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Vikings-Eagles Highlights, Tom Brady in Support of Mike Evans, & an Interview from Eric Wood · NFL Now

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  Speaker 1: NFL now is a production of the NFL in partnership
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  Speaker 1: with I heart radio. Did we see two Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: teams last night? That is the question as we welcome
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  Speaker 1: you to a Tuesday edition of NFL now on NFL
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  Speaker 1: network from our newsroom in Los Angeles. My name is
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Ceciliano. Also, might we see Dak Prescott back on
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  Speaker 1: the field for the cowboys a lot sooner than expected?
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  Speaker 1: We'll tell you what Jerry Jones had to say today.
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  Speaker 1: That's coming up shortly. Let's get to the highlights, however,
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  Speaker 1: from last night, and we'll start with this one in Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 1: and this is the later of the two kickoffs. Bills
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  Speaker 1: and titans in the second what an opening drive jalen
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  Speaker 1: hurts had against the Vikings and eleven play, eighties, seven
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  Speaker 1: yard drive. He was five for five on that drive
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  Speaker 1: and he ended it with a dance of the end
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  Speaker 1: zone after a three yard touchdown, and the Eagles had
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  Speaker 1: the early lead. He could also throw the football. I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned five for five to open. How about eleven for
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  Speaker 1: eleven to open? Quez wantons fifty three yards. He could
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  Speaker 1: still be running and it is fourteen to nothing. What
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  Speaker 1: a half, not just what a quarter. What a half
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  Speaker 1: for Jalen hurts. How about this longest rushing touchdown of
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  Speaker 1: his career? Twenty six yards. Jalen hurts, twenty six, thirty one, three,
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  Speaker 1: thirty three, nearly four hundred total yards from scrimmage. to
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and Flex Nice Battle Justin Jefferson. Darius slay,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, the ladder of what said Slagh that
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  Speaker 1: is that his kid is a big Justin Jefferson Fan.
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  Speaker 1: So he had had a big game. He did. He
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  Speaker 1: had two picks. Now Jefferson took the blame later for
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  Speaker 1: this one. said he should have flattened it out. Slay
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  Speaker 1: got it, gave it to Ja. It's hard to immediately
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  Speaker 1: put the ball in his beard. Justin Jefferson had one
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  Speaker 1: catch on six targets and kirk cousins would throw three
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  Speaker 1: interceptions to it, which has mentioned. What the slag, including
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  Speaker 1: this one, jump all the ends out. Not gonna work.
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  Speaker 1: Eagles are gonna win, however, twenty four to seven and
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  Speaker 1: they are two and over for the first time since
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  Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen. We put so much, so much work
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  Speaker 1: in Um to trying to make things efficient. I've been
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  Speaker 1: trying to be efficient Um. You know I said it earlier. No, man,
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  Speaker 1: there's an island. You must draw your strength of others. Um, I.
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  Speaker 1: I can't perform without the other ten on the field. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and the same on the other side. They need me
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  Speaker 1: to do my job for them to eat. So, Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's a collective group. Um. It was a big team win,
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  Speaker 1: a big time team win. Um, there's something that will
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  Speaker 1: definitely enjoy. But we have a short week and we're
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  Speaker 1: head to D C. UM, so we'll len to it
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  Speaker 1: for a little bit and get ready for the next opponent.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about this so much with Jalen, like why
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  Speaker 1: is Jalen going to continue to reach a ceiling? Because
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  Speaker 1: he's tough, he's got high football character, Um, and and
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  Speaker 1: he loves football. And so, uh, he's going to reach
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  Speaker 1: a ceiling. And and it's it's fun watching him, Girl.
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  Speaker 1: I can promise you this much. Our guys, you know
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  Speaker 1: as even postgame, Um, there's a feeling of wanting to
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  Speaker 1: get right back to work. Bad taste in your mouth
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  Speaker 1: is one thing, but we know what our standard is.
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  Speaker 1: And and it starts with me tonight. Um, and and
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  Speaker 1: I gotta make sure I do much, much more to
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  Speaker 1: help our guys play to their standard. Nick Serrianti said,
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  Speaker 1: jalen hurts loves football. He also loves proper punctuation. Thank you, Jalen,
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  Speaker 1: for this tweet. Hurts, don't it? Does it hurt the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings Brian Baldinger, and I think it was a statement
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  Speaker 1: here for the eagles. A lot of people had him
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  Speaker 1: as a super bowl pick during the summer. I'll be
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  Speaker 1: honest with you, I was a little bit reluctant, not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily because jalen hurts. I just didn't see it. But
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  Speaker 1: we saw it last night from hurts. Forget about this. Well,
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  Speaker 1: how he's Angling to draft a quarterback story. That guy
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  Speaker 1: is the guy. Well, he's putting it to rest, Andrew
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  Speaker 1: and like you just have to go through the checklist here.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's just see what he did. You mentioned it.
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  Speaker 1: Lev plays, eighty seven yards, five or five opening drive
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  Speaker 1: touchdown capped off by a three yard run. You do
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  Speaker 1: another touchdown run on his own. You throw your first
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  Speaker 1: touchdown passing the season on a great read of the
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  Speaker 1: safety to Quez Watkins for fifty three yards, and then
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  Speaker 1: you cap it all off with a two minute drill
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  Speaker 1: that led to a field goal right before the half
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  Speaker 1: of with no time left, right can you, can you
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  Speaker 1: come up with another turn of phrase to describe the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles Defense? Opportunistic, I mean would be a word. I
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  Speaker 1: mean if slay, if Darius slay could catch, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he would have had four interceptions last night. I told
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  Speaker 1: him to go hit the jug machine. But you know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of it was created because of pressure upfront.
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  Speaker 1: But he wanted Jefferson. And you know, when you watch
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  Speaker 1: Darius slay, I don't care if he's back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: when he's in Detroit and going up against Antonio Brown,
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  Speaker 1: you watch him in the scrimmages in the summer, he
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  Speaker 1: wants your number one receiver like he can't wait to
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  Speaker 1: get on it. Like he should have caught that ball.
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  Speaker 1: It was a good break Um, like he he was.
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  Speaker 1: He had five passes Defense tove. Heck, if you get
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  Speaker 1: fifteen in the season you've had a good year. He
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  Speaker 1: had five and one night, including two picks. Uh. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think he gave the game ball to James Harden.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe James Harden will start hitting his threes now with
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  Speaker 1: the blessing of Darius slay. But for all your sixer
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  Speaker 1: fans out there, that was a great night. Great night
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  Speaker 1: by slay and look, we came in saying if Justin
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  Speaker 1: Jefferson plays like he did last week against Green Bay,
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna be a close ball game deep into
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and they basically took Justin Jefferson out
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  Speaker 1: of the game because of the play of Darius slay
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  Speaker 1: and the pressure that they put on kirk cousins. This
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  Speaker 1: after the Vikings last week. The offense looked amazing at
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  Speaker 1: home week one against the Green Bay packers. Now, as mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles get the commanders and the Vikings get the lions.
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  Speaker 1: We get Brian Balding. Are always turning a phrase of
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  Speaker 1: Baldi's breakdowns. We thank you, Baldi. Baldi back in a
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  Speaker 1: little bit as well to talk about that bill's win
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  Speaker 1: over the titans. Now we're going to talk about that guy,
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  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. Remember Sunday night, I mean what nine days ago?
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  Speaker 1: The cowboys season was over. Then it's maybe he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be out only six weeks. Pumped the brakes. Now
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  Speaker 1: listen to what Jerry Jones said today. I do know
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  Speaker 1: that I think capture a good airing APP last week.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody recognized I said he will be back sooner than later.
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  Speaker 1: As far as the time and uh, it really could
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  Speaker 1: be minimal of UH, two weeks up here. In my
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  Speaker 1: mind that's very optimistic. That is optimistic, but it could
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  Speaker 1: be and he's got a condis but repair there that
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  Speaker 1: will allow him not to have a lot of fear
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  Speaker 1: of that reagering. It's just a question of the grip.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a big question. It is a big question.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Arre, follow with me now. Our insider today it
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  Speaker 1: went from the season to six weeks to two weeks. Mike,
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  Speaker 1: sounds sounds aggressive. It does, and even Jerry Jones admitting
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  Speaker 1: that that's very optimistic for Dak Prescott to get back.
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  Speaker 1: But the key point in what he said was it's
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  Speaker 1: not a question of re injury. It's just a question
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  Speaker 1: of does he have the strength to grip the football.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why he's saying it could be as soon
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  Speaker 1: as that. I think that is on the very early end.
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  Speaker 1: So that would put him back in time for the
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  Speaker 1: game against the commanders, right October. Two, yes, after that
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  Speaker 1: is when it gets really tough. It's at the rams,
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  Speaker 1: at the Eagles, two away games there. We've kind of
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  Speaker 1: sort of been looking at that eagles game as the
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  Speaker 1: point at which Dak Prescott could get back, because that
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  Speaker 1: and then before weeks, which was optimistic, not very optimistic,
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  Speaker 1: which is the two weeks that Jerry Jones is talking about.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm still somewhere in that uh time frame. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, Dak Prescott is doing everything he possibly can
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  Speaker 1: to get back and the cowboys have seen hand surgeries
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  Speaker 1: and guys come back quickly. Remember when De Marco Murray
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  Speaker 1: got surgery and played that week. So perhaps that's something
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  Speaker 1: along the lines of which every thinking on this one.
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  Speaker 1: Who Color me skeptical here. Not Doubting the Joneses, but
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  Speaker 1: we've heard both Jerry and Stephens say, oh no, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be really soon. We haven't heard from Dak yet.
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  Speaker 1: So when we hear from Dak talking about if he
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  Speaker 1: can grab, grasp and grip and throw a football, then
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  Speaker 1: then maybe I'll think of it differently. All Right, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: we had good news this morning on Dane Jackson, the
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  Speaker 1: bill's Corner, who was injured and carded off ambulanced off
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  Speaker 1: the field last night. That is one of the scarier
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  Speaker 1: collisions I think I have I have ever seen on
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  Speaker 1: a football field. Yes, and certainly a scary scene afterward.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew with the ambulance on the old even bills coach
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  Speaker 1: Sean McDermott saying you stop being a coach at that
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  Speaker 1: moment and it's more of a human experience. And we
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  Speaker 1: know how loud that stadium was the whole night. It
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  Speaker 1: was awfully quiet when that happened. Well, since that point,
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  Speaker 1: since that scariest point, we have gotten good news along
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  Speaker 1: the way. The bills saying immediately that Jackson had feeling
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  Speaker 1: and movement in all of his extremities, and then I
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  Speaker 1: reported on Good Morning Football this morning that he was
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  Speaker 1: out of the hospital, and not only out of the hospital,
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  Speaker 1: he walked himself out of the hospital and was home.
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  Speaker 1: And the bills confirming that later this morning, saying that
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  Speaker 1: Jackson was transported to the hospital underwent various tests which
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  Speaker 1: determined there was no major injury to his neck or
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  Speaker 1: spinal cord. He is having further tests today. Obviously there
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  Speaker 1: was a violent hit so there could be other damage
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  Speaker 1: in there, but he did have the x rays, the
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  Speaker 1: CT scan last night that revealed that he had suffered
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  Speaker 1: no major injury. Really good news on Dane Jackson. Will
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  Speaker 1: Continue to update it as we gather information. Amazing News, miraculous.
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  Speaker 1: You could argue after seeing that, and I'm glad we're
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  Speaker 1: now playing it because it makes me squeamish just to
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  Speaker 1: see it. So great that Dane Jackson is home, Mike Evans,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Gara Folo is going to have his appeal heard today.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit later onto the show we'll play some
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady for you. He calls the suspension ridiculous. What
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  Speaker 1: do we know about the appeal? So Tom Brady basically
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  Speaker 1: serving as a witness in this hearing supporting Mike Evans.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much weight that's going to carry
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  Speaker 1: with James Thrash, who will hear the appeal, the former
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  Speaker 1: NFL wide receiver. He and Derek Brooks are appointed jointly
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  Speaker 1: by the NFL and the NFL players association to hear
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  Speaker 1: the appeals in these cases for on field incidents and
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  Speaker 1: in the case of Mike Evans, he has had an
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  Speaker 1: appeal heard by James Thrash before. That was back in.
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  Speaker 1: This is all feeling like very deja Vou back in,
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  Speaker 1: because it was an incident with marshawn lattimore and the
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  Speaker 1: saints that resulted in a one game suspension. It was
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  Speaker 1: upheld by James Thrash so I don't know if that's
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  Speaker 1: that's the early a good or bad sign for Mike Evans.
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  Speaker 1: That thrashes once again hearing it, but we should have
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  Speaker 1: something at some point tomorrow. The buccaneers will be able
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  Speaker 1: to know as they get into their week of practice,
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  Speaker 1: whether Mike Evans will play against the Green Bay packers
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  Speaker 1: or not. Elsewhere with the buccaneers and their wide receivers,
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  Speaker 1: I reported this morning Cole Beasley, the veteran wide receiver,
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  Speaker 1: is joining them as a member of their practice squad
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  Speaker 1: with the expectation that he will be elevated to the
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  Speaker 1: active roster soon, and it may have to be really soon,
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  Speaker 1: especially if Evans is not available this week. Uh they
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  Speaker 1: have a bunch of injuries at the receiver position and
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  Speaker 1: some of those other guys haven't stepped up quite as
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  Speaker 1: they would have liked. And again, if Evans is down,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna be really shorthanded. So let's see how quickly
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  Speaker 1: Cole Beasley can get up to uh speed on the
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  Speaker 1: buccaneers offense. I know that Tom Brady has been in
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  Speaker 1: communication with him in recent weeks and months in case
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity presented itself for Beasley to join the team.
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  Speaker 1: It did. Beasley jumped at the chance. Other teams have
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  Speaker 1: tried to sign Cole Beasley recently, but he was looking
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  Speaker 1: for the right situation. Catching passes from Tom Brady and
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  Speaker 1: potentially winning a super bowl. Yeah, that's the right situation
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  Speaker 1: for a guy who's already made plenty of money in
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  Speaker 1: his career. Col Beasley now officially a Florida man, feels right.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Mike Gara. Follow Meantime, news at a canton
• 12:20
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  Speaker 1: we continue on NFL now, Oh yeah, the other Monday
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  Speaker 1: night game. Is Anyone gonna Give Buffalo a game? Well,
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  Speaker 1: asked Eric Wood, former bill, who was in the booth.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a book as well. All of that coming up.
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  Speaker 1: It's Tuesday. Okay. Anyone noticed what the buffalo bills are
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  Speaker 1: doing at the home open or fifth straight year they
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  Speaker 1: played the titans. Yeah, it was. It was kind of
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  Speaker 1: crazy there last night. They are beating teams like like
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  Speaker 1: it's college, like they're in the SEC playing these non
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  Speaker 1: CON Games and they're just, you know, paying a million
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  Speaker 1: five to some school and running up the score and
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  Speaker 1: then putting in the second team. Was Just Reggie Gilliam.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen said that was his favorite touchdown. fullback touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: you know, broke a couple of tackles and then look
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  Speaker 1: at the hand cannon on this guy, or the arm arrogance,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you wanna call it, back the cross his body
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  Speaker 1: to Stefon diggs there for that touchdown. Dig said a
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  Speaker 1: huge game last week. Get a huge game last night
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  Speaker 1: as well. It's seventeen to seven going to the half.
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  Speaker 1: Surprised it was even that close and they blew the
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  Speaker 1: doors off the titans in the second half. Here's digs
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  Speaker 1: for forty six yards. Trey Avery, rookie at a rutgers undrafted. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you don't see that in the big ten. Eighth Multi
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  Speaker 1: touchdown game of Stefon Diggs career. Again the cannon digs
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  Speaker 1: twelve for one and three touchdowns. That ties the Career
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  Speaker 1: High Matt Milano, who got a huge PF grade by
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  Speaker 1: the way, best rated defender week two according to PF grades.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Milano who goes forty three yards on the pick
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  Speaker 1: six of Ryan Tannehill. Malik Willis had to come in
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  Speaker 1: and mop up. It was that bad. The bills now
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  Speaker 1: in two games have outscored the defending super bowl champions
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  Speaker 1: and the one seed in the A F C, seventy
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  Speaker 1: two to seventeen. They went fifteen drives without punting and
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  Speaker 1: then Kyle Phillips muffed the punt and they got the
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  Speaker 1: ball back and scored. So I mean the are just
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  Speaker 1: blowing the doors off of people. Eric woold, who was
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  Speaker 1: a new book, will get to his book in a second.
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  Speaker 1: Former Bills Defensive Lineman baldy here as well. Eric Woods
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  Speaker 1: in the booth. Are you guys board in the second
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  Speaker 1: half calling these games? When you're preparing for a Monday
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  Speaker 1: night football game, you don't often prepare blowout coverage. I
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: called College Football Games for a couple of years. You
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: do prepare blowout coverages for for those circumstances. You do
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  Speaker 1: not prepare that in the NFL. We were looking ahead
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  Speaker 1: of the dolphins game next week, but I'll say this.
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  Speaker 1: Running up to score on a team that has had
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  Speaker 1: your number the last couple of years. The Titans beat
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  Speaker 1: the bills in each of the last two seasons. Wore
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  Speaker 1: the one seed in the A F C, where the
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  Speaker 1: bills wanted to be last year. They were excited about
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  Speaker 1: that one last night. You know, Eric, when I when
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  Speaker 1: I was around this team in Rochester this summer, the
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  Speaker 1: thing that you, you you couldn't help but notice, was just
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  Speaker 1: a camaraderie, how they all just love working together, going
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  Speaker 1: to work, and you know that feeling when you have it.
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  Speaker 1: But it shows on it shows on Sunday or Monday,
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  Speaker 1: not two. But what what just strikes me is on
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  Speaker 1: all those plays we just show, it's just the level
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  Speaker 1: of detail, of execution, like they're not just having a
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  Speaker 1: good time, they're getting all their work done and it shows,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when they take their test on Game Day. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're exactly right. And one of the concerns heading into
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  Speaker 1: this season was you lose Brian Dave ball to the giants.
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  Speaker 1: That was Josh Allen's offensive coordinator throughout his career. Does
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  Speaker 1: that change Josh Allen's progression. This this unprecedented trajectory that
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen Career has been on, since being last in
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  Speaker 1: the League in completion percentage his first two years in
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  Speaker 1: the League to where he stands now. Is the favorite
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  Speaker 1: to be the M v P of the League. And
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  Speaker 1: so the concern was with Brian Dave Ball leaving and
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  Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey takes over and through to two games they
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  Speaker 1: are executing on an extremely high rate and when you
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  Speaker 1: look at the numbers that the bills are putting up,
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  Speaker 1: they're they're running out the clock against the rams in
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  Speaker 1: the first game and they only played essentially their starters
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  Speaker 1: two and a half quarters last night. And so, uh,
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  Speaker 1: they are off to one heck of a start. You
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  Speaker 1: know what strikes me, and maybe it's the browns fan
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  Speaker 1: in me, Eric always looking back. What strikes me, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll get to the dolphins in the second is, if
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  Speaker 1: you look at eighteen, how Josh Allen could have changed
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  Speaker 1: the fortunes of the browns at one, the giant set
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  Speaker 1: to the jets set three, the broncos at five, the
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  Speaker 1: cults at six, where those franchises would be right now?
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  Speaker 1: I mean they all have varying degrees of success right now.
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  Speaker 1: But where they would be, Eric, if they had Josh Allen? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and it's interesting to say. Um, with the stability that
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Josh has had in Buffalo, would any of those other
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks had a great career as well if Baker Mayfield's
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: not playing for so many different offensive coordinators? Sam Donald
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: as well? And it's easy for the bills to say
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: now they would have taken Josh Allen One if they
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: had that opportunity. But who knows, maybe they take the
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: safer route and take a Baker Mayfield or Sam Donald
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: that came from much bigger schools and we're more proven
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: coming out of college. You know, Eric, I know that
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Jim Kelly is was on the field last night. He's
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: in the building now and obviously everybody in western New
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: York for members Jim and those great teams of Marv leavy.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: But I feel like you could put there's a lot
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: of great quarterbacks in this league, but Josh it's just
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: a perfect fit in that city with that bills Mafia.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I don't think anything else, any other player could fit
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: quite like Josh and how he embraces all of it
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: and everything that goes with that position. Yeah, and that's
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: something you have to consider when you're taking a quarterback
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: and you have a guy that you want to lead
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: your franchise for a decade or more, you have to
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: understand that personality traits as well. And Josh Allen comes
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: in the League embraces bills Mafia. They embrace him back,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: but they wanted to see the on field production and
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: what Josh has done in the community through the Patricia
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Allen Fund, which is in the honor of his grandmother,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: which has made a difference in so many lives down
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: at the children's Hospital. The way he's out and about
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: in the community. Uh, he is truly a perfect fit
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: for that organization. And then for my time playing for
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the bills, for not on yours. kind of that gap
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: between those, uh, that super bowl run and and now
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: what this where the bills around now? Buffalo was not
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: a desirable destination for free agents, for draft picks. Well, now,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: because you have a Josh Allen, because the Camaraderie you
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: talked about before, Baldi, people are wanting to come to buffalo.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: That's how you go out and sign a future hall
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: of Famer in Von Miller, who leaves the defending Super
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Bowl champions with the ramps and comes all the way
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: across the country to a small market in buffalo because
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: he wants to be a part of this and be
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: a part of now the first bills dolphins matchup where
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: each team is two and oh are better in thirty years.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Don't want to gloss over that game, by the way.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: May Reign pack accordingly. Eric. I want to get to
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: your book. Here you have a podcast called what's next,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: talking about your nine years with the bills. You had
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: a neck injury, you had to retire, but you turn
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: that into a positive thing now in broadcasting and that
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: podcast has turned into a book tackle what's next for athletes,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: for former football players, about how they deal with the
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: next stage in life. Tell me how your stories translate
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: onto the paper now in the book. Yeah, and and
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: and it applies to former athletes, but I think for
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: everyone out there you're constantly in a season of transition
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: if you want to make your tomorrow better than it
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: is today. So the lessons that I got from so
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: many incredible guests, my podcast mentors that I've had in
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: my life, those uh stories, those lessons are littered throughout
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: this book, mixed in with some football stories and in
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: in some fun bill stuff as well, but any football
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: fan will love it. But it's a personal development book
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: by nature and I think that anybody reading it will
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: be able to grow from reading it, from hearing the
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: lessons that are written in those pages. No, it's great stuff,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: really really good stuff here, investing off the field stuff, health.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, you look amazing. You're one of the old
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: linement to drop all the way. Well done. The book
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: is called once again tackle. What's next? From bill's broadcaster
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: and former old Lineman, Eric would, on his way to
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Miami for a big matchup coming up on Sunday. Eric,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: great to have you on continued success. Yeah, thanks for
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: having me on. Anytime you guys need me, you know
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I'll come on. Let's do it against soon. Eric would.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Everybody Jared Dan Hans, who's making guttural sounds off camera.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: He is now here, as he is every Tuesday with
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the new power rankings, officially a podcast now with a
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: great colleen Wolf Dan. You've got the niners losing a
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: starting quarterback and moving into your top ten. Has that
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: ever happened? I don't think so. I think jeff nailed
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: it with talking about the wide open nature of the NFC.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: It's a little sloppy and you really can see San
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Francisco lost their starting quarterback and gained stability. It's I
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: know it's strange, but it's also true and I thought
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: it was so telling when Garoppolo went in on the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: qb sneak for the score and he saw the replays
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: on the Fox cameras with him in the big grin
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: on his face and all the offensive line on the
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: laughing pat him on the head. It's not a shot
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: against Trey Lance, but you know there was some indecision
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: in that locker room about do we trust this guy?
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: We're so ready for the Super Bowl. Jimmy g they
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: trust and they love him, and now he's there. It's
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: a good spot for San Francisco. Bad News for Lance, obviously,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: but they're gonna be okay. I think you have the eagles.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: That's not only number three overall but the best team
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: in the NFC. Yeah, and I mean the same thing
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: with with Jalen hurts, this idea that he would take
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: this type of leap, but it also makes sense. It
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: is year three. It's a progression, but I think even
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the most optimistic eagles fans didn't think he would be
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: this lights out as a passer of the football. He's
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: so comfortable in the pocket. The accuracy is uncanny and
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: you're seeing as a runner, and it's the only thing
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: that makes me nervous, Andrew, is the running of the
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: football and the idea that you're gonna run through tackles,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: you're gonna get those extra yards. You worry about what
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: could happen. We just saw it happen with Trey Lance
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: in a similar situation. But other than that, everything is
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: coming up eagles. With Jalen hurts. That's just the kind
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: of a loaded roster with a great offensive line and
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: playmakers and now a quarterback making the leap. Look out. Well,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen's running quarterback as well. You have them and
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: numb one. You also have the lions. Dan, the lions
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: up ten to sixteen. You're buying the lions. This is
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: not just a hard knocks bounce. The hard knocks bounce
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: cannot be. So it is a hard knocks maybe a
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: little bit because I I really really enjoyed getting to
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: know this lions team, but then you watch the game
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: and it's like no, there. I think the problem is
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: a lot of people, you look sixteen. What are the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Lions doing? They're like, what is wrong with this guy?
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: But they're not the lions that you remember. They're no
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: longer the lovable loser lions. They're a team with an offense,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: with a legitimate number one wide receiver, running back knocking
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: on the door the superstar GLOB and a quarterback who
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: we forget about it because his ending in Los Angeles
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: was not pretty. If you give him time and you
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: surround with weapons, he can get the job done. Do
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I trust the defense yet? No, I do not trust
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the defense, but this offense is going to score points.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Seventy points in two weeks pretty good. Thirty five or
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: more in three straight games for the lions, going back
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: to last year, for the first time since nineteen fifty three,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: when Bobby Lane went back to back NFL championships. The colts. Meantime,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: they're not the worst team in football, but you could
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: argue that they have played the two worst games this year.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: And you have India Twenty Six. You know the gang
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: on a good morning football, Kyle and from they gave
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: me a lot of heat this morning because they said
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: how dare you? That was essentially how I took it
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: not have. The cults is thirty two and I have
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: them down to twenty six. And Andrew I had him
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: at twelve two weeks ago. So that is a steep drop.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: But I'm not ready to sell out to the point
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: where it's like this is the worst team in football.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: They still have Matt Ryan. The offensive line is underperforming,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: but it should be better. They're gonna get Shack Leonard Back.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Michael Pittman is so important for an offense that's kind
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: of be reft of big time playmakers. I think it's
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: there for them to figure some things out. But yeah,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: if you lose again and they get the chiefs this week,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: they get the chiefs and it's and bad. Yes, this is.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: It's within the realm of reason that this could be
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: a thirty two team, which is outrageous. They are down
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: eleven from fifteen to twenty six. The seahawks are down
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: six from eighteen to twenty four. Also among the big
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: risers the cardinals up eight, the jets up seven. We're
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: not touching the jets today. Results from my base of mind, results.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Look at this hand zoo says results, not receipts. Last
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: week and look what the jets do actually the power
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: ranking is not the power standings. A podcast Dan Hanss
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: and colleen wolf every week. Thank you Dan. Speaking of
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the jets, they were one of those teams that are
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: just a crazy, bonkers the math telling you, the math
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: tells you it can't happen kind of finishes. But why
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: are we paying attention to the math? That's next. RUN
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: IT UP, run it up, run it up. Man, you
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: thought that the Dolphins Ravens game was big this past Sunday.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: About the dolphins and the bills coming up this week,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: because the two that we saw in Baltimore is a
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: different tour. It isn't just the dink and dunk tour right,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the quick game, the screen all that. The R P
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: O two has already hit more deep shots, and these
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: are next chance stats powered by a w s through
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: two games. Then he did all of last season. Camp Wolf,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Cam Wolf, easy for me to say on Camp Live
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: with us now in Miami. Bigger statement with the wins Sunday,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the dolphins or the juggernaut bills. Andrew's gotta be a
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: dolphins right. You're you're trying to knock you out, the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: heavyweight champ of the world of the A F C
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: East and the bills. And Look, we all saw what
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: to a tuggle by Loa and the dolphins did last week.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: The big question here is can they do it again?
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: The bills have won twenty straight regular season games by
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: double digits, and so we go into this game all
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: we can expect is for them to win by double digits. Right,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: but I'm pumped to be at this game this weekend.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of interest here. I think
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the dolphins have a shot here. They're playing at home
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: in a very humid Miami temperature not as hot as
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: it was last week. There's raining the forecast, but they've
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: got a chance, just a chance, that they play their
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: best ball. And one thing I'm really eager to see
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: is is you know how to handles the pressure of
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: trying to do it again and stepping up. Tyreek kill
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: and Jay Len waddle had amazing days and they're potentially
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: playing a banged up bill secondary. We all saw what
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: happened to Dame Jackson this weekend. Good news is he's
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: gonna be okay, but they're gonna play two rookie cornerbacks
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: in Kyer Elam and Kristen Benford, against those corners. So
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I think the dolphins have to play really good on
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball. secondaries gotta play better
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: than they did last week. But this game is a
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: huge one for the A F C East. We all
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: saw the bills and how they've strengthened this team, but
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the dolphins have the best chance of knocking them off
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: and they've got their chance at home Sunday well, because
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: they have the speed. I mean that speed that we
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: saw in Baltimore. We saw a wave one camp that
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: that hacks his defenses. Yeah, yeah, Andrew. You look at
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: this matchup, they have the three best or top receivers
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: in yardage in the league so far this year, tyreek Hill,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs Jalen waddle man. I'm praying for defensive backs.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: This is why that's the hardest position to play in
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: football outside of quarterback. Look, it's gonna be a route
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: running clinic. We saw Stefan Diggs last night rounding up
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Caleb Farley all day. It's gonna be a big battle
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: for Xavian Howard and trying to challenge him. He had
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a rough day against Rashod Bateman
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: and the Ravens last week. They're gonna need him to
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: step up his game. And then the other guys, tyreek
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Hill and Jalen waddle. Those guys had over three hundred
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: and forty yards together, as I mentioned, playing potentially ricky corners.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: There could be more records set and what should be
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: a shootout game in Miami. And so we all talked
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: about the quarterbacks two and Josh Allen. I'm eager to
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: see these receivers on Sunday. Maybe the rain could slow
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: somebody down Sunday in Miami. Cam Wolf ahead of the
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: dolphins in the bills. Thank you, Cam. Alright, dolphins had
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: one of those amazing comebacks here. Just think it out loud.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: I love me some analytics. I'm not afraid of math.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: The more info the better for you at home and
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: for the coaches making decisions in the moment on the sideline.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: But there's one stat that I am done with and
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I am sorry, next Gen people, I'm really sorry. It's
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: win probability. Please stop it, because last week we were
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: told the jets had a point three win probability when
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: they were down thirteen to the buck to go. So
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: what does that take into account that the Brown secondary
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: gifted the panthers a couple of touchdowns with busted coverages
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: week one, and then they did the same thing against
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the jets. Of course they were going to do that.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: The dolphins were just talking about them. They were down
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: twenty one in the fourth. One point three win probability,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: but TA was dealing and Tyreek kill was really fast
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: and all the ravens corners. They're injured. So the dolphins one.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: How about the cardinals? Down Twenty and nothing. Win Probability?
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: One point seven percent, but Kyler Murray is a superhero
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and the card does one. And I know I sound
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: like an old man shouting on my lawn or at
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: my desk. The analytics people will say that I'm missing
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: the point when probability should be used to celebrate how
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: special those comebacks were, but sometimes we get caught up
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: in the numbers when we should be celebrating the amazing
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: plays and the players that made those plays. So moving forward, please,
• 30:28
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• 30:33
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