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Speaker 1: Major changes across the NFL landscape in the past twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours, with four more teams joining the search for

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Speaker 1: a new head coach. We'll take you inside each decision

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Speaker 1: tonight and tell you what's next to the Falcons, Browns,

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Speaker 1: Raiders and Cardinals. The season is long over for those teams.

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Speaker 1: For others, it is just heating up. Wild Guard Weekend

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Speaker 1: is almost here. Our team of reporters and analysts will

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Speaker 1: tell you what you need to know on how all

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Speaker 1: six matchups.

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Speaker 2: Could be won.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens stuff they would be in the playoffs, so

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Speaker 1: did the Bucks and definitely the Chiefs. We will break

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Speaker 1: down where things went wrong for some of the last

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Speaker 1: year's contenders and how they can get right for twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six. Welcome inside with the Insiders presented by Progressive

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Speaker 1: Insurance alongside the in rapid Boorn Batista Mike Garafalo.

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Speaker 3: I am Tom Peliserro.

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Speaker 1: We are just fine short days away from playoff football

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Speaker 1: across the NFL. We got six big games on Wild

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Speaker 1: Card Weekend. All kicks off on Saturday afternoon with the

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Speaker 1: Rams and the Panthers, followed by the Packers Bears, Round

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Speaker 1: three in primetime, a triple header of games on Sunday

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Speaker 1: before the Texans visit Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers on

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Speaker 1: Monday night. Fourteen teams still alive, including the Broncos and Seahawks,

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Speaker 1: who have vised this week. For others, the offseason has

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Speaker 1: already begun, some with major changes. We begin in Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: where the Browns officially parted ways today with coach Kevin Stefanski,

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Speaker 1: two time NFL Coach of the Year, took the Browns

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Speaker 1: to playoffs in both of those seasons, but just eight

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Speaker 1: wins over the past two years.

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Speaker 3: Jimmy Haslam the.

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Speaker 1: Owder described it as horrible the organization did. Thanks Stefanski

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Speaker 1: for all of his work and immedia candidate for other vacancies,

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Speaker 1: next leader in Cleveland.

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Speaker 4: Many of you have heard me say that Kevin's like family.

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Speaker 4: There really isn't a better There really isn't a better person.

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Speaker 4: He's the best of us. We all owe him a

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Speaker 4: since two thousand and two. And that's something that we'll

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Speaker 4: always remember coming into the season. We were realistic that,

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Speaker 4: you know, we were a team and a roster in transition,

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Speaker 5: When it comes to this offseason and mentally like getting

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Speaker 5: to where it could be risky plays, but it's always

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Speaker 5: lot of relationships and that's what I'm happy this offseason.

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Speaker 5: I'll be able to build with those guys and whoever

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Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski out in Cleveland, Andrew Berry stays as the

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Speaker 1: gm ian in Park based on the strength of a

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Speaker 1: They also do have a quarterback in Shuder Sanders, who

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Speaker 1: Take me through the reasoning in Cleveland and how the

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Speaker 3: Of what the Browns need to do.

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Speaker 6: First of all, as far as what the Cleveland Browns

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Speaker 6: Last two years were not good and there were several examples.

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Speaker 2: That also did not help.

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Speaker 6: Simply needed a new voice, give a new try to

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Speaker 6: whoever it is inherits, is actually pretty good. This defense

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Speaker 2: And you have a quarterback decision.

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Speaker 2: They have two first round picks. How did they use that?

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson still has one year left on his contract

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Haslam has called a big swing and miss, a

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Speaker 7: Mike to Vegas, we go? Tom? Actually, could we really

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Speaker 8: Pete Carroll fired after one season as the head coach

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Speaker 8: conducting a head coaching search. John Spytek, the general manager

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Speaker 7: Trying to learn, trying to get.

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Speaker 7: See where they land on this one.

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Speaker 8: In the meantime, and this could be a topic of

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Speaker 2: Max Crosby, what's going to happen with him?

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Speaker 7: Is he tradable? Mister spy Tech.

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Speaker 9: I have a lot of respect for Max and how

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Speaker 8: Judy Batista because Max Crosby didn't love the idea of

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Speaker 7: I love Max. The embodies what a raider is. I've

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Speaker 11: not tradable. Frankly to me, like it's going to be

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Speaker 11: They've got the first overall draft pick. That's a good

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Speaker 11: But it feels like they are going to wipe the

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Speaker 11: We will see what ultimately happens with Max Crosby. Maybe

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Speaker 11: they are hitting a hard reset for the Raiders. Obviously

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Speaker 11: If they can hit on the quarterback and get the

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Speaker 12: Yeah, Judina, it should be a hard reset because I

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Speaker 2: Given his age, that he could create a winning culture fast.

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Speaker 12: And I don't blame the Raiders for parachuting away from

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Speaker 12: Five head coaches in the last five seasons. And you

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Speaker 8: There's a lot of work to be done in Vegas

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Speaker 8: transformational offseason for the Raiders in a lot of ways.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of transformational, the Falcons undergoing a significant and complicated

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Speaker 1: move through this process to hire a president of football

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Speaker 1: Operations that is expected to be Matt Ryan, and then

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Speaker 6: Right, it is complicated, I mean that's the right word

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Speaker 11: Judy Arizona Cardinals fired coach Jonathan Gannon today. After three

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Speaker 7: Now you could look back.

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Speaker 6: Right Jonathan Canon is still New York Giants commite a

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Speaker 6: Of course he's going to be back. He's literally leading.

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Speaker 3: It all fell apart.

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Speaker 1: Here's the new controlling owner, Carly Ers Gordon, on why

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Speaker 14: Like I said, the tale of two seasons. What we

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Speaker 11: You know, Kansas City, you lose your starting quarterback.

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Speaker 1: The more of the day around the NFL pissed unless

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Speaker 1: It was close in Pittsburgh, Mike Tomlin, Aaron Rodgers and

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Speaker 16: Tyler Luke from forty four Yards Season on the Line.

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Speaker 10: Loop Kick is on the way it is It is

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Speaker 16: One of the most unbelievable games we have seen in

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Speaker 16: this epic rivalry ends with a gut wrenching finish as

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Speaker 7: Wide right.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't matter how you win it's just that it did it.

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Speaker 1: and Bucky Brooks. Jane, you cover the Texans this past week. Oh,

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Speaker 1: There's still that anonymous team that's going up against Aaron

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Speaker 17: Rodgers has shown that when you least.

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Speaker 18: Expect it, he might throw the ball your way and

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Speaker 18: expect you to come up with it and help him

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Speaker 18: win the game.

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Speaker 13: You know, Jay, what was interesting about how he played

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Speaker 13: on Sunday Night was the ability to push it to

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Speaker 13: every player that was on the field, with us Adam

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Speaker 13: Thiel and the Pat Friar Booth being able to trust

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Speaker 13: him in those pivotal moments. And that is great because

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Speaker 13: when dk Metcalf comes back, he's the only receiver that

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Speaker 13: would demand a double team at times because of his

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Speaker 13: big play prowess. That then opens up the field for

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Speaker 13: the rest of the guys. But as you ellude, the

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Speaker 13: Texas not only a dominant upfront with their pass rush,

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Speaker 13: they're very sticky in coverage. And the challenge that the

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Speaker 13: Pittsburgh still as wide receivers have is can they win

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Speaker 13: their one on one matchups. This is going to require

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Speaker 13: the guys on the outside to really work to get open,

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Speaker 13: but more importantly, it is going to require Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 13: to fit the ball in the tight windows. We saw

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Speaker 13: him do it against the Ravens, but can't he do

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Speaker 13: it against a top defense in the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 10: That's the million dollar question that he has to answer.

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Speaker 1: That was effectively a playoff game on Sunday night, But

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Speaker 1: in terms of a real playoff game nine years since

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Speaker 1: the Steelers last one to one, they brought in Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers for moments like this. Will find out how it

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Speaker 1: plays out on Monday night, Bucky Jane, Thank you very much, Judy.

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Speaker 11: Now, the Steelers are part of the AFC playoff schedule.

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Speaker 11: Here is the whole AFC slate. In the first weekend

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Speaker 11: Sunday one o'clock, you've got the Bills at Jaguars. That's

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Speaker 11: going to be a good one. Patriots Chargers that is

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Speaker 11: the eight o'clock Sunday game. Monday Night football is the

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Speaker 11: Texans and the Steelers, and of course the Broncos are

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Speaker 11: on the buy. Let's bring in our Bridget Content and

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Speaker 11: Cam Wolf. Let's talk about the Patriots and Chargers, because

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Speaker 11: you guys saw these two teams this week. Cam, I

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Speaker 11: want to start with you. Drake may has had an

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Speaker 11: MVP caliber season. He may very well be the MVP

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Speaker 11: when the voting is finished. But this is going to

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Speaker 11: be his first playoff experience. You never know how young

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Speaker 11: players are going to do until they're in the middle

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Speaker 11: of it. How is he approaching this one.

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Speaker 10: The same?

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Speaker 19: Every day is May Day when you're a Patriots fan

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Speaker 19: or a Patriots player. And I was at this game

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Speaker 19: this weekend, and probably about thirty minutes before the game,

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Speaker 19: I'm talking with Patriots pass coordinator Thomas Brown, and I said,

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Speaker 19: tell me something about Drake May that people don't know.

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Speaker 19: I know about the stats, completion percentage, leader, accuracy, yards

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Speaker 19: per attempt. He said, his composure, he said, zero rattles

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Speaker 19: him and I've never seen that in a young quarterback

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Speaker 19: of this level. He said, whether he gets a fumble,

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Speaker 19: whether it gets interception, it's unfasible. It's why he can

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Speaker 19: impact this game. And when you think about playoffs, there's

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Speaker 19: going to be a moment. There's going to be a

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Speaker 19: third and fifteen, there's going to be an impact play

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Speaker 19: where the rookie element of him being in the playoffs

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Speaker 19: for the first time comes alive. They think the ice

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Speaker 19: in his veins is why he will be ready for

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Speaker 19: the moment. He's hungry, he's a competitor, but he doesn't

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Speaker 19: get shaken, and I thought it was cool talking to

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Speaker 19: some of his teammates about different stories. Hunter Henry told

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Speaker 19: me they have a ping pong war in the locker room.

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Speaker 10: All the time.

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Speaker 19: Drake May is losing that war right now, but every

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Speaker 19: week he comes through with a different strategy of how

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Speaker 19: to beat Hunter Henry and Pop Douglas holds me, Drake

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Speaker 19: May wants to be a wide receiver. He's always hanging

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Speaker 19: in our room joking with us the same way if

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Speaker 19: he had better hands, who would be like with us too.

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Speaker 19: So his leadership ability on and off the field has

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Speaker 19: elevated him to a guy the Patriots trust, and these big.

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Speaker 11: Moments right this is not quite as new experience for

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Speaker 11: the Chargers. They of course, Bridgett went to the playoffs

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Speaker 11: last year with Jim Harbaugh. His track record is that

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Speaker 11: in the second year his teams make deep pushes. What's

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Speaker 11: the mindset of the Chargers as they start their postseason run.

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Speaker 20: Look, Judy and Kim, it's a really fascinating matchup. When

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Speaker 20: you look at this matchup between the Chargers and the Patriots,

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Speaker 20: there were many different scenarios of where the Chargers were

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Speaker 20: going to fall in the wild card, whether it would

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Speaker 20: be five, six, seven, depending on the results of yesterday's game.

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Speaker 20: And I talked to a couple different players and people

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Speaker 20: in the Chargers organization and they're really excited about the

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Speaker 20: opportunity to go to New England and face a team

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Speaker 20: that they've beaten the last two times they've played. But

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Speaker 20: keep in mind they have not yet faced this Patriots

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Speaker 20: team under head coach Mike Rabel. It's really going to

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Speaker 20: be a battle of the top five offense with the

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Speaker 20: Patriots against a battle of the top five Chargers defense.

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Speaker 20: Drake may Cam just said it been having an MVP season,

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Speaker 20: highest passer rating in the league. He'll be tested against

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Speaker 20: the Chargers' top ten scoring defense. I talked with Derwin

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Speaker 20: James about this season. He says this team has evolved

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Speaker 20: as they've continued on throughout this year, saying the biggest

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Speaker 20: improvement he's seen is they're playing team football. Look, this

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Speaker 20: team is no stranger to injuries. They've had so many

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Speaker 20: guys go down, and he said, when one guy goes down,

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Speaker 20: we have just next man up mentality, and that has

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Speaker 20: really helped change the mindset of this team.

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Speaker 11: As they enter in the playoffs.

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Speaker 20: But Judy and cam Derwin James, we talk about how

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Speaker 20: much of a star he is for this Chargers team. Guys,

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Speaker 20: He's only ever won one playoff game in his entire career,

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Speaker 20: and that was twenty eighteen, his rookie season. He says

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Speaker 20: he's been thinking about this since April when he set

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Speaker 20: his goals for the season.

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Speaker 11: He told me he.

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Speaker 20: Dreams about winning playoff games. So it is all on

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Speaker 20: their minds. Justin Herbert always in the conversation. As one

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Speaker 20: of the top quarter in the league, one of the

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Speaker 20: things he has yet to do, Judy, is win a

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Speaker 20: playoff game.

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Speaker 2: So this is weird.

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Speaker 6: The playoffs are starting this week and the Kansas City

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Speaker 6: Chiefs are not in them.

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Speaker 2: It is rare. It has been more than a decade.

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Speaker 6: But Patrick Mahomes is injured, Travis Kelcey still balling, but

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Speaker 6: the rest of the team not as much out of

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Speaker 6: the playoffs this year. With a fascinating offseason coming over

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Speaker 6: the cap, plenty of moves to make, plenty of changes

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Speaker 6: to enact. Jeffrey Shoudi had joined us on the Insiders.

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Speaker 6: Take me through what the Kansas City Chiefs offseason is

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Speaker 6: going to look like after missing the playoffs the first

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Speaker 6: time in forever.

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Speaker 12: Oh, it's going to be very busy Ian. They have

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Speaker 12: a lot of work to do. I would say two

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Speaker 12: things stand out. One involves the talent. You saw when

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Speaker 12: Patrick Mahomes went down that they did not have the

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Speaker 12: depth of talent that you would have expected from achampionship

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Speaker 12: caliber team. And really this team struggled because the stars

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Speaker 12: didn't play like stars. Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey, Chris Jones.

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Speaker 12: They had good years, but they needed to be great

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Speaker 12: for this team to be great. So they have to

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Speaker 12: find more players who are difference makers to fill that

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Speaker 12: void to help those guys play better if Kelsey comes back.

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Speaker 10: And the other side of.

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Speaker 12: This is the offense and the guy you're looking at

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Speaker 12: right now, Andy Reid, his offense got staled and they

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Speaker 12: got passed by. You look at the best offenses in

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Speaker 12: the NFL, they all have a pretty strong run game.

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Speaker 10: The Chiefs did not have that.

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Speaker 12: And so you're talking about a team that has to

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Speaker 12: think long and hard about how do they fortify that

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Speaker 12: running attack. Isaiah pacheck O, Pyo Wi me be back

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Speaker 12: Hunt might not be back. They got to find a

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Speaker 12: back who can run behind that offensive line and make

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Speaker 12: a difference and make life easier whenever Patrick Mahomes is

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Speaker 12: healthy enough to start playing football again.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, a little juice in that backfield would probably have.

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Speaker 6: I thought they're going to go after the trade lote

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Speaker 6: and trade deadline did not find some receivers can sort

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Speaker 6: of develop more of a cohesive.

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Speaker 2: Situation with Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 6: And then obviously if Mahomes is ready for the start

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Speaker 6: of next season, that would be a big thing.

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Speaker 2: But he may not be.

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Speaker 6: With that ACL and lcls, there's certainly some uncertainty there.

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Speaker 2: Jeffrey Chidia, thank you very.

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Speaker 6: Much for hanging out with us as always, Tom, You've

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Speaker 6: been hanging out all day.

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Speaker 3: Crazy postseason No Chiefs, no.

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Speaker 1: Lions, no Ravens either after Tyler Luke's missed field goal

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Speaker 1: at the end of that game on Sunday night in Pittsburgh. Instead,

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Speaker 1: it is these Steelers playoff bound a Monday night playoff

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Speaker 1: game next week against the Houston Texans. Baltimore after what

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Speaker 1: can only be described as a bizarre season, now heads

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Speaker 1: home early. Judy Batista, Bucky Brooks joining me. Tom Pelisero here,

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Speaker 1: and what I would ask you, Bucky, is this for

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Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens. You watched them through the course of

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Speaker 1: the season, there were bumps. There were the fumbles early,

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Speaker 1: obviously going all the way back to that opener against Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: but they start one in five. Even when they started

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Speaker 1: winning games, it still didn't totally look like the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: In your mind, What if, if anything needs to change

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Speaker 1: for the Ravens to get back on track in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six.

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Speaker 10: The Ravens must double down on their identity.

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Speaker 13: They have been the gold standard for so long in

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Speaker 13: terms of the type of team, the consistency and stability

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Speaker 13: that they've had throughout the organization.

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Speaker 10: They just need to double down on who they are.

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Speaker 13: And when outsiders look at the Ravens, they talk about

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Speaker 13: a rough and rugged team, physical, tough, finished games, with

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Speaker 13: a dominant running game and a disruptive defense.

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Speaker 10: They have to get back to that now.

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Speaker 13: Whether they need to tweak some things when it comes

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Speaker 13: to the roster, that is to be expected because they

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Speaker 13: are in the middle of maybe having to turn over

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Speaker 13: the roster with some aging players moving on. But in

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Speaker 13: terms of who they are, I think John Harbot has

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Speaker 13: to stay committed and convicted in terms of how his

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Speaker 13: team traditionally wins game. They overwhelm you with their physicality

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Speaker 13: and toughness. They beat you up with a rugged defense,

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Speaker 13: with pass rushes, a bound. They just have to get

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Speaker 13: back to that. They'll make some changes, maybe at the

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Speaker 13: coordinator level, whatever, but I expect the Ravens to continue

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Speaker 13: to be who they are and being who they are

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Speaker 13: has made them win the top teams for decades.

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Speaker 10: Look for them to get back to who they are

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Speaker 10: and who they've always been.

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Speaker 11: It feels like what this team needs is like a

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Speaker 11: clear the air session like you would have with a family,

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Speaker 11: where they just clear out all the issues. They clear

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Speaker 11: out what's going on with Lamar, what's going on with

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Speaker 11: John Harbaugh, what's going on between them? How does Lamar

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Speaker 11: feel about the organization? Understandably, right after the game last night,

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Speaker 11: Lamar was asked about his future. He didn't want to

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Speaker 11: talk about it. He said he was still processing. He

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Speaker 11: was in shock about the end of the season. But

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Speaker 11: very soon those conversations are going to have to be had.

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Speaker 11: Steve Baschatti, the owner of the franchise, is a very

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Speaker 11: deliberate man. He is not given to emotional decisions. I

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Speaker 11: suspect he is going to take some time and have

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Speaker 11: conversations with all of these principles. As Bucky mentioned, I

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Speaker 11: would think there are probably going to be staff changes

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Speaker 11: taking place. There were some bumpy moments here. It wasn't

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Speaker 11: just that Lamar was not healthy. There were also some

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Speaker 11: coaching decisions occasionally where Derk Henry just disappeared on the

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Speaker 11: field make no sense whatsoever. They need to smooth things

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Speaker 11: out again. They need to air things out, but I

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Speaker 11: would suspect that all of the principals will return. They

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Speaker 11: just need to get back to being the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: Certainly can make a case that the Ravens were the

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Speaker 1: most disappointing team of twenty twenty five, though Mike I

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Speaker 1: would also say the Bucks might have a say in that.

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Speaker 8: Certainly a disappointing finish and the fans disappointed that there

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Speaker 8: will not be a playoff game there at Raymond James

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Speaker 8: Stadium at the Buccaneers saying thank you crew the fiftieth

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Speaker 8: season of Buccaneers football. They're hopeful that fifty one will

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Speaker 8: be better, and Todd Bowles, who is the head coach

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Speaker 8: right now unless we hear otherwise.

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Speaker 7: Expects fifty one to be better.

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Speaker 8: Expects that he deserves to have fifty one.

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Speaker 21: It's disappointing we didn't get in. You know, it's very disappointing,

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Speaker 21: first time in five years, so you kind of get

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Speaker 21: used to it a little bit. But we did it

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Speaker 21: to ourselves. We did it to ourselves. So we got

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Speaker 21: to take a deep evaluation, starting with myself. And once

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Speaker 21: I do that, I'll evaluate the coaches and players and

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Speaker 21: we'll go accordingly.

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Speaker 10: Have you met with Lasier? Do you know for a

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Speaker 10: fact that you're back next year? I know you have three.

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Speaker 7: Years left time you deal.

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Speaker 21: We meet this week and we evaluate like we always evaluated,

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Speaker 21: had changed the last three years, And we'll meet this

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Speaker 21: week and I get up and come and work every

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Speaker 21: day trying to figure out how to get better.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, there's one where he says, I won three straight

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Speaker 8: divisional titles.

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Speaker 7: I deserve this job.

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Speaker 8: Basically, Sarah Walsh now joining us, what do you make

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Speaker 8: of this Buccaneer situation?

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Speaker 7: Now?

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Speaker 8: And even if Todd Bowles does remain, doesn't mean that

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Speaker 8: there won't be big changes there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we expect to see some changes.

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Speaker 22: And I think the reality is is given the way

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Speaker 22: that this season started with a six and two start

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Speaker 22: and that's when they had a lot of the big

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Speaker 22: names out with injuries. Compared to how they finished, that's

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Speaker 22: what was so shocking. It was just really a total collapse.

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Speaker 22: And that was after they got guys back after their

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Speaker 22: Week nine. This team dropped seven of nine. They just

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Speaker 22: could not find a way to stop the skid. Todd

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Speaker 22: Bowle said that they're going to make changes going forward

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Speaker 22: on defense, said he's going to take a couple of

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Speaker 22: weeks to unravel everything, just defense alone. If you look

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Speaker 22: at some of the issues there, they have not had

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Speaker 22: a dominant pass rusher since the days of Shaq Barrett

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Speaker 22: being here, and Bulls talked about the fact that they

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Speaker 22: need to rush the pass or better, they need to

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Speaker 22: cover better. He said that they didn't play smart at times,

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Speaker 22: despite the fact that he thinks they played hard, they

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Speaker 22: just didn't play smart. He was asked repeatedly about his job,

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Speaker 22: and you heard some of what he said there that

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Speaker 22: he's still going to work.

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Speaker 2: But when he was asked.

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Speaker 22: If he anticipated making any changes to the coaching staff,

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Speaker 22: he said that that is a process that's going to

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Speaker 22: take him a little bit.

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Speaker 11: It's an ongoing process.

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Speaker 22: He didn't want to make any decisions immediately with this

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Speaker 22: season just ending forty eight hours ago for the Buccaneers,

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Speaker 22: so it's sort of a wait and see thing. But

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Speaker 22: Todd would not say either way, but there are expected

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Speaker 22: to be some changes, perhaps on the coaching side as

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Speaker 22: this Buccaneers team, you know, we've been spoiled here in

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Speaker 22: the Tampa Bay area. A lot of folks have been

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Speaker 22: because they have been in the postseason every year since

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Speaker 22: Tom Brady arrived. So I don't think people thought that

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Speaker 22: was going to continue forever, Mike g But the fact

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Speaker 22: that this team started the way it did and then

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Speaker 22: ended the way it did, they just could not close

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Speaker 22: out this division when they needed to. I think that's

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Speaker 22: what has people sort of shocked down here, and I

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Speaker 22: think that that's why this one is going to hurt

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Speaker 22: for a while.

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Speaker 21: An NFL network just reported that you're expected back as

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Speaker 21: coach and that Stephen Ross wants to have the chance

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Speaker 21: to work with a new quarterback and a new general manager.

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Speaker 21: Is that you're understanding you're returning as coach?

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Speaker 23: You know, my understanding is that I'm the coach of

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Speaker 23: the Miami Dolphins until told otherwise. I'm not leaning on

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Speaker 23: your NFL network source, but you know, I think, I

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Speaker 23: think you know, the biggest thing is is it's so

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Speaker 23: important in these jobs to the job itself is enough

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Speaker 23: to worry about whether or not is yours or that's

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Speaker 23: not part of the formula.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 23: I think we all, you know, in the Miami Dolphins organization,

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Speaker 23: in particular with the Dolphins ownership, we are not happy

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Speaker 23: with the results that are not up to the standard.

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Speaker 23: And so my sole focus, you know, each hour that

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Speaker 23: you can reach me in the next foreseeable many hours

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Speaker 23: is correcting and improving something that's not good enough.

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Speaker 1: Right now, welcome back to the Insiders presented by Progressive

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Speaker 1: Insurance right here on NFL Network. Hello to everyone in

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Speaker 1: the South Florida media and elsewhere who is watching us

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Speaker 1: right now.

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Speaker 3: Tom Pellicero, Judibatista.

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Speaker 1: And Camera Wolf, who is down there in the greater

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Speaker 1: Miami area. Cam, I mean, Dail has been pretty consistent

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Speaker 1: in terms of how he's addressed his situation, but he

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Speaker 1: did say some interest things when he talked with the

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Speaker 1: porters today about the future down there in Miami.

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Speaker 19: Tom, absolutely, he's been functioning as if he will be

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Speaker 19: the head coach going forward, as you mentioned, and let's

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Speaker 19: start with that quarterback room, because that's going to be

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Speaker 19: the big question for them this offseason. Tua Tungabailo was benched.

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Speaker 19: McDaniel said today there will be an open competition for

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Speaker 19: the twenty twenty six quarterback job. So no longer as

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Speaker 19: two of the franchise quarterback and he may not even

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Speaker 19: be there going forward. He's obviously got a big fifty

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Speaker 19: five million dollar guarantee contract.

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Speaker 2: The Dolphins have to figure out what to do with that.

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Speaker 19: But everyone I've talked to on the situation believes that

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Speaker 19: they will try to move on from him. Whatever that

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Speaker 19: looks like eating some money or just keeping him in

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Speaker 19: a Kirk Cousin's role is obviously a possibility. They talked

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Speaker 19: up Quinn Yours as an option potentially to develop in

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Speaker 19: this quarterback competition, But this is going to be something

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Speaker 19: that ongoing throughout the GM search. The GM will have

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Speaker 19: input on this, and I asked around the league of Okay,

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Speaker 19: what would it look like. Who could be a couple

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Speaker 19: guys that would make sense that Mike McDaniel's seam. I

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Speaker 19: was told Malik Willis, who is an incoming free agent,

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Speaker 19: could potentially make sense. Matt Lafleure is a scheme. That's

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Speaker 19: not too different from Mike McDaniels or mag mac jones,

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Speaker 19: who is with the forty nine Ers, a team that

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Speaker 19: McDaniel spent a lot of time with. So we'll see

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Speaker 19: interesting all season ahead for the Miami Dolphins.

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Speaker 11: I thought one thing that Mike McDaniel said we didn't

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Speaker 11: show it in that little clip there is he was

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Speaker 11: asked about the GM search and he said he will

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Speaker 11: be a part of the group that works on the

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Speaker 11: GM search, which to me sounds like they want Mike

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Speaker 11: McDaniel to be there more than just one year. That

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Speaker 11: means they want him and the GM to be went

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Speaker 11: to each other. So that would certainly suggest that we're

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Speaker 11: going to see a lot more of Mike McDaniel again,

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Speaker 11: much like the situation with the Atlanta Falcons, there are

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Speaker 11: a lot of voices involved in the search. We know

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Speaker 11: that Troy Aikman has been brought along as a consultant.

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Speaker 11: Dan Marino is still in the building, so we will

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Speaker 11: see who emerges. Certainly, it does seem that one person who.

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Speaker 24: Is likely out the door is going to be to

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Speaker 24: a tug of Ioloa who seems open to a fresh

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Speaker 24: start somewhere else, and it would seem that that is

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Speaker 24: going to be the path that the Mommy Dolphins are

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Speaker 24: probably going to have to take.

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Speaker 1: Notable, though not necessarily an end all be all to

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Speaker 1: the search. The Dolphins put in six requests today for

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Speaker 1: interviews with external GM candidates. Three of them work for

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Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine ers, Mike McDaniel's former team camp.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Judy stick around. Still more to come.

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Speaker 1: That's right. We rap of our twelfth consecutive live hour

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Speaker 1: here on NFL Network, and Barry Jackson from the Miami Herald,

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Speaker 1: I think has transcribed all of them. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: Miles garrett sack records are.

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Speaker 3: Falling a whole lot more. Next to the insiders.

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Speaker 1: Five twenty remaining in this game runs up five.

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Speaker 10: Bengals have it first out of.

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Speaker 3: The rounds five yard line Borough shotgun.

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Speaker 25: There it is Miles Garrett, sack number twenty three, the

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Speaker 25: new single season sacked King and the Browns defense mob

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Speaker 25: their man at the Cincinnati forty five yard line.

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Speaker 26: Miles Garrett gets the sack, gets the record of the

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Speaker 26: team going nuts over there on the sideline. We're all

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Speaker 26: a part of history. Andrew, great job right there. Great moment.

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Speaker 26: Congratulations Miles Garrett the sack King.

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Speaker 8: Everry Buddy Andrews Siciliano on the call, Miles Garrett the

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Speaker 8: new sack king. You see who he leaped over this season?

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Speaker 8: Michael Strahan saying I did it in sixteen games. People

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Speaker 8: saying yeah, but Miles Garrett a lot fewer snaps.

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Speaker 7: It's never clean.

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Speaker 8: All we know is at Miles Garrett a top the

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Speaker 8: list at twenty three in a single season.

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Speaker 7: What a get off off that sack, by the way,

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Speaker 7: and then there's this Eve been on the air for

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Speaker 7: twelve hours today.

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Speaker 8: We've been trying to get Tom Pellisera to talk about this,

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Speaker 8: and he's.

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Speaker 7: Been refusing left and right.

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Speaker 8: We are not going off the air without letting him

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Speaker 8: give his cake on the priest blessing the end zone

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Speaker 8: doing Toudy Ravens kick and Tyler Loop's kick just turned

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Speaker 8: right for no reason.

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Speaker 1: Tom, I haven't a bit of refusing. I had not

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Speaker 1: seen this clip until literally right now. See what happens

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Speaker 1: on a day like this is We've got seventeen different

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Speaker 1: email and text s threads with different people telling us

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Speaker 1: what's happening, sometimes five minutes before I hit, sometimes five

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Speaker 1: hours before I hit so when all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: there's a line in there saying and then Tom talk

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Speaker 1: about the Holy water in Pittsburgh, I'm saying, Holy you

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Speaker 1: know what, what are you talking about.

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Speaker 2: We've got a lot of news that.

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Speaker 1: We're trying to get through right here. I'm not against

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Speaker 1: a fun little story that may or may not.

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Speaker 3: Of course you didn't a religious kicking it.

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Speaker 7: In the end zone.

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Speaker 6: I would just say, you're not talking about I've noticed that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly here we are. We're not talking Thank you

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Speaker 1: for being here.

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Speaker 7: We are back tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Now to the NFL networks, say