WEBVTT - The Insiders Podcast: Rams-49ers TNF Countdown, Full Week 15 Preview 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:11.920 Week fifteen is upon us, and it kicks off with 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:17.000 a good one tonight in Santa Clara Brock Purdy, Matthew Stafford, 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:21.480 Omar Rawiz. All three of them will be at Levi's Stadium, 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:24.320 and one of them will join us momentarily from the field. 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:28.319 Can you guess which? Okay, it's Omar. The race for 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:31.560 the AFC's number one seed is not over just yet, 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:33.839 but the Steelers and Bills would need some help to 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:37.760 overtake Patrick Mahomes and the chiefs Our Guy Baldy gonna 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.360 be here to help break down the chances that the 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:44.040 road to New Orleans will not go through Kansas City. 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:46.559 There was a time not that long ago that the 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:50.920 road used to go through Foxborough. Now Bill Belichick taking 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:55.080 the Painterotway to Tobacco Road. Belichick introduced today as head 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:58.640 coach at North Carolina. Here from Bill himself on his 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.080 plans to build a winner at the college level. It 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:05.720 starts with thirty percent for smiling. Welcome inside with the 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:11.960 insiders alongside Ian Rappaport and Mike Garifolo. I am Tom Pellicero. 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:16.080 Today is a momentous day because we are fifty nine 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:20.440 days from Super Bowl fifty nine. There are still ten 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:24.440 playoff spots up for grabs at this point, and one 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.000 of them maybe more, but perhaps one of them could 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.200 go to one of the teams we are seeing squaring 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:33.639 off tonight. It is Matthew Stafford, it is brock Perdy, 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:39.200 it is TNF on Prime video, an important NFC West 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.280 matchup in a playoff picture that in a lot of 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.640 different ways, remains muddle. Now. There's still a path for 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.000 them to get in multiple ways, especially with the Commanders 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.640 there at eight and five in the wild card race. 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.080 But the most likely path is one of these teams, 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.040 the Rams or the forty nine ers being able to 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.800 make a push on the Seahawks, who at this point 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:02.480 have created a little bit of distance for themselves. From 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.480 more on this game. We head out to Levi's Stadium 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.560 and our guy Omar Ruiz, who is there. He's looking dapper. 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:11.920 Set the scene for us here, Omark. 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.800 Well, it's a little cloud cover here, tom rain is 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.720 in the forecast at Rained overnight. They removed the tarps 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.920 about a couple hours ago. Here at Levi's Stadium. Ninety 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.040 percent chance of rain in six o'clock hour, which is 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:28.360 right around when the second quarter would begin, so something 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:29.760 to keep an eye on for tonight. 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.519 Both these teams played a thriller in Week three. 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.600 The Rams are racing a double digit fourth quarter deficit 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:39.679 to pull that one out. No George Kittle, no Deebo Samuel, 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.600 no Cooper Cup, no Puka Nakua. 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:42.920 In that game. 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.880 So both teams expecting a much different game this time around, 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.200 and both teams knowing that they're already in playoff mode. 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:52.440 Essentially, as you alluded. 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.160 To, Tom by taking a look at those standings, this 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.880 is a playoff elimination game. The forty nine ers have 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.000 activated Drake green Law, who in many respects has been 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.960 a heart and soul piece of their defense. They're looking 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.280 for the desperation style that he plays with to impact 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.560 their defense tonight, just like talanoa who fun does return 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:12.920 last week against the Bears. 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.320 Really catalysts for their great play should be a. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:18.880 Huge one tonight here Tom on Thursday Night Football. 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.560 Good stef Omar and good coordination as well with these 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.919 sound guys who turned on that rock music ten seconds 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.960 after you started talking. It never fails more from you 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.799 on this game and much more. In a little bit, 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.919 Bill Belichick won a whole lot of NFL football games 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.680 in his day, more than almost any coach in NFL history. 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:40.920 Now he's looking for his first win at the college level, 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:45.320 officially showing up today as the head football coach at 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:49.680 the University of North Carolina, a place where he's got 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:50.720 a lot of history. 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.480 You know, when you're little, you don't remember everything. Obviously, 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:58.040 I was too young to remember a lot of things 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:02.240 from Carolina. But as I grew up, you know, you 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.240 hear the same story over and over and over, oh again, 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:11.040 And so one story I always heard was Billy's first 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.520 words were beat duke. 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.440 But what do you say to people that fear that 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.920 if you do succeed here that you might leave for 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:23.640 the NFL again in a year or two. 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.160 Yeah, I didn't come here to leave. 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:38.120 Bill's looking downright, chipper. While addressing reporters earlier today, he 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.719 did get a look at the athletic director's suit with 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.960 the cutoff sleeves. A nice touch, though very weird to 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:47.000 look at when you're watching it in a press conference setting. 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.920 And you watched this pressure earlier today, what are you 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.160 your takeaways on the breaking news from yesterday? Bill is 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.040 now there. He is officially head coach of the targets. 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:58.760 No, I was trying. 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:00.600 I was watching the press comments you said, and I'm 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.839 trying to figure out in my head, like, why won't 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.240 this work right, Because ever since we've been talking about 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.080 this for basically the last two weeks, in my head, 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.719 it's always been like Bill's probably gonna get it, He's 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.120 probably gonna take it, and he's probably gonna win. And 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.200 listening to him today I actually felt more convinceding that 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:18.279 than otherwise. Yes, I know the college game is foreign, 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.800 and obviously there are some differences, but the college game 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.039 right now is more similar to the NFL than it 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.400 has ever been from the rules perspective, and he mentioned 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.960 it talking to college coaches about what's it like with 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:30.960 the two minute warning and other rules that are now 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:35.080 similar to the NFL. You know, Belichick worked They obviously 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.120 had a you know, personnel department in New England and 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.600 all that, but he worked with agents directly. He would 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:44.080 negotiate famously deals with Drew Rosenhaus and others, you know, 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.480 face to face, or he would be the one doing it. 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.800 He knows agents well, that agents are now very much 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:51.479 a part of the college game. That is something he 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.840 is going to be incredibly well versed in he has 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:56.640 been in the media for the last year or so. 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.160 And you know, I'm never gonna say that he's relaxed 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.200 and chill, But that was relaxed and chill as we 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.880 have ever really seen Bill Belichick. It seems a little 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:08.159 bit like he's been refreshed. And a lot of his friends, 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.159 a lot of his really good buddies, from Nick Saban, 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.960 the Kirk Farrens to Greg Chano, have won. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:14.159 A lot in the college game. 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.640 He has spent a ton of time talking to them 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.520 over the last several weeks and months. He looks more 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.880 poison ever to go out and win. The fact Mike 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:27.080 that it's in college is different, but shouldn't really affect 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:28.320 the overall product that much. 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.320 I don't think he was so relaxed ian that we 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.280 almost for the first time in history, got bulletin board 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.480 material from a Bill Belichick press conference. He said he 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.360 used to want to go to North Carolina for scouting trips, 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.000 and you would send your assistance to and he caught 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.240 himself and said somewhere else, Like at that point he 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:47.280 should have just said duke. 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:49.840 If he had said duke, like, nobody would have been like, Oh, 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:51.520 I can't believe he said that's the rivalry. 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:52.800 He would have been fine at that point, but he 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:54.599 had another place that might I'm curious as to what 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:55.160 that would have been. 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:55.720 Clemson. 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.320 Perhaps we shall see, But you know, Belichick, and what 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.720 he said is what we've been talking about the last 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.440 couple of days with regard to how he sees the 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.960 NFL game and the college game being a lot similar 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.440 or a lot more similar than they've ever been, and 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.720 it's not just nil. And also the fact that you've 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.240 got he keeps saying salary cap. It's not really a 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.280 salary cap because there is no cap in college. But 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:20.880 you have a budget and you have to work within 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:22.880 that budget, whatever that budget winds up being. And that 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:24.880 budget was a big part of the discussions the last 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:26.880 couple of days because he needs the money to be 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.680 able to compete with some of the upper echelon programs, 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.920 which at this point North Carolina football is not. The 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:34.760 goal is for him to take it there. But also 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:38.200 he talked about how college came to him this time around. 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.000 Wasn't like he was seeking a college job. He would 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.840 hear from college coaches because there were so many rules 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.480 changes recently that were NFL likes, such as the two 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:50.120 minute warning, the headsets in the player's helmet. So he 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.280 was getting calls about that stuff, and he realized there's 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.120 a lot of overlaps. So he felt comfortable and believes 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.080 that North Carolina is going to be the opportunity for 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:58.640 him to be successful at that level. 0:07:58.720 --> 0:07:59.240 He's all in. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.600 There have been a lot of comparisons, including for me 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.760 and yesterday to Dion Sanders going to Colorado, and when 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.440 you have a name like that, suddenly people might want 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:10.800 to go and play, especially if you're building a team 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.280 like Bill Belichick seems to intend to, which is a 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.520 lot of it through the transfer portal, which is basically 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.920 a free agency. Let's remember though Dion and Colorado went 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.480 four and eight in year one, there's a lot of 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:23.960 work that goes into building that program. So we'll see 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.120 how quickly they can get it off the ground. Belichick 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.280 once lost a Super Bowl to the Philadelphia Eagles, who 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:32.760 still have a coach at Nick Sirianni who is very 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.160 much in the NFL right now, and they got a 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.679 big game coming up this weekend, one that well, it's 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.600 been overshadowed to a certain degree by comments made earlier 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.440 this week by Brandon Graham, the longtime veteran defensive end 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.800 who is on injured reserve, talking about the relationship between 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:53.360 AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts, saying maybe they're not friends anymore. Jalen, 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:54.360 your thoughts on all that. 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:02.000 I'm think any En Brandon BG calling him Brandon BG 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:06.079 knows he's he spoke out of place and he knows that. 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:10.640 So was your reaction when I'm sure your phone started 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.360 blowing up when that was going around. 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:13.320 What was your reaction to it? 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:17.600 I mean, I'm I mean, it's just about the team 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:23.760 in the end, I think overall that's that's that's where 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:27.040 my focus is. I think that's what everyone's focuses at 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.600 heart and trying to do what's best for the team. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:34.080 And I'm ultimately everyone cares about the team's success, and 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:38.760 so you know, whenever, whenever something happens and whatever it is, 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.880 I look at myself first, you know, because everything starts 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.640 and ends with me, and I take great pride in 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.319 what I do. I take great pride and the responsibilities 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.720 that I have when I am to the city and 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.040 to this team, and my challenge myself. 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:59.400 On that, Mike, this all started when A. J. Brown 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.800 said last week basically that the passing game needed to improve. 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.520 They're obviously one of the top running teams. Sakuon Barkley's 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.360 an MVP candidate at this point. But to have this 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.080 type of conversation going back and forth throughout the course 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.520 week before you play a big game against the Steelers, 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.640 what b how big of a deal? If any have 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.240 you gotten the sense this is in the building. 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.200 We're on day three of this story, and it started 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.400 out with is there a riff between Jalen Hurts and 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.240 AJ Brown? Of course, everybody downplayed and said, no, it's 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.360 not that, And the passing game was not just about Jalen. 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.720 It was about the entire passing game. Everybody needs to be. 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:33.640 Better in that regard. 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.400 The longer this has gone on, I'm less concerned with 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.280 that stuff, and I'm more thinking back to when we 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.319 sat on the field Super Bowl Sunday this past year 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.240 in Las Vegas. The Eagles were not playing, but Jalen 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.480 Hurst was one of the topics that we discussed on 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:50.800 the game on game day that day, and we talked 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:52.600 about how the team wanted him to be more of 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:56.520 a forward facing leader. And this is a great opportunity 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.760 for that because you've got one of the leaders of 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.400 the core that helped win that Super Bowl and for 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:05.520 the last decade with the Eagles in Brandon Graham overstepping 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.880 stepping out of line. Well, now it's your chance as 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.200 a quarterback to get this thing back in line and 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:16.160 to build that credibility inside that locker room. I would 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.920 expect Aj Brown to get fed plenty this weekend, like 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.520 plenty last time this happened. He had four catches for 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.600 twenty nine yards when he was upset on the sideline. 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.640 I think was nine for one thirty one the next week. 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:30.480 I expect that. And if all goes well, Jayalen Hurts 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.040 can sit up their postgame and realize that he did 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:34.880 everything he needed to do to get this thing back 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.120 on track and that his teammates saw that. 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.840 In Yeah, and if I was still alive in fantasy, 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:42.839 I would say this was a great This would be 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:44.920 a great time to have Aj Brown in fantasy. Obviously 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:45.960 I'm not, but you're right. 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:47.800 I would expect a focus. 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.600 On the passing game, which is I assume means get 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:51.679 Aj Brown the. 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:52.880 Ball just a little bit more. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:54.880 But I want to go back to what you mentioned 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.880 about Jalen Hurts being front center here being a leader. 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.760 You know, this has been a COmON for the last 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:02.319 three days and I think a lot of people were 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.240 wondering what was Jalen Hurts going to do with this, 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:06.959 how was he going to take it? And so it's like, 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.319 all right, what's your reaction when this happened? You know, 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.160 how much was your phone blowing up? How much did 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.280 everyone talk to you? What are the questions like? And 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:17.480 you could see Jalen Hurts very cleanly, very cryptically cut 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.800 it off. He did not answer the question, said it's 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.800 about the team. We are trying to get the team better. Ultimately, 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.720 that's what it's about. And whether that's true or not. 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.360 And obviously he did get reaction, he's not going to 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.520 address it. But this is the way a leader goes. 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:35.000 You know what, I am redirecting this conversation to improving 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.880 as a team. And you know that's so much of 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.240 what the quarterback's job is. It's to help the locker 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.360 room focus where it needs to be. H This was 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.400 a good example of Jalen Hurts as a leader in 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.160 r and I would expect pretty good performance from him 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.240 on Sunday in relation to the passing. 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:54.920 Game Eagles Steelers in the four to twenty five pm 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.520 Eastern time window, same time for the kickoff of the 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.880 Bucks and the chart who were excuse me, what wow? 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.840 The Bucks and the Chargers, who certainly need a wind 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.080 coming off of last week. Thanks everybody, I just became 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:12.160 a man. Justin Herbert dealing with an ankle injury, also 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.760 had a quad injury on the hit that he took 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.520 last week. Ian He downplayed it when he talked to reporters, 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.600 but certainly he's dealing with something there. 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.000 First of all, congratulations Tom and the Boyscrack. 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:26.360 Thank you very much waiting for it lone. 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:28.720 So first of all, they should put Charlie Horse on 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:29.679 the injury report. 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:30.560 It would make us all. 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:32.840 It would just be a little more specific. That looked 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:34.959 like a bad one and I'm sure that it hurt 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.040 a lot. So Justin Herbert was back at practice today 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.360 for the Chargers, spotted on the field by local reporters. 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:41.360 That's a good sign. 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.360 He also joked early in the week that you know, 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.480 he had one ankle injured at the high ankle sprain 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.160 that we really, I would say covered extensively here on 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.800 the Insiders as he mentioned now it's the other ankle, 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.600 so he's got both covered. I would expect Justin Herbert 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.240 to go out there and play, and I think there's 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.880 one thing we learned early in the year that he 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:01.920 can be as hobbled as he was. He can glimp 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.240 around the facility as reporters spotted him doing and all that. 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.280 When it is time to get out on the field, 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:09.480 there's not a lot that could stop him. There's not 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.240 a lot that can knock him away from being the 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.920 quarterback that he is. It's an important game. They're all 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.920 important for one of the NFL's really good teams, for 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.040 a team that's marches to the playoffs. I expect Herbert 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.760 to be out there and if history is any indicator, 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:24.080 probably look pretty normal. 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:29.440 In more serious news, there was another robbery of an 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:33.000 NFL player during a game on Monday Night. It was 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:37.600 Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow whose home was broken into during 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:41.600 Monday night football in Dallas, the latest home invasion of 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.800 a pro athlete's home. Nobody injured in the break in, 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.640 but the home was ransacked, according to a report provided 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.480 by the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office. The NFL issued a 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:55.400 security alert recently after several similar robberies, including of Patrick 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:59.160 Mahomes and Travis Kelcey. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell confirmed on 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:03.400 Wednesday the FBI is involved the league in the players union, 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:07.480 encouraging all players to take as many precautions as possible, 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:13.720 especially on game days. Twenty twenty five NFL Pro Bowl 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:17.240 games presented by Verizon are back and the roster is 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.880 up to you. But a tough season for the Browns, 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:23.440 but they still got some top individual players. You can 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:27.480 go to Pro Bowl dot com slash vote to cast yours. 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.680 Speaking of the Browns, one of their for an office executives, 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:35.280 Katherine Hickman, was a participant in the Front Office Accelerator 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.760 over the past several days in Dallas. She joined ian. 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.560 Kat, you have been coming to the accelerator for years. 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.720 Take me through some of the benefits of this accelerator 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:49.280 program that the NFL puts on. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.240 I mean, it's a great program and there's a few 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.440 of them. One the networking opportunities you get with the 0:15:55.480 --> 0:16:00.840 other participants, your peers across other teams, to the opportunities 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:04.000 you get in front of ownership and you know, team 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.840 team executives. And then really a third piece is the program. 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:09.080 The program in itself. 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.080 There's a ton of research that goes into this. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.960 Blinda and her team really trying to find sessions that 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.240 are going to help us professionally develop. 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:19.720 So I think those three things are the keys. 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.880 You contribute for the Browns, And really all facets have 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.119 a lot of high level conversations. Give me a specific 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:30.280 example of your experience that kind of separates you as 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:30.840 a candidate. 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.760 I think it's the proximity that I get to decision 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.280 making and how I can contribute to those And that's 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:43.040 really a credit to Andrew Andrew Barry and how invested 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:46.560 he is in developing his staff and giving us those exposure, 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:48.880 those situations where we get to have a seat at 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.960 the table and actually contribute to some things that you know, 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:54.520 other people may not get exposed to until they actually 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.400 get the job. So that's been really beneficial. 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.960 Interesting, and you know, for you, you again contribute in 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.400 a lot of different ways. Take me through how much 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:08.359 of your job is scouting, Like how much of your 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:09.280 day for instance? 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:11.359 Does that make up great question? 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.080 It's actually one of the parts that I enjoy the most. 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:17.000 I was just working with something with Andrew laughtering was 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.120 like can I go back to watch college? Like, That's 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.679 really what I want to do right now. It's a 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.880 big part of what I do because I'm so involved 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:28.600 in player acquisition, strategy and roster building. But I think 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:30.600 the beauty of my role is also all the other 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:31.720 verticals that I touch. 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:33.440 I oversee over fifty. 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.960 People within our organization on the football operation sides, and 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:41.280 again work very closely with Andrew on strategy and planning. 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.720 So the well rounded, I think element of my role 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:46.719 is really what I enjoy a lot. 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.919 And this is not as fun as subject. But obviously 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:51.880 it's been a tougher year for the Browns, tougher than 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.199 I think a lot of people imagined. What are some 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.760 lessons you've learned from this year in Cleveland? 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.960 I think some of the processes we've built and. 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.399 Doubling down on those processes and knowing that, of course, 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.359 in every year, you want great outcomes, that's just what 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:12.800 we all here to win. 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:14.600 We all want to win. Now. 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.000 I do think some of the things we're establishing are 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.480 going to be sustainable and they are going to create 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:24.600 long term results in in sustainable winning results. So I 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:26.880 think That's one of the learning is like, Okay, how 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:29.200 can we continue to build on those, invest in those 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:31.200 in making sure that we tweak them along the ways 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:34.399 and not get to you know, driven or sidetracked sometimes 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.480 by outcomes that can be really difficult, like this is 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.760 National Football League, Like they will be tougher years. So 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.119 staying through to that I think has been in learning. 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:44.520 Got thank you. 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:51.240 Russell Wilson and George Pickens. Friends. Maybe Brandon Graham can 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.840 shed some light on that as well. Will we do know? 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:58.280 Steelers Eagles to monster game for both teams on Sunday. 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:00.800 Sarah Walls Brian Baldly are going to be to break 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:04.760 it down right after this Sunny Insiders. 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:09.480 The Battle of Pennsylvania. 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:13.920 Yeah, seventy six West takes you to Pittsburgh East. Well, 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:16.880 depending on where you are, I guess, and just don't 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:17.879 go at certain times. 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:18.959 Baldy's listening right now. 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:20.879 He knows what I'm talking about, because seventy six Siest 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:21.800 just can be jammed up. 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:23.800 It's a terrible expressway. 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.960 Anyway, here are your clinching scenarios for the Eagles and 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:30.440 the Steelers. Steelers can get in the postseason, Eagles can 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.560 seal up that NFC East here before Christmas with a 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:39.520 win and a Washington loss. Sarah Walsh will be flying in. 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.359 She won't be driving in for this game in Philadelphia. 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:45.160 Brian Baldinger, will you be there as well? I don't 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:46.520 know if you'll be there, but you're always there because 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:48.600 you always got one eye on the Eagles, an eagle 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:52.920 eye on the Eagles, Sarah Jalen hurts today. J Brown 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:54.919 can only hope to have the kind of working camaraderie 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:57.359