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The Insiders Podcast: Trevor Lawrence's New Contract and Ravens S Marcus Williams Joins the Show · NFL Game Previews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Insiders. Mike Garralfalo.
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  Speaker 2: Here we have some company joining us momentarily. Stacey Dale's
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  Speaker 2: is on the way. Brian Baldingers on the way. Bridge
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  Speaker 2: of contents on the way.
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  Speaker 1: Hurry up, I need some help, folks.
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  Speaker 2: We also have interviews later in the program with the
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  Speaker 2: Ravens at Marcus Williams and the Vikings cam buying them.
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  Speaker 2: But right now we ripped through some news. Yes, we've
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  Speaker 2: got news. Even in the supposed dead period between mini
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  Speaker 2: camp and the start of training camp, we had some
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  Speaker 2: news today. Let's start with Ramandre Stevenson, the Patriots running back.
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  Speaker 2: It's a four year, thirty six million dollar deal, seventeen
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  Speaker 2: million in guarantees according to our ian Rappaport, that can
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  Speaker 2: get up to forty eight million with all of the
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  Speaker 2: incentives in the deal. It is a good number for
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  Speaker 2: that running back market, and the Patriots happy to reward Stevenson,
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  Speaker 2: whom they expect plenty of production moving forward. So to
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  Speaker 2: the Jets, the Jets expect Aaron Rodgers to produce. Woody
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  Speaker 2: Johnson had a post today on x in which he
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  Speaker 2: said Rogers looked as good as ever this spring.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the Hitten.
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  Speaker 2: Message here is Yes, I know there was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of hand ringing over the fact that Rogers wasn't here
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  Speaker 2: during Mini camp. Everybody from ownership down in the Jets
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  Speaker 2: organization not worried about that at all, untild There's also
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  Speaker 2: a possibility Rogers could organize a throwing session with some
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  Speaker 2: of his targets potential in the next couple of weeks
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  Speaker 2: to maybe catch up.
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  Speaker 1: One potentially lost time.
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  Speaker 2: But no one is worried about the mis reps for
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  Speaker 2: Rogers inside that building, that's for sure. And then this
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  Speaker 2: one official, Trevor Lawrence along with his wife there signing
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  Speaker 2: a five year, two hundred and seventy five million dollar
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  Speaker 2: contract extension that ties him with Joe Burrow at the
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  Speaker 2: top of the quarterback market fifty five million dollars per season.
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  Speaker 2: Other quarterbacks behind him looking to jump that number, but
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  Speaker 2: for now, Lawrence on top, however, says it won't change him.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to add any pressure to myself just
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  Speaker 3: based on getting this contract. It doesn't really change what
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  Speaker 3: I expected myself and what the team expects to me.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, whether this guy done or not, you know,
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  Speaker 3: mister Kahn, Trent Doug, everyone, all the coaches expect me
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  Speaker 3: to play well and like I said, to bring a
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  Speaker 3: championship here eventually. So I know that's the that's the
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  Speaker 3: end goal, and that's what I'm here for. I'm really
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  Speaker 3: excited about. I think this is definitely the best team
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  Speaker 3: that we've had here in my eyes, just at this
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  Speaker 3: point in the year from what I've seen if, I
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  Speaker 3: feel very confident in that. So yeah, I think all
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  Speaker 3: those things and the building blocks that we have and
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  Speaker 3: the I guess players that you build around, the type
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  Speaker 3: of leaders and the type of people, that's what I
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  Speaker 3: feel the most confidence in really is the we have
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  Speaker 3: good people here, and I think that's important to having success.
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  Speaker 2: Don't put a hat on such a good head of hair,
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  Speaker 2: let that thing flow. Shane Stichin please with what he
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  Speaker 2: sees from Anthony Richardson, but says he needs to be
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  Speaker 2: smart and when to get down when he's running the football,
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  Speaker 2: and they do expect to use his legs as part
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  Speaker 2: of their offense, but get down, don't get yourself hurt
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  Speaker 2: like he did early last season. Stacy Dale's joining me
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  Speaker 2: here comes Brian Baldinger as well. Stacy heard me talk
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  Speaker 2: about how they planned to use his dual skill set
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  Speaker 2: this season, how they hope to keep him healthy as well.
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  Speaker 2: Your thoughts on what you're hearing from the cults as
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  Speaker 2: far as what they expect from Anthony Richardson in year two, Well.
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  Speaker 4: There's big expectations, gentlemen, and this is going to be
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  Speaker 4: one of the most fascinating players that we follow through
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  Speaker 4: training camp. Mark my words on this because with his
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  Speaker 4: shoulder injury, Like we know, he's built like a brick house.
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  Speaker 4: He's had a couple tiny little cracks along the way
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  Speaker 4: to the start of his NFL career, and so there's
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  Speaker 4: a delicate balance for the Colts of like they pulled
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  Speaker 4: him out of the last day of Mini caamp he
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  Speaker 4: had some soreness in that right shoulder. Hey, we don't
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  Speaker 4: want to take any risks. Remember what they went through
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  Speaker 4: with Andrew Luck and all those injury issues. They have
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  Speaker 4: been cautious moving forward with him, but Richardson has been
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  Speaker 4: a out of schedule.
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  Speaker 5: He wants to be out there.
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  Speaker 4: So Baldy and Mike what do they do in training camp?
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely let him let it rip or pull him back,
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  Speaker 4: pull back the reins a little bit. Just remember this
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  Speaker 4: week one against the Jags. We just heard from Trevor Lawrence.
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  Speaker 4: Last year, he was pulled out of that game for
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  Speaker 4: nieces RNIS. Week two against Houston, he had the concussion
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  Speaker 4: therefore missed Week three, and then it was the Week
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  Speaker 4: five game against Tennessee in which he suffered that right
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  Speaker 4: shoulder injury that required surgery. Again, he has been ahead
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  Speaker 4: of schedule. But Baldy, how much do the Colts.
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  Speaker 5: Hold him back?
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  Speaker 4: I cannot wait to go to see him in training
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  Speaker 4: him in Carmel, Indiana with you, hopefully to see just
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  Speaker 4: how this thing plays out with the expectations around him.
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  Speaker 6: We've had some good visits ind those cornfields out there
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  Speaker 6: in Indiana and Stacey over the years. I'm bullish on
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  Speaker 6: the Colts. I think that shade Stike in Anthony Richardson
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  Speaker 6: is a dynamic combination. Yes, he's got to know how
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  Speaker 6: to protect himself. Every quarterback that runs like he does
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  Speaker 6: has to learn that, and sometimes.
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  Speaker 7: You learn it the hard way.
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  Speaker 6: I remember Week four last year against the Rams in
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  Speaker 6: one of the great games last year, they were down
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  Speaker 6: twenty three with si six minutes to go in the
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  Speaker 6: third quarter, and they came back and tied the game
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  Speaker 6: because of Anthony Richardson. And now I mean a year
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  Speaker 6: ago this time, Jonathan Taylor didn't want to be there.
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  Speaker 6: Now he's back healthy, under contract, offensive line returns in tack,
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  Speaker 6: receiving corps returns in tac in addition to the rookie
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  Speaker 6: Ady Mitchell. Like, this offense is built to fly, and
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  Speaker 6: I think that they're going to be highly competitive. Gus
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  Speaker 6: Bradley on the other side, the ball knows what he's doing.
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  Speaker 6: They got the best, the number one defensive player in
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  Speaker 6: this draft, and lot too.
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  Speaker 7: I feel good about this Colts team.
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  Speaker 6: And I know it's mid June stacy, but I just
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  Speaker 6: feel like this guy is special and I.
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  Speaker 7: Think we're going to see a special play from Anthony
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  Speaker 7: this year.
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  Speaker 5: I agree.
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  Speaker 2: The Colts becoming the fashionable pick to be the surprise
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  Speaker 2: team in the AFC control room that way.
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  Speaker 1: All they knew it.
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  Speaker 2: They knew see they heard it, and they said, let's
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  Speaker 2: now go to Joe Burrow and Justin Jefferson at Paris
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  Speaker 2: Fashion Week. There they are right there, Yeah, looking pretty
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  Speaker 2: fashionable there.
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  Speaker 1: I got a little bit of the.
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  Speaker 2: Black on, you got the villain on Joe Burrow, you
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  Speaker 2: got the white for the hero. And Justin Jefferson they
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  Speaker 2: a little thing going on right there, Baggie is back,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Control Room on that one.
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  Speaker 1: You know who else is back, Bridget Condon.
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  Speaker 2: She is back with the Insiders and she is joining
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  Speaker 2: us to talk Bengals alongside Baldy their reaction to being
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  Speaker 2: one of the teams. We got Marcus Williams the Raven
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  Speaker 2: Safety coming up with their reaction to being one of
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  Speaker 2: the teams in the AFC North featured in this Hard
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  Speaker 2: Knocks this year.
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  Speaker 8: Mike, I'm just a little upset that we didn't get
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  Speaker 8: the invite to Fashion Week. I guess we got to
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  Speaker 8: step up our game here on the Insiders. But a
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  Speaker 8: lot of people that I talked to they were shocked
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  Speaker 8: to get the invitation to Hard Knocks, like we would
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  Speaker 8: be shocked to get the invitation to Fashion Week. Anyways,
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  Speaker 8: let's get going. Yeah, they were shocked, but excited. I mean,
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  Speaker 8: you talk about the AFC North, this is one of
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  Speaker 8: the best divisions in the NFL, So they're excited that
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  Speaker 8: they're going to finally have this spotlight.
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  Speaker 5: And a lot of people I talked.
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  Speaker 8: To believe that this is a good thing for the Bengals.
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  Speaker 8: One storyline that we of course will hear about during
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  Speaker 8: Hard knocks is Joe Burrow's health. He's working back from
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  Speaker 8: that wrist injury, and one person in the building that
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  Speaker 8: I talked to this week told me that they felt
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  Speaker 8: like it was no issue during mini camp, saying that
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  Speaker 8: his accuracy, his velocity is the same. They even called
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  Speaker 8: him bigger and stronger than in years past. Another storyline
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  Speaker 8: that we'll hear about, of course, is T Higgins, who
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  Speaker 8: recently signed his franchise tag tender. He and Joe Burrow
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  Speaker 8: came into the league together in twenty twenty. They have
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  Speaker 8: the tenth most first downs and tenth most yards together
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  Speaker 8: of any wide receiver and quarterbacks, so it'll be really
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  Speaker 8: interesting to see how they talk about that storyline. I
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  Speaker 8: did hear T Higgins super excited to be back with
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  Speaker 8: the Bengals despite not being able to work out a
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  Speaker 8: long term deal for now.
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  Speaker 6: Ritchie, you know, the Bengals were not in eight last year,
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  Speaker 6: finished with the winning record in the toughest of vision
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  Speaker 6: in football, but they were one and five in their division.
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  Speaker 7: They need a healthy Joe Burrow, you know, incomes Trent Brown,
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  Speaker 7: incomes Amarus vim As. You knew I was going offense
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  Speaker 7: line here.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, defenders are gonna have hard time finding Joe
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  Speaker 6: Burrow behind that magine o line that they're building up front.
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  Speaker 6: And if you give Joe Burrow time, whether t Higgins
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  Speaker 6: is in the lineup, he's going to find the open receiver.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, remember last year the famous line from Jamar
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  Speaker 6: Chase when he said I'm open. I'm always bleeping open.
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  Speaker 6: And with Joe Burrow, he's always bleeping open. So they're
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  Speaker 6: going to find the open receiver. If this offensive line
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  Speaker 6: could come together and they give Joe Burrow protection, look
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  Speaker 6: out afc Nor They're back. They're I mean, they're all
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  Speaker 6: the way back because he's just that good and he's
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  Speaker 6: just that accurate. And so I'm glad he's enjoying Fashion
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  Speaker 6: Week right now because.
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  Speaker 7: This thing is going to eat up pretty soon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's something.
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  Speaker 2: There's some kind of feeling in Cincinnati that last season
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  Speaker 2: got taken away from them and they're grateful to have
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  Speaker 2: Joe back, and they've got that energy almost some kind
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  Speaker 2: of revenge type thing, even though it was a freak
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  Speaker 2: type injury. So let's see if the Bengals can turn
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  Speaker 2: that motivation into wins. In twenty twenty four. Speaking of
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  Speaker 2: the team against which Joe Burrow was playing against the
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  Speaker 2: Baltimore Ravens. There's Lamar Jackson, there's some of the work
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  Speaker 2: in the spring. We're going to talk to Marcus Williams,
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  Speaker 2: the Ravens safety, about what to expect on both sides
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  Speaker 2: of the ball from the Ravens. Next, all right, they
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  Speaker 2: have the Ravens training camp opening July twenty first. That
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  Speaker 2: is early as it relates to the rest of the NFL,
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  Speaker 2: so it is right around the corner. I'm telling you
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be inside training camp coverage here on NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Networks before you even know it.
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  Speaker 2: Before Marcus Williams even knows that the Ravens safety joining
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  Speaker 2: us live. He's in the NFL network studios in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 1: Baldiger. Baldy and I Brian Boldiger are remote. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to chop this up, but I'll tell you this.
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  Speaker 2: Every year, one of the earliest things, if not the
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  Speaker 2: earliest thing on the summer schedule is the Baltimore Ravens
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  Speaker 2: rookies reporting the training camp. It's like the Ravens every
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  Speaker 2: year cannot wait to get going. Marcus, what do you
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  Speaker 2: tell these rookies that are going to be there July
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  Speaker 2: thirteenth seis man.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, they just got to get in there and
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  Speaker 9: go hard. It's early, I mean, but this is what
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  Speaker 9: they signed up to do. Is their opportunity, their one
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  Speaker 9: opportunity at you know, making a team. So you know,
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  Speaker 9: they're not just trying out for our team, they're trying
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  Speaker 9: out for a thirty one other team. So I think
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  Speaker 9: it's a good thing that they're able to get in
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  Speaker 9: and get some extra time in in that film room
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  Speaker 9: and you know, just be around the be around the
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  Speaker 9: team because you never know if they're there or not.
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  Speaker 6: Marcus, those rookies are joining the number one seed in
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  Speaker 6: the AFC last year, the number one defense in the
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  Speaker 6: AFC last year. But there's been a lot of changes,
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  Speaker 6: a lot of changes to Mike McDonald's a head coach,
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  Speaker 6: Denard Wilson, Anthony Weaver, a lot.
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  Speaker 7: Of guys have left.
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  Speaker 6: What do you need to do this year, Marcus to
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  Speaker 6: retain that number one seed in defense with zacharyor and
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  Speaker 6: some of the changes that we see this offseason.
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  Speaker 9: Uh, you know, it's just just all about you know,
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  Speaker 9: how you come together in training camp, that camaraderie, you know,
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  Speaker 9: those days, those long days, those long nights, just being together,
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  Speaker 9: locking in on the film room and locking in on
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  Speaker 9: the field because every day is important, every day counting
• 11:22
  Speaker 9: when when you go into that season, you know, every
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  Speaker 9: season not going to be the same, but a lot
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  Speaker 9: of people are going to leave, a lot of people
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  Speaker 9: are going to come. But we always have that next
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  Speaker 9: man up mentality. Everybody will be, you know, practicing as
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  Speaker 9: if they're a starter, because if you practice, you're a starter.
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  Speaker 9: Anybody could go in and anybody can play. So I
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  Speaker 9: think we do a good job with our coaches, our staff,
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  Speaker 9: our players by having that mentality to go in there
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  Speaker 9: each and every day and practice to our you know,
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  Speaker 9: the best of our abilities.
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  Speaker 2: Marcus Baldy just mentioned it. Zach Orr taking over as
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  Speaker 2: defensive coordinator. He is thirty two years old. Remember he
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  Speaker 2: had a really good NFL career that got cut short
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  Speaker 2: because of a neck injury. May still be playing if
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  Speaker 2: not for that. Now he takes over as your defensive
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  Speaker 2: corn he's thirty two. Kyle van Noy's thirty three. You've
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  Speaker 2: got players as old, if not older than Zach Orr
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  Speaker 2: on this roster.
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  Speaker 1: How does he command the respect of that room?
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  Speaker 9: Because I know he has it, man, he definitely has
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  Speaker 9: the respect of the room he comes in every day.
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  Speaker 9: He puts that time in that work. You know, age
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  Speaker 9: is just a number you you put in that time
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  Speaker 9: and that effort to come out and be.
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  Speaker 10: The best at your role. As he did as a player,
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  Speaker 10: he's going to do as a coach.
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  Speaker 9: So you know, I have the utmost respect for him
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  Speaker 9: the way he presents himself, the way he carries himself,
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  Speaker 9: and how he coaches us, and how he listens to
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  Speaker 9: whatever we have to say, and he doesn't have an
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  Speaker 9: ego that we can't.
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  Speaker 10: You know, put our inputs. So that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 9: And he's also not going to, you know, just hold
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  Speaker 9: back just because he feels like we are about the
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  Speaker 9: same age. You know, he's still going to give you
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  Speaker 9: that good hard coaching to make sure that this is
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  Speaker 9: this I'm still the coach.
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  Speaker 10: But at the same time.
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  Speaker 9: We still can have that good proper communication so we
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  Speaker 9: are excel on the field.
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  Speaker 6: Parker's talked about respect. I mean, you play with the
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  Speaker 6: league MVP and Lamar Jackson. I saw him last Thursday
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  Speaker 6: at mini camp. He looks lean and fast and then
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  Speaker 6: he's handing off to a guy that looks like a
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  Speaker 6: superhero and Derek Camper, tell me what you saw this offseason.
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  Speaker 6: I know Lamar was there for the final mini camp,
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  Speaker 6: but when you look at King Henry and knowing what
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  Speaker 6: that's like once he gets that locomotive going as a safety,
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  Speaker 6: what's that like trying to bring that beast down and
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  Speaker 6: then trying to deal with Lamar at the same time.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, we're not gonna go into how I'm going to
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  Speaker 9: tackle him because I don't got to tackle him.
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  Speaker 10: That's all about the other team now.
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  Speaker 9: I mean I have to tackle him before, and you
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  Speaker 9: know it is what it is from that standpoint. But
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  Speaker 9: you know these other safeties that got to go up
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  Speaker 9: against them in the division, they're gonna have a tough time.
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  Speaker 9: Lamar looks good, he's throwing the ball gray, he looks
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  Speaker 9: smooth fast. I just can't wait to see them both
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  Speaker 9: on the field. At the same time, I can't wait
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  Speaker 9: to see our whole office on the field.
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  Speaker 10: Man.
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  Speaker 9: It's gonna be an exciting year once again, and we
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  Speaker 9: just look forward to this training camp to get things
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  Speaker 9: going and just get off to a good start this year.
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  Speaker 2: I'm racking my brain trying to remember if back when
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  Speaker 2: you were with New Orleans, if there was a Hard
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  Speaker 2: Knocks that you were involved in.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: Think is it's gonna be the first time that you're
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  Speaker 2: involved in Hard Knocks. That's Hard Knocks in season with
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  Speaker 2: the entire AFC North, so it's not just going to
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  Speaker 2: be locked in on you guys. You're excited about the
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  Speaker 2: Hard Knocks experience coming up?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I didn't even know about the Hard
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  Speaker 9: Knocks until somebody sent it to me and then I
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  Speaker 9: found out about it.
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  Speaker 10: But I mean it should be excited.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, there's always good to see inside of the
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  Speaker 9: locker room, see inside of what the guys are doing
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  Speaker 9: to day to day and how they prepare each and
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  Speaker 9: every week to get ready for these games. I'm excited.
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  Speaker 9: I'm excited to see, you know, how the guys react
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  Speaker 9: when the cameras are always on them, man, Because I'm
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  Speaker 9: the same every day, So if you get that camera
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  Speaker 9: on me, it's going to be the same markets regardless
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  Speaker 9: if it's on camera on not.
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  Speaker 10: So I'm excited. I'm excited to.
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  Speaker 9: See how these other teams practice, how they prepare for
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  Speaker 9: the games week in and week out, and it's going
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  Speaker 9: to be a good, good story for sure.
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  Speaker 6: Marcus, you can get as technical with this question as
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  Speaker 6: you want, But you guys played this matchup zone defense
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  Speaker 6: last year that nobody seems to be able to figure out.
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  Speaker 6: And that's why Mike McDonald's a head coach, and Gnard
• 15:13
  Speaker 6: Anthony they've all gone.
• 15:15
  Speaker 7: I think everybody wants a.
• 15:16
  Speaker 6: Piece of it, Like, can you give us just a
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: couple of kernels of why this thing is difficult and
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: white quarterbacks really struggled against it.
• 15:24
  Speaker 10: It depends on what the one you're talking about. I
• 15:26
  Speaker 10: mean we got we got different zones.
• 15:29
  Speaker 9: I mean a lot of people, you know, they think
• 15:31
  Speaker 9: they got to figure it out and then you know,
• 15:33
  Speaker 9: you change something. You got to be chameleons when you're
• 15:35
  Speaker 9: in this league because people, you know, they adapt and they.
• 15:38
  Speaker 10: Can see you on film.
• 15:39
  Speaker 9: They can see how you stand, how you align, and
• 15:42
  Speaker 9: each and every week you got to be able to
• 15:45
  Speaker 9: change little here and little there. So I mean we
• 15:47
  Speaker 9: have a we have a good, a good thing going
• 15:49
  Speaker 9: in our group and we're able to, you know, see
• 15:51
  Speaker 9: what the office are doing to try to attack those
• 15:54
  Speaker 9: defenses and those coverages. But I mean that that defense
• 15:57
  Speaker 9: is really good for us, depending.
• 15:58
  Speaker 10: On which one you're talking about.
• 15:59
  Speaker 9: If I don't know which one you're talking about, but
• 16:02
  Speaker 9: we have pretty some good ones, but all of them
• 16:05
  Speaker 9: are pretty good in that standpoint where you were able
• 16:07
  Speaker 9: to adjust what we do, tweak it here, tweak it there,
• 16:09
  Speaker 9: so that we're able to adapt to that office.
• 16:12
  Speaker 10: That's we're going to get.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: All right, I'll preface this one the same way Baldy
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: did the last one. You can get as technical as
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: you want on this one. How sweet are your new
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: alternate helmets? Have you got the peak of those?
• 16:22
  Speaker 10: Oh?
• 16:23
  Speaker 9: Man, those are sweet. I mean I seen them one
• 16:25
  Speaker 9: time on Twitter.
• 16:26
  Speaker 10: One time.
• 16:27
  Speaker 9: I was looking and I just thought they were They
• 16:30
  Speaker 9: were cool, but we didn't really know that was going
• 16:32
  Speaker 9: to be our real helmet. So when I see them
• 16:33
  Speaker 9: in this guess what's in this box? It was it
• 16:36
  Speaker 9: was pretty it was pretty dope. I got excited. I
• 16:39
  Speaker 9: was kind of screaming, you know, I do my little
• 16:41
  Speaker 9: screaming thing that I always do.
• 16:42
  Speaker 10: But they're they're pretty dope.
• 16:44
  Speaker 9: I'm excited to get them, wear them, and you know,
• 16:46
  Speaker 9: go out there and play them for sure.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: As for you to as for uniform combinations, you guys
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: have some of the best.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Some people were a little divided on the gold pants
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago. But you guys have some
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: pretty cool kits, as they call them, when it comes
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: to soccer.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: We'll apply that to football here.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: But speaking of football, you've got a marked a winner,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: you marked as winners.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Excuse me.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Youth Football Camp, the sixth annual coming up Saturday, June
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: twenty second, East Belt, California.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Tell us more about this camp that you've got going on.
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: Yeah, this is our sixth youth football Camp. I mean,
• 17:20
  Speaker 9: we have cheerleading, we have mental health courses, we have
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: you know, football, speed, agility. It's a great turnout. It's
• 17:27
  Speaker 9: a community event. Now we have vendors. Everybody comes out.
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: We have a good time. I get pro athletes to
• 17:32
  Speaker 9: come out. I get people from the community to come
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: help coach the kids. And you know, it's just about
• 17:37
  Speaker 9: being president. I do this to show these kids that
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: it's more than just talking about it's about being about it.
• 17:43
  Speaker 9: And we preach a lot about being a student athlete.
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: You be a student before your athlete. And when you
• 17:49
  Speaker 9: do that, I mean anything is possible. Because my parents
• 17:53
  Speaker 9: always told me if you if you don't go to school,
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: if you don't get good grades, you can't play.
• 17:56
  Speaker 10: So that's pretty much what I preach.
• 17:58
  Speaker 9: We're education based foundation, So we give twenty thousand dollars
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: of scholarships this year and the kids have to send
• 18:06
  Speaker 9: them their GPAs the air report cards, and you know,
• 18:10
  Speaker 9: it's a great turnout for sure. And June twenty second,
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: this Saturday, it is going to be a great turnout
• 18:14
  Speaker 9: of a game for our community.
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: Six years Marcus, So have you identified like the next
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: Lamar Jackson at your camp? I mean, there's there that
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: level of athlete that you've seen out there that you
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: have helped kind of guide here going forward.
• 18:28
  Speaker 9: Yeah, we we have a lot of good athletes coming
• 18:30
  Speaker 9: through the through these camps. But you know, year by
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: year you see them, you see them growing, you see
• 18:35
  Speaker 9: their growth, and I mean hopefully there's some kid that
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: you know, I coasted these camps that comes back and says, hey,
• 18:42
  Speaker 9: I remember you having these camps, a free camp to
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: come out here and putting me in front of all
• 18:48
  Speaker 9: these people being here present, you know, showing your support,
• 18:51
  Speaker 9: swing your love.
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: And hopefully there is that kid that comes back and say, hey,
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: thank you, because that's that's just.
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: What I want to do in life, you know, give
• 18:59
  Speaker 9: my give my touch back to them. Give whatever knowledge
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: I have to them so they can be successful in
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: whatever they do.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: That's fantastic.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: It's a great work, great work that you're doing with
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: the community, with the youth there.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Uh, keep it up. We appreciate your time talking about it.
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: Now.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Listen, when you sat.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Down here we were getting ready to take the interview,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: you had these sweet shades on, and everybody, including Baldy
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: and I were like, keep them on, keep them on.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: One person from what I got I don't even know
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: who it was, told you to take them off. He thought,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: you know what, forget that guy, put the glasses on.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: We want we want the shades on. Future is so bright.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: You gotta wear shades on the way out the door.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, throw them on.
• 19:32
  Speaker 10: I wish I wish I had them. I would throw
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: them all right now. They took them away them. Oh
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: I got them.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: Back now look them actually got some finish.
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: These are not exactly Cardio. These are these are probably
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: a mail order right here, like you know, the Daily
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm talking about. They broadcast Thursday games.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Marcus Williams, stay healthy, all the best this upcoming season.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: We know we're going to see you on the roil season.
• 20:02
  Speaker 10: More good luck man, I appreciate it.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Got We went coast to coast there, east coast to
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: west coast.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: We're going to the Philippines. We are going through the Philippines.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Wear it is early in the morning. To talk to
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Vikings Safety camp bye them about what he's.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Doing out there, as well as the Vikings.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: In twenty four there's the promotional poster there for Camp
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Beasy Volume three, Manila Madness. What is that?
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: It's a two day Asian international football camp and tournament
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: scheduled to take.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Place on June twenty first to the twenty third. He
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: got teams from.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Across Asia, including Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Indonyia, Hong Kong, Thailand
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: and the Philippines. They have been invited to participate in
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: the event. Invited by this gentleman here Cameron buying them
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: along with Nico Remigio of Filipino Dissent.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: He is with the key.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: He was with the Kansas City Chiefs last year. Cameron
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: by them, Viking Safety joining us. It is very very
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: early in the Philippines. We are doing this show in
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: the evening. It is very early in the morning there.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: We appreciate you joining us tell us more about this
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: camp and what to expect and the level of football
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: knowledge that you get.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: From the folks that are participating.
• 21:21
  Speaker 11: Yes, Sarah, first of all, thank you guys for having me.
• 21:23
  Speaker 11: I appreciate it. Yeah, it's early out here, but I'm
• 21:26
  Speaker 11: just excited to be able to share. I'm all about
• 21:28
  Speaker 11: my foundation first and foremost buying them Faith Foundation, but
• 21:32
  Speaker 11: being out here in the Philippines able to put on
• 21:34
  Speaker 11: an American football camp and.
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: Show them a new sport out here.
• 21:38
  Speaker 11: Really it's just an honor being able to be out
• 21:40
  Speaker 11: here and bring a different sport and bring a different
• 21:43
  Speaker 11: platform over here to Asia and have an international camp
• 21:47
  Speaker 11: where people are flying into the Philippines. And my goal
• 21:49
  Speaker 11: is to make the Philippines the hub of football in Asia,
• 21:53
  Speaker 11: so we can be able to do more tournaments and
• 21:55
  Speaker 11: do more especially as twenty twenty eight comes, we're having
• 22:00
  Speaker 11: the Olympics have flag football in it. So that's the
• 22:02
  Speaker 11: goal to start building the sport, to eventually have any
• 22:06
  Speaker 11: Asian country, especially the Philippines where I'm from, and have
• 22:10
  Speaker 11: that have a team that's playing and competing in the Olympics.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: So cam when you go back to the Philippines, what's
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: your celebrity?
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Give us the real on it.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: What are these kids when when when cam buying them
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: walks into the facility, what do these kids do?
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: Almost?
• 22:30
  Speaker 11: I wouldn't say many pack y'all level yet, but it's
• 22:33
  Speaker 11: getting close to there.
• 22:34
  Speaker 10: Just but especially with the football, especially with the football.
• 22:37
  Speaker 11: Players out here, because the one thing about Filipinos, they're
• 22:41
  Speaker 11: super supportive and just the love that we have for
• 22:44
  Speaker 11: people that are doing well in the Filipino community.
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: You ride hard for each other. So me being out here, when.
• 22:50
  Speaker 11: I step on that field, everybody's everybody's listening, and that's
• 22:53
  Speaker 11: what really what I care about the most. Everybody's ready
• 22:55
  Speaker 11: to learn, and everybody's excited to learn. So aside from
• 22:58
  Speaker 11: all the fame and everybody being excited about being quote
• 23:02
  Speaker 11: unquote famous, they're ready to learn and they're eager to
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: learn just because they know that I'm in the NFL
• 23:07
  Speaker 11: and I can bring some knowledge to them.
• 23:08
  Speaker 10: So they're ready to go and ready to train hard too.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: The game is going global. I covered the first London game.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: It was back in two thousand and seven, Giants and
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: the Dolphins. I don't think the crowd had a clue
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: what was happening half the time on the field.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Now you go to those games.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: And you get the sense that these are real hardcore
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: NFL knowledgeable football fans. They have learned the game along
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: the way. Are you seeing that year after year in
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: the Philippines? I mean, as you continue to expose them
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: to the game of football and they're exposed to the NFL.
• 23:38
  Speaker 11: Football, Yeah, for sure, I'd say this is going to
• 23:42
  Speaker 11: be our third camp. You see Volume three in one year,
• 23:45
  Speaker 11: and we named it Volume because we didn't want to
• 23:48
  Speaker 11: say annual camp because we wanted to squeeze as many
• 23:50
  Speaker 11: camps in and as.
• 23:52
  Speaker 10: Little time as possible.
• 23:53
  Speaker 11: And now the first camp we had probably about two
• 23:56
  Speaker 11: hundred players there and now is when we had fifty
• 24:00
  Speaker 11: sign up but not everybody showed up.
• 24:01
  Speaker 10: But now we.
• 24:02
  Speaker 11: Had two hundred and eighty on the camp that we're
• 24:04
  Speaker 11: having later today, and we had to close down registration
• 24:08
  Speaker 11: about what a day or two days into it. So
• 24:12
  Speaker 11: the fact that the camp hit capacity in two days
• 24:15
  Speaker 11: is insane to me, and coming from last year when
• 24:18
  Speaker 11: we barely hit two hundred players and now two hundred
• 24:21
  Speaker 11: and eighty in the first two days of posting it
• 24:23
  Speaker 11: on social media. It's it's crazy to see, but it's
• 24:26
  Speaker 11: a blessing just knowing that the game is really reaching
• 24:29
  Speaker 11: this part of the world, because, like you said, it's
• 24:31
  Speaker 11: getting to Europe now.
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: We're playing a game in Brazil this year.
• 24:35
  Speaker 11: But I want to be the guy that at least
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: sparks something over here in Asia.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: Well, no doubt you're doing that. Mike mentioned it's really
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: early there. You look like you're actually sweating. We wondered
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: if you were working out, but it's just that warm
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: in the Philippines, right.
• 24:52
  Speaker 11: Yeah, it's ninety degrees already at five point forty five
• 24:55
  Speaker 11: am as it is now, and.
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: I'm like, I'm trying to look good for the camera.
• 24:59
  Speaker 10: But way around the sway out here.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: You're good. You're good.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Let's talk some Vikings football and tell us what the
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: spring was like when you when you see Sam Darnold
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: on the other side at quarterback and you see JJ
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: McCarthy come in the rookie, How did those.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Guys do from your perspective?
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: And I'm interested in your perspective because you're on the
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: defensive side of the ball, so you know what they're doing,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: what you have to guard against them, what they're potentially
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: taking advantage.
• 25:25
  Speaker 10: Of I'd say, well, first of all, the whole team.
• 25:29
  Speaker 11: It's an exciting year because there's so many new faces
• 25:32
  Speaker 11: on the offense and defense. So just being out there
• 25:35
  Speaker 11: and being able to see new faces is fun, especially
• 25:37
  Speaker 11: as being one of the leaders of the team. Just
• 25:39
  Speaker 11: being able to have the chemistry with the newer guys,
• 25:42
  Speaker 11: but having the two new quarterbacks, it's fun being able
• 25:45
  Speaker 11: to play against them and just see what they bring
• 25:47
  Speaker 11: to the table. And they both they're both looking really
• 25:49
  Speaker 11: good and it's exciting to see them compete, and they're
• 25:53
  Speaker 11: they're both looking good. So I can't put one of
• 25:55
  Speaker 11: the over the other. I just say they both look
• 25:58
  Speaker 11: ready and whatever coach to decide, I trust them and
• 26:01
  Speaker 11: their decision.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Well, can we know they're being tested by your defense?
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: Another year with Brian Flores, which I know is something
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: real special to you. But you were a tackling machine
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: a season ago, right top ten, what it were he
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: six with ninety four solo tackles in the NFL. You
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: exploded last season? What changed technically for you? How did
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: you do it in this defense? What do you love
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: about Brian Flores?
• 26:29
  Speaker 11: Just the aggression that he has. Let's play with it.
• 26:32
  Speaker 11: Shifted the mindset. Just being out there and playing under
• 26:36
  Speaker 11: bflow is really it makes you comfortable to just play
• 26:39
  Speaker 11: as yourself. And that's one thing from my jump from
• 26:43
  Speaker 11: year two to year three. It was just the speed
• 26:45
  Speaker 11: I was playing at and just the confidence that I
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: had being out there on the field. It helped me
• 26:50
  Speaker 11: be able to go out there and make all those
• 26:51
  Speaker 11: tackles I had, whatever the number was, I felt comfortable
• 26:54
  Speaker 11: being on the field, and there's never a point where
• 26:57
  Speaker 11: I felt uncomfortable and not trusting his scheme. So the
• 27:00
  Speaker 11: fact that he had let us play our defense and
• 27:03
  Speaker 11: he said he I says, this is your guys' defense.
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: I'm installing it. I'm teaching you guys everything with this
• 27:08
  Speaker 11: is your defense. You guys make the calls. So just
• 27:11
  Speaker 11: having that in the back of our mind of having
• 27:14
  Speaker 11: a freedom to kind of do things based off experience,
• 27:18
  Speaker 11: being around other experience guys. Especially for me Harrison Smith,
• 27:21
  Speaker 11: that being my big brother to look up to. So
• 27:24
  Speaker 11: being out there just shifting my mindset where we can
• 27:27
  Speaker 11: just play a lot more aggressive.
• 27:29
  Speaker 10: And that's where all the numbers came from, really, and all.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Those numbers got you a big number in the form
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: of a performance base pay check of seven hundred and
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: eighty five thousand. You almost doubled your base salary via
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: that performance baseball. But now I'm looking at the contract
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: situation for you. You got three million and change this year.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: It's the last year your deal though. I mean, this
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: is potentially a free and that is a free agent
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: year for you. Do you sit there and look at
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: some of the numbers across the safety market and say, hey,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: I'm in a great position now to set myself up
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: here for.
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: A nice Bert day.
• 28:02
  Speaker 11: Yeah, you look at it for sure, and you get
• 28:03
  Speaker 11: excited about it, just because another work I put in
• 28:06
  Speaker 11: to be able to put myself in whatever position I
• 28:09
  Speaker 11: have put myself in. But at the end of the day,
• 28:12
  Speaker 11: all I can do is play football. All I can
• 28:14
  Speaker 11: do is prepare for season and leave it up to
• 28:16
  Speaker 11: my agent, leave it up to the staff with the
• 28:19
  Speaker 11: Vikings to figure that out, and I know.
• 28:21
  Speaker 10: They'll make the best decision.
• 28:23
  Speaker 11: But really, the only thing I need to do, and
• 28:25
  Speaker 11: the only thing I am doing, is just preparing for
• 28:27
  Speaker 11: season because everything else is out of my control.
• 28:29
  Speaker 10: I'm not going to sit up there and be begging
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: for anything.
• 28:34
  Speaker 11: I'm gonna let all my play do the talk, and
• 28:36
  Speaker 11: whenever I'm on the field, do my job and do
• 28:39
  Speaker 11: it well, and everything else will take care of itself
• 28:41
  Speaker 11: as it has in the past with my whole since
• 28:45
  Speaker 11: I got drafted and moved positions and had to figure
• 28:48
  Speaker 11: that out, I'm just going to continue to just work
• 28:49
  Speaker 11: as if it's that first year.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: Right quickly, kem give us the ceiling for this team.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: We got Jordan Addison on this group. He's had an
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: amazing offseason just and Jefferson got the massive deal. We'll
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: see who's that quarterback for you? Likely Sam to start.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: But with that defense, what's the ceiling for this group
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: this year?
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 29:10
  Speaker 11: I expect the Super Bowl. I know everybody says that,
• 29:12
  Speaker 11: and everybody should say that. But you look at the
• 29:14
  Speaker 11: guys on the team. You look at the locker room,
• 29:16
  Speaker 11: all the experience that we have. We look how much
• 29:19
  Speaker 11: depth we have, especially on the defense, so many guys.
• 29:22
  Speaker 11: It's almost weird looking around because you're like, Okay, how
• 29:25
  Speaker 11: are we all going to get on the field because
• 29:27
  Speaker 11: there's so many ballers. You look at the offense, there's
• 29:29
  Speaker 11: a baller at every position. You look across the whole board.
• 29:32
  Speaker 11: So that's why I'm confident when I say I expect
• 29:36
  Speaker 11: us to be a super Bowl team, and but really
• 29:40
  Speaker 11: our preparation has to tell it all that. You say
• 29:43
  Speaker 11: that every every team says that every year. But we
• 29:45
  Speaker 11: have to put all these names and everything. We have
• 29:48
  Speaker 11: to make it really dam.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: One more before I let you go. Last time we
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: saw you interviewed on NFL Network, you were telling the
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: world that your wife Lulane, was stuck in the Philippines,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: could not get in to the US, could not get
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: her visa approved. You got it then approved within short order.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: That is some serious husbanding right now right there. But
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: I do want to ask this, how is like marriage
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: up close compared to like the distance, because this marriage
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: is tough.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's amazing.
• 30:17
  Speaker 11: I'm out here stuck in the ninety degrees at six am,
• 30:20
  Speaker 11: whether out here in the Philippines. So it's just cool
• 30:23
  Speaker 11: just being together and being able to really enjoy our life,
• 30:26
  Speaker 11: being able to travel in the off season, and being
• 30:29
  Speaker 11: able to have her part of my strict, super strict routine,
• 30:32
  Speaker 11: boring robot routine during season. So there's probably a rude
• 30:36
  Speaker 11: awakening for her and that she sees me staying up
• 30:39
  Speaker 11: super late watching film and like whoa, it's real, even
• 30:42
  Speaker 11: even while I'm here. So it's just cool just being
• 30:45
  Speaker 11: able to have her by my side with everything, especially
• 30:48
  Speaker 11: on game day.
• 30:49
  Speaker 10: There's nothing like having her up there in the bleachers.
• 30:51
  Speaker 11: But yeah, last time I was on the NFL network,
• 30:54
  Speaker 11: cuse asking, and she's right in the other room.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Now there you go. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I know you love to say life is like a movie.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: It's a fairytale. Romancer for the two of you. We
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: wish you all the luck in your marriage and in
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: your NFL career. Continuing to write that script.
• 31:10
  Speaker 11: Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Great talking to you guys.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: And a great script. It is proving to be.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: For Cambineen, we appreciate him. We appreciate Michael left Florio.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: You know why, because your fantasy draft is coming up.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: He's going to tell you, Yeah, these guys were great
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: at the quarterback position last year, but who's about to
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: break out in twenty four that's coming up. Did you
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: win your fantasy league last year? If you did, chances
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: are you had one of these quarterbacks. The top five
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: fantasy performers at the position according to NFL dot Com,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: with Josh Allen leading the way, by a good margin
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: there over.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. Michael F.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Florio now comes in and says, the calendar right now,
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: says June. So that means who cares what happened in
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. It's all about twenty twenty four right now. So,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Michael lef we look to you for the breakout players
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: at the quarterback position in twenty four according to you.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: And just because I say breakout doesn't necessarily mean they.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Have to be in their first or their second year.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Could be a veteran like.
• 32:17
  Speaker 12: Kyler Murray, largely because I think people have forgotten just
• 32:21
  Speaker 12: how good Kyler Murray is in fantasy football. QB won
• 32:25
  Speaker 12: every year that he has played in points per game.
• 32:28
  Speaker 12: In fact, career wise, fourth most fantasy points per game
• 32:31
  Speaker 12: by a quarterback ever so far. Last year he was
• 32:35
  Speaker 12: ninth in points per game despite coming back from a
• 32:37
  Speaker 12: torn ACL and routinely.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Missing his top pass catcher.
• 32:41
  Speaker 12: So now a full year removed from that ACL surgery,
• 32:43
  Speaker 12: probably even more running for Kyler Murray, Marvin Harrison Junior
• 32:47
  Speaker 12: is a huge upgrade to what he was throwing to
• 32:49
  Speaker 12: last year.
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: The sky is the limit for Kyler. And again, just remember.
• 32:54
  Speaker 12: How good This guy was top five pretty much yearly
• 32:56
  Speaker 12: before he had that knee injury a couple of years ago.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Let's go to second year guys, and I have a
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: feeling that at least one of them is going to
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: be a guy we talked about earlier in the show.
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: I love Anthony Richardson.
• 33:10
  Speaker 12: I have him ranked as my QB five right now
• 33:13
  Speaker 12: in fantasy. He averaged eighteen fantasy points per game last season,
• 33:17
  Speaker 12: which would have been QB ten, but in the true
• 33:19
  Speaker 12: games that he actually played the full game, twenty five
• 33:22
  Speaker 12: point three fantasy points per game would have been.
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: The QB one by a wide margin.
• 33:27
  Speaker 12: And then there's Shane Steichen, who's proven he can elevate quarterbacks.
• 33:30
  Speaker 12: Maybe we get the twush push two point zero here
• 33:32
  Speaker 12: with Richardson, You're gonna have to pay up for him.
• 33:35
  Speaker 12: But not only do I think he's a top five
• 33:36
  Speaker 12: fantasy quarterback, his upside is the best fantasy quarterback in
• 33:41
  Speaker 12: the game.
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: Will Levis is another year two quarterback.
• 33:44
  Speaker 12: I like twenty one percent of his attempts last year,
• 33:47
  Speaker 12: where deep throws every other starter was fourteen percent or less.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: He led the league in hero throws.
• 33:53
  Speaker 12: New play call if Brian Callahan is already talking about
• 33:55
  Speaker 12: throwing the ball a whole much.
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: Plus he's a sneaky good athlete.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: So he can run.
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: Will it be pretty in real life? Probably not, but.
• 34:03
  Speaker 12: We don't care about that when it comes to fantasy points.
• 34:05
  Speaker 12: He's going to be exciting. And the best part is
• 34:08
  Speaker 12: you could get him for a last round pick, maybe even.
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: Off your waiver wire if no one takes him.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: All right, And finally, I'm reluctant to put all my
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: eggs in the quarterback position in the basket of a rookie,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: but you can get yourself maybe a QB two for
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: your team and a guy that could contribute in.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: A pinch or maybe even surprise. So who are you
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: looking at?
• 34:27
  Speaker 12: Jayden Daniels Because you might have noticed that I love
• 34:30
  Speaker 12: running quarterbacks because they're kind of a cheat code for
• 34:32
  Speaker 12: fantasy football purposes. And Daniels is the next one up.
• 34:36
  Speaker 12: He ran for over two thousand yards and twenty one
• 34:39
  Speaker 12: touchdowns in his last two years in college.
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: His OC is Kyler.
• 34:43
  Speaker 12: Murray's former OC, so we know that he could get
• 34:45
  Speaker 12: the most out of a running quarterback. And I like
• 34:47
  Speaker 12: the pass catchers there in Washington as well, and the
• 34:50
  Speaker 12: best part is, like you said, you could probably get
• 34:53
  Speaker 12: him as your second quarterback in most drafts, but he
• 34:56
  Speaker 12: has top ten upside, if not even higher.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Michael left Florio giving you all the answers to the
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: test before they're even passed out.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Thank you much, sirre. You'll be with us.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Throughout the offseason to get everybody ready for their fantasy
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: drafts coming up in July and August. Better bey, August
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: July is way too early. In fact, push it to
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: September if you want from quarterbacks to a guy who
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: loves to chase down quarterbacks, Joey Bosa. Baldi's coming back
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: to talk about what we can't expect from that guy
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: this upcoming season. All right, eleven days left in June
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: sixteen Mars to twenty seven days we had inside four
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: weeks to rookies reporting to Chargers Camp with the Veterans,
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: then following a week later July twenty third. I'm telling
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: you this summer is flying. It's going to be training
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: camp before you know at.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Bridget Condon and Brian Baldinger.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Let's talk Chargers here, Baldi, I want to talk about
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Joey Bosa that you've had a chance to converse with
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: recently and what to expect from him as he enters
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: this upcoming season.
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: Well, uh, you know, Big Bear and Little Bear practice
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: on this little field here in Fort Lauderdale where they're from.
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: They don't like to be bothered by too many people.
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: But they let me wonder and let them you know,
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: they give me the time of day. But you know,
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: the big thing about Joey, honestly is you know, he's
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: just he's frustrated. Obviously, the injuries the last two years
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: isn't anything that you know, he's trained to do so,
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: but he is healthy right now. He's frustrated by the injuries,
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: and he's frustrated by the losing, and so he wants
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: he wants to win games and he wants to be
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: a part of that winning and he wants to get
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: back to the days when he was, you know, and
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: Adam said, candidate to go to the Pro Bowl year
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: in year out. And so he's trained really hard, he's healthy,
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: and he wanted to take he wants to take that
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: good health, you know, with Jesse Manner the due defensive coordinator,
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: with Jim Harbaugh and with that group and Khalil coming back,
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: and he really wants to make a difference and really
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: contribute to a winning team.
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: That would that make Joey Bosa pretty happy.
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: Well.
• 37:04
  Speaker 8: The another player that maybe we haven't heard too much
• 37:07
  Speaker 8: about Scott matt Locke, Big Red they call him. He's
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: entering his second season with the Chargers. I first met
• 37:13
  Speaker 8: him a few years ago, guys, and this is one
• 37:15
  Speaker 8: of my favorite stories. I was covering the NFLPA Bowl Game.
• 37:19
  Speaker 8: His story is one that struck out. He unfortunately lost
• 37:21
  Speaker 8: both of his parents before high school, bounced around to
• 37:24
  Speaker 8: different foster homes, ended up in a really small town
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: in Idaho with a foster home. He didn't even plan
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: on playing football, but decided to do it as a
• 37:32
  Speaker 8: way to outlet and express his anger. He told me
• 37:36
  Speaker 8: his why is just to make his last name proud,
• 37:39
  Speaker 8: and it's clearly working now in his second season with
• 37:41
  Speaker 8: the Chargers, he's standing out to his new head coach,
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: Jim Barbaugh. He praised matt Locke talking to the media
• 37:47
  Speaker 8: this week, saying that it's just he's all about business.
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: He described him as a leader, and you know it's
• 37:53
  Speaker 8: not just because of what he says, it it's what
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: he does. He shared this story that I want to
• 37:57
  Speaker 8: share with you guys real quick about the conditioning test.
• 37:59
  Speaker 8: He said, Matt Block completely crush shit. But then when
• 38:02
  Speaker 8: he was done, he noticed the ground was soft because
• 38:05
  Speaker 8: it had rained earlier, and he went over and started
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: patting it down to make it firmer for his fellow
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: teammates who still had to go through that conditioning test
• 38:14
  Speaker 8: and not just speaks volumes to who he is. And
• 38:16
  Speaker 8: I'm really excited to see the development of what he
• 38:19
  Speaker 8: can do on the field in his second year with
• 38:21
  Speaker 8: the team.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: That's fantastic. Part time defensive lineman, part time groundskeeper. There
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: for Scott Matlock, the legends of the conditioning test, Scott,
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Matt Locke, justin Herbert. Those are the guys, according to
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh, never a bad thing when you're impressing him
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: early on. Thank you Bridget and thank you Baldy. Lions
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: training camp coming up July twentieth, they're starting to see
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: these dates file in. So this is a team that
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: luck was right there right there. Stacy Dale's right up
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: against the possibility of playing in a.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Super The Lions in a Super Bowl almost had it.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: We almost had it.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: So those guys, Dan Campbell and his crew you know,
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: getting close, just getting a taste of it and knowing
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: how close they were, you know, how motivated they're going
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: to be, right.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Like when you and I are there in August
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: together Mike for training camp once again, or late July
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: whenever that is, we're going to see a team that
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: we thought was hungry last season right at that time
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: when we sat together.
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: It's gone to.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: Another level, right and it's just mini camp stage, Like
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: we haven't gotten to training camp obviously, just yet. There's
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: a hunger and an optimism within that building that is
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: really special. And I think Dan Campbell's comments, I'll sum
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: it up real quick, most recently when he closed out
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: mini camp, he said, when you're talking about being a
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: heavyweight and you're going toe to toe with a heavyweight,
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: there's a line that has to be there for your
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: football team, and it wasn't there in the second half
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: against the forty nine ers. They have addressed it, they
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: have talked about it, and they know that sixty minutes
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: of heavy weight, if you will, football has to be
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: who they are and they expect who will be what
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: they become this season. I anticipate as they try to
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: become back to back NFC North champs.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: That's what Dan Campbell preaches, that kind of football from
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: start to finish. So what's the storyline that you'll be
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: looking at as we get closer to training camp for
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: the Lions.
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know how good they were offensively, a third
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: total offense ranking wise in the NFL, fifth scoring, fifth, rushing,
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: second passing. They were the twenty seventh worst passing defense.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: They were twenty ninth in the red zone. They were
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: pretty good against the run, actually second of the Bears
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: in the league and stopping the run. They could not
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: rush the passer collectively to the degree they wanted. Aiden
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: Hutchinson is tremendous, but they want more push up front,
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: so they bring in Terrell Williams. He's the new defensive
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: line coach, run game coordinator. They bring into Shaye Townsend
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: to work the defensive backs and the pass game coordinator,
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: and there's going to be extreme competition. So for Lions fans,
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: you are going to see a defense, especially in the secondary,
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: that is transformed.
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: There's new person us.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: Now we know about the rookies, Terry and Arnold, Ennis Rakestraw,
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: Carlton Davis is now in the mix. It's going to
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: look different, and the competitive nature is going to change.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: And I think Deshay Townsend said it. We have guys
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: in our room who know they have to go out
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: and prove it, and so it's going to be a
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: lot of it's going to be a fun training camp
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: at a I'll just say that.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Aaron Glenn on the verge of it, I just like
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: the team on the verge of the Super Bowl. Aaron
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Glenn on the verge of potentially being a head coach
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: in this league, looking to put the final. That's right,
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: little marks on his resume as he gets prepared for
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: that and see what his defense can do in twenty
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: twenty four. Thank you Dale for coming back. Very shortly,
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• 41:51
  Speaker 1: How's everybody doing in resting just over two weeks to
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: the fourth of July. You know it's going to be
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: celebrating super Hard this year.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Stacey Dale's earlier this week becoming a US citizen.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: She is now a.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Dual citizen Canada and the United States. Congratulations, Stacey, tell
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: us all about the process here, regulationship.
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got Canada Day July first.
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you, Baldie.
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: I was just going to say I've got Canada Day,
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: July first, Independence Day, July fourth. Somebody checked on me
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: on the fifth. I've got some questions. I've got some
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: questions for you. I wanted to put you to guys
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: to the test. Okay, first question out. This is a
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: little bit of US history, because I'm a history buff
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: now here in the States. How many amendments, guys? Does
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: the Constitution have?
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: No, twenty six, I'll say twenty nine.
• 42:51
  Speaker 13: Stacey, you're both wrong. Twenty seven. What is one responsibility?
• 43:01
  Speaker 13: One responsibility that is only for United States citizens? There
• 43:05
  Speaker 13: are two options?
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Argue incessantly about politics.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: Can you give us some hints, Stacey?
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: Jury, jury duty, voting, voting in a federal election.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: Last last up, you guys are not doing well. Why
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: did the colonists fight the British?
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Rice and tea? There's a lot of options here.
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: I did hit one midnight. I was thirteen poundies fighting
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: at state tariffs.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: You know the number, umation without representation, bactation without representations.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow. Represent That was one