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Buccaneers Relocate to Miami, Dak Prescott Could Return for Week 5, & Brian Hoyer to Potentially Fill in for Mac Jones · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: with I Heart Radio. So the Cowboys one again, the
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Speaker 1: Giants are no longer undefeated, and Dak Prescott got his
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Speaker 1: stitches out? Might he be back sooner rather than later?
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Speaker 1: Those stories and everything we learned from Monday Night football
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Speaker 1: coming up shortly. This is NFL Now. My name is andrews. Ceciliano.
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Speaker 1: We begin with the news out of Florida where we
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Speaker 1: are tracking. As everyone is in Florida Hurricane Ian. We
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Speaker 1: could tell you from a football's perspective, the game is
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Speaker 1: still on Sunday night in Tampa. It's the Bucks, It's
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. It's Sunday Night on NBC. But the Buccaneers,
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Speaker 1: to be safe, are packing up and they are moving south.
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Speaker 1: More details on that now, we welcome in our Tom
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Speaker 1: Pella Sero and Mike Garifolo is going to be here
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Speaker 1: shortly as well our inside a report. They'll look you
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Speaker 1: are there, hi, Mike, Tom? What do we know about
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Speaker 1: the Bucks and their relocation to Miami? And the Buccaneers
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Speaker 1: are set to depart this afternoon for Miami, where they
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Speaker 1: will train at the Dolphins facility over the next several days.
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Speaker 1: Given that the Dolphins will be on the road for
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Speaker 1: a Thursday night game at Cincinnati. This all comes, as
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Speaker 1: you saw on the radar there as Hurricane Ian bears
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Speaker 1: down on the west coast of Florida. Bucks also invited
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Speaker 1: the family members of players, coaches, staff members to come
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Speaker 1: along as well, just to make sure that everyone is safe.
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Speaker 1: You also mentioned the status of the game. I just
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Speaker 1: checked again moments ago. According to the NFL, there is
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Speaker 1: no change to Sunday Nights Buccaneers versus Chiefs game. Now,
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Speaker 1: the league has a lot of experience navigating these situations.
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Speaker 1: They always have contingencies in terms of potential alternative venues,
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Speaker 1: potential alternate times, but they don't make those decisions until
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Speaker 1: you get closer. Hurricane Ian set to really make its
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Speaker 1: way towards Tampa in the next thirty six hours or so. Here,
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Speaker 1: so we'll see exactly how that store moves. Was upgraded
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Speaker 1: to a Category three earlier today before determining how long
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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers will be in Miami for starters, but then
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Speaker 1: also whether that game indeed will be played as scheduled
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Speaker 1: in Tampa on Sunday night. And read into this as
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Speaker 1: you may, but the Buccaneers within the last hour, announced
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Speaker 1: that what had been scheduled to be a ceremony for
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Speaker 1: Bruce Arians at halftime of that game Sunday, putting him
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Speaker 1: in the team's Ring of honor, that has been postponed
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Speaker 1: until a later date. But as we say, for now,
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Speaker 1: the game is on, but they're monitoring that situation as
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Speaker 1: the Bucks move to Miami. The Dolphins are getting ready
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Speaker 1: for their game Thursday in Cincinnati, Mike, where the Bengals
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Speaker 1: will be without a very key piece of their defensive line.
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Speaker 1: DJ Reader, the big guy up front in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the defensive line. He is going to miss some
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Speaker 1: extended time with a knee injury suffered the other day.
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Speaker 1: My understanding is it should be more than a month.
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Speaker 1: I was told around six weeks. But in the end
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Speaker 1: actually good news because there was a fear at one
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Speaker 1: point that this might be a season ending things. So
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Speaker 1: Dj Reader, Uh, he will be down for a while.
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Speaker 1: If you're into Pro Football Focus grades, he had a
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Speaker 1: ninety one UH this season. So the former Texan who
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Speaker 1: was signed as a free agent by the Bengals a
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Speaker 1: couple of years ago. He had an injury a couple
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Speaker 1: of years ago. He missed extended time, so there's another
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Speaker 1: tough break for him. Uh and for this Bengals defense,
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Speaker 1: a defense that has been playing extremely well by the
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Speaker 1: way defensive coordinator UH lou Anna Rumo's unit, and UH
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Speaker 1: Zach Taylor, the head coach, said, I'm glad I don't
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Speaker 1: have to go up against our own defense. That defense
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Speaker 1: twenty straight drives without allowing a touchdown, so they're playing
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Speaker 1: really well. So they'll figure out a way to get
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Speaker 1: by without DJ Reader. Elsewhere on the veteran defensive player front,
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Speaker 1: Xavier Rhodes, the former first round pick of Vikings, a
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Speaker 1: former first team All Pro who spent the last two
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Speaker 1: seasons with the Cults, he is visiting the Buffalo Bills.
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Speaker 1: The Bills are down cornerbacks. Christian Benford's got a broken
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Speaker 1: hands for Davias White has yet to a Dane Jackson
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Speaker 1: we know suffer that scary injury, still waiting on his return.
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Speaker 1: So Xavier roads up in Buffalo today, meeting with the
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Speaker 1: Bill's potential signing there in addition to a certainly super
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Speaker 1: bowlready roster that if they need some help at the
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Speaker 1: cornerback position, Rhodes could provide it. All right, let's get
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Speaker 1: to the Steelers here. Tom When last we heard from
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin, this was Thursday, after their loss to the
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Speaker 1: Browns Week three. He said that he was not going
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Speaker 1: to change quarterbacks. Um, after sleeping on it over the weekend,
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Speaker 1: he's still not going to change quarterbacks. What else, however,
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Speaker 1: did he say about his offense and Mitch Drabinsky today, Well, Andrew.
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin was not asked direct leader in the twenty
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Speaker 1: two minute press conference about his plans at quarterback moving forward.
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Speaker 1: He was asked where he has seen Mitch Drobinsky improved
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Speaker 1: through the course of this season. Tomlin said, all areas,
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Speaker 1: though obviously, as Tomlin pointed out repeatedly, no one is
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Speaker 1: playing well enough, and we are quote hacked off about
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Speaker 1: not winning these past couple of games. It's a business
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Speaker 1: of winning, Tomlin's said. And so we've got to get
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Speaker 1: back to business. As I was talking about on Thursday
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Speaker 1: morning from the stadium in Cleveland, this is really a
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Speaker 1: week to week evaluation right now with Mitch Drabinsky, and
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Speaker 1: he was not the issue in that game in Cleveland.
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Speaker 1: There were a bunch of opportunities. They did push the
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Speaker 1: ball down the field. They of course hit one down
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Speaker 1: there to George Pickens, but had a bunch of others
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Speaker 1: that didn't end up connecting. The hope on the Steelers
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Speaker 1: front mic is that they're going to gather some momentum
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Speaker 1: here developed that rhythm and chemistry. He's only played Mitch
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Speaker 1: Drobiski has three games with these wide receivers so far.
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Speaker 1: No question, there has been some frustration. Part of that
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Speaker 1: frustration going into the Cleveland game was not throwing the
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Speaker 1: ball downfield. Well, now he's done that. They've got to
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Speaker 1: turn that into actual productivity. And of course Kenny Pickett
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Speaker 1: is looming there in the background, the first round draft
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Speaker 1: pick whose time is coming sooner than later. We certainly
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Speaker 1: saw productivity from Cooper Rush last night, one another one
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Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. And then Mike McCarthy was joking. He
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Speaker 1: was asked about a quarterback controversy. He laughed and said,
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Speaker 1: see a guy as I'm getting to the plane. Here's
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Speaker 1: what Jerry Jones said on the radio this morning. I
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Speaker 1: think his progress is nothing short of amazing. Uh Now,
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Speaker 1: progress has everything, including the definition for dack of the
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Speaker 1: ability to be able with firm strength gripped the football
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Speaker 1: so that you can throw the football. He's not doing that.
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Speaker 1: But as far as his ability to potentially function in
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks or a week or ten days
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Speaker 1: or two weeks, three weeks, four weeks, I don't think
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Speaker 1: you could ask for a better result the type of injury.
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Speaker 1: It is. Uh, he'll be able to play u within
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Speaker 1: a week or two. He'll be able to and from
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Speaker 1: the standpoint of risk to the injury, it's a question
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Speaker 1: of whether or not he'll be able to grip and
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Speaker 1: throw the ball. And we don't know that alright, So
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Speaker 1: a lot of unknowns here. He's got to try to
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Speaker 1: grip and throw a football, Tom But if not the
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Speaker 1: Commanders this week, and no one's saying he's gonna play
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Speaker 1: this week against the Commanders, maybe Week five and the
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Speaker 1: Rams Andrew. What I'm told is that Dak Prescott has
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Speaker 1: always looked at that Week five game against the Rams
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Speaker 1: as the one that he was hoping to get back for.
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Speaker 1: Now that would be less than four weeks after he
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Speaker 1: underwent that surgery on the thumb on his throwing hand,
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Speaker 1: which is obviously a significant procedure. Just got the stitches
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Speaker 1: out yesterday. Are Jane Slater talked to Dac he showed
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Speaker 1: her the thumb. It looks pretty good. There's not a
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Speaker 1: ton of swelling from what I am told, there's still
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Speaker 1: at least a little swelling. It may not be visible,
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Speaker 1: but there's still some swelling there that he's got to
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Speaker 1: be able to get past. And then it really comes
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Speaker 1: down to making sure that bone has healed enough and
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Speaker 1: then he can properly grip and throw the football. I've said,
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Speaker 1: and Ian has reported the Week six against the Eagles
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Speaker 1: is probably the most likely timeline for Dad to get back,
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Speaker 1: still well ahead of the bye, well ahead of the
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Speaker 1: six eight week timeline that some people were speculating about
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Speaker 1: prior to the injury. Here fairly remarkable. And at this point,
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Speaker 1: if you were the Cowboys, you're looking at the fact
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Speaker 1: you've won two games with Cooper Rush. Not that there is,
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Speaker 1: of course a quarterback controversy there, but if you were
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Speaker 1: kind of on the brink of playoff elimination, maybe be
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Speaker 1: a little bit more like how the Seahawks felt laste
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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson forced himself to go out there. At least
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Speaker 1: Cooper Rush has kept the train on the track here
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Speaker 1: and Dak does not have to rush back, though certainly
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Speaker 1: not being on injured reserve means he can practice, start
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Speaker 1: ramping up and we'll see where he is come that
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Speaker 1: Week five game. Mike, Cooper Rush has done a fantastic job.
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Speaker 1: And I I just get the sense like when Dak
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Speaker 1: Prescott is ready, Dak Prescott is coming back. It's not like, well,
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Speaker 1: you could sit another week because Cooper Rush. It's just
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Speaker 1: that decision is gonna be made in and of itself,
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Speaker 1: So let's see when that comes. But love for Cooper
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Speaker 1: rush Man I always uh, you know, you talk about
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Speaker 1: arm strength coming into the draft and the windows are
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Speaker 1: so tight and it opens and it closes quickly, and
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Speaker 1: I mean, my man's putting some loft in the ball.
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Speaker 1: He's an anticipatory thrower. He's kind of always been that way.
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Speaker 1: Uh So to be able to kind of see what's
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Speaker 1: going to happen in the future as you're throwing the football,
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Speaker 1: because that's basically what you're doing, it's it's an incredible
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Speaker 1: skill set and it takes uh knowledge of the system,
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Speaker 1: which he certainly has from being around there for quite
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Speaker 1: some time and playing alongside Kellen Moore and now more
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Speaker 1: as a coach and knowing his targets. I thought he
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Speaker 1: did a fantastic job last night. I was just smiling
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Speaker 1: because he said, my man, Cooper Rush. How about that
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Speaker 1: Cooper Rush former Giant, You're my man too, And no,
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Speaker 1: I get it. I just saying, like, feel the love
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Speaker 1: here twice for a month. NFL Now continues. How does
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen? How do the Buffalo Bills bounce back this week?
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Speaker 1: It doesn't get any easier. They had to Baltimore to
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Speaker 1: face the Ravens. The Bills in the spotlight no longer unbeaten.
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Speaker 1: As we continue on NFL Now Corona, He's third and
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Speaker 1: not to cross the blog behind said people play Jackson's
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Speaker 1: the backfield. He drift to his righte shovel paths bark
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Speaker 1: Anrews in poor touchdown. Jackson lobs for the Ants, already's
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Speaker 1: looking for Andrews reaches up. He bakes a catch touchdown.
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Speaker 1: Jackson wants to throw off the play, fake fires in
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Speaker 1: the ant zone. Touchdown. Oliver Jackson fires back of the
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Speaker 1: ant zone. Doby thanks to catch touchdown. Romar and Jackson's
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Speaker 1: four touchdown of the afternoon touchdown Robart Jackson with a
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Speaker 1: knockout shot. Thought it was interesting how John Harbor yesterday
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Speaker 1: said Lamar is doing it his way. Well, his way
10:38
Speaker 1: this year is beating the Blitz. These are next gen
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Speaker 1: stats powered by a W s. Lamar Jackson against the
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Speaker 1: Blitz already has more touchdowns this year than last six
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Speaker 1: with no picks. Look at last year. I mean, how
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Speaker 1: do you beat the guy? Getting ready for the Bills
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Speaker 1: this week? This game is in Baltimore. Mike Giardi Brian
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Speaker 1: Baldinger with me. Mike, start with you what it is
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Speaker 1: teammates saying about the way Lamar is playing through three weeks,
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Speaker 1: Absolute reverence for the player. And having covered the Patriots
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Speaker 1: with Tom Brady for almost two decades, I can tell
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Speaker 1: you picking up from the Raven's it's sort of the
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Speaker 1: same thing. And of course the difference being is that
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Speaker 1: Lamar does things athletically that Brady could never do. But
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Speaker 1: you talked to Calais Campbell after the game and he said,
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm surprised every time he does something, and yet
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Speaker 1: here I am seeing it each and every day, each
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Speaker 1: and every week. But yet then he does something and
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Speaker 1: I'm going, how how did he do that? And I'm
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Speaker 1: glad that he's on my team and I don't have
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Speaker 1: to defend him. Marlon Humphrey sort of that going the
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Speaker 1: same thing, saying, as long as I'm in a uniform,
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Speaker 1: I want to make sure that Lamar is in my uniform.
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Speaker 1: And there was a point there and talking to J. K.
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Speaker 1: Dobbins after the game where he felt like Lamar just said,
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Speaker 1: you know what, guys, it's it's on me now. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna take this thing over. And he did. He took
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Speaker 1: some more opportunities to run and the Patriots had no answers.
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Speaker 1: And to your point about the blitz, I believe, depending
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Speaker 1: on which site you wanna go with, three of the
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Speaker 1: touchdown passes he threw in the game came against the
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Speaker 1: Patriots and the Lits, So go ahead try him. He's
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Speaker 1: so much more comfortable in the pocket Baldi that I
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Speaker 1: think it's becoming very difficult for teams to figure out
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Speaker 1: the right way to scheme him up. It's interesting, Mike
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Speaker 1: that you bring him. Tom Brady and Lamar Jackson the
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Speaker 1: only two players in the history hundred three year history
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Speaker 1: of this NFL that have been the unanimous choice for
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Speaker 1: league m v P. Unanimous. Lamar was three years ago,
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Speaker 1: and he's playing better now than he did three years
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Speaker 1: ago because of what you're talking about from the pocket
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Speaker 1: right now, good luck, because it's pinpoint passing. He knows
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Speaker 1: where his safety valves are. Um he strown seven touchdowns
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Speaker 1: in the last two weeks, and that first half against
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Speaker 1: that shootout against the Dolphins, he had a perfect quarterback rating.
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Speaker 1: He came out the third quarter had his longest run
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Speaker 1: from scrimmage in the NFL seventy nine yards. He backs
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Speaker 1: it up last week. He's averaging eleven yards a run
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Speaker 1: in the last two weeks, twenty runs over two hundred
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Speaker 1: twenty yards, and he's stown seven touchdown passes. Pick your poison.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that there the right way. Maybe there's
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Speaker 1: a way that you could put sneak twelve guys on
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Speaker 1: the field, maybe have an extra guy that you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe the seven officials don't see. Maybe that's a defense
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Speaker 1: that we haven't seen yet that might work. But otherwise,
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Speaker 1: just the pedestrian loveman defense. There isn't an answer for
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Speaker 1: the other thing too, is it's not just to Mark Andrews.
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Speaker 1: Mark Andrews is producing. Certainly they had the two touchdowns
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Speaker 1: last week, but the deep all we show there to
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Speaker 1: du Verney, he said Bateman as well a Duverney more
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Speaker 1: than once. Um, this idea that Lamar can't throw outside
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Speaker 1: the numbers to wide receivers. Uh, that's no longer the case.
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Speaker 1: On the flip side of it, Yeah, on the flip
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Speaker 1: side of it, Mike, the Bills had had at a heartbreaker.
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Speaker 1: You know that that image of Josh Allen with his
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Speaker 1: head on to his shoulder after the game, just exhausted.
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Speaker 1: Is that one lasting image for me? Um, that doesn't
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Speaker 1: involve Ken Dorsey. What are they saying about bouncing back
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Speaker 1: this week? Well, they want to clean up some things
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Speaker 1: at the end of the half and at the end
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Speaker 1: of the game. And when you consider how last season ended,
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Speaker 1: I hate to bring it up, but you have to
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Speaker 1: bring it up. The thirteen seconds. This is something that
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Speaker 1: they know they need to be better at and they
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Speaker 1: can't afford to have happened. And how this happened in Miami,
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Speaker 1: not once, but twice is frustrating. Now, look at the
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Speaker 1: end of the first half, Josh fumbles the snap and
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Speaker 1: obviously that changes. You can't spike it, you don't get
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Speaker 1: the field goals attempt off. You're gonna trust the ball
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Speaker 1: in Josh's hands. It was a mistake, but the end
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Speaker 1: of the game situation getting it to Mackenzie. And if
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Speaker 1: you talk to some people within the Bills building, they
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Speaker 1: don't really love the way that was officiated in the
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Speaker 1: sense that there was no urgency from the officials. Now
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Speaker 1: imagine the players being exhausted because of the heat. Maybe
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Speaker 1: the officials were as well. But they're about eight seconds
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Speaker 1: left when the official gets the ball and yet they
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Speaker 1: don't get another snap there. And I think that bothered
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Speaker 1: them a little bit. But again, no blame. They're just
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Speaker 1: gonna go back and do what they do and do
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Speaker 1: it better. And as for the Dorsey thing, McDermott said
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Speaker 1: yesterday he appreciates his offensive coordinator's passion at his desire
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Speaker 1: to put his players in good positions to win. At
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Speaker 1: the same time, I said that as leaders that they
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Speaker 1: have to act a little bit better as leaders, commented
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Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger and Mike Giardi, Thank you both. Coming up next,
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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars are playing well. How well,
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Speaker 1: wait until you see where they are in this week's
15:28
Speaker 1: New Power rankings. You might be surprised. As Mike Giardi
15:38
Speaker 1: and as Tom Pellicero have told you, Mac Jones doesn't
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Speaker 1: necessarily want surgery, and he is seeking a second opinion
15:44
Speaker 1: here on what is a high ankle sprain. Those are
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Speaker 1: four week injuries maybe if you have surgery, six to
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Speaker 1: eight if you don't have surgery. We have the Patriots
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Speaker 1: going to Lambo to face the Packers this week. Gardy
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Speaker 1: now with us, it's Brian Hoyer if Mac Jones can't
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Speaker 1: go at quarterback. It has been a while since Brian
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Speaker 1: Hoyer has led a team to a victory. It was
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Speaker 1: checks notes, I believe when he was with the Bears. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and look, the Patriots like Brian Hoyer. They keep bringing
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Speaker 1: him back. He knows the offense. He's been a terrific
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Speaker 1: mentor for Mac Jones and helped him to adjust with
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Speaker 1: a lot of things. In fact, Horrier's taking a bigger
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Speaker 1: role on the sideline as well as an extra set
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Speaker 1: of eyes for Mac as they go through this change
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Speaker 1: from Josh McDaniels as the coordinator to Matt Patricia as
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Speaker 1: the play caller and Joe Judge as the quarterbacks coach.
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Speaker 1: And you know, talking to the coaches today, they're like, hey,
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Speaker 1: the intelligence here is off the charts and he always
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Speaker 1: brings something to the table that maybe we as coaches
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Speaker 1: don't see, so they feel good about that. But the
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Speaker 1: last time we saw Brian Hoyer started game for the
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Speaker 1: Patriots was in year one of COVID. He had to
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Speaker 1: play for Cam Newton who had COVID, and Brian Horror
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Speaker 1: struggled mightily in that game. In fact, was replaced by
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Speaker 1: Jared Stidham. Forgot how many downs they had down on
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Speaker 1: the red zone cost them points. That was disappointing for
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Speaker 1: someone with that kind of experience. But again, the Patriots
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Speaker 1: as a whole do feel good about having him because
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Speaker 1: he knows the offense. And I'll give you one more thing.
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Speaker 1: He has dealt with a lot of adversity over the
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Speaker 1: course of his career, different systems, uh. And there was
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Speaker 1: some thought this summer that maybe he was the better
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Speaker 1: looking quarterback between he and Mac Jones, just because he's
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Speaker 1: been through change before and Mac this is something different
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Speaker 1: for him and it's taken him a little time to adjust. Interesting.
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Speaker 1: Brian Hoyer turns thirty seven in two weeks, and honestly,
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Speaker 1: when Adrian and Research mentioned the last one with the
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Speaker 1: Bears in twenties sixteen, I had forgotten that he had
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Speaker 1: ever played six games the Bears. Alright, the flip side
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Speaker 1: of things, we know that Aaron Rodgers is going to
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Speaker 1: start for the Green Bay Packers. How's he getting along
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Speaker 1: with these new wide receivers after what we saw last week?
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Speaker 1: It is a process for sure, and right you know,
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Speaker 1: with these veteran quarterbacks, guys like Brady and Rodgers, they
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Speaker 1: have an expectation that these receivers will be where they're
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Speaker 1: supposed to be. And obviously that comes with repetition over
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Speaker 1: and over and over again, and it's difficult it times
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Speaker 1: to break in these young wide receivers. And you've seen
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Speaker 1: during the course of the preseason and even during the games,
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Speaker 1: these rookie receivers have made some mistakes. But Romeo Dubs
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Speaker 1: in particular, big time performance from him against Tampa Bay.
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Speaker 1: Eight catches on eight targets and his Karon Rodgers said afterwards,
18:17
Speaker 1: like looking at it just from field level, he said,
18:20
Speaker 1: I thought he was where he was supposed to be.
18:21
Speaker 1: He run ran the right routes and he catches the
18:24
Speaker 1: ball with his hands. He said, That's one of the
18:25
Speaker 1: great things about Romeo. He said, I joked with him,
18:27
Speaker 1: if he lets the ball get in into his pads,
18:29
Speaker 1: he shouldn't do that because his hands are so good
18:31
Speaker 1: and he generally catches the ball away from his pads,
18:34
Speaker 1: So it seems as if there are some confidence building
18:36
Speaker 1: in that player, and quite frankly, based on how the
18:38
Speaker 1: preseason went with some of the big players that Romeo
18:41
Speaker 1: gave him, it makes a lot of sense. Again, just
18:43
Speaker 1: a matter of consistency for Aaron Rodgers and coaching these
18:47
Speaker 1: guys up. They'll see some different looks from the Patriots,
18:49
Speaker 1: but Rogers is feeling better about where they're at and
18:52
Speaker 1: believes there's obviously and drew a lot of room for improvement. Absolutely,
18:55
Speaker 1: and we'll see how much they improved in on CBS
18:59
Speaker 1: from Lambeau coming up on Sunday. Thank you Mike Giardi,
19:04
Speaker 1: Packer and Patriots reports for what it is worth. The
19:06
Speaker 1: Packers are up one in the brand new NFL Power rankings.
19:12
Speaker 1: Dan Hands has puts these together. I believe he did
19:15
Speaker 1: so from a pub last night in London. I love that.
19:19
Speaker 1: That's good hand Juice is not here to defend. Maybe
19:24
Speaker 1: that's too to two pointed plane right walk us through
19:29
Speaker 1: his power rankings because the Around the NFL podcast is
19:33
Speaker 1: in London, so Jeff Jadia and Steve White, and I
19:36
Speaker 1: will now try to figure out what it was Dan
19:38
Speaker 1: meant by beings. We should point out, Jeff, that Dan
19:41
Speaker 1: has the Eagles at number one. They're only two remaining
19:45
Speaker 1: undefeated teams. Do you believe the Eagles are the best
19:48
Speaker 1: team in football? I will go there right now. Yeah,
19:52
Speaker 1: Buffalo right now, they're so banged up and having lost
19:55
Speaker 1: last week. I will stick with Philadelphia. I like what
19:58
Speaker 1: j That Hurts has done. They're playing phenomenal defense, They've
20:01
Speaker 1: got great weapons. My only concern here is that the
20:05
Speaker 1: team is number two is not undefeated, so that that's
20:08
Speaker 1: why that's why I kind of get on the train
20:10
Speaker 1: with Damn this one. The Buffalo Bills that number two go. Yeah,
20:13
Speaker 1: but one thing you see a boy dance, you know list,
20:15
Speaker 1: He doesn't necessarily go by a record. He kind of
20:16
Speaker 1: goes by field talent and you know who he believes
20:20
Speaker 1: and doesn't believe it because, as we'll get to just
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Speaker 1: a little bit, he thinks there's a trap door waiting
20:24
Speaker 1: for some of these teams who rose but didn't rise
20:26
Speaker 1: far enough. But I agree with the Eagles right there
20:28
Speaker 1: and the Bills at number two. I don't think there's
20:29
Speaker 1: anything wrong with that, all right, But here's what's tricky here.
20:31
Speaker 1: Dan always says they're not the power standings, they're the
20:34
Speaker 1: power rankings. The Dolphins beat the Bills, Steve, the Dolphins
20:38
Speaker 1: are number three behind. Yeah, I see, And that's clearly
20:42
Speaker 1: where he's taking the injuries into into account. That's clearly
20:46
Speaker 1: where he's taking the injuries into account, because Dan is
20:49
Speaker 1: probably looking when they're playing in Buffalo later this year
20:52
Speaker 1: to see if that's gonna happen, See what that's gonna
20:53
Speaker 1: even I'm getting in the mind of Dan Hanson. You
20:56
Speaker 1: are taking me into dangerous territory right now. He's probably
20:59
Speaker 1: trying to find Ted last. I'd rather rather then get
21:03
Speaker 1: into Sessler's head. Well, Jeff, Yeah, I think Dan actually
21:08
Speaker 1: is Jim Henson, and he's got his hand up Steve's back,
21:10
Speaker 1: and he's kind of like a muppet right now when
21:13
Speaker 1: Steve doesn't make no sense to me. I don't know, Bills.
21:17
Speaker 1: Bills are really banged up right now, just really banged
21:22
Speaker 1: up right now. It can't be the second best team
21:24
Speaker 1: to leave you that bangs. Speaking of banged up, um,
21:27
Speaker 1: the Chargers are banged up that they fell Jeff all
21:31
Speaker 1: the way down to fifteen, they felt eight spots without Slater,
21:35
Speaker 1: without Boso, with Herbert banged up. I mean that that
21:38
Speaker 1: is a big job. If you want to say four
21:39
Speaker 1: teen teams make the playoffs. The Chargers are now below
21:42
Speaker 1: the cut line. Well, look, I think the Charge down.
21:46
Speaker 1: I understand the injury issues here, and they are a
21:48
Speaker 1: conserved for me right now. And I've been very high
21:50
Speaker 1: on them with those industries mentioned and justin Herbert being
21:53
Speaker 1: banged up. But it's hard for me to think that
21:56
Speaker 1: the Vikings and the Titans are still better teams than
22:00
Speaker 1: the Charge. Right I don't know how the Titans got
22:02
Speaker 1: to be twelve, the Charge got to be fifteen. And
22:04
Speaker 1: so for me, again, I have trouble with this right now.
22:07
Speaker 1: Some of those guys will come back the charges, they
22:09
Speaker 1: won't havel, but again, it's that's pretty low for a
22:12
Speaker 1: team this talent. Yeah, you know, and and and Jeff
22:15
Speaker 1: you know, wait, Jim Henson, you know your favorite mother,
22:20
Speaker 1: my favorite mother. I guess kurvit. But Waco walk up.
22:25
Speaker 1: I mean, but this is the thing right now, why
22:27
Speaker 1: I think Dan again I'm getting into his head, probably
22:29
Speaker 1: looks at those Chargers injuries and says, okay, I see
22:31
Speaker 1: their record, I see their injuries. I'm gonna put them
22:33
Speaker 1: behind a team like Tennessee that still has got a
22:35
Speaker 1: ways to go. You know, Tennessee at twelve, I just
22:38
Speaker 1: saw them. They barely got by a Raiders team that
22:41
Speaker 1: is winless right now. Um So I think again, that's
22:45
Speaker 1: where Dan is trying to rationalize some things. I love
22:48
Speaker 1: playing Dan Hansers right now. I think you should to
22:50
Speaker 1: rationalize some things right here instead of just looking at
22:52
Speaker 1: the records and maybe the talent of the team. Okay,
22:54
Speaker 1: continue to play Dan Hansens and tell me about your Jaguars, Steve.
22:57
Speaker 1: You've been pounding the table for the Jaguars. They are
22:59
Speaker 1: up ten to eighteen. Yeah, and aren't they two and one?
23:02
Speaker 1: Aren't they leading the a f C South at anything
23:05
Speaker 1: might be the I mean I I probably would have
23:08
Speaker 1: had them higher. But this is one where Dance not
23:10
Speaker 1: trusting his eyes and he's trusting his gut, right. This
23:14
Speaker 1: is one where he's like their trapdoors coming. It's the Jaguars.
23:18
Speaker 1: You know, I can't well, we won't go there. But
23:22
Speaker 1: in a situation where you get it's like it's the Jaguars,
23:24
Speaker 1: I can't rank them too high until they show me
23:26
Speaker 1: something special, a couple more wins. Yeah, I think Dan
23:30
Speaker 1: is not trusting as yet. He's trusting as the whiskey
23:32
Speaker 1: in front of him. I didn't mean it to get
23:35
Speaker 1: like I'm just saying he's not here with this segment,
23:41
Speaker 1: with this segment, so I will take a jag I
23:43
Speaker 1: like the Jaguars a lot. I think that win against
23:45
Speaker 1: the Chargers and more about the Jaguars being on the
23:48
Speaker 1: come up than it did about the Chargers being disappointing.
23:52
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson is doing a great job right now, probably
23:54
Speaker 1: gonna be in the Coach of the Year conversation if
23:57
Speaker 1: they continue going the way they're going. The full rankings
23:59
Speaker 1: rankings at NFL dot com slash Power Rankings. Dan Hansis
24:04
Speaker 1: is back. I think next week to explain. I don't know,
24:07
Speaker 1: you can't get up, and it's not personal. I don't think.
24:14
Speaker 1: We just tried to figure out the rankings. They got
24:17
Speaker 1: WiFi and pubs in London. I know he can get
24:20
Speaker 1: on this, you know. I know. As we continue to
24:22
Speaker 1: celebrate Latino Heritage Month, here we share the accomplishments of
24:27
Speaker 1: this guy. Broncos linebacker Nick Bonito. Nick Bonito, the sixty
24:32
Speaker 1: four overall pick in the second round of the NFL Draft,
24:37
Speaker 1: Nick Benito. Part of Latin Heritage Month here on NFL Network.
24:42
Speaker 1: Time for one more thing before we go with Jeff
24:45
Speaker 1: shitty A going first, Andrew, as a current resident of
24:49
Speaker 1: the Kansas City area, I'm going to defend the a
24:52
Speaker 1: f C East. They're taking way too much abuse. Yeah,
24:55
Speaker 1: they've been a little bit disappointing to start the year.
24:57
Speaker 1: It's still going to be the best division of football
25:00
Speaker 1: by the end of the season. THEFC West. We give
25:02
Speaker 1: it all the off season hype here, so maybe it'll
25:05
Speaker 1: get their baldy. One more thing, Andrew, let me give
25:08
Speaker 1: you some shout out rookie love to Texans safety second
25:11
Speaker 1: round pick Jalen Petrie for the best rookie performance I've
25:15
Speaker 1: seen of any player so far in the first three weeks.
25:17
Speaker 1: Two interceptions, fumble recovery, a sack, to tackle for losses,
25:21
Speaker 1: eight tackles and oh, by the way, he has played
25:24
Speaker 1: all two thirty five snaps for the Texans so far
25:27
Speaker 1: this season. He looks good. I saw him in the preseason. Obviously,
25:29
Speaker 1: he lives in the backfield that role the ad at
25:31
Speaker 1: Baylor more of a star position guy, but he had
25:33
Speaker 1: the two picks, so I don't think he can't drop
25:36
Speaker 1: him coverage as well. Mike Giardi. One more thing, do
25:40
Speaker 1: we have a quarterback controversy in Dallas? Just consider this.
25:44
Speaker 1: Scooper Rush is the first undrafted quarterback to win his
25:46
Speaker 1: first three starts ro for over seven hundred fifty yards
25:51
Speaker 1: since one Kurt Warner. Kurt went on to win the
25:54
Speaker 1: Super Bowl that season. Just just saying, are you really,
25:59
Speaker 1: Mike saying that we have a quarterback? The facts of Facts.
26:05
Speaker 1: Let's revisit next week. Revisit next week. You know we're
26:09
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