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Speaker 1: What is up? Ramilly? Welcome to another edition of Between

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Speaker 1: the Horns, presented by your Southern California Toyota Dealers. I'm

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Speaker 1: not JB. Long, I'm Eric Tampozzi aka Ricky Hollywood. And

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Speaker 1: it's a little quieter around the NFL this week as

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Speaker 1: teams cut down their roster to fifty three players before

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Speaker 1: the start of the regular season. The Rams made their

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Speaker 1: cuts as well, which we will go over. But first

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Speaker 1: I want to introduce you to my lovely panel for today.

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Speaker 1: We've got former NFL running back and Rams color analysts

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Speaker 1: Maurice Jones Drew m j D. Hello, Hello Erica. You

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Speaker 1: forgot to mention CEO and treasurer of the Ramley Organization.

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Speaker 1: I and T T. We gotta work on that name.

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Speaker 1: We don't want to throw iants at all. I also

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Speaker 1: have with me today's Super Bowl champion and Rams sideline

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Speaker 1: reporter de Marco far What you called me lovely? I

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Speaker 1: like it? Lovely panel ever, you are lovely, You are lovely,

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Speaker 1: and last, but definitely not least, she is um and

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Speaker 1: I am biased. My favorite beat reporter for the Rams

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Speaker 1: from the Athletic it is Jordan Rodrigue. Jordan, what is up? Hey,

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Speaker 1: so happy to be here with you. I'm a big

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Speaker 1: Ricky Hollywood fan, big fan of I agree this lovely

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Speaker 1: panel as well, so appreciate absolutely super excited that you guys.

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Speaker 1: E's September first. Okay, the season starts next week. But

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Speaker 1: I still have one huge lingering question. Is it too

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Speaker 1: early to start hanging up Halloween and hall decorations? No? September? Right, yeah? Always,

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Speaker 1: we're in fall, full fall now in the wheelhouse, Yes,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, Yeah, Jordan, I feel like you're judging. I'm

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Speaker 1: getting George. Jordan's a little bit this, a little bit,

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Speaker 1: this little bit, but they can't. There's candy I'm in.

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Speaker 1: But other than that, you know, I feel like it's

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Speaker 1: like spooky season. But well, come on, absolutely Okay, So

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Speaker 1: we're down to the fifty three man roster. Um, let's

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Speaker 1: sort of go through this for people that might not

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Speaker 1: be aware of what has happened in the last you know,

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Speaker 1: it feels like a whirlwind for the last twenty four hours.

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Speaker 1: So let's start with the quarterback position. The Rams keep

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Speaker 1: three qbs for a second season in a row. And

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Speaker 1: and Jordan, I want to toss to you first, because

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Speaker 1: I know you were talking about it a lot um

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Speaker 1: for your podcast as well. What do you feel about

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Speaker 1: this overall? And you know, what is the benefit to

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Speaker 1: having a three deep keep QB room well, especially because

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Speaker 1: they're both lower cost quarterbacks to have backing up. Matthew

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Speaker 1: Stafford Um, Yeah, you know, for me, I understand the process.

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Speaker 1: It's different for every team in terms of what they

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Speaker 1: want to do and whether people externally agree or disagree

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Speaker 1: with the ram zone process, the way that they do

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Speaker 1: it makes sense. So between the two of them not

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Speaker 1: just picking up defenses week over week and getting the

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Speaker 1: defense on the other side as live a rep as

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Speaker 1: they possibly can through a week of competitive work, not

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Speaker 1: just sort of above the neck install that sometimes scout

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Speaker 1: teams have done historically. They're doing live work against this defense,

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Speaker 1: and it's really important too to have these guys who

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Speaker 1: can not only do that and handle it and give

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Speaker 1: this to top five probably if not Top three heading

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Speaker 1: to do throughout the week against a variety of different offenses,

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Speaker 1: but also a variety of different quarterbacks. They're going to

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Speaker 1: really need to compete in a live setting against Bryce Perkins,

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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks that they're going to see this share, including

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Speaker 1: able to give them the looks they need to understand

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Speaker 1: the prior ordization. You always hear about the backup quarterback

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Speaker 1: been durable. So they've reprioritized that position into how can

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Speaker 1: out of these two roster spots throughout the entire week,

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Speaker 1: instead of just operating in the outliers, which is a

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Speaker 1: worst case scenario. Yeah, Jordan, I would. I would completely

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Speaker 1: the Niners that we know Trey Lance has struggled throughout

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Speaker 1: He runs so Perkins can get that defense set up.

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Speaker 1: And then on the other side is this. I love

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Speaker 1: Let's not go on and saye Stafford, you know this

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Speaker 1: do other things. But I think you hit it right

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Speaker 1: And the other part that I love about the Rams

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Speaker 1: they keep their fifty three right, They keep their guys

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Speaker 1: important and it's important to keep that nucleus of that

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Speaker 1: each other. Definitely. So how about some draft picks who

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Speaker 1: So DK and Kobe Durant, they shined in training camp

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Speaker 1: much of a role DeMarco do you see them having

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Speaker 1: it all depends on you know, what Troy Hill, what

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Speaker 1: I would think that Kendrick Durant are going to be

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Speaker 1: But I mean it's it's on offense. You saw this

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Speaker 1: when he started taking reps with the offense. Kyron Williams

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Speaker 1: Now how much I don't know. It depends on Cam Akers,

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Speaker 1: depends on Darryl Henderson in front of him. But Kyrat

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Speaker 1: a great zone runner. He really is. He's very compact

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Speaker 1: say Kyron Williams, more so than anybody on defense, will

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Speaker 1: anybody that was drafted this past season. Yeah, he sees

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Speaker 1: well that that wide zone catch and run stuff that

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Speaker 1: just a player like Kyra gives them more dimension I think,

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Speaker 1: first of all, Sean, thank you for drafting and giving

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's not just overlook that. But I think again,

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Speaker 1: of the things Kyra, and you're right, DeMarco is going

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Speaker 1: to have a big impact, and partly is because of

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Speaker 1: You heard Sean talk about what Notre Dame did in

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Speaker 1: to force these guys to all get better. Cam Akers

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Speaker 1: be one of the most fired up individuals I've ever met. Like,

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Speaker 1: this dude is ready to go. He's ready to go.

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Speaker 1: Keep your body together, man, we need you seventeen one. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: and Kiran was so fast with it with the broken

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Speaker 1: blown away at watching him at training camp, which was

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Speaker 1: crazy to see. Okay, So let's talk. Lance got a

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Speaker 1: mccutch them all, Okay, Lance McCutchen, Right, Lance, I enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. So he was an unlikely candidate to

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Speaker 1: make the team before the preseason. Um, but the questions,

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Speaker 1: let me just spell it out for you. Lance McCutcheon

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Speaker 1: baled out, you guys, Okay, and he was rewarded for it.

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Speaker 1: Sean McVay and Less and the team were like, we

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Speaker 1: cannot let this guy go to Waivers because I really

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Speaker 1: truly feel that someone would have picked him up. And Jordan,

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Speaker 1: I'd love your your insight on this is he someone.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that can be a factor on game

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Speaker 1: day for the Rams long term? Yes, short term, I

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Speaker 1: don't think he's going to be getting one of their

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Speaker 1: I think we all saw. The highest compliment I could

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Speaker 1: pay Lance McCutchen is and I almost said Lance mccletchen

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Speaker 1: because that's the thing I've seen on Twitter this entire time.

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Speaker 1: But the highest compliment I can give him is that

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