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Speaker 1: I'm Jason Kelsey and you're watching the NFL Report.

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Speaker 2: All right, Welcome to the NFL Report. I'm Steve White

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Speaker 2: here with my guy James Palmer and JP. We're not

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Speaker 2: going to linger too much in this a block because

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Speaker 2: we have a loaded show.

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Speaker 3: We have got the.

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Speaker 2: NFC Defensive Player of the Week in Falcon safety Jesse Bates.

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Speaker 2: We have Tennessee State head football coach Eddie George Oh who,

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Speaker 2: by the way, was named one of twenty five Pro

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Speaker 2: Football Hall of Fame semi finalists for the class It's

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Speaker 2: a Buck guy at twenty twenty four, it's about right.

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Speaker 4: To say, JP, it's a Buck guy.

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Speaker 2: But JP, we're looking at the week thirteen football schedule.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of like you walk into a real fancy

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Speaker 2: restaurant and you'll look at the menu and you're kind

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Speaker 2: of like, I'm not seeing a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 4: I like right here.

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Speaker 2: But JP, there are two beautiful entrees on here. We

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Speaker 2: have got the forty nine Ers at the Eagles. We've

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Speaker 2: got the Broncos at some Texans tapus on there as well.

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Speaker 2: But James, let's look at the big game of the week,

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Speaker 2: and that's the Eagles and forty nine is rematch of

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Speaker 2: the NFC Championship game, and take it from a different

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Speaker 2: perspective because there's two coaches in this game who aren't

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Speaker 2: getting talked about enough with his versioning rivalry.

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Speaker 5: No, and I don't think Nick Sirianni gets talked about enough,

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Speaker 5: maybe outside of the Delaware Valley in the Philadelphia area,

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Speaker 5: maybe because of the way he rubs some opposing fan

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Speaker 5: bases with the way that he eats acts postgame and

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Speaker 5: pregame during the week. But I will say this, Nick

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Speaker 5: Sirowanni needs to be in the discussion for Coach of

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Speaker 5: the Year with what he's gone through and what he

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Speaker 5: has done with this team, the best record in all football.

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Speaker 5: They're eleven and one. He lost both coordinators. He is

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Speaker 5: maybe the most competitive person. I could lose the word.

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Speaker 5: Maybe he is the most competitive person in that entire building.

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Speaker 5: And the only thing I think Stevie likes more than

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Speaker 5: competing and winning is situational football. I think we do

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Speaker 5: have to give him his flowers in a sense to

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Speaker 5: where he spends war time maybe on situational football than

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Speaker 5: any coach in all of football. I've watched it firsthand

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Speaker 5: in training camp, the way they go through end to

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Speaker 5: half end of game and he is laid into Jalen Hurts.

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Speaker 5: I've seen it firsthand in terms of maybe mismanaging the

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Speaker 5: clock by a few seconds and able to give Jake

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Speaker 5: Elliott time during practice to kick a game winner or

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Speaker 5: a game tiger. But the way that they have gotten

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Speaker 5: better throughout games they have had poor starts, the way

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Speaker 5: they don't panic, the way that they adjust throughout the

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Speaker 5: course of a game, Steve, and the way that they

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Speaker 5: have played. They are five to zero this season when

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Speaker 5: trailing at halftime. They're the only team with a winning record.

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Speaker 5: The rest of the league is thirty five and one

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Speaker 5: twenty nine. He just finds ways to win football games,

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Speaker 5: and I think he deserves a lot of credit for

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Speaker 5: the way the Eagles have won football games because they've

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Speaker 5: all been close this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm met with you, Nick Serryani to me, he

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Speaker 2: doesn't get enough discussion about doing a great job over

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Speaker 2: the past two years. The Eagles are tied for the

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Speaker 2: best regular season record. That says a lot when you

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Speaker 2: look at some of the key players they've lost, Javon Hargrave,

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Speaker 2: the safeties that they lost, you know, Chauncey Gardner, Johnson,

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Speaker 2: you mentioned they lost both of their coordinators and he

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Speaker 2: just keeps winning while as you said, grating opposing fan

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Speaker 2: bases and grading coaches on other teams. We both know this.

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Speaker 2: There's not a lot of love for this guy. The

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Speaker 2: way he kind of rubs it in people. He is

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Speaker 2: himself and that's the thing.

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Speaker 4: I think.

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Speaker 2: The authenticity is why the players buy in. While you

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Speaker 2: can have veterans Mike Fletcher Cox and Brandon Graham and

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Speaker 2: young people come in and work together and grow, and

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Speaker 2: his player development is one of the best things that

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Speaker 2: he does. Let's flip it over to the other side though,

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Speaker 2: at Kyle Shanahan, and we all know how great of

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Speaker 2: an offensive coach he is, but I want to give

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Speaker 2: him his props, especially come into a game like this.

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Speaker 2: This is gonna be a very interesting game because we

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Speaker 2: know the players have been barking. But the way he

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Speaker 2: Chase hung in there, gets him ready right away. The

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Speaker 2: way Kyle has coached up his coaches, he loses a

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Speaker 2: fleet every year, continues to develop guys to promote from

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Speaker 2: and the way they are both going to be prepared

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Speaker 2: though depending who has it, could determine the outcome based

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Speaker 2: on how both of these teams have worked out.

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Speaker 5: Since twenty seventeen. You let us right into it, Steve

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Speaker 5: one and thirty when trailing by more than three points

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Speaker 5: or that is a far cry from what we.

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Speaker 3: Have seen is stunning.

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Speaker 5: What we have seen from the Philadelphia Eagles late in

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Speaker 5: that I think starts from their head coach and is

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Speaker 5: also right there with their quarterback in Jalen Hurts that

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Speaker 5: there is just a sense we are going to win

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Speaker 5: these games late. Does Kyle Shanahan get that kind of

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Speaker 5: proverbial monkey off his back in a sense, because that

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Speaker 5: really might be Steve And this is why we're bringing

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Speaker 5: it up, mainly because this could be close game, but

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Speaker 5: also that might be the only knock you have on

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Speaker 5: Kyle Shanahan as a coach. Is the way some of

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Speaker 5: these things have happened at the back end of games yeah.

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Speaker 2: JP, And the other game we're talking about is going

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Speaker 2: to be the Broncos, winners of five in a row at.

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Speaker 4: The Houston Texans.

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Speaker 2: Who's coach, Demiko Ryans could have been the head coach

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Speaker 2: at Denver When we look at the interview cycle, we're

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Speaker 2: not going to talk about Demiko much today because we

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Speaker 2: talked about him a lot on the show. He clearly

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Speaker 2: should be in the Coach of the Year conversation with JP.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about the job that Sean Payton has done

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Speaker 2: after being on kind of the Nathaniel Hackett plank, after

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Speaker 2: starting off as slow as they did.

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Speaker 5: I love that he said all that steam they have

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Speaker 5: this terrible start and what happens.

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Speaker 3: He still doesn't blink, He still doesn't.

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Speaker 5: Flinch when they're one in five standing behind what he said,

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Speaker 5: and now they're on this five game win streak and

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Speaker 5: why are they? And when I talk to people in

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Speaker 5: One he established a formula for winning. You know what

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Speaker 5: that formula is, don't lose the game, don't find ways

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Speaker 5: to lose games. And they're running the football really constantly

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Speaker 5: thirty one rushes per game during this win streak. And

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Speaker 5: what I go back and look at free agency Steve,

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Speaker 5: what did he do on the offensive line when got

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Speaker 5: Mike McGlinchey and Ben Powers, who were known for what

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Speaker 5: road rats they are run blockers, and when they were

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Speaker 5: throwing the football a lot in the early portion of

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Speaker 5: the season. Those that offensive line was getting worked now

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Speaker 5: and we'll talk about it with Ryan Baldinger later in

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Speaker 5: Baldy's Favorite Films about how this offensive line has come together.

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Speaker 5: Running the football has been a big part of it,

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Speaker 5: but the special teams some of the best in all

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Speaker 5: of football. The defense turning the football over and the

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Speaker 5: not there, Maybe scramble for five and slide. It is

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Speaker 5: a very efficient offense that doesn't make a lot of mistakes.

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Speaker 5: An entire formula is established by Sean Payton. He's playing

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Speaker 5: himself into a Coach of the Year candidacy this season.

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Speaker 4: And there you go.

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Speaker 3: JP.

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Speaker 2: Also, you mentioned that Brian Baldinger will be joining us

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Speaker 2: with his film break Down to the Broncos and more.

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Speaker 2: Hory Well Leslie Fraser will be joining us on the

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Speaker 2: show as well, talk about the interim coach situation.

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Speaker 4: He's lived it.

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Speaker 2: But next coming up, Falcon safety Jesse.

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Speaker 3: Bates, the thief.

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Speaker 6: There you go, NFC South on the NFL Report after

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Speaker 6: the break, Falcons coming after car picked up, picked off

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Speaker 6: Jesse Bates.

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Speaker 3: He's got a sut bakes to midfield to the forty,

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Speaker 3: to the thirty, to the twenty.

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Speaker 7: No question, pick six you flax or what a massive play?

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Speaker 7: What a game change you play for Jesse Bates in

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Speaker 7: the Atlanta.

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Speaker 5: Falcons while at Monster Play a ninety two yard interception

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Speaker 5: return for a touchdown by the one and only Jesse Bates,

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Speaker 5: star safety for the Atlanta Falcons and the NFC's Defensive

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Speaker 5: Player of the Week twelve tackle Jesse. It wasn't just

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Speaker 5: the pick. We also had a monster force fumble on

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Speaker 5: Taysom Hill as well. An unbelievable performance when you guys

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Speaker 5: needed it. Let's go to the pick though, because I'm

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Speaker 5: always curious about this. Nobody's near you, Jesse, right and

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Speaker 5: you're going down the sideline. What goes through your head?

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Speaker 5: Is it like, please don't have a turf monster situation?

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Speaker 5: Do you look up at the screen, what happens for

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Speaker 5: ninety two yards run us through it?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you you first you worry about catching

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Speaker 8: Why don't don't embarrass yourself while you're running to the

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Speaker 8: ends all you know that guy, I kind of caught

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Speaker 8: So I wish I would have had a better celebration

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Speaker 8: playing right off the right off the jump, But you know,

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Speaker 8: as a team got down there with me, we kind

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Speaker 8: a cool celebration that I think our media team catched.

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Speaker 8: It was nice the moment for us, it was good.

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Speaker 2: But Jesse, there's nothing you could have done that could

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Speaker 2: have you know, trumped the ludicrous from the ceiling at

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Speaker 2: the beginning of the game. I don't know if you're

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Speaker 3: That was insane.

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Speaker 2: So we talked about the ninety two yarder. But you

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Speaker 2: already have four interceptions for the season. I mean that

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Speaker 2: that that ties your career high. You guys still have

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Speaker 2: plenty of football left. What is going on schematically or

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Speaker 2: what you guys are doing defensively that might put you

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Speaker 2: in position to make some of the plays that you're making.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think everyone kind of sees those plays that

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Speaker 8: I make, but it's really a reflection of what our

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Speaker 9: You know.

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Speaker 8: I can't do those things without you know, the other

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Speaker 8: ten guys doing their job. I think people see that

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Speaker 8: punch out. If you know, my fellow safety next to me, Richie,

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Speaker 8: doesn't make that open field tackle with a great you know,

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Speaker 8: be able to punch that ball out.

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Speaker 9: So I give all the credit to my guys. You know,

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Speaker 9: we work hard.

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Speaker 8: There's been ups and downs throughout the season, but no

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Speaker 8: one has has questioned that the character has been great

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Speaker 8: for us. The mindset, everything has been great for us

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Speaker 8: on defensive end. So just continue to lead and continue

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Speaker 5: We talk a lot on the phone, Jesse over the

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Speaker 5: last couple of years. Modesty is a tremendous quality you have.

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Speaker 5: But let's throw that aside for a moment here. You

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Speaker 5: don't win Defensive Player of the Week and you don't

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Speaker 5: have the career you have without the work you put

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Speaker 5: When you're looking to put a run together, Jesse, in

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Speaker 9: Right.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Like I said, I think as these seasons get

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Speaker 8: And just like I said, having that growth mindset as

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Speaker 2: And to keep the mentality so Razor Sharp saying, this

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Speaker 8: Yeah, we've had troubles, you know with first time starting

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Speaker 5: And that's that's a great point you want. You want

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Speaker 8: I mean, John is you know, a character of his own.

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Speaker 9: But one thing about John, he's the most humble guy.

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Speaker 8: Like I said in the locker room, that will someday

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Jesse, I mean, if something is to tackle beyond

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Speaker 9: I can't say enough about that.

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Speaker 4: Jessie, this is absolutely fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Before we get out of here, one question, because you

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Speaker 7: There we go.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Jesse Bates, keep on doing wonderful things on the

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Speaker 8: Absolutely. I appreciate you. James, appreciate you, Steve. I'll talk

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Speaker 3: Man, God bless, I gotta get my hands on that hoodie, Steve.

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Speaker 5: But coming up next, Eddie George, one of the toughest

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Speaker 2: Hi, Welcome back to the NFL Report, And earlier this week,

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Speaker 2: Pro Football Hall of Fame announced it's twenty five Modern

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Speaker 2: the head football coach at Tennessee State. University, Eddie, I

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Speaker 2: to those two games. Hey, but Eddie, second time in

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Speaker 4: I mean, this is rare air.

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Speaker 7: Of course you would like to don the gold jacket,

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Speaker 7: case for anybody on there. And there's there's some dude dudes,

441
00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:04,440
Speaker 7: there's some dogs on there. So I'm really honored. I'm thrilled,

442
00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:08,040
Speaker 7: and it's it's special to to be.

443
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Speaker 3: Recognizing that capacity.

444
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Speaker 9: Uh.

445
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Speaker 7: And again it's a long way before the finish line,

446
00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 7: but certainly when you're mentioned among those great NFL players

447
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:20,000
Speaker 7: that have played the game, it's it's something to be

448
00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:20,720
Speaker 7: proud of.

449
00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:23,359
Speaker 5: Yeah, do you played against a lot of the guys

450
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Speaker 5: on that list. I'm curious if there's you mentioned, you

451
00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:27,919
Speaker 5: could make an argument for almost all of them and

452
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Speaker 5: that's why they're on the list. Is there anybody who

453
00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:33,159
Speaker 5: scroll down and go like he has to get in,

454
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Speaker 5: Like this guy has to get in.

455
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Speaker 7: I think when you look at the guys that have

456
00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:40,879
Speaker 7: been on there a long time that I mean you

457
00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:43,399
Speaker 7: look at Tory Holt, I think this is his tenth

458
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:48,520
Speaker 7: yees se my finalist deal. At some point it's like, Okay,

459
00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:51,960
Speaker 7: you know he's on there ten times, you got to

460
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Speaker 7: put him in at some point in time.

461
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Speaker 3: You know he's been He's done so much for the game.

462
00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:56,879
Speaker 3: You think about, can.

463
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Speaker 7: You write the NFL history without The answer is no.

464
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:05,199
Speaker 7: I think everybody on this list is deserving to get in.

465
00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,000
Speaker 3: It doesn't have to be one or the other.

466
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Speaker 7: You know, Fred Taylor certainly belongs to be in the

467
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,919
Speaker 7: Hall of Fame given his his his track record in

468
00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:20,399
Speaker 7: his career. Tiki Barber the same same situation. I mean, again,

469
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 7: every player on this list has contributed to the history

470
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Speaker 7: of the NFL, and if you're on it, at some point,

471
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Speaker 7: I think you know you're deserving to go in.

472
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 3: Same thing with Ricky Waters.

473
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Speaker 7: I think we've all had done something in our time

474
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Speaker 7: to be deserving to go.

475
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Speaker 3: In the Hall of Fame. If we are blessed to

476
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Speaker 3: do so.

477
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Speaker 4: It'sreddie. You know, you mentioned yourself.

478
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Speaker 2: We got yourself, We've got Fred Taylor, you mentioned Ricky Waters.

479
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,400
Speaker 2: Running backs right as we continue to.

480
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Speaker 4: See in the NFL, there's no more workhorses like you.

481
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 2: I mean, guys, you're touching the ball thirty times a game,

482
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Speaker 2: all right. When you look at where the game is

483
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Speaker 2: gone in terms the position of the running back, could

484
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,159
Speaker 2: we I mean, I mean, I hate saying it be

485
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,919
Speaker 2: nearing the way of the dinosaur when it comes to

486
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 2: running backs getting into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

487
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Speaker 7: I think it's certainly things doing cycles.

488
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Speaker 3: I think it's going to get back to that at

489
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Speaker 3: some point in time.

490
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Speaker 7: You know, you don't have a bunch of Patrick Holmes

491
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 7: that type of talent the quarterback in the NFL.

492
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Speaker 3: I mean, you have him and maybe a couple other

493
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 3: guys that are truly elite.

494
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,360
Speaker 7: Outside of that, you got a few guys that are

495
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 7: really good football players and really good quarterbacks. So at

496
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 7: some point in time, you've got to go back to

497
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 7: running the football, running effectively. And guys like Derrick Henry,

498
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:45,399
Speaker 7: you know, he's making a case for why he should

499
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Speaker 7: be in the Hall of Fame one day. Well, he's

500
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 7: put up the numbers and he's put up so you know,

501
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 7: during our time in the the late nineties, early two thousands,

502
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Speaker 7: and that's what the blog that we've all played. During

503
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:06,399
Speaker 7: that era, the offense was run through the running backs,

504
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Speaker 7: certainly with you know so carrying it thirty times in

505
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,679
Speaker 7: you know, I had four hundred yard almost a four hundred.

506
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 3: Yard year carry year.

507
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Speaker 7: That means something. Without missing a game, and in a physical,

508
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 7: physical conference, you're not playing Baltimore twice, Pittsburgh twice, Jacksonville twice.

509
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,159
Speaker 3: So it was Murder's row and any.

510
00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 7: Football purists that watched the game during that time, but

511
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:36,760
Speaker 7: I have to understand it, any back that had to

512
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:40,199
Speaker 7: go through that gauntlet and was the focal point of

513
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:44,640
Speaker 7: their team is deserving of some type of evaculator going

514
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,200
Speaker 7: to the Hall of Fame because I'm dealing with it physically,

515
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 7: hert shoulders, bad needs, bad ankles, bad back.

516
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:56,879
Speaker 3: You know everything. So it was a very physical ballgame, Eddie.

517
00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:57,879
Speaker 3: I don't know how you did it.

518
00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,639
Speaker 5: Honestly, when you look at the list of over ten

519
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 5: thousand and yards and the number of consecutive starts, it's.

520
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 3: You and Jim Brown. I mean that that's the end

521
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 3: of the list, and it's remarkable.

522
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 5: What when I think back at that and watching you play,

523
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 5: What I'm curious about is how many weeks or is

524
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 5: there a certain game that stands out where during the

525
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 5: week you were like, there's no way I'm playing Sunday,

526
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,439
Speaker 5: and then you still find a way to get on

527
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 5: the field on Sunday.

528
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,880
Speaker 3: How often did that happen with you? I'll tell you what.

529
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,440
Speaker 7: In two thousand, the year that I had the most

530
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:33,119
Speaker 7: characters in my career, on my best year statistically, I

531
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 7: was dealing with a turf tills and my head to

532
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,680
Speaker 7: decide at the end of season, and I'm in a

533
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,359
Speaker 7: boot the entire week. And this is when I'm playing

534
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 7: against the Ravens two thousand defense, okay with Sarah Goosa,

535
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 7: Sam Adams, ray lewis that defense. So again, I never

536
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,439
Speaker 7: missed a start due to injury, and I had an

537
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 7: opportunity to tap out and say, hey, I can't go

538
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 7: this week because my toe is the right I had practice,

539
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 7: you know, I'm just not myself.

540
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 3: No I had I had to strap it up and go, man.

541
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 7: I had to buckle up my chin strap, you know,

542
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 7: take the tord Doll shot line up and get busy

543
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 7: because we only had I find that window to win

544
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,160
Speaker 7: a championship. And I felt like, hell, if I'm at

545
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 7: fifty percent, I'm better at fifty percent than everybody anybody

546
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 7: else in the league.

547
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 3: And you know, at that time, the offense was a

548
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 3: run offense.

549
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 7: So I'm going to go out there and put everything

550
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:33,160
Speaker 7: on the line because I don't know if I'll ever

551
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,719
Speaker 7: be back in a situation. So, you know, it crossed

552
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 7: my mind, but it was I never took it serious

553
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 7: because I felt like, if I could walk or job,

554
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:44,879
Speaker 7: I can play, and I'm gonna play extremely well.

555
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 3: I'm gonna play like a war. I may have to

556
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 3: alter my game a little bit, but this is a

557
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:50,919
Speaker 3: part of the game. You have to manage that. You know.

558
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 7: I never believed in you know that that managed that

559
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 7: load management term that they have nowadays.

560
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 3: For these millennials, there was no such thing as that.

561
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 7: You know, So I'm just cut from the old school man,

562
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 7: and that's that's what I believe in.

563
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 2: Hey, so, Eddie, we're c anywhere that Tennessee State, uh

564
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 2: Sweazer because you had.

565
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 3: Football coach there.

566
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,640
Speaker 4: How many times do you tell your guys that when

567
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 4: they want to tap out or get set out.

568
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:23,880
Speaker 7: Hey, now listen. We had that conversation at the end

569
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 7: of October. We were six and two at the end

570
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 7: of the October, and I told him, I said, look,

571
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 7: November is upon us, and it's a different deal. You

572
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 7: you you you shut the table and you start fast.

573
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 7: In September, you shut the table and in October you

574
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 7: win championships. In November and it's what are you willing

575
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 7: to sacrifice?

576
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 9: Now?

577
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 3: What are you willing to do different?

578
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 7: You get to double down on the discipline, double down accountability,

579
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 7: all those things to attain that Pacific goal. So you

580
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 7: have to learn how to deal with with with pain.

581
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 7: And they hear it day in and day out, and

582
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 7: you'll be surprised that we did not win those three

583
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 7: games at the end of the year, and we were

584
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 7: in every single one of them. But you have to

585
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 7: dig a little bit deeper in order to in order

586
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 7: to overcome that and be that eight win, that nine win,

587
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,880
Speaker 7: that that that championship caliber team. So we had success

588
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 7: to share a winning season, but I think there's still

589
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 7: room for us that there's definitely room for us to

590
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 7: be mentally and physically tougher and trust me, you know,

591
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 7: that's what I'm currently working on.

592
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 3: Right now on my notes. You know, talking about spring football.

593
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 7: You're going to run inside zone, outside zone and power, repeat,

594
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 7: inside zone, outside zone.

595
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 3: Power.

596
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 7: Power that he don't know, I love, I don't know,

597
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 7: I love.

598
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 9: I love it.

599
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 3: Got to earn that, right, I love it. I love it, Eddie.

600
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Speaker 5: What I'm curious about is, I mean, you're in the

601
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 5: college game, and when I talk to people around the

602
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 5: NFL game, specifically in the scouting community with nil and

603
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,719
Speaker 5: what has going on over these you know, is going

604
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 5: to continue to increase over these next several years, there

605
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 5: is a legitimate, I don't know if concerns the right way,

606
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 5: but a curiosity about the type of individuals that are

607
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 5: coming into the NFL from the collegiate ranks. I'm curious

608
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 5: what your take is on kind of how maybe players

609
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 5: experience now over the next several years coming in the

610
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 5: league is going to be different than all of these

611
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 5: players that have come in before.

612
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 3: Well, it's always.

613
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 7: Been around, it's just above board. Now I think that

614
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 7: players getting paid under the table through boosters, through different

615
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 7: business people to come to vury schools, especially at the

616
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 7: top schools, just happened, but now it's above board, and

617
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 7: I think is a great opportunity for kids to make

618
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 7: money on their name, image and likeness. They deserve it.

619
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 7: I see what these kids go through every day, and

620
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 7: cost of attendance isn't enough, and you got to have that.

621
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 7: But what is going to create is a divide in

622
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 7: the locker room. Guys are gonna get jealous. They feel like, hell,

623
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 7: you know, why is he getting more opportunities than me?

624
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 7: Maybe because the fact that they're not marketable. You know,

625
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 7: not every player in the NFL is marketable. So kids

626
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 7: nowadays are understanding their value. They're understanding that, hey, I

627
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 7: can go out and go to a school and get

628
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 7: an NIL deal and be comfortable with that.

629
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 3: They're in it for the money.

630
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 7: You're going to find out real fast who loves the

631
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 7: game of football, who wants to be great, and who's

632
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 7: just who's just in it just to get notoriety, who's

633
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 7: in it just to get n IL deals and so forth.

634
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 3: And that's going to be the key. And I think

635
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 3: you'll find out.

636
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 7: Real quickly what's important to the player as they come

637
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 7: in from the NFL.

638
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 3: I mean, excuse me.

639
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 7: The Coclesian rings into the NFL, what their priority is

640
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 7: because with that mindset, you're not gonna last very long.

641
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 9: That's not what happened.

642
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 4: That's fantastic stuff, Eddie. We only have a limitted here.

643
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Speaker 2: But as an as an HBCU alone to myself, I

644
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 2: want to ask you this because Tennessee stage is one

645
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 2: of the richest black college football programs in history. Guys

646
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 2: hall of famers like Richard Dent, Claude Humphrey, you got

647
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 2: ed Too Tall Jones, not a Hall of Famer, but

648
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 2: a great player. How much do you push that history

649
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 2: on modern era players when you're trying to recruit them?

650
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 2: I mean does it even work?

651
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 7: You know, you have to remind them of these kids

652
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 7: now they barely know who I am. So when you

653
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 7: talk about a Richard Jenn Claude Humphrey or it Too

654
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 7: Tall Jones is like who?

655
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 3: And I'm like no, no, no, no, no.

656
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 7: You know, you got to know your history. So that's

657
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 7: one of our pillars is tradition. So I try to

658
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 7: in our hallway, we have their jersey of their history.

659
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 7: You know the number of draft choices that came through

660
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Speaker 7: the Pro Football Hall of Famers have come through your

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Speaker 7: school because you have to understand what you're walking into.

662
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Speaker 7: This is not a co dunk HPCU with no history, right.

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Speaker 7: This is a school rich in tradition, you know, known

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Speaker 7: for a physical offensive lineman, known for receivers, known for Hall.

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Speaker 3: Of famers, and that's what needs to happen. And I

666
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Speaker 3: think a lot of HBCUs don't get enough credit for that.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate you taking the time. Look, third year coaching

668
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Speaker 2: ever six and five. Yeah, you win those final three games.

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Speaker 2: Was the first winning season at Tennessee State, I believe

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Speaker 2: since twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 4: So congratulations to you.

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Speaker 2: And on December twenty seventh, we're going to find out

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Speaker 2: the fifteen Pro Football Hall of Fame finalist.

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Speaker 4: Best luck to you, dy George, thanks for taking some time.

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Speaker 3: Do you have a vote? Do you have a vote?

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Speaker 3: I don't you do? I think state does?

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Speaker 4: I don't. I don't.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I can be a lot.

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Speaker 5: I mean, hey, I'm a buck guy, so I'm gonna

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Speaker 5: be lobbying for you.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it. May hop about that loss.

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Speaker 7: Man, God, it hurt, that's what it is. But hey, guys,

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Speaker 7: I appreciate it, man, And thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 7: Have me back anytime I'd love to come back.

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Speaker 4: On Appreciate Eddie.

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Speaker 3: I loved it, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: How spectacular was Eddie George talking about power football?

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Speaker 3: Well, coming up next, Brian.

689
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Speaker 2: Baldinger is gonna be talking more power football and he's

690
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Speaker 2: gonna walk us through the.

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Speaker 4: Falcons and K Factory. That's up next on the NFL Report.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the NFL Report.

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Speaker 5: My favorite segment every week it's Baldy's Favorite Films with

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Speaker 5: Brian Baldinger and Baldy. I know you've probably still at

695
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Speaker 5: some point just put in a tape of Eddie George

696
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Speaker 5: and just broken it down, just for fun to see

697
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Speaker 5: what it kind of, you know, just to go back

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Speaker 5: and watch him run the football.

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Speaker 3: But ma me, in a more current.

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Speaker 5: Sense, what do you think about Jesse Bates and what

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Speaker 5: he had to say in our interview? Considering the Falcons

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Speaker 5: are sitting there in first place, three to zero in

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Speaker 5: the division.

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Speaker 10: Well, at one point this year, just a couple of

705
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Speaker 10: weeks ago, they actually cracked the top ten in defense.

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Speaker 10: And if you look at you know the addition of

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Speaker 10: Jesse Bates on the back end, there was a time,

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Speaker 10: if you could back me up on this, there was

709
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Speaker 10: a time when you wanted a big play against Alanna,

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Speaker 10: I just thought, like they broke down the back end.

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Speaker 10: Oh yeah, and they just leave receiver wide open. That

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Speaker 10: went on for a long time. That's not happening anymore.

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Speaker 10: And Jesse Bates is a big part of it, obviously,

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Speaker 10: the pick six, the interceptions this year, the force fumbles.

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Speaker 10: I mean, he's a playmaker, but at the same time,

716
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Speaker 10: he's a communicator. You go out to practice, you're gonna

717
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Speaker 10: hear Jesse Bates shouting out signals and calls and things

718
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Speaker 10: like that, making sure guys are getting lined up and

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Speaker 10: the Falcons aren't beating themselves on the back end anymore.

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Speaker 2: Hey, bald the speaking of those Falcons, you know one

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Speaker 2: thing you want to talk about the right side of

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Speaker 2: that offensive line with Chris Linstrum and Caleb McGarry when

723
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Speaker 2: they've tried to wear down the Saints to run out

724
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Speaker 2: the clock at the end of the game, they went

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Speaker 2: right every play behind those two. What about the way

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Speaker 2: they were just mauling people at the end of that game.

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Speaker 10: It was the single best performance. Because that's a good

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Speaker 10: front from New Orleans. It's face, it's a good front.

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Speaker 10: I think that's a single best performance by a Falcon

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Speaker 10: offensive line I've seen a long time. I counted at

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Speaker 10: least six knockdowns all right by Chris.

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Speaker 3: L from alone.

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Speaker 10: I mean they were finishing these blocks and then they

734
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Speaker 10: were downfield picking off defenders, you know when Bijon got

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Speaker 10: busy like he did right here. It was an impressive performance.

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Speaker 10: And getting Cordero back certainly helped they. You know, they

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Speaker 10: had four different guys really running the ball, but they

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Speaker 10: you know McGarry and Lyndstrom. That was a fine performance

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Speaker 10: up front, just run blocking, just old school blocking and

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Speaker 10: finishing and thrown guys over the pile. It was a

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Speaker 10: lot of fun to watch.

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Speaker 3: They ran the ball well, Baldy.

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Speaker 5: What stood out to me is they line up b

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Speaker 5: John Robinson all over the field. He's on the field

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Speaker 5: in this game for thirty nine snaps, thirty six of them.

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Speaker 5: He lines up as a running back, just almost full

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Speaker 5: tilt as a back.

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Speaker 3: In this game. A little bit of a different look

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Speaker 3: from him.

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Speaker 5: How about the Monday nighter that we had a lot

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Speaker 5: of people didn't love the game, but there was some

752
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Speaker 5: great defensive back play from the Vikings and the Bears.

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Speaker 10: Well, you know, it's a twelve to ten game and

754
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Speaker 10: it takes you know, Chicago go sixty one yards the

755
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Speaker 10: final drive to go kick the game winning field goal.

756
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Speaker 10: And people said, oh, it's a snooze fest, and I

757
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Speaker 10: went in the film room and I said.

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Speaker 3: No, it's not. This is Black and Blue Division. Great love.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, Bactly, Brian Flores is doing a phenomenal job. I

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Speaker 10: mean as good a coaching job on any team anywhere

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Speaker 10: in this league with what he's doing, because there are

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Speaker 10: a lot more than just a blitz happy team. They're

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Speaker 10: very sound in what they do. They're very fundamental what

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Speaker 10: they do. And you know, you look at a guy

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Speaker 10: like Josh Mntellus in what he did in that game,

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Speaker 10: in all the different places that Brian puts him in,

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Speaker 10: whether it's in the back end, you know, at a

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Speaker 10: corner safety position, whether it's at linebacker, whether it's blitzing

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Speaker 10: off the edge, He's found a way to use a

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Speaker 10: guy that's got a tremendous variety of skills. And then

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Speaker 10: on the other side, when you see what they're doing

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Speaker 10: in Chicago and the improvement they've made from let's say

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Speaker 10: the Kansas City loss, I don't know if anybody's made

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Speaker 10: bigger jumps and to watch Jalen Johnson play the other

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Speaker 10: night his first interception where he aided Josh Side into

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Speaker 10: that throw. I send it out to Charles Woodson and

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Speaker 10: a bunch of great corners just to tell me what

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Speaker 10: they thought of the play. And I mean, Charles came

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Speaker 10: back and said it was just brilliant to be able

780
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Speaker 10: to bait a quarterback into looking like you're gonna drive

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Speaker 10: on the D cut and then you back out and

782
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Speaker 10: take the seven cut away. I thought it was the

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Speaker 10: best game that I saw Jalen Johnson play. Terrell Smith

784
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Speaker 10: on the other side was very good. But I think

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Speaker 10: right now, these are two defenses that are going to

786
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Speaker 10: give a lot of teams problems down the stretch.

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Speaker 2: Right now, Mattellas is such a chess piece. I mean,

788
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Speaker 2: and he's such a physical player the way he forced

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Speaker 2: his turnovers and everything.

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Speaker 4: Well, let's go back to.

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Speaker 2: The offensive line Denver Broncos. I mean, this is a

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Speaker 2: unit that has stayed intact all of the season, and

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Speaker 2: you're starting to see why some things are working on offense.

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Speaker 3: So let's just give him credit.

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Speaker 10: I mean, there's mc glinchy, there's Quinn Miners, there's Cushion Berry,

796
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Speaker 10: there's powers in their bowls.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's the group. They played all but five together.

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Speaker 10: And if you you know, you looked at them week

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Speaker 10: three or four against Washington, they weren't very good. They

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Speaker 10: were leaky, Russell Wilson was getting hit a lot.

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Speaker 3: But they have stayed together, they have played together. They

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Speaker 3: have found a way to win games.

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Speaker 10: Right now, they ran it thirty nine times at one

804
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Speaker 10: of the best defenses in the league for one hundred

805
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Speaker 10: and sixty nine yards. This Devonte Williams run right here.

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Speaker 10: It's one after another, and it was every variety of

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Speaker 10: run guys. It was power, it was inside zone, it

808
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Speaker 10: was outside zone. They really kind of right here, the

809
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,720
Speaker 10: fullback Burton is cutting the defensive end. They really threw

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Speaker 10: a whole package of runs at Cleveland, and it was

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Speaker 10: really effective. I mean, anytime you get you know, the

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Speaker 10: running back onto the free safety like they do right here,

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Speaker 10: that's a good job by the front. More power like

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Speaker 10: Quinn Minors is having to me a Pro Bowl season,

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Speaker 10: But everybody else out there has improved. They've played together,

816
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Speaker 10: and this is what you hope happens over the course

817
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Speaker 10: of the season. If you could stay healthy and stay

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Speaker 10: together and That's what they have done, and they're really

819
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Speaker 10: reaping the fruits of those benefits of being out there

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Speaker 10: every play this year.

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Speaker 5: You know, Baldy, their star cornerback Patrick Sartama was asked

822
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Speaker 5: this week who deserves a Pro Bowl nod on this team.

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Speaker 3: The first name that came to his mind was Quinn Miners.

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Speaker 5: He said, when I watched the film of our offense,

825
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Speaker 5: he makes life easier on everybody else that is out

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Speaker 5: there on offense.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to a defensive line.

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Speaker 5: In terms of the Philadelphia Eagles, Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis,

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Speaker 5: two youngsters in the middle of that defensive line. I

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Speaker 5: watched them play a zillion snaps on Sunday against the Bills.

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Speaker 5: When I talked to Joshwedt, he said, these guys are

832
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Speaker 5: killing guys with old school moves that you saw twenty

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Speaker 5: thirty years ago. Baldy, What are you seeing from these

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Speaker 5: two massive, young, dominant players.

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Speaker 10: Well, they had to play a lot of snaps, you know.

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Speaker 10: Fletcher Cox went down with a groin pool during the game,

837
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Speaker 10: Milt Williams was out. They you know, they had to

838
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Speaker 10: play a lot of snaps. They didn't have the normal

839
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Speaker 10: defensive backle rotation and they stepped up. And so jay

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Speaker 10: Leen Carter has been just a physical freak all year

841
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:02,800
Speaker 10: long with not just physical, I mean a very advanced

842
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 10: student how he plays the game. But Jordan Davis really

843
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 10: popped last Sunder. I thought it was the best game

844
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Speaker 10: that he played. He played with a lot of energy,

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Speaker 10: He played with a tremendous amount of endurance.

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Speaker 3: Didn't come off the field, stayed out.

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Speaker 10: There was chasing Josh Allen to the sidelines late in

848
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Speaker 10: that game. You remember the belly flopped there sidelines. Well,

849
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Speaker 10: I wasn't sure he was gonna get back up. But

850
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Speaker 10: the effort that both of them played with. They were

851
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Speaker 10: drafted to be the future defensive tackle or the Eagles,

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Speaker 10: and we might see we might have just seen the

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Speaker 10: changing of the guard at that position between the two

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Speaker 10: of them and how they played last Sunday against the Bills.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Baldie, I mean, look, that was the big question

856
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Speaker 2: about the Eagles with some of the key players like

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Speaker 2: Javon Hargrave, who they lost.

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Speaker 4: Can these young players step up?

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Speaker 2: Not only had they stepped up, they've endured, They've broken

860
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Speaker 2: through that rookie wall and they're playing best at the

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Speaker 2: most important part of the season, Baldy. We absolutely appreciate

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Speaker 2: the insight. We'll look forward to having you back next Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Here on the NFL Report coming up next. We've seen

864
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Speaker 2: some head coach firings. What about the guys who replace him?

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Speaker 2: And what's that life like our own? Leslie Fraser knows firsthand,

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Speaker 2: and he's joining us after the break on the NFL Report.

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Speaker 4: Our back to the NFL Report and James.

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Speaker 2: Now, we're joined by Leslie Fraser, who works for us

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Speaker 2: here at NFL Media, is a longtime coach and in

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Speaker 2: twenty ten he actually served as the interim head coach

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Speaker 2: for the Minnesota Vikings. And coach, you wanted to talk

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Speaker 2: about this particular subject as we've seen, of course, the

873
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,840
Speaker 2: Panthers fire Frank Reich, the Raiders fire Josh McDaniels, and

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Speaker 2: now we have interim head coaches in those positions, and

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Speaker 2: what can you tell us about that?

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Speaker 4: Because you know the.

877
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 2: Team has to be struggling for a coach to be fired,

878
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden you're brought in to at

879
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 2: least hold things down, if not provide a spark, right.

880
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 1: No doubt, I mean that's the deal.

881
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 11: You know you're coming into a situation where you know

882
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 11: they're asking you to kind of studied the shift, you know,

883
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:02,800
Speaker 11: kind of rally the troops.

884
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 1: And it's an honor you know.

885
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 11: That they've chosen you from the coaching staff to be

886
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 11: in that role. But man, Steve, there are some challenges

887
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 11: when you're the entrant coach. I mean, you're excited. Usually

888
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 11: it's a guy who's probably never been a coach before,

889
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 11: but he's highly respected on the staff by the players

890
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 11: and the team, and he's thrust into that role to

891
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 11: you know, pick everyone up and maybe hopefully turn things around.

892
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 11: And in both Chris Taper's case with the Panthers and

893
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 11: Antonio Pears with the Raiders, that's exactly what they're asking

894
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:39,840
Speaker 11: him to do. And I was reflecting on when I

895
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 11: was watching Antonio and win his press conferences, when I

896
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:46,359
Speaker 11: was in that role and what it was like. And

897
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,760
Speaker 11: you know, you can get overwhelmed a little bit because

898
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:54,280
Speaker 11: you're going from in my case, defensive coordinator to head coach.

899
00:42:54,760 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 11: In Antonio's case, position coach to head coach, and Chris's case,

900
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 11: coordinator to head coach, and your plate gets full. There's

901
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:07,399
Speaker 11: a lot on your plate all of a sudden that

902
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,879
Speaker 11: narrow focus that you had just working on my side

903
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 11: of the ball, or in.

904
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 1: Christmas case, the special teams.

905
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 11: You know, you've got to deal with a whole lot

906
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:19,760
Speaker 11: more and you're relying so much on other people to

907
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 11: get your information and help you navigate the situation. But

908
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 11: it can be a dunting task, but one that you know.

909
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 11: I'm sure Chris and both Antonio they're excited about this

910
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:37,479
Speaker 11: opportunity to show ownership that I may be the guy

911
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 11: for the future. You may not need to interview a

912
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 11: bunch of different people going forward. You know I could

913
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 11: actually do this job. I mean that's their goal, I'm

914
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 11: sure in both cases, to be the head coach the

915
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 11: other the downside sometimes when you are the introm from

916
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 11: a from a con standpoint, the probes being of course,

917
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 11: now I get a chance to be a head coach,

918
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 11: but you know, you feel like I know this roster,

919
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 11: I'm familiar with how this organization runs. The challenge for me,

920
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 11: see was being and James being able to look at

921
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 11: the roster.

922
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 1: And say, okay, can I move on from these guys

923
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 1: that have helped me get to where I am. When

924
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: you guys are.

925
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 11: A little bit long in the two uh. You know,

926
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 11: usually you want to let a god go a year

927
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:30,840
Speaker 11: before it's too late. And sometimes your lord to the

928
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:34,800
Speaker 11: players can get you in trouble because your affinity for

929
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 11: them and what they've helped you to accomplish. But you've

930
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 11: got to be able to step back and say, Okay,

931
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:43,359
Speaker 11: I understand the personnel, but I've got to be able

932
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 11: to make some hard decisions. And then the other part

933
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 11: of it is staff. This is the most critical transition

934
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 11: when it comes to the interim head coach, whether or

935
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 11: not you know I I've got the right guys on

936
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:04,919
Speaker 11: the staff, because you got to always remember I didn't

937
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 11: hire a staff. The loyti is not necessarily to me.

938
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 11: They were hired by someone else. So I mean, that's

939
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:17,760
Speaker 11: another part of it. Now, I'll let you jump in there, Steve.

940
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's I wanted to ask you about that coach

941
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 5: because we see this happen when a lot of these

942
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 5: interim head coaches take over. Right, you see a couple

943
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 5: other members of the staff are also let go after

944
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 5: the head coaches let go, and then the interim head

945
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 5: coach is named.

946
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 3: People love to dissect why those couple of assistants.

947
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 5: At times are let go after the interim head coach

948
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 5: takes over. Could you kind of dive into what usually

949
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 5: happens behind closed doors, because there are a variety of reasons.

950
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 5: Sometimes it's loyalty, sometimes it's something else that you do

951
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 5: move on from a couple of people on the staff

952
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,439
Speaker 5: after the head coaches let go. When you are making

953
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 5: the decisions at the interim head coach.

954
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 11: Yeah, some of it is what you said at law too,

955
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 11: but also you know, job performed. But the most critical

956
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 11: aspect is as you're shaping your staff and I tell

957
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 11: Antonio this, I tell christis uh, you know going forward

958
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 11: if they are awarded the positions to really dissect this

959
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 11: staff and determined whether or not the offensive coordinator or

960
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 11: defensive coordinator or position coaches really fit the criteria that I.

961
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 1: Had in mind when I was putting my staff together.

962
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:32,840
Speaker 11: Before I became intert So there are a lot of

963
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 11: factors that go into why certain guys are let go

964
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 11: and some guys are retained. But it's usually George job

965
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 11: performance along with where does my loyalty lie? And you

966
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 11: really have to have your guys in order for you

967
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 11: to be successful as the head coach in this new role.

968
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 11: Because it's it's far different than you were an assistant

969
00:46:57,640 --> 00:46:58,280
Speaker 11: on the staff.

970
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 2: So lets so you got higher as a Viking's head

971
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 2: coach after you served as the interim head coach. But

972
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 2: you're looking at two situations with the Raiders and the

973
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 2: Panthers that are different. The Panthers have the number one

974
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 2: overall picket quarterback. The Raiders have Aidan O'Connell who looks

975
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:13,840
Speaker 2: like he might be a keeper. But as an interim

976
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,360
Speaker 2: head coach who gets promoted, Let's say Antonio gets promoted,

977
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:18,919
Speaker 2: do you say we need to rock with this guy

978
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 2: because he helped get me there, or we have an

979
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 2: opportunity to get into the draft.

980
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 4: Are going to free agency and get another guy again?

981
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 2: These these scenarios are shaped very differently because of the

982
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:32,280
Speaker 2: quarterback and maybe the structure that roster you were talking about,

983
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:35,799
Speaker 2: But using your first hand experience, how much of the

984
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 2: current roster do you want to roll with moving forward

985
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 2: to help you succeed?

986
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 1: That's the wild card?

987
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:42,319
Speaker 8: Man.

988
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 11: Can you just step back and evaluate the personnel, you know,

989
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 11: with a realistic lands it's so different when you evaluate

990
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 11: the personnel as an assistant versus the head coach, because

991
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 11: now you're looking at the entire team versus one side,

992
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 11: and when it comes to that quarterback position, see if

993
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 11: they're you know, just to be frank and honest, that

994
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:04,399
Speaker 11: there's one thing I.

995
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: Could do different.

996
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 11: Looking back, I would dig deeper into that quarterback situation

997
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 11: than I did so Antonio in his case and in Chris,

998
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 11: being able to evaluate that quarterback position and get right,

999
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:22,240
Speaker 11: even if you have to take another guy this year,

1000
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 11: get that position right. That is critical to your future success.

1001
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 4: Wow.

1002
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Speaker 3: Good, that is awesome. That's an unbelievable insights. Steve, Coach.

1003
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:32,400
Speaker 3: We we we can't thank you enough.

1004
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Speaker 5: For really peeling back to curtain on something that I

1005
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 5: think a lot of people, Steve Raight, a lot of

1006
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 5: fans around the league don't understand what really goes on

1007
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 5: when a firing happens in season.

1008
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 3: In an interim, coach, I said.

1009
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and coach, well, let's revisit this at the end

1010
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 2: of the season.

1011
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 4: Let's revisit this conversation.

1012
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 1: I'd be right to love to that's the part ownership stamp.

1013
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 4: Heah, yeah, let's do that.

1014
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:54,919
Speaker 2: Hey, coach, you get, you get, you got the last

1015
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 2: word here.

1016
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 4: We got to get out of here.

1017
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Speaker 2: We will be back on the end of a report Monday, JP,

1018
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 2: thank you, Thank everybody, and listen to the podcast woo

1019
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 2: that was loaded takes two hands to handle.

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Speaker 3: That one was slam