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Speaker 1: NFL Now is a production of the NFL in partnership
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Speaker 1: with I Heart Radio. Hello and welcome into the NFL
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Speaker 1: Network news room. My mom Maurice, and this is NFL
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Speaker 1: Now Week eight underway with the Ravens big win over
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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. Will have much more on that game in
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Speaker 1: just a little bit. Plus David Long, the Titans star linebacker,
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Speaker 1: will join us a little bit later this hour. But
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Speaker 1: of course it is Friday, it is week eight. We
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Speaker 1: start with the injury news from around the league and
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Speaker 1: we bring in our Ian Rappaport. It is new right
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Speaker 1: now into the NFL Network news room. Fallout from last night,
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Speaker 1: in particular, we saw Shaq Barrett go down in that
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Speaker 1: game and the Buccaneers lost against the Ravens. What's the
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Speaker 1: latest on the buccaneer star pass rusher in Yeah, nothing
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Speaker 1: good here for the tam Baby Buccaneers and their star
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Speaker 1: pass rusher, Shack Barrett. He is now out for the season,
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Speaker 1: sources say, and he has torn his achilles, which you
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Speaker 1: know if you watch the game last night, you watched
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Speaker 1: the injury, it was apparent that it was something very
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Speaker 1: serious and very severe and significant. Leaves on a car
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Speaker 1: he could tell right away that this was not going
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Speaker 1: to be anything positive, and the fear immediately after the
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Speaker 1: game was that it was a torn achilles And you
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Speaker 1: know omar if they feel that based on the initial
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Speaker 1: examine is an achilles, almost always that is the case.
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Speaker 1: He had the MR this morning which confirmed Shack Barrett
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Speaker 1: now turns his attention to the season right so the
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Speaker 1: news is bad to worse for the Buccaneers on defense. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: another shack who we've hardly seen this year, a defensive
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Speaker 1: start for the Colts maybe coming back. What's the latest
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Speaker 1: on Shack Leonard? In shaqu Leonard the former Darius Leonard,
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Speaker 1: one of the best linebackers in the NFL, who was
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Speaker 1: battled a back injury, concussion, he broke his nose and
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Speaker 1: had surgery. A lot going on with Shack Leonard. He
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Speaker 1: is in fact expected to be back on the field
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Speaker 1: this Sunday. One of the best defenders, are one of
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Speaker 1: the best players in the entire organization. Having him on
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Speaker 1: a pitch account likely, but having him back because a
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Speaker 1: huge boost there and another one his status. We are
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Speaker 1: watching t J Watt. Remember he had the torn peck
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Speaker 1: muscle but not the torn peck tendon, so about a
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Speaker 1: six week rehab. Also had a niece go somewhere in there,
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Speaker 1: got an issue done that he had needed to deal with.
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Speaker 1: There is actually a chance he's back this week and
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Speaker 1: everyone's expecting him to come back after the body. Sounded
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Speaker 1: like at practice this week is first back. He felt
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Speaker 1: pretty good, So I would keep an eye on that one.
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Speaker 1: For t J. Watt, Yeah, superstar that could be on
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Speaker 1: his way. Another superstar we're keeping an eye on is
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Speaker 1: Davante Adams of the Raiders. What's the latest on him?
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Speaker 1: That faced a huge game this week and Davante Adams
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Speaker 1: didn't practice it all this week dealing with an illness.
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Speaker 1: As Josh McDaniels, the head coach explained, really kind of
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Speaker 1: a bug going through the team. Seems like after Tivon
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Speaker 1: the injury, poor with that, but back at practice today
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Speaker 1: that is a very good sign. It sounds like the
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Speaker 1: belief is that most of the illness is kind of
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Speaker 1: through the team, which probably not very pleasant on the
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Speaker 1: front end, But the fact that a lot of these
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Speaker 1: guys are gonna be available for the game, if not
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Speaker 1: all of these guys, is a good sign. So we'll
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Speaker 1: be monitoring these status of Davante Adams, but it does
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Speaker 1: sound like optimism that they'll be able to play this weekend.
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Speaker 1: One of the other status is we are watching the
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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers and their office Christian Watson. They're young,
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Speaker 1: really talented receiver miss the last couple of games deal
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Speaker 1: with the hamstring injury. Mallowford described himself as cautiously optimistic
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Speaker 1: that he would be able to be out in the field.
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Speaker 1: That is very good. And you know there's one thing
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Speaker 1: that Aaron Rodgers needs more weapons. That would be a
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Speaker 1: good one there. Meanwhile, Alan Wizard, another one of their
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Speaker 1: standout receivers, dealing with a shoulder injury. Unlikely to play
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Speaker 1: this week, but it should be a short absence. Expect
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Speaker 1: him back on the field. I would say after this game,
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Speaker 1: big showdown on Sunday night football. Ian, what are you
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Speaker 1: gonna be for Halloween? We have multiple parties in situations.
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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna be a character Paul Red's character from
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Speaker 1: Cluis and one. I'm gonna be a character from Varsity
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Speaker 1: Blues that another I don't want. All right, I will
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Speaker 1: be me. I would be I would be Billy Bob,
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Speaker 1: but still be the same movie. Yes, yeah, there you go.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Ian rapping port. Can't wait to see those
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Speaker 1: pictures on Instagram. Meanwhile, last night the Buccaneers and the
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Speaker 1: Ravens Lamar Jackson, a couple of former m vps going
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Speaker 1: head to head against Tom Brady. Mark Andrews banged up
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Speaker 1: in this one, he would leave the game. Note problem
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Speaker 1: because the rookie Isaiah Likely filling in admirably gets his
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Speaker 1: feet in bounds and gets the approval from Andrew's on
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Speaker 1: the sideline. Later in the game, Bucks trying to stay
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Speaker 1: in at fourth quarter rally fourth and goal from the
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Speaker 1: three false start, it would kick a field goal and
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Speaker 1: eventually lose the game, final score of twenty seven to two.
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Speaker 1: Buccaneers frustrated now at three and five. Meanwhile, the Ravens
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Speaker 1: five and three and surging in the a f C
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Speaker 1: North are Sarah Walsh with Lamar Jackson after the game. Lamar,
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Speaker 1: a very short week, a tough game on the road.
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Speaker 1: You get your first back to back wins of this season.
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Speaker 1: What does this mean to this team? When you guys
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Speaker 1: have talked about wanting consistency, I mean it means a
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Speaker 1: lot for us um offense on our team. We've been
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Speaker 1: talking about it a lot. Just going out there, finish
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Speaker 1: your fourth quarter, finishing in the red zone. We gotta
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Speaker 1: stopped wanting the red zone, but I feel like we
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Speaker 1: could have still made something happened. Um, we just gotta
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Speaker 1: keep stacking because that's how I go to keep stacking
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Speaker 1: each and every week. Not when one lose one and
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Speaker 1: we finally got it done, but just keep it going.
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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about Mark Andrews. You lose
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Speaker 1: your Pro Bowl tight end and then in steps Isaiah
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Speaker 1: Likely a rookie comes up with his first NFL touchdown
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Speaker 1: when you guys need it. What was that play? Like? Man?
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Speaker 1: He found a way to get open. You know, um
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Speaker 1: they um we called the man play. You know they
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Speaker 1: pop zone on us. Um office and I did a
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Speaker 1: great job. Gave me home the extra time. He find
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Speaker 1: a way to get open. That's just where it was.
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Speaker 1: And lastly, talk about what your defense did today coming
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Speaker 1: into Raymond James shutting down Tom Brady, who you called
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Speaker 1: the goat this week. They came up with a big step,
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Speaker 1: not just meet. Everybody called him to go you know, Um,
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Speaker 1: he just of that name. You know, he got some
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Speaker 1: super both so that's why we all called him that.
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Speaker 1: Ever since, how to the kid but our deeper stuffed
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Speaker 1: up um women need him today did a terrific jaw.
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Speaker 1: But like I said, I still want to sc more
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Speaker 1: points with those guys. You know, hass off to the
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Speaker 1: defense him feel going all right? Thank you, Sarah, thank you.
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Speaker 1: Lamar back with us now, Judy, Mark and Jim. Lots
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Speaker 1: of chew on in this game, and I think because
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Speaker 1: of the nature of the NFC South, both of these
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Speaker 1: teams will continue to be relevant throughout the season. Judy,
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Speaker 1: what were your impressions of last night? Well, my biggest
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Speaker 1: takeaway is that the box offense is broken right now.
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Speaker 1: We could spend the entire segment just talking about how
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Speaker 1: they've completely abandoned any attempt to run the ball. They
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Speaker 1: ran the ball at least three times in the second
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Speaker 1: half and it worked in the first drive they were running,
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Speaker 1: they had good balance, and then they went away from
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Speaker 1: it completely. But it goes beyond that. They are struggling
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Speaker 1: to maintain drives. They're not converting on third down, lots
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Speaker 1: of punts. I think it was five drives in a
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Speaker 1: row that ended with punts, and then they're struggling even
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Speaker 1: when they do get into the red zone. Three times
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Speaker 1: last night, they were inside the Ravens fifteen yard line
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Speaker 1: and had to settle for field goals. And then finally,
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Speaker 1: even Tom Brady and the receivers are clearly not on
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Speaker 1: the same page, whether it's miscommunication or in some cases
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Speaker 1: Brady just missed on throw. Everything looks off about this offense,
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Speaker 1: and they've got time now until the next game, and
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Speaker 1: certainly I am looking to see if they do something
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Speaker 1: dramatic to try to shake things up on this offense. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: my biggest takeaway there is watch out for the Ravens
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Speaker 1: the rest of the season, and Judy mentioned the Bucks
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Speaker 1: are struggling, but the Ravens were impressive on both sides
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Speaker 1: of the ball and got back to their style of
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Speaker 1: football wildly inconsistent this year with win one, lose one
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Speaker 1: and of course the dramatic three losses when they were
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Speaker 1: leading by ten points in each of those games. But
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Speaker 1: as Lobar said, when you look at this schedule, the
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Speaker 1: rest of the way they can stack. They can stack
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Speaker 1: some win the easiest strengths to schedule the rest of
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Speaker 1: the way. The only team they have left on their
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Speaker 1: schedule that has a winning record right now is Cincinnati,
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Speaker 1: and that's the very last game of the seasons. So
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Speaker 1: this Baltimore team, who looked like all was lost because
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Speaker 1: of how bad they looked at times blowing those leaves
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Speaker 1: are leading the North that they came to up the
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Speaker 1: North right now. And if they run this string together,
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Speaker 1: they could get to about thirteen or so wins and
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Speaker 1: be right up there with Buffalo and k C. So
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Speaker 1: it looked like all was after Baltimore, but watch out
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Speaker 1: the rest of the season. These guys could be right
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Speaker 1: in the mix, and the schedule doing them favors, not
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Speaker 1: only with the opponent's strength of schedule, but now they
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Speaker 1: have the mini buy extended because they don't play until
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Speaker 1: Monday Night Football in week nine. Then they have their
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Speaker 1: actual buy in week ten. So an opportunity here for
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Speaker 1: the Ravens to get healthy. Jim, what stood out to
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Speaker 1: you last night? You know, Omar, the players have a
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Speaker 1: say as saying, and it's keep the main thing, the
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Speaker 1: main thing. And for the Ravens, I would say, offensively,
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Speaker 1: keep the main thing the main thing. That means rely
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Speaker 1: on your running game. They are not a team or
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Speaker 1: an offense that is a customer throwing the ball thirty
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Speaker 1: times in the first half and only rushing it seven
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Speaker 1: times when they got back to what they do best
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Speaker 1: in a second half, that's when they were most effective.
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Speaker 1: So sometimes coaches tend to overthink things and to try
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Speaker 1: and out scheme others. I would just say to Greg
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Speaker 1: Roman and to the Ravens, keep the main thing, the
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Speaker 1: main thing, run the football. And the Buccaneers running the
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Speaker 1: ball historically bad so far this season. Just forty four
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Speaker 1: yards last night. Alluding to Judy's point there so offense
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Speaker 1: not just on Tom Brady. As Mike Evans said a
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Speaker 1: little earlier in the show, a lot of work to
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Speaker 1: do to them to remain in the NFC South race. Judy, Mark, Jim,
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Speaker 1: thank you all very much. Meanwhile, next up on the
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Speaker 1: week eight docket, we go to London for the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: and the Broncos. Trevor Lawrence and his young career, already
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Speaker 1: playing for the second time, of course, had a big
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Speaker 1: game last year in his rookie season. Let's hear from
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson as the Jaguars have made their way to
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Speaker 1: the UK, and it's really opportunity for a lot of
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Speaker 1: these players who have never traveled out of the United
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Speaker 1: States to experience a different culture, a different world, whole
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Speaker 1: whole different. Um. You know, life s dial and and
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Speaker 1: and it's positives good, you know, and it's I encourage
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Speaker 1: them to take advantage even tonight or tomorrow afternoon to
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Speaker 1: you know, experience that. Honestly too as players, we really
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Speaker 1: enjoy it. You know, the flight isn't always the easiest
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Speaker 1: over here, with the time change and everything, but besides that,
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Speaker 1: we really enjoy playing over here. The fans are awesome.
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Speaker 1: They always they always packed the stadium, UM come out,
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Speaker 1: supports school seeing and saw the different jerseys all now
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Speaker 1: a lot of Jags fans over here. Like you said,
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Speaker 1: we've been playing over here for a while, so you know,
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Speaker 1: I think we really enjoy it. Um. And then obviously
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Speaker 1: you know last year, I've only played one game here
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Speaker 1: and one and I want to know, so hopefully go
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Speaker 1: to and oh this year that's the plan. And uh yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean we just we enjoy being over here, Trevor
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Speaker 1: Lawrence want to know in London, so too is Russell
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Speaker 1: Wilson had a big game a few years ago when
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Speaker 1: he and the Seahawks went to London. Now they're as
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Speaker 1: a member of the Denver Broncos. Are Richard Graves is
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Speaker 1: in London and caught up with superstar Corner Patrick's or Tan. Okay,
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Speaker 1: well I've got pass it down from Broncos with me.
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Speaker 1: You guys got into London on Tuesday morning, you had
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Speaker 1: a few days to get acclimated. How's preparation gone this week?
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Speaker 1: Preparations were going great. Um obviously, Um, the time changed
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Speaker 1: a little bit. We had to get used to that schedule.
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Speaker 1: But we're preparing very well. Uh, getting prepared um to
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Speaker 1: the fullers, you know, just ready for Sunday. How great
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Speaker 1: is the sense of urgency around this team? Because you
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Speaker 1: came into the season with high expectations. It hasn't gone
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Speaker 1: according to planners you would like to this point. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, the urgency has stepped it up a little bit.
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Speaker 1: We obviously know what's at stake. Um, we play another
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Speaker 1: good team in Jacksonville. Um, so the only thing in
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Speaker 1: our minds is coming out is finding a way to
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Speaker 1: get get a victory. So you know we're preparing like
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Speaker 1: it and we focused like it. So and for you personally,
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Speaker 1: how are you finding the second season in the NFL?
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Speaker 1: Now you have four interceptions in your Rockie season on
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Speaker 1: this year. But I heard Doug Peterson asked about you
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Speaker 1: earlier the week and the question was Pats the town
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Speaker 1: the top five corner back. He said, no, No, Pats
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Speaker 1: Tourn's top two. Um, obviously that's great to hear it,
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Speaker 1: but um, it's so much more I can improve on
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Speaker 1: generally as a player. Um, you know, little little things
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Speaker 1: I need to tune up, rEFInd my craft. But when
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Speaker 1: you um get noticed like that across the league, especially
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Speaker 1: from coaches, you know, it's a great feeling. As a
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Speaker 1: defensive unit, second overall in the NFL, third in scoring,
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Speaker 1: fourth with twenty two sacks coming into this week, do
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Speaker 1: you take on a great responsibility and this team as
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Speaker 1: a unit. Yeah, you know, we we always set ourselves
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Speaker 1: to high standard defensively. We come in with the same
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Speaker 1: work ethic day in and day out, Um, making sure
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Speaker 1: that we prepare the right way. So when the Sunday come, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, we play at a high level, at a
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Speaker 1: fast level. And so far this season that's what we've
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Speaker 1: been doing. Um, playing great football around as a unit.
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Speaker 1: You know. Just the camaraderie um that we have with
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Speaker 1: one another. I think it's a great thing going on.
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Speaker 1: And just finally, Russell Wilson was at full going practice today.
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Speaker 1: How much reduced is that to everyone in this team?
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Speaker 1: It was great when you have your guy back back
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Speaker 1: back there, um running the offense. UM. Obviously he's a
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Speaker 1: tremendous leader. But when you got that energy that he
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Speaker 1: brings to the team, Um, that's type of poise, that's
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Speaker 1: type of leadership that he brings around the offense. You know,
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Speaker 1: it brings great things around the team. So very excited. Okay,
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Speaker 1: Well Sunday. Thank you Richard, thank you Patrick. They are
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Speaker 1: ready to roll in London. Russell Wilson versus Trevor Lawrence
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Speaker 1: six thirty a m That one on ESPN Plus exclusively
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Speaker 1: figure out how to get that channel and by SEC
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Speaker 1: Eastern on Sunday morning. Meanwhile, David Long, junior Titans linebacker,
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Speaker 1: leader in the team and tackles and interceptions. He'll join
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Speaker 1: us next ahead of their matchup with the Houston Texans.
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Speaker 1: Could be a scary one against Houston. The way Tennessee
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Speaker 1: is playing right now, I just want to be a
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Speaker 1: big scream. The Tennessee Titans putting their four and two
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Speaker 1: record on the line against the Houston Texans this weekend,
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Speaker 1: and Mike Vrabel just saying Ryan Tannehill is questionable to
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Speaker 1: play in Houston this weekend because of that ankle injury
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Speaker 1: that he suffered on Sunday and that win against the Colts. Again,
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Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill questionable to play against Houston this Sunday. According
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Speaker 1: to Mike Vrabel, it is new right now into NFL Network,
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Speaker 1: and right now into NFL Network, we are proud to
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Speaker 1: welcome David Long. There you see some of his highlights
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Speaker 1: this season. He is leading Tennessee in tackles. He has
14:33
Speaker 1: a couple of interceptions, leading the team there. Back to
14:36
Speaker 1: back games with picks David Long. Our guests right now
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Speaker 1: on NFL Network. Gear number four for David Long. Great
14:43
Speaker 1: season so far. How's it all come together for you
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Speaker 1: this year? I mean it's it's coming together like me
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Speaker 1: and my teammates talked about UM as far as like
14:52
Speaker 1: us working together, UM, all these sides of the ball
14:54
Speaker 1: and just playing with energy off each other. My thing
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Speaker 1: is gonna Well, obviously you've won four straight after that
15:00
Speaker 1: oh and two star you were hammered against Buffalo, but
15:03
Speaker 1: obviously you've righted the ship since then. What's changed for you, guys?
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Speaker 1: I think this our whole mindset and just getting back
15:11
Speaker 1: to our our core values and effort and finish you
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Speaker 1: no finished lower than the guy with the ball. All
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Speaker 1: these stage that we've built into our our culture. You know. Um,
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Speaker 1: I think we've got everybody on the same page now,
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Speaker 1: even the was that's not out there playing right away. UM,
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Speaker 1: you know, just being available when your name is called. Um,
15:27
Speaker 1: you know it's hard to be the team like that. Yeah,
15:29
Speaker 1: you guys have obviously shown a lot of toughness. We
15:32
Speaker 1: saw Danny Hill in that game on Sunday show toughness.
15:34
Speaker 1: We also saw Ben Jones show toughness order this season.
15:38
Speaker 1: Mike Able one of the tougher players when he played,
15:40
Speaker 1: but we saw that moment after the game where he
15:43
Speaker 1: greeted Ben Jones and went viral on social media where
15:46
Speaker 1: it was very emotional. What sort of side do you
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Speaker 1: see from Mike very well behind the scenes and what's
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Speaker 1: it like to play for a guy like that? Um,
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Speaker 1: I would say it's easy. It's easy to play for
15:56
Speaker 1: a guy you know that that shows that he he
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Speaker 1: cares about his players and also understanding, you know, because
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Speaker 1: he's been out there, he's played, um, you know this
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Speaker 1: game as well, so uh, being able to you know,
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Speaker 1: to playful coach like that. You know that that the
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Speaker 1: shows that he cares and you know and understand, you
16:11
Speaker 1: know what his players are going through. You know, it's
16:12
Speaker 1: easy to go out there and give you all all
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Speaker 1: even when it doesn't you know, feel like or your
16:16
Speaker 1: body doesn't feel like. You know, you can keep going. Um,
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Speaker 1: you can just remember who you're planning for and stuff
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Speaker 1: like that. You know, it's just easy to keep stepping
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Speaker 1: up and making plays. And since Mike Vrabel has been
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Speaker 1: the head coach there, since you've been remember organization, you
16:29
Speaker 1: guys make contenders. Really every year, David, what's it gonna
16:32
Speaker 1: take to get over the hump and get to the
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl? UM? I think just understanding grounded, you know, uh,
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Speaker 1: not even listening to the outside noise. You know, because
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Speaker 1: coming into every season, we're not the most talked about
16:43
Speaker 1: team and stuff like that, but um, it always pans
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Speaker 1: out good for us at the end of the season.
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Speaker 1: And it's about you know us, uh, just keeping that
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Speaker 1: that ball rolling, UM and us standing together as a
16:53
Speaker 1: team and as a as an organization. Ummu's just to
16:56
Speaker 1: get over the hump. You know, we I think we
16:57
Speaker 1: know what type of team we have, know what type
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Speaker 1: of um coaching we have here, and I think that
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Speaker 1: would take us a long way. We heard Ryan hannah
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Speaker 1: Hill become questionable with that ankle injury, like Verabel just
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Speaker 1: anounced a little bit before. If more pressure has to
17:11
Speaker 1: fall on you guys defensively, how are you prepared to
17:13
Speaker 1: handle that? Um? Prepared to handle the wheel? I think
17:17
Speaker 1: we've been in a couple of situations where back against
17:20
Speaker 1: the wall, we have to make some plays, you know. Um,
17:23
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be like that. This is the league. Um,
17:25
Speaker 1: somebody some days not gonna play the best. We're gonna
17:28
Speaker 1: have to go out there and get a couple of
17:29
Speaker 1: stocks in the ris and stuff like that, and then
17:32
Speaker 1: some some days gonna be not our best. No officers
17:34
Speaker 1: is gonna have to help us out. You know. It's
17:36
Speaker 1: just being unselfish, you know, being just a great teammate,
17:40
Speaker 1: you know, and just being ready to go out there
17:41
Speaker 1: in a battle for your brothers. Man, Um, that's easy
17:43
Speaker 1: to do. We've got a team, right, dudes. Yeah, the
17:46
Speaker 1: Texans have Damian Pierce rookie running back. Should be an
17:49
Speaker 1: intriguing matchup. You're David Long Jr. Your dad was an
17:52
Speaker 1: accomplished professional boxer. I know you've trained with him. How
17:55
Speaker 1: is maybe some of those boxing skills translated to your
17:58
Speaker 1: football game? UM, I think it translates a lot, as
18:01
Speaker 1: far as footwork and um, handout coordination. UM, as far
18:05
Speaker 1: as like the overall toughness you know, just you know,
18:07
Speaker 1: taking a punch, you know, being able to keep throwing them,
18:10
Speaker 1: or you know, um, being in the ring You're so tired,
18:13
Speaker 1: it's hard to keep your hands up, you know, you
18:14
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. UM, So just all about that mindset,
18:17
Speaker 1: you know, M that durability and just being being able
18:20
Speaker 1: you know, to withstand you so much. And folks that
18:23
Speaker 1: might know your name because David Long Jr. A Rams corner,
18:27
Speaker 1: you guys came out in the same draft class. Do
18:29
Speaker 1: you have any interesting stories where some guys might have
18:32
Speaker 1: thought that it was the other David Long that they
18:34
Speaker 1: were expecting to meet, any anything like that. Um, yes,
18:38
Speaker 1: I do. UM. I think I was. I was um
18:41
Speaker 1: l A for the Super Bowl. You know that's where
18:43
Speaker 1: the Rams are right and UM, I had a little
18:44
Speaker 1: autographs signing and it was it was telling me it
18:47
Speaker 1: was like no, keep going there, going to something like
18:50
Speaker 1: you got the wrong person. This this is the wrong problem.
18:52
Speaker 1: I ended up signing the ball. But it's been a
18:55
Speaker 1: couple of times even on social media where I've gotten
18:58
Speaker 1: some crazy messages. I'm like, yea'all the wrong pig alone.
19:02
Speaker 1: But you know, we we came in. We we both
19:04
Speaker 1: at the Spurs and also that's you guys have both
19:08
Speaker 1: been playing really well. In fact, had interceptions across the
19:10
Speaker 1: street last year at SOFI Stadium in the same building.
19:14
Speaker 1: David Logs, thank you so much for joining us. Good
19:16
Speaker 1: luck against Houston and have fun this Halloween weekend. Yes,
19:21
Speaker 1: thank you very much. Alright. Staying in Texas, the Dallas
19:26
Speaker 1: Cowboys hosting the Chicago Bears. The Bears coming off that
19:30
Speaker 1: big win against the Patriots on Monday night, looking to
19:33
Speaker 1: continue their winning ways against Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys.
19:38
Speaker 1: There you see Justin Fields coming in for much more
19:42
Speaker 1: on that matchup. We welcome back Jane Later and Mark
19:45
Speaker 1: Ross and Jane. When you look at Justin Fields, they
19:48
Speaker 1: had them running the football a lot more on Monday
19:51
Speaker 1: with design runs and his production obviously followed. How are
19:55
Speaker 1: the Cowboys preparing to deal with Justin Fields? Well, they
20:00
Speaker 1: knew the challenge they had in front of them, and
20:01
Speaker 1: we'll talk about some of the other challenges when you
20:03
Speaker 1: look at some of the runners on the s actual
20:05
Speaker 1: at the end of the season. But they went out
20:07
Speaker 1: and they made a trade. They picked up Jonathan Hankins,
20:09
Speaker 1: who comes in here, and it was Mike McCarthy who
20:12
Speaker 1: said this week that he was particularly impressive and Thursday's
20:15
Speaker 1: first padded practice, so he's expected to play and he's
20:17
Speaker 1: going to give him a little bit more size in
20:20
Speaker 1: the middle of that defensive line. But against the run,
20:23
Speaker 1: the Cowboys of challenge. You know, they have the sixth
20:24
Speaker 1: best defense in the league, but one of the twenty,
20:27
Speaker 1: the ranked twenty as it relates to slowing down the run.
20:30
Speaker 1: We saw what Jalen Hurts did to them when they
20:32
Speaker 1: played against him. And the Eagles. We can talk about
20:35
Speaker 1: Daniel jones Um and then this week is not gonna
20:38
Speaker 1: get an easier justin fields, particularly mobile on his feet,
20:41
Speaker 1: but it's also a three headed monster when you talk
20:42
Speaker 1: about the league's number one rushing attack combined with Khalil
20:46
Speaker 1: Herbert and of course David Montgomery, and I thought it
20:48
Speaker 1: was interesting this just talks to who Micah Parsons is
20:50
Speaker 1: as a player. After that Eagles game. He said he
20:52
Speaker 1: went to Dan Quinn and he said, I need to
20:55
Speaker 1: make sure this doesn't happen to me again. In other words,
20:57
Speaker 1: it felt like they were continuously coming at Micah Parsons. Well,
21:00
Speaker 1: Parsons and Fields are very close friends, their fierce competitors.
21:04
Speaker 1: He talked about speed on speed. They've rushed in the
21:07
Speaker 1: forty times multiple times, and he points out that he's
21:10
Speaker 1: beat them. But this is going to be an intriguing
21:12
Speaker 1: matchup to watch. The Cowboys, like I said, have got
21:14
Speaker 1: to start slowing down the run because if you look
21:16
Speaker 1: ahead of the schedule, they've got Dalvin Cook coming up,
21:18
Speaker 1: They've got Jonathan Taylor and they've got Derreck Henry and
21:21
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts and Daniel Jones again, so this is an
21:24
Speaker 1: area that they know they have to address and they're
21:26
Speaker 1: at least trying to do it with that trade. And
21:28
Speaker 1: I am interesting your thoughts, Mark, as we talk about
21:31
Speaker 1: this Cowboys run d and the addition of Jonathan Haigkins. Yeah,
21:35
Speaker 1: big Hank, one of my Giants draft picks. They're back
21:38
Speaker 1: in the day, so happy for him with a fresh
21:40
Speaker 1: start there with the Cowboys. Yeah, that's the first that's
21:43
Speaker 1: the first area when you recognize a problem that you
21:46
Speaker 1: have on your team and then you try to do
21:48
Speaker 1: something to fix it and not just act like, well,
21:50
Speaker 1: we'll just scheme it up and we'll work harder during
21:52
Speaker 1: the week. They actually tried to address that. The good
21:55
Speaker 1: thing about the Cowboys, as you mentioned about the Chicago
22:00
Speaker 1: offense and Justin Fields, where they finally designed plays for
22:03
Speaker 1: Justin Fields a run the ball wasn't just Justin Fields
22:06
Speaker 1: in panic mode because he's getting rush by the pass
22:09
Speaker 1: rush and he had to take off. For the Bears
22:11
Speaker 1: finally designed players for Justin Fields to run well. Now
22:14
Speaker 1: the Cowboys don't have that that they can game plan
22:17
Speaker 1: for that because they've seen it on tape and they
22:19
Speaker 1: know what Justin Fields does well as far as the
22:22
Speaker 1: design runs. Now, so with the addition of Hankins and
22:25
Speaker 1: then also, okay, we've got to do better game planning
22:28
Speaker 1: because we have been beat by athletic quarterbacks in the
22:31
Speaker 1: run game. As you mention Daniel Jones, well, now that's
22:34
Speaker 1: on Dan Quinn and that defensive staff to say, okay,
22:37
Speaker 1: we need to do better game planning during the week
22:39
Speaker 1: and preparation to stop these runs, particularly those zone retype runs. Yeah,
22:44
Speaker 1: It could be especially critical because Justin Fields leads the
22:47
Speaker 1: league in sacks taken and the Cowboys lead the league
22:51
Speaker 1: in sacks on defense, So getting the Bears run game
22:53
Speaker 1: obviously key to limiting that Dallas front. Jane Mark, thank
22:57
Speaker 1: you both very much. Meanwhile, Gino Smith continues his former
23:02
Speaker 1: team tour big win over the Chargers last weekend. One
23:04
Speaker 1: of his former teams goes up against another one of
23:07
Speaker 1: his former teams, the New York Giants this weekend in Seattle.
23:11
Speaker 1: A couple of surprising teams this year, the Seahawks leading
23:15
Speaker 1: the NFC West and the Giants six and one, just
23:19
Speaker 1: one game behind the Eagles in the lost column in
23:21
Speaker 1: the NFC East. For more on this showdown, we welcome
23:24
Speaker 1: back our Judy Batista. Both these teams have dynamic running games, Judy,
23:29
Speaker 1: but both with poorest run defenses. What's the plan here
23:33
Speaker 1: on Sunday, Well, I'm going to keep an eye on
23:36
Speaker 1: the Seattle run defense because it is among the worst
23:40
Speaker 1: in the league, and they were eating up a few
23:42
Speaker 1: weeks ago by the New Orleans Saints two headed running
23:45
Speaker 1: attack with Alvin Kamara and Tyson Hill. The Giants have
23:48
Speaker 1: something like that going right now. We know of course
23:50
Speaker 1: about s Kwon Barkley, but in recent weeks the designed
23:53
Speaker 1: runs for Daniel Jones have made him a weapon with
23:57
Speaker 1: his legs, so keep an eye on that. And a
23:59
Speaker 1: stat from next Gen Stats that I thought was really interesting.
24:02
Speaker 1: Seattle struggles with the run, whether they put extra men
24:05
Speaker 1: in the box or not, and they are having a
24:08
Speaker 1: particular problem with runs outside the tackles. Say, Quon Berkeley
24:12
Speaker 1: is second in the league runs outside the tackles, so
24:15
Speaker 1: that is certainly a matchup to watch. And then on
24:18
Speaker 1: the other side of the ball you mentioned it, Geno
24:20
Speaker 1: Smith is having an absolute career season. He leads the
24:24
Speaker 1: league in completion percentage incredibly um He especially thrives when
24:30
Speaker 1: he is facing man to man coverage. The Giants play
24:33
Speaker 1: man to man coverage almost fifty percent of the time.
24:36
Speaker 1: That is among the highest in the league. So we
24:38
Speaker 1: will see if Gino can carve up the Giants defense
24:42
Speaker 1: s he had so many defenses season. Yeah, let Gino
24:45
Speaker 1: keep cooking. The Seahawks roll in their first place in
24:48
Speaker 1: the NFC West. Juda Bautista, thank you very much. Still
24:53
Speaker 1: to come, Aaron Rodgers and the Packers trying to get
24:56
Speaker 1: back on track they're doing in one of the more
24:59
Speaker 1: hostile environments in the NFL. Sunday Night in Buffalo, Bills
25:05
Speaker 1: mafia will be going crazy. How do they get things
25:08
Speaker 1: go on? We'll answer those questions when NFL now continues.
25:18
Speaker 1: This is one of those I think we all had
25:19
Speaker 1: circled on our calendar when the NFL schedule came out
25:22
Speaker 1: blast Spring. The Packers Bills Sunday Night Football, two time
25:26
Speaker 1: reigning MVP Aaron Rodgers versus a leading candidate to win
25:30
Speaker 1: this year in Josh Allen. But of course the Packers
25:34
Speaker 1: have been struggling looking to get things back on track
25:36
Speaker 1: against Buffalo and at top ranked defense led again by
25:40
Speaker 1: Leslie Fraser. For more on that Bill's defense, let's welcome
25:44
Speaker 1: back Mark Ross and Jim Trotter. Jim, what's been the
25:48
Speaker 1: secret to the Bills success led by Frasier? Well, it
25:51
Speaker 1: is Leslie Fraser, who is a leader of men and
25:54
Speaker 1: a tremendous coach. Look when we talk about this defense,
25:57
Speaker 1: it gets overshadowed at times by Josh Allen in this offense,
26:00
Speaker 1: but they're not just number one in total defense, their
26:03
Speaker 1: number one against the rust, their number one an interception rate,
26:06
Speaker 1: their number one in points against. And remember they've done
26:09
Speaker 1: this now without their complete secondary Tradevious White has been
26:12
Speaker 1: out um coming off that injury last season. Micah Hyde
26:17
Speaker 1: is out for the year now with his injury. So
26:19
Speaker 1: for Leslie Praiser to keep this together and keep them
26:22
Speaker 1: playing the way that they are, he deserves a lot
26:24
Speaker 1: of credit. He should be on the list of people
26:27
Speaker 1: who will be interviewed for head coaching jobs, and in fact,
26:29
Speaker 1: in my opinion, he should get a head coaching job
26:32
Speaker 1: that comes up. So while we're enamored with the quarterbacks,
26:35
Speaker 1: that's not news focus of one of the elements that
26:37
Speaker 1: has made Buffalo so successful this season, and that is
26:40
Speaker 1: that deepense. Omar Yeah, Leslie Fraser certainly a key to
26:43
Speaker 1: the bills sustained success during the Sean McDermott era and
26:47
Speaker 1: that five record. They're coming off a bite, so theoretically
26:50
Speaker 1: they're as healthy as they've been all season long. Certainly
26:53
Speaker 1: a tough test for the Green Bay Packers. Mark Aaron
26:56
Speaker 1: Rodgers has certainly been outspoken this past week about everybody's
27:00
Speaker 1: need to elevate their play. What have you seen from
27:03
Speaker 1: this Packers offense? Well, that's interesting with Aaron Rodgers, those
27:07
Speaker 1: comments he talked about everybody else, but didn't look at
27:09
Speaker 1: itself and say, man, I got to play better. And
27:12
Speaker 1: that's just kind of been the the issue with the
27:14
Speaker 1: Packers with me on and off the field. So the
27:17
Speaker 1: off the field, it's been tons of distractions, much like
27:19
Speaker 1: what's going on with Tom Brady and Tampa Bay with
27:22
Speaker 1: a lot of off field distractions that may affect the
27:25
Speaker 1: preparation and the continuity on the field. I see the
27:27
Speaker 1: same thing with Green Bay. It's been well chronicled. We
27:30
Speaker 1: talked about it every day with the distractions with Aaron
27:32
Speaker 1: Rodgers off the field. Okay, now go get on the
27:35
Speaker 1: field and get on the same page with everybody. It's
27:37
Speaker 1: just not that easy for a team. The best teams
27:39
Speaker 1: I've been on, the winning teams, everybody has been on
27:42
Speaker 1: the same page. Then you look at on the field
27:45
Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers just isn't the same sort of quarterback
27:49
Speaker 1: as he once was. Father time gets everybody who talked
27:51
Speaker 1: about this with Brady, with Matt Ryan, it catches up
27:54
Speaker 1: to everybody he's not the same. Then you have to
27:56
Speaker 1: look at the Davante Adams factor, where DeVante is not
27:59
Speaker 1: there anymore, doesn't have his number one security blanket and
28:02
Speaker 1: then the guys that replacing him. There really isn't anybody.
28:04
Speaker 1: You look at that Green Bay offen and say we're
28:06
Speaker 1: scared of them and the receiving group and Lazard might
28:08
Speaker 1: be out this weekend. Aaron Jones is their best player,
28:10
Speaker 1: the running back. They can't get the run game going
28:13
Speaker 1: because everybody just plans to stop that because there's no
28:16
Speaker 1: threat in the past games. So a lot of different
28:18
Speaker 1: issues there with Green Bay's offense. Didn't even get to box.
28:20
Speaker 1: The r is injury and he's not the same, so
28:23
Speaker 1: this could get a little bit ugly there in the
28:25
Speaker 1: Orchard Park this weekend. Omar and Matt Lafleur saying that
28:27
Speaker 1: the David bo R injury will be something they'll have
28:29
Speaker 1: to deal with throughout the rest of the season, and
28:32
Speaker 1: that one of those stats that was rolling on the
28:33
Speaker 1: bottom of the screen while you were talking Mark really
28:35
Speaker 1: stood out to me. Aaron Rodgers has yet to have
28:38
Speaker 1: a three hundred yard passing game or a three touchdown
28:42
Speaker 1: game so far this season, certainly speaking to those issues
28:45
Speaker 1: the Packers are having on offense. Mark and Jim thank
28:48
Speaker 1: you both very much. NFL Now is a production of
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