Speaker 1: Another great day of inside training camp, live portions of
Speaker 1: ITC and all of these locations. We will recap the
Speaker 1: day's events and address some news on this edition of
Speaker 1: The Insiders, which starts right now.
Speaker 2: Everybody, Welcome to The Insiders.
Speaker 1: Patrick Claibon here in the NFL LA newsroom, Mike yarrolfollow
Speaker 1: just back from Eagles camp, and Judy Batista there at
Speaker 1: her ITC location with the Giants at the Greenbrier in
Speaker 1: West Virginia. But we start with what's new today coming
Speaker 1: into the nfl LA newsroom.
Speaker 2: And that's Aaron Donald back in RAMS equipment at a workout.
Speaker 1: He's wearing the RAMS equipment which requires the team to
Speaker 1: report the activity to the NFL. That's why Aaron Donald's
Speaker 1: name was listed on a part of a tryout and
Speaker 1: ignited so much further on social media today. The future
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame defensive tackle still mulling over a decision
Speaker 1: of whether or not to return to the NFL. As
Speaker 1: for current player Stefan Diggs. Here's a week from NFL
Speaker 1: Network insidery Ian Rapport. Stephan Diggs joining Jaden Daniels and
Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders on a one year deal could be
Speaker 1: worth up to twelve million dollars. As it took a
Speaker 1: little bit of time, but the guy we last saw
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, one of the best available free
Speaker 1: agents at wide receiver, MIC finds a landing spot.
Speaker 3: The marilynd native back to the DMV certainly knows the
Speaker 3: area and he knows Jayden Daniels a little bit as well.
Speaker 3: And look, the commanders, we knew they were going to
Speaker 3: make an addition at some point at the receiver position.
Speaker 3: They were in on guys in the spring, some big
Speaker 3: free agents that they didn't land, so this has been
Speaker 3: a need for them for going on what five months
Speaker 3: at this point. And the Brandon Aiyuk part of this
Speaker 3: is obviously a big part of it as well, that
Speaker 3: they thought a while back that perhaps that they would
Speaker 3: land him, but that those dominoes haven't started the fall,
Speaker 3: and there's a lot of them that needed to fall
Speaker 3: before him. He would become a Washington commander. So in
Speaker 3: the end, if you're Stefan Diggs, you say, we know
Speaker 3: they need us, let's keep holding out so that number
Speaker 3: gets to a nice number, and there you see the
Speaker 3: maximum number of the deal worth twelve million, So instant
Speaker 3: upgrade for a guy that's still got a lot of juice.
Speaker 3: You saw him last year that game in Buffalo. He
Speaker 3: played a fantastic game up there for the New England Patriots.
Speaker 3: And this is coming off at ACL by the way,
Speaker 3: So one more year removed. Yeah, I know he's a
Speaker 3: year later, but one year removed from an ACL should
Speaker 3: help him in that regard. Terry McLaren's still going to
Speaker 3: be the I. This is maybe one in one A,
Speaker 3: but they still expect big things from McLaren. They just
Speaker 3: know this, Judy. They just got a lot better at
Speaker 3: the receiver position with this edition.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Really, the commander's needs is longer than five months, right,
Speaker 5: They have needed somebody to complement Terry McLaurin longer than that,
Speaker 5: and they get a really good one, somebody who can
Speaker 5: take a lot of pressure off Terry McLaurin. Even if
Speaker 5: he is not quite as productive as he was last
Speaker 5: year for the New England Patriots, but frankly, there's no
Speaker 5: reason to think he can't.
Speaker 4: Be that productive.
Speaker 5: This is a big addition for Jaden Daniels he has had.
Speaker 5: Dix has had an incredible run of being good with
Speaker 5: young quarterbacks and helping young quarterbacks take the next step
Speaker 5: in their development.
Speaker 4: Think of who he's played with, Josh Allen, CJ. Stroud,
Speaker 4: Drake May. Last year.
Speaker 5: You saw the big leap Drake May made in just
Speaker 5: one season with Digs there. Now, Jaden Daniels gets the
Speaker 5: benefit of having a really reliable, experienced target. And again
Speaker 5: it is worth emphasizing Dix was super productive last season
Speaker 5: coming off the ACO.
Speaker 4: You really would never have known he was coming.
Speaker 5: Off in ACL by the time he got to the
Speaker 5: midpoint of the season.
Speaker 4: Big pickup for the Washington Commanders.
Speaker 5: And certainly we can talk at a later point what
Speaker 5: this means for Brandon Ayuk, but it is very good
Speaker 5: news right now for Jaden Daniels.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good news for the team in our Nations Capital.
Speaker 1: Good news for Jayden Daniels and those Commanders who were
Speaker 1: so good in.
Speaker 2: His rookie season.
Speaker 1: But they want to get back in the contention, especially
Speaker 1: in that division of division Judy, that also features the
Speaker 1: team you're covering today, the New York Giants.
Speaker 5: This was practice number seven one of New York Giants
Speaker 5: training camp here at the Greenbrier in White Sofur Springs.
Speaker 4: They have been really physical.
Speaker 5: This was a really long one two and a half
Speaker 5: hours it was really hot.
Speaker 4: Really, for the most.
Speaker 5: Part of training camp, the defense has been getting the
Speaker 5: best of the offense.
Speaker 4: The offense made some.
Speaker 5: Place today, but the defense made more after practice. We
Speaker 5: talked to Cavon Thibodeau, Omar Ruiz, and I talked to
Speaker 5: Kevon Thibdeaux.
Speaker 4: Here. He is.
Speaker 5: Cave On Thibodeau, New York Giant pass rusher and fill
Speaker 5: in NFL Network personality. The defense has looked really good
Speaker 5: in training camp. You looked good today. You just had
Speaker 5: a sack a few minutes ago. How do you think
Speaker 5: the defense is coming along?
Speaker 6: I mean we're playing well. I think we're yelling together.
Speaker 6: Things are going well. Coach and an artists really lit
Speaker 6: a fire under us. We love the defense, and I
Speaker 6: think we've just been working.
Speaker 7: How are you guys measuring success right now?
Speaker 2: Honestly, it's the effort.
Speaker 6: You know, one thing when you watch the tape, the
Speaker 6: only thing that jumps out is how guys are running
Speaker 6: and how guys are hidding.
Speaker 2: So as long as you run hard and we hit,
Speaker 2: things gonna look good.
Speaker 5: You were the subject of a lot of trade speculation
Speaker 5: in the off season. You've talked about it, and you
Speaker 5: said it doesn't really provide any extra motivation. You don't
Speaker 5: need extra motivation, but sort how do you process that.
Speaker 4: And move forward when you're in a contract year.
Speaker 6: You know, honestly, it's like when you're coming out of
Speaker 6: high school.
Speaker 2: You got all these offers.
Speaker 6: You know, you can get a million offers, but at
Speaker 6: the end of the day, you can only go to
Speaker 6: one school. You only play for one team, and right
Speaker 6: now with the New York Giants. So for me, we
Speaker 6: got to win. I got to play to my best season.
Speaker 6: I gotta do the best I can to help the team,
Speaker 6: and we gotta come out with tourious.
Speaker 8: You're a former top five pick, Abdul Carter or vl
Speaker 8: Reese now joins in that department. How do you guys
Speaker 8: come together this season? What are you guys saying to
Speaker 8: each other to hope that in twenty twenty six, you
Speaker 8: guys have your best season yet.
Speaker 6: I think you know, it's being humble, using our talents
Speaker 6: and kind of coming together to cultivate something great, you know,
Speaker 6: having a guy like Burns and tremain and inside that
Speaker 6: our vests that have been doing it. Even myself it's
Speaker 6: my fifth year, so being able to lean on the
Speaker 6: vents and have that new fresh talent come in and
Speaker 6: you know, make make a great pie.
Speaker 4: You've been a little bit on the inside as well.
Speaker 4: How do you like that? How do you like how
Speaker 4: they're moving your around?
Speaker 2: I've been moving around, man, I like it, you know.
Speaker 6: I think from the beginning when I started playing the sport,
Speaker 6: I want to be a technician, and you know, now
Speaker 6: I get the rush from all spots. You know, it's
Speaker 6: just making me better at my craft. And you know,
Speaker 6: I just feel like I'm matting a lot of tricks
Speaker 6: to my bag.
Speaker 8: We know that in ten years you want to be
Speaker 8: coming from our jobs. You want to work at the
Speaker 8: NFL Network as an analyst. So we're gonna put your
Speaker 8: analyst hat on. How would you assess how the offense
Speaker 8: is coming together?
Speaker 6: You know, I think the offense is doing well. I
Speaker 6: think they got a lot, a lot of grinding to do.
Speaker 6: I think Jackson is maturing. I think, you know, him
Speaker 6: being able to read the defense. He's going against one
Speaker 6: of the hardest defenses in the league. So him being
Speaker 6: able to dissect this pick up blitzes, pick up fronts
Speaker 6: and then still be able to deliver the ball where
Speaker 6: he needs to from his first read to a second read.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to continue to develop.
Speaker 6: But you know, with the guys that are surrounding him,
Speaker 6: from Odell to neighbors, when he gets back to all
Speaker 6: the supporting cast, they're going to do real well.
Speaker 5: All right, you brought up O'Dell, so we're gonna we
Speaker 5: have to ask you about Odell.
Speaker 4: How's Odell look to you, guys?
Speaker 2: I mean, he looks great. He's the og around here.
Speaker 3: Me.
Speaker 6: It's always funny because back when I was in like
Speaker 6: I don't know, I was like fourteen or fifteen, I
Speaker 6: had a haircut at the hairsnot I'm not old literally,
Speaker 6: but he's been at leave for a while in football years,
Speaker 6: you know he's old. So having him back and still
Speaker 6: seeing him go hard and train hard and be a
Speaker 6: leader usband great.
Speaker 8: What's it like to hear the crowd still erupt for
Speaker 8: him whenever he touches the football.
Speaker 7: The crowd goes wild. To see that now first, and you.
Speaker 6: Know that's influenced with great power comes great responsibility. I
Speaker 6: think he's handling it well, and I think he's going
Speaker 6: to continue to work and continue to solidify a spot
Speaker 6: on the team.
Speaker 5: Cave On thanks, continue to have a great training camp,
Speaker 5: continue to be great on television, and we'll see you
Speaker 5: in ten. Here's thanks so much, Thank you see soon.
Speaker 5: That was cave On Thibodeaux from inside training camp. Here
Speaker 5: is my partner Omar Ruiz, who has been with me
Speaker 5: all day at White Silfur Springs, and there is Mike Garrafolo.
Speaker 4: I think in air conditioning, so I'm really jealous of you, Omar.
Speaker 5: I will ask you first, what was your takeaway from
Speaker 5: Giants practice?
Speaker 8: Well, I'll start with how we ended that interview with
Speaker 8: Keveon Thibodeau and talk about Odell Beckham Junior, who at
Speaker 8: least for the last couple days, has looked fantastic. He's
Speaker 8: creating separation against the defense, his hands are as good
Speaker 8: as they've ever been, and what certainly hasn't changed is
Speaker 8: the response from the crowd that he gets whenever he
Speaker 8: touches the football.
Speaker 7: The crowd goes crazy.
Speaker 8: After practice, had a chance to ask him what kind
Speaker 8: of juice he gets from hearing the crowd go wild
Speaker 8: at this point in his career, and he symbolized like
Speaker 8: his knees were quivering. He says he still gets a
Speaker 8: lot of juice from that, he seems like he's deeply
Speaker 8: appreciative of this opportunity to come back where he says
Speaker 8: he became a man and try to win a championship
Speaker 8: for the organization, for this city, and at this point
Speaker 8: he just wants to keep stacking days like he has
Speaker 8: the last couple and keep working towards a shot to
Speaker 8: make this team and be a real contributor in twenty
Speaker 8: twenty six. My other key takeaway is seeing Isaiah Likely
Speaker 8: up close and what a great target he might be
Speaker 8: for Jackson Dart this season. We've seen him in Spurts
Speaker 8: a part of that potent Ravens offense over the last
Speaker 8: several years with Lamar Jackson and Derrek Henry and Mark
Speaker 8: Andrews as eight flowers. He has a real chance to
Speaker 8: emerge this season with the New York Chances Giants.
Speaker 7: He's shown that here the last couple of days he has.
Speaker 5: A real chance to really be their number two pass
Speaker 5: catcher behind the league neighbors, assuming he gets healthy. My
Speaker 5: takeaway is it is still up and down for the offense.
Speaker 5: We saw some good plays today, especially in the low
Speaker 5: red zone. Jackson Dark had some really good plays, but
Speaker 5: he started off the practice with two interceptions almost back
Speaker 5: to back, and that has.
Speaker 4: Been a theme. It's not unexpected.
Speaker 5: Frankly, he is learning a new offense, he's learning to
Speaker 5: play under center. They're all adjusting, they're all learning a
Speaker 5: new offense.
Speaker 4: So the up and down nature of what we're seeing
Speaker 4: is not surprising.
Speaker 5: But still, again it is practice number seven and you're
Speaker 5: wondering when is this going to come more smoothly for them.
Speaker 4: He did have some good performances.
Speaker 5: We've seen him also make some plays with his legs,
Speaker 5: which is what you would expect. But again, I think
Speaker 5: at some point you would like to see a little
Speaker 5: bit more smoothness from this offense.
Speaker 4: John Harbaugh is not concerned.
Speaker 5: He liked what he saw from Jackson Dark today, especially
Speaker 5: because he rebounded after the two early interceptions and performed
Speaker 5: so well in the low red zone.
Speaker 4: We will see when it comes.
Speaker 5: They don't have to play a preseason game until next weekend.
Speaker 4: We'll see how they do by then.
Speaker 3: Like he was making some mistakes last week when we
Speaker 3: were there close practice one day, we threw an interception
Speaker 3: to one of their defensive linemen, which was not a
Speaker 3: great way to end practice if you were a member
Speaker 3: of the offense and a reason why they were motivated
Speaker 3: to come back the next day and then strike quickly.
Speaker 3: They did just that in the team portion. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: you saw a little bit of that lego. See his handshakes,
Speaker 3: He's got customized handshakes for every player. Scataboo headbutt. Does
Speaker 3: that surprise anybody? Nope, But what they want him to do,
Speaker 3: because it was about learning the new offense and the
Speaker 3: terminology in the spring and then implementing it really once
Speaker 3: things got live in the summer, realizing that there's going
Speaker 3: to be mistakes along the way. Leave him in West Virginia, okay,
Speaker 3: and then there'll be somebody's Brutherford two. I exaggerated a
Speaker 3: little bit, But make the mistakes now and understand what
Speaker 3: you can and can't do. They're fine with him doing
Speaker 3: that to a certain extent, but it's got to be
Speaker 3: cleaned up and there's got to be fewer and fewer
Speaker 3: as he goes along as they get into the preseason,
Speaker 3: as they get back up here to Jersey to practice.
Speaker 3: So that'll that's what I'll be watching once they come
Speaker 3: back up here, once they get into some preseason game action.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they got a few more practices here they are
Speaker 5: here until Saturday. They leave on Sunday, and then they
Speaker 5: are right back at it in East Rutherford and we
Speaker 5: will be out there for it.
Speaker 4: Patrick, thank you guys.
Speaker 1: A former Giants, Saikwon Barkley and his Eagles adjusting to
Speaker 1: their new offense.
Speaker 2: He gets into the specifics.
Speaker 1: Of those changes with Mike g and Brian Balding are
Speaker 1: coming up on The Insiders, and after taking the highest
Speaker 1: paid title from Saquon, we hear from John Robinson for
Speaker 1: the first time since he signed his deal. That's coming
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Speaker 1: than the Falcons anytime soon. John Robinson signed a three
Speaker 1: year extension that could be worth up to seventy five
Speaker 1: million dollars, and if that holds up, he'll be the
Speaker 1: highest fade running back in NFL history. Got a chance
Speaker 1: to hear from him after that deal today.
Speaker 9: Now, I hope he gets the most out of you know,
Speaker 9: what he deserves, because he deserves it, deserves it all.
Speaker 9: But it's definitely a cool feeling to see too, offensive guys,
Speaker 9: offensive weapon guys that got drafted in the same class.
Speaker 9: And now that we're in our going in our fourth year,
Speaker 9: we're talking about extensions, and you know, it's just it's
Speaker 9: just a testament to what God blessed us with and
Speaker 9: who we are as people.
Speaker 1: So John looking out to his fellow running back Jamir
Speaker 1: Gibbs and passing him to Baton, might as it's going
Speaker 1: to be his turn to take this deal.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, I mean, and all running backs are sort
Speaker 3: of in it together, and they all want to get
Speaker 3: paid because they feel like they haven't been paid enough.
Speaker 3: And this will help the case for Jamiir Gibbs, for
Speaker 3: Vijion Robinson to lay down that twenty two point twenty
Speaker 3: five in base value up to twenty five. You may
Speaker 3: be saying, I saw twenty five. Twenty five is the
Speaker 3: max value of the deal. There are some incentives and
Speaker 3: as good as he is, look at those sharks right there,
Speaker 3: look at those squads as good as he is, I'm
Speaker 3: sure he's gonna hit some of those incentives. So at
Speaker 3: least Jamir Gibbs and the Lions know where the bar
Speaker 3: is because previously it was like you're sort of flying
Speaker 3: blind because you don't want to come in and let's
Speaker 3: say twenty one and all of a sudden, Robinson's at
Speaker 3: twenty five and just blows you out of the water
Speaker 3: and you look bad as an agent. I mean, that's
Speaker 3: what this is all about. And that's what it's about
Speaker 3: at the cornerback position too as well, with Devin Witherspoon
Speaker 3: and Christian Gonzales. So this at least help. There was
Speaker 3: some patience and a nice job by the Atlanta front office. Frankly,
Speaker 3: this entire offseason, I continue to hear how this pretty
Speaker 3: green front office with Matt Ryan as the head of football,
Speaker 3: did a phenomenal job in dealing with some complicated situations
Speaker 3: and some complicated contracts, got this one done relatively early
Speaker 3: in campus.
Speaker 5: Well, this was all about who was going to go
Speaker 5: first and who would go last, And now Jamir Gibbs
Speaker 5: is going to go last. So you've got the price
Speaker 5: that we know he's going to top in some way.
Speaker 4: This is obviously very good news for Jamiir Gibbs.
Speaker 5: Dan Campbell said earlier this offseason, this guy is going
Speaker 5: to be our bell cow now that David Montgomery has gone.
Speaker 5: So we knew Jamir Gibbs was going to reset the market.
Speaker 5: It was just a question of if Jean was going
Speaker 5: to come after him or before him. Jamiir Gibbs will
Speaker 5: reset the market. We will see what it comes in
Speaker 5: at how much he resets the market. Frankly, I'm not
Speaker 5: even sure that the market has been appropriately reset yet.
Speaker 5: For what these running backs can do, these dual threat
Speaker 5: running backs, they are just as effective in the passing
Speaker 5: game as they are in the running game. They deserve
Speaker 5: all the money they can get. Very curious to see
Speaker 5: where Gibbs comes in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the workload for those guys in the run and
Speaker 1: pass game already expansive, and both teams seem points to
Speaker 1: rely on them even more are coming up. This skag
Speaker 1: money's worth, Yeah, everything that they could possibly get. The
Speaker 1: Falcons defensive plans seem to rely on two young edge
Speaker 1: defenders coming into the season.
Speaker 2: Now, big issues for both of them.
Speaker 1: That's what's new today, and MRI did confirm the bad
Speaker 1: news for Falcons top ten pick in twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: Jalen Walker. He went down yesterday in practice. It will
Speaker 1: cost him the remainder of his twenty twenty six season
Speaker 1: with the torn acl Team CEO Greg Beatles also said
Speaker 1: today they expect clarity from the league very soon in
Speaker 1: the next few days regarding a.
Speaker 2: Possible suspension for James Pierce.
Speaker 1: Concerns in Denver has newly acquired Broncos wide out Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddell left practice, but as head coach Sean Payton says,
Speaker 1: it's purely muscle tightness. He expects again the newly acquired
Speaker 1: star wide receiver to be just fine and great news
Speaker 1: for the Houston Texans and their wide receiver Tank Dell
Speaker 1: led a brutal knee injury two seasons ago. He was
Speaker 1: in pads practicing for the first time since that injury,
Speaker 1: an injury that really changed things that season for the
Speaker 1: Texans offense as well as his quarterback CJ. Stroud, who
Speaker 1: the team acknowledged contract discussions with coming up this offseason.
Speaker 1: He's in the final year of his rookie deal. He
Speaker 1: sat down for a discussion of football and life with
Speaker 1: Jane Slater and Kurt Warner.
Speaker 10: Here with CJ Stroud and CJ. Last time I caught
Speaker 10: up with you, we were in New England. Walked me
Speaker 10: through this offseason and what was your mindset heading into
Speaker 10: this year?
Speaker 11: It was really, you know, just get better, you know,
Speaker 11: focus on the things I can get better at. I
Speaker 11: always go to scripture and it was Philippians three and
Speaker 11: thirteen for me. Just forget what's in the past, Stratford,
Speaker 11: what's a his So that's kind of what I try
Speaker 11: to do, but learn from it as well.
Speaker 2: So that was that was my plan.
Speaker 12: I think it's fascinating to think about the idea of
Speaker 12: a good quarterback getting better, especially in the off season.
Speaker 12: So I do want to go back to that New
Speaker 12: England game because I think a lot of times we
Speaker 12: can learn more through some struggles than our successes. Was
Speaker 12: there something you were able to take from that game
Speaker 12: that you applied this offseason.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean I just think system things, you know,
Speaker 11: working you know with the whole line on protections, pocket movement,
Speaker 11: throwing on the run was.
Speaker 2: A big one for that game.
Speaker 11: So those are all things I attacked an offseason and you know,
Speaker 11: got to get go back to LA with my trainers
Speaker 11: and really, you know, go hard on it from I
Speaker 11: really didn't take take a break. So right after the game,
Speaker 11: I probably took like a day off and I flew
Speaker 11: home and they came and got right back to work.
Speaker 12: Talk to me about the mental side. It's such a
Speaker 12: huge part of playing quarterback. As I understand how we
Speaker 12: can get better physically. I mean, how do you get
Speaker 12: better mentally in the off season when you don't get
Speaker 12: seven on seven, you don't get bodies out there every day.
Speaker 11: I think you have to challenge yourself, you know, through
Speaker 11: through you know, watching film and talking to coach, talking
Speaker 11: with coaches over what you can do better. So and
Speaker 11: then I think on the other side of mentally is
Speaker 11: like how quick can you forget your your your failures
Speaker 11: and how quick can you forget your successes.
Speaker 12: I love that now everybody knows about Nico and that
Speaker 12: he's the go to guy, but you're gonna have to
Speaker 12: have some young guys, whether it's Tank obviously, Jayden Jalen
Speaker 12: coming in. Can you talk to me about how they
Speaker 12: compliment Nico in this office.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think Nico of courses, you know, the one
Speaker 11: on one guy. He can do everything he can get
Speaker 11: in the slod go outside, you know, big playability, big
Speaker 11: gackt ability. And then you know the other guys. I
Speaker 11: think they're very talented. You know, some guys who played
Speaker 11: a lot of college ball, you know, play together in
Speaker 11: college with Hutch and Higg and j No.
Speaker 2: And then you got Tank.
Speaker 11: You got j Wad coming from a championship mentality.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 11: I think he has three rings, you know, so he
Speaker 11: has the mentality and that work ethic. And then also
Speaker 11: our tight end room I think the broad end. Marlin
Speaker 11: rookie from you know that team up North, he's doing
Speaker 11: very well. Then we got Dalton you know, of course
Speaker 11: our our a set tight end k Foster.
Speaker 2: Running backs doing well. So we and then my biggest
Speaker 2: thing is we're tough upfront.
Speaker 11: You know, we got some tough guys, some young guys
Speaker 11: who who are pushing everybody else, Like Keeling's doing great,
Speaker 11: why from the Browns had a lot of experience.
Speaker 2: I go on and on. Everybody's doing really well. So
Speaker 2: I'm very excited for the group we have.
Speaker 12: Offensively, Jane was talking about your mentality earlier, and I'm
Speaker 12: fascinated because obviously you guys have a great defense, but
Speaker 12: I know you're at your best when you're aggressive. How
Speaker 12: do you talk to the coaches about that balance between
Speaker 12: being you and being aggressive but also playing conservative when
Speaker 12: you need to feed into what your defense is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was tough for me at first. You know,
Speaker 2: I come from a.
Speaker 11: Background since I was a kid, my coach has always
Speaker 11: told me, you can make every throw in the field.
Speaker 11: Don't ever doubt yourself. We're rocking with you no matter what. So,
Speaker 11: you know, things kind of change as you get older.
Speaker 11: You got the mature and realize you don't always got
Speaker 11: to be Superman, but make the other guys around you superman.
Speaker 11: And you know, that's something that I'm still learning and
Speaker 11: I'm grateful that I have both abilities and I'm learning
Speaker 11: how to do both and I'm just, you know, trying
Speaker 11: to get better at that.
Speaker 13: Not easy.
Speaker 10: And it helps that they're actually giving you some pieces
Speaker 10: to the run game this year. You're getting some receivers
Speaker 10: back so you don't have to do everything and you
Speaker 10: can choose to be aggressive and some spons and not
Speaker 10: and others.
Speaker 4: CJ.
Speaker 14: So good to see you again. We cheer for you
Speaker 14: here at the NFL Network and looking forward to a
Speaker 14: good season.
Speaker 2: Thank you guys, now, bless you the crowd has started
Speaker 2: to chin MVB.
Speaker 15: Bet Barkley's during history six bark puking.
Speaker 2: Park, stay climbing.
Speaker 16: No one's ever done this over Crackward, I'm the Golden one,
Speaker 16: GM and.
Speaker 2: Them kind of holding one.
Speaker 1: What an incredible first season it was for Sakuon Barkley
Speaker 1: after arriving in Philadelphia, But the follow up season after
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl did.
Speaker 2: Not know so well.
Speaker 1: Falloffs in the past game and the run game for
Speaker 1: the Eagles, but incomes new offensive coordinator Sean Manion and
Speaker 1: Squon joining Mike Girlfoller and Brian Balding are talking about
Speaker 1: their new offense today.
Speaker 2: Like it's a new offense.
Speaker 4: There's been a lot of talk about that.
Speaker 2: Sean Manyon is, let's start there.
Speaker 3: Let's start with your grade on Sean Manyon.
Speaker 2: Maybe what surprised you so far about her?
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 16: I don't think it's fair to, you know, put a
Speaker 16: grade out anybody right now. I don't want to go
Speaker 16: out there and be like he just mad genius, even
Speaker 16: though actually believe that that's that's not fair to anybody.
Speaker 16: I think right now, we're all coming in, we're buying
Speaker 16: into the new system, trying our best to learn it
Speaker 16: each install getting better and better. I think he's doing
Speaker 16: a great job of, you know, being a leader of
Speaker 16: the group. I'll see, it's a system that he's very
Speaker 16: you know, aware of, and he knows a lot of it,
Speaker 16: and it's giving us information that we need and he's
Speaker 16: doing a great job of calling it up.
Speaker 13: We're going against vic.
Speaker 16: Vic is known to be one of the best defensive
Speaker 16: coordinators all time, one of the best coaches of all time,
Speaker 16: so that's a great challenge and he's doing a he's
Speaker 16: doing a really good job for us.
Speaker 3: Vic and his press conference today said, you know, the
Speaker 3: defense has won the last couple of days in his
Speaker 3: own humble but also a little bit of a job
Speaker 3: type of way. But is that is that part of
Speaker 3: it is like, Okay, we're gonna be seeing Fangio style defenses,
Speaker 3: so let's work against it in camp and let's let's
Speaker 3: find some answers to it.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I say, I'll say that week one that got us.
Speaker 16: You know, I don't want to make any excuses they should.
Speaker 16: You know, they're they're running a system that they know
Speaker 16: already and we're learning something new right now. I think
Speaker 16: it's two to one. Second week. I think it's two
Speaker 16: to one. Some people may disagree. I have that conversation
Speaker 16: with all the guys and defensive in the locker room
Speaker 16: out there, but yeah, you see this kind of this
Speaker 16: kind of defense all around the league, and we are
Speaker 16: defense running at a high level.
Speaker 13: I think they're the best in the league. I know
Speaker 13: that the best in the league.
Speaker 16: So the fact that we get to go against them
Speaker 16: every single day, it's only going to make us better.
Speaker 13: And it's great competition.
Speaker 16: And you want to be a championship team, and you
Speaker 16: need a championship defense and championship offense.
Speaker 13: And we're trying to build to that.
Speaker 17: Tagging in my partner Brian Balling it tack one, it's
Speaker 17: a team thank here.
Speaker 2: So I want to get all what's what's the difference
Speaker 2: for a back?
Speaker 17: I mean, just for the people out there, being eight
Speaker 17: yards deep the quarterback under center versus being in shotgun,
Speaker 17: and the difference is for you making the reads and
Speaker 17: seeing things develop.
Speaker 13: Yeah, the best way I can explain that.
Speaker 16: A lot of backs that come from college, or when
Speaker 16: I was in college, a little bit different. Now you
Speaker 16: see a little more under centered. But when I was
Speaker 16: in college, we all weren't gun. I don't think I
Speaker 16: went under center one time in college. And you see
Speaker 16: a lot of guys they come from college and they
Speaker 16: struggle in NFL when they got to get into the
Speaker 16: diet and you gotta run outside zone.
Speaker 13: You're so used to running duo in size zone.
Speaker 16: The difference is for me, I feel like it gets
Speaker 16: me an opportunity to get down here a little bit.
Speaker 16: It gets me opportunity to manipulate the defensive back or
Speaker 16: the defensive linebackers a lot better. And you just got
Speaker 16: to continue to trust your office a line because they're
Speaker 16: coming off the ball, they're flying off the ball, and
Speaker 16: you know the type of guys that we have, how
Speaker 16: they're moving off the ball.
Speaker 13: Let them do what they do best.
Speaker 16: Put yourself in the right gap, be patient, and when
Speaker 16: it's time to strike, make sure you strike.
Speaker 17: What you said was interesting, those safe one because your
Speaker 17: eyes are on the linebackers and you're manipulating them. Some
Speaker 17: people just think it's all about finding the whole and
Speaker 17: then getting through it and then you do your thing.
Speaker 17: But you're seeing it from early on when you're getting
Speaker 17: the handoff.
Speaker 13: We're together.
Speaker 16: We're a unit, right, And there's some runs you'll see
Speaker 16: that the old line is doing their job, but it's
Speaker 16: up to me to make sure that I get my
Speaker 16: shoulder square and I get that linebacker to commit to
Speaker 16: this gap so I know I could take it to
Speaker 16: this gap PFF grade. You know you don't get any
Speaker 16: yards after contact for that, But that's part of being
Speaker 16: a running back.
Speaker 13: That's part of being a running back. You got to
Speaker 13: do that.
Speaker 16: You got to know the scheme, You got to know
Speaker 16: what the officer line, the angles that they're going on,
Speaker 16: and trying your best sh to put the linebackers in
Speaker 16: the safeties where they need to be so it can make.
Speaker 13: Your life a lot easier.
Speaker 16: And when you have guys like I have up front,
Speaker 16: especially right now, how they've been moving and they're healthy,
Speaker 16: it just makes you excited to play running back.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about your quarterback, because when we talked about
Speaker 3: this new offense and some of these schemes and under
Speaker 3: center and all this stuff, people.
Speaker 2: Were saying, well, well, that's not it.
Speaker 3: He's he's had so many different offenses and coordinators going
Speaker 3: back to his college career.
Speaker 2: How do you see him adapting? What do you see
Speaker 2: for him.
Speaker 13: So far this summer?
Speaker 16: A lot of people that have those opinion can never
Speaker 16: do what he's able to do. One thing about Jalen
Speaker 16: Hurt is that that I'm a big fan about one.
Speaker 16: He's competitor and he's going to adapt to anything he
Speaker 16: needs to do, and he's going to do whatever it takes.
Speaker 13: A one football game, he's coming in.
Speaker 16: He's buying in just like every singlebody else and supporting
Speaker 16: when your quarterback's buying in because that's the leader of.
Speaker 13: Your team and we're all following him. He's buying into
Speaker 13: the system.
Speaker 16: He's doing a really good job of being coachable, and
Speaker 16: he's making plays out here.
Speaker 13: Like I said, we're going against Vic.
Speaker 16: You know Vic, he's doing something crazy every single day,
Speaker 16: something new that might pop up later in the season
Speaker 16: and you'd be like, wow, I remember Vic doing that
Speaker 16: and defend in training camp practice number four. So it's
Speaker 16: definitely a challenge, but we're improving. Were getting better every
Speaker 16: single day, and it starts with Jalen. He's doing a
Speaker 16: fantastic job.
Speaker 1: Say going never ourselves working, we're not working towards the future.
Speaker 1: That's Saquon Junior, his second child, showing the start stoppability
Speaker 1: after practice, also getting some spin work and with Dad
Speaker 1: i'llbeit Dad doing it a little more dangerous variety once
Speaker 1: the NFL season starts. As a great day out there
Speaker 1: at Eagles Camp.
Speaker 2: Mike, look at the kid.
Speaker 3: We asked him about it today, He's like he said,
Speaker 3: he hurdled him. I don't know where that clip came from.
Speaker 3: Maybe somebody else that had that clip of him hurtling
Speaker 3: his son. One day his son might hurtle him or
Speaker 3: maybe another defender. And like I told him, wind up
Speaker 3: on the cover of Eden.
Speaker 1: Who knows an opportunity for us to look back on
Speaker 1: your day at Eagles Camp. Saquon decidedly was not going
Speaker 1: to put a grade on any offensive install. Did you
Speaker 1: have any grades from what you saw today?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's an incomplete right now. And as
Speaker 3: say Quon said, it's unfair to go against the defense,
Speaker 3: and it was exactly what they're doing. We're still working
Speaker 3: through the kings here. But I think that's also part
Speaker 3: of the element of surprise that they're banking on. They'd
Speaker 3: be real tight with some of the wrinkles that we
Speaker 3: might see here because they want some un scouted looks
Speaker 3: early in the season. That would be a good thing
Speaker 3: for Jalen Hurts because everything we've heard the last couple
Speaker 3: of years. Oh boy, it's predictable. That word always seems
Speaker 3: to come out. This will not be predictable. Will it
Speaker 3: be fully affected, Judy, I don't know, but I can
Speaker 3: guarantee you through the first couple of weeks in the
Speaker 3: season it won't be predictable.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: This is an awful lot of new for the Eagles
Speaker 5: offense right a new offensive coordinator, obviously, a new offensive
Speaker 5: line coach for the first time in like forever.
Speaker 4: Obviously Aj Brown has gone.
Speaker 5: So there's a lot to adjust to and a lot
Speaker 5: to work through here. And I don't know how fast
Speaker 5: it's all going to come. Certainly the first few weeks
Speaker 5: that the season are going to be a surprise to everyone.
Speaker 4: I am sure we're going to.
Speaker 5: Discuss it, discuss it exhaustively, especially if it doesn't go
Speaker 5: well right out of the gate. But this is what
Speaker 5: offense this is around the league look like at this
Speaker 5: time of the year, especially offenses that are changing, the
Speaker 5: defenses are ahead of them. It's happening here at the Giants,
Speaker 5: even though this defense is new, Joe, they are ahead
Speaker 5: of the offense because they are learning a new offense
Speaker 5: that's what's happening in Philadelphia. I feel like we all
Speaker 5: need to take a deep breath. And I speak for
Speaker 5: all of us too, we don't take a deep breath.
Speaker 5: We need to take a deep breath and let this
Speaker 5: evolve and we'll see what it looks like, you know,
Speaker 5: a month into the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Another question that we've had for the Eagles DeVante Smith
Speaker 3: in practice today. Who's going to be the number two?
Speaker 3: Could it be mackay Lemon, Could it be Dantavian Wicks,
Speaker 3: who's been in this offense before, Hollywood Brown who is
Speaker 3: of the shorter stature, but he can burn right there.
Speaker 3: We asked Jalen Hurts with receivers really stepping up the him,
Speaker 3: how about Darius Coomer from last year, an undrafted guy
Speaker 3: at nine receptions? That's the guy that he mentioned, And
Speaker 3: Baldy was with me. So what did Baldi do? He
Speaker 3: went right home and did a breakdown of Darius Cooper
Speaker 3: that you can check out on his social media feeds.
Speaker 3: So I think that it's going to be a little
Speaker 3: bit of a you know, committee, but that'll be a
Speaker 3: different approach to be good for the Eagles to not
Speaker 3: have to go We've got to force the ball here,
Speaker 3: which they tried to do last year and didn't work.
Speaker 3: It's great to have that guy when you need them,
Speaker 3: but it didn't work that way.
Speaker 4: This is going to be.
Speaker 3: You may not see a number two receiver. You may
Speaker 3: see two through four as like this plateau for the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't define hard and fast rules, and Mike, we
Speaker 1: did find it. We found the cliff of Saint Quon
Speaker 1: Barkley in America's youth, including his own actual youth as
Speaker 1: he heards his child.
Speaker 2: For the score. You got some growing to do, saikwon junior.
Speaker 3: But hey, good job NBC Sports Philly.
Speaker 2: It keeps the young man off the turf there.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we get back to the Texans.
Speaker 1: What a dominant defense. How do they follow up the
Speaker 1: great year they had. We'll get back to Jane Slater
Speaker 1: and Kurt Warner in Houston. After the break, we're back
Speaker 1: on the Insiders. A quick recap of the day's news.
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs will be joining Jane Daniels and the Commanders
Speaker 1: sound a one year deal could be worth up to
Speaker 1: twelve million dollars. A couple of teams ago. Stefan Diggs
Speaker 1: could last be seen for his other teams with the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, who continued their work in Houston today, a
Speaker 1: day where Tank Dell made his first return to padded
Speaker 1: practice since the brutal injury that came late in the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four season. Jane Slater and Kurt Warner report
Speaker 1: from Texans camp.
Speaker 10: All Right, Kurt, we have wrapped up day seven of
Speaker 10: practice down here in Houston, the third padded practice.
Speaker 14: And then tomorrow they get an off day.
Speaker 10: Things that stood out to me today tank Dell returning
Speaker 10: to practice for the first time in pads, doing a
Speaker 10: lot more than we've seen since that injury.
Speaker 14: So that was good. And then c J Streud joined us,
Speaker 14: and I was at that.
Speaker 10: Game in New England, and I saw the confidence wavering
Speaker 10: a bit, and the frustration and all the critics talking
Speaker 10: about has CJ lost it?
Speaker 14: As he's seeing ghosts. I'm talking with them.
Speaker 10: I personally walked away, going, he's done some honest reflection.
Speaker 14: He's able to put it in the past. I'm not
Speaker 14: worried about Ellen. What was your sense?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think that's so important as a quarterback to
Speaker 12: be realistic when you have struggles, when you have a
Speaker 12: foreig interception game, to go back and go, Okay, what
Speaker 12: can I do better? How do I learn from that?
Speaker 12: But at the same time, go, but that's not me.
Speaker 12: You know, that's not who I'm going to be. I
Speaker 12: know what I'm capable of, so I can learn from that.
Speaker 12: But then I can push it aside and be confident.
Speaker 12: And that, to me is what it sounded like CJ
Speaker 12: was saying, is that he spent the off season learning.
Speaker 2: Figuring out how he can get better.
Speaker 12: He knows he hasn't played up to his expectations to
Speaker 12: what he did as a rookie.
Speaker 2: How do you get back to that point?
Speaker 12: And a big thing that he emphasized to us was
Speaker 12: second year in the offensive system and how much more
Speaker 12: comfortable he feels now. I don't think anybody at home
Speaker 12: can fully understand what that means. You know, they expect
Speaker 12: you to step you know, under center or in the
Speaker 12: huddle every single time and be the same no matter
Speaker 12: how many offenses you've been in, no matter what language
Speaker 12: you're speaking. You're supposed to be that guy. But there
Speaker 12: is something too taking twelve months to learn the nuances
Speaker 12: of a system, to know when a play is called
Speaker 12: into your huddle, you can visually see it. You know
Speaker 12: exactly what everybody's gonna do. You know what your responsibilities
Speaker 12: are at the line of scream engine. You know, he
Speaker 12: kind of insinuated us that he wasn't fully comfortable last year,
Speaker 12: as much as he wanted to be, as much as
Speaker 12: you try to push it, he wasn't in that place
Speaker 12: coming out this year. Talking to coach Ryan's, everybody's saying
Speaker 12: he's in a different place. He's in a better place
Speaker 12: within this offense. He seemed confidence. I'm excited to see.
Speaker 12: You know, we already know about their defense. You know,
Speaker 12: he's got some young weapons there, but can he get
Speaker 12: back to his rookie form, that top five form that
Speaker 12: we saw early in his career, and we know a
Speaker 12: lots riding on it. With that big contract kind of
Speaker 12: sitting out there.
Speaker 14: What's got to help him a little bit?
Speaker 10: To Kurt that they made such a heavy investment on
Speaker 10: that offensive line, went out and got Wyatt Tuller from
Speaker 10: the Browns. They got Keilan Rutledge, who is We talked
Speaker 10: to Miko about him. They love He's become the pet
Speaker 10: cat around here. And then also the running game, it
Speaker 10: was an area of deficiency. They went out and they
Speaker 10: got David Montgomery to pair with Woody Marks who was
Speaker 10: coming along. So you know, if this offense can just
Speaker 10: do a little bit better, you'll look at all those
Speaker 10: close games last season and the season before we know
Speaker 10: what we've got from defense in Houston. They just see
Speaker 10: that offense take the next step. We're hopeful after talking
Speaker 10: to them.
Speaker 1: Tom for the Fantasy headlines as we get you ready
Speaker 1: for your fantasy football draft, and we start with Stefan
Speaker 1: Diggs gets a one year deal could be worth up
Speaker 1: to twelve million dollars. The former Viking and Bill and
Speaker 1: Texan and Patriot now finds a home with the Washington Commanders,
Speaker 1: which is also where we last saw zach Ertz, who
Speaker 1: has finished his rehab. He has been cleared for all
Speaker 1: football activities after his torn acl and he looks to
Speaker 1: find the team.
Speaker 2: So let's welcome in part of the Fantasy Live team.
Speaker 1: It is Michael Floydo and Adam Rank here on the
Speaker 1: Insiders to discuss how this news affects our particular fantasy lineup.
Speaker 1: So let's start with you, Mike, how does Digs to
Speaker 1: Commanders affect fantasy managers going forward?
Speaker 3: I think Diggs is a tremendous value right now.
Speaker 18: I think he's been underrated all summer, but it makes
Speaker 18: sense because he didn't have a team. But I still
Speaker 18: think he is going to be a value. This guy
Speaker 18: had the fifth most one hundred yard games amongst wide
Speaker 18: receivers last season, and he's been a wide receiver two
Speaker 18: fantasy wise every year but one since his second year
Speaker 18: in the NFL. His current ADP on ESPN is wide
Speaker 18: receiver sixty. I have him in my top forty. I
Speaker 18: think this is big arrows up for Jaden Daniels, who
Speaker 18: has been my QB three all summer, and Terry McLaurin.
Speaker 18: If his ADP takes a hit here, huge buying opportunity
Speaker 18: in my opinion.
Speaker 19: I love the highlight whereas Diggs gets cheap shotted right
Speaker 19: there and then the guy's like, look who is at
Speaker 19: Lionel MESSI sitting there and being like, oh, he was
Speaker 19: covering his mouth or whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It was rude.
Speaker 19: I'm glad that Jane Daniels has some healthy Yeah, he
Speaker 19: gets some help there.
Speaker 1: We get an opportunity for more stuff on diggs highlights
Speaker 1: other than him in the Super Bowl. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Zach Ertz or are we stashing zach Ertz hoping he
Speaker 1: founds the team?
Speaker 19: You know, I think if you're one of those people
Speaker 19: who likes to make puns in your fantasy football names,
Speaker 19: you have to have zach Ertz. He is the lynch
Speaker 19: pin for so many puns in fantasy football. But when
Speaker 19: I look around the league, I don't know if this
Speaker 19: is the best fit fantasy wise, But to me, I
Speaker 19: think a team like the Green Bay Packers make an
Speaker 19: awful lot of sense for them. Obviously, Tucker Kraft is
Speaker 19: returning to them, and he is expected to be their
Speaker 19: number one tight end when he does. But recently the
Speaker 19: Packers released a couple of tight ends, brought in a
Speaker 19: couple more guys, including McCallan, Castles, Drew Biver, guys coming
Speaker 19: in to trying to fill that role. But I think
Speaker 19: that as the league is moving more towards twelve personnel,
Speaker 19: we're seeing a lot of thirteen personnel as well. I'm
Speaker 19: zach Ertz in a lafleur offense makes a lot of sense. Yeah,
Speaker 19: That's probably why he's working so hard to get back.
Speaker 1: As the explosion of twelve personnel kind of infiltrates the
Speaker 1: entire league. Let's go over to a bit of a
Speaker 1: sleeper discussion, which will immediately stop being sleepers as soon
Speaker 1: as you, guys, Michelliss will start with a quarterback.
Speaker 2: Who's your sleeper quarterback right now?
Speaker 18: Malik Willis, who right now on ESPN has an ADP
Speaker 18: of the twenty fourth quarterback off the board. I think
Speaker 18: he has top twelve upside because since two thousand, there
Speaker 18: have been forty four quarterbacks who ran at least one
Speaker 18: hundred times in a season. Sixty percent of them averaged
Speaker 18: twenty or more fantasy points per game.
Speaker 4: All but five.
Speaker 3: Averaged seventeen and a half.
Speaker 18: And that was the criteria to be a top twelve
Speaker 18: fantasy quarterback last year. And don't look now, but in
Speaker 18: the last two years he leads all qualified quarterbacks and
Speaker 18: passer rating, amongst other stats. And I think Miami's going
Speaker 18: to trail a lot, which not only means having to
Speaker 18: throw and ketchup not a good amount, it also.
Speaker 3: Means dropbacks means more scrambling.
Speaker 18: Opportunities for the very athletic Milik Willis, so I love
Speaker 18: grabbing him as my QB two in drafts.
Speaker 19: Yeah, very odd that the Packers got rid of their
Speaker 19: best quarterback.
Speaker 2: But see it doesn't matter. Let's go to the running
Speaker 2: back position.
Speaker 19: And I love Jadarien Price taking over as possibly the
Speaker 19: number one running back for the Seattle Seahawks. Now, obviously
Speaker 19: there was a change as Koub goes down to be
Speaker 19: the head coach both the Las Vegas Raiders, which means
Speaker 19: bliant Brian Florey.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, he is.
Speaker 19: Gonna be the offensive coordator after spending some time with
Speaker 19: the San Francisco forty nine ers. But the systems are
Speaker 19: the same. There shouldn't be too much of an overhaul there,
Speaker 19: and we would expect Price to have a similar workload
Speaker 19: to what we've seen from Seattle running backs over the
Speaker 19: last couple of years.
Speaker 2: But the most impressive thing for anybody who is.
Speaker 19: Watching Hard Knocks, you saw him catch a pass like yep,
Speaker 19: sault we're in. He catches passes. That's exactly what we want.
Speaker 19: But I think there's a real good opportunity for him.
Speaker 19: You can see right there the ADP close to eighty.
Speaker 19: I feel like that's a steal.
Speaker 18: I love that Hard Knocks were like, he's pretty fast,
Speaker 18: Like he is a running back. You know, those guys
Speaker 18: tend to be pretty fast. I'm gonna go with a
Speaker 18: wide receiver though on a team that rank. I know
Speaker 18: you don't.
Speaker 3: Love Jayden Reid. Who you see the ADP right there,
Speaker 3: it's so low.
Speaker 18: And the thing is the Packers they have a less
Speaker 18: crowded wide receiver room this year. And the talk out
Speaker 18: of camp right now is that Jayden Reid could be
Speaker 18: playing in two wide receivers. And we've seen him flash before.
Speaker 18: We've seen him play at a very wide receiver one
Speaker 18: wide receiver two type level, just not over a full season.
Speaker 18: But if the Packers a running more fast paced offense,
Speaker 18: they throw the ball more like they're saying they want to.
Speaker 3: I think that means great things for Jaden.
Speaker 19: Reid and I'm gonna go to the tight end position.
Speaker 19: And Kenyon City, who unfortunately is suffering a little bit
Speaker 19: of a setback from his herniada disc Aaron Glenn still
Speaker 19: said that he doesn't expect him to have surgery. They
Speaker 19: still fully expect him to be ready for Week one.
Speaker 19: One of the things that I do love about him
Speaker 19: is his speed. You see right there, he's taken he's
Speaker 19: taking a hand off. He ran a four to three
Speaker 19: to nine to the combine. This is a flyer. This
Speaker 19: is who I would take in said of somebody like
Speaker 19: zach Ertz.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to Josh Cox for sharing that and a special
Speaker 1: visitor at rams Camp today. Did you guys know Clayton
Speaker 1: Kershaw and Matthew Stafford we're friends back in the day,
Speaker 1: Texas Super Bowl Champion, World Series Champion, curse hanging out
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Speaker 1: two keep that relationship going. The Minnesota Vikings hope and
Speaker 1: they can return to their successful offensive ways to pair
Speaker 1: with what Brian Flores' unit was able to accomplish on
Speaker 1: defense in twenty twenty five, they only gave up four
Speaker 1: point seven yards per play.
Speaker 2: Number three in the league. They just need to pick
Speaker 2: a quarterback first.
Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport and Mark Ross on that decision from Egan
Speaker 1: Minnesota here.
Speaker 7: At Vikings practice.
Speaker 20: There's a lot to discuss with this Vikings team, but Mark,
Speaker 20: of course, it starts and ends with the quarterback position.
Speaker 20: A real and true quarterback competition. There's a couple this
Speaker 20: year around the NFL. This is probably the most high
Speaker 20: profile of Kyler Murray, the top free agent on the board,
Speaker 20: who got his preferred destination being with Kevin O'Connell. And
Speaker 20: this Vikings offense certainly has impressed thus far, and you
Speaker 20: have JJ McCarthy the first rounder, still very talented. Is
Speaker 20: really I would say, fought to find that consistency. There's
Speaker 20: a lot of benchmarks as far as when and where
Speaker 20: and how they're going to make that quarterback decision.
Speaker 2: Today's Paddot practice was one of them.
Speaker 7: Preseason games are another.
Speaker 20: From your standpoint, what's the best option for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 21: Yeah, I think is of course, you want both to
Speaker 21: perform well, and then you have a tough choice as
Speaker 21: opposed to won playing really well or one average the
Speaker 21: other one playing bad.
Speaker 2: But to me, Kyler Murray.
Speaker 21: Is the guy because he's shown he can be profic
Speaker 21: You know, we've forgotten the last couple of years that
Speaker 21: his early career with being an offensive rookie of the year,
Speaker 21: hooking out with DeAndre Hopkins having some prolific seasons there
Speaker 21: in Arizona. So for him, it's the playmaking has never
Speaker 21: left him. It's just in the pocket, you know, his
Speaker 21: lack of height length still shows up as far as
Speaker 21: operating there on a consistent level, as opposed to JJ who,
Speaker 21: as you mentioned, still trying to find his way, still
Speaker 21: trying to find that pace and the quickness in the
Speaker 21: pocket and playmaking that you need for your offense to
Speaker 21: really hum and compete. So I think if Kyler Murray
Speaker 21: is anywhere close to what he looked like, that'll give
Speaker 21: the Bikings a chance. Because they had a ton of
Speaker 21: talent on offense, their defense should be nasty once again,
Speaker 21: So the quarterback steps in there and says we don't
Speaker 21: have to win games, which makes some plays to get
Speaker 21: enough for us to.
Speaker 2: Get in the mix.
Speaker 20: If you want to win games to Vikings, one great
Speaker 20: way to do it throw it to Justin Jefferson looking
Speaker 20: as good as ever. Jordan Atison not out there, suffered
Speaker 20: a little bit of a sprained thumb, so it's really
Speaker 20: the Justin Jefferson show, as it's been the last several
Speaker 20: years with the Vikings.
Speaker 2: Before we send it.
Speaker 20: One of the big highlights here Caleb Banks, the first
Speaker 20: round up from Florida.
Speaker 7: Absolutely massive.
Speaker 20: It certainly stood out early and has the potential to
Speaker 20: be a major impact player for this Vikings defense.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Ian and Mark Ross as well.
Speaker 1: Back with Judy and Omar Ruiz as guys, we're almost
Speaker 1: done with our show, but we got the Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame game tomorrow.
Speaker 2: What are you looking forward to most is football returns, Judy.
Speaker 5: I am looking forward to watching Carson Beck, fellow Hurricane.
Speaker 4: Gokaines in his pro debut.
Speaker 5: I'm very excited for him because, quite frankly, he may
Speaker 5: have the best chance of all the rookie quarterbacks of
Speaker 5: getting on the field first this season.
Speaker 4: So looking forward to seeing Carson's debut.
Speaker 8: And I'm looking forward to what offense he's running after
Speaker 8: hearing Mike Lafleur saying they're not going to be the
Speaker 8: forty nine Ers offense.
Speaker 7: The Rams offense, or the Packers offense.
Speaker 8: Will have a better idea on what the actual Cardinals
Speaker 8: offense looks like after tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well he get answers, because right now everybody's undefeated.
Speaker 1: But tomorrow night we can no longer say that, and
Speaker 1: somebody will lose, not necessarily a game else, but a
Speaker 1: game that's gonna count to all of us who are
Speaker 1: rabid about this particular game for Judye Batista, Omar Wiez,
Speaker 1: Mike Garriffollo, I'm Patrick Claybo. No show tomorrow, but game
Speaker 1: day kickoff at seven EASTERNS ahead of the Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame game. Enjoy it, buddy,