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Speaker 1: Nineteen days until the first Sunday of the NFL season,

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Speaker 1: and still all quiet on the Ceedee Lamb contract front,

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Speaker 1: well except for Jerry Jerry's Jerry's never quiet. Here what

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys owner had to say today about his holdout

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Speaker 1: Wide receiver Justin Herbert is out of the boot, is

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Speaker 1: back on the field. We will tell you what we.

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Speaker 2: Know about the Chargers quarterbacks outlook for Week one.

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Speaker 1: I mean, while still no smoke out of Broncos headquarters,

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Speaker 1: but Baldy is gonna be here to break down and

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Speaker 1: show you why. All sides point to that guy Bonix

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Speaker 1: being QB one as a rookie.

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Speaker 2: So much to get into. Let's kick it off right now.

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Speaker 1: Welcome inside with the insiders alongside Ian Rappaport and Mike Garafalo.

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Speaker 2: I am Tom Pelisera.

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Speaker 1: We are one week away right now from cutdown day.

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Speaker 2: Across the league. There are tons of decisions to make

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Speaker 2: the final week.

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Speaker 1: The preseason kicks off in two days, tons of storylines.

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Speaker 1: Let's start out in Berea, Ohio, where Deshaun Watson maybe

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Speaker 1: is preparing for his first game action since he had

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Speaker 1: that surgery on his throwing shoulder that ended his twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three season, Kevi Stefanski said today all starters should

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Speaker 1: expect to play, and then coaches will determine who doesn't

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Speaker 1: who doesn't. Final determination later in the week. That game

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Speaker 1: is live Saturday night at Seattle right here on NFL Network.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna think optimistically here Ian and say we

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Speaker 1: might get a taste of the Shawn Watson in actual

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Speaker 1: game action here. This is a player who, over the

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Speaker 1: past three seasons combined, has appeared in a grand total

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Speaker 1: of twelve games. He's throwing fourteen touchdown passes with nine interceptions.

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Speaker 1: In my mind, it's one of the biggest storylines in

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Speaker 1: the entire NFL this season. What version of the Shawn

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Speaker 1: Watson are we going to get in Cleveland?

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Speaker 3: And that's why this is a thing, right because usually

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Speaker 3: if you're talking about starting quarterbacks in preseason games, some

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Speaker 4: If they play, it's probably not going to be a lot.

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Speaker 3: Except if you're the Chiefs and really will sort of

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Speaker 3: just make sure they've come away healthy and go from there.

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Speaker 4: Not really the case here for Dashaun Watson.

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Speaker 3: Ever since he left the game or basically ended his

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Speaker 3: we were all talking about what was going on with

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Speaker 3: his ankle. Turned out he actually let a fourth quarter

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Speaker 3: comeback with a fractured shoulder, and.

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Speaker 4: Then we didn't see him again.

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Speaker 3: So the fact that Deshaun Watson hasn't played since the

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Speaker 3: middle of the season, hasn't played at all in the preseason,

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Speaker 3: training camp has kind of led us to wonder what

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Speaker 3: he's going to look like. It does sound like he

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Speaker 3: is expected to play. Not sure how many offensive line

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Speaker 4: But you're right, it is a little bit of a question.

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Speaker 3: And I will say this, the Browns do not seem

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Speaker 3: in his life lasco games, specifically while he was injured

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Speaker 3: and leading them back to a dramatic win. That is

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Speaker 3: the Deshaun Watson they believe they're getting this season and beyond.

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Speaker 1: One of the many stories will be covering NonStop throughout

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Speaker 1: the season right here on The Insiders presented by Best

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Speaker 1: Buy that entire division will be fascinated. They'll be chronicled

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Speaker 1: on the in season hard knocks. We know DeShawn Watson,

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Speaker 1: Week one. We still don't know who the Steelers starting

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Speaker 5: that's what Mike Tomlin said, but he still had to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and part of the reason is because the offense

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Speaker 3: We'll see if that's the one they end up getting.

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Speaker 3: And of course referring to Brandon Iu. So the offense

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Speaker 3: And I would also add that Justin Fields is probably

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Speaker 3: mostly because of what he can do with his speed

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Speaker 4: It's not great for the Steelers.

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Speaker 3: I'm just not sure it means that it means anything

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Speaker 2: You mentioned those offensive line issues.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers put Nate Herbig, who had been their starting center,

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Speaker 2: Here as well, we know this justin.

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Speaker 1: Herbert is back on the field for the LA Chargers,

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Speaker 1: less than three weeks after he was diagnosed with a

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Speaker 2: That put him in a boot for a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: This is footage from today that's Herbert on the field.

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Speaker 1: He still looks like he's wearing like running shoes. Those

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Speaker 1: They still expect him to be ready Week one, which

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Speaker 3: And look, Justin Herbert being on the field is a

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Speaker 3: that he has expected to be ready for a week one.

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Speaker 3: The fact that he's participating in eleven nine to eleven

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Speaker 4: Not so sure he's going to be exactly like they

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Speaker 4: It is a new offense.

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Speaker 4: He's needed in camp.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you see him.

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Speaker 5: You saw him this a short while ago with Jane Day,

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Speaker 6: With the Chargers.

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Speaker 6: That's what you do.

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Speaker 2: That's what you do.

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Speaker 5: So the hope was with the new coaching staff plus

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Speaker 5: sort of a I don't call it a bounce back

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Speaker 5: this is not something that magically week one is going

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Speaker 1: The guy taking one spot ahead of Justin Herbert back

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Insiders presented by best Buy. And

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Speaker 3: there's Dak Prescott and there's CD Lamb. Now we haven't

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Speaker 1: Is your level of the concern rise the further camp

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Speaker 4: But we're in good.

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Speaker 9: Shape there and we are having a promising talks. Say well,

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Speaker 9: why you keep talking? Won't you do something again? As

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Speaker 2: It goes.

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Speaker 4: Well. We want to talk about cowboys.

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Speaker 3: Who better than Jane Slater, who is our cowboys report

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Speaker 3: So welcome in Jane Slater, Welcome in our guy Baldy

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Speaker 4: Where are we? Where are we? Listen?

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Speaker 11: You and I have talked about this ian This team

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Speaker 11: Back to two thousand and nine to have a true

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Speaker 11: is in his villain era. But you do have to

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Speaker 11: worry about the conditioning. And I say that because I

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Speaker 11: did talk to trell Owens today. I said, look, you've

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Speaker 11: played at this position, it's an elite position that he

445
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Speaker 11: plays at his level. What's required to come back? And

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Speaker 11: he said, look, he is conditioning. He's like, I've got

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Speaker 11: every faith in the world that he's going to go

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Speaker 11: out there and ball out. But there is a difference

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Speaker 11: when you talk about life tempo of the game, and

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Speaker 11: if they were to give him a new deal, or

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Speaker 11: even if he plays through this deal, he want to

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Speaker 11: protect that asset. So I anticipate, and talking a couple

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Speaker 11: of Cowboys people, they'll have him on a pitch count.

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Speaker 4: The good news is they.

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Speaker 11: Know him, they've got his markers, they've got the GPS

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Speaker 11: system there, they know what his workload can be. But

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Speaker 11: I anticipate that he'll be on a workload if he

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Speaker 11: comes back. So fantasy owners kind of keep your hat

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Speaker 11: on a swivel in Week one if you wanted to

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Speaker 11: start CD long season.

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Speaker 3: If ceedee Lamb gets back, if they do a contract

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Speaker 3: ex sense, I think everyone will deal with the fantasy implication.

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Speaker 3: Just happy the Cowboys have their star back now, Baldy.

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Speaker 3: You know that for ceedeelamb to do what he does

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Speaker 3: and for Dak Prescott to do what he does, they

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Speaker 3: got to have some people in front of him. That

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Speaker 3: Cowboys offensive line is young and is talented. They may

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Speaker 3: have two rookie starters in Guiding and Bebie. I know

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Speaker 3: you've been grinding the tape. What'd you think?

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Speaker 12: Well?

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Speaker 13: They both started. Tyler Goyighton played thirty five snaps. He

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Speaker 13: played deep into the third quarter. You can't find a

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Speaker 13: bad play. I mean, lined up against Max Crosby, lined

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Speaker 13: up the starters against the Raiders last week.

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Speaker 4: He played.

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Speaker 13: He's a talented guy. He's very talented. And Cooper Beebe

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Speaker 13: he started at center. They had to replace Tyler Beiottish

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Speaker 13: and Tyron Smith, so they drafted those guys. They both played.

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Speaker 13: They both played very well. They ran the ball very well.

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Speaker 13: Tyler Goyiton's got a physical, you know, mentality to him.

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Speaker 13: He likes to finish, He likes to move people. He's

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Speaker 13: a big guy that moves very very well. He was

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Speaker 13: the right tackle at Oklahoma. He played life left tackle

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Speaker 13: in this game. I thought he played very well. Early

485
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Speaker 13: returns are very promising. Obviously, it's it's preseason all that stuff, Ian,

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Speaker 13: but they look like both of them look like they

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Speaker 13: belonged to me.

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Speaker 3: You know, people went crazy and I guess sort of

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Speaker 3: maybe rightfully sown or know that Tyron Smith left him

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Speaker 3: be Honish left and you just got to replace him

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Speaker 3: in the draft. It seems like early returns the Cowboys

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Speaker 3: have replaced.

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Speaker 4: Him in the draft.

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Speaker 3: This team is drafted incredibly, incredibly well, and it seems

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Speaker 3: like this class is probably going to do exactly that. Jane,

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Speaker 3: I want to kind of go back if it's okay

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Speaker 3: what you were talking about before with the holdout. Obviously

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Speaker 3: the CDLM holdout is a big deal. Now the Cowboys

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Speaker 3: have been here before, not just last year, but with

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Speaker 3: their new teammate resultso their old teammate, Zeke Elliott. What

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Speaker 3: can we all take from the Zeke holdout and maybe

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Speaker 3: how it affects CDM as hold out Now, I.

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Speaker 11: Think a lot of people, you know, around the league,

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Speaker 11: particularly fans, are constantly reaching out to me, going, you know,

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Speaker 11: why are some of us so optimistic that this thing

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Speaker 11: gets done? Because we do have a precedent of it.

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Speaker 11: Ian I mean, the Cowboys always play this tough talk

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Speaker 11: to get a deal. I think Jerry, you know, he

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Speaker 11: even says these sort of things excite them, but it

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Speaker 11: can be very, very frustrating to a lot of us

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Speaker 11: that cover this team. And I know the fans they're

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Speaker 11: wanting to see who's going to be on this roster.

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Speaker 11: But if you go back to twenty nineteen, Ezekiel Elliot

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Speaker 11: didn't even sign his new deal. And remember this, in

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Speaker 11: that particular situation, he had two years left on his

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Speaker 11: rookie deal. CD right now only has the what of

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Speaker 11: course they could franchise Taghm, etc. But he had two

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Speaker 11: more years left on the deal. His last practice with

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Speaker 11: his team was back in June. He ended up signing

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Speaker 11: on September fourth. I'll never forget. They had to wake

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Speaker 11: him up out of bett he was out there at

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Speaker 11: the Star. He ended up playing against the Giants. He

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Speaker 11: was on a pitch count. I think it was twenty

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Speaker 11: twenty five snaps, but in the third quarter he had

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Speaker 11: a touchdown against the Giants and they won the game. Now,

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Speaker 11: running back wide receiver to very very different positions, But

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Speaker 11: in that particular situation, not only did he get his

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Speaker 11: contract two years earlier. He ended up becoming the highest

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Speaker 11: paid player at his position, despite what the Cowboys said

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Speaker 11: all summer, which was that he didn't deserve Todd Gurley

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Speaker 11: didn't deserve his contract, and neither did Zee because they

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Speaker 11: didn't want to set the market, and they did it.

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Speaker 11: So it's kind of like calling your parents bluff. I

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Speaker 11: think all of us are just sitting around here going

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Speaker 11: just announce that you know you're going to do it

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Speaker 11: before the Cowboys get back for their night practice, the

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Speaker 11: start for skill for all of the fans.

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Speaker 3: I remember correctly, you and I were calling each other

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Speaker 3: like frantic at about six in the morning, just making

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Speaker 3: sure this deal was actually done. Bring some terrible memories,

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Speaker 3: but a great deal for Zeke and a great deal

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Speaker 3: for the Cowboys. Jane Baldy, thank you guys very much. Also,

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Speaker 3: always value your insight, especially as it pertains to the Cowboys.

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Speaker 3: Look at those guys. That right there is bo Nicks

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Speaker 3: throwing dimes. That right there is Jade and Daniels also

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Speaker 3: throwing dimes. Two of the impressive young rookie quarterbacks.

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Speaker 6: And what is a.

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Speaker 4: Really really good class?

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Speaker 3: What can we learned from each of the performances in

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Speaker 3: the preseason coming.

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Speaker 1: It's the final tune up before the NFL regular season,

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Speaker 1: and NFL Network has eight live games Week three of

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Speaker 1: the NFL preseason. Check them out don't miss one. Black

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Speaker 1: for NFL Plus. Some guys will not be out there

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Speaker 1: this week. That includes Bear's quarterback Caleb Williams, who show

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Speaker 1: enough over the past two weeks that Matt Eberflu says

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Speaker 1: kyleb like a lot of the Bear starter is not

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Speaker 1: going to be out there Thursday in their preseason finale

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Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. No word yet whether Bryce Young might

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Speaker 1: see any preseason action. He's had none so far here

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Speaker 1: in this exhibition schedule. Here Dave Canalis said, still deciding

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Speaker 1: whether he will be out there this weekend. We also

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Speaker 1: know for sure whether bo Nicks is going to play

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Speaker 1: in the final preseason week. That might depend in part

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Speaker 1: whether Sean Payton is seed enough to declare his starter.

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Speaker 1: Last we heard from Peyton, not ready yet to say

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Speaker 1: bo Nix is going to be the guy, though he

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Speaker 1: did acknowledge that he was very sharp in his second

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Speaker 1: preseason outing. As we welcome you back in to the

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Speaker 1: Insiders presented by Best Buy. It's Tom Pellisero, It's Mike

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Speaker 1: Garafolo and bringing in our Brian Baldinger as well. Baldy,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about bow Knicks. I know that you have

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Speaker 1: broken this thing down. I know, Hi, Sean Payton has

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Speaker 1: been on bow Knicks since he saw him in that

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Speaker 1: private workout. You watch him right now in game action

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Speaker 1: against NFL defenses.

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Speaker 2: What do you see?

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Speaker 13: Well, I mean, look, he's going up against Green Bay's

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Speaker 13: number two, which is which is fine, it's preseason. But

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Speaker 13: you know, the thing that jumps out is how much

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Speaker 13: in sync Sean Payton and bow Nicks are. Like, Sean

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Speaker 13: Payton is just a great designer of offense, a great

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Speaker 13: play caller. So I mean a lot of his completions

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Speaker 13: the other day were simple completions, play action pass. You know,

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Speaker 13: this throw right here, a stick route to the tight end,

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Speaker 13: like just very completions. Little screen to Javonte right here,

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Speaker 13: three count screen off play action. He gets a convoy

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Speaker 13: out there, this throw over the middle right there to

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Speaker 13: the tight end, Like.

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Speaker 2: It's a good throw.

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Speaker 13: That throw on the end, cut to Courtland Sutton for

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Speaker 13: eighteen yards, Like this a great throw. It's a great

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Speaker 13: throw with timing that one to you know, over the middle,

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Speaker 13: Like he knows how to get guys open. This guy

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Speaker 13: knows how to find the open receiver. And then he's

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Speaker 13: done a good job of taking care of the football

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Speaker 13: and extending some plays when it required it like this

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Speaker 13: right here, like go get yourself ten yards just first

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Speaker 13: and twenty, go get ten. Here's a touchdown throw off

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Speaker 13: a little boot drag action, you know, to a guy

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Speaker 13: that I think could be a big part of this

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Speaker 13: offense this year after the injury from last year.

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Speaker 4: So I see a.

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Speaker 13: Quarterback and a coach that are in sync. And the

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Speaker 13: biggest reason why I think bo Nicks is going to

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Speaker 13: be announced as a starter is that the team responded

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Speaker 13: to him. He moved the team on almost every single drive.

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Speaker 13: Six out of seven drives in two games now have

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Speaker 13: led to scores. And that's a guy that's a great sign.

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Speaker 13: Getting all those different players including Tim Patrick there in

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Speaker 13: the Enzo get him the ball like he did.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and not really getting a lot of that from

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Speaker 5: the other guys either. So you know, you've got the

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Speaker 5: quarterback that you drafted to be your future. He's showing

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Speaker 5: you that he can stand up to or has sted

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Speaker 5: up to it to this point.

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Speaker 6: So, yeah, I agree with you. We've all agreed along

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Speaker 6: the way that he was most likely going to be

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Speaker 6: the starter.

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Speaker 5: Everybody, everybody knew that it was going to be Jadon

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Speaker 5: Daniels with the Commanders, but they finally officially made it

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Speaker 5: official dan Quinn announcing earlier this week that Jaden Daniels

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Speaker 5: is their starting quarterback in Washington. Baldy, he was impressive

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Speaker 5: in training camp and we were down there. He was

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Speaker 5: impressive in the spring, even when we weren't there, just

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Speaker 5: hearing some of the things that were happening there. He

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Speaker 5: was impressive in the preseason. So your thoughts on Jayden

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Speaker 5: Daniels finally getting the keys to the car there in Washington.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, Look, I mean he's played twenty nine snaps in

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Speaker 13: two preseason games. He took the opening drive down against

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Speaker 13: the Jets and he put it in the end zone.

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Speaker 13: Great sign last week. Not as fortuitous as he was

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Speaker 13: the week before against Miami, but he made a number

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Speaker 13: of good throws in this game, also pulled it down.

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Speaker 13: You can see that Cliff Kingsbury is going to use

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Speaker 13: it in the run game, whether it's just quarterback keepers

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Speaker 13: or you know, read options plays like this like you

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Speaker 13: just had for twenty yards last week.

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Speaker 4: He's gonna be.

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Speaker 13: A big part of the run game. I do think

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Speaker 13: that it's apparent to me, maybe not to Washington yet,

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Speaker 13: but they need more help around him right now.

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Speaker 2: I think he needs more weapons.

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Speaker 13: Is one of the reasons why they were in the sweepstakes,

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Speaker 13: you know, for a certain receiver in San Francisco. But

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Speaker 13: you know, regardless, he's very confident. He's got a golden touch.

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Speaker 13: I think he knows what he's looking at, and so

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Speaker 13: I think he's ready for action. And so just a

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Speaker 13: question of is there enough pieces around him right now

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Speaker 13: where you can really accelerate his talent and he can

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Speaker 13: raise the other ones around him right now?

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Speaker 2: Baldi, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again here Shortly coming up after this, thoughts,

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Speaker 1: turn the attention some of the young pass catchers around

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Speaker 1: the league. You know Cooper Cup, you know Pooka Nakua.

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Speaker 1: Do you know that guy number nineteen, Xavier Smith? Is

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Speaker 1: that the next great fine for that Rams receiver? Corp

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Speaker 1: or Steve White will join us talk about that and

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Speaker 1: a lot more right after this and the Insiders.

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Speaker 2: Presented by best Buy.

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford continuing to ramp up as he works his

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Speaker 1: way back from a little bit of hamstring titaness, participating

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Speaker 1: in eleven on eleven drills Today, John McVay said, all along,

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Speaker 1: no cause for concern when it comes to Stafford's availability

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Speaker 1: for the real games beginning in less than three weeks.

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Speaker 1: Continued progress certainly a good sign on that front. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the Insiders presented by best Buy, Tom Pellicero,

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Speaker 1: now joined by my friend Steve White. Steve, we know

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Speaker 1: the Rams through the years have had some really unique

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Speaker 1: fines at the wide receiver position. Sean mcvay's offense is

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Speaker 1: certainly conducive to a certain type of player being able

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Speaker 1: to fit in. Are we going to see the next

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup Pooka Nakua breakout for this Rams offense in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four?

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Speaker 14: Tom, we might have two this year. You know, we've

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Speaker 14: heard all the talk all training camp about the rookie

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Speaker 14: out of Texas Jordan Whittington.

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Speaker 4: But also a player who has was on their.

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Speaker 14: Practice squad last year who has emerged, especially with the

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Speaker 14: last two preseason games, Xavier Smith.

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Speaker 2: Now he's a diminutive.

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Speaker 14: Wide receiver out of Florida A and M University, who

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Speaker 14: spent time on the practice squad last year, who has

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Speaker 14: lit it up the past two weeks in preseason. Now

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Speaker 14: every time I see his wide receiver coach Eric Yarber,

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Speaker 14: who doesn't get enough credit for developing guys like Cup

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Speaker 14: and Nikua and two to at well.

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Speaker 2: Steve x is going to give it to you. X

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Speaker 2: is going to give it to you.

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Speaker 14: Well, he's given to that corner right there against the

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Speaker 14: Chargers last week, and you see him running the short, intermediate,

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Speaker 14: and longer routes. But he is also likely to make

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Speaker 14: this roster as a returner. He's had some big returns

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Speaker 14: in the punt game and in the kick game. And

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Speaker 14: like some of these other receivers, you're looking at Whittington

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Speaker 14: right here. These are guys again. Xavier Smith was undrafted

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Speaker 14: it takes to get on the field. That's why the

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Speaker 14: character and the pedigree that they've developed with the receiving

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Speaker 14: maybe one of the more surprising receiving cores in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Tom Steve, I think the late DMX would have wanted

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Speaker 1: but she is in the DMX genre. Steve, thank you

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Speaker 7: What we realized if guys don't get enough sleep, your foggy,

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Speaker 4: ITTI a game changer for these players.

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Speaker 7: They will being changes, their attitude changes, their moves changes,

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Speaker 1: Falcons have been active adding to their defense over the

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Speaker 1: past week here, But what type of impact are they

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Speaker 1: gonna get from those veterans Matt Judan and Justin Simmons.

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Speaker 1: Nobody better to help us break that down right after

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Speaker 1: this than Baldy and Steve watch stick around see Insiders

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Speaker 4: I coached him up the water now, Drake, how you

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Speaker 15: Why do you gotta be a hater on my camera?

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Speaker 15: What are you talking about.

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Speaker 4: Get you another one, Get you another one?

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Speaker 6: Great?

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Speaker 4: Okay, stay up, don't lose your mind.

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Speaker 13: Job up front, holding up, Great job up front, Great

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Speaker 4: You're dead on me. Fine, I'm great.

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Speaker 2: I'm great.

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Speaker 4: First thing.

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Speaker 15: First, man, that was a really good day of football. Right,

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Speaker 15: you had a lot of stuff. Execution will get better

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Speaker 15: and better every single day We'll come.

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Speaker 4: I'll get better. I don't know, but get better at execution.

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Speaker 4: We had the end of practice. We make a hundred

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Speaker 4: field goals.

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Speaker 6: Right, do what you need to do right?

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Speaker 4: Time changes.

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Speaker 2: How do I get ready?

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Speaker 4: When do I get ready? Who do I see?

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Speaker 15: Let's do those things storm, get your big ass here,

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Speaker 15: break it down.

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Speaker 6: Man, get your big gass here and break it down.

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Speaker 2: Go bigger.

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Speaker 5: This season presented by best By it is time for that.

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Speaker 5: Here is Cythia Freeland's win projections for the NFC South.

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Speaker 5: That's her on the right, the Falcons at ten point one.

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Speaker 5: They were nine point nine. I believe she told me

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Speaker 5: they went up point two following the editions of Matthew

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Speaker 5: Judon and Justin Simmons. Let's bring in Steve Wisch and

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Speaker 5: Brian Baldinger because that's right where I'm going weish you're

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Speaker 5: a big Raheem guy.

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Speaker 6: I know you're a big Raheem guy.

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Speaker 5: I know you've got optimism for his first season there

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Speaker 5: full time as the head coach in Atlanta. Let's talk

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Speaker 5: about those editions Judon Simmons, what they mean to this

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Speaker 5: team in Cynthia's mind, point two wins, maybe even bigger

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Speaker 5: than that.

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Speaker 14: Had a long conversation with Raheem Morris last night about this,

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Speaker 14: and it's interesting because she said, you can't really look

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Speaker 14: even even as a tandem. You have to look at

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Speaker 14: gonna love this. This is where you got in with

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Speaker 14: Justin Simmons and Jesse Bates, the other safety who arguably

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Speaker 14: was with one of the top free agent signings last year.

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Speaker 14: He said, the IQ of those two veteran safeties back

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Speaker 14: there and their communication ability will allow them to force

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Speaker 14: quarterbacks to make this post snap rise up there.

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Speaker 2: Justin Simmons and he said, that's part of the deal.

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Speaker 2: He said, because we.

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Speaker 14: Can interchange it one down low, one deep, one deep,

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Speaker 14: one right, one left. You don't know which one could

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Speaker 14: be doing anything. It will allow them to dictate coverages

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Speaker 14: post snap again because of their ability, he said, they

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Speaker 14: give an education seminar as to how things are going. Now. Simmons,

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Speaker 14: who is a free agent all off season, was just

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Speaker 14: signed to bring him along a little slower.

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Speaker 2: Now, let's go.

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Speaker 14: As opposed to Matthew Judon, he said, the great thing

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Speaker 14: can win on the pass rush with power, he can

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Speaker 14: preoccupies the offensive coordinator to think about a legitimate edge rusher,

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Speaker 14: something they have not had in more than ten years.

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Speaker 14: When John Abraham was there, he said, we can use

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Speaker 14: Judon as our main guy, we can use him as

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Speaker 14: a decoy. But here's the part I want you to

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Speaker 2: Baldy.

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Speaker 14: He said, our inside linebacker Cayden Ellis is somebody who

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Speaker 14: can playoff of Judon because he's got edge rushing ability

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Speaker 14: and other things to do with some schematics that Raheem

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Speaker 14: that's where Judon could really be a threat.

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Speaker 13: Steve, you can't coach Iq. You know when you look

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Speaker 13: at Justin Simmons, Matt Judon, and Jesse Bates. These are

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Speaker 13: smart guys. I mean they're smart period, but when they

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Speaker 13: I'll say this, this combination of Jesse Bates down Justin Simmons.

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Speaker 13: They only have fifty interceptions between the two of them

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all.

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Speaker 13: The one thing I will say about Judon is, you know,

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Speaker 13: he's a great guy to talk to. And the thing

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Speaker 13: that really went unnoticed during his time in both Baltimore

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Speaker 13: small things that aren't rushing a passer, that aren't trying

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Speaker 13: to get sacks. If he just wanted to do that,

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Speaker 13: he'd gets you fifteen sacks a year. But he's he's

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Speaker 13: not letting the tight end, free release, checking the back

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Speaker 13: that makes your defense better. You actually have to watch

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Speaker 13: some bald these breakdowns, actually see all the little things

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Speaker 13: he's thinking about actually getting to the quarterback. But I

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Speaker 13: think this defense got a whole lot more talented and

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Speaker 13: a whole lot smarter to your point, Steve, and I

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Speaker 13: think that Raheem is going to be able to use

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Speaker 13: a lot of that to their advantage when they're scheming,

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Speaker 13: disguising and all the things you gotta do to try

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Speaker 13: to confuse quarterbacks in his business.

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Speaker 6: of time. Caleb Williams, Thank you boy. Steve Wisch and

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Speaker 6: Brian Balding, I love you both.

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Speaker 2: Caleb Williams.

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Speaker 5: We got a preview of Hard Knocks, the latest episode

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Speaker 5: coming up after this, and we're gonna talk fantasy.

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Speaker 6: Is it worth drafting? Caleb all Mack coming up.

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Speaker 2: After the break there.

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Speaker 1: Dolphin star wide receiver Tyreek Hill spotted today with a

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Speaker 1: brace on his right hand. My understanding is this is precautionary.

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Speaker 1: He'll kind of fell weird in a joint practice last

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Speaker 1: week against Washington. Not believed to be anything significant here.

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Speaker 1: He should be good to go for Week one. Final week,

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Speaker 1: the preseason begins in just a couple of days here.

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Speaker 1: It's the final tune up before the regular season. And

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Speaker 1: L Plus. It all starts with the Bears and Chiefs

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Speaker 1: on Thursday night later tonight. Meanwhile, you get another look

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Speaker 1: at the Bears in this week's edition of Hard Knots.

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Speaker 4: Kata Williams.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna move again outside of the numbers. Now, he's

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Speaker 6: gonna tuck it and go return to Jack.

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Speaker 5: It's in front, He's it gonna touchdown.

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Speaker 4: The film. Well, I'll talk.

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Speaker 6: Caleb Williams finishes off the drive.

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Speaker 2: I gotta retire.

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Speaker 3: I'm d I'm a hold seven points.

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Speaker 10: Baby first one, baby first.

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Speaker 4: One in the home that I understand.

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Speaker 2: It's just I hate to run.

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Speaker 4: I'm keeping it.

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Speaker 6: I'm just gonna hold it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just gonna hold it.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Insiders, presented by Best by Tom

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Speaker 1: Pill with SiO Ian Rappaport, Mike Gira Follo with you.

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Speaker 1: We had a big show on this show. Coming up

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Speaker 1: tomorrow night. Jeremiah Owusu Coromoa, the Browns linebacker who just

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Speaker 1: got paid.

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Speaker 2: He's going to join us live.

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Speaker 1: Also, Michael f Florio gonna be here with some must

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Speaker 1: haves for your fantasy draft. Ian, do you got a

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Speaker 1: one burning question you want to ask Mike?

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Speaker 3: I want to know how we ranks the rookie quarterbacks

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Speaker 3: should I draft? When I got a keeper league. These

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Speaker 3: are huge picks to send me here for the next decade.

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Speaker 4: I need all the INFI.

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Speaker 1: I would think you'd want to draft as many as

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Speaker 1: possible right here.

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Speaker 5: Follow Uh, yeah, as many. What I don't know somebody

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Speaker 5: was talking about here. I want to know whether his

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Speaker 5: next tattoo is going to be and would it be

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Speaker 5: a punishment for a fantasy football Maybe.

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Speaker 4: My tattoo goodbye be here tomorrow.

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