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Tom Brady's Frustrations, Buccaneers - Steelers Matchup, & The Most Disappointing Off Season Trades · NFL Now

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  Speaker 1: as there is a game tonight. Week six kicks off
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  Speaker 1: tonight to live at Soldier Field ahead of the Bears
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  Speaker 1: wearing Orange and the Commanders. Welcome to NFL Now on
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  Speaker 1: NFL Network Game Day edition from our newsroom in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: m Andrew Siciliano. As we get to Thursday, more and
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  Speaker 1: more clarity about the injury situation for Sunday. Let's open
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  Speaker 1: this hour with some news on that front. We did
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  Speaker 1: not see a week ago tonight. Jonathan Taylor on the
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  Speaker 1: field in Denver, Colts still somehow pulled out of victory.
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  Speaker 1: Memories of that game, certainly Fondi and Rappaport, Tom Della Sero, Tom,
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  Speaker 1: what's the latest on Taylor today? As they get ready
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  Speaker 1: for the Jaguars And after not practicing on Wednesday, Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: Taylor was back on the practice field today. He was
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  Speaker 1: out there running around. Certainly a good sign in turn
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  Speaker 1: of his progress back from that ankle injury that he
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  Speaker 1: suffered a couple of weeks ago. He missed that Thursday
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  Speaker 1: night game. No major damage to the ankle, but it
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  Speaker 1: was just too quick of a turnaround for him to
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  Speaker 1: be out there. So this is something where from what
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  Speaker 1: I am told, he is still considered to be day today,
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  Speaker 1: but it does seem like it's trending in the right
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  Speaker 1: direction in terms of his availability for Sunday against the Jaguars.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor is obviously a massive piece of that Colts offense.
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  Speaker 1: It also takes on added significance because there are other
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  Speaker 1: running back Naim Heinz still in concussion protocol. He was
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  Speaker 1: on the practice field again today, still wearing a non
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  Speaker 1: contact jersey. We'll see what the chances are if any
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  Speaker 1: of Heinz getting clear and have a better feel for
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  Speaker 1: that over the next forty eight hours or so. Here, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: good one of the a f C South, their Colts
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  Speaker 1: and the Jaguars meantime, I and the Falcons Niners is,
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  Speaker 1: as I said yesterday, one of those sneaky good games
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  Speaker 1: that would be made a lot better if Kyle Pitts
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  Speaker 1: took part in it. What's his status in Atlanta? I
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  Speaker 1: feel like all the Falcons games are good, the hard,
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  Speaker 1: always tight, always kind of exciting. It does sound like
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts has a more than good chance to be
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  Speaker 1: able to play in this one. Missed last week with
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  Speaker 1: a hamstring injury, which was somewhat surprising, But we consider
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  Speaker 1: the fact that his usage hasn't exactly been you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's not like he's been to use a ton down
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  Speaker 1: the field. Maybe this is something that bothered him the
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  Speaker 1: first couple of weeks. Just wanted to get a handle
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  Speaker 1: on it, Sit him down one week, make sure he
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  Speaker 1: came back full strength. That is kind of where it stands.
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  Speaker 1: He practiced again today, another positive sign for his availability.
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  Speaker 1: Was just supposed to be a one week injury. So
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  Speaker 1: it seems like you're going to see Kyle Pitts there
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday. Okay, let's turn to Thursday Night football. The
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  Speaker 1: Commanders as mentioned earlier, and the Bears that Soldier Field.
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  Speaker 1: You guys had a story earlier this morning Ian about
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  Speaker 1: William Jackson the third, the corner who didn't play last
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  Speaker 1: week and did not make the trip to Chicago for
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  Speaker 1: tonight's game. What's that story? Yeah, they have had trade
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  Speaker 1: talk centered around William Jackson the third, the former big
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  Speaker 1: ticket free agent from just a year ago two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and twenty one off Season's on a three year, forty
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  Speaker 1: two million dollar contract. They thought he'd be a big
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  Speaker 1: time centerpiece of this defense. And now, according to me
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  Speaker 1: and colleague Mike Grivo and Tom Pellicero, uh, the William
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  Speaker 1: Jackson sounds like he would prefer a new home. Prefers
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  Speaker 1: certainly a new scheme. Seems seems to see himself as
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  Speaker 1: more of a man demand corner as opposed to a
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  Speaker 1: zone corner. They played zone more than sixty percent of
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  Speaker 1: the time. Just doesn't seem to be a great fit
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  Speaker 1: for him. So the Commanders have had trade talks. There
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  Speaker 1: are interested teams, so it does appear that a trade
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  Speaker 1: would be likely here just three point eight million dollars
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  Speaker 1: as far as a salary cabit for a team acquiring
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  Speaker 1: in which, considering he's a starting corner, not so bad. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: for the Commanders, their quarterback Carson Wentz will start tonight
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  Speaker 1: against the Bears, despite dealing with what I AM told
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  Speaker 1: as a biceps tendon strain that he suffered last week.
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  Speaker 1: It's an injury near his throwing shoulder, and there was
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  Speaker 1: a significant doubt about Carson Wentz's availability for this game
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  Speaker 1: on the short week just a couple of days ago.
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  Speaker 1: Once coming off maybe his best game was a Commander
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  Speaker 1: through for over three and or fifty yards and a
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  Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns, albeit with the interception at the goal
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  Speaker 1: line at the end of this game. He was able
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  Speaker 1: to finish that game. But I'm told he is sore.
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  Speaker 1: He's not, but he looked pretty good throwing the football
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  Speaker 1: during practice this week, although that was just and a
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  Speaker 1: limited walk through type of a setting. The hope here
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  Speaker 1: is that wins can get through this game tonight, obviously
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  Speaker 1: get a win, and then have ten days to rest
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  Speaker 1: up because the long week after the Thursday night games.
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  Speaker 1: Commander's offense, that's shown they can be explosive. Third in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL in past plays of twenty or more yards,
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  Speaker 1: second in the NFL in wide receiver touchdowns. But they're
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  Speaker 1: beat up. Not just Carson Wentz, but no Johan Dotson tonight,
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  Speaker 1: no Logan Thomas tonight. There are other breakout wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: from last week. Diami Brown, who had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: touchdown catches, listed as questionable with a groin. I'm told
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  Speaker 1: he is expected to play okay. It would be huge
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  Speaker 1: if they had him here. He certainly made a difference
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  Speaker 1: last week. They just couldn't make the play at the
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  Speaker 1: end after that long drive. Thank you Tom, and thank
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  Speaker 1: you Ian. Look Carson Wentz as we get to Chicago
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  Speaker 1: and see lovely Soldier Field. Carson Wentz has made a
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  Speaker 1: lot of plays, but he's also thrown six picks. He
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  Speaker 1: also has seven total giveaways. You gotta help the guy.
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  Speaker 1: You can't necessarily have him throw for three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty yards. And Ron rivera high there, Mike gi already
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  Speaker 1: live at Soldier Field, and Mark Ross welcome back to
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  Speaker 1: the show as well. Rod rivera kind of stepped in
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  Speaker 1: a little bit this week and said quarterback was the
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  Speaker 1: difference between his team and the other NFC East teams.
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  Speaker 1: How are they supporting Wentz? They're not only tonight but
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  Speaker 1: big picture, Yeah, Andrew, not the easiest week for Carson
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  Speaker 1: Wentz and probably not what he expected. Bad enough to
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  Speaker 1: lose four in a row, but then to have your
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  Speaker 1: coach say that, and again, as Ron talked about later,
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  Speaker 1: I just didn't finish my thought. You know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: regret the trade at all. Carson has done some great
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  Speaker 1: things for us. We believe he will continue to do
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  Speaker 1: great things for us in the future. However, it created
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a storm there for twenty four
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  Speaker 1: to forty eight hours. And I think one of the
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  Speaker 1: things that jumps out to you is how well Carson
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  Speaker 1: handled the entire situation, didn't make a big deal of it,
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  Speaker 1: smile through his press conference, and but talking to his teammates,
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  Speaker 1: they said same Carson this week, no difference. And in fact,
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  Speaker 1: when I talked to Terry McLaurin on the phone and
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  Speaker 1: I said, Terry, what have you learned about Carson? He said,
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  Speaker 1: the first thing that pops in mind is his resiliency.
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  Speaker 1: He said, it's physical toughness, as we just heard Tom
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  Speaker 1: Pella Sero mentioning the biceps injury, but he's gonna play tonight.
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  Speaker 1: And it's the mental toughness to be able to deal
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  Speaker 1: with this and other things over the course of his
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  Speaker 1: time with Washington. He said. The other thing is he's
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  Speaker 1: a great communicator. He said. He brings the wide receivers
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  Speaker 1: together as a group. He says, we talked about the
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  Speaker 1: things that he wants to get done. We get on
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  Speaker 1: the same page. He said. I think that's why you've
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  Speaker 1: seen us hit some big plays down the field, because
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  Speaker 1: Carson put so much time into it. So all the
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  Speaker 1: things that we heard about Carson the whispers, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: from other stops haven't appeared to carry over to Washington. They,
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  Speaker 1: as Terry McLaurin told me, they backed their guy Mark
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  Speaker 1: Well and that's encouraging for Washington and and discouraging that
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  Speaker 1: Ron Rivera came out with those comments and speaks to
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  Speaker 1: the dysfunction of that whole organization. But man and Carson
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  Speaker 1: Wentz has been through more seven lifetimes of dysfunction in
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  Speaker 1: his career what he's dealt with. But another way to
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  Speaker 1: help it is the defense has to step up to
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  Speaker 1: help him. And you know they are on the positive
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  Speaker 1: their seventh in the league in sacks despite not having
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  Speaker 1: Chase Young available, but their last in takeaways and their
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  Speaker 1: six in point and giving up points per game. So
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  Speaker 1: this defense really has to step up and help out.
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  Speaker 1: The offense has shown signs of being prolific. Carson his
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  Speaker 1: fifth in yards passing, but the turnovers are a problem
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  Speaker 1: that we don't know if he can iron those out
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  Speaker 1: because this has kind of been the epitome of his game.
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  Speaker 1: But if the defense does create some more opportunities for
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  Speaker 1: the offense and holds create some turnovers, which they haven't
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  Speaker 1: done up to this point, They've gotten the sacks, but
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  Speaker 1: they just haven't stopped teams and they haven't turned the
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  Speaker 1: ball over, so they'll have to step up as well,
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  Speaker 1: which is supposed to be coached Rivera specialty, so uh
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  Speaker 1: a lot to be worked out there in Washington, Ron
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  Speaker 1: Rivera going back home to Chicago. Remember the eighty five
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  Speaker 1: Bears on the staff as well, d C with Lovey
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  Speaker 1: Smith when that team won an NFC championship game but
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  Speaker 1: eventually lost to the Colts in a rain storm at
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  Speaker 1: a Prince concert in Miami. Thank you Mike Jardi, Thank
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  Speaker 1: you Mark Ross. That is how we open up week
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  Speaker 1: number six. Uh, not that it's not a great week.
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  Speaker 1: It is a great week, but everyone has their eyes
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  Speaker 1: circled on this one right CBS five Eastern Time on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: Bills Chiefs for the fifth time in twenty four months,
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  Speaker 1: and yes, a rematch of last year's game in which
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs wanted over time of the playoffs and knocked
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  Speaker 1: him out for the second straight year. We've moved on,
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  Speaker 1: We're we're ready to again focus on this week. And
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  Speaker 1: I know everybody in the media is going to make
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  Speaker 1: a big deal of it, but as players, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it really is just our next game on our schedule.
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  Speaker 1: It's the biggest one we're playing because it is the
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  Speaker 1: next one. Nothing that we did last year carries over
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  Speaker 1: this year. So UM, we've gotta go out there again
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  Speaker 1: into a hostel environment. We know how their crowd is. UM,
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  Speaker 1: it's a. It's a fantastic um place to play in.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it's one of the special places you can
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  Speaker 1: play in the league, for sure. So UM looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to the challenge, and again it's a. It's a really
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  Speaker 1: good team that we're about to go play. The Bills
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  Speaker 1: season has been ended each of the past two years
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  Speaker 1: in January by the Kansas City Chiefs team. Seemingly James
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  Speaker 1: cannot finish Patrick Mahomes in the Chiefs, Andrew, it's been
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  Speaker 1: their calling cards since Patrick Mahomes came their starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And you mentioned that game last year and that stadium
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  Speaker 1: behind me. I remember standing on the chief sideline with
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  Speaker 1: thirteen seconds to go and they're down three, and it's
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  Speaker 1: burned into my memory because nobody was hanging their head,
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  Speaker 1: nobody was panicking, nobody was worried. Mahomes was working the
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  Speaker 1: sideline getting everybody ready. They go down in that thirteen
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  Speaker 1: seconds kick of field and they end up winning it
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  Speaker 1: in overtime. And I was reminiscing about that with some
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  Speaker 1: players in the locker room a little while ago, and
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  Speaker 1: they told me we never panicked in those situations even
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  Speaker 1: in this season because of our fridays with Eric Bienemy.
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  Speaker 1: We spent twenty thirty minutes with him going over these
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  Speaker 1: syreas that maybe may not happen at any point in
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  Speaker 1: this season, but we will be prepared for them if
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  Speaker 1: that's what ends up happening. And they were prepared for
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  Speaker 1: it in the divisional round. They prepared for it the
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  Speaker 1: way things have gone, and it stems from Patrick Mahomes.
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  Speaker 1: Like was talking to Chief safety want Thornhill about a
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  Speaker 1: half hour ago and we were kind of talking about
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  Speaker 1: Gabe Davis and Stefan Diggs and he said they're they're
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  Speaker 1: both number one, but then he also has other options.
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  Speaker 1: But he said, we're used to practicing and training camp
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  Speaker 1: against the only other guy that plays the position like
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen, and that's Patrick Mahomes. He said, in the secondary,
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  Speaker 1: we have to be ready for this explosive passing attack
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  Speaker 1: because anywhere he is on the field, he can throw
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  Speaker 1: it to any other Green patch of grass on across
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  Speaker 1: the field, so they know from going through camp what
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  Speaker 1: it is like going against Josh Allen. But again he
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  Speaker 1: said stopping him is a different story. Specifically if he
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  Speaker 1: runs the football, he said that is the biggest thing
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  Speaker 1: for us a as as a secondary. Andrew, he said,
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  Speaker 1: we can't come up and try to make a play
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  Speaker 1: and tackle because he's gonna burn a steep. It sounds
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  Speaker 1: a lot like their quarterback Big game, James Palmer there
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  Speaker 1: in Kansas City Live Television. It's always fun coming up next.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady says he's frustrated with what we'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: coming up. I think you'll fix NFL now NFL Network,
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  Speaker 1: That is Tom Brady. After the Bucketeers held on and
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  Speaker 1: barely beat the Falcons last week's twenty one to fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Now they have to move on to Pittsburgh face the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers and mind a way to maybe put a game
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  Speaker 1: away because they couldn't do it last week. I think
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  Speaker 1: we're just gonna work at it every day and you know,
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  Speaker 1: get to be as good as we can possibly be.
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  Speaker 1: I think that you know what we can be, and
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  Speaker 1: compared to other years where I've been here, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that's really, Um, what a goal is. I think
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  Speaker 1: we've got to maximize our potential. And there's a different team,
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  Speaker 1: different group of guys. I don't think any of us
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  Speaker 1: have played to the well that we're capable of. And um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're going to keep pushing at it and
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  Speaker 1: try to put a little pressure on each other to
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  Speaker 1: bring the best out of us. Sarah walshamungoes talking to
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady earlier inside Now she's outside high there, Sarah
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  Speaker 1: at one book place as Brady speaks of of frustration,
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  Speaker 1: a common refrain. But what is he frustrated about? Now? Well,
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  Speaker 1: let me put it into perspective. Aside from the weather
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  Speaker 1: that's happening here in the Tampa Bay area right now,
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  Speaker 1: it is not all gloom and doom in Tampa. Tom
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  Speaker 1: is a perfectionist, right, so he is going to pick
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  Speaker 1: apart every little thing. And there's a pervading feeling throughout
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  Speaker 1: this entire offense that they've really left a lot of
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  Speaker 1: points out on the field that this offense as a
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  Speaker 1: whole can play better. You heard Tom talk about the
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  Speaker 1: fact that they haven't been out there a lot together
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  Speaker 1: as a unit. There's been injuries, they've been dealing with
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  Speaker 1: Byron Leftwich today told us that he believes that they
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  Speaker 1: are close the offensive corner says, if they can continue
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  Speaker 1: to have guys out there healthy and going left, which
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  Speaker 1: was also asked about Tom's frustration level, because Tom's a guy.
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  Speaker 1: It is wind al mode here in Tampa, and how
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  Speaker 1: frustrated does Tom get when it's new guys and he
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  Speaker 1: has to trust them in left which sort of joke,
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  Speaker 1: he said, he's forty five years old. How's your patients
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  Speaker 1: when you get older? And like now he was kidding
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  Speaker 1: because then he went on to say that when you
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  Speaker 1: see Tom Brady frustrated, and he said, when you see
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  Speaker 1: Tom frustrated on the sidelines, usually, he said, Brady is
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  Speaker 1: frustrated with himself because he is a perfectionist. He always
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  Speaker 1: feels that things can be better, and certainly this offense
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  Speaker 1: shares that mentality Brady. By the way, a lot was
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  Speaker 1: made about his record against the Falcons. He's never lost them,
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  Speaker 1: He's beating him a ton of times. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: he goes into Pittsburgh with a twelve and three record
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  Speaker 1: andrew against those Steelers. Okay, I understand their frustration. I
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  Speaker 1: totally get it here. But the Bucks defense also kind
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  Speaker 1: of let a Falcons team that didn't have Cordarol Patterson
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  Speaker 1: get back in that game. They did, and it's why
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  Speaker 1: in the locker room after that game, the Bucks won,
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  Speaker 1: and they're okay with winning ugly, but they didn't love it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they were close to pitching a shoutout. They
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  Speaker 1: were up twenty one nothing in the fourth quarter before
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons even scored a point. So no, they did
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  Speaker 1: not feel great about how especially that fourth quarter went.
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  Speaker 1: But there was a litany of injuries, and not to
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  Speaker 1: make excuses, but it was troublesome that at one point
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter and in that second half they
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  Speaker 1: lost three d vs. They lost Carlton Davis, their number
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  Speaker 1: one corner, they lost Sean Murphy Bunty, and they lost
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  Speaker 1: Mike Edwards. So here's the big picture. Sean Murphy Bunty
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  Speaker 1: is probably the biggest question mark and it would not
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  Speaker 1: be surprising if he doesn't go this weekend. He had
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  Speaker 1: an m R and his quad. Those results have not
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  Speaker 1: been shared with us. I can tell you I watched
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  Speaker 1: Carlton Davis at practice today the portion that was open
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  Speaker 1: to the media. He looked okay and that he would
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  Speaker 1: be good to go, and Todd Bowls is downplayed Mike
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  Speaker 1: Edwards situation and believes that he's going to go. So
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  Speaker 1: it looks like of those three guys, Sean Murphy Bunty
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  Speaker 1: might be the only one not playing on the flip side.
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  Speaker 1: The Steelers defense obviously dealing with the massive, massive loss
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  Speaker 1: of t J. Watt right now. And I asked Byron left,
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  Speaker 1: which when you prepare for this Steelers defense, how much
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  Speaker 1: does the defense change without him? And he said, look,
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  Speaker 1: there's no question when a player of that caliber isn't
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  Speaker 1: on the grass, it's a big change. And he said
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  Speaker 1: that's why he is one of the best in the
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  Speaker 1: world and the timely plays that he forces to make happen.
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  Speaker 1: So I think everyone understands the Steelers are dealing with
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  Speaker 1: much more significant issues over there on their defense. And
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  Speaker 1: and this is a Steelers team that has struggled without
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  Speaker 1: Watt oh and eight in games that he is unable
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  Speaker 1: to play Andrews, so they're still trying to come up
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  Speaker 1: with a solution for his absence on that side of
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  Speaker 1: things over multiple seasons, one of which included t J.
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  Speaker 1: Watt and some other starters sitting out. But the fact
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  Speaker 1: is they haven't one without him, Sarah Walsh, They're live
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  Speaker 1: in Tampa's the Bucks get ready. They go up there
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  Speaker 1: and face a rookie quarterback in Kenny Pickett. How about
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  Speaker 1: these stats since head to head with the rookie quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: I say Sin is the last guy to do it
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  Speaker 1: with Gino Smith with the Jets Week seven, Oney thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Gino Smith into the conversation here back when he was
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: a second round pick out of West Virginia. Mark Ross
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  Speaker 1: back with me, this is not easy here for Kenny Picket.
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  Speaker 1: Odd Bowls defense a rookie quarterback. I mean, last week,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: the bills market, this week, this the scheduling gods of
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin did not do him any favors Kenny Pickett
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: with these last two weeks. And you always hear the
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: talk about rookie quarterbacks when is the right time to
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: get them in, and really there is no right time.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: And when you look at young guys, young rookies, and
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  Speaker 1: we had Donald McNabb when he was a rookie and
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Eli Manning and even year four, they're gonna have some
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: bad games, you know, they're gonna have their ups and downs,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: and those guys struggled even then and turned out to
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: be great players. So what you really look for in
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett tomorrow the rest of the season are the
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: other the toughness. Does he have the does he have
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: the pois? Does he have the moxie? Is he not
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: afraid of the situation? While he develops the football skills?
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: So you can really see those signs in your star
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: quarter your young quarterback if they're gonna be productive, if
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: the team believes in them. So it's really the aura
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: of those players that you're really looking for with Kenny Pickett. Look,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: tomorrow is gonna be tough for him. They might not
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: score again or score three points. Didn't score last week,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: they might not do it again. But it's all those
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: other things Andrew that you have to look for and
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett, and last week he showed that he wasn't
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: afraid and that was his first start. I would expect
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: to see more of the same of Kenny Pickett. Of
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: whatever Tampa brings at him, He's gonna keep getting up
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: and he's gonna keep fighting. Seven consecutive games against teams
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  Speaker 1: that either had a winning record last year or this
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: currently right now, for Kenny Pickt to open up his
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: young NFL career. Thank you, Mark Ross. The Packers have
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: never lost back to back regular season games under mattel Floor.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Something to keep in mind. Also, something to keep in
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: mind those big offseason purchases we told you about for
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: six months. Um, can we now look back on some
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: of them and say their mistakes? Mark Ross will tell
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: you when the pie kick up the bone running. So
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: the Broncos played by day night. They have lost their
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: last six Monday night game. There's also the issue of
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and a shoulder. Let's get more information than
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: that by going to our guy who lives in Denver
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: and covers them a lot. But right now James Palmer
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: is in front of Arrowhead ahead of that game on
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon. What do we know about Russell? Well, we
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: know he's dealing with this shoulder injury where he had
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: an injection Andrew and we know that it's a lat
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: in his shoulder and he's been bothering him now for
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: roughly two games. Well, he had this extended break here
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: with the Thursday night game leading into the Monday game,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: and he believes his shoulder is getting better each and
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: every day. Just addressed the media a few minutes ago,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett said he's been very impressed with how Russell
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Wilson has worked so hard to get this shoulder as
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: close as possible. Our estimation is it's not gonna be acent, obviously,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: but he has been working to get as close to
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: it as possible. They're not adjusting practices, I'm told by
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: any means, and he's not gonna miss any time, but
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: he does need to get this offense back on track.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: With Nathaniel Hackett, and they used this weekend to go
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: over everything offensively, and they believe just too many negative
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: plays on first and second down, far too many drops
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: second in the NFL on drops. They think they're very
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: good on third down. Russell Wilson has said this, Nathaniel
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Hackett has said this, it's just too many third and
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: longs that they've been in third and short they're fine,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and then flip the script over to the Chargers and
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: getting after Russell Wilson, and they have really struggled getting
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: after the quarterback opposite of Khalil mac with Joey Bosa out,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: it's really Kyle van Noy. They're trying to get some
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: of the pressure and it just hasn't been their opposite
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: of mac Brandon. Staley believes that he wants MC not
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: to try to put too much pressure on himself, try
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: not to do too much Andrew while Joey Bosa is out.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: They don't want him to do that now and then
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: expend himself for later in the season. But that game
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: up front is gonna be interesting with Russell Wilson a
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: little banged up, absolutely against a Charger team coming off
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: a huge win this past week. All right, let's move
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: on to an article right now on NFL dot Com.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Bat Mark Ross wrote, it's really good. It's really good
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: because we spend entire offseason talking about these huge moves
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: that will change the fortunes of franchises, and a lot
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: of them just haven't worked. Now, we go through this
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: every offseason, Mark, but this past off season was, you know,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: in many of our eyes, like the craziest off season
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: of all time. We're gonna start with Russell Wilson. He
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: is number one on your list. What's the story there, Well,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: you gotta start with Russell, right, just because of the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: two million dollars Andrew. So it's not just to play,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: but it's the money that you that you're put investing
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: in him and what you expect to get out of that.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: And right now you know Russell Wilson, Russell Wilson, Denver
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: let offense that's thirty one in the league and scoring.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: When you watch them play, they struggle to move the ball.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: We've seen the mistakes from the coaching staff and Russell.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: And the issue with Russell when I watched him last
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: year when he was earlier in the season, Russ was cooking,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: had the finger injury, came back, did not look the same,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: and he looks like that same sort of player. Now
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: last year was excused because of the injury, but the
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: vision is not there. He's not seeing the field, he's
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: not making plays against pressure, and that magical Russ playmaking
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: ability where he always seems to get out of things
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: and make big time plays down the field. He's not
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: that sort of athletic playmaker anymore. So the issues that
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I see with Russell I think are going to persist,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and unfortunately for Denver fans, you might have to get
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: used to how that Denver offense looks right now. You
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: also have Matt Ryan on that list, who who was
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: the winning quarterback this past Monday Night and I watched
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Matt Ryan mark and I wonder, let's say he had
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: gone to Cleveland and they could protect him, would he
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: be better? Is this a protection issue in Indianapolis or
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: has he lost it off as fastball? Yeah? I thought
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Matt Ryan's been cooked for a few years now, Andrew,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: And look, Indianapolis is supposed to be the rehab facility
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: for quarterbacks, right, but they just haven't been rehabbing quarterbacks.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: And Carson wentz at Philip Rivers and Matt Ryan. I
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: thought it just has lost the last few years. He's
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: never been the most mobile, but twenty one sacks leads
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: the league even when he's protected. He's got eleven fumbles,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: he's got seven interceptions, and it's just not there where
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: he's seeing the field and can be able to step
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: in there and make plays like he used to. Any
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Fountain's fan will over the last few years the roller
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: coaster of Matt Ryan and not being able to produce.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: So unfortunately, what older quarterbacks that have evaluated my career.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Once they hit the wall, they don't come back. Andrew
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: also on the list, Allen Robinson, Chandler Jones. It's a
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: good list. Eight names on it. Recommend everyone check it
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: out NFL dot com slash Ross Mark Ross keeps receipts.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know if the teams did. Thank you, Mark.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: NFL now continues, and we do so by putting the
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Rams in the spotlight. How can they fix things they
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: need to this week before there by that story got
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: it up. So it's a new era here for the
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers coming up on Sunday. Baker Mayfield like layout,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: p J Walker likely in trade deadlines coming up November one.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey's got to do head coach, it's Steve Wilkes
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: on an interim basis, Earth keeps spinning. Then you know
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: you gotta come up, come to work. You know they're
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: not canceling the season, so you know every day and
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: coach Wilkes said it best you gotta win the day. Um,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: you're not guaranteed anything in this league, So just about
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: showing up every day, putting in the right amount of
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: work and doing everything you can to help your team win.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: We can't confirm the Earth keeps spinning man Kayla Burton
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: here on the rampside and wrap report with some Panther's
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: perspective as well. Ahead of this one on Sunday. Steve
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Wilkes on an interim basis here unpack what David Tepper
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: said a couple of days ago ian about Wilkes's shot
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: for the job, and I guess the future here and
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: moving forward. Yeah, as far as Wilkes's potential future and
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: really an opportunity to interview for the head coaching job,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: would owner David Tepper insinuated is that if they have
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: a really good end to the season, that they look better,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: if they kind of impress more and put a better
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: product on the field than Steve Wilkes should be able
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: to get an interview. Interims are almost always interviewed. I
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: would be surprised if it doesn't happen. It's interesting here, guys,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: is that Steve Wilkes came in and immediately fired defensive
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: coordinator Phil Snow. They got a pretty good defense, but
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: clearly he is one of the guys that Matt Rule
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: brought in, a sort of confidant and lieutenant of Matt Rules.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Wilkes wanted to make sure that he had his imprint
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: on the defense. He has been in the NFL a
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: very good defensive coordinator. And Al Holcum, who is also
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: on the defensive staff. He now takes over as the
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, but Wilkes is usually called the plays when
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: in this situation, I would expect him to call the
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: place here as well. The main thing is you're going
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: to see more of the Steve Wilkes product on the field,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: but obviously so much of the questions what are they
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: going to do on offense and the fact that they
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: have now their h third string quarterback essentially as their
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: starter makes it a little more challenging. But we'll see
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: what p J. Walker can end up bringing and trow
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: McVay admits there are some unknowns there specifically about the defense,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: but regardless, here you have back quarterback, you have some
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: turmoil with the other team. Kle it's a chance for
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: the Rams of getting much needed win before there by certainly,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: and as Ian just mentioned, linebacker Bobby Wagner is expected
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: to be matched up against p J. Walker, who really
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: is about to get if he's going to play and
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: start on Sunday, his third career start. Bobby Wagner also
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: said that they are still watching tape on Baker Mayfield
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: in case anything pops up there. But this was a
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: perfect opportunity for the Rams defense to show up. We
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: know we've been talking about the Rams offensive struggles with
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: their injuries on their offensive line, but defensively, Aaron Donald
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: the three time Defensive Player of the Year. He has
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: already had four sacks this season, two coming in last
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: game against the Cowboys. Bobby Wagner also the only other
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Rams player with multiple season sacks right now. And you
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: know who also got his first career sack? Do you know,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey. Yeah, he got his first career sag. Aaron
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Donald went right up to him right after he took
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: down Cooper Russian. He said, was that your first sack?
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: And he goes, yeah, man, he was high. And Bobby
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Wagner is laughing yesterday in the press conference, not really
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: knowing that that was his first career sack. So they're
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: celebrating that. But as Ian mentioned, they're going up against
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: really a third string quarterback here, and they are ranked
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: last the Panthers in total offense. Is a perfect opportunity
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: for this defense to step up given their offensive struggles.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: One other thing I'd like to add here in the
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: offensive side of things with the Rams, big question has
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: been about what Odell Beckham Jr. Whereas he at in
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: this free agency or excuse me as he is a
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: free agent and that conversation, and head coach On McVey
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: addressed it, saying that he loves Odell Beckham Jr. He
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: has had plenty of conversations and dialogues with him, and
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: he says his last or the final um offer that
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: he just had may not be their last one. And
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: we'll stay tuned on that one. Is the Rams of
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: to get Van Jefferson back as well after the bye,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: which again would be next week. Thank you and thank
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: you Kayla Rams and the Panthers coming up on that Sunday.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Time for one more thing before we go about redecorating
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: in Miami. Straight ahead, it is a game day and
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: there's no baseball. There's football tonight. It's the Commanders, It's
• 27:20
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• 27:30
  Speaker 1: thing before we go, I and Rapp reports. Going first, yesterday,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Steven colleague Cameron Wolf brought us some important Dolphins ping pong.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Turns out that Mike McDaniel said they took the ping
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: pong table out so they could really focus on the
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: next game rather than have some sort of distraction. Well,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I re Hill said today that actually he ordered a
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: special Dolphins ping pong table to replace the previous one.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: So they're getting a new ping pong table. They won't
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: use it as a distraction. True story. Ping pong is
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  Speaker 1: my best sport. It's my best sport as well. I'm amazing,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Randy A tone of those not walking through that door.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Pella Sero. One more thing, shout out to Blink
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  Speaker 1: in the band in a decade right here in the
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Twin Cities, and more important doing so the week after
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: the NFL Draft end. So Ian market down on your
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  Speaker 1: I'll be at the rock. Are you gonna be up
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  Speaker 1: what I want to know. Will there be UFOs? No,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: we now know they exist thanks to him. There you go, Kla.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: One more thing, all right, I got the rams. Shout
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: out Glendale Hoover High School in California. These two but
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Tima and Nellie Fatima is a junior. Nellie is a
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: freshman on the right. There. They joined the press conference
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: yesterday asking Bobby Wagner questions, Sean McVeigh questions. They were
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: just fantastic, So shout out those guys. Bobby Wagner was
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: asked about his favorite non football memory. It's his basketball memory,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: dropping twenty six points at Colony High School in California,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Bobby Wagger great things in the community, not all of
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: them promoted, but here. Pretty cool to have a couple
• 29:18
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• 29:21
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