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Speaker 1: move the Sticks podcast. Welcome to another edition. I could

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Speaker 1: name is Dan Hansis. I'm coming to you from a

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Speaker 1: virtual room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler and Greg Rosenthal.

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Speaker 1: What is up? Boys? What would you have liked to

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Speaker 1: that's all. That's fine. They're not all gonna be gems.

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Speaker 1: Just like the Sticks podcast itself, would you have liked

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Speaker 1: U Matt Money to edit it himself? I mean he's

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Speaker 1: he's a good radio man. He says a good good

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Speaker 1: ear for a good line. Know what I do in

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Speaker 1: the whenever we have these type of situations, you know what?

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Speaker 1: You know? My move is just blame America. Well, another

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Speaker 1: another option, um is to blame Daniel Jeremiah just for

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Speaker 1: I threw it out there on the Around the NFL broadcast.

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Speaker 1: That would be cool. He's had this popular Twitter account.

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Speaker 1: Everyone knows him, you know, in terms of the NFL

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Speaker 1: enjoy it. It's a good job by you. I mean

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Speaker 1: I'll be around the NFL podcast. It's it's a fun one.

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Speaker 1: Football is getting closer, boys, it's getting closer. So today

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Speaker 1: wedn Day, day Day, and then day. Yeah, is football

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Speaker 1: three weeks from Thursday. We're as we tape, it's twenty

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Speaker 1: two days from right now. Oh my goodness. How about that?

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Speaker 1: He had fifteen appearances last year ten starts um, but

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Speaker 1: he will not be involved this season. Yeah. The handful

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Speaker 1: of players that have been deemed out for the season

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Speaker 1: with kind of non contact injuries this week haven't been

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Speaker 1: like Series. Bagal was their best pass rusher last year

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Speaker 1: and they don't have many good players on defense, but

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Speaker 1: you know, he kind of came out of nowhere. Robert

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Speaker 1: Alfred was another guy, the cornerback for the Cardinals that

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Speaker 1: caught my attention just because their their secondary to me

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Speaker 1: is a big problem, and Alfred was expected to start.

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Speaker 1: And Uh, I think when you look at the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: being kind of a buzzy team, they have a lot

439
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Speaker 1: of fun things about him, but they have some parts

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Speaker 1: of their team that look up as bad as any

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Speaker 1: team in the NFL. And I would include, you know,

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Speaker 1: their their cornerback depth and their defensive line among that. Right,

443
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Speaker 1: only the Lions gave up more yards through the air

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Speaker 1: than the Cardinals last year per game. And you know Alfred,

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Speaker 1: I wonder what the future. He's a friend of the show.

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Speaker 1: You remember Dan, You and West and I interviewed him

447
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Speaker 1: after the Falcons knocked off the Rams, uh in the

448
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Speaker 1: playoffs a couple of years ago. A best friend of

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Speaker 1: the show, A best friend. I mean, there's the the

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Speaker 1: I mean, what could have been a Super Bowl hero

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Speaker 1: if the if the team had finished it off big time?

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Speaker 1: Pick six? Am I am? I crazy? In the Super Bowl?

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Speaker 1: I mean is that a bad memory? I don't to

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Speaker 1: check our research I was writing about this as well.

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Speaker 1: What you were saying. They're Greg on the power rankings,

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Speaker 1: which you might think it's improbable, but it brings the clicks.

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Speaker 1: So they asked the Zeusser to roll out a training

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Speaker 1: camp power rankings that dropped today. And I said that

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Speaker 1: very thing, Greg, that that the Cardinals, they're a buzzy

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Speaker 1: playoff pick right now. But you can't ignore the fact

461
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Speaker 1: that no team in the league allowed more yards on

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Speaker 1: defense last year. And Alfred, even if they were high

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Speaker 1: on him, he broke his leg last year and missed

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Speaker 1: the whole season. They were asking him, hey, now jump

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Speaker 1: back into the league and line up across with Patrick

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Speaker 1: Peterson and solidify that spot. Well, even that was seemed

467
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Speaker 1: to be a gamble, and now they're scrambling. Three weeks

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Speaker 1: before the season. He was the one with the pick

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Speaker 1: six in the Super Bowl, which at that very moment

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Speaker 1: was one of the lowest moments I felt in the

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Speaker 1: Brady era because it was like, Oh, this isn't gonna happen,

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Speaker 1: this is never gonna happen. Ago. I love that the

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Speaker 1: lowest moment in the Brady era, last one out one

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Speaker 1: minutes and then suddenly you know the greatest moment in

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Speaker 1: the Brady era suddenly is birth from that on the

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Speaker 1: lowest Brady moment happened in the Super Bowl. Think about it,

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Speaker 1: probably when he blew out his knee in week one,

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Speaker 1: coming off eighteen and one and having revenge on the

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Speaker 1: mind and then it all going away. But maybe it

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Speaker 1: was speaking of whispers, there are whispers that maybe rookie

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons could see a little time at slot corner,

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Speaker 1: could see you know, they want to they want to

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Speaker 1: move him all over the place, and so maybe with

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Speaker 1: Alfred out of the mix, that could be uh an

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Speaker 1: answer there. You know, Mark, don't think we didn't notice.

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Speaker 1: You missed Monday show for moving and internet purposes, and

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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, Tuesday you're all over Twitter.

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Speaker 1: You're tweeting about the Lions defensive backfield, your tape dogg

489
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Speaker 1: and on Tuesday night and then and then here you go,

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Speaker 1: here you go dropping nugs about Isaiah Simmons. We're noting this.

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Speaker 1: He's got the NFL Network Polo on today now? Is

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Speaker 1: he on Insight training Kip Live? Maybe yes, maybe no,

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Speaker 1: But as the job that you want, that's that's right.

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Speaker 1: And I somehow moved to um, you know the studio

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Speaker 1: that we were in last year, if you want to

496
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Speaker 1: last week at this time in my other house, was

497
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Speaker 1: you know, leveling off at about nine degrees each time.

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Speaker 1: And I've found a room that is somehow about eight

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Speaker 1: degrees hotter. And so I don't know if that's an

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Speaker 1: up an upgrade or not. Bears cornerback Already Burns also

501
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Speaker 1: on injured reserve with a torn a c L. That

502
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Speaker 1: is very bad, uh for Burns, the former first round pick,

503
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Speaker 1: rarely played for the Steelers last year, and now his

504
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Speaker 1: chance to kind of reboot things with the Bears goes

505
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Speaker 1: by the boards. You wonder what comes next for the

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Speaker 1: year old. And finally, Mack Wilson, a linebacker for the

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Speaker 1: Browns who was in the news this week for the

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Speaker 1: horse collar tackle that gave Nick Chubb a possible concussion,

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Speaker 1: Well that I believe the same practice he suffered a

510
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Speaker 1: what Mike Garrett Folo the next day, Mike Garrett Folo

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Speaker 1: reported a significant hyper extended knee. ESPN reported it would

512
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Speaker 1: be highly optimistic if we saw Wilson before October. So

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Speaker 1: it could have been worse, but could have been better.

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Speaker 1: Is this guy a difference maker? For you, Mark, I, well,

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Speaker 1: he was projected to be a starter. And you know,

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Speaker 1: you follow some of these guys on Twitter, and I

517
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Speaker 1: cannot find I cannot think when when this happened. He

518
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Speaker 1: is the guy that I thought of all the Cleveland Browns,

519
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Speaker 1: who seemed like he was working out like crazy and

520
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Speaker 1: so determined to make a big jump. And he did

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Speaker 1: a couple You know, PFF did not love him last year,

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Speaker 1: but mac Wilson had a couple of plays they gave

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Speaker 1: you a lot of hope that they had found something,

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Speaker 1: and I think enough that allowed them to think, we

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Speaker 1: can move on from Joe Schobert, we can move on

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Speaker 1: from Christian Kirksey. And now that linebacking corps has literally

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Speaker 1: nobody other than b. J. Goodson with any experience, and

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Speaker 1: I would be very concerned about you know, they played

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Speaker 1: the Ravens three weeks from now. I don't like the

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Speaker 1: matchup at all. And and no matter what everyone talks

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Speaker 1: about the offense, the defense could be one of these

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Speaker 1: two if they get more injured than they are now.

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Speaker 1: I don't like the situation for them at all. Against

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Speaker 1: the run. It's devastating. Their linebacker corps maybe the worst

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Speaker 1: in the league in terms of like known quantity right now,

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Speaker 1: on paper, that was their worst position group before this

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Speaker 1: in and he was probably their best player. Um, I

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Speaker 1: guess if you're the positive would be that's a good

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Speaker 1: position to have as your worst position group off ball linebacker.

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Speaker 1: So we'll we'll see I think their defense. Okay, alright,

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Speaker 1: that is what's happening in the news. I need you

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Speaker 1: to close your eyes. It's time now to listen, very

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Speaker 1: very carefully, get in tune with yourself. How are you

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Speaker 1: feeling inside? Do you hear that If you close your

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Speaker 1: eyes and tilt your head a little to the right,

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Speaker 1: you can hear the training camp with Wow? Does that

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Speaker 1: just put you in a place or what that was needed?

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Speaker 1: That was serene? Sometimes I forget, like this is going

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Speaker 1: to be the part that's cut for social I should

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Speaker 1: I should like dial in that we're on camera. I

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Speaker 1: try to just think it's like a podcast, you know,

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Speaker 1: But then I just halfway through that, I'm like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this one's gonna be cut, and I'm just sort of

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Speaker 1: like checking my text. I had the same exact thought,

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Speaker 1: and suddenly it was like, oh, dance. Dan probably knew

556
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Speaker 1: that this was coming, so he very in a very

557
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Speaker 1: organized way, closed his eyes, and I caught up later

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Speaker 1: and thought, I'm gonna jump in here and do as

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Speaker 1: I'm told. I mean, it's an audio form, you know.

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Speaker 1: To begin with, um, that is that is true? Like

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Speaker 1: if if this podcast had pff it advanced analytics and

562
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Speaker 1: there was a staff for like parts of the show

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Speaker 1: that get cut for social, the numbers would really tell

564
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Speaker 1: you that it's Erica tam posey jams that get cut

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Speaker 1: more than anything. We're just again, just background players the

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Speaker 1: chorus when it comes to our social game on around

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Speaker 1: the NFL, many of them very deserving because if we

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Speaker 1: get too far down that wormhole will never appear on

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Speaker 1: social again. So wise, all right, let's go through it.

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Speaker 1: We're just gonna kind of jump around the league, our

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Speaker 1: league with whispers. Let's try not to get too bogged

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Speaker 1: down on any one topic to let's hit him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I have quite a few as well. So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: kind of jump around and it on things and then

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Speaker 1: move along, uh, sharing the whispers that we're hearing across

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Speaker 1: the league. All right, let's start with one. I thought

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Speaker 1: I was very intriguing today out of New England that

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Speaker 1: Mike Reese the dean of Patriots reporters suggested not just

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Speaker 1: in an article, but to Bill Belichick that the team

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Speaker 1: might use a two quarterback systems. You don't do that

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Speaker 1: unless you unless right. Well, I think he was. I

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Speaker 1: think he has not only a good feel of the

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Speaker 1: type of team that they are, which is a team

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Speaker 1: I could absolutely see doing this, but that he has

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Speaker 1: some information um backing this that he's not going to

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Speaker 1: report anything. He's responsible. He also knows that they haven't

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Speaker 1: made any final decisions, but that someone like Mike Reese,

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Speaker 1: and that's why I wanted to bring it up as

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Speaker 1: a whisper, would not bring this up unless I think

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Speaker 1: there was some conversation that Okay, let's say Cam Newton,

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Speaker 1: who supposedly early you know, it looks great, but you know,

592
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Speaker 1: obviously doesn't know the offense as well as Didhaman Hoyer

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Speaker 1: who have been there. Um that they could shuttle them

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Speaker 1: in and out. I think this is something Bell Bill

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick would like love to do before settling in

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Speaker 1: later into just Cam Newton most likely, but early on

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Speaker 1: maybe a little of both. You know. I can remember

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Speaker 1: a game I was sitting in college was like four

599
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Speaker 1: thousand years ago, but Broncos Cowboys and the Broncos shuttled

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Speaker 1: between two quarterbacks the entire time, and it was amazing

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Speaker 1: as a fan to watch. I thought it was highly dramatic.

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Speaker 1: It didn't work at all. I think that when this

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Speaker 1: has been tried, people always hate it. It just doesn't work.

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Speaker 1: And I think Belichick would have a beat on the

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Speaker 1: fact that it's um. It could be like a one

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Speaker 1: or two week type thing. I think Belichick would want

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Speaker 1: to know exactly. He would know by then who his

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Speaker 1: guy is. But this is the weirdest lead up for

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Speaker 1: can New or anyone else to succeed. Belichick, though, came

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Speaker 1: off that and said that don't be not you know,

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Speaker 1: he said, we could lean on a ton of super

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Speaker 1: heavy sets UM twenty three formations where you know you're

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Speaker 1: talking to running backs three tight ends. I think they're

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Speaker 1: gonna get really freaky um, which only adds to the

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Speaker 1: intrigue of what Belichick. You know, I think that he's

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Speaker 1: got a heart of revenge the season to show what

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Speaker 1: he can do, and all these little people saying the

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Speaker 1: Patriots won't be relevant will be bitten in the butt.

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Speaker 1: If anyone else was connected to this type of scheme

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Speaker 1: in a lesser coach would be absolutely destroyed. Since it's Belichick,

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Speaker 1: people will say, that's an interesting thought. He has a

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Speaker 1: little bit of credibility, doesn't he. I mean, well he

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Speaker 1: did when Tom Brady was his quarterback. We'll see what

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Speaker 1: he can do. Now, see if you can still play

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Speaker 1: the guitar. Okay, I'm sorry. I didn't see him rolling

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Speaker 1: out fourteen win seasons before Tom Brady was around. Well,

627
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Speaker 1: he was there for one year before that, but okay,

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Speaker 1: I mean Cleveland also, I think he got canned, as

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Speaker 1: I recall, but they also had a GA the fewest

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Speaker 1: points in the league, win eleven and five, and in

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Speaker 1: the last team to win a playoff game in Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: So Belichick was treated unfairly when they moved to both

633
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Speaker 1: eleven and five with the Castle too. Let's move on

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Speaker 1: to the next Whisper Snow playoffs. Go ahead, Mark, alright,

635
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Speaker 1: I'll go to Philly because I think we've been focused

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Speaker 1: on their wide receiver group for a while and it

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Speaker 1: sounds seems like they've hit on something with Jillen Reagor

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Speaker 1: like they winz is pushing him. Uh, He's compared him

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Speaker 1: to Julio Jones. They are working together well in practice.

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Speaker 1: Aaron moorehead, the wide receiver coach, says that he has

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Speaker 1: that swag. I think they're just very pleased with their

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Speaker 1: overall rookie group. I throw another name in here too,

643
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Speaker 1: who is sort of like a dark horse to make

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Speaker 1: an impact. Quez Watkins, super fast, UM six round pick

645
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 1: average six, most receiving yards per game in college football

646
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 1: last year. He's a super small guy that when you

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Speaker 1: take Marky's goodwin out of the picture, someone like this

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Speaker 1: could get snaps that he might not have otherwise. But

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Speaker 1: I think Jalen Reagor is someone that is obviously at

650
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Speaker 1: this point ahead of the curve. You know, you get

651
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Speaker 1: some of these white outs that don't really pan out

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Speaker 1: early and dot. This is a huge for the Eagles

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Speaker 1: if they you know, you get to Sean Jackson back

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Speaker 1: to h a team that basically had forty two skill

655
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Speaker 1: position players six ft under a year ago. Even even worse,

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Speaker 1: even more pressing or more important for the Eagles is

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00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: the Smiles Sanders whisper out there. Uh he's weak to

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Speaker 1: week with a lower body injury, and this man was

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00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 1: the key to their offense in the second half. I

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00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: don't like the sound of it. ESPN reports at Sanders

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00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 1: quote will be ready to play in Week one. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: it's just one of those things where he's uh, they're

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Speaker 1: being safe and cautious, which makes a lot of sense.

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Speaker 1: But then you again worry about the odd nature of

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Speaker 1: this year and whether injuries are going to stick with

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00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: players the way everything has been rolled out. Sanders was

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Speaker 1: on the field for their snaps in the second half

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00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 1: of last season and was a dynamo for them. They

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Speaker 1: cannot afford with that wide receiver opium and if some

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Speaker 1: of these guys pan out, Sanders not to have a

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Speaker 1: similarly productive year. And he's he's a guy. I think

672
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Speaker 1: everyone is expecting to be one of the clear lead

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Speaker 1: type backs, that he is going to be a fulcrum

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Speaker 1: of their offense. But you have to do it, you know.

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Speaker 1: Running back is one of those positions where it's like

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00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: you gotta see it, you gotta see it before you

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00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: believe it. He he had two carries his last year

678
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,239
Speaker 1: Penn State, so that's a pretty big workload. But he's

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00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: never he's never been that guy um that's kind of

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00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: been a bell cow type. There are fantasy drafts where

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Speaker 1: he's going number one. There is a belief and that

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00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 1: he can do it. I don't think this is a

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Speaker 1: serious injury at this point because the Eagles and other

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00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: teams are basically just shelving anyone who get these lower

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Speaker 1: lower bodies. And there are people You're wait, you're telling

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Speaker 1: me Mark that there are people out there taking Miles Sanders.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's like happening all over the place,

688
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Speaker 1: but I actually watched the show you yesterday where that's

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Speaker 1: where that exact same thing happened, and it threw me

690
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 1: because you're getting into fantasy suddenly. I'm let's dive into

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00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: this little I'm hearing a little whispers about Mark Sessler.

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Speaker 1: This is the time to prepare. You know, it's been

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Speaker 1: a weird offseason where I thought maybe nothing would exist

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00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 1: in October November. Were suddenly, you know, we're two fortnits

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Speaker 1: away from everything existing and probably being the only thing

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Speaker 1: that exists in our life for six paces. You used

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Speaker 1: to call the fantasy community a bunch of hobby horses,

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00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,720
Speaker 1: like playing like a pretend game, but now you're watching

699
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 1: like live stream draft, so it just feels like a

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00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: big one eighty degree turn. You know, I'm trying to

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00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 1: I'm trying to change in better ways. But I also

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00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 1: i'd ask you this is it bad to be a

703
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: hobby horse playing a game? Hey? Look it worse than everything.

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00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: I love Fantasy. It gave me a entry into this

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Speaker 1: whole thing. I thank God for Fantasy. And let me

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Speaker 1: neatly transition into a plug for the Fantasy Extravaganza, which

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Speaker 1: returns to the Around the NFL podcast next Wednesday. And

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Speaker 1: let me just say this, listeners, this will be the

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Speaker 1: biggest extravaganza yet. That is a promise. No extravaganza in

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Speaker 1: the history of a t M extravaganzas will ever approach

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Speaker 1: what we're doing next week. Make sure you listen to

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00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:23,399
Speaker 1: that episode before you draft. We don't even bother showing up. Well,

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Speaker 1: you could listen to Extravaganza all dayvaganza. It was a

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00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 1: year ago during the Extravaganza that you, um, you deemed

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Speaker 1: me to go sit behind the glass. I wasn't even

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Speaker 1: part of the show. I don't think you can pull that.

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Speaker 1: You can't pull that move on me this time. Or

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Speaker 1: we could, like we put you in the waiting room

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Speaker 1: of stream Yards. Well you probably could, or Erica could.

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Speaker 1: So you know what, why would we want to after

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Speaker 1: this development that you're watching live streamed drafts, can I

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Speaker 1: jump in the middle. That's in Philadelphia, it's connected, we're

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Speaker 1: doing eagle US. I heard a little whisper and this

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Speaker 1: is not someone that's with the team. But after I

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Speaker 1: sent out something um talking about the whole Nate Sudfeld thing,

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Speaker 1: he might be the backup, not Jalen Hurts because they

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Speaker 1: don't have a time I got, I got a little

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Speaker 1: whisper from someone connected that was like, that's a bunch

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00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 1: of that's a bunch of public bs, that that Jalen

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Speaker 1: Hurts is out there impressing the heck out of this

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Speaker 1: coaching staff and team on a daily basis, that sunfell

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00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 1: baby shrinking from the pressure a little bit, and that

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00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:40,280
Speaker 1: anything Peterson was saying publicly was a bunch of expectation

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Speaker 1: lowering um nonsense hopefuly that they loved that they loved

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Speaker 1: them some Jalen Hurts early on a natural leader and

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Speaker 1: a you know, an athletic marvel. Wow, that's a good whisper.

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Speaker 1: That's like a legit whisper. It was meant to lead

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Speaker 1: with that. I think we whispering about Jalen Hurts on

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Speaker 1: our network show a few times. Did you guys hear

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00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: that by the one? Why do you seem so scared?

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00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,360
Speaker 1: All I wanted to do is to play with you bag.

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Speaker 1: That is problematic. Ure, Let's let's uh, let's head over

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Speaker 1: to uh your neck of the woods. Mark Sess. I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about the Cleveland Browns, and this is

745
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 1: not just Cleveland Browns thing, but more a reminder of

746
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 1: what's going on in our league right now. J C.

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00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 1: Treader their starting center has a nice scope that they

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Speaker 1: clear out some loose particles, and so far there is

749
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:39,320
Speaker 1: positive vibes. Rap Sheet reported that Treader will be ready

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00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: or should be ready for week one. But the Browns,

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00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 1: like my Jets and other teams out there, are really

752
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: up against it. If you're trying to gain a coherent

753
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: feeling on your offensive line this summer, it's hard enough

754
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Speaker 1: as it is. It's been it's unheard of to imagine

755
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 1: to get an offensive and you can play all the

756
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: call of duty you want. I've read some notebooks that

757
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 1: offensive lineman are finding other ways to bond group text

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00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 1: chains with memes and everybody's becoming best friends. But she

759
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 1: actually got to be on the field getting the work

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00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,879
Speaker 1: in to develop chemistry and know what the hell you're doing,

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00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: so the Browns will use in his example, tread or

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Speaker 1: maybe back week one. Even if he's back week one,

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00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: he's not practicing with the team right now. This is

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Speaker 1: a Browns team that has new tackles on the right

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Speaker 1: and left side, and now a potential fifth round pick,

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Speaker 1: rookie Nick Harris, who's gonna be picking up snaps at

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Speaker 1: center in the pivot as they say in the game. Uh.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, it's just the challenge for the Browns

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Speaker 1: and other teams that are trying to get things figured

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Speaker 1: out on a reworked offensive line. I think they have

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Speaker 1: one secret weapon, and you're absolutely right, because they like

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Speaker 1: Nick Harris, but this was not the plan. They had

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Speaker 1: a number of of offensive lineman opt out um which

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00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:58,280
Speaker 1: really killed him at right guard. And you're asking Jendrick Wills,

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00:41:58,280 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: and we talked about us a hundred times. I can't

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Speaker 1: think of a tougher deal than a guy that played

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00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 1: right tackle in college to go have to suddenly play

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Speaker 1: left tackle again three weeks ago against a revamped Ravens

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Speaker 1: defensive line and a Ravens defense that's gonna come in

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00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,840
Speaker 1: and kick people's butts. Anyways, I think the secret weapon

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Speaker 1: is Bill Callahan. I mean, everywhere he goes the offensive

782
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: line really shines. And I had watched an interview with

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00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 1: him where he went on for about forty five minutes

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Speaker 1: about each one of these guys and barring injury, I

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00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: do think they'll be much improved. But losing Shredder, who

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00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: got a contract extension last year and totally deserved it. Um,

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00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,439
Speaker 1: I don't like that situation at all, or the idea

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00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,359
Speaker 1: that he that he gets in there too early. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I this is this is a huge concern and it

790
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:42,279
Speaker 1: would affect every part of the offense. Arguably the best

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Speaker 1: coalfensive line coach of the last and yeah, Callahan is

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00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 1: maybe the best in the game. But back to my point,

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00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 1: he's still gotta be on the field and these guys

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00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: gotta be getting the reps. It's gonna be very It

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Speaker 1: is gonna be and I know I'm not the first

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00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: to make this point. It is gonna be sloppy those

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00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 1: first few weeks, especially Week one. I'm gonna call right now,

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00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a record in um pre snap pre

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Speaker 1: snap in fractions. They're gonna be talking about that on

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Speaker 1: the second Monday Night Football game, making them run those laps.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of what they they announced that the lead Monday

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Speaker 1: Night football team is on the second Monday Night game,

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Speaker 1: while the Herb Street Combo Fowler is on the first one.

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Speaker 1: If you're a conspiracy theorist, it's kind of like, well,

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00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,399
Speaker 1: which team do you really want? You know more, which

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Speaker 1: team Steelers Giants get a bigger game? Is going to

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00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,839
Speaker 1: the college guys? It kind of raises the question of

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Speaker 1: who's gonna be there next year. I have a I

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00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:47,879
Speaker 1: have a theory about that. Monday Football has been under

810
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: so much fire for so long now that they probably

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Speaker 1: want to get a big chunk of the East Coast

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00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 1: audience to go to sleep after the Giants game, so

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00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: that the second team, if they don't thrive in in

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00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 1: week one, out of the gate, there's a lot less

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00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:05,839
Speaker 1: less pressure, a little less pressure. Yeah, alright, I like that.

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Speaker 1: Let's move on, Greg, alright, um, let's go to Oakland?

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Speaker 1: Where are our friend vic Victor four? How did we

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Speaker 1: mispronounce his name before I remember we did. It's tap

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Speaker 1: for I'm gonna check. I'm pretty sure it's tap for.

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Speaker 1: So he he was noting that that Mariota um buzz

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Speaker 1: coming from John Gruden's press conference. Um was maybe a

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Speaker 1: little overstated in retrospect, and he even prefaced this little

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Speaker 1: note saying, here's one for the aggregators and then noted

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Speaker 1: how stiff he he noted, how stiff and um not great.

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Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota looked throwing the football little four five of

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Speaker 1: training camp, which makes sense because we've seen Marcus Mariota

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Speaker 1: throw throw the football, and that if you were just

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Speaker 1: watching these two guys, you would not think there's there's

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Speaker 1: anything remotely close between Derek carr uh in Mariota, especially

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Speaker 1: for a guy like car who has now been in

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00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: that offense, and it is often very good in camping

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Speaker 1: and should be good in camp, and it's just it's

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00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 1: just worth pointing out a little nice whispers stunning Tafer

834
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 1: in a big spot, stunning that Marcus Mariota actually doesn't

835
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: look that good, as if we didn't get enough years

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Speaker 1: of tape to concern that they are pumping up Henry

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Speaker 1: Ruggs and Brian Edwards quite a bit. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: know it's rookies, and I know it's early, but I

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Speaker 1: do think these guys will be playing and I don't

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00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 1: doubt that Henry Ruggs speed is kind of on other worldly,

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00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: so they are liking at least what what they see

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00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 1: so far in practice. From those guys, mark, you're up,

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00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:57,279
Speaker 1: well go to Buffalo. And I just impressed with how

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Speaker 1: quickly the Bills have put together, um a bunch of

845
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: interesting skill position players where they were a an empty cupboard,

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00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 1: you know, two or three years ago. Running back, you've

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00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 1: got Devin Singletary, Zack Moss is getting a lot of heat,

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00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 1: Joe Biscaglia, and Matthew Fairborne from the Art the Athletic

849
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 1: UH went off on how he has been sort of

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Speaker 1: a physical berserker at the goal line and basically saying

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Speaker 1: if he if this continues out of practices and into

852
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: the regular season, that you pair Moss, who is a

853
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 1: like a really thumper type running back with single Terry

854
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:30,240
Speaker 1: and you've got something in the backfield to go along

855
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:33,439
Speaker 1: with the rebuilt wide receiver group. The same crew though,

856
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:35,880
Speaker 1: has mentioned that I think the thing is with Josh

857
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 1: Allen and this is and this is not a whisper,

858
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: this is George just sort of like what we would

859
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 1: expect to happen, is that he had a practice earlier

860
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 1: in the week. I think it was Monday when Cole

861
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 1: Beasley said he is making throws, completing throws that he

862
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 1: couldn't even attempt a year ago. But then on Tuesday

863
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,720
Speaker 1: he was completely all over the map according to some reports.

864
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:55,439
Speaker 1: So that's the Josh Allen experience. But there's a lot

865
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 1: to like around him, and it does not dim my

866
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 1: hopes for buff Low as an potential a f C

867
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 1: title team, title title game. I'm not saying they're gonna

868
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: win the game. I mean, if they get to the game,

869
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 1: they can win it. I mean, if you're if speaking,

870
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 1: here's a little fantasy extravaganza, uh teaser for you. Do

871
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 1: not hesitate to draft Josh Allen because he's gonna be

872
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,839
Speaker 1: great in fantasy. He's gonna run the ball, he's gonna

873
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,760
Speaker 1: score touchdowns of his legs. He'll throw twenty to twenty

874
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:32,840
Speaker 1: four more. But geez, I don't put too much into

875
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:35,720
Speaker 1: these practices. Right now, everything is so out of whack.

876
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 1: But geez, yeah, I don't need there, I do. I think, hey,

877
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 1: early fantasy stuff, don't be hesitant to draft Singletary. I

878
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 1: know Moss is there and he's gonna steal some touchdowns

879
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: and maybe that helps I think mom to bump Singletary's

880
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 1: value down a little bit. But Devin Singletary is a

881
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 1: special talent. We'll see if Zach Moss is and if

882
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 1: he gets more work, which he should forget it. Why

883
00:47:57,239 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: are you eating the microphone? Greg, give it to me,

884
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:03,400
Speaker 1: Mike a phone. It doesn't sound good or look good. Actually,

885
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,760
Speaker 1: that just became the social clip. All right, let's cycle

886
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: through quickly, a couple more guys each, Greg, alright, Uh,

887
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: I want to give Jason Varette a little shout out.

888
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: I I mentioned the forty nine secondary could be a problem.

889
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 1: Jason Varette has only played one healthy season in the NFL,

890
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 1: so this comes with a major asterix. But there's some

891
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: whispers in San Francisco that he kind of looks like

892
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: the old guy that we used to see with the

893
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:32,880
Speaker 1: Chargers and that he's getting first team snaps, and uh,

894
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: he would. He would be a major boost for them,

895
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:37,399
Speaker 1: even if they got five hundred seven hundred snaps out

896
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: of him. I don't know if he's going to start

897
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 1: or not. They should, they should try to be careful.

898
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: But he was a dynamic player. I mean, he was

899
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 1: a pro bowler. I thought he was maybe an all

900
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:46,319
Speaker 1: Pro quality player that was five years ago now, so

901
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,360
Speaker 1: it's it's asking a lot. The guy has not been healthy,

902
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:51,760
Speaker 1: but he's just a name we kind of forgot existed

903
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 1: on the forty Niners and he might be playing. You're

904
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: obsessed with the forty is right now? Greg Mark Mark,

905
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 1: all right. I will just say I think the early

906
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year race to me is getting exciting

907
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:07,839
Speaker 1: because up in Detroit, DeAndre Swift has been doing it all.

908
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:10,680
Speaker 1: Tim Twentyman saying that he's been great not only as

909
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 1: a runner but on passing downs, which means, you know,

910
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 1: if you're carry on Johnson, I don't know what the

911
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:16,399
Speaker 1: role will be there, but I love the under Swift.

912
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 1: And then what if he goes up against Jonathan Taylor,

913
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: who the cults are at this point now where they're

914
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 1: putting clips of Jonathan Taylor weaving through the defense to

915
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: classical music. They love him, and I think that he's

916
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:29,839
Speaker 1: going to have a huge role in a pretty young,

917
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: but exciting offense. Let's circle back to the Detroit Lions.

918
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,919
Speaker 1: T J. Hockenson, the two thousand nineteen first round pick,

919
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: acknowledge this week that his ankle is still not quite

920
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 1: on after sustaining a season ending injury less November. You

921
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:49,439
Speaker 1: may remember Hocketson going off in his NFL debut last

922
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: September for a hundred and thirty one yards, but then

923
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 1: he just kept getting hurt a bunch of injuries and

924
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:57,440
Speaker 1: then the ankle injury that ended his season. You hope

925
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: that his lower half is right or close to completely

926
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:04,439
Speaker 1: right by the time games start, because if he could

927
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 1: build on his chemistry with Matthew Stafford and already solid

928
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:11,880
Speaker 1: Detroit offense gets that much better. But it is fair

929
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:15,279
Speaker 1: now to be concerned that the angle that wrecked his

930
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen could impact his Sorry, Patra, I'm gonna I'm

931
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:26,319
Speaker 1: gonna throw out one uh in the same division Minnesota.

932
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:29,400
Speaker 1: A name I haven't seen a lot, you know getting

933
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 1: buzzed this offseason is Irv Smith of the Vikings. Hit it.

934
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 1: Let's hear it for the little girl. How do you

935
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 1: seem so scared? All I wanted to do is play

936
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,919
Speaker 1: with you. Don't be scared of this Vikings offense. If

937
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 1: Smith could be dynamic, He's one of a bunch of

938
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: second year guys who I think can be really exciting.

939
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 1: They're using him a little bit more as receiver. He's

940
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 1: a guy if you waited till the end of fantasy draft.

941
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 1: Too much fantasy info here that I'd be excited to take.

942
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 1: But he he seems to be flashing. Maybe it's taken

943
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 1: justin Jefferson the rookie a little longer to get up

944
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 1: to speed than than you would want. Uh, But to

945
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,359
Speaker 1: me or Smith might be might be the number two

946
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: receiver in that team behind Adam Feeling. I got one

947
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: for you real quick. Well, I just go down to Miami,

948
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 1: and I didn't expect, you know, to a to start

949
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 1: right away necessarily. I think it's because chan Gailey is

950
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:22,879
Speaker 1: there and they know Ryan Fitzpatrick so well, the two

951
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 1: of them, that it's gonna be fitzy. But there were

952
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 1: some whispers I read some things here that even Josh

953
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: Rosen has at times looked a little more with it

954
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 1: and better than to uh. And I'll tell you know,

955
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: it's camp. I mean, don't well it means so, it

956
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 1: means it's a whisper. It's not a news report, but

957
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: it's a little it's a little whisper out there. I

958
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 1: still think to uh, you know, probably by week four

959
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna want to see what he can what he

960
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 1: can do. Ben Roethlisberger is throwing with some quote nice velocity.

961
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 1: According to the Athletic, his throwing motion appears the change

962
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: Mark Caboli, who's I think been at it for a

963
00:51:56,600 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 1: long time with the Steelers, Big Big often on the

964
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: d DFP. I feel like, there you go. Caboli Uh

965
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 1: said he noticed it especially later in practice. So it's

966
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: throwing motion a little bit different, more of a quote

967
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 1: whip action, almost like Philip Rivers esque. So I don't

968
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 1: know what that means. It's just a whisper. But Ben

969
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger with a Philip Rivers type arm sounds like a

970
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: total disaster. But we'll see, uh if he could still

971
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:33,399
Speaker 1: play the guitar after tearing three elbow ligaments. Uh last September.

972
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:36,399
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting because I read all that and um,

973
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 1: you know, he said it was especially at the end

974
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: of practice. Short army, the short army. But then you

975
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:44,280
Speaker 1: I went to NFL dot Com and that's my employer,

976
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 1: so I think they do a wonderful job. And the

977
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 1: top video was big Ben lobbs deep dimes at Hines

978
00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 1: Field and training camps. It's like we've got a couple

979
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 1: of different storylines clashing here. I mean, is it that

980
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 1: or is he short army philip rivers? I mean, you

981
00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:59,439
Speaker 1: guys have been to some of these you know, we've

982
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 1: been together to these rams early practices and stuff, and

983
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 1: and seeing them live, you do realize how much you're

984
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:11,240
Speaker 1: putting your faith into the reporter recording like hot takes

985
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 1: off of this stuff, because I think most people watching

986
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:16,840
Speaker 1: it would be like, oh, there was some practice. You

987
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: gotta really know what you're watching, and you know what

988
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 1: a guy like Mark Coboli has been going for twenty

989
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 1: plus years and is a real football head. You know

990
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 1: it and you respect it, and that's why it's one

991
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: of the whispers. But then you've got to be careful.

992
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,160
Speaker 1: There's some other cities, there's some other sources maybe you

993
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:33,240
Speaker 1: don't want to put as much stock into And speaking

994
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:43,240
Speaker 1: of the Steelers, whispers whispers, whispers whispers, the d D Kinkabala,

995
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 1: who does great coverage of the nf A f C

996
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:50,120
Speaker 1: North and the Steelers for NFL Network, I believe she'll

997
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 1: be joining us on the Around the NFL broadcast on

998
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:56,400
Speaker 1: NFL Network on Saturday morning, so stay tuned for that.

999
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:59,840
Speaker 1: Will almost certainly be asking her about Big Ben and

1000
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 1: other matters concerning the black and gold, black and yellow,

1001
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:09,360
Speaker 1: black and yellow brow, black and gold, black and yellow,

1002
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:12,279
Speaker 1: black and yellow. Well, I have a different name for them,

1003
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 1: but I'll accept that your daddy basically since two. Um,

1004
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 1: all right, that that closes the whispers for now, but well,

1005
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll bring back some whispers before the season

1006
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 1: kicks off again, because that's a good way to you know,

1007
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 1: you see what's going on out there, because we are

1008
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 1: now it's legit. And I loved, I really loved the

1009
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 1: most recent episode of Hard Knocks. How they really did

1010
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 1: um managed to show you the enthusiasm and the excitement, uh,

1011
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: and the joy, to be real honest with you, that

1012
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:56,360
Speaker 1: was coming out of that those buildings as they actually

1013
00:54:56,360 --> 00:55:00,080
Speaker 1: put on helmets and and shoulder pads and run and

1014
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:02,359
Speaker 1: all over the field and hitting each other, rubbing their

1015
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:05,879
Speaker 1: bodies against one another. As Greg would say, UM, so

1016
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 1: it's good, it's good. It almost felt it almost felt

1017
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:13,919
Speaker 1: a little bit normal, um watching Hard Knocks when they're

1018
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:17,400
Speaker 1: just going through a practice and some poor undrafted rookie

1019
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: is getting absolutely obliterated for being overweight, and it was like, Okay,

1020
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: this feels normal. Normalcy is not a bad thing, right.

1021
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:28,360
Speaker 1: It was like kind of slow paced, but it was

1022
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 1: a little it kind of reminded me of like football

1023
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:33,320
Speaker 1: a SMR. You know, it's just like kind of pleasant

1024
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:37,400
Speaker 1: to have football things happening, you know, with the sounds

1025
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:39,400
Speaker 1: and everything on the TV. It didn't have to have

1026
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 1: a lot of like juice you know, or big like

1027
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 1: you know, um plot points. I mean, you want to

1028
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:48,240
Speaker 1: you know, you want to fall asleep talk to Jared

1029
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 1: Goff while playing golf for a few more minutes. But

1030
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:55,320
Speaker 1: it was just sort of like pleasant to have there.

1031
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 1: I like that. I like the episode a lot just

1032
00:55:57,680 --> 00:55:59,880
Speaker 1: because it really did feel like a slice of life.

1033
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:02,799
Speaker 1: They kind of accomplished what the show sets out to do,

1034
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 1: which is taking you behind the scenes to what it's

1035
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 1: like there, and that I think exactly. I think they

1036
00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 1: got that across ahead Mark. Yeah. I think the contrast

1037
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 1: to like what we were dealing with with the Oakland

1038
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: Raiders a year ago in Antonio Brown, which was you know,

1039
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 1: a massive news story and unfolding. I don't you know

1040
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:22,359
Speaker 1: that with this And I'd like to interest to see

1041
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:24,279
Speaker 1: what they do with Melvin Gordon next week. They're both

1042
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 1: very likable teams, and I've been harsh on the l

1043
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 1: A teams, but I've grown fonder of them this week especially.

1044
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,279
Speaker 1: I didn't like last week's episode very much, but the

1045
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 1: whole like Andrew Whitworth thing, um finding out how Corona

1046
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:38,920
Speaker 1: spread through his family and him like sort of calling

1047
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:41,919
Speaker 1: out his nanny on HBO, I thought was the next

1048
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 1: level of music. He did not go out of he

1049
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:45,840
Speaker 1: did not call her and he actually went out of

1050
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 1: his way to say he didn't blame her for it,

1051
00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 1: but he was, like it started. Her name has ever

1052
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 1: appeared on television, She's probably not. You know, there could

1053
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 1: there could be other circumstances. But I thought also the

1054
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:00,440
Speaker 1: Seth Ryan Rex Ryan's son thing was fast neating to

1055
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:03,359
Speaker 1: watch because from another Corona angle where like there's this

1056
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 1: decision or you know, results come in and then is

1057
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:08,399
Speaker 1: it true is it not? And like, but the whole

1058
00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 1: idea that Seth Ryan materialized, which makes so much sense

1059
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:14,360
Speaker 1: because you know, Anthony Lynn and Rex Ryan are super

1060
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 1: tight and it makes sense that Seth Ryan would show

1061
00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:18,560
Speaker 1: up there. But um, I thought there was a lot

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Speaker 1: to like in the episode. Speaking of beat reporters, anyone

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Speaker 1: that's a Jets fan that keeps up with the team.

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Speaker 1: Back in the golden years of Rex and the Jets,

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Speaker 1: it was a very popular notebook item that Mark Sanchez

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Speaker 1: would attend a lot of Rex's sons football games, high

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Speaker 1: school football games. So it's just funny how the passage

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Speaker 1: of time. Now that high school kid is Seth Ryan,

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Speaker 1: who's a centerpiece of an episode of Hard Knocks for

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Speaker 1: a false positive coronavirus test. I wish we had more Ryan's.

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Speaker 1: It's good to have some Ryan lineage still in the league.

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Speaker 1: But we gotta get Uncle Rob back in the league.

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Speaker 1: I know he's doing great stuff at Sky Sports, and

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Speaker 1: now we need I want Rob coaching on the sidelines,

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Speaker 1: and not just as a linebacker coach. I want him

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Speaker 1: as a d C and swaggering up and down the

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Speaker 1: sidelines of the flowing silver hair and the belly and

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Speaker 1: just being completely in control of his domain. I want

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Speaker 1: that Rob. Oh that means we can't have beer with

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Speaker 1: our Robs. So I I like the just in London

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Speaker 1: with us somewhere, you know, And that would take away

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Speaker 1: if he if he left Sky. I think he's Neil

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Speaker 1: Reynolds as best friend, So we can't do that. You

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Speaker 1: couldn't do that. All right, good stuff, guys, we'll be

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Speaker 1: back on Friday. Lock. Coming up this week, we'll have

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Speaker 1: our news edition of Rundown edition of the Around the

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Speaker 1: NFL podcast, and then also we'll be taping our Around

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Speaker 1: the NFL broadcast that you could check out on Friday

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Speaker 1: afternoon on NFL dot com and then Saturday morning on

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Speaker 1: the network so everyone can see it if they like.

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Speaker 1: All Right, is Dan hans As signing off for quiet

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Speaker 1: Storm Your boss, Ricky Hollywood. There she is, wondering where

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Speaker 1: she's been, all right until Friday.