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Seahawks 1-0, Jamal Adams Injury, & an Interview from Joe Theismann · 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. G J. Watt just tweeted an
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Speaker 1: update on that injury. Will tell you what he put
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Speaker 1: online in a second, Also injury updates on Naji Harris
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Speaker 1: and Dak Prescott. Welcome to NFL Now on NFL Network,
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Speaker 1: right here from our newsroom in Los Angeles. My name
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Speaker 1: is Andrew Ceciliano. Coming up. We'll turn the page to
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Speaker 1: week two, as we will do every Tuesday this year,
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Speaker 1: but we can't do that without looking back on week one.
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Speaker 1: Just when you saw, or rather thought you have seen everything,
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Speaker 1: you saw how this game ended in Seattle. Yeah, they're
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Speaker 1: gonna boo Russell Wilson. He wanted to leave. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: mean they don't love him for what he did when
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Speaker 1: he was there. I don't know why this is such
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Speaker 1: a big deal. It was a big deal that Seattle
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Speaker 1: got out to the big early lead and then Russell
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Speaker 1: answered back with the sixties seven yard touchdown to Jerry Judy.
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Speaker 1: He had over a hundred yards. He is cooking and
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Speaker 1: we are backed. But they could not cook on the
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Speaker 1: goal line. Consecutive possessions where the Broncos turned it over
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Speaker 1: one a fumble, or rather Melvin Gordon stopped another one
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Speaker 1: of Javonte Williams fumble, and then it came down to this.
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Speaker 1: They run forty seconds off the clock at the very
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Speaker 1: end instead of going forward on fourth and five, and
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Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett, in his first game as an NFL head coach,
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Speaker 1: opts for a sixty four yard Brandon McManus field goal.
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Speaker 1: It was no good. It is a head scratcher, and
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks beat the Broncos seventeen sixteen. I believe in
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Speaker 1: coach Hacke. I believe what we're doing, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: and believe in everything. And uh, you know, anytime you
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Speaker 1: can try to find a way to make a play
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Speaker 1: in fourth and five, that's great too. But also I
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Speaker 1: think we I think I think it was the wrong decision.
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Speaker 1: You know, I think he can make it. Obviously hindsight,
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Speaker 1: you know, we didn't make it. But we're in that
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Speaker 1: situation again. I wouldn't doubt whatever he decided. We were
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Speaker 1: right on the line and he had plenty of distance,
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Speaker 1: you know, he he just missed it and so and
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Speaker 1: again that's hey, Brandon gave it his best shot. I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's a long field goal. To hit. I think he's
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Speaker 1: completely capable of that, but obviously I wish we would
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Speaker 1: have gotten a lot closer. But it put us in
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Speaker 1: that weird spot there because we were in the field
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Speaker 1: goal range, but we were on that fourth down situation.
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Speaker 1: UM didn't think we were gonna get that many yards.
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Speaker 1: So I thought it was a great job by Javante
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Speaker 1: and we just made the decision we want to take
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Speaker 1: our shot there on that one. Shelby, you were part
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Speaker 1: of this trade. And I know all the talk in
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Speaker 1: this heading into this game was about Russell Wilson, about
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Speaker 1: him coming back. When you heard that, you know, Smith Chance,
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Speaker 1: you heard what was going on in this building. What
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Speaker 1: kind of statement is this for this team? It's the
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Speaker 1: one in no statement. You know what I mean to
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Speaker 1: come out here. Everybody doubt of us. Everyone made this
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Speaker 1: about Russ You real me. We made this about the
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Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks. Come out here, you know, play good ball.
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Speaker 1: The four quarters, come out to w Nobody stuck to
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Speaker 1: us to win. It stuffed us. It's always gonna be us.
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Speaker 1: The defensive line made a statement in the red zone.
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Speaker 1: Talk about the statement you got has made causing multiple
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Speaker 1: fumbles inside the five. Well That's what happens when you trained,
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Speaker 1: when your line into the other team. We sit here
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Speaker 1: and make plays, all of us. That's what happens when
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Speaker 1: you get to go line stops right there. A win.
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Speaker 1: I can't drive up any better than that. Man. Last
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Speaker 1: one is is a negative though, Jamal Adams going down
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Speaker 1: for you guys as a defense, how big of a
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Speaker 1: loss is that? For you guys, it's a huge loss.
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Speaker 1: And we're gonna do this to him, you know we are.
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Speaker 1: He was very integral part of our defense, and you
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Speaker 1: know we have to go out there and grind and
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Speaker 1: get this done for him. You know, we're all the
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Speaker 1: other stuff, other stuff out later, but you know we're
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Speaker 1: gonna join this one and know today, you know we
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Speaker 1: gotta come around and play Sam brand in a short
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Speaker 1: week by this this football baby, last one half of her.
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Speaker 1: I was standing on the sideline watching you go absolutely insane.
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Speaker 1: How much did this mean to you personally? All I
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Speaker 1: have to say is, let's ride, love it, Let's ride.
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Speaker 1: Shelby Harris, one of my favorite people, by the way,
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Speaker 1: great interview, James Palmer who's now with us here, Jeff
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Speaker 1: Jade as well. We'll get to Gino at a second,
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Speaker 1: and we'll get to Jamal Adams what you're talking about
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Speaker 1: there with the injury in a second. Um, But let's
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Speaker 1: let's talk about the decision making process here. It is
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Speaker 1: a is a It is a head scratcher. James and
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Speaker 1: even Joe Bucks said that they get They came on
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Speaker 1: camera in the booth there with Troy Aikman, and then
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden they hear in their air they're
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Speaker 1: going for the field goal, Like what Yeah, And it
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Speaker 1: wasn't just the booth. Andrew Pete Carroll and his group
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Speaker 1: were preparing to try to make a stop on fourth
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Speaker 1: and five because they thought there was no way Russell
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Speaker 1: Wilson was not gonna be out there trying to move
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Speaker 1: the football and continue this drive to get them closer
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Speaker 1: into field goal range. But this was the thinking. Prior
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Speaker 1: to the drive. Nathaniel Hacket and kicker Brandon McManus had
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Speaker 1: a conversation. McManus said, if you get me to the
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Speaker 1: forty six on the left, hash, I feel comfortable with
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Speaker 1: the sixty four yard field goal on this play right
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Speaker 1: here with Javonta Williams. That's exactly what he does. He
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Speaker 1: gets them to that exact spot now you heard him
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Speaker 1: what Hackett said just a couple of seconds ago. If
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Speaker 1: he wouldn't have gotten nine yards and it would have
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Speaker 1: been a fourth and seven, fourth and eight, he would
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Speaker 1: have gone on with Russell Wilson on the field and
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Speaker 1: gone forward on fourth down. But since they were in
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Speaker 1: that spot, they decided the best option was to kick
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Speaker 1: the field goal, and they end up missing it very closely,
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Speaker 1: I will say, from sixty four yards. But it was
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Speaker 1: a sloppy game for the Denver Broncos. They had twelve
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Speaker 1: penalties for a hundred and six yards, and three main
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Speaker 1: things stood out after I talked to numerous players in
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Speaker 1: the locker room. One they didn't play in the preseason
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Speaker 1: at all, not a single snap, and guys on the
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Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball told me that's why they
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Speaker 1: didn't tackle well early. That's why they had communication issues
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Speaker 1: in the secondary. Now they fixed those. They only gave
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Speaker 1: up one point six yards of play in the second half.
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Speaker 1: Another one was the noise. The noise was a big
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Speaker 1: issue with their false starts, with their delay of games.
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Speaker 1: It also was a big part of the Javanti Williams
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Speaker 1: fumble to where Graham Glasgow didn't get the audible Andrew
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Speaker 1: to where it was going from a pass play to
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Speaker 1: a run play, so he went into a pass set
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Speaker 1: and that led to that fumble. So they were very
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Speaker 1: sloppy and how they managed throughout this game, but they
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Speaker 1: still ended up only losing by a point on the road. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was a good kick. I mean it looked like
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Speaker 1: it had the distance. It was a little bit left.
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Speaker 1: Adrian and research pointed out that in the one than
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Speaker 1: three year history of the NFL kickers, kickers collectively are
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Speaker 1: two for forty two from sixty four yards. Not a
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Speaker 1: good stat and beyond, he almost made it. If he
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Speaker 1: did make it, we'd be sitting here today talking about
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Speaker 1: what what a guts he call. He had faith in
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Speaker 1: his kicker, Jeff Chitty. In meantime, Pete Carroll has been
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Speaker 1: out of it. He has faith in Geno Smith. That
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Speaker 1: faith was rewarded last night. That's right, Andrew. That kid
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Speaker 1: goes through. We're not talking about Geno Smith today as
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Speaker 1: we should be, because he played a great game. You know,
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Speaker 1: you talked and Pete Carroll has been a huge advocate
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Speaker 1: for him, and maybe the way this training camp battle
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Speaker 1: went down with him and Drew Lock solidified and stabilized
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Speaker 1: his game because he talked a lot about in the
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Speaker 1: offseason about being a different type of quarterback now, being
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Speaker 1: somebody who understands the importance of protecting the football making
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Speaker 1: the right play. You saw in that first half and
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Speaker 1: he went seventeen for eighteen, really made some good play
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Speaker 1: with his arms, some big plays down the field, but
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Speaker 1: also took care of the football and gave his team
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Speaker 1: a chance to be in this game to win it late.
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Speaker 1: And so after the game, you know, Smith said like, look,
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Speaker 1: I feel like people wrote me off. People talked about
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Speaker 1: me being done and having played in bad football. But
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Speaker 1: this is a great place to be in. Pete Carroll
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Speaker 1: said it himself, Geno Smith is playing the best football
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Speaker 1: he's ever played right now. You saw it on Monday
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Speaker 1: Night line from Gino on the field afterwards. What do
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Speaker 1: you say to people who wrote you off? He said,
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Speaker 1: they wrote me off, but I ain't write them back.
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Speaker 1: He completed his first thirteen passes last night. And if
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Speaker 1: you think that's a fluke, go back to his last
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Speaker 1: start last year before Russell Wilson came back from injury.
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Speaker 1: In that game against Jacksonville, Geno Smith completed his first
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Speaker 1: fourteen passes, so we have a trend. Speaking of Russell Wilson, James,
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Speaker 1: you mentioned the strategy portion of it. How about the
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Speaker 1: mood overall in the Denver locker locker room after a
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Speaker 1: heartbreaker and Andrew real quick on Geno Smith if he
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Speaker 1: prepared that line ahead of time, I don't care. It
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Speaker 1: was super smooth. Yea. Everyone the mood in the locker
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Speaker 1: room was pretty dejected. And I would say, just from
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Speaker 1: my personal opinion in walking through that locker room and
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Speaker 1: spending some time there, Nathaniel Hackett took it harder than
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Speaker 1: probably any of the players, going around that room, hugging
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Speaker 1: players individually after the game and and kind of, you know,
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Speaker 1: trying to pick them up a little bit. But when
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Speaker 1: I had long conversations with say Courtland Sutton or Melvin
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Speaker 1: Gordon or Kareem Jackson, they all kind of told me
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Speaker 1: the same thing. If we played that bad and we
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Speaker 1: lose for a point, we're in pretty good space. They
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Speaker 1: fumbled the football twice on the one yard line. This
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Speaker 1: could be in a very different game. And if they
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Speaker 1: clean up some of these mistakes. They saw what this
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Speaker 1: offense can do with Russell Wilson be able to move
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Speaker 1: the football in a manner in which they haven't seen
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Speaker 1: for some time. And Melvin Gordon said, we knew we
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Speaker 1: were the best team on the field, we just made
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Speaker 1: more mistake and he understands that if you make more mistakes,
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Speaker 1: you lose games. But as the locker room kind of
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Speaker 1: sat there Andrew, they started to pick themselves up a
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Speaker 1: little bit because they realized what Russell Wilson is capable
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Speaker 1: of doing when he's on the field. Those twelve penalties
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Speaker 1: accepted against the Broncos the most for any team not
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Speaker 1: named the Jaguars week number one, so that is one
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Speaker 1: of the things they can certainly look to clean up
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Speaker 1: heading into week number two. James Palmer, Jeff Chidiya, thank
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Speaker 1: you both. Let's get some other news here into our newsroom.
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Speaker 1: News right now, New right now, Tom Bella, Sero, Mike Arra, Folo, Mike,
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Speaker 1: start with you. News on the injury we mentioned earlier
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Speaker 1: about Jamal from or four rather Jamal Adams. I'll get straight.
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Speaker 1: What do we know? Yes, Uh, it was announced as
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Speaker 1: a quad injury last night. Pete Carroll saying on the
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Speaker 1: radio in Seattle today that Adams needs some work done
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Speaker 1: on his knee, while the quad connects down by the
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Speaker 1: knees to find Gilmore had an injury to the quad
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Speaker 1: ten than a couple of years ago. That's what connects it.
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Speaker 1: So it sounds like that's what ruptured on this one.
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Speaker 1: My understanding is the Seahawks are still waiting on final
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Speaker 1: imaging before they make a determination on whether Jamal Adams
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Speaker 1: will return this season. But you can hear Pete Carroll's
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Speaker 1: tone last night today when he spoke on the radio,
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Speaker 1: every indication that this is going to wind up being
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Speaker 1: a season ending thing. And Carol said that Adams was
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Speaker 1: very distraught wondering why these injuries keep happening to him.
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Speaker 1: He said he had his parents in the locker room
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Speaker 1: with him to help console him. So it sounds like
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Speaker 1: it's going to be a very frustrating result once that
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Speaker 1: final imaging comes in for Jamal Adams. So frustrating certainly
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Speaker 1: there for Jamal Adams, and not a lot of optimism
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Speaker 1: right now. Tom. Conversely, there is optimism today in Dallas
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Speaker 1: in regards to Dak Prescott's recovery. That's right, Andrew. Was
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Speaker 1: all good news out of the surgery that Dak Prescott
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Speaker 1: underwent on Monday to repair that fractured thumb on his
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Speaker 1: throwing hand. My understanding is the timeline now is four
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Speaker 1: to six weeks for Dak Prescott to be on the field.
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Speaker 1: It was a clean surgery. The doctors are optimistic, and
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Speaker 1: Dak has always been a fast healer. Jerry Jones went
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Speaker 1: on the radio today in Dallas and sounds even more
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Speaker 1: optimistic than that, saying that they're not going to put
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Speaker 1: Dak on injury reserve and they want to keep the
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Speaker 1: door open for him to play even within the next
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Speaker 1: four games, which is how long he'd to sit out
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Speaker 1: if he were on i R. Realistically, what this really
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Speaker 1: does is it allows Dak to practice. There are certain
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Speaker 1: things he may be able to do, mental reps, things
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Speaker 1: that don't evolve throwing the football, and practice. In the
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Speaker 1: short term, they want to ramp him up, so somewhere
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Speaker 1: between that four to six week window, they expect him
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Speaker 1: back in the lineup, meaning he's back before the week
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Speaker 1: nine by maybe even back for what's potentially a big
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Speaker 1: game October sixteen at Philadelphia. Yeah, similar to what the
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Speaker 1: Jets are doing with Zach Wilson, not putting him on
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Speaker 1: in your reserve even though they know he's not gonna
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Speaker 1: play for a couple of weeks, so he can do
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Speaker 1: anything he could possibly do in practice. Meanwhile, another quarterback
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Speaker 1: injury that we were watching is Patrick Mahomes. They've got
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Speaker 1: a short week this week, the Chiefs do. They've got
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Speaker 1: that Chargers game on Thursday. He had that left wrist
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Speaker 1: injury after this hit on Sunday that you're seeing. He
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Speaker 1: had it wrapped up. They took X rays afterward. Mahomes
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Speaker 1: spoke to the media today and said it was hurting
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Speaker 1: a little bit yesterday but feeling much better today. He
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Speaker 1: and Edie Reid expressing zero concerned that he is going
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Speaker 1: to be out there. It is his non throwing hand,
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Speaker 1: unless us yet consider the left handed past a couple
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Speaker 1: of years ago in the Denver game on a Monday night,
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Speaker 1: then it's his sometimes throwing hand, but most of the
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Speaker 1: time he likes to throw with the right hand, sometimes
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Speaker 1: not looking, sometimes side arm. Everybody seemed to think, my
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Speaker 1: Patrick Hoome is gonna be just fine. Tom As for
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Speaker 1: Chargers star receiver Keenan Allen, my understanding is it's unlikely
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Speaker 1: he is going to play in that Thursday night game
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Speaker 1: against the Chiefs, just four days after suffering a hamstring injury. However,
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Speaker 1: based on the test that Allen underwent, there is optimism
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Speaker 1: that this is nothing long term. The next game for
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Speaker 1: the Chargers September against the Jaguars, it will be a
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Speaker 1: full two weeks after he suffered the initial injury. The
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Speaker 1: Chargers have not formally ruled out Keenan Allen for Thursday Night.
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Speaker 1: He's surprised him before with a similar type of an injury.
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Speaker 1: They thought he was out, he ended up playing again.
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Speaker 1: Sounds unlikely for Thursday Night, but he should be back
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Speaker 1: in action sooner than later. Andrew, Yeah, hamstrings not a
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Speaker 1: short week that that's a bad combination here, but it
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Speaker 1: sounds again opt Mr Grew. They have some optimism that
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Speaker 1: Keenan Allen might be back sooner rather than later. Thank you,
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Speaker 1: Tom Placeo and Mike Garrel follow Joe fismand gets his
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Speaker 1: a football life treatment well deserved. Joe is gonna join
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Speaker 1: us next NFL. Now I walk out on that football
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Speaker 1: field and man, because memories come back like yesterday, Oh
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Speaker 1: what a play. People can think they would sell for them, Joe,
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Speaker 1: timand they were not Joe's injury. It's something that people
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Speaker 1: just don't forget. I was discerned because I had a
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Speaker 1: lot of respect for you. We don't go out there
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Speaker 1: to hurt people. What happened to me changed my perspective
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Speaker 1: on life. They don't me to become a better person.
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Speaker 1: This guy's getting his a football life treatment later this week,
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Speaker 1: well deserved. Former NFL m v P champion of Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl seventeen, a two time Pro Bowl selection, decades as
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Speaker 1: a broadcaster, Our former colleague here at NFL Network, a
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Speaker 1: guy that just had a birthday a couple of days
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Speaker 1: ago as well. Brian Buldinger is with us to say
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Speaker 1: hi to our good friend Joe Fiseman. It's good to
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Speaker 1: see you, Joe. Thank you, Andrew. I appreciate it today.
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Speaker 1: I guess it's been a pretty good week for me
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Speaker 1: so far with the birthday and now, I mean, I'm
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Speaker 1: just I'm absolutely flattered and humbled um of the football
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Speaker 1: life that comes out on Friday Night. I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: just I've seen so many of them, and it just
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Speaker 1: gives you such an incredible perspective of the men that
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Speaker 1: they've done before, and I'm so excited about the opportunity,
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Speaker 1: I guess to join that group. Now, your life is
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Speaker 1: so much more than an injury obviously, but we saw
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Speaker 1: going to commercial a few minutes ago, you standing there
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Speaker 1: talking to Lawrence Taylor about that faithful Night and you
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Speaker 1: said something, Joe that stuck with me. You said that
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Speaker 1: it changed a perspective on life. How um I had
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Speaker 1: with all the success that I enjoyed in the world
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Speaker 1: of football, I think I became very self absorbed and
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Speaker 1: almost entitled to a degree, And when and you sort
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Speaker 1: of hold that close to you and you say, this
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Speaker 1: is who I'm, this is who I'm defined as, this
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Speaker 1: is who I am, and then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: it's gone. In an instant, I mean a snap of
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Speaker 1: a finger. It's over, and everything that you thought was
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Speaker 1: really important in your life isn't there. And it really
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Speaker 1: forces you to take a look at who you are
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Speaker 1: as a person and the people around you and the
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Speaker 1: things that really should be important in your life. And
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Speaker 1: that's what that you know, that's what they call it
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Speaker 1: an accident. That's what the injury basically did for me.
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Speaker 1: It it slammed my feet down on the ground and
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Speaker 1: gave me a different perspective of life. Joe, you were
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Speaker 1: decorated quarterback coming out of Notre Dame. Didn't go directly
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Speaker 1: to the NFL. Joe, you went to the Canadian Football League.
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Speaker 1: How to toil up there for a few years. What
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Speaker 1: did that experience do for you as a quarterback once
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Speaker 1: you came to the NFL. Well, the big thing is,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm a big believer. If you sit and
16:11
Speaker 1: read a book about tennis and then you think you
16:13
Speaker 1: can go play Rafael Nadal, You're probably not gonna do
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Speaker 1: very well. But if you have a chance to be
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Speaker 1: able to continue to work and work on your trade,
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Speaker 1: to be able to go out and take snaps, to
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Speaker 1: study film, to look at defense is whether it was
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Speaker 1: the Canadian League or in college or even at the
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Speaker 1: professional level here, you're at least having a chance to
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Speaker 1: work on your skill set. And so really my three
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Speaker 1: years in Toronto were priceless for me, and I loved
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Speaker 1: it up there. A matter of fact, I'd considered staying,
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Speaker 1: but the Argonauts wanted to move on in a different direction.
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Speaker 1: But it gave me a chance to actually play football.
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Speaker 1: It got me into the football moments, the two minute drills.
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Speaker 1: Even though the rules are a bit different, the game
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Speaker 1: isn't that much different. Joe, thisman joining us his a
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Speaker 1: football life debuting this Friday, Joe, It's always good to
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Speaker 1: pick your brain as well as to the current Washington
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Speaker 1: quarterback now a commander quarterback command Or Carson made his
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Speaker 1: debut on Sunday. What do you think of the four
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Speaker 1: touchdowns and the two picks? I think, Andrew, you have
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Speaker 1: to look at the body of the entire game to
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Speaker 1: really get a feel for Carson and what he accomplished
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Speaker 1: in that particular game. Uh. He came out and made
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Speaker 1: smart decisions with the ball in his hands, through the
17:26
Speaker 1: ball accurately most of the time. Some of them got away,
17:29
Speaker 1: but in every quarterbacks life, the ball gets away. I mean,
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Speaker 1: and yet we're at the stage when it comes to
17:34
Speaker 1: analyzing quarterbacks it's every throw is scrutinized to the nth degree,
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Speaker 1: which I would say isn't necessarily fair, but that's just
17:42
Speaker 1: the way things are. And then he had the adversity,
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Speaker 1: you know, through the couple of interceptions, and then came
17:47
Speaker 1: back in the fourth quarter and managed to throw some
17:50
Speaker 1: really really great touch passes. And I mean when you
17:52
Speaker 1: look at Terry and John and and Uh, I mean,
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Speaker 1: she was what we were able to do with Curtis
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Speaker 1: uh in this offense was just exciting. And the thing
18:03
Speaker 1: I think people criticized uh Carson about so much was
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Speaker 1: the decisions that he made when things got a little
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Speaker 1: crazy with the ball in his hands, and I thought
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Speaker 1: he protected the ball extremely well through through a lot
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Speaker 1: of pressure in that football game. And especially you know,
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Speaker 1: when when you've been criticized as much as he has
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Speaker 1: and went through what he went through the last couple
18:24
Speaker 1: of games last year, you get behind and you you know,
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Speaker 1: is their self doubt, you know, do you say, oh gosh,
18:31
Speaker 1: here it goes again? And he really never did. He
18:33
Speaker 1: just stayed with it. And so I was impressed with
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Speaker 1: his mental toughness. I was impressed with the way through
18:38
Speaker 1: the football and the decisions that he made through the
18:40
Speaker 1: course of the entire football game. Joe, that decade that
18:45
Speaker 1: you had in the eighties, you're part of that decade
18:47
Speaker 1: in the eighties with Super bowls. Um, you know you
18:51
Speaker 1: had you had a fun bunch. You know, you had
18:53
Speaker 1: Aren't Monk and Charlie Brown. You had a group like
18:55
Speaker 1: when you watch this group and you just mentioned some
18:58
Speaker 1: of the names, Johan Dotson, the rookie, and Curtis Samuel
19:00
Speaker 1: and of course McClaren does it give you any Washington
19:06
Speaker 1: commander fan hope that maybe this could be the new
19:09
Speaker 1: fund bunch in Washington right now. It really does ball
19:13
Speaker 1: the you know, and and every one of them contributed.
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Speaker 1: Curtis was a big part of that offense. Terry Terry
19:18
Speaker 1: shows up like Terry does with big plays when he
19:21
Speaker 1: needs it, and Johan was the same way. The one
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Speaker 1: thing that uh as an analyst as I was watching
19:26
Speaker 1: the game, his first touchdown pass, Johan Dotson's first touchdown pass.
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Speaker 1: A lot of times receivers will catch the ball in
19:33
Speaker 1: the end zone and they'll hang the ball out a
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Speaker 1: little bit and the defender will knock it away. As
19:39
Speaker 1: soon as he caught the ball, he snatched it into
19:41
Speaker 1: his body, looked down to make sure he could get
19:44
Speaker 1: his feet in bounds. And and to me, you know,
19:47
Speaker 1: you hear this so often when we talk about young receivers,
19:50
Speaker 1: you know, mature beyond his years. He understands how to
19:53
Speaker 1: play football. He understands how to play the wide receiver position.
19:57
Speaker 1: And so you look at what they have out there,
19:59
Speaker 1: and I get excited about I mean, Alvin and Virgil
20:02
Speaker 1: were little guys. They were five ft eight, five ft nine.
20:05
Speaker 1: Charlie was about six ft aren't maybe six one? Uh?
20:08
Speaker 1: Those were my four guys. And then Gary Clark came
20:10
Speaker 1: in after that. Again not a big receiver. So I
20:14
Speaker 1: like in this group a little bit too white like
20:16
Speaker 1: what we had Alvin Garrett, Virgil Say Downtown, Charlie Brown,
20:20
Speaker 1: and you mentioned Art Monk, who will be a part
20:23
Speaker 1: of your A football life coming up Friday, nine pm
20:27
Speaker 1: Eastern time. Joe, happy birthday again. Can't wait to see
20:30
Speaker 1: it on Friday. Good to talk to you. Thanks guys.
20:32
Speaker 1: Great to hit me up. I got a couple of
20:34
Speaker 1: stock tips for you. I got a couple of stock
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Speaker 1: tip for you. Joe, hit me up. Can we do
20:38
Speaker 1: a group text? Baldy? I need your stock tips as
20:40
Speaker 1: well past performance necessarily in ticket of future gains. Thank
20:44
Speaker 1: you Joe, Thank you Baldy. We continue on NFL now
20:47
Speaker 1: coming up next, how about future gains? When it comes
20:50
Speaker 1: to power rankings, Pansas is here. We've readjusted the numbers.
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Speaker 1: That's next. They asking me all these questions. I'm respawn
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Speaker 1: with it. Question. Look, it's been a minute. It's a
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Speaker 1: doom this way, Like I don't believe I can have
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Speaker 1: a bad take to kick it up and cart the
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Speaker 1: Texas got the bullet blank a chip messing for the
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Speaker 1: zo the doxas to commers, well, Loots puts the same
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Speaker 1: off top for nineteen seconds to playing sixty four yards
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Speaker 1: to win the game. Kick it up in his block.
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Speaker 1: Now it's over experiencing on for the extra point x
21:38
Speaker 1: blocks lot a turn of offense from turning on yards away.
21:42
Speaker 1: We missed it badly, class we God, what is happening here?
21:49
Speaker 1: He gets another chance. That's out winner. Iron eagle is awesome,
21:55
Speaker 1: by the way, Free acid also awesome. The power rankings
22:00
Speaker 1: and the fact that Dan ANSAs is able to come
22:02
Speaker 1: here every Tuesday to discussed, not to argue, to discuss.
22:05
Speaker 1: The Bills are still number one. The RAM dropped down
22:07
Speaker 1: a couple of spots after losing two. Said Bills close
22:10
Speaker 1: for a half, not close in the second. How about
22:12
Speaker 1: the chef Tones, the mighty mighty chef Tones. Is my
22:15
Speaker 1: friend Jason Mark, big Chiefs fan, used to say, high
22:18
Speaker 1: hand zuos. They are up five to number two, right
22:22
Speaker 1: behind the Bills in the week two recalibration. Yeah, and
22:26
Speaker 1: that's an easy one. That was the easiest one. In
22:28
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Moving the Chiefs to number two was a
22:31
Speaker 1: no brainer. Because they showed immediately where they were as
22:36
Speaker 1: an offense without Tyreek Hill. The fact that he was
22:39
Speaker 1: able to complete um five touchdown passes to four different receivers.
22:44
Speaker 1: This was it was too easy for Patrick Mahomes and
22:46
Speaker 1: I really got to say, like all this that just
22:48
Speaker 1: put everything to bed, the summer narrative and a reminder
22:51
Speaker 1: that Andy Reid, even though he looks like a kindly
22:53
Speaker 1: old grandfather at this point, like Bill Belichick, he goes
22:56
Speaker 1: into the lab and he cooks up whole new schemes
22:59
Speaker 1: that have been baffling coaches for decades. You give him
23:03
Speaker 1: six months to work on a week one game plan.
23:05
Speaker 1: Andy Reid is not going to lose. You're done, You're looked. Conversely,
23:09
Speaker 1: we saw it happen to the Cardinals. They drop in,
23:11
Speaker 1: the Chiefs go up big. Vikings also go up big.
23:15
Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell, major kudos to your big win in your
23:19
Speaker 1: debut over the Packers. Here they're now a top ten
23:23
Speaker 1: team in your eyes there at seven. Yeah, and I'm
23:26
Speaker 1: looking at the top ten. I'm putting the list together
23:28
Speaker 1: and I'm like, should do this? Are you second guessing it? No?
23:31
Speaker 1: Not at all. I was like, Yeah, I should do
23:32
Speaker 1: this because this was a performance by the Vikings that
23:36
Speaker 1: should open eyes. And I know the Packers are a
23:38
Speaker 1: bit of a work in progress as they are post
23:40
Speaker 1: Davante Adams. But Andrew, you're a football guy, obviously, look
23:45
Speaker 1: what you do for a living. How many m vps
23:48
Speaker 1: wide receivers NFL history zero? Never, It's never happened. Why
23:53
Speaker 1: can't it happen this year? I think Justin Jefferson could
23:55
Speaker 1: flirt with two thousand yards this season. And if they
23:58
Speaker 1: get that type of defense that they have gotten not
24:01
Speaker 1: gotten a lot of with Kirk Cousins there, the Vikings
24:03
Speaker 1: have a chance to be a really special sill contender,
24:06
Speaker 1: like a superpower. Their ceiling here my two in you
24:10
Speaker 1: think caught up? I mean I think it's one week
24:13
Speaker 1: and I do give them all the credit in the world.
24:15
Speaker 1: I also think we could have like an Aaron Rodgers
24:18
Speaker 1: r E L A X meme not only for their performance,
24:21
Speaker 1: but for the Vikings performance. I think we'll find out
24:23
Speaker 1: a lot Monday night when they go play the Eagles.
24:24
Speaker 1: But Justin Jefferson, Justin Jefferson's not just a week one thing.
24:28
Speaker 1: Four yards of separation is eleven targets, which is pretty impressive.
24:32
Speaker 1: And yeah, that also has to do with scheme offensively
24:34
Speaker 1: and defensively, what Joe Barry was doing. Um, let's look
24:37
Speaker 1: at the forty Niners. You dropped them big after losing
24:40
Speaker 1: the rain down to eleven, but you only dropped Green
24:42
Speaker 1: Bay two down to eight. Yeah, miakalpatime I had the
24:48
Speaker 1: Niners at three entering the season, got some pushback on it.
24:51
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to say, okay after one game, and
24:54
Speaker 1: then yes, it was in a monsoon. Maybe too much
24:56
Speaker 1: of a projection because we still need to see Trey
24:59
Speaker 1: Lands as a man that can move an offense down
25:02
Speaker 1: the field. And again, this is a hold up. It's
25:04
Speaker 1: we one situation because of the conditions and soldier field.
25:08
Speaker 1: But I saw similar things that we saw last year
25:10
Speaker 1: in Lance's a little limited time. He's already a playmaker
25:13
Speaker 1: with his legs. We've already seen that when they need
25:15
Speaker 1: yards he can get them. But can he make the throws?
25:18
Speaker 1: And Tyler Croft was missed on what should have been
25:20
Speaker 1: a touchdown at one point. They have their work in
25:23
Speaker 1: progress in their passing game. But still the fact that
25:26
Speaker 1: they're sitting at eleven, I'm okay with him even after
25:28
Speaker 1: a loss to the Bears. Okay, and finally we have
25:31
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. They lost, didn't look good, lost their quarterback
25:34
Speaker 1: as well. You are in a Cooper Rush to drop
25:38
Speaker 1: them all the way down to twenty seven. Yeah, I
25:42
Speaker 1: had to rush to action on that one. And I
25:44
Speaker 1: feel bad because Cooper Rush is probably a great guy,
25:46
Speaker 1: or maybe is I don't know. But the fact that
25:49
Speaker 1: you're going from Dac to Cooper Rush with that offensive
25:52
Speaker 1: line and that dearth of playmakers outside CD Lamb, who,
25:56
Speaker 1: by the way, he didn't step up himself in Week
25:58
Speaker 1: one against the Bucks, makes me think the Cowboys are
26:01
Speaker 1: in a little bit of trouble, a lot of bit
26:02
Speaker 1: of trouble. Here is their next UH four game, Cincinnati
26:06
Speaker 1: at Giants, Washington at Carolina. I think two three when
26:11
Speaker 1: Dak gets back is best case scenario. I think one
26:14
Speaker 1: in four is very possible. I think one in five
26:17
Speaker 1: or oh and five is within the range of outcomes
26:19
Speaker 1: that is not implausible. I have five seconds, you have
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Speaker 1: your jets at thirty two. Robert Sali says he's keeping receipts.
26:25
Speaker 1: You're one of them. No more receipts. Don't worry about
26:27
Speaker 1: receipts results. Let's go. It's been enough. It's been enough.
26:31
Speaker 1: It's time to be competitive. Jets were waiting. My dad
26:34
Speaker 1: sat in the rain, seventy thou people in MetLife Stadium.
26:37
Speaker 1: We just wanted something to cheer for and there was nothing. Results,
26:42
Speaker 1: not resipts. I have the receipts. That was more than
26:44
Speaker 1: five seconds. Dan Handshu's now a podcast, The Power Rankings
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26:52
Speaker 1: podcast coming up, thinking out loud about what went down
26:57
Speaker 1: and what went wrong last night in Seattle, aft are
27:05
Speaker 1: missing what could have been a game winning over time
27:08
Speaker 1: forty two yard field goal. This past Sunday, Tom Pella
27:11
Speaker 1: Sero reports the Colts are waving kicker Rodrigo blanketship again.
27:17
Speaker 1: Rodrigo blanket ship out. The Colts are o O and one.
27:22
Speaker 1: Randon mcmadus also missed that kick, but it was from
27:25
Speaker 1: sixty four yards away and Gino Smith and the Seahawks
27:28
Speaker 1: one that you heard what Gino said afterwards. Dwayne Wade
27:31
Speaker 1: loved it as well. They wrote me off, but I
27:33
Speaker 1: didn't write the heck okay, Gino, you know, to quote
27:39
Speaker 1: my friend Kevin Clark, the Seahawks have literally never played
27:44
Speaker 1: a normal game but this one was different. This time
27:47
Speaker 1: it was the other team turning it over twice on
27:50
Speaker 1: the goal line. This time it was the other team
27:53
Speaker 1: with an inexplicable final sequence that left the football world
27:56
Speaker 1: and probably you at home, saying what just happened? Now?
28:00
Speaker 1: I am not going to be the one to sit
28:01
Speaker 1: here in tile on Nathaniel Hacket. Enough people are doing that.
28:04
Speaker 1: But consider Brian Dable did Sunday in Nashville Table also
28:08
Speaker 1: in his first game as an NFL head coach after
28:10
Speaker 1: years as a respected assistant, showed faith in his franchise
28:14
Speaker 1: running back. He showed faith in his office, and he
28:16
Speaker 1: went for the win. He gave say Quon the ball
28:19
Speaker 1: and look how it paid off. Emotionally, it would have
28:22
Speaker 1: been great to see Hackett showed the same faith in
28:25
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, who had thrown for three hit from forty yards,
28:28
Speaker 1: who was averaging over eight yards in attempt. They only
28:30
Speaker 1: needed five to show faith in an offense that had
28:34
Speaker 1: produced fifteen plays of ten yards or more. If Brandon
28:38
Speaker 1: McManus makes the kick, I know this conversation them for happens,
28:42
Speaker 1: But you were asking him to hit the second longest
28:45
Speaker 1: field goal in the one hundred and three year history
28:48
Speaker 1: of the National Football League. I know it's only one game,
28:51
Speaker 1: and I know that they have six team more left,
28:53
Speaker 1: but in the best division in football, where the Chiefs
28:56
Speaker 1: one and the Chargers won, this game will matter in January,
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