a lot, We'll see you next year. Probably appreciated.

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Speaker 6: Hype video after high video. I'll take him. I know

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Speaker 6: this man will too.

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Speaker 7: Welcome back to Opening Night, Ian Rappaport with Judy Bautista,

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Speaker 7: joined by Eagles owner Jeffrey Lourie. I said, as you

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Speaker 7: said down, welcome back. You guys have been here plenty.

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Speaker 7: You've had a chance to walk around, You've had a

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Speaker 7: chance to take it in.

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Speaker 6: What has it been like.

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Speaker 14: You know, it's it's always bigger than life. But you know,

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Speaker 14: we're here to play a football game on Sunday. We

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Speaker 14: love football, We love the sport, and it's been mostly

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Speaker 14: hard work and dedication and now it's sort of like

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Speaker 14: performance art until Sunday.

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Speaker 3: All right, this is the second time in three years

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Speaker 3: you've been here. Actually literally here with us. How did

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Speaker 3: you rebound from you took a little last year?

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Speaker 9: How did you rebound so quickly? How did you go

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Speaker 9: into the off season?

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Speaker 14: So, you know, I think judy football, it's a microcosm

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Speaker 14: of life. You're always going to have those down moments,

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Speaker 14: you know, in a way, it started with the Super

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Speaker 14: Bowl against the Chiefs.

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Speaker 6: You know, with the minute and forty eight seconds to go.

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Speaker 14: You know, something very sudden happened there, as we all know,

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Speaker 14: and you have to recover from the game suddenly being

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Speaker 14: impossible to win.

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Speaker 6: The next season we start ten and one, we're on

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Speaker 6: a roll.

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Speaker 14: But you know, I think we weren't playing our best

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Speaker 14: and it was very important for us to really analyze

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Speaker 14: where we were at as a team. Talented, yes, but

552
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Speaker 14: not good enough. And so I think the off season

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Speaker 14: was spent really trying to accomplish attacking our weaknesses, sentuating

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Speaker 14: our strengths, but really being honest with ourselves and attacking

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Speaker 14: all the weaknesses we had.

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Speaker 6: One of the weaknesses that you do not have is

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Speaker 6: in the run game.

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Speaker 7: We saw Saquon Barkley and the highlights coming into this

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Speaker 7: segment sliding down on this and I mean the backwards Hurtle.

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Speaker 6: We've seen mony of it when you guys signed him.

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Speaker 2: A lot of money for a running back.

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Speaker 6: When you guys signed him, did you expect this?

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 14: You know, I would almost say yes, because we were

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Speaker 14: really kind of thrilled to think, what could we do

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Speaker 14: with this offensive line that we have, with this triple

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Speaker 14: threat quarterback if we added you know what, we regarded

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Speaker 14: as the most physically talented running back in football, who

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Speaker 14: was also a great person and a passionate player.

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Speaker 6: We didn't know, but the thought was, if.

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Speaker 14: You could ever add an incredible running back to this

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Speaker 14: offensive machine, what could you create? And Saiquon proved what

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Speaker 14: you can create.

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Speaker 3: He was part of really an all time off season

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Speaker 3: free agency draft, incredibly successful. You've turned off an awful

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Speaker 3: out of the roster just in this off season. Could

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Speaker 3: you ever have imagined as you were making those moves,

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Speaker 3: as you were making the draft picks, as you were

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Speaker 3: doing the signings and free agency, that it would pan

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Speaker 3: out quite like this?

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Speaker 14: No, I think you know Howie does an incredible job.

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Speaker 14: I feel like I have the best GM in the

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Speaker 14: NFL where neither of us are risk averse, so we

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Speaker 14: match up well and we're willing to take shots. But

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Speaker 14: nobody could have imagined that Zach Bond and Quinnon Mitchell

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Speaker 14: and Cooper Dejen and Jylex Hunt and Nikobe Dean would

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Speaker 14: develop and Nolan Smith would develop.

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Speaker 6: We all had those hopes and dreams.

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Speaker 14: But a credit to the coaching because the coaching made

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Speaker 14: our players so much better from September to January. And

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Speaker 14: it's really a credit to Nick and the coaching staff.

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Speaker 14: Acquisitions are great, but it's how they develop, and this

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Speaker 14: coaching staff has done one incredible job of developing these players.

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Speaker 6: Well, let's talk about Nick then.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, guys, we just got through the well almost the

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Speaker 7: NFL coaching carousel. You may or may not have a

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Speaker 7: coach on your staff. We watched who's part of that. Yes,

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Speaker 7: the choice of Nick was a fascinating one several years ago.

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Speaker 6: He has proven to be an excellent leader.

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Speaker 7: What did you see in him that I can pretty

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Speaker 7: safely say nobody else but you guys saw Well.

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Speaker 14: You know what we see now is exactly what we

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Speaker 14: saw in the process. Somebody who is incredibly passionate about football,

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Speaker 14: somebody who has extraordinary attention to detail, somebody who connects

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Speaker 14: as a genuine human being, slash leader.

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Speaker 6: Which is in crucial in terms of the way we

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Speaker 6: do things. Somebody who.

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Speaker 14: Is able to learn from their own strengths and weaknesses

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Speaker 14: and attack them as well. Somebody who has humility at

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Speaker 14: the same time confidence. You know, every single coaching search

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Speaker 14: we've ever done, or that I've ever been a part of,

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Speaker 14: we've never selected anyone who was interviewed by anybody else.

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Speaker 14: We don't operate that way, and we look for different things.

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Speaker 14: And you go to you know, Andy Reid, unknown, not

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Speaker 14: even an offensive coordinator. We're incredibly excited about being able

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Speaker 14: to work with Andy.

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Speaker 6: We hoped he'd be an incredible coach.

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Speaker 14: He's a first ballot Hall of Famer and you know,

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Speaker 14: never had an interview before. Doug Peterson, never had an

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Speaker 14: interview before. Nick Sirianni, never had an interview before. What

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Speaker 14: we look for are a lot of intangibles and a

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Speaker 14: lot of things that just are important to us as

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Speaker 14: our culture, our organization, and what we think correlates to

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Speaker 14: having extraordinary teams.

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Speaker 7: Well, it has been an extraordinary team. Not done yet,

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Speaker 7: not done yet yet. Look you forward to see what

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Speaker 7: you guys do this week, and obviously Blake Tea in

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Speaker 7: the future Jeffruary. Thank you very much for joining us

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Speaker 7: on the Insiders. Clark Hunt, the owner of the candidacy Chiefs,

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Speaker 7: joined us next from Opening Night, and of course we

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Speaker 7: will have plenty more here when we come back, including

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Speaker 7: I don't know, maybe a character or two behind us

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Speaker 7: here in the Superdome.

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Speaker 5: Time for Super Bowl Opening Night preview fueled by Gatorade.

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Speaker 5: Jalen Hurts is going to be out there on a

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Speaker 5: riser shortly speaking to the media. Two hundred and forty

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Speaker 5: six pass yards in the NFC Championship game after two

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Speaker 5: fifty nine combined in the previous two games. See that's

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Speaker 5: the way the Eagles offense can do, or what an

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Speaker 5: Eagles offensecuse we can do against the defense, can hit

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Speaker 5: you heavy with the run game, then can get to

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Speaker 5: the air if need be. Also got Jalen Hurts and

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Speaker 5: his legs. He says his knee is fine after injuring

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Speaker 5: that just a couple of games ago looks good enough

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Speaker 5: against Washington even if it wasn't one hundred percent. Mark

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Speaker 5: Ross back here joining us on the Insider, joining me

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Speaker 5: Mike Garraffalo as we talk about Steve Spagnolo and the

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Speaker 5: Chiefs defense and the task of defending this Eagles offense

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Speaker 5: with as I said, so many ways that they can

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Speaker 5: beat you and so many guys that they could beat

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Speaker 5: you with.

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Speaker 2: Mark, Yeah, it's really just a Plethoro.

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Speaker 10: We talk about playmakers and all weapons, Well, the Eagles

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Speaker 10: legitimately have five six I mean we can count the

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Speaker 10: offensive line. There's five more there. That's a that's a

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Speaker 10: playmakers for this team. And really, Jalen Hurts unlocks everything. Mike,

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Speaker 10: and all the worry going into that Washington game was

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Speaker 10: Ken this's guy even throw and Kenny ron is his

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Speaker 10: knee healthy? Well, Jalen Hurts unlocked everything in that game

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Speaker 10: because they were getting after him with the blitz and

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Speaker 10: then finally he hit aj Brown on that left sideline

662
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Speaker 10: with that big throw and at unlocked everything for Jalen Hurts.

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Speaker 10: He played with so much more confidence throwing the ball

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Speaker 10: after that point, and then you saw him running as well,

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Speaker 10: So he added that element. So if he is sharp

666
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Speaker 10: again in the Super Bowl, they're going to be hard

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Speaker 10: to handle.

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Speaker 4: Now for Steve Spagnolo and that defense. Hey, that man.

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Speaker 10: Then anniversary of our two thousand and seven championship today,

670
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Speaker 10: so throw that in there. He knows how to mix

671
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Speaker 10: in match and make things difficult on the team and

672
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Speaker 10: cut out your biggest weapon. Well, they got tons of them,

673
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Speaker 10: but Chris Jones might has to come through. So because

674
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Speaker 10: if Chris Jones gets upfront and dominates like we used

675
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Speaker 10: to do with the Giants upfront there, that unlocks all

676
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Speaker 10: the coverages and blitzes where he doesn't have to blitz

677
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Speaker 10: all the time, and Chris can wreck have it up

678
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Speaker 10: there and that everything opens up from there, so that

679
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Speaker 10: all starts there. Spags works the mastermind, but Chris Jones

680
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Speaker 10: got to come through.

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Speaker 4: Mike.

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Speaker 5: Here's the biggest problem with the Eagles offense. Not only

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Speaker 5: can they do all these things, they're not turning the

684
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Speaker 5: ball over only four turnovers total in their last eleven games.

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Speaker 5: So they're picking up four or five yards a clip,

686
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Speaker 5: plus the explosive runs from Saquon Barkley, plus Jalen Hurts

687
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Speaker 5: doing what he's doing, plus aj Brown and Dallas Goddter

688
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Speaker 5: and all these guys on that offensive line, and then

689
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Speaker 5: they're not giving it away either. It's so hard to

690
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Speaker 5: beat a team when they're playing with the way that

691
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Speaker 5: they are playing offensively. Mark Happy Anniversary, seventeenth University of

692
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Speaker 5: that giant Super Bowl wing. Go watch that last drive

693
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Speaker 5: again if you'd like, and go celebrate with your guys overtext.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Mark, Tom Pellisaro back down to you.

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Speaker 1: In New Orleans, breaking news tonight, the Los Angeles Rams

696
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Speaker 1: have informed their longtime star receiver Cooper Cup that they

697
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Speaker 1: intend to trade him, with talks beginning immediately. Cup running

698
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Speaker 1: in a social media post that he was informed that

699
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Speaker 1: the work will begin and the team will be working

700
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Speaker 1: with me and my family to find the right place

701
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Speaker 1: to continue competing for championships. Now, obviously, Ian Cooper Cup

702
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Speaker 1: has been a very good player in the league. He

703
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Speaker 1: also has not played a full season since twenty twenty one. Yep,

704
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Speaker 1: he is a guy who's doing a substantial amount of

705
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Speaker 1: money this year, thirty one years old. There was interest

706
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Speaker 1: though at the trade deadline last year. The question becomes

707
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Speaker 1: is anyone willing to take on the full salary, which

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Speaker 1: seems unlikely?

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Speaker 2: And then in turn, what type of deal could you work.

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Speaker 1: Out on the revised deal to actually pull off a trade.

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Speaker 7: First of all, if there's one thing we've learned from

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Speaker 7: well actually from the Rams really is that anyone can

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Speaker 7: be traded, sure, right, Like I remember knowing for a

714
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Speaker 7: fact that Jared Gov's contract when he was all the

715
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Speaker 7: way down at his absolute lowest, would never be traded,

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Speaker 7: and then they traded him and it was fine. You

717
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Speaker 7: can always figure out a way to trade, especially if

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Speaker 7: the Rams, as they've done in the past.

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Speaker 6: I believe the Nick.

720
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Speaker 7: Foles trade was won where they've paid the bonus themselves,

721
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Speaker 7: kind of easing the burden off the trading team.

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Speaker 6: But there was some interest in Cooper.

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Speaker 7: Cup last year, but it seemed clear is the Rams

724
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Speaker 7: were willing to trade. That was to me, of all

725
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Speaker 7: the things, that was the thing Mike that kind of

726
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,320
Speaker 7: stood out there. It's that he was a great player

727
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Speaker 7: for the Rams and surely could still be a great

728
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Speaker 7: player for somebody.

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Speaker 6: But their willingness to take a look.

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Speaker 7: At him and say, you know what, if he was

731
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Speaker 7: playing for someone else, we'd be okay. Was that stood

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Speaker 7: out pretty strongly. And that's still the case. Here is

733
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Speaker 7: very public. Everyone now knows Cooper Cup is available, and

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Speaker 7: I would anticipate he'd be traded.

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Speaker 5: Everyone knows, and that gives you time. Now, if you're

736
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Speaker 5: the Rams, if you're a Cooper Cup, if you are

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Speaker 5: other teams, there is an advantage to putting this out

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Speaker 5: there that early. Although Pooka Nakua q nakua tweet there

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Speaker 5: it is. I thought it was just the NBA trade season.

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Speaker 2: No, no, Pooka.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes trades happened. As a matter of fact, Alex Smith,

742
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Speaker 5: that trade happened during the Super Bowl week. It can't

743
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Speaker 5: be official and finalized until the start of the league

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Speaker 5: year in March. But teams can now have these conversations

745
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Speaker 5: and agree on trades and just kind of put a

746
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Speaker 5: pin in it, and then we know what's coming once

747
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 5: that league year begins. So the Rams now have the

748
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Speaker 5: chance to have these conversations in earnest teams. I agree

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Speaker 5: with you, Ian. If the team and the Rams already

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Speaker 5: expected to pay that seven point five million dollar roster bonus,

751
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Speaker 5: which is due the fifth day of the league year,

752
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 5: they almost kind of thought, all right, if we pay that, well,

753
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 5: now it's only twelve and a half million for the

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Speaker 5: next team to pick up Cooper Cup for this upcoming season,

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Speaker 5: it's close to twenty million, was that number? I just

756
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 5: weaded out nineteen million or so for twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 5: It's a reasonable number if you're getting a healthy Cooper

758
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Speaker 5: Cup and you're getting a guy that can contribute, and

759
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 5: if he is healthy and not bogged down by injuries,

760
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Speaker 5: then you should be able to get a productive guy

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Speaker 5: who still has some good football.

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Speaker 1: Now, five million dollars of that send point five millionaire

763
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Speaker 1: ross willis already fully guaranteed. If you're wondering on the timeline,

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Speaker 1: is it's the third day of the league year in March,

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Speaker 1: and the biggest about March eighteenth. That's the point at

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Speaker 1: which the Rams either are going to pay that which

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Speaker 1: they've done in the past to facilitate trades, or if

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Speaker 1: they were to cut in loosen on five million dollars.

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Speaker 2: That's the point at which they would need to do that.

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Speaker 1: Six days away from Super Bowl fifteen nine in New Orleans,

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Speaker 1: and the party has already begun. That includes inside the

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Speaker 1: Caesars Superdome. That is where Super Bowl Opening Night is

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Speaker 1: occurring right now. Tom Pillisero and Rapport back on the Insiders,

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Speaker 1: fueled by Gatorade to join now by another very special guests,

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Speaker 1: it's chiefs owner Clark Hunt.

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Speaker 6: How you doing?

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Speaker 2: Are you used to this by now? This is part

778
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Speaker 2: of what you do.

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Speaker 15: I don't know that you ever get used to this,

780
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Speaker 15: but it sure is a fun evening and it signals

781
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Speaker 15: the kickoff to super Bowl Week.

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Speaker 7: You know, there's been so much discussion leading up to

783
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Speaker 7: this about the possibility of a three peat. No one

784
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Speaker 7: has ever done it. It would be pretty legendary. How

785
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Speaker 7: much thought have you given to what that would be like?

786
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Speaker 15: Well, any opportunity you have to play in the Super

787
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 15: Bowl is always special. Obviously this year has a little

788
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Speaker 15: bit more to it because we have a chance to

789
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Speaker 15: make history.

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Speaker 2: It's something that we've been aware of the whole year.

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Speaker 15: Coach Reid has done a great job of keeping the

792
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Speaker 15: guys focused because you don't get here us. You pay

793
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Speaker 15: attention each week, take that week's opponent seriously as you can,

794
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Speaker 15: and play your best football. And here we are, and

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Speaker 15: we've got the opportunity, and I know our guys are

796
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Speaker 15: excited about it.

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Speaker 1: When you've presented Andy that game ball after a historic

798
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Speaker 1: when you referred to him as a young man, and

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Speaker 1: he does I feel like Andy has not aged is

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Speaker 1: the day he got the Kan City.

801
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Speaker 2: How does he find that youthfulness that kind of helps

802
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Speaker 2: him continue.

803
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Speaker 4: To drive this well.

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Speaker 15: I think any head coach who has Patrick Mahomes as

805
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Speaker 15: his quarterback is getting younger and not older.

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Speaker 2: I think that's really the key to it.

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Speaker 15: I really think he's rejuvenated and enjoying this part of

808
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 15: his career. What a long, decorted career he's had, and

809
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Speaker 15: we all know where it's going to end up Pro

810
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 15: Football Hall of Fame, but he's loving this time right

811
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Speaker 15: now as head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 7: I want to talk about Mahomes a little bit because

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Speaker 7: I think you know, if you look at this year

814
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 7: statistically may not have been his best, then you look

815
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Speaker 7: at the last month or so, and he has been

816
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Speaker 7: as good as he ever is.

817
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Speaker 6: What is it about Mahomes?

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Speaker 7: The lights are always bright, but when the lights get

819
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Speaker 7: a little bit brighter that he becomes like we've seen.

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Speaker 15: Well, I think it's true of all the great ones,

821
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Speaker 15: and it really doesn't matter what's or we're talking about, basketball, football, hockey, soccer, baseball.

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Speaker 15: The great ones in the most important moments are at

823
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Speaker 15: their very best. And Patrick has shown that every year,

824
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Speaker 15: regardless of his stats during the regular season, he always

825
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 15: elevates his game when we get to the playoffs, and

826
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Speaker 15: he's definitely done that recently. Hopefully that will continue through

827
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Speaker 15: this weekend.

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Speaker 1: That's also the most logical explanation for how you guys

829
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Speaker 1: win all these one score games. The illogical explanation is

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Speaker 1: it's a grand conspiracy involving Roger Goodell, the league office officials,

831
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Speaker 1: and a variety of other stakeholders in the state.

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Speaker 2: Would you see that, You hear it? People say those

833
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Speaker 2: things to you.

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Speaker 15: What's your reaction, Well, you almost have to laugh at it,

835
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Speaker 15: because you know how everybody in the NFL wants to

836
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Speaker 15: compete to win, and that's true of our guys as well.

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Speaker 2: The referees are doing the best job that they can.

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Speaker 15: If you look at the stats, there are a lot

839
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Speaker 15: of stats that show that we've been on the wrong

840
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 15: side of calls as often as we've been on the

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Speaker 15: right side. So there's definitely no conspiracy, right. It's just

842
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Speaker 15: the nature of the game, and when you have a

843
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Speaker 15: lot of success, people like to start making excuses for

844
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Speaker 15: why you're having the success.

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Speaker 7: You know, part of the reason you guys have had

846
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Speaker 7: success this year is you guys, and specifically general manager

847
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Speaker 7: Brett Veach has shown up propensie to go out and

848
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:38,879
Speaker 7: add go find players wherever they meet, maybe whether it's

849
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Speaker 7: greem Hunt off the street, whether it's DeAndre Hopkins to

850
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 7: go get better even when you guys are really good.

851
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Speaker 7: What is that front office done to put you guys

852
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Speaker 7: in this position?

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Speaker 15: Well, I think you can say a lot of great

854
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Speaker 15: things about Brett Veach and the job he's done over

855
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Speaker 15: the last five or six years. And Trump's are rebuilding

856
00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 15: the roster every year. This Super oh we're gonna have

857
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Speaker 15: five players who were on the team in Super Bowl

858
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Speaker 15: fifty four only five years ago, which shows you what

859
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Speaker 15: an amazing job he's done of working the roster.

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Speaker 2: But to your point about this year, we had a lot.

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Speaker 15: Of injuries and Brett was able to find guys on

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Speaker 15: the street or another team's rosters that would be a

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Speaker 15: good fit for what we needed at and he did

864
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Speaker 15: a magnificent job by plugging the holes waiting until we

865
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Speaker 15: got guys healthy. And the great news now is is

866
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Speaker 15: we're going into the Super Bowl with a really healthy roster.

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Speaker 1: Your fans are all over the city. Clark, thank you

868
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Speaker 1: very much for being here. I hope you get to

869
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Speaker 1: soak this up at it. Joe, Well, thank you.

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Speaker 15: Special night and it's great to see so much red

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Speaker 15: in the stands.

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl opening night, rolling on from the Caesar Superdome.

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Speaker 1: You'd hear by the tears behind me. The Eagles are

874
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Speaker 1: making their way out. There's a few boots up there too,

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Speaker 1: not that they ever are coming from Clark, who knows.

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Speaker 4: Maybe they are.

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Speaker 2: We'll see you under

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Speaker 3: Up benea