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Speaker 1: I'm Terry Fonto, general manager of the Atlanta Falcons, and
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Speaker 1: this is the NFL Report.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Terry Fondo told us Steve on this very show
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Speaker 2: that he was going to be aggressive going after the
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Speaker 2: quarterback position, and oh was he ever?
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Speaker 3: Let him Cook?
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Speaker 2: Cook gave her cousins. Welcome back into the NFL Report,
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Speaker 2: James Palmer, Steve, which with you. We have a monster show,
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Speaker 2: The Condor Max Crosby star for the Vegas Raiders. I
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Speaker 2: must say Open Raiders. Las Vegas Raiders is going to
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Speaker 2: join the show. Baldy returns from his quest around the
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Speaker 2: world as Baldi's favorite films returns. We also have Nicki
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Speaker 2: Gavala from The Washington Post, who covers the Commanders better
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Speaker 2: than anyone. Will also have Mike Garratfullo the NFL Reports
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Speaker 2: NFL Insider on what's going on with the linebacker and
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Speaker 2: safety markets. But Steve, we saw Terry Fonto there. Who
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Speaker 2: won free agency or I guess I should say who
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Speaker 2: made their team better?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not.
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Speaker 4: Gonna We're not to judge who won free but Terry's cooking.
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Speaker 4: Terry's cooking, he gets Kirk Cousins. I think that's good
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Speaker 4: enough to go take a team from seven to ten
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Speaker 4: to ten and seven at the least they get Darnell Mooney.
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Speaker 4: They trade Desmond Ridder for ron Dale Moore, a potential
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Speaker 4: explosive player.
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Speaker 3: Right now, I'm gonna say Atlanta JP, all.
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Speaker 2: Right, I'll go with the Houston Texans getting the Deil
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Speaker 2: Hunter to rush opposite of Rookie of the Year Will
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Speaker 2: Anderson Junior. Could that be the best edge duo in football?
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Speaker 2: There's a chance there. And then the middle of the
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Speaker 2: road pieces they did, Steve just getting some other guys
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Speaker 2: on two maybe a couple on three year deals to
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Speaker 2: corride some depth on that defensive side of the ball.
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Speaker 2: Joe Mixon. I think they made themselves love that team
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Speaker 2: that is now in that group chasing down the Kansas
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Speaker 2: City Chiefs in the AFC.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, b okay, okay.
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Speaker 4: We started things off talking about the teams right that
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Speaker 4: we thought did something. But let's look at position groups JP,
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Speaker 4: because I you know, when I look at the start
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Speaker 4: of free agency, you're like, Okay, Kirk Cousins gonna go
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Speaker 4: New Hunter's gonna go.
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Speaker 3: No, it was Matt Jones. These were guys like you know,
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Speaker 3: you know, Jameis.
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Speaker 4: Winston, Mark Mariota, the backup quarterback market in the fact
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Speaker 4: that so many teams, at least half the teams in
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Speaker 4: the NFL, went and got themselves backup quarterbacks after seeing
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Speaker 4: last year sixty six different starters and seventy seven in
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Speaker 4: total quarterbacks have to play because the injuries.
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Speaker 3: Poor play things like that.
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Speaker 4: So the premium, and we have talked about this on
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Speaker 4: the show, the premium of having a solid backup quarterback
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Speaker 4: or a bridge quarterback clearly was the huge thing with
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Speaker 4: the evaluators this year, especially knowing that they might not
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Speaker 4: be able to get into the top three in one
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Speaker 4: of those elite group of quarterbacks.
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Speaker 3: But Jay p look at this is on the gate.
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Speaker 4: I mentioned Marcus Mariota, Jacoby Brissett, Drew Locke, Gardner, Minshew
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Speaker 4: Sam Darnold. Yeah, even Russell Wilson and Mitch Trabisky. I mean,
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Speaker 4: I'm saying that in the same sentence Russell Wilson and
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Speaker 4: Mitch Trubisky being among that group.
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Speaker 3: So again, I enjoyed the team's paying attention to it.
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Speaker 4: With the trend we've seen over the past few years
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Speaker 4: with injuries to starting quarterbacks.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you might need more than two considering the
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Speaker 2: Cardinals and the Rams each played four quarterbacks.
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Speaker 3: This Bronces and Stags to go.
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Speaker 2: Deeper than just your backup quarterback. I'm going to look
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Speaker 2: at the big boys that stand in front of the quarterback, Steven.
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Speaker 2: How about the guard market that went on during the
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Speaker 2: early portion of free agency. I'm gonna look at this,
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Speaker 2: yere look. Robert Hunt with the Panthers gets five years,
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Speaker 2: one hundred million dollars, Damian Lewis with the Panthers four
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Speaker 2: years fifty three, Landon Dickerson four years eighty four to
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Speaker 2: re sign with the Philadelphia Eagles. The Rams add a
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Speaker 2: pair of guards as well, and Kevin Dotson and Jonah
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Speaker 2: Jackson for about fifty million apiece. This is an interesting
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Speaker 2: trend here, Steve, and I think it's for a couple
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Speaker 2: of reasons. The main one being, and I've talked to
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Speaker 2: some guards and centers about this over the course of
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Speaker 2: the last season, which is there are defensive tackles that
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Speaker 2: are getting more and more athletic. There are no longer
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Speaker 2: just freaks playing on the outside of the defensive lines.
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Speaker 2: We are seeing more and more freak athletes on the interior,
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Speaker 2: and we're seeing edge players coming and sneaking over top
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Speaker 2: of the sad guys like Micah Parsons and other type
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Speaker 2: of talented players that are looking to attack the weakness
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Speaker 2: of the interior. And we know this is always what
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Speaker 2: Tom Brady you usted to always talk about. You can
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Speaker 2: go around the outside, I'll step up and still make plays,
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Speaker 2: but if the pocket is collapsing from the interior, you
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Speaker 2: have problems. I love what the Panthers did to try
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Speaker 2: to protect Bryce Young and here two. But the main
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Speaker 2: trend we're seeing here is because the town on the
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Speaker 2: other side of the ball is getting so good, you
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Speaker 2: now tocounter that have to make sure you have really
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Speaker 2: good guard play. Steve, And the other part of it
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Speaker 2: is there's not enough of them. That's the other problem.
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Speaker 2: And these guys that can do it got paid, Daves.
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Speaker 4: The money is supply and demands driven when it comes
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Speaker 4: to free agency, and that's what you said, there's not
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Speaker 4: enough of the stud guards. But I like what you
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Speaker 4: said about the athleticism because you think about it, the
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Speaker 4: majority of defenses now, a lot of them have a
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Speaker 4: small athletic hybrid safety will linebacker type where you've got
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Speaker 4: to get out in the open space to get to
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Speaker 4: them or you've got to do things in blitz packages,
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Speaker 4: so that's part of it as well. But also remember
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Speaker 4: Sean Payton used to always have his Saints teams incredibly
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Speaker 4: talented from guard to guard.
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Speaker 3: Guard center guard.
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Speaker 4: Is where they put their money because a lot of
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Speaker 4: these quarterbacks now are not your standard six or four
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Speaker 4: guys who can see over them. They've got these shorter guards,
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Speaker 4: so you've got to really measure the height and do
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Speaker 4: things to keep them clean. In the pocket they can
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Speaker 4: evade the guys coming from the outside.
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Speaker 3: That's part of it as well. I saw your finger.
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Speaker 3: You got something to say.
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Speaker 2: JP A quick note. What team has been more successful
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Speaker 2: than anybody over the last couple of seasons. I'd say
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Speaker 2: the Kansas City Chiefs. That team has a dominant center
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Speaker 2: and two dominant guards in the middle of their offensive line.
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Speaker 2: With Joe Tooney create Humphrey playing that center spot and
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Speaker 2: Trey Smith on the other side, that is a dynamic
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Speaker 2: group of three in the middle for Patrick Mahomes Eve
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Speaker 2: that I think has allowed them to go out and
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Speaker 2: just make different decisions at the cackle positions. That allows
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Speaker 2: them to know that in the interior, Patrick Mahomes is
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Speaker 2: going to be protected and he has the ability to
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Speaker 2: move if guys get to them from the outside. Taking
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Speaker 2: of guys from the outside, Steve, which we have arguably
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Speaker 2: the best in the game in Max Crosby, The Condor
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Speaker 2: coming up on the show next. He's gonna join us
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Speaker 2: and Baldy's gonna join as well, because those two relationship
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Speaker 2: unlike any other two maybe around. The Condor joins the
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Speaker 4: now as Brian Baldinger is in the house, as is
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Speaker 4: his dude, the man he brought the Moniker to the Condor,
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Speaker 4: Las Vegas raidersterback hunter.
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Speaker 3: Max Crosby.
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Speaker 4: Max, thanks so much for joining us, Baldy, thanks for
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Speaker 4: having us in the house.
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Speaker 3: Okay, Max, let's.
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Speaker 4: Get this started. We're gonna we're gonna get the free agency.
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Speaker 4: The Raiders were active out of the gate. They got
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Speaker 4: you a wing man, they got the Condor a legit
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Speaker 4: wing man. Here and Christian Wilkins just want to get
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Speaker 4: your thoughts about adding one of the best DT's in
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Speaker 4: the game.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, super excited about it. Obviously, Christian hell of a player.
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Speaker 5: I've known him all the way from back in college
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Speaker 5: after my sophomore my red shirt sophomore year, we went
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Speaker 5: to a it was a touchdown club in Columbus. We
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Speaker 5: end up being together and spending some time together with
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Speaker 5: our with our girls and and spending the night together.
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Speaker 5: It was it was a great time and we got
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Speaker 5: to you know, get to know each other a little
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Speaker 5: bit better. And then obviously seeing what he's done in
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Speaker 5: his career, we went to the combine together. Obviously, Cleveland
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Speaker 5: Farrell really good friend of mine, literally a brother to me.
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Speaker 5: He was teammates with him, So we've known each other
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Speaker 5: for a good amount of time now and uh, you know,
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Speaker 5: we've had some conversations and you know, obviously we end
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Speaker 5: up pulling the trigger and bring him here to Las Vegas.
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Speaker 5: So it's super exciting. Man, he's a hell of a player.
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Speaker 5: He brings all the energy in the world, and those
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Speaker 5: are the type of people I'm trying to be around,
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Speaker 5: and I'm so excited for him. He earned that contract,
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Speaker 5: and you know a guy like Malcolm Koontz as well,
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Speaker 5: who came on, you know, super super heavy towards the
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Speaker 5: end of the year. You know, we're just bringing more
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Speaker 5: guys along, Tyree Wilson's, the Jannaies Robinson's. You know, we
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Speaker 5: got more and more guys coming in and we're gonna
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Speaker 5: go on waves and and and really have some fun
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Speaker 5: this year. I can't wait.
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Speaker 2: All right, Max, I'm not gonna get entirely away from
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Speaker 2: your running mate and Christian Wilkins, but you added another
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Speaker 2: guy in free agency, Elsie. Roll the tape real quick.
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Speaker 2: Let's go.
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Speaker 6: We go anyway, dude, nice Crosby so damn angry, right,
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Speaker 6: I like the thing is like he's not I know, right,
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Speaker 6: he just calls He keeps calling everybody little ass boy, Hey,
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Speaker 6: little ass boy.
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Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm a little out here, but not always.
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Speaker 7: You know, yeah, sure, shure out a song. He's a
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Speaker 7: big ass boys what he is he got? But uh nah, man,
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Speaker 7: it is awesome. You know there's a guy's you know,
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Speaker 7: not as much fun to play against, but throwing your team.
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Speaker 7: I absolutely love it, man.
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Speaker 5: Excited to be with him. Christian.
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Speaker 7: Some of the best you know talkers. I've been around
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Speaker 7: in the NFL. To have him on our side, to
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Speaker 7: practice against him every day, it's just gonna make me better.
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Speaker 7: I'm super excited about it.
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Speaker 5: Max.
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Speaker 2: We gotta ask you, what was your initial reaction when
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Speaker 2: Gardner Minshew was going to become your new teammate? Do
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Speaker 2: you call him?
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Speaker 5: Do you do you.
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Speaker 2: Reach out to him and talk about what happened? And
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Speaker 2: also he mentioned Christian also and the two of you
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Speaker 2: have a skill that apparently not a lot of people possess.
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Speaker 2: Who is the better trash talker between you and your
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Speaker 2: new running mate?
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Speaker 5: To answer that question, you know, I'm auld humbly say myself.
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Speaker 5: I feel like I'm, you know, an elite talker. But
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Speaker 5: you know, at the end of the day, it's you know,
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Speaker 5: when I first found out, I just started laughing. I'm like, wow,
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Speaker 5: you know, it's a you never you never expect that
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Speaker 5: to happen. But for me, I think it's hilarious. You know,
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Speaker 5: Gardner is a hell of a hell of a player,
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Speaker 5: and just seeing what he did last year, taking the Colts,
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Speaker 5: you know, where basically everybody wrote them off, and winning
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Speaker 5: a lot of football games and giving them a chance
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Speaker 5: to you know make the playoffs was was super impressive
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Speaker 5: to me and everywhere he's gone. You know, he was
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Speaker 5: one one of the first quarterbacks. You know, I sacked
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Speaker 5: when he was in Jacksonville, so I know him very well.
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Speaker 5: And I had a lot of fun in practice and
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Speaker 5: talking talking mess and going back and forth. But dude,
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Speaker 5: I got a ton of respect for He's going to
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Speaker 5: come in and he's going to compete, so that's all
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Speaker 5: you can ask for at the end of the day.
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Speaker 5: And a guy like him, he's going to bring great
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Speaker 5: energy to the locker room. And today I got to
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Speaker 5: got to be with him and Christian as well. I was,
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Speaker 5: you know, in there working out this morning, and you know,
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Speaker 5: I got to spend some time with them, so I
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Speaker 5: know they're fired up and where we're definitely ready to go.
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Speaker 8: Max, you're proud to be literally first in line to
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Speaker 8: be the all Energy team. I mean that's how you
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Speaker 8: You pride yourself in being first team All Energy. But
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Speaker 8: so does Christian Wilkins. I've seen plenty of Dolphin practices.
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Speaker 8: I don't care if it's during the season or OTAs.
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Speaker 8: He's the first guy in line, Max, he's the first
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Speaker 8: guy on the field if you're hitting sleds. He's the
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Speaker 8: first one on the sled. I want to know, Max,
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Speaker 8: who's going to be first in line? Are you still
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Speaker 8: going to hold that Moniker? Is Wilkins going to beat
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Speaker 8: you to the sled? Who's going to set the tempo
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Speaker 8: and practice every day? Or is it you guys in
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Speaker 8: stereo doing it together?
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Speaker 5: Yeah? You know, I love I love a healthy competition.
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Speaker 5: So he's gonna have to work real hard to try
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Speaker 5: to be being to the front of the line. So
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Speaker 5: I love it. I mean, anybody that tries to step
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Speaker 5: up to the plate and try to you know, out
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Speaker 5: energy me, I respect it. You know, we'll see what happens.
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Speaker 5: But I know Christian he's got a ton of energy.
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Speaker 5: He loves football, and the way he carries himself is
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Speaker 5: the way you're supposed to carry yourself. This game is
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Speaker 5: meant to be fun, and at the end of the day,
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Speaker 5: it's not fun when you're not winning. So we play
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Speaker 5: on winning a lot of football games together. I can't
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Speaker 5: wait to have him out there, a guy that understands
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Speaker 5: what it takes to win, what it takes to become
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Speaker 5: better and better every single year. That's something that fired
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Speaker 5: me up. You know the most about Christian is seeing
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Speaker 5: his progression. People are trying to write him off early
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Speaker 5: in his career, similar to how they try to do
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Speaker 5: the same with me, and the fact that he's gotten
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Speaker 5: better and better every single year just shows that he's
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Speaker 5: putting in the work. So at the end of the day,
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Speaker 5: you know, we got to do it together. If we
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Speaker 5: want to win, we got to do it together. I
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Speaker 5: know he's going to be, you know, trying to out
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Speaker 5: energy me and beyond that. But I'm a different breed,
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Speaker 5: so I can't wait.
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Speaker 4: Hey, Mack, speaking a different breed this off season, right
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Speaker 4: after the season. You got the knee procedure done, you
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Speaker 4: got the hand the thumb procedure done. Last time I
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Speaker 4: saw you had the splint on, I just saw you don't.
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Speaker 3: Have it on. Where are you in your rehab?
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Speaker 4: You're talking about you in the facility already when you
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Speaker 4: saw the guys working out today, Where are you in
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Speaker 4: terms of your rehab?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, me and Baldi talked about it a
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Speaker 5: couple of weeks ago, and we did our podcast The Rush.
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Speaker 5: Go tune into that if you haven't seen it already, Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 5: low plug, but go check it out at the end
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Speaker 5: of the day. You know, I'm doing incredible. I started
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Speaker 5: January twenty second earliest I've ever been in the building
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Speaker 5: in an off season. I've been getting to it. I'm
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Speaker 5: already back boxing. I'm able to throw this right hand
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Speaker 5: in my training as well. My knee is feeling incredible.
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Speaker 5: I'm able to run in the treadmill, run in the pool,
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Speaker 5: and I'm flying. My cardio is getting there back to
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Speaker 5: you know, like I said, I probably myself. I'm being
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Speaker 5: the best in every category and I know I'm getting
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Speaker 5: closer to that every single day. So it's been an
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Speaker 5: incredible off season. I feel great, my knees feeling great,
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Speaker 5: my hand as well. So yeah, I got the best
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Speaker 5: team around me, Rick Slay, aj Nibel, Ricky. My nutrition
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Speaker 5: is everybody Alex Carrero working on my body five times
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Speaker 5: a week. It doesn't stop. And uh, those guys. Without them,
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Speaker 5: it wouldn't be possible. And that's why I try to
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Speaker 5: get my guys to do. You know, we got a
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Speaker 5: ton of D lineen. We have almost ten D linemen
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Speaker 5: in the in the building already. We've been training for
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Speaker 5: over a month now together and getting after it. So yeah,
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Speaker 5: we're we're focused on the best in the world, and
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Speaker 5: that's what we plan on doing.
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I love that, Max, I love it.
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Speaker 2: So I got, I got, I got two parts for you.
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Speaker 2: On one, you're talking about all these things you're doing
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Speaker 2: with the knee. I hear you bought a new house
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Speaker 2: with a trampoline. That's that's like in the ground. Is
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Speaker 2: this accurate? Are we are we able to get on
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Speaker 2: this trampoline or is that Mark Davis saying no, do
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Speaker 2: not jet on this trampoline.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's pretty safe. You know, I haven't jumped
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Speaker 5: on it for obvious reasons. You know, still coming back
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Speaker 5: getting closer to one hundred percent with it. But yeah,
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Speaker 5: it is an end ground trampoline. And I've seen my buddies, uh,
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Speaker 5: you know, get on it and fly around. And you know,
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Speaker 5: we got we got a gym, all type of things.
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Speaker 5: But it's a it's a working progress. You know, we
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Speaker 5: got some work to do on the house, but uh, yeah,
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Speaker 5: it's it's beautiful and there's gonna be a lot of
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Speaker 5: you know, we're gonna have a half field, you're gonna
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Speaker 5: have a full basketball court, a whole gym, and you
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Speaker 5: know it's gonna be another place where all the guys
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Speaker 5: can get together and we can you know, just improve
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Speaker 5: and just create that you know, that tight nit camaraderie
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Speaker 5: that you know is necessary to go out there and
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Speaker 5: and you know, win football games.
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Speaker 8: Max, I feel like these off seasons are becoming more
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Speaker 8: and more important for a team that wants to get
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Speaker 8: where they want to go. You just mentioned the camaraderie, Max,
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Speaker 8: and how important that is. Getting to know your teammates,
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Speaker 8: cutting it up with them, spending time with them so
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Speaker 8: that when you get on the field, it's nothing more
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Speaker 8: than a locked up brotherhood. We're literally each guy is
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Speaker 8: pulling each guy like almost play to play to play.
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Speaker 8: And I feel that with Antonio, I feel it with you.
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Speaker 5: We felt it.
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Speaker 8: We all felt it across the league down the second
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Speaker 8: half of the season, Like how important is that to
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Speaker 8: you this offseason with all the new guys, the chemistry
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Speaker 8: and building that thing?
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Speaker 5: Now, Yeah, you know it's everything. You look at all
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Speaker 5: the best teams in the league, they're a unit. There's
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Speaker 5: no clicks and there's no separation. Obviously on every team,
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Speaker 5: you're going to have certain guys you've got to pull
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Speaker 5: a little bit harder, you got to push a little
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Speaker 5: bit more. But at the end of the day, if
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Speaker 5: everyone is on the same page and believes in each
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Speaker 5: other and it's fighting for each other, you're gonna have
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Speaker 5: a better chance to win. That's something I feel like
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Speaker 5: last year, you know, we took a huge step in
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Speaker 5: our D line group just being so tightening, and that
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Speaker 5: bled through the team. Our D line we have dinners
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Speaker 5: every single Thursday. We pick a different location. Somebody's paying
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Speaker 5: for it every week. You know, at the end of
16:49
Speaker 5: the year, I mean there's eighteen weeks, so we're running
16:52
Speaker 5: out of places to go to and we you know,
16:54
Speaker 5: Davante obviously has a beautiful house. We call DeVante, We're like, yo,
16:57
Speaker 5: could we host a host a dinner and He's like, yeah,
17:02
Speaker 5: come on down. He's like, come on down and bring
17:03
Speaker 5: the guys. So we went to DeVante's one time. We
17:06
Speaker 5: went to Jimmy G's house as well, and you know,
17:09
Speaker 5: that stuff is important, so we want to bleed that
17:11
Speaker 5: through the whole team. You know, it starts with the
17:14
Speaker 5: guys leading the way, and you know, I feel like
17:16
Speaker 5: that's something that's super important. It's just being a tight
17:19
Speaker 5: knit group because in the game, it's a direct translation.
17:22
Speaker 5: I can't if I don't have a real relationship with you,
17:24
Speaker 5: I can't hold you accountable and they're not going to
17:27
Speaker 5: respect me the same way as if I know your
17:29
Speaker 5: whole family and I know your kids, and I know
17:32
Speaker 5: what you like to do when on your downtime, it's
17:34
Speaker 5: a different type of relationship. So, like I said, right now,
17:37
Speaker 5: we have like ten guys in the building right now.
17:39
Speaker 5: Tyree's in there, Nessa, all these young guys, Matt Butler's
17:43
Speaker 5: we're already in the building working together and we're so
17:45
Speaker 5: close and we'll go smoke cigars together, things like that
17:48
Speaker 5: and just build our relationships because on the field, it's
17:51
Speaker 5: a direct translation. When you're on the same page, you
17:54
Speaker 5: don't even have to say anything. It's like a sixth
17:56
Speaker 5: sense and you understand the guy next to you. It
17:58
Speaker 5: just makes everything come together. And that's what we're trying
18:00
Speaker 5: to believe through the whole entire team and organization. So yeah,
18:04
Speaker 5: you know, we got we got work to do. Obviously,
18:06
Speaker 5: it's only March, but we're going in the right direction
18:08
Speaker 5: and we're very you know, very confident that we're going
18:11
Speaker 5: to go out there and you know, make some noise
18:13
Speaker 5: for sure.
18:13
Speaker 2: Max, I love you talking about that camaraderie aspect of it,
18:16
Speaker 2: because I remember hearing your head coach be very open
18:19
Speaker 2: at the combine saying, one of Max's biggest jobs this
18:22
Speaker 2: offseason is to bring Tyree Wilson along. We know the
18:26
Speaker 2: type of rookie season he had, we know the health
18:28
Speaker 2: that he had in coming into his rookie season. What
18:31
Speaker 2: is when he says that, what does he mean by
18:33
Speaker 2: bringing him along? You mentioned the camaraderie side of things,
18:36
Speaker 2: but how do you also bring him along in year
18:38
Speaker 2: two to make sure he's a force opposite of you.
18:40
Speaker 5: Well, there's a standard. It starts with a standard, and
18:43
Speaker 5: that standard you don't break it for anything. If you
18:45
Speaker 5: have guys holding you know, others to that standard starts
18:49
Speaker 5: with me. At the end of the day, I gotta
18:51
Speaker 5: I gotta hold that standard and upheld it every single day.
18:54
Speaker 5: And that's my responsibility as a captain, as a leader,
18:57
Speaker 5: and as a guy. That's that's a game changer on
18:59
Speaker 5: a day basis, not just on the field, but I'm
19:01
Speaker 5: practicing in the weight room. I take a lot of
19:04
Speaker 5: pride in that. So a guy like Tyree, he was hurt,
19:07
Speaker 5: he wasn't able to be with us in OTAs he
19:09
Speaker 5: was missed half of camp deal with the injury, so
19:12
Speaker 5: it kind of was a slower process to get him
19:14
Speaker 5: fully ingrained and understand what it takes to be a
19:18
Speaker 5: professional and be a part of our group and a
19:20
Speaker 5: part of something that's bigger than just ourselves. And he
19:24
Speaker 5: came a long way from the beginning, I mean from
19:27
Speaker 5: week one to week eighteens like night and day, Aldi
19:30
Speaker 5: was very honest about it's seeing Baldy make videos of
19:32
Speaker 5: what is wise, not law and that, and it was real.
19:36
Speaker 5: You know, some people were sensitive about it. But at
19:38
Speaker 5: the end of the day, if you're not held accountable
19:40
Speaker 5: and you don't understand what you have to do and
19:42
Speaker 5: why we're doing it, then you'll never improve. And in
19:45
Speaker 5: this business, it's a production based business. I don't care
19:47
Speaker 5: how good you look, how big you are, how fast
19:50
Speaker 5: you are, in attracts to whatever. In a combine with
19:53
Speaker 5: you know, tights on, it's what you know what matters.
19:55
Speaker 5: What you do on a daily basis, when you're in
19:57
Speaker 5: that building, when you're in practice, when you're in the
19:58
Speaker 5: weight room, when you're on the if you're not doing
20:01
Speaker 5: if all those things aren't right, then you're not going
20:03
Speaker 5: to go out there and be at your best. And
20:05
Speaker 5: to Tyree is a guy who wants to be great.
20:07
Speaker 5: He works at it, He's been working at it, and
20:09
Speaker 5: he understands what it takes to do it on a
20:11
Speaker 5: daily basis, and I try to. I'm constantly showing him
20:14
Speaker 5: that and other guys are also doing it, and Tyree
20:17
Speaker 5: is a part of that. Now he's a part of
20:19
Speaker 5: our family and he's going to be a great player
20:22
Speaker 5: in this league. He's a guy that's got all the size,
20:24
Speaker 5: all the ability. It's just about putting it together. And
20:26
Speaker 5: everybody's timeline is different. Some people come right out the
20:29
Speaker 5: gate and have, you know, instant success. Some people it
20:32
Speaker 5: takes five years, some people it takes two years. It
20:34
Speaker 5: doesn't matter. At the end of the day, when you
20:36
Speaker 5: come to a building, it's a fresh start, no matter
20:37
Speaker 5: if you're the number one pick or you're undrafted. The
20:40
Speaker 5: work starts when you get in the building. And Tyree
20:42
Speaker 5: understands that. Now. He's a great kid. I love being
20:45
Speaker 5: around him. I give him a hard time every single day.
20:47
Speaker 5: It's constantly bothering him and where are you at, what
20:50
Speaker 5: are you doing, what are you eating? But it's because
20:52
Speaker 5: I care and I want him to fulfill his full
20:54
Speaker 5: potential like he wants to. So, yeah, you know, I
20:57
Speaker 5: take a lot of responsibility in that Max. Real quick.
21:00
Speaker 8: My last question to you. You know, you've had a
21:04
Speaker 8: drastic lifestyle change, and part of that change in the
21:08
Speaker 8: commitment to becoming the best player.
21:11
Speaker 5: To ever played that position. What you're doing right now.
21:13
Speaker 8: It kind of started with when you watched the last
21:16
Speaker 8: dance of Michael Jordan and how you said, this is
21:19
Speaker 8: how I want to live my life. I want to
21:21
Speaker 8: be this guy. Can you just share, you know, if
21:24
Speaker 8: you go through the whole story matter, we can share
21:26
Speaker 8: a little quickly about what that did to you, you
21:28
Speaker 8: your wife and really the whole direction.
21:30
Speaker 5: Of your life. Yeah, you know, to give you a
21:33
Speaker 5: quick summary, After my second year in the league, that
21:37
Speaker 5: was the first year I got sober, so I had
21:39
Speaker 5: about a year under my belt. I just finished my
21:42
Speaker 5: second year in the league. I had was playing through
21:45
Speaker 5: a torn labram, I had a broken hand and I
21:47
Speaker 5: had to get surgery on both. So right after that
21:49
Speaker 5: second year, the COVID year, I went out to LA
21:52
Speaker 5: had to get those surgeries and I was in a
21:54
Speaker 5: hotel my wife for about three days and we literally
21:57
Speaker 5: sat and watched the last dance from starting to finish,
21:59
Speaker 5: and I was just sitting there and I was disappointed.
22:02
Speaker 5: I know, I took a step back in my second year.
22:04
Speaker 5: I wasn't as good as I was there, but I
22:07
Speaker 5: watched that I was so inspired by it that I
22:10
Speaker 5: literally I went back and I'm like, Babe, I'm changing everything.
22:13
Speaker 5: I'm going back. I'm ana civil with nutritionness. I don't
22:15
Speaker 5: care how the food tastes. I want to be the
22:17
Speaker 5: best version and put everything that needs to be put
22:20
Speaker 5: into my body. I want. I'm gonna go to the
22:21
Speaker 5: strength staff. I'm gonna say, listen, what do I need
22:24
Speaker 5: to do to become the best version of myself? And
22:26
Speaker 5: I put the trust in everybody in that building because
22:29
Speaker 5: I want. I know I made it this far by
22:33
Speaker 5: just being just the ability I was. I was blessed
22:35
Speaker 5: with and my love for the game, but I didn't
22:37
Speaker 5: have everything else in a row. So after seeing that
22:40
Speaker 5: last dance, I was like, why can't I do this?
22:42
Speaker 5: Why am I not in the conversation with TJ Whyt
22:44
Speaker 5: Why am I not in the conversation with Bosa. I
22:46
Speaker 5: should be in that conversation. There's no excuse, and it's
22:49
Speaker 5: been over three years now, and I've completely changed the
22:52
Speaker 5: outcome of my career. I'm going in a direction that
22:56
Speaker 5: I know I'm I'm supposed to be at because I
23:01
Speaker 5: do it every single day. I'm in there at six
23:03
Speaker 5: in the morning and off season every single morning, and
23:06
Speaker 5: I'm putting in work and focus on every little detail
23:08
Speaker 5: I could possibly focus on and improve in every single day.
23:11
Speaker 5: So that you know that inspired me. I got Michael
23:14
Speaker 5: Jordan literally tatted on my torso, like that's a guy
23:17
Speaker 5: that I inspire to be like because he wasn't the
23:20
Speaker 5: man at one point he had to go through he
23:23
Speaker 5: got cut in high school and went through everything he
23:26
Speaker 5: went through just by being ultra dialed in and every
23:28
Speaker 5: single way and having the mindset that nobody's going to
23:30
Speaker 5: stop me unless it's me, and you've got to face
23:33
Speaker 5: the man in the mirror every single day, and that's
23:34
Speaker 5: the way you become the best version of yourself. So
23:37
Speaker 5: for me, you know, he inspired in so many ways.
23:39
Speaker 5: And ironically, I just you know it's about to get announced,
23:42
Speaker 5: but I just signed with Jordan as well, so it's
23:44
Speaker 5: a full circle moment and h you know, lessing and
23:50
Speaker 5: super fired up man, and I know I'm not at
23:52
Speaker 5: my best yet. That's what motivates me every day. You know,
23:54
Speaker 5: I know where I'm going, I plan on being the
23:56
Speaker 5: best I ever do it, and uh, you know, it's
23:58
Speaker 5: a it's a one day at a time process back.
24:00
Speaker 4: So I'm just getting totally inspired by like just hearing that.
24:03
Speaker 4: You know that that story is amazing. Congrats on the
24:05
Speaker 4: deal with Brand Jordan. And you know one thing I know,
24:09
Speaker 4: you launched the Max Crosby Foundation this year as well.
24:13
Speaker 4: Your inaugural foundation dinner is Thursday night. I want to say,
24:16
Speaker 4: isn't it like the UFC headquarters out there in Vegas?
24:20
Speaker 4: Tell us a little bit about your foundation and why
24:22
Speaker 4: you felt now was the right time to launch it
24:26
Speaker 4: to help improve the lives to so many other folks.
24:29
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's everything to me. I know how many people
24:32
Speaker 5: helped me when I was at my lowest, and that's
24:34
Speaker 5: what I want to do, is get back to others.
24:36
Speaker 5: I just had I just celebrated my four years of
24:39
Speaker 5: sobriety this past weekend, and it just I had all
24:43
Speaker 5: the people that have helped me the most in that room,
24:46
Speaker 5: that have understood what I had to go through to
24:48
Speaker 5: be where I'm at and it was one of the
24:50
Speaker 5: coolest moments I've had. So this foundation is focused on
24:54
Speaker 5: you know, teen substance teen substance abuse and also animal rescue,
24:59
Speaker 5: something that you know, it's close home with me. I
25:01
Speaker 5: got three pitbulls, two rescues of my own, so it's
25:04
Speaker 5: something I really care about. And you know, the UFC
25:07
Speaker 5: APEX we're gonna be having that dinner at Thursday night,
25:10
Speaker 5: which is which is tonight. And Dana White is a
25:14
Speaker 5: super super close friend of mine, a dude who took
25:16
Speaker 5: me under his wing since since I got out here
25:18
Speaker 5: in Vegas, so he opened up his house for me.
25:21
Speaker 5: He's going to be there as well, and you know
25:23
Speaker 5: a lot of great people. So we're super fired up
25:26
Speaker 5: for it and we're going to be you know, catching
25:28
Speaker 5: some tracks, handing out you know, some donations, and doing
25:31
Speaker 5: a lot of things in the community here in Las
25:33
Speaker 5: Vegas and also in Michigan and Texas another place around
25:36
Speaker 5: the country as well. So yeah, it means a lot
25:39
Speaker 5: to me. It's everything, and I feel like this, you know,
25:41
Speaker 5: everything is about timing and life and you can't rush
25:44
Speaker 5: to anything, and also you don't want to wait too
25:46
Speaker 5: long either, you know. For me, I wanted to do
25:48
Speaker 5: it the right way. I want to have the right
25:50
Speaker 5: people behind me. And like I said, like we talked
25:52
Speaker 5: about before the show, Bert is incredible. He's he's running
25:55
Speaker 5: the show, and my wife as well is helping out
25:57
Speaker 5: a ton. So I got a bunch of great people
25:59
Speaker 5: and a great team around me to go out there
26:02
Speaker 5: and maximize this opportunity to help others. So we're super
26:05
Speaker 5: fired up about it.
26:06
Speaker 3: Well done, Well done, brother.
26:09
Speaker 5: I love it. I love it. Max.
26:11
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for everything you're doing. You guys
26:13
Speaker 2: can see at the bottom of the screen Max Crosby
26:15
Speaker 2: Foundation dot Org. And it's just the start of that,
26:18
Speaker 2: but it's not the start of what you've been doing
26:19
Speaker 2: giving back. I remember last time I saw you in
26:21
Speaker 2: person was on the field at the Super Bowl. You
26:23
Speaker 2: being honored as the Walter Payton Man of the Year
26:26
Speaker 2: nominee for the Las Vegas Raiders. So Max, thank you
26:29
Speaker 2: so much for joining us. Enjoy the dinner. If you
26:31
Speaker 2: got three extra spots, I know there's a lot of
26:33
Speaker 2: flights to Vegas for all three of us. Maybe we
26:35
Speaker 2: can get there in time. I don't know, you know,
26:37
Speaker 2: maybe three of us can join You appreciate you joining
26:39
Speaker 2: the show though, Buddy, thank you so much.
26:41
Speaker 3: Appreciate you, Max.
26:42
Speaker 5: Thank you guys are the best. Appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: that Max might be chasing down? Which quarterback? Will it
27:02
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27:05
Speaker 2: Daniel Jones? Could it be Drew Locke? We'll find out
27:08
Speaker 2: for Mike Garrifolo next on the NFL Report. Oh, it
27:22
Speaker 2: just feels so good to have the NFL Reports NFL
27:26
Speaker 2: Insider Mike Garriffolo back, Mike, thank you for joining us.
27:30
Speaker 2: And I just have to start with this. How many
27:32
Speaker 2: hours have you slept in the last Let's see from
27:35
Speaker 2: Sunday to we're taping on Thursday.
27:37
Speaker 1: Now, you know there's real journalism happening out there about
27:41
Speaker 1: many important things. I don't want to make it sound
27:43
Speaker 1: here's what I love, though, it's over quickly. Like when
27:46
Speaker 1: I work out, I'd rather do the sprints. Point, I'd
27:49
Speaker 1: rather do the sprints than the long distance running. Like
27:51
Speaker 1: I really feel for the baseball writers Lake Snell has
27:55
Speaker 1: even signed yet, like this is a six month or
27:58
Speaker 1: fourth let's see seven January a four month process, and
28:02
Speaker 1: they're just like on on alert at all times for
28:05
Speaker 1: four like ours is a blitz, but it's done in
28:08
Speaker 1: like three to four days.
28:09
Speaker 2: We're already winding down.
28:10
Speaker 4: So to that point, Mike Gee, we've seen, you know,
28:13
Speaker 4: we've seen a lot of things. We saw backup quarterbacks
28:15
Speaker 4: come off the board. We saw guards come off the board.
28:18
Speaker 4: But then some of the off ball linebackers, and this
28:20
Speaker 4: is always just such an intriguing position how teams value them.
28:25
Speaker 4: This has really been kind of a trickle with some
28:28
Speaker 4: of these guys, Patrick Queen, Frankie Louvu. You know, some
28:30
Speaker 4: of these guys got multi year deals. But what about
28:33
Speaker 4: that market and the pacing of it and why there
28:36
Speaker 4: really it hasn't been so much a lot of big
28:37
Speaker 4: money spent there.
28:38
Speaker 1: I should say, I don't know, because you know, Ziir
28:41
Speaker 1: Franklin did an extension before free agency and it came
28:44
Speaker 1: in just north of ten million dollars per year, and
28:46
Speaker 1: I actually was expecting a bunch of because there's nothing
28:49
Speaker 1: agents love more and tearing down other agents deals right
28:52
Speaker 1: as expecting a flood of texts to be like, oh
28:55
Speaker 1: got awful dealble because you know, whether it's it's not
28:58
Speaker 1: not that I'm comparing him to these guys, but Jack
29:00
Speaker 1: Leonard CJ. Mosley is the one that really blew the
29:03
Speaker 1: top off the market. The one year got up to seventeen.
29:06
Speaker 1: So it's been seventeen. Rokwan Smith and Leonard around eighteen
29:11
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty, and these guys are now like it's And
29:14
Speaker 1: so I checked in with a couple of ages. I'm like, hey,
29:17
Speaker 1: this deal here. They're like, no, it's a good deal.
29:19
Speaker 1: These guys are not going to get paid what they
29:21
Speaker 1: used to get paid. And I don't know why this
29:22
Speaker 1: market settled back down. And you know, Patrick Queen pays
29:25
Speaker 1: the market for some of these linebackers and he's at,
29:28
Speaker 1: you know, eleven million dollars per year. I want to say,
29:30
Speaker 1: are a little higher than that, maybe twelve somewhere in
29:33
Speaker 1: that area. And it's only the dealers only structure it.
29:36
Speaker 1: They guarantee the first year, so it's not a high
29:38
Speaker 1: guarantee or any of this stuff.
29:39
Speaker 2: So the off the.
29:40
Speaker 1: Ball linebackers, some team's really pouring resources into it. And
29:44
Speaker 1: then this market for whatever reason. And sometimes, by the way,
29:47
Speaker 1: when I see that, I go, oh, must be a
29:49
Speaker 1: strong draft class at a certain position, which is not
29:52
Speaker 1: a strong running back class, which is why those guys
29:54
Speaker 1: got paid. But yeah, that kind of surprised me that
29:57
Speaker 1: that market kind of settled back down again.
30:00
Speaker 2: I kind of want to stay there, Mike, because I
30:01
Speaker 2: look at the four teams that were left at the
30:03
Speaker 2: end of this past season, and all of them had
30:06
Speaker 2: a really good linebacker. Course, And I remember having a
30:09
Speaker 2: conversation in Baltimore in the locker room with Steve Spagnolo
30:13
Speaker 2: was saying, my defense just doesn't work without a linebacker
30:17
Speaker 2: like Nick Bolton running it in the middle of my defense.
30:19
Speaker 2: This is kind of a copycat league. Why aren't people
30:22
Speaker 2: seeing that as one of the best defenses out there
30:25
Speaker 2: starting to value this position in terms of dollars when
30:29
Speaker 2: it's valued in terms of player. Why doesn't it add
30:31
Speaker 2: up in certain positions like this.
30:34
Speaker 1: Well, I'm guessing that Nick Bolton's agent is hearing this
30:38
Speaker 1: and saying, Okay, let's hope that well, maybe you spoke
30:43
Speaker 1: a little Yeah, maybe Spags he goes and gets a
30:47
Speaker 1: head coaching job, And that's the guy that he'll pay
30:49
Speaker 1: when he's a free agent to get over there, or
30:52
Speaker 1: maybe Spaggs is still in Kansas City and say, hey,
30:55
Speaker 1: you know how important he is, dear defense. Don't forget
30:57
Speaker 1: about that. So you know, some teams are going to
30:59
Speaker 1: value it. Teams are going to say that this is
31:01
Speaker 1: what we do. When the Ravens did the whole thing
31:02
Speaker 1: with Roquan it was because the Bears at the time
31:05
Speaker 1: weren't willing to invest that kind of money and off
31:07
Speaker 1: the ball linebacker, and the Ravens did.
31:09
Speaker 2: And I do remember a GM.
31:11
Speaker 1: That I pretty much respect and have a good opinion
31:14
Speaker 1: for what he does is it's like, you can't you
31:16
Speaker 1: can't pour that kind of money into that position.
31:18
Speaker 2: They did. It's their philosophy.
31:20
Speaker 3: It fits what they do.
31:21
Speaker 1: You got to pay what fits your franchise and your
31:25
Speaker 1: coaching scheme at the time.
31:27
Speaker 4: Well, I'd say one position again that falls in line
31:30
Speaker 4: with that is safety. So you have some teams who
31:32
Speaker 4: really value the safety position, especially now the most teams
31:36
Speaker 4: are playing more and more teams are playing a three
31:37
Speaker 4: safety thing, and then.
31:38
Speaker 3: Others, like this year, that's not the case.
31:41
Speaker 4: So the Bills basically cut their safety squad three deep
31:46
Speaker 4: and let those guys at the market. Now this the
31:47
Speaker 4: safety market is still rather saturated.
31:50
Speaker 3: Mike.
31:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, and some of these guys who did get paid
31:53
Speaker 1: on the market, the free agent market, I think we're
31:55
Speaker 1: expecting some higher deals than they actually got. Know, Xavier
32:00
Speaker 1: McKinney did well. Kyle Dugger with the Patriots was an
32:03
Speaker 1: interesting one because I think the rest of the league
32:06
Speaker 1: got the impression that no matter what they offer Dugger,
32:10
Speaker 1: the Patriots are going to match it, and that's why
32:11
Speaker 1: they put the transition tag on him at around thirteen
32:13
Speaker 1: million dollars in exchange and change. My understanding is they
32:16
Speaker 1: were trying to get a deal done at thirteen So
32:18
Speaker 1: at this point, if you're Dugger, you know, maybe you
32:21
Speaker 1: sign the tag. You could even play on it if
32:23
Speaker 1: you want. Because a lot of times these markets, and
32:25
Speaker 1: the defensive tackle market is one of them, there are
32:28
Speaker 1: certain guys now that are starting to get paid after
32:30
Speaker 1: they did smaller deals, shorter deals, and all of a
32:33
Speaker 1: sudden they come up and it's like, wait a minute,
32:35
Speaker 1: this guy only got three a couple of years ago. Well,
32:37
Speaker 1: you know what, he's healthy, he produced, and all of
32:39
Speaker 1: a sudden, teams are putting more money into that right now,
32:42
Speaker 1: and those guys are getting to Sheldon Rankins got a
32:43
Speaker 1: huge deal. He's glimbing the ladder as he's gone. Along
32:46
Speaker 1: with regard to how much money he's gotten now, he
32:48
Speaker 1: was coming off in Achilles the first time, and he
32:51
Speaker 1: is coming off I believe six sacks this year. So
32:54
Speaker 1: a lot of times about the timing and what's happening
32:56
Speaker 1: in the market at your position.
32:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we know there's not a whole lot of
32:59
Speaker 2: defense and some tackles coming out of this draft, at
33:02
Speaker 2: least from who I'm talking to, doesn't think it's the
33:04
Speaker 2: deepest draft in that sense. That probably helps guys like
33:06
Speaker 2: Sheldon Rankins out there. And you're sitting there in Hoboke
33:09
Speaker 2: and Mike, I have to ask you about one of
33:11
Speaker 2: my favorite guys in the league, Drew Locke, coming to
33:14
Speaker 2: the New York Football Giants. Was that one of the
33:18
Speaker 2: ones that kind of surprised you a little bit, going, well,
33:21
Speaker 2: this is a guy that maybe has a chance week
33:24
Speaker 2: one to be their starter after kind of getting his
33:28
Speaker 2: career back together in Seattle. It was not on my
33:31
Speaker 2: radar at all.
33:32
Speaker 1: In fact, I had had people say if Andy Dalton
33:34
Speaker 1: gets moved from Carolina, which the indications are that's not
33:37
Speaker 1: going to happen at this point. I don't know if
33:38
Speaker 1: it ever was in the Cars.
33:39
Speaker 2: I know they value him highly.
33:41
Speaker 1: Look for Drew locked tohead to Carolina because of the
33:44
Speaker 1: connection with Dave Canalis and all that stuff and whatever.
33:48
Speaker 3: So when it.
33:50
Speaker 1: Happened, I was kind of surprised at the team. But
33:53
Speaker 1: then the more I thought about it, I'm like, you
33:54
Speaker 1: know what, Drew Locke played well that Monday night game
33:56
Speaker 1: where he came in for Gino Smith right off the
33:58
Speaker 1: bench and played well a lot of time. How do
34:00
Speaker 1: you get signed by a team and paid good money
34:03
Speaker 1: by a team play well against them the previous season.
34:05
Speaker 2: That's what happened with Drew Locke.
34:06
Speaker 1: And I also did expect the Giants at some point
34:09
Speaker 1: to add a veteran option, and it doesn't.
34:12
Speaker 3: You're seeing that six pick.
34:13
Speaker 2: In the draft right there in your screen.
34:14
Speaker 1: Doesn't procrude them from taking a quarterback in the draft,
34:18
Speaker 1: and it doesn't preclude them from starting Daniel Jones week one.
34:22
Speaker 3: I mean it sort of semi.
34:25
Speaker 1: Resembles the Eagles situation back when they took Carson Wentz.
34:29
Speaker 1: They had Sam Bradford, then they went out and signed
34:31
Speaker 1: Chase Daniel and then they drafted Carson Wentz and then
34:34
Speaker 1: they wound up trading Bradford right before the start of
34:36
Speaker 1: the season when Teddy Bridgewater got hurt. Not saying that
34:39
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones would be a hot commodity, but potentially you
34:42
Speaker 1: could do something like that if it gets to that point.
34:44
Speaker 1: So the Giants would that six pick, if they stay
34:46
Speaker 1: at six or if they potentially move up. I'm still
34:49
Speaker 1: looking at them as a possible quarterback situation.
34:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, it would seem on if they don't address it
34:54
Speaker 4: with Daniel Jones's injuries and you just don't know what
34:56
Speaker 4: he's gonna do, you know after this year, if they
34:59
Speaker 4: don't address it, all of a sudden, they get caught
35:01
Speaker 4: next year in a bad situation.
35:03
Speaker 1: And also think about it in terms of this, right,
35:05
Speaker 1: you do that, and now you don't need to do it.
35:08
Speaker 1: So maybe it's a little bit of playing cat and
35:10
Speaker 1: mouse with teams when it comes to the draft. Let's say, oh,
35:13
Speaker 1: what Giant signed a guy like no That still allows
35:16
Speaker 1: you then to explore trades because a you're not desperate
35:19
Speaker 1: for it, you can't have a fallback situation, and B
35:21
Speaker 1: they don't think that you're necessarily about to jump up
35:23
Speaker 1: and bite right.
35:25
Speaker 3: Hey, Mike Tee, really good stuff.
35:26
Speaker 4: I mean, I love talking about some off topic stuff
35:29
Speaker 4: after a great start of the week. Really appreciate what
35:31
Speaker 4: you Ian and Tom do for our franchise. Well done.
35:35
Speaker 4: Now go get some rest and now coming up after
35:38
Speaker 4: the break, we're.
35:38
Speaker 3: Gonna talk Washington Commanders.
35:40
Speaker 4: I said early on, this is gonna be one of
35:41
Speaker 4: the busiest teams this offseason. We're gonna be joined by
35:45
Speaker 4: the Washington Post beat writer Nikki Jabala to talk about
35:48
Speaker 4: all of the moves Dan Quinn and this new regime
35:51
Speaker 4: have made in the nation's capital. We are back at
36:05
Speaker 4: the NFL reports see why James Palmer and now we're
36:07
Speaker 4: joined by Nicki Gabala, the Commanders beat writer for the
36:11
Speaker 4: Washington Post, one of my former stopping grounds back in
36:14
Speaker 4: my writing days, and Nikki. Earlier on Thursday, Commanders made
36:19
Speaker 4: a trade which seems to kind of clear the path
36:22
Speaker 4: for them even more to draft a quarterback with a
36:24
Speaker 4: second overall pick, any quarterback Sam Howell and a fourth
36:27
Speaker 4: or six rounds draft pick in Seattle and they get
36:31
Speaker 4: back a third and a fifth. What about that move?
36:34
Speaker 2: Who?
36:35
Speaker 9: Yeah? I mean they now have six picks on the
36:37
Speaker 9: top one hundred. They had five previously. They began free
36:40
Speaker 9: agency with the most salary cap space, They've signed the
36:43
Speaker 9: most veteran free agents, so they are loaded to continue
36:47
Speaker 9: their roster overhaul. They're also loaded going into the draft
36:50
Speaker 9: to give them some flexibility if they want to cut
36:52
Speaker 9: another deal and try.
36:53
Speaker 5: To move up.
36:54
Speaker 9: You need a partner to do that. But you know,
36:57
Speaker 9: if they want to give her to try, they certainly
36:59
Speaker 9: have enough ammunition to do so. But it also just
37:02
Speaker 9: helps them fill out the roster and really, you know,
37:05
Speaker 9: make a move and try to get a younger quarterback,
37:07
Speaker 9: which seemed likely when they signed Marcus Mariota, a guy
37:11
Speaker 9: you would think comes on to either you know, be
37:14
Speaker 9: a backup and mentor a younger guy or step in
37:16
Speaker 9: to start early if necessary.
37:18
Speaker 2: And let's stick to that quarterback spot and making you
37:20
Speaker 2: talk about the young guy they're picking. You mentioned all
37:22
Speaker 2: of them, but the first one they have is number two. Overall.
37:27
Speaker 2: Does this move make you feel like number two is
37:29
Speaker 2: one hundred percent a quarterback or do you see them
37:33
Speaker 2: moving out of that spot at all? Given the fact
37:36
Speaker 2: that everybody just assumes they're really starting the draft at two, right, Yeah, I.
37:42
Speaker 9: Mean, I think they have to take a quarterback no
37:44
Speaker 9: matter what the question is, will they take it at
37:46
Speaker 9: two or would they try to trade back and try
37:48
Speaker 9: to get, you know, one of those second third tier
37:50
Speaker 9: guys and try to continue to fill out the roster
37:54
Speaker 9: and maybe grab you know, a tackle later on. So yeah,
37:59
Speaker 9: I mean I still to me, it still feels like
38:02
Speaker 9: number two, you go and grab the guy you want there,
38:05
Speaker 9: especially again with bringing in Mariota. You have that veteran
38:09
Speaker 9: that sort of that mentor type that can that can
38:11
Speaker 9: back them up.
38:12
Speaker 5: But we'll see.
38:13
Speaker 9: I mean they've they've done a lot in really four
38:17
Speaker 9: days of the open negotiating a period of free agency.
38:21
Speaker 9: So I don't think they're anywhere close to that. I
38:23
Speaker 9: don't even think they've come close to denting their cap space.
38:27
Speaker 9: I mean, you just had so much, so I think
38:29
Speaker 9: anything is fair game going into the draft.
38:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting, you know, you talk about we'll see
38:34
Speaker 4: if they trade back. I think the guy they just
38:36
Speaker 4: traded away is a prime example of what happens when
38:40
Speaker 4: you have when you have an opportunity to draft a
38:42
Speaker 4: quarterback high and don't. So to that note, the new
38:46
Speaker 4: offensive coordinator is Cliff Kingsbury, former Arizona Cardinals head coach,
38:49
Speaker 4: coach Kyler Murray, coach Caleb Williams last year at USC's
38:53
Speaker 4: or Caleb Williams to be the first overall draft pick
38:56
Speaker 4: of the Chicago Bears.
38:58
Speaker 3: However, do you think.
39:00
Speaker 4: With all the moves we've seen Adam Peters and Martin
39:03
Speaker 4: Mayhew in that front office make with the commanders, they
39:06
Speaker 4: may be aggressive and trying to bring Caleb home to
39:09
Speaker 4: the DMV.
39:10
Speaker 9: I would not roll out anything. I learned that less
39:13
Speaker 9: than a long time ago in Washington. I will not
39:16
Speaker 9: roll out anything. I will say based on their approach
39:21
Speaker 9: so far, it does feel like they're being very methodical
39:24
Speaker 9: about completely rebuilding this roster. I mean, they resigned only
39:28
Speaker 9: three guys from you know last year that were free agents.
39:33
Speaker 9: They have completely overhauled it. Their approach has to bring
39:36
Speaker 9: in veterans who can mentor and develop and kind of
39:39
Speaker 9: lay the foundation and really use the draft to build
39:42
Speaker 9: the core this roster. So would they trade up maybe,
39:46
Speaker 9: but they've also said many times they don't want to
39:48
Speaker 9: mortgage their future to one player, and if that means
39:51
Speaker 9: giving up a hall of draft picks, that would certainly,
39:54
Speaker 9: in my mind count as mortgaging the future. But you know,
39:57
Speaker 9: if they feel strongly enough about a guy and I
40:00
Speaker 9: goes willing, you know, I again wouldn't rule anything out.
40:04
Speaker 2: I love it.
40:05
Speaker 3: I love it.
40:06
Speaker 2: Do you feel like Nikki, there's a sense at all
40:10
Speaker 2: that there's somebody that's just a front runner in your
40:12
Speaker 2: opinion at the quarterback position in this draft, that you
40:16
Speaker 2: just feel like fits what they're looking for, maybe more
40:19
Speaker 2: than somebody else.
40:20
Speaker 10: I know it's early, yeah, and I feel like there's
40:24
Speaker 10: like it's split debate, especially locally between the Jayden Daniels
40:28
Speaker 10: and Drake May if they stick it to and you
40:30
Speaker 10: assume Caleb Williams is going on.
40:31
Speaker 9: I think it's interesting to me that, you know, some
40:35
Speaker 9: are fully convinced that it's going to be Jayden Daniels,
40:37
Speaker 9: especially now with Marcus Mariota on board, because Marcus is
40:41
Speaker 9: his style is more like Jayden Williams. So you know,
40:45
Speaker 9: I do think if I had to guess now, I'm
40:49
Speaker 9: leaning more towards Jayden. But I also think that could change,
40:54
Speaker 9: you know, as they go through pro days, as they
40:56
Speaker 9: bring him in for top thirties, possibly have private workouts,
41:00
Speaker 9: are going to get to know these guys even more
41:02
Speaker 9: so I'm leaning toward you know, Jane Daniels, pub we'll.
41:05
Speaker 3: See, well, James knows.
41:07
Speaker 4: I'm leaning towards Jayden too, because quarterbacks at Cliff Kingsbury's
41:11
Speaker 4: offense have to be on the hop.
41:12
Speaker 3: Because a lot of times there's a free runner.
41:14
Speaker 4: There's a free runner coming at that quarterback, going back
41:17
Speaker 4: to the days of Texas Tech.
41:18
Speaker 3: So but again, he's grown. You know, he knows how
41:21
Speaker 3: to coach this NFL game. No, I's not going to
41:23
Speaker 3: get this quarterback killed.
41:24
Speaker 4: Here's a question, and I just don't know if he
41:26
Speaker 4: had enough time to decipher. But do you think you
41:29
Speaker 4: know and seeing these moves right, the fact that Dan
41:32
Speaker 4: Quinn coached against this group of guys for the past
41:34
Speaker 4: couple of years, twice a year and got to see
41:37
Speaker 4: what's there, do you think that has gone a lot
41:40
Speaker 4: into the thinking of the shaping of this roster, like
41:43
Speaker 4: we destroyed that guy, we can't have him here, or
41:46
Speaker 4: this guy's really good, we want to keep him in
41:48
Speaker 4: the MiG.
41:50
Speaker 9: I think in part I mean Dan has said that,
41:53
Speaker 9: you know, every stop in the past has helped him
41:56
Speaker 9: kind of get to where he is, and the fact
41:57
Speaker 9: that he knows what he likes more, he knows what
41:59
Speaker 9: he doesn't like. I mean, they did bring in guys
42:02
Speaker 9: who are very familiar to a number of guys on staff.
42:05
Speaker 9: You know, Austin Eckler with Anthony Lynn, zach ERTs with
42:07
Speaker 9: Cliff Kingsbury. You've got a couple former Cowboys players, former
42:11
Speaker 9: forty nine ers for Adam Peters, a former Lions player
42:14
Speaker 9: for Lance Newmore at the assistant GM. But you know,
42:17
Speaker 9: I think he has really evolved his defense and he's
42:20
Speaker 9: one of the few that actually say we're going to
42:22
Speaker 9: tailor it to our personnel and actually does that. So yeah,
42:27
Speaker 9: I think there have been players and opponents in the
42:30
Speaker 9: past that have influenced, you know, the way he approaches
42:33
Speaker 9: this and the way he's doing it and you know,
42:36
Speaker 9: his second chance to be a head coach.
42:39
Speaker 2: I love it, Nikki. It also feels like, as we
42:42
Speaker 2: say goodbye here, I want to put this into your
42:44
Speaker 2: you know, just your quick thought. Am I right to
42:45
Speaker 2: say that a lot of these a lot of these
42:47
Speaker 2: free agent signings that they've made. Culture is a big
42:50
Speaker 2: part of it. If you look at the type of
42:51
Speaker 2: guys that they are just yes, very quickly, it's huge.
42:56
Speaker 9: I mean, they have to redo everything Washington.
42:58
Speaker 3: So yes, well said they do have to redo everything Washington.
43:02
Speaker 2: This is not a four years this is everything in Washington.
43:06
Speaker 3: Absolutely. Hey, Nikky, thank you so much for joining us.
43:09
Speaker 4: We really appreciate the latest on the news and all
43:11
Speaker 4: the quarterback talk. You're at the NFL report coming up.
43:15
Speaker 4: We got Brian Baldinger. Oh he's back and we're talking
43:18
Speaker 4: AFC Salry.
43:20
Speaker 3: Oh, this NFL report. We can't get enough of Baldy.
43:23
Speaker 2: Roll the Tate elsie, No, you cannot.
43:36
Speaker 4: All right on a bombshell, lay it out, brought a
43:38
Speaker 4: bombshell ratt let's have one.
43:40
Speaker 3: Here we go.
43:41
Speaker 11: Sources say the Tennessee Titans are signing Jaguar star receiver
43:47
Speaker 11: Calvin Ridley. Listen to this massive deal four years, ninety
43:52
Speaker 11: two million dollars for Calvin Ridley, fifty million dollars fully
43:56
Speaker 11: guaranteed in this deal negotiated by David Mulgeda.
43:59
Speaker 3: And res As. I'm a athletes first.
44:01
Speaker 11: Calvin Ridley turns thirty this season, thirty, and he gets
44:05
Speaker 11: a massive, massive deal from the Titans. Everyone has been assuming,
44:09
Speaker 11: I think this whole time, that it was going to
44:10
Speaker 11: be the Jaguars is going to.
44:12
Speaker 3: Be the Patriots.
44:14
Speaker 11: No, no, it is the Tennessee Titans, quietly lurking, working
44:19
Speaker 11: and now landing a top free agent received for a massive,
44:23
Speaker 11: massive move for the Titans.
44:26
Speaker 4: This is the NFL report that was Ian Rapidport on
44:30
Speaker 4: free agent frenzy on Thursday, on Wednesday breaking the news
44:33
Speaker 4: about Calvin Ridley, James Palmer, Brian Baldinger back here, Baldy
44:37
Speaker 4: saw the move by Calvin Ridley one of many by
44:41
Speaker 4: the Tennessee Titans. So let's focus on the AFC South
44:44
Speaker 4: and let's start right there, Baldy with.
44:46
Speaker 3: The moves that the Titans made in the direction that
44:48
Speaker 3: they're headed in.
44:49
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, all these teams in the AFC South
44:51
Speaker 8: are led by top flight quarterbacks picked, you know, at
44:54
Speaker 8: the top of the draft. You know, whether it's Anthony Richardson,
44:57
Speaker 8: you know, CJ last year, Rookie of the Year, you know,
45:00
Speaker 8: all the way to Trevor So you know, and then
45:02
Speaker 8: Will Levis.
45:03
Speaker 2: So you.
45:05
Speaker 8: Make the selection, you identify your franchise quarterback, and then
45:09
Speaker 8: you just never stopped building around that franchise quarterback to
45:13
Speaker 8: give him every opportunity to be successful. And so here
45:17
Speaker 8: comes Calvin Ridley. Kind of caught me off guard. He
45:20
Speaker 8: caught a lot of other people off guard, just not
45:22
Speaker 8: just where he went, but the amount of money they
45:25
Speaker 8: committed to. Calvin Ridley and Steve we All, you know,
45:28
Speaker 8: followed him from the stage when he was first drafted
45:30
Speaker 8: by Atlanta. I mean, it was pretty clear that he
45:33
Speaker 8: became the number one receiver in Atlanta.
45:36
Speaker 5: He was the number one wide.
45:37
Speaker 8: Receiver Jacksville a year ago, and now he's going to
45:40
Speaker 8: get that opportunity along with DeAndre Hopkins to kind of
45:43
Speaker 8: fill that role with Will Levis. Is they try to
45:46
Speaker 8: build this thing and kind of compete with what we
45:48
Speaker 8: saw the Houston Texans do a year ago.
45:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, bod, it's no longer just handed off to Derrick
45:54
Speaker 2: Henry with the Tennessee Titans anymore. And you look like,
45:56
Speaker 2: get Lloyd Kushenberry to protect him in front, and you
45:59
Speaker 2: also get Tony p to surround Will Levis. Let's go
46:02
Speaker 2: as you mentioned CJ. Stroud in the Houston Texans. I
46:05
Speaker 2: love what this team did baldi in the offseason so far,
46:08
Speaker 2: with what they've done in free agency, I think Daniel
46:10
Speaker 2: Hunter and Will Anderson Junior could be the best edge
46:13
Speaker 2: duo in football possibly, but also the other moves on
46:15
Speaker 2: the defensive side of the ball. Not huge, massive deals,
46:19
Speaker 2: but they create more depth as a group for Damiko Ryans.
46:22
Speaker 2: What's your take on what Nick Casseio has done in
46:26
Speaker 2: this offseason?
46:27
Speaker 8: Well, I thought Nick Cassio struck gold last year, both
46:30
Speaker 8: in the draft and in free agency, whether it was
46:33
Speaker 8: Dalton Schultzer and the linebackers or de Elite Collins, all
46:36
Speaker 8: the guys they signed up front. But you look at
46:39
Speaker 8: just that, the guys on the screen right now, and
46:42
Speaker 8: you look at fully fut of Casi. All right, you
46:44
Speaker 8: got yourself just a space eater. You got denikeo Autry
46:47
Speaker 8: to win inside or outside. I mean, he's a ten
46:50
Speaker 8: sat guy just if he stays anywhere near healthy. And
46:53
Speaker 8: then you get Daniel Hunter. Look, we all like Trynathan Greenard.
46:56
Speaker 8: We all saw the development that he had in the
46:59
Speaker 8: year that they put together in the first four years
47:02
Speaker 8: starting Okay, Well they upgraded from greater when they went
47:05
Speaker 8: and got Dadel Hunter. And let's face it, Danel Hunter
47:09
Speaker 8: is from Katie, Texas. He's a Houston kid. He could
47:12
Speaker 8: have taken more money in other places. He wanted to
47:15
Speaker 8: go to Houston. It's the destination, you know, Demiko Ryans
47:20
Speaker 8: has this teleora about him. Players want to play for Demico.
47:24
Speaker 8: He knows that, like I just like coaches that are active,
47:28
Speaker 8: they're responsive, they're in guy's ears picking them up. I
47:32
Speaker 8: think we all saw that from Demico a year ago.
47:34
Speaker 8: And boy, they're building something I think pretty special in
47:37
Speaker 8: Houston right now.
47:38
Speaker 4: Baldy all got about ninety seconds. So looks combo the
47:40
Speaker 4: Jags and the Colts. The Colts basically just re signed
47:44
Speaker 4: everybody who was a free agent on their team, whereas
47:47
Speaker 4: the Jags they got out first and they made a
47:49
Speaker 4: trade for Mac Jones to back up Trevor Lawrence.
47:53
Speaker 8: Well, I mean if you just look at yes, Indianapolis,
47:56
Speaker 8: they brought in Flacco to really kind of help mentor
48:00
Speaker 8: you know, the young quarterback Anthony Richardson, which is a
48:02
Speaker 8: good move. But you know, you look at Grover Stewart
48:05
Speaker 8: and Taekwon Lewis and Kenny Moore and Pittman and Zaire Franklin.
48:09
Speaker 8: Those are all resignings. They're all really good players. So
48:12
Speaker 8: that's good. And then look, Jacksonville had this collapse last
48:16
Speaker 8: year that nobody saw coming. We saw a quarterback in
48:19
Speaker 8: Trevor Lawrence. Maybe it was injury related, but suddenly he
48:22
Speaker 8: didn't look like he was on the same trajectory that
48:25
Speaker 8: we saw the first two years. And so I got
48:27
Speaker 8: to see what Jacksonville does to kind of bounce back
48:31
Speaker 8: and get back on top, and if they have what
48:34
Speaker 8: it takes ship back on top, because I think the
48:36
Speaker 8: momentum is going in other places in the AFC South
48:40
Speaker 8: right now.
48:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, Baldi, I mean a bad collapse by Jacksonville, it's
48:43
Speaker 4: going to show some mental stomach for them to kind
48:46
Speaker 4: of build themselves back up.
48:47
Speaker 3: Baldi.
48:48
Speaker 4: We appreciate the conversation always everything. Thanks for joining us
48:51
Speaker 4: with that great Max Cosby interview as well.
48:54
Speaker 3: Now the NFL.
48:55
Speaker 4: Report we will be back next Monday at seven pm
48:58
Speaker 4: Eastern Time on TV, on streaming look on the NFL channel,
49:03
Speaker 4: and as a podcast.
49:04
Speaker 3: And guess what with the hits don't stop coming. As
49:07
Speaker 3: Commander's head coach Dan Quinn.
49:09
Speaker 4: Is going to join Shad and I on Monday.
49:13
Speaker 3: So this is what we give you at the NFL Report.
49:15
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49:17
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49:20
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49:24
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49:29
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