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Speaker 1: That decision with some impacts that could affect other quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: world tours. What tour it could be the Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: today on this edition, this New League Year edition of

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Speaker 1: the Insiders. Hey everybody, Patrick claibhn here in the nfl

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Speaker 1: LA newsroom where they finished up the Frenzy guys, there's

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Speaker 1: still some new League year A pair for them, joined

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Speaker 1: by Tom Pellisero, Ian Rappibord, Judy Batista and Mike Garifolo

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Speaker 1: are insiders bringing you the news all week, getting.

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Speaker 2: You that inside information.

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Speaker 1: As for the stories of today, let's go over some

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Speaker 1: of them, some of them that we have seen come

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Speaker 1: out from Cooper Cup via Twitter today celebrating his eight seasons,

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Patrick, and welcome inside with the

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Speaker 3: Insiders once again. Let's start out with that story Ian

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Speaker 3: that we reported right at the start of the new

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Speaker 5: We've already known he has been considering the New York

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Speaker 3: Rogers is free to go someplace else and make his decision. Judy,

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Speaker 9: There is no deadline unless one of the teams imposes

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Speaker 4: Not a surprise at all.

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Speaker 9: He is still a valuable contributor loved Injuries have slowed

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Speaker 1: We'll get them in there as Yes, Doug and Tom.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how it should be. I appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 1: Former charger Joey Bosa agreeing to a one year deal

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Speaker 1: If everything works out and he hits all his incentives,

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Speaker 1: So Bosa to the Bills and there is a Bill

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Speaker 1: news as Yes, the quarterback the MVP Josh Allen got

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Speaker 10: That's the only thing I've ever wanted to do in

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Speaker 1: Good evening to you, Cam. So they get the deal

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Speaker 2: Let's start with the quarterback. What does this mean for Buffalo?

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Speaker 11: Well, first of all, it means they have their MVP,

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Speaker 11: value GM. Brandon Bean has definitely prioritized resignings, draft and

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Speaker 11: So he was under market on his deal previously. This

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Speaker 11: He said, what's five extra million for me at this

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Speaker 11: pretty cool seeing Joey Bosa become a Bill because he's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Josh, a few pieces away from getting wedding planning

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Speaker 1: I have to imagine and two hundred mock drafts today,

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Speaker 1: Do you have to play against Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: with the latest look at the Buffalo Bills, Thank you

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Speaker 1: Tech Camp. Speaking of the Super Bowl champs, they go

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Speaker 1: out and get a former Packer A J. Dillon signing

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Speaker 1: with the Philadelphia Eagles. This on the heels of Kenneth

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Speaker 1: Gainwell's signing with the Pittsburgh Steelers saw some change in

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Speaker 1: the City of Brotherly Love, and that change continues, especially

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Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball. Darius Slay with

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Speaker 1: a opportunity to sign with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He takes

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Speaker 1: that deal and it now leads to seven seven of

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Speaker 1: Vic Fangio's defensive players.

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Speaker 2: Some of them that were downright stars.

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Speaker 1: Especially like Milton Williams, Josh Sweat down the stretch, Darius

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Speaker 1: Slay with the interception in the playoffs as well, including.

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Speaker 2: Aaron Burks and James Bradberry.

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Speaker 1: Didn't get a lot of run this past season, but

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Speaker 1: it was a part of a team that also made

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Speaker 1: it to the Super Bowl. So let's discuss all of

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Speaker 1: these departures for the World Champions, Jane Slater joining us

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Speaker 1: as well as Bucky Brooks Jay looking over at the

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Speaker 1: Champs and what they.

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Speaker 2: Were able to do.

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Speaker 1: These departures are going to They have to add up

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Speaker 1: and show results at some point.

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Speaker 2: They've lost seven people.

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Speaker 12: They have lost seven people and namely a lot of

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Speaker 12: players on the other side of the ball here on defense.

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Speaker 12: The issue I think for them is they've got a

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Speaker 12: really young group on defense. They feel good about the

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Speaker 12: core and the nucleus, but they also have to take

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Speaker 12: care of some of their starters, guys that helped them

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Speaker 12: get to the Super Bowl this year, and one of

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Speaker 12: those was Saquon Barkley. So they've made a lot of

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Speaker 12: moves in recent years, but they've essentially got to take

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Speaker 12: care of the core now. I know a lot of

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Speaker 12: fans for Eagles are upset right now because they want

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Speaker 12: to see Howie Roseman out there doing something sign an

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Speaker 12: outside free agent. He'll likely do that here soon. He's

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Speaker 12: just again making sure they're taking care of their core group.

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Speaker 12: I think the other bigger issue right now is when

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Speaker 12: you're looking at Washington and seeing some of the moves

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Speaker 12: that they've made, just the division in general is getting better.

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Speaker 12: I mean, Washington though, has a lot of picks to

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Speaker 12: work with, remember in recent years, but they went out,

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Speaker 12: they showed a lot of aggression when they signed and

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Speaker 12: got a Hall with Deebo Samuel, they were able to

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Speaker 12: resign a guy like zach Ertz, they got Javon Kinlaw,

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Speaker 12: they were able to retain Bobby Wagner, so.

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Speaker 8: That was huge. So I think as you're looking at.

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Speaker 12: The rosters right now, it's looking like the Eagles haven't

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Speaker 12: upgraded their roster through free agency, but they've certainly been

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Speaker 12: able to do that through the drive often in recent years.

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Speaker 13: You know, Jay, you bring up a great point in

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Speaker 13: terms of why the Eagles aren't making a bunch of

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Speaker 13: moves in free agencies because they've drafted, well what Howie

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Speaker 13: Roseman and his staff have done it. They've kind of

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Speaker 13: operated two or three years out ahead of where their

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Speaker 13: knees are going to happen. So when you think about

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Speaker 13: Jordan Davis coming on board, while they still have Fletcher

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Speaker 13: Cox and those voys, drafting Jalen Carter before they needed

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Speaker 13: to use him, drafting Nolan Smith before they needed Brandon Graham.

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Speaker 2: And Josh went to get up out of there.

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Speaker 13: They have young guys that are already serving in apprenticeships,

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Speaker 13: guys that have been working on the practice field readying

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Speaker 13: for their turn. That's why they're able to move on

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Speaker 13: from Bradbury and Jerry Slay because Cooper Dejean and quin

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Speaker 13: Young Mitchell are ready to go. So to me, I'm

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Speaker 13: not concerned because I heard Howie Roseman talk about the

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Speaker 13: last time they went to a Super Bowl they were

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Speaker 13: sentimental and nostalgic and kept on to a bunch of

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Speaker 13: people to help them get there, but it ended up

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Speaker 13: costing them in the end. This time, they're treated like

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Speaker 13: true business. It's not personal. Love you for doing what

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Speaker 13: you were able to do to help US win, but

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Speaker 13: now we're own to twenty twenty five. To me, it's

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Speaker 13: a very shrewd but a very needed strategy if you

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Speaker 13: want to stay at the top.

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Speaker 1: We've seen some of those departures come back, like CJ.

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Speaker 1: Cartner Johnson did last season, so perhaps even though it's

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Speaker 1: the end for right now, may not be the end altogether.

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Speaker 1: The Eagles are still dealing with all of those losses,

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Speaker 1: but as Bucky said, they are prepared to do so

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Speaker 1: thanks to Jane Slater and Bucky Brooks.

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Speaker 2: Well, look at the world chance.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, it was one game away from

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins trying to win a Super Bowl in Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: What can he contribute to the Baltimore Ravens. Greg Rosenthal's

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Speaker 1: got him and he can discuss what does nuke mean

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Speaker 1: to the Ravens.

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Speaker 2: He's on his way to the desk right now.

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Speaker 1: They're from Greg when we come back on The Insiders.

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Speaker 1: Back here on the Insiders, two of those players that

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Speaker 1: were featured on that video, amari Ku Cooper and Stephan

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Speaker 1: dig still available on Greg Rosenthal's top available free agent list,

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Speaker 1: a Marii Cooper sitting there at the absolute very top

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Speaker 1: of that list. There is one notable name that is

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Speaker 1: not featured on this particular graphic of top available free agents.

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Speaker 1: As Greg Rosenthal joins us now on the Insiders Live

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Speaker 1: in the nfl LA newsroom, that is Cooper Cup.

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Speaker 2: Why do you hate Cooper cuppri?

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Speaker 14: I love Cooper Cup. You know, Cooper Cup. Me and

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Speaker 14: my daughter very happy right across the street there. But

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Speaker 14: he's at the point of his career. I think he's

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Speaker 14: a role player. Why are you getting that after me?

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Speaker 14: He's on the list, He's like seventieth something.

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Speaker 1: He's on the list, But it's just that it finally

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Speaker 1: becomes official Cooper Cup released by the Rams.

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Speaker 2: So after the new league year starts, what's the what's

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Speaker 2: the place? Where are we putting Cooper Cup in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty five?

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Speaker 14: You know, Jacksonville, I think could make a lot of sense.

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Speaker 14: You look for a team that needs a secondary receiver,

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Speaker 14: and I think when you listen to Ian Rappaport and

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Speaker 14: the Insiders talk about his market, it is aggressive, but

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Speaker 14: you're talking about twelve, three teen million dollars, And sometimes

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Speaker 14: it's easier to accept a lesser role and lesser money

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Speaker 14: when you're not in the uniform that you helped to

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Speaker 14: bring a Super Bowl too, and so I think Cooper

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Speaker 14: Cup is entering a part of his career Seattle, which

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Speaker 14: Ian also mentioned, would make a lot of sense to me.

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Speaker 14: A secondary receiver that's gonna show you how to block,

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Speaker 14: that's gonna maybe get better coverage than he had in

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Speaker 14: the past because he's not the true number one receiver

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Speaker 14: but ultimately has looked on as a role player. I

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Speaker 14: do find it interesting though that if he signed soon,

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Speaker 14: and it sounds like it could happen because Sean McVay

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Speaker 14: has former coaches that he was with all over the league.

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Speaker 14: He's getting signed a lot quicker than some of these

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Speaker 14: other guys out there, like a Keenan Allen for instance,

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Speaker 14: or Stephan Diggs who's coming off of an injury.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if it was Seattle, there would be two revenge

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Speaker 1: games every year. So Cooper Cup that that would be

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Speaker 1: fun to see. You mentioned Stefan Diggs. There's one signing

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Speaker 1: of a veteran wide receiver that's already gone down that

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Speaker 1: is DeAndre Hopkins. So the Baltimore Ravens, how do you

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Speaker 1: feel that's going to play off?

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Speaker 14: I think he kind of like what I was talking

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Speaker 14: about with Cup, is entering a part of his career

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Speaker 14: where he is depth, and I know Patrick who's watching

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Speaker 14: those Ravens games closely. When you have an injury or

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Speaker 14: two at wide receiver. In Baltimore, it was a big

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Speaker 14: cliff drop where you maybe weren't getting as much help

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Speaker 14: from the third and the fourth receivers as you would like.

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Speaker 14: So now you bring in DeAndre Hopkins. He has an

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Speaker 14: entire offseason, unlike in Kansas City where he joined mid season,

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Speaker 14: and there is something unique about Hopkins where sometimes he's

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Speaker 14: not running the route exactly as you written it up

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Speaker 14: in the playbook. But I think with an offseason and

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Speaker 14: a quarterback that's so smart and Lamar Jackson, these two

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Speaker 14: guys can get on the same page and he seems

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Speaker 14: like a guy when the play breaks down a little

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Speaker 14: bit for Lamar and you use him in the red zone.

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Speaker 14: They're not asking him to be the one or the two.

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Speaker 14: Zay Flowers and Rashad Bateman are that and I think

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Speaker 14: it was really smart for a team that didn't have

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Speaker 14: a lot of cap space but got some good depth

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Speaker 14: at an important position.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as you mentioned, it's a skill set that's not

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Speaker 1: really readily available out there. It's just six million dollars.

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Speaker 1: It will probably be a little bit hire of a

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Speaker 1: pay day for Amari Cooper coming off of what was

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Speaker 1: a disappointing finish to his season in Buffalo double some

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Speaker 1: injuries as well.

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Speaker 2: He's number one on your board? How long are we

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Speaker 2: going to be looking at him?

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Speaker 15: Mark?

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Speaker 14: He's eleven, He's just sitting up there. He's the only

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Speaker 14: guy left in the top twenty. Did I overrate him?

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Speaker 2: Or do you believe it could be?

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Speaker 1: It could be the GMS that are wrong, or perhaps

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Speaker 1: Amari is taking his time. Notably, not one of the

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Speaker 1: top available quarterbacks in years is making everybody wait?

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Speaker 2: So why can an a Mark Cooper?

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Speaker 8: Why not?

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Speaker 14: I asked the NFL general managers, Like, why do you

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Speaker 14: guys hate Amari Cooper so much? Maybe in this theory

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Speaker 14: was thrown out there by our friend Steve, which Amari

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Speaker 14: Cooper kind of You know, he does what he wants

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Speaker 14: to do. He just might not be that interested in

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Speaker 14: signing early in free agency. He'll pick up team when

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Speaker 14: he wants to pick a team. He's already made a

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Speaker 14: lot of money in his career. He has a one

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Speaker 14: year on, one year off tendency to his career, and

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Speaker 14: so that would actually make twenty twenty five one of

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Speaker 14: the on years. A little up and down as a player,

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Speaker 14: but he fought through injuries to be on the field

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Speaker 14: for the Bills. I think there are still good years

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Speaker 14: left for a Mari Cooper. And so you look at

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Speaker 14: the entire market, I don't know if there's anyone that

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Speaker 14: I see as a locked in number two type of

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Speaker 14: receiver that's out there except for Amar Cooper. So I

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Speaker 14: think he could find a team. The Jets are a

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Speaker 14: team for any wide receiver that's out there. I think

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Speaker 14: would be an intriguing fit because they could use one

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Speaker 14: or two.

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Speaker 1: Now it becomes a problem because Stefan Diggs had the

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Speaker 1: injury later on in the season, but still a valuable

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Speaker 1: receiver who was contributing a big part to the Texans

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Speaker 1: last year.

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Speaker 2: What is the story for him.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, he's coming off of a serious injury and that's

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Speaker 14: probably affecting his market. I think the Houston Texans would

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Speaker 14: like to bring Stefan Diggs back. And if you watch

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Speaker 14: Stefan Diggs last year, I think it showed that he

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Speaker 14: was ready to transition to a new phase of.

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Speaker 8: His career, mostly as a slot receiver.

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Speaker 14: There you see him beating Christian Gonzales, who was on

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Speaker 14: the All Pro team, one on one. Just the quickness

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Speaker 14: that he has. You don't need long speed necessarily to

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Speaker 14: win in the way that Stefan Diggs wins. And I

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Speaker 14: still think that route running ability, that savvy. They're using

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Speaker 14: him as a running back back in Houston, and I

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Speaker 14: think the willingness to kind of accept the role that

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Speaker 14: he's going to be, which is going to be as

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Speaker 14: an inside receiver. I think he can extend his career

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Speaker 14: for a while. And maybe he's not someone that comes

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Speaker 14: off the board right away. He waits for the perfect fit.

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Speaker 14: The Green Bay Packers are a team I think that

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Speaker 14: could be adding another receiver at some point and it's

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Speaker 14: not going to cost you too much. Coming off the injury.

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Speaker 14: I still like Stefan Diggs in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the receiving court really when Diggs went down as

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Speaker 1: well as Tank Dell, the long term aspirations of the

663
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Speaker 1: Texans kind of got dead in the water.

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Speaker 2: We'll see what happens with the future.

665
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Speaker 1: And if you want to just watch the signings roll

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Speaker 1: in while looking at Greg Rosenthal's top one O one

667
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Speaker 1: that's how free agency should be consumed. Go to NFL

668
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Speaker 1: dot com slash Rosenthal to see all of Greg's hard

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Speaker 1: work and some of these guys, some of the quarterbacks,

670
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Speaker 1: All the quarterbacks that carousel featured in the top one

671
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Speaker 1: on one. Geno Smith gets traded to be with his

672
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Speaker 1: old coach in Las Vegas. Sam Darnold moves to Seattle,

673
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Speaker 1: taking Gino's play. A three year, one hundred million dollar

674
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Speaker 1: deal gets fifty five guaranteed. After a great comeback season

675
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Speaker 1: last year, Justin Field's got bench still able to get

676
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Speaker 1: a starting spot two year, forty million dollars deal with

677
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Speaker 1: the Jets. Kenny Pickett making his way onto the carousel

678
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Speaker 1: agains not like the.

679
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Speaker 2: Other hey, Kenny Thickets still making it, so does the pastornap.

680
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Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs goes to Greg Rosenthal's beloved Do England Patriots

681
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Speaker 1: three point eight million dollars guaranteed.

682
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Speaker 2: How about Zach Wilson on.

683
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Speaker 1: His way to Miami after it appears the quarterback battle

684
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: finally won for backup in Denver and Danny Dimes a

685
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Speaker 1: one year deal thirteen point one million dollars guaranteed with

686
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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts. Let's look at some more quarterback circumstances

687
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Speaker 1: with our NFL Network insiders.

688
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Speaker 3: Some of the top quarterbacks available on bearded Greg Rosenthal's

689
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 3: list of the top quarterbacks that were available in free agency.

690
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 3: One person who is not on that list because he's

691
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Speaker 3: not a free agent is Kirk Cousins, who is under

692
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Speaker 3: contract for three more years. He's due twenty seven point

693
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Speaker 3: five million dollars fully guaranteed in twenty twenty five. Another

694
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Speaker 3: ten million dollars would vest on Sunday if he's going

695
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Speaker 3: to be on the roster, but that's twenty twenty six

696
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Speaker 3: base salary. Falcons seem to figure Judy that if he's

697
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Speaker 3: played in twenty twenty six, we're not going to end

698
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Speaker 3: up paid it anyway, So who cares? It really seems

699
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Speaker 3: as if they're serious about continuing to hold on to

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Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins, who, let's also remember, has a no trade clause.

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Speaker 4: Take me through the nuts and bolts this. How does

702
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Speaker 4: this whole thing play out?

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Speaker 8: Well, let's go back a little bit.

704
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Speaker 9: Was it like about a week ago that Kirk Cousins

705
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Speaker 9: asked for and got a meeting with team owner Arthur

706
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Speaker 9: Blank and expressed his presumably displeasure with the current situation

707
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Speaker 9: and said he wants to be with a contender. He

708
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Speaker 9: wants to be someplace where he can start. Okay, except

709
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Speaker 9: that doesn't seem to be what the Falcons have top

710
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 9: of mind. Their priority, of course, is doing what is

711
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Speaker 9: best for the Atlanta Falcons, and in their mind what's

712
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Speaker 9: best for the Atlanta Falcons right now is to hold

713
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Speaker 9: on to Kirk Cousins, presumably wait for trade opportunities to

714
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Speaker 9: come along, although they have also said publicly that they're

715
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Speaker 9: perfectly happy to go forward with Kirk Cousins on the

716
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Speaker 9: roster now. Of course, Michael Pennix is the starting quarterback.

717
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Speaker 9: He got the starting job midway through last season when

718
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Speaker 9: things went south for Kirk Cousins, and they're happy with

719
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Speaker 9: Michael Pennix. They should be happy with Michael Pennix. He

720
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Speaker 9: is only in his second year in the NFL and

721
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Speaker 9: he is on the rise. It would seem to me

722
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Speaker 9: to be an incredibly awkward and not really productive situation

723
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Speaker 9: for anybody for Kirk Cousins to still be on the roster,

724
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Speaker 9: least of all Michael Pennix.

725
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Speaker 8: But here we are.

726
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Speaker 9: He is on the roster right now, and there are

727
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Speaker 9: certainly teams out there that could use Kirk Cousins and

728
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Speaker 9: would be interested in him if he were available, but

729
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Speaker 9: not quite yet.

730
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Speaker 7: The question, Judy is how long do the Falcons want

731
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Speaker 7: to carry out the fake here? And I say, you know,

732
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Speaker 7: I think carry out a fake because I just I

733
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Speaker 7: don't see and you alluded to this, why Kirk Cousins

734
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Speaker 7: being a backup on this team would be beneficial for

735
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Speaker 7: everybody involved.

736
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Speaker 6: It doesn't seem like it would be.

737
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Speaker 7: So you can this maybe up to and perhaps through

738
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Speaker 7: the draft.

739
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Speaker 4: And I know that I've mentioned this.

740
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Speaker 7: Kirk Cousins has that no trade clause and doesn't want

741
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Speaker 7: to happen to him this year what happened to him

742
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Speaker 7: last year, which was going to a team, and then

743
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Speaker 7: that team drafts a quarterback. So you can protect yourself

744
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 7: against that by blocking any and all trades through the draft.

745
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Speaker 7: The question is to the Falcons hold, I mean, it

746
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 7: doesn't hurt them right now. He probably wouldn't show up

747
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 7: for anything in the spring, which is fine, And then

748
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Speaker 7: you carry it through the draft and then oh, team

749
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Speaker 7: missed out on a quarterback or you know there's still

750
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Speaker 7: an opportunity. Well, let's go see if we can trade

751
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Speaker 7: for Kirk Cousins at that point, and then if you're

752
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,439
Speaker 7: the Falcons, you're getting picks next year and what many

753
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 7: considered to be a better draft anyway. So all these

754
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Speaker 7: factors combined for me to think that Kirk Cousins is

755
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 7: not going anywhere anytime soon, and then perhaps with a

756
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Speaker 7: chance to start somewhere once we get through the draft.

757
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Speaker 5: You want to talk about carrying out the fake, let's

758
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 5: talk about it. The Atlanta Falcons, who are already paying

759
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 5: the salary anyway, can carry out this fake as long

760
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Speaker 5: as they want. Mike, let's close the door of your

761
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Speaker 5: off well.

762
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Speaker 6: People come in it.

763
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Speaker 4: I will clos's how loud they are.

764
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Speaker 6: No, close the door, office lock, it's worktime. It's fine anyway.

765
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Speaker 5: They can carry out the fake as long as they

766
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Speaker 5: want because they're already paying the salary. No matter what,

767
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 5: the Falcons are paying the salary for Kirk Cousin. He

768
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Speaker 5: could be the backup quarterback, no big deal. He could

769
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Speaker 5: be the backup quarterback till September when someone else sustains

770
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Speaker 5: a quarterback injury and they're like, hello, we got a guy,

771
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Speaker 5: send us a third round pick for a starting quarterback,

772
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Speaker 5: and here we go. They can do this for as

773
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Speaker 5: long as they want, because it doesn't hurt them at

774
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Speaker 5: all once they get past Sunday. They're paying the twenty

775
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Speaker 5: seven million dollars, they're paying the ten million dollars next year,

776
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Speaker 5: and it doesn't matter because Michael Pennix is cheap and

777
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 5: they've already committed to this contract. So to me, I

778
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Speaker 5: don't think it's a fake at all. I think the

779
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 5: Falcons can carry him. I think they will carry him.

780
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Speaker 5: I think the next time Kirk Cousins changes teams it's

781
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 5: gonna be when someone trades for him. And if I'm wrong,

782
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 5: you're gonna be posting this an old takes exposed anyway,

783
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Speaker 5: for the second year in a.

784
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Speaker 1: Row, late discussions regarding Matthew Stafford remaining in Los Angeles

785
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: worked out with the quarterback remaining in Los Angeles with

786
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: restructure of the Stafford deal that pushes the decision ahead

787
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Speaker 1: to next.

788
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 2: Year once again.

789
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Speaker 1: As Matthew Stafford was on the New Heights podcast with

790
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: Travis and Jason Kelcey to discuss twenty twenty five.

791
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Speaker 2: You finally got yeah, the elephant out of the room

792
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 2: of the offseason.

793
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Speaker 16: I guess yes, that was a little nerve wracking there

794
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 16: for a little bit, just trying to figure out what

795
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,280
Speaker 16: was going to go down, but happy to be back

796
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 16: wharing you know, Rams Colors, playing the so far doing

797
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 16: the thing.

798
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Speaker 2: Hell yeah, hell yeah, Ma.

799
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Speaker 1: What was ultimately did the siding factor to come back

800
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Speaker 1: and resign with LA.

801
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Speaker 16: I think it was kind of a joint process, right, Like,

802
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 16: it wasn't just I wasn't a free agent. You know,

803
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Speaker 16: I still had two years left on my deal, and

804
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 16: we kind of worked something out last year, you know,

805
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 16: at the eleventh hour to kind of figured it out

806
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 16: right for a training camp, with the understanding that Okay,

807
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 16: we're going to come back and readdress this if I

808
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 16: want to play again the next year. Obviously there was

809
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 16: some trade rumors and some things like that. A little

810
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 16: bit tough on your family, just because you don't really

811
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 16: know what's going to be next. I remember, sure when

812
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Speaker 16: I was getting traded from Detroit to LA really a

813
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 16: couple weeks before that, you know, I'd made it known

814
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Speaker 16: that I wanted to be traded from Detroit. And I

815
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 16: can't tell you how much time I spent on Zillo

816
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 16: at that point, looking at houses in.

817
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Speaker 6: India there and all these places back then, right and.

818
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Speaker 16: I'm sitting there going, man, where am I gonna be?

819
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 16: Where my kids going to school? All this kind of

820
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 16: stuff a little bit of a similar situation, just because

821
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 16: what was out there and what was going on?

822
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Speaker 1: All right, We had some titles available for those of

823
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,240
Speaker 1: you who can't deal with Ohio in Texas Accents Omar

824
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 1: Ruiz in studio with us on The Insiders to discuss

825
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:26,800
Speaker 1: the Rams as well as the rest of the division.

826
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Speaker 1: Uh So, we had Cooper Cup on the show earlier

827
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,399
Speaker 1: today about how he's looking for a spot. They release him,

828
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Speaker 1: but they bring in Davonte Adams. Omark, what's gonna be

829
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Speaker 1: left for Devonte? For Matthew Stafford to load them.

830
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Speaker 2: Up with targets.

831
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Speaker 17: I think it's an exciting pairing when you talk about

832
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:45,359
Speaker 17: Matthew Stafford and the Rams and how they took Philadelphia

833
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 17: Eagles to the brink in the divisional round during the

834
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 17: playoffs this past season, and now they add Davonte Adams

835
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Speaker 17: and what are they getting in Davonte Adams. I'm gonna

836
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Speaker 17: read you a list here, Patrick Garrett, Carr, Jarrett Stidham,

837
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Speaker 17: Aid and O'Connell, Jimmy Garo, Brian Hoyer, and Gardner Minshew.

838
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Speaker 17: Those were the six different quarterbacks he paid with in

839
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Speaker 17: the two plus seasons in Las Vegas, and he goes

840
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Speaker 17: with Aaron Rodgers and he still produces with those quarterbacks

841
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Speaker 17: in Vegas. Goes to Aaron Rodgers for eleven games, sixty

842
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Speaker 17: seven catches, eight hundred and fifty four yards, and seven touchdowns.

843
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Speaker 17: When you project that out to a full season, that's

844
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Speaker 17: more than one hundred catches, better than thirteen hundred yards

845
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Speaker 17: eleven touchdowns. So you had the experience there of him

846
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Speaker 17: essentially being maybe a number two receiver opposite Garrett Wilson

847
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Speaker 17: in New York. Now he comes to Los Angeles opposite

848
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Speaker 17: Puka Nakua, and there you see him still getting past defenses,

849
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Speaker 17: still getting out of the brakes, creating separation as good

850
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Speaker 17: as he's ever been, seemingly so. Now to factor that

851
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,720
Speaker 17: into the Rams, who were already a confident group going

852
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 17: into twenty twenty five, to add a talent like Devonte

853
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 17: Adams another sign that they are going all in and

854
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 17: going for it in twenty five for the Super Bowl and.

855
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Speaker 2: Beyond, yeah, and elsewhere in the division.

856
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Speaker 1: Omar a team that has been in contention for you's

857
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Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine Ersnics. Good buddy, Kyle Shanahana

858
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: seen a departure of talent just this week. Twn no Hufunga,

859
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: Dre Greenlaw, juice check, Deebo Samuel trade. That trade becomes official.

860
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Speaker 1: So where's the positivity? What can folks in Santa Clara

861
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Speaker 1: look for too?

862
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 17: Yeah, I'm mister optimist, right because the Niners, you look

863
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,800
Speaker 17: at all that roster depletion and they were six and eleven,

864
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 17: the windows closed, the sky is falling. But when you

865
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Speaker 17: look at that offense, and this is all accounting for

866
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Speaker 17: Christian McCaffrey, Trent Williams, Brandon Ayuk all coming back healthy,

867
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Speaker 17: that offense is still going to go through those guys.

868
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Speaker 4: Not to mention George Kittle.

869
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Speaker 17: You saw that they signed DeMarcus Robinson to add to

870
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Speaker 17: the wide receiver room with Jawan Jennings and Ricky Piersall

871
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 17: as well, all that talent around Brock Pritty. So theoretically

872
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 17: with Kyle Shanahan, he's going to have loads of talent

873
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Speaker 17: to operate with on offense. Defensively, obviously, Robert Salad now

874
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 17: their fourth defensive coordinator in four seasons. Remember when he

875
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Speaker 17: first took over with the forty nine ers in twenty

876
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Speaker 17: seen took them a couple of years before they gained

877
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Speaker 17: that form that got them to the Super Bowl, became

878
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Speaker 17: one of the top defenses around guys like Fred Warner there,

879
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 17: Dre Greenlaw became stars under his tutelage. Nick Bosa was

880
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Speaker 17: a draft pick there under Robert Sala. Now he has

881
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Speaker 17: players like diamed Or leonor Fred Warner, nick Bosa to

882
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Speaker 17: build around. So they have those four picks in the

883
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Speaker 17: top one hundred. The youth movement we should see on

884
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Speaker 17: defense as the forty nine ers go forward, and they

885
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Speaker 17: shouldn't need a couple of years. They're obviously pleased with

886
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 17: guys like Maligue Mustafa last year coming on as a rookie.

887
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 17: So a lot to build around with the forty nine ers,

888
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Speaker 17: both offensively and defensively when you look at the pieces

889
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Speaker 17: that are already in place.

890
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Speaker 2: So perhaps this.

891
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Speaker 17: Guy is not falling as dramatically as it seems to be.

892
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 4: In Santa Clara.

893
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 1: Y always just jarring to see the guys that have

894
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 1: been a part of such a great run in Niners sistory,

895
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: And yeah they didn't necessarily complete the task, but still

896
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Speaker 1: worth celebrating considering what.

897
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Speaker 4: They were able to do.

898
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Speaker 17: And when I went down that list and you think

899
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Speaker 17: about all the names that we're talking about that left,

900
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 17: it really is remarkable how much talent they've had on

901
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 17: those teams and why they went to four NFC Championship

902
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:09,800
Speaker 17: games in five years, including a couple.

903
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Speaker 1: Of Super Bowls, and John Lynch and company a part

904
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: of building that team, perhaps an opportunity to build this team.

905
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,839
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has made a decision at some point in his.

906
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Speaker 2: Past, but when's he make the run? It's coming up

907
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,760
Speaker 2: at this point as a teams. We got that next

908
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Speaker 2: here on The Insiders on NFL Network. After years as.

909
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: The Rams top option, Cooper Cup will have some options

910
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 1: in free agency. What are the potential landing spots for

911
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 1: the former Triple Crown whinner? We hit that on this

912
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Speaker 1: hour of The Insiders, and speaking of options, Aaron Rodgers

913
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 1: has a few, not as many as he once did,

914
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 1: but the weight continues for the former Packer and soon

915
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 1: to be former Jet Which neighborhood will he inhabit?

916
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 2: We asked that question to our Insiders.

917
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: And Russell Wilson scheduling some trips around the NFL one

918
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Speaker 1: team in the AFC, one team in the NFC. Could

919
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 1: he be added to the quarterback carousel as we get

920
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Speaker 1: through one.

921
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 2: It's been a frenzied start to the.

922
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: Free agency period, and congratulations to our NFL Network insiders

923
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: Tom Pelisaro Rapport, Judy Batista and Mike Garrifola who have

924
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Speaker 1: held it together maintain their relationships despite this frenzy period.

925
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 1: TBD on those relationships, as we've had a bit of fun.

926
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Speaker 1: Yeah seeah on this edition of the Insiders. We continue

927
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Speaker 1: though to look at these stories. Yes, new today coming

928
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Speaker 1: into the nfl LA newsroom as the new league year

929
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Speaker 1: did begin at at.

930
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Speaker 2: Four o'clock Eastern today.

931
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Speaker 1: The release of Cooper Cup, the former Triple Crown winner

932
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Speaker 1: for the Los Angeles Rams, did become official after eight seasons.

933
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Speaker 1: As the offenses proliferated around the NFL, should not be

934
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Speaker 1: a shortage of teams interested in acquiring his services. Elsewhere,

935
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: the New York Jets expected to release Aaron Rodgers, with

936
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Speaker 1: a couple of teams still looking for a starting quarterbacks

937
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Speaker 1: still in play, still waiting for a decision from Aaron Rodgers,

938
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Speaker 1: and another quarterback set to take some visits this week.

939
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson visiting with the Browns and coming up later

940
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 1: on in the week the New York Giants, as the

941
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:30,879
Speaker 1: former Bronco Seahawk and Steeler quarterback is.

942
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:32,720
Speaker 2: Looking for his new spot.

943
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,839
Speaker 1: Let's get over to our NFL Network insiders for more

944
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,439
Speaker 1: on some quarterbacks as well as Cooper Cup.

945
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:41,360
Speaker 4: Thank you very much, Patrick.

946
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,760
Speaker 3: This is the first time as a four pm Eastern

947
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 3: that free agents can take visits that's not allowed during.

948
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 4: The negotiating windows.

949
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 3: So here we are Ian and one of the least

950
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 3: highest profile free agents still on the board, Russell Wilson

951
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 3: about to get some frequent flyer miles.

952
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 5: What do we know, Well, I don't know if Russell

953
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 5: Wilson's going to get frequent flower mouths. Might be flying

954
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 5: in private, might fly himself private. There's actually a lot

955
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Speaker 5: of options, so we'll see. I mean, is he gonna

956
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 5: get upgraded from comfort plus to anyway? We'll figure all

957
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 5: that out later as we do a little more reporting

958
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 5: into this. But the most important thing is that Russell

959
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 5: Wilson is going to visit the Browns and the Giants

960
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 5: this week. Kind of an old school free agency situation.

961
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,320
Speaker 5: Rarely now do players take visits.

962
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 6: Almost never unless there's some sort of an injury concerned.

963
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 5: Maybe that'll be the case, take a visit, get a medical,

964
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:28,319
Speaker 5: and then do a deal.

965
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 6: This is not the case.

966
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,839
Speaker 5: Is Russell Wilson has been waiting like all of us

967
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Speaker 5: on Aaron Rodgers to decide where's going to go.

968
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Speaker 6: Is it gonna be the New York Giants? Is it

969
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 6: going to be the Steelers.

970
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 5: Wilson seems to be the backup option for both of

971
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 5: those places, but he also has other options, and the

972
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 5: Browns really are an intriguing option. They traded for Kenny Pickett,

973
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 5: they have the number two overall pick. They may take

974
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Speaker 5: a quarterback, they may not. If Russell Wilson signs, you

975
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 5: would think that it makes it less likely they would

976
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Speaker 5: take a quarterback. And it does seem like Russell Wilson's

977
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 5: a pretty strong op for them if he wants to

978
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 5: come in and start, if he wants to really fight

979
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:06,399
Speaker 5: for playing time and have the best opportunity for playing time,

980
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:07,760
Speaker 5: the Browns might make.

981
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Speaker 2: The most sense.

982
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 6: This is certainly one to watch.

983
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:12,760
Speaker 5: In the fact that Russell Wilson has taking some trips

984
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:14,839
Speaker 5: this week, I think spices it up a little bit, you.

985
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 7: Know, the Browns, I know, the Browns are looking at

986
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 7: different routes to get to the quarterback position, to attack

987
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 7: the quarterback position, maybe more of an entrenched veteran or

988
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 7: a veteran that's longer in the tooth. I would say

989
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 7: that would be Russell Wilson versus Kenny Pickett, who is

990
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 7: more of a younger veteran. And then there's the developmental

991
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 7: potential for a quarterback or a reclamation project. I heard

992
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 7: that they were looking at some of those options as well.

993
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 7: Plus they've got the Shawan Watson coming off that double

994
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,880
Speaker 7: achilles injury here. So Russell Wilson's looking at this and

995
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 7: seeing an opportunity with a competitive team, you know, a

996
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:54,240
Speaker 7: team that won three games last year, but the year.

997
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Speaker 2: Before was in the playoffs.

998
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 7: And yeah, I think he's got the shot to go

999
00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 7: in there and compete, and he's looking at it as

1000
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 7: a legitimate opportunity for him.

1001
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:01,839
Speaker 4: So let's see how this one goes.

1002
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,720
Speaker 9: Yeah, the entry of the Browns into the Russell Wilson

1003
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 9: stace is certainly a twist because earlier in the day

1004
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 9: it seemed that the Steelers and the Giants were waiting

1005
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 9: for Aaron Rodgers and whoever didn't get Aaron Rodgers would

1006
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,319
Speaker 9: then turn to Russell Wilson. Of course, Russell Wilson had

1007
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:22,760
Speaker 9: already been with the Steelers last year and that seemed

1008
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 9: to fit so neatly. And now, of course here come

1009
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 9: the Cleveland Browns into the mix, and they can sell

1010
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 9: Russell Wilson on something the other two can't. The other

1011
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 9: two are like, well, you're our contingency plan, so just

1012
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 9: sit tight. But the Browns can say, hey, we want

1013
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,320
Speaker 9: you to be our starting quarterback. Even if we draft

1014
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 9: a rookie, you could still be the starting quarterback if

1015
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 9: we want to keep the rookie on the bench to

1016
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 9: learn for a little bit. And as Ian pointed out,

1017
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,760
Speaker 9: maybe it makes it less likely that they would draft

1018
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 9: a quarterback in the first round, and then it's probably

1019
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,320
Speaker 9: Russell Wilson's starting job for this season. I mean, maybe

1020
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 9: they have a competition in name with Kenny Pickett, but

1021
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 9: you would expect that Russ Wilson would win that competition.

1022
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 9: So that is a very intriguing option for Russell Wilson

1023
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 9: to consider. We will see how it plays out. But again,

1024
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,880
Speaker 9: I think the entry of the Cleveland Browns certainly throws

1025
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:14,919
Speaker 9: a wrench into what had seemed to be a very

1026
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 9: clean plan with the Giants and Steelers.

1027
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 3: Let's talk about Aaron Rodgers, who kind of is the

1028
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 3: lynchpin to this entire thing getting moving here. Judy for

1029
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 3: Rogers officially released once the new league year began this afternoon.

1030
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 3: So how does this thing play out with one of

1031
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:35,240
Speaker 3: the NFL's mystery men.

1032
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:38,279
Speaker 8: Slowly, That is how it is playing out.

1033
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:42,800
Speaker 9: It is playing out slowly, totally, not entirely a surprise.

1034
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 8: This is how.

1035
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 9: Aaron Rodgers operates. He is very deliberate, He takes his time.

1036
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 9: You can't really blame him. He's got a lot to

1037
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 9: think about, including the fact that, I mean even retirement

1038
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 9: is an option. Theoretically we think he wants to play,

1039
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 9: but he could theoretically retire if he doesn't really like

1040
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 9: his options right now. But he's got what looked to

1041
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:03,760
Speaker 9: be two teams that are interested in him, the Giants

1042
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:06,800
Speaker 9: and the Steelers. He has to weigh where he wants

1043
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 9: to be, what he's most comfortable with, who he's most

1044
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:13,399
Speaker 9: comfortable with, And the fact that it's taking a long

1045
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,799
Speaker 9: time again should not be any surprise. There's no deadline here.

1046
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:20,359
Speaker 9: I mean, there's nothing in like the league calendar that

1047
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 9: forces a decision. So unless the Steelers or the Giants

1048
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 9: give him an ultimatum, which neither one of them are

1049
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 9: going to do. Unless they give him an ultimatum like

1050
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 9: this could keep going, He could keep taking his time.

1051
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,439
Speaker 9: There's again, and there's a picture out there of him

1052
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 9: walking on the beach, wrapped in a towel with his

1053
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:42,360
Speaker 9: headphones in. He looks very chill, looks like he's enjoying himself.

1054
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 9: I mean, the fact that we're all stressed out does

1055
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 9: not seem to be impacting Aaron Rodgers' decision making timeline.

1056
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think he cares.

1057
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:49,879
Speaker 2: Judy.

1058
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 5: I was talking to so pretty well connected on on

1059
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers today and I was like, well, obviously it's

1060
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 5: going to be today because it's the start of the

1061
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 5: league year.

1062
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,240
Speaker 6: And the response I got was you think he cares?

1063
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 6: And I'm sure he does not.

1064
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:03,839
Speaker 5: I think he's more concerned with being on a beach

1065
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 5: and wrap him the towel. That's a good call right there,

1066
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,399
Speaker 5: and just kind of relaxing and working his way through

1067
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 5: his decision. And I understand it is a consequential decision.

1068
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:15,479
Speaker 5: It is he gonna go be the quarterback of one

1069
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 5: storied franchise or another storied franchise, or go be the

1070
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 5: quarterback of nothing and go into retirement and go join

1071
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 5: his friend Pat mcabee.

1072
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 6: A lot of really good options for Aaron Rodgers.

1073
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 5: But the reality is though two franchises are just waiting,

1074
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 5: you know, really nothing they can do.

1075
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 4: But wait.

1076
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 5: I don't get the sense either of them are gonna

1077
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 5: give him a deadline or tell him, hey, we need

1078
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:37,319
Speaker 5: this now or else. There's nowhere else because where we're

1079
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:40,360
Speaker 5: at now is there's two quarterbacks left to where starters

1080
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 5: as Russell Wilson and Aaron Rodgers. Rogers obviously one A

1081
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:46,319
Speaker 5: and nobody can poke him or produm to get going.

1082
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 6: So we'll get a decision. Will we get a decision?

1083
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 5: I don't know how that's gonna happen, Maybe through us,

1084
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 5: But until then we're just gonna wait on Aaron.

1085
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:56,760
Speaker 6: Rodgers, which we've been doing for the last several weeks.

1086
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:00,040
Speaker 7: The thing I do wonder is if he sees some

1087
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:01,839
Speaker 7: of these other guys in the potential for a move

1088
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 7: to be if he if A factors into his decision

1089
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 7: and timing at all, Like if he's looking at the

1090
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 7: Giants meeting with Russell Wilson.

1091
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 2: I don't think so.

1092
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 7: I think he's just going to go on his own timeline,

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Speaker 7: whatever that may be. Ian you, we talked about this

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Speaker 7: being the day where everybody said, oh, today is decision day.

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Speaker 7: I don't know what even spurred that, is the fact

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Speaker 7: that it was the start of the league year.

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Speaker 8: I have no idea, but I read that this morning.

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Speaker 7: I thought, like everybody I talked to says, they have

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Speaker 7: no idea when this is going to come. We don't

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Speaker 7: even know if Rogers knows when it's going to come. Look,

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Speaker 7: he's taking this time. He he You can criticize Aaron

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Speaker 7: Rodgers for a lot of things. Maybe he's not your

1103
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:39,319
Speaker 7: kind of guy in a lot of ways, but he

1104
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Speaker 7: does take his time when he makes decisions, and he

1105
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 7: thinks through them thoroughly. And that's what he's doing again here,

1106
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Speaker 7: trying to figure out what the next step is for

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Speaker 7: him in his NFL career.

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Speaker 4: We'll see how long it thinks.

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Speaker 3: There are some other people who have made decisions even

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Speaker 3: in the past twenty four hours.

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Speaker 4: So a lot of news throughout the course of the.

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Speaker 3: Day, including some of the guys who got released quickly

1113
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 3: landing on new deals We'll start out with Javon Hargrave.

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Speaker 3: I I reported a day or two ago, who knows

1115
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 3: what day of the week it is right now that

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00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 3: they were closing on a deal with Minnesota once his

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00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 3: release from the forty nine Ers became official.

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Speaker 4: That happened this afternoon.

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00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:17,280
Speaker 3: Hargrave now locked in on a two year, thirty million

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Speaker 3: dollar deal, now joining forces with Jonathan Allen, the former

1121
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Speaker 3: Washington commander who also signed a multi year deal with

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Speaker 3: Minnesota in a lot bigger and they hope more physical

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Speaker 3: upfront Dean.

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Speaker 5: Who's also a deal for another player who was a

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Speaker 5: post June one designation, and that's Darius Slay, the former

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Speaker 5: Eagles cornerback who has been in the league for a

1127
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:40,800
Speaker 5: long time, has been one of the best cornerbacks in

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Speaker 5: the NFL for a long time, and talk publicly about

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Speaker 5: how he just wanted to play one more year, maybe

1130
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Speaker 5: might even go back to Detroit, which seemed to be

1131
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:50,839
Speaker 5: the feel good store here. Instead, he does actually kind

1132
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 5: of the same thing that Patrick Peterson did, which is

1133
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Speaker 5: go to the Steelers for what is likely his final year,

1134
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:59,719
Speaker 5: for a strong, fully guaranteed deal to come in and

1135
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 5: really be the final piece of a team that's ready

1136
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 5: to compete. As we may or may not have mentioned,

1137
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 5: we don't know who the Steelers quarterback is. Maybe we'll

1138
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 5: find out at some point soon, but until then we

1139
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 5: know this. Their defense is going to be balling. They

1140
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:14,279
Speaker 5: always are, and Slay still can do it. So add

1141
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Speaker 5: his one year, fully guaranteed ten million dollars to the

1142
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Speaker 5: thing and.

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Speaker 6: Send them loose in Pittsburgh. And that's a really solid addition.

1144
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Speaker 7: Late in free agency, in news that in news that

1145
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:27,360
Speaker 7: has hit since we just started this segment.

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Speaker 18: Rico Dowdell, Uncle, Rico, Rico Swellbey, whatever you want to

1147
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 18: do with the Rico there, the running back that was

1148
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 18: formerly with the Cowboys headed to the Panthers one year

1149
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 18: up to six point two five million.

1150
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:40,799
Speaker 7: Sources tell the Insiders, Tom is busy hosting the show,

1151
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 7: so he's getting all these texts and just then to

1152
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 7: have a time to post them. Sources tell the Insiders

1153
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:50,000
Speaker 7: that deal they're replacing Miles Sanders, who couldn't work out

1154
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:53,359
Speaker 7: a restructure there headed to the free agent market so

1155
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 7: he might land elsewhere. Meanwhile, Dowdell slots in behind Cuba Hubbard,

1156
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 7: a deal that happened early tight end Evan Ingram, and

1157
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:04,239
Speaker 7: I call him tight end even though he's sort of

1158
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 7: a tight end slash wide receiver and always has been.

1159
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 7: But that's okay because it works well in Sean Payton's offense.

1160
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:12,880
Speaker 7: He signed a two year, twenty three million dollar contract.

1161
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:15,720
Speaker 7: I gotta be honest. When he left the Broncos building

1162
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:17,880
Speaker 7: after visiting and headed to the Chargers, I said, oh,

1163
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 7: I don't think it's going to.

1164
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 4: Happen in Denver.

1165
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 7: But Denver looked up and said, well, we'd rather have

1166
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 7: him playing for us or for our arrival in the

1167
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 7: AFC West. They said, you know what, how the sixteen

1168
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:29,959
Speaker 7: and a half million fully guaranteed sound. So Evan Ingram

1169
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 7: heading into Sean Payton's offense where he could be incredibly

1170
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Speaker 7: productive this upcoming season.

1171
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Speaker 8: Bo Nicks, you should be very happy.

1172
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Speaker 9: And after eleven seasons with the Dallas Cowboys. This happened

1173
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:45,400
Speaker 9: earlier today. DeMarcus Lawrence is headed to the Seattle Seahawks.

1174
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:48,880
Speaker 9: It's a three year deal with eighteen million guaranteed. He

1175
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:52,320
Speaker 9: is a four time Pro Bowl defensive end. He played

1176
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 9: in just four games last season. I think he suffered

1177
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:57,840
Speaker 9: a foot spring against the New York Giants. He probably

1178
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 9: could have returned late in the season if the Cowboys

1179
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 9: had a more relevant season and it made a push

1180
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:04,760
Speaker 9: into the playoffs. They did not, so he was shut

1181
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:06,720
Speaker 9: down for the rest of the year. He's a really

1182
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 9: versatile defensive end. He can rush the passer, he can

1183
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 9: stop the running as sixty one and a half career

1184
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 9: sacks now joining the Seattle Seahawks.

1185
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 8: As they move forward.

1186
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:18,680
Speaker 9: We have talked an awful lot about the exits from Seattle.

1187
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:19,880
Speaker 8: This is an arrival.

1188
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:22,760
Speaker 4: And here's another addition.

1189
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Speaker 3: Mark wez Valdez Scanting, the veteran wide receiver, also headed

1190
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:29,399
Speaker 3: to Seattle. It is a one year deal worth up

1191
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 3: to five point five million.

1192
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:33,359
Speaker 4: Got to the Saints for the end of last season. Show.

1193
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:35,919
Speaker 3: He's still got the Spain scored four touchdowns with him.

1194
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 3: Seattle's got a vision here as they really make over

1195
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 3: that offense with Sam Darnold now at quarterback. So much news, Patrick,

1196
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:44,920
Speaker 3: it's even coming down men's segment.

1197
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 4: You never know.

1198
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 3: We still got like another what forty six minutes or

1199
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Speaker 3: so here who knows? Who knows what we'll have by

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Speaker 3: the end of the show.

1201
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 2: Now here on the zarts.

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00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 1: What's noon today into the NFL LA Newsroom, NFL Network

1203
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 1: Ittsider again, Rapper what reporting?

1204
00:54:55,719 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 2: Levi on Zerique just off a good year staying with Detroit.

1205
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 1: Oh, it's coming back from a back injury that Adam

1206
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 1: kind of hurt from a couple of seasons, but in

1207
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four played well. It's a one year, five

1208
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 1: and a half million dollar deal for Levi odz Arique

1209
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:14,560
Speaker 1: for the division champs. Let's discuss the NFC North with

1210
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:17,759
Speaker 1: our very own Stacey Dale's good evening to Stacey. The

1211
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:21,280
Speaker 1: Lions not just bringing back on Zaike, also Marcus Davenport,

1212
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:23,759
Speaker 1: Derek Barnes back on a defense that was very, very

1213
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: hurt towards the end of the.

1214
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:26,239
Speaker 2: Year last year. How do you think it pushes them

1215
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 2: forward in twenty twenty five?

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Speaker 19: Yeah, I love that own Zerique is coming back and

1217
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 19: Derek Barnes and they're bringing back their own because they

1218
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:35,759
Speaker 19: have a really talented roster.

1219
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:37,879
Speaker 8: Unfortunately, I mean you said they were very hurt.

1220
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:40,840
Speaker 19: I think at one point, Patrick, they had like sixteen

1221
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:44,759
Speaker 19: guys on ir it was insanity and they still went

1222
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:47,320
Speaker 19: to the divisional round in the playoffs, unfortunately losing to

1223
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Speaker 19: the Washington Commanders.

1224
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:50,879
Speaker 8: But Aden Hutchinson should be healthy.

1225
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Speaker 19: Right, he's coming back from injury, Marcus Davenport coming back

1226
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:56,719
Speaker 19: from injury, Derek Barnes, who you just saw right there

1227
00:55:56,719 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 19: coming back from injury. Own Zerike is one of my

1228
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:03,280
Speaker 19: favorite Lions. But they also made a splash losing Carlton

1229
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:05,839
Speaker 19: Davis of course, the cornerback, and Iffie Mill and fonn

1230
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 19: Woom that secondary. But they made a splash bringing in

1231
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 19: DJ Reid, who kind of flew under the radar a

1232
00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:13,880
Speaker 19: little bit opposite Sauce Gardener there in New York with

1233
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:16,719
Speaker 19: the Jets. He's a feisty guy and he's going to

1234
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 19: be fun to watch opposite, paired and opposite with Terry

1235
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 19: on Arnold. A lot of changes though for these Detroit Lions.

1236
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:27,719
Speaker 19: They obviously have a new defensive coordinator in Kelvin Shephard,

1237
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 19: a new offensive coordinator in John Morton.

1238
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 8: Kevin Zeitler's gone from.

1239
00:56:32,239 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 19: Their offensive line, so we'll see how they kind of

1240
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 19: fill that hole with, which was one of the best

1241
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 19: groups in the league last year. And you know where

1242
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 19: Brad Holmes is going to do his damages in the draft.

1243
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 19: He's done such a masterful job patrick drafting. I believe

1244
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:48,359
Speaker 19: right now they have seven picks starting at twenty eight

1245
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 19: sixty and one oh two in the first, second, and

1246
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 19: third rounds. But I really feel like if they can

1247
00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:59,160
Speaker 19: stay healthy, they can improved defensively. We'll see if anything

1248
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:01,799
Speaker 19: changes inter of their scheme. The energy will be there

1249
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:04,560
Speaker 19: defensively with coach Shepherd. I know that to be true.

1250
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:07,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, And of course Dan Campbell's going to maintain

1251
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:09,880
Speaker 1: his energy as always in the rest of the division

1252
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 1: looking up trying to catch the Detroit Lions. I have

1253
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:15,760
Speaker 1: a feeling Stacy Packers fans coming off of twenty twenty.

1254
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 2: Four and free agency.

1255
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 1: They get an NFL interception leader, a former NFL leading rusher.

1256
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:22,440
Speaker 1: They're thinking, yeah, we're going to be active in twenty

1257
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 1: twenty five.

1258
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:25,200
Speaker 2: Hasn't been a lot, but they do get Aaron Banks.

1259
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 19: Yeah, they got Aaron Banks, and that's good for them

1260
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 19: because Josh Myers is now New York Jet, so their

1261
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 19: centers gone. Elton Jenkins is so versatile and has such

1262
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 19: great position flex which is something that general manager Brian

1263
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 19: Gudokunz covets always. He loves flexible offensive lineman. Aaron Banks

1264
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 19: comes in and listen. They came a ground and pound

1265
00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:51,080
Speaker 19: type team last year. You mentioned Josh Jacobs Patrick. They

1266
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:53,920
Speaker 19: did some really good things actually with their offensive line,

1267
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 19: actually pretty good protection for Jordan Love as well.

1268
00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 8: So he's a big dude man.

1269
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 19: He's going to help push three year starter there for

1270
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 19: the San Francisco forty nine ers. He's going to help

1271
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 19: them push the pocket and hold things firm in there

1272
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 19: for Jordan Love and for Josh Jacobs.

1273
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:16,040
Speaker 8: But listen, I just Cooper Cup I.

1274
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:18,720
Speaker 19: Mean, can we I know he's had some injury issues.

1275
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 19: Christian Watson isn't going to be around probably until November

1276
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 19: because of his knee injury from last season. I just

1277
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 19: am so anxious to see if the Packers can add

1278
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 19: a perennial wide receiver to this group. Brian Gudukunst has

1279
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 19: a young team. I believe it's the youngest roster in

1280
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:39,880
Speaker 19: the NFL. I'm just kind of waiting right. Like, they've

1281
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 19: got a pretty good offensive line, Walker Banks, I mentioned

1282
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:47,720
Speaker 19: Elton Jenkins, Sean Ryan and Zach Tom. We know the

1283
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:50,920
Speaker 19: running back's good, and then they're by committee with their

1284
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 19: receiver group. But to me, you know, like they could

1285
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 19: be a player or two away from being from chasing

1286
00:58:58,040 --> 00:58:59,800
Speaker 19: down the Detroit Lions to de throwing them.

1287
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:00,960
Speaker 8: It's a really good division.

1288
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 19: We saw three teams go to the playoffs last year

1289
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 19: with the Vikings in there. But like Trey Hendrickson is

1290
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 19: still available. I'm just very anxious to see how they

1291
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:14,320
Speaker 19: bolster their defensive line in Green Bay. And you know,

1292
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 19: Josh Jacobs a forget me saying it. Josh Jacobs came

1293
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:21,560
Speaker 19: out publicly and said get us number one. And that's

1294
00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:23,600
Speaker 19: no slight to the other guys. And they are by

1295
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 19: committee and they've got talent. Jayden Reid's really good and

1296
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 19: Romeo Dobbs is pretty good too.

1297
00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 8: But it'd be fun to add another name, a big name.

1298
00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:33,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, just just that one piece, because Margins are so small.

1299
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:36,160
Speaker 1: And yes, they had problems with the Philadelphia Eagles in

1300
00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:40,240
Speaker 1: the playoffs, so did everybody. It was a common problem

1301
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Stacey Dale's.

1302
00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:45,360
Speaker 8: Yes, Jeff Kalett is nodding his head in the control.

1303
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 2: Room, by the way.

1304
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we had to do a Packers segment purely

1305
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:51,640
Speaker 1: just so we could maintain Jeff Collet's attention, Stacy.

1306
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Speaker 2: So we have done that.

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Speaker 1: We've accomplished that goal. Thank you to Stacy Dale's with

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00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 1: the latest in the NFC North. The Washington Commanders also

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00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:01,880
Speaker 1: ran into the to share problems with the Philadelphia Eagles.

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Speaker 2: So they go and get nineteen of them.

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Speaker 1: The official announcement from the Commander's Twitter account the official

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Speaker 1: trade for Deebo Samuel, which was finalized as a four

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Speaker 1: o'clock Eastern today, the start of the new league year.

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Speaker 2: We'll welcome in Jeffrey Chedia.

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Speaker 1: As we discussed this week on The Insider, some winners

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01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 1: and losers in free agency. Who's the winner of this

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Speaker 1: Commander's offseason thus far?

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Speaker 8: Jeffery, Oh, Adam Peters.

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01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 20: Got to feel pretty good about the way things going,

1320
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:30,120
Speaker 20: but out there with Jayden Daniels, I think you look

1321
01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 20: at what Adam Peters did for Jane Daniels. He went

1322
01:00:32,720 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 20: out and got Deebo Samuel in that trade, which was

1323
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:37,360
Speaker 20: huge as far as getting one more option at offense

1324
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:39,680
Speaker 20: to take some pressure off Terry McLaurin at wide receiver.

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01:00:40,160 --> 01:00:43,600
Speaker 20: They re signed zach Ertz, which gives him a security blanket.

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01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:46,760
Speaker 20: Jane Damson is a great connection with Ergin and finally

1327
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:49,440
Speaker 20: that trade to bring Larry Tunsel to town. You know,

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Speaker 20: Jayde Daniels didn't have to worry about his back his

1329
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:54,280
Speaker 20: blindside anymore. He knows that he's gonna be protected. And

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Speaker 20: so when you're talking about a team that had eighty

1331
01:00:56,440 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 20: million dollars plus in salary cat space coming into this season,

1332
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:01,959
Speaker 20: already had a quarterback who won Rookie of the Year,

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01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:03,800
Speaker 20: Jane Dams has got to see pretty good about what

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Speaker 20: the Commanders did for him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a promising start for the Rookie of the Year.

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Speaker 1: We'll go back to a former MVP. It was we're

1337
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:15,200
Speaker 1: waiting on Aaron Rodgers. Also familiar with waiting on Aaron

1338
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:17,760
Speaker 1: Rodgers was Davante Adams back in his time with the

1339
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:19,840
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, who waited so long they didn't get

1340
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 1: the deal that he wanted. He eventually left, reunited with

1341
01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, and now he's here in Los Angeles. So

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Speaker 1: a lot of teams evolved in that. Who's the winner

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Speaker 1: of the Davante Adams last few seasons? Right now, Jeff,

1344
01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:32,000
Speaker 1: that ends up with him on Los Angeles.

1345
01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:35,640
Speaker 20: Well, it's DeVante Adams and he finally got realized stop

1346
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:36,960
Speaker 20: chasing quarterbacks around.

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01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:39,440
Speaker 2: He wanted to play with Derek Carr and Vegas. That

1348
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 2: didn't work out.

1349
01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:42,040
Speaker 20: He went to the Jets to be with Aaron Rodgers.

1350
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:43,360
Speaker 2: That didn't work out so well.

1351
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 20: But now he's landing in a place that gives him

1352
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:48,400
Speaker 20: a lot of things that any receiver would love to have.

1353
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 20: Won a great offense with Matthew Stafford, Sean mcfayk, call

1354
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:54,240
Speaker 20: in the place, cooking the coop. On the other side,

1355
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:56,200
Speaker 20: he's on the West Coast where he wanted to be,

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01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:59,160
Speaker 20: but also a team that could actually win a championship.

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01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:02,480
Speaker 20: After being with the Jets and the Raiders and going nowhere,

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01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:04,600
Speaker 20: DeVante Adams has to feel pretty good about at thirty

1359
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:07,160
Speaker 20: years old, having a chance to win a championship with

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Speaker 20: this team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a chance to win.

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Speaker 1: As we do a winners and loser segment. I mean,

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Speaker 1: somebody's got to have a chance to lose. And we

1364
01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:18,280
Speaker 1: discussed the way the season ended for k Cousins and

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01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:20,880
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons. Some promise for the rookie, not a

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01:02:20,920 --> 01:02:22,920
Speaker 1: lot of promise for Kirk. How do you see free

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01:02:22,920 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 1: agency going for Kirk right now? Jeff, Yeah, it's crazy.

1368
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Speaker 1: I think last year at this time he was feeling

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Speaker 1: pretty good about life because he was the big free

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Speaker 1: agent catch and got a one hundred million dollars from

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Speaker 1: the Falcons and now he's sitting around wondering where's my

1372
01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:37,520
Speaker 1: career going to go? And look, I understand the Falcons,

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01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 1: the perception and all this a perspective, which is.

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Speaker 20: You know, somebody might trade for this guy, but he's

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01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 20: not gonna be playing Atlanta anymore. No, Michael Pennix has

1376
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Speaker 20: that job. And the way this team blamed out the

1377
01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:50,600
Speaker 20: thing about Kirk Cousins, he's like a running a NFL

1378
01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 20: and saying, wait a minute, Russell Wilson's out there, Aaron

1379
01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:55,280
Speaker 20: Rodgers is out there. There's jobs to be had in

1380
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:58,320
Speaker 20: Cleveland and with the Giants and with the Steelers.

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01:02:58,360 --> 01:02:59,480
Speaker 2: Why can't I get a piece of this?

1382
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 4: And I think he's got to be thinking, man, things

1383
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:03,520
Speaker 4: change in a hurry.

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01:03:04,440 --> 01:03:08,680
Speaker 1: Jeffery, we discussed one veteran wide receiver and Davante Adams,

1385
01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:10,960
Speaker 1: the stars of free agency last year. A thirty one

1386
01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:12,880
Speaker 1: and a twenty eight year old running backer would go

1387
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 1: one to two in rushing totals for the season. But

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01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 1: it seems like these older veteran I'll say veteran, I

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01:03:18,560 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 1: don't want to call.

1390
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:22,160
Speaker 2: Them old because they're all young. To me, wide receivers

1391
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Speaker 2: still on the outside waiting what's going on?

1392
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Speaker 4: There.

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Speaker 20: Yeah, the free agent market for older receivers looks pretty

1394
01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:31,480
Speaker 20: rough right now. If these guys it was five years ago,

1395
01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:34,080
Speaker 20: you'd be saying, man, Stefan Digs is out there, Cooper

1396
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:35,840
Speaker 20: Cup's going to be out there a little bit. We've

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Speaker 20: got Amari Cooper. DeAndre Hopkins just signed. But you know,

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Speaker 20: really it's been tough because you look at what the

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01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:43,280
Speaker 20: way the market played out with all these trades with

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Speaker 20: Deebo Samuel and DK Metcalf and a Christian Kirk. You know,

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01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:49,360
Speaker 20: nobody knew these guys were going to be out there,

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01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:51,360
Speaker 20: and so all of a sudden, these older guys got

1403
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:53,240
Speaker 20: to sit and wait for their opportunities and we'll see

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01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 20: what they get. Probably a lot of one year deals,

1405
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:57,440
Speaker 20: veteran minimums coming their way.

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Speaker 1: How quickly, just a sign of how quickly the landscape

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Speaker 1: can change here in the NFL, bringing us our free

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Speaker 1: agency winners and losers thus far. Here on Wednesday, Jeffrey Toda, Thanks,

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01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:10,600
Speaker 1: Jeff wore to come here on the Insiders. As we

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Speaker 1: continue to wait for one quarterback. One quarterback says, I'm

1411
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:16,760
Speaker 1: not waiting. I'm taking visits. Russell Wilson, going to see

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Speaker 1: the Browns and the Giants this week. What does that

1413
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:22,640
Speaker 1: mean for some of the other quarterbacks of a stussion

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Speaker 1: coming up next on The Insiders.

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Speaker 2: Back on the Insiders, this was no Today.

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Speaker 1: Coming into the nfll A newsroom, DeMarcus Lawrence, the former

1417
01:04:38,080 --> 01:04:42,000
Speaker 1: now former Dallas Cowboy actually fourth all time sack leader

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Speaker 1: for the franchise, signing a three year contract worth up

1419
01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:49,600
Speaker 1: to forty two million dollars eighteen million guaranteed for the

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Speaker 1: man with sixty one and a half career sex as

1421
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Speaker 1: a Dallas Cowboy.

1422
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Speaker 2: Former Giant, and now former Jacksonville Jaguar.

1423
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Speaker 1: Evan Ingram signing a two year, twenty three million dollar

1424
01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:02,959
Speaker 1: con with the Denver Broncos. That deal gets having Ingram

1425
01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:06,640
Speaker 1: sixteen point five million dollars to be a tight end

1426
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:11,320
Speaker 1: for Sean Payton running routes for bo Nicks elsewhere.

1427
01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:14,000
Speaker 2: The Buffalo Bills get a defensive end.

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Speaker 1: It's Joe Ebosa signing a one year deal with a

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Speaker 1: maximum value of fifteen point six million dollars if Bosa

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Speaker 1: is able to hit his incentives on the contract, and

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Speaker 1: another Buffalo Bill coming back, that is DeMar Hamlin, the

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Speaker 1: former Comeback Player of the Year, gets a one year

1433
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:34,480
Speaker 1: contract to return and remain in that secondary for the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills taking a couple of visits this week. Former Seahawks,

1435
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Speaker 1: former Broncos, and former Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson visiting with

1436
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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns as well as the New York Giants

1437
01:05:48,040 --> 01:05:51,880
Speaker 1: this week, while both of those teams presumably waiting on

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Speaker 1: a decision from Aaron Rodgers as well. Let's bring in

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01:05:57,280 --> 01:06:02,040
Speaker 1: Sarah Walls to discuss this Cleveland Browns and I guess

1440
01:06:02,080 --> 01:06:05,320
Speaker 1: Giants quarterback search as well as Russell Wilson.

1441
01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:08,080
Speaker 2: Will start with the Browns visiting there.

1442
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 1: What do you think goes on for Russell Wilson on

1443
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:13,560
Speaker 1: these visits and where's the potential landing spot.

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Speaker 21: Well, here's the thing. Let's make it the Steelers and

1445
01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:18,720
Speaker 21: the Browns. Let's just scroup this into the AFC North Patrick,

1446
01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:21,480
Speaker 21: because it's actually getting wild there. If you think about

1447
01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:23,919
Speaker 21: the scenario and you're trying to move these chess pieces around.

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01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:27,400
Speaker 21: For example, you signed DK metcalf, who's his quarterback in Pittsburgh, Well,

1449
01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:30,640
Speaker 21: it potentially could still be Russell Wilson. It's not going

1450
01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:32,240
Speaker 21: to be Justin Fields, who is on the move to

1451
01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:35,600
Speaker 21: the Jets. The Jets former quarterback Aaron Rodgers. He could

1452
01:06:35,600 --> 01:06:37,840
Speaker 21: be going to Pittsburgh for all we know. It's just

1453
01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:40,760
Speaker 21: been a rotating carousel. And now Russell Wilson from the

1454
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:44,680
Speaker 21: Steelers to potentially the Browns as he meets with them.

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01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:48,400
Speaker 21: I did several Browns games last year, and in the

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01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 21: span of the Browns games I did, I saw Deshaun

1457
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:54,280
Speaker 21: Watson play quarterback. I saw Dorian Thompson Robinson play quarterback.

1458
01:06:54,600 --> 01:06:57,960
Speaker 21: I saw Jameis Winston play quarterback. Now, of course dtr

1459
01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 21: is in a swap with the Eagles to Kenny Pickett,

1460
01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:03,920
Speaker 21: who also formerly played for the Steelers, a former first rounder.

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Speaker 21: He is currently on the Browns roster, as is Deshaun Watson,

1462
01:07:07,320 --> 01:07:09,680
Speaker 21: who we don't expect to see next year after we

1463
01:07:09,800 --> 01:07:10,360
Speaker 21: retour that.

1464
01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:13,200
Speaker 8: Achilles in January. So a real carousel.

1465
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Speaker 21: But until the Browns get this solved, get this solidified,

1466
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:18,480
Speaker 21: they're going to continue to have the same problems. And

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01:07:18,520 --> 01:07:20,640
Speaker 21: I don't have to tell Browns fans that they have

1468
01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:23,120
Speaker 21: had over the last couple of years. And then, of course,

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Speaker 21: the Browns hold the number two overall pick in the draft,

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Speaker 21: they could go that way, although it feels like they're

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Speaker 21: going to do something to solidify that quarterback room really fast.

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Speaker 21: And the other thing is I didn't throw this name

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01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:35,400
Speaker 21: at Kirk Cousins could still be in the mix to

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01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:38,280
Speaker 21: go to Cleveland, who is still on the roster in Atlanta,

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01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:39,640
Speaker 21: but we do not believe he will be on the

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01:07:39,720 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 21: roster when that season kicks off. So there are a

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Speaker 21: lot of moving pieces. But this is a Browns team

1478
01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:46,760
Speaker 21: that I was at training camp with them a year

1479
01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:49,320
Speaker 21: ago and optimism was really high when you consider what

1480
01:07:49,360 --> 01:07:51,360
Speaker 21: they did in twenty twenty three and the wheels came

1481
01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:53,920
Speaker 21: off in twenty twenty four, and you know that there

1482
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:55,800
Speaker 21: is no way that they want to go into this

1483
01:07:55,880 --> 01:07:58,760
Speaker 21: season again having that type same type of feeling.

1484
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Speaker 8: Right.

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01:07:59,040 --> 01:08:00,760
Speaker 21: They want to get this fan, they want to get

1486
01:08:00,760 --> 01:08:02,800
Speaker 21: this solved. But they're going to have to figure out

1487
01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:04,160
Speaker 21: who is their starting quarterback.

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01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:06,400
Speaker 2: And that has been the thing, Sarah.

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01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:10,320
Speaker 1: As the Browns had that championship window, the missing piece

1490
01:08:10,400 --> 01:08:13,120
Speaker 1: was the quarterback. But as time has gone on, there's

1491
01:08:13,200 --> 01:08:16,160
Speaker 1: other problems on the roster that aren't just limited to quarterbacks.

1492
01:08:16,160 --> 01:08:17,759
Speaker 2: So how do they go about addressing those?

1493
01:08:18,640 --> 01:08:20,960
Speaker 21: Yeah, I don't think anyone believed when the season kicked

1494
01:08:20,960 --> 01:08:23,760
Speaker 21: off that if you said this team given the talent that.

1495
01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:25,439
Speaker 8: They had on that roster, was going to finish with

1496
01:08:25,520 --> 01:08:27,439
Speaker 8: three wins. Really hard to believe.

1497
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:30,639
Speaker 21: And it's also why really understandable for Miles gear who's

1498
01:08:30,680 --> 01:08:33,040
Speaker 21: been so good for so long, when he said he

1499
01:08:33,080 --> 01:08:35,360
Speaker 21: wanted a trade because he wanted to win. You don't

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01:08:35,400 --> 01:08:37,240
Speaker 21: think anybody would have faulted him, right. This is a

1501
01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:39,720
Speaker 21: guy that has been at the top of his game.

1502
01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:41,400
Speaker 8: Understandably frustrated.

1503
01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:43,320
Speaker 21: I think one of the biggest surprises in the last

1504
01:08:43,400 --> 01:08:45,320
Speaker 21: couple of days is the fact that they were able

1505
01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:46,920
Speaker 21: to get this guy who wanted to leave to stay.

1506
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:47,160
Speaker 20: Now.

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01:08:47,280 --> 01:08:49,639
Speaker 8: Changing a bank account can certainly do that, but you.

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01:08:49,640 --> 01:08:52,200
Speaker 21: Have to believe that they gave him some assurances that

1509
01:08:52,240 --> 01:08:53,960
Speaker 21: this thing was on the right track.

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01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:54,800
Speaker 8: There have not been a.

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01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:57,559
Speaker 21: Lot of splash plays, although I know Ian Rappaport just

1512
01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:00,799
Speaker 21: reported a little earlier today that defensive tackle Malik Collins

1513
01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:02,760
Speaker 21: is on his way to Cleveland.

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01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:04,240
Speaker 8: I can also tell you Joe.

1515
01:09:04,080 --> 01:09:07,480
Speaker 21: Tryon Schoyanka, who went from the Bucks now to Cleveland.

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01:09:07,479 --> 01:09:09,760
Speaker 21: I'd cover him in the last couple of years. He's

1517
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:13,639
Speaker 21: a former first rounder and edge rusher, came out really raw,

1518
01:09:13,720 --> 01:09:16,080
Speaker 21: a lot of potential. The Buccaneers never really got the

1519
01:09:16,120 --> 01:09:18,280
Speaker 21: production out of him that they were hoping for, but

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Speaker 21: because of his physical build, because there is still that

1521
01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:23,920
Speaker 21: people love potential, and I think that there's still a

1522
01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:26,639
Speaker 21: lot of optimism that he could turn into the player

1523
01:09:26,680 --> 01:09:29,200
Speaker 21: that the Bucks ultimately thought that they were getting when

1524
01:09:29,200 --> 01:09:31,840
Speaker 21: they drafted him. But the Browns have a lot of

1525
01:09:31,880 --> 01:09:35,240
Speaker 21: moving parts. They have pieces distill fill. You have Miles

1526
01:09:35,280 --> 01:09:38,080
Speaker 21: Garrett leading this defense, which is obviously something you feel

1527
01:09:38,120 --> 01:09:40,479
Speaker 21: really really good about, and then they're going to continue

1528
01:09:40,479 --> 01:09:42,240
Speaker 21: to add and you believe that they continue to add

1529
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:44,280
Speaker 21: these defensive pieces in the draft as well.

1530
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Speaker 6: Patrick.

1531
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:48,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's ultimately, Sarah a case for positivity. If whatever

1532
01:09:48,080 --> 01:09:50,560
Speaker 1: pitch was made to Miles Garrett had some symbolans of

1533
01:09:50,560 --> 01:09:53,479
Speaker 1: a planet was good enough for Miles that perhaps Browns

1534
01:09:53,479 --> 01:09:55,519
Speaker 1: fans can look at that and say, well.

1535
01:09:55,439 --> 01:09:59,320
Speaker 2: It's good enough for us. Hope Springs Eternal in Cleveland.

1536
01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:00,920
Speaker 2: Sarah Walsh was the latest.

1537
01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:04,519
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal's Top one hundred and one free agents.

1538
01:10:05,040 --> 01:10:07,120
Speaker 2: This is the big board. The players still remaining on it.

1539
01:10:07,160 --> 01:10:09,759
Speaker 1: You see they're down at number eleven, Amari Cooper, number

1540
01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:13,040
Speaker 1: twenty one, a Sante Samuel Junior. It's a testament to

1541
01:10:13,080 --> 01:10:16,599
Speaker 1: Greg's work that most of these players have got teams

1542
01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:21,000
Speaker 1: beside of them. Greg, your players are flying off the board,

1543
01:10:21,080 --> 01:10:22,240
Speaker 1: specifically because of what you.

1544
01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:25,599
Speaker 14: I've never seen the first day of free agency officially

1545
01:10:25,640 --> 01:10:28,840
Speaker 14: the new league year, and seven players only remain in

1546
01:10:28,840 --> 01:10:29,800
Speaker 14: my top fiftye.

1547
01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:32,479
Speaker 1: It's a grap There's one player not on the list

1548
01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:35,559
Speaker 1: because he's currently still a Jet. That is Aaron Rodgers

1549
01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:38,559
Speaker 1: expected to be released. A lot of thoughts can be

1550
01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:39,679
Speaker 1: had about Aaron Rodgers.

1551
01:10:40,120 --> 01:10:41,639
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts about Aaron Rodgers.

1552
01:10:41,680 --> 01:10:44,360
Speaker 14: My thoughts are that this is one of the all

1553
01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:46,479
Speaker 14: time great players, and yet we're at a point of

1554
01:10:46,520 --> 01:10:49,200
Speaker 14: his career where the New York Jets, a team that

1555
01:10:49,280 --> 01:10:53,160
Speaker 14: desperately wants good quarterback play, are saying, we don't want

1556
01:10:53,160 --> 01:10:55,280
Speaker 14: this guy so much in our building that we are

1557
01:10:55,280 --> 01:10:58,720
Speaker 14: willing to take forty nine million dollars in dead Capin so,

1558
01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:01,800
Speaker 14: if we're positioning it as like it's a sweepstakes for

1559
01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:05,519
Speaker 14: Aaron Rodgers, that Jet said no, thank you, please, Giants

1560
01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:08,160
Speaker 14: take them like these are two organizations that don't get

1561
01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:10,920
Speaker 14: along well at all. These are two proud organizations in

1562
01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 14: the Steelers and the Giants, and they're just hoping for

1563
01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:15,920
Speaker 14: scraps and they're not in a good position at all.

1564
01:11:15,920 --> 01:11:19,080
Speaker 14: Pittsburgh spends all this money at wide receiver with DK Metcalf,

1565
01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:22,120
Speaker 14: they don't have a quarterback. The Giants spent all last

1566
01:11:22,120 --> 01:11:25,000
Speaker 14: season realizing they made a mistake with Daniel Jones and

1567
01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:28,040
Speaker 14: they're just hoping Aaron Rodgers picks them. Okay, so they're

1568
01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:30,679
Speaker 14: in a bad spot. Then let's talk about where Rogers

1569
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:32,479
Speaker 14: is at. I was listening to the insiders in the

1570
01:11:32,560 --> 01:11:35,840
Speaker 14: last hour say, oh, he doesn't really care about what

1571
01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:38,120
Speaker 14: people are saying, and he's at the beach having fun

1572
01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:40,719
Speaker 14: and he doesn't care. This is a man who allowed

1573
01:11:40,720 --> 01:11:43,679
Speaker 14: a show that was all about him to be called Enigma.

1574
01:11:44,080 --> 01:11:45,240
Speaker 4: He cares very much.

1575
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:47,639
Speaker 8: He wants us to talk about him very much.

1576
01:11:48,040 --> 01:11:49,880
Speaker 14: I mean, that's the whole point is he wants to

1577
01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:53,640
Speaker 14: seem like he doesn't care. And I think he's going

1578
01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:56,200
Speaker 14: to own this next month. He is like the Dallas

1579
01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:59,920
Speaker 14: Cowboys of players. He knows when attention is on him,

1580
01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:02,840
Speaker 14: and if he stretches this thing out, he could just

1581
01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:05,639
Speaker 14: have all the attention on him. I also do wonder

1582
01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:07,639
Speaker 14: if he's just trying to get revenge for the twenty

1583
01:12:07,680 --> 01:12:11,120
Speaker 14: fourteen NFC championship against the Packers because poor Russell Wilson,

1584
01:12:11,120 --> 01:12:12,640
Speaker 14: he's the only one in a worse spot. He's just

1585
01:12:12,680 --> 01:12:14,760
Speaker 14: waiting to find out what Aaron Rodgers does. He's the

1586
01:12:14,800 --> 01:12:15,720
Speaker 14: next guy behind him.

1587
01:12:16,120 --> 01:12:18,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, a few folks, I guess you could be getting

1588
01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:21,879
Speaker 1: revenge against an entire apparatus by delaying this decision.

1589
01:12:21,960 --> 01:12:25,200
Speaker 2: But there it's going to have some stakes with regards

1590
01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:25,640
Speaker 2: to that.

1591
01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:27,680
Speaker 1: Of course, having the top one on one leads to

1592
01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:30,719
Speaker 1: stakes and potential criticism. We got a new segment dropping

1593
01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:31,880
Speaker 1: today on the inside.

1594
01:12:31,600 --> 01:12:33,400
Speaker 2: It's called you better be.

1595
01:12:33,560 --> 01:12:36,880
Speaker 1: Right with Greg Rosenthal because there have been some moves

1596
01:12:36,920 --> 01:12:39,759
Speaker 1: and you feel those moves are very consequential and somebody

1597
01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:42,599
Speaker 1: better be right. First up, Sam Donald.

1598
01:12:42,680 --> 01:12:45,240
Speaker 14: I like it when teams are bold. But John Schneider,

1599
01:12:45,320 --> 01:12:49,479
Speaker 14: the Seahawks general manager, trading Gino Smith away to bring

1600
01:12:49,560 --> 01:12:53,160
Speaker 14: in Sam Donald. It all makes sense on paper, but

1601
01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:57,160
Speaker 14: you better be right. And when you bring in Sam Donald,

1602
01:12:57,160 --> 01:13:00,120
Speaker 14: part of the argument is we have that money to

1603
01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:02,839
Speaker 14: go spend on the rest of the team. Let's improve

1604
01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:05,840
Speaker 14: the offensive line. I haven't seen any improvements on that

1605
01:13:05,920 --> 01:13:08,880
Speaker 14: offensive line. Yeah, I've seen some good defensive signings. De

1606
01:13:08,920 --> 01:13:12,880
Speaker 14: Marcus Lawrence goes there Ernest Jones comes back. But to me,

1607
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:16,439
Speaker 14: this is John Schneider, who, in a somewhat surprising move,

1608
01:13:16,520 --> 01:13:19,080
Speaker 14: got to be one of the more powerful general managers

1609
01:13:19,160 --> 01:13:22,680
Speaker 14: in the league when Pete Carroll got sent out to

1610
01:13:22,840 --> 01:13:25,920
Speaker 14: Las Vegas, sending Gino and saying, okay, you can have

1611
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:28,760
Speaker 14: him back. This is your guy, Gino Smith. He better

1612
01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:31,040
Speaker 14: be right on Sam Darnold this year. This is a

1613
01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:33,639
Speaker 14: team that won ten games a year ago with Gino

1614
01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:35,280
Speaker 14: Smith and they got to win now.

1615
01:13:35,640 --> 01:13:38,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, he better be right, otherwise consequence is coming for

1616
01:13:38,479 --> 01:13:39,200
Speaker 1: John Schneiner.

1617
01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:40,680
Speaker 2: Let's look over to the.

1618
01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:43,840
Speaker 1: Houston Texans and Nick Cassario making a move bringing up

1619
01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:46,920
Speaker 1: some space, trading Laramie Tunzel to the Washington Commanders.

1620
01:13:46,960 --> 01:13:49,000
Speaker 2: You feel like Casario better.

1621
01:13:48,800 --> 01:13:50,840
Speaker 14: Be right, and he might be right because I got

1622
01:13:50,960 --> 01:13:52,680
Speaker 14: to admit Nick Casera has done a great job with

1623
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:56,839
Speaker 14: that rebuilding effort in Houston, the talent based and Jamiko Ryans,

1624
01:13:56,880 --> 01:13:59,400
Speaker 14: I think this is an organization that makes decisions together,

1625
01:13:59,520 --> 01:14:01,959
Speaker 14: where the CO and the GM are on the same page.

1626
01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:03,799
Speaker 4: But man CJ.

1627
01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:08,679
Speaker 14: Stroud last year was under so much pressure week after week.

1628
01:14:08,920 --> 01:14:09,479
Speaker 4: It was a.

1629
01:14:09,400 --> 01:14:11,439
Speaker 14: Problem the year before that. So they haven't shown a

1630
01:14:11,520 --> 01:14:14,880
Speaker 14: nobility to solve this problem. The reporting is that Titus

1631
01:14:14,880 --> 01:14:17,040
Speaker 14: Howard is going to play left tackle. They bring in

1632
01:14:17,080 --> 01:14:19,920
Speaker 14: a new offensive coordinator, Nick Kyley, that could help the

1633
01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:22,439
Speaker 14: offensive line. But if you're sending out one of the

1634
01:14:22,439 --> 01:14:25,479
Speaker 14: best pass protectors of his entire generation.

1635
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:26,280
Speaker 8: If CJ.

1636
01:14:26,400 --> 01:14:29,920
Speaker 14: Stroud is taking six seven eight sacks a game early

1637
01:14:30,120 --> 01:14:32,479
Speaker 14: in the season, that is going to reflect very poorly

1638
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:34,840
Speaker 14: on the Texans management. So they better be right.

1639
01:14:34,960 --> 01:14:36,280
Speaker 2: They better be right about it.

1640
01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:38,400
Speaker 1: And our last team that better be right is the

1641
01:14:38,479 --> 01:14:40,640
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. And I'm looking for what they better be

1642
01:14:40,720 --> 01:14:41,240
Speaker 1: right about.

1643
01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:42,439
Speaker 2: What is it great?

1644
01:14:42,479 --> 01:14:45,719
Speaker 14: Well, just this whole selective aggression. You know, you let

1645
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:49,320
Speaker 14: DeMarcus Lawrence Lee if you do sign Osa Idga Zuez,

1646
01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:51,400
Speaker 14: so you kept the guy in the building that I

1647
01:14:51,400 --> 01:14:53,600
Speaker 14: think is going to be a productive player. But ultimately

1648
01:14:53,680 --> 01:14:56,240
Speaker 14: they're doing what the Cowboys do, which is not much.

1649
01:14:56,560 --> 01:14:59,519
Speaker 14: In free agency. Javonte Williams, you bring him in for

1650
01:14:59,520 --> 01:15:02,360
Speaker 14: a little bit money. You let Rico Dawbdell leave. You

1651
01:15:02,400 --> 01:15:05,800
Speaker 14: make these trades for first round picks that you had

1652
01:15:05,840 --> 01:15:09,559
Speaker 14: evaluated a few years ago very highly. Kenneth Murray and

1653
01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:11,800
Speaker 14: Kyrie Elam. You're not giving up much for him, But

1654
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:14,439
Speaker 14: we saw them do this with Jonathan Mingo too, and

1655
01:15:14,479 --> 01:15:18,439
Speaker 14: they're just not being aggressive in free agency, and last

1656
01:15:18,520 --> 01:15:20,800
Speaker 14: year it certainly didn't work out for them, and I

1657
01:15:20,920 --> 01:15:22,880
Speaker 14: just think this year begged for them to be a

1658
01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:25,559
Speaker 14: little more aggressive. So they better be right about that, all.

1659
01:15:25,560 --> 01:15:28,759
Speaker 1: Right, Folks in Dallas, you better be right. Aaron Rodgers,

1660
01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:32,679
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys of quarterbacks. We had we come full

1661
01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:34,439
Speaker 1: circle here, and you better be right if you want

1662
01:15:34,479 --> 01:15:36,200
Speaker 1: to see the top one on one, which you should.

1663
01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:39,360
Speaker 1: It should be a part of your free agency consumption

1664
01:15:39,560 --> 01:15:40,200
Speaker 1: every single day.

1665
01:15:40,320 --> 01:15:42,040
Speaker 2: NFL dot Com slash Rosenthal.

1666
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:44,680
Speaker 14: Also check out the NFL Daily with Greg Rosevel with

1667
01:15:44,720 --> 01:15:47,360
Speaker 14: Patrick Claibon. And I mean, like you imagine how many

1668
01:15:47,439 --> 01:15:50,120
Speaker 14: meetings there were and everyone was just okay with calling

1669
01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:53,519
Speaker 14: the Aaron Rodgers show enigma. I'm just saying, just saying

1670
01:15:53,520 --> 01:15:53,880
Speaker 14: I had.

1671
01:15:53,760 --> 01:15:55,880
Speaker 1: To run it by one person in particular, the person

1672
01:15:55,920 --> 01:15:58,320
Speaker 1: who does care. I hey, we care about the Georgia

1673
01:15:58,360 --> 01:16:02,000
Speaker 1: Pro Day going today. As the players get there, testing

1674
01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:06,240
Speaker 1: a few combine invites, got Balk out there to go again.

1675
01:16:06,640 --> 01:16:11,759
Speaker 1: Jalen Walker is the number one linebacker on Bucky Brook's

1676
01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:16,439
Speaker 1: Top five linebacker prospects right ahead of Jahad Campbell, Danny Stutsman,

1677
01:16:16,640 --> 01:16:20,639
Speaker 1: Barrett Carter, and Carson Schweizer out of UCLA. Jalen Walker

1678
01:16:20,760 --> 01:16:24,120
Speaker 1: with our Taylor Brashati at the Georgia Pro Day today.

1679
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:26,920
Speaker 22: Jalen, We're gonna have to wait another month to see

1680
01:16:26,920 --> 01:16:29,320
Speaker 22: you on the field running and doing drills. You injured

1681
01:16:29,360 --> 01:16:30,639
Speaker 22: your quad. How are you feeling?

1682
01:16:30,840 --> 01:16:34,160
Speaker 15: Yeah, I feel great. I mean, I had that mishap,

1683
01:16:34,200 --> 01:16:36,559
Speaker 15: but I feel good. I mean I'm back doing the

1684
01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:39,280
Speaker 15: drills and running. I feel good and I feel very

1685
01:16:39,320 --> 01:16:40,960
Speaker 15: published about the seventeenth.

1686
01:16:40,680 --> 01:16:42,759
Speaker 22: You're gonna have your own pro day, Like you said

1687
01:16:42,840 --> 01:16:44,920
Speaker 22: on the seventeenth, what are you wanting to show to

1688
01:16:45,040 --> 01:16:47,240
Speaker 22: teams when you do work out that?

1689
01:16:47,680 --> 01:16:50,719
Speaker 15: My movement is pretty special. I got a good twitch

1690
01:16:50,760 --> 01:16:54,000
Speaker 15: to myself, and I'm very smooth, and I'm very versatile,

1691
01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:56,320
Speaker 15: just because the way I might rush a lot, I

1692
01:16:56,360 --> 01:16:58,479
Speaker 15: can drop and I can do a lot of these things.

1693
01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:02,240
Speaker 22: Speaking of that versatility, you call yourself an HLB. Explain

1694
01:17:02,280 --> 01:17:03,200
Speaker 22: what that means to us.

1695
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:06,599
Speaker 15: Yeah, I'm a hybrid linebacker. The opportunity to do both,

1696
01:17:06,680 --> 01:17:09,519
Speaker 15: to be an outside backer and an inside backer. And

1697
01:17:09,680 --> 01:17:11,599
Speaker 15: actually I played a lot of star this year as well.

1698
01:17:12,080 --> 01:17:15,040
Speaker 15: Played over the guard a little bit as well. It's

1699
01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:17,400
Speaker 15: just what I am. I wanted to be different and

1700
01:17:17,439 --> 01:17:18,360
Speaker 15: that's my different tag.

1701
01:17:18,600 --> 01:17:20,439
Speaker 22: Well, you've shown that you can play truly, you can

1702
01:17:20,439 --> 01:17:22,840
Speaker 22: play it all, inside, outside, defensive end. What do you

1703
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:23,759
Speaker 22: like the most?

1704
01:17:24,560 --> 01:17:26,559
Speaker 15: I like getting to the quarterback the most. You put

1705
01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:31,639
Speaker 15: me at any anywhere, secondary, d line, inside backer, start,

1706
01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:33,040
Speaker 15: I'm going to get there. You tell me to go get

1707
01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:34,040
Speaker 15: the quarterback, and go get them.

1708
01:17:34,120 --> 01:17:36,519
Speaker 22: Okay, there's got to be one quarterback that you've circled

1709
01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:38,719
Speaker 22: that you're dying to get to. Which one is that man?

1710
01:17:41,240 --> 01:17:43,519
Speaker 15: The one on the on the schedule for the week,

1711
01:17:43,720 --> 01:17:46,080
Speaker 15: I don't really know. I'm excited just to have the

1712
01:17:46,120 --> 01:17:48,439
Speaker 15: opportunity to get to the to the NFL and a

1713
01:17:48,680 --> 01:17:51,200
Speaker 15: week the week I'm gonna have somebody circle on my list.

1714
01:17:51,840 --> 01:17:53,920
Speaker 22: What's the pre draft process been like for you? Have

1715
01:17:53,960 --> 01:17:55,200
Speaker 22: you gone on any visits.

1716
01:17:55,360 --> 01:17:58,080
Speaker 15: I haven't gone on any visits yet, but I do have,

1717
01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:02,200
Speaker 15: you know, plans to go. Pre draft process has been great.

1718
01:18:02,200 --> 01:18:04,360
Speaker 15: I mean I enjoyed my time, you know, training with

1719
01:18:04,400 --> 01:18:07,480
Speaker 15: the guys at the facility in Plano, at Dallas, XOS.

1720
01:18:08,080 --> 01:18:10,840
Speaker 15: The opportunity to come back to Athens and enjoyed pro day.

1721
01:18:11,280 --> 01:18:13,200
Speaker 15: It's been well man. I'm a joining the process and

1722
01:18:13,200 --> 01:18:14,559
Speaker 15: the people I've been meeting.

1723
01:18:14,720 --> 01:18:16,360
Speaker 22: Thank you so much for the time. We can see

1724
01:18:16,400 --> 01:18:17,240
Speaker 22: where you go next month.

1725
01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:20,320
Speaker 1: Thank you thanks to Jalen as well as Taylor Beshott

1726
01:18:20,320 --> 01:18:22,200
Speaker 1: a couple of dogs there. Let's get Bucky Brooks in

1727
01:18:22,280 --> 01:18:25,760
Speaker 1: to discuss that Georgia linebacker prospect. Bucky said, the versatility

1728
01:18:25,880 --> 01:18:28,800
Speaker 1: he's playing the star for Kirby Smart. He says, Nika

1729
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:32,160
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick played the start. Just how versatile is Jalen Walker.

1730
01:18:33,680 --> 01:18:34,360
Speaker 2: I think what was.

1731
01:18:34,320 --> 01:18:37,639
Speaker 13: Really revealing in that interview he called himself an h LB.

1732
01:18:38,040 --> 01:18:40,280
Speaker 13: So now the next time that we have a top five,

1733
01:18:40,479 --> 01:18:42,680
Speaker 13: I got to make sure I put a special column

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Speaker 13: in there for the hybrid linebackers because, honestly, Patrick, when

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01:18:47,040 --> 01:18:49,280
Speaker 13: I look at him, he's like so many of these

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01:18:49,280 --> 01:18:51,680
Speaker 13: guys in the draft class where they are doing what

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01:18:51,720 --> 01:18:55,040
Speaker 13: I call the Micah Parsons thing, meaning they line up

1738
01:18:55,040 --> 01:18:58,680
Speaker 13: on at linebacker on first and second down. On third down,

1739
01:18:58,720 --> 01:19:00,479
Speaker 13: they put their hand into the dirt, naked, come off

1740
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:02,720
Speaker 13: the edge. You can see them at times line up

1741
01:19:02,760 --> 01:19:05,320
Speaker 13: in the slot and run down the seam. And because

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01:19:05,360 --> 01:19:08,240
Speaker 13: of the versatility and what I would say the deep

1743
01:19:08,320 --> 01:19:11,439
Speaker 13: bag that they possess. It allows defensive coordinators to get

1744
01:19:11,479 --> 01:19:15,360
Speaker 13: really creative. Walker is a unique playmaker, one that defensive

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01:19:15,400 --> 01:19:18,920
Speaker 13: coordinators cover it. But his partner, Michael Williams is another

1746
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:21,280
Speaker 13: one that you have to talk about because when he

1747
01:19:21,320 --> 01:19:24,479
Speaker 13: puts his hand on the dirt, he gets after the

1748
01:19:24,560 --> 01:19:28,560
Speaker 13: quarterback first step quickness, burst, nastiness when it comes to

1749
01:19:28,600 --> 01:19:30,800
Speaker 13: being able to utilize his hands, and then he is

1750
01:19:30,880 --> 01:19:34,639
Speaker 13: relentless with the kind of competitive stamina that you love

1751
01:19:34,680 --> 01:19:36,840
Speaker 13: to see from past rushers. He hasn't put up the

1752
01:19:36,880 --> 01:19:39,480
Speaker 13: big numbers yet, but you can see the potential.

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01:19:39,800 --> 01:19:43,320
Speaker 23: And I'll say this, he has a nice kind of

1754
01:19:44,040 --> 01:19:47,040
Speaker 23: way about him with the physicality and toughness that makes

1755
01:19:47,080 --> 01:19:49,559
Speaker 23: defensive coordinators believe that you can be a double digit

1756
01:19:49,680 --> 01:19:51,640
Speaker 23: sack artist at the next level.

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Speaker 1: And we've seen plenty come out of the program in

1758
01:19:53,680 --> 01:19:56,519
Speaker 1: recent years, also in the secondary as well. Or Malaco

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01:19:56,680 --> 01:20:00,120
Speaker 1: Starks one of your top safeties participating in there and

1760
01:20:00,200 --> 01:20:00,759
Speaker 1: pro day.

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01:20:00,600 --> 01:20:02,680
Speaker 2: At Athens today. What do we look forward to from

1762
01:20:02,680 --> 01:20:03,920
Speaker 2: Malakos Starks buck.

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Speaker 13: So when you look at him, the biggest compliment of

1764
01:20:08,160 --> 01:20:10,400
Speaker 13: Scout can give to a player is to call him

1765
01:20:10,600 --> 01:20:13,679
Speaker 13: a football player, meaning that they do all the things

1766
01:20:13,720 --> 01:20:16,960
Speaker 13: that you want to see from your high level football players, IQ,

1767
01:20:17,200 --> 01:20:22,480
Speaker 13: diagnostic skills, toughness, they're willing to tackle, that can make plays.

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01:20:22,120 --> 01:20:24,360
Speaker 8: On the ball down the middle or all the way

1769
01:20:24,400 --> 01:20:25,040
Speaker 8: to the numbers.

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Speaker 13: When you watch the tape of Malacot Stars, particularly last year,

1771
01:20:28,600 --> 01:20:29,960
Speaker 13: you see all of those things.

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01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:33,160
Speaker 2: His final season, he didn't show up as much. But

1773
01:20:33,560 --> 01:20:34,439
Speaker 2: part of the job of.

1774
01:20:34,360 --> 01:20:36,559
Speaker 13: A scout is to look at the entire body of work.

1775
01:20:36,760 --> 01:20:39,320
Speaker 13: This is a plug and play player, someone to step

1776
01:20:39,320 --> 01:20:43,000
Speaker 13: in and have immediate success as one of those BALLHWK

1777
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:43,599
Speaker 13: and safeties.

1778
01:20:43,840 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 8: This dude is really talented.

1779
01:20:45,400 --> 01:20:47,800
Speaker 13: He's really good and even though people will say, oh,

1780
01:20:47,800 --> 01:20:50,479
Speaker 13: you know, the combined time wasn't what we wanted, at

1781
01:20:50,520 --> 01:20:52,080
Speaker 13: the end of the day, the game is played in

1782
01:20:52,200 --> 01:20:56,439
Speaker 13: helmets and pads. Don't overlook a really good player because

1783
01:20:56,439 --> 01:20:58,160
Speaker 13: he didn't light him to combine physically.

1784
01:20:58,240 --> 01:21:01,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, plenty of film player against high level competition. Hopefully

1785
01:21:01,439 --> 01:21:04,080
Speaker 1: one run in Indianapolis does it change the long term

1786
01:21:04,080 --> 01:21:06,960
Speaker 1: outlook for Malacow Stars. Bucky Brooks looking at some of

1787
01:21:06,960 --> 01:21:10,479
Speaker 1: the dogs after Georgia's Pro day here in twenty twenty five.

1788
01:21:10,520 --> 01:21:12,599
Speaker 1: When we come back we got a chance to look

1789
01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:15,639
Speaker 1: at all the news that came into our newsroom today

1790
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:18,760
Speaker 1: here on one of the final days of coverage of

1791
01:21:18,800 --> 01:21:19,320
Speaker 1: the frenzy.

1792
01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:22,400
Speaker 2: But the frenzy continues when we come back here on

1793
01:21:22,400 --> 01:21:23,160
Speaker 2: the NFL Network.

1794
01:21:29,080 --> 01:21:32,439
Speaker 1: In fact, on the Insiders, the Jets releasing five time

1795
01:21:32,520 --> 01:21:36,400
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl linebackers CJ. Moseley, a top free agent acquisition

1796
01:21:36,880 --> 01:21:42,120
Speaker 1: a few years ago. Linebacker now available after CJ. Moseley's release.

1797
01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:48,040
Speaker 1: Also linebacker news Denzel Paraman back with the Los Angeles

1798
01:21:48,120 --> 01:21:51,200
Speaker 1: Chargers as he agreed to terms on a new deal.

1799
01:21:51,320 --> 01:21:56,440
Speaker 1: And also the acquisition of AJ Dillon led to this post.

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Speaker 2: From the NFL account.

1801
01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:01,120
Speaker 1: There's four heads of the quadrcep muscle, all four of

1802
01:22:01,160 --> 01:22:05,040
Speaker 1: them very visible for both Saquon Barkley and AJ Dillon.

1803
01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:07,280
Speaker 1: As we get back out to our Insiders, what more

1804
01:22:07,320 --> 01:22:08,599
Speaker 1: time on today's show, What's up?

1805
01:22:08,640 --> 01:22:08,960
Speaker 2: Guys?

1806
01:22:10,840 --> 01:22:14,439
Speaker 3: The new league year has officially started. Patrick, There's so

1807
01:22:14,520 --> 01:22:18,240
Speaker 3: much that can happen now. Trades can be finalized, contracts

1808
01:22:18,240 --> 01:22:21,439
Speaker 3: can be signed. Mike, what else are we looking at

1809
01:22:21,479 --> 01:22:24,240
Speaker 3: here as we roll into twenty twenty five officially by

1810
01:22:24,320 --> 01:22:25,320
Speaker 3: NFL standards.

1811
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Speaker 7: Yeah, one of the more interesting pieces of pieces of advice,

1812
01:22:28,880 --> 01:22:32,080
Speaker 7: pieces of news that came today. Brock Purdy got a

1813
01:22:32,200 --> 01:22:34,720
Speaker 7: check for eight hundred and fifty and forty two and

1814
01:22:34,800 --> 01:22:37,599
Speaker 7: performance based pay, which is how they compensate guys who

1815
01:22:37,720 --> 01:22:40,400
Speaker 7: sort of outperform their contract. His base salary last year

1816
01:22:40,479 --> 01:22:43,800
Speaker 7: was only nine hundred ninety three thousand. Was doubled his salary. Well,

1817
01:22:43,880 --> 01:22:45,639
Speaker 7: he's gonna get a lot more coming up.

1818
01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:46,800
Speaker 8: Nothing in in it there.

1819
01:22:46,880 --> 01:22:47,760
Speaker 2: They have started talks.

1820
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Speaker 7: They're off to a good start, but it's just the

1821
01:22:49,280 --> 01:22:50,400
Speaker 7: start as of right now.

1822
01:22:52,960 --> 01:22:56,200
Speaker 9: I have really enjoyed spending the first half of this

1823
01:22:56,280 --> 01:23:00,280
Speaker 9: week and free agency frenzy in Aaron Rodgers watch like

1824
01:23:00,320 --> 01:23:02,439
Speaker 9: we were doing this only a few years ago before

1825
01:23:02,479 --> 01:23:04,439
Speaker 9: he decided he would come to the New York Jets.

1826
01:23:05,520 --> 01:23:07,320
Speaker 9: Hope we are not doing this again next year.

1827
01:23:09,680 --> 01:23:13,080
Speaker 6: Here's what I will remember a free agency frenzy. Literally nothing.

1828
01:23:13,160 --> 01:23:14,439
Speaker 6: I have no idea what happened.

1829
01:23:14,560 --> 01:23:16,800
Speaker 5: I cannot wait to go back and look at all

1830
01:23:16,840 --> 01:23:17,599
Speaker 5: the tweets and be.

1831
01:23:17,479 --> 01:23:20,240
Speaker 6: Like this guy side with that team for how much?

1832
01:23:20,320 --> 01:23:22,439
Speaker 5: And then go to training cap be like, wait, Milton

1833
01:23:22,479 --> 01:23:24,599
Speaker 5: Williams is on the Patriots.

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Speaker 4: Thanks, We're marking sevent eastern tomorrow