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Coverage of the Aaron Rodgers Press Conference, Arizona moving from #3 overall, & Christian Gonzalez joins the show · NFL Now

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  Speaker 1: everybody where we are.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do the math.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew I messed it up last hour, twenty nine hours
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  Speaker 1: away from the first overall pick of the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: three NFL Draft. Cannot wait for it to get here.
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  Speaker 1: The Carolina Panthers say they have already figured out who
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  Speaker 1: it is they're going to take.
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  Speaker 2: But they won't tell us. We'll figure out tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: That's Steve whitch My name is Andrews Ciciliano. We are
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  Speaker 1: here in the studio in Los Angeles where it was
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  Speaker 1: a surreal day, a day that we're gonna remember for
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  Speaker 1: a long time in the history of this National Football League.
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  Speaker 1: A day in which Steve Whitche Aaron Rodgers showed up
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  Speaker 1: in New York, held up a number eight Jets jersey
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  Speaker 1: and was on the podium.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean again, if I'm a Packers fan, I'm listening
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  Speaker 4: here like, oh my gosh, I can't believe what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: Then I'm a Jets fan, I'm like, I can't believe.
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  Speaker 2: What I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: It's Aaron Rodgers and the energy and everything that they
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  Speaker 4: showed right there. Andrew he's happy to be there, he's
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  Speaker 4: motivated to be there. He's going to be there all
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  Speaker 4: off season. So just a lot of positive signs for
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  Speaker 4: the Jets here.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot to unpack as well from that press
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  Speaker 2: or roll.
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  Speaker 5: It they smoked us last year, so I knew they
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  Speaker 5: had a good team. We got to practice against them
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  Speaker 5: a couple of years ago, and I got to get
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  Speaker 5: to know Robert a little bit more, and I've always
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  Speaker 5: loved what he's all about. We played him in San
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  Speaker 5: fran a few times and mostly they got the best
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  Speaker 5: of us, but I liked the way that he was leading,
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  Speaker 5: his coaching style. A big reason I'm here, I got
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  Speaker 5: to mention, is Nathaniel Hackett, who's here. Hacke and I
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  Speaker 5: became really close friends for three excuse me, three years
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  Speaker 5: in Green Bay, and I love him like a brother
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  Speaker 5: and I believe in him, and I'm really happy to
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  Speaker 5: be back working with him again. Obviously, Joe's got a
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  Speaker 5: great track record so far. I've drafted some incredible players,
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  Speaker 5: but it takes a system, and obviously Robert has the
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  Speaker 5: right sauce. So I'm excited about getting to work with
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  Speaker 5: him and Brick and Mark Kwan, former teammate of mine,
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  Speaker 5: and it's a great staff. But you know old I'm
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  Speaker 5: an old guy, so I want to be a part
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  Speaker 5: of a team that could win it all, and I
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  Speaker 5: believe that this is a place we can get that done.
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  Speaker 6: Oh here, Rich.
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  Speaker 7: Higher and Rich salmni ESPN. It's been about six weeks. Hey,
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  Speaker 7: it's been about six weeks since you have said on
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  Speaker 7: McAfee that you wanted to play for the Jets. So
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  Speaker 7: I'm just curious. What was it like? This process lasted
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  Speaker 7: a pretty long time, longer than people expected. What was
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  Speaker 7: it like for you waiting the six weeks and was
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  Speaker 7: there any point where you thought maybe that this trade
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  Speaker 7: would not happen. And when did you know for sure
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  Speaker 7: that you were going to be a Jet?
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  Speaker 5: I mean not really. I believe it was going to
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  Speaker 5: happen the entire time, just a matter of I think,
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  Speaker 5: waiting each other out. My intention coming out of the
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  Speaker 5: darkness was to pursue this opportunity, and I enjoyed the
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  Speaker 5: meeting with Woody and Christopher. Came out these two guys
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  Speaker 5: hack and I just got a great feel with all
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  Speaker 5: those guys about the possibility, and as I leaned into it,
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  Speaker 5: getting back into some more strenuous workouts, I just really
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  Speaker 5: believe that this is where I was supposed to be
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  Speaker 5: a lot of things had to come together, and I
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  Speaker 5: believe there was some major synchronization to make this happen.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm excited about the opportunity here. I always believe
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  Speaker 5: this was possible, and things moved pretty quickly on Monday,
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  Speaker 5: and thankfully I'm here now.
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  Speaker 8: Aaron bruce Beck, NBC four, New York, Abris welcome, Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: How driven are you to win for this fan base
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  Speaker 8: which hasn't been to the playoffs since twenty ten, the
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  Speaker 8: longest stretch in professional sports for the Ford different leagues
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  Speaker 8: right now.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's exciting. Just have an incredible passionate fan base.
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  Speaker 5: I saw that last year at Lambeau. Obviously, you know
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  Speaker 5: about Firemanhead and you know his passion for the team.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's an exciting draw to this, as well
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  Speaker 5: as being a part of something special. I grew up
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  Speaker 5: watching old VHS tapes of the Super Bowls and so
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  Speaker 5: obviously I know about the guarantee and Broadway Joe. It's
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  Speaker 5: been a while since then. I noticed walking in this
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  Speaker 5: morning that that Super Bowl three trophy is looking a
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  Speaker 5: little lonely.
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  Speaker 2: So and that's a quote. Hi there.
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  Speaker 1: Judi Batista, who was in the room, spoke to Aaron
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  Speaker 1: afterwards one on one. We'll play a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: that a little bit later. That's a quote I think
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  Speaker 1: that will linger for a while. He said that this
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  Speaker 1: is a team with which he can win a championship,
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  Speaker 1: and the Super Bowl three trophy fifty five years old,
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  Speaker 1: is looking like.
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  Speaker 9: When I talked to Aaron after the press conference, he said, like,
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  Speaker 9: how close do you think this team is to winning?
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  Speaker 9: And he said, I think we are one of the
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  Speaker 9: handful of teams that can win right now. So he
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  Speaker 9: thinks they are ready to go. He's going to be
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  Speaker 9: part of the offseason workouts starting tomorrow. He talked about
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  Speaker 9: getting the team together for team building activities and doing
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  Speaker 9: stuff in the city to get the group together.
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  Speaker 2: He is very excited.
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  Speaker 9: He referenced multiple times the roster that Joe Douglas has
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  Speaker 9: put together, particularly the young players who have been on
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  Speaker 9: this roster now for a year or two.
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  Speaker 2: He is very impressed with that.
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  Speaker 9: He said, Look, the Jets beat the Packers last year,
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  Speaker 9: so they got an up close view of what the
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  Speaker 9: Jets are capable of doing.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, last season didn't end.
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  Speaker 9: Well, but Rogers is really excited to get on the field.
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  Speaker 9: He said, he is going to be a part of
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  Speaker 9: the off season program as much as he can. He
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  Speaker 9: knows that there is an adjustment period. He's very excited
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  Speaker 9: to get started.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and Judy, first off, great job working to that
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  Speaker 4: delay right there.
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  Speaker 2: Bad delay, Yeah, bad delay right there.
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  Speaker 4: But also one of the things that Rogers said, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we really need to hang on was he said a
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  Speaker 4: big reason why he's going to the Jets is his
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  Speaker 4: relationship with offensive coordinating Nathaniel Hackett. They've been together for
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  Speaker 4: three years in Green Bay.
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  Speaker 2: He said he loves him like a brother.
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  Speaker 4: So Rodgers coming annoying the system that Hackett rants, the
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  Speaker 4: same system that they ran in Green Bay. Matt Lafleur
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  Speaker 4: was the head coach there. Mike Laflour is the former
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  Speaker 4: offensive coordinator with the New York Jets who Nathaniel Hackett
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  Speaker 4: is replacing. So they want to kind of get that
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  Speaker 4: relationship going. And I think he wants to show everybody
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  Speaker 4: else the relationship that he has with Nathaniel Hackett, so
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  Speaker 4: other players can buy into Nathaniel Hackett, because the last
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  Speaker 4: memory have of Nathaniel Hackett was him being the head
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  Speaker 4: coach of the Denver Broncos and things not going well there.
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  Speaker 2: So the fact that Aaron.
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  Speaker 4: Rodgers is going to be there in the offseason, he
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  Speaker 4: says he wants to lead by example, to raise the
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  Speaker 4: level of expectation. You know that some of the people
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  Speaker 4: in Green Bay were saying, well, where was this you
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  Speaker 4: know when you were in Green Bay. Well, you know
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  Speaker 4: what it's now in New Jersey because he wants to
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  Speaker 4: show everybody that he can win as an old man.
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  Speaker 4: As he continued to say that he can win with
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  Speaker 4: a new ball club. I mean, I just keep on
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  Speaker 4: hearkening back to this reminds me so much of Tom
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  Speaker 4: Brady leaving New England, going to Tampa Bay and winning
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  Speaker 4: a championship in Tampa Bay. This is clearly what Aaron
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  Speaker 4: Rodgers wants to do. He says he's only focusing on
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  Speaker 4: playing this season, but he's leaving the door open as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and raising the level of play and the level
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  Speaker 1: of football everyone around him. That's something why Johnson said
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning his introductory remarks, he said that Aaron
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  Speaker 1: is going to make everyone around him better. Rogers, who
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  Speaker 1: did speak to Judy afterwards. We'll play some of that
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  Speaker 1: a little bit later. Is inside speaking to reporters right now,
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  Speaker 1: off to the side, and he evidently just told the
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  Speaker 1: writers about that Zach Wilson comment. Remember Zach Wilson asked
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  Speaker 1: last year what happens if Rogers shows up? He says,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to make his life hell off the field
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  Speaker 1: or make his life hell in practice.
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  Speaker 2: He said, quote, He's going to make my life.
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  Speaker 1: Hell in practice, and I'm going to make his life
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  Speaker 1: heaven off the field.
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  Speaker 2: Woo Aaron Rod.
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  Speaker 10: That's good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: That's another reason to go, and we.
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  Speaker 1: Thank Gvatisa fighting through what's felt like a ten second
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  Speaker 1: delay there. Well done, Judy in form Park, Well done
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  Speaker 1: Charles Davis as well his latest mock draft. In his
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  Speaker 1: final mock Draft, version three point zero, it is Bryce
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  Speaker 1: Young at one, Will Anderson at two, and then here's
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  Speaker 1: the curve ball for you. Although this one is gaining
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of steam. Harris Johnson not a defensive
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  Speaker 1: player at three. Paris Johnson, the Ohio State tackle, potentially
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  Speaker 1: Charles Davis going at three, Ian Rappid war Tom Pelliserra
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  Speaker 1: live inside Union Station, our insiders joining us from Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: We've said for a while now the new GM Monnie
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  Speaker 1: Austin fort would likely love to get out right Ian
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  Speaker 1: if there's a run on quarterbacks, obviously someone would have
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  Speaker 1: to want to get up to three for the Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: to get out.
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  Speaker 2: What are we hearing there?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I would say the conversation really starts based on
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  Speaker 10: what the Houston Texans do it too.
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  Speaker 2: If they take CJ.
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  Speaker 10: Stroud their quarterback of the future, then you know, my
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  Speaker 10: guest just canvassing the landscape, Thomas, the Arizona Cardinals would
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  Speaker 10: probably sit and pick. If Stroud is available at three,
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  Speaker 10: then you're going to get several teams with interest and
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  Speaker 10: perhaps we might see a trade Cardinals trade out they
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  Speaker 10: accumulate picks. The Paris Johnson thought is certainly one that
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  Speaker 10: has been gaining steam around the league. The Ohio State
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  Speaker 10: tackle probably the safest, and let's say the consensus number
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  Speaker 10: one tackle for most of the people we speak with,
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  Speaker 10: would not be that maybe surprising a pick considering, you know,
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  Speaker 10: making sure that Kyler Murray. Kyler Murray is in a
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  Speaker 10: good spot in the future is paramount. This organization's only
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  Speaker 10: something he would like. But for the Arizona Cardinals, yes
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  Speaker 10: they would like to trade out, but of course that
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  Speaker 10: all begins with what actually happens right before they go.
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  Speaker 11: And you also have to remember, in order to trade down,
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  Speaker 11: somebody has to trade up, and generally speaking, those trades
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  Speaker 11: up rarely occur if they're not four quarterbacks. And that's
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  Speaker 11: what you're talking about, which is if it's CJ. Stroud
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  Speaker 11: at number two, that potentially may limit the options for
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  Speaker 11: Arizona to get out of number three. The other thing
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  Speaker 11: to keep in mind why do we see so few
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  Speaker 11: trades at all in the top ten is the cost
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  Speaker 11: not just in terms of the picks to move up,
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  Speaker 11: which can be substantial, especially if you're trying to jump seven, eight, nine,
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  Speaker 11: ten spots, but also the money is so huge at
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  Speaker 11: the top of the draft, not as big as it
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  Speaker 11: was back in twenty ten, two thousand and nine, but
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  Speaker 11: like it's still multimillion dollar jump just to move a
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  Speaker 11: couple of spots here. So keep all that in mind
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  Speaker 11: as Arizona examines its options, which may not entirely crystallize
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  Speaker 11: andrew until they're on the.
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  Speaker 1: Clock exactly depending on really what happens at two, and
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  Speaker 1: depending on what everyone really does think about the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: seeing I mean, we've spent months talking about im and
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  Speaker 1: analyzing i've and writing about them, but what these teams
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  Speaker 1: think about them, no one truly knows. So are these
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks gonna fall? I mean, are we going to get
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  Speaker 1: like one, two, three four quarterback like people fought months ago?
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  Speaker 2: But that seems unlikely.
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  Speaker 10: It seems unlikely to me that we get one, two,
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  Speaker 10: three four quarterbacks. Probably in more likely scenario is two,
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  Speaker 10: maybe three. Obviously, depending on what the Houston Texas do
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  Speaker 10: at number two, maybe three go in the top four,
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  Speaker 10: and then you're gonna have one quarterback. Maybe it's Will Levis,
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  Speaker 10: maybe it's Anthony Richardson. Maybe I guess it'd probably be
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  Speaker 10: just one of those two. And if that happens, you
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  Speaker 10: might see a quarterback if it's one of those two,
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  Speaker 10: slip into the teens, and then it's gonna get really
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  Speaker 10: really fascinating. Let's say it's Anthony richards and we know
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  Speaker 10: that several of the teams in the teens have done
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  Speaker 10: work on quarterbacks. From Troy Lyons, the Minnesota Vikings, from
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  Speaker 10: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Obviously Seattle has number five, but
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  Speaker 10: they also have a later pick as well. It's really
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  Speaker 10: gonna be fascinating to see who decides to come up
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  Speaker 10: for a quarterback. And the reason I say come up is,
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  Speaker 10: rarely does.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone just sit.
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  Speaker 10: If it's a quarterback, you think he's a part of
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  Speaker 10: your future. Rarely are you patient. More likely you're impatient
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  Speaker 10: to leap up and get your guy.
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  Speaker 11: And while there's really consensus and has been within the
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  Speaker 11: league that Bryce Young is the number one quarterback and
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  Speaker 11: consensus at CJ stru is the number two quarterback, you
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  Speaker 11: talk to different people and they've I've got Will Levis
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  Speaker 11: and Anthony Richardson in some cases even Hendon Hooker in
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  Speaker 11: different orders. So it's going to depend not just on
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  Speaker 11: which quarterback falls, but who down there potentially is going
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  Speaker 11: to come up for him. You mentioned the Vikings. There
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  Speaker 11: have been rumors about them making a big jump up.
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  Speaker 11: I don't anticipate that happening unless there's some world in
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  Speaker 11: which Bryce Young does not go number one overall, which
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  Speaker 11: we all anticipate that he is going to to the
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  Speaker 11: Carolina Panthers. But to your point, once those guys start
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  Speaker 11: to reach into the teens, positional value comes into play,
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  Speaker 11: and if you're a Seattle they've looked at all the quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 11: they may not feel like we need to take one
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  Speaker 11: at number five. The positional value to take one at
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  Speaker 11: number twenty when Gino Smith is really on a one
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  Speaker 11: year contract might make a whole lot more sense.
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  Speaker 1: There has been only one of the thirty two GMS
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  Speaker 1: that has said with certainty, I will take player acts
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  Speaker 1: at a certain position, and that was Andrew Berry in
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland who said, if Will Anderson is there at seventy four,
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  Speaker 1: I'm taking him at seventy four, which won't happen.
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  Speaker 2: Would be a good pick, Yeah, it would be a
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  Speaker 2: great pick.
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  Speaker 1: So let's figure out Jalen carter ian because the range
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  Speaker 1: he could go is is pretty big.
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  Speaker 2: What are you hearing?
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  Speaker 10: I would say the range is probably somewhere from five
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  Speaker 10: up a little bit past ten, and you're right. Definitely
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  Speaker 10: one of the draft's biggest wild cards. Agent Jirozenhaus has
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  Speaker 10: come out publicly and said, tell me about a week
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  Speaker 10: ago or I don't know whatever that was. He feels
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  Speaker 10: like a month ago that he's only having Carter visit
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  Speaker 10: teams in the top ten because that is where he
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  Speaker 10: believes he would go, and certainly that is a possibility
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  Speaker 10: of the Seahawks at five. They've been all the homework
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  Speaker 10: on him. You have the Raiders at seven, Falcons at eight,
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  Speaker 10: Bears at nine, and obviously the Eagles, which would be
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  Speaker 10: really really fascinating at ten. All of those teams have
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  Speaker 10: done all the homework. But what Tom if he gets
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  Speaker 10: to ten, does someone say that he goes You know what,
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  Speaker 10: he's such a good player. Obviously with all the baggage,
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  Speaker 10: we're just gonna trade up and take him. That's really
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  Speaker 10: where it gets interesting to me.
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  Speaker 11: I don't see any scenario which he gets past the
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  Speaker 11: middle of the first round. It just seems like the
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  Speaker 11: value at the position and there really is no other
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  Speaker 11: clear Sorry to bother you you, okay, I'm just checking
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  Speaker 11: that ja Oly Carter is too talented and there's too
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  Speaker 11: much scarcity in terms of that position for him to
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  Speaker 11: drop beyond you know, if you get into the again
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  Speaker 11: the middle of that first round of the draft. B
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  Speaker 11: John Robinson is another interesting one. We talk about positional value.
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  Speaker 11: He is one of the top prospects in this whole draft.
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  Speaker 11: Running Backs generally do not have the positional value of
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  Speaker 11: some other spots. But again, if you look down toward
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  Speaker 11: the late teens the early twenties, there's a bunch of
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  Speaker 11: teams there who could argue for a running back. He's
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  Speaker 11: got a lot of big fans. But that's also one
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  Speaker 11: of the untold stories every year in the draft, Andrew,
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  Speaker 11: which is teams at some point are kind of crossing
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  Speaker 11: off the guys they think will be gone. This is
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  Speaker 11: the time of year why we get all the calls
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  Speaker 11: from GMS and coaches and other people talking through the draft,
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  Speaker 11: which is who potentially might fall that we weren't even
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  Speaker 11: thinking of a couple of days ago. We might have
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  Speaker 11: to do just that little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Of extra work.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, b John Robinson has Rookie of the Year of talent.
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  Speaker 1: He has all pro talent. So someone's going to take him.
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  Speaker 1: Question is when how long is he going to be
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  Speaker 1: waiting in that room? Thank you a rappaport, Tom Pelsero, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: we appreciate it. Coming up, ho about Christian Gonzalez, how
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  Speaker 1: early does he hear his name called? The Oregon corner
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  Speaker 1: is standing by and he is joining us.
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  Speaker 12: Coming up, brought and separate Christian Gonzalez cornerback twenty two
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  Speaker 12: first team All Pat twelve er stampas.
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  Speaker 2: Once again, Gonzales.
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  Speaker 4: Step for step with these outside receivers.
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  Speaker 1: He's one of the best corners in the draft, picked
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  Speaker 1: off four passes last year for the Oregon Ducks. He
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  Speaker 1: is already in Kansas City. He is going to walk
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  Speaker 1: that red carpet tomorrow. Christian Gonzalez joins us now ahead
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  Speaker 1: of the draft. Christian, have you thought about what that
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  Speaker 1: moment is going to be like yet? When you hear
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: your name and you get up there and you give
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: the commissioner a hug?
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean a lot, probably emotional, all a little bit.
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: Got the side to the case my allergies that you.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Know, Wait, do you think the allergies are going to
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: get to you?
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: I don't know they hate me yet, but we might get.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: It happens.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: Man, don't don't don't worry about that, and just say
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: you're in Kansas City.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: You know there's a lot of mold in the air.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: I'm from Missouri, so I do know that. But but Christian, you.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: Know, how is how has this this process been leading
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: up to this moment? Like when you talk to these teams,
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: is there any one thing they want to talk to you?
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: Most about.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: They always talk to me about just being a lazy
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: back guy.
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: I was that translated, but I was telling it's it's
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: anytime the lines. They know that, but they just want
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: to see how I comes and tell them that.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, because you're Christian, your laid back. You're leaning
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: back right now. You don't have the loudest voice here,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: and that's kind of different for a corner, right, I mean,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: corners are loud.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Corners get in your face.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I know that's a cliche, but that's what these coaches
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: are used to coaching. Do you have to do something
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: to show them that you could be the loudest guy
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: in the room.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Do you feel the need to.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: I don't never need to be the loudest in the room,
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: just as long as it's turned on anytime we do
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: anything competitive.
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: I'm a different type of guy. So it just clicked
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: talking about it.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: It just clicks.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Christian.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Why the uptick internal interceptions once you transferred from Colorado
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: to Oregon?
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just actually just finishing the play. I knew I
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: had great bass skills, great hands. I always trusted them.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Just finally finishing the play and I was able to make.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Those work, all right, I know, you don't know where
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: you're going, Christian, I don't know if you're going three.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: But let's play the game here. The Cardinals do need
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: a corner.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Your brother in law, David Blow is a Cardinal as
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: right now, remember from the Lions obviously, but he is
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: on the Cardinals roster. Have you wrapped your head around
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: the possibility of playing with your brother in law.
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: I have.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: We talked about it as a whole family. It's been crazy,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: the fact that's definitely a possibility.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: It would be really cool. We'll see what happens.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: And there he is with your sister Melissa, who obviously
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: we saw in Hard Knocks a couple of years ago
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: and Olympian and that was such a great moment with
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: him and his teammates watching in Detroit.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Does everyone want you there?
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Because I would think, like that's kind of weird, like you.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Come home like hey, what did my brothers say? The
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: other way around?
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Like, hey, like, is is it a totally good thing
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: to be there?
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Definitely, I mean it's a totally good thing to be anywhere,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: but but yeah, with him, it be it'd be crazy.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: Definitely, someone that could lean on you, show me.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: He hadn't been in the league, show me the ways,
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: but it would be it'd be real fun.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: Well smack talk.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: All right, well, possibility.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: They're sitting there at three, you're sitting there also in
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: front of a nice big head and shoulder side of
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the wall behind you.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Tell us what you're doing with them, Christian.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, here head and shoulders of the P ANDNG line.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: They are just helping us highlight really are our hair
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: styles and just making sure everything look great for tomorrow night.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Definitely gonna look good.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I remember you told the story a couple of years
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: ago the draft was in Dallas and someone said to you, man,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: that could be you one day on that stage in
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: that building. And now you are in Kansas City with
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: a chance of getting on that stage tomorrow night night
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: number one. Christian Gonzales, Good luck to you, sir, have
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: fun to God, love Christian, Thank you, Christian Gonzales. Everyone
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: corner from Ore again. Anthony Richardson is also in Kansas City.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah called him a lottery tickets Alaska's coach of Florida,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Philly Napier.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Just how big that payoff would be?
• 20:24
  Speaker 12: Gusika Tounson, Enron Louse Ritchridson going the House touchdown Anthony
• 20:32
  Speaker 12: Richardson Quarterback SEC All Freshman Team.
• 20:37
  Speaker 13: Anthony Richardson, and you see what he's capable of doing.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: One of the best of.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: One of those fascinating prospects, one of the most fascinating.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Quarterbacks we have seen come along in a long long time.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson on our mos anywhere from four DJ has
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: him going to Indianapolis down to twenty two. How about
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: that learning behind Lamar Jackson at Baltimore. Who knows he
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: has that much talent? This guy saw the talent up close.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Head coach of the Florida Gators, Billy Napier joints us
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: coach takes for taking the time. DJ called your quarterback
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: a lottery ticket like Matt if it hits, lookout, how
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: big would that payoff be if this lottery ticket hits
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: for an NFL team?
• 21:22
  Speaker 14: Well, I mean you're talking about generational talent, right, I
• 21:26
  Speaker 14: mean the guy completely destroyed every record from a measurement
• 21:31
  Speaker 14: standpoint at the NFL Combine. And you know, you spend
• 21:34
  Speaker 14: time with Anthony, You're going to learn that this guy's
• 21:36
  Speaker 14: extremely bright. He was a great teammate, you know, voted
• 21:39
  Speaker 14: team captain by his peers and really just a humble
• 21:44
  Speaker 14: guy that you know is twenty years old.
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 21:46
  Speaker 14: The potential here is limitless, So no surprise to me
• 21:52
  Speaker 14: that he's once the interview process is started. This guy
• 21:56
  Speaker 14: has vaulted up the boards. And we're really proud of Anthony.
• 22:00
  Speaker 14: That was a tough decision for him to decide to leave,
• 22:03
  Speaker 14: but he will always be a gay and we're extremely proud.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Coach. Can can Anthony play it?
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Any type of system will work. Will NFL team have
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: to kind of scheme what they do to his overall strengths?
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: No, I think.
• 22:17
  Speaker 14: I think mentally the guy has no there's no issue
• 22:21
  Speaker 14: there at all. I mean, you'd be remiss if he
• 22:25
  Speaker 14: didn't talk about the athletic ability. I mean, I can
• 22:28
  Speaker 14: think he can go throw to throw with any any
• 22:31
  Speaker 14: player in the drafts. But this guy is a legitimate
• 22:34
  Speaker 14: runner at six foot four, two hundred and fifty pounds.
• 22:36
  Speaker 14: I mean he can, he can. He's a one play
• 22:40
  Speaker 14: touchdown player. You know, this guy can go seventy five
• 22:42
  Speaker 14: yards for a touchdown. So I think you're seeing more
• 22:45
  Speaker 14: of the college game translate to the NFL with these
• 22:48
  Speaker 14: athletic quarterbacks, and Anthony is a part of that kind
• 22:51
  Speaker 14: of that next generation of players. So I think you
• 22:56
  Speaker 14: build around what he can do. And there's that's a
• 22:58
  Speaker 14: long list of things.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Coach tell me about the leadership camp. Wolf is about
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: to join us as a great piece right now. In
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: NFL dot Com, there's a story in there about after
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: you guys lost to Georgia didn't go well, he got
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: up in front of the team and he kind of asked, like,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: why are we here?
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Are you guys going to do this? Are we going
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: to do this?
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: And the quote was if y'all really don't want to
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: do this, this is Richardson talking to the team. Let
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: me know right now because I will quit this bleep
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and be a firefighter.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: What kind of leader is Anthony Richardson? Well, I think
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: much like much like he is a player.
• 23:35
  Speaker 14: You know, he's a young man, right so I think
• 23:37
  Speaker 14: he's grown in that regard significantly last year with the experience,
• 23:41
  Speaker 14: you know, so, but I think Anthony is from right
• 23:45
  Speaker 14: here in Jamesville, Florida. You know, he's had a unique
• 23:49
  Speaker 14: experience COVID and his freshman year twenty twenty twenty one.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Was a unique year.
• 23:54
  Speaker 14: And then here we go first year starter, And I
• 23:58
  Speaker 14: thought he really grew as a leader as the season went,
• 24:01
  Speaker 14: much like he grew as a football player. So I
• 24:04
  Speaker 14: think this guy very capable. He can connect with anybody,
• 24:08
  Speaker 14: and I think he has the character. He cares about
• 24:12
  Speaker 14: the team, and I don't think there's going to be
• 24:14
  Speaker 14: any issue with leadership. If anything, going to be a
• 24:17
  Speaker 14: strength for Anthony.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Coach, you know, you've got extensive work with quarterbacks. You've
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: done it for years. You know, that's what you do
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: when Anthony gets to the next level.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: What type of.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Position coach do you think he needs in terms of
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: relating to him to get the most out of him.
• 24:34
  Speaker 14: You know, Anthony just needs continuity and system. He needs structure,
• 24:38
  Speaker 14: he needs routine. You know, I think more importantly, what
• 24:43
  Speaker 14: other quarterbacks are in the room too, to go with
• 24:45
  Speaker 14: the coach. I think there's some of that as well.
• 24:48
  Speaker 14: But you know, I think Anthony is a guy who
• 24:51
  Speaker 14: responds well to lots of different teachers. You know, he
• 24:54
  Speaker 14: certainly had three different quarterback coaches in his time at Florida,
• 25:00
  Speaker 14: and I think Anthony would benefit from experience. A guy
• 25:02
  Speaker 14: that's been around the league, that's been under stands what's required.
• 25:06
  Speaker 14: You know, throughout the off season, and certainly within the season.
• 25:09
  Speaker 14: So Anthony's gonna respond well to about any coach.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Billy last thing for it.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Obviously he's not the only Gator who might hear his
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: name called. You might have Osirens, torret Oh, Cyrus, Torrance Bega,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: pardon his name called Tomorrow.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: There's Garage, there's dexter.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Overall, what is this rap name for the Florida program,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: especially if you hear a couple of names called early
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow Night.
• 25:31
  Speaker 14: Well, it's a really good group, certainly a group that
• 25:35
  Speaker 14: cares about Florida, that took great pride and representing the
• 25:37
  Speaker 14: state of Florida in the University of Florida. But you know,
• 25:41
  Speaker 14: these guys were in our first year. They provided leadership,
• 25:44
  Speaker 14: they provided example, and we're proud of them, you know.
• 25:50
  Speaker 14: And really these are always good days, especially when you've
• 25:53
  Speaker 14: been around a young man for a long time like Savo,
• 25:57
  Speaker 14: you've been through the entire process. That's probably one of
• 26:00
  Speaker 14: the more gratifying things that you get to experience as
• 26:02
  Speaker 14: a coach. So it's a good group and we're looking
• 26:06
  Speaker 14: forward to see where they end up at.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Big Night for Florida coming up tomorrow. Billy Napier head
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: coach of the Gators. We appreciate your time man, thanks
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: for joining.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Thanks coach, Thank you guys.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Have a great day you too as we continue in
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: NFL now and I mentioned that article the Cam Wolf wrote,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: highly recommend it. I read it this morning. It's long,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: it is worth your time. So many good anecdotes from
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: cam Wolf on this quarterback, who, like I said, Daniel
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Jeremiah called a lottery ticket and the payoff will be huge.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: There's the story there about saying, hey, I will be
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: a firefighter.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I'll go back to doing that.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: There's great stuff in there Cam as well about his
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: relationship with his little brother Corey, where he's almost like
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: a son to Anthony.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Andrew, thank you for the love.
• 26:54
  Speaker 13: By the way, it's a lot of details in that story,
• 26:56
  Speaker 13: but the first thing you think about with Anthony Richardson
• 26:59
  Speaker 13: is how he looks. I'm telling you, if you stand
• 27:01
  Speaker 13: next to him, he looks bigger than you think.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: He throws the ball further.
• 27:05
  Speaker 13: Than you think. And he told me I'm not human.
• 27:08
  Speaker 13: I'm liking alien. I don't think I can compare it
• 27:10
  Speaker 13: to anyone. And I also saw his humility as he
• 27:13
  Speaker 13: worked on the field with his mechanics, his accuracy, to
• 27:16
  Speaker 13: try to erase some of those question marks people may
• 27:18
  Speaker 13: have about him. And he's made growth in those areas.
• 27:22
  Speaker 13: And you talked about some of the stories, whether it
• 27:24
  Speaker 13: be him inside the Florida locker room crying, relating to
• 27:27
  Speaker 13: his team, or.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: With his brother.
• 27:29
  Speaker 13: But I also want to share the final nugget that
• 27:32
  Speaker 13: he told me about what he wants in this new coach.
• 27:34
  Speaker 13: He said, I don't want to be baby. I want
• 27:36
  Speaker 13: somebody that's going to push me and get the most
• 27:38
  Speaker 13: out of me and get that greatness out of me.
• 27:41
  Speaker 13: And I think people around the league see that potential
• 27:43
  Speaker 13: in them. I'm here in the Carolina Panthers facility. I
• 27:46
  Speaker 13: actually asked their GM Scott Fitterer, about his scouting report
• 27:49
  Speaker 13: on Richardson, and he said, he is very smart. He's
• 27:52
  Speaker 13: further along growth wise than maybe we initially thought, and
• 27:55
  Speaker 13: he is going to be able to contribute to a
• 27:58
  Speaker 13: team and be a very productive player. So he may
• 28:00
  Speaker 13: not be the guy here, but there are people around
• 28:02
  Speaker 13: the league who are very high on his potential.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: That line there about being an alien right at the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: top of your story again the stories on NFL dot Com.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: So he may not be the guy there you are
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: in Carolina. No alien landing tomorrow. We still think Bryce Young.
• 28:19
  Speaker 13: Andrew I want to paint a picture for you. They
• 28:20
  Speaker 13: just came off the practice facility for Veteran Mini Camp
• 28:23
  Speaker 13: about an hour ago and owner David Tepper is sitting
• 28:26
  Speaker 13: there watching practice. This is pouring down rain there and
• 28:29
  Speaker 13: Frank W. Reich talked to us about thirty minutes ago.
• 28:32
  Speaker 13: He raved about the support that Temper has given them
• 28:34
  Speaker 13: throughout the process. They had a meeting with him, Scott's Fitterer,
• 28:38
  Speaker 13: Reich and Temper today and they told them who their
• 28:41
  Speaker 13: number one pick is. And I talked to Scott Fitterer
• 28:43
  Speaker 13: earlier today who said there was about a five second
• 28:46
  Speaker 13: meeting I had with Reike Monday telling him who my
• 28:50
  Speaker 13: pick is. He told me who his pick is. And
• 28:52
  Speaker 13: now we're all on the same page. So they have
• 28:54
  Speaker 13: a consensus. But they've made it clear they're not going
• 28:56
  Speaker 13: to make that announcement until Thursday at eight pm. I
• 28:59
  Speaker 13: continue to hear talking with people here and across the league.
• 29:02
  Speaker 13: Is expected to be Alabama's Bryce Young. Final note from Reich.
• 29:06
  Speaker 13: He discussed the characteristics and traits that he and Fitterer
• 29:09
  Speaker 13: looked for in a quarterback. He discussed the grit, the
• 29:12
  Speaker 13: playmaking ability, the X factor, a lot of the elements
• 29:15
  Speaker 13: that sound like some young quarterback that is eligible to
• 29:19
  Speaker 13: be picked.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Yes, you know they're in the common draft. Era has
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: never been an Alabama player going number one overall. I
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: know that's absurd, but that's true. Common Draft ara since
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven. Kis no, I know why, it's really
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: it's true. Hadi's like double checked it fifteen times. It's bonkers,
• 29:38
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