1
00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:12,040
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones said goodbye to the Giants on Thursday. Today

2
00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,920
Speaker 1: he went goodbye. What does his release mean for the

3
00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,520
Speaker 1: Giants and could we see him playing in another uniform

4
00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,599
Speaker 1: this season? We will tell you the latest on Danny Dimes,

5
00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:26,920
Speaker 1: Jameis Winston has breathed new life into the Browns or

6
00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,160
Speaker 1: hoping last night's win could snowball?

7
00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:30,440
Speaker 2: Do you get it?

8
00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:30,880
Speaker 3: Now?

9
00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:32,080
Speaker 2: Seriously, do you get it?

10
00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:34,440
Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger is gonna be here to break down how

11
00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:36,640
Speaker 1: Cleveland took the Steelers down and what was the deal

12
00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,360
Speaker 1: with those Justin Field snaps. Meanwhile, it is Harbaugh versus

13
00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:44,600
Speaker 1: Harbaugh on Monday night and Justin Herbert versus Lamar Jackson.

14
00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:46,520
Speaker 2: How does Jim get his first win?

15
00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,280
Speaker 1: And will the loser wrestle the winner to the ground?

16
00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:52,680
Speaker 2: I would watch that fight on Netflix.

17
00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:58,880
Speaker 1: Welcome Inside with the Insiders alongside Ian Rappaport and Mike Girafolo.

18
00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,360
Speaker 1: I am I'm Tom Pelicero. We shook up the snow

19
00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,600
Speaker 1: Globe for the start of Week twelve last night. We

20
00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,600
Speaker 1: will get into all the big matchups on Sunday and

21
00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:12,000
Speaker 1: Monday throughout the course of this show, but let's start

22
00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,399
Speaker 1: out with a guy who at least for the next

23
00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,560
Speaker 1: few days. Here does not have a team because Daniel

24
00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:22,360
Speaker 1: Jones asked for and received his release earlier today, mere

25
00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,600
Speaker 1: days after he had been demoted all the way to

26
00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,440
Speaker 1: third string, with Tommy Devitos set to make his first

27
00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:31,920
Speaker 1: start of the season this week against the Buccaneers. The

28
00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,920
Speaker 1: owner John Mara put out a statement earlier today saying

29
00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:36,839
Speaker 1: that Daniel came to see me this morning and asked

30
00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:37,679
Speaker 1: we would release him.

31
00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,240
Speaker 2: We mutually agreed that would be best for him and

32
00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:41,240
Speaker 2: the team.

33
00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,920
Speaker 1: Daniel has seen been a great representative of our organization,

34
00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,840
Speaker 1: first class in every way. His handling of this situation

35
00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,520
Speaker 1: yesterday exemplifies that we were all disappointed in how things

36
00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,040
Speaker 1: have worked out. We hold Daniel in high regard and

37
00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:56,320
Speaker 1: have a great appreciation for him. We wish him nothing

38
00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,000
Speaker 1: but the best in the future. Here is what Brian

39
00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,160
Speaker 1: Dabele had to say on the firm end of the

40
00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:03,000
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones era.

41
00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:05,760
Speaker 4: This was not a you know, this is not an

42
00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:09,880
Speaker 4: easy situation when things happened like this, and again he

43
00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,440
Speaker 4: came in this morning talk with mister Marra.

44
00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:13,680
Speaker 3: Again.

45
00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,239
Speaker 4: They had their discussion. We talked, thought it was best

46
00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,240
Speaker 4: for him to be able to do that. You know,

47
00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:20,920
Speaker 4: he put a lot into it and he's a great

48
00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:23,000
Speaker 4: young man. It's never easy.

49
00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:24,880
Speaker 5: Do you think this is the best for the team.

50
00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:29,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, looks, you know that's we had good conversations. Those

51
00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:31,960
Speaker 4: are in private. He's been nothing but a pro and

52
00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:33,919
Speaker 4: got to get ready to play here.

53
00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:35,560
Speaker 2: We've talked about it all week.

54
00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,840
Speaker 1: Their financial ramifications to the Giants moving on from Daniel

55
00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,400
Speaker 1: Jones at this stage, but the football ramifications really can't

56
00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:45,240
Speaker 1: be argued. Three and thirteen since the start of twenty

57
00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,959
Speaker 1: twenty three, the Giants were with Daniel Jones in the lineup.

58
00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:52,680
Speaker 1: His numbers across the board among the worst in the NFL.

59
00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,040
Speaker 1: So it's going to be Tommy DeVito starting this week.

60
00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:56,440
Speaker 2: Ian.

61
00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:00,160
Speaker 1: In terms of Daniel Jones and his future, he is

62
00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,280
Speaker 1: subject to waivers. Any team claiming him would owe him

63
00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,320
Speaker 1: eight figures and guaranteed money, So pretty good bet come

64
00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:08,680
Speaker 1: four pm Eastern time on Monday, he's going to be

65
00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:09,240
Speaker 1: a free agent.

66
00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:11,320
Speaker 2: So why now and what's next?

67
00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,359
Speaker 6: I do not expect Daniel Jones to get claimed. That's

68
00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:16,239
Speaker 6: not a surprise. I don't think anyone expects him to

69
00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:18,480
Speaker 6: get claimed. It's not just the money this year It's

70
00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:20,840
Speaker 6: also the same issue, frankly, that the New York Giants

71
00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:24,119
Speaker 6: had the twenty three million dollars guaranteed for injury next year,

72
00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:28,600
Speaker 6: which actually goes to why the Giants agreed with Daniel Jones'

73
00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:31,600
Speaker 6: request to be released today. And look, just let me

74
00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,520
Speaker 6: go back for a second the way it was yesterday

75
00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,800
Speaker 6: with Daniel Jones. I know, people talked about him being

76
00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:36,880
Speaker 6: the fourth string quarterback.

77
00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:37,560
Speaker 2: He was not.

78
00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:39,880
Speaker 6: He was no string. He was not going to play,

79
00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:42,320
Speaker 6: He was not in the depth chart. He was no string.

80
00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:44,560
Speaker 6: He was just someone who was there at practice, there

81
00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:46,760
Speaker 6: in the weight room. If he had got injured, that

82
00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:48,640
Speaker 6: would have been bad for the Giants, either in practice

83
00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:50,480
Speaker 6: or in the weight room. It did not make sense

84
00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:52,920
Speaker 6: for him to be there. The Giants, from my understanding,

85
00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:54,160
Speaker 6: gave him the choice.

86
00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:55,360
Speaker 2: This was the choice.

87
00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:57,720
Speaker 6: He chose to be released and tried to go play

88
00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:00,440
Speaker 6: somewhere else, so it didn't make sense for him to

89
00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:02,160
Speaker 6: be in the building. They obviously moved.

90
00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:02,280
Speaker 2: On for him.

91
00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:03,720
Speaker 6: If you're gonna move on for him at the end

92
00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:06,400
Speaker 6: of the season, just move on now. So yes, Daniel

93
00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:09,360
Speaker 6: Jones is expected to be a free agent Monday. And

94
00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,680
Speaker 6: then it gets really interesting because rarely, rarely do you

95
00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:18,040
Speaker 6: have an experienced veteran quarterback available halfway through the season

96
00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:20,120
Speaker 6: or a little more. In fact, it almost never happened.

97
00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,560
Speaker 6: You have you know, guys like Jay Culler or whatever

98
00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,400
Speaker 6: available before training camp, but almost never like this. The

99
00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:27,800
Speaker 6: Baker Mayfield situation is the only one I could remember.

100
00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,680
Speaker 6: Daniel and Jones is not perfect. It was the right

101
00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,440
Speaker 6: thing for him and the Giants to move on. But

102
00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,120
Speaker 6: for someone this year, he is expected to be an

103
00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,240
Speaker 6: option to quarterback and that is when it's going to

104
00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,360
Speaker 6: get really interesting for him and his future.

105
00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,040
Speaker 5: Mike, Let's clean up a couple of loose ends.

106
00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,120
Speaker 7: Daniel Jones addressed the media and addressed the fan base

107
00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,320
Speaker 7: just yesterday. The reason for that is that he knew

108
00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:51,320
Speaker 7: that there was a chance, whether it was the scenario

109
00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:55,359
Speaker 7: that Ian painted where he just went away or was released,

110
00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,400
Speaker 7: which is what happened today, that he was gonna be

111
00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:00,440
Speaker 7: gone in the near future, and he wanted to say

112
00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,080
Speaker 7: goodbye to the Giants franchise and to the fan base,

113
00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:06,720
Speaker 7: and he did it in a classy way with that

114
00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:10,320
Speaker 7: statement and also taking questions. So good on Daniel Jones

115
00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:12,720
Speaker 7: for that. Remember, just a couple of years ago. By

116
00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:14,599
Speaker 7: the way, John Marrow was the one who said, we

117
00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:17,120
Speaker 7: have done everything we possibly can to screw this kid up,

118
00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:19,919
Speaker 7: meaning we kept turning over head coaches, we kept turning

119
00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,599
Speaker 7: over offensive coordinators, and he wanted to see him get

120
00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,400
Speaker 7: an extended period in the same offense. Obviously, it didn't

121
00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:29,040
Speaker 7: work out, and nobody was happy about that in the end.

122
00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:33,280
Speaker 7: But go back also to earlier this week when Jones

123
00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,520
Speaker 7: was out there as the scout team safety and during

124
00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:39,000
Speaker 7: a walkthrough that is a common thing for players who

125
00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,440
Speaker 7: are not the frontline starters. You need bodies out there

126
00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,000
Speaker 7: to line guys up. The Giants didn't ask him to

127
00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,080
Speaker 7: do that. He volunteered to do that. They said, we

128
00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:48,600
Speaker 7: need a show team out there. He just walked right

129
00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:50,880
Speaker 7: out on his own, wanted to help in any way

130
00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,159
Speaker 7: that he possibly could, knowing that he wasn't getting any

131
00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,800
Speaker 7: reps in practice or in the game. So Daniel Jones

132
00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,240
Speaker 7: handled this with class all the way through. So I'm

133
00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,600
Speaker 7: not surprised then that when he went in and asked

134
00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:03,320
Speaker 7: John Marra, given their history and given how he handled

135
00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,320
Speaker 7: things this week, the Giants said, Okay, you know what,

136
00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:06,760
Speaker 7: We're going to grant you that release.

137
00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:09,360
Speaker 1: Just to be very clear too on the salary cap ramifications.

138
00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,039
Speaker 1: If they waited until the start of the twenty twenty

139
00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,360
Speaker 1: five league year in March, they could have split up

140
00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,440
Speaker 1: the dead cap hit Instead, they released them now, which

141
00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,200
Speaker 1: means the full twenty two million dollars dead cap hit

142
00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:21,440
Speaker 1: hits in twenty twenty five, Daniel Jones is off the

143
00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:23,120
Speaker 1: books entirely in twenty twenty six.

144
00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:23,920
Speaker 2: If that seems like.

145
00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:26,800
Speaker 1: A big number, it is, but Daniel Jones viewer on

146
00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,280
Speaker 1: the roster would have counted upwards of forty millions. They

147
00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,040
Speaker 1: actually save close to twenty million dollars in cap space,

148
00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:33,839
Speaker 1: and they will of course need it because now the

149
00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:37,600
Speaker 1: New York Giants are officially in the quarterback market.

150
00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:38,800
Speaker 2: The forty nine Ers are not.

151
00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:41,000
Speaker 1: But they're going to have a different quarterback out there

152
00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:43,919
Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Packers. This was a surprise and

153
00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,960
Speaker 1: really an evolving situation through the course of the week,

154
00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:50,680
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan announcing just a short time ago brock Perty

155
00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,440
Speaker 1: is out for a huge game on Sunday against the

156
00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:57,680
Speaker 1: Packers at lambeau Field because of an injury to his

157
00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:01,080
Speaker 1: right shoulder. Here's what Kyle Shanahan sad to say.

158
00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:04,400
Speaker 8: I don't want to say there's long term concern. You know,

159
00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:06,880
Speaker 8: we got to MRIH on Monday. We thought he just

160
00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:09,000
Speaker 8: needed some rest and really weren't concerned about him not

161
00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:11,160
Speaker 8: being good this week. But when he started up Thursday

162
00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:14,360
Speaker 8: just surprised him, surprised us how it felt.

163
00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:16,280
Speaker 2: So he had to shut him down.

164
00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:18,760
Speaker 8: And so I really don't want to think of it.

165
00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:20,640
Speaker 8: You know, the MEMRII doesn't look like that, so it

166
00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:22,920
Speaker 8: should be all right. But on the way it responded

167
00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:24,840
Speaker 8: this week, it's really up in the air for next week,

168
00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:26,280
Speaker 8: so we'll have to see on Monday.

169
00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,680
Speaker 1: My understanding is ian this is not anything that is

170
00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,640
Speaker 1: expected to require surgery. They're certainly hopefully he's back next

171
00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,000
Speaker 1: week against the Bills, but they also thought as of Thursday,

172
00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,040
Speaker 1: as you're sure Kyle Shanahan say that he was going

173
00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,679
Speaker 1: to play this Sunday. You're talking about a throwing shoulder.

174
00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:43,680
Speaker 1: These things can be a little bit unpredictable.

175
00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:44,120
Speaker 2: What do we know?

176
00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:48,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, described mostly as soreness, which you know, you could

177
00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:49,880
Speaker 6: sort of say, oh, he's just sore. But when it's

178
00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:52,040
Speaker 6: your like you said, when it's your throwing shoulder, when

179
00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:53,800
Speaker 6: it's a quarterback, when he's got to throw a lot,

180
00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,920
Speaker 6: not just in a game, but in practice. Getting reps

181
00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:00,320
Speaker 6: soreness to a throwing shoulder can be a significant deal.

182
00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,160
Speaker 6: And so brock Purdy not going to play this weekend.

183
00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,000
Speaker 6: You know, Kyle Shanahan was pretty transparent. That does seem

184
00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:08,280
Speaker 6: to be the way it transpired. You had some tests,

185
00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,520
Speaker 6: everyone thought, yeah, he's probably gonna be okay, just needs

186
00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,080
Speaker 6: to respond well, and then it didn't respond well. Which

187
00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:15,360
Speaker 6: is why for those of us who talk about injuries

188
00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:17,680
Speaker 6: all the time, it's sometimes tough to pin down when

189
00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:19,720
Speaker 6: a guy is going to be able to get out there,

190
00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:21,400
Speaker 6: when he's going to be full speed, when he's going

191
00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:23,560
Speaker 6: to just be able to warm the thing up and go,

192
00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:27,120
Speaker 6: because some of it is determined by just how you feel.

193
00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:29,480
Speaker 6: Clearly did not feel good enough. You could sort of

194
00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:32,000
Speaker 6: see when he didn't practice hardly all on Thursday. This

195
00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:35,000
Speaker 6: was headed in a bad direction. So no brock Purdy

196
00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:38,280
Speaker 6: on Sunday. Brandon Allen, who you know, does have experience,

197
00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:39,720
Speaker 6: has been out there, has been out there for the

198
00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:41,600
Speaker 6: Bengals and for some others.

199
00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:43,200
Speaker 5: We know.

200
00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:46,040
Speaker 6: Kyle's Shanna insistent is an excellent one we have seen

201
00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:49,000
Speaker 6: over the course of the years, several random quarterbacks, not

202
00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,720
Speaker 6: saying Brandon Allen is random, but several random quarterbacks go

203
00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:54,760
Speaker 6: out there and do it. Another opportunity for the forty

204
00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:56,880
Speaker 6: nine ers just to stay alive in this thing and

205
00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:59,720
Speaker 6: somehow do it another time without one of their big

206
00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:00,400
Speaker 6: times stars.

207
00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,079
Speaker 7: Yep, if Joshua Dobbs as well as well as Tanner

208
00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:06,200
Speaker 7: Mordecai on the practice squad, so they could have a

209
00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,000
Speaker 7: transaction coming up tomorrow. We shall see elsewhere with the

210
00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,640
Speaker 7: forty nine ers. Nick Bosa not going to play. He's

211
00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:15,880
Speaker 7: got that hip injury which led to the oblique on

212
00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:17,959
Speaker 7: the other side now injured on both I feel like

213
00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:20,560
Speaker 7: we've seen a ton of oblique injuries, more so than

214
00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:21,920
Speaker 7: usual this year.

215
00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,120
Speaker 5: Nick Bosa one of them.

216
00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:24,559
Speaker 7: And you knew when he couldn't finish the game the

217
00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:26,880
Speaker 7: other day that it was pretty bad, so not surprising

218
00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:31,119
Speaker 7: he's missing the next game. Trent Williams, though, remains questionable,

219
00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:33,960
Speaker 7: despite the fact that he didn't practice this week. Trent

220
00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:35,520
Speaker 7: Williams a tough guy, so you know he's going to

221
00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:37,839
Speaker 7: do anything he possibly can to be out there.

222
00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:40,400
Speaker 5: We'll keep an eye on his status with his ankle.

223
00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:43,719
Speaker 7: You will get no sympathy from the Packers because they'll say, yeah,

224
00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,440
Speaker 7: we're without Jay or Alexander and the forty nine Ers

225
00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:48,680
Speaker 7: in the past have gone on the road in one

226
00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:51,560
Speaker 7: games with guys injured. Just gonna have to do it

227
00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:53,120
Speaker 7: again here against Green Bay.

228
00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:58,000
Speaker 1: Tanner Mordecai, by the way, played six college seasons Oklahoma,

229
00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:01,600
Speaker 1: SMU and wiscons When Mike says a name that I

230
00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:03,880
Speaker 1: can't quite job where exactly, I know a lot of

231
00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:06,520
Speaker 1: people go to college for six years. They're called doctors.

232
00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,240
Speaker 1: That's not the only injury impact in the games coming

233
00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:12,120
Speaker 1: up here in Week twelve, A big one for the Eagles.

234
00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:15,040
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith didn't practice all week because of his hamstring.

235
00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:17,640
Speaker 2: He is out for Sunday's game.

236
00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:21,000
Speaker 1: Isaiah Pacheco still working his way back from that ankle injury.

237
00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,920
Speaker 2: He also is going to need another week.

238
00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:26,480
Speaker 1: According to Andy Reid, DeAndre Swift and Keenan Allen who

239
00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:29,920
Speaker 1: turned an ankle in practice. They're both listed as questionable.

240
00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:32,640
Speaker 1: Matt Ebrinflu's made it sound like he's hopeful Alan's going

241
00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:34,400
Speaker 1: to be out there, but the injury just happened today.

242
00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:36,959
Speaker 1: Will monitor that and Mike Evans talked to the media

243
00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,680
Speaker 1: he certainly sounds confident that he is going to be

244
00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,600
Speaker 1: able to play after missing the past three games because

245
00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:47,080
Speaker 1: of his hamstring injury. Another one to two monitor as

246
00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:55,720
Speaker 1: Week twelve, rolls on, Hey, we.

247
00:10:55,640 --> 00:11:01,880
Speaker 9: Talked about being resilient. Resilient doesn't give a Resilient doesn't care. Okay,

248
00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:04,640
Speaker 9: Resilient just worries about what's in front of them. Okay,

249
00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:06,240
Speaker 9: how about what was in front of us? We're up

250
00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:09,240
Speaker 9: eighteen six, and then the fourth quarter, all of a sudden,

251
00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:11,520
Speaker 9: we're down nineteen eight, And what do.

252
00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:13,559
Speaker 2: We need to be as a team? Resilient?

253
00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:16,520
Speaker 9: And you only do that together, You only do that

254
00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:19,160
Speaker 9: as an offense, as a defense of the special teams. Okay,

255
00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:21,320
Speaker 9: I told you to expect to win this game. I

256
00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:25,480
Speaker 9: told you to have your conviction exceed your doubts. And

257
00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:28,000
Speaker 9: what I saw from this group in that fourth quarter

258
00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,720
Speaker 9: was our conviction was so strong we were not leaving

259
00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:32,760
Speaker 9: without this.

260
00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:34,480
Speaker 2: Win as a team.

261
00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:39,320
Speaker 9: Tell us that is a great, great team win, and

262
00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:41,280
Speaker 9: I appreciate this group.

263
00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:43,400
Speaker 5: Team on three one two three.

264
00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,880
Speaker 1: Big win for the Browns coming off thereby, and a

265
00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:51,240
Speaker 1: fun post game right here. Next time that one of

266
00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,520
Speaker 1: the Harbor brothers says, who's got it better than us.

267
00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:57,400
Speaker 1: I think the answer is Jameis Winston. Is anyone on

268
00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:00,840
Speaker 1: the planet having more fun right now than Jamis Whitston,

269
00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:03,480
Speaker 1: And of course Whitworth and Sherman and the entire crew

270
00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:07,440
Speaker 1: get into the act with him right there, Mike. You know,

271
00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,320
Speaker 1: for the Steelers, obviously this is a tough loss, but

272
00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,960
Speaker 1: for the Browns also, there was just this new juice

273
00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,000
Speaker 1: that Jamis Winston brought into the building Ravalry game. It's

274
00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,560
Speaker 1: in the snow, It's on National TV, and they gutted

275
00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:19,080
Speaker 1: this one out.

276
00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:22,079
Speaker 7: If you win some games down the stretch, it's only

277
00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,280
Speaker 7: going to add fuel to the fire. For what should

278
00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:26,800
Speaker 7: the Browns do that kind of conversation with the Shawn Watson,

279
00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:29,440
Speaker 7: especially coming off an achilles, They're gonna have to have

280
00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:32,839
Speaker 7: the own their own conversations inside the building as well.

281
00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:36,520
Speaker 2: And you know, Ian, you put this to bed last night.

282
00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,400
Speaker 7: We had our show on NFL Game Day kickoff talking

283
00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,200
Speaker 7: about Kevin Stefanski that it was highly unlikely that he

284
00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:45,240
Speaker 7: is going anywhere, and this team's gonna play for him

285
00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,600
Speaker 7: down the stretch. And they still have really good players

286
00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:50,240
Speaker 7: all over this roster on both sides of the ball.

287
00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,840
Speaker 7: So you're looking at. They played Denver, they play Pittsburgh again.

288
00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:57,160
Speaker 7: They've got Baltimore coming up. They've got Miami like teams

289
00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:59,640
Speaker 7: that are Cincinnati as well, teams that are either in

290
00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:02,880
Speaker 7: the playoffs, on their way to the playoffs, or trying

291
00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,120
Speaker 7: to get into the postseason. They're gonna have a tough

292
00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:08,240
Speaker 7: time dealing with this Cleveland team, maybe not every week,

293
00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:10,920
Speaker 7: but down the stretch here, because they showed that they're

294
00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:13,120
Speaker 7: still out there and they're still playing hard.

295
00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,120
Speaker 5: And credit to the fan base for still showing up.

296
00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:17,400
Speaker 7: Al Michaels and the Kirk kurch feet did a great

297
00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,880
Speaker 7: job of giving those folks credit, especially in those conditions,

298
00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,000
Speaker 7: for showing up and for staying the entire game.

299
00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,720
Speaker 6: I mean, could have put some shirts on if they're

300
00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:27,320
Speaker 6: really gonna do it. I mean, the shots of those dudes,

301
00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:30,080
Speaker 6: big old bellies, no shirts. Meanwhile, I'm like sitting on

302
00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,200
Speaker 6: the couch with like, you know, I gotta blanket on

303
00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,480
Speaker 6: and I'm all cozy, and those guys are anyway. So

304
00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:37,280
Speaker 6: here's what stood out to me in this game. Obviously,

305
00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,280
Speaker 6: great win for the Browns, and you know, listening to

306
00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,400
Speaker 6: Kevin Sabanski talk about the resiliency of his team. You're right,

307
00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:44,760
Speaker 6: they got some guys there. They're gonna be an annoying

308
00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:46,640
Speaker 6: team to face down the stretch. We'll see what they

309
00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,360
Speaker 6: end up playing for gonna be an annoying team to face.

310
00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:49,720
Speaker 5: Down the stretch.

311
00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:53,640
Speaker 6: For me, though, this as it pertains to the Steelers,

312
00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:56,680
Speaker 6: there's such a thin margin forrer and obviously so much

313
00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:59,400
Speaker 6: has gone right for the Steelers, and Russell Wilson had

314
00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:01,160
Speaker 6: won all the games since he became a starter, and

315
00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:03,600
Speaker 6: there was so much good there. But you go out

316
00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:06,080
Speaker 6: and maybe don't one hundred percent player. Best of Russell

317
00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:09,480
Speaker 6: Wilson's stats are good. Definitely made some plays, but they

318
00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:12,840
Speaker 6: have to be almost perfect. When you're you're not a quarterback,

319
00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:17,040
Speaker 6: good driven team, when your run game, when your defense

320
00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,200
Speaker 6: and you gotta get pressure on the quart like, when

321
00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:23,080
Speaker 6: it is not absolutely perfect, this can happen. And I

322
00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:25,560
Speaker 6: would also say this, they had some We saw more

323
00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:28,960
Speaker 6: last night of the Justin Fields package then we had.

324
00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:32,040
Speaker 6: I definitely have some questions about that. I mean, Field

325
00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,560
Speaker 6: is more than just a runner. It looked a little

326
00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:37,280
Speaker 6: weird and disjointed. Obviously, Fields is talented. They want to

327
00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:39,760
Speaker 6: get him on the field. It's it's got to work

328
00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:41,440
Speaker 6: a little better than it did last night.

329
00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,240
Speaker 1: Everything the timing of it just seemed a little bit off,

330
00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:46,440
Speaker 1: and then obviously the third and fourth shot play with

331
00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:49,040
Speaker 1: Justin Fields mean, he said after the game, felt a

332
00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,120
Speaker 1: little bit stiff. He standing out there in the snow

333
00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:52,640
Speaker 1: and then go in and play a snap or two.

334
00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:55,600
Speaker 1: But listen, this is also how Mike Tomlin has kind

335
00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,360
Speaker 1: of been pushing the evolution of this. Everybody questioned when

336
00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:00,800
Speaker 1: he went to Russell Wilson, Now, it's why are you

337
00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:02,160
Speaker 1: put in Justin Fields back out there?

338
00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:02,960
Speaker 2: For some steps?

339
00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:04,440
Speaker 1: I imagine this is going to be part of the

340
00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:08,680
Speaker 1: experimentation process they go through the entire season here as

341
00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:10,400
Speaker 1: they try to figure out exactly what they're going to

342
00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:12,600
Speaker 1: look like, because they are going to be there in

343
00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:15,920
Speaker 1: January betting the Ravens and the Chargers probably going to

344
00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:16,880
Speaker 1: be there down.

345
00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:17,560
Speaker 2: At the end as well.

346
00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:20,280
Speaker 1: They face off on Monday night in a good one

347
00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:22,800
Speaker 1: right across the street here at SOFI Stadium.

348
00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:24,360
Speaker 2: Our Bridget Condon is going to.

349
00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:27,480
Speaker 1: Be there, but first she'll be here right on set,

350
00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,760
Speaker 1: joining me to break this matchup down next on The Insiders,

351
00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:42,520
Speaker 1: Chargers and Broncos Primetime Thursday Night Football Week sixteen, Big

352
00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:46,160
Speaker 1: game in the AFC West, Big game Monday Night for

353
00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:48,920
Speaker 1: the Chargers as well. And for more on that here

354
00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:51,400
Speaker 1: on the inside, let's bring in Bridget Condon right here

355
00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:54,440
Speaker 1: on set with me, Tom Pilisero. When you look at

356
00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:56,640
Speaker 1: this Chargers team, Bridge, there's so many things that seem

357
00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:59,080
Speaker 1: to be headed a positive direction. The story of JK.

358
00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,440
Speaker 1: Dobbins has been huge throughout the season. What's the latest there.

359
00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:05,480
Speaker 10: He has been such a big addition to this Chargers offense.

360
00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:08,400
Speaker 10: They needed that piece at running back the past couple

361
00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:09,480
Speaker 10: seasons and now they have it.

362
00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:09,920
Speaker 11: JK.

363
00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:13,440
Speaker 10: Dobbins has scored at least two rushing touchdowns in two

364
00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,720
Speaker 10: of their last three games. He leads the Chargers in

365
00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,360
Speaker 10: rushing yards and rushing touchdowns, and he has a chance

366
00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:22,800
Speaker 10: to do something huge Monday Night against his former team,

367
00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,600
Speaker 10: the Ravens, the team that drafted him. He spent four

368
00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:28,880
Speaker 10: seasons with Baltimore, but Monday Night, he could set a

369
00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:33,680
Speaker 10: new career record for a season in touchdowns and rushing yards.

370
00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:36,320
Speaker 10: He told me the season's been different one because he's

371
00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:37,400
Speaker 10: been healthy, but.

372
00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,600
Speaker 11: Also he says it's been special being able.

373
00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:41,720
Speaker 10: To be a part of this Chargers team and help

374
00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,600
Speaker 10: turn around the organization. They've already won more games this

375
00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,600
Speaker 10: year than they did last season. He also said, though

376
00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:49,600
Speaker 10: about playing his former team. You know, I had to

377
00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:51,600
Speaker 10: ask him about that and he said, it's gonna be

378
00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:52,240
Speaker 10: a little weird.

379
00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:53,720
Speaker 11: He still talks to those guys.

380
00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:56,000
Speaker 10: He called them his brothers, and he said, I know

381
00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:57,920
Speaker 10: that they're gonna play me really hard.

382
00:16:57,960 --> 00:16:59,440
Speaker 11: But in his words, and I.

383
00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:01,520
Speaker 10: Want to get this quo right because I'm not saying this.

384
00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:03,920
Speaker 10: He said, I gotta go whoop there.

385
00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:04,719
Speaker 5: You know what.

386
00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:07,960
Speaker 10: I don't think we can say it say it, but

387
00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:09,760
Speaker 10: you know, if he's saying that, they're gonna have fun.

388
00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:12,760
Speaker 1: Dickie albums always the numbers are always wild because his

389
00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:16,639
Speaker 1: efficiency ratings, his yards per touch were off the charts.

390
00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:20,680
Speaker 1: But torn acl a torn Achilles costume, basically two full

391
00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,520
Speaker 1: seats now. Good to see him rolling here. Also rolling

392
00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,840
Speaker 1: the Chargers defense. Jesse Mintter, the first year coordinator there,

393
00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,119
Speaker 1: who Jimar Bob brought along from the University of Michigan.

394
00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:31,560
Speaker 1: I had him on my Young Head Coaches candidate list

395
00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:34,560
Speaker 1: just this past week. What everybody says about him is

396
00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,640
Speaker 1: there's just there's so much substance there. He's so smart,

397
00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:39,520
Speaker 1: he does very well, and he's really got that you

398
00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:40,240
Speaker 1: to playing well.

399
00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:42,600
Speaker 10: They have the top scoring defense in the NFL. When

400
00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,240
Speaker 10: you think about where this defense was a season ago,

401
00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:47,919
Speaker 10: they were bottom ten in that category. There are so

402
00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,400
Speaker 10: many things going right for this Chargers team. They've won

403
00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:52,720
Speaker 10: four games in a row. A big reason why is

404
00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:55,720
Speaker 10: because of the way that defense is playing. Joey Bosa

405
00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,800
Speaker 10: has three sacks already this season. He's healthy. I had

406
00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:00,560
Speaker 10: a chance to catch up with him and he said,

407
00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:03,560
Speaker 10: you remember, he's been on this team nine seasons, but

408
00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:07,040
Speaker 10: he says this season feels different as a Charger than

409
00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:08,919
Speaker 10: any other season he's ever played in.

410
00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:10,080
Speaker 11: And I asked him why, and.

411
00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:13,040
Speaker 10: He said, it's just because of games like that Bengals

412
00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,960
Speaker 10: game on Sunday Night last week, when the Bengals came

413
00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:17,919
Speaker 10: back and it looked like, oh, this is gonna be

414
00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:20,800
Speaker 10: a Bengals chance to win tonight, and in.

415
00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,000
Speaker 11: Seasons past, the Chargers would have lost.

416
00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,240
Speaker 10: That game, but they found a way to hang in there,

417
00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:27,520
Speaker 10: especially on defense, and win that game.

418
00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:29,280
Speaker 11: And that's exactly what Joey Bosa said.

419
00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,879
Speaker 10: He said, Look, you can tell us all these things,

420
00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,280
Speaker 10: but it's kind of like a false sense of confidence

421
00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:37,040
Speaker 10: until you have a game like that and you play

422
00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:40,880
Speaker 10: a situation where you don't implode and let a team

423
00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,360
Speaker 10: come from behind and win. And he's like, Jim Harbaugh

424
00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:46,720
Speaker 10: has been telling us since the beginning, if we keep

425
00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:49,959
Speaker 10: doing everything right, we have a real chance at something special.

426
00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,639
Speaker 11: And he said, for the first time, they're starting to

427
00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:52,080
Speaker 11: believe it.

428
00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:55,919
Speaker 1: Huge implications in the wild Card chase in the AFC

429
00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,679
Speaker 1: as much as anything. Monday Night, the Ravens Chargers right

430
00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:01,320
Speaker 1: over there at SOFI Stadium, three.

431
00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:05,760
Speaker 6: Hundred and sixty six pounds at the combine five point

432
00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:10,760
Speaker 6: two seven forty yard dash, one of my favorite moments

433
00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:13,000
Speaker 6: of the entire combine. Want to get to that in

434
00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,399
Speaker 6: the second. You know who I'm talking about, body, You

435
00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:16,080
Speaker 6: know who I'm talking about. I want to get to

436
00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:21,000
Speaker 6: Baldy's ballers. I'm going to talk about Dayon Henley. First,

437
00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,440
Speaker 6: I know he has been balling with the Chargers. Also

438
00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:26,000
Speaker 6: former guest on The Insiders. Want you to tell me why

439
00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:27,320
Speaker 6: you love this young linebacker?

440
00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:30,359
Speaker 12: Well, first of all, he leads his team in tackles

441
00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:32,560
Speaker 12: by a wide march. He's got ninety four tackles after

442
00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,600
Speaker 12: ten games. Derwin James the second with fifty nine, so

443
00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,639
Speaker 12: he never come off the field three the last four games,

444
00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,000
Speaker 12: He's played every snap, every package. But you know, Bridget

445
00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,800
Speaker 12: was just saying about the improvements on defense, and it

446
00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,280
Speaker 12: starts with their tackling, and dayon, Henley doesn't miss tackles.

447
00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:50,920
Speaker 12: I don't care if he's blitzing, if he's chasing, if

448
00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:53,520
Speaker 12: he's covering. He's the leader of that defense right now,

449
00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,320
Speaker 12: and they have desperately needed somebody from the linebacking position

450
00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:57,879
Speaker 12: over the.

451
00:19:57,920 --> 00:19:59,760
Speaker 2: Last couple of years to do it. He's just a

452
00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:00,760
Speaker 2: same your player.

453
00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:03,240
Speaker 12: Didn't get a chance to play much last year, but

454
00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:06,439
Speaker 12: he is taking advantage of the opportunity this year, and

455
00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:09,400
Speaker 12: he shows up everywhere ian Like. He is a every

456
00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,240
Speaker 12: down player. Sidelined the sideline, he's a blitzer.

457
00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:12,800
Speaker 1: Uh.

458
00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:15,760
Speaker 12: He is uh, one of those energizer bunnies. I think

459
00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,840
Speaker 12: that Hardball really enjoys coaching and watching them playing.

460
00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,479
Speaker 6: Got a great story, great young player, and certainly one

461
00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:24,840
Speaker 6: of the reasons that the Chargers are balling on the

462
00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:25,840
Speaker 6: I love ball these balls.

463
00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:27,119
Speaker 5: This is good, all right.

464
00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:29,200
Speaker 6: I was so excited to talk about the big man.

465
00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:29,600
Speaker 13: Uh.

466
00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,280
Speaker 6: One of my favorite combine moments. One of my favorite

467
00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,000
Speaker 6: moments of training camp when I was there with the

468
00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:38,240
Speaker 6: Tennessee Titans, Watson, Tondre, Sweat just throw people around. I

469
00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:40,159
Speaker 6: know you love him, Tell me why you love him?

470
00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:43,440
Speaker 2: Well, you know me. His nickname is meatloaf, right, I

471
00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:45,640
Speaker 2: mean that's a good that's a good nickname. Good one.

472
00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,800
Speaker 2: But I like t pain like. He brings the pain.

473
00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,040
Speaker 2: Ian like he can't get doubled. You don't move him.

474
00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,600
Speaker 12: He gets off blocks, he sheds bluck and when he

475
00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,639
Speaker 12: makes tackles, he just tosses him around like they're just

476
00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:00,840
Speaker 12: like stuffed animals out there. I mean, him next to

477
00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:04,560
Speaker 12: Jeffrey Simmons is a foundation to this defense. I think

478
00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:08,480
Speaker 12: that anybody in Tennessee can really love. But I love

479
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:11,360
Speaker 12: his energy level. He's a guy that does it fatigue.

480
00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,760
Speaker 12: He plays sixty five percent of the snaps. He's got

481
00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:18,160
Speaker 12: pass rush to him. He collapses the pocket, he's helped out,

482
00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:21,040
Speaker 12: you know, arden Key and Harold Landry on the edges

483
00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,280
Speaker 12: and him and Simmons inside run these little twist stunts

484
00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:24,760
Speaker 12: and whatnot.

485
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:29,359
Speaker 2: But to Fandre is t paint. He brings the paint in.

486
00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:30,920
Speaker 2: I love watching the kid play.

487
00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:33,119
Speaker 6: I'm gonna have to tell him that you came up

488
00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,520
Speaker 6: with a new nickname for him. Well, we'll get into

489
00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,000
Speaker 6: he's gonna be He's gonna be here for a while.

490
00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,840
Speaker 6: We got plenty of time, Baldy, Thank you very much.

491
00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:43,760
Speaker 6: Don't go anywhere. I want a little bit more from you,

492
00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:48,639
Speaker 6: especially when we're talking about last night's snowfest. Look at

493
00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:50,800
Speaker 6: Nick Chubb. I mean, is there there was a good

494
00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,000
Speaker 6: storyline coming into this game about Nick Chubb coming to

495
00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 6: face and make it fitz Patrick first time since its injury.

496
00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:59,280
Speaker 6: Chubb took it upon himself to change the story. So

497
00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,159
Speaker 6: much more on that and everything else as it pertains

498
00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:03,520
Speaker 6: at Thursday Night coming up.

499
00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:09,280
Speaker 1: Next, Steelers undefeated with Russell Wilson's they're starting quarterback entering

500
00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,560
Speaker 1: Thursday Night football. Let's talk about the real star of

501
00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 1: the show, the snow Can you even see russ in there?

502
00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:15,760
Speaker 2: Can we talk about the face?

503
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:16,120
Speaker 14: Hey?

504
00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 2: Hash marks out there now? Russell got that one.

505
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:21,679
Speaker 1: Been a long time since they score a touchdown hit

506
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:23,240
Speaker 1: Calvin Austin that gave the Steelers a.

507
00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:24,320
Speaker 2: Nineteen eighteen lead.

508
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:28,359
Speaker 1: But back come the Browns, Nick Chubb powering into the

509
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 1: end zone his second touchdown on the night. Mike Tomlin,

510
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:33,960
Speaker 1: it says here on the shot set. He's not happy.

511
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:34,720
Speaker 1: I can't tell.

512
00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 2: Can anyone see him?

513
00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 1: Did anyone see anything on the field? One last gasp

514
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:43,200
Speaker 1: for the Steelers. Russell Wilson gets absolutely demolished. George Pickens

515
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,880
Speaker 1: is trying to rip Greg Newsom's head off. The ball

516
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:49,200
Speaker 1: falls to the floor. If the Browns win, and a

517
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,920
Speaker 1: big one for them over one of their rivals of

518
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,800
Speaker 1: what has been a really difficult season. Welcome back to

519
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:59,119
Speaker 1: the Insiders, Tom Pellisero, now join by our Brian Baldinger

520
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,720
Speaker 1: for this Steelers Baldy. They've been on this run and

521
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 1: it would seem like the bounces were going their way

522
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,159
Speaker 1: last night. They did not, And there were also some

523
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,400
Speaker 1: curious decisions through the course of that game.

524
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,360
Speaker 2: Give me your breakdown. I thought so too, Tom.

525
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 12: You know, you go back and you just showed the

526
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 12: picture of Calvin Austin scoring on the twenty six twenty

527
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,800
Speaker 12: three yard touchdown pass and they go for two.

528
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,400
Speaker 2: Now they're up nineteen eighteen. You go for two, try

529
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 2: to go up three.

530
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,200
Speaker 12: So they get a one on one down here Cardero Patterson,

531
00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 12: who they hadn't thrown the ball to against Grant Delpitt,

532
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:35,639
Speaker 12: And you thought, if you want the one on one outside.

533
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,920
Speaker 2: That's the play for George Pickens. That's what he specialized in, those.

534
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,359
Speaker 12: Jump balls, that contested balls, the sideline catches. To me,

535
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,159
Speaker 12: that should have been a play for George Pickens. I

536
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 12: had questions about that one. And then later in the

537
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 12: fourth quarter, with that lead nineteen to eighteen, they had

538
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,960
Speaker 12: a third and four. Justin Fields is in the game

539
00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,360
Speaker 12: and he has not thrown a pass since oct Team

540
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 12: and they have him throw this go route to George

541
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 12: Pickens on third and four, in these conditions, in this

542
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 12: weather and all of that. On third and four, that's

543
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:15,200
Speaker 12: your choice. I mean, there's three minutes and thirty four

544
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 12: seconds to go in the fourth quarter. If you convert

545
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,480
Speaker 12: that third down, Cleveland might not get the ball back.

546
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 12: And so I just thought that was an opportunity, you know,

547
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 12: I mean, if you want Justin Field's quarterback option, run

548
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 12: pass option, okay, but the spray fade right there to

549
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,879
Speaker 12: Pickens as a low percentage throw to begin with, But

550
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,119
Speaker 12: then when you put it in those conditions, in the

551
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 12: blizzard that was going on, and the fact that Justin

552
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,200
Speaker 12: hadn't thrown a ball and well over a month, I

553
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 12: thought that was a questionable throw on third and four.

554
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:45,159
Speaker 2: I would second guess that one.

555
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 1: Justin Field's also said he felt stiff on the sidelines.

556
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 1: He's standing over there, it's cold, it's snowing. Then to

557
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,359
Speaker 1: come in and make that throw. By the way, also

558
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 1: throws like that. The downfield passing game is the reason

559
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 1: they went from Justin Fields to Russell Wilson. I would imagine, though,

560
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:00,639
Speaker 1: this will be an evolving process here in terms of

561
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 1: how they get fields on the field for the rest

562
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: of the season. Thank you very much. The Browns have

563
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,120
Speaker 1: not changed head coaches in a while. The Steelers really

564
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: have not changed head coaches in a while. We already

565
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 1: got a couple of vacancies with the Jets and the Saints.

566
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,639
Speaker 1: Here's some of the notable coaches to watch. Joe Brady

567
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 1: has revived himself his career and that Bill's offense this season.

568
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 1: Thomas Brown taken over a good week last week with

569
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 1: the Bears, and Caleb Williams, Ben Johnson. Of course, Jesse

570
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 1: Minter we talked about him. Anthony Weaver a couple of

571
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: good interviews last year. Keep an eye on that name.

572
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 1: Jim Murney, the sun of the late Steelers chairman Dan

573
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,879
Speaker 1: Rooney joined our Juda Batista on Thursday.

574
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 11: Navias that your father's name is on the Rooney Rule,

575
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 11: and be still talking awful lot about the Rooney Rule.

576
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 11: Every January seems to dominate our conversations.

577
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,919
Speaker 14: It hasn't been perfect, but I think in many ways

578
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,480
Speaker 14: it was the keystone to get everyone to start saying, Okay,

579
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 14: we have to do something more than talking about this problem.

580
00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 14: And now you see, you know, at the beginning of

581
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 14: the season we had a high water mark of nine

582
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:10,160
Speaker 14: minority coaches. You have a significant increase in terms of coordinators,

583
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 14: particularly defensive coordinators, special teams coaches. You now have women

584
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 14: coaches at a rate that you never had before. You

585
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 14: have minority and women referees on field. The general manager

586
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 14: job has increased to eleven. So over and over again,

587
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:28,959
Speaker 14: you see some really good progress. But as you've been

588
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,920
Speaker 14: part of this conversation and the experts have also said,

589
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,159
Speaker 14: you know, I think there's still a pretty big concern

590
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 14: when we look at the offensive coordinator position, and I

591
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 14: think going forward, that's something we're all going to have to,

592
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 14: you know, make sure we keep an eye on and

593
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,720
Speaker 14: address at some point, because that is the most common

594
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 14: feeder path to becoming a head coach.

595
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 5: So this is the coats what they put out there.

596
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 7: These are called the Indiana Knights uniforms, which sounds like

597
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 7: something that I don't know John Mellacamp would sing about,

598
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 7: or maybe Tom Petty or Bob Seeger or maybe they

599
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 7: all got together and wrote it together. Indiana Knight's uniform

600
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,959
Speaker 7: pretty cool, all blues with the black helmet.

601
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 15: There.

602
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 7: You know who's gonna be on hand to see them,

603
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 7: my man Cameron Wolf covering this Lions Colts game on Sunday.

604
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 7: The Lions, their journey to the top of the NFC,

605
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,360
Speaker 7: What has really defined them in your mind?

606
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 5: Camp Yeah, Mike.

607
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 15: I talked with their left tackle Taylor Decker, and he

608
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 15: told me when Dan Campbell first got here, we had

609
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,679
Speaker 15: to stack wins and practice and meetings to actually feel

610
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 15: his message coming through. It didn't translate to the win book.

611
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 15: Then he said, last year in our playoff run, we

612
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,159
Speaker 15: prove we belong, and now we know we belong and

613
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 15: we're trying to build something special and that ends in

614
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 15: the super Bowl ideally for him. And I think you

615
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 15: have to start with talking about the Lions with their

616
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 15: head coach Dan Campbell, and I think a lot of

617
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 15: people drew the headlines to the Biden knees early in

618
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,639
Speaker 15: his tenure, But as I talked to players, they tell

619
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 15: me he's more than that, you know. Decker said, he's

620
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 15: the best leader he's ever been around. Phenomenal, he said.

621
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 15: One example is every week he calls a handful of

622
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 15: players to his lock, to his office individually and sits

623
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 15: with them for about ten minutes, talks about their journey

624
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 15: that week or different troubles going on in their life.

625
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 15: And he said, that's something I've never had and it

626
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,640
Speaker 15: makes us play a different way for him. And another

627
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 15: thing that was made clear to me this week, this

628
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 15: team has a lot of talent. Now the general manager,

629
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 15: Brad Holmes has increased it tremendously. But when you look

630
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 15: at their star players in the weapon group, whether it's

631
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 15: Aman Ross, Saint Brown, whether Sam Laporter will be back

632
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,959
Speaker 15: this week, Jamis and Williams, David Montgomery, Jamiir Gibbs, if

633
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 15: you put on the tape, they all block down field

634
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 15: extremely well for each other. That's a testament for the

635
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 15: Detroit tough culture and it's the reason why they're at

636
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 15: the top of the NFC.

637
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 7: Plus one fifty nine point differentially. You see at the

638
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 7: bottom of the screen there they've played ten games. It's

639
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 7: an average point differential fifteen point nine. I'm really good

640
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 7: at the math. Fifteen point nine points per game.

641
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 5: Camp.

642
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 7: On the other side of this game, Anthony Richardson came back,

643
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 7: played extremely well. Seems like he sat down for a

644
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 7: little bit and did everything they needed him to do

645
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 7: to kind of reset.

646
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 5: Can it continue for more than just one game?

647
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike, You're on the money.

648
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 15: That version of Anthony Richardson we saw last week is

649
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 15: the one the Colts drafted in mind fourth overall a

650
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 15: year ago, and it really brought a level of energy

651
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 15: back into the Colts building. They were on a three

652
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 15: game losing streak. They benched their starting quarterback, and you

653
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 15: talk to players there and they said the energy was down.

654
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 15: But when AR got back into the lineup, it brought

655
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 15: a youthful energy, the juice that they need. And then

656
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 15: he performed the way he did on the Sunday. Talked

657
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 15: to a couple of guys when he ran over the

658
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 15: Jets defender for the touchdown, they jumped out of their

659
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 15: shoes and excitement because that pure version of AR is

660
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 15: the guy who they think can lead them, and when

661
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 15: you look at the way he was able to have

662
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 15: accuracy down the field, they can consider this growth from

663
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 15: that benching. And I talked to their tight end Moley Cox,

664
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 15: who said they detext Richardson after the benching and said, hey,

665
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 15: you're to get your opportunity again. How you respond defines you.

666
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 15: And then he texted Richardson again this week and say

667
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 15: don't be content with just one week. See how you

668
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 15: respond from there. Ali Cox told me Richardson's preps has

669
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 15: been a lot better since he's been back.

670
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 5: He's gotten into the.

671
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 15: Building a little bit earlier. And he also said Richardson's

672
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 15: been answering questions from Shane Stiken without a hesitation the

673
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 15: last week or two, which is something that's showing just

674
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 15: maybe his progress in studying as well. So a lot

675
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 15: of the things they wanted to see in Richardson he's

676
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 15: putting out there on the field, but they place a

677
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 15: face a very tough Detroit team who has a talk

678
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 15: to Carlton Davis, their cornerback, said they want to force

679
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 15: Anthony Richardson to play quarterback, prove they can do it again,

680
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 15: and we think that we can get some turnovers off.

681
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 5: He did it the other day and he saw what

682
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 5: we just showed it.

683
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 7: When he is right, when he's on point, when he's confident,

684
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 7: it is as pretty as it gets. I don't know

685
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 7: that we've got another quarterback with this skill set, and

686
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 7: that is why the Cults, even though they benched him,

687
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 7: stayed locked in on him, said we're not giving up

688
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 7: on him because the upside here is unbelievable.

689
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 5: Let's see if he can continue for more than just

690
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 5: one game.

691
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 7: Cam Wolf will be there on Sunday ahead of the

692
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 7: game on NFL Game Day morning to give you all

693
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 7: you need ready for that game. Big game between the

694
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 7: Lions and the Cults, Big game between the Packers and

695
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 7: the forty nine ers. We told you about a bunch

696
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 7: of players that aren't playing, but there's still a bunch

697
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 7: of really good ones.

698
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 2: That are going to play.

699
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 5: Baldy coming back after this to break it down for you.

700
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 6: So you're on a plane, it happens to be the

701
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 6: San Francisco forty nine Ers team flight. You get one

702
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 6: choice of who to sit next to. You want kittle

703
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 6: 'ant McCaffrey. I feel like I would choose Patrick willis

704
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 6: one of my favorite players growing up. Just tell me

705
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 6: cool stories about crushing dudes in football games of past.

706
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 6: I don't know that would be my choice. Where does

707
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 6: Brandon Allen sit Baldy? Does he sit next to Brock Purdy, who,

708
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 6: of course is traveling but not anyway. I got a

709
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 6: lot of questions, Brian Baldinger, thank you again for joining us,

710
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 6: and of course welcome back. You actually are going to

711
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 6: the forty nine ers Packers game. You might see Rock

712
00:31:58,080 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 6: Purty there. You're not going to see him on the

713
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 6: There's a lot to look forward to for this game.

714
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 6: What are you looking forward to?

715
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 14: So?

716
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 12: I mean whether black Perty was playing or not playing.

717
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 12: Now Brandon Island probably will be starting. I thought the

718
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 12: most important thing for the forty nine ers is to

719
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 12: get Christian McCaffrey going, and he really hasn't gotten going yet.

720
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 12: And he's played two games against Tampa in Seattle. He's

721
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 12: had thirty two rushes. He's averaged three point seven yards

722
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 12: of carry. Pretty pedestrian for Christian McCaffrey. He averaged five

723
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 12: point four a year ago. But when you watch it

724
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 12: like you really break it down here I in he said,

725
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 12: seventeen of his thirty two runs have gone for two

726
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 12: yards or less. They have not blocked well. I don't

727
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 12: know that he's seen the field really well at this point,

728
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 12: and they really missed George Kittle in the blocking game

729
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 12: last week, who was out with the hamstring injury. So

730
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 12: I think if San Francisco is going to go up

731
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 12: there and take care of business, I think they got

732
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 12: to get the running game going, and that means getting

733
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 12: McCaffrey unleashed or maybe seeing more Jordan Mason. But everything

734
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 12: that they want to do offensively has got to come

735
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 12: off the run game. So I think that's what their

736
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 12: biggest concern needs to be, and that's what they need

737
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 12: to really execute with come Sunday at Lambeau.

738
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 6: My head, Baldy, I was kind of thinking, well, maybe

739
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 6: McCaffrey needs like a couple games just to get back

740
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 6: in the flow. He's had those. It is time to row.

741
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 6: He doesn't have his quarterback. We will see if this

742
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 6: is a game for him to break out. Baldy, enjoy

743
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 6: that one. That's gonna be awesome. Of course, thank you

744
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 6: for hanging out with us as always. Coming up next,

745
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 6: we're gonna talk about not just that guy, which is

746
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 6: Caleb Williams. We're gonna talk about eleven other people. See

747
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 6: it's week twelve. We got a dirty dozen, which, of

748
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 6: course we got Adam Brank coming up to break down

749
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 6: twelve things again because it's it's week twelve. Anyway, we'll explain.

750
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 6: Coming up next on the Insiders.

751
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 1: Time now for Repair and Replace, presented by Safe Flight

752
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 1: Tom Peliso, join now by Adam Rank along with.

753
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 2: Ian Rappaport and Mike Garafolo.

754
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 1: Here on the Insiders, all right, rank every week you

755
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: give us some some type of fantasy insights in this

756
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: segment here today you got I'm told, a dirty dozen,

757
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,240
Speaker 1: dirty dozen placement parts.

758
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 2: Fantasy doesn't sound quite right. I'm not going to lie

759
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 2: to you.

760
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 16: But the quarterbacks, hey, listen, fantasy football it's a war

761
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 16: of attrition, and with six teams on a buy or

762
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 16: perhaps you're in some sort of situation, you might need

763
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 16: to find a player that you don't normally want to start.

764
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,320
Speaker 16: Last night, I was going into I almost started Jamis Winston,

765
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 16: and I pulled him out at the last second, and

766
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 16: I said, I got to go at the backup quarterback.

767
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:30,240
Speaker 2: There are three guys.

768
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 16: Available on the waiver wire. Caleb Williams two, a tug

769
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 16: of Ioloa, Drake May. The last two have high ceilings,

770
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 16: but I'm going to go with Caleb Williams. And I

771
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 16: understand this is going to be a little bit of

772
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 16: a homer play. But the one thing that I really

773
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 16: loved about the way the Bears played against the Packers

774
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 16: last week is that they were getting the ball out

775
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 16: of the hands of Caleb Williams very quickly and things

776
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,919
Speaker 16: like that. He was running with the ball. Coming into

777
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 16: this season, I thought that that would be something that

778
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 16: would give him the edge. He's certainly not the runner

779
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,800
Speaker 16: that Justin Fields is, but still, well, he's an accomplished runner,

780
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 16: and when he took advantage of those running lanes against

781
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 16: the Packers, he really made it work. And we do

782
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 16: know that Brian Flores is gonna blitz this team. So

783
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 16: if Caleb Williams can either escape the pocket get the

784
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 16: ball out of his hands, he could actually have a

785
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 16: huge game against the Vikings this week. So I'm streaming him.

786
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 16: He's got the best thirteen points, that's how much Jami

787
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,879
Speaker 16: has had last night, and he's got a best at

788
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 16: then I'll feel good about myself.

789
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 7: All right, Let's go to the running back position rank.

790
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 7: Who do we replace and repair, repair replace run.

791
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 16: Safe light repair, safe light replace. Come on, we know

792
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 16: the jingle.

793
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,720
Speaker 2: I got three guys. I'm gonna go with Cam Akers.

794
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 16: Bucky Irving and Austin Eckler are great options this week,

795
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 16: but I want to dive into cam Akers for just

796
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 16: a moment, and he might think you you know this

797
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 16: as well as anybody with the Minnesota Vikings as Cam

798
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 16: Akers is starting to get like legitimate touches, not like, hey,

799
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,720
Speaker 16: at the end of the game, let's let's.

800
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 2: Let him run.

801
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 16: No, they're actually counting on him to be a viable

802
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:01,839
Speaker 16: part of their running game. He's had at least twelve

803
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 16: touches in back to back games, and now he's going

804
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 16: up against the Bears. We were just talking about this

805
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 16: a moment ago. The Bears defense has been pretty good

806
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 16: this year. They have not allowed a lot of points

807
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 16: in a lot of games. What they have allowed is

808
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 16: a lot of yards, especially.

809
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:16,479
Speaker 2: On the ground.

810
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 16: I think back to a couple of weeks ago, the

811
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 16: Arizona Cardinals had a great job having three different guys

812
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 16: run like They had three guys rush for touchdowns for

813
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 16: the first time since Gaynell Tinsley was on that team.

814
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 16: Ernie Nevers. Sure who is the Goldberg guy who JJ

815
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 16: Watt took his number out of? Well whatever, cam Akers

816
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 16: is a viable start this week. Did you guys, did

817
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 16: I not tell you cam Akers? Or were we supposed

818
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 16: to go Bucky Irving? And I messed you all up

819
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 16: in your way? You're waiting to roll the be role

820
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 16: of Buck Irving. Buddy Irving's a great call. I still

821
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,280
Speaker 16: wanted to go with cam Akers, but I wanted Bucky

822
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:49,839
Speaker 16: Irving on the list and not Tony Poll.

823
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,320
Speaker 2: That's on me, my mistake.

824
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 5: All right, we'll dry picture of them.

825
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,359
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's fine. Look, we're all just trying to figure

826
00:36:58,360 --> 00:36:59,720
Speaker 6: it out and make you it's a war of attrition.

827
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 6: Mentioned give me some receivers instant, maybe you'll nail that order.

828
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 16: They're getting in my ear right now, being like, this

829
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 16: is the player you're supposed to talk about. This is

830
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 16: my old Fantasy Live trick where I say the wrong

831
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 16: player so I get to be on camera the whole time.

832
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 2: We have three guys.

833
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 16: We can go with Josh Downs, Roma Duns, but I

834
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 16: will get off that game because I want to talk

835
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,800
Speaker 16: about Jackson Smith and Jigba, who has been one of

836
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 16: the best wide receivers in Fantasy football over the last

837
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:26,800
Speaker 16: couple of weeks, and he's really the guy that we

838
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:28,720
Speaker 16: thought he was going to be coming out of Ohio

839
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 16: State and over since Week six, he has been the

840
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 16: wide receiver two in PPR leagues in Fantasy football. He's

841
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,280
Speaker 16: had at least twelve Fantasy points in back to back games.

842
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,800
Speaker 16: He's getting eleven plus targets in back to back games.

843
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 16: They've really pivoted off Tyler Lockett and instead it's become

844
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 16: Jackson Smith's job to go out there and get those balls.

845
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 16: And this year or this week, excuse me, against the

846
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 16: Arizona Cardinals, I do expect him to have a pretty

847
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 16: big game. So Jackson's and Jigba. You drafted him late.

848
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 16: People weren't quite sure if this if he was going

849
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 16: to have a breakout year. But it's happening right now

850
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 16: and it's pretty exciting.

851
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: Last week I picked up Taysom Hill and then benched

852
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: him last second when David Njok was here.

853
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 2: Give me a way to fix the tight ends, and

854
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:16,320
Speaker 2: this time I'll actually use it.

855
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,760
Speaker 16: You know, it's interesting because taste Hill, that's a great pickup.

856
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,280
Speaker 16: But Will Disley has been fantastic for the Los Angeles

857
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 16: Chargers over the last couple of weeks.

858
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 6: You know this was the guy again.

859
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 16: When you look at this Chargers roster at the beginning

860
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 16: of the season, you didn't expect to have a lot

861
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,320
Speaker 16: of Fantasy production from these guys outside of maybe the

862
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:32,919
Speaker 16: running backs.

863
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 2: But Will Disley has been amazing.

864
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 16: Leads the team in targets and end zone targets since

865
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 16: Week seven, the fifth most yards per route run amongst

866
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 16: tight ends this season, and they got a great matchup

867
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 16: against the Baltimore Ravens. I know a lot of people

868
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 16: when you see the Baltimore Ravens you get a little skit.

869
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 16: It's you're like, I'm not going into that hot lz no.

870
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,800
Speaker 16: But the Ravens have allowed the second most targets and

871
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 16: receptions that tight ends this season, the second most receiving

872
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 16: yards to the position is well, Will Disley not only is.

873
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 6: A viable tight end.

874
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 16: I was sitting there talking to this kid on the

875
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 16: Fantasy Live show mere minutes ago, mere minutes ago, and

876
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 16: I said, Will Disley is actually a flex option.

877
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 2: You get to an extra seconds. Well, I got hey.

878
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 16: I want to say congratulation to my U ten red lightning.

879
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 16: We got the at large bid to Section eleven. We're

880
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 16: going to the tournament, the three time champs.

881
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 2: We got our bid.

882
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 16: Hey, sorry everybody. I know there's a bunch of parents

883
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 16: right now spitting out their drinks.

884
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 2: Going, what yep?

885
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 16: Back to practice next well after Thanksgiving, but back to practice,

886
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 16: back to the tournament. So proud of these girls. I'm

887
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,839
Speaker 16: trying to say this without crying, but it's too late.

888
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 16: The waterworks are starting.

889
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 2: Tom. I can't help it. Wrong football in over ten seconds.

890
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 2: But your cried. So that makes it all better. Rank,

891
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Devin.

892
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, that makes it all better. All right. I

893
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 6: got some malarkey to clear up. I got some stuff.

894
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 6: You guys are gonna listen. One of my career mysteries

895
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 6: has now been solved. Let's go get the breakover with.

896
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 6: I gotta get to this good one.

897
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 1: In the late window Sunday, Cardinals and Seahawks, our Kurt

898
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,280
Speaker 1: Warners sat down with Seattle quarterback Gino Smith.

899
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 2: Here's the taste and.

900
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 17: There was nothing that stops Geno Smith. When the game

901
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 17: was on the line last week against San Francisco, you

902
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 17: went in, you made the plays to win. But I

903
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 17: loved your quote afterwards where you said I was just

904
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 17: out there smiling and felt like there was no pressure.

905
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember.

906
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:28,760
Speaker 13: You know, a couple of years ago, I was watching

907
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 13: Brett fav I caught onto this documentary and he was

908
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,800
Speaker 13: talking about, you know, when he was the backup and

909
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 13: the starting quarterback got hurt and how he just felt

910
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 13: like it was his time and there was no pressure,

911
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,879
Speaker 13: And you know, that's exactly.

912
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 6: How I felt.

913
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 13: No, I don't worry about what people have to say.

914
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 13: It allows me to go out there and just play

915
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 13: the game and enjoy the moments really like as a kid.

916
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 2: Is like living out a dream.

917
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:57,760
Speaker 6: After the twenty seventeen season, In the twenty eighteen playoffs,

918
00:40:57,800 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 6: I reported a couple different times that Titans were expected

919
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 6: to fire Mike Morky, and then I got a tip

920
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 6: from a very trusted and reliable source that he was

921
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 6: actually getting a contract extension after a playoff run. I

922
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 6: reported it. He was fired the next day. It has

923
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 6: been one of the biggest mysteries of my entire career,

924
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 6: and now it has been solved.

925
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 14: Go.

926
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 3: I knew they were going to fire me, so Sunday night,

927
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 3: I called Ian Rappaport and I said, hey, I don't

928
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 3: know if you know this, but I'm gonna break it.

929
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 3: See it, but I'm getting it. I'm getting a new

930
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 3: contract in the morning, and he reported it. It was

931
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,800
Speaker 3: all over the country. I was getting a contract in

932
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 3: the morning, knowing that I was going to get fired,

933
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 3: but I just wanted to see the faces on the

934
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 3: owner and the GM who was out to get me,

935
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 3: and uh, I'm pretty sure I got him for a

936
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 3: minute or two.

937
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 2: That's amazing. That is awesome.

938
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 6: That was the Brenton Austin show in Action Sports. You

939
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 6: know those guys yucking it up. Pretty funny for them.

940
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 6: I guess if you don't care about accuracy and taking

941
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 6: someone's reputation and rubbing it in the mud. Everyone said,

942
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 6: Mike Mullarkey's a good guy. He always was to me.

943
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 2: I liked him.

944
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 6: Thought it was very respectable. That is not cool. That's

945
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 6: not funny. I was a younger reporter then, and the

946
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 6: amount of online hate and ridicule I got because Mike

947
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 6: Mallarkey thought it'd be funny to get back at his

948
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 6: old boss, it was not fun. So I don't have

949
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 6: much to say. I don't blame Mike Mullarkey, but I

950
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 6: want to and that was not cool, and that was

951
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,360
Speaker 6: not funny, and we should treat truth better than that.

952
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:36,200
Speaker 5: Mike, I agree with you.

953
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 7: I also think that Ian has learned lessons along We've

954
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 7: all learned lessons along the way, but modern day Ian

955
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,800
Speaker 7: would not have been a fallen victim to that.

956
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 5: You learn hard lessons along the way. That was one

957
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 5: of them. Yeah, not cool.

958
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 6: I guess it's supposed to be a trusted source.

959
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 2: See I'm sitting here and I'm like biting my lip

960
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 2: because you're right, not cool. Don't do that.

961
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,120
Speaker 1: Don't lie to reporters, don't make them look bad. But

962
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:02,280
Speaker 1: it happened to Ian, so like it's a little funny.

963
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: It's all as he's like, we got enough distance now

964
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 1: it's been like six years.

965
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 6: It's like it's been

966
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 2: Maybe now, so yeah,