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Speaker 1: them down. We have a Bills report for you, We
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Speaker 1: have a Rams report for you. As we get closer
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Speaker 1: and closer to kick off on the twenty twenty two season,
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady opens up about the potential of that offensive
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Speaker 1: line opening up and his thoughts of being a forty
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Speaker 1: five year old quarterback. Will tell you what Brady has
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Speaker 1: to say. And look who showed up at Lion's practice.
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Speaker 1: We'll tell you what to expect tonight on the season
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Speaker 1: It is the NFL's one hundred and third season, and
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Speaker 1: right over here. Welcome to a Tuesday edition, a week
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Speaker 1: one Tuesday issue of NFL Now on NFL Network. From
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Speaker 1: our news room in Los Angeles. My name is Andrew Ceciliano. Again,
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Speaker 1: reports from the Rams and from the Bills coming up shortly.
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Speaker 1: We begin, however, with news out of Pittsburgh, news that
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Speaker 1: we kind of sort of knew was coming because the
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Speaker 1: Steelers released a depth chart yesterday, a depth chart that
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Speaker 1: had Mitch Trabinsky a top as the number one quarterbacks.
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Speaker 1: That was confirmed today. He is the guy and he
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Speaker 1: will be starting Week one when the Steelers opened up
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Speaker 1: on the road against the defending a f C champions
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Speaker 1: or context on this point now, as Mike Tomlin step
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Speaker 1: for the votium for our first Tuesdays, what's Tom joining us?
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Speaker 1: Our insiders, Tom Pila, Sero, Mike Garret follow knew right now, Um,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't exactly shocking news, Mike. They kind of played
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Speaker 1: their hand yesterday when they released the depth chart. They did,
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Speaker 1: and that depth chart had a little bit of an
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Speaker 1: edit today as uh Kenny Pickett was bumped up the
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Speaker 1: number two Mason Rudolph previously listed in the two. That
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Speaker 1: was a clerical error that Mike Tomlin mentioned, We were
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Speaker 1: told the same look for a new depth chart. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: Let's just talk about the guy at the top of it,
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Speaker 1: because yes, it is official official, Mitchell Travisky going to
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Speaker 1: be the Steelers starting quarterback. And look, I I think
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Speaker 1: he's got a legitimate chance here too, you know, ride
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Speaker 1: the wave a little bit here. They do start with
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Speaker 1: a relatively tough schedule. They've got the Bengals Week one,
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Speaker 1: but I'm just I'm sensing he's gonna have a little
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Speaker 1: bit more rope than maybe some people expect. I know
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Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett was sensational in the preseason. Mike Tomlin talked
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Speaker 1: about once he got into live stadiums, his progress picked
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Speaker 1: up even more. They loved the way that he responded.
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Speaker 1: It didn't look too big for him. But I know
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Speaker 1: that they're ecstatic about Mitchell Travisky and what he's done
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Speaker 1: in the locker room and on the playing field. And
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Speaker 1: when I say in the locker room, he was voted
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Speaker 1: captain yesterday, that vote was done by the players. So
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Speaker 1: the player is their endorsing Mitchell Drobisky, and the coaches
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Speaker 1: are endorsing Mitchell Robinsky. It's not like as soon as
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Speaker 1: he throws his first interception he's gonna be out of there. Toime,
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Speaker 1: I think he's got a shot to leave this team
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Speaker 1: for at least a little bit to the early part
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Speaker 1: of the team. And this was one of those quarterback
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Speaker 1: competitions Mike, where Mr Bisky lead it wire to wire
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Speaker 1: before they ever played a preseason game. If they had
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Speaker 1: to go out and play a week one right then
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Speaker 1: it would have been Trobinsky get to the end of
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Speaker 1: the preseason. It's still him. But let's be very clear here,
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Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett made things close. He came on really quickly
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Speaker 1: throughout the course of training camp here. So there'll be
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Speaker 1: one of those situations to monitor as always. At what
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Speaker 1: point would it make sense for the Steelers to go
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Speaker 1: to Penny Kenny Pickett on a team that has so
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Speaker 1: much money invested in the defense, and they've got a
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Speaker 1: young running back in Naji Harris, and they think that
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Speaker 1: they've got wide receivers and they're figuring out the offensive line.
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Speaker 1: All of which is to say, this does not have
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Speaker 1: to be a quarterback driven team. They can win games
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Speaker 1: with defense and running the football and making enough play
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Speaker 1: So I thought it was notable when Mike Tomlin said
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Speaker 1: that they are very comfortable with Mr Bisky. Comfortable in
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Speaker 1: other words, I at least took that to me. This
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Speaker 1: is not a guy who is going to give games away.
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Speaker 1: Not that Kenny Pickett would, but certainly when you've got
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Speaker 1: a rookie and a veteran who are pretty even, it
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Speaker 1: makes sense for a team like this the things that
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Speaker 1: it can compete to go with the veteran, at least
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Speaker 1: in the short term and that will also. By the way, Andrew,
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Speaker 1: make this the first time in fifteen years, since two
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Speaker 1: thousand seven, that we have not had a rookie quarterback
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Speaker 1: starting Week one. That was the JaMarcus Russell Brady Quinn draft,
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Speaker 1: So it has been a while since we've had all
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Speaker 1: veterans starting while, Um, you stole my one more thing
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Speaker 1: two hours from now, I put it in slack. You're
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Speaker 1: not on slack, No, I'm just in the game here.
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Speaker 1: Andrew tweaked one training camps over. You think you can
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Speaker 1: save something two hours into the show. Well, I've got
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Speaker 1: news for you, buddy. We're doing in the a's. I
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Speaker 1: took it. Figure something else tweeted it this morning. I
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Speaker 1: stole it off. Read it. By the way, and by
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Speaker 1: the way, I hate slack. I was just trying to
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Speaker 1: be you know, week one, oh my, try to get
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Speaker 1: the word baseball. Yeah, as we're getting ready for football
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Speaker 1: too much inside baseball. I will say this two things
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Speaker 1: real quick. Number One, Tomlin said he's only going to
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Speaker 1: address two quarterbacks, So Mason Rudolph is going to be
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Speaker 1: an active on game. Number two, Tom is that a
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Speaker 1: new suit though? I like it? It is? Yeah? New?
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Speaker 1: Right now? Jacket right now. Tom, Thank you guys. We
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Speaker 1: are two days away and we're two minutes in and
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Speaker 1: our day off the rails as well, Bills and Rams. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs, Aaron Donald. There will be football. There will
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Speaker 1: be coaches talking about football as well. I think we've
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Speaker 1: got a good team. Um. They obviously have a good
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Speaker 1: team of the defending world champs. Um. You know, we'll
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Speaker 1: be playing at their place, and it'll be some unknowns
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Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball, um, both sidelines. And
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Speaker 1: I think that makes for an interesting game and two
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Speaker 1: good teams, two competitive teams going at it in the
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Speaker 1: first game of the season. I think it would be
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Speaker 1: great for the fans at home and should make for
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Speaker 1: an interesting game, and I think one that our team
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Speaker 1: is ready for, and I'm sure they feel the same
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Speaker 1: my other team. It's gonna be fun, you know. I'm
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Speaker 1: pretty sure it's gonna be loud. Um. The last time
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Speaker 1: we was really out there laugh lave battle was you know,
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Speaker 1: it was in the Super Bowl. So be able to
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Speaker 1: get back and so far I get back on that
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Speaker 1: field and I actually play a game on it, It's
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Speaker 1: gonna be fun, you know. So we definitely gotta go
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Speaker 1: out there and play a good team and trying to
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Speaker 1: find a way to win. Um, so I'm expecting for
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Speaker 1: it to be loud and we're gonna have some fun Outdude.
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Speaker 1: It should be loud. Rams playing their last game at
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Speaker 1: the building in which they played the Super Bowl, the
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Speaker 1: next game where they played the last game. Get what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying here, We got both teams cover. James Palmer
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Speaker 1: has the Bills. Kayla Burton has the ramp today live
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Speaker 1: in Thousand Oaks. Kyla, let's start with you. Good news
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Speaker 1: is Matthew Stafford is okay? Right, Rams have like a
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Speaker 1: giant sign there saying there is nothing to see. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And as you mentioned, good news there. We are two
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Speaker 1: days out before the Rams open up the season again
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Speaker 1: the Bills for starters. It has been hot out here,
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Speaker 1: but the players they're ready to rock. They are so excited,
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Speaker 1: ready to go four week one. And as you mentioned, Andrew,
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Speaker 1: a whole lot of the attention has been this off
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Speaker 1: season on quarterback Matthew Stafford in that right elbow. He
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Speaker 1: got the injection. He was limited during the off season
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Speaker 1: much of the off season, so of course that's him.
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Speaker 1: A whole lot of questions daily he was asked, how
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Speaker 1: is that elbow? How is that elbow? But recently he
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Speaker 1: was asked the same question. He knew it was coming.
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Speaker 1: He had a smirk on his face, saying, guys, the
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Speaker 1: elbow is great. I'm feeling great. I feel like I
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Speaker 1: can make every pass. And he says that there will
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Speaker 1: be quote no limitations. Come Thursday, We're gonna be seeing
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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford take the playing field for the first time
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Speaker 1: since winning Super Bowl fifty six. And let me tell
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Speaker 1: you this. We all know he and head coach Sean
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Speaker 1: McVeigh in their first year together, it looked pretty darn good. Well,
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Speaker 1: even better news coming their way because Sean McVeigh says
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Speaker 1: there's even more collaboration, more experience between the two, and
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Speaker 1: McVeigh adds that Stafford does just such an incredible job
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Speaker 1: of making sure everyone is on the same page. And
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Speaker 1: I'll leave you with this, there should be a lot
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Speaker 1: of confidence brewing here in this locker room, considering head
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Speaker 1: coach h McVeigh is five and no in week one
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Speaker 1: has never lost an opener here as the Rams head coach.
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Speaker 1: On the bill side of things, there's James Palmer. James
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Speaker 1: no limitations for Matthew Stafford, but might have some limitations
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Speaker 1: at corner here for the Bill's defense, what's Sean McDermott
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Speaker 1: is saying about a couple of rookie corners, Andrew We
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Speaker 1: know this was the number one defense a season ago,
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Speaker 1: number one defense against the past a season ago, but
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Speaker 1: at the same time, it is a new year, and
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Speaker 1: you're right, there are some new faces. We're gonna see
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Speaker 1: two rookie corners playing this game in their first round
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Speaker 1: pick higher Elam and he's going to kind of had
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Speaker 1: an up and down. I would get training camp in
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Speaker 1: a sense when I spent some time with the Bills,
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Speaker 1: But then sixth round pick Christian Benford out of Villanuova,
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Speaker 1: they've really liked, I'm told what he's been able to
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Speaker 1: do in just a few moments ago. Sean McDermott didn't
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Speaker 1: say he was going to really name either one a starter.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna play both of them as well as Dane Jackson,
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Speaker 1: and the three corners are gonna play in the perimeter,
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Speaker 1: and my senses, they're gonna get an idea as this
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Speaker 1: game goes on about how guys are playing, how the
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Speaker 1: matchups are going, and kind of play it by year
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Speaker 1: with the three of them as this game progresses, because
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Speaker 1: we know how good Matthew Stafford in this passing attack is.
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Speaker 1: What they do believe is going to help both of
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Speaker 1: these rookie corners is that safety do what they have
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Speaker 1: that's one of the best in all of football. And
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Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer, who they expect to play, and Sean McDermott
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Speaker 1: said it just a little while ago, and Micah Hide.
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Speaker 1: They believe those two safeties can calm things a bit
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Speaker 1: for these rookie corners, can help them out, get them
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Speaker 1: a step going in the right direction prior to the
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Speaker 1: snap because of as good as they are, but also
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Speaker 1: what helps a secondary right Andrew is your pass rush
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Speaker 1: and obviously the addition of von Miller and this group
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Speaker 1: getting after Matthew Stafford and making sure they don't bring
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Speaker 1: pressure with blitzing and without a hundred and thirty nine
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Speaker 1: passer rating against the blitz the season ago, so you
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Speaker 1: know you can't bring pressure with the blitz. You have
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Speaker 1: to get pressure on Matthew Stafford bringing four that's where
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Speaker 1: he's had some of his turnovers, you know, sixteen interceptions
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Speaker 1: he threw lead in the NFL when he wasn't Blitz.
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Speaker 1: These young corners need some help with that pass rush.
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Speaker 1: They also were getting some help from that safety duo
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Speaker 1: as well. Palmer, thanks for wearing uh, you know, not
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Speaker 1: wearing shorts today. That would have been uh you know
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Speaker 1: the yeah man, good thing it wasn't yesterday. Professionals, James Paulmer,
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Speaker 1: Kayla Burton, take you both with the Bills and the Rams.
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Speaker 1: Let's get to the bucks. Uh. There's that Tom Brady
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Speaker 1: guy the practice field is he and the Bucket Ears
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Speaker 1: get ready for the Cowboys Sunday. Yesterday we heard Brady
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Speaker 1: in depth on his podcast about his decision to come
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Speaker 1: back at the age of well, I just felt like
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Speaker 1: I had a little left and I want to give
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Speaker 1: it a shot, and I owed it to my teammates
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Speaker 1: and uh, our great coaches and organization. We built something
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Speaker 1: pretty special here in Tampa the last few years. You know,
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Speaker 1: the competitive fire still burns, and I want to get
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Speaker 1: out there and I want to have a great season
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Speaker 1: for everybody, because there's a lot of people that have
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Speaker 1: supported me a lot in the way. And I've always
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Speaker 1: felt like I I played for the name on the
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Speaker 1: back of my jersey, and I played for the name
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Speaker 1: on the front of my jersey, which is the Bucks
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Speaker 1: and my family. It's gonna be a challenge. I would
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Speaker 1: definitely say that's and and every team's challenge at different
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Speaker 1: times in the years. So you know, you deal with
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Speaker 1: injuries early, you deal with injuries late, you deal with
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Speaker 1: them all year. But it's gonna be like all players.
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Speaker 1: You know, no one makes every I certainly don't make
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Speaker 1: every throw great. I don't make every red great. You
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Speaker 1: know I've thrown plenty interceptions. You know, you can't expect
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Speaker 1: these young tight ends or young running backs or young
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Speaker 1: linemen to get everything right because they're going up against
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Speaker 1: a lot of great players, and those great players are
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Speaker 1: gonna challenge them. So it's gonna be a I'm expecting
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Speaker 1: great things from our our whole unit. All right. So
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Speaker 1: there is Tom Brady as he's doing his Monday thing
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Speaker 1: once again this season with Larry Fitzgerald and with Jim,
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Speaker 1: Greg Tompolo. Serah, Mike care Fullo back with me. A
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Speaker 1: lot to unpack there. Let's start on the old line,
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Speaker 1: tom um Brady saying he's kind of using this as
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Speaker 1: motivation people doubting the soul A lot I mean down
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Speaker 1: to get there are a lot of injuries and a
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Speaker 1: lot of people have left. No question Andrew, when Tom
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Speaker 1: Brady says he hopes that they're taking some things to heart,
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Speaker 1: you're really hoping that between some of the veterans and
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Speaker 1: the younger players now who are going to either be
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Speaker 1: thrust into expanded roles or maybe have more pressure because
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Speaker 1: they're not having the guys they're used to having on
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Speaker 1: either side of them, that they can find a way
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Speaker 1: to dig deep and realize you've got a four or
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Speaker 1: five year old quarterback who likes to step up in
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Speaker 1: the pocket, not escape out the back, and he's gonna
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Speaker 1: need some help. But if you just look at this
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Speaker 1: entire Bucks roster, there's very little question that the offensive
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Speaker 1: line is going to be the biggest question mark going
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Speaker 1: into this season because you have Ali mar Pet retires,
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Speaker 1: Ryan Jensen, who was the absolute tone center at the
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Speaker 1: center position as a knee injury. Maybe they get him
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Speaker 1: back toward playoff time, but even that's not a guarantee.
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Speaker 1: You've had Aaron Stinny go down with a torn a
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Speaker 1: c L and toward mc L Robert Hainze replaced. Jensen
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Speaker 1: got nicked up recently. Those sounds like he dodged a
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Speaker 1: bullet and there. Hopefully he's been out there week one,
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Speaker 1: But that's the situation that they're in right now. They've
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Speaker 1: got to protect a quarterback who's not you know, a
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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, Mitch Drabinsky, get outside the pocket.
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Speaker 1: If things break down in front of you, he's going
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Speaker 1: to need that protection and that's gonna be a challenge
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Speaker 1: for Tampa's not Mitch Drabsky. Yeah, I get that. As
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Speaker 1: for the big picture stuff, you're a little more that's true, true,
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Speaker 1: I get Michael a little more in depth. As to
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady whorry, you know his headspace, I guess right now, Um,
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Speaker 1: a lot of people are I think this is odd
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Speaker 1: to be like criticizing him for opening up, yet at
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Speaker 1: the same time we've always criticizing him for not opening up.
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Speaker 1: He's forty five, he's kind of being more transparent now.
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Speaker 1: I don't mind it. I don't mind it at all.
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Speaker 1: It makes him certainly very relatable. And we're talking about
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Speaker 1: how early in his career, when he was twenty five
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Speaker 1: years old, it was nothing but football. But now he's
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Speaker 1: got a family of his own, even talked about his
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Speaker 1: parents as well. That's a big part of his life.
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Speaker 1: They as they continue to age as well. Um, and
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Speaker 1: I understand that. I mean when I when I started
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Speaker 1: out in this business and I was just covering the
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Speaker 1: giants for the Star Ledger here in Jersey, all I
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Speaker 1: did was focus on that job. Well, now I've got
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Speaker 1: a wife and a family of my own. I got
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Speaker 1: two kids. They're running around outside somewhere right now. So
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Speaker 1: we're all dealing with that. It's just only one of
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Speaker 1: us is the starting quarterback for the Buccaneers, one of
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl UH contenders here that's got to now
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Speaker 1: figure out a way to manage all of that stuff
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Speaker 1: that clearly took him away from training camp recently while
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Speaker 1: also being as good as he has been over the
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Speaker 1: course of his career. We all have our questions, and
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Speaker 1: we all saw his demeanor at that press conference, and
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Speaker 1: we know how much he has put in to being
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Speaker 1: successful over the years and how much importance he puts
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Speaker 1: on preparation to now take ten days away from the
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Speaker 1: middle of the training camp. I think we're all waiting
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Speaker 1: to see how is this going to look? Is this
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Speaker 1: still going to be the Tom Brady that we have
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Speaker 1: seen over the course of his career. It's one of
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Speaker 1: the intriguing storylines in the NFL this year. Uh Tampa
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Speaker 1: Bay and everybody down there can tell you, at the
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Speaker 1: very least to tell you they are not concerned about him. Tom.
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Speaker 1: We shall see. I thought Mike was about to really
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Speaker 1: pull back the curtain on his personal life there, but
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Speaker 1: much like Tom Brady just pulled it back at the
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Speaker 1: last second and let us wonder, But exactly what's going
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Speaker 1: on in Hoboken. Listen, if we're talking about training camp
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Speaker 1: here and you've got people reading to Tom Bryan, you're
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Speaker 1: going for a stretch, what's going on with his body
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Speaker 1: language and everything else when you get to the game.
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Speaker 1: So let's see what Tom Brady looks like. And they're
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Speaker 1: gonna be tested right out of the gate. They're going
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Speaker 1: up against the Cowboys defense. That's very creative. They've got
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Speaker 1: some really good pass rushers who were gonna get after
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Speaker 1: that makeshift offensive line for the Bucks. What's Tom Brady
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Speaker 1: gonna look like when you get into the regular season.
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Speaker 1: That's going to be the ultimate metric here. As much
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Speaker 1: as Tom Brady has now taken over the mantle in
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Speaker 1: the NFL of the player who we know way too
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Speaker 1: much about Even though we don't know the half of
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Speaker 1: what's going on most of the time, it's still something
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Speaker 1: where again, all this analysis through the off season comes
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Speaker 1: down to one thing, which is is Tom Brady after
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Speaker 1: retiring on retire, leaving camp, come back to camp, everything
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Speaker 1: else ready to play in week one, everything about his
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Speaker 1: history and football. Andrew would say, yes, Tom Brady will
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Speaker 1: be ready. I think he will be ready. Thank you, guys.
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Speaker 1: We're getting old Mike Yardy Campbell coming up, old von Miller.
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Speaker 1: That's not his age, but he is coming back to
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Speaker 1: face his former team on Thursday. What do they have
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Speaker 1: in store for him? That's straight ahead, win, win, win win.
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Speaker 1: It's all time. Remember what we're here to do? It
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Speaker 1: felt time looking Ron sentence beating launches to the end zone,
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Speaker 1: cock step on tas touchdown, cuts down all pocket frontly,
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Speaker 1: He's he sacked Aaron Donald, wrapping up the goats. He
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Speaker 1: is the absolute heart beat. Come on, man, find a
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Speaker 1: way to get it. Let's go. Babe's unstoppable. That guy
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Speaker 1: is a superhero. You will not see a better play
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Speaker 1: than this all season. That's unbelievable, unbelievable. We are two
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Speaker 1: days away from the opener, we have seven months of
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Speaker 1: storylines to unpacked. Now before the Rams and the Bills
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Speaker 1: go at it game one week, one Rams angle now
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Speaker 1: before their practice Caleb Britain with us Live in Thousand Oaks. Kayla,
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Speaker 1: let's do the Vaughan Miller angle. Is he comes back
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Speaker 1: to play against his former team, one of the Rams
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Speaker 1: have in store for him? Well, Andrew just starting off.
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Speaker 1: Much of this conversation surrounding the Rams has been about
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Speaker 1: what head coach Sean McVeigh said during the Super Bowl parade,
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Speaker 1: run it back, run it back, and as you mentioned,
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Speaker 1: one guy, they're not going to be running it back
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Speaker 1: with his past rusher, Vaughan Miller, and they have to
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Speaker 1: make sure that they come ready to go. Sean McVeigh,
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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford, we're both asked, is it going to be
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Speaker 1: weird going up against, you know, a guy who literally
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Speaker 1: just helps you win Super Bowl fifty six Sean McVey
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Speaker 1: He said, yeah, I mean, it's going to be strange,
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Speaker 1: but we have to know where this guy is at
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Speaker 1: at all times. Considering the Bills ranked number one defensively
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Speaker 1: in several different categories, in scoring defense, in third down defense,
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Speaker 1: in total defense, so they have to know where he
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Speaker 1: is at at all costs. Another thing to add here
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Speaker 1: is that left tackle Andrew Whitworth, who has been in
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Speaker 1: this building forever, is no longer going to be protecting
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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford's blindside. Instead, they're turning to fifth year Joe
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Speaker 1: Noe Boom, who has had experience in the past. He's
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Speaker 1: been working a whole lot with Wit during the off season,
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Speaker 1: going to his house and really learning that position. Another
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Speaker 1: thing to keep in mind here is he's not unfamiliar
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Speaker 1: with that position. He will be a full time starter
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Speaker 1: this season, which is what will be new. But think
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Speaker 1: back to it was no Boom who played nine games
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Speaker 1: at that position when Whitworth was out with a knee injury,
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Speaker 1: and they gave Joe no Boom and I too contract
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Speaker 1: in the off season as well to prep for moments
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Speaker 1: like this facing von Miller only twelve games with the Rams,
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Speaker 1: but he had nine sacks in those twelve Thank you. CAYLEB. Burton.
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Speaker 1: Live there with the Rams ahead of their Week one
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Speaker 1: game here in l A against the Bills. Nothing going
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Speaker 1: on in Seattle Sunday, Nothing nothing going on at all
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Speaker 1: other than Russell Wilson coming back to face the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: with this new team, the Denver Broncos. If you don't remember,
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Speaker 1: he played ten years for Pete Carroll with the seed Ons. Well,
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Speaker 1: I hope I do a really good job, you know. Um,
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Speaker 1: I do have as much information as you could have.
19:29
Speaker 1: You know, I've never probably known the player any any
19:32
Speaker 1: closer than than than know one rust and his quarterback
19:35
Speaker 1: and then his playing mentality and all of that. Um
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Speaker 1: so um, you know he knows he knows me too.
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Speaker 1: You know he knows us. So let's see what happens,
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Speaker 1: you get it. He he is the quarterback here of
19:49
Speaker 1: them all in Seahawks history. Now he's the Broncos quarterback.
19:52
Speaker 1: Now he is a captain as well. Just announce hid
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Speaker 1: there James Palmer live with us, getting ready for this
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Speaker 1: one as Russell Wilson heads back with a lot of
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Speaker 1: weapons at his disposed, Andrew and it's interesting, we haven't
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Speaker 1: seen Russell Wilson, were any of these weapons really play
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Speaker 1: in a game, all of them held out of the
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Speaker 1: preseason by head coach Nathaniel Hackett. So how are we
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Speaker 1: going to see this offense kind of come together? We
20:13
Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton was just addressed in the media a few
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Speaker 1: minutes ago, and he said, I think our goal with
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Speaker 1: all of these weapons really is to find the weakness
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Speaker 1: in the defense and exploit that specific aspect of the defense.
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Speaker 1: And everybody I've talked to in the building in Denver
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Speaker 1: really believed Sutton specifically is going to have a breakout season,
20:30
Speaker 1: one that we expected maybe a couple of years ago
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Speaker 1: before the a c L injury. Now playing without that brace,
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Speaker 1: playing with a lot of confidence. And I'm told by
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Speaker 1: multiple guys in this coaching staff, when things break down
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Speaker 1: or Russell Wilson needs a play, he looks Courtland Sutton's way,
20:43
Speaker 1: and then they also know that Jerry Judy is expected
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Speaker 1: to take a jump. Spending a lot of time personally
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Speaker 1: in the quarterback room actually seeing how the quarterbacks operate
20:51
Speaker 1: during their team meetings to try to get an extra
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Speaker 1: edge moving forward. One guy in this group we have
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Speaker 1: seen in the preseason. That's their speedster, kJ Hamler, who
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Speaker 1: has been out almost pretty much a year with a
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Speaker 1: hip and a knee injury. He played in the final
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Speaker 1: preseason game. He came out of that really strong. So
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Speaker 1: they do have everybody pretty much outside of Tim Patrick,
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Speaker 1: who they lost at the beginning of camp to Russell
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Speaker 1: Wilson's disposal and the idea of it is to spread
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Speaker 1: the ball around. We just haven't seen it all together yet.
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Speaker 1: We'll find that out Monday. Looking forward to that on
21:19
Speaker 1: Monday night. There there are so many matchups you can
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Speaker 1: circle here. I mean Russell against Pete Carroll, that's one
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Speaker 1: of them. James, what's your favorite one? Though? I like
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Speaker 1: DK Metcalf first, Pat Sertan and and you know, there's
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Speaker 1: so many expectations about Russell Wilson and what he's gonna
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Speaker 1: do for the Denver Broncos. Certain might be the next
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Speaker 1: individual on this team that everybody's excited to see in
21:39
Speaker 1: year two as a corner. They believe he's already one
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Speaker 1: of the best corners in all of football. And he
21:44
Speaker 1: is a big bodied corner at six to gonna play
21:47
Speaker 1: this season about two pounds higher than he did his
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Speaker 1: rookie year. And he believes what he's made the biggest
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Speaker 1: jump from his rookie season to year two is his
21:55
Speaker 1: preparation in his film study, and he's been studying. We've
21:58
Speaker 1: had some conversations Dk Metcalf and Tyler Lockett in this
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Speaker 1: Seahawks offense for some time, dating back well for the
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Speaker 1: start of training camp about how he was going to
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Speaker 1: match up against Metcalf. They'd like to move him around.
22:09
Speaker 1: He can shadow number one wide receivers this season, though
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Speaker 1: obviously week by week see if that's what they'd like
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Speaker 1: to do. But they'd like to match him up against
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Speaker 1: DK Metcalf at times space maybe at the length of
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Speaker 1: the entire game. And that's a big bodied matchup between
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Speaker 1: those two guys I think everybody'd like to see. And
22:24
Speaker 1: he did kind of hint I may pick Russell Wilson's
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Speaker 1: ear a little bit andrew on some tendencies of DK Mecca. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I would think just just a little, just a little
22:36
Speaker 1: thank you James Palmer there with the Broncos side of
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Speaker 1: the things there. Week one gamed in Seattle against the Seahawks.
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Speaker 1: About this one of the NFC North, Aaron Rodgers and
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Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers on the road against the Minnesota Vikings,
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Speaker 1: a team with which they split a year ago. Matt Lafleur,
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Speaker 1: There's been a lot of things, I think around the league.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a lot of game planning that's already
23:03
Speaker 1: kind of transpired to today and I know we're kind
23:06
Speaker 1: of in that boat right now. So, um, you know,
23:10
Speaker 1: it's definitely given us an opportunity to get a jump
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Speaker 1: on some of the things we might want to do
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Speaker 1: in a game. Said earlier, how much I like Hi, Tom,
23:17
Speaker 1: hell sero, you'll be at this one week one talking
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Speaker 1: about the real game here instead of the big training
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Speaker 1: camp picture stuff. It's also time to talk about injuries.
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Speaker 1: The Packers have been trying to get as many pieces
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Speaker 1: as possible ready for Week one by holding them back
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Speaker 1: in training camp. What's the latest, Well, Andrew, let's start
23:34
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, where David Baktis injury status is
23:37
Speaker 1: something we've been talking about since New Year's Eve in
23:40
Speaker 1: twenty when he tore his a c L in practice, missed,
23:44
Speaker 1: of course, the playoff run that year. Came back last
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Speaker 1: season but just wasn't able to get the knee right.
23:49
Speaker 1: Came back for one game against the Lions, end up
23:51
Speaker 1: having another procedure, had an additional third procedure this off season.
23:55
Speaker 1: Everything seems to be trending the right way for David Baktieri.
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Speaker 1: He just returned to eleven on eleven drills in recent days. Here,
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Speaker 1: the question is going to be to the Packers feel
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Speaker 1: comfortable enough based on everything that's happened, the swelling and
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Speaker 1: other things he's dealt with to put him out there
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Speaker 1: in a Week one setting, and that's something that's gonna
24:12
Speaker 1: be tested over the next several days of practice. Here.
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Speaker 1: Elton Jenkins, who's another All Pro, also coming off of
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Speaker 1: a torn a c L that he suffered while playing
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Speaker 1: Bok tr is position at left tackle. So if Jenkins
24:23
Speaker 1: is healthy and box Try is healthy, you think that
24:25
Speaker 1: Jakins moves to right tackle. He has also been an
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Speaker 1: All Pro left guard, has got fantastic versatility, but all
24:30
Speaker 1: those remain question marks, which, of course for the Vikings
24:33
Speaker 1: that makes it that much tougher for them to game
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Speaker 1: plan against him. And then at the wide receiver position,
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Speaker 1: Christian Watson didn't play in the preseason for the Packers,
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Speaker 1: dealing with some bumps and bruises there. He sounds confident.
24:43
Speaker 1: Matt la Fleur sounds confident that he's going to be
24:46
Speaker 1: out there in Week one. A little less certainty regarding
24:48
Speaker 1: Alan Lizard, who didn't practice last week because of undisclosed reasons.
24:53
Speaker 1: We'll see when the Packers returned to the practice field
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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, what if anything Lizard is doing on the field.
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Speaker 1: But even if he doesn't evolve into the guy who's
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Speaker 1: getting a high volume of targets and the post Davante
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Speaker 1: Adams era, Lazard serves a lot of other purposes. He's
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Speaker 1: the best blocker the wide receiver group. He's the most
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Speaker 1: physical guy that they have, so really important and probably
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Speaker 1: underrated piece of that offense. Again, we'll get a better
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Speaker 1: idea on the picture of this come Wednesday's practice. Will
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Speaker 1: also get a better idea come Wednesday, come week one
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Speaker 1: on Sunday Tom of what this Vikings team is going
25:24
Speaker 1: to look and feel like. With Kevin O'Connell now as
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Speaker 1: head coach, there in your backyard, what's the vibe there?
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Speaker 1: The vibe Andrew is very positive and very upbeats arounding
25:34
Speaker 1: everything with the Vikings, which is normal when you've got
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Speaker 1: a first time head coach. Is a little bit of
25:38
Speaker 1: a placebo effect at times. People feel like it's different,
25:41
Speaker 1: so it must be better, But really, with shorter practices,
25:44
Speaker 1: less time in pads, there are definitely players who feel
25:47
Speaker 1: like they are fresher as they head into this season
25:50
Speaker 1: than maybe they've been in past years. But in terms
25:52
Speaker 1: of what the offense looks like, we really don't know
25:55
Speaker 1: teams don't show a whole lot in the preseason. I
25:57
Speaker 1: can tell you could expect less of the traditional zone running.
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Speaker 1: You're going to see more combination blocks, which is a
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Speaker 1: little bit technical, but basically you're gonna see them moving
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Speaker 1: differently up front, some of those smaller, faster athletic alignement
26:09
Speaker 1: actually maybe helped out on the interior by some of
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Speaker 1: the things they're doing blocking wise, which they hope gonna
26:14
Speaker 1: open up a lot of holes for Dalvin Cook, Alexander
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Speaker 1: Madison and company. And then over on defense, the vikings
26:19
Speaker 1: around a three four. For the first time since I
26:22
Speaker 1: was in like grade school, it has been a long time.
26:24
Speaker 1: You're gonna see Zadarius Smith, the Neil Hunter standing up,
26:27
Speaker 1: which is going to create some potential match of challenges
26:30
Speaker 1: they hope against the Packers and other teams through the
26:32
Speaker 1: course of this season. A lot of the same face
26:34
Speaker 1: as Eric Kendricks and Harrison Smith. Patrick Peterson's back there
26:38
Speaker 1: for another year, but schematically they're going to be vastly different.
26:41
Speaker 1: That's gonna be some of the fun. In that Week
26:43
Speaker 1: one game, the chess match, they moves and counter moves
26:46
Speaker 1: that both these head coaches, Matt Floor and Kevin O'Connell,
26:48
Speaker 1: who certainly know each other well, they're gonna be going
26:50
Speaker 1: through with Donna tells the new defensive coordinator grade school days,
26:54
Speaker 1: was that like the Williams Wall days those back then
26:58
Speaker 1: high school for that well, I was well before the
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Speaker 1: Williams Wall. We're talking like nineteen eighty nine. Keith Millard
27:05
Speaker 1: might have been standing up at some point there, Chris Dolman.
27:07
Speaker 1: It has been a while. They've been a four three
27:09
Speaker 1: team for a long long time, and so you're hoping
27:12
Speaker 1: that the some of those old parts fit into the
27:14
Speaker 1: new roles really well. But you can bet there's gonna
27:16
Speaker 1: be an adjustment. Prorect me if I'm wrong. I think
27:17
Speaker 1: Keith Millard was awesome on tech Mobile. Thank you for
27:22
Speaker 1: one more thing before we go with Tom Tella Sero
27:25
Speaker 1: going first. Andrew was five years ago today that my
27:30
Speaker 1: wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. Thankfully, for some wonderful
27:36
Speaker 1: surgeons and doctors, she is now healthy and happy. That's
27:41
Speaker 1: a photo from the day before her diagnosis. That little
27:43
Speaker 1: baby right there, Finley, who was about nine months old
27:47
Speaker 1: at the time. Today went off to her first day
27:50
Speaker 1: of kindergarten, so I got to see her and her
27:52
Speaker 1: sister get on the bus together. Thankful every day that
27:56
Speaker 1: my wife can be there for all of those milestones
27:58
Speaker 1: and it means the world to me. That is fantastic.
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Speaker 1: We love her, Sarah. Damn well done, Cam. One more
28:06
Speaker 1: thing so awesome to congrats for that. I want to
28:10
Speaker 1: give another congrats to Jaguars wire receiver Christian Kirk, who
28:14
Speaker 1: got engaged this past week as the Jaguars positional social
28:18
Speaker 1: media Big year for Christian, big contract UH engaged Just
28:24
Speaker 1: because of all the good vibes with Christian Kirk, I
28:26
Speaker 1: think I'm starting them in my fancy lineup this one. Yeah.
28:32
Speaker 1: Also shout out to Sarah, my favorite Pellaceero by far.
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