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Speaker 1: one big item still left on their offseason checklis. When

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Speaker 1: costs Jerry Jones again, we will.

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Speaker 2: Tell you what Micah is saying now.

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Speaker 1: That's not the only question around the NFL as most

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Speaker 1: teams head into the break before training camp. Jeffrey jedia

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Speaker 1: joins us with answers tonight on the defending champs, the

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Speaker 1: return of the forty nine ers, AFC contenders, and much more.

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Speaker 2: Your weather app might be borderline.

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Speaker 1: Useless these days, but Adam Rank's fantasy forecasts rarely miss

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Speaker 1: Who does he like and who should you avoid at

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Speaker 1: all costs? Rank ranks the possibilities tonight. Welcome inside with

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Speaker 1: the inside as longside.

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Speaker 2: Ian Rappaport.

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Speaker 1: I am Tom pelisserro we are eighty three day out

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Speaker 1: from kickoff. Did you just realize his name is Rank

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Speaker 1: and we have him ranked things?

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Speaker 2: Yes? See in Big Time News tonight.

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Speaker 3: No, here's what I have to say, Tom, this is

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Speaker 3: the dark Ages of weather apps. It's all over the map.

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Speaker 3: It means literally nothing. What's shown right now could have

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Speaker 3: no bearing on what's shown an hour from now. I

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Speaker 3: don't understand where who's doing the weather apps these days.

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Speaker 1: That's a much more layered question we will not address

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Speaker 1: the habit when it comes to big contracts in June

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Speaker 1: the recent years. Nothing Michael Parsons is talking, though. He

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Speaker 1: spoke with longtime local reporter Clarence Hill during this week's

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Speaker 2: Well, here we are again.

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Speaker 1: He's getting the info and Micah does not yet have

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and if the Cowboys want all of the info,

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Speaker 3: still several edge rushers who may get done before Micah.

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Speaker 3: Parsons and you're right. Parsons was fascinating in that article

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Speaker 3: acknowledging that there was a sort of kind of negotiation

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Speaker 3: David Mulgetta, who is Michah Parson's agents, generally pushes for

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Speaker 3: Two hours before kickoff, you and I will be furiously

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Speaker 3: texting you to each other, just like we were during

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of people who wonder when everything

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Speaker 1: that's always the standard in Green Bay. They've got more

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Speaker 2: It's the last hurdle that we've.

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Speaker 1: Not seen a highly successful coach in Matt Lafleur be

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Speaker 5: Hello Ian, Hello Tom, Happy Friday to you guys. They

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Speaker 5: do have their work cutout. And congratulations to Mark Murphy's

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Speaker 1: to the Insiders, Tom Pelisero, joined once again by Stacy

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Speaker 4: Well, Tom, I have.

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Speaker 5: I don't expect any drop off because you mentioned Howie Roseman.

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to that Super Bowl, third straight appearance

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Speaker 1: We know every year, Jeffery, we start out with the

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Speaker 2: It's every single year deals with the teacher. Who else in.

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Speaker 1: Your mind could join those teams among the AFC contenders.

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Speaker 7: Injuries hurt, but their pride, their resilience will show up

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Speaker 7: this year. That'll be back in the playoff contingent Stacy, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And I think when you talk about injuries like let's

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Speaker 5: be real here that they were the most injured team

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Speaker 5: in the NFL last season, and what Kyle Shanahan did

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Speaker 5: it kind of keep them afloat was pretty special. And

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Speaker 5: that's why he is the coach that he is. He's

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Speaker 5: a special head coach. They still had offensively one of

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Speaker 5: the top ten offenses in the NFL, and we're, you know,

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Speaker 5: tops in a number of metrics despite all of their injuries.

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Speaker 5: And you talk about Christian McCaffrey and Brandon I you

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Speaker 5: coming back from ACL and then you think about their schedule. Now,

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Speaker 5: a lot of people want to hate on a couple

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Speaker 5: of other divisions they're playing, like the NFC South and

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Speaker 5: the AFC South, But they have a schedule that perhaps

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Speaker 5: is favorable. But listen, if they get healthy and they

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Speaker 5: get sort of in check defensively with some of their

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Speaker 5: new personnel and you mentioned Jeff Robert Sola, they will

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Speaker 5: be right back in the hunt. In the division. Of course,

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Speaker 5: right now, the Rams are pretty special, especially with the

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Speaker 5: addition of Devonte Adams. Another tough division, but I think

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Speaker 5: you know, listen, the forty nine ers are never out

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Speaker 5: of this thing, Tom Like, they just never are. I know,

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Speaker 5: last year wasn't the year they wanted. But that's what

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Speaker 5: happens when you get decimated by injury.

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Speaker 1: NFL dot com slash first Read, where you can find

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Speaker 1: the other six questions. I think I'm doing that math right.

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Speaker 1: From Jeffrey to Dia. Jeffrey, thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: being here, Stacey, stick around. More from you later. But first,

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Speaker 1: Adam Rank is joining this show. You never know what's

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Speaker 1: going to happen when Rank's on, or they're going to

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Speaker 1: be props or they're going to be characters. There will

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Speaker 1: be information about the second year quarterbacks you should take

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Speaker 1: and who you should not in your fantasy draft rank

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Speaker 1: for this Next on The Insiders.

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Speaker 8: On Achieva week, Chicago Bears rookie class was at Wrigley Field.

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Speaker 3: Thrown out the first pitch. Izzi Trapilo right there on

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Speaker 3: the mound, surrounded by his buddies. They're all celebrating. I

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Speaker 3: think it was I think it was fine. Now it

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Speaker 3: wasn't Ben Johnson's effort. Johnson threw a strike. That guy

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Speaker 3: had some action on his ball. This was sort of

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Speaker 3: just meh. And if you want to know why I

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Speaker 3: can say this, it's because I am literally an expert

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Speaker 3: there there's me throwing out the first pitch in the

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Speaker 3: met game COVID style. I got a mask. It's all good,

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Speaker 3: great arm action. It was a strike. That's my wife

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Speaker 3: who caught it, by the way, which thank god, because

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Speaker 3: had I bounced that her ankle shoe would have been

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Speaker 3: so mad at me. I never would have lived it down. Instead,

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Speaker 3: I crushed it. I am there for an expert, someone

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Speaker 3: who has never thrown out the first pitch if any

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Speaker 3: baseball game ever. Adam Rank, thank you very much for

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Speaker 3: joining this. I get a bunch of questions for you.

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Speaker 3: First of all, have you ever thrown out a first pitch?

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Speaker 4: I have not.

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Speaker 9: The Angels have not offered me that invitation. I will

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Speaker 9: tell you, and I'm sure I know what they do.

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Speaker 2: They don't let you.

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Speaker 9: Go from the mound. I'm going from the mound. This

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Speaker 9: is probably why the angels won't let me do it.

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Speaker 9: I'm going from the mound. I'm bringing a glove, and

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Speaker 9: I'm going crazy regardless of what happens.

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Speaker 3: No, you're not doing any of those things. All right,

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Speaker 3: let's get to fantasy football. I know it's to but

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Speaker 3: it's not too early for fantasy football. As those of

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Speaker 3: us have big time decisions to make, especially as it

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Speaker 3: pertains to our keeper leagues. Talk me through a couple

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Speaker 3: second year quarterbacks, starting with Caleb Williams.

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Speaker 9: Well, Caleb Williams right now, as it stands, I have

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Speaker 9: them as the quarterback twelve. I have them ahead of

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Speaker 9: guys like Jordan Love and Dak Prescott and even brock

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Speaker 9: Perty And a lot of it is based on what

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Speaker 9: Jared Goff was able to do last year with Ben

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Speaker 9: Johnson as his offensive coordinator. You know, he was averaging

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Speaker 9: around twenty fantasy points per game, and I would say

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Speaker 9: that Caleb has an opportunity to kind of get similar

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Speaker 9: numbers at a bit. The reason why is that he

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Speaker 9: has the ability to run the football. So I'm looking

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Speaker 9: forward to him taking more chances down the field. There's

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Speaker 9: more attention to detail with the coaching staff. Here some

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Speaker 9: great weapons out there, So I'm willing if I need

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Speaker 9: to wait on a quarterback. I'm waiting for Caleb Williams

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Speaker 9: now Jade Daniels. Gosh, when you look at Jaden Daniels

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Speaker 9: and what he was able to do last year, you're

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Speaker 9: probably asking yourself, who are the quarterbacks that were drafting

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Speaker 9: ahead of him? I would say, for sure, Josh Allen,

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Speaker 9: Lamar Jackson, that might be it, that might be the list.

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Speaker 9: He's like, he could end up being the first quarterback

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Speaker 9: off the board because people really do love Jade and Daniels,

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Speaker 9: and for great reason. When you look back at his

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Speaker 9: numbers from last season, he was the quarterback five, just

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Speaker 9: to step ahead of Jared Goff. But still when you

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Speaker 9: look at it, you look at the addition of Deebo Samuel,

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Speaker 9: there's a great opportunity for Jade and Daniels to be

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Speaker 9: the quarterback won this season.

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Speaker 4: And finally, let's talk about Drake May.

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Speaker 9: I have Drake May a little bit lower. He's the

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Speaker 9: quarterback eighteen. But this is not of a smirch him

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Speaker 9: because when you look at this tier, and I usually

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Speaker 9: keep the quarterbacks on tier, he's in a tier with

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Speaker 9: Trevor Lawrence, C. J. Stroud, Matthew Stafford, players like that.

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Speaker 9: But he's kind of a fun option. The real opportunity

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Speaker 9: was Stefan Diggs here. He had at least seventy plus

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Speaker 9: Fantasy points in six of twelve starts. The one thing

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Speaker 9: that people kind of overlook with Drake May he had

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Speaker 9: four hundred and nine rushing yards since he became the

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Speaker 9: starter in Week six that was QB four numbers. So

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Speaker 9: I think he's a really good option this year. Again,

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Speaker 9: if you miss out on a quarterback, don't panic. You'll

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Speaker 9: get guys like Drake May.

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Speaker 3: That feels low for Drake May. It feels like a

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Speaker 3: breakout year coming. The surrounding hims some weapons we'll see

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Speaker 3: though obviously has not proven it like the other guys.

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Speaker 3: What about some of the guys drafted a little bit

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Speaker 3: later than this grouple, Let's talk about Michael Pennix and

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Speaker 3: some of his friends.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, he's in the top thirty two for me. Now,

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Speaker 9: it's really kind of hard to evaluate Michael Pennocks given

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Speaker 9: you know, he didn't play a lot of a season.

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Speaker 9: He averaged just over fourteen Fantasy points into three career

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Speaker 9: games he did start. However, if you look at Week eighteen,

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Speaker 9: he was fantastic. In Week eighteen through for over three

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Speaker 9: hundred yards, had a couple of touchdowns, and he had

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Speaker 9: what close to twenty five Fantasy points in that game.

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Speaker 9: If I'm remembering this correctly, he looked fantastic. They got

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Speaker 9: some pretty nice weapons out there for him. Michael Pennix

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Speaker 9: is one of those guys who's going to be a

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Speaker 9: little bit more of an insurance option for me, but

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Speaker 9: he's still got the opportunity. And another guy that we

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Speaker 9: really can't evaluate that much is JJ McCarthy because we

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Speaker 9: didn't see him at all.

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Speaker 4: I will tell you this though, right.

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Speaker 9: Now, Ian, I am not leaving my draft without JJ

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Speaker 9: McCarthy as a backup wow quarterback. Look when you look

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Speaker 9: at the success the Kyle Shanahan and all the coaches

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Speaker 9: under the Mike Shanahan coaching tree, what these guys have

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Speaker 9: been able to do, What Kyle Shanahan's been able to do,

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Speaker 9: what koc has been able to do, and Sean McVay

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Speaker 9: with these guys. Given a player like JJ McCarthy who's

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Speaker 9: getting an opportunity here, I'm not leaving my draft without him,

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Speaker 9: just in case he breaks out, and he could break

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Speaker 9: out like bow Knicks Bo Knicks. Right now is my

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Speaker 9: quarterback eight?

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Speaker 4: That's right. I have him ranked ahead of Caleb Williams

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Speaker 4: right now.

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Speaker 9: I know, I listen. I love this pick. I really do.

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Speaker 9: Last year he was the quarterback seven. He the big

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Speaker 9: The big thing is he runs the football. Again, A

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Speaker 9: lot of people don't understand. They look at bon Nicks.

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Speaker 9: They don't think of him as this athletic quarterback. But

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Speaker 9: it's one of the reasons why Sean Payton was really

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Speaker 9: drawn to him, is the athleticism that bow Knicks has.

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Speaker 9: Now they've gone out there, they brought in a couple

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Speaker 9: of extra weapons for him. I think Evan Ingram has

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Speaker 9: a real opportunity for a breakout season with the Denver Broncos,

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Speaker 9: so bow Knicks is another good option.

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Speaker 4: I know a lot of people always love.

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Speaker 9: To steal Caleb Williams for me from me, and if

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Speaker 9: they do, I'll just take Caleb.

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Speaker 4: I'll just take bow Nicks and'll be fine.

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Speaker 3: I mean, expectations are sky high for bo Nicks. If

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Speaker 3: he even comes close to living up to them, Denver

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Speaker 3: Broncos are gonna have a very very good year. For

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Speaker 3: those of us who try to get him in fantasy,

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Speaker 3: we also will have a good year. Rank Thank you

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Speaker 3: very much.

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Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere.

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Speaker 3: We got a lot more from you before this show ends,

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Speaker 3: but for this very segment only, I say thank you.

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Speaker 2: Carolini.

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Speaker 3: Panthers are thinking that guy right there bryce you, especially

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Speaker 3: because of how we played the last three games this season.

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Speaker 3: He seems to be a quarterback on the rise as well.

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Speaker 2: How much so?

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Speaker 3: And why let's talk to our good friend Stacy Dale's

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Speaker 3: about that coming on.

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Speaker 1: Chris Godwin opted to stay in Tampa during free agency

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Speaker 1: this year, but he will still have a new jersey

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. Godwin announced on social media this

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Speaker 1: week and via the Bucks that he is adding Junior

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Speaker 1: to his uniform name plate in honor of his late father.

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Speaker 2: We know this much.

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Speaker 1: The Bucks have a whole lot of weapons, right, Mike Evans.

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Speaker 7: I'll do the same every year, work out really hard, hangle,

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Speaker 7: my family, play video games, going troops.

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Speaker 2: Don't normal the same.

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Speaker 6: Thing we do. Your impressions of a Mecca and Ted

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Speaker 6: and new rookies in the wide receiver. I know I

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Speaker 6: say it a lot, but this might be the best

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Speaker 6: receiver room I've been a part of them.

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Speaker 2: I say it every year, but we always get great

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Speaker 2: players to come in.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Insiders, Tom Pilaicero, Ian Rapaport, Stacy Dales.

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Speaker 2: You heard it right there, Stacey.

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Speaker 1: From Mike Evans, he says, as he does on an

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Speaker 1: annual basis, this might be the best wider super group

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Speaker 1: that he has been a part of. You adda Mecca

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Speaker 1: Muka to the mix and certainly makes me made. Maybe

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Speaker 1: the depth is as good as it's been.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So I liked this team going into last year.

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Speaker 5: Obviously we saw the success going to the playoffs despite losing.

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Speaker 5: I love this team. I really love this offense. And

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Speaker 5: you know you lose Liam Cohen, he goes and becomes

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Speaker 5: at the last minute the head coach of the Jags,

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Speaker 5: and Josh Grizzard steps in, who is your past game coordinator?

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Speaker 5: Fellas last year? He takes over first time play caller

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Speaker 5: in the NFL. But I'm okay hay with it because

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Speaker 5: Baker Mayfield's been there, done that, and as Grizzard recently said,

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Speaker 5: everything runs through Bake and that's how good he's become.

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Speaker 5: With these teammates, the offensive line pretty much would do

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Speaker 5: anything for their quarterback. But then when you look at

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Speaker 5: this talented roster you mentioned tom ameca Abuka, Okay, Jason

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Speaker 5: Light deserves an incredible amount of kudos because he continues

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Speaker 5: to bring in not just superstar potentially type players, but

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Speaker 5: high character players that are gonna fit on Mike Evans'

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Speaker 5: wide receiver corp and a Chris Godwin receiver Corp because

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Speaker 5: they're incredibly high character and so ameca Abuka I mentioned.

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Speaker 5: But then I go to the seventh round and I

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Speaker 5: look at tes Johnson. Yeah, he dropped right at the

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Speaker 5: combine probably and just through the course of his draft

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Speaker 5: process because he's like five nine a Buck fifty five,

655
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Speaker 5: but he's a little speedster. They're gonna be able to

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Speaker 5: use him, especially in the slot, all those receivers. Luke Getticky,

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Speaker 5: I am excited for these Bucks fans because I think

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Speaker 5: it's going to be a really unique offense for them

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Speaker 5: this year with Baker.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, any other team right now, we've been

661
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Speaker 3: talking about Jalen McMillan as a breakout player and where

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Speaker 3: you're going to take him in fantasy, except they drafted

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Speaker 3: the mechaic Buga. They've added a bunch of pieces. They

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Speaker 3: also have Bucky Irving, who is basically coming off a

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Speaker 3: breakout season of him. So I don't know how many

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Speaker 3: different guys they can get the ball to. I don't

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Speaker 3: know how stacked they could be. But you know, to me,

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Speaker 3: definitely a little bit of a different look for Tampa

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Speaker 3: than than we are used to. And you know, this

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Speaker 3: was why it was so hard to figure out who

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Speaker 3: they were going to draft because they don't need anything

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Speaker 3: right like they didn't once they got Chris Goblin back

673
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Speaker 3: in free agency, I felt like they were good. It's

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Speaker 3: just riches upon riches. This should be a very, very

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Speaker 3: good offense in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Jaskers are just the latest Buccaneers offensive coordinator. They also

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Speaker 1: had to change last year when Dave Canalis left for Carolina,

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Speaker 1: where he's got a quarterback that he thinks might have

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Speaker 1: a chance to give him a chance in the NFC South.

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Speaker 2: Excellent.

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Speaker 10: You know, I think the pace of our offensive development

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Speaker 10: evolution is growing at the pace of Brice, and he's

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Speaker 10: showing such great mastery of what we're doing that he's

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Speaker 10: allowing us to really push the envelope and do more things.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: Cut Dave Canalis a break for the voice there. I

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Speaker 1: assume it was a long week there in mini camp.

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Speaker 1: You look at Bryce Young in the twenty twenty four seasons,

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Speaker 1: the starter, of course benched in favor of Andy Dalton,

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Speaker 1: But once he got back out there at the end

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Speaker 1: of the season, he's throwing passes and turning his back

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Speaker 1: and signaling touchdown without even looking that the ball gets

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Speaker 1: completed stacy.

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Speaker 2: The arrow does appear to be pointing up.

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Speaker 1: The question now is if Bryce Young continues this improvement,

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Speaker 1: how good can this Panthers team be in twenty twenty five?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Tom Anian, I mean mastery is a strong word

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Speaker 5: to use after OTA's. It just tells me he has

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Speaker 5: a good pulse on the terminology and the verbiage going

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Speaker 5: into this season with Dave Canalis. I'm more concerned though

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Speaker 5: about the Bucks or excuse me, the Panthers defensively. I mean,

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Speaker 5: when you consider a young quarterback like this and some

703
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Speaker 5: nice pieces offensively, they got to have a defense that

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Speaker 5: can get the ball back for them, and unfortunately for them.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I love Idiro Rivero Avero, but

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Speaker 5: their defensive coordinator, but last year was was not good.

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Speaker 5: I mean they were the worst defense, total defense, scoring defense,

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Speaker 5: rushing defense. They're the worst on third down you see

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Speaker 5: the lower third right there. And I think there were

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Speaker 5: a combination of things. Injuries played a big factor, Personnel

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Speaker 5: didn't always match up to this base four to three,

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Speaker 5: and kind of Vic Fangio tendencies within it. So personnel changed.

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Speaker 5: I mean, they have a lot of new pieces through

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Speaker 5: via free agency and a couple of rookies you're going

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Speaker 5: to want to keep your eye on, and Prince Uman

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Speaker 5: Mielien Uman Miellen is you know, drafted in the second

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Speaker 5: round for a reason, linebacker, and then Nick Scorton linebacker.

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Speaker 5: Those guys are going to have to step in and

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Speaker 5: really help this defense and have somewhat of a resurgence

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Speaker 5: to improve upon what they were last year. Ian.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Carolina Panther's on defense had a very clear vision

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Speaker 3: this offseason needed to get better. Signed. I think four

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Speaker 3: starters in agency might end up being five, we'll see,

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Speaker 3: but definitely definitely added a bunch of talent there, did

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Speaker 3: it in the draft as well. And look, the fact

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Speaker 3: that we are talking about this team really does revolve

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Speaker 3: around that guy right there. Yes, the defense is gonna

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Speaker 3: get gonna get better. Hopefully is adequate if there should

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Speaker 3: be a really well coached defense that helps. But for

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Speaker 3: Bryce Young to take that leap that he needs to make,

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Speaker 3: I mean, that really is what's gonna determine whether or

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Speaker 3: not the Carolina Panthers challenge for a playoff spot, whether

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Speaker 3: or not Bryce Young is in fact that franchise guy

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Speaker 3: like they draft.

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Speaker 4: Him to be.

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Speaker 3: And the early returns. In other words, the last several

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Speaker 3: games of last season really do point to him becoming

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Speaker 3: exactly what the Carolina Panthers have hoped for the last

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Speaker 3: two years along National nine. Mare is over because that

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Speaker 3: guy was actually in a camp. That's Aaron Rodgers, remember him,

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Speaker 3: That Steelers guy who signed a week ago. Was the

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Speaker 3: biggest deal the whole offseason. That it happened, and we

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Speaker 3: were kind of like, all right, I guess he signed.

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Speaker 3: I guess he's on the Steelers now. Anyway, moving on

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Speaker 3: to TJ Watt, Yes, Rogers is on the Steelers.

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Speaker 4: Don't worry.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk about it a ton during training camp. But

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Speaker 3: that all happened. That was not the only thing to

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Speaker 3: happen this week with the Steelers. So let's welcome in

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Speaker 3: our good friend Adam Rank for a segment we call

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Speaker 3: what are They Thinking? So I'll start with this, Rank,

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Speaker 3: what's your beef with the Steelers?

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Speaker 9: You know what, honestly, it's not signing Aaron Rodgers because

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Speaker 9: I thought that was a good movie. He's better than

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Speaker 9: Mason Rudolph and everything. So well done, Steelers. T I

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Speaker 9: take obception to is Mike Tomlin saying, you know what

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Speaker 9: we got to have hotter mini cams. It's gotta be

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Speaker 9: hotter during the day for us to have What do

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Speaker 9: you do? You just watch the Junction Boys and think

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Speaker 9: to himself like, oh, yeah, it's gotta be warmer, Like, oh,

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Speaker 9: we got it. This is this what we're focusing on Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 9: Like I get it. Like obviously last season the Steelers

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Speaker 9: started off very hot and then faded down the stretch

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Speaker 9: and Mike Tomlin's like, you know what, It's because I

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Speaker 9: had our training camp practices in the morning. Or perhaps

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Speaker 9: it was because you had Justin Field starting and he

767
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Speaker 9: went four and two and you're like, yeah, that's great,

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Speaker 9: Justin We're gonna go with Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 4: I think that was the bigger issue.

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Speaker 9: I don't think it was the timing of training camp

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Speaker 9: start times. I don't think it was the fact that

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Speaker 9: somebody's eating permantes for lunch. It was the fact that

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Speaker 9: you pulled out the better quarterback. That's why your team suffered,

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Speaker 9: not this practice starting time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're probably right. All right on to

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Speaker 3: the next. Brad Holmes, the general manager for the Detroit Lions,

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Speaker 3: who has done an excellent, excellent job of stocking that roster.

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Speaker 3: It's talking about Ben Johnson in Chicago. What was he thinking?

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Speaker 4: What are he doing? Why is he so upset? Ben?

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Speaker 4: Brad Holmes like a lion.

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Speaker 9: A lot of Lions fans don't understand why Ben Johnson

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Speaker 9: went to be the head coach of the Chicago Bears, Like,

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Speaker 9: why are you surprised that a young offensive coordinator is

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Speaker 9: taking the best job opening in the league? Objectively, when

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Speaker 9: you look at all the job openings for last year,

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Speaker 9: whether it's the Jets, whether it was the Raiders or whomever,

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Speaker 9: this was the best job opening you have. Caleb Williams,

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Speaker 9: you had the number ten overall pick of the draft,

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Speaker 9: You had a pretty decent defense, You had a team

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Speaker 9: that was ready to compute.

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Speaker 4: What are they expecting? Oh?

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Speaker 9: Was he supposed to not hurt your feelings by taking

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Speaker 9: the best possible job out there? Brad Holmes, what are

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Speaker 9: you thinking? Of course, Ben.

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Speaker 4: Johnson was going to be the coach of the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 3: All right, Rank, I got one more for you. Dak Prescott,

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Speaker 3: our good friend, the Cowboys quarterback now healthy in the

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Speaker 3: quarterback for I don't know, it seems about ten years

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Speaker 3: or so, would like just for his sanity, to win

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Speaker 3: the Super Bowl. What is he thinking, although he's right,

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Speaker 3: by the way, what.

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Speaker 4: Is he thinking?

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Speaker 9: I love Dak Prescott, but really, this is what you're

804
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Speaker 9: pinning your hopes on. This is what you're pinning your

805
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 9: sanity on, whether the Dallas Cowboys could.

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Speaker 4: Reach the Super Bowl.

807
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Speaker 9: Like this is like anybody else to some contract promoter

808
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Speaker 9: pinning his hopes on the fact that Oasis the Brothers

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Speaker 9: are not going to get into a fight and somehow have.

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Speaker 4: To end their tour prematurely.

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Speaker 9: What you know is going to happen, And similarly, you

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Speaker 9: expect the Dallas Cowboys season to end prematurely at some junction.

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Speaker 9: I mean, I love Dak Prescott, but I don't think

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Speaker 9: that this Dallas Cowboys team has gotten better over the

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Speaker 9: last couple of years. And as a matter of fact,

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Speaker 9: there are now teams leapfrogging them. I don't know if

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Speaker 9: they paid attention to what was happening in Washington last year.

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Speaker 9: You got an uphill battle to climb, So, Dak, I

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Speaker 9: wish for you the very best, but maybe lower your

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Speaker 9: expectations just a little.

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Speaker 3: Don't will your expectations raise your expectations. Dak is right,

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Speaker 3: Rank is wrong, but We thank you anyway, Rank great

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Speaker 3: stuff all show today, have an awesome weekend. Really appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: The wait is over. In the countdown to kickoff, Hands Megun.

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Speaker 1: a phrase you hear very often, which might be the

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Speaker 1: point they are going to as the Patriots sounds today

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Speaker 1: at Jay Legacy and Bronze Forever. Tom Brady's statue will

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Speaker 1: be unveiled on August eighth, prior to the Patriots preseason

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Speaker 1: opener against the Commanders. Welcome back to the Insiders, Tom Pilisero,

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Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport, Stacey Dale's your thoughts on a preseason unveiling

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Speaker 1: of the Goats statue.

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Speaker 5: Can't wait, Love the Goat. That post was done yesterday,

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Speaker 5: six twelve. That would be Tom Brady Day, so I'm

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Speaker 5: a big fan of that. He won six Super Bowls

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Speaker 5: with the team he wore the number twelve with the team.

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Speaker 5: Obviously not a particular fan of a preseason game unveiling,

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Speaker 5: but it's got to happen, and he's a TV starter,

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Speaker 5: so what are you going to say about it? By

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Speaker 5: the way, Happy Father's Day.

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Speaker 3: Guys, Oh thanks Dales. I am a fan of this

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Speaker 3: mainly because if you're a Patriots fan, you want a nice,

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Speaker 3: low key environment to go celebrate Tom Brady. Plus you

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Speaker 3: have to go to this preseason game. Not everyone goes

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Speaker 3: to a lot of the preseason games. This forces fans

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Speaker 3: to go genius by the Patriots. But anyway, Plus Tom

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Speaker 3: Brady is mostly busy during Sundays. This year happens to

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Speaker 3: be on Fox. So all in all, I support the.

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Speaker 2: Decision, what say you?

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Speaker 7: Tom?

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Speaker 1: I would also think that Mike Rabel enjoys the fact

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Speaker 1: that once it comes time to play the real games,

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Speaker 1: the full focus will be on these Patriots and not

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Speaker 1: the legacy passed, even though it's one of his Yes,

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Speaker 1: probably good buddies. Who's going to be etched in bronze,

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Speaker 1: hopefully with a view that Mike has right out of

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Speaker 1: his office there at Jellette Stadium. Having father says they

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Speaker 1: will send to everybody out there five teams of Minicamp.

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Speaker 1: Next week, this show'll be back. Shouldn't be an Easter

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Speaker 1: time on Monday. Enjoy the weekend. Everybody