Speaker 1: Cowboys Mini camp is in the books, but there is
Speaker 1: one big item still left on their offseason checklis. When
Speaker 1: will Michaeh Parsons get his mega deal and could waiting
Speaker 1: costs Jerry Jones again, we will.
Speaker 2: Tell you what Micah is saying now.
Speaker 1: That's not the only question around the NFL as most
Speaker 1: teams head into the break before training camp. Jeffrey jedia
Speaker 1: joins us with answers tonight on the defending champs, the
Speaker 1: return of the forty nine ers, AFC contenders, and much more.
Speaker 2: Your weather app might be borderline.
Speaker 1: Useless these days, but Adam Rank's fantasy forecasts rarely miss
Speaker 1: Who does he like and who should you avoid at
Speaker 1: all costs? Rank ranks the possibilities tonight. Welcome inside with
Speaker 1: the inside as longside.
Speaker 2: Ian Rappaport.
Speaker 1: I am Tom pelisserro we are eighty three day out
Speaker 1: from kickoff. Did you just realize his name is Rank
Speaker 1: and we have him ranked things?
Speaker 2: Yes? See in Big Time News tonight.
Speaker 3: No, here's what I have to say, Tom, this is
Speaker 3: the dark Ages of weather apps. It's all over the map.
Speaker 3: It means literally nothing. What's shown right now could have
Speaker 3: no bearing on what's shown an hour from now. I
Speaker 3: don't understand where who's doing the weather apps these days.
Speaker 1: That's a much more layered question we will not address
Speaker 1: in the next sixty minutes, but we will talk about
Speaker 1: what is going on in Dallas, which as has been
Speaker 1: the habit when it comes to big contracts in June
Speaker 1: the recent years. Nothing Michael Parsons is talking, though. He
Speaker 1: spoke with longtime local reporter Clarence Hill during this week's
Speaker 1: mini camps said that he expects to be the highest
Speaker 1: paid non QB, a line that has moved in recent
Speaker 1: months with the likes of Miles Garrett and Jamar Chase
Speaker 1: getting paid big. Also acknowledged a handshake deal with Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones back in March, but said that they never finished
Speaker 1: it off. Parsons said, quote, it's going to cost them more,
Speaker 1: something that we know ian Jerry Jones said in the past. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm good paying more if I get more information.
Speaker 2: Well, here we are again.
Speaker 1: He's getting the info and Micah does not yet have
Speaker 1: his money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if the Cowboys want all of the info,
Speaker 3: they may have to wait a little bit because there's
Speaker 3: still several edge rushers who may get done before Micah.
Speaker 3: Parsons and you're right. Parsons was fascinating in that article
Speaker 3: acknowledging that there was a sort of kind of negotiation
Speaker 3: with Jerry Jones without his agent. From the sounds of it,
Speaker 3: sounds like the term was just as much of an
Speaker 3: issue as money. In other words, the Cowboys like longer deals.
Speaker 3: David Mulgetta, who is Michah Parson's agents, generally pushes for
Speaker 3: shorter deals. Perhaps that was part of the issue as
Speaker 3: far as why this did not get done. We have
Speaker 3: so many edge guys that need to get done. Trey Henderson,
Speaker 3: We've talked about a ton Aiden Hutchinson. Now that he's healthy,
Speaker 3: could that deal get done? Could that affect Micah Parsons. TJ.
Speaker 3: Watt did not show up to Mini camp. That likely
Speaker 3: affects Mike. So it certainly seems like Parsons is content
Speaker 3: to wait. But in reading these comments and kind of
Speaker 3: understand the landscape of things, it seems like he's acknowledging
Speaker 3: like maybe there's a window if the Cowboys wanted to
Speaker 3: get it done, they maybe could do that. It just
Speaker 3: doesn't seem like they're going to. So here's what I expect.
Speaker 2: Tom.
Speaker 3: Two hours before kickoff, you and I will be furiously
Speaker 3: texting you to each other, just like we were during
Speaker 3: the Dak Prescott negotiations. Try to figure out is this
Speaker 3: gonna happen before game day morning signs off or just after.
Speaker 1: For all our sanity, let's hope that it doesn't go
Speaker 1: all the way until kickoff, but you never know. Stay
Speaker 1: tuned for the next eighty three days. Certainly, the Steelers
Speaker 1: hope to have the TJ. Watt situation resolved far before then.
Speaker 1: Wat's a little different category here because he's not going
Speaker 1: on to a second contract like Micah Parsons. He is
Speaker 1: thirty years old at this point, has dealt with some
Speaker 1: injuries in recent years, has played through a lot. But
Speaker 1: when you're thirty and you didn't play your best in
Speaker 1: order the entire Steelers defense down the stretch last season,
Speaker 1: there are questions surrounding exactly how much money and specifically
Speaker 1: how much guaranteed money should be in that deal. Did
Speaker 1: not report to the mandatory mini camp last week. Neither
Speaker 1: did Trey Hendrickson in Cincinnati, who was looking for his new,
Speaker 1: upgraded contract as well.
Speaker 2: The difference here is Trey Hendrickson.
Speaker 1: Not looking to reset the market, as we have reported
Speaker 1: repeatedly in recent months here, but he does want to
Speaker 1: be paid up among the top pass rushers, which makes
Speaker 1: a lot of sense because Ian that's a guy who
Speaker 1: led the NFL in sacks last season, has had two
Speaker 1: monster years in a row. He has been durable again
Speaker 1: on the wrong side of age thirty, but we've seen
Speaker 1: plenty of edge rushers play into their mid thirties and
Speaker 1: still have a high level of productivity.
Speaker 2: And then we've got Samar Stewart.
Speaker 1: Who is the envisioned in Cincinnati being the other guy
Speaker 1: who could take some of the heat off Trey Hendrickson.
Speaker 1: Last week's mini camp ended with neither of them there,
Speaker 1: and there is still a process that they're going through
Speaker 1: here that might take a little bit getting their first
Speaker 1: round pick under a contract.
Speaker 3: So let me explaining the process, and when I'm done,
Speaker 3: you can kind of jump in and maybe give the
Speaker 3: other side, because this really is a nuanced situation between
Speaker 3: Shamar Stewart and the Cincinnati Bengals. From the Bengals perspective, really,
Speaker 3: what they did was just update their language, bring it
Speaker 3: more in line with what the majority of teams do
Speaker 3: as far as just the kind of nitty gritty contracts
Speaker 3: I can explain it. It's a lot of words. Nobody
Speaker 3: really cares to just use a word contract language. That's
Speaker 3: kind of what it is. But essentially it gives the
Speaker 3: team a little bit more protection, again in line with
Speaker 3: a lot of other teams, and in line with a
Speaker 3: lot of other players right around Shamar Stewart. Between that
Speaker 3: and between the agreement that would allow him to practice
Speaker 3: without having signed. It was an issue there too, involving
Speaker 3: language as far as the protection for the team, So
Speaker 3: it all kind of went sideways in a way that
Speaker 3: it shouldn't. This has absolutely nothing to do with the
Speaker 3: amount of money he's gonna make. He's still gonna make
Speaker 3: eighteen point nine million dollars fully guaranteed. It's just essentially
Speaker 3: the Bengals believing that they're kind of clarifying the language,
Speaker 3: which the sounds of it should be easy, but obviously
Speaker 3: there's a lot more that goes into it, which is
Speaker 3: why Shamar Stewart is not signed yet.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people who wonder when everything
Speaker 1: is slotted, the money, the contracts, everything's fully guaranteed for
Speaker 1: first round picks, how do some of these takes so long? Well,
Speaker 1: teams have established precedents. They are going to be a
Speaker 1: back and forth of if you're trying to establish a
Speaker 1: new precedent or if the agent and the player are
Speaker 1: trying to break your precedent. What it's the former and
Speaker 1: you're trying to set a new precedent. Here, Shamar Stewart
Speaker 1: is looking at this and saying, I don't care that
Speaker 1: Abdul Carter has similar, not identical, but similar language in
Speaker 1: his deal. Amariusmim's, your first round pick last year, did
Speaker 1: not have that language. I just want the same language
Speaker 1: as that guy. That's where they've not come together yet,
Speaker 1: and they've got a little over a month to get
Speaker 1: that resolve so that he can join his teammates for
Speaker 1: the first time on the field come training camp. One
Speaker 1: first round pick got his deal done today, Maxwell Harston,
Speaker 1: the number thirty overall selection by the Buffalo Bills, officially
Speaker 1: under contract. It's a four year, fifteen point two to
Speaker 1: five million dollar, fully guaranteed deal that leaves just three
Speaker 1: first round picks unsigned. Travis Hunter, the number two overall pick,
Speaker 1: John A. Baron who went twentieth to the Broncos, and
Speaker 1: of course Shamar Stewart as well.
Speaker 2: League neighbors got his contract.
Speaker 1: Done a year ago, certainly was a bright spot in
Speaker 1: a tough season for the New York Giants, and not
Speaker 1: seen a lot of him on the field in this
Speaker 1: offseason because of a toe injury. The Giants are actually
Speaker 1: won of five teams that had their mandatory mini camp
Speaker 1: next week. No Malik Neighbors expected at that point, but
Speaker 1: Brian Dable has said he expects to have his top
Speaker 1: receiver back on the field when training camp opens late
Speaker 1: next month. The Packers will have a new president and
Speaker 1: CEO by then. Mark Murphy is entering the final month
Speaker 1: of his long tenure as the CEO and president of
Speaker 1: the Packers. Under the by laws of the Packers, you
Speaker 1: have to cycle out before you hit age seventy at
Speaker 1: policy will take over. But they gave mart Murphy one
Speaker 1: last chance to deliver a message that is Super Bowl
Speaker 1: expectations right there from the green Bay Packers as we
Speaker 1: welcome into our Stacy Dales to the conversation. You know, Stacy,
Speaker 1: that's always the standard in Green Bay. They've got more
Speaker 1: NFL championships plus Lombardi trophies than anybody here.
Speaker 2: It's the last hurdle that we've.
Speaker 1: Not seen a highly successful coach in Matt Lafleur be
Speaker 1: able to get to here, but they got their work
Speaker 1: cutout just in their own division.
Speaker 4: They do.
Speaker 5: Hello Ian, Hello Tom, Happy Friday to you guys. They
Speaker 5: do have their work cutout. And congratulations to Mark Murphy's
Speaker 5: one of my favorites guys to deal with and has
Speaker 5: been over the course of many years in the NFL. Listen,
Speaker 5: within this division, it's a race. I think we saw
Speaker 5: that last season, right, Detroit back to back years they
Speaker 5: claimed the title. Minnesota's knocking on the door. But guess what,
Speaker 5: the Packers were knocking on the door too, And so
Speaker 5: until anybody proves us otherwise, this is Detroit's division and
Speaker 5: that means everybody else in this division is hunting the
Speaker 5: Detroit Lions. But it is extremely competitive, as you fellas know.
Speaker 5: And I think Matt Lafleura offensively went back and said,
Speaker 5: what happened to us the last three games of the year, Right,
Speaker 5: They lost their final two regular season games and their
Speaker 5: playoff loss against the Philadelphia Eagles, and it didn't look good.
Speaker 5: The offense took a decline, and so I think he's
Speaker 5: been outspoken about it. They need more explosive plays, more consistently,
Speaker 5: and that's over the course of eighteen weeks in the
Speaker 5: regular season in order to claim this division, and those
Speaker 5: three losses to close out their season fellas they went
Speaker 5: down in all the important numbers, right, total yards down
Speaker 5: sixty five per game from the previous games that they
Speaker 5: played throughout the course of the year. They're big plays,
Speaker 5: their explosive plays were down, and the points were down
Speaker 5: roughly nine points a game in those three losses. That's
Speaker 5: why you bring in Matthew Golden. That's why you bring
Speaker 5: in McCole Hardman. This is a really talent, talented roster.
Speaker 5: He needs more explosives to overcome this division offensively from
Speaker 5: his group.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fascinating stuff. Say. I don't disagree with you,
Speaker 3: by the way, that the Packers should be the hunter,
Speaker 3: not the hunted. The one thing I would say is
Speaker 3: there's still plenty of questions in this division. Lines are great.
Speaker 3: They got a really, really, really talented roster, but did
Speaker 3: have almost unprecedented staff turnover with both their coordinators rated
Speaker 3: it so many of their position coaches and past game coordinator.
Speaker 3: I mean, all of the things that seems everyone took
Speaker 3: from Detroit. There's certainly some questions there. Vikings have a
Speaker 3: new quarterback in JJ McCarthy again, who I think is
Speaker 3: going to be really good, but has not really done
Speaker 3: at Chicago Bears, also where they knew coaching staff. Although
Speaker 3: it's fair to say that hopes are very high there
Speaker 3: in Chicago. I would just say this is one that's
Speaker 3: probably a little more up for grabs than maybe it
Speaker 3: was last year, which should be very fun because it
Speaker 3: is a very very high level division.
Speaker 1: Stacey, thank you. More from you, Ian just a little
Speaker 1: bit here. The Colts preparing through their mini camp this
Speaker 1: past week.
Speaker 2: They'll be back on the field for training.
Speaker 1: Camp and they'll be doing something special in week one
Speaker 1: to honor their late owner, the team announcing today that
Speaker 1: jim Irsay, who passed away last month at the age
Speaker 1: of sixty five, will be inducted into the team's Ring
Speaker 1: of Honor prior to the September seventh opener at home
Speaker 1: against the Miami Dolphins. Who will be the starting quarterback
Speaker 1: for that game. Well, we didn't get any slow motion
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson highlights this week because he's once again on
Speaker 1: the shelf, this time dealing with a shoulder injury. Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones instead got the slow mo treatment and spoke in
Speaker 1: real time.
Speaker 6: I think, you know, just like like you would in
Speaker 6: any situation. I think, yeah, just trying to prepare and
Speaker 6: you know, grow with it every day. I've got you know,
Speaker 6: I've got a lot of work to do just learning
Speaker 6: this offense and getting used to it. So I'm trying
Speaker 6: to focus as much on that and then playing a
Speaker 6: football when I'm him on the field of practice.
Speaker 1: The Colts were willing to pay up Stacy to get
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones in the building. He chose them over a
Speaker 1: very similar offer from the Vikings. The question now is
Speaker 1: can a guy who in his time with the Giants
Speaker 1: became sort of a pariah for a lot of different reasons,
Speaker 1: but did get to the playoffs, did win a playoff game,
Speaker 1: can he have a revival of sorts with Shane Steike
Speaker 1: and now as his head coach.
Speaker 5: Revival is a good word. I mean, I would just like,
Speaker 5: let's let's just say opportunity, Let's let's let's be a
Speaker 5: little bit cautiously optimistic. We don't know what's going to
Speaker 5: happen with Anthony Richardson, obviously, as he's reaggravated that right shoulder,
Speaker 5: but it is an opportunity for Daniel Jones. And I
Speaker 5: know one thing about Shane Styke in the play caller.
Speaker 5: He's very quarterback friendly. He's very adaptable, and he has
Speaker 5: been over the years with his quarterbacks and he will
Speaker 5: be if Daniel Jones is his quarterback. I've no doubt
Speaker 5: the Colts did all their homework. That's why, as Chris
Speaker 5: ballor the GM said, it's an open competition because they
Speaker 5: like Daniel Jones. He has learned this defense very quickly
Speaker 5: and it will be adaptable again if it's him. I
Speaker 5: have no doubt. Though they went back to his best season.
Speaker 5: That was twenty twenty two. That is the year you
Speaker 5: mentioned the playoffs, Tom. They went there. They beat the Vikings,
Speaker 5: they ultimately lost to the Eagles, and Brian Dable became
Speaker 5: the coach of the Year in that season. It's important
Speaker 5: because they're a receiver corps. I remember covering them. It
Speaker 5: was so banged up. You guys will remember it, but
Speaker 5: they ran the heck out of the football. Barkley was
Speaker 5: Saquon Barkley over thirteen hundred yards, but Daniel Jones, you guys,
Speaker 5: he was over seven hundred on the ground. I believe
Speaker 5: that season tied for the fourth most design runs in
Speaker 5: the NFL, but he was second in terms of scrambles.
Speaker 5: In terms of him behind justin field scrambling football, and
Speaker 5: that's something Shane Steichen has done with Anthony Richardson over
Speaker 5: in the course of his time there and over a
Speaker 5: couple of seasons, calling place design runs have been a
Speaker 5: big part of it. It's a more talented roster, though.
Speaker 5: I will say in Indianapolis we saw Tyler Warren there
Speaker 5: on the screen. They're going to use him all over
Speaker 5: the place, and I expect those legs if he's the quarterback,
Speaker 5: and certainly his ability to get to those playmakers would
Speaker 5: be something he's capable of doing in Shane's offense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely one of the more fun quarterback competitions of
Speaker 3: training camp, and I do expect both of these quarterbacks
Speaker 3: to be out there very early in training camp. As
Speaker 3: far as Anthony Richardson, from what I understand, you know,
Speaker 3: obviously you mentioned it had a right shoulder injuries somewhat
Speaker 3: similar injury to what he had before got it checked out.
Speaker 3: Got a second opinion from doctor Neil Alatross, one of
Speaker 3: the more respected voices in the medical community. In the
Speaker 3: NFL just rest and recuperation, really just rest, rehab, no surgery.
Speaker 3: He is expected to be fined by training camp. This
Speaker 3: is a very good thing for the coach because what
Speaker 3: they want is health and a real competition at quarterback,
Speaker 3: and it sounds like they'll get it.
Speaker 1: A lot of different injury issues to monitor in the
Speaker 1: six weeks or so up until both teams are in
Speaker 1: training camp, including one with the La Rams, who made
Speaker 1: a move for insurance over the past twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: agreeing to terms with offensive linemen DJ humphreyes the longtime
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinal, on a one year deal. If you're saying yourself, hey,
Speaker 1: didn dj at Humphries sign with to the forty nine
Speaker 1: ers like a month ago, well, they agreed to terms
Speaker 1: that they ended up falling apart.
Speaker 2: Instead.
Speaker 1: He is headed to the Rams Alaric Jackson, their standout tackle,
Speaker 1: once again dealing with blood clots.
Speaker 2: As we reported earlier.
Speaker 1: Today, the team does expect him to play if there
Speaker 1: are any issues, Humphreys will be ready to go. Bait
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Speaker 1: three days away from the NFL regular season. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Insiders, Tom Pelisero, joined once again by Stacy
Speaker 1: Dale's also welcoming in Jeffrey Judea to the conversation. Jeffery,
Speaker 1: you've got an article up right now NFL dot com
Speaker 1: slash first read on the nine biggest question still looming
Speaker 1: as we come out of many camps here, Let's start
Speaker 1: with the defending champs here, there was some attrition for
Speaker 1: that team. How of the Eagles replenished, Let's put it
Speaker 1: that way, some of the defensive talent.
Speaker 4: Well, Tom, I have.
Speaker 7: Faith in the Eagles because they found ways before with
Speaker 7: general manager Howie Roseman finding talent, and they've got a
Speaker 7: great coaching staff. But they have pieces in place there
Speaker 7: to replace the guys they've lost. And I know Milton
Speaker 7: Williams and Brandon Graham and Josh Whett and Darius Lay
Speaker 7: these guys are big losses. But when you look at
Speaker 7: what a guy Cooper Cup can provide, excuse me, Cooper
Speaker 7: Dejini can provide. He can be a safety or cornerback
Speaker 7: for you. They've got a guy Nolan Smith has been
Speaker 7: sitting there for a couple of years waiting to become
Speaker 7: a star, and they have great faith in him. And
Speaker 7: Jenis Hunts as a player who had a sack in
Speaker 7: the Super Bowl. And Joha Campbell is a rookie linebacker
Speaker 7: coming in.
Speaker 2: Who's very versatile.
Speaker 7: So I've heard defensive coordinator and you'll talk about this
Speaker 7: group and these players in Stacey.
Speaker 2: They're gonna be better than people think they are.
Speaker 5: I don't expect any drop off because you mentioned Howie Roseman.
Speaker 5: Player development with these Eagles, it's really exceptional and it's extraordinary.
Speaker 5: It's one of the reasons that they're always in the
Speaker 5: conversation at the end of the year. You mentioned all
Speaker 5: those veterans that have departed. Much respect to those players.
Speaker 5: But this is a very young roster. I remind you
Speaker 5: going into the Super Bowl and all of last season,
Speaker 5: they were by age, the fourth youngest defense in the
Speaker 5: National Football League. I think they'll be fine offensively, but
Speaker 5: defensively is actually where they continue to excite me because
Speaker 5: of that youth. And when I covered this team last
Speaker 5: year and talking to these players, they loved Vic Fangio's
Speaker 5: nonsensical style. He simplified things for the young group midway
Speaker 5: through the season, almost like a bit of a college coach,
Speaker 5: which I talked to a lot of those former Georgia players,
Speaker 5: and he holds them accountable, guys. It was widely reported
Speaker 5: a few days after the Super Bowl. Remember they gave
Speaker 5: up twenty two to the Chiefs in the second half
Speaker 5: of the Super Bowl. They still want of course, they
Speaker 5: had a huge lead, called them out on it, and
Speaker 5: that accountability is going to transcend into next season. I
Speaker 5: totally believe that.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to that Super Bowl, third straight appearance
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs before the Eagles got their doors blown
Speaker 1: off in air, blew their doors off in that game.
Speaker 1: We know every year, Jeffery, we start out with the
Speaker 1: Ravens and the Bills and the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: It's every single year deals with the teacher. Who else in.
Speaker 1: Your mind could join those teams among the AFC contenders.
Speaker 7: Well, I trust the Denver Broncos the most right now,
Speaker 7: and Champayne obviously has won a Super Bowl and he's
Speaker 7: found a quarterback and bow Nicks. But that defense is
Speaker 7: so elite, and they've made some great additions to it
Speaker 7: with Jadave Barrn coming in and Drake Greenlaw and Talaoah Hufanga.
Speaker 7: I know some of these guys have to stay healthy,
Speaker 7: these veteran guys, but we look at having the corners
Speaker 7: that they have and Patrick Hirtan and Riley Moss and
Speaker 7: those edge rushers, and Jonathan Cooper and Nick Bonito and
Speaker 7: an interior disruptive force and Zach Allen. This could be
Speaker 7: the best defense in the league without those additions.
Speaker 2: And so you add that defense.
Speaker 7: To what Sean Payne can do on offense, Stacey, and
Speaker 7: I think they got.
Speaker 2: Great chance of being right there in the mix.
Speaker 5: I love all that, Jeff. Can we just say that
Speaker 5: this division is a masterclass of coaching. I mean that
Speaker 5: needs to be a story in itself. Pete Carroll, Andy Reid,
Speaker 5: Sean Payton, Jim Harbaugh. This is going to be a
Speaker 5: fiercely competitive division. I've got the Las Vegas Raiders circled
Speaker 5: you guys, I just do. I love what's happening there.
Speaker 5: I've heard some really good energy is coming out of
Speaker 5: that building, and it starts with Pete Carroll. Success just
Speaker 5: follows Pete Carroll. And then he hired Chip Kelly, who's
Speaker 5: extremely innovative, and he brought in his guy, Gino Smith's
Speaker 5: best years in the NFL have been underneath Pete Carroll.
Speaker 5: We know Geno Smith has had success. We know how efficient,
Speaker 5: how accurate he is, especially that underneath game twy ten
Speaker 5: to twelve twenty yards in terms of his ability to
Speaker 5: quickly get the ball out. But he has got a
Speaker 5: talented roster. Ashton genty is going to help. Which was
Speaker 5: the league's worst rushing attack last year. I mean literally
Speaker 5: the worst run game offensively in the league was the
Speaker 5: Raiders last season. And then you think about Brock Bauers
Speaker 5: and Michael Meyer, the double headed monster at tight end,
Speaker 5: a nice underrated receiving corps, young group of guys. I
Speaker 5: think this could be an interesting dynamic that takes place
Speaker 5: with these Raiders.
Speaker 1: Another really interesting team going to the season is going
Speaker 1: to be the forty nine Ers because they were decimated
Speaker 1: by injuries of chorus last year, starting out with losing
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey essentially in the opener, never had true Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey throughout the season. Then they trade away Debo Samuel,
Speaker 1: they remodel some things here. Do you envision a bounce
Speaker 1: back Jeffrey from the forty nine ers in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 7: I like their chances because they're well coached and you
Speaker 7: look at the last two times they had double digit losses.
Speaker 7: The next year they woun up in the Super Bowl
Speaker 7: in twenty nineteen, in twenty twenty one, they made a
Speaker 7: NFC Championship game, and so there's a pedigree there. And
Speaker 7: some of these guys that got hurt last year are
Speaker 7: still there, like Christian McCaffrey for example.
Speaker 2: He's a big part of this.
Speaker 7: But that defense getting robbed Salid back to run that defense,
Speaker 7: I think is going to be big for them. Michael Williams,
Speaker 7: that young defensive end they drafted to play alongside Nick Bosa,
Speaker 7: that's going to help this team has a ton of
Speaker 7: pride and a ton of opportunity to make some plays
Speaker 7: this season.
Speaker 2: I think that those.
Speaker 7: Injuries hurt, but their pride, their resilience will show up
Speaker 7: this year. That'll be back in the playoff contingent Stacy, Yeah.
Speaker 5: And I think when you talk about injuries like let's
Speaker 5: be real here that they were the most injured team
Speaker 5: in the NFL last season, and what Kyle Shanahan did
Speaker 5: it kind of keep them afloat was pretty special. And
Speaker 5: that's why he is the coach that he is. He's
Speaker 5: a special head coach. They still had offensively one of
Speaker 5: the top ten offenses in the NFL, and we're, you know,
Speaker 5: tops in a number of metrics despite all of their injuries.
Speaker 5: And you talk about Christian McCaffrey and Brandon I you
Speaker 5: coming back from ACL and then you think about their schedule. Now,
Speaker 5: a lot of people want to hate on a couple
Speaker 5: of other divisions they're playing, like the NFC South and
Speaker 5: the AFC South, But they have a schedule that perhaps
Speaker 5: is favorable. But listen, if they get healthy and they
Speaker 5: get sort of in check defensively with some of their
Speaker 5: new personnel and you mentioned Jeff Robert Sola, they will
Speaker 5: be right back in the hunt. In the division. Of course,
Speaker 5: right now, the Rams are pretty special, especially with the
Speaker 5: addition of Devonte Adams. Another tough division, but I think
Speaker 5: you know, listen, the forty nine ers are never out
Speaker 5: of this thing, Tom Like, they just never are. I know,
Speaker 5: last year wasn't the year they wanted. But that's what
Speaker 5: happens when you get decimated by injury.
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Speaker 1: the other six questions. I think I'm doing that math right.
Speaker 1: From Jeffrey to Dia. Jeffrey, thank you very much for
Speaker 1: being here, Stacey, stick around. More from you later. But first,
Speaker 1: Adam Rank is joining this show. You never know what's
Speaker 1: going to happen when Rank's on, or they're going to
Speaker 1: be props or they're going to be characters. There will
Speaker 1: be information about the second year quarterbacks you should take
Speaker 1: and who you should not in your fantasy draft rank
Speaker 1: for this Next on The Insiders.
Speaker 8: On Achieva week, Chicago Bears rookie class was at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 3: Thrown out the first pitch. Izzi Trapilo right there on
Speaker 3: the mound, surrounded by his buddies. They're all celebrating. I
Speaker 3: think it was I think it was fine. Now it
Speaker 3: wasn't Ben Johnson's effort. Johnson threw a strike. That guy
Speaker 3: had some action on his ball. This was sort of
Speaker 3: just meh. And if you want to know why I
Speaker 3: can say this, it's because I am literally an expert
Speaker 3: there there's me throwing out the first pitch in the
Speaker 3: met game COVID style. I got a mask. It's all good,
Speaker 3: great arm action. It was a strike. That's my wife
Speaker 3: who caught it, by the way, which thank god, because
Speaker 3: had I bounced that her ankle shoe would have been
Speaker 3: so mad at me. I never would have lived it down. Instead,
Speaker 3: I crushed it. I am there for an expert, someone
Speaker 3: who has never thrown out the first pitch if any
Speaker 3: baseball game ever. Adam Rank, thank you very much for
Speaker 3: joining this. I get a bunch of questions for you.
Speaker 3: First of all, have you ever thrown out a first pitch?
Speaker 4: I have not.
Speaker 9: The Angels have not offered me that invitation. I will
Speaker 9: tell you, and I'm sure I know what they do.
Speaker 2: They don't let you.
Speaker 9: Go from the mound. I'm going from the mound. This
Speaker 9: is probably why the angels won't let me do it.
Speaker 9: I'm going from the mound. I'm bringing a glove, and
Speaker 9: I'm going crazy regardless of what happens.
Speaker 3: No, you're not doing any of those things. All right,
Speaker 3: let's get to fantasy football. I know it's to but
Speaker 3: it's not too early for fantasy football. As those of
Speaker 3: us have big time decisions to make, especially as it
Speaker 3: pertains to our keeper leagues. Talk me through a couple
Speaker 3: second year quarterbacks, starting with Caleb Williams.
Speaker 9: Well, Caleb Williams right now, as it stands, I have
Speaker 9: them as the quarterback twelve. I have them ahead of
Speaker 9: guys like Jordan Love and Dak Prescott and even brock
Speaker 9: Perty And a lot of it is based on what
Speaker 9: Jared Goff was able to do last year with Ben
Speaker 9: Johnson as his offensive coordinator. You know, he was averaging
Speaker 9: around twenty fantasy points per game, and I would say
Speaker 9: that Caleb has an opportunity to kind of get similar
Speaker 9: numbers at a bit. The reason why is that he
Speaker 9: has the ability to run the football. So I'm looking
Speaker 9: forward to him taking more chances down the field. There's
Speaker 9: more attention to detail with the coaching staff. Here some
Speaker 9: great weapons out there, So I'm willing if I need
Speaker 9: to wait on a quarterback. I'm waiting for Caleb Williams
Speaker 9: now Jade Daniels. Gosh, when you look at Jaden Daniels
Speaker 9: and what he was able to do last year, you're
Speaker 9: probably asking yourself, who are the quarterbacks that were drafting
Speaker 9: ahead of him? I would say, for sure, Josh Allen,
Speaker 9: Lamar Jackson, that might be it, that might be the list.
Speaker 9: He's like, he could end up being the first quarterback
Speaker 9: off the board because people really do love Jade and Daniels,
Speaker 9: and for great reason. When you look back at his
Speaker 9: numbers from last season, he was the quarterback five, just
Speaker 9: to step ahead of Jared Goff. But still when you
Speaker 9: look at it, you look at the addition of Deebo Samuel,
Speaker 9: there's a great opportunity for Jade and Daniels to be
Speaker 9: the quarterback won this season.
Speaker 4: And finally, let's talk about Drake May.
Speaker 9: I have Drake May a little bit lower. He's the
Speaker 9: quarterback eighteen. But this is not of a smirch him
Speaker 9: because when you look at this tier, and I usually
Speaker 9: keep the quarterbacks on tier, he's in a tier with
Speaker 9: Trevor Lawrence, C. J. Stroud, Matthew Stafford, players like that.
Speaker 9: But he's kind of a fun option. The real opportunity
Speaker 9: was Stefan Diggs here. He had at least seventy plus
Speaker 9: Fantasy points in six of twelve starts. The one thing
Speaker 9: that people kind of overlook with Drake May he had
Speaker 9: four hundred and nine rushing yards since he became the
Speaker 9: starter in Week six that was QB four numbers. So
Speaker 9: I think he's a really good option this year. Again,
Speaker 9: if you miss out on a quarterback, don't panic. You'll
Speaker 9: get guys like Drake May.
Speaker 3: That feels low for Drake May. It feels like a
Speaker 3: breakout year coming. The surrounding hims some weapons we'll see
Speaker 3: though obviously has not proven it like the other guys.
Speaker 3: What about some of the guys drafted a little bit
Speaker 3: later than this grouple, Let's talk about Michael Pennix and
Speaker 3: some of his friends.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's in the top thirty two for me. Now,
Speaker 9: it's really kind of hard to evaluate Michael Pennocks given
Speaker 9: you know, he didn't play a lot of a season.
Speaker 9: He averaged just over fourteen Fantasy points into three career
Speaker 9: games he did start. However, if you look at Week eighteen,
Speaker 9: he was fantastic. In Week eighteen through for over three
Speaker 9: hundred yards, had a couple of touchdowns, and he had
Speaker 9: what close to twenty five Fantasy points in that game.
Speaker 9: If I'm remembering this correctly, he looked fantastic. They got
Speaker 9: some pretty nice weapons out there for him. Michael Pennix
Speaker 9: is one of those guys who's going to be a
Speaker 9: little bit more of an insurance option for me, but
Speaker 9: he's still got the opportunity. And another guy that we
Speaker 9: really can't evaluate that much is JJ McCarthy because we
Speaker 9: didn't see him at all.
Speaker 4: I will tell you this though, right.
Speaker 9: Now, Ian, I am not leaving my draft without JJ
Speaker 9: McCarthy as a backup wow quarterback. Look when you look
Speaker 9: at the success the Kyle Shanahan and all the coaches
Speaker 9: under the Mike Shanahan coaching tree, what these guys have
Speaker 9: been able to do, What Kyle Shanahan's been able to do,
Speaker 9: what koc has been able to do, and Sean McVay
Speaker 9: with these guys. Given a player like JJ McCarthy who's
Speaker 9: getting an opportunity here, I'm not leaving my draft without him,
Speaker 9: just in case he breaks out, and he could break
Speaker 9: out like bow Knicks Bo Knicks. Right now is my
Speaker 9: quarterback eight?
Speaker 4: That's right. I have him ranked ahead of Caleb Williams
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 9: I know, I listen. I love this pick. I really do.
Speaker 9: Last year he was the quarterback seven. He the big
Speaker 9: The big thing is he runs the football. Again, A
Speaker 9: lot of people don't understand. They look at bon Nicks.
Speaker 9: They don't think of him as this athletic quarterback. But
Speaker 9: it's one of the reasons why Sean Payton was really
Speaker 9: drawn to him, is the athleticism that bow Knicks has.
Speaker 9: Now they've gone out there, they brought in a couple
Speaker 9: of extra weapons for him. I think Evan Ingram has
Speaker 9: a real opportunity for a breakout season with the Denver Broncos,
Speaker 9: so bow Knicks is another good option.
Speaker 4: I know a lot of people always love.
Speaker 9: To steal Caleb Williams for me from me, and if
Speaker 9: they do, I'll just take Caleb.
Speaker 4: I'll just take bow Nicks and'll be fine.
Speaker 3: I mean, expectations are sky high for bo Nicks. If
Speaker 3: he even comes close to living up to them, Denver
Speaker 3: Broncos are gonna have a very very good year. For
Speaker 3: those of us who try to get him in fantasy,
Speaker 3: we also will have a good year. Rank Thank you
Speaker 3: very much.
Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 3: We got a lot more from you before this show ends,
Speaker 3: but for this very segment only, I say thank you.
Speaker 2: Carolini.
Speaker 3: Panthers are thinking that guy right there bryce you, especially
Speaker 3: because of how we played the last three games this season.
Speaker 3: He seems to be a quarterback on the rise as well.
Speaker 2: How much so?
Speaker 3: And why let's talk to our good friend Stacy Dale's
Speaker 3: about that coming on.
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin opted to stay in Tampa during free agency
Speaker 1: this year, but he will still have a new jersey
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. Godwin announced on social media this
Speaker 1: week and via the Bucks that he is adding Junior
Speaker 1: to his uniform name plate in honor of his late father.
Speaker 2: We know this much.
Speaker 1: The Bucks have a whole lot of weapons, right, Mike Evans.
Speaker 7: I'll do the same every year, work out really hard, hangle,
Speaker 7: my family, play video games, going troops.
Speaker 2: Don't normal the same.
Speaker 6: Thing we do. Your impressions of a Mecca and Ted
Speaker 6: and new rookies in the wide receiver. I know I
Speaker 6: say it a lot, but this might be the best
Speaker 6: receiver room I've been a part of them.
Speaker 2: I say it every year, but we always get great
Speaker 2: players to come in.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Insiders, Tom Pilaicero, Ian Rapaport, Stacy Dales.
Speaker 2: You heard it right there, Stacey.
Speaker 1: From Mike Evans, he says, as he does on an
Speaker 1: annual basis, this might be the best wider super group
Speaker 1: that he has been a part of. You adda Mecca
Speaker 1: Muka to the mix and certainly makes me made. Maybe
Speaker 1: the depth is as good as it's been.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I liked this team going into last year.
Speaker 5: Obviously we saw the success going to the playoffs despite losing.
Speaker 5: I love this team. I really love this offense. And
Speaker 5: you know you lose Liam Cohen, he goes and becomes
Speaker 5: at the last minute the head coach of the Jags,
Speaker 5: and Josh Grizzard steps in, who is your past game coordinator?
Speaker 5: Fellas last year? He takes over first time play caller
Speaker 5: in the NFL. But I'm okay hay with it because
Speaker 5: Baker Mayfield's been there, done that, and as Grizzard recently said,
Speaker 5: everything runs through Bake and that's how good he's become.
Speaker 5: With these teammates, the offensive line pretty much would do
Speaker 5: anything for their quarterback. But then when you look at
Speaker 5: this talented roster you mentioned tom ameca Abuka, Okay, Jason
Speaker 5: Light deserves an incredible amount of kudos because he continues
Speaker 5: to bring in not just superstar potentially type players, but
Speaker 5: high character players that are gonna fit on Mike Evans'
Speaker 5: wide receiver corp and a Chris Godwin receiver Corp because
Speaker 5: they're incredibly high character and so ameca Abuka I mentioned.
Speaker 5: But then I go to the seventh round and I
Speaker 5: look at tes Johnson. Yeah, he dropped right at the
Speaker 5: combine probably and just through the course of his draft
Speaker 5: process because he's like five nine a Buck fifty five,
Speaker 5: but he's a little speedster. They're gonna be able to
Speaker 5: use him, especially in the slot, all those receivers. Luke Getticky,
Speaker 5: I am excited for these Bucks fans because I think
Speaker 5: it's going to be a really unique offense for them
Speaker 5: this year with Baker.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, any other team right now, we've been
Speaker 3: talking about Jalen McMillan as a breakout player and where
Speaker 3: you're going to take him in fantasy, except they drafted
Speaker 3: the mechaic Buga. They've added a bunch of pieces. They
Speaker 3: also have Bucky Irving, who is basically coming off a
Speaker 3: breakout season of him. So I don't know how many
Speaker 3: different guys they can get the ball to. I don't
Speaker 3: know how stacked they could be. But you know, to me,
Speaker 3: definitely a little bit of a different look for Tampa
Speaker 3: than than we are used to. And you know, this
Speaker 3: was why it was so hard to figure out who
Speaker 3: they were going to draft because they don't need anything
Speaker 3: right like they didn't once they got Chris Goblin back
Speaker 3: in free agency, I felt like they were good. It's
Speaker 3: just riches upon riches. This should be a very, very
Speaker 3: good offense in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Jaskers are just the latest Buccaneers offensive coordinator. They also
Speaker 1: had to change last year when Dave Canalis left for Carolina,
Speaker 1: where he's got a quarterback that he thinks might have
Speaker 1: a chance to give him a chance in the NFC South.
Speaker 2: Excellent.
Speaker 10: You know, I think the pace of our offensive development
Speaker 10: evolution is growing at the pace of Brice, and he's
Speaker 10: showing such great mastery of what we're doing that he's
Speaker 10: allowing us to really push the envelope and do more things.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Cut Dave Canalis a break for the voice there. I
Speaker 1: assume it was a long week there in mini camp.
Speaker 1: You look at Bryce Young in the twenty twenty four seasons,
Speaker 1: the starter, of course benched in favor of Andy Dalton,
Speaker 1: But once he got back out there at the end
Speaker 1: of the season, he's throwing passes and turning his back
Speaker 1: and signaling touchdown without even looking that the ball gets
Speaker 1: completed stacy.
Speaker 2: The arrow does appear to be pointing up.
Speaker 1: The question now is if Bryce Young continues this improvement,
Speaker 1: how good can this Panthers team be in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Tom Anian, I mean mastery is a strong word
Speaker 5: to use after OTA's. It just tells me he has
Speaker 5: a good pulse on the terminology and the verbiage going
Speaker 5: into this season with Dave Canalis. I'm more concerned though
Speaker 5: about the Bucks or excuse me, the Panthers defensively. I mean,
Speaker 5: when you consider a young quarterback like this and some
Speaker 5: nice pieces offensively, they got to have a defense that
Speaker 5: can get the ball back for them, and unfortunately for them.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I love Idiro Rivero Avero, but
Speaker 5: their defensive coordinator, but last year was was not good.
Speaker 5: I mean they were the worst defense, total defense, scoring defense,
Speaker 5: rushing defense. They're the worst on third down you see
Speaker 5: the lower third right there. And I think there were
Speaker 5: a combination of things. Injuries played a big factor, Personnel
Speaker 5: didn't always match up to this base four to three,
Speaker 5: and kind of Vic Fangio tendencies within it. So personnel changed.
Speaker 5: I mean, they have a lot of new pieces through
Speaker 5: via free agency and a couple of rookies you're going
Speaker 5: to want to keep your eye on, and Prince Uman
Speaker 5: Mielien Uman Miellen is you know, drafted in the second
Speaker 5: round for a reason, linebacker, and then Nick Scorton linebacker.
Speaker 5: Those guys are going to have to step in and
Speaker 5: really help this defense and have somewhat of a resurgence
Speaker 5: to improve upon what they were last year. Ian.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Carolina Panther's on defense had a very clear vision
Speaker 3: this offseason needed to get better. Signed. I think four
Speaker 3: starters in agency might end up being five, we'll see,
Speaker 3: but definitely definitely added a bunch of talent there, did
Speaker 3: it in the draft as well. And look, the fact
Speaker 3: that we are talking about this team really does revolve
Speaker 3: around that guy right there. Yes, the defense is gonna
Speaker 3: get gonna get better. Hopefully is adequate if there should
Speaker 3: be a really well coached defense that helps. But for
Speaker 3: Bryce Young to take that leap that he needs to make,
Speaker 3: I mean, that really is what's gonna determine whether or
Speaker 3: not the Carolina Panthers challenge for a playoff spot, whether
Speaker 3: or not Bryce Young is in fact that franchise guy
Speaker 3: like they draft.
Speaker 4: Him to be.
Speaker 3: And the early returns. In other words, the last several
Speaker 3: games of last season really do point to him becoming
Speaker 3: exactly what the Carolina Panthers have hoped for the last
Speaker 3: two years along National nine. Mare is over because that
Speaker 3: guy was actually in a camp. That's Aaron Rodgers, remember him,
Speaker 3: That Steelers guy who signed a week ago. Was the
Speaker 3: biggest deal the whole offseason. That it happened, and we
Speaker 3: were kind of like, all right, I guess he signed.
Speaker 3: I guess he's on the Steelers now. Anyway, moving on
Speaker 3: to TJ Watt, Yes, Rogers is on the Steelers.
Speaker 4: Don't worry.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about it a ton during training camp. But
Speaker 3: that all happened. That was not the only thing to
Speaker 3: happen this week with the Steelers. So let's welcome in
Speaker 3: our good friend Adam Rank for a segment we call
Speaker 3: what are They Thinking? So I'll start with this, Rank,
Speaker 3: what's your beef with the Steelers?
Speaker 9: You know what, honestly, it's not signing Aaron Rodgers because
Speaker 9: I thought that was a good movie. He's better than
Speaker 9: Mason Rudolph and everything. So well done, Steelers. T I
Speaker 9: take obception to is Mike Tomlin saying, you know what
Speaker 9: we got to have hotter mini cams. It's gotta be
Speaker 9: hotter during the day for us to have What do
Speaker 9: you do? You just watch the Junction Boys and think
Speaker 9: to himself like, oh, yeah, it's gotta be warmer, Like, oh,
Speaker 9: we got it. This is this what we're focusing on Pittsburgh,
Speaker 9: Like I get it. Like obviously last season the Steelers
Speaker 9: started off very hot and then faded down the stretch
Speaker 9: and Mike Tomlin's like, you know what, It's because I
Speaker 9: had our training camp practices in the morning. Or perhaps
Speaker 9: it was because you had Justin Field starting and he
Speaker 9: went four and two and you're like, yeah, that's great,
Speaker 9: Justin We're gonna go with Russell Wilson.
Speaker 4: I think that was the bigger issue.
Speaker 9: I don't think it was the timing of training camp
Speaker 9: start times. I don't think it was the fact that
Speaker 9: somebody's eating permantes for lunch. It was the fact that
Speaker 9: you pulled out the better quarterback. That's why your team suffered,
Speaker 9: not this practice starting time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're probably right. All right on to
Speaker 3: the next. Brad Holmes, the general manager for the Detroit Lions,
Speaker 3: who has done an excellent, excellent job of stocking that roster.
Speaker 3: It's talking about Ben Johnson in Chicago. What was he thinking?
Speaker 4: What are he doing? Why is he so upset? Ben?
Speaker 4: Brad Holmes like a lion.
Speaker 9: A lot of Lions fans don't understand why Ben Johnson
Speaker 9: went to be the head coach of the Chicago Bears, Like,
Speaker 9: why are you surprised that a young offensive coordinator is
Speaker 9: taking the best job opening in the league? Objectively, when
Speaker 9: you look at all the job openings for last year,
Speaker 9: whether it's the Jets, whether it was the Raiders or whomever,
Speaker 9: this was the best job opening you have. Caleb Williams,
Speaker 9: you had the number ten overall pick of the draft,
Speaker 9: You had a pretty decent defense, You had a team
Speaker 9: that was ready to compute.
Speaker 4: What are they expecting? Oh?
Speaker 9: Was he supposed to not hurt your feelings by taking
Speaker 9: the best possible job out there? Brad Holmes, what are
Speaker 9: you thinking? Of course, Ben.
Speaker 4: Johnson was going to be the coach of the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 3: All right, Rank, I got one more for you. Dak Prescott,
Speaker 3: our good friend, the Cowboys quarterback now healthy in the
Speaker 3: quarterback for I don't know, it seems about ten years
Speaker 3: or so, would like just for his sanity, to win
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl. What is he thinking, although he's right,
Speaker 3: by the way, what.
Speaker 4: Is he thinking?
Speaker 9: I love Dak Prescott, but really, this is what you're
Speaker 9: pinning your hopes on. This is what you're pinning your
Speaker 9: sanity on, whether the Dallas Cowboys could.
Speaker 4: Reach the Super Bowl.
Speaker 9: Like this is like anybody else to some contract promoter
Speaker 9: pinning his hopes on the fact that Oasis the Brothers
Speaker 9: are not going to get into a fight and somehow have.
Speaker 4: To end their tour prematurely.
Speaker 9: What you know is going to happen, And similarly, you
Speaker 9: expect the Dallas Cowboys season to end prematurely at some junction.
Speaker 9: I mean, I love Dak Prescott, but I don't think
Speaker 9: that this Dallas Cowboys team has gotten better over the
Speaker 9: last couple of years. And as a matter of fact,
Speaker 9: there are now teams leapfrogging them. I don't know if
Speaker 9: they paid attention to what was happening in Washington last year.
Speaker 9: You got an uphill battle to climb, So, Dak, I
Speaker 9: wish for you the very best, but maybe lower your
Speaker 9: expectations just a little.
Speaker 3: Don't will your expectations raise your expectations. Dak is right,
Speaker 3: Rank is wrong, but We thank you anyway, Rank great
Speaker 3: stuff all show today, have an awesome weekend. Really appreciate you.
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Speaker 1: a phrase you hear very often, which might be the
Speaker 1: point they are going to as the Patriots sounds today
Speaker 1: at Jay Legacy and Bronze Forever. Tom Brady's statue will
Speaker 1: be unveiled on August eighth, prior to the Patriots preseason
Speaker 1: opener against the Commanders. Welcome back to the Insiders, Tom Pilisero,
Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport, Stacey Dale's your thoughts on a preseason unveiling
Speaker 1: of the Goats statue.
Speaker 5: Can't wait, Love the Goat. That post was done yesterday,
Speaker 5: six twelve. That would be Tom Brady Day, so I'm
Speaker 5: a big fan of that. He won six Super Bowls
Speaker 5: with the team he wore the number twelve with the team.
Speaker 5: Obviously not a particular fan of a preseason game unveiling,
Speaker 5: but it's got to happen, and he's a TV starter,
Speaker 5: so what are you going to say about it? By
Speaker 5: the way, Happy Father's Day.
Speaker 3: Guys, Oh thanks Dales. I am a fan of this
Speaker 3: mainly because if you're a Patriots fan, you want a nice,
Speaker 3: low key environment to go celebrate Tom Brady. Plus you
Speaker 3: have to go to this preseason game. Not everyone goes
Speaker 3: to a lot of the preseason games. This forces fans
Speaker 3: to go genius by the Patriots. But anyway, Plus Tom
Speaker 3: Brady is mostly busy during Sundays. This year happens to
Speaker 3: be on Fox. So all in all, I support the.
Speaker 2: Decision, what say you?
Speaker 7: Tom?
Speaker 1: I would also think that Mike Rabel enjoys the fact
Speaker 1: that once it comes time to play the real games,
Speaker 1: the full focus will be on these Patriots and not
Speaker 1: the legacy passed, even though it's one of his Yes,
Speaker 1: probably good buddies. Who's going to be etched in bronze,
Speaker 1: hopefully with a view that Mike has right out of
Speaker 1: his office there at Jellette Stadium. Having father says they
Speaker 1: will send to everybody out there five teams of Minicamp.
Speaker 1: Next week, this show'll be back. Shouldn't be an Easter
Speaker 1: time on Monday. Enjoy the weekend. Everybody