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Bengals & Burrow Begin Extension, Chiefs - Eagles Super Bowl Matchup, & Head Coach Frank Reich Joins The Show · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: NFL Now is a production of the NFL in partnership
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Speaker 1: of NFL now. Here in the NFL Los Angeles News
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Speaker 1: or in Patrick Clavon, here was Steve Wich. We saw
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Speaker 1: the Panthers introduced their new head coach, Frank Reck, the
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Speaker 1: same guy who threw the very first touchdown and franchise history. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean going offense again, you know, following up Matt
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Speaker 1: Rule with another offensive coach. The big question of Patrick
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Speaker 1: and hopefully when we find out a little later in
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Speaker 1: the show we talk to Frank Riich, it's what are
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Speaker 1: they going to do at quarterback draft? I think you
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Speaker 1: get Frank Frank another veteran quarterback to work with, and
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Speaker 1: we're gonna try. We're gonna get coach Wreck to answer
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Speaker 1: that question coming up this hour of NFL Now where
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Speaker 1: we're expecting to be able to talk to him, Steve
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Speaker 1: and myself, but they were able to meet him in
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Speaker 1: Charlotte today. Let's look back at his introductory news conference.
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Speaker 1: Of course, they celebrated the fact that Frank Reck was
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Speaker 1: the first quarterback, the first player to take a snap,
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Speaker 1: to throw a pass and throw a touchdown. Past. They
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Speaker 1: celebrated his career, of course, his legacy, the greatest comeback
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Speaker 1: in NFL postseason history, as well as everything he accomplished
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Speaker 1: in Charlotte, where his daughter is his family calls their hometown.
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Speaker 1: Here's the new head coach of the Carolina Parents. I
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Speaker 1: know there's more than one way to do it. It's
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Speaker 1: not a one man show. Um. So I'm not trying
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Speaker 1: to make it like it's a one man show. Uh.
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Speaker 1: I have very strong convictions about what I think it
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Speaker 1: takes to win, what I think it takes to build
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Speaker 1: a roster, what I think that vision looks like, how
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Speaker 1: we play as a team, what areas that we really
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Speaker 1: have to be good at in situational football, and then
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Speaker 1: how to be good at those areas. Um. But it's
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Speaker 1: a collective effort. It's a collective effort. So I hope
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Speaker 1: what came out there is that this is gonna be
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Speaker 1: about the team, the team of coaches, the team of
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Speaker 1: players that we build working as an organization. That excellence
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Speaker 1: is the standard. Consistency of excellence is what we've got
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Speaker 1: to have. That's ultimately what we're all looking for. We
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Speaker 1: want to be at the top. This is what I
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Speaker 1: heard from it. We want to be at the top,
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Speaker 1: not just every now and then, year in and year out.
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Speaker 1: So that's what we're striving for. And so the Panthers
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Speaker 1: first thing up the number nine overall pick in the
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Speaker 1: NFL Draft unless they make good trade considering what the
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Speaker 1: Bears have in terms of opportunity with that number one
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Speaker 1: overall pick in the mock drafts one point though Daniel
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Speaker 1: Jeremiah has c J. Stroud, Bucky Brooks has the Kentucky
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Speaker 1: quarterback Ruel Levis. Both quarterbacks there its to see what
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Speaker 1: coach Reich has in store for the Carolina Panthers. But
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Speaker 1: let's get down to Mobile where there's plenty of quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: on display, my girl Folo as well as Ian Ralph
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Speaker 1: report taking in the three recent Senior Bowl Hello joke, yeah,
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Speaker 1: Reese Senior Bowl. But nineties hip hop continues to play here, Patricks,
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Speaker 1: So all we can do is just find a way
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Speaker 1: to incorporate the lyrics into what we're talking about. So
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Speaker 1: you got poison going on over there right now, how
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Speaker 1: do you work that into Damiko Ryan's and the Houston
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Speaker 1: Texans completing their second interview, which I believe they termed
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Speaker 1: further discussions. We've completed further discussions. Do you make anything
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Speaker 1: out of that, the fact they didn't announce the hiring it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's some sort of a big button a smile line,
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Speaker 1: uh with you know, poison, So I would see there is.
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Speaker 1: So I would say Demiko Ryan's probably has a big
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Speaker 1: smile on his face. Now, with the Houston Texans completed
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Speaker 1: the second interview, all expectations are they will now move
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Speaker 1: forward and attempt to make him their next head coach.
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Speaker 1: Not final, it has not been final, but certainly that
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Speaker 1: is the expectation. Has been their top candidate for about
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Speaker 1: four or five days now, depending out what day it
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Speaker 1: is today, which I'm not really sure. I would expect Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: I would expect that to come to completion at some
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Speaker 1: point today, and if all goes well, he will be
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Speaker 1: their next head coach. A kind of higher that certainly
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Speaker 1: might could be celebrated in Houston. Oh, there's no question
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Speaker 1: about that. J. J. Watt was already celebrating with the
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Speaker 1: picture that he posted of the two of them. I
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Speaker 1: believe that was yesterday, which was Monday, by the way,
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Speaker 1: that comes before Tuesday. Um, So, yeah, that would be
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Speaker 1: something that would be celebrated and would be celebrated around
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Speaker 1: the league because a lot of folks think that Damiko
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Speaker 1: Ryan is a terrific head coach in waiting. Let's see
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Speaker 1: how long the waiting is before he is officially the
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Speaker 1: head coach of the Houston Texans. UH. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
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Speaker 1: they have a head coach looking for an offensive coordinator.
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Speaker 1: We reported yesterday that they were going to interview Todd Munkin,
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Speaker 1: the former Buccaneers offensive coordinator now potentially future Buccaneers offensive
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Speaker 1: coordinator currently at Georgia. That was completed today. Monkans also
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Speaker 1: UH interviewed with the Baltimore Ravens. Your thoughts on Monkin
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Speaker 1: who has thought highly around the league? Yeah, Todd highway
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Speaker 1: around the league. I know, also interviewed with the Baltimore Ravens.
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Speaker 1: The Bucks one, as we've known, it has been something
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Speaker 1: to keep an eye on. He was there, had a
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Speaker 1: really successful stint as the offensive coordinator there for the Bucks,
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Speaker 1: then went to college, killed it there to one I believe,
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Speaker 1: to national championships with the University of Georgia, and still
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Speaker 1: might stay at Georgia. I know that's something that he
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Speaker 1: is weighing right now. The timing is fascinating. It is
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Speaker 1: National signing Day tomorrow, since today is Tuesday and tomorrow's Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: national signing Day tomorrow. If he is going to stay,
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Speaker 1: it would be obviously huge win for the University of Georgia.
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Speaker 1: He is going to go, they will have to figure
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Speaker 1: some things out. The timing is really interesting and you
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Speaker 1: wonder would he make a decision today or might you
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Speaker 1: wait to you know, Thursday, after signing day to make
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Speaker 1: it official, which is the day after Wednesday. UH. The
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Speaker 1: Buccaneers up to about four or five interviews now at
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Speaker 1: this point. Shay Tyranny, the Giants quarterbacks coach. He is
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Speaker 1: up next. These interviews now occurring down here in Mobile.
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Speaker 1: UH face to face with Todd Bowles down here, let's
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Speaker 1: talk about a couple of quarterbacks. I want to start
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Speaker 1: with Joe Burrow Zach Taylor saying we can now turn
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Speaker 1: our attention out of their season is over, toward a
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Speaker 1: contract extension for Burrow. UH. One of the things that
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati likes to do is keep all the guaranteed money
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Speaker 1: in the first year, not guarantee anything beyond that. It's
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Speaker 1: really difficult to do because with quarterbacks, you're talking about
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Speaker 1: into the hundred plus million dollar range for for injury
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Speaker 1: and full guarantees. How do they go about doing this one? Well,
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Speaker 1: the Baals have had it as an organization and influx
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Speaker 1: of cash, naming rights to pay Course Stadium for the
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Speaker 1: first time ever, which fans have taken to calling it
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Speaker 1: pay Joe Stadium, which you know, if that was the
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Speaker 1: end results all of this, I think that would be fine.
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Speaker 1: I think everybody would be happy, including Joe Burrow, if
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Speaker 1: they ended up paying him. It is a business of
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Speaker 1: the Bengals that is in a really good spot. So
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Speaker 1: if you're ever going to sign a quarterback too long
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Speaker 1: term deal, that will be a massive potentially you know,
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Speaker 1: franchise altering, potentially the highest paid player in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: This is the time to do it. The structure is
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Speaker 1: going to be interesting and obviously that will be a
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Speaker 1: discussion going forward. You know, do we get to training
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Speaker 1: camp if they don't have a deal, does he take part?
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Speaker 1: Like there's a lot of questions, but the most important
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Speaker 1: thing now is at some point they're going to give
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Speaker 1: him a boatload of money and there's no questions that
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Speaker 1: he deserves it. Motown Philly playing right now. Bruck Party
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Speaker 1: in the forty nineers did a little east coast swing
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Speaker 1: that resulted in an elbow injury. Uh. The u c
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Speaker 1: L in his elbow was fully torn, as Tom Pala
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Speaker 1: Sero reported yesterday. Now he is exploring options. And my
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Speaker 1: understanding is there's three options. You could try to rehab
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Speaker 1: this thing without surgery. You could have a u c
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Speaker 1: L repair, which would not be the full blown Tommy
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Speaker 1: John surgery, which would be about a twelve month recovery. UH.
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Speaker 1: It seems like right now the number one option for
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Speaker 1: him is that one I talked about right in the middle,
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Speaker 1: which is a u c L repair. Hasn't been finalized yet.
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Speaker 1: Doctors are continuing to have discussions on this one with
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Speaker 1: Purty uh and with the forty Niners. And if he
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Speaker 1: does get a u c L repair, my understanding is
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Speaker 1: it's about three months before he's able to throw. There's
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Speaker 1: the horn, which means we gotta get out of here soon, uh,
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Speaker 1: and six months be ready for the start of training camp.
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Speaker 1: I don't believe the Niners are gonna look for a
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Speaker 1: veteran option. I think Brock Purty uh and Trey Lance
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Speaker 1: perhaps in a competition, and and Purty ready to go
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Speaker 1: for them. If everything goes well, they will not need
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Speaker 1: a veteran option. They can have Brock pretty come and
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Speaker 1: be their starter, tray Lance to be their backup. Continue
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Speaker 1: to develop him. See what happens. But as we know,
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Speaker 1: teams must protect themselves. You don't know if surgery is
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Speaker 1: going to go great. You hope, but we've seen it.
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Speaker 1: I mean the Angelo example in uh in Indianapolis was
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Speaker 1: maybe the biggest. You have to be ready. We will
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Speaker 1: see what the forty Niners do. Do they sign a
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Speaker 1: veteran quarterback to make sure that they are okay? Check
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Speaker 1: this out, Patrick, See if this one move you boom doom.
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Speaker 1: on NFL now. The man who threw the first pass,
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Speaker 1: the first touchdown pass as well first step for the
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Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers Annalysis. The head coach Frank Bryce introduced today
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Speaker 1: in Charlotte and his new boss, David Tepper excited about
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Speaker 1: the opportunity. He's a man of incredible integrity, incredible family
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Speaker 1: man um a person that we could tell has great
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Speaker 1: process and a great way of doing things. UM. You
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Speaker 1: know that that basically has, you know, a guy that
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Speaker 1: basically checks all the boxes and a guy that you
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Speaker 1: really want to basically help build a culture and help
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Speaker 1: lead a team, UM, hopefully for the next few years
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Speaker 1: and beyond. UM. There's really nothing else for me to say.
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna turn it over to you, Frank. We're
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Speaker 1: really excited about having you here and helping us to
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Speaker 1: build something great. And there is the tweet from the
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Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers account head coach right meeting uh plant to
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Speaker 1: as new players today, several available at the news conference.
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Speaker 1: A busy day for coach r and we're glad to
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Speaker 1: be able to say he sits down to join us.
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Speaker 1: UH Now from Charlotte coach, congratulations, we heard you talking
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Speaker 1: today about getting on the bus when the franchise started
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Speaker 1: to play games at Clemson, Your career, the franchise history,
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Speaker 1: it's weave its way right back together. It really has.
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Speaker 1: It's been full circle moment. Excited to get to work.
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Speaker 1: To listen, we know in the NFL it's all about
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Speaker 1: getting out on that field with the players, developing that relationship,
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Speaker 1: developing the schemes in each phase that you want to
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Speaker 1: develop to do some special So looking forward to getting
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Speaker 1: to work. Right, we just heard some opening remarks from
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Speaker 1: your owner, David Tepper, and just from all of your
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Speaker 1: experience coaching, playing, but especially before you accepted this job,
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Speaker 1: how important was it to you to know that you
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Speaker 1: were going to have the right relationship and the proper
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Speaker 1: support from ownership. It's a big deal, right, I mean,
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Speaker 1: at the end of I've been in this business for
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Speaker 1: thirty plus years as a player and coach, and and
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Speaker 1: I've just seen it over and over again. The relationships
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Speaker 1: have to be right. Um. Mr Tepper's commitment to excellence,
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Speaker 1: his commitment to bring championships to the Carolina UM. I
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Speaker 1: heard that loud and clear. Um. Looking forward to working
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Speaker 1: you know, for and with him. You know, during the
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Speaker 1: interview process it was very dynamic conversation back and forth
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Speaker 1: with he and Scott Fitter. So looking forward to that
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Speaker 1: very much. In terms of the road ahead and looking forward.
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Speaker 1: What's the number one priority right now before you get
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Speaker 1: into everything else that goes involved. It's involved in getting
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Speaker 1: ready for an NFL season. I got to get the
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Speaker 1: staff hired. So that's really just jump on getting the stay.
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Speaker 1: I hired. That's a big deal, um. And then secondly
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Speaker 1: evaluating our roster, right, the roster that we're gonna have,
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Speaker 1: but also putting down laying down a blueprint for the
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Speaker 1: roster that we're gonna build and the team that we're
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Speaker 1: gonna build. So coaches and players are you know, obviously
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Speaker 1: central to that. So look forward to you know, really
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Speaker 1: getting down with Scott and Mr Tepper laying down that blueprint,
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Speaker 1: developing that plan and getting to work and to that point,
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Speaker 1: Frank and be kind of a perfect set segue. In
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Speaker 1: your news conference, you said you have a specific vision
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Speaker 1: for a quarterback. Um, you guys are selecting number nine.
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Speaker 1: Is that vision for you to maybe go young and
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Speaker 1: develop him? It's what you're trying to do as you
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Speaker 1: formulate this roster as well. Well. Ultimately we want stability
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Speaker 1: at quarterback, right, And so this is the NFL. You
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Speaker 1: can't predict every scenario that's going to happen. So you
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Speaker 1: know we have to have you know, Plan A plan
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Speaker 1: being Plan C. There's always got to be contingency plans.
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Speaker 1: And the good news is, you know that we'll have
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Speaker 1: a lot of experience as a staff, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: developing the kind of quarterback that we get, you know,
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Speaker 1: will narrow in with Scott, myself, Mr. Tepper, and the
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Speaker 1: staff and the scouts, you know, will narrow in on
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Speaker 1: who are the college guys we like, what would we
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Speaker 1: have to do to get one of those guys? Will
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Speaker 1: narrow in on who, and you know who as a
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Speaker 1: free agent could we get. All options are going to
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Speaker 1: be on the table. They have to be um, you know,
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Speaker 1: but we'll have a definite plan that we want to follow.
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Speaker 1: And you said on the lines of that plan earlier
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Speaker 1: today that the balance of power, he's gonna have decisions
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Speaker 1: over the fifty three. You're gonna have a decision on
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Speaker 1: who's active and inactive. Have you already had those discussions
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Speaker 1: with regards to potential disagreements throughout the draft process? Or
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Speaker 1: is that a bridge you cross when you get there.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is the NFL, you know, you have
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Speaker 1: those all the time. I can tell with Scott though,
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Speaker 1: this is gonna be easy. Um, you know, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: have a great partnership. We're gonna push each other in
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Speaker 1: the right direction. Um. Yeah, we have a balance of power,
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Speaker 1: but it's really going to be a collaborative effort. It's
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Speaker 1: a collaborative effort. And you know, my experience in that
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Speaker 1: regard is you work so hard, you put so many
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Speaker 1: hours in, you talk about it so much, you come
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Speaker 1: to the you come to the same vision, even through
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Speaker 1: the arguments, through the disagreements. I would anticipate that will happen.
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Speaker 1: Right when you're putting everything together. Do you look at
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Speaker 1: the other teams in division because people tend to say
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Speaker 1: you have to win your division first, but the NFC
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Speaker 1: South is a division and transition. We're probably all four
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Speaker 1: teams doing making moves at quarterbacks. Or do you try
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Speaker 1: to focus more on the Carolina Panthers and look at
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Speaker 1: that stuff later? Yeah, great question. I always think the
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Speaker 1: answer to that question is not either or, it's both
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Speaker 1: and right, we're gonna We're gonna focus on the Carolina Panthers.
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Speaker 1: But you always have an eye on your competition. That's
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Speaker 1: just the way it works. So UM, we we have
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Speaker 1: to do that. We have to get to know our guys,
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Speaker 1: who we are, who we want to be. UM, But
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Speaker 1: you're obviously always at the same time keeping an eye
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Speaker 1: on your competition and keeping track of where we're going,
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Speaker 1: because that's where it does start. It starts with winning
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Speaker 1: in your divis first Panthers quarterback in the franchise history.
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Speaker 1: Are there any lessons that that edition of Frank Rich
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Speaker 1: is bringing to Carolina Panthers? Listen, every lesson is a
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Speaker 1: new addition, right, I mean, as player and as coach,
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Speaker 1: you're always learning and growing and getting better. So, um,
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Speaker 1: there was a unique perspective to be the first quarterback,
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Speaker 1: to see what a team looks like when it gets
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Speaker 1: to be built and work through that. So but I'm
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Speaker 1: looking forward to this version, this version of this team
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Speaker 1: this year in three very excited. Andy. We were showing
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Speaker 1: a video of you when you were playing. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you look good in the uniform. Coach. Uh, But let's
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Speaker 1: let's I want to spend a little bit towards the
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Speaker 1: upcoming Super Bowl because Nick Sirianni, the head coach in
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles, so many you know really well. I mean
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Speaker 1: he coached with you. What has he done, what have
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Speaker 1: you seen in his growth and his ability, like you
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Speaker 1: said in your news conference today, with your team to
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Speaker 1: communicate with players and to kind of empower the players
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Speaker 1: to have some sets. Listen, Nick's arian He's one of
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Speaker 1: the best coaches, if not the best coach I've ever
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Speaker 1: been around. Um, he has great football acumen, his knowledge
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Speaker 1: of offensive football, his game planning ability, his ability to
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Speaker 1: teach fundamentals and technique is second to none. Um. But really,
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Speaker 1: where where you see the most growth is and you
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Speaker 1: knew it was always there is as a leader. This guy,
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Speaker 1: he's such a strong leader. He knows how to connect
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Speaker 1: with players. Um. You know, the success that he's having
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Speaker 1: is no surprise to me whatsoever. Um, He's done a
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Speaker 1: fantastic job. Uh, you know, I'm just I'm so it's
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Speaker 1: so fun to see the success that he is having.
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Speaker 1: And you get to be a part of that official
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Speaker 1: part of the Frank Right coaching tree. And you and
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Speaker 1: Doug of course had that success in Philadelphia, Doug plaguing
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Speaker 1: and coaching under Andy Reid. What's the most impressive thing
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Speaker 1: about what Coach Reid has been able to accomplish this persons?
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Speaker 1: You know, coach Ree and you know obviously the big
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Speaker 1: transition when no Tyree Hill, and you know, what's it
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Speaker 1: gonna look out? What's it gonna look like without the
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Speaker 1: most explosive player in the game. Um, and if they've
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Speaker 1: done a fantastic job, Coach read, I don't know there's
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Speaker 1: there's this problem that maybe never been a better leader.
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Speaker 1: His calm and his poise, his adaptability, you know, as
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Speaker 1: he continues to grow older, right, he's just continued to adapt,
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Speaker 1: stay on the cutting edge. Obviously, they have great players
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Speaker 1: and a great team. So testament to both of these coaches. Coach,
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Speaker 1: you know a lot of times Patients have preached, but
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Speaker 1: we're also in kind of this micro wave. We're all too,
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Speaker 1: especially with some offensive mind to coaches like yourself can
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Speaker 1: have success right away with football teams. Do you feel
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Speaker 1: that Patients is part of this or do you think, again,
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Speaker 1: coming into a division that's wide open um, that winning
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Speaker 1: right away is something that's part of the plan. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: great question Again, I'm going to go back to the
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Speaker 1: both and answer right. So we're going to feel a
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Speaker 1: sense of urgency. We want to win right now. Um,
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Speaker 1: but we all need to understand that there are no
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Speaker 1: quick fixes. You've got to take it one day at
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Speaker 1: a time, one player at a time, one detail at
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Speaker 1: a time. So we'll build a process. The good news
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Speaker 1: is that in today's NFL, you see it every year,
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Speaker 1: teams can flip the page very quickly, and so that'll
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Speaker 1: be our goal. Um, but we'll go about it by
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Speaker 1: doing it the right way, starting at the foundation, working
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Speaker 1: one by you know, one by one, player by player,
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Speaker 1: play by play, is the right approach. Well, coach, congratulations
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Speaker 1: again back in Carolina. Know your family essentially calls Charlotte
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Speaker 1: at their hometowns and congratulations to you and to them,
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Speaker 1: and good luck in building the staff and get Panthers
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Speaker 1: in order. Thank you, congrats coach, coach, the Carolina Panthers
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Speaker 1: joining us on NFL now, thank you to coach. And
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Speaker 1: we are still looking ahead too. Super Bowl fifty seven
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Speaker 1: Chiefs against the Eagles, and right now on NFL dot com,
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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Jadilla has an article outlining the six things that
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Speaker 1: could determine the out come of the Super Bowl and
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Speaker 1: jump looking here. The Chief's defense has to continue to deliver.
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Speaker 1: How do they do that well by doing the same
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Speaker 1: thing they've been doing the last couple of games in
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Speaker 1: the postseason, which is getting key turnovers like that Jacksonville
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Speaker 1: win in the Divisional round. They got two key turnovers
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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, picked off Joe Burrow twice in
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Speaker 1: the Nancy Championship game. And this was not a unit
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Speaker 1: that was doing a lot of that in the regular season.
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Speaker 1: But but the bigger uh surprise here is just how
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Speaker 1: well these young players have been playing. At one point
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Speaker 1: against the Bengals, they had four rookie defensive backs out
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Speaker 1: there or rookie defensive end, but all those guys were
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Speaker 1: making plays in this game. As we've said before, they're
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Speaker 1: gonna see a diversified offense, a great run game from
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Speaker 1: the Eagles, a lot of weapons in the past game.
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Speaker 1: They have to be just as strong as they were
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Speaker 1: in the last two games. Steve, Yeah, they better be
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Speaker 1: ready to tackle because this is the best, not the
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Speaker 1: best statistical run game in the NFL, but certainly the
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Speaker 1: most diversified with all the guys who get touches here,
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Speaker 1: from Boston Scott to Miles Sander to gain Well and
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Speaker 1: the quarterback Jalen Hurts. And you know, it's really impressive
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Speaker 1: what they've done throughout the season. He got five two
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Speaker 1: of yard games in here, twelve games with over a
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Speaker 1: hundred thirty five yards rushing the best offensive line in
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Speaker 1: football to run behind. They know that they are going
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Speaker 1: to win this game by grinding it out. They know
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Speaker 1: that sets of everything they want to do with play
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Speaker 1: action and the deep shots, those receivers and again ball,
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Speaker 1: do you know that as much as we talk about
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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks here, these kind of games are always one
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Speaker 1: in the trenches. There really are, Jeff and you know
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Speaker 1: defensively here about good eyes, right, not getting tricked by
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Speaker 1: the r p O and things like that, and being disciplined.
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Speaker 1: So I mean, that's what the defensive players for the
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Speaker 1: Chiefs are gonna have to deal with. But you talk
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Speaker 1: about the run game, that's where Jalen Hurts comes in, right.
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Speaker 1: The threat of him running either on the bootleg, on
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Speaker 1: the draw or on the front side. A lot of
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Speaker 1: teams have to keep a spy on him or you've
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Speaker 1: got a you know, a rush to cover on a
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Speaker 1: running back. You've got things where it is read and
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Speaker 1: react instead of being aggressive. And that's where the Chiefs linebackers,
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Speaker 1: I mean only games. We know it's one of the
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Speaker 1: best athletes in the NFL and Nick Bolton he can
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Speaker 1: run too, But the Niners line linebackers might be able
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Speaker 1: to run better than the linebacker group in the NFL,
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Speaker 1: and they got caught sometimes behind that offensive line and
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Speaker 1: some of the gaming that they did up front. So
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Speaker 1: this run game, as you mentioned and put so much
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Speaker 1: stress on people. And it's so funny. Guys, you remember
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Speaker 1: this a couple of years ago. We're killing Jimmy g
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Speaker 1: and some of these quarterbacks for having a hundred fifty
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Speaker 1: yard passing games on the way to the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: You know, the Eagles have like back to back games
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Speaker 1: they're throwing it for under a hundred and sixty and
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Speaker 1: we're only talking about their running game because their quarterback
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Speaker 1: play with Jalen Hurts has been so sound. Yeah, I
20:42
Speaker 1: haven't necessarily been in a situation where they need to
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Speaker 1: throw the ball a whole lot, specifically because of the
20:46
Speaker 1: things we talked about. It's a mercy rule running yeah,
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Speaker 1: the last two weeks, especially considering their first playoff game.
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Speaker 1: one more thing here on NFL. Now A got Carmon Wild,
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Speaker 1: Jeffrey da and Brian Baldinger with me camp. What's here
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Speaker 1: one more thing? Yeah? One of the unique Pro Bowl
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Speaker 1: games this year is splash catch wire receivers and dbs
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Speaker 1: catching water balloons and increasing distances. Then they go to
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Speaker 1: the jug machine and test their hands there. So you
21:55
Speaker 1: test your hands with care with the water balloon and
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Speaker 1: then with the jug machines after that, and that leads
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Speaker 1: into one of my favorite games, dodgeball. What's the dodge
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Speaker 1: ball saying if you can die to rich, you can
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Speaker 1: dodge a ball. No Rinchesness week, There plenty of fun
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Speaker 1: here in Vegas. Yes, players say priority no rins as Jeff,
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Speaker 1: what's there one more thing? Rod Jim horbought to stop
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Speaker 1: flirting with the NFL. He took some interviews. He said
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Speaker 1: he was staying at Michigan. Now he's taking another interview
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Speaker 1: with Denver owner Greg Penner. I need my Wolverines hole.
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Speaker 1: I don't want him leaving. So let's stop phone calls
22:27
Speaker 1: always right, and that's always coach hardball. I want to
22:31
Speaker 1: talk quarterbacks. We're all Senior Bowl at East West Rhyne Ball.
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Speaker 1: Everybody looking for a quarterback. Just look at what is
22:37
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl? Were here Pat Mahomes. When I
22:39
Speaker 1: talked to Patrick before his draft, he said he thought
22:42
Speaker 1: he'd be a second round pick. Well, Andrew Reid thought
22:44
Speaker 1: more of him because of his leadership, his talent, and
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Speaker 1: his maturity. And for Jalen Hurts, theft pick in the
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Speaker 1: draft four years ago, I didn't hear anybody give him
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Speaker 1: a first round grade. But he's a first round when
22:55
Speaker 1: it comes to leadership, maturity and just believing in himself.
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Speaker 1: So when we do our homework on these quarterbacks, look
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Speaker 1: at who's in the super Bowl, because they could tell
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Speaker 1: you a lot about what you want in your quarterback. Yeah,
23:07
Speaker 1: plenty of franchises will be more than pleased to have you.
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Speaker 1: These quarterbacks, ever apart, and the Chiefs to get to
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Speaker 1: look at the next decade plus, uh, seeing one of
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Speaker 1: the best we've ever seen at the start of his
23:18
Speaker 1: square m. One more thing involves with quarterbacks as well.
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Speaker 1: We talked to Frank right today. He was the first
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Speaker 1: quarterback ever for the Carolina Panthers for the first touchdown
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Speaker 1: past now he's the head coach. Is the first time
23:28
Speaker 1: that's happened in the Super Bowl? Aeron Tom Florence is
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Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. He did it. And also
23:32
Speaker 1: I'm looking at our co worker and friend David carr
23:35
Speaker 1: if Damiko. Ryan says that he doesn't want this Texas job.
23:39
Speaker 1: To keep your phone on, David, because this is something
23:41
Speaker 1: that's happened a few times since Fred Rack is the
23:43
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