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The Insiders Podcast: 3 Things Learned from Offseason Workouts and Packers RB Josh Jacobs · NFL Game Previews

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Speaker 1: Welcome the Inside with the Insiders alongside Mike Garafollo, I
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Speaker 1: am Tom Pellicero. We are now just sixty five days
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Speaker 1: away from kickoff of the twenty twenty four NFL regular season.
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Speaker 1: Three weeks from today, Mike, most teams will be reporting
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Speaker 1: to training camp. We got a pack show to celebrate
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Speaker 1: and discuss all of it. Packers running back, Josh Jacobs,
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Speaker 1: one of the biggest free agency moves. He's going to
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Speaker 1: be on this show, given us his thoughts on Jordan Love,
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Speaker 1: that crowded Packers backfield, and a whole lot more. We'll
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Speaker 1: talk about the Jets and the Cowboys, the Giants, the Panthers,
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Speaker 1: the Falcons, tons more.
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Speaker 2: But let's start out.
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Speaker 1: Let's we come up on the fourth July holiday, the
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Speaker 1: last break for a lot of NFL people, with.
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Speaker 2: A discussion about one of the fireworks.
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Speaker 1: That could go off between now and training catch you
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Speaker 1: get it, Mike, because there's fireworks on the fourth. This
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Speaker 1: one would involve Josh Jacobs's new quarterback. It is indeed
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Speaker 1: Jordan Love. Jordan Love. Any Packers have been in conversations
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Speaker 1: about a contract extension to this point has not sounded
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Speaker 1: like anything is accelerating. That's kind of the way that
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Speaker 1: Green Bay historically has gone about these deals. But Mike,
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Speaker 1: when you've got a potential franchise quarterback who played like
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Speaker 1: Jordan Love did down the stretch and he's due eleven
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Speaker 1: million dollars as part of that band aid deal he
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Speaker 1: did a year ago, I would be surprised, not shocked,
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Speaker 1: but surprised if they can't find a way to work
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Speaker 1: something out before the season.
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Speaker 3: Well, we've got Josh Jacobs coming up on the show
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Speaker 3: in just a little bit. We should ask him about
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Speaker 3: Jordan Love, and when we do, maybe he'll say something
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Speaker 3: to the effect of, quote, he's going to be the
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Speaker 3: next superstar in this league for sure, end quote. Just
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Speaker 3: gonna have a feeling about that regarding Josh Jacobs. So
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Speaker 3: the Packers versually feel the same way they have had
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Speaker 3: shown their confidence in Josh and excuse me, Jordan Love
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Speaker 3: when they drafted him, when they made the decision to
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Speaker 3: move on from Aaron Rodgers. And then when you get
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Speaker 3: to the negotiating table, you know what happens. All that
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Speaker 3: good stuff that you said and you did for the
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Speaker 3: last couple of years, and all that confidence you showed
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Speaker 3: comes back at you, and the agent and the players say, hey,
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Speaker 3: remember when you thought of us, and you still think
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Speaker 3: of us, Well, you know what, if you're the Packers,
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Speaker 3: you may have to do this deal out a number
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Speaker 3: that could rival Joe Burrow and Trevor Lawrence at the
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Speaker 3: top of the market, could even potentially surpass it, even
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Speaker 3: though he's got one year of starting experience, because if
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Speaker 3: you don't do it and you wait a year, the
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Speaker 3: price only goes up, and now you're into the potentially
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Speaker 3: the sixties. So yeah, I think the Packers understand that
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Speaker 3: the time is now to do a deal and it's
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Speaker 3: going to be a big number.
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Speaker 1: The leverage is on the player's side, particularly when if
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Speaker 1: they don't get something done with Jordan Love, now you're
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Speaker 1: into the franchise tag game in twenty twenty five, which
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Speaker 1: no team wants to play. Similar situational being a little
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Speaker 1: bit different with Tuatungua bai Loa, the Dolphins picked up
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Speaker 1: his fifty year option as opposed to doing a bridge
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Speaker 1: deal like Green Bay did we know from the words
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Speaker 1: out to his own mouth, he feels like they've been
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Speaker 1: close a toime through the course of this offseason. He
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Speaker 1: is still hopefully we'll have a new deal in place
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Speaker 1: before camp. He wasn't doing a the eleven on eleven
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Speaker 1: Mike during the course of the spring. How does this
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Speaker 1: play out here over the next several weeks in Miami.
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Speaker 2: I'm shocked.
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Speaker 3: We're talking about the fourth of July and fireworks and
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Speaker 3: this deal is still not done. And I guess Tua
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Speaker 3: is surprised as well. They did have good conversations in
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Speaker 3: the spring. They have had my understanding, good conversations recently
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Speaker 3: as well, But you're kind of in that in between
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Speaker 3: zone right now.
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Speaker 2: There's really no real great rush and you know, to
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Speaker 2: is on vacation.
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Speaker 3: The Dolphins folks are going to have their vacations as well,
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Speaker 3: So this feels like something you get together right before
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Speaker 3: the start of training camp and that's when you get
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Speaker 3: this thing done. It'll be around those numbers that I
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Speaker 3: talked about, maybe not all the way to Joe Burrow
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Speaker 3: and Trevor Lawrence, but it's gonna be a great number,
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Speaker 3: particularly for a guy who had the show last year.
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Speaker 2: He could stay healthy.
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Speaker 3: And after entertaining potentially retirement talks. So whatever this deal
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Speaker 3: comes in at, and I do think it's going to
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Speaker 3: come in well before the start of week one, it's
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Speaker 3: gonna be a great number for two.
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Speaker 1: Another top quarterback who is in a similar but different
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Speaker 1: situation from those two, Dak Prescott, also entering a contract here, Mike.
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Speaker 1: Why this is different is Dak's doe about thirty four
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Speaker 1: million dollars in the last year of his existing extension.
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Speaker 1: He's already been extended once. They've already expended two franchise
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Speaker 1: tags prior to getting that done so effectively, they can't
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Speaker 1: tag him. In twenty twenty five, the number will be
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Speaker 1: close to eighty million dollars, all of which, certainly you
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Speaker 1: would think is going to set the table for Dallas
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Speaker 1: to try to make a push. It sounds like there
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Speaker 1: is at least a pathway to get something done with
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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, but he's gonna have to weigh that out
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Speaker 1: versus the possibility being the rare franchise type quarterback who
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Speaker 1: ends up in unfettered free agency next March.
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Speaker 3: It sets the table for an entertaining press conference to
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Speaker 3: begin training camp with Jerry Jones. He loves to hold
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Speaker 3: that press conference at the start of camp.
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Speaker 2: He said some off color. Not off color, if.
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Speaker 3: He's said some odd stuff in the past, is that
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Speaker 3: the circumcise of Mosquito line came. And maybe there's the
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Speaker 3: one year where he said he loves himself some glory whole.
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Speaker 3: I think that came at the start of training camp
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Speaker 3: press conferences, or maybe I'm just misremembering it. Regardless, this
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Speaker 3: is gonna be the topic of conversation to start camp
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Speaker 3: because I don't think the deal is getting done before that,
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Speaker 3: and Dak Prescott and his agent Todd Frantz have known
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Speaker 3: the ability or used the ability to maximize their leverage.
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Speaker 3: There's no rush to do it at the start of
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Speaker 3: training camp, especially when you have all that money you
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Speaker 3: already banked. Why not go out there, perform, get as
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Speaker 3: close to free agency as you possibly can, take it
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Speaker 3: into the season, perhaps take it into the offseason, and
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Speaker 3: then if you want to go back to Dallas versus testing.
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Speaker 2: The open market, then you do it.
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Speaker 1: Then potentially it's taking all my will power to not
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Speaker 1: burst out laughing, because somehow Mike repeating Jerry Jones quotes
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Speaker 1: is actually funnier than Jerry Jones saying those quotes himself.
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Speaker 1: I'll have another quarterback who's not in a contract situation
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Speaker 1: this time around, though certainly Guy's found himself in the
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Speaker 1: news over the past couple of months. Aaron Rodgers is
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Speaker 1: back on American soil. He's with one of his former teammates,
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Speaker 1: Mercedes Lewis, at a UFC event over the weekend before that,
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Speaker 1: he was throwing balls in California with another one of
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Speaker 1: his former teammates, Mark wez Voldez Scaley. To my knowledge,
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Speaker 1: no Jets teammates insight so far, at least per social media.
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Speaker 1: As we welcome in our Steve Wich to the conversation. Steve,
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Speaker 1: It's been about three weeks since Aaron Rodgers was a
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Speaker 1: very unusual absence from the mandatory mini camp. We're now
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Speaker 1: three weeks away to the day from the Jets reporting
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Speaker 1: to camp. And while I would continue to maintain Aaron
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Speaker 1: Rodgers not being there for a couple of practices in
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Speaker 1: June is not going to have an impact on the
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Speaker 1: field for the Jets, it still remains to be seen
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Speaker 1: how all this environment plays out surrounding this Jets team
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Speaker 1: in what certainly looks on paper to be like a
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Speaker 1: more wide open AFC East than we've had in a
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Speaker 1: few years.
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Speaker 4: Tom, you nailed it when he saw the environment of
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Speaker 4: the Jets. You know, I don't think I think in
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Speaker 4: three weeks in a day, we're not going to be
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Speaker 4: talking about Aaron Rodgers not being at the manage where
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Speaker 4: many can't remember this was a guy who only played
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Speaker 4: four snaps last season.
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Speaker 2: He is going to be motivated, maybe more.
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Speaker 4: Than ever, to shove it in everybody's face who has
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Speaker 4: doubted him and the Jets coming into the season. This
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Speaker 4: is still a very good player. Now does he have
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Speaker 4: the weapons? Maybe we think he has to be very good.
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Speaker 4: I'm not sure, which is why I know everyone is
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Speaker 4: excited about the Jets being the favorites in the AFC East.
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Speaker 4: I think we are discounting the Miami Dolphins and all
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Speaker 4: this conversation. I know the Buffalo Bills are right there.
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Speaker 4: They won the division last year with the same record
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Speaker 4: as the Dolphins. But the Jets, yes, they should be
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Speaker 4: improved because Aaron Rodgers is one of the greatest players.
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Speaker 4: But I think overall, on both sides of the ball,
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Speaker 4: the Dolphins have the most talent in this division to
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Speaker 4: come out of it.
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Speaker 2: Now, both the Jets and the Dolphins, the.
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Speaker 4: Final four or five games on each of their schedules
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Speaker 4: is a murderer's row. We know how the Dolphins faded
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Speaker 4: last year down the stretch. That's going to determine their fate.
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Speaker 4: But you look at those last five game of the Jets.
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Speaker 4: If they're not eight and three going into their week
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Speaker 4: twelve by, they could be in trouble when you look
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Speaker 4: again at that final strike, regardless of how well Aaron
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Speaker 4: Rodgers is suited up.
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Speaker 2: And quick note, Tom, I was actually.
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Speaker 4: Dying off camera listening to Mike repeat the jerryisms.
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Speaker 3: So well done by you, circumcis and mosquito. That's you
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Speaker 3: gotta add the I don't think I added the twang
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Speaker 3: the first time around, so.
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Speaker 2: Second time not even better. There's a great episode of
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Speaker 2: The Simpsons.
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Speaker 3: There's a great episode of The Simpsons where Bart thinks
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Speaker 3: that Major League Baseball is spying on him. At the
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Speaker 3: end of the episode you find out that he was
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Speaker 3: actually right, he wasn't crazy. And Mark McGuire shows up
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Speaker 3: as the satellite crashes the Earth. It's got Vin Scully's voice.
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Speaker 3: It's a great episode. Watch it after we're done here,
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Speaker 3: don't don't stop watching this. And Mark McGuire shows up,
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Speaker 3: it's like, you want to talk about that, or you
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Speaker 3: want to see some dingers, And everybody goes dangers. He
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Speaker 3: just starts hitting the ball and ooh, and they forget
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Speaker 3: about the satellite. That's what's gonna happen with Rodgers. You
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Speaker 3: see that's little motion footage you just you just saw
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Speaker 3: right there. He's gonna show up at at training camp.
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Speaker 3: It's gonna be a topic for one day. He's certainly
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Speaker 3: gonna express no over more. I am confident in saying that,
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Speaker 3: and it's gonna be like, forget mini camp.
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Speaker 2: Look at what's happening in trading, look at the majesty
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Speaker 2: of some of these throws.
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Speaker 3: That's gonna be forgotten and we're gonna be moved on
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Speaker 3: to the twenty four season with the Jets. Will Hassan
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Speaker 3: Redick be there? I have no idea. I just know
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Speaker 3: that he thought a deal was going to get done.
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Speaker 3: After these sides, the Jets and the Eagles consummated, a
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Speaker 3: trade did not happen. Seems to have been some miscommunication there.
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Speaker 3: Regardless of what happens in the past, it's time to
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Speaker 3: communicate better and get this thing done. He missed mini camp.
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Speaker 3: Will he carry that hold out into training camp? I
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Speaker 3: don't know. Sometimes folks will say some stuff right now
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Speaker 3: and you'd be like Oh, he's.
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Speaker 2: Not gonna and then the dude winds up showing up.
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Speaker 3: I do get the sense though, that has Son Reddick
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Speaker 3: is very serious about making it clear to the Jets
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Speaker 3: that he wants his money and he wants all of it.
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Speaker 2: See, thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: Nobody takes you on a long walk for a short
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Speaker 1: fear quite like Mike Garofolo on this day in NFL history,
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Speaker 1: going to the war Bear's gone deal with a guy
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Speaker 1: who's going to be going to the Hall of Fame
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Speaker 1: about a month from now. Devin Hester signed his rookie
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Speaker 1: deal back in two thousand and six. How about this,
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Speaker 1: as we keep looking at the timeline less than a
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Speaker 1: month away Texans Bears in the Hall of Fame game.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of enshrinements.
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Speaker 1: When Astros Falcons teammates went into the Senior Bowl Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame Sunday in Mobile, Alabama, was Roddy White want
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Speaker 1: of five four players to get the nod. White played
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Speaker 1: in the two thousand and five Senior Bowl Game. Talked
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Speaker 1: to rhtt Lewis about his first meeting with his Senior
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Speaker 1: Bowl head coach John Gruton.
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Speaker 5: The very first meeting, I walk into the room in
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Speaker 5: John Gruen's he's already in there, he's got everything set out,
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Speaker 5: you know, and I walk in, I'm sitting down.
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Speaker 6: He was like, oh, I heard you were a wrestler.
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Speaker 5: And I was like, I was like, yeah, I mean
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Speaker 5: I'm doing it for a pretty long time.
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Speaker 2: He was like, I think I could take you.
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Speaker 5: And I looked at and I was like, whenever you ready.
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Speaker 5: So that was kind of my introduction before they even
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Speaker 5: offens of meeting even database I me and he was
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Speaker 5: going back and forth, you know, having a good time
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Speaker 5: for the meet stars.
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Speaker 1: John Gruden, I could see being a pretty good wrestler,
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Speaker 1: just like low Center of Gravity. He's scrappy, no holds barred.
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Speaker 1: I can see it, although I don't I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: i'd want to compete with Roddy White in any sort
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Speaker 1: of athletic feats.
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Speaker 2: Let's bring in are At Lewis.
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Speaker 1: Wes some athletic feats in his past as well, most recently.
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Speaker 1: 'ret though you were down there for a variety of
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Speaker 1: different events, including that Senior Bowl Hall of Fame induction.
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Speaker 1: Tell me the best headline, the best story you got
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Speaker 1: out of that weekend.
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Speaker 7: Well, that was one of them, right.
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Speaker 8: There was certainly here in Roddy White talk about John
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Speaker 8: Gruden that first interaction. No confirmation though on whether that
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Speaker 8: wrestling match ever took place, still working on that, but
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Speaker 8: it was a great Senior Bowl Hall of Fame class. Now,
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Speaker 8: you guys heard from Demico Ryans yesterday. Eric Weddle was
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Speaker 8: a part of that class. Was one of my favorite
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Speaker 8: stories that he told guys. And you might remember this
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Speaker 8: right from probably came out a little bit when he
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Speaker 8: came out of retirement to join the La Rams on
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Speaker 8: that Super Bowl run. But he was telling me that
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Speaker 8: relationship that he forged with Raheem Morris, who was his
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Speaker 8: defensive backs coach that year that Eric Weddle was in
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Speaker 8: the Senior Bowl was really what vaulted, you know, Raheem
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Speaker 8: Morris calling him. You know, however, many years later it
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Speaker 8: was to join the Rams, come out of retirement and
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Speaker 8: go win a Super Bowl. And you know, I think
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Speaker 8: a lot of times we talk about the competition right
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Speaker 8: that happens there, the evaluations that happened immobile, you know, Tom, Mike,
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Speaker 8: you guys have seen it firsthand. But I think one
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Speaker 8: thing that gets lost is the trust that's built between
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Speaker 8: coaches and players that interact there together. And that was
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Speaker 8: a trust and those guys never got a chance to
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Speaker 8: play and coach together until that final you know, half
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Speaker 8: a season in few games there. Eric Weddle joined the
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Speaker 8: Rams and so truly went from Senior Bowl to Super Bowl,
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Speaker 8: which was, you know, one of my favorite stories. In
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Speaker 8: the crowd really got a kick out of hearing that,
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Speaker 8: Marvel the story.
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Speaker 2: Watched the twenty twenty five Senior Bowl. Reese the Senior Bowl.
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Speaker 3: Here in NFL Network, Tom Pellasero does silent lines for it.
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Speaker 3: You never know what kind of impact that game is
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Speaker 3: going to have on the twenty forty NFL season the
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Speaker 3: way that Rhett just laid it out for you. Before that,
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Speaker 3: you went to the Manning Passing Academy. I think there's
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Speaker 3: a book over your left shoulder that says Manning. You
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Speaker 3: know the family, Well, you've attended it multiple times.
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Speaker 2: How was this year's MPa, Man, it was awesome.
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Speaker 8: You know, it's ninety five degree heat, one hundred percent
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Speaker 8: humidity down in Thibodaux, Louisiana, But you know, I'm from
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Speaker 8: about forty five minutes away from there, and it's always
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Speaker 8: one of the highlights of my summer. Guys, It's an
13:31
Speaker 8: opportunity to kind of scratch that itch of getting to
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Speaker 8: be around ball again in a way in which you
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Speaker 8: can kind of coach and teach and be around guys
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Speaker 8: who and kids who love the game. Eighth graders through
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Speaker 8: twelfth graders that are going into those grades get to
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Speaker 8: come down, and they have almost fifteen hundred campers that
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Speaker 8: come down for that event. And so I love that
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Speaker 8: piece of it. But the other piece of it that's
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Speaker 8: really valuable for me is I get a chance to
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Speaker 8: spend some time around forty five or so of the
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Speaker 8: best college quarterbacks in the country. And this probably he
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Speaker 8: won't come as much of a surprise to you guys,
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Speaker 8: but it turns out the Texas Longhorns aren't a pretty
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Speaker 8: good spot when it comes to the quarterback position.
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Speaker 7: And quinn Ewers, who will be their starter.
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Speaker 8: This year, was last year let him to a college
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Speaker 8: football playoff appearance, is just so impressive when he throws
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Speaker 8: the football. You guys are talking about Aaron Rodgers earlier,
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Speaker 8: and I am telling you there is some effortlessness with
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Speaker 8: the way that quinn Ewers throws the ball and the
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Speaker 8: way it explodes out of his hand on the deep ball,
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Speaker 8: the way he can accurately place it wherever he wants.
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Speaker 8: That does remind you a little bit of Aaron Rodgers.
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Speaker 8: And oh, by the way, his backup just happens to
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Speaker 8: bear the name of the camp that we are talking
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Speaker 8: about here. Arch Manning super impressive, big physical kid. He's
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Speaker 8: going to be great when it's his time to go.
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Speaker 8: And I'm just, you know, I feel like I'm really
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Speaker 8: impressed continually. But the way that he handles himself right,
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Speaker 8: the way that his family has helped, you know, him
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Speaker 8: kind of understand the situation that he's in. And so
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Speaker 8: it was really cool to see all that. And you know,
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Speaker 8: it's just a really neat event to get the chance
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Speaker 8: to be around so many somebody the guys who love football.
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Speaker 1: Wild guess we'll be talking a lot about Quinn viewers.
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Speaker 1: Come oh, let's say next February, March April, and arch
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Speaker 1: Manning probably not that far behind Rett. Thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: More selfie videos please keep them coming our way. Coming
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Speaker 1: up after this, you're gonna hear about Malik Neighbors, who
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Speaker 1: made that catch during his first off season with the
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Speaker 1: New York Giants. Is that enough to vault the Giants
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Speaker 1: back into playoff contention. Our guy Volty joins us to
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Speaker 1: discuss that and a lot more around the NFC East
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Speaker 1: Right after this on The Insiders.
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Speaker 3: Oh, Hard Knocks is taking you behind the scenes of
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Speaker 3: the off season.
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Speaker 2: For the first time ever with the New.
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Speaker 3: York Giants, from Blockbuster Trades to Draft Day. Hard Knocks
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Speaker 3: Off Season with the New York Giants premieres tonight at
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Speaker 3: nine pm on Max. Here is a sneak peek at
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Speaker 3: episode one.
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Speaker 2: You guys want to move up to six thirty three? No,
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Speaker 2: just checking? Never heard sass me? And you want to
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Speaker 2: come up to six? Where are you? You can't afford it.
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Speaker 9: You can't afford a top ten pig.
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Speaker 2: Come on? You want to give us pold ones for
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Speaker 2: the friends?
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Speaker 7: Ooh, that sounded an awful lot like the Panthers. Just
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Speaker 7: let the Giants know that pass rusher extraordinary Brian Burns
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Speaker 7: is available.
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Speaker 2: There's Buns being an absolute factor.
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Speaker 6: Just wins off the ball.
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Speaker 2: It's look at that little dip that's so beautiful. To
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Speaker 2: change your levels.
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Speaker 4: It make yourself from a big, tall target to a tiny, little,
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Speaker 4: small target.
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Speaker 7: You want to give us pold ones for the friends?
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Speaker 2: No, I mean yes, but.
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Speaker 9: Something heading in the right direction, heading in the right direction.
17:09
Speaker 3: That direction wound up being Day two of the draft
17:11
Speaker 3: was a second and fifth round pick that went in
17:14
Speaker 3: exchange for Brian Burns. So that's the kind of behind
17:16
Speaker 3: the scenes access that you.
17:17
Speaker 2: Are going to see at times.
17:19
Speaker 3: My understanding is the Giants forgot about the cameras that
17:22
Speaker 3: they were there, so maybe we caught some even juicier stuff. Anyway,
17:25
Speaker 3: you'll see what went into all this stuff right here.
17:28
Speaker 3: This is the Giants notable transactions of the twenty four offseason.
17:31
Speaker 3: You will see that in Hard Knocks on HBO and Max.
17:35
Speaker 3: Brian Moldier now joining us to talk some Giants.
17:40
Speaker 2: You see what they did there.
17:41
Speaker 3: You know what they already had coming from last season,
17:44
Speaker 3: which was a disappointment. But this team feels like they
17:47
Speaker 3: can bounce back and recapture what they had two years ago.
17:50
Speaker 2: In Brian Dables' first year as the coach.
17:52
Speaker 3: Do they have enough firepower on this roster to compete
17:55
Speaker 3: with the rest of the NFC East Baldy, Well.
17:57
Speaker 7: If they do something that they do last year that
18:00
Speaker 7: stay healthy.
18:00
Speaker 10: I mean, you know, their offensive line fell apart Week
18:03
Speaker 10: one last year and it never really got healthy, and
18:06
Speaker 10: the quarterbacks all over colored quarterbacks suffered. If they can
18:09
Speaker 10: put the line together, and they've addressed it this offseason
18:13
Speaker 10: and keep Daniel Jones healthy. You look, you go out
18:16
Speaker 10: there to OTA's in mini camps and you're looking at
18:18
Speaker 10: elite neighbors and Jalen Hyatt and Wandale Robinson, Darius Slayton.
18:23
Speaker 7: You think they have enough. They have enough to be competitive.
18:26
Speaker 10: And then we're showing the defense here, Mike, and defensively
18:30
Speaker 10: they have a chance to be pretty good. And so
18:33
Speaker 10: they had thirty one takeaways, which tied for the league
18:36
Speaker 10: lead last year. If they could take the ball away
18:38
Speaker 10: with Kavon and Burnsey and Oka Ak and Dexter Lawrence
18:42
Speaker 10: and some of the guys up front and give a
18:44
Speaker 10: little healthy offense, they could be a lot more competitive
18:47
Speaker 10: in that division than they were.
18:49
Speaker 3: Between the injuries and the offensive line, and Darren Waller
18:52
Speaker 3: was injured as well. Was just not that explosive presence
18:54
Speaker 3: that they thought he was going to be. Just never
18:56
Speaker 3: got right offensively. Defensively, Look, Wake Martin was a really
19:00
Speaker 3: good defensive coordinator. It just was not a fit anymore,
19:03
Speaker 3: and it just wasn't working for either side.
19:05
Speaker 2: So he moves on.
19:06
Speaker 3: So you think with a new defensive coordinator, you can
19:08
Speaker 3: reset on that side of the ball as well. So, yeah,
19:10
Speaker 3: interested to see where the Giants wind up.
19:13
Speaker 2: Let's play a.
19:13
Speaker 3: Little bit more or a little bit of a game
19:16
Speaker 3: called more likely scenario here. I'll give you a couple
19:18
Speaker 3: of scenarios here, and you tell me what's more likely.
19:20
Speaker 3: The first one, Elite Neighbors will elevate the Giants offense
19:24
Speaker 3: or is this Daniel Jones last season in New York.
19:29
Speaker 7: I think Elite Neighbors is going to make an impact. Mike.
19:32
Speaker 10: You just watch him just one day out there in
19:34
Speaker 10: miniicamp and you see just a different ways that they
19:37
Speaker 10: get him the ball and just his movement and you're
19:39
Speaker 10: seeing right here that we saw throughout the SEC the
19:42
Speaker 10: last couple of years like that showed up in camp.
19:45
Speaker 10: I think he has a chance to help elevate this
19:47
Speaker 10: offense in a way that we have never seen a
19:49
Speaker 10: receiver since Odell Beckham elevating offense in New York.
19:53
Speaker 2: Both could be yeah, both could be true.
19:55
Speaker 3: Neither could be true on any of these I'm asking you,
19:57
Speaker 3: But yeah, I see what you're saying there. I've picking
20:00
Speaker 3: up what you're putting down, and I know that the Giants,
20:02
Speaker 3: and certainly their approach to the draft where they didn't
20:06
Speaker 3: take a quarterback just to take a quarterback, shows that
20:08
Speaker 3: they still have confidence in Daniel Jones, both from a
20:10
Speaker 3: talent standpoint and a health standpoint as he comes back
20:13
Speaker 3: from his ACL.
20:13
Speaker 2: They expect them to be ready week one. Here's another
20:15
Speaker 2: one for you.
20:16
Speaker 3: We're going to go around the NFC East with these
20:18
Speaker 3: more likely Jayden Daniels wins Offensive Rookie of the Year
20:21
Speaker 3: and the NFC East or will he have a welcome
20:24
Speaker 3: to the NFL type season.
20:27
Speaker 10: Oh, I think it's gonna be more on the positive side.
20:29
Speaker 10: I don't know that they're going to win the NFC East.
20:31
Speaker 10: I think that's a big jump from being four to
20:33
Speaker 10: thirteen a year ago, losing their last eight games in
20:36
Speaker 10: a row last year. Defensively, they were a mess. They
20:39
Speaker 10: got a lot to fix. But I think Jade Daniels
20:42
Speaker 10: is the right guy. And I think that just watching
20:46
Speaker 10: him this spring and listening to what people are saying
20:49
Speaker 10: about him, I mean there's nobody that isn't impressed by
20:52
Speaker 10: the work ethic, the arm the talent. I think he's
20:55
Speaker 10: going to have a chance to be You have some
20:58
Speaker 10: good days out there this year. I don't know that
21:00
Speaker 10: it's enough to take down the Eagles or the Cowboys
21:03
Speaker 10: at this point right now, Yeah.
21:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, great spring.
21:06
Speaker 3: Looking forward to seeing what he and Cliff Kingsbury can
21:08
Speaker 3: do together to Philly. WeGo the Eagles return to the
21:12
Speaker 3: super Bowl or another first round playoff exit, which one's
21:16
Speaker 3: more likely.
21:17
Speaker 10: You know, Mike, I happened to be in the Philadelphia
21:19
Speaker 10: airport today. I saw Nick Sirianni. He was on his
21:22
Speaker 10: way to Turks and k cooast flying and coach by
21:24
Speaker 10: the way, Flying Coach say, well, somebody's got to take Mike,
21:28
Speaker 10: he said, somebody's got to take care of the kids.
21:30
Speaker 7: Right, Okay, you can relate anyways.
21:33
Speaker 10: I have.
21:34
Speaker 7: This roster has been rebuilt.
21:36
Speaker 10: I know the state last year one and six, horrible
21:39
Speaker 10: playoff loss down the stretch.
21:41
Speaker 7: I mean, you're looking at.
21:42
Speaker 10: Devin White right there, and this is a much better
21:46
Speaker 10: roster than I think finished the season a year ago.
21:50
Speaker 10: I feel like the Eagles will be in a much
21:52
Speaker 10: better position to compete, not just in the NFC East,
21:56
Speaker 10: but in the playoffs.
21:57
Speaker 7: Play in January and have a chance to get back
21:59
Speaker 7: to Super Bowl.
22:01
Speaker 3: Nick Sirianni back of the owners meetings of the annual
22:05
Speaker 3: spring meeting back in March. We were down there in Florida,
22:08
Speaker 3: had the kids clonbing all over room. So he yeah,
22:12
Speaker 3: he does his part, he pulls, and there there's sometimes
22:14
Speaker 3: with him at the press conferences making faces while he's
22:16
Speaker 3: trying to answer questions.
22:18
Speaker 2: So he clocks in.
22:20
Speaker 3: As far as the father goes, good for you, Nick
22:22
Speaker 3: Sirianni Flying coach Love. It more likely scenario for the
22:26
Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys finally make it back to the NFC Championship
22:29
Speaker 3: game or they're searching for a new head coach this offseason.
22:34
Speaker 10: Man, Mike, this has been a long drought. Nineteen ninety
22:37
Speaker 10: fives last time they've been to a championship game ended
22:39
Speaker 10: up winning Super Bowl that year with Troy eight. Mean,
22:43
Speaker 10: I don't see it. I mean I think this trout
22:46
Speaker 10: continues right now. I think they've won through twelve games
22:51
Speaker 10: in a row, three years in a row. We've seen
22:52
Speaker 10: them just a bob out of the playoffs, one bad
22:54
Speaker 10: loss after another. I don't know that they've done anything
22:58
Speaker 10: this offseason to get them over the hunt and to
23:00
Speaker 10: compete with some of the other teams at MFC. Right now,
23:05
Speaker 10: they've looked for a lot of different coaches Mike to
23:08
Speaker 10: try to get it right. And you know, maybe Mike
23:10
Speaker 10: has a couple of magic rabberts. He's gonna pull out
23:13
Speaker 10: of that cowboy hat right there to get him there.
23:16
Speaker 10: I don't see it right now on July second, the
23:19
Speaker 10: Cowboys getting to a championship game.
23:23
Speaker 2: More likely scenario.
23:24
Speaker 3: You're back with us later in the show, or you're
23:26
Speaker 3: hitting the vacation trail right now.
23:28
Speaker 2: I know this one. You're back with us later in
23:31
Speaker 2: the show.
23:32
Speaker 10: Yeah, just briefly, Mike, Just briefly, because I am hitting
23:34
Speaker 10: the vacation trail.
23:36
Speaker 7: I'm on the way.
23:37
Speaker 2: Yeah.
23:38
Speaker 3: We played that scuba footage on the way to break.
23:40
Speaker 3: There's more of that to come, but there's also more
23:42
Speaker 3: football talk with Baldy before that happens. We appreciate you
23:45
Speaker 3: put that guy is going to join us next. That
23:47
Speaker 3: is Josh Jacobs, the Packers running back.
23:49
Speaker 2: He is going to talk football.
23:51
Speaker 3: He's gonna talk Jordan Love, he's gonna talk fire safety.
23:53
Speaker 2: Yes, there he is with the hat right there, waiting by.
23:57
Speaker 3: You got to hear what he's doing to make sure
23:58
Speaker 3: everybody's safe on this for in You're life coming up.
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Speaker 11: Next, first to go on the Packers two end zone,
24:10
Speaker 11: do our waf snack hand off, Jacobs dances forward, touchdown Raiders.
24:17
Speaker 11: Jacob's head of tans in the pocket, handed up, banging again.
24:21
Speaker 2: To the exone had the Raiders take us sixteenth thirteen leagues.
24:27
Speaker 1: The Packers are sure hoping they're going to see some
24:29
Speaker 1: similar highlights to that, just you know, the other way
24:31
Speaker 1: around now that this guy is wearing their uniform.
24:34
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Insiders.
24:35
Speaker 1: Tom Pilisero, Mike Garrifalo, joined right now by Josh Jacobs,
24:39
Speaker 1: the newest Packers running back. Josh, you got nineteen days
24:42
Speaker 1: right now to report the training, Pampa.
24:44
Speaker 2: How are you living, how you're training? How's everything going?
24:47
Speaker 7: Man?
24:48
Speaker 6: It's been a grin.
24:48
Speaker 3: Man.
24:49
Speaker 6: I'm very excited to, you know, start the season and
24:52
Speaker 6: get it going.
24:55
Speaker 2: So right now you're at the Milwaukee Fire Department.
24:57
Speaker 1: You're teaming up with them in USAA and I quote
25:00
Speaker 1: the press release a controlled explosion of a charcoal grill
25:04
Speaker 1: to spread awareness and educate the public on how to
25:06
Speaker 1: stay safe and avoid home fires ahead of the holiday weekend.
25:10
Speaker 2: I'm not making light of it.
25:11
Speaker 1: I know this is a very serious subject, but an
25:13
Speaker 1: exploding charcoal grill feels like a really good way to
25:15
Speaker 1: deliver this message.
25:16
Speaker 2: How'd you get involved?
25:19
Speaker 6: Yeah? Man, So they taught me how to basically put
25:22
Speaker 6: out a fire.
25:24
Speaker 12: You know, they put the fire on a grill, had
25:27
Speaker 12: it splowed up, and basically I had to take the
25:30
Speaker 12: fire steamerser and learn the technique of how to put
25:33
Speaker 12: it out, and you know, and it was fun.
25:36
Speaker 6: Man, it was a fun experience. I can't complain.
25:40
Speaker 2: Love that, right.
25:40
Speaker 3: There's no end to the number of things we could
25:44
Speaker 3: say to the public when it comes to the fourth
25:46
Speaker 3: of July with regard to being safe. So there you go,
25:49
Speaker 3: Josh Jacobs, giving you another one there. As for things
25:53
Speaker 3: on the football field, we expect it to be hot,
25:56
Speaker 3: just like that grill. I'm trying to make some kind
25:58
Speaker 3: of transition here as we get to the pack and
26:00
Speaker 3: we get to this offense. Matt Lafleur, talking recently to
26:04
Speaker 3: the media, say philosophically he likes to have a couple
26:07
Speaker 3: of running backs because it's such a violent position for
26:10
Speaker 3: you guys to have to play for the course of
26:12
Speaker 3: the season. So he sees multiple guys being used in
26:15
Speaker 3: the backfield, but also said that he sees you as
26:17
Speaker 3: kind of a high volume type guy, a versatile guy.
26:20
Speaker 3: What's your impression with regard to how things are going
26:23
Speaker 3: to work for you in this offense in twenty twenty.
26:25
Speaker 6: Four, Man, I honestly think the sky's limit in this offense.
26:30
Speaker 10: Man.
26:31
Speaker 12: You know, obviously with having a special guy and Jordan Love,
26:35
Speaker 12: you know, and having a good office, a line and
26:38
Speaker 12: you know, some good receivers out there make it a
26:40
Speaker 12: lot easier for me. But just to be able to
26:43
Speaker 12: see the game plan and things that they want me
26:44
Speaker 12: to do this year, the things that they're allowing me
26:46
Speaker 12: to do, I just think it's going to be a
26:48
Speaker 12: special year.
26:50
Speaker 1: There's a little more insight into that, Josh, because you know,
26:53
Speaker 1: you go back to twenty twenty two, you put him
26:55
Speaker 1: over two thousand yards for scrimmage, twelve touchdowns.
26:57
Speaker 2: Remember talking to you with the.
26:58
Speaker 1: Super Bowl right after after that, you get your opportunity
27:01
Speaker 1: to hit the fridge market. The Packers paid for that
27:04
Speaker 1: guy what they saw on tape going back to twenty
27:06
Speaker 1: twenty two. Obviously you had to battle through some injuries
27:08
Speaker 1: last year. When you talk about that, the things that
27:10
Speaker 1: they're going to allow you to do in this offense,
27:12
Speaker 1: what all does that entail.
27:14
Speaker 12: Man, you know, just to be able to come out
27:18
Speaker 12: and actually so that you know, I can catch the
27:20
Speaker 12: ball more. They had to run real routes, you know,
27:23
Speaker 12: not just that, but trusted me enough to be able
27:26
Speaker 12: to pick up protections. And you know, it's just so
27:29
Speaker 12: special when you got a guy like Jordan Love back there, man,
27:32
Speaker 12: and you can't really just load the box every play
27:34
Speaker 12: and you make defenses beside you know what they want
27:37
Speaker 12: to stop.
27:38
Speaker 6: I think that's gonna be the biggest help for me
27:40
Speaker 6: this year.
27:41
Speaker 3: You know, it's the second time you've mentioned Jordan Love
27:43
Speaker 3: and a guy like that back there. Give us your
27:46
Speaker 3: impressions of Jordan Love from what you saw from him
27:48
Speaker 3: in the spring. You've been around your Sheriff quarterbacks at
27:50
Speaker 3: this point, seems like you're really impressed with what you've
27:53
Speaker 3: seen from Jordan Love.
27:55
Speaker 12: Yeah, man, I mean to me, I mean, just from
27:58
Speaker 12: what I see, he has all the rates and all the.
28:01
Speaker 6: Tools to be a superstar in this league.
28:04
Speaker 12: I think that, you know, as he keeps continue to
28:07
Speaker 12: play and get experience and you know, grow confidence and
28:10
Speaker 12: more and be become more confident in his abilities and
28:13
Speaker 12: what he can do, he's gonna be the next superstar
28:15
Speaker 12: in this league.
28:16
Speaker 1: So, so you go from Las Vegas to Green Bay.
28:20
Speaker 1: I lived in Green Bay for three years. It's a
28:22
Speaker 1: fun town. It's a really, you know, good place to be,
28:24
Speaker 1: great place to raise a family. A little bit different
28:27
Speaker 1: than where you've been in the past. If you've gotten
28:30
Speaker 1: out in the community, gone and eating cheese, courage, you
28:33
Speaker 1: got into a housepar any of those uniquely Green Bay things.
28:37
Speaker 12: Yeah, I definitely tried a lot of the teese trot,
28:41
Speaker 12: a lot of the tees.
28:42
Speaker 6: But man, yeah, it's a it's a it's a different community.
28:46
Speaker 7: Man.
28:46
Speaker 6: I mean to me, like, I've never been around like
28:50
Speaker 6: people that's just so nice.
28:52
Speaker 12: Like everybody is just so nice. It's kind of weird, honestly.
28:55
Speaker 12: But man, it's just it's so quiet. It's peaceful. It's
28:58
Speaker 12: something that like every time I think about I just
29:00
Speaker 12: think football. I think about locking in. I think about, uh,
29:04
Speaker 12: you know, perfecting my craft and hopefully you know, everything
29:08
Speaker 12: that I do this year and the being doing in
29:10
Speaker 12: this offseason, the payoff.
29:13
Speaker 3: Well, listen, we know what it's gonna be like in
29:15
Speaker 3: Green Bay in December and January.
29:17
Speaker 2: But I've been up there for training camp. It's beautiful.
29:20
Speaker 3: This time of year, man, drink it in right now,
29:23
Speaker 3: because this is the best time of the year up there.
29:26
Speaker 2: There's plenty of things for you to do up there.
29:28
Speaker 3: I remember a couple of weeks ago, maybe it was
29:30
Speaker 3: a couple of months ago, after you joined the Packers,
29:32
Speaker 3: you alluded to the fact that you sent an eyeball
29:35
Speaker 3: emoji to Davante Adams about the possibility of coming back.
29:38
Speaker 2: To Green Bay and rejoining you. Did you ever get
29:40
Speaker 2: a full response from him on that and what was
29:43
Speaker 2: you know, what's his takes?
29:45
Speaker 12: So me and Davonte mail, you got to understand the
29:47
Speaker 12: type of relationship we have.
29:48
Speaker 6: We you know, we talk around with each other a lot.
29:53
Speaker 6: We uh, you know, we talk about certain things, and
29:57
Speaker 6: we were just basically my sending nodballs. It was more
29:59
Speaker 6: so out It's just kind of like crazy how life work.
30:03
Speaker 6: Like he leave there and go to the Raiders, and
30:06
Speaker 6: I'm going there. So that's kind of just what we
30:08
Speaker 6: were talking about.
30:10
Speaker 1: So you spent you know, the early stages five years
30:14
Speaker 1: of your career in Vegas slash Oakland.
30:17
Speaker 2: There are a.
30:17
Speaker 1: Lot of things that happened in that five year span
30:20
Speaker 1: with the Raiders and different regimes and different offenses and changes,
30:23
Speaker 1: and you went through it again last year as you
30:25
Speaker 1: look from Afar and obviously the deal didn't get done
30:28
Speaker 1: for you. But what do you see right now with
30:30
Speaker 1: the Raiders moving forward in the direction that they're trying
30:33
Speaker 1: to go.
30:34
Speaker 12: Man, believe it or not, Man, I still root for him.
30:37
Speaker 12: I mean, obviously not when they're playing against us, but
30:40
Speaker 12: I still root for him. Man, I want them to
30:42
Speaker 12: have success. I got a lot of people over there
30:43
Speaker 12: that you know, obviously says is my brothers, you know,
30:47
Speaker 12: and my family. So I still root for their success.
30:50
Speaker 12: I hope you know, Ap figure it out. I hope
30:53
Speaker 12: you know, Max leath Away on all of that, and
30:56
Speaker 12: hopefully healthfully they do good, just not against us.
31:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't look like they're playing you this year.
31:02
Speaker 2: I just double check their schedule. So there you go.
31:04
Speaker 2: You can root for them every single week.
31:06
Speaker 6: Got no, I'm about to say, yeah, but you never know.
31:09
Speaker 7: We might. We might.
31:10
Speaker 6: You know, you never know how I playoffs, So you know.
31:13
Speaker 2: It's just liss. We'll cross that bridge when we get there.
31:19
Speaker 3: You talked about this guy being the limit for you
31:22
Speaker 3: for this offense. Do you have goals when you come
31:25
Speaker 3: into the season like it's now the time of year
31:26
Speaker 3: for you to be writing yourself some specific goals or
31:30
Speaker 3: do you have more of a general concept for what
31:32
Speaker 3: do you want.
31:32
Speaker 2: From a season?
31:33
Speaker 6: So honestly, normally I never set goals.
31:37
Speaker 12: I tend to like be the person that, like I
31:40
Speaker 12: say everything from a day to day basis, and I'll
31:42
Speaker 12: work from a day to day basis and the results
31:46
Speaker 12: of that will be what you see, you know.
31:48
Speaker 6: What I'm saying, That'll be the goal or whatever.
31:51
Speaker 12: But this year, man, I can honestly say, as I'm
31:53
Speaker 12: getting older and I'm playing longer, man, that I have
31:57
Speaker 12: a real goal of you know, legacy, you know what
31:59
Speaker 12: I'm I think that that's a big thing, like, you know,
32:02
Speaker 12: wanting to play important games, playing the playoffs, you know,
32:06
Speaker 12: make a make a deep run, and you know, playing
32:08
Speaker 12: that game if we get there, you know.
32:10
Speaker 6: So that's big for me. I think that's the.
32:13
Speaker 12: Most important thing. And obviously too, coming in where I'm
32:16
Speaker 12: twenty six and I'm one of the oldest guys on
32:18
Speaker 12: the team, I think that I don't take that really lightly,
32:21
Speaker 12: you know, coming in and you seeing these guys, especially
32:25
Speaker 12: these young receivers, you know, on the cusp of you know,
32:28
Speaker 12: being a player in this league and being a face
32:30
Speaker 12: and being in a household staple and being able to
32:34
Speaker 12: help guid them and you know, teach them little things
32:37
Speaker 12: about what I do or what I see to help them,
32:40
Speaker 12: you know, elevate that game to the next level.
32:42
Speaker 6: I think that's a part of the reason why they
32:44
Speaker 6: brought me in.
32:46
Speaker 1: There's also a lot of fantasy football fans out there, Josh,
32:49
Speaker 1: who are watching this and they're wondering, Okay, they drafted
32:52
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lloyd, AJ Dillon's back.
32:54
Speaker 2: Should I be comfortable.
32:55
Speaker 1: Taking Josh Jacobs with a high pick? Can you provide
32:58
Speaker 1: us assurances you're gonna put up those numbers like they
33:01
Speaker 1: have in the past now that you're in Green bed Man.
33:04
Speaker 12: Look, I haven't been this much exciting for a season
33:07
Speaker 12: in a long time.
33:08
Speaker 6: I feel like the you know, this, this the first
33:11
Speaker 6: time I had an off season where I.
33:12
Speaker 12: Really just didn't have uh, you know, I'm doing recovery
33:15
Speaker 12: for you know something that I heard throughout the season.
33:19
Speaker 12: I think this is the longest time I've been being
33:21
Speaker 12: able to just sit down and you know, perfect my craft.
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Speaker 6: So it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be a fun
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Speaker 6: year for me.
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Speaker 1: We'll be seeing your Week one in Brazil against the Eagles.
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Speaker 1: Heck of a place to make your Packers debut, Josh,
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Speaker 1: best of luck, Man, Thanks slot for the.
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Speaker 6: Time, Man, thank you for having me.
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Speaker 1: We'll dig deep on the NFC South with Sarah Wols
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Speaker 1: Next on the Insiders.
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Speaker 4: From his old twenty five takes the snap look, Staffield
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Speaker 4: throws a dark cock ball.
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Speaker 2: Put the fifty, put the forty five to the forty.
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Speaker 2: It's Mike Kevin's till the thirty cow uch twenty put
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Speaker 2: the fifteen to those at five. Take you did to
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Speaker 2: get ind Mike Evans makes a remarkable run after the catch.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's gonna they need a review that
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Speaker 1: it's a touchdown. You want to talk about one of
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Speaker 1: the elite receivers in football. There you go, seventy five
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Speaker 1: yard catch for a touchdown.
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Speaker 7: Mike Haveviagy.
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Speaker 1: We've seen a lot of Mike Evans on NFL Network
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Speaker 1: today because Mike Evans is programming NFL Network today, part
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Speaker 1: of the Player's Choice, which rolls on right after this show,
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Speaker 1: some of his best games, including that Super Bowl a
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Speaker 1: wild one back after the twenty twenty season against the Chiefs.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Insiders, Tom Pellicero, joined now by
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Speaker 1: our friend Sarah Walls. All right, Sarah, the offseason, at
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Speaker 1: least the spring is complete. We're a few weeks out
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Speaker 1: from training camps. Here, give me a few thoughts, a
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Speaker 1: few takeaways you had from the NFC South.
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Speaker 2: Maybe starting us ouf in Carolina.
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Speaker 13: All right, let's start.
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Speaker 14: There in Carolina, Tom, And the most obvious thing there
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Speaker 14: is that the Panthers were willing to back up the
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Speaker 14: brains truck to put Bryce Young in a position to
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Speaker 14: be successful, and for that quarterback, that position might just
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Speaker 14: be being upright. After being sacked sixty two times a
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Speaker 14: season ago, second most ever for a rookie, only behind
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Speaker 14: David Carr, they went out and spent more than one
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Speaker 14: hundred and fifty million dollars on two guards in Damian
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Speaker 14: Lewis and Robert Hunton. This is a Carolina team that
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Speaker 14: had seven picks in the draft. They weren't using any
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Speaker 14: of them on an offensive lineman. And what that tells
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Speaker 14: me is this isn't about building for the future. This is, Hey,
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Speaker 14: we want to build a fortress in front of Young,
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Speaker 14: and we want to do it right now with veteran guys,
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Speaker 14: guys that are among the best in the league. So
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Speaker 14: that's what they went out and did. And of course
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Speaker 14: Dave can known for building up quarterbacks. He just did
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Speaker 14: it here in Tampa with Baker Mayfield and his resurgence.
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Speaker 13: He did it out in Seattle with Geno Smith.
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Speaker 14: The belief is that all of this is putting the
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Speaker 14: pieces around Bryce Young. It was obviously a very rough
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Speaker 14: rookie season for him. Now does all of this take
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Speaker 14: a Panthers team that went two and fifteen a year
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Speaker 14: ago and catapult them into the playoffs.
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Speaker 13: That would be a pretty tough leap.
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Speaker 14: But you have to believe that they took gigantic strides
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Speaker 14: physically that you will see this offseason to make the
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Speaker 14: Panthers and Bryce Young in a much better position next season.
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Speaker 1: Falcons also have a new head coach for him, Morris
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Speaker 1: back in Atlanta. What's your biggest takeaway from their off season.
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Speaker 14: Here's what I find really interesting about the Falcons, and
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Speaker 14: you guys were just talking about the Cowboys on this
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Speaker 14: Insider show. When you think about the teams that are
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Speaker 14: under pressure to win right now, to make the big jump,
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Speaker 14: it's always the Cowboys, right It's the Jets right now
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Speaker 14: with Aaron Rodgers. It's been the Bills a lot lately.
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Speaker 14: With the thought that they're in that window. Well, Raheem
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Speaker 14: Morris might be a first year head coach Atlanta, it
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Speaker 14: certainly does not feel that way. He had that interim
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Speaker 14: title back in twenty twenty in Atlanta. He's got experience.
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Speaker 14: He's very well known around those parts there in Flowery Branch.
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Speaker 14: But as soon as they went out and signed Kirk Cousins,
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Speaker 14: this is not about the future. You put pen to
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Speaker 14: paper and a one hundred and eighty million dollar contract.
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Speaker 14: That is for this Falcons team to win right now,
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Speaker 14: to be in the postseason right now. They have been
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Speaker 14: in a drought there in Atlanta six years without going
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Speaker 14: to the playoffs. And it's often thought that, well, if
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Speaker 14: it was just this one key piece. If it was
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Speaker 14: one more win, they would have slipped into the NFC
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Speaker 14: South a division crown and taken that. And the only
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Speaker 14: thing holding them back was a quarterback. So again, this
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Speaker 14: was not about the future. This is a Falcons team
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Speaker 14: that I think sneakily the NFC South doesn't get talked
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Speaker 14: about a lot. Right now, I would say, but I
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Speaker 14: think the Falcons are in that group of teams that
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Speaker 14: are really under pressure to win and win immediately this year.
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Speaker 1: The past couple of years, the Bucks supprit of the
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Speaker 1: team we've talked about the least in that division. All
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Speaker 1: they do is go out and keep winning division titles.
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Speaker 1: That's your takeaway off their offseason.
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Speaker 14: Well, I'm glad you bring that up, because as soon
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Speaker 14: as Kirk Cousins was signed to the Atlanta Falcons, the
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Speaker 14: narrative is the Falcons are going to win the division.
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Speaker 14: Let's go back a year ago and they get a
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Speaker 14: Derek Carr New Orleans and right away it was the
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Speaker 14: Saints are going to win the division and who has
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Speaker 14: quietly won the division if that's possible. But I can
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Speaker 14: tell you it is possible to quietly win it because
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Speaker 14: the Bucks have been doing it year after year after year,
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Speaker 14: three straight division crowns. The feeling in Tampa is that
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Speaker 14: they get no respect. As soon as Tom left, it
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Speaker 14: was all over, and then it was another team that
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Speaker 14: was going to sneak in there, and no one has
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Speaker 14: been able to do this. And certainly this is opinion
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Speaker 14: if you feel like they don't get respect, and the
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Speaker 14: Bucks will say they don't care what anybody thinks outside
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Speaker 14: the locker room.
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Speaker 13: We're happy being the underdogs.
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Speaker 14: We're happy having the chip on our shoulders. But it's
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Speaker 14: funny to think about this team having a chip on
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Speaker 14: their shoulder.
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Speaker 13: They're the only let me give you some cold hard
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Speaker 13: Bucks facts here. This is not opinion.
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Speaker 14: They are the only team in the NFC that has
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Speaker 14: now gone to the playoffs four consecutive years in a row.
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Speaker 14: Right now, and since twenty twenty, they have the third
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Speaker 14: most wins in the NFL.
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Speaker 13: They're not really thought of that way, And if.
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Speaker 14: You go back in very recent history, a year ago,
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Speaker 14: they're about four and a half minutes away from potentially
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Speaker 14: going to a conference championship game, four and a half
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Speaker 14: minutes left on the clock, and they were within a
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Speaker 14: score of the Detroit Lions up there in Detroit, and
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Speaker 14: they feel like those same.
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Speaker 13: Pieces are there.
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Speaker 14: Jason Light doesn't go out and sign flashy players. What
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Speaker 14: he does do is go out and sign his own players.
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Speaker 14: And those players have been very good for the last
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Speaker 14: couple of years, so don't be surprised if that could
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Speaker 14: continue again.
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Speaker 13: But they're happy to not have the pressure on them.
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Speaker 14: You can talk about anybody else and they'll just quietly
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Speaker 14: go to work, and we.
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Speaker 2: Have and we probably will.
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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Sarah Lak forward to talking to
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Speaker 1: you again very soon.