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Speaker 2: This is the Best of the Herd with Colin Cowver

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Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back.

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Speaker 4: It's Wednesday in Los Angeles. It's the Herd. Wherever you are,

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Speaker 4: however you may be listening. I think I got that right.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I've never tried that. It just came to me.

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Speaker 4: It's me Jason McIntyre filling in for Colin Cowherd. He

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Speaker 4: is breathlessly texting me updates about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey,

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Speaker 4: and I'm relaying them to Rachel Nichols, who.

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Speaker 3: I'm joined by again today. Rachel, No, Colin's not actually texting, said,

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure this is quick.

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Speaker 5: This is his.

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Speaker 4: Last hurrah and now maybe he's on the golf course today.

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Speaker 4: I don't but uh, Rachel and I listen. We've been

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Speaker 4: hit for breaking news every day, so keep it locked.

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Speaker 4: Who knows what's coming down? Now, we did get a

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Speaker 4: little tease about some not great news, which we'll get

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Speaker 4: you shortly. Uh, Kansas City Chiefs fans tuned in. But

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna start the show, obviously with the big news

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Speaker 4: in sports, Travis Kelce Taylor Swift engaged. Now, I know

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Speaker 4: sports fans are already sick of it, their wives, their girlfriends,

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Speaker 4: their side pieces and whatever talking about.

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Speaker 3: Wait a minute, what kind of wedding dress is Taylor Swift?

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Speaker 6: There were but do.

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Speaker 4: They get a DJ or do they do a band?

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Speaker 3: Do they do an international wedding?

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Speaker 4: And there's all this updates on all the celebrity websites

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Speaker 4: and also sports websites talking about this union, and folks,

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna take it in a different direction because we

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Speaker 4: do sports here on the show, and I'm gonna say,

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Speaker 4: how does this impact the act such a football product

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Speaker 4: of the Kansas City Chiefs. And it keeps coming back

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Speaker 4: to one thing that's fairly obvious that this has to

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Speaker 4: be the last dance for the triumvirate of Andy Reid,

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Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce. Right, I mean, you guys,

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Speaker 4: remember a few years ago Baker Mayfield led the NFL

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Speaker 4: in commercials and on the field the product.

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Speaker 3: Was not great. Well, what are we doing with Travis Kelce?

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Speaker 4: I mean, he's talked about retirement, He's among the league

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Speaker 4: leaders in commercials, He's a full blown celebrity. Now, okay,

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Speaker 4: he's engaged to the most famous woman on the planet

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Speaker 4: and now they're going to be planning a wedding. By

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Speaker 4: the way, side note, Travis Kelce's dad gave a random

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Speaker 4: interview to a Cleveland TV station. I don't know, there's

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Speaker 4: some kind of connection there, and he said, oh yeah,

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Speaker 4: basically they got engaged two weeks ago, which then makes

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Speaker 4: you wonder about that whole podcast appearance.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Listen, there's just so much happening here, but guess what's

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Speaker 4: not happening?

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Speaker 6: Football?

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Speaker 4: And I mentioned the last dance because Jordan Pippot and

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Speaker 4: Phil Jackson they knew that that was it.

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Speaker 3: It's over.

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Speaker 4: On some level, guys, Patrick Mahomes has to know this

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Speaker 4: is it. I mean, Travis Kelce turns thirty six in October.

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Speaker 4: He's going into the final year of his contract.

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Speaker 3: He's openly talked about retirement.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he's laying the groundwork for a post football career.

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Speaker 4: I mean he's podcasting, he's in Happy Go More too.

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Speaker 4: By the way, just a quick review, I didn't think

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Speaker 4: the movie was great. It was okay, but I did

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Speaker 4: think Travis Kelcey was kind of good. I thought Bad

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Speaker 4: Bunny was good. I didn't even know it was Bad Bunny.

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Speaker 4: But like Travis kelce wasn't terrible. And you know, he's

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Speaker 4: doing a lot of commercials. I have a feeling he's

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Speaker 4: gonna have a pretty lucrative post football career. But that's

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Speaker 4: post football. We still have a season to go. And again,

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Speaker 3: To an end every couple of years.

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Speaker 4: Andy Reid, who by the way, is sixty seven years old,

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Speaker 4: he's talking about retirement. So you know, if Kelsey and

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Speaker 4: The Rashi Rice news that's emerging right now, you know,

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Speaker 4: six games of the season. That's putting even more pressure

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Speaker 4: off a career low in receiving yards touchdowns. Like things

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Speaker 4: I know, it's just saying, you know, don't cry because

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Speaker 3: That's how I'm feeling about this Chief's run.

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Speaker 4: As you see Mahomes running around celebrating they had a

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Speaker 4: could have a great Swan song. I'm sure he's gonna

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Speaker 4: play better here. Listen, don't.

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Speaker 3: Run a mile and you're older, you know you want

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Speaker 4: Now I'm competing of whoa, You're running out of gas quickly.

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Speaker 4: Kelsey's gonna have to step up here early in the season.

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Speaker 4: If for she Rice is indeed suspended for six.

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Speaker 3: Games, I don't think this.

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Speaker 4: Now I'm gonna shift my focus to a team I

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Speaker 4: actually love, and that's the San Francisco forty nine Ers,

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Speaker 4: another team that I had yesterday that was mildly controversial

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Speaker 3: I had them in the first tier.

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Speaker 4: That was met with a lot of scorn and derision

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Speaker 4: on the internet, but that's what people do online. And

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Speaker 4: the focus here is going to be a certain seventh

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Speaker 4: Brier was at forty nine Ers camp recently and he

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Speaker 4: spoke to Shanahan, Salah, Lynch and Purdy and brock Perdy

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Speaker 4: the aggregators weren wild.

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Speaker 3: Here's the quote from brock Perdy.

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Speaker 4: I felt this pressure last season on myself to be

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Speaker 4: because brock perty last year was playing for a contract

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Speaker 4: context needed. So this Niners team last year, we should

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Speaker 4: have seen the drop off coming. Okay, they had a

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Speaker 4: totaled it twelve playoff games in a five year span.

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Speaker 4: So it's no surprise that half the defense was hurt

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Speaker 4: last year and you see guys dropping like flies. Twelve

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Speaker 4: playoff games is almost another entire season. Remember the Golden

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Speaker 3: That was the Niners last year. But I've got a couple.

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Speaker 4: Things about Brock Purdy that I'm gonna hit you with

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Speaker 4: now that are going to be a surprise. So the

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Speaker 4: narrative was that you know, he wasn't good last year

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Speaker 4: and he was trying to be superman. He was playing

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Speaker 4: for a contract, and hey, as Colin likes to say,

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Speaker 4: the weather was bad and.

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Speaker 3: Brock Purty crumbled.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, I do not like the blind taste

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Speaker 3: I feel like it's cheap and people kind of cherry pickstats.

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Speaker 4: But I this morning just looking at stats for brock

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Speaker 4: Purty last year to go with these quotes, and then

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Speaker 4: I looked at the leaderboard.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, brock Purdy.

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Speaker 4: Was not that bad last year. So, folks, here is

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Speaker 4: the first of two. I'm gonna compare brock Purdy to

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Speaker 4: another quarterback in the NFL last year. So you see

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Speaker 4: his passing yards perty plus about one hundred touchdown interceptions, party,

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Speaker 4: He was not a checkdown artist eight point five, much

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Speaker 4: better than this other quarterback and better in passer rating.

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Speaker 4: Let's see who the other quarterback is. Oh, oh, Matthew Stafford,

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Speaker 4: the much beloved Matthew Stafford. I like Stafford. I'm a

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Speaker 4: Stafford guy. But Stafford wasn't great last year. So Stafford

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Speaker 4: wasn't great. How was brock Purty awful? Okay, that's number one.

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Speaker 4: Now the staff came up with a second one. I

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Speaker 4: other one was Stafford. So here are the numbers. Stafford again,

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Speaker 4: more passing yards, more touchdowns, even interceptions, way better in

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Speaker 4: yards per attempt, and better in passer rating. Let's see

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Speaker 4: who the quarterback was compared to brock Purty last year.

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Speaker 4: Oh wait a minute, brock Purty in his down year

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Speaker 4: was better than Stroud statistically and better than Stafford.

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Speaker 3: What so brock Purty was it bad? Okay?

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Speaker 4: Their tat is telling me right now we have one

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Speaker 4: more blind resume. Again, this wasn't run by me, so

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Speaker 4: I have no idea who this guy is. Touchdowns even,

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Speaker 4: yards per attempt edge to Purty, completion percentage dead even.

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Speaker 4: All right, let's see who this quarterback is, Rock Purty

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Speaker 3: So again we can.

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Speaker 4: Bag on brock Purty all we want the numbers. Facts

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Speaker 4: say he was better than Justin Herbert, Matt Stafford, and

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Speaker 3: Stroud last year. That's a bit of a boom.

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Speaker 4: My kid likes to do truth bomb, you know, with

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Speaker 4: the head exploding emoji. That's what I'm seeing there for

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Speaker 4: brock Purty. So we have Greg Cosell. Last week I

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Speaker 4: was on vacation, Cowhard brought in Greg Coselt to take

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Speaker 4: shots at pretty I don't know if he took shots.

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Speaker 7: Here we go in terms of being what we call

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Speaker 7: a post snap operator. In other words, when he takes

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Speaker 7: he sees, and therefore he's a really really good timing

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Speaker 7: and anticipation thrower. It's just innate to him. He sees

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Speaker 7: it really quickly. So Purdy is a high level post

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Speaker 7: snap operator. He's a really really good player. Purdy is

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Speaker 7: a really good quarterback. He's just not a dynamic athlete

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Speaker 7: who is necessarily going to make those kind of special

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Speaker 7: plays on his own. But as a pocket quarterback, he's

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Speaker 4: Cosell dropping a little truth bomb there on my guy,

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Speaker 4: brock Purty. So I do want to say, I try

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Speaker 4: to help you guys out, okay, try to help you

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Speaker 4: be a little smarter on the gambling front, the fantasy

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Speaker 4: The forty nine ers this season are favored in fifteen

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Speaker 4: They're at the Rams and Bucks back to back in

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Speaker 3: The Niners are going to be really freaking good last year. Now,

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Speaker 3: They can be number one. Okay, who's second best in

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Speaker 3: But it wasn't Sala's fault. I'm just telling you.

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Speaker 4: The Niners are gonna be really good. You can get

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Speaker 3: Opinion rock parties. A seventh round pick, he's garbage.

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Speaker 4: You sound like the guy who was bagging on Tom

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Speaker 4: nine ers, favored in fifteen of seventeen games. I'm telling

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Speaker 4: be left behind now, Rachel. I know that's a big

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Speaker 3: Just like argue with me. But I feel irrationally good.

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Speaker 3: You're laughing.

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Speaker 2: I'm laughing.

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Speaker 3: I think you're right well, first of all.

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Speaker 8: And I'm laughing because for people out there who don't

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Speaker 3: It's thirty two. It's number thirty two.

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Speaker 8: Easiest schedule in the NFL this season. My concern, we

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Speaker 8: But you know, we've talked about it that he is

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Speaker 8: We've talked about the NFC West. You know, I am

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Speaker 4: Back here on the Herd, got Steve Weisch of NFL

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Speaker 4: in now. I know he knows the Falcons. Well, they

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Speaker 3: You get the new group.

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Speaker 4: Coming in front office, new quarterback, new coach, knew everything,

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Speaker 4: But a stat came out yesterday about Washington kind of

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Speaker 3: People actually track this stuff. I get it.

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Speaker 4: When you are rebooting with a new owner, new front office,

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Speaker 3: We doing here now?

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Speaker 4: They did beat Detroit and Tampa in the playoffs, awesome,

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Speaker 4: but a lot of things are lining up to make

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Speaker 4: it look like Washington could have could have a very

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Speaker 4: Steve, thanks for joining us on this day with more

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Speaker 4: breaking news involving the Chiefs. This is actual on field

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Speaker 4: product as opposed to the Kelsey Swift engagement. But obviously

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Speaker 4: the reci Rice news just broke. I'm curious a your

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Speaker 4: reaction and b you know what do you think the

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Speaker 4: impact will be on Kansas City's offense?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, my colleague Tom Pelsero broke that.

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Speaker 10: And what's interesting, remember he had a date set for

446
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Speaker 10: late September right so that woul allowed him to play

447
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Speaker 10: find out his fate. All of this stuff by now

448
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Speaker 10: he's getting this out of the way. So he suspended

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Speaker 10: for six weeks. According to Tom, he'll be able to

450
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Speaker 10: come back in week seven and then they can get rolling.

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Speaker 10: So that allows the Chiefs on the field to kind

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Speaker 10: of set their rotation and everything from now. It allows

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Speaker 10: Rice not to go back and forth like we've seen

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Speaker 10: some players go back and forth in the past. Are

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Speaker 10: they going to play again? Remember with Zeke Elliott? Are

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Speaker 10: they not going to play? So that just clears a

457
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Speaker 10: hurdle of the unknown. So we'll see how is he Rice,

458
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Speaker 10: who's a valuable part of what they do, how he

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Speaker 10: figures in when he comes back mid season put again

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Speaker 10: for the Chiefs football wise, it just allows him, let's

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Speaker 10: establish this, this is out of the way.

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Speaker 6: Now all sides can function kind of knowing what is there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's weird Rice.

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Speaker 4: He hasn't played enough for us to know if he's great,

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Speaker 4: But in that one season he kind of popped. He

466
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Speaker 4: looked like he had top ten receiver potential, right with

467
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Speaker 4: the speed and the strength.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, and he helps out what they like

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Speaker 10: to do in that offense, right, Remember he does the

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Speaker 10: up the seam stuff. He kind of helps Kelsey clear

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Speaker 10: things out in that middle of the field. Plus you

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Speaker 10: could tell Mahomes really likes him.

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Speaker 6: I mean, they've got a chemistry there.

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Speaker 10: I think they're both Dallas area guys, Texas guys, and

475
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Speaker 10: they train a lot in the offseason together, so that

476
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Speaker 10: chemistry helps. And so not having him, they knew it

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Speaker 10: was possibility. They didn't have them most of last year.

478
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Speaker 10: They worked around it. So now they'll work around it again,

479
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Speaker 10: find a way, and when he comes back, it could

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Speaker 10: be kind of a cherry on top type of thing.

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Speaker 4: Now, last year the receiver room was, you know, not great,

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Speaker 4: certainly bottom half of the league. Now you're looking at

483
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Speaker 4: Hollywood Brown, Xavier Worthy Juju, says Schuster. I don't does

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Speaker 4: this put more pressure on Travis Kelcey, who oh, by

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Speaker 4: the way, is thirty five and all the almost thirty six?

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Speaker 6: No, I mean, look, the Chiefs do what they do.

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Speaker 10: Last year, the issue wasn't so much the receiving core,

488
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Speaker 10: but it was the offensive line. Yeah, I mean, they

489
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Speaker 10: just didn't play well. They had issues that left tackle.

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Speaker 10: Then they moved Tuney out from guard to tackle. Some

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Speaker 10: uncertainty at that guard spot for a while. I think

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Speaker 10: if that part is solidified and We know they did

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Speaker 10: some things to try to change that offensive line, including

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Speaker 10: drafting someone in the first round. If that part solidified,

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Speaker 10: the Chiefs are going to do what they do. I mean,

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Speaker 10: as long as you got number fifteen, if they've got

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Speaker 10: a dink and dunk, they'll do that. They're going to

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Speaker 10: stretch the field here and there, they'll do that. So

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Speaker 10: I don't think it's so much on Kelsey and that

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Speaker 10: receiving crews on the guys up frontal at that offense

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Speaker 10: function the way Andy Reid wants it to function.

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Speaker 4: So let's go to Kelsey real quick. Obviously, you know

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Speaker 4: he's a celebrity now, he was in a movie, he's podcasting,

504
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Speaker 4: he's engaged to Taylor Swift. Also entering the final year

505
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Speaker 4: of his contract. He's talked about retirement in the past.

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Speaker 4: He's talked about all the surgeries he's had. We would

507
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Speaker 4: it safe to assume this is his last ride? And

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Speaker 4: I'm just curious, do you think you know Andy Reid

509
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Speaker 4: is sixty seven. There's been speculation previously whether or not

510
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Speaker 4: he hangs them up. I mean, is there a world

511
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Speaker 4: where this is really the final run for Red Mahomes

512
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Speaker 4: and Kelsey together?

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Speaker 6: It could be. I don't envision it.

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Speaker 10: I mean, knowing those those guys as much as I do.

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Speaker 10: I mean, maybe Travis steps away. I'll tell you this,

516
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Speaker 10: he's got his body really together. I saw him some

517
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Speaker 10: stuff this offseason. He looks different, he looks fresh. Maybe

518
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Speaker 10: now that he's engaged, you know, he's going to be

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Speaker 10: super fresh.

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Speaker 6: I don't know. Well with Andy Reid, I he seems

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Speaker 6: someone to me like he just I don't know what

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Speaker 6: he would.

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Speaker 10: Do without coaching, and I just think that's kind of

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Speaker 10: something he hangs on to because he knows he impacts

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Speaker 10: lives in a lot of ways besides just on the

526
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Speaker 10: field and with his staff, and of course Patrick Mahomes

527
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Speaker 10: is going to be there.

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Speaker 6: So I don't envision it.

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Speaker 10: That's not to say it couldn't happen, But right now

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Speaker 10: I don't see Andy retaying.

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Speaker 6: You know what, this is one last rodeo. We're going out.

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Speaker 4: Let me pivot to Brock Purdy if you don't mind,

533
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Speaker 4: I am a brock pretty guy. I think he's undervalued significantly.

534
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Speaker 4: He had a quote to Albert Breer saying he tried

535
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Speaker 4: to do too much and be superman last year. I mean, Steve,

536
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Speaker 4: their whole team was banged up, he's playing for a contract.

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Speaker 4: I think he can be superman. I mean, we have

538
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Speaker 4: a couple of years worth of data on this guy.

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Speaker 4: He's really good, is he not.

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Speaker 6: I'm with you.

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Speaker 10: I've been a brock pretty guy ever since he came

542
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Speaker 10: in midstream as a third stringer against the Dolphins and

543
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Speaker 10: put up numbers like he'd been playing all of a sudden.

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Speaker 10: The third stringers don't get reps, so the fact he

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Speaker 10: played that way showed me he's got something to him.

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Speaker 10: I could see him trying to over extend himself last

547
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Speaker 10: year because there's a certain standard with the forty nine

548
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Speaker 10: ers and with you know, Trent Williams down, Deebo, Samuel down,

549
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Speaker 10: Brandon you know, not having a good year, Brandon Ayuk down.

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Speaker 6: A lot of defenders down. This just wasn't the same team.

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Speaker 10: So a lot of times guys are going to try

552
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Speaker 10: to do more than what they're not necessarily capable of doing,

553
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Speaker 10: but do more than what they should do to live

554
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Speaker 10: up to the standard that's been set. I think this

555
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Speaker 10: is a reset with some of the changes on that

556
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Speaker 10: roster on both sides of the ball, with a new

557
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Speaker 10: receiving crew and with.

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Speaker 6: CMC back, the opportunity is there for brock Perty to

559
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Speaker 6: do some big things. I think this is kind of

560
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Speaker 6: a refresher for the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 10: I don't know if they'll be dominant early, but we'll

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Speaker 10: see if they gain some traction and get going as

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Speaker 10: the season goes along.

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Speaker 6: But I think Perdy is the least of their worries.

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Speaker 6: I think he's.

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Speaker 10: Kind of north Pole that everybody can kind of look

567
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Speaker 10: to to guide them, to guide them through.

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Speaker 3: I like that.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to be body language expert guy when

570
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Speaker 4: it comes to Ben Johnson. But Steve, we keep seeing

571
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Speaker 4: video of him at the podium looking unhappy. Now, maybe

572
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Speaker 4: he's a serious guy, first head coaching job.

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Speaker 3: He wants to look like a you know, a.

574
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Speaker 4: Tough guy who was really locked in. But it doesn't seem,

575
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Speaker 4: and it's early like things are going great with him

576
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Speaker 4: In Caleb Williams.

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Speaker 3: Rachel had a good point earlier.

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Speaker 4: That like, he's not praising Caleb a ton and a

579
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Speaker 4: lot of it is criticism, and I don't know, Caleb.

580
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Speaker 3: Is a little fragile.

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Speaker 4: We had this stuff from Seth Wickersham about how I

582
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Speaker 4: didn't want to go to Chicago in the first place.

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Speaker 3: What do you make of all this?

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Speaker 10: Well, I didn't see Bill Belichick ever very happy. I

585
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Speaker 10: know Andy Reid's a nice guy, but he's not the

586
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Speaker 10: most jovial. So, you know, in terms of how guys

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Speaker 10: appear at the press conference, I don't really know, you know,

588
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Speaker 10: having been in these situations. It's like the meeting rooms

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Speaker 10: and stuff. If a coach is like glazing you up

590
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Speaker 10: or are beating you down in front of the team

591
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Speaker 10: in the meeting rooms and really humiliating you in front

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Speaker 10: of your peers, that's where things really tend to ruffle feathers.

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Speaker 6: Now. Some guys, you know, get bent out of shape

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Speaker 6: by what said in the media.

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Speaker 10: But and I don't know Ben Johnson. I've been around him,

596
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Speaker 10: but he's just an intense guy. There are intense coach

597
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 10: you've been around Sean McVay. That dude never relaxes. Now

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Speaker 10: he is kind of captain positive, yes, but you know,

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Speaker 10: there's just different coaches with different styles. And I'm Ben

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Speaker 10: Johnson's got my benefit of the doubt until he doesn't.

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Speaker 10: So we'll we'll see how this works out. I do think,

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Speaker 10: you know, And I heard the quote that he said

603
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Speaker 10: it's going to take a minute for this entire offense

604
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Speaker 10: to get going.

605
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Speaker 6: And they got a new offensive line, a lot of

606
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Speaker 6: new pieces. It's going to take a minute. But once

607
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Speaker 6: they get it going.

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Speaker 10: With Ben Johnson, what he did in Detroit, defensive coordinators

609
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Speaker 10: fear some of his scheming.

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Speaker 6: We'll see if it translates now that he's in this

611
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Speaker 6: new role.

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Speaker 4: I love to ask you guys in the media. You

613
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Speaker 4: go to camps, you talk to people. I mean, we're

614
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Speaker 4: just out here blathering. Is there a team that you

615
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Speaker 4: see that's maybe undervalued with respect to what everybody else

616
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Speaker 4: is saying. I want that team to be the Atlanta Falcons,

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Speaker 4: a team you know, well, they got an injury on

618
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Speaker 4: the line this week, it's really bad. Is there a

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Speaker 4: team that you've seen that you think, hey, man, nobody's

620
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Speaker 4: really talking about X.

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Speaker 3: I think they could pop.

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Speaker 6: It's the team that's in Atlanta's conference, and that's Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 10: It's a that's won the division. I don't think we

624
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Speaker 10: talk about them enough. Roster wise. They are solid pretty

625
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 10: much through and through. But when we talk about teams

626
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Speaker 10: with a culture, that's a team that's got a culture

627
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Speaker 10: we don't talk about.

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Speaker 6: There is a standard there now in Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 10: When new players come there, they understand defensively, you better

630
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Speaker 10: be physical no matter what you do offensively, you better

631
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Speaker 10: be precision on time. And we talk about how you know,

632
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Speaker 10: first Dave Canalis and Lea and Comb got the best

633
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Speaker 10: out of Baker Mayfield. Maybe Baker is the king maker, right.

634
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Speaker 10: I think Tampa Bay is a team that we better

635
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Speaker 10: start paying a lot more attention to, just because they've

636
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Speaker 10: got something institutionally now that's been in place for four

637
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Speaker 10: or five years that we've neglected.

638
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Speaker 3: I didn't think about that.

639
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Speaker 4: Maybe Baker's the guide, not all these coaches that they

640
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 4: keep cycling through. The Baker's story is fascinating, how he

641
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 4: was kind of kicked to the curb in Cleveland. It

642
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 4: was over and then it was rams and there was

643
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Speaker 4: one other team. And he's now he's like a full.

644
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Speaker 3: Blown pro bowler, right, he's legit.

645
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Speaker 10: And when you got Mike Evans and you draft a

646
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 10: BUCA who all reviews on him coming out of camp

647
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Speaker 10: had been great, you know, with God went on the

648
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Speaker 10: shelf to start the season, he's got an opportunity to

649
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 10: keep doing some things. And look, he's he's kind of

650
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Speaker 10: started this thing. You see Geno Smith kind of following there,

651
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 10: can Sam Darnold following there in Seattle, where maybe it's

652
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Speaker 10: more you get the talented player in the right situation

653
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Speaker 10: and then that talent can start to shine as it

654
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Speaker 10: meshes with what they do mentally in the confidence.

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Speaker 4: Fact, Yeah, it's similar to brock Purty, like nobody, nobody

656
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Speaker 4: viewed him as being a guy who could put up

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Speaker 4: these numbers and take a team to the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Put him in the Shanahan offense. Hey, that's fitting.

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Speaker 4: Say well, Lamar Jackson in Baltimore right, by the way,

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Speaker 4: do you who do you have coming out of the AFC?

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Speaker 6: Steve, I love Baltimore. I mean that's just your team.

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Speaker 10: And you know, spending some time at the training camp,

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Speaker 10: and I've probably been with the Ravens like the whole time.

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Speaker 10: You know, you've got the Chiefs, You've got the Bills,

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Speaker 10: But the Ravens are just so complete, and I think

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Speaker 10: the fact that their defense has its footing. Remember last

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Speaker 10: year they started with a lot of question marks. The

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Speaker 10: offensive line started the question marks. Those are solid right now,

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Speaker 10: so I think they could continue to rock and roll

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Speaker 10: with Lamar doing what you think about that forty one touchdowns,

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Speaker 10: four picks, and he wasn't the MVP.

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Speaker 4: Amazing Steve Weiss NFL Network. Great stuff, Steve, keep up

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Speaker 4: the good work.

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Speaker 3: You love your work.

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Speaker 6: Appreciate you, guys,