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NFL 2025 | Post Conference Championship Round "Tent Talk" | Updates, News & Injuries | Banter with the Boys - Gridiron Updates · Banter with the Boys

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  laced up let's go it's time for better with the
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  boys welcome back to gridiron updates i'm roberto
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  this is jacob kevin's is behind the cameras yo
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  kev making us sound beautiful that's right we're
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  here for a little tent It's so much easier when
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  it's just the two of us. It is, totally. And
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  when we just do it once, also, it's very, you
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  know, it's coming. So we're talking about news,
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  injuries, everything coming up to the soup or
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  bowl. Yeah. What do you got for us, Jacob? Not
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  a whole lot of injuries to report, thankfully.
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  Yeah, I think everyone, both teams came out pretty
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  healthy. Yeah, yeah. For the Super Bowl, I guess.
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  Yeah. And then they've got a week off to get
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  better. Yeah. Unless there's some freak accident.
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  True. Fireworks. Yeah. Stay away from fireworks.
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  That's right. Don't touch them. Because it's
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  in California. It is. Which I'm going to assume
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  that fireworks are probably illegal. But yeah,
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  it's still easy to acquire. Probably. I bet.
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  Actually, because I've seen a few videos over
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  helicopters flying over Los Angeles over the
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  4th of July and they party. Yeah. So. So, yeah,
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  not a lot of injury news. I have notes on a lot
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  of head coaching stuff since we last spoke a
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  week ago. A lot of movements. Yeah. A lot of
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  new peeps. Where do we start? I guess we could
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  start with my Ravens hiring Jesse Minter as their
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  head coach. He was not your leading candidate.
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  He was not. Where would you put him on your list?
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  Two or three. I mean, I'm OK. I still think I
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  would have preferred an offensive minded head
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  coach over a defensive one. But the more that
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  I look at it and think about it, it makes some
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  sense. But it also but it's also not getting
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  away from the Harbaugh because. Because he was
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  with John in Baltimore, and then he went to Michigan
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  with Jim, coached there with Jim, and then went
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  over with Jim to the Chargers. So he's had and
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  been in this Harbaugh tree. Are they considered
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  the same tree? I think they have to be. Because
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  they share coordinators back and forth, it seems
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  like. They're like, hey, check out this guy.
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  He's pretty good. And then everybody just gets
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  passed around. So I don't hate it. You don't
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  love it. I don't love it. Okay. Okay. All right.
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  And we can stay in the AFC North. Mike McCarthy,
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  surprise, signing as the head coach. Very surprised.
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  Do you think Aaron Rodgers had a voice in that
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  decision? No. No? I don't think so. I don't think
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  the Roonies are that kind of ownership. You sure
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  he wasn't somewhere in Central America, a little
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  ayahuasca, and Mike McCarthy was the calling?
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  No. No? Okay. I think that's a little bit of
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  a stretch. Well, that's what we do here on the
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  Gridiron Updates. I don't think it hurts. Bring
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  in McCarthy because it's an offensive scheme
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  that Aaron Rodgers is going to be familiar with.
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  And if he wants to stay in Pittsburgh, it's a
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  coach that he has experience with, is familiar
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  with. Even though they may not necessarily have
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  the best off -the -field relationship, they worked
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  pretty well together for their entire tenure
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  together. They did win together, so that's an
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  opportunity. Why do you think Aaron Rodgers is
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  done? Or do you think that's probably open that
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  door open to a crack now? I think that opens
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  the door some for him to come back to Pittsburgh.
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  If he doesn't come back to Pittsburgh, I think
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  he's done because I don't know where he would
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  want to play in a brand new system somewhere
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  else. No Vikings? No, I don't think so. All those
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  weapons? I don't think KOC would want to do that
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  to McCarthy. It's like he's already got a Ferrari,
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  right? Or a Porsche, whatever you call it. But
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  we've driven it for one year now. And we're done.
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  No. You got minimum two years with me. Yeah.
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  That's kind of my gold standard. Unless it's
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  really bad. Yeah. Because it's like, where else
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  would he play? Excuse me, not Buffalo. In Miami.
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  Arizona possibly has an opening. The Raiders.
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  Well, the Raiders will have Fernando. True. Or
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  if you want to believe rumors that they're going
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  to trade for Lamar, I think that's kind of a
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  harebrained idea. I could see something interesting.
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  Now that Harbaugh's gone, I mean, I won't be
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  totally surprised if something happened with
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  Lamar. Because how old is he now? 28. All right.
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  That'd be interesting. But there definitely has
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  to be a restructure because how does his contract
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  look? There's a lot of dollars there. Restructuring
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  his contract is one of Eric DaCosta's priorities
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  this offseason. I mean, they have a decent amount
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  of salary cap space as it is, but to restructure
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  Lamar's contract to free up some additional dollars
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  now and push it out would be beneficial for the
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  team. Yeah, and I don't know. I still think you
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  guys are kind of still in your window. Lamar
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  still has a window available, and there's a lot
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  of pieces and everything because there's not
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  really much changing on the roster aspect other
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  than his availability was the worst attribute
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  for the Ravens. But that's how it happens in
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  the NFL in the old game of tackle football. That's
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  right. People get hurt, unfortunately. What else
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  do we got? So we got McCarthy up there. We also
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  have Brady. Yeah, Joe Brady. That got announced
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  late yesterday or early today. So in -house,
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  which is, I always like to see in -house hire.
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  I think, yeah, there's benefits to that. And
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  I think that goes, like, shares a similar aspect
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  to Jesse Minter getting hired. Like, there's
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  some kind of... And I was talking about this.
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  There's some kind of culture that's there that
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  you want to keep or continue to grow and develop.
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  Because culture, I think, does wonders for a
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  lot of these locker rooms nowadays in getting
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  players to buy into a system and actually perform
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  or fill a specific role. And that's the nice
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  thing about in -house. He already knows the facility,
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  knows all the players, all the players know him.
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  He's been running the offense. So nothing on
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  that aspect. It's just going to be a defensive
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  coordinator they're going to have to pick up
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  and maybe get a wide receiver one. I don't know
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  if Coleman. I mean, he's a rookie, so like I
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  say, for all rookies, I give him a second year
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  before I make a decision with the overall value
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  or where he fits in the team. But, yeah, what
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  else? For coaching movers. So we still have openings,
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  obviously, for the Raiders, Cardinals, and Browns.
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  Those are the only three still left to open.
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  Nobody wants to be at the Browns. Everyone's
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  saying no currently that we know about in the
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  public. So that also makes me think that all
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  three of these teams are waiting for Patriots
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  and or Seahawks to finally wrap things up. Well,
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  it's happened in the past before we're coaches.
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  I mean, I guess with KOC, did we announce it
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  or we already kind of knew that he was coming
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  here before the Super Bowl? I can't remember.
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  But either way, yeah. Well, and that stuff might
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  leak in the next week. That's true. You know,
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  so that'll be something to stay tuned with on
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  that aspect. And I bet you the rumors will be
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  flying because the conversations will be getting
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  very repetitive and you got to find some new
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  stuff. That's right. During media week. Broncos
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  canned their offensive coordinator, Joe Lombardi,
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  today. Bye. Yeah. And Brian Dable is taking the
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  role of offensive coordinator for the Tennessee
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  Titans. Interesting. I think so, too. I mean,
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  that's where he made his bread and butter in
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  the NFL. And I think Cam Ward is a version of
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  Josh Allen. And that's kind of how Dable was.
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  the second offensive coordinator for Josh Allen.
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  We saw a tremendous amount of growth for him.
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  So I think that could be good for Cam Ward in
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  the coming years as long as they're able to at
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  least stay or keep that in place. Yeah, sometimes
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  the players will make your career. You become
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  a really good offensive coordinator for some
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  reason. Oh, so we got those three left wide open.
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  Oh, let's talk about something here that I just,
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  oops, I got to open it up. What'd you find? A
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  little mock draft, kind of where we're sitting
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  at now. Since everyone's kind of in their positions,
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  at least we got the top 10. Raiders. Yeah. Looks
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  like probably they're going Fernando. Mendoza.
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  Mendoza from the National Championship. Indiana
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  Hoosiers. I mean, he looks like the real deal.
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  Yeah. Big dude. Got arm talent. He does look
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  like Kirk Cousins in my eyes. But I also think
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  he's a bigger, more athletic Kirk Cousins. Yeah.
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  Even though Kirk was pretty athletic in college.
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  But I think he's just a different athletic. But,
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  oh, I don't know if he did see the play of the
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  championship game. where he did the famous run
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  for the touchdown to win it. Well, when he was
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  back in Cal, there was a play where they were
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  playing Miami, and 31 came up and just stuck
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  him. Oh, yeah. And then the game was over on
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  a fourth down play. Oh, I didn't see that. So
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  this was the same play. 31, I forgot his last,
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  starts with a B. was the guy that exact same
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  guy exact same guy that he trucked that he spun
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  out of and then scored dove into the end zone
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  so sorry about that we're just talking about
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  college and made me think of that also so we
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  got jets number two uh arville raw reese kind
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  of from ohio state is projected right in here
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  The Jets could always use a little more defense,
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  especially with Aaron Glenn there. I could definitely
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  see a position there. Yeah, Cardinals, they got
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  Reuben Bain going there. You did see him play
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  in the national championship game and saw his
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  versatility. Also, Titans are in four, and that's
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  Mangola, if I'm saying that right. I don't know.
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  So, yeah, Miami, oh, tackle. Yeah. Was he the
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  dude with, I think he had the, yeah. Big neck
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  roll? Yeah. After that, you got Giants. It looks
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  like David Bailey out of Texas Tech that kind
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  of pictured there. Cleveland Browns followed
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  up with Carnell Tate from Ohio State, the receiver,
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  which would be really the first, other than the
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  quarterback, skilled position out of the top
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  five. And then the commanders with Jeremiah Love
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  out of Notre Dame. I think he could definitely,
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  because after losing Brian Thomas Jr. Yes. To
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  the 49ers. So they traded him. And then they
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  had Eckler, and then Eckler went down right away.
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  And then Merritt, the rookie, stepped up nicely.
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  But if you pass up a talent line, that'd be a
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  spot where I could see them taking a position
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  for Washington. Yeah. They need a thing. They
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  need a healthy, strong running game to help keep
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  some of the pressure off of Jaden Daniels for
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  sure. Yeah, and when Thomas was rolling for that
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  rookie year, and that's what they thought. He
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  was electric for sure. He was definitely so.
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  We're getting down later, Saints. They got Makai
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  Lemon from USC because there's been talks with
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  Chris Alave maybe departing there or getting
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  traded. So I can see why they're projecting a
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  receiver there. That's interesting. I guess I
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  kind of see it because Alave surprisingly is
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  an older receiver than I think we take for granted
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  or think of. He's still in his rookie case. I
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  don't think he's still in his rookie deal. and
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  they maybe did sign same year as jefferson then
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  because the uh because he's maybe he's a year
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  older than jefferson and then there's he's had
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  the injury like he's see it feels like he's always
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  getting hurt every year which is unfortunate
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  some of it like early on was like concussions
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  and uh and things like that so yeah he's been
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  pretty injury prone so i think also the fans
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  have kind of you know like but when he's healthy
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  he's been pretty decent right yeah the availability
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  is the best ability yeah the old bud grant sign
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  there uh also ninth uh kansas city chiefs probably
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  was the last time they've drafted in the top
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  10 uh cornerback may soar delane of virginia
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  tech on this projection That's a lot of defense
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  going in that top 10. Well, that's kind of the
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  strong point of it. This year, into the draft,
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  it's elite Ed Rusher class, weak on the QB outside
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  of Mendoza, strong receiver and D -line depth.
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  So that's why they're projecting a lot of trades,
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  a lot of trade -outs in this draft. So that kind
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  of wraps up. Oh, yeah, the Bengals coming in
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  at 10th, and they had Walter Nolan from Ole Miss,
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  the old D -tackle. Um, so, and definitely the
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  Bengals need some help on that defensive line,
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  um, just on that defensive side. And so that
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  is kind of your top 10 mock draft. Something
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  to start thinking about because after this next
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  game, uh, that's all we'll be talking about is
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  draft. Yeah. So yeah. Mock drafts, keeping your
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  fingers crossed that, uh, and free agency. That's,
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  that's going to be a whirlwind is a whirlwind
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  too. Yeah, the free agency is fun for a little
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  bit. You get those little spikes here and there.
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  You hear about a guy or then they decide. And
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  then there's like a lull for a moment where,
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  you know, the top ten get signed. And then it's
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  just kind of, you know, oh, that's a nice pick.
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  You know, like Jason Hargrave or Alan we picked
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  up. You know, actually those are big signings
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  for us. So for the Super Bowl, just kind of a
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  little fun facts we're looking at here. Youngest
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  duel of quarterbacks, Sam Darnold and Drake Mays,
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  since Garoppolo versus Mahomes. So, you know,
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  year that Super Bowl was. San Francisco. Four
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  years ago? Okay. Was it, I think? Maybe five.
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  Set in records. Lowest AFC title game in decades,
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  almost, since like 82. Oh, points scored? Points
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  scored on that aspect. Oh, what else did we have
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  fun? It's kind of interesting on the Super Bowl
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  part of it, though, is it's two defensive -minded
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  coaches, which especially in today's NFL, everyone
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  going offense. I have offense wins in the NFL.
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  They've totally switched. To see two defensive
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  -minded coaches make it kind of adds a little
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  interesting twist. Do you think the NFL is shifting
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  now back to defense as the thing, or is the rule
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  makers not going to allow that? We're going to
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  put rules in place to limit. Yeah, to limit head
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  coaching candidacy for defensive coordinators.
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  Yeah, make some kind of quote on that or something
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  like that. But yeah, so... Super Bowl is in a
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  couple weeks from now. We're going to do another
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  show next week. We'll get in depth with all the
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  X's and O's and get all our picks and stuff.
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  So any other final thoughts here before we kind
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  of wrap up today? Yeah, actually something crazy
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  that came through the news line late this afternoon.
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  I wrote it down because that's how late it came
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  through. Bill Belichick was eligible for Hall
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  of Fame induction and he went through voting
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  and he did not get the votes required to be inducted
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  into the Hall of Fame. He ain't going. Bill Belichick
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  is not a first ballot Hall of Fame head coach.
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  Let that sink in. Yeah. What the heck? How many
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  Super Bowls do you think? Does that raise the
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  bar of how many Super Bowls you need to win before?
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  It's got to because he's six Super Bowls, 302
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  regular season wins. 31 playoff wins. He went
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  31 -13 in the playoffs. We talked a little bit
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  before we got on the show of this, of the writers,
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  the ones who determined a lot of this. The writers
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  are probably the ones who wrote about Spygate
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  and Deflategate and like that. They have more
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  of a vendetta against Bill than anything else.
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  This is them showing by not electing by far the
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  best statistic. Coach Everett. I'm curious to
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  know the writers that didn't vote for it. Our
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  local guy didn't. Who? LaValle. Oh, really? Yeah.
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  He talked about it, and that was one of the things.
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  Save the pettiness for the Major League Baseball
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  Hall of Fame voting, please. There we can go
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  there and your PEDs. Yeah. All right, well, for
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  Roberto, we've got Jacob. Thanks for joining
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  us, buddy. Thanks for having me. Kevin behind
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