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Speaker 1: Welcome inside with the Insiders alongside Ian Rappoport, Judy Matista

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Speaker 1: and Mike Pira.

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Speaker 2: Fullo. I am Tom Pellisera.

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Speaker 3: We have now been on TV for about ten.

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Speaker 2: Hours straight here. There has been a lot of news.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to everything on the coaching carousel throughout the

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Speaker 1: course of the show. Bucky Brooks, Mark Bross, Sarah Walsh,

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Speaker 1: Jane Slater, Jeffrey Chedia, Omar Ruiz. I think that's everybody,

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Speaker 1: but I might be missing one. If so, don't take offense.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of you throughout the course of

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Speaker 1: this show. Let's start out though, by talking about we

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Speaker 1: found out last night, which is the final version of

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Speaker 1: the wild Card weekend playoff schedule. It all kicks off

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Speaker 1: shockingly with the Texans hosted a ploff game on Saturday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: We got Steelers Ravens on Saturday Night, Bill's Broncos, Eagles, Packers,

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Speaker 1: Books Commanders on Sunday, and then all finishes up with

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Speaker 1: the Vikings at the Rams on Monday Night football. There

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Speaker 1: was still some drama here as we went into the

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Speaker 1: final day of the regular season too, Mike, because a

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Speaker 1: few of those teams were not in there, including that

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Speaker 1: final seat in the AFC.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Broncos took care of business the way you're

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Speaker 2: supposed to. I mean, there's a lot of teams on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Halfway through the Sunday I was like, did these teams

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Speaker 4: that need to win know that they need to win

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Speaker 4: because they were either struggling or just not winning those games.

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Speaker 4: But the Broncos did exactly what they needed to do,

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Speaker 4: a thirty eight to nothing thrashing. Now, look, there's a

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Speaker 4: bunch of teams that we're going to say, you don't

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Speaker 4: want to see this team come into your house. Nobody's

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Speaker 4: really said that about the Broncos, And I think that

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Speaker 4: the thought is that they're young, certainly at the quarterback position,

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Speaker 4: and they don't really play that physical, downhill style of

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Speaker 4: running game that you worry about. If you're let's say

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Speaker 4: I could play that physical game and dictate the game.

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Speaker 2: So I think a lot of people are thinking that.

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Speaker 4: But I don't want to see Sean Payton on the

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Speaker 4: other side calling plays and game planning this one up

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Speaker 4: and knowing that when bow Nicks gets hot, he gets hot.

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Speaker 4: So I am I think this is a sleeper A

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Speaker 4: good game this weekend. I know we're looking at some

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Speaker 1: Here we also found out the champion of the NFC

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Speaker 1: South the final playoff spot on that side of things,

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Speaker 1: Ian And if you were watching it like I was,

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Speaker 1: with both games, one up on the TV here one

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Speaker 1: one point I was going back in are they going

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Speaker 1: they took care of business.

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Speaker 3: Well, Mike's talking about the teams that needed to win,

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Speaker 3: where you're sort of like, do they know that the

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Speaker 3: Bucks didn't need need to win. They could have just

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Speaker 3: had the Falcons lose, which they eventually did. But you're right,

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Speaker 3: I mean they kind of slept walked a little bit

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Speaker 3: seemed to be a little sneaky to me. Now I've

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Speaker 3: been doing some research, Okay. I went all the way

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Speaker 3: to the Bucks schedule, okay, and here are the teams

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Speaker 3: the Chargers. That's a lot of playoff teams. I don't

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Speaker 3: know about the record of any other team. I only

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Speaker 3: playoff teams have beaten out. The Bucks obviously lost to

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Speaker 3: and certainly had some down moments this season, But just

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Speaker 3: based on overall ceiling, it feels to me like the

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Speaker 3: And the Commanders are obviously a lot of fun and

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Speaker 3: and we're going to see him for years to come.

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Speaker 3: But the Bucks certainly, to me, could be a team

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Speaker 3: Based on pure talent, I wouldn't be surprised to see

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Speaker 1: There's a Commander's team that has Bucks players and coaches

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Speaker 1: acknowledged after the game is better than the one that

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Speaker 1: But this is also a situation where the Bucks, by

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Speaker 5: This has been three years in the making. Some of

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Speaker 5: it at four like that just doesn't happen. You got to

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Speaker 5: That was unbelievable, man, Division winners back to back seasons.

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Speaker 5: What we've done is not easy. It's not easy. But

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Speaker 5: I'm telling you what, man, We said it all along.

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Speaker 5: We got a special group, man, and this has been

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Speaker 5: coming a long time. That's a lot of hard work

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Speaker 5: and we are the number one scene with the five gentlemen.

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Speaker 7: This is just step one. This is just step one.

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Speaker 7: We want it bigger and better now.

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Speaker 2: Proud of you guys, love y'all.

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Speaker 1: The fifteen and two Lions, most wins in franchise history.

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Speaker 2: They are indeed the Kings of the North.

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Speaker 1: They got the number one seed the first round by

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Speaker 1: for Judy, that.

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Speaker 1: That we've seen by the Vikings throughout the course of

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Speaker 1: this season. Certainly not the best play play that we've

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Speaker 1: seen from Sam Darnold through the season. But still, when

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Speaker 2: It's impressive. They just continue to impress.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, that game never really developed the way I think

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Speaker 8: we all thought it was going to develop before it began.

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Speaker 8: It never became the shootout that we anticipated. And that

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Speaker 8: were amazing, particularly in the red zone. Over and over again.

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Speaker 8: The Minnesota Vikings got to the red zone and then

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Speaker 8: that Sam Darnolds can have a bounce back performance. One

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Speaker 8: that explosion of points against the Buffalo Bills. The Rams

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Speaker 1: Fourteen teams in the playoffs, eighteen teams now done for

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four season. Five of those teams also

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Speaker 1: now have a head coaching vacancy. That number went up

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Speaker 1: two five early this morning when the Jacksonville Jaguars fired

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Speaker 1: When you look at the numbers since Week thirteen of

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Speaker 1: General manager Trent Balky is staying on the new head

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Speaker 1: coach will report directly to owner Shod Con As we

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Speaker 1: welcome in our Bucky Brooks Markcross to the conversation. Bucky,

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Speaker 1: you're around that team a lot. You and I were

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Speaker 1: potentially could have been the time to make changes when

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Speaker 1: they got blown out about a month and a half ago.

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Speaker 1: Shot Con stayed the course, but hearing have talked today,

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Speaker 1: he's said, I think the talent. The talent is there

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Speaker 1: do you make of what Seat Khan said and where

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars have to go from here.

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Speaker 6: Look, I'll be honest with you.

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Speaker 9: I think you have to be careful when you start

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Speaker 9: talking about play calling and those things when you want

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Speaker 9: to change leadership.

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Speaker 6: At the head coaching job, the.

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Speaker 9: Head coach is responsible for all of that, but he's

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Speaker 9: the x's and o's. This is a team that has

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Speaker 9: lost way a long time, and so some of that

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Speaker 9: permeates the culture, permeiates the building, and sometimes it's hard

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Speaker 9: to write that no matter how many different people you

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Speaker 9: the way that it fell apart in twenty twenty three

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Speaker 9: and the way it didn't go the way that you

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Speaker 9: wanted to go this year, Yes, but there are a

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Speaker 9: it done. So everyone's responsible, from head coach, general manager, scouts,

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Speaker 9: everybody in the building when you don't lose, everyone plays

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Speaker 9: that they can find someone who can rebuild the culture.

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Speaker 6: Get this team who has some talent, Get this team

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Buck, no question.

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Speaker 10: And my antenna goes up as well when owners start

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Speaker 10: talking about small little things like play calling, because I

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Speaker 10: think in a vacuum, he's not seeing that someone's telling

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Speaker 10: him these things, possibly sitting up in the box with

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Speaker 10: who still survived. You think in a situation like this

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Speaker 10: with Jacksonville, when Trent Balke hired Doug Peterson also hired

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Speaker 10: urban Meyer, that okay, now it's time to go.

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Speaker 7: You had your chance to hire these guys and it

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Speaker 10: That you do a clean sweep to reset everything in

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Speaker 10: He's there, Let's say Trayvon Walker over Aiden Hutchinson. But

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Speaker 10: the bigger picture is the new head coach is going

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Speaker 10: to report the shot con Does that mean he's picking

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Speaker 13: That people say they were close to me. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Based upon how the rules are now set up, these

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Speaker 3: What is the Broncos confidence level heading into their first

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Speaker 3: playoff game in a decade?

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Speaker 14: Yeah, they're riding high, and they're following Sean Payton's lead,

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Speaker 14: who always has a lot of confidence. And what he

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Speaker 14: kept saying down the stretch for Denver as they played

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Speaker 14: one win and in game after the other, is that

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Speaker 14: they're going to play in bigger games. Well, they have

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Speaker 14: that bigger game now in the postseason against the Buffalo Bills,

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Speaker 14: and that is a place they will go in with

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Speaker 14: a lot of confidence because remember last year they went

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Speaker 14: in there on Monday Night Football midway through the year

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Speaker 14: and they beat Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills thanks

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Speaker 14: in large part to that defense. And I talked to

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Speaker 14: Vance Joseph last night as he was leading the locker room,

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Speaker 14: because their defense is even better this year. He was

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Speaker 14: touting Patrick Certan as defensive player of the year, and

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Speaker 14: I asked him how it all came together this year,

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Speaker 14: and he said it was a complete buy in.

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Speaker 7: Last year, his first year.

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Speaker 14: Putting back in his system in Denver, he said they

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Speaker 14: were molding just a little bit the old way the

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Speaker 14: new defense. But this year it was a complete buy

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Speaker 14: in for those young players. They led the league in sacks,

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Speaker 14: They were third in scoring defense, and seventh in total defense.

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Speaker 14: Zach Allen told me the big defensive tackle was last

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Speaker 14: year's game in Buffalo. They know where they're staying, they

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Speaker 14: know the locker room, the atmosphere, the environment. All that

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Speaker 14: will help them on Sunday. What will also help them

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Speaker 14: is the fact that they have now Bow Knicks as

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Speaker 14: their quarterback because of the confidence he plays with his leadership,

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Speaker 14: the talent that he showed in game in game out

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Speaker 14: throughout the year. They believe in their young quarterback. Sean

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Speaker 14: Payton said yesterday the way bo Nicks took care of business,

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Speaker 14: he was seeing the field well, he was on a heater,

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Speaker 14: just three income completions, had those touchdowns and he was

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Speaker 14: on a roll. So they'll go into Buffalo he'll continue

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Speaker 14: to show that poise. They believe just like he showed

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Speaker 14: that poise down the stretch and getting them into the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Bucky Oh, well, that's a great start.

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Speaker 9: When you talk about bo Nicks and how much confidence

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Speaker 9: he's playing with the last three games, nine touchdowns, only

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Speaker 9: one interception, and when you think about the growth that

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Speaker 9: he's made throughout the course of the season.

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Speaker 6: Go for being a game manager, it's really been a

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Speaker 6: playmaker for the Broncos.

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Speaker 9: And as Sean Payton continues to infuse life and confidence

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Speaker 9: into this team, he also does a while playing a

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Speaker 9: complimentary style of football that makes him a very tough

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Speaker 9: out in the postseason.

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Speaker 6: The pressure is all off to Denver Broncos. When they

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Speaker 6: go to Buffalo. They have an opportunity to really play.

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Speaker 9: Fast and free, and so that puts a lot of

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Speaker 9: pressure on Josh Allen those guys to not make mistakes,

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Speaker 9: particularly early in the game.

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Speaker 6: If I'm the Denver Broncos, I love the situation I'm in.

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Speaker 9: I love the way my young quarterback, but more importantly,

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Speaker 9: I love the way that this defense can travel. When

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Speaker 9: you talk about being able to be at the top

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Speaker 9: of the league and sacks and create turnovers, that gives

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Speaker 9: you a bunch of chance versus anyone this would be

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Speaker 9: a very difficult game for the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 3: Nick Benito Pat Sertan both becoming household names in part

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Speaker 3: because of that really nasty, nasty defundse that that Broncos

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Speaker 3: are are boasting. Looking forward to seeing that, guys. Thank

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Speaker 3: you for having als. Obviously, more from you guys later.

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Speaker 3: As we turn our attention back to some of the

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Speaker 3: news of today, which is that that guy right there

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Speaker 3: and that other guy right there are not going anywhere.

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Speaker 3: The Giants announce that they are retaining Brian dabol their

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Speaker 3: head coach and general manager Joe Shane after three season.

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Speaker 3: Inclining why to the playoffs, Let's get into why the

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Speaker 3: Giants made this decision to have some patience.

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Speaker 8: New York Giants owners John Marra and Steve Tish announced

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Speaker 8: earlier today that Brian day Ball and general manager Choshane

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Speaker 8: will both return for next season after a three win season,

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Speaker 8: very very disappointing season by the New York Giants, but

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Speaker 8: John Marra said he likes the direction they are heading in.

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Speaker 8: Let's hear a little bit more from what John Marra

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Speaker 8: said when he addressed reporters later in the day.

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Speaker 5: I had a.

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Speaker 15: Conversation with Steve Tish and I spoke some more over

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Speaker 15: the weekend and just came to the decision that staying

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Speaker 15: with both of them is the best course of action

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Speaker 15: for us right now. I think in Brian's case, he

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Speaker 15: was the coach of the Year two years ago that

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Speaker 15: didn't disappear all of a sudden.

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Speaker 2: I still believe he can do that again.

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Speaker 15: And in Joe's case, I thought we had an outstanding

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Speaker 15: draft class this year. I thought we had a really

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Speaker 15: good free agency period, and I really like the staff

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Speaker 15: that he's put together and built, and I think that

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Speaker 15: they're the right two guys. They'll lead us going forward.

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Speaker 15: I understand believing if that's not going to be the

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Speaker 15: most popular decision in Giant Land, but you believe it's

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Speaker 15: the right to She's.

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Speaker 2: Still just going forward.

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Speaker 8: Well, that season when Brian Table was coach of the

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Speaker 8: Year and the Giants went to the playoffs and one

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Speaker 8: eight playoff game on the road feels like a very

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Speaker 8: long time ago. This is what they did this season again,

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Speaker 8: three victories, thirty first in the league in points per game,

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Speaker 8: thirtieth in yardage per game, just near the bottom in

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Speaker 8: every significant offensive category. John Marris stated at the Office

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Speaker 8: that getting the quarterback position is going to be critical

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Speaker 8: this offseason. Let's bring Mike Carafalo and Mark Ross back

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Speaker 8: to discuss this. All right, Mike, you have been around

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Speaker 8: John marriag just as much as the rest of us.

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Speaker 8: What did you make of his comments today?

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Speaker 4: The whole time watching him talk there, I'm thinking about

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Speaker 4: all the wasted money spent on those planes that were

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Speaker 4: flying around MetLife Stadium that in the end had no effect.

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Speaker 4: What was I thinking when listening? Well, and you heard

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Speaker 4: it there. Joe Shane and Brian Dabele are benefiting from

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Speaker 4: two things. One the fact that there was a lot

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Speaker 4: of turnover before they arrived. Judge before that, Pat Shermer

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Speaker 4: before that, Ben McAdoo and John Marray just doesn't want

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Speaker 4: to get in this mode of every two to three

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Speaker 4: years turning this thing over.

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Speaker 2: So I think they benefited from that.

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Speaker 4: If they had come first or second in the order,

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Speaker 4: maybe they wouldn't have had this kind of patience.

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Speaker 2: That's number one. But number two, what Mara.

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Speaker 4: Talked about there, and you're seeing Tyrone Tracy getting tackled there.

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Speaker 4: That was one of the picks for the Giants this year.

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Speaker 4: There's another one, Malik Neighbors. In fact, Neighbors and Tracy

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Speaker 4: both had a thousand scrimmage yards, the first time we've

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Speaker 4: seen that from two rookies since two.

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Speaker 2: Thousand and six.

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Speaker 4: So on top of that, you got Tyler Nuban the

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Speaker 4: defensive back, You've got Theo Johnson the tight end.

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Speaker 2: This was a draft class that did really well.

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Speaker 4: So John maras saying, Okay, we're starting to restock the

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Speaker 4: cupboard here a little bit, and he liked I thought

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Speaker 4: the free agency free agency class was good. I think

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Speaker 4: it was great, but he certainly likes what he saw

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Speaker 4: from the free agent perspective as well. So I know

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Speaker 4: how these things look to outsiders on hard knocks, but

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Speaker 4: to insiders such as Mara and Steve Tish in this regard,

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Speaker 4: they feel like they've got something building here. Though I

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Speaker 4: would say at this point next year, if this team

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Speaker 4: is not at least flirting with the postseason, John Meyer

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Speaker 4: is going to be telling a different story.

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Speaker 10: And IKE completely agree with you on the let's say

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Speaker 10: called firing fatigue of every two years going through head

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Speaker 10: coaches and gms. But you know, on the flip side,

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Speaker 10: you know they are defined by two huge moves, and

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Speaker 10: that was the Saquon Barkley situation and having Saquon turn

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Speaker 10: out to be an MVP type candidate season, and the

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Speaker 10: Daniel Jones situation, and they did inherit Daniel Jones, but

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Speaker 10: did decide that we can work with him. So, you know,

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Speaker 10: there are some gems in here here and there, here

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Speaker 10: and there, but for the most part, those two major

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Speaker 10: moves are the ones that are Giants fans and John

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Speaker 10: Mary is always into in what Giants fans are thinking.

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Speaker 10: Are just are really in despair of saying we're really

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Speaker 10: going to roll this back with these guys, you know,

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Speaker 10: more of the concern is you know, played more of

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Speaker 10: that clip where John kind of talked about, you know,

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Speaker 10: Brian Dable and changing the defensive side, being disappointed on

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Speaker 10: that side of the ball.

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Speaker 7: And I think that's.

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Speaker 10: Really where you get in the danger zone there when

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Speaker 10: the ownership he can do what he wants to do,

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Speaker 10: but not trusting Dable to really do what he wants

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Speaker 10: to do with his staff. And the desperation now even

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Speaker 10: though Joe Shane said he won't be desperate, well, I

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Speaker 10: got to do something to save my job here instead

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Speaker 10: of building for the long term. You're right there, like

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Speaker 10: I know my job's gonna lie next year. What do

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Speaker 10: I have to do now to make this thing work?

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Speaker 10: The Giants start out slow. You're talking about playoffs. What

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Speaker 10: if they start out one in three or one and four,

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Speaker 10: one and five, it's not going to be pretty there.

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Speaker 8: Well, certainly the priority in the off season is going

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Speaker 8: to be fixing they hope, finally, the quarterback situation. As

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Speaker 8: part of those comments, John merher was also asked like

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Speaker 8: how long you think this is going to take and

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Speaker 8: he said, well, better not take very long because I'm

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Speaker 8: just about running out of patience. So that's where we are.

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Speaker 4: And he was stone serious when he said it. He

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Speaker 4: didn't crack a smile. Dude, I was dead serious.

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Speaker 1: These Giants have to get past not just the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: the commanders at the top of the division, but also

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Speaker 1: the team that rule the division. A year ago, the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys finishing seven and ten despite a slew of injuries,

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Speaker 1: starting a third string quarterback Trey Lance. In the finale,

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Speaker 1: they actually took Washington to the wire in a game

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Speaker 1: that was very impactful for the Commander's seating. Certainly, though

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Speaker 1: a disappointment coming off of three consecutive twelve win seasons,

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Speaker 1: to fall to seven to ten in year five. For

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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy. Obviously, the playoff success has not been to

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Speaker 1: the level that Dallas wanted. But again, Mike McCarthy has

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Speaker 1: won sixty one percent of his games as an NFL

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Speaker 1: head coach, won a Super.

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Speaker 2: Bowl in Green Bay.

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Speaker 1: They were there knocking on the door in the past

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Speaker 1: three years, So what is the future for Mike McCarthy.

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Speaker 1: For more on that, we turned to our Jane Slater.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back Bucky Brooks as well.

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Speaker 2: Jane.

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Speaker 1: This is a unique situation, or at least it would

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Speaker 1: be for other NFL teams because Mike McCarthy's contract is up.

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Speaker 1: Jerry Jones has been here before. One time with Jason Garrett,

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Speaker 1: he renewed him. The next time he did not renew him.

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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, everything seems like, based on what Jerry has

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Speaker 1: said publicly, is pop at this point. But it's a

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Speaker 1: two way street. Where do we stand?

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Speaker 16: You know, last night I was talking to Jerry Jones

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Speaker 16: about this, and there's a level of you have to

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Speaker 16: have a tolerance for ambiguity when you're here in Dallas,

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Speaker 16: and that's what we're dealing with right now. Ambiguity as

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Speaker 16: relates to the future of Mike McCarthy. Now, this afternoon,

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Speaker 16: the Chicago Bears did reach out to the Dallas Cowboys

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Speaker 16: asking permission to meet with Mike McCarthy about their head

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Speaker 16: coaching position. It is unclear if the Cowboys have granted that.

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Speaker 16: I was also told this evening that Mike McCarthy was

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Speaker 16: supposed to meet with Jerry Jones, as they typically do

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Speaker 16: at the end of the season, to.

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Speaker 8: Sort of go over things.

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Speaker 16: But I wasn't under the impression that was necessarily to

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Speaker 16: extend an offer or tell him if he was staying

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Speaker 16: or going. It was more of a temperature gauge. This morning,

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Speaker 16: there was a large team meeting. I was told it

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Speaker 16: was very even killed from Mike McCarthy. He thanked everybody

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Speaker 16: for their hard work. The coach has then graded their

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Speaker 16: players as they do at the end of the season.

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Speaker 16: Players cleared out of the building, reached out to players

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Speaker 16: and just asked, do you think Mike McCarthy should come back?

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Speaker 16: And I thought it was really interesting. You know, last

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Speaker 16: week I talked to a number of players Tom and

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Speaker 16: I reported that they both on the record and off

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Speaker 16: the record.

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Speaker 8: Wanted him to come back.

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Speaker 16: But one today said he deserves another shot, adding that

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Speaker 16: he said, I think it's only fair if he gets

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Speaker 16: one more shot, but more on his terms from the

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Speaker 16: standpoint of really being able to run it how he wants.

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Speaker 16: He went on to say, with whoever else you go with,

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Speaker 16: there's going to be an unknown. But he did build

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Speaker 16: something pretty special here in his five years. When I

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Speaker 16: asked him to clarify doing it Mike McCarthy's way, because

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Speaker 16: Dak Prescott touched on this a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 16: He brought up, they might need some extra guys in

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Speaker 16: the strength and conditioning room to help take care of

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Speaker 16: these players. Remember, as you had reference, there were so

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Speaker 16: many injured players this year. That may be an area

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Speaker 16: that Mike McCarthy would like to have in there to

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Speaker 16: help so that he can build his performance plan. As

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Speaker 16: you know, obviously, that player added that that will require

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Speaker 16: some money, but he saw some value in it. Some

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Speaker 16: things it sounds like Mike McCarthy wants to do. There's

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Speaker 16: obviously some things that Jerry Jones wants. Let's see if

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Speaker 16: these two can get to the table and work something out,

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Speaker 16: or if Mike McCarthy's had a.

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Speaker 9: North You know, Jane, I think you bring up good

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Speaker 9: points about Mike McCarthy and the success that he's had

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Speaker 9: in Dallas. I think people kind of dismiss the three

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Speaker 9: straight seasons where he had twelve wins, and look, I

696
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Speaker 9: know the playoff failure is really kind of sticking the

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Speaker 9: car Cowboys fans. But you have to get into tournament

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Speaker 9: to win the tournament, and the Cowboys were getting in

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Speaker 9: the tournament regularly with Mike McCarthy. This year was a

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Speaker 9: down year, but I think it was their own doing.

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Speaker 9: When you think about the mass exodus of players, some

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Speaker 9: of them that went with Dan Quinn and Washington, it

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Speaker 9: was going to be a bit of a rebuilding year.

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Speaker 9: The Cowboys ross has been constructed where it's a little

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Speaker 9: top heavy. You have the big money stars and then

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Speaker 9: you have a bunch of unknowns and unheralded players and

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Speaker 9: some young guys that you're bringing into the fold. The

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Speaker 9: thing that we do know, Dak Prescott has never played

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Speaker 9: better than he has since Mike MacCarthy has joined the team.

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Speaker 9: You look at the way that he runs the offense,

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Speaker 9: the way that they're going. He certainly is deserving of

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Speaker 9: coming back. But I also think it's interesting that two

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Speaker 9: other teams were interested and Mike McCarthy. They're willing to

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Speaker 9: take a look at his success and give him credit

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Speaker 9: for being a nice team builder and a former Super

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Speaker 9: Bowl champion.

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Speaker 1: The Bears have put in a request to interview Mike

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Speaker 1: McCarthy for their head coaching job. The Cowboys can deny

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Speaker 1: that permission up until next Tuesday, January fourteenth. That is

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Speaker 1: the date on which Mike McCarthy's contract expires, and if

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Speaker 1: there is no accord by then, Mike McCarthy can interview

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Speaker 1: and potentially take a job anywhere he wants. Jane and Bucky,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. Coming up after this, Sara Walsh

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Speaker 1: is going to join the show because the team in

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Speaker 1: her backyard, the Bucks, just finish off another NFC South

726
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Speaker 1: title yesterday, but is it time for Baker Mayfield and

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Speaker 1: the Bucks to make some noise in the playoffs as well.

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Speaker 1: Mark Ross me back too, as we cover that on

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Speaker 1: the Insiders.

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Speaker 3: Back to back to back to back.

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Speaker 7: That's four backs.

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Speaker 3: That is how many times the Bucks have won the

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Speaker 3: NFC South. Of course, they did go to the playoffs

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Speaker 3: the year before. We don't have five backs, we only

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Speaker 3: have four. But that is where the Bucks stand, and

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Speaker 3: that is why the Bucks are in the playoffs after

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Speaker 3: winning yesterday? Our good friend Sarah Walsh was there. Sarah, Hello,

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Speaker 3: Mark Ross also hello again, Sarah was there last Sunday

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Speaker 3: is going to be there this weekend. Is always going

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Speaker 3: to be there if the Bucks are playing, as of

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Speaker 3: course we know so.

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Speaker 2: One of the bigger players.

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Speaker 3: In this game, Baker Mayfield, obviously, has had a huge season,

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Speaker 3: one of his best seasons. What did Todd Bowles say

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Speaker 3: about our good friend Baker Mayfield leading up to this

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Speaker 3: showdown with the Commanders.

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Speaker 17: Well, if you watch the highlights today, and rightfully so,

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Speaker 17: what you're seeing over and over and over again is

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Speaker 17: Mike Evans making that catch on the final play of

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Speaker 17: the game to give him a thousand receiving yards for

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Speaker 17: the season, and the entire stadium erupting. It was an

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Speaker 17: exciting play in the sense of it made the entire

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Speaker 17: Tampa Bay community go crazy. What you don't see in

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Speaker 17: the highlights, though, are the gritty plays that Baker Mayfield

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Speaker 17: made Sunday, and he's really made them all season long,

756
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Speaker 17: to extend plays to get first downs that they wouldn't

757
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Speaker 17: have necessarily gotten if he hadn't have taken off and

758
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Speaker 17: started running. So today Todd Bowles was just talking about

759
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Speaker 17: the mentality that he has and he says he's a winner.

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Speaker 17: He wants to win, whether he's playing street ball or

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Speaker 17: a playoff game. Luckily, he's going to get the ladder

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Speaker 17: this coming Sunday and he's going to get another Heisman winner.

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Speaker 17: So it's two highs winners going at each other. Jayden Daniels,

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Speaker 17: of course, has had a tremendous rookie season. He's put

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Speaker 17: up incredible numbers. He has won clutch at the end

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Speaker 17: of games. But Baker Mayfield, as you mentioned, he had

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Speaker 17: a career year last year to get him that one

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Speaker 17: hundred million dollar contract, and then he followed it up

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Speaker 17: with even bigger and better numbers this year. Baker finished

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Speaker 17: the regular season with forty one touchdowns. Only Joe Burrow

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Speaker 17: for more touchdowns this season than Baker Mayfield. Now, this

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Speaker 17: game could come down to defense because it could be

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Speaker 17: Jaden baker a lighting up that scoreboard in a primetime game.

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Speaker 17: So some big name injuries that we're going to keep

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Speaker 17: an eye on our guys that I should say could

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Speaker 17: be coming back from injury. On the Buccaneers side, Antoine Winfield, Junior,

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Speaker 17: their safety. He's missed the last four games with the

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Speaker 17: knee issue. Their cornerback Jamel Dean also with the knee issue,

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Speaker 17: he could possibly return. And then over on the Commander's side,

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Speaker 17: the one thing everyone's going to be watching, Marshaun Latimore

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Speaker 17: could return to action for them, and that is huge

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Speaker 17: because the guy started this whole segment talking about Mike Evans,

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Speaker 17: his longtime nemesis when a Latimore was in the NFC South.

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Speaker 8: That'll be a good one.

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Speaker 10: So I hope we get some of those the old

786
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Speaker 10: Latimore Evan's fireworks that we used to see. But you

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Speaker 10: mentioned Jade Daniels a couple times, and of course the

788
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Speaker 10: Commanders have overachieved this season and they far exceeded expectations

789
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Speaker 10: and a band.

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Speaker 7: Quinn has a lot of credit to do with that.

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Speaker 10: But of course it's all about Jaden Daniels and how

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Speaker 10: he goes this Washington team goes. And the concern is

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Speaker 10: yesterday's game where he was shaky against Dallas now and

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Speaker 10: then I was doing Game Day Live with rhtt Lewis

795
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Speaker 10: and he came out of the game and Marcus Mariota

796
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Speaker 10: went in there. We really didn't have an explanation for it.

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Speaker 10: After the game, dan Quinn and Jayden said it was

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Speaker 10: because of the legs swordus and he could move around

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Speaker 10: the pocket or run as much. They just wanted Mariota

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Speaker 10: in there. So that's something to definitely monitor this week

801
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Speaker 10: and going into the game, if Jade Daniels will be

802
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Speaker 10: fully healthy and at one percent because as we've seen,

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Speaker 10: as we know from the highlights from watching him all year,

804
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Speaker 10: he's at his best when he can run and then

805
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Speaker 10: play off the run, and of course he can throw,

806
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Speaker 10: but he's at his best being a playmaker with his legs.

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Speaker 10: So will he be at full strength? We got to

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Speaker 10: watch this this week. But if he is, this could

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Speaker 10: be a real fun one.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and we've seen.

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Speaker 3: Him over the last couple of weeks run a lot

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Speaker 3: and a lot more called runs and scrambles. Anyway, special

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Speaker 3: player certainly someone who we have seen the impact of

814
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Speaker 3: a rookie quarterback on team completely turning them around.

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Speaker 2: Mark Sarah, thank you. Mark. Stay right there.

816
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Speaker 3: We are going to talk to you and our good

817
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Speaker 3: friend Bucky Brooks about next year's rookie quarterbacks. The Tennessee

818
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 3: Titans are officially on the clock. Who are they going

819
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Speaker 3: to draft? I can't wait for you guys to tell us.

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Speaker 3: Coming up next on the Insiders.

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Speaker 1: The twenty twenty five NFL draft order is said at

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Speaker 1: least the first eighteen picks involving the non playoff teams,

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Speaker 1: and thanks to late season wins by the Giants and

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Speaker 1: the Raiders and on Sunday the Patriots, it is the Titans, Yes,

825
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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans, who are officially on the clock at

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Speaker 1: number one overalls. We welcome back our Bucky Brooks and

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Speaker 1: Mark Ross.

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Speaker 2: Bucky. Nobody ever wants.

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Speaker 1: To be drafted number one because it means you had

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Speaker 1: a very, very very bad season. But here they are,

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Speaker 1: Tennessee with a chance to potentially transform their organization.

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Speaker 7: What are your thoughts, thoughts.

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Speaker 9: Sitting at the top of the board, you get an

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Speaker 9: opportunity to really remake your franchise, not only but the

835
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Speaker 9: first round pick, but with all the other picks being

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Speaker 9: at the top of the round and so everyone to

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Speaker 9: talk about, Hey, they can go and get a quarterback,

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Speaker 9: the quarterback of their choice, she drift anders camboard whoever

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Speaker 9: they deem to be the quarterback. But I'm thinking about

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Speaker 9: the second and third rounds where you can go get

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Speaker 9: a blue chip player guy that may carry a first

842
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Speaker 9: round grade, but it's sitting there in your left. To me,

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Speaker 9: it's a tremendous opportunity for the Tennessee Titans to remake

844
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Speaker 9: their franchise, to rebuild it the way that Brian Callahan

845
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Speaker 9: may see fit, to get this team up and run

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Speaker 9: in a division that is wide open for the taking.

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Speaker 10: Well, I look at the draft order there and the

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Speaker 10: draft prospects you mentioned Cam and Shador, and we won't

849
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Speaker 10: see the madness like we saw last year with six

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Speaker 10: quarterbacks taken and then everybody trading up.

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Speaker 7: You know those next three. The first three were chalk

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Speaker 7: and then the next three where.

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Speaker 10: Teams jumped up and traded up to go get Nixon,

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Speaker 10: Pennix and JJ there.

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Speaker 7: So with just those two and.

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Speaker 10: A lot of a discussion, a lot of controversy whether

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Speaker 10: those two guys are really even worthy of being one

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Speaker 10: and two if that turns out to be the case.

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Speaker 10: So in years past, there's a lot of quarterbacks that

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Speaker 10: causes everybody to lose their minds.

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Speaker 7: I don't think we'll see a whole lot of that

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Speaker 7: this year, Bucky.

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Speaker 1: And if you don't feel like you can get that,

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Speaker 1: you could potentially trade down, which is what the Bears did.

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Speaker 2: A couple of years ago.

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Speaker 1: Panthers went up to number one, got Bryce Young, which

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Speaker 1: Bucky in year one. For a variety of different reasons.

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Speaker 1: There were a lot of people saying it should have

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Speaker 1: been CJ. Stroud, But you watch Bryce Young. You see

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Speaker 1: what David Tepper and Dave Canalis said yesterday here all

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Speaker 1: signs seemed to be pointing upwards right now for the

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Speaker 1: young QB.

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Speaker 9: Look as a scout, this is exactly what you'd love

874
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Speaker 9: to see from a young player, a young quarterback that

875
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 9: shows some toughness, some resilience, some greediness to bounce back

876
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 9: for some difficult moments. This is a number one overall

877
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 9: pick who has always enjoyed the best that football has

878
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 9: to offer from high school to college and early in

879
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 9: the pros. And then he sat down, he's bitched, and

880
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 9: people are talking about he may not be in the

881
00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:00,400
Speaker 9: future plans. He gets up off the Matt jos that

882
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 9: he can place. He finishes the season off strong. I

883
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 9: love what I've seen from Bryce Young. Now you can

884
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 9: envision how this team can grow with him because he's

885
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 9: come through the difficult part of an early struggle during

886
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 9: his career.

887
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 10: Bucket the first year scout. I learned the scout with

888
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:16,879
Speaker 10: your eyes, not with your heart.

889
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:18,799
Speaker 7: Don't root for players. But I rooted for Bryce Young.

890
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 10: I couldn't help a root for him because I thought

891
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 10: he was a magician coming out of Alabama, and then

892
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 10: he saw him going through those struggles looking like a

893
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 10: beatdown dog in some games, and it was really like,

894
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 10: give hi him a hug. So I'm so glad for

895
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 10: him to just jump out of this and look like

896
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 10: a legitimate playmaker.

897
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: Now, Mark, I thought you were gonna say, we're rooting

898
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 1: for him because he's closer to your size, right, We

899
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: all like the little guys. At least I knew five

900
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: foot ten, baby, we can accomplish anything. Mark and Bucky,

901
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: thank you here about talk with you. Talk with you

902
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,839
Speaker 1: a little bit later on coming up. The Lions got

903
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 1: a massive Week eighteen win. They got the number one seed,

904
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: they got the first round by they got home field advantage.

905
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 7: That's right.

906
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 1: The road to New Orleans officially goes through Detroit. We'll

907
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,760
Speaker 1: talk about that team and the rest of the playoff pictures.

908
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:15,280
Speaker 1: The Insiders rolls on. Welcome Inside with the Insiders.

909
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 2: Hour two.

910
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,280
Speaker 1: We haven't done this in forever alongside he inter Rappaport,

911
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: Judy Batista, and Mike Garafullo.

912
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 2: I am Tom Pelisera.

913
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: We got a lot to talk about here through this

914
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 1: hour of the show, including more coaching movement around the

915
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 1: NFL teams requesting interviews with candidates who could be the

916
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: new head coach of your team. We will get into

917
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 1: all of that, but first let's talk about the playoffs.

918
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 1: There's fourteen teams who aren't done just yet looking ahead

919
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 1: to wild Card weekend. Starts out with Chargers at Texans,

920
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 1: Steelers Ravens. Also on Saturday, you got a triple eder

921
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and it all wraps up Monday night with

922
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 1: the Vikings at the Rams.

923
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 2: Here is one of those teams that has a.

924
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 1: Significant injury though as well to talk about in that

925
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers, who have enough on their hands

926
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: going into Philadelphia and trying to pull off and upset

927
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: as a number seven seed against the second seed at Eagles.

928
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: You knew this was bad yesterday when you saw Christian

929
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 1: Watson go down, when you heard Matt Lafleur talk about

930
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:19,359
Speaker 1: the injury, Ian Lafleur said, it is not good, and

931
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 1: indeed that is the case.

932
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 3: It is not good and just watching that replay of

933
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 3: Christian Watson just makes me cringe. I mean, it's one

934
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 3: of the only thing you really hope is when team

935
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 3: is getting the playoffs, just be healthy, have all your

936
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 3: best players. For the Green Bay Packers, that is not

937
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 3: going to be the case. Christian Watson out for the

938
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 3: season with what sources say is a torn acl My

939
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 3: understanding is there's also additional damage, likely meniscus damage for

940
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 3: Christian Watson, who is really one of the better deep

941
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 3: threats on the Green Bay Packers. One of the better

942
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:54,280
Speaker 3: young deep threats in the NFL went Why we showing

943
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:56,759
Speaker 3: it again? One of the better deep threats in the

944
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 3: NFL went healthy. The problem has been just staying healthy.

945
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 3: These either injury prone or incredibly unlucky or both as

946
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 3: battled injuries this season. Now another one, and just based

947
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 3: guys on the timing of this injury, it is fair

948
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 3: to wonder whether or not he'll be ready for the

949
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:15,319
Speaker 3: start of the twenty twenty five season. That is the

950
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 3: bad injury news for the Packers. Good injury news is

951
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:21,879
Speaker 3: Jordan Loved, their quarterback, who was announced on Sunday's dealing

952
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 3: with an elbow injury really more like a funnybone injury,

953
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 3: one of those that isn't really that funny. But the

954
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 3: fact that we saw him throwing at the end of

955
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:30,799
Speaker 3: the game on the side and we were kind of

956
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:32,879
Speaker 3: wondering whether or not he was going to go back

957
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:35,439
Speaker 3: in the game with the Packers having a potential six

958
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 3: seed spot available. That's when we sort of learned, maybe

959
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 3: this is not that big of a deal. Mattel Flour

960
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,240
Speaker 3: could for me today. Both of his quarterbacks should be okay.

961
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:46,479
Speaker 3: So it turns out that the funnybone injury that caused

962
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 3: him to lose steeling in his hand actually is maybe

963
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 3: sort of a little bit funny after all.

964
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:53,479
Speaker 1: Sort of Jordan Love and the Packers little extra time

965
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 1: to recover before that Sunday afternoon kickoff in Philadelphia. As

966
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: for one team went into the weekend hopeful they might

967
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: even have a shot. The Bengals eliminated from the playoffs,

968
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,240
Speaker 1: and now they've made a significant move on their coaching staff.

969
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 1: Defensive coordinator lou Anarumo fired by coach Zach Taylor. He

970
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:16,359
Speaker 1: was one of the original staff members in Cincinnati, had

971
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 1: done excellent work in recent years. Begals had a lot

972
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:22,240
Speaker 1: of challenges from a personnel perspective. Still at Trey Hendrickson

973
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: have a huge year four sacks, but five assistants in

974
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 1: all let go by Zach Taylor today, including an Arumo

975
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: who would fully anticipate is going to have options for

976
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 1: his next defensive coordinator spot elsewhere in the division. The

977
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns making a move early Sunday morning, about twelve

978
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: hours after their season ended on Saturday, relieving offensive coordinator

979
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey of his duties. Thinking with Dorsey coming in

980
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: roughly a year ago at this time was that he

981
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,319
Speaker 1: would bring some new elements that would really help take

982
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:57,720
Speaker 1: the Browns offense and quarterback Deshaun Watson to the next level. Instead,

983
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: it never really seemed to be a fit even before

984
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:04,839
Speaker 1: the season ending injury FOI DeShawn Watson, who also now

985
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 1: is dealing with a setback from that injury. It was

986
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 1: a ruptured achilles tendon that he suffered earlier this season.

987
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: General manager Andrew Berry saying today that he had a

988
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 1: setback in his recovery. Barry said there's still gathering information.

989
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: It might be another couple of days. Barry would not

990
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 1: directly answer on whether or not Watson would need another surgery,

991
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: again further information being gathered at a time that the

992
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 1: Browns already were planning to add another quarterback. There was

993
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: also a coaching move made in Jacksonville, where Jaguars coach

994
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 1: Doug Pearson became the fifth head coach fired since the

995
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 1: start of the twenty twenty four season. Spent three years

996
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, got them into the playoffs their first year,

997
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 1: one a wild playoff game with a comeback over the Chargers,

998
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 1: but then things start to come on glued last season

999
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:57,439
Speaker 1: and this year was rough four to thirteen, ten one

1000
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: loss losses, one score. Law This is another injury to

1001
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. Here's why I owner shod concept he made

1002
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 1: this move now.

1003
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:09,800
Speaker 18: As difficult as the location was for both Doug and myself,

1004
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 18: I mean, it's served a reminder of Doug's quality as

1005
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 18: a head coach and a person. There's no doubt in

1006
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 18: my mind that this is the time to make a

1007
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:24,879
Speaker 18: change in the best interests of the football team, community

1008
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:31,359
Speaker 18: and especially our fans. But this decision doesn't erase the

1009
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 18: fact that Doug did a lot of good things here

1010
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 18: in Jacksonville. I have a lot of respect for Doug

1011
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:40,439
Speaker 18: and will always be grateful.

1012
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:40,560
Speaker 7: For his effort.

1013
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: Despite the frame of that video, Trent pal Key is

1014
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 1: not a hostage. He does remain the Jaguars general manager.

1015
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:49,439
Speaker 1: Patriots also making a significant move right after their game

1016
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 1: on Sunday, firing head coach Girod Mayo after just one

1017
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:57,359
Speaker 1: season in New England. This was the hand picked successor

1018
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: to Bill Belichick, who parted ways with the Patriots after

1019
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 1: last season, but Robert Kraft determined that it just was

1020
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: not going to work out for Mayo.

1021
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 11: I'm going to be very brief here and say this

1022
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 11: whole situation is on me. I feel terrible for Girard

1023
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 11: because I put him in an untenable situation. I know

1024
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:29,240
Speaker 11: that he has all the tools as a head coach

1025
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 11: to be successful in this league. He just needed more

1026
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 11: time before taking the job. In the end, I'm a

1027
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 11: fan of this team first, and now I have to

1028
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 11: go out and find a coach who can guess get

1029
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 11: us back to the playoffs and hopefully championships.

1030
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 1: Five head coaching openings right now ranked here according to

1031
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:03,239
Speaker 1: our Judy Batista, with the Chicago Bears at number one,

1032
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: followed by the Patriots, the Jets, the Jaguars, and then

1033
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 1: the Saints.

1034
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,359
Speaker 2: Why the Bears up top? How'd you come to these rankings, Judy?

1035
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 8: Well, it's just one person's rankings. But I put the

1036
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 8: Bears at the top because they do have quite a

1037
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 8: bit of talent on the roster, starting with the quarterback

1038
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 8: Caleb Williams, and because the worst of the rebuild rebuild

1039
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:24,839
Speaker 8: appears to have already been accomplished, which gives a new

1040
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 8: coach the opportunity to come in and get a big

1041
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 8: jump right out of the gate. Certainly, I think there

1042
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 8: are going to be questions about the management structure there.

1043
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 8: Kevin Warren is the president. Ryan Poles is still there

1044
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 8: as the GM, so that's probably going to cause some questions.

1045
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 8: But I do think Caleb Williams is a really attractive

1046
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 8: quarterback for a potential head coach, especially a head coach

1047
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:47,280
Speaker 8: maybe with an offensive background.

1048
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 2: Can I see those rankings again?

1049
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 4: I really haven't had a chance to read Judy's full

1050
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 4: Are you paying attention to the first step comback slide

1051
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:55,240
Speaker 4: for Tizza?

1052
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:01,879
Speaker 2: Yeah? I like it. I may actually put the Jets

1053
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 2: a little bit higher.

1054
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 4: I understand what everybody's thinking with regard to Woody Johnson

1055
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 4: and the articles and the stuff that's come out there.

1056
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 4: But yeah, look it's still a good job for me.

1057
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:12,879
Speaker 4: There's a lot of talent on that Jets roster right there.

1058
00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 4: They have had former coaches including Rex Ryan, who is

1059
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 4: going to interview, as well as Eric Mangini, who's made

1060
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:20,280
Speaker 4: a public clea in Bill.

1061
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:22,280
Speaker 2: Belichick who's made a private plea.

1062
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 4: And if anybody knows the building, it's those guys that

1063
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:27,440
Speaker 4: have been in there before, including Belichick who took a

1064
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 4: shot at Woody Johnson on Monday Night Football and the

1065
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 4: Many cast just a couple of months ago.

1066
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:34,719
Speaker 2: So you know these guys are still interested.

1067
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 7: In coming back.

1068
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 2: That tells you. I'll tell you a couple of things.

1069
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 4: One, there's only thirty two of these things that go around,

1070
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 4: and the other one is that it's still a reasonably

1071
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 4: good job in a good market with a.

1072
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 2: Fan base that's hungry. You get this thing going in

1073
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 2: the right direction.

1074
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 4: Kind of like Rex Ryan did, and he's the last

1075
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 4: one to really have done it, kind of like Rex

1076
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:53,319
Speaker 4: Ryan did for a good period of time, and you

1077
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:55,160
Speaker 4: get that energy flowing in Flora Park.

1078
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 2: It's a good feeling. I've been around there when things

1079
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 2: are going well. It's actually quite fun to be there.

1080
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 3: It's been a little while. It's been a little while

1081
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 3: since that's been going on. I think the Jaguars are

1082
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 3: too low. And look, I know this is all about

1083
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:08,480
Speaker 3: the quarterbacks, and the Bears are number one. The Patriots

1084
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,479
Speaker 3: are up there because of Cale Williams, because of Drake

1085
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 3: May and.

1086
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 7: All of that is true.

1087
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,479
Speaker 3: But it just sometimes takes a little bit to build

1088
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:17,319
Speaker 3: around these quarterbacks. Most it's not always like it was

1089
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:20,440
Speaker 3: for the Commanders this year, for the Houston Texans last year.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes it's about having the infrastructure and a really sound roster,

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Speaker 3: which is why to me, the Jaguars should be higher.

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Speaker 3: First of all, you don't have to deal with the

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Speaker 3: media like you do in New York. Jacksonville media is

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Speaker 3: much different. No offense to the hardworking Jacksonville media members.

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying it's a little different from having people

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Speaker 3: on the fans scream at your face for twenty four

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Speaker 3: hours a day. It's a good roster, and you have

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Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence. The Trevor Lawrence has had an up and

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Speaker 3: down couple of years, but he's got all the talent

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Speaker 3: in the world. He also, by the way, is a

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Speaker 3: former number one overall pick it just feels to me

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Speaker 3: like that is one that you could flip a little

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Speaker 3: bit quicker than maybe the Bears, certainly the Jets, and

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Speaker 3: certainly the Patriots. So that would be quibble outed Hablich

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Speaker 3: with as you say one person's ranking, that person being

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Speaker 3: literally you can I just like.

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Speaker 2: You're all wrong again, dude.

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Speaker 7: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, no, I'm just going to say you're wrong. Let

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00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 8: me just say the reason the Patriots are above the Jets,

1112
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Speaker 8: and it's one reason only because the Jets do have

1113
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Speaker 8: the better roster right now, but it's the quarterback they

1114
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:23,720
Speaker 8: don't have to. And the reason why the Jaguars are

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00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 8: at four is because you are inheriting a general manager,

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00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 8: which we spent a whole lot of time during our

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00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 8: twenty four hours on the air today talking about the

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00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 8: fact that Trent Boute is there and arranged marriages. I

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Speaker 8: disagree in the NFL. Okay, you're wrong my ranking.

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Speaker 2: I love it. I would just expanding the rankings. No, no,

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Speaker 2: he's out. The rankings depend on who you are and

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00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:48,879
Speaker 2: what you want.

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Speaker 4: I've had two assistant coaches today, It's like, hey, can

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Speaker 4: you get my.

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Speaker 2: Name in that Jaguars job?

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Speaker 4: Downe there because some of them want to go down

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00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 4: there and they want to have a little bit more leeway,

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Speaker 4: Like Ian said, they don't want necess the pressure cooker.

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Speaker 2: That would be the New York market. Also, you get

1130
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 2: the chance to live by the beach. It's not bad.

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00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 2: You could do that.

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00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 4: Some people are more interested in that and the lifestyle

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Speaker 4: for the family, depending on how old the kids are

1134
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:14,760
Speaker 4: and whatnot. So it just it varies from person to person,

1135
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 4: and some jobs just aren't.

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00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 2: Meant for some guys. All right, everybody got it out?

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00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:19,680
Speaker 2: Ian got anymore?

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Speaker 1: Is everybody good? Try to read body language? Everybody, you

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Speaker 1: finish here?

1140
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 2: Okay?

1141
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:28,560
Speaker 1: NFL dot com slash Batista or a whole lot more.

1142
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 1: One team that did not change its head coach was

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00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:34,000
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts, but they are making a significant move

1144
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: on the staff. Breaking news tonight, the Colts have parted

1145
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: ways with defensive coordinator Gus Bradley, the former Jaguars head

1146
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:47,720
Speaker 1: coach longtime defensive coordinator previously in Seattle and then in Indianapolis.

1147
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 1: That Colts defense struggled early in the year. They seem

1148
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:52,880
Speaker 1: to figure some things out, but then down the stretch

1149
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: the second half of the Titans game and then that

1150
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 1: abysmal performance against the Giants that knock them out of

1151
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:01,279
Speaker 1: the playoff chase, all leading.

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Speaker 2: Shane steike In to make a change.

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Speaker 1: So Shane Stikeen saying in a statement in party, as

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Speaker 1: a man of great character and I have the utmost

1155
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Speaker 1: respect for him, I felt like we needed to move

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Speaker 1: in a different direction.

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00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:14,440
Speaker 2: Vikings and Lions definitely.

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00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:16,799
Speaker 1: Going the correct direction, at least they were entering this

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00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:19,239
Speaker 1: game fourteen and two versus fourteen and two.

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Speaker 2: It's Donald, it's goff. It's a lot of field goals

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Speaker 2: in the.

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Speaker 1: Early going, but that guy, Jamir Gibbs did a whole

1163
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Speaker 1: lot on his own right into the end zone there.

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00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 1: Yon's taking an early seven to nothing lead. Sam Donold

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00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:35,400
Speaker 1: and Justin Jefferson been one of the best combinations in

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Speaker 1: football through the course of this season. They just didn't

1167
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 1: seem to be on the same page. Ball was coming

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00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 1: out hot on Sam Donald all night. Seemed like there

1169
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,399
Speaker 1: were times he's patting the ball in the pocket, He's

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Speaker 1: overthrowing people. You see another one here the red zone struggles.

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Speaker 1: This one actually on Jefferson a little bit too. You've

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Speaker 1: seen him make that catch so many times. Chris Collins

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00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: were set on the broadcast. Looked like he was thinking

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Speaker 1: about his feet before the catch that you didn't even

1175
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Speaker 1: think about anything other than how far over his head

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Speaker 1: that ball was. Let's fast forward to the third quarter.

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Speaker 1: Here Jared Goff looking for Jamir Gibbs underneath. After again

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Speaker 1: he's series the field. But it was a ten to

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00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:15,520
Speaker 1: nine game at this point. But from this point forward

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Speaker 1: it seemed like things were beginning to break open. Fourth quarter. Now,

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00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:25,240
Speaker 1: next Lions drive. Jamir Gibbs, you guessed it, exploding around

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Speaker 1: the edge. Remember what everybody who was all fired up

1183
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 1: because they took him in the top half of the

1184
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:32,839
Speaker 1: first round. How could they waste those picks? Why didn't

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Speaker 1: you just straight up? This is why Jamir Gibbs does

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00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:40,479
Speaker 1: all this stuff. That's why Sam Darnold again, still trying

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Speaker 1: to get it open. Twenty four to nine late in

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Speaker 1: the game. All season long, Aiden Hutchinson's been doing this,

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Speaker 1: just waving and saying, God give me to the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: So I got a shot to come back. The defense

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Speaker 1: closed it out, and then Jamiir Gibbs, why not get

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Speaker 1: him in the end zone at a fourth time. Lions clinched

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Speaker 1: the number one seed in the NFC for the first

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Speaker 1: time in franchise history.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: Your Detroit Lions get the first round by and the

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Speaker 1: road to Super Bowl fifty nine in New Orleans goes

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Speaker 1: through Detroit. We've almost become numb to this over the

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Speaker 1: past couple of years, the Lions being one of the

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Speaker 1: best teams in football. Is we welcome in our Jeffrey Chedia,

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Speaker 1: welcome back, Mark Ross, here to the show.

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Speaker 2: Jeffrey.

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Speaker 1: I pose this question to you, which this time fourteen

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Speaker 1: teams still alive. Who is your team to win Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl fifty nine.

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Speaker 7: I'm rare with the Buffalo Bills for one simple reason.

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Speaker 19: They beat the top seed in the NFC this year,

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Speaker 19: and they beat the top seed in the AFC this year,

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Speaker 19: and they did a convincing fashion. This is a team

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Speaker 19: that has gone through it's a lot of heartbreak in

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Speaker 19: the postseason.

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Speaker 7: But Josh Allen has been playing like the MVP.

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Speaker 19: They've got thirty rushing touchdowns to thirty passing touchdowns this year,

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Speaker 19: which is a record, and they've got a defense that's

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Speaker 19: playing pretty well. Aside from that Ram game, in that

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Speaker 19: Lions game, I think that people underestimate the fact that

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Speaker 19: they don't turn the ball over, they don't take sacks,

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Speaker 19: their offensive line is pretty good, and they are bought in.

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Speaker 19: I think Mark, when you have the kind of struggles

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Speaker 19: this team's having the playoffs, it can make you harder,

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Speaker 19: and this team is going to be a low when

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Speaker 19: it comes to the postseason.

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Speaker 7: Bills will definitely be in the mix.

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Speaker 10: But I gotta go with two teams in The first

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Speaker 10: is Baltimore And you talked about Josh Allen Plink like

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Speaker 10: the MVP, well, the actual MVP Lamar Jackson, who had

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Speaker 10: set up historic that was on a historic tear this year.

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Speaker 10: When the Ravens are at their best, I think they're

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Speaker 10: the best team in football. And they beat the Bills

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Speaker 10: by the way, and the Chargers and the Broncos, and we're.

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Speaker 7: A toe away from beating the Chiefs.

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Speaker 10: So at their best they can beat anybody and really

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Speaker 10: roll anybody. The defense has straightened themselves out over the

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Speaker 10: second half of the season. Justin Tucker has straightened himself out,

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Speaker 10: and we know what the offense with King Henry and

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Speaker 10: Lamar Jackson can do once they get going. So I

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Speaker 10: picked the Ravens preseason to win it. Mid season will

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Speaker 10: win it. And I'm sticking with them. So the other

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Speaker 10: team is the team we just highlighted a bunch and

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00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 10: saw last night was those Detroit Lions, who at their

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00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:11,120
Speaker 10: best on offense cannot be stopped. And really it's an

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Speaker 10: avalanche of talent and playmakers that they have at their

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Speaker 10: disposal to go along with outstanding playmaking for the Lions,

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Speaker 10: and for most of the season, really I thought the

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Speaker 10: standard for Aaron Glenn and that defense, even though they're scrappy,

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Speaker 10: despite losing bodies or two every single week, was just

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Speaker 10: hold the other team to twenty five points, you're going

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Speaker 10: to win the game. Well, when he can put together

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Speaker 10: a master class Aaron Glenn like he did last night,

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Speaker 10: how in the world do you beat the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 10: It was it was very close for a while, and

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Speaker 10: all of a sudden, put that avalanche on Aaron Glenna,

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Speaker 10: that defense and masterclapt to go to offense.

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Speaker 7: Those two teams in the Super Bowl, it'll be a classic.

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Speaker 10: You're putting Thomas who's oh the Chiefs somewhere somewhere.

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Speaker 1: This is going to be playing in the Chiefs locker room.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be in the stadium. It's the two

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Speaker 1: of you that's picking everybody else besides the two time champions.

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Speaker 1: All the fun gets going this weekend. Kickoff on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: Wild Card Weekend. Jeffrey Mark, thank you very much. Coming

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Speaker 1: up after this, we're reviewing one of those games Raven Steelers.

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Speaker 1: You've seen that one before. You've seen Lamar Jackson make

1263
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Speaker 1: a turnaround Steph Curry like away from the basket move

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01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:26,240
Speaker 1: as well. Bridge of Condon. Mark Ross going to be

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Speaker 1: here to talk about that game. A little bit later

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Speaker 1: on in the show, Tyreek Hill had some interesting comments

1267
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Speaker 1: following the game and after sitting out the end of

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Speaker 1: the Dolphin season finale, is it really peace out for

1269
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Speaker 1: the Cheetah in South Beach. We'll discuss it with Cameron

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Speaker 1: Wolf stick around and see insiders.

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Speaker 4: Raven's wide receiver Zay Flowers got injured in a weird

1272
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Speaker 4: play on Saturday night. We're going to see it here

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Speaker 4: Saturday evening. We'll call it John Harball shaying it's not

1274
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:01,080
Speaker 4: a season ending injury and then going and say he's

1275
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Speaker 4: day to day and we'll do everything we can to

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Speaker 4: get him back as soon as we can against the

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Speaker 4: Pittsburgh Steelers potentially this coming weekend.

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Speaker 2: Bridget go hold on before we get there.

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Speaker 4: Let me tell you when Steelers Ravens is going to

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Speaker 4: be played, we can catch a coverage beginning at seven thirty.

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Speaker 2: Pm Eastern only on Prime Video.

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Speaker 4: That's right, your Thursday night football provider is going to

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Speaker 4: be your wild card provider for this game. Here's Bridget

1284
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 4: Condon back with us is Mark Ross as well. Bridget,

1285
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Speaker 4: Let's talk about this Steelers offense that was looking so

1286
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:35,040
Speaker 4: good and cooking.

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Speaker 2: Earlier this year with Russ at the helm and now

1288
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 2: needing some kind of something to get going here.

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Speaker 20: Definitely something. Mike I was at that game Saturday night

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Speaker 20: against the Bengals. They had an opportunity to win this game.

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Speaker 20: All they needed was a field goal late and couldn't

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01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 20: come up with a first down. Russell Wilson just kind

1293
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Speaker 20: of stalled there at the end. Receivers weren't helping him either.

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Speaker 20: Tomlin says, they just haven't had enough routine plays, done

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Speaker 20: enough routine things to get the ball moving. One thing

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Speaker 20: they need to do besides convert on third down, they

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Speaker 20: got to get George Pickens going. You know that he

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Speaker 20: is a momentum boost for this team. He had zero

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Speaker 20: yards in that game, one catch, six targets, three drops.

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Speaker 20: Wilson was still praising him. When he talked postgame about

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Speaker 20: George Pickens, he said, he's going to be a star

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Speaker 20: in the playoffs.

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Speaker 8: He believes in him.

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Speaker 20: And remember he was dealing with the hamstring injury earlier

1305
01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 20: in the season, and he kind of believes that maybe

1306
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 20: that is the reason why he hasn't gotten as hot

1307
01:02:24,560 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 20: as they'd seen him way when they were on that

1308
01:02:27,640 --> 01:02:29,680
Speaker 20: long winning stretch. But they got to find a way

1309
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:31,320
Speaker 20: to get this offense going and they have to do

1310
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:33,840
Speaker 20: it quickly. But Mike Tomlin spoke to the medium today

1311
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:36,920
Speaker 20: media today and he said, look, all we're doing is

1312
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:40,480
Speaker 20: looking forward for zero zero. We entered the playoffs zero zero,

1313
01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:43,080
Speaker 20: just like any other team. We can't worry about what happened,

1314
01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:45,600
Speaker 20: Russell Wilson saying they got to play with amnesia and

1315
01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:49,440
Speaker 20: that's their focus to try to get back hopefully continue

1316
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 20: on their season come Saturday.

1317
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:53,800
Speaker 10: Russell Wilson said, can't live in the past, even though

1318
01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:55,800
Speaker 10: he just was on the podium right after the game.

1319
01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:59,320
Speaker 10: But you know, for the unfortunately for Steelers Nation, heres

1320
01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:01,640
Speaker 10: like the annual right a passage now or they're kind

1321
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:04,479
Speaker 10: of falling apart towards the end of the season, and yes,

1322
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:07,400
Speaker 10: it seems like a lifetime ago when the Steelers actually

1323
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:10,840
Speaker 10: beat the Ravens and you know, now it's the offense

1324
01:03:10,880 --> 01:03:12,880
Speaker 10: can't produce because number one, they can't run the ball.

1325
01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:16,880
Speaker 10: And then Russell Wilson really isn't a precision playmaker of

1326
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:19,560
Speaker 10: being consistent throwing. It's all about feast or famine with

1327
01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:21,560
Speaker 10: the deep ball. Well, now you get the injury to

1328
01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:24,520
Speaker 10: Pickens and who knows mentally where he was because that

1329
01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:26,480
Speaker 10: was one of the worst performances I saved from a

1330
01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:29,080
Speaker 10: wide receiver, you know, in a big game the other day.

1331
01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:31,440
Speaker 10: So if the Ravens know this and they're going to

1332
01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:33,920
Speaker 10: attack that for sure, and attack Pickens for sure, and

1333
01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 10: say beat us in some other ways, and does Russell Wilson,

1334
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:39,320
Speaker 10: does that offense have anything else to really attack the

1335
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:42,240
Speaker 10: Ravens d who has been playing so well and just

1336
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:45,000
Speaker 10: got off the segment talking about Super Bowl favorites and

1337
01:03:45,080 --> 01:03:47,720
Speaker 10: the Ravens are just playing with such confidence now on

1338
01:03:47,880 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 10: both sides of the ball. For most of the season,

1339
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:53,040
Speaker 10: the offense has the carry the team while the defense

1340
01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:54,919
Speaker 10: was figuring it out. Well, now it seems as if

1341
01:03:55,160 --> 01:03:57,880
Speaker 10: the defense has figured it out and playing at a

1342
01:03:57,960 --> 01:04:00,840
Speaker 10: high level. Justin Tucker has figured it out. So I

1343
01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:03,320
Speaker 10: think the Ravens really are a prime to make this

1344
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:05,280
Speaker 10: even a better, a more of a helpmit of what

1345
01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 10: the last game was. Now things could change, but this

1346
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:10,080
Speaker 10: just seems like one of those matchups now where the

1347
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:12,680
Speaker 10: Ravens are on the up swing and the Steelers are

1348
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:13,400
Speaker 10: on the down swing.

1349
01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:16,720
Speaker 4: Mike, Yeah, and you've got Russell Wilson, who's not making

1350
01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:20,480
Speaker 4: the sharpest of decisions lately now going up against the

1351
01:04:20,560 --> 01:04:23,480
Speaker 4: Ravens defense. That's gonna pressure him into making some quick

1352
01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:25,880
Speaker 4: decisions here. And we saw the mistake that he made

1353
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago against that team with Marlon Humphrey.

1354
01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:33,040
Speaker 4: So you gotta be on your Mark Rush like he

1355
01:04:33,080 --> 01:04:35,440
Speaker 4: hasn't been recently. He's got to be better than I'm

1356
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:37,520
Speaker 4: talking right now, is basically what I'm saying. And he

1357
01:04:37,600 --> 01:04:40,920
Speaker 4: also has to be wary of Michael Pierce dropping in

1358
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:43,640
Speaker 4: the coverage all three hundred and like fifty pounds of

1359
01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:45,960
Speaker 4: Michael Pierce, because he will interced We'll take it back

1360
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:48,080
Speaker 4: to the house, but he will intercept the ball. Bridget Connon,

1361
01:04:48,120 --> 01:04:51,200
Speaker 4: thank you very much, Mark Ross, thank you as well.

1362
01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:53,480
Speaker 4: It was just a short couple of years ago, Tyreek

1363
01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:56,800
Speaker 4: Hill was celebrating with his agent's shirtless after getting traded

1364
01:04:56,840 --> 01:04:58,600
Speaker 4: from the Chiefs to the Dolphins.

1365
01:04:58,640 --> 01:04:59,920
Speaker 2: He was so happy back then.

1366
01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:03,840
Speaker 4: Now looking to be happy headed somewhere else, saying he's out.

1367
01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:04,440
Speaker 2: We'll talk about it.

1368
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:11,080
Speaker 4: Coming up next on the Insadires.

1369
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:15,600
Speaker 1: The head coaching interview requests continue to roll in. Here's

1370
01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:18,760
Speaker 1: an interesting one. The Bears, according to our ian rapport I,

1371
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:22,320
Speaker 1: requested to interview former Stanford head coach currently with the

1372
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:26,240
Speaker 1: Broncos in the front office, David Shaw, for their vacant

1373
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:31,000
Speaker 1: head coaching position. It is only virtual interviews for the

1374
01:05:31,040 --> 01:05:33,520
Speaker 1: next couple of weeks. Broncos are in the playoffs, which

1375
01:05:33,520 --> 01:05:35,800
Speaker 1: would be in any virtual interview for Shaw would have

1376
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:39,800
Speaker 1: to wait until next week. The Las Vegas Raiders, as

1377
01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:44,080
Speaker 1: of now, do not have a head coaching vacancy, despite

1378
01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:47,560
Speaker 1: a four and thirteen season that included a roughly three

1379
01:05:47,640 --> 01:05:50,240
Speaker 1: month long losing streak. It would help if you could

1380
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:52,760
Speaker 1: snap the ball and the quarterback didn't get hit in

1381
01:05:52,840 --> 01:05:55,240
Speaker 1: the chin by it. That was not necessarily eight O'Connell's

1382
01:05:55,240 --> 01:05:59,280
Speaker 1: fault there, but quarterback plays certainly part of the issue.

1383
01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:02,600
Speaker 1: Here's what Piers wearing the best jacket I've seen any

1384
01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:04,960
Speaker 1: coach wear this season, had to say about his future

1385
01:06:05,960 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 1: to anything different.

1386
01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:10,560
Speaker 2: Do you want to get that cleared out?

1387
01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:14,320
Speaker 10: It's only coming from outside, not inside of the building,

1388
01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:16,280
Speaker 10: So to me, there's nothing clean up ntil I hear

1389
01:06:16,320 --> 01:06:17,120
Speaker 10: from inside of the building.

1390
01:06:17,680 --> 01:06:20,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, In like nineteen ninety four, that starter jacket would

1391
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:22,680
Speaker 1: have been my absolute dream.

1392
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 2: I would always hold like, don't wear the Raiders one.

1393
01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:27,320
Speaker 1: Because it was kind of bad then, but like there

1394
01:06:27,320 --> 01:06:28,840
Speaker 1: were a lot of people like that Surgey, like that

1395
01:06:28,920 --> 01:06:29,720
Speaker 1: exact style.

1396
01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:30,560
Speaker 2: I had one.

1397
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:34,080
Speaker 1: It was an Arkansas one for reasons that aren't entirely clear.

1398
01:06:34,120 --> 01:06:37,960
Speaker 2: I wasn't just looking art, but that is right there, Wisconsin. Yes,

1399
01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:41,560
Speaker 2: that is a very it's a very. Why is that?

1400
01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:45,040
Speaker 3: I think that Celtics storms, and then I think the

1401
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:47,560
Speaker 3: Charlotte Hornets one was I think pretty popular as well.

1402
01:06:47,560 --> 01:06:49,160
Speaker 3: But I'm pretty sure I had a Celtics one if

1403
01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 3: I remember that specific style you.

1404
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:51,920
Speaker 2: Could not get.

1405
01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:54,240
Speaker 1: You could not get the Charlotte Hornets, one of the

1406
01:06:54,320 --> 01:06:58,080
Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls one anywhere. Why did we all have jackets

1407
01:06:58,280 --> 01:07:01,280
Speaker 1: for teams that were nowhere nearest? That was part of

1408
01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:04,040
Speaker 1: the thing too. You couldn't wear one team to play

1409
01:07:04,080 --> 01:07:07,240
Speaker 1: where you live. That would indeed make you a door ian.

1410
01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:11,040
Speaker 1: Antonio Piers still the Raiders coach, as he said, as

1411
01:07:11,080 --> 01:07:13,640
Speaker 1: of now, there's not been told otherwise where do we

1412
01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:14,440
Speaker 1: stay in Vegas?

1413
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:16,720
Speaker 7: It is also just go back to the jacket thing.

1414
01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:19,680
Speaker 3: It's hilarious that we're all talking about wearing these jackets

1415
01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:21,920
Speaker 3: that we no doubt looks like a bunch of complete dorks.

1416
01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:24,160
Speaker 3: And he looks very cool up there staying there in

1417
01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:26,320
Speaker 3: that Raiders, which is like when you're like, you know,

1418
01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:29,640
Speaker 3: thirteen year old Ian wearing the like Celtics starter. All

1419
01:07:29,680 --> 01:07:32,280
Speaker 3: I wanted was to look like a freaking boss like

1420
01:07:32,320 --> 01:07:33,640
Speaker 3: Antonio Piers.

1421
01:07:33,560 --> 01:07:34,600
Speaker 2: And it just it was.

1422
01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:36,760
Speaker 3: It was just never to be, guys, it was just

1423
01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:40,720
Speaker 3: never to be anyway. Yeah, so anyway, sorry, so it

1424
01:07:40,880 --> 01:07:44,280
Speaker 3: dies of peer. That is true, though I'm not anymore.

1425
01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:45,640
Speaker 2: Peers is still the coach.

1426
01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:48,160
Speaker 1: You go to the next thing, now, Okay, Peers is

1427
01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:48,880
Speaker 1: still the coach.

1428
01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:51,320
Speaker 3: No, I mean, that's truly it. Piers is still the coach.

1429
01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:54,480
Speaker 3: He's up there wearing that cool jacket. If things continue

1430
01:07:54,520 --> 01:07:57,640
Speaker 3: this way, and you know, to me, you watch the

1431
01:07:57,680 --> 01:07:59,000
Speaker 3: players play, you talk.

1432
01:07:58,840 --> 01:07:59,840
Speaker 7: To people, work with him.

1433
01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:02,600
Speaker 3: There's some early Dan Campbell vibes here, just because how

1434
01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:05,600
Speaker 3: terrible the team is, but how absolutely hard they play,

1435
01:08:05,640 --> 01:08:08,400
Speaker 3: and how young this roster is. I mean, Tom Tells

1436
01:08:08,480 --> 01:08:11,320
Speaker 3: goes draft class really really good, and all these dudes

1437
01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:14,240
Speaker 3: we're out there playing having no earthly idea what they're doing,

1438
01:08:14,480 --> 01:08:16,559
Speaker 3: but still somehow getting on a couple of wins.

1439
01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:19,000
Speaker 2: As it remains as it stands.

1440
01:08:18,800 --> 01:08:20,679
Speaker 3: Right now, he is still the coach, and it certainly

1441
01:08:20,840 --> 01:08:24,080
Speaker 3: seems like that's the direction that's going, though Mark Davis

1442
01:08:24,080 --> 01:08:26,200
Speaker 3: says yet to come out and say officially, as we've

1443
01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 3: seen some other teams do.

1444
01:08:27,560 --> 01:08:30,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm thinking of us wearing starter jackets right now.

1445
01:08:30,120 --> 01:08:31,920
Speaker 4: And I steal the line from pulp Fiction, one of

1446
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:34,759
Speaker 4: the ones I can quote here. What do they look like, Jimmy,

1447
01:08:35,320 --> 01:08:40,040
Speaker 4: A couple of dorks. But in regard to the jacket,

1448
01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:42,200
Speaker 4: I do think that there's a message behind the jacket.

1449
01:08:42,240 --> 01:08:45,400
Speaker 4: I do because Antonio Pearson his press conference was talking

1450
01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:47,679
Speaker 4: about trusting his gut a little bit more.

1451
01:08:47,880 --> 01:08:49,920
Speaker 2: I think he got away from some of the things

1452
01:08:49,960 --> 01:08:51,679
Speaker 2: that made him successful as an interim coach.

1453
01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:53,519
Speaker 4: You know, he came in there guns a blazing, right

1454
01:08:53,560 --> 01:08:56,680
Speaker 4: like just I'm gonna be Antonio Pierce, the guy who

1455
01:08:56,680 --> 01:08:59,000
Speaker 4: wore the Raiders jacket growing up, the guy who was

1456
01:08:59,040 --> 01:09:01,040
Speaker 4: with you know NW way he talked about in his

1457
01:09:01,240 --> 01:09:03,760
Speaker 4: press conference when he got the interim job, you know,

1458
01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:06,040
Speaker 4: growing up with those guys. So I think he wants

1459
01:09:06,040 --> 01:09:07,680
Speaker 4: to get back to a little bit more of that.

1460
01:09:07,800 --> 01:09:10,920
Speaker 4: As a head coach, sometimes you're pressured into not necessarily

1461
01:09:10,960 --> 01:09:13,439
Speaker 4: being yourself, and he talked about times he didn't trust

1462
01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:14,800
Speaker 4: his gut. This past year he was going to try

1463
01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:16,519
Speaker 4: to do that. So I think there was It wasn't

1464
01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:18,200
Speaker 4: just a fashion thing. I think there was a message

1465
01:09:18,200 --> 01:09:19,160
Speaker 4: behind that coat today.

1466
01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:21,840
Speaker 1: So anyway, back to the Arkansas starter jacket, I just

1467
01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:25,599
Speaker 1: found one on eBay. It's one hundred and seventy ninety nine.

1468
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:28,680
Speaker 1: I'm really debating it I expense it. I'm pretty sure

1469
01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:31,240
Speaker 1: I can fit expense. It's it's a good it's a

1470
01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:34,839
Speaker 1: good looking jacket. It's got the big old Razorback past year.

1471
01:09:35,479 --> 01:09:41,520
Speaker 3: Corlis Williams that team Scotty Corliss was James Nolan Richardson's

1472
01:09:41,640 --> 01:09:42,519
Speaker 3: Arkansas teams.

1473
01:09:42,520 --> 01:09:45,160
Speaker 2: They were very popular. I had the hat and the

1474
01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:46,640
Speaker 2: whole thing. Anyway, won't get back to.

1475
01:09:51,400 --> 01:09:55,040
Speaker 1: Ian looks like the worst member of Kiss right there.

1476
01:09:55,160 --> 01:09:57,080
Speaker 1: That's what he looks like, you know, when they like

1477
01:09:57,120 --> 01:09:59,160
Speaker 1: when he lose a's freely for a.

1478
01:09:59,200 --> 01:10:01,439
Speaker 2: While and he's got somebody else. What do you think

1479
01:10:02,080 --> 01:10:07,040
Speaker 2: we just him pain in his face? Oh god, Okay,

1480
01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:10,479
Speaker 2: what happens when we're on TV for eight hours straight?

1481
01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:13,200
Speaker 2: This stuff like this is going to happen. Come back

1482
01:10:13,240 --> 01:10:15,360
Speaker 2: for free agent. This is eleven and a half Mike,

1483
01:10:15,600 --> 01:10:16,400
Speaker 2: you've lost Trek.

1484
01:10:16,400 --> 01:10:20,679
Speaker 1: We've been on EV for eleven and a half hours today. Okay,

1485
01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:22,800
Speaker 1: let's get let's get back to some actual news. The

1486
01:10:22,840 --> 01:10:26,719
Speaker 1: Colts now making changes at the top. Oder Jim Ursa

1487
01:10:26,920 --> 01:10:30,240
Speaker 1: made that clear in a statement last night. Despite a

1488
01:10:30,280 --> 01:10:34,200
Speaker 1: disappointing season for Indianapolis in which they missed the playoffs.

1489
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:37,799
Speaker 1: The Colts are bringing back Shane Stikeen and Chris Ballad

1490
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:40,640
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four, though they did announce just a

1491
01:10:40,720 --> 01:10:45,360
Speaker 1: short time ago new Tonight defensive coordinator Gus Bradley will

1492
01:10:45,439 --> 01:10:46,000
Speaker 1: not return.

1493
01:10:46,160 --> 01:10:49,839
Speaker 8: Judy Well, it was a disappointing season for the Miami Dolphins.

1494
01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:52,120
Speaker 8: By the way, I had a pair of Miami Dolphins

1495
01:10:52,200 --> 01:10:54,720
Speaker 8: zoobos at one point, just to catch up with you

1496
01:10:54,720 --> 01:10:57,920
Speaker 8: guys in the starter jacket. Very disappointing season also for

1497
01:10:58,080 --> 01:11:01,320
Speaker 8: Tyreek Hill, who finished with under one thousand yards. And

1498
01:11:01,360 --> 01:11:03,720
Speaker 8: then Tyreek after the game had an awful lot of

1499
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:07,280
Speaker 8: interesting things to say about his future in Miami.

1500
01:11:07,800 --> 01:11:11,639
Speaker 21: I'm out, well, you know, so it was great playing Hill,

1501
01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:14,320
Speaker 21: but you know, at the end of the day, Bro,

1502
01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:16,680
Speaker 21: I got to do what's best for you know, for

1503
01:11:17,040 --> 01:11:20,840
Speaker 21: for my career, and you know what's best because I'm

1504
01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:23,680
Speaker 21: too much of a competitor to be you know, just

1505
01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:27,160
Speaker 21: just out there leaving.

1506
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:36,960
Speaker 8: A Yeah, yets who boy cham Wolf joining us now

1507
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:39,439
Speaker 8: to talk about this. There was an awful lot of

1508
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:42,000
Speaker 8: use of the past tense there by Tyreek Hill. What

1509
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:43,280
Speaker 8: on earth is going on there?

1510
01:11:43,360 --> 01:11:44,360
Speaker 2: Cam Judy.

1511
01:11:44,439 --> 01:11:46,360
Speaker 12: The first text I got from a Dolphins player today

1512
01:11:46,439 --> 01:11:48,360
Speaker 12: and regarding this was s MH.

1513
01:11:48,479 --> 01:11:49,719
Speaker 7: Tyreek being Tyreek.

1514
01:11:50,840 --> 01:11:51,760
Speaker 2: They've seen this a lot.

1515
01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:54,160
Speaker 12: Tyreek Hill has a way of finding his way into

1516
01:11:54,240 --> 01:11:57,400
Speaker 12: the headlines, but this one seems more serious than most.

1517
01:11:57,400 --> 01:12:01,120
Speaker 12: He's obviously saying, I'm out, bro talking about traded. We

1518
01:12:01,160 --> 01:12:02,960
Speaker 12: all saw last time he did that, he got traded

1519
01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:05,360
Speaker 12: from the Chiefs. But this has definitely created a lot

1520
01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:08,479
Speaker 12: of waves inside the Dolphins building, inside the locker room,

1521
01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:11,400
Speaker 12: I'm told he was in the building today doing exit

1522
01:12:11,439 --> 01:12:13,160
Speaker 12: meetings with coach Mike McDaniel.

1523
01:12:13,240 --> 01:12:15,840
Speaker 2: He didn't talk to the media. I reached out to

1524
01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:16,760
Speaker 2: his representation.

1525
01:12:17,080 --> 01:12:19,120
Speaker 12: They don't have anything to say at this time, no

1526
01:12:19,160 --> 01:12:22,040
Speaker 12: formal statement or trade request. So right now we're going

1527
01:12:22,120 --> 01:12:24,280
Speaker 12: to see how this evolves over the next couple of days.

1528
01:12:24,479 --> 01:12:27,160
Speaker 12: Mike McDaniel addressed it after the game, saying he's not

1529
01:12:27,200 --> 01:12:30,200
Speaker 12: gonna let maybe an emotional, frustrated statement sort of be

1530
01:12:30,240 --> 01:12:32,920
Speaker 12: the end all be all. But look, I was in

1531
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:35,599
Speaker 12: training camp interviewing Tyreek Hill in July when he said

1532
01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:38,479
Speaker 12: he wanted to be a Dolphin for life, right before

1533
01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:41,040
Speaker 12: he signed a new contract that gave him sixty five

1534
01:12:41,080 --> 01:12:44,000
Speaker 12: million dollars in guarantees this offseason, and so when he

1535
01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:46,240
Speaker 12: got traded from the Chiefs, money was the issue. He

1536
01:12:46,439 --> 01:12:49,800
Speaker 12: just got paid. Obviously, Tua got heard and they didn't

1537
01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:52,759
Speaker 12: make the playoffs. But there's some thought here that Tyreek

1538
01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:57,800
Speaker 12: is going about his Tyreek ways, including trolling, putting Antonio

1539
01:12:57,840 --> 01:13:02,040
Speaker 12: brown body on his head on his profile picture today.

1540
01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:04,840
Speaker 12: But maybe the more alarming thing, Judy, from people I

1541
01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:07,320
Speaker 12: talked to in the building is this fourth quarter of

1542
01:13:07,360 --> 01:13:10,400
Speaker 12: this past game, he decided to pull himself out. He

1543
01:13:10,520 --> 01:13:13,800
Speaker 12: talked in that interview earlier saying that essentially he looked

1544
01:13:13,840 --> 01:13:16,280
Speaker 12: up and saw the Broncos chief score, knew that he

1545
01:13:16,360 --> 01:13:19,360
Speaker 12: was eliminated, they were eliminated, and didn't want to be

1546
01:13:19,360 --> 01:13:21,320
Speaker 12: out there for the vibes. And so there's a lot

1547
01:13:21,320 --> 01:13:24,560
Speaker 12: of talk over the last couple of days about discipline, accountability.

1548
01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:26,920
Speaker 12: He's a team captain. That type of thing is not

1549
01:13:27,040 --> 01:13:29,160
Speaker 12: flying overwell with a lot of people in that building.

1550
01:13:29,520 --> 01:13:33,679
Speaker 8: Awful lot on Mike McDaniel's plate to handle. But Steven Ross,

1551
01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:36,200
Speaker 8: the team owner, announced that Mike McDaniel and Chris Greer,

1552
01:13:36,240 --> 01:13:39,599
Speaker 8: the general manager, will both return. Why do you think

1553
01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:40,839
Speaker 8: he went that way, Cam.

1554
01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:43,120
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think that he's going to give this group

1555
01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:45,320
Speaker 12: a little bit of grace. Obviously, we saw two of

1556
01:13:45,439 --> 01:13:49,240
Speaker 12: mixed six games with injuries, various different injuries, and this

1557
01:13:49,360 --> 01:13:51,439
Speaker 12: was a team that finished eight and nine. But I

1558
01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:54,759
Speaker 12: think they're in that statement. It's clear that them keeping

1559
01:13:54,800 --> 01:13:57,200
Speaker 12: them is not meaning that a status quo. I very

1560
01:13:57,320 --> 01:13:59,439
Speaker 12: much believe this is Hey, you're on the clock. We've

1561
01:13:59,439 --> 01:14:01,960
Speaker 12: got to see something different. And I'm told that Mike

1562
01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:05,120
Speaker 12: McDaniel had meetings with the team today and took some accountabilities,

1563
01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:06,600
Speaker 12: saying I got to be better as a coach, I

1564
01:14:06,600 --> 01:14:08,360
Speaker 12: got to be better as a leader. And some of

1565
01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:10,240
Speaker 12: it comes in the thing we were just talking about

1566
01:14:10,240 --> 01:14:12,960
Speaker 12: with Tyreek Hill. How does he discipline the team, how

1567
01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:15,439
Speaker 12: does it handle the personalities. This is a team that

1568
01:14:15,479 --> 01:14:18,040
Speaker 12: has taken on a lot of star power with your

1569
01:14:18,080 --> 01:14:21,160
Speaker 12: Tyreek Hills, your Jayalen Ramseys, guys like that, and you

1570
01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:24,680
Speaker 12: need that head coach not just to uplift you positively,

1571
01:14:24,760 --> 01:14:27,120
Speaker 12: but also be able to discipline you when you have

1572
01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:30,160
Speaker 12: things like Tyreek did this past week, and so eager

1573
01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:32,280
Speaker 12: to see how they evolve and how they build this

1574
01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:35,240
Speaker 12: team going forward. They really struggled into the trenches, struggled

1575
01:14:35,240 --> 01:14:37,800
Speaker 12: in cold weather against playoff teams. They got to get bigger,

1576
01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:39,720
Speaker 12: they got to get more physical and tougher, and it's

1577
01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:41,120
Speaker 12: going to be a big off season to see how

1578
01:14:41,200 --> 01:14:42,719
Speaker 12: this Dolphins team changes.

1579
01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:45,680
Speaker 8: Really felt like this year started with the Dolphins. We

1580
01:14:45,720 --> 01:14:48,000
Speaker 8: thought the Dolphins were an ascending team and it didn't

1581
01:14:48,040 --> 01:14:52,040
Speaker 8: turn out that way. Very interesting and important offseason for

1582
01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:55,040
Speaker 8: the Miami Dolphins. Camp Wolf, thank you very much. And

1583
01:14:55,120 --> 01:14:57,599
Speaker 8: when we return on the Insiders, We're going to finally

1584
01:14:57,680 --> 01:14:59,920
Speaker 8: turn the page and look ahead to a Wildcard weekend.

1585
01:15:00,360 --> 01:15:03,040
Speaker 8: The Green Bay Packers got an injury scare here with

1586
01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:06,439
Speaker 8: Jordan Love. We will talk more about Jordan Love's condition,

1587
01:15:06,840 --> 01:15:09,600
Speaker 8: shaking out that hand and all the rest of the

1588
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:13,560
Speaker 8: wildcard action when we return on the Insiders.

1589
01:15:18,680 --> 01:15:22,880
Speaker 1: Wild Card weekend is almost here and it is a

1590
01:15:23,040 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 1: doozy of a schedule.

1591
01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:28,800
Speaker 2: Six games? Is that Super Wildcard Weekend anymore? Did we

1592
01:15:28,840 --> 01:15:29,160
Speaker 2: give up?

1593
01:15:29,160 --> 01:15:31,200
Speaker 1: Are we back to Wildcard Weekend? I actually go check

1594
01:15:31,240 --> 01:15:34,960
Speaker 1: the Brandy on that. Maybe Travis in the social team

1595
01:15:34,960 --> 01:15:38,519
Speaker 1: can get to work on that. What's your go to game?

1596
01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:38,720
Speaker 5: Here?

1597
01:15:38,800 --> 01:15:40,120
Speaker 2: Ian? That jumps out of you?

1598
01:15:40,800 --> 01:15:43,559
Speaker 3: I actually was also wondering why it's not Supercard Super

1599
01:15:43,560 --> 01:15:45,840
Speaker 3: wild Card Weekend anymore. Maybe because the letters are so

1600
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:47,840
Speaker 3: big they just didn't have enough space. Not all the

1601
01:15:47,880 --> 01:15:51,519
Speaker 3: letters are big, just like the D is like war Anyway.

1602
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:54,960
Speaker 3: I want to talk about the Houston Texans, and I

1603
01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:55,759
Speaker 3: know that everybody.

1604
01:15:55,760 --> 01:15:56,519
Speaker 7: I mean, look at the D.

1605
01:15:56,640 --> 01:15:58,400
Speaker 3: The D is enormous. The D and the L are

1606
01:15:58,400 --> 01:16:00,559
Speaker 3: both enormous. Anyway, I want to talk of the Houston

1607
01:16:00,600 --> 01:16:01,280
Speaker 3: Texans and the.

1608
01:16:03,120 --> 01:16:07,719
Speaker 2: Other day keep going, Please keep move on, please, I.

1609
01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:13,559
Speaker 3: Bet fine, there's nothing here, Please move on anyway, I'm fine, anyway.

1610
01:16:13,640 --> 01:16:15,280
Speaker 3: I want to talk about the Houston textions and.

1611
01:16:17,439 --> 01:16:18,400
Speaker 7: About the Texans.

1612
01:16:18,840 --> 01:16:22,519
Speaker 3: Everyone says, sort of laugh about the Texans getting the

1613
01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:25,280
Speaker 3: Saturday early game. It's kind of the Texans side, and

1614
01:16:25,280 --> 01:16:27,280
Speaker 3: everyone sort of assumes that they're going to come out

1615
01:16:27,320 --> 01:16:29,800
Speaker 3: and lose. And I know that the Texans have looked

1616
01:16:29,880 --> 01:16:33,519
Speaker 3: uneven this year, but if there's one perfect opportunity for

1617
01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:37,800
Speaker 3: them to give everybody the metaphorical middle digit, this would

1618
01:16:37,800 --> 01:16:40,000
Speaker 3: be it, right. I mean, the charges are good, but

1619
01:16:40,040 --> 01:16:43,320
Speaker 3: surely the Texans have been just as good. The Texans

1620
01:16:43,320 --> 01:16:44,960
Speaker 3: have been a little uneven offensively.

1621
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:45,240
Speaker 7: CJ.

1622
01:16:45,320 --> 01:16:48,240
Speaker 3: Strout has been too many interceptions for anyone's liking. But

1623
01:16:48,280 --> 01:16:51,800
Speaker 3: the talent for sure is there is a perfect opportunity

1624
01:16:51,960 --> 01:16:53,479
Speaker 3: for the Texans to come out and get a win

1625
01:16:53,560 --> 01:16:55,960
Speaker 3: that absolutely no one expects them to get.

1626
01:16:56,400 --> 01:16:57,160
Speaker 2: Mike, what do you got?

1627
01:16:57,400 --> 01:16:59,880
Speaker 4: I'm looking at the Eagles and the please don't show

1628
01:16:59,920 --> 01:17:02,360
Speaker 4: the graphic again, looking at the Eagles and the Packers,

1629
01:17:02,560 --> 01:17:04,599
Speaker 4: which I did call it Super wild Card Weekend.

1630
01:17:04,840 --> 01:17:05,840
Speaker 2: I didn't get the memo.

1631
01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:08,880
Speaker 4: Yesterday I tweeted super wild Card Weekend, and then everybody else,

1632
01:17:09,040 --> 01:17:11,880
Speaker 4: including the official NFL folks, were all tweeting just wild card.

1633
01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:14,160
Speaker 2: Nobody sent me the memo. Get a lot of memos,

1634
01:17:14,240 --> 01:17:18,800
Speaker 2: didn't get that one. Yeah, so uh, Eagles Packers.

1635
01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:20,519
Speaker 4: Nick Sirianni is saying today Jalen Hurts is still in

1636
01:17:20,520 --> 01:17:21,120
Speaker 4: the protocol.

1637
01:17:22,360 --> 01:17:23,880
Speaker 2: It's a little bit of gamesmanship.

1638
01:17:23,920 --> 01:17:24,160
Speaker 7: Okay.

1639
01:17:24,160 --> 01:17:27,120
Speaker 4: He from my understanding, he was almost attending the last

1640
01:17:27,160 --> 01:17:29,559
Speaker 4: couple of games, but the Eagles have a policy that

1641
01:17:29,720 --> 01:17:32,040
Speaker 4: players who are going through concussions just stay home, so.

1642
01:17:32,560 --> 01:17:34,800
Speaker 2: He has been feeling okay. I think it's just a

1643
01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:37,800
Speaker 2: matter of Sirianni saying, well, first of all, he didn't

1644
01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:38,479
Speaker 2: talk injuries.

1645
01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:40,120
Speaker 4: He went on this whole rant I think it was

1646
01:17:40,120 --> 01:17:42,080
Speaker 4: like a year or two ago where he basically explained,

1647
01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:43,760
Speaker 4: here's what you're gonna you're gonna ask me, and he

1648
01:17:43,760 --> 01:17:45,320
Speaker 4: went throughout the week and he's like, I'm not going

1649
01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:47,679
Speaker 4: to answer your questions about injuries the entire week.

1650
01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:48,840
Speaker 2: And he had it all planned out.

1651
01:17:48,720 --> 01:17:50,639
Speaker 4: About how oh, I haven't talked to the trainers yet.

1652
01:17:50,760 --> 01:17:51,719
Speaker 2: Is he going to practice today?

1653
01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:52,080
Speaker 7: I don't know.

1654
01:17:52,120 --> 01:17:52,519
Speaker 2: We'll see.

1655
01:17:52,560 --> 01:17:54,519
Speaker 4: We haven't planned and he's like told you how he

1656
01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:55,680
Speaker 4: was going to avoid it the whole week.

1657
01:17:55,720 --> 01:17:57,600
Speaker 2: He's probably gonna do it again. With Jalen Hurts. I

1658
01:17:57,600 --> 01:17:58,639
Speaker 2: don't have any great concern.

1659
01:17:58,880 --> 01:18:00,960
Speaker 4: I think Jalen Hurts is going to play in this game.

1660
01:18:01,120 --> 01:18:03,240
Speaker 4: He may not get cleared officially out of the protocol

1661
01:18:03,400 --> 01:18:05,200
Speaker 4: till the end of the week. There's really no rush.

1662
01:18:05,240 --> 01:18:06,680
Speaker 4: You don't have to take a guy out of the

1663
01:18:06,680 --> 01:18:08,400
Speaker 4: protocol until it's time to play a game.

1664
01:18:08,479 --> 01:18:10,360
Speaker 2: So I think he's going to be okay. I think

1665
01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:12,040
Speaker 2: he's gonna play this coming weekend.

1666
01:18:12,280 --> 01:18:12,920
Speaker 7: Juny, what's the.

1667
01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:13,320
Speaker 2: Game you like?

1668
01:18:13,800 --> 01:18:17,400
Speaker 8: I am watching the Monday night game, which is the

1669
01:18:17,479 --> 01:18:21,160
Speaker 8: Vikings and the Rams. The Vikings had the misfortune of

1670
01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:24,000
Speaker 8: losing last night to the Detroit Lines, and so they've

1671
01:18:24,040 --> 01:18:26,360
Speaker 8: got fourteen wins on the regular season and they still

1672
01:18:26,360 --> 01:18:28,639
Speaker 8: have to go on the road as a wild card team.

1673
01:18:29,240 --> 01:18:31,080
Speaker 8: And the way it fell is they have to play

1674
01:18:31,120 --> 01:18:33,400
Speaker 8: one of the two teams that beat them during the

1675
01:18:33,400 --> 01:18:36,479
Speaker 8: regular season. They lost to the Rams thirty to twenty.

1676
01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:40,120
Speaker 8: I think it was week eight of the regular season. Certainly,

1677
01:18:40,160 --> 01:18:43,000
Speaker 8: then the Vikings went on a long run which got

1678
01:18:43,080 --> 01:18:45,640
Speaker 8: them to last night's game with the NFC North and

1679
01:18:45,680 --> 01:18:48,160
Speaker 8: the number one seed on the line. But you know,

1680
01:18:48,240 --> 01:18:51,639
Speaker 8: this was certainly Sam Donold's worst performance of the season.

1681
01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:54,400
Speaker 8: The Vikings defense got to him, got a lot of

1682
01:18:54,400 --> 01:18:57,800
Speaker 8: pressure on him. He looked rattled, threw the ball high

1683
01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:00,280
Speaker 8: a number of times, he was just inaccurate. I got

1684
01:19:00,320 --> 01:19:02,679
Speaker 8: a hope that he can bounce back against the Rams.

1685
01:19:02,680 --> 01:19:05,080
Speaker 8: By the way, the Rams offense has really slowed down

1686
01:19:05,120 --> 01:19:08,080
Speaker 8: in the last few weeks since they exploded against Buffalo.

1687
01:19:08,360 --> 01:19:11,000
Speaker 8: Can they rev it up again against Brian Flores? They

1688
01:19:11,040 --> 01:19:12,439
Speaker 8: are going to have to if they're going to stay

1689
01:19:12,479 --> 01:19:13,639
Speaker 8: with the Vikings in this one.

1690
01:19:13,920 --> 01:19:17,439
Speaker 1: It is a big wild Card weekend all the way

1691
01:19:17,479 --> 01:19:21,680
Speaker 1: from Saturday Super to Monday. It's not super. It was

1692
01:19:21,680 --> 01:19:24,200
Speaker 1: super the first time they did it. Now it's just

1693
01:19:24,320 --> 01:19:27,719
Speaker 1: back to wild which really two adjectives at the start

1694
01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:31,000
Speaker 1: was probably overkill. Back to wild Card weekend. I think

1695
01:19:31,040 --> 01:19:35,120
Speaker 1: we've resolved this moving forward. We got five head coaching vacancies.

1696
01:19:35,160 --> 01:19:37,360
Speaker 1: The Bears have had a big d for years under

1697
01:19:37,400 --> 01:19:41,520
Speaker 1: Matt Eberflus, but the offense has been a work in progress.

1698
01:19:41,680 --> 01:19:44,640
Speaker 2: Is this the best head coaching job available? Because of that?

1699
01:19:44,720 --> 01:19:47,599
Speaker 1: Guy number eighteen Harmark Gross will be here with his

1700
01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:49,480
Speaker 1: opinion next on The Insiders.

1701
01:19:55,240 --> 01:19:57,800
Speaker 8: All right, three head coaches were fired during the season,

1702
01:19:57,840 --> 01:19:59,599
Speaker 8: and in the last twenty four hours or so, We've

1703
01:19:59,600 --> 01:20:03,479
Speaker 8: gotten you more this morning, the Jacksonville Jaguars fired Doug

1704
01:20:03,520 --> 01:20:07,000
Speaker 8: Peterson after three seasons, one of which went to the playoffs,

1705
01:20:07,080 --> 01:20:10,360
Speaker 8: including a playoff victory. But he is out after a

1706
01:20:10,520 --> 01:20:15,040
Speaker 8: four and thirteen season. This year, and last night, really

1707
01:20:15,160 --> 01:20:19,000
Speaker 8: right after their game ended, the New England Patriots fired

1708
01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:22,519
Speaker 8: Gerard Mayo after just one season. Everybody knew it was

1709
01:20:22,560 --> 01:20:25,519
Speaker 8: going to be difficult for whoever followed Bill Belichick, but

1710
01:20:25,600 --> 01:20:29,360
Speaker 8: obviously this was very disappointing for Mayo and the New

1711
01:20:29,360 --> 01:20:33,040
Speaker 8: England Patriots, who now move on. And here is my

1712
01:20:33,200 --> 01:20:35,880
Speaker 8: ranking of the five openings that we have so far.

1713
01:20:37,200 --> 01:20:39,479
Speaker 8: You can quibble with them, maybe, but I've got the

1714
01:20:39,560 --> 01:20:43,759
Speaker 8: Chicago Bears at number one. Let's bring in our front

1715
01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:47,040
Speaker 8: office guru who knows what it's like to go through

1716
01:20:47,080 --> 01:20:50,840
Speaker 8: coaching searches, Mark Ross. Who do you think has the

1717
01:20:50,840 --> 01:20:52,960
Speaker 8: most attractive opening right now?

1718
01:20:53,920 --> 01:20:54,920
Speaker 7: Well, Judy, I like the.

1719
01:20:54,880 --> 01:20:57,439
Speaker 10: Three guys earlier on this segment they were playing Monday

1720
01:20:57,439 --> 01:21:01,080
Speaker 10: Morning quarterback. You got up the right place, you executed

1721
01:21:01,080 --> 01:21:04,200
Speaker 10: the plan, and this was a perfect list you put together.

1722
01:21:04,280 --> 01:21:06,520
Speaker 7: Don't be bothered by that quibbling.

1723
01:21:06,840 --> 01:21:09,160
Speaker 10: This was a perfect list because you stuck to the

1724
01:21:09,160 --> 01:21:12,719
Speaker 10: planet of number one the quarterbacks, and that Chicago job

1725
01:21:12,800 --> 01:21:14,880
Speaker 10: for me is number one, and that New England job

1726
01:21:14,960 --> 01:21:18,200
Speaker 10: is number two because you had two quarterbacks at both

1727
01:21:18,240 --> 01:21:22,000
Speaker 10: of those situations. We'll talk about Chicago first with Caleb Williams,

1728
01:21:22,280 --> 01:21:25,599
Speaker 10: who showed flashes of why he was the number one pick.

1729
01:21:25,680 --> 01:21:27,599
Speaker 10: Of course there was ups and downs, and of course

1730
01:21:27,640 --> 01:21:30,280
Speaker 10: there were struggles, but overall, I think it was a

1731
01:21:30,360 --> 01:21:34,240
Speaker 10: successful year for him and you can see the flashes,

1732
01:21:34,280 --> 01:21:36,800
Speaker 10: you can see the talent of why they took him

1733
01:21:36,800 --> 01:21:39,519
Speaker 10: with the first pick, and he's going to continue to

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01:21:39,640 --> 01:21:44,280
Speaker 10: get better. The defense played admirably this year. We're at thirteenth.

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01:21:44,320 --> 01:21:47,200
Speaker 10: I believe in points and they've got town all around.

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01:21:47,240 --> 01:21:49,920
Speaker 10: So I think when you step into this situation, the

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01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:53,160
Speaker 10: quarterback is the hardest part. All these situations have strengths

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01:21:53,160 --> 01:21:55,400
Speaker 10: and weaknesses and things you have to worry about, but

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01:21:55,920 --> 01:21:58,680
Speaker 10: the hardest thing is to get the quarterback. Chicago has

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01:21:58,720 --> 01:22:02,080
Speaker 10: that you can build the with a good GM number

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01:22:02,080 --> 01:22:04,519
Speaker 10: two with the Patriots there with Drake Bay and the

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01:22:04,600 --> 01:22:07,639
Speaker 10: flashes that he shipp he showed throughout the year as well,

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01:22:07,960 --> 01:22:11,320
Speaker 10: similar situation. I just think Chicago's roster is a lot

1744
01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:14,439
Speaker 10: further along than the Patriots roster. So you crushed that

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01:22:14,640 --> 01:22:15,479
Speaker 10: article there, Judy.

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01:22:16,000 --> 01:22:18,720
Speaker 8: Thank you for that affirmation, Mark Loss, and thank you

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01:22:18,760 --> 01:22:21,559
Speaker 8: for being here with us on The Insiders. And when

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01:22:21,600 --> 01:22:24,759
Speaker 8: we return, we are going to talk even more about

1749
01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:29,040
Speaker 8: Wildcard Weekend, Super Wildcard Weekend wherever we're talking about this year.

1750
01:22:29,400 --> 01:22:31,640
Speaker 8: When we return on the Insiders.

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01:22:37,560 --> 01:22:42,640
Speaker 1: Wild Card Weekend is here announced by this sterling graphic.

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01:22:42,800 --> 01:22:45,559
Speaker 1: Six games, all starting out with the Texas in their

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01:22:45,920 --> 01:22:47,759
Speaker 1: traditional window of Saturday afternoon.

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01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:47,960
Speaker 2: Again.

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01:22:48,040 --> 01:22:52,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, Chargers, we got Steelers Ravens, a great AFC North battle,

1756
01:22:52,760 --> 01:22:56,679
Speaker 1: Broncos at Bill's, Packers at Eagles, Commanders at Bucks.

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01:22:56,680 --> 01:22:58,040
Speaker 2: It all wraps up.

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01:22:58,320 --> 01:23:03,000
Speaker 1: Monday night with a remake from another primetime game, Vikings

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01:23:03,040 --> 01:23:07,719
Speaker 1: at Rams. Should be a very fun weekend. And guess

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01:23:07,760 --> 01:23:10,320
Speaker 1: what We're going to be here all the way up

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01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:13,920
Speaker 1: until those games and next week after those games. Every

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01:23:14,240 --> 01:23:17,320
Speaker 1: single weeknight from now through Super Bowl fifty nine in

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01:23:17,439 --> 01:23:20,439
Speaker 1: New Orleans, right here on NFL Network and NFL Plus

1764
01:23:20,479 --> 01:23:25,280
Speaker 1: seven pm Eastern time, each weeknight, you can catch the Insiders.

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01:23:25,600 --> 01:23:30,280
Speaker 1: Don't miss a moment, Don't miss random asides about starter

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01:23:30,400 --> 01:23:33,400
Speaker 1: jackets that end up killing off entire segments. Don't miss

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01:23:34,080 --> 01:23:38,440
Speaker 1: our guys making these photo shops. That's good on Antonio

1768
01:23:38,439 --> 01:23:41,840
Speaker 1: Pierce's body. It's the more I look at it and

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01:23:41,920 --> 01:23:43,639
Speaker 1: the more I think you actually can pull this off.

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01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:45,840
Speaker 7: Where's my neck? What happened to my neck?

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01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:46,719
Speaker 8: You have no neck?

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01:23:47,400 --> 01:23:50,160
Speaker 2: It looks like you're wearing a jackets ate my neck?

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01:23:51,160 --> 01:23:54,760
Speaker 1: Judy, do you have a starter jacket? Do you recall this? No,

1774
01:23:54,880 --> 01:23:57,800
Speaker 1: you're here, Judy involved. She would have been coming on

1775
01:23:57,800 --> 01:24:01,320
Speaker 1: the second Jackets started here. I did not have a

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01:24:01,320 --> 01:24:01,920
Speaker 1: starter jacket.

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01:24:01,960 --> 01:24:05,639
Speaker 8: I did have Zuba's pants though, in Miami Dolphins colors.

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01:24:06,120 --> 01:24:07,200
Speaker 6: That was great.

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01:24:07,320 --> 01:24:09,679
Speaker 2: That was a gatewa You still have a gateway piece

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01:24:09,720 --> 01:24:10,240
Speaker 2: of apparel.

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01:24:10,520 --> 01:24:13,320
Speaker 1: I think, yes, I never had this. I never had

1782
01:24:13,360 --> 01:24:14,839
Speaker 1: the Zubas. Mike, do you have Zubas?

1783
01:24:15,520 --> 01:24:17,760
Speaker 4: I didn't do the Zubas, but I did have that

1784
01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:19,559
Speaker 4: Wisconsin jacket with it.

1785
01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:21,920
Speaker 2: Was the Barry Alvarez. Uh Moss.

1786
01:24:21,960 --> 01:24:24,040
Speaker 4: Brent Moss was the running back that was for some

1787
01:24:24,080 --> 01:24:26,280
Speaker 4: reason that just became my team. I have no idea

1788
01:24:26,280 --> 01:24:29,839
Speaker 4: why Brent Moss Uh never mind Ron Dane.

1789
01:24:31,080 --> 01:24:33,200
Speaker 2: No, it wasn't Ron Daney. That was definitely that.

1790
01:24:33,600 --> 01:24:36,160
Speaker 1: Ron Daye was well after they were weing starter jackets

1791
01:24:36,160 --> 01:24:36,639
Speaker 1: at that point.

1792
01:24:36,720 --> 01:24:36,920
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:40,200
Speaker 1: The thing with the Zubas paint was the material you

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01:24:40,240 --> 01:24:43,240
Speaker 1: would think would be pretty thick. It was a very

1795
01:24:43,400 --> 01:24:47,439
Speaker 1: thin material. There was very little separating you from other

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01:24:47,520 --> 01:24:51,200
Speaker 1: people in the room when you were wearing the Zuba's pants.

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01:24:51,200 --> 01:25:01,680
Speaker 1: What do you mean the insiders see it fi