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NFL REPORT: Justin Fields struggles, AFC North contenders, the art of the pass rush · NFL explained.

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Speaker 1: Welcome into the NFL Report, James Palmer, Steve Whites with you.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be joined by one of the best young
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Speaker 1: running backs in all of football, Brian Robinson of the
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Speaker 1: Red Hot Washington Commanders.
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Speaker 2: Can't miss that interview coming up.
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Speaker 1: But we have to start, Steve with the big story
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Speaker 1: out of the Midwest. As you're sitting there, as I
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Speaker 1: see the backgrounds people listening can't see it.
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Speaker 2: Here in Santa Clara right.
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Speaker 3: Now as we do this, Yeah, Thursday night football, you know. Otherwise,
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Speaker 3: Notice the day after the meltdown in Chicago, we're gonna
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Speaker 3: have a lot on this. You know, we're gonna talk
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Speaker 3: about this. We're gonna have Brian Baldinger come in and
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Speaker 3: actually do some film breakdown to help us out with this.
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Speaker 4: But JP, you know, yesterday it was just an absolutely
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Speaker 4: you know, we've all had chaotic days in our journalistic careers,
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Speaker 4: but what went down in Chicago started with quarterback Justin
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Speaker 4: Fields at a news conference saying this about his erratic place.
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Speaker 5: You thus far, I felt like, you know, I wasn't
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Speaker 5: necessarily playing my game. I felt like I was kind
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Speaker 5: of robotic and you know, not just not not not
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Speaker 5: playing like myself. So you know, my goal this week
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Speaker 5: is just to you know, say effort and just go
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Speaker 5: out there and you know, play football. How I know
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Speaker 5: how to play football?
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Speaker 3: What do you say, thinking less?
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Speaker 6: What do you think was causing you to think so much?
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Speaker 3: Think much?
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Speaker 5: You know, coaching, I think. But you know, at the
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Speaker 5: end of the day, it makes it. You know, they're
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Speaker 5: doing their job when they're giving me, you know what
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Speaker 5: to look at when the game comes, it's you know,
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Speaker 5: it's it's it's time to play free at that point.
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Speaker 5: So you know, just thinking less and you know, playing more.
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Speaker 4: Oh boy, oh boy, the coaching, that's not working right.
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Speaker 4: But then the Bears went out to practice JP after
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Speaker 4: all of the chaos, after all of us were like,
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Speaker 4: what is justin Feel's doing.
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Speaker 3: You just rolled Luke gettius Oci under the bus and.
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Speaker 4: Then did this rarity as he reconvened the me in
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Speaker 4: the locker room post practice.
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Speaker 2: You guys' jobs are to get clicked.
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Speaker 7: So it's like when you take my quote out of context,
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Speaker 7: when you just say that, if you paint the picture
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Speaker 7: on the inside out, like y'all are trying to split
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Speaker 7: us up as a team at I'm not blaming anything
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Speaker 7: on the coaches. I'm never gonna blame anything on the coaches,
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Speaker 7: never gonna blame anything.
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Speaker 3: On my teammates.
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Speaker 7: I will take every whatever happens in the game, I
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Speaker 7: would take all the blame.
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Speaker 3: I don't care it's a drop pass, it should have
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Speaker 3: been a pass.
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Speaker 2: Put it on me. I need to play better.
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Speaker 3: That's it.
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Speaker 7: Point blame if y'all that's what I should have said
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Speaker 7: in the first place.
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Speaker 3: A whole lot to unpack here, JP, a whole lot.
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Speaker 4: And just to add to a general manager, Ryan Poles
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Speaker 4: came out Thursday and said, there's not one person in
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Speaker 4: the building, including the coaches, that think Justin Fields is
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Speaker 4: finger pointing. But let's take this from the top. The
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Speaker 4: initial thing. Look, we've seen Justin Fields. He has been
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Speaker 4: a erratic.
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Speaker 3: He is sometimes look.
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Speaker 4: Fantastic, other times just looked completely lost.
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Speaker 3: And when you hear the comments.
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Speaker 4: Too much information, too much going on, it could be
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Speaker 4: coaching take us, take us where your thoughts went, because
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Speaker 4: there is a lot to analyze and decompress here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Steve the biggest part that I got
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Speaker 1: after that initial comment, and everybody just really clips that
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Speaker 1: first part off, right. I think coaching send that tweet out.
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Speaker 1: Send that tweet right away, and then we'll let Twitter explode.
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Speaker 1: I think later in the press conference when he was
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Speaker 1: talking about I'm trying to process so much information and
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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to simplify it in my head. To me,
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Speaker 1: that actually tells me he is taking the coaching right
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Speaker 1: because he's listening to all of this and he's trying
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Speaker 1: to process all of it. So to me, some people said, well,
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Speaker 1: he doesn't like the coaching, he's not coachable. I don't
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Speaker 1: think that's the case, because it sounds like he feels
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Speaker 1: overloaded to where he is taking all of this information,
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Speaker 1: and I think that's the part that he thinks is
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Speaker 1: not allowing him to play extremely fast on Sunday, because
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Speaker 1: you're right, we've seen him play really really good football
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Speaker 1: at times, and we've seen times where you're just wondering.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk to Brian Baldinger later in the show about
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Speaker 1: some of those plays that make you scratch your head.
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Speaker 3: Steve.
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Speaker 1: I think Ryan Poles on Thursday when he said, I
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Speaker 1: think Justin's trying to find that balance between last year
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Speaker 1: when we had a subpar lineup and a subpar roster
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Speaker 1: where he had to put this team on his back
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Speaker 1: at times and carry us. And now we may have
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Speaker 1: a better roster. We'd like him to play from the pocket,
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Speaker 1: do some more things like a quarterback. He's trying to
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Speaker 1: find that balance between the two. I think this is
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Speaker 1: all going on in Justin Field's head because he's trying
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Speaker 1: to grow in an aspect, but it's not actually clicking
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Speaker 1: early on.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, clearly something was lost in translation.
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Speaker 4: Not even so much with his message to the media,
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Speaker 4: but what's going on with lu Getzy, his play caller,
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Speaker 4: And that's where the communication probably should have said. You know,
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Speaker 4: he should have said, coach, you know, look, there's a
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Speaker 4: lot going on here.
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Speaker 3: Right and Luke getsy. He also spoke on Thursday.
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Speaker 4: He didn't come out and go Sean Payton say, you
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Speaker 4: know what, we're gonna work on some things to simplify it,
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Speaker 4: because maybe we are overloading him.
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Speaker 3: Maybe there are too many voices in his head. So
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Speaker 3: they still have some things to absolutely break through.
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Speaker 4: But whenever a player comes out and talks about coaching.
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Speaker 4: The bigger picture of this right now is this Bears
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Speaker 4: offense better come out and play well because Luke Getzy
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Speaker 4: automatically is gonna.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they got the Chiefs, right.
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Speaker 4: They have the Chiefs this Sunday, So we have to
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Speaker 4: come out and ball out, right, we got we got
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Speaker 4: this guy to compare to Patrick Mahomes.
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Speaker 3: On the other side, our offense has to come.
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Speaker 4: Out and look good against the defense that's played really
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Speaker 4: well thus far. But again, when you come out and
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Speaker 4: you start cigning your coaches and you are the projected
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Speaker 4: franchise quarterback, that makes the coach say, well, honey, you
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Speaker 4: know this house we like here. We may we may
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Speaker 4: want to you know, we may be in a situation
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Speaker 4: where we might not be here next year, and then
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Speaker 4: whoever might come in might also have to say, like, well,
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Speaker 4: you know, we've got this quarterback, got one coach, let go.
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Speaker 4: I've got to find a way to make it happen,
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Speaker 4: because if they're committed to him, they're not committed to
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Speaker 4: us JP all right.
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Speaker 3: Also, on another note.
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Speaker 4: Since we're talking about quarterbacks, especially mobile quarterbacks learning a
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Speaker 4: new system, we have seen Lamar Jackson come under with
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Speaker 4: Todd Monkin the new offensive coordinator, and in two.
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Speaker 3: Games look really really good.
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Speaker 4: And also James by virtue of what happened Monday night,
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Speaker 4: the Ravens look like They're in a really good position
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Speaker 4: to jump out in the AFC North early on.
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Speaker 1: This is steve the toughest division in the NFL. And
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Speaker 1: when you start too and zero and you look at
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Speaker 1: the rest of the teams in the division in what
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Speaker 1: they're dealing with. We saw the devastating injury to Nick
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Speaker 1: Chubb on an offense that is based around his running
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Speaker 1: game is arguably the best I'll do. I'll lose arguably
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Speaker 1: the best running back in all of football. That changes
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Speaker 1: things for Cleveland. We know Cincinnati is zero and two,
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Speaker 1: oh by the way, oh and two in the division
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Speaker 1: and Joe Burrows still dealing with the calf injury to
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Speaker 1: When I talk to people in Cincinnati, they're not sure
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Speaker 1: how long that is going to.
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Speaker 2: Continue to nag him.
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Speaker 1: And this is still very early in Kenny Pickett's career
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Speaker 1: as a starting quarterback. So to jump out to a
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Speaker 1: zero and get that win against Cincinnati, And now that
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Speaker 1: you see this offense built the way it's built, we
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Speaker 1: know that it is built off of the run in
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Speaker 1: the past, and we know that it's been built off
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Speaker 1: of Mark Andrews. He has had a larger percentage of
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Speaker 1: any team in the NFL se even terms of a
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Speaker 1: tight end catching the largest percentage of their catches, their yards,
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Speaker 1: their receiving touchdowns. Now he has receivers on the outside
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Speaker 1: to help him. When I had a chance to talk
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Speaker 1: to him, every receiver goes, oh, great tight end helps
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Speaker 1: me out on the outside.
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Speaker 2: Flip it.
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Speaker 1: Great receivers in the outside make life even easier for
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Speaker 1: a better tight end in the middle to maybe one
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Speaker 1: of the best tight ends in football play even better.
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Speaker 1: And the part that jumps out at me the most
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Speaker 1: is this, with this passing game with more weapons, will
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Speaker 1: we see a healthier Lamar Jackson down the stretch if
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Speaker 1: they can play in this style of offense throwing the
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Speaker 1: football as accurately as he had in Injuries at the
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Speaker 1: end of the season have been an issue for Lamar
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Speaker 1: Jackson and the Ravens. Could this style of play there
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Speaker 1: in now Steve help them to have a healthier Lamar
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Speaker 1: Jackson at the end of the year if they're rolling this.
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Speaker 3: Early, Yeah, I mean it really could.
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Speaker 4: And look in the fact that they're rolling with a
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Speaker 4: lot two starting offensive linemen and they're starting running back JK.
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Speaker 3: Dobbins. That's got to be super encouraging. But JP just.
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Speaker 4: To bring it back because we're talking quarterbacks in this division.
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Speaker 4: To Shaun Watson, he has got more.
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Speaker 3: Pressure than ever. I mean, their contract is what it
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Speaker 3: is about Nick Chubb. He really has to deliver.
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Speaker 4: Especially with a team like the Ravens figuring it out
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Speaker 4: pretty quickly and evolving and the Browns looking like they're
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Speaker 4: somewhat stuck in mud a little bit, especially with not
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Speaker 4: having Nick Chubb.
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Speaker 2: That's huge.
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Speaker 1: And we know their defense is going to be better
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Speaker 1: than it was a season ago now that Jim Schwartz
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Speaker 1: is running that group. But you mentioned the injuries, and
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Speaker 1: you're right, Tyler Linderbaum their center, and Ronnie Staley, they're
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Speaker 1: going to be coming back. They didn't play a game
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Speaker 1: yet with Marlon Humphrey their number one on corner they
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Speaker 1: haven't played a game with yet, and their star safety,
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Speaker 1: and Marcus Williams has the peck injury. He is not
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Speaker 1: going to be done for the season. Might have to play.
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Speaker 1: You talk to me about it. Maybe with that harness
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Speaker 1: you know, in the middle of the field. But he's
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Speaker 1: head of the communication for this Ravens defense. And Juno
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Speaker 1: Stone comes in and plays in his place and plays great.
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Speaker 1: They haven't been healthy but they've been rolling early too.
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Speaker 1: And oh and that might give them a great advantage
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Speaker 1: early on in the toughest division in all of football.
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Speaker 1: There's another division. How about the NFC East Steve that
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Speaker 1: has three teams sitting at two and oh, one of
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Speaker 1: them being the Dallas Cowboys.
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Speaker 2: Listen to this, Hey, we can't want a message.
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Speaker 8: It's Captain Chew and we don't.
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Speaker 4: Capture the Cowboys special team is the first start here?
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Speaker 3: What perfect row here by Dad Prescott?
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Speaker 2: Right Martins, Martin's got it.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 3: You do not run out of pools the champaign.
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Speaker 1: Tony Pollard walked the dog and scoring his second touchdown
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Speaker 1: of the night. The Cowboys win to shut out.
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Speaker 2: That was a beating, all right.
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Speaker 3: That was the video of the Cowboys Week one.
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Speaker 4: They come back week two against the Jets and they
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Speaker 4: stake further ownership in the state of New Jersey and
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Speaker 4: beat them thirty to ten.
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Speaker 3: JP.
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Speaker 4: They're allowing this defense five points a game, all right,
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Speaker 4: five points a.
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Speaker 3: Game out of the gate.
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Speaker 4: Oh and they've got the Arizona Cardinals this week.
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Speaker 3: Don't you think it's funny? We spent all off season.
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Speaker 4: On DAK is gonna be this DAK can't play those
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Speaker 4: too many interceptions. Yet the first two weeks of the season,
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Speaker 4: we're not talking about Dak.
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Speaker 3: We're talking about the side of the ball that starts
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Speaker 3: with D.
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Speaker 1: It starts with D and d Ware also told us
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Speaker 1: on this show that if Micah Parsons has the type
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Speaker 1: of season this season and several of them moving forward,
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Speaker 1: he's gonna break d ware all time Cowboys sack record.
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Speaker 1: And he said, if this d plays like this on
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Speaker 1: this show, the Cowboys are going to the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: Micah Parsons. When I took to Jets coaches after this
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Speaker 1: game during the week and then went over the film,
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Speaker 1: they said, Steve, he just did whatever he wanted to
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Speaker 1: on the field, like he could do whatever he wanted
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Speaker 1: to do and attack us however he wanted. He had
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Speaker 1: four tackles, three of them for a loss, two sacks,
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Speaker 1: four quarterback hits, a pass defense to forced fumble, a
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Speaker 1: fumble recovery. He really, sir, Popcorn, he did everything in
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Speaker 1: this entire game. And he's kind of the lynchpin of
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Speaker 1: this entire defense that is so deep, able to pressure
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Speaker 1: you from a variety of spots. And now that Dan
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Speaker 1: Quinn remember pull his name out of head coaching searches
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Speaker 1: each of the last two years been able to mold
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Speaker 1: this defense into exactly what he has wanted with a
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Speaker 1: rush and cover aspect to it. Don't forget Stefan gilmourrise
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Speaker 1: your number two corner Like this team is deep an
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Speaker 1: ability to do a lot of different things to you.
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Speaker 1: As a full defense, this might be the group that
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Speaker 1: carries him. And we'll see what Dak does playing second
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Speaker 1: fiddle in a sense to making sure that nothing hurts
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Speaker 1: this team in a sense changing their style offensively a
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Speaker 1: little bit.
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, and look, JP, I love this defense,
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Speaker 4: I love the personnel, I love their depth, I love
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Speaker 4: what they're doing. But can we really sit here and
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Speaker 4: say they're the bosses? Because again they played the Giants
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Speaker 4: forty to nothing, they played the Jets, they played Arizona
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Speaker 4: this week, and then they played New.
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Speaker 3: England in Week four? Right? This always continue this trend
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Speaker 3: for too more?
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Speaker 4: Oh well, that's when things get really interesting, right, don't
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Speaker 4: they have the run.
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Speaker 3: Of the Niners, the Chargers, the Rams.
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Speaker 4: There's another one in there, another offensive team that we're
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Speaker 4: going to figure out.
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Speaker 3: I think the Eagles are in the mix as well.
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Speaker 4: So this is where We're really going to find out
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Speaker 4: about the defense, but they have two more games to
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Speaker 4: solidify themselves even further before staking their claim, possibly on
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Speaker 4: top of the NFC East, say Pe, you know.
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Speaker 3: Who's getting it done. The Miami Dolphins are getting it done.
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Speaker 4: And coming up next, Cameron Wolf is going to say
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Speaker 4: the key reason why has everything to do with the
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Speaker 4: backfield in motion.
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Speaker 2: Here on the NFL.
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Speaker 3: Report, our back of the NFL Report.
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Speaker 4: We're getting ready to head into Week three of the
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Speaker 4: NFL season. Steve White, James Palmer now joined by Cameron
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Speaker 4: Wolf and Cameron the Miami Dolphins. Their offense looks more
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Speaker 4: dynamic than ever the Tua Tyreek connection. Besides familiarity, what's
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Speaker 4: kind of the secret sauce brewing between these two?
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Speaker 6: Yes, Steve, they have the quickest time to throw and
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Speaker 6: the largest yards per attempt, which those are two stats
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Speaker 6: that don't typically go together. They're getting the ball quick
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Speaker 6: and they're throwing it deep and really a key core
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Speaker 6: that has been the Dolphins motion, and this week I
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Speaker 6: wanted to dive a little deeper into what makes that
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Speaker 6: motion go. And when you look at some of the
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Speaker 6: the elements they do, they adjust to what the defenses
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Speaker 6: give them the motion stuff is not new. They did
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Speaker 6: it a bunch last year, but this year teams crowded
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Speaker 6: the middle of the field where Tua loves to throw
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Speaker 6: the ball, and you've seen them, particularly with Tyreek Hill,
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Speaker 6: have a wheel route on the back of it. They've
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Speaker 6: had a short motion on the back of it. Anything
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Speaker 6: to get Tyreek in motion. And Frank Smith, their offensive coordinator,
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Speaker 6: told me every single motion they do has a purpose
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Speaker 6: and it's not like a lot of teams where they
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Speaker 6: do it as window dressing or to show if his
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Speaker 6: manners own, he says, no, we do things directly based
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Speaker 6: off of how they react to the motion. For example,
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Speaker 6: if their defense will crowd the middle of the field,
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Speaker 6: we'll throw that real wheel route on the back of things.
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Speaker 6: And so I think that's been a huge key to
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Speaker 6: while the Dolphins have been so successful. Tua also told
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Speaker 6: me they see the chaos on the field. They force
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Speaker 6: defenses to communicate to extreme and it makes mistakes and
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Speaker 6: they take advantage of it.
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Speaker 1: Well, love cam is the way they use motion is
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Speaker 1: it's not a guy just you know, running across the field.
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Speaker 1: Do you remember a good junior and Jerry Maguire coming
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Speaker 1: across with the two hands up, just.
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Speaker 2: Like real slow across the back. No.
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Speaker 1: I mean Tyreek Hill is moving in a lot of
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Speaker 1: these motions and he is really really moving. And Sean
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Speaker 1: Payton said an interesting thing this week when he stated
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Speaker 1: one of them underrated aspects that makes Tyreek Hill so
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Speaker 1: dynamic is his stamina. He can run for days and
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Speaker 1: this is kind of adding to it in a sense.
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Speaker 2: But how do they go about all of this work
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Speaker 2: within motion?
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Speaker 1: You talk about how they do it differently, what do
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Speaker 1: they do differently during the week to allow them to
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Speaker 1: have this success though.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, James, there's a lot of behind the scenes elements,
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Speaker 6: including their wide receivers and their running backs. Having specific
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Speaker 6: elements of their meeting focus solely on motion, they will
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Speaker 6: just have those still position groups who come together and say, hey,
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Speaker 6: these are elements that we want to focus on this week.
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Speaker 6: We're going to do a lot of short motion and
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Speaker 6: so we're going to spend fifteen to twenty minutes of
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Speaker 6: this meeting just focused on this motion and getting it
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Speaker 6: right because there are a lot of details that we
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Speaker 6: may not see in the finished product. I was talking
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Speaker 6: to Eric Judisville earlier today and somebody mentions to him
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Speaker 6: that it looks like the CFL with Tyreek Hill running,
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Speaker 6: and he's like, wait, wait, wait, it's not the CFL
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Speaker 6: because the CFL they move forward.
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Speaker 3: That's against the rules.
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Speaker 6: We follow the rules here, right, and so the rules
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Speaker 6: are element here because Tyreek's running fast across the field,
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Speaker 6: but he has to be careful not to go forward.
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Speaker 3: And so that's where the.
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Speaker 6: Track element comes in. They have a bunch of track
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Speaker 6: news on this team, including Tyreek and it's almost like
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Speaker 6: he's running a curve. He's running horizontal at line of
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Speaker 6: scrimmage and once the snap hit he goes vertical. And
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Speaker 6: it's hard enough to cover Tyreek Hill when he's stationary.
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Speaker 6: Imagine what it's like for defenders when he's already on
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Speaker 6: go fifteen sixteen miles per hour going towards the field.
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Speaker 4: Well, and Cam, there's also with this thing too, right,
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Speaker 4: Mike McDaniel comes from the Shanahan scheme. So when you
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Speaker 4: have someone like Tyreek Hill, right, they do two versions
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Speaker 4: of their emotions too, well, several, but you've got the
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Speaker 4: straight line across the center's butt all the way through
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Speaker 4: and then sometimes he bows behind the quarterback, especially if
17:02
Speaker 4: Tua is in pistol. So what's the first thing the
17:04
Speaker 4: defense is gonna guard against, especially someone that fast that
17:07
Speaker 4: is the jet.
17:08
Speaker 3: Sweep or when he does the bow, the quick toss
17:11
Speaker 3: or the quick screen.
17:12
Speaker 4: So the first thing that edge defender has to do
17:15
Speaker 4: is guard the outside and that will be a tell
17:18
Speaker 4: because if they don't, they're gonna pop that ball out there.
17:22
Speaker 4: And if they do, then that's when the middle of
17:24
Speaker 4: the field opens up because there's all kinds of strategic
17:26
Speaker 4: ways with the ways they use their motion, whether it's
17:29
Speaker 4: that straightway or kind of that Boeing way which leads
17:32
Speaker 4: to the CFL kind of eye candy.
17:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, we cheating camp, They're trying. They're not cheating.
17:41
Speaker 3: They're not cheating.
17:42
Speaker 6: But I will tell you me and you were talking
17:43
Speaker 6: about this, James. It kind of reminds me of Dwan
17:46
Speaker 6: Taylor with the with the Chiefs earlier this year.
17:49
Speaker 3: Were right.
17:51
Speaker 6: On the line of what you're supposed to do. And
17:53
Speaker 6: that's where that meetings and the practice comes in mind.
17:55
Speaker 6: You have to do it right so that it's so
17:57
Speaker 6: close that the rest won't call it, but that you
17:59
Speaker 6: use every advantage. The coaches have told me all week
18:02
Speaker 6: that is our advantage. So we're not going to give
18:04
Speaker 6: you the secret sauce of how we teach them and why.
18:07
Speaker 6: You know why the intricacies are so important, But these
18:09
Speaker 6: guys are taught specifically when they can start to go
18:13
Speaker 6: forward and it is on the line, James, it is.
18:18
Speaker 2: I love it, camp I love it. Good stuff, but
18:20
Speaker 2: good stuff.
18:20
Speaker 1: See on TV on Sunday down there for Broncos and
18:26
Speaker 1: Dolphins on NFL Network.
18:27
Speaker 2: See you, buddy.
18:28
Speaker 1: We're going to bring in somebody that was there for
18:32
Speaker 1: the first time we saw this Dolphins offense explode, and
18:36
Speaker 1: that's Bridget Conon, who was there for that Chargers Dolphins game.
18:39
Speaker 1: It's interesting, Bridget. We know what Justin Herbert can do.
18:43
Speaker 1: I saw this stat today that.
18:44
Speaker 2: Blew my mind.
18:45
Speaker 1: There the first team, Steve in the history of the
18:47
Speaker 1: NFL to start zero to two with more than fifty
18:51
Speaker 1: points scored and zero giveaways.
18:53
Speaker 2: Has never happened in the NFL.
18:55
Speaker 1: For a team to do that offensively, Bridget, what is
18:58
Speaker 1: going on on the other side the ball?
19:00
Speaker 9: Yeah, James, what's the problem. It's the defense. There's so
19:03
Speaker 9: many layers to this. Let's get into it. The Chargers
19:07
Speaker 9: defense is the worst in total defense right now, right
19:10
Speaker 9: they've given up the most explosive plays of anybody. But
19:13
Speaker 9: let's talk about this. I've covered this team for a
19:16
Speaker 9: couple of seasons. Now they bring in Brandon Staley, who
19:18
Speaker 9: is said to be this defensive guru. They signed Khalil Mack,
19:22
Speaker 9: they signed J. Jackson. The Chargers are the only team
19:25
Speaker 9: that have allocated more than one hundred million dollars of
19:29
Speaker 9: twenty twenty three cap space to their defense, and taking
19:32
Speaker 9: that further, they've allocated the third most cap space this
19:36
Speaker 9: season to their secondary And that's the big issue. Right
19:39
Speaker 9: They finally seem like the defensive line has started to
19:43
Speaker 9: figure it out that was an issue last season with
19:45
Speaker 9: all these injuries. They've stopped the run better this season
19:49
Speaker 9: so far than last season. But they have four guys
19:52
Speaker 9: that are rotating in and out of corner positions. Michael Davis, J. C. Jackson,
19:56
Speaker 9: Jasir Taylor, and Asante Samuel Junior. Brandon Saley. He did
20:00
Speaker 9: say yesterday that Jasir Taylor is now the new starter
20:02
Speaker 9: at Star. But you have those three other guys rotating
20:05
Speaker 9: in and out of that corner spot, you can't get confident,
20:08
Speaker 9: you can't get a rhythm down. So I don't really
20:11
Speaker 9: know what the plan is for Brandon Staley. You guys,
20:17
Speaker 9: how I wonder if a little bit of this is
20:20
Speaker 9: about j C. Jackson, Right, You signed this guy to
20:23
Speaker 9: a five year deal eighty two million dollars. He gets
20:27
Speaker 9: hurt or has ankle surgery at the beginning of the
20:29
Speaker 9: last season, plays a couple of games, then has that
20:32
Speaker 9: knee injury. Now this whole offseason is okay. JC Jackson's
20:36
Speaker 9: got to get back better and be smarter, be faster.
20:40
Speaker 9: He's not. And how much are they trying to make
20:44
Speaker 9: that work versus just using Michael Davis and a Sante
20:47
Speaker 9: Samuel Junior.
20:49
Speaker 3: Well, that's an issue.
20:49
Speaker 4: I mean, if you've got a player out there who
20:51
Speaker 4: can't go and it's harming his team, and the fact
20:54
Speaker 4: that they're trying to get him out there to justify
20:55
Speaker 4: his signing, that's an issue. I don't know if that's
20:58
Speaker 4: necessarily the case. I mean, could be the way that
21:00
Speaker 4: they've schemed these teams, But the fact that they've given
21:03
Speaker 4: up six pass plays for more than thirty yards, that's
21:06
Speaker 4: second most in the NFL. That's something that they have
21:09
Speaker 4: to fix because now teams are gonna start going over
21:11
Speaker 4: the top.
21:12
Speaker 3: Like you said, Bridget.
21:13
Speaker 4: Some things upfront stopping the run have gotten better, but
21:16
Speaker 4: they're not getting to the quarterback as much either.
21:18
Speaker 3: So the fact that the quarterback.
21:19
Speaker 4: Is having more time to sit back there and pat
21:21
Speaker 4: the ball goes to show you that the coverage and
21:24
Speaker 4: the rush up front aren't the issue.
21:26
Speaker 3: And so this is another week.
21:27
Speaker 4: They're playing in Minnesota Vikings this week, Bridget. Justin Jefferson
21:30
Speaker 4: is the best wide receiver in the NFL, arguably other
21:32
Speaker 4: than Tyreek Hill. What can they do to try to
21:36
Speaker 4: keep Justin Jefferson from adding to those explosive pass plays.
21:40
Speaker 9: I think it's gonna come with stability, and Derwin James
21:42
Speaker 9: was asked about it. I mean a lot of these
21:43
Speaker 9: guys were asked. I was in the locker room yesterday
21:45
Speaker 9: about rotating in and out, and of course they're giving
21:48
Speaker 9: us the answer like, oh no, I think because you know,
21:51
Speaker 9: it's a good thing because we have depth and it
21:53
Speaker 9: guys get fresh legs. But Michael Davis was more honest
21:56
Speaker 9: Sunday after the game and said, I can't get in
21:58
Speaker 9: a rhythm when I'm coming. You know, you're playing drives
22:00
Speaker 9: and then you're out your bench for a little bit
22:02
Speaker 9: and then you're coming back in and Darwin James was
22:03
Speaker 9: asked about this yesterday, he kind of gave a smirk
22:05
Speaker 9: and was like, we're figuring it out, so I anticipate
22:09
Speaker 9: that they're gonna have more stability. And also this week
22:12
Speaker 9: in practice, they've kind of been taking this scheme out
22:14
Speaker 9: of it and getting back to the technique because something
22:17
Speaker 9: isn't working. Something has to change, and whether whatever they're
22:20
Speaker 9: doing is too complex for these players to maybe grasp
22:23
Speaker 9: this early on in the season. They got to make
22:25
Speaker 9: it a little simpler for them, right until they can
22:28
Speaker 9: just get back to the basics and try and stop
22:31
Speaker 9: some of these receivers, because yeah, it's Justin Jefferson this week,
22:33
Speaker 9: then it's DeVante Adams next week. Then you could potentially
22:36
Speaker 9: be zero and four going into a buye.
22:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, JP real quick.
22:41
Speaker 1: And it's not just it's just not Justin Jefferson, it's
22:44
Speaker 1: also Jordan Edison who comes in as the first round pick.
22:46
Speaker 2: Also, this steve really quickly.
22:48
Speaker 1: When you pressure a guy like Ryan Tannehill on seventy
22:51
Speaker 1: percent of his third downs and you have pressure and
22:54
Speaker 1: you're still not slowing down Ryan Tannehill, that's an issue
22:57
Speaker 1: in your secondary.
22:59
Speaker 3: That's not good. That is not a good thing.
23:01
Speaker 4: Kind an interesting theme here, some teams having to figure
23:03
Speaker 4: out things schematically and some.
23:05
Speaker 3: Teams like the Ravens figuring it out.
23:08
Speaker 4: You know who else has figured it out, the Washington
23:11
Speaker 4: Commanders in a lot of the questions about thefts have
23:14
Speaker 4: been answered after the break. Brian Robinson, the standout running
23:19
Speaker 4: back for the two and zero Commanders.
23:21
Speaker 3: Joins JP and I on the NFL report.
23:29
Speaker 8: As we got it rolling. You guys play to your
23:31
Speaker 8: buildings and that's what you're capable of. That's the largest
23:34
Speaker 8: road come back this organization.
23:35
Speaker 3: Has ever happened on the road.
23:42
Speaker 8: So understanding on the road. That's to help his job, guys.
23:46
Speaker 2: And it's all on you guys.
23:47
Speaker 3: But there's one guy in here. He's got one hundred wins.
23:50
Speaker 4: Wha fifty coaches ever and like active coaches, Ryan Barra man.
24:06
Speaker 8: Hey, thank you all for being part of this.
24:07
Speaker 4: It's really special just knowing that you guys all help
24:09
Speaker 4: me get to where I am today.
24:11
Speaker 8: Thank you guys, thank you.
24:14
Speaker 1: We're joined by now one of the one of the people,
24:15
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera was thinking there saying thank you guys. That's
24:18
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson, the star I'll say star running back for
24:21
Speaker 1: the Washington Commander Steve joins the NFL report Right now
24:25
Speaker 1: I'm seeing that room, Brian. What is the plane ride
24:28
Speaker 1: home after the biggest comeback in franchise history?
24:31
Speaker 2: What goes on on the plane ride back.
24:33
Speaker 5: To d C?
24:34
Speaker 10: Well, you know, guys like me, you know, play so
24:37
Speaker 10: many snaps. I'm relaxing. I'm trying to you know, trying
24:40
Speaker 10: to just you know, keep I'm sore and all types
24:42
Speaker 10: of stuff. But more than anything, the image is just great.
24:46
Speaker 10: You know, everybody happy, excited, you know, just want to
24:50
Speaker 10: talk about, you know, the game and talk about you know,
24:52
Speaker 10: how we can you know, play better, you know, so
24:54
Speaker 10: that you know, we don't you know, end up at
24:57
Speaker 10: games where we're trying to scratch and cloth and then
24:59
Speaker 10: you know the whole second hal to get the win,
25:00
Speaker 10: but appreciating the you know, the hard work that the
25:04
Speaker 10: whole team put in to get the win, but also
25:07
Speaker 10: you know, trying to already you know, get a step
25:09
Speaker 10: ahead on what we can do, you know, to just
25:11
Speaker 10: play better as a team overall.
25:13
Speaker 4: Ran you ando the city, you know, I used to
25:16
Speaker 4: live in d C. I know that fan bation, how
25:18
Speaker 4: much they love that club. The city has sold out
25:21
Speaker 4: another home game. Can you explain to everyone just what
25:26
Speaker 4: the atmosphere is like now with this club that you
25:30
Speaker 4: guys are off to this great start.
25:32
Speaker 10: The atmosphere you know, just starting off has been electric,
25:35
Speaker 10: you know, and uh, you know that's something that you know, us,
25:38
Speaker 10: us in the locker room, we feed off of that,
25:41
Speaker 10: you know, and we appreciate you know, everybody who you know,
25:45
Speaker 10: you know stick behind us as you know as we
25:47
Speaker 10: go out and compete every weekend. Uh, you know with that,
25:50
Speaker 10: you know, with that atmosphere, you know that they bring
25:52
Speaker 10: it to us right now. It's just it's exciting, you know,
25:54
Speaker 10: it's give us, you know, more reasons to want to
25:56
Speaker 10: play for them and more reasons to you know, want
25:58
Speaker 10: to bring wins to this, you know, to this organization.
26:01
Speaker 1: Let's talk about you personal a little bit because you
26:03
Speaker 1: lead the team. I don't know if you know these stats.
26:04
Speaker 1: You lead the team in scrimmage yards right now, you
26:07
Speaker 1: lead the team in scrimmage touchdowns so far this season.
26:11
Speaker 1: I know you talked a lot about this offseason. You're
26:13
Speaker 1: not just a between the tackles power back. You can
26:16
Speaker 1: do a lot more in this offense. We're only two
26:18
Speaker 1: games in. But where where can we see you making
26:22
Speaker 1: an impact that we maybe didn't see your rookie year
26:25
Speaker 1: within this Eric Enemy offense.
26:28
Speaker 10: Uh, Like I said, you know, we're just scratching the
26:32
Speaker 10: surface right now, you know, especially me, you know, you know,
26:36
Speaker 10: being able to show you know, the more I can do,
26:37
Speaker 10: the more opportunities I get. And you know, being to me,
26:41
Speaker 10: he knows, you know, he knows what type of player
26:43
Speaker 10: I am. He knows what I can do, and he's
26:45
Speaker 10: going to continue to give me opportunities to showcase my
26:48
Speaker 10: skill set. And the more he does that, I continue
26:51
Speaker 10: to show, you know, my ability. You know what all
26:54
Speaker 10: I can do, you know compared to you know what
26:56
Speaker 10: people think. You know that I can do, you know,
26:59
Speaker 10: and and I'm excited, you know, to continue to put
27:02
Speaker 10: it out on tape and you know, show that I'm
27:04
Speaker 10: more than just a one dimensional player.
27:06
Speaker 2: All that point.
27:07
Speaker 4: You mentioned Eric b Enemy right, a former former running
27:09
Speaker 4: back coach running back. He's been an offensive coordinator, not
27:12
Speaker 4: but now he's in charge of designing it's gaming and
27:15
Speaker 4: play calling. What is Eric B Enemy done to kind
27:19
Speaker 4: of revamp this offense? From everything from helping develop Sam
27:23
Speaker 4: Howell to helping enhance the run game.
27:26
Speaker 10: Uh, you know he'd be he completely came in here
27:29
Speaker 10: and flipped the script. You know, his energy is contagious.
27:32
Speaker 10: You know, it's easily something to you know, you know,
27:35
Speaker 10: I want to work for it and want to pick
27:36
Speaker 10: up for it, like you know, if you're a winner,
27:38
Speaker 10: what that type of mind sat it's easy to really
27:40
Speaker 10: you know, listen to him and you know take the
27:42
Speaker 10: tips and kids that he give you, you know, for success,
27:45
Speaker 10: and uh, I appreciate you know, everything he's you know,
27:48
Speaker 10: it's still in me since he's no gutten here, you know,
27:50
Speaker 10: on and off the field, and you know, we're just
27:53
Speaker 10: going to continue to make strives in the right direction
27:56
Speaker 10: of building this thing up.
27:59
Speaker 1: I want to kind of push that one step further, Brian,
28:01
Speaker 1: because I've heard multiple players on this offense say he's
28:03
Speaker 1: made them already this quickly smarter football players.
28:07
Speaker 2: Is there something that stands out.
28:08
Speaker 1: Early in a conversation maybe you've had with eb where
28:11
Speaker 1: you're just like, oh, he knows running backs and I
28:14
Speaker 1: didn't know this about the position already, this has made
28:16
Speaker 1: me a better back.
28:18
Speaker 10: Well, his mind set just so strong, you know, and uh,
28:22
Speaker 10: he's just he's real big on you know, taking advantage of,
28:26
Speaker 10: you know, the opportunities that you get, you know, because
28:28
Speaker 10: you know, because of the short window in his game,
28:30
Speaker 10: and then it's real and he made sure he give us,
28:34
Speaker 10: you know, real tips and advice you know, to you know,
28:37
Speaker 10: just the life of you know, this game, and just
28:39
Speaker 10: making sure that we take advantage of, you know, every
28:43
Speaker 10: single opportunity that we get. And uh, you know, I
28:45
Speaker 10: just let that, you know, kind of stay in the
28:47
Speaker 10: back of my head. You know, every time I get
28:49
Speaker 10: an opportunity, I just want to make the most of it.
28:52
Speaker 4: Brian, you tell you about short window of this game.
28:54
Speaker 4: You know, you're running back, he plays position. I just
28:56
Speaker 4: got to get your take on Nick Chubb and when
28:58
Speaker 4: we saw Monday night and that injury.
29:03
Speaker 10: Now, I'm a huge fan of Nick Chubb, been watching
29:05
Speaker 10: him for years.
29:06
Speaker 1: Uh.
29:07
Speaker 10: Nick Chubb probably one of the very very few few guys,
29:11
Speaker 10: especially running backs in the league that you know tape
29:14
Speaker 10: I watched year round. So tremendous amount of respect for
29:19
Speaker 10: Nick Chub. You know, I hate hated to see him
29:21
Speaker 10: go through that. Uh, but you know, it's running back.
29:25
Speaker 10: You know, running back is a very very scared position,
29:28
Speaker 10: you know, and going, you know, watching the guy like
29:30
Speaker 10: Nick Chubb go down with something like that so significant,
29:33
Speaker 10: it's like, you know, you got so much respect for me.
29:36
Speaker 10: You just want to see him on the field. You
29:37
Speaker 10: want to see him be secure. You just want them
29:39
Speaker 10: to have all the opportunities, you know, in the world.
29:41
Speaker 10: And uh, I don't want to really get into, like,
29:44
Speaker 10: you know, what's fair and unfair for the running back position,
29:47
Speaker 10: because you know, you know, it's something that everybody is,
29:50
Speaker 10: you know, kind of talking about. But uh, you know,
29:53
Speaker 10: that's one guy that has a lot of respect for me,
29:55
Speaker 10: and I wish you know he can you know, recover
29:57
Speaker 10: and come back from this stronger than ever.
30:01
Speaker 1: Well, I know your your organization likes to focus on
30:04
Speaker 1: the run. That makes a running back happy. I think
30:05
Speaker 1: you've rushed for more first downs than any player in
30:08
Speaker 1: football so far.
30:09
Speaker 2: But I want to talk about your quarterback real quick.
30:12
Speaker 1: Take me inside the huddle during this comeback when Sam
30:16
Speaker 1: Howe was making his first road start in the NFL.
30:19
Speaker 2: You guys are down. What was going on in.
30:22
Speaker 1: The huddle that stood about your stood out about your
30:24
Speaker 1: young quarterback during this comeback in the second half?
30:28
Speaker 10: Uh No, what stood out to me the most was.
30:30
Speaker 10: You know, he never really got beside himself. He knew,
30:33
Speaker 10: you know, what he needed to do, you know, personally,
30:37
Speaker 10: you know, to just step up for this team. And uh,
30:40
Speaker 10: you know, I'm pretty sure every guy in that huddle
30:42
Speaker 10: was thinking, you know, what they needed to do personally
30:45
Speaker 10: to you know, help you know, bring this team together.
30:47
Speaker 10: And uh, you know, Sam, his poise is amazing. You know,
30:50
Speaker 10: he never really you know, just put his head down,
30:53
Speaker 10: and uh, he just continued to fight, continue to play.
30:56
Speaker 10: You know what type of guys he have around him,
30:58
Speaker 10: what type of play makes he had around him, And uh,
31:01
Speaker 10: you know, we just stay on the same page, you.
31:03
Speaker 2: Know, through it all.
31:04
Speaker 10: You know, even when I'm back against the wall, we
31:06
Speaker 10: just make sure we're on the same page. And uh,
31:08
Speaker 10: he's a fighter and I just, you know, I just
31:11
Speaker 10: love playing with him.
31:13
Speaker 2: Ranie.
31:14
Speaker 4: Have the Buffalo Bill's coming up this weekend, and a
31:16
Speaker 4: lot of folks will probably say, Okay, this is gonna
31:18
Speaker 4: be the measuring stick game for Washington so far. Tell
31:22
Speaker 4: us tell us one if you think that's the case,
31:24
Speaker 4: And two, what type of challenge they present for a
31:28
Speaker 4: team that thinks, okay, we're really good right now?
31:33
Speaker 10: Well, you know, They're gonna be real fast to say
31:36
Speaker 10: it's a measure of stick for us, but it can
31:38
Speaker 10: be a major of stick for them too. You know,
31:39
Speaker 10: it's just another week for Yeah, we know you know
31:44
Speaker 10: what type of team it is. You know, we know that,
31:46
Speaker 10: you know they're a great team. You know, also, this
31:48
Speaker 10: won't be the first time we line up against a
31:50
Speaker 10: great team. So you know, we just gotta you know, prepare,
31:53
Speaker 10: prepare to win, you know, prepare like you know, like champions.
31:56
Speaker 10: And uh, I think once we take the field, you know,
31:59
Speaker 10: we just gonna gonna take them like any other opponent
32:02
Speaker 10: that we want to beat. And uh we we understand
32:04
Speaker 10: that they are good. They're going to play hard, you know.
32:07
Speaker 10: Uh they got some great players over there, and we
32:10
Speaker 10: just got to play at the top of our game, all.
32:14
Speaker 1: Right to close this out, Brown, I got a two parter.
32:16
Speaker 1: You guys have a lot of great players on that
32:17
Speaker 1: defensive line. You've gone again sitting in practice. We saw
32:21
Speaker 1: the seven sacks in Denver this past week. Just describe
32:24
Speaker 1: that group from an opposing offensive players mindset when you
32:29
Speaker 1: see all of them healthy, all of them coming at you.
32:32
Speaker 1: And the second part is is the Alabama dynasty over.
32:38
Speaker 10: Well, I understand.
32:41
Speaker 2: That front line we got right now.
32:43
Speaker 10: They relentless, man, A whole bunch of dolls over there
32:46
Speaker 10: that feed off each other. You know, they feed one
32:48
Speaker 10: one person get a sack the other one one one
32:50
Speaker 10: and uh that's a that's a strong group that you know,
32:53
Speaker 10: easily feed off each other. So you know, I could
32:56
Speaker 10: just if one word, like in one word, if I
32:58
Speaker 10: had to describe them, I would just say relentless. Yeah,
33:00
Speaker 10: our defensive and I love competing against them guys, man,
33:04
Speaker 10: I love, you know, just practicing against them and just
33:06
Speaker 10: polishing up my game and just going up against guys
33:09
Speaker 10: of that caliber to just have me prepared for you know,
33:12
Speaker 10: every Sunday Alabama.
33:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what's I feel like we're making up? Are
33:21
Speaker 2: you nervous?
33:22
Speaker 10: I'm not nervous at all.
33:23
Speaker 7: Man.
33:24
Speaker 2: I didn't like the game.
33:26
Speaker 10: I lost the game in the season and still played
33:28
Speaker 10: in the National Championship, you.
33:29
Speaker 2: Know, Uh, okay, good point thinking over, I.
33:32
Speaker 10: Just think we were struggling some you know, in some areas,
33:35
Speaker 10: you know, which is common most you know, all teams struggle,
33:39
Speaker 10: you know at some point you know where you have
33:41
Speaker 10: a great team for so long and so many great
33:43
Speaker 10: players in and out in and out, in and out.
33:46
Speaker 10: You should expect, you know, at some point, you know
33:48
Speaker 10: it's gonna kind of you know, hit a hit, a fall.
33:51
Speaker 10: Like even my last two years in school, they were
33:53
Speaker 10: saying that we were rebuilding, and I still ended up
33:57
Speaker 10: playing and you know, two back to back national championships.
33:59
Speaker 2: One one in a low well pretty good rebuild.
34:03
Speaker 10: So you know, we could easily say, you know, it's
34:07
Speaker 10: a rebuilding team again. But hey, if they playing in
34:10
Speaker 10: the National Championship this year, then are we going to
34:12
Speaker 10: continue to say, oh, that was just rebuilding. You know.
34:16
Speaker 4: Hey hey, Brian, okay, hey hold up now, Brian, I'm glad,
34:19
Speaker 4: I'm glad you. I'm glad you told James that because
34:22
Speaker 4: you were James with the school Ohio State.
34:24
Speaker 3: He's coming for you, right.
34:25
Speaker 4: So he's barking about that buck Eye business, knowing at
34:28
Speaker 4: the Crimson Tide been ruling the roost.
34:31
Speaker 2: No, that's not the case. I'm just terrified about my
34:33
Speaker 2: program right now.
34:34
Speaker 1: We're not where I want to be either with the
34:36
Speaker 1: buck Eyes, and we got Notre Dame on Saturday.
34:38
Speaker 2: I'm nervous.
34:39
Speaker 10: I think I'm undefeated against the buck guys, and last time, yeah,
34:43
Speaker 10: you are the last time I played you are the
34:48
Speaker 10: you know, I think I won that championship that year.
34:53
Speaker 2: There we go, Brian, Yeah.
34:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, perfect, beautiful way to close this out. Brian, We
34:59
Speaker 4: thank you so much. We're joining us here at the
35:01
Speaker 4: NFL Report. Good luck this weekend against the Bills.
35:04
Speaker 2: Man, thank you. I appreciate so roasting my Buck. Guys,
35:09
Speaker 2: that's all right.
35:09
Speaker 1: Coming up in the NFL before, we're gonna talk about
35:11
Speaker 1: another former Buck guye in Justin Fields. Brian Baldinger had
35:15
Speaker 1: a video about him on Twitter that got millions abuse.
35:18
Speaker 2: We're gonna break that down coming up on the NFL Report, the.
35:27
Speaker 4: NFL Report giving you the latest, and James Palmer got
35:29
Speaker 4: some news coming down. And Bryce Young, the Carolina Panthers
35:32
Speaker 4: rookie quarterback, might not be playing Sunday's that problematic ankle
35:37
Speaker 4: sneaks up so could be Andy Dalton, a veteran in
35:39
Speaker 4: the quarterback sneak specialist, going for the Panthers on Sunday. Also,
35:43
Speaker 4: Cowboys corner Trey Diggs was seeing on crutches after practice Thursday.
35:47
Speaker 3: He's scheduled to have an MRI exam.
35:49
Speaker 4: We'll be keeping an eye on his availability for Sunday
35:52
Speaker 4: as well.
35:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's hope he's all right. That defense is rolling.
35:56
Speaker 1: And you know who is availability we have now, Steve,
35:58
Speaker 1: we have Brian Baldinger. I think he lives in that room. Baldy,
36:01
Speaker 1: I think you lived there, But you live on this
36:03
Speaker 1: show on Thursdays. I know that you live in this
36:05
Speaker 1: show on Thursdays. You're coming out with these Baldi breakdowns.
36:08
Speaker 1: I watch them all and I'm not the only person
36:10
Speaker 1: that watched the one on Justin Fields, Baldi. I mean,
36:13
Speaker 1: it's got millions of views already. Steve and I talked
36:17
Speaker 1: at length about Fields in the start of this show.
36:20
Speaker 1: I need your take to take this a step further.
36:22
Speaker 1: I guess my biggest question, Baldi is when you see this,
36:25
Speaker 1: is it correctible or is it not correctable.
36:29
Speaker 11: It's correctable, James, It's cricticable because all you have to
36:33
Speaker 11: do is see the evidence of the opening drive, six plays,
36:36
Speaker 11: seventy five yards touchdown. You know DJ Moore, Chase Claypool
36:40
Speaker 11: in the end zone. You know fourth quarter eight plagues
36:43
Speaker 11: ninety yards right down the field.
36:46
Speaker 2: So it's correctable.
36:47
Speaker 11: But what frustrated me and why I posted the video
36:51
Speaker 11: was I just didn't understand look, that's the very end
36:54
Speaker 11: of the game.
36:54
Speaker 8: Shack Beart jumped up from the screen. That stuff can happen.
36:57
Speaker 11: But what frustrated me he was, what is he What
37:02
Speaker 11: doesn't he see when he's got great protection and the
37:06
Speaker 11: Tampa Bay Buccaneers blow the protection and they're basically just
37:10
Speaker 11: scheming to stop him from running and he should make
37:13
Speaker 11: the throw because he can make the throw. And that's
37:16
Speaker 11: what frustrated me. He took seven sacks the other day.
37:18
Speaker 11: Three of them were on justin field, just holding the
37:20
Speaker 11: ball and not really knowing what he was looking at.
37:23
Speaker 11: I believe it's correctable, and I don't think it's just
37:27
Speaker 11: I'm just gonna play my own style. Like this thing is.
37:31
Speaker 11: This is precision offense. It's got to be precise. You know,
37:34
Speaker 11: the defense dictates where you go with the ball, and
37:39
Speaker 11: not every play that anybody ever calls is the perfect play.
37:42
Speaker 11: Sometimes you got to make the play right. Sometimes you've
37:45
Speaker 11: got to fix it at the line of scrimmage. I mean,
37:47
Speaker 11: all those things are in the hands of a quarterback.
37:50
Speaker 11: And so I've seen plenty of evidence of justin reading
37:53
Speaker 11: the field, scanning the field, making the right throw, hitting
37:56
Speaker 11: Dj Moore time after time, on Sunday with great throws.
38:00
Speaker 11: We just have to see it more consistently, and we
38:02
Speaker 11: can't see the freezing of the process behind the line
38:07
Speaker 11: of spirits like we saw a couple times.
38:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, balldly, real quick.
38:10
Speaker 4: I mean just your experience as a player. You know,
38:13
Speaker 4: you've been with a lot of different quarterbacks. He said
38:16
Speaker 4: that there's sometimes just too much information and sometimes I
38:19
Speaker 4: have to play off my instincts.
38:20
Speaker 3: To go back to your point about instincts.
38:22
Speaker 4: Can a quarterback get overloaded trying to process things instead
38:27
Speaker 4: of being instinctial and just getting the ball out from
38:30
Speaker 4: what he sees.
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Speaker 11: Oh, without a doubt, Steve, without a doubt. I've seen
38:34
Speaker 11: plenty of quarterbacks that have had too many voices in
38:38
Speaker 11: his ear, too many suggestions, too many coaching points. There's
38:42
Speaker 11: no question it can be an overcoached position. But I
38:46
Speaker 11: but you know, I see receivers that look awfully frustrated,
38:49
Speaker 11: you know, when they get their hand in the air
38:50
Speaker 11: like I'm open. Okay, not always, but sometimes and then
38:54
Speaker 11: I'm watching like DJ Moore in the middle of the
38:57
Speaker 11: field give a little clap like let's go, let's let's
38:59
Speaker 11: get me the ball all And so you know, I
39:01
Speaker 11: think it's you know, it's it's it's uh, it's it's
39:05
Speaker 11: a collaboration really amongst players, the coaches and and and
39:09
Speaker 11: justin and it's it's it's correctable.
39:12
Speaker 3: It just is.
39:13
Speaker 11: And so uh, if he feels like he needs to
39:17
Speaker 11: kind of free himself up from a lot of people
39:19
Speaker 11: in's ear or the coaching points, all right, but you
39:23
Speaker 11: can't get too far away from design to plays and
39:26
Speaker 11: where the ball should go and what the defense is
39:28
Speaker 11: doing and understanding what the defense is going to dictate
39:32
Speaker 11: where you go with the balls.
39:36
Speaker 2: Agression right, go ahead.
39:39
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say real quick, but there's a
39:41
Speaker 1: progression of angry receivers. First there's the hand up, then
39:44
Speaker 1: there's the hand wave, and then when they start jumping
39:47
Speaker 1: that's when you know, there's massive frustrations that when they
39:50
Speaker 1: when they start jumping up and down, that's that's that's
39:53
Speaker 1: when they got to the X level.
39:56
Speaker 4: You know this, Sunday, Hey and Bald, you know this.
40:00
Speaker 4: No one could show more frustration than good old Joe
40:02
Speaker 4: Horn when he.
40:03
Speaker 3: Wasn't getting the ball real quick.
40:06
Speaker 2: So let's move.
40:07
Speaker 4: We're gonna move on where there's where there's no frustration
40:11
Speaker 4: except for by us because you've got this question, Mark Baldi,
40:15
Speaker 4: why aren't more teams following the Philadelphia Eagles push push
40:20
Speaker 4: on short yardage situations where they surround the quarterback in
40:23
Speaker 4: the cocoon and just push forward.
40:27
Speaker 11: You know, Steve, I posted something last year when the
40:29
Speaker 11: Eagles started perfecting this, and I said, every not just
40:33
Speaker 11: the NFL, college, high school, like everybody should do this.
40:36
Speaker 11: The rules legal We talked about it in the seminar
40:39
Speaker 11: of the summer of what how they're officiating the play.
40:42
Speaker 11: Not many people, not many quarterbacks get deadaloe six one
40:45
Speaker 11: hundred and fifty pounds like Jalen Hurts does. Now, that
40:48
Speaker 11: has that kind of power. But I was in Jacksonville
40:50
Speaker 11: last year. Last week, Steve against Kansas City, first and
40:53
Speaker 11: goal at the one, they lost four plays on a
40:56
Speaker 11: silly pitch. On the first play, they never got the
40:58
Speaker 11: Baldi end zone. Iver Lawrence should be pushed into the
41:02
Speaker 11: end zone, get some tight ends behind him, get a
41:04
Speaker 11: running back behind him, and you know, follow Brandon Sheriff
41:07
Speaker 11: at right guard, Luke fort Nert center and put the
41:10
Speaker 11: ball on the end zone. Stop fooling around, like everybody
41:13
Speaker 11: should be doing this right now. The rules are made
41:15
Speaker 11: for it. Take advantage of the rule. I see too
41:17
Speaker 11: many teams right now across the board, Steve in short
41:21
Speaker 11: yards and goal line situations, trying to outthink. I see
41:24
Speaker 11: teams on fourth and one at the goal lines are
41:27
Speaker 11: throwing the ball third and one at the goal line,
41:30
Speaker 11: like get get on with the toush push.
41:32
Speaker 3: Just take advantage of the rule.
41:35
Speaker 1: So boy, I want to follow up on that because
41:36
Speaker 1: it was interesting quote from Andy Reid this season. Already
41:40
Speaker 1: in this season going, I'm watching all of these short
41:42
Speaker 1: yardage plays and teams are not very good across the
41:45
Speaker 1: board and third and one and fourth and one, and
41:47
Speaker 1: Andy Reid's mind, he said, you know there are actually
41:49
Speaker 1: one of the teams that has struggled.
41:50
Speaker 2: With it as well.
41:51
Speaker 1: We know I was at the game when Patrick Mahomes
41:53
Speaker 1: dislocates his kneecap. That's just not in Andy Reid's playbook
41:56
Speaker 1: right now. But when you have I bring him up
41:58
Speaker 1: because when you have so many different creative offensive minds
42:00
Speaker 1: across the league that can do so many different things
42:03
Speaker 1: with their offense, when they see something that, as you're describing,
42:07
Speaker 1: is so clear cut an advantage, do they just not
42:10
Speaker 1: take advantage of it? Because of their personnel or they outthink.
42:15
Speaker 11: Themselves day I'll take themselves, James. This is not this
42:19
Speaker 11: is something honestly, that you can install on Friday and
42:23
Speaker 11: operate on Sunday. It's just I mean, it is just
42:26
Speaker 11: pack it in. You know, the quarterback gets it started,
42:29
Speaker 11: he's he could give you the signal where he's going straight, right, left,
42:32
Speaker 11: and then you just get behind him and you get
42:34
Speaker 11: to keep the momentum going. Like it's just almost I've
42:37
Speaker 11: talked to defensive coordinators James across the league, like how
42:40
Speaker 11: difficult this thing is to stop, Like the only thing
42:43
Speaker 11: you can do is get five guys to submarine below
42:47
Speaker 11: the offensive lineman and get four guys coming over the top.
42:50
Speaker 11: And honestly, it's not really a safe play diving over
42:53
Speaker 11: the top of these piles to try and stop the quarterback.
42:57
Speaker 11: You're just gonna get these midair collisions that you know,
42:59
Speaker 11: somebody's probably gonna get hurt if you do it often enough.
43:03
Speaker 11: We know players, you know, don't have fear about that stuff,
43:05
Speaker 11: but you know from the outside, there's a fear factor
43:09
Speaker 11: flying over the top to try to stop this. But
43:11
Speaker 11: it's a very difficult play to stop. And I just
43:14
Speaker 11: don't understand why if you're Tennessee with King Henry, like,
43:19
Speaker 11: let's just have him push Tannehill him behind, like you're
43:23
Speaker 11: gonna get in the end zone, you're gonna get the
43:24
Speaker 11: first down.
43:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, tight end Dallas got her to the eagle, said,
43:29
Speaker 1: if you don't want us to do it, don't let
43:30
Speaker 1: us have third and one or fourth and one.
43:33
Speaker 2: Then we won't run the play. If you don't put
43:35
Speaker 2: us in that situation.
43:36
Speaker 1: Let's talk about you know, the Browns lose a back
43:38
Speaker 1: that there's probably not even a need for a push
43:41
Speaker 1: push on a third and one with Nick Chubb if
43:43
Speaker 1: he's in your backfield, what do you see now moving
43:45
Speaker 1: forward with Jerome Ford kind of running that backfield and
43:48
Speaker 1: they bring in Cream Hunt behind him, Baldy.
43:51
Speaker 11: You know, Jerome Ford was a fifth round pick last
43:54
Speaker 11: year from Cincinnati, but he started at Alabama, like that's
43:57
Speaker 11: where he started his college career and transferred to Cincinnati.
44:00
Speaker 11: He went to the finals with him.
44:01
Speaker 3: Like he's a talented back.
44:03
Speaker 11: You saw him change direction right here and go you know,
44:06
Speaker 11: basically seventy yards got stopped right at the six inch line.
44:10
Speaker 11: You see the speed, But I saw him The only
44:13
Speaker 11: thing I would say, is he took a couple of
44:16
Speaker 11: plays where he went backwards to go forwards like on
44:19
Speaker 11: that one. Sometimes that doesn't always work. But he catches
44:22
Speaker 11: the ball well out of the backfield like he does here.
44:24
Speaker 11: I'm just a little you know, Texas route hooked up
44:26
Speaker 11: over the middle, but he pushes the pile like he
44:29
Speaker 11: does here.
44:29
Speaker 3: He runs with power.
44:31
Speaker 11: I mean, I know they signed Kareem Hunt, but I
44:34
Speaker 11: would say Jerome Ford should certainly get an opportunity to
44:37
Speaker 11: be the starting back right now in Cleveland. You know
44:40
Speaker 11: that's Kevin Stefanski's MO. They want to run the ball,
44:43
Speaker 11: play action, pass off it. Like the lineup front is
44:46
Speaker 11: really good, especially with Dwan Jones at right tackle. Right now,
44:50
Speaker 11: they're pretty good up front. So I would expect Jerome
44:52
Speaker 11: Ford to continue to be the starter and Kareem Hunt
44:56
Speaker 11: come in and be that change of baseback the way
44:58
Speaker 11: he was with Nick Chubb.
44:59
Speaker 4: For Yeah, I believe that Baldi because in the AFC North,
45:04
Speaker 4: I mean, with the weather and everything, you've got to
45:05
Speaker 4: have that type of slugger that we saw Ford show
45:09
Speaker 4: that he was in that game. Speaking of the AFC North,
45:12
Speaker 4: and I guess the AFC South baldly, you said, and
45:15
Speaker 4: it's a game match up this weekend the Ravens and
45:18
Speaker 4: the Colts that Anthony Richardson has a ton of Lamar
45:22
Speaker 4: in him, and Lamar said the same, listen to this.
45:26
Speaker 10: You want me to be honest?
45:27
Speaker 3: Right?
45:28
Speaker 12: That made me feel old and I'm only twenty six.
45:31
Speaker 12: Like comparing me himself at CAM it was like, I'm like, dang,
45:35
Speaker 12: compare yourself to me, and I'm still, you know, young,
45:37
Speaker 12: But you know, I appreciate stuff like that. And I
45:41
Speaker 12: did see him a couple of times in college. He
45:43
Speaker 12: played phenomenon and as his first two games he has to.
45:49
Speaker 3: Paldi. Richardson's look good in his first two starts.
45:51
Speaker 4: I mean for a rookie, and you've done some great
45:53
Speaker 4: breakdowns of him. What have you seen, especially as it
45:57
Speaker 4: is a kin to Lamar Jackson's.
46:00
Speaker 11: Well, you know, he ran for two touchdowns in the
46:03
Speaker 11: first six minutes of the game last week They're up
46:06
Speaker 11: fourteen to nothing. I mean, like the design of what
46:09
Speaker 11: Shane Stikeen is doing is beautiful. It's not what Jalen
46:11
Speaker 11: Hurts has did. But there's an RPO game. I haven't
46:14
Speaker 11: seen him get flustered yet. Steve like I see a
46:17
Speaker 11: free hitter, I see a Lua Kwan coming right at
46:19
Speaker 11: him as a free hitter. In the first week against
46:21
Speaker 11: Jacksonville Man, he hit Josh downs like he'd been doing
46:25
Speaker 11: it for the last six years, like nothing looks like
46:28
Speaker 11: it surprises him, and he plays with incredible poise. I
46:31
Speaker 11: was so I was disappointed that he only played eighteen
46:35
Speaker 11: snaps last week because I loved him in Week one.
46:38
Speaker 11: I love the way he started last week. The concussions,
46:40
Speaker 11: the concussion Minshew played great. The Colts are. He's much
46:45
Speaker 11: better at this point than I ever imagined imagining him
46:49
Speaker 11: to be. Like he's He's played really, really well, and
46:52
Speaker 11: I think there's a reason to be really optimistic going
46:55
Speaker 11: forward in Indianapolis.
46:56
Speaker 3: With Anthony Richardson, Yeah, have we.
46:59
Speaker 4: All the good stuff up right there as usual. We're
47:01
Speaker 4: going to see you next Thursday and on Sunday. We
47:05
Speaker 4: might see more defensive trickery as we're seeing the two
47:10
Speaker 4: point stance become something used not just on the edges,
47:15
Speaker 4: but over the center and other places on the field.
47:18
Speaker 3: James Palmer at more on that. We're back here at
47:20
Speaker 3: the NFL Report.
47:27
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the NFL Report.
47:28
Speaker 1: James Palmer Steve Whitch with you, and Steve say, isn't
47:32
Speaker 1: what you want to hear during a practice week.
47:34
Speaker 2: We're taping this on a Thursday.
47:36
Speaker 1: And Trayvon Diggs signs a big, almost one hundred million
47:39
Speaker 1: dollar contract in the off season, ends up suffering an
47:42
Speaker 1: ACL injury in practice, confirmed on the MRI by two
47:46
Speaker 1: of our insiders, and Rappaport and Tom Pelasero, a massive
47:50
Speaker 1: blow to a Cowboys defense that now appears will probably
47:53
Speaker 1: lean even more heavily on that group up front to
47:57
Speaker 1: give a secondary that's now a little bit thin with
47:59
Speaker 1: one of the best corners in football a little less
48:02
Speaker 1: time than they're going to have to cover on the
48:03
Speaker 1: back end.
48:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, I did, b Look, the one thing the Cowboys
48:07
Speaker 4: do have a lot of depth, right, They have a
48:08
Speaker 4: ton of depth in that secondary, But we know Tredy
48:10
Speaker 4: Diggs one of the best cornerbacks in the NFL.
48:13
Speaker 3: But like you said, what they're doing up front helps
48:16
Speaker 3: on that back end. And you've done a little study.
48:19
Speaker 4: On some of the things the trends that the Cowboys
48:21
Speaker 4: are showing that's helping this defense function as the number
48:24
Speaker 4: one defense in the NFL after two weeks.
48:28
Speaker 1: Stee, we have these rare athletes up front. I had
48:31
Speaker 1: a rare one a while ago when he played in Dallas.
48:33
Speaker 1: Was DeMarcus Ware Remember when he was on this show
48:35
Speaker 1: and he told us I'd have to change my game
48:38
Speaker 1: if I played in today's NFL. Well, we're seeing some
48:40
Speaker 1: of these guys with freak athletic ability, like Michael Parsons
48:44
Speaker 1: or Miles Garrett lining up over the center where they
48:46
Speaker 1: have a distinct advantage standing up. You saw Miles Garrett
48:50
Speaker 1: crossing them up like AI trying to come and decide
48:53
Speaker 1: which side he's going to go to and keep the
48:55
Speaker 1: center guessing. It's reminded me of a conversation I had
48:59
Speaker 1: back with Jenemi in twenty eighteen when he lost some
49:03
Speaker 1: of that bend after his microfracture surgery and Romeo Crenell
49:05
Speaker 1: started lining him up almost Steve with a running start.
49:09
Speaker 1: He was a middle linebacker moving around finding those gaps
49:12
Speaker 1: in the front, and it makes it so difficult on
49:14
Speaker 1: the interior part of the defensive line. You saw Micah
49:17
Speaker 1: Parsons do it against the Jets, and what did it
49:20
Speaker 1: do with forced an interception? Because these guys can get
49:23
Speaker 1: there like that with their athletic ability.
49:26
Speaker 2: It's really really cool to watch.
49:28
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jay, A lot of Eve's done that over the
49:30
Speaker 4: years to take advantage of favorable mismatches. We've got a
49:33
Speaker 4: favorable match right here with you and I and this
49:35
Speaker 4: edition of the NFL Report will see you on Monday
49:39
Speaker 4: after Week three.