Speaker 1: It's all down to this Week eighteen, and so much
Speaker 1: up for grabs in cleaning the last two playoff spots.
Speaker 1: And you might have heard about it. The NFC's number
Speaker 1: one seed. We've got everything you need to know, including
Speaker 1: the clinching scenarios and the latest injury info. We also
Speaker 1: have some clarity on Mike McCarthy's future with the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: or at least when it could be decided here from
Speaker 1: owner Jerry Jones on what will and won't drive the
Speaker 1: final decision in Dallas. There is no finish line in fantasy.
Speaker 1: At least that's what I tell myself when I have
Speaker 1: no lineup to come playoff time.
Speaker 2: Because I'm out.
Speaker 1: Adam Rank already looking ahead to next season. That is
Speaker 1: right wasted.
Speaker 2: No time.
Speaker 1: Your first twenty twenty five Fantasy Draft primer is here,
Speaker 1: just in time for me to start losing again. Well,
Speaker 1: come inside with the insiders alongside Ian Rappaport and Mike Garafalo.
Speaker 2: I am Tom Pellicero.
Speaker 1: It is indeed the eve of Week eighteen in the NFL.
Speaker 1: We got two games on Saturday, we got fourteen games
Speaker 1: on Sunday.
Speaker 2: We've only got sixty minutes to tell you about all
Speaker 2: of it. So let's get.
Speaker 1: Rolling, starting out in Miami, where once again it appears
Speaker 1: the Dolphins will not have their starting quarterback to a
Speaker 1: tongue of Iloa, officially listed as doubtful for Sunday's game
Speaker 1: against the Jets because of that ongoing hip injury. Snoop
Speaker 1: Huntley is in line to start barring a late surprising
Speaker 1: move here, though Toua says don't.
Speaker 2: Count him out yet.
Speaker 1: If indeed Miami is able to get into the playoffs, it's.
Speaker 3: Up for any competitor to have to sit out when
Speaker 3: the season is online, and you know you can do more,
Speaker 3: But that just tells you how much trust and you know,
Speaker 3: respect that we have for Snoop. The defense has been
Speaker 3: bawling as well, So you know, looking forward to what
Speaker 3: our guys can do this Sunday, and you know, we'll see.
Speaker 2: How the cards fall and how they play out. If
Speaker 2: the cards play out.
Speaker 3: The way they should and then the way we know
Speaker 3: and think they can, I'm gonna be available. Actually there's
Speaker 3: no way fans will butts I'll be playing, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Little known NFL rule, if you're ruled doubtful for a game,
Speaker 1: you cannot wear a shirt during your interviews in the locker,
Speaker 1: which I always thought was kind of a strange rule,
Speaker 1: but it applies right here. Here's what you're looking at.
Speaker 1: If you're one of the three teams still going for
Speaker 1: that last wild card spot in the AFC playoffs, Broncos
Speaker 1: are win and in against Carson Wentz and the rest
Speaker 1: of the Chiefs backups on Sunday. If they lose, the
Speaker 1: Dolphins would get in with a win over the Jets,
Speaker 1: plus that Denver loss. Cincinnati needs both those teams to lose,
Speaker 1: and then if they can beat these Steelers on Saturday
Speaker 1: Night ian the Bengals, Yes, the Bengals will have clawed
Speaker 1: their way all the way back to get into the postseason.
Speaker 4: If the Bengals do it, they're gonna have to answer
Speaker 4: some of the injury questions they have going into this
Speaker 4: big time game. Everything on the line against the Steelers,
Speaker 4: and they do have some questions.
Speaker 5: Chase Brown, you're seeing him right there.
Speaker 4: Their running back really is becoming a household name the
Speaker 4: more we all watch him play.
Speaker 6: He's still dealing with an ankle sprain.
Speaker 4: Remember, of course, Free famously slid before the goal line.
Speaker 2: He is questionable.
Speaker 4: My understanding is he's very sore, needs to improve greatly
Speaker 4: to be able to play, and of course t Haagen's
Speaker 4: still dealing with that knee injury ankle injury listed as questionable.
Speaker 4: Would expect him to be able to be on the
Speaker 4: field mic for.
Speaker 7: The Atlanta Falcons who need a win and a loss
Speaker 7: by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Darnl Mooney gotta be a
Speaker 7: game time decision with that shoulder injury. Now, he was
Speaker 7: limited on Thursday and then downgraded to did not practice
Speaker 7: on Friday, so this doesn't seem to be trending in
Speaker 7: the right direction. But yeah, this is Week eighteen where
Speaker 7: it is win or go home, or actually it can
Speaker 7: be win and still go home depending on what Tampa
Speaker 7: Bay because Atlanta lost to Washington, thereby not controlling their
Speaker 7: playoff fate. So we shall see what the final decision
Speaker 7: is on Darnell Mooney. We will give you that Sunday
Speaker 7: morning when we get final word. They're leading up the games.
Speaker 1: Some other injuries to watch as we head in two
Speaker 1: Week eighteen. Running back Hearon Jones the Vikings off the
Speaker 1: injury report.
Speaker 2: Heat is good to go against.
Speaker 1: The Lions team that could have Alex Angeloni back in
Speaker 1: the lineup. Dan Campbell said they're going to be careful.
Speaker 1: Officially listened as questionable. We'll know on Saturday whether they
Speaker 1: decide to activate him. Christian Watson really hasn't practiced since
Speaker 1: banging up that knee. Officially listened is questionable, though it
Speaker 1: would see me. He's got an uphill battle to make
Speaker 1: it to Sunday. The Bucks with up two of the
Speaker 1: key DB's for them and Marshawn Latimore. You've read that
Speaker 1: one a few times since the trade to Washington ruled
Speaker 1: out because of his hamstring, targeting a potential playoff return.
Speaker 1: Washington wraps up the regular season still champs to turn
Speaker 1: the number six seed against a Dallas Cowboys team that,
Speaker 1: as Mike McCarthy has said this week, is trying to
Speaker 1: finish the rates. As for McCarthy, his contract act, as
Speaker 1: Ian and I reported this morning, officially expires on January fourteenth.
Speaker 1: That sets up a nine day exclusive negotiating window for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys if they decide they want McCarthy.
Speaker 2: To return to get a deal done.
Speaker 1: If nothing is done before that January fourteenth date, then
Speaker 1: no permission would be required. McCarthy would be able to
Speaker 1: interview for and take potentially another job. As for what
Speaker 1: is going to contribute to the final decision, Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: was asked on local radio whether Sunday's game could have
Speaker 1: an impact.
Speaker 8: He he's in the barn really as far as our
Speaker 8: staff is concerned, and the qualities of each of the
Speaker 8: coaches and they have brought to the table where they
Speaker 8: are in their careers and the circumstances what we dealt
Speaker 8: with this year on a coach by position basis, and
Speaker 8: so no, I don't think that's something that would happen
Speaker 8: out here Sunday would impact where we're going to be
Speaker 8: as we go forward.
Speaker 1: So as we know, Jerry Jones has been rather effusive
Speaker 1: in his praise of Mike McCarthy and his staff the
Speaker 1: job they've done with all the injuries, including losing Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott to stay alive until a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: to be able to stack some wins with Cooper Rush.
Speaker 1: We also know there have been no substantive contract talks
Speaker 1: yet between Mike McCarthy's representatives and the Cowboys. Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: ian has this nine day exclusive negotiating window. They can
Speaker 1: waive it if another team requests permission. He could allow
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy to potentially interview for other jobs here. Knowing Jerry,
Speaker 1: he quite possibly will want to take as much of
Speaker 1: that window as possible to make sure that people continue
Speaker 1: to talk about the Cowboys even at a time that
Speaker 1: they are out of the playoff picture. But also important
Speaker 1: to understand her this is not just a linear Mike's backer.
Speaker 1: Mike's not back. There's conversations about how long a contract
Speaker 1: would be, what the assistant coach pulled would look like.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of conversations that really will take place
Speaker 1: and may take a little.
Speaker 4: Of time after the season ends, right, And that's why
Speaker 4: I wouldn't expect just a decision, Okay, Mike McCarthy is
Speaker 4: coming back, because, like you said, if Mike McCarthy is
Speaker 4: coming back, he's going to have to agree to terms
Speaker 4: to come back with the Cowboys. It's not like they
Speaker 4: just say here's your contract, cool, sign it and are
Speaker 4: ready to roll. Like if they offer him a one
Speaker 4: year deal, would he come back to Dallas and do
Speaker 4: this all over again. I would never speak to Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 4: but it does sound like this year has been a
Speaker 4: lot so that remains to be seen. So yes, Dallas
Speaker 4: has to make a decision within the next nine days
Speaker 4: on the status of Mike McCarthy. What they want to do,
Speaker 4: he has to be in agreement with that if he
Speaker 4: is going to come back. Otherwise, Yeah, I would expect
Speaker 4: him to be a head coach candidate elsewhere, and I
Speaker 4: would expect him to draw interest elsewhere. What's also interesting,
Speaker 4: Mike is you know, Jerry Jones is pretty clear this
Speaker 4: result doesn't really matter as it pertains the status of
Speaker 4: Mike McCarthy. So I would expect them to play some guys.
Speaker 4: Maybe we have not seen one notable one. I'm told
Speaker 4: expect Lance, their third string quarterback for most of the season,
Speaker 4: to get some real reps, to get significant reps in
Speaker 4: this game. Cooper Rush may still start, Trey Lance is
Speaker 4: expected to get some reps, and for Cowboys fans and
Speaker 4: Cowboys in general, there's a lot they can learn from
Speaker 4: this game, including what is Trey Lance actually.
Speaker 5: Like when he plays?
Speaker 2: Sounds like we may find out Mike.
Speaker 7: I cover their game on Sunday in Philadelphia against the Eagles.
Speaker 7: Not a great result, but to me, it was more
Speaker 7: about having conversations with folks throughout the organization. Players, other coaches,
Speaker 7: front office members as well, and I'm still waiting on
Speaker 7: the person that's going to tell me, yeah, we need
Speaker 7: to change the head coach. And Jerry Jones has praised
Speaker 7: Mike McCarthy publicly. Stephen Jones has praised Mike McCarthy publicly.
Speaker 7: To hear the players say, we are playing hard for him.
Speaker 7: We want him at cornerback. Jordan Lewis tell me that
Speaker 7: he's an inner city guy, just like a lot of us.
Speaker 7: So he's got that lunch pale mentality that he brings
Speaker 7: and we appreciate that. With the results that Mike McCarthy
Speaker 7: had before this season, and a lot of things happened
Speaker 7: this season out of his control, but the results before
Speaker 7: this season, plus everything that I'm hearing at all levels
Speaker 7: of the organization, and I understand that, like you said that,
Speaker 7: there's some contractual stuff that needs to be figured out
Speaker 7: as well. It's like I just come away with this going,
Speaker 7: how is he not the coach of the Cowboys next year?
Speaker 7: But we'll see save this clip in case he's not.
Speaker 2: I remember it's a two way street again.
Speaker 1: As part of these conversations and negotiations, the potential will
Speaker 1: play out. I know this Mike McCarthy's won sixty one
Speaker 1: percent of his career games, He's gone to the playoffs
Speaker 1: twelve times in eighteen seasons as a head coach, and
Speaker 1: he's won a Super Bowl. It's not just a matter
Speaker 1: of who are you going to fire, it's also a
Speaker 1: matter of how do you hire someone who's an upgrade?
Speaker 1: Case in point, the Jets, looking to figure out exactly
Speaker 1: what their course is going to be here as they
Speaker 1: move into the future, kicked off their head coaching interviews
Speaker 1: on Thursday with Ron Rivera and today a very intriguing name,
Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel, who spent this season with the Browns.
Speaker 2: No, that's not something up a photoshop.
Speaker 1: He was a coaching consultant, worked a lot with the
Speaker 1: offensive line, among other things in Cleveland. He interviewed with
Speaker 1: the Jets earlier today. In what Ian I have to
Speaker 1: say is a somewhat unusual situation. Remember, the Jets are
Speaker 1: still practicing, They got a game on Sunday, and they
Speaker 1: had the coaching candidate for next year's team in the building.
Speaker 2: Where do we stand.
Speaker 4: It's actually the last day a coach could possibly interview
Speaker 4: with a team and still get a chance to take
Speaker 4: a look at what the players are like or you know,
Speaker 4: I don't know if as of right now. Maybe I'll
Speaker 4: find out eventually if Mike Rabel talked to players or
Speaker 4: watch practice, But if he was going to, it's a
Speaker 4: good opportunity to And you know, yes, the Jets interviewed
Speaker 4: Mike Rabel, just like they interviewed Ron Rivera yesterday, just
Speaker 4: like they're going to interview more candidates. But this was
Speaker 4: a situation from my understanding, where it's also like Rabel's
Speaker 4: interviewing them. This is one of the top coaching candidates.
Speaker 4: He has been there before, he has won, he is
Speaker 4: a respected leader. He's going to have options. He would
Speaker 4: also need to make sure the Jets are good for him,
Speaker 4: just like Day would need to make sure that he
Speaker 4: is good for them. Sort of a mutual interview here.
Speaker 4: It sounded like it lasted a till around mid day. Mike, Now,
Speaker 4: the Jets are going to continue their process. Rabel's going
Speaker 4: to continue their process. But this would be another clip
Speaker 4: I would just put a pin and just considering the interest.
Speaker 7: There, well, the Jets are coming off Robert Sala and
Speaker 7: Joe Douglas, who were first time guys in the head
Speaker 7: coach and general manager roles and now the guys that
Speaker 7: they're interviewing now. Now granted there are a lot of
Speaker 7: guys that are unemployed because they can interview now. So
Speaker 7: you're seeing that experience come through both from the general
Speaker 7: manager front and on the head coaching front. But it's
Speaker 7: pretty clear that where the Jets are going is going
Speaker 7: to be with some experience in potentially both roles, if
Speaker 7: not just the head coaching role there as well. And
Speaker 7: we haven't really seen that before from the Jets in
Speaker 7: recent history. To bring in a general manager who has
Speaker 7: previous experience, whether it was Joe Douglas or Mike mccagnan
Speaker 7: or John Izick or even back to Mike Tannenbaum, he
Speaker 7: was a first time general manager as so to bring
Speaker 7: in some experience, a guy that has been in that
Speaker 7: seat before. And I keep saying this, and I know
Speaker 7: this is going to be a big part of it.
Speaker 7: They need folks in both of those roles who they
Speaker 7: can feel that they can handle the New York market.
Speaker 2: I'm sure Mike Rabel would do that just fine.
Speaker 1: By the way, Also important to remember, because the rules
Speaker 1: have changed a bunch in recent years. Here, current NFL
Speaker 1: assistant coaches can interview for head coaching jobs until the
Speaker 1: next two weeks, and even in those two weeks, those
Speaker 1: interviews can only be virtual in the first round. The
Speaker 1: lone exception to that rule coaches who are not under contract.
Speaker 1: That applies to Mike Rabel, who the Browns let out
Speaker 1: of his contract a week early, and come January fourteenth,
Speaker 1: that also will pertain to Mike McCarthy. Coming up after this,
Speaker 1: we've got Adam Rank going to be here and talk
Speaker 1: about your twenty twenty five fantasy draft. What don't worry,
Speaker 1: Rank has no shame, He's already got some thoughts about
Speaker 1: who should be on your team come next season. And
Speaker 1: right after this break, we got a guy who, well,
Speaker 1: once upon a time was not drafted in fantasy, but
Speaker 1: ended up being one of the best players the Ravens
Speaker 1: have brought into their building. Eight time Pro bowler Marshall
Speaker 1: Giana is a Hall of Fame finalist in his first
Speaker 1: year of eligibility and also a first time Insiders guest.
Speaker 1: He joins us talking about the current Ravens a lot
Speaker 1: more next on the Insiders. He was an eight time
Speaker 1: Pro bowler playing offensive guard, a Super Bowl champ, so
Speaker 1: probably no surprise, though still quite an honor to be
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame finalist in his first year of eligibility,
Speaker 1: and now an.
Speaker 2: Even bigger honor.
Speaker 1: He's here on the Insiders, Marshall Gyanda joining the show
Speaker 1: with me, Tom Pelsero Marshall, great to see you again. Man.
Speaker 9: Where are you at you? What are you keeping you
Speaker 9: busy these days? Yeah, just back in Iowa. Busy with
Speaker 9: the kids, you know, helping my dad farming in the fall.
Speaker 9: And you know, we got three young kids, so like
Speaker 9: the youth sports craze is is pretty intense nowadays.
Speaker 2: So we're just busy with the kids.
Speaker 9: We've got a house in some land in Iowa, so
Speaker 9: I'm busy with things outdoors and and that's that's that's
Speaker 9: enough for sure.
Speaker 1: Are you out there planting stuff? Are you mowing things down?
Speaker 1: Like when you say you got land, that can be
Speaker 1: a lot of things, what does it mean?
Speaker 9: Yeah, uh, planting, mowing, property maintenance. We got a pond,
Speaker 9: so we're doing like fish management. I helped my dad
Speaker 9: in the fall, like I drive the grand cart when
Speaker 9: they take out like the corn and the beans, so
Speaker 9: stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So all right, So where where did the dreams stack?
Speaker 1: Up right, you're growing up in Iowa. You know you're
Speaker 1: a good football player. Was it, you know, the the
Speaker 1: idea of, hey, I want to be one of the
Speaker 1: greatest of all time. I want to be a Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer. Where did that rank versus like, eventually I
Speaker 1: want to you know, maybe have the money to come back,
Speaker 1: get the land, get the house, and then do whatever
Speaker 1: I want for the rest of my life in Iowa.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Well my path was definitely you know, I tell people,
Speaker 9: you know that I was never really a destined for
Speaker 9: all this, right, you know, I was a junior college transfer,
Speaker 9: just trying to make it to Division one, you know,
Speaker 9: just that was the goal, was to get to Iowa
Speaker 9: and be a be a starter at Iowa. So you know,
Speaker 9: me sitting in junior college just had no idea that
Speaker 9: that potential was inside of me.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 9: But obviously, you you get impacted by a lot of
Speaker 9: positive and important people in your life and they teach
Speaker 9: you how to, you know, set goals and and and
Speaker 9: try to be great every single day and get better.
Speaker 9: And I tell you what, man, I unlocked a lot
Speaker 9: of potential inside me.
Speaker 2: I had, you know, no idea that I had, you.
Speaker 1: Know, the Pro Football Hall of Fame standard to me
Speaker 1: has always been are you the best in your generation
Speaker 1: at a point in time and for how long are
Speaker 1: you the best? And certainly you had that run eight
Speaker 1: Pro Bowls where you were regarded among the best in
Speaker 1: the league. Still to get the initial word that you're
Speaker 1: a finalist in your first year of eligibility, that doesn't
Speaker 1: happen a ton. What was your reaction And now what
Speaker 1: are the next couple of months going to be like?
Speaker 1: Is you wait to find out exactly how this all ends?
Speaker 9: Yeah, just you know, just unbelievably grateful, you know, just
Speaker 9: to uh to have the support you know from you know,
Speaker 9: the players, the coaches, you know, my teammates. Uh, just
Speaker 9: to be recognized, right just because I understand that, you know,
Speaker 9: it takes a it takes an entire team and an organization,
Speaker 9: you know, us being playing good football.
Speaker 2: To be a part of something like that.
Speaker 9: So I was just blown away, you know, I'm, like
Speaker 9: I said, I'm just very grateful, and uh, it's just amazing.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 9: Obviously, you try to, you know, every day to be
Speaker 9: as as the best of players you can be, best
Speaker 9: teammate you can be. And I tried to do that.
Speaker 9: You know every single day, you know that I played
Speaker 9: the game.
Speaker 1: So one of your former teammates, Darrell Suggs, also on
Speaker 1: that that finalist list. I have to imagine, I know
Speaker 1: you're playing guard, he's coming off the edge left.
Speaker 2: There had to have been a point in.
Speaker 1: Time we were going ones versus ones and you meet
Speaker 1: that guy in the hole, right. Can you remember a
Speaker 1: time that you had that opportunity to up against Sizzle.
Speaker 9: One under my rookie year. He put me on my
Speaker 9: back my rookie year in training camp. Okay, so I
Speaker 9: got humbled very very very often by Terrell, that's for sure.
Speaker 9: Because you know, obviously we had a lot of really
Speaker 9: good defensive players on our team, so we got our
Speaker 9: butts kicked and practice a lot, and Terrell was definitely one.
Speaker 2: Of them that that got me and made me a.
Speaker 9: Better player by getting after me, that's for sure. So yeah,
Speaker 9: he's a great, great teammate. You know, appreciate all his
Speaker 9: everything he did for the Ravens. But yeah, I was
Speaker 9: on the wrong end of that numerous times in.
Speaker 1: Practice, for sure. So the NFL moves quickly. That locker
Speaker 1: room has turned over a lot in Baltimore, since you
Speaker 1: were playing. But the quarterback came in your last year
Speaker 1: and won an MVP right out of the gate, Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: He's still doing things at a level that we haven't
Speaker 1: seen a whole lot in the NFL. What strikes you
Speaker 1: about when you watch Lamar?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 2: What you see?
Speaker 1: And it was there any doubt that Okay, you do
Speaker 1: it once, but then it would be this sustainable type
Speaker 1: of thing for him in his career.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I mean, you know, every player's fighting consistency, right, you know,
Speaker 9: the more you can do it, the more often and
Speaker 9: the more consistent that you can do it. But it's
Speaker 9: awesome to watch him mature obviously, you know we all
Speaker 9: mature as players in the NFL, and you're trying to
Speaker 9: not make the same mistakes twice. And you know, he's
Speaker 9: just a special, special player, right, you know. I you know,
Speaker 9: when I played with him, it was great to just
Speaker 9: see the passion that he had for the game and
Speaker 9: also like he really cared about his teammates and he
Speaker 9: was just a great teammates. So I'm so happy for
Speaker 9: him to be able to continue to grow as a player.
Speaker 9: And you can tell he's he's working at it. He's
Speaker 9: getting better, right, he cares. You know, some guys, you know,
Speaker 9: take their foot off the gas, and some guys don't
Speaker 9: ever leave it off the floor, you know what I mean.
Speaker 9: We're trying to get better every single day. We're trying
Speaker 9: to be a better player, and obviously he is doing
Speaker 9: that and he is you know, the results speak for themselves.
Speaker 9: The guy's a special talent and I'm so happy for
Speaker 9: him and the Ravens.
Speaker 1: So you'll be rooting as you're watching him in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Do you still do you get some fandom into you
Speaker 1: when you're watching it, you know, at home on the
Speaker 1: couch like the rest of us.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, you know, I got a wife and
Speaker 9: three kids, and we're all, you know, diehard Ravens fans. Now,
Speaker 9: you know, we got to uh my kids got to
Speaker 9: be a part of it, you know, when they were younger,
Speaker 9: and they remember obviously so so and I mean, I'm
Speaker 9: a you know, I'm I'm transitioned to just being a
Speaker 9: you know, a fan now, you know so, But we uh,
Speaker 9: you know, we're born and raised Ravens fans ever since
Speaker 9: you know, in two thousand and seven. Uh, you know,
Speaker 9: They'll always have a special place in our heart. That's
Speaker 9: like family out there. So we are we are. We
Speaker 9: are bleeding purple in this house, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: So last thing for you, Marshall, appreciate you being here.
Speaker 1: You know your five years removed from the league. It
Speaker 1: looks if I'm not mistaken, like maybe maybe you're not
Speaker 1: quite as jacked and big as you were back in
Speaker 1: your playing days there. John Harbaugh calls tomorrow all the
Speaker 1: guards have gotten illness.
Speaker 2: They can't go. How many snaps.
Speaker 1: Could you get you had a role out there, You
Speaker 1: get three days to practice.
Speaker 2: How many snaps could you give them? Oh?
Speaker 8: Not many?
Speaker 9: And there ain't no chance I would get forklifted. There
Speaker 9: ain't no way, like you said, being off the it's aligneman.
Speaker 9: You gotta be heavy and I'm only like two fifty
Speaker 9: right now, so it would be a liability out there.
Speaker 9: Give me, uh you know what, give me five? Okay,
Speaker 9: give me five, that's it. Five plays.
Speaker 1: You're like pat Patricard size at this point. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: a little different role if you need it out there.
Speaker 2: Marshall.
Speaker 1: Congratulations again, best luck with the final vote for for
Speaker 1: the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Hope to see you
Speaker 1: down there in New Orleans. Put on that gold jacket.
Speaker 1: Dond's great.
Speaker 9: Thanks Tom, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Sunday night, Lions Vikings. Everything in the NFC is on
Speaker 1: the line. Who's got the edge and how important is
Speaker 1: this matchup for both the quarterbacks? Our Stacey Dams will
Speaker 1: be at that game, shall be here next on the insiders.
Speaker 5: Hey mommy, we cast the line. Really get violent half
Speaker 5: they don't get along on you. We come out here
Speaker 5: and put that on the line.
Speaker 4: Where is it ever one of them you guys want
Speaker 4: to do all about to come out here and shone.
Speaker 5: Him like a last week. Everybody want to pay them
Speaker 5: well going get it. The Lions make an early statement
Speaker 5: on the opening drive.
Speaker 3: Right sixty minutes.
Speaker 5: All abort them. I don't know if there's an offensive
Speaker 5: lineman in the league that runs more than sewell Man.
Speaker 5: He's got a lot of mile to Joe's legs.
Speaker 2: They are going and then got bulls down.
Speaker 1: But like Devery is he gonna pick up the first
Speaker 1: down and they should shield it.
Speaker 2: They'll run the top down.
Speaker 5: This is the game. Change and play. Nice job by
Speaker 5: that offensive line.
Speaker 3: What ye like?
Speaker 5: He said? Just don't just happen. Boys, We're different again.
Speaker 2: I'll say it again, this group'sing different.
Speaker 1: Dna Sewell is a scary man, and we've got a
Speaker 1: fun matchup on Sunday night, Vikings and Lions playing for
Speaker 1: the NFC North title, a first round play by and
Speaker 1: home field throughout the NFC playoffs. What don you think
Speaker 1: about that, Dan Campbell?
Speaker 10: I think we embraced the challenge of it. We embrace
Speaker 10: the bright lights of it.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 10: We respect the opponent that's coming in here, and we
Speaker 10: love competition. We love and this is gonna be one
Speaker 10: of these all out come to the end of the
Speaker 10: line type games. And so we know what we're getting
Speaker 10: ready to play and getting what we're getting ready to face,
Speaker 10: you know, and so we're looking forward to this competition.
Speaker 10: Guys are locked in and we're gonna be ready to go.
Speaker 10: So exciting, man, exciting, you know, and already talked about
Speaker 10: it earlier. This is this is why you're in this business.
Speaker 10: Players love it, coaches love it. Great for their organization
Speaker 10: and it's great for football.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Insiders, Tom Pellacero, joined now by
Speaker 1: our Stacey Dales, who will have that game two seventy
Speaker 1: two on Sunday night. Stacy, tell me about the significance
Speaker 1: of these games matchup with this much on the line.
Speaker 11: Yeah, oh my goodness. I mean, I'm so fired up.
Speaker 11: It's Friday night. Tom by the way, Pinay Sewell, and
Speaker 11: you know this, Ask anybody in that building at Allan Park,
Speaker 11: they'll tell you he's the most athletic player on that roster.
Speaker 11: Like that guy is unbelievable, for sure, one hundred percent.
Speaker 11: This is a magnificent game. We've never seen this, This
Speaker 11: is historic. Dan Campbell, whom we just heard from earlier
Speaker 11: in the week, said it was fairytale kind of stuff.
Speaker 11: I spoke with left tackle Taylor Decker this week and
Speaker 11: he said, to me, it's almost poetic because you have
Speaker 11: this incredible franchise record setting season with fourteen victories. They've
Speaker 11: never done that in Detroit, and you still have to
Speaker 11: play the Minnesota Vikings for the number one seed. I
Speaker 11: also spoke on their side of the football to TJ. Hawkinson,
Speaker 11: former Detroit line obviously drafted by them and has now
Speaker 11: been in Minnesota for a couple of years, and he said,
Speaker 11: it is history.
Speaker 6: Literally. You don't think at the starting the beginning of
Speaker 6: the season you're going to be in a position quite
Speaker 6: like this.
Speaker 11: It is monumental when you think about two fourteen win
Speaker 11: teams playing.
Speaker 6: Each other in the regular season for the first time ever.
Speaker 6: That has never happened.
Speaker 11: The Vikings and Lions twenty eight combined wins in the
Speaker 11: regular season tom are the most by any opponents in
Speaker 11: regular season history in NFL history. And then, just to
Speaker 11: take it a step further, this game is not going
Speaker 11: to only be the first regular season game with opponents
Speaker 11: who both had fourteen or more wins. It's also the
Speaker 11: first regular season game with two teams with fourteen or
Speaker 11: more wins ahead of the Super Bowl or ahead of
Speaker 11: the conference championships. And what's on the line, As you
Speaker 11: see on our lower third, the winner clinches the number
Speaker 11: one seed, they have home field advantage, they obviously get
Speaker 11: a bye. And what does the other side get. They
Speaker 11: got to play the number four seed, which right now
Speaker 11: is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. So if you're the five seed,
Speaker 11: you've got to go to Tampa who have won now
Speaker 11: five of their last six games, and Baker is on fire.
Speaker 6: So it is a pivotal game for both teams.
Speaker 1: There also are some parallels here between the quarterbacks Donald
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, both high draft picks cast off and Golf's
Speaker 1: case by the Rams and Donald's case by multiple different teams. Here,
Speaker 1: what does it mean for these two guys being on
Speaker 1: this stage Sunday night?
Speaker 6: Why did you doubt me four years ago? Why did
Speaker 6: you doubt me three years ago?
Speaker 11: These guys are playing with chips on their shoulders and
Speaker 11: they both deserve it, Tom, I mean, you ask anybody
Speaker 11: in either locker room.
Speaker 6: Let's start with Jared Goff.
Speaker 11: He's got a career high thirty six touchdowns and when
Speaker 11: you talked to his teammates as you and I both
Speaker 11: have this season, I mean his timing and his precision,
Speaker 11: but his trust and its ability to be so accurate
Speaker 11: to unload and unleash but also be willing to take
Speaker 11: the checkdowns. I mean, he does everything they've tailored this
Speaker 11: offense for now a few years with Ben Johnson to
Speaker 11: Jared Goff, and he gives them supreme confidence in terms
Speaker 11: of his leadership. And that's exactly what I would follow
Speaker 11: up with Sam Darnold, who's got a career high thirty five.
Speaker 6: Touchdowns for the Vikings this season.
Speaker 11: Kevin O'Connell under his tutelage, has really done a masterful
Speaker 11: job and eyes and feet.
Speaker 6: They'll constantly talk to you about that. But TJ.
Speaker 11: Hawkinson told me that Sam has a one snap, one day,
Speaker 11: one play mentality that is huge for this team. He
Speaker 11: never waivers. His routine is his routine, and he said
Speaker 11: to me, Hawkins said, he just gives us the utmost confidence.
Speaker 11: But he also told me we've got the playmakers, We've
Speaker 11: got the guys, we've got the plays, we've got the
Speaker 11: coach that calls the plays. I don't think there's any
Speaker 11: more confidence you can have and any more pieces you
Speaker 11: could want than what we bring to the table. So,
Speaker 11: as you know, Tom, playmakers galore.
Speaker 6: We'll just see if this is.
Speaker 11: Going to be an offensive fireworks or shootout between both sides,
Speaker 11: or if the defenses are going to come to play
Speaker 11: and get.
Speaker 6: A few turnovers to help those offenses.
Speaker 1: On Sunday night, Stacey, have fun in Detroit. Bring your plugs.
Speaker 1: I would also recommend that thank you very much for.
Speaker 2: Joining us on this show.
Speaker 4: Stacey Dale's mentioned the box. Let's get into the box.
Speaker 4: Let's get into the NFC South clinching scenarios for the bus.
Speaker 4: I'm not that smart, but it seems pretty simple. Win
Speaker 4: and in of course, the Falcons could also lose. That
Speaker 4: would knock them in as well. The Falcons have a
Speaker 4: much more complicated situation. They have to win and get
Speaker 4: the Bucks to lose. Of course, Tampa plays the Saints,
Speaker 4: Falcons played the Panthers. Someone who is going to be
Speaker 4: at well only one of those games because she's only
Speaker 4: one person and can only be in one place at once.
Speaker 4: Sarah Walsh, what's going on? Thank you for joining us
Speaker 4: on the Insiders. As always, Sarah, Let's get into the
Speaker 4: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I think everybody probably knows the ball
Speaker 4: is going to go to Mike Evans.
Speaker 2: Just a little bit.
Speaker 4: Take me inside that Bucks offense about Evans and then
Speaker 4: who else can burn you?
Speaker 6: We know they're going to go to Mike.
Speaker 12: We know everyone here wants Mike to reach that one
Speaker 12: thousand yard milestone. However, when Chris Godwin was lost for
Speaker 12: the season and Mike Evans was lost for a couple
Speaker 12: of games with that hamstring injury, the Bucks knew if
Speaker 12: they were going to succeed, they were going to have
Speaker 12: to have guys step up, unknown names, and they really have.
Speaker 12: If you look at the game just Sunday, a rookie
Speaker 12: Devin Culp had fifty two yards. Payne Durham caught his
Speaker 12: first touchdown. Another rookie in Culp's a former collegiate teammate
Speaker 12: at Washington, Jalen McMillan, had two touchdowns. Everyone has stepped up,
Speaker 12: and McMillan is someone a third round pick that the
Speaker 12: Bucks expected to do big things, but he has really
Speaker 12: opened eyes around the league in the last couple of week.
Speaker 12: Six touchdowns in his last four games. If he catches
Speaker 12: one this week, that would make it five straight.
Speaker 6: There is only one.
Speaker 12: Rookie who's got a consecutive game streak of touchdowns longer
Speaker 12: than that.
Speaker 6: His name was Randy Moss. So McMillan coming on strong.
Speaker 12: And when I talked to him this week, I said,
Speaker 12: what's been the biggest difference for you? He said, earlier
Speaker 12: in the year he felt a lot of pressure. He
Speaker 12: said he couldn't leave stuff at the field. He'd go
Speaker 12: home and just think and think. And he said he's
Speaker 12: not thinking as much and that's allowed him to play
Speaker 12: in a more free manner. Of course, so many receivers
Speaker 12: running backs having success in Tampa definitely helps when your
Speaker 12: quarterback at Stacy Dale's just mentioned obviously an ou shot
Speaker 12: out there is having a career year in almost every category.
Speaker 12: Only Joe Burrow has more touchdowns than Baker Mayfield right now, ann.
Speaker 4: Jalen mcfilan so frustrating for me, picked him up in fantasy,
Speaker 4: ended up dropping him a week later, missed down all
Speaker 4: I should you should have been more patient that these
Speaker 4: are things that stick with me. Anyway, let's get to
Speaker 4: the other side of the ball. I know Levonte David's
Speaker 4: still the face of that defense. Gonna get one of
Speaker 4: his buddies back this week in what is a really cool,
Speaker 4: heartwarming story.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a great story.
Speaker 12: Levonte David, by the way, a thirteenth NFL season, thirty
Speaker 12: four years old, and he's seen a lot. One thing.
Speaker 12: He told me this week that he loved seeing his
Speaker 12: former buddy Shaq Barrett, who is the single season sack
Speaker 12: record holder for the Buccaneers, rejoining the Bucks after he
Speaker 12: announced his retirement last year. Hasn't played a game this year,
Speaker 12: but he's not going to get a lot of snaps
Speaker 12: this weekend. But we do expect that we could see
Speaker 12: Shaq Beart back on the field in a Buccaneers Uniformante said,
Speaker 12: just seen him in the locker room has been a
Speaker 12: breath of fresh air because there's a lot of young
Speaker 12: guys there and Lavante and Shaq Barrett have long been
Speaker 12: a part of a vaunted Bucks defense that for years
Speaker 12: carried this Tampa Bay team. So I asked Levante, what's
Speaker 12: it like this year watching your offense because they have
Speaker 12: done so much, and he said it's incredible. But he
Speaker 12: did say selfishly, do we want to be the unit
Speaker 12: that wins the ballgame? Of course we do, but he
Speaker 12: said it's been a collective effort. Now here's something really cool,
Speaker 12: really unselfish that Levante and the whole room of linebackers
Speaker 12: did today. Ian Lavante and his group of guys got together,
Speaker 12: partnered with some local nonprofits, and they gave away two
Speaker 12: vehicles to single moms who were in need of transportation
Speaker 12: to sustaining jobs. Levante said something like this, a moment
Speaker 12: like this can really do wonders for a family. You
Speaker 12: see the expression on their faces now, the way that
Speaker 12: they raised the money. The linebackers at least self policing finds.
Speaker 12: I said, Levante, you're like one of the nicest guys
Speaker 12: on the planet. I guarantee you never got fined for anything.
Speaker 12: What kind of money did you raise? And he goes, well,
Speaker 12: I'm held to a higher standard, so they would get
Speaker 12: me for little things. I said, okay, Well, then tell
Speaker 12: me who is the biggest contributor, right, who got in
Speaker 12: trouble the most so that they had to contribute the most?
Speaker 12: He said, kJ Britt, I go what he do? He said, well,
Speaker 12: his mouth, Well he ran his mouth for a good cause.
Speaker 12: So I think at this time of year everyone could
Speaker 12: use a good story like that, a heartwarming story. So
Speaker 12: good job to the Bucks linebackers and making dreams come
Speaker 12: true today.
Speaker 4: Love hearing that tis the season and that is that
Speaker 4: is very very cool. Sarah Walsh, thank you very much
Speaker 4: for joining us as always enjoy the game and everything
Speaker 4: that comes with it. This coming Sunday, another person, another player,
Speaker 4: another quarterback who's got a.
Speaker 2: Lot riding on it.
Speaker 4: This week Bo Nicks the Denver Broncos win and in
Speaker 4: against the Chiefs backups. Omar Ruiz is going to talk
Speaker 4: to us on the Insiders coming up about everything you
Speaker 4: want to know about b Nix.
Speaker 7: All right, here are the clinching scenarios. If you don't
Speaker 7: know him by now, you haven't been paying attention all week.
Speaker 7: We've been showing them all week long. So take a
Speaker 7: screenshot of that, put it to the side, reference it later,
Speaker 7: because right now I got to bring in Omar Ruiz,
Speaker 7: who is going to be at the Broncos Chiefs game. Wait,
Speaker 7: hold on, what was the scenario with the Bronco Broncos
Speaker 7: win they're in Basically is what happens. The other teams
Speaker 7: need the Broncos to lose. So with the Broncos needing
Speaker 7: that win to make the playoffs, how are they handling
Speaker 7: the pressure of the moment?
Speaker 13: Omar Well Bonick said, pressure is a privilege. This is
Speaker 13: something that they've had the opportunity for two games in
Speaker 13: a row now and they've not been able to get
Speaker 13: it done. But they've come into this one against the
Speaker 13: Chiefs with a lot of confidence, knowing that they put
Speaker 13: themselves in position to win. They're up eleven in the
Speaker 13: second half against the Chargers on Thursday Night Football a
Speaker 13: couple weeks ago, and then of course they forced overtime
Speaker 13: against the Bengals last week without getting it done. You
Speaker 13: throw in the first time they played the Chiefs where
Speaker 13: they had that field goal blocked.
Speaker 2: To lose the game.
Speaker 13: Bonick saying one of these times, we're going to end
Speaker 13: up pulling it out. They're hoping to do that Week eighteen,
Speaker 13: but he said that without this pressure means that they
Speaker 13: do have the opportunity, and that is to clinch the playoffs.
Speaker 13: I spoke with outside linebacker Nick Benito, the Pro Bowler, yesterday,
Speaker 13: who said that every offseason they've had to hear about
Speaker 13: this being another year of missing the postseason. So they're
Speaker 13: very aware of the playoff drought. They haven't been to
Speaker 13: the playoffs since Peyton Manning and Company won the Super
Speaker 13: Bowl after the twenty fifteen season. Benito telling me they
Speaker 13: want to do it for guys like Garrett Bowles and
Speaker 13: Courtland's Sutton, the veterans in that locker room. They're looking
Speaker 13: to take care of business, knowing they have an opportunity
Speaker 13: to do it against Kansas City and many of their
Speaker 13: backups on Sunday.
Speaker 7: Many of their backups, including Carson Wentz. Now, don't think
Speaker 7: that Carson Wentz doesn't have the chance to play well
Speaker 7: in Week eighteen, because he did it last year as
Speaker 7: a member of the Los Angeles Rams, leading a victory
Speaker 7: against the forty nine ers. He had like fifty six
Speaker 7: yards rushing in that game seventeen for twenty four if
Speaker 7: I remember that stat line correctly. So what are we
Speaker 7: expecting from Wentz in this system with the Chiefs.
Speaker 13: Yeah, a couple of touchdowns in that game, reprising his
Speaker 13: role as Week eighteen starter, like you mentioned, filling in
Speaker 13: for Matthew Stafford last year, Obviously getting an opportunity now
Speaker 13: with the Chiefs. Andy Reid's excited to see him play. Obviously,
Speaker 13: Wentz came in with familiarity with this system given his
Speaker 13: days with Doug Peterson in Philadelphia, and obviously it's been
Speaker 13: tweaked over the year and over the years, and Carson
Speaker 13: Wentz has kind of adjusted throughout this year, has seen
Speaker 13: Patrick Mahomes and how he communicates with Reed and offensive
Speaker 13: coordinator Matt Naggy throughout the week, So looking to replicate that,
Speaker 13: and Wentz saying that he's excited to have Andy Reid
Speaker 13: as his play caller. And they know they're not going
Speaker 13: to have Isaiah Pacheco and Kareem Hunt and Travis Kelcey,
Speaker 13: Jwan Taylor a few of the other guys not sitting,
Speaker 13: but they do have an opportunity to win the game
Speaker 13: like they did last year. When they rested many of
Speaker 13: the starters against the Chargers Week eighteen, they pulled out
Speaker 13: that win thirteen to twelve. You saw the experience with
Speaker 13: Carson went from the Broncos perspective, defensive coordinator Vance Joseph saying,
Speaker 13: they're expecting to see Carson Wentz at his best. He said,
Speaker 13: he's I'm sure he's seen Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield
Speaker 13: and Gino Smith. All those guys have career renaissances, hoping
Speaker 13: that maybe a Week eighteen strong performance from Carson Wentz
Speaker 13: can spark that. So they're looking to see Carson Wentz
Speaker 13: with his legs and his arm sort of carry the
Speaker 13: day for them. They're looking to shut that down on
Speaker 13: Sunday and get themselves into the playoffs.
Speaker 7: There's quarterback intrigue in the NFL this weekend. Guys like
Speaker 7: Trey Lance, Carson Wentz is gonna play, Jimmy Garoppolo is
Speaker 7: gonna play again, Tanner McKee in Philadelphia can he continue?
Speaker 7: Like we're gonna see some guys in action that are
Speaker 7: going to try to make a statement for future jobs
Speaker 7: in twenty.
Speaker 2: Five and beyond.
Speaker 7: Omar Owiz, you have a job in twenty five and
Speaker 7: beyond because of that kind of analysis and information that
Speaker 7: you bring us right there. I joke the other day
Speaker 7: after losing my Fantasy Championship that Michael left Florio twenty
Speaker 7: twenty five personnel meetings were starting immediately. Adam Braank believes
Speaker 7: in that he's gonna be back after the break here
Speaker 7: to talk about twenty twenty five fantasy potential.
Speaker 1: Time now to go in with NFL Fantasy Live, and
Speaker 1: our buddy Adam Rank joined us as he does every
Speaker 1: single Friday.
Speaker 2: It's over Rank unless you're one of those freaks who.
Speaker 1: Plays Week eighteen as your championship week in your fantasy league.
Speaker 1: But no time is too soon to turn the page
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty five. Jamar Chase monster season, huge asset.
Speaker 1: Should he be the number one pick in next year's
Speaker 1: fantasy draft.
Speaker 14: Well, I understand why a lot of people would want
Speaker 14: to continue to make Jamar Chase the number one overall selection,
Speaker 14: given the fact that so many Fantasy Championship rosters had him.
Speaker 14: He had one of the best seasons of a wide
Speaker 14: receiver over the last couple of years, and I understand
Speaker 14: like people grow attached to players, but too often in
Speaker 14: the terms of fantasy football, we look behind us instead
Speaker 14: of forward. A lot of people went into this season
Speaker 14: thinking like, well, Ceedee Lamb was the wide receiver one
Speaker 14: in twenty twenty three. I'm just going to go ahead
Speaker 14: and draft him. Missed out on the opportunity of taking
Speaker 14: Jamar Chase, So I would say to spend some time
Speaker 14: the look out there see if T Higgins is going
Speaker 14: to return, is the coaching staff gonna change. There's a
Speaker 14: lot of variables, So I don't I don't mind if
Speaker 14: you take him number one. Overall, that's not the way
Speaker 14: that I'm going. Okay, Well, if not him, then who
Speaker 14: Well I'm gonna go with Bajon Robinson, who finished this
Speaker 14: season as the running back three with the Atlanta Falcons,
Speaker 14: and he did it with a quarterback who had a
Speaker 14: fastball that rivaled Jamie Moyers back in the day. I
Speaker 14: think that once you add Michael Pennick to the starting lineup,
Speaker 14: this is gonna be an offense. It's going to take
Speaker 14: off next season. And I've started upgrade not only b
Speaker 14: John Robinson, but also Drake London. Perhaps Darnell Mooney can
Speaker 14: continue what he did. Kyle Pitt Knockt not Kyle Pitts,
Speaker 14: but Bajhon Robinson again trying to look forward, trying to
Speaker 14: be ahead of everybody. He is going to be my
Speaker 14: number one running back.
Speaker 2: It reminds me when Ladani.
Speaker 14: And Thomlinson years ago made the leap of being like
Speaker 14: a top five running back to being the number one guy.
Speaker 14: Twenty twenty five is going to be the season that
Speaker 14: Bejon Robinson ends up as the RB one.
Speaker 7: Jamie Moyer came down the stretch of his career against
Speaker 7: the Phillies man when it went bad on a given day,
Speaker 7: it was like batting practice out there. I know exactly
Speaker 7: what you're talking about. Sakwon Barkley. Does he go in
Speaker 7: the first round again in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 14: I would certainly think so, especially at the end of
Speaker 14: the first round coming into this year, we're pretty bullish
Speaker 14: on Sakuon Barkley. As a matter of fact, I had
Speaker 14: an Instagram post where I posted that, and nobody goes
Speaker 14: back and finds that they can find my Bears prediction
Speaker 14: very easily. They can't find the one where I'm like,
Speaker 14: please draft Saquon Barkley. But I don't see an awful
Speaker 14: lot of aggression. Obviously he's not going to run for
Speaker 14: two thousand yards next season, but still he should be
Speaker 14: in the mix for fifteen hundred rushing yards. He's going
Speaker 14: to be a huge part of an offense that's got
Speaker 14: a great offensive line, a great quarterback, great opportunities. I
Speaker 14: think that he should be a first round pick. And
Speaker 14: I also like the fact that the Eagles are not
Speaker 14: using him this weekend, trying to rest him for the playoffs. Now,
Speaker 14: I was on the radio with the BBC. They're outraged
Speaker 14: in London. They do not agree with that decision. They
Speaker 14: want to see him go out there and get the record.
Speaker 14: But I think Kuon Barkley at the Eagles, well they
Speaker 14: made this, say yeah, they're upset about it.
Speaker 5: Ian, I don't know how to tell you. I think
Speaker 5: it's the right move to make.
Speaker 2: Last thing for your rank. Let's get a little more controversial.
Speaker 2: How about this.
Speaker 1: Give me a second year receiver who will go in
Speaker 1: next year's first round for fantasy.
Speaker 14: Well, I'm gonna start with Brian Thomas Junior, who had
Speaker 14: a tremendous rookie season. I've seen a lot of comparisons
Speaker 14: to Justin Jefferson and what he did in his rookie season,
Speaker 14: and saw what he was able to do in his
Speaker 14: second year. But one of the things that I also
Speaker 14: love about Brian Thomas Junior is what could possibly be
Speaker 14: now There could be a change at the head coach
Speaker 14: position for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Ben Johnson could be that
Speaker 14: guy who comes in to be their coach. I don't know,
Speaker 14: I'm speculating, but still, given the opportunity to go out
Speaker 14: there and build on what he was able to do,
Speaker 14: I'm gonna go with Brian Thomas Junior.
Speaker 5: And I'm also gonna.
Speaker 14: Go with Malik Nighbors, who this season was able to
Speaker 14: be the wide receiver six on the year with a
Speaker 14: cavalcade of quarterbacks that a lot of random people couldn't
Speaker 14: be able to name if you put him out there
Speaker 14: on a list like whose line is it anyways or
Speaker 14: anything like that. But at the same time, I would
Speaker 14: like to see a little bit more consistency out of
Speaker 14: the leak Neighbors. He had three had six games excuse me,
Speaker 14: where he had like close to thirty points or right
Speaker 14: around there. He had a number of games where he
Speaker 14: did not even approach twenty. So for me, with a
Speaker 14: good quarterback, he should be able to get some consistency
Speaker 14: and should be a first round draft pick rank.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Keep coming back end of the
Speaker 1: fantasy season, but keep coming back on back. Yeah, talk
Speaker 1: about throughout the course of the offseason and Clinton, if
Speaker 1: I hang around for the f block, we talk about
Speaker 1: do you look like Jim Harbaugh? Because some people think
Speaker 1: they look like Jim Harbaugh, and there's no reason for
Speaker 1: us to talk about who does and does not look
Speaker 1: like Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: Trust me, it's worth the explanation.
Speaker 1: Next on the Insiders, Jared Vers is quite possibly going
Speaker 1: to be your defensive rookie of the year. We do
Speaker 1: know he is already headed to the Pro Bowl Games
Speaker 1: in his first season, but when he first got the
Speaker 1: call from Sean mcvaywell, you had our thoughts on what
Speaker 1: in my be about.
Speaker 2: That was getting fired.
Speaker 3: I took a nap after like practice, and I got
Speaker 3: like three calls because we made I'm like, oh my.
Speaker 2: God, I'm like, oh the one I did after I
Speaker 2: was pretty good.
Speaker 8: I called.
Speaker 5: He's like, uh, yeah, you made football, Mike. It was
Speaker 5: really so real though. It felt like amazing Like Releaf
Speaker 5: was Fice though.
Speaker 1: But elsewhere in La Jim Harbaugh, who apparently is on
Speaker 1: a wanted poster around the city also has inspired a
Speaker 1: lookalike competition. According to the Chargers, they've already got some
Speaker 1: submission this contest contest here, Let's take a look at
Speaker 1: some of the folks who think they might be able
Speaker 1: to pull it off.
Speaker 5: Ian is that you?
Speaker 2: There's a slight just a very slight er is yet there?
Speaker 4: Handsome man right there, that's a good looking one.
Speaker 2: Be'st hardbus. Everyone else we got as much there.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think I can pull it off.
Speaker 1: We all look like we're wearing like the hat that
Speaker 1: doesn't have the brim.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: That's which I think it's slightly off because we know
Speaker 1: Jim Harby likes to break in that brim.
Speaker 2: We've seen that from him. Oh, garrifola, what do you think?
Speaker 2: What is I don't know what is happening there? That's
Speaker 2: your hot glass. You have hair, only have my sunglasses.
Speaker 2: That's Harball. But that's not Harball hair. I think that's
Speaker 2: my hair. That's not his hair. No, that's my hair.
Speaker 7: Looks like as a right end's coach Andy Bisher than
Speaker 7: the hair like that, my buddy, you.
Speaker 1: Got the uh you got kind of some highlights in there,
Speaker 1: which I don't do. But that's kind of that's kind
Speaker 1: of what looks like anyway. I enjoy the games. Time
Speaker 1: to get to this weekend. We are on live all
Speaker 1: day on Monday, fourteen hours straight, two hour edition to
Speaker 1: the Insiders at night.
Speaker 2: Be there, see it,