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Speaker 1: I get thirty two you, I'm Steve White, and our
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Speaker 1: Southern California newsroom that is Ian Rappaport. He is in
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Speaker 1: the Rap Cave and we have a loaded show for you.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be joined by our own Jane Slater, who's
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Speaker 1: got some Cowboys conversation. We have Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence,
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Speaker 1: Bears quarterback Jalen Johnson, and it's never too early.
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Speaker 2: To talk fantasy football.
0:27
Speaker 1: Michael left Florio is gonna be talking about his sliders
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Speaker 1: and sleepers and Ian as we know, we've talked about it.
0:34
Speaker 2: All off season.
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Speaker 1: Forty nine Ers wide receiver Brandon Ayuk, he is due
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Speaker 1: a contract extension. Here's what his teammate George Kittle said
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Speaker 1: on The Rich Eisen Show about Ayuk and his situation.
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Speaker 2: This is new today.
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Speaker 3: I didn't get signed to like the second week of
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Speaker 3: training camp. Diebo is pretty late. Bosa was late too,
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Speaker 3: Bosa was the first week of the season. I was like,
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Speaker 3: that's just how business has done out there, and I'm
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Speaker 3: not in the meetings, like I have no idea. I
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Speaker 3: actually go out of my way to not talk to
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Speaker 3: anybody going through contract negotiations. So when people ask me questions,
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Speaker 3: like I have absolutely no idea, but like, I'm not
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Speaker 3: concerned about it. Ayuk's a phenomenal football player who's a
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Speaker 3: big part of our offense, and he's like one of
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Speaker 3: the most complete receivers that I've ever played with. So
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna assume that auksend to be on our team.
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Speaker 2: But by the time the season.
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Speaker 1: Starts, Andy, Well, we heard Kittle say something you've been
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Speaker 1: reporting all offseason long, is that the Niners tend to
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Speaker 1: wait until late into the process to finalize things. Any
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Speaker 1: updates on the situation or is that still kind of
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Speaker 1: the course the way things look like they're going to
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Speaker 1: shake out.
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Speaker 4: Well, we've seen Brendan a Yuk on social media plenty
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Speaker 4: kind of give it some hints about how he's feeling
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Speaker 4: or how he's wishes he was feeling. Whish is the
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Speaker 4: forty nine ers wanted him more? We've seen him share
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Speaker 4: a little commander's snippets. Of course, is good friend Jayden
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Speaker 4: Daniels now the quarterback there. But as far as what
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Speaker 4: he's actually said about his contract extension or lack thereof,
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Speaker 4: really the loudest he has spoken is when he did
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Speaker 4: not show up for mandatory, but player wants to make
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Speaker 4: clear that he is not happy about where his contract
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Speaker 4: extensions stands.
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Speaker 5: He does not show up.
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Speaker 4: Now the big question, of course, is is Ayuk going
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Speaker 4: to show up for training camp?
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Speaker 2: And you figure if he was.
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Speaker 4: Willing to take that strong up stands for Mini caamp,
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Speaker 4: perhaps he could do the same for training camp. He
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Speaker 4: does want a contract extension, I would be surprised. We'll see,
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Speaker 4: but I would be a little surprised now if he
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Speaker 4: sets foot on the field without an extension. So we
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Speaker 4: certainly have not heard the last of this one. And yeah,
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Speaker 4: as you mentioned, these tend to go all the way
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Speaker 4: to the start of the season. Just ask Nick Bosa,
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Speaker 4: same thing happening him last year, showed up ready to ball.
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Speaker 4: If that happens again for the forty nine ers on Ayuk,
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Speaker 4: they know at least he'll be ready to play.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and look Ayuk his quarterback Rock Purty. Those two
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Speaker 1: have a great combination. And Kittle told our rich eyesen
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Speaker 1: on the rich eyes and show some great stories about
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Speaker 1: Rock Purty. And we know Purty is going to be
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Speaker 1: eligible for a contract extension after the season, and we
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Speaker 1: know quarterback numbers they're pretty high. What kind of contract
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Speaker 1: can the former mister Irrelevant be looking at.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, mister Irrelevant the best deal in the NFL right now.
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Speaker 5: Literally could not have a lower salary.
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Speaker 4: Of course has gone out and always done is become
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Speaker 4: the forty nine ers franchise quarterback. When it is time
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Speaker 4: to talk contract extension, of course, he's not eligible yet
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Speaker 4: eligible after the season. After the regular season ends, it
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Speaker 4: seems like the forty nine ers have a no brainer here.
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Speaker 4: It's not like, well, are they going to extend him?
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Speaker 4: Are they in the a big contract? He has proven
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Speaker 4: that he is their franchise guy. Really, what he's doing
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Speaker 4: this season is how high right? And so the forty
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Speaker 4: nine ers are going to be a team competing for
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Speaker 4: everything once again.
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Speaker 5: Are they able to go deep in the playoffs again?
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Speaker 5: Are they able to win a Super Bowl?
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Speaker 4: I mean, these are the sorts of things that can
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Speaker 4: take a quarterback from getting really good money in the
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Speaker 4: fifties to the highest paid quarterback in the NFL.
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Speaker 5: It's all out there for brock Pritty.
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Speaker 4: It's really just a matter of how well does he
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Speaker 4: play and how high I does he drive up that price?
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Speaker 4: And yeah, as you mentioned, some of the stories on
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Speaker 4: the rich Eisen show, We're fantastic, including what happened when
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Speaker 4: George Kittle left the Iowa jersey in brock Pretty's lockerts.
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Speaker 6: Anyways, some pretty good stuff. Give it a listen.
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Speaker 2: Of course, brock party went to Iowa State.
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Speaker 1: It will be interesting to see if the Niners can
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Speaker 1: keep that core together once Purdy gets paid. And think
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Speaker 1: round for just a second, because we are going to
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Speaker 1: be talking more about Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott. As you
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Speaker 1: see him moving around just fine at his youth football
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Speaker 1: camp that he had earlier this week. Remember on July fourth,
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Speaker 1: we saw him in a walking boot. But we're going
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Speaker 1: to bring in our own Jane Slater, who actually was
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Speaker 1: on the phone with Dak Prescott today.
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Speaker 2: Jane, you got to give us the deats.
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Speaker 7: We're exchanging messages back and for sty full disclosure, I
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Speaker 7: was on vacation. He was in Cabo for Tyron Smith's wedding.
4:52
Speaker 7: He told me there was nothing to worry about it.
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Speaker 7: Then I reached out after we saw some video of
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Speaker 7: him dancing at Tyron Smith's wedding. I noticed that there
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Speaker 7: was quite there was quite some shuge there, but the
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Speaker 7: ankle getting into it. We exchanged some texts today he said,
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Speaker 7: obviously that video taken after he was spotted in a
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Speaker 7: walking boot and his ankle is just fine. A lot
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Speaker 7: of people obviously making a.
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Speaker 5: Lot of this.
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Speaker 7: The reason is, guys, I'll take you back to twenty
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Speaker 7: It was week five he ended up with that compound
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Speaker 7: fracture dislocated right ankle. It actually required about two surgeries,
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Speaker 7: the second one to clean some things up. So you
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Speaker 7: can understand what cowboy fans getting a little nervous around here.
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Speaker 5: A lot of the.
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Speaker 7: Talk that we've had about Dak lately is whether he's
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Speaker 7: going to get this new contract. I can tell you
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Speaker 7: he's in good spirits. He is not talking about that contract.
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Speaker 7: He leaves that up to Todd France. But he does
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Speaker 7: not seem pressed. And why would you. He's expected to
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Speaker 7: make twenty nine million dollars this year, regardless of a
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Speaker 7: new deal or not. And let's be honest, if it's
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Speaker 7: not here with Dallas, there will be another team that
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Speaker 7: will pay him what his market value is. So that's
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Speaker 7: where he's at. Don't expect him to be a camp holdout.
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Speaker 7: He has never held out as a result of that contract.
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Speaker 7: But I just want to reiterate there is nothing wrong
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Speaker 7: with that ankle, according to Dak. But around here fans
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Speaker 7: do get very nervous when we talk about injuries or
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Speaker 7: things along these lines because we're told, hey, it's nothing,
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Speaker 7: and then it turns into the pup list. But I
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Speaker 7: can tell you straight away, Dak telling me straight up
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Speaker 7: there is nothing wrong with the ankle.
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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, first of all, go back to the contract
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Speaker 4: thing you mentioned. If he does get the freeency next
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Speaker 4: year off the Cowboys don't do new deal, then I'm
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Speaker 4: going to be the highest paid player in the NFL.
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Speaker 4: Buy a lot, and the biggest name free agent we
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Speaker 4: have seen in a very very very long time. Anyway,
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Speaker 4: plenty of time to discuss that and we'll see what
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Speaker 4: ends up happening. The hell stuff is really interesting because
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Speaker 4: listening to the comments that you shared with us just now,
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Speaker 4: and then the comments that Dak made it his camp
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Speaker 4: a couple of days ago, he essentially treated himself as
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Speaker 4: he's not older but a little bit of an older player, said,
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Speaker 4: I'm getting older. I've got to take care of my bodies.
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Speaker 4: He's being proactive. He's making sure that if there's a
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Speaker 4: little thing, if he has a couple of hard workouts,
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Speaker 4: the ankle is as protected as possible. And Dak has
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Speaker 4: always handled really everything. I mean, being the quarterback of
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Speaker 4: the Dallas Cowboys is a lot. It is a lot,
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Speaker 4: handles everything so well with a little bit of a shrug.
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Speaker 4: To hear him with the maturity of saying, you know what,
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Speaker 4: I'm a little older, time to protect myself. And these
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Speaker 4: are the kinds of things that Cowboys fans should want
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Speaker 4: to hear because they know he is going to be
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Speaker 4: there for as long as possible.
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Speaker 5: He will be their quarterback for as long as possible.
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Speaker 2: And he was protecting his ankle on that dance floor.
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Speaker 2: He actually wasn't dancing. In the words of Snoop, he
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Speaker 2: was booked. Ian Rappaport, Jay Slater, thank you so much.
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Speaker 2: I don't care.
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Speaker 8: I got your buger, I got Bugner.
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Speaker 2: To forest. He was like, okay, Trevor drops looks fires
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Speaker 2: steeped up. He'll go, man, that's Christy touchdown, get to Bill.
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Speaker 1: I told you, I told you, I told you.
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Speaker 4: Let's go.
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Speaker 2: Let's go Bill Jaguars. And we're joined by that man,
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Speaker 2: quarterback Trevor.
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Speaker 1: Lawrence, who's at the American Century Golf Tournament in Lake Tahoe,
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Speaker 1: I gotta start off.
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Speaker 2: Right now, Trevor.
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Speaker 1: You know we had your coach on Doug Peterson Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: Is your golf game any better than his?
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Speaker 9: No, I wish it was.
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Speaker 8: I wish I could I wish I could say it was.
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Speaker 8: But coach is pretty good. You know, if I played,
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Speaker 8: if I play good, I can maybe hang with him
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Speaker 8: a little bit. But he is way more consistent than
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Speaker 8: I am. So I'm just happy to be out here.
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Speaker 8: And I bet some of these fans are a little
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Speaker 8: nervous when I'm up there hitting off the t box.
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Speaker 2: Hey you me both, brother, you and me both. Hey,
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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you.
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Speaker 1: One thing with Doug was real excited to tell us
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Speaker 1: about yesterday was a fact that they got you signed
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Speaker 1: to that long term extension and they got it done
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Speaker 1: before the season started, So it's not going to be
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Speaker 1: a conversation piece. How glad are you that you got
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Speaker 1: this done when it got done, And the fact that
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars have committed to you the way they have.
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Speaker 8: Really excited just to be in Jacksonville. We love we
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Speaker 8: love living there. It's become home for us. And then
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Speaker 8: you talk about the team and where we're heading, and
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Speaker 8: I feel like the best days are definitely.
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Speaker 6: Ahead of us.
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Speaker 8: And I know, speaking individually as well, in my game,
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Speaker 8: i feel like I'm far from playing my best football
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Speaker 8: and I know that's ahead of me. So I'm really
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Speaker 8: excited about that. And just to have the stability of
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Speaker 8: knowing where home is going to be for the for
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Speaker 8: long term or you know, for the next five seven years,
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Speaker 8: whatever it ends up being. That feels good to have
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Speaker 8: that secure and know that we're going to be in Jacksonville.
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Speaker 8: We can build this thing like we want to. And
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Speaker 8: this is I'm really excited. This team that we have
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Speaker 8: this year is really good. I think it's the best
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Speaker 8: team we've had since I've been there, and I'm really
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Speaker 8: excited to see see it all come together throughout training
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Speaker 8: camp and as we get ready for the season.
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Speaker 1: So Trevor and saying that, you know, we know you
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Speaker 1: guys have retooled the wide receiver room. You've retooled some
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Speaker 1: other areas, but let's go to that with that receiver group,
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Speaker 1: adding Brian Johnson and Gabe dave Is coming over and
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Speaker 1: Devin Duvarney. What do you think that group, going along
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Speaker 1: with the existing receivers that you have, is going to
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Speaker 1: do to open up the passing game.
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Speaker 8: We have a really dynamic group of you know, pass catchers,
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Speaker 8: I want to say just receivers because you know, tight
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Speaker 8: ends or another hees of it too. You know, we
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Speaker 8: got uh some great tight ends about Evan obviously had
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Speaker 8: a great year last year, really great with the ball
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Speaker 8: in his hands, does a lot of things to help us.
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Speaker 8: Good blocker two Briton, who's a young guy that you know,
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Speaker 8: didn't get as many touches last year, but has a
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Speaker 8: lot of talent and is a really good player and.
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Speaker 9: I think he's going to take off this year.
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Speaker 8: Then all the receivers have got Christian, you got Devin,
10:47
Speaker 8: you got Brian Thomas, you got Gabe who we just
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Speaker 8: picked up an offseason as well. I mean we got
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Speaker 8: to and that's just to mention a few of them.
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Speaker 8: We got a lot of young guys too that can
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Speaker 8: that can really play. And so you look at that
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Speaker 8: and just the amount of different hype of pass gutters
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Speaker 8: we have, whether they're big, fast, strong, good after the catch,
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Speaker 8: good at creating separation, whatever it is, possession guys. I
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Speaker 8: think we kind of have all of that. So as
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Speaker 8: a quarterback, that makes me really excited. Then you add on,
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Speaker 8: you know the guys we have up front, getting guys healthy. Obviously,
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Speaker 8: we got mentioned the offseason, which is which has been great.
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Speaker 8: We got some guys in the draft, Travis Tank, you know,
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Speaker 8: all the all the guys, Dearnest. There's a lot of
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Speaker 8: guys that we have on the offense side of the
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Speaker 8: ball that are that that can play. And I'm excited
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Speaker 8: just to showcase that. And the main thing is obviously
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Speaker 8: you got to stay healthy and you got to keep
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Speaker 8: everybody together. But if we do that, you know, I
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Speaker 8: have a lot of confidence.
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Speaker 6: In our group.
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Speaker 1: Great, and thank you for picking me up on Brian
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Speaker 1: Thomas right there too, didn't mispronounce the name. One thing
11:41
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about because Doug did mention
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Speaker 1: this yesterday and it was on just the fade at
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Speaker 1: the back end of the last season where he said
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Speaker 1: it's going to burn for a long time until we
11:49
Speaker 1: get to meaningful games again and start playing in September.
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Speaker 2: For you and for all the other players, what about.
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Speaker 1: Getting that taste out of your mouth by being more
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Speaker 1: consistent through the season.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, obviously to finish the way we did
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Speaker 8: last year, as this sucks, you know, you put a
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Speaker 8: lot of work in, starting in really in April, all
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Speaker 8: the way through and then to training camp and then
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Speaker 8: throughout the whole season, put yourself in position to make
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Speaker 8: the playoffs, win the division, whatever it is, and to
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Speaker 8: not be able to finish and and finish the job.
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Speaker 8: That sucks because you put a lot of work in
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Speaker 8: and to see it all go to waste and you
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Speaker 8: sit at home and watch everybody else play. That stings
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Speaker 8: a little bit and you remember that and it gives
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Speaker 8: you some motivation and going to the next season. But
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Speaker 8: at the same time, I think you use it as fuel,
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Speaker 8: but you also have to learn from it and move on.
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Speaker 8: You know, we have another set of challenges this year,
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Speaker 8: and we can't hang our health hats on what happened
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Speaker 8: last year. We got to build that edge and find
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Speaker 8: that consistency that's going to push us forward this season
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Speaker 8: and get us to where we want to go, because
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Speaker 8: it sounds it seems like we just lost a little
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Speaker 8: bit of juice at the end of the season. Obviously
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Speaker 8: a lot of injuries, a lot of things happened throughout
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Speaker 8: the year, but there's no excuse. You know, you go
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Speaker 8: out there Sunday, you got to you have a job
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Speaker 8: to do, and you got to got to go find
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Speaker 8: a way to win the game and find a way
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Speaker 8: to make the playoffs so you can go on and
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Speaker 8: go on a run. And we weren't able to do
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Speaker 8: that last year, and looking forward to doing that this year.
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Speaker 2: Whichever.
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Speaker 1: Just before the opportunity to get to the playoffs this
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Speaker 1: upcoming season, you got a big development in your family
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Speaker 1: life here, you got a baby on the way. You
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Speaker 1: and your wife Marissa. What's to like kind of going
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Speaker 1: through this process and then going through the season to
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Speaker 1: go along with that.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, we're super excited.
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Speaker 8: I mean, from what everybody said is it definitely changes
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Speaker 8: your life having a kid, and we're having a girl.
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Speaker 8: So we just found that out, you know, last week
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Speaker 8: or two. So really excited for that. Excited to be
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Speaker 8: a dad. You know, the last few years, I've just
13:33
Speaker 8: thought of obviously kind of heading in that direction of
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Speaker 8: becoming a dad soon and been getting excited about it.
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Speaker 8: And now that it's coming real soon, I'm really excited.
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Speaker 8: And I think that's I mean, that's what it's about,
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Speaker 8: is you know, raising your kids, being a good good parents,
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Speaker 8: a good dad, leading them the right way. I think
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Speaker 8: that's the most important job you have, so I'm excited
13:53
Speaker 8: to step into that. Me and my wife are and
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Speaker 8: we're really pumped and obviously there's going to be some challenges,
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Speaker 8: but we're really excited to welcome a girl into our life,
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Speaker 8: you know, in January, so it's gonna be awesome.
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Speaker 1: Well, congratulates to both of you. It is the best
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Speaker 1: thing in the world being a parent. Against Trevor, thank
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Speaker 1: you for joining us from the American Century Golf Classic
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Speaker 1: up in Lake Tahoe and good luck this season.
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Speaker 6: Appreciate it.
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Speaker 8: Steve jorda Man, thank you.
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Speaker 2: Still head.
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Speaker 1: On the Insiders, our fantasy insider Michael left Florio has
14:18
Speaker 1: his list of running back breakouts, sleepers and sliders and
14:21
Speaker 1: guys you want to avoid in the early rounds. But
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Speaker 1: next on the Insiders, Verius Pro Bowl quarterback Jalen Johnson
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Speaker 1: joined us to talk about the excitement around his team.
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Speaker 1: The first some sad news. Legendary coach Monte Kiffen died today.
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Speaker 1: He peacefully passed away and this is posted from Old
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Speaker 1: Miss Football in Oxford, surrounded by his family and friends
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Speaker 1: as his grand grandson Knox said, he's free of pain
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Speaker 1: and smiling down on us from above and this from
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Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he spent thirteen seasons as
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Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator, winning Super Bowl thirty seven. Rest in peace,
14:58
Speaker 1: Monte kiffen legacy will live on forever in Tampa Bay.
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Speaker 2: Monty Kiffen was eighty four.
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Speaker 5: Good comes freshery of what stack up here?
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Speaker 4: Jalen johnsing exception, nice catch there by Jalen Johnson.
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Speaker 1: Once went far sideline and sept it at the forty
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Speaker 1: had all the races b Bears such John.
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Speaker 5: As Jalen Johnson.
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Speaker 1: Johnson scepted in front of Adams turn off big six
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Speaker 1: that goes thirty seven yards and this wall game. Jalen
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Speaker 1: John's one of the best young cornerbacks in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: When I were joined by the twenty twenty three Pro
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Speaker 1: Bowler and second team All Pro, Jalen thanks so much
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Speaker 1: for joining us, and man, look, I just want to
15:59
Speaker 1: get right to it.
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Speaker 2: There is a lot of.
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Speaker 1: Excitement around the Bears coming into this season. But after
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Speaker 1: after work off season working out with the team.
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Speaker 2: What does it feel like to you that this team
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Speaker 2: is going to be.
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Speaker 10: It feels different.
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Speaker 6: Man.
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Speaker 11: It's hard to really put it into detail, but it
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Speaker 11: just it just feels different, something like I've never really
16:19
Speaker 11: felt before in that locker room. I think just having
16:21
Speaker 11: everybody come together being hunger. I feel like I've definitely
16:24
Speaker 11: mane it some talented locker rooms with Khalil Matt, Kyle Fuller,
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Speaker 11: Eddie Jackson, and Keen Higgs. I mean, I bet definitely
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Speaker 11: I've been in an in star instead of locker rooms.
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Speaker 11: But I feel like this year is just just feel
16:34
Speaker 11: different with having quality guys and then on top of that,
16:37
Speaker 11: guys coming and jailing together wanting to have the same
16:40
Speaker 11: time and goal, and that's to win. I think, just
16:41
Speaker 11: top to bottom, I feel everything is coming together pretty well.
16:44
Speaker 11: I like to have the season that we had last year,
16:46
Speaker 11: of course being seven and ten, and then getting number
16:49
Speaker 11: one pick I fly, That's that's even that's that's even better.
16:52
Speaker 11: And then also getting him or Kayleb Williams getting rolling Dunes.
16:55
Speaker 11: We definitely added some some much needed helping. Now like
16:58
Speaker 11: we're only gonna take off from me.
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Speaker 1: So let's talk about those rookies. Number one pick Caleb Williams.
17:03
Speaker 1: He talked about the wide receiver Roma Dunza. Well let's
17:05
Speaker 1: talk about Caleb and just what you've.
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Speaker 2: Seen from him.
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Speaker 1: In the offseason, because you're going up against him every.
17:11
Speaker 10: Day, right.
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Speaker 11: I think for me, he just diferently stands out. I
17:16
Speaker 11: think his arm talent stands out, his maturity stands out.
17:18
Speaker 11: The way he carries himself stands out. Just the way
17:21
Speaker 11: he wants to soak up and be a sponge I
17:23
Speaker 11: think definitely stands out. I think just a guy like
17:26
Speaker 11: him has every opportunity to come in and be cocky,
17:30
Speaker 11: be a certain way. Was like, now he's humble, he's grounded,
17:33
Speaker 11: he knows the work that he's put in, he knows
17:35
Speaker 11: who he is as a man, as a player. He
17:37
Speaker 11: just comes in the hndle of his business, and everybody
17:38
Speaker 11: in the locker room and everybody in the build it
17:40
Speaker 11: respects who he is, respects what he's been able to
17:42
Speaker 11: come in here and do. And we're just looking forward
17:44
Speaker 11: to the future.
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Speaker 2: And what have you seen out of a dune day?
17:47
Speaker 11: Really the same thing. I mean, just him really just
17:50
Speaker 11: being out a different position. But they both come in,
17:52
Speaker 11: they hang out all the time, They talk to you
17:54
Speaker 11: so consistently, to have the same mentalities, a mattitude.
17:58
Speaker 10: I mean, they just go about business the right way.
18:00
Speaker 11: I definitely love that about Vivito that they can come
18:02
Speaker 11: in and really just get to work right away, and
18:04
Speaker 11: I think that's very important for a rookie to do.
18:08
Speaker 10: And I've really just been doing.
18:09
Speaker 11: Everything really the right way, and now I fly for them,
18:12
Speaker 11: it's just about coming in and making plays on Sunday.
18:14
Speaker 10: But they've handled the transition well.
18:15
Speaker 11: They definitely have carried themselves the right way in and
18:18
Speaker 11: around the building.
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Speaker 1: Well, Jaile, you're talking about some of the excitement around
18:20
Speaker 1: the offense, but we know the Bears they are built
18:23
Speaker 1: around the defense. And I think it's really been overlooked
18:25
Speaker 1: how well you all played last year year the top
18:27
Speaker 1: run defense in the NFL, on the top ten overall defense.
18:31
Speaker 1: What about building on what you did, especially in the
18:34
Speaker 1: back half of last season and making things even better
18:37
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 10: Man, we're just.
18:40
Speaker 11: Looking forward to just getting getting back out there again
18:42
Speaker 11: with the same energy, same juice we ended the season with.
18:45
Speaker 10: And I think for us, we wanted to start.
18:47
Speaker 11: A lot, a lot faster last year, and I felt
18:49
Speaker 11: we had a terrible start. We didn't really come out
18:52
Speaker 11: and be who we know that we are, and then
18:55
Speaker 11: we showed that in the back half of the season.
18:56
Speaker 11: I know We're really excited to get back out there
18:59
Speaker 11: and continue to do what we did, and that was
19:01
Speaker 11: take the ball away, stop the run, and definitely limit
19:03
Speaker 11: some points.
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Speaker 10: So I think for us, it's just we're just.
19:06
Speaker 11: Excited and I feel like now just continue to build
19:08
Speaker 11: off what the moment we had last year.
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Speaker 10: I think we can be really special this year.
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Speaker 11: We just got to stay healthy, and I feel that's
19:13
Speaker 11: something that really stopped us last year in the beginning
19:16
Speaker 11: of the season, was having a lot of guys out
19:18
Speaker 11: in battling injury. So just looking forward to being healthy,
19:20
Speaker 11: take care of our bodies now, really just making plays
19:23
Speaker 11: on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Well, we know this offseason you signed the four year
19:26
Speaker 1: extension to kind of see things through with Chicago.
19:28
Speaker 2: I know you're excited about that, but.
19:31
Speaker 1: You also have some interesting offseason developments that are on
19:34
Speaker 1: the horizon. Let's look at your social media post. You
19:39
Speaker 1: got a baby girl coming the way. Man, Man, how
19:41
Speaker 1: excited are you about that?
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Speaker 6: Man?
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Speaker 10: I'm really excited.
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Speaker 11: I think just really just embracing being a girl dad
19:48
Speaker 11: and then just Brason being the Beyonce going into being
19:52
Speaker 11: a husband. I think just taking those steps as a man,
19:54
Speaker 11: I feel like it is really key and really important.
19:57
Speaker 11: I know when me and my girl got really closely
20:00
Speaker 11: year me doing some developing as a man, I have
20:02
Speaker 11: my best season.
20:03
Speaker 10: So she tells me.
20:04
Speaker 11: That I'm gonna have a better season when I'm put
20:06
Speaker 11: a ring on it and make her my wife.
20:08
Speaker 10: So I'm looking forward to having even a better.
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Speaker 11: Season with her now being my fiance, transition to being
20:13
Speaker 11: my wife, and then also having my baby girl. I'm
20:17
Speaker 11: looking forward to it even more. I think, just really
20:21
Speaker 11: just being excited about being a dad, being a husband,
20:24
Speaker 11: going into this new new season really in life, and
20:27
Speaker 11: then also with the football season coming up.
20:29
Speaker 10: So I'm really looking forward to it.
20:30
Speaker 11: I'm hoping to find a schedule earlier rather than later
20:34
Speaker 11: to try to get some sleep or a season, but
20:36
Speaker 11: overall I'm looking I'm looking forward to it, man, really
20:39
Speaker 11: really excited to welcome in my baby girl coming here soon.
20:42
Speaker 2: You're blessed, bro.
20:42
Speaker 1: You ain't getting any sleep speaking to someone who's got
20:45
Speaker 1: three boys.
20:46
Speaker 2: Hey, we got to let you go.
20:47
Speaker 1: I would love to sit here and talk all day
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Speaker 1: with you, man, but appreciate you and good luck this
20:51
Speaker 1: upcoming season.
20:52
Speaker 10: Thank you, good to talk to you. You have a
20:54
Speaker 10: good one you too.
20:55
Speaker 1: From one defensive back to the next stick around, because
20:58
Speaker 1: we've got Saints save DJT.
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Speaker 2: Gray coming up next on the inside. The twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 2: Captain JT. Thanks so much for join the insiders.
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Speaker 6: I appreciate it. You appreciate having me, man.
21:50
Speaker 2: You got it, Hey, JT.
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Speaker 1: Two weeks from today you'll be out here in southern
21:55
Speaker 1: California because the Saints. You're training at University California, Irvine.
21:59
Speaker 1: A few days in training camp. What's been the mindset
22:03
Speaker 1: all off season of the team heading into this crucial
22:06
Speaker 1: training camp.
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Speaker 12: Master of the team is you know, come in this
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Speaker 12: season twenty twenty four and win, you know, dominate our division.
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Speaker 6: And the team that consists that we've been having.
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Speaker 1: So we talked about dominate the division. We know the
22:21
Speaker 1: NFC South, I mean, it is up for grabs. You've
22:23
Speaker 1: got the Bucks, You've got the Falcons who've completely retooled.
22:26
Speaker 1: The Panthers think that they've got something going with Bryce
22:29
Speaker 1: Young at quarterback. But the Saints have been the lynch
22:32
Speaker 1: pin there, especially on defense. Why on that defensive side
22:35
Speaker 1: of the ball have you guys been so good consistently
22:38
Speaker 1: for the past six or seven years.
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Speaker 12: I feel like we've been like that because we've want
22:46
Speaker 12: to be smart, fast and physical, and we want to
22:49
Speaker 12: be able to dominate and do whatever our opponent's not
22:53
Speaker 12: willing to do.
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Speaker 1: Which is okay, when you say you do what your
22:57
Speaker 1: opponents are are are not willing to do, that's exactly
23:01
Speaker 1: what explain.
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Speaker 12: That it's been smart, fast, and physical and doing it
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Speaker 12: longer than our opponent.
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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, you're a member of the secondary.
23:11
Speaker 1: We know this secondary is loaded with guys like you,
23:13
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lattimore, Ty Matthew, How integral is it for that guy?
23:18
Speaker 1: For you guys on the back end, especially looking at
23:20
Speaker 1: some of the teams in your division, to really hold
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Speaker 1: up as well.
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Speaker 12: The way we've been having ancess is being able to
23:30
Speaker 12: communicate well and being able.
23:32
Speaker 6: To be efficient and persistent.
23:34
Speaker 12: And technique going in and you know, like having that
23:39
Speaker 12: come right with each other and building that bun jat.
23:43
Speaker 1: You're about to enter your seventh season in the NFL
23:45
Speaker 1: and you've really made your bones on special teams, right,
23:47
Speaker 1: you're the Special Teams captain. You've been to the Pro
23:50
Speaker 1: Bowl as a special teamer. And this year the NFL
23:53
Speaker 1: has changing the kickoff rules. So let's spend a little
23:56
Speaker 1: time on that. How much time during mini camp and
23:59
Speaker 1: offseason world, did you all go through these new changes
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Speaker 1: for this very peculiar looking change we're going to see
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Speaker 1: on the kickoff.
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Speaker 12: So that's pretty interesting, you know, just going in this
24:12
Speaker 12: year this off season, OTAs, we've been practicing that since
24:16
Speaker 12: day one, implementing the new rules. I feel like it's
24:20
Speaker 12: changing the value of the special teams and I feel
24:24
Speaker 12: like it's going to be a great thing because you're
24:26
Speaker 12: going to get action every first play of the game,
24:29
Speaker 12: and I feel like that's going to be a great
24:30
Speaker 12: thing for the NFL and it's going to be a
24:32
Speaker 12: great thing for the fantas tea.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's been too many touchbacks. That's one of the
24:36
Speaker 1: reasons for this change.
24:37
Speaker 2: But JT.
24:38
Speaker 1: I also wanted to talk about you something that's very important.
24:40
Speaker 1: What you're doing off the field, and you're establishing what
24:43
Speaker 1: you're calling the mental Mindset, which is going to help
24:46
Speaker 1: provide mental fitness and mental health therapy for people in
24:51
Speaker 1: two towns in Mississippi, where you're from and where you
24:53
Speaker 1: played collegiately, and in New Orleans.
24:55
Speaker 2: What can you tell us about this.
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Speaker 12: Especially what I'm doing one that's providing a space for
25:01
Speaker 12: guys or people so be able to get the help
25:05
Speaker 12: I'll be able to.
25:06
Speaker 6: Provide for them.
25:07
Speaker 12: I'm the ones that's not willing to not able to
25:09
Speaker 12: financially provide for themselves. I'll be able to have let
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Speaker 12: through fun recovery. You can find it on mys gram,
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Speaker 12: My Social JT.
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Speaker 6: Gray, I got the link on my bio. You can
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Speaker 6: click on that.
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Speaker 12: So I'm doing that to be able to assist all
25:22
Speaker 12: of those ones who's who's not able to afford it
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Speaker 12: on their own.
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Speaker 2: JT.
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Speaker 1: That's so important, man, and that's great work that you're
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Speaker 1: establishing right there. We got to get ready to rock
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Speaker 1: and roll, man, So good luck this season and good
25:35
Speaker 1: luck what you're doing with mental mindset as well.
25:38
Speaker 6: I appreciate you.
25:40
Speaker 1: All right, New Today, more safety news as veteran safety
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Speaker 1: Jamal Adams signs a one year deal with the Tennessee Titans,
25:47
Speaker 1: the former Seahawk.
25:48
Speaker 2: You see him right there signing the deal.
25:50
Speaker 1: To join several veteran free agents who've gone to Nashville
25:54
Speaker 1: this all season. Let's bring back in Ian rappidbord Ian.
25:57
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about Adams going to Tennessee.
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Speaker 4: You know, the Tennessee Titans made so many splashes in freegency,
26:03
Speaker 4: one of the bigger stores in free agency all the
26:06
Speaker 4: way through, and they have been essentially quiet for a
26:09
Speaker 4: couple of months, going through practice.
26:10
Speaker 5: And building and building and then out of nowhere.
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Speaker 4: Today Jamal Adams, the former Pro Bowl or former Superstar safety,
26:18
Speaker 4: he agrees to terms on a one year deal. Not
26:21
Speaker 4: a lot of money, more of a proven deal. But
26:23
Speaker 4: for Jamal Adams, that really is what he's looking for,
26:26
Speaker 4: and honestly, considering what's happened in the last couple of years,
26:29
Speaker 4: the injuries that he has battled, that's what is out
26:32
Speaker 4: there for him. It is now on him to get
26:34
Speaker 4: on the field, to stay on the field. And continue
26:37
Speaker 4: to thrive as he always has when healthy, this time
26:40
Speaker 4: for the Titans. I was actually a little curious about
26:42
Speaker 4: where they signed.
26:43
Speaker 2: In plays.
26:44
Speaker 4: You're going to move to linebackers, You're going to be safety.
26:46
Speaker 4: He is a strong safety, and the hope for them
26:49
Speaker 4: is that he ends lend some of that veteran leadership
26:52
Speaker 4: on the back end as well well.
26:54
Speaker 1: From one strong safety to a free safety. Justin Simmons,
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Speaker 1: the former Denver Bronco, he is still available. He argued,
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Speaker 1: he's one of the top five or six free agents
27:01
Speaker 1: overall in the market. Any update on anything brewing with Justin.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, most of the teams I talk to consider him
27:08
Speaker 4: to be the top free agent still available.
27:11
Speaker 5: Just thirty years old, former pro bowler, former All Pro.
27:14
Speaker 4: Mean, this is a guy who in his prime, which
27:17
Speaker 4: he's still in, by the way, one of the best
27:18
Speaker 4: in the NFL regardless of positions.
27:21
Speaker 2: He is healthy.
27:22
Speaker 4: There has been a considerable interest, but this is one
27:24
Speaker 4: of those things where it's really just the situation and
27:28
Speaker 4: the money have to be right. We've seen plenty of
27:30
Speaker 4: high profile, highly productive signings either right befored training camp
27:35
Speaker 4: or even as you get into training camps. Teams take
27:37
Speaker 4: a look at what they have on the roster and
27:39
Speaker 4: they say, you know what, this superstar that I didn't
27:41
Speaker 4: think now I need him. So the time is coming
27:44
Speaker 4: for Justin Simmons, and certainly teams have been simping around
27:47
Speaker 4: for sometimes Steve.
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Speaker 1: All right, I really appreciate that update as you have
27:51
Speaker 1: to go to a more somber story. A vigil was
27:54
Speaker 1: held Wednesday night in Eugene, Oregon for Vikings rookie cornerback
27:57
Speaker 1: Kyrie Jackson, who was tragically killed over the weekend in
28:00
Speaker 1: a car accident in Maryland, Oregon.
28:03
Speaker 2: Coach Dan Lanning, along with.
28:04
Speaker 1: Former teammates, were in attendance to celebrate Kyrie's life.
28:08
Speaker 2: Jackson was just twenty four years old. We'll be right back.
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Speaker 5: Stretch run coming left to McCaffrey.
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Speaker 1: Today's play side pre exit tackle, forty five clock from
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Speaker 1: your damas.
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Speaker 4: Sideline thirty cuts back Itt Sick twenty sell it Tom tomasad.
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Speaker 2: I turn it for the exode.
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Speaker 9: Check see see.
28:37
Speaker 2: The block demonte Casey was stupid? He clean is a
28:42
Speaker 2: lunch block right there?
28:43
Speaker 5: What a run and cop by McCaffery.
28:48
Speaker 6: Some of those highlights.
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Speaker 5: Man, Welcome back to the Insiders.
28:51
Speaker 4: Very pleased to be joined by someone who is I
28:54
Speaker 4: would say, almost as good at fantasy football as I am.
28:57
Speaker 4: As fair to say Michael F. Flurial NFL fan Fannessy
29:00
Speaker 4: lives Michael E. F Fourial joining us right now because
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Speaker 4: it is never too early for me to give you.
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Speaker 5: Advice on fantasy football? Is that to say, that's why
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Speaker 5: I'm here?
29:11
Speaker 6: Who should I be drafted?
29:14
Speaker 4: We'll do that segment next, We actually will. So I
29:17
Speaker 4: think CMC is probably going to be the first pick
29:21
Speaker 4: for a lot of people, right. I mean, I don't
29:22
Speaker 4: know about every league, but certainly most leagues. I know
29:26
Speaker 4: you got some running back info for us, Say why
29:29
Speaker 4: don't you start with some of your breakout running backs
29:33
Speaker 4: that I need to maybe.
29:34
Speaker 5: Kind of jot down a little bit.
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Speaker 2: I think Isaiah Pacheco is going to break out.
29:39
Speaker 13: I know he's been a sending ever since he joined
29:41
Speaker 13: the Chiefs, but this is the year where he finishes
29:44
Speaker 13: as one of the very best running backs in fantasy football.
29:48
Speaker 13: He was more utilized in the passing game in year two,
29:51
Speaker 13: and that only picked up in the playoffs. He averaged
29:54
Speaker 13: over nineteen fantasy points per game when he played sixty
29:56
Speaker 13: percent of the snaps. There's less competition for touches there,
30:00
Speaker 13: so he should get a lot of volume on an
30:01
Speaker 13: offense that should put up points with a great passing
30:04
Speaker 13: tack that will help create running lanes. And then Jonathan Brooks,
30:08
Speaker 13: he was breaking out last year in Texas, running for
30:11
Speaker 13: over eleven hundred yards in just ten games before he
30:14
Speaker 13: tore his ACL that it's looking like he's gonna be
30:17
Speaker 13: ready for the start of the year.
30:18
Speaker 2: And even if he's slow to rampall, I.
30:20
Speaker 13: Think he could get plenty of volume as the year
30:22
Speaker 13: goes on in this backfield and he could blossom into
30:25
Speaker 13: a league winner potentially. And he is someone that you
30:28
Speaker 13: can get in the eighth round of your drafts right now.
30:31
Speaker 13: So get him as your RB three baby and reap
30:33
Speaker 13: the rewards later.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I would say someone who everyone is
30:38
Speaker 4: pretty excited about, especially in Carolina. And for those of
30:41
Speaker 4: us who like fantasy hope play doesn't get drafted too high.
30:45
Speaker 5: What about sleepers? Give me a couple of those.
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Speaker 13: James Connor, and I know he's very proven and he
30:50
Speaker 13: might be like, how is he a sleeper? He's going
30:52
Speaker 13: in the eighth round of drafts right now, and he
30:54
Speaker 13: was the RB thirteen in fantasy points per game last year,
30:58
Speaker 13: and in fact from thirteen, no one, not even CMC
31:02
Speaker 13: at the running back position, scored more fantasy points. He
31:05
Speaker 13: was also second in yards after contact per touch, and
31:08
Speaker 13: only CMC had a higher percentage of runs go for
31:11
Speaker 13: ten or more yards. So with Kyler Murray healthy to
31:15
Speaker 13: start the year, with Marvin Harrison junior, now there a
31:17
Speaker 13: better offense should create more scoring opportunities, and you get
31:21
Speaker 13: a discount. And then Austin Eckler, I know he was
31:24
Speaker 13: the RB one two years ago, but right now in
31:26
Speaker 13: early drafts, he's going in the eleventh round, two rounds
31:29
Speaker 13: after Brian Robinson Junior. Don't forget that he suffered a
31:32
Speaker 13: high ankle spring in Week one that landed him on
31:35
Speaker 13: the IR and then he said on this very show
31:37
Speaker 13: that he suffered another ankle spraing once he returned. He
31:41
Speaker 13: is still a good pass catcher. He's actually been better
31:43
Speaker 13: at converting goal one touches into touchdowns than Brian Robinson
31:46
Speaker 13: the last two years. So I'm still on the Austin
31:49
Speaker 13: Eckler train. Round eleven.
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Speaker 5: It seems wild.
31:54
Speaker 4: Actually, all right, this has been all really positive and
31:56
Speaker 4: warm and fuzzy. Let's go the other way, give me
31:59
Speaker 4: a couple of guy who could slide. Josh Jacobs.
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Speaker 13: He's being drafted right now as the RB twelve, and
32:06
Speaker 13: he has finished as a top twelve fantasy running back
32:09
Speaker 13: in points per game one time in his career. Two
32:12
Speaker 13: years ago was clearly looking like the outlier you pick
32:15
Speaker 13: a metric from last season, it was probably the worst
32:18
Speaker 13: of his career.
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Speaker 5: In fact, lowest rate of runs going for ten or.
32:22
Speaker 13: More yards amongst any running back with one hundred and
32:24
Speaker 13: fifty carries. He has a wide range of outcomes. He
32:27
Speaker 13: could bounce back, or he could just be an anchor
32:29
Speaker 13: on your team. And then Aaron Jones. I know he
32:32
Speaker 13: went off late last year, which is pushing him to
32:35
Speaker 13: be a top twenty running back in drafts right now,
32:37
Speaker 13: but his fantasy points per game have declined in four
32:40
Speaker 13: straight years. He's going to be thirty years old on
32:42
Speaker 13: a new offense. Not a lot of running backs have
32:44
Speaker 13: a history of success there. In fact, only eight running
32:48
Speaker 13: backs twenty nine years or older have averaged fifteen fantasy
32:50
Speaker 13: points per game since twenty ten. So yeah, I'll let
32:53
Speaker 13: someone else draft Aaron Jones in my leagues this year.
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Speaker 5: Thank you, furio I Appreciate you as always.
33:01
Speaker 4: Next time just text me privately and we will do
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Speaker 4: and boys flag football representing all thirty two NFL teams.
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Speaker 4: Watch the action this summer on ESPN, ABC, NFL Network
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Speaker 4: and more Disney Networks and visit nflflag dot com.
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Speaker 5: Just start playing today.
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Speaker 4: Here's a look at the all girls Staten Island Giants.
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Speaker 6: You can be great no matter who you are.
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Speaker 14: Everyone has a position in flag Watch.
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Speaker 15: My name is Valencina Finetti and I play quarterback.
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Speaker 14: My name is Alison Galen. I played wide receiver and safety.
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Speaker 10: Because it's not Ala Giants.
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Speaker 15: I started playing flag football when I was in second grade.
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Speaker 14: Only the boys were ever playing, so I never really
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Speaker 14: thought I should or could play that. I was always
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Speaker 14: an outsider. I was the only girl on the team,
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Speaker 14: but with flag football there's something for everyone.
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Speaker 15: I was told that I was too boyish. At first,
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Speaker 15: it discouraged me, but as I got older. I realized
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Speaker 15: if I was to go on the field and perform
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Speaker 15: better than the boys, then what do they have to
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Speaker 15: say about?
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Speaker 1: And I was coming from New York, so you know,
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Speaker 1: we got the little New York attitude.
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Speaker 2: These girls just give one hundred percent. They never laid back.
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Speaker 14: Valentine Affelti is my quarterback. She's just an incredible person
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Speaker 14: to be around.
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Speaker 15: I feel like our communication is really unmatched on that field.
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Speaker 15: I've worked at all since since twenty nineteen. She was
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Speaker 15: the best then and she is the best now.
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Speaker 14: What I realized how much flag football was able to
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Speaker 14: help me. I learned how to lead as a captain,
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Speaker 14: and I learned how to succeed in a male dominated sport.
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Speaker 15: I have an athletic scholarship at Heiser University. I would
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Speaker 15: tell a younger girl that playing flag football definitely is
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Speaker 15: a change in life.
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Speaker 14: I'm hoping that I inspired at least one or two
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Speaker 14: young girls. You are strong, You're powerful, and you have
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Speaker 14: to remember that through not only this game, but through life.
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Speaker 4: Eight a new thing, the exposure of fact. Flag football
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Speaker 4: is the best still ahead of the insiders. Tyreek Kill
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Speaker 4: and social media is a match made in heaven. You've
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Speaker 4: got to hear who Cheetah has in his top five
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Speaker 4: quarterbacks in the NFL.
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Speaker 9: Coming up.
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Speaker 1: You're looking at Allegiate Stadium in Scorching.
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Speaker 2: Hot Blass, Vegas.
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Speaker 1: It's a lot cooler inside where the Big Twelve media
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Speaker 1: days are being held. And this is coming from the
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Speaker 1: University of Central Florida social media site because Central.
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Speaker 2: Florida is in the house.
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Speaker 1: And now, Bucky Brooks, you are joined by head coach
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Speaker 1: Gus Malasanon. Coach, thanks so much for joining us. We
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Speaker 1: know it's media day there for the Big twelve conference,
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Speaker 1: but I want to kind of get your thoughts now
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Speaker 1: on the conference expanding to sixteen teams taking in four
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Speaker 1: teams from the PAC twelve.
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Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, it's a really interesting time right now.
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Speaker 16: You know, we were the newcomer last year and this
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Speaker 16: year we only have two common opponents that we've played
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Speaker 16: from last year, so it's like we're almost starting over
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Speaker 16: another conference. The four teams that are coming in from
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Speaker 16: here in the West Coast, I mean, it's really exciting.
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Speaker 16: There's some quality teams and I think it just adds
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Speaker 16: to our conference.
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Speaker 17: You know, Coach, one of the things that beneficial Belt
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Speaker 17: playing at the conference is the familiarity. How do you
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Speaker 17: prepare for a schedule where you have so many unknowns
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Speaker 17: on the schedule.
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Speaker 16: Now, Yeah, you know, each team we play, including US,
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Speaker 16: has you know, anywhere from thirty or forty new members
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Speaker 16: with the portal, So really, especially early in the season,
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Speaker 16: it's more about us breaking down the coaches, the coordinators
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Speaker 16: more than a players, because you know, it's almost like
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Speaker 16: new teams. So you know, I guess that's you know,
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Speaker 16: probably is good. The fact that we only played two
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Speaker 16: common opponents from last year.
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Speaker 2: There you go, that's the way to use it to
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Speaker 2: your advantage. Coach.
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Speaker 1: Coach, you had a big time transfer come over at
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Speaker 1: quarterback in kJ Jefferson from Arkansas. What is his his
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Speaker 1: presence on your team and his ability to do so
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Speaker 1: many things offensively due to enhance you guys chances to
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Speaker 1: make some noise in the in the conference.
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Speaker 16: Yeah, he's really the perfect fit for us skill set
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Speaker 16: what we like to do offensively. You know, you're talking
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Speaker 16: about a guy that you know, you take away last
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Speaker 16: year when you know he had a new coordinator, he
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Speaker 16: lost some of his playmakers, but the two previous years,
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Speaker 16: I mean he was one of the better offensive players
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Speaker 16: in the SEC and actually recruited him coming out of
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Speaker 16: high school. That was the same year I took bow knicks,
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Speaker 16: you know, at Auburn. So we had a relationship and
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Speaker 16: when we needed a quarterback and when we saw him
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Speaker 16: going to Transferport, he was the perfect fit for us.
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Speaker 9: And you know, he's the experienced guy.
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Speaker 16: He's played a lot of football, He's played a lot
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Speaker 16: of big games.
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Speaker 9: The moment's not gonna be too big for him.
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Speaker 16: And I believe we're gonna have some playmakers around him
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Speaker 16: that you know, can really help with that too.
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Speaker 17: You know, Coach, I wanted to talk to you about quarterbacks,
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Speaker 17: continuing the theme of building around quarterback. If you're one
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Speaker 17: of the pioneers of really playing with a dual threat
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Speaker 17: quarterback when you had Cam Newton at Auburn, just talk
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Speaker 17: about the added benefit that a dual threat can bring
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Speaker 17: to an offense and how as a play caller you
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Speaker 17: can utilize those things to really help your offense go
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Speaker 17: to another level.
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Speaker 16: Yeah, you know, I think the higher level you get,
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Speaker 16: or the deeper you get playing the best teams, your
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Speaker 16: quarterback has to have the ability to make plays, you know,
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Speaker 16: outside the normal offense and really protect the football and
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Speaker 16: you know, just I'm a firm believer in dual threat
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Speaker 16: quarterbacks that can you know, hurt you with their feet.
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Speaker 9: It just opens everything up.
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Speaker 16: It's plus one runs allows you to have more explosive
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Speaker 16: plays in the passing game. And I said, when we've
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Speaker 16: had a guy have a similar skill set as a
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Speaker 16: kJ Jefferson, that's when we've had chances to win championships
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Speaker 16: and be one of the you know, the better offenses
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Speaker 16: in college football.
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Speaker 1: Coach about that to continue that because in the NFL
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Speaker 1: now we're seeing more of the dual threat quarterbacks almost
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Speaker 1: bring the preferred type of quarterbacks, which has kind of
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Speaker 1: been a a significant change from just five or six
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Speaker 1: years ago. Why do you think we've seen that change
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Speaker 1: and how did cod Is coaching continue to evolve to
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Speaker 1: suit those dual threat types.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think you're exactly right.
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Speaker 16: You know, the last what you said five or six years,
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Speaker 16: I mean, you've seen more of the college game, you know,
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Speaker 16: go to the pros and you know, these high powered
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Speaker 16: offenses in college football and these pro pro teams trying
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Speaker 16: to fit around the strengths of their quarterback and being
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Speaker 16: able to do the things that we did.
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Speaker 9: I really think Cam was a pioneer.
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Speaker 16: I mean, you know, I think he changed NFL too,
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Speaker 16: But now you really have seen it more and more.
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Speaker 16: There's a lot of younger coaches in professional football probably
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Speaker 16: than there was in the past too, and I think
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Speaker 16: that has something to do with it.
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Speaker 17: Also, you know, coach, with college football playoff expanding to
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Speaker 17: allowing twelve teams, how does it change your approach as
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Speaker 17: a coach? Do you do anything different when it comes
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Speaker 17: to building your team now that there are more opportunities
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Speaker 17: for you to get into the playoff tournament?
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Speaker 16: You know, I think it's been a long time coming.
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Speaker 16: It should have been this way a long time ago.
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Speaker 16: I just think you'll see like more teams later in
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Speaker 16: the season have a real chance. It's going to be
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Speaker 16: better for the fans. Obviously, it's better for you know,
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Speaker 16: a school like US our conference. I really believe our
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Speaker 16: conference will have two possibly three, you know, every year.
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Speaker 9: So I think it's just a win win for everybody.
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Speaker 16: I'm an old high school coach, you know, so I
40:22
Speaker 16: like that quarterfinals, semi finals, finals, But you know, I
40:25
Speaker 16: think it is really a good thing for everybody.
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Speaker 2: I completely agree. Coach. Coach, You've been coaching for quite
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Speaker 2: some time.
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Speaker 1: You know, you've seen so many things change on the
40:35
Speaker 1: landscape of athletics. But one thing here on the NFL level,
40:38
Speaker 1: we're hearing more coaches in personnel. People say, the athlete
40:42
Speaker 1: coming into the NFL because of the NIL and some
40:45
Speaker 1: of the changes is a little different than the athlete
40:48
Speaker 1: than they had. Again, let's go back to the five
40:51
Speaker 1: or six year ago window.
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Speaker 2: Do you see that at your level too.
40:54
Speaker 1: I think the assumption is that maybe they're spoiled or
40:57
Speaker 1: they're anticipating more microwave success or placement on the depth
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Speaker 1: chart as opposed to earning it.
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Speaker 16: Yeah, I tell you, you know, I think the real
41:05
Speaker 16: factor is anytime players are getting paid the money they're
41:08
Speaker 16: getting paid right now, I mean, that's a challenge to
41:10
Speaker 16: any any human being, and so you know, for a
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Speaker 16: young kid, it's even challenges are even different that. You know,
41:17
Speaker 16: what we do is, man, once we get across that
41:19
Speaker 16: white line, we coach the exact same way, the demands
41:23
Speaker 16: are the exact same way. But it's a different day
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Speaker 16: in college you know football. I mean, we're paying these
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Speaker 16: guys and you know, they're almost like employees, you know,
41:32
Speaker 16: Like I said, I'm an old school guy, and that
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Speaker 16: coach relationship and that purity and everything that goes with it.
41:37
Speaker 16: It's made it more complicated. I mean, that's just the
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Speaker 16: day we live in.
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Speaker 1: Coach malson, best of luck this season, Bucky, and I
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Speaker 1: appreciate you taking some time to join us.
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Speaker 9: Hey, thanks for having me. Gus all right.
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Speaker 1: Next on the Insiders, our reaction to Tyreek Kill's list
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Speaker 1: of his top five quarterbacks in the NFL.
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Speaker 2: Well Ian Rappidport.
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Speaker 1: Recently, on a live stream, Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill
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Speaker 1: answered questions about his top five quarterbacks. Here you see
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Speaker 1: him in order, number one, Mahomes, number two to his
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Speaker 1: own quarterback, Lamar three, Dak Prescott four, Baker Mayfield ian
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Speaker 1: is his number five quarterback.
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Speaker 2: Thought, sir, okay, I have a couple thoughts.
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Speaker 4: First of all, how respected is Mahomes that it's not
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Speaker 4: even like Tua was not even number one, like his
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Speaker 4: own quarterback was no number one, because everyone's like, well,
42:33
Speaker 4: obviously it's Mahomes.
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Speaker 5: So I thought that was cool.
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Speaker 4: No Rogers, no Josh Allen, two quarterbacks in the division
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Speaker 4: did not mention them.
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Speaker 5: And then I happened to.
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Speaker 4: Like Baker Mayfield as a player, probably more than most people.
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Speaker 4: I think he could be very very good, so as
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Speaker 4: a top five quarterback.
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Speaker 2: Might be a.
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Speaker 4: Little rich, but it's not like that that rich, especially
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Speaker 4: coming off the year he had last year, which was
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Speaker 4: a really good resurgence bounce back year. So I may
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Speaker 4: not agree one hundred percent, but I kind of like
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Speaker 4: where Cheata is coming from.
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Speaker 2: You know, I like him. It was Baker's first four
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Speaker 2: thousand yard season.
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Speaker 1: But again, I would have a hard time, as you mentioned,
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Speaker 1: taking him over Rogers, over C. J. Shroud, over Joey Burrow,
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Speaker 1: and hate me if you want to over Brock Purdy Ian.
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Speaker 2: Guess what. Tomorrow we're the insiders. We're gonna be joined
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Speaker 2: by Charles Barkley. Oh yeah, he's not gonna be talking
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Speaker 2: hoops either. He's gonna be talking the NFL.
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Speaker 5: Love it, Let's go