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Lions players Suspended for gambling, The Eagles draft, Plus interviews from Keion White, & Deonte Banks · NFL Now

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  Speaker 2: Hello and welcome into NFL Now, presented by Ikia. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Omar Race. In the NFL Network newsroom. We are now
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  Speaker 2: six days away from Kansas City hosting the first round
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  Speaker 2: of the NFL Draft. We have Georgia Tech prospect Keon
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  Speaker 2: why To, projected first rounder.
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  Speaker 3: He's set to join us.
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  Speaker 2: We have all the news and notes you want to
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  Speaker 2: get to about the NFL Draft, including three of the
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  Speaker 2: top ten picks holding their pre draft press conferences today,
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  Speaker 2: including Chris Ballard and the Indianapolis Colts.
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  Speaker 3: You hear from him in just a little bit. But
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  Speaker 3: first we start with some.
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  Speaker 2: Breaking news into NFL Network. This from the league office.
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  Speaker 2: The NFL has suspended five players for violating the league's
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  Speaker 2: gambling policy, including the Detroit Lions one of their two
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  Speaker 2: first round picks a year ago, Jamison Williams.
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  Speaker 3: He's been suspended for six games. Here is the full
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  Speaker 3: list of the five players.
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  Speaker 2: For of them, Detroit Lions Stanley Berryhill, fellow Lions receiver,
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  Speaker 2: also suspended six games. And you have Quintes Cephis, CJ.
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  Speaker 2: Moore and Washington Commander's defensive end Shaka Tony All suspended indefinitely.
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  Speaker 2: You see Quintez Cephis and CJ. Moore have already been
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  Speaker 2: released by the Lions. Here is Detroit Lions statement from
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  Speaker 2: executive vice president and general manager Brad Holmes. As a
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  Speaker 2: result of an NFL investigation, it came to our attention
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  Speaker 2: that a few of our players had violated the league's
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  Speaker 2: gambling policy. These players exhibited decision making that is not
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  Speaker 2: consistent with our organizational values and violates league rules. We
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  Speaker 2: have made the decision to part ways with Quintes and CJ.
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  Speaker 3: Immediately.
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  Speaker 2: You go on to say, we are disappointed by the
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  Speaker 2: decision making demonstrated by Stanley and Jamison, and we'll work
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  Speaker 2: with both those players to ensure they understand the severity
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  Speaker 2: of these violations and have clarity on the league.
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  Speaker 3: Rules moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: For much more on this, we welcome in our NFL
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  Speaker 2: network insiders Tom Pellasero and Mike Garofollo. We thought players
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  Speaker 2: might have gotten the message last year when Calvin Ridley
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  Speaker 2: was suspended for a year.
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  Speaker 3: Tom, apparently that's not the case. What more can you
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  Speaker 3: tell us about this suspension?
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  Speaker 4: Well, much like Calvin Ridley, omar the three players suspended
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  Speaker 4: in definitely for violating the NFL's gambling policy. Were suspended
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  Speaker 4: because they bet on NFL games during the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 4: two season. That is a bright line. NFL players, anyone
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  Speaker 4: with an NFL club or the league offense, cannot bet
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  Speaker 4: on NFL games. Players are permitted to bet on other sports,
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  Speaker 4: but they are not permitted to do so while in
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  Speaker 4: NFL stadiums or facilities, anything associated with the league. That's
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  Speaker 4: what happened with Jamison Williams, who was suspended six games
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  Speaker 4: for betting as our in report report earlier today, on
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  Speaker 4: college games while inside the Lions facility. A couple of
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  Speaker 4: notable things from the NFL. The league said that the
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  Speaker 4: evidence does not show or they have not found any
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  Speaker 4: evidence that any inside information was used in these bets
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  Speaker 4: or that any game was compromised. Still, much like in
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  Speaker 4: the Calvin Ridley situation, Mike, this is a clear message
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  Speaker 4: from the NFL. Gambling is much more readily available. There
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  Speaker 4: are now sportsbooks inside stadiums, You can place bets on
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  Speaker 4: your phone. It does not change the policy here, and
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  Speaker 4: if you are turned in for violating that policy, it
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  Speaker 4: will be swift and significant discipline.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, and much like the Calvin Ridley situation, there was
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  Speaker 5: that electronic evidence. You can't hide from that. So Jamison Williams,
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  Speaker 5: via his agency, has confirmed that yes, he did bet
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  Speaker 5: on NFL games and suspended by the league for six games.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 3: That's statement from his agency.
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  Speaker 5: Alliance Sports also says, quote, Jamison would never intentionally jeopardize
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  Speaker 5: the integrity of the game he loves so much and
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  Speaker 5: looks forward to getting back to his team as soon
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  Speaker 5: as possible. It also makes that distinction that you were
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  Speaker 5: talking about, Tom, it was not for betting on football,
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  Speaker 5: but rather the location of the bet that was placed,
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  Speaker 5: which is again at the team facility. Cannot use your phone,
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  Speaker 5: You cannot gamble at all at NFL facilities. If you're
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  Speaker 5: a player, you can do that away from the facility.
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  Speaker 5: That I suppose as a luxury that the players have
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  Speaker 5: that other personnel don't have. Remember, Jets coach Miles Austin
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  Speaker 5: was betting on non NFL games. He was doing that
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  Speaker 5: at the facility as well. Coaches, personnel everyone like that
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  Speaker 5: cannot gamble on sports period. Players can, it's just a
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  Speaker 5: matter of where they do it. In this case, Jamison
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  Speaker 5: Williams did it in the wrong place.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly noteworthy distinction. They're betting on NFL games and
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  Speaker 2: not betting on NFL games. Tom, when you talk about
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  Speaker 2: Baltimore Ravens quarterback situation, we've been focusing all off season
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  Speaker 2: on that, and we have some news about the Baltimore
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  Speaker 2: Ravens quarterbacks room.
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  Speaker 3: What can you tell us about that?
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  Speaker 4: That's right, Omar, the Ravens Pro Bowl quarterback is not
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  Speaker 4: going anywhere. That is, of course, Tyler Snoop Huntley, who
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  Speaker 4: is selected to the Pro Bowl Games one year ago.
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  Speaker 4: He plans, i am told to sign his restricted free
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  Speaker 4: agent tender on Monday. Today is the deadline for restricted
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  Speaker 4: free agents who received the tender to potentially sign an
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  Speaker 4: offer sheet with another club. That is really rare in
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  Speaker 4: the modern NFL, and so Huntley, like the other restricted
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  Speaker 4: free agents this year, albeit guys could still sign them today,
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  Speaker 4: but he is going to end up back with Baltimore.
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  Speaker 4: He's actually already been back in Baltimore. I'm told that
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  Speaker 4: he's been training at the Ravens facility, participating in their
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  Speaker 4: off season program this week, which he's allowed to do
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  Speaker 4: with a waiver. Huntley is actually headed to Tampa this
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  Speaker 4: weekend to throw with some of his teammates. We'll be
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  Speaker 4: back Monday to sign the tender, resume being in the program.
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  Speaker 4: And as for that other quarter back who has played
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  Speaker 4: for the Ravens in recent years, Lamar Jackson on that
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  Speaker 4: franchise tender still not signed.
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  Speaker 2: I laughed when you tweeted it this morning. Tom, I'm
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  Speaker 2: still laughing at that joke, as Steven Isle as it
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  Speaker 2: might be. Mike Garrolfalo, we have just less than a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks, now, Is it that bad?
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  Speaker 3: That joke? How Mike?
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  Speaker 7: No, I'm stifling a cough. Let me just get it out.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead, there you go. We'll set this up here.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, we have less than a couple of weeks for
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  Speaker 2: first round picks in the twenty twenty NFL Draft to
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  Speaker 2: have their fifth year options exercised. A big name just
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  Speaker 2: got extended, Mike, What more can you tell us about that?
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  Speaker 3: See? This is much better.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not nervous about coffee now. While I'm talking, Ceee Lamb,
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  Speaker 5: the Cowboys wide receiver, the team has picked up his
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  Speaker 5: fifth year.
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  Speaker 2: The Pro Bowl wide receiver for the Dallas.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we know who that is. That's that's Ceedee Lamb.
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  Speaker 5: You know it's like Tom doing his all. See Tom's
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  Speaker 5: already moved on, he's less and he's probably reading his
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  Speaker 5: quarterback story from earlier today, nine thousand words.
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  Speaker 3: Go check that out when you got a chance. Ceedee.
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  Speaker 5: Lamb's fifth year option picked up, So he'll make seventeen
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  Speaker 5: point nine million dollars if we round up, it's actually
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  Speaker 5: eighteen eighteen in twenty twenty four, fully guaranteed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no brainer right here.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we've got some other fifty year options that
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  Speaker 5: are extremely questionable, including Chase Young with the Commanders, but
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  Speaker 5: this one was an easy one because the Cowboys do
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  Speaker 5: want to sign CD Lamb to a long term extension. Well,
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  Speaker 5: now they've got a number for twenty twenty four to
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  Speaker 5: work off of. So let's see if the sides can
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  Speaker 5: come together on an extension and how quickly they can
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  Speaker 5: do that.
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  Speaker 2: Omark, We're going to break down Tom's article a little
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  Speaker 2: later in the show.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for plugging that, Mike.
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  Speaker 5: As for the Colts, better save a big segment for it.
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  Speaker 2: He has it all to himself, if I'm not mistaken.
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  Speaker 2: The Colts have the number four pick all to themselves
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  Speaker 2: as of right now.
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  Speaker 3: But will they go quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Chris Ballard said he's either going to dance around
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  Speaker 2: questions at his pre draft press conference or he's going
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  Speaker 2: to answer them honestly. You can imagine what he decided
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  Speaker 2: to do today.
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  Speaker 3: How much lying do you think goes on right now?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, everybody's lying. I might be the most honest, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: but everybody's lying.
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  Speaker 3: I think you know may well enough.
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  Speaker 2: Like usually, if you answer question, I'll either dance around
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  Speaker 2: it or give you an answer. Today, I'm a dancer.
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  Speaker 5: Today, I'm an answer.
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  Speaker 2: Hold me closer, timey dance all right, Tom, Chris Ballard
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  Speaker 2: says he's dancing around these questions.
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  Speaker 3: What can you tell us about the Colts and number four? Well, maar, I.
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  Speaker 4: Think that if you look at the top ten in
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  Speaker 4: this draft, it's a short list of teams that you know,
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  Speaker 4: with virtual certainty you're going to take quarterbacks. Starts at
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  Speaker 4: number one with the Carolina Panthers and the Colts, who
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  Speaker 4: are sitting there at number four. It would be a
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  Speaker 4: shock if they don't go that direction. The question, and
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  Speaker 4: part of the reason Chris Ballard has to dance around
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  Speaker 4: these things is they just don't know what's going to
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  Speaker 4: happen at number two and number three. Now, if you
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  Speaker 4: speak to people within the league, which I have been
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  Speaker 4: doing a lot for that, or you can find at
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  Speaker 4: NFL dot com slash Pelicero, he will find that there
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  Speaker 4: certainly is some belief that Will Levis from Kentucky could
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  Speaker 4: end up being the quarterback. He has run a pro
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  Speaker 4: style offense the last couple of years at Kentucky, influenced
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  Speaker 4: by the Shanahan McVeigh type of a system. He is
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  Speaker 4: a big guy with a big arm. He does have
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  Speaker 4: running ability, although he didn't get to show it a
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  Speaker 4: whole lot last year because he was dealing with injuries
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  Speaker 4: on a really injury and talent depleted type of a
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  Speaker 4: Kentucky offense. But there's also some love for Anthony Richardson
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  Speaker 4: through the course of this process. A classic low ceiling,
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  Speaker 4: high floor, excuse me, low floor, high ceiling type of
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  Speaker 4: a player here. He might profile a little bit more
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  Speaker 4: like Jalen Hurts in terms of the things that you
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  Speaker 4: could do and Shane Stake and d Hurts in Philadelphia
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  Speaker 4: the last couple of years with the run threat in
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  Speaker 4: addition to the pass threat here. But what are the
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  Speaker 4: Texans do at two? Do they in fact pass on
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  Speaker 4: a quarterback and take a defensive player. That would then
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  Speaker 4: put Arizona, which is at number three, in position to
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  Speaker 4: put their pickup forbid for whoever wants to come up
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  Speaker 4: and take the number or two quarterback. All of which
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  Speaker 4: is to say, good reason for Chris Ballard Mike to
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  Speaker 4: remain a dancer today, because if he stops dancing, well,
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  Speaker 4: then it'll be like footloose and everybody will know exactly
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  Speaker 4: what's going on.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what that metaphor means. Some's gonna take
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  Speaker 5: it and go with it.
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  Speaker 3: And I lost it. I was dancing.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's trying to plane, and then yeah, like
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  Speaker 4: I was so close to having it, and then I
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  Speaker 4: realized I didn't know how it was ending.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, I'm still worried about the floor versus the
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  Speaker 5: ceiling or whether Michael Jordan who said the ceiling is
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  Speaker 5: the roof. I believe he was the one that said
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  Speaker 5: that the floor is lava.
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  Speaker 3: Am I talking here? Yeah, Mike, the floor is lava.
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  Speaker 5: If you've got kids, Yeah, it's it's The draft is
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  Speaker 5: an exercise a lot of times in futility when you're
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  Speaker 5: trying to report on it, because it's not like free
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  Speaker 5: agency where teams have to show their cards and you
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  Speaker 5: kind of get a good feeling going in the free
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  Speaker 5: agency that your info is right.
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  Speaker 7: This this top ten.
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  Speaker 5: Last year's top ten was really easy to peg. It
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  Speaker 5: was amazing how it fell based on how we were here.
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  Speaker 5: This year, it's really hard to and it's really hard
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  Speaker 5: to figure out what the cults are doing and how
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  Speaker 5: they have those quarterbacks stacked. I've heard that they are
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  Speaker 5: not high on Levis. I've heard that they are high
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  Speaker 5: on Levis. So as we get closer here, we'll eventually
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  Speaker 5: start to figure it out, maybe have a better feel
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  Speaker 5: for it before Round one kicks off. But right now
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  Speaker 5: and again, they're at the mercy of the Texans. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: the teams are calling and wanting to know what we're
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  Speaker 5: hearing about what Houston is going to do, and nobody
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  Speaker 5: knows for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Back to you, Omar, Well, if you haven't heard yet, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: we are going to break down Tom Pellisaro's quarterback rankings
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  Speaker 2: article coming up a little later in this show. If
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  Speaker 2: you want to get a sneak feet, folks at home,
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  Speaker 2: go to NFL dot com slash Palissaro and.
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  Speaker 3: Read all about it before we get there. Thank you, Tom,
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Mike a monumental day for the Philadelphia Eagles. They has
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  Speaker 2: store day Jalen Hurts and the Eagles that would to
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  Speaker 2: chose only five year, two million dollars contract defensive, making
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  Speaker 2: this statement very clear. Jalien Hurts is in fact the
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  Speaker 2: franchise quarterback for Eagles five years, two fifty five. That
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  Speaker 2: makes him the highest paid player in the NFL. All
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  Speaker 2: in all, a day where everyone can walk away smiling,
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles and Dalen Hurts can walk throughto the future together.
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  Speaker 2: So now that the Jalen Hurds contract is done, the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles can pay full attention to the NFL Draftnicks Week,
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  Speaker 2: Chad Ryders seven round mock.
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  Speaker 3: Draft is out. He has the Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: Going defense to start their draft, just like they did
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  Speaker 2: last year with Jordan Davis Junior Gibbs, the Alabama running
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  Speaker 2: back their second pick. Howid Roseman yesterday talking about getting
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  Speaker 2: special players with.
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  Speaker 3: A number ten pick, which writers has them trading out of.
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  Speaker 8: I think the most important thing when when you're picking
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  Speaker 8: in the first round, certainly when you're picking ten, is
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  Speaker 8: that you get a unique player. And I think that
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  Speaker 8: there's so few unique players in any draft that if
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  Speaker 8: you start picking by position and not based on the
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  Speaker 8: quality of the talent, then you really you get a chance.
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  Speaker 8: So if you pick by position and you pick a
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  Speaker 8: back a player who's not any good, then it's not
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  Speaker 8: a good pick anyway. And so I think the most
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  Speaker 8: important thing for us here is that we get you.
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  Speaker 8: We utilize this opportunity to get a unique player.
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  Speaker 2: Six days away, the Eagles tweeting out Devontae Smith, who's
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  Speaker 2: been a star both at Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: And for the Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: Six The amount of picks too at the Eagles head
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  Speaker 2: coming into next week's draft are much more on the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles discussion, we welcome in James Homer, who will be
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  Speaker 2: in Philadelphia, his hometown, to cover the Eagles and their
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  Speaker 2: draft too.
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  Speaker 3: First round picks.
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  Speaker 6: No Bruce Springsteen, Ohmarks you we're gonna bust down to
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  Speaker 6: Bruce Springsteen for Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 3: Now anah, yeah, you like that singing last segmentary? Oh
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  Speaker 3: you didn't all it?
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  Speaker 2: Thought it was horrible? Okay, you just like my kids
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  Speaker 2: think I sing horribly. I'd have to agree, but it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't shy away from me doing it. Okay, Number ten,
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  Speaker 2: Number thirty there, James. For the Eagles, what might they
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  Speaker 2: be thinking ahead?
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  Speaker 3: Of next week.
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  Speaker 6: You heard how Roseman Omar talk about a unique player. Right,
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  Speaker 6: They have two picks in the first round, which is great,
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  Speaker 6: but they only have six total picks. They have ten
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  Speaker 6: thirty sixty two, ninety four and then nothing in rounds four, five,
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  Speaker 6: and six, and then they have two more picks in
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  Speaker 6: round seven. So it's interesting the way the Eagles are
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  Speaker 6: looking at this draft, not just in those six picks.
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  Speaker 3: They're also looking.
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  Speaker 6: At the guys that they had in the second round,
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  Speaker 6: third round, first round of last year's draft that barely played.
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  Speaker 6: That's Jordan Davis in the first round. That's Cam Jurgens
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  Speaker 6: the center they took in the second round, Ni Kobe
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  Speaker 6: Dean the linebacker in the third round. Nick Sirianni believes
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  Speaker 6: that's almost like adding another group into this draft class.
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  Speaker 6: But also Omar, they're looking at the twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 6: draft class and how that could impact what they do
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  Speaker 6: with this draft, because Howi Roseman believes he's going to
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  Speaker 6: have roughly twelve picks, adding in four comp picks for
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  Speaker 6: the guys that they have lost in free agency. They
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  Speaker 6: have an added second round pick from a trade. Can
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  Speaker 6: those twenty twenty four picks impact some of the moves
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  Speaker 6: they potentially make in this year's draft. If they're sitting
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  Speaker 6: at ten and a player starts to fall towards them,
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  Speaker 6: could they use that added second round pick from twenty
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  Speaker 6: twenty four into a trade to move up for somebody
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  Speaker 6: that they'd like or be able to fill that gap
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  Speaker 6: that I mentioned omar in terms of not having any
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  Speaker 6: picks in those rounds. Nick Sirianni and Howie Rosen want
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  Speaker 6: to make sure that if they're going to use those
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  Speaker 6: future picks, they have to really look at the value
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  Speaker 6: of the player, why they're moving, and why they would
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  Speaker 6: make that move. But the Eagles are really looking at this,
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  Speaker 6: not just in the twenty twenty three draft, but the
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  Speaker 6: picks they have in the year.
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  Speaker 7: To come, in the picks that they had last season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so many factors at play, so many gymnastics to
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  Speaker 2: hurdle through there, but one certainty they do have is
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  Speaker 2: who their quarterback is going to be for the foreseeable future.
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  Speaker 2: How did the Jalen hurtzteal affect how they can do
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  Speaker 2: business going forward?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 6: James well I mentioned that they're looking at some of
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  Speaker 6: the players added in into the equation. They're looking at
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  Speaker 6: twenty twenty four in all of those picks with its
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  Speaker 6: as I mentioned twelve right now, they believe that getting
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  Speaker 6: the Jalen Hurts deal done prior to this draft, actually,
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  Speaker 6: and how he Roseman's wor was yesterday, gives them some
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  Speaker 6: flexibility about what they want to do. They know the
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  Speaker 6: cap situation, they know where the quarterback position stands, and
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  Speaker 6: this is something also that Jalen Hurts wanted done early,
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  Speaker 6: and Howie Roseman commended him on that, considering that Hurts
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: and his team wanted to make sure that it was
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: done so that the Eagles could continue to try to
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: build this team around him. That was important to Hurts,
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: obviously important to the Eagles. Everyone involved believes this was
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: somewhat of a win win for both sides. Getting it
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: done early before the draft was the win portion for
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: the Philadelphia Eagles and Howie Roseman's mind omark.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We talked last hour about how the Chiefs, obviously coming
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: off a super Bowl and great position, and the Eagles,
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  Speaker 2: I think same thing coming off their quarterback signing and
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: the great run last year, continue to build with all
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: that talent certainly looking good with those two first round picks,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: James Palmer.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, he was detonated on by Keon White. He's hit
• 17:21
  Speaker 9: from behind and now he goes and it was Keon
• 17:24
  Speaker 9: White running up huff around the edge, sacked at the
• 17:29
  Speaker 9: tan Keeon White.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: He has been all over the field.
• 17:35
  Speaker 9: And he gets sacked again. Keon White on third stack
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  Speaker 9: of the night.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: He's one of the top prospects in the entire NFL Draft.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: He's fifth on Bucky Brooks position rankings for a premium.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Position edge rusher.
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  Speaker 2: He is Keon White edge rusher from Georgia Tech and
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: he joins us. Now, Keon we are six days away
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  Speaker 2: from a life changing night for you to hear your
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  Speaker 2: name called in Kansas City.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: How you doing right now? How are you feeling?
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: Definitely I'm good.
• 18:08
  Speaker 10: It's getting about that time, so you know, it's getting
• 18:11
  Speaker 10: kind of anxious seeing what's going to happen next.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, when you talk about your history, you started at
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Old Dominion University as a tight end. What was the
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: conversation like, was it your coach that came to you?
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Was it you that went to the coaches to ultimately
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: switch positions, which obviously has greatly benefited you.
• 18:31
  Speaker 10: Yeah, So at the time I was the starting tight end,
• 18:33
  Speaker 10: and then we had a guy who ended up leaving
• 18:35
  Speaker 10: those Shane z m Andez, going to the NFL doing
• 18:37
  Speaker 10: pretty well, and our coaches just felt like it was
• 18:40
  Speaker 10: a big hole to be filled. And so my coach
• 18:44
  Speaker 10: sat me down and said, we want to play you
• 18:46
  Speaker 10: here for springball and try you out, and the rest
• 18:50
  Speaker 10: is kind of history.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how do you think some of those tight end
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: attributes have helped you there as a pass rusher?
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: A lot?
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  Speaker 7: For sure.
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  Speaker 10: I feel like I can dissect offenses and see tendencies
• 19:03
  Speaker 10: a little bit better than the average person because I
• 19:07
  Speaker 10: know what the offense wants to do, and I know
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: what they're trying to set up and things like that.
• 19:11
  Speaker 10: So just knowing what Titans don't want you to do,
• 19:13
  Speaker 10: I kind of do that well.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Obviously, you've shown your athleticism throughout your career at both
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: ODU and Georgia Tech. But I think one of the
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: things that's underrated about your game is how strong you are.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: We want to show you this old clip from when
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: you're still at Old Dominion of you squatting ken. Do
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: you remember how much you lifted here?
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah? That was probably five thirty right there.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: That was about five years ago. What are you up
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: to now?
• 19:42
  Speaker 10: I'll probably do I stopped doing one rep maxes, but
• 19:45
  Speaker 10: for a one rep I probably projected around seven seven hundred.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's incredible. Is that something that you've tried to
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: tell these teams that, hey, yes, I have all the
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: athleticism in the world, but I'm equally as strong.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Is that something you've had to convince them?
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: No, I feel like that's got to show up on
• 20:00
  Speaker 10: tape because there's guys that can squat a house but
• 20:04
  Speaker 10: can't play strong. So I try to play straw more
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: than anything and just use the weight room as like
• 20:09
  Speaker 10: a compliment to that.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Sure, and one of the things about your game is
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: that you've been shooting up draft boards.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: How do you explain that.
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  Speaker 7: For me?
• 20:18
  Speaker 10: I really care about the guys who are making decisions
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: in the office, like the general managers. I'm like, you
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: can't let the draft boards kind of inflate your ego
• 20:26
  Speaker 10: in your head, and you got to remain humble. So
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: while I appreciate the attention, I'm more so trying to
• 20:32
  Speaker 10: impress the guys that are making the decisions.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Well, six days from now, you're going to hear your
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: name called in Kansas City. What do you want teams
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: to know about you here with just six days to go?
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: Then I'm a worker.
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: I don't really like to talk too much, and I
• 20:48
  Speaker 10: feel like you can't really talk about football you at
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: the show. So I'm the one that's going to work
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: like That's the thing I get up in the morning
• 20:55
  Speaker 10: to do. That's why I go to sleep thinking about
• 20:58
  Speaker 10: just how hard I can work and how I can
• 20:59
  Speaker 10: be better than the next person and just refuseing to
• 21:02
  Speaker 10: let anybody around me outwork me.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: So you're one of the player that has been invited
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: to Kansas City to be a part of the draft
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: in person.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Have you thought about how you'll greet Roger Goodell?
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Have you picked out your suit you're gonna wear next
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Thursday night?
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 21:17
  Speaker 10: So got the suit getting it fitted again, refitted on Monday.
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: Just thought about all of that.
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: So my thing is just going there for the experience
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: where I get drafted is I have no control over.
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: I'm just trying to have a good time. I'm bringing
• 21:32
  Speaker 10: my friends with me, and so we're all just going
• 21:34
  Speaker 10: to go there and just take all the moment.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: And what are you looking forward to most about the
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: trip with your friends?
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: So just sharing it with my friends.
• 21:41
  Speaker 10: So I decided to go the unconventional route, not really
• 21:45
  Speaker 10: bringing any of my family. I'm bringing all of my
• 21:46
  Speaker 10: friends and just enjoying the time and the experience.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: That's cool.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Where's you mentioned the fit about your suit. Where's a
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: perfect fit for you in the NFL.
• 21:57
  Speaker 10: Just a multi front team, A team that doesn't pigeonhole
• 22:00
  Speaker 10: me and say, hey, I want you to get up
• 22:02
  Speaker 10: three hundred and five pounds and play three tech, or hey,
• 22:04
  Speaker 10: I want you to get down to two sixty and
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: play outside linebacker. A team that allows me to just
• 22:09
  Speaker 10: be multi dimensional and play outside inside wherever is needed
• 22:14
  Speaker 10: that week. And just somewhere that's big on teaching because
• 22:18
  Speaker 10: there's still a lot of things I need to learn
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: about my game for sure, and just someone who's going
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: to be able to just show me the ropes and
• 22:25
  Speaker 10: teach me and be able to work with me for true.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, ke On White, well you've had a heck of
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: a college career. We can't wait to see where you
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: end up on Thursday night. Good luck the rest of
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: the way, and enjoy your time in Kansas City next week.
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  Speaker 7: Definitely, I appreciate it.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Keon White.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Gonna hear his name called on Thursday night, a draft
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: you can see right here on NFL Network Live eight
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: o'clock Eastern on Thursday, Rice Young, Anthony Richardson, C J. Stroud,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Will Anderson. They'll also be hearing their names called. He's
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: one of the hottest prospects in this year's draft. He's
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Maryland Corner Deontay Bang, who Ian Rappaport reported earlier this week,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: met with the Bills to close out his visit, visiting
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: with nearly every team in the league. Also visited with
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: the Saints, Commanders, Titans, Vikings, Raiders, Texans, Giants, Bucks, Eagles, Jaguars, Bears,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: and Steelers. As far as our mock drafts go, we
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: have Daniel Jeremiah. Cynthia Freeland have him going at twenty
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: four to the Jaguars. Then you have Bucky Brooks and
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Lancezerlin both having him at seventeen to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: You have Charles Davis to the Seahawks, Eric et Ome
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: to the Washington Commanders at twenty and twenty one, respectively.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: We're pleased to.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Welcome in Deontay Banks, Maryland Corner right now. And as
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: a kid who grew up in Baltimore, Deontay. Can you
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: see yourself in the black and gold of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 23:56
  Speaker 11: I can see myself playing anyway, to be honest, anywhere.
• 24:00
  Speaker 11: I'm just ready to play football, honestly.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: What's this last couple months been like for you? Of
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: course you've been going through all the tests and the
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: meetings and the visits. Now that we're six days away,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: kind of what are you thinking about heading into next
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: week's draft?
• 24:14
  Speaker 11: I'm man enjoying it, to be honest, I really just
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: made join the process. Like, everything been real good.
• 24:19
  Speaker 12: A lot of a lot of airplanes, a lot of planes.
• 24:23
  Speaker 11: It's been real fun espectally just going to to city
• 24:26
  Speaker 11: to city.
• 24:26
  Speaker 12: It's been really fun.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: What's been the most surprising thing about your visits or
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: maybe this process for you?
• 24:32
  Speaker 11: I didn't really know like that you take visits in
• 24:34
  Speaker 11: all that, so that's kind of new to me.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Are you safe to say this is probably the most
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: time you've spent on planes the last couple of months,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: the previously in your life.
• 24:44
  Speaker 12: I've never been on this mini plane.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: You got any travel tips for us at this point?
• 24:49
  Speaker 12: Oh, I go to sleep on a plane and a
• 24:52
  Speaker 12: help out for sure.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Take those Naps. I'm right there with you. Where do
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: you see an ideal fit for you?
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Deontay?
• 25:01
  Speaker 12: I just want to I don't know. I feel like
• 25:02
  Speaker 12: anywhere I could go fit for me.
• 25:05
  Speaker 11: People that play of blits a lot of a lot
• 25:07
  Speaker 11: of pressure, right, that's.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Me, Gionta.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: When you look at your journey at Maryland, at what
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: point did you realize, Hey, this NFL prospect is not
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: only attainable, but I can actually go high in the draft.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: What point did that set in to be a reality
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: for you?
• 25:24
  Speaker 11: I always know as a reality for me, honestly, like
• 25:27
  Speaker 11: since I was young. But for me, when I honestly
• 25:31
  Speaker 11: like I would see my sophomore year, I really be like.
• 25:34
  Speaker 12: Oh yeah, I can really do this, I can really
• 25:36
  Speaker 12: big topic, I could do this. It's me.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: We've seen so many of those highlights that you had.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I remember the blocked extra point against Ohio State, against
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: that high level competition, going against C. J. Stroud and
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: all the receivers they've had over the years, going toe
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: to toe with a team like that and all those prospects.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: What did that do for your confidence?
• 25:56
  Speaker 11: I kind of already had it, but I just I
• 25:58
  Speaker 11: guess it felt good. You just felt good. No, I
• 26:01
  Speaker 11: like I played a real well game. I guess tough
• 26:04
  Speaker 11: a pony.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: You mentioned how long this last couple of months have
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: been for you, and you know you work on the
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: testing stuff and all the drills that the teams put
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: you through. But what have you been working on that
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: will help your game on the field next season getting
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: ready for the NFL.
• 26:19
  Speaker 11: I just focused on really just catching about uncomfortable situations
• 26:23
  Speaker 11: so I can catch more interceptions.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, making plays on the ball, becoming more of a
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: ball hawk.
• 26:28
  Speaker 12: Is that what you mean?
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: Sir?
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: So when you're at the combine, what did you want
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: to impress upon the teams that you were meeting with there?
• 26:38
  Speaker 12: Mut I just want to show it fast.
• 26:40
  Speaker 11: I was lot of teams I kept saying, like I
• 26:42
  Speaker 11: realized that they said, like I wasn't really fast or whatever.
• 26:46
  Speaker 11: But I don't know where they got that from. Like
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: I've always been fast. I've been fast. I was young,
• 26:49
  Speaker 11: So I don't really know where they got that from.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Real bro Well obviously showed it for three five forty
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: with your six foot two, two hundred five pound frame.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: What do you think is most impressive the physicality that
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: you play with or your speed.
• 27:05
  Speaker 12: I think it's my speed at my size. I think
• 27:07
  Speaker 12: that's way more impressive skied at my size.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Okay, well we have the draft next week. Where do
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: you plan on watching the draft? What's your party going
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: to be like? Take us through, Deontay Banks draft party.
• 27:18
  Speaker 11: Here'ready gonna be a real cool vibe.
• 27:21
  Speaker 12: It's gonna be my family. It's gonna be honest. It's
• 27:24
  Speaker 12: my My extended family is my it's like my immediate family.
• 27:27
  Speaker 12: So that's how we are clues. So bill me a
• 27:29
  Speaker 12: real cool vibe for us.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, we're pulling hard for you, Deontay.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Thanks again for joining us, Congratulations on getting to this point,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: and good luck this week.
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 27:44
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