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Speaker 1: to his practice, but I go to all these other

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Speaker 1: practices over the last whatever seven eight years. If you

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Speaker 1: go to a Shanahan practice, the ones, the twos, and

429
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Speaker 1: the threes. The three sometimes as training camp goes on,

430
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Speaker 1: take unequal amount of reps, but the ones in the

431
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Speaker 1: twos typically take the same amount of reps, so it's

432
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Speaker 1: like four and four. But if you go to Andy

433
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Speaker 1: Reid's practice, the ones take eighty percent of the reps,

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Speaker 1: so they're taking like seven or eight, and the twos

435
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Speaker 1: are then taken two or three. So if you are

436
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Speaker 1: a starter, the intensity of practice is just it's relentless

437
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Speaker 1: and his big thing which clearly works. And I'm a

438
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Speaker 1: believer in this, Like in the fight game, there's a

439
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Speaker 1: reason I'm not a big UFC guy. I actually just

440
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Speaker 1: found out the Sugar Shan guy trains. I've only gone

441
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Speaker 1: there once, to this CrossFit gym that I went to

442
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Speaker 1: and uh so I was watching the UFC and KOed

443
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Speaker 1: the dude, So that was cool. But obviously, when you

444
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Speaker 1: spar whether you're UFC, whether you're a wrestler, whether you're

445
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:59,600
Speaker 1: a boxer, you're building. Your callusis you're building, You're making

446
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Speaker 1: your body tougher to handle the punishment for the actual fight.

447
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,920
Speaker 1: Football is no different, right, There's a reason you wear

448
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,359
Speaker 1: pads to hit for the speed of the game. Historically,

449
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Speaker 1: before like the last decade, tackling in practice was normal

450
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,119
Speaker 1: because you're going to tackle in the games. But we

451
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Speaker 1: no longer do that. And I don't even think Andy

452
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Speaker 1: Reid is tackling every day to the ground. But in

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Speaker 1: terms of physicality consistently, it's really physical, right. The forty

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Speaker 1: nine ers are easily one of the more physical teams

455
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Their practices are not now. They just

456
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Speaker 1: benefit from having kind of crazy talented physical I don't know,

457
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Speaker 1: I mean badasses. But if you go to their practice,

458
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Speaker 1: it is not guys getting lit up. It's a lot

459
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Speaker 1: of like Trent Williams, Nick Bosa, and Kittle standing on

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Speaker 1: the sideline right. So everyone there's not a right or

461
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Speaker 1: wrong way to do it. But I do think that

462
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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, Nickveigh didn't play anybody and

463
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Speaker 1: it set the tone. I remember Coward had a big

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Speaker 1: thing like that that changed preseason, and it did for

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Speaker 1: a long period of time, and then they yanked one

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Speaker 1: of the pre season games. Now we got seventeen games, right,

467
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Speaker 1: regular season game, so you only got three preseason games.

468
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Speaker 1: I think a bunch of teams now joint practice which

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Speaker 1: are physical, which kind of weird right now, some of

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Speaker 1: these joint practices. Last week the Jets canceled THEIRS. The

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Speaker 1: Patriots just canceled THEIRS with the Titans. Now, part of

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Speaker 1: that has to do with Bolden, but I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of teams if you don't have it buttoned up

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Speaker 1: enough and there's too much fighting, it's hard to get

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Speaker 1: stuff done. But if you know what you're doing and

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Speaker 1: the guys buy in, you get a lot of work done,

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Speaker 1: so you don't have to necessarily play those guys in

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Speaker 1: the preseason. But I turned on the forty nine er

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Speaker 1: Bronco game, all the starters are in. I look at

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Speaker 1: the Packer Patriot game, starters are playing. I look up

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs Cardinal game. Mahomes is in for a couple series, right, So,

482
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Speaker 1: and I just saw headline Aaron Rodgers plans on playing

483
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Speaker 1: in the last preseason game. Kyle Shanahan said his starters

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Speaker 1: will play again. I do wonder if teams because the

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Speaker 1: only way to get ready for Week one it is

486
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Speaker 1: really difficult. You can go, yeah, our guys A veteran player,

487
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Speaker 1: he knows what he's doing. He doesn't need any reps.

488
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Speaker 1: And I understand with older players like Trent Williams, ain't

489
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Speaker 1: gonna play a snap in the preseason. George Kittle. I

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Speaker 1: can just speak for the Niners, so I'm not watching

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Speaker 1: every preseason game, but like I'm sorry, Mac Jones, Jordan

492
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Speaker 1: Love the offensive line ahead of them, Jimmy Garoppolo like

493
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Speaker 1: fuck it, let him play. So I completely understand it,

494
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Speaker 1: and I do think it's shifting a little bit. It

495
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Speaker 1: just shows you how kind of cyclical things can be

496
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Speaker 1: in sports in general, but especially in football, because I

497
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Speaker 1: think too many teams, not everyone before when Belichick had Brady,

498
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Speaker 1: they always treated September as like an extension of training

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Speaker 1: camp to feel out their team. They didn't need to start,

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Speaker 1: they didn't need to go four to zho. They just

501
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Speaker 1: kind of figured out their way, go three and one,

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Speaker 1: two and two, evaluate their team, and then they get

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Speaker 1: hotter as the season goes along. Well, most teams don't

504
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Speaker 1: have Belichick and Brady. You can't afford to start slow,

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Speaker 1: go on, and you can't dig yourself out of the hole.

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Speaker 1: Think last year with the Lions, right, they dug themselves

507
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Speaker 1: a hole and then it was it was too late.

508
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Speaker 1: By the last game of the season. They couldn't even

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Speaker 1: play their way in. Same with the Steelers, started slowan

510
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Speaker 1: and fucked them. Now, part of that was when they

511
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Speaker 1: went with Mitch Trubisky and not you know, a guy

512
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Speaker 1: that had been starting for years in college in Kenny Pickett.

513
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Speaker 1: But I do think Tomlan kind of learned from that

514
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Speaker 1: mistake it cost him, and I think that goes back

515
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Speaker 1: to like the extra urgency in training camp this year.

516
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Speaker 1: But I do wonder highly recommend this article Andy Reid

517
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Speaker 1: and training camps. But things are all relative too, because

518
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Speaker 1: I remember the first camp after the CBA, Douce Staley

519
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Speaker 1: was standing next to me and he's like this is

520
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Speaker 1: a country club compared to what we went through, because

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Speaker 1: I remember my first training camp in Philly. Live goal line.

522
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Speaker 1: I'm talking like tackling to the ground. Guy's flying over

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Speaker 1: the pile. I would imagine if you went to potentially

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Speaker 1: every practice, I don't exactly know, like what a Saban

525
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Speaker 1: would do or a Kirby Smart. They're definitely running goal line,

526
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Speaker 1: but I'm talking like tackling to the ground. Now, you

527
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Speaker 1: could argue it's hard to practice goal line without tackling,

528
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Speaker 1: but this goal line looked like bodies were flying, And

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Speaker 1: I just went Jesus, Welcome to the NFL. And I

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Speaker 1: do wonder if we're going to see a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a shift back to preseason games, at least with

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Speaker 1: the starters for a series or two, because before with

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Speaker 1: the four preseason games, everyone did the same thing. First

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Speaker 1: preseason game, starters got a series. Second preseason game starters

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Speaker 1: got two to three maybe a quarter third preseason game,

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Speaker 1: depending on how you did, Like if you scored a

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Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns in the first quarter, maybe had Yankee,

538
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Speaker 1: but for the most part you got a half, and

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Speaker 1: some teams did a half with a series after the

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Speaker 1: half to kind of mentally prepare, and then the fourth

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Speaker 1: preseason game was irrelevant. Just your backups and your practice

542
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Speaker 1: squad guys and your fringe guys. I'd keep an eye

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Speaker 1: on that. I do wonder if the preseason is going

544
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Speaker 1: to get back to its roots over the next decade

545
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Speaker 1: A little bit last, but not least. I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of you guys, if you're watching your team playing

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Speaker 1: the preseason once it gets to the second half, if

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Speaker 1: you're still watching, I don't blame me if you turn

549
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Speaker 1: it off, But what else are you gonna do? You

550
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 1: know what am I really watching? Right? Because you see

551
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: guys make plays. You see guys like this guy had

552
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Speaker 1: four catches in a preseason game, or this guy had

553
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Speaker 1: a sack, And it's hard. When I first got to

554
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Speaker 1: the NFL, I kind of had to be taught from

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Speaker 1: a scouting perspective, the way teams evaluate these players. It's

556
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Speaker 1: not really based on stats, right this guy ran for

557
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Speaker 1: one hundred yards in the third preseason game. It's more

558
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Speaker 1: based on physical characteristics, like would this translate? Because you

559
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Speaker 1: don't know, you're you're kind of guessing if it's an

560
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Speaker 1: undrafted free agent or a practice squad guy or a

561
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Speaker 1: seventh round pick. But you can see traits now sometimes

562
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Speaker 1: like oh, this guy had three sacks in the preseason,

563
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Speaker 1: and then you go back and look, two of them

564
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Speaker 1: were untouched because the offensive tackle is going to be,

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Speaker 1: you know, selling insurance here in a month, right, So

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Speaker 1: everything is put into somewhat context in the scouting rule now.

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Speaker 1: With quarterbacks, for example, like Trey Lance yesterday was playing

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter of the game against the Broncos.

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Speaker 1: I have no clue most of the guys he's playing against,

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Speaker 1: but it didn't necessarily matter from an evaluation standpoint, because

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Speaker 1: he looked pretty good. He was just much calmer. He

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Speaker 1: just he made some of the better passes of his career,

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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, and it's like what you

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Speaker 1: like to see, just some improvement, but also just because

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Speaker 1: you make a good throw. For example, and this goes

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Speaker 1: to the preseason in general, especially with guys that haven't

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Speaker 1: done anything in the NFL. Jordan Love had a really

578
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Speaker 1: really nice touchdown pass I guess against. This would have

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Speaker 1: been Saturday night against the Patriots, and if I was

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Speaker 1: a Packer fan, I'd be excited, like that's what you

581
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: want to see. But for Jordan Love to be a

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Speaker 1: good player, in the NFL. It's not gonna be about

583
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Speaker 1: one pass. He's got a good arm, he's pretty athletic.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be about can he do it over the

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Speaker 1: course of a game, over the course of a month,

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Speaker 1: over the course of playing all the division opponents the

587
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Speaker 1: second time. Those are the unknowns. You don't know, right,

588
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Speaker 1: how does it look when there's a true game plan,

589
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Speaker 1: because once you get into the second half of these games,

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Speaker 1: there is one hundred percent no game plan. You are

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Speaker 1: just running the place if you're an offense or you're

592
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Speaker 1: running the plays the defense that you've just run in

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Speaker 1: practice throughout. There's no this was schemed against this look.

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Speaker 1: It's very very basic. Now when my Jordan Love example,

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Speaker 1: they might have put some emphasis on some game plan

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Speaker 1: stuff for some of these preseason games to start that

597
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Speaker 1: kind of a kind of mindset because he's going to

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Speaker 1: be the starter. And it's a very positive I'm not

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Speaker 1: taking anything away from but you just don't know. Like

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Speaker 1: rock Perty, if he had never played before in his

601
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Speaker 1: drive he had against the Denver Broncos, I go, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a positive thing, but I don't know what it's

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Speaker 1: going to look like. But he had the seven eight

604
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Speaker 1: games last year, where we go that just looks like that. Look, now,

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Speaker 1: there are some guys like I never had a problem

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Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers not playing for the Packers in the preseason.

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00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: It's like it's thirty seven, thirty eight years old. What's

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Speaker 1: the point. I do understand with the Jets a lot

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Speaker 1: of moving pieces. I just watched Hard Knocks the other night.

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Speaker 1: It's definitely concerning their offensive line. It really is right

611
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Speaker 1: they are. They have no chance to win the super

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Speaker 1: Bowl if their offensive line is like bottom ten in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Now, based on the way they look and

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Speaker 1: based on the talent they have on their team, it's

615
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Speaker 1: obviously not easy to improve. But it's one percent of

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Speaker 1: red flag. I'm still just going to try to give

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Speaker 1: them the benefit of the doubt. But I was going

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Speaker 1: to pick them to win the division before training camp started.

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Speaker 1: I definitely hesitate now, where I do think that I

620
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: probably underestimate their defensive line with the Jets, is could

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Speaker 1: be fucking dominant. Quentin Williams looks like a bigger version

622
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Speaker 1: of Warren Sap. He is a monster. Now. We know

623
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Speaker 1: he was good because we saw him play last year

624
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 1: and he was a badass. But you watch him right

625
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 1: now his and said that guy looks like a poise

626
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: for a season like Chris Jones just had. And then

627
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: they draft the guy last year, Johnson from Florida State,

628
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: the Georgia transfer. They draft Will McDonald this year in

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Speaker 1: the top twenty or what pick was at fifteen seventeen

630
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Speaker 1: or whatever it was from Mott I think Iowa State.

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Speaker 1: So they got edge pressure, they got interior pressure. Sauce

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00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: Gardner is probably the best corner in the NFL. One

633
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Speaker 1: of them. Him and Patrick's retained, so their defense has

634
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: a chance to be unreal. But their past game is

635
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: a problem if they just can't block people. But this

636
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Speaker 1: is the time to figure it out. And I would

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Speaker 1: like to get some live reps because I know that

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Speaker 1: Aaron if he sees a guy go unblock and just

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Speaker 1: hit the ground, he's like Peyton or Brady. He's not

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Speaker 1: not proven anything. Last night I saw Zach Wilson. I

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Speaker 1: didn't watch much of the game. I didn't watch any

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Speaker 1: of the game beside the highlight. Just took off like

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Speaker 1: he was like Lamar Jackson. It was sweet, like Aaron

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Speaker 1: ain't doing that. Not he probably even couldn't. But you

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Speaker 1: know some guys like what do I gotta lose? And

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Speaker 1: I think it also can be concerning the other way

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Speaker 1: when like ultimately had need you to go whatever, let's

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Speaker 1: say twelve or fourteen if you're my backup quarterback, but

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Speaker 1: if you look terrible, like Marcus Mariota with the Eagles.

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Speaker 1: I watched some of that game the other night. Just

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Speaker 1: looked terrible. I mean, he looked awful. Now he's been bad,

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Speaker 1: it feels like for a couple of years, and I

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Speaker 1: root for him just I remember meeting him a couple

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Speaker 1: of years ago, watched him in college. I want him

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Speaker 1: to just succeed, but he just looks bad. And it's

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Speaker 1: weird just because you're bad as a backup. Look at

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Speaker 1: Matt Barkley. Matt Barkley's awful is his TV. The interception

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Speaker 1: ratio is like eleven of twenty two in his career

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Speaker 1: and he's played for a decade. People like it. And

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Speaker 1: we talked about this for a while. To be a

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Speaker 1: good backup isn't just about like I think I can

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Speaker 1: win with you. It's like, do I like you. There's

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Speaker 1: a small percentage of backups, like just go look around

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Speaker 1: the league. Do you feel like we could win some games, right.

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Speaker 1: The Cowboys had one last year when Dak went out,

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Speaker 1: Cooper Rush just won him some games. I think the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers think with Sam Darnold, if they could

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Speaker 1: just win some games, now, could they maintain winning? It's very,

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Speaker 1: very hard. Most backups come in you immediately suck. But

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Speaker 1: when you have a backup who you know is not good,

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Speaker 1: like Matt Barkley or Chase Daniels for years because you

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Speaker 1: like them, but is not a good player. If your

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Speaker 1: quarterback has a major injury, you are in major trouble.

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Speaker 1: So that's something to keep a big time eye on.

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Speaker 1: Now now it makes it a little bit easier now

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Speaker 1: with the third quarterback. I don't even know it's third

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Speaker 1: quarterback rule or you're allowed to have three quarterbacks up

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Speaker 1: on game day. I do think that'll influence the league

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Speaker 1: and have an impact on guys being claimed and teams

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Speaker 1: keeping three quarterbacks on their roster. But just because you

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Speaker 1: can't keep three quarterbacks on your roster, you got to

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Speaker 1: find three quarterbacks on your roster that are worth keeping

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Speaker 1: that you're like, I'd be cool with this guy playing

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Speaker 1: in a game, and it's I mean, do the math right?

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Speaker 1: We always say there's not sixty four quarterbacks, let alone,

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Speaker 1: what's the math there? Sixty four ninety six? Am I

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Speaker 1: doing that correctly? I think I am? So yeah. I mean,

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Speaker 1: let's enjoy this last week of the preseason. The volume