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Johnathan Gannon Hired by The Cardinals, Skyy Moore Joins She Show, A Discussion on The Cheifs & Andy Reid · NFL Now

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  Speaker 1: we had Shane stike In introduced as the head coach
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  Speaker 1: of the Indianapolis Coach which leaves one team looking for
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  Speaker 1: a head coach, and it looks as if a guy
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  Speaker 1: that Styken knows he's gonna get that job. Ian Arizona
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  Speaker 1: pichon the Sea of the Eagles and our breaking news
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  Speaker 1: on NFL Network, Zian Rappaport is telling us that former
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  Speaker 1: Eagles defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon is the new head coach
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  Speaker 1: of the Arizona Cardinals. So for the first time since
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  Speaker 1: nineteen four, it looks as if a Super Bowl team
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  Speaker 1: will lose both coordinators to NFL jobs with promotions, you know.
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  Speaker 1: For the Patriots lost both coordinators to head coaching job,
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Weiss went to Notre Dame. This would be as well.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in Ian and Mike both coordinators to NFL head
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  Speaker 1: coaching jobs. Pretty impressive for Howie Roseman and Nick Serrianti
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  Speaker 1: tell us about this Gannon thing. And Jonathan Gannon was
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  Speaker 1: the the coach that the Arizona Cardinals were waiting on
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  Speaker 1: for weeks and weeks wanted to get to a chance
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  Speaker 1: to talk to him before they made any head coaching higher.
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  Speaker 1: Despite the fact that they did two second interviews last
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  Speaker 1: week nothing was finalized. They wanted to talk to him,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a very good reason. He's been a strong candidate,
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  Speaker 1: I think for some time here. They interviewed him yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: had him stay the night. He has been meeting as
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  Speaker 1: we speak with owner Michael Bidwill. His flight to Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: has not yet left. He's gonna go home get his family.
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  Speaker 1: That thought was to take part in the parade. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see if all that happens now, because he is expected
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  Speaker 1: to be the new head coach for the Arizona Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: Deal is not done, but it is expected to get done.
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  Speaker 1: I know there's some some finer details and some important
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  Speaker 1: things that Ganton In specifically was going over with Michael
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  Speaker 1: bid Will, but the expectations he will end up as
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  Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals head coaching right. The Eagles lose both coordinators,
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  Speaker 1: which you know, for a team that has been really,
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  Speaker 1: really good, is a tough blow, but I imagine they
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  Speaker 1: have a strong enough program to rebound anyway. When he
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  Speaker 1: arrived in Philadelphia shortly there after they've been an O
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  Speaker 1: t A or training camp practice where he was holding
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  Speaker 1: a press conference with the media, and the Eagles General
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  Speaker 1: manager Howie Roseman was walking by and I saw him
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  Speaker 1: and he pointed to him. He said, see that guy,
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  Speaker 1: he's a stud. That was before last season, his first
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  Speaker 1: one as a defensive coordinator, hadn't called a play yet
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  Speaker 1: for the Philadelphia Eagles, but they knew the clock was
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  Speaker 1: ticking before someone would hire him as a as a
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  Speaker 1: head coach. They thought maybe that was going to happen
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  Speaker 1: last year when he went deep into the process with
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  Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. They were fortunate in their minds to
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  Speaker 1: get him back for another year. Despite what the fan base,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the fan base down there. I listen, I
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  Speaker 1: grew up there. I love Eagles fans. I love the passion.
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  Speaker 1: They've been brutal. I didn't understand some of their criticism
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  Speaker 1: this year of Johnathan and his team. You got a
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  Speaker 1: blitz more, they said, they almost set the SEC records,
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  Speaker 1: set the sack record. He didn't have the blitz more
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  Speaker 1: And Jonathan Cannon's philosophy was not the blitz more. If
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  Speaker 1: that's where your strength of your defense is, so I
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  Speaker 1: thought he did a fantastic job. Listen, help me tell you.
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  Speaker 1: The entire defense could have done better in the second
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  Speaker 1: half of the Super Bowl, but he was an excellent
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  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator in The Eagles are bummed that he is
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  Speaker 1: leaving now heading out to Arizona as soon as this
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  Speaker 1: deal is completed to be the new head coach of
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  Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals and really formulating a coaching staff really
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  Speaker 1: late in the process, Shane Steken and Jonathan Gannon really
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  Speaker 1: needed to put some guys together on their staff, and
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  Speaker 1: those guys were sitting there for a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: here like yeah, can we can we get an answer
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  Speaker 1: because like we've got other offers elsewhere. Now they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: join Jonathan Gannon eventually when he puts his coaching staff together. Mike,
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  Speaker 1: you went to the psyche of Eagle fans. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's a whole another show, another show I made it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He you know, he's been in the league fifteen years.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he had good defenses in Indianapolis, good defenses
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. Um leads the league and sacks all those
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  Speaker 1: things are good. I remember talking to him this year,
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  Speaker 1: Mike at trainee camp. He was telling me that they
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  Speaker 1: play something in the defensive room, okay, called effort roulette.
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  Speaker 1: So he picks a play air from a play and
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  Speaker 1: his job is to stand up in front of the
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  Speaker 1: room and grade the other ten players on the play
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  Speaker 1: for effort. And so it begins with effort for Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: getting to the football. Good things happen when you get
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  Speaker 1: to the ball. Those are some of the principles that
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  Speaker 1: he's going to bring to Arizona. Everybody preaches it, everybody
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  Speaker 1: teaches it a little bit different, uh, you know. But
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles, the way they took the ball away the
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  Speaker 1: last two years, the way they got to the quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: those are principles because of effort and a couple of
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  Speaker 1: other items that they're gonna have to work on as
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  Speaker 1: far as personnel, I think going forward. So Jonathan Gannon
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  Speaker 1: takes over team with a question a quarterback at least
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  Speaker 1: early in the season thought as Kyler Murray will not
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  Speaker 1: be back from his major knee injury is a c
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  Speaker 1: L injury late in the year to start the season,
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  Speaker 1: so the Cardinals had that to figure out. Mardy austin
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  Speaker 1: Ford is the new general manager. Certainly there are questions
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  Speaker 1: to be answered all right, it's a long offseason. It's
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  Speaker 1: only Dane number two. I mentioned and stike In the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles losing both coordinators. He and he was introduced earlier
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  Speaker 1: today in Indianapolis with Chris Ballard and Jim Rcy found
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  Speaker 1: it interesting Ursay said that we wanted stik In because
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  Speaker 1: we have to develop a young quarterback. Um then he
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  Speaker 1: kind of name checked Bryce Young. You could almost see
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  Speaker 1: the thought bubble above Chris Ballard's head as he projects
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  Speaker 1: to April and the fourth overall pick. Yeah, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of talking about quarterbacks in the opening press conference for
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  Speaker 1: Shane Stake, which makes a lot of sense. His work
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  Speaker 1: at the quarterback position has been really good. Has taken
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts from a second rounder who I know a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people, not just fans, but a lot of
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  Speaker 1: evaluators in the NFL really had some doubts about how
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  Speaker 1: high his ceiling was gonna be. Could he be a
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  Speaker 1: franchise quarterback? Uh stike In, you know, essentially took him
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  Speaker 1: to being exactly that. And they are going to need
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback obviously Matt Ryan not gonna be their quarterback
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  Speaker 1: next year. Do they draft one or was Jim Rcy
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  Speaker 1: trying to get everyone to trade in front of him,
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  Speaker 1: to get everyone to think they were gonna draft one.
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  Speaker 1: The games have begun, but either way they're going to
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  Speaker 1: need one. Shane Styke in one of the best young
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  Speaker 1: coaches developed in the quarterback along with his other assets
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  Speaker 1: including leadership, helping with the culture, the way he employs
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  Speaker 1: players to play at their absolute highest. A lot to
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  Speaker 1: like about this coach for the Colts. Yeah, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: take this Eagle's focus now because in one day, as
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  Speaker 1: we've been talking about for the last couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: we expected it had happened, they lost both of their coordinators.
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  Speaker 1: Now what do they do? Brian Johnson potentially could move
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  Speaker 1: up from quarterbacks coach to offensive coordinator to replace Stike
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  Speaker 1: in uh, don't forget about Kevin Petulo, the passing game coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: who has uh a huge hand uh in what the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles are doing both on game day and during the week. Defensively,
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  Speaker 1: they could open up things a little bit to take
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  Speaker 1: a look at who might be available out there, though
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  Speaker 1: they do have some coaches on their coaching staff they
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  Speaker 1: feel highly about, so UH. Like I talked about with
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Gannon and Shane Stike and having to put their
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  Speaker 1: coaching staffs together at this point, this late in the game.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles are kind of sort of in that same
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  Speaker 1: boat because they lost both of these guys here within
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  Speaker 1: two days of playing in the Super Bowl. I always say, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: I think in a lot of cases, it's more difficult
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  Speaker 1: to replace good coaches than it is good players. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the void right now for Nick Serriani
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  Speaker 1: in the Eagles. I mean, everybody loves Brian Johnson in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Petulah has been around the league. I remember when
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  Speaker 1: he was with the Jets with Fitzpatrick one year and
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  Speaker 1: they put up ten wins and he did a good
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  Speaker 1: job at the quarterback position, so they got to fill
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  Speaker 1: those voids. I just looked at Shane Steken, though, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as a new head coach, you know when
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  Speaker 1: you talk about quarterbacks, I mean he's been around, Philip
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  Speaker 1: River has been around, Justin Herbert has been around, Jalen Hurts.
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  Speaker 1: He knows what the leadership position and the leadership qualities
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  Speaker 1: look like. From those three players, they all did it
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  Speaker 1: a little bit different, but it does start with their
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  Speaker 1: ability to go out there every day and work on
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  Speaker 1: their craft and so I think that there is a
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  Speaker 1: huge physicist on work ethic being in the building, first
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  Speaker 1: one in, last one out, all those things, because all
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  Speaker 1: those players did that while they was their coach. So
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  Speaker 1: I think that he has an idea of what he's
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  Speaker 1: looking for and what it's supposed to look like. And again,
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  Speaker 1: plenty of Super Bowl teams after a place both coordinators
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  Speaker 1: the sixteen Falcons, Kyle Shanahan went to the Niners. We
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  Speaker 1: knew that before he ever coached. The day of the game,
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  Speaker 1: that day that Richard Smith took the fall for the
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  Speaker 1: three he was fired. But the Niners rather or rather
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles, or the first team since the nine Niners
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  Speaker 1: to have both coordinators offensive and defensive get promotions to
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  Speaker 1: NFL head coaching jobs. So it had been nearly thirty
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  Speaker 1: years coming up next, isn't too early to look ahead
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  Speaker 1: to the four Hall of Fame class though it isn't
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna do that. Our voter, Jim Trotter right around
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  Speaker 1: the corner with that, you're watching NFL? Now, how cool
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  Speaker 1: is that sky More first career touchdown is in the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl and your family is there to see at
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  Speaker 1: the wider sier of the Kansas City Chiefs Joints is
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  Speaker 1: live now on NFL. Now you get emotional by chance
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  Speaker 1: watching your family Sky get emotional? Yeah, for sure, man,
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  Speaker 1: as that video is priceless. Man, you waited until the
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  Speaker 1: biggest game of your career, Sky to score for the
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  Speaker 1: very first time in an NFL uniform. How bad was
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  Speaker 1: that wait? And how good was to get it? How?
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  Speaker 1: How good was it to get it into Super Bowl? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: The way it was worthy? I say the way it
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  Speaker 1: was definitely worthy, you know, for for to be on
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  Speaker 1: that that stage at that time. Man, I wouldn't trade
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  Speaker 1: it for nothing. As a kid growing up in Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 1: did you dream about this moment? Was it as good
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  Speaker 1: as your dream? It was better than the dream. It
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  Speaker 1: was better than the dreams, you know, So it was
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  Speaker 1: because it's still it's still don't feel real. It kind
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  Speaker 1: of don't feel really, you know, just being able to
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  Speaker 1: get in the end zone first of all, just being
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  Speaker 1: able to get in the end them and then the
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  Speaker 1: way in the timing that it happened, it was just crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I want to set this play up because a couple
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  Speaker 1: of minutes earlier, they had run almost the identical concept
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  Speaker 1: Sky to the other side with Kid Arias Tony. He
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  Speaker 1: walked in easy, went motion, pivoted, came back out the ball,
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  Speaker 1: call the touchdown. When you heard the play call and
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  Speaker 1: you guys just merrited to the left, did you know
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  Speaker 1: you were going to score? Yeah? I knew it. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as soon as I see Kat scored, I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I gotta play like that, and if we
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  Speaker 1: get back into this and we get back into this
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  Speaker 1: area of the field, you're probably gonna call my play.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what they did. So it was it was,
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  Speaker 1: it was already written. I already knew. I already knew
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  Speaker 1: I was getting in the end Zoe. As soon as
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  Speaker 1: as soon as Pat called out the coverage and I
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  Speaker 1: went in motion, I knew what it was. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people are going back to week four Sky to
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  Speaker 1: a play the Jaguars ran, all right, they're facing the Eagles,
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  Speaker 1: and Trevor Lawrence ran something similar. Doug Peterson obviously it
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  Speaker 1: used to be Andy Reids o c dialed up a
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  Speaker 1: play where Jamal ag Knew came in motion to the right.
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  Speaker 1: He had the easy walking touchdown. Look the same. Did
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  Speaker 1: you guys see that play? During film study leading up
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  Speaker 1: to the game. Yeah, I remember when we were when
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  Speaker 1: we were going through our installed period um because Reading
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  Speaker 1: referenced that play to me. He would be like, yo,
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  Speaker 1: like go back and look at this play. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to keep your footing. It should be used to me,
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  Speaker 1: it should be it should be a good play for
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  Speaker 1: this look. So I definitely I know the exact play
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about, and you know, I was aware of
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  Speaker 1: how successful they were with that, so I definitely wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get out there and you know, getting the end
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  Speaker 1: zone for myself. Did Coach Reid say if Doug called
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  Speaker 1: him to give him the idea? Now, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: about all that. I don't know whose idea was, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, I know you got me in the end
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  Speaker 1: zone for the first time. And one al right before
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  Speaker 1: you got the end zone. You're in the locker room
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  Speaker 1: at halftime when when they were working on kind of
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  Speaker 1: magic on Pat's ankle story, is that Coach Read told
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  Speaker 1: you you cannot you but everybody you cannot go out
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  Speaker 1: to see Rihanna? Is that true? I don't remember him
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  Speaker 1: saying that, but that was just that was just something
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  Speaker 1: that was understood from the jump. You know, Coach Read,
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  Speaker 1: because Read don't really, guys say too much. You know people,
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  Speaker 1: people know what time he's on from just the looks
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  Speaker 1: that he gives for those who don't know. Evan McPherson
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  Speaker 1: last year, the Bengal's kicker at so far Um, snuck
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  Speaker 1: out from the Cincinnati locker room to watch Dre and
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  Speaker 1: M and M and that show here in l A
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  Speaker 1: and and lunch and grief. For that, he ended up
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: losing game, not that it was his fault anyway. Sky
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  Speaker 1: Parade coverage tomorrow, NFL Network, one o'clock Eastern time. Have
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: you thought of what you're wearing for the parade? That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I just talk to Jody Forston about what he's wearing
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  Speaker 1: to the trade. But I'm gonna I'm gonna keep it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep it cool. I know, I know it
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  Speaker 1: might it might get a little wet on the bus.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna definitely bring my my ski, my ski
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  Speaker 1: goggles there. That's that's the that's the mandatory. That's the
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  Speaker 1: mandatory thing I'm gonna bring. All right. Finally, last thing
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  Speaker 1: who loses it on the podium, Like, who's the guy
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  Speaker 1: that we have to bleep tomorrow on the podium? You
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: already know it's trad exactly. You're gonna have that, You're
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: gonna have to be Yeah, we're ready for that. We
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  Speaker 1: assume he's going to be the one. Uh, don't be
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  Speaker 1: that guy, Sky Okay, just get up there, be classy.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations though on the ring that you're getting in. Congratulations
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  Speaker 1: and finally getting that first touch down. Yes, I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, skuy More. Everybody, all right, you watch the
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  Speaker 1: other quarterbacks around the league do. But the reality is
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  Speaker 1: they can't do what they do unless they have protection
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  Speaker 1: up front. And we have to go back to the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl two years ago when Patrick Mahomes had the
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  Speaker 1: worst game of his career. He was held without an
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  Speaker 1: offensive touchdown for the first time as a starter. They
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  Speaker 1: were three or thirteen on third down, he was sacked
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  Speaker 1: three times, He threw two interceptions, They were all for
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  Speaker 1: three in the red zone. And what did they do
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  Speaker 1: we have to address this offensive line. They had four
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  Speaker 1: did in that Super Bowl two years ago. And these
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  Speaker 1: injured reinjured that ankle laid in the first half. What
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  Speaker 1: the line that said to themselves in that locker room
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  Speaker 1: was nobody touches him after this. And what did we see?
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Holmes had one incompletion in the second half, and
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  Speaker 1: that was the ball he threw away in the end zone,
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  Speaker 1: and offensively, they ran the heck out of the ball
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: for a hundred and nineteen yards. So from that standpoint,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: they had heard all week about how good the Philly
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: defensive front was. They knew that Philly had four players
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: who had at least ten sacks, the first time in
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: league history that's happened. And what they said is, we
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: felt like we weren't getting the respect that we deserve.
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  Speaker 1: And so when you combine their ability with Patrick Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: his ability, and then you put in Andy Reid and
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: his play design, um, that's a tough that's a tough
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: combination for anyone to beat. And I would say this
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: to you about Andy Reid in my opinion, Andrew, this
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: guy is one of the all time great coaches. If
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: he never coached another game, to me, he's a Hall
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: of Famer, easy. And when you look at what he
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: did in Philly with a consistent see there in terms
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: of success. Then to come to Kansas City and have
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: the same type of success, if not, I'm sorry, more
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: success actually um for me, he's just phenomenal in terms
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: of his creativity, in terms of his ability to connect
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: with his players and lead. And so from that standpoint,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: there were so many guys throughout the course of this
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: season that deserve credit, but I wanted to give some
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: credit to those big, big uglies up front because we
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: all give credit to the quarterbacks and the coaches, etcetera. Baldi.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Jim, they rebuilt that offense line in a
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  Speaker 1: matter of months after that Super Bowl lost to Tampa.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Creed Humphrey second round pick, Tray Smith sixth
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: round pick, you know, Joe Tooney in free agency and
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: trade for Zeus And basically those guys have lined up
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: and played almost every single snap over the last two years.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: And they heard all the noise all week long. I
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: mean they you go back and you watch that hundred
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: nineteen yards in the second half, and they earned those
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: hundred nineteen yards. They moved the Eagles off the line
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: of scrimmage, They won the trench warfare, and I had
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: an Eagle player yesterday text me Jim and said, it
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: felt like an Atlanta Falcon collapse. And in some ways
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: up ten totally in control of that game. They they
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: felt like they had thirty minutes left to go complete
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the deal. They couldn't do it because the defense couldn't
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: get off the field. But Holmes took control their offensive
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: line that you just mentioned, all those guys, Uh, they
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: took control and they protected Mahomes. They ran the ball
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: really effectively in a variety of ways. It was a
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: great comeback by the Chiefs, and they took it to
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: the Eagles and they beat them in the trenches. And
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: they did so even with Jalen Hurts playing as good
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: a game as one could play in the Super And
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: not only that, Andrew, not only did Jalen play great,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: but Nick Sirianni called a great game in that first half,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: going forward on four towns and being aggressive and staying aggressive,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: uh you know, and taking the deep shots down the
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: field and connecting all those to touchdown to a j
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and a couple of drops that you know happened along
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: the way. But um, you know, they played to win
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the game. They just didn't finish it, and they just
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: didn't get that chance. And they would have been great
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: to see them get the chance. But a hold as
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: a hold, we could have that conversation for the next
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: six months. However, thank you, Jim, and thank you Baldy
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: for how long will we have the Aaron Rodgers conversation.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: We had thought that Rogers would enter his four day
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: darkness retreat the day after the Super Bowl, alas that
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen. He now says until later in
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: the week, so keep on waiting. I have a lot
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: of love and empathy for for all people. I'm fascinated
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: by humanity and curious about a lot of individuals and
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: what they're into and how they see the world. Um.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: There was a time where I was judgmental of plan
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: medicine and things like a darkness retreat or therapy or
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: all these different things that kind of the conditioning that
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I grew up with made me see the world. So
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: totally understand Um, any of those thoughts. Um, But ultimately
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: those are projections and those have way more to do
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: with the people making those statements than than me. So
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: it doesn't stick to me, It doesn't bother me. Um,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: you know, just gives me more love and I think
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: empathy for those people. I think we all could use
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: a dose of turn our phone off once in a
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: while and unplugging from society. I'll be honest with the
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: states of else. The more I think about and the
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: more I read about it, Wall Street Journel did a
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: big piece on what these darkness retreats are like. I
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: wouldn't mind taking a three day nap, right But at
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the same time, the Green Bay packers are waiting for
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: some kind of answer, but they hold some cards in
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: this as well. They do. I just turned my phone off.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure to hang out with you guys on
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the NFL now. It's pretty amazing. Um, you know, I
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: got yours off. I see Andrew a good job. Um. Hey,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I was in Green Bay week eighteen, right they lose
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: to the Detroit Lions, and I remember talking to a
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: high ranking official the next day and I was like,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: this is deja vu? Huh, and that officials started laughing
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: and said yep. And I don't know if we're going
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: to be able to get in contact with Aaron because
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: he leaves the country. So they want a decision. They
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: wanted a decision weeks ago, and here we are again
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: with this um sort of off season. What's become deja
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: vu in many respects. So he'll go on his isolation
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: or treat and contemplate what he needs to and you know,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I guess the question is is how much does he
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: want to stay in Green Bay and how much do
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: they want him back? And it's going to be the
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: conversation until he makes a decision. It was interesting though,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: how he talked about this season I just need to
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: be efficient. And obviously they gave themselves a chance after
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: a really bad start to make the playoffs, Baldi and Andrew.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: But is Aaron Rodgers where is he in his career
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: after back to back m v P seasons? Uh? And
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: then he goes into last year and becomes an efficient quarterback?
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Was he? Or is he just becoming the game manager
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: type quarterback unlike the two m d p P seasons
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: that I just mentioned. Uh, So here we are, I
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: guess at this stage, you guys, and uh, we'll see.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know what else to say. Well, Stacy, we're
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: not quite forty eight hours old from the super Bowl,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: so it's time to start talking quarterback. But for the
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: teams that didn't make the playoffs, their business looking towards
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: next year, no doubt started a month. No, They're all
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: looking for somebody that can at the level that we
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: just saw Mahomes and Jalen Hurts play in this past
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: super Bowl, which was almost flawless between the two of them,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: and so everybody's looking to see if they can nail
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: down that position as quickly as they can. Aaron Rodgers
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: is going to be the forefront of all this we
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: mentioned Derek Carr earlier. I mean the charterback carousel was
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: starting right away. Now we gotta allow Aaron his private
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: time here, his his uh he enter the cave. We
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: got to allow him to do that, to see what
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: kind of ideas are coming to his mind. It might
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: be six more weeks the winter when it comes, it
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: could be uh poncitoni, phil, I think I said that right,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: But it could be something like that. But I mean,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: our off season is driven by quarterbacks. It was last
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: year all the way to the end. It's gonna be
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: this year. And so where Aaron Rodgers goes, if he stays,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: if he goes where he goes, that kind of starts
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the carousel spinning when he comes back from the darkness.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: My old friend. Thank you, Stacy, thank you. Ball It
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