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Jalen Hurts Seen in Practice, Panthers - Buccaneers, & Cowboys - Titans for TNF · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: in the news room. Welcome to NFL Now on NFL
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Speaker 1: Network on a game day. We're live in Nashville. Coming
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Speaker 1: up shortly, that's Brian Baldinger. I'm Andrews Ciciliano Baldi. You
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Speaker 1: know that this is this is a rocket scientist. He's
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Speaker 1: also the quarterback for the Tennessee Titans. And Josh Dobbs,
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Speaker 1: one of my favorite guys, a rocket scientist, is going
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Speaker 1: to start at quarterback tonight for the Tennessee Titans. A
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Speaker 1: man who is doing live stream analysis for NASA when
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Speaker 1: we tried to knock at asteroid off course a couple
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Speaker 1: of months ago, is going to start at quarterback for
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Speaker 1: the Titans. More in that coming up shortly. The question
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Speaker 1: is who is going to start at quarterback for the
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles, And we lead with that of this hour.
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Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport is our NFL that work insider ian. Somebody's
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Speaker 1: back on the practice field, Jalen hurt audited by local
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Speaker 1: reporters back on the field and practically in the stadium
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Speaker 1: today and Jalen Hurts was there this is the first
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Speaker 1: time that he's practiced in suffering the ace. The sc
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Speaker 1: joint sprain in his right shoulder not considered to be
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Speaker 1: a significant injury, one that caused him to miss last week.
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Speaker 1: Obviously was not president the walkthrough yesterday, but is on
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Speaker 1: the field today and I've seen the videos. He looked
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Speaker 1: pretty good. Now, that's not the issue. Throwing, he's not
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Speaker 1: the issue. Being able to land on and withstand impact
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Speaker 1: is probably more the issue. This is an m VP candidate.
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Speaker 1: He's one of the best players, not just on the
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Speaker 1: Eagles but really anywhere. They are not going to put
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Speaker 1: him in harm's risk. But everything we heard Andrew about
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Speaker 1: Jalen hurts as he is insanely competitive, he is going
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Speaker 1: to push to play. It is a big game, legitimately
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Speaker 1: big game for the Eagles, and being out there today
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Speaker 1: means at least he's got a shot, all right, He
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Speaker 1: has got a shot. And if the Cowboys loose tonight,
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Speaker 1: unlikely the Eagles would the NFC East champions tonight while
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Speaker 1: sitting on their accounts, thank you and rapport NFL Network
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Speaker 1: in Tier. I say unlikely because Tennessee is going to
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Speaker 1: rest a lot of guys tonight as we said, noble
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Speaker 1: Leak Willis, Josh Dobbs is going to start tonight for
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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titan deal. I got there eight days ago.
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Speaker 1: The Cowboys have issues as well, as we go live
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Speaker 1: to Nashville, Rainey Nashville, Jane Slater, great accessories there with
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Speaker 1: that wonderful umbrella. Tony Pollard is an issue here. The
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Speaker 1: question is what do the Cowboys do? Do they run
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Speaker 1: the ball without Tony Pollard? Tennessee is having trouble stop
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Speaker 1: in the past. What do we know? Well, quick shout
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Speaker 1: out to the Titans PR staff for providing me with
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Speaker 1: this very large umbrella to keep me contained here. You
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Speaker 1: know a lot of changes here in Tennessee. Because we
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Speaker 1: were expecting Malik Willis obviously to play in this one.
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Speaker 1: We now know it's Josh Dobbs, and we weren't expecting
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Speaker 1: rain Andrew. But here's what we are expecting. I think
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Speaker 1: we can safely bet that the Cowboys are gonna try
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Speaker 1: to air this one out tonight, particularly when you consider
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Speaker 1: that Dak Prescott, since he's been backed, has helped this
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Speaker 1: team have a league leading thirty six points per game him.
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Speaker 1: Now when you look at the Titans defense, well, they're
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Speaker 1: giving up about two eighty yards a game. Also consider
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Speaker 1: the fact they're not going to have their three best
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Speaker 1: pass rushers and in the secondary, Noah money Hooker, no
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Speaker 1: Christian Fulton, and you're meeting a Ceedee Lamb that coming
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Speaker 1: off that Eagles game had a big one two scores.
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Speaker 1: He had ten catches averaging about twelve yards uh a past,
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Speaker 1: so this can be a game for him to air
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Speaker 1: it out. And then also consider t Y Hilton. This
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Speaker 1: is a guy that hasn't been in that building very long.
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Speaker 1: They're sort of acclimating him slowly. But his welcome to
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Speaker 1: the NFL after coming off his couch this season was
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Speaker 1: that third and thirty bomb from Dak Prescott. And when
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Speaker 1: talking to Dak Prescott this week, we said, now we're
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Speaker 1: going to see more from him. He said, when you've
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Speaker 1: got a veteran guy like that who earned your trust,
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Speaker 1: gives you a lot of confidence to go to him.
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Speaker 1: So I anticipate that's exactly what they do today. Given
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Speaker 1: the injuries that Tennessee Titans having, some of the guys
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Speaker 1: that aren't playing, I think this is a great example,
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Speaker 1: great time tonight for the Dallas defense to get really
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Speaker 1: whole on Jane. I mean the last three weeks right now,
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Speaker 1: the pass rush is basically dissipated. Michael Parsons has the
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Speaker 1: only sack in the last three weeks. They haven't hit
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Speaker 1: the quarterback guys like Tank Lawrence and Dante Fowler and
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Speaker 1: Dorence Armstrong, we just haven't seen them. So you're gonna
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Speaker 1: go up against quarterback that just got signed December one,
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Speaker 1: like less than ten days ago, against an offensive line
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Speaker 1: that isn't very good, and eventually you're gonna have to
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Speaker 1: throw it. I mean, I just think there's a chance
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Speaker 1: for Dallas's defensive front to get busy, and I think
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Speaker 1: that will help a lot of the young defensive backs
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Speaker 1: to more pressure, less time to throw it, less time
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Speaker 1: to really find your targets down the field. I think
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Speaker 1: it all starts with Dallas pass rush. I think we
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Speaker 1: might see that tonight. Sometimes you just gotta go up
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Speaker 1: against a lesser opponent, UH to get your numbers, and
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Speaker 1: they need to get their numbers back up there where
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Speaker 1: they were maybe a month ago. Cowboys numbers are eleven
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Speaker 1: and four. If they win tonight and win next week
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Speaker 1: and still not win the division because the Eagles hold
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Speaker 1: those cards, right now Dallas will be the first win
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Speaker 1: team to fail to win its division since ninety nine,
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Speaker 1: when the Titans were behind a fourteen when Jaguar team.
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Speaker 1: That's the only time it's ever happened since we've broken
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Speaker 1: divisions in the thirties. Jane Slater dodging rain drops with
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Speaker 1: a fantastic umbrella. Thank you, Jane, live there in Nashville.
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Speaker 1: More coming up on that one, Tina a little bit later.
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Speaker 1: Let's get back to the huge story from yesterday. Derek
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Speaker 1: Carr is not only not playing these next two games,
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Speaker 1: Josh McDaniel sat him down. Derek Car's not even with
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Speaker 1: the Raiders to avoid any awkwardness, he is home for
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Speaker 1: the holidays, as Jared Stidham will now be leading this
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Speaker 1: team against the forty niners and throwing passes to the
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Speaker 1: likes of Theavante Adams. Obviously, I don't think anybody was
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Speaker 1: excited about it in here. Um, you know, him being
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Speaker 1: one of one of my really good friends, and you
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Speaker 1: know the reason why I came here in the first place.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't I wouldn't be here right now
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Speaker 1: if he wasn't, you know, if he wasn't here. So, um,
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Speaker 1: I think everybody knows how I feel about him, and
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Speaker 1: and you know, with that said, there's, uh, there's a
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Speaker 1: process of how things go. And I'm not gonna sit
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Speaker 1: here and go on to know him. But obviously I
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Speaker 1: support my guy, and uh, you know, you know, we
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Speaker 1: gotta finish the season out, you know, the best way
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Speaker 1: we can possible with you know, all things considered. At
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Speaker 1: this point, stid him in against the number one defense
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Speaker 1: to the NFL. Steve Whites with me, Mark Ross with
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Speaker 1: me as well. Now, by the way, Telenoga, who funka
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Speaker 1: from that number one defense, joins us a little bit later. Mark,
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Speaker 1: let's start with you and and the obvious headline here
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Speaker 1: this means goodbye. We have we we have to think.
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Speaker 1: It means goodbye for Derek Carr. Obviously, they could work
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Speaker 1: out the contract, work out some kind of scenario to
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Speaker 1: keep him back next year if they truly want him.
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Speaker 1: But I mean, you're you're shaking your head this. I
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Speaker 1: agree with you. This is goodbye without a doubt. I mean,
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Speaker 1: we kind of been They've been trying to usher him
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Speaker 1: out of there for the past few years, with Derek
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Speaker 1: Carr getting getting him in, trying to upgrade just talking
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Speaker 1: about it at least, well, when you make a decision
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Speaker 1: like this, yes, you you have to move on. And
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Speaker 1: Derek Carr maybe at this point and say, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I've got to move on because I've done everything for
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Speaker 1: this organization, put the organization in front of my needs,
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Speaker 1: and now it's signed for me to put what's best
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Speaker 1: for Derek Carr in front of the Raiders. And the
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Speaker 1: bigger picture with this is we talk about culture, and really,
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Speaker 1: to me, culture is about a winning mentality, winning habits,
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Speaker 1: and with the Raiders organization, they this is a sign
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Speaker 1: of not having a winning culture. They still are mathematically
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Speaker 1: possible to make the playoffs. Yes it's a long shot,
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Speaker 1: but there's there's still that chance. And I've been never
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Speaker 1: been a part of the team that's just completely just
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Speaker 1: giving up on a season. But this starts at the
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Speaker 1: top with ownership, with the front office, with the head
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Speaker 1: coach that makes this decision to say we're giving up
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Speaker 1: this season. What message does that send to the rest
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Speaker 1: of the team. You saw Davante Adams interview there, completely
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Speaker 1: admirable of him the way he came out, but you
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Speaker 1: know inside he's probably thinking something else as well as
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Speaker 1: the rest of the team. So now you're going in
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Speaker 1: with the next two games and Derek, we don't want
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Speaker 1: to pay you, so don't play so you don't get hurt.
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Speaker 1: What message does that send to the team? What message
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Speaker 1: is that for the long run with recruiting free agents,
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Speaker 1: recruiting a top tier quarterback, is it just a total
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Speaker 1: build over once again and trusting Josh McDaniels to move
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Speaker 1: forward with this team and the decisions he makes, because
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Speaker 1: what has he showed up to this point to say
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Speaker 1: he's the guy to do it. So a lot of
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Speaker 1: layers for there, but it's the fact that hey, we've
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Speaker 1: given up and this whole mentality of that. I just
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Speaker 1: don't buy that. And other other players who are currently
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Speaker 1: on the team possibly on the team, Steve, I think
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Speaker 1: they'll look at that as well. Ye Mark, I talk about,
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Speaker 1: you know, the culture there. Let's not forget the Raiders
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Speaker 1: were a playoff team last year. They added Chandler Jones,
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Speaker 1: they added Davante Adams, and things still came off the
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Speaker 1: rails to this point. So this again, this may be
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Speaker 1: an overall cleansing of a roster that does need an
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Speaker 1: offensive line, like an offensive line that just one position
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Speaker 1: and several holes to fill on defense, so we'll see
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Speaker 1: what changes that. Mark Davis hasn't trusted Dave Ziggler and
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Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels to make. But I want to get to
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Speaker 1: Derek Carr because I do think there's gonna be a
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Speaker 1: market for him, whether it's it's trade. Remember he's got
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Speaker 1: a no trade clause unless he gives the Raiders a
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Speaker 1: couple of teams he wants to go to. UM. I
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Speaker 1: can't see him waiving that because the free agency he
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Speaker 1: can pick a spot negotiate his own deal UM that way.
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Speaker 1: But you know he's he's given a lot to the team.
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Speaker 1: I know that he's he's a polarizing figure. He has
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Speaker 1: not played well this year. It is a situation where
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Speaker 1: he probably needs to get out. As Mark said, the
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Speaker 1: Raiders need to get out from him. Otherwise the Raiders
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Speaker 1: could be like the Falcons, you know, can continue to
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Speaker 1: pay Matt Ryan hoping they can win. As he aid,
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Speaker 1: his in deterior rates. So um baldy, I think this
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Speaker 1: party is kind of awkward. As it is awkward. It's
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Speaker 1: awkward is if I never see anything Steve. They are look,
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Speaker 1: the chance to make the playoffs are slim. But they're playoffyoffs.
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Speaker 1: I've never seen this before. They're not eliminated, no, like,
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Speaker 1: but you're telling the entire team. You're telling Colton Miller,
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Speaker 1: Max Crosby pick Josh Jacobs like we're throwing to the tower.
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Speaker 1: Started guy Jared Sinim that's never started a game against
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Speaker 1: the number one defensive football in the San Francisco forty
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Speaker 1: Niners and the hottest team in the league. To me,
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Speaker 1: there is a time to do this, Steve. There is
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Speaker 1: a time if you're eliminated and you want to take
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Speaker 1: a look at a younger player, I understand that. But
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Speaker 1: to just Jettison, you're a guy that was to face
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Speaker 1: your organization during a difficult season a year ago where
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Speaker 1: he had to stand in front of the media after
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Speaker 1: one incident in situation after another, and not blank, he
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Speaker 1: helped that team. He held him together. They together. They
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Speaker 1: made the playoffs last year with everything with John Bruden
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Speaker 1: beings created taking over. Derek Carr was the class act
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Speaker 1: that played well and kept this team together. But if
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Speaker 1: you but so, that's all true and we all agree
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Speaker 1: on that. And the thing is is that now this
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Speaker 1: is how you're treating this guy, and I just the
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Speaker 1: rest of the team, whether it's Josh Jacobs, has already
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Speaker 1: been Yeah, he's like, I'm out, I'm not coming back.
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Speaker 1: Who wants to really be there going forward? If this
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Speaker 1: is how they're gonna treat players that act with class
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Speaker 1: and then at the same time like there's still a
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Speaker 1: playoff hunt available, We've seen crazy things happen real quick.
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Speaker 1: Has he played well this year? What is the tapes?
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Speaker 1: He was awful last week. I mean the three second
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Speaker 1: half interceptions. The last one to Hunter Renfro was a
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Speaker 1: terrible throw, he admitted, but he did not play well.
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Speaker 1: But the offense didn't make a lot of sense to me. Also,
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Speaker 1: you have the leading rusher in the league. Where is
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Speaker 1: the play action passes? Where is making that run game payoff?
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Speaker 1: I didn't see that, And I didn't see the use
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Speaker 1: of Davante the way I thought I would see, moving around,
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Speaker 1: motion around, playing all three spots. He will have suitors,
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Speaker 1: whether it's just go down the list of teams that
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Speaker 1: may need a quarterback, will need a quarterback next to
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Speaker 1: whether it's Indianapolis or Carolina or Washington Jets or the Jets.
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Speaker 1: I mean, look, that list is going to get a
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Speaker 1: lot longer between now and the start of the new
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Speaker 1: league year March fift Thank you guys, Thank you Mark.
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Speaker 1: As we continue on NFL and NFL Now, let's get
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Speaker 1: some other news in here. The news obviously, the Teddy
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Speaker 1: Bridgewater is going to start for the Dolphins. They are
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Speaker 1: guaranteed a playoff spot if they win their last two games.
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Speaker 1: They could also clinch one this week if they beat
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Speaker 1: the Patriots and the Jets lose to the Seahawks. This
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Speaker 1: is a rematch from Week one where we saw to
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Speaker 1: and Jayleen Waddle and Tyreek Hill, Mike Giardi make enough
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Speaker 1: plays to beat Bill Belichick and that Patriots defense. What
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Speaker 1: do they have to do this time with Teddy? I
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Speaker 1: think what helped to establish a running game, which is
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Speaker 1: something they've really struggled to do here during the losing
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Speaker 1: streak effect. Over their last five four of those games,
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Speaker 1: they haven't gone over a hundred yards. The one game
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Speaker 1: they went over a hundred yards was that game against
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Speaker 1: the Bills in the snow and the cold. They rush
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Speaker 1: for hundred in that game, a hundred plus in the
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Speaker 1: first quarter from Raheem Mostard, and they kind of controlled
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Speaker 1: that game for a better part of the contest. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: lost it late, but still sort of established a better
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Speaker 1: rhythm offensively. It took some pressure off their quarterback. You'd
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Speaker 1: love to take pressure off Teddy Bridgewater, even though of
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Speaker 1: course he started a lot of games in his NFL career,
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Speaker 1: and they understand, like Mike McDaniels, McDaniel is a great
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Speaker 1: job of designing plays for them, but they need to
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Speaker 1: get some consistency in some physicality of front. I thought
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Speaker 1: that's the thing that they did really well in that
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Speaker 1: Buffalo game is established some physicality. It gave them a rhythm.
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Speaker 1: I thought for the entire game. You kind of need
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Speaker 1: to do that against the Patriot team that I know.
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Speaker 1: We talked about their secondaries all banged up and they've
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Speaker 1: been difficult to run on. But there have been moments
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Speaker 1: this year where teams when they really had to have
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Speaker 1: been able to gash them, and I think that's possible.
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Speaker 1: I think again, their linebackers aren't the fastest. You get
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Speaker 1: the moving side to side, and that's the way of
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Speaker 1: course McDaniel wants to design this offense and then one
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Speaker 1: cut and go. I think they have an opportunity to
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Speaker 1: do that. For he mostered, as I mentioned, had a
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Speaker 1: big game against Buffalo. He talked to a couple of
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Speaker 1: days ago and was just like, I didn't put my
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Speaker 1: best foot forward in that last game. I owe my
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Speaker 1: guys something. I think we all feel that way. So
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Speaker 1: I think there's a more pressure on them to deliver,
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Speaker 1: and I think there's an expectation that they'll deliver in
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Speaker 1: a game that they absolutely, positively have to have. Absolutely
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Speaker 1: And a crazy note here about the Dolphins. They've beaten
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Speaker 1: the Patriots four in a row, trying to make it
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Speaker 1: five in a row. They're the only team to beat
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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick four consecutive games since he took over as
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Speaker 1: head coach. Just wild. Thank you, Mike Giardi, live there
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Speaker 1: in Patriots Land in New England. All right, it up.
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Speaker 1: More news here on quarterbacks and rapp aboard, Tom Pellicero. Tom,
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Speaker 1: let's start with you on Lamar Jackson, who we still
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Speaker 1: do not see on the practice field. That's right, Andrew
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Speaker 1: Ravens practicing right now. Lamar Jackson, as expected, not on
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Speaker 1: the field again. This now makes eleven consecutive practices, including
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Speaker 1: three games in that span as well since Lamar was
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Speaker 1: on the field. Suffered a knee injury, a PCL sprain
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Speaker 1: that has kept him out since Ravens are in the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: but they're still trying to protect their seating, the number
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Speaker 1: five seat where the Ravens are now. It means it's
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Speaker 1: the difference between facing the a f C South winner,
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Speaker 1: a team that unlikely that potentially could have a losing record,
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Speaker 1: or having to face the Bills or the Chiefs or
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Speaker 1: the Bengals in round one. But obviously they don't feel
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Speaker 1: like Lamar is ready at this point, so tracking toward
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Speaker 1: Tyler Snoop Puntley being the starter again on Sunday night
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Speaker 1: against the Steelers. Yeah, it is an interesting conversation here.
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Speaker 1: Do you want to go on the road and play
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Speaker 1: the a f C South winner A we you'd rather
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Speaker 1: play a better team at home. I wanted to keep
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Speaker 1: an eye on here, but it looks like Snoop Huntley
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Speaker 1: for now with no Lamar Jackson. Mean time, I and
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Speaker 1: Laramie Tunsel yesterday in Houston. It does have one year
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Speaker 1: left on his contract. Uh said that once again he
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Speaker 1: would like a new contract and some pretty big money.
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Speaker 1: And generally when you do new contracts, you do extensions
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Speaker 1: with players. Do you want to keep around for another contract?
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Speaker 1: This is the time to do it, and for Laramie Tunsel,
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Speaker 1: he understands his worth, he understands the leverage he has,
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Speaker 1: and he used it the last time. They're in this situation,
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Speaker 1: getting a rock star of a contract making him the
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Speaker 1: highest paid tackle in the NFL. Told in the ESPN
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Speaker 1: Reporter this week that he wants to be there again,
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Speaker 1: naming Trent Williams with twenty three million dollars as his
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Speaker 1: target there. So for the Houston Texans, obviously this is
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Speaker 1: something if it wasn't on the radar, which I'm sure
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Speaker 1: it was, it certainly is now. It's also worth noting,
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Speaker 1: guys that the Texas may have the number one pick
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Speaker 1: may end up taken a quarterback, a few more important
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Speaker 1: and things and making sure that quarterback has a blind
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Speaker 1: tied protector. So the focus on Laramie Council is probably
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Speaker 1: a worthwhile one going forward. There's no question he in
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Speaker 1: and Laramie Tounsil remains one of the highest paid offensive
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Speaker 1: linemen in the game. On that three year, sixty six
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Speaker 1: million dollar extension he got after being acquired from the
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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, he talked about Trent Williams deal, which is
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Speaker 1: really two separate contracts. It's a three year, sixty million
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Speaker 1: dollar deal with a three year seventy seven million dollar
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Speaker 1: option on top of it. Tuncil's deal has stood the
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Speaker 1: test of time here for several years, but with the
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Speaker 1: salary cap going up. But he's absolutely right that left
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Speaker 1: tackle markets should only make him richer when he gets
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Speaker 1: back to back to free agency here on his next
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Speaker 1: contract schedule to make eighteen point five next year, and
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Speaker 1: asked for that number one pick Texan's one last week.
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Speaker 1: They're sitting there at two and a half, Winds Bears
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Speaker 1: right behind them at three wins. It's gonna get interesting
16:55
Speaker 1: here down the stretch. Thank you Ian, Thank you Tom.
16:58
Speaker 1: As we continue, it is interesting in Tampa. Back there
17:03
Speaker 1: live what Tom Brady to say about potentially winning the
17:07
Speaker 1: NFC South this week their seven and eight Sarah Walsh
17:11
Speaker 1: Live one buck play straight ahead. So this is just bonkers.
17:28
Speaker 1: Tom Brady has now lived half of his life as
17:32
Speaker 1: an NFL player. Look at that eight thousand, two hundred
17:35
Speaker 1: ninety two days before the NFL and in the NFL.
17:40
Speaker 1: I mean, is that even the same person, Thoms someone
17:46
Speaker 1: did that? Matthew, You spent literally half your life now
17:49
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Same number of days on Earth in
17:51
Speaker 1: the NFL as before the NFL. That's crazy. That's crazy.
17:57
Speaker 1: That's crazy. You know, the stats and data is everywhere.
18:00
Speaker 1: It's a data driven world. But that's crazy. It's hard
18:03
Speaker 1: for me to imagine. So I've loved it. I've certainly
18:06
Speaker 1: you love my opportunity to play. And it's been a
18:08
Speaker 1: lot of you know, his memories in relationships, and I've
18:13
Speaker 1: certainly had my fair shareholders. I mean, the guy looks
18:16
Speaker 1: like he has an aged Sarah Walsh now live at
18:19
Speaker 1: one Buck Place. After Tom Brady was on the podium.
18:21
Speaker 1: They're trying to wrap up the division seemingly though the
18:23
Speaker 1: the offensive line I think has aged him a bit
18:26
Speaker 1: this year. But Sarah, there might be some good news coming.
18:31
Speaker 1: There might be some good news. You know, he looks
18:32
Speaker 1: like he's aging in reverse, and they'd like to believe
18:35
Speaker 1: that the luck of the Yeah, they would like to
18:37
Speaker 1: believe that the luck of this offensive line is getting better.
18:41
Speaker 1: Maybe that's going in reverse from the trend that we've seen.
18:43
Speaker 1: Because for the first time since the second day of
18:47
Speaker 1: practice here at Buccaneers training camp, Ryan Jensen, tom Brady's
18:50
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl center, was back out on the football field.
18:52
Speaker 1: He had a knee issue that was thought to keep
18:55
Speaker 1: him out of this entire season. We still don't know
18:57
Speaker 1: if we'll see him back this season, but just being
18:59
Speaker 1: out on the football field, Todd Bowls, their head coach,
19:02
Speaker 1: called it a big lift for this team. Tom Brady
19:04
Speaker 1: told us today that he's so happy to see Jensen
19:06
Speaker 1: back out there. He said he's a much happier person
19:09
Speaker 1: than when he's sitting alone in that locker room. So
19:11
Speaker 1: the good news is Jensen could be trending back, maybe
19:15
Speaker 1: if the Buccaneers are making a postseason run, and that
19:17
Speaker 1: is still a big question mark. Foles did rule Jensen
19:19
Speaker 1: out for this week. Donovan Smith another offensive line interest,
19:23
Speaker 1: and worse, they were both out on the practice field
19:25
Speaker 1: this week, which is a good sign. One thing that's
19:27
Speaker 1: concerning for the Buccaneers their top corner Carlton Davis, he
19:30
Speaker 1: hasn't been seeing this week. He's listed on the injury
19:32
Speaker 1: report with a shoulder injury, and we don't have much
19:34
Speaker 1: more information to go on than that. And then speaking
19:38
Speaker 1: of corners, let's go to the Panthers side of things.
19:40
Speaker 1: They're gonna be without j C. Horn likely he had
19:42
Speaker 1: risk surgery on Tuesday. The Panthers have since signed Josh
19:46
Speaker 1: Norman and their safety Jeremy Chin didn't try to sugarcoat things.
19:50
Speaker 1: He said that horns irreplaceable. You just can't make up
19:53
Speaker 1: for that. But he said guys are gonna have to
19:54
Speaker 1: step up. They're gonna have to fill that role. In
19:56
Speaker 1: what Chin said he's doing this week, along with the
19:59
Speaker 1: other veterans, is just trying to instill confidence and the
20:01
Speaker 1: guys that are going to have to go in and
20:03
Speaker 1: try and stop Tom Eightie, who Chin said, obviously the
20:06
Speaker 1: greatest of all times, so we have to have elite
20:08
Speaker 1: preparation this week. The Panthers really a Cinderella story if
20:13
Speaker 1: you look at what they've gone through this season, still
20:15
Speaker 1: have a chance to win the division, something they haven't
20:18
Speaker 1: done Andrew since and they're the underdog here if you
20:23
Speaker 1: want to look at those kinds of things. I'm not
20:26
Speaker 1: sure why another Bucks are at home, but Sarah, the
20:28
Speaker 1: Bucks got stopped by the Panthers back week seven. Yeah, Yeah,
20:33
Speaker 1: stumped might be a little bit of an understatement there, Andrew.
20:36
Speaker 1: They lost that game one to three, and when you
20:38
Speaker 1: think about what was going on in Carolina at the time,
20:40
Speaker 1: that was Steve wilkes first win after being named interim
20:43
Speaker 1: head coach. That week was also the week they got
20:45
Speaker 1: rid of Christian McCaffrey and shipped him out of there.
20:48
Speaker 1: And yet the Panthers took the field in their home
20:50
Speaker 1: place and they just ran all over the Buccaneers a
20:53
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy six rushing yards to the Buccaneers forty
20:57
Speaker 1: six in that game. Rushing has clearly been a problem
21:00
Speaker 1: here in Tampa. The Bucks are well aware of it.
21:02
Speaker 1: But the Panthers did a terrific job stopping the run
21:04
Speaker 1: and game and they said that they know that they're
21:06
Speaker 1: going to have to do that again. When you talk
21:08
Speaker 1: about momentum, both of these teams are coming off wins,
21:11
Speaker 1: but it has felt like this Panthers team has gotten
21:15
Speaker 1: rolling in The Bucks are certainly well aware of that. Now,
21:18
Speaker 1: going back to Tom Brady for a second, because I
21:20
Speaker 1: know it was crazy when it was pointed out today
21:22
Speaker 1: that he's lived more of his life in the NFL
21:24
Speaker 1: than out of it. And every week there's a new
21:26
Speaker 1: Tom Brady stat every game. Well here's another one for you.
21:29
Speaker 1: In twenty one seasons as the primary starter, Tom Brady
21:33
Speaker 1: has missed the playoffs just once, which is insane. Byron left,
21:37
Speaker 1: which was asked about that, and he said, there's consistency,
21:39
Speaker 1: and then there's Hall of Famers in the consistency that
21:42
Speaker 1: they have, and then there's Tom Brady and he said,
21:45
Speaker 1: what he has done when it comes to the postseason,
21:47
Speaker 1: it's supersedes all of that. Tom can make everyone's life
21:51
Speaker 1: easier here at One Buck Place if they just punched
21:53
Speaker 1: their ticket on Sunday, and if they don't, well, then
21:57
Speaker 1: this thing is going to go another week to be
21:59
Speaker 1: played out in the NFC South. His football life has
22:02
Speaker 1: been as been an amazing movie, much better than Benjamin Button,
22:06
Speaker 1: one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Thank you
22:09
Speaker 1: Sarah Walsh. There Live in Taplan. I mean I just
22:13
Speaker 1: slept through that entire thing. Nothing happened. I woke up
22:15
Speaker 1: forty minutes later to miss anything. No, nothing happened in
22:18
Speaker 1: that movie. Most one hundred yard rushing games since one,
22:23
Speaker 1: Derrick Cannery is the top the list of Look at
22:24
Speaker 1: Dante Foreman down there with eight. Both Foreman and Chuba
22:28
Speaker 1: Hubbard had a hundred yards before the half. Last week
22:32
Speaker 1: before the half mark Ross the Panthers ran for nearly
22:36
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty yards. I mean they do that
22:39
Speaker 1: this week they're keeping Tom Brady out of the playoffs. Uh, definitely,
22:43
Speaker 1: but definitely didn't have taken shots at Benjamin Button on
22:45
Speaker 1: a bingo card going into this day, Andrew. But that's
22:48
Speaker 1: for another conversation. But the Panthers, as Sarah talked about,
22:52
Speaker 1: the first game that Steve Wilkes coach was against the
22:54
Speaker 1: Bucks and it was a different team. And this team
22:57
Speaker 1: has all rallied around head coach Steve Wilts and players
23:02
Speaker 1: know when they see a real one. You've heard theirs
23:05
Speaker 1: throughout his whole time there where he's the same every day.
23:08
Speaker 1: He's consistent, and that's what players really respect. I've been
23:11
Speaker 1: around too soon to be future Hall of Fame coaches
23:13
Speaker 1: and Andy Reid and Tom Coughlin completely different styles, but
23:17
Speaker 1: you knew when you walked in that building, the players
23:19
Speaker 1: knew what you were in for. And you see that
23:22
Speaker 1: playing itself out on the field. Steve Wilkes talks about
23:25
Speaker 1: playing smart and playing discipline, but also being physical, and
23:28
Speaker 1: that's been the trademark of the Panthers. Okay, but now
23:31
Speaker 1: to be physical, you gotta have those players to do
23:34
Speaker 1: it too. You can't just talk about it. And it's
23:36
Speaker 1: almost was hidden in playing sight that that offensive line
23:39
Speaker 1: is pretty good there, rookie Ike Iguanda, you got bose
23:42
Speaker 1: Men at center, Christensen Molten uh So, Austin Corbette. That's
23:46
Speaker 1: a good group up front, and it's almost said, let's
23:48
Speaker 1: just rely on these guys and then go gash then
23:51
Speaker 1: with Jante Foreman, who was like a Derrick Henry light
23:54
Speaker 1: when he was there at Tennessee and now he's bringing
23:56
Speaker 1: that same sort of mash mouth style to the Panthers.
24:00
Speaker 1: And Hubbard has had good games in there as well.
24:02
Speaker 1: But that's all the mentality, the physical ment alley that's
24:05
Speaker 1: been coached and preached. Flipping over to the defensive side
24:08
Speaker 1: of the ball, Al Holcom, a man worked with the Giants,
24:11
Speaker 1: has taken over as defensive coordinator. They've been more physical,
24:14
Speaker 1: but again you gotta have players. Ryan Burns on there
24:17
Speaker 1: in the Pro Bowl, Derek Brown has stepped up, so
24:20
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball there Andrew more physical, more
24:23
Speaker 1: well coached, more balanced, haven't been making mistakes, but physical, physical, physical,
24:27
Speaker 1: but they got the personnel to do it. They punched
24:30
Speaker 1: the Lions in the mouth last week, need to do
24:32
Speaker 1: it to the Bucks this week. And we could be
24:35
Speaker 1: talking about the Panthers and Steve Wilkes as NFC South champions.
24:39
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mark. NFL now continues in a game day
24:43
Speaker 1: back to the scene of that game. It's the Cowboys,
24:46
Speaker 1: it's the Titans. It's a lot of lineup changes. It's
24:48
Speaker 1: raining live with Jane Slater in Nashville. Straight ahead, ladies
24:58
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. Time now to reveal the winner of the
25:00
Speaker 1: Pepsi zero Sugar Rookie of the Week. And what do
25:04
Speaker 1: you know, it's Rock Purty. Congratulations. Through a couple of
25:08
Speaker 1: touchdowns two thirty four yards lead the Niners to yet
25:12
Speaker 1: another victory. They're eleventh victory of the year by beating
25:17
Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders, who are fighting for a playoff spot.
25:20
Speaker 1: The Niners have already wrapped up the NFC West. The
25:23
Speaker 1: Niners are fighting for playoffs seating here as well currently
25:27
Speaker 1: the three seed. This guy, oh, by the way, is
25:31
Speaker 1: a huge part of it as well, the guy they
25:32
Speaker 1: were about to welcome onto the NFC playoff picture. Here
25:35
Speaker 1: the Niners you see eleven and four wrapping up the West.
25:37
Speaker 1: They still have a shot with a three team tie
25:40
Speaker 1: at thirteen wins to get to number one here and
25:44
Speaker 1: I mentioned this guy it's Pro Bowl safety Telenoga who
25:47
Speaker 1: Fungo who joins us live now on Niners Camp. How
25:50
Speaker 1: are you man? Thank you guys for having a Thank
25:54
Speaker 1: you for being here. Let's talk about your quarterback. You
25:56
Speaker 1: faced him when he was a scout team quarterback. Did
26:00
Speaker 1: you see the magic from Brock Purty as a Scout
26:04
Speaker 1: team orderback that we're seeing now? Definitely, definitely very blessed
26:09
Speaker 1: and fortunately just having the locker room a guy, you know,
26:11
Speaker 1: he's only two lockers down for me. I see the
26:13
Speaker 1: preparation they put in daily. You know, there's even going
26:16
Speaker 1: back to O T. A. S. And a guy that
26:19
Speaker 1: just goes out there and and and let let it loose.
26:21
Speaker 1: You know, he has all the confidence in the world
26:23
Speaker 1: to go out there and make plays and helps our
26:25
Speaker 1: team out a tremendous way. So very very lucky to
26:27
Speaker 1: have him, for sure. So tell no, I mean the
26:29
Speaker 1: fact that the offense is playing so well and so fluidly.
26:33
Speaker 1: I mean, how much does it help your defense? Because
26:34
Speaker 1: there were times this year where you guys were defense
26:36
Speaker 1: reliant and now you're much more balanced at this point
26:39
Speaker 1: of the season. Yeah, I just gotta continue to do
26:43
Speaker 1: the do the little things right, you know, and for
26:45
Speaker 1: us just to trust in our offense and and do
26:47
Speaker 1: do our best on defense. Uh, you know, great things
26:50
Speaker 1: will happen. So very blessed for sure. All right, You've
26:52
Speaker 1: been blessed as well here and it's a lot of
26:54
Speaker 1: hard work. Certainly you were on I remember, um, coming
26:57
Speaker 1: out of school before the draft, and now it's come
27:00
Speaker 1: full circle year two. Dude, you are a pro bowler, right,
27:03
Speaker 1: you are in the conversation as well for all pro
27:06
Speaker 1: how have you done it this year? And how have
27:09
Speaker 1: you taken your game to the next level? You know?
27:12
Speaker 1: For me, you know, first from us, I give all
27:14
Speaker 1: the glory to God, you know. Personally, you know, I've
27:16
Speaker 1: been blessed just to be around great people with the
27:18
Speaker 1: support system. I couldn't do this without my teammates, you know,
27:21
Speaker 1: and and having the coaches around me. Um, you know,
27:24
Speaker 1: but we put a lot of work in this offseason
27:26
Speaker 1: together and you get to see the fruits of our labor,
27:29
Speaker 1: you know, show up on the field. So very blessed.
27:31
Speaker 1: Like I said, I'm just excited to be on a
27:33
Speaker 1: on a great team in the organization like the Niners.
27:35
Speaker 1: So um, it's got to continue to work because you know,
27:37
Speaker 1: that's not our end goal for us. Um, we just
27:39
Speaker 1: gotta continue to continue to work. For sure, when you
27:42
Speaker 1: watch this defense, When I watch the defense, I see
27:45
Speaker 1: all three levels, the D front, linebacker, secondary working in
27:49
Speaker 1: such perfect unison. Is there, like, what are the discussion
27:52
Speaker 1: Is there any any any competition, Like, Okay, we're gonna
27:56
Speaker 1: get too many tackles as as a D line or
27:58
Speaker 1: linebackers because all three levels are so physical as well.
28:03
Speaker 1: I mean, what are some of the competitions some of
28:04
Speaker 1: them prestations in practice. Uh, you know, it's funny because
28:08
Speaker 1: you know, guys are you know, we're all really supportive
28:10
Speaker 1: each other, you know, and everything's tied together. You know.
28:13
Speaker 1: If we have a good rush up front, uh, you know,
28:15
Speaker 1: and we get sticking in the back end, we can
28:16
Speaker 1: get sacks, you know, and guys are creating turnovers, creating
28:19
Speaker 1: bad balls, bad throws, um, and everybody just rallies to
28:22
Speaker 1: the football, you know, and we do that, great things
28:24
Speaker 1: will happen. You know, they preached it. It's just energy
28:26
Speaker 1: is contagious on the field, and so you know, it
28:28
Speaker 1: takes a great defense to have a great great defense
28:31
Speaker 1: play at all three levels. And when you get all
28:32
Speaker 1: those three on on the same page. You know, you
28:34
Speaker 1: can see all these plays that are being made from
28:36
Speaker 1: guys all the way around on the team. Great things
28:39
Speaker 1: will happen. Telling out yesterday your head coach Kyle Shanahan
28:41
Speaker 1: basically pounded the podium for Nick Bos for Defensive Player
28:45
Speaker 1: of the Year. Big article a couple of days ago.
28:47
Speaker 1: But how he's totally changed his diet, Like, no more Chipotle,
28:49
Speaker 1: he eats a v J, No more short ribs he's
28:52
Speaker 1: eating too in a pok. He gets no more fast
28:55
Speaker 1: food in the morning. Um, it's nothing but fruit juices
28:58
Speaker 1: at his house. Are are you on his diet as well?
29:01
Speaker 1: And if not, are you going to change? I needed
29:04
Speaker 1: I need to get on that diet. I'm on. I'm
29:06
Speaker 1: on a on a Troy POLAMALU die right now. So
29:08
Speaker 1: I just gotta continue to work on that. But now,
29:10
Speaker 1: he's definitely one of the hardest working dudes you'll ever find,
29:13
Speaker 1: a guy that has a work ethic like none other.
29:15
Speaker 1: Shows up. Is intentional on everything he does, whether it's
29:18
Speaker 1: being in the hot tub doing it stretches, you know,
29:20
Speaker 1: it's it's really just down to the stretches in the
29:22
Speaker 1: hot tub. He's stretching everywhere I see him. My story
29:25
Speaker 1: like he's doing pass us moves, you know, I think, Uh,
29:27
Speaker 1: because mcgannon's when he was talking about that press conference.
29:30
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny talking about how he does pastorates.
29:32
Speaker 1: It's true. A guy that goes around the corner of
29:34
Speaker 1: a doorway and he's and he's doing a pass us
29:36
Speaker 1: move into the locker room. So uh, it makes sense
29:39
Speaker 1: why he's going out there and and man handling guys
29:42
Speaker 1: and getting quarterbacks on the ground, you know, And it's
29:44
Speaker 1: it's it helps us on the back end for sure.
29:46
Speaker 1: So I can't complain at all. I'm sure this is
29:48
Speaker 1: good news for your opponent this week, the Raiders. You know,
29:52
Speaker 1: what about your mentality going in and facing the club
29:55
Speaker 1: that's kind of going what they're going through. They're changing quarterbacks,
29:57
Speaker 1: you know, Chandler Jones is hurt, Dentel Perryman is hurt.
30:01
Speaker 1: You know, they're they're gonna be diminished. I mean, what's
30:03
Speaker 1: your mentality going into this game? Uh? Like every other game,
30:08
Speaker 1: you know, a team that's in desperate and that's it's
30:10
Speaker 1: gonna claw and scratch the way to get a win.
30:12
Speaker 1: So for us, we gotta we gotta bring our a game.
30:14
Speaker 1: We got prepared at the highest level to play a
30:16
Speaker 1: great team in the Raiders. You know they got they
30:18
Speaker 1: still got great guys all around the ball, offense and defensively,
30:22
Speaker 1: and so for us, we just gotta, you know, capitalize
30:24
Speaker 1: on the opportunity at the hand and go out there
30:25
Speaker 1: and make place to win a game. And only a
30:27
Speaker 1: second year is a fifth round pick out of USC
30:30
Speaker 1: Right down the street from where we set comes round
30:33
Speaker 1: the corner doing this right, Telenoah who found got congratulations
30:38
Speaker 1: on the Pro Bowl and your success this year personally
30:41
Speaker 1: and for the team as well. Good luck man, Happy holidays,
30:43
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much, appreciate it. Happy holidays. Thank you,
30:46
Speaker 1: sir Telenoah who founda They're on Niner's cam as they
30:50
Speaker 1: are the three seed climb a little higher the end.
30:53
Speaker 1: Big is their hot toup for boasted to be stretching.
30:57
Speaker 1: That's you got one of your house, a hot tub
31:01
Speaker 1: now a big balance. I don't you should see the
31:03
Speaker 1: view from White's house. That's the view in Nashville as
31:07
Speaker 1: we get ready for the Cowboys and the Titan. Jane
31:09
Speaker 1: Slater with us live in the rain in Nashville for
31:12
Speaker 1: the t n F finale here. T Y Hilton Jane
31:16
Speaker 1: had a huge welcome to Dallas moment last week. What
31:21
Speaker 1: is he met here for the Cowboys says, they try
31:23
Speaker 1: to keep the pressure on the Eagles. Look Andrew, the
31:27
Speaker 1: reason why they went out and got a guy like
31:29
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton was to give them someone who can
31:31
Speaker 1: stretch the field and also someone that can help him
31:33
Speaker 1: in the postseason. And when you saw that third and
31:35
Speaker 1: thirty catch against the Eagles, he certainly made a statement. Now,
31:39
Speaker 1: I do anticipate that we'll see a lot more of
31:41
Speaker 1: him tonight, particularly when you consider that the Titans defense
31:44
Speaker 1: has been thirty first against the past and tonight a
31:48
Speaker 1: Monti hooker. Their safety has been rolled out, their cornerback
31:51
Speaker 1: Christian Fulton has been listed as doubtful, so gonna be tough. Ceedee.
31:55
Speaker 1: Lamb loves the addition of t Y Hilton, by the way,
31:58
Speaker 1: he said, if you want to double team, I got
32:01
Speaker 1: guys on the outside. And it was t Y Hilton
32:03
Speaker 1: who reminded this week that if you think you can't,
32:06
Speaker 1: if you think I can't run, I'll show you, and
32:08
Speaker 1: he certainly did. Lamb said, look at five ten, don't
32:11
Speaker 1: let that size deceive you. The speed will sneak up
32:14
Speaker 1: on you. So again, I anticipate that they're going to
32:16
Speaker 1: go to him a lot tonight because they want to
32:18
Speaker 1: make sure they've got him ready to go for the postseason.
32:20
Speaker 1: All right. The Ghost, as they call him, was Ghost
32:23
Speaker 1: and Eagles on third and thirty last week. Jane Slater,
32:27
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