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Speaker 1: We've talked about them for months. Now it is time

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Speaker 1: to see the class of twenty twenty five out on

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Speaker 1: the grass or community camps are underway with twenty six teams.

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Speaker 1: We will show you scenes from all of them over

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Speaker 2: Carter Breaking finally has a number.

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Speaker 1: We will discuss expectations for him in the Big Apple

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Speaker 1: and what could lie ahead for fellow first round pick

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Speaker 1: Jackson Dart in a crowded QB room. We also have

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Speaker 1: a special guest tonight who knows a little something while

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Speaker 1: being a high profile wide receiver in Dallas. So does

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Speaker 1: Dez Bryant think George Pickens has that star power? We

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Speaker 1: will ask him what Dez joins us for in the interview.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you catch it, because we all know Dez

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Speaker 1: did it. Welcome inside with the Insiders alongside Ian Rappaport,

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Speaker 1: I am Tom Pelisaro. One hundred and eighteen days out

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Speaker 1: from the kickoff game to the twenty twenty five NFL season,

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Speaker 1: just five days away from the big schedule release show

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Speaker 1: that is next Wednesday night. But you know what this looks, feels,

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Speaker 1: even smells like a football Friday, because we got rookie

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Speaker 1: kamvs all over the NFL. Cam Ward up there in

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Speaker 1: the top left, out there on the field for the

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Speaker 1: first time, Travis Hunter is out there in a Jaguars uniform.

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Speaker 2: We got Will Campbell.

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Speaker 1: We've got Abduel Carter not pictured from that giant social post.

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Speaker 1: Their other first round draft pick, Jackson Dart. New York

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Speaker 1: traded back into the first round not to go get

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Speaker 1: schnor Saators, but to get this man who they believe

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think a lot of people have seen,

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Speaker 3: you know, the process a little bit on hard knocks,

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Speaker 3: but it's intense. You know, I kind of had an

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Speaker 2: So it was super fun.

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Speaker 3: I think that at the same time, you know, me

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Speaker 3: and you know, they definitely tested me, you know, harder

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Speaker 3: than any other you know team throughout this process, and

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Speaker 3: you know, I was just grateful to to to come

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Speaker 1: Let's welcome Steve Whitch into the conversation.

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Speaker 2: Ian.

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Speaker 1: The Giants quarterback off season has been unique, to say

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Speaker 1: the least signing Jamis Winston, first signing Russell Wilson, taking

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Speaker 1: Stabs and a few other quarterbacks along the way, and

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Speaker 1: then the big trade to get back in the first

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Speaker 1: round and take a quarterback in Jackson Dart who fits

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Speaker 1: the archetype that Brian Dable in visions at the position.

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Speaker 1: How do you imagine this offseason is going to play

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Speaker 1: out for the Giants who are hoping finally they've got

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Speaker 4: Now, First of all, I like how Aaron Rodgers is

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Speaker 4: some other guy is some other quarterbacks in too kind

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Speaker 4: who I would say is their presumptive starter right now,

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Speaker 4: Which is the best case scenario for Jackson Dart.

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Speaker 5: You're right, Tom, the Giants ended up with a quarterback.

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Speaker 4: I would think it's fair to say for the first

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Speaker 4: time in several years that they really really like wanted

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Speaker 4: selected ran through the entire process and have now landed

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Speaker 5: And it's not just the on the field stuff.

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Speaker 4: Although the way he throws the ball, the way he

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Speaker 4: the way he performed in those private workouts and pro

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Speaker 4: the other stuff too, kind of the swag, the mental stuff.

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Speaker 4: You know, he mentioned that the Giants steve tested him

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Speaker 4: There is a lot to like for the Giants and

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Speaker 4: up now he does not have to play right away.

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Speaker 5: He can just learn, which might be the best thing

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Speaker 6: Well could be. He talking about the swag with bobt

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Speaker 7: Dart Man, he is iced up, like you know, he

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Speaker 7: Don't you does this sound like one of those veteran

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Speaker 6: End up being traded?

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Speaker 7: Should Jackson Dart show that he's ready to be the

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Speaker 6: Guys, we got Jamis Winston up here.

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Speaker 7: We have somebody who's draft capital, you know, bring back

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Speaker 1: It's a really interesting point because we have seen quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater is the guy who gets hurt. They end

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Speaker 1: That's, of course, not the only Giants' first round pick here.

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Speaker 1: We also have to talk about Abduall Carter, mainly because

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Speaker 8: it's an all encompassing evaluation. It's not something that that's

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Speaker 1: I'm struck by ian In just you know, flipping around

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Speaker 1: daid press this doesn't ever happen with a fifth round pick.

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Speaker 1: It has created a very unique dynamic, at least in

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Speaker 1: terms of how Kevin Stefanski has to approach this because

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Speaker 4: And you're right, I mean, this is not the treatment

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Speaker 4: definitely not getting that treatment. It is Shador Sanders, in

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Speaker 4: part because of the publicity that came to him in

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Speaker 4: is part of it, Tom, This is part of it.

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Speaker 4: This is part of the reason why a guy who's

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Speaker 4: also say that none of that actually matters, right because

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Speaker 4: the debate about whether or not Shador Sanders is going

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Speaker 5: And the way this is set up, with him being really.

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Speaker 5: He may not see it like this.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure he doesn't, but he has an incredible luxury

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Speaker 6: He's a fifth round draft pick.

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Speaker 7: They've already got three other quarterbacks, two of them were

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Speaker 6: Sue. You know, we can sit here and say Shador's

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Speaker 7: He has got to earn a roster spot because typically

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Speaker 7: intriguing about all of this. I do like Kevin Stefanski

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Speaker 6: When you need to start paying attentions when they get.

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Speaker 6: He's got to get acclimated.

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Speaker 6: When you really have to keep an eye on.

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Speaker 7: Okay, where is his head and what is his chance

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Speaker 1: And nobody's ever questioned the work ethic component with Shadoor senders.

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Speaker 1: He is going to put in the time. He wants

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Speaker 1: to be really good at this. One of the many

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Speaker 1: storylines to come. The preseason in particular, are going to

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Speaker 1: be fascinating to watch unfold on a network where we

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Speaker 1: Lador's old teammate Travis Hunter out on the field in

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Speaker 1: That's where it's going to begin for Travis Hunter, though

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Speaker 1: That's quote from Omar contain a fresh start is good

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Speaker 2: Now he's going to be doing that in Dallas.

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Speaker 4: Well, there's so many things here, guys, and Omar Khan

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Speaker 5: It was a lot of energy from reporters.

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Speaker 4: It was essentially a lightning rod in part because he

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Speaker 7: You're right, we know Ian when omar content, it's a

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Speaker 2: We know that.

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Speaker 7: You know, we just signed DK metcalf to a dealer

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Speaker 1: They've also got Calvin Austin, who they like a lot.

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Speaker 12: Throws it over the brant, They throw slap the as

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Speaker 6: I went back to the insiders.

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Speaker 7: I'm Steve White, now joined by Jane Slater and that

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Speaker 7: man number eighty eight does Bryant.

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Speaker 6: Let's all throw up the X to get this party started.

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Speaker 13: You know what does I love that when you drive

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Speaker 9: Oh man?

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Speaker 14: You know, Jane, just overcoming all of that version in

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Speaker 14: you know, just believing in myself and just xing now

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Speaker 7: Well, on that note, then you just cowboys guy, no

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Speaker 9: Know I love it. You know.

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Speaker 14: That is unlike the Cowboys, and see the Cowboys go

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Speaker 9: Go this year. You know, there's no more excuses.

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Speaker 14: They going out there doing what they're supposed to do

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Speaker 9: They went out and got that the hell of a piece.

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Speaker 14: I love piggins attitude. You know it is for a

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Speaker 7: Look, it's gonna be the best quarterback that George Pickens

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Speaker 13: next kid? Do you think that he's got potential to

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Speaker 13: be in the league after watching you know, Dione Sanders,

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Speaker 13: a guy that played in this league at a high level,

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Speaker 13: and the way that he's coached up and mentored his son.

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Speaker 13: What's your approach with with your kid?

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Speaker 14: Well, you know, I think my approach is, uh, when

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Speaker 14: me and my boy out there, I'm less of a father,

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Speaker 14: you know. I think I'm his worst critic. I think

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Speaker 14: that's I think by me playing that you know, role

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Speaker 14: in his life, I think that would get him prepared,

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Speaker 14: you know, for anything you know that he might face,

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Speaker 14: not just on the football field.

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Speaker 9: But you know in the real world.

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Speaker 14: You know, his his path to this is a lot

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Speaker 14: different from mine.

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Speaker 9: You know, my wild is a lot different, you know

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Speaker 9: from his.

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Speaker 14: You know, I struggled, you know, I had something that

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Speaker 14: you know that that built that dog and that monster me.

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Speaker 14: You know, with him growing up having everything that he

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Speaker 14: wan't you know, living you know, a good life. He

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Speaker 14: got a different way and he gotta find that and

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Speaker 14: that's going to be through different types of hard work

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Speaker 14: and you know, on motivation.

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Speaker 9: And I think he's been doing a you know, a

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Speaker 9: hell of.

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Speaker 14: A job that you know, just you know, beating the

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Speaker 14: challenges that I put in front of him, you know,

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Speaker 14: and you know I tell them all the time. You know,

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Speaker 14: you're not living up to me. You're building yourself. You know,

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Speaker 14: we just had the same name. You know, I don't

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Speaker 14: want him fill in my shoes. I want him to

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Speaker 14: be better than me. You know, if God said the same,

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Speaker 14: that's what I'm hoping. I hope that's what we see.

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Speaker 7: I love hearing this days, you know, you saying something

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Speaker 7: like that, You getting that timing with your son. One

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Speaker 7: last question before we get out of here, because a

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Speaker 7: lot of teams are starting their rookie mini camps.

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Speaker 6: We know we just had the draft.

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Speaker 7: This notion of rookies who haven't played it down in

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Speaker 7: the NFL asking some of the greatest players in the

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Speaker 7: NFL to unretire their jersey.

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Speaker 6: Numbers for them.

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Speaker 7: We know in Dallas they don't retire jersey numbers, but

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Speaker 7: you were the eighty eight. That's a legacy number. Drew Pearson,

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Speaker 7: Michael Irvan, now Ceedee Lamb has it. What are your

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Speaker 7: thoughts on it? Young his youngsters come in the league

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Speaker 7: asking for the number like that.

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Speaker 14: Oh man, i'ma be honest with you. I think I

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Speaker 14: think it's when I see Carter, you know, Axe, Lawrence

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Speaker 14: Taylor and Field Silms.

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Speaker 9: For those numbers.

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Speaker 14: I think he's doing it with a great you know,

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Speaker 14: respect to those guys, and you know, I think it's

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Speaker 14: just more motivation, you know. I think it was a

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Speaker 14: more motivational thing for him to be, like, you know,

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Speaker 14: what I want to be, you know, a giant. I

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Speaker 14: want to be viewed as a future giants, you know, legend,

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Speaker 14: you know.

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Speaker 9: So I didn't really see any wrong in it, you.

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Speaker 14: Know, but the guys respectfully declined, and I think I think.

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Speaker 9: They held it the right way. And I think Carter

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Speaker 9: gonna be a legend. You know.

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Speaker 14: I just don't want to performing well against the boys,

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Speaker 14: but I do think he's going to be a future star.

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Speaker 14: He got all the talent in the world, you know,

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Speaker 14: and I'm wishing him. I'm wishing him much success except

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Speaker 14: against the Cowboys.

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Speaker 7: There you go, He's gonna establish his own number. Like

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Speaker 7: you said, your son is gonna not walk in your

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Speaker 7: shoe for walking his Brian Jay Slater, thank you so much.

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Speaker 6: Showed up one more time, yes, sir.

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Speaker 1: Time Now for what are they thinking with Adam Rank

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Speaker 1: joining me?

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Speaker 2: Tom Pelli Serowhonian rapport here on.

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Speaker 1: The Insider's just heard Dez Bryant's takeaways from that big

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Speaker 1: George Pickens trade.

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Speaker 2: Adam, I pose this to you.

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Speaker 15: What are they think you exactly?

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Speaker 16: What are the Pittsburgh Steelers thinking trading away a talent

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Speaker 16: likes George Pickens And a lot of people were talking

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Speaker 16: about addition by subtraction? Is this not the same team

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Speaker 16: that once had Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell in the

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Speaker 16: same locker room and now George Pickens is too much

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Speaker 16: of an issue? Is this like when Dave Msstaine got

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Speaker 16: kicked out of Metallica for drinking too much?

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Speaker 15: Lars was walking around with an ivy of Jack Daniels.

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Speaker 16: Is like, no, Dave draging a little too much, had

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Speaker 16: to get rid of George Pickens. But you know what,

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Speaker 16: the Steelers always seemed to rebound every time they let

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Speaker 16: go of a receiver. It's the teams that receive a

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Speaker 16: Steelers receiver on are the Cowboys thinking? Did you not

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Speaker 16: learned about anybody who had Antonio Brown? About how the

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Speaker 16: Bears had to deal with Chase Claypool, whatever's going on

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Speaker 16: with Deontay Johnson. What Steelers receiver has gone on to

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Speaker 16: great success? He might say, Plexico Burris won a Super

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Speaker 16: Bowl with the Giants. YEA also shot himself in the

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Speaker 16: leg What are they thinking, Dallas Cowboys?

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Speaker 15: Although you know what it might.

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Speaker 9: Work out for him?

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Speaker 5: Hold on, so you hated for both teams. No one's

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Speaker 5: thinking anything.

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Speaker 2: That's what I do.

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Speaker 15: Let's get to it more important.

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Speaker 4: I got We'll get to a more important topic. Okay,

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Speaker 4: there was some big news today that I had sent

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Speaker 4: on for my Twitter account right before I went to

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Speaker 4: go play golf in the rain. Abdul Carter has a number.

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Speaker 4: It is fifty one. His long journey is over? Or

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Speaker 4: Taylor said no? Phil Simms said no. Ken Norton Junior,

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm sure there are other fifty ones

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Speaker 4: said yes, what is he thinking picking this number or whatever.

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Speaker 5: Else you hate in this situation?

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Speaker 16: Well, I was like, what is he think of asking

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Speaker 16: for number fifty six?

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Speaker 6: That's a pretty bold dude.

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Speaker 16: Hey, Kyle Manungui, I'm pretty sure didn't walk into Chicago

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Speaker 16: and be like, hey.

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Speaker 15: Can I have number thirty four?

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Speaker 6: Because you have deference.

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Speaker 16: In respect for the guys whose number was retired. Lawrence

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Speaker 16: Taylor is still a legend in New York. He still

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Speaker 16: walks among us. Let him enjoy having his number retire.

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Speaker 16: He's one of the best players in the game. I

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Speaker 16: forget who was in the top one hundred of all

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Speaker 16: time players. I'm pretty confident that Lawrence Taylor was somewhere

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Speaker 16: near the top.

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Speaker 15: He revolutionized the game.

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Speaker 16: There is no way you should be asking for Lawrence

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Speaker 16: Taylor's number.

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Speaker 15: As a matter of fact, I think the best.

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Speaker 2: Way that we did it.

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Speaker 16: What's a couple of years ago when JJ Watt went

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Speaker 16: to the Arizona Cardinals and he wanted to wear number

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Speaker 16: ninety nine, the number ninety nine was retired for Marshall

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Speaker 16: Goldberg and outside of me, and that's about it. Maybe

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Speaker 16: Dave Damischik. Nobody's heard of Marshall Goldberg, but you know

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Speaker 16: what he asked the family and then it was also

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Speaker 16: Jay Watt, a future Hall of Famer. That's the kind

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Speaker 16: of guy who can ask to take a number out

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Speaker 16: of the Raptors first round back and draft pick.

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Speaker 15: You're great.

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Speaker 2: No, you got to earn that, Adam.

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Speaker 1: I'm told that somewhere on talk radio or the deep

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Speaker 1: reaches of the Internet, there Bears fans saying that after

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Speaker 1: bringing in Colson Loveland, they should now trade away some

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Speaker 1: of their playmakers. I'm not on Bears Reddit, so I

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Speaker 1: haven't read it. But what are they think you?

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Speaker 16: It's annoying me, Tom, I can't deal with these people anymore. Again,

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Speaker 16: these are the same guys that are upset that Luthor

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Speaker 16: Bird and the Third didn't get Bronco Negersky's number, Like,

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Speaker 16: what are we doing?

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Speaker 2: Listen, Colson Lovelin.

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Speaker 16: Could be a very good player, Luther Bird and the

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Speaker 16: Third can be a very good player.

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Speaker 2: That does not.

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Speaker 16: Mean that you trade away Dj Moore and Cole kamt.

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Speaker 16: You know what it's the Bears were a five win.

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Speaker 2: Team last season.

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Speaker 16: I'm not, much to my chagrin, whenever you get an

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Speaker 16: influx of talent keep it around. Why don't you just

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Speaker 16: kind of keep everybody and try to go out there.

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Speaker 2: And in games.

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Speaker 16: This is not a situation where the Bears should be

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Speaker 16: giving away talent. Please, everybody out there on Bear's Reddit,

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Speaker 16: Bear's Twitter, the guys who were drinking old style out

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Speaker 16: there in oswego stop it.

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Speaker 15: We're keeping all of our players.

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Speaker 2: Please.

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Speaker 1: Pretty sure they're drinking vodka and milk for the pope

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Speaker 1: out there tonight, but we'll let that slide.

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Speaker 2: Rank.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Look forward to chatting with you again.

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Speaker 1: Sue and Jalen Walker to the list of first round

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Speaker 1: picks who have already signed their rookie contracts. The Falcons

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Speaker 1: and Walker agreed to terms earlier today. One of the

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Speaker 1: two pass rushers Atlanta added in Round one of the

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Speaker 1: draft and Boys, Raheem Morris, excited to not answer those

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Speaker 1: questions anymore.

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Speaker 17: That's got a change and the only way you can

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Speaker 17: change that is to change that. And that was a

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Speaker 17: part of the process, very intentional tow going out and

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Speaker 17: trying to fix the edge room. And it's very intention

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Speaker 17: to go out and fix our rush to find, you know,

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Speaker 17: and not still not terrorism to find pressure players. And

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Speaker 17: it was very intensied to be able to do that,

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Speaker 17: and we was able to do that in the first

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Speaker 17: round with those two guys that we were going to

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Speaker 17: add there, to be able to get those guys, going

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Speaker 17: to be able to add Leonett Floyd within free agency,

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Speaker 17: to be too some things there, to add three guys

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Speaker 17: that were not here last year that you expect to

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Speaker 17: have significant roles in your pass rush and your pressure players.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Insiders, Tom Pella, sero, Ian Rapaport,

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Speaker 1: and Steve White. Steve, you are very close to that

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Speaker 1: Falcons organization. You know, Raheem Morris, you know that this

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Speaker 1: was probably the storyline besides the whole quarterback thing around

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Speaker 1: that team for the past couple of years.

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Speaker 2: When are they going to get a pass rusher? They

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Speaker 2: got to what do they expect?

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Speaker 7: Well, and they give one of them Julio Jones's numbers.

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Speaker 6: Since we're talking about Jersey.

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Speaker 7: Numbers, I'm sorry, too soon for me, but anyway, Jayden

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Speaker 7: Walker number eleven, and getting James Pierce as well. It's

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Speaker 7: about time, right The Atlanta Falcons have not had a

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Speaker 7: consistent pass rusher. Everyone in Atlanta knows this since John Abraham.

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Speaker 7: He hasn't played in fifteen years. So to go out

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Speaker 7: and get two players who could affect the game off

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Speaker 7: the corners, you only have.

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Speaker 6: To play them situationally. Right now, as.

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Speaker 7: Raheem Morris dis mentioned, they got the veteran Leonard Floyd.

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Speaker 7: They've got Arnold Ebacktny there as well. What's interesting right

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Speaker 7: now is Jalen Walker. He was mainly an off the

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Speaker 7: ball type of player. They're gonna keep working him more

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Speaker 7: and more at edge, but he's gonna be one of

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Speaker 7: these hybrid guys like Abdul Carter moving around a little

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Speaker 7: bit now you've got James Pierce.

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Speaker 6: He's more of a true rush guy.

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Speaker 7: But the one thing about him here you're seeing on

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Speaker 7: video rushing off the left end, he can also rush

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Speaker 7: off the right end, and he can reduce inside the tackle.

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Speaker 7: So the one thing Raheem Morris got on these two

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Speaker 7: rush players off the edge are also two guys who

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Speaker 7: are going to allow him to game and mix up

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Speaker 7: packages to really confuse offenses. They have to hope that

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Speaker 7: these guys can produce early. And look, if you get

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Speaker 7: four sacks from each of those guys, that's two more

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Speaker 7: sacks than any individual player got last year.

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Speaker 6: For the Falcons.

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Speaker 7: So if you get two for the price of one,

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Speaker 7: one for the price of two, however you want to

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Speaker 7: spin it, it should be better than what they've had

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Speaker 7: consistently when it comes to an individual sack player.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and no matter what happens, Steve, they're not going

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Speaker 4: to go into the trade deadline now being like gotta

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Speaker 4: get an edge's gotta get an edge. Those questions at

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Speaker 4: least have been addressed. One question that has not yet

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Speaker 4: been addressed is the future of Kirk Cousins. Although I

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Speaker 4: think it's fair to say the fency is coming gone,

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Speaker 4: the draft is coming gone. As of right now, it

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Speaker 4: certainly appears Kirk Cousins is set to be their backup

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Speaker 4: quarterback for the twenty twenty five season. Obviously, if any

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Speaker 4: team needs a quarterback with starting experience, that would also,

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Speaker 4: by the way, include the Pittsburgh series. If Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 4: doesn't go there, Cousins would be the first call. Which

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Speaker 4: is why we're going to be talking about Kirk Cousins

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Speaker 4: all the time this coming preseason, this coming actual season.

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Speaker 5: Every time a.

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Speaker 4: Quarterback gets hurt, the Falcons are going to be like, hey,

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Speaker 4: look at the guy we got. Maybe could could get

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Speaker 4: a potential premium draft pick for a guy who is

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Speaker 4: now their backup.

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Speaker 5: All that conversation for the future. As of right now,

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Speaker 5: Cousins at least set in Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: A twenty seven point five million dollar backup quarterback in Atlanta.

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Speaker 2: Stay tuned for the end of that saga.

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Speaker 1: Elsewhere in the NFC south of Meca, Buca also signing

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Speaker 1: his rookie contract, participating in the Bucks rookie mini camp today,

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Speaker 1: another weapon for Baker Mayfield and company. Down there in Tampa.

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Speaker 1: Pryce Young also got a new playmaker, t Mac McMillan

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Speaker 1: Tenoro McMillan signing his rookie contract officially, He too took

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Speaker 1: part in mini camp today a little bit more dynamic

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Speaker 1: NFC South, which is kind of what happens when you're

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Speaker 1: drafting in the top half of the first round.

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Speaker 2: Repeatedly get ready for the.

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Speaker 4: Twenty twenty five NFL season like never before with the

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Speaker 4: highly highly anticipated NFL schedule release. Every game revealed, every rivalry,

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Speaker 4: every matchup, every rematch, every rookie debut. Wednesday, May fourteenth,

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Speaker 4: market kunder all the details at nfl dot com slash

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Speaker 4: Schedule release. Ah, there's nothing better than bringing back our

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Speaker 4: good friend Adam Rank.

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Speaker 5: Who hates everyone.

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Speaker 4: It's one of the best things we learned a couple

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Speaker 4: segments ago in this show. Now he's going to learn

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Speaker 4: which football a Fantasy Football flex players he really hates

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Speaker 4: and which he actually likes. Saquon Barkley is number one

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Speaker 4: flex option. Obviously had a ton of shake up this offseason.

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Speaker 4: I want Rank to break it all down. So that's

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Speaker 4: his top ten list, Hi, Rank, that's his top ten

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Speaker 4: list right there. I want you to take me through

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Speaker 4: some players you really like, or at least players you

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Speaker 4: believe deserve deeper analysis.

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Speaker 5: Won't you give me a running back to start us off?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Devin H.

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Speaker 16: Chan is a player that was very productive last season

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Speaker 16: for the Miami Dolphins. A lot of fantasy enthusiasts love him.

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Speaker 16: When my list came out, there were people who were

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Speaker 16: upset that he wasn't high enough. I still have him

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Speaker 16: as an RB one. I think he's going to be

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Speaker 16: very good this year for the Miami Dolphins. When Tua

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Speaker 16: is healthy, this offense is a lot better. However, one

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Speaker 16: of the things that we noticed last season is that

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Speaker 16: a Chan's efficiency it went down a little bit when

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Speaker 16: they gave him a ton of carries. Now he carried

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Speaker 16: the ball over two hundred times last season. He went

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Speaker 16: from a rookie season where he's averaging seven yards per

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Speaker 16: carry down to just under five.

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Speaker 15: I honestly believe.

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Speaker 16: In listening to the coaches, they're going to limit his

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Speaker 16: carries a little bit. He's still going to be highly

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Speaker 16: effective catching the ball out of the backfield. So I

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Speaker 16: still love him as an RB one. I just don't

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Speaker 16: have him as high as a lot of other people.

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Speaker 5: That's good reasoning. Let's break down another one for me.

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Speaker 4: Once you give me a tight end, and I will

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Speaker 4: say this, I know who you're going to talk about.

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Speaker 5: Should just make my head explode while you talk about it.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 16: It's one of those things Ian like I every year

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Speaker 16: at the end of the season, I'm like, I'm never

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Speaker 16: drafting this player again. I'm not going to go through this.

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Speaker 16: And then every spring they're like, you know what, Kyle

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Speaker 16: Pitts is starting to look pretty good. All the coaches

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Speaker 16: are talking them up.

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Speaker 6: I knew it.

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Speaker 16: I knew as the words were coming out of my

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Speaker 16: app mouth at the end of last season where I

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Speaker 16: was officially done with Kyle Pitts that like this will

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Speaker 16: never happen again, Like mah, you know what.

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Speaker 15: You kind of.

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Speaker 16: Romanticize the past, you know, and you're like, you know what,

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Speaker 16: getting detention in high school wasn't that bad. It was

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Speaker 16: sort of fun. I read Fahrenheit four fifty one. It

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Speaker 16: wasn't all bad. But here's the thing. When you talk

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Speaker 16: about Michael Pennix and you're talking about a developing quarterback

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Speaker 16: in Atlanta last season, we really believed that Kirk Cousins

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Speaker 16: was going to be the guy who would unlock him. Obviously,

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Speaker 16: it did not work out the way that we wanted

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Speaker 16: it to.

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Speaker 15: I think a lot of it.

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Speaker 16: Kirk was still coming back from a devastating injury and

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Speaker 16: it took it.

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Speaker 2: Just not the same player.

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Speaker 16: I think with Michael Pennix there, you can give Kyle

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Speaker 16: Pitts an opportunity. If I miss out on one of

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Speaker 16: the elite tight ends, Kyle Pitts is going to be

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Speaker 16: a player that I'm looking at.

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Speaker 4: Why don't you tell me about a player we've sort

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Speaker 4: of tangentially talked about this show and really every show

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Speaker 4: for the last week, Ceedee Lamb. Obviously the Cowboys added

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Speaker 4: George Pickens. Perhaps you heard protect you, perhaps you talked

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Speaker 4: about it. How does this affect Ceede Lamb in your mind?

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Speaker 16: Well, a lot of people ask this question to him

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Speaker 16: because they're concerned. They're like, hey, is George Pickens gonna

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Speaker 16: end up funneling a lot of targets away from him?

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Speaker 16: Is it going to hurt Ceedee Lamb. I actually really

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Speaker 16: like this for Ceedee Lamb. I think having a dynamic

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Speaker 16: playmaker on the opposite side of you. There are a

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Speaker 16: few players in the NFL who stretched the field like

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Speaker 16: George Pickens does.

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Speaker 15: So George Pickens is out there.

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Speaker 16: For seventeen games, fifteen games, whatever it is out there

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Speaker 16: stretching the field. There is a real opportunity that Ceedee

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Speaker 16: Lamb goes back up to being the number one wide

795
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Speaker 16: receiver in fantasy football like he was two seasons ago.

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Speaker 15: Took a little bit.

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Speaker 16: Of a step back last year, which is fine that happens.

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Speaker 16: Love it for Ceede Lamb. And honestly, I don't I

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Speaker 16: don't honestly believe people.

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Speaker 15: Talk enough about Dak Prescott.

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Speaker 16: When you talk about quarterbacks who are unnecessarily maligned for

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Speaker 16: no reason.

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Speaker 15: Dak Prescott is that guy.

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Speaker 16: I honestly, he's a great quarterback and everybody acts like

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Speaker 16: he can't play the game. I think it'd be great

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Speaker 16: for Dak Prescott. And if I get an opportunity, if

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Speaker 16: I again, if you're waiting on a quarterback, one of

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Speaker 16: the top guys to wait on and go out and

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Speaker 16: draft would be Dak Prescott.

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Speaker 5: Wow, was it.

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Speaker 4: Even scheduled to be a topic in this segment? Still

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Speaker 4: get a little deck up? All right, give me one more,

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Speaker 4: give me one more. Spend the end of last year, obviously,

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Speaker 4: as it pertains, the Cincinnati Bank was talking about Chase Brown,

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Speaker 4: which shows you his importance.

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Speaker 5: How does he fit into your rankings.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, this is a player that's being undervalued in fantasy

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Speaker 16: drafts so far, and I believe it or not, fantasy

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Speaker 16: drafts are happening. But at the end of last year,

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Speaker 16: going from about weeks nine through seventeen, Chase Brown was

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Speaker 16: the running back four and just had an absolutely tremendous year.

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Speaker 16: He averaged around twenty four touches a game. He was

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Speaker 16: getting about one hundred and sixteen total yards. And this

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Speaker 16: was something going into last season. When I do my

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Speaker 16: State of the Franchise feature, I had Dan ord on

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Speaker 16: and we were talking about this and we were going,

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Speaker 16: I'm like, listen, I'm putting my neck out there for

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Speaker 16: Chase Brown. Dan, please tell me that he's to come through.

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Speaker 16: He gave me the green light. I fired it on

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Speaker 16: Chase Brown. Last year it paid off. You had to

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Speaker 16: be a little bit patient, But this year you got

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Speaker 16: to jump in on Chase Brown.

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Speaker 15: That was not a mirage. He is going to come

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Speaker 15: back out.

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Speaker 2: And kill it once again. Rank.

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Speaker 4: You know I made fun of you earlier in this

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Speaker 4: segment for hating everyone.

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Speaker 5: We don't hate you. We love you. Come back again

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Speaker 5: always great stuff.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much for hanging out with us on

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Speaker 4: a Friday night.

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Speaker 1: Rookie mini camps underway for twenty six NFL teams today

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Speaker 1: and the number twenty two pick Omarion Hampton on the

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Speaker 1: field for the first time in eight Chargers uniform. This,

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Speaker 1: like the other three hundred and sixty four days a year,

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Speaker 1: probably the favorite one on the calendar for Chargers coach

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Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh.

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Speaker 18: This is a weekend. This is a day and a

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Speaker 18: weekend of evaluations. Really just mining for gold, you know, diamonds,

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Speaker 18: gems and like like those rare gems. They don't just

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Speaker 18: hop out of the ground and into your pocket. Uh,

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Speaker 18: you gotta dig, you gotta, you gotta go in there

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Speaker 18: and find them. So that's that's what I want to

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Speaker 18: do today, top of the list as a coach. And

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Speaker 18: you know, let the let the players know that, you know,

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Speaker 18: they they gotta they can make it known, you know,

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Speaker 18: by their talent and their effort. Uh, you know, scream

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Speaker 18: to us, uh through that that they want to be

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Speaker 18: a Charger.

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Speaker 1: Jackson, Sorry, it just gets me every time. How about

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Speaker 1: this the Raiders. That's Jackson Powers Johnson introducing himself to

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Speaker 1: a guy he's gonna be blocking for Ashton Genty.

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Speaker 2: Big moves for the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: In this offseason, including adding another playmaker Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the Insiders, Tom Pellasaro, joined once again by Steve White. Steve,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs have been winning the division every year since

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Speaker 1: pack Holmes was still playing baseball in Texas Tech. But

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of movement and shaken over these past

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Speaker 1: couple of years in that division.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Look, but three of these teams went to the

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Speaker 6: playoffs last year. So let's start with the Chargers.

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Speaker 7: And you saw Jim Harbaugh talking about mining for goal

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Speaker 7: finding those gems. A player who's interesting to look out

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Speaker 7: for is an undrafted quarterback dj Ungle Ala. Remember he

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Speaker 7: was a five star recruit coming out started at Clemson,

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Speaker 7: Washington State, Florida State. Now he's there trying to be

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Speaker 7: the backup to Justin Herbert. If he makes the roster,

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Speaker 7: let's see if they can mine him. We know they

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Speaker 7: really upgraded talent at running back and at wide receiver.

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00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 7: They've got to score points. Now let's go to the Raiders.

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Speaker 7: You saw Ashton Genty right there. We know Pete Carroll

882
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 7: wants to run the football, but they're another team that

883
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 7: upgraded the talent at wide receiver with some of the

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00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 7: moves that they've made drafting Jack Besch, Dante Thornton, and

885
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 7: then Tommy Mallott, a former quarterback out of Montana State.

886
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 7: They're hoping he can be their Ladd McConkey to help

887
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 7: them get some points on the board. Let's also go

888
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,320
Speaker 7: to another team, lash Denver Broncos surprised everyone.

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00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,720
Speaker 6: Bo Nicks comes out, plays very well.

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Speaker 7: Let's not forget they added Evan Ingram and they added

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00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 7: rookie running back, the running back out of Central Florida.

892
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 7: Two players kind of the Alvin Kamara and the move

893
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 7: tight end type perfect for Sean Payton's offense.

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Speaker 6: Rjie Hart.

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Speaker 2: Gee, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: You thought we were going to talk about the Giants

897
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: rookies without showing you Cam Skataboo.

898
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 2: Look at him. Colonel Sanders would love those thighs.

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Speaker 1: Where number forty four in a Giants uniform for the

900
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 1: first time a rookie camp today. Tyler Shuck, rookie quarterback

901
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:41,800
Speaker 1: out of Louisville also making his debut in a Saints uniform,

902
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: the second round quarterback, potentially a Week one starter, and

903
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, their top pick offensive lineman Donovan Jackson get

904
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:53,479
Speaker 1: warmed up getting the slow mo treatment. The bigger the man,

905
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 1: the better he looks in slow mo. Look at those

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Speaker 1: up downs. Even Stretchy looks exciting when he get at

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Speaker 1: a guard moving in slow motion. Welcome back to the Insiders,

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Speaker 1: Tom Piliicero, I rapport Steve Whites. What is the thing

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Speaker 1: that you would love to be shown doing in slow motion?

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Speaker 10: Uh?

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00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 6: It's fast, most of slow motion.

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Speaker 7: I'm wishing all the mother's happy Mother's Day this weekend.

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Speaker 6: Let's not forget about that very important what.

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Speaker 2: It's mothers? You want to weekend?

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Speaker 5: Well, how did you get some of the.

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Speaker 2: Last every day?

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Speaker 1: There's gonna be fine having a weekend. Everybody see Monday