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Speaker 1: we now know where he's not landing anytime soon. We

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Speaker 1: twenty five? The Packers proposal is now official. Will break

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Speaker 1: play right. There could be no more Hey, while Michael

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Speaker 1: Parsons is still waiting for a record payday at a

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Speaker 1: time that plenty of others are getting theirs. Jerry Jones,

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Speaker 1: where exactly is Jerry in his checkbook? We got sixty

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Speaker 1: the Insiders alongside Judy Batista and Mike Garafol. I am

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Speaker 1: Tom Pelissero. We've got a lot of action, folks. We've

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Speaker 1: still got a lot of quarterback jobs that remain up

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Speaker 1: for grabs. We've got draft action. Carson Swessinger, a top

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Speaker 1: But let's start out with the news of the day,

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Speaker 1: and of course it does have something to do with

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. As I reported this morning, the Vikings have

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Speaker 1: That of course means that while the Vikings still plan

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Speaker 1: Ripple effect across a lot of people, including JJ McCarthy.

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Speaker 1: Get his opportunity right now, to show he's ready for

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Speaker 2: What more do we know?

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Speaker 3: So it didn't happen last week, and the weekend was

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Speaker 3: Now this is before this Viking's latest development time that

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Speaker 4: So get comfortable.

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Speaker 3: And there's no real great rush for the Giants or

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Speaker 3: no indication that's going to happen anytime soon. He can

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Speaker 3: See what happens in trading camp during the preseason. Somebody

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Speaker 5: Well, first of all, from the Viking side, this always

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Speaker 4: Again.

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Speaker 4: Believe that did not happen until August.

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Speaker 1: August eighteenth, Judy, That was the day that Brett Farr

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Speaker 1: You'd be negligent in your duty not to at least

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Speaker 1: They're planned right now rolling forward with JJ McCarthy. As

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Speaker 5: What do we think, Well, first of all, this proposal

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Speaker 5: So this is basically a proposal to ban a play

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Speaker 4: One thing to.

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Speaker 3: You know why there's not enough support Judy to ban

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Speaker 4: It's seven or nine on.

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Speaker 3: Again in this debate, because the doesn't look like a

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Speaker 4: We haven't had an.

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Speaker 2: So don't do that. I understand why you try.

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Speaker 3: It, but don't do that moving forward, and maybe you

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Speaker 4: That's kind of where it stands.

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Speaker 4: Here you go, this is how it would be.

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Speaker 5: I've covered the NFL for twenty five years, and every

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Speaker 4: Their response to all of.

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Speaker 5: This is, you want to host a home game, go

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Speaker 5: win the division. Don't worry about the record, Go win

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Speaker 1: If you took that away, how would the Texans host

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Speaker 1: traditions just aren't meant to be broken. Carson Swsenger coming

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Speaker 1: Right there, one of the many names you could hear

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Speaker 1: tonight in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Carson now kind enough to

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Speaker 1: in this final countdown, man, it's a little over five

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Speaker 1: it's like to be you, the way that you're preparing,

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Speaker 2: Parson, you really popped this year.

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Speaker 7: You had a great season, and I thought one of

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Speaker 2: What did you think going into the Big Ten this year?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think there's a lot of talk about all

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Speaker 2: Know, go out there and make plays.

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Speaker 1: Every NFL scout right now is body typing guys and

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Speaker 6: Definitely, I think, you know, maybe maybe too much of

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Speaker 2: Parson, you just.

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Speaker 6: And then the other half is that film study where

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Speaker 1: To Carson, you're doing, I believe your own pro day workout.

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Speaker 6: I think what I'm really looking to show is just

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Speaker 7: Carson, I rounded up your vertical jump to forty inches

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Speaker 2: What did they want to pull out of you in

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's there's pretty a pretty wide range of what

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Speaker 1: but I've mainly just been fixated on sterrnigger hair. That

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Speaker 1: is some significant flow you've got going, presumably after a

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Speaker 1: long day where you've been working out. Is there are

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Speaker 1: you using like a horse shampoo? Can you give it

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Speaker 1: the secret to having that type of flow at this

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Speaker 1: hour of the day.

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Speaker 6: I will say the shampoo is I'm pretty particular about

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Speaker 6: I don't do too much else, but I only use

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Speaker 6: a Mica shampoo and conditioner, which is a pretty rare brand.

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Speaker 6: I gotta go and walk into an alta. I can't

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Speaker 6: get it at Targets, so you know, I'm walking into

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Speaker 6: an alta. There's no other guys in there. But you know,

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Speaker 6: sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

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Speaker 1: And you got an endorsement coming your way. We'll make

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Speaker 1: sure that they get that clip. Carson, best the luck

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Speaker 1: man over these next thirty six days, hope to hear

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Speaker 1: your name called very early in Greeny, Green Bay. We

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Speaker 1: appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Thanks Carson.

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Speaker 1: Carson Schwestinger one of the many names you will here

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Speaker 1: called during the NFL Draft, presented by Bud Light. It's

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Speaker 1: Parsons did not have to wait very long to hear

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Speaker 1: his name called Once upon a time has had to

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Speaker 1: wait a while to hear his name called up to

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Speaker 1: get that record breaking extension that he anticipates getting at

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Speaker 1: some point. What's the hold up and where do those

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Speaker 1: negotiations go from here? We'll discuss that and a lot

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Speaker 1: more as the Insiders rolls on. The bar has been

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Speaker 1: set for highest paid non quarterback in the NFL again,

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Speaker 1: first Miles Garrett than Jamar Chase at a little over

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Speaker 1: forty million dollars per year, numbers that are relevant to

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Speaker 1: Micah Parsons, although, as our Jane Slater reported earlier today,

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Speaker 1: no meaningful contract talks yet between the Cowboys and their

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Speaker 1: star pass rusher about a new deal. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the Insiders, Tom Pillicero, Judy Batista, and Mike Girafolo. Mike,

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Speaker 1: Nothing happens quickly in Dallas, particularly not the record type

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Speaker 1: contract extensions. So to that end, we're kind of following

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Speaker 1: history here. Where do we stand?

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Speaker 3: Max Cosby Miles Garrett, Although the Garrett one, we thought

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Speaker 3: maybe that might take a while, but Max, rely, Miles Garrett, TJ.

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Speaker 2: Watt, MICHAEH.

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Speaker 3: Parsons, The four pass rushers that we expected to reset

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Speaker 3: the market here in this off season. Here and all along,

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Speaker 3: I had been hearing people say, well, Mike is gonna

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Speaker 3: go last, right, like he's the young guy, uh, the

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Speaker 3: one that can really hit it big, the one like

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Speaker 3: he wants to see everybody else, all the veterans kind

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Speaker 3: of get their money, and then boom, there's our aiming

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Speaker 3: point for where we want to be when we really

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Speaker 3: get into these negotiations. I agree with Jane, does not

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Speaker 3: appear that there have been any meaningful conversations regarding Micah

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Speaker 3: Parsons and the Cowboys right now. So this is something

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Speaker 3: I sort of had earmark for closer to the start

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Speaker 3: of the regular season. It's the start of training camp

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Speaker 3: and then it's the start of the regular season. Those

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Speaker 3: are the two mile posts when it comes to these deals,

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Speaker 3: because you don't want to necessarily practice without that deal

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Speaker 3: in place, and then at that point, you don't want

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Speaker 3: to necessarily play without the deal in place. That's kind

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Speaker 3: of the timeline that I've been looking for on this one.

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Speaker 5: I feel like the theme of this offseason has been

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Speaker 5: teams that get ahead of the contracts and get ahead

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Speaker 5: of the market, and teams that wait, and we've seen all.

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Speaker 5: We've seen both. We saw Jamar Chase finally get done.

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Speaker 5: Good for him, Good for the Bengals to get done.

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Speaker 5: Of course, if they had gotten it done last year,

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Speaker 5: they probably would not have had to spend nearly as

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Speaker 5: much as they had to spend this year. The situation

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Speaker 5: with Michael Parsons recalls what happened last off season when

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Speaker 5: the Cowboys were trying to get some big contract extensions

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Speaker 5: done too, and they waited and waited.

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Speaker 4: That's fine.

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Speaker 5: The market kept going up, and then we got ever

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Speaker 5: so close to.

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Speaker 4: The season starting.

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Speaker 5: I mean literally, Dak Prescott's deal got done on the

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Speaker 5: morning of the season opener. You do wonder how much

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Speaker 5: of a toll that takes on the players in terms

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Speaker 5: of their concentration and their focus, and you certainly know

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Speaker 5: how much it takes in terms of dollars for the

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Speaker 5: teams that can't get them done early. Michael Parsons deserves

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Speaker 5: to be the next person who is the highest paid

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Speaker 5: non quarterback, so you can't blame him for wanting to wait.

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Speaker 5: Of course, he wants to go last. But if you're

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Speaker 5: the Dallas Cowboys, you are just watching the market go up,

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Speaker 5: up and up just like you did last offseason. It's

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Speaker 5: a very curious way to go about doing business for

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Speaker 5: the Dallas Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: And I would also go back to what we reported

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Speaker 1: on Super Bowl Sunday, which is that there have been

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Speaker 1: real internal conversations about does it make sense to pay

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Speaker 1: another player when you already got back at the top

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Speaker 1: CD near the top, and now have another player at

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Speaker 1: the top of the market, Or to potentially trade my

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Speaker 1: co caparsions for a boatload of picks and inject your

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Speaker 1: roster with a lot of other help at different positions here,

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Speaker 1: So a lot of different moving parts still over the

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Speaker 1: next four or five Cowboys fans hope not six.

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Speaker 4: Months, because that gets us into the.

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Speaker 2: Regular season here.

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Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, Aiden Hutchinson also eligible for

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Speaker 1: an extension. He's got to be loving everything that he's

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Speaker 1: seeing at this point.

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Speaker 3: Mike, Yes, Tom, thank you very much. You can't win

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Speaker 3: championships in the offseason when it comes to free agency.

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Speaker 4: That might be true, but you know what you can do.

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Speaker 3: You can move up the nfl dot Com post free

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Speaker 3: agency power rankings. And that's what the Bears did, fortifying

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Speaker 3: their offensive line and making moves elsewhere along the roster

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Speaker 3: to help klebwilliam and to also try to fortify that

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Speaker 3: defense for Ben Johnson in his first year as the

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Speaker 3: coach of the Bears, moved up to sixteen from what

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Speaker 3: I am told, Jeffrey Chedia joining Brian Baldinger and myself

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Speaker 3: here to discuss his favorite Offsee this article is not

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Speaker 3: even up yet, right, this is a preview. I get

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Speaker 3: my daughter's sentences today for school. One of the words

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Speaker 3: was preview. See Carvin, this is a preview. No stay

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Speaker 3: up there, stay up there, But we go to preview

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Speaker 3: your article, Jeffrey on your favorite offseason moves that.

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Speaker 2: We're going to start with.

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Speaker 3: Which one is your favorite of the offseason moves?

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Speaker 8: He just saw Chicago Bears, and I'll start there because

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Speaker 8: it's a two pronged favorite move here with the hiring

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Speaker 8: of Ben Johnson and the rebuilding of that offensive line. Mike,

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Speaker 8: I love the Ben Johnson higher. I thought he was

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Speaker 8: the best coaching candidate of the offseason. He comes in,

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Speaker 8: he can fix that offense, get Caleb Williams going it

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Speaker 8: was a home run for the Bears and getting him,

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Speaker 8: but then going out and rebuilding that offensive line, and

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Speaker 8: we know what that offensive line meant to Ben Johnson's

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Speaker 8: offense in Detroit. It's going to allow him to avoid

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Speaker 8: the sack problems they had last year with Caleb Williams

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Speaker 8: getting sacked sixty eight times. It's going to allow his

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Speaker 8: offense to use those skilled players they got in the

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Speaker 8: offseason in Baldy. This team is on the rise for

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Speaker 8: a reason.

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Speaker 7: I agree, Jeff, and I think it's you know, the

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Speaker 7: number one story right now going to the offseason, much

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Speaker 7: like you're writing in your preview. But you know, honestly,

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Speaker 7: Ben Johnson can't do any of the things he wants

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Speaker 7: to do out of his playbook and the concepts and

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Speaker 7: the ideas, and you know the playmaking ability of some

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Speaker 7: of his talent without a good offensive line. So to

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Speaker 7: get that, at least on paper fixed right now, where

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Speaker 7: Caleb Williams can stand back there for three seconds, If

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Speaker 7: you can get three seconds to diagnose what the defense

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Speaker 7: is doing, it would go with the ball. I mean,

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Speaker 7: I think that's where it starts. Detroit had one of

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Speaker 7: the top three offense lines. Well, Ben Johnson has been there.

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Speaker 7: It has been a big part of why they were

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Speaker 7: the number one offense in football last year and why

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Speaker 7: they scored so many points. So I think to get

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Speaker 7: that fix, to get Ben in now, I think they

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Speaker 7: can start to inject the ideas that Ben Johnson has

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Speaker 7: had and one of the reasons why he's been a

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Speaker 7: leading coaching candidate for the last two seasons.

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Speaker 3: One of the most intriguing moves Jonah Jackson, a big

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Speaker 3: free agent for the Rams last year. The Bears trade

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Speaker 3: for him, give him extra year on his deal and

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Speaker 3: seven million fully guaranteed next season added on as well.

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Speaker 3: So a lot of faith in Jackson, who played with

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Speaker 3: Ben Johnson up there in Detroit. Moving on, we're going

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Speaker 3: to talk about the defensive side of the ball on

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Speaker 3: this one because I know you like something that the

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Speaker 3: Eagles did that they don't usually do, and that's pay

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Speaker 3: a linebacker.

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Speaker 8: And that's why I love it, Mike. I love that

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Speaker 8: they went out and they paid Zach Bond, a player

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Speaker 8: who came in Unharro did last season a rotational pass

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Speaker 8: rush in New Orleans, and Big Fangiel takes this guy

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Speaker 8: and turns him into an all Pro linebacker. He was

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Speaker 8: an essential part of the defense that was number one

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Speaker 8: in the league all year. And when you think about

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Speaker 8: the idea of the Eagles breaking trends. It did it

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Speaker 8: last year and going out and putting a lot of

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Speaker 8: money in sat Kwon Buckley's pocket. They didn't usually pay

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Speaker 8: running backs to go and do this for Zach. Bond

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Speaker 8: telled me that they really believe in Well, we're going

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Speaker 8: to pay our stars. But two when I was to

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Speaker 8: be behold into what we've done in the past, we're

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Speaker 8: going to do what's best for our team, and keeping

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Speaker 8: Zach Bond here baldy is what's best for the Eagles.

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Speaker 2: Well, the fact is Jeff, they could not deny his production.

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Speaker 2: He was lead. I thought he was the defensive player

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Speaker 2: of the year.

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Speaker 7: No, you know nothing against Patrick Certan and winning the award,

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Speaker 7: But if you count the postseason twenty one games in all,

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Speaker 7: he had one hundred and eighty four tackles, six fours fumbles,

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Speaker 7: and he showed up every week and he was the

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Speaker 7: undisputed leader of that defense.

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Speaker 2: And it was technically and fundamentally sound. Real quick.

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Speaker 7: I remember when Vic Fangio was the linebacker coaching the

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Speaker 7: Dome Patrol in New Orleans, you know, with Sam Mills

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Speaker 7: and Patrick Swelling and Ricky Jackson, and I felt like

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Speaker 7: this was a guy that could have been the leader

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Speaker 7: of the Dome Patrol. He was of the Eagles. They

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Speaker 7: were the best defensive football last year and the big

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Speaker 7: reason why the play of Zach Bond.

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Speaker 3: Zack b went from a one year, three point five

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Speaker 3: million dollar deal to a three year deal averaging seventeen

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Speaker 3: million dollars per year. We should all be so lucky

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Speaker 3: as to get those kinds of raises. But you know,

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Speaker 3: Wat Jeffrey today, to make your case for a race

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Speaker 3: by giving us a third off season move that you.

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Speaker 8: Like, I'll go with Jonathan Allen signing with the Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 8: And the Vikings have been looking forward interior year presidence

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Speaker 8: on their defensive line for a long time, maybe going

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Speaker 8: back to the days of Sheldon Richardson, and they got

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Speaker 8: it with this guy. You know, I know, Jonathan Allen's

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Speaker 8: at thirty years old, but he's been to two Pro Bowls.

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Speaker 8: He's had sixteen and a half sacks in those two

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Speaker 8: years when he was a Pro Bowl player, and he's

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Speaker 8: been a high pressure guy the last six years of

658
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Speaker 8: his career. And so you add him to a defense

659
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Speaker 8: that brought in Jonathan Gernard last season, and Andrew Van

660
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Speaker 8: Gink was able to come off the edge of great pressure.

661
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Speaker 2: Baldy.

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Speaker 8: This defense is going to be a record group for

663
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Speaker 8: Brian Flores's coming season.

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Speaker 7: Well, he was already you know, at the top of

665
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Speaker 7: the charts last year, jeff in takeaways, and you know,

666
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Speaker 7: they kept a lot of their personnel that was responsible

667
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Speaker 7: for it, but you know, a lot of it was,

668
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Speaker 7: you know, these third down defenses that Flores would put

669
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Speaker 7: up there, and it's kind of gimmicky a little bit,

670
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Speaker 7: who's coming, who's not coming. I think if they want

671
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Speaker 7: to just play base defense right now with a Jonathan

672
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Speaker 7: Allen go with you know, a Javon Hargrave who also

673
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Speaker 7: they signed in free agency to go with Van Kako

674
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Speaker 7: and Grenard, Like, I feel like if they want to

675
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Speaker 7: just play based defense and rush forward the way the

676
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Speaker 7: Eagles did in the Super Bowl this year and get

677
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Speaker 7: home with four, they can do that if they want.

678
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Speaker 2: If they want to.

679
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Speaker 7: Throw a bunch of junk at the line of scrimmage

680
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Speaker 7: and play you know, blit zero behind it, they still

681
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Speaker 7: have that option. But I think they can play a

682
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Speaker 7: lot more traditional styles of defense now that they've fixed

683
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Speaker 7: that defense attack the position.

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Speaker 2: So congratulates two O the Vikings.

685
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Speaker 3: Vikings went to beef up on that defensive line. Did

686
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Speaker 3: that with Jonathan Allen and Javon Hargrave also on the

687
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Speaker 3: offensive side as well. NFL dot Com backslash first read

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Speaker 3: or Chidi I think both will take you where you

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Speaker 3: want to go. When this article gets posted. What time tomorrow,

690
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Speaker 3: I don't know. Log on at twelve oh one am.

691
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Speaker 3: Keep eating Refresh all day long until you find it.

692
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Jeffrey Chidiya.

693
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Speaker 5: It's been quite an off season for Justin Field to here.

694
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 5: He is in Morocco. He was there on a vacation.

695
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 5: I don't know, but a bunch of other football players.

696
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 5: I believe he was there when the other good part

697
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Speaker 5: of his off season began. He got signed by the

698
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Speaker 5: New York Jets to be their starting quarterback. There he

699
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Speaker 5: is arriving at the Jets facility in Florim Park, which

700
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Speaker 5: I like. Florm Park. It's definitely not Morocco. From the desert.

701
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Speaker 5: Let's take you to the deep sea, where our man

702
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Speaker 5: around the World, Brian Baldinger was today. Baldy was diving.

703
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 5: I heard him talk about how great the visibility was,

704
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Speaker 5: and frankly, these pictures definitely show that amazing visibility. Amazing

705
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Speaker 5: GoPro by Brian Baldinger. Let's bring Baldy. This is incredible.

706
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Speaker 5: Let's welcome back Brian Baldinger and Mike Garrifalo. We're going

707
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Speaker 5: to get to the that was amazing. I want to

708
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Speaker 5: get to the diving video later, Baldy, but first let's

709
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Speaker 5: talk about some of these off season moves. Let's start

710
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Speaker 5: with Justin Fields and how he's going to fit in

711
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Speaker 5: the New York Jets.

712
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Speaker 7: Well, Judy, I'm a big fan of Marrakesh and of

713
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Speaker 7: Justin Fields together. I mean, everybody should go. I mean,

714
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Speaker 7: it's beyond exotic, but it's fine. But I will say

715
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Speaker 7: that I've always been a fan of Justin Fields coming

716
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Speaker 7: out of Ohio State.

717
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Speaker 2: I was a fan.

718
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Speaker 7: You know, in Chicago he averaged six pointy two yards

719
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Speaker 7: a rush, and you know, for five different games Aaron

720
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Speaker 7: Glenn had to defend Justin Fields and he saw how

721
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Speaker 7: difficult it was.

722
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Speaker 2: I didn't think Pittsburgh used him properly last year.

723
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Speaker 7: And I think when you look at Tanner Instrom and

724
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Speaker 7: the new offensive coordinator in New York, I think you've

725
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Speaker 7: got to use him as a bona fide runner and

726
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Speaker 7: use him as a weapon. From that standpoint, I think

727
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 7: it'll open up things for Breece Hall and Brailn Allen

728
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 7: and Ziadavs, the running backs there.

729
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Speaker 2: I think they've got work to do in the offensive line.

730
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Speaker 7: But I think there's real POTENTI here for Justin because

731
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 7: he's never been really in a stable place or place

732
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Speaker 7: that had a great offensive line. He did get off

733
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:10,840
Speaker 7: to a good start last year and then kind of

734
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 7: oddly went back to Russell Wilson after he got up

735
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 7: to a great start and was playing error free football.

736
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Speaker 7: But I think he's got a chance to flourish. I mean,

737
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,479
Speaker 7: he knows in that building right now he's the guy.

738
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Speaker 7: And I don't know that he felt like that in

739
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Speaker 7: Pittsburgh even when he was starting. I don't think you

740
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Speaker 7: felt like that, and there was always change. In Chicago,

741
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Speaker 7: I feel like they found their guy. He's young, and

742
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 7: there's a lot to build around him and his talent.

743
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Speaker 7: So I'm pretty bullish on what Justin Fields can do

744
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Speaker 7: in New York this year.

745
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Speaker 3: Aaron Glenn, when he was in Detroit, you know, they

746
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 3: made the trade for Jared Goff, and we thought, well,

747
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Speaker 3: there's a bridge quarter and no bridge quarterback right that

748
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Speaker 3: guy is the Highway in Detroit, justin field, same kind

749
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 3: of thing, like we got that, Well, here's your bridge

750
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Speaker 3: go to if he can get the same kind of

751
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Speaker 3: deal where you don't have to spend the draft pick

752
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Speaker 3: on a quarterback because you got your guy and he

753
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Speaker 3: winds up being your guy for an extent the period.

754
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 3: That's the best possible scenario for Aaron Glenn. A reasonable

755
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 3: deal at twenty million a year. Again, reasonable when you're

756
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 3: talking about quarterbacks. Speaking of quarterbacks, and a guy that

757
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 3: got slightly better let's say about fifteen million or so

758
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 3: better Sam Darnold and the Seattle Seahawks. What do you

759
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 3: like about the fit here between Donald and what they're

760
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 3: going to do up there with Clint Kubiak as the OC.

761
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Speaker 7: You know, Mike, I always think like these quarterbacks like

762
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 7: Sam and Baker and others, like they have to go

763
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Speaker 7: to rehab after they get off to a bad.

764
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Speaker 2: Start in places.

765
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Speaker 7: And I thought rehab for Sam started in San Francisco

766
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Speaker 7: with Kyle Shanahany Clint Kubiak when he was the quarterback

767
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Speaker 7: coach there. And I thought, just the year playing Scout team,

768
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Speaker 7: playing Week eighteen, I thought Sam really learned a lot

769
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Speaker 7: and I think reuniting with Clinton. Now in Seattle, with

770
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Speaker 7: Mike McDonald the head coach, I feel like this can

771
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Speaker 7: be a new beginning for Sam Now. Obviously in Minnesota

772
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Speaker 7: things went well for the first fifteen to sixteen weeks

773
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Speaker 7: of the season, but I found the feeling like this connection.

774
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Speaker 2: That he has with Clint's a good start. Right now.

775
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Speaker 7: They've got some team building to do around Sam and

776
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,479
Speaker 7: that offense, but now that they've got him locked up here,

777
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Speaker 7: start building.

778
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Speaker 2: We'll see the draft.

779
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Speaker 7: I think they'll address it in the draft or the receivers, offensive.

780
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Speaker 2: Line give him some help.

781
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Speaker 7: But I think it's a good start being reunited within Kubiak.

782
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Speaker 4: All right.

783
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Speaker 5: The move that cleared the way for Sam Darnold in Seattle,

784
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Speaker 5: I think one of the stunners of the off season

785
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Speaker 5: so far. The trade Gino Smith going to the Las

786
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Speaker 5: Vegas Raiders.

787
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Speaker 4: How's that fit?

788
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Speaker 2: Well?

789
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Speaker 7: I think it's going to be good because I was

790
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,799
Speaker 7: around Chip Kelly when he first came to Philadelphia Joey

791
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 7: back in twenty thirteen. He got off to a great start,

792
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 7: and really his ideas about tempo inside outside receivers. Some

793
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 7: of the staples of his offense, like Gino played at

794
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 7: West Virginian for Dana Holgerson. He played in basically the

795
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 7: same offense in college, where a ward tells you what

796
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 7: the offense is. You can get the plays snapped off

797
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 7: and sixteen to eighteen seconds if you want to, if

798
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 7: you need to. So I think he can play that

799
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Speaker 7: up tempto style because he has played in it before.

800
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Speaker 7: So I think Chip coming back to the NFL, he's

801
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,800
Speaker 7: learned a little bit about how to protect your quarterback

802
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 7: a little bit better than he did h He's learned

803
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Speaker 7: from some formations and tight ends things he didn't have

804
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Speaker 7: when he.

805
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:24,840
Speaker 2: Was at Oregon or maybe his first year in Philadelphia.

806
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Speaker 7: I think he's learned a lot since then. I think

807
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 7: it's a good fit for Gino. I think he's going

808
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:30,919
Speaker 7: to play well in his offense. It's going to ask

809
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 7: him to play fast, and that's Chip's offense. That's just

810
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 7: a staple of what he does, and I think Gino's

811
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Speaker 7: capable of doing it.

812
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Speaker 5: One of the few moves that the Raiders have made

813
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Speaker 5: so far this offseason as they try to rebuild with

814
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Speaker 5: Pete Carroll in.

815
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Speaker 1: Charge, breaking news, another pass rusher has just cashed in.

816
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: This time it's Danil Hunter, who has agreed to terms

817
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: with the Texans on a one year, thirty five point

818
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 1: six million dollar contract extent and that now makes him

819
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Speaker 1: the NFL's second highest paid defensive end. He gets a

820
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Speaker 1: raise to thirty two million this season, and almost all

821
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Speaker 1: of the fifty five point one million that he's due

822
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 1: through twenty twenty six is now fully guaranteed. Also potentially

823
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Speaker 1: here this could also form a grown work for getting

824
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Speaker 1: a Trey Hendrickson deal done in Cincinnati.

825
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 2: I mean, while the.

826
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Speaker 1: Big twelve welcomed over two hundred prospects and nearly three

827
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Speaker 1: hundred scouts to their two day conference pro day event

828
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Speaker 1: in Frisco, Texas, our Ret Lewis, Daniel Jeremiah, and Bucky

829
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Speaker 1: Brooks are there.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Insiders.

831
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Speaker 9: Rett Lewis, Daniel Jeremiah, and Bucky Brooks here with you

832
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Speaker 9: from the Ford Center, home of the Cowboys today, of course,

833
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Speaker 9: home with a Big twelve pro day where we saw

834
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Speaker 9: the offensive lineman and defensive lineman hit.

835
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Speaker 2: The field first.

836
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Speaker 9: DJ, you stood out to you here on day one.

837
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Speaker 10: I'm gonna go with Conrad O'Toole from Utah. It doesn't

838
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Speaker 10: have a ton of production from the fall, but man

839
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Speaker 10: what a workout. He ran a four to six six

840
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Speaker 10: forty excellent three cone time as well. So you get

841
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 10: a chance to watch and go to the testing. You

842
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,800
Speaker 10: see him run here, real smooth.

843
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 4: Fluid easy.

844
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Speaker 10: That wasn't just in the forty and in the three cone.

845
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,319
Speaker 10: Also just watching him move around, everything he did looked

846
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 10: effortless and it looks smooth. So someone helped himself and

847
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Speaker 10: it's going to give himself an opportunity at the next level.

848
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Speaker 11: Well, guys, I'm gonna go with the Arizona standout Jonah

849
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 11: seven A continue to put the exclamation point of what

850
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 11: has been a really solid pre draft process form When

851
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,320
Speaker 11: you think about what he has been able to display,

852
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 11: this guy that can play outside and inside, the versatility.

853
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 11: When you look at the tape, you see the IQ,

854
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 11: You see the toughness and the physicality that you want

855
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 11: to see. But out here we want to see the

856
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 11: movements heels. Could he move around, can he make this transitions?

857
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,320
Speaker 11: Is he someone that can play outside maybe at right tackle,

858
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 11: or is he destined to make a move interior. I

859
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 11: think he really helped himself with what he's done throughout

860
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Speaker 11: the process, particularly what he was able to do with

861
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Speaker 11: a Big twelve Prodame.

862
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Speaker 9: Yeah, guys, I'll go back to the defensive line group

863
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 9: and talk about one of the players we saw from Baylor,

864
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 9: Trevin Maay, who's kind of played up and down the

865
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Speaker 9: defensive line for Davi Randa said, they've used them, you know,

866
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Speaker 9: at nose, they've used them at the three tech, They've

867
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Speaker 9: used them as a five at times. He checked in

868
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Speaker 9: at just about two hundred and seventy seven pounds and

869
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Speaker 9: I'll run in a four to seven forty today. So

870
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Speaker 9: I think as a guy that you want to, you know,

871
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Speaker 9: maybe can pack a little bit more weight on and

872
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Speaker 9: then put them on the interior that defensive line, and

873
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 9: you could be talking about a player that definitely catches

874
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Speaker 9: the eye of some talent evaluators here at the Big

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Speaker 9: twelve Pro Day. So those are the big guys right Tomorrow,

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Speaker 9: Day two of the Big twelve Pro Day, we're going

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Speaker 9: to talk about the quarterbacks, the running backs, the wide receivers.

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Speaker 9: Kind of a loaded skill group, especially at running back,

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Speaker 9: and we shall get a chance to talk to Bucky.

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Speaker 9: I know you're looking forward to this. You see him

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Speaker 9: down on the field. Coach Prime Dion Sanders and his

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Speaker 9: son Shader Sanders, one of the very top prospects in

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Speaker 9: this draft class, going to be here in attendance, and

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Speaker 9: we look forward to chatting with them. But again, Big

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Speaker 9: twelve Pro Day, Day two, one o'clock Eastern. We'll see

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Speaker 9: you tomorrow right here from Frisco, Texas.

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Speaker 1: A few players bigger and Super Bowl fifty nine. The

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Speaker 1: DeVante Smith on that touchdown from Jalen Hurts. But have

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Speaker 1: you've seen it, well, there's a different way you can

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Speaker 1: see it, and you will not be able to unsee it.

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Speaker 1: We'll explain next on the Insiders.

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Speaker 10: We score snover call you.

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Speaker 2: Just call it.

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Speaker 10: For the Eagles.

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Speaker 1: It is verse to ten and they take over in

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Speaker 1: chief's territory of the forty six yard line.

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Speaker 2: Church chart exactly how the Eagles get it back. We're

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Speaker 2: going to run some plot maybe s down.

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Speaker 4: We score snover. This must have taken for ever to do.

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Speaker 1: The best part of that and not the work by

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Speaker 1: fabou Brick is nailing the Nick Sirianni strut in stop motion.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow.