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What's To Come For Tom Brady, Chiefs - Jaguars Preview, & The Power Rankings · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: hour on NFL Now on NFL Network. Thanks for being
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Speaker 1: here today from our news room in Los Angeles. My
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Speaker 1: name is andrews Ceciliato. There is a lot to unpack
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Speaker 1: from what went down last night. Let's get to the
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Speaker 1: highlight and get to the conversation. What we saw was
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Speaker 1: a team that made the playoffs with a losing record
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Speaker 1: get blown out last night. But it's so much more
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Speaker 1: than that, so much more than Dak Prescott and Tom
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Speaker 1: Brady and a primetime game to close out Super wild
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Speaker 1: Card weekend. For example, we saw Brady through a red
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Speaker 1: zone pick last night for the first time since he
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Speaker 1: became a Florida man. J Ron Curse had that. We
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Speaker 1: saw Dak Prescott put together a five touchdown performance. He
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Speaker 1: proved four he ran for this one. We saw Mike
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Speaker 1: McCarthy were a fantastic sweatshirt. And we also saw Brett
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Speaker 1: Maher do something that had never been done before. A
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Speaker 1: man missed four extra points. We can go back to
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Speaker 1: nineteen two. No one's ever missed four extra points. Is
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Speaker 1: it the end for Brady? I don't know, but all
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Speaker 1: kinds of hugs and dancing here for the Cowboys. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you. I mean you got you gotta just
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Speaker 1: really feel great about the whole week and leading in there.
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Speaker 1: I mean the confidence you had in there. We did
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Speaker 1: exactly we had to do it. And I love what
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Speaker 1: Jake k said at the beginning. There ain't nothing else say.
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Speaker 1: Let's just keep doing it. Let's just keep doing alright,
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Speaker 1: great job, we gotta wonderful playing ride home. But you
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Speaker 1: know when we touched down, we're on. Great job. So
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Speaker 1: proud of you. Outstanding, all right, So let's enjoya's enjoya's
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Speaker 1: playing ride, to celebrate one another, love one another. Outstanding.
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Speaker 1: Let's better Tom. Tom Brady rather has been great forever.
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Speaker 1: He's forty five years old. Is gonna turn forty six
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Speaker 1: next August? Will that be at training camp for the
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Speaker 1: Bucket Ears or the Raiders, or the Niners or the
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Speaker 1: Titans or the Dolphins? Or will it after kissing Mom
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Speaker 1: and Dad right here walking up the tunnel last night?
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Speaker 1: Will it be on the couch. What is your process
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Speaker 1: from here when you start to think about what you
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Speaker 1: want to do next is obviously it's gonna be huge speculations.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go home and get a good night's sleep
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Speaker 1: as good as I can tonight, and I'm tablet or
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Speaker 1: I mean, when you want to take this stuff out,
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Speaker 1: I'm not. You know, this has been a lot of
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Speaker 1: focus on, you know, this game. So yeah, let's just
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Speaker 1: be one day at the time. Truly, I just want
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Speaker 1: to say thank you guys for everything that year. I
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Speaker 1: really appreciate all your effort, and I know it's hard
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Speaker 1: for you guys too. It's hard for us players to
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Speaker 1: make it through, and you guys got a tough job,
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Speaker 1: and I appreciate all that you guys do to cover
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Speaker 1: us and everyone who watches and the big fan of
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Speaker 1: the sport. We're very grateful for everyone's support, and you know, hopefully,
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Speaker 1: um you know, I love this organization. It's a great
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Speaker 1: place to be. And thank you everybody for welcome to me,
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Speaker 1: all your regulars, and just very grateful for the respect.
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Speaker 1: And I hope I gave the same thing back to
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Speaker 1: you guys, so thank you very much. Appreciated that kind
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Speaker 1: of sort of sounded like a goodbye at least Tampa.
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Speaker 1: Mark Ross, Jane Slater, Jane, you were there, you still
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Speaker 1: are there. How did you read that? Look? It's hard
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Speaker 1: to say, Andrew. Obviously, it was not the game that
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Speaker 1: he had expected to have. Keith had issues along his
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Speaker 1: offensive line. A lot of his offensive weapons weren't necessarily clicking.
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Speaker 1: He had tons of pressure in his face after that one,
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Speaker 1: and last night he said it he wasn't going to
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Speaker 1: make a decision. He needed a good night's rest. He
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Speaker 1: still needs to meet with the team, and I think
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Speaker 1: it would be premature after a loss like that to
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Speaker 1: make any sort of decision about one's future. I will
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Speaker 1: tell you that I talked to some folks here. A
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Speaker 1: number of players have been in the locker room cleaning
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Speaker 1: out their lockers beginning those exit interviews with the staff.
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady's locker remains untouched. You referenced his parents. I
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Speaker 1: was going down to the tunnel about it the six
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Speaker 1: and a half mark, as a lot of US reporters do,
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Speaker 1: were allowed on the field about the two minute mark,
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Speaker 1: and I thought it was interesting that his mom and
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Speaker 1: dad were there and some of his family members, and
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Speaker 1: I reached out to Sarah Walsh, and of course Mike
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Speaker 1: Gi already covered Tom Brady extensively, and I said, is
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Speaker 1: that usual? And I was told it wasn't. So I
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Speaker 1: don't know if that was a goodbye or what it was,
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Speaker 1: but you certainly saw it on his face. This season.
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Speaker 1: It was a tough season to come back. It was
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Speaker 1: probably tough not having a guy like Rob Gronkowski a
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Speaker 1: very reliable target for you in the receiving game. So
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Speaker 1: we'll see if him coming back to Tampa is reliant
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Speaker 1: on that as we've heard rumblings about Rob Gronkowski, but
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of the stuff that happened on
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Speaker 1: the field and off the field is gonna weigh heavily
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Speaker 1: on what he does as it relates to coming back
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Speaker 1: to Tampa. No question, Danny, how he feels last night
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Speaker 1: next week would be probably be different than how he
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Speaker 1: feels a couple of weeks from now when he starts
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Speaker 1: missing in again like he did last year. And when
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Speaker 1: you're Tom Brady, you have options, and his options next
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Speaker 1: year if he does go to free agency, is to
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Speaker 1: choose a situation that is optimal for him. He's not
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Speaker 1: going to go to a losing team. And losing organization.
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Speaker 1: Try to pick that franchise that has the most talent
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Speaker 1: and the best foundation around him. If you're a team,
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Speaker 1: you just need one team, if you're Tom Brady, to
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Speaker 1: say we're gonna take a chance on you. I don't
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Speaker 1: think it will be a whole lot of teams to
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Speaker 1: say this is what we want to do. But if
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Speaker 1: you just need one. But just looking at Tom brady
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Speaker 1: skill set, if you're a team, when you watch him,
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Speaker 1: he is the goat, undoubtedly, But when you get older
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Speaker 1: and older quarterbacks, father time is undefeated. You just can't
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Speaker 1: consistently string together high level play like you once did
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Speaker 1: in your prime. You saw a big highlight play last
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Speaker 1: night for Brady, but for the most of the game
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Speaker 1: he struggled, painfully struggled. The second thing is, in Brady's
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Speaker 1: prime he raised the level of everybody to else on
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Speaker 1: the team, in the organization, no matter who played with him.
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Speaker 1: But then when you start making excuses, when you're putting
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Speaker 1: the ifs about Brady or great quarterbacks, if you give
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Speaker 1: him a running game, if you give him the your line,
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Speaker 1: if you have all these things, that's really when it's
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Speaker 1: time to say, you know what, this might not be
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Speaker 1: the right guy. And can he get out there and
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Speaker 1: play for a team next year and sort of look
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Speaker 1: like he did this year? Yes? Can he play at
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Speaker 1: that Super Bowl level again? I just don't see that
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Speaker 1: coming back. Never seen a great player come back to
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Speaker 1: that form, and especially in light of year old is
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Speaker 1: the average of the playoff quarterbacks now him not being
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Speaker 1: able to compete with that that sort of level of
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Speaker 1: high level caliber player right now. So could Tom Brady
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Speaker 1: play for one team? Definitely? Can he get back to
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Speaker 1: where he was to compete with that level? I just
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Speaker 1: don't see that happening. Andrew, Yeah, And the run game
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Speaker 1: is huge. That was the worst run game that the
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Speaker 1: Bucks have ever had in their fifty or whatever it
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Speaker 1: is years, and that plays a factor. I mean it
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Speaker 1: looks so much. So he had to throw the ball
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Speaker 1: sixty six times last night. Now they fell behind big early,
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Speaker 1: gonna throw the ball a lot. There's not a lot
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Speaker 1: of success on this list here when you're throwing the
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Speaker 1: ball sixty times other than Tom Brady winning that Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl there with sixty two attends. So whatever he's doing
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Speaker 1: today thinking about it, his arm is probably sore well
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Speaker 1: thinking about it. Jane Slater Mark Ross, thank you, James,
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Speaker 1: stay right there. Next up, not for Tom Brady. He's
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Speaker 1: not going back to Santa Clara. The Cowboys are heading
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Speaker 1: there for another chapter in one of the most storied
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Speaker 1: postseason rivalries in NFL history. Knowing the team that they have,
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Speaker 1: the offense that they have, they're on fire. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I mean wind streak, I guess with the longest in
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Speaker 1: the league right now, um so just uh yeah, it
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Speaker 1: would be important for us to start fast, get on
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Speaker 1: top of them. I know the past rushers they've got,
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Speaker 1: but once again, I'm confident in the guys that I've
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Speaker 1: got this group, that we have um and what we're
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Speaker 1: capable of doing. So it's gonna be important for us
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Speaker 1: to have a great week of preparation, and I just
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Speaker 1: get ready for it. It's gonna be the ninth time
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Speaker 1: Baldi's in here now, ninth time these two great franchises
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Speaker 1: meet in the postseason. And after watching what Dad did,
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Speaker 1: watching that defense, what they did last night, Jane, I'd
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Speaker 1: have to think their confidence is sky high. Listen, I
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Speaker 1: grew up in Dallas in the nineties and I remember
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Speaker 1: these matchups. Well. My dad no more excited than most
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Speaker 1: that these two are going to see each other here
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Speaker 1: in the postseason, and you ask about what the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: are saying about all this will look to beat the
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Speaker 1: best to be the best. Rather, you've got to beat
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Speaker 1: the best. And it was Ceedee Lamb who told me
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Speaker 1: post game when I asked him what he wanted people
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Speaker 1: to know about them ahead of heading to the forty
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Speaker 1: nine ers, he said, they're ready. They just got to
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Speaker 1: keep it simple. I think what they really needed though,
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Speaker 1: when you look at some of their games as of late.
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Speaker 1: They haven't lost back to back games, but the way
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Speaker 1: they were winning in recent weeks didn't give you a
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Speaker 1: lot of confidence. The way they were winning games against
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Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks gave you a lot of pause. But the
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Speaker 1: way they were able to put that game together last night,
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Speaker 1: that dominant performance from Dak Prescott, his decision making of
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Speaker 1: protection that he had. Even defensively, we saw, you know,
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Speaker 1: Dan Quinn to borrow a term from Seattle he cooked.
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Speaker 1: We saw him going with four safeties back there, and
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Speaker 1: so they got creative. They got Xavier Roads back there
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Speaker 1: at cornerback. I don't know about you, Brian Bollinger, it
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Speaker 1: certainly felt like he was a better option than anything
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Speaker 1: they had the Sea season, and I dare say he
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Speaker 1: was just as good as a guy like Anthony Brown.
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Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis even better possibly. So I think they feel
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Speaker 1: good about themselves because of the way that they won,
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Speaker 1: and they're excited about the forty n But they truly
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Speaker 1: are the best. So if you are going to be
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Speaker 1: the best, you've definitely got to beat him on the road. Well,
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Speaker 1: I mean the forty one eleven in a row. It's
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Speaker 1: not like they're invincible though. Let mean Seattle moving the
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Speaker 1: ball against him, and we saw the Raiders late in
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Speaker 1: the season move the ball against him. We got to
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Speaker 1: execute one thing, I'll say, Jane, you know, if you
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Speaker 1: want to make any comparison to that first round knockout
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Speaker 1: that they had a bench forty Niners down in Dallas
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Speaker 1: a year ago, was the offensive line is much better.
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Speaker 1: They protected Dak tremendous last night be to Bay got
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Speaker 1: an early sacked, otherwise he was early touched um And
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Speaker 1: I think you know right now, Tyrod Smith at right
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Speaker 1: tackle next to Zac is a really good right side.
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Speaker 1: Whatever you doing the left side, whether it's Jason Peters
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Speaker 1: Tyler Smith, getting out of Tyler the outs back at
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Speaker 1: center were really made a difference. If they protect Dak
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Speaker 1: anything like they did last night, he's gonna have options.
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Speaker 1: And whether it's Dalton Schultz or the tight ends or
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Speaker 1: c d or Michael Gallo, I mean, he's gonna have options.
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Speaker 1: And if you have options, there's a lot of easer
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Speaker 1: to move the ball. And the other thing is they're
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Speaker 1: just not committing the type of penalties and the number
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Speaker 1: of penalties that they did in that playoff loss a
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Speaker 1: year ago. And if they keep the penalties down, the
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Speaker 1: negative plays down we've seen with this offensive capable. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and say for the extra points, they overall played a
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Speaker 1: played a clean game. So we're not talking as we
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Speaker 1: did last year when they lost to the forty Niners
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Speaker 1: about clock management down the stretch, about spiking the football
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Speaker 1: and play calls and the clock running down. Um. But
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Speaker 1: we are now coming full circle and coming back to
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Speaker 1: that opponent they lost to the forty Niners. Thank you,
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Speaker 1: Baldy and thank you Jane. How about this from Dez
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Speaker 1: Bryant last night. This is a fun follow on game
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Speaker 1: day especially he said, I'm a huge brock Purty fan,
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Speaker 1: but not next week. The Niners also Omar Ruiz huge
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Speaker 1: brock Purty fans and people were waiting for him to
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Speaker 1: come back to earth last week. Maybe had some moments
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Speaker 1: in the first half, but big picture not didn't happen. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: certainly not worried about brock Purtty and his performance, whether
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Speaker 1: he'll show up on Sunday. Kyle Shanahan saying it wasn't nerves,
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Speaker 1: perhaps attributing to some of those errant throws early in
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Speaker 1: the game for Brock pretty more the excitement. As much
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Speaker 1: as we've talked about brock Purty and his weapons there
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Speaker 1: with Christian McCaffrey and Deebo Samuel, one thing I think
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Speaker 1: we haven't talked enough about for this forty Niners team
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Speaker 1: is how connected they are. They've adopted this slogan I
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Speaker 1: got your back, I g y B and we saw
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Speaker 1: that fully on display in the third quarter when Deebo
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Speaker 1: Samuel converged that big third and seven pass, get some
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Speaker 1: yards after the cat and then Jonathan Abram yanks his
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Speaker 1: leg fired up the entire sideline, the entire roster. As
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Speaker 1: Nick Bosa said, why would you want to poke the bear?
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Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel certainly made them pay after that. They converted
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Speaker 1: on that drive with a brock pretty rushing touchdown. A
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Speaker 1: couple of drives later, Deebo Samuel gets them for that
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Speaker 1: seventy four yard touchdown the catch and run. It's why
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Speaker 1: that team in the early part of Kyle Shanahan's tenure there,
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Speaker 1: when they were losing a bunch of games, they stayed together.
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Speaker 1: And it's why you can see a team adopting its
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Speaker 1: third different starting quarterback and still having that success getting
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Speaker 1: a new running back like Christian McCaffrey. Granted, they are talented,
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Speaker 1: talented players, but it's that mentality that I Got your
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Speaker 1: back mentality we saw on display Sunday that has certainly
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Speaker 1: carried them to a point here this so far in
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Speaker 1: the postseason, and after the Jonathan Abrams thing twisting Debo's leg,
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Speaker 1: the Niners, to your point, went on a twenty five
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Speaker 1: to nothing run and blew them out of the building.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to Damiko Ryan Stayshaun Gibson on
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Speaker 1: the show last week said it would be a travesty
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Speaker 1: if the Niners defensive coordinate is not a head coach
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Speaker 1: next year. How are they dealing with the phone ringing
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Speaker 1: for interviews? Yeah, that's the most defensive players you talked
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Speaker 1: to in the forty Niners will tell you that that
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Speaker 1: there is nothing more Damiko Ryan's can do at this
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Speaker 1: point architect architect of this number one ranked defense, and
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Speaker 1: he'll be busy this week. Kyle Shanahan says they've set
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Speaker 1: a side time for him to interview on Thursday and Friday.
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Speaker 1: Of course, four teams have reached out for Damiko Ryan's
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Speaker 1: to be interviewed for their head coaching positions, and this
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Speaker 1: is something, fortunately for the forty Niners, are good problems
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Speaker 1: they have that they've gone through before with Robert sala
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Speaker 1: and even Kyle Shanahan relating back to his time going
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Speaker 1: on the Super Bowl run with the Falcons interviewing for
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Speaker 1: jobs that obviously he eventually landed with the forty Niners.
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Speaker 1: Salah and Shanahan did have bys though in those years,
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Speaker 1: but the forty Niners do look back to last year
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Speaker 1: with Mike McDaniel, who interviewed with the Dolphins while they
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Speaker 1: were still playing in the postseason, so something they do
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Speaker 1: have experience with. Kyle Shanahan said they watch both Buccaneers
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Speaker 1: and Cowboys film as soon as the game ended between
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Speaker 1: the Vikings and the Giants, knowing that they'd play one
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Speaker 1: of those two. So by the time they got to
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Speaker 1: kick off in terms of preparation last night, they felt
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Speaker 1: ready to go as soon as the conclusion of that
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Speaker 1: game ended last night to continue a normal week preparing
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Speaker 1: for the Cowboys on Sunday. And as you know, Kyle
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Speaker 1: has gone through this himself. He was offensive coordinator for
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Speaker 1: the Falcons while knowing he's already the head coach of
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Speaker 1: the forty Niners on my reis thank you, sir. Speaking
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Speaker 1: of the whole coaching thing, the arison, our Cardinals are
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Speaker 1: still looking for a new head coach, but they do
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Speaker 1: have a new general manager. It's that man on the right,
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Speaker 1: Monty Austin Ford, who posed for the cameras with owner
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Speaker 1: Michael Bidwell today in Arizona and was on the podium
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Speaker 1: as well. We're gonna institute a thorough and exhaustive scouting process.
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Speaker 1: We are going to turn over every stone to find
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Speaker 1: the right players for this team. We're not just collecting talent.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna build a team. We're gonna look for the
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Speaker 1: right type of players. He go will not be tolerated,
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Speaker 1: tolerated in this organization. We are gonna look, we are
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Speaker 1: going to look for focused, driven and people that are
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Speaker 1: willing to put the team first at every step of
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Speaker 1: the way. Interesting, Tom Pella Sera, Mike Garrel folo, ego
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Speaker 1: will not be tolerated. Tom as they look for a
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Speaker 1: new head coach, Well, Andrew and it's this gonna be
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Speaker 1: an interesting search for a new head coach, one that
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Speaker 1: Michael Bidwell at various points in that press current said
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Speaker 1: will be resolved in a matter of days, but also
15:38
Speaker 1: that they intend to cast a wide net for their
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Speaker 1: next head coach. What we know as of now, they
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Speaker 1: have already interviewed their defense coordinator, Advanced Joseph for the job.
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Speaker 1: They do also have slips out for Damiko Ryan's as
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Speaker 1: well as Brian Flores for head coaching interviews. Many Asta
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Speaker 1: fort literally got there this morning into the building, so
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Speaker 1: expect those other interview slips to be going out soon. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm just can I we're SUPs to talk about the
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Speaker 1: head coaching part. But I want to go off script.
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Speaker 1: Bring Andrew back up because Andrew tweeted that quote there
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Speaker 1: about ego will not be tolerated. I don't think he
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Speaker 1: was speaking about anybody in particular Marias and for but
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Speaker 1: Twitter does what Twitter did, what Twitter does, and the
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Speaker 1: next thing, you know, we're talking about Kyler Murray here, right.
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Speaker 1: I just think he was laying out all his you know,
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Speaker 1: I mean I would say that the owner, Michael bid
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Speaker 1: Will has said, and he said this after firing Cliff
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Speaker 1: Kingsbury and after announcing Steve Kid's not gonna be there anymore,
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Speaker 1: that accountability is a big deal to him. Accountability ego,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, subtlety. Obviously that wasn't part of it.
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Speaker 1: He was laying out his vision, no ego, right, and
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Speaker 1: he's uh I at press conference, general manager press conference,
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Speaker 1: bingo there when he said he's gonna turn over every stone.
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Speaker 1: So Marias and Fork just laying it all out there.
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Speaker 1: I don't think he's necessarily got a target on any
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Speaker 1: in particular player, But we'll see. If if that's the
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Speaker 1: way it goes, and that's the way that they want
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Speaker 1: to do things now in Arizona, then maybe some folks
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Speaker 1: are gonna have to change some things. We shall see. Andrew,
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Speaker 1: they're changing some things in l A with the Chargers,
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Speaker 1: Tom but it doesn't look like it's the head coach.
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Speaker 1: It's not. Andrew Brandon Staley met this morning with a
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Speaker 1: couple of his assistants, offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi and Shane Day,
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Speaker 1: who is their quarterbacks coach and pass game coordinator. They
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Speaker 1: are both out. So a major overhaul on the offensive
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Speaker 1: side of the ball and creating an OC vacancy that's
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Speaker 1: gonna be as coveted as any in the NFL. When
17:28
Speaker 1: you're talking about working with a young quarterback like Justin Herbert,
17:32
Speaker 1: totally expect that they're going to be candidates lying up
17:34
Speaker 1: for this job. As for Brandon Staley, he is nineteen
17:37
Speaker 1: and fifteen over two seasons, went to the playoffs this
17:40
Speaker 1: year despite injuries everywhere to basically all of his key players.
17:45
Speaker 1: Ownership sees that players who have come out and strongly
17:47
Speaker 1: supported him publicly certainly see that last year made a
17:51
Speaker 1: change with his special teams coordinator, went from the worst
17:53
Speaker 1: in the league the top ten with Ryan Ficken. He's
17:55
Speaker 1: hoping for a similar type of a revival now on
17:58
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball, and I would anticipate
18:00
Speaker 1: this scheme is gonna look a lot different three as well.
18:03
Speaker 1: And Okay, so forget about the whole show on Payton
18:05
Speaker 1: to the Chargers thing, but we could tom have a
18:07
Speaker 1: Sean Payton with the Broncos thing. It's a thing today
18:12
Speaker 1: Andrew not far from l A too, where the Broncos
18:15
Speaker 1: will be meeting with Sean Payton about their head coaching job.
18:18
Speaker 1: Sean Payton and Jim Harbaugh, along with Dan Quinn really
18:21
Speaker 1: came in atop the list for the Broncos new ownership group. Well,
18:25
Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh formed the team and then also formed the
18:27
Speaker 1: University of Michigan yesterday that he is going to remain
18:30
Speaker 1: at his alma mater, so Peyton continues to come into
18:34
Speaker 1: focus depending upon how this interview goes. Now, Payton other
18:38
Speaker 1: teams that are interested in him as well, they would
18:40
Speaker 1: need to work out the Broncos would a trade for
18:42
Speaker 1: Sean Pagne because he's still under contract with New Orleans.
18:45
Speaker 1: But this is certainly coming to a head this week,
18:48
Speaker 1: and it should be mentioned the Broncos have done multiple
18:51
Speaker 1: interviews with external minority candidates for the position, so under
18:54
Speaker 1: the Roooney rule they are permitted now to hire anyone
18:57
Speaker 1: they want like. Meanwhile, with the Cardinals filling their GM vacancy,
19:01
Speaker 1: we're now focusing on the Titans, who are wrapping up
19:04
Speaker 1: their first round of general manager interviews and transitioning to
19:08
Speaker 1: their second round. Among those who will be receiving h
19:12
Speaker 1: second interviews with the Tennessee Titans for that GM spot
19:15
Speaker 1: Ryan Cowden, who is their de facto GM after John
19:18
Speaker 1: Robinson was let go during the season and now Austin
19:21
Speaker 1: Fort is out there in Arizona. Ian Cunningham from the
19:25
Speaker 1: Bears got a second interview. He is on a rapid
19:28
Speaker 1: rise right now, as is Ran Carthon with the forty
19:32
Speaker 1: Niners and Malik Boyd from the Bills. He had his
19:35
Speaker 1: first interview earlier today TB D Weather. He'll be included
19:38
Speaker 1: in the second group. So again, Ryan Cowden, Ran Carthon
19:42
Speaker 1: and Ian Cunningham looking like uh the uh finalists there
19:46
Speaker 1: for this Tennessee Titans as of right now, all right,
19:48
Speaker 1: and new Cardinals, GM, Monteas and Fort just came from
19:52
Speaker 1: the Tennessee type as we bring it back full circle,
19:55
Speaker 1: Thank you guys. Cook puts it down, Patterson's kicks up.
20:05
Speaker 1: The field goal is good, good good. The jaguarfe ever wanted,
20:13
Speaker 1: the jaguarfe have wanted. They have come back from twenty
20:17
Speaker 1: seven nothing to win the game and move on. Hell
20:23
Speaker 1: good is that move on to Kansas City? It is good. Yes,
20:27
Speaker 1: keep screaming. It was one of those nights. Last Saturday
20:31
Speaker 1: Camp Wolfe, James Palmer, Jeff chide with me as we
20:33
Speaker 1: discuss the first game now of Divisional weekend at Arrowhead Cam.
20:38
Speaker 1: It struck me both Week eighteen and after the first
20:42
Speaker 1: half on Saturday Night that Doug Peterson wanted Trevor Lawrence
20:46
Speaker 1: to calm down. Now that they've had that moment right
20:49
Speaker 1: where they have rallied in one again, why are they
20:52
Speaker 1: confident going into this one? Yeah, Andrew. Trevor Lawrence told
20:56
Speaker 1: me after the game that this new era of Jaguars
20:58
Speaker 1: football means they're never out of the fight. He said,
21:01
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter we play, when we play, where we play.
21:04
Speaker 1: We know we always have a shot. And you think
21:07
Speaker 1: after those four first half interceptions, maybe that shakes the
21:10
Speaker 1: team up. No, they stayed cool, just like their quarterback.
21:13
Speaker 1: And the reality is that's been the story of this
21:16
Speaker 1: Jaguars team really over the second half of the season.
21:20
Speaker 1: Five straight home games they've had where they've come back
21:23
Speaker 1: from multiple possessions down to end up winning that game.
21:26
Speaker 1: And Marvin Jones told me in the locker room, if
21:28
Speaker 1: anybody's the comeback kids, it's us. And look, they know
21:32
Speaker 1: they're coming into Kansas City, a rowdy environment with Patrick
21:35
Speaker 1: Mahomes the presumptive m v P. They know they're gonna
21:38
Speaker 1: be huge underdogs, but they have the mentality of their
21:40
Speaker 1: not going to be afraid because they're built in the
21:42
Speaker 1: model of their head coach, Doug Peterson, who talks to
21:45
Speaker 1: them costly about faith, about belief, about handling the pressure
21:49
Speaker 1: of the situation and really, you know, talk to dudes
21:52
Speaker 1: in the locker room and they mentioned with a smile
21:54
Speaker 1: just how much Peterson has changed this organization. And this week,
21:58
Speaker 1: as they look ahead to the Chiefs, the one game
22:00
Speaker 1: plan element they have focused on is keeping the pressure
22:03
Speaker 1: off of Trevor Lawrence. He got sacked five times when
22:06
Speaker 1: they played in the middle of November. They mentioned they
22:08
Speaker 1: got to really contain Chris Jones, but they believe they
22:11
Speaker 1: do that they have a chance to pull the upset
22:13
Speaker 1: on Saturday. OK. Can you mentioned Doug Peterson. I I
22:17
Speaker 1: know that Trevor Lawrence and we saw the poise that
22:19
Speaker 1: he was able to have after the four interceptions in
22:21
Speaker 1: the first half. It resonated with Patrick Mahomes about an
22:23
Speaker 1: hour ago said he really envied the way that Trevor
22:26
Speaker 1: Lawrence was able to keep his composure. But it really
22:28
Speaker 1: goes from Doug Peterson. And Andy Reid knows him so
22:31
Speaker 1: well from obviously coaching him as a player and coaching
22:33
Speaker 1: alongside of him, and he believes he's the coach of
22:36
Speaker 1: the Year essentially in the way he's resurrected that program.
22:39
Speaker 1: But I look at it the environment that can mention
22:41
Speaker 1: they're going into at Arrowhead, and I've covered playoff games
22:45
Speaker 1: there with Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid running that team
22:47
Speaker 1: a number of times, and you see teams panic. It's
22:50
Speaker 1: the Texans, It's the Titans. It's happened repeatedly, Andrew, with
22:53
Speaker 1: teams when they come in they feel like they have
22:55
Speaker 1: to get points, they feel like they have to press.
22:57
Speaker 1: What we have seen from Doug Peterson in his play
23:00
Speaker 1: calling and the way this offense has run, we have
23:04
Speaker 1: every understanding to believe, Andrew that they're not going to
23:07
Speaker 1: press in that situation. We'll find out on Saturday. But
23:11
Speaker 1: this is a team that looks like they're prepared not
23:13
Speaker 1: to be overwhelmed by the situation, specifically because of Doug
23:17
Speaker 1: Peters in their heads. And this is also a team
23:19
Speaker 1: in the Chiefs here that is not invincible at home.
23:24
Speaker 1: Jeff Kid and a team that I know probably gave
23:27
Speaker 1: some of its fans some angst down the stretcher when
23:30
Speaker 1: the Texans played him close, when the Broncos at least
23:32
Speaker 1: the first time played them close. Any concern there at all, Well,
23:38
Speaker 1: they're trying to use it as a positive. Andrew, they
23:40
Speaker 1: see those last eight games of the season where they
23:43
Speaker 1: had five one score games, as being great experience for
23:46
Speaker 1: a lot of these young players. Patrick Mahomes was asked
23:48
Speaker 1: about that. He said, it's really about these guys understand
23:52
Speaker 1: that when you get into a playoff environment, you're going
23:54
Speaker 1: to be in a lot of close games. You're you're
23:56
Speaker 1: playing good teams and margin for errors raged within. And
23:59
Speaker 1: he likes the fact that he's seen some of these
24:02
Speaker 1: younger players step up in big moments, both on the
24:04
Speaker 1: offensive i on the defensive side. Yeah, it's not fun
24:08
Speaker 1: for the fans, but this stuff doesn't matter, and they
24:10
Speaker 1: have a lot of respect for the Jaguars for the
24:12
Speaker 1: same reasons that Cam and James just mentioned that this
24:15
Speaker 1: team is a really tough team. They beat them once
24:17
Speaker 1: already by ten points. They think it could be even
24:20
Speaker 1: closer this time around. Jeff, you mentioned the growth specifically
24:24
Speaker 1: of the young players. I look at that secondary, right,
24:26
Speaker 1: that's one we've really had our eye on throughout the
24:28
Speaker 1: course of this season. You look away defensively, they played
24:31
Speaker 1: down these last five games. Eight turnovers forced in the
24:34
Speaker 1: last five games. The most number of passing yards over
24:36
Speaker 1: the last five games they've given up is two and fourteen.
24:39
Speaker 1: And that group really felt like they were hitting their
24:41
Speaker 1: stride in December when they cannot just have trust in
24:44
Speaker 1: themselves but started trusting the other players around him. It's
24:47
Speaker 1: a lot of new pieces. Justin Reid's kind of the
24:49
Speaker 1: veteran back there, but he comes over and it's a
24:51
Speaker 1: new system for him as well. So that whole group
24:53
Speaker 1: finding their groove down the stretch is something that has
24:56
Speaker 1: stood out to Steve Spagnol was something that stood out
24:58
Speaker 1: to Andy Reid as well, who just about an hour
25:00
Speaker 1: ago said, what I've learned most about that group is
25:02
Speaker 1: their angles are better in terms of what they're taking
25:05
Speaker 1: andrew later in the season, their hands are on football's
25:08
Speaker 1: They're understanding the speed of the game. Now those young
25:11
Speaker 1: players have to understand that the speed of the game
25:13
Speaker 1: takes another step in the postseason. That's what they need
25:17
Speaker 1: from their young secondary exactly with Patrick Mahomes Andy Reid
25:21
Speaker 1: leading this team back to the postseason a calm, veteran presence.
25:25
Speaker 1: Thank you Camp, Thank you James, Thank you team. I
25:32
Speaker 1: know a lot of you are thinking when I went
25:34
Speaker 1: to break before we eat power rankings in the playoffs. Yes,
25:37
Speaker 1: hand Zeus never sleeps. Eddie has the forty Niners and
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Speaker 1: the brand new. Find them at nfl dot com slash
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Speaker 1: power Rankings. The brand new numbers up the Niners first,
25:46
Speaker 1: the Chief second, Dan hands Zeus. The old Zeuser himself
25:49
Speaker 1: is here as he always is. High there Dan. On Tuesday,
25:53
Speaker 1: the Niners held on to number one. I mean, could
25:56
Speaker 1: anything really have happened other than losing to take them
25:59
Speaker 1: out of that spot? It wins a win, Yeah, and
26:01
Speaker 1: certainly when the teams I had behind them, the Bills
26:04
Speaker 1: and the Bengals didn't overwhelmed in Super wild Card weekends.
26:07
Speaker 1: So but yeah, it's easy. In fact, I'm feeling really good.
26:10
Speaker 1: You know what. I wasn't feeling great when it was
26:12
Speaker 1: seventeen sixteen Seattle at the half, but that twenty five
26:15
Speaker 1: point run really reaffirmed why this team has captured a
26:19
Speaker 1: lot of people's imagination is potentially the best team in football.
26:23
Speaker 1: So I'm feeling good about rolling with the Niners the top.
26:26
Speaker 1: I asked that question with a purpose because the Chiefs
26:29
Speaker 1: were off, they moved up to to number two and
26:32
Speaker 1: the Bills fell one. Why isn't it just feel like
26:38
Speaker 1: they're just a little bit off right now? They're not
26:40
Speaker 1: fully calibrated. That the sloppiness which you can get away
26:44
Speaker 1: with the type of game you played against New England
26:47
Speaker 1: and Week eight team when you get two monster special
26:49
Speaker 1: teams plays. You can get away with the game you
26:51
Speaker 1: played against Miami when Skyler Thompson is the quarterback on
26:54
Speaker 1: the other side. But that's just not gonna fly anymore.
26:57
Speaker 1: And I guess a little for me, and I've loved
26:58
Speaker 1: the Bills all year, just a little bit of doubt
27:01
Speaker 1: has creeped in now in terms of are they gonna
27:03
Speaker 1: be able to flip the switch against Cincinnati, a big
27:06
Speaker 1: time Super Bowl contender. Okay, so you had the Bengals
27:09
Speaker 1: down one, they went from three to four. The Eagles
27:12
Speaker 1: were idle, they were five. The Cowboys, I think you
27:16
Speaker 1: could argue put together as impressive a super wild card
27:20
Speaker 1: weekend performance maybe safe for the forty niners, but they
27:23
Speaker 1: blew them out really all four quarters last night. Yet
27:25
Speaker 1: they are stagnant at six. Yeah, and I did think
27:29
Speaker 1: about it, should I move up the Cowboys? But ultimately,
27:32
Speaker 1: the Hay in the barn before last night, No, the
27:35
Speaker 1: Hey wasn't in the barn. I would say that dropping
27:38
Speaker 1: the Eagles behind the Cowboys, I'm already a little bit
27:41
Speaker 1: like wondering if I've made the right decision putting the
27:44
Speaker 1: Eagles down at five after the great season they had.
27:46
Speaker 1: But I really ultimately was like, I'm okay with that,
27:49
Speaker 1: seeing how their season ended and Jalen hurts his injury
27:51
Speaker 1: situation the Cowboys in a weird way, they stay at
27:54
Speaker 1: six because this is still like what I thought. I
27:56
Speaker 1: think they're just outside that top five of the best teams.
27:59
Speaker 1: But what we got in that game was the showing,
28:01
Speaker 1: especially Dak, that they can hang with any of those
28:05
Speaker 1: five teams. I think they're better than all the teams
28:07
Speaker 1: behind them. I think their tick below the big five.
28:10
Speaker 1: So that's why they're six. But look, you're in an
28:13
Speaker 1: unwinnable situation here. You're in the playoffs. You win survive
28:16
Speaker 1: in advance. I mean what does it really necessarily matter here?
28:20
Speaker 1: So I get it. You don't want to knock a
28:21
Speaker 1: team for winning. They one. It's the playoffs also an
28:24
Speaker 1: unlosable situation. You can look at it. I look at
28:27
Speaker 1: it that way as well, Like give the Jaguars at
28:28
Speaker 1: eight and they stay at eight. I like it. You're
28:31
Speaker 1: You're not a glass half empty, You're a glass full guy,
28:33
Speaker 1: Dan Nanzus. Everyone glass full guy. You get me, you
28:37
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