Speaker 1: Training camps continue across the NFL a wave of injuries,
Speaker 1: though visits one hotly contested division. We will update you
Speaker 1: on all of the divisions are coming up today. The
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys training camp continues.
Speaker 2: On the road in Oxnard.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, Jerry Jones making news saying the Cowboys didn't walk
Speaker 1: away from Max Crosby. We examine what they're walking towards
Speaker 1: on a live report from Jane Slater on our show,
Speaker 1: and the Las Vegas Raiders have their starting quarterback for now.
Speaker 2: We tackle some possible outcomes and.
Speaker 1: Chat with former Raider and current Raiders broadcaster Kurt Morrison
Speaker 1: on Today's Insiders. Hey, everybody, welcome to this edition of
Speaker 1: The Insiders. Patrick club On here with NFL Network insider
Speaker 1: Ian Rapport and Judy Batista.
Speaker 2: Folks.
Speaker 1: We are three days away from back together Saturday, and
Speaker 1: while a lot of teams are back together on this Wednesday,
Speaker 1: not everyone's doing everything. That's what we start with here
Speaker 1: in What's New Today, Two of the best and most
Speaker 1: explosive players in the NFL that happened play running back,
Speaker 1: winning on new contracts. Both Jon Robinson and Jamier Gibbs
Speaker 1: not practicing as they aspire towards that goal of new deals.
Speaker 1: The Falcons and Lions now in very similar situations. Ian,
Speaker 1: but timeline was, I guess somebody has to go first.
Speaker 3: We'll start right there.
Speaker 4: It certainly seems, just based on the landscape of this thing,
Speaker 4: that the Atlanta Falcons and Vjon Robinson are having more
Speaker 4: active conversations as it pertains to a long term extension.
Speaker 3: If a deal is going to get done for either
Speaker 3: of these.
Speaker 4: Guys, which they coe's safe to say is up in
Speaker 4: the air right now, certainly would make sense based on
Speaker 4: where it's going for Jon Robinson to be first running
Speaker 4: back this offseason to get the blockbuster deal and become
Speaker 4: the highest paid running back in the NFL. Make no mistake,
Speaker 4: both of these players, both Jamier Gibbs and Jon Robinson
Speaker 4: are in similar situations. Both have fifth year options, both
Speaker 4: are entering the fourth year, Both have been engaged at
Speaker 4: some point of the offseason in long term extensions, and both,
Speaker 4: if they get a new deal, will be either close
Speaker 4: to or the highest paid running back in the NFL.
Speaker 4: We will see if the Atlanta Falcons of v Jon
Speaker 4: Robinson can end up landing that plane. As far as
Speaker 4: Jamior gives these conversations do not seem to be as active.
Speaker 4: He is holding in as well as not really taking
Speaker 4: part in practice at all.
Speaker 3: Similar to b John Robinson.
Speaker 4: Would not be surprised if we don't see Gibbs at practice,
Speaker 4: Patrick and participating in practice until they get some sort
Speaker 4: of real significant progress on a contract extension. You know,
Speaker 4: he's going to be ready physically. Both of these guys
Speaker 4: did the condition test. Both these guys past the physical
Speaker 4: would not be surprised that we don't see them participate
Speaker 4: at all until they get new contracts.
Speaker 1: A lot to watch for, specially with these two players.
Speaker 1: So again, they play the running back position, but in
Speaker 1: terms of the share that they have for their offense,
Speaker 1: it is very significant for both of them. And with
Speaker 1: that Falcons offense, they have another set of issues in
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. To a talk about Alola limited in
Speaker 1: camp with a back injury. They're still waiting for clearance,
Speaker 1: for full clearance for Michael Pennock Junior. He updated us
Speaker 1: on his status today.
Speaker 5: I was told that like another four weeks possibly going
Speaker 5: into that next stage, but at the same time, it
Speaker 5: could be earlier. You know, it just depends on, you know,
Speaker 5: how my body is doing. Throughout this whole camp process. Obviously,
Speaker 5: I have a long injury history, so the last thing
Speaker 5: I want to do is try to rush back just
Speaker 5: to get out on the field.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: I want to make sure my body is healthy so
Speaker 5: that whenever I do get on the field, I can
Speaker 5: give it.
Speaker 7: This team one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Did the very open acknowledgment there for Michael Pennock Junior,
Speaker 1: citing everything that he's been through. The Falcons had a
Speaker 1: slew of quarterback transactions this week as they kind of
Speaker 1: prepare to deal with this.
Speaker 8: This is, first of all, a very unfortunate situation for
Speaker 8: Michael Pennox Junior, who has had three torn acls. He
Speaker 8: obviously says, you know, he's got a long history, and
Speaker 8: so they are not going to rush him back. What
Speaker 8: this basically means is there's no quarterback competition for the
Speaker 8: Atlanta Falcons as we thought there might be.
Speaker 7: To a Tubify.
Speaker 8: Look, who's got a back shoe that flared up. So
Speaker 8: he's currently not practicing unless that sets him aside for
Speaker 8: most of training camp. He's going to be the starting
Speaker 8: quarterback at least going into the start of the season.
Speaker 8: If Michael Pennix is out four weeks before he can
Speaker 8: even start practicing. Well, that takes you up to about
Speaker 8: just two weeks before the season opener before he can
Speaker 8: start practicing. So this is going to be to his job.
Speaker 8: They hope he will be able to start practicing by
Speaker 8: the end of this week, maybe early next week is
Speaker 8: more likely. As long as they can manage the back
Speaker 8: issue that Tua is having, it's going to be his job.
Speaker 8: With Michael Penis unfortunately unable to even practice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So as a part of those transactions, Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: comes in, they release former Broncos starting quarterback Trevor Simy,
Speaker 1: and we'll keep an eye on the quarterback situation there
Speaker 1: in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Let's come back over here to the.
Speaker 1: West Coast where the Los Angeles Rams training camp underway
Speaker 1: from Loyola Marymount University, as we get a chance to
Speaker 1: see the Rams quarterbacks at work. Their top target, Pooka
Speaker 1: Nakula addressing some of the issues that he's had off
Speaker 1: the field, including some moments where he was asked to
Speaker 1: do anti Semitic hand signs by twitch streamers. Addressing some
Speaker 1: of those issues today.
Speaker 9: Trying to take accountability for the things that I know
Speaker 9: that I can continue to change and it can grow
Speaker 9: in ways that I know that help have helped me
Speaker 9: feel as best as I can when I step out
Speaker 9: here in the football field, them and outside of the
Speaker 9: football field, them being a father, some of that has
Speaker 9: changed my life. But then also just becoming a better person,
Speaker 9: continuing to work on a there's my therapist.
Speaker 7: I feel like we have a really good.
Speaker 9: Connection and just the ability to communicate in different ways
Speaker 9: and to use the safe space that I have out
Speaker 9: here and finding ways the other places that are safe
Speaker 9: space for me outside of the football field.
Speaker 1: Finally, here of that rookie deal in looking at another
Speaker 1: contract with the off the field issues and issue in.
Speaker 3: Terms of them, it certainly is the Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 4: Really what they want to see from Pooka Nakula is
Speaker 4: that he is in a better place this year than
Speaker 4: he was at any point last year. I'm not even
Speaker 4: talking about on the field. On the field, he is
Speaker 4: a superstar. He's one of the best, if not the best,
Speaker 4: receiver in the NFL and certainly, just based on his play,
Speaker 4: deserves a huge contract.
Speaker 3: That's not really what this is about. This is about
Speaker 3: off the field.
Speaker 4: It's about him personally, and Pukinikua mentioned some of it
Speaker 4: has worked with a therapist, going to rehab, taking accountability
Speaker 4: for some of the actions that he very well did
Speaker 4: last year in very public manner. That really is what
Speaker 4: the Rams want to see, and that is why my
Speaker 4: understanding of the situation. Do not expect a Pookin Nikua
Speaker 4: contract extension before the season.
Speaker 3: Do not.
Speaker 4: He has one more year left on his deal. The
Speaker 4: Rams have had a lot of money and a lot
Speaker 4: of different places on a lot of different players. I
Speaker 4: expect that to sort of be the focus this year,
Speaker 4: and we will see after this year if he ends
Speaker 4: up getting tagged or a new extension and deal from
Speaker 4: the Rams.
Speaker 1: You know, one of those players, most notably is Miles
Speaker 1: Garrett's former team, the Cleveland Browns, with a deal for
Speaker 1: one of his former teammates, fellow defensive players, safety Grant Delpit,
Speaker 1: and the grounds of agreeing to a deal could be
Speaker 1: worth up to forty eight million dollars over the next
Speaker 1: three years. Delpit played in all seventeen games last year,
Speaker 1: had seven quarterback hits from the safety position, and speaking
Speaker 1: of hitting quarterbacks, former number one overall pick to Debian
Speaker 1: Clowney visiting the Browns today. According to the NFL Network
Speaker 1: asider Mike Garrofalo Jad Clowney had eight and a half
Speaker 1: sacks last year.
Speaker 2: Me While the Browns they.
Speaker 1: Still got to figure out who they will be starting
Speaker 1: at quarterback. Let's hear from their head coach Todd Munkin.
Speaker 10: All four quarterbacks are going to compete. They all won't
Speaker 10: get equal reps. Obviously, we will alternate, just like we
Speaker 10: did in the spring, Deshaun and Shador with the ones.
Speaker 10: We're gonna have to have a start of the first game, right,
Speaker 10: I mean, ultimately, I'm not going to decide who the
Speaker 10: starter is. They decide by their play. Their play decides
Speaker 10: who the starter isn't. I don't have any preconceived notions
Speaker 10: of how they played in the past or how they're
Speaker 10: going to play. I only can with my eyes. Judge
Speaker 10: and guys got to play well around him. I think
Speaker 10: we've shored up some things up front. We've added some
Speaker 10: weapons on the perimeter, so I think that's going to help.
Speaker 10: But they'll decide who plays. I don't decide who plays.
Speaker 10: The players decide who plays.
Speaker 2: That's one way to look at it from the head coach, Judy.
Speaker 1: But before they play, you're gonna have to figure out
Speaker 1: who gets a chance to play in those preseason games
Speaker 1: because those are going to be coming on the way
Speaker 1: pretty soon.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the plan is to split the first team rep
Speaker 8: So today it was Deshaun Watson with the first team.
Speaker 8: The reporters who were on the ground said, he struggled.
Speaker 8: He threw back to back interceptions. Of course, it's the
Speaker 8: first day of practice. We will see how Shador does
Speaker 8: when he gets with the first team.
Speaker 7: This is sort of how it went in the spring, too.
Speaker 7: One guy would seem to take the lead.
Speaker 8: It looked early on like Deshaun Watson was pulling ahead
Speaker 8: in the race, and then Shador Sanders started to make
Speaker 8: some headway. Don't forget going all the way back to
Speaker 8: the spring. Originally, Todd Monkin wanted to have a decision
Speaker 8: on his starting quarterback coming out out of the spring,
Speaker 8: So that tells you neither one of them was able
Speaker 8: to separate himself from the other. The preseason games are
Speaker 8: going to be really important. Monkin said he's going to
Speaker 8: play his starters, So obviously these guys are going to
Speaker 8: have to show something in the preseason games.
Speaker 7: To pull ahead.
Speaker 8: This is a very tough situation if neither one of
Speaker 8: them can pull ahead. That tells you this is a
Speaker 8: tough decision and probably not one that is going to
Speaker 8: land them a top tier quarterback performance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if it is Watson in week one, he'd be
Speaker 1: only the third quarterback to start in three week ones
Speaker 1: for the Browns in the last twenty years. So's wes
Speaker 1: new today coming into the nfl LA newsroom. The Houston
Speaker 1: Texans and CJ. Stroud back at work this week for
Speaker 1: training camp. The twenty twenty three Rookie of the Year
Speaker 1: had his fifth year option picked up, but it's the
Speaker 1: subsequent years that are yet to be straightened out. Today,
Speaker 1: GM Nick Cassio said, they're already having some productive conversations.
Speaker 11: We've had pretty constructive discussions here with Corse of the spring.
Speaker 11: So I'd say as possibility gonna happen in training camp,
Speaker 11: it doesn't happen in training camp, and I have to
Speaker 11: make a decision about, you know, what we feel makes
Speaker 11: the most sense.
Speaker 7: So, like I said, try to take it one day.
Speaker 11: At a time, and you know, if we reach an endpoint, great,
Speaker 11: If we don't, you know, I think everybody understands what
Speaker 11: that you know, will on tail as well.
Speaker 12: What I've done is what I've done on the field,
Speaker 12: and what I will do, you know, we'll see. So
Speaker 12: I think you know, I've had some success, and I
Speaker 12: think you know I'll continue to have success.
Speaker 2: There's a quarterback in his league, so I'm.
Speaker 12: Excited for the future, you know, and pass all the
Speaker 12: contracts stuff.
Speaker 2: I love playing football.
Speaker 1: Let's welcome back Brian Baldinger into this edition of The Insiders.
Speaker 2: The en Rapper ward with us as well.
Speaker 1: It feels like the expectation was a Stroud deal would
Speaker 1: come after whatever performance he provides.
Speaker 2: Could we get this sooner rather than later?
Speaker 4: We could in fact, it a CJ. Stroud deal sooner
Speaker 4: rather than later, provided all sides agree.
Speaker 3: And they are not there yet.
Speaker 7: It does not.
Speaker 4: Seem like they are close yet. A couple of important
Speaker 4: factors here. First of all, we saw CJ. Stroud struggle
Speaker 4: at the end of the year for the Houston Texans.
Speaker 4: It is clear inside the organization they view him as
Speaker 4: the franchise starter, no question, the player who led them
Speaker 4: to the playoffs multiple years in a row, who is
Speaker 4: entrenched at that position. And those guys, those franchise starters
Speaker 4: who were young, were looking at new contracts they essentially
Speaker 4: make in the fifties based on new money average. I'm
Speaker 4: talking about the Jared Gobbs of the world at Jordan
Speaker 4: Love and Trevor Lawrence. Certainly seems like that would be
Speaker 4: the category of c J.
Speaker 3: Stroud.
Speaker 4: Will he end up being able to get a deal
Speaker 4: with Texans, We simply don't know. It seems like both
Speaker 4: sides are comfortable making an attempt out of that. If
Speaker 4: it doesn't happen by the season, that is okay. They
Speaker 4: will try again next year. But the fact that talks
Speaker 4: are going on is I would say at least extremely
Speaker 4: notworthy for Houston's belief in c J.
Speaker 2: Stroud and Baldi.
Speaker 1: If we're going to create a circumstance where those conversations
Speaker 1: are very amenable for c J.
Speaker 13: Stroud, what needs to change, Well, the people around them
Speaker 13: have to change. I mean, they went from Laramie tunsl
Speaker 13: at left tackle last year to a rookie and Ariante
Speaker 13: Ursery building their offensive line again this year.
Speaker 14: They got a rookie Keelan Rutledge at center going to start.
Speaker 13: That's never an easy transition to go from guard and
Speaker 13: Kyle's to a starting center with CJ. Getting Dell back
Speaker 13: might really help. They needed that slot receiver. I think
Speaker 13: the running gate has to pick up. You look at
Speaker 13: that last defeat against the Patriots right there with those interceptions.
Speaker 14: They ran the ball for forty two yards that day.
Speaker 13: They didn't run the ball well at all last year
Speaker 13: at the very bottom of the league. They've got to
Speaker 13: run the ball better. They've got to protect better. I
Speaker 13: have no question that CJ. Stroud knows how to go
Speaker 13: through progressions, knows how to the open receiver, has great
Speaker 13: arm strength in touch like those things haven't changed.
Speaker 14: But the pieces around them have to get better.
Speaker 13: And if they do, I think you'll see a real
Speaker 13: uptick in CJ's play.
Speaker 1: Plenty of aspects statistically where c J. Strout was still
Speaker 1: maintaining the success he's had early in his career last year.
Speaker 1: That's the latest on the Stroud on the Texans with
Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport and Brian Balding.
Speaker 11: The one thing I love about the cow Boys fan bases,
Speaker 11: it's that or nothing.
Speaker 2: I love those expectations.
Speaker 7: Okay, snap.
Speaker 8: To go.
Speaker 7: So I'm talking about a go do something the Cowboy.
Speaker 4: Didday Dak Prescott, you gotta pass in right now while
Speaker 4: you have this opportunity.
Speaker 10: I will prevail.
Speaker 1: Everybody came into Oxnard yesterday, the first day of practice
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys in Oxnard, California.
Speaker 2: And well as well as the.
Speaker 1: Birthday for their starting quarterback.
Speaker 7: It's your birthday today. What's your wish this year?
Speaker 1: So happy birthday to Dak Prescott. A training camp annual circumstances.
Speaker 1: We are back in Oxnard with Jane Slater after the
Speaker 1: first day of practice.
Speaker 2: Good evening to you, Jane, how to.
Speaker 15: Go well, Good evening to you. Here's what I'll say.
Speaker 15: There are no pods yet. That comes on Saturday, Patrick,
Speaker 15: but there's still a lot to light from day one.
Speaker 3: Including this.
Speaker 15: I know this is going to excite the fans. We
Speaker 15: have gotten George Pickens here, and if you'll pay attention,
Speaker 15: this is their first connection of training camp. Pickens slips
Speaker 15: the defender there along the sideline, turns it upfield for
Speaker 15: extra yards.
Speaker 7: And this was the.
Speaker 15: Part that got the fans really really hype the stuff
Speaker 15: that we've been seeing in practice. When he showed up
Speaker 15: to mini camp. That celebration a little bit of his personality.
Speaker 15: And when he's not making plays, he and eighty eight, well,
Speaker 15: they're constantly talking between reps and feeding off one another.
Speaker 7: Throughout practice.
Speaker 15: Whether Pickens is playing for a long term future in
Speaker 15: Dallas or simply resetting his value ahead of free agency,
Speaker 15: Brian Schottenheimer says he's seeing a player who styled in.
Speaker 16: I think you're going to see a very motivated George
Speaker 16: Pickens going into the season, and I think that's great
Speaker 16: news for us and maybe bad news.
Speaker 17: For the rest of the league.
Speaker 15: Second year running back Jaden Blue also answered a challenge
Speaker 15: from his head coach after admitting he got off to
Speaker 15: a slow start as a rookie and was even a
Speaker 15: healthy scratch at times. Blue opened up camp with that
Speaker 15: explosive run right there. He told me this coaching XAV
Speaker 15: has challenged him to become a more complete back, particularly
Speaker 15: in the passing game. Think cleaner routes, better timing, and
Speaker 15: creating more opportunities on screens and checkdowns to make this
Speaker 15: offense even more versatile. Now, I did have to ask
Speaker 15: Blue about the admission by his head coach last year
Speaker 15: that he was wearing Louis Vaton cleats and practice that
Speaker 15: led to blisters and he had to sit out a bit.
Speaker 15: He laughed about it, but he said, guys, what happened
Speaker 15: there was that you've got to size up. When it's
Speaker 15: Louis Vaton, he says it's not the brand's problem, it
Speaker 15: was his problem. They were ill fitted, so he will
Speaker 15: size up. But those are just some of the things.
Speaker 15: He's got his head on straight this year, and he
Speaker 15: really wants to make an impression and he certainly did
Speaker 15: that on the first day back to camp in his
Speaker 15: second year.
Speaker 1: Yes, a great opportunity for all of us who planned
Speaker 1: intently on having lou Vaton footwear when we were playing
Speaker 1: and athletic competition.
Speaker 2: I appreciate him looking out for all of us.
Speaker 1: Shane Slater with the latest on the Dallas Cowboys their
Speaker 1: first day of practice in Oxnard. When we come back,
Speaker 1: there's a couple of MVP winners drafted in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: Both of them had their longtime coaches replaced. So just
Speaker 1: how different are things in Baltimore and Buffalo. We hear
Speaker 1: from Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson coming up next on
Speaker 1: The Insider.
Speaker 2: I love the Rams, I love this city.
Speaker 18: This the team that has drafted me.
Speaker 3: Gotta game my money, rat.
Speaker 14: They need to get a long term extension in place.
Speaker 2: There's so much at stake.
Speaker 7: Gotta get my money, Rat. The extension is going to
Speaker 7: get done or he's going somewhere.
Speaker 1: Else back here on the Insiders, what's new today, Well,
Speaker 1: what's new with Lamar's contract. He's not telling us that
Speaker 1: training gap since he's going to keep the contract extension
Speaker 1: discussions private.
Speaker 2: But the thing he is very willing to discuss his
Speaker 2: new play caller decland Doyle.
Speaker 18: I don't think we carried over anything. Man, it's deck
Speaker 18: Deck like a wizard.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 18: He's he's trying to get the best out of all
Speaker 18: of us, you know, not just the quarterbacks, but every
Speaker 18: every aspect of the offense. And I feel like he's
Speaker 18: doing a great job at that, challenging us each and
Speaker 18: every play, you know, even with the huddle, how the
Speaker 18: huddle is set up, he's challenging us. Men get to
Speaker 18: the line of stremings, facts, execute, breakdown, you know, break
Speaker 18: down the defense process everything fast. It's like process of
Speaker 18: elimination when we get into the line of streamings.
Speaker 16: So it's great.
Speaker 18: Each and every year you're getting older, your your mind
Speaker 18: is getting sharpened. Uh, everything is slowing down even more.
Speaker 18: It's like you're not seeing everything. You know, anything a
Speaker 18: defense can bring at you.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 18: The only thing different now is just a new offense.
Speaker 18: So once I get that down pack, I feel like
Speaker 18: there's no room for error with us.
Speaker 2: Keep stacking Judy.
Speaker 1: Everybody isn't still there from that history twenty twenty four offense,
Speaker 1: but there are pieces of ale to Deck Len Doyle
Speaker 1: have played at a very high level.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well you just heard Lamar talk about fast tempo
Speaker 8: in practice. That's how they want to play, fast tempo
Speaker 8: under center, pre snap motion explosiveness. They want to get
Speaker 8: the explosiveness back into that offense. But I actually think
Speaker 8: the most important piece of this is how locked in
Speaker 8: Lamar Jackson has been all off season. He is so
Speaker 8: bought in that he participated in the off season program,
Speaker 8: which he has not always done. And jesse Minder, the
Speaker 8: new head coach, talk today about how you know sometimes
Speaker 8: when you have to learn something new, that energizes you
Speaker 8: because you know you have to learn something by a deadline, right,
Speaker 8: you've got to know it by the time the games start.
Speaker 7: He was talking about Lamar there.
Speaker 8: He has been very energized by where they are right now,
Speaker 8: by this new offense by the new coaching staff, to
Speaker 8: the point where Lamar said jesse Minder took him aside
Speaker 8: and said, let's meet in the office and I'm going
Speaker 8: to show you defenses. That way, Lamar can learn defenses,
Speaker 8: can unders stand defenses more than he has before.
Speaker 7: Lamar's really into it. So I think that is a really.
Speaker 8: Important component of what we're going to see this year
Speaker 8: from Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 1: Another bit of exciting news for the Baltimore Ravens and
Speaker 1: their fan base. After recovering from a career threatening neck injury,
Speaker 1: two time All.
Speaker 2: Pro defensive tackle Nomie Matabka practice.
Speaker 1: For the first time in ten months this week after
Speaker 1: passing his physical and coming off of the pup lists.
Speaker 1: So great news for Nomine Matabka. Hopefully a great and
Speaker 1: healthy return for him. We'll be back with Judy Batista
Speaker 1: as we continue this edition of The Insiders. Let's get
Speaker 1: to Lamar's twenty eighteen draft classmate in Josh Allen, first
Speaker 1: training camp under new head coach and former OC Joe
Speaker 1: Brady as the Bill see some changes.
Speaker 2: Josh Allen, all those changes and some of the reasons
Speaker 2: for them.
Speaker 19: We talked about this earlier in OTA's just the vibe,
Speaker 19: the energy, you know, it's different.
Speaker 2: It's not messing.
Speaker 19: It's better, it's worse, it's different, and you know, as
Speaker 19: a new head coach for a team, I think that's
Speaker 19: a smart decision to make things different. You know, this
Speaker 19: isn't the same place, and you have to make it
Speaker 19: feel differently because you know, doing the same thing it
Speaker 19: obviously didn't work. So got to got to change it
Speaker 19: up and try to find new ways to make it work.
Speaker 1: One way to make it work is to provide NFL
Speaker 1: Network and serder Ian Rappaport with a spectacular umbrella. As
Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport there as the Bills works towards twenty twenty six, Ian,
Speaker 1: what what did you learn besides protecting one Well, I
Speaker 1: learned Patrick.
Speaker 4: When you're going to go on a road trip that
Speaker 4: includes many many cities, you should probably bring at least
Speaker 4: one coat or maybe an umbrellas you don't have to
Speaker 4: swipe one from a local Rochester TV reporter.
Speaker 14: Thanks.
Speaker 3: I appreciate the mbrell. Let's talk about the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 4: Listening to Josh Allen talk about the change in the
Speaker 4: organization and that really has resonated throughout the organization. Here
Speaker 4: is what I essentially came away from today with this.
Speaker 4: Besides the fact that it was incredibly rainy and cold
Speaker 4: and everybody seemed fine with it. Sean mcdermotod is universally
Speaker 4: respected inside the building and change is okay, change is necessary.
Speaker 4: They won a lot, it was not enough, and when
Speaker 4: it came time to pick a head coach, they went
Speaker 4: with Joe Brady, who's got a lot of juice, who
Speaker 4: certainly brings a lot more excitement to the organization than
Speaker 4: Sean McDermott did. The offense is going to be similar.
Speaker 4: That was role in last year. Bringing Jim Leonard for
Speaker 4: a defense that my understanding. When they did the coach Church,
Speaker 4: they really found that a lot of the feedback was
Speaker 4: their defense was too predictable. Jim Leonard one of the
Speaker 4: top defensive coordinator candidates around.
Speaker 3: He ends up getting hired by the Bills.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of excitement there what he can bring,
Speaker 4: the attacking style, the versatileness for his defense. There is
Speaker 4: a lot of optimism in Buffalo with this new staff.
Speaker 1: Or in Rochester with you Gar West today. Yeah, very
Speaker 1: ready Rochester today again. Ian provided with that protection thanks
Speaker 1: to Ian over back. As The Insiders continues, we'll get
Speaker 1: to the Philadelphia Eagles making News yesterday, Jalen Carter gets
Speaker 1: a new deal could be worth up to one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty million dollars over four years. The Eagles already
Speaker 1: extended defensive tackle Jordan Davis this offseason.
Speaker 2: Clearly a position of value. As Howie Roseman noted today, Howie.
Speaker 16: The decision to give Jaien part of the contract, we know, no, no, no,
Speaker 16: welcome back man.
Speaker 7: Now, hey, guys, how's it going.
Speaker 3: How's everyone summer?
Speaker 6: We've got football back in Philadelphia. It's a beautiful thing,
Speaker 6: right through it, right through it. Right the defense tackle
Speaker 6: position in the league, in college football, it's a deficient position.
Speaker 6: You know, they're hard to find guys like that, and
Speaker 6: so we feel like it was a priority. Where the
Speaker 6: market was when March opened was kind of in transition.
Speaker 6: You know, you had guys like Decks ready to sign,
Speaker 6: obviously Simmons, and so some of the reasons that it
Speaker 6: got to this point were just because we were trying
Speaker 6: to figure out the market and his perspective, he was
Speaker 6: trying to figure out the market. There hadn't been a
Speaker 6: big jump in the market, and so we like to
Speaker 6: do contracts in March and April. Obviously, get that situated
Speaker 6: before we go into the draft, before we go into
Speaker 6: our summer.
Speaker 14: This is a unique situation.
Speaker 6: By the same token, getting this done before camp was
Speaker 6: important for all of us. You know, good things happen
Speaker 6: when you get things off your plate and you're able
Speaker 6: to focus on football.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger back in here as the Eagles going to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, Baldy having now answered some of the
Speaker 1: biggest contract questions this offseason, albeit not to how is
Speaker 1: Tom one?
Speaker 2: But they still got it done.
Speaker 14: Yeah, they did.
Speaker 13: And you know, the nickname for jail and Carter is
Speaker 13: the bread Man, and he just got the bread man
Speaker 13: like and you know know and how he is credit
Speaker 13: since under his leadership, when a young player.
Speaker 14: That's drafted high performs, well, they don't wait around. They
Speaker 14: extended Landard Dickerson, Jordan Davis this year.
Speaker 2: I go through the roster and.
Speaker 14: They extend their players, and rightfully so.
Speaker 13: The market exploded this year with Dexter Lawrence, Jeffrey Simmons,
Speaker 13: Jordan Davis earlier this year and Jalen Carter is probably
Speaker 13: better than all of them when he's full strength. He
Speaker 13: was banged up last year wasn't quite the same guy.
Speaker 13: But I'll say this about Jalen Carter. If you don't
Speaker 13: double team of Patrick, you do so at your own
Speaker 13: peror because they're not a single guy one on one
Speaker 13: that can really effectively block Jalen Carter.
Speaker 14: And so he's going to draw an awful.
Speaker 13: Lot of double teams, and he knows how to beat him,
Speaker 13: and he makes everybody else around him better. This was
Speaker 13: a good move by Philadelphia locking him up, getting him
Speaker 13: Davis in the middle for the long term right here,
Speaker 13: as they keep the foundation of this defense intact going forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the cornerstone, the centerpiece of a defense that won
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: A lot of people seem to forget that wasn't that
Speaker 2: long ago.
Speaker 1: It was the Philadelphia Eagles hoisting the Lombardi Trophy.
Speaker 2: Brian Baldinger with us here.
Speaker 1: Football is Back Back Together Weekend kicks off August first
Speaker 1: live coverage from NFL training camps across the league to
Speaker 1: it in Saturday, starting at nine am Eastern on ESPN
Speaker 1: and NFL Network. Coverage continues throughout the weekend right here
Speaker 1: on NFL Network. Looking forward to Back Together Saturday, as
Speaker 1: well as inside training Camp coming your way next week
Speaker 1: here on NFL Network. As for today, what's coming into
Speaker 1: our newsroom. Let's go a couple of miles southwest to
Speaker 1: El Segundo. That's where the Chargers are back at Quinn Johnson,
Speaker 1: friend of the show, making that one handed grab a
Speaker 1: little celebration. They are glad to be more healthy than
Speaker 1: they were in the middle. In a late part of
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five season, a vast majority of the
Speaker 1: snaps did not feature either Joe Off or Rashaan Slater.
Speaker 2: Jim Harball, to put it bluntly, like sys tackles.
Speaker 20: Everybody's clear past physical and ready to roll. It's like
Speaker 20: a plane, you know, just starting on a runway. You
Speaker 20: know it's gonna it's going to get moving, and it's
Speaker 20: going to get get going, and then it's going to
Speaker 20: start going so fast it's just going to take.
Speaker 7: Off and and be flying.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we're not gonna There's a ramp.
Speaker 1: Up not too far from the flight path from Lax
Speaker 1: there and also go tos Coach Armel.
Speaker 2: Has planes on the brain. I was wondering where I
Speaker 2: was going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure, but the injury submarine them in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, glad to have a lot of.
Speaker 2: Guys back healthy.
Speaker 4: I thought he was comparing his two superstar tackles to
Speaker 4: enormous planes who were on the runway. Once they get going,
Speaker 4: you can't stop them because they're so big and they're
Speaker 4: so fast and they're so good. That analogy actually makes
Speaker 4: a lot more sense than using it to ramp up.
Speaker 3: But I digress.
Speaker 4: The reason we're talking about this is because the Charges
Speaker 4: last year, for all the success and all the games
Speaker 4: they won, did so without two of the best.
Speaker 3: Tackles in football.
Speaker 4: Is really an incredible thing that they ended up getting done,
Speaker 4: and in the end they got justin Herbert hit far
Speaker 4: more than they ever wanted to do.
Speaker 3: It still made things happen on offense. They go into
Speaker 3: this year with a couple of changes.
Speaker 4: One, both those guys are healthy, creating what is one
Speaker 4: of the best offensive lines in the NFL, no doubt
Speaker 4: about it, just based on personnel and the fact that
Speaker 4: they have Mike McDaniel as an offensive coordinator and basically
Speaker 4: created this offense in his image. Really is going to
Speaker 4: determine where this Los Angeles Chargers offense goes. There's a
Speaker 4: lot of excitement, there's a lot of talent. He was,
Speaker 4: no doubt the top coordinator, hired after the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 4: fired him as the head coach. If they stay healthy,
Speaker 4: we will see what this offense is actually capable of.
Speaker 6: It.
Speaker 3: Man, it is going to be like planes.
Speaker 4: Taking off and then like going higher and just flying.
Speaker 3: Ikey, plane's flying.
Speaker 1: Continue the analogy. I guess the gear would come out
Speaker 1: at some point and then you land and you refuel,
Speaker 1: sure take right back off again. On the other side
Speaker 1: of the vision, if people think the Chargers have some changes,
Speaker 1: the shift's a bit more significant in Las Vegas, as
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins taking first team reps for Clint Kubiak's Raiders team.
Speaker 2: Imagine hearing that sentence about a year ago. But things
Speaker 2: change quickly, and if anyone's well aware of that, it's
Speaker 2: Kirk cous.
Speaker 3: Since Clint pretty definitively named you the starter.
Speaker 21: Just kind of what does it mean to you to
Speaker 21: have that opportunity and have that confidence from.
Speaker 14: The coaching staff.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I think in this league it's kind of one
Speaker 17: day at a time, So you're only as good as
Speaker 17: your last throw, your last practice, So you know, you
Speaker 17: try to every day go out and ear in that
Speaker 17: opportunity and never take anything for granted.
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders Veterans report this week. Yes, that now
Speaker 1: includes Ashton Genty as his rookie season is done, listed
Speaker 1: as a vet, Brock Bauers making his way in.
Speaker 2: Also including the man name does the starting quarterback, Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 2: But that's not the Kirk that we are focusing on.
Speaker 2: That is Kirk.
Speaker 1: Morrison, the former Raiders linebacker, part of the broadcast team,
Speaker 1: joining us here on the Insiders. Thanks for joining us, Kirk.
Speaker 1: It's been a whirlwind years about this time you got
Speaker 1: added to the broadcast team. Once a Raider, always a Raider.
Speaker 1: A lot has changed. What's it been like seeing all
Speaker 1: of these things happen over the past year, Yeah.
Speaker 22: Patri, I mean you mentioned it in a year, how
Speaker 22: quickly things have changed.
Speaker 2: Last year we're talking about Carroll and.
Speaker 22: The start of his era of Raider football as the
Speaker 22: head coach. You fast forward to now and this is
Speaker 22: now Clint Kubiak's team as he's coming in off of
Speaker 22: a winning a Super Bowl as an offensive coordinator with
Speaker 22: the Seattle Seahawks. It's a different mindset. He's now establishing
Speaker 22: his new culture. And you mentioned it, a lot of
Speaker 22: guys last year who were young players are now veterans,
Speaker 22: no longer rookies who're going to add to I think
Speaker 22: a lot of depth that this football team I think
Speaker 22: didn't really have a season ago.
Speaker 8: Kubiak has been adamant that Kirk Cousins is the starting
Speaker 8: quarterback for this team. Tell us where Fernando Mendoza is
Speaker 8: in his development and maybe what he has to do
Speaker 8: to push Kirk Cousins early in the season.
Speaker 22: Well, I think the big thing, Judy, is that Clint
Speaker 22: Kubiak started this whole thing out by saying, look, when
Speaker 22: we start training camp, Kirk Cousins will be our starting
Speaker 22: quarterback at the moment. And what that tells me is
Speaker 22: that they're giving Fernando Mendoza an opportunity to really start
Speaker 22: to develop and understand the nuances of the offense. We
Speaker 22: all know the ability of for Nana Mendoza, and I
Speaker 22: honestly I believe that his opportunity to start a quarterback
Speaker 22: will present itself in due time. But right now, if
Speaker 22: you're looking at this roster and saying, if you had
Speaker 22: a game tomorrow, Kirk Cousins is your best option at quarterback,
Speaker 22: and that just basically takes the pressure off of everybody
Speaker 22: Kirk gets the majority of those first team reps, but
Speaker 22: like practice just ended now and you're seeing Fornana Mendoza
Speaker 22: taking reps with the second and thirteen and fully developing
Speaker 22: early on as a young quarterback and learning how to
Speaker 22: continue to take those snaps for center. Today you saw
Speaker 22: a little bit of the rest for a rookie going
Speaker 22: in there and making some throws and understanding the time
Speaker 22: and it's needed. It's all part of that process. JU
Speaker 22: just excited to see it in personnel.
Speaker 1: Also get a chance to see in person Max Crosby,
Speaker 1: a franchise corner stow on the franchise, decided.
Speaker 2: To part ways with finds his way back.
Speaker 1: And now we've had a conversation with Jerry Jones yesterday
Speaker 1: mentioning talented defensive players that the Cowboys might be interested in.
Speaker 1: How do you think they're handling things in Las Vegas
Speaker 1: with the relative interest in Max Crosby, but also having
Speaker 1: a franchise cornerstone who got back on the franchise.
Speaker 22: You know, Patch, I had a chance to talk with
Speaker 22: the team yesterday just about the media requirements that are
Speaker 22: upon all NFL players, the obligation to talk to the media.
Speaker 22: But I really just let the guys know that, no
Speaker 22: matter what happens during the season, that the conversation is
Speaker 22: always going to be around certain players, and Max Crosby
Speaker 22: has actually earned that conversation because of the type of
Speaker 22: player that he is. One of the best players in
Speaker 22: the NFL on the defensive side, getting after the passer,
Speaker 22: being a disruptor on defense that a lot of teams
Speaker 22: would love to have a number ninety eight Max Crosby
Speaker 22: on that roster. That being said, we have to handle
Speaker 22: the day to day of Max Crosby as a Raider.
Speaker 2: I think we all know what.
Speaker 22: Happened this offseason, the trade that was made that didn't
Speaker 22: end up happening, and Max Crosby is back home where
Speaker 22: he always wanted to be with the Silver and Black.
Speaker 22: So it's going to be rumors, there's going to be
Speaker 22: trade thoughts, there's teams that are going to make some
Speaker 22: assumptions on what could happen. But right now, we know
Speaker 22: that Max Crosby is a Raider and I think that's
Speaker 22: where the focus will need to stay as this season
Speaker 22: continues to roll along.
Speaker 8: It's Clint Kubiak's first training camp.
Speaker 7: With the Raiders.
Speaker 8: What are you going to be looking for what's the
Speaker 8: vibe around Clint Kubiak's camp.
Speaker 7: It is all ball, Like Judy, they no lie.
Speaker 14: It is all ball here in Las Vegas. They don't
Speaker 14: talk about anything else.
Speaker 3: It is all about the ball.
Speaker 22: Practice starts at seven thirty am, obviously because of whether
Speaker 22: how hot it gets.
Speaker 3: During the summer months.
Speaker 14: But these guys are here early and they're.
Speaker 22: All about executing, developing, creating a culture, just obviously all
Speaker 22: about team, team building, team camaraderie.
Speaker 14: There is no eye, they said, the I is not
Speaker 14: in the building.
Speaker 22: It is all about team and that's the culture that
Speaker 22: he wants to present. We saw what it looked like
Speaker 22: with the Seattle Seahawks with Mike McDonald's head coach, Clint
Speaker 22: Kubiak as offensive coordinator. That's something that worked in Seattle.
Speaker 22: I think he's bringing some of that, not all of it,
Speaker 22: but some of that down here to Las Vegas. And
Speaker 22: you can see the players are buying in big time.
Speaker 22: They're all about what Clint preaches. The expectations within this
Speaker 22: building are extremely high. Maybe not outside of the locker
Speaker 22: room when it comes nationally, but the way the guys
Speaker 22: are so receptible what Clint has been preaching.
Speaker 7: I'm excited.
Speaker 2: I told him I sued up for him, you know.
Speaker 22: Hearing him talking to team meeting, so excited to what
Speaker 22: he's been able to I think implement so far in
Speaker 22: the early stages of training camp.
Speaker 1: We get to see more of that training camp came
Speaker 1: and I will need to see you on the road
Speaker 1: as your camp tour goes on, including that Week two opponent,
Speaker 1: the division rival Los Angeles Chargers.
Speaker 2: Kirk Morrison, thanks for joining us here on this edition
Speaker 2: of The Insiders.
Speaker 14: Thank you both appreciate it.
Speaker 1: One thing that's big in fantasy football tiers, no, not
Speaker 1: crying when you lose, but actual top tier quarterback lists.
Speaker 2: Michael f. Floyo has the best list. He'll tell you
Speaker 2: who's on it. Coming up next on The Insider.
Speaker 1: Back On the Insiders, here are the top ten quarterbacks
Speaker 1: according to Madden NFL twenty seven ratings. Out of some
Speaker 1: of these guys stay on the list, answer is a
Speaker 1: little different for a few of them. Here's what we
Speaker 1: heard from the top quarterbacks this week.
Speaker 23: Yeah, it's an exciting feeling, but like we talked about
Speaker 23: today and yesterday, it doesn't matter now.
Speaker 7: You know, we had a great offseason.
Speaker 14: On paper.
Speaker 16: But you know, now we have to go and put.
Speaker 19: All these pieces together and have individual improvement, have cohesive improvement,
Speaker 19: and you know, find out who we are as a team.
Speaker 24: In jail, I just hit the easy ones, you know,
Speaker 24: when there, when they're there, being rhythm with myself, be
Speaker 24: confident and my guys, be confident within the play, deliver
Speaker 24: a good ball, deliver a catch the ball, and then
Speaker 24: from there when things happen, I put on the cape
Speaker 24: and go do.
Speaker 23: My thing, staying sharp on everything so I can play
Speaker 23: fast like I was at the end of the season.
Speaker 23: And the chemistry and just the rapport with me and
Speaker 23: the skill guys is so important. And just really tapping
Speaker 23: into that all throughout training camp and making sure that
Speaker 23: we're on the same page, because you saw when we
Speaker 23: started clicking at the end of the last season, you know,
Speaker 23: how efficient and how sharp we were in some of
Speaker 23: the players we were able to make.
Speaker 7: So just starting that now and trying.
Speaker 23: To practice like that every day, you know, so we
Speaker 23: can start the season that way and not take a
Speaker 23: few weeks to get there.
Speaker 25: One hundred percent alignment and zero entitlement, And so as
Speaker 25: a team, that's that's what everybody's pushing. I'm taught to
Speaker 25: Saquon and he's talking about just us being disciplined, and
Speaker 25: that's going out there and fight for one another and executing.
Speaker 25: So you know, that's a bigger picture standpoint, and I
Speaker 25: think Coachiriani is he's starting with him obviously, but we just.
Speaker 7: Want to take it a day out of.
Speaker 25: Time and being able to onboard everything we're doing and
Speaker 25: continue to deposit daily.
Speaker 1: Let's onboard your fantasy football primer process as we continue
Speaker 1: are push towards your fantasy draft. Michael fl floorial back
Speaker 1: here in studio with us as one of the most
Speaker 1: easily applied draft strategies is to have tiers for your quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: And I feel like you got one that probably stands
Speaker 1: above the rest.
Speaker 21: Yeah, there's one name in my tier one at quarterback.
Speaker 7: You could probably guess who it is. It's Josh Allen.
Speaker 21: Why because his worst fantasy finish in any of the
Speaker 21: last six years.
Speaker 7: It's QB two overall.
Speaker 21: And there's other quarterbacks that may bring similar upside, but
Speaker 21: no one brings the combination of high floor and ceiling
Speaker 21: like Allen. He is the highest fantasy point game ever
Speaker 21: by a quarterback twelve or more rushing touchdowns in each
Speaker 21: of the last three seasons. Something that we didn't see
Speaker 21: him doing in the start of the run was putting
Speaker 21: up rushing touchdowns like that. But with DJ Moore in
Speaker 21: a potentially more aggressive passing attack, we could see him
Speaker 21: reach new heights.
Speaker 7: Because we've seen him put up big rushing numbers.
Speaker 21: Touchdown wise and big other years, put up big passing numbers.
Speaker 7: We haven't seen him kind of put it all together
Speaker 7: at once. But he's in Tier one by himself.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the second tier because you got multiple
Speaker 1: options for folks picking later, probably in the draft.
Speaker 7: Yeah, this is.
Speaker 21: Lamar, Jaden and Drake May here. They are all elite
Speaker 21: running and passing quarterbacks. Any of them can put up
Speaker 21: numbers similar to a Josh Allen, It's.
Speaker 7: Just not as secure like two years ago.
Speaker 21: Lamar Jackson scored the most Fantasy points ever by a quarterback,
Speaker 21: and reports are.
Speaker 7: That he could throw more.
Speaker 21: Jaden Daniels had arguably the greatest rookie season ever by
Speaker 21: a quarterback, and he scored nineteen or more Fantasy points
Speaker 21: in eighty percent of the games that he has finished.
Speaker 21: And May was the QB two last week last year
Speaker 21: with the most top twelve finishes, and he added aj Brown.
Speaker 21: So really a lot of optimism for all of those
Speaker 21: guys important.
Speaker 2: As you noted, they're in the start of that.
Speaker 1: Any one of those guys can score comparably similar to
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, but it's just on a weekend, week out basis.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen stands alone by himself. Then we get some
Speaker 1: more options in the second tier. Who do you have
Speaker 1: in your third tier?
Speaker 7: I think this rounds up the elites at the position.
Speaker 21: It is Joe Burrow and Jalen Hurts, and both of
Speaker 21: them on any given week could put up numbers like
Speaker 21: the there's the differences. You don't get the passing and
Speaker 21: rushing production like you do from the top four.
Speaker 7: Like Joe Burrow tied to a great.
Speaker 21: Offense, maybe the best one two punch at wide receiver
Speaker 21: in the NFL, and a defense with questions.
Speaker 7: But why is he tier three? Because two years ago.
Speaker 21: He put up the best passing numbers of anyone in
Speaker 21: the NFL and he was still just a QB three
Speaker 21: because he doesn't run. Hurts top five in points per
Speaker 21: game each of the three of the last four years.
Speaker 7: The rushing touchdowns push him up, but he hasn't put
Speaker 7: up the.
Speaker 21: Big passing numbers like say Drake May and Lamar Jackson
Speaker 21: and Josh Allen, so that's why he's in Tier three.
Speaker 21: And then Tier four is huge. I think it's over
Speaker 21: twelve names of my Tier four.
Speaker 7: It is. All of these are guys that had finished
Speaker 7: as qb ones before we know they have the ability
Speaker 7: to do so.
Speaker 21: Justin Herbert is who I ranked the highest of the bunch,
Speaker 21: and he's the one I like the most, but at
Speaker 21: cost because that matters. I like Jackson and Kyler Murray
Speaker 21: the most in this group. But just last year Stafford,
Speaker 21: Lawrence and Caleb were top five at the quarterback position.
Speaker 21: We've seen Dak and Mahomes do that. Party and bo
Speaker 21: Nicks have top seven finishes under their belt. Jared goffis
Speaker 21: perhaps the safest quarterback in all of Fantasy.
Speaker 7: So any of these guys, if you wait on.
Speaker 21: Quarterback, you could feel comfortable with them being your weekly starter.
Speaker 1: And for the folks that are like, wow, we got
Speaker 1: thirteen guys in one tier, there's plenty of two quarterback leagues.
Speaker 1: We don't know your settings, Plenty two quarterback leagues, a
Speaker 1: lot of super flex leagues, there's plenty of different ways
Speaker 1: for you to participate in fantasy football, but considering the
Speaker 1: volume of names in Tier four, it feels like it's
Speaker 1: a rough news for anybody that finds themselves in the
Speaker 1: fifth tier.
Speaker 7: So tier five is names that I still like, but
Speaker 7: they're not quite.
Speaker 21: As proven as the names in Tier four. Like I
Speaker 21: really like Malik Willis. I think he's going to have
Speaker 21: to run a bunch. I came on this show and said,
Speaker 21: I think he finished his top twelve this year, but
Speaker 21: you don't have to pay that price for him. Tyler,
Speaker 21: Schuck and cam Ward also bring low NQB one upside
Speaker 21: and improved situations from last year. The rest are more
Speaker 21: safe floor options that you could plug in in a pinch,
Speaker 21: like a bye week replacement or an injury replacement.
Speaker 7: And I know there's a lot of names there, but
Speaker 7: do you wait.
Speaker 21: It's never a bad idea to take two quarterbacks and
Speaker 21: kind of play the match up one.
Speaker 7: It'll get hot or something like that.
Speaker 21: And so that's what if I'm not getting elite, I
Speaker 21: like to wait in my Tier four and grab two names.
Speaker 1: High upside is where we get the value add and
Speaker 1: no better value add on this.
Speaker 2: Show, to Michael Flurio.
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Speaker 1: Let's get you some news. What's today into with our newsroom.
Speaker 1: Bengals defense been Shamar Stewart still awaiting a prognosis on
Speaker 1: a left leg injury after he was carted off today.
Speaker 1: Best wishes to Shamar Stewart. We already have the bad
Speaker 1: news for Brian Brazi. It is feared to be a
Speaker 1: torn ACL according to NFL Network, consider Ian rap For
Speaker 1: and Mike Garrofalo would end his twenty twenty six season. Also,
Speaker 1: Panthers rookie Chris Brazzel had an LCL tear.
Speaker 2: In his left knee.
Speaker 1: Per Joe Pearson person It's believed to be unrelated to
Speaker 1: earlier in the issue for him. Good injury news Malik
Speaker 1: Neighbors not being placed on the physically unable to perform lists.
Speaker 1: We have video of him practicing. Joe Shane on the
Speaker 1: decision to not place him on the pup list.
Speaker 16: We've got a really good plan for him. The medical
Speaker 16: staff has a really good plan for him. And you know,
Speaker 16: we're gonna always say listen to the patient. So we're
Speaker 16: gonna we're gonna see how he reacts. And you know,
Speaker 16: we got again, we got a good plan in play.
Speaker 16: So as long as everything goes as planned, you know,
Speaker 16: we'll listen to the to Malik and his body and
Speaker 16: you know, again hopefully he'll be ready, and you know,
Speaker 16: we'll see how it plays out. But no predictions right now,
Speaker 16: just because we have a long way to go. Still
Speaker 16: on a lot of camp.
Speaker 1: Bucks Star defensive tackle Vita Vea has been trying to
Speaker 1: get a new contract. Earlier this week, did request a trade,
Speaker 1: didn't practice Wednesday with a back ish you. Here's his
Speaker 1: head coach, Todd Bowles on Vita Vea, what reports.
Speaker 23: To v to B wants to be treated?
Speaker 24: What's your reaction to.
Speaker 26: That comes up every year? That usually takes care of himself.
Speaker 26: Our job is to get the guys ready to play
Speaker 26: for camp Beat is here. We're getting him ready. He's
Speaker 26: engaged in the meetings. He understands everything. He helped all
Speaker 26: the guys out, so we're getting ready to play the
Speaker 26: season with him.
Speaker 2: Todd Bowles wants to play the season with him.
Speaker 4: What's your view, Ian Worthings stand now, that is my
Speaker 4: expectation to rarely do good teams trade really really good players.
Speaker 3: Vita Vea a.
Speaker 4: Really really good player, wanted a contracts extension. Judy just
Speaker 4: not going to happen. So he's noticing that, you know,
Speaker 4: back injury until he ends up practicing until they fix it.
Speaker 2: Back injury.
Speaker 8: Todd Bowles is a is a very good head coach
Speaker 8: and very much a player's head coach who would go
Speaker 8: out there and say, tweaked us back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Bucks will continue to navigate that. We will navigate.
Speaker 1: Towards tomorrow, which takes us one week away from the
Speaker 1: start of the preseason and the twenty twenty six Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame game. We'll see you back here tomorrow, same
Speaker 1: time on The Insiders for NFL Network. Consider Ian Rappaport,
Speaker 1: Gidie Batista. I'm Patrick Claybon. Thanks for watching The Insiders.
Speaker 2: See you tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: Everybody