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Speaker 1: It's the main event before the twenty twenty six draft.

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Speaker 1: The NFL has descended upon Indianapolis for this week's combine.

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Speaker 1: Which superstars will work out on the field and who

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Speaker 1: has the biggest opportunity to help their stock. We will

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Speaker 1: tell you all we know tonight. Two weeks from today,

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Speaker 1: the free agent negotiating window will officially be open, and

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Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal has a surprise name atop his list of

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Speaker 1: those set to hit the market. We will break down

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Speaker 1: Greg's rankings and add some other names who could become

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Speaker 1: available as soon as this week. The Competition Committee also

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Speaker 1: meeting here in Indy, and perhaps most notable is what

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Speaker 1: they're not going to do. NFL executive Troy vince and

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Speaker 1: joins the show tonight to discuss the catch rule, potential

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Speaker 1: changes to replay, and more. Welcome inside with the insiders

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Speaker 1: at the Combine alongside Batista and Ian Rappaport, I am

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Speaker 1: Tom Peliicero, Judy and I have been here in frigid

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Speaker 1: Indy since Sunday and we're all just amazed that Ian

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Speaker 1: somehow was able to join us.

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Speaker 2: I went from New York to Tampa, to Atlanta to Indy,

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Speaker 2: landed at one thirty last night and feel really good,

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Speaker 2: really good.

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Speaker 1: The best news for everyone involved is that this stadium

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Speaker 1: and most of the city actually climate controlled because three

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Speaker 1: nights away. Out on that field right now, you will

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Speaker 1: have some of those defensive linemen and linebackers out there

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Speaker 1: for their workouts, and there's a lot of other big

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Speaker 1: names that are going to be set to work out

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Speaker 1: later on this week. Go to Dame running back Jeremiah Love,

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Speaker 1: I am told is going to participate in drills. Likely

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Speaker 1: we'll run a forty yard dash as well. Holding steady

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Speaker 1: at number two on Daniel Jeremiah's list of the top

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Speaker 1: fifty prospects, latest version out right now at nfl dot com.

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Speaker 1: Ohio State edge rvel Reese also is going to work out,

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Speaker 1: currently number four in DJ's rankings, one of the if

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Speaker 1: here's some defenders in all of college football. He likely

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Speaker 1: is going to run a forty as well. His teammate

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Speaker 1: Sunny Styles, big rangeye linebacker going to do basically everything

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Speaker 1: here in Indianapolis. He's getting way in a close to

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Speaker 1: a little over two hundred and forty pounds, and from

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Speaker 1: what I understand, if we're talking about one guy in

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Speaker 1: the performance they put on in the testing out here

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Speaker 1: in Indy. It could well be sunny styles. You can

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Speaker 1: catch all of the action live on NFL Network over

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Speaker 1: the next four days.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 1: It kicks off on Thursday, continues Friday, the Big Session

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Speaker 1: we're all looking forward to every year running backs, quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: and wide receivers. That one starts at Saturday at one

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Speaker 1: pm Eastern time. Meanwhile, across this city, we got a

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Speaker 1: lot of other business getting done, and that included the first,

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Speaker 1: let's say, semi official franchise tag of this offseason.

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Speaker 4: Ian.

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Speaker 1: The deadline is still eight days away, but Atlanta has

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Speaker 1: made a decision on compens.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they certainly have sources to say that the Atlanta

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Speaker 2: Falcons are planning to franchise to Kyle Pitts. The second

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Speaker 2: We've known that for some time this is going to

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Speaker 2: the Atlanta Falcons thought he could be locking him in

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Speaker 2: at least for next year with the hope of doing

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Speaker 1: Deal making to be done across this city over the

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Speaker 1: next several days here, the Cowboys got one done before

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Speaker 1: according to r Ian Rappaport. Steven Jones, Cowboys executive, spoke

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Speaker 1: today about the potential use of their franchise tag on

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Speaker 5: And then Peggins of course, you know, leaning toward the

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Speaker 5: I mean, a lot of guys who we've tagged, you know,

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Speaker 1: Of course, one thing that would help the Cowboys rebuild

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Speaker 1: that defense due is not having a twenty eight million

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Speaker 2: What we've seen is the Cowboys sort of acknowledge pass mistakes,

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Speaker 2: many doing Javonte Williams before the combine to me was

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Speaker 2: Time you kind of mentioned it, the George Pickens tag

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Speaker 3: How cognizant they are of being.

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Speaker 2: Top heavy at various positions just having a ton of

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Speaker 2: and trading Pickens makes more sense. I wonder what traction

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Speaker 1: Certainly, anytime you're tagging a player, there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: salary cap. A new deal, a multi year contract would

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Speaker 1: Big week for a lot of the fluid situations across

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Speaker 1: and Max Crosby, who have been having conversations about Crosby's future.

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Speaker 1: If there is a time to talk about a potential trade,

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Speaker 1: the other thirty one teams are all here, certain people

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Speaker 2: So I think it's going to be. We've talked about

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Speaker 2: The timing is interesting because Max Crosby underwent surgery to

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Speaker 2: what Indianapolis is about, besides watching the players running the

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Speaker 6: I just go back to that John spy Tech press

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Speaker 6: is Max Crowsby untouchable? And he would not say he

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Speaker 6: He gave answers about how much he admired him and

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Speaker 6: is untouchable. And I am curious and we get a

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Speaker 1: We have focused a lot on what Max Crosby wants,

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Speaker 1: Where will Kirk Cousins be in twenty twenty six? What

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Speaker 3: Here's Jackson Smith and jickba He's.

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Speaker 1: or you're getting the guy who got released for the

438
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Speaker 1: minimum because because its subject to offsets, there is a

439
00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,200
Speaker 1: balance there. It'll be fascinating to see how these seven,

440
00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:05,800
Speaker 1: eight nine teams that don't have a clear starting quarterback

441
00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:10,040
Speaker 1: navigate waters that are going to be absolutely fluid over

442
00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:16,320
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks. Here and look at it.

443
00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,159
Speaker 6: Then you mentioned easy, no strain.

444
00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:20,600
Speaker 1: It's just nice and easy for I'm fast.

445
00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,160
Speaker 4: Guys are fast four two four numbers of the rendered

446
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,680
Speaker 4: books forever three archer and he can run.

447
00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,280
Speaker 5: He's put in the flash and golden Flash four point

448
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:29,280
Speaker 5: twenty six.

449
00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:30,720
Speaker 4: The wide receiver John Roth.

450
00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,480
Speaker 3: Wow, Wow, Wow, I think Chris Johnson should be sitting

451
00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:35,119
Speaker 3: out in his share too.

452
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 1: No way, he goes, Oh, you're looking at the fastest

453
00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:44,920
Speaker 1: morning the history of the combine.

454
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,159
Speaker 7: Keep going, he might, He's keep running right out of

455
00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:52,960
Speaker 7: the stadium.

456
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,440
Speaker 3: Oh man, I remember being in the building for that one.

457
00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,840
Speaker 2: There was a buzz here when he started running in

458
00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:02,000
Speaker 2: the place absolutely erupted when Xavier Worthy set the new

459
00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:06,040
Speaker 2: combine record for fastest forty yard dash. Got a great

460
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,280
Speaker 2: Instagram video out of it, just capturing the whole thing.

461
00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:11,200
Speaker 2: Did the screen did the celebration on the field to

462
00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:15,520
Speaker 2: capture the crowd blurry? It was a little blurry because

463
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,200
Speaker 2: he was far away. But I'm just saying the atmosphere fast.

464
00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,240
Speaker 2: Oh also I was far away.

465
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:20,800
Speaker 3: Anyway.

466
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Speaker 2: Is anyone going to break Xavier Worthies record this year?

467
00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:26,080
Speaker 2: I have no idea, but it's gonna be really fun

468
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:26,760
Speaker 2: to watch.

469
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Speaker 6: Judy new today. It was at this time last year

470
00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:33,160
Speaker 6: that we got the first indication there would be a

471
00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:37,160
Speaker 6: push to ban the tush push. That effort failed last season,

472
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,359
Speaker 6: and there is not going to be another effort this season.

473
00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,680
Speaker 6: The deadline has passed. There are no proposals to ban

474
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Speaker 6: the tush push, although there has been conversation about not

475
00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 6: allowing aiding the runner. I caught up with Troy Vincent,

476
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Speaker 6: executive vice president for the league about competition committee discussions

477
00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 6: time last year we started conversation about the tush push

478
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 6: and whether it would be banned. It wasn't banned last year,

479
00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,760
Speaker 6: but where do the conversations stand right now about aiding

480
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 6: the runner and the toush push.

481
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Speaker 8: So it was we had good discussion around it yesterday.

482
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,720
Speaker 8: And it wasn't necessarily the push area that was focused

483
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 8: that we focused in on as an officiating group. It

484
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,680
Speaker 8: was still lifting. The pulling was lifting the player off

485
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 8: the ground and really got into the appetite for when

486
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,399
Speaker 8: do you want for a progress to stop as the

487
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:31,040
Speaker 8: runner his shoulder pads being parallel to the line of scrimma,

488
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:34,359
Speaker 8: I mean to out of bounds or line of scrimmage,

489
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 8: when do you stop? And that was really because in

490
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 8: some cases, if you blow it too early, now you're

491
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 8: getting the question of why did you blow it? There

492
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:47,119
Speaker 8: was still momentum going, so we actually spent quite a

493
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Speaker 8: bit of time there not only the actual push element,

494
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Speaker 8: but the lifting up off the ground and carrying, so

495
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 8: you know, and the term it was how do we

496
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 8: avoid that scrum, that that look, and so there was

497
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Speaker 8: there was discussion, quite a bit discussion there. Most of

498
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 8: our discussion yesterday was around the catch no catch, which

499
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 8: we felt like it warranted it. You had two situations

500
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 8: that most talk about. You had the Rams game with

501
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,959
Speaker 8: Davante and then you had the Buffalo Denver game and

502
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 8: really explaining there was quite a bit of difference, but

503
00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 8: we did a poor job. I would just say we

504
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 8: just didn't do a good job of explaining the difference.

505
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 8: One was already a runner, the other one was trying

506
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Speaker 8: to become you know, catch the ball and finish the

507
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 8: process of a catch and then being able to explain

508
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 8: and talk through their language that we need to incorporate,

509
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 8: you know, as we say, maintaining the catch through the ground.

510
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 6: So that was one.

511
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 8: We'll follow back up with that this afternoon with the

512
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 8: committee looking at language. Is their tweet. The officials were

513
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 8: very clear, it was They were really clear.

514
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 6: On both of those calls.

515
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 8: One was a runner, it was down Avante, I mean Adams.

516
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 8: And then the cook play someone didn't survive survived a

517
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,360
Speaker 8: catch the defender ended up doing that. So good, good

518
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:04,120
Speaker 8: discussion there.

519
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 6: That's more a question of maybe tweaking the language, but

520
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,640
Speaker 6: not a rules change. Not a change.

521
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 8: It wasn't a rule change. That's one of those clarification.

522
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 8: So but again it was good, healthy discussion. Also to

523
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,359
Speaker 8: catch no catch, we had two different and then the

524
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 8: replay that replay assists if you remember the likely touchdown

525
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:28,440
Speaker 8: catch that was ruled you know, after review in complete

526
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 8: pass in Baltimore. And then you had the Aaron Rodgers

527
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,959
Speaker 8: play which was a big one that the Baltimore UH

528
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,959
Speaker 8: Steelers game where it was air and down. You know,

529
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:43,720
Speaker 8: so you know we we looked at you know, looked

530
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 8: at looked that down. We'll looked at that again today.

531
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 8: So good discussion there.

532
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 6: Kickoff which you changed last year and had great results,

533
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 6: got lots of returns out of it, but the injury

534
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:58,479
Speaker 6: rate climbed a little bit for the receiver, the kickoff

535
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:02,119
Speaker 6: receiver and the tax Claire. The special teams coaches have

536
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 6: been in those meetings, Uh, what kind of tweaks might

537
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 6: we see or might you just leave it alone and

538
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:08,400
Speaker 6: see what happens?

539
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 8: So when you when you look at those say thirty

540
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 8: two or thirty four, let's just say concussions or injuries

541
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,680
Speaker 8: that occurred on that particular play. When you examine the video,

542
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 8: a lot of those injuries occurred helmet hit the ground,

543
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 8: you know, there there might have been two you know,

544
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 8: there were two where you had double you know, double

545
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:32,920
Speaker 8: concussions on one play, but you know, shoulder force. There

546
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 8: were many that we just said, we don't even know

547
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 8: where it came from, like what happened was somebody injured prior.

548
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 8: But the discussion has been around, Okay, how do we

549
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 8: still protect the off the off returner and then the

550
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 8: guy is always whether it's the L two R two,

551
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:54,360
Speaker 8: L four, R five, somebody's coming free, and should there

552
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 8: be an adjustment with the floater maybe going to five

553
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:01,919
Speaker 8: four two. So there's been some discussion and obviously the

554
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 8: special team coaches meet tomorrow and they'll come back with

555
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 8: potentially some additional options we didn't get into on site,

556
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 8: which we need to should there be any adjustments there.

557
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 8: But it's really been good diving into because you're talking

558
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 8: about fifty three thousand yards that were included back in

559
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 8: the game. You know, you look at you know, return yardage,

560
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 8: and that play was dynamic. It changed how people were,

561
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:29,119
Speaker 8: you know, strategizing in the game after score so on

562
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 8: and so forth, but being able to really examine where

563
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,919
Speaker 8: injury is happening and can we put something in place

564
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,640
Speaker 8: to provoid some to avoid some of those those injuries

565
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 8: that we see.

566
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 6: The last one is about potentially using replay assists to

567
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 6: put a flag down for personal conduct that kind of

568
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 6: something that would cause an injury to a player or

569
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,199
Speaker 6: a player safety related rule. Where is that in the

570
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 6: conversation because that would be a pretty significant step for officiating.

571
00:27:58,880 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 6: You just put that in.

572
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 8: Yeah, So that's one that we will dive in a

573
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 8: little bit that this evening and tomorrow. And there's about

574
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 8: three or four categories that we feel like potentially, based

575
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 8: off of our success and the replay assist bucket, should

576
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 8: we start including personal fouls? Are there certain personal fouls

577
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,479
Speaker 8: that again i'm not sure if the membership or at

578
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 8: least the committee, I'm not sure if they're there with

579
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 8: putting a flag on the fields. You can see there's

580
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 8: some reluctance there. But if we start, if there's a

581
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 8: flag on the field with some of the some of

582
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 8: the personal fouls, to go and examine those.

583
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 6: So what they're really looking at is a specific non

584
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 6: football act that could lead to ejection that is sort

585
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 6: of the gateway to getting into using replay review to

586
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 6: put a flag on the field. Things like if they

587
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 6: don't see a player throw a punch in a game,

588
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 6: if they don't see it on the field, they could

589
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 6: use replay assistants say get that guy, reject him, rather

590
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 6: than having to go back and then suspend him the

591
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 6: next week.

592
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: Is currently, if a penalty is not called, New York

593
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: cannot get it Volder.

594
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 6: Correct, And so we saw that with a player who

595
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 6: stomped on another player this year, and then they had

596
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 6: to go back. They didn't see it, they couldn't fly it,

597
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 6: so they had to suspend him the next week.

598
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 3: The idea is they.

599
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 6: Would be able to call down and say that guy

600
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 6: should be out of the game. They would eject him,

601
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 6: and then you don't have to go through the entire

602
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 6: act of suspending a player. They feel like that is

603
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 6: the gateway, because there is still a whole lot of

604
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 6: concern about the idea of using replay to put flags

605
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 6: on the field.

606
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 2: One thing that it seems to me, and this is

607
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 2: just my feel, is it really seems like it would

608
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 2: the NFL would rather eject a player during the game

609
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 2: and say this is your penalty rather than he plays,

610
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 2: and then the next week you suspend him. And there's

611
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 2: a lot that goes into suspension. There's the appeal, there's

612
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 2: the publish. It's like ejection is like you have been penalized.

613
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,719
Speaker 2: It is over. It seems like it's a direction that

614
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 2: the NFL wants to go, what use the word gateway.

615
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 2: That really does seem to be the way it's going.

616
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 2: And the technology is getting better, the camera angles, the

617
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 2: use of AI. I mean, there's all sorts of tools

618
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 2: that the NFL can now use to make the game better, safer,

619
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 2: but also better officiated. It seems like they are sort

620
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 2: of wading into that water of going if you see

621
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 2: it at home, we should be able to do something

622
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 2: about it. And you know, embracing sort of the future

623
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 2: is a going to be a pretty big topic.

624
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 1: It's also an extremely slippery slope because what we're talking

625
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: about if there's a non fooble act, like when you

626
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: see someone get stomped and that is still objective, that

627
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 1: would fit the objective criteria, where the competist committee is

628
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 1: never want to go down that road is substitutely one

629
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 1: person's judgment for another on subjective calls but even things

630
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: like catch no catch, in the fact that we're talking

631
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 1: about that again is kind of a throwback. They felt

632
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 1: like they had resolved it. Part of the issue is

633
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: you're having plays getting overturned that people at home don't

634
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: look at and say, that's obviously a miscall. Jerry Seaman,

635
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: who was involved decades ago, always used to say, well,

636
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: never criticize anyone for letting it stand as called on

637
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: the field. It seems like the NFL has gone a

638
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: little bit further in some of those mechanisms to overturn

639
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 1: reviewable plays. That's going down a road that is potentially problem.

640
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 6: They also feel like they have to make sure the

641
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 6: language of the rule, the way it is written, reflects

642
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 6: what you can see when you're going frame by frame,

643
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 6: because they know that is how we are seeing it

644
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 6: at home, how fans are seeing it, and also how

645
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 6: officials can see it now. So there might be language changes,

646
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 6: but not the spirit of the rule.

647
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: Asa likely we'll find out in a couple of weeks

648
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: where he's playing in twenty twenty six, but odds are

649
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: just based on history, a couple of his catches this

650
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 1: year will be subject to that. A lot more to

651
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: come here from Indianapolis, just three days away from on

652
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 1: field drills beginning at the NFL Combine. But guess what

653
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: the actions already ruling. Remember when Miles Garrett was out there,

654
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 1: I do. If you've forgotten, stick around a little bit

655
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: of that walk down memory lane next. So the insider's

656
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: at the combine.

657
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 6: Fight.

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Speaker 3: Here's Karl Files boves a lot of these smaller gus smiles,

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Speaker 3: Garrett don't fee.

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Speaker 7: Grills, No good.

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Speaker 3: Got forty one inch vertical.

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Speaker 9: The story claud inside on over Tom, he's violent with

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Speaker 5: Or that work for takes me?

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Speaker 4: Get Hello Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: The NFL Combine, presented by Microsoft Copilot, begins this Thursday

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Speaker 1: The Arizona Cardinals announced that the inaugural Cardinals Climb Hike

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Speaker 1: for Special Needs raised over two million dollars for Arizona's

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Speaker 1: Cardinals Climb across nearly two hundred teams. The two million

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Speaker 1: Fundraising for the event continues until March tenth. Donations can

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Speaker 6: The Miami Dolphins announced that the Dolphins Cancer Challenge has

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Speaker 6: surpassed a historic one hundred million dollars raised, with one

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Speaker 6: hundred percent of funds supporting life saving cancer research and

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Speaker 6: care at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University

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Speaker 6: of Miami Health System and the Miller's School of Medicine.

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Speaker 6: This announcement comes in the lead up to DCC sixteen,

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Speaker 6: which will take place this Saturday, February twenty eighth at

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Speaker 6: has grown to become the largest annual fundraiser in the NFL,

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Speaker 6: uniting tens of thousands of participants from South Florida and

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Speaker 6: throughout the country to run, walk, and ride in support

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Speaker 6: of innovative research, access to care, and hope for cancer patients.

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Speaker 2: From those very important things to a new logo for

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Speaker 2: the Bills. There it is right there, high Mark Stadium.

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Speaker 2: That is a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills, and

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Speaker 2: it is gonna be sweet covered for fans, real for

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Speaker 2: the players. And there is the logo right there which.

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Speaker 3: I put on Instagram. You should follow me there.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of Instagram, this guy right here, Bradley Boseman, announced

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Speaker 2: his retirement on.

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Speaker 3: The old ig.

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Speaker 2: If you could draw what a longtime NFL center looks like,

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Speaker 2: it is literally Bradley Boseman. What an excellent career for

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Speaker 2: the well traveled maller Inside for the Los Angeles Chargers.

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Speaker 9: Here's Patrick Mahomes, the second and intriguing bited up quarterback

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Speaker 9: from Texas Tech.

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Speaker 4: His tape is just crazy. He's the biggest gunslingyer I've

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Speaker 4: seen in years coming out of college football.

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Speaker 3: He's got a great natural throw. That ball just comes

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Speaker 3: out effluents.

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Speaker 4: Drafted of twententy fourteen by the Tigers. I like athletic guys.

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Speaker 4: I like ty support guys, especially at the quarterback coverage.

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Speaker 5: You can watch this kid throw three passes and know

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Speaker 5: that he's just a natural thrower.

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Speaker 1: The NFL Combine presented by Microsoft Copilot, where a dream

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Speaker 1: that starts small can get big and a name that's

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Speaker 1: unknown can become the future. Next is here. The twenty

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Speaker 1: One player we will not see at least on the

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Speaker 1: field doing drills is Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza, aka the

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Speaker 1: presumptive number one overall draft pick to the Las Vegas Raiders.

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Speaker 1: You can see his resume spending time at cal Berkeley

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Speaker 1: before transferring to the Hoosiers, where he never lost a game,

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Speaker 1: leading them to the national title and winning the Heisman Trophy.

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Speaker 1: Elsewhere at the combine, NFL Executive Vice President Jeff Miller

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Speaker 1: caught up with our Judy.

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Speaker 6: But Jeff Miller, thanks for joining us in the health

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Speaker 6: and safety conversations. Where do things stand with the kickoff

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Speaker 6: which was fabulously successful with getting more kickoff returns, but

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Speaker 6: also drove the concussion rate up maybe a little bit

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Speaker 6: more than you expected. Were looking at tinkering that.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, we talked about concussion and kickoff kickoff generally the

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Speaker 9: last session with the special teams coaches yesterday afternoon for

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Speaker 9: a while, and then it was the first topic we

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Speaker 9: And you're right, it was incredibly successful with the seventy

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Speaker 9: five percent return rate, which is two and a half

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Speaker 9: times what we had a year ago. So the clubs

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Speaker 9: are definitely adopting to it. In the number of yards

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Speaker 9: and the number of big plays were great. The injury

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Speaker 9: rate for the returner and the tackler were higher on

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Speaker 9: the model than we were hoping. We're still lower than

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Speaker 9: what the old rule was, so we're still making progress,

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Speaker 9: but we raise a few points. One was that for

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Speaker 9: twenty of the twenty two players on the field, it's

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Speaker 9: far safer than it's ever been. Fewer concussion rates, fewer

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Speaker 9: ACL injuries, fewer lower extremity. Is like it's working as designed.

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Speaker 9: But to your point, we saw more concussions for the

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Speaker 9: tackler and the returner than we've seen before, so we

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Speaker 9: raised where those were happening, what sorts of plays, what

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Speaker 9: sort of tackling behavior, what could be done to tinker

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Speaker 9: with the play. So some of the ideas, for example,

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Speaker 9: where do you bring another adjuster back as opposed to three,

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Speaker 9: Do you allow four to be back to change where

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Speaker 9: they line up a little bit? Maybe maybe not. I'm

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Speaker 9: not sure that would affect it all very much. We

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Speaker 9: talked about some of the tackling behavior. We talked about

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Speaker 9: using replay assists for some of the player safety files.

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Speaker 9: So if you saw a tackling behavior that was illegal,

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Speaker 9: would you allow replay assists to help out with that?

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Speaker 9: All in an effort to try to improve the player

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Speaker 9: safety for the play. But the thesis is we made

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Speaker 9: a lot of progress over the last couple of years

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Speaker 9: on this play. We're in a much better place and

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Speaker 9: as I mentioned, for virtually everybody on the field, it's

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Speaker 9: far safer and more exciting. But we want to continue

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Speaker 9: to tinker with it, as we knew we would have

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Speaker 9: to because where we saw injuries and where we see injuries,

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Speaker 9: we want to try to find ways to improve that.

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Speaker 6: You mentioned using replay assists for potentially putting personal f

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Speaker 6: all flags onto the field that were not called originally

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Speaker 6: on the field. That would be a big step with officiating.

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Speaker 6: Where does that stand right now in the conversation.

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Speaker 9: Well, it's just the beginning of the conversation, but not

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Speaker 9: necessarily New York calls a flag. I'm not suggesting that,

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Speaker 9: but replay assists in the way that we used it

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Speaker 9: for other fouls. You know, in the course of the

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Speaker 9: last couple of years. Is it possible that we can

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Speaker 9: use replay assists to enhance player safety by identifying some

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Speaker 9: of the helmet helmet contexts or some of the other

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Speaker 9: behaviors that we know are causing greater risk to our players.

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Speaker 9: So it is the beginning of the conversation. I think

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Speaker 9: over the next month or so, we'll go deeper on that.

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Speaker 9: With the committee, there seemed openness to it. Certainly there's

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Speaker 9: going to be a conversation around it because I think

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Speaker 9: as a league, we found that replay assists has helped us.

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Speaker 9: There's no question around that. It's made the game better.

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Speaker 9: It's certainly been efficient. We've been able to officiate things

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Speaker 9: faster and replace this has helped. So can we put

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Speaker 9: that into that category where there's player safety issues and

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Speaker 9: maybe improve or de risk some of those plays for players.

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Speaker 9: I think it's a conversation which would be really.

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Speaker 3: Important to have.

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Speaker 6: We've always talked about once you adjusted the kickoff, that

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Speaker 6: would then put the focus on the punt play. Where

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Speaker 6: do things stand with that?

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Speaker 9: Well, we have I think we have maybe ten percent

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Speaker 9: fewer punts this year. I think the number of punts

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Speaker 9: is on the lowest end we've seen in maybe ever,

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Speaker 9: and that's as a result of more plays coming out

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Speaker 9: further so the starting field position following the kickoff is

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Speaker 9: further out, closer to the thirty yard line, and as

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Speaker 9: teams go for it more often on fourth and short

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Speaker 9: in the middle of the field, you're seeing them up

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Speaker 9: for a punt less often. So there's only as a

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Speaker 9: raw number of fewer injuries on the punt as the

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Speaker 9: concussion rate was down this year, which is terrific, of course,

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Speaker 9: but I think that the dynamic is now that the

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Speaker 9: kickoff is quote unquote safer, fewer injuries, the punt is risen,

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Speaker 9: especially for lower extremity injuries, because you see guys running

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Speaker 9: full speed the length of the field as they used

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Speaker 9: to with the kickoff play. So you still see some

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Speaker 9: of those sorts of injuries, but the fact that the

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Speaker 9: number of actual punt plays has dropped so substantially probably

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Speaker 9: means it's not quite as imperative that we take a

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Speaker 9: look at it.

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Speaker 6: Jeff, thanks very much, Thanks you appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Tons of interviews come in tomorrow on a special two

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Speaker 1: hour edition of The Insiders, Robert Saull and Nick Sirianni,

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Speaker 1: Zach Taylor Andrewberry, John, Eric Sullivan, and many many more.

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Speaker 1: Special start time six pm Eastern, two hours of the

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Speaker 1: Insiders at the Combine. Tragic news over the weekend. NFL

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Speaker 1: wide receiver and return specialist Rondel Moore was found dead

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Speaker 1: at the age of twenty five. More most recently, was

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Speaker 1: a member of the Minnesota Vikings, but suffered a second

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Speaker 1: consecutive season ending injury in the preseason. He was originally

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Speaker 1: selected in the second round of the twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: NFL Draft out of Purdue University by the Arizona Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: for whom he played his first three seasons in the league.

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Speaker 1: The Vikings released a statement saying we've spoken with Rondel's

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Speaker 1: family to offer our condolences and the full support of

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. We have also been in communication with

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Speaker 1: our players, coaches, and staff, and we'll make counseling and

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Speaker 1: emotional support resources available to anyone in need. Our thoughts

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Speaker 1: are with Rondell's family and friends during this devastating time.

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Speaker 1: The league also released the statement saying the NFL is

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Speaker 1: deeply saddened by the tragic passing of Rondelle Moore. Our

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Speaker 1: thoughts are with Rondee's family, friends and teammates during this

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Speaker 3: Really helped himself.

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Speaker 4: We love the production, we love his skill set the

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Speaker 4: past game. You don't think he's an acceptional one's closive athlete.

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Speaker 4: You're not giving him proper creditor so easily, I meanly, drill.

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Speaker 4: I think he's a legitimate top fifteen fifty.

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Speaker 1: From the NFL combine to the Pro Football Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame in fourteen years for Luke Keighley, Tom Pellisiian Rapport,

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Speaker 1: Judy Batista back here in Indianapolis, still three days away

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Speaker 1: from the drills at beginning, we got a special two

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Speaker 1: hour edition of this show tomorrow night. We do if

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Speaker 1: you don't you're doing any of the interviews general manager

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Speaker 1: here from all of your favorite people across the NFL,

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Speaker 1: including us, tomorrow night on the sho Judy, what are

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Speaker 1: you looking forward to hearing tomorrow in all those podium

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Speaker 1: sessions they're going to happen.

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Speaker 6: I am looking we were talking about it before, all

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Speaker 6: the quarterback movement. I'm looking forward to hearing what all

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Speaker 6: the coaches and gms say they expect about all that

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Speaker 6: quarterback movement.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to general managers and head coaches dancing

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Speaker 2: around all the questions we want to know, saying things

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Speaker 2: like we haven't fully decided doing that.

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Speaker 3: They have in fact decided that they want to make

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Speaker 3: it public.

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Speaker 1: My favorite thing, I'm alsotly forward to Mike Garafullo, who

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Speaker 1: is now two days removed from doing this show because

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Speaker 1: of traveling. We're told he's on a train to get

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Speaker 1: on a plane. Maybe there's an automobile too. Wow you tomorrow.